The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1935, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. FRIDAY. JANUARY 11, 1935 World-Wide Groups Cite Death Peril in Rakosi Indictment (Unity Steps Show Charges Where wea Rae” Trial Subscriptions Against Leader Exterminator As k s Seab Ledger Editor THE PROBLEM OF A LABOR PARTY) Are Offered Readers m ‘Daily’ Campaign | Taken to Aid A U t ble NEWARK, N. J. Jan. 10 By JACK STACHEL ‘ro ‘special: trial -subecription {| Detroit Baker re ntena Charles Marshall, scab city editor m1. the strikers, ete. In the farming|as one of the participating organ-| or sections of it. Such problems | blreiy festa eared cd a | of the Newark Ledger, where ed- JN THE first two articles we dealt communities, many of the united | ‘zc‘ions, with the full rights to put| may, and undoubtedly will alto,|| fnres-aonth sarpalen ib gxtell| — itorial employees have been on with the questions of why we | front is that brought togeth o-werd its propozals on every issue| confront us locally. What shall we || 19999 new daily subscriptions | Inter - Party Conference Trial Jan. 14 Based on | Sttike for eight weeks, has had || yaise the Labor Party in a positive | organizations of workers and farm- and with all the participating or-|do in such situations? It is clear AL. 15. 000 ew Batndag eae || : embarrassing moments aplenty || manner at this time, and the char- | ers naturally took up the issues con- that we cannot advance the inter- ; | Acts of Hungarian as @ result of the militant picket er of such a Labor Party if it fronting the poor farmers. With ganizations and their membership | ests of the workers by merely sup- scriptions. To Map Defense in } t Jews r Gui finally deciding democratically on The first offer is a two-month T ee : Weta ale tee reper Culld || is to serve the interests of the work-|such a united front already estab-| al questions. But whether the| porting such proposals. Nor can qulsctiptinn (ncinging toe Gate | Murder Frame-Up Soviet Regime which take their stand befo ers. In this article we will deal| lished on one or more of these is-| Communist nroposals are accepted | we make our position clear by mere-|| Svan edition) for only $1. | —— - the plant nightly with the practical immediate steps | sues and taking into accord the y yan There are even more unpleas- that we should take in the work for position of the Democratic and Re- or rejected the Communist Party ly voting to reject such proposals. The second is a four-month DETROIT, 10.— The first | i} : 7 i | i | cripti = fie i formation unite! PARIS, Jan, 10, — The fact that | ant names for Strikebreakers |/ the building of a Labor Party. | publican parties. and politicians on |)¥"1.01 Lig eotbhacdtedeneirohot Ee eae ee ee Sone! |tront Epona anar the trial of Matthias Rakosi, Hun- || than the word “scal he tesa king over the situation at this | these issues, these masses naturally | ;, id r i i : ist : oa a * garian anti-fascist leader, is fixed || Mr. Marshall’s embarrassment, Loo! tii sake Cas | the masses not only within the La-| ception of the Labor Party. It is | Both offers are good only un- || Socialist Party and the Jewish: Bu for Jan. are based on paragraphs penal law involving the death sen- 14, and that the charges of the therefore, when a man presented himself in the city room of the Ledger recently prepared for time it nothing could be gained if we should, for example, call for the immediate looked for a way to express their demands in united manner also in the elections, with the result that bor Party, but among the masses gencrally, Because as we have al- ready said the Labor Party can clear, therefore, that the fight for | the genuine Labor Party is most |closely connected with the fight til May 1. | Daily Worker sellers and other || reau of the Communist Party to defeat the murder frame-up against i x who are || Morris Weiner. member of the t d in an appeal work in the presence of other een. OLS aor ere oe ned eerie ebay hehe bedi iis never be a substitute for the Com-| for genuine workers’ leadership in| ected tea Pine make || Jewish Bakers Union, Local 78, and Se een One| ated ees andi ald: to Miro ||peee os pee eer oer oe rae Ponticar eld jn the form. of) wunist Party. While the Labor| the mass organizations of the work-|| the most use of these offers. || the attempts of the bosses to smesh ek. aid Spaninun and née |{- Marshall yey Seg pence dere , per aes |Party has a program of immediate / ers. In taking up this question the|| Thousands of workers will be || the union, wore taken at a confer- Against War and Fascism and ot ¢ national scale can not become aj It would appear that along these) ds that are in the interests | Political Bureau points out that eager to take advantage of the || ence last Thursday night at the } ‘international organizations. - Em- Somepedy oer me 2 practical step before the next Pres-/|lines the most fruitful possibilities | "rnin tlhe white. it -waehen pseu sofinis i glnsae eatical ania Soastal sunEecHOReiErie raat eaontes Fe ae ane { the utter un- || come hei , - i i if it does, | for the immediate first steps in the oe Me = | i + re a # peep = = tenability of the indictment, the Ap-_|| Minato “company, Whete: are te wl be aly ay apt, of the | direction of the building Pot local | der present, conditions in the US.A.| for the struggle against the bu- || ter is properly placed before || men’s Circle. al states ; the xetate developments of local Labor Parties |labor parties. Without doubt these | to accelerate the breaking away of | reaucratic control of the mass || them. .,, ||, About 35 were present at the con= “i : iow in the meantime. What could a/ first steps and even the first|the masses from the capitalist par-| movement from above by the (These offers do not apply to | ference, representing the Jewish th emg ice ie peas Labor Party on a national scale, if experiences in such actions on ties and to unite them for inde-| right reformists who want to ex- || Manhattan and the Bronx in | Branch of the 8. P.. the Jewish Bu- Years ago for illegal revoluti y art: s “ x ‘s s s activities, the Hungarian juridicial authorities made no mention what- “ever of the monstrous charges now brought . Now, after nine years of silence, and after Rakosi has served his frightful sentence, he is accused as former People’s Commis- -sar for Social Production (successor to the office of Minister of Trade), of twenty-seven murders, of high treason and counterfeiting money. Farm Conference Unites ManyGroups (Continued from Page 1) of the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H.R, 2827). “T—The representatives of our organized at this moment, be? It would be either a Labor Party or- | ganized from the top by the labor bureaucrats which would, of course, be no real step forward, or it would be too narrow to really represent the wide masses that can with seri- ous work finally be rallied toward a Labor Party on a national scale. The starting point for our work must therefore be along two lines. First, general agitation and enlight- the political field will make clear to the participants the necessity to continue this activity, also after the | elections in the form of an organ- ized political force and the building | of a Labor Party. In many cases, of course, the Labor Party can and will be organized immediately, once | this question is properly taken up. | The Paterson Situation Let me cite an example of a sit- uation that seems ripe for either aj} pendent political class action, the Communist Party does not stop here, but tries to educate and or- | ganize the masses not only how best to fight for the immediate demands, but also for the abolition of capi- talism, which is possible only on the basis of the revolutionary program of the Communist Party. The fact that the Communist Party has such a program and at the same time en-| ergetically participates in the work pel the Communists and the revo- lutionary rank and file members | of the organizations.” | | Another problem that we will face | and which we must already face to- | day in some localities, is the exist- | ence of so-called “Labor” and} |“Farmer-Labor” parties who, | though based to a large extent on | the workers’ and farmers’ mass or- ganizations, in their program, lead- | New York). Condon Evidence Shows New Link (Continued from Page 1) reau of the C. P., and all. the branches of the Workmen's: Circle and the International Workers Order. After considerable discus- sion, the conference elected a com- mittee of seven, which will meet to- night in the same place to adopt concrete proposals for rallying -the support of the entire labor move- ment in defense of Weiner and the union. r i | ership, etc., are in reality not par-| involved in the crime. | Weiner has been framed up on Since it is impossible to construct me ogre coo aia aa enment as to the purpose and role united labor ticket or perhaps even | of the Labor Party, which is not 8 | ties in the interests of the masses, | Reilly drew trom Condon the ad-| a charge of having killed on Dec, 12 Fe ee ee ee at eee tumber and Rural Werkers,|of & Labor Party both locally anda local Labor Party. Take the city | revolutionary party as is the Com-| yp “appendages to the existing | mission, for example, that “the only Harry Haftka. son of Joseph Haftka, Rakosi personally, he is being made | tural, Lumber and Rural “r* nationally, and secondly, to under- | of Paterson for instance. There the | | responsible for everything which the counter-revolution of the large- Tandowners and the millionaires brings against the Soviet power of the workers: their legitimate self- | defense in the open struggle against the counter-revolution, the chang2s carried out on the bourgeois-land- owners constitution, and the issue of banknotes by the Hungarian So- viet government.” The appeal exposes the motives of the Gomboes government in seek- | ing to find fresh food for its fascis Washington, D. C., Jan. 8 and 9. agree to secure the immediate rati- fication of this united action pro- gram.” 38 Groups Represented The fifty-three delegates attend- ing the conference came from 20 real step forward in the separation | of the printers of the local news- | states and represented 38 organiza-| of the masses from the old parties | papers have already given a labor Fifty per cent were from|and into a Labor Party that is|and trade union consciousness to | tions. take the organization cf local labor | parties in those localities where the situation has become ripe for the building of a local Labor Party with & program, leadership, and mass following that would represent a textile workers and the textile dyers | |are for the first time organized. |The combined membership of the | textile unions is over 20,000 mem- bers. The organization of the tex- | tile workers, and the strike struggl groups of agricultural workers; 26|Pledged to and capable of fighting | the great mass of the workers in per cent, poor farmers; 19 per cent, tenant farmers and sharecroppers, and 5 per cent, lumber and fishery workers, for the immediate interests of the masses. The Local Problem But even locally the approach will |not always be just the immediate Paterson and won for the workers’ | {movement the support of other | | strata of the population who also! | suffer directly or indirectly from unemployment, taxation, high prices, | munist Party, also emphasizes first that the Communists at all times are concerned with the fight for) of the! the immediate interests workers and secondly that the Com- | munists know that only by gaining the support of the majority of the workers for the Communist program |can this program be realized. The Communist Party, for exam- ple in Paterson, and this holds good everywhere, would at the same time, while promoting the fight for the Labor Party at the same time take all measures to strengthen it- bourgeois parties.” Typical of this | situation is the Farmer-Labor Party | of Minnesota. What shall we do in | such a situation? It is clear that) if we ignore the existence of such a} party, we make it easier for the Ol-| sens to continue to betray the masses. We must organize the rank and file of trade unions and the farmers’ organizations, the unem- | ployed, etc., who constitute the bulk of the affiliated organizations and membership as well as the voters of the Farmer-Labor Party within the party to struggle for a class strug- reason” he had inserted an ad- yertisement to the kidnaper, in the Bronx Home News, instead of in the Associated or United Press, was | that he had wanted to come to the | defense of “Red” Johnson, who | worked on a yacht in nearby Long | Island Sound, and who, he said, he had never seen in his life. Con- | don also admitted that he had/ known on the night of the. kidnap- ing that Red Johnson telephoned Betty Gow, thus contradicting his previous statement that he had never heard of Johnson until after owner of a bakery at which the union has been conducting a strike, Thirty-one other union local lead- ers and members were arrested on charges of conspiracy to obstruct operation of a business and conspir- acy to extort. Samuel B. Keene is attorney for the union, All indications are that the kill- ing was engineered by rival bakery owners, who on a previous occasion planted a bomb in his place. Haft- ka had been engaged in a: price war with his competitors and had : been thrown out of the Master agitation, and to intimidate the| dF Protectiv 4 : bear "| self, to gain the influence among) pie program at least as far as the|the kidnaping. Johnson is now in | u out r masses of the discontented and re-| Association: International, Hed Carriers, |f0Tmation of a local Labor Party. Thanos eaters! Tights, etc. FUr-| the masses, to recruit to the Party, | fmnmatete tacues of the Workers eve | Norway. Coincident with Johnson's Bakere’ Association. | The bosses" bellious population, by making a Building and Common Laborers Union of | Very often the first step will take ermore, the growing activity o: | to convince the workers of the cor- sailing for England, Violet Sharpe, | #SSociation, which fougl ‘aftka al victim of Rakosi. It closes by call- America No. 763; Agricultural Workers’ Union of Ohio; Southern Tenant Parmers’ the natural form which was already expressed in many local elections in the fascist organization is creating ;@ real feeling for the need of soli- | rectness of the Party principles and concerned and for leadership that will represent the rank and file, and a maid in the home of Lindbergh's along. is, however, now using the ’. . - | occasion of the slaying to whip up 7 ing on the international working | union: Northeast Arkansas Central Coun- : ity . | tactics. tl 1: : + | father-in-law, Dwight Morrow, com- | oe M “elass to save Rakost by organizing | st Southern Tenant Farmers.” Union Werke ce Tabac sini “talent eepaciantysisias Tbaceeine “fon. |. What we have said above estab- ir thie fetneatce wll finally dake | titted suicide as pidge ae tcitnosede teint “Gnd i ‘ i istib ¢ | United F sl f Colorado; | Wor! ticket. s ers es uly | s ly take ice & secon & united and irresistible storm of woante “parmers’ Mollday. Association especially true for the smaller in-|scious of their strength. This is|!ishes the general approach that 38) pace cannot now be definitely | be questioned by po Protest. The appeal is signed by the World Committee against War and Fas- cism, the World Youth Committee, ‘the World's Student Committee, the Workers’ International Relief, the League against Imperialism and War, the International of Educa- tional Workers, revolutionary writ- ers and artists, the International | United Farmers’ Protective Association of Pennsylvania; Farm Holiday Association of San Juan Basin; New York Committee to Aid Agricultural Workers; Timber and Sawmill Workers’ Union Local No. 19021 Agricultural and Cannery Workers’ Indus- trial Union of New Jersey; United Farm- ers’ League of New Jersey; International Labor Defense of New Jersey; New Jersey Federation of Unemployed; Vineland Un- employment Council; Spencer Cooperative Society; Finnish Farmers’ Club of New York; Sea Food Workers of Biloxi, Missis- dustrial cities and towns, but may also be the case even in larger cities. We have had numerous examples of the development of the United | Workers Ticket, as for example, in Dearborn, Mich., in many towns in Southern Illinois, in Minnesota, etc. In these local united fronts in | expressed in the first place in the |rank and file movements in the | unions against the bureaucrats big | and small. | It also has raised in the minds |of many workers the need of a | party of labor. The bourgeois poli- | | ticians are preparing to utilize this needed now with regard to the local Labor Parties and the National La- bor Party. This does not, however, answer all the questions that will inevitably arise since we are not working with “{deal” conditions and since we are not working in vacuum, but rather the elections the local organizations | sentiment of the workers. Numer- | are surrounding with open and con- of the workers, the trade unions, | Ous lawyers and politicians are be- cealed enemies of the workers. in the situation | stated and without doubt the de- velopment will not be the same in each case, Finally it must be stated that the | building of the local Labor arties, | the work within the existing par- ties of the type of the Minnesota | Farmer-Labor Party for a genuine | | Labor Party can only be successful | to the extent that the Party pene- | time, after they found she had con- tradicted herself as to her where- abouts on the night of the kidnap- ing when the police first questioned her. Ollie Whateley, Lindbergh’s butler, died of blood-poisoning, his body never being given an autopsy; Mrs. Whateley, his widow, went to England, and Betty Gow, the Lind- bergh nursemaid, went to Scotland. | | destroy the union. Pittsburgh Report Incorrect PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 10.—Due to.an erroneous report brought to the Daily Worker, it was announced in the Dec. 17 issue of the “Daily” that the Socialist Party branch New Kensington had ¢lected two dele- ; . “Doe” sur= Release Committee for Thaelmann, | sippi; United States Native Born ‘citizens | Unemployed organizations, the Com~ ginning to attach themselves to the | For Genuine Workers’ Leadership | 11° Det oct uarilentio Corte soon ago HE at Congtee tn Wein a an Torgler, and all anti-fascist prison- 4580ciation of Tex American League munist Part., in some cases the labor unions through the labor bu-| In the first place such questions Porat atid Pamneed ara iy tha mek | Dr. on a ais _ mat d tha’ nave erat Bers Shee pp a rs, as well as by many other or- | Against, War Ee peg ans ec locals of the Socialist Party joined | reaucrats for the purpose of divert- | will arise as for example the bring- piace thecAr FF of Le trade unions: is familiarly ees le rate oc Led iy | Elie: Hteady Growveneor the? united \ ganizations. 3 é Perens cll ee Denstic ve: Unites | together on a program which ex-|ing the sentiment of the workers ing forward of resolutions for the . F. z | intimate friends. It had previously steady p s unite Farmers’ Protective Association of New Jersey; Sharecroppers’ Union of Alabama pressed the immediate issues on which these organizations had al- |for a party of the laboring masses | |into safe channels. Here we have building of a Labor Party. at the A. F. of L, convention, at the con- | establish its positions within these | | organizations. The key to the suc- been established that Hauptmann | had cried “Hey Doc” when he tried front in the Pittsburgh.” This item was incorrect. The So- : % 5 ion. | cessful struggle this field is, ' ial i i > ® Polk County, Arkansas ‘Relief League s; ji | ij tion- | cessful struggle on + | to attract Condon’s attention at the | cialist Party of New Kensington did A 1S ric United Parmers’ League of Danielson. Tey established a united front. x : oe made to order for the | ventions of the various hana therefore, as emphasized already by| gates of the Bronx cemetery, wheré| not elect delegates to the Wass . Conn.; Workingmen Union of the World e issues were of varied char- | building of a local Labor Party, the | al unions and other organizations. : ig Oklahoma; United Farmers’ League of| acter such as the fight for unem- | first step of which may take the| As we have seen in the past, such| ‘thé Sixth World Congress of the | the $50,000 ransom money changed | ington rally. There has been some . Bisbon, (\nn.; United Citrous Workers of | ployed relief and unemployment in-| form of a united workers’ ticket. proposals will also come from those | pea eck and bier seen | hands. This onder zolend | Progress towards the united front (i S on 1 bitesge lm egg ime orgy digger ES workers rights, the struggle | Paterson is, however, no exception. | elements who are trying to organ- | Ce”! An Heveles seh ent ot ee eer UAL giochi ny " en Cea | in Pittsburgh district, but this is Canton, Ul; Farmers’ Cooperative Asso- | a&ainst war and fascism, against the | Tt is typical of many larger and| ize either a “popular” or “progres- | °€S*! sgt os | had stated that when he teleph entirely unofficial, and confined to (Continued from Page 1) Coatesville, Pa., were represented. These lodges are: Baltimore Lodges ciation of New York Mills, Minnesota; U. 8. Cooperative Business Service Sy tem; Farmers’ and Agricultural Workers’ Union of Florida; Farmers’ National Weekly. criminal syndicalist laws, for the freedom of Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro boys and, of course, is- | }Sues connected with the strike struggles, such as the right to strike, | Smaller communities where a similar | | Situation exists. No Substitute for C. P. | Naturally, within such a united sive’ party under the label of “la- bor” party, or a “Labor” Party of the type we spoke about above— namely, one dominated by the re- the trade unions, the carrying | through of our tasks in the trade | unions on the basis of the struggle |on two fronts—against sectarians Lindbergh at Hopewell to tell him that he had contacted the kid- napers, he didn’t use the telephone in his own home but had used an outside telephone so that his “family below, the Socialist Party -leaders having refused to enter into con- versations with the. Communist Party on united front questions, | and right opportunism. SEE SET, E Okey O'Dell, leader of the strike r D workers ticket, or local Labor Party | actionary A. F. of L, bureaucracy | . ” 10, 3. 1B And 14; Chester, 172) | of the Ohio onion pickers last sum-|88inst injunctions, solidarity for | the Communist Party will function | and assisted by the Socialist, Party | CEND.) hapa Sh dP SRR 180; Bethlehem, Pa.) Lodge 192. ™é%. called the conference to order. 5 : Tees ee ree e, | when he first contacted Hauptmann 3 Mor C Ar LY Held ‘The Chester lodge, in addition to| National Committee Set Up its six regular delegates, brought a bus load of their members to the conference. The National Congress for Un- employment Insurance, which last ~Monday concluded a three-day ses- Sion in Washington, D. C., has : Spurred the endorsement of the | Workers’ Bill in the local unions | Of the American Federation of La- | .bor. To date, the reports at the Congress showed, about 3,000 A. F.| _of L. unions have endorsed the Workers’ Bill. = A restaurant keeper in Baltimore = Tefused to feed the Negro and The conference established the National Committee for Unity of the Agricultural and Rural Workers for the purpose of uniting on a trade union basis all the agricul- tural workers. This committee is empowered by the conference “to work toward the building of one na- tion-wide union of all agricultural and rural workers. The Commit- tee shall work with all existing or- ganizations in order to unite our forces in a common struggle against the present conditions of starvation levels, unemployment and insecur- ity, and shall seek to further the An outstanding speech at the | National Congress for Unemploy- | ment Insurance, held in Wash- ington Jan, 5-7, was that of T. | Arnold Hill, president of the Na- tional Urban League and well- | known leader among Negroes. | Hill was elected as treasurer of | the National Action Committee Urban League Preside Must Protect Negroes A tion of the United States consti- | tutes our most handicapped group— that portion of our working masses with least job security and most in | need of unemployment insurance, If there is anyone present to whom this news has not yet penetrated, | I should be glad to supply him with nt Says Social Insurance gainst Discrimination which has received such favorable attention from the President's com- mittee, completely fails to accord this protection. So with the Wag- ner-Lewis Bill of the past Congress, the “Ohio Plan,” and most of the other proposals which have been submitted in the past for scrutiny educational funds from the United States government, and then cheats its Negro children of 75 per cent of their share, does this not prove what it would do with funds re- ceived from that same government as unemployment insurance, at the cemetery the defendant had run away from him in fear of a policeman whom he saw coming up, and that he (Condon), for all his 74 years and his decrepit form, had chased Hauptmann, who was un- usually athletic and in his thirties, until he “got him” and held on to | him, Keller Lies in | Desperate Vote Bid By State Militia (Continued -from Page 1) statement signed by John Fowler, chairman of the board of directors of the company, the strikers are of- fered arbitration as a means of settling the strike, which began following an announcement of a ten per cent wage cut. Although at Rossville, which is on the Georgia side of the state line, three or more people gath- Me ne fee a a and purposes outlined in this] fotmed' by the ‘Congress, The | #dedtate proof of my assertion. of Congressional Committees. It is Pas Pi haseeg oH Spd fat inactive | (Continued from Page 1) cred together are considered | & | : “A. . ‘am and appeal.” | 3 Even when he leaves out entirely |difficult to understand the eco- : A “crowd” and suppressed, at the ts Epassea a Hes orl pone ea es Serpe Program empowers| Speech follows: |the question of racial identity, the | nomic logic of a plan which deems |PPcticed in the school system | out the splitting tacties of reaction- | other mills. whieh are’ on the } and sent a delegation to the res-| ‘taurant to protest. Later, the en-| ire conference delegation went to , to a different restaurant and forced | the restaurant keeper to feed the | Negro and white delegates to-| “gether. The regular meetings of the Uni- ted Sheet and Tin Mill Lodge of Baltimore, which includes the Spar- | t ‘tows Point workers, are held every E 7 Saturday morning at 10:30 o'clock ‘ *-at 4718 Eastern Avenue. All work- «ers have been asked to attend. i Fascists Raid Office : Of London DailyWorker LONDON, Jan. 10.—Five fascist thugs made a raid recently on the = Daily Worker printerg here late at 7 night, when almost all the staff had | * gone home. The two workers found | there, one a cripple, were badly | beaten up and heavy fire extin-| guishers hurled at them, which the} magisirate admitted yesterday at | ~: their trial might have killed them +:if they had found their mark. One was sentenced to two months, | < one to one month and one to 14 days imprisonment. Another was + suspended, and the fifth was found! = not guilty. Three of them admitted | membership of the British Union | of Fascists. They stated in their * defense that they had been in- s;censed by the Daily Worker articles | on the royal wedding. | st Dok Heh Lh DA BIER ESD Bet BEDE OP Committee to work with all organizations in the agri- cultural and rural communities of the United States for the purpose of developing as soon as possible one united union of agricultural and rural workers, to work in the closest cooperation with all unions and organizations of the organized industrial workers, and obtain the Support of the existing trade union, unemployed and farm groups. To Unify Groups Tt is further authorized to assist and work in aiding the existing or- | Sanizations of agricultural and rural | workers to develop nation-wide sup- Port and action in present struggles, and to rally the workers through- out the country in the support of the existing unions for defense and relief, and to further the work of developing organization by initiat- ing national campaigns for imme- diate economic needs, Further provision is made for the cooperation with all existing organ- izations to initiate the holding of crop regional and state conferences of agricultural workers for the pur- Pose of obtaining effective trade union unity through the develop- ment of local action and state com- mittees, Final plans for the calling of a national convention of the agricul- tural workers within a year of the present conference will be made by the National Committee. Spain Gets Protests In discussing the need of the Ne- | gro worker for unemployment in- surance, I am not solely and self- |ishly concerned with the interests | of the 5,000,000 employables of the | Negro race. I am equally concerned | for the remaining millions of Amer- | ica’s working masses—whether black | or white, brown or yellow—who | labor in despair on the insecure | fringe of our modern industrial em- ployment system. I speak for the unskilled millions of America’s workers, those toilers classed as “marginal labor” who by | the very nature of their employ- | ment are the first sufferers when |a financial depression or tech- nological innovation causes consid- erable displacement of labor. For these, Negro and white alike, I presume to criticize as wholly in- adequate most of the legislation which has been considered by the President's Committee on Economic Security under the name of unem- ployment insurance. These tenta- tive proposals have been. dignified by the name of a social security program. I should like, however, to remind the members of that | committee, as well as members of | the 74th Congress that no program which pretends to offer social | security to the masses is worthy of | serious consideration unless it guar- /antees first of all a greater degree of security to those workers who are least secure. Ruthless Suppression of Negroes This is not a sentimental state- |ment based on racial sympathies. mere fact that Negroes are com- | posed almost entirely of unskilled | or semi-skilled workers is enough to | impress us with the desperate na- | ture of their economic plight. When. | we realize, moreover, that over 50 per cent of all Negro workers are engaged in farm labor or domestic work, and that these are the na- tion's lowest paid occupations, then we realize the starvation level to which black workers are confined because of the jobs which they hold. All this is impressive enough, but add to it the handicap of bitter and relentless race prejudice aimed at the Negro worker from the time that he dons overalls as a gangling youth until he drops the shovel or hammer from his hands as a tired old man. It is not merely the stupid and petty form of prejudice which expresses itself in the form“of an insult and minor discrimination. It is a carefully planned program on the part of employers to use black workers as a pawn with which to defeat Labor's unity so that bosses may bargain more successfully with both white and black workers, On the other hand, the majority of labor unions in the country have been equally ruthless in their atti- tude toward Negro workers, shut- ting them out from certain occupa- tions entirely and exploiting them in others. The result has been that the Negro found the hands of both employers and _ fellow-workers turned against him. He has been unemployment insurance a_ vital necessity for a machinist who makes fifty to sixty dollars a week while working, but which makes no pro- vision at all for the leborer or household drudge who makes no more than sixty dollars in three months! ‘Who needs employment insurance more than a black field hand on a Southern farm who has no earthly hope of doing anything else than farm work if he should happen to lose his job? Why dignify with the name of “Social Security” this legislation which ignores completely the hard working widowed mother of five or six children, who toils on a kitchen floor for a miserable eight or ten dollars a week, even in “prosperous times’? From the Negro masses and from allother marginal labor of America there should come tremendous and glamorous support for real unem- ployment insurance to be provided by the 74th Congress—a bill that will include all labor, ‘industrial, domestic and professional.” Those of us who have witnessed the gross abuse of A. A. A. when it affects the Negro farmer in the South know well how unsatisfactory employer- management would be if it alone administered unemployment insur- ance. Many a government check for crop reduction intended for a share-cropper has been deliberately confiscated by the landlord. What assurance have we that “private plans” for unemployment insurance throughout the land, on the relief lists, both North and South, and at the polls in many states, is there any reason to suppose that Wash- ington will champion the cause of the unemployed black worker when it comes to administering insurance to him? Such a_ supposition is optimism entirely unsupported by past precedent. This is not merely the Negro worker's affair, even considering the racial angle. Enlightened leader- ship in organized labor has long since realized that a differential in wages based on race is a fatal blow at the interests of all labor. The color line in industry furnishes em- Pployers with the first starting wedge to split labor solidarity. The same thing is true of unemployment benefits. If organized labor is to have in the future what it recog- nizes as essential today—the whole- hearted support of black workers— then the risks of unemployment for Negroes must be no greater than those for whites. Compensation for the black jobless must be equal to compensation for whites; chances of re-employment must be likewise equal, Nazis Hold Socialists Lured into Germany Across Saar Border (Special to the Daily Worker) ary union officials and that it is necessary to develop a united front of the membership. Ignores Real Issues The statement, which was re- printed in the paper of the Love- stone group, does not contain a word of criticism against the Gor- man betrayal in the general textile strike, but promises a policy of ex- pulsion of former members of the National Textile Workers Union, in line with William Green’s letter. Representatives of the rank and file group in the union declared that the workers should especially notice that the leaflet carefully ignores the issues which have aroused the membership of the union recently, and particularly the recent agreement Keller negotiated which was rejected by the workers. Keller and his group would not dare to conduct their campaign on the basis of such issues, and therefore drag in as much confusion as pos- sible out of which they hope to be able to retain their jobs. The following is the rank and file slate! 1—Louis Valgo; 4—Edward So- chan; 5—Millie Delveccio; 6—Alec Phillian; 7—Sarkes Phillian; 9—! Joseph Brooks; 10—Sarah Berlin- sky; 11—Sam Seber; 13—Bob Apel; 15—Joseph Sozanie; 22—Sam Do- | nayan; 26—Carlo De Nicola; 26— Henry Stutz; 30—Al Van Vianderen; 39—Elias Hajjar. Voting will be at Union Hall 71 Washington St., and will continue from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tennessee side of the line large Picket lines are maintained. Alarmed at the increasing num- ber of strikes in southern hosiery mills, Earl Constantine, Managing Director of the National Associa- tion of Hosiery Manufacturers who are here for a conference declared that if the “local law enforcement agencies do not prove more effect- ive in suppressing strikes, hosiery mills will be moving away from the Chattanooga region.” _ “Chatanooga has the distinction so far as the industry is concerned during the strike of September 1934, of being the only community in the United States where the so-called local Jaw enforcement agencies evidently misunderstood. their func tions and allowed active disturbing minorities to prevent satisfied me- jorities from continuing their em= ployment. Whenever any commus nity reaches this level it is always time for it to take stock of itself and rearrange house.” Constantine stated that out of a dozen hosiery plants in Chattanooga two have taken steps to move to other regicns. Most of these plants have established themselyes in Chattanooga in an attempt to ese cape unionization in the North, Nazis in Saar Default On Plebiscite Challenge SAARBRUECKEN, Jan. 10.—The ‘4 The magistrate, in passing sen- | On Death Se It is the established viewpoint of | forced out on the borderline of |—or state-managed plans—will not| SAARBRUECKEN, Jan. 10 (By SAAR WOMEN PROTEST editorial board .of the Deutsche | Jitence, could not let the opportunity | Sentences |1 is economists, sociologists, and | economic existence. He is more | be abused in the same fashion to | Wireless).—Inveigled by a ruse to beirapini peta anh Pate los-tbe Front, the fasctl organ in Saar. c pass of expressing his disapproba- (Special to the Dally Worker) | Professional social workers. Just as | than the marginal worker; he is the | provide merely another method of | enter German territory, Ernst ipo} Maun pend Pane eae an ic) . fered 100,000 _ =) tion of the Daily Worker. Holding &/ MADRID. Jan. 10 (By Wireless). | we may test a chain's strength by | “marginal of the marginal work- | robbing black and defenseless labor? | Braun, Secretary of the Young So- aia Ascamualion of the tant ‘ed ables couuld prove __-; Sopy of the paper in his hand, he! —The fascist government of Spain examining its weakest link, so we |ers.” I repeat, no program of legis- Washington's Discrimination _| cialists of the Saar, and an anti- | ¥O™ . t ieee ware lait is eign: plebiscite was pose i eS ‘this Dae ne, | \s receiving numerous protests from may evaluate the true worth of a/ lation which pretends to offer eco-| the Negro worker has had his fascist worker named Bartsch were | People’s Front. Resol Sif now refused to pay the cartoon Toyal wed- he described as “this gross, | one-fourth of the count th Ernst Heinrich Bart! 1 delivering the fascists @ sermon | widest: protest campaign can save | ments within its population. vision to protect the least secure.| Precious “heritage of try today the | youth delegations were refused ac- fe eae is ss Siete ae ee ae jegal proceeds evil of taking the lew into | their lives, it is declare. |_I am not bringing any startling | Negroes Should Support H.R. 2827 | withheld from black citizens by | °¢88 to the victims. : owindlers, and ‘nae siailigd ands, however muc! e torturing of the Socialist | new information to this conference, From the standpoint of the farm | state governments, with the Fed- It is stron; feared that th Get eeting from friend mans disapproved, and rightly, of | journalist, Kavier Bueno by the fas- nor exposing any secrets of state |laborer and the domestic worker, eral government maintaining silent | are being ited or have pont today at peo Daily Worker's fe ee joo ie ee publication in question, cists was confirmed this afternoon, | when I say that the Negro popula-|the so-called “Wisconsin Law,” | acquiescence, If a state collects! killed, | Elevents ae Front, ry | other countries against the death sentence of twenty-five Austrian libel.” He concluded | revolutionary workers. Only the | government’s social welfare pro- gram by considering its effect upon | the weakest and most needy ele- nomic security can be termed any- thing other than rank hypocrisy which does not make some pro- fill of state-administration of his citizenship rights and privileges. In * seized yesterday by Nazis and thrown into the Waldmoor prison. The prisoners’ mothers and two adopted protesting against the ar- rest and extradition of Heinz Neu- mann and against the arrest of sum although the possibility of an« other plebiscite later is now univers sally acknowledged. Therefore an sible editor of the Deutsche