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THEY WON'T GET AWAY WITH THAT!"

1t is a fact not generally noticed
that the position taken by the off,
cialdom of the A. F. of l.. at its re-
cent convention, together with the
speeches made at that convention by
Secretary of Labor Perkins, Senator
James j. Davis of Pennsylvania,
General Hugh johnson of the N. R.
A., and the speech of Roosevelt over
the grave of Gompers, constitute in
their entirety q program Of class
collaboration identical with the Hit
Ter and MussOlini fascist theory of
the relation Of trade unions to the
state.
1t will suffice to quote only a few
excerpts from the official trade
union theorists Of the Hitler Fascist
government to make apparent their
identity with the doctrines now be-
ing enunciated by the A. F. of L.
leaders and the rulers of the Ameri-
can government from Roosevelt down.
For example, the foremost Nazi
theoreticiau, Klagges, in his book
National Socialist Letters" (fifth
edition, page 28) states:
Regulation Of wages and prices
in the Third Empire must always
be carried out by a decision of
State power"
Essentially, how does this differ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-26

from the Roosevelt strategy of out
having strikes through the compul-
sorry arbitration of the N. r. A. Labor
Boards?
Essentially, does this differ from
the recent speech of Assistant Secre-
tary of Labor, McGrady, who de-
clared before the A. F. of L. Con-
vention that:
-. the government must be
consulted in all matters (relating
to strikes.-M H."
ANOTHER Nal trade union official
n praises the German trade union
officials, Leipart and Tarnov, for
their cooperation with the German
capitalist government in calling off
strikes" 1t Is certainly significant
that Fascist officials praise their
trade union lackeys for precisely the
same service, i. e., calling OFF
strikes" that Roosevelt and johnson
praise John L. Lewis, corrupt leader
Of the United Mine Workers OF
America.
Certainly it is foreboding of the
future course of the A. F. of l.. Of
ficials that they should call upon the
American workers for that very same
kind Of surrender tc the assault OF
the capitalist employers for which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-26
By Burck

the Fascists now praise the Social
Democratic traitors of Germany.
Listen to Muchow, Hitler ex-
pert on trade unionism, writing in
his book, National Socialism and
the Trade Unions"
ITO the honor of the Trade
Unions Qed by the very same Of
ficials, Leipart and Tarnov, for
whom Green recently sorrowed-M.
HI it must be said that they i'm
mediately appreciated the omens
of the times and in August, 1914,
called meeting of the Trade
Unions and took the side of the
government all current strikes
were called off and of even
greater interest is the fact that the
Genral Commission of Trade
Union leaders expressed its readi-
ness to place all the forces of the
Trade Unions at the disposal of the
government"
Does one have to have a superfine
ear to catch In this Fascist phrase
Of the German Fascist trade union
leaders a remarkable similarity to
Roosevelt's recent praise of the dead
A. F. Of L. leader, Gompers, for his
handing over of the trade unions to
the war machine, and his call to
the A. F. of l.. officialdom to sup
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-26

CHICAGO, III. (By maiD Nov
they throw babies out in the rain!
This was the headline of the leaflet
flying from hand to hand down 55th
st. last week. A committee of women
organized to knock on every door of
the side-streets and tell the people
Young Pioneers, with red bandannas,
raced down the streets to spread the
word. This was at o'clockl
At 8 O'Clock 200 people packed the
little hall Of the John O'Neill Branch
Of the International Labor Defense at
834 E. 55th st. Representatives of the
Unemployed Council and the LID.
spoke. This Is what the workers
heard:
Justo Menza, his wife, and their
two babies, one eight months old and
the other two years old, living in the
flat next door to the hall, had been
put out In the rain the previous week.
Doctors examination showed that
the two-year-old has developed pneu-
nonia and Is In a serious condition.
Members Of the Unemployed Coun-
ell, finding the family in the rain,
had put them back In the flat. The
following day. the police had arrested
Menza and taken him to Jail. Thirty
minutes after he reached the station,
the local representative of the LID.
had bailed him out, and he was on
his way back to the house.
At the meeting Menza and his wife
both spoke to their neighbors. They
told how they had asked the county
relief to pay their rent and had been
refused. Menza had been given city
work for ten days. He had finished
the work but had to wait IL days be-
fore he could be paid. On the day
that Menza was taken to Jail, his wife
had gone to the relief and asked for
help. The furniture was at that time
out in the street. The charity worker
Miss Levin, told her that she was
old enough to be taking care Of her
family herself, and said she could not
help her.
Neighbors at the meeting also
spoke. They revealed that the misery
In which Menza was living was the
same in which all of them had been
living. in constant dread of the land
lord. They heard that in the First
Municipal District of Chicago, in
which they live, there had been over
5000 evictions q month for every
month in 1893. The meeting demand
ed the immediate passage of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill.
Students Of the University of Chi
cago, hearing Of this eviction, are
preparing to investigate the eviction
policy of the rich University Of Chi
cago, which owns much of the prop
erty in the neighborhood.
The people from the neighborhood
are preparing to organize block COM
mittees led by the Unemployed Coun-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-26
Syracuse Worker
Framed Up For
Army 'DesertiOn'
Arrested For Fighting.
Against Relief Cut

SYRACUSE, N. Y.-Arrested on
an open charge when police found
leaflets upon them exposing the
brutality of Mayor Marvin and
Deputy Chief of Police Peacock in
relief matters, the trial of Richard
Brown, Negro worker, and Paul
Winkelman, white worker, was re-
opened in police court this morning
after one postponement. and was
again postponed. Winkelman is be-
ing held in Oswego now on a
charge of desertion from the army
and his case will be transferred to
military counts
Observers believe the coming city
election may be one of the reasons
for these postponements, as the
regime up for reelection want to
invite no row over the possible re-
suits of the trial.
Brown and Winkelman, leaders in
the local Unemployed Council, were
arrested on the streets and later
released on $500 bail each, charged
with disturbing the peace.
Two days later two more were
arrested for distributing leaflets,
and then discharged in a campaign
that has continued since to make
the workers afraid to distribute
handbills. It is perfectly in line
with the campaign now in progress
against Negro workers that Brown
was not discharged, too.
Although the army officials knew
all along that Winkelman did not
return to the service because of an
accident in which one of his arms
was crippled and he lost the use of
an ear, they made no move to ar
rest him before this. He is being
charged with leadership Of the
Syracuse Communist Party by army
officials, although he is not a mem
Der of the party.
Recently 1000 workers have been
cut from the relief list in SYRIA
cuse, and now 1000 more are to be
cut shortly. These facts have been
confirmed by Welfare Commissioner
Boyle in articles appearing in the
Syracuse Journal. No action has
been taken by the welfare depart
ment on account of elections COM
ing up, but there is no doubt the
plans of Commissioners Boyle will
be fully carried out right after the
elections. The arrests occurred be-
cause those now on charges were
fighting for more unemployment re-
lief.
Syracuse is the city which mas
gained wide reputation for its &c
day diet invented by Mayor Mar
| win, the present mayor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-26
Lynch Rule Victims
Total 81 This Year
|. L. D. Reports Most
of Criminals Known

NEW YORK.--Thirteen lynch
ings in August, September, and
the first eleven days Of October
raised the total number reported
for the year to 33, the Interna-
tional Labor Defense has an
nounced.
OF these IS, Alabama's white rul-
ing class contributed 5, Louisiana
2, and Arkansas, North Carolina
one each. Six lynchings were re-
ported in August, five in Septem-
Der, and two in the first eleven
days Of October.
Since the first of January, there
I We been five lynchings reported
eSch from Alabama, Georgia and
Louisiana; four each from Tennes-
see, Florida, and South Carolina;
three from Mississippi; two from
Arkansas, and one from North
Carolina.
In neary every case, the lynch
ers were known to police officials,
or were police officials, and in 16
their names were made public. In
no case were any Of the lynchers
punished.
A Bill of Civil Rights for Negro
People, drawn M by the League
Of Struggle for Negro Rights, en-
dorsed by the International Labor
Defense, and containing a clause
making lynching federal offense
punishable by death, was presented
to the president and to CONGRESS
BY the Free the Scottsboro Boys
March last May. Neither president
Roosevelt nor any member Of con-
gress took any action whatsoever
toward having It enacted into law.
A major SLOGAN of the Tnterna-
Honsl Labor Defense IL the de-
mand for the death penalty for all
(yneherS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-26
N. r. A. Official Sets
Marine Code Hearings
In Capital for Nov. 8

NEW YORR.-william Davis, dep
uty MIRA. administrator, in charge
Of the marine industry, announced
yesterday that hearings on the gen
eral code for the marine industry Will
be held In Washington, D. G.. on
Nov. o.
Davis yesterday conferred with Scow
and lighterage owners In the first OF
a series Of preliminary hearings on
the marine industry in this city. Cap
tain william Maher, head Of the AS
ISOLATED Marine Workers, attended
the session and later went with Davis
to the New York Athletic Club, where
Mr.. Brown, mediator Of the N.R.A
labor board lives.
Maher, who handed the fate Of the
tugboat workers over to the MIRA.
was addressed Familiarity by the boss.
es present at the hearing and as
slired them that 1--WE can get together
on this thing"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-26
Georgia Officers
Lynch Aged Negro;
LID. Acts In Case
Patterson De m an d S
Arrest of Guilty
Parties

CLk3KS MILL, Ga. (By MaiD -
Henry Jordan, &c years old, Negro
farmer and church leader, was lyncheo
here about September %, by Ed
Streetman, bootlegger and self-stylec
prohibition agent, and two assistants
The gang came to Jordan's home
at three o'clock in the morning an6
knocked. When he opened the door
flashlght was thrust in his face
and at the same instant he was shot
through the throat. The leader Of
the gang grabbed him while the as
sassin ran around and shot him a
second time, in the back.
While the murderers stood over
him, and his mother, wife and chill
dren watched in helpless horror, Jor-
dan, with blood pouring out of his
jugular vein, crawled out to the edge
Of the back porch, tumbled down the
steps, and crawled to his well, hoping
to stop the flow of blood with water
He died on the way.
Investigation proved that Ed Street.
mans son had been reproved fol
disturbing a service Sunday or two
before at Jordan's church, the Pint
Hill Baptist, where young Streetmar
was trying to sell liquor.
Before any charges were placed
against them, Streetman and hi
deputies had hired two lawyers, ont
Of them the son of the Judge of thu
Superior Court, and had arranged
that bond be made for them in {:
small amount by the lawyers father
NEW YORK.-Demand for the ar
rest, prosecution, and death penalt,
for the lynchers of Bonnie Thompson
in Ninety Six, S. c., and of Henri,
Jordan, Negro farmer and preache
in the Clarke's Mill section of At
lanta County, Ga, was made by tn
International Labor Defense in let
tiers to the governors of the respectiv,
etates last week.
In the Georgia case, the demant
VISA made in regard to Ed Streetman
self-appointed prohibition Officer
and two men who assisted him in tn,
murder of Jordan.
In the South Carolina lynching, tn,
LID. demanded the death penalt!
for Burley Leopard, who boosted O
the lynching, Lefty Mayes, "Toody
Webb, and j. F. Morris, who assisted
him, and Chief of Police Rush, whit
left the Jail door open for them Oh
their request.
This terror" William L. Patter
son, national secretary of the LID
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-26
China and Glassware
Workers Win Strike;
More Pay, Less Hours

NEW YORK-After strike of
two weeks, the newly organized
Glassware and Decorating Industrial
Union was able to register victory
for the strikers in eight shops when
it concluded a settlement with the
bosses. The strikers won pay in
creases from Is to 20 per cent, rec
ignition of their shop committees
and union, 40-hour week and pay
for five legal holidays.
"Our strike could not have been
won had 1t not been for the able
assistance Of the Trade Union Unity
League and the Metal Workers IN
dustrial Union" the organizer told
the Daily Worker.
The strike was conducted Jointly
with an independent union in the
trade, and as a result of the splendid
conduct OF the strike the workers of
the independent union are discussing
q merger with the industrial union.
A strike Is still on at the Eagle
Decorating Co., where the boss sue
ceeded in getting a Blue Eagle with
out signing any agreement and while
the strike is on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-26
Relief Voted In
Texas Withheld
From Unemployed
State Officials Pare
Down Amount

AUSTIN, Texas.-rne unemployed
OF Texas will get little benefit from
the $20000O00 relief bond issue voted
at recent election. Although Law
renee Westbrook, state director Of
relief work, was recently forced to
admit that the entire sum was grave
~ needed to relieve present suffering,
the State Legislature obstinately re-
fuses to permit the issuance of more
than 100000 or $1,000, 900 worth Of
the bonds.
Before the election, r. r. G. work
ers were practically forced to canvass
for these so-called Dread bonds"
The workers were assured that the
entire amount would become avail
able. The paltry amount which will
eventually be appropriated will av-
erage about IS or - annually for
each unemployed person, to say
nothing Of what proportion win be
used for overhead expenses.
This probable amount viii be pared
by the political ring which admin
listers relief work In Texas, headed by
James Z. Ferguson, whose wife Is
Governor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-26
Michigan Red Flag
Defendants Jailed
Legion Deputy Sheriff
Heads Jury; Impartial
Court Fines Lawyer

MUNISING, Mich, Oct. 25.--A
deputy sheriff in a Legionaire's cap,
with a bring back prosperity" neck
tie, acting as Jury foreman, delivered
a verdict of guilty on all counts
against Fable Burman and Unto I'M
monen, charged with violation Of the
Michigan Red Flag Criminal Syndi-
calism law.
A sentence Of four to eight years
was handed down against Burman
and two to six against Tmmonen. An
appeal is being taken by the Inter
national Labor Defense, with view
to smashing the Red Flag Law.
In the tense atmosphere worked up
by the American Legion and the
court around the trial, Attorney Har-
ry PAUL of the LID. was fined $40
for arriving in court 10 minutes late.
A Burman -Immonen Defense Com
mittee has been set up with head
quarters at Unity Cooperative, Eben
Junction, Mich.
A militant self defense by the pris-
oners won them the complste synpa-
thy Of the spectators at the trial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-26
Eviction Stopped
In Detroit By
Youth COMMITTEES
Removal of Paddock
Is Enforced
(By = Worker Correspondent

DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 25.-A
worker was evicted at 1918 Stahelin,
Detroit, Mich, on Oct. 20, but was
put back by the Unemployed Youth
Council and neighbors and watch
was kept all day and the following
day. But the cops and the constable
stole march on the people early
Oct. 2S and threw out the workers
furniture and nailed up the win
dows and doors and put on the gov
eminent paddock.
Then action started by tho Youth
Council, West Warren Council and
Evergreen Council by mobilixing
some Of their members, the neigh
bors and sympathi7ers, and got to-
gether about 200. They elected q
committee to see the owner, who was
selling the home to this worker, and
convinced him to come and open
up the paddock. The people booed
the owner when he came to open up
the paddock. He got nervous and
wanted to run, but we did not harm
him. I don't think he will evict any
body hereafter. He didn't expect
the mass action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-26
100 MOulderS In
New Haven Strike
A Shops Out; Strike Is
Spreading; Demand
Higher Pay

NEW HAVEN, Conn.-Over 100
nloulders are out on strike in this
city under the leadership Of the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial Union
in the beginning Of what Is planned
to be general noulders' strike here.
Four shops are already out and the
strike Is being rapidly spread to
other shops. The workers are deter
mined to stay out until they get de-
cent living wages to meet the rising
costs Of living and decent working
hours.
Tho strike Is receiving the support
Of many unemployed moulders who
are helping to picket shops. Jerome,
member Of the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union, was ar
rested for picketing and given q
continuance in court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-26
Mass Fight Wins Stay
Of Execution For 8
Logan Circle Negroes

WASHINGTON, D. G., Oct. 25.-
A stay of execution until Nov. % has
been won for the Logan Circle boys,
whose appeal to the q. s. Supreme
Court on conviction on murder
charge was recently denied, it was
announced today.
The three Negro boys, Joseph jack
son, Irwin Murray, and Ralph
Holmes, were charged with the muir
der of Milo Kennedy, a washington
policeman, who was killed when he
attacked a group of Negroes listening
to a band concert in Logan Circle
Park a year ago. The international
Labor Defense forced the release OF
three other Negroes arrested with
them, and exposed the frame-u
character of the whole case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-26
Roosevelt N. r. A. Slave Codes Seen AS Fascist
Merging of Trade Unions With Govt Machine
A. F. of L. Officials
Accept Fascist Plan
To Outlaw Strikes

port the no-strike N. r. A. in the
name of national unity?"
Or take the words of General
johnson, spoken few days ago:
mo organized group ought to have
the power to dictate to the whole
nation :"
And now contrast these words with
Hitler's opinion on the same point
as expressed in his book MY Fight"
(p. 400:
TRADE unions were the most ter
riblc instruments against the safety
and independence of the national
economy and the freedom of the
individual. -.
Essentially, how does this Hitler
pronouncement differ in any way
from the Roosevelt decision made
two days ago about the sacredness
OF the MIRA. "merit" clause in the
auto code? Does not Roosevelt seek,
through the MIRA. codes, to safe
guard the freedom Of the individual"
to work in open shops?
1t must be obvious that between
the Hitler pronouncement and the
Roosevelt opinion of the merit
clause there is no essential differ
ence.
WITH the praise Of the fascist trade
w union officials for the German
leaders who called off strikes" ring
ing in our ears, how does the follow
ing statement of William Green.
President of the A. F. Of L. sound:
1--WE join wboleheartedIy in the
desire to avoid stoppages of work
-. think we have made it plain
that we are seeking to curb haSty
iudnment in the matter Of strikes,
and that strikes rhould be used only
as a weapon of last resort We
are creating real constructive, or
ganizcd force fer the Establishment
of real order and co-oneration in
American INDUSTRY under the N.R.A.
codes :"
Or the speech of Senator James J.
Davis at the same A. r. Of L. con-
vention:
T,abor in these days cannot af-
/ ford holidays or strikes"
And finally the browning express
sion Of the Fascist tendency of the
Roosevelt government in its relation
to the trade unions, the official state
ment Of Roosevelt's Secretary Of La
Dor, Perkins, made at the same Con-
vention:
Thanks to the vision of and
courage of President Roosevelt, labor
! is now an integral part Of the
modern State the direction of
this administration will be in the
Joint interest of wage earners and
industry and the general public and
not to favor any group at the ex-
psnse Of another"
Is there much to choose between
this and the program of German and
Italian Fascism with regard to the
trade unions? The tone for the
moment is softer, more ingratiating
more hypocritical.
But the meaning is the same-the
workers cannot organize to strike
against capitalist exploitation and OPP
preston. They must wait for the
decisions Of the government, Of which
they are now part"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-26
BY MILTON HOWARD

TIE Roosevelt government, behind
all its smooth hypocrisy, moves
grinlly forward to the naked, mill
tary dictatorship OF the capitalist
class.
1t Is out Of the increasing recog-
milton that the N. r. A. economic
program is being swept into discard
by the onrush Of the crisis, out OF
the recognition that the coming
winter, as q result, will witness i'm
mense, widespread, workingclass re-
sistance to the wage slavery and ex-
ploitation that Roosevelt prepares for
open class warfare.
But the development of the Roose-
welt government along the road to
Fascisn does not mean that Roose.
welt will drop his promises, or dinin-
ish hts denlagogy.
1t is altogether certain, and We
are witnessing some Of 1t right now
that Roosevelt will increase the sub
tlety Of his promises, will begin tc
issue all sorts of new, twisting
smooth, talk to the workers.
1t Is O. dead certainty that ir
Roosevelts speeches from now on We
will hear more of those notes Of wal
Jingoism, chauvinisrn, hysterical CALI
to patriotism, faith, pride in "oul
institutions" etc, which were so de.
liberately softened in his earlier
speeches when he was still paradins
as liberal"
Government Control of Unions
THE recent speeches of the Govern
L ment on the right to strike art
particularly sympathetic of the di.
rection toward which the Roosevelt
government is steadily moving.
II does not alter the essence of
the matter one bit that Roosevelt
! Is seeking to destroy the indepen-
dent struggles of the workers behind
phrases Of collective bargaining"
The fact remains that Roosevelt
like Hitler or Mussoiini, has already
made 1t abundantly clear that hi
conceives Of strikes as violating moi
only the wishes and interests OF the
employers, but also the express de.
sires and purposes of the State!
It Is certainly Of more than passine
interest that Roosevelt has already
tried to break strikes in the name o.
that very same national unity
which Hitler invoked to crush tn,
independent organizations Of tn,
German workers.
| OutIawing Strikes
THE drive to outlaw strikes is gain
l ing force. It is drive which no
only derives strength from the rulin,
class, but has already received tn,
public approval and support Of tn
leading officials of the American
Federation of Labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-26
BrOwder to Speak in Cleveland

Recognition of Soviet Russia will
be the subject Of a lecture by Earl
Browder, general secretary of the
Communist Party of the United
States, Sunday, Oct. 20, PM, in
the South "B" Hall of the Public
Auditorium.
Earl Browder has been to the
Soviet Union several times and will
discuss the issues involved in rec
ognition in a thorough-going man
ner.
The public is invited to the meet
ing. Admission Is 10 cents.