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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
Farmer-Labor Governor Condones Vigilantes

service and benefit of the state.
We believe that the state is Great
ed for the benefit and service of
the individual. The Communists
would abolish Christian morality.
We would give Christian morality
the first trial In commercial reIa-
tons that 1t has ever had. The
Communists would reduce all
people to a dead level. We would
upiift all people to a happier hfe."
In this statement, Olson deliber-
ately lied and misrepresented the
Communist Party program. Gov
ernor Olson and the Farmer Labor
Party don't hesitate to resort to the
most poisonous propaganda in their
effort to appear as a respectable
capitalist party that knows how to
run the affairs of the state in the
interests of the capitalists. The
Farmer-Labor Party is aping the
most reactionary forces of the rul-
ing class in this state, in its at
tempt to discredit the Communist
Party. BY such attacks upon the
Communists, the F'armer-Labor
Party and it's candidates want to
convince the monopolies and trusts
that they, more so than their Re-
publican and Democratic brethren,
are fighting the Communists and
all revolutionary workers.
Communists Fight Against Robbery
of the Masses
Do the Communists want to "con-
fiscate whatever little private wealth
the ordinary man now has?" This
is a deliberate lie and falsehood
This is precisely what the Repub-
lican, Democratic and F'armer-La
Dor parties are doing now and will
do in the future. Was it not the
Farmer Labor Party state admin
istration in Minnesota, as the Re-
publican and Democratic admins
trations in other states, which plac-
ed thousands of workers homes and
poor farmers homesteads on sheriff s
sales? Was it not the Communist
Party that organized the mass re-
sistance of the workers and farm
ers and forced the Farmer-Labor
Governor Olson to stop evictions
and sheriff's sales and grant a mo-
ratorium? The Congressional plat
form of the Communist Party
states:
THE first acts of revolutionary
workers government would be to
open UP the warehouses and dis
tribute among all the working peo-
pie the enormous surplus stores of
food and clothing"
Such government would i'm
mediately open up all the factories,
mills and mines, and give every per-
son a job at constantly increasing
wages"
Such government would i'm
mediately begin to re-organize the
present anarchic system of produc-
ton along Socialist lines"
Such revolutionary government
would secure to the farmers the pos
session of their land and provide
them with the necessary means for
a comfortable living"
The Communist Party is the only
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
KenOshaFERA
Workers Ask
Wage Increase
Delegates Elected to the
State Conference on
Social Insurance

KENOSHA, Wis, Oct. 19.-Near-
ly SIX hundred r. Z. r. A. workers
met in the Germa n-American
Home here Wednesday night to or
gani0e all r. E. r. A. relief work
erS into the Relief Workers Asso-
citation and voted to hold a mass
meeting before the relief office to-
day.
A committee OF 80 workers, rep
reSenting practically all the F. E.
r. A. projects In the county, elected
at meeting OF $50 relief workers,
presented their demands to G. L.
Holderness, county relief director
last Friday. The demands call for
wage increases to SIS for single
workers and $25 for heads Of fam
lilies, issuance of coal, budgets on
a weekly basis, workmen's compen-
sation for all injured workers.
Single workers were given only
$3.75 wages on Oct. 49,. and were
cut from two days week to one.
Due to the monthly budget, the
single men are scheduled to get
only $3.75 wages in another week
this month.
No coal has yet been issued. The
married men have just started to
work on their coal budgets" and
it will be two or three weeks before
coal is received. Meanwhile cold
weather is already here.
The meeting Wednesday elected
Mike Kunza, militant young worker
on the Afford Park project as dele
gate to the Wisconsin Social Sc
curity Congress to be held in La
Dor Temple, Milwaukee, Wis, Sun
day, Oct. %.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
Olson's Flag W aving
Gave Vigilantes Cue
for Attack
BY S. X. DAVIS
Communist Candidate for Governor
- MHlrnnrn&a

Communist Candidate for Governor
Of Minnesota
The raid on the Workers Book
store in Minneapolis and the burn
ing of literature by Vigilante bands
has raised number of vital ques-
tons in the minds of the workers.
The first and main question is
How are such fascist attacks upon
workers organizations possible in a
state with a Farmer Labor admin
istration which boasts of it's "liber-
alism," protection" of workers
rights and even pretends to be anti
capitalist? Who organized these
Vigilante bands and what encour-
aged their attack upon a workers
organization?
For many weeks prior to this raid,
the capitalist press and the Citi-
zens' Alliance openly called for the
organization of these fascist Wig
ilante bands against the labor
movement. On October 18th, the
Saturday Press, the spokesman for
the strike breaking Citizens Alli-
ance openly declared: What
this city needs is a Vigilante." In
the present election campaign, both
the Republican and Democratic
parties openly called for violence
upon the working class movement
in this state. The strategy of these
capitalist parties is to warn the
property owners with the "red
scare" and elect their candidates to
Office on this issue.
Olson Incites Fascist Attacks With
Lies
The Farmer Labor state admin
istration knew all along that such
violent attacks upon the revolu-
tionary workers organizations was
pending and such fascist Vigilante
bands being organized. Governor
Olson and the Farmer-Labor Party
have not only not opposed the
preparations for these fascist at
tacks but have actually joined in
this drive upon the workers. Gov
ernor Olson in his campaign for re-
election and the Farmer-Labor
Party are trying to Guido the other
capitalist parties in their slanderous
attack upon the workers party-the
Communist Party. The Farmer-La-
Dor Party is working overtime in
it's attempt to outbid the Repub-
licans and Democrats in lies and
Misrepresentation Of the Commu-
mist Party program and aims.
In his keynote speech on October
9Th, Olson made the following at
tack upon the Communist move
ment, as part of his platform for
election. Olson said:
"The Communists would con-
fiscate whatever little wealth the
ordinary man now has. We would
give him an opportunity to earn
more. The Communists believe
the individual is created for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
UMWA Local
BacksCOuncil
Relief Fight

CENTRAL CITY, Pa, Oct. 49,
The strength Of the fast growing
Unemployment Councils was again
displayed in Somerset County dur
ing the past week as U.M.WA.
miners defeated attempts of the
John L. Lewis machine to GUST
Frank McKenna as checkweighman
for his activity in leading the un-
employed and stressing the need of
unity between working and jobless
miners.
McKenna has for some time been
checkweighman at the Wilbur mine
and president of the U. M. w. A.
local union. Not long ago he was
elected by unemployed workers as
chairman of the Hooversville I'm
employment Council, following
which U. M w. A. district officials
tried to drive him out Of the lead
ership of the local union by bring
ing dual organization" charges.
Last week, in the elections of the
local union, he was opposed for
checkweighman by five Lewis
stools, but the latter received only
a few scattered votes and McKenna
was reelected by an overwhelming
ajority.
In Central City the Unemploy-
ment Council is growing by leaps
and bounds, following the passage
OF resolution by Central City U.
M. w. A. local union endorsing the
Councils and pledging cooperation
The unions action was taken fol-
lowing a meeting at which Mike
Balya, blaoklisted leader of the
miners employed by Reitz Coal
Company, urged the miners to ioin
and help build the Unemployment
Council.
The result was an immediate in
flux Of miners, most of whom are
now working only two or three DAYS
in two weeks. These are now fol-
lowing Balya's advice in bringing
their demands for relief to aug
ment the pittance earned in the
shafts to the meetings of the I'm
employment Councils.
Balya, well known to all the
miners of Somerset County as a
militant fighter against the coal
operators and their district Lewis
machine and now unemployed has
been elected chairman Of the IN
employed local.
One Of his first moves as chair
man was to strike scab road Job
which had begun on the Shady
Township Road, Cairnbrook. There
the workers had been hired at 35
cents an hour and the issue was
brought UP at council meeting.
The following day Balya led 10
workers in a march on the job,
pulling out every worker and halt
ing all construction until union
wages, 571a cents an hour, shall be
conceded all the road workers. A
united front has been formed be-
tween the Unemployment Council,
the Hold Carriers local, and the I'M
organized workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
COMMUNIST VOTE WILL BE BLOW AT GREEN'S DRIVE
PhiIodeIphia's Unemployed
VIII Demonstrate Today at
2 p. M. at Reyburn Plaza
Mass Meeting Will Demand Relief Increase
and Unemployment Insurance

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. 49,
Employed, unemployed and relief
workers will mass at Reyburn Plaza,
Saturday at 2 p. m, in a mighty
demonstration demanding that the
City Council act at once on the
demands Of Philadelphia's 100000
unemployed which were presented
to them yesterday by an elected
delegation Of one-hundred backed
up by a mass demonstration of one
thousand workers.
While the City Council chambers
echoed with the demands of the
assembled workers yesterday, Norris
Wood, chairman of the Eastern
Pennsylvania Unemployment Coun-
ellis, point by point presented the
demands-union wages and condi-
tons on the relief jobs, immediate
doubling of the present relief, no
evictions, no discrimination, en-
dorsement Of the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill.
Woods was chairman of the dele
cation Of one-hundred representing
eighty working class organizations
whom City Council President Cox
had agreed to admit to the Council
m citing while their spokesman
presented the demands.
Following a mass meeting at Rey-
burn Plaza, the delegation had
swollen to one thousand as they
marched across the street to the
City Hall. Frightened by the size
of the delegation, Cox had sum-
moned swarm of police, who, per-
sonally commanded by Director of
Public Safety Wood and the city's
red squad" barred the entrance to
the City Hall, permitting only the
spokesman to enter. The workers
maintained perfect discipline and
marched back to the Plaza where
the mass meeting was resumed.
Meanwhile, Jennie Cooper, Secre-
tary of the Unemployment Coun-
ellis, repeated the demands for suf-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20

ficient relief and endorsement Of
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill. Il pledge" she said,
"the full support of the $500 mem
bers of the Unemployment Councils
in the fight for these demands"
Russell Watson, young secretary
of the League Of Struggle for Negro
Rights, pointed out that four out
of every five families evicted in the
city are negroes. He demanded that
the City Council officially endorse
the Bill Of Civil Rights for the
Negro People, given to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives and
to the Presidents secretary during
the National Scottsboro March in
April, 1888.
H. M. Wickman, Communist can
didate for Congress, speaking in the
name of the Communist Party
pledged the fullest support of the
Party to the demands presented.
THE starvation and misery from
which the workers are demanding
relief is the inevitable effect of the
capitalist system, and can only be
abolished when the syst m is
smashed"
Vischer Boyd, executive secretary
of the Federation of Architects,
Chemists and Techni-
clans, in the name of the trained
technicians on the city's breadlines
and in the name Of the thousands
of technical workers employed at
starvation wages, demanded jobs at
decent wages.
Jennie Cooper, unemployed leader,
speaking to the assembled workers
in Reyburn Plaza, called upon them
all to rally their friends and neigh
bors, the members of their trade
unions to jam Reyburn Plaza Sat-
urday afternoon in a mighty DEM
onStration for adequate relief, for
jobs at union wages and for the
of the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
Lies About Communism
melted Book Burning
and Raid on Store

In this campaign, Olson and the
Farmer-Labor Party are encour-
aging and stirring up the most
nationalistic and reactionary ideo-
logy among the masses. In their
race with the other capitalist par
ties to the defense Of the Ameri-
can flag" and for the perpetual
ton Of the present American gov
eminent, which starves the work.
ers and shoots them on the picket
line, Olson and the Farmer-Labor
Party are directly encouraging
these Vigilante attacks upon work
ers' organizations.
In fact, the Vigilantes in their
raids upon the Workers Bookstore
took their cue from Gov. Olson. 1t
was Gov. Olson who established
the precedent of raiding workers
organizations by the raiding of the
Union headquarters with National
Guards during the Truckmen's
strike. Olson even takes pride in
the activities of the National Guard
in breaking the drivers strike. The
fact that the Farmer-Labor ad-
ministration refused to lift finger
against those guilty of numbering
defenseless pickets during the
truckmen's strike, actually assured
protection to the marauding fascist
gangs in the city of Minneapolis.
Smash VigiIantes-yote Com
munist!
And the Farmer-Labor alder
men in the City of Minneapolis
City Council voted pensions for the
widows of the deputized thugs and
for compensation to injured thugs,
who were recruited during the
truckmen's strike. BY this, they
approved the murderous attack
upon the strikers.
The raiding on the Workers
Bookstore is not an attack upon
the Communists alone. It is a
challenge to the entire labor move
ment Of Minnesota. Workers and
farmers of the state must reply to
these Vigilante raids with greater
organization and struggle for the
improvement of their working and
living conditions and the protec-
ton of their democratic rights.
The Vigilantes have directed their
first blow against the Communists,
because they know that the Com
munist Party is the leader and or
ganizer of the struggles of the
masses against capitalist misery
and starvation. Only the program
Of the Communist Party offers a
way out to the toiling people of
this state and country from this
misery.
SMASH THE VIGILANTES BY
SUPPORTING THE COMMUNIST
PARTY PROGRAM DURING THE
COMING ELECTION!
JOIN THE COMMUNIST PAR
TYi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
MIRA. SWOOps
Coal Dealer.
But Administration Lets
Large Corporations
Go Unrebuked

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Oct. 10.
The Blue Eagle Of the N. r. A.
has swooped down and caught a
terrible criminal" in its talons, a
retail coal dealer who is accused
OF violating the wages and hours
provisions in the hard fuel code.
The retailer is r. s. French of
Vaudeville, near here, and he has
been arrested on a warrant charging
contempt Of the District Court and
placed In the county Jail with bond
set at $1,000. He declined to pay
the bond.
The case is expected to rival that
Of the New Jersey tailor who sew
eral months ago was thrown into
jail for pressing suits for a nickel
less than the code price. Coming
on the heels Of the statement of
Attorney General Cummings that
ne will not prosecute the Houde En-
gineer1ng Co. of Buffalo, manufac-
turers Of auto parts, for openly de-
flying the decision OF the National
Labor Relations Board that the A.
F. Of L. union should be recognized
as the collective bargaining agency
for all the Houde workers, the pros
ecution of this obscure Michigan
coal dealer is intended as a smoke
screen TO hide the fact that the big
corporations are getting away with
murder under the N. r. A.
While the N. r. A. is swinging
the Big Stick at this little business
man, no steps are taken against the
Packard Motor Co., which, accord
ing to the October issue of the Auto
Workers News, organ of the Auto
Workers Union, has been working
metal finishers seven days week
for total Of 10 hours in fragrant
violation Of the Auto Code.
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ranged for that purpose.
The money that was received,
on the other hand, showed that
the Daily Worker drive is not
dragging because It has been 50
ordained by heaven or some other
supernatural force. The dollars
that came in during the week
proved, as the DAILY" states time
and time again, that workers are
but waiting 10 cOntribute-but
that we are not seeking their con-
tributiOns. The two New York
sections which have finished their
quotas made use, for instance, Of
personal visits 10 units and mass
organizations for collections. How
many other sections IN the coun-
try has done this?
What have the backward Com
munist Party units in New York to
say in the face Of the activity, for
example, Of unit 5, Section l, m
their DISTRICT
Went 0ver-KeepS On
This unit had a quota Of 5000.
It raised it to 100000. It achieved
that total Now It has increased It's
quota to S150O0-and already has
s128.65l It challenges any unit in
New York and proudly announces
that it will not cease work till the
entire $4,000 Is raised. Next Sum
day, Oct. %, it is giving an affair
at the Italian Workers Club, 233 E.
10th st., and it invites all the Daily
Worker agents Of other units TO
come to this party and learn how
10 collect money for the Daily
Worker.
In Detroit, Is another unit which
knows the way to fuIlds-unit 8 in
Section 4 Highland Park. On the
same day that it turned in $500 TO
the Daily Worker, its members went
out and brought back $1,000 more.
This gives it a dollar more than its
quota.
"Our unit will not stop here" it
asserts. I'VE pledge to double this
(S26.00) amount, and challenge
the other units of Section a.
especially unit Ito compete with
US in this drive"
Do Not Seek Excuses
These units are not relying on
excuses. They do not plead that
the election campaign is hindering
their work, as does Section 9 in
Chicago. They allow no obstacle in
their path.
But all the units are needed to
make the drive success. It is up
to the units to realize this. The
new Daily Worker IS in dangerl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20

being carried on in most of the dis
tricts. With the exception of New
York and three others, none con-
tributed even a hundred dollars.
Only three contributed more than
fifty dollars.
Faced with the fact that the g.
page New York Daily Worker will
be discontinued ON Election Day
unless an average Of $500 day
$4,000 week. is received during
the next few weeks, New York sent
in less than 81 TOO.
Even Philadelphia and Denver,
the leaders, gained little-Phila-
delphia per cent and Denver 5
per cent.
Philadelphia, however, guaranteed
to complete its quota last night, at
a mass meeting and concert ar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
Unemployed Single Men
Score First Victory
In Forced Labor Battle

TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. 1s.-Single
unemployed workers, who in a
united front struggle have picketed
the F. e. R. A. Offices for the past
ten days, have won their fight
against forced labor, and are now
continuing their struggle for full re-
lief payments.
Picketing of the Welfare Office was
first begun by the Single Mems Pro-
tective Union, and with the support
of the Marine Workers Industrial
Union and the Unemployment Coun-
ellis, the Unemployment Leagues and
other organizations, the first fight
was won.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
Richmond Councils Call
Mass Meeting in Fight
For Free Clothing

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. ia
mass meeting demanding free shoes,
clothing and hot lunches to the
children Of the unemployed will be
held here Wednesday, Oct. "a, at
8 p. m, at the Armstrong High
School under the leadership of the
Unemployment Council.
The mass meeting follows series
of meetings held during the past
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20

two weeks in all parts of the city
by the different branches of the
Unemployment Council. The Coun-
Gil has on hand a registration of
some $50 children who are unable
to attend school because they
have not proper shoes or clothing.
Speakers at the meeting will be
W. H. Friend, Unemployed Council
organizer and Communist candi-
date for congress; R. G. Mitchell,
editor of the Richmond Planet, and
others. A delegation DO present
demands to the FRIDAY, Oct. IS
meeting of the school board will
be elected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20

Communist Candidates Are
Leaders in the Fight for the
Right to Organize, Strike, Picket.
A Vote for Communist Candi-
dates Is Vote against Company
ONIONS"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20

Every day Of the Roosevelt New
Deal shows the growing need of the
Daily Worker. But the Daily
Worker needs $4,000 to be able
to deal more fully with the strug-
giles of the working class. Support
the Daily Worker! Send your con-
tribution today to the 100000 drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
CHICAGO AFL HEADS
JOIN BOSS ATTACK
ON C.. p. MEMBERS
Many Chicago Local Unions Vote Against Anti
Communist Drive of Top Leadership
By BILL GEBERT

Under the ancient guse of rewarding friends and pun
ishng enemies the Illinois and Chicago Federation of Labor
leaders in the current election campaign doing their
to chain the membership of the declarations to tn capitalist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
Less Than $4,000
Received Last Week
In6O,OOOCambaign
New York District Still Not Meeting Obligations
Necessary to Keep 8-Page Paper in Publication
ONLY S2,913.79!

0NLY $2,9l879!
This was the result last week in the Daily Workers.
drive for 100000!
Of this money, New York contributed more than half
The bare figures show just how seriously the drive is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
Minneapolis, Mimi.

REPORTS of the Second Congress
Against War and Fascism at Unitarian
Center, 1926 Harmont Place, Monday. Oc-
tober 20, pm. Delegates from various or
CARNATIONS will speak
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20

Communist Candidates Are
Leaders in the Fight for the
Right to Organize, Strike, Picket.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
NeIrark. N. ].

FILM Showing Of Golden Mountains,
Soviet film. Sunday, Oct. 81, $50 pm.
and pm. at Two. Center, Sic Clinton
St Adm Csc. Auspices: S.M.WIU.
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Perth Amboy, ". J.

ENTERTAINMENT and MASQUERADE
Dance given by Two Youth Br. Y-27-
Sat, Oct. 20, pm. at Workers Home,
sos Elm St Adm 25c
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Philadelphia, Pa.

JOSHUA KUNITz lectures on Creators
OF Soviet Literature" Thursday, Oct rs,
8 pm. at Birth Sholom Hall, sos Pine
st. Auspices: Philadelphia John Reed
Club Adm 25c
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
Chicago, I'LL.

NOvEL-New-s pot-Lite Floor Show and
Dance Saturday, Oct. 20, $50 pm. at the
S. w. Home, 2l47 w, Chicago Ave. Novel
ty dances, new red yodvil numbers Re-
freshments. Duke Croswell and his Or
chestra. Auspices: Blue Blouse Theatre
Of Action" Adm. zoe.
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WHAT'S ON
RriddepOrt. Conn.

REPORT of delegates to Second U. S.
Congress Against War and Fascism will
be given at a Mass Meeting at Amer
lean Russian Sokol Hall, 500 Hallett st.,
Thursday. Oct 49, pm.
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Detroit, Mich.

WORKERS Movies, Monday, October a.
John Reed Club, 1os West Hancock
Two shows: 10 and gill. 2-hour pro-
gram of real living, working and fighting
conditions of workers OF California. Ad-
mission 15c.