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: it teres DAILY. WORK NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1935 Page 3 LABOR DEFENSE PROTESTS ATTEMPT TO DEPORT A. W. MILLS U.S. tinea Bond in Case Uf Organizer IL.L.D. Asks for Loans and Contributions To Block Bosses’ Plan PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1—A bond of $1,000 is demanded by immigra- tion authorities in the case of A. W. Mills, district organizer of the Philadelphia district of the Com- munist Party, who several weeks ago was ordered to report to Ellis Island for deportation. The at-j tempt to deport Mills dates back | to his leadership of the first Na- United Stru Browder, Ford Will Address Lenin Meeting Why Did YPSL Raise So Many Obstacles to Unity Decisions? By Jokn Little New York District Organizer, Young Communist League The recent Regional American Rally To Be Held at! Youth Congress, held in New York uae City on Dec. 22 and 23, is indeed | Madison Sq. Garden | a iiving indication of the tremen- on Jan. 21 |dous growing desire for unity in truggle on the part of the toiling uth. For the first time in the NEW YORK. — Attempting 0) history of the youth movement in ggle Prog Will Test the Since | make this year’s Lenin Memorial | New York City more than 300 dele- tiona Hunger March to Washing- | s¢oeting, which will take place on| Sates, representing more than 200,- ton in 1932. The action wrested | relief concessions from the bosses and their government and the/ arrest of Mills followed. The Philadelphia district of the I. L, D. has initiated a mass cam- paign to force the U. S. Depart- ment of Labor to abandon its at- tempt to deport Mills, and is organ- izing a huge protest meeting for January 17. In a statement issued yesterday by M. E. Stern, secretary of the Philadelphia district of the I. L. D., all workers and their or- ganizations are urged to flood Sec- retary of Labor Frances Perkins with protests against the use of the deportation weapon against mili- | tant workers and with demands for | a halt to the renewed attempt to | deport Mills. The I. L. D. also appealed for immediate contributions and loans for the ene thousand dollar bond | which must be posted within the next two or three days to block any | attempt to arrest Mills and rush | through a deportation order in his case. Funds should be rushed im- Mediately to the Mills Defense Fund, care of the International Labor Defense, 49 North Eighth Street, Philadelphia. Born in Russia, Mills has been in | this country many years, and has | been active in workers’ struggles | over a large section of the country. He has heen a Communist organizer | in Buffalo, Detroit, New York, and | Pittsburgh, where he participated | in the strike struggles of the coal miners. Jan, 21 at 8 p.m. at Madison Square Garden, an outstanding event, a committee has been working on the program of the meeting for some time. There will be only two speakers James W. Ford, Harlem Section Or ganizer, and Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, who has recently returned from the | Soviet Union and was an eye-wit- ness to the events following the Kirov assassination. Participants on the program will include a mass| chorus and the Workers’ Laboratory Theatre, who will present a sketch | on the life of Lenin, specially pre- pared for the occasion. A rigid time schedule has been} worked out, the meeting beginning promptly at 8 p.m. Each of the/| two speakers will keep within the time allotted, and the surrounding 000 organized youth from a wide variety of organizations and trade unions, gathered and unanimously adopted resolutions against war, fascism, against the attacks of the Rooseevit-LaGuardia Administra- tion, and for the immediate enact- ment of the Workers’ Unemploy- ent Insurance Bill. The American Youth Congress was born in the struggle against the attempts to crystalize a semi- fascist youth organization in Amer- ica. In the month of August, the first Congress, called by Viola Ilma, a reactionary tool of American finance capital, was transformed from a gathering that was to for- mulate and attempt to rally Ll youth for fascism into a powerful youth movement against war, fas- | cism and against the attempts to! further worsen the conditions of the | toiling and student youth, The leadership displayed by the ers to live? Certainly these condi- tions do not affect only one section | of the youth, be they members of churches, Y's, Settlement Houses, Young Communists, or Young So- cialists, but all the youth of New} York City. There can be no doubt that the only effective manner in which these conditions can be changed is through united action on the part of all the toiling and student youth. It has been precisely this unity that the Communist Party and the Young Communist League have been striving to obtain. Unity on the most immediate questions that affect the very lives of the youth, Not only unity in conferences and | resolutions, but in the daily strug- gles of the toiling youth. | It has been precisely this unity that the Young Communist League has been struggling to obtain with | ths Y. P. S. L. and which the lead- ership of the Y. P. S. L. has for the longest time rejected. This | minimum program has finally been | adopted, unanimously, at the New York Regional American ‘Youth Congress, and now it remains to be seen as to what organizations will come out most effectively in mo- | bilizing the youth of New York City in the struggle for it. Who Is Fighting For Unity? If the Y.P.S.L, leadership is pre- pared to carry on a sincere strug- | gle for unity, why did it seek to/ insist on the Congress supporting | only the A. F. of L. instead of all| organized workers in labor unions? | Those workers in the independent | and revolutionary unions who for) have | relief apparatus. whatsoever, in favor of waiting “un- til such time as a better bill would be presented to Congress.” Does not the leadership of the Y.P.S.L. realize, if it is sincere in its struggle for unemployment in- surance, that such proposals are| knifing in. the back the splendid} support that this bill has already} received from millions of workers, | | thousands of the most varied or-| ganizations, trade unions and even) including branches of the Socialist | Party and Y.P.S.L.? Does not such/ a proposal weaken the struggle of the workers for real unemployment insurance and play directly into the hands of Miss Perkins and the Roosevelt Administration? Such a proposal means no strug- gle for unemployment insurance, and a complete capitulation to the conditions of starvation and misery that the youth are compelled to undergo as a result of the present} It is obvious that this is the only bill at the present time which calls for real unem- | ployment insurance and that it is the only bill that can receive the| support of the workers at the} | Present time, and that therefore it| is the task of the American Youth ram of New York Youth Congress rity of Participating Organizations Real Joint Action Must Now Prove Will To Real Struggle United Front tween the youth congress ond the} youth section of the American League Against War and Fascism. | Candidate’s Home Raided It did not manifest its desire to rally the greatest number of youth in the struggle against war, as|Signature Drive Shows would be the case if it were to co- A Serious Lag, Greater operate with the youth scetion of the American League, but opposed Speed Is Urged such cooperation on the grounds that the American League is an “innocent Communist club.” Might we remind the leadership of the Y.P.S.L. that the youth sec- tion of the American League Against War and Fascism repre- sented over a quarter of a million youth at the Second Chicago Con- gress in September, and further might we remind the leadership of the Y.P.S.L. that the chairman of the youth section in none other than a member of the Socialist Party, Waldo McNutt? For what other reason, then, other than to attempt to prevent a real mass anti- war struggle and to narrow the |base of the American Youth Con-| CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 1.—The elec- tion campaign committee organized at the Workers United Front Con- ference in Ward Eight, has just re- ported that the home of a work- ers’ candidate, George Racz resid- ing at 715 East 91st Street, has been broken into. It is clear, the committee said, that the raid on this worker's home was manufactured by some of the local politicians since no money or valuables have been touched, but | Congress to support it. Young Communist League from the very inception of this movement, especially in the struggle for unity, was the prime motivating factor that mobilized the majority of the | youth delegates for a united strug- program will emphasize the chief | points of the speeches and illu- strate the memorial character of the meeting. In order to adhere | to this time schedule and endure orderly running of the meeting, the meeting will begin on time, and no | groups will be permitted to enter as a bedy once the program has begun. The meeting this year, the Elev-| enth Memorial, comes at a time when the Soviet Union has made its greatest gains, but is being at-.| tacked more viciously than ever be- | fore, and when the class lines are talist country. Since the last me- | morial meeting, many Outstanding | events have occurred. In our own gle against fascism and war. With the persistent struggle for unity on the part of the Y. C. L., the Young People’s Socialist League leadership for the first time in its history in the United States was compelled to reckon with the necessity for such unity, and was actually forced to brush aside all the artificial ob- stacles that it had maintained up until that time and unite in the | bei s it the fascist pur- being drawn more sharply in the | Struggle to defeat | United States and in every capi- | Pose of the Ilma conference. The correctness of this policy on the part of the Y. C. L. was dem- onstrated by the immediate support . Music to Mark levees the general strike on the that it recelved from numerous or- west coast, the strikes in Toledo and | ganizations, Y. M. C. A.’s, ¥. W. C. Daily Worker | Minneapolis, the great textile strike | As, Settlement Houses, Boy Scouts, o An niversary Degeyter Orchestra Will” Perform Symphony at | St. Nicholas Palace | The “Egmont Overture” by Beeth- oven and two Hungarian dances | will be presented by the Pierre De- ; geyter Symphony Orchestra at the} eleventh anniversary celebration of | the Daily Worker, Saturday night, at | the St. Nicholas Palace, 66th Street and Columbus Avenue. The orchestra will also play “Rote Soldaten,” the composition of Volpe, It will round out its program with the “Dance of the Red Sailors” by Gliere and a polka from “Schwanda” by Weinberg. David Grunes will conduct. i Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, will speak. The Red Dance Group, noted revolutionary performers, have prepared a series of dances for the event. Dancing will take place till far into the morning, with Percy Dodd's | Royal Syncopators offering the mel- odies. The Daily Worker and Italian Worker choruses will sing a number and many others have served to ttade unions, clubs, etc., a support | not part of the A. F. of L.? bring out more clearly the rising | militancy of the workers and the sharpness of the struggle.. In Spain, | Cuba and China, revolutionary | struggles have taken place and are | continuing. In Austria, civil war; | in France and other places the es- | | |tablishment of a united front be- tween Communist and Socialist | workers, and in Germany the forg. ing of an organized anti-fascist | movement under the leadership of-| the heroic Communist Party. | The Eleventh Memorial Meeting | will mark these events, will forecast the growing strength of the Amer- ican working class, will pay tribute |to the work and teaching of Lenin, |and will express the mighty reply of the New York working class to | the new anti-Soviet fascist-impe- | Tialist terror plots and war incite- which compelled the Y. P. S.-L. to fall in line and which led to the de- feat of the Ilma. conference. What Faces the Youth Now more than ever before is the capitalist class attempting to worsen the already miserable condi- tions of the youth. Why is it that the already long hours of work of the youth are being constantly lengthened, and the already miser- able wages are being further re- duced, except to bolster the condi- tions of the capitalists at the ex- pense of the toiling youth? years struggled against the} | reactionary officialdom of the A. F. of L., who have witnessed betrayal | upon betrayal perpetrated upon them and after bitter struggles have | built up revolutionary or indepen- dent unions—are they not to be recognized? Is the Fur Workers} Industrial Union, with over 90 per cent of the workers organized into) its ranks, the Metal Workers In- | dustrial Union, or the Furniture | Workers Industrial Union, affiliated | |to the Trade Union Unity League, {unions that have won the confi- | dence and respect of the masses of | workers in their respective indus- | tries, for its militant leadership, to) be disregarded? | Does the leadership of the Y.P.| | S.L. desire to ignore the masses of | workers organized into the Railroad | Brotherhoods, the United Shoe and Leather Workers and the Progres-, sive Miners Union because they are Does it advise the miners organized into the Progressive Miners Union of America to abandon. their union) | and return to the treacherous lead- ership of John L. Lewis, who has made history by his betrayals? The Y.P.S.L. leadership “appears” to be |insistent on supporting the A. F. of L. Why is it then that it was not | instrumental in securing delegates |from the A. F. of L. unions to the Kegional American Youth Con- gress? Not only has it not secured |delegates from A. F. of L. unions, | gress, the answer | from colleges and universities, as | lowing the leadership of the Young For what other reason than prep- | but has prevented the circles of aration for war is compulsory mili- |the Y.P.S.L. from cooperating with tary training being established in | the units of the Y.C.L. in the prepa- the colleges and universities? Why | rations for the Congress, is it that all militant and anti-| It wasonly after the vast majority fascist students are being expelled of delegates at the Congress, fol- was the case in the C. C. N. Y¥., ex- Communist League, had shown their }time when the government is in- ment. | cept to attempt to stifle and to pre- sas | vent the organization of the stu- | dent youth? For what other reason New O rlean Ss than to further worsen the condi- i tions of the youth is the Hearst ’ e press conducting its campaign to Seamen Reject drive the revolutionary movement Forced Labor Is not the LaGuardia Sales Tax |e direct blow at the conditions of into illegality, just as in fascist Advise Harry Hopkins tne workers, directly placing the Germany, and to transform the C. 'C, C. camps into adjuncts of the United States Army? indignant opposition to such sec- tarian proposals, that the leader-| | ship of the Y.P.S.L. was compelled | to. withdraw this proposal in favor | |of the original demand for support to all labor unions. | .Unemployment Insurance | The First American Youth Con- |gress in August went on record | | unanimously endorsing the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. How is the consistency in the line of the leadership of the Y.P.S.L. to be | explained when at the August Con- | of cooperation between the Amer- of new revolutionary compositions. There will be a solo performance by Andre Cibulsky. To Acquaint Himself With Constitution PSS SE Ween oie | . . * . 0 ers jdected to forced labor on public) Held in Arizona Strike} °°" projects in the town of Al-_ _giers at $1 per week for 30 hours, | 400 unemployed seamen here, mem- PHOENIX, Ariz Jan. 1.—A hung bers of the Waterfront Unemployed jury and an ex’ usted panel has Council, dispatched the following, temporarily halt: 1 the trials of the telegram to Harry L. Hopkins, Na- twenty-eight wo-kers who were ar-| tional Relief Admini rator in| rested on Sept. 6 when police under | Washington, last Friday: | orders of Gov. B. B. Moeur attacked! “Four hundred seamen denied the picket line of striking F.E.R.A.| transient relief on refusal accept | workers. All the workers are charged | public works project Algiers. Project | with “riot.” Each are demanding | deprives local citizens of legitimate | separate jury trials. work. Effective today all seamen of burden for unemployment on the | gress it supported the Workers’ Un- | backs of the workers instead of the |employment Insurance Bill, and at| capitalists? Is not the Wickes Law, | the Regional Congress in New York, which denies youth relief, a direct | attempted to have the Congress go denial of the right of young work-!on record in support of no bills Why then does Mr. Fisher, Secre- tary of the City Committee of the YPSL., writing in the “New Leader” of Dec. 29, declare “that the Young Communists attempted to push through their proposals for the cooperation with the Commu- | nist Congress for Unemployment Insurance?” Is it to be under-| stood then that the leadership of | is really not for the| adoption of the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill, because it is “Communist?” | Would not the struggle for this bill have been strengthened a hun- dredfold if the New York Congress went on record in support of the} Washington Congress for Unem-| ployment Insurance on Jan. and 7? Further then, we would| like to know in how many trade unions and other organizations have | the Y.P.S.L. fought for the endorse- ment of this bill since it went on record to support it at the August American Youth Congress. From its attitude at the Regional Con- is clear. Here again the support that the Bill re-| ceived from the overwhelming majority of delegates at the New York Congress placed the proposal of the Y.P.S.L. “fo not endorse this | bill but to wait until a better bill | will be presented to Congress” in a/ very insignificant minority, and made it clear before the Congress | that they were the ones that were Placing obstacles in the struggle for Unemployment Insurance and in! the establishment of unity. Struggle Against War and Fascism The struggle against. war and fas- cism became the central question at the New York Regional Congress. | The burning necessity for united struggle against war was expressed in the unanimous decision of the Congress to call the youth of New York to demonstrate en masse on Memorial Day, May 30, as well as to support the student anti-war strike on April 13. The desire of the Congress is to! involve the broadest possible num- ber of youth in the struggle against war and fascism, the Y.PS.L. especially at a) creasing its campaign among the youth and directly assisting the | development of fascist vigilante | bands and increasing the terror and | lynching among Negroes. The Y.C. L. made its position clear to the entire Congress when it declared that all youth and youth organiza- tions must be involved in this strug- gle. It pointed out the necessity | ican Youth Congress and any other organization that is effectively Struggling against war and fascism. Here again the leadership of the Y.P.S.L. demonstrated its sectarian- ism and resistance to developing a/| real broad anti-war movement| when it opposed cooperation be- wae tie’ leaders of tha oP | the desk and drawers searched for gress z Pil : phe S.L. opposed to such cooperation? | Papers and Seeiieate, This raid For the sake of unity the proposal| upon the worker’s home is linked was not pressed in spite of the in-| with the dismissal of this candidate sistence of numerous delegates. But | by the dairy company by which he we have to lay the responsibility 4 for the preventing of cooperation | ¥#* employed, and the failure of of these two movements at the door| the union officials to reinstate him steps of the Y.P.S.L. leaders. on his job. Unity Must Be Established When Racz called for his. bond The Y.C.L. has constantly been at the dairy, he was refused it, struggling for unity in the inter-| ests of the student and toiling youth. The Y.C.L. has made numerous pro- posals to the Y.P.S.L. for united ac- tion. The ink.is hardly dry on | the most recent proposals made by receiving the excuse that the union representative was not there and that he must be present when the bond is returned. The workers of the Eighth Ward the Y.C.L. for joint action in con- nection with the defense of the Columbus Day, Anti-Fascist Dem- onstration, and the proposals for joint demonstrations on Interna- tional Socialist Youth Week in Oc- tober. To all these proposals the | answer of the leadership of the Y.P. | S.L. was negative. In the Oct. 12 demonstration, it proposed as a con- dition of unity instead of a joint struggle against fascism, unity with the renegade Lovestone group and with the counter - revolutionary Trotzkyite clique. The dangling of these two insignificant groups has been raised as the chief “obstacle” to unity by the Y.P.S.L. leadership. | At the American Youth Congress, in face of its broad representation, | this ridiculous. proposal could not be put forward and the Y.P.S.L. was compelled to dispose of this obstacle | in the formation of the united front. The congress has come to a close. | The resolutions adopted at this con- gress are the base for the mobiliza- tion of the broadest masses of youth in the struggle against their miser- able conditions. The effectiveness of this congress will be determined by the persistent work of the par- ticipating organizations in the mo- bilizations of its members, as well as in all other organizations for | the program adopted at this con- gress. On the basis of the reso- lutions all participating organiza- | tions in the respective Boroughs of New York must unite, forming are called upon to rally behind their 5, 6 Spanish Revolution, the Oct. 12, candidate and to defeat the attacks of the local politicians by collecting |enough signatures to place him on | the ballot and by voting for him in the coming aldermanic elections. | PETITION DRIVE LAGS CHICAGO, Ill., Jan. 1—With the | drive for nominating signatures for Detroit ry EE Leaders Block United Front Misleaders Supported By the Lovestoneites And DETROIT, Jan, |—The last meete ing of the Detroit Labor Conference Against Fascism held at 274 E. Ver« nor Highway, headquarters of the Detroit Federation of Labor, pree sented a classic example of how the leaders of the Socialist Party and the A. F. of L. in Detroit fight not Fascism, but the rank and file and the militant policies introduced by the rank and file, who are striving to unite all workers in a struggle against Fascism, regardless of their political beliefs. A few months ago P. Kroon and L. Fabian, of Painters Local 37 and W, Allan, of the Bakers Local were refused a seat in the conference on the excuse that they were Commu- nists. Since that time the rank and file have staged a continuous strug< gle to have them seated The reactionary character of Ate torney Larry Davidow of the S.P, former prosecutor in Lincoln Park, and an ex-Republican, who has been the leading figure in the drive | against the militants, was seen when *| Daily he attempted to provoke S. Weber of Journeyman Tailors 229, who is still a delegate, into « fight at the last meeting so that there would be an excuse for expulsion. Attacks Communist Press During the course of the same meeting articles were read from the Worker and the Morning Freiheit, which Davidow said were written by workers sitting in the conference, and on this basis he de= manded that they be unseated. In this he was unsuccessful, due to the determined fight put up by J. Man= nick and P. Rubin of Painters Local 42 Mannick then pointed out that the only way that unity can be obtained is through the united front of all organizations interested in the struggle against Fascism. He de« manded that all delegates who had been expelled be reseated. The Wayne County Executive of | i the Socialist Party, who attended Communist candidates in the local | n i elections lagging dangerously, the | this meeting, then did their stuff. campaign committee here issued an urgent call to all sections and neighborhoods asking that the sig- | nature collections be put on | emergency basis. “Al sections are requested to put the collection of signatures on an emergency basis at once,” the let- | ter urged. ‘All sections to date have reported a total of 2,000 signatures. | At this rate we will never get the required number. Each section has | to collect 1.500 signatures per week to put the drive over the top. The section committees of the Commu- |nist Party must assign quotas to jeach unit immediately. Reports on | the progress of the drive should be | turned in daily to the campaign | manager so that a thorough check- | up may be instituted at once. Muss organizations must also be swung |r the signature colléction drive by the assignment of quotas to | neighborhood clubs and branches.” | Conference Jan. 13 | CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 1—Prepara- Borough Committees that will carry __ : out the daily struggles against the tions are being made for a confer- vicious slander of the Hearst press| nce here on Jan. 13 for the en- and against its war propaganda. | dorsement of the Communist Party Throughout the city, the Young Candidates in the local elections Communists and Young Socialists | Th€ Communist Party campaign | must unite together with all other Committee yesterday called for the organizations in a determined fight mobilization of all local forces of against the introduction of fascism the Party for the conference. and fascist methods in the U.S. |__The campaign committee also The coming National Youth Con-| ¥a@™ned yesterday that the Commu- gress in Washington on Jan. 5 and 6 MiSt committees in wards where must be a culmination point of the | Candidates have already been nom- New York and other regional con-| inated must lose no time in pub- gresses, broadening out the move- lishing their ward platforms. It ment and rallying ever larger masses of toiling youth in the struggle against war and fascism and for the improvement of their immediate economic conditions. Play Depicts Scottsboro Verdicts Kirov Meeting Jobless Fight Are Aimed at Entire Wi!! Be Held onHome Relief NEW YORK.—Naumoff L. Mal-| kin’s three-act play, “Home Relief,” will open Friday evening for a By ROSE BARON U.S. Negro Population In Bronx Jan.6 The Communist Party in the Pointed out that of the 34 wards | where candidates have been selected | only one committee has issued its ward platform. Refuse To Leave Office, Unemployed Win Relief OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Jan. 1 —All demands for winter relief and coal were won by the Unemploy- ment Councils here after a mass delegation called at the centralized agency for relief and refused to budge until something was done. an! | Federation of Labor) Their remarks were as follows Kent, secretary of the S.P.: “If we have any united front with the Communists, then the Old Wife (Martel, president of the Detroit will divorce then the conference will die.” Naysmith: “Communists are dis- rupters and we are against the united front, All that Communists want is to rule or ruin.” Glickman: “The Communists are the worst elements in the working class. The Socialist Party fights for the rule of Social Democracy and against the dictatorship of the pro- letariat.” Davidow: “No Communist will ever enter this conference unless Martel and the A. F. of L. decide to admit Communists. We fully agree with the policy of the A. F. of L. us |in expelling all Communists or Com= | fused munist agitators.” Lovestoneites Support Reactionaries The Lovestoneites are represented here by Red Miller, business agent of the Laundry Workers Union (A, F. of L.), who is chairman of the credentials committee. As chaire man, he allowed Davidow to state that the credentials committee re- to seat Kroon, Fabian, and Allan. The credentials committee never gave any report on this issue, but Davidow, as chairman, said these three delegates were not to be seated and allowed no discussion or vote. The Lovestone group of five never fought this ruling but submitted to it and even accepted Miller on a committee to throw the delegates out of the hall for protest- ing against this action. One of the delegates brings all the clippings from the Daily Worker and Morning Freiheit to Martel and Davidow. His name is Jakie Rob- inson, of the Printing Pressmen, | He is used by Martel to go to local | They told Carl Giles, Welfare Ad- | ministrator, that they would stay | ; Bronx will hol da Kirov memorial | all night if necessary. After all at-| | fact that the International Labor |Meeting next Sunday evening at 7:30) tempts at intimidation had failed | tions of the Socialist Party and unions to find out if certain rank and filers are known as Com~ munists; if so, charges are placed against them. All rank and file workers are warned to watch this person. The growing affiliation of A. F, of L. locals with the American League Against War and Fascism shows that the anti-Communist ac- A number of jurors have already sat in the trials of Clay Naff and James Sanchez with the result that the remaining cases will be delayed until another panel is drawn. The jury in the Sanchez case was unable to agree on a verdict after twenty-four hours’ deliberations and was released. The jury in the case of Clay Naff, "memployed leader and Communist andidate for Governor in the last slections, guilty. Naff is now awaiting sentence and a hearing on a motion for a new trial. WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. Lenin Memorial Meeting Friday, Jan. 18, 1935 at the Markét St. Arena, and Market Sts. Prominent ers, excellent program. Buy tickets now. ‘War or Peace in the Saar Plebiscite? - Lecture and discussion at Lulu Tem- p.m. Thursday, January 3, 1935, Lawyers’ Banquet, Friday evening, Jan. 4, 8 p.m. at Broad. St. Mansion, Broad and Girard Aves. Prominent speakers and talents. Adm. SOc. Aus- Pices International Labor Defense. returned a verdict of) : where they. join in all struggles of New Orleans are without food or! Shelter. We demand union wage) scales, no forced labor or scabbing. Read thirteenth amendment to Con- stitution of the United States.” At an open air protest mass meet- ing the unemployed seamen decided to picket the ferries to see that no one goes to work on the Algiers project. About 100 seamen have signed the Daily Worker straw vote on the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill. Twenty-five signed protest cards against the new contract signed by the 1S.U. offi- cials, which provides for $57.50 a month for seamen. The struggle against the forced labor camps has been on for several weeks. In addition to objecting tos the miserable conditions and 30 hours labor at only $1 a week, the seamen resent being taken miles from the employment halls, where they might find a chance to ship out. The relief au- thorities have hinted plainly that one of the objects is to take the seamen away from the waterfront, the workers, being among the most militant. * Collect greetings from your _neighbers for the Daily Worker | e i three-day engagement at the Grand | Street Playhouse, 466 Grand Street. The play, performed. in Yiddish by , unemployed professional actors, de- Picts the misery of the East Side | unempioyed in the ‘six years of | crisis, their struggie for elementary | human needs, and the fights against | eviction and starvation. | The play is presented by ‘the Downtown Unemployment Councils. All proceeds from the performance will go to the Unemployment Coun- cils to establish a fighting fund for’ unemployment insurance. | Tickets for the play, which will tun Friday, Saturday and Sunday, | are being sold at all Unemployment | Council locals in the Downtown area. Admission Will be 35 cents; unemployed 15 cents. Philadelphia To Hold Liebknecht Memorial Meeting on Jan. 9 PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1—Link- ing up the post-war militant strug- gle of the German proletariat with the present inspiring anti-Fascist | struggle in the face of the most) brutal and bestial terror in modern | Defense, in its valiant fight in the|@t Ambassador Hall, 3875 Third The fight for the freedom of Hay- courts as well as pared masses, | Avenut, to rally workers to the de- wood Patterson, Clarence Norris | must meet a terrific burden of ex- | fense of the Soviet Union and to and Angelo Herndon is at a critical | pense, The simple court costs and |@"Swer the campaign of slander stage. The lynch verdicts against | incidental expenses of these two | 48ainst the workers’ fatherland, yeas whee the ruling class of | actions amount to a fortune. The revolutionary justification for mezica hopes to terrorize the) at this moment, to carzy through | the execution of the counter-revolu- jand Giles had disappeared, the) A. F. of L. leaders in recent months | delegation was told that the place have convinced many workers that | Was being closed up. They replied | the only way to advance is to unite | that they would sleep there as it| all sections of the working class, | would be better than going home | regardless of their political opinion, | to freeze. Since all attempts to oust | {them had failed, the relief admin- | Collect greetings from your whole Negro people and to smash | the unity of the white working class and the Negro toilers, are at this moment before the highest. courts. | Millions throughout the world have been mobilized to protest these murderous verdicts, and millions’ must now make their voices heard, | demanding that the Supreme Cour of the United: States free the two! Scottsboro boys, that the Supreme | Court of Georgia free Angelo Hern- | | It is a gigantic task. in which we | dictatorship, must have $6,000. The toilers of the | plained to all workers and sympa-_ United States must find this money,| thizers who as yet do not see the! and find it quickly. They will do so, /need for the sternest repression of | But not a moment can be lest. the class enemy by the proletarian. cannot, must not fail. The Section Committee calls upon | I urgently appeal to every single all its units and the mass organiza- individual of good will to do his tions to bring the greatest number utthost in this tremendous struggic.| of workers for this meeting, espe- Rush every last penny that you can, cially Socialist workers. Well-known don. * But this cannot make up for the immediately, to the Internationa] working class leaders will address! | Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Strect, the meeting. |New York City. times, the Northeast Section of the Philadelphia Communist Party will celebrate the 16th Anniversary of the death of Karl Liebknecht with the showing of “Ernst Thaelmann,” the film smuggled out of Hitler Ger- many and now being shown throughout the United States, as a graphic and inspiring picture of the | heroic struggle in Germany. - Fur Union’s Delegates meeting will be held on Wednesday, To Parley Meet Today , January 9, 8 p.m., at Gewerbe Hall, a ia ang tT acteea i 2582 N. 2nd Street. Harry M. Wicks , 4 Special meeting of all delegates to the National Congress for Unem- will be the chief speaker. The pro-| ployment Insurance from the Fur gram of entertainment will include| Workers Industrial Union will be songs by the Germ.n Workers Sing- | held today at 4:30 p.m., at 131 West ing Society. | 28th Street, Room 12. | Final instructions and directives | All greetings to the Daily will be discussed by the Fur Union Worker on its Anniversary shonld | “elegates and plans for their partic The picture showing and memorial ipation in the session of the Na-! be in before Jan, 12th! ‘tional Congress. mands. 1% TURNER HALL Anniversary DAILY WORKER FEATURING NEW THEATRE NIGHT PRESENTING STEVEDORE CAST - NEWSBOY - SAT. Fth LYNCHED - TROOPS ARE MARCH- JAN. U8 p.m. ING - CAPITALIST FOLLIES OF 1934- And Many Other Attractions NORTH SIDE 25c in Advance —35e at Door Tickets at 2019 West Division State St; Roosevelt Road. the present court actions, the ILD. | tionary white-guards will be ex-| ‘tration was forced to grant all de-| neighbors for the Daily Worker Anniversary! 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