The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1935, Page 1

« —————————SSSS SCOTTSBORO-HERNDON DEFENSE $15,000 mark passed FUND by $221.95 im I. L. D. $25,000 campaign. $9,778.18 more must be raised at once for the appeals. —X—X—XSXXX—X—X—X— Vol. XII, No. 19 >_> Daily QA Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 187% EW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1935 NAT IONAL EDITION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents COURT REJECTS MOONEY PLEA Ohrbach Feast Spoiled By Two Comely Pickets Voicing Strike Demands RAKOS! TRIAL BEGINS ON OLD INDICTMENT Judge Accepts Count for Which He Has Served 8 Years (Special to the Daily Worker) BUDAPEST, Jan. 21 (By Wire- less) —Stating he had “lost” the new indictment against Matthias Rakosi, Hungarian Communist leader whose trial opened here this morning, the prosecuting attorney of the Fascist government received the astounding permission from the chief justice to use instead the indictment of Rakosi’s first trial, on the basis of which Rakosi was condemned eight years ago and has since served full sentence! From thirty to forty Hungarian and foreign correspondents, whose presence bore testimony to the anxiety and interest of the interna- tional working class in the fate of Rakosi and the fear of Hungarian fascism lest it fail to justify its frame-up of the greatest proletarian fighter, hung on every word of the proceedings. The public, however, was excluded from the trial-room. While the accused, flanked by two | court officials, answered the usual questions, correspondents took note of Rakosi’s militant bearing and | also of the terrible effect of nine long years of imprisonment on his | once stalwart frame. The defense | counsel, Vambery, at once entered | upon a Vigorous protest that the hurried proceedings against Rakosi were astounding from the point of legality. The entire trial, Vambery insisted, could be conducted only before a jury. ‘The judge read the details of the | “indictment” and asked Rakosi | whether he was guilty. “Did you sign these proclamations?” the judge inquired, waving certain de- crees signed by Rakosi at the time of the Hungarian Soviet Workers’ and Peasants’ Government. “Yes,” answered the accused, “and I would sign them again imme- diately if it were necessary to do Asked whether he took responsi- bility for the revolutionary decrees, Rakosi declared, “I assume respon- sibility for all that I did, since everything was done in the name of the workers’ and peasants’ re- gime.” Metal Worker “Fired in Effort to Smash Union in Birmingham BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan, 21—In a drive to smash the International Molders’ Union Local, which is be- ing organized in the plant of the American Cast Iron Pipe Company, Parker, who worked for the com- pany seven years and is a member of the executive board of the union, was fired last week. This is the first time that the quality of Parker’s work was questioned. Stool pigeons in the shop have been spreading rumors that Parker is re- sponsible for a broken pipe and that he is spreading Communist litera- ture. The Communist Party Unit in the shop issued a leaflet and explained to the workers that the attack is really aimed at the union, and if this discrimination goes unchal- lJenged every militant union worker will be fired. The militant workers in the shop are doing everything possible to force Parker’s reinstatement. The plant was closed for some time, but now that it has reopened the com- pany, in its determination to squeeze the maximum profit out of the workers, wants to smash the union before it has a chance to or- ganize the entire plant. New Jersey Governor Pushes Sales Tax Plans TRENTON, N. J., Jan, 21.—Bills providing for sales taxes will have first precedence in the State legis- lature, Governor Harold G. Hoffman said today. The governor further indicated that he might urge that the sales tax rates be raised to 3 per cent instead of the 2 per cent which he had asked in his inaugural mes- sage. “It is absolutely necessary that the State raise $22,000,000 for relief,” he said. The F.ER.A. yesterday advanced #7,000,000 to the State for relief in “sruary. No further funds, would ‘we forthcoming unless the State ie ided for raising funds, Hopkins SOVIET INVITES ANTI-FASCIST STOCKHOLM, Jan. 21.— Heinz Kalbfleich, the German anti-fascist and emigrant, who began a hunger- strike here in rrotest against the refusal of the Swedish authorities to allow him the right of asylum, hhas received an invitation from the Soviet Embassy to ~1'-r the Soviet Striking Department Store Employees Interrupt Banquet Presided Over by Owner to Protest Against Injunction and Arrests Anne Miller and Anne Freedman, pretty, youthful | cashiers on strike at the Ohrbach department store, are still) receiving the praise of their fellow strikers for their cou-| rageous interruption of Mayor LaGuardia at a banquet in| the Waldorf-Astoria on Sunday night to confront their em- ployer with their demands. The two girls gained admis- sion to a banquet given by the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital on tickets bought for them by sympathetic physicians. They chained them- selves to a balcony railing until an opportune moment came for them to inform the 1,600 guests that Nathan M. Ohrbach, the toastmaster, | was an employer who underpaid them, over-worked them and used the courts to get a drastic injunc- tion to prevent the Office Workers’ Union from conducting a strike for improved conditions in the store. Mr. Ohrbach is a director of the hospital and was chairman of the dinner committee. “We had cold feet at first,” Anne | “put we) Miller smiled yesterday, knew what a good chance it was to let people know about the strike, and seeing Mr. Ohrbach sit there on the dais next to Mayor LaGuar- dia, showing himself off as a com- munity benefactor, made us so mad | we forgot to be frightened. “Anyway,” Anne said, “beside everything else, we got a dollar for our strike fund from Mr. Milton Eisenberg, the lawyer who was re- sponsible for the drastic injunction to prevent us. from picketing.” Has No Illusions In reply to a reporter’s incredu- lous smile, she hastened to say: “Don’t misunderstand. I have no illusions about Mr. Eisenberg’s gen- erosity. Neither have any of the 140 pickets who have been arrested through his efforts. He just gave us the dollar for a taxi, because he felt it would be a nice gesture in the presence of the reporters and the others who saw the whole thing. Garbed in evening gowns and armed with their tickets, the girls had no difficulty in getting into the | Said. Jornate grand ballroom where the | dinner was in progress. Anne Freedman spoke first. “I want to introduce myself,” she “I am an Ohrbach striker. We have been on strike for five weeks. Mr. Ohrbach is here as chairman of a charitable affair. Has he never heard the old adage that charity begins at home?” She got no further because an unfriendly spectator clapped his hand over her mouth, Anne Miller began where Miss Freedman left off. Mayor Taken Aback Mayor LaGuardia stopped speak- ing. He was so completely taken aback that he lost command, ap- parently, of the store of choice epithets which he usually reserves for militant workers. After all, one can’t shout “yellow dog” at two comely and respectable | looking young ladies when one is in the presence of 1,600 solid cit-| izens who might not understand. The solid citizens, Miss Miller re- | Ports, were very unfriendly at first. | They hissed. But after she and Miss Freedman had spoken to the accompaniment of the hacksaw with which they were being freed from the railing, many of them turned friendly, Some of the guests at the banquet even gave encouragement and sym- pathetic greetings to the six pickets who marched before the outside of the hotel with signs which read: “Mr. Ohrbach, starvation salaries send your strikers to sickbeds,” and “Thousands for injunctions, meager wages for employees.” The Misses Miller and Freedman, like many of their fellow strikers, were never in a labor organization before they joined the Office Work- ers’ Union while working at Ohr- bach’s, METAL UNION WINS STRIKE 400 Workers Were Out for Four Weeks at Majestic Shop At an enthusiastic meeting late yesterday afternoon the 400 strik- ers of the Majestic Metal Novelty Inc., 200 Varick St., voted unani- mously to accept the agreement reached by the Negotiations’ Com- mittee after eight days of confer- ences with the owners. The vote was taken after three hours of dis- cussion that followed the report of the Committee, which was accepted by the Strike Committee before the discussion started. The acceptance of the agreement marks the victorious conclusion of a four weeks’ strike led by the Metal Novelty Local 303, Metal Workers’ Industrial Union. Outstanding among the demands included in the agreement are the recognition of the union, reinstate- ment of all workers who were in the shop at the time of the calling of the strike, no firing, and all hiring to be done through the union, meaning a closed shop, equal divi- sion of work, a 3 per cent wage increase, numerous improvements in the shop, and the full enforcement of the old agreement until March 16, when the new agreement goes into force. Although Nathan Kasden, owner, partook in the negotiations, the strikers decided to maintain regular strike activities, including picketing, until such time when the new agreement is “duly signed and sealed.” The official signing of the agreement is expected early today. Contractors Lock Out 20,000 Shirt Workers Twenty thousand workers were locked out yesterday by shirt manu- facturing contractors in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Con- necticut, as the National Associa- tion of Men’s Shirts and Boys’ Blouse contractors, had organized 100 of its members to shut their plants until higher prices could be ened from the large manufac- urers, Through with today’s paper? Pass your “Daily” on to some worker, student, professional or Unies | intellectual. NAVY GIVEN PACIFIC ISLES |Roosevelt Act Follows League Concession to Japan WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21.— Following almost immediately on the announcement that the League of Nations was about to yield in al- lowing Japan permanent possession of certain mandated islands in the Pacific, President Roosevelt per- sonally issued an executive order giving the Navy complete control over small Pacific islands of great strategic importance. These are three tiny island groups in the Far Pacific, lying south and west of Hawaii. The islands are Wake, which lies about half-way between Hawaii and the Philip- pines; Kingman Reef, several hun- dred miles south of Honolulu, and Johnson and Sand Island, lying to the southwest of Hawaii. All of the islands are uninhabited, and have never been placed under the juris- diction of any government depart- ment until yesterday. Moreover, the islands are directly along the line of the proposed trans-Pacific war and commercial air route, TOKYO, Jan. 21—A place of honor was recently given by the Japanese press to the article by Tadashi Kodzima on the subject of the Pacific Islands under Japanese mandate. “The economic and strategic im- portance of these islands is tremen- dous,” Kodzima declared. “Japan | must fight with every means in her power, force included, to prevent any attempt by a foreign power to interfere in matters concerning these islands.” PRAVDA NAILS ANTI-SOVIET FALSEHOODS Reformists Kept Silent When Kirov Was Killed Editorial Says (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 21 (By Wireless). —iIn a sweeping editorial the Soviet Communist Party organ, Pravda, to- day assailed the hypocritical posi- tion of the reformist trade-union leadership of Paris, whose district | committee had passed a resolution “in protest” against the execution | of the White-Guard terrorists and murderers of Sergei Kirov. More- over, the insolence of this resolution Was so great that it cared to por- tray the White-Guard bandits who were shot as “workers.” Under the | headline, “Paris reformist trade-| union bureaucrats in the employ of the bourgeoisie,” Prayda comments: “The general committee of the Paris Menshevik trade-unions acted not in defense of the rights of the working class, because it kept si- lent when enemies of the working | class killed Kirov, but in defense of | the rights of the Wh'te-Guard mur- | derers and their associates. Spikes Scurrilous Lies “The reformist trade-union bu- reaucrats lie and calumniate the French workers when in their reso- | lution they speak of the ‘great agi- | tation which seized the working class.’ It is known that the French workers were indeed greatly moved | when they heard the news of Ki- rov’s murder. But it is equally mown that the workers of France welcome the firmness and resolute- ness which the Soviet authorities | ‘showed against the murderous White-Guards, against the real dregs of the Zinoviev groups, these enemies of the working class of the U. 8. 5. R. “After this how can one but nail the so-called ‘General Committee’ of the Paris trade-union bureau- crats to a pillar of shame?” Soviet Workers Reply The inexpressible indignation and wrath of the toilers of the U. S. S. R. paralleled the Pravda report concerning this base action of the Paris trade-union officials. In the largest enterprises in Moscow, Leningrad, Tula and Podolsky, as well as of other important industrial centers, the Soviet proletariat in their resolutions brand with shame the anti-Soviet sallies of the union bureaucrats. In their resolutions the Soviet workers, above the heads friendly hand to the proletariat of France, call upon them to repulse these leaders who have reached every possible extreme, and deny the insolent lie that the White- Guard bandits who were shot were workers “Class brothers!” say the work- ers of the Kalinin Leningrad fac- tory, addressing the French pro- letariat, “there never was such a free life of the proletariat as in our socialist country, where we ourselves are the masters. The Union of Soviets towers high as a brilliant torch of happiness and creative joy amid the darkness and fetidness of dying capitalism. The edifice of socialism is rising daily, ever higher and statelier, under the leadership of the Party of Lenin and Stalin, and the might of the first proletariar country in the world is daily strengthening. We know the Paris workers are with us. Together with us you will answer with deep indignation and hatred this brood of hired dogs.” Mississippi High Court Sustains Conviction of 3 Negroes in Frame-up JACKSON, Miss., Jan. 21—Three Negro workers were sentenced to be hanged here on Feb. 8 on a frame- up conviction for the alleged mur- der of a Kemper County planter. ‘The Negro workers appealed their case, giving proof that they had been severely beaten in order to ob- tain a “confession.” The State Su- preme Court refused to heed their appeal although one judge dis- sented on the basis of the evidence. ‘Wee case is described here as a second “Scottsboro case.” of the union officials, extend a/ RELEASE HIM! é TOM MOONEY MANY RALLIES HONOR LENIN 10,000 Atiend Meeting in Chicago; Many Join Communist Party CHICAGO, Jan. 21—Ten thou- sand workers, Negro and white, American Federation of Labor members and unorganized workers packed the Coliseum here on Sun- day for the Lenin memorial meet- ing and election rally held here by the Communist Party. Last-minute efforts of police to prevent the meeting from being held in the hall were defeated. Robert Minor, who made the principal address, was cheered by the audience after he outlined the action which the Communist Party has taken and will take in the future to weld the united front of all working class groups in Political as well as in trade union struggles. Frank Mucei, Communist alder- man of Taylor Springs, brought greetings from the Village Board of that community and urged Chicago workers to follow the example of Taylor Springs in electing Commu- nists to office. Tremendous enthusiasm greeted the appearance of Claude Lightfoot and Karl Lockner at the meeting. Lightfoot, young Negro organizer for the Young Communist League, was recently released from jail a candi- date for alderman on the Commu- nist ticket. Lockner is Communist candidate for Mayor. The assembled workers pledged their defense to the Soviet Union against the danger of war by capi- italist governments, and voiced their condemnation of those actually and Politically responsible for the as- sassination of Sergei Kirov. Many workers present made ap- plication for membership in the Communist Party. More than $300 was collected for the Communist Party election fund. McLevy Sends Cops BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Jan. 21— More than fifteen uniformed police and many plainclothes men were dispatched by the Socialist McLevy administration here to “guard” the Lenin Memorial meeting held last night at the Central High School, attended by more than 200 people. The captain of the police detach- ment pocketed a copy of Stalin’s principles of Leninism, but under protest of the workers present he was forced to pay for it. Greetings were read from Sam Kreuger, section organizer who is serving an eighty-day prison sen- tence for taking part in an anti- Fascist demonstration for which Mayor McLevy had refused a per- mit. Young Communist League Dis- trict Organizer Kaplan, who had just been released after serving thirty-five days in jail for the same reason, was enthusiastically greeted. Harry Gannes, associate editor of the Daily Worker, main speaker of the evening, pointed out the great importance of Leninism in the fight against the Socialist Party leaders who in the state legislature had formed a united front to help the Republican Party “organize” the Assembly and Senate. He urged the Socialist workers to repudiate this (Continued on Page 2) AN Pperjured testimony. The Mooney Decision EDITORIAL Supreme Court of the United States, in its decision yesterday, | virtually admitted that Tom Mooney was convicted in 1916 on And yet, in the face of such admissions, the United States Supreme Court solemnly told the framed-up labor leader that he must continue to seek his freedom through the same agencies —the California courts—that had framed him up in 1916! Supreme Court opinion. effort to win his freedom has been ties during the past 18 years. the liberation of Tom Mooney. LEGION PLANS “NEW POGROM Commander Sweeny of Buffalo Leads Anti-Labor Drive BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 21—‘“The | American Legion is ready to mobil- jize for the greatest crusade in the {name of Americanism in history. |It will be waged without mercy.” With these words, John J. Swee- |ney, County Commander of the Le- gion in Buffalo, announced a drive against the Communist Party in | Particular, and all working class or- ganizations in general. Featured in Press Featured prominently in the local | capitalist press, Sweeney’s statement declares that, “Following the na- tional commander's visit (to Buf- falo on Jan. 25), legionnaires of Erie County will be engaged in a survey to procure full information |on the names, addresses and ac- tivities of the Communist Party candidates who appeared on the ballots at the election of Nov. 6.” While Sweeney does not reveal how this campaign is to be con- ducted, it is known that directives from the Legion National Amer- icanization Committee, calls for the organization of special Legion squads, with their members to be known by numbers only, for a cam- paign of terror against militant workers and for extensive snooping activities. Directed Against Workers While the Communist Party is meant to receive the brunt of the attack engineered by the rich of- ficials of the Legion, the drive will be directed against Buffalo workers as a whole, and against all oppo- nents of imperialist war. Sweeney’s statement expressly declares that the Legion will be “active in the fight against every ‘ism’ that raises its head in America—from Commu- nism to pacifism.” He plans to carry the ight into the “class room, into the sanctity of the pulpit against those traitors’ who oppose war and fascism and stand by the rights of the working class. Negro Minister Warned to Keep Away from ILD ‘By Birmingham Police BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 21— Rey. E. H. Hammond, Negro min- ister, active in the fight for the Scottsboro boys, was picked up on the street by police in a radio car last Monday, and subjected to a grilling examination at the City Hall by Chief Detective Giles of the Birmingham force. He was later released with a warning to “keep away from the I. L. D.” How the McCormick - Dickstein Committee Inestigating “un-Amer- jean” Activities winked at evidence charging the existence of an Ital- ian Fascist espionage agency in the United States, will be revealed in “Wall Street's Fascist Conspiracy,” scheduled to begin in the Daily Worker on Friday, Dickstein Committee Shields Italian Fascist Spies in U.S. STARTLING FACTS TO BE REVEALED IN ‘DAILY’ ® SERIES BEGINNING FRIDAY This startling fact is only one aspect of the revelations unearthed by Marguerite Young of the Daily Worker Washington Bureau, John L. Spivak, author of “America Faces Pogroms,” and Sender Garlin, Daily Worker staff writer, in the course fascist activities in tho United States. In interviews with two witnesses, who appeared before the Dickstein Committee, the Daily Worker will show how the committee failed to follow up “leads” tending to prove | tive operation of the espionage agency on behalf of the Mussolini | government. Interviews by Marguerite Young with a number of individuals who |have figured in recent fascist de- | velooments will be among the high- | lights of the series which will start of a seven weeks’ investigation of | conclusively the existenca aud ac-| in the Daily Worker on Friday, S.P. LEADER Although defeated in his plea for a writ of habeas corpus, Mooney has undoubtedly won a moral victory in view of the tone of the | | The Supreme Court must know what a mockery it is to tell | Mooney to go to the California authorities for “justice” after every blocked by these self-same authori- Only the mass fight of the working class which has thus far prevented the execution of the Scottsboro boys and the carrying out of a virtual death sentence against Angelo Herndon can bring about The workers of the country will accept this challenge and double their efforts in the fight for the freedom of Mooney. BACKS BILL \Resident Commissioner of Porto Rico Gives Support to HR 2827 Santiago Iglesias, resident com- missioner of Porto Rico, a leading Socialist Party member and repre- sentative of the American Federa- tion of Labor in Porto Rico, en- dorsed the Workers’ Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Act | H. R. 2827 in a letter to the secre- |tary of the Anti-Imperialist League of Brooklyn, Antonio Angrinzoni, Statement on H. R. 2827 | Iglesias, in his letter to Angrin- |zoni, who headed a delegation to the resident commissioner of Porto | Congress for Unemployment Insur- | ance, stated: “When you and the other del- egates to the National Unemploy- ment Congress came to my office, you asked me two questions: first, | whether I would lend my support | (H. R. 2827) which provides for the establishment of unemploy- ment, old age and social insur- | ance; second, if so, whether I | would urge the extension of its | provisions to Puerto Rico? I an- swer both your questions in the affirmative. “I firmly believe that the need for such legislation today is greater than ever before in view of the undiminished number of millions of unemployed in indus- try in every section of the coun- try. “It seems a crime that many men and women, both in the United States and in Puerto Rico, whose work, brains and action have helped in building great in- dustries and individual fortunes, with their millions of dellars of wealth, are now old and poor, and are depending for support upon charitable institutions, municipal poor houses and soup kitchens despite the fact that their toil | contributed to the building of all | modern industry. | “There are in Puerto Rico, as | well as in the mainland, untold | thousands of old men and women who, after a lifetime of hard work and struggle, are forced to spend their last years in poverty and want, and this deplorable condi- tion must, in the nature of our economic and social system, be- come worse instead of better. “Proposed legislation in the past has been pitifully inadequate to cope with this situation—nothing more nor less than a glorified form of almshouse relief. The wel- fare of this large number of un- employed and destitute pecple, through no fault of their own, can only be safeguarded by the enact- ment of such legislation as the Lundeen Bill. It is an instru- mentality of major relief for peri- odie and chronic enemployment. “The foregoing are just a few of the many reasons this sort of legislation should be enacted at shali whole-heartedly support any such bill as H. R, 2827, or any other similar bill intended to cover and to remedy the situation, and I will do everything within |Rico at the time of the National | | to the so-called “Lundeen Bill” | | this session of Congress, and I | Decision I, mpliesH. eWas Framed But Throws Him Back on State Courts Which Imprisoned Him I.L.D. Urges Redoubled Campaign for Class War Prisoner WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. — The United States Supreme Court in a decision handed down today refused to free Tom Mooney on a writ of habeas corpus. At the same time the court issued an opinion which sharply criticized the conduct of |the California authorities who for the past eighteen years have kept |the militant labor leader a prisoner in San Quentin penitentiary. The opinion was delivered by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes |before a crowded court that had | gathered to hear the court’s opinion in the gold cases, | The verdict of the Supreme Court | extensively reviewed the history of |the Mooney case as well as the |labor leader’s charges against the | prosecution, which included allega- tions that he was convicted on tes- |timony known to the prosecution to | be perjured. Cannot Evade Charges | The most serious charge made by Mooney—and which the Supreme }Court was unable to evade—was that the San Francisco prosecuting |attormey had suppressed evidence which would have definitely estab- lished Mooney’s innocence. While refusing to order Mooney’s release on the basis of his plea for a writ of habeas corpus, the Su- |preme Court declared that it “was |not satisfied that Mooney had no recourse in the state courts.” The |court made this statement with the jfull knowledge that the California |authorities have for the past jeighteen years declared that they were “without power” to free |Mooney because the laws of the State made it impossible to order a | new trial even though new evidence {had been uncovered proving the |defendant’s innocence. Sent Back to State The court solemnly suggested that Mooney should apply for a writ of |habeas corpus in the State Courts of California before coming to the Supreme Court. Mooney, in his ap- Plication to the highest court of jthe land, had declared that he had exhausted every recourse under the law to obtain his freedom, and that they had failed. So crude was the reply of the California attorney-general in op- {posing Mooney’s plea that it was sharply criticized by Chief Judge | Hughes who declared that the reply |had failed to “meet the issues | presented.” The attorney-general in his reply defended the charge of denial of due process of law in holding |Mooney with the contention that | the “acts or omissions of a pros- Jecuting attorney could not, of themselves, amount to a denial of | due process. | Commenting on this brazen alibi, the Supreme Court said: “Without attempting at this time |to deal with the question at length, | we deem it sufficient for the present | purpose to say that we are unable |to approve this narrow view of the requirements of the process.” Inconsistent with Justice The court also said: “Such a contrivance by a State to procure the conviction and im- prisonment of a defendant is as inconsistent with the rudimentary demands of justice as is the ob- taining of a like result by intimi- dation.” While the action of the Supreme Court is undoubtedly a defeat, the opinion of the court was worded in such a way that Mooney’s at- torneys in Washington regarded it |as a partial victory for the framed- up labor leader. LL. D. Acts |The International Labor Defense National Executive Committee yes- | terday called on all its districts and branches, on all affiliated and sym- pathetic organizations and _ indi- viduals, to redouble the campaign of protest, demanding the immedi- ate, unconditional release of Tom Mooney. Protests embodying this demand should be sent to the California State Supreme Court and to Gover~ nor Merriam, at Sacramento, Calif. Protests against the U. S. Supreme |Court decision, also demanding |Mooney’s freedom, should be sent |to President Roosevelt, Washington, D.C. Expressions of solidarity with Tom Mooney were sent yesterday in the | forms of wires by the International Labor Defense and to Angelo Hern- don, 20-year old Negro facing an | 18-year term on a Georgia chain | gang and now out on bail. BANQUET IN SUPERIOR | SUPERIOR, Wis., Jan. 21—The | Daliy Worker Committee here will hold a public victory banquet om Feb, 3 at Vasa Hall at 8 p.m