The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1935, Page 3

| I a 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRU RY 2, 1935 Page 3 _ ANTI-FASCIST LEAGUE SET UP DESPITE COAST TERROR OFFICIALS, LEGIONAI BOSSES, RES FAIL TO PREVENTRALLY Workers’ Organizations, Epic Clubs, Utopians, Technocrats, Liberals Unite to Resist Attacks on Rights SANTA MONICA, Cal., F\ in Santa Monica ‘eb. 1.—Residents of the Santa | Monica Bay area were treated to a practical demonstration of fascist suppression of democratic rights during the past ten days as city officials unite leaders and local terrorists in an attempt to suppress an} organization meeting called here by . the League Against Fascism for the’ formation of a local anti-fascist united front. John W. Beardsley of the Amer- foan Civil Liberties Union was at- tacked by the reactionaries as a “seditious” speaker, following an- nouncement that he would address the meeting on “The Menace to Civil Liberties.” Called “Dangerous” Big business and its fascist group- lets considered this a damgerous topic at this time when there is a concerted attack throughout the country, centering especially in Cali- fornia, on the civil rights of the toiling population. A campaign fos- tered by the Chamber of Commerce was launched to bar the meeting from Miles Memorial Hall, a city- owned auditorium, and at the same time to mobilize Legionaires and vigilantes to prevent the holding of the meeting in any other hall. Commissioner Hal Clark Sanborne, locally known as the “Little Hitler,” led the attack on the meeting in the City Council, where he openly en- gaged in incitement to terrorist ac- tion by American Legion officials and others against the anti-fascist movement here. At the same meet- ing, Mayor Carter let the cat out of the bag on the close tie-up between the city officials and the fascist forces by stating that he had in- structed Police Chief Webb to “as- sign at least one policeman to be present at every meeting of the anti-fascist organization.” Scott Meets Attack The anti-fascist movement here is sponsored by J. Landor Scott, an ex-minister, former president of the Santa Monica Open Forum, and one of the most highly respected resi- dents in the community. Scott met the fascist attack with a written in- vitation to Mayor Carter to attend the anti-fascist meeting. Enclosing a draft of the proposed constitution and by laws of the local branch of the League Against Fascism, Scott asked the mayor to point out just wherein the projects organiza- tion was “seditious” or “un-Amer- dean.” Scott told the mayor the meeting would be held despite the inter- ference by the police and fascist pands.. It was. The hall was packed to the doors and standing room was at a premium, About twenty Legionaires, accompanied by Com- W "S ON HAT2S. 0 Philadelphia, Po. Answer the vicious lies of Hearst and his press, Answer the lies of all enemies of the Soviet Union. Come to the Mass Meeting on Friday, Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. at Broad St. Mansion, S.W. cor. Broad and Girard Aves. Prominent speakers. Adm. 20c. Aus- pices, Friends of the Soviet Union. February 2nd and 3rd, Scottsboro Tag Days. All organizations are asked to send volunteers to the I. L. D. Sta- tions in their territory to help raise funds. Auspices LL.D., 49 N. 8th Street, Room 207, Register now for all classes at Phil- adelphia Workers School, 908 Chest- nut St. Office open from 1 to 8 p.m.” Term opens Monday, Feb. 4. Labor Defender Concert and Dance Friday, Feb. 22 at Ambassador Hall, 1704 N. Broad St.; Nadia Chilkovsky in a series of revolutionary dances; well known violinist; entire Freiheit Gesanzg Ferein chorus; excellent dance orchestra. Adm. at door, 50c; in advance through organizations 35c. Tickets at 49 N. 8th St., Room 207, Sunday Night Forum Workers School, 908 Chestnut St., H. M. Wicks speaks on “The Role of the Intellectual in the Labor Movement.” Meeting opens at 8 p.m. sharp. Adm. 25c, Unem- ployed 10c. Superior, Wis. Daily Worker Comm. {s holding an affair Feb. 3 at Vasa Hall, 11th and John Ave. Good program, refresh- ments, dancing. Chicago, Ill. Save February 16 for Theatre Col- lective Chauve Souris. A_ three-hour Program of Theatre, Music Dance followed by dancing to 3 a.m. Remember Saturday, Feb. 16, 8:30 p. m. at Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave. Adm. 35c., 100 tickets at 25c, ‘West Side Section of LL.D. will “anve two showinge # a Soviet film dased on Gorki’s sfory “Cain and Artem.” All proceeds to go for Scottsboro- Herndon Fund. Film will be shown Feb. 6, Wednesday, at the Culture Center, 3223 Roosevelt. Road, 7:30 p. m. and 9 p.m. Adm. at door 25, Kearny, N, J. A showing of the Soviet film "Diary of a Revolutionist”” and a dance will be held at 184 Schuyler Ave. (near Hoyt Sta.), Saturday, Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m. as a Scottsboro Benefit by Br. 95 Russian Mutual Aid Society and Jim Connolly Br. LL.D. Boston, Mass. Kirov-Kuibychev Memorial and Meeting Saturday, Feb. 2, at 8 p.m., Dudley St. Opera House, 113 Dudley 8t., Rox- bury. Ned Sparks will give analysis of and reply to slanders of Hearst- ‘Trotzky-Zinoviev against Soviet Union and Communist Party. ‘The Back Bay Unit is having a real Southern Fried Chicken Dinner with Hot Biscuits, Ice Cream, Pound Cake, Coffee, at 36 Warwick St., Roxbury, Sunday, Feb. 3, from 1 to 7 p.m. bry 35¢, Come and have a swell time. d with Chamber of Commerce missioner Sanborne, a member of| the Legion, occupied a block of seats jin the rear of the hall, but were deterred from creating any disturb- ‘ance by the militant enthusiasm of | the audience. Chief Webb and his | daughter, Fay Webb Vallee with Rudy Vallee and several lieutenants and stool pigeons were present, as was Morton Anderson, president of the Chamber of Commerce. After Beardsley’s talk, a prelimi- nary organization of the League | Against Fascism was effected, with executive representatives nominated from the Epics, Utopians, Techno- erats, churches, labor unions and other mass organizations. 25,000 Sign To Place Sugar On Ballot DETROIT. Feb, 1. Maurice Sugar, labor’s candidate for judge of Recorder’s Court, today filed ap- proximately 25,000 signatures to place his name on the ballot. Only 10,000 are required by law. The filing of 25,000 signatures, all of them gathered by volunteer workers and labor organizations, constitutes a major step toward electing Michigan’s foremost labor attorney to office. Sugar’s candi- dacy is actively supported by nearly every section of the Detroit labor movement, including the Detroit and Wayne County Federation of Labor (A. F, of L.), the Mechanics Educational Society of America, the Society of Designing Engineers, the Trade Union Unity League, Inter- national Labor Defense, and the Communist Party. The primary election will be held March 4, and the final elections on April 1. A banquet in honor of Sugar is being given this Sunday at 6 p. m., under the auspices of the Interna- tional Workers Order and the Maurice Sugar Campaign Commit- tee. The banquet will take place at the Deutsches Haus, 7200 Mack Ave, corner Maxwell. Next Saturday, Feb. 9, Sugar will be the chief speaker at a city-wide mass meeting in Northern High School, Woodward and Claremont Avenues, at 8 p. m. Counteract Hearst’s poisonous anti-working class propaganda by utilizing the Daily Worker series on “Wall Street’s Fascist Conspir- acy.” Canvass homes, sell on street-corners, before movie houses, food markets, meeting halls, | Ex. In the following letter, received ! by the Daily Worker, a former member of the Workers Party of the U. S. A. (American Workers Party) recounts the experiences which convinced him that it is a party “designed for renegades,” a party of enemies of the working class,—Editor, January 26, 1936 To the Editor of the Daily Worker: I have been “inspired” by Joseph Zack’s articles on why he left the Communi arty, to tell why I re- signed from the American Workers Party (now Workers Party of the U. 8. A.), in which it appears he has found the true revolutionist's haven. When I joined the American Workers Party, I had been per- suaded that the Communist Party had failed in reaching the American working class and that only the American Workers Party had the proper program to accomplish the revolutionizing of the masses. After I was in the A. W. P., I discovered I was also committed to the following beliefs: that the Communist Party of the U. S. S. R. is the greatest obstacle to the accomplishment of socialism in the Soviet Union; that the Communist Party of the U. S. S. R. is indisputably responsible for the failure to accomplish a revolu- tion in Germany and therefore re- sponsible for Hitler's coming to ‘power; that it is impossible for the Communists to initiate any correct, action among the masses and there- fore any action initiated or par- ticipated in by Communists must be incorrect and against the interests ‘of the working class; that any forces { under the influence of the A. W. P. ' must be kept from joining with and participating in any mass action so tainted as before mentioned; that Communist fractions in the unions are for the purpose of splitting and State Pardon Board To Consider Case Of Phil Frankfeld (Daily Worker Pittsburgh Bureau) PITTSBURGH, Pa,, Feb. 1.— The Pennsylvania State Pardons Board today notified the Frank- feld Liberation Committee that the Board will consider pardon applications in the cases of Phil Frankfeld, Emma Brietic and Dan Benning on Feb, 20, and that the result of their “con- sideration” will be announced by Feb. 23. The letter states that in case hearings are granted on the peti- tions these will not take place until March 20. The defense committee is open- ing an intensive drive, especially centered in the trade unions, of mass protests to the Pardons Board, which now includes Thomas Kennedy, International Secretary of the United Mine Workers, now Lieutenant-Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania. Karl Lockner | Class Struggle Veteran at 26 | CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 1. — Karl Lockner, the Communist candidate for Mayor of Chicago, belongs to | that ever-growing, world-wide army of militant youth in the world today | who are in the vanguard of the | working class struggle for Soviet | power, This twenty-six year old youth is a native of Wisconsin. While he was in the university he became in- terested in Communism as a result | of reading Lenin's works, He | found the address of the Young | Communist League on a leafiet and | became active in the League's work He came to Chicago to work as a chemical engineer. News of the Haitian massacres at the hands of the American marines led him to reestablish the Young Communist | League in Chicago. | His ability and his bravery were put to good use. He was soon an active part in the working class struggles of Chicago. He became a leader of Chicago’s unemployed. In 1932 he led the hunger march which | restored to the workers of Chicago @ fifty per cent relief cut. A year jater, he led the march of the | unemployed on Springfield while the legislature was in session, in a de- mand for unemployment insurance. Steeled by experience to a real | Bolshevik adherence to the work- | ing class, Lockner kept on fighting. | Since February, 1930, he has been | arrested more than twenty times } in demonstrations for relief, for | rent payment, for unemployment | insurance, for C, W. A. jobs, in anti-war demonstrations, for past- ing posters and distributing leaf- lets, for walking down the street, for supporting teachers in their fight for back pay and for dem- onstrating against the Ueabody Coal Company and Governor Horner's | use of troops against striking miners, “In accepting the honor of the nomination for Mayor on the Com- munist Party ticket,” said Karl Lockner, “I shall continue the fight for real unemployment insurance, for decent wages and working conditions, for the day when the government of Morgan and Hearst | will be smashed, for the setting up | of a workers’ and farmers’ gov- ernment in America-a government | of workers’ and farmers’ councils— ‘a Soviet Socialist America,” disrupting but that it is correct for the A. W. P. to form fractions wherever possible in the unions. Against U. S. S. R. As a member of the A. W. P. I was to declare myself a staunch de- fender of the Soviet Union, espe- cially from its greatest enemy the Communist Party of the U. 8. S. R. Inasmuch as the Communist Party is the guiding spirit in the Soviet Union, it developed that any hint or sign of confusion or failure in the Soviet Union should logically give me a fecling of satisfaction in- stead of alarm. This seemed incom- patible with being a member of a revolutionary narty. At last I was forced to face this honestly when I read Oliver Carl- son's review of Stalin’s “The State of the Soviet Union” in the October Ist issue of Labor Action. He ridi- ; culed with the most scathing venom the report of the progress of the | industrialization program in the So- ; Viet Union. As a member of the ‘A. W. P. I, too, was to sneer with impotent envy ‘at the accomplish- ments of the Five Year Plan under ithe direction of the Communist Party. In my letter of resignation, I specifically mentioned this article as proof that the A. W. P. was an enemy of the Soviet Union. Against United Front Previously I had received another shock when I read in Labor Action an editorial on the united front in France. The A. W. P., in its denun- ciation of the Communist Party, had made a great issue of the failure to achieve a united front, yet in the accomplishment of the united front in France on the minimum basis acceptable to the French Socialist Party, Labor Action saw evidence of the bankruptcy of the Third Inter- national. It was impossible to over- look the obvious conclusion that any action on the part of the Commu- | hunger march for relief. jis a member |action between Socialists and Com- | tion, although out on bail, has re- SOVIET WORKERS MAN ICEBOATS In the Soviet Union the residents don’t have to belong to swanky clubs to enjoy winter sports. Members of workers’ clubs get a taste of winter sports in Moscow, and here are three of them whizzing over the frozen surface of a lake on an Arkansas Farmers Plan iceboat. 25-Mile Hunger March; Defy Terroristic Acts MARKED TREE, Ark., Feb. 1.—In the face of the most laying plans for a twenty-five mile Rodgers of the State Com- mittee of the Socialist Party. Following his arrest, the sheriff broke into the room of Ward Rod- gers and stole letters from friends. These letters mention the united munists, and are being seized upon by the Memphis Commercial- Appeal, a newspaper completely dem- inated by the planters’ to drag a red scare across the path of the sharecroppers’ unity. Rodgers at the time of his ar- rest was teaching adult classes of sharecroppers under the F. E. R. A., but since his arrest and convic- ceived notice that he has been fired. One thousand sharecroppers at- tended a mass meeting here last Saturday as the fight against evic- tions is being continued. Lucien Koch of Commonwealth College, Atley Delaney and Bob Reed spoke to the sharecroppers who were fringed by armed deputy sheriffs awaiting the chance to railroad some other sharecropper or day laborer to jail on the trumped-up charge of “anarchy” on which they seized Rodgers. When the question came up in nist Party would be ‘interpreted by them in the most distorted manner so as to yield the conclusion that such action was incorrect and futile. When I saw in the Daily Worker a report that delegates from the Unemployed Councils were excluded from the National Unemployed League Convention through the machinations of the leadership, which is under the influence of mem- bers of the A.W.P., as per formula I confidently believed it a lie, and turned to Labor Action for a true report. There to my consternation I found an article by A. J. Muste on the convention, in which he re- ported with great satisfaction that the delegates from the Unemployed Councils were excluded, inasmuch as they were disruptionists and splitters. I began to have an uncom- fortable feeling after all these evi- dences of strange behavior for a revolutionary party. Against Anti-War League The A. W. P. did not send a dele- gate to the Congress Against War held 'in Chicago last September. I also called this to the attention of the New York organizer when I gave my reasons for resigning. I knew that initially Muste’s group had agreed that it was important to organize people who could be drawn in on the basis of a fight against war and fascism, and had participated actively in organizing the American League Against War and Fascism. As a matter of fact A, J. Muste was the chairman of | blatant attempts to terrorize them, Negro and white share- | eroppers, following the arrest and conviction of Ward Rodg- | ers here ten days ago in an attempt to smash the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, are holding huge mass meetings and the union as to whether for the sake of safety Negro and white should meet together, it was voted almost unanimously to preserve at all costs the common unity of Ne- gro and white that has been es- tablished, Last Tuesday, a delegation headed by Lucien Kloch was sent by the union to the county relief head- quarters in Harrisburg ter of securing relief is one of major importance since many of the union members have been discrim- inated against. The evicted fam- ilies in some cases are on the border of starvation. Men who wish to get on the relief rolis must walk twenty-five miles to the relief of- fice. The delegation was received coldly by relief administrator Battis, who refused their demands because of expenses involved in setting up other relief stations. Hé denied the existence of discrimination, al- though Rodgers, who was a member of the delegation, declared that he could secure a score of affidavits. When the delegation reported back to the council meeting in Marked Tree, plans were made for the hunger march on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 9 and 10, a twenty-five mile trek. Against War and Fascism. Our criticism is not that anti-war prop- aganda is put over on unsuspecting liberals, or even that rabbis and left- wing dentists are drawn into the fight against war. Rather, we crit- icize the false policy of the C. P. in so watering down its fight against war that bourgeois liberals and pacifists can join the fight wholeheartedly, and that the fight against war takes on a_ pacifist character. “A pacifist program aaginst war is not ‘a step in the right direction,’ rather it is a snare and a delusion. Finally, the C. P. has gone to the ridiculous length of hiding itself in this new united front organization to the extent that C. P. and Y. C. L, members run around saying, ‘Join the League Against War and Fas- cism, the only organization that fights against war and fascism.’ In my opinion, the Workers’ Party is the organization in the fight against war and fascism, and in the C, P. members’ opinion, the C. P. ought to occupy that role.” Against Office Workers Union Now is it clear that if initially the A. W. P. endorsed and partici- pated in the League, they now consider it in thie light solely be- cause the Communist Party is the only group which has continued to support the important work of ‘the League. I do not believe it is nec- essary to analyze for your readers the fallacy of the reasoning ex- pressed in this letter, not to men- tion the unsavory reference to “un- the Resolutions Committee at the first convention of the League, held in New York City. The following {s the reply I re- ceived from Larry Cohen, formerly New York organizer for the A. W. P., in answer to this complaint: “You criticize also what you char- acterize as our sectarian and super- cilious attitude toward the League suspecting liberals” and “left-wing dentists.” In answer to my criticism of a project for organizing office workers into another union when there was an active left-wing union in the field, the Office Workers Union, Larry Cohen wrote, “You felt that it was incorrect for us to talk of organizing a new union of office The mat- | New Series on N.R.A. To Begin on Monday In the Daily Worker What does the “reorganiza- tion” of the N. R. A. by the Roosevelt government mean to the workers in the basic indus- tries? What has the N. R, A. accomplished for the masses in the United States? These ques- tions will be answered in a series of articles by Carl Reeve, asso- ciate editor of the Daily Worker, beginning Monday, Feb. 4. These articles will take up specifically the situation in the steel, auto, textile and coal mining industries as they relate to the “reorganiza- tion” of the N. R. A. | Workers’Enemies Exposed JOSEPH BILLUPS, a2 Negro auto worker of Detroit, Mich. who has occupied leading posts in the rev- olutionary movement, has been ex- for working hand-in-hand with Negro reformist politicians and | serving as their tool in the ranks |of the Party, also for drinking and | personal degeneracy. \Party established that on a num- {ber of occasions Billups took money | belonging to the Party and to work- {ers’ mass organizations. He even |collected funds under the pretense |that he was going South to visit the Scottsboro boys and then using it for getting himself drunk. He was warned several times about his personal conduct which discredited the Party and revolu- |tionary working class movement, | but he continued on the path which |leads away from this movement. |_ By associating himself with the Nezro reformist politicians he has | been doing their work in trying to |keep the Negro masses tied to the |capitalist parties which are the parties of the lynchers of the Negro | People. Particularly at this time, | when the capitalist class is using |the Negro reformist politicians in order to revive their declining in- fluence among the Negro masses, support to the Negro bourgeois | Politicians means support to the | capitalist exploiters. By trying to |build up the prestige of the re- |formist leaders, such as Bledso, |Roxborough and Dr. Sweet, Billups | has worked against the Communist Party, against the only organiza- | tion that is ready to carry on the | liberation courageously for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys and against the op- |pression of the Negro masses, which |stood in the forefront of the de- | to this amalgamation as far as the Insurance Bill |fense of James Victory and won [his freedom, which fights in the | Unemployed Councils for the rights |of the Negro peoples. | It is significant that after his ex- | pulsion from the Communist Party | Billups quickly was given a job in | the Ford plant. The expulsion of Billups has been endorsed and fully approved by Communist Party membership meeting of Section 1 in Detroit. In a statement accepted by that meet- jing it is stated, in part, that: “Bil- \lups is not only guilty of not carry- jing on a fight against Negro re- formists, but he associated with |them and gave information con- jcerning the work and attitude of |other Negro comrades. Along with this he tried to cover up his con- nections and support of the Negro lreformist politicians by trying to Member Writes to. ‘Daily’ on ‘Why I Left American Workers Party’ workers, with the Office Workers Union already in the field. I think this is a mechanical way of view- ing the question. In an immediate sense, the Office Workers Union ex- ists, but we are convinced from our previous experience with other out- fits controlled by the C. P. that the Office Workers Union cannot exist. for long, and above all that, we would be given no chance to func- tion as a minority in it.” This speaks for itself—if there is a left- wing union it is not the duty of the A.W.P. to support it, but rather to form another union and pray for the first union to go out of busi- ness. Apart from consideration of this from the standpoint of revolution- ary logic, it is well to recall the old cry of the A. W. P. of “dual union- ism” against the Communist Party. It is significant that they would never recognize that the Commu- nist Party ever had any justifica- tion for forming dual unions in cer- tain industries, while they can jus- tify the formation of a triple union in a situation making the formation of such a union utterly unnecessary and futile. Against Workers’ Bill Since I have left the A. W. P.. they have kept the Unemployed League from sending delegates to the Congress for Social and Unem- ployment Insurance held recently in Washington, Arnold Johnson, na- tional secretary of the National Un- employed League and a member of the Workers Party, wrote in the New Militant, “Another assemblage suspicion from the unemployed is the so-called Congress for Unem- ployment and Social Insurance, which is in reality a masquerade preliminary to the second annual convention of the discredited Un- employment Councils of the Com- munist Party.” There can be no Watch for Important Contest Announcement! pelled from the Communist Party | The District Committee of the | | struggle of the Negro | people to the very end, that fights | at Washington which deserves only | INSURANCE MOVE PUSHED IN STATES AS HEARINGS OPEN Sixty-Two Workers Rep Will Testify During ( House Commi resenting Many Groups soming Weeks Before ttee on Labor The Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill has been introduced into the State legislatures of three States, Washington, Connectic troduction into the Ohio Stat steps have already been taken Amalgamation Urged to Aid Furniture Men The amalgamation of all unions in the furniture industry, regardless | of their present affiliation, into one | union was proposed in a statement 5 jissued yesterday by the General | Executive Board of the National | Furniture Workers’ Industrial | Union to all its locals. | Reviewing the conditions in the industry, the statement points to | increasingly bad conditions as be- | ing largely caused by the fact that | the majority of the workers are | unorganized and that the small percentage that is organized is divided into numerous rival unions. | This condition, the union points out, plays into the hands of the manufacturers and encourages |them to cut wages, increase the |speed-up and further lower the | standard of living of the workers. “he unemployment in the furni- ture industry,” the statement read jin part, “is now greater than ever before. | | “Analyzing all this, the General | Executive Board came to the con- | clusion that in order to materialize | the slogan of one union in the fur- | niture industry a conference of all |International and Independent | Unions and the NF.W.1.U. should |be called in the near future; that |at this conference the question of | amalgamating all existing unions | |into one powerful union shall be | the main issue; that if we can suc- in amalgamating all the | unions into a union with full demo- cratic rights for all its members, and the freedom of the rank and | file to fight for a militant policy, then the question of the name or | affiliation shall not be an obstacle |B: F, W. I. U. is concerned.” | break the unity within the Party. |The Section Committee calls upon | the Negro and white members of the Party to carry on a consistent struggle on two fronts: upon the Negro comrades to further inten- sify the struggle against petty bourgeois nationalism and any of its tendencies within the ranks of the Party; and upon the white |comrades to carry on a relentless | fight against white chauvinism or any of its expressions within the |Party. The Party also calls upon the workers’ organizations, the Ne- |gro and white workers in general, |to place no confidence in Joseph | Billups, since he is a renegade and a rank enemy of the Communist Party and of the working class.” doubt that their prime purpose is | to withhold forces under their in-| fluence from participating in joint | action on any specific issue where | the mustering of large forces is vital | to the interests of the working class, | both employed and unemployed alike, if the call is either issued or | supported by the Communist Party. | A large part of their “service” to | the working class of America is to} ridicule and slander the activities | of the Communists. Louis Breier | used to keep a column in Labor) Action for the special purpose of } distorting and subjecting to the most obscene ridicule, the state-| ments of Communists and intel- lectuals—writers and artists—sym- | pathetic to the work of the Com- munist Party. Against Working Class | I never belonged to any political party before I joined the A. W. P. and I joined in the honest belief | that it was organized in the inter-| ests of the working class. For the} sake of party discipline, I honestly | tried to believe what my better) judgment told me was false, and | finally when I saw how their policy | only resulted in bitterly estranging | the workers who came under their | influence, few though they were, from their class brothers struggling | for the same things, I knew I had made a great mistake, Based on > the premise that the Communist | Party cannot be correct, they are! compelled to tactics and acts nec- essarily counter-revolutionary. I am sure any earnest workers who 50) into the Workers Party under the same circumstances as I did will see their mistake. Essentially, the A. W. P. is designed for renegades of all shades. Fresh recruits who come to them for revolutionary guidance must soon discover they are in the ranks of enemies of the working class, | | | L, BARON. ENTER SUBSCRIPTION CONTEST ut and Massachusetts, its in- e Legislature is assured, and to bring it to the Legislatures ‘of Minnesota, California, West Vir- ginia and Colorado, the Na al Joint Action Committee for Genus ine Unemployment Insurance an- nounced yesterday. Hearings on the Workers Unems ployment, Old Age and Social Ine surance Bill, H. R. 2627. will begin before the sub-committee of the House Committee on Labor on Monday at 10 am. The chairman of this sub-committee, Revresentae tive Matthew Dunn of Pennsylva- nia, has already announced his ipport of the Workers’ Bill. Chair man W. P. Connery of the whole committee, and Representative Er- nest Lundeen also have announced their support of the Workers’ Bill, H. R. 2827. The National Joint Action Com- mittee for Genuine Unemploy- ment Insurance has urged imme- diate vigorous action to press for the enactment of the Workers’ Rill. While the Roosevelt administration is attempting to rush through the anti-labor Wagner-Lewis Bill, ev- ery organization has been urged to wire and send letters, post-cards and resolutions to congressmen and senators, to the Senate Finance Committee, and to the House Com- mittee on Uabor demanding enact- ment of the Workers’ Bill, H. R. 2827. These resolutions, the National Joint Action Committee pointed out, should oppose the Wagner- |Lewis bill because it makes no pro- vision whatsoever for the millions ;now unemployed; it provides for |no immediate benefits to any work- ers; the benefits to be provided in the future will be strictly limited to only certain groups. The resolutions should further point out, the committee stated, that under the Wagner-Lewis bill, the living standards of the workers would be driven still lower through wage taxes, and the sole purpose of the scheme is to block the move- ment for genuine social insurance as represented by the Workers’ Un- employment. Old Age and Social | H. R. 2827. | The resolutions should further | demand of those to whom they are addressed that they support and |vote for the Workers’ Bill, H. R, 2827, as the only bill which pro- vides immediate benefits for those now unemployed and for all work- ers without discrimination; ade- quate benefits equal to local aver- age wages and in no case less than $10 plus $3 for each dependent; all forms of social insurance on a Fed- eral scale at the expense of those with incomes over $5,000 a year | without any contributions from the workers. Workers Will Testify During the hearings which will last for two or three weeks, the Na- tional Joint Action Committee will | bring sixty-two workers to testify | before the House Committee on Labor. Workers in all the main branches of industry, textiles, coal, automobile, building construction, longshore, packinghouse and raile road. The unemployed will be repe resented by the Unemployed Coun- cils and other unemployed groups and organizations. Herbert Benjamin, executive sec- retary of the National Joint Ac- tion Committee for Unemployment Insurance, Israe] Amter, secretary of the National Unemployment Councils, F. Elmer Brown, chair- man of the National Joint Action Committee will also speak. In addition, Heywood Broun, president of the American News- paper Guild, and Mary Van Kleeck of the Russell Sage Foundation, will ‘be among those to testify for the Workers’ Bill, H.R. 2827. Both will appear in behalf of the Interpro- fessional Association for Social In= surance. JOBLESS TO HOLD DANCE CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb, 1.—The regular semi-monthly dance of the Ward 22 Unemployment Council will be held at 6615 Wade Park Avenue, at 8 o'clock, Saturday, evening, Feb. 9. District No. 8 CHICAGO, ILL. I. Schwartz A Friend John Lucas Kuhn Dr. G. O. Vennesland Dentist 4816 N. Western Avenue LOngbeach 0757 Chicago, I. JOSEPH DUBOW TOP, BODY AND FENDER REPAIRS DUCO AND REFINISHING CHROME PLATING 338-40 North 13th St. Philadelphia, Pa. Rittenhouse 5027 | THE DAILY WORKER Ay