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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-26
Roosevelt With Us
FaSciStS Declared
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inc figures in the Roose-
welt government and the Wall
Street financial world with the
Fascist plot, the Congressional
Committee announced that it would
not subpoena any of these figures
to give public evidence.
Wall Street Men Named
Among those whose names were
mentioned by Butler and whom the
Committee intends to shield are
such men as John w. Davis, Nor
gan attorney and close associate of
Roosevelt in the Democratic party;
Gen. Hartford, Thomas w. Lamont,
Gen. Hugh johnson, Admiral Sims
and Hanford MacNider.
Buffers testimony, which was
given last week, caused a nation
was sensation. He told how Mac
CURE, an agent for the firm of
Grayson Mp. Murphy & Co., So
Broadway, as well as Robert Ster-
ling Clark, a broker with offices at
II Wall Street. who Is reputed to
be worth more than 100000,
carried on negotiations with him.
MacGuire told him, Butler said,
that I'VE have three millions to
start with on the line and can get
three hundred million If we need it"
Afraid of Marked Money
Details of Buffers testimony now
made public by the Congressional
Committee reveal that the general
declared that he declined the 81 900
bills offered him to go to Chicago
to make a speech in favor of the
gold standard. He testified that he
said to MacGuire:
Don't try to give me any thou
sand-dollar bill. Remember. I was
a cop once. Every one of the num-
bers on these bills has been taken
I know you people and what you
are trying to do. You are Just try
ing to get me by the neck. II I
try to cash one of those thousand
dollar bills, you would have me by
the neck" To this, according to the
summary of the testimony, Mac
CURE is alleged to have replied
1--WE can change them into smaller
denominations"
According 10 Buffers testimony
he then urged MacGuire to send one
Of the principals to him (Butler), as
"he realized that MacGuire was
only an agent and that MacGuirs
agreed to send Robert Sterling Clarl,
and explaining to Butler that CLARK
had been in the army and had
known Butler in China and that
Clark had inherited millions"
Returning to MacGuire, Butler
testified that he did not hear from
the Wall Street man again unit
he received postal cards from italy
Germany, Spain and France, ane
was amazed in August, 1884, to gel
call from MacGuire saying that h,
was coming out to Philadelphia" ane
would Butler meet him there?
Testimony before the Committee
according to the summary. revealed
that MacGuire had Withdrawn vari
GUS sums of money Just prior to tn,
time when he called upon Gen. But
Ter. A ledger statement from tn,
Manufacturers Trust Co. showed
Withdrawals on Sept. IS of SLIPS
Sept. 16, $4,000; Sept. 10. $4,000
Sept. %, $500 and Sept. %, $16,7o0
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sull stocks were rising on real earn
Ing prospects. The use of such old
stock market tricks as wash sales"
buying and selling to the same ac-
counts to create market that was
really fictitious.
a Taxing the real earnings ac-
count with shady accounting to in.
clude dividend income in the op-
Grating profits accounts.
81 Crooked manipulation of the
capital surplus accounts to conceal
the depreciation Of the stock and
operating losses.
g. Selling stock to small investors
when this stock was already
pledged as collateral to other banks.
On the jury were such hand
picked conservatives and men Of
wealth as Roy c. Richardson, rich
dealer in industrial diamonds, and
member Of the reactionary Union
League Club, John D. Lent, rich
director Of the Western Clock Co.,
George Barley, formerly Repu'.-
lican Sheriff of Kendall County,
William Austin, owner of 200-acre
farm, and formerly State food in
spector, and William Westbrook Of
Millington, Ill.
insult still faces other charges
growing out of the enormous trans
actions of his companies. His
brother, returned from Canada
where he had fled, also faces
charges. But it is considered that
these will either not be pressed or
that the first acquittal will be fol-
lowed by others.
insults transactions took the
savings of thousands of small in
veStors in the boom days of the
stock market. Halsey, Stuart & Co..
the firm which sold the insult Sc
curities, directed it's appeal mainly
CIV ke4erspop-
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NOONttIhSU fFOH L Ug6
Unemployment Councils and locals
of the Workers Committee on I'm
employment, independent unions
and locals of the Trade Union Unity
League massed before the speakers
stand. Although the Painters
District Council instructed the
locals that they must not carry
their banners, many locals defied
the edict, and painters in overalls
carried their banners aloft.
Denounce War and Fascism
Relief workers came carrying
their picks and shovels; others
carried the implements of their
trades. Side by side, as they had
marched, the workers assembled at
the mass meeting.
Score Of banners denounced war
and faScism; others called for the
release Of the heroic leader Of the
German Communist Party, Ernst
Thaelmann, for the Scottsboro
Boys, Tom Mooney and all political
prisoners ard working class heroes.
From the South Side came a large
number Of doubly exploited Negro
workers; women were modified by
the United Council of Working
Glass Women; children under the
banners of the Young Pioneers.
Karl Lockner, leader of the Cook
County Unemployment Coun ellis
and Communist can didate for
Mayor in the coming Spring cleo
tons, spoke in the name of the
delegation which presented the de-
mands to the welfare department.
He reported on the denial of their
demands by the relief administra-
ton, and called for broadening the
struggle, maintaining the united
front, and mobilizing for the Ma
tional Congress for Unemployment
Insurance, which will meet in
Washington on Jan. 5.
Waltmeyer, of the Chicago Work
ers Committee on Unemployment,
was loudly cheered when he 100
made a ringing appeal for main
tanning and broadening the united
front He, as chairman of the
delegation to the officer of the
mayor, reported on the denial of
their demands by the city.
While the Chicago Federation Of
Labor and the Federation of Jew
iSh Trade Union had endorsed the
demonstration, they did nothing to
mobilize their membership for the
march.
Grocers support March
A canvass of grocery stores was
conducted by representatives Of
Local "a of the Workers Committee
on Unemployment, local which
has established a united front with
the Unemployment Council Local
56, for the purpose of winning sup
port for the unemployed demon
stration.
Almost every grocer endorsed the
march, and most displayed the post
ers advertising the march. In adj
dition, they distributed leaflets an
nouncing the march with each pur-
chase.
The committees visiting the stores
pointed out that every increase in
relief won b. the unemployed would
be reflected in increased purchases
at the grocery stores.
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Continued from Page u
The trials are expected to last sew
eral weeks.
The defendants include Albert
Hougardy, section organizer Of the
Communist Party; Martin Wilson,
section organizer Of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense; Pat Cham
bers and Caroline Decker of the
Cannery and Agricultural Workers
Industrial Union, which has led
tremendous struggles in Central
California in the past two years,
and Nora Conklin, Unemployment
Council Organizer.
Protests against these frame-ups,
demands for the release of all the
defendants and for the repeal of the
California Criminal Syndicalist law,
should be sent to Governor Merriam
and District Attorney Neil McAllis-
ter at Sacramento.
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understand how to go about the
business he declared, unconvinced.
We are not plunderers, or thieves
or murderers. We are proletarians
and our ideal is social equality.
Only those who work shall be per-
mitted to eat"
Slaughter Frightful
When the Asturias proletariat
was finally defeated, the fascist
slaughter was frightful. Hundreds
were massed against walls, men,
women and children, and moved
down with machine guns. The
bodies of the dead and wounded
were piled up and burned together.
The capitalist press in Spain and
throughout the world began its
usual campaign of SANDER against
the heroic Asturias workers. They
were accused of every atrocity in
the long lying calendar Of the his
tory of counter revolution.
At the very moment workers were
being imprisoned, tortured. shot,
burned, the world capitalist press
spread stories of the reVolutionaries
atrocities But no similar lies
we're so quickly destroyed. After
brief period of vituperation, the most
rabid fascist papers in Spain halted
their ISLANDERS for lack of even the
slimmest shred of proof. The hero
ism, discipline, bravery of the AS
turias workers overshadowed all
else, and inf1amed the Spanish
workers with the greatest enthusi-
asm. Even Hitler's Nazi cores
pendent in Madrid was forced to
deny the atrocity stories against
the Asturias workers, comparing
them with the Allied Anti-G German
war atrocity fables. We do not have
space here to print the mass Of
complete and definite denials by the
fascist forces themselves in and out
of Spain.
Preparing For Greater Fight
The reign of terror in Asturias
now is the worst in all Spain. But
the proletariat, despite its frightfu
toll, estimated in Asturias alone
between $500 and $500 dead, is
manifesting no spirit Of defeat; j
even now preparing for greater bat
ties, terrifying the butchers who rule
over them with machine guns and
cannon. So fearful are the Span
ish landlord capitalist rulers of the
ASturias proletariat to this day, thai
the Asturias coal mines have moi
been opened because they do not
know what will happen if the work
ers get together again. A propose
was made in a Madrid paper that
the mines be closed indefinitely
and ultimately abandoned.
To what depths has the despera.
ton of the Spanish bourgeoisit
gone when it seriously proposes
slicing off one of its own vital limb,
in order to destroy or disperse the
proletariat with it.
But meanwhile, the enraged cap.
italist dogs are wrecking their ven.
geance on Socialist and Comnlu.
mist prisoners alike. The prisons
are full to bursting. Every day
workers are tortured or killed.
The Asturias workers look to the
workers of the whole world for hell
and support. Only mass unitee
front actions of Socialists and Com
munists, rallying thousands behint
them, can save the lives of hundred
of these heroic fighters who 81
gladly were ready to die for thu
workers cause.
The epic of Asturias will forever
live In the hearts Of the worker
of the whole world, glorious inner
itor of the Paris Commune and O
the Russian Revolution, the beacon
that will light the way to a rapit
victory of the proletarian revolu
ton throughout all of Spain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-26
Communist Alderman
Elected i'm Winnipeg
Especial to the Daily worker)

WINNIPEG, Canada, Nov. Is. -
Workers in Ward here elected a
Communist candidate, Martin j..
Forkin, as Alderman, giving him
record vote Of 4,400, 500 more than
was received by the Socialist can
didate.
A Laborite was elected Mayor and
latest returns indicate that the City
Council will contain Labor mai
GRITTY, including two Communists,
Penner and Forkin.
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INTERVIEW SHOWS
MILLER UPHOLDS
Mr.. A. TRUCE PLAN
Pittsburgh Press Recognizes Sentiment for Strike
Action Among Steel Workers-Duquesne
Rank and File Score Election Delays

PITTSBURGH, Pa Nov. 25-Top leaders of the Anal
gamated Association by opposed to truce
in the steel industry such suggested by President Roos
welt but differ with the steel corporations only regarding the
terms under which the truce would be concuded-hs
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revealed here today when Vice
President Edward Miller, Tighe's
right hand man, admitted that the
union has submitted a counter truce
proposal to the one recently turned
down by William Green in Wash
ington.
Miller would not disclose the
terms of the counter proposal,
claiming that Tighe, who is away,
has the only copy of the offer, upon
which the steel employers have as
yet declined to act
Asked If it wasn't true that strike
sentiment exists among the rank
and file, who have no faith in the
labor boards and hearings, Miller
replied: Eve would prefer not to
say anything at present on that
subject, having made the mistake of
giving too much notice of strike
once before" but admitted that "the
workers are very much dissatisfied
with existing conditions and the
continuous delays of the labor
board"
Evaded Question
Miller evaded an answer on the
question Of whether Amalgamated
officials would accept recognition of
themselves, as individuals, to bar
gain collectively for the workers if
such agreements Incorporated the
ina ority rule"
He was asked, In Appollo where
the union was recognized by the
company last summer, has a wage
scale been concluded for the mill?"
Not yet"
What happened to the scale
presented by the workers, upon
which the company was to act in
September, and which they ignored
at the timer"
They have rejected that one"
What action is being taken now
to make them sign?"
THE case has been referred back
to the labor board"
No Scale Signed
No scale has been signed at the
West Virginia Rail Co., Huntington,
w. Va, plant either, where the
Amalgamated was named as collec-
tive bargaining representatives by a
majority Of the workers in the only
election yet held under the boards
supervision.
Meanwhile, in Aliquippa, where
the workers have just gone through
one of the boards hearings on in
tirnidation by the j. and L. Corp,
the union rank and filters speak of
the board in different, somewhat
stronger manner They say, Did
the miners ever have a National
Labor Board to win concessions
from the coal operators? Then
what do we want with one for the
steel workers."
There, in the strongest lodge of
the Amalgamated today, with APP
proximately 1000 out of 5000 en-
ployes having signed cards for
membership in the union, the SEN
timent is violently anti-Tighe.
Disgust Voiced in Duquesne
In Duquesne, where the workers
are faced with still another delay in
the ordering of an election by the
Steel Board, the same disgust is
voiced by the A. A. rank and file.
The board has demanded that addi-
tional evidence be presented before
it acts, proof that the Carnegie
Steel Co. carries on trade Of an in
terstate character.
The steel barons are preparing to
fight the constitutionality of the
Steel Board and possibly the MIRA.
in the courts. They have already
indicated that company payrolls
will be withheld from the board in
case elections are ordered.
In every Amalgamated Lodge the
workers are regarding askance the
returns of the recent international
election, which showed only slightly
more than 5000 votes cast in the
whole country.
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Workers March in Chicago
TOrchlight Parade Tonight

CHICAGO, Nov. 25.-One thou
sand persons, Negro and white,
marched two miles through the
streets of the South Side Of Chicago
last Saturday afternoon in a mill
tant demonstration for the release
of the innocent Scottsboro boys.
Thousands of others lined the side
walks. The march was led by the
Pioneer Drum and Bugle Corps.
The mass march proceeded to the
Pilgrim Baptist Church at 33rd and
Indiana Avenues, where meeting
was addressed by local Negro ana
white leaders Of the working-claSS.
The workers pledged their sup
port to the activities here during
National Scottsboro Week, the tag
days Nov. "a and rs, to raise funds
to push the appeals for Haywood
Patterson and Clarence Norris in
the U. S. Supreme Court.
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ALL. AND SOCIALIST
DELEGATES STRESS
UNITY AGAINST WAR
United Front Is Keynote of Broad Conference in
Observation-Disclosures Youth Rally Lays
Plans for Permanent Activity

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Nov 25--Active Socialist Party
members and American Federation of Labor members joined
with representatives of the Communist Party at the first
statewide conference of the American League Against War
and Fascism Friday and Saturday in calling for broad
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to have full charge of their appeals
to the U. S. Supreme Court.
The Action Committee announced
the promotion of a number Of
Scottsboro benefits by individuals
and clubs to raise funds for the
Scottsboro appeals.
Torchlight Parade Tonight
National Scottsboro Week will be
opened in New York City with
torchlight parade and mass meet
ing in Lower Harlem tonight, 8
O'Clock, under the auspices of the
Frederick Douglas Branch of the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights.
The march will start from 99th
Street and Third Avenue and pro-
coed to the Porto Rican Workers
Center, 1883 Third Avenue, where
the workers will be addressed by
Amanda Ramirez and Merrill G.
Work, Communist candidates in the
recent elections, and by other
speakers.
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Mrs. WilliamSUrgeS
Support for |. l. D.
Continued from Page u

framed and sentenced to die. Only
the I. L. D. helped me then as it is
helping me now.
II am going to stick with the
I. L. D. because I know it is doing
everything humanity possible to save
the Scottsboro boys.
Il want everybody to support the
I. L. D. if they really want to help
the Scottsboro boys, their mothers,
and the whole Negro race.
MAMIE WILLIAMS.
Funds for the I. L. D. $4,000
Scottsboro- Herndon Fund, to carry
on the legal and mass campaign to
force the u. S. Supreme Court to
reverse the lynch-verdictS against
Haywood Patterson and Clarence
Norris, in line with Mrs. Williams
appeal for support to the organiza-
ton which has kept the Scottsboro
boys alive for three and a half years,
and is now carrying on the strug-
gle for their unconditional free
dom, should be sent to the national
Office of the International Labor
Defense, Room 61o, 80 East 18th
Street, New York City, by telegraph,
air mail, and special delivery.
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Boston Meeting Tonight

BOSTON, Nov. 25.-Mrs. Ada
Wright, mother of two of the
Scottsboro boys, and Samuel Pat
terson, secretary of the National
Scottsboro- Herndon Action Com
mittee, will speak here Monday
night at Dudley opera House, at a
ScottSboro mass meeting under the
auspices of the International Labor
Defense.
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powerful uIllCeQ IronJ IN Jne ngnG
against War and Fascism.
The two-day conference was at
tended by ait delegates from or
CARNATIONS with a total member
ship Of 1904. The opening session
in Jefferson Hall was attended by
more than 1000 persons.
The largest single group Of dele
gates came from trade unions, SO
Of them from locals of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, eight
from independent unions, the Rail-
road BrotherhoodS and the Trade
Union Unity League. There were
ten delegates from city Central
Labor bodies.
Marvin Baxter, Socialist m
of West Allis, echoed the feelings
of the delegates when he made an
impassioned appeal for the united
front.
A special caucus of the Socialist
Party members took place during
the conference. They drafted a
statement carrying 26 signatures
urging the national executive COM
mittee of the Socialist Party to
affiliate with the American League
Against War and Fascism, and
recommending that the Second IN
ternational take immediate steps
to establish the united front with
the Communist International.
Gary, a Socialist Party member
from Madison, criticized the So
cialist Party leadership. He said
that TO place political expediency
over class interests is Grass oppor-
tuniSm."
A delegate from the Racine
Trades and Labor Council urged
that differences be put aside and
that a solid movement against war
and fascism be established. And
J. j. Handley, secretary-treasurer
of the Wisconsin Federation of
Labor sent a message appealing to
labor to rally for the fight against
the fascists and war rnongers.
CONFERENCE IN PITTSBURGH
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. rs. =
Twenty youth organizations par
ticipated in an anti-war conference
held Thursday night in 5th Avenue
High School, called by the Pitts
butgh Youth Committee Against
War and Fascism.
The delegates heard a report on
anti-war youth activities by Caro-
lyn Hart, now facing framed up
charges in connection with a free
speech fight in McKeesport several
weeks ago. The report was followed
by a general discussion on the re-
port and the program of the End
Anti-War Congress.
Marion " Rigney, representing
the Epworth League of the Metho-
dist Church, sounded the keynote
Of the conference in her remarks to
the delegates. She denounced the
capitalist war makers, pointing cut
how wars made by the vested in
terests are invariably fought by the
youth of the nation, and called on
all youth to unite Immediately for
the fight against war and war prep
arations.
A committee representing each
organization was set up, which will
work toward the definite objective
of opening a downtown headquar-
tiers to serve as the rallying point
for all youth anti-war and anti
fascist activities in the district.
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$4,000 JObIeSS
March in Chicago

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Handjicked Jury
AcquitS insult

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SCOttSbOrO Radio
Talk Was Faxed

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ALL STEEL HEAD ADMITS AGREEMENT WITH ANTS STRIKE PLAN
A in 3 States Face
SyndiCaIiSm Trials

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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-12-27
ANOTHER POPULAR YOUNG
LIBBY COUPLE WE'D

Choosing Christmas as their wedding
day, Mr.. Joseph A. Pondelick and Miss
Edna Nelson were married Christmas
morning at 10 o'clock by the Rev. Fl.
l.. Pfotenhauer, Of st. Johns Lutheran
church The bride wore a beautiful blue
taffeta gown and carried boquet of
pompoms and rosebuds. The couple
were unattended Some % relatives and
friends witnessed the pretty ceremony
that joined the lives of these young
people, the ceremony being performed
at the home Of the brides parents, MIR.
and Mrs. Henry W. Nelson.
Immediately following the ceremony
a wedding breakfast was served tc
those assembled for the Christmas we'd
ding. Mr.. and Mrs. Pondelick left that
afternoon to spend few days Of the
honeymoon in Spokane.
The bride is the youngest daughter
Of Mr.. and, Mrs. Henry w. Nelson Of
this city, and is a lovely young woman
with scores of friends The groom il
a son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Pondelicl
and is worthy young man who ha:
held good position with the J. Neil.
Lumber company for number o
years. Upon their return to Libby thei
large circle of friends here will enjo.
extending to the new Mr.. and Mrs
Pondelick congratulations and hes
wishes for long life of happiness ant
prosperity.