The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1934, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1934 ~~ “Dyers Union Delegates Smash Anti-Communist Move Overwhelming Deteat U . 5. Sanctions Sogiets Overfulfill Given Leader’s Motion st at Negro’ Qi] Production Plan: To Oust Reds in Loeal n ocume nt Routing of Reactionary Leadership in Paterson Treasury Department | Uses Term “Nigger” Open Many New F. ields | ILD Secretary 2 Dead in Jacksonville And 2 Jailed 4, Police Launch Drive In New Orleans Three Workers Arrested | For Protesting _ Against Negro People Baku Workers Celebrate Big Economic Victory | | Youth’s Head Crushed in Station House, Negro at Saturday Elections Foreshadowed by Action Growing Out of Anti-Fascist Motion (Special to the Worker) : : PATERSON, N. J., Dec. 30.—Anthony Ammirato, presi- dent of the American Federation of Silk and Rayon Dyers, Local 1733 of Paterson, was booed down and defeated by an overwhelming vote, at Thursday’s meeting of shop chairmen in Official Letter WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 30- Official, government sanction is on Anniversary of ( Czarist Oppression Sreat Strike Against Police Terror (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 30.— given to the chauvinist term “nigger” ee a in a circular letter sent out under * atta cae ‘ the official seal of the U. 8. Treas-| | BAKU, U.S.S.R., Dec. 30 ury Department, headed by Henry, which is crammed with more Morgenthau, Roosevelt appointee. | than almost any other part of The circular letter, sent to every | #8 Ann Miller, secretary of the Inter- netional Labor Defense here, and J. 8. Moore and Feadest Lemoine, were arrested and jailed yesterday when they went as a delegation to E.R.A, headquarters to protest the ¢ Daily Worker) (By Wireless).—In a region dramatic struggle and change; the Soviet Union, the chief in- | | Man Shot Dead by Officer Following Rail- | roading of Charles Curvin to Prison JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dee. 30 wo dead, one badly | beaten, and scores endangered is the score thus far in Jack- | sonville’s latest wave of police terror which began when a | Negro, Charles Curvin, railroaded to a life sentence for the and delegates, when following a motion, made by to support an anti-fascist meeting * he made an amendment that the local goes on record to condemn ar a worker, BS 3 narectic agent in the nation,| warned against a Harlem informer, Edward Jones, who, it is alleged, | dustry of Baku, oil, yesterday completed its program of pro- duction ahead of schedule. For the second year of the Second Five Year Plan it produced 19,000,-¢ arrest and sentencing of unemploy- ed workers for asking for relief. | The I.LD., calling for nation- self-defense slaying of a bullying white fireman was granted 3 i >a néw trial here two weeks ago. Most brutal and cold-blooded of ‘Fascism Hit : | absconded with federal money given} 99 tons of oil, which is 4,000,000 | Mains of the previous barracks for | wide protest against this act, points | the police atrocities was the wan expel Communists. In making him for use in his stool-pigeon ac-| tons more than for 1933. Before the | workers. The grounds which were| Out that it is the continuation of u ge e@ en S ton murder of George Bennett, 21- amendment he explained that this tivities for the Narcotics Bureau.! revolution the Baku oil industry| formerly unique in the world for|the policy of attempting to smash in occordance with the policy out- lined in the letter of William Green | to expel Communists. The Paterson local, parent organ- ization of the Dyers Federation, has a membership of 15,000. As it in- cludes more than per cent of the total membership of the Federation its action in repudiating the red- baiting policy of Green and Ammir ato is regarded as one of the most! Significant victories of the rank and file in the union, and an indication that the reactionary president and’ Sirachey said that it was pre- his entire slate will be defeated in) cisely because fascism was unable the electior to relieve or to solve in any degrec The action of the shop chairmen | the world-wide crisis of capitalism came when a motion was made by ' that it pointed toward war as the one of the shop chairmen to give|way out, In fact, the whole capi- support to an anti-fascist meeting By Strachey (Continued from Page 1) tional tension to tie breaking point He quoted from the almozt in- ible jingoistic utterances of the fascists to illustrate how these lead- ers were taking their countries very rapidly to war. He used Hi declaration that Germany m wage a war of extermination agai France as a case in point, The description. of Jones was at- tached, and included the following offensive expression “medium, and| | might be termed a ginger-colored | nigger.” | | The use of the chauvinist ex-| | pression by the Roosevelt admin-| | istration is part of. the whole pro- gram of the New Deal against the | Negro, with its wage. differentials in| | the South and in. the textile and other industries; the attacks on Negro croppers and farmers under the A.A.A, and the Bankhead Act; | and the refusal by the Department | of Justice to afford protection to Claude Neal, Negro worker, although advised 36 hour: in advance of the plans for his lynching, and subse- quent refusal to use the Lindbergh | and their reconstruction, talist world was heading for war, at Central High School, on Jan. 4, sponsored by the Paterson trade unions, at which Giuseppe Emanuele * Modigliani, leader of the Italian So- clalist Party, will speak. Following that, one shop chairman spoke and expressed a pro-fascist position. It was then that Ammirato, handing | the chairmanship to Charles Vig- orito, rose to meke his amendment ‘Te> union’s election campaign has arous¢d the interest of the entire membership, and every rank and file “Vigorito slate.” The membership is especially being aroused against the obvious man- euver of the reaetionaries, in plac- ing Thomas Ventura as third can- didate in the field for president of | the loeal. Thomas Ventura was hardly even seen during the strike His candidacy is now quite general]; regarded as a move of the Ammir- indication | *' points to. a sweeping victory for the he asserted, because the capitalists can see no other way out than in a resort to arms Kidnaping Law against the lynchers | who kidnaped Neal and transported | him across the Alabama border to| Florida where he was subpected to terrible torture and finally lynched on October 29 near Marianna, Fia., a few miles from a U. S. naval post. The Roosevelt government, it is reported, is being deluged by pro- tests by thousands of Negroes who, | disgusted withthe Republican Party, ! Daily Watkicr Saletinn |Syndicalism Trial Set |Middle of Next Month PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 30.—Trial of Edward Denny, Daily Worker | voted for Roosevelt under the delu-| salesman, charged with criminal} sion that a change in capitalist | syndicalism because of his chair- | parties would affect their conditions manshiv of a meeting last July 27 to protest the terror against the West Coast strikers. has been post- poned to January 14. Denny is the third criminal syn- dicalism defendant to go on trial in Portland. and the fourth in Oregon, as a result of vigilante—police raids on workers’ headquarters, homes and meetings, designed to break the West for the better. Peddlers’ Union Plans | Organization Campaign: NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 30.— An announcement has been made| | by the New Haven Junk Peddlers | produced 7,480,000 tons yearly. | At the time of their nationaliza- | tion in 1920 the Baku oil fields formed a picture of complete chaos and devastation, As a result of war and intervention by the imperialists the oil output fell to the level of the ninsties of the last century, The Soviet power of Azerbaijan, under the direct leadership of Sergei Ki- | rov, performed the enormous work of restoration of the Baku oil fields At the beginning of the First Five Year Plan the output of the Baku fields did not exceed the output of the last pre-war year, but the First Five Year Plan as a whole was ful- filled in two and a half years. The speed of oil production in the last two years, 1933 and 1934, exceeds all previous records. New Oil Found | Under Soviet power many new oil fields were brought into operation. | In many of these points the capital- ists of the old Czarist empire long sought but could never find oil. Sur- veying now extends not only over the entire Apsheron Peninsula. but far’ beyond its boundaries. Sur- veyors’ derricks are now met at a distance of 135 to 150 miles from | Bek aku. | New areas are being prepared which far exceed the old areas in | size and wealth. The method of the exploitation of oil have changed be- vond recognition as compared with the capitalist period. Seventy-three per cent of all oil is now cbtained by mechanized methods — compressors and deep pumps. The remainder is dirt are now covered with gardens} and parks, The workers live in newly built beautiful workers’ set- tlements constructed by the Baku Soviet. Some consist of neat cot-| tages of two or three flats, others contain many storied airy blocks separted from each other by strip of greenery. Many miles of good as- | phalt rond connect the town and/ the oil-ficlds and connect the oil- fields among themseives. The elec- railway, the first in the U.S.S.R. | the building of which was begun | under Kirov, now stretches 35 miles. Every group of oil-fields has its own palace of culture, its own factory kitchens, school, parks, ete. Social- | ist Baku has taken one of the first places in the ranks of Sovirt cities, Insurance, convening in Washing- the Unemployment Councils while cutting relief and jailing leaders of the unemployed in an effort to stem the rising militancy of the workers, 5 well as to hinder the plans of local workers to send a delegation to the National Con- gress for Unemployment and Social Stools on Cal. Jury (Continued from Page 1) to the matron, who relayed it on to | the prosecution. Judge Defends Prosecutor The court answered this evidence f the planting of stool pigeons in the cells of the defendants, with the ton, D. C., January 5. Local workers held several pro- | test meetings and pledged to con tinue the fight, and to send a dele- | gation to Washington despite the, increased terror here. picious,” telling Gallagher “I prensa eeeaiverere wouldn't be as suspicious as you . are.” Rallies Precede | “Would you cali the Rose incident |mere suspicion?” Gallagher de- | manded. opinion that Gallagher was “too sus- | |year-old Negro youth. Bennett was arrested last Sunday and jailed on “suspicion of receiving stolen goods.” |On Tuesday he was removed from |the jail to the hospital, and on |Thursday relatives were _notified that he was dead. The explanation given was that Bennett had had a “fit.” Relatives, however, assert that Bennett had never had a fit in his life, and that when taker to the police station had been in the best of health and unscarred in any way. This contrasted sharply with the mangled condition of his body when it was given to the under- taker; the back of the head was horribly crushed in and one eye had been almost knocked out. | Second Killing | December, | organization. Jan. 5 Conference (Continued from Page 1) which are growing from year to; year, Celebrate Anniversary The big economic victory of the! workers of Baku coincided with the) thirtieth anniversary of the great heroic strike of the Baku workers. 1904. This wes one of the greatest clashes of the proleta- riat with their basic enemies before the revolution of 1905 and attracted the attention of the workers of all Russia, playing an extremely impor- tant role in the struggle of the Rus- sian proletariat. At the head of the struggle of the proletariat in the oil industry stood the Baku Bolshevik In the revolutionary formation of the Baku organization Stalin’s work played a tremendous role, forming the foundation of the Trans-Caucasian Bolshevik grouns. The strike was conducted in the gress for Unemployment and Social Insurance and elec!ed one delegate to go to Washington. RUSSELLVILLE, Ark., Dec. 30. — The Hodcarriers, Building and Com- mon Laborers’ Union of this city has Unemployment and Social Insurance and elected one delegate to go to Washington. CONNEAUT, Ohio, Dec, 30. — At tions in Conneaut the National Con- gress for Unemployment and Social Insurance was endorsed and a dele- gate elected. 60, has endorsed the National Con- | endorsed the National Congress for | a meeting of all Finnish organiza | “Yes,” Judge Lemmon replied, ee On the following Tuesday morn- ling, the second killing was chalked liege Mey i Ne elo a ae Mrs. up’ py the swashbuckling official | Rose testified that Deputy District | ; | thugs when Elijah Sallee was shot Attorney Buchler visited her during | he heart by Patrolman J. | the work of selecting a jury, and re- pean he ee ae ; 4 ‘ | H. Allen, Allen tells a fantastic ceived gifts of ducks and highballs story of Sallee having a knife in his from her. Judge Lemmon refused) jang, “with blood on it,” and of | to listen to further testimony on slashing at the officer when ap- this point. | proached. The only evidence of this | On demand of tne prosecution, | “attempted attack” on the person two alternate jurors are to bej/of the policeman, however, was a chosen in event any of the regular small cut in his uniform. Sallee jurors should become incapacitated. | died immediately. Sixteen extra challenges have been| About a week ago an eleven-year allowed, eight for the prosecution | old boy whose name was not learn- jand eight for the defense. \ed was cursed at by the white clerk |of a doughnut shop in the heart of Juror Worked for General | the Negro section of the city. The It was revealed that juror How-/lad remonstrated with the clerk, ard McIntire who had asked to be | and was hit across the head with a |put on the jury two days prior to stool. The boy was not seriously | being called, had worked for the! hurt, however, and ran, hurling a State in the office of the Adjutant | brick at his tormentor. Police were General of the National Guard for | called, and a few moments later :ato group to place a “dummy” can- | Union, Inc. through its organizer,| Obtained from gushers. In 1933 in | form of a political struggle. 25 years, and was a member of that | several armed men in plain clothes Coast, strike. In Portland, Don Farm Union Elects Delegate « Sey, didate in the field who will pose as @ progressive, and may draw away votes from the obvious majority for Charles Vigorito, rank and file can-| didate for president. The trick is sbeing exposed among the member- sAip, Anthony (Tony) Ventura, one ofthe rank and file Icaders running | for Susiness agents, has made it clear to all members that he has nothing in common with the reac-|of the remaining criminal syndical-| of peddlers to go from city to city | tionary policies of his brother, | ism defendants, and for the repeal in Connecticut without being sub-| Thomas. Cluster, 21-year old organizer of the Young Communist League, has been sentenced to a year in jail, and Dirk | DeJonge, Communist candidate for mayor in the last municipal elec- tions, to seven years. All three cases are being appealed | by the International Labor Defense, which is waging a broad legal and {mass campaign also for the defense of the anti-working class law. Behind the Fable of ‘Kidnapping the President’ || Is a Dire Threat Against American Labor — || | oil ‘distilleries has now reached such | the collective agreement consisted | An Editorial S. Brown, that it intends to carry on an extensive campaign of organ- izing the peddlers throughout Con- necticut. The organization plans to include fruit and vegetable peddlers | as eligible to membership. The main demands of the organization as put! forward at this time; as explained | by Brown, include one for a uniform | | State license fee, and for the right. ‘ ject to local ordinances. | drilled under the Soviet government | ble of the economic needs of the Azerbaijan 94 ver cent of the oil|, 7m the demands of the strikers a output wes obtained from wells! {Wl political program as well as a and onlv 6 per cent from the old | oft workers wire combines. . The wells drilled by the capitalists, This | Wo"Kers indignantly rejected the at- shows that the new owners of Baku | ‘¢mpt of the oil bourgeoisie to bribe oil not only understand how to seek | ‘em (the proposal to distribute 50,- new soureés, but can well guard old | glad Tubles for alleged support of the inheritances. | peteias and exvosed the receipt of " ;, 000 rubles by the Mensheviks, who The oldest Balkhan district, which ‘ x the capitalists considered exh>usted, | thus even then acted as the paid is now foremost in- the Baku ofl | ents of the bourgeoisie. As a re- fields, Tt systematically surpasses its | Wt of the strike. which lasted from plan and on the average produces | De: 26 to Jan. 13. the first collec- 11.000 tons of oil daily. Besides the | {ve asteement in the history of the ¥ ,| labor movement in Russia was! oil, gas. which under the capitalists | ‘ was released into the air, is now Ade. This agreement registered a| completely utilized. The manutfac- | 2umber of important economic: ini- ture of oil inthe Baku and Batoum| Drovements, but the significance of a high level of technique and such | PO ea seen UG (Continued from Page 1) wanted. They are too intent on filling the air with such stinking lies about kidnapping Presidents in order to befuddie the minds of the workers, rather than trying to learn what the Communist Party actually is striving to doin this country. In the Daily Worker we have repeatedly, on doz- ens of occasions,. pointed out that the Communist Party is against jndividual violence. It is against assassinations, or other crimes, which come so easy to the fascists, to the Hitlers, Mussolinis and even to the henchmen of the big employers in this coun- try who did not hesitate to murder over 57 American strikers during the past year. The Communist Party believes its ends can be gained by winning the majority of the American working class, who, through their mass action, will overthrow capitalist domination, with its misery, its hunger, its wars and fascism, and establish a rule of the toiling people, Soviet rule, a government of the working class against their oppressors, the capitalist Class. Since the Communist Party regards President Roosevelt, or any other President under American capitalism, as merely the mouthpiece of the most powerful forces in Wall Street, whose control of the government and whose ownership of the basic means of production are the decisive factors, what could be gained by such a fantastic scheme as kid- Mapping the President? * . . UT this plot fable has another reason for its existence. As the year closes, unemployment grows by leaps and bounds. Congress is about to open with greater starvation facing the unemployed masses. President Roosevelt prepares to slash direct unemployment re- lief as well as to spur the fight against unemploy- ment insurance. In this situation the Dickstein Committee, seconded by William Randolph Hearst, feel they are doing American capitalism a great Service by letting off this opium-fume concoction of a plot to kidnap the President to divert attention away from the growing mass discontent being led to higher political levels by the Communist Party. That the Communist Party is striving to win the majority of the American toilers for a Soviet regime is true. But what has that got to do with “kidnap- ping the President’? The Communist Party openly and frankly tells the American workers that so long as. capitalism exists, their sufferings. will increase. Roosevelt. will not only prepare for war, but must sooner or later Plunge the American toilers into a new bloody slaughter. Capitalism cannot cure the fundamental crisis from which the people have suffered for over five years. In fact. every move of the New Deal throws hundreds of thousands more out of work, Slashes living standards, and increases the whole basis for fascist developments. The Communist Party, leading the struggle for the improvement of the conditions of the workers, for untmployment insurance, and against the at- tacks on wages, on the trade unions, declares that A Soviet regime would have no need for kidnap- ping, which is a typical feature of corrupt Ameri- can capitalism. Composed of the workers in the fac- | tories, organized in their councils, acting as the rul- ing force, Soviet power would end capitalist domi- nation, It would take over the factories, the mines, | the mills, the banks, and transform them into prop- erty of the people, not as they are now, the private property of the du Ponts (with their 39,000 per cent war profits), of the Morgans, Rockefellers. Raskobs, Mellons, and their ilk, who bleed the workers in war and drive them to starvation in “peace” in order to pile up their profits, | . * . ND Soviet power could not be achieved by kid- napping the President, as anyone with intelli- gence above the Dickstein .committee’s fairy-story writers would know. Soviet power is the power of the revolutionary toiling masses, convinced in their majority that capitalism should be ended. It is the organized ruling will of the majority of toilers. It could not be achieved by such a silly coup as “kid- napping the President,” if all of the armed forces of oppression of the workers, the capitalist’ courts, the army, the navy, the militia, the police, are still in the hands of the class for which President Roose- velt thinks, speaks and acts, the employing cless. No such plans can be found either in Minne- apolis or New York or Chicago, They grow only out of the frantic imagination of the poison propa- gandists for the employers who do not dare answer the questions brought up by the Communist Party openly and fearlessly before the whole. American working class—the question of the struggle for So- viet power, by the winning of the majority of the toiling population in the United States, The kidnap plot story will be laughed to ridicule by the majority of the American people. Not even the most hardened fascist will belieye it, but will recognize it as part of fascism’s stock-in-trade. But what the Dickstein committee is trying to achieve by this slimiest of tricks is something more substantial which threatens the whole American labor movement. Behind this most ridiculous smoke-screen will go on the preparation of anti- Communist legislation in order to hit the vanguard of the American working class in their fight against capitalist slavery: rs The hope of the employers is that by these vile methods they can blind the American workers to the historic fact that every fascist drive on labor always begins by directing its brunt against the Communist Party.. This is then followed up by an onslaught against the trade unions, which would be made easier if the Communist Party is driven underground. Answer this latest provocation of the Dickstein . committee by more intensive struggle for the united front against fascism. The Communist Party calls on all workers, all anti-fascists, to. give these forces of ignorance and oppression who think that Ameri- can labor is stupid and eredulous enough to bélieve such fairy stories, their proper reply. Smash the red-baiting drive in the trade unions, in the schools, everywhere. size that no romnarison is possible all the workers. contrasting them with the tapitali Ks : ULE period. against the collective capitalist oil fe Gone ;owners. All the workers of Russia Naturally, there is absolutely no watched the struggle of the Baku National Guard for seven years. | Juror P. M. Rackliffe is a real estate broker, and a former member of the Chamber of Commerce. Juror | Mrs, Glara Keith has a son in the | Sacramento police department who is also a member of the American Legion, é HICKSVILLE, N. Y., Dec. 30. —| The Farm Workers’ Union yesterday | endorsed the National Congress for | Unemployment and Social Insur- | ance. One delegate was elected to | go to Washington. PERTH AMBOY, N. J., Dec. 30.—| One delegate to the National Con- gress for Unemployment and Social Insurance has been elected by the | Russian Mutual Aid Society here. | EASTHAMPTON, Mass., Dec. 30, | —Wilfred J. Lapointe, president of | Local 1845, United Textile Workers | of America, has been elected to go! to Washington as a delegate to the! National Congress for Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance, CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 30..— The Workers’ League of Effingham County has unanimously endorsed the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- ance Bill. The League has petitioned its Congressman to push the cam- SACRAMENTO, Calif, Dec. 30.—| At the continuation today of the | judicial investigation into the can- | ard spread by the prosecution of the receipt of “red threats” against | District Attorney McAllister and a juror, this additional attempt to frame-up the defendants was again exposed by Leo Gallagher, despite the efforts of Judge Lemmon to protect prosecution witnesses. ‘Whenever witnesses were corner- ed by the defense attorney, the judge would interrupt Gallagher’s questioning and himself ask lead- ing questions intended to afford a) cue to the witnesses and to hinder the workers. The oil workers now ; Work six and seven hours a day, No | roic struggle which the proletariat trace is left of the former unbear-|of Baku comparison possible of the life of! proletarians with hope and sympa- | thy. The wide scope of the entire! the workers now with their life un- der the capitalists. The former | “bosses” now would not know the oil-fields. and would never recognize | able exhausting toil. Nothing re-! paign for the bill in Congress. the probing by the defense attorney. drove upon the scene, drew a pistol upon the helpless lad and then beat. him pitilessly about the head with a blackjack. The boy eventually escz ped. Connected With Fireman Case That the wave of terror has a direct connection with the case of the death of the Mreman is- clearly shown in the events’ that followed the killing last month. Charles Curvin, a Negro bell-hop, was re- turning from a dance just before daybreak. As he reached a corner he was stopped by someone who thrust a gun through the -closed window of his automobile and be- gan cursing him. Excited by the breaking glass and fearing a hold- ‘up, Curvin fired the revolver he carried in his car for protection, |The shot killed J. J. Williams, later | proved to bé a fireman who was at- | tempting in the usual local man- ner to.command a Negro to halt his car because of a fire hose. Curvin was immediately arrested, and in the presence of dozens of proletariat of Russia after the counter-revolutionary slaughter of Jan. 9, 1905, was undoudtedly pre- pared and strengthened by the he- conducted in December, 1904. Stalin Emphasizes Technical Training (Continued | ‘om Page 1) Ocomings in the work of the metal- | lurgists. “In all developed coun- tries,” he said, “ k 4 le said, “steel. smelting 18 distribute and organize them Jn ahead of pig-iron smelting. ‘There | are countries where steel smelting | exceeds pig-iron smelting by 25 to 30 per cent. It is the contrary in| our try—here steel smelting lags bend pig-iron smelting. How | much longer will this continue? | “Well, it is now impossible any longer to consider our country as | ‘wooden,’ to consider that there is no scrap iron, ete., in our country. Now we are a metal country. Isn’t it time to do away with this dis- proportion between pig-iron and steel? “Many persons have incorrectly | understood the Party slogan, ‘in the period of reconstruction technique decides everything,” Stalin said. Explains Technique “Many understood this slogan mechanically, that is, the under- stood it in the sense that if we pile up more machines, all that is demanded by ‘this slogan would be satisfied. This is incorrect. It is im- Possible to take away from tech- nique the people who are putting technique into the movement. Technique without people is dead. The slogan, ‘in the period of re- construction technique decides everything,’ implies not naked tech- nique but technique headed by people who have mastered tech- nique. Only such an understanding of this slogan is correct. And since we have already learned the value of technique, it is time openly to declare that now the chief thing is the people who have mastered it. But from this it follows that if previously stress was laid one- sidedly on technique in machines, now stress must b¢ laid on the in- | Stands and actually bring him up. We must bring up persons with as \ Steat care and as attentively as a | Sardener rears a favorite fruit tree. ; We must educate, help others in |srowing, give them perspective, promote them in time, transfer them in time, if someone cannot manage his work, without waiting until he finally collapses, To bring up with care and qualify people correctly, to correctly production and to organize wages so as to strengthen the decisive links in industry and to promote people to a higher qualification— this is what we need in order to create a numerous army of indus- trially technical cadres.” Discussion Follows Speech Stalin’s speech was followed by a lively conversation lasting without interruption about seven hours, The leading workers in ferrous metal- lurgy, the general directors and technical directors of the plants and chief shops, the Party workers and working men—these shock-workers, spoke, The speakers detailedly dwelt on the perspectives of ferrous metal- lurgy for 1935, as well as the ma- terialization of the problems put forward by Stalin. More than twenty persons spoke. The speeches graphically demonstrated that dur- ing the recent years the workers in metallurgy had achieved great suc- cesses in the mastery of technique, that they know well not only their own enterprises but other plants, that enthusiastie competitions has developed a higher standard of So- cialist. work. V. M. Molotov and G. K. Orjonikidze spoke, closing the conference. Orders have been Issued by Harry Hopkins to cut millions of unemployed workers off the relief rolls. It is absolutely essential for all workers te give their fullest Support to the Workers’ Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Bill, H.R, 7598. Send your vote te the Daily Worker today! Get your Wisconsin, voted to-endorse the Con- NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., Dec. 30. —The order of Owls, Huguenot Nest 1714, has endorsed the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill. The secretary was instructed to write to Senators Wagner and Copeland and to Representative Millard advising them of this fact and asking their co-operation in sunvorting the bill. The organization thoroughly studied seven unemployment insurance bills and decided that the Workers’ Bill was the only adequate one. Denies Verifying Threats Mrs. Burns testified that she was in the apartment of Juror Mrs. Nix from two to three on the afternoon the threats are alleged to have been made. She said she could not hear what was said when Mrs. Nix an- swered the door bell, but noticed that each time Mrs. Nix became more and more neryous. Although she sat by a window, she could not remember looking out to see who was ringing the door bell. She de- nied making a statement verifying the threats, as reported in the Sac- ramento Bee. Reporter Clark of that paper tes- tified he made inquiries on the death threats, but strangely passed up an opportunity for a scoop. He further testified that Mrs, Nix's husband and three other men, roughly dressed, were present in the apartment at the time. Questioned again, Mrs. Burns stated that the three men were father and broth- ers. Mr. Nix admitted that he was a} former member of the Ku Klux) Klan, and also admitted his ineli- | gibility for juror service as he has | not lived in the state the required length of time. Despite this fact, he was drawn on one of the jury) panels. When Gallagher. demanded ; why he had accepted the jury, jury subpoena, he replied, “I don’t know.” When cornered he became very hostile and was rescued by Judge Lemmon, Demands Use of “Negro” Nix had charged Martin, an I.L.D. member, with having made threats against Mrs. Nix, and holding meet- ings with Filippinos and “niggers” in his (Martin’s) apartment. Gal- lagher demanded that Nix réfer to Negroes as Negroes, whereupon Nix ment Councils presented the bill. | retorted “I always call them hig- The town has a population of 7,156. | gers.” “Well, you will call them Ne- Two delegates from this town will) groes at this hearing,” Gallagher attend the sessions of the National | replied. Congress for Unemployment Insur-| “Did you have supper with your ON: wife when you came home on the night the threats were made,” Gal- lagher asked. “Mind your own busiltess,” the witness replied, but later apologized at the direction of the court, and replied, “No, I don’t think so.” “Did you go to the grocery store that night with your wife?” “No.” “Your wife testified that on that night you went with her to the grocery store and she made supper New Support in Milwaukee MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 30.—The County Council of the Workers Committee on Unemployment of gress for Unemployment Insurance at its last meeting and elected dele- gates. t In addition to sending official delegates from the County Council, the meeting, at which fourteen out: of nineteen branches were repre- sented, called upon all branehes to elect delegates if possible. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 30— The Italian Mutual Aid Society en- dorsed the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insur- ance and elected a delegate. HAVERHILL, Mass., Dec. 30— One delegate was elected to the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance by the United Shoe and Leather Workers here, City Councils Endorse Bill MAYNARD, Mass., Dec. 30.—The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill was endorsed by the Maynard Board of Selectmen last week when a committee elected at a local con- ference called by the Unemploy- MAPLE HEIGHTS, Ohio, Dec. 30. —The city of Maple Heights, with & population of 5,950, endorsed the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill when it was presented at the last City Council meeting by the Small Home Owners Federation. NEW YORK.—The Bronx Inde- pendent Political Club of thé Third Assembly District, 574 Southern white and Negro witnesses, taken back to the scene of the killing and brutally pummelled in an attempt to wring a confession from him, Witnesses to the open third degree testified that Curvin was “red irom head to foot” after this torture. | Despite his potestations cf inno- | cense of premiditation, he was given @ life sentence. At his retrial the charge was changed from murder to man- | slaughter, the latter carrying a | penalty of as little as one year, and \from this date began the present | series of atrocities by the local law | officers and hired thugs, Yu Plotters Shot in The Soviet Union (Continued from Page 1) armed intervention of foreign states. Under the instruction of this group the accused Nikolaey frequently visited a certain consul in Lenin- grad (the name of the consul and country is not mentioned) with whom he carried negotiations con- cerning a possible form of assistance and from whom he received for the counter-revolutionary terrorist group 5,000 rubles. It was also confirmed by the ses sion that the accused in the case, being participants in the under- ground counter-revolutionary terror istic group, on the direct. instruc- tions and under ‘the immediate leadership of the terrorictic “Lenin grad Center,” prepared and com- | mitted the murder of Kirov on Dée, 1 in Leningrad in the Smoiny In- | stitute. The court found all the accused, numbering fourteen men, guilty of committing the crime con- tained in articles 58-8 and 58-11 of having in view the resolution of the Central Executive Committee of the U.S.S.R. of Dec. 1, 1934, the court sentenced Nikolaev, Kotolynov, Shatski, Rumiantsevy, Mandelstam, Miasnikov, Levin, Sositsky, Sokolov, Yuskin, Zvezdov, Antonov, Khanik, and Tolmazov, to the supreme pun- ishment—shooting — with confiscas tion of their property. The verdict was fulfilled. What is the real significance of the Nazi “purges” now going on? The Daily Worker is the only i ive y whe i- ! De 2 i “ i dividuals who have conquered) friends to vote! Get them te be- | Boulevard, endorsed the Workers| for you. What do you say to that?”| paper that tells you. Read the Sg olan nea err ens OI 5 ie Anse ce plosehe sn ion Sec iiues Cru slogan be <CeAIUe |S sain regular readers of the Daily asthe Ae eo Le and re ads remember,” Nix lamely| Daily Worker every day! 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