The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1935, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1996 ° -Militia Hold 60 As 1,000 Mass at Georgia Textile Mill Piekets Fight Rumanian Government Faulty Indictment S. P. Delegates » ToKeepSeabs Launches New Terror Helps Hauptmann . Out of Plant Troops Bombarded With Vegetables and Stones in Rossville ROSSVILLE, Ga. n. 8—Na- tional Guardsmen rushed more than 1,000 workers who massed at the Richmond Mills here to prevent its opening with scabs, and placed Against Revolutionaries Workers’ Organizations Are Unbroken by Mass Arrests Made by Secret Police—Oppres- sion of Pea Special to the sants Grows Daily Worker) BUCHAREST, Jan. 8.—With a sudden and vicious at- (Continued from Page 1) | ably have been found guilty and been sent to prison for life, because more than a third of the Lindbergh ransom money was found in his home. That he was not tried in New York can be largely ascribed to Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, who is Democratic boss of the state, Back Congress (Continued from Page 1) Kimball Binyton, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Sam Spero, Jacksonville, Fla.; Will- iam Winters; Willie Sue Blagden, Boston, Mass.; John J. Neads, Pitts- burgh, Pa.; Waldo McNutt, sec- retary, National Youth Congress; Doyle Glosner, New Castle, Pa.; Al- bert W. Smoyer; Lawrence Fritch, a member of the Democratic Na-| Stow, Ohio; John Pocester; J. J.) tional Committee, one of Al Smith’s | Vanecek, Cleveland, Ohio; Chas. M. | most intimate friends, and the rep- | Sandwick, Bethlehem, Pa.; Chas. P.| resentative in New Jersey of the| Hardy, Camden, N. J.; Conrad V. Roosevelt administration. Rheiner, member at large, Maine; | Decision To Send Deleg ferenee Reaffirmed After Denounce Move and Threaten Official Action White Motor Trucks _ Defy National Chiefs, Back Detroit Parley ates to Auto Unity Con- Bureaucrats (Daily Worker Ohio Bureau) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 8—Endorsing by an over- Racine Leader Given 2 Years’ Term in Prison John Sekat, Communist Organizer, Framed for Strike Activity RACINE, Wis, Jan. 8.—On a background of vigilante and police terror against the working class of Racine, John Sekat, Communist or- | ganizer, has been railroaded to two | Pi l : So H ‘ t i i i thi ths in prison sixty under military “arrest tack against the remaining open mass organizations of “yague's rise to power as one of |Mrs. Mary B. Nelson, Reading, Pa.:/ Whelming vote the sending of delegates to the Detroit Auto | fears epel pide Seat Pesaci yesterday. All are to be taken to the | workers and peasants here, the Rumanian government has the most representative exponents | Jack Ligg, Fayette City, Pa. conference on Jan. 26, called by ten Cleveland auto Jocals} ticipation on the picket’ line during Peaetion camp a Atlent, |; di rori i voluti y j- of the New Deal follows closely the| Benjamin Mlected Unantmously | and joined in by locals of Flint, Detroit, Milwaukee, the strike of. the workers of the sed its terrorism against the revolutionary and anti- | iy . . : : r Colonel L. ©. Pope, in command, | Increased 1 . : : careers of the majority of American | | | Malied Milk Company, suited | fascist movement to an incredible height. In the course of | political bosses. Starting more than| Herbert Benjamin, who wes un-| Kenosha and Ashtabula, the Horlicks Mal ‘ pany. Among those to be taken to the concentration camp are ten women. the last few weeks alone, during a® great round-up all over the coun- a generation ago as a strong-arm | archives of these organizations were | man and bouncer in Jersey City sa- animously elected secretary of the | National Action Committee set up | over the reactionary American Fed- Federal local won a signal victory? members of the White Motor all fighting now for “self-preserva- Sekat was sentenced to serve two years in the State prison at Waupun ” on one count and to serve three The workers resisted and used | try, 17,000 persons were arrested; | confiscated. loons, he quickly mastered the tech- | by the congress, in his concluding | eration of Labor bureaucrats at | tion,” as they have been stating in months in the county jail’on a sece every possible means to defend the police and Siguranza (secret po-| ‘The round-up also had the aim|nique of ballof-box stuffing and| speech, declared that “this Con- | their last regular meeting. their official journals since the San oy count, os me themselves. At one time the) lice) agents forced their way into) of dealing a destructive blow to the/ Stealing, skull cracking, graft, in- The White Motor local, recog-| Francisco convention. Guardsmen were bombarded with a | ~ yolley of vegetables and stones. Following the announcement by the Richmond Hosiery Mills that its’| local plant will reopen Monday with scabs, 350 National Guardsmen ar- rived on the scene yesterday. The “ guardsmen, under the command of Adjutant-General Lindley Camp, who also was in command of militia _ during the general textile strike in} + September, arrested five rikers | immediately upon their arrival. In making the arrests the Adju- | *tant-General stated that the con- | - centration camp set up in Atlanta | for arrested strikers in the general | , Strike was still ready for use, and, > if necessary, active strikers will be | taken there When the troops arrived hun- dreds of strikers moved over to the Tennessee side of the state line which runs parallel with the plant = about 100 yards in front, and. jeered ~*" the soldiers. ng ; 3 | from a congressman or some one| Another pointed out that, far|and better conditions, but unity been placed in front of the plant, ernment decree prohibited all the| the government. It is understandable that Hague’s | “i x t {ander to, sabe harem radia! trade unions te anascit | The Rumanian, Government and|evrte reprenive rm of the ay | Slt dot not bap much, ou Aight | som dining te A. of es] with the fen eos top. me! © Denounce Hearst -. M4 through, the strike committee re-| committees, the left-students’ or- | its clique has not however succeeded | government he controls like aj 2 s " | # oe d =. ported. ganizations, the Jewish Cultural] in destroying the illegal revolution-| feudal lord is the police department. teva fee Sesireme sgh inne is coursed boregtib oo one SA int re oe Saieeteescie (Continued: from Page 1) Troops were sent by Governor League, the Muncii League (Labor| ary organizations or in depriving) When he was Police Commissioner : Q power! jon ch could really bese shares At a meeting in Rossville Arena on Saturday five hundred strikers “voted unanimously not to return to work until the wage-cut announce- ment posted by the company is withdrawn. Large picket lines have Eugene Talmadge after he received a telegram from Judge Porter of Rossville, requesting troops. The judge informed the Governor that the Richmond Hosiery Mill has placed advertisements in all Chatta- nooga papers for strikebreakers, to begin operations Monday, and that =the situation is beyond control of local police forces. The Textile Labor Relations Board has been “investigating” the situation for weeks and still has no decision on the case of the Rich- mond Hosiery Mill. Apparently the usual procedure is followed, of first giving the company every oppor- tunity to break the strike before even stating its opinion. | PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Jan. 8—| the houses, indiscriminately arrested anyone who was under the slightest jicion of participating in the struggle against the Rumanian fas- cists. The well-known Dobrudja na- tional-revolutionary, Jordan Russef, was arrested during the round-up, according to the latest information. It is feared that he is threatened ith the same fate as the Dobrudja revolutionaries, Dontseff and Stoy- | anoff, who were vilely murdered by the Siguranza. Raids Aimed at Workers In accordance with official com- munications, the round-ups were made in search of “Ustashi” mem- bers and Macedonian terrorists who were supposed to have sought ref- uge in Rumania. In reality, how- ever, the round-up had the purpose of undermining the ever stronger influence of the revolutionary and anti-fascist organizations upon the masses, as well as of destroying the revolutionary organizations, which had been driven into illegality—the Communist Party, the Young Com- munist League, the Red Aid, and the revolutionary trade unions, Immediately following this, a gov- League), ete., and the property and Conference Called — on Scottshoro (Continued from Page 1) | the report of the I. L. D. is more accurate, Despite the great activity of the government against “crime,” the crusade against kidnappers of the rich and the convening of a so- called Crime Conference at Wash- ington, D. C., lynching increases | in barbarity and Roosevelt has not raised a hand against it. anti-fascist. movement, which was|timidation of rebellious voters and | acquiring an ever broader mass|Union-busting that has character-| character, as is expressed in the ized his fellow-bosses in other | great united front movement. American cities. Supported by United Front Concluded weekly sermons in the scores of Based on the proposals of the| Churches supported by the predomi- | Anti-Fascists’ Committee in Bucha- | 2antly Catholic population of Jer- | rest and of the Muncii League, | S¢y City, and by newspapers whose united front pacts with the Left editors were the recipients of large | Social - Democrats (Ghelerterists) | #2nual subsidies from his powerful were concluded under pressure of| Machine, he quickly created such their membership against the great | Conditions of terror at the polling danger of an open fascist dictator-| booths on election days that even | ship, against the fascisation of the| Republicans in Jersey City have state apparatus, against the terror,| been unmercifully slugged for vot- class justice, the murderous prison 198 for Hoover. regime, and for the struggle for the | Terror in Jersey City daily demands of the toiling popula- | tion. The Rumanian bourgeoisie is likewise attempting to intimidate | the peasant masses. Nov. 15 was the latest date for the payment of the peasants’ debts, and from this day on, the banks and private money lenders began, with the as- sistance of the police and the army, to enforce the payment of these debts. Serious unrest among the peasants is expected. Hence the terrorist measures directed against | Workers’ organizations in Hague's | bailiwick have had to counter a ter- ror which is among the most fas-! cist-like in the United States. Dur- | ing the strike of the marine work- ers in the port of New York a few months ago, a striking seaman who was found with a Communist Party membership book in his pocket was sentenced to nine months in jail as| a “criminal,” and a striker who was | with him at the time of his arrest | was given two months on the charge | |ferring them to the charity and | other disabled workers and their the gangsters and they served a the revolutionary organizations by| of consorting with criminals.” | of Jersey City it is said that he |concocted the following bit of | chicanery to raise the prestige of | | the police in the eyes of the city’s population. He communicated with some of New York's leading gang sters, promising them a large sum of money if they staged a fake rob- | bery of one of Jersey City’s leading | men’s clothing stores and permitted him end a squad of policemen to | arrest them in the act of commit- | ting the robbery, the “robbers” to go free, of course. The scheme | mercy of the bankrupt state and| Worked to perfection, except, that | city governments. The so-called | after it was perpetrated Hague | “forgot” his promise of freedom to | them of their leaders, ics Civils Map Out Program (Continued from Page 1) has removed four million persons | from the Federal relief rolls, trans- unemployables, aged, crippled and | dependents in the midst of winter | Jong term in jail for helping Hague face starvation. In addition, Roose-| convince the population of Jersey velt has ordered that all workers | City that it was a safe place to live gress, according to conservative es- timated, directly represents more than 2,000,000 people.” He showed that the congress had marked much progress in cementing the united front, the participation of such out- | standing professionals as Mary Van | Kleeck, and others and the large | number of union and other organi- zations demonstrating the broad character of the Congress. | “We have reached the ear of those | responsible for legislation, of Roose- velt and the heads of his govern- ment, of Congress. We have made known to them in a categoric and determined manner that we are not going to stand for hunger and want much longer, and are going to or- | ganize a much more powerful move- ment to force the passage of the workers unemployment insurance bill,” he said. Striking Unity Benjamin declared that the fact that so few differences of opinion arose was a demonstration of the unity of purpose of the Congress to secure real security for the masses. He criticized those who considered | @ speech at the congress alone as a sign of unity. An occasional letter | “Each one should participate in all | our work. We should share an equal burden of the daily tasks.” Benjamin answered the false theory, which was’ rejected. by the congress, that the united front could be built by sacrificing the fighting program and the minimum | principles of fight for social secur- | ity, in order not to give offense to the most backward. “The minimum program which we | have adopted, for a militant, united | fight for unemployment insurance and relief, is the program on which we can build the united front, and the only basis of which unity is effective and serves the needs of the masses,” he said. Immediate Tasks Regarding the immediate tasks, | | approval of the A. F. of L., but it |manage the business and finances nized as the strongest and best or- ganized union in the automobile industry, originally endorsed the sending of delegates two weeks ago. The American Federation of Labor leaders, local as well as national, immediately prepared to have this action rescinded at the recent meet- ing and came down with all their heavy guns of oratory to bring this about. T. N. Taylor, national A. F. of L. organizer in auto, with McWeeney and McKenna also present, warned the White local that “this move- ment not only does not have the aS its utter condemnation!” | Assail Flag Rule One rank and filer after another got up and attacked Taylor and the other reactionaries, maintaining that the workers have the right to run things in the way which will best benefit their conditions. They bitterly attacked the A. F. of L. leadership for its attempt to gag them into submission, one of them saying: “This rule from the top is | fascism. We want everything con- trolled by all of us workers.” conduct struggles for the benefit of the workers. Another worker analyzed the de- cision of the San Francisco Con- vention “endorsing” the industrial union for auto workers. He showed how the wording of this decision provides that the Executive Council | of the A. F. of L. shall “determine Policies” of this industrial union, “shall choose all officers and shall | | of the organization.”’ This, he pointed out, would be absolutely contrary to the best interests of the auto workers, since the Executive Council is made up chiefly of In- ternational officers of craft unions, Lehman Challenged Great anger was aroused against George Lehman, former president member of the so-called National was set up last June for the pur- pose of stalling off the surging rank and file movement. Lehman sup- ported Taylor in his fight against sending delegates to the Detroit Conference, but he was thoroughly exposed on the floor in such a man- ner that he lost a good part of his popularity in the union. Lehman, on -his own initiative, without the local officials’ knowl- of the White Motor local and a| Advisory Council for Auto, which | One of the counts of “the indict- ment against Sekat charged him with throwing a stone through one of the windows of a car drivén by | Charles Killian, who was transport- jing scabs to the plant. Although | the International Labor Defense at- torney, G. K. Gulbankian, presented }an affidavit from Julius Kaputka, | 2419 Prospect Street, to the effect that he, Kaputka, was the one who | broke the window in the Killian. car, the ‘court refused to permit it to | be used as evidence, and later de- |nied the defense motion for a new |.trial. 3 The other count on which Sekat was convicted charged. him with edge, sent cards out,to a number of | rioting, based on the fact that he members, asking them to be pres- | was present at a peaceful. demon- ent at the Friday’s meeting and/| stration of the Horlick strikers.and thereby win support for his reac- | sympathizers. wt ie tionary. move. . He was challenged | Protests against this. frame-up ot from the floor what he meant by|@ militant working class fighter these notices, and the men became | Should be sent to Judge Burgess, disgusted by his lame answer and | Municipal Court, and Assistant Dis- his attempt to arouse antagonism | against the present rank and file officers of the union in the name of | “unity.” This “unity” of Lehman’s, as the men Jearned Friday, does not | mean unity from below for struggle | Auto Labor Board on the backs of the workers. Overwhelming Vote The final vote was about 300 for the sending of the delegates, with not more than 25 or 30 against. Seeing the overwhelming defeat, T. N. Taylor immediately got up and tried to frighten the men with the following solemn threat: memorializing President Green of this action which you have taken after you had been officially warned against doing so.” After Taylor’s speech the mem- bers voted $10 toward the expenses of the Detroit Conference. Councils Get Plan bers to step into a position of “I am sending a letter off tonight | trict Attorney Oscar Racine, Wis, 150 Ministers Edwards, eee ernie ed uon pill penalizing mere utter= ances, a bill to exclude from. the mails all Communist publications, the re-establishment of a. secret | Service section in the Department | Of Justice aimed at radical or- ganizations, and even more stringent regulations of immigra- ton for the purpose of vetting | up an mquisttion into political opinions, and " | “Whereas, these Proposals and | others similar are aimed at free- dom of speech and press con- wary w the provision of the Constitution and American tradi- tion, “Kesolved that we oppose the enactment of any and all laws penalizing mere utterances in the absence of overt acts, increasing i eres leadership when the leaders are| the powers of censorship over the The American Federation of Ho- The measures taken by the | NOW on relief shall be compelled to | in, | Benjamin declared that it is now picked on by the police. Organ-| mails exercised by the Post Office siery Workers in Philadelphia sent | Governor of Tennessee, calling | Work for their relief. This shows | Hague’s Police Enter necessary to force the congressmen, ization of defense corps to meet in-| Department, creating any agency =: -& protest against the use of troops | out troops to shoot into a mob at |the rapid move in the United! yt is this love of Hague's for his | ‘Tough mass pressure of all kinds, | in the strike of hosiery workers in Rossville, Ga., yesterday, to Secre- tary of Labor Perkins and Attorney General Cummings. Shelbyville, was taken because of the growing desire of the Negro | masses, supported by sympathetic whites, to fight against lynching. NEW BILL CITED | The struggle against lynching | lies in the fight for the freedom | |ises of Roosevelt to provide jobs|responsible for States towards ; SR ater Sheube Gun see rom. |Police Department that is in part | the bringing of | for unemployed, and after a con-| Hauptmann from New York, where sideration of the Roosevelt denial | he certainly would have ‘been con- of real unemployment insurance, @ | yicted of extortion, to New Jersey, plan for “reserves” which in nO| where he will almost as certainly be | case will become operative before | sreeq, Hague wanted the Jersey to sign the petition to bring the | Workers’ Bill (H.R. 2827) out of the committee and to the floor of the House. Now that 218 signatures are needed instead of 145, because of Roosevelt's new gag rules, we must | work all the harder to get the nec- | essary signatures, Benjamin said. | for Hunger March (Continued from Page 1) wages and conditions on the relief jobs were stressed in the report. “The question arises,” he contin- creasing attacks was also ‘stressed, and the need of defending the or- ganization against disrupters who are placed inside the ranks as well as those who work outside the ranks of the councils. In concluding, Amter stressed the need of building the united front in the federal government to deal with any activities because of their political or economic char- acter, or adding to the presént severe restrictions on political opmion in controlling immigra- tion and deportation. : “we condemn all. such pro- posals as un-American and wholly ‘ 2 : “ » Bi] ued, “on how do we conduct our) in the localities and reaffirmed the = : of the Scottsboro boys. Through | October. TRAMs celet pete | City police department to win the | pi loan Re ee Bill | Struggles? Organized mass action in| Clear. position of the National Un- beau crea bite Gry ae tener Fl Fore ign - B OT Mh the principies involved in this jo", challenge to the whole work-|*0rd-renown that he knew would | cannot allow @ single Congressman | the localities and in the relief sta-| employment Councils on the ques.| Protecting order. 4 ' sand workers’ organizations (Continued from Page 1) worker or farmer, whether small + _ business man or professional, must realize that this anti-foreign cam- - paign is directed against the fun- damental liberties of the American * population. It is directed against himself. Enslave the foreign born fight a path of struggle for the rights of Negro people has been opened up. A Bill for Negro | Rights has been brought forward | by the League of Struggle for Ne- | gro Rights. These principles have | been endorsed and approved dur- | ing the three-and-a-half years’ — fight; and the recent victory of the stay of execution has com- accrue to the police discovering the | kidnaper and murderer of the Lind- bergh baby. Consequently, on the morning after the kidnaping, Hague issued orders that the local police keep their hands off the case and permit the Jersey City Police De- partment and Colonel Schwartz- kopf, a Hague lackey who is head of the State Police, to take it over. ing class. “We take up this chal- lenge,” the program declares, and will mobilize the workers of the United States to fight against it.” | Shows Hand of Bankers The program analyzes the Roose- velt offensive against the workers | as one directed and drafted by the | to forget it for a minute,” he de- | clared. “As a result of the impetus of the congress, hundreds of mil- lions of dollars of relief will be won | in local struggle,” he concluded, “as soon as the delegates get back to. their communities and organize these local struggles for relief.” Program of Action j American Bankers’ Association and | The first act was to destroy the The program of action, unani- | for the workers increased relief.” tions remain the basis of struggle. Nevertheless, certain things must be brought to the attention of the del- egates. We find vast numbers wait- ing in the relief stations. Finding that our committees go through without waiting, these workers are antagonized and ask who are given first attention. These thousands who wait in the relief stations. must tion of the united front and the ultimate unity of all the unem- ployed groups into one militant fighting organization. Court Denies New Trial to 6 Among the ministers who voted for the resolution condemning . the Hearst campaign were Rev. Frank Kingdon, president of Dana Col- lege, Newark; Rey. George S, Kackland, pastor of the First M. E. Church, New Hayen, Conn.;. Ar- low A. Brown, president of Drew University, Madison, N. J,;. Ralph B. Urny, pastor of the First M. E. Church, Westfield, N. J.; Rey. Eu- ‘ ; i . be won by action inside and outside gene W. Schrigley, pastor. of the and soon the native will be in pletely dastined die tactle of tte the ee Asso | most effective evidence that could | mously adopted by the Congress,| the relief bureaus. Then we will \M. E. Church, Richmond Hill, New chains. LED. ciation, Eleven points thus stand | have been used against the: kid- | pointed out the following immedi- | have demonstrations that will win | York; Rey. Lester Ward Auman, Congress opens soon. Measures) “ay, ‘inasses have shown that | Ut: | naper, namely, obliterate the finger= | ate tasks: |pastor of the M. E. Church, Ja- _will be introduced, either by the MeCormack-Dickstein Committee or veby other agencies, to suppress working class organizations, to out- Jaw militant unions, to outlaw the “Communist Party, which is the leader of all the exploited and op- “pressed. If they succeed against the Communist Party, then they will succeed against all. organiza- fronted with a determined resist- | sance on the part of the masses. Conference Sunday j A conference has been called for, next Sunday, 2 pm. at Irving| Plaza, New York, to organize such | resistance. A delegation will be elected to bring to Congress and the Labor Department demands of the >) workers that. persecution of foreign- born workers be halted and that .-measures against working class or- | « ganizations be withdrawn. In order « that the delegation have weight in “the eyes of the ruling powers, a mighty movement must develop be- hhind it. The conference must be ‘the first step in this direction. It is the duty of every working * class organization, whether native or foreign born, Negro or white, “men or women, to send delegates "to that Conference. We must make it an event in the history of the “labor movement. Deportations must be stopped! "The workers can force the bosses to do so! In the meantime funds are “necessary to wage the legal battle _on behalf of the deportees. Workers should | various organizations, by the fight these lines—by the mass demon- strations in Harlem and through- out the country, by the response of Negro students in the South, who went in a delegation to see | Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Geor- | gia, by the building up of Scotts- boro Action Committees through- out the country, by many invita- they want unity of action along | | | speak before the membership of | against discrimination, which has taken broad proportions in New York, Cleveland, Chicago and | other places during the recent | period, and finally, by the repu- | diation by the masses of all those who have attempted to disrupt the defense. The National Scottsboro-Hern- don Action Committee organized, at a Conference in New York, | attended by 242 delegates repre- | senting 190,000 members, for the | purpose of broadening the united | front in support of the I. L.D., reaffirms its stand fer unity. We point out that the LL.D. has let | nothing stand in the way of unity. | We call upon all sincere fighters — to let nothing confuse and divide the growing movement for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys by building up a solid united front. We, therefore, appeal to all justice loving people, workers and intellectuals, to join us at the Second Conference to map out plans to save the lives of Hay- weod Patierson and Clarence Nor- ris, and to fight for the uncon- 1—Cutting relief to a minimum and removing millions from the re- lief rolls. 2—Shifting relief responsibility from the Federal to the state and municipal governments, which in| turn are enacting sales taxes, wage and transit taxes, burdens not only upon the unemployed, but the em- ployed masses. home relief in the name of economy and profits, and, after Feb. 1, back onto the relief projects at greatly reduced wages. 5—Extension of the transient amps as an open expression of ‘orced labor. C, C. C, Extended 6—Extension of the C.C.C. camps to a figure of one million under a rigorous military regime, with pro- posals to include married men in these camps. 7—Slum clearance, which wiil raise rentals and provide reduced wages for the building construction trades. 8—A public works program sim- ilar to the one originally projected under the N. I. R. A. to pour huge funds into the railroads and indus- tries and provide additional ex- |Penditures for war under the cloak thus prove the “inside” nature of of giving jobs. 9—Subsistence homesteads to re- move vast numbers outside the pale of the economic system, where they [will be forced to accept whatever | again proved the virtual impossibil- conditions are imposed on them. 10—Home Owners’ Loan Corpora- tion, which safeguards the bankers’ \prints on the ladder that the kid- naper allegedly used. Wilentz, an- other Hague creature, is privately wailing over the fact that hun- dreds of finger-prints of Jersey City and State Police have com- pletely hidden the original prints on the ladder. It wasn’t until Hague's police had effectively prevented any quick solution of the crime that Welter of Intrigue All these developments, of course, have aided the Hitlerites, who are fighting so desperately to free the Nazi defendant. However, it is just as certain that the jury will con- |vict Hauptmann as it is that the New Jersey Supreme Court must free him if it considers only the \legal technicalities. After the de- | cision of the Supreme Court, it is to be expected that Hauptmann will be brought to trial in New York for extortion and probably convicted. The welter of intrigue which has \been drawn around the real nature of the crime is placing Reilly, Hauptmann’s chief attorney, in an anomalous position. Although he is definitely trying to free the Nazi, | and will use almost any methods to do so, he cannot present his evi- | dence too strongly because he would | | the crime and its inception among members of the Lindbergh house- |hold. Subjecting Betty Gow to cross-examination yesterday, he |ity of the crime’s having been com- | mitted by Hauptmann alone, the ‘reports of the proceedings yester- “The National Action Commit- tee, with the support of all par- ticipating organizations, shall im- mediately launch a nation-wide campaign with the following ob- jectives: “J—Secure congressional hear- ings on the Workers’ Bill and re- lated measures. “2—Secure discharge of the U. S. Senate and House of Repre- sentatives. 3 “3—mobilization of the maxi- mum possible opposition to the spurious plans and proposals of- fered as substitutes for genuine unemployment and social insur- ance. © “4—Secure introduction of the Workers’ Bill in the legislature of at least twenty States during the present legislative session. | “S—Launch a referendum on. the Workers’ Bill in as many states where the initiative-refer- endum is provided for, as possible. “6.—Secure endorsement and memorialization of Congress by the legislative bodies of every possible State, county, city and town.” Imp orted Saarlanders May Not Vote for Nazis In Sunday’s Plebiscite. SAARBRUECKEN, Jan. 8.—Many of the 358 Saar-Americans who ar- rived here. this afternoon will not In reviewing the state of the un- employment councils, Amter re- ferred to the bloated figures handed out by the National Unemployed League, which claims 750,000 mem- bers, the Illinois Workers Alliance which claims 137,000, and the Work- ers Unemployed Union which claims 200,000 in the New York area. pure bluff,” Amter said, “and can only serve to bring confusion to the minds of the workers. Such lies can onlt cause the workers to doubt | the effectiveness . of organization when they see nothing comensurate with these figures accomplished.” Amter stated that from March to December, 1934, 90,875 member- ship cards had been issued by the National Unemployment Councils and 137.239 stamps bought. This represents only a small fraction of the actual membership. He sharply brought to the attention of the del- egates the need of building mem- bership committees in all locals to register every member, issue ular dues stamps, and recruit new members into the councils. “For what do we find,” he asked. “Some workers come to us when they are denied relief. The evic- tion is stopped; relief is won; and they drift away until such a time as they are again denied reilef. Still another case exists. The relief case worker tells the client to have nothing to do with those ‘reds’; or in other cases others are approached inPhiladelphia PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8.—The intensified drive in this city against anti-fascists was resumed Friday when the Pennsylvania Superior Court refused a new trial to Ben Gardner, James Wilson, Beatrice Thaelmann” demonstration before the local German Consulate. Judge Baldridge ordered the six anti-fascist fighters remanded to prison to serve out their sentences of one year each for the men, and six months each for the women. James Wilson, a militant young Negro worker and one of the de- -fendants, is now in jail, pending disposition of his appeal from a court for helping to organize a chil- dren's Scottsboro protest © school strike. Sentence on this charge had been suspended, and now Wilson is in danger of getting a double sen- tence. The Superior Court’s decision re- manding these six anti-fascists to jail is one of a series of incidents revealing clearly the growing anti- working class drive in this city, in- cluding the slanderous attack by Judge Harry McDevitt on the Com- munist Party, which served as an excuse for the city to cancel a con- tract. for the use of Convention Hall for the Lenin Memorial Meeting. Almost immediately following this, the Federal government stepped on the scene in a renewal of its two- conviction in Judge Allesandroni’s |. maica, N. Y.; Rev. Norman M. Twiddy, pastor of M. E.° Church, | Hempstead, L. I.; Rev. Howard D, | McGrath, pastor of -Clinton” Ave- |nue M. E. Church, Kingston, N. Y, * * * “< 4 Anti-Hearst Victory in Chicago CHICAGO, Jan. 8—The workers’ counter-offensive against the i Mash, Sophie Braverman, Sophie| cious Hearst drive resulted in a «tions of workers, farmers, profes-| tions extended to Angelo Herndon rents 9 hi aut pages: Pl hs tek pee oe were allowed Workers’ Bill from committee and ; 90,875 in Councils Kahn and Mary Smith, six workers significant victory today when the sionals. Congress must be con-| and the Scottsboro Mothers to ig the | . its formal consideration in the “We say that these figures are| arrested last August in a “Free owners of the building ‘in which the Chicago Workers “School is | housed were forced to retract their \eviction notice and “accept rehtal |for the month of January. The owner ‘of the building is |Florsheim, of the Florsheim Shoe | Company, who was recently ex- Posed by John L, Spivak~in the Daily Worker and New Masses as @ contributor to- anti-semitic or- ganizations. 2 eulgeee According to Beatrice Shields; di- rector of the Chicago Workers School, many new courses are being offered and. workers. are urged to double the enrollment as. the most effective reply to the Hearst fas- cist incitements against. the .Com- munist Party. ak wie “America is experimenting with a corporate state,” Ellen Wilkinson, member of the British Labor. Party, said in an interview yesterday, and declared that “workers must every- where guard acNnst this c te state idea, for it is the idea behind fascism.” Miss Wilkinson asserted’ ‘that “fascism does not always-come with a gaudy: type of dictator. There is a much more insidious ‘type of fas- cism, which is the gradual forcing 1 I to sell their birthright in the hope of the corporate . =f “send their contributions to Commit- ditional freedom of the Scottsboro | Mortgages against the farmers. day by capitalist newspapers to the ony foe bsoibila arenty hk that a key position will be attacked mints ohare ae pant Mills, tape! pipes state on the work. ee enon of Forelen! boys, and for the defense of An-.|~ Against these attacks, and while | contrary notwithstanding, sources, United. States newspaper | 54 result in diso:ganization of the| munist Party. Soon after this, po. gues anew at _Born, : "| gelo Herndon, carrying forward the fight for the} Today Reilly will try to put in Leal hate council local.” : this; UISIANA’ aa Rick ketson iapeededi tot this| SAMURE ©. PATTERSON enactment of the Workers’ Unem- |the evidence the statements of the | metre pe me hee he, Visiting lice denied the Communist Party a| LO a8 CONSTRUCTION be as powerful as the emer- | -action gency demand: Greet the Daily Worker in the Secretary National Scottsboro- | Herndon Action Committee Your name will be on the Honor | greeting today! pleyment and Social Insurance Bill, | Nazi h ndwriting experts, sent here the Councils pledge to fight for the elementary economic rights of the | unemployed millions. by the Hitler, government, to the effect that some of the ransom |notes could not have been written Eleventh Anniversary’ some more witnesses on the stand. platform by the Nazis, who feared lest reports of the newcomers’ se- cret anti-fascist feeling be broad- cast. Preliminary voting by essential Sunday's plebiscite, continued quiet- ly today. x Build Up Social Life He also called for greater organ- izational efforts among the women, the youth, the Negro and the farm- said, to build up the social life of permit for its annual New Year's Eve Dance. ; Philadelphia workers, rallying in determined resistance to these at- Jan. 18, at the Market Street Arena, the locals and to train all the mem- 46th and Market Streets. STRIKE BATON ROUGE,»La., Jan. 8— Construction workers engaged in building the $7,000,000 Solvay Proc- saa by Hauptmann, and.the State. will 4 eater is ee aS a mass acne ess Company plant here have come name of your family. It has spent Roll in the Special Edition of the | Get a greeting from a friend |finish laying the foundation of its {eo ment employees, transit work- | ers. oh ai emorial ,Meeting,| out on strike demanding higher ee ee Ne ria, | Dally, Worker M you send your | today for the Daily Worker's |case against Hauptmann by putting | Siaideces Debi ee eat eon | gay ery offort must be made, he) which will be held Friday evening, | wages and short - hours, The walke out ties up the entire Project eme Ploying now 1,500 workers,