The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 10, 1935, Page 1

Exlaw pope 102 E- Visit Meetings of Trade Unions and Secure Greetings for the Doily Worker Anniversary Vol. XH, No. 9 Entered as second-class ma’ <= * Daily .Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL ) tter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1935 (Six Pages) NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents PARLEY MAPS FARM GROUP UNITY Living Costs Soar, Perkins Admits U.§. SURVEY Press Distorts Facts \PROSECUTOR WORKERS BILL Coughlin Demands NITED FRONT In Hauptmann Trial SHOWS DROP INREALWAGES Figures Expose Ballyhoo of the New Deal Pledges Worker Washington Burean) (Daily ‘Verbatim’ Reports Con | Proceedings—Case ceal Ugly Aspects of the Is Eloquent Symbol of Capitalist Corruption By Allen Johnson FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 9.—No incident in the recent history of the United States reveals the class nature—and consequently the ugly corruption—of the capitalist press as WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 9.—| Average living costs in 32 cities for| families of between 15 and 20 mil- lion wage and lower-salaried work- ers whose yearly income ranges from $1,000 to $2,000, increased 8.3 per cent during the 18-month period from June 1933 to Novem- ber 1934, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins declared in answer to a question on her long-awaited cost of living survey, which was released today. She stated that “the past 18 months have witnessed a continuous rise in living costs. Her cost of living survey covered only the five- month veriod from June 1, 1934, to November 1934. The = secreta announcement side-stepped the publication of sta- tisties which would show the real wages. or amount of necessities and scellaneons items the group ied could buy during the period § “Wo have no figures on real. ¥ .” the office of Isador Lubin, Commissioner of Labor Sta- tistics. told your correspondent af- tes Miss Perkins’ press conference. “We don't care to relate those” (wages and cost of living), Reluctant to Give Facts Obviously. the failure to give the press the effect of the appreciable rise in the cost of living is caused by the Roosevelt administration's reluctance to inform the workers of the decrease in their real wages, or the smaller sum they now have with which to buy food. clothing, shelter and miscellaneous items. The drop couldn’t be reconciled with the New Deal boast of “the new order of things.” or the Roosevelt oppo- sition to Federal unemployment and Social insurance, It is known, however, that be- tween June 1933 and June 1934 the real wage of the manufacturing worker decreased 1.1 per cent, ac- cording to a special report by Emer- gency Council head Donald R. Rich- berg to the President. Thus, in view of Miss Perkins’ statement today that “the average cost of the goods purchased by the families of wage and lower salaried workers in the larger cities of the U.S., increased by slightly less than two per cent in the five months period from June, 1934, to Noyem- ber, 1934,” and the recently in- augurated Big Business-Roosevelt administration wage-cutting drive, it is quite clear that the New Deal has forced down the standard of living of the great. mass of the peo- ple even lower than during the Period covered by her latest figures. The big business coloring of the Roosevelt administration, which ef- fected a tremendous increase in cor- poration profits while the Blue Eagle was forcing workers within the confines of the N. R. A. codes, is especially significant when it is remembered that President Roose- velt proposed in his opening mes- Sage to Congress to pay the so- called “employables,” who will be removed from the relief rolls, a Wage under prevailing rates. tedges On Forced Labor When asked about this admin- S, istration forced labor project, Miss | Perkins hedged noticeably. “I will have a much clearer conception when I have some administrative connection with the program,” she said. She added that it was her understanding that it was not “a Wage at all” but a “security” re- turn. “It is the kind of thing you can't say anything about until you haye the case before you,” she told tho press. In discussing the refusal of the big: steel companies to accede to the order of the Steel Labor Board for plant elections to determine union representation, Miss Perkins, who has always supported the steel-cor- porations, revealed that the Roose- velt board had actually proposed that instead of elections in every plant, “that there be a_ general agreement with the major steel companies to recognize the Amal- gamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (A. F. of L.) as the agency for such purposes but not without preventing the other groups forward for representation.” “But wouldn't that method block ‘ny agreement with the A, A,?” a reporter asked, making it clear that yuch a plan would simply provide \nother employers’ weapon for at- tacking real unionism. “Speculation as to what it might meen cughtn’t to go into that... . (Continued on Page 2) complete corruption is not easily discovered, nor is it amenable to simple proof, but that it is being expressed in every account of the trial appearing in the capitalist press is altogether beyond question. trial is an excellent case in point One could expect that a steno- graphic report of what actually was said in the court house here could be relied on. Workers particularly, who love facts because in the long run their very lives depend on their ability to learn the truth about the society they live in, prefer to read the actual testimony at the trial ‘as presented in the verbatim re- ports in the capitalist press, rather than a boiling down of that. testi- | | mony or an interpretation of it. But | the ghastly truth about the verbatim reports in the capitalist press is that these reports frequently dis- agree with each other, and that | not complete reports. | It is this confusion about | meaning of “verbatim” which is un- | questionably leading many workers to the conclusion that the verbatim |reports of the Hauptmann trial are | complete and therefore true reports. | But events here are proving again | that it is possible to give a verbatim | report of the proceedings of a trial | | | | The verbatim testimony of the | ™many of the “verbatim” reports are | FORCED OUT IN COAST CASE Red-Baiting District Attorney Aroused the Ire of Workers By Michael Quinn (Special to the Daily Worker) thoroughly as the trial now going on here of Bruno Richard | SACRAMENTO, Calif, Jan. 9— Hauptmann for the murder of the Lindbergh baby. This | Red-baiting District Attorney Mc- Allister, repudiated by the voters in the recent elections was forced out of the prosecution of the 19 worker defendants charged here with viola- tion of the California criminal syn- dicalist law. It was McAllister who, acting under the directions of local em- the | Ployers and their vigilante commit- tee designed the frame-up of the FIGHT PUSHED BY DELEGATE 2,500 Bring Program of Action Back to Their | Organizations Communists Be Shot Radio Priest in Bloodthirsty Speech Drags Out “German Agent” Lie About Lenin— Has High Praise for Norman Thomas By A. B. Magil ROYAL OAK, Mich., Jan. 9—Father Charles F. Cough- lin last night called for the shooting of Communists. PACT SIGNED Capital Conference Sets Basis for Joint Fight on Agrarian Issues By Carl Reeve The radio priest and founder of the National Union for By Howard Boldt (Daily Worker Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 9.— Twenty-five hundred delegates to ance Congress, directly representing more than two million people, are back in their communities today, or en route home, determined to put into effect the plan of action unani- mously adopted in the closing ses- sion of the Congress. Coming from thirty-six states, representing every major trade, in- (Daily Worker Staff’ Correspondent) | Social Justice showed that he is traveling at express train speed on the road to Fascism in a the National Unemployment Insur- exhumed from their grave all of¢ the most discredited lies concern- ing the Soviet Union, the Commu- |nist International, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. Coughlin’s bloodthirsty state- |ments were made in one of his |regular Tuesday night talks in the chapel next to his Shrine of the Little Flower, the million-dollar | defendants, and later attempted to| dustry and profession, and workers church built with scab labor. add a few extra frills by the farcial| of all political parties, from more | “kidnapping” of a State witness than 800 trade unions, and hun- | pears | several months ago, and the more dreds of unemployed organizations, and render a completely inaccurate | (Continued on Page 2) 4TH TEXTILE MILL STRUGK Workers Walk Out in Protest Against Martial Law CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Jan. 9.— In answer to the sending of the National Guard to protect scabs in the Rossville, Ga. plant of the Richmond Hosiery Mill, and dec- laration of martial law, another |mill, the Daisy unit of the com- | pany, came out on strike today. Only 29, chiefly foremen and execu- tives, went through the picket line to report to work, following a strike vote taken at a union meeting Mon- day evening. Three hundred are employed in the day shift of the Daisy plant. the total of the company’s plants pulled out thus far is brought to four. The Richmond, Soddy and Arrowhead plants are the three others already out. A conference between represen- tatives of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers and of the Richmond Hosiery Company on Monday broke off without any agreement. The workers are de- termined not to retreat from their demands that all in the four plants must return to work without the ten per cent wage cut announced gin with the new year. Workers of departments in the Richmond Hosiery Mill which are not affected by the announced wage cut, and who were not called on strike, are likewise coming out. On Monday, while 350 Guardsmen sur- rounded the plant and charged the 1,000 workers jeering them, a group of the — spinning would not work under armed pro- tection. They were received with wild cheering by the striking work- ers. Sixty workers, arrested during Monday's battle with the National Guardsmen, were taken to a con- centration camp established at At- lanta. General Camp, in charge of the troops in Rossville, which is on declared that under martial law “three makes a crowd, and no crowds are permitted.” Three Plant Elections Ordered by Labor Board In the Steel Industry WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 9.— The National Steel Labor Board ordered elections in three more want to be represented by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of the A. F. of L., although it is almost certain that the companies will follow the procedure of the Carnegie Steel Company and take court action to Stall them. The elections are at two Youngs- town Sheet and Tube Company plants in East Chicago, Ind., and at the Illinois Stes] Company plant in South Chicago, Il With the Daisy plant on strike, | by the company, which was to be- | department | marched out, declaring that they | the Georgia side of the State line, | plants to determine if the workers ‘AID GRAMSCI AND RAKOSI Workers Will Attend Two Mass Meetings in New York Two huge mass meetings, to be held in support of Matthias Rakosi and Antonio, Gramsci, two of the world’s famous and beloved class- war prisoners, will take place within a few days. In extreme peril of openly being railroaded to his death, the great leader of the Hungarian working | class, Matthias Rakosi, will be tried | for his life next Monday by a “spe- cial” fascist court on the clumsy and trumped-up charge of having committed 27 murders and incited 17 other murders. The Hungarian Bureau of the Communist Party of the United States, which Tuesday received the hurried news of Ra- kosi’s impending trial, immediately jissued a statement which empha- sized that the Hungarian bour- seruple in executing the brilliant anti-fascist, who has already been imprisoned in the dungeons of Hungary for over eight and a half | years. The Soviet government, it was learned today, had made strenuous efforts to exchange Rakosi and bring ‘him to the Soviet Union, but the Goemboes regime refused to yield its prisoner. The general organ- izer and leader of the anti-fascist forces in Hungary must be de- stroyed, the Horthy dictatorship declares. The meeting to save Rakosi’s life will take place Sunday at the Labor |Temple, 243 East 84th Street, at 2:30 p. m. Max Bedacht, national \secretary of Workers Order, will be the princi- pal speaker. The Hungarian Bureau stresses that if Rakosi is to be rescued from certain death, action on the part of the American work- ers must begin immediately, and all Hungarian consulates in the United States must be picketed by as large numbers as possible. \long-imprisoned leader of the Ital- ian Communist Party, who was set free by Mussolini under the pres- sure of workers’ and intellectuals’ | protests throughout the world, will be celebrated at Irving Plaza, Irv- day, January 16, at 8 p. m. The meeting, under the auspices of the |New York District, Communist |Party, the Italian Federation of Workers’ Centers, and the Interna- tional Labor Defense, will demand that the “conditions” and “sur- veillance” following Gramsci’s free- dom be lifted and that he be al- lowed to leave the country. The main speakers will be Bob Minor, member of the Central Committee of the Communist |Party, Richard B. Moore of the I. L. D., Tito Nuncio of the Italian Federation, and the leading Ital- ian Socialist, Bertelli. Your name will be on the Honor Roll in the Special Edition of the Daily Worker if you send your greeting today! geoisie wili have not the slightest | the International | ing Place and 15th Street, Wednes- | | i | | \ recent claims that “red threats” had been sent to himself and one of the jurors. | the delegates sounded a ringing de- | mand in the seat of the federal | government for the immediate pas- The forcing out of McAllister is Sage of the Workers Unemployment an important partial v: defense, and attests to the effective- ictory for the and Social Insurance Bill (H. R.| 2827). The great mass power of ness of the protests and sympathetic |the Workers Congress forced a organizations in all parts of th country. Otis D. Babcock, the new District Attorney, is to take charge of the | prosecution, although Babcock him- | number of congressmen to promise categorically to support the Work- ers Bill. “Sickness” in Government | There was an epidemic of sick- self during his eampaign for elec- {ness and “previous engagements” charged MeAdister tions with being, when the mass delegations.«elect; | hostile to. labor, because of his by the Workers Congress visited frame-up and threats to prosecute | the heads of the Roosevelt govern- the 18 defendants. Babcock today asked for a post- ¥ mement of mes trial to Jan. 16 in| ment has subjected the millions of po} order to “study” the evidence Judge Dal M. Lemmon granted his request. over the vigorous objec-| tions pf Leo Gallagher, Interna- tional Labor Defense attorney. The judge, however, overruled the de- fense motion that a new jury be empanelled, since the members of the present jury had not been ques- tioned as to their probable social or business relations with the new dis- | trict attorney. The defendants renewed their complaints to the court today against the bad food given them in jail, general conditions and neglect to provide medical attention. The prison doctor seldom visits them they declared, and when he does he ig always drunk. Gallagher demanded a proper in- terpretation of the bail provision for property bail double that of the cash bail of $3,000 demanded for each defendant. The court has given the peculiar mathematical ruling that double the cash bail means $12,000 in property bonds, Gallagher's motion is under ad- visement. The courtroom was jammed to-! day with workers, liberals and writ- ers, who came from all parts of the state to express their firm soli- darity with the defendants. A broad united front is being forged with Epic groups, Socialist unions, clubs, and many other groups participat- ing. Plans have been announced to arrange for auto caravans to visit the court from al! parts of the state as soon as the trial starts. The International Labor Defense is appealing for a flood of protests to the new district attorney. Otis D. Babcock, demanding the dropping of the framed-up charges, the re- lease of the defendants, and the re- | peal of the anti-working class crim- inal syndicalism law. Extend Scottsboro Victory, The release of Antonio Gramsci, | By James W. Ford (Member Central Committee of the Communist Party) Dr. George E. Haynes, vice-chair- mand of the American Scottsboro Committee, stated, as reported in the December 4th issue of the New Masses, that “if the boys stuck with the I. L. D., the American Scotts- boro Committee would wash their hands of them and let them take their medicine.” [Emphasis mine— J. W. Fl What has the I. L. D. meant for the boys? It has meant victory after victory! But that is not what you meant, Dr. Haynes! You meant that the boys should die! But your wish shall not come true as long as the I. L. D. exists, as long as we are able to build up a broad mass defense behind such able and hon- orable legal representatives as Os- mond Fraenkel, Walter H. Pollak, Joseph Brodsky and Ben Davis, Jr. The I. L, D. is now in urgent need ment to demand an end to hunger | and want to which that govern- unemployed and part time workers and their families. Roosevelt had “a bad cold” and his a: ant sec- retary, Marvin McIntyre, would not ‘commit himself regarding the Work- ers Bill (H.R. 2827). Frances Perkins “couldn't wait” and left her assist- ant, the former A. F. of L. leader, Edward McGrady to see a dele- gation. McGrady declared, “I have my own personal opinion on your Un- employment Insurance Bill, but I can’t express it here. As far as the Department of Labor is concerned, we are studying seventeen differen: bills and are not ready | opinion.” The delegates pointed out that the Department of Labor has been “studying” unemployment insurance for more tha : two years, while mil- lions starve. McGrady tried to use izing with their suffering. But he poured sweat and lost his poise when the delegates exposed the De- partment of Labor's deportations of unemployed workers, its strike- breaking activities, and its refusal to support real unemployment in- surance. Representative Dickstein, head of the House Committee which is at- tempting to pass laws to suppress the ers organizations, was “out of town” to the Workers Congress delegation, ‘out the rumour was that he was hiding from the constituents he is supposed to represent. Vice President Garner gave the delegation fifteen minutes and fied, claiming he “has no power.” Wil= | liam Green was “out of town” and his assistanis said they could give no answer on anything. Byrnes of the House was “too busy. (Continued on Page 2) jof funds. It must have at least $10,000 at once! The I. L. D. reiies mainly on developing mass cam- paigns to supplement court action, |nevertheless the financial statement. of the I. L. D. for three and a half years shows that the biggest item of the $61,825 collected—$38,181, or 62 per cent, went for legal and court | preceedings and investigations. Six thousand dollars are needed immediately in connection with the appeal to the Supreme Court. There is a $2,000 deficit from the old ac- ‘count that must be met; $2,000 are needed for incidentals. This 510.000 should be raised in the next few _weeks. Each district of the Com- 'munist Party is called upon to do its share and to help the I. L. D. in its district to raise the quota. We call upon all workers, intel- lectuals and justice-loving people to contribute to this fund. Send your contribution to the National Office of the ‘International Labor | Defense at 80 Hast 11th Street, New | York City to state any| soft soap on the delegates, sympath- | unemployed and all militant work-| Carrying the Red-baiting of the press and the Dickstein Congressional Committee a step farther, Coughlin shouted: “The Communists want to start war, they want bloodshed, they love it when there’s a depression on. The Com- down, but by God I'll shoot them SILK VICTORY AS-EXPECTED Election of Militants Is Anticipated in Saturday Voting PATERSON, nN. J, Jan. 9—The munists say they want to shoot us| speech in which he first. We can’t be pussy-footers; the reason I say I'll fight them with | bullets, if necessary, is because they | want to take my God from me, my soul from me and my country from me.” Praises Thomas While urging the shooting of Communists, Coughlin paid glow- ing tribute to Norman Thomas, leader of the Socialist Party, and to the S. P. as a whole. “Norman Thomas,” he said, “is anything but a follower of Karl Marx. Thomas is a Christian, a good man and a gentleman. We don’t agree on many things but I'd (Continued on Page 2) NAZI CAMPS ~ NEAR-CLASH ‘Fight Between Hitler’s Guards and Reichswehr | Due in Week BERLIN, Jan. 9—The coming WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 9—A stirring appeal for of all agri- cultural workers, small farmers and rural unemployed was made today at the First onal Conference of Agricultural Workers, held at Mur- ray Hall, Tenth and U Streets. The establisnment of the united front central body, with which all groups not here represented can affiliate, and the conclusion of a | working united front agreement between the Tenant Union of Arkansas, a group led by the So- cialist Party, and the Sharecreppers Union of Alabama are among the outstanding tasks which the con- ference has set itself. Al White, of the Alabama Share croppers’ Union, and E. B. McKin- ney, of the Arkansas Southern Ten- jant Farmers’ Union, both Negro | sharecroppers, signed the united front agreement between the two organizations today | Fifty-three delegates from twenty | States, representing thirty-eight |farm and farm labor organizations, are in attendance. National Unity Commilice “This conference,” the main reso= lution reads, “establishes the Na- tional Committee for Unity of Agri- cultural and Rural Workers, and appeals to all organizations of workers in the small towns, villages and rural regions of America to join with us in united action for the im- | provement of our immediate con- ditions and to work toward the victory scored by the militants in explosion between the Reichswehr— building of one nation-wide union | the dyers’ union in last Saturday’ election will undoubtedly be fol lowed by another victory in elections of the plain goods’ depart- ment of the silk workers, next Sat- | urday. | The militants in the American Federation of Silk Workers have issued a sample ballot including the rank and file ticket, and is headed “Come to Vote! Build the Union! For a militant policy in the union. Elect a Rank and File Slate!" Each of the names on the ticket is ac- companied by a number, which designates the order in which the candidates appear on the ballot. They are: 1D. Louis Valgo; 4). Edward Sochan; 5). Millie Delveccio; 6). Alec Philiian; 7). Sarkes Phillian; 9). Joseph Brooks; 10), Sarah Berlinsky; 11). Sam Sheber; 13). Bob Apel; 15). Joseph Sozanie; 22). Sam Donayan; 26). Carlo De Nicola; 28). Henry Stutz: 30). Al Van- Vianderen; 39). Elias Hajjar. Washington St.. and will continue from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The reactionary Lovestoneite Voting will be at Union Hall, 71) regular army—and Hitler’s Spe- Guards, the “Schutz Staffel,” cannot be prevented for longer than a week, perhaps even before the Saar plebiscite on Jan. 13, reliable observers affirm. Reflecting the seething mass hatred against fascism and of the ruin and regimentation brought by it upon the population. the Schutz th campaign against its rival, the Reichswehr, which had it succeeded, might have isolated the armed forces from all support of Hitler and provided the revolutionary pro- | letariat with an opportunity to lead the crushing of fascism in Germany. Reports concerning the incidents which took place in the Bendler- strasse—wher the Reichswehr Min- istry is located—were reliably con- firmed today through the published eign embassy. A number of higher leaders of the S. S. (Schutz Staffel) had agreed upon the plan to storm the Ministry Staffel recently planned a military | observations of members of a for- of all agricultural and rural work- ers. ‘The committee shall work with | all existing organizations in order to unite our forces in a common struggle against the present condi- tions of starvation wage levels, un- | employment and insecurity, and shall to further the aims and | Durposes outlined in this program and appeal.” Program of Action The following points of action are specified in the resolution: To | co-operate with all of the exist- | ing organizations of the rural and agricultural workers for the deyel- oping of one united union; to work | with all groups in the industrial areas for the furthering of this ulti- | mate union; to assist in every way in aiding the existing organizations and to develop nation-wide support | for their struggles. In co-operation with the existing | organizations in each region and State, the National Committee set up here will initiate and promote the holding of crop. regional and of the Reichswehr on the night of State conferences of agricultural Dec. 21-22, when a pre-arranged | - i and rural workers for the purpose conference was taking place between | of securing effective trade union Reichswehr Minister Blomberg and Speaker | The 2,500 delegates to the Na-| “Progressive” group, is trying most desperately to confuse the issues in| the election, and have likewise is- sued a slate which includes all the The S. S. leaders concerned were uncnimous in considering that this most discredited individuals, who conference would mark a further are resvonsible for negotiating the| Step in the direction of the com- rejected agreement, and maintain-| plete dissolution of the Special eyes was Blomberg, in whom they saw the spokesman of heayy in- dusiry, the supposed opponent of | the S. S. the union. The new committee elected by the workers last Saturday to reoven negotiations with the manufac- | | turers, along with the officers of the employers, but came to no With the aid of numerous armed agreement. The committee insisted | troops and seize all generals of the on first taking up the ouestions of | Reichswehr, including Blomberg. It wages and hours on the basis of the | ¥as furthermore provided that Goe- requirements for a decent living | ting and Goebbels, who were united standard for the workers. They in their antipathy against the Spe- proposed $30 a week and 30 hours Cial Guards, would be arrested. This as the minimum rate. The manu-| last section of the scheme has as its facturers insisted on taking uo the| background the bitter struggle of questions only from the standpoint | Cliques between Goering and Himm- of the rates in other centers. or ler. What happened to Himmler what they called a “competitive since these events is completely scale.” junknown. The fact is that his ‘The members of the committee|mame has suddenly disappeared have declared. following the confer- | from ¢!1 publications ence, that only a struggle will deter-| The plan of the Special Guards— mine the wage scale, as the manu- which bears a strange resemblance facturers are stiil determined maintain the wage cut. provocateurs in the | putsch” of June 30—was betrayed. PATERSON, N. J.. Jan. 9—Final' On the night of Dec. 21-22 all count on the voie for president of quarters of the Berlin Special Local 1733. parsnt local of the Guards was searched and many S. S. American Federation of Silk and| leaders arrested as accomplices Rayon Dyers, shows that Charles an “attempted putsch.” Those seized Vigorito, rank and file candidate,| were delivered to scattered prisons. the chief industrialists of Germany. | ing a reactionary bureaucracy in | Guards. Especially hated in their | The S. S. leaders were to have as- | the union, held a conference with | Saulted the Reichswehr Ministry | to, to the work of Goering’s agents) “attempted | in| won by an almost two to one vote. | He received 2.221; Anthony Ammi- rato, reactionary, now president, and a member of the National Ex- ecutive Board of the U.T.W., re- ceived 1,304; while Thomas Ventura, who was put forth to pose as a (Continued on Page 2) Certain of the arrested were—as on | June 30—shot in rapid procedure. On Dec. 21 the Reichswehr Ministry was surrounded by troops of the Reichswehr and the police. On the night of Dec. 22, under the pro- | tection of armed guards, the con- | ference between Blomberg and the industrial moguls was held. uni The conference authorized | the National Committee to issue a bi-monthly news bulletin and other material. To Distribue Manifesto The manifesto of the conference, to be printed in the thousands for wide distribution among the rural population, condemns the New Deal Administration, the policies of the N. R. A. and the A. A. A. as they apply to the agricultural workers and poor farmers. “The A. A. A. has ruthlessly attempted to aid the big farmers and growers while de- \creasing our jobs and increasing unemployment; it has increased the |cost of our daily bread and forced {our families into starvation relief,” | the manifesto reads. It further sets forth nine de- mends of the rural workers: The right to organize, strike and picket; the establishment of minimum wage levels and maximum hours for each crop or region through demo- cratically elected conferences of | workers; abolition of child labor, and opposition to all forms of dis- crimination and compulsory arbitra- tion. As an immediate guarantee of a measure of security, the conference | endorsed and demanded the enact- }ment of the Workers Unemploy- |ment and Social Insurance Bill, | H.R. 2827. One basic and important docu- | ment remains and the general opin- ion is that complete accord will be reached on the united front agree- ments between the Sharecroppers Union of Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and North Carolina and the Southern Tenant Farmers Un- jon of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. The signed document will be submitted to the members ef both groups for ratification.