The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 4, 1935, Page 2

sons Yage 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1938 Carolina Mill Hands Face Prison on Dynamite Frame-Up STATE WITNESSES Rank and File Members Form Defense Group With Aid of 1.L.D. When Union Officials Fail to Aid Six Arrested During General Strike BURLINGTON, N. C., Jan. 3—Rank and file workers of the United Textile Workers Union have set up a Workers’ Defense Committee for the defense of six local textile work- ers railroaded to a total of 57 years in jail on a “dynamite” frame-up which grew out of the General Textile Strike. The six workers were sentenced ¢ on Dec. 4. Three men, described as underworld characters, who admit- ted complicity in the dynamiting and turned state witnes have been given jobs by the E. M. Holt Plaid Mill Company, the compan; which pressed the charges. The six framed workers appealed to the International Labor Defense when it became evident that the Professionals Demand Spain End Terror Officials of the United Textile Seventy-five well-known intellec- Workers’ Union had no intention tuals and professional people have of defending them or combating | signed a statement drawn up by the move to discredit the union. | the National Committee for the De- The I..L. D. is actively aiding their fense of Political Prisoners protest- defense. ing the Fascist reign of terror in| The Workers’ Defense Committee Spain. Fascist Acts—Refuses to Make Protest By MILTON HOWARD If anybody has any illusions about the “progressive” atmosphere of Wisconsin, where the LaFollettes allegedly reign in a liberal paradise of “tolerance and good-will,” the recent events in Racine ought to make some difference. Little publicity has been coming out of Racine on these events. But the story of the police raids, the hoodium terrorism, and vigi- lante violence against the Commu: nist Party and working class organ- izations in this town reads no dif- | ferent from the stories of fascist terrorism in the deep South or the clubbings out on the Pacific Coast. Capitalist reaction and terrorism breed just as rapidly in the sunny liberalism of Wisconsin as in any other district of the Wall Street dictatorship. Attacks Began in November The attack on the Communist Party began on Nov. 24, when a | gang of hoodiums armed with clubs swooped down upon a demonstra- lice, co-operating with the employ- | joint protest and action against this ers and city officials, terrorism which threatened all Worker Taken for ‘Ride’ working class groups. They were Ev Communist Party sympa-|™et by Allan Benson, State Sec- | thizer has been terrorized by the Tétary of the Socialist Party, who hoodiums’ warning, “Lay off the | Could find no other answer than to Reds.” No hall proprietor will rent | State that he had to be “cautious,” the Communist Party his quarters |that perhaps this wes an arranged for fear of reprisals by the vigi- | Communist business intended to lantes. Kidnapping is recognized ears ca bene Saat epi ee ee -catoae ever one judges the political cor- rectness, feelings of the For example, @ well-known militant |Tectmness, of the feelings worker was seized in broad day-! dure such talk no longer and flung light, and “taken for a ride.” Only out of the presence of Benson be- his daring in leaping out of the car! fore the interview was over. saved him from a cruel beating, if| Racine Socialists Protest ngs oe | But the reaction of the Socialist And when this worker demanded) party locals was quite different of the police that they arrest his|from that of their august State known kidnappers, he himself, was|secretary. The Racine 8. P. local flung into jail, held on the exorbi-| joined in the protest, and several tant bail of $5,000, and charged with | prominent Sociclist Party members “libelling the chief of polies”! When:|are helping aci ively in building two small business men dared to of- joint action against the terrorism. \fer bail for the jailed worker, their Other locals have protested the ter- windows were smashed by vigi- rorism, as well as several A. F. of lantes! | L. locals. This is the atmosphere in which the Communist Party and the Un-| the State, however, still refuses to Communist workér who could en- | | The oficial S. P. organization of Vigilante Violence, Police Raids, Terrorism ARE GIVEN JOBS | Against Communists Unc BY TEXTILE FIRM |ttotetc to Stent onan wmpenaiy sen oy east hecked in Wisconsin > Socialist Locals Hit} Raids, But State Head | Fails to Act Ravine vigilantes “correspond with | the ideals of the Hitlerites and the fascists of Italy.” But it will not unite with the Communist Party in fighting this admitted fascist men- ace! What this mysterious “dis- sension” of the Communists is the Council does not make clear, nor does if recognize that the terrorism | in Racine is a direct outgrowth of the Communist Party leadership in the struggles of the unemployed. Is this “dissension”? Or is it the | justified defense of the interests of |the workers, of all workers, whieh | deserves the support of every labor | | group? Is it not clear that this | talk of “Communist dissension” pro- | vides a justification of the police terrorism against the Communist | Party and the Unemployed Coun- | cils? The local Communist Party mem- bers have worked .unflinchingly |against this terrorism. Whatever $$$ $$___________» MINERS’ DEMANDS IN STRIKE GIVEN UP FOR ARBITRATION Instead of Unity in Fight on Grievances, Officials of U.M.W.A. Talk Jurisdiction Strike as U.A.M. Makes Deal in Wilkes Barre WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 3.—After a five-day strike the demands of the Glen Alden Coal Company miners have been placed in the hands of an arbitration board. The struggle between the officials of the United Anthracite Min- ers of Pennsylvania and of the United Mine Workers (A. F, ag tof L.) is now sharpening and threat- jens a strike for jurisdiction. V1! Officiais of the United Mine | Workers of America have already Fi ht on Court 2" the settlement which re- Ss sulted from nezotiations between | the independent union and the Glen S ea b O r d e Y° | Alden Company which has a con- tract with the United Mine Work- ee A tri-district board meeting the U. M. W. of A. today will A call addressed to longshoremen, | ° : y det fy if a si teamsters and seamen will be issued FSR Ebe Se employed Councils of Racine are now Ww ing in defensé of the in- | terests of the working class. i LaFollette Fails To Act join in united front action for the | breakdown of the work or lati of | defense of civil liberties in Racine. | initiative in the units was shown is | In this connection, it is signifi- | now being overcome. The -fight of cant to note that the mass pressure | the Racine Communists for civil today by the rank and file commit- | tee of the International Longshore- | men’s Union for united action to to challenge the company’s right to deal with the U. A. M. of P. The strike called by the Anthra- cite Miners, which ended yesterday, was the first to be fought on the The reaction to this brutal ter- addressed to the tion of jobless workers demanding | yorism is significant. The LaFol- terrorism, forced a reluctant state- mobilized by the Communist Party |iperties of the working class, for | comrades, despite all obstacles andthe right to organize for adequate | smash the sweeping court order sis of gri S i - shoremen to load scab cargo. basis of grievances facing the work eer . . - 2 $ : . . 2 . 2 . . : * . ‘ has issued an appeal to all workers Professional people. intellectuals and students. to support the mass and legal fight against this mon- strous frame-up. Its appeal states, in part “Three of the condemned work- ers are out on bond. Three others lie in the adjoining county jail awaiting bail. Since the officials of the United Textile Workers’ Union kept their hands “washed” of the whole case, the six condemned men appealed to the International Labor Defense for counsel. Renk and file members of the union, with other workers and sympathizers, have or- ganized the Workers’ Defense Com- mittee in Burlington and other cen- ters to begin a campaign for the freedom of these workers. “Three hundred dollars is needed at once to get the evidence copied for appeal to the State Supreme Court. This is a cause that no honest person, worker, student, pro- fessor or merchant, can afford to turn down. The future of these in- noeent but condemned workers rests hands of us who are able to Bosses Ask for Troops OHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Jan; 3.— The Richmond Hosiery Mills Com- pany has demanded state troops to combat the picket lines of its strik- ing employes. The striking hosiery workers have rejected the proposal for compulsory arbitration. A “peace werrant” against Ivar Tutker has been issued, and the hearing takes place today. If the cherge against Tucker is sustained, he will be put under a peace bond of from $250 to $2,000. Chief of Police Shelby admitted today that fewer men showed up for work every day and that the strike is effective. The company has sent a letter to the strikers declaring it would “take beck” all employes except those who “committed acts of violence.” The strikers voted to reject this proposition. There are approxi- mately 500 on ike. Six Sessions For Jan. 5 Parley (Continued from Page 1) 1245 to 4 The Women 39 p.m. to 5:40 p.m.: Fourth Gen- erg! Sexsion. 2:30 to 2:50 150 to 3:20 The Youth The Veterans 20 to 3:50: The Farmers to 4:00: The Experts (Social ce in Britain, Germany, Domestic and Per- Professionals Political Parties 7:00 p.m.-10 p.m.: Fifth General | Sexston. | 1) Reports of Credentials, Reso- lutions and Program Committees. 2) Fleection of National Action Committee. MONDAY 9 a.m.: General Assembly for For- Mation of Delezations. | 19-A.m.: Departure of Delegations, | * 30 to 5 Gencrat Sena: OG 1) Summary Report: Results of Visits of Delegations, Results of Congress. Program of Action for Coming Period. 2) Adoption of Program of Ac- tion. 100.000 Paris ‘Workers SignPetition Demanding Sixth and Final | p.m. jing of The statement, Spanish Ambassador at Washing- ton for transmission to his govern- ment, briefly outlined a series of brutal and repressive measures used by the fascist Lerroux-Robles gov- ernment of Spain to suppress the heroic struggles of the Spanish workers and peasants against the fascization of the government. The statement lists the following four | demands: () Put an end to executions or- dered by your government. (2) End the cruelties which are equal to those of Hitler’s Nazi gov- ernment. (3) Free the thousands who fought for the most fundemental of human rights, (4) Cease the censorship which attempts to hide the activities of the Spanish Government from the world Some of the signatories are Jane Addams, John Chamberlain, Quincy Howe, Maleolm Cowley, John How- ard Lawson, Sarah H. Cleghorn Jack Conroy, Babette Deutsch, Dor- othy Canfield Fisher, Horace Greg- ory, Granville Hicks, Maxwell Hyde, Horace M. Kallen, Robert Morss Lovett, Grace Lumpkin. Lewis Mum- ford, Rev. William B. Spofford, Bernhard Stern, Rev. George Parker Weiss, Waldo Frank, playwright and student of Spanish. affairs, and member of the National Committee. sent a protest cablegram to Premier Alejandro Lerroux of Spain, A memorial, urging the Spanish Ambassador to forward the protest to his government, was signed by Theodore Dreiser, Lewis Gannett, Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Oswald | on Villard, Charles Edward . Arthur Garfield Hays and yin Trial of 18 to Begin Friday (Cont ued from Page 1) is a wholesale dairyman who, al- though showing the greatest anxiety to get on the jury, pro- fesses that he is “not interested in| politics” and not biased against the defendants. Judge Lemmon continued to hamper the defense in its question- the jurors, sustaining the objections of the prosecution to such questions by the defense as: | “Would you be biased if prosecutor | presents as evidence the infamous Whalen forgeries?” ‘Because de- fendents advocate right to strike and picket?” | Gallagher then asked Cooper if} he would be afraid to arrive at a! verdict in favor of the defendants for fear it would affect the sale of; his milk. Cooper dodged the ques-| tion with the answer that he was| having a hard time getting rid of it now. Defense Quizzes Juror When Gallagher asked the juror) if he would be biased if the de- fendants believed that the State! | withers away in a classless society, | Prosecutor Chris Johnson demanded to know what the workers will do with all the capitalists. “I don’t know what they'll do with all the, capitalists.” Gallagher replied, “but | know what the workers of Cali-| Release of Thaelmann {n'a did with some capitalist pros- The National Committee to Aid| the Victims of German Fascism has | just rectived a cablegram from the ‘World Committee at Paris that the Socialist Devuty Longuet and the Communist Deputy Peri visited the Gctrman consulate personally, car- rving with them 100,000 signatures demanding the freedom of Thael- mann, These signatures were gath- ered within two days in Paris and its suburbs. The National Committee urgently requests all organizations and in- | dividuals in the United States, who still have Thaeimann signature lists in their possession, whether signed or unsigned, to mail them to its address at 168 W. 2rd St. New York City. All funds collected upon ecutors. these lists should be remitted im- mediately. Get a greeting from a friend y for the Daily Worker's | nth Anniversary! The vote of 180,000 people for one of the candidates of the Communist Party is one of the} reasons why the Communist Party | is legally on the ballot in this state.” | Although Distriet Attorney Mc- Allister was smashingly repudiated and defeated in the recent elections. the new District Attorney, Otis D.| Babcock, acting under orders of the | most reactionary canitalist elements | in this State, is planning to con- tinue McAllister and his deputies in the case as special prosecutors. Bab- | cock takes office on Jan. 7. Me-/ Allister and two special prosecutors are to receive $30 per day each dur- ine the trial. Pretests against the frame-up and the tactics of the prosecution. | with demands for the unconditional release of the 18 defendants, should be sent to Judge Dal M. Lemmon, District Attorney Otis D, Babcock | end Gov. Frank Merriam of Cali- fornia, all at Sacramento, Cal, | | Get a creeting from a friend | today for the Daily Worker's | Eleventh Anniversa: | adequate relief and the protection of the welf*x> of their families. The Racine police were calm witnesses of this assault. They noi only did not interfere. They actually pro- tected the thugs in their work. The same night there was an or- ganized attack on the Commu st Party headquariers. doors were broken in and furniture was smashed. Luckily the workers in the. office | had been forewarned of what was coming, and had cleared most of the stuff out, leaving the office un- occupied. Since this night raid Racine has been in the grip of an organized terrorism which has its souree and support in the leading bureaucrats of the American Legion and the po- Hauptmann Trial CoversSordid Story (Continued from Page 1) which to mount the heights of fame and fortune and prove to the «world | once more that any American. boy, if he is law-abiding enough, can become President or a millionaire. ‘The noble youth, after ovércom- ing difficulties that would have broken the heart of a cast-iron statue of George Washington, fi- nally succeeds in his ambition of flying across the Atlantic—becomes the hero of the whole world and thus is in & position to marry the girl of his dreams, who, fortunately, and in the best tradition of Horatio Alger, happens to be the daughter of a partner of J. P. Morgan. The Lone Eagle, settling down to roost | in his father-in-law's business, does his duty to William Randolph | Hearst’s ideal of mother, home and heaven and soon is the proud father of a baby boy. He liy thus in perfect peace and happiness until some monsirous creature, totally unlike anything that has ever been seen in the United States, steals on his home in the dead of night and foully murders his child in what the soft-hearted Hearst, with tears his eyes, has called “the most atrocious crime of these times.” That’s the fable and here is the truth: “Slim” Lindbergh was not poor nor did he achieve noteworthy rep- utation for honesty. He was the renegade son of a mid-Western congressman who spent his life fighting the grip of Well Street on the millions of farmers in the mid- West who lived in the midst of the | perpetual economic depression—ex- cept for the period of the World War—that has characterized the wheat prairies for more than a gen- eration. The elder Lindbergh fought against finance-capital, Te the declaration of war against Ger- many when to do so meant endan- gering his life as well as his career. The complete. story of Lindbergh's relations with his father will prob- ably newer be told. But certain aspects of them are known, and one of these is that because of them Lindbergh is scarcely on speaking terms with his mother, who, when | Lindbergh made his triumphant re- turns to American shores, had to be approached repeatedly before she would consent to be photo- graphed with her son. No Soaring Fagle Tne background of the flight across the Atlantic is just as sordid. Lindbergh was not a soaring eagle consumed with a holy ambition to advance the glory of America; he was a garage mechanic who wanted to win the $25,000 prize offered in 1927 for flying the Atlantic so that he cculd set up a garage of his | own. The most surprised’ adven- turer in the country on the day that the now historic flight ended wes Mr. Charles Augustus Lind- bergh. But Lindbergh has lost his surprise. Today, like his employer, Mr. Morgan, he loses his temper easily when he feels that his dig- | nity has been slighted. The news- papermen here who are forced to describe him as the incarnation of everything that is noble, good and true would much rather accept the job of sticking the Lone Eagle's nose in the mud which he whips up with his propeller whenever the reporters try to interview him during one of his frequent sulky moods. New as to the kidnapping and murter of Lindbergh's son. Commu- nists are opposed to individual vio- lence, Kidnapping, murder and other | able, quite @s loveable as the Lind- | an honest | ve who voted against) | lettes refused to soil their progres- | sive fingers with the whole matter. Phillip LaFollette, when asked by the workers to make public protest |against these outrages, found a most subtle and hypocritical reply. His stand on free speech was well- known, he declared, and therefore, no further statement on his part | was necessary! He therefore pro- ceeded to condone the terrorism by his deliberate silence and refusal to protest. From this incident alone it | jis clear as daylight that the pro-/| gressive LaFollettes have their own | firm position in the capitalist appa- ratus of state terrorism! Several Communist Party workers visited the State office of the So- cialist Party the day after the first raid on the party office, asking for | crimes naturally grow out of capi- talist corruption and decay, | Other Murders | The fiendish murder of the Lind- | vergh baby should be placed in} proper perspective to other mur- |ders: to the murders, for example, |of 57 strikers in 1934 by associates | of Lindbergh himself; to the murder \of 1,000 workers every day by star- vation since the crisis began five years ago; to the murder of Sergei Kirov, a leader of 160,000,000 people. | How many of the millions of | words that the American capitalist in the year did they give in sy | pathy with the brutal assassination | |last. month of one of the best-pe- | | loved leaders of the world pro- | |letariat? Did they not rather de- | fend the murderers of Kirov? | How many tears did the cap- | italist press shed over the murder |of 19-year old Harry Simms, who | was shot down in cold-blood just |! about the time, almest to a day, that the Lindbergh baby was mu | dered? Harry Simms had & mother, | too. And Harry Simms was love- bergh baby. When “he was shot in the stomach by a Kentucky deputy sheriff for organizing the Keniucky miners in their hercic strike against | | starvation in 1932 and left to die, bleedint profusely, on a rock be- cause the deputy sheriff didn’t be- | lieve that Communists, even wh | they are 19, deserve hospital treat- ment, the miners’ wives cried for | days. And when Simms died in|! torture on the following day, was | his murder lamented in the cavital- | | ist press? | What Papers Don't Print | The vast majority of capitalist | newspapers didn’t even report his murder, those that did gave it one paragraph, and not one stated that the Sheriff of Knox County refused to even allow Simms to be buried | where he was murdered: his body | had to be transferred to New York to be intersed. And while Simms’ body was riding in a baggage car, guarded by miners against a ghoul- | ish assault by drunken deputy | | sheriffs, the American capitalist press, which had ignored his mur- der because of the effect its telling | would have on the American work- | | ingclass, was filling whole pages | | with the details of the kidnaping of a rich man’s fon. A few weeks ago a Kentucky miner who was an associate of Simms’ was sentenced to a life term in jail | because of his continued militancy in the struggle for a living wage. His cease has still to be reported by the capitalist press which js still using the Lindbergh case as a) Roman circus to. keep the American) | workers distracted from their vital problems, |\Nazi Official Admits Dangerous Growth Of Unemployment COLOGNE, Jan. 3.—The Nazi press is maintaining a discreet si- lence on the speech made by Dr. Syrup, chairman of the board of “unemployment assistance” for Hit- ler Germany, before a meeting of | industrialists. Dr. Syrup made cer- tain revelations which the Nazis are anxious to suppress. “It must be admitted,” he de- clared, “that the large towns and industrial regions are suffering from an increase in the number of un- employed. It must be added that the vagaries of the seasons, the difficulties in the way of’ German exports, and the state of Germany's revictualment in rew materials do not help to prevent the growth of | Labor Council of the A. F. of L. | relief, for the right to assemble and | demonstrate, is the fight of the whole country. then syinratement, ‘hough provesting | “Racine is a trial balloon which nists,” launches an attack against |the reactionaries are sending up to | the Communists little different trom |S¢e how far they can go with fas- the propaganda of the employers. jeist terrorism in the “progressive While it is necessary to make the |COmmunities. It is @ test of the fullest use of this statement by the |*esistance of the working class to Council, it is also essential to reveal |the advance of fascist reaction. its character as helping ix the at-| This is what makes it so urgent tacks on the Communist Party. |that united front meetings be held The statement justifies the re-|of all workers, Socialist and A. F. fusal of the Council to join in ajof L., together with their class united front protest on the grounds | brothers in the Communist Party, ment from the Racine Trades and |I. L. A. who centered his attack | | Pennsylvania Depot, Newark, Satur- that “we suspect the Communist | tactics are calculated to create dis- | sension.” Unity Turned Down At the same time, the Council recognizes that the activities of the Insurance Parley Ready to Open (Continued from Page 1) —__—__—___— | ican Federation of Labor in. the | Philedelphie, trea have elected 60 delegates to the National Congres for Unemployment Insurance. Boston A.F.L. Unions Act BOSTON,. Mass., Jan, 3.—Local 10, Decorators Branch of the Jour- neymen Plasterers Association, en- dorsed the National Congress for | Unemployment Insurance and | elected one delegate. This is the largest local of the Plasterers Union in New England. In Brockton, the Lasters Local of | the Brotherhood of Shoe and Allied Craftsmen elected one delegate to the Congress. The Hebrew Paint- ers and Paperhangers Association has likewise elected one delegate. The Roxbury Civie Club, » Negro organization, has elected a | delegate, and the Reverend Staples, | 2, Negro Baptist chureh minister, is | calling a special meeting of his delegates, Italian Group Backs Parley | FALL RIVER, Mass., Jan. 3.—The , Workers Unemployment Insurance | Bill was endorsed at the last meet- | ing of the Italian Columbus Citi- zens Club here, and one delegate, William Brillo, was elected to at- tend the National Congress. An-| other delegate, Joseph Novo, was elected in a city conference on un- employment insurance atiended by nine workers’ clubs and mass or- ganizations here. | Phila, Delegation to Leave Saturday PHILADELPHIA, Pzx., Jan, 3— The entire Philadelphia delegation to the National Congress for Un- | employment Insurance will leave here Saturday morning at 8:20) o'clock from the Broad Street Sta-| tion and arrive in Washington at| 11 am. | Congressman-elect Boyd, when | visited by a committee from the local sponsoring committee prom- | ised to support the Workers Unem- | ployment Insurance Bill in Con-) gress and further declared that he | would fight in Congress for the right of a delegation of workers to pre- sent their demands from the floor of the United States Congress. Mass Send-Off Tonight NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 3—Follow- ing a mass send-off meeting at. Sokol Hall, 358 Morris Avenue. to- morrow night, the New Jersey dele- gation to the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance will en- train for Washington. The special train will leave the day at 12:45 a. m. (after midnight Friday) and will stop in Elizabéth Saturday morning at 1 a. m. and in New Brunswick at 1:15 a. m. Delegates have been urged to register at once at 52 West Street, Newark. Congress to Get Workers’ Bill (Continued from Page 1) gecesi Ba Baas: ness-New Deal Administration de- sires followed. Familiar Soft Soap : Jolly handshakes, expressions of the familiar soft soap that the patter of the professional poli- tician, hand-wavine. smiles and protesting the terrorism in Racine, Wisconsin. Wire the Raciné Mayor! Demand ti-: stopping of all terror- ism against the Communist Party! Demand the rights of the working class! and their smartly attired. escorts, enveloped the formal opening cere- monies with a picnic atmosphere. A visitor from some literary Utopia or a spectator from a strange land would never have known that to- day's opening took place in the sixth year of the capitalist crisis and the sixth successive New Deal month | showing an increase in unemploy- ment. Other measures to. be presented | included Representative . Patman’s (Texas) Bill “for the immediate payment to veterans of the face value of their adjusied-Service cer- tifieates and fo- controlled expan- | sion of the currency”; Representa- tive MeSwain’s (South Carolina) demezogic propesal “to prevent profiteering in the time of war and to equalize the burdens of war and| thus to premote the national de- fense”; various so-called anti-lynch- ing bills calling fer “equal protection of the laws and to punish the crime of lynching” (but not by death as) demanded by the League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights); Representa- | tive U. 8S. Guyer's chauvinistic bill “to require the employment of Am¢r- ican citizens on observation cars} used by railroads in Interstate Com- merce”; and Congressman’s William Lemke’s (North Dakota) Bill to “Jiauidate and refinance agricultural indeb‘edness at a reduced rate of in- | terest. by establishing an efficient credit system through the use of the Federal Ferm Loan Svstem, the Fed- eral Reserve Banking System, and creating a board of agriculture to supervise the same.” Soviets Begin Sale of Bread | WithoutCards | MOSCOW, Jan. 3. (By Wireless). —Throughout the country the sale of bead without cards has begun. Reports arriving from all parts of the country state how on the first day of the sale of bread everything passed in an organized normal man- ner. Bread was sold to all, openly and freely, in all old as well as newly-opened bread-shops and stalls. There were no lines, the shops were particularly clean and decor- ated with white curtains, and well- | baked white bread of various sorts | was on sale. Almost everywhere | an intensified demand for white | bread was observed. } The decision of the Council of People’s Commissars, concerning the | extension of the network of the re- tail trade in bread by 10,300 shops and stalls by Jan. 1 and 2, has already been considerably ove:ful- shops and adapted for the sale of bread. crease of the output capacity of the 750 tons of bread daily was also overfulfilled. On Jan. 1 the output of the bread factories increased 11,944 tons daily. The opening of old bakezies and the increase in the |metwork of shops in such a short time required great organizational ingenuity. Bring up the question of greet- ing the Daily Worker on its Fleventh Anniversary at the next meeting of your organization. See that your organization. gets In 1934, L.R.A. Survey Shows filled. Up to Jan. 1, 1935, 15,982 new | stalls were built or) reduced relief doles, but the indus- The decree concerning the in- | bread factories and bakeries by 10,- | new and also the extension of the | panies in November were nearly granted Wednesday compelling long- The statement, to be distributed to all marine workers, appeals to them to defeat the policy of Joseph Ryan, International president of the against the rank and file workers of the union instead of uniting all forces for a common struggle against | the shipping interests. Indicating that his policies will continue, Ryan, commenting on the injunction decision, declared: “It is regrettable that Justice Humphrey did not take into consid- eration the fact that the member- ship of both of our organizations were simply trying to see to it that Communism would not be permitted | to inject itself into the transporta- tion industry.” Senator Burton K. Wheeler, who | argued the case of the union, in al statement at Washington is re- ported to have taken steps to fore- stall mass actions against the in-| junction by holding up the hope that the Court of Appeals of New York will reverse the judgment. | The statement of the Rank and | File Committee follows: | “Fight for the right to organize and strike! Demand that Ryan and Lacey mobilize union labor forces! “Brothers: The bosses have gotten out an injunction to force the Inter- national Longshoremen’s Assocta- | tion members to handle goods de- | livered by non-union truck drivers. The real purpose of this vicious injunction is to smash organization on the waterfront—to prevent long- | shoremen, teamsters and seamen | from joining together in a common united front as they did in San Francisco. “If the business interests and ship owners succeed in making this in- junction stick, it means a heavy! blow at our organized power—at our | basic right and duty as workers and | union men to help each other in solidarity against the employers. It! méans that the bosses will next try to slash wages and increase speed- up. “Immediate mass resistance must be organized against the injunc-/ tion! “Demand that Ryan and Lacey take steps to fight the injunction! “So far Ryan, Lacey and other union officials have played into the | hends of the bosses by depending | solely on a big shot lawyer to fight | the injunction. They have done| nothing to rally the longshoremen and teamsters against this danger. Instead they have been busy attack- ing the rank and file workers and| the ‘reds.’ “Brothers of all marine crafts: Demand that special local union} meetings be called at once to or-} genize the anti-injunction strug- | gle. B “Demand that Ryan, as presicent of the Central Trades and Labor Council, take immediate steps to mobilize all the labor unions in New York for the fight against the in- junction menace, “Demand an emergency East Coast conference of all marine! unions! Refuse to handle goods de- livered by nen-union truck drivers! Smash the injunction through the united mass action of ail longshore- | men, teamsters and seamen! Fol-| low the great example of unbreak- | able solidarity set by the San Fran- cisco marine crafts. For militant) trade unionism under rank and file leadership.” DividendsRose Jobless workers and their fami- | lies have been ordered to accept! trialists and coupon-clippers who have been demanding these relief! cuts haye piled up immense profits, | it is disclosed in a recent business compilation of the New York Times released yesterday by the Labor Research Association. Dividend declarations by 675 com- | $350,000,000, according to The Times figures. This totel is the highest since February, 1952, Business Week, a magezine for. investors, estimates that the year, | 1934 should find stockholders alone and. this does not include the other incomes of these banking and industrial executivcr-—cicher by 3.5, billions of dollars compared with, on the Honor Roll by sending the unemployment, daughter, luxuriously dressed women ( greeting as quickly as possible! 41933, [3.1 billions paid in dividends in {ers of both unions, and could have been the means of uniting both unions in common action. The strike was called because of a wage cut for brakemen at the Wenamie Mine from $5.28 to $3.18 per day, and the attempt of the company to put cight-inch sidings on cars at the Avondale mine. The latter trick adds about half a ton of coal for the same price, Strike Called Off The company was determined to make full use of the split. existing between the workers which is main- | tained by the two sets of union of- ficials. State police and deputies were brought in and in several in- stances the workers were attacked and tear-gassed. On the other hand the company enlisted the support of the Regional Labor Board of Wyoming Valley, headed by Judge McLean of Wilkes-Barre. Judge McLean called a meeting of the N. R, A. Labor Board, and the Wyoming Valley Chamber of Com- merce to discuss means for breaking the strike. The company announced that it would close down thrée of the collieries: Wanamie, Bliss and Avondale, where the strike orig- inated, and that in their place three of the mines in the Scranton aréa, which have been closed down for four years, would be opened. Eviction netices were given to all workers in company housés, work- ers were ordered to take their tools cut of the mines, and mules were being brought up to. the surface, The local capitalist press screamed that “Now three thousand miners who have a chance to work full time will be on the relief rolls.” In addition, Judge McLean in- vited John L.. Lewis ‘to -comie ‘to Wilkes-Batre Saturday and “settle the strike.” As a result of all these strikebreaking mieasures, the offi- cials of the Anthracite Miners quickly backed water, and the Glen Alden grievance committe¢s agreed to call off the strike. The demands of the workers are now in the hands of an arbitration board, and it is a foregone conclusion that they will get nothing from this employer controlled board. This, despite the fact that the militancy of the miners was rising, and the mine operations in the Luzerne district were shut down tight. The U. M. W. of A. officials organized flying squad%, but for strikebreaking purposes. Rank and File Groups Act The strike was agreed to by Thomas Maloney, district president of the independent union, only be- | cause he hoped this would revive confidence in the organization among the miners and_ be- cause the miners insisted on the strike. Since the union is in ex- istence the officials of the execu- tive board have been busy running from local to local trying to collect dues. The membership rolls have been dropping because the miners saw no ‘reason for supporting a union which did not take up their grievances. Maloney had to state ~ publicly, through the papers that he “is sick and tired of calling off strikes.” But the result was the same anyway. The rank and file groups in both unions are now increasing their ac- tivity for unity of both unions on the basis of rank and file control. The workers are being warned against being involved in a juris- dicticnal struggle, but are urged to unite all forces under the leader- ship of militants for a joint fight against the coal operators. An example of the militant trend among the anthracite miners is shown in the election of deicgztes to the Washington Congress for Unemployment Insurancs by the Le/ce, Maxwell, Truesdale, Biirs, Wanamie and Auchincelsss locals of the U. A. M. of P., and endorse- ments of the Workers Unemploy- ene Insurance Bill by many more locals. Produce Distribution Is Halted by Walkout | Of Drivers in Cleveland CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 3.—Distri- bution of fruit and vegetables to more than 2,000 fruit and vegetable dealers and grocery stores was halted today by a strike. The members of the Commission House Drivers and Helpers Union picketed commission houses in the food terminal, The strikers are de- manding a closed shop contract and increased wages. Picketing has now spread to all sixiy-seven commission houses in the city, — 1 Hy y wae