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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Anti-LabOr
Bills Drawn
In California


LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 49,
Local financiers and manufacturers
got together last Saturday with
southern California legislators to
map out an anti-Working class pro-
gram for the next session of the
States law-making bodies, as
southern California rail workers ex-
pressed their sympathy with the
demands of the workers of the Pa
cific Electric Railway for strike
on that system, as a result of their
growing disgust with Roosevelt's
national mediation board.
The legislators were given their
orders by speakers at a meeting of
the Economic Council of southern
California. These orders called for
more drastic laws against strikers,
and particularly against the Com
mu1ist Party. Harry Bayette, Amer
lean Legion leader, called for laws
supporting the program of the Lee
gion, the U. s. Chamber of Com
merce and the Elks to eliminate
Communists and Communist propa-
ganda."
Communism is going to be sup
pressed in the United States" de-
clared Boyette. "In California we
are going to do it by lawful meth
DDS, but unless it is stopped one
way it will be stopped another" he
stated, clearly threatening an in
crease of the fascist violence of
vigilante bands and police against
the working class and it's organiza-
tions, with a renewal of the raids
and mass arrests which were ini-
tiated by the bosses and their agents
during the San Francisco general
strike and the West Coast long
shoremen strike. On the very night
that the Economic Council met, the
San Pedro headquarters of the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
was raided by vigilantes and office
furniture destroyed.
E. V. Latham, assemblyman from
Alhafnbra, Is considering introduce
ing several new tax measures
against the working class, including
an increased sales tax, and per
sonap" income tax hitting at the
small business men.
A. G. Arnold, secretary of the
Economic Council and secretary of
the Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce proposed a resolution calling
on Governor Merriam to take up
with National Relief Administrator
Hopkins the question of redistrib-
uting unemployed families who are
on relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Homeless Men
WinP Partial
Aid Demands
Ia SIS r ally Saturday
Will Precede March
To Court House

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 49,
Seventy-five thousand leaflets and
5000 proclamations setting forth
the demands of the unemployed are
being distributed here in prepara-
ton for the mighty demonstration
and mass march on Saturday, Dec,
%, for Winter relief. All workers
are being urged to call at the Of
fees of the Unemployment Council,
o42 Prospect Avenue, Room 469-X,
or at the Small Home and Land
Owners Federation, 1923 Lorraine
Avenue, for these leaflets.
The march will assemble at Pub
lie Square, Saturday at l pm, and
proceed to the City Hall, where a
delegation will present a six-point
program Of demands. These de-
mands set forth:
l. $40 emergency cash relief for
families and SIS for single work
ers for Winter necessities to be
paid before Christmas.
2. Increase of 81 in relief, cash
rent for all unemployed.
3. Public investigation of dis
elimination against Negroes.
4. Representation of the unem-
ployed on the Relief Board.
5. Immediate suspension of pay
ments to bankers till the passage
Of the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill.
G. Immediate stopping of all
evictions and foreclosures.
Side by side with the demonstra-
ton, Friday and Saturday have
been set aside as penny collection
days to finance the sending of the
Cleveland delegation to the Ma
tional Congress for Unemployment
Insurance, which will be held in
Washington Jan. ST.,
As the support for the demon
stration grows day by day, cam
paign announcing that nothing can
be gained by demonstrations" has
been launched in the local news
papers. However, already impor-
tant concessions have been wrung
from the welfare department. In
addition to promises of granting
partial demands, the single men
have forced a public investigation
of the conditions in the Welfare
Lodge.
Following the demonstration at
Public Square, a huge march will
be held, proceeding up Euclid
Avenue to Ninth Street, North on
Ninth to Superior Street, West on
Superior to Ontario Street, and
North to the County Court House.
There a public open hearing on the
demands of the unemployed will be
held with Cuyahoga County Relief
Administration officials, city and
county officers and the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

before the committee with SANDER
Gus charges against our union was
Police Lieutenant James A, PIXIE.
Lieutenant Pyke has a notorious
record of intimidation and false ar
rests. Numerous workers have
brought charees through the Amer
lean Civil Liberties Union against
Lieutenant Pyke for illegal searches,
brutality, ille@al arrests and intinli-
dation; so that when Lieutenant
Pyke goes before the investigation
committee with charges of strong
arm methods he is only citing his
own record. as a brutal, vicious tool
Of the employers.
"r7he workers in the fur industry
have established record of re-
markable achievements through the
efforts of our union. At the height
Of tire crisis, when Mr.. Green ard
Mr.. VOL we're advising the work
ers to grant wage cuts, our union
secured wage increases and shcr- ar
hours for manv thousands of work.
ers and established an lnenlplov-
ment insurance fund. This is the
reason WIN the employers r-2d the
reactionarv Officials ot the A. :" #
J., seek IN Use the Diokstsin r+"~--
ticatio'l Committee tn deliver q b'-w
against our lnion, which woula he
a blow aGairet oil Of the ORGANIZED
and ,lno~genized workers in this
cc,'-1trv.'
N're telegram of the Needle Trades
Workers JnHustrisl Union protest
ING against the sudden adjournment
OF the hearing. declared:
John w. Mccormack,
Committee Investigating "Un-
American" Activities,
House Office Building,
Washington, D. c.
I'VE protest against adjournment
without giving our Union oppor-
tuhity to testify and refute SLAM
oerous charges of employers and
william Green period demand public
hearing in New York for Union and
workers
BEN GOLD,
General Secretary Treasurer
Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union
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White Guards Admit Assassination
Plot Against U.S.S.R. Leaders
Continued from Page ~


me correct Bohev revolutionary impede
the proletarian dictatorship.
The abomnabe cunning enemies says the
MOSCOW District Committees resolution cowardy
former znoyev anpay group from our
ranks We will stamp
followers Of the Znoviev ani-party"
Pravda, official The Party of the Soviet
Union, in an editorial this point declares:
Agents OF the class party not vet wholly
exernnated Concean their beay of Soviet power and
party the class enemies and their
battle are resortng to the bloody method struggle against
the soviet resimehe method Of isolated assassins
uon at Smony completely unssks the
party and the working casthe vile
znoviev group"
While Agenon Lee speaks platform with the czarist
terrorism in the Soviet Union Democrats in Norway nav
tribute to our slain conrade, Sergei Kirov.
ole Cobonsen OF the Norwegian Workers
Party writing in Arbeiderbade official Party declared
THE murder of Krov one Of their
best and greatest statesmen Kaganoyc he was no
doubt the most important the
MS tasks and had happy practical He
WORKING with the greatest enthusiasm
mighty tasks Kiov really
whom there not death
and large workers republic"
Every worker should so the poetaran Dictator
murderers and saboteurs of Socialist construction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Thaelmann Is Tortured,
Says Former Red Editor
Tells of Brutal Acts of
Nazi ] alters in
Prison Hells

MOSCOW, Dec. 1S.-"The low
cunning and hangman'S psychology
of the Peoples Court must not be
underestimate for an instant
Ernst Thaelmann may be murdered
without warning, after a secret trial
in which his defense will be a
mockery of justice" emphasized
Werner Hirsch here.
Former editor-in-chief of the
Rote Fahne, Communist Party or
gan of Germany, Werner Hirsch
cited his own experiences in the
prisons and concentration camps OF
fascist Germany as an indication
of Thaelmann's own suffering in
an article in Pravda, newspaper of
the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union:
Shifted 18 Times
During the Is months of my i'm
prisonment, I changed my lodging
q times. On 16 occasions I was
beaten until I lost consciousness; as
result I have become deaf in one
ear. A blow with a knuckle-d cluster
nearly caused the loss of an eye.
"~''t0''1 Braschwitz, a former
official of the criminal police OF
Berlin, who joined the Nazis,
pointed out Hirsch to the Brown
Shirts as an object for their especial
hatred. Ever since that day was
kept in prison, at first in the Alex
anderplatz, afterward in the Ler-
therstraSse. On April Is I was
taken to the Karl Liebknecht
House on the pretext of an exam
nation. . I do not know whether
it was a coincidence or not, but
Braschwitz received me in the very
room which had used as a study
when was editor chief of the
Rote Fahne."
After a volley of oathS, Brasch-
WITT left the room, and his place
was taken by a group Of Storm
Troopers, who beat Werner Hirsch
for two hours and a half. Hirsch
tells of the blows, threats and
humiliations which he had to suffer
for several months; finally, in Sep
TENDER, he was transferred to the
concentration camp at Brandon
burg.
House of Death"
This camp was a sort of rallying
Olace for aVervopp who yuas cnarsa
brutal, sadistic or unnatural. There
was a building there which the pris-
oners had nicknamed the house of
death 1t was in this building that
the body of militant Communist
of Brandenburg, Gertrude Piter,
was found naked and violated"
Werner Hirsch was kept shut in
the basement of this house of
death"
eve were beaten numerically at
least twice a day and often during
the night" The torturers used a
leather thong loaded with powdered
steel.
"Thaelmann, and thousands of
other anti-fascists, are being tor
tured exactly with this treatment,
and even worse. In the worldwide
agitation for the release of Ernst
Thaelmann, Hirsch concluded,
there is powerful lever for the
overthrow of fascism in Germany
altogether"
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ing scum OF rogues and scoundrels
originates, if one uses moral Ian
guage - fascist agents, if one uses
the language of politics.
ut would be very naive to regard
this political banditisrn only from
the viewpoint Of a mere individual
act. 1t is a question of its conneo-
ton with the opposition to social
ism on the part of internal coun-
ter-revolution, which is linked up
with fascism abroad. The class
enemies within the country are de-
tachments Of scouts and sappers of
a still very strong army-the world
counter-revolution. Their terrorism
against the representatives of So
Wet power and the Party is the
continuation Of the mass terror
against the fighting workers and
peasants. Therein lies the chief
essence of things
"Our enemies will not succeed in
any of their plots: With firm COOL
mindedness and in exemplary order,
the iron ranks of the Party are
closely welded around Comrade
Stain as our great country marches
toward the solution of its next great
tasks. And fully conscious of its
historic mission, the working class
will march forward with firm step,
mercilessly destroying all its enc
mics, all traitors and evildoers. All
to your postsl No mercy to cri-
minals No mercy for murderers
or their inciters No mercy to base
enemies!"
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are obliged to go ahead with an in
yestigation which does not go be-
yond the circumstances of the case
Ryan's telegram to Chairman
Mccormack read as follows:
Regret meeting our Atlantic Dis
trict Executive Board being held
New York prevents me from ap-
pearing before your committee stor
Our organization has never claimed
Communist influence was respon-
slble for strike on Pacific Coast
every port on West Coast struck tc
be released Of an intolerable situa-
ton on system Of hiring men stor
the night after strike had beer
called Communists in San francisco
injected themselves into situation
complicating it to such an extent
that strike was prolonged for q
much longer period than would have
been necessary stop I can say how
ever that for past five years the
Communists have been very active
on Atlantic Coast seeking to dis.
rupt our organization using effort
to prevail upon our membership tt
violate the agreements with the
New York Shipping Association but
our men have paid no heed tc
them"
"(Signed) Joseph P. Ryan,
President of the LILA.
Brigadier General Alfred T
Smith, officer in charge of Military
Intelligence and a member of thu
War Department General Staff. ties.
titled that "the interest of the War
department has mainly to do with
its (the Communist Party) efect
on the military services" He de-
clared that the effect of Commu.
mist propaganda on the armed force
mas been negligible" and urged the
Committee Ito make it a felony tc
ask any member of the armed force.
to violate his oath"
commander V. l.. kirknlan oil
Naval Intelligence, testified as the
spokesman for the Secretary Of the
Navy. He presented exhibits
which, he said, show "the advance
OF mutiny, rebellion, disobedienct
and assassination"
Shannon attacked Sam Darcy
who was the Communist candidate
for Governor Of California. "Sanl
Darcy Of California, and all the
other Sam Darcys," he said, ''who
appeared upon State ballots all over
this nation in the November elec-
lions, merely used the ballot as one
OF many ways of advertising and
Haunting a subversive and destruc-
tive international movement. Sam
Darcy is not a California problem
he and his prototypes are synlp-
tens of national disease that is
being allowed to grow and spread
unchecked by official action of our
Federal Government" Shannon had
nothing to say about the numbering
of workers by California fascists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
5. P. and Miners Represented

BELLAIRE, O., Dec. Is. - Two
official Socialist Party delegates
representatives of eighteen locals of
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea, delegates from thirty two fra
ternal groups and one representa-
tive from large cooperative move
ment met here last week to make
local plans in support of the Ma
tional Congress for Unemployment
Insurance. In all, 172 delegates
representing SO organizations with
combined membership of $4,000
were present.
The main report was made by
oscar Guynn, president of UNI.
WA. Local 3917. The conference
endorsed the National Congress and
elected fifteen delegates to represent
the local conference. To carry on
the work of the National Congress,
the conference established feder-
ated body of one delegate from each
organization.
While the keynote of the local
conference was the mobilization of a
mass movement to force the enact
ment of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill, every delegate
raised the question and formulated
proposals for struggle around the
immediate needs of the unemployed
in Ohio Valley.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Twenty from Denver

DENVER, Colo, Dec. ia house
on wheels will carry 20 or more
delegates from here to the National
Congress for Unemployment and
Social Insurance. The delegation
will leave on Jan. /, after monster
send-off banquet. Several A. F. Of
L. delegates, representatives of in
dependent unemployed organiza-
lions, Spanish fraternal organiza-
tions and the Unemployment Coun-
ellis are included on the delegation.
Four or five delegates to the Con-
gress from Utah will travel with
the Colorado delegation.
Sponsors for the Congress in Dem
yer are: DR.. G. H. Holmes, N. A. A.
G. P, Carl Michaelson, delegate to
the Building Trades Council Ed
Mccormick, president, Relief Work.
ers Protective Union; Richard AL
en- er, Unemployment Councils:
Carl Eiberger, Boilernakers Union;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
War Vessel Revealed
Smuggling Nazi Books

KEEL. Germany. Dec. 10. = The
naval vessel Karlsruhe" which is
Oh a foreign cruise. is carrying 300
copies of Hitlers book, "Mein
Kampf," destined for distribution at
the ports touche | at by the "Karls-
ruhe," according to the Keller
Neuesten Nachrichten.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
More Support from the South

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. 49,
CAS- labor director of the Highlander
Folk School, I will be glad to do
everything I can in support of
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance BILL writes Zilla Halves, labor
secretary Of the South for the So
cialist Party. Since we now ap-
parently have an official united
frcht in the South, it is all the
more urgent that we work together
on such issues as this" Halves con-
tinued.
Representatives of the local spon-
soring committee here, who are
touring the South to enlist support
for the National Congress, report
widespread endorsement of the Con-
gress among the Negro people.
Last Thursday night, about 100
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Conference in Portland

PORTLAND, Me, Dec. ia
mass conference on the National
Congress for Unemployment Insur-
ance will be held here in the Pyth-
ian Temple on Thursday evening,
Dec. 81. All local workers organ
izaticns have been invited to at
tend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

Henry Brown, president, American
Workers Union Local /.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Mutual Aid Elects Delegate

McKEES ROCKS, Pa, Dec. 49,
The Russian Mutual Aid Society
has elected one delegate to the Ma
tional Congress for Unemployment
Insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

Spread the Daily Worker Among
Your Shopmates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

every Monday night at 1868 Terrace
Street. A conference will be held
Thursday evening, Dec. 20, at 1858
Terrace Street. All individuals and
organizations have been asked to
attend this conference, which will
take definite steps for the election
of delegates to the National Con-
presg.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Chicago Conference
Rallies Wide Defense
For Workers School

A high point in the conference
was the reading Of letter from
a rank and file member of the
American Legion, repudiating the
fascist resolution adopted by its
Americanization Committee Confer
enoe in Bloomington, Ill.
Robert Minor, representing the
Communist Party, made a powerful
appeal for working class unity
against the growing fascist attacks,
A broad, representative commit
tee was elected to coordinate the
anti Fascist campaign under the d.
rection Of the American League
Against War and Fascism.
The anti Fascist mass meeting
Friday night will be addressed by
Prof. A. j. Carlson Of the Univer-
sity Of Chicago; George Koop, mem
Der Of Typographical Union No. 16
and Of the Socialist Party; DR..
Arthur G. Falls, of the Inter-racial
Commission of the Urban League;
John Werlich, chairman of the
American League Against War and
Fascism; Robert Minor, Of the Com
munist Party, and Beatrice Shields.
Especial TO the Daily Worker)
TOLEDO. Dec. 18.--Sixty- ac-
credited delegates from 40 organiza-
lions, and representing more than
1900 men, women and youth Of To-
ledo and Northwestern Ohio, con-
vened Sunday afternoon at the YIN.
CA. Auditorium in the first Toledo
conference Of the American League
Against War and FaScism.
The trade unions predominated
at the conference. The Mechanics
Educational Society was not only
the largest union organization affi-
liating with the conference, but the
largest single organization repre-
sented as well. OF the A. F. Of L.
unions, the Bricklayers, the Cloak
makers, the Street Carmen and the
Women's Trade Union League were
the largest units represented. Two
Greek letter fraternities sent dele
gates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

CHICAGO, H., Dec. ia large
delegation of Chicago trade union
lists is expected to attend the Ma
tional Congress for Unemployment
Insurance. Special round trip train
fares to Washington have been ar
ranged at SIG, and bus fares at SO.
A large percentage of the 81 unions
which endorsed the Workers Unen-
ployment Insurance Bill are ex-
pected to send representatives to
the Congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich.. Dec. /

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Dec. l8.
The conference for the support
of the Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill, representing
total membership of TIC people,
which has just met here, endorsed
the Workers Bill and the National
Congress. The Conference was
composed of the following organ
izatior1s: Polish Workers Club and
Polish Women Progressive Club,
Polish Chamber of Labor, Polish
Branch Of the International Labor
Defense, Polish Branch $500 of the
I. W. o., Polish Falcons Club and
Tax Payers Association.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

Negro and white workers, attending
the regular meeting of the Tarrant
City Relief Workers League, enthu-
siastically endorsed the National
Congress. Secretary Thorpe of the
Switchmen's Union, spoke on the
Workers Bill and the program of
the A. F. Of L. rank and file.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
srEUBENvrLLE, Ohio, Dec. /,

6IEUbEN WILLIE, ONO, Dec. IL.
The Monessen section of the
Finnish Federation has endorsed
the National Congress for Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance and
elected a delegate to the congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Needle Union
Exposes Lies

Continued from Page ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Hail Advances
OF Soviet Union

Continued from Page y
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Social Insurance
Gets More Support

Continued from Page u
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charged with deporting labor lead
ers during times Of labor unrest. It
is true we are likely to deport labor
leaders during times of unrest but
not because the information brought
to us by the other side (the employ
ers) that he is a Communist, an
archist, etc. Once we are put on
notice as to the alleged status of an
alien we must proceed with depor-
tation, without consideration that
he may or may not be labor lead
er. If police organization reports
to US that they have an alien we
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