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Page 2 COMMUNISTS IN OHIO DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1935 ISSUE UNITY APPEAL erage - Pepsysese eeeptpeete ietas TO CLEVELAND A.F.L Greeting Action of Federation in Calling for Repeal of Syndicalist Law, Party Urges United Action | JELAND, Ohio, Feb, 14.—Greeting the action of CL the Cleveland Federation of Labor in calling for the repeal of the Ohio criminal syndica ism law, and endorsing the mass organizational drive into the unions started by the militant auto workers, the Clev nist Party today issued an appeal? © the Fi paign on the f 1. For repeal of the Ohio criminal syndicalism law and withdrawal of all legislation out- lawing working class organizations and activities. immediate repeal of the sales tax. 3. For prohibition of injunctions against labor unions and strikes. 4. For defense of the trade unions against the company unions, espe- cially in auto and steel 5. For the unemployment insur- anc duced in the U. 5S. veland District of the Commu- Carolina Unionists Send Contribution to Herndon Defense gton Six branch of newly organized in . D. North Carolina, where the LL.D, the defense of six na- textile workers framed on “d! miting” charges for their act in the general United Textile Workers’ strike of last Septem- ber, has contributed $2.50 for the bly as H. B. 136 See and Angelo Herndon. The Calling attention to the fascist || D’anch, of which T. J. Canipe, strike-breaking proposals of the|| U-,T. W. member and one of the “Secret Seven” of the Cleveland defendants, is organizer, is com- Chamber of Commerce, the Com-|| Posed of poverty-stricken. work- munist Party states in its appeal its readiness to confer with the author- \zed representatives of the Federa- tion of Labor to work out ways and means to establish one solid front of Labor in Cleveland against the Chamber of Commerce and the united front of the bosses and their governmental agencies. The appeal states, in part: “We are ready to co-operate with everybody, no matter what political opinion they may have, who places one question uppermost: how to strengthen the trade unions and de- stroy the company unions, how to make the unions powerful fighting organs for improving conditions, how to defeat the activities of the Chamber of Commerce and its “Se- cret Seven” and all of its a.ti-labor legislation HR 2827 Total Cost Computed (Continued from Page 1) vided by the Workers’ Bill should be compared,” the association esti- mate declared. The Roosevelt administration ex- ers in the silk and cotton mills, many of them blacklisted for union activities. Workers’ Enemies |membership, as a Exposed HARRY BENDER, of Oklahoma City, Okla., is exposed by the Com- munist Patty as an agent provoca- teur and impostor of the most de- ceptive and brazen kind. He has gone from place to place and has used a number of assumed names, such as Wm. Wald, Wm. Draizen, Manners, Maness, Marks, ete. Under the name of Wm. Wald he was expelled from the Commu- nist Party in New York City in August, 1931, after a few months frequenter of and detective gambling houses figencies, A few months later, when he had unsuccessfully tried in Kansas City and in San Francisco to misrepre- sent himself as a special “investi- gator” for the Party, a general pects to spend five billions this year | warning was sent out against him. alone in war preparations. Mrs. Bellamy Endorses Bill Mrs. Edward Bellamy, the 13- year-old widow of Edward Bellamy, author of the internationally-known Utopian work, “Looking Backward,” came from Springfield, Mass., to add her endorsement of H. R. 2827 to the millions from workers, farm- ers and professionals all over Amer- ica. Others who requested the im- mediate enactment of the Workers’ Bill today included spokesmen for veterans, metal workers, radio workers and domestic workers’ or- ganizations and the National Urban League. The telegrams and letters calling for enactment of H. R. 2827 con- tinue to flow into his office, Chair- ™an Dunn remarked today. To- day’s batch were from textile and | white collar workers, unemployed and foreign language organizations, the Writers’ Union of New York, religious, recreational and musi- cians’ groups. Ida M. Evans of Camden, N. J., the representative of 8,000 workers of the Radio and Metal Workers | Industrial Union, reported enthu- | | City and then, |“results achieved” Jon |sumed name of this impostor) In the later part of 1934 he turned up in Oklahoma City, Okla., and by means of forged credentials and all kinds of lies and pretenses, gained the confidence of local com- rades and succeeded in putting him- self into leading positions in the Communist Party and in the unem- ployed movement. When his bluff was called by a represenjative from the Central of- fice of the Communist Party, he admitted having forged the name |of Earl Browder, General Secretary | of the Communist Party, on his fake credentials, but had the ef- frontery to claim that he had done this with the “good intention” of building up the Party in Oklahoma on the basis of to gain read- mission into the Party. Later, there were found among his papers other forged documents, fake letterheads and with forged signatures purporting to |come: (1) from the C. P. of U. S. A. | introducing F. Lorenz (another as- to Mexico, From 199 “Ygaguirre” dated May “Labor Research in Saltillo, 20, 1934; (2) Bureau,” siastically to the Sub-Committee, | Broadway, New York, N. Y., with “Our organization has conducted lforged signatures of “Robert | and is conducting a vigorous fight Dunne” and “Grace Hutchins,” dated for enactment of H. R. 2827. We have printed 11,000 copies of the bill, and 5,000 postcards.” She quoted from a four-page folder, | distributed by her union, which urged “All radio and metal work- | ers, their families and friends” to | get behind H. R. 2827. “Domestic Workers Benefited” Rosa Rayside of New York City, Negro representative of the Dont- | estic Workers Union, declared that H. R. 2827 “is the only Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill which does not exclude domestic workers from the categories of workers entitled to receive benefits under the act.” She endorsed H. R. 2827 “without reservation” and pointed out that “the section in H. R. 2827 which provides for the extension of the benefits of the act to workers and farmers without discrimination be- cause of sex, race or color is of ut- most importance to domestic work- ers.” Negro women, she said, “rep- resent nearly one-third of all women employed as domestics.” According the 1930 U. 8, Census, she added, there was a total of 4,952,451 domestic workers “of which number 1,772,200 were men and 3,180,251 were women.” | Benjamin to Sum Up | Because of the unexpected num- | ber of witnesses who appeared to- | day to endorse H. R. 2827, the | hearings were extended until to- | morrow, when the Sub-Committee will hear Dorothy Douglas, Pro- fessor of Economics at Smith Col- lege and Herbert Benjamin, execu- tive secretary of the National Joint Action Committee for Genuine Social Insurance, who will sum up. While posing for the half dozen newspaper photographers who sur- rounded her, Mrs. Bellamy reported to Matthew A. Dunn, Chairman of the Sub-Committee, that she was “glad to be here today to endorse | the Workers’ Bill” and that “Bel- lamy Clubs throughout the country have endorsed H. R. 2627.” The Workers bill, she testified, “Is the most inclusive of all bills | correct | dropped April 28, 1934; (3) From “National |Congress for Unemployed and So- cial Insurance, Washington, D. C.,” with the forged signature of “F. Elmer Brown, Chairman.” He has also swindled organiza- tions and individuals out of various sums of money. Description: 5 ft. 3 inches in height; dark, bushy hair; dark complexion; light blue eyes; speaks fluent English, but slurs the r’s. All workers and their organiza- tions should have nothing to do with this rat, but should drive him out from their midst wherever he may appear and try to ply his slimy business again, RAY SWINDLE, of Los Angeles, California; a dyer by trade, who belonged to the Cleaners’ and Dyers’ Union and was sub-section organizer of Goodyear Section, has been expelled fromt he Communist financial Party for unreliability, dishonesty and disruption. In 1934 he was ; enjoined from holding any posts or func- tions, because of financial irre- sponsibility. He was placed un- der probation, but failed to -— ES himself. Instead he from all activity and it is now reported that he was in- volved in some form of racketeer- ing. This fact has not been estab- | lished because of his disappearance from Los Angeles. Description: He is 5 ft. 9 inches in height; weights 170 pounds; has very dark brown hair, brawn eyes and fair complexion. Rally For Sugar DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 14.—An election meeting in support of Maurice Sugar, labor attorney and candidate for Recorder’s Judge will to provide social security; in , it is the only one...” 6 be held here on Sunday at 8 p. m. at 638 King Street. Launch Fight Against Sales’ Tax Proposals Councils Urge Campaign ainst New Levies in Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 14— Governor Earle, taking a page out of the book of his friend, the butcher of the Austrian workers, Dollfuss, whom he called “the most humane | man I ever knew,” has launched a} vicious attack on the living stan- dards of the workers. of Pennsylva- nia. His budget message to the Leg- islature demanded a sales tax on workers’ necessities—including a 10} per cent tax on.all amusement ad-| missions, a two cent tax on a pack- | age of cigarettes, a tax of one cent} per kilowatt. hour on electric cur-| rent, an increase from three to five| cents a gallon on gasoline .. . is} obviously an attempt to fasten the| cost of the depression still tighter about teh ks of the workers. Earle's coming simulta- ac! neously with the stoppage of several P. W. A. projects and the announce- ment that relief funds would be de- pleted by the end of the month, has aroused intense indignation. The | Unemployment Councils have! launched a mass campaign against this attack. Mass meetings in work- ss neighborhoods throughout ity will expose Ear'le’s “New as the same old Pinchot- | Roosevelt-Hoover attempt to force the cost of unemployment on the employed workers, and an obvious effort to deflect the tremendous support forsthe Workers Unemploy- | ment and Social Insurance Bill} (H. R. 2827). | manding every Philadelphia member of the State Legislature to actively ; work for the defeat of Earle’s pro- posals for sales tax. Neighborhood delegations will be organized to visit their respective legislators and de- j|mand their support against the sales tax. | The Unemployment Councils call on all workers and workers’ organ- | izations to immediately flood Earle | and members of the Legislature | with resolutions, telegrams, letters, and delegations protesting the sales | tax, and demanding support of the Workers Unemployment and Social | Insurance Bill (H. R. 2827). | of the drive Unemployed Get 2 Cents for Meal | WEST FRANKFORT, Ill., Feb. 14. —A little over two cents a person for each meal is all the Franklin) County unemployed get on relief. | | One unemployed worker who kept a/ | record of everything he had received during 1934, itemizing how much was granted for each item, found| that he was given $208.05 for his| | family of three for one year. FDR Expands | War Program i (Continued from Page. 1) ers, seven light cruisers, ten subma- rines, forty-four destroyers and two gunboats at a total cost of $585,- | 536,333. j In addition to the above vessels, the navy plans to inaugurate a cost $197,430,000. The appropriation bill also carries an allotment of $12,500,000 for navy | air craft. | | The $405,000,000 army mechaniza- | program probably will be financed | | from the $4,800,000,000 relief fund. | Five New Bases Proposed | The House Military Affairs Com- mittee is considering the Wilcox Bill) to create five new bases in the Northeast Atlantic, Southeast At- Jantic, Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Rocky Mountain sections. Five ex-| isting fields are to be expanded. ‘The army and navy public works allotments are to be expended for) additional defenses at Pearl Harbor, | Hawaii and Coco Solo, the naval| operating base in the Canal Zone, | | and other outlying possessions. |The Thomason Increased Army| Personnel Bill provides for 50,000 | additional enlisted men, 400 new of- | | ficers and training for 2,000 reserve | officers, FE ascist Law Hit in Ohio (Continued from Page 1) | pletely prepared to smash insur- rection. The proposals follow closely the | recommendations of the United | States Chamber of Commerce for a | nationwide, concerted fascist drive | to smash the rising strike wave. | The report has been received with | ridicule by the local press, pooh- | poohed by clergymen and liberals, | | revealing a dangerous under-esti- mation of the fascist danger. The | Cleveland Federation of Labor im- mediately and unanimously went on | record for repeal of the criminal | syndicalism law. | Inquiry Demanded | Councilman Kohen has nounced his intention to introduce a resolution in the City Council de- manding an investigation of the | Chamber of Commerce and its espionage. Acting upon the report of the | “Secret Seven,” State Representa- tive Newton H. Fairbanks of Springfield has introduced a bill in the State Assembly to bar from | the ballot the Communist Party or any political party advocating the right of the American people | to overthrow government by force or violence. On the other hand, opposition to | the fascist attack is rapidiy grow- | ing under mass pressure. Stanley J. | Zablotny, State Representative, has joined Representative Zona in sponsoring the bill in the Lower House for repeal of the criminal an- | On the Picket Line On strike for a living wage since Jan. 28, workers of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works, South Bend, Indiana, are marching on the picket line daily. ] | | | Liar Hearst Makes 80 Millions in a Year (Continued from Page 1) tion out of its economic chaos. Against Leftward Trend Further, the drive was precipi- tated by the knowledge of the bank- ers and industrialists that the masses are moving leftward, away from the false promises of Presi- | dent Roosevelt and toward the ban- | ner and program of the Communist | Party. WALL STREET, IN A WORD, HAS BECOME CONVINCED THAT ROOSEVELT IS LOSING HIS} POWER TO DECEIVE THE| WORKERS AND FARMERS OF AMERICA, With the wave of strikes and the | otherwise mounting resistance to | | the Roosevelt hunger program, Wall Street has found it necessary to move toward a fascist dictatorship. AND HEARST, WITH THE LARGEST READING PUBLIC TO INFLUENCE, IS IN THE FORE- FRONT OF THE MOVEMENT. Read the Daily Worker It is vital at this time that work- | ers, farmers and all those allied to | lied to them, must fight side by side. the toilers immediately boycott the Hearst press. But, as has been ex- plamed, they cannot get any truth- ful news in any of the other capi- talist newspapers. | aBour WALL STREET'S PLANS, Petitions will be circulated de-j and “brain trusters” to lift the na-| the masses of the American people | must turn to the Daily Worker. | Make the Daily Worker a powerful TO GET THE TRUTHFUL NEWS mass paper. ONLY IN THE DAILY WORKER WILL NEWSPAPER |READERS GET THE TRUTH | ABOUT THE CAPITALIST “DE- PRESSION” AND THE .COMMU- NIST WAY OUT—ABOUT THE COMMUNIST PROGRAM LEAD- ING TO SOVIET POWER. Under capitalism, all the news is | printed for the capitalists and in | the sole interests of the capitalists. In a Soviet America, where the workers and farmers will rule, all | the news will be printed by them | and solely in their interests. | The fascist crusade of Hearst must not be allowed to gain ground. The Communist Party and the Daily Worker will continue to ex- | pose the role of Hearst, Coughlin, | | Long and others of their ilk in the | movement for a fascist dictator- | ship. In this fight against the new Wall | Street yoke and fascist terror, all workers and farmers and those al- In this fight there must be a united | front—AGAINST WAR! AGAINST) | FASCISM! FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE SOVIET UNION! FOR A | SOVIET AMERICA! | Students Rally On Scottsboro (Special to the Daily Worker) COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 14.—Five hundred Onio® State University twenty-four ship construction pro-| students held a Scottsboro protest | gram during the 1936 fiscal year to| meeting on the steps of the Com- | merce Building, on Lincoln Day, in defiance of an order by President Rightmire banning the meeting on | the campus. The meeting was addressed by tion, modernization and housing | the Scottsboro Mother, Mrs. Ida | ford yesterday. Norris, and W. C. Sandberg of the International Labor Defense, guest speakers, A permit for use of the Auditor- jum of the Commerce Building was withdrawn less than twenty- four hours before the meeting by President Rightmire. The National Student League picketed the administration and commerce buildings protesting the as tack on the Scottsboro defense. A resolution protesting the frame- up of the nine Scottsboro boys, and demanding reversal of the death |sentences against Clarence Norris and Haywood Patterson, was adopted and sent to the United States Supreme Court. resolution protesting the action of President Rightmire was sent to the university trustees, ‘The local press featured the pro- test meeting. Students To Demonstrate Five student organizations from Columbia University, New College, and the Union Theological Semi- nary, have called a demonstration for today noon, at the Sun Dial, | 116th St. between Broadway and) Amsterdam Avenue, to demand that be withdrawn from the Casa Ita- liana, which has been éxposed as a source of fascist propaganda. the slave-driving, union-smashing, relief projects. that the bill is “unacceptable and labor.” Green, in his position on the put up an effective fight against wage was, so long as the hourly ra’ syndicalism law. BE ON WORK RELIEF, ban on free speech and the at- | Another | the funds and the fascist personnel | (Continued from Page 1) Co, And the plan is to give Roosevelt himself sole, | dictatorial powers to set all wages on the works William Green declared, upon the passage of the works bill by the Senate Appropriations Committee, Certainly the workers must not allow these starv- ation wage levels to be carried out anywhere, on any project. A wave of protest should immediately break upon the Senate and force them to amend the bill, and force the Senators to grant THE PREVAILING UNION WAGE ON ALL WORK RELIEF. it comes to concrete proposals and action, did not proposals, First, Green declared before the Senate Committee that he did not care what the monthly BUT THE WORKERS ARE VITALLY INTER- ESTED IN WHAT THE MONTHLY WAGE SHALL Fascist Bill | Is Defeated By SAM KRIEGER | (Special to the Daily Worker) | NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 14.—A | powerful united front of Commu- | nists, Socialists and labor unions completely overwhelmed the fascist | supporters of an anti-labor bill at the public hearing before the Judi- ciary Committee of the General As- | sembly in the State House at Hart- The bill, kndwn as H. B. 377, bans the right of the American people to overthrow the government, a right guaranteed in the Declara- tion of Independence and advocated by Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson, It-is sponsored by Archi- bald Stevenson, general counsel for the National Civic Federation, of | which Matthew Woll, member of the Executive Counsel of the A. F. of L., is acting president. Stevenson, with an oily smile, ex- | plained that the bill was aimed| | against the Communist Party and | the industrial unions, which, he | said, wanted to cause a general | strike. He insisted such a bill was/ | necessary I. Wofsy, District Organizer of District 15, Communist Party, ex- posed Stevenson and his organiza- tions as part of the fascist gang, led by the U. S. Chamber of Com- merce, Hearst and other million- aires, aiming to throttle all work- ers’ rights and lower their living standards. He called for a united front against Fascism in opposing the bill. Several leading Socialists in the State, including Martin Plunkett, Stete Chairman, Albert Eccles, State Senator, and Jack Bergen, State ss Haas Spoke against the John Egan, State Secretary of the Connecticut Federation of Labor, also registered his opposition. | | Workers Must Defeat Roosevelt’s Wage-Cutting Bill AN EDITORIAL , Sears Roebuck Third, Green unsatisfactory to Green, while The workers the Senate, and Demand the Unemployment 2827. works bill, when the wage cutting ites were kept up. | for Johnson. Many mass meetings | each scab is sandwiched in between Russell Reported Ready Secondly, Green is fighting against the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill H. R. 2827, which is the only bill now before Congress which would grant benefits to all totally unemployed. movement to put mass pressure on the Senate to block the wage cutting provisions of the works bill. has not taken the steps necessary to prevent Roose- velt’s wage cutting measure from going through. wage-cutting works bill. Demand union wages om all work relief. Not forced labor at starvation wages, but real unemployment insurance, Not starvation pay on work relief, which would reduce all wages, but union wages-.on all relief jobs. Not relief cuts, but immediate passage of the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill I. L. D. to Fight For New Trial For R. Johnson NORFOLK, -Va., Feb. 14—The fight for a new trial for Robert Lee Johnson, Negro worker « railroaded to a life sentence on a trumped-up charge of murder, will be carried to the Court of Appeals, ..e Inter- national Labor Defense has an- nounced, Johnson, told by a committee which visited him in prison that a new trial might even result in his being railroaded to the electric chair, militantly replied that he would rather die fighting than to spend his life behind bars for some- thing he did not do. Johnson was arrested and charged with murder when one of two po- Ticemen who jumped on two un- identified Negroes was killed in a gun battle. He was rushed to trial before an all-white jury, with a “de- fense” attorney appointed by the| court. The frame-up was so brazen | that the court contented itself with a life sentence for the innocent worker, FARMERS IN U.S.S.R. - PROVE THEIR MASTERY orm ome OF AGRARIAN SCIENCE 550,000 Tractor Experts Working on Farms and 939,000 Enrolled in Academies, Agricultural Congress Reports (Special _to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 14 (By Cable).—The Soviet farmer had become machine-conscious long ago—he is now complete | master over his socialized machinery. This was the impres- sion created by the remarkable figures discussed today at the Soviet Farm Congress. Scottsboro-Herndon || Defense Fund Drive Must Be Spurred Negro and white workers here are highly incensed over the frame-up | and are rallying behind the I. L. D. | in a rapidly developing mass fight | are being held here, | On Feb. 3 the lower court denied | an appeal for a new trial, making | necessary the fight to the higher | court. Mine Writ To Be Fought (Continued from Page 1) strikers are making a determined effort to meet the order with mass | picketing, Hearings are on now pre- | liminary to making the temporary injunction fully effective tomorrow. With the strike on ten days, a re- view of the strike fields shows that Hanover and Nanticoke strikers are holding strong, while the mines at Bliss, Truesdale, Auchincloss, But- tonwood, Lance, Nottingham, Wa- namie, Avondale and Loomis mines are shut tight. An indication of the effectiveness of the strike is in Truesdale, where out of 3,000 em- ployed only 25 went to work yester- day escorted by State Troopers. The Chain Gang The escort to “work” is called the “chain gang” by the miners here, us two troopers. This is how a number of scabs were marched through the Streets of Hanover today. Contract miners are holding out strongly, while company hands are used by the Glen Alden Company to induce strikers to return. Officials of the United Mine Workers are still busy in the farming regions trying to round up starved farmers to scab. Called Open Shop Measure Some of the officials of the United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania, which called the strike are now also beginning to talk more militantly against the injunction calling it an open shop measure, and urge mass picketing to make it worthless. Spurred by the activity of the Women’s Auxiliary of the U. A. M. of P. women and children are tak-| ing an increasing part in strike ac- tivity. Many women have been ar- rested for picketing, reports from | strike regions show. | More Troopers are being brought | into the region, and from all indi- cations this is a sign for a still more intense reign of terror. Representatives of the Unemploy- ment Councils have addressed many strike meetings and urged more militant action and mass picketing, especially at the collieries which are making attempts to operate. Flying squads are urged which would go to the farming regions to appeal to the farmers not to scab. Students are also being hired as scabs and a wide publicity campaign to make known the issues in the strike is sorely needed. To Negotiate With Guild Heywood Broun, president of the American Newspaper Guild, has been informed by Assistant Secre- tary of Labor Edward McGrady that. Lucius. T. Russell, owner of the Newark Ledger, the editorial em- ployes of which have been on strike for more than 12 weeks, is willing to negotiate with the strike com- mittee, the Daily Worker learned yesterday. Mr. Broun has advised the New- ark strikers of this fact. The latter ‘are expected to approach Mr. Rus- sell or the trustees of the newspaper shortly. Strikers are issuing 60,000 copies of The Reporter, official strike bul- Jetin, this morning, advices from Newark stated. has not mobilized the entire labor in general attacking the works bill, woughout the country must flood Roemevelt, with protests against the immediate passage of the @Vorkers’ and Social Insurance Bill H. R. Finances are the immediate burning need of the Scottsboro- Herndon campaign. At any moment the hearings may begin in the U. S. Supreme Court in either case, and at least $10,000 is necessary to carry through both cases. The N. Y. District has pledged itself to raise $2,000. Thus far in the first three weeks it has raised $434.70, or, in other words, not quite 20 per cent of the total. The standing of the sections are: 1, West End, $146.14; 2, Harlem, $89.60; 3, Bronx, $63.05; 4, Downtown, $33.10 5, Brownsville, $14.69; 6, Midtown, $8; 7, Queens, $7.32; 8, Williamsburg, $6; 9, South Brooklyn; $2; 10, District, $64.80. Seamen Win Big Victory SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 14— West Coast seamen won a signal victory in the award announced by the arbitration board which was ap- pointed after the marine strike last | summer, when seamen, longshore- men and teamsters united in one of the greatest strikes in the history of the American working class. . The award, which affects seamen of eleven major lines, conceded wage increases of as high as 60 per cent for many workers, Able-bodied seamen will get $70 a month, and 70 cents an hour for overtime; stew- ards and cooks will get $95 a month and 60 cents an hour overtime; fire- men, oilers and watertenders, $70 and 70 cents an hour overtime; combination men, replacing firemen and oilers, $75 a month and 70 cents an hour overtime. The workers are to work eight | hours day in port, and a»maximum of fifty-six hours a week at sea. All “work performed” is to be paid for, including steering time. Heretofore such time was not paf@ for. This compares with $57 a month for able-bodied seamen for East Coast workers, as provided in the agreement recently entered into by the I. S. U. with thirty-eight steam- ship companies. The workers asked for $75 when the strike was called by the Marine Workers Industrial Union on the West Coast. It was more than a week following ‘the calling of the seamen’s strike that the I. 8. U. also issued a strike call. The officials of the I. S. U. on the coast maintained a splitting policy and took part in the reign of fas- cist terror against the militant members of the union, especially during the poll that was taken to determine which union the workers preferred. Now they are ‘ighting all proposals for a merger of the two unions into a powerful organization such as will be able to enforce the arbitration award. State Rests In Trial of 18 (Continued from Page 1) “does not stand for the reyolution- ary overthrow of the bourgeoisie” by the working class, as taught by Marx and Lenin. The planned effect of this schemed testimony is to refute his stool pigeon statement and divert the anger of the workers from the Trotzkyite clique by an impudent “exoneration” of the Communist Party from revolutionary leadership and activity in defense of the in- terests of the toiling population, and thereby to discredit the Party in the eyes of the working class. Betrayed Workers But no dishonest strategy like this can minimize the damaging effects of Mini’s stool-pigeon statement, despite the fact that Judge Lemmon has been forced to reverse his pre- vious ruling holding Mini’s tzeach- erous statement binding on all the defendants. The workers will re- member that Donald Bingham, one of the eighteen defendants, was ar- rested as a direct result of Mini's treachery against the working class, The Trotzkyite attack in the court on the other seventeen defendants and the Communist Party, is sup- ported on the outside by a flood of slander emanating from the Work- ers Party, offspring’ of the recent marriage of the Trotzkyites and Musteites, and the Trotzkyite “Com: mittee for Non-Partisan Defense.” Sixteen of the defendants em- Phatically repudiated these groups today, denouncing the Workers Party, the Committee far Non-Par- tisan Defense, Albert Goldman and the various Trotzkyite disruptive maneuvers. A statement to this ef- fect is being prepared by the sixteen defendants. Relief Less Than Prison Fare MARION, Ill, Feb. 14.—Budgets For example, by the end of “©1934 there were 550,000 tractor ex- perts working on the collective farms; there were 64,000 combine drivers, 68,000 chauffeurs. 7,000 trac- tor engineers and mecnanics. But | this is only the beginning. The col- |lective farmer is so eager to become |@ scientist of the soil that last year jalone 939,000 of them enrolled in | higher farm academies. Of course, their working day was shortened in order to allow sufficient time for study. In addition, there were 70,000 state farm workers, not including those studying stock-breeding, who attended agricultural schools. During the coming spring, there< fore, the kolhkozes and state farms will receive 214,000 new tractor ex perts, 192,000 tractor drivers, 10,309 tractor mechanics, 56,400 combine workers, 29,460 chauffeurs, as well as thousands of workers and ma< chinists familiar with various agri- cultural machinery. The workers’ government expenditure upon these studies conclusively has risen ta several hundred millions of rubles, The number of students éxceeds 2,000,000. ; Collective farmers here, and to a man they are powerful, alert-look- ing fellows, talk with amazement concerning the fact that- in the United States the farmer is so: bit~ terly exploited that often he draws his up-to-date machinery across the fields -by horse-power,- for-lack of cash to buy gasoline! In the Soviet Union, Socialist agriculture has sped so far ahead on the road of labor- | Saving mechanization that. the sci- }ence of agricultural training is ta be compared with industrial tech« nique. Seek to Bar CP from Ballot (Continued from Page 1) are interested in keeping independ« ent, candidates off the ballot, in ine formed political circles, as the Times correspondent indicates, it is known that the main objective of the Streit amendments” is’ to keep the Communist Party off the ballot. Similar measures, all intended tc hamstring the Communist Party in reaching thé working and farming Population, have already been intro- duced in the State legislatures o! Washington, Indiana, New Hamp- shire and Ohio. Strikingly alike ir tone, they are seen as companior pieces to the reactionary legislatior now being introduced in Congres: by the McCormack-Dickstein Gom- mittee. All are attacks upon an¢ restrictions of basic » democratic rights of the toiling population. Protest Movement Under Way Vigorous protests have already been forwarded to Governor Herber: H. Lehman and Assemblyman Streit by Carl Brodsky, secretary of thi State Committee of the Communis Party.. Demanding a public hearing on the bill, Brodsky termed thc measure a “restriction of funda: mental democratic rights.” The text of Brodsky’s wire fol: lows: Saul S. Streit, Assembly, Albany, New York: Communist Party New York State emphatically opposes changes in election law as pro- posed by yourself. We consider changing wired number of votes to 50,000 to appear officially on ballot as an attack upon and restriction of fundamental demo- cratic: rights of minority. parties. Communist Party is automatically ruled off ballot in spite of ful- fillment existing legal require- ments. New York City Board of Elections Commissioner 8. How- ard Cohen has promised to put his opinion in writing in response to my letter to him on this) _ matter. Will you please inform us whether Communist’ Party will have to obtain signatures to ap-— pear on ballot in 1935 and 1936. Please advise dates of public hearings on your measure. Many organizations besides our own wish to be heard on this ex- tremely important issue. Filing protest with Governor. CARL BRODSKY, State Sec’y., Communist Party, 199 Broadway, New York City. A wide campaign to defeat th: bill will be undertaken, Brodsk: told the Daily Worker. The Stat Committee of the Socialist Part: and various .trade union organiza tions will be invited to send thei protests, Brodsky intimated. } _ Signs that the New York Cit, Board of Elections does not care t) let it be known that it fathere: — these reactionary proposals are al — ready evident. While Commissione — Cohen, a Tammany man, told City Hall reporter of the Dail Worker that a place on the ball would be determined by the vote) cast for the gubernatorial date in 1934, he reversed his tion in a later conversation wit Brodsky. He assured the latte that the bill “will. not be retroac tive” and that “the Communi: — Party doesn’t have to worry.” } The State Committee of the ( P., however, is not basing itself te) | much on Mr. Cohen's reassuranc §; } a 3 * to defeat the measure. for prisoners in Williamson county jail allow sixty cents a day for food. Relief clients in the same county get twenty cents. and is planning a wide cam] : it i It pays to save—15 $1 will get you a copy “Hunger and Revolt,”