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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17

Continued from PGge ~
and completed within the next
three years"
Connections Are Cited
Dern's comments on the National
Guard illustrate how closely the
latter's breaking activities are
connected with its war duties His
statement that II am glad to re-
pert that during the year there has
been real improvement in the equip
ment of the National Guard and
that the efficiency of this com
ponent Of the Army has continued
at a high level" recalls the speed
with which the National Guard
regiments were equipped for strike
breaking duty during the great
strikes of the year.
Because it is generally known in
Washington that the Roosevelt Ad-
ministration is preparing for war,
officials deem it expedient to con-
tinue to spread the Gemagogic cloak
under which the Administration
has launched its unprecedented
peace-time war preparations. Dur
ing the period covered by this re-
port" said Dern, the War Depart
ment was privileged to participate
also in the furtherance Of import
ant recovery measures initiated by
the President to restore prosperity
and to relieve distress and unem-
ployment. I. AS another phase of
industrial rehabilitation the War
Department was enabled by the
Public Works Administra ton to
procure modern equipment badly
needed in the Army, thereby slim
ulating other branches of industry"
This rehabilitation" and re
covery.' under Public Works"
aside from the regular record peace
time spprepria5 totalled $780,
UO0 Tor alrplaneS, So,6l9,e3l Tor am
nauaition and machinery; 100000
for seacoast defenses; S2,233,62 for
The National Guard Bureau; S10,-
100000 for the purchase of trucks
and other motorization equipment;
S62,641,23 for construction and re-
pair work at army posts, and SITS
ITO for the signal corps.
Dern's annual report to the Pres
ident is to be released in sections.
lie Department announced. To-
days is called the Military Sec
ton other sections, to be released
in the near future, are the Civil
Activities of the Corps Of Eng
ineers.' the 'Insular Dependencies
and Dominican Receiversi1ip and
the Panama Canal and Inland
waterways Corporation"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17
20 Schutzbund
Fighters Vote
IL Leningrad
BY Vern Smith
tspeeial to the Daily worker

LENINGRAD. Dec. is (By Wire
less With militant slogans bright
" ablaze on the squares Of the
streets and the city festiveiy deco
rated with flags and placards, cleo
tons for the Leningrad Soviet be-
gan by the workers Of the eleven
largest plants and factories choos-
ing their deputies.
Almost all the election meetings
passed with 100 per cent attendance
and great activity on the part of
the electors. At the KraSnyiputi
lovst5 plant the meeting displayed
exceptional animation, the workers
Of the industry electing 105 depu-
ties to the city and district Soviets
The list Of the names Of those
elected opens with Stain and in
cludes the oldest workers in the
plant, the best shock workers, and
a number Of engineers.
Twenty-six former members Of
the schutzblmd, who have been
working in the plant since their
arrival in the U.S.SR. after the
Austrian class battles, participated
in the elections, as well as several
other foreigners working here. For
the first time these workers elected
organs Of the proletarian dictator
ship. Peil Franken. former deputy
Of the Prussian Landtag and former
Social-Democrat, wildly expressed
their frame Of mind when he said:
only here in the US.S.R. have
seen what real democracy is. I see
how the workers propose their can
didates, verify the fulfillment Of
their instructions, and criticize the
work of the Soviets. I see how the
workers themselves govern tn E
state"
The elections at Leningrad are
continuing and Friday election
meetings were held in 40 large en-
terprises.
At Moscow by late Friday evening
over 100000 toilers had participated
in the elections. The average at
tendance was SO to 100 per cent.
According to the data Of the Cen
trail Election Commission. up to
Dec. 18th, 54133 village Soviets, or
66.4 per cent of their total num-
Der have been elected throughout
the U.S.S.R., 1874 per cent of the
electors attended the meetings. The
deputies elected include over rs per
cent women, over "A per cent COL
lective farmers, and 1879 per cent
were members and candidates Of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union and the Young Communist
League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17
German Admits Drive
For Company Union
But He Plans No Fight

At three-day meeting of the
National Executive Council Of
the United Textile Workers of
America, concluded Friday in
New York. Francis j. German,
vice president of the union, ad-
mitted that the Southern textile
mill owners are taking advan-
tage of the six months truce"
following his calling off Of the
general strike to establish COM
pany unions. He charged that
the Southern employers have
entered into a conspiracy at a
recent conference to destroy the
textile unions and replace them
with company unions.
After hearing Of wholesale dis
elimination against union mem
bers and that the Textile Labor
Relations Board was doing little
to reinstate them, the Executive
Council decided TO notify the
president of the situation"
Thus the German leadership
once more decides to do nothing
to fight against blacklist and
speed-up. German once more
tries to keep the textile workers
from striking by referring every
thing to Roosevelt.
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shoot strikers. When they shoot. it
is at enemies of the workers. Only
the workers are armed in Soviet
Russia.
Hearst does not like this. The
Progressive Miners leaders also do
not want or like this. Therefore
their agreement with Hearst. But
they even give some advice to
Hearst. They go further than
Hearst. Let us quote. "The only
point that Mr.. Hearst has not made
clear is that the fascist or Com
munist movements are organized
and controlled from the same foun-
tain head-that of predatory wealth
and finance-the national and in
ternstional exploiting class"
In the previous issues of the
Progressive Miner the Jewish people
were blamed for the misery. This
is Just what Hitler says. SO the
leaders of the Progressive Miners
also agree with Hitler. And. by the
way, Hearst just came back from
Germany.
Why does all Of this appear in the
organ of the Progressive Miners?
Work is going on daily to organize
fascist government in the United
States. Fascist bands are being or
ganized. Hearst helped organize
them in the general strike. The
MIRA. has elements OF fascism.
This was made clear in the report
by Thompson and by Mary Van
Kleeck
The job of the labor leaders" in
this is to divide the workers. To
make them fight against the Com
munist Party, which is the party
of the workers. The party that does
1 fight against fascism. The leaders
Of the Progressive Miners, with the
Blue Eagle emblem on their paper,
are doing their part"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17
Reprints Lengthy Quo
tatiOns from Editorials
Against Workers
BY TONY MINERICH

It's all question Of method, Will
liam Randolph Hearst does things
in one way, and the newspaper Of
the Progressive Miners in another
way, but all of them attack the
workers and their organizations.
The latest is the editorial in the
Progressive Miner of Dec. T. 1884,
on the Hearst Call to Action"
which, by the way, calls for the or
ganization of fascist bands.
Afraid that some of the members
of the Progressive Miners did not
see the Hearst press, the editors of
the Progressive Miner reprint much
of the Hearst filth. At the same
time, they tell Of the snti-working
class record of Hearst-then con-
tinue to agree with the same Hearst.
Such are the editorials of these
"saviors of the coal miners"
After columns Of quotations from
the Hearst attack, the Progressive
Miner goes on to say, I'VE do not
publish these quotations from the
Hearst article with the intention Of
denying or disputing a single or
solitary statement. Mr.. Hearst must
be given credit for his directness
and straightforwardness."
Now Hearst says, "Fascism is
definitely movement to oppose
and offset Communism and prevent
the least capable and the least
creditable classes from getting con-
troll of the government"
Things began to set clear. The
fight in the world is between Fas-
cism and Communism, between the
workers and the bosses. Govern
ments are class governments. Even
the Progressive Miners officials
know that the Horner government
uses troops and police against the
miners. The same is true Of the
other states and the Federal gov
eminent.
On the other hand, in Russia the
workers control the government.
They got rid of the boss class. Many
books, articles, pamphlets are re-
corder en- this question. The writer
also spent some time there.
Even Hearst says this. THE least
capable and the least creditable"
class would take over the govern
ment under Communism. Hearst
thought the same during the gen
eral strike in California. He used
his papers against the same less
creditable class"--the working class.
Workers Have Proved Ability
We do not have to argue which
is the least creditable class" The
wise" or smart" boss class runs
the capitalist countries where mill
lions are unemployed. The less
creditsble class in Russia has
b olish e d unemployment In
America the police shoot and kill
strikers. Tom Mooney is. in Jail. The
Scottsboro boys and Angelo Hern-
don are fighting for their lives.
Negroes are lpched. But in Russia
there are no Tom Mooney, or
Scottsboro cases. No police kill or
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Union from Poland Finland, Latvia, and Germany
sought to utilize the murder of Kirov fer a new
terrorist assassination campaign and for new acts
Of sabotage The Hearst poson-pen prostitute Isaac
Don Levine, the day after Kirov was asSassinated
openly declared New York American Dec. D that
this would be the signal for new series of assas-
sinations 1T is significant" he write, that for
the first time since the close of the civil war in
Russian Is years ago the opposition to Bolshevism
has also discovered the weapon of terror"
To drive fear and CONSERVATION into the hearts
of these agents of the rich plunderers in other
countries who seek against the Soviet Union,
the proetarian dictatorship decided to act and act
ruthleSsly against all enemies Of the workers state.
The New York Times correspondent, Harold
Denny. in MOSCOW dispatch to his paper on Dec.
16 points out that the Soviet Union could, if it
wished have made the executions less demonstratve
and have fitted them into the liberal wishes of the
foreign critics. But the proetarian dictatorship
definitely chose not to do so for specific revo-
utonary purpose 1t deliberately decided on utiliz-
ing the justified execution Of these enemies of the
victorious prolearian revolution in order to nstill
the deepest fear among those who, admitted, were
organized to carry on assassination, sabotage and
spying.
THE method chosen was the one best designed to
force the relentless enemy to realize that adj
vance ana progress Oh 0ocla1lsJ coIlStfuctoIl ana
growth in strength of the Soviet state should not
be construed as ver-confidence inability to strike
with the lightning speed of the earliest days of the
revolutionary victory
To those who bring up the argument of humane
ness in the executions we can hest reply with the
words of Karl Radek:
Cur humanencss and our love of mankind con-
sist in preerring to have several tens or even
hundreds of White Guard scoundraIs shot If neces-
ssry rather then to have millions Of workers and
peasants suffer"
Karl Marx on the occasion of the Paris Com
mune, voiced similar sentiments. He declared that
the Commune, which later drowned in the
blood of tens of thousands of its defenders erred
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17
FrankteM Fight Pushed
As Board Passes Buck
On Demand for Pardon
Committee Will Demand
His Right to Receive
All Literature

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. Is. -
Governor Pinchot and his liberal
administration are keeping Phil
Frankfeld in prison, the victim OF
a deliberate frame up by the CAPT
talist courts.
In letter received by the Frank
feld-E gan Liberation Committee
Pinchot's State Pardon Board re-
fuses to consider Phil Frankfeld's
application for pardon and shunts
it onto the shoulders OF the Board
which will be organized with the
incoming administration. Frankfeld
is in prison because he led the I'M
employed in fights against evictions
and sheriff sales.
Referring to the application of
Frankfeld and the two Ambridge
prisoners, Emma Brletic and Dan
Penning, filled ten days ago, the let
ter states:
THE applications Of Phil Frank
field, Dan Penning, and Emma Brie-
tic have been received. These ap-
plications will be considered by the
New Pardon Board in its first ex-
ecutive session. Until that Board
organizes, I do not know when the
first executive. session will be held.
" (Signed) L. f. Meyer,
Secretary Board of Pardons''
The Liberation Committee plans
to intensity the mass campaign for
release of the framed Unemployed
Council leader between now and
Jan. 1, broadening the drive espe-
cially among all American Fedora
ton Of Labor unions to force
Thomas Kennedy, United Mine
Workers of Americas. international
secrstary treasurer, to bring pres
sure to bear in his office as Lieute-
nant-Governor, for the release OF
the three working class prisoners.
Next week a committee will, visit
Blawnox prison to, demand that
Frankfeld be allowed to receive any
literature which he desires. Mass
pressure has already forced Warden
Braun to allow him to receive the
Daily Worker, but the New Masses
and the Labor Defender are still
kept out. In addition, the commit
tee will demand that he be allowed
to receive more visitors, abolishing
the present rule of only one visitor
per month and placing special
stress on the right of Frankfeld to
see his wife and infant son as often
as he chooses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17
Face
tranne-up on
Insanity Test
-.

CHICAGO, Dec. 1s.-Jane New
ton, wife Of Herbert Newton, an
outstanding Negro Communist lead
er, is to be examined by a psychia-
trist on Monday because she mar
ried q Negro.
Mrs. Newton was arrested last
week in a police raid on the New
ton home, after white and Negro
workers had defeated an attempt to
eyict the family from 615 Oakwood
Boulevard by returning their furni-
ture to the fiat after DR.. Mitchell,
chauyinist white landlord of the
premises. had secured an order for
their eviction from Judge Thomas
A. Green of the Municipal Court.
Mrs. Newton is a graduate of the
University of Michigan, and Judge
Green, commenting on her marriage
to Newton, and on the Communist
program Of full equality for Ne
groes, declared:
This is a. terrible example of
what happens when adolescent stu
dents listen to COMMUNISTS. Parents
who make sacrifices. for the chill
dren's education should have the as
surance that. the universities will
prevent loose minded professors
from intoxicating them with wild
minded ideas. They should be
taught respect for their homes,
country and god. They should be
educated as regular Americans.
MY experience with college stu
dents is that they are rudderless
ships, at sea as far as substantial
theories Of life and government are
concerned. Their is no place for
Communism in America"
The League of Struggle for Ne
gro Rights, which is leading the
fight against the eviction of the
Newtons, and has successfully mo-
bilized thousands of white and Ne
gro Chicago workers behind the
struggle for Negro rights. declared
that the workers of Chicago will
force Judge Green's chauvinist
words down his throst and will
teach him that Negroes have rights
that even the most rabid agents Of
the capitalist class will be forced by
mass pressure to respect.
The Newtons are still in their
home at 615 Oakwood Boulevard,
where they are guarded day and
night by white and Negro workers.
The white tenants of the house are
standing firm in their rent strike
against the attempt to 2evict the
Newtons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17
Progressive Miner
Aids Fascist Indictment
Of Hearst Newspapers
Chicago to Hold Big
Lenin Memorial Rally
In Coliseum Jan. 20

CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 16.-The
District Committee of the Com
munist Party, together with the
Young Communist League, is
preparing a gigantic Lenin
Memorial meeting for Jan. 20,
7:30 pm, at the large Coliseum
hall, Fifteenth Street and Wa
bash Avenue, with Robert Minor
member of the Central Commit
tee of the Communist Party, and
chairman of the District Elec-
ton Campaign Committee, as
the principal speaker. In add
ton to him, Karl Lockner, Com
munist candidate for mayor, will
also speak. There will also be
leading Negro comrade and
representative of the Young
Communist League as speakers.
The Lenin Memorial meeting
will also be mass election rally.
The District Committee requests
that all working class organiza-
lions keep this date clear of all
other arrangements, and come in
! body to the meeting bringing
other workers from the shops.
aeighborhoods and organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17

shifts his ideas quickly to suit the
changing needs of his Wall Street
masters, but he. is constantly deuel-
oping new ones as his old ones are
shown in practice to, be attacks
against the workers.
A survey OF this kind would be
incomplete without a general defini-
ton of Coughlin's. position in the
developing political situation today.
Coughlin is one of the many mass
demagogues who have sprung up in
the recent period of. the crisis in
answer to the growing mass radi-
calisaticne of. the masses, and the
growing fascination of the bour-
geoisie., Coughlins entire activities
have been. Fart and parcel of the
Roosevelt New Deal assault on the
masses in the interests of the Wall
Street moncpolies.,
But most. significant of all are
Coughlin's method and his theology
as typical of the method and
theology that prepares the way for
fsscisrn, even as the New Deal it.
self is preparing the way for fas-
cisrn.
Coughlin is now, respected and
admired by many workers. If they
understood his role they would hate
and despise him. They would orive
him off the air. They would make
his activities impossible. He is a
cunning enemy He is dangerous.
We have got to destroy his in
fluence. ss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17
Biro-Bidjan Congress
To Open First Session
Especial to the pally worker

MOSCOW. Dec. Is ely Wiraless> !.
The Presidium of the Council of
Nationalities of the Executive Com
mittee of the U. S. S. R. has sent
telegram of congratulations to the
first Congress of the Jewish Auton-
omous Region of BRO idjam,
which is to open on Dec. 10.
The formation of the Jewish
Autonomous Region" the Presi-
dunn declares "is a great achieve
ment of the national policy of
Lenin and Stain. 1t promotes the
further absorption of the toiling
Jews into socialist construction and
promotes the growth of their well
iare. The toilers of the world are
following with the greatest interest
and sympathy the progress of this
new body of the state, a new mem
Der of the international, family Of
the Soviet Union. 49,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17
Textile. Strikers Make
Birmingham Mill Boss
Sign Union Agreement

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. "A
Six hundred textile strikers have
forced the Utica Knitting Mills at
Admission, Ala, to sign an agreement
guaranteeing no discrim n a lion
against union members. The strike
had lasted six weeks. The strikers
conducted mass picketing in viola
ton of an anti-picketing injunction
granted to the company by the
court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17

action; to focus the attention of the
great masses Of American people
upon this program and these ac-
tons; and to present to Congress-
and the President the demands Of
the American Youth"
The National Congress will open
with addresses by prominent per
sonages and then will 60 on to
round table discussions on unem-
ployrnent war and wascism, educa-
ton, industry and agriculture. Re
porters elected by each group will
then bring communications to the
general Congress.
After the discussion on the re-
ports and voting on the resolutions
proposed, delegations will be elected
to present the proposals to the
President, to members of the House
of Representatives and the Senate.
These delegations will then report
back to the Congress and it will
close with addresses by speakers of
the most important and largest
youth organizations
Among the members of the Con-
limitations Committee calling this
National Congress are Elizabeth
Read of the National Student Fed
eration; Waldo McNutt of the
Rocky Mountain Region, Y. M. c.
A; Jeanette Krutis of the Indus
trial Council, Y w. c. A., Elizabeth;
Noah Walter OF the Young Negro
Cooperative League; Seldom Rod
man of New America; Manlio F.
DeAngelis Of the Student Christian
Movement, Middle Atlantic Region;
Harold Draper, League for Indus
trial Democracy; Theodore Draper,
National Student League, Gilbert
Green of the Young Communist
League, and August Tyler of the
Young Peoples Socialist League
Regional Congresses Planned
In preparation for The great Ma
tional Congress, Regional Con-
crosses are to be held in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, Buffalo, New Haven,
Chicago, Newark, Milwaukee and
New York City
The American Youth Congress,
which was originally called last
August by Viola lima and her So
called Central Bureau for Young
America after she visited several
high Naai officials in Germany and
held conferences with high govern
ment officials here, was supposed
to unite the youth behind a program
of forced labor camps for all youth,
apprenticeship of from one to five
years, with little pay, and opposi-
ton to all radical organizations.
The united front of liberal and
radical organizations. representing
100, coo youth, defeated Viola's fas-
est plans and united on a program
which includes struggle against war
and fascism and replacement Of
transient and C. c. c. camps with
unemployment insurance.
The representation at the Ma
tional Youth Congress will be one
for each organization, two for each
national, state, or city-wide central
body and delegates who will be
elected at the Regional Congresses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17
Everett Labor Council
Protests Denial of Seat
To Bag Union Delegate

EVERETT, Wash. Dec. 49,
Upon learning that the New York
Central Trades and Labor Council
refused to seat as a delegate David
Gordon, of Local 107 Paper Plate
and Bag Makers Union, on the
ground that he is a Communist, the
Everett Central Laboi, Council dis
patched q vigorous protest to the
York locals request was moved by
New York Council
Protest on the denial of the New
the delegate OF the Butchers Union.
1t was carried by a large majority
over the opposition CT Ed Anderson
Of the teamsters, and Kris Sole Of
the carpenters. Sole is known in
Everett as a Socialist"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17
Wide Cannnai-n Planned

WORCESTER. Mass, Dec. 49,
Ten workers will represent this city
at tne National Congress for I'm
employment Insurance. according to
the plans Of the local sponsoring
committee whidh is composed Of
representatives Of eight orgsniza-
tons
To popularize the National Con-
gress, a symposium will be held
here Friday, Dec. 81 at pm, with
Edward Stevens, district unemploy-
ment organizer, as speaker for the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill,