The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 1935, Page 2

Page 2 "M.ES.A. MOVES WITH DETROIT AFL UNIONS | Decision Is Prompted By Extension of the Anti-Labor Code By A. B. Magil (Detroit Daily Worker Bureau) DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 7. The Detroit District Committee of the Mecha Educational Society of America he present auto sit- uation nas decided to contact Fed- eral auto locals of the A. F. for co-operative action. In a r ber of auto plants the tool die makers are organized into the M. E. S. A. while the production workers are in the A. F. of L. The decision of the M. E. S. A. Executive would affect these plants. The de- cision was prompted by the recent extension of the anti-labor auto code by President Roosevelt, who also supported the Auto Labor | Board and the framed-up elections mow being held by this board. The policy as given to your cor- respondent by Russell Hunter, Sec- retary of the Detroit District Com- mittee of the M. E. 8. A., is as fol- lows: “Our policy in the industry shall be the demand for thirty hours per week. That our action shall be as follows: In shops where DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1935 Alabama House Passes An Anti-Communist Bill Measure Prohibits All Revolutionary ‘Utterance or Conduct’—Newspapers Exempted— LL.D. Organizes Protest Campaign Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala,, Feb. 7. The Street Anti-Communist Bill. aimed to further narrow the civil liberties of the working class, was passed by the Alabama House of Representatives yesterday. A motion by Representative Tay- ! lor of Mobile County to reconsider the vote was defeated by 66 to 30. An amendment somewhat mod- ifying the drastic provisions of the bill was passed, stating that, “this act shall not apply to any writing, publication or cartoon appearing in any newspaper or publication per- mitted to be carried in the U. S. mails.” The amendment. thus exempts the ary publications, pending test FOR UNITY| |them for all time.” | trade unions and among the unor- Daily Worker and other revolution- | organized, encouraged or aided by societies and groups’advocating out- breaks against any branch of Gov- ernment.” The fascist nature of the bill is clearly exposed in an editorial en- titled “A Vicious Bill,” in the Bir- mingham Post, which admits: “Under such an act. there could be no freedom of speech or free press. A minister preaching in his pulpit would not be beyond its reach. The organization of trade and labor unions might easily be curbed. Certainly the right of peace- ful picketing would be taken from J. P. Morgan no doubt got the Wall Streets, New York, A vigorous mass campaign against | investments. DEMONSTRATION AT MORGAN BANK i | shivers when he looked out of the 3. P. the bill is under way locally in the ganized masses. This campaign, the International Labor Defense points jof a militant relief demonstration window to see anti-war demonstrators picketing his bank at Broad and | here last May. They were ordered Crowds of sympathetic workers in the finan- cial district watched the pickets and saw two of them arrested. had a chance to see that American people don’t care to fight for his jshall Lakey, well-known Southeast- | aes | U.S. Charges Against 12 ters Bring |Oid Federal Statute Invoked in Oklahoma City Against Senders of Demands That Leaders of Jobless Be Freed OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 7.—For; exercising their constitutional rights | of protest and petition, six persons will be arraigned today before U. S. Commissioner George J. Eacock here. They are charged with a “Communist plot” to “obstruct jus- tice and bring a Federal court into | disrepute.” Six others were arraigned yester- day on similar charges, aftermath held for preliminary hearing on | eb. 18. The 12 defendants include Mar- | ern artist and sculptor, Harry Ben- der, of New York and Oklahoma City, and two local women, They were arrested Monday upon the order of U. S. Attorney W. C. Lewis holds the defendants re- sponsible for a flood of postcards sent to Federal authorities protest- ing the arrest of leaders of the re- lief demonstration of last May and demanding their release. He al- leges that the postcards are of a “threatening nature,” because they demand the release of the defend- ants. Lewis said that hundreds of the protest cards had been received by President Roosevelt, Federal Judge Edgar S. Vaught of Oklahoma City and himself. The arrested relief demonstrators are charged with “seditious conduct.” Protest wires were sent out last night by the National Committee for the Defense of Political Pris- SOCIAL SECURITY PARLEY | IS CALLED IN MINNESOTA BillOffered inMinnesota | Legislature for State Social Insurance MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 7.— | Simultaneously with the introduc. | tion of the State Workers Unem- | ployment Insurance Bill, H. F. 120, |into the State Legislature by Rep- | resentative W. F. Bennett of Min- | neapolis, calls have been issued for |@ Minnesota State Congress for | Unemployment Insurance to be held in the State Administration Build. ing, St. Paul, on March 9 to 11 The congress will be supported by @ mass march to the State Capito! on Monday afternoon, March 11, Included in the organization: which have endorsed the call are the Minneapolis Central Labo. Union, the Hennepin County Cen- tral Committee of the Farmer- Labor Party, the Communist Par the Young Communist League, the Unemployment Councils, and many other organizations. Sponsoring committees with a wide representation have been set up and are functioning in Min- neapolis, St. Paul and the Mesaba Range. ° So U the rn Farmers Live | In preparation for the Congress, a huge mass meeting is being ar- ranged by the Minneapolis spon- soring committee in the Minne- threatened by Alabama fascist cir- cles which sponsored the bill. With the exception of this amendment, | out, must be developed into a united |front fight within the next six weeks before the Alabama Senate Lewis, who dug up an old Federal statute dating back to Civil War |days in an attempt to make his & Federal local exists we contact them for the purpose of cooperative action. In shops not organized we on with offices at 56 Fifth Ave., New York City, to U. S. Attorney General Homer S, Cummings in shall put on an organization drive Where a lay-off is pending, a shorter week shall be instituted so as to keep the maximum number of workers at work. The motion was carried unanimously.” Tobin Gives ‘Gift’ to Farley (Continued from Page 1) members, we have made progress under the New Deal. “It is a whole lot better to donate funds to a party that has done something for us than to ¢0 ont and give the money to Huey Long, Father Coughlin or the Townsend planners, who are merely making promises. F “Our members are schooled in the idea of backing poor but able men in their local elections with funds so that they will not have to get them from some one who is anti-labor and expects com- the bill stands as before, banning “any publication, writing, cut, car- toon, utterance or conduct which is Workers’ Bill Is Introduced In Ohio House (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 7.—The Workers’ Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill was in- troduced into the Ohio General As- sembly yesterday by Representative William Boyd, chairman of the La- bor Committee, as House Bill 136. Hearings on the State Bill will shortly follow. On Tuesday night, at Bohemian Hall, 140 Cleveland branches of the Ohio Association for Unemployment Insurance heard a debate between Steve Lesco, who represented the American Federation for Unemploy- ment Insurance, and Frank Rogers, who spoke for the Workers’ Bill. re-convenes to take action on the bill. The I. L. D. is calling for na- tional support of this campaign, Detroit Auto | Union Moves For Strike (Continued from Page 1) missal of “left-wing” officials, report that its cotton program A.A. A. legal official, and former Chicago Justice Agent, after a survey of cotton regions west of Memphis, Tenn. Conditions “Beyond Words” ‘The red-haired woman agent said of a closed shop contract, The following program of action was adopted: 1 Inmediate preparation for | conditions among poor tenant farm- strike action, ers and share-croppers were “be- 2. Every local to start discus- | yond words.” sion in the departments on the question of strike action. 3. Committees to be set up in department, shop and plant, 4. Mass distribution of leaflets. 5. An organization committee to be set up, consisting of five from each local, to start a drive to or- She charged wholesale violation of acreage control provisions sup- posed to protect tenants from evic- tions. The report of serious difficulties |in the cotton program came with \the A.A.A, generally upset over the} ev Like War-Time Refugees, Government Aide Admits 4 yti-Soviet Act WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UP).—The Agricultural Ad- justment Administration, already on edge by wholesale dis- today was presented with al was bringing scenes like those of war-torn Belgium to Southern share-croppers. The report | was filed by Mary Connor Myers,¢— study of social conditions in tive | Northeastern Arkansas counties, She reported evicted tenant} farmer families straggling along| highways, wandering hopelessly in search of shelter and employment. She said hovels were crowded un- til there was “standing room only’”| because families in slightly better | economic circumstances had shared shelter with the evicted. Refused Relief Some landlord planters, Mrs.| Myers charged, have turned out} their tenants without warning and) influenced local relief officials to refuse them aid. | Hull’s actions mean Wall Street fantastic charge of “obstructing jus- | tice,” stick. Washington, and to U. S. Attorney W. C. Lewis, Oklahoma City. OfGovernment . | Ins pires War (Continued frow Page 1) considers the attempted war against | the workers’ fatherland as emi- nently desireable for the interest of the American Morgans, Rocke- fellers, du Ponts, Raskobs, and the} others who bleed the American | workers at home, Roosevelt’s Hand Seen By this aggressive policy against the Soviet Union the much bally-| hooed hero of the New Deal, the| self-dubbed “liberal” President is| helping to incite a new world slaughter. A war against the So-| peace policy, and the growing support of this policy by the masses of the entire world, and resulting from the increasing strength of the Soviet Union, in no way indicates a peace pol- icy on the part of the American capitalists. “While extending recognition of the U.S.S.R., United States im- perialism continues to furnish munitions and war supplies to Japan, and tries to provoke a war between Japanese imperial- ism and the U.S.S.R., for the purpose of weakening both its chief imperialist rival in the Pacific, as well as the country of socialism—the workers’ fath- erland.” At the same Convention, Earl Browder, General Secretary of the sai “Any day, any month, we may receive the first news of Japanese imperialism beginning its long- prepared invasion of the Soviet Party, in his report to the delegates, | id: apolis Auditorium on March 6. Organizations which have not yet been reached by the call to the congress have been asked to write to Harry Mayville, secretary State Arrangements Committee, 1¢ | South Third, Street, Room 6, Min- neapolis. The Minnesota State Workers’ Unemployment, Old Age and Socia’ Insurance Act, H. F. 120, is similar in content to the national bill by the same name and known by the number H. R. 2827. It provides for the payment of local average wages to all workers and farmers above cighteen years of age, whe are unemployed through no fault of their own. As in the national Workers’ Bill the State measure provides that the measure shall be administered by workers, and that full social in- surance benefits shall be paid to all workers without discrimination |The full cost is to be borne by the State and by taxation on in- comes above $5,000 2 year, | ° Writ Sought pound interest in governmental |“purge” effected by Administrator] She exhibited snapshots of rough-| Viet Union at this time will not rit oO iu Union. At any time the madman favors.” Several Teamsters Murdered Tobin neglected to point out that the strong Teamsters’ Union has been built, not by backing capital- ist politicians, but by a nation-wide strike movement of teamsters in many of the large cities, including Philadelphia, San Francisco, Minne- With only one exception, the del- |egates voted for the Workers’ Bill and pledged their support of both the Federal and State campaigns. This vote is especially significant in view of the recent endorsement of the Federation Bill by the City Central Committee of the Socialist Party and because of the large So- cialist following in the Ohio Asso- "apolis, St. Paul, New York, and others. In. Minneapolis several strikers were murdered. In San Francisco they faced National Guards. In virtually all these cases the strikes were forced despite his wishes. While Tobin works in close co- operation with capitalist politicians the workers in the locals, after ciation for Unemployment Insur- ance. A representative of the Ohio As- sociation will come to Washington next Monday with other Cleveland delegates to appear at the hearings before the House Committee on La- bor on the Workers’ Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bil) H. R. 2827. their bitter experience during the past year, are increasingly talking of the need for a Labor Party con- trolled by the rank and file in the unions. This was especially appar- ent in the recent discussions in New York on the injunction issued by Justice Humphrey. Reports from garages of many trucking companies in New York indicate that teamsters are incensed | as | at the Humphrey injunction, they are now realizing that the stay is meaningless and that it is un- Jawful for union men to ban non- union truckmen from the piers. At first the workers were led to be- lieve, as announced by Thomas Lyons, secretary of the joint coun- cil of the Brotherhood of Team- sters that the stay leaves the work-| ers free to refuse to work alongside Anti-Fascists Rally in Paris PARIS, Feb. 7.—Armed police and troops continued to mass in Paris today in a threatening array. Offi- cials here were baffled, however, at |the perfect order and discipline | maintained by huge demonstrations | of Communists and Socialists, and | of the 1,200 members of the United Front who were arrested recently prertically all were freed. The anniversary of the great general strike will be celebrated on the coming Tuesday and now, as then, the grim spirit of resisting the ganize the unorganized, involving as many volunteer organizers as possible in this work; the A. F of L. Executive Council to be re- quested to appropriate a large sum of money for this drive. 6. An enlarged City Council meeting to be held within two weeks, to include the organization committee and all volunteer or- ganizers; this meeting being em- powered to elect a Negotiations Committee and to set a strike date. Lovestoneites Insert Joker The seventh point was the joker | the bureaucrats put over. It re-| mained for the Lovestoneite rene- | gades from Communism to pave the | way for this, Their delegates to the | City Council, Ben Lipson (Lifschitz), jin town and in village. Secondly, | and Red Miller, proposed the idea 1 | of referring everything to a nationa) | Peceuse the time has Myon woen | conference to be held before the end|We can develop Soviet democracy to of the month. They also proposed | its limits and in accordance with the sending in of a crew of paid|this make amendments to our elec- A. F. of L. organizers, in ther toral system words, more bureaucrats and mis-| “we present situation in the leaders to take the situation out of country both with respect to the | the hands of the rank and file. \soclal and economic structure and A number of locals are, however, | with respect to the cultural and not waiting for Dillon’s rubber-|jolitical consciousness of the toil- stamp council to kick the rank and | ing masses cannot be compared with file in the pants. They are adopt-| 1993, when the constitution of the ing their own demands and present-| socialist Soviet Republics was for- ing them to the companies. A re-/ mulated by the commission under cent meeting of the Kelsey-Hayes | the chairmanshop of Stalin. Wheel local, where about 1,000 were) «py 1935,” Molotov continued, “the Chester G. Davis. Mrs. Myers made her report to Secretary of Agricul- ture Henry Wallace. It was not expected to be made public. What action would be taken, if any, was uncertain and the uncer- tainty was increased by the shift- ing emphasis of A.A.A. policies un- | der Davis. Mrs. Myers made an intensive 7th Congress Is Adjourned (Continued from Page 1) boarded shacks in muck - mired fields, the gaps in their walls ad- mitting bitter winds; evicted Ne- groes standing in the road; a truck piled high with bed springs, a stove | and ramshackle ends of the house- | be an isolated war in the Far East, | along the plains and mountains of} Manchuria, or at the border of | Siberia. The Roosevelt government is a capitalist government, but it is not hold equipment of a poor family. | Composed of fools. It knows of the Mrs. Myers characterized the | existence of the secret pact between | scene as “like those of refugees flee- | Hitler and the Japanese imperial- who hodls power in Germany may launch the wild adventure of anti-Soviet intervention which is the keystone of his policy... .” It is in the situation of a matur- ing of all these factors, pointed out at the Eighth Convention of the Communist Party, U.S. A., that the Roosevelt government makes its In Coal Strike (Continued from Page 1) | Coal Company is ready to go dowr | with the United Mine Workers.” of non-union workers. A number| least advance o: fascism pervades of trucking companies which had| the entire working class of the city. union conditions are now disregard-| Throughout France peasants and ing union agreements. | artisans will hold their own mass A strike appears almost inevitable| meetings in solidarity with the at the first instance where a test| monster anti-fascist demonstration of stay will be made, | scheduled by the broad united front present, adopted demands for pres- entation to the company, and sev- eral departments in the Motor Prod- ucts plant have done likewise. Only by pressing forward for action and situation was completely changed. Nothing remains now of the capital- ist elements, Private property in the means of production remains now, at the outside, only four per Troiskyite | Aids Court (Contin from Page 1) be completely ignorant on the sub- | ject. Fund Source Revealed ee Harris revealed that it was Rachel | Sowers, of the State Bureau of | Criminal Identification, who got | him a job at labor spying in a local | cannery plant while he was still enrolled on the C. C. C. He made} all his reports to Sowers. His labor- | spying activities at Klamath Falls, | Ore., admitted in his testimony the previous day, were performed for | the Weyerhauser Lumber Company | Mills. At the same time he was being paid by the city. | The labor spy could not remember the dates of meetings at which he alleged defendants had made “threats against the lives of relief | officers.” The defendants repeated their speeches to refresh his mem- > ory. Judge Stamps Out During a complaint by Gallagher on the bad food served by the prison authorities to those defendants for whom bail has not yet been se- cured, Judge Dal M. Lemmon lost in Paris. NRA. Article on Monday The next article by Carl Reeve, associate editor of the Daily Worker, on the results of the N. R. A. and the present reor- ganization. of the N. R. A. will appear in next Monday’s issue of the Daily Worker. Communists Urge Unity to Defeat Attacks on Unions (Continued from Page 1) workers, among the miners and garment workers, confirmed this, But where the A, F. of L. Council policy of reliance on the N.R.A. prevailed, as in steel and auto, then the workers lost ground, with company unions growing, with the A. F. of L. unions weak- It is a fact that this policy has paved the way for the present anti-union drive in auto and ened. throughout the country, “merit clause.” barrage. The appeals of the Communists for unity, and their work to build the unions, are being met with renewed anti-Communist activity from some of the In this connection, it is a recorded fact that the A. F. of L, Executive Council itself approved the first auto code which contained the open shop It must be clear that such policy helped to pave the way for the present anti-union taking steps to carry out the fight-/cent of the total sum of the means ing program adopted by the City | of production of ‘our country. Nine- Council can the mass of the auto-|ty-six per cent of, the means of mobile workers defeat the employer-| production already belong to the government offensive and win bet-| state, i.e. to the working class or- ter conditions. ganized as a whole. | “Indeed,” added Molotov, “Social- Fisherman, Frozen, Saved | ist ownership is growing before our y B eyes in the form of new state mills, BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 7.—Edward | factories, power-stations, railways, Worth, a fisherman, was taken alive | state farms and collective farms, from the ice-filled water of Buf-| with their new buildings and ma- falo harbor today, his limbs frozen chines, their new cattle-raising from the torture of clinging to his|farms. New towns, cultural insti- overturned skiff during near-zero| tutions, dwelling houses, are grow- temperatures for more than 15 ing by leaps and bounds. ; hours. | “For us the Soviet oonstitution AN EDITORIAL If the Officials, following the line of Roosevelt and the National Manufacturers’ Association, open up an anti-Communist drive, they inevitably take sides with the enemies of the trade unions and against the working class as a whole. ‘This is because Communists are part and parcel of the working class, rousing them to action in their own class interests. This is because under present conditions there can be no middle of the road policy in the struggle between capital and labor. The Communist criticism of the Executive Council is not that it is against the Communist solution for the crisis through working class revo- lution, Our basic criticism is that the Council's policies hamper the workers in their immediate struggle, in their immediate fight for their every- day interests, in the fight to save their trade unions! ‘The Communists sound the alarm. They warn that Wall Street and Roosevelt plan the weakening ing war-time Belgium.” | was not a mere declaration, but a most important document in the struggle for the further strength- ening of socialist ownership, for the final victory of socialist society. (Applause.) This is our first task in making changes in the Soviet constitution.” Molotov’s report lasted over an hour, and interruptions of ap- plause punctuated his entire speech, When Molotov enumerated the total funds of socialist public ownership accumulated by the proletarian | state, when with crushing criticism he surveyed the path of capitalism | from the miserable parliamentarism | of bourgeois democracy to fascism, the hall broke into thunders of ova- tion. “At present,” he continued, “we have the system of direct elections only for the city and village So- | viets, which are elected directly by workers and peasants and members of the Red Army. The higher or- gans of the Soviet Government, be- ginning with the district executive committees, are elected not by the direct vote of the electorate but at corresponding Soviet congresses. As a result, these district executive committees are elected according to a two-stage system; territorial and regional executive committees, as well as leading organs of autono- mous republics, by a three-stage system; the central executive com- | mittees of the republics of the | Union, and the Central Executive | Committee of the U. S. S. R. by a four-stage system of elections. “But now,” Molotov declared, “direct elections will raise still higher the authority of the organ of Soviet Government, will strengthen still further and link these organs with the broad masses of the toilers. The workers and peasants will hear their represen- tatives better, not only those of the districts and regions, but also the central organs of the Soviet State. Thus,” he continued, “while retain- ing the right of the electors to re- call deputies from any organ, in- suring the participation of non- Party organizations and groups of toilers in the nominating of candi- dates, the Soviet system, through the introduction of direct elections, will make gigantic strides forward toward developing the democracy of the toilers of our country.” (Ap- plause.) In his concluding words Molotov made the proposal which in behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union he brought to the Congress for approval. Kalinin, presiding, put the proposal to a vote. A minute of solemn silence was broken by indescribable demonstrations of cheers and ovations as the entire Congress arose in unanimous assent to the great advance in socialist ists for simultaneous attack from East and West. It knows that this |war against the Soviet Union will ;be fought on a world scale. And | knowing all this, Roosevelt deliber- | ately takes this provocative step to| jindicate to every enemy of the | workers’ fatherland, now armed to the teeth, to proceed to war in | greater haste with the promise of | definite support of the Wall Street bankers and munitions’ turers, manufac- Who's Behind It Who wants such a war? The du} Ponts, who have just built a huge munitions’ plant for the Japanese militarists, would expect to make millions out of it. J. P. Morgan & Co., holding hundreds of millions of Japanese loans, and who look forward to floating still more super- profitable loans in the event of such a war. certainly had a hand in the State Department's action. The Czarist White Guard scum would want such a war. The Hearsts, and all other scab and anti-labor fiends work and pray for just such a war. Many liberals and some Socialists | in the United States pooh-poohed the idea that the Roosevelt govern- ment, with its benign pose of liber- alism and pacifism, would ever do such a thing. They mistook the full significance of the establish- ment of Soviet relations. They! even went further, believing that the Roosevelt government, which was in conflict with Japanese im- perialism over the colonial booty in the Far Eastern colonies, would dis- courage Japan. Illusions Broken But all these illusions are being smashed to bits by the reality of Roosevelt's provocative action in in- dicating to Japan that attacks on the Soviet Union are on the order of the day. At its 8th Convention, held in Cleveland, April 2 to 8, 1934, the Communist Party, U.S.A., accurately appraised and forecast the present situation, and the role of American imperialism in the anti-Soviet war front. The principal Resolution passed at that Convention, stated: “The recognition of the Soviet Union by the American Gov- ernment, a victory for the Soviet provocative and cynical demonstra- | Called “Tilegal” tion against the Soviet Union. Moving Feverishly For the past few months, Japan- ese imperialism has been working feverishly to establish its war bases closer and closer to the Soviet. bor- der. Ferocious attacks were made on the Chinese people in Chahar. The Japanese imperialists are firmly established in the Dolon Nor | region, with its caravan routes into the Mongolian Peoples Republic and to the Soviet border. Unpro- voked, the Japanese troops seized the Bor Nor lake district in the Mongolian Peoples Republic, with the direct aim of being in a position to attack Chita and the Trans- Siberian Railway in the event the signal for war against the Soviet Union is given. Hitler has clearly shown that he is now facing “East,” that is, to- ward the Soviet Union, in his war ventures. British imperialism has agreed to allow German fascism to arm, if it can be guaranteed that these arms will be used against the workers’ fatherland. Imperialism Ready These are the concrete situations in which Secretary of State Hull demonstrates to the world—the world of imperialism ready to spring at the Soviet Union—that Wall Street is growing more and more hostile to the country of vic- torious Socialist upbuilding. Every worker, every Socialist, and every liberal who is_ honestly against, not only war on the Soviet Union but the outbreak of a new world imperialist slaughter, must realize the full and ominous portent. of Roosevelt’s actions in this dan- gerous setting of the world-wide War maneuvers against the U.S.S.R. The partial break with the Soviet Union, under the hypocritical pre- tense of the Czarist and Kerensky debt cesspool, is not only a blow to the American unemployed. It is not only a question of rupturing a billion-dollar trade agreement. It is a question of the war politics of the Roosevelt regime in which the New Dealers are playing with the lives of millions of American work- ers, and workers in other countries, in order to advance the bandit aims Workers in.South Bend Rally Behind Oliver Plow Strikers SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 7.The 1,400 strikers of the Oliver Plow Works have entered the second week of their strike with lines firm and not a single scab in the plant. A possible attempt next Sunday to bring in scabs will be met with a Communist leafiets outside the plant. The Central Labor Council and all the large Federal locals in the city have endorsed the Oliver strike. Police and employers are expressing fear of a general sym. Judge Valentine who poses as ¢ supporter of organized labor statec that “the strike was illegal’ whic! is a clear indication that he wi hand down the injunction. Meetings are well attended anc |more support is being aroused be hind the strike. The Daily Worzke) is eagerly read by the miners. A‘ the meeting last night in St Stephens Hall, Plymouth, attendec by over 1,500 men, Pat Mangen, < | fighting miner from . the ‘Lancer |local, made a speech praising the |“Daily” and pointed out the scat role of the local capitalist papers It is clear that the rank anc file wants a real strike to win con- | ditions. To accomplish this wo- men must be drawn into the action it was pointed out. Local demands should be put for- ward, united action must be plannec wherever both unions have fol- lowings in the same mine, Striker: are urged to guard against an ideas now prevalent that “The Governor is misled by Kennedy the Lieutenant Governor, and tha‘ this is the reason why the state troopers are against us.” In its application for the injunc- tion the company asked that the strike be declared illegal, claiming that it has a contract with the United Mine Workers of America Its representatives stated thai the company has orders for 38,00( tons of coal a day, and is losing $50,000 a day. All the collieries re- main shut, the 17,000 workers of both unions having respondec solidly, although the officials of the United Mine Workers have tried tc round up scabs. of the big American bankers, the trust magnates and the munitions manufacturers. To protest against: these provoc~ ative war moves must be tremen- dous and © resounding. Against Roosevelt's new moye there should develop a huge mass movement oj all forces against war—against war aimed at the Soviet Union, against a new world war. The fight against Roosevelt's foreign policy of in- censing the madman of Europe an¢ the butchers of the Orient, Japan- ese imperialism, to open their bloody attack against the U.S.S.R. should arouse the greatest protest in all workers’ organizations, in the trade unions, in the fraternal so- cieties, in Socialist Party locals, anc among all anti-fascist and anti-war organizations. Protests Necessary Protests should flood Roosevell and Secretary of State Hull, de- manding an end to these wat provocations. The hypocritical New Deal president should hear that th American masses do not want new bloody imperialist war agains’ the only country in the world tha’ pathy strike in the city. A local | is advancing the living standards o: upper officials, who use the same lying “arguments” group of the Khaki Shirts is being| the toilers while capitalism about Communists, which are the stock and trade and smashing of the A. F. of L. unions. democracy. We Communists propose serious measures to his “judicial dignity” and stamped mass picket line. out of the courtroom. The judge | of every reactionary and labor enemy. defend the A. F. of L. unions, the organizations of ~ embargo against Bolivia. had previously objected to Gal- _ lagher bringing up such unpleasant facts before the jury. Lifts Arms Embargo GENEVA, Feb. 6 (UP).—Italy no- tified the League of Nations coun- cil today that it had lifted its arms whole trade union movement. enly help destroy the unions. The government attack on the Communists is a sure prelude to wholesale attacks against the And the anti-Com- munist propaganda of the Executive Council can More, it will weaken the unions immediately by expulsions, not only of Communists, but of all militant fighters. The threat of Mike Tighe in the steel unions is'a case in point. the workers against advancing fascist reaction. The Communist Party is even willing to pledge the cessation of all criticism during the course of the joint action, A special supplement tomorrow will contain the entire speech of V. M. Molotov on the changes in the Soviet Constitution, the pro- of the second historical The Communist Party is ready to do this be- cause it realizes that its first duty is to unite all forces for resistance to the dangers that menace the A. F. of L. unions. ceedings section of the All-Union Congress of Soviets, and many other im- portant and interesting events sur- rounding the Congress. Order your A strike of 4,200 workers of the Bendix Brake and Aviation Com- pany was averted after negotiations with Federal Local 18,347 resulted in a 5 per cent increase in wages. The Communist Party unit in the plant has issued a leaflet calling upon the workers to prepare for a strike. Lawrence Kanouse, Communist can- organized, and open declarations |into greater and more dangeroi are being made that it will plant crisis, fascism and war. 4 stool-pigeons in all departments of | The war-mongers of Wall Street, the local plants to combat Commu- | the gigantic munitions makers, anc nism and break strikes. the Roosevelt politicians engineer: The Oliver Company has sent let-| ing support for an anti-Soviet wa) ters to the strikers hinting that it|should be let known that million’ will transfer its orders to the Battle | in the United States. are against # Creek, Mich., Charles City, Iowa,|new world ‘imperialist slaughter didate for mayor in the recent elec- copies in advance. tion. was arrested for distributing and Springfield, Ohio, plants, invit-| and for the defense of the worker: fatherland. ing them to scab.