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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
Anniversary Brings Funds

to serve as the plaything in the
hands of the Dubinskys, Germans.
Reeves, etc. This gives you a false
feeling as though you were in con-
tact with the masses. But that is
not so. Just ask yourselves: what
use are you making of this contact?
What purposes are you made to
serve despite your own wishes? The
answer will show that you are made
to serve the reformist bureaucracy;
you are made to serve the N. R. A.
and all that it stands for. On the
other hand, joining with the Com
muT1ist Party in a united front you
will be serving the workers and not
their enemies, you will be fighting
for working class liberatio and
against its further enslavement, you
will be fighting for a strong class
struggle trade union movement in
the United States. Isn't that the
situation in steel, where the Social
lists are uniting with the Commu-
niSts to fight jointly against Nc
Mahon? Isn't that also the neces-
sary thing to do in mining, to fight
against Lewis, and in textile. to
fight German; and in garments to
fight Dubinsky? And is there any
doubt of the favorable immediate
and remoter prospects of this strug-
gle? OF course, not. The Amer
lean masses are moving rapidly
toward class struggle and away from
class collaboration, i.e, toward the
united front and away from the
agents of the N. R. A. in the labor
movement. The revolutionary up
surge is rising. Remember San
Francisco and the National Textile
Strike.
BY our united struggles we will
make this revolutionary upsurge
express itself also on the parlia-
mentary field in the form of mass
breakaways from the capitalist
parties in time of elections, which,
as we know, is not yet the case.
The immediate future is ours, it
belongs TO the united front, and
not to the Waldmans, Dubinskys,
Germans and those that capitulate
to them.
Nor should we be deceived by the
efforts to give you a combination
(perhaps organic unity with the
renegades from Communism as a
Substitute" for the united front
with the Communist Party. We
need not waste time on the rene
gade clique of Gitlow and Co. This
clique can and will serve only one
purpose; the purpose of obstructing
the united front with the Commu-
mist Party They Cthe renegades)
will serve as mercenaries of disrup-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14

workers now have. 1 should
favor making some try at it in
America without waiting for the
loosely knit Second International
to act" THE Choice Before Us,
Page ISL. Our emphasis).
Norman Thomas, the leader of
the S. p, with majority in the
N. E. c., with the pledges of the
Declaration of Principles, is in duty
bound to undertake a united front
with the Communist Party. Or else,
assume the responsibility for vio-
lating his own personal pledge and
the decisions of majority of the
S. F. membership. Which will he
choose?
We must already point to the
fact that, judging by certain I'M
mistakable indications, Norm a n
Thomas seems to be tending in the
direction Cor, should we say, waver-
ing in many directions) of making
the wrong choice. How, for ex-
emple, shall we understand his de-
tense of Sell-out German and his
attack upon the Communists in
connection with the betrayed Ma
tional Textile Strike? Surely, one
cannot defend Germans treachery
and at the same time fight against
war and fascisation; one cannot
shield people who collaborate with
the New Deal in curtailing workers
rights (Gorman & Coz and at the
same time remain true to ones
solemn declaration, as quoted above,
that there is mo bar to common
action between the Socialist and
Communist Parties for "the de-
tense of such rights as the workers
now have Norman Thomas must
therefore answer: which is it to be
with German 81 Co. for the sup
preston of workers rights or with
the Communist Party for the de-
Tense of these rightsp
Right Wing Prepared to Split
1t is no secret that Norman
Thomas and the N. E. C. majority
are very much agitated and fright
ened over the splitting maneuvers
of the right wing (Waldman, Sol
ONION and Coz. 1t is a fact that
the right wing is preparing for a
split. Abe Cahan's Forward Asso-
ciation-a pillar of this black out
fits striking out of its Constitu-
ton the provisions requiring S. P.
membership of Forward Board
members. Seeing the control of
the New York S. P. organization
slipping out of their stranglehold
Q,18e members having voted for the
Declaration of Principles out of a.
total vote of 2,726), Waldman and
Co. are openly threatening a split
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
Rank and File of S. P.
Do Not Want Delay
In United Fight
BY ALEX BITTELMAN

WE SPEAK here primarily of the
W Socialist Party. And we say
the next step is; make the united
front-because something has hap
pened lately in the Socialist Party
The majority of it's members has
adopted by referendum the Declare
ton of Principles. This fact i'm
poses upon the Socialist Party GER
tain obligations favorable to the
united front with the Communist
Party. How soon will the N. E. C.
of the S. P. begin to fulfill these
obligations?
The Declaration of Principles is
not revolutionary program; it is
essentially, programmatically, a re-
formist document. Why do we say
that? Because this document, the
Declaration of Principles, rests fun
damentally upon bourgeois democ-
racy, and not upon the revolution
airy struggle for the Dictatorship OF
the Proletariat. This is the touch
stone in the present epoch. You
are either for the Dictatorship of
the Proletariat, which is the only
possible true working class democ-
racy; or you are for bourgeois de-
mocracy, democracy in general, /"
which is and can be nothing else
but the dictatorship of monopoly
capital. There is no in-between
And whatever pretends to stand in
between, as does the Declaration of
Principles, in reality stands on the
platform that led Social democracy
mocracy.' And this is precisely the
platform this led Social Democracy
to combat the revolutionary move
ments of the proletariat and to pave
the way for fascism in Germany
Austria, etc. 1t is this platform OF
reformism and class collaboration
which initiates against the class
struggle and thus helps the process
OF fascisation of capitalist rule. And
in the discussion of the programme
tic differences between the Commu-
mist Party and the Socialist Party
this is our fundamental proposition
But we cannot and must not per-
NIT these programmatic differences
to stand in the way of the united
front between the Communist and
Socialist Parties, between the Com
munist and Socialist workers. This
is the view, the firm conviction, OF
the Communist Party. This is also
the growing conviction Of the mem
bership of the Socialist Party, in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
Lake Seomen Map Program
For Action in the Ports
Winter Unemployment
Necessitates Big
Relief Fight
BY JOHN ADAMS

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 49,
The decisions of the Great Lakes
conference of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union. held in Cleveland,
Ohio, on Nov. and 5, are of ex-
treme Importance to all marine
workers on the great inland mari
time route.
The conference, attended by dele
gates and secretaries from the ports
of Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo and
Toledo, where the union has per-
manent branches and halls, was for
the purpose of checking on the re-
suits of the first season of activity
of the union in this area and to
plan suitable methods of activity
that would enable the marine work
ers to use the winter months as q
training period to gather the forces
and strength to face the shipown-
ers in the spring with united ranks
on the docks and aboard the ships.
While unity in action is the most
burning question in the industry,
unity of action and of demands, it
was pointed out at the conference,
that certain "unionists" like Hunter,
O'Brien and Co., of the I.S.U., stand
in the way of the fighting unity of
the seamen. The IS.U. members
have to struggle for control of their
union against such individuals. The
actual return of great portion Of
the pay-cut to the entire industry
was due to real unity in action
policy that our union put forward.
Drawing to the close of the 1894
season, we can say that the Lake
Carriers Association Company
union continued its rotten exist
ence one more season only because
of actions Of the I.SU. oficialdom
in sabotaging united action to
smash it.
How can we during the winter
months, when the industry is shut
down, find the means of spreading
this unity idea? This can and will
be done by the members of the
IS.U. and M.W1.U. and inorganic
ed men through the independent
Waterfront Unemployment Councils
where thousands of lake seamen
have already found that by proper
united struggle, they could force
relief from the government.
The M.WI.U. has guided and
sponsored these Councils and the
time has come to spread them over
the Lakes
The decisions of this conference
are being issued in a special bull
letin, which will be sold all over the
Lakes. Organizations in marine
towns are requested to send into The
Lakes department, the names and
addresses of marine workers, so that
this bulletin can be mailed out to
them. All mail should be sent to
Lake Department, M.WI.U., 1882 E.
9th ST., Cleveland, Ohio.
Prior to the opening of the season
of 1885, the M.WI.U. will issue a
call for all organized and morgan
lied Lake marine workers to con-
ference where the decisions of stlug-
gle, with the power to enforce them,
can be made by the seamen, long
shoremen, harbor and river workers
of the Lakes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
Wavering on Question
Of Unity Will Help
Ruling Class

ton Of the workers ranks for all
that is reactionary in the Socialist
Party, especially for those who are
paying lip-service to the united
front while sabotaging it in prac-
tice. Similarly with the Lovestone
group. Under the Tammany tute-
lage of Loyestone, this renegade
group seeks to place itself "in-be-
tween" the Socialist and Commu-
mist Parties in order to prevent the
contamination of the united front.
In this, the ambitious Tammany
politicians will fail as they have
failed miserably in their other
great" ambitions. But when Nor
man Thomas, the titular head of
the Socialist Party, is beginning to
play with them, obviously as a ma
neuver against the united front with
the Communist Party, then it is
necessary to say plainly: the S. P.
membership want united front
with the Communists, with the
Communist Party, the U. S. section
of the Communist International.
and not with the renegades from
Communism. The Communist and
Socialist workers want an honest
and clean united front of struggle
on specific issues for the demands
Of the American masses, and not
Tammany Hall intrigues, la Love-
stone, against the united front.
We say to the Socialist Party and
its membership: the next step is
MAKE THE UNITED FRONT.
And to the membership of the
Communist Party: Go to the So
cialiSt workers and the S. P. organ
izations. Garry to them our offers
of united front action-at once, i'm
mediately, and organize the united
front of action against the common
enemy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
2 Year Term
Given Negro
In Alabama
Especial to the Daily worker)


BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. 49,
Peter Turney, militant Negro
worker, was convicted yesterday of
criminal libel. on two counts and
sentenced to two years imprison-
ment for circulating a leahet which
made truthful accusations against
Professor Wood, principal of the
Ensley Council School here.
Turney was arrested three weeks
ago when his home was raided by
j. T. Moser whose name is also men
toned in the leaf1et. Turney was
convicted on framed evidence.
Application for an appeal has
been filed by c. B. Powell, Interna-
tional Labor Defense attorney re-
tanned for Turney.
Fred Walker, Negro worker, whose
home was raided on Thursday. is
free on bail of $500 for trial on Nov
Is on a charge of violating the
Downs literature possession" ordi-
nance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
Needle Union To Hold
Bazaar To Raise Fund
For Indicted w Ork ers

CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 13.-To raise
a defense fund for twenty-eight in
dicted needle trades workers who
face Jail terms for their union &C
tivities, the Needle Trades Union is
conducting a bazaar on Nov. Is, II
and 10, at the Workers Lyceum,
2733 West Hirsch Boulevard. Every
Chicago trade unionist is urged to
help make the bazaar a success.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
School Closing F oug h t
By Workers in Chicopee

CHICOPEE, Mass, Nov. 13.-
Working class parents met at the
Polish National Home here Sunday
in protest against the closing of the
city schools following the refusal of
the Mayor to sign bills for the
transference of funds to the. school
committee. About 10000 children
are being denied the right to attend
school,
On two occasions the Board of
Aldermen has passed bills for the
transference of the necessary funds,
and on each occasion the Mayor
has vetoed the bills.
The mass meeting Sunday sent
kilograms of protest to Governor
Ely and the Mayor, demanding the
ALLEGATION of school funds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
SOVIET FILM IN MILWAUKEE

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Nov. 49,
The Soviet sound film, Shame"
with English titles, will be shown
here Nov. Is at the Milwaukee Audi
forum, Engleman Hall. There will
be two showings only, at 7:3o and
9 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
Chicago, IN.

Two reel movie Chicago Workers in
Action" and Saving Capitalism in
Two Alive" a magician. Recitation
and Violin Solo. Dance to follow,
Saturday, Nov. II, 7:30 pm. Slovak
Workers Home, 2147 W. Chicago Ave.
Adm. 20c in adv, 25c at door. Given
by Unit Dos, oil and 912.
Gala Dance and Entertainment. sat
urday. Nov. "a. Workers Lyceum
2fa3 Hirsch st. Auspices: Virgins
BIZ. Y.C.L. and C.P. SO.
Gala Affair and Dance given by Rus
sian Organizations on Saturday, Nov.
a. at Douglas Auditorium, Kedzie and
Ogden Ave-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
AFFAIRS FOR THE
DAILY WORKER
PHILADELPHIA. Pa.

Family Supper and Concert given by
Sec. at 1908 Tasker st., Saturday,
Nov. II. 8 pm. Adm. use.
House Party. Soviet Film Showing,
Refreshments, $3.50 Gainor Road,
Saturday, Nov. H. Ausp. Unit 3o7 C.P.
Thanksgiving Eve Dance, Wed, Nov.
2s at State Dance Hall, 22nd and
Market SITS, Good Dance Orchestra.
Come in costume. Prizes for best
costumes.
Childrens Party at 1841 w. 4th st.,
pm. given by children Of Two,
Jewish Children's School IL, Friday,
Nov, 49, p.m
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
WHAT'S ON
Philadelphia, Pa.

Attention. Nature Friends Lecture
Thursday, Nov. Is is postponed on
account Of John L. Spivak lecture
Marine Workers Ind. Union is badly
in need Of motor boat or launch
to carry on organizational work.
Any comrade who has boat Of this
description please notify the M.w.U.,
ara 8 2nd Sh
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
Chicago, WL.

First Annual Dance given by Painters
Br. SIS TWO. Saturday, Dec. 8 at
Mirror Hall, 1855 N. Western Ave.
Adm. 25c IN adv, 35c at door.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14

Party members, the Daily
Worker places its foremost reli-
ance on you. See that your unit
completes its quota before Dec. /!
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BridsepOrt, Conn.

John Bovingdon will perform poem
dances Of the New Russia with in
PRODUCTION and lecture. Moose TEN
pie, $40 Main St.. Thursday, Nov. IS,
PM Ausp: FSU.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
Detroit, Mich.

Sentenced to Health" Soviet film
at Detroit Federation of Women
Clubs, Hancock at Second, Friday,
Nov. is, pm. Ausp,: Detroit BIT.
FSu
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the Working Mems Association also
contributes 81.
DETROIT, Mich.-The etroit
~ Workers Bookshop, on it's own
initiative, has set itself quota of
S75. 1t is sending the proceeds of
an affair held last Friday night.
CPIVAK, Col.-Tt is with a
" great deal of pleasure that /
remit to you, in behalf of a group
Of patients and employees, the
sum of S2.13. Comradely yours,
Louis Kramer"
Work Continues
PHILADELPHIA, PATHS district
1 has already gone over the top,
but work still goes on.
On Friday the members of the
1, w o. Children's School No. II
are giving a party for the Daily, /"
at 1841 Fourth Street.
Must Speed Contributions
THE above reports show some of
the activity that is going on
throughout the country for the
Daily Workers 100000 drive. Less
than three weeks remain to COM
plete the total, if the decision of
the Central Committee is to be
carried out. Every Communist
Party section, every mass or
ganization and trade union
every reader-must rush to the
aid of the Daily" Send your
contributions in at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14

Every C. P. section should
make a contribution to the Daily
Worker 100000 drive this week!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
Wom'en's Group Plans
Widespread Campaign
For the Daily Yorker

CHICAGO, Ill.-Sending SIS in
v answer to the Daily Workers
appeal for immediate contributions,
Branch SO of the Ukrainian
Womens Organization announces
that it is organizing a group of
women workers to go from house
to house to seek support for the
Daily Worker.
1--WE believe, because of our
own experience" states their
resolution, that only the Com
munist Party land the Daily
Worker) gives the solution to the
present economic crisis-not by
promises but by organizing the
working class to take over what
belongs to them. We call upon
all branches to help the Daily
Worker"
Part of the proceeds from the
tenth anniversary celebration Of
the entire organization will go to
the Daily Worker. The celebration
takes place next Sunday, Nov. 10,
at the Peoples Auditorium, PAST
w. Chicago Avenue.
Anniversary Brings Funds
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich The 18th
u Anniversary of the Russian Rev.
olution was celebrated here in
packed hall-more than 400 people
attending. In addition to Gorky's
Mother" a newsreel of Earl Brow
der and Clarence Hathaway, ap-
pealing for the Daily Worker was
shown. After the movies, a collec-
ton was made. The result-S9.75.
The Hamilton Avenue Branch of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12
SaUe Birds at
Dogs MuzzLe.

Every hunter should use retriever
on every kind of game this year from
doves to ducks, according to bulletin
of the American Game Association,
which points out that not single head
of game should be wasted, particularly
in view of huge depletion of some
species by the drouth of the last four
years.
If bird dog or other sporting dogs
cannot be had, even an alley mongrel
will be of some value; for it is the
natural instinct of dog to hunt food.
OF course the hunter may have to
tussle with the mongrel for possession
after the dog finds the bird, but that is
better than not finding the game, and
chances are the hunter will win. Thus
the number of birds shot to get a bag
or mess" will be lowered. That's prac-
ticing conservation at the dog muzzle,
SO to speak, the bulletin points out.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12

After several well attended meetings
held in the City of Ely and various
localities of the Fourth Commissioner
District, votes were taken as to the
ACCESSIBILITY of naming sticker candi-
date for County Commissioner in the
district, it was found that Mr.. John E.
Porthan of Ely was the choice of the
voters.
Several meetings were held at Ely,
Soudan, Idington, Angora, Cook and
vermilion Dam. At all of these meet
ings a ballot was taken and it was
decided that Mr.. Porthan was the
choice of the voters.
John E. Porthan IS well known TO the
people of the Fourth District. He has
been manager of the Ely Finnish Stock
Company store for 80 years. He is
highly respected by all and he has rem
dered valuable services to Ely and the
district.
MIR. Porthan was third high man at
the primaries, being only 80 votes be-
hind Mr.. Veranth.
PoRTHAN FOR COMMISSIONERS
COMMITTEE.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12

Tomorrow afternoon the
people of Ely will be permitted
to see and hear Martin A.
Nelson, the candidate for gov
ernor on the Republican ticket.
Mr.. Nelson is a man whom it
is a pleasure to meet and ne
makes friends by his intelligent
and straightforward manner of
all who come in contact with
him. He is recognized as one
of the best attorneys in the
southern end of the state, a
thinker and a doer and is
likened to John A. Johnson,
one of the best governors the
state ever had. The straw
ballot poll of the auto owners
of all parts of the state indi-
Gates what these people think
of him. He has all the at
tributes for a governor of
which Minnesota can be proud.
Don't take our word for it but
see and hear him for yourself.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12

priation of funds, but we just do not
have any money"
If we cannot believe the officials of
the department about the business OF
the department, whom shall we believe?
Knights of the road, once reviled as
"bums" and "hoboes," are "transients"
in Minnesota. They no longer live in
the Jungle" but have convenient camps
scattered all over the state for them
with good beds, tempting menu, radios
with their meals, clothing, dental and
medical care, and, to cap the climax,
IS cents per transient" each week for
spending money.
They are fed on the fat Of the land.
A curious visitor at one of the camps
was invited to take ''pot luck with the
boys, and this is what he got: boiled
potatoes of fine quality with paprika
sprinkled over them, gravy, roast beef
in large cuts, rye and white bread
butter in pound bricks, salad of fresh
cabbage and tomatoes (shipped in)
coffee, hot tea, iced tea, sugar, cream
and choice peaches for desert. The
guest thought they must be putting on
the dog for him, but was assured ''it's
| Just our regular feed"
| For unadulterated mendacity the
Farmer-Labor Leader cops all the
medals. IF you will just take it fol
certain that every statement it make.
is falSehood, or what is even worse
than a plain lie, a truth told with
intent to deceive, your score will bt
100 per cent.
An interesting whopper in recent
Issue was the naive declaration tina
the administration highway department
was spending this year less than hal
as much as under a republican official
Babcock, the Leader said, spent 8!
millions and Elsberg spends II mil
lions, and we've got bigger system
now. Whereupon the Leader preeneo
itself in it's virtue. How true and ye
how false!
It neglected to say that both Elsberl
and Babcock spent all they had, a.
every highway department. is expected
and desired to do.
What is the matter with the admins
tration is not the amount of money i
spends, but the amount it wastes.
| It's a familiar saw that evil com
munications corrupt good manners ant
our friend Floyd's association with tin
Farmer-Labor Leader haas corrupted
the truth in him-if he ever had an,
in him.
AT Lake City the Governor said: "Il
the 1888 session of the legislature
filed budget asking the substantial
reduction in appropriations of $1,000,
OOO."
BY this statement the Governor evi
IDENTIFY wants to convey the impression
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12

Shoemaker has filed for
Congress in the Eighth District
of which Ely is a part. His
opponents w. A. Pittenger and
Jerry A. Harri hope he will
make a series of speeches in
the district. A speech a day
will keep the voters away
from Shoemaker. He made a
talk in Two Harbors last week
and besides hitting the news
papers one of his FL. kept
press" blows, he also took un-
holy raps at the steel corpora
ton, all of which got him no.
where in Two Harbors or any
where else on the iron ranges
or Duluth because he only
talked and did not know what
he was talking about say Two
Harbors people who heard
him.