The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 11, 1935, Page 3

Fingerprint Bill Planned In Michigan Auto Bosses’ Conference Tries to Put Workers Under Police Control DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 10—The real meaning of the Michigan Crime Conference called in Lansing by At- torney General Harry 8S. Toy, was revealed when the conference adopted a resolution providing for the fingerprinting of all residents of the State. Under the guise of fight- ing crime, every militant worker would be placed under the control of the police. A fingerprinting bill in accordance with the resolution will be introduced into the State legislature, it is stated. In 1931 the State legislature Tushed through in its closing days an alien egistration and finger- Printing bill. A great mass protest movement was organized, however, which compelled the Federal court to declare the bill unconstitutional, Now the auto manufacturers’ gov- ernment and its police forces are trying to put through an even more sweeping measure. Would Abolish Elections The conference also adopted a resolution calling for the appoint- ment of Circuit judges for life and of prosecutors for specific terms in- stead of electing these officials. Res- olutions are now pending in both houses of the legislature calling for the appointment of both Circuit and Supreme Court judges. Maurice Sugar, prominent labor attorney and candidate for judge of Recorder’s Court, in an interview with the Daily Worker, denounced both these proposals as steps toward fascism. Sugar played a leading role in 1931 in defeating the alien regis- tration bill. “The fingerprinting of all Michi- gan residents,” he said, “would place the entire labor movement under police supervision and control. I am sure the auto companies would ap- preciate it as a valuable adjunct to their ruthless blacklist system. “Appointing judges and prosecu- tors, instead of electing them, means the abandonment of one of the pre- vailing democratic forms. This arises from the fear on the part of the dominating group in society of ac- tion by the workers, who are fast becoming resentful of the denial of their rights. It is the duty of every worker to fight such efforts tooth and nail.” Workers’Enemies Exposed Jesse Johnson, an auto mechanic of Newark, Ohio, has been expelled from the Communist Party for white-chauvinism. He has repeatedly blocked efforts to bring Negro workers forward into leadership in the Unemployed Council. He ‘removed a young Negro worker from his post as fi- nancial secretary on the flimsy ex- cuse that there was a shortage of 15 cents in the treasury. He sab- otaged a demonstration at a hos- pital discriminating against Negro patients. He has referred to Negro workers in a very derogatory and insulting manner, and has defin- itely expressed himself against any solidarity and unity between Negro and white workers. He is very bureaucratic and stub- born in his relations with other workers and he himself has been provéd to be financially irrespon- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MON GETTING READY IN FRANCE The imperialist French government, competing with America, Japan, Italy and Great Britain, is making extensive preparations for war. recently in Paris by the French Defense Ministry. Here is a transport able metal shelter from gas attacks which was shown Revolt in Detroit A. F. of i Agains & Sam Krieger Wins Release In Bridgeport Jail Term Is Commuted for Leader of Anti- Fascist Rally Two Proposals Made Favoring Independent Political Action By A. B. Magil DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 10.—Re- volt against the traditional policy |of the bureaucracy of the American | Federation of Labor of supporting the Republican and Democratic Parties found expression at the last | meeting of the Central Labor Body of the Detroit and Wayne County | Federation of Labor. Two proposals BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Feb. 10.— |/0oking toward independent labor Mass pressure has compelled au- | thorities here to release Sam Krie- | action on the political field were made on the floor; one was imme- ger, trade union organizer, from the | diately killed by the well-oiled Mar- Fairfield county jail where he was confined for fifty-one days as a re- sult of an anti-fascist demonstra- tion. Krieger was originally sentenced to thirty days, $32 fines and costs amounting to $23, a total of ninety- seyen days if the fine and costs | were not paid (Sundays and holi- days are not counted). Due to the barrage of protest telegrams, letters and visiting delegations to the au- thorities, however, Krieger was re- leased upon the payment of $13 after the costs were remitted. The demonstration at which | tel machine in control of the Fed- | eration, while President Frank X. | Martel succeeded in stalling off ac- tion on the other for at least a | month, | A rsolution was introduced by the Building Trades Council, stating | that while the practice of endorsing capitalist parties may have been of value in the past, it was no longer suitable, and proposing that in the future all candidates endorsed by the Federation should sign agree | ments pledging themselves to carr; | out the Federation's program, Mar- | tel, who is himself a leading Repub- |lican politician, smelled danger in Krieger and five others were ar- | even this mild résolution and im- rested was on the occasion of the | Mediately put over a proposal that visit to Bridgeport of the German | this be made a special point at the Consul-General of New York to de- | first regular meeting of the Central liver a speech. The demonstration | Labor Body immediately after the caused the Consul-General to send | Primaries on March 4. Which means some one else to speak in his place and also turned the Nazi inspired “concert” into a big financial flop. The “Socialist” Mayor McLevy, the City ttorney and the superin- tendent of police all testified on the witness stand against Krieger and were responsible for the severity of the sentence on the charges of at- tempting to hold a street meeting without a police permit. Buy an extra copy of the Daily Worker to give to some friend. 0 Brings You a Copy of Hunger and Revolt; Cartoons by BURCK HERE is a book you will be proud to own. Think of it! One dollar brings you this book, provided’ you enter your subscription to the Daily Worker today. If you are already a subscriber, renew your present subscription, or get a friend to sub- scribe. SPECIAL OFFER “HUNGER AND REVOLT: Cartoons by Burck” is now available only with the following subscription offers: Year's sub and copy of book..... 6 Months’ sub and copy of book. .,. 3 Months sub and copy of book. Year's Sat. sub and copy of book... Add 20 cents to Cover Postage (THESE PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX) ‘This special Subscription Edition contains the same contents as the limited edition. readers who subscribe today, Tt is available only to Daily Worker or renew their present sub- scriptions. Pay only the regular cost of a subscription, plus one dollar for the book and twenty cents to cover postage. Order your copy now! Tear Out This Coupon DAILY WORKER 50 East 13th Street New York, N. Y. Please enter my subscription or Please renew my subscription Deily Worker for to the Ji eaetnkel +++ses, Dlus $1.20 for a copy of “HUNGER AND REVOLT: Cartoons by Burck.” Name . | that in this election, the Federation will continue to support capitalist candidates. Previously, Martel had read off @ list of Republican and Democratic candidates and the recommendation of the Committee on Political Ac- tion that they be endorsed. Dele- gate Weber, of Journeymen Tailors Union 229, offered an amendment |that the Federation withdraw its |support from all Democratic and | Republican candidates since they | have always shown themselves as enemies of labor. | posed that the Federation adopt the | line of independent political action | and choose candidates that are true representatives of labor. Without | waiting for discussion, Martel im- | mediately put the amendment to a | vote and it was defeated. Another clash took place when Martel proposed that the Federation arrange a special reception for Frank Murphy, former Mayor of Detroit and now governor of the Philippines, who is scheduled to visit Detroit soon. A delegate arose |and protested, pointing out that it | was Murphy's police who assisted Henry Ford's hired thugs in the Ford Massacre of March 7, 1932. Martel’s clique were on the job, | however, and succeeded in putting over the motion. | The meeting was regaled with | Speeches by a number of capitalist | Candidates for judge, including ex- |Congressman Carl M. Weideman, who last year was exposed as one of the directors of the Dawn Patrol, an industrial spy agency, and Judge Ralph D. Liddy, who last year acted | as chairman of an anti-Soviet meet- |ing organized by Ukrainian white guards, A welcome contrast was a speech made by the non-partisan candidate for judge of Recorder's Court, Maurice Sugar, prominent labor attorney, who called for labor to organize politically, as well as | economically, in order to improve its conditions. | Coastwise Stevedores _ Win Charter in Boston |__ BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 10—Coast- wise longshoremen here have been granted a charter by the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association. This step became very urgent by the jurisdictional fight which has been developing over coastwise work in Boston harbor. A newly formed, State chartered organization known as the Bay State Associated, Boston Coastwise Longshoremen and Steamship Clerks has been making Progress toward recognition by the shipowners. 1,122 Killed on Jobs | } | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 10.— As a result of the speed-up ushered in by the “New Deal.” industrial workers of Pennsylvania suffered a total of over 93,000 accidents in 1934, | 4n increase of 8.6 per cent over 1933, according to a report just released by the State Department of Labor and Industry. A total of 1,122 work- ers were killed on the job during the year. | Glasgow, Mont., Instead, he pro- | t Boss Politicians J udge Orders Arrest of 4 Farm Leaders Action Is Attempt to Halt Resistance to Sheriffs’ Sales By Kay Heikkila (Special to the Daily Worker) BISMARCK, N. D., Feb. 10.—Fed- eral Judge Andrew Miller yesterday directed U. S. District Attorney P. W. Lanier to order the arrest of three farmers from Montana and one from North Dakota to answer contempt of court charges. Judge Miller is presiding at the hearing of seven farmers jailed by the U. S. Government for taking part during 1933 in actions popu- larly known as “Sears-Roebuck Sales” to save farms about to be old for debt. The arrests are de- signed to break the resistance of the farmers to foreclosures and sheriff's sales. The new arrests were ordered when various farm organizations, under the signature of their offi- cials, flooded the court with pro- | tests against this action, Those or- dered arrested are Francis W. Holte of the United Farmers League of Bergen, N. D., Charles M. Joslyn of secretary of the Valley County Farmers Holiday As- sociation; U. Point, secretary, and 'W. Mustonen of the Farmers Asso- ciation of Vandalia, Mont. Farm organizations, continuing their pro- tests against these high-handed ac- tions, are appealing for nation-wide protests from all workers’, farmers’ and _ sympathetic organizations. Protests should be sent to Judge Miller at Minot, N. D. The seven original defendants are being held under bond for another grand jury as the original indict- ment has been found to be “faulty.” They are charged with “conspiracy to defraud the United States of America.” They will be tried in fed- eral court in Minot, N. D. This new attempt to intimidate the farmers organized into militant fighting organizations is only a part of a state-wide attack that is rap- idly developing. L. A. Reetz, Golden Valley farmer, faces charges of fal- sifying reports on an F. E. R. A. job where he was foreman over ten men spreading grasshopper poison. He faces a maximum sentence of ten years or $10,000. He has been or- dered held in $500 bond by J. N. Noakes, N. S. Commissioner, Man- dan, North Dakota. The fight against these arrests and attacks on the farmers is being led by a united front defense coun- cil, in which many organizations are taking part, including the In- ternational Labor Defense, United Farmers League, Farm Holiday As- sociation, Farmer-Labor Unem- ployed Council of Divide County, and the Farmer-Labor Council of Williams County. Help the Daily Worker secure 19,000 new daily and 15,000 new Saturday subscriptions, Iron Strikers Reject Offer BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 10.— Determined to stay out until their demands are won, strikers at the MeWane Cast Iron Pipe Company turned down the company’s offer to take back six of the nine men fired for union activity. The picket line is large and goes on 24 hours a day. Workers of other pipe shops near McWane are help- ing out with the picket line in addi- tion to a large group of unemployed. Mr. Coffee, of the Atlanta Re- gional Labor Board is in town try- ing to settle the strike. V. C, Finch, “A. F. of L. Representative, is trying to head the strike but has to watch his step becaus> of the militant spirit of the men. The o!d tricks will be hard to work this time, strikers say. A subscription a day from every reader will help the Daily Worker gain 10,000 daily and 15,000 Satur- day subs e DAY, FEBRUARY 1 Grou ps Hail | 46th Birthday Of Krumbein Imprisoned CP. Leader Greeted by Youth and | Defense Bodies The National Executive Commit- | tee of the Young Communist League, the New York District of the In- ternational Labor Defense and other organizations yesterday sent birth- day greetings to Charles Krumbein, leading Communist who was recently | imprisoned by the Federal author- ities for a-technical violation of pass- port regulations. Krumbein, who was 46 on Friday, is at the Federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. He was sentenced to a term of eighteen months last Monday. The letter of the Young Commu- nist League follows: “Charles Krumbein, “Box Q, “Lewisburg, Pa. “Dear Comrade: | “Greetings on your birthday. | We young Communists take in- | spiration from your work. The at- | tempt by the boss class to separate you from the working class is futile. We shall fight for your speedy return to our ranks and to the struggle for a Soviet America. “National Executive Committee ‘Young Communist League.” A similar message was sent by the International Labor Defense. | Mass Pressure Forces Release’ Of Martinez, LAS VEGAS, N. Mexico, Feb. 10.— | Mass pressure forced the dismissal | here yesterday of a trumped up/ “rioting” charge against Matias} Martinez, militant leader of the! Liga Obrera de Habla Espanola | (Spanish American Workers’ League) | affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League. Martinez had been arrested as the | leader of 200 unemployed workers | who demanded adequate relief and| an end to discrimination against Spanish-American workers. The ar- rest was personally made by the} chief of police of East Las Vegas, | Who is a brother of one of the re- | lief bureaucrats against whom the! demonstration was directed. Martinez was represented in court by Clarence Lynch, Interna- tional Labor Defense attorney, and Hilario Rubio, attorney for the Liga Obrera, The massing of over 600| {workers of Las Vegas and neigh- boring towns forced Judge Luis Armijo to grant a defense motion | for dismissal of the case. | This, the first attempt to use the | “riot” statute of New Mexico to crush workers’ resistance against starvation, was défeated by the mil- itancy of the workers. ‘Rakosi Prison Term Is Scored By SANDOR VOROS CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 10.— One hundred workers picketed the Hungarian Consulate at Euclid | Avenue end Ninth Street, from 11 | a.m, to 12:30 yesterday, in protest | against the life sentence imposed | by the Horthy government on Matthias Rakosi, Hungarian Com- munist leader. Placards denouncing the fascist | goverumert of Hungary and iie- manding Rakosi’s freedom at- tracted thousands of passers-by on the busy corner. The consul hid | in his office behind a heavy police guard, accepted the protest resolu- tion brought by a committee and promised to transmit it to his gov- ernment, When a number of consulate em- ployes referred to Rakosi as a mur- derer, there was an outburst from the protesting delegation, and po- lice ejected the workers. When the crowd outside heard the report of | the delegates, there was an angry roar of protests, and a decision for y-wide demonstration. a large cit; West Virginia Worker Freed CHARLESTON, W. Va., Feb. 10.— A deluge of protest letters and tele- grams resulted in the dismissal by the Wood County grand jury of the charges against Stanley Glass, 22-/ year old secretary of the Unem-| Ployed League of West Virginia, and member of the Socialist Party. Glass was indicted under the Redman Act, West Virginia’s criminal syndicalism law. Conviction under this law may mean a sentence of ten years in jail. Glass was arrested because a speech: he made encouraged the striking workers of the Baldwin Shovel Plant at Parkersburg to con- tinue their struggle. The plant is one of the subsidiaries of the no- torious anti-union Weirton Steel Co. Workers, many of them members of the A. F. of L. union which con- ducted the strike, packed the court- house the day of the grand jury session. When Glass was arrested, he was held for 42 hours incommunicado, kept in an unheated cell, given no mattress or cover and denied not only food, but water as well. Every hour of the he was grilled by police, receiving one severe beating after another. Unemployment Grows in | Poland WARSAW, Poland, Feb, 10 (UP).— The government was understood to be gravely concerned today with the unemployment situation. Unem- | ployed, according to latest estimates, | numbers more than 2,500,000 and is 1, 1935 News and Views of the Crisis Cotton Under the New Deal 'HE inability of capitalism to solve the crisis is well what has happened to cotton under the New Deal. The A. A paid out $274,000,000 to rich planters. Two hundred thousand croppers and their families were driven off the land to aw Starvation. And now exports to foreign buyers are only abo rated by A what they were a year ago. In fact, cotton exports in December were of the smallest for that month since Start of the world war. Between August and December exports fell from 4,820,000 to 2,882,000 bales The shrinking foreign market is due to the high price of cotton. It can no longer compete with Egy, n, Indian and cotton in the world markets. Consequently the cotton exporters desperately seeking methods of regaining their old markets. They are clamoring for even larger government subsidies, so can conduct a world-wide dumping campaien, But + their foreign competitors to adopt similar measu The government tried to help them by arranging many. Five hundred thousand bales of cotton were to be change for blocked marks and 25 per cent in cash. This cr: Nazis fell through, partly because the administration wa mass resentment against this open favoritism to the German fascists And in part, the deal was blocked by manufacturing interests. They were afraid that the blocked marks would be used to pure’ goods, which would then be dumped here Thus under capitalism there is no future for cotton the ten million people who depend upon it for a livelihood. The inev table increased bounties to the rich planters will mean higher clothing prices for the workers. The sharecroppers and farm laborers will be driven off the land in still larger numbers as the planters turn to mech- anization to lower production costs. Already it is reported that a me- chanical cotton picker has been perfected, which will almost completely eliminate cotton pickers. In any event pauperization and serfdom are the only prospects that capitalism holds out to the poor farmers, share croppers and agricultural workers in the cotton regions, . a deal with Germa: farming and The High Cost of Living TIVING costs are mounting steadily. The National Industrial Confer- ence Board reports that the cost of living rose 4.5 per cent during 1934. It is now 13 per cent higher than at the beginning of the New Deal. The figures of the N. I. C. B. considerably underestimate the actual rise in living costs. Their calculations for food and rent do not take into account the particularly steep price increases of the past year. Nor does the index give much weight to sales and nuisance taxes which directly and indirectly boost living costs Price trends indicate that living costs will continue to advance. Foods are rising sharply. Rents which had remained constant in 1933 moved upward in 1934, and this upward trend shows no sign of slacken- ing. Another significant development as far as the worker is concerned is the growing burden of taxation. Sales taxes, higher excise taxes on such items as cigarettes and gasoline, and the numerous nuisance taxes, all reduce the purchasing power of the worker’s income The living standards of the workers were lower in 1934 than in 1933 The latest increases in living costs will still further reduce their stan- dards. With the workers purchasing less, the gap between production and the consuming power of the masses will grow even wider, and the basis will be laid for the further deepening of the crisis. Notes The American Banker reports that the process of concentration in banking is going on steadily under the New Deal. During the past two years 2,371 banks went up the creek, leaving only 15,829 banks, or about half as many as there were a decade ago. ... There are still about $2,000,000,000 tied up in banks closed during the banking holiday - ++ In 1929 the three auto giants—Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. produced 77 per cent of all automobiles manufactured in this country In 1935 the big three produced 88 per cent The three best sellers among cigarettes accounted for 80 per cent of all cigarettes in 1932. In 1934 the three biggest brands sold 90 per cent of all cigarettes. . . . The Fight for Markets 0* THE basis of the depreciated dollar American imperialism is con- ducting a world-wide offensive for markets. Largely as the result of dollar devaluation which enabled American manufacturers to under- sell their rivals, exports rose 27 per cent in 1934. They increased from $1,655,000,000 in 1933 to $2,133,000,000 last year. Because of their relatively low prices in the world markets Ameri- can manufactured products were sold in larger volume. Machinery, |members of various organizations. is negotiating trade agreements wi | autos, and metal products accounted for most of the increase in the quantity of exports. To back up these increases the State Department ith various foreign countries. One has already been signed with Brazil which gives many advantages to American automobile manufacturers. With world trade only 40 per cent of its pre-crisis volume, the fight for markets has become more acute than ever. To check the increase in American and Japanese exports, the other countries are raising tariffs and maneuvering for better positions in the international monetary war. These trade battles are inevitably leading to a new imperialist war for the redivision of the world and its markets, Note on the U.S.S.R. ILE capitalist governments have defaulted billions of dollars, the Soviet government has paid ever grant credits. | Index of Business Activity 'E weekly index of the New York ended Feb, 2. Better weather series and lumber production. Smal duction eased off. Combined index Freight car loadings Steel mill activity ........ | Electric power production .. Automobile production Lumber production . Cotton cloth production ....... * Revised. ry penny of its obligations. At the present time the foreign debt of the Soviet Union is only $200,000,000. To pay this relatively small sum, the U. 8. 8. R. not only has a favor- able balance of trade, but its gold production this year will top $150,- 000,000. ‘Yet: it is to this country that the Roosevelt government will not Times moved to 88.3 for ite week conditions helped the carloadings ler increases were recorded in cot- ton cloth production and auto output. Steel and electric power pro- —— Weeks Ended —— Feb. 2, Jan. 26, Feb. 3, 1935, 1935. 1934, 88.3 86.7* 79.1 67.1 63.4 63.3 75.8 TIA 50.6 101.2 101.4 91.8 96.1 93.8* 16 \ 63.3 48.1 73.2 63.4 90.6* 88.8 French Railway Unions! Agree To Amalgamate| PARIS, Feb, 10—The Congress of railwaymen’s unions of the Eastern Railways, just concluded at Nancy, resolved by a vote of eleven to one upon the amalgama- tion of the unions. At this Con- Bress 83 reformist and left-wing unions were represented, as were also some independent groups of mechanics and locomotive engin- eers. The total number of dele- gates were 252, representing 16,000 A program of trade union activity was carefully prepared. The secretary of the reformist Railwaymen’s Trade Union of the Eastern Railways declared, with reference te the criticism by the leaders of his union against unifi- cation: “We have been told we shall be able to make only the smallest beginings of unity, Well, now we shall see to it that our leaders are forced ‘to continue what we have Relief Jim-Crow CACHE, Ill, Feb. 10.—Negroes are forced here to wait outside relief stations to secure relief orders, while whites are permitted to enter, as re- lief officials exert every effort to I steadily increasing prevent a united ficht by Negro and white unemployed workers, Nazis Say That Aim In Northern Schleswig Is To Take Territory COPENHAGEN, Feb. 10.— Now that the Saar plebiscite is over, ile struggle fo: northern Schleswig wi!l begin, warns the “Nordschleswige Zeitung,” which is published in Ap- enradt, on Danish soil. Preparations for this reconquest have already begun. The Nazi new: paper, the “Landeszeitung,.” of Flensbu:g, writes to the effect thet one of these days the “sluggish Danes” will wake up and rub their eyes to find that the frontiers have been changd overnight. Page 3 City Couneil Of Davenport Endorses Bill | Resolution States 2827 | “Answers the Needs | of Unemployed” itical examination 0: | R. 2827) Jour uner | quately |titions the 74th Congress United States to pa: of is Bill STAMFORD, Conn |Endorsement of the Workers’ & jemployment and Social Insura | Bill, H. R. 2827, has been sei | here by the Joint Action Comm y |for the Bill, from a number” of |American Federation of Labor |Unions and fraternal groups. Among those who have endorsed |the bill are the Carpenters’ Union of the A. F. of L., The Sons of Italy |Society, Itelo-American Real Estate |Owners’ Association, the Gravenese Society and the Stamford Relief Workers’ League. All of these or- ganizations with the exception of the carpenters have agreed to send two delegates to take part in tha Feb. 10. |work of the Action Committee's |work of spreading the bi the workers here and presenting it to the City Council for endorsee ment Appeal Frees 2 in Florida TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Feb. 10.— Mass pressure won another victory when the Supreme Court of Flor- ida reversed the decision handed |down in the Orlando court against E. L. Bland and his wife, Lillian |Bland. The couple, who have been active in organizing white and Negro workers, were arrested on a |cherge of vagrancy and sentenced to pay a $50 fine or serve 50 days jin jail Use of the vagrancy law by po- lice to jail militant workers and labor organizers is scored in the decision of the high court, which, however, pretends that the Bland case is an isolated example of this use of the law “The complaints on which the petitioner was tried wholly fails to State an offense against the law, it supported by valid evidence whatever. Rarely, if ever, has a more arbitrary high- handed exercise of the police power been brought to the attention of this court. It appears that peti- tioner lived in a nearby community, had a means of support, had a perfect right to be where he was at the time when he was arrested, was not molesting anyone, and had no suspicion pointed to him as a criminal character. There was no neither was any | basis for h's arrest and these was less for the conviction.” The appeal was made by W. | Theo, Woodward, employed by the |International Labor Defense. Pro- tests against the arrests have been received from many parts of Flor- ida and elsewhere, WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. Labor Defender Concert and Dance Friday, Feb. 22 at Ambas: 1704 N. Broad St.; Nedia in a series of revolutionary da: well known violinist; entire Preiheit ng Ferein chorus; _ excellent orchestra, Adm. at door, 50¢; in advance through organizations 35¢. Tickets at 49 N. 8th St., Room 207, Development in the United ti Exposed! Hear John L. Spivak on “Wall Street Fascist Conspiracy,” on Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. at Mercantile Hall, Broad and Master streets. Auspices, LL.D. Adm. 25¢. Scott Nearing, just returned from Europe and the Soviet Union, will lecture on Fascism and Communism on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 8:30 p.m, at the Olympia Arena, Broad St, below Bainbridge. Adm. 35¢, Boston, Mass. for Communist ational Hall, 42 Wednesday Additi Party at New enonah 8t., to Saturday, al features to Roxbu: Feb. 13 to 16. main program every evening. Eats, bargains, entertainments. \Chicaao, Il. Organizations Attention! The Inter- national Workers Order of Chicage 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. Collective Cheuye Program of Theatre, nd Dance, following by ing to 3 am., Saturday, Feb. 16 30 p.m. at People’s Auditorium, W. 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