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eee Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW: YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1935 MAX BRAUN CABLES GREETINGS TO ANTI-NAZIS IN AMERICA Urges Strong Weinstone to Discuss Report Says Hearst R Unity in USA On Saar Fight Extending greeting to Ameri¢an workers for ir suppor of the struggle for the status quo in the Saar, Max for abe ar preciations ers here Federation and to the anti-fascist through he Ant i The cablegram read: “UNITED FRONT CHEERED BY NEWS OF YOUR WORK IN AMERICA. THE BREAKDOWN OF THE HITLER GERMAN FRONT AND OUR GAIN SUPPORTERS MAKES THE SIT- UATION PROMISING. YOURS FOR CONTINUED SOLIDARITY UNTIL THE FIGHT IS WON JANUARY 13 MAX .BRAUN,” The above cable was semt in n- nection with preparations for the January 9 meeti e Centra Opera House at the news of which had t to the Uni- ted Front in the Saar Speakers at this meeting will be Roger Baldwin, chairman, - Ella representative of Brit- ish Labor, M. Olgin of the People’s Committee Against Fascism and Pogroms, and Walter Schoenstedt representative of the . Common Front of the Saar. In a statement released here by the Anti-Nazi Federation it was emphasized that although the for- mation of the People’s Party (com- posed of Catholics, Protestants, and many former members of the Nazi Gérman Front) in opposition . to Hitler, and the resignation of. many prominent Catholics from Nazi Positions of importance indicates the disintegration of Hitler's front, it does not follow that victory in the January 13 plebiscite is to be taken for gtanted “In order to insure the final. vic- tery. over Hitlerism in the Saar Baéin,” the statement declares, “it is. necessary to bring forward the broadest international support for the valiant United Front in their territory. It is therefore important fox all workers, professionals, busi- hess mén and students -to attend this January 9 mass meeting.” The executive committee of the following organizations have al- ready endorsed and supported the meeting: The Anti-Nazi Federation. ‘The American League Against War and Fascism “Thé Anti-Fascist Action. ‘The American Commission for the Stats; Quo in the Saar. The German Workers’ Clubs of Yorkville, Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan. The American Union Against Reaction The International Workers Order. Greet the Daily Worker in the Mame of your family. It has spent its eleven years fighting for you. Sefid your greeting before Jan 12. ¥. W. 0. members should get their branches to send greetings t6 the Daily Worker on its Elev- enth Anniversary! A greeting from every branch should be the slogan! Your name will be on the Honor Roll in the Special Edition of the Daily Worker if you send yout gteeting today! i Advertisement Le At Youngstown Meeting Huge Memorial Meeting Coliseum Will Mark \ to Be Held in Chicago ictory Over Efforts to Deny Use of Auditorium to Communists YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 4.—W. W. Weinstone, mem- ber of the Central Committee of- the Communist Party, will be the main speaker at a Lenin Memorial meeting of Ma- honing Valley steel workers; S tral Auditorium here. Weinstoné, who is Detro: Comm st Party, will tell how theé sachings of Lenin are being put into effect in the Soviet Union, | where unemployment “and race natreds have been abolished and giant nade in building So- ialist industry and agriculture with a consia the living and + raising of cultural standards of the toiling will tell how applied in the 1, and in the teel articular. Mill workers in Warren, Niles, Newton Falls, Farrell, Sharon, New- castle and Elwood City are arrang- ing to attend the meeting. There will be a few short talks by local speakers and a program of entertainment. Weinstone popu Len Un on Newton to Speak (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Jan. 4.—Herbert New- ton, Negro leader of the Communist Party and candidate for City Clerk and Karl Lockner, Communist ecan- didate for Mayor, and Bob Minor will speak at the Lenih Memorial meeting S ay, Jan. 20, at the Coliseum, 1 Street and Wabash Avenue, The mesting will start at 20 pam, Chicago workers intend. to make the meeting not only a commero- ration of the life of the greatest of | all revolutionists, the leader of the victorious proletarian revolution. in aturday, Jan. 19, at the Cen- it District Organizer of the Russia and the “ounder of the Com- munist Intefnational, Y. J. Lenin, but a gigantic anti-war and anti- fascist action and a rally in sup- | port of the Communist Party ticket in the approaching Chickgo elec- tions In addition, the meeting will be a celebration of the victory of Chi- eago workers over the attempts of fascist eletnents, inspired by the Hearst press, to bar the Lenin Me- morial meeting from the Coliseum. The meeting will be under the chaitmahship of the District Or- ganizér of the Communist Party, B. K. Gebert. In addition to ad- dresses the outstanding leadéts of the Chicago working class, there will be an impressive and rich reévo- | lutionary cultural program. Detroit Youth Plan Rally | DETROIT, Jan. 4.—A mass meet- ing in memory of Lenin, Karl Liebknecht and. Rosa Luxémburg | will be held here on Jan. 13 by the Young Communist League, in co- operation with other working class orgenizations. | The meeting will be held in the Finnish Hall, 5969 Fourteenth Street, at 7 pm. William Wein- stone, district secretary of the Com- ist Party, ‘will be the principal | speaker: Following the,mass meet- | ing there will be dancing. Mass Welcome for Herndon Planned by Chicago Workers CHICAGO, June 4. — Chicago ‘kers, Negro and white, are pre- paring & mighty mass welcome for Angelo Herndon, hero of the At- trial, on_ his. appearance here on Wednesday: to address a Scottsboro-Herndon rally at the Monumental Baptist Chureh lanta :“insurrection” 721 Oakwood Boulevtrd. This will be Herndon’s first ar in Chicago, since his release on $15,- 000 bail, raised by the working class pending appeal against his convic- tion to 18 to 20. years on the Geor- gia chain gang. Jane Newton, wife of Herbert Newton, Negro Communist leader, and storm center of the- Newton eviction case, yesterday made. a personal appeal for the greatest mass support to the Scottsboro- Herndon rally, in which she outlines the mass struggle here against jim- crowism, stating, in part: “The forces of reaciion headed by | the Heatst press, Judge Green and the Chicago ‘red squad’ are definitely linked up with all the movemenis we did not pay the rent but because the landlord, Dr. Mitchéll,- did not want Negroes living in his building. My husband was placed in jail and I was sent to the Psychopathic Hos- pital and declared: insane before I had a hearing: Late’ at the hear- because of the support of thousands of citizens, I was. de- clared sane. My husband, however, is still confined, serving a fine of $100 and costs in thé Bridewell. ‘He was sentenced for attempting to unite Negro end white in fighting for jébs on the Wendell Philips High School project. yery evident that a partial y was Won in my casé, aS was wor in the. Angelo Herndon and the Scottsboro cass, These victories should only be incétitives to strive fo: eompléte victory. This we can achieve only by showing our indig- nation in a tinited front, attending this rhass méeting and by continued protests to the authorities in the South, to Mayor Kelly here in Chi- cago and Pres, Roosevelt at Wash- ing, ssons of Leninism Backs Hauptmann Bankers (Continued from Page 1) ly normal, Wilentz: Healthy? at Mrs. Lindbergh: Me was very healthy, Wileniz: Was he able to talk yet? Mrs. Lindbergh: He talked. The change in Hauptmann’s ap- pearance since he was arrested is nothing short of rema:kable and bespeaks & confidence of his acquit- tal, which was never apparent utitil Reilly took over his défénsé. Maupt- mann is now even bettér groomed and apparélied than Lindbergh, who is always @xpensively dressed in a studied, care manner, The Nazi is also free from thé harassed look which he carried until recently and seems to have gained Weight. Although forbidden under prison regulations to have aecess to hewspaper comments on his trial- he commented out loud yesterday on-.statements written by Walter Winchell, Hearst's poison pen clown, in Winchell’s column. The good fellowship, existing be- | single | tween Hauptmenn and his guard. which manifests itself in the trial between absence of handcuffs | on Hauptmann -and by his gua:ds allowing several people to get be- tween himself and his prisoner as they march to Hauptmann’s cell after each session. In connection with this changed state of affairs in regard to Haupt- mann since Hearst began to take an (Continued from Page 1) pending s “absorption in a rising tide of private employment.” | Silent on Wage Cuts | He declared that there are “ap- tely 5,000,000 (heads of fa at least four to a family) un- emploved now on relief rolls.” How- ever, he made no reference to the | Wage-cutting program recently ini- | tiated by his administration and big | business through the elimination of | the 40 cents an hour minimum on | relief jobs and the P.W.A. call for | lowsr wages on building projects. | Roosevelt assured the reactionary | American Liberty League that his administration program will be con- fined’ within “the Constitution,” that is. that the duPonts’ and Raskobs’ property and profits are | in no danger; something only those | few jittery industrial and banker Roosevelt, Jr. had received a letter from Mrs. oosevelt Presents Mrs. Roosevelt Demands ” Plan Prosecutor Drop Action Against Reckless Gan |President Is Deaf to Scottsboro Mothers, But | Wife Writes to Aid Franklin, Jr., Who Endangers Lives by Speeding | ORANGE, Conn., Jan. 4.—While President Roosevelt | has consistently refused to intervene to prevent the legal | murder of the innocent Seottshoro boys, the President’s wife | is intervening with local authorities here to force the drop- ping of a speeding charge against their son, Franklin D. Prosecutor David Torrence yesterday revealed that he Roosevelt “asking leniency for her| he was not worried about these let« Autograts who took Roosevelt's dem- | son.” ‘The letter was written on| ters. It was only after he received agogy seriously ever doubted, Reassurés Chamber of Commerce He also reassured the Chamber of Commerce, in words reminiscent of his Seplembsr 30 “Fireside” radio | talk, that “The profit motive” is as | Sacrossanct as ever to the new deal, despite the fact that “we find our | population suffering from old in-| equalities, little changed by past sporadic remedies.” In a typical) | philanthropic tone, he sought to | White House stationary. Torrence also received a telegram from young Roosevelt declaring he would be from the president’s wife. “unable to appear in court” yester- day, The prosecutor obligingly post- Poned hearing on the cese to Sat- urday, and said that if young Roose- velt did not appear then, it would again be postponed to Monday. Young Roosevelt has been arrested before in Connecticut for his réck- less speeding, endangering the lives of workers and their children. He active patt in his défense, . the| Satisfy the worker and to protect | faces & speeding charge in Pennsyl- changed front taken by Winchell today in his column as regards his conviction of Hauptmann’s guilt as- sumes added importance. Until to- day Winchell was whipping up a lynch spirit in his readers againct the prisonér and has been & valtiable aid to the prosecution. Now, how- ever, he states that new facts in his posséssion will probably fres Hauptmann. Be that as it may, the jjuty was guarded much mete ¢losé- ly than the prisoner. The gangster over-tone, which is everywhere inseparable from the technique of capitalism, was brought out when Reill, vented scores of gutimen from going to the chair, demanded that Lind- betgh remove the révolver which the Morgan associate has been car- rying in his shouldér holster for five years, even though he is constantly guarded by public and private policemen. Kirov Killer Aided | By Latvian Envoy (Continued from Page 1) plicated in this assassination, and also with those «ountries which rendered. them assistance, and at the same time sympathy was roused toward the countries which were the victims of the Marseilles shots. | “The Council of the League of Nations devoted several, sessions to this case. At the same time, it is generally. known that white guard terrorisis enjoy the generosity. and hospitality -of cérfain Huropean ‘countries where: they openly incite execution and tertorist acts against the representatives of the Soviet |Government. Notwithstanding the fact that countries adjoining the U. | 8. 8, R. have the strictest passport | ystem, and police control, the white guard terrorists penetrate from these countries unimpeded into the U. 8, S. R. with the aim in Lindbuergh himself today | who himself has pre-| | the employer through the meditm | of attacking the safely vague ex- vania. He was speeding between seventy-five and eighty miles an | cessive profits. | efforts and in spite of our talk. we | | Wave not weeded out the over-priv- | | ilezed and we have not effectively | | lifted tp the under-privileged, Both | of these manifestations of injustice | have retarded happiness. No wis?| man has afiy intention of dest:oy- | ing what is known as the profit | Motive; because by the profit | motive we mean the right by wot | | to earn a decent livelihood for our-' selves and for our families. | “We havé, however, # clear man- date from the people, that Amer- | jeans must foreswear that concep- tion of the acquisition of weaith which, through excessive profiis, | creates undue private power over | Private and, to our misfortune, over public affaits as well. In building | toward this end we do not destroy | Ambition nor do we seek to divide | our wealth into equal shares on | stated occasions. We cotitinue to recognize thé greater ability of soiie to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him and his a proper security, a reason | able leisure, and a decent living | throughout life, is an ambition to be | | preferred to the appetite for greet | wealth and great power.” | Obviously, this Roosevelt: varia- | tion of Hoover's “rugged individual- | ism” will néither wo:ry nor harm the “appetite for gréat wealth and power” which has been sftisfied so | Well by the N. R. A. and other new} | déal big busin orgenizations, | Philadelphia Workers’ | | Will Hear Disenssion | On Soviet Executions. | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 4. —| | F. Brown, & leading mémibér of the | | Communist Party and éxpert on foreien affairs, will speak on “Why the Murderers of Kirov Were Mix-| ing. This achievement, thé organi-| ecuted by the Soviet Government" | lat the special open membe ship | meeting called by the Philadelphia | “In spite of our | hour when he was arrested here late | last month. Torrence has rectivéd hundreds of letters on the case, most of them denouncing young Roosevelt for his réeckléss driving in uttér disregard of thé lives of péedés*tians and other drivers. Torrenc® declared however, Youth Groups Open Session (Continued from Page 1) table discussions will be held, reso- lutions acted upon, and a cldsin: statement will bé@ issued by the congress to all American youth. To Protest ©. ©. C. Among the new trade union groups coming ifto the Ameérican Youth Congress, according t6 cre- dentials which are not yet complete, aré young workers from U. M. W. A. locals in Ellsworth and Manifold, Pa., and textile workers from New York. A host of settlement houses district and city Y's and’ student and social groups are also repre+ sented. In a statement to be presented |to ©. ©. C. Direstor Robert Feth- | ner, the congress scores the mili- | |taristic training and régimentation | of the youth. To leave no illusions in the minds of the millions of young workers, the congregs, in its statement cites facttial materia! written by Secretaty of War Harry Woodring in the Jan. 7 issue of Liberty. " “Tn two months last spring,” Woodring wrote, “the Army re- cruited, conditioned, equipped an | mobilized more met than we re- \cruited in the Spanish-American | war, and we did it so quietly and efficiently that few people in the country realized what Was happén- zation of ever 300,000 men in more than 1,500 camps, was the first real test of the Army's plan for war Mts. Roosevelt's letter that. he be- came worried, he said. He refused | to divulge the contents of the letter President Roosevelt has twice re- fused to receive a delegation of Scottsboro mothers who called at) the White House to ask hith to éx- ercise his authority to intervene to prevent the railroading of the! Scottsboro boys to the electric chair by the Alabama lynch courts which have disregarded thé overwhelming proof of the innocence of the boys, ‘including the exposure of the frame- up by Ruby Bates, one of two white girls they are charged with having “raped.” Nor has Mts. Roosevelt, who now intervenes to prevent even the héaring of a speeding charge against her son, uttered one word of condemnation against the lyneh framé-p of the nine Seditsboro Negro boys, sons of the working class. . Insurance Congress. Opens Today (Continued from Page 1) the features of the Workefs’ Bill, S| which makes it the only bill before Congress which is eZfactive and ben- eficiel to all those unémployed. The | draft program then points out that “no measute can provite absolute social security to thé masses as long as the present competitive profit system continues. The Workers’ Bill, however, provides the maximum as- surance possible under and within this system. This mitch can ard mist be done by those who derive wealth and privilege under the pres- ent social order.” ‘The draft program thén takes tip the progrem for a real public works program beneficial to the unem- ployed, for an adequate publi¢ health program. and for élimination of child labor, Broad Unity A call for broad tihity of the workers, farmers and intelisetuals to fight for this common program is contained in the draft progam, which then go¢s into the role of the Roosevelt government in attack- ing the unemployed and denying these demands, “Victory is possible only in a vigorous struggle against those who openly or by mé@ans of subterfuge seek to divide, confuse atid mislead the movement for social insurance. Paterson | Dvers Will | Vote Today | PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 4—Dyers | of Local 1733, largest local of the | United Textile Workers, working in more than 75 plants, will cast their votes tomorrow fot néw Officers in | ten polling places, scattered in every | district of Paterton. | Actually a majority of the popu- jauon of this industrial center is directly intertsted in the outcome | Of the election, as most have dyers in the family. Meéction of the rank and file “Vigorito Ticket” will mean enforce. ment of the new contract won as 4 result of the recent strike and an | improvement of conditions for most | workers’ familiés ‘of Paterzon. “Vote a straight rank and file ticket! Sirengthen the victory won in the strike!” Was the appeal of the rank | and file leaders today as every ounce {of energy was mobilized for the | last round in the intense campaign. Where To Vote The following aré the polling Places and the plants desighated to each: Disttiet 1: Italian Republican Club, 84 Butler Street—Weidman, Colonial and United plants, District 2: Callon Ballroom, 612 River Stréet—Textile, Gaede, Im- hoff-Paillard, and Hoof Skein plants, | District 3: 664 River Street—Ex- pert, Patérson Skein, Intetnational | ist Ave., Hamilton—Arrow Piece, Blueridge, Gatti, Lido, Madison, | Modern Central, Radiance. District 4: Cleopatra Restaurant, 557 River Strest—Gatino, Bmpire, | Lyons, De Gise, Lafayette, Galli, | Olairmount, General, Clyde, Inter- | national of Putnam Street. | District 5: First Werd Demoeratio | Club, 19 North Main Street—Na- | tional Valley, Royal, Victory, Hydto, | Trio, LeGrade, Payet Volta and Mil- ler, Supreme, National of Bast 5th | Street, Bouchard Mill B, Synthetic, Vogue. District 6: -Caledonian Cltb, 20 | Belmont Street — Oriental, Capo, Bluebird, LaSalle, Severs, Art Silk, Reliance, Uh and Prebol. District 7: Lincoln Broadway, W. Broadway and Union Ave—Stréengs, Oolumbia, Apex, O. K. Pisce Dye Wotks, Buser, Commercial. District 8: Italian Amorican Citi< zens Leagué, 107 Bond Sireei—Regal, | Artow Print, Lenox, Florénce, Metro- politan, Hartgens, Globe Skein, O.K, Skein, Rayon Skéin, Colt, Beltramo, Bouchard Mill A, Atlantic, Sher= wood. Distriet 9: Lafayette Friend’s Club, 10 Webster Stréei—National of Bast Paterson, Lanza, LaFrancaisé, Mce- Lean, Cramer and King, Franklin, Orew. District 10: 203 Patetson Street, Union Headquarters — Unemployed and Maiftenente men. Rank and File Ticket ‘The following is the rank and file iieket: President—Charles Vigotito. Vice President — Charles Guar- denelia. Secretary Treasurer —John Tavs, ano. - Assistant Secretary. Treasurer — Myta Ciolleti. Organizer (Unopposed) — Joseph Yannarelli. Businé?s Agents—Anthony (Tony) Ventura, Fred Schietter and Al Can- tilina. Executive Board—Carlo Trichelo, Joseph Ventura, Raymond Emidio, Péter Perrupato, Ralri Le Pera, Harold Neynhouse, Carmen Di Lorenzo, Edward Healey, William | Siroka. Board of Trusiees—John Mase throughout the country trying to terrorist schemés. | District of the Party at 2 o'c'ock 19- Chief among these are, first, the AN ANSWER TO A COMRADE We have your Nov. 16. You seem to be perplexed avout FOOD. But that is your own failt Or rather the fault of those “tdachers” or writers who have con- ftised you arid others in thé food ques tion. Our book “HOW 18 YOUR STOMACH?” which you praise but find incomplete has been wri for the purpose of simplifying fhe ideas on fond which circulate, and of cotmnter- Acting all kinds of misleaders. Your mind has been influenced ‘by extrem- ists, partly conservative and partly ig- forant. You say youteelf that you aré a “food faddist.” Why should anybody be Any sort of a faddist? You think you must vook in a water- Yess cooker. Of Course, there -is no hatm in that, but néither is there any special therit. It only shows how food-eonseious you are, We should gil Know about food and cooking, bit should avoid crankiness and fanaticism and feel that we have something else to do then to be eternally presecupied with food. t people, in spite of their mistakes, would be better off by foli6wing their own instinct instead of the ignorance ‘of the so-called food “experts.” 7 make less errors, away from starches.” Why for? Becatise on eteess of tiem 18 bad, that is no teason why starchy food as such hold be condémned. On the contrary —it is excellent and compa ohAap! nteresting letier of You ate disappointed because yott faiiéd to fitid in our baok the cocksure Précsctiptions and bills of fare which either leave the reader no chance to think or élsé puzzle him and ensiave Rim. Otir book is different. It is a reFolition if thought and personal life. Ith véry virtue. is x vice as fat as you afd cther faddists aré concerned, That is Béchure Fou compa to bad books Anf to wrong téachings. Nd, there is no need of larger and more ecompiéte books on héaith. Our too shill nor too + Workers’ Rational. Liv- : ® “How Is Your Stomach?” 100 pages — 20 cents Meke cheeks of money orders parable to: Rational Living Bex 4, S'=‘iay pF. New York (Send no sicrips) | eut announced by the company, | ing separate Negro’ and white workers. | You remember that Judge Green decided that I and my husband, Herbert Newton, could not live at 615 Oakwood Boulevard, and so we| were evicted. This was not because | Textile Bosses | Roosevelt’s Message Foreshadows Misery for Masses Ask for Troops ToBreakStrike CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Jan. 4.— Announcing that it will open its mill with strikebreakers, the Richmond Hosiery Mills called for-troops, mill | officials announced yesterday. On the other hand; workers, at a strike. meeting yesterday, approved | proposals to be presented to thé company, and voted to stay out on strike, determined to win, | The company management in ap- pealing fer troops declared that it has a choice of either closing the: mill and tkrowing 1,500 more wo! ers out of work or operating with protection of the militia. Over 500 | workers are on strike against ‘@ wage Negro League Asks ! Support For Its Work ‘The importance of the Marine Workers Industrial: Union and the |” League of Struggle for Negro Rights as powerful bulwarks against war | nd fascism were. stressed yester- day in ah appeal for support of | the daneé which will be given joint- | ly by these two organizations at the Savoy Ballroom, 141st St. and| Lenox Ave. on Jan. 18, | An elaborate program of enter- tainment has been planned, with| Heywood Broun as master of cere- monies, and featuring, among} others, James Bell, stat of “To-| bacco Road"; Robett Keith, lead-| Player in “The Children’s} Hour”; Joseph Macaulay, feattred | singer in “Revenge with Music”; J. Edward Bromberg, star of “Gold | Eagle Gtiy.” and Jacob Ban-Ami. There will be continuovs dancing to | the music of tivo popular Neato or- | ehestres, Chick Webb and Willie| Bryant, until 3-a.m 52 . \ington, demanding a halt to the | of realizing their fratne-up of Negro and white work- boys.and Herbert Newton, the re- versal of the chain gang sentence against. Herndon and his complete freedom. “Such a situation should arousi ‘ers, the release of the Scottsboro | the indignation of all honest per- sons. Therefore, amaztment must | be expressed regarding the protests | against the shooting of the terror- “ists.” Horrow afternoon in the Gerard Manor, 911 Gerard Avenue. In announcing thé meeting yes- terday, A. W. Mills, district organ- izer, invited all non-members of the | Communist Party to attend. (Continued from Page 1) intolerable Burdens of. thé crisis on the backs of the working class, thé poorest section of the popu- lation? ‘ ESTERDAY Roosevelt defended the capitalist system. work to earn a décént livelihood f our families.” What a miserable mockery this of the masses, of the mfsery of the 15,000,000 job- less! The workers’ “right to work,” a Rockefeller ‘ ertyless wo! r, and gigantic Wall corporations—how lovingly Roos$velt wants them both to have “equal rights”! Under capitalism, the working class has no rights but the “right” to sell itssif to the property classes, whe contr production, and through them, th Roesevelt is the leading defender system, which he disgale¢s \ith his. phrases about “security.” This “profit: motive” country to deeper crisié, to war tien! But under the New Deal, under the capitalist system which Reoseyelt defends, - be any sectirity for the. majority tion, who must sell themselyes to the employers fer wages. As long as the workin, control the government and the economic means of life through its own class rule, then life will be heli of ctisis and starvation to'ling population! sigan Yesterday, Roosevelt showed hit evet the enemy of the maéses—the leading agent of the Wall Street. capitalists. Yesterday, Roosvelt-dared to-taik of the ‘power of the over-privileged” in the government! cynicism this is! Does fot Roossvelt himself hold almost daily conferences with the isading “Wall Street bankers ant incustrialists? i not the Nye munitions’ that the Roosevelt.government, is ‘ ‘No wisé man,” he said, “has any intention of destroying what is known as the profit motive, be- cause by the profit motive we mean the rit tight to work”—for profit! ‘and fascist rrese- veqschions show An Editotial the munitions’ partner to ast matters? ‘fiént in the hi to | QOOSEVELT ‘or ovirselves and is of the plight ployers. to the big land ind the Morgan- The prop- Street billionaire | Deal. twé years to bé in wage slavery ‘ol the means of e meats of life, of this hideous Has it not ti cliques on the is driving the onthe picket: 1 there can never the spectre of* of the popula- ig class does not Roosevelt's for the entire imself moré than it. own hands, What | of imperialist Roosevelt is new cepitrlitt run directly by 4 golden “recoveryy* numiders still remsin tinemployed.” But hé boasted of the Hsing profits of the em- He boasted of the subsidies he has paid parasites and the war-makers? profits from 50 to 300 per cent, while it has de- graded the living standards of millions to néw squalor atid misery? Has not the Ro mightiest wat machine in the history of the coun- sry, with the manufacturers of murder coining néw millions in profits? makérs and the Wall Street banks? Did not Roosevsit himséif appoint a J. P. Morgan as his advisor in N.R.A, financial Tt if an timshakable fact that the Roosevelt gov- ernment is more than any other prévious govern- istory of América a government of Wali Street money lords and capitalist exploiters! . * . yesterday could not boast of any He had to admit that “great lords for destroying wheat and corn in order to raise prices for the masses, He boasted of the actomplishments of the New Has not this New Deal shown itself in the past | the class program of the Wall Street Has it not raised ightened the grip of the Wall Street whole life of the country? Dots not every worker sée in his own life how ‘it has-made his position worse, moré insécure, moré terrible with spsed-up in the shops, with brutality ines, With rising costs of living, with missry growing closer évery day? vélt New Deal raiséd_up the speéch makes it clearér thafi ever how vital it is for the working Class to organize its forces to fight for its needs, to take power into and smach foréver the profit system and the Wail Stfeet rule. : Guly the working class holding power can open the factories and end the crisis. Only the working class in power could abolish forever the manace war, and end the starvation and mis*ry which the New Deal has brought. aiming to drive thé jobless into the Prison House of forced labor. Hé is launching the offensive! The working class must unite its forces to meet the challenge! \ | mobilization.” | Assail Jim-Crowism After citing that Fechner is a| former official of the A. F. of L, the youth congress condenined the | attempts to smash the organizations | | of the ©. ©. . boys, the fines and! “dishonorable discharges” and rank) | jim-crowism. On this secte, Jane | | Allen, a young worker from the tex-| | tile center, Danville, Va., who was recently jailed together with Ann. Burlak, and her fellow detezate | | from the same town, éited the cass, lof two Negroes in a jim-crow camp | in Chatham, Va. who were fired! upon by a white Jand-owner when | they begged food to supplant the, hunger tations in the camp. The démands presented to Fech- (ner called for immediate abolition of the ©. C.C, and transient camps, | jobs at trade union wages to all | Single unémployed workers, and a | system of unemployment insurance as contained in the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill intro- | duced into Congress today. Until such a system is estab- lished, the Youth Oongress de- mended @n énd to the military con- | trol of the C. C. C., and supervi- | sion by elected committees of the C. C. C, boys; wages to be increased to at least those paid on C. W. A. and P. W. A. in projects near their homes; guarantee of the un- restricted right to otaanize and Abolition of the jim-crow. In addi‘ion to similar demands to pfésent to Roosevelt, the youth demand the immédiate institution | of the 30-holr week with no reduc- , toh In real wages, creation of vast slum clearance projects, abolition | of child labor, and the creation of non-profit social and cultural proj- ects ih working class neighbor- h Bring tp the quéstion of grest- ing the Daily Worker on its Ficventh Anniversary at the next meeting of your organization. See that your organisation gets on thé Honor Roll by sending the greet+ ing as quickly as possible! Make sure that you do not for- © get to send your greeting to the heads and members of the present adminisiration—President Roosevelt and the members of his Cabinet, to- gether with the members of Con- gress.” ‘The manner in which the Hoose- velt administration is blocking Fed- éral unemployment insurance, and putting forth fake “reserves” plans which do not benefit the uném- ployed, is described. The New Deal’s relief and work réliéf. pro- atam has reduced the living stand- ards of the unémployed still fur- ther, it is pointed ont, The reac- tionary labor leaders, such as William Gresn, follow out the same line, now speaking demagosgically for unemployment insurance, but, like Roosévelt, attempting to block it in actuality, Rarl Browder, Sectetaty of the Communist Party, has acepted the invitation, and will speak. Thomas has so far ignored the written and Wired invitations sent him to ad- dress the National Gotigress for Unemployment Insurance. talia, Fréd Stanza, J. Di Lozenzo. Sergeants at Arms—David Tola, | Rosario De Grande. ‘Waterfront Communists ‘To Hold Meeting Today On ‘Daily’ Circulation In response to the call of the Central Ccmmittee of the Com- mumnist Party to double the cire | culation of the Daily Worker, Water- ; front Section 3 of tie Communist Party is initiating its campaign by calling a Section Daily Worker Con- | ference today at the section’s head- | quarters, 229 10th Ave., near 23rd St.. at 2 p.m. F. Schwartzman, of the. District Office of the Daily Worker, will address the conference, The con- ference will discuss the plan of the | district, and will set up an appara tus to carry through the circulas tion campaign in Section 3. Two representatives have been in- vited from éach unit, shop nucleus, and mass organization in the tef- ritory, A Torgsin Order will enable your relatives in the U.S.S.R. to buy heavy clothing, shoes, underwear, foodstuffs, - household utensils, tobaccos and countless other domestic or imported articles. 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