The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1935, Page 1

1 RR ROUTED RRA + League Shows Link Move to Exploit WHHH_+_=ssey MARGUERITE YOUNG Committee suppressed evidence of radio and movies are being used States.—Editor’s Note, . and printing-press inflation. today outside his organization. Curran is, whether deliberatel command in the storm troops not “liberal bankers,” such a hith. Won't Name His Paymaster He is trying to turn the Veterans’ Voters’ League into a Farmer- Labor-Veterans’ political party with a platform excluding every tradi- tional specific demand of organized. labor, and including monetary “re- form” such as has been publicly, persistently demanded Vanderlip! national organiza- financing his The members pay tional expenses. no dues. He hedged on every issue related to the Fascist offensive of the big bankers. And he declared: “T hope we can form a third party this Spring. But Congress will de- cide that. If they fall in with the bankers and don’t give us credit and currency, that'll be the end of it... . We have got to unite with fermers and laborers, that, is, if the country is still in a parliamentary mood. It may be that in the next three to six months, or longer, the futility and delay in forming a third party may make it appear too friv- bring about a change by force.” “The people’—led -by whom? The Communists?” “Not by Communists!” he ex- claimed. “There are no Commu- nists in this country. The American people are individualistic.” s “Well, whom would they follow in 's ‘change by force’ you predict?” “Oh—hotheads,” he answered im- patiently. A Fascist Reservoir The Fascist threat in Dr. Cur- | ran’s organization is clear. The sig- nificance lies not so much in the "present organization, but in the garbled, psuedo-popular program for a mass political party. This is pre- | cisely the type of mass organiza- tion which, after gathering strength and developing a military aspect, is snapped up by the financiers and industrialists for storm troops. Def- jnite military potentialities exist in this organization, as we shall see. Dr, Curran is typical of the discon- tented middle-class “leader” who, opposed to working-class leadership, can be taken over by powerful back- ers. He is a minor Father Charles E. Coughlin. He claims to have a following of millions. Established veterans’ leaders estimate it around 1,000,000. It was just this type of military-popular organization and Jeader that were tried out for years and then taken over for storm troops by Thyssen and Krupp. This series has already proved that anti- union businessmen are seeking to develop specific Fascist and other “yeterans’ organizations” in the United States. Fascist Constitution From the point of view of finan- ciers who, according to the official record of the Dickstein-McCormack Congressional Committee, have been Jooking toward veterans’ organiza- tions especially, in connection with efforts to form a Fascist army, there is nothing “hotheaded” about the Constitution of the Veterans’ Voters League. Approved by Dr. Curran just about a year ago, this instru- ment calls upon members to con- form to a number of familiar Fas- cist regulations. It devotes a whole article to “Uniforms,” the wearing of which it calls for “on all V. V. L. occasions.” It makes the wearing of overseas caps “mandatory.” An- other article of the constitution provides for segregation of minority racial groups because “the influence of consanguinity or other racial attributes . . . may not be evaded or denied.” In other words, Jim- Crow. While the objects of the or- ganization are stated to be “for the good that we can do; for the needy; for the helpless; for the oppressed,” ‘the constitution stipulates that of- ficers of the organization be “of some substance and above want’— (Continued on Page 3) BROWDER IN DETROIT | DETROIT, Jan. 20—Eerl Brow- | der, general secretary of the Com- munist Party, will speak here Thursday, on “The Communist Party’s Answer to Hearst,” at a mass meeting in Finnish Workers Hall, 5969 14th Avenue near Mc- Graw, at 8 p. m. The following evening, Feb. 1, at 8 p. m. in the same hall Browder will address a mesting of the Communist Party Fascist Groups Lure Veterans With Promises Interview With Head of the Veterans Voters’ by—Mr. | He evaded the question of who is | clous, and the people may seek to | With Wall Street in Vets’ Grievanees This is the sixth article in the series, “Wall Street’s Fascist Con- spiracy,” revealing how leading figures in American business and political life are backing Fascist and potential Fascist organizations. Previous articles showed how the McCormack-Dickstein Congressional Fascist activity, described the role of Gen. Smediey D. Butler, and told how Kellan Consuls persecute anti-fascists in the U. S. Yesterday's article showed how the press, to advance Fasctom in the United The self-styled anti-Roosevelt, anti-bankers, anti-pro- letarian leader of veterans sat in his office at 346 Broadway, | about three weeks ago, and predicted “a change by force” under the direction of “hot- happen unless Congress comes aeross with a Central Bank | heads.” He said this would His name, Dr. Edward T. Curran, is almost unknown , the Veterans Voters’ League. But it may yet flash upon the American consciousness. For lv or not, a candidate for a big of American Fascism. He told the Daily Worker he is against “bankers,” but s Frank A. Vanderlip, former president of the National City Bank. He said also that he knows Mr. Vanderlip and has been in communication with warning employers and the govern-| PRIEST CLAIMS 35 SENATOR ‘Coughlin, Attacking the U.S.S.R., Says He Has Many Backers By A. B. Magil (Special to the Daily Worker) ROYAL OAK, Mich., Jan. 30.— Thirty-five U. 8. Senators are sup- porting Father Charles E. Cough- lin’s National Union for Social Jus- tice, a movement which its founder and leader is trying to build along fascist lines as a dike against Com- munism, This was the statement that Coughlin made last night before an audience that packed the chapel next to his Shrine of the Little Flower, the million-dollar church built with scab labor. Coughlin named the following among the thirty-five: Huey Long, of Louisiana, Thomas of Oklahoma, Wheeler of Montana, McCarran of Nevada, Walsh and Coolidge of Massachu- setts, Wagner of New York, Doheny of Ohio, Johnson of Cali- fornia, and Borah of Idaho. Coughlin also referred to Senator of Minnesota, as “a close friend of mine” and declared he had been called by Shipstead at 1:30 a. m. that morning over long distance telephone fram Washington. In response to a question “What do you think of LaFollette’s Pro- gressive Party?” He relied: “I’m for it a thousand per cent, Implies LaFollette Backing The implication is that the La- Follette Progressives, with whom the A. F. of L. and Socialist lead- ers are flirting, and the Minnesota Farmer-Labor chiefs are also back- ing the fascist-tinged Coughlin movement. Coughlin’s statements came in the course of what was the last for some time to come of his Tuesday night lectures. The sleek radio priest opened Russian workers today was the same and even worse than under the Czars. Later on he shouted: “Unless Social Justice conquers the world, you're going to have in fifty or sixty years Commu- nism in this country. We have to win because if we don't, it’s the Red rule of Communism.” In contrast to this was his dodg- ing of two questions regarding his attitude toward the Nazis, indicat- ing where his real sympathies lie. “What do you think of the Ger- man Nazi program?” was one ques- tion. The answer was: “I’d rather not discuss it.” The second question: “What planks in the Nazi platform do you think the National Union ought to adopt?” He replied—this man who professes to be in tough with every- thing that is happening in the world — “I don’t know the Nazi platform.” Coughlin, who within nine days had delivered three radio talks over national hookups, opposing Amer- ican adherence to the World Court, claimed credit last night for the defeat of this measure in the Se- nate. He praised the editorial along the same lines that appeared in yes- terday’s Hearst press as “one of the most patriotic editorials ever writ- ten” and described its author as a friend of his, The radio priest again, as on the previous Tuesday, indicated that he has close ties with Huey Long, whom he described as “the best Con- stitutional lawyer in the United States,” and a man who “speaks the people's language and the people’s thoughts.” Asked whether his organization would support Long as candidate for President in 1936, Coughlin dodged a direct answer and said: “I’m keeping my tongue in_my cheek.” For the second successive time Coughlin called on automobile workers not to join the A. F. of L. or the company unions, but to or- Henrik Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite | with an attack on the Soviet Union | declaring that the status of the | smbership and close symnathizers Vol. XII, Ne. 27 <> | | CALLS LABOR * VERY BITTER Would Have Capital Revive Ilusions of Workers By Len de Caux WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 30.—| | | | ment of the “spirit of revolt” grow- \ing in labor ranks, and of the work-| ers’ bitter disillusionment with the N. R. A,, President William Green of the American Federation of | Labor made a bid for closer in- | corporation of the union officialdom jin the government machinery, while | testifying at the public hearings on N. R. A. labor provisions today. | Declaring that the workers ac-| |cepted promises about the right to organize with “implicit faith,” only | to be met with “wholesale discrimi- nations and discharges,” Green pointed out that they face this sit- uation “with deep and bitter re- sentment—a resentment which per- sists and grows.” “Organized labor now finds ft- self in an intolerable situation,” | the law has proved to be false and inadequate. The promises of eco- nomic and social betterment have | proved to be empty. This grow- ing resentment has fostered the | spirit of revolt which is gaining | large proportions.” } This admission of labor dissatis- | faction came at the end of a long speech praising the N. R. A. in| principle though criticizing its | “weaknesses.” Green's claims of! |N.R.A. achievement made a strange | jcontrast with some of the facts, jand figures he presented, showing | real weekly earnings reduced by the |New Deal while profits bounded up- | ward. | | All the shortcomings of the N. | R. A., he claimed. are due to “one | |fundamental fact,” that it “has not had the benefit of full particiye- | tion of organized labor in code making and in cdéde administra- | tion.” He therefore put forward the |demand for union representatives to | be allowed to sit in on code authori- | ties, dominated by the employers, “so they may know what is going on.” Only a few of the codes give! even this much recognition to the workers. | | | | Green’s emphasis on closer co- joperation of labor leaders with em- | ployers and government officials in code making was offered as a ;means to revive some of the illusions in the N.R.A. which he himself ad- mitted are blasted among the work- | ers. Pointing to the more than 11 mil- lion estimated unemployed by the |A. F. of L., Green noted the fail- ure of the N. R. A. to cope with) mass unemployment and put for- | ward again the demand for a 30- hour bill in place of which he said | the A. F. L. had accepted the N. I. R. A. as “a substitute measure.” Thousands and even hundreds of | thousands of workers are now working 44, 48, 50 and even 56) hours per week, he said. Increases of 6 and 4 per cent in minimum hourly earnings in codi- fied and non-codified industries be- tween June, 1933, and November, 1934, have been more than offset by increased living costs, Green said. “So that the weekly income of wage earners at the end of 1934 was actually smaller than it had been in July, 1933.” NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1935 SOVIET CONGRE Workers’ Bill Presented WORKERS BILL RESENTMENT On Floor of Connecticut HEARINGS SET State Senate and House Daily <Q Worker CRNTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 187% 59 CITES (Six Pages) NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents IN CONGRESS While Socialists in Oklahoma Enter United Front Pjans Made to Bring 62 for Defense of Jobless, Connecticut So- cialist Rejects Insurance Fight While in Oklahoma the Socialist and Communist Parties | concluded united front negotiations in defense of eighteen class-war prisoners, Jack Bergen, Socialist representative from Bridgeport, refused to introduce the Workers’ Bill into the House. (Special to the Daily Worker) HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 30.—A jthe usual parlance, introduction of | a bill “by request” does not imply support of the measure, but sig- nifies that at the request of groups Workers Delegates to Washington (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 30.— Hearings on the Workers’ Unem- ployment, Old Age and Social In- surance Bill, H. R. 2827, introduced jinto Congress by Representative Lundeen, Farmer-Laborite of Min- jnesota, will begin Monday, Feb. |4, at 10 a.m., before the House La~ |bor Sub-Committee, it was an- State Workers Unemployment In-| interested in the measure, the bill| nounced yesterday by Congressman surance Bill was introduced into both the House of Representatives and the State Senate here today. Stanley Yesukiewicz, Democrat, and business agent of Local 2188 of the United Textile Workers in Thomp- sonville, presented the bill in the House after Representative Jack Bergen, Socialist from Bridgeport, had yesterday refused to introduce the bill. Bergen said that the in- troduction of the Workers’ Bill would jeopardize Socialist social been introduced. Both Yesukiewicz and James Dick, who is also a Democrat, and vice- president of the United Textile pledged to fight for the Workers’ jl. James Dick is also vice-presi- mt of the Connecticut State Fed- eration of Labor. Senator John Taft, a Bridgeport Socialist, introduced the Workers’ Bill into the Senate by request. In ‘Free Rakosi’ Actions Grow In Hungary (Special to the Daily Worker) BUDAPEST, Jan. 30 (By Wire- less).—The heightening here of the anti-fascist sentiment against the Goemboes dictatorship, and the in- tense and successful activity of the Hungarian Communist Party leading this movement, was blamed in tonight’s issue of the “Hight O'Clock Evening News” directly on the instinctive and vigorous support aroused in the working class by Matthias Rakosi’s trial. This paper of Hungarian capital, commenting uneasily on the briliiant defense of the great anti-fascist, is calling for suppression of all news of the trial. Remarking that “the political di- vision of the administration has for a long time noticed the increasing strength of the communist move- ment,” the paper states: “Communist actions have now been given a new impetus through the Rakosi trial. Yesterday we witnessed the fifth of the so-called demonstrations of sympathy for Rakosi. Leaflets, by which they hope to create unrest, are drown- ing the city, “Naturally the political division is endeavoring to halt this Com- munist agitation, but in spite of the strenuous efforts of the police, | the first week of the trial has seen such a horde of leaflet-distrib- utors that it is impossible to cope with them. “Free Rakosi” Rally Saturday The Rakosi Defense Committee is preparing a mass demonstration in front of the Hungarian Consulate, 7 Morris Street, at 11 o'clock, Sat- urday morning, and is calling on all workers and anti-fascist groups to participate. State Link Wi By Michael Quinn (Special to the Daily Worker) SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 30.— The close link-up between govern- ment secret agents and the spy net- work maintained by employers to report all signs of militantancy on the part of workers in the indus- tries was dramatically revealed in the testimony of the prosecution's star witnesses, William Hanks, to- day during the trial in the Superior Court here of the 18 worker-de-~ fendants charged with criminal syndicalism. Hanks, star actor in a fantastic “kidnaping plot” engineered by special prosecutor Neil McAllister and which subsequently collapsed, testified that he had been a stool- pigeon for Morrill, Chief of the State Criminal Investigation De- partment, since Noy. 1, 1933. He was hired by Morrill immediately after Sacramento Witness Reveals th Boss Agents He testified that he has also been a stool-pigeon for the county attor- ney of Tulare, He came to his stool-pigeon job here, he testified, from the U. S. Devartment of Justice;-of which he was an agent. As a stool-pigeon for the State Criminal Investigation Department, he joined the Cannery and Agricul- tural Workers’ Industrial Union, the Unemployed Council here and the International Labor Defense. He participated in their activities | and made daily reports on the labor activities of these organizations. Under the questioning of the de- fense, Hanks revised his story of the famous “kidnaping plot” of which the prosecution had accused the defendants, claiming the defense was attempting to hide an impor- tant prosecution witness. The “kidnaping” story was exposed even in | |has been introduced. | The Hartford Workers Committee on Unemployment is preparing a campaign to canvass all representa- |tives and senators for support of |the Workers’ Bill. | OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Jan |30.—A united front of the Socialist | Party and the Communist Party in Oklahoma was concluded here Sun- \day on the trial of the eighteen | class-war prisoners being tried by |legislation which thus far has not the Federal government on Feb. 11 |for their part in the so-called food |riot of May 21, 1934. The eighteen workers were seized, in some cases, weeks after the dem- he said. “The protection offered by | Workers Union in Rockville, have) onstration. All face long prison terms on a Federal charge of “in- terfering with Federal employes in the performance of their duties.” The united front between the So- cialist and Communist Parties in (Continued on Page 2) Edward Denny Is Convicted In Portland (Special to the Daily Worker) PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 30.—Ed- ward Denny was convicted yester- day of criminal syndicalism. Sen- tence is to be imposed on Friday. |ton, Circuit Court, Portland, Ore., demanding reversal of the verdict and unconditional release of Denny. PORTLAND, Ore. Jan. 30.— Taking the witness stand in his own defense, Edward Denny turned his testimony into a graphic indict- ment of capitalism, as he related in simple, ungarnished language the story of a highly skilled worker squeezed out of industry and strug- gling against the crushing burden of unemployment, and driven to the miserable existence of the soup- line He told how he worked in the East at skilled labor in the Curtiss Airplane works. Led by the glow- ing, false promises of the “On to |Oregon” campaign of the local bosses, he came to Oregon, and found the fulfillment of these promises in the Portland Common’s forced labor relief institution A month after joining the Com- munist Party, and throwing himself into the struggle to halt the efforts of employers and relief officials to force the jobless single men to scab against the maritime strike, Denny was arrested 'U. S. Report Proposes Rise In Air Force mission appointed by Roosevelt has delivered to the White House a report which embodies proposals for making the United States the lead- ing military power in the world in aviation with emphasis on imme- diately building over 4,000 new war planes for the Army and Navy. The report covers 254 pages of recommendations as prepared by a specially appointed commission to investigate the whole question of aviation in this country. The report as delivered to Roose- velt urges that “it shall be the policy of the United States to maintain _a position of world leadership in air transport.” Devoting much space to the ques- | tion of aviation in war, the report |recommends the speedy fulfillment Protest. telegrams and resolutions | should be rushed to Judge Staple- | WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—A com-| Matthew A. Dunn of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the Sub-Committee. William F. Connery, Jr., of Massa- chusetts, Chairman of the Labor Committee;. Ernest Lundeen and Representative Dunn have already endorsed the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827, Brown Will Testify Elmer Brown of Typographical Union No. 6, will be the first to testify. Brown will discuss the Na- | tional Unemployment Congress, re- cently held in Washington to press the fight for immediate non-con- tributory unemployment and social | insurance, Herbert Benjamin, executive sec- retary of the National Joint Action | Committee for genuine social insur- | jance, will testify before the sub- committee on the administration |stand on unemployment insurance jand for the Workers’ Bill following | Brown. Many Groups to Speak During the hearings, which will | last two or three weeks, about sixty | workers, representing every section | of the working population, will tes- tify. Plans have been made to have representatives from all the unem- | ployed groups, the Unemployed | Leagues, the Illinois Workers’ Alli- | ance, the Wisconsin Workers’ Com- mittee on Unemployment and the cooperation between unions against | workers went to free rest | National Unemployment Councils, testify at the hearings on the | Workers’ Bill, During the hearings, all workers and their organizations are urged | to double their efforts behind the Workers’ Bill, Telegrams, resolu- tions of endorsement, post cards and letters should flood the House | Committee on Labor, demanding that the Workers’ Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, | H. R. 2827, be reported out of the | | Committee on Labor and onto the floor of Congress for vote. Benjamin to Appear Today Israel Amter, secretary of the Na- | tional Unemployment Councils, tele- | graphed the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday demanding that full time be accorded to all | representatives of the employed and unemployed workers, who will ap- pear to speak against the Roosevelt Wagner-Lewis Bill. Herbert Benjamin, executive sec- retary of the National Joint Action Committee for Genuine Unemploy- ment Insurance, and Louis Wein- stock, secretary of the American Federation of Labor Rank and File Committee for Unemployment In- surance, are scheduled to ap- pear before the House Ways and Means Committee will appear tomorrow. SHIP RADIO MEN STRIKE SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Jan. 30. —Ship radio men of the McCormick Steamship Company have gone on | strike, demanding an increase from _the present $75 a month to $110, following failure of negotiations |which extended since September. today. Amter| @ 1,500 Go On Strike At South Bend Plant; Other Walkouts Loom SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 30.— Fifteen hundred striking workers at the Oliver Farm Equipment Company here are demanding a 50 per cent increase in wages. The strike is led by local 19086 of the A. F, of L. While this strike is on, 4,200 workers of the Bendix Airplane Works are likewise demanding increased wages. A strike situa- tion is developing in the Bendix plant. Vincent Bendix is a prom- inent member of the Wall Street Committee of the Nation which backs Father Coughlin. Strike sentiment is likewise developing among the milk driv- ers, street car men and truck- demanding higher wages. DRIVERS SET TO RESTRIKE Plans Mapped for Even More Effective Fight If Writ Is Signed Teamster members of the Com- munist Party, New York district are asked to see the section or- ganizer at the section headquar- ters, or at the District Office, Fifth Floor, 50 East Thirteenth Street, as soon as possible after reading this: notice, | | With New York teamsters set for a strike next week reports indicate that preparations are being made |to bring the strike to an even | higher degree of effectiveness than ast week if Justice Humphrey makes good his threat to sign the injunc- |tion on Friday which would outlaw scabbing. Meanwhile, business interests, gov- | ernment officials and higher offi-j cials of the union are attempting to/ divert attention from the strike by urging that court action and legis- | lative means will be adequate to protect the jobs and working con- ditions of the men. Teamsters and Longshoremen have received thousands of cir- culars issued by the American Federation of Labor Trade Union Committee for Unemployment and Social Insurance which calls upon | them to continue the fight against | the injunction and pledges to} mobilize every force within its reach in their support. The committee, at 30 Irving Place, called upon the workers to take the following steps: Committees against the injunc- tion should be formed at every garage, dock and local. Every American Federation of Labor local | in the city should elect a support- ing committee and get in touch with the teamsters and longshore- men’s locals, Justice Humphrey of Kings County Supreme Court | should be showered with telegrams | of protest. Wires should be sent to Joseph Ryan, President of the | International Longshoremen’s As- sociation and head of the Central | Trades and Labor Council, located at 265 West 14th Street, demand- ing that a conference of every labor | organization in the city should be | convened within three days for a joint fight against the injunction. | War Veterans By Harold Hickerson (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 30.— Within 24 hours after the red-bait- ing and fascist gentleman, Hamilton Fish, Representative from New York, had actually presented | photostatic copies of receipts “prov- ing” that the Veterans National Rank and File three point program by Govecnment employes, in some and maintenance. Though Marvin McIntyre, Sec- retary to the President, would not come out into the open and make this announcement and when called Win Building In Washington for Parley {of the Transient Relief Bureau of | the District of Columbia, turned over a building for the use of the| | veterans. This occurred after sev- jeral conferences between Mr. Geb- Mr.| hardt and officials of the FERA, at | which McIntyre was present. The building was granted for a evidence to Congress in the form of! period of two weeks under complete | rank and file congrol. All work re- | registration committee has | |day, Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, the Vet- jerans will visit representatives and | payment of their back wag: lief provisions have been removed. A the p | estab- was being endorsed and supported | lished itself in the Central Bureau. The regular sessions of the rank instances by heads of departments, | and file conference for action on the Government capitulated to the|the bonus will begin on Monday, veterans in their demand for care| February 4. On Thursday and Fri- senators, demanding immediate cash Two hundred and _ seventy-five up by a member of the Resident] veterans have arrived for the con- Committee evaded making a direct} ference. By Monday at least 500 are AINS Green Asks for Closer Labor-N.R.A. Bond U.5.8.8. UNION LEADER LISTS WAGE RAISES Pay Wiercace 91% Sinee 1931, Schvernik Points Out (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 30 (By Wire- less).—No capitalist country can show growth like ours in .produc- tion, in union membership, wage men. levels, and living standards. The Three thousands workers at || Workers’ deputies come to this the Wilson Garment Co. are also Congress with victories to re- port which no other country can boast of.” This was the general report of N. M. Sch Secre« tary of Trade Unions in the Soviet Union to the All-Union Congress of Soviets late this aft n. Applause rose from the w] ress when he ascribed socialist con: ction to the leadership of the Communist Party and particularly to Joseph eral Secretary. ne of the Schvernik pointed out that “ale though wages were only a partial measure of the improvement in the condtions of the Soviet worker, still wages rose 91 per cent in the last four years, and this cannot be dis- regarded, especially as the ge level in the United States last year was only 73.4 per cent of the 1923 level.” “The country of the Soviets has no unemployment. The Soviet Union is a land of really free labor, whose one will and desire is the construction ef Soviet in- dustry,” Schvernik said. leader described insurance of in ear ago. The igher by two 1934 than in 1932, Last year 1,160,000 The trade un in detail the s which the unions charge more than a insurance bud; billion rubl he pointed out. in and 590,000 to health r Schvernik stated. Every Soviet work- er receives two weeks to one month of vacation from work with full pay. Other leading reports made to- day at the All-Union Soviet Con- gress will be found on page two, Appeal Made By Sister of Patterson Only $64.95 received Wednes- day by the International Labor Defense for Scottsboro-Herndon | Defense Fund. $8,354.31 more is needed imme- diately for the United States Supreme Court appeals. By Sebell Patterson Calhoun ter of Haywood Patterson) When those kids got framed on rape, well, no one came to our rescue but the LL.D. Days and nights passed over our weary heads, no one came to relieve our pain. One day mother came for me. This lady from the LL.D, there. She explained just what the LL.D. do, and so on, and we say, yes, take the case in hand. Now the I. L, D, is a true friend. They were the first to come to our rescue, The I. L. D., carrying the appeals of Heywood Patterson and Clarence and of Angelo Herndon, to Z ° ____|the United States Supreme Court, jis in urgent need of funds to finance | these actions. ush contributions | for the Scottsboro-Herndon Defense |Fund directly to the national office of the I. L. D., Room 610, 80 East ,1lth Street, New York City. GUILD STRIKE GOES ON NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 30.—The Newark Newspaper Guild, conduct- ing a strike of the editorial workers of the Newark Ledger informed the board of es now charge of the paper that althou the pro- posal to negotiate for a settlement | is agreeable, strike activities will not be suspended wh! scabs remain employed in the editorial rooms of r JAPANESE SEIZE CITY TOKIO, Jan, 30.—Japanese and 'Manchukuan troops have captured jthe town of Halkha Miao, within | the border of the Mongolian People’s Republic, an official dispatch of the |Rengo Agency declares today. This is part of the Japanese drive |through Chahar and other parts of Mongolia definitely aimed to open the road to the Soviet Union for an attack on the Trans-Siberian Raile “Our Stand on a Labor Party.” ganize in “one union for all auto workers,” the great cotten strike in California, by the hostile local press, as a stunt por the expansion of program of the by the prosecution, Army and Navy departments statement, Mr. Gebhardt, Supervisor expected to be on hand. j way at Karymskaya.