The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1935, Page 3

Millions Throughout Soviet Un Valerian Kuibyshev ion Mourn Delegates to All-Union Every Corner of U. § Honor for Great Soviet Congress From . 8 .R. Form Guard of Bolshevik Leader By Vern Smith (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 29 (By Wireless).—An exceptional stir was aroused throughout the § Soviet country at the news of the death of Valerian Kuibyshev, one of the most prominent leaders of the Party and org: of its glorious fighters. academicians, collective farmers artists, engineers, actors and build- ers of the new society in all sec- tions of socialist construction ex- pressed their genuine, deep sorrow on the occasion of the heavy loss sustained by the Party, the working class and the toilers throughout the world. Whole Country Mourns The death of Kuibyshev put the whole country in mourning. But this mourning itself is a grandiose demonstration in praise of the great welder of unity. The Soviet coun- try mourns over her leaders who have passed on, not by shedding impotent tears but by marching forward toward new battles, new victories, under the skilled leader- | ship of Stalin. Streams of people flowed from all parts of the red capital, from the factories and plants, to the Trade Union House, where the body of Kuibyshev lay in state amidst wreaths and flowers. It is quiet and sad, the Column Hall of the Trade Union House. Toilers Fill Street The streets adjacent to the Trade Union House were filled with | toilers who came to pay Kuibyshey | a last tribute. Around the moun- |* tain of flowers, wherein the coffin | was submerged, the dark, damp! and wide road winded, bearing | traces of the scores of thousands of | feet. It is a road of sorrow. The workers’ delegations moved in the | dim light. In half a day 200,000 passed his body. The delegations from all parts of the Soviet Union, who had arrived for the All-Unin Congress of So# viets, replaced the guards of honor one after another. Here were Uz- beks, Georgians, Armenians, White Russians, Ukrainians, Tadjiks, Chu- vashians, Kossaks, Turks, Assetians, Turkomen, Tartars and Bashkiri- ans, all of them stood with bowed heads, and before the guard was! changed fixed their eyes on the still face for the last time. Nineten days had passed since in this very hall Kuibyshey de- livered his report at the Moscow Regional Congress of Soviets on the work of the government. He confidently erected monumental structures with his figures and grandiose columns of statistical calculations. The audience which filled the Column Hall listened with tense attention because the remarkable life of the Soviet country thundered and sang in these figures, And im a_ short while he lay ten steps from the place where he pronounced his last report, The guards changed, the Cheliu- skiners, Bobrov, Schmidt, Babush- kin and Ushakov approached the coffin. They paid a last tribute to the man who directed the work of their rescue. Gray, sad Krup- skaya stood at the coffin of her dead friend and comrade. Here were Stalin, Postyshey, Molotov, Voroshilov, Kaganovitch, Ordjoni- kidze, Kossior at the coffin; they formed the first guard of honor and then in the evening before the cre- mation they were again in the guard of honor, close to their friend and comrade in arms in struggle. The sounds of the mourning march extended and spread to the throngs in the open, standing still in sorrow and silence. Stalin, Molotoy, Kaga- novitch, Voroshiloy and Ordjoni- kidze lifted the coffin with the body of Kuibyshey. And the song of mourning bore the undercurrent of fierce struggle as the strains of the International rose. WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. All organizations keep Feb. 23 open. Scott Nearing, who just returned from Europe, will lecture on ‘‘Fas- cism or Communism,” for United Workers’ Organization. Answer the vicious lies of Hearst and his press. Answer the lies of all enemies of the Soviet Union. Come to the Mass Meeting on Friday, Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. at Broad St. Mansion, 8.W. cor. Broad and Girard Aves. Prominent speakers. Adm. 20c. Aus- pices, Friends of the Soviet Union. 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 funds. Auspices LL.D., 49 N. 8th Street, Room 207. Dance Friday night, February 1, Gar- rice Hall, 507 8. 8th St., tor Work- ers ScRool, Special Night Club Dance Orchestra, entertainment, refresh- ments. Adm. 25¢, Superior, Wis. Daily Worker Comm. is holding an affair Feb. 3 at Vasa Hall, 11th and John Ave. Good program, refresh- ments, dancing. Chicago, III. Save February 16 for Theatre Col- lective Chauve Souris, A three-hour program of Theatre, Music & Dance, followed by dancing to 3 a.m, Re- member Saturday, Feb. 16, 8:30 p.m. at People’s Auditorium, 2457 W. Chi- cago Ave, Adm. 35c., 100 tickets at 25e. ORGANIZATIONS ATTENTION—The Friends of the New Masses is giving a bill for the benefit of the New Masses on Friday, March 1 in the Grand Ballroom of the Steuben Club. Kindly keep this date open. Millions of individ anizers of the revolution, one uals, workers, Official Says _ Kidnap Case Is Unsolved FLEMINGTON, N. J.. Jan. 29.— Neither the conviction nor the ac- |quittal of Bruno Richard Haupt- mann will convince anybody that the mystery surrounding the kid- |maping and murder of the Lind- |bergh baby has been solved, Special |Deputy Attorney General George Large has admitted to newspaper- } men, |_ Large’s statement is the first pub- lic admission made by anyone con- | nected with the prosecution to this |effect. Attorney General Wilentz, however, has frequently stated privately that he is convinced the Nazi defendant was one of several |criminals who committed the crime. | As the evidence linking Haupt- |mann to the kidnaping—but not necessarily to the murder—of the Lindbergh baby continues to mount, movement to have Hauptmann acquitted on the ground that he is insane is being organized by sev- eral groups interested in freeing him. The insanity that is supposed to characterize Hauptmann, however, is apparently beginning to spread jto Nazi Yorkville, where Haupt- jmann is considered a martyr to | Person of Attorney General Wilentz. The more demented Nazi adherents | are contending that Hauptmann is being charged with the crime be- | cause the first initial in his name, “H,” is also the first initial in Hit- ler’s name, and that by convicting | Hauptmann of first degree murder \the Jews in New Jersey, under the leadership of Wilentz, are attempt- ling to strike back at the mass mur- |derer in Berlin. The increasing conviction that | Hauptmann was involved in the |kipnaping is also evoking vales of | tears for the Nazi from hitherto | “neutral” quarters. The staidly hyp- | ocritical N.Y. Times is describing | Hauptmann as “the most unfortun- ate man of the century,” and the evening N.Y, World-Telegram, sup- porting its morning counterpart, has started to call the ex-burglar a “victim of the lost generation.” Hearst’s N.Y. Journal, which called Mrs. Lindbergh the “second mother | of the Crucifixion” at the beginning lof the trial, now calls Hauptmann \the “forgotten man in the case.” Wilentz is expected to adduce further testimony today to prove that Hauptmann wrote the ransom notes and that Isidor Fisch, Jewish furrier who may have been his notes and that Isidor Fisch, Jewish |partner in shady fur transactions, | could not have been his partner in | either the kidnaping of the baby or | the extortion of the $50,000 in ran- som money from _ Landbergh through Dr. John (‘Jafsie’) Condon. After Hauptmann takes the stand in his own defense today, Lindbergh may also take the stand to repeat | voice as that belonging to the mys- |terious “John” to whom Condon |handed the package of ransom money. Lindbergh is not expected however, to repeat his statement to police at the time of the ransom payment that two men were on the scene, instead of the one he now contends was there. Chief Defense Attorney Lieuten- ant Commander Reilly has declared that he will produce a witness who will prove that Dr. Condon, all of whose connections with the kidnap- ing have never been satisfactorily explained, knew a Greek gangster named “John” before the passing of the ransom money and that it was this “John” and not Haupt- mann who was actually in the cemetery when the ransom money passed hands. Hauptmann’s alibi for the kid- naping night was strengthened with the statement by a new witness, who says he saw Hauptmann in the Bronx at the time Hauptmann is charged with carrying the Lind- bergh baby down the ladder to its | death. New Haven Mass Rally Tomorrow Will Hear Reports on H.R. 2827 NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 29.~ A full report on the recent National Congress for Unemployment In- surance will be made here Thursday night at 8 o'clock at a mass meet- ing at Montewese Hall, 210 Meadow Street. Charles Campbell, of the Waterbury Metal Workers Union, who attended the Congress, will he the main speaker. Other reports on the campaign for genuine unemployment in- surance as embodied in the Work- ers Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827, will be made by delegates to the Na- tional Congress from the New Haven area. | Jewish persecution embodied in the | his identification of Hauptmann’s | By Klemens Gottwald The horrible murder committed on Dec. 1, 1934, of whom the victim | was one of the best sons of the working class, Comrade Kirov, has aroused the fierce indignation of the international proletariat. Right from the first moment it was clear to all that this frightful crime could only have been committed in the inter- | ests and on the orders of interna- tional imperialism—particularly in- ternational fascist reaction. But when the inquiry brought to light who had actually carried out this murder order, everone was horri- fied. The vile murderers in the di- rect pay of international fascist reaction turn out to be the last remnants of the former Zinoviev- Trotzky group. ‘This handful of criminal elements formed an illegal terrorist anti- Soviet organization, with the aim of carrying out individual terror against the leading functionaries of the Party and the Soviet power. They, established contact with the | consul in Leningrad of a capitalist |state. They received financial aid from him. They murdered Com- rade Kirov, and among their prep- arations were plans for the murder | of Comrade Stalin. By means of such methods ths band hoped, according to their own statements, “to bring about an al- teration in the Party leadership.” Aware, however, that in the land of ; the Soviets itself they were bound! to encounter the united and deter- | mined resistance of the millions of people who gather like one man! around their Bolshevist staff and/ around Comrade Stalin, they set! their hopes on an imperialist war, Party group, a group of anti-Soviet | terrorists developed, whose aim is the overthrow of the Soviet power, | and imperialism, No Accident Is this accidental? Is it madness? | By no means! Even though it could | not be foreseen that this transition | to the platform of international fas- | cist reaction would find expression in such frightful forms as this murder of Comrade Kirov, never- theless the Bolshevist Party and| Comrade Stalin have repeatedly pointed out the inevitability and logical consequence of such a de- velopment to all who have followed in the footsteps of Trotzky and Zin- oviev, who have adopted their anti- Party platform, and have not re- turned immediately and sincerely to the path of the Party. It may perhaps be asked: Have these people then learnt nothing? Have the first Five-Year Plan, the second Five-Year Plan, the collect- ivization, the daily tangible succes- ses of Socialist construction, the im- provements in the material and cultural situation of the working masses, the enormous growth of the international influence of the Soviet | Union—have not all these and many | other facts shown to them that the policy of the Party and its leader, Comrade Stalin, is entirely right, and that they themselves have been wrong from the beginning? Yes, the majority of thei: former adherents have come to this con- clusion. But the last residue, a | handful of bandits, have continued | COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY GROUP | the struggle against “Stalinist bu- |cism and of the Japanese militarists? DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY. JAN@ARY 30, 1538 COUNTER-REVOLUTION FINDS COMMON LEVEL WITH FASCIST GANGS IN THE OPEN —From Pravda. on the overthrow of the Soviet on the downward path, and finally | In what does this slogan differ power by imperialist intervention. | landed in the camp of international| from the dearest wishes of the in-| This is the final result: Out of the} fascist reaction. Today they do not) ternational imperialists, who dream last remnants of the former anti-| look at life in the Soviet Union and | unceasingly of the overthrow of the at the successes of the Soviets with | proletarian eyes, from a proletarian standpoint; they see it all with the] and whose method has been an al- | eyes of the bourgeoisie, from the| Trotzkyist slogan—differ from the liance with international fascism standpoint of the class enemy, the daily practices of the fascist mur- standpoint of its most reactionary | fascist elements. Hence their rage,| hence their hatred. The greater the successes of the Party and the Soviets, the greater the rage of the | international fascist reactionaries and their Trotzkyist-Zinoviev agency. Has Branches This fascist, yes, fascist agency, is however. working not only working in the Soviet Union, where Com- vade Kirov has fallen victim to it. It has its branches in the different capitalist countries. These are the/ various groups of the Trotzkyists, who are endeavoring, under the di- rect leadership of the supreme counter-revolutionary Trotzky, to disorganize the revolutionary labor movement. It must be stated clearly: Just as Zinoviev in Mos-| cow bears this responsibility, so does Trotzky in Paris bear the full moral and political responsibility for the murder of Comrade Kirov. And more than this: It was pre- cisely Trotzky who was the first to issue the slogan of the forcible over- throw of the Soviet power, the slogan of methods of violence in reaucracy.” Same Slogan In what does this slogan differ from the standpoint of the White Guardist bands? In what does it differ from the line of Hitler fas- | ency, if not actually forming a con- | more pernicious than ever. | groups, very often with the direct Soviet power? In what does the base crime committed by Nikolayev—this executor in actual practice of the derers in Germany and other coun- tries, where our proletarian broth- ers are martyred and murdered? In nothing! Here there is no differ- ence. Trotzkyism and fascism have found their common level, the com- mon point at which they employ the like weapons. It must be admitted that among certain sections of the working class in the capitalist countries the opinion has existed until recently that Trotzkyism as a political tend- stituent of Communism, is at least a constituent of the labor movement. This opinion has always been wrong, and today, now that Trotzkyism has revealed its frightful role as fascist agency by its moral, political, and physical participation in the mur- der of Comrade Kirov, this idea is Our comrades in the capitalist countries are faced with the duty of tearing these weeds out by the roots and of exposing the real counten- ance of the Trotzkyists in every place where they have succeeded in forming their counter-revolutionary support of the police. They must be exposed for what they are: decoys of international fascist re- action. There must not be, and cannot be, even the slightest sug- gestion of any conciliation towards the counter-revolutionary bandits. The Trotzkyist bands have still jrapid progress of socialist construc- \tion, the steady improvement in the | | | something more in common with] international fascism and the bour- | geoisie: an absolutely pathological personal hatred of Comrade Stalin And they know why. It was he,| Comrade Stalin, whose firm hand| destroyed all the hopes and plans which world reaction still set on| Trotzky and Zinoviev so long as! they were still the opposition with-| in the Party. . It was he, Stalin,| whose far-seeing genius recognized, | | after the great Lenin was no longer | with us, that the strugge agains Trotzky and Zinoviey is the struggle | for the fate of the Soviet Union. What would the Soviet Union be like now, what would the world be | like now, if Trotzky and Zinoviev | and their line had been victorious? It is difficult to imagine! Soviet |Russia would not have its industries it would have remained a backward | agrarian country, dependent on the | capitalist states. The kulaks would have gained the upver hand in the | villages, the speculators in the towns, and with this a new capital- | ism would have sorung up. There | would not have been enough means | for the defense of the country. It | |is Indeed difficult to realize what it jwould have been like! Today the world would have been in the midst |of a new and bloody imperialist war. |for international imperialism would |not have missed the opportunity of jattacking by force of arms a weak- jened Soviet Union. That this cata- strophe has been prevented is mainly due to Stalin. Were Vanquished Trotzky and Zinoviev were van- quished, Stalin’s line was victorious. And the result: the Soviet Union | of today, the second Five-Year Plan, the mighty industrialization, the | |collectivization of agriculture, the standards of living of the toiling masses, the mighty defensive forces of the country. its enormous inter- national importance as main sup- port of the peace of the world. The proletariat of the Soviet Union and of the whole world have chiefly Stalin to thank for all this, his genius, his farsightedness. his grasp of the situation. his abilitv to lead these many millions on the path to socialism in face of all difficul- ties and obstacles. Indeed, the scum of international counter-revolution have every reason to concentrate their hatred on Comrade Stalin. The toiling masses of the Soviet Union and the world proletariat ad- mire and love their great Stalin the more. “Glorification of a monarch” is the sneer of the fascist bandit who himself grovels in the dust at the feet of any crowned or un- crowned capitalist idiot. And this same sneer is heard when the army of the fighters honor and love their great leader. So listen, you toadies and time servers! Yes. He is our Stalin. He is our great and gifted Stalin. He is our beloved Stalin. Do you want to know why? Because he has led us to the victory of so- cialism in the Soviet Union, because he will lead us to the victory of socialism all over the world. Therefore we honor and love our Comrade Stalin with a love which your mercenary servile souls could never understand. And when we honor the ashes of the murdered colleague and friend of Stalin, Com- rade Kirov, and cry: “Down with Trotzkyism, this agency of inter- national fascism!” we add in the same breath: “Gather round our Bolshevist general staff, and its leader, Comrade Stalin!” Workers Defy Armed Groups In Northwest (Special to the Daily Worker) OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 29.—Two hundred and thirty delegates to the State Unemployment Insurance Congress met here yesterday in the face of open threats by the mayor to smash the assemblage by the mobilization of 500 armed Vigilantes. | The threat of terror was smashed | when mass protests poured into the| city all day yesterday. The complete victory of the 230) delegates to the congress, assembled | in the face of threats by the mayor to run them out of town, was height- ened by the introduction of the State Workers’ Bill, H.B. 128, into the State House of Representatives. Assembled at the Congress were 16 delegates elected by nine local unions of the American Federation | of Labor, four independent and three local unions of the Trade Union Unity League, 25 fraternal organizations, veterans, the Com- munist Party and unemployed) groups, As the State Workers’ Bill HB.) 128, was introduced into the House, a joint bill was introduced into the State Senate. Accompanying the, Bill was a petition signed by 40,000. persons demanding enactment of the Workers’ Bill. The campaign for signatures fell short of its mark by 10,000. Had the full 50,000 signatures been col- lected, it would have become man- datory upon the State Legislature to make the Workers’ Bill the first order of business. Had it then failed of passage, it would have gone to the voters at the next gen- eral elections for a State-wide refer- endum. The Congress conyened at the Old State Capitol, which is now the State Office Building and was the scene of the first historic hunger march when workers took over the State Capitol. | vicinity. | in Washington, D. C. [Massachusetts State Body Organized to Push HR 2827 BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 29.—Plans the establishment of a State Com-| mittee of Action to mobilize all) enactment of the Workers Unem- ployment, Old Age and Social In-| surance Bill, H. R. 2827, and to press for immediate action on the State Workers’ Bill, H. 871. About forty delegates were present | from Brockton, Lynn, Haverhill. | Lowell, Northampton, Boston and All had been delegates to the National Congress for Unem-| ployment Insurance which was held | In addition to establishing a State | Action Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance, plans were made for setting up local action com- mittees where such have not yet been established. Each local com-/ mittee will elect three delegates to | the State Committee; Boston to| have five delegates. The entire | State Committee will mect again within ten days. To coordinate the | work, a resident committee will be set up in Boston. | In the plan of action, each local | committee will procure literature for wide distribution. Two deie- | gates will be chosen from the State | to attend the hearing on the Work- ers’ Bill, H. R, 2827 at Washington; one delegate from the shoe industry | and one delegate from textile. All) affiliated groups will send in ther | choice of nominees to attend the hearings on the Workers’ Bill, and the State delegated body will decide upon who will attend the hearings. In-order to finance these activi- ties on a State scale, it was decided that each affiliated organization pledge to contribute not less than one dollar a month. Before adjournment, plans were made for an intensified State-wide campaign for the enactment of the National Workers’ Bill, H. R. 2827, and for the State Workers’ Bill, H. | 871. In the campaign, resolutions, post cards and letters will be sent | | with the prosecution and local em- to Roosevelt, Congressmen and | were made here Sunday night for| Senators and to the House Ways | and Means Committee and to the/| House Committee on Labor, which | bates and symposiums will be ar- ranged, and delegations sent to City Councils, Mayors and Selectmen demanding endorsement of the | Workers’ Bill and pressure brought | to bear upon the Governor, and| State officials for the enactment of | the State Workers Bill, H. 871. WORKERS’ BILL ENDORSED NEW YORK.—The American Li- | thuanian Workers Literature Asso: ciation Centrat Committee, rep: resenting 6,000 members, and Seno Lodge No. 263 of the I. O. O. F., Bernardsville, N. J. endorsed the Workers Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827. I. L. D. Organizer Calls. Trial Protest Meeting; | U. S. Agents Seize Him OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Jan. 2. —A. J. Pitt, organizer of the Inter- national Labor Defense here was arrested yesterday and held for “in- vestigation” by Federal Government agents. The arrest of Pitt followed publi- cation of a call by the I. L. D. for) a protest meeting here against the| attempt to railroad to prison the| unemployed workers arrested here last May 21, 1934, when police at- tacked a relief demonstration. Trial | of the workers is set for Feb. 11,| ployers straining every effort to ensure their conviction and leng jail sentences. | The I. L. D. is urging all workers | and organizations throughout the) country to protest the arrest of Pitt and the attempt to railroad the un- | employed defendants, | Haverdall Shine Union Choses Its Candidates HAVERHILL, Mass. Jan. 29.— | Will conduct the hearings on the| Nominations for general organizer, | forces behind the campaign for the | Workers’ Bill, Mass meetings, de-|Sectetary treasurer and members| of the General Executive Board of the United Shoe and Leather Work- ers Union have been made at last meeting of the Packers and Freers Local 9 of the union. Fred Bieden- kapp and Ralph Holmes were una- nimously nominated for general or- ganizer and general secretary-treas- urer respectively. The following were originally nominated as candidates for GEB: M. Brandolini, T. Ford, L. DiPietro, . Shears, G. Custeau, U. Martin, J. ‘rowley, J. Costello. After a vote by the membership M. Brandolini, J. Custeau, J. Crow- ley and J. Costello were declared by majority vote nominees of the local for members of the General Exe- | cutive Board in the forthcoming elections. A resolution was introduced to the joint council to have a general top to bottom. The joint council adopted this and sent it out to all the locals of the U. S. L. W, U. for adoption. Local 9, was the first to receive it. The resolution was indorsed unanimously. “This set an example for all other locals to follow,” mem- bers of the local said. “This action clearly indicated the growing di- satisfaction with the present general officials, which led us to worse con- ditions and wage cuts. Lets go for- ward with a new rank and file leadership such as, F. Biedenkapp, R. Holmes, M. Brandolini, J. Cos- tello, and others like them.” Win a free trip to the Soviet Union; a free vacation in a work- ers’ camp, or cash. Join the | Daily Worker subscription con- test, and help achieve 10,000 new daily and 15,000 new Saturday subscriptions. Win a Free Trip to the Soviet Union?! Trotzkyism—Agent of International Fascism Farmers’ Relief Page 3 Bill | Embodies Real Needs Of Rural Population Every Struggle of Farmers Against Evictions and Foreclosures Is Endorsement for Measure Introduced Under Pressure of Farmers By Andrew Omholt The Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill (H. R. 3471), ine | troduced in Congress by Us her L. Burdick, Congressman from North Dakota, under pressure from the impoverished farmers, contains the demands and program the American farmers have struggled for these last four years. The farms Lt. DD. Upsets Frisco Terror Convictions SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.. Jan. 29 —In a decision which declares that “under the law of California, Com-| munism as a political faith is not} made a crime,” and that “as a polit- ical party the Communists have a status in this State equal to that of the Socialists, the Democrats and the Republicans,” the Superior Court last week reversed the vi dict of guilty against Harry Jack- son, Joseph H. Wilson and Elaine Black. The three had been picked up during the round-up of working class organizers at the time of the San Francisco Coast strike, and foung guilty of “vagrancy.” They were defended by the International Labor Defense. When the arrests took place, Elaine Black was organization sec- | retary of the International Labor | Defense in California, and Wilson | its secretary. Jackson was West Coast organizer of the Marine| Workers Industrial Union. | The evidence against the three| consisted chiefly of the testimony of Inspector Steel of the “Commu- | nist detail” of the police depart- ment, who under the name of The- odore Lindiner had entered the Communist Party as a spy and worked within it for two years. Two main issues were involved in the trial and in the appeal: whether or not functioning as an organizer for a working class organization constitutes “vagrancy,” and whether or not membership and activity in the Communist Party is in itself a crime. In forcing the court to admit that a working class organizer is not a vagrant and that membership in the Communist Party does not con- | stiute a crime, the I.L.D, won an important victory for civil rights |in California. 5 Shoe Unions Talk Merger In Washington WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—Amal- gamation of all existing unions in the boot and shoe industry into one united organization, is the aim of plans laid at a meeting in Wash- ington of officials of five unions, representing about 100,000 workers. A resolution was adopted point- ing out the disadvantages to labor of competing unions in the same industries, and concluding: “Be it resolved that there shall be a single united union in the boot and shoe industry, embracing all shoe work- ers in the United States and | Canada.” | The resolution is signed by John J. Mara, president, Boot and Shoe | Workers Union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor; Wm. J. Mackesy, United Shoe and Shoe Workers Protective John Murphy, Brotherhood of Shoe and Allied Craftsmen; and Stanley | P. Mixon, American Shoe Workers | Union. President Wm. Green of the A. F. of L. attended the meeting at which the resolution was passed, and the Federation's executive council is to participate in the detailed negotia- tions for amalgamation which are | to follow. Others present during the preli- minary negotiations were Director Mary Anderson of the U. S. Wo- men’s Bureau; J. Brodinsky, N. R. A. labor adviser, and Father F. J | Haas. Detroit Workers Order DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 29—A banquet in honor of Maurice Su; |labor attorney, who is now candi- | date for Judge of Recorder's Court. | will be given by the International Workers Order on Sunday, at 6 p. m. at Deutsches Haus, 7200 Mack Ave- | nue, | The International Workers Ozder, one of the many groups backing his candidacy has issued a folder giving Leather Workers; John D. Nolan, | Union; | Will Honor Candidate | At Banquet on Sunday election of the general officials from | *ers of Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, the Dakotas, the farmers of Penn« sylvania and New Jersey, croppers of the South, | white, have expressed themselves in no uncertain terms in favor of these demands contained in this |bill. The farmers have faced the |sheriffs, the armed forces of the | States such as in Iowa and Wiscon- jSin, they have faced the tools and Stool-pizgeons of the bankers and | bosses, they have had their bones broken and their heads cracked in their fights for relief for their families, for security on their farms against the foreclosure and eviction Program of the bankers and insur- ance companies. They have gone to jail and served long prison terms | because of their fight for their rights as American citizens to live de- cently, Farmers Want Bill All these activities and struggles |conducted by the Holiday farmers of Iowa, Nebraska and South Dak- ota, or by tarmers of the United Farmers Protetcive Assoication ef Pennsylvania, or the farmers of the United Farmers League of Minne- |sota, Wisconsin and North Dakota, these struggles were votes cast for the “Farmers’ Bill.” I have heard old time farm lead= ers, like Milo Reno, speaking to thousands of farmers, say the |farmers’ debts can never bé paid, they must be cancelled. I have |heard Burdick, Lemke and other congressmen say the same thing in their campaign speeches, and the farmers voted for them because of it. But when you come to them with a document like the Farmers’ Bill and ask them for their support in making it a law, then these farm leaders and “progressive” congress- men hesitate, they find all kinds of excuses and faults, you begin to wonder whether they really mean business, or are just trying to fool us, Long Term Loans Needed I know the poor and bankrupt farmers in their meetings and cone ventions, in most every farmers’ organizations in the country have passed resolutions by the thousands endorsing every provision contained in the “Farmers Bill.” The farmers | know that if they are to be secure |in their possession of their land and equipment, all debts threaten- |ing such possession must be cane jcelled. The farmers also know that they must have credit to ene | able them to increase the produce tion of food stuffs in order to ine sure an ample supply for our People. The farmers in the drought area whose families are in want and whose livestock is starving to death for lack of feed, they know that cash relief for food and clothing for the suffering people must be provided if they are to bring up their children as healthy American children, The American farmers also know that the working Population, whether in the city or on the farm, can no longer carry the burden of this crisis. They know that this burden should and must be put on the shoulders of the rich, on those who have become rich by robbing the people, s Bill Offers Real Relief This is the kind of relief the | Farmers Emergency Relief Bill will provide for if it becomes law—no more evictions and foreclosures, cancellation of poor farmers’ debt in order to provide security, pro- duction loans, long loans without interest to replace the farmers lost property, cash relief for food and clothing. The need for this relief would be determined by committees elected by the farmers themselves, This makes the Farmers’ Emer- gency Relief Bill the only bill in- troduced into Congress that will provide real relief for farmers if it becomes law, and if the constitution stands in the way of providing se- curity for our people as Mr. Bur= dick and Lemke seems to think, then it is high time we take a crack at that document and pass the “Farmers’ Bill.” Order copies of the Farmers Emergency Relief Bill from the Farmers National Committee for Action, 720 Locust Street, Philadel- phia, Pa., and spread them in your | neighborhood. Write your |man and demand that they support the “Farmers’ Bill.” | Greetings to the DAILY WORKER DETROIT, MICH. M. Marson Detroit, Mich. Comrade Markos Detroit, Mich. DETROIT, MICH. | Sugar’s record as an outstanding! S. Goros Ch. Stames, J. | fighter for worker’ and Negro rights| L. Goles Doros Co. | in the past twenty years and calling| B. Walker Smith, John Jim jon all workers to support his can-|S. Steve Nick Tetas (a | didacy. Primary elections for | Gust worker) | Judge of Recorder's Court will be| Gust Koram River Rouge {held March 4 and the finals on} John Smith Coffee House | April 1. Palas | Ten thousand signatures are| DISTRICT No. 1 needed to put Sugar on the ballot. |The deadline for signatures is on Thursday. All those who have peti- tions should turn them in by this date to the campaign headquarters, | 1010 Barlum Tower. SUBSCPIPT ENTER THE DAILY WORKER BOSTON, MASS. Mary Olen Tom Horpuntk CLEVELAND, OHIO Section No. 16 Unit 3-44 ION CONTEST