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i 4 j Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TU Whole Socialist Party Branch in Buffalo Area Expelled OUSTER FOLLOWS Trotzkyism—Vanguard of Counter-Revolution READING OF FIVE. FROM PARTY ROLLS Ejected Member Had Presided At Mass Meeting | in Defense of Soviet Union—YMCA Social Science Club Protests S.P. Action BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 21—The expulsion policy begun | Kirov, and the disclosures that have last week with the reading of five Socialist Party members out of the party here continued this week as the executive committee of the Buffalo Socialist Party expelled the whole Poses in the assassination of Kirov Riverside Branch of more than twenty members by can- celling their charter. > The reason for the expulsion notice, Robert A. Hoffman, exec- utive secretary of the Erie County Socialist Party, declared, was the support of the branch for the five who had been expelled earlier for their “adherence to the principles of dictatorship and armed insur- rection.” The main offense of Herman J. Hahn, one of the expelled members, according to Hoffman, was Hahn's presiding as a chairman at a meet- nig called by the Friends of the Soviet Union. “As its title indicates,” said Hoffman, “this organization functions: to create favorable Amer- ican public opinion toward the brutal and inhuman minority class dictatorship in Russia.” | The actions of the Socialist Party committee have aroused widespread indignation here, the Riverside branch announcing that it will carry | the fight higher, and the Social | Science class at the Central Y.W.| C.A. passing a resolution against the | expulsions. | a Seay | Many Rallies Held to Honor Lenin (Continued from Page 1) betrayal of the workers’ interests and fight for a united front against | war and fascism. NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 21—Despite unfavorable weather Newark saw the largest Communist mass meet- | ing.in its history yesterday after-| noon, when more than 2,800 work- | ers attended the Lenin memorial meeting at Laurel Garden. | The audience, which included | many who were at a Communist meeting for the first time, cheered and applauded enthusiastically at every call to build the Party of Lenin. George Morris of the editorial staff of the Daily Worker reviewed the life and teachings of Lenin. He pointed out that eleven years after Lenin’s death the capitalist class is so alarmed at the spread of Leninism that they are bring- ing up their heaviest propaganda artillery, the Hearst chain of papers, te distort and confuse Lenin’s teachings. Morris’ statement thai | the recent victory of the New Jersey dyers should be attributed to the/ unemployed to support the strike,|stone Federal increase of Leninist guidance | the conduct of their recent strike, | Won most enthusiastic applause. On appeal of Sazar, District Or- ganizer of the New Jersey District | Defense Bares Frameup Plan In Denny Trial Real Issues Are Shown In Opening Speech of LL.D. Attorney By Dawn Lovelace PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 21.—In | his opening statement in the trial of | Edward Denny, organizer and leader of single unemployed workers, the prosecutor made it clear that he would attempt to convince the jury that an open mass meeting, at which Denny spoke in support of the maritime strike last summer, was a membership meeting of the Communist Party, and that the Communist Party advocates unlaw- | ful acts of violence. The indictment charges that Den- ny and three other militant work- ers: Dirk De Jonge, convicted and Sentenced to seven years; Don Clus- | ter, convicted and given a year’s sentence and paroled “because of his youth”; and Earl Stewart, not yet come to trial, “presided at, con- | ducted and assisted in conducting an assemblage of persons, to wit: | the Communist Party. . The trial is taking place in Cir- cuit Judge James Stapleton's court, with George Graham and Maurice Tarshis representing the State, and Harry L. Gross, Irvin Goodman and. Cliford O'Brien, International La- bor Defense, representing the de- fendant. In his opening statement to the jury, Harry L. Gross smashed the foundations of the State’s conten- tions, and brought into the light the real issues involved. Denny, an unemployed worker, was arrested toward the close of the maritime strike last summer, when police and vigilante bands raided a public meeting called by the Portland Sec- tion of the ‘Communist Party in Protest against the shooting of long- shoremen pickets by the police, and the unlawful raids on the head- quarters of the jobless, the Commu. nist Party and homes of workers. | Gross brought out clearly that the | real issue centered around the em- | Ployers’ hatred of Denny as one of | heated five-hour session at the those responsible for organizing the making every eflort, using relief jobless single men to scabbing. The Oregon Criminal Syndicalism | Central Committee and Prop- | aganda Conference) By EARL BROWDER 'T IS highly essential that we bring |* to the working class—to the | whole toiling population—in the | eomeines possible manner, a serious and deep understanding of the sig- | nificance of the assassination of followed the investigations of this murder, What was one of the main pur- and the campaign organized around it? One of the main objectives toward which the enemy was driv- | ing was precisely to try to cover up tremendous achievements of the Soviet Union which had just been announced at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the All- Russian Communist Party. We must say that to a consider- able degree the enemy succeeded in this. The enemy, with their press, radio and other propaganda agen- cies, was able to some extent to place in the foreground, all over the world, the discussion, not of the tre- mendous successes of the Soviet Union, but the question: Is not the Soviet Union very seriously shaken; or, is not the Soviet Union demon- Strating its weakness by the execu- tion of the terrorists, etc. In our answers, we must see that we very seriously bring forward sharply, into the center of the whole Picture, as the basis of our reply to all the attacks and slanders—the actual achievements of the Soviet Union in the construction of So- cialism, the most recent victories of this construction; and to place the assassination of Kirov in its proper setting—as the desperate act of de- feated and crushed counter-revolu- fionists. Drought Met in U.S.S.R. Let us bear in mind that in the year in which the drought had tre- mendously cut agricultural produc- tion throughout Europe and Amer- ica; that this same drought had struck the Soviet Union and had been met and defeated by the col- lective agriculture of the Soviet Union, that in the Soviet Union, in | spite of the drought which was | equally severe as in Europe, and in the United States, the collective | farm system produced more grain | than the year before. Further, in | this same year, which witnessed the | complete stabilizing of the collective agriculture, even overcoming a great natural calamity, we witnessed the beginnings of the realization of the slogan set by Lenin: To catch up with and surpass the most ad- vanced industrial countries—that the Soviet Union, for the first time in a basic industry, became the first producer in the world, taking first place in the whole world in the pro- duction of pig iron. This economic advance, accompanied by splendid ROTTEN LIBER © (Excerpts from the Speech at the | ALISM AIDS WHITE GUAR D TERRORISTS IN U.S.S.R. | improvements in the living condi- tions of the Soviet masses, is direct- ly explainable by the Socialist- planned economy of the U.S. 8. R. De we have to remind ourselves of these details? No, but we have to remind ourselves of the signifi- cance of these things—their relation to such events as the assassination of Kirov. I have pointed out that the assassination of Kirov had as one of its objects to obscure these things, to prevent the masses of the world from seeing the great step forward that was marked by the Plenum of the Central Committee just a few days before Kirov was assassinated. That was not the only motive. That was tied up directly with the miserable counter-revolu- tionary motive with downright counter-revolutionary agitation with direct incentive, invitation and prov- ovation to the imperialists to make war against the Soviet Union, In’ this respect there are still some on the periphery of our move- ment, who, influenced by petty- | bourgeois liberals, say: “Yes,” in a vague, general way; all of these things are tied up together, but are | you not stretching it a great deal | when you speak about the direct connection between imperialism, the Russian White Guards and the Zinoviey-Trotzky groups? Rotten Liberalism It must be said that this skeptical attitude is one of the things that tends to weaken our struggle here and there against these counter- reyolutionists. It is a manifesta- tion of a certain rotten liberalism, in essence quite closely related to the liberal outcries against the execution of the terrorists in the Soviet Union. What is the concrete relationship between the Trotzkyites and Zinov- ievites with the open white-guard elements, the police in the im- Perialist general staffs? This rela- tionship is becoming more and more direct and organic every day. From being the ideological vanguard of the counter-revolution, the Trotzky- ites are becoming also the organiza- tional vanguard of the counter- | revolution. This was demonstrated above all by the Kirov assassination. | This is one of the lessons that we must bring to every worker, to all honest elements, to make them | acutely and keenly conscious of it and transmit this consciousness to the broad working masses in the United States; make them feel the significance of this thing and to organize the revolutionary offen- sive against all the enemies of the revolution. We cannot carry on our defense of the Soviet Union; we cannot carry forward effectively the strug- gle for conquest of power unless we strengthen this offensive against the the counter-revolution. Is it not clear that on the banner of every counter-revolutionist, on the ban- ner of every White Guardist, in their attack against the Soviet | Union, are written the slogans and quotations of Trotzky and the ‘Trotzkyites. Murderers Sent In It is not an accident that in the | Period of the Spring and Summer and early Fall of 1934, when there were thirty to forty assassin groups sent into the Soviet Union from the surrounding fascist countries with the specific objective to murder the members of the Political Bureau of the Russian Party and first of all, Comrade Stalin, that all of these terrorist groups within the border of the Soviet Union were success- fully rounded up and none of them got close even to their objective. They are not such a menace. It was possible to meet and overcome | quickly and very effectively this | menace. What enemy was it that reached | the goal, struck down the comrade standing next to Comrade Stalin. It was precisely the remnants of the Troteky-Zinovievy opposition in the Party which had in the open sur- rendered to the Party, come back to the Party, accepted the Party line, but maintained their secret | conspiratorial groups ig an organ-| ized way, spreading every lie, slan- der and rumor against the leader- ship of the Party, furnishing the White Guard and imperialist press of the world through their secret channels with all of this malicious gossip and slander. They have be- come the armor makers, the weapon makers for all the forces of counter- revolutionary imperialism, and finally they became that arm of the imperialists which struck down one of the leaders of the Socialist Fatherland. What is the basis of the degen- eration of these elements, formerly members ahd leaders of the Com- msinist Party, who became the very vanguard of counter-reyolutionary attack against our Party. It was in each and every case the starting point, the foundation for the whole development, the departure from the teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. These elements became the representatives of the hostile class forces against the pro- letarian dictatorship. | What is the foundation for every similar development that we see in the United States, as for example, the open passing over into the counter-revolutionary camp — the Cannons, the Schachtmans and their newest recruit, Muste, on the part of such a miserable renegade as Joseph Zack, at the moment when this camp had struck down Trotzkyite counter ~ revolutionary Comrade Kirov? ideology, which is the spearhead of | We can trace the development of the renegacy of Zack in the Ameri- ;can Party and see how inevitably the open counter-revolutionary work of Zack came out of his strug- | gle over a period of years against the practical line of the Communist Party of the United States in the daily class struggle. It gives us our own excellent concrete example of the truth of what Lenin said when | he pointed out that any sustained | and continued opposition against | the line of the Party inevitably leads directly over into the opposite camp—the camp of counter-revolu- tion. This must teach us also the lesson to become much more irre- concilable in our struggle against every deviation in our movement. Stern Dealing We can be very patient and long- suffering in dealing with the short- comings and weaknesses of new, raw proletarian elements who are com- | ing to us. But we have got to be| more stern and decisive and un- relenting in dealing with the devia- | tions of people who are not new, | raw people, just clearing themselves of confusion and coming to us, but who represent certain fixed and stubborn deviations from our revo- lutionary theory and who are trying to implant these deviations into the | center of our movement. Our Party has got to be firmly founded upon the unchallenged leadership of the theory and prac- tice of Bolshevism and of the great leaders of Bolshevism, and this must find expression in the everyday re- actions and activities of our Party into a sharp, uncompromising, in- tolerant struggle, first of all, against Trotzkyism and everything it stands for, to make Trotzkyism the hated word among the masses of the workers, to make it synonomous for what it is—the struggle against So- cialist construction, the struggle against the world party of revolu- tion, the struggle against Bolshe- vism, the active collaboration with | all the enemies of the revolution, the hand of imperialist reaction, the murderer of the leaders of the revo- lution. These things are firmly, clearly established facts and these we must | carry to the workers, to the broadest. masses of the workers, establish these facts and all of the conclu- sions that must be drawn from them among the broadest masses of the workers as one of the central, most essential parts of the winning of the majority of the working class for the revolution, for the Bolshe- vization of our Party, for the root- ing of our Party among the masses as capable Bolshevik leaders of the revolutionary class struggle in the United States. Akron Rubber Workers Press For Walk -Out AKRON, Ohio, Jan 21.—After a CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 21.—Irving Potash, of the National Executive Board of the Needle Workers In- dustrial Union, now in Chicago to membership meeting of the Fire- | Rubber Workers’ | in| while the federal government was | Union a strike motion was defeated by only 25 votes. Four hundred | | cuts and discrimination, to drive the | and four voted for strike and 168 | against. Due to the fact that two- | thirds majority or 429 votes was | Communist Party, about $400 in| law carries a possible ten year sen- | necessary to approve the strike mo- cash and pledges were collected to lead off the drive for a Workers Center and School in Newark. Many at the meeting applied for member- ship in joining the Communist Party in answer to the appeal of Hi Gordon. 700 at Hartford HARTFORD, Conn. Jan. 21— More than 700 workers attended the Lenin memorial meeting held here on Sunday night in the Polish National Home. Andrew Overgaard, veteran trade union leader, was given an enthu- siastic ovation by the audience. AKRON, Ohio, Jan. 18—A huge Lenin Memorial Meeting will be} held here at South High School at | 7:30 tonight. | I, O. Ford, Communist candidate for Governor in the last elections, | will be the main speaker at the| Tally. | All workers in Akron and the vi- cinity are urged to attend the meet- | ing. Mass organjzations are urged | to attend in a body and bring greet- | ings. | Tonight GARY, with Robert Minor as the main speaker. PEABODY, Mass., at 11 Northend St., 8 p.m. Wednesday, January 23 | ROCKFORD, Ill., Robert Minor as main speaker. Thursday, January 24 NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Ladies’ Hall, 42 New St., 8 p.m. Friday, January 25 PERTH AMBOY, N. J., Sholem Aleichem School, 8 p.m. CAMDEN, N. J., 814 Broadway, evening. | Saturday, January 26 PITTSBURGH, at the International So- | slal Lyowim. 005 James St. 7 p.m. 2 wz, N. J., Workers Center, 8| ). mM. PUNION CITY, N. J., Italian Cooperative Center, 24th St. and Summit Ave., 8 p.m. Sunday, January 27 | WASHINGTON, D. Masonie Temple, Tenth and U Streets, 8:15 p.m. MALDEN, Mass., 451 Cross 8t., 8 p.m. BAYONNE, N. J., Bayonné Opera House, | 26th St. and Avenue C, 8 p.m. | aid |The usual procedure then is to | lets him ignore the order if he can | has been notified to appear before tence. Workers, individually and in| organizations, are urged to rush Protests to the Oregon State Su- preme Court; Circuit Judge James Stapleton and Governor Charles H. Martin, demanding a dismissal of all the cases and immediate repeal of the criminal syndicalism law, as well as immediate, unconditional release of De Jonge and Kyle Pugh. Councils Fight Eviction Alliance in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 21.— An alliance between landlords and the Board of Health has been formed here in order to stop the anti-eviction activities of the Un- employment Councils. The owner and ‘he Board agree to condemn a house in which an unemployed worker is living when the worker cannot pay the rent. either have the Board of Health turn off the water and order the tenant to move after which the landiord approaches the tenant and scrape up the rent, or the worker is haled into court to answer charges of violating the Board ruling. Charles Walker, a Negro worker, Magistrate Belcher to answer charges, not specified, made by the Board of Health. Walker, who is a member of the Unemployment Council, has been uctive in many eviction struggles. He is being backed by the Counci’ and the In- ternational Labor Defense, which will use the court to expose the whole racket. Photo-Engravers Hold Firm Against Wage Cut The situation in the photo-en- g:aving industry seemed to be at a deadlock yesterday as workers held out against wage cuts. Insisting on a 36-hour week in the industry, almost all members of Monday, January 28 CHICAGO, at 5885 Irving Park Boule- vard, evening. PITTSBURGH, Fifth Ave. High School, ap. m, Friday, February 1 | JERSEY CITY, N. J., Polish Community Center, Grove St, and Bergen Ave., 8 p.m.) Photo Engravers Union Local 1, at a meeting in St. George Hotel, | Brooklyn, Sunday evening, rejected | the new contract proposed by the! Photo Engravers Board of Trade. | The employers p:opose that hours | tion, it was defeated. This vote was taken following the lay-offs of the battery workers in Firestone for union activity. The company told the men to “look for other jobs.” The officials were forced to call the meeting due to the insistence of the rank and file. However, only 568 out of the 6,600 members of the union were present. This small number is attributed to the fact that the majority of the rank and file are disgusted with the policy of the Clahertys. At their regular meetings they have no more than 150-200 present, but because work- ers expected something would be done, 568 were present. At this meeting a committee was named with President Kriebel of the local, as chairman, to go to Washington and stay until the de- mand to take away the Firestone Blue Eagle is met. A similar demand that the B. F. Goodrich Company’s Blue Eagle be taken away has been filed by the United Rubber Workers’ Council. The fact that 404 workers voted for a strike, short of 25 votes to pass a strike motion, proves that the rank and file of the Firestone Local are ready to fight to the end for the reinstatement of the battery workers and for improvement of conditions of all workers in Fire- | Stone. King Solomon Lodge Endorses Conference to Win Negro Rights The Conference for Equal Op- | portunities for Jobs for Negroes in Brooklyn, called for Friday evening, | Jan. 25, at the Carlton Avenue Y. M. C. A., 405 Carlton Avenue, Brook- |lyn, was endorsed yesterday by the | King Solomon Lodge, a Negro fra- | ternal organization. The lodge is | sending a delegate. The conference was previously en- dorsed by the Office Workers Union, Independent Smoking Pipe Makers Union, the League of Struggle for | Negro Rights, the Young Liberators Club, and Rev. J. H. Matthews, and Dr. Harry Warwick. Through with today’s paper? Pass your “Daily” on to some be scaled down gradually to 36 over a period of three years, worker, student, professional or intellectual, \ help give leadership in the strike of fur workers of the Evans Fur Com- Pany, has issued an appeal to all Chicago workers’ organizations to back the striking fur workers. He Pointed out that the issuance of an injunction against the strikers, the use of gangsters to terrorize the strikers and the wholesale arrests are a challenge to the entire labor movement of Chicago. The Regional Labor Board, after considering the strike, decided for a poll of the workers of the Evans Fur Company to determine the union they want, and the scabs which have keen brought in on the very morning when the decision was made are to participate. John Fitz- patrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, is a member of the Board. The officials of Local 45 of the International Fur Workers Union of the A. F. of L., who have been long ago discredited as strike-breakers, have signed an Scabs Get Vote in LRB ‘Poll’ In Strike at Chicago Fur Shop agreement with the Evans Fur Company as a means to break the strike and the Industrial Union. So raw is their strikebreaking deal, that members of Local 45 refuse to take the jobs they are sent up to take. Those now on strike were locked out when the strikebreaking | agreement was arranged. | The Slavonic National Benefit So- | ciety, with a membership of 60,000 nationally, and 3,000 in Chicago, after hearing of the strike-breaking agreement arranged by Local 45 of- ficials, decided to withdraw their support to the Evans Fur Company Filmdom Fashion Style Show next Friday and sent back the tickets. The decisicy: followed the appear- ance of Abe Finglass, organizer of the Fur Workers Industrial Union and a group of strikers before the benefit society, and Jacobs and the lawyer of Local 45, a member of the Socialist Party. A member of the Society also a member of the So- cizlist Party arose and charged that Local 45, is “not a real union but a racket.” After that the membership including more members of the S. P. voted to withdraw support. Unemployment Council Of Oklahoma Demands State Workers’ Bill OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Jan, 21.—A letter demanding that the State Legislature take action on a Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill that embodies the conditions of H. R. 2827, was sent from here, last week by the Unemployment Coun- cils of Oklahoma. The letter stated that the in- crease in unemployment and the consequent rise in the death rate of workers, caused by malnutrition, flux and other diseases, made the Passing of this bill an immediate necessity for the 250,000 unemploy- ed now on relief roles in the state. It was also pointed out that this bill was to take effect at once and to continue until Such time as the Workers’ Bill was passed by the United States Con: . The Unemployment Councils ex- pressed the determination to rally its membership and all the workers of the state to force the adoption of the workers’ bill. Japan Seeks Brazil Trade TOKYO, Jan. 21.—An “economic” commission is to be sent from here to Brazil in the early spring with the object of setting up close rela- tions between the latter country and Japan, according to the Shimbun Rengo agency. The commission is Cincinnati Unemployed Call County-Wide Rally To Win Freedom of Six CINCINNATI, Jan, 21.—Far from suppressing protests against in- adequate relief, Judge Clarence Sprawl's action in sentencing six members of the Unemployment Council to the Workhouse has re- sulted in redoubled activity here. A call has gone out for a county. wide demonstration to protest the imprisonment of the six workers and to demand immediate improve- ment of relief. The six were part of a delegation of twenty-nine which visited the Elizabeth and Mound Street relief station to demand immediate aid for two families. All of the group were atrested. Judge Sprawl, in sentencing the six, made it clear that the policy of the city government would be to treat jobless workers who ask for more relief as criminals. “Any group,” said the judge, “who takes it upon themselves to force the Welfare Department into a change of policy by demanding group recognition will be sent to jail.” A NEW SOVIET REPUBLIC MOSCOW, Jan. 21—The All- Soviet Central Executive Commit- tee has granted the request made by Region of Udmourti and to trans- | to be set_ up by the Japanese Cham- ber for Economics and Jaedwetmay form it into an Autonomous Soviet Republic, the population of the Autonomous | 10 Mechanies Face Sentence In Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS, Jan, 21.—Strik- ing mechanics, who have seen six of their number brutally shot down, got another taste of the capitalist justice in a trial of thirteen of their | number that ended here late last | week. The testimony showed that al committee of four garage mechanics went into the Anderson Chevrolet Garage at 2905 Hast Lake Street, to talk to the mechanics. Although scabs had been reported to be at the garage, none were there at the time. The flunkey in charge of the service station grabbed a gun, however, and pulled the trigger. There were bullets in the magazine of the revolver, there was not one in the barrel. Another hit two of the picketers over the head with a hammer. When the police arrived, they arrested the picketers, but not their attackers. Judge Clyde White, who is notorious for the smoothness with which he sends militant workers to jail, dismissed the case against three of the thirteen charged with disor- deriy conduct, thereby intending to bluff the workers with his “fair- ness.” The other ten are to be de- cided today. Manslaughter Trial Due MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan, 21— The trial of Philip Scott, 19-year- old picketer charged with man- slaughter in connection with the May, 1934, strike of the truck drivers, is expected to get under way here this week, with the selection of the jurors. Ten jurors already have been selected. Scott is charged with man- slaughter in the first degree, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment, in connection with the death of C. Arthur Lyman, wealthy manufacturer, who joined an armed band of local business men organized to break the strike of the truck drivers, fighting against wages as low as $12 a week, and for 52% cents an hour and recog- nition of their union. POLICE ATTACK WORKERS PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Jan. 20.—The Czechoslovakian police to- day began the practice of learning how to handle tanks in military ex- ercises at Milovitz. The tanks are so devised as to be used in the streets against demonstrations and to handle gas attacks against workers. | Through with today’s paper? | Pass your “Daily” on to some worker, student, professional or intellectual, MOSCOW, Jan. sight, declared D. E. Sulimov Drivers’ Strike On LongIsland Remains Solid Tailors Support Strike of Cleaning and Dyeing Truck Drivers Undaunted by the efforts of the Dyers Company, find ways and means of cheating the workers out of their pay, due them since Nov. 27, when the shop was closed by a lockout, the mem- bers of the United Cleaners and Dyers and Drivers Union are de- termined to continue the strike, de- clared in answer to the lockout, to @ successful conclusion. On Wednesday, when the case came up before Judge Emphry J. Hoekstra, in the Jamaiea courtroom, the owner failed to produce his plan for reorganization of the plant, which was supposed to free hin from the responsibility of paying ers employed by him. Charging him with violation of Section 1272 of the Penal Law, the court referred the case to the Spe- cial Session Court jurisdiction such cases fall. The united union is composed of the Drivers Local 185 of the In- ternational Brotherhood of Team- sters and Local 18232 of the Clean- ers and Dyers. Efforts of the owners to open the shop in a reorganized form, avoid- ing thereby union labor, will fail, the union told the Daily Worker. Friedman, chairman of the shop, was instructed by Jacob Effrot, general manager of the union, to maintain a daily picket line. The Picket lines is being kept up daily, In an effort to avoid the drivers and the inside workers, the owner C. O. D’d his customers, to pre- vent the workers from collecting any money, and making his tailor customers pay the bills C. O. D, The united union called on all tailors to refrain from giving work to the Jamaica Cleaners until such time that they employ union help exclusively. The solidarity of the tailors and all the cleaners and dy- ers as well as the drivers is the only way to force the owners to operate under union conditions. The Cleaners and Dyers Board of Trade, representing the owners, is doing everything in its power to de- feat the workers. Four other shops have been locked out since the Jamaica was closed dwn. All efforts of the owners to re- open the place in any shape or form, will meet with the stubborn resistance of the organized work- ers, supported by the individual tailors who will refuse to deal with non-union owners. Youth Faces Prison For Giving Handbills To National Guards LOS ANGELES, Calif, Jan. 20— For his opposition to imperialist war, James Roberts, young worker, is to be railroaded to a prison sen- tence under a decision handed down. by Judge Crum, notorious labor- hater, Roberts is accused of distributing anti-war leaflets exposing the drive \of the Roosevelt government towards war and fascism among young workers in the National Guard. No rank and file member of the Na- tional Guard could be induced to testify against young Roberts. The only prosecution witnesses were National Guard officers. Roberts, now out on bail, will be sentenced on Monday. The Inter- national Labor Defense is urging all workers and their organizations to flood Judge Crum, Municipal Court, with protests, demanding reversal of the verdict and dropping of the charges against Roberts. CUBAN WORKERS PROTEST HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 20.—The Railroad Brotherhood of Cuba has sent a telegram to the American Ambassador in Havana protesting the threatened legal lynching of the Scottsboro boys. The wire states: The Railroad Brotherhood of Cuba ask you to convey to your government our energetic proleta- of condemning to death the Negro boys of Scottsboro which has aroused the entire working popula- tion of the American continent.” Get a greeting from a friend today for the Daily Worker's Eleventh Anniversary! Your name will be on the Honor Roil in the Special Edition of the Daily Worker if you send your greeting today! owners of the Jamaica Cleaners and | 116-10 Atlantic | Avenue, Rickmond Hill, L. I. to) the back wages due the 30 work- | unde r whose | rian protest against the injustice HIGH STANDARD OF LIVING IN SIGHT FOR USSR TOILERS Sulimoy, Chairman of Council of Peoples’ Com. missars, Reports on Growth of Forces of Production in Workers’ Land Special to the Daily Worker) 21 (By Wireless).—Realization of the aim of doubling and tripling consumers’ goods for every Soviet citizen and culturally to raise his position to heights unknown to the masses of capitalist countries is already in at the Congress of Soviets of %the Russian Socialist Federated | Soviet Republics in concluding his report for the workers’ and peas- ants’ government. As chairman of the Council of Peoples’ Commissars, | Sulimov reviewed the enormous dis- tance traversed by the RS.F.S.R, between the 15th and 16th Con- gress of Soviets, now in full swing at the Kremlin Palace. The basic equipment of three- quarters of heavy industry had been built afresh, Sulimov showed, and a number of new industries been |created, finally ensuring the econ- |omic independence of the country |of socialism from capitalist econ- omy. During these years many | thousands of new engineers, tech- nical workers, and hundreds of thousands of skilled workers had been trained, guaranteeing the suc- cessful carrying on of the socialist enterprises built and reconstructed on the basis of the latest achieve- ments of world technique. Growth of Agriculture Socialist reconstruction in agricul- ture and the reconstruction of its machine basis have insured an in- crease in the productivity of agri- cultural output. The sown area of the R.S.F.S.R. during the last few years has increased by 7 per cent and is now 26 per cent in excess of the pre-war sown area. Machine and tractor stations already serve 60 | Per cent of the sown area of the | collective farms. The central agri- |cultural task of the Second Five- Year Plan is the struggle for hig harvests, Sulimov said. |, The Soviet Union has entered on the stage when the results of the enormous heroic work of the toilers of the country in the decisive years of the development of the socialist offensive are beginning to make | themselves felt in full force. We See this, Sulimov emphasized, in the literally nation-wide movement for raising the cultural level in all pratcs of material and spiritual life. Advance Toward Abundance Decisive steps have already been taken to solve the task set by Stalin in doubling and trebling consump- tion per head, in developing light industry and in increasing commo- dity turnover. The abolition of the card system was a great victory in Soviet economic policy. It is an illustration of the rapidity of ad- vance of the country in the strug- gle for socialist abundance, for the conversion of the country of the Soviets into the richest country in the world. In the report of the government Special emphasis was given to the question of work in light industry and to questions of communal econ- omy and health protection. These questions are raised by the entire course of development of the coun- try; they arise from its victories, “We enter the year of 1935,” Suli- mov concluded, “with considerably jimproved cultural levels for the |masses. The Congress can be sure that the third year of the Second Five-Year Plan will bring our coun- try still more serious successes in all branches of construction. And the guarantee of this is the solidar- ity of millions of toilers of our coun- try around the Party and Stalin.” The concluding words of Sulimov were dro-#-ed in a stormy prolonged ovation. Warmly greeting the or= ganizer of socialist victories, the be« loved leader of the toilers, the pro- letarian and democratic Congress reflected the feelings of the entire country and listened to the report sf the government with the most profound satisfaction, Southbridge Textile Strike Continues Solid SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 20.— Although at a mesting of its stock= holders this week the Hamilton Woolen Company recommended scrapping their $2,000,000 plant, in an effort to get the workers to call off the strike, on the eve of the stockholders’ meeting the workers found out that 33 scabs were em- ployed in the plant, and the com- ae was actually trying to oper- ate it. Calling the company’s bluff the workers, members of Local 2324 of the United Textile Workers voted recently by 480 against 2 to con- tinue the strike. “We will not vote to return to work unless we are all taken in a body without discrimi- nation,” Jean Gauthier, president of the local stated. The nation-l officials of the U. T. W. ordered the strikers to return, on the company’s promise to reopen the plant, mor2 than a month ago. Workers Make Protest at. Fascist Film Exhibit RIGA, aJn. 21—Spontaneous pro- test actions were held here against the propaganda of the fascist Lat- vian government during the per- formance of a propaganda film of the government, reports Jaunakas Zikas, one of the largest papers in the country. The paper further re- ports that leaflets exposing the gov- ernment were distributed before large department stores at Riga. The Communist Party is an ile legal party in Latvia.