The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1935, Page 2

& ‘ Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1935 Trap Exposes Employers Behind the Racine Kidnapings COMMUNIST RAID a PLOTTED SECRETLY BY POLICE CHIEF Wisconsin Paper Gives List of ‘‘Best Citizens” Who Arranged Slugging of Samuel Herman— Thug Warns That Socialists “‘Come Next” RACINE, W Jan. 23.—A clever trap exposed the full tie-up of leading “best citizens” of Racine and officials with the recent gangsterism and kidnapping attacks against the Communist Par Prominent |< are implicated. As t consin ‘Voice of Labor’ Bins, a hired slugger and thug of the Racine Association of Ccm- e, was tricked into spi y of the recent kic el Herman, Com unist getting him to talk i or- ganizer, a room hooked ich had been previou up to the outside Bins Revealed Names Bins, thinking that he was get- ting another slugging job to do, gave away the names of the fol- Jowin as involved in the kidnaping 1—Dar Vrisman—Secretary of the Association of Commerce, the “pay. off” man who handled the money. 2.—Godfrey Hei of the American Lé Bins to get Morris Childs. One of the tacticians in the terror reign. 3.—Tom Anderson. — connected with the law firm of Beck, Smith and Heft. He was given by Bins as reference for. his efficiency as a slugger. It was in Anderson's of- tice, that Wilbur met Bins. 4-Frank Applegate—Ford Deal- er. He supplied Bins with cars, and equipped them with phoney license Pilates. He put 50 cars at Bins dis- posal. “5.—Grover Lutter—Chief ot Po- lice. Bins said, “He knew all about the kidnapping. He is 100% He is my friend. He is a real guy.” 6.—Johnson—Owner of Johnson ‘Wax Company. He gave “Big Nick” a, Christmas present for taking Herman for a ride. He appreciates labor sluggers. “7.—Editor of the Racine Journal- ‘Times. le is 100% ok. He is in with us,” says Bins. The Times has eérried vicious lynch articles all during the terror drive. *8.—Horlick, of the Horlick Co. Owns a big interest in the Journal- Times. John Sekat, was framed afd railroaded, for his sympathy With the Horlick workers. : Socialists Come Next The thug, Bins, admitt Socialists and trade unior planned to be the next victims of the terrorism ye stated directiy that “Chief of Folice Lutter knew all about the Kidnapping of Sam Herman and vigilante activity in Racine.” Referring to the editor of the icine + Journal-Times, the thug mitted that “the editor is with ug 100 per cent.” = Planned to Wreck Halls 2“All Communist halls will be smashed” Bins boasted, stating that He had no worries about expenses, simce the “big boys were footing the ‘Blls.” tHe also confirmed the fact that ® Federal agent from the U. S. De- Partment of Justice had been in- Voived in the kidnapping raids. « Widespread indignation has been ayoused among all working sections of the population, including many liberals and professionals. The Gommunist Party is working for a uhhited front of Socialist and Com- wpunist workers and trade unionists for the defeating of this growing fascist terrorism in Racine. GSPARROWS POINT MEETING 2 BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 23.—As ert of its campaign to rally the steel workers for unionism, the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, Sparrows Point Lodges, are sponsoring a large Mass meeting at the union head- quarters, 4719 Eastern Avenue, on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2 p. m. Herbert | enjamin, secretary of the Na- ional Action Committee for Unem~- Ployment and Social Insurance, will k on “Unemployment and So- gial Insurance.” ? is Mass Meetings [To Honor Lenin ie rIn Many Cities : : Thursday, January 24 + NEW BRUNSWIOK, N. J., Ladies’ Gall, 42 New St. 8 p.m. + ~~» Friday, January 25 * BALTIMORE, Mé.. Elks Home, Madison Avenue and MeMechen Street. Manning dehngon as main speaker. rf 1TH AMBOY, N. J,, Sholem Alsichem Gchoo!, 8 p.m. + CAMDEN, N. J., 814 Broadway, evening 2 UNION CITY, N. J., Italian Cooperative Genter, 24ch St. and Summit Ave., 8 p.m. * Saturday, January 26 “L PITTSBURGH, at the Internetional So- del Lyceum, 805 James St., 7 p.m gaia we, Aid . m. : Sunday, January 27 “WASHINGTON, D. C., Masonic Temple, Tenth and U Streets, 8:15 p.m. = MALDEN, Mass., 451 Cros; . LBAYONNE, , Bayonne Opera H Qsth Br. and Avenue C, 3 p.m. = Monday, January 28 = CHICAGO, at 5835 Irving Park Boule- rd, evening. + PITTEBURGH, Fifth Ave, High School, pm, Friday, February 1 and its ors s, businessmen, and the police officials | to get a little coal to keep his family | , from freezing. After being turned | East 108th Street. ‘referred to Miss Alice Haines, station anizers. Health Report Refutes Lies Of Wm. Hearst (Continued from Page 1) committee was followed by a vivid speech by-Commissar of Health of the R. S. F. S. R. Kaminski. He spoke about conditions and perspec- tives of health protection. “The question of national health,” he said, “was one of the most important questions of the revolution. It is therefore not accidental that it is now discussed in the Congress of lets. “On the basis of the sharp rise of the development of the Soviet country in the sphere of economy, technique and culture, the Party and Government put and most reso- lutely are solving the question of the rise of the cultural and ma- terial welfare of the masses, “During the course of the years following the October Revolution health protection has grown stead- ily, and developed together with the general growth of the Soviet coun- TY “The U. S. S. R. has attained especially great success in the field of protection of health. Not only foreign workers and delegations who visited the Soviet Union, but also representatives of the medical world, have expressed their surprise at the extent and achieve- ment of Soviet health protection.” Shows Great Advances He went on to show the great advances in health facilities and social provisions for the protection of the workers’ health. “At the Sixteenth Party Con- ss,” he declared, “Stalin clearly | construction as a whole ‘creates such an atmos- phere of work and everyday life for the working class which makes it possible for us to build a new work- ers’ generation, healthy and cheer- ful.’ “The gigantic successes of Social- ist construction and decisive suc- cesses in industrialization, the vic-~ ries of collective farming, secured all conditions for a great improve- ment in the health of the toilers. “The pre-war number of urban and rural hospitals and dispensaries has been left far behind. Their number increased two and a half times over the number in 1913. Due to the special attention given by the Soviet State to motherhood and infancy, the network of lying-in homes has been increased six times. “While in 1913 Ozarist statistics | gave the number of children placed in nurseries at 10,000, the U. S. S. R. has reached 3,700,000. About 22,000,000 are under medical care. | In 1934 over 2,000,000 workers and collective farmers were sent to sanatoriums and health resorts and rest homes. Death Rate Reduced “In pre-revolutionary Russia 30 people died per every 1,000 yearly, and in the borderlands, 40 or more. Whereas in the 18th year of the revolution, the death rate has dropped one-third; and the chil- dren’s death rate has been reduced by one-half. Diseases in the min- ing industry have dropped by 40 per cent; in the metal industry by 35 per cent, etc. “Tuberculosis has been consider- |ably reduced. The majority of the epidemic diseases have dropped by three to seven times. | “According to the plan for 1935, 4,073,000,000 rubles are assigned for health protection from the budget and social insurance funds. While in 1913 the amount assigned for health protection per capita in Rus- sia equalled 92.2 kopeks, the average expenditure for health in 1935 will |be 30 rubles per capita in the U. 8. 5. R. “In the course of the post-revo- lutionary years, a new population of healthy, strong, cheerful people has grown up. The proletarian and capitalist | Court Assails Relief Agency, | But Veteran Fails to Get Coal Negro Cleric On Scottsboro BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan, 23.— An attempt by Alabama civil au- thorities to set up a local Leibowitz Seottsboro Committee” to disrupt the fight for the Scottsboro boys was exposed today by Rev. E. H r Negro minister, who been active here in the struggle for the release of the Hammond told today how after he was picked up on the street | by police in a radio car last Mon- day, he was se ly g! d at the City Hall by Chief Detective Giles of Birmingham force. During the grilling, Giles alternately tried threats and persuasion, warning Rey. Hammond to “keep away from the International Labor Defense,” trying to “p.rsuade” him to the treacherous role of Leibowitz, renegade defense attorney, and set up an “inde- pendent Scottsboro committee” to parallel Leibowitz’s Amer- sboro Committee and co- th that group of Negro ite misleaders in its at- empts to confuse the masses on the | question of who has charge of the | defense, and so disrupt the fight for the boys. When Rev. Hammond indignantly refused to “play ball” with the lynch rulers to disrupt the Scottsboro defense and betray the liberation struggle of the Negro masses, he was released with a savage warning to “keep away from the Interna-| tional Labor Defense.” Rey. Hammond today declared | his determination to continue to support the I. L. D., as the organi- zation which is conducting and leading the only real fight for the lives and freedom of the boys and the liberation of the Negro people Two Women Get Mistrial In Relief Fight By Sandor Voros (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 23—To prevent exposure of a conspiracy between city officials and relief agencies for suppression of the Uaemployment Councils, Common Plees Judge Hertz today declared a mistrial in the cases Mrs. Judbach | The two women, militant mem- bers of the Unemployment Council were arrested on Oct. 9 after Miss Newman, a relief investigator filed a complaint charging that the two women compelled her to sign orders | for winter clothing by intimidation. The pronouncement of a mistrial and the setting of a new trial for) Feb. 19 was a surprise move to spare city dignitaries the ordeal of examination on the witness stand | by defense lawyers. | The real attitude of the court was expressed following the dismissal of the jury when Judge Hertz sum- moned N. D. Davis, Jr., of defense counsel, to the pench and imposed on him a fine of $100 for con- tempt of court. Davis was released on fifty dollars personal bond. collective farm youth constitute a tremendous army of physically well developed gay young boys and girls. 9,000,000 in Sports “Nine million young people are engaged in systematic physical cul- ture and sports. “This is how the Soviet country lis growing and becoming healthy. The Soviet toiler's health is the center of attention. The develop- ment of Soviet medical science has | jreached an unparalleled scale. In the course of the years after the October Revolution it came to one of the first places in the world. |The R. 8. F. S. R. alone has now |35 central and 154 district scien- tific research institutes wherein about 8,000 scientists are engaged. “The yearly budget of scientific \institutions amounts to 100,000,000 rubles. | “Let the fascist theoreticians,” |Kaminsky concluded his speech, | “engage in problems of “racial med- ‘icine’ in theory, and in steriliza- tion in practice. The best and most sacred ideas which are born in the world are the ideas of health and happiness of the millions, and this must become our slogan. | “We must create and educate the |type of physician who is a friend and assistant to the workers, highly qualified and sympathetic, full of lcare for them and hating castes ‘and prejudices.” CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 23.—“The case is no exception. My office will| a suspended sentence for which the| And there'll be some fat, greasy still have to investigate before tak- judge apologized saying that the|scalps hanging on the wall. ing any action,” was the answer ecutive secretary of the Emergency Relief Administration, when he was called into court here last week to show why he was not supplying jcoal to the destitute family of Workers Center, 8/ William Doolan, | Doolan, an unemployed veteran| had been sent from office to office of the Home Relief Bureau trying down a number of times he finally arrived at the relief station at 50 There he was head, who listened to his story and then coldly turned him down, Out ; In court the judge gave Doolan law left him no other course. He given by William 8. Reynolds, ex-) delivered a bitter denunciation of | we may have to do in this country, | |the Relief Administration from the | bench stating that “this is a dis- grace to a country which has ap- | propriated millions of dollars for | the supposed purpose of providing ‘fuel for the unemployed.” A few days ago Doolan appeared ‘in court again and appealed to the | judge stating that he still was not getting any coal. It was after the judge had visited the home of the Doolan family himself that Rey- nolds was summoned into court. But Reynolds was not impressed by the court or the speeches of the judge and the Home Relief Bureau is still making the “investigation” JERSEY CITY, N. J., Polish Community Of desperation Doolan slapped her | while the Doolan family still shivers "Center, Grove St. and Bergen Ave., 8 p.m. across the face. ¥ | with cold, and Mrs, Martin, | Police Grill Tighe Dodges Workers While Trying SPY AND VIGILANTE To Check Feb. 3 National AA Parley TS STATE ‘EXPERT’ Jnion CHIE Hesorts to’ Lies to Prove Call | Was ‘Illegal’ | By Tom Keenan (Daily Worker Pittsburgh Buread) | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan, 23.— Their backs against the wall, Presi- dent. Mike Tighe and the top lead- ers of the Amalgamated Associa-’| tion of Iron, Steel end Tin Workers are making every effort to sabotage the national conference on Feb. 3 called by the rank and file, writing | letters to every lodge declaring the conference “outlaw,” and issuing daily statements to the press cal- culated to raise the red scare. Having no basis of truth on which to ban the national meeting, Tighe has resorted to outright lying to establish its legality.” In the capitalist papers and in the Amal- gamated Journal, he avers the meeting was called “without the sanction” of the international lodge, conveying at the same time that the decision for it was reached in some underground manner by certain “radicals” in the union, But the senile Tighe cannot deny that this decision was reached at a joint district conference, attended by 180 delegates from the lodges of four districts, held in the interna- tional headquarters of the union on Dec. 30. Present at this Dec. 30 meeting were all the international Officials excepting Tighe, who fled ; to West Virginia to escape the wrath of the rank and file—and HIDING | | | MIKE TIGHE President of Amalgamated As- sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, afraid of militancy of rank and file, delegates of lodge after lodge which is a feature of every district meet- ing. To these decrepit old bureaucrats, the only union man is one with a fully paid up card. The mass un- employment of steel workers is a | plays Mass Sentiment for Straggle Grows in District One aim as that of the company—to split the workers on the basis of isola- tion of the best fighters. Few Ledges Follow Tighe In the whole of District One | there is only one lodge which sup- ports the international office and lapdog for Tighe. This Cannonsburg, where a group PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. _ IN PORTLAND TRIA By Dawn Lovelace (Special to the Ps | Court Aids Prosecutor in Hlegal Procedure at the Hearing of Edward Denny on Syndicalisin Charge —De Jonge Surrenders 19 Sheriff rhe-) 23.--M. R. Bacon, red-squad ‘ot e stool-pigeon, squirmed and stammered under the slashing line reactionary misleaders have a| questions put to him by International Labor Defense at- throttle-hold on the lodge, and: {orneys in cross-examination seize every opportunity to howl against the Reds. To a lesser de- gree, Carnegie and Monessen lodges follow the lead of Cannonsburg. This idea that a strike can not | be “legally” called except by action of a convention is being carefully | nurtured by the bureaucrats in an | attempt to avert rank and file ac- | In such manner they try to | keep the minds of the workers away | tion, from the two most important fac- ters in the success of a strike: mass sentiment for strike, and the ques- tion of the degree to which the or- ganization has been built which is ditional reports of recent elections | necessary to launch a strike. Popularizing Demands Popularization of the economic demands of the steel workers is now the central issue in the literature distributed by lodges in the first district of the A, A, The demand for enactment of the Workers’ Bill CH. R. 2827) is one of these, as well not one officer raised a word of ranks of the union against the | mum wage, the six-hour day, five- protest against the decision, nor Tighe Dodges Mectings j Tighe is very militant about | ments” in the columns of the boss press, hinting at mass expulsions, | etc.—but the facts remain that he has for months been afraid to at- tend a single district' meeting. For that matter, so have all the rest of | the international officials, lacking the courage to face the blast of 52 Wall Steat! Men on Secret. RooseveltBody (Continued from Page 1) | jana, with Long being groomed as | candidate for president in 1936, | backed by Coughlin’s National Union for Social. Justice and in all probability by the entire in- flationary blec, led by the power- ful Committee for the Nation, an organization of Wall Street bank- ers and indusirialists, That Coughlin favors the or- ganization of what are virtually Fascist unions. That the priest has a secret | agreement with the Direct Credits Society, an organization with | | thousands of members in Michi- gan, now spreading to other states and whose theories are of a semi- fascist character. | | As at previous Tuesday nigitt lec- | __| tures, Coughlin, speaking extempo- |raneously, cut loose and said things he never dares say over the radio. | For some mysterious reason these | Tuesday night lectures, attended by | a maximum of 1,000 people, are re- | ported in no newspaper in the coun- | try except the Daily Worker. | Attack On Roosevelt | Last night's speech was the first | time on a public occasion the priest made a direct attack on the Roose- velt government. | He attacked the President as a man who “talked about turning the |money-changers out of the Temple | |and then handed the Temple back to them again.” It is quite clear that the power- ful financial interests behind | Coughlin—interests which in all probability can be traced, directly or indirectly, to the offices of John |D. Rockefeller and Henry Ford— have come to the conclusion that | the rising discontent of the masses, the threat of a new strike wave, to-~ gether with the growing disillusion- ment with Roosevelt, make it neces- sary to bring forward a more openly | fascist “opposition” to the New Deal |in order to suppress the toiling pop- ulation and all militant labor or- | ganizations, “Praying With Guns” Throughout his speech the unctu- ous priest mingled the mast blood- thirsty fascist and anti-Semitic statements with all sorts of hypo- critical appeals to “Christian Char- ity” and “locing one's neighbor.” A | Well-known liberal Detroit minister sitting with me was revolted by this | exhibition and shocked by Cough- lin’s unconcealed Jew-baiting. While preaching “Christian love,” Coughlin scoffed at prayer. “The| only way the Christians in Mexico ‘can put their prayers across is at | the point of a gun. And that’s what | they're going to do in the spring. And,” | he added significantly, “that’s what That's not a pleasant thing to say, | but it’s coming.” | At another point he said: “I'm not going to be satisfied till WE) | are the power. Attack on Jews Launching into his attack on the) Jews, he shouted: “We've got to | say that we're either Christians in this country or not, Who estab-| lished this country? Maryland was | founded by the Catholics, Massa- | chusetts by the Puritans, New York by Dutch Protestants, Pennsylvania | by the Lutherans—Christians. We | are not going to be so damn liberal as to compromise on Christianity. We're so open-minded as to say to) the Jews, the Mohammedans, the | enough | the person who paid for a movie | during the trial of Edward | Denny, fourth Oregon Criminal Syndicalism case to go to Militants Win Many Posts In Mine Vote (Daily Worker Midwest Burezu) SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Jan. 23.—Ad- jin locals of the Progressive Miners | Union | fields give further evidence of the increased support for the united | rank and file tickets. | The following were elected in | Local One: J. Betuello, president; A. Frame, vice-president; J. Vid- |mar, secretary; A. Gricevitch (Com- munist Alderman in Benld), J. | fact they refuse to recognize, and|as one for equal rights for Negro | Gimenski, H. Skeldon, and A. Steed, | they consistently drive to close the workers. One dollar an hour mini- | for the Pit Committee. In Local Six of Nakomis, Barney worker with only part of his initia- |day week, recognition of the union, Hopley was elected president, and even so much as voted against it. | tion fee paid. This maneuver, they | And abolition of the company unions | Holloway a member of the Social- figure, is their best guarantee against actually organizing the steel | robbers, | scare into the ranks of the union | is having its effect on the workers, | Many worl quesne, where the steel company re- | jcently called for the lynching of all criticism from the rank and file | Reds, see in Tighe’s move the same Burmese and the others that while we love each other, remember this is a Christian principle, and re- member that when it comes to law, when it comes to representatives in Congress, don’t forget this is a Christian nation; let’s not overwork demccracy. “It's a contest between individual- | ism and Christianity, between some | chosen few and the outside mob,| between Christ and chaos.” In response to a question from a worker as to how he should vote in the balloting for so-called collective | bargaining representatives at the teans Committee to Herbert Ben- | Dodge plant, he said: | “Vote for a vertical union, Don't , vote for a company union and don’t vote for the A. F. of L. All auto- medile workers ought to be in one | union. I wish I had the time to); organize all the auto workers in| Michigan. A dime a year would be instead of ten dollars a year in dues.” | Witness May Place Condon Near to Crime. (Continued from Page 1) | | tickes with a $5 ransom note long} before the date Hauptmann says #.gch gave him the ransom money | in a shoe box; 7, The identification | of the ladder found lying on the) lawn of the Lindbergh home atter | the kidnaping as being partially | constructed with wood taken from Hauptmann’s home. Against all this purely circum-| stantial evidence Hauptmann’s de- fense counsel will counter with the following testimony: 1, Handwriting experts who will contend firstly, that the difference in the hand- writing between the first note found in the crib and the succeed- ing notes precludes the cevtainty that Hauptmann either wrote the first note or was on the scene of the kkidnaping; secondly, that Fisch | wrote all the notes, and finally that the handwriting in the notes was different from both the telephone number of Condon's that police say they found written on a closet door in Hauptmann’s door, and from the bank deposit slip which recorded the deposit of almost $3,000 of the | ransom money; 2. The identifica- tion by Dr, Condon of Hauptmann as the “John” who received the ransom money will kc met with testimony to the effect that Condon had always been unab.e to identify Hauptmann when asked by police to do so previous to the trial, that Lindbergh himself has admitted seeing two men the night the money passed hands, and that the pilaster cast of a footprint found on the scene of the rendezvous with | foot; 4. Evidence indicating that the body found in the grave was four inches longer than the body of the Lindbergh baby; 4. The contention that although several local people have identified, Haupt- mann as being near the scene of the kidnaping, several other local persons have also identified Mayor LaGuardia, Assistant Secre- tary of Agriculture Tugwell and General N.R.A. Johnson as having been near the scene; 5. The testi- mony of Mrs. Greta Henkle, an in- timate friend of Hauptmann’s that at the moment Hauptmann is al- leged to have been buying a movie ticket with a $5 ransom bill he was actually at a birthday party given in his honor which she also at- national conference the ne: are the others. ist Party, was placed on the Pit Steel workers of the Monongahela Committee. . “cracking down on left wing ele- | industry for a clash with the steel | Valley, mostly employed by the | Carnegie Steel Company, meeting in the Wheat The full slate of the rank and are now file was elected in Local 71 of Col- | Tighe's attempt to throw the red | mobilizing for a giant open air | linsville. In Local 15 of Springfield, Field, E. Dombrovsky, a rank and file Rankin, on Saturday, Feb. 2, at 1 candidate, was elected as secretary. |but not in the way he reckoned. | p.m. The Carnegie Steel lodges are | Local 3 of Collinsville elected E. especially in Du- inviting all employed and unem- Galli, well known rank and file ployed workers to participate, using leader, on the general strike com- the rally as a mass build-up for the | Mittee of the P, M. A. day. F.D.R. Seek Slave Wages On Relief Jobs (Continued from Page-1) employment and social insurance. This is indicated in a telegram sent by the secretary of the Ways and jamin, executive. secretary ef the National Jeint, Committee far Un- | employment Insurance. The wire suggests that only one representative of the groups with an identical point of view will be heard, Benjamin said yesterday. The National. Action Committee for Unemployment Insurance today terested organizations to send their tee and insist on the right to record their opposition to the attempt to “social security” bill. izations, whether they can grams demanding hearings for their representatives and exoressing their opposition to Bill, Committee on Labor endorsing the Workers’ Bill, H. R, 2827, and call- ing upon the committee to favorably repo"t this Bill to the House. Urge Local Demonsirations The National Committee also called upon all local aciion and sponsoring committees and asso- that the city councils shall tele- Commitee and to the Senate Com- mittee on Finance their opposition to the Wagner-Lewis bill and their endorsement of the Workers’ 3ill, H. R. 2827. Such action should es- pecially be demanded of cities that have already formally endorsed the Workers’ Bill, C. P. Wires Demands The Communist Party telegraphed the House Committee on Labor as official spokesman for the Com- munist Party to speak at the hear- ings on the Workers’ Bill. The tele- grams urged that the time be jalloted after Feb. 5 because of ether engagements. Other teleg:ams to the Senate | Finance Committee and to the House Ways and Means Committee s was elected president. | issued an urgent appeal to all in-| | representatives before the commit- | | block genuine social insurance by | |means of the Waaner-Lewis fake | Benjamin uzged that all organ-/ send | delegations or noi, should send tele- | the Wagner-Lewis | At the same time. resolutions | should also be sent to the House | graph the House Ways and Means | yesterday designating Earl Browder: Success was also achieved in .._.... |election of the Women’s Auxiliary of the P. M. A. Mrs, Lee, well known Communist in Collinsville, Taylor Springs elected Mary Mucci, a mem- ber of the Young Communist League as secretary. Ethel Staples | was elected secretary of Nokomis, and the Hillsboro and Mascouath branches have elected rank and file candidates for president. |demanded that | Party be accorded an opportunity | to present its position on the Wagner-Lewis Bill through its of- ficially selected spokesman. If this time is accorded before Feb. 5, | Clarence A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, will be the of- ficial Communist Party spokesman; if after Feb. 5, Earl Browder. will be the spokesman. Weinstock to Speak Louis Weinstock, national sec- | retary of the A. F. of L. Rank and File Committee for Unemployment Insuvance and Relief, yesterday re- ceived a telegram from the Senate Committee on Finance edvising him | that he .will be accorded a hearing jon the Roosevelt “social security” program. | In a statement issued yesterday | the Rank and File Committee pointed out that Green. who is a membe2r of the Roosevelt Advisory Council which passed upon Roosevelt denial of real unemploy- Wagner-Lewis bill, does not repre- sent the mass demand of the trade union worke’s for unemployment insurance legislation. Weinstock will oppose the Wag- ner-Lewis measure and demand im- mediate action on the Workers Un- employment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827, which is endorsed by 3,000 locals of the Americen Federation of Labor, Weinstock was also informed by ciated organizations to call dem- letter from Representative Lundeen onstrations at city halls to demand | that he will be accorded a hearing on the Wo:kers’ Bill before the House Committee on Labor. The telegram to Weinstock yes- terday reads: “Your name being listed to appear before committee on economic security. Am unable to advise definitely day you should ap- pear, but will notify you as soon as possible. F. M, Johnson, clerk, committee on finance.” H. R. 2827 Reprinted | The National Joint Action Com- | mittee for Unemployment Insur- ance, 799 Broadway, Room 624, yes- terday announced that special post- cards for individuals to address to Senators and Representatives in Congress and reprints of the Work- ers’ Bill, H, R. 2827, are now ready. The postcards will be supplied at $2 a thousand; the reprints of the Workers’ Bill at $3 a thousand. * Walker, George Norman and James Pinkey, members of the United Un- employed Relief Association, were arrested last night in the office of Mrs. Dorris Keller, Case Superin- tendent of the Emergency Unem- ployment Relief Association, 30 Fair | Street, where they had gone to pro- test the cutting off of relief to Pinkey, Pinkey, 50-year old unemployed Negro worker, was removed from the relief rolls when his wife died six weeks ago and left a small in- Surance, although Pinkey had to use the money to pay funeral ex- | Penses and to buy a few small ne- cessities which the relief author- tended, ities deny those on relief, Relief Insurance Went to Bury Wife, But Negro Gets No More Relief “John” does not fit Haupimann’s, PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 23.—Sol | authorities argued he should be able to live for six months on the small sum of insurance money he col- lected. They further demanded that he present a receipt for every nickel to show how he spent the insurance money. The United Unemployed Relief Association has been putting up a sharp fight against the attack of Pinkey. The climax of the fight came yesterday when the three ar- rested workers, indignant at the discrimination inst the Negro workers, refused leave the super- visor’s office until relief was given to Pinkey. The workers were ar- rested at the bid of the relief officials and held for “disorderly conduct.” in Southern [Illinois coal | the Communist | the} ment insurance as embodied in the | — trial. | Bacon, the sixth State's witness to take the stand, began his career las a vicious, treacherous baiter of |workers in 1930, when, under the direction of the police department, he joined the Communist Party and | instigated the arrest of 13 workers, ‘Since then, from a mere novice in anti-working class activities, he has | been promoted by local police and industrialists to a position as au- thority on “anti-radical” work. His bad-smelling record was drageed out of him, over the protests of the prosecution and the court, during (his testimony in this, his latest ef- fort to railroad a worker to the penitentiary. Witness Is a Vigilante Bacon, as well as the other five State’s witnesses, is a member of the Citizens’ Emergency League, jarmed vigilante group organized by |the Chamber of Commerce during | the West Coast maritime strike. It is upon his testimony that the State is basing most of its “case” against the working class of Porte (land, During his direct examination, the | State introduced a number of ex- hibits, including issues of the “Com- munist;” the “Party Organizer;” the Daily Worker; the Young Work- er, and Marx's Communist Mani- festo. Other State exhibits introduced /a8 evidence of Criminal Syndical- \ism and sabotage included a gavel used by Edward Denny when he presided as chairman at an open mass meeting last July called by the Communist Party in protest against the raids and the shooting | of striking longshoremen by the po- lice, The meeting was raided. by Police. The sly, underhanced methods used by the prosecution, represented by George Graham and Maurice Tershis, and assisted by Circuit Judge James Stapleton, are demon- strated by the manner in which the lexhibits were introduced. Becon was put on the stand—not qualified as an expert witness, but merely to “identify the State's exhibits.” Frag- mer-'s, lifted from their context, jwere read to the jury—excerpts from the Manifesto, in which Marx related the history of the proletariat since its development, being one such’ example. This brief passage included the observation that the early proletariat expressed the growing class antagonisms by -re- | belling against the machine, and by |individualistic acts of destroying ymachinery and burning factories. The material, as everyone who has read the Manifesto knows, is purely historical. It was read to the jury in a highly oratorical voice by the Prosecutor, Graham, and identified by Bacon as advocacy of methods by the Communisi Party. Lies About Communist Party Under cross examination, handled | in the main by Harry L. Gross, with the cooperation of Irvin Goodman |and Clifford O'Brien, Bacon was | Pinned down to the question as to {the teachings of the Communist | Party, while he was a member of it in 1930, as to the significance of the passage. The prosecution shouted objections, declaring that the de- fense had no right to question Ba= con as an “expert” because he was not qualified as such. For hours the battle raged. The Court ate tempted to silence .the defense, which fought militantly. Attorney Gross then read several pages of the Manifesto, showing the context of the passage. At last, when Ba- con was pinned down and foreed to answer the question: “Is it not a fact that the methods stated in that passage are not methods ad- vocated in the teachings of the Communist Party, but are declara~ tions of historical development?” he openly and deliberately lied, stat~ ing that they were methods taught | by the Communist Party. That was after the prosecution had stormed for a long period to protect the witness from the ques- tion, and after the defense on more | than one occasion openly challenged the court for its partiality, De Jonge Surrenders |__ PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 23.—Dirk |De Jonge, Portland delegate to the National Unemployment Insurance | Congress, surrendered to the sher- \ift’s office here immediately upon. his return from Washington, D, C., in answer to a warrant issued for his arrest during his absence. The warrant, issued in an attempt to prevent De Jonge's: attendance lat the National Congress, was: taken out by the sheriff on the pr that De Jonge, out on bail pending appeal ageinst his conviction and sentence to seven years imprison< ment under the Oregon criminal syndicalist law, wes “running away” from the State. This second arrest of a militant working class leader, already under sentence of seven years, is the voice of rising fascism shouting its hatred for militant workers. Protest wires, letters and resolutions should be rushed to the Oregon Supreme Court; James Bain, District At~ feaay, sha, ved Sei H. Martin, mand o! egon. Legislature me Fle of the criminal syndicale We A bundle of Daily Workers at every membership meeting of your fraternal organization union! and trade