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Raskob, Morgan Agent, This is the eighth article of Conspiracy,” revealing how leading WallStreetBanks Seek to Form One Big Fascist Group James H, Rand, Jr., Roosevelt’s Friend, and to ‘Fight Communists’—Centact Military Schools By MARGUERITE YOUNG Urged ‘Crusader’ Head the series, “Wall Street’s Fascist. figures in American business and Political life are backing Fascist and potential Fascist organizations. Previous articles showed how the McCormack-Dickstein Congressional Committee suppressed evidence of Fascist activity, described the role of General Smedley D. Butler, told how Italian Consuls persecute anti-fascists in the U. S., and related how the press, radio and movies are being used to advance Fascism, ensnare the war veterans. with the fascist groups seeking to Yesterday’s article showed that leading figures in the Roosevelt administration are directly linked with the Wall Stret groups organ- izing Fascism, with the “Liberty League” and the “Crusaders” being used as the organizing centers. James H. Rand, Jr., head of the Morgan-Rockefeller- Hearst corporation, Remington-Rand, has appealed personally and repeatedly to the Commander-in-Chief of The Crusaders “Fred, we’ve got to get together to fight these Communists.” John J. Raskob of Morgan’s General Motors also urged | Commander Fred G. Clark to bring his Crusaders into the! Morgan-influenced American Liberty League. The Daily Worker learned these facts in interviews with | Crusader Commander Clark. They and others I shall give here conclusively demon- strate that the same financier clique” back of the estabished Wall Street | effort to build a fascist army of| 500,000 men is also actively, present- | ly seeking a new mass base to} promote fascist reaction. They point ineseapably, too, to the conclusion that The Crusaders, now seeking} 10,000,000 non-dues-paying members, | may well become stich a force. The American Liberty League, ‘backed by Raskob and other Mor- gan men as well as by Col. G. M.- P, Murphy, Morgan broker who paid Gerald C. MacGuire while the latter was asking General Smedley Butler to lead storm troops for them, gave $9,000 to The Crusaders. ‘This was announced publicly re- cently. When I asked Clark about it, he said that the money was given by “people who wanted to support a movement and didn’t know which organization they would give to.” “What kind of a movement?” I asked Clark. “A movement for what?” “Oh—” he hesitated, “—a move~ ment, whether it was the Liberty League, The Crusaders, the Econ- omy League, or what,” The Economy Leagué is well known as a reactionary organiza- tion. Like The Crusaders, it pro- motes such things as government “economy” by measures including reduction of unemployment relief. | This indicates the nature of the “movement” Clark said they wanted to back—but there is even more positive evidence. It is the Raskob- Carpenter letters, made public not by the Congressional Committee which covered up instead of inves- tigating fascist activities while being steered on behalf of a Mor- gan-associated financier, but by an- other Congressional Committee, the Senate munitions investigators, In this correspondence John J. Raskob, the same Morgan indus- (Continued on Page 2) Fascist Link To Fusionists Shownin N.Y. ——_——By TITO NUNZIO———— Editor of L’Unita’ Operaia The activities of official Italian Fascist propagandists in this coun- try, exposed in the current series in the Daily Worker, have deep roots in the “liberal” LaGuardia administration. The activities of these fascist propagandists in other fields, how- ever, should not obscure their direct and bitter fight against the true! voices of anti-Fascism among the} country’s Italian-American popula- tion. Among these Fascist agents, for example, is Mr. Rosario Ingargiola, who started a libel suit against. L’'Unita’ Operaia, Italian.language. workers newspaper, in an effort to suppress the publication. The nature of this LaGuardia- Fusion-Mussolini-Fascist tie-up was strikingly indicated in an article published in the Jewish Daily Bul- | letin by a staff reporter on Nov. 20. “American Concentration, Inc.” According to the revelations of the reporter, M. Iushewitz, the or- ganization was officially formed a short time ago. At the head of the American Concentration, Inc., is none other than Major J. T. Prout, confidential clerk to ex- Comptroller Joseph P. McGoldrick. of Mayor LaGuardia’s “brain trust.” In an interview with Iushewitz, Major Prout, who holds the im-| pressive title of commander-in- (Continued on Page 2) ascist Judge Orders Rakosi To Be Tortured for 11 Days (Special to the Daily Worker) BUDAPEST, Feb. 1 (By Wireless) —Bursting abruptly into the pro- ceedings of the hangmen’s “trial” of Matthias Rakosi, the presiding judge yesterday ordered the great anti-fascist leader to be thrown into the torture-chambers of the Horthy executioners for eleven days, This development of the lynch spirit of the fascist magistrates fol- lows swiftly upon the yenomous hatred for Rakosi which has been flooding the bourgeois press here. All newspapers, especially the “Eight O'Clock Evening News,” are expressing the fear of the Horthy dictatorship that the Rakosi trial is cementing the solidarity of the anti-fascist sentiment at a tremen- dous pace. At the same time they openly demand the stopping of the trial and the “disappearance” of Rakosi. Judge Provokes Collision The presiding judge deliberately provoked the collision which gave the opportunity to halt the trial. He categorically demanded of Ra- kosi whether he admitted the al- leged atrocities committed by Szamuely, a leader of the revolu- tionary forces of the Hungarian Soviet in 1919, “Answer yes of no!” the magistrate ordered. “May I read a paragraph from the past testimony which clearly shows the limitation of Szamuely’s powers?” asked Rakosi. It was then that the presiding judge made the astounding de- cision—unheard of in the laws of any country — to be re-imprison Rakosi while being tried and de- liver him into the hands of the “solitary confinement guards”—i.e., pfficial torturers—for 11 days. Rakosi neither winced nor ap- peared disturbed in any way at the savage sentence, although dozens of correspondents in the trial-room exploded with indignation. The famous Paris lawyer, Milhaud, rose in a curt and fierce denunciation of this piece of fascist justice. Attacks Act as Boomerang Earlier in the day every twist and turn of the prosecution to incrim- inate Rakosi as a “murderer” and “traitor” acted as a boomerang to expose the national treachery of the Horthy regime after the down- fall of the workers’ and peasants’ government. The judge read a let- ter of Bela Kun’s in which that great evolutionist spoke out against the war upon Czechoslo- vakia, Serbia and Rumania. This, the judge implied, proved that the Communists were against the war, against war generally, and hence were guilty of treason! “The revolutionary government,” Rakosi explained, “had no intention of continuing a world slaughter provoked by the imperialists. In whatever way the Ozechs and Slovaks had suffered injustice at the hands of the Austrian-Hun- garian empire, we were anxious to remedy it, and the first condition was the ending of the bloody strug- gle. The correctness of our national Policy was proved in the 1923 elec- tions when the candidates of 17 parties were on the ballot and the Communist Party received 40 per cent of all the votes.” Mass picketing to protest against the 11-day torturing of Matthias Rakosi and to demand the libera- tion of the Hungarian working class leader will take place today at 11 a.m, sharp at the Hungarian con- sulate, 25 Broadway. The Interna- tional Labor Defense, the National Committee for the Defense of Mat- thias Rakosi, and other working- class organizations urgently call upon all members and their friends who can possibly do so to join the picketing and force the freedom of Rakosi, whose life is in imminent danger. Forwarding a cable bitterly de- nouncing the fascist lynch trial ot Matthias Rakosi to Admiral Horthy, dictator of Hungary, the Action Committee for the Defense of Mat- thias Rakosi stated: “American and Hungarian so- cieties of workers and intellectuals condemn the Hungarian authorities for the ruthless persecution of Mat- thias Rakosi. We demand his im- mediate and unconditional release. (Signed) M, VARGA, Secretary. | | | | | Vol. XH, No. 29 <> NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1935 Daily QA Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST HTTERUATIONAL ) Entered as secend-cines matter at the Post Omics at Mow ‘York, N. ¥. under the Act of March #, 107% (Eight NATIONAL EDITION Pages) Price 3 Cents Organizing Fascism John J. Raskob, General Motors millionaire, who urged ‘definite” group to fight Communism. Tied up with leading Roosevelt polit- ical insiders. Has J. P, Morgan connections, ARMED BANDS FORM IN WEST ‘Red Scare’ Launched in Sacramento by Business Men By Michael Quinn (Special to the Daily Worker) SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 1— Armed vigilante bands that have been openly drilling here for the past two weeks in a “red scare” worked up by local employers and city officials against the 18 criminal Syndicalism defendants. on trial here are threatening to attack a meeting called for tomorrow in soli- darity with the worker defendants. The meeting will be held at the Plaza Theatre here. Colonel Mittlestaedt, who led Na- tional Guard units in attacks on the West oast maritime strike and San Francisco General Strike last sum- mer has been appointed head of the Sacramento police. On the pretext that an emergency exists, he has been given dictatorial powers to break up workers’ meetings. Local | Newspapers are still printing lynch- incitement stories of a threatened | “red invasion” of Sacramento, and the scene is set for provocative acts by the police or their vigilante al- lies within the next 48 hours, Five Are Ill Five of the defendants, ill from the effects of their prison treat- ment, were bailed out today by the International Labor Defense. They are Nora Conklin, Lorrine Norman, Pat Chambers, Martin Wilson, and Harry Collentz. Leo Gallagher, International La- bor Defense, today issued subpoenas for local reporters who last sum- mer received the story of a fantastic “kidnaping plot” from Neil McAllis- (Continued on Page 2) PIPE BOSSES GET WRIT A permanent injunction restrain- ing workers from conducting any strike activities or even walking within five blocks of the premises of the L. H. Stern Briar Company, 56 Pearl Street, Brooklyn, was granted ygterday by Judge Peter B. Smith, in the Kings County Su- preme Court, against the strikers, led by the Independent Smoking AUTO MEN AMTER RAPS WAGNER BILL AT HEARING Tells Ways and a Committee Jobless | Demand HR 2827 (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1.—) “The unemployed reject the Wag- | ner-Lewis Bill since they do not| |come within its provisions,” Israel | | Amter, national secretary of the| National Unemployed Councils, told | | the House Ways and Means Com- mittee today. This Committee is | | holding hearings on the Roosevelt | | Administration’s Wagner-Lewis bill, | |the new deal’s legislative rejection of national unemployment. insur- ance. The Ways and Means Com- mittee emphasized its anti-working class character yesterday by calling on police to eject Herbert Benja- min, the spokesman for the Na- tional Joint Action Committee for Genuine Social Insurance which is backing the Workers Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill | H.R, 2827, | Both Benjamin and Amter recom- | | mended H.R. 2627 as the only work- | | ers’ bill of all the measures intro- | duced thus far in Congress. Tax Will Hit Workers “The Wagner-Lewis Bill, said} Amter, “makes no provision for the unemployed, nor even for workers who after the bill goes into opera- tion are supposed to receive unem- ployment compensation if they are laid off. It merely states that a 3 per cent payroll tax shall be im- posed on the employers, to be re- duced to 2 or 1 per cent depending on the business index. This tax will be passed on to the worker in the price of the product.” “As against this bill we put the | Workers Bill, which provides for Gas Company Knew of Leak That Killed 2 The gas leak which took a toll of two dead and nine injured in | Brooklyn yesterday was known to officials of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company for approximately five hours before it sent out crews to find the source of the leak. This was indicated yesterday in records which showed that the leak was discovered by Lee Churchin, of 187 Schermerhorn Street, and was relayed by the police telegraph bu- reau to the Brooklyn Union Gas Company at 1:33 a. m., one min- | ute after it had received the in- formation. Between the time that the utility company received information of the gas leak and 4:45 a, m. ap- parently no effort was made by any agency to find the source of the trouble. At 4:45 a. m. an employe of the American District Telegraph Com- | pany, a burglar alarm service, ap- peared “at the door of the Ludwig Baumann store, at Hoyt and Liv- ingston Streets to investigate, He found the door locked. With the aid of a policeman he forced open the door and inside found Michael Delaney, night watchman and Henry Kramer, night fireman, RESIST F.D Daily Worker Gets U.P. Wire Service Starting Monday Beginning on Monday, the Daily Worker will receive the regular news teletype service of the United Press. The paper has acquired this Service as a source of information Which will help the paper in presenting with greater prompt- ness and completeness all the news which affects the working class from a working-class point of view. The use of the service has been made possible by the financial ald of a group of Daily Worker supporters, USSR ALTERS ELECTION LAW New Members Added te) Central Committee of Soviet C. P. (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 1 (By Wireless). —A momentous extension of Soviet | democracy, paralleling the tremen- | dous progress of the proletarian dictatorship in wiping out the ves- tiges of capitalist society, was an- nounced this afternoon, after a short plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, The further democratization of the electoral system entails certain immediate changes in the consti- tution of the US.S.R. Elections will henceforward take place with the collective farmers at a more equal | level with the factory workers. The various stages of elections, which previously began with the necessary voting for local, provincial, and national Soviets, will now be re placed by direct voting. And, sig- nificant of the complete triumph of the proletarian dictatorship, open voting will now be abolished and secret voting take its place. Each one of the above changes | has been widely and thoroughly | discussed at the All-Union Congress of Soviets here. The extension of the social-economic foundations of | the constitution are bringing the | constitution into harmony with the | present correlation of class forces in the USS.R., that is the creating of a new socialist industry, the destruction of the class of kulaks, | the victory of the coUective farm system, the consolidation of social- | | ist ownership as the basis of soviet | society, ete. | The Plenum decided to include | as members of the Political Bureau, | A. I. Mikoyan and V. Y. Chubar, | and A. A, Zhdanov and R. I. Eiche | as candidates. N. I. Yezhov was | included as a member of the Secre- | tariat of the Central Committee. MANCHURIAN MINERS STRIKE > SHANGHAI, Feb. 1 (By Wireless). —A strike of 2,300 Japanese coal miners broke out this afternoon at | Fushun, South Manchuria, in pro- test against the beating of Chinese | workers by Japanese straw bosses. Police opened fired on the unarmed workers who surrounded the mine offices. Eighty-six workers were killed, 66 wounded and over 600 Strikers were arrested. ITALIAN CONSULATE PICKETED | Workers of the Dodecannesian Society yesterday picketed the| Italian Consulate at 134 East 70th Street as part of their protest against the attack of Italian im- Pperialism on the small Greek popu- GREEN HITS AUTO CODE: FEARS UNION Makes Show of Resist- ance at Hearing in Washington WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1— William Green, pressed by the pro- test of the auto workers has at- tacked the extension by Roosevelt of the anti-labor auto code. He said, “We protest against this code. We will not accept it, not recognize it, not yield to it,” when testifying before the senate judiciary subcommittee considering the Black thirty-hour week bill. This state- ment followed the extension by Roosevelt, of the auto code untli June 16, Roosevelt, in extending the code, retained the “merit clause” which | gives employers the sole right to fire and hire, allowing a free hand for discrimination against union men, Roosevelt also disregarded the de- mands of the A. F. of L. unions, and Officially embodied the Auto Labor Board as a part of the oode. He declared in his amendment to the code that “the members of the industry will comply with the pro- visions and requirements for the settlement of labor controversies which were established by the gov- ernment and have been in operation since March, 1934, and which are hereby confirmed and continued.” Roosevelt decreed two “conces- sions” which were an obvious at- tempt to sugar coat the bitter pill. Thése meaningless concessions called for time and one-half pay only for time worked over 48 hours. The second “concession” stated, | “the members of the industry are requested and authorized to enter) into agreements with one another (Continued on Page 2) Molotov Gives Firm Answer To Imperialist MOSCOW, Feb. 1 (By Wireless). —Clearly demonstrating how the Soviet Union meticulously adhered to the Portsmouth Treaty of 1905 regarding the Russian-Japanese guarantee of the Chinese and Tighe and Fagan Plan To Expel Militants on The Eve of Parley By TOM KEENAN (Special to the Daily Worker) | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 1.— Panic-stricken as reports from the field indicate a wide atten- dance here tomorrow at the his- toric conference of rank and file |] steel workers and coal miners, || Pat Fagan and Mike Tighe, top bureaucrats ‘of District Five of || the United Mine Workers and || the Amalgamated Association || have threatened to expel every || Worker who attends the meeting | The expulsion threats were fol- lowed by the refusal of Bik au- thorities to allow the use of the || hall for the conference. | Wm. Spang, president of Dis- || trict One, which issued the con- ference call, declared today that the conference will be held never- theless in another hall. RYAN ADMITS STRIKE MOO |Plans To Shift Fight To Courts and Away from Walkout Joseph P. Ryan, president of the | International Longshoremen’s Asso- ciation admitted yesterday that wholesale firing of union truckmen, and wage outs as a result of the Humphrey anti-labor injunction is driving the workers to act over the heads of the high officials in his and the teamsters’ union, for a strike next week, “If the injunction is signed, there is no telling what will hap- pen,” Ryan said. fear that they will lose their jobs, | they will not listen to the leaders. Why, if I tried to stop a demon- stration in that event, théy’d be likely to throw me ont and put someone else in my place.” Ryan's statement was in an ef- fort to explain defiance of the in- junction and the refusal of long- shoremen to handle freight trucked by non-union teamsters, and shift away responsibility from himself. In the same statement he indicated the scheme of the top union offi- cials for heading off a strike. “The only thing that might save the situation in the event the in- junction is signed,” he continued, | would be if it carried the right to appeal and a stay pending de- termination of the appeal.” | The Ryan Plan “Hf those men | Korean frontiers, V. M. Molotov, | Chairman of the Council of Peo-| the reactionary officials for head- ple’s Commissars, vigorously re-| ing off the strike, a movement that plied last night at the All-Union | seems inevitable if Justice Humph- Congress of Soviets to the proposal | Tey signs the injunction again to of the Japanese Foreign Minister | shift the struggle to court wrangles. Hirota for the demilitarization of | Rank and file teamsters point out the Soviet-Manchurian frontier. | that this will give trucking com- Hirota, at last Saturday's session | panies and shippers additional time of the Japanese parliament, while | to prepare against the workers, and rejecting the idea of concluding a | Wholesale firing and wage cuts will non-aggression pact with the U.S.| continue as in the past month. S.R.—a proposal repeatedly brought | Working on another ange for forward by the Soviet Union—spoke at length on the question of Soviet demilitarization on the eastern front. In his answer, Molotov cited other clauses of the Portsmouth | (Continued on Page 2) PECS STRIKE CONTINUES PECS, Hungary, Feb. 1.—The strike of 614 Funfkirchen miners Treaty. who are ready to face mass suicide The Treaty |by starvation at the bottom of the “Hirota expressed himself in| mine galleries unless their wage favor of extending this obligation |demands were met continued solid | contained in the Portsmouth | today, although 250 of them came ‘This, apparently, is the plan of| Treaty to demilitarize the frontiers also to the Soviet-Manchurian bor- | to the surface. These declared that their fellow workers were deter- mined to remain underground un- Pipe Makers Union, JRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has brazenly extended the auto anti-labor code to June 16. He rejected every demand of the 400,000 auto workers, without even a pre- tense at a hearing. This extension carries out every wish of the auto manufacturers. It signifies a more open anti-union move of the Roose- velt government to lower living standards, smash the unions and foster the company unions. Roosevelt, for the fourth time, retained the infamous “merit clause” in the auto code. The Auto Labor Board is so hated by the auto workers that even William Green was forced to publicly repudiate it and withdraw from participation. In the face of this fact Roosevelt orders the decisions of March, 1934, setting up this anti-Labor Board “confirmed and continued.” Not only did Roosevelt retain the merit clause, but he retained the provision of the forty-four hour week on the average. In other words, he rejected labor's demand for the thirty-hour week with full pay, and instead allows almost unlimited hours. He retained the low minimum wage of 40 to 43 cents an hour which has become, in most cases, the maximum wage. The extension of the code to June 16 is an attempt to carry the auto manufactur- Prostrated. Delaney was dead, ers through the busy season without a strike. It is the same strategy that Roose- velt. used for the employers in March, 1934, to avert strike action then. The two “concessions” of Roosevelt are meaningless to the auto workers. The in- troduction of new models in the fall will not increase production. More work is not. made by a residential decree changing the date for issuance of new models. The change of dates does not increase the power of the masses to purchase more autos, and hence cannot increase the amount of work. Unemployment will con- tinue rampant in the auto industry. As for the time and one half pay above 48 hours, Roosevelt admits that “today most employes can work only forty-eight hours.” William Green admitted yesterday that these provisions will not increase employ- ment, . 'HE movement of the workers for a strike against the intolerable conditions im- posed by Roosevelt is so great, and their indignation against the N.R.A, and the Auto Labor Board so widespread, that Wil- liam Green at present has been forced to take a stand against Roosevelt's ruling. Green declares that “labor cannot accept, recognize or yield to the code in its present form.” This is correct, The auto workers must lated island of Kalymnos. | Auto Workers! Prepare for Strike Against Anti-Labor Code! AN EDITORIAL prepare the strike against the attacks of the Roosevelt government, But what has been Green's role in the auto industry? Green accepted without any effective pro- | test, the auto code in August, 1933, when it was originally signed by Roosevelt. He made no move then or since to mobilize the workers for a strike against the anti- labor provisions of the code against which he now speaks, Green signed the pact with Roosevelt _and the auto manufacturers in March 1934, which set up the Auto Labor Board, He approved and helped enforce a “settlement” which legalized the company union, which robbed the workers of the right to strike, and which defeated every single demand of the auto workers—their demands for wages and against the speed up. William Green bears responsibility for the present plight of the auto workers because: 1) From the beginning he has supported the N.R.A. and the Roosevelt New Deal, which has carried through the attacks on the auto workers; 2) He only mildly criticized the auto code, re- sisted strike preparations of the workers against its anti-labor provisions; 3) He prevented the March 1934 strike and helped create the Auto Labor Board, which served the interests of the mann- (Continued on Page 2) less assured a living wage. facturers; 4) His whole policy has been to support Roosevelt's anti-labor action— to force the workers to accept compulsory arbitration of employer-controlled boards and give up the strike weapon; 5) He has made no real effort to organize the unorganized auto workers, The auto workers must smash the anti- labor code and the Auto Labor Board’s company union rule. They can only win their economic demands by immediately preparing for strike. William Green has shown that he will not do this. His whole record shows that if a strike is called he will try to defeat and behead it. If the auto workers are to win their de- mands for higher wages, shorter hours and | union recognition, they must prepare now union recognition, for shorter hours, higher | to act on their own initiative, before the busy season is over. The A. F. of L. auto locals must be immediately strengthened in order to prepare for strike. The or- ganization of the unorganized auto work- ers into the A. F. of L. locals is an imme- diate task. The preparation of the strike by the rank and file must go forward at once in answer to the anti-labor decisions of Roosevelt. Organize_action committees in every auto plant. Pass protest resolu- tions against Roosevelt’s ruling. Build the A. F. of L. auto locals in every plant, Pre- pare for strike vs 2 PLANTS OUT AS STRIKE MOVE GROWS ‘Detroit Auto Unions To Discuss General Walkout Monday (Special to the Daily DETROIT, Feb. 1.—The growing resistance of auto workers to Presi- dent Roosevelt’s extension of industry's open shon code fia into partial open struggle yester- day as 590 maintenance men went on strike at the Murray Body plant here. The walkout followed on the heels of a strike by wet sanders at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing which |involved some 8500 men by the closing of the Fisher plant and the | Olds Motor plant | The strike movement is expected |to spread steadily from shop to | shop. | The City Council of the Amers {ican Federation of Labor automo. }bile unions here is expected to con- sider a general strike vote on Mon« jay Auto unions fn Cleveland and Flint were preparing today to give their utmost support to the two strikes while considering their own strike preparations. : Extension of the auto code now in effect has already produced an increase in part time work and part time pay. The supposed provision of time and a half for all overs time exceeding forty-eight hours is proving to be a mere paper con cession, since President Roosevelt |has admitted that “it is true that most employees can work only | forty-eight hours.” With two strikes under way and |the resistance of the auto workers | to the extension of the code on the hourly increase, William Green is | Proposing further delays by calling for a Congressional investigation ag a substitute for strike action. | The auto workers here are des | manding a thirty-five dollar a week minimum for production men, forty- jeight dollars for skilled men, @ | thirty-hour, five-day week, abolition of speed-up and recognition of the union. In a statement issued today the ; Communist Party here declared |_ “The delay policy of Green and | Dillon will not stop the American | Federation of Labor Unions from spreading the strike of the Murray workers and from preparing for a general strike. “Workers: Reject code extension. Get together with your fellow work- ers in your department, discuss | strike demands and organize depart- ment committees to prepare the strike. “American Federation of Labor members: Get your locals to vote strike. Go to next City Council | meeting and see that your delegates | vote for strike preparations, for or= ganization drive, for raising strike fund, for rank and file negotiations | committee and rank and file strike committee. “Mechanics Educational Society: | Reject the code. Support the movee | ment for strike. All auto workers |prepare for uniting all forces for one industrial union of auto works Worker) ers. Women Aid Scottsboro | Fund Drive How funds are being collected for tl: Scottsboro-Herndon defense in New York is illustrated by this lete | ter received Friday by the Interna= | tional Labor Defense: Dear Friends: I submit herewith $10, which was collected at a house party given at the home of Mrs. Wein- stock, 740 Sutter Ave., Brooklyn. The women who contributed the funds have had no previous con- tact with this sort of work. When the case was explained to them, | they saw immediately the impor= tance and justice of your work, Sincerely, A SYMPATHIZER Funds urgently needed to carry | the Scottsboro and Herndon appeals | through the United States Supreme Court should be rushed to the na= | tional office of the International Lae bor Defense, Room 610, 80 East 11th Street, New York Cit Denny, Jobless Leader, iGets Two-Year Term PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 1—Ede ward F, Denny, organizer of single | Unemployed men, was senterced tos | day to two years in jail in Judg@ | James Stapleton’s circuit court. Ten out of twelve jurors, all that { | are necessary under Oregon's “tem / | juror law,” enacted last spring, cons « | victed Denny of criminal syndicale ism last Tuesday. The jury fee turned its verdict after five hourd deliberation, po SuSE att