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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27

frame-up campaign against Jane
Newton in an attempt to have her
legally adjudged insane. She mar
ried Negro, therefore she must be
out OF her mind--ttis is the fascist,
anti-working class reasoning Of the
boss courts and other institutions
of jim-crow capitalism.
Hearst's Chicago American, leader
of the fascist attack on the Chicago
Workers School, in front page
story on December Is, declared that
Jane Emery Newton was Chicagos
problem today"
What Kind Of Problem?
Why is Jane Newton a problem
for Chicago's ruling class? The
Hearst press answers that her quest
for fuller life has brought her
at 26 to poverty, to Communism,
to estrangement from her family,
to missegenation in third mar
rage, and to the threshold of jail"
Emphasis mine.--C. b
In other words Jane Newton has
earned the hatred of the capitalist
class and is at the threshold of
jail because she dared to espouse
the cause of the working class, and
further defied the race hatred
edicts of the ruling class by mar
rying Negro worker!
T..
light of these developments, in the
light Of the experience of other
minority groups with fascist dicta-
torships, that the fate OF the Negro
masses under a fascist dictatorship
in this country would be tremen-
dous increase In persecution, fiercer
national oppression and bloody po-
groms that would make their con-
ditions still more horrible?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
CIevelandC.P.
COnpeIs City
To Rent Hall
Lenin Memorial Meet
ing Will Be Held in
Public Auditorium

CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 26.-After
long negotiations the Cleveland city
administration has reluctantly
agreed, under mass pressure, to rent
the Public Auditorium Ballroom for
the Communist Party Lenin Mem
oriaI mass meeting on Sunday, Jan.
20, at 200 pm.
The renting of the city-owned
Public Auditorium is a definite vic
tory for the Communist Party es-
pecially after Mayor Davis publicly
announced his intention of forbid
ing free speech and of driving the
Communists out of the city"
w. w. Weinstone, member of the
Central Committee of the Commu-
mist Party will be the main speaker,
and an excellent revolutionary pro-
gram will round out the afternoon.
Admission will be rs cents at the
door, and 20 cents in advance. I'm
employed with cards will be admitted
for 10 cents.
A tremendous mass turnout is ex-
pected to pay tribute to Lenin'S
memory and at the same time dem
onstrate to Mayor Davis that the
Communist Party will fight to the
utmost for civil rights for the work.
erS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27

Fascism is the dictatorship of the
most reactionary irnperialisk ele-
ments of capitalism, seeking way
out of the capitalist crisis at the
expense and misery Of the toilers.
Fascism menaces the whole toiling
population, and particularly the
Negro and Jewish people. To gain
foothold and succeed for a time
Fascisn must fan all the chauvinist
hatreds of the most backward sec
lions OF the white population. This is
the purpose of the notorious decision
by the Chicago court against Her
bert Newton and his wife. This is
the purpose of the feverish anti
Negro and anti-labor activities of
the White Legion and Ku Klux
Khan bands in the South which,
because of the local strength of the
white superiority theories of the
ruling class, is fertile breeding
place for Fascisn.
1t is because the Negro people
stand to be crushed by Fascism
that they must see the situation
clearly, and realize who are their
enemies and who are their friends
and natural allies in the fight for
Negro liberation and against Fas-
cism and imperialist war.
Fascism can be defeated only by
the broadcast united front struggle
of the workers, Negro and white,
and all anti-fascists. fighting under
the correct leadership Of the van
guard of the working class, the
Communist Party. The Communists
are the best fighters for Negro
liberation, for the day to day de-
mands of the masses, and against
Fascism because they are the most
relentless enemies of capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27

supply the same family with milk,
a local Office manager, j. D. Amyot,
who seemed to have the greatest
consideration for the milk dealers.
When Mr.. Amyot was asked why
he had issued milk orders after they
had been issued by the older clerks"
Hitler writes in his report, "his re-
ply was that he did not want any
milkman to lose business on the
route"
According to Charles G. George,
former head of the local T. e. r. A.
organization in Cohoes, a similar
situation exists in the nearby cities
of Troy, Albany and Amsterdam
all of them almost in the shadow
of the executive mansion of Gov
ernor Lehman.
Relief Foods Spoiled
Food spoilage-whether because
of maladministration in the local
distributive apparatus or a fear of
competing with private business
also occurred in Cohoes, Mr.. George
informed the writer. TN the spring
of this year." he said, "a batch of
meat was not distributed and be-
came unfit for human consump-
ton"
Recent revelations of the spelling
of hundreds of thousands of pounds
of potatoes in New York City caused
a public sensation, readers will re-
member. Reports that the same
thing has happened to relief foods
in other communities upstate are
common.
So much for these lesser phases
of the relief situation. Tomorrow
we will discuss some of the impl-
cations of the situation in the light
of the forthcoming National Con-
gress for Unemployment Insurance
in Washington, Jan. 5, 6 and 7.
ITO Be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
Italian Army
Occupies City
In Abyssini
Mussolini Renews Drive
to Subjugate Entire
Country

ADDS ABABA, Abyssinia, Dec. 26.
Italian Fascist troops penetrated
further into Abyssinia on Christ
mas in Mussolini's campaign to
completely subjugate the Abys-
Sinian masses to imperialist OPP
preston and exploitation. The
italian invaders occupied the Abys-
sinian town of Afdub and have be-
gun the construction of a military
road from Italian Eritrea to Ado
and Luerloguki In Abyssinian ter
ritory.
italian airplanes are threatening
to bomb Abyssinian defense forces
stationed at Gerlogubi, the AbyS-
sinian Government stated yester-
day in a new appeal to the League
of Nations. Meantime, the League
has conceded to italian pressure to
withdraw from the press room
map of Abyssinia made by the
Italian Geographical Institute at
Bergaine showing Ualual, where
the first Italo-Abyssinian clash oc-
CURED several weeks ago, we'll
within the Abyssinian frontier &C
cording to the 1897 treaty. That
treaty was signed by Italy and
Abyssinia after the Battle of Ad-
owa 1896 in which the Abyssin-
ian forces overwhelmingly defeated
an invading Italian army. The
Italian government now claims
that Ualual is within the limits of
its Eritrea colony, which with
other looted territory held by Italy,
France and Great Britain cuts off
Abyssinia from the sea.
There is also in the League Lii
brary an italian governmental map
Of Abyssinia issued by the italian
Colonial Office in 1885. This map
took the 1908 treaty changes into
consideration but it, too, shows
Ualual more than 100 miles inside
Abyssinia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
Jane Newton to Speak
AT Chicago Protest Rally
For the Workers School
DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau,


CHICAGO, Dec. 26.-Jane New
ton, released on probation following
ton, RELEASED on probation following
the failure Of an attempt to rail-
road her to the psychopathic ward
after mass exposure of the role of
Chicago courts as instigators of at
tacks on Negro people, will speak
at the mass meeting Friday eve
ming, Dec. %, at the Capitol Build
ing, 159 North Street, called to pro-
test the fascist attacks against the
Chicago Workers School.
Many prominent speakers, such
as Arthur G. Falls, Professor A. j..
Carlson, Robert Minor, John Wer-
lick, George Koop, Morris Fine, and
Beatrice Shields will add their
voices to the mighty movement de-
veloping in Chicago to beat back
the fascist onslaught against work
ing class organizations.
Jane Newton's visit to her hus-
band, Herbert Newton, in the Bride
well Jail, where the Negro Comrnu-
mist leader is serving a sentence for
participating in a struggle for Jobs
Tor Negroes, disclosed that brutal
treatment, beating, manhandling,
and rotten food are the lot of work.
ing class fighters imprisoned here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27

Solitary confinement in the pun
ishment cells is generally resorted
to in the Latvian prisons. The min
imum term of such punishment is
seven days, but often it is IA and
81 days. Recently, the prisoners
Baumann, Novin, Greenberg, Mesis,
Kuesselev, Kukla, Nicholson, Lekmis
and others were kept for 81 days
in the punishment cell.
After his confinement in the pun
iShment cell, a prisoner named
Dums went mad. He had first to
be transferred to the prison hospital
and from there to a lunatic asylum.
Punished for Writing
Not long ago a certain Bossfeld
was thrown into the punishment cell
for 81 days because he wrote a note,
and the remaining seven days be-
cause he had hidden this note. On
the day before he was taken to the
punishment cell, warder tapped
provocatively on the door of his cell.
Bossfeld tapped back an answer
the usual means of communication
among the prisoners-and for this
he was sentenced to seven days more
in the punishment cell. Thus this
worker remained in the dark pun
ishment cell IS days, and lived on
bread and water the whole of this
period!
The former deputies of the Work
ers' and Peasants Fraction of the
Latvian Sejm are subjected to the
most brutal ill-treatment. DEPUTY
Lapin was so mishandled that he
lost the sight of his right eye. He
was forced to kneel with appraised
hands for so long that he lost con-
seriousness. The bridge of his nose
Is injured. There were bloodstains all
over his clothes. which were handed
out to his relatives. His state of
health has worsened to such an
extent that the prison authorities
have been forced to allow him to
lie on the plank bed during the day
time. Deputy Gulbis is near in
sanity.
At this moment the political pris-
oners in Latvia can be aided only by
the proved international solidarity
OF the toilers of all countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
Mental Test for Jane Ne,Uton Another Sign
OF Growing Trend Toward Fascism in It. S.

The order issued by a Chicago
court for mental examination of
the white wife of a Negro worker is
typical expression of the growing
fascist tendencies of the American
ruling class and it's agents and
hangers-on. One has only to re-
member that in Hitler Germany,
the Nazi hangmen are today ad-
vocating penalties up to execution
for so-called "Aryans" who marry
Jews, to realize the sinister import
OF the action Of the Chicago court.
The courts action dramatically
raises three issues: Cd The ques-
ton Of who are the enemies and
oppressors of the Negro people, ca
OF the fate of the Negro people
under a fascist dictatorship in this
country, and 80 of the necessity
for the most determined, relentless
and united front struggle by Negro
and white workers and the masses
OF the Negro people against fascism.
Enemies of Negro People
Who are the enemies and oppres-
sors of the Negro massesP
This question Is daily answered
in the experiences of Negro workers
with the jim-crow relief bureaus
and the departments of city and
national governments, in the refusal
OF state and federal governments to
safeguard the constitutional rights
OF the Negro peoples and TO punish
the lynchers of Negroes, in the
established policy of Big Business
of refusing employment to Negroes
as clerks, ETC., or in any other
capacity than porters, messenger
boys, scrub women, etc.
1t was dramatically answered in
the monstrous frame-up of the in
nocent Scottsboro boys and in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27

ness" etc, proclaimed by the reno
vators" of Latvia, are beginning to
lose their influence.
Notwithstanding the sharpened
fascist terror, the revolutionary Or
CARNATIONS in Latvia are continuing
their activity and are becoming ever
stronger. In connection with all
this, the fascists have most brutally
worsened the prison regime. The
severity of the prison regime, the ill
treatment and various punishments
have become intolerable since the
fascist coup d'etat. The prison au-
thorities have been given the ad-
ministrative power to prolong the
prison sentences. For the slightest
resistance" and ven if writing
materials are found in the cells, the
prison administration prolongs the
terms Of imprisonment by six
months. These measures have al
ready come into practice in several
Latvian prisons, and particularly in
Riga, Thus, for example, the po-
litical prisoner Mende, was SEN
fenced to five years because note
was supposed to have been found in
his possession.
Sentences Prolonged
With the conditions prevailing in
the Latvian prisons, these measures
signify the prolongation Of the SEN
fences to infinity, because the SEN
fences can be prolonged several
times. The prolongation of sentences
is brought about also by other
means. The Latvian prison author
tiles have begun to bring political
prisoners to court on the charge of
conspiracy" against the government
order. The prisoner Levin was re-
Gently sentenced by court martial
to additional six years imprisonment
because, according to evidence" he
apparently attempted to persuade
several prisoners who were to be set
free, ito set the house of a fascist
on fire" 1t is clear that in the
prisons where spying and provoca-
ton is greatly applied, such "evi-
dence" is easily obtained. BY this
fascism wishes to have the ghost
of new legal procedures continually
before the eyes of political pris-
oners, and thus keep them away
from active struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27

Hitler in written statement dated
Aug. 10.
Referring to the bills for medi-
cines, Hitler wrote:
"My refusal to pass drug claims
was due to the fact that in every
instance patent and proprietary
medicines were prescribed by the
few pharmacists who shared in this
business. The pharmacist who re-
ceived the bulk of the relief business
was P. H. Spillane, who is related
to DR.. Noonan, one of the physi-
clans paid by the City of Cohoes."
Killers report was equally clear
on the question of the sales of shoes
to relief clients. On this it said:
"a number of claims for shoes,
running into considerable amount
of money, were presented by the
Lindsay Shoe Co. This firm was
owned by a woman connected with
the Board of Education during the
1888 City Administration and the
business was being conducted by q
clerk who misled people from de-
tecting the real owner"
OF coal orders, Mr.. Hitler stated
that a Cohoes company, "the firm
of T. Marsolais and Co., presented
claims which were most startling.
On their March claim I was COM
PEELED to detach over one hundred
relief orders on all of which APP
peared forged recipients signatures.
Food orders, Mr.. Hitler found, were
also padded-to the benefit of one
or another local merchant. Three
or four milk dealers would often
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27

License Fee
For Leaflets
Fine and Jail Provided
fOrDisreg arding
officials Rule
By A. B. Magil

DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 26.-The
city council of Dearborn, kingdom
bf Henry Ford, has just passed a
drastic ordinance that practically
prohibits all distribution of leaflets
by labor organizations. The ordi-
nance declares that no leaflets can
be distributed without obtaining a
license from the city clerk, the cost
Of a license being so cents a week
or IS a year.
But before the license is issued,
the leaf1et must first be approved
and, states the ordinance
mo license shall be issued for the
distribution of any circular, hand
bill, advertising matter or other lit
erature that contains obscene, i'm
moral, scandalous, hbelous or trea-
sonable statements or any statement
the truth Of which can not be es-
tablished to the satisfaction of the
city clerk"
Under this provision, AMI leafiet
issued by a workers organization
Cdil DG ISC4dI Gu GLCdSO1Adb4C vi
untrue"
The ordinance also aims to prevent
distribution of leaflets inside the
Ford plant, declaring that no leaf
lets can be circulated without a
license "in or upon public property
or private property including auto
mobiles"
The penalty provided for any
violation is $500 plus court costs, or
imprisonment up to go days.
The Communist Party, the Inter
national Labor Defense and other
labor organizations are preparing a
determined struggle against this
openly fascist ordinance directed
against the rights of the working
class. 1t has undoubtedly been in
spired by the Ford Motor Company
as part of the auto manufacturers
program of intensified attacks on
the living standards of the workers
and on their attempts to organize.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27

laborer. He perSevered, studied and
improved his technique by studying
privately, in spite of all difficulties.
Such was his life until a Soviet
automobile delegation came to the
Ford plant, and invited him to work
in the Stalingrad Tractor plant.
He accepted the invitation and came
to the Soviet Union, working for
some time at the Stalingrad Plant,
then he went to the Ball-Bearing
Plant, where he has worked since
1882.
RobinsOn's Achievements
His skill and conscientious atti-
tude to his work soon attracted the
attention of the best cadres of
shock workers in the plant.
Saving Of thousands of rubles
have been effected by the plant as
result of the many naturalization
proposals that the Negro specialist
has introduced, and a fine group of
young Soviet workers who are now
highly skilled gauge grinders have
been trained by him.
The spirit of conscienciousness
displayed in his work also prevails
in his social duties, and the desire
to understand the Soviet system of
economy is finding expression in the
political studies that occupy him in
an evening school.
Election meetings are concluding
with unweakened activity. The
average attendance of the electors
in Moscow is 96.2 per cent. Accord
ing to figures of Dec. %, 1879
deputies have been elected the Mos
COW Soviet, including 1882 workers,
271 engineers, scientists, artists,
doctors, SO students, SO housewives,
10 handicraft men, etc. 1882 are
members of the Moscow Soviet for
the first time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27

ment of the broadest united front
of all the workers of Harlem and
the breaking down of jim-crow
practices in all A. F. of L. unions
A move to organize the workers of
Harlem can only be carried through
on the basis of the broadest move
ment involving every trade union
and left wing organization that has
as Its aim the betterment of work
ing conditions, wages, etc, of Ne
gro workers, and on the notification
of the labor movement on a class
struggle basis.
THE Workers Council was Or
ganized several months ago through
the initiative of the Urban League
and has been carried forward on
the basis of building unions Of Ne
gro workers, organizing the unor-
gained, establishing more closely
the solidarity of Negro and white
workers; and to fight the jim-crow
policies of the leaders of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. On this
basis only can the Negro workers of
Harlem be successfully organized to
resist the attacks of the bosses"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27

specialist working in the Gauge
Grinding Section of the Tool Shop
in the giant First State Ball-Bear-
ing Plant Moscow, steps on to the
platform and faces the numerous
voters who have gathered to send
their best shock brigader to the
Soviet.
He is nervous, this slim, bespec-
tacled young specialist. Modest and
retiring by nature, it is something
of an ordeal for him to be the cen
ter of attraction of so great crowd
But the attention of the workers
and the tremendous feeling of re-
spect they have for him as sincere
and conscientious worker rapidly
disperseS his first feelings of nerv-
BUSINESS.
Net sound is heard as his biog-
raphy is read. The life of a Negro
born of poor parents strikes Soviet
workers very deeply, and everybody
present listens intently to every
word of this story of struggle of
Negro worker who has had to face
exploitation and humiliation as
result of race prejudice.
A Story of Struggle
Robert Robinson was born in
Jamaica, West Indies. His father
was plantation worker and his
mother a laundress for family
which owned big industrial con-
Germ.
Robinson was allowed to enter
this factory as a great concession
and at the end of six years became
a qualified tool-maker. He yearned
to study and become an engineer in
the United States and finally man
aged to get to where he enormously
expected to find conditions easier.
Though qualified tool-maker,
the only work he could get was in
the Ford plant in Detroit as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
BY CYRIL BRIGGS

continued attempts of the Alabama
rulers and their courts to legally
murder these boys despite over
whelming proof of their innocence.
However, the venomous hatred of
the Negro people by the ruling
class, its use of its courts and other
instruments to maintain the op-
preston of the Negro people, is
even more completely barred in the
recent developments in Chicago
around the attempt to evict Herbert
Newton, Negro Communist leader,
from his home at SIS Oakwood
Boulevard.
Evicted Because Negro
On the landlords complaint that
Newton was Negro, Judge Green
of the Municipal Court of Chicago,
issued an order for the eviction of
Newton and his family, and the
white woman, Harriet johnson,
with whom they shared the apart
ment. When the white tenants of
the building rallied to Newton's
defense and declared a rent strike
against the chauvinist landlord,
the court ordered the arrest OF the
leaders of the rent strike.
When the furniture of the New
tons, thrown on the streets by the
bailiff and police, was returned to
the apartment by white and Negro
workers of the neighborhood, the
Chicago Red Squad was sent into
action. 1t raided Newton's home,
and arrested Jane Newton her
baby, and two young white workers
found in the apartment.
And now the court and the entire
Chicago capitalist press. with the
national Hearst newspaper chain
leading the pack, have launched a