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be DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1935 MEETING TO HONOR. Strike at Otis LENIN, LIEBKNECHT, ROSA LUXEMBURG Program Will Include Revolutionary Dramatic) Sketches—Prominent Youth Leaders Will Speak on Lives o f Revolutionaries CHICAGO, Iil., Jan. 9—The young workers of Chicago will answer the Hearst pro-fascist campaign by holding a gigantic youth rally under the auspices of the Young Com- munist League, which is known as the Lenin-Liebknecht- Luxemburg Memorial meeting on Sunday, January 13, 7:30 p. m. at the Turner Hall, 820 North? Clark Street. The principal speaker , will be Karl Lockner, Communist | Party candidate for Mayor. Together with him will speak Claude Light- | foot,. outstanding Negro leader of | the Chicago youth. In addition to these two out- standing young leaders of the Chi- | cago working class there will be a| rich cultural revolutionary program which will include a sketch, “Life of | Liebknecht” by the Nature Friends, | and “Troops Are Marching,” an} anti-war pley presented by the) Theatre Collective. There will be a) special program given by the Young | Pioneers. | Bill Gebert, District Organizer of | the Communist Party, today issued | the following statement: | “The Communist Party calls not only upon its members, but upon the whole labor movement to give maximum support to the Lenin- Liebknecht - Luxemburg memorial | of the Young Communist League, in | the words of Liebknecht ‘those who have the youth have the future.’ We want to bring to the attention of the Chicago workers that without win-| ning the youth on the side of the revolutionary struggles of the work- | ing class we cannot be successful. The struggle for winning the youth is a struggle for the victories of the | working class. Every member of | the Party, every worker, should not only come themselves to the rally, but above all bring the young work- ers, students, Negro and white to} this rally. This rally will also be an occasion to review the growth of | the Y.C.L. and the Section that will secure the maximum over its quota will be presented with a banner of | the District. “The building of the Y.C.L. is one of the most burning <nd im- mediate problems of the Commu- nist Party. Therefore, every mem-) ber of the Party shall bring young | workers to this rally, who will join | the Y. C. L. Let every one of us do our share in making the Lenin- Liebknecht - Luxemberg Memorial meeting a demonstration on whose | side the youth is. The answer de- pends on us.” Boston L. L. L. Meeting Jan. 16 BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 9. — Ned Sparks, New England Organizer of the Communist Party, Mac Libby, Young Communist League Organ- izer, and a prominent member of the National Committee of the Y. C. L. will be the featured speakers | at the meeting here in commemora- tion of Lenin, Liebknecht and Lux- | emburg. The meeting, which takes | place on January 16, at 8 p. m., will be held in the Dudley Street Opera | House, 113 Dudley Street, Roxbury. | Scenes from “Strike Me Red,” will | be presented for the first time in Boston by the Young Pioneers, The New Theatre Players, Vanguard | Dancers, Worcester American Work- ers Chorus as well as the Ukrainian and Freiheit Singing Societies will also contribute to the program. Fund Needed To Fight Mills Deportation PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9.—An ap- peal for funds to finance the mass and legal fight against the govern- ment’s drive to deport A. W. Mills, District Organizer of the Philadel- phia district of the Communist Party, has been issued here by F. Helman, District Organizational Secretary. ‘The appeal urges the immediate raising of funds and the sending of protest telegrams and resolutions by all workers’ organizations to Sec- retary of Labor, Frances Perkins. Although the attempt to depart Mills dates back two years, following his organization of the First Hun- ger March to Washington, D. C., the immigration authorities are now demanding the posting of a bond of $1,000 to replace the surety bond on which Mills is now at liberty. Philadelphia workers have already contributed $220 to the Mills De- fense Fund. Contributions should be rushed to the International La- bor Defense, 49 N. Eighth St., Phila- delphia, Pa. Mills has rejected an offer for voluntary departure from the coun- try, on the grounds that member- ship in the Communist Party and activities in defense of the working class are neither illegal nor justifi- cation for deportation. WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. ORGANIZATIONS —- Attention! All organizations are asked not to ar- range any affairs on April 26, 1935. ‘The Freiheit Gesangs Farein has this date for its Grand lith Annual Spring Concert in the Academy of ‘Music. Only Showing in South Phila. A sound picture showing the life and struggles of Ernst Thaelmann. Also anti-fascist struggles in U.S., France, England, Friday, Jan. 11, 8 p.m. at 1208 Tasker St. Adm, 25¢. Chicago, Il. First Chicago League of Workers Fi Theatre, New Theatre Nite, Satur- i day, Jan. 12, 8:30 p.m. at John Reed Club, 505 S. State St Pennsylvania Is Threatened By Sales Tax HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 9.—Al- most open admission that a sales tax to “soak the poor” of Pennsyl- vania is on the order of the legisla- tive day, can be seen in disclosures made here concerning tasks facing between this and the $390,000,000 estimated budget for the next two in the street” by one means or an- other. Governor “Playboy” Earle’s tax committee has declared in favor of the sales tax, and the capitalist press is making it appear that it is only the opposition of the Governor which staves off the adoption of such a plan. They are hinting that so determined are the proponents of the sales tax, that Earle may in the end be forced to accede, Failing this, the tax committee is considering flat income levies, (graduated income taxes are “un- constitutional” in this state); a boost in the gasoline tax, which is already three cents a gallon; and small enterprises taxes are also within the plans. No definite mention has been made yet of a levy on the giant utilities concerns of Pennsylvania. Forty Yo ung Chinese Executed in Manchukuo “Long live China,” forty Chinese youths were publicly executed at Harbin, Manchukuo, by agents of Japanese imperialism. Their “crime” was leading the peasants of Man- churia against the national oppres- sion by the imperialists. All of those executed were 16 or 17 years of age. Your name will be on the Honor Roll in the Special Edition of the Daily Worker if you send your greeting today! i. 'HE results of the last elections indicate that the breakaway from the two old capitalist parties of this movement is still confused, | it is nevertheless taking place. Even a large portion of the vote cast for Roosevelt can be accounted for isfied with Roosevelt. and his pol- icies they conceived of “practical” | Politics only through the two-party | system, They considered going back to the party of Hoover, a step back- ward which they refused to take. The election results show def- initely that where the masses had |an opportunity to register a vote against Roosevelt and for what they considered more radical parties and candidates they did so, where they thought they had a chance for “suc- cess.” This is the meaning of the election of the Progressive ticket of La Follette in Wisconsin, the elec- tion victory of the Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota, etc. Even the votes cast for Sinclair, Long, etc., though still technically for candi- dates on old party tickets were an expression of the masses that they oo more than Roosevelt prom- This movement of the breakaway from the two old parties is causing their old parties. They are there- fore increasing their activity to sidetrack the movement of the masses, which in large measure, though blindly, is directed against capitalism, Talk of a new, third party, a progressive party, or even a Labor Party, is increasing. The various movements such as the EPIC, the Father Coughlin’s League, etc., are part of the same effort to prevent the masses from really free- ing themselves from the old capi- talist parties or at any rate, to pre- vent them from organizing a gen- uine party of labor, having as their purpose to further the capitalist at- tacks on the masses. The pressure of the masses is also having its re- flection in the cap of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy and in the leader- ship of the Socialist Party, which is also talking of a new party, even of a labor party. : What Kind of Parties It is, therefore, necessary to be clear as to what kind of parties these bourgeois and reformist ele- ments propose; and what should be the character of a Labor Party that would be a step forward for the masses. The Political Bureau, in analyzing this question, came to the following conclusion on this point: “As for the nature of the new mass party, the greztest proba- HONGKONG, Jan. 9—Shouting| is under way. While the expression | primarily. by the fact that while) these masses were already dissat- | great worry to the capitalists and | Plant Stops Sunday Work | Rank ead Bile Walkout | Stirs Action in Other | Departments By Sandor Voros (Daily Worker Ohio Burean) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 9.—Led | by a rank and file committee, work- | jers in the pickling department of | Otis Steel struck against Sunday | work Saturday night, threw a picket | line around the plant, and in ‘spite | | of three squads of police and hosts | of detectives kept out the entire Sunday shift. Out of the 200 men working in the pickling department | only two men volunteered to scab, one an ex-foreman. Demands for free gloves, free aprons, overshoes and the abolish- ing of Sunday work had been served on the company a week ago Monday by a rank and file committee elected by the men in the pickling department. In its answer Wednes- | day the company promised to grant the free gloves and aprons but would not hear about the overshoes or the abolishing of Sunday work. Strike Meeting in Plant | The company had called the com- mittee and the men into the plant | ing held right in the plant unani- |mously decided to stay out Sunday years is to be wrung from “the man | 2nd picket the plant to see nobody | shop, | went to work. | The bosses and supers tried to keep the Saturday afternoon shift in the plant asking them to work a double shift, offering double pay and free lunches, but this shift re- fused to stay. | While this was going on, men in | the open hearth department, where | Shaw, financial secretary of the AA Riverside Lodge 164 of Otis Steel was working, became very angry. They didn’t want to work Sunday either, but were told that the company is going to lose its or- | ders if they stay out, This de- | partment till now had been con- | artment till now had been con- | trolied by the AA officials. When they were asked by the pickling workers on Monday how come they worked on Sunday, they answered they'd been fooled long enough by | their leaders, but in the future they | were going to follow the rank and | file leadership. They also decided | not to work next Sunday and go on | strike in spite of their leaders. Following the strike of the pick- ling department, the men of the blanking department called a rank and file meeting for Sunday after- noon, the first one in this depart- ment, which was attended by more j\than 150 workers. They discussed wages and conditions, elected con- trol committees to lessen the speed- up and discussed the different jwages that were on the different | jobs. | willingness to decrease their pro- By JACK bilities reflecting the two chief political tendencies of this move- ment—the class struggle or class collaboration—are (a) a ‘popular’ or ‘progressive’ party based on the La Follette, Sinclair, Olson and Long movements and typified by these leaders and their programs: (b) a ‘Karmer-Labor’ or ‘Labor’ Party of the same character, differing only in mame and the degree of its demagogy; (c) a ‘Labor Party’ with a predomi- nantly trade union basis, with a Program consisting of immediate | demands (possibly with vague demagogy about the ‘cooperative commonwealth’ a la Olson) dom- inated by a section of the trade union bureaucracy, assisted by the Socialist Party and excluding the Communists; (d) a Labor Party built up from below on a trade union basis but in conflict with the bureaucracy, putting forward a program of demands closely connected with mass struggles, strikes, ete., with the leading role played by the militant elements, including the Communists. These variations can develop also paral- lel or in combination.” This clear formulation not only analyzes the various movements now going on and the possible crys- tallizations that may take place but also establishes first the role of the Communist Party and the most advanced workers, the aim we set before ourselves. At the same time, it makes clear that we will not always get these movements in their “pure” form so that they are immediately recognizable. It will require skillful working to direct the mass movement which will take on numerous forms, into working-class channels and that this can be done only on the basis of the struggle against the bourgeois and reformist elements that attach themselves to the mass movement. In this connection the simple slogan “for a Labor Party” “which expresses such conflicting tenden- cies, of itself is not sufficient to be an effective banner under which the class forces of the workers can be rallied. The Communist enter the with the purpose of helping the masses to break away from the bour- geois and social-reformist parties and to find the path to the revolu- tionary class struggle” (From the Polbureau decisions). The “Progressive” Type Certainly the workers do not need a party of the type of the “progres- sive” party of LaFollette, Sinclair and Co, Such a Party would not serve to better the conditions cf the The highest paid men were |also present who expressed their|and file now are to have every! music furnished by an excellent | movement for a Labor Party only | Page 3 | CHICAGO YOUTH RALLY TO EXPOSE HEARST’S ANTI-LABOR LIES Workers North and South Plan Akron Section ELECTION PARLEY a ‘For Lenin Memorial t. Louis Rally to Hear Herbert and Jane Newten ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 9.—Herbert Newton, Negro Communist leader, and his wife, Jane Emery Newton, will both speak here at the Lenin Memorial meeting, Sunday evening, Jan. 20, at the Turners Hall, 1508 Couteau Avenue. Thousands of Negro and white workers and intellectuals in St. Louis are deeply aroused over the recent chauvinistic attack by Chi- cago landlords and their courts on the Newtons, The visit of the Newtons to St. Louis coincides with an increasing | fascist-like terror by employers and | police against the Negro people of | St. Louis. The most recent examples | include (1) the singling out by po- lice of Negro workers for a particu- larly murderous attack during the | Police onslaught on the relief dem- onstration here on Nov. 30—two Negro workers are now suffering from severe internal injuries; (2) | the blacklisting of Negro workers by | the Terminal railroad system, which | dominates the life of this city; (3) \the bestial attacks upon militant | Negro and white unemployed work- ers at all relief stations through- jout the city, and the cutting of re- the state legislature in session here.|Saturday afternoon to persuade | lief, directed especially against the With present taxes only capable | them to work on Sunday. The men’ Negro workers. of raising $150,000,000 the difference | Came and at an impromptu meet- | : |duction to regulate speed in that so that day-men could get more work and pay. |lodge, who at the last election won out by 136 to 76 votes against the |walked into the meeting but was immediately ordered out. He had jrecently said he was not interested in the grievances of the blanking department. More Demands Pressed Next night the men of the pick- ling department returned to work in cided to press their demands not jonly for the free overshoes, aprons and gloves bu also for the elimina- tion of piece work, for the control jof production against speed up and \for $7.50 a day wages. The victory of the pickling de- enthusiasm |The men in the open hearth de- partment also decided to follow rank and file leadership. This turn may be decisive, for the A.A. offi- cial slate was only elected due to \the support received from the open |hearth in the election held two weeks ago. Monday morning George Seely, jsuperintendent of the blanking de- |partment and speed-up expert, |suddenly called a safety meeting, the first one ever held. The Otis plant employs about 4,000 workers, of whom 2,700 be- |long io the Amalgamated Associa- tion. The objectives of the rank !worker join the A.A. Joe Clair, president of the A. A.| rank and file candidate, Favorito, | full numbers and immediately de- | |partment filled the workers with | throughout the plant. | Rallies Set in 13 Towns on Mesaba Range in Minnesota VIRGINIA, Minn., Jan. Memorial Meetings ranged in | follow | Hibbing, Jan. 20, at Wassa Hall, 8 p. m., speakers J. Wettberg and J. Hautala Chisholm, Jan. 19, at Karl's Hall, |8 p. m., speakers J. Wettberg and | J. Hautala. | Zim, Jan. 20, at the Zim Farm- ers’ Clud Hall, 8 p. m., M. Johnson, J. Heiskanen and T. Pulkinen, Toivola, Jan. 19, at Toivola Hall, 8 p. m., J. Lindman and M. Mackie. Meadowbrook, Jan. 19, at | Meadowbrook Hall, 8 p. m., Arne |Roine and A. Hiltunen. 9.—Lenin have been ar- the Mesaba Range, as Club Hall, (Salo’s Corner) 8 p. m., Veikko Kosti and Eva Piirinen. | Corbin, Jan. 20, at Corbin Hall, 8 p. m., Henry Maki and A. Roi- vanen. Markham, Jan. 20, at Palo Hall. 8 Virginia, Jan. 20, at North Pole Hall, 8 p. m, Art Kytola and T. Suakenen, 8 p. m., Wayne Buranen and Betty Wettberg. Ely, Jan. 20, at Laajala’s Place, 8 p. m., Veikko Koski and H. Wal- lace. Keewatin, Jan, 20, at Keewatin | Workers’ Hall, 8 p. m., J. Lindman and M. Mackie. |Enroliment Celebration ‘Is Planned in Cleveland By International Order CLEVELAND, Jan. 9.—In celebra- tion of the enrollment of 2,500 new | members in the Ohio district of the organization, the International | Workers Order has arranged a gala | celebration to be held next Sunday, | Jan. 13, at Prospect Auditorium, 2612 Prospect. Ave. Max Bedacht, national secretary of the I. W. O., will be the principal | speaker. An elaborate cultural program has also been arranged which in- jcludes music by the Hungarian, Slovak and Freiheit Singing So- | cieties, a skit by the Cleveland |John Reed Club portraying work- ers’ life in the United States, a play and mass dancing by the Interna- tional Workers Order | Groups anda special program by |the Ukrainian folk dancers. A | violinist of the Cleveland Symphony | Orchestra will be guest soloist. I A home-cooked supper will be | served between 6 and 8 p. m. Com- | mencing at 8 p. m. an international |costume ball will take place, with ‘radio orchestra. STACHEL | masses. Such a Party would not help organize the workers for inde- pendent working-class political ac- tion. On the contrary, such a Party would retard the movement of the | workers for independent political | action. It would continue to chain | the masses to the capitalist parties, | it makes no difference whether it | would constitute a third capitalist | party or become the second capitalist | party through the maintenance of | the two party system through a re- | alignment in the camp of the cap- | italist parties. Whether such a | party called itself “Progressive,” or | “Farmer-Labor” or “Labor” would, | of course, make no difference. Other Types A “Labor” party dominated by a | section of the trade union bureau- | eracy and the Socialist leaders and | excluding the Communists could not serve the interests of the masses in any way. It would, on the contrary, be used against the workers. A Party dominated by John L. Lewis, Gorman, Dubinsky, Waldman, Pan- ken and company, even if it were based on the trade unions, would not be a genuine Labor Party. It would not result in independent class political action on the part of the workers. The class collaboration policy that these reformists carry through in the field of economic struggle field, perhaps with even greater treachery to the masses. Such a Party would not fight against cap- italism. It would not even fight for the immediate needs of the masses, How can the masses, betrayed by John L. Lewis, Gorman and com- pany in the fight for higher wages, shorter hours, for the right to or- ganize, hope that these people will fight for them in Congress, in the state legislatures, or utilize the or- ganied power of the masses in the form of a Labor Party for mass action to supplement that fight in the Congress and the various legis- latures? Why, for example, should we believe that Lewis, Gorman, the Workers’ Unempioyment Insur- ance Bill today, expel members of their unions jor fighting for this measure, will fight for it if the workers send them to Congress? They would bring to the workers the Lewis-Wagner fake unemploy- ment insurance scheme, which they now support, with perhaps the dif- ference that instead of it being called the Lewis-Wagner Bill it might be called the Lewis-Wald- man Bill, with John L, Lewis re- Senatez from New York State, Nar would also prevail on the political | Dubinsky and company, who oppose | THE PROBLEM OF A LABOR PARTY would it be of any benefit to the workers that instead of Congress- man Dickstein, under the guise of an anti-Nazi investigation, making a sharp attack on the Communists and all militant workers, that this be done, for example, by Jacob | Penken, now appointed Judge by | Mayor LaGuardia. The fact is that {these gentlemen are already, | through the New Leader and the | Jewish Daily Forward, competing | with the Hearst press in their at- | tack on all militant sections of the | labor movement, The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party is a combination of both what the LaFollette Progressive Party is | and what such a “Labor” Party, dominated by the Gormans and the Waldmans, would be. The workers and poor farmers of Minnesota party is the ruling party in place of the Republican Party. Nor would such a “Labor” party be changed in any way by receiv- ing the blessings of and support of the little grouplet around Love- stone that only besmirches the name of Communism by calling it- self the “Communist Opposition.” It would be much more correct | were they to call themselves “oppo- sition to Communism.” Such sup- port on the part of the Lovestone- ites would only be to carry over | the support they give to the Dubin- (skys and Gormans through the Zimmermans and Kellers into the “Labor” Party. A genuine Labor Party, consist- ing of all the trade unions, national and local, mass organizations of the unemployed, ete., who really carry on the struggle for the workers for wage increases, for the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill, for the 30-hour week without reduction in pay, for the needs of the farmers, for the rights of the Negro masses, for the right to organize, strike, etc., against the | growing menace of war and fas- cism, led by such militant elements in the trade unions as the leaders of the rank and file movement |among the steel workers, textile workers, miners, longshoremen, etc.. among whom there are militant workers who do not accept the Communist position all the way down the line as well as acknowl- edged Communists, but who carry on a serious fight against the at- tacks of the capitalists, as well as against their agents in the labor _movement—such a Labor Party :would he a real step forward, and placing Senator Wagner as U. S ; for such a Labor Party tho Com- | «munists will fight, the | p. m., A. Antilla and Donald Harris. | Gilbert, Jan. 19, at Workers’ Hall, | Children’s | have had their conditions improved | in no way by the fact that this | Meetings HailsExpulsion: OF C.P Of Zack by C.P. Party Membership in Meeting Repudiates Renegade’s Views AKRON, Ohio, Jan. 9.—A mem- bership meeting of the Communist Party section here hailed the ac- tion of the New York District in expelling Joseph Zack, repudiated Zack’s incorrect trade union line, and pledged themselves to build a fighting united front trade union movement under rank and file leadership in the rubber industry here. The following resolution ‘unanimously adopted: was Strugeon, Jan. 20, at Alango Hall,| “This membership meeting of 8 p. m., Arne Roine and Verna) Akron, having learned of the Haspala. |Shameful treachery of Joseph Zack Embarras, Jan. 19, at Farmers’|who has joined the counter-revo- lutionary clique of Trotskyites and is today in the camp of the rene- gades and is attacking the Commu- |nist Party, Communist Interna- tional and the outstanding leader of the world working class, Stalin; as well as slandering the working class of Germany and the glorious Soviet Union. We greet and en- |dorse the action of the New York District Committee in expelling this traitor from our ranks. “We members in Akron realize more than ever today that the struggle of the District, Committee against Zack and his incorrect trade union line was correct and we pledge to make a rapid and drastic change in our every day mass work which will result in building a fighting united front trade union movement under rank and ‘ile leadership in the rubber industry. “We support the Central Com- mittee and the District Committee in ridding our Party of all such degenerated counter-revolutionary jrenegades whose anti-working class line places them as the spearhead of the imperialist bandits in their latest assassination attempts against the leaders of the Soviet Union.” LL.D. Fights ie . 5 “Insurrection . . Y . Bill in Georgia ATLANTA, Ga. Jan. 9.—Local branches of the International Labor Defense have retained John H. Geer, |courageous Angelo Herndon defense |attorney, to appear before the | Georgia legislature to oppose the | enactment of a new Georgia sedi- | tion law. | The proposed law is sponsored by Solicitor-General John A. Boykin, {under whose direction the assistant solicitor, Reverend John Hudson, railroaded Angelo Herndon, heroic Negro leader of the working class to a sentence of 18 to 20 years on the Georgia chain gang. Solicitor Boykin declared that the | purpose of the proposed new law is “to put teeth in the Georgia In- surrection law.” The Insurrection law, passed before the Civil War in an attempt to suppress the insur- |}rectionary struggles of the Negro slaves, is now being used to put down struggles of Negro and white | workers for better living conditions. | Soltcitor Boykin has organized | the Men of Justice, and revived the Ku Klux Klan, both terrorist or- ganizations, to support the proposed law. The I. L. D. here is launching a wide campaign to defeat the new law which would be used to crush | the united struggles of Negro and | white workers here. | ent insurrection law will be attacked |in the Angelo Herndon case which is now before the U. S. Supreme | Court, Worker. 4 | The constitutionality of the pres- edition, mail in your order today. .IN CHIGAGO SET FOR SUNDAY New Efforts Made to Insure Large Turnout of Mass Organization Delegates—Six A. F, L, Locals Will Be Represented CHICAGO, Jan. 9.—A mobil zation of all forces in Chi- cago for a big turnout of delegates from all workers’ or ganizations to attend the workers’ united front election con- ference on Sunday, has been Commission of the Commur Workers Sing “International” In Courthouse ' (Special to the Daily Worker CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 9—A |crowded courtroom listened yester- jday to arguments at the hearing of the appeal on the contempt of court sentences against Yetta Land, |International Labor Defense |torney, and Davis, lawyer for Small Home Owners Association arising out of relief and eviction struggles here last April Mrs. Land was sentenced to ten |days in jail and costs for defending |the case of Mrs. Goodman whom Judge Green wanted adjudged in- sane for fighting for relief. Davis was fined $500 and costs for in- sisting during the Kollar ev: mn trial before Judge Bear that work- ers have the right to be present in court. The Appeal Court, consisting of | three out-of-town judges, was vis- |ibly impressed by the size of the crowd jamming even corridors while the defense outlined the un- |derlying class issue in the cases |The prosecution injected the Com- |munist issue, protesting against the International Labor Defense meth- ods of urging workers to be present in court to prevent frame-up of | their fellows. | The defense exposed the offensive developed against the unemployed workers, resulting in the slashing of relief, wholesale evictions, and fore- closures on the homes of smail home owners. The two attorneys the were victims of the hysterical hos- | tility of local judges, faced with the counter offensive of the workers, the defense declared. | Replying to the “Red” issue by | the prosecution, Davis stated “if it is an offense to fight for the hungry and _ oppressed, plead guilty to that offense.” At the adjournment of court, the | workers gathered in the corridors |and sang the Internationale. The court's decision has not been an- nounced yet. | New Onleane Club Aids In Scottsboro Defense I | NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 9. — The | New Orleans Agitators Club pledged its support to the defense of the | Scottsboro boys and sent a contri- jbution last week to the National | Scottsboro-Herndon Action Com- mittee, 2376 Seventh Avenue, New York City. | Under the signature of its presi- | dent, Paul Brown, the club sent a | letter of solidarity to the Scotts- | boro mothers, which states, in part: | “But let me cheerfully say, this ‘fight for freedom of these nine boys, is no longer the fight of nine | heart-broken mothers. But it has |become the direct challenze to | 15,000,000 Negroes of the United States. | “Today we are mailing our money | order of five dollars (35.00) as our initial fee in this fight. “We are yours for close coopera- ! tion.” Announcing case Hunger and Revolt Cartoons by BURCK ONLY 100 COPIES ORDER TODAY The price is $5.00 ordered by the City Election st Party. To date, six locals of the American Federation. of tas elected delegates, will be held at orthwestern Robert Minor report, outlin« the Commus electio: 's candida jam Hammersmark, City Treasurer Herbert Newton, City Clerk, is il following his pi eting activities against racial dise crimination. While all 34 aldermanic candi- dates nominated at workers’ united front conferences in the wards will be present, interest will be centered on the concentration candidates from the second, eighth and 21st wards. In the second ward, which has a large Negro population, the candidate is Brown Squire, Negro ex-serviceman who has been one of the leaders in the unemployed work in Chicago. This ward, incidentally, has made the best showing so far in mobilization for the city election. Workers’ Candidate Fired The candidate from the Eighth Ward, George Racz, American Fed- eration of Labor member, is the center of a struggle which has be- come city-wide. As soon as it was announced that he had been nom- inated at a workers’ conference, the Capitol Dairy, where he was em- ployed as a milk driver, fired him, Furthermore, the company withheld his bord of The workers, among whom very popular, are fighting now for his reinstate- ment A broad mass movement has de- veloped around Racz. At the con- ference which nominated him, there were more than 200 present from many workers’ organizations. Be- cause of this splendid support, it is possible that Racz can be elected to the City Council The third concentration candi- date, who will also be present at the conference Sunday, is Martin Miskerik, of the Twenty-first Ward. Miskerik is a member of the Inter- |netional Workers Order, the New | World Educational Association, and is the Communist Party. He is the announcer of the Slovak Radio Circle. | Prominent issues upon which in- | terest is being centered in the Chi- | cago campaign, are the building of |a subway, and workers, homes, hos- pitals, parks and playgrounds, all construction to be done by union labor at union wages, immediate winter relief, the right of the un- employed to organize, the stoppage of evictions, full equality of Ne- groes, and the transference of all war funds to unemployed relief | In the elections, the fight for the | immediate needs of the workers, as |outlined above, is inseparable from |the great fight which has to be | Waged against the ever-encroach- jment of fascism, of which Hearst | is an official spokesman. The forces | back of him, and aligned with him, are becoming emboldened in their attacks on the Communist Party. 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