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Page 2 Fascist Groups | Barrace or «crus: DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1935 Roosevelt-Morgan Men Act to Unite Pro-Fascist Groups ADER’ PROPAGA Recruit From Army Schools (C inued from Page 1) trialist who wanted to bring The Crusaders into the Liberty League, wrote to R. R. M. Carpenter, of Morgan’s duPont munitions cor- poration: “There should be scme very definite organization that Would come out openiy with some Plan for educating the peopie to the vale of encouraging ptopte to work; encotraging get rich; showing the f Communism in its efforts to tear down our capital structure, etc.” Utged “Definite” Fascist Organization Raskob made an indirect proposal that Carpenter “take the lead.” He wrote: “You haven't much to dé and I know of no one that could better fake the lead in trying to induce the duPont and Gene’ Motors groups, followed ‘by it big industries, to definitely organize to protect society from the suffer- | ing which it is bound to endure if we allow Communistic elements io leati the people to believe that all | businéss men are crooks, not to be | trusted, and that no one should be allowed to get rich.” Notice, Raskob wanted “a defi-| nite organization” not only to com- |} bat Communism, but for “educat- | ing” the people and “encouraging | people to get rich.” He was an-| {to strike while Fascism and Com- munism threaten it. And, on the other side of the same leaflet the open-shop declaration under which the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufac- turers are demanding universal company-unionism. Clark, when asked how he would defend the right to sttike, forgot about the “Rights of the Common Man” and said only he was for “collective- bargaining without coercion from any source”—the open-shop slogan! Similarly, when asked about un- employment insurance, Clark told a sad tale about tnion musicians who “could” get work and “would love to play for less than union ’—if only the union didn’t them ‘demarid the scale. “Call to Action!” of The entitled “Which Way “America is now The Crusaders, America?”> says: engaged in a great test of its rep- resentative form of government and its free institutions,” and continues with a discussion intplying that it is | for “sound government.” principle is “We aré dpposed to 4 so-called ‘planned economy’ « . whether this be called Fascism, So- cialism, or Communism.” Beyond 4 noyed at the Communist effort to} do what he called “tear down our capital structure.” Such “education” and “encour- fagement” could only be spreading demagogy—for, as the people are | fast learning there is no earthly The above shows typical reac are marked similarities between thi aganda as in the poster at the top. to the unemployed. such organizations as the “Crusader” which has secret ties with leading Wall Street bankers and Roosevelt agents. It will be noticed that there tionary propaganda poured out by is stuff and the Ku Klux Klan prop- Notice the contemptuous references way for the majority of the people a the capitalis Ratan, TOT” Under the capitalist | 4, retired, Delafield, Wisconsin, i et a {has been specifically designated, i an Pea alarm ie eke am informed, to handle this job, He Rion af the Liberty League an eae has been connected with St. John’s Lagi am an~' Military Academy, one of the big Nounced. It is seeking a member- | private militar prep schools for ship of 4,000,000. However, because well-to-do bi since 1894, Pres- it was announced that its leader | ident of the institution since 19: ship included such big business) Farrand and other key milit figures as Raskob, the duPonts, and |¢nen are said in Wall Street to Al Smith, the Liberty League was | using their influence in thei mili- identified as a Big Business outfit; | tary groups and in military school even the capitalist press indicated | associations to interest the heads of this. these groups to take a more active Keep Wall Street Names Hidden Many of the same capitalists who | tecting the Constitution.” This is went into the Liberty League | because the United States is dotted Joined the National Advisory Coun- | with private military academies for cil of The Crusaders, as shown by | rich boys. the leaflet reproduced with this} The Department of War has sent article. Since then they have quietly | letters to all graduates of these pri- withdrawn their names from The|V4te military academies, asking Crusade> roster, and this organiza- | them if they wished to take occa- tion is re-incorporating under Ii- | Sional training in order to become “Hinois laws. Reserve Officers of the United The new trustees of The | States. This Was obviously first of Crusaders include not one single |! @ wat itove, but it may well tniversally-known lieutenant of | S@tVe to train storm troops as well, | and apparently Big Business has though of that. I asked Clark why his Crusaders the Morgan - Rockefeller - Hearst ~ ¢liatte! But it does contain sev- y | said. interest in “public affairs and pro-| etal military-business men who, urkhown to the workers and lib- erals, might be tricked into such an organization by demagogy only to be delivered up to Fascism later, are -closely -connected with the most reactionary forces in the conntty! Let me identify them at once: There is Col. Walter C. Cole, Who, as Commander Clark con- fessed to me, has been fighting “subetsive” movements in Mich- igan “for about 12 years.” In ad- dition, Cole is a professional jingo, and a member of the national de- fense committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Big Business’ most powerful anti- labor organization, which recently recommended a “citizen’s army,” something that obviously could be fothing but a fascist sttike- breaking force to begin where the police and National Guard fail. Cole is also a key military man— colofel in the Air Reserve, U. S. A., formerly in the Specialists Reserve Division; national presi- dent in 1929-30 of the Reserve Officers Association; and general chairman of the committee on na- tional defense of the Michigan department of the American Le- gion. Jt was the American Le- gion to which MacGuire wanted General Butler to speak before in eonnettion with his Fascist army plan. To a man of this type “sub- versive” obviously would cover liberal and all labor activity, There is R. Douglas Stuart, Chi- cago, vice-president of the big _ Quaker Oats company. There is James F. Bell, Minnea- polis steel man, retired chairman of General Mills. There is Elton Hoyt, Cleveland, of the firm of Picanes Mather and operators of mine properties son and steel companies. | “Crusader” Head Latds Hitler Crusader Commander Clark him- | self, refusing to explain his organ- | ization’s financing but admitting that it received 50 national broad- | casting periods gratis from the big Columbia Broadcasting System, now E spiritedly berates the “big business | = . 2 “immediate fight against -. fellows” in the Liberty League, but | admits he thinks “Hitler did a great thing for Germany if he saved it adopted a military form of organ- | ization, and often put a miiltary | flavor on their activi E | “I don’t know,” he said. He sat in his office at the Crii- saders’ Headquafters, a handsome, deeply carpeted stiite at 100 Hast 42nd Street. On a table in the outer office (there are a string of small offices in the sttite) at least 20 dif- ferent piles of literature, all expen- sively printed, were stacked. He said the “whole purpose” of re-in- corporating the organization was to | expand, wants! | “Will those 10,000,000 pay dues?” | “No. No dties.” | “Don't you heed money to keep that kind of an organization to- gether?” “We ate not a centralized organ- ization.” Mum on Motiey Source “But it takes a great deal of Money to ruh a ceritral office such as this, alone, not to mention the cost of conducting propaganda on the scale you're doing it with radio broadcasts, booklets and leaflets and publicity.” | “That will be supported by yolun- tary contributions.” “Big ones, ... Who gives you big _stims?” | “That I really don’t know.” Mr. Clark clamped his hands behind his head, leaned back in his swivel chair and eyed tie Agterminedly. “The business ind of this is all out in Chicago.” “You just got fifty nationwide broadcasts from Columbia. Didn't someone have to pay for that?” “That,” he said, “was just a mat= ter of cooperation.” |_ I asked him whether Col. M. P.- Murphy was associated with him. “He's getting behind the Liberty League. We have no connection Ten million members he bet ” He said, too, “We just say, e up, America.’” | Which, I pointed out, strikingly reminds one of the “Deuts¢liland, Erwacht!” in pre-Hitler days, and of Lawrence Dennis’ “The Awakener,” a declared Fascist sheet. “I don't know Dennis,” was all he “When you say you oppose ‘un- American’ do you mean trends to- ward Communism or toward Fas- cism?” I asked him, “I don’t Know,” he said. “There's so mtich talk about all these isis, I’m beginning to think I don't know anything about anything.” “Tell me, Mr. Olark, do you con- sider Fascism ‘subversive?’ ” “T haven't seen afiything of that yet to worry about. If can't think this Smedley Butler thing is afiy- | thing but a farce.” And he added with some spirit, “I've got confidence in the American people—we don’t deserve.a free government if we don’t take an interest in it.” “You see nothing threatening either on the Left or the Right?” “T certainly see nothing to bother about on the Right!” he exclaimed with a laugh, Which, whether it was dissembling or mere dumbness, shows the fas- cist possibilities in this would-be leader. of masses. It was by deny- ing the threat of opén capitalist | dictatorship in ofder to keep the |people from seizing power under Communist leadership that Social- Democratic leaders, especially in Austria, materially aided the ad- vance of Fascism. I mentioned James Rand's name. “Oh, I know young Rand,” Mr. Clark volunteered brightly. “He's alw coming around and saying, “Fred, we've got to get together to fight these. Communists,’ But I never did.” Lauds Hitler Rand's key position among Amer- ican monopoly capitalists was de- Scribed yesterday. His activities in |connection with the Committee for the Nation, which he heads, will be | dealt with later. The important point here is that he has been try- ing to line tp the Crusaders. Clark's point was that he refused. But he is fighting radicalism also’ in his own different way. I asked him whether he who pro- fesses to be showing America the way politically wasn’t aware of how the Social Democrats aided the ad- vent of Hitler. “Well, I say if Hitler saved Ger- many from Communism, he did a | great thing for Germany!” Clark said. A few moments earlier Clark had said he wanted to advance “lib- | eral” government. I pointed ottt that | Hitler hag stamped ott the last |Shadow of the “liberal” aspects of | capitalist “democracy.” | “Well,” clark philosophized, “there | are some things they can’t take away |from people. There’s more than with it!” he exploded. “That's a Big | money in this world! I know there Business outfit. We have no prop-|are certain things in my life they erty to protect. I have no property|can’t take away, no matter what —my only chahce for a comeback | happens—music¢, for instance,” is a return of confidence of busi-| I pointed out that that is precisely ness.” what Hitler is telling the workers I asked him just what his atti-|in Germany, only everyoné knows tude towatd the Liberty League is,| that most workers can’t have it and he exclaimed, “Oh, heavens! | 804, if they could, it’s no stibstitute We'll cooperate with any otganiza-|for food; it’s only a way of trying tion that is working against un-|t0 keep the people quiet on lower American trends, but they've got a Mr. Clark looked sad. from Bolshevism.” He hedged on} “the question of the strike and * tifionism. | Clark is the kind of fellow who . Wotild say all this to me, knowing | , I Was a reporter, but never ask what | + néwspaper I represented, It takes | ¢ jlist that kind of man to be a| . “front” for an organization such as| that the Crusaders were mixed up _the Crusadors, especially to draw in| with the Liberty League, and, if so, * 10,000,000 members—a hard-hit for-| he was geiting out. I saw lat mer steel company owner who can, point. I asked him whether he was ab Ghée, profess libetalism, discon-| worried about ‘radicalism’ in the tent and a desire for “reform,” and| ranks of labor. > hedge on the issues on which the Likes Green and Woll fascism “T don't know to. what extent all ced iol argo progr ore this talk is authentic,” he . said, at Ck srg! eigen aig frowning. “The A. F. of L. is pretty ~ fofmation that the Crusaders are | S0und—certainly Mr. Green and Mr. léd by business men to line | Woll have expressed themselves in up eduéational leaders and tras- | 2 Sound enough way. Of cours, we tees of schools to get the Reserve | don’; care where radicalism is—in Officers Training Corps and the | the ranks of Jabor or anywhere, Private military academies ready | we're—" to “defend the Constitution” —by “Opposéd to it?? “Yes.” H2 pausod. “That is, we're ‘ing aris if necessary. Colonel Roy Felton Farrand, U.| opposed to it until we see someti f we're not going to have any official connection with them, -The people don’t like it. Why, look at this—!” And he tossed me a letter he had Brandell, Louisville, bitterly com- Plaining that he had “discovered” lot of big fellows leading them and | received from a Crusader, one Elmer | tandards, He apologi: zed, “I wouldn’t stand up for Hitler.” Then he added belli- \cosely, “But I still say if Hitler saved Germany from Bolshevism, he | did a great job!” “You say you're for liberalism, but | you put on a very bitter campaign this characteristic effort to conceal the advance of Big Business toward greater and greater fascist oppres- sion, along with the building of a Fascist army for the day of need, The Crusaders flatly declare for “a balanced budget’—the cry of the most reactionary—and adds: “We believe that sound conservatives and sound liberals are in substan- tial agreement as to What coristi- tutes good government. We stand squarely behind the Constitution of the United States.” Long List of Backers Crusadet National Councilors who, according to Clark, have now “with- drawn,” include the following, in addition to those I named yester- day, such a8 S, Clay Williams, to- bacco king and head of the National Industrial Recovery Board: Wallace McK. Alexander, San Francisco; Hawaiian sugar plant- er, and vice-president of the Mat- son Navigation Company, severely affected by the San Francisco General Strike; trustee of Stan- ford University, Fred 3. Kent, vice-president Bankets Trust Company; deputy governor of the Federal Resetve Bank of New York in 1917; officer | of the U. 8. Chamber of Com- merce; advisor to Harding, Cool- idge and Hoover atid close enough to President Roosevelt; vresident of the Council of New York Uni- versity, where student anti-war and anti-fascist demonstrators have been simmatily dealt with; George G. Allen, New York, chairman of the beard of the Duke Endownient, which supports tke big southern university; director of the Ameriezn Cyanamid Co,, Guarantee Trust, Texas Corpora- tion, ahd Imperial Tobacco Co. of Canada; Sewell L. Avery, Chicago, diree- tor of the Chicago Daliy News, United States Steel, etc.; trustee of the University of Chicago; member of the Chicago Crime Commission and of the Mlinois Manufacturers’ Association; Col. Leonard P. Ayres, Cleve- land, direetor of statisties for the War Industries Board during the World War; director cf the Coun- cil of National Defense; colonel on the wartime General Staff, chief statistical officer of the A. E. F., member of the Dawes Plan Com- mission and the American Peace Commission, now a colonel in the Officers Resetve Corps. Henry M. Dawes, Chicago for- met Compttolier of Ctitrency, brother of Rufus, ete. Charles F. Thwing, officer of the hotoraty scholastie society, Phi Beta Kappa, president emeritus Western Reserve University, Cleveland, former secretary of the board of the Carnegie Foundation; E. L. Ryerson, Jr, president, Joseph T. Ryerson and Co, (steel), commanding captain of the R. M. A, Ait Service, U.S.A. trustee of the University of Chicago; Albert D. Lasker, Chicago; former Chairman of the United States Shipping Board, lawyer close to Tanimany Hall, placed Alton B. Patker in nomination for President at Democratie Conven- tion in 1904; Lee W. Maxwell, president of J. P. Morgan’s Crowell Publishing Company (The Saturday Evening Post, with its vast circulation, is Crowell’s); organizer of the Lib- erty Lean drives and for the Red Cross during the Werld War; Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president General Motors and director of Rockefellers Chase National Bank; Cleveland E. Dodge, New York, | vice-president of huge copper company; Phelps Dodge Co., di- rector Old Dominion (steamships) company, army officer during 1917-18, president now of the Y.M. C.A, of New York, chairman of the boatd of Teachers’ College, Columbia University. Admitted Contribution Some time after I interviewed Crusader Clark, The Liberty League publicly announced its contribution to The Crusaders, I telephoned Mr. Glatk to see what he had to say about it. That was when he told me that the money was given by people who wanted to back “a move- ment.” Then he told me that John Raskob ttied to get him to join in | against Upton Sinclair, didn’t you?” |_ “I'd hate to try to tell you what \I think of him in polite language!” |} Clark exploded. One of the Crusadets’ broadsides \in their anti-Sinclair campaign is | Peproduced here. It attacks not so | much Sinclait’s profession of Social | Deinocracy as the unétnployed! it shrieks against the threat of an un- | employed “horde” descending upon | California. It uses the motto, “Lis- ten!” and a Ku-Klux Klannish pic- ture of Crusaders “riding again.” Uses Open-shop Slogan Another piece of Crusaders’ lit+ crature, which will be reproduced re later, carries the slogan, “The hts of the Common Man” of ons side, along With thé declaration | that “Democracy” means the right , The Liberty League, but again Mr, Clark righteously “refused.” “When they fotind out which way they were going and which way we were going, they withdrew from us,” he said. “You see, The Liberty League was out to educate the pub- lic. We only want to clarify things. When they started putting a fence atound property... !” I pointed out, nevertheless, The Crusadets did accépt at least the $9,000, and that The Liberty League also is now trying demagogically to cover its interest in protecting prop- erty at any cost. “Well,” said Clark, “it looks like sémeboty in there is getting a little sense.” ‘Temorrow: Fathet Charles E, Coughlin talks, Its third | Fascist Link To Fusionists ShowninN.Y. (Continued from Page 1) chief or “Consul” (a title taken out of the vocabulary of Italian fascisis, explained that the organization’s program is that of fighting the |Communists of every nationality | and struggling against the Jews not | so much because of their nationality |—but because of their Communistic |ideas, This is significant. |no: matter what their nationality and I intend to use the organiza- |tion to prevent the rise and prog- jréss of Communism in the United States,” he stated. |ish Daily Bulletin, which, of course, | cannot be accused of being sympa- | thetic to Communism, it appears also that this “American Concen- | tration, Inc.,” has inherited almost | the entire outfit of the Khaki shirts, |composed for the most part of Italians in black shirts. The origi- inator of the organization is a cer- tain Raffaele Mucilli who hesitated in revealing its existence. He said, “I started this movement about | three years ago. On June 12, 1933, |I obtained a State charter for the organization. You can see it on the wall. True, most of out mem- | bers are Italians and fascists, but I kept the movement quiet until we | could get genuine native Americans into our organization.” Recruited for Fusionists Interesting but not strange for us is the statement that the recruiting into the organization was done mainly within the Fusionist Clubs of La Gusrdia. “We have several thousand members,” Tushewits quotes Mucilli, “I can’t teil you) | exactly how many, that is a secret. |But I can tell you that we are |making tremendous inroads among |the Italian Fusion Clubs here in New York City. Only a few days ago 500 members of these Clubs ‘came over as a gfop to our or- | ganization.” This is easy to understand. At the head of the Fusion Clubs (to which belong many Italian work- ers who had believed in La Guar- | dia’s promises itt good faith) are the |Prouts, who now are among the “consuls” and “vice-consuls” of the |“American Concentration Ino.”, and | aré turning the Fusion Clubs to the Italian-American fascist gangs. This is one of the most recent develop- ménts of La Guardia’s Fusionism | which La Stampa Libera, edited by | Girolamo Valente, during the recent | elections hailed as anti-fascist. Dur- |ing the last elections, La Guardia gave sanction to some of the most | rabid fascists in black shirts, among whom we find also Mr. Rosario In- gargiola, who s#arted a libel suit against L’Unita’ Operaia to silence | its anti-fascist voice. Here we ate | dealing not with a turn of the fas- cists towards La Guardia’s “liberal- jism,” but with a futther ptoof of jour contention that La Guardia, faced with the niounting wave of Workers’ struggle, is rapidly diseard- ing the mask of “liberalism” and “anti-fascism” and shakes the hand of the fascists in black shirts in the | strugele against the Communists of | every nationality. Ttalian-U, 8, Tie-up The fascists impotted here from | | Italy had already offered their heip- | ing hand to hé leaders of Amer-| \ioan fascism, at the time when they dissolved the “Fascist League of | North America” in 1929, Up to that \time this outfit operated on the fringes of Amefican politics. Lately they renewed the offet in an edi- torial full of venom written by Ago- stino De Biasi for the last issue of TL Carroccio, a fascist magazine | printed here which boasts of the fascist endorsement of Il Duce of | Italy. | As to the “battle of fascism in the United States of America,” Mr. De Biasi declared in the editorial: “In the defense of Italian fascism lies implicitly the secret of Amer-| i¢a’s salvation.” He sées in Roosevelt's policy “a policy Which is altering stép by step, fascistically, the face of the coun- | tty.” He therefore suggests that in ordér to défend this policy the Americans must assure Italian fas- sism a sort of protection, and that, in ordér fo obtain ahd strengthen this protection Italian fascists living in the United States of America must “take their place of honor” in the battle of Roosevelt against Mos- cow. No Fear of Dickstein Mr. De Biasi dismisses the fears of diplomatical complications held by some Italian fascists here in the face of the Dickstein Committes’s So-called investigation, with the fol- lowing Words: “Fear of intefnational complica- tions? Old scruples on which has already passed the placé Of ex- perience! The struggle exists and it needs to be fought.” How cock sure is this fascist of the “first hour!’ And how sig- nificant 4s his utterance! It reveals the existence of common interests uniting the Atierican and Italian bourgeois politicians in the world- wide struggle represented by the dilemma: “Romie or Moscow.” One thing is clear. We are facing a new challenge by the fascists in black shirts, who are made bolder by the increasing march toward fas- cism in the United States of Amer- ica. The stimulus to ride on the band wagon of developing American fascism comes to them directly from Rome. Most significant is the news from Rome, cotiménted upon by the same Il Cattoccio, that Musso- lini has reorganized the under- secretariat -of the press and has placed at its head his own son-in- law. This under-secretariat has been divided in four sedtions, one of which has the task of controlling the Italian press abroad. To this post has been assigned no other than Emmanuel Grazzi, former gen- nN From the interview in the Jew-/| eral consul of the Italian Govern- bere in New York City. | to use this new agency to penetrate |the ranks of the Italian masses in | this country with fascist ideology. | The necessity of the struggle against the penetration of fascism | in this country is therefore self- evident. The struggle against Italian fascism is a struggle which cannot be relented. We must erect an in- }surmountable barfier against “the fascists in black shirts. In this struggle we must involve the work- ets regardless of their political creed }and nationality. It is equally clear |that we cannot struggle again: |Italian fascism successfully wit! jout struggling against faseism, under the shadow of which Amter Hits Wagner Bill At Hearing (Continued from Page 1) | the unemployed and all workers for | the full period of disability—at gov- ernment expense based on taxes, high incomes, inheritances, etc.,” Amter pointed out. David Lasser, representing the Workers Unemployed Union, rec- ommended the Workers Bill and “fake patent medicine.” Most of the witnesses, however, came to support the Big Business Wagner- Lewis Bill, Samuel Rayburn, rep- resenting the National Retail Dry Goods Association, declared to the committee that the Wagner-Lewis Bill “is a great economic and so- cial reform and we don’t want it to fail.” Albert Hutzler, Baltimore de- partment store magnate, smilingly |told the committee that the Na- tional Retail Dry Goods ptogram “follows the Wagnet-Lewis Bill. in spitit and details. It follows it so closely that many of its provisions might have been written. by the Dry Goods Association itself.” Hall Hits Wagner Bill O. J. Hall, a member of the dele- gation sent by the Philadelphia Local Action Committee for Un- employment Insurance, American Federation of Labor, informed the committee that “We're going to resist passage of the Wagner-Lewis Bill.” He endorsed the Workers Bill. “Can one have the hardihood to call the Wagner-Lewis Bill ‘secur- ity?’ We demand union wages, and conditions on all jobs and an ade- quaté huinber of hours per week,” he added. “We might ask,” he continued, troducing the Wagner-Lewis Bill in three days after the introduction of the Workers Bill, and now again is Means Committee with all urgency. This is due to the fact that the campaign for the Workers Bill is gtowing tremendously because the workets recognize that it is the only bill representing their interests. We utge the Ways and Means Com- mittee to endorse the Workers Bill and to report it favorably. We as- sure you that we will not stop fighting until the Workers Bili is enacted into law by the United States Congress.” Clatence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, is scheduled to ap- pear Saturday morning before the Ways and Meats Committee as the répreséntative of the Commiinist Party. Green Hits Auto Code, Fears Union (Continued from Page 1) with respect to Fall announcements of new models of passenger auto- mobiles and the holding of auto- mobile shows in the Fall of the year, as a means of a facilitating regularization of employment in the industry.” Obviously this ruling does not increase orders, nor does it in- crease production, and hence will not increase employment. At best it is a spread the work plan. The extension of the code yokes upon 400,000 workers not only the merit clause, but also denies all of their economic demands, including elimination of the speed-up, long and irregular hours, low wagés, which now prevail, and are con- tinued in the code. William Green, forced by the de- mands of the members of the auto anions of the A. F. of L. to speak to organize the tnorganized work- ers or to otherwise actually prepare the workers for the strike that they insist on. Green prevented a strike when the code was first instituted, and again in March, 1934. He ac- cepted the March, 1934 “settlement” of Roosevelt which created the Auto Labor Board and legalized thé com- pany union, OHRBACH STRIKERS ASK SUPPORT With a hearing scheduled Monday before Justice Valente, of the Su- preme Court in Manhattan for mak- ing the injunction granted to the Ohrbach Department store perma+ nent, the strikers have appealed to all workers organizations to join them in a mass picket line this afternoon. The demonstration plans will be atfanged at a mass Meeting {his morning, 11:30, at 220 Bast 14th Street. Among those who have agvéed to participate today are prominent authors and artists. Do you know unemployed work- ets who can give some time to selling the papet and earning ex-) penses? Ask them to write to Daily Worker, 50 Eeast Thirteenth It is clear that Mussolini intends } American | described the Wagner-Lewis Bill as | “why thete Was such haste in in- | the last session of Congress, namely | being put through the Ways and | against the code, is taking no ‘Steps | \Business Men Form Armed (Continued from Page 1) ter, at that time District “Attorney, and now acting by special appoint- ;ment as special prosecutor against |the 18 defendants. McAllister had refused to take the witness stand \after Gallagher | Hanks, stool pigeon and star actor in the “kidnaping plot” to repudiate his previous statements that he had “tT am against the Communists | the Italian fascists are operating. | been kidnaped and held by Com- munists to prevent his testifying at the trial. Hanks was still being grilled by the defense today. Defense Group Formed A united front committee for the defense of the defendants has been | setup in San Francisco with A. F. of | L. rank and file delegates, represen- | tatives of the Communist Party, the Socialist Party and the Interna- tional Labor Defense, Internatonal Longshoremen’s Association, Ship- | yard Workers Industrial Union, Con- | ference for Labor's Civil Rights and | other groups. The committee was set up at & | conference held in San Francisco. | Trotzkyites from the Non-Partisan | Defense League and the Workers Party bolted the conference after a futile attempt to bar the A. F. of L. rank and file delegates, and to have the conference. postponed. Another conference to further | broaden the united front will be | held on Feb. 10. Ryan Fears Stevedores’ Strike Move (Continued from Page 1) | averting the sttike, Michael J. | Cashal, vite-president of the Inter- | national Brotherhood of Teamsters, \ rushed to Wahington to confer with | government officials and the Execu- | tive Council of the A, F. of L., now | in session. Cashal on departing Jagain stated that the situation is “getting out of hand” because “agi- tators” are telling the teatnsters that their leaders “have sold them out.” ‘The A. F. of L. Trade Union Com- mittee for Unemployment and So- cial Insurance, at 30 Irving Place, in a statement warns the workers Against attempts to drag the issue out so as to kill their present fight- ing spirit and sentiment for a strike. The workers are urged to strike if the injunction is signed. | Mayor LaGuardia, while having expressed confidence that the labor Bands in West forced William | Molotov Gives Firm Answer To Imperialist (Continued from Page 1) der,” said Molotov. “It is welle | known that the Portsmouth Treaty contains not a single word about the Soviet-Manchurian frontier. “At the same time that Hirota | was diligently submitting the above- | Metitioned clause of the Portsmouth | Treaty, he overlooked entirely the ‘existence of several other clauses of the same treaty. For example, clause 3 established the mutual ob- ligation of Japan and Russia ‘abso- iutely and simultaneously to evacu- ate Manchuria, excepting only the territory included in the renting of che Liaotung peninsula’ (Port Arthur and Dairen) and ‘to return to China without reservation the absolute administration of all parts uf Manchuria’ occupied by Russian ur Japanese troops at the moment when the peace treaty was con- cluded. Obligations Fulfilled “At the seme time, Russia and Japan. according to clause 7, Russia and Japan undertook to ‘exploit the railways belonging to them in | Manchuria exclusively for commer- ¢ial and industrial aims, but under fo circumstances for strategic pur- poses’ The sunplementary point to clause 3 of the Portsmouth ‘Treaty asserts finally that Russia and Japan may maintain in Man- churia for the protection of their railway lines not more than fif- teen persons per kilometer, and in addition, specifically stated that the number of guards for this purpose must be fixed at the ‘smallest pos- sible number, based upon real needs.’ “Tt is a matter of common knowl- edge that the U. 8. 8S. R. not only | fulfilled this obligation completely, | but did even more than the Ports- mouth Treaty required. “This can be seen from the fact that although the Chinese Eastern Railwey extends for more than 1,700 kilometers, and according to the Portsmouth Treaty, the Soviet Union accordingly has a right to mainiain over 25,000 troops, it vol- untarily relingtishcd this right, and has not a single soldier in North Manchuria.” leaders will avert'a sttike, is ree ported to be setting an extensive strikebreaking machinery into mo- tion under the guise of insuring the movement of food, fuel and news- papers. 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