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Page 2 Bendix Men |House Body End Speed-up By Stoppage Two Departments Win Half Hour Fight in South Bend Plant SOUTH BEND., Ind. Feb. 15 Although a strike of the 4,200-Ben- dix Aviation Company workers was averted last week by a wage in- crease of five per cent, strong sen- timent for a strike still remains. The entire plant came to a stand- Still on Wednesday, when workers of department 2A (punch presses) stopped work because of the speed- up. The welders of 5A quickly marched to the locker rooms and the conveyor immediately stopped in their support. Every wheel in the big plant stopped, as workers refused io go back before matters were adjusted. After a half hour's stoppage the punch press workers won their demands. At a strike meeting attended by 1,000 Oliver Plow workers, the ques- tion of returning to work was put and not one voted to return. This followed widely publicized statements that the company was receiving letters from workers ask- ing to return. The 1,500 strikers remain solid after more than two weeks on strike. Unions are giving increasing sup- port to the strikers. A car load of coal and five hundred bushels of potatoes were bought for the strikers. The Studebaker local donated $100 plus a twenty-cent tax upon each of its members. Bendix did the same with a fifty-dollar donation. Most locals in the city have already pledged to come out in a sympathy Strike, if the Oliver picket line is molested in any way. One picket line joined by the Bendix workers numbered at least 1,000. Green Handed teel Drive (Continued from Page 1) that resulted in Tighe’s expulsion campaign. Green refused to be questioned directly, however, and press dispat- hes from Pittsburgh quoted Presi- dent Tighe as asserting that he alone would have charge of the or- ganization drive in steel. Won't Overrule Tighe All indications point to the prob- ability that Green will attempt to patch up the situation in the Amal- gamated by conciliation if possible— But that he will not directly over- Tule Tighe. Green is’ generally believed here *to fear the rank end file movement in the steel union to such an ex- tent that he will make every effort to persuade Tighe to conciliate it. However, how much he will do to- ward unofficially pressing Tighe to ‘relent is generally conceded to rest Communi (Continued from Page 1) strument of a financier associate of the J. P. Morman clique who tried to persuade General Smedley D. Butler, to lead 500,000 American Storm Troops for them, th mittee report further wh: this conspiracy and other fascist ac- tivities of the big bankers. It also further primed the guns which it long ago turned against the working class for decent living standards and basic civil rights. Dismissed Plot The committee report dismissed the Wall Street fascist army plot, the most spectacular and sinister fascist development before it, in 74 lines, It devoted more than half as much space to the Silver Shirts. | It concluded its discussion of the Wall Street plot without a single recommendation for action against such activities: It merely said armed forces for “a dictatorship by means of fascismn or a dictatorship through the instrumentality of the proletariat have no place in this country.” It completely ignored the sup- pressed testimony published by the Daily Worker. This suppressed testimony showed that the fascist army plotters previously had es- | tablished a direct link with the White House on a matter related to the Storm Troops plot. It showed that the fascist army plot- ters were depending upon Presi- dent Roosevelt to be “with us” they should use their armed in order to, in their own words, “Support the President” on \he aay when demagogy would no longer sustain the present semi- fascist repression of the ruling capitalists, | The committee report naturally completely ignored the fascist acts of the Roosevelt Government. Ignores Liberty League It completely ignored the Amer- ican Liberty League (though this powerful pro-fascist group organ- ized by the same financiers who backed the army plot was named in the suppressed testimony. The whole format of the report further demonstrated the anti- working class purpose and activities of the Dickstein-McCormack Com- mittee. It devoted exactly six pages to Nazism, and exactly 12 pages, | more than half of the entire report, to Communism. Its pages on Nazi activities were filled with references to secret prop- eganda and other activities by of- ficial representatives of the Nazi Government of Germany—but its twelve pages on Communism had be devoted to discussions of official documents of the world revolution- ary movement, documents which haye been published and openly circulated in millions of copies for years. The report's discussion of Communist activities contained not one single fact or allegation of any “illegal” activities. Nevertheless, it concluded with a recommendation . for legislation against “illegal” acts of “such movements.” It said: “It is the DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1935 Aims To Bar st Party in U.S 1 Visiting militant lectures, | John Strachey. 3. “We recommend that the De- partment of State, in collaboration with the Department of Labor, ne- such as gotiate treaties and agreements with | | foreign nations by which such na- tions shall agree to receive back that it “sent to the State Depart- ment” the evidence. It did this after the Daily Worker published the fact that the committee re- fused to hear a witness it bad subpoenaed to testify on this. It apologized for not publishing this evidence, saying it was received only “in the latter part of De- cember.” What it didn’t say is that it received the charges as long ago as last July 6, seven months ago, and never raised a finger to investigate them. In contrast to its conclusion that control” such movements as the legislation is needed to “check and any person entering this country |Communist, the committee ended from such foreign nation at any | its lengthy discussion of Nazi activi- time such immigrant shall become | ties with the startling whitewash subject to deportation under our |that its own disclosures already laws.” | “have stopped their progress.” In | Blow at Foreign Born other words, there’s no longer any | This direct blow at all militant | reason to trouble about them. foreign-born workers obviously is Bowed to Fascists aimed especially at Russian-born | workers who are not, deportable be- | The committee recommended, in cause the Soviet Union has no such | connection with its own disclosures treaty with the United States, of evidence against other fascist 4. “That Congress should make it organizations, such as the Order of unlawful to advise, counsel, or urge |’76 and Harry A. Jung’s American any member of the military or naval | vigilante Intelligence Federation, forces of the United States, merely “an aroused and intelligent in- | | cluding the reserves thereof, to dis- | public opinion.” It did not mention, however, that | obey the laws or regulations gov- | erning such forces. this same Harry Jung headed the | 5. “That Congress should enact |Key-Men of America, who as long | necessary legislation so that the |ago as the bonus march of 1932, United States Attorneys outside of have been trying to persuade Gen-| the District of Colum%#a cam pro- | eral Butler to lead a fascist party. ceed against witnesses who can re- | It did not develop the spectacular fuse to answer questions, or refuse | fact that Butler had been the ob- to produce documents and records, | ject of a great many efforts, sup- or refuse to appear or who in any | other manner hold in contempt the | figures as William Randolph Hearst, authority of any Congressional | to build capitalist-supported -veter- Committee vested with the powers |ans’ groups and _pseudo-patriotic herein described at any time during | mass organizations to protect prop- the official life of the committee.” |erty. It did not bring out: the fact | Thus the Committee lays down) that the United States Secret Ser- the path for its own further Star-| vice was in on many of these de- | chamber proceedings against class- | velopments — facts conscious workers. |gave to the Daily Worker, and 6. “That Congress shall make it | therefore obviously would have an unlawful act for any person to, given to the committee. advocate changes in a manner that); The Committee’s report does not incites to the overthrow or destruc- identify any of the fascist-army tion by force and violence of the| plotters as Wall Street financiers Government of the United States|and agents linked to the pinnacle or of the form of Government guar-| of power, J. P. Morgan and Com- which Butler ported by such powerful pro-fascist | Steel Workers Meet to Build UpTheirUnion (Conteused teem Page 1) jis really interested in the progress | of the union. Bill Spang made it | as clear as possible that this was/ not a secession movement, that the workers did not want to form a new | union, that all they wanted was to put new life into their old union, which has been in existence for 59 years. Said Rey Hallas from Olaireton, |Pa.: We are confronted with the most powerful enemy, the Steel Trust. We have practically no lead- | ership. Our organization is not | growing. Still, the response to the| call for this conference proves that | | our membership is alive to the is- | sues, | “We Have Waited Long Enough” In a mood of great indignation, | | Hallas declares: We have jain around im the -bulrushes long enough. We have waited too long for the labor boards and other gov- ernmental agencies to get us out | |of the mire. How long shall we) | wait for the Executive Council to | carry out the decisions of our 59th conyention? The Amalgamated As- sociation does not belong to Tighe. It belongs to us. The A. F. of L, is our organization; we must not leave | it. We must insure the democratic rights of the steel workers. We can organize the steel industry despite the officials, Let us organize the | key mills in every district. When a| | strike comes we shall strike these mills first; the rest will follow. What we have to do is to bring this prob- lem to the mass organizations in which the steel workers are mem- bers, We must utilize them for our struggle. We must utilize the lan- guage papers. We must develop daily struggles in the mills and among | | SHAMOKIN, Pa., Feb. about 750 “bootleg” miners staged a truck parade and demonstration here yesterday, in protest against the injunction which the Susque- hanna Coal Company is trying to obtain to drive the miners out of their workings. Thousands of spectators lined the streets and read the banners and isigns painted on the trucks which read, “Why Starve When We Work,” | “Smash the Injunction Through Mass Action.” The parade won the sympathy of the workers and other sections of the population here. The Communist Party issued leaflets in support of the miners and was active painting signs and giving similar aid for the parade. Although several of the officers of the Anthracite @oal Producers or- ganization of the “bootlegers” re- fused to accept the proposals of the Communist Party for more immedi- ‘Bootleg’ Miners March | PARADE PROTEST AGAINST WRIT 15—In ;ate action, following the parade, spite of icy streets and driving rain, |Communist Party members out- lined these proposals to many of the workers who still remained after the meeting at Moose Hall. The leaflet issued by the Commu- nist Party includes the following proposals: The election of a “Defeat the Injunction Committee” upon which should be represented the Anthracite Coal Producers, the Communist Party, the Unemployed Councils and all other organiza- tions that desire to fight the in- junction; a delegation of 50 should go to Governor Earle and Lieu- tenant Governor Kennedy (former official of the United Mine Work- ers) to protest the threatened in- junction and the preparation of a mass demonstration at the North- umberland County seat, Sanbury, before the injunction is signed, in which every “bootleg” and unem- ployed miner in the anthracite re- gion should take part. ElevatorStrike Is City-Wide (Continued from Page 1) tie-up on a city-wide scale. Both possibilities were discussed by union officials. Meetings of the executive board of the union, Arthur L. Harkham, secretary of the union told the Daily Worker, to take place before and after the mass meeting last night in Star Casino, were to plan details of the walk-out. Numerous employes of the 550 buildings in the downtown section of Manhattan, the owners of which signed closed shop agreements with anteed to the several States by Ar- ticle IV, Section 4, of the Consti- tution of the United States.” | | The last clause, referring-to the property-rights right-of-way given! pany. Its discussion of the Storm- troop plot actually tends to mini- mize and gloss over the whole af- fair. Attacked U. 8. S. R. “ the garment dis- the unemployed. Experience has/| the union, ven i proven that those lodges that have | trict strike was terminated net Ne conducted work among the unem-| Yember, are aroused over violations ployed have retained their member- | 0M the part of the owners. The gar- ship. We must unite both Negro | ment, textile and fur districts will Philadelphia _ Relief Rally PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 15.— Increased cash relief, free coal and clothing and the removal of domi- neering investigators will be the de- mands raised at the Cherry Street Relief Station, 1450 Cherry Street, by the workers who have answered the call of the Unemployment Council for demonstration there on Thursday morning, Feb. 21, it was announced today. Unemployed workers, particularly Negroes, are being subjected to in- | human treatment. here by the relief | officials. Orders for two adults are as low as $ @ week. One mother with two children has been getting $3.50 relief a week. Miss Hembold, a relief station visitor, was cited as typical of those that the workers would demand dismissed. She is notorious for arbitrarily cutting to the owning class by the Consti-| tution, brands the purpose of the! tacked not only the Communist | recommendation as that of sup-| Party, but the Soviet Union also, | pressing the revolutionary working | and with a lying interpretation. It class movement, {pointed out that “many of the | Has Brutal Purpose | citizens appearing before this Com- Despite these and other bristling| mittee have designated particular anti-working class recommendations | and emphatic attention towards an and statements, the committee re-| alleged violation of one of the con- port evidently was written with cau-| ditions of the agreement by this tion. Tt affects a sober tone to con- | country and Soviet Russia that pre- ceal the hysterical brutality of its|ceded Russian recognition by this purpose. Though it recalls the| country.” | “profound” investigation of Com-| Then the Committee quotes from | munist activities made by the noto- | the so-called “propaganda agree- |rious Fish Committee, it carefully|ment” between Maxim Litvinoff |avoids the sensationalism and ab-| and Franklin D. Roosevelt. It sup- surdity of that Committee, relying | presses, however, the fact that this upon’ lying political interpretations | agreement was a reciprocal agree- | professedly based on calm, factual} ment. It implies that the resolu- declarations. tions adopted by the Communist | It did this to such an extent that|Party in its Cleveland convention bourgeois observers who heard the| following and approving the last | Committee's repeated promises to| Plenum of the Communist Inter- | disclose sensational evidence against | national constitute a yiolation of the “Reds” freely declared the re-| the ‘Roosevelt-Litvinoff agreement. port a laughable anti-climax. It conceals, however, that the But the Committee boldly at- upon the continued growth of the Tank and file drive. One of the officials involved stated confidentially today that the exec- utive council directed Green to Jaunch a aign after calling in all those in- terested, Significantly, nevertheless, the Council issued no statement re- #arding its decision, and the Fed- jeration officials generally refused to| wbe quoted on the subject. Feel Pressure of Members One thing remains clear —the council is launching the organiza- ation drive in response to the pres- ‘ure of the rank and file, knowing that the steel workers are deter- mined to organize the A.A. to win atheir demands either with or despite Wighe. Such a drive under the Supervision exclusively of Tighe might be used in an effort to head off the rank and file campaign. Should Green be faced with con- j tinued evidence of the growth of the rank and file support, he may yet force Tighe to officially reinstate the leaders and lodges. They now Constitute the majority of the A.A. ; Membership. i N ? Supreme Court : (Continued from Page 1) » book towards the judges and showed them how the names of Negroes Were forged. The Justices asked many detailed | questions about the forgery. Justice Van Deventer presses Mr. Leibowitz on the motive for writing in the names. Justice Van Deventer im- presses the audience as a Prosecutor rather than an “impartial” Judge. Chief Justice Hughes has the book brought up to him. Everyone is amazed at the unusual proceeding. The fictions of judicial impar- tiality disappeared completely—and significantly. Justice Stone, former U. S. At- torney General, examines the book Spectacularly with large magnify- ing glass. Mr. Pollak begins argument. He cleared uo masterfully a point Taised by Justice Butler. He makes it clear that Negroes not only never Sat on grand. or petit juries but ven never were called for jury ser- vice. Mr. Pollak shows that in Morgan County Negroes frequently qualified—many had had high school qualifications. Some had even been students of Phillips Andover, wealthy, exclusive academy in Massachusetts, some were lawyers, ete. » At 4:30 the Chief Justice ad- journed the court. The case will resumed Monday at 12 noon. Mr. was speaking beautifully - Pollak will complete his argu- tj Monday, following which Mr. 1 and Lieutenant Soret Knight will present testimony. it, although no longer Attor- duty of government to check. and | | Sinister Threat control, through appropriate legis- | “Joint” organizing cam- | and brilliantly when the session | lation, the illegal actions and methods of such movements, with- out regard to the improbability of attainment, and. to protect. itself and its loyal citizens against such Subversive attempts.” This correspondent _ recently asked a competent source close to the committee why they used of- ficial openly-circulated publica- tions such as the Daily Worker in their effort to show that Com- munist activities are “subversive,” but made no gesture toward doing the same thing with respect to fascist or Nazi act ies. “Oh, we didn’t have to interpret the Nazi and fascist publications,” this official source declared. “We had evidence on them.” Had No Evidence In other words, they had evidence on illegal fascist activities, but, hav- ing no such evidence on Communist activities, they resorted to misrep- resenting open publications in an effort to show secret, “illegal” sub- versiveness, The committee report bears this out fully. The Committee report was unani- | mous, This indicates how com- pletely the Roosevelt Administration both dominates the Committee and supports its recommendation. These recommendations include: 1. That Congress should enact “a statute requiring all publicity, | Propaganda, or public relations | agents or other agents or agen- cies, who represent in this country | any foreign government or a for- | eign political party or foreign in- dustrial or commercial organiza- | tion, to register with the Secre- tary of State of the United States, and to state the name and loca- tion of such foreign employer, the character of the service to be ren- | dered, and the amount of com- | Pensation paid or to be paid therefor,” | Although this is aimed ostensibly at fascist and Nazi’ propaganda | agents whom the committee named as working under cover, it doubt- | lessiy will be used against the | working-class movement. The com- | mittee laid the basis for this by | Stating the outright lie that the | Communist Party of the United States is “not a National political | Party,” but is a “group of individ- | | uals, both citizen and alien, acting jin part under alien orders.” The | Feport also declares that the Third International, the World Commu- nist Party, was “created by officials | Of, the Soviet. Government.” Thus | the Committee laid the basis for | later labeling all members of the |Communist Party “agents” of “a foreign government or foreign poli- | tical party” who might be required | to register. Asks New Measures 2. “That Congress should enact @ statute conferring upon the Sec- retary of Labor authority to shorten or terminate the stay in this coun- try of any visitor admitted here the judgment of the Secretary such visitor shall engage in the promo- tion or dissemination of propaganda or engage in political activity in the United States.” under temporary visa, whenever in | However, this merely emphasizes | the sinister threat the report holds out to American workers. It was| obviously inspired by the Commit- | tee's desire to deflect from itself the working class hatred and mass protests which it knows it attracted | from the time it began its task. It| shows how acutely aware the Com-| mittee is that these mass protests | and mass exposure of the Commit- tee can discredit and defeat its legis- lative proposals before they come to) a vote. Obviously for the same reason, the | | Committee refrained from introduc- | | ing a single bill embodying its rec- | ommendations. It chose rather to | have various members of the Com- | mittee introduce the program piece- | meal, | Kramer Announces Aims But its determination to drive the whole program forward as rapidly as possible is demonstrated | by representative Kramer's an- nouncement that he will imme- | diately demand legislation to out- | law the Communist Party — the traditional first step in the fascist offensive against all civil rights, | all trade union standards, | Working class exposure of and| protest against the Committee it-| self as an instrument of fascist-| forces doubtless accounts partly for its failure to include at this time several other recommendations | | which Committee members previous- ly told the press they would throw jin. These measures can be ex- | pected to be brought forward later. | They would: 1. Make it illegal to use the mails for publications advocating a revolutionary change of govern- ment — something Abraham Lin- coin declared to be the “duty” of the people when sorely repressed. 2. Set up another bureau of “Tnyestigation”—to heund and ar- rest militant workers—in the De- partment of Justice. 3. Set a penalty of $10,000 or ten years’ imprisonment, or both, for participation in such activities. Evidently in response to the recent exposure of the Committee, its | members refrained from mentioning again their ridiculous “Communist plot to kidnap the President.” This plot does receive space, how- ever, in hearings published by the committee. It was delivered by Walter Steel, who was exposed by the Daily Worker as actively mobil- izing police chiefs to arrest Com- | munist leaders. “Daiiy” Exposed Lies Significantly, also, the commit- tee report does not refer to the committee's previously published’ | repetition of the Fur Manufactur- ;ers’ charge that the militant Fur Workers’ Union “assaulted” work- ers to force them in. The Daily | Worker exposed the fact that the | committee refused to allow the mil- \itamt union's spokesmen to present the proof of the falseness of the | attack, As predicted by the Daily Worker, the committee white- washed the fascist persecution of | American workers and propa- | ganda activities of Italian fascist | diplomats in the United States. It did include a bare reference | counter-revolutionary forces in the ican Civic Federation and the Elks ef which Chairman McCormack of the Committee is a member, bear exactly the same relation to the question. “Communism, moreover, is of for- eign origin and is directed by an alien organization outside of the United States,” the Committee re- port misstates, ‘The real reason for such attacks, and for the Committee’s whole ex- istence and program, appears in part in the report. It quotes a statement by Chairman McCor- |mack: “A period of profound and protracted depression has followed in the wake of the World War... . During such a period of unrest, dis- content with the existing order and @ wide-spread agitation for change in the form, character, and sub- stance of governments has spread over the world, overturning estab- lished governments and resulting in many new and radical experiments in government.” Conceals Reason The report, however, conceals the reason why this discontent and agitation worries the Committee and its guide, banker Felix M. War- burg, who has close business affili- ations with Morgan. It is that such working class struggle, led by the Communist Party, hampers the ef- fort of the open-shop employers to get out of the economic crisis ‘by further and further repressing the workers and farmers, step by step | to open capitalist dictatorship, or full fascism. The Committee report includes the testimony given by Browder and James W. Ford. This testi- mony was taken in secret session, The Committee report asserts that it “constitutes a virtual plea of guilty” to “charges” that have been made. In this testimony, as printed by the Committee, Browder specific- ally requested “that if any of the ments become the basis for any conclusions of the Committee, that we be permitted to give further evi- dence with regard to them.” ” Later, after the Committee an- nounced publicly its intention of urging legislation against the Com- munist Party, a telegraphic request was made to the Committee to hear a Communist spokesman. The Com- mittee ignored the wire. published, relates exclusively to the is a “political continuity” between the decisions adopted by. the Com- Party of the United States ap- proved these and declared they ap- plied fully to conditions here. Throughout its report, the Com- mittee bracketed Nazi, Communist and Fascist “Dictatorships,” at- tempting to cover up the directly opposite ends of the working class struggle for a government giving all power to the masses of workers and farmers, and the capitalists’ half-masked dictatorship to full ter- to them, with the face-saving stall mittee’s recommendations, United States, such as the Amer- | questions involved in these state-' The Browder-Ford testimony, now universally known fact that there munist International and the reso- lutions in .which the Communist conspiracy to extend their present roristic suppression of the masses under Fascist dictatorship. The true anti-working .class purpose of. this.) is fully demonstrated by the com- and white, native and foreign-born | Steel workers. We must see to it| that Negroes become organizers. We have about 100,000 Negroes among the steel workers. If we smash the Jim Crow fentes we can win our struggle. “Must Advance or Give Up” Said delegate Powers from Balti- more, Md.; Our leadership has been retreating for the last four years. We are fighting with our backs to the wall. We must either advance or give up. We decide to advance. | Those who propose to split the union are wrong. The Amalgamated Association is good enough for us. ‘We need no new organization; we need a militant program. We need new federation. The American Fed- eration of Labor has five million | members; let us organize them into |@ powerful rank and file movement. |The spirit in our lodges is better today than it was six months ago. | The lodges are taking things into | their own hands. Said delegate Allen from India- |napolis: One of the tricks of the | | bosses would be just this—to launch |a dual union against us, to break the ranks of the workers. This would be their way of stopping a strike in steel, coal, aluminum, auto, which in my judgment is imminent, If Mike Tighe cannot control the | militant union, then our withdrawal would only make it easier for the steel corporations to use the Amal- gamated Association as a company union. The leadership of our union is a rotten outfit, but the union it- self has a 60-year prestige, Let us send a committee to Tighe, let us demand his resignation. If the com- mittee is kicked out, let us organize a rank-and-file march of 1,000 steel workers demanding his resignation, This will electrify the steel workers throughout the country. We must have the 30-hour week and higher | Pay. The 30-hour week alone is not sufficient. We shall have to strike to realize our demands. “Red Scare” Exposed Delegate Lesko from McKeesport, Pa., protests against Tighe’s calling | the militants “Reds.” He says: When Mike Tighe spreads his red scare he does it against the inter- ests of the people. Who is to blame? Mike Tighe. They say we are “Reds.” I was born in this coun- try. I belong here. The United States belongs to us; we do not want any other country; but we want to be able to live. When I was in Washington as a delegate to the Unemployed Insurance Con- gress, Jan. 5 to 7, we sent a del- egation to see our Official, Bill Green. Mr. Green said, “I don’t want to see a bunch of dogs"—that’s what he calls us. John Lewis, whom we feed out of the mouths of our kids, re- fuses to see us. This cannot go on any longer. “We Must Organize!” Delegate Hobbs from ’s Point, Md., struck a note that found tremendous response amiong the del- egates. We want to be organized, he says. Organization—that’s true be among the first to be affected by the contemplated spread of the strike, according to union officials. Use ‘Menace-to-Health’ Gag In a statement Thursday, Major | Curran, who was praised by Bam- brick as a “friend of labor,” char- acterized the strike of the workers as a “menace to public health.” Lit- tle is expected by the workers from such “friends.” While the workers, disatisfied with the dilly-dallying of the arbitration board and the officials, were pre- paring to reject the award, spokes- men of realty interests declared yes- terday that the award binds indi- vidual owners to nothing. The an organizatoin drive. We need no| realty owners are seen to be get- | ting ready to back out of the agree- ment should they be forced to make concessions. Immediately after the agreement was signed last year, Lawrence B. Cummings, chairman of the Realty Board on Labor Relations, stated in a letter to owners, that the agreement “binds you to nothing.” The sentiment of the workers for a city-wide strike, Jed by a broad strike committee composed of dele- gates elected by each building, was voiced. yesterday by numerous mem- bers of the union. All indications point to a militant strike. Schooled by the lessons of the last strike and their experiences since, the workers are determined not to permit a repetition of months of dragging out and then compul-: sory arbitration. “In this strike,” one of the work- ers said, “all final settlement will be made only after the approval of the men on the job.” A. F, L. Group Backs Strike In a statement issued yesterday, the New York A. F, of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance and Relief, called on members of the union and all building service workers to unite in real strike for better conditions. Protesting against the Jack of democracy in the union the state- ment reads in part: “The strike should be spread. Full control by elected committees of the men should be instituted at once. The tyrannical attitude of Bambrick will only serve to hurt the spirit and unity of the men. Bambrick must not threaten men who wish to make suggestions for strike action and for the right of the members to discuss all pro- posals of the officials, as he did at the shop chairmen’s meeting, Monday, Feb. 11, and at the mem- bership meeting, Feb. 13, when he caused the ejection of a member without permitting him to make his point of procedure.” For Services Rendered NEW YORK, Feb. 15 (U.P.).— Adolf Hitler is honored in this year’s issue of the Almanach De Gotha, the “bible” of royalty, no- bility and world statesmen, with a full-page portrait. Americanism, Ever since our fath- ers came to America they were or- ganized. We cannot stay unorgan- ized. Our forefathers would turn in their graves if they saw how yel- low we are. A bunch of bureau- crats on top who could be easily re- moved by a few people, control our destinies. This must not go on any Jonger. In another three years one- third of the workers now engaged will be able to produce all the steel needed for the country, so rapid is the progress of improved machinery. | What shall be done with the rest? Must they die? We must ‘create a situation where all these people work and are paid for their work. Old Cunningham from Aliquippa, Pa., is met with a great ovation by the conference. Cunningham is a Negro steel worker. I am happy, he says, to be here now. This proves that we are becoming tired of our chains, I knew unionism when I was a boy of 16. Now at the age of 63 I know better what unions can do. For these last 40 years capital has been chasing us around the country like rabbits. It is about time we |. I used to say that Aliquippa does not belong to the United States. I used to joke that it belnogs to my native coun- try, Africa. You couldn't breathe a word in Aliquippa. You couldn't whisper without the bosses’ sleuths taking hold of you. Now we have our union in Aliquippa and things look different. Let Us Start The union has now the right to meet in Aliquippa. It is about time we introduced some freedom throughout the United States, Your officials and your bosses say, “Don’t communicate with a Negro, with a Hunky.” I say: Let us unite all together to free the territory of the United States. We have been kicked too long! Let us start up hill, It was a militant conference—and it was a conference of men con- scious of their connection with, the masses of the steel workers. As you watched the conference, as you list- ened to the speeches, as you became animated with the spirit of |the Proceedings, you said to yourself: Under such leadership the hundreds of thousands of steel workers can be organized, and once. organized. they can put up a real mass fight. families off relief who do not show the “proper” degree of servitude when she is prying into their pri- vate affairs. Admits Bills Aimed at C.P. (Continued from Page 1) | the soldiers to hold off fire without facing such penalties. McCormack hinted that the De- partment of State also may be en- listed in the Roosevelt government's drive against militant working class activities. He said: “I can tell you, there’s going to be less activity from these propa- ganda organizations. Now, the State Department—well, I'd better not talk about that, but I'll say there'll be action against these propaganda organizations, including the Com- munists.” Wants Registration of C. P. It was pointed out to McCormack that one of his committee's recom- mendations, in the light of state- ments in the body of the report, seems to furnish a basis for requir- ing the membership of the Com- munist Party to register. McCor- mack was asked whether this was intended. “Sure,” he replied. Asked aagin why the committee refused to hear a spokesman for the Communist Party in open session, McCormack said, “That question never was presented to the commit- tee.” The Daily Worker published the telegraphic presentation of the question weeks ago. McCormack re- peated the misrepresentation in his report—that Earl Browder’s testi- mony “is a plea and an admission of guilt.” He added, “I didn’t have to listen to his philosophy. A man like Browder will tell you the truth.” The “truth’Browder told was the universally emphasized fact that the Communist Party of the United States is affiliated with the world working class revolutionary movye- ment, Tighe Blocked On Expulsions (Continued from Page 1) other victory for the Rank and File. Rank and File leaders are under no illusions regarding the Execu- tive Council's action. Commenting on it this morning, William Spang, District 1 (Pittsburgh), president of the A. A., declared to the Daily Worker, “This victory has only been brought about through the pressure of the Rank and File on the In- ternational officials and the A. F. of L. Nor will the ‘steel workers wait until the A. F. of L. makes up, its mind to begin the promised drive, which Green has already hinted will be delayed until after he “attends to other pressing mat- ters—particularly in the automotive field.” Spang added, “We are determined that the steel workers shall be or- ganized into a real fighting union, and this is the union we intend to make the Amalgamated. “In order not to lose any time pending action by the A. F. of L. Council we are launching the or- ganization campaign on Feb. 23, following the decision of the Or- ganization Committee last Sunday.” Word has been received here that. Mel Moore, militant Rank and File leader of fhe Second District and employed at the Weirton Steel Co., was fired yesterday upon his re- turn from the Washington con- ference. _ ‘A telegram has been sent to William Green demanding action on the discharge, pointing out that Moore was discharged _ Store for Bread POLA, Italy, Feb, 15 (U.P.).—The government has informed the muni- cipality that Premier Benito Musso- lini will. donate to the city a statue of the Emperor Augustus, Dyers to Send Paterson Man (On Soviet Tour ss Representative of 12000 Workers to Spend May Day in Red Square PATERSON. N. J., Feb. 15.—The 12,000 of the Paterson Dyers Local will be represented at the May Day celebration in Moscow's Red Square by a delegate chosen at a recent | meeting. The local is the largest tetxile unit in the American Federation of Labor. Two hundred dollars-were voted to finance the trip. The delegate will be a member of a large trade union . delegation which will leave on April 15, ‘The delegates will remain for six or eight weeks in the Soviet Union as guests of the Soviet trade unions visiting factories, mines, collective farms and schools. The enthusiasm of the workers in Paterson was so great that shop chairmen and workers of the mill requested the Friends of the Soviet Union to call a conference of all trade unions in Paterson to start a campaign for a mass delegation to the Soviet Union representing Pat- erson labor, Trial on Coast Is Continued (Continued from Page 1) but the court refuses to allow any explanation of Communist theory and principles. Testimony Barred All expert testimony is to be barred, including an explanation of Communist theory by Sam Darcy, Communist candidate for governor of California in the last elections. Although the defense is ‘hampered in explaining the program and aims of the Communist Party for social jemancipation and a fuller life for the toiling majority of the popula- tion, Judge Lemmon allows Special Prosecutor McAlliste- full rein to rave about the beauties of capital- ism. From this touching picture of + the beauties of capitalism is ex- cluded, by special order of the judce, all mention by the defense of the crisis, dislocation of capitalist in- dustry and agriculture, and chronic unemployment for millions ‘of toil- ers who face increasing misery and starvation under capitalism. Case Continued A continuance to Monday was granted yesterday by Judge Lem- mon, who previously denied a mo- tion by Leo Gallagher, Interna- tional Labor Defense attorney, for a month’s continuance. Gallagher based his motion on the rabid lynch incitement in the boss press against, the defendants, which precludes any chance of an impartial. verdict for the defendants. Gallagher's motion was made on Wednesday, after the prosecution rested its case. New Attorney Grover Johnson, I. L. D. attorney, will enter the case on Monday to assist Gallagher. Norman Mini, Trotzkyite defend- ant, whose stool-pigeon statement of last August to the prosecution has been introduced as evidence, concluded. his testimony yesterday. Under cross-examination by Mc- Allister, he detailed an adventur- ous scheme for the seizure of power. Gallagher told the court that Mini's distorted views on the seizure of power are not held by the other defendants, who will make their own statements on this question later. Despite fallacies. and dis- tortions in Mini’s testimony, due in part to his own ignorance of Com- munist theory and to Trotzkyite in- structions, the prosecution was placed at great disadvantage. Even Mini’s half-truths made McAllister squirm. Albert Goldman, Trotzkyite at- torney for Mini, is now withdraw- ing from the case, to return after the other defendants have finished presenting evidence. The Auditor's office announced today that $10,819.66 has heen spent on the trial so far, although not half of the bills are in yet. Estimate is that. cost of prosecution has been $25,000 to date, not including salaries. Two of five defendants still held in jail for lack of bail are very sick, — and the International Labor Defense has issued another urgent plea for funds, and for the sending of pro- tests to Judge Lemmon and Gov- ernor Frank Merriam, both at Sac- ramento, Calif. demanding the dropping of the charges against the defendants. and repeal of the anti- labor criminal syndicalism law. Despite You, Madame ITHACA, N. Y., Feb. 15 (U.P.).— The present problems of America will soon be solved and “we will turn over to the next generation a nation which is beginning at least to climb upward to a more just and — equiteble civilization,” Mrs. Frank- — lin D. Roosevelt predicted in a speech at Cornell's Farm and Home — Week. AT Minkoff, Communist Leader, Dies in U.S.S.R. MOSCOW, Feb, 15.—Isaak Mink+ off, outstanding Russian Commu nist, died here last Friday at the age of 41. Minkoff was secretary of the Rus: sian section of the Social Demo- cratic Party of Canada from 191( to 1915. He was engaged in revo lutionary activity in Philadelphiy and New York until 1917, when hf returned to Russia. The loss of Minkoff to the revolutionary movement is deept mourned here, ¢ SRR |