The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 18, 1935, Page 2

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1935 “s Workers of Many Cities Will Meet to Honor Lenin BROWDER TO TALK Parley Fails MOSCOW WORKERS DANCE AT RALLY TONIGHT IN PHILADELPHIA Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Boston and Scores of Smaller Cities Will Conduct Memorial Meetings Over Week-End What Lenin's teachings nation’s workers in their daily efforts to improve their lives and leadership means to the will be subject of scores of Lenin memorial meetings in com- munities from coast to coast mediately after. burgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St Louis, as well as many other smaller communities, workers will gather to pay tribute to the memory of Viad- imir Ilyitch Lenin, founder of the Communist International and guid- ing spirit of the workers’ revolution- ary struggles, NEW YORK.—Scores of workers’ organizations will parade into Mad- ison Square Garden on Monday eve- | ning with banners flying and voices raised in song to open the largest Lenin memorial meeting ever held here. Earl Browder, General Sec- retary of the Communist Party of the United States, and James W. Ford, member of the Central Com- mittee, will be the principal speak- ers, " PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jap. 17.— The large Market Street Arena here will be the scene tonight of a Lenin memorial meeting which will be ad- dressed by Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party. CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 17—Robert Minor, one of the few Americans who worked actively with Viadimir Hiyitch Lenin, will be the principal speaker at the Lenin memorial meting here on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the Chicago Coliseum. The meet- Ang will also mark one of the siart- ing points of the municipal election campaign of the Communist Party. A schedule of meetings to be held in other communities throughout the country follows Tonight ALLENTOWN, Ps., Hungarian Hall, 520 Union Street, 8 p.m. TRENTON, N. J., Homo, 8 p.m Saturday, January 19 PITTSBURGH, Pythian Temple, 7 p.m. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Central Audito- rium, 7:30 p.m. NEW HAVEN, Musie Hall, 117 Court &., Hungarian Workers’ 8 pm « READING, Pa., Knights of Friendship Hall, 113 North 8th 8t BOSTON, 118 Dudley St., Roxbury, 8 p.m, CINCINNATI, Workers School, 139 Opera Piace, 8 p.m. BURNSIDE, Ill., Knights of Pythias Hall. 92nd St. and Cottage Grove Ave., 7:30 p.m Sunday, January 20 ST. LOUIS, Turner Hall, 1508 Chouteau Bt. 8 p.m. TERRE HAUTE, Ed Brown, section or- Banizer in Chicago, will be the principal ‘Speaker. ROCK ISLAND, Eugene Davis, speaker. SOUTH BEND, Two meetings, one at 2 p.m. and one at 7:30 p.m. PROVIDENCE, R. I., Swedish Working- men's Hall, 59 Chestnut St., 8 p.m. ~ WORCESTER, Mass, A. O. H. Hall, Trumbull &., 8 p.m. NORWOOD, Mass., Finnish Workers’ Hall, 37 Chapel Court, 8 p.m. principal MAYNARD, Mass., Russian Hall, 20 Powder Mill Road, 8 p.m. . NEW BEDFORD, Mass., North End, 8 p.m. GARDNER, Mass., Lithuanian Hall, cor. of Willow and Main Sts., 7 p.m. WEST CONCORD, N. H., Oak Hall, 7 Pp. m. QUINCY, Mass., Johnson Bidg., Quincy Square, 3 p. LOWELL, Mass., Workers Center, 338 Central St., 2 p.m. |, ENN, Mass., Armenian Hall, 70 Munroe St, 7 p.m. NEWARK, N. J., Laurel Gardens, 457 Springfield Ave. 2:30 p.m. | PATERSON, N. J., Washington Hall, ‘Goodwin and River Sts, 8 p.m, » PASSAIC, N. J., Russian National Home, 2:30 p.m. BLIZABETH, N. J., Russian Peoples ‘Home, 408 Court 8t., 8 p.m. » School House, 8 p.m. PLAINFIELD, N. J., I.W.O. Center, 234 +» 8 p.m. Monday, January 21 INDIANAPOLIS, 116 East Maryland Ave., evening. WAUKEGAN, Ili, 517 Heimhols Ave., 7:30_p.m. DECATUR, Ill, Claude Lightfoot, ‘speaker. + CHICAGO, Workers Center, 9133 Balti- More Ave., evening. Other meetings will be held as follows: LINDEN, N. J, Polish National Home, Roselle St., 8 p.m. Tuesday, January 22 5 Y, with Robert Minor as the main . JODY, Mass., at 11 Northend St., 3 p.m. + Wednesday, January 23 5 ROCKFORD, Ill., Robert Minor as main ker. = Thursday, January 24 {NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Ladies’ Aid tall, 42 New St, 8 p.m, Friday, January 25 $ PERTH AMBOY, N, J., Sholem Aleichem hool, 8 p.m. Saturday, January 26 = N. 3, Workers Center, 8 {UNION crry, N. J enter, ¥ « - , Italian Cooperative 24th St. and Summit Aves p.m. Sunday, January 27 | PITTSBURGH, at the International So- ‘Pial Lyceum, 805 James St., 7 p.m. «+ MALDEN, Mass., 451 Cross Bt, 8 pm. i aba N. J., Bayonne Opera House, St. and Avenue Cc, 8 p.m. Monday, January 28 {{ CHICAGO, at 5835 Irvi Pi bo ‘inane Seeing: irving Park Boule. ‘be hil Fifth Ave. High School, iB p.m. t, Friday, February 1 | JERSEY CITY, N. J., Polish Cor enter, Grove Bt. and ‘Sereen aves Bo = Scottsboro-Herndon Fund International Labor Defense Room 610, 84 East 11th Street, New York City immediate contribution to the Scottsboro-Herndon Defense Fund. | treatment. during the week-end and im- In New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Pitts- FDR. Radics Fake Insurance Bill (Continued from Page 1) sity of proceeding in a manner that will merit the enthusiastic support of citizens of all sorts.” | In outlining his recommendation for “this broad system” he called “unemployment compensation,” Roosevelt “concluded”: Payroll Tax | “With respect to unemployment compensation, I have concluded that the most practical proposal is the levy of a uniform Federal pay- roll tax, ninety per cent of which should be allowed as an off-set to To End Strike At Biseuit Co. Conferences between representa- tives of 6,000 strikers and spokesmen of the National Biscuit Company have fe ment, James A, Galvin, President of the Inside Bakery Work eral Union, Local 19585, stated terday. Efforts to get the coopera- ion of the National Labor Board settle the strike sulted in failure. a meeting of shop delegates At held Wednesday, it was made clear that. only determination to ¢ through the strike without relen ing will result in victory. Galvin charged that two large companies, the Bond and Ward Baking Companies, are utilizing their plants to bake for the National Biscuit Company and placing its labels on the products. pointed out is a united move of the large corporations union, With developments ap heading towards a bitter to save the union from desiruction, active strikers are increasing!y rais- ing the demand for a large strike committee including representatives of each department, for a mass | Picket line, and daily strike meet- | ings, | suggestion was made for a leafiet Strikers report that when a telling the union's side of the story, to be given wide distribution, Galvin stated that this is a Communist method, and would not be practical On the proposal of daily meetings of strikers he stated that they are too employers contributing under a expensive. compulsory State unemployment « 4 ‘i i compensation act. The purpose of |_ The Food Workers Industrial this is to afford a requirement of a reasonably uniform character for all States cooperating with the Fed- eral government, and to promote | and encourage the passage of un- employment compensation laws in the States. The ten per cent not thus offset should be used to cover the costs of Federal and State ad- ministration of this broad sys- terms 9 Roosevelt also recommended “non-contributory old age pensions for those who are now too old to build up their own insurance,” and “compulsory contributory annuities which in time will establish a self- supporting system for those now young and for future generations.’ However, a gance at the Wagner- Lewis bill reveals how meager is the proposed provision for old age | pensions, | Roosevelt ended his special mes- | sage with the declaration that the New Deal refusal of economic secur- ity for the broad mass of the people \is @ plan for’ “economic security” which is “at once a measure of pre- vention” against “the dangers of | future depressions” and a “method of alleviation.” As far as action is concerned, however, the Roosevelt conception of the “more abundant life’ was revealed again today, for the hun- dredth time, as a bankers’ abun- | dance, | U. S. Steel Lengthens | Work Day in Offices PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 17—The U. §. Steel Corporation has re-} stored the half day work on Sat- urday for all salaried employees, with a corresponding increase in wages. Saturady work was elimin- ated last September when the steel industry operated at 18 per cent of | capacity. | Now, having reached 47.5 per cent of capacity, the corporation, instead of hiring more workers, is extend- | | ing the time of salaried employees. | The present increase in the opera- | tion of steel mills, is particularly spurred by an effort to push out or- | | ders especially for the automobile | industry, as a strike of steel and | automobile workers is anticipated. As soon as the automobile season ; is over a sharp fall is expected. MAGH, TO TALK ON HEARST DETROIT, Jan. 16—A. B. Magil, | staff writer for the Daily Worker, | New Masses, Preiheit, ete, will lec- | ture Friday, Jan. 18, 1935, at 935 | Alger, 8 p.m., under the auspices of the International Workers Order. | The subject will be: “Who is Hearst? Why Does Hearst Attack the US. S.R.?” | The admittance is free and the | public is invited, | The report further said that “ap- Union has made a de m to give full support to the Nabisco strikers, Its Grocery, Dairy and Fruit Clerks’ Local 104, has adoped a motion that all its members, employed in many stores, will refuse to sell any Na- tional Baking Company products, Reports from other plants on strike state that scab-herding and terror continues at Atlanta, Ga. and ; York, Pa., where the workers are |out, while at Newark and Phila- delphia, as in New York, the com- pany has not yet dared to open the plants are expected to come out in company has factories, Official Budget F.E.R. . Budget $5.60 For an Average Family | HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 17.-A minimum annual income of $3,500 |is necessary to provide “reasonable jhunman needs for a_ statistical | family” of 4.23 persons, the Pennsyl- vania State Planning Board stated in a report to Governor Pinchot | and the National Resources Board | last week. In defense of the position that |this budget is not extravagant, the Board argued that the “man in the family is allowed one suit a year and one overcoat every two years proximately 90 per cent of Pennsyl- vania’s families had incomes, even in the prosperous year of 1929, that were inadequate for the complete attainment of reasonable comfort.” Another State board, the State | Emergency Relief Board, has also |drawn up budgets. Its budget for |@ family of 4.23 persons amounts to |$14.10 a week in contrast to the | “theoretical budget” ning Board, Relief budgets for the |nation average $5.60 a week, ac- | cording to the F. E. R, A. |Shoe Code Differential | BringsHaverhill Pay Cut HAVERHILL, Mass., Jan. 17.— With the threat to move shoe shops out of this city, and the lower wage scales in New Hampshire and Maine as provided Code as a club, a 1214 per cent wage cut has been imposed upon 7,300 workers in this district. The cut, to take effect next Monday, is to be in force until July 16. In the past year eleven shoe firms employing 2,200 workers have taken advantage of the N.R.A. lower wage seale differential and moved to escape strong union organization in this city. vont waste a single copy of | the Daily Worker. Pass it on to someone else. led to bring about an agree-| of, $67.30 a| rt 0 | week prescribed by thé State Plan-|Clared, “The principles announced | in the N.R.A. Shoe! ae With’ the Second Five-Year Plan rapidly lifting the living standard, This he! residents of the Soviet Union find pienty of time to enjoy themselves. In Moscow the workers can dance to their hearts content in the to smash the Udarnik Movie Theatre (above) to the music of a real jasz band. Strong Rank and File Movement Is Needed | To Balk Rail Layoffs rank and file associations of | CHICAGO, Ill., Jan, 17.—Building of broad united front union members, officials and lodges of the 21 railroad unions is the next step in the fight | against the program of Roosevelt’s railroad co-ordinator | Eastman, who proposes to lay off thousands of railroad men pen. We stewed in our own juice, | through further consolidation. Eastman, speaking to 1,600 rail- | |road union executives in Chicago recently, declared his proposals will be introduced into Congress this | jmonth. Eastman demanded that the unions accept a “dismissal wage,” but seid nothing about a dismissal | wage for the employers. His pro- posals |would bear all the burdens of the crisis. Eastman opposed the unions’ | plants. The union reports that more | demand for the six-hour day with- out wage cuts. He demanded that jothers of the 40 cities where the |the railroad workers approve new |labor saving machinery (paid for |by government loans) and the ac- }companying layoffs of additional thousands, | Would Cursh Rank and File Eastman demanded that the rail- jroad union executives crush the | Srowing rank and file movement | within their unions, He said, “It has often seemed to me that while the leaders are in the front rank times are driven, They are able, longheaded forceful men but they jare dealing with elemental forces which now and them get out of hand.” | The heads of the twenty-one |standard railroad unions who were present at the meeting (they are organized in the Railway Labor Ex- jecutives Association), feeling the pressure of the rank and file, re- fused to abandon the unions’ legis- lative program. They issued a state- |ment that they refuse to accept |Eastman’s program, and reiterated | their stand for the six-hour day | with full pay, and the other meas- | ures to better the railroad workers’ conditions, in Congress. | George M. Harrison, chairman of the executives of the unions de- in the address of the coordinator |today contemplate effecting .eco- nomies in the railroad industry at |the expense of employment and | purchasing power. If possible of | application, they would result in increasing unemployment, reducing |purchasing power and transferring to the shoulders of railway em- ployes the financial obigations of the carriers, for which the em- \ployes are in no wise responsible.” Mass Pressure Did It This statement was the result of the mass pressure of the rank and file in the union against Eastman’s | program. But most of these rail- }road union heads are not doing a thing to mobilize the workers for la mass campaign for the unions’ | legisiative program. Instead, they confine themselves to lobbying, | which will mean the defeat of the | six-hour day and the other labor unions proposals. Thefore the immediate united |front actions at the terminals and in the lodges, to create a mass cam- serving a sentence of eight and a lly inflicted upon him, and on the same mass mobilization that was half years iin a torture prison, when the time of your release came you | were calmly told that you were now | going to be held in prison to wait | new charges being levelled against | you for events that took place six- | teen years ago? That is the question that must |be put to every worker and friend | |of the heroic fight of the Hungarian | working class and one of its great- | est leaders, Mathias Rakosi, who | now stands menaced with the| | death penalty arising out of the! |farcical trial that is being staged | {on January 21. | For eight and a half long years | | Comrade Rakosi has given an ex- | jample of exemplary courage and | bearing in the face of the terrible | | Suffering and provocation that the Hungarian fascists are past masters | of. These hangmen had hoped that ‘in this time they could have killed | |Rakosi as a result of their prison | But the spirit of the, revolutionary is unconquerable, and | day that his liberation was due, instead of walking out of the death house of the Hungarian hangmen, he was just told that a new indict- ment was being prepared against him. Death Sentence Awaits Since April, 1934, he has been kept in prison waiting. Now the in- dictment has keen drafted. Rakosi is to be tried by what is technically described as “summary procedure,” which means he has no chance be- fore such a court, and that the death sentence by hanging is al- ready written out. That is the intention of the Hun- garian fascists, who have never for- gotten the heroic stand of the Hun- garian workers and peasants in the short days when the Soviets ruled in Hungary. But there is another court that must and can not only speak but act. It is the workers’ international tribunal. At once we must rouse the workers to the knowledge of this new infamy that is being secured when the Hitler hangmen thought that Comrade Dimitrov and his comrades were secure in | their clutches, It Can, Must Be Done World. protests and Comrade Dimitroff's magnificent stand suc- ceeded in confounding the plans of the German fascists; world pro- tests, strengthened by the memoriss of the splendid stand and speeches of Comrade Rakosi made eight and a half years ago, must now this very moment be organized in every \land, in order that we can snatch Rakosi from the scaffold. |_-Tt can be done, it must be done. | It will be an indelible stain on our revolutionary honor if we let Rakosi |die. It will be a heavy blow at the international working-class move- |ment that Rakosi has served so nobly and so well if we do not use |every minute to fan the wave of protests already beginning into a mighty ocean of demands for the immediate release of Rakosi, —— mean that railroad labor | they do not always lead but at | Defense Group Urges Wide Aid to Victims Of Terror in Spain Thousands of deaths, impris- onments resulted from the strug- || gles for freedom of the Spanish workers and peasants. The Na- || tional Committee for the Defense || of Political Prisoners, under the || chairmanship of Lincoln Steffens, || urges a real expression of in- || ternational solidarity with the || victims, widows and orphans. Send funds to help them carzy |] on through the I.L.D,, 80 East llth Street, New York City. paign for this program, is the only |means of winning the six-hour day with full pay and the other \pro- posals for full crews, etc. It is especially important to conduct a | Mass campaign for these demands |in view of the fact that Eastman’s Wage cut, layoff program, which is | backed by Roosevelt, will go to Congress this month. The railroads plan to put into parment by department, taking ad- vantage of the division of the rail- ferent unions. Semi official associations of union members, officials, and lodges of the tweny-one unions at the terminals are already being formed. This united front campaign should be extended, so that the unions can act through their lodges on a ter- minal or system basis, or jointly |as the occasion arises. The united action of the workers in the unions can defeat the Eastman-Roosevelt anti-labor program, NAZI “PURGE” GOES ON AMSTERDAM, Jan, 16—The con- | Servative “Haagsche Post” here com- | ments as follows on the secret ex- | termination and imprisonment of | “rebellious” elements in the German armed forces and the Nazi Party: “That which was done on June 30 suddenly and ostentatiously is now being done surreptitiously. Every day numbers of members (of the Nazi Party) are thrown into prison. The victims amount to at least a thousand. One can understand only too well the indignation that all this 1s arousing ami the old and faithful members of the party.” Be sure to have a few special offer subscription blanks with you when speaking to prospective readers of the Daily Worker. Get them from your section Daily Worker agent, or write to the Daily Worker, 35 E. 12th St. Just now the social democrats are making, as usual, a united front with their various capitalist gov- ernments against the Soviet Union. Their crocodile tears are bespatter- ing pages of the bourgeois press about the recent trials and execu- tions of known counter-revolution- aries, the scum of the earth, the bandits and terrorists who would try and bring down the Soviet Union, who work in close relationship with the terrorists of all the European capitals, and who can always rely upon the support and hospitality of the Hungarian government. But these same social democrats are silent where the case of Rakosi is concerned. He is only a worker with a lifetime of service to the working class, with a lifetime’s de- votion to the revolutionary cause of the workers, The Hungarian fascists want to kill Rakosi, not because of the events that took place in a rev- olutionary situation in Hungary sixteen years ago, and for which Rakosi as People’s Commissar for Social Production had no respon- effect their anti-labor program de- ; road workers into twenty-one dif- | (Continued from Page 1) able obstacles in collectivization | and rejoiced beforehand. | “I repeat, we regarded collectiv- | ization of agriculture, not as pro- letarian revolutionaries, but as enemies of the working class. We ;maintained the same attitude to- | wards industrialization. We utilized all negative results for struggling | against the Soviet power, and if such facts did not exist, we tried to jinvent them. “The court witnesses how far we | | Went in our appraisals of the great- | |est achievements of the Party and | the working class, “With regard to questions of inner party demoeracy, we most maticiously criticized the existing Party regime. We did not see what every rank and file member saw. We did not notice the growth | in the consciousness of strength of the unity of the Party. We addressed Stalin with malicious counter - revolutionary insinua- tions. We accused the Party leadership that it did not accept measures to activize the interna- tional working class movement. We slanderously asserted that the Central Committee handicapped the development of this move- ment, “In 1984, Zinoviev accused the | Central Committee, decaring that |the initiative of the leadership of |the working class movement in France was given over to the Sec- ond International. The court sees | that we differed in no way from the international counter-revolutionary rogues, | “We, along with these rogues, waited for failure. We cherished | hopes that this failure would hap- poisoning our convictions, and the convictions of our adherents with our counter-revolutionary views. We puffed outrageous gossip, and disseminated it among the masses. We cherished our hopes for a split in the leadership of the Party. By this frame of mind, we gave hope to the people connected with us. "when we were accused of a terrorist frame of mind, I firmly declare: Yes, we must bear the | responsibility for it because the poison which we spread among those surrounding us during the years prompted the commitment of the crime—the murder of Kirov. “In his statement Zinoviev said | he feared the idea of being on the level with the murderers and ban- dits. I also fear it. But ds I said | already, Zinoviev and Kameney, as | well as myself, and others, are guilty thereof; that they systematically |poisoned peoples’ consciousness and now must bear the responsibility for it. “We got so used to lying to the Party that we couldn’t any longer distinguish truth from falsehood. When Zinoviev from the tribune of the Seventh Party Congress an- alyzed the counter-revolutionary | nature of our positions from 1925 to (1927 that was only half the truth. The second half which was miss- jing was the fact that enemies re- |mained within our Party, and that those enemies preserved Party cards with a view of fighting against the Party. Zinoviey should have stated this to the congress. “It is also my fault that while being at the Congress as a guest, no one would prevent me from dis- closing the counter - revolutionary activities. Zinoviev in his statement, at the investgiation speaking of subjective loyalty to the interests of the working class, admits the error in principle of dividing subjective from objective. “We were not loyal to the work- ing class, Nothing hampered us from seeing what was occurring in |the country. While even the en- ‘emies of the working class were ad- mitting the victories, our blindness and wrath against the leadership of the Party handicapped us from seeing these victories. Our wrath against the leadership of the work- ing class is not an objective but subjective matter. “I request the court to believe me that I sincerely repent the heavy crimes I committed since 1925, and which fatally led to the murder of Kirov. “I will take any decision of the court as deserved punishment for my criminal activities and my en- tire sorrow will be mitigated firstly by the fact that I sincerely forever broke off my counter-reyolutionary past. Secondly, by the fact that the cause and the fate of the work- ing class is in the true hands of the Central Committee of our Party, | | | More Admit Guilt 18 JOBLESS FAC At Soviet Trial FEDERAL CHARGES IN OKLAH | Workers Seized After Demonstration Charged E OMA CITY With ‘Interfering With Federal Employes in Performance of Their Duty’ OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Jan. 17.—Kighteen unem- ployed workers will come up for trial here on Feb. 11 on a Federal statute, which, if sustained, can be used as a pre- cedent against every mass movement among the unemployed anywhere in the country. Bruno Hauptmann Aided By Leibowitz (Continued from Page 1) and offered in corroboration the | evidence that the body of the Lind- bergh baby was two inches shorter than the body found in the grave. The best the prosecution eould do te answer Reilly was to say that the discrepancy was due to an “oversight” on the part of the per- son broadcasting the real length of the Lindbergh baby’s body. Watsh to Testify Among the witnesses who are ex- pected to testify today is Deputy Chief of Jersey City Police Walsh, who stated last week that Lind- bergh on several occasions threat- ened to “break” Jersey City detec- tives who were questioning suspects in the kidnapping too closely. It is safe to predict that Walsh, who has every militant worker in Jersey City catalogued in his very receptive memory, will suffer a sudden lapse of his good memory when he takes | the stand to tell all he knows about | the kidnapping. The prosecution will try to prove that the Lindbergh baby was killed by a fracture of its skull rather than by a bullet. The hole found behind the baby's left ear will thus go unexplained, Attorney General Wilentz an- nounced yesterday that he will not} put the relatives of Isidor Fisch, dead Jewish furrier named by Reilly as the real criminal, on the stand unless “the situation requires it.” They are being guarded closely in the Hildebrecht Hotel in Trenton in an atmosphere of great secrecy. Wilentz declared that under no cir- cumstances would he allow report- ers to speak to them. The story launched by Reilly in- timating that Fisch was a dealer in counterfeit money has been traced to Henry Kress, a German private detective with headquarters in Nazi Yorkville. A witness has come forth at the trial who says he can prove that Hauptmann was known as the Shy- lock of Yorkville, lending the Lind- bergh ransom money out at high interest. The witness, Reinhold Haberbond, has deposited a prom- issory note showing that he bor- rowed money from Hauptmann with Attorney General Wilentz, but the prosecutor has apparently buried the note along with all the other evidence in his possession showing that Hauptmann is a Nazi adherant. Free Transportation Won By Relief Workers CARLSBORG, Wash., Jan. 17.— Free transportation to ail East End District relief jobs, was granted by the Relief Board here, when the workers on the projects gave full support to a petition circulated by the Communist Party. Many of the workers have had to walk as far as five miles to reach the relief job and were ready to take action under the leadership of the Communist Party to enforce their demands. The victory has resulted in a tre- mendous increase in the organiza- tional activity among the unem- ployed workers in the Fast End District. GERMAN AT JAPANESE MANEUVERS BERLIN, Jan. 17.—The fascist paper, the “Voelkischer Beobachter,” in giving a detailed account yes- terday of the recent army maneu- vers in Japan, points out that its representative was the sole foreign and its leader of the Party, Com- rade Stalin, Only a Short Time Remains to Snatch Rakosi from Han By HARRY POLLITT, General Secretary, Communist Party of Great Britain What would you feel like if after |Rakosi served the sentence origin- | planned. At once we must get the sibility, but because they know that. Rakosi free is another revolutionary fighter free to continue the strug- gle against hunger, fascism, and war. Because they know that Ra- kosi free will come back immediately into the ranks to carry on the struggle as undauntedly as before, seeking to inspire all those he will come in contact with, with renewed ardor to carry on the fight against fascist oppression and terror. Eight and a half years in a foul jail, Twenty-four hours in a day, three hundred and sixty-five days in a year, eight an a half years of this slow torture and suffering, and yet to be able to face the gloating hangmen with a smile born out of the proud knowledge that the rev- olutionary cannot be crushed. ‘We Must Free Him Now Our duty is plain. Rakosi has done more than one man ought to be called upon to bear, but he has had to do it because the protest of the workers have not been loud enough, have not been forceful and sustained enough. Now to action journalist who was allowed to be present. gman and uncertainty. Rakosi belongs to (the international working - class movement; we have the responsibil- ity of freeing him, and doing it now. Less than one week remains until the 21st, when Rakosi goes on trial. Believe me, they will seem to fly to those whose lives are at stake. In every large city there is some representative of the Hungarian government, Let us organize the workers to make their presence felt. Resolution, protest deputations, all these must be got under way. In- ternational opinion still counts even amongst fascist hangmen. Let it be so exerted now, that the Hungarian government is forced to realize that under no circumstances are the workers of the world prepared to let this trial proceed. That they demand the release of Rakosi, and that they intend to secure this. It is the duty of all the Commu- nist Parties to take the lead in developing this agitation to rescue one of the bravest and most daunt- “Interfering with Federal em- ployees in the performance of their duty” is the charge. Unless the mighty arm of the working class breaks down the attempts of ihe local officials to railroad these eighteen prisoners, the repercus- sions of the trial will be felt in every unemployed organization. Arrested Last May Most of the arrested. workers were, seized after a mass demonstration that took place here last May. In many cases days and even weeks passed before the arrests were. made without warrants of any kind. The demonstration grew out of a mass meeting of over 500 Negro and white workers in Civie Park, which was called by the Unemployment Coun- cil, the Communist Party and the International Labor Defense to draw up demands for food relief and to elect a commitiee represent- ing the different organizations that would present these demands to Carl Giles, relicf administrator. The committee was elected and went to the relief headquarters, fol- lowed by about two hundred of the workers, where they were told that Giles was not there. Not satisfied with this answer the committee de- manded proof and were allowed to search the. building but were not able to find the supervisor.. When they reported their failure to the workers outside, stoolpigeons and disrupters in the crowd, who had been sent there by the police, he- gan to shout, “We've been double- crossed,” in an attempt to create disorder. ‘The committee was able to expose this attempt and lead the workers back to the park, but the stools be- gan to raise the cry to storm the Federal Food Commissar, and to call the leaders “yellow” for not leading the march, As the workers began to move to- wards the commissary some of the leaders turned aside, but others stuck even though -they realized that they were being led into some kind of an ambush. Police ‘Rushed Them The proof of fheir suspicions was given when they neared the com- missary. The doors were flung open and police rushed out firing tear gas guns into the crowd and club~ bing every one they could reach. Then followed a series of arbi-+ trary arrests aimed at the Commu- nist Party for the most part. The significance of this frame-up was brought out by the Interna- tional Labor Defense in a statement issued yesterday which follows: “If these workers are convicted it will be under a federal statute, that of ‘interfering with federal employees in the performance of their duties,’ which can be used in every section of the United States where struggles for relief are going on. No demon- stration can be held, nor any com- mittees sent up to see Relief Au-~ thorities to demand better condi- tions for workers, which cannot be placed under this vicious law.” With the statement the I. L, D. issued an appeal to workers throughout the United States to come to the aid of their class brothers by protesting through mass meetings, demonstrations, resolu- tions, letters and telegrams and de- manding the unconditional release of these workers; to give concrete support by raising the funds with which to fight the case. The pro- tests should be sent to: Governor Marland; Ed. J. Vaught, district Judge of the Federal Circuit Court; Harry L. Hopkins, and to W. C, Lewis, United States District Attor- ney, at Oklahoma City. WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. D. is giving Labor Defender Concert and Dance.” Chicago, Ill. Two Pisys—'Yoskhe” Brain Trust” will be presented at ‘West Side Workers Forum, 1118 W, Madison St., Sat., Jan. 19, 8 p.m, Also lecture: “The New Masses and the American Revolution” by Joe Edelman, attorney-at-law. Adm. 100, Election Rally. Concert and Dance at 2739 W. Division St., Saturday, Jan, p.m., Theatre Collective. Good orchestra, Good food. Adm. 26c, Ause pices, Sec. 9 C.P, Alfred Hayes will speak on “Poetry and Revolution” at the John Reed Club, 505 8, State St., Saturday, Jan, 19, 8 p.m. ¥ Due to the Lenin Memorial, Meeting the lecture on “Dynamite in the Sear’ at the Pen and Hammer Forum, 20 E. Ontario St., scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 20, 8 p.m., has been postponed to the following Sunday, Jan. 27, same time and place. Superior, Wis. Daily Worker Comm. is holding an affair Feb, 3 at Vasa Hall, 1ith and John Ave. Good program, refresh+ ments, dancing, Cleveland, Ohio Daily Worker Masquerade Ball given by Russian Women’s Prog. Club at Polish Falcon Home, 7146 Broadway, Good orchestra. Adm. 25¢., Saturday, Jan. 19, 7 p.m. New Bedford, Mass. Tom Mooney Br. LL.D. has called city-wide conference of workers ore ganizations for Sunday, Jan. 20, 9 P.m. at Cricket Club rooms, cor, Kempton and Ash Sits. to plan out local action in defense of Scottsboro boys. All organizations urged to send. delegates. Meeting Sunday, Jan. 20, 7:30 p.m, and “The Jess fighters of the Communist In- to end this nightmare of suffering ternational, at Mount Royal Hail, Kenyon &t. cor. Acushnet Ave. Sam Winn, of Boston, will be the speaker, nN aes