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a Page 2 Saar Anti-Fascist Front Grows as Nazi Tricke HUGE SUMS SPENT BY HITLER AGENTS PROVE BOOMERANG Staff of Paper, Bought and Suppressed, Issues New Paper and Recaptures Circulation—Secret DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1935 Unionto Push Fight Against Forced Labor Joe Kiss Will Begin National Tour on Jan. 7 ‘ganizational tovr of the Socialist Students Score Hearst Press Anti- Labor Drive Witten’s Plea for United Front With Communists | Officials’ Ri f tjE |Widens in AFL BuildingTrades | ss Rank and File Center! | Urges Members To Oust Both Cliques WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 31.— ry Is Bared RSEY JOBLESS — _ SPIKE MANEUVERS OF THOMAS BERRY | Vote 108 to 5 Against Motion of Reactionary Leader of Unemployed League to Oust Socialists and Communists In Fight on War and Fascism Is Defeated By ‘Old Guard’ Group covering locals of the The climax of the jurisdictional | tional Furniture Workers Indu fight between officials of the Build- | ing Trades Department of the A. F.| Police Exposed in Bribery Scheme ial Union and unorganized furniture | centers, was decided on at the last JERSEY CITY, Dec. 31.—Thomas Berry, reactionary SAARBRUECKE Dec. Indications are increas- ing that the gangsterism and chicanery of the Nazi agents i Saar are producing a growing revulsion of feeling on the part of many who had previously considered voting for the return of the territory to Hitler fascism. Even the rank and file of t che Fron is no exce increasing to the doubt and fear concerning the Pecan Shellers iat te pret weep oc i Aek: for Aid broad united anti-fascist front. One of the most widely read liberal and anti-fascist papers in the “Westland,” was quietly purchased by the Nazis from the owner for 1,000,000 marks. Notices to this ef- fect were published in all Catholic Saar, In Code Fight Cite Trickery of N.R.A. As Struggle Spreads epers in the Saar.’ Twenty-four 7 Wage iattet the deal ‘wan cciemun: On Wage Demands mated, the new owners, the Nazis. —— . declared themselves bankrupt, an-| SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. 31—El Nouncing that this was the end of Nogal, militant union of pecan the “Westland.” But the editorial staff of the old “Westland” got together and pub- lished their own paper as an anti- Nazi organ.’ The name of this new paper, which is a weekly, is the “Grenzland.” Reports still pour in to the effect that its success uch thet the “Grenzland” is already as Well known end its circulation as shellers here, has issued an appeal to all workers’ organizations to help it in its fight for enforcement of the code for the pecan shelling in- dustry. After repeatedly postponing hearings on the industry, the N. R A. declared that a special commis- ion from W: ington will arrive greet as that of the previous “West- here to “investigate” the situation land. Organizations are asked to send incident which follows, how- protests to W. L. Penke, N. R. A. €r, not only won a thousand is for the anti-fascist cause. truck joy into the hearts 0} 1pporter of ghe United Front of Socialists and Communists. A Gestapo (German Secret Po- lice) agent named Steinebach wa Feconnoitering in the Saar Ter looking for a gullible anti- worker in order to obtain a list of names and addresses of ille- compliance director in San Antonio, end Federal District Judge R. J. McMillan, demanding that a hear- ine on the code be held. Judge Mc- Millan, realizing that no action is taken by the N. R. A. against code lators, waved aside a petition for ction against enforcement he code. applied for by the ushern Pecan Shelling Associa- ? 0 Si gal Communist Party workers in tion, Late Avvorser whom he con: |) ihe demand fora code hearing tacted immedistely got in touch | was raised by Fl Nogal as early as “janis the Com Levovaies Part ne the | jast May after it became ciear that Be was cevided that the | tn. slant owners refuse to even pay Work¢r should tell the police agent the code wag The inauguration of a code in the industry with a wage rate which grants a consider- able increase to southern pecan hellers, was’ due to ‘strike action last summer and growing militency mong the workers as expresred in the organization of the militant union Fl Nogal, and growing rank end file movement in the Pecan Shellers Union against the reaction- arv leader, Maedaleno Rodriguez. While the code. if enforced, would mean en almest doubling of the wages in the southern regions, it means a reduction from $8 a K to $6.60 for the northern regions. The workers here are realizing now het the wage increase granted by he N. R, A. was onlv on paper as it > not enforced. Fi Nogal points out hat Sen Antonio is the chief cen- er-of the industry in the country | nd if the N. R. A. is permitted to ck the workers here, similar sions il be taken against workers in ether parts, f he gave any names and ad- he would be expelled from y, that he therefore needed mcs in order to enable him » leave i a for Spain. The Gextano ageht agreed and by means of a. third pefson the worker -pro- duced a list of\fictitious names and idresses and got the 18,000 francs Was promtly turned over fund for the support of the ist united front in the the Pa: 18 0G fra soon as this report was. made n to the public, the Aroeiter ung (the central organ of the Communist Party in the Saar) in- its circulation tremer- U,S.S.8. Strikes Foes of Toilers (Continued from Page 1) Reactionary Leader evolving scournful sneefs on the i * Ta part of the real friends of the u.s,| Of “Frisco Union Gets ‘8. R. Job as State Official SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Dec. 30.— —In recognition of the services of the reactionary leaders of the San Francisco Central Labor Council in| breaking the General Strike last July, Governor Merriam has ap- pointed Edward L. Nolan, former president of the Building Trades Council here, | missioner. This is heralded by the union officials as a “friendly vance to labor” on the part of Governor, who was “The Soviet country understands “full well that degenerates destroyed ‘by the sentence of the Soviet court belonged among those very enemies who abroad torment and torture our comrades and our class brothers in Fascist prisons, who stage hangmen’s trials against | Communists, and who shoot down the miners of Asturias, and the Peasants of India; and who even now are preparing to murder Ernst Thaelman. No Mercy to Counter Revolution “There is not and cannot be any as state labor com-| trade | ad- | the | bitterly de-| Mercy for such an enemy. Let the nounced in virtually every union | ‘World counter-revolution and its for sending the National Guard into | agents howl. The working masses | the strike arca. in the U.S. S. R. received the sen- tence passed with absolute appreval “and without reserve. “The sentence of the military collegium was carrying out the will of millions of workers and collective fermers, with all workers in the U. 8. 8S. R. unanimously demanding the shooting of the counter-revolu- _tionary conspirators. “The socialist regime is growing @nd_— strengthening. Each day brings new victories in our great Struggle for the happiness of the Nolan immediately declared, in a} public-statement, that he is a firm | believer in arbitration. Don't let a day pass withou{ collecting a greeting for the Daily Worker on its Anniversary! James | tional chi meeting of the General Executive Board of the union. Joe Kiss, national secretary of the union, will begin the tour in Pitts- burgh on Jan, 7-8. Kiss will take up the question of trade union unity, the fight against wage cuts, the fight against the federal government’s policy of forced labor on mattress projects, and for the endorsement of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. He will take up the effects of the N.R.A, codes on the furniture workers. The dates of the tour are as fol- lows: Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 7-8, 1935; Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; Chicago, Ill., Jan. 14, 15, 16, 17, {18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24; Rockford I, Jan, 25, 26, 27 Jan. 29, 30, Feb. vansville, Ind., Cincinn: 1, Ohio, Feb, 5, 6, 7 8; Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 9, 10; Chicago, Il., Feb. , 14, 15; Grand Rapids, Mich., | 17, 18, 19,20, 21; Detroit, Mich., | . 22, 23; Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 27; New) York, Feb. 28. | Hearing As Result Of Beating in Jail LOS ANGELES, Dec, 31—As a result of brutal beatings in prison and denial of medical attention McShann, militant Negro has lost his hearing and cally ill in Lincoln Heights Jail, here. His condition is reported as growing steadily worse, On several occasions, wor Grover International Labor De- ense attorney, has demended the Johnson, have simply “ referring the attorney to the prison officials and r to the Georgia Street | Hospital. At the hospital it was | ed that nothing was known of MecShann, The I. L. D. is calling upon all| workers and their organizations to | send protests to Captain Shann, | Lincoin Heights Jail, demanding | that private doctors be permitted to | see and treat MeSnann, a halt to the torture of the Negro worker and for his immediate release, | The I. L. D. is also pushing the campaign to raise a $60,000 bail fund for McShann and the- other ‘s_ arrested with him. Bail | | | | for exorbitant sum of $20,000. Only $8,000 has been raised so far, in cash end property bonds. Workers and cther who can help should get in touch with the I. L. D., 127 South Broadway, Room 317, Los Angele: telephone, MA-4415, | McShann has been. set at the | Jobless Miners Seize Town Hall in Protest | Against Unemployment} LILLE, France, Dec. 30.—Police | dzove 200 jobless miners from the | town hall of the village of Iwuy yesterday after an overnight protest égainst unemployment. The aroused miners stormed the town hall and | cee! ‘d it. They spent the night | there singing revolutionary songs | and defying efforts to dislodge them. The wives and children of the miners also deserted their tredi- ristmas Eve occupations to cemonsirate before the home of the Mayor, | LOS ANGELES TO HOLD DANCE LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31—A joint conce:t and dance will be held Saturday evening Jan. 26th, under the auspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union and the Morris Win- chevsky Branch No: 983 of the Workmen's Circle, at Abram Slutsky Hall, 2111 Brooklyn avenue: The! Program will include vocal and mu- sical selections and speeches by outstanding leaders of the move- ment. The affair will start at § p. and frem 10 to 12 p. m.’there will be dancing. CHICAGO, Dec. 31.—Warning that the Hearst press has launched a drive to prepare the way for fascism in the United States, the annual national convention of the Student League for Industrial Democracy at its sessions at Northwestern University adopted a strong resolution for a mass fight against Hearst and his propaganda¢—H44H___ —————— —— ae oC aepeuiee ae weseek ware past year, Richard Babb Whitten, | Fascism in all nations. By praise ‘| issued a plea to the group to take action for the united front with the Communist Party in the fight against imperialist war and fascism. Whitten, however, was defeated by the concerted efforts of the “Old Guard” group from New York. |of European Fascist governments land especially by the recent edi- | torial endorsement of Fascism here | ‘if necessary,’ the Hearst press has | assumed the leadership of the drive of desperate capitalism to keep go- ing for awhile at the expense of those who toil. ’| agent No, 1 is the Hearst Press. ... | often walked more than twenty | | will attend the Congress sessions as | October of fifteen workers for be-| | train will leave the Broad Street | ers united, the | delegates to the National Congress. “In the fight of American stu- | dents for a peaceful world against impending fascism,” resolution states in. part, “The Hearst press . . . has en- and | dorsed violence as a means of dis- the | puting the meetings against war or “enemy | for academic freedom called by stu- dents of American colleges. It has incited Fascist-vigilante bands to attack students whose political opin- of ions it did not approve.” | Calling Hearst “the errand boy of the war makers,” the resolution concluded by saying that “as we resist war and work for peace; as We must vigorously press our fight against the primary agents of Amer- ican Fascism—the newspapers of William Randolph Hearst. “We are unalterably opposed to international war. The Hearst press incessantly promotes international ill-will, suspicion and hatred; it eine HO poses of other peoples; it daily de- ; Must we now resist this. instigator fames the Soviet Union; it has lent of violence, promoter of fascism. aid and comfort to jingo elements | agent of reaction—the Hearst press.” Browder To Speak at Jan. 5 Congres (Continued from Page 1) unions of the American Federation )of Labor here have elected five | delegates to the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance. These are the “Big Six” Typographical Union, which is sending one dele- |gate; Inside Bakery Union Federal | Local 19768 of the Sunshine Bis- | cuit Company, which is sending one ington as a delegate. This man has | delegate, and the Scene Painters’ Union, which elected three dele- miles in order to be able t attend | gates. a union meeting and is responsible | Actors Equity elected its presi- for the organization of more than | dent, Frank Gilmore, and two other 100 farmers into the union. | delegates to attend the National ZEIGLER, Ill., Dec. 31—Local 120 | Consress. of the Progressive Miners of Amer- ica, a local with 1,375 members, has unanimously endorsed the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and the National Congress for Unem- ployment and,Social Insurance. YUKON, Pa., Dec. 31.—Local 6558, United Mine Workers of America, has elected one delegate to the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment | and Social Insurance @nd voted to | make a donation to the expenses of | the Congress, Detroit Mass Send-Off DETROIT, Mich. Dec. 31.—A mass send-off for the sixty-five delegates from the Detroit area to gress at~ Washington will be held Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock at the Finnish Workers’ Hall, 5969 Fourteenth Street. Prominent speakers from the la- bor movement and leaders of the jin the send-off. All workers, em- | ployed and unemployed, have been he |, Ursed to attend this meeting. Union Leader Is Arrested For Picketing Michael Resnick, chairman of the ike committee of the workers in | the Garfield Cafeteria, Inc. Flat- | bush and Church Avenue, Brooklyn, Was arrested Saturday on the picket |line. A walkout of all the workers | of the Garfield Cafeteria took place JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. Dec. 31. Eleven delegates are leaving for Yational Congress for -Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance, to be | held in Washington, D. C., on Jan. 7. Nine of the delegates repre- | nt the local Unemployment Coun- | cils and two, fraternal organiza- | tions. Five of the delegation are | Negroes. 500 From Eastern Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 31.—| A conference of the delegates to the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance from the Phila- delphia area, which was held last. night, shows in miniature the tre- mendous united front being rolled up behind the National Congress. The 200 delegates already elected come from some thirty local unions of the American Federation of La- bor, 52 Italian groups and from Hie |conference, the owners refused to Jewish and Italian organizations | grant wage increases and recognize representing 100,000 people. | the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Preliminary reports from the | Workers Union Local 123, section of anthracite mines show that fully | the Food Workers Industrial Union, 500 delegates from Pennsylvania The strike follows a lockout last representatives from the Eastern | longing to the union. Reinstatement Pennsylvania area alone. | of all the workers followed active All delegates from Philadelphia | picketing. This encouraged work- have been urged to register at once ers in all the departments of the and to get their railroad tickets and | cafeteria to join the union. Now registration cards. The special with the skilled and unskilled work- outlook for a vietory is considered even better. The workers are demanding a $3.00 increase for the unskilled workers, and $6.00 for the skilled. Station Saturday morning at 8 o'clock. Hungerian ‘workers will hold a mass meeting on Wednesday night at 1144 North Fourth Street to elect Read the Daily Worker if you wish an accurate picture of A. F. of L. Sends Delegates events in the Soviet Union. Be- NEW YORK.—Three more local| ceme a subscriber! |e resist fascism and work for a} | Mmisrepresents the plans and pur- | cooperative commonwealth the National Unemployment Con- | mass organizations will participate | on Thursday when, after a two-hour | | of L. was reached yesterday, when | twelve of the nineteen unions com- | Prising the department moved out jof the A. F. of L. building and set | up independent headquarters across | | the street. Officials of the twelve unions are the faction headed by Michael J. | McDonough, who refused to attend the recent convention of the de- | partment, presided over by William | Green, or to abide by its decisions, |In the meantime, headed by William J. Williams, another Build- | ing Trades Department was set up by the A. F. of L. | | The A. F. of L. Trade Union Com- | mittee at 1 Union Square, New York, declared that their split is only a result of a struggle between | corrupt officials for power in the | Building Trades Department. The | consequence of this split between the officials, it is expected, will be followed by attempts to split up the building trades unions and increas- ing jurisdictional disputes. The Rank and File Federationist, orgen of the A. F. of L. Trade} | Union Committee, states as fol- lows in its January issue regarding the dispute: “The rank and file have nothing putes of McDonough, Green and Hutcheson. The bricklayers, elec- tricians and carpenters have no quarrel with the painters, plasterers and other building trades workers. | unions are disgusted with the cor- rupt leadership of the building trades department and with the methods used by these officials to | |keep themselves in power. The | members of the carpenters, painters and other internationals are organ- | izing on a national scale to throw | out these corrupt officials and re- | gain the organizations for the bene- | fit of the rank and file.” Ohrbach,Klein For Co ntempt The 19 workers arrested during the mass picket line in front of the | Ohrbach department store on Union | Square, Saturday, were held over | for Special Sessions Court to be tried for contempt of court, after a hearing Saturday evening at Night Court. | ‘These are the first of the 139 ar- rested to be charged with violating the injunction which prohibits more than four pickets in front of the store at the same time, All were paroled in the custody of the at- terney of the Office Workers Union, Milton Eisenberg, attorney for Ohrbach’s, declared in court that if the “snake dances” in front of the | store do not cease Ohrbach mey, be forced to close the store. Yesterday there was a mass dis- tribution of leaflets on Union |buy at Klein's store on Union Square, whose workers are also on strike. The leaflet stated that 29 of | those arrested were held for picket- | ing at Klein’s, who has violated the | 8greement in which he promised to reinstate 64 workers fired for be- longing to the Office Workers Union. The Union calls on all workers to attend a mass meeting to protest the arrests and in support of the Klein- Ohrbach strikers, at Manhattan | Lyceum, 66 Eact 4th Street, Thurs- day evening, Jan. 3. No class-conscious worker will want to miss the special Anri- versary and Lenin Memorial edi- tion of the Daily Worker. Order the bundles for your organiza- tion NOW! All greetings tn the Daily Worker on its Anniversary should be in kefore Jan, 12th! State president of the New Jersey Unemployed League, suf+ fered his third stinging defeat at the hands of the rank and | file membership of the Jersey City chapter at its last regular meeting, held in Fairmount Hall here, when he presented — ~ es a motion calling for the ousting of . Railway Co. all Communists and Socialists from the organization. His motion was swamped by a vote of 108 to 5. The climax came when two mild- ly progressive members of the Ways and Means Committee, Chris Hart to do with the jurisdictional dis- | The rank and file of the local! Strikers Held Square addressed to the “buying | public” calling upon them not to Bars Dealing With Union| Los Angeles ‘Lockout’| In, Strike Cited As Order Is Rejected LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 31 Realizing from many recent ci that N. R. A. decisions against the bosses are not made to be enforced, | the Los Angeles Railway Company | has flatly refused to abide by the order of the National Labor Rela- | tions Board to recognize the Amal- gamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees as an} exclusive bargaining agency for its | | workers, In a statement. issued by P. B. Harris, vice-president of the Los | Angeles Railway Company, the street car company declares that all | the strikers have been “discharged,” | are therefore no longer its em- Ployees, and therefore the right of collective bargaining is not im- | paired, The letter uses the non-union and company union as a blind, by stat- ing that if the companies were to | |notify that they recognized the Amalgamated as the exclusive bar- gaining agency, “they would, vol- |untarily and without the consent of those of their employees whose rights would be determined by such | action, be depriving those employees of their proper rights to bargain collectively, which right, they be- lieve, and which right, we are ad- | vised, is vested in them by: virtue | of our code. This we cannot vol- | untarily do.” | Also, by posting a notice the | Morning the strike was called—and in anticipation of the strike call— by the company, stating that all employees not reporting for work | that day, would no longer be in the | employ of the company, the com- pany now stetes that no striker is} an employee, therefore there is no Vstrike, Thus, according to the logic of the Los Angeles Railway. all en em- | ployer need do is to fire his em- | ployees if they refuse to report to | work on the morning of the first: |day of a strike, and they need no |longer be reckoned with. | Having so simply disposed of the bona-fide strikers, the letter pro- | ceeds to point out that: | “The records before your board |show without contradiction that | these companies have in good faith conducted collective bargaining pro- ceedings with all their employees | Umeaning those not ‘striking—Ed.] | |and have granted a majority of the requests made by such employees. “We propose to continue so to} bargain in good faith and sincerely believe that in so doing we have not been, and are not, guilty of | any violation of the true intent and meaning of Section 7a.” |Nazis Jailed 170,000) Anti-Fascists in 1934 BERLIN, Dec, 31.—The toll of} Nazi terror in Hitler Germany for the third quarter of the year com- prises the following: 141 killed. 8,400 newly imprisoned, 407 political tri- als, 1,823 sentenced. The total number of those de- tained in prisons and concentration camps reaches, according to reliabl+ information, 170,000. | Get on the Honor Roll in the special edition of the Daily Worker by sending in your greet- ing on the “Daily’s” Apniversary TODAY! jand Luckok, stated from the floor that they were resigning from the organization because they consid- ered the unemployed could accom- plish nothing under the reactionary Berry leadership. Both pointed out that previous attempts on the part of the rank and file to amend the constitution and by-laws so as to permit demonstrations and ‘mass marches to the relief stations were | threttled by Berry and his. hench- men, as was the resolution provid- ing for the election of an executive committee. They also pointed to the fact that. due to the “machine” tac- tics of Berry, the membership had declined from 7.000 dues-paying members to less than 300 at the present time. Attacks Socialists and Communists The open statements made by Hart and Luckok caused Berry to drop his usual role of circus clown and to become a raving maniac. He threw his gavel at Vice-President Walter Johns, militant Negro work- er, and strode out onto the floor to launch a vicious attack against members of the rank and file, char- acterizing them as Communists and Socialists, interested only in gaining recruits from among the unem- ployed for their political parties. In the midst of his tirade, Berry shouted his expulsion motion. It was seconded by Ward, one of his flag-waving flunkies. That Berry had stirred up a “hor- nets’ nest” was evidenced by the number of workers who clamored for the floor as he finished his bit- ter harangue. Ono unemployed woman worker challenged Berry by stating that the Communist Party has been in the forefront of every struggle for relief in the United States since the beginning of the crisis. She declared the workers would pass severe judgment upon anv so-celled leader who dares to follow in the footsteps of such red- baiters as Hearst and Matthew Woll. Ancther worker openly stated his affiliation with the Communist Party and called upon the rank and file to defeat the motion made by Berry. Even Bill Brannigan, secre- tary, boon companion of Berry in the past. opposed tt¢ motion by saying that since he has recentiy become a convert to the Socialict Labor Party, he. too, would be barred from membership. Renk and filers who had never before taken the floor stood up to fight this vi- cious proposal, Reactionaries Routed Berry took his defeat so much to heart that for a time he refused to resume the chair to adjourn the mesting. Finally. he mounted the rostrum and shouted. “From now on my house is closed—the meeting stands adjourned.” When members demanded an explanation, he modi- fied the statement by saying that while he wotld receive reports. as usual, from the strike pickets that come to his home, his house would be closed to other members. Thus far. the strike in Hudson County against the “work for re- lief” scheme has been conducted from Berry’s home, much in the same fashion as a capitalist army general directs troop movements, although in Berry's case the general seldom, if ever, visits the front line trenches—the picket lines. Instead of urging mass picketing of the rs- Nef projects. Berry counsels his followers, “Stay home, you suckers, stay home.” .When workers are “pushed around” by the police at the projects Berry contents himself with going to see Chief Casey, whe invariably assures him that it wi not happen again, Back National Congress Last week the Jersey City chap- ter endorsed the call of the National Congress for Unemployment and Social insurance and elected three delegates to the convention to ba held et Washington. D. Cy Jan. 5, 6 and 7. The delegates elected were? | Chicago Sets Goal of 100,000 Signatures in Spring Elections | Vice-President Walter Johns, Dick i Stanton»Jr., and Leslie Hurt. Hurt Pe iitinle. bend “ot ireltors. whe received 76 votes, Johns, 72, ant 3 CHICAGO, Ill, Dec, 31.—In dered to bar the historic advance | of humanity, the country is now firmly advancing towards new vie- tories.” a} economic struggles and struggles for lengthy resolution taking up in de-| the workers’ elementary Political tail the experiences of the past elec- | rights and those of the Negro pso- | tion campaign, the Communist ple, on the streets, at relief sta- Party District Committee here states tions, at evictions, and especially in that the Party has set itself the goal | big shops, mills and factories, carry- of getting 100,000 signatures for its ing on these struggles during the candidates before the elections. election campaign with still greater Criticizing the sectarian methods intensity than before, under the (el ascgumeed of its work in the fall campaign, | leaders LOS ANGELES. Dec. 31—Pzep- | the District Committee declares the and it tions @re now being made by a) following to be the immediate tasks fe committe representing mass heavy industries and trade unions} the weaknesses of our fall cam- | for support. paign,” the resolution continues Immediate Needs \“and in demanding a sharp .turn, “We did not,” declares the Com- the District Committee, neverthe- | mittee Resolution, “sufficiently carry | less, expresses full confidence that jinto the concentration industries, ! out Party membership is capable of important industrial sections of the! mesting every one of thes¢ demands. District, and into the trade unions, | The Communisis, who have fearless j | the urgent issues before the work-| ly and effectively led so many strug- hip of the Communist Party ing class in connection with the gles and obtained so many real, 6% candidates. elections. We did not effectively| gains for the starving workers of | 4. To carry these economic and! connect the economic struggles (un- | this District, mobilizing many scores asS | for the spring elections: pelitical struggles into the concen- | employment, wages, etc.) with the of thousends under the leadership | f tions and the Communist) 1. To reach new and hitherto un- tration industries, on the basis of political struggles and carry the po-|of our Party—such comrades can ¢ Party to hold the annual Daily touched masses of workers and other our general concentration plan to | liticalization of these issues into the| overcome all wn-Bolshevik weak- “Worke banquet Saturday evening, exploited toilers, and the Negro peo- | the extent possible to mobilize whole! steel mills, coal mines, packing| nesses and carry through with the Jan. 19 at Cultural Center, 230 ple, all now undergoing deep radi-| important factories, mills, mines, | houses, railroads, and therefore, we) same stubborn courage the tasks South Spring Street. x calization, and to mobilize these etc., and trade unions for such strug-| were not successful in bringing b2-| demanded of them in the election _Besdes speakers representing the | masses for the elections under the gles in connection with the elections. | fore these workers of the concen-| campaign. Wozker and the Communist | jeadership of the Communist Party. 5. To build the Communist Party | tration industries the Communist “Already certain improvements there will be a varied program 2. To deal sharply and clearly with | and Young Communist League es- | Party as the revolutionary party,!have been made in our election of entertainment, including mass all of the main issues affecting the pecially in the concentration indus- the only Party fighting for and| work, the resolution continues."“Un- | meee ohms Plays and other |lives of thes: masses, connecting tries and biggest concentration | representing all the immediate der great difficulties our comrades” s (their economic needs with the po- plants, in the form of shop nuclei. | bread-and-butter interests and civil | were able to reach and obtain sig- complete program will be an-/ litical struggle; and in connection To execute these tasks, the Dis- rights of the masses and offering the | natures of many thousands of work- Jater. All mass organiza- ‘ict Committee outlines the meth-| only solution out of the intolerable ers to place our Party on the Ballot. | in Los. Angéles are urged to this date open and not to ar- | With the partial demands to point. tr ic situation of the masses, a revolu-| If serious inefficiency was shown in | “ange competitive affairs for Jan. |the necessary correction of such looseness of work is possible, and the large numbers who were persuaded to sign for the Communist Party show what our comrades can ac- complish. Other improvements were Stanton. 60. Berry was an “alco PEA elie 1 itepering eecat |an” with but 45 votes to his eradit. eral offensive against the working Th® ccevpiet Megat peg ow class, first of all against the leaders | Overheard Bevry remark to one o of the workers, the Communist is flunkies. “I in even decide non |Party. In Chicago this has already {0 Sg ike Peele BE a , Made, such as in literature; close to | expressed itself in the attack upon | ore sacra “het s Me iat 375,000 pieces of literature were is-| the Workers’ School and in the con- eee a rclevan Z ce tage tiie sued and distributed during the elec- tinuous vicious lynch propaganda ae ai Pout ee erecta tions, some of these being issued against the Party and the revolu-. ede ae ly Worker nm directly through the initiative of the, tionary working class, as carried | OV°T it. ; Sections, and based on local issues | through by the Hearst néwspapers| In private conversations. Berry of the campaign,” (and supported by finance and in-/ reveals himself as *n out-and-out Grewing Crisis dustrial capital.” wate sheuviast reterng to Seg Describing the growing misery of} ‘The resolution concludes: “The £m! ers OF his orzanization ass iz the city’s population, the resolution CHa Ra thee calls unencane gaboos,” “jigs” and “niggers.” He i: declares, “We are entering the mimi said to have remarked recently t« Spring elections in the midst of the | entire membership of the Party to| one of his close allies that the onl: | sharpening of the economic crisis, ‘prepare itself for the proper carry-| reason he tolerates a Negro as vice in the midst of a faster tempo of ing out of the above tasks. We must president of the Jersey City chanter fascizetion, and in creassd attacks scrutinize and examine every de-/|is because of the support he can get upon the masses. In the city of tail of the last elections in order to| from the Negro workers. ake the Spring elections a cam- creased, and. tectory payrolls Havs/pulgn of struggles nthe. ei afin te eek wea eects creased, and factory _ Ve rruzgle: in the loc> declined. The unemployed workers | AZO, a campaign that will really | ind’cates that Berry's days as an al- have just been given a 10 to 30 per a demonstration of the masses \ Chicago against the ‘New Deal,’ ; _leged leader are, certainly numbere¢ cent cut in relief, while in other | lew T ; Oy ‘parts of our District the relief level Capitalism, and for the rev-| Every J. W. 0. branch shov olut way out of the crisis, for “Attacks against the Negro masses, a i Daily Worker Benefit Planned in Los Angeles + 'Ciearly to the revolutionary way out|ods for proceeding, making the tionary solution.” not obtaining for the state-wide | | of the crisis, united front the major tactic for “In drawing the attention of our| ticket those signatures which were 3. Sharply breaking with past the winning of the broadest strata election methods, to intensify all of workeys, and to concentrate in the| membership and leading cadres to readily obtained for local candidates, ¥ J | } ? : ? is far below that in Chicago. greet the Daily Worker en . America,” : | Anniversary! ‘ en ae