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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY. JANUARY 28, 1935 Page 3 Soviet Union P ® A. F. of L. Building Split r Pay Cuts HEROIC OF DEAD COMRADE CAREER Veteran Revolutionist Was Sent by Communist Party to Most Responsible Posts in Long Struggle for Building Socialism (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 27 (By Wireless).—‘‘The Country Dips} eration of Labor involves directly Its Banners!” reads the headline over the leading editorial! more than 500,000 workers and in- Paves Building Trades Body | ) | Usurped by Heads of Seven Unions By LOUIS WEINSTOCK The split in the Building Trades | Department of the American Fed- in Pravda, the official organ of the Soviet Communist Party, directly more than one million which today devotes many columns to Kuibyshev. “During the short period follow- ing the criminal murder of Sergei Kirov by the provocateurs of the Trotzkyist-Zinoviev anti-Soviet group,” writes Pravda, “one of the most prominent leaders of the Party and of the workers’ and peasants’ government, a true comrade in arms of Stalin, the closest assistant of Molotoy, has left the powerful Bol- shevik general staff. “This time the blow was dealt to the Party, the working class and the collective farming peasantry, and to all toilers of the Soviet Union, by the blind merciless forces of nature, over which we still have no power. Steeled in Struggle “The proletarian revolutionary and Bolshevik, Kuibyshey, grew and became hardened from his very early youthful years. In the un- derground Bolshevist circles in Si- beria, in the Volga towns, in pro-} lJetarian Petersburg, in the Zarist prisons, in the steadfast struggle with the Mensheviks, in the- years of the revolutionary upsurge, th‘ years of reaction, Kuibyshev mained a true bulwark behind Leninist. banner, irreconcilable ward the enemies of the Party the working class. “Kuibyshev belonged to that re- markable generation of Bolsheviks which raised the Russian working class to a revolutionary struggle with Tzarism, landlords and cap- italists, to that generation which was educated by Lenin and Stalin even prior to the October Social- ist revolution. In the fire and sterm of the civil war, in the years of economic construction, in the struggle for the Five Year Plan, in the struggle with numer- ous anti-Leninist factions and groups, the Party tested its sons and chose the best of the best for the Leninist Central Committee, the powerful general staff of the great Stalin. “To the most responsible posts, the most dangerous fronts the Party sent Valerian Kuibyshev, its be- loved and true son. Kuibyshev was one of the most important leaders of the armed struggle with the Czechoslovakian legions and the White Guards of the Eastern Front, he was an untiring fighter for the Leninist-Stalinist national policy in the complicated peculiar situation in Middle Asia, he was a leader and organizer of the Soviet trade unions. And in the years of the stubborn struggle with the opposition he held ‘the post of Chairman of the Cen- tral Control Commission, guarding the unity of the Party. Leader in Soviet Industry “In the years of economic con- struction Kuibyshey was a leader in Soviet industry, organizing, choosing and welding cadres of Bol- sheviks as economic managers, He stood over the cradie of the two) Five Year Plans. Kuibyshev was known throughout the country as the biggest organizer and leader of the Soviet state and of economic construction, as the splendid or- ganizer and leader of the greatest heroie epic rescue of the Cheliusk- ineers. “Such is the road of the life Leninist who served the great -canse of Lenin and Stalin with- out hesitating or wavering. -“Seores of years will pass and in its heroic struggle the proletariat will record ever new and great vic- tories. The peoples of the classless socialist society will study with ad- miration the deeds and individuals of our epoch, the epoch of heroic battles, the epoch which gave birth to millions of great fighters for Communism and raised to unap- proachable historical heights the powerful group of comrades in arms of the great leader of the toilers— Stalin, whereto Kuibyshey belonged by right. Unified Nation “Behind the orderly columns of figures of the first and second Five Year Plans Kuibyshey felt the ard- ent passion and splendor of our epoch, Over Kuibyshev’s grave the country dips it banners, “But the power of the Bolshevik Party, the power of the heroic work- ing class and the collective farm- ing peasantry is invincible. Let not our enemies lull themselves into be- lieving that this great loss will for even a minute break our resolution Kuibyshev’s grave stand the dele- gates of the Seventh All-Union Congress of Soviets, at Kuibyshev’s grave stands the nation, unified in its leaders, powerful and united, confident of further victories and the loss of Valerian Reoliehors _ Appeal Made In France PARIS, France, Jan. 27. — Two | petitions for the freedom of Hay- wood Patterson and Clarence Norris, the two Scottsboro boys whose cases are now before the U. 8. Supreme Court, have been | circulated here by the Committee to Save the Scottsboro Boys and signed by many nationally known figures, The Committee announces that it is asking Sinclair Lewis, famous American writer, to take one of ‘these appeals in person to President Roosevelt. Included in the list are the names of G. Monerville, depty from |Guiana; Gustave Charpentier, |member of the French Institute; |Henry Torres, deputy from the | Maritime Alps; Victor Basch, Hon- orary Professor at the Sorbonne and president of the League for |Human Rights; Hadamard, mem- ber of the French Institute and professor at the College of France; Guignebert, professor at the Sor- bonne, and the writers Romaine Rolland and Andre Gide. A second petition, which has been transmitted to the U. S. authorities by the French Scottsboro Commit- tee, is signed by Leon Jouhaux, general secretary of the Federation of Labor; Gabriel Cudenet, pres- ident of the Radical Socialist Party “Camille Pelletan,” ‘Albert Reyal, secretary of the National Union of Co-operative Groups; R. Goehring- jer, general secretary of the Re- | publican Youth; Emile Farinet, fed- eral secretary of the Seine Feder- ation of the Socialist Party; Jac- ques Duclos, secretary of the Com- munist Party of France; Raymond | Guyot, secretary of the Young Com- munist League; Fred Zeller, federal of the Young Socialists; Bernard Lecache, president of the League Against Anti-Semitism; Imache, | editor of the “North-African Star;” Cordier, secretary of the French International Labor Defense; J. Barnes, secretary of the Teachers Union; Semard, secretary of the Federation of Railway Workers; Mansouri, president of the League for the Defense of Algerian Musel- mans; Dadot, secretary of the Union of Civil Service Employes, and many others. | Seamen toCall Relief Strike _In Cleveland (Daily Worker Ohio Bureau) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 27. — A strike against forced labor on Feb. 1 has been decided by the. United Seaman Committee which is com- posed of members of the Interna- tional Seamen Union and the Marine Workers Industrial Union. Decision of the strike followed a long fight of the seamen against all attempts of forced labor and the lowering of their relief conditions. Faced with the order of going to work on the lake-front Coast Guard station, building a road for weekly wages of $1 while tobacco, soap and razor blades which were formerly doled out to them to be discon- tinued, the seamen decided to resist this new attempt at forced labor with strike action. ‘They demand sixty cents an hour for common labor and the 30-hour week. Over 500 protest resolutions were sent to Washington to Aubrey | Williams, assistant relief adminis- trator, demanding the withdrawal of the forced labor order. |secretary of the Seine Federation | workers. The split in this depart- ment took place at the departmen- | tal convention held in San Fran- cisco prior to the A. F. of L. con- vention. The refusal to seat the delegates of the carpenters, bricklayers and | | electricians international unions re- sulted in the convention being de- clared unconstitutional, and in in- | structions to William Green, presi- | |dent of the American Federation of ; | Labor, to call another convention on | Nov. 24 in Washington. | | At the convention in Washington, out of nineteen International unions | | only seven appeared at the conven- | tion. These seven international unions declared themselves to be| |the official building trades body. | | They elected officers and adopted a | |resolution which called for the ex- pulsion of those Internationals from |the A. F. of L. which refused to rec- |ognize the decisions of the Second | Building Trades Department con- vention. | | The convention in Washington re- |sulted in the formation of two |groups in the Building Trades De- partment. One group is headed by |the president of the old Building |Trades Department, McDonough, ! arch reactionary, who as a member of the Construction Code Depart- |ment helped to put through a code | which established a minimum wage |scale for the building trades work- | ers of 40 cents an hour. The Inter- national officials supporting Mc- | Donough are those of the Asbestos Union, Boilermakers, Iron Workers, Painters, Plasterers, Plumbers, Roof- ers and Stone Cutters Unions. The, |new administration, headed by Wil- | | liams, a puppet of Hutcheson, reac- | \tionary leader of the Carpenters’ International, has the following of | the officials of the Electrical, Car- | penters, Teamsters, Stationary En- |gineers, Marble Polishers and Hod | Carriers Union. Officials Oppose Insurance The reactionary officials of the | Building Trades Department at no |} time hesitated to ‘expel individual members or local unions from the organization for supporting the movement for unemployment insur- ance, for fighting against wage cuts. These chiefs have carried on a most vicious campaign against active ele- ments in the Building Trades Unions who opposed the high sal- aries of the International leaders, who demanded that the Interna- tional chiefs live up to the constitu- tion, to hold conventions, and to grant dues exemption to the unem- ployed members in the unions. Such demands were considered criminal by the officialdom. More- over, members fighting for these rights were called disrupters, and many of them driven out of the unions. Only recently Hutcheson sent a letter to local unions of the carpenters international’ in which he called upon the membership to expel a member from the organiza- tion unless that member denounced ‘the Daily Worker. “The Daily Worker,” writes Hutcheson, “pub- lished a statement and articles on Aug. 14, 1925, which called upon the rank and file workers in the A. F. of L. unions to organize the masses Way fo MAKES UNITY PLEA | relief projects should receive Increasing Jurisdictional Disputes Welcomed by Employers private industry, and that he aims to carry through a Wage cut on all government jobs, as well as on the jobs of the independent employers. On Jan. 23, all the newspapers carried headlines that 000,000 to be spent on Public Work and Relief projects, will be paid out at wages much below the pre- vailing scale. The proposed wage is fifty dollars a month. When an |amendment was proposed in Con- 8ress “to provide that workmen on the wage rate prevailing in the local community” it was voted down, and the fifty dollars wage sanctioned instead. This wage, however, is ac- jceptable only as far as Roosevelt is concerned, but not to the build- ing trades workers. Many of the Congressmen voting against the pre- vailing wage rate are supposedly “friends of organized labor,” their | elections having been hailed as vic- LOUIS WEINSTOCK | against wage cuts, to lead them in struggle for wage increases, to fight for the amalgamation of craft unions into industrial unions.” Hutcheson considers it a crime to support the Daily Worker, even punishable by expulsion. But it is no crime, as far as Hutcheson is concerned, to split the Building Trades Department, to increase jurisdictional disputes among the craft Internationals, to establish two departments, and to cater to | the best interests c« the employers. The Kiplinger letter dated Jan. 5, 1935, says “Schism within A. F. of L. is genuinely serious threat to soli- darity of labor movement. Dissa- tisfied elements of building trades split off, and there is some pos- sibility that number of indepen- dent unions, not now affiliated with A. F. of L. will be drawn into this new sphere of organized labor. Especially this might ap- ply to vertical or industrial unions which have not felt comfortable within A. F. of L., whose internal politics are dominated by craft | unions. There’s also chance that | other dissatisffied groups now | within A. F. of L. will be drawn into the new alignment. “Comment by authorities who are essentially sympathetic with cause of organized labor runs like this: A. F. of L. needs new blood, young leaders, new concep- | tions. If this row shocks the | Federation into reorganization, good! If it doesn’t, if the same old group of labor politicians keep | control, then two or more rival | labor organizatins will develop. | and this would be ‘unfortunate’ | for labor.” | Employers Welcome Split | | Do the employers welcome this fight in the Building Trades De- | partment? Not only do they wel- come the split and the inner dis- putes, but it has all the earmarks | of having been maneuvered by the employers. Millions of dollars were spent to create such a condition in the Building Trades Department and the willing tools are always on the job to play their part. | Right after the split in the Build- ing Trades Department become known, President Roosevelt an- | nounced that the construction jobs \financed by the government must ‘be paid at wages below the pre- | tories for organized labor, by the officials of the Building Trades De- partment. The officials of the Building Trades Department are not con- | cerned with wage cuts which will affect the rank and file workers. They are mostly interested in their Positions, in assuring for themselves a place in the Building Trades De- partment, in making millions of dollars out of the manipulations of | the Construction Code Department and the Real Estate Board, and from other sources closely connected with the Construction Code De- partment. Membership Wants Unity The rank and file workers in the Building Trades Unions are not in- | volved in the jurisdictional disputes. | They desire unity on the job and in action. The building traces workers realize that there are not enough jobs for all building trades workers. They are therefore de- manding the establishment of un- | employment insurance based on the principles of H. R. 2827. The build- ing trades workers demand that all construction jobs financed by the government, or by independent em- Pployers be paid at the prevailing union scale of wages. They demand | that all members be given the right | of free expression, that trade union democracy prevail in all unions, and that the building trades jurisdic- tional disputes be settled not in Washington, in the chambers of the 'McDonoughs and Williams, but be settled at a building trades con- vention called by every Interna- tional union, where the jurisdic- , tional differences can be adjusted | by amalgamation of the existing crafts. All agreements in the build- ing trades industry to expire at the same time, a uniform wage scale to be established for all skilled and unskilled workers in the building industry. The building-trades workers must initiate a campaign in every single International condemning the split in the Department, calling upc the election of a special convention to be membership to participate — the attended by rank and file delegates of the Building Trades unions. The | Special convention should drive out | the corrupt politicians of the de- partment and replace them with honest rank and file members who are fighting against every atteapy of the employers or the government to cut wages, and who will carry on vailing scale, that the government |a struggle for the establishment of | gamation into one big Industrial cannot afford to compete with !an unemployment insurance system. | Union of Shoe & Leather Workers, | Son of ‘Speed’ Callahan, Scottsboro Trial Judge, DECATUR, Ala. Jan. 27.—Heid for a pool-room murder, Frank Callahan, 30-year old son of Judge W. W. “Speed” Callahan, who pre- sided at the Decatur lynch trial of Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, Scottsboro boys, is in the Madison County Jail Huntsville. ‘The son of the Scottsboro judge was locked up after he had pumped five bullets into the abdomen of a fellow-townsman whom he didn’t like. The pool room murder took place 24 hours after Judge Callahan had been installed as presiding judge of the eighth judicial circuit, as a reward for his services in railroad- ing Patterson and Norris to death sentences, Hunger-Driven (Special to the Daily Worker) CHICAGO, IIl., Jan. 27—Desper- ation in their struggle against hope- less poverty caused William Arden and his mother to kill four connected with the relief station at 52 Chicago Avenue and end their own lives. The complete and abject poverty of the family was revealed yester- day after an investigation by the Daily Worker ‘bureau here. Miss Thompson, secretary of the relief supervisor, stated that the family received $40.60 relief in December, and only six hours work amounting to $545 in January, Neighbors stated that during the recent zero weather the family was without coal. On Jan. 24, the family was prom- ised relief in a last desperate effort to get enough food to keep alive. The stated that they had supervisor received too much relief in August Mother andSon Kill Relief Workers and Selves and September and deductions were made in January. Karl Lockner, chairman of the Unemployment Councils, was denied the right to testify at the inquest. In a few words he stated the reason for this desperate action by William Arden, who was a brilliant student graduate of Chicago University, was due to the failure of the relief ad- ministration to adjust complaints for months at a time. Case work- ers are overworked due to layoffs in the staff and cannot properly take care of the needs of their clients. Lockner stated that the final responsibility for this desper- ate act lies with the relief au- thorities. The Hearst press it attempting to inject the question of Commun- ism into the tragedy, denies the existence of poverty and calls the case “an accumulation of fancied wrongs by a Communist twisted student.” 1 State Assembly Workers’ Bi Work Bill | (Daily Worker Ohio Bureau) | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 27.—In- | troduction of the Workers’ Bill (H.R. | 2827) in the Ohio State Assembly at the latter part of this week or first part of next week is promised | by William M. Boyd, State Repre- sentative, in a communication re- ceived last Friday by the Cleveland Action Committee for the Workers’) Bill. | The letter, addressed by Mr. Boyd | to Frank Rogers, secretary of the | Cleveland Action Committee, con- tains the information that the Bill is already in the Legislative Bureau Growing support for the Workers’ | Bill is expressed in the numerous | meetings arranged for popularizing \the Washington Congress | A conference of all local unions) \of the A. F. of L. fraternal and so- ;cial organizations, unemployment | groups and workers’ clubs is being | ‘called for Wednesday, Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Painters Hall, 2030 Euc- lid Avenue, to map out further plans for the campaign in behalf of the Workers’ Bill. New Haven Mass Rally Thursday Night to Hear, Full Report on HR 2827 NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 27.— Charles Campbell, of the Waterbury Metal Workers Union, will report on the National Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance Thursday night at 8 o’clock at Montewese Hall, 210 Meadow Street. Other speakers will include dele- gates from the New Haven area who attend the National Congress. The mass meeting will be under the auspices of the New Haven Action Committee for Unemployment and Final Plans Completed ForPhiladelphia Council Is Arrested for Murder Of Ohio to Get Bazaar on March 1-2 PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 27. — An exhibition of paintings and sculp- ture donated and lent by various artists will be one of the features of the bazaar of the Unemployment. Councils, Mar. 1 and 2, at Olympia Hall, Broad and Bainbridge Streets. In addition to many booths of various kinds now being prepared by the various locals of the Councils, there has been arranged a program of enterainment. All proceeds of the bazaar will be used to fight the attempts of the Roosevelt administration to force the strike-breaking, fake Wagner- Lewis Bill on the millions of Amer- icn starving unemployed, fight for the passage of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. Become a Red Builder, earn ex- penses and build Daily Worker circulation. Write to 50 East 13th Street, New Vork, for details. the $4,800,- | and to} _ InWashington On Tuesday | The second hearing before the National Industrial Recovery Board on the question of reopening the shoe code will take place in the Commerce Bidg. Washington, D C. next Tuesday, Jan. 29th. At this time the manufacturers will be ex- pected to present their argument against the re-opening of the shoe code as demanded by labor. The first hearing was held in the | same building on Tuesda and Wednesday, Jan. 19 and 20 where representatives of five different shoe workers’ organizations pre- sented facts as proof of their con- tention that the present shoe code is like the hangman’s noose around the neck of the shoe workers, The heads of these five unions signed a statement pledging to work for one union in the industry. Every report gave evidence of the | starvation conditions among the workers and how the 37!2 cents minimum was turned into the maximum hourly rate—how the | speedup was forcing greater esl duction at pauper wages — how manufacturers violated the 40 hour- week—how manufacturers moved out of town to escape union labor and get the advantage of the code differential. | For Unemployment Insurance Fred Biedenkapp, representing the shoe workers of New York City, Local 23 of the United Shoe and, Leather Workers Union, demanded that the code provide for unem- ployment insurance, to be paid to all unemployed workers on the basis of union wages and that a propor- tional sum be paid to all part time | workers- | Biedenkapp further called for the 30 hour five day week, 2 minimum of $18 for learners, $21 for unskilled, $30 for semi-skilled and $42 for skilled workers, for the prosecution | of all bosses violating, and a law protecting the interests of the | workers—and that there be no com- | pulsory arbitration—that labor shall | have equal representation on any board or committee dealing with workers’ grievances. | | The various heads of the different unions also presented demands for the 30 hour week and minimum | | wage scale as mentioned and against the -code preferential, but failed to say anything about the very im- ; Portant question of unemployment | insurance. It would be well for every local | union to at once instruct and demand that their national official and representative demand that un- employment insurance he paid and made part of the code provision. | Telegrams should be sent to every representative in Washington. | Five Unions Present The following organizations were represented: United Shoe & Leather Workers Union, Boot & Shoe Work- jers Union, the latter being a ers Union. The latter being a small organization of Lawrence, Mass. | These unions represented a | total of some 95,000 organized work- | | ers—while 200,000 are yet un- | organized. One of the most interesting and | | worth while actions resulting from | this united front for the code re- | opening, is the resolution signed by the heads of these unions, | | wherein they pledge themselves as being in favor of one union in the | industry. This action is undoubt- edly the result of the demand on the part of the militant rank and file, | that a united front of all shoe | workers must be brought about and | must pave the way for early amal- | |and that preparations most im-| | mediately be made in a spirit of working-class solidarity to fight unitedly under the banner of a gen- eral strike through the entire coun- try, for the right to work and to} | live decently and comfortably. | z 6 Unemployed Workers Sentenced in St. Louis, ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 27.—Six | unemployed workers, five Negroes | and one white man, were fined ; $100 to $300 each last week for taking part in a demonstration for relief to the jobless, at the Provi- dent Association last October. The six workers are Sam Dukes, leader | of the unemployed here, Will Caro- | thers, John St. Clair, Herman Pear- |son, Lloyd Hayes and Freeman Black. All but Hayes are Negroes. The local International Labor | | Defense is arranging a number of protest mass meetings to demand | their release. During the past few weeks, eighteen workers have been arrested | in struggles of the unemployed for relief. Mayor Talks About Vigilantes | As Jobless Gather in Olympia * (Special to the Daily Worker) OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 27.—In the face of threats and intimida- tions from the city officials, dele- gates today began arriving here to open the State Congress for unem- ployment insurance. The mayor of Olympia has threatened to mobilize 500 vigilantes to prevent the Con- gress from convening. The Unemployment Insurance Congress will open its sessions xt the old State Capitol building which is now the State Office Building and was the scene of the historic first hunger march. It was rented by Representative Michael Smith for the arrangements committee after wide protests from Commu- nists, Socialists and liberals and Social Insurance. members of the American Federa- ays Tribute to Kuibyshev, Bolshevik Leader Shoe Hearing FOREIGN WORKERS | IN U.S.S.R. PROTEST ANTI-SOVIET ACTS Trade Union Who Attack Shooting of Murderers of Kirov (Special to 27 MOSCOW, Jan. the Daily Worker) (By Wireless).—Indignantly protest. jing against the anti-Soviet sally of the Paris trade union bureaucrats, the foreign workers and specialists of the Molotov Automobile Plant in the town of Gorki voiced their opinions in all papers here today in a public letter signed by forty-five persons revresenting Chicago Fur Strikers See Victory Near (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ml, Jan. 27.—The sixty workers of the Evans Fur Company on strike since Jan. 10, because of a lockout, expect a vic- tory soon. The Evans Co. has been forced to negotiate an agreement with the Fur Workers Industrial Union, and to agree to a 35-hour week instead of 40 and 44 hours that the A. F. of L. Local 45 ac- cepted in their agreement The strike at the Evans Fur Co., involves the right of picketing, to belong to a union of the choice of the workers, and the questionof re- organization. The Evans Fur Co. interprets the clause of reorganiza- tion as the right to fire all its workers and hire anybody they choose. John Fitzpatrick, President of the Chicago Federation of Labor, who represented labor at the regional | Labor Board also agreed with the boss. If that were the interpreta- tion of the Regional Labor Board it would give the rij ers to fire all its workers at the time of reorganization and it would undermine all agreements of the labor movement of the country. The expected victory of the Evans Fur workers will be therefore the victory of the labor movement in general. The strike is conducted under the leadership of the Fur Workers In- dustrial Union. JOBLESS WORKER SLUGGED BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 27.— Sol Carlyles, an unemployed miner, was brutally beaten into uncon- sciousness last week by a band of policeman and Klansmen who sought to evict him from his home here. WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. All organizations keep Feb. 23 open. Scott Nearing, who just returned from Europe, will lecture on “Pas- eism or Communism,” for United Workers’ Organization Answer the vicious lies of Hearst and his press. Answer the lies of all enemies of t viet ‘Union. Come to the Mass Meeting on 8 at 8 p.m. at Broad St S.W. cor. Broad and Girard Aves Prominent speakers. Adm. 20¢ pices, Friends of the Soviet Union. Aus- February 2nd and 3rd, Scottsboro Tag Days. All organizations are asked to send volunteers to the I. L. D. Sta- tions in their territory to help raise affair Feb. 3 at Vasa Hall, ilth and John Ave. ments, dancing, Chicago, Ill. Save February 16 for Theatre Col- lective Chauve Souris. A program of Theatre, Music & Dani fellowed by dancing to 3 a.m member Saturday, Fi at People’s Audit: cago Ave. Adm, 35c., Bc. ight of all employ- ; America, Britain. Poland, Czecho- slovakia, Germany, Italy and other countries, in behalf of 270 foreign workers and speciali: in the plant. It is with a feeling of deep in- dignation,” the letter states, “that we read the jort of the news- papers that the Paris officials of th reformist trade unfons, in a ‘gust of humaneness,’ passed a protest against the shooting of the murder- ers of Comrade Kirov. In this pro- test we cognize these mercenary lackeys the world bourgeoisie, ttlers and de- of these trade union 0} ceivers of the working class. Don’t we know them! Every one of us has experienced their vile treacher- ous hand upon himeelf It was they who broke down ths strikes which we carried out abroad —and at the price of tremendous numbers of victims, at the ‘price of the starvation of our wives and children. It was they who betrayed the heroic revolt of the Schutz- bunders in Austria. It was due to their treacherous work that Spanish fascism drowned the whole country in workers’ blood “But they were siient about it, They are silent now when thou- sands of the best sons of the revo- lution, the flower of the working class of Spain, are dying in fascist torture chambers, They are silent when thousands of Communists and honest non-party workers, who possessed real proletarian courage and fought against fas- cism, are being hanged and crip- pled in fascist concentration camps in Germany. “Workers’ blood China, Poland and Austria. But the traitors are silent. Their mouths are stopped with gold, And their masters are the capi- talists. “Comrades and workers of France! We foreign workers of the Molotoy is flowing in |Automobile Plant wish you to hear | funds. Auspices LL.D. 49 N. 8th Street, Room 207. Superior, Wis. + Daily Worker Comm. is holding an | our voice. We do not doubt for a moment that your trade union offi- cials are slandering you by pretend- ing to speak in your behalf. We know that all the workers of the world shook with indignation and pain when the splendid man and ardent leader, Kirov, was killed, But we also are convinced that no single worker's heart was filled with pity toward the loathsome mur- derers who fell by the punishing hand of proletarian justice. On the contrary, the entire working class learned with satisfaction of the severe punishment which the rogues received. “We are now living in the coun- try which is building socialism and together with our Russian comrades, under the banner of Lenin and Stalin, we are marching towards a beautiful happy life. he heads of the trade union bureaucrats we extend to you our hand. Down with the liars! Long Live the Soviet Republic! Long live the revolution~ ary workers throughout the world!” Relief Shut-Down Spurs Council Organization COUER D'ALENE, Ida., Jan. 37.— Good program, refresh- complete shut-down of the relief here has spurred the organizational drive of the Relief Workers Prote:- tive Union which is affiliated with -hour the National Unemployment Coun- cils. Yesterday the Relief Workers Union ‘telegraphed an for five hundred Council 00 tickets at | Membership books to the National Unemployment Councils. , tion of Labor against the cancella- | tion of the use of the Knights of | Pythias Hall Thursday. After the campaign to secure | 50,000 signatures to a petition had | failed of its mark, the State Work- | ers Unemployment Insurance Bil!) was introduced as H. 128 by Repre- | sentative Lloyd Lindgren. It will} get joint hearings in the House and | Senate tomorrow. | Under the State laws, had the bill the measure would have become mandatory as the first considera- it convened. Failing passage, it would have been referred back to the voters in the next general elec- tions, RRR eS been accompanied by a petition! | signed by 50,000 people in the State, | | tion on the State legislature when | aeste : PEABODY, MASS. Greeting to the |S. Mavrogemis , VAS. DAILY WORKER =. Dobrowskt B: peeriey Women W. Waller . Lipshitz Club of Peabod: ST. 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