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Page’ 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1935 STATEMENT REVEALS TREACHERY OF TROTZKYITE IN TRIAL STATEMENT OF MIN IN SACRAMENTO TRIAL IS EPIC OF BETRAYAL Trotzkyite Revealed Name of Donald Bingham to Police and Slandered Other Defendants in Interview With Prosecutor McAllister SACRAMENTO, Calif. abridgement of the thir By Michael Quin Feb, page stool-pigeon statement given 20. — Following is an by Norman Mini, Trotzkyite and one of the 17 Sacramento defendants, to the prosecution last August. The prosecution has found it more valuable than any- thing supplied by the hired stool- @ pigeons of the California industrial ists and agricult’ ts who engineer- ed the frame-up of the defendants. It is Mini's statement that pro- vided the foundation for the pres- ent criminal syndicalism trial. That to the of Donald face trial when the present proceedings are over Mini’s act of directly associating himself with the notorious Worl ers’ Party (Trotzky directly after giving prosecution ii weapon against the other sixteen defendants, indicate that Mini acted in this matter on the instructions of the Trotzkyite leaders, as he has been doing throughout the trial here. Other Defendants Steadfast The prosecution has attempted to force all the other defendants to be- tray their class, They refused. When it came to Mini's turn, he promptly fell in line with the. prosecution’s wishes, answering McAllister’s lead- ing questions in the. manner he knew McAllister desired, The statement was made on Aug. 12, 1934, in the presence of Neil McAllister, then district attorney, and since his defeat in the recent elections named as special prose- cutor. Others present at the time were County Detective Kroll, two red squad officers, and representatives from both the San Francisco Ex- aminer and the Chronicle. Mini's Statement Mini declared that he had spent three years at West Point but was court-martialed and expelled for getting drunk on the football team. When asked who first interested him in Communism he gave the jects that did not hinge around any- thing as broad as that. Q.: That was his advocacy? A.: Yes, I assume it was. Q.: What did he do around there? A.: Well, he used to sell papers down in the Plaza. Q.: That these Communist papers? A.: ¥: McAllister asked him about three other names, but he didn’t know thing to speak of about them. He then identified a Sacramento worker in no way involved in the trial and gave all the information he could. About four pages are devoted to a description of the drill class Mini once started to teach. He identified as many workers as he could re- member in this class including Donald Bingham whose subsequent arrest was a direct result of this in- formation. The prosecution was ignorant of Bingham’s name until the Trotzky- ite told them. They immediately concentrated their questions around Bingham ,and Mini made every ef- fort to remember particulars. The drill itself was a harmless affair intended to prepare workers for a parade and abandoned after the first. meeting. “Imagines” She Is Communist Questioned about Lorine Norman, the squealer did his best to supply the prosecution with information, but since most of his acquaintance with her was when she was con- nected with the Socialist Party, he couldn’t say much. In conclusion, McAllister asked if Lorrine Norman was a member of the Communist Party. is, Of Lithuania | Dies in USSR: Mitshevitch - Kapsukas Played Leading Role in Revolution (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 20 (By Cable) — An admirable revolutionist and a nt strategist in a hundred | critical moments during the course of the revolution and after it, Vin- cent’ Mitskevitch-Kapsukas, member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International and lead- er of the Lithuanian Communist Party, who died here yesterday, was mourned by all sections of. the Com- munist International and the So-| viet government, as well as by mil-| lions of workers in the Soviet Union and throughout the world, Born in 1880 in Lithuania, Vin- cent Mitskevitch-Kapsukas joined | the revolutionary movement on the eve of the revolution of 1905. Being connected with th. prepa- rations for revolutionary actions in the garrison at Mariampol, Mitske- | vitch was arrested for the first time. | After a successful escape he again | occupied a,.fighting post, actively participating in Party work as al member of the Centra: Committee | of the Social-Demoerats of Lithu-| ania and as editor of the central} party organ. Sentenced to 3 Years In the spring of 1907 Mitskevitch was again imprisoned. In 1909 he} was sentenced to penal servitude after three years’ preliminary im-| prisonment. After finishing his| penal servitude sentence, Mitske-| vitch fled from Siberia into Galicia, | At the beginning of the war Mitskevitech went to England, where he actively participated in work among Lithuanian miners. There he edited a local Lithuanian Social-Democrat paper, Rankpolnis, and the Social-Demokratas, the central ©rgan of the Social-Demo- | crats in Lithuania. In these press | organs he conducted a merciless | struggle against Lithuanian social- patriotisny. Worked in U. S. A. In 1916 Mitskevitch went to| America, where he worked actively among the Lithuanian workers, | heading the struggle against Lithu- | anian social-patriotism. This strug- | gle was also carried into Lithuania. | After the Zimmerwald conference, Leader of C.P. Hearst Photos Faked; VIGILANTE TERROR DRI VE Spike Lies at Garden SWEEPS THROUGH NATION (Continued from Page 1) Spare no expense—and nothing. And his exeeutives are stopping at nothing in the cam- paign of villification and slander. Thus, in the issue of Monday, Feb. 18, the New York Evening Journal publishes what is purported to be a scene of destitution in the Soviet Union. ACTUALLY THIS PICTURE IS OF AN AUSTRIAN DRAGOON STANDING NEAR ONE OF THE FALLEN HORSES ON A STRIP OF LAND LAID WASTE BY ARTILERY FIRE. The picture was taken after one of the battles in the last war. | Similar faked pictures with slan- | derous titles against the Soviet Voelkische Beobachter, Der Sturmer and other Nazi papers and are many. So raw and nauseating 4s. this | deluge of poisonous propaganda | that its commission has been com- mented upon by Walter Duranty in his dispatch of Feb. 19 to the New York Times, What is more, the New York Times admits that (contrary to the fabrieations about any famine) the farmers aze now “celebrating huge successes in all parts of the Soviet Union.” | The order to intensify the prop- aganda offensive against the So- viet Union has been accompanied with another by Hearst to sup- press in his. papers all news of the growing resentment and up- surge of the workers against the Roosevelt administration. Under this Hearst decree, no paper owned by the fascist’ pub- lisher is to publish any “attacks” on Roosevelt made from the “left” either by individuals or organiza- tions. ON THE OTHER HAND, ALL Miner Held In Frame-up (Continued from Page 1) idle, with no attempts being made | | to operate any. From all indica- tions, however, the company is lay- ing a basis for a grand opening. For this, hysteria is being whipped | up. With the “dynamiting story” |NEWS FAVORABLE TO THE AD- MINISTRATION WITH ITS PRO- stop at|GRAM OF WAGE CUTS, GOM-| PANY UNIONISM, OPPOSITION TO UNEMPLOYMENT INSUR- | ANCE, SLASHING OF RELIEF AND WAR PREPARATIONS I§ TO BE PLAYED UP IN THE HEARST PAPERS. This latest Hearst order to his lieutenants comes at a time when a new wave of strikes is sweeping over the country. It comes at & time when the masses, thoroughly isgusted with the false promises of | Roosevelt, are demanding an end| to the whole starvation program of the administration. Hearst has ordered his executives ‘to bar all news exposing Roosevelt's | Union are now appearing in the| hunger program and war prepara- | tions at a time when the Wall Street administration at Washington and 4 being circulated throughout Ger- | the different State Legislatures are taking steps to outlaw the Commu- nist Party. This secret order, revealed by a Western newspaperman who is in | intimate contact. with the Hearst or- ganization, further illustrates that |the attacks upon the Communist |Party are being made as a ruse to paralyze the organized labor move- | ment and destroy the political rights |of the American working class. | The workers of America must an- swer these new attacks upon their rights at once. All workers, stu- dents, professionals, intellectuals and small business men should boycott the Hearst press. | Workers of New York and those |allied to them must mass in thou- jsands at the Madison Square Gar- |den next Monday evening to show \their solidarity against the Hearst- | Hitler deal, against the attacks on | the Soviet Union and against the | Wall Street propaganda campaign |for a fascist dictatorship in Amer- ica. 5 cplit Fais May GoMayorHints (Continued from Page 1) B.-M.T., contains the same idea in even more. explicit form. It says: “The rate of fare in the lease from the city to the Board of Transit Control will be five cents unless and until changed by the 'Anti-Labor NRA To Go On | (Continued from Page 1) textile strike last September, stated | today: “We are enthusiastically and | | wholeheartedly behind the prin- | ciples of the N.R.A.” Administration leaders as well as | President Roosevelt withheld speci- | fic legislative proposals to carry out | the extension of the N. R. A. | Evidently they wish to get other | anti-labor legislation out of the | way first. In addition, they are trying to quiet mass protests ‘against the present N. R. A. set- up, protests which have resulted not only in unprecedented strike | struggles, but also in forcing de- mands in the Senate for investiga- | | tion of the effects of the blue eagle | | measures upon small business and | labor. | | Senate “Investigation” | Maneuvering to accomplish this, | the Senate Finance Committee to- | day reported favorably a resolution to make such an “investigation.” | This report, however, would place | the “investigation” in the hands |of the Senate Finance Committee itself—and it is recognizedly one |of the most reactionary groups in | the Senate—instead of in those of | the Senate Commerce Committee, which contains a few liberals who | might embarrass the Administra- | tion by asking questions. | The Roosevelt message again em- | ployed the very language of the open shoppers when, carefully | avoiding any reference to the fa- mous Section 7-A, it declared: “The rights of employees freely | to organize for the purposes of col- | lective bargaining should be fully protected.” | This is precisely .the verbiage | used by the industrialists who wish | to restrict “collective bargaining” | between employers and “employe- representatives.” On Monopolies On the question of monopolistic | control of N. R, A. Codes, the Pres- | ident declared that “The funda- | mental principles of the anti-trust {laws should be more adequately ap- plied.” However, he said this only after first insisting upon the “prin- ciples” of N. R, A., which speci- \imagination of the American people and received their overwhelming support.” | In a public statement issued | just three days ago, Senator Pat MeCurran, Nevada Democrat, de- | clared, “I have received a deluge of evidence to substantiate the complaint of code evils which are common talk in ail parts of the country. The authors of these complaints include not only the individual victims of malpractice and malfeasance in office but also some of the most reputable of our civic bodies . . . We would be derelict in our duty if we ignored or permitted to pass with- out examination what amounts to a wholesale indictment on a nation-wide scale of conditions which have arisen under the N. R.A” President Roosevelt contended that the N-R.A, was “the biggest factor in giving re-employment to approximately four million people.” Apparently aware of the impossi- bility of reconciling this claim with \the fact that estimates of. unem- ployment today range from 14,000,- 000 to 17,000,000, the President said that estimates of unemployment for the spring and summer of 1933 were “far too low.” He said that under the NRA, “millions of wage earners have been released from the starvation wages and excessive hours of labor.” What he didn't mention is that his own lieutenant, Emergency Council Di- rector Donald R. Richberg, reported that real wages of the average manufacturing worker dropped 1.1 per cent from June, 1933 to June, | 1984. New Building: Strike Looms (Continued from Page 1) nored even the elementary courtesy of answering the demands of their employes for humane conditions of labor.” Big Buildings Organized The Union is concentrating on the biggest skyscrapers in the city, it was announced yesterday. Thus far, officials said, workers in the ~¢ Conference ‘C alled ‘in Illinois to Fight Syndicalism Law LANCASTER, Pa., Feb. 20—The campaign of the local Elgs against | “Lancaster County ‘Reds’” has met one snag after another. After electing their anti-Commu- nist Committee (significantly free of workers), the Elks sent blank Petitions to all the local ministers via Western Union messengers. Not one of the clergymen interviewed by the Daily Worker representative would have anything to do with this attempt to muzzle the workers and poor farmers in their struggles. The climax came when an anti- Communist petition was passed around the local American Legion headquarters for signatures last week. By Sunday night, according to reliable information, less than ten had affixed their names, Tlinois State Conference CHICAGO, Feb. 19.—The battle lines are forming sharply here in the fight around the criminal syn- |dicalist law, as the date nears for the conference called by the Inter- national Labor Defense in the fight for repeal of the anti-labor law. The conference will be held at Arion Hall, Fourth and Adams Streets, Springfield, Ill.) next Sun- day, Feb. 24, starting at: 10 a.m. A letter received by the office of the Chicago District I.L.D. states: “We, the members of local union No. 100 Progressive Miners of America, went on record endorsing the repeal of the criminal syndical- ist law. We will wholeheartedly sup- port any measure to help repeal this hateful law which is so detrimental to the workers and farmers of the state.” Local 1397 United Mine Workers of America is among the growing list of unions and other’ workers’ organizations supporting the fight for repeal. Vigilantes Attack JACKSON, Calif., Feb, 19.—Armed vigilantes, led by Sheriff's officers attacked striking mine pickets here on Friday and set their camp afire. Stoves, chairs, tables, boxes, focd stuffs, everything that had been collected by the strikers, were « een i Mitskevitch joined the left Zimmer- | js coupled a systematic soliciting of rd it a the | fically lift anti-trust provisions, Empire State Building, tailest sky-| thrown into the blazing ruins of name and address of the person.| ., “No. sit,” said Mini, “I imagine | yaig group. He went to Petrograd| 4. a company foremen, evic- vere gia nga) oe | “To abandon them,” Roosevelt | scraper in the world, have been or- | strike headquarters. Then the following dialog with Mc- | ‘ough {after the February revolution in ‘ 3 sald of the N, R. A. pro-monopoly Allister: | Q.: What was your idea when | you. joined the Communist Party, that is what I was trying to get at? A.: We wanted to see what it was all about. | After this declaration that he had Joined the struggle of the workers, not out of sincerity and convictions but foppish curiosity, Mini said that the aforementioned “person who first introduced him” also joined the Party at the same time. Without any effort to explain his statements, Mini made distorted and misleading affirmations involving all the other defendants, McAllister now handed Mini a prospectus of the Sacramento Work- ers School on which he was listed as an instructor of Marxian Economics. He explained that the course was abandoned and he never taught it. Q.: Would you pardon me if I| appear to be ignorant on the sub- Ject—I_ confess I am somewhat ig-| norant on the subject—can you ex- | plain to me what is Marxian eco- | nomics? A.: Well, it is a system of | economics just like any other sys- | tem; there were several great ‘sys- tems of economic philosophy. Attacks Marx Q.: Who was Marx? A.: He was a German Jew. r That is what Marx meant to this unprincipled renegade. McAllister had to remind him that Marx wrote books. Q.: And he wrote many books on Communist advancement, did he| not? For the advancement of Com- | munism? A.: I guess he did. You! could call it that. | _ He then proceeded to give McAl- | lister a garbled and idiotic descrip- tion of Marxism. McAllister gave | him leading questions all the while| to draw out statements on force and | Violence, and Mini obliged him| profusely. | Q.: It was intended to substitute— it was intended to have the working class rise and by revolution and | “You imagine what?” “IT imagine she is a Communist, she found’ out she couldn’t just change by voting.” He did not know enough about Harry Collentz or Luther Mincy to say much, but told what he could. Q.: You don’t remember any par- ticular conversation you had with him? A.: No, the talk was about revolu- tion. Q.: They all talked about revolu- tion? A.: Yes, that is the central theme of most of the conversation. Suspended from the Party i 2 ork | tion notices, increasing notices to acta. here he began active work | stores that credjt to striking miners followed the Bolsheviks. He became | Must be stopped. |a member of the Central Bureau of} Some district officials have for the the Lithuanian section of the Rus- | past few days been deeply absorbed | sian Social-Democratic Labor Party | in legal technicalities for an appeal | (Bolsheviks). against the injunction, which has al- He actively participated in the de- | ready been filed in Philadelphia, but fense of Petrograd against the ad-/|no decisive measures have yet been | vance of General Krasnov in the | taken to prepare strikers for the ex- October days. The Council of Peo- | pected concentrated attack. Nor has - |ple’s Commissars then appointed | the issue been brought to the rank {him Commissar for Lithuanian Af-| and file of the U. M. W. A. to show | fairs. At the end of 1918 Mitske-| that the company’s attack is prelim- | vitch went to Vilna, which was then | inary to smashing their union as | occupied by German troops, where | well. He told of how he had been called | he was a leading force in the ex-| before the disciplinary committee | puision of occupational troops frem | |and was suspended from the Party| Lithuania. When the Provisional | }and vented some of his wrath by | Revolutionary Workers’ and Peas- | slandering the Party again. At all times his answers implied ants’ Government of Lithuania was | | formed, he was elected president of force of arms, Mini replied definite- | vitch was elected candidate to the fellowship with the prosecution. He/ the government and soon elected disowned, slandered and ridiculed | chairman of the Council of People’s the other defendants. In giving in-| Gommissars of the Soviet Socialist formation on Pat Chambers, he was | Republic of Lithuania. especially scornful and depreciat- Worked Underground ing, giving his personal opinions of] when the Lithuanian and White | this comrade as fully as he might if} Russian republics fell, in 1920-21, discussing the matter with an in-| yitskevitch-Kapsukas, despite the | timate friend. hard conditions of the occupational When it came to’ Albert Hougardy | terror, despite the fact that he was he loosed the full fury of his venge- | well-known, remained in under- fulness, making all his answers em- ground work in Lithuania. Phatic ‘and destructive. In 1919 Mitskevitch was elected as | Mini is _known always to have candidate to the Central Committee been especially hostile to Hougardy. | of the Communist Party of the So- When McAllister asked if Hou-| viet Union. In 1924 at the Fifth gardy ever advocated overthrow by | Congress of the Comintern, Mitske- ly: “Yes, sir.” He also identified | Executive Committee of the Com- Hougardy as Section Organizer and | munist International, and at the Was very explicit as to his activities. | Sixth Congress in 1928 he was Guessed About Defendants | elected a member of the E. C. C. I. Many more workers were men-|” il this time, until the last days tioned whom Mini did not know of his life, Mitskevitch, despite the anything about. He told everything serious illness which seriously weak- he could recall and alot that he ened his body, courageously ful- guessed about defendants Mike filled responsible work in the Com- Plesh, Caroline Decker, Martin Wil- munist International. son, A. G. Ford, Nora Conklin and | Jack Warnick. He was especially | mild in stooling about Jack Warnick | who was a particular friend of his. | He also gave full details about Lin- | might be—I am not sure, I never) did see who was going to teach the Preparation for resistance on the basis of unity of members of both unions, together with unemployed miners, is the central task being pushed by Luzerne County Section of the Communist Party. The Party statement points out that the arrest of six workers of No. 20 Tunnel is opening a renewed reign of terror to smash unionism in the coal fields, and that only mass resistance will prevent the anthracite from be- coming an open shop territory. Adam Barwinski and Charles Nemitz of Nanticoke, two strikers, were sentenced to one year and $100 fine, by Injunction Judge Va- lentine yesterday. One of most brazen examples of strike-breaking action of some officials in the U. M. W. A. was displayed when the cases of Pat and Harry Mangan, still hanging on from the previous strike, came up this morning. George Ra- movich, Secretary-Treasurer of the U. M. W. A. Local 1194, came into court and openly paid $6.50 to each of a large number of “witnesses” for their trouble in coming down and testifying against these active work- ers of the U. A. M. P. tionment of the cliy.” According to the well-known ad- Eighth Avenue line will be linked to the B. M. T. as part of the “unifi- cation” process. While the unified lines will show a profit—operating expenses will be more than met by operating income—the costs of meeting the interest to the bond- holders will make the lines a losing proposition. Under the State law, the city- owned line must be self-supporting cent fare, it must raise the fare, in everything else, in city, state and federal politics, the interests of the security holders must be guaranteed. | ministration plan,. the city-owned | by Sept., 1936. If it cannot be “self- | | Supporting” by: that date on a five- | AS | provisions, “is unthinkable. Tt | would spell the return of indus- trial and labor chaos.” 3 Once more employing the essence of published pronouncements by such a big-business executive as General Hugh 8. Johnson, former N. R. A. Administrator, the Pres- ident’s message included the fol- | lowing passage, strongly reminiscent |of Johnson's recent Saturday Eve- | ning Post articles: “We must work out the co- jordination of every code with every other code. We must simplify pro- | cedure. We must continue to ob- | jtain current information as to the working out of code processes. We must constantly improve a person- nel which, of necessity, was hastily Thus, unification is defined as @ assembled . . . we must check and method of forcing a legal rise in the |clarify such provisions in the va- force of arms substitute a working |Coln Grametz, Young Communist class government for the capitalistic | League organizer, who is not in- government? A.: Yes, if necessary.|VOlved in the case at all. Even if When asked if the Communist|Mini only vaguely knew some . Party was the Party Marx referred | Worker mentioned, he would “spill course in dramatics—I never knew anything about it. Q@.: My information thus far is this, that June Parker was the original instructor in that course, ‘THE EMPLOYERS TO WEAKEN | (Continued from Page 1) UP SECTION BY SECTION. DO NOT ALLOW ACT IN ALL SECTIONS—ACT IN THE BRONX to in his works, Mint replied: “well, | they think it is the one; the Social-| ists think theirs is the one, and so forth.” Later, McAllister asked him: “It Would take over the government by force of arms?” and Mini replied: “kes, sir.” “And that was the teachings of | - Marx?” McAllister asked. | ~ “That is the way I understand it,” replied Mini. ‘) At all times Mini used the words | ‘them” and “they” in hope of dis- | sassociating himself from the whole | ness. Betrays Other Defendants | Next the Trotzkyite identified | Jack Crane, told everything he knew about him, declared iim to be the | secretary of the Sacramento Sec- | tion of the Communist Party. | “Did he advocate overthrow ot the government by revolution?” Me- Allister asked. | “I couldn’t say whether he did or not. I think he probably did,” replied Mini. Asked about defendant W. H. Huf- fine, he related all the particulars | | Stool pigeon zeal: and that she left, then June Phares took it up when she left. Do you know anything about that? A.: No; probably that is the same person. Q.: You think June Parker and | June Phares are the same person? | A.: Yes. Q.: Do you know that? A.: I am not sure, but I think they are; I never saw June Parker, but I seen June Phares. Despises Workers’ Efforts Note how Mini’s answer despises the workers’ efforts and pals up with the prosecution. | A.: Yes, a terrible thing they had | | up at the Workers’ Center. | @.: Do you still belong to the Comminist Party? A.: Yes. Q.: Do you intend to continue to belong to it? A.: Oh, I don’t know; that is, my ideas and theirs are not the same any more, and they don’t know it. The full document is too long to print completely. Mini isthe piece of political garbage which the Workers Party (Trotzkyites) wel- comed into their ranks and are us- ing aS a means of entering the trial | his guts” to the extent he was able to relate particulars which “he understood” or “imagined” or “as-'| sumed.” The following dialog will | give some idea of the renegade’s| Q.: Do you know Ray Anderson? A.? Yes, Q.: What do you know about | him? A.: He used to be what they | called an “Agit-Prop.” Explains “Agit-Prop” Q.: An “Agit-Prop,” what is that? | A.: It 4s a contraction for agitation | and propaganda, and he used to| get out leaflets—that is what his job consisted of. Q.: Did he set up the stencils? A.: Yes, then he left here. Q.: Where is he now? A.: I under- | stand he went down to Tulare, to| be section organizer down there— he got promoted. Q.: Do you know June Parker? A.: No. Q.: June Parker was a lady; she was one of the teachers, I find her name on here, on this list. A.: Dramatics? Q.: Yes, she was a teacher in one | he could remember and then: | of the courses here—does that re- 9.: Did he advocate the overthrow | fresh your memory? A.: It might of the government by revolution? | be her, and it might be June Phares. A.: I imagine he did; he usually! Q.: Is June Phares and June talked on technical political sub-| Parker the same person? A.: Yes, and disrupting the Communist |Party. Of the two enemies, stool- pigeons and the Trotakyite Mini, SUPPORT YOUR STRUGGLE. mands, swered by the unanimous protest of labor union. be members of other unions. union. Instead of developing the the workers to arbitration and to if accepted. the Trotzkyite has proven the more vicious, the employers and LaGuardia. AND BROOKLYN SIMULTANEOUSLY. VOTE TO DEMAND THAT HE CENTRAL LABOR UNION CALL AN IMMEDIATE BROAD CONFERENCE OF ALL NEW YORK UNIONS TO Your fight is not only a fight for your own de- It is the fight of all New York labor. LaGuardia has not only struck a blow at the building service workers, LaGuardia has also struck at the very right of all New York labor—he has struck at the very right to strike, to organize. LaGuardia’s strike-breaking actions must be an- Today, he mobilized his police and firemen and health officers to scab against and to arrest building service workers. Tomorrow it will LaGuardia is trying to outlaw strikes in New York City. Do not forget that the shameful “truce” of La- Guardia’s administration—the employers’ truce— was signed by James Bambrick, president of the building service workers at once, Bambrick signed this shameful truce which would tie the hands of Do not forget that Thomas Meany, head of the New York State American Federation of Labor, and Joseph Ryan, head of the New York City Central Labor Union, also signed the shameful “ Baruch, Lehman Involved The profit in the entire affair will go to such families as the Rocke- fellers, the Lehman Brothers and Bernard Baruch. Lehman Corpora- tion, controlled by Lehman Broth- ers, from the active leadership of which Governor Lehman is allegedly supposed to have left, -is reputed to own 30,000 shares of B.M.T. stock. Bernard Baruch, a close adviser of President Roosevelt, owns a large block of the stock. Herbert Bayard Swope, formerly editor of the old New York World, is a member of the board of the B.M.T. and is be- lieved to be “Baruch’s man.” Not only will these people benefit in a few years through an increased fare—the yield of which is estimated to be at least $40,000,000 annually— but they will benefit now by the price they will receive from the city for their properties, much of which, ; Particularly the elevator lines, are almost obsolete. Service Men--Reject LaGuardia’s ‘Truce’--Act Now AN EDITORIAL whole State to YOUR RANKS. acts. attempts. Building Service Workers! fight to win your demands. ' STRIKE ALL BUILDINGS WHICH REFUSE “TO DEAL WITH THE UNION. BUILDINGS WHICH REFUSE TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF Tenants of every New York notice to your elevators. brought in. general strike of UPON YOUR slave conditions, ING SERVICE TRUCE. ice” of je Force these leaders to act in your behalf, Force Ryan and Meany to mobilize the unions of the New York labor tells LaGuardia—you are threat- ening the right of the workers to strike—but the workers will give you an answer—the united front ‘ot all the unions will smash your strikebreaking New York labor will support you. Hold tenants’ meetings. Refuse to pay rents. Send scabs in your building. Refuse to ride in scab driven Refuse to walk up in buildings where scabs or strong-arm men of the employers are Workers in office buildings or shops—Refuse to ride in scab driven elevators. Protest in buildings where there are scabs or bosses’ gunmen. CALL AGAINST SCABS IN ANY BUILDING, MOBILIZE ALL THE UNIONS AND THE CEN- TRAL LABOR UNION TO SUPPORT THE BUILD- REJECT LA GUARDIA’S STRIKEBREAKING DEMAND RECLASSIFICATION NOW. STRIKE EVERY BUILDING WHERE YOUR DEMANDS ARE NOT MET. é subway fare. rious codes as are puzzling to those operating under them. We must make more and more definite the responsibilities of all the parties concerned.” Conferences -with Johnson Johnson conferred privately with Roosevelt during recent weeks. Both he and the U. S. Chamber of Com- merce have often called for sta- tistics-gathering or “current in- formation” machinery which easily might become an extension of pres- lent industrial espionage outfits and \certainly would provide material for (sunshine statements concealing the anti-labor effects of the N. R. A. The trade associations for months have been calling for “simplifica- tion” and for measures to place on unions greater “responsibilities,” in- cluding the responsibility for dam-~ age to property in strikes, Boasting of the gains made by industry under the present N.R.A,, President Roosevelt told Congress that the N.R.A, “challenged the smash LaGuardia’s strikebreaking Go forward in the STRIKE ALL THE UNION. apartment houses should act now. landlord that you will not tolerate OWN UNION TO PROTEST WORKERS. ganizd 100 per cent; in the Chrysler Building, seventy-seven stories high, sixty per cent; and more than fifty "per cent "each itt Radio City and in |40 Wall Street, two other tower- ing structures. Buildings on strike in Manhattan yesterday included the three Sal- mon skyscrapers at 500 Fifth Ave- nue, 12 West Forty-Second Street and 55 West Forty-Second Street, and the buildings at 9 West Twen- tieth Street, 15 West Twentieth, 253 Twenty-Sixth, 322 Eighth Avenue, 15 West Twenty-Fifth, 8-10 West Nineteenth and 138 Fifth Avenue. Officials of 32B estimated that there were 4,000 buildings in Man- hattan which were covered by the truce signed by Bambrick and that there were upward of 6,000 build- ings which were not covered by the “no-strike” agreement. Bambrick said yesterday that the Union would “pound away at these 6,000 build- ings.” Bambrick also announced that any agreements signed in Man- hattan would not affect either the | Bronx or Brooklyn, where, he said, strikes might be called on Friday. Troy Balks Despite a widespread demand among Brooklyn members of the Union for an immediate Borough walkout, George Troy, vice-presi- dent of Local 51, in Brooklyn, is discouraging the strike movement. After a meeting held on Tuesday night at the A. F. of L. headquarters in Brooklyn, he predicted that there would be no strike of pbuilding workers in Bzooklyn this week. “I hope,” Troy said, “there will be no strike.” A meeting of the membership of the Brooklyn local was called for Jast night at the A. F, of L. head- quarters at 550 Atlantic Avenue. The scheduled conference be- tween union officials and represen- tatives of the landlords took place yesterday afternoon at the Hotel Holland, Forty-second Street and Ninth .Avenue. Thomas L. Short- man, chairman of the rank and file strike committee, and the entire executive board of the union met with representatives of the Mid- Town Realty Owners, the Pennzone Association and the Association of Merchants and Property Owners, who collectively own 640 buildings in the fur, garment and millinery districts. Demands Presented The union, according to an an- nouncement at the headquarters of 32-B, presented the following de- mands to the landlords’ representa- tives: All buildings to be divided into three categories, A, B and C, with buildings eighteen stories and over in height to be in category A, from thirteen to seventeen in category B, and from one to twelve stories in category C. Wages for workers in all cate- gories are to be: Porters, $25 in A buildings, $23 in B and $20 in C elevator operators, $28 in A, $25 in O; B and $28 for C. # Other skilled workers are to get fifty cents an hour in A buildings, forty-five cents in B and forty cents in C. All cleaning women in all categories are to get fifty cents an hour. Working hours are to be as fol- lows: The forty-eight hour week, as embodied in the State law, is to The strike at four large gold mines here had_ virtually para- lyzed Jackson’s only industry for the past five months, * Hearst's Hand Seen OLYMPIA, Wash,, Feb. 19..— Whipped into line by the pro- fascist. Hearst . press, seventy-two representatives in the State House here voted against repeal of the Washington criminal syndicalism law.: The vote was. seventy-two to twenty-seven, Only two representatives, D. Donald and -DeWolf Emory de- fended the anti-labor law, but when the final vote was taken it | disclosed that the majority of the representatives had been lined up by reactionary employers. Resolutions demanding abolition of the law were received from the Seattle Central Labor Council and read to the House by Representa- tive Willis Hales. A similar petition from the Central Labor Council was read by Representative Frank Schultz. Vigilantes Seize Farmers BIRDSONG, Ark., Feb. 19. — A |sroup of 100 vigilantes, admittedly | organized by the police, broke up a rally of tenant farmers and share- croppers here last week and ‘trans- ported four organizers for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union out of the State. Judge Aids Fascists DETROIT, Feb. 19.—Circnit Judge Guy A. Miller on Saturday upheld the action of the Detroit Board of Education in barring the use of the auditorium of Eastern High School for an anti-fascist meet- ing at which Guiseppe EF. Modigli- ani, Italian Socialist and: anti« fascist, was to speak. The action of the Board came in response to a demand by the Italian vice-coun- sul, Giacomo Ungarelli, which was openly admitied by the vice-coun- sul. Death Decreed For Socialist (Special to the Daily Worker) MADRID, Feb. 20 (By Cable) — Mendez Pena, Socialist Deputy and leader of the Asturian miners, was sentenced today to death for his part in the October uprisings. The worker, Vasquez, and others have already been executed, and Pena’s life can be saved only by immediate world-wide intercession. The latest savage action of the Spanish fascists was prompted by strong. pressure from the most reactionary-militarist cliques in the country, who hope, through brutal suppression to crush the preparations now going on for a second revolution. 4 cleaners, who are to work a fortys hour, five-day week. Watchmen are to work only six days a week, and their hours are to be fixed by individual agreement. No worker is to work more than one shift in twenty-four hours and all workers are to get one day off a week. Action at the membership meet- ing in Star Casino last night was expected to hinge.on the results of the conference. prevail except in the case of window /