The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1935, Page 2

Sud a~ Page 2 DAILY WORKER NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1935 ‘Jer DECISION ON SCOTTSBORO IS VICTORY FOR NEGRO PEOPLE Gains Are Won In the Arena Of Class Fight “Two-Fisted L Po licy of Mass Defense Proved to Be Correct By ANNA DAMON (Acting National Secretary, I. L. D.) In the decision of tt U ed States Supreme Court to review the cases of Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, Scottsboro boys, the Interfiational Labor Defense, the whole working class and Negro liberation movement can record & very important partial victory. This latest success, announced Jan, 7, 1935, is one of a series of four gains of recent months on the defense front under the leadership 6f the LL.D. which have brought ~Beforé the U. S. Supréme Court two major defense cases of broadest implications. These are the Scotts- ‘boro and Herndon cases. The first of these successes was the freeing, on August 4, 1934, of Angelo Herndon, heroic young Ne- @ro leader of black and white un- employéd, on $15,000 cash bail raised by mass subscription. Next came the stay of execution for Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, from Dec. 7 to Feb. 8, wrung from the State Supreme Court of Alabama This was followed by the acceptance ~-of the U. 8. Supreme Court of the appeal in the Herndon case, date for the hearing of which has not “yet been sét. With the Jan. 7 décision, the ground was cleared of the legal barriers with which the “court of last illusions” surrounds itself, and the struggle has now be- ~-gun to force that court to reverse the lynch decisions against Hern- don, Patterson and Norris. Won by Class Struggle These succésses have been won On a Class battle-front that ex- tended from corner to corner of the United States. The struggle “around the Scottsboro case in the United States was carried on in the ~ fight for the freedom of literally thousands of strikers, unemployed, poor farmers, and anti-fascists ar- rested throughout the country, in the fight against lynching, and for national liberation of the Negro peoplé—a battle which has itself re- éived a trémendots impetus from the Scottsboro and Herndon cam- paigns. The fight for Scottsboro and “*Herndon cannot be divorced from the fight for the freedom of Tom “Mooney, a struggle into which mil- Tiofs of trade unionists and others have been. drawn, into which, “through its link with Scottsboro, thousands of Negro people have ~béen brought through an wunder- standing of the fundamental issues involved in both cases. The struggle cannot be separated from the fight against criminal syn- ‘dicalism charges and laws, now raging country-wide, in which on the same Jan. 7 which brought the Supreme Court decision on the writ of certiotari in the Scottsboro case, | «was recorded the victory of the freeing of 15 unemployed leaders facing life-terms in jail on criminal “ syndicalism and “treason” charges °° in Hillsboro, Mlinois. These strug- vo gles have been definitely linked - through the International . Defense, which has bound . thousands of defense cases through- out the country into a broad com- +. Ton front of struggle, each case strengthening every other, Policies Proved Correct The series of partial victories in the Scottsboro and Herndon cases, aa ty . 31 ment of workers’ defense, prove once again the correctness of the Policies followed by the Interna- * tional Labor Defense—the two- the best available legal defense. It is the best answer that can be given to the enemies of the Scotts- boro boys, Leibowitz, his cohorts among the Negro reformists, led by Dr. George E. Haynes and Williarn ereretrs ys News,” the editors of the “Nation,” =: and the leadership of the National Coloretl People. Role of Workers’ Press Only the working class and revo- lutionary press, together with some portion of the Negro press, stood by the Scottsboro boys and their defenders without wavering. The “Daily Worker” organ of the Com- munist Party, the “Negro Libera- | tor,” organ of the League of Strug- a A | LL.D. together with the revolution- ary press, became the only medium through which the Scottsboro boys’ defense could find expression. These alignments of the agita- , tional forces were not only the sur- =| facé indications of the political gnments which underlay them, the coordinated reactionary front of the New Deal of lynching, mis- seameeree seeaue eens 4) ery, and terror which stood opposed Heights are refusing to starve and/ and Particularly among Socialist }| to the united front of working class *: and Negro liberation forces for the &) lives and freedom of the Scottsboro ) Boys. They formed a powerful of- 4) fensive weapon on the strength of which the lynchers throughout the South, thinking they saw a weak- ening of the Scottsboro defense forces, launched a new and fiercer wave of terror against white and Negro workers. The I.L.D. met these attacks 3) boldly, and marching forward = steadily with its legal steps in =| which Osmond K. Fraenkel and 3. Walter H. Pollak, constitutional authorities, the latter the same * lawyer who prepared the legal pap- @rs and conducted the argument in the first successful U. S. Supreme Court appeal in the case in 1934, | wete retained, proceeded along the | road that history had set for it, of ‘ organizing the broadest a rai ra . > a » 2 : and especially this latest achieve- - fisted policy of mass defense plus! gle for Negro Rights, and the “La- | bor Defender,” official organ of the | united, Thé symposium front in defense of the a The Ma —and His 1934 Actions Broke Strikes, Assailed rights that the plumed knient of Restored City’s Credit Soviet Friends Nail Unemployed in First Year of Fusion By Simon W. Gerson bia (This is the second of a series of articles on the first year of the Fusion administration in New York City.) UST how did the “progressive” Mayor LaGuardia carry out his pledges — particularly to the great masses of the city, thé workers, the j unemployed, the small home-own- er? We have already seen what La-| Guardia's “non-political” appoint- ments were—the crafty placing of people into the apparatus in such a way as to broaden the social base | of Fiorello LaGuardia and thus create a more powerful springboard for that much-desired leap into the | arena of national politics. LaGuardia’s pledges to the labor movement—it can best be said that) | they were apparently kept, actually broken. The detailed story of the gréat taxi strike, the food workers walkout and the building service men’s situation give vivid testimony to the shattered pledges of La- Guardia. In the strike of the bitterly-ex- ploited cab drivers, for years a prey to the Morgan-controlled General Motors and other companies as well as to local racketeers and police harrassment, LaGuardia maneuver- ed craftily until the men were sent back to work, their ranks divided and with practically no gains except a clearer knowledge of the Little Despot of City Hall. The Banker-LaGuardia Act For days the town was agog while LaGuardia conducted a sham battle against his police chief, O’Ryan. In the meantime the well-known arbi- tration stunt was dragged out. All the while, thé Mayor's close per- sonal friend, the Socialist leader, | Jacob Panken, was working to split the drivers’ organization and isolate the militant and incorruptible lead- | ers. Finally, the administration “eracked-down” on the men—in & most literal sense—while within the union the disrupters were doing their cleverest. The net effect is well known: the strikers had to sound the retreat. Soon after the strike a number of the most militant drivers had their hack licenses revoked by the City. Score |one for LaGuardia. The food workers strike saw a repetition of many of the essential characteristics of the taxi drivers walkout. The police were extremely | liberal with the club treatment. By the time of the building sery- ice strike, the Mayor already had | hit his real stride in arbitration | trickery. Mouthing loudly about the |health of apartment dwellers who would have to walk instead of ride | the elevators, LaGuardia virtually “forbade the strike.” On November | |19 he said: “The public is now concerned. | The safety and comfort of residents | ‘of apartment houses requiring ele- | | vator service are at stake. | “Péople living in apartment Labot| houses over six stories cannot be | publicly, very publicly, sneered at by| = the | Jeft with uncertainty as to whether | His Honor—but they seemed to have they will ride or walk. “T shall insist that these differ- | ences be immediately submitted to | | arbitration.” | | They were. The building service men went back... . without the closed shop. But it was in the matter of civil Mass Meeting Jan. 25 , To Score Hearst Lies Leading intellectuals and wntiee will expose the vicious anti-Soviet | |lies of the Hearst and White Guard | | Press when Corliss Lamont, Anna | Louise Strong and James Water- | man Wise speak at a mass meeting | H. (Kid) Davis of the “Amsterdam | Friday, Jan. 25. The place is yet) «atiantis,” to be announced. |_ According to the Friends of the | Association for the Advancemént of | Soviet Union, sponsors of the mags | Soviet Union. |meeting, this will be the opening | |gun in another battle against the | |White Guard and Fascist forces | | that are always conspiring against | | the Soviet Union. | | Corona Groups Demand | | Food Station of Mayor Militant demands that the city | administration open up a food sta- | tion at 108th Street and Corona | Avenue where milk, food, clothing | |and coal could be distributed were | ‘sent to the Mayor yesterday by the | | workers of Corona Heights in ae | Island. Under the leadership of the Ital- | ian Workers Center of 102-44 43rd | Avenue, the workers of Corona | stay without fuel or clothing while | profits grow greater. Symposium Will Discuss. ‘Fascist Front in Dixie’ | ONE | A symposium, “Fascist Front in| | Dixie,” will be held at the Civic Repertory Theatre, Sunday, Jan. 20, | with the following speakers: John | Howard Lawson, Roger Baldwin, | Gracé Lumpkin, Ben Davis, and | Broadus Mitchel, prominent Social- | ist from Maryland, | The symposium will cover trade | union and civil rights and liberties | in the south; who and what is be- hind such fascist organizations as | the Green Dragons, Men of Justice, | | KKK, etc. is under the} auspices of the All Southern Gom- | mittee and the Labor Defender, | | Nortis - LaGuardia Anti-Injunction | | tlemén of the financial distriét don’t | | Greek capitalist papers in this Fusion showed his real colors. Then and Now Things were not always thus. The memory of man runneth back to December 1931, a time when the whole country was a turbulent sea of struggles of the unemployed for the right to live. A group of htitiger marchers were in Washington, har- assed and voxed by thé police and stoolpigeons of the nation’s capitol. The newspapéts almost | frothed in type at the audacity of | these unemployed. No lie was too filthy to peddle as long as it would | setve to discredit the fighting job- | less. But lo! All was not yet. darkness and despair. In the very bosom of the government there arose an up- standing young Congressman who spake thus in thunderotis tones: “The unemployment situation is not to be solved by a policeman’s night stick, That is exactly the way it must riot be handled. We must cure the existing evils.” As if in answer to those who shouted that the unemployed were | an outlaw band who had no right | | to be at the gates of Congress, this | knight, resplendent in the shifiing | armor of a champion of the péople, continued : | “The reception of a petition should not be made difficult . . . and when any citizen, whether in- dividually or in small or large groups, acts in an orderly man- ner there should be not obstacle placed in the way of prompt and | courteous reception of any protest or petition.” | But on Oct. 27 when an unem-| ployed delegation of exactly nine people—two of them women—ap- | peared at City Hall, there were! exactly 555 uniformed policemen there, besides plainclothesmen, to tell the delegation that the Mayor | had ducked out about an hour be- fore they came and would not ac- cord them a reception, courteous or | otherwise! | Delegations of workers and other tax-payers havé found through bit- | ter experience exactly what a La/ Guardia reception of a petition means. Injunctions have been declared} against strikes time and time again | in the yéar 1934 in the city of which | Fiorello LaGuardia is Chief Magis- trate. In how many cases has hé intervened in favor of the strikers? | How often has the co-author of the Act seen fit to make any public | criticism of injunctions issued in his own backyard? | Scant attention has been paid to the middle class home-owner of Queens, who was promised a reduc- tion in exorbitant water rates. The water rates still stand as prior to Fusion—and will probably continue | to so stand until the small home-| owners organize and make their | pressure felt at City Hall. | Keeping the Faith | But there were pledges that the Little Flower did not break. He promised the bankers “cheaper gov- | ernment” and a reconstruction of thé city’s credit. The worthy gen- | cast many votes—they may even be | @ peculiar influence with him. Pledges to them were kept with a touching fidelity. An economy program was insti- tuted early in the year and driven |tight into the mold of the 1935 | budget. Payless furloughs for teach- ers, the cutting of essential social Anti-Fascists to Mass At Offices of Greek | Paper At Noon Today The Greek Anti-Fascist Commit- tee will hold a demonstration. this | noon, 12:15 p. m., in front of the offices of the pro-fascist paper to protest its slandéts | against. militant Greek workers in this country and its attacks on the The committee has appealed to all American workers, and par- ticularly the Furriers and Food workers, to support the action. The country, the committee points out By Paying Bankers at | Expense of Masses | services, firing of téfement house | inspectors—these were the chief | methods by which Fusion econom- | ized. “The city’s credit was put in| order.” The bankers drew long sighs of relief. They weré assured of every nickel. While great nations suspended | payments of debts, LaGuardia re- fused to consider the proposal of the Communist Party fer a mora- torium on the huge debt service due the bankers in 1935. Cooly and de- Aimed at USSR In London Slanders Emanating from Warsaw (Special t6 the Baily worker) LONDON, Jan. 13 (By Wireless). | —The anti-Soviet campaign of Slander, which had recently spread | to a wide extent in the British bourgédis press, has met with a number of conspicuous defeats. The Daily Express, dié-hard ¢on- servative sheet, récentiy publishéd a “telegtam from its Warsaw cor- respondent” coricerning “gréat anti- | Boston Store workers, begun |No provision for unién récognition semitic activities” allegedly ocur- | or guarantee against discrimination | |ring in Moscow and Leningrad. | appear in the settlement. Thé liberately, he set aside $179,000,000 | This base fabrication, as is weéll- | strikers were demanding higher out of the budget in order to pay | known, passed to the pages of a| wages, better working conditions the bankers. The Communist Position At the time that the 1935 budget was béing prepared, the Daily | Wofker attacked it editorially as a class budget, one wéightéd ih the interests of the bankers. The Daily Worker said, for instanée, on Octo- ber 8, 1934: “Approximately $500,000 a day will be given the Wail Street bankers of New York from the city tfeasury during the next year, according to the budget proposed by Mayor LaGuardia last week. | “The great liberal, Fiorello La Guardia, ... is again seen through | the maze of budget figures in his number of other anti-Soviet news- papers outsidé of England. | The Society of the Friends of the | U.S.S.R. addressed a letter to thé editing offices of the Daily Express, exposing the falsity of the charge. In their letter the Sosiety of the Friends of the US.S.R. cites the |comments of the correspondents of | bourgeois newspapers, whiéh deny the slandérs of thé Daily Express. The Society expressés its réddifiess | immédiately to pay $250 if the Daily | Express prodticed proof of its anti- | Soviet report. In case of the con- trary the Society démands the pub- lication of a denial of its anti- Soviet lie. The Daiy Express, its mouth filled | with water, remained silént regard- true light—as a defender of the ling the receipt of 4 challenge from bankers and the whinterrupted flow of gold into their coffers, | even as O’Brien and Walker be- fore him. The $179,416,853.52, which the bankers will receive as their debt service is almost one- | third of the city budget for next year! . .. | “All this lends especial point to | the demands of the Communist Party in the forthcoming elec- tions—a moratorium on the débt Service and the tutning over of | these funds for unemployment relief. 665” That was more than three months | ago. Today even his libefal admirers must admit — although belatedly — the correctness of the Communist criticism of LaGuardia. Says The Nation editorially in its issue of Jan. 16, 1935: “This brings us to the crux of the question, The bankers hold | the city in an iron grip, have first lien on the city’s revenues; no matter whe suffers, the bankers | must get their pound of. flesh. The bankers’ agreement, of course, waS inherited by Mr. LaGuardia from his Tamniany predecessors; yet one | of his most prideful accomplish- ments, in his account of his stew- ardship, is that he has lived up to it... . Out of a city budget of $600,000,000, $179,000,000, or ap- proximately 30 per cent, is allo- cated to debt service. What if Mr, LaGuardia had announced that a fourth of this, or some $45,- 009,000 would not bé paid; and that, rather than break its moral contract with teachefs and pélice- men, rather than impose a tax which the poor must largely pay, the city would prefer to default on its agreement with the bank- ors?” Little comment is needed. Even Mr. LaGuardia’s friends accept—al- though not yet acknowledging—the correctness of the fundamental Communist criticism of the Little Flower, (To Be Continued) not only justify the terroristic raids and murders of Greek workers and peasants by the Greek Government, but attempts to hold militant Greek workers in this country responsible for the deportation activities of the United States Government, thereby trying to absolve the Roosevelt government for its attacks on the foreign born. Sellers of the Daily Worker: What have your experiences been in selling the paper to workers be- fore factories, on stteet corners, at meetings, and in the home? Write the Daily Worker, Letters will be published to stimulate participation in the circulation campaign. the Society of Friends of thé USSR. The Sunday newspaper, the Sunday Referee, found itself, nevertheless, in a scandalous situa- tion with its anti-Soviet slander, publishing the absurdéest anti-So- viet correspondénceé, in which it had | the audacity to state that no single British worker would agreé to emi- grate to the Soviet Union, The é@diting offices of the Sunday Referee immeédiately récéived nu- merous létters ftom théir readérs, containing fit answer to this slan- der: The atithors of thése léttérs express their readiness not only to | emigrate immediately to the Soviet Union bit aso to namé a number of pétsons wishirig to follow their example if thé Sunday Refereé pledgés itself to pay for their jour- ney. “There is no doubt whatéver that | a large number of British workers would agree to leave any part of |England for Moscow,” writes | George Gorman of Folkestone. Thus the anti-Soviet standers | ; Were convertéd into the laughing | | Stock of the public reading their | newspapers. ‘Detroit LW.O. Calls City-Wide Conference DETROIT, Jan. 13.—Plans of ac- | tion for a campaign to enroll 1,000 | new membérs in Detroit up to the time of the National Convention in May, will feature the city-wide con- ference of all brariches of thé In-| ternational Workers Order heére| when it convénes at 935 Alger St. this Thursday evening, the City Centtal Corfimitteé aritounced yés- terday. The committee also an- | Rounces that Max Bédactit, National | Secretary of thé I. W.O,, will be | present at the conference, and will address the delégates, The conference will also take ac- tion to support the political cam- paign of Maurice Sugar, well-known International Labor Defense attor- ney, who is candidate for city judge. Strikes 4. Night Clubs Eight hundred members of Wait- ets Union Local 16 struck Saturday | night in four of Broadway’s biggest night clubs. Already, the Casino de Pareé and the Manhattan Music Hall have signed agreemétits with the union. At the French Casino the waiters returned to work after three hours, when an agreémént which included arbitration was concluded. At thé Congress the strike cofitinued. Speaking of the causes of the strike, Patil Couleher, secretary of the union, said that some of the men were working sixty hours a week for miserable wages. Waiters Union Local 16 |; | “show-dowh” and union recognition. They did | not win thesé demands. According to the main clauses of the agreement: 1, All excépt those guilty of vio- lence, in thé opinion of the store, shall be returned to work. This | méans that no scabs will be firéd, | nor will there be a mass return to work, but individual workérs will be called “as they aré needed.” The most miitant workers will be black- listed, with advices from confidential Sources reporting at least 65 on this list. Cases of blacklisted workers | aré to be arbitrated before local and national labor boards. 3. The union “récognition” clause reads that no employeé can be co- erced into joifiing any union. This paves the way for & company ution, of which there is already some ru- mor. No union activity can be car- ried on dufing hours, says the agreement. This means intimidation | for union mémbers. _In Minneapolis as Pact | Is Accepted by Leaders Agreement Gives Few Gains to Workers Despite Talk of “Victory” by Officials of Three Unions—Blacklisting Is Feared MILWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. | last Thursday by the well-oiled machine of the officials of the three American Federation of Labor locals involved.) With much talk of a great “victory,” an agreement was | railroaded through as @ surprise a¢t.o— —-~ | 13.—The strike of some 800 Nov. 30, was terminated here | 3. No Wage inéreases were gained; a vague clatise is included concerning the carrying over of de- | fidiencies of selling employes “of some thousand dollars a month,” in_ practice before the strike, now only being caftied over during the month, and not going beyond it. On the evening of the “vote to Teturn,” members of the rank and filé madé brilliant and heroic ef- forts to expose thé settlement. They | ae to at least aig roe the vote flor one day. The officials came Prepared. “The ayes have it,” said the chair- man, “they made most noise.” Sentiment against these officials Tufs high. The rank and file group has prepared a militant program of | action for higher wages, industrial | See ae oe baa 4 aerate and | ‘or the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 2827), with a slate of the most active fighters in the union, “The fight has only begun,” they say. “Now we must build our position Le 4 and make it the real voice of the Boston Store workers.” Lee Speaks With | White Guardist (Continued from Page 1) declared at one climax, “is criél, uncultured and grasping to peasants and intellectuals alike.” vealed to the audience: “They re- fused me 200 rtibles to encase a béatitiful ancient sun-dial in an old French setting. Inatead they gavé mé a grandfather clock.” With mixed sentiments the audience ap- plauded. Stating that “the Soviets have creatéd nothing at all—the best looking biildifigs were built by the Czar,” and “the intellectuals who oppose the Soviet regime come last in everything,” she finally called Lenin to witness. correctly quoting that “The Commiunists are only & drop in the océan. They themselves cannot alone build communism, ex- cept with the hands of the whole people.” The balcony audience was | non-plussed. What did this prove? And those who had eagérly come for a handful of anti-Soviet ammu- nition, aS well as those who were genuinely disfusted. began angrily to stalk out of the hall. TWO significant incidents com- | Hletély éxposed the “new” crifi¢ in thé eyes of those présent. When the question was askéd Madame Tehetnavin, following her lecture: “How do vou account for the news re of Walter Duranty and Herold Denny published in The New York Times, reports which deny | that any starvation of famine exists |in the U.S.S.R.?"—the loudest ap- pDlause of the evening swept the hall. When thé speaker obviously avoided the question and began relating the | | “proof” given to her by an old polit- | \ical prisoner, there was a stir of indignation. A féw appreciated the “impartial- | ity” of Madame Tchernavin. These | were the numerous White Guard-) ists, who openly admitted their identity to the Daily Worker re-| porter. ¢lamations of others, screeched that the reporter ought to be deported | to Biro-Bidjan, that the final) indicated by the “facts” of the speaker was coming | fast, and that “the clique of Jews and Marxists ruling over our (!) Russia” would soon be settled with. In the excited discussion of Socialists and excited White-Guard- ists the newest of the anti-Soviet and anti-working class pack left the stage. Communists? No ! But a Socialist Lawyer? O.K.! LA GUARDIA APPOINTS RIGHT WING SOCIALIST TO CHARTER BODY See Editorial on Page 6 || eel agees over the appoint- ment of S. John Block, Socialist lawyer, to thé Charter Revision Commission by Mayor LaGuardia, ran high yesterday in labor circles Party members, Bloek, a profhinent supporter of the reactionary right wing within the Socialist Party, was appointed to the Commission by Mayor La Guardia on Saturday. Mr. Block resides at 59 West Twelfth Street. A commission to bring in the draft of a new charter for the city, was named early last year by the Mayor but was abolished by the State Legislature in May. Norman Thomas, socialist leader, who was on the last commission, has not been appointed to the new body. The subject of placing a repre- sentative of the Communist Party on the Charter Revision Commit- tée came up in the Mayor's press conference on Saturday. Doesn't Like Militants “You didn’t consider appointing Robert Minor, did you?” the Mayor was asked. “Well,” he said, “if those people would only act different, then... .” But Mr. Block, the Socialist law- yer, was a different matter, “He's a good man,” opined one of the reporters. “I voted for him four times.” “Me, »” chimed in the Mayor. Informed observers feel that the appointment of Block to the charter commission further indicates the drift of the right wing within the Socialist Party towards Fusion. It is considered especially significant in view of the fact that it comes upon the heel of the induction of Jacob Panken, another arch right winger in the S. P., to the Domestic Relations Court Bench. Composition of Commission Others appointed to the commis- sion are: Thomas D. Thacher, chairman. Mr. Thacher is a former solicitor general, a staunch Republican ap- Pointed to the post he held by former President Hoover. Mr. Thacher lives at 16 E. 73d Street. Joseph M. Proskauer, a Demo- crat, former Supreme Court Jus- tice and political advisor to Al- fred E. Smith. Mr. Proskauer re- sides at 25 West 57th Street, Thomas I. Parkinson, of 270 West End Avenue, President of the Equitable Life Insurance Com- pany. Charles E, Hughes, Jr., of In- dependence Avénue and West 252nd Street, the Bronx. Mr. Hughes, son of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, is a well- known Republican and a former solicitor general. Mrs. William P. Earle, Jr. of 120 Willow strést, Brooklyn, a former executive head of the League for Women Voters. Joseph D. McGoldrick, former City Comptroller, of 596 Madison Street, Brooklyn, a Fuston sup- porter, considéred an independent Democrat. Oharles G. Meyer, a large réal estate operator, of Bell Avenue, Bayside, Queens. Fredick L. Hackenburg, of 28 Whitewood Avenue, Wést New Brighton, Staten Island, a former Tammany Assemblyman, broke with thé régular Democratic Party and is now a Judge of the Court of Special Sessions, The line along which the new commission is to Work is bélieved to be that originally laid down Mayor LaGuardia in his pré-élection speeches: “cheaper” municipal gov- ernment by thé setapping of a number of obsolete officés, politi- caliy-appointed jobs, consolidating departments and scrapping of the antiquated county organizations. Among the proposals undér dis- cussion duting the short life of the last Charter Revision Commis- sion was that of proportional rep- résentation for the city. This would give minority parties, like the So- She ap-| fingerpri One, supported by the ex- | Fisch Reilly Denies Nazi Funds for Defense (Continued from Page 1) fingérprint systém, to Hauptmann’s | défense counsel to aid them find Infs on the ransom notes that will absolve Hauptmann. Reilly accepted the offer and failed to an- nounéé who would pay for Faurot’s Services. Reilly admitted on Friday that his handwriting experts, ten Of whose namés he has made public, “don't gét less than $100 a day.” Hauptmann was penniless at the time of his arrest. For the second time in three days Hearst's New York Journal, which ig playing the shrewd game of try- ing to build up sentiment in favor of the Nazi defendant, while avoid- ing the direction towards itself of the hatred that is generally felt about Hauptmann, yesterday pub- lished the results of & poll which attempts to show that the majority of obsérvérs heré bélieve Haupt- Mafn innocent. The first poll, taken among Flemington résidents by members of the “Iearst staff, showed that only five out of twelve rési- dents béliévéd Hauptmann #uilty. Yesterday's poll purported to prove that eight out of évery twelve news- papermen here believe Hauptmann innoéent of the crime he is chatged with. On Friday, a member of the Journal staff broadcast what was intended to be 4 heart-rending de- scription of the trials and tribula- tions of being married to a Nazi criminal cha: with murder. AS predic by the Daily Worker, the defense attorneys of Bruno Richard Hauptmann have begun to drag the red herring of anti- Semitism across the trail of guilt leading to the Nazi adherent. Led by Edward J. Reilly, former chief defense attorney of Art Smith, Khaki Shirt leader, they declared yesterday they would prove that the murder and kidnaping of the Lind- berg baby was committed by Isidor . & Jewish furrier who died penniless in Leipzig, Germany, last year. Reilly also stated he would prove that it was Fisch, and not Hauptmann, who received the ran- som motey from Dr. (Jafsie) Con- ia at the Bronx Cemetery last ‘pril. Reilly announced further that the two handwriti experts he “im- ported” from Nasi Germany both contend that the ransom notes al- légedly written by Hauptmann were in fact written by Fisch. It will be remembered that Fisch was accused by Hauptmann at the time of the latter's arrest on Sap- tember 20. District Attorfiey Samuel J. Foley of the Bronx, declared. at that fime, that it was impossible | q for the Jewish furrier to have com- mitted the crime. Yesterday, At- torney General Wilentz of New Jer- sey, who is ting Hauptmann, admitted ti when Hauptmann was éxtradited to New Jersey from the Bronx, he offered Hatintinann a “break” at os trial if the Nazi would implicate Fisch or anyone elsé in the crime, but that Haupt- mann told him that Fisch was com Pineliy telephoned to erin onied to again 3 y afternoon for another Nazi handwriting expert. ‘The parade of the handwriting experts, which began with the ad- mission by a Federal agent that handwriting experts assert that the signature of J. J. Faulkner, who Cialists and Communists = tation in the Board of “Aldermen oc the public hearings last yah tober Moe representing the Communist Party, made a searching criticism of a number of the pro- posals of the Commission, pointing out that while the Communist Party had no objection in principle to Scrapping uséless the cen- tralization of control into the hands of fewer (and often non- elective) officers represent democratic and fascist develop- ments, as ited ariti- | who deposited $2,910 of the Lindberg ransom money (and then cotnmit- ted suicide, it is believed) when the Federal Reserve Banks the gold certificates, couldn't be Hauptmann’s, continued on Friday with the aged Osborn, the State's chief expert, testifying that Maupt+ the ransom notes and Reilly déclaring that the majority of his Are just as certain Be Baie) the notes. mong "a experts are two have bested Osborn in several and one who has proved Os- wrong on every occasion he trials born ‘ yor’s 1933 Pledges Spike Slanders Store Strike Is Ended NBC Strikers To Hold Mass March Today Philadelphia P1 ant Is Picketed—Walk-Out Spreads to York A mass paradé Will be held this Morning by strikérs in the néigh- borhood of the National Biscuit Company plant at Tenth Avenue and Fifteenth Street. The strikers decided on the pafadé at a mass meeting in the St. Nicholas Arena Friday night. At this meéting, in- stead of the election of a rank and file strike committee, as called for by a leaflet of the Communist Patty, thé president of the A. F. of L. In- sidé Bakery Union local, William Galvin, narrowed the strike leader- ship to himself when he insisted on rushing through a vote that he be given sole léadership. Galvin also urged the girl strik- ers to stay away from the plant and the picket line. The girls, in con- versation befofe the meeting, showed themselves anxious to pick- ét. A -ilitant force was thts dis- couraged from strengthening the strike. The Communist Party leaflet Pointed ott that electing a rank and file strike committee is the way for the strikers to have a voicé in all activity and negotiations. The strikers are showing great mili- tancy. Galvin brought a number of A. F. of L. leaders to the meeting to support him, Picket in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 13.— Fifteen hundred workers of the Na- tional Biscuit Company, on strike heré for several days, continue to Picket. The strikers are demanding Pay équalization and abolition of wage differentials. The strike spread from the plant here, to the plants at New York, Atlanta and Newark. The workers of the York, Pa, plant are now reported on Strike, Relief Bureau Workers Mass At City Office Twenty-two hundred workers massed _at the central office of the Home Rélief Bureau at 902 Broad- Way, Saturday aftérnoon while 500 staff employees of the relief admin- istration formed a mass picket line, The demonstration, under the leadership of the Emergency Home Relief Bureatt Etnployes Association, demanded reinstatement of staff Workers who were fired in recent months for organizational activities and an end to all administrative in- terference with union activities, Other demands called for restora- tion of the wage cut that went info effect last April, a 10 per cent in- crease in pay and a five-day week, Edward Corsi, director of the bu- reau, and William Hodson, commis- sionst of public welfare, were “in conference” with Mayor LaGuardia when the pickets sent 4 delegation to confer with Constance Boll, per- sonnel director of the bureau to pre- Sent their demands. Victor Gettner, Attorney for the American Ctvil Lib- étties Union, aécompanied the dele~ gation of fifteen. In recent months, these active members of the employes associa- tion, Richard Benedict, Sidonia Dawson and Riback, president of the Association, have been fired. Benedict, a Negro, was arbitrarily fired when he demanded that he be permitted to exercise his rights as an officer of the Association to feet with the grievance committee of a Harlem bureau; Dawson was fired for protesting police violence in handling delegation from the Unemployment Council; and Riback was fired under similar circum stances when he remonstratéd with other employes whom. the adminis- tration had incited to attack uném= Ployed delegations. Finished with your Daily Worker? Leave it on your street~ car sert for someone else to read. Celebration Is Planned For Wednesday to Hail Release of Gramsci The victory of world-wide mass pressure-in forcing the Italian Fas- cist Government to release Antonio ramsci, heroic leader of the Italian working class, will be cele- brated Wednesday evening, Jan. 16, at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and Fifteenth Street. The meeting which will be held under the joint auspices of the International Labor Defense, the Communist Party and the Italian Federation of Workers Clubs, will also serve to intensify the campaign to free all other aniti-Fascist fight. érs in Mussolini's dungeons, and to carry on the fight for the removal of all thé conditions attached to the release of Gramsci. The meeting will be addressed by Bob Minor, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party; Richatd B. Moore, national field organizer of the I. L. D., Tito Nunzio, Editor of Unita Operaia, Tom Dé Fazio will be the chairman, has differed with him. Osborn cons tradicted himself recently in the ‘Hauptmann case, when he declared hé was certain that a letter stibmit- ted to him fof examination was Witten by Hauptmann, only to change his conviction several weeks later after anothet examination. The discovery of two “doubles” of Hauptmann by two New York news- papers was ridiculed yesterday by . ES [ seme DO UE SET