The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1935, Page 3

TIGHE AGAIN REVEALS HIS ROLE AS AN AGENT OF THE STEEL Treachery to AA Shown in Recent Record of His Actions By John Steuben The steel workers are rapidly pre- Paring for struggle. A mass strike in the steel industry is on the order of the day. In the past six months the steel workers have learned many lessons. Especially the organized steel work- | ers now realize how futile it was to | depend on President Roosevelt, on Section 7-A, on the Steel Labor Board, as well as their own top leaders of the type of Mike Tighe and his associat The steel workers must enter this | fight with clear vision and perspec- tive, to know what they want and, how to accomplish it, In the very} Preparations for the struggle the steel workers must also learn who) are their real friends and who are their enemies. The steel workers| must definitely Mkie Tighe, “Shorty” Leonard, and | the whole crew of the international | officers of the A. A. are agents of | the Steel Trust and are serving) their interests; we will prove.it in| this article, without going into their | past record, which is a long list of treachery and betrayal. Startling Admission The first issue of the Progressive | Steel Worker published by the Pub- | lic Relations Committee of the Sixth | District of the A. A., in the story on | the Pittsburgh Conference of De-| cember 30 exposes Tighe as a traitor | to his union: | “The conference was electricified by the startling charges brought) forward by a Weirton delegate that | @ prominent member of the A. A.,| testifying before the Federal Court | in Wilmington, Del., produced finan- | cial statements and other sacred | lodge documents and gave testimony | which was highly damaging to the case of the Weirton lodges. “Even more startling were the ad- | missions by Brother John Sandor | of Cannonsburg that these charges | were true; that it was he who had | given this damaging testimony; that he had taken down these _ documents and introduced them | in spite of the fact that the sub- | poena did not call for them; and that he had acted entirely upon | the instructions of President Tighe himself, who told him to go to Wilmington and answer all ques- — tions that might be asked. Brother Sandor also stated that he had been made ‘the goat’ in the mat- | ter by ‘someone’ but he refused to state who the someone’ was, leav- | ing it to the delegates to use their own judgments.” | Thus Mike Tighe, the President | of the union, is performing the job | of the paid stool pigeons, instruct- | ing some members to turn over the names of union members and other | union records to the steel companies, | which will result in discrimination | | similar statement. UST TR Polar Expedition Homeward Bound On S.S. Ruppert Aboard 8.S. Jacob Rupert, Bay of Whales, Antartica, Feb. 6 (Via Mackay Radio to United Press). —Members of the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition hope io leave for home today aboard the Jacob Ruppert and the steam- ship Bear of Oakland. Supplies have been packed, in- cluding airplanes left by the first expedition. Lieutenant Commander George Noville left a note in a hut at Little America for any future cx- plorers late yesterday, and with the fire still burning came to the ship. in on time and “saved” Mike Tighe’s head. Here are the facts: L. W. Moffett, the Washington organ of the American Steel Insti- tute, in the December 6 issue states the following: “President M. F. Tighe of the A. A. is understood to have been agreeable to the truce. His hand was forced, however, by President William Green of the Federation, it is reported, and the truce nego- tiations collapsed.” On December 13, L. W. Moffett writes again: “Following the appeal of Pres- ident Roosevelt for a capital-labor truce, the industry indicated that it would recognize and deal with officials of the A. A., but would not deny to other groups of work- ers the right to deal with em- ployers [company unions—J. S.]. William Green later held a con- ference with M. F. Tighe, Presi- dent of the Association, after which the former announced that the proposal was not acceptable. It is reported that the association officials were agreeable to the plan.” © What Tighe Said These facts are convincing and condemning evidence against Tighe. But the statement of Tighe himself is even more damaging to him. The Amalgamated Journal, on the front page, in a box, carries a “statement” of the President. This statement, which was supposed to be a reply to the articles in the Iron Age, in no form whatever denies the facts as mentioned by L. W. Moffett. The only thing Tighe states is that he has no differences with Green, and he appealed to Green to make a This, of course, we believe namely that William Green did not differ with Tighe. The only thing is that William Green is a bit more clever than Tighe, and even though he had no “objection to the truce,” but Green realized that should he officially ac- cept it, he would be condemned in the eyes of the steel workers. Yet this agent and informer of and mass firing of union members. the steel trust had the nerve to Tighe and the Truce |come out and brand the honest and However, Tighe is not satisfied |sincere members of the Amalga- with betraying only a certain sec- tion of the steel workers. His job is to betray all steel workers and to still further chain and enslave them to the Steel Trust. This brings us to the role played by Tighe in the recent “truce” negotiations held in Washington. | The reader will recall that Presi- dent Roosevelt called a conference and proposed a six-month “truce” on the following conditions: a) no elections in the mills; b) no strike; ¢) proportional representation. Such a “truce,” if accepted would mean a complete surrender to the steel ezars, open recognition of the com- pany unions, a gradual merger of the A. A. with the company unions, which in practice would mean a rapid disintegration of the Amal- gamated Association. To many it may be shocking, but Mike Tighe did accept the “truce” but was saved by a more clever mis- Jeader, William Green, who stepped WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. ‘Workers Chorus Concert, Friday, Feb. 8th, Garrick Hall, 507 5. 8th St. Concert Pianist, Soprano, String Quartet. Talk by J. Grolle on Music and the Workers. Adm. 25¢. Philadelphia F.S.U. broagcasts. Tune in on W.D.A.S. :15 p.m. Hear Her Come to the mass meeting on Friday, Feb. Bat 8 . at Broad St. Mansion id Grand Ave.) Prominent Open Forum under auspices of F.S.U. South Phila. Br. on Feb. 7th at 428 Bainbridge St. Dr. Melnikoff speaks on “Health in the Soviet Union.” Adm, free. Discussion and questions. 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 Gesang Ferein chorus; excellent dance orchestra. Adm. at door, 50c; in advance through organizations 35c. Tickets at 49 N. 8th St., Room 207, Fascist Development in the United States Exposed! Hear John L. Spivak on “Wall Street Fascist Conspiracy,” on Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. at Mercantile Hell, Broad and Master streets. Auspices, LL.D. Adm. 25¢, Chicago, Il. th Save February 18 for Theatre Col- lective Chauve Souris. A three-hour program of Theatre, Music and 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. Organizations Attention! ‘The Inter- national Workers Order of Chicago is celebrating its 5th Anniversary at the Ashland Auditorium, Feb. 23, 6:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. An excellent pro- gram has been arranged. Kindly keep this date open. Newark, N. J. Victor A. Yakhontoff, former general in the Russian Imperial Army speaks on “The Far Tastern Situation,” Wed., Feb. 6t¥ at 8:20 pm. Jack London Club, 9 4 Broad St. Adm. 25c, Cabaret NightSet., Feb. oth, 8:30 p.m. at 901 Broad St. Negro . —Special ent ent. Subs, 35c, by Jack Newark, incl. London Club mated as traitors to their union. The Amalgamated Journal of Jan. 17, in a Hearst-like manner, came out with a big “exposure” covering almost. three pages. A so-called “secret” document was printed with |the following editorial of introduc- | tion: “An organization formed within | the Amalgamated Association is ex- posed in the following document, which constitutes a direct violation of the obligation which the pro- ponents took when they solemnly held their right hands up to God and swore loyalty to the Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North American and its laws. The document amounts to treason.” The “Treason” This document which Mike Tighe considers “treason” proposes the fol- lowing program: 1, Take up organization drive and create machinery for such drive. Call upon ALL to allocate funds on the basis of the A, F, of L, Convention decision to dis- trict and lodges for organization drive, 2. Take up discrimination cases and bring them to the attention of the Steel Board, etc. thus ex- pesing the uselessness of Labor Boards, 3. Elect relief committees in the lodges to take up demand for relief for unemployment and part time workers. 4. Set up educational and so- cial activity committee to enliven the meetings, 5. Work out plans for giving members assistance in every other way (legal, etc.).” Accepting the “truce,” turning over names of union members to the steel corporations, expelling members because they are unem- ployed and cannot pay dues, this Mike Tighe calls loyalty to the union. An organization drive to build a union, to fight against com- pany unions, to fight against dis- crimination because of union ac- tivity inside the mills, to fight for relief for the unemployed _ steel workers, to give assistance and help to the members of the union, this Tighe calls treason. Steel workers themselves will decide who are the loyal union men and who are the traitors. Lloyd George Slated To Become Minister, London Report Says LONDON. Feb. 6.—Rumors of a shake-up in the cabinet, so that David Lloyd George could be in- cluded in the new government, were current tonight. One suggestion was that the war-time premier would be made a “super-minister” for dominions of defence, and that Stanley Baldvin would become Prime Minister, J, Ramsay Mac- Donald taking the Foreign Secre- taryship { t p«AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1935 “New Leader’ Eats Words On Vigorito Retraction Shows Slan- derous Intent Despite Hedging Language Under the pressure of protests from members of the Socialist Party, the New Leader, official organ of the party, has published a hedg- ing retraction of its slanderous charge that Charles Vigorito, newly elected president of the Paterson Dyers Union is a “notorious fascist.” The retraction appeared in the Feb. 2 issue of the paper. The basis for the defamation of Vigorito is his membership in two Italian organizations in which there are also members with fascist sym- pathies, The New Leader statement, at- | tempting to conceal the deliberate- ness of the slander, declared: “Basing the statement upon sources of information always found reliable in the past, we reported that Vigo- rito, candidate of the Communists, was a fascist and a member of the | Republican club and a fascist or-| ganization called the Circolo Nazio- | nale of Paterson. “The New Leader’s purpose in| printing the story was not to re- understand that) editor of the Iron Age, the official | fiect upon Vigorito in his personal capacity or as the chosen spokesman of several thousand workers, but | upon the good faith and intelligence | of the Communists who recklessly support anyone ,..” The fact that | Vigorito was “the chosen spokesman | of several thousand workers” (12,000 | to be exact) did not deter the New | Leader from slandering him. “Vigorito denies he is a fascist, | although he admits membership in the two organizations. The New Leader also has received several | | Protests on its statements about him | with demands that we withdraw the charge.” After beating around the bush in this manner, the New Leader states: | “In the interest of the working class we assuredly wish him (Vigo- rito) a successful administration, : without withdrawing our criticism [of the recklessness of supporting a candidate with such connections.” The New Leader prints varts of ; letters sent by Herman Wolfe, edi-| {tor of the Silk and Dye Worker, a} member of the Socialist Party, pro- testing against the slanderous at- | tack, and one from the organizer | of the Socialist Party in Paterson, | ; who apparently sent in the original | “Information” but now tries to “ex- | plain” matters. | ; Although Vigorito sent a state- ment in answer to the slanders, to | | the New Leader and to other papers, | not a sentence of it was printed in | | the New Leader. Building Jobs Show Big Drop WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 6.—) Testimony of Harry C. Bates, inter- | national president of the Bricklayers | Union, brought out before the Sen- | ate Judiciary sub-committee hear- ing on the Black 30-hour-week Bill, that the N.R.A. had failed to help} re-employment in the building | trades, Bates said the N.R.A. code for the construction industry had been ad- ministered so that any employer of bricklayers could avoid paying the stipulated wage. A regional agreement for the New York area provided for a $12 wage but the Edison Electric Co., em- ployed bdicklayers for $10 and was sustained by the legal department of the N.R.A., Bates brought out. “The Edison company appealed to | Richberg’s legal department,” Bates | said, “which rendered an opinion | that the company was not bound | by the regional agreement. That decision nullified any attempt to maintain a wage scale or other terms of the agreement.” Bates, however, instead of mobi- lizing the workers in his union for a unified fight, together with the other building trade unions, for bet- ter conditions, is spending his ener- gies in a jurisdictional disput? for job control, with other building | trades officials, Union Grows SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 6.— After more than six months since the arbitration board decision that there is to be a joint hiring hall for longshoremen in the Bay region, ‘with a union member as dispatcher, it is at last announced that the hhall will be ready before the end of February. The Internatiqnal Longshoremen’s Local here, headed by Harry Bridges, leader of the recent strike, has in the meantime been tightening up organization in the union. The workers have maintained vigilance against former scabs appearing on the docks. Another division was added to the live local recently when the ware- housemen affiliated. The warehouse- men are now negotiating for an increase from the present 40 and 50 cents per hour, to 62% cents per hour, 2 rench Steel Workers Maintain Picket Lines To Halt 10% Pay Cut PARIS, Fed. 6.—Six hundred steel Strikers at Valenciennes continued today to maintain their picket lines before the mills in the face of re- peated onslaughts by the mounted Mobile Guards, who are attempting to act as escorts for imported scabs. The bitterness of the strikers at a 10 per cent wage cut and at the friendly hand offered to the mill owners by the government coincides with the watchfulness of cnti-fas- cist forces throughout France on the anniversary today of last year's struggle against the threat of a fas- cist dictatorship, WORK IN MINNESOTA ANDTHENORTHWEST THE TASKS OF THE PARTY IN CARRYING THROUGH THE C. C, RESOLUTION 0! THE LABOR PARTY (Adopted by the Central Committee, C.P. U.S.A.) le the State of Minnesota a bourgeois progressive Labor Party is al- ready in control of the State administration, and in other North- western States like North and South Dakota, Iowa and Northern Michi- gan such third parties are in the process of formation, Already in the Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota, on the basis of the sharpening class struggles and the deepening of the crisis of capitalism, particularly the permanent crisis in agriculture and the inability of the Farmer-Labor Party leaders to carry through their election promises, there is rapidly developing a sharp class differentiation in the Farmer-Labor Party. It is a class differentiation between the workers and small farmer on the one hand, and the official leaders, trade union reformists and the bourgeois politicians who defend the interests of the hourgeoisie and the well-to-do farmers on the other. This class differentiation does not express itself in the acceptance by the workers and farmers of the en- tire program of the Communist Party and the revolutionary way out. The proposed plans for the formation of a third national party has already called forth differences in the Farmer-Labor Party on the attitude toward the Progressive Party of Wisconsin with an opposition developing toward the merger with the LaFollettes, Se. Cee | |OWEVER, in view of the fact that the Communist Party has only recently begun to establish organized united actions with the work- ers and farmers in the Farmer Labor Party, and those following it, these left wing forces remain without leadership and the class differ- entiation is not developing along revolutionary litic svead, all sorts of demagogues of the type of Ex-Congressman Shoemaker, Secretary of the State Industrial Commission Emmy, and the Trotskyites strive to become the leaders of the leftward moving masses in the Farmer- Labor Party. It therefore becomes politically decisive for every Com- munist in Minnesota to sharply differentiate between the present strikebreaking leadership of the Farmer-Labor Party and the sincere desire of the masses in the Farmer-Labor Party and those following it to struggle for their basic needs and who become ever more dissatisfied with this leadership. From this follows that the major Political task of the Communist Party is to provide leadership and a program to the leftward moving workers and farmers in the Farmer-Labor Party which rests primarily on a proletarian base and upon the exploited | farmers. In doing this we will not only isolate the open reactionary Farmer-Labor leaders from the masses of workers and farmers, but this will also serve the purpose to unmask and expose before the masses those Farmer-Labor bureaucrats and capitalist politicians who hide their anti-working class actions under a cover of high-sounding “revolutionary” phrases, Detroit Labor To Hold Rally For Nominee A.F.L. Representatives Give Backing to Maurice Sugar DETROIT, Feb. 6.—Every section of the Detroit labor movement is | expected to be represented at a big mass meeting this Saturday, Feb. 9. to further the candidacy of Maurice Sugar, noted labor attorney, for jjudge of Recorder's Court. The | mass meeting will be held at 8 p.m jin Northern High chool, Woodward | and Claremount Avenues. Speakers will include, in addition to Sugar, Matthew Smith, general secretary of the Mechanics’ Educa- tional Society of America; William | Weinstone, secretary of the Michi- gan District of the Communist Party, and representatives from the American Federation of Labor and other organizations. About 300 people attended a ban- | quet in Sugar’s honor, given Mon- |day night at the Deutsches Haus, 7200 Mack Avenue, under the aus- pices of the International Workers’ Order and the Maurice Sugar Cam- paign Committee. Speakers were Frank X. Martel, president of the Detroit and Wayne County Federation of Labor; Mat- thew Smith, for the M. E. S. A; John Anderson, Communist candi- date for Governor in the last elec- tion, for the C. P.; Marian C. Mc- Gill, president of the Detroit Civic Pride Club, a Negro organization; William Dennison, of the Society of Designing Engineers; Richard Kroon, militant A. F. of L, rank and file leader, speaking for Paint- ers’ Local 42, and Nat Ganley, or- ganizer of the Trade Union Unity League. ‘Support Fig ht OnSyndicalism ganizations and three members of the Village Board of Taylor pp Gie tien resto) the workers and farmers in the Farmer-Labor Party who will become increasingly dissatisfied with the present leadership and its policies, but who still retain confidence in the Farmer-Labor Party, can be involved under the ideological leadership of the Communist Party in a struggle against their party bureaucracy and to try to help to transform the Farmer-Labor Party from a pro- gressive bourgeois party, which it is now and which in the actual | practical policies and actions does not differ from the other capitalist parties, into a real class struggle party “in conflict with the bu- reaucracy, putting forward a program of demands closely connected with the mass struggles, strikes, etc., with the leading role played by militant elements, including the Communists.” (From the C. C. reso- lution). This aim can best be pursued through a manifold increase of the revolutionary work in the American Federation of Labor, which is the organized base of the Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota, as well as in the mass organizations of the farmers, such as the Farmers’ Union and the Holiday ssociation, ache . T becomes imperative for our Party to advance more boldly the united front with the local Farmer-Labor Party organizations, and the work- ers’ and farmers’ organizations under its influence, on all problems and | issues the workers and farmers of Minnesota are faced with. In the coming municipal election this spring, particularly in the small indus- | trial and semi-industrial towns, the Party must energetically propose to the local Farmer-Labor Party organizations to put forth united labor tickets on the basis of a minimum class struggle program, In the com- | ing elections of certain municipalities it may even be possible and ad- visable for the Communist Party to support the Farmer-Labor candi- dates if and when such candidates are known to be militant working class fighters and if they identify themselves with a struggle for the immediate needs of the masses. It also becomes necessary for Commu- nist and Communist sympathizers to strive to secure the official nom- ination of local tickets of the Farmer-Labor Party in the coming municipal elections. In view of this it therefore becomes necessary for the district Party leadership to give the utmost political attention and guidance to the Party units in the small towns where the Party membership is not sufficiently politically developed, but where we have for the immediate future the greatest possibilities for the carrying through of our policy in relation to the Farmer-Labor Party. Ca ae ig becomes advisable that the Party should strive to secure the election of Communists and militant workers and farmers as representaties of their organizations to county and local executive committees where the policies and decisions of the Farmer-Labor Party are discussed and formulated. Only in this manner can we fight successfully to separate the present reactionary leadership of the Farmer-Labor Party from the masses of workers and farmers who believe that this party repre- sents their class interests and strives to establish a new social order. pe per ori Communist Party in Minnesota must be on guard against sub- merging itself in the Farmer-Labor Party and to resist with all energy the influence of the Farmer-Labor Party ideology in its own ranks, It must mercilessly eradicate all opportunist errors and tenden- cies which so sharply manifested themseles in the recent State elec- tion campaign, The Party leadership must unceasingly educate the Party membership, and the workers and farmers of Minnesota, of the independent revolutionary role of the Communist Party, “which can- not be replaced by any other organization in the struggle of the work- ing class for its liberations” (from the C. C. resolution). The district leadership of the Communist Party of Minnesota must not forget for one moment that our new tactical approach to the Farmer-Labor Party must not lessen our uncompromised struggle against the Farmer-Labor ideology and the reformist promises of the “Co-operative Common- wealth” and the “more equal distribution of wealth.” The Party dis- trict leadership must likewise with the utmost revolutionary determina- tion fight uncompromisingly any attempt to use this new tactiful approach to the Farmer-Labor Party as a justification for the oppor- tunist hiding of the Party face and hesitancy to bring forward the revolutionary program of our Party. On the contrary, the erystalliza- tion of an organized left wing in the Farmer-Labor Party will depend on to what extent we fight and defeat this farmer-labor ideology and popularize the meaning and struggle for Soviet power as the ultimate solution, and more energetically than ever explain to the masses the role of the Communist Party, its tactics and principles and build the Party. The Party must see to it that the tone and content of our agitation must be such as to convince the masses. Denunciations can- not replace clear and correct arguments. The intensive ‘work of our | Party amongst the masses and organizations of the Farmer-Labor Party and in the trade unions, upon which the Farmer-Labor Party rests, must be accompanied with an intensive recruiting drive of the most advanced workers and farmers into the Communist Party, the | organized distribution of Party literature, more popular and intensive Communist agitation and propaganda and secure a wide circulation of the contemplated Communist Party weekly paper. | eh ee K other States of the Northwest the Communist Party must con- cretely organize its work in such a manner as to influence the course of the formation of the Labor Party. In these States efforts are now being made by the bureaucracy of the trade unions and the farmers’ organizations, in alliance with politicians, to form a third bourgeois party of the type of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, The Commu- nist Party, through more intensive work in the existing trade unions and farmers’ organizations, through the development of workers’ and farmers’ struggles for their every-day interests, and through the popu- larization of a class struggle program, will be able to check the forma- tion of a third capitalist party under a Farmer-Labor Party label and to utilize the breakaway of the workers and farmers from the old capitalist parties for the formation of a class struggle labor party as Springs, Ill, have attached their endorsements to a call issued by | the District International Labor De- fense for a united front conference for the repeal of the Illinois crim- inal syndicalist law. The confer- ence is called for Sunday, Feb. 24, at 10 am. at the Arion Hall, | Fourth and Adams Street, Spring- field, Tl. The endorsing organizations are | Bakers’ Local, 237, Chicago; three | Progressive Miners’ locals, 6, 42 and THOUSANDS COLORADO SALES TAX; Father Coughlin Mortifies the Flesh | With $18 Dinner DETROIT, Feb. 6 charity and love evident! high Father Ch: E. Coughlin. flamboyant radio priest and or- ganizer of National U: tice, loves neighbor so we! that on Sunday, Jan. 6, he spen for eighteen dollars for dinner himself and two lad: Detroit's most a the Book-Cadillac. The devout priest contented himself with caviar (at about $2.50 a portion), a generous steak and other simple foods. In addition to the bill of $18 Coughlin tipped the waiter, who joined his National Union, $2 Escaped Lynch Victim Seized for Union Rally Croppers Beaten and Arrested (Special to the Daily Worker) TRYONZA, Ark., Feb. 6—Charged with “disturbing the peace” be- cause they addressed a meeting of Negro and white share croppers, Lucien Koch, director of Common- wealth College, and Bob Reed, 8) Commonwealth student, are to have CHICAGO, Tll., Feb. 6—Ten or-| hearing today in Marion, Ark The two men were seized and | beaten last Friday night by armed Planters, who invaded a meeting of sharecroppers at Gilmore, in Crit- | tenden County, and took them in @ car with threats to lynch the “goddamned ‘nigger’ lovers.” | The armed invasion of the meet- | ing followed on the heels of the recent conviction of Ward Rogers, | Socialist Party member and an or- | ganizer of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, and the arrest of | several other organizers. A fierce | terror is now raging against Negro | |35, of Nokomis, Hillsboro and Mt.|and white croppers who attended | Olive, the Women’s Auxiliary of the Progressive Miners of Hillsboro, the Midwest Section of the National | Committee for the Defense of Po- litical Prisoners, Chicago Commit- |tee Against War and Fascism, the Communist Party, and Branch 163 of the Lithuanian Workers, Inc. In addition, the call is endorsed by | | John F, Sloan, opposition candidate | | to John L. Lewis in the last United Mine Workers’ election for presi- dent and a member of Local 5509 the meeting. The meeting Friday night had been called to organize a local of the union in Crittenden County. A Negro chairman, an ex-minister, presided. Koch told how even the cotton acreage reduction program, from which all were supposed to benefit, had been the means of en- abling the landlords to squeeze out | the small farmer, buy up more land, and force the tenant farmers off the land. When Koch quoted from the Federal “contract” with the Silk Delegates | of that union; La Verne Pruett of the Pana Local of the Progressive | landlords, and cited some of the Miners’ Union, and by the three | few small benefits the share crop- | members of the Village Board of |pers are supposed to receive, there | Taylor Springs, who were among | were exclamations of amazement | the defendants in the famous Hills- |from the audience. These pro-| boro case: Frank Mucci, Frank | visions had ben concealed from the | Pansick and Frank Prickett. | croppers and tenant farmers by | eee ee |both the planters and the federal | | agents. As Negro and white share croppers started joining the union, a group of four men, all armed with ] ° pistols, came in and seized Koch all for Strike mn°s.2 | | Down the road they were joined by the deputy sheriff. Realizing ALLENTOWN, Pa. (FP).—A con- | that the abductors had been recog- ference of 80 delegates from 36 silk | nized by too many people to safely locals in Pennsylvania, New Jersey permit the carrying out of a lynch- | and New York, meeting in Allen-| ing, the deputy sheriff took the town Sunday, went on record for an | speakers into custody. industry-wide strike in silk after a| Following protest by the Inter- referendum of all locals has beenjnational Labor Defense they were taken. The local umions repre-| released, but later re-arrested and sented are all members of the Amer-| charged with “disturbing the peace.” ican Federation of Silk Workers, U. T. W. A. affiliate, and they took Vote on Death Penalty | part in the 1934 textile strike. ALBANY, N, Y., Feb. 6, (U.P.)—| Delegate after delegate expressed | Shall capital punishment be abol- disappointment over the outcome of ished?” A measure was proposed in | the 1934 strike and extreme bitter-| the legislature today that the ques- ness that the Winant report on tion be submitted to referendum at | wages and hours, due Feb. 1, and the next election. ! which this conference had been | ——— called to discuss, had not yet been ~ CHICAGO, ILL. : Page 3 _ PROTEST MASS AT THE CAPITOL Demand for Insuraneq for Jobless Voieed in Demonstrations | DENVER, Colo., Feb. 6, (By Mai ~The basis of a broad united pats movement for the Workers Unemg ployment and Social Insurance Bil and against the sales taxes was lat@ here in a series of demonstrationg last Wednesday, Thursday and Frie day. Estimates of the crowds ate tending the demonstrations, whielj were organized by the Denver Ung t Councils, were 3,000 nesday, 4,000 on Thursday, an 5,000 on Friday. The workers, from numerous sf employed groups, trade unions aj ical parties, stormed the Stat capitol building to protest the mae euvers by which the sales tax wad voted by the legislature after thi FERA had cut off all federal relie! money in order to bludgeon through the wage-robbing taxes on the masses, Tax Bill Passed Despite the militant stand of thé thousands of workers, the tax bilf was passed behind locked doors and a locked gallery. The tax, which becomes effective on March 1, placeg a levy on every article of necessity. The city and state governmenta were prepared to smash the demons strations by unleashing terror, bug because of the broad nature of the united front, and because of thd large numbers of people involved police were completely withdrawn after the first day. Speakers at the demonstration ine cluded Louis Jay of the National Workers Alliance, who pledged that his organization would continue ta support and participate in the struggles of the workers for bettet conditions. This is particularly sige nificant since three months ago tha group had passed a resolution con« demning the relief workers strike int Arapahoe County and Denver and offered its services to the governe ment as a strikebreaking apparatus, This change has been brought about by the disillusionment of the rank and file in the promises of Roose« velt. Catholic Workers Participate Another speaker was Father Win« ters of the Catholic Workers Allie ance, which has endorsed the Works ers Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill H. R. 2827, and is actively fighting for its enact< ment. Speakers from the A. F. of L. unions included the former presi< dent of the U. M. W. A. at Trini- dad, Colo., and members of the Care penters and Butchers unions of Den< ver, Trade union members took an active part in the demonstrations Despite the fact that the State Executive Committee of the Socialist Party had on Jan. 13 refused to pare ticipate in any united front activity with the Communist Party, mem- bers of the Socialist Party attended the meetings and elected a speaker to address the gatherings. John Harvey, district organizer of the Communist Party, brought for- ward the necessity of the workers in carrying forward their united struggle into political action through a mass labor party to struggle for real unemployment insurance, against the sales tax, for real trade unionism, and for the right to ore ganize, strike and picket, —— Detroit Premiere “THAELMANN” Fighter Against Fasciem International Sound Film @ DIMITROY IN couRT also “Killing To Live” Famous Soviet Film MeCOLLESTER BALL! | FRIDAY Cass & Forest | | Feb. 8 Two Shows | TeoP Me 35 cents i made. 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