The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1935, Page 3

PROTESTS URGED FOLLOWING DENIAL UF NEW TRIAL PLEA Former Communist Candidate Is Made the Target of Attack Upon Unemployed Population— Bail Pending Appeal Is Denied PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 14 (By Mail). —Clay Naff, unem- ployed leader here. and Communist candidate for Governor | Jobless Leader of in the last elections, was sentenced to the state penitentiary | for a term of one to two years last Tuesday by Judge Howard C. Speakman. The sentence was pronounced immediately | after Judge Speakman denied a# motion for a new trial. Bail, pend- | ing an appeal to the Supreme Court, was denied. Cley Neff was one of twenty-| eight unemployed workers who were arrested last Sept. 6 when/| thugs and police, acting under the direct orders of the ex-Klansman, Governor B. B. Moeur, brutally at- tacked a mass picket line of F. E. R. A. strikers. | During the past years Naff has been active as the leader of working class struggles in which many concessions were wrung from the_ local relief administration. Naff was also active in a strike of cotton- pickers slightly more than a year ago when better wages were won for the work Court Denies Writ Against | Military Rule) ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 14—A re- quest by the Georgia Federation of Labor for an injunction against the use of martial law in Rossville, Ga., where workers of the Richmond | Hosiery Mills are on strike, has been dismissed by Judge Underwood of | Atlanta. | Colonel Pope, commander of the DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY ‘Re formatory Slave Rule Hit by LL.D. | Whippings, Clubbings, | Shooting Are Protested in Baltimore | BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 14—The shooting of Aubrey Bronson, an in- mate of the Cheltenham Reforma- tory, by a white prison guard, Hur- ley, broke the Chinese Wall of cen- sorship surrounding the institution, disclosing its medieval tortures and slave rule. Whippings, clubbings and bread and water “diets” for the Negro in- mates were common practices, it has | been revealed. The reformaiory, lo- cated 40 miles from Baltimore, was established by private wealthy in-| dividuals ostensibly to rehabilitate juvenile delinquents (ages ranging from 9 to 21). In reality, it has been @ source of tremendous profits for the Board of Trustees through the brutal exploitation of the inmates. A mass campaign against the slave rule in the institution, and for the dismissal and punishment of the guard, Hurley, has been staried by | the International Labor Defense. The Board of Trustees was pre- sented with a score of affidavits signed by former inmates testifying to the inhuman conditions and with hundreds of petitions signed by citi- Because of his militant working | National Guard at Rossville, in re- zens of Maryland demanding the im- class activity, Naff has been made leasing three imprisoned at the At- | mediate abolition of these conditions. the target for attack by the bosses |!anta concentration camp, declared upon ae working population of | that any of the 40 strikers still in Arizona. To counter this attack,|the camp, who will promise to stay all workers’ and liberal organiza- oak ee strike activity will be re- tions are being urged to rally be- ve Wine Sin peal hind the campaign to carry through With military ruie entering its | nel ey second week in Rossville, a protest | gage asa | ina | was received by Governor Talmadge | | plans However, the Board whitewashed the shooting and condoned the slave rule, An “Abolish Cheltenham” Committee has been organized, and to launch 4 mass petition drive and organize a delegation to Governor-eclect Nice. JANUARY 15 Will Do Honor to Lenin >¢s Schedule At Memorial Meetings Toledo, Detroit, Chicago Also To Hold Meetings of | Unprecedented Size on | World Proletariat’ Sunday in Memory of s Greatest Leader | NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 14—Mass meetings to do homage to the memory of Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin, deathless guide and leader of the world proletariat, will be held by the work- ing class of at least sixteen New Jersey communities between Friday and Feb. 1. The schedule of the meetings, announced by the District Office of the Com-9— munist Party here, follows: secretary of the Unemployment Trenton, Jan. 18, Hungarian | COUnCHS as main ‘speaker Workers Home: Newark, Jan, 20,|.Amter ‘will deal particularly with Laurel Gardens, 457 Springfield| the venomous campaign of Hearst Avenue; Paterson, Jan. 20, Wash-|2#8ainst. the Communist movement, | i Goodwin and Rit labor | Times” | directed against movement. The has carried a steady bombardment Slandering the Soviet Union and misrepresenting the position of the Communists in the United States. Amter will also show the meaning of Father Coughlin'’s National Union for Social Justice, which un- der the cover of reformist slogans, seeks to develop a fascist movement in the United States. The Freiheit Gesangsferein is pre- paring a special musical program, including an English chorus. Other musical numbers of special interest are being provided. the entir “Detroit ington Hall, Goodwin and Rive’ Streets; Passaic, Jan. 20, Russian National Home; Elizabeth, Jan, 20, | Russian Peoples Home, 408 Court Street; Stelton. Jan. 20, School} House; Plainfield, Jan. 20, Interna- tional Workers Order Center, 224 | West Front Street; Linden, Jan. 21, | Polish National Home, -Rosel | Street; Lakewood, Jan, 23; New Brunswick, Ladies Aid Hall, 42 New Brunswick, Jan, 24, Ladies Aid Hall, 42 New Street; Perth Amboy, Jan. |25. Sholem Aleichem Shule; Cliff- | side, Jan. 26, Workers Center; Union City, Jan, 26, Italian Co-operative Center, 24th Street and Summit Avenue; Bayonne. Jan. 27, Bayonne | Opera House, 26th Street and Ave- |nue C; Jersey City, Feb. 1, Polish Community Center, Grove Street and Bergen Avenue. Chicago Rally Sunday (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Tll., Jan. 12.—The | Lenin Memorial Meeting on Sunday, at the Coliseum, 15th Street and groups are asked to rush protests to Governor B. B. Moeur, Attorney- General John L. Sullivan, County Attorney Johnson and Judge How- | ard C, Speakman, all in Phoenix. from William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. In protesting the “maintenance of martial law without justification,” | Green declared that he hopes to se- | Wosloees’ Bill Protests and demands for the ernor’s action by the Washington i granting of an appeal should be | government, MK addressed to Supreme Court Jus-| Governor Talmadge replied that tice Lockwood, State Capitol, he was “watching to see if loafers Phoenix, Arizona. \and bluffers could intimidate Con- | gress.” | A settlement. proposal made by Two Girls, 11, Arrested tne management of the Richmond . Mill: t fe For Selling Newspaper ‘ills was not even placed before the workers of the four mills on of Communist Party strike at their mass meetings, the officials of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers, stated. A rep- OAKLAND, Cal., Jan. 14.—Two/ resentative of the Netional Textil elsven-year old girls were arrested | Labor Board is on the way here on the streets of Oakland for selling from Washington. Picketing con- tinues at the four mills, cure an investigation of the gov- | Filed in State | Legislature | BOSTON, Mass., Jan. i4—Imme- | diately upon their return from the | National Congress for Unemploy- |ment Insurance, which last week | concluded a three-day session in Washington, workers here have un- dertaken to carry through the Con- gress decisions and force the intro- duction of the Workers’ Bill into the State Legislature. The Workers Unemployment and copies of the “Western Worker,” and were held under arrest for forty-| eight hours. .Contrary to law, these children were taken to the jail and net to the Detention Home. | The girls are Kathleen end | iteen Rose’ twin sisters. They | were released after the Interna-| tional Labor Defense demanded | their freedom, and exposed the ar- rest as an attack on the workers’ press. WHAT’S ON Superior, Wis. Daily Worker Comm. {s holding an| affair Feb. 3 at Vasa Hall, 11th and | John Ave. Social Insurance Bill was filed in ERM SPR: Gaps ae the Massachusetts House of Repre- atroit Cor ists sentatives by State Representative Detroit Communist | Arthur Paul, Democrat, of Ward 10, Will Meet Wednesday Boston. Representative Paul was forced into this action by the senti- | DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 14—A gen- | ™en® for the Workers’ Bill among eral membership meeting of all | the voters in his ward, who are for Communist Party members of De- | th most part, impoverished Negro troit and active forces in the left #94 white workers. wing organization, that are espe- African Natives Rally cially invited, will be held in Fin- nish Hall, 5969 Fourteenth Street : on Wednesday at 8 p. m. Against Slave Laws The meeting will consider the Te left wing support for the campaign} A Johannesburg, of Maurice Sugar for Recorders | qisnatch to Judge and important trade union questions, South Africa, the Crusader News Agency, 2162 Seventh Avenue, New | York City, reports a meeting in that Toledo To Hold Meeting | TOLEDO, Ohio, Jan. 13.—The To- ledo Section of the Communist Party will hold a Lenin memorial meeting on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at Security Hall, Lagrange! |and Dexter Streets, to honor the| memory of Viadimir Ilyitch Lenin, | | leader of the great October | | lution of 1917, and founder of the | Third International. Comrade| | Lenin died eleven years ago, Janu- ary 21, 1924, | Frank Rogers, member of the Dis- | trict Committee of Ohio, will be the | | principal speaker. Other speakers | will be Ken Eggert, organizer of the Toledo Section of the Communist Party, and R. C. Lester of the | League of Struggle for Negro | Rights. Joseph Willnecker will be chairman, Amter in Detroit | DETROIT, Jan. 14.—Dsetroit is making preparations for a huge Lenin Memorial Meeting in the Arena Gardens on Sunday, at 2 P.m., with Israel Amter, national) Wabash Avenue, will be the open- ing of the municipal election cam- paign of the Communist Party. Karl Lockner, Communist Party candidate for mayor, will be one of the speakers, together with Robert Minor, member of the Central Com mittee of the Communist Party: Claude Lightfoot, Negro youth lead- | er of the Young Communist League; and Frank Mucci, Commu- nist Village Board member of Tay- lor Springs. who was recently ac- quitted in the famous Hillsboro trial on charges of criminal syndicalism, Stockyards workers, Negro and white, railroad workers, members of the American Federation of Labor. Socialist. workers, workers from the International Harvester and other metal shops, building trades workers and large numbers of Negro work- ers will atiend the meeting. A re- Port will be given as to the results of the three-day, Jan. 18, 19 and 20, extraordinary mobilization of the Party and Y. C. L. members for col- lection of signatures to place the Communist Party on the ballot. Official Admits Relief Bureau Hunger Plans For Auto Polls Elections to Come After Long Delays Which Aided Employers | DETROIT, Mich., Jan, 14—The Automobile Labor Board has an- nounced a schedule for elections in automobile planis employin. 75,000 workers, The American Federation of Labor auto locals have demanded the abolition of the Automobile La- bor Board, which was set up last March with the support of William Green to prevent an auto workers strike. The Auto Labor Board postponed the elections for months in order to put the American Federation of La- bor locals at a antage. Mean- while the board fostered the growth of company unions. Elections have now been ordered as follows: Jan. 15 — Nominatinng election, Dodge forge plant, Lynch | Road truck plant, Amplex division }of Chrysler. Jan, 17—Nominating election, Plymouth company. Jan. 18 —Nomineating election, Chrysler, Highland Park plant. Jan. 22 and|Hounced today that in the year of 23, Nominating election, Dodge com- | 1934 | Pany. Jan, 25—Final election, Dodge | thirty per cent over the previous truck Year. d plant, Amplex division of Chrysler |iMss after taxes and charges are and Chrysler Highland Park plant.|@educted for the year of 1934 is Jan. 29—Final election, Plymouth | $10,569,619. In 1933 their net earn- 1 Final ings were $8,121,60. Forge plant, Lynch Road company. Jan. 31, Feb. election, Dodge Brothers. 16th Congress Ot the Soviets To Open Today (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 14 (By Wireless). —In the large palace of the Krem- lin, the Sixteenth Congress of So- viets of the Russian Sociazist Fed- erated Soviet Republic will open tomorrow. will be: 1.—The report of the chairman of the Council of People’s Commis- Included in this agenda | sars of the RSFSR. D. E. Suli-| moy, who will present the govern- ment’s report. | 2—Reports from the People’s Commissariat, for Communal Econ- omy. 3.—A discussion led by the Peo- ple’s Commissariat for Health Pro- tection. | 4.—The report of the Central Ex- ecutive Committee of the Tartar Autonemous Soviet Republic. 5.—The ‘report on constitutional problems and the election of mem- bers of the Central Executive Com- imittee of the RSF.SR, | meat-packers Page 3 Phoenix Given Two Year Prison Term 16 Neiw Jersey Cities Labor BoardMATCH FACTORY | WORKERS PREPARE: FOR STRIKE ACTION 1800 Matchmakers in Akron and Barberton Send Letter to William Green Asking Authorizing of Strike Vote AKRON, Ohio, Jan. 14-—One thousand eight hundred matchworkers Akron and Barberton, employes of thé Diamond Match Co., the Ohio Match Co. and the Palmer Match Co. through the Matchworkers’ Council sent a letter to President Green of the A. F. of L. ing him to authorize in Biddle, chairm of the Labor Relations Board We will go on the s sent to Francis National Armour Co. Profits Rose 30 P.C. in 1934 (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill., Jan. 14—Armour Company, the second largest pack- ing concern in the country, an- situation fusal on s to rece Couneil ve of the match- ght of collective grows out of the part of nize the atchworkers' he representa workers to th bargaining The demands of the workers calls for a contract for higher wages, seniority rights and other improve- a de their net profit increased ments in the conditions of the They declare that their earn- | Workers It was stated by representatives of the Matchworkers’ Council that individual unions will be asked to consider strike votes as soon as President Green authorizes it. A similar letter was also sent to Green of the A. F. of L., Frances Perkins, Regional Director Ralph A Lind and Senator Wagner. Workers Aroused The matchworkers are seething This tremendous income of Ar- mour and Company is a result of the mest brutal exvloitation of the packinghouse workers, Negro and white, women and youth. The stockyard workers at present are consolidating their forces in an attempt to build a powerful trade union moyement. Only through militant trade un- icns, under the leadership of the rank and file, can they successfully with anger against their miserable conditions in the shop and the drive of the bosses to smash their union, The immediate problems facing the matchworkers is not to challenge the exploitation of the and improve their weit for President Green to au- thorize the strike, but the workers themselves should vote on strike action. The workers must take the mat- ter in their own hands to guarantee victory. The situation is ripe for strike. It is only a matter of pre- paring it and voting for it. Now is the time to act. Elect your strike committee, representing all depart- ments and all plants, under rank conditions. Reading Textile Union Negotiates With Mill Owner to Halt Lockout READING, Pa tiations will Jan. 14.—Nego- be resumed between representatives of the Stunzi Silk and file leadership. Spread the Mills of West Reading and the | strike United Textile Workers, on the pos- Organize mass picketing. Cail sibility of reopening the plant. upon the C. L. U. of Akron and The 300 workers employed have been locked out since the general textile strike last September, and all orders of the company were switched to the Ephrata plant of the company. Finished with your Daily Worker? Leave it on your street- car seat for someone else to read. Barberton to endorse and support your strike. Call upon all workers’ organizations in Akron and Barber- ton to come out on the pic#et tine in support of your strike. Endless delay is the same as waiting for a favorable decision of the Na- tional Labor Relations Board, which will never come. NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT! WIN A FREE TRIP Good program, refresh- | A YEON Ot } = be } “ ments, dancing. Be sure to have a few special | city of 250 natives who came to- z ‘ y } : i Pipi its ie pen pgeNe | SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Jan. 14—"We ao | Philadelphia, Pa. offer subscript lanks wit! bs gether to work out a militant pro- jean only allow the bare necessities All Philadelphia working class organ-| When speaking to prospective | ram of struggle against the “pick-|of life in an emergency like this. I izations are asked not to arrange any affairs on March 1 and 2, 1935. readers of the Daily Worker. Get them from your section Daily Philadelphia Unemployment. Councils Worker agent, or write to the are arranging a Grand Bazaar at the | Olympia Arena. Daily Worker, 35 E. 12th St. Limited! Autographed! Orders Are Now Being Taken - Ready February 1 HUNGER | and REVOLT: | Cartoons by BURCK A REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF THE WORLD CRISIS De Luxe Edition , | should fight | up” laws, slave “pass” laws and the general brutal persecution of the South African natives. “It is our historical task to struggle against slaver M. Kotane declared inopening the conference. “We must show our oppressors that | we are going to fight until pick-up, | passes and other forms of persecu- tion end.” C. Marks received enthusiastic ap- plause when he started, “Africans against the vicious lodgers’ permits whose operations resulted in thousands of women being thrown out of locations into prostitution, South Africa is a stinking slave market and the op- pressed Africans should commence to struggle for their rights.” Pass laws require natives to carry government permits. purchased at high price, whenever they wish to go to the market, when they wish to travel to another town—in short, whenever they move more than a few feet from their master's eye. The Conference elected a con- tinuation committee to carry out a concrete program of action against pick-up and pass laws. Farm Paper to Print Anniversary Edition CHICAGO, Jan. 14—The Farmers Weekly will celebrate its first anni- versary on March 1 with the pub- Our funds will not allow us to pro- | Vide for recreation, education, pay- ments of bills and insurance,” Ray !C, Allen, county overseer of the poor and secretary of the Family Welfare Bureau declared last week at a meeting of the Federation of | Protestant Church Women. | The “pare necessities of life,” ac- |cording to Allen, can bet met by the average family with a $3 week- | ly grocery order, $1.25 monthly for | clothing, a ton of “very poor Iowa coal, rent not to exceed $7.50 a month, and minimum payments for gas and light.” “We are very careful to keep the good will of the landlords,” he vol- unteered. He explained that the $3 grocery order was based partly upon the advice of expert dieticians, who had found the sum large \enough to provide a “well rounded jdiet.” The orders are restricted to special lists of foods. “If a person comes to me saying he cannot heat his house on a ton of coal, then I |can only say just heat part of it,” | Allen said. | |. “Under the emergency set-up.” jhe continued, “we can give just enough to keep our clients from starvation, just enough fuel to keep them warm, just enough clothing to cover their nakedness. It’s not because it is right, but because it’s | the only economic thing we can consider.” | Working children who are under |the legal age of child labor laws land who are working and living at SOVIET UNION and sympatl rs. 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The anniversary campaign of the Weekly is directed to building the | membership of the Farmers Na- | tional Association which publishes the weekly, and in getting masses of greetings for the anniversary issue. The Farmers Weekly is published at 1817 South Loomis Street, Chicago, I. Kaynee Co. Strikers | End 2-Month Strike CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 14.— Eight hundred workers of the Kay- nee Company, largest manufacturers | of boys’ wash suits, retured to work \today following a strike of more then two months. Many of the workers of the plant have joined the Amalgamated Clothing Workers vhich now has the plant completely organized. |budgets. The child is allowed $3 a week for expenses, but the rest must go to the support of his | family. | Nor is the relief administration any respector of the home. 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