The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 5, 1935, Page 2

5 Page 2 Committee for the Seeret 2,000 Link Forces Ot Capitalism “ Orgaiiination Wields Huge Propagaiida Apparatus (Continued f: and mass struggle threatening their rulership. ; Qne of thesé secret meetings was held in the Hotel Pierre, | apartment of Frank A. Vanderlip, former president of the Natiorial | City Bank afd one of the found- ers Of thé Committée for the Na- tion. There Henry Pope, repre- senting the Bear Brand Hosiery | Compamy of Chicago, declared, | with éxtreme agitation, that in | hig Opinion “America is just six Mhoriths away ftom Bolshevism”— uiiless, that is, this gtotip saw to it something were done to pre- vent it. Andthet was in the private apartment of Vincent Bendix, Head 6f the big Bendix Aviation Cérpotation and 4 fotinder of the | Committée for the Nation, in the | Wald6-Astoria hotel. There Beh- | dix emphasized the “ridiculous spectacle” that existed in the con- tinued crisis in “the wealthiest na- tioh in the world, with millions of people who have tremendous potential demarids for goods and services of all kinds, and on the | other Hand inGtistriat machines prepared to produce these goods and services.” | In the same méeting, James H. Rand, Jr. urging “monetary re-| form,” reported that on that day,| Jan. 26, 1933, one man had offered | Rand $190,000 to further the work of propagandizing some program. .. At this time the program had not | - . been decided upon in detail. | Héads Big Corporation Rand. a leader in. these confer- © eneés, is président of the Morgan- Hearst - Rockefeller corporation, Remington-Rand. He is chairman of ~ the Committee for the Nation and ~ a recognized intimate of President - Roosevelt. He is the known co-/| ordinator of the anti-“depression” | programs of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Asso- | ciation of Manufacturers—programs | proposing a ‘citizens’ army” for ~ strikebreaking as well as company- » unionism and suppression of the} radical labor movement Others participating in these con-/ ferences were: | Dr. Edward A. Rumley, exposed | Nazi contact, whose connection with the Comrmittee for the Nation was never referred to publicly by offi- cials of the Committee while it was e being organized. He was one of the founders. « R. J. Afiderson, representative of > thé Dairymen’s Leagué Cooperative Association, Inc., arid still named on official Committee for the Nation | - Stationary as their “contact” with ~ this and other big farmer groups, | If-constituted as spokesman for merican Agriculture.” These as-| sociations, recognizedly, were orgat- | = ized to sell their products to the .. Wall Street trusts, stich 48 Morgan’s - Standard Brands, Borden's milk . Monopoly, etc. This relationship in| itself puts these “leaders” of “agri-! ,. cultire” under the sway of Wall! », Street. They dre notorious sqtteez- | ers of poor farmers who have to market through these “cooperatives.” | _ Anderson’ stated in one of these| meétings that he had been attempt- | , ing to bring about a “coalition of! forces between business and agricul- " ture” — meaning business and this ~ big-farmer_ grotip—since December " 22, 1933. Sitch a Coalition was es- | __ tablished later in the White Sulphur | Springs conference. | oreo ME .7.4. 20nd, Dear Mr. Rand: Bank depo ne thét four years sgo sone on deposit in banks and bu million dollars."e nave one in the city,and one tying to live on six thrée. I nad the ot tom during the questing & cant. your comitttee Bend situation. If you tid of Me, Harding’ ar brosdeasting station, #F: the air, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 3 roagWey urging taont of clseed and. res th TARP Panes eee aoe @ 2 long lettér to former on the subject. THe South Bénd situation £ ure of méeting I gia t fart femuling definite information DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1935 Nation Leader in U. S. Fascist Moves THE INFLATIONISTS ON THE JOB || comerter on FE AND FOR@ER commence, Hesemcrin BE Stn Bad, Ind isnd, Tuly 1933. #63 ~QONFIDENTIAL I have your release of the 17th with reference to frozen . eo agat is th the pathetic J ral anes. Attorn ASML. 2 indé6d pttitul. T am inforada ding and Lorn assoc is that there is now on deposit in unrestricted danke some six pom one national deik,the smél lest tate omk. Everythi) is r ation. 3 5 Uifom dollars in pleads of fbtys ME. MoClidtock in Mashing- “riting to Mr. Bendiz,re- toward cooperating with tent and in particumr as ith refererce to the South ALL forward me copy 3¢ the éledtriddi trad orip- dio aidregs I will ask our lo el I-South Bend TFibune,to pit 1¢ on 9 various orgénizétions Ro shional a Yours tery jek Semel B.Pettengill,¥.c. Congressman Samuel B. Pettingill of Indiana writes to J. H. Rand of the Committee fér the Nation informing him that he has appealed to the Séefétaty of he Treastiry “‘titging a more liberal and sympathetic treatment of closed banks.” administration has been working program of the Cortimittee for the Intelligence Federation for anti- | Semitic, anti-militant-labor espion- age. Rosenwald is also on the ex- ecutive committee of the American Jewish Committee, which promoted publicity for Coughlin, has continu- ously opposed mass action by Jews in protest against Hitlerism, and is dominated by Felix Warburg, who hada connection with the McCor- mack-Dickstein Committee which suppressed testimony on Fascist ac- tivities. Harry Jung also is now in the Committee for the Nation. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace was a charter member, though he has since publicly crit- icized the Committee. Publisher Connections The Committee for thé Nation has many important connections with publishers, the key capitalists in the molding of the minds of workets and others in the groove that suits the capitalist. It has close personal contact with the Hearst newspaper organization. Frank Gamnett, owner of ‘a string of pa- pers; is an open backer of the Com- mittee, David Stern, owner of the New York Post and three other “liberal’ professed anti-Fascist but ardent pro-New Deal journals, was on a special committee of the Com- mittee, though he says he later with- drew. On this special committee, also and still associated with the Committee, was A. Mitchell Palmer, the former Attorney General of the United States whose direction of the post-war raids on radicals and militant labor made “the Mitchell Palmer days” a household phrase for terrorism and violence against the worfkers and intellectuals of Amética—not only the radical ones, but the liberals and the militant Democrat and Republican trade unionists also. The recognized ex- tension of the Mitchell Palmer ter- rorism, directed first at “Reds,” to include others, gives an especially prophetic significance to his pres- ence in the Committee for the Na- Harry Hartke, président, National Cooperative Milk Producers Federa- | . tion; John A, Simpson, president of | the Farmers Union: M. Bentoh Bla- lock, president of the American| capitalists by any means necessary. Cotton Cooperative Association of Though it is now advocating merely Raleigh. North Cardlina; and other inflation, and publicly—brings in _, representatives of similar leadérs of | the working class struggle as a “agriculture.” |threat to scaré up further support Dr. William A. Wirt, the red-bait- | by farmers dnd small capitalists for ~ ing school superintendent of U. S.|its “monetary reform” program, its ~ Steel's towh of Gary, Itinois, who | fundamental purpose is to guard the later broke into the news as the | broad, fundamental property rights * atithor of the farcical charge that|of the Vanderlips, Rands and = Roosevelt governnient Brain-Trust- | Stotesbuty relatives already in it, ers were plotting “Red Revoltition.” |and those of the Morgans and other A top fihanciers with whom it has Confer with Big Bankers | many mutial interests as well as tion. Profits At Any Cost The leadership of this Committee is out to preserve the profits of the All of these men are now in the} Committee for the Nation. During ~ the perfod of these sectet confer- - ences, Anderson was also. confer- | . Ting with big bankers such as Elliott Lee, vice-president of Morgan's * Guaranty Trust Co.; Dr. R. B. Bur- - gess of the Federal Reserve Bank; and with open-Shop industrialists stich a8 Presidéht McColl of McIn- + tosh Seymour, as well as with Dr. » Virgil Jordan, head of the famous open-shoppers’ “research” associa- > ion; the National Industrial Con- fetence Board. Anderson was placed | on the Comiitteé for the Nation | to sétvé As 4 link between business and “agriculture.” ~ In addition, the Cortimittee fot | _ the Nation has brought into lead-| ing positions thé following: | ~ J. H.R. Cromwell, stepson of £.| -'T; Stotesbury of Philadelphia, part- »ner of J. P. Morgan & Company - whose associate, Col. G. M.-P. pigs was involvéd in the Fascist « Pro! George Warren, who! was thé chief Roosevelt advisor on | cutténcy questions when the admin- | “, istration devalued the dollar. | _ C. T. Revére, of Munds, Winslow | _ and Potter, leading member Of the . Amherican Liberty League. Coughlin Backer tgée LeBlahe, broker and ih- ves it-sérvice operator, who was : oy of thi origina! backers of Father § iatles EAward Copauths radio +e and is still one of the got advisors of the Fascist Radio t's ‘Union for Social Justice.’ Lessing Rosenwald, héad of Sears which gave money to Harry Jung's American Vigilante al Ms x | ties. |Sion on many people that the Com- associations. While originally the Committee spewed out literally reams of propa- ganda to newspapers and news | writers, and conducted a high-pow- ered “monetary reform” vropaganda campaign by radio, public speeches, etc., it has in recent months con- siderably stepped down these activi- This has created the impres- mittee’s activities are tanering off, |but it in reality only makes the Committee a more important force for Fascism in the United States. jthis same speéch, saying: “There is | Activities Increased Instead of tapering off, the Com- mittee actually is increasing its or- ganizational work, and it is further perfecting its nation-wide mechan- ism for propaganda. It is attempt- ing to draw néw fortes in, especi- ally to influence mote middle class farmers to take the pro-capitalist “kulak” attitude, which it describes by that word, and to build a bigger, tighter organization of compara- tively small business men. The Committee's own literature, sent to special classes of its metn- bership, acknowledges that it has spent $200,000 in its two years’ propaganda work. During its first year alone, it conducted six national broadcasts, 1,000 fifteen-minute broadcasts by electrical transcrip- tion over 380 radio stations. It dis- tributed exactly 2,568,834 pieces of literature, including 439,000 pieces of printed matter such as multi- graphed bulletins and_ reports; 11,650 letters, 11,650 copies of Na- tional Industrial Conference Board reports; 187,563 pages Of photolith reproductions, etc. It made fifty Pettingill tells Rand that the national closely in “catryifig Out the broad Nation.” private letter-reports to special groups of its members, and issued twenty-five eleborate “currency re- form” theses. Seeks More Funds of another full year was done at 4 literature. But now thé Committee is seeking $140,000 for its 1934-35 work alone. This in itself shows how much more work it expécts to do in this one year. in a blank sent to members last October. This blank called for twenty-five “Class A” members, con- tributing $1,000 each; fifty “Class B” members contributing $500 each; 250 “Class C” members contributing $250 each; 400 “Class E” members contributing $50 each; and 800 “Class F”. metnbers contributing $25 each. The Committee wants 1,625 paying members to support a pro- gram broadened especially since the San Francisco General Strike to rest squarely on the fundamental class interests of the capitalists of finance, industry and agriculture, The Fascist possibilities of this kind of an organization, dominated by the representatives of the big trusts, but including masses of smaller industrialists and big- farmer léadefs, are, of course, enormous. Especially when one considers the functioning propa- ganda mechanism they have alteady built up. And the facts that their membership is secret, that some of them don’t know some of their own organization’s activities; and that the leadership includes individuals with known pro-Fascist connec- tions. “Fight Radicalism” The Committee for the Nation is now distributing a néws-bulletin of the Exectitivés Club of Chicago, carrying the text of a spéeth de- livered there by Farl Harding, the as well as a metnber of its advisory council. crowd of old line anti-labor men, according to the publication spon- sored by the Committee: denouncing it. Communism is a product of depression, of economic insecurity, and of poveriy . Fight radicalism at its source.” Thus Harding argued to the busi- ness men to “make yourself an ac- tive, aggressive Committee of One for the Nation to help spread mone- tary understanding.” He added, “the big Comtnittee for the Nation is the only national fighting to uphold the Constitution and the profit system through Price-level restoration.” This was a plea to the business men to get behind the Committee’s brand of “monetary reform,” which, Harding promised, would solye everything, but which was actually inspired by big capitalists who thought of it merély as a soliition to their fundamental problem—to get Out of the crisis at someorie else’s, eSpecially their workers’, ex- pense. arding betrayed this in organization widespread fear that radicalism will undermine all these things which we have believed secure.” By which things he, of course, meant property rights. Secret Meetings But theré is more direct evidence jof this—the secret meetings of the founders of the Committee for the Naticn. These meetings occurréd through the months of January and Feb- Truary, 1933. By this time the Com- mittee of the Nation had beén op- erating for a few months with about 200 “picked men.” It was originally founded, according to Harding, late in 1932. “It grew from a committee of one,” namely Vin- cent Bendix. He drew in four others—Genetal Robert B. Wood, quartermaster general of the U. S. Army during the World War, and Lessing J. Rosenwald, both now major executives and owners of Sears Roebuck; and Frank A va - derlip. “Even before they started, an- other Chicagoan; Dr. ward A. y All this and the propaganda work | cost of $200,000, according to the | The new $140,000 was asked for | Publicity man for thé Committee, | In this speech Harding told a} “If you are afraid of radicalism, | as I am, do not waste your breath | was seeing this problem (of ‘monetary reform’ With gréat clarity of vision, and ever since has devoted all of his remarkable | energy to this cause,” said Harding. What he didn’t add is that Rumiey was shown to be a secret agent of the Kaisers government during the wartime Evening Mail scandal, and has been exposed récetitly a8 a Nazi contact, And that Gérmidny bene- fited énormously by the “monetary reform” advotated by Rumley and carriéd through by the Committee for thé Nation, and the Roosevelt government because if reduced Nazi Germany’s short-ter-~ deb‘ in terms of dollars, Fear Mass Struggies The enlargement of the Commit- tee for the Nation for its first big |propaganda push ifi 1933, however, was based upon general class in- terests of thé capitalists of agri: jculture ahd industty. This grotip of men, throtighout théir secrét conferenéé, were talking about “thé problem” created by such specific developments as the farm strikes of the West, restlessness of the unemployed, and their own univer- sal féar of béinking “chaos.” Of the specific manifestations of mass struggle they spoke repeatédty, making it obvious that it was these |asS much as, if not more than, the then still shrinking size of their profits, that théy considered “the problem.” On Januaty 1, 1933, Andersen of the Dairymeén’s League met Dr. Virgil Jordan of the NI.RB. at a | Senraft’s restaurant atid said actos |the luncheon table: “Jordan, don’ | you think that the financial dis- | trict has changéd its whole atti- | tude toward thé deprassion and that it now feels it will have to | take some radical steps to convince the coutitry that it is goifg to do something about it?” Jotdawan repliéd theré was “no \question about it.” The N. I. C. B. about this time | called a meeting in New York, at- |tended by the so-called “agrigwt- | ture” leadérs—Hatry Hartke, pres- ident of thé National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation; Simp- |son, of the Farmers’ Union; Bla- lock; Fred H. Sexduer, president of thé Dairymen’s League, now one of the Directing Committee of the Committee for the Nation, and others. Fear Farm Unrest These “agriculttire” leaders them- Selves had been privately talking about the problems of farm unrest. They feared “uprisings against fore- closures,” as they said in théir pri- | vate meetings. Also present in the N.1.C.B. meet- ing with these were Sheppard Mor- gan of Chase National Bank and lan executive of the dtiPont mimi- tiohs dynasty, who later originated the American Liberty League. | Rand, Rumley and Anderson sep- | @rately talked over the question of | “currency reform” on Jan. 27. It | was then Rand told of thé offer of | $100,000, He said too that Van- | detlip, Wood and othets Were pre- paring to devote all their time | Rumley, this problem, and that there would | be “no difficulty” with an adver- | tising or publicity catipaign. They | could, said Rand, “sell” the couritry | the plan for “currency reform”| |through the newspapers, and if there were any gold hoarding be- forehand, they could stop this too by “carefully planned advertising.” | | It was in the light of all these | things; especially the umrest and struggles resulting from the con- | tinually tobogganing wages and in- | creasing unemployment, that_, this | group—Vanderlip; Bendix; Rand; Rumley, Hartke, Simpson, Sexauer, and Anderson—agreed; on Jan. 26, 1933, that: (1) prices and debts would have to be “adjusted” and (2) | “currenty reform” was the only | thing that could accomplish this:| Rand later gave Anderson a copy of a plan for placing a virtual em- bargo on gold in connection With this program. Anderson filed it un- |der the heading, “Inflation.” Police Arrangements It was at the Jan. 26 meeting that | Bendix emphasized the “ridiculous | | Spectacle” of the capitalist crisis’ | | erttel exposure of the main contra- | dictions of capitalism. A few days later some of the same group got together in Vatderlip’s Fifth Avenue | | hotel _anartment. It was then| |that Pope spoke of “Bolshevism.” | |He added that the situation was | “desperate.” in some cities; that | “definite steps” were being taken to “protect” large centers of population —protect property, that is— wit special police atrangeménts. Hé said | Mayor Cermak of Chicago had said it wouldn’t take much “for the whole Chicago situation to gét out of| hand.” Andérson told of seeing the then néw United States Senator Diiffy of Wisconsit, and of Duffy's | saying that “the cothtry” had just |about six months to make up its mind to “do something” or “take its chances,” They did “do something,” of course. They put over the inflation- ary Roosevelt monetary program — another wage cut, but disguised. This in addition to all the Roosevelt | govethment did for them through the NIRA, the AAA. and other “New Deal” measures. _How acutely aware many of these |men were of thé upper class nature of all this, and of its drive toward Fascism, was ifdicdted in anothét private conference several months later. This tine Secréetaty of Agri- culture Wallace was talking things over with Anderson and Sexauer, especially the “cooperatives” resent- ment of the cancellation of milk- marketing agreements which had | stirred mass farm protésts anew. In this enoference, on last April 3, Wallace remarked that he be- lieved that the “Sum total” of the N.R.A. would be to set up “a sort of Fascist regime in industry.” Wal- lace was himself a charter member of the Committee for the Nation, which was driving forward to_in- flation, one of the steps toward Fas- cism, besides being 4 mémiber of the cabinet of the Roosevelt semi-Fas- cist regime. | (Tomorrow; How the Commit- tee for the Nation is now promot- ing further inflation, and what a spokesman for Banker Vandetlip says of all this.) | Workers’ Bill Is Supported At Hearing Socialist Leader Joins| In. Defense of H. R. 2827 (Continued from Page 1) insurance placed where it belongs— upon the government and industry.” Broadus Mitchell, * fessor of Political n: Johns Hopkin§ University ahd gub- effatotial candidate of thé Socialist Party in thé recent élections, de- elated that “the Lundéén Bill places the burden where it bélongs on the beneficiaries of the capital- ist system, through taxes on wealth and not upon industry and wages.” The Roosevelt Administration's Wagnet-Léwis Bill, he said, “does hot provide security, but ig 2 stand- | ing acknowledgement of the failure of Our economy.” Spéakd for Farmers Lewis C, Béritzléy, the répresén- | tative of the Farmers National Committee for Action, infofmed thé sub-committee that He spoke for “thé millions of poor fafmers who suffer under the lash of farm debt and evictions, to whom the so- called ‘bléssings’ of the drought and | the New Deal are sheer mockery.” After rendering an décurate de- scription of thé ravages of the | drought, the crisis and the new deal upon the poor farmers, Bentzley declared: “For those millions of our pdp- ulation, the Liindéen Bill offers the | only security which we can find in any of the so-called ‘Social’ insur- ance bills. Above all I wish to em- phasizé that whilé this bill doés not provide any adequate standard (one that the country is capable of sus- taining) but only @ minimum standard of living for the farming | population, nevertheless it offers | the only adequate minimum to pre- serve health and decency,” Statistician Supports Bilt Dr. Joseph M. Gilman, a mem- | ber of the economics staff of the College of the City of New York, and former. statistician for the | Emergency Figet Corporation; de- | clared that if the government were to tax individual incomes, of $5,000 and over, as is provided for in the | Workers’ Bill H..R. 2827, at the rate | now prevailing in Great Britain, and if any “sensible rate even as |low as an average o1 per cent j would be placed on inheritani jand if a 25 per cént tax were im posed oh corporate sutpltises, funds ‘more than sufficiént to meét thé | ptovisions of the Ltundeén Bill would be provided. 4 “My calcitlation on thé extent of unémployment shows a minimum ot 14,00,0000 unémployed averaged fot 1984. This, it should be noted, teptesents a net incréasé of no more | than 500,000 workets placed on the payrolls of private industry as the sum total result of the re-employ- ment efforts of the present admin- istration,” hé added. Congressmen , Reuben T. Wood, | Democrat, of Missouri; and George | |J. Séhh@ider, Progressive, of Wis- |consin exhibited their antagonism |to the Workers’ Bill, ever, before | Brown, thé first witnéss, finished his statement. fe Attacks Workers Schneidér tried convey the | impression that the Workers Bill is |similér t6 the fantastic Townsend |Plan while Wood endeavored to dis- |eredit Brown as a witness by at- | tempting to trap him into making jah attack upon the A. F. of L., as lan organization. Wood quite’ ob- | viously spoke for the A. F. of L.,| |top officials who are opposed to HR. 2827 and favor thé principle | of no federal unemployment insur- | ance émbotlied in the Wagnét-Lewis Bill. He tried to make the stib- comthitteé believe that the workers in the approximately 3,000 A. F. of L, locals endorséd H. R. 2827 “with- out reading the provisions of the bill” because “all workers are for cut-of-work ifisurance.” Brown, in the coiirse of his ad- dress to thé committee, stated; “The bitter experience of the workers with thé N. R. A. and its codes has taught the rank and file workers in the printing industry not to strep promises, even if the promises come from high places and have the personal recommendation of the officials of the A. F. of L. (social insurance they will accept social nisurance they will accept must be gentiine, Countérfeit bills will be exposé ale gg So fat the only bill brought forward which approaches genuiné uném- | Bosene and social insurance is H. i. . “Rank and File Awake” | “The rank and file workers in the printing industry are now awake and are ready to join with the Millibris of agricultitral, do- mestic, proféssional and industrial workers in this broad and all im- portant fight for a Federal law establishing a genuine unemploy- ment and social ij e system such as is provided by H. R. 2827.” Bentzley further pointed out that “thé Lundéen Bill is designed to put purchasing power in the hands of the masses of the péoplé—at least forty million of whom aré destitute. This in itself will broaten the market for farm products: placing money in their hands so they can make those badly needed repairs to buildings and machinery, as well as buy clothes and othér necessities. This in turn would put thousands of workers back to work,” Mary Van Kleeck, ‘irman of the ional Council of ae Inter- professional fe sire nd director trial stidiés of ti SiC of industrial ee Sage Foundation, will addtess the Hoiise suib-committéé tomorow eve- ning. Elmer Rice, representative of the Authors’ League and Pulitzer Prize playwright, and Joseph Mur- ray, chairman of the rank and file Transient Committéé, an unem- CHEAP LABOR PLAN Shops Urged to Leave Cities SAMUEL H. SILGERMAN. INE REAL BETATE .INGURANEE. MORTGAGE Loan H60 Atcantic afhe whites ciminenein January 7, 1938 Beg t Neckweer, fre. ina: edrey Wow York city Gdnitiedén: we @elosinig d cirsuaée of thé Ersiine-danrorth bul tding Me See! SMC, Tave the aietusied Manegenese.s We are now in the process of renting this plént ons floor by floor basis and at this time, can give you approximately any amount of space on the following scale of prices: feet at 41200 pée year ot at 41600 per yaar fect st 42500 ner yéar AF With lébor cér#i tions _Hérs In Ne dduvt yéu ore A Open Shop vas All of our thes, The Bowes, Petroleum He any and thé Kormé offen Reatings Company. We can assure you thet new industries coming to Stamford Will écéivé Wonderful co-opsration from the banks, Chamber of Comnercs, Police Department and city Off'clals. Trudtine thét this Jattor may be of tntarést to you and that we Will De favoréd with # reply, we are Very troly yours, SANUEL A SILBERA aE Roosevelt “Advisory Couricil® Urges Bosses To Move to Isolated Area Where Fight Agaitiat Unions Can Be Sharpened WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 4—The moving of shops to small towns and rural areas; whee théy might escape unions; alréady a Sétious menace to the workers of many industries, is to be promoted on a far greater scale nationally by 4 special department of the Roosevélt administration, ac- cording to = recommendation madeé >- and Plannifig Council of the De- partmént of Commerce. A grant of $2,500,000 1s recommended to servé as a revolving fund for loans and other forms of encouraging manu- facturets willing to move their plants. It was also indicated that the bulk of the finances to promote this protess will comé from the four billion dollar fund tmndér the guise | of relief. | The plan is in accordance with the plan for decentralization of in- dustry announced by President Roosevelt in one of his earliest mes- Sages. According to details already submitted; seasonal industries, which find it difficult to exist because of the high overhead made necessary during slack periods, will be moved to isolated areas “where the over- head is much lower.” This will in- volve especially such as the gar- ment; shoe; leather goods, light metal, pocketbook, toy. silk, and similar industries. In these indus- tries the unions already face a very serious situation as shops move to unorganized towns, where wages are low, and non-union conditions are guaranteed by the local Chambers of Commérce and governments. Un- employment in the organized cen- ters is increased and the cheaply | producéd products ftom the newly | settled areas still further under- | mine the wages of the organized workers, An active participant in the| wotking out of the details of this yesterday by thé Business Advisory { Daniel schémeé; which aims at thé very foundations of many unions, is! By Auna Damon (Acting Natiotal Séerétary, LUD.) Thousands of people never before involved in the campaign for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon, and the struggle for Negro rights, were represented at the Stottshoro-Hetndon Confeér- étice held Sunday at the call of the National Scottsboro-He-hdon Ac- tion Committee in New York. A fine achievement of this con- ference was the representation ¢ twerity-seven newly involved A. F. of L. tinions and fraternal organi- zations. It is not only necessary to follow this lead; and improve upon it, throughout the country. It is néc- ©. Roper, Secretary 6f Com merce, Giving as an exémplé of what is meant by décéntralization of in- dusty, oné ¢ormitiiinity ih Georgia is described wheré & grapé protess- ing plant, a cafining factory, 4 fur- niture and rug shop, a eréamery and cheese factory; &@ meat curing and poultry dressing plant were set up. This was established through encouraging companiés from New York and stich cities. Tt i8 pothted ott that this will likewise relievé the goverment of |@ relief burden, a8 the tihémployed in thésé rural comtnunitiés are to be driven into the newly established plants. Part of the proposal redid: “Tt 18 ott proposal that & depart- ment be set up to select and eh- courage the relocation of stich in- dustries as WOtild contiibute to the welfare of these communities and that a revolviig fund be made available to this départmént, to be used when necésséry as loaris to these ifdtistriés to déffay the cost of moving and instiré theif success in getting started in their new lo- cation.” After éxplaiting the type of seasonal industries to be moved, and the advantages to the midntfac- turér, the proposal states “.; . and we have a large city How burdened with part-time industries which cause unrest with their intermittent eriployirient.” The detdils of thé Proposal léavé no doubt that it is another means of the administra- tion’ aimied at the unions and to drive the standards of the workers still lower. Appeals for Funds essaty to involve all these people conerétely in the Scottsboro-Hern- don fight. They must be itvolvéd in the holding of meetings, in sendifig pro- test cards, now being distributéd by the International Labor Défeénie, to the U. S, Stipreme Court. These forces must be involvéd in thé collection of thé titgently needed funds for the appeals. Only $102.98 was récetyéd for the defense fund by the I. L. D. Mon- day. $8,240 more is heeded immédiately. Funds for Scottsboto-Hétnddn te: fense should be sent at one to the national office of the Interha- tional Labor Defense, Rooth 610, 20 ae Eleventh Street, Néw York ys Stest. Waren Preparing for Strike Action Pittsburgh Parley Plans For Actios: On Demands | ference decided to call upon ths A. A. National Executive Board to convené thé 60th regular convention of thé A. A. which is scheduled to take plage in April. Resoltitions were adopted flaying the taétics of Tighe in threatening rév6cation of chartéfs and mass éx- pulsions for attending the rank and file meeting, and naming the “Pro- Sressive Steel Worker” as the na- tional organ of the rank and file. The fiational program cdalls for the drawifig up of spécial demands for the Negro workérs, Against the labor boards, for the organization of stéél on the basis of the followifig demands: $1 ari hout; the six-hour day; five-day wéek equal rights for the Negro workers; abolition of North-South differen- tials; recogtition of the Amalga- mated, abolishment of company unions; enactment of H. R. 2827— this is the general line adopted by thé conferénée in the program, with the perspective of strike ac- tioh if the démands até réfuséd and organizing for this pufpose the hundreds of thousands of still un- bah re steel workers. é miners established a commit tee of twenhty-séven, which will car« ty forward thé work of assisting in the stéel drive ard thé fight for autonomy in Districts 2, 3, 4 and 6, all représented heré at the méétirig, Most of the ci wore ‘Don’t réad Hearst” but and Héarst reporters aid photo- gtaphérs wére racéd out of the miners’ méeting. Rank and file speakers represent= ing evety important steel cénter as- sailed thé bureaucracy of thé A. A, and their splitting tactics and “Réd scares,” and called for building 4 | militant rank and file controlled Amalgamatéd ovér the heads of Tighe and Co. Sentiment from some uarters for a splitoff from the A, f. of L., was quickly spiked When it was shown the necessity of carrying on a fight for democraty in the | A, A. alohg with the membership of the A. F. of b. unions. Soviets Get Farm Report (Continued from Page 1) Thé entiré Congress rose to applaud these workers’ délé#ations. (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 4 (By Wiréless). —Out of the 2,200 delegates present at the All-Union Congréss of the Soviets, 931 aré workers, 473 are peasants, including 263 colléctive farmers. The decisive vote repre- sents the 58 basic nationalitiés of the Soviet Union: In addition, there are 154 delegates from the Red Army, Others include office work- ers, directors, enginéers, scientists, | writers, artists, dctors, etc.; 378 of | the delegates are women. More than half, 1,138 delegates, are attending an All-Union Con- lgress of the Soviets for the first time. Seventy-four per cént of the delegates are members-of the Com munist Party or the Young Com- munist League. Twenty-fivé per cent have had a secondary school education, 14.8 per cent a university éducation. These facts were made public in the report of the Creden- tials Committee, which reported to- day, Thus, the composition of the del- egation, representing the toilers at the Seventh Congress of the Soviets, reflects the basic changes in population of the Soviet Union, as was pointed out by Molotov in his recent spéech to the Congréss, the dotibling of the proletarian’ popiila- tion and the tremendots increase in the ranks of the collectivé farm- ers. Auto Strike Ranks Solid (Continued from Page 1) Splits Fight To Free 18 fendants. These people walked out of a united front conference re- cently héld in San Francisco after they had failed in their attempts (1) to bar a delegate from_ the American Federation of Labor and File Committeé, and (2) to postpone the conference, ; Anothet defendant, Lee Hung, bond furnished by the Amiefican Civil Libetties Union, The Superior Court; where the trial is taking place, is packed daily by Sacramento workers and work- ers’ delegations from other cities. RAMENTO, Céiif., Féb. 4— ite threats by atmed bands of vigilantés and police, a successful iass meéting ih defense of the 18 Sacramento defendants was held Hete last Sattirday night at the Plazé Theatre. Fivé hundred per- roy were present. A collection of $95 was taken up for tl plo ganization in Washington, BA akss Teneesd we aopeur The Peg eel was adi aaa By the American Civ Liserbes Union. ik | This will necessitate thé fekimption was balled ottt on Friday on a cash | fi Anti-Union Writ Held Up: (Continued from Page 1) the respective parties, with a view to settling the findings of facts and eoheliisions of law. ‘The conférence started at 11 am. and the wotk had not, been completed at 5 of this conferéhce at 10:15 tomot- row morning. No decreé will be signed until after the findings of ‘act and conclusions law are completed.” The Building Service Employéts Council of Greater New York, which includes 15 unions of 142,000 workers in the building service, ohe of the largest sections of the New York labor movement, at its meet- ing Sunday adopted a resolution Pledging full support to the team- sters in the fight against the in- junction. The building service wotkérs are also on the evé of a general strike in théir own ifidus- try. Walter Gordon Merritt, rio- torious opén shop attorney, who represented the shipping interests in the Pio on the waterfront injunction, is resentative of thé realty interest i ing their usual tactics of delay ana enagling with labor boards in an effort to kill off the threatening strike at the Fisher Body plant in ansing, Mich., where forty-six wet sanders walked out Thursday, pro- testing against low wages and thé intolerable spé Re “Reports in the lo¢al press “state that a mass meéting of Fishér Body w : ieee Which was supposed to ake a strike vote, decided to place the matter before the Natiohal Labor Rélations Board in Washington déspite thé fact that Al. Cook, of L. organizer, told your corre. spondént Saturday that he fully expécted the men to vote in favor of a strike. He is repotted it to- day's Detroit News as having ex- ee oo himsélf in opposition to @ a P léht Roosevelt prevents the Na- dering any disputes in ain sti Special board has been sé clear that thé tactics of the A. of I. leaders is to drag out nego- cost. Apeng the rank and file of the A. F. of L. unions, as well as among the unorganized, however, ais” throu militant strike action can they win any improvements in conditions, (Continued from Page 1) 5 Sincé a réctnt décision of Presi- — ftowing renlization that ations and prevént a strike at an=