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posing one group of fascist plot
tiers in order better to cooperate
with another. Or he may be at
tempting to expose all of the
financiers now involved with the
hope of building his own mass fol-
lowing to further his own indivi-
dualistic ambition toward leader
ship in his own way. There is also
the possibility that business back
ers have chosen this method of dis
crediting the forthcoming veterans
rank and file bonus march to
Washington.
This might be accomplished by
using the Dickstein COMMITTEES as
q sounding board to raise a hue
against veterans and unemployed
marches in general, attempting to
stamp all with fascist" labels and
thereby discrediting all.
Many Rumors in Capital
All official spokesman Of the Gov
eminent Veterans Bureau, the
American Legion, the Veterans Of
Foreign Wars, and the American
Federation of Labor, here, refused
to comment upon the Butler Incl
dent-but begged for further infor-
nation, and frankly indicated that
it was the foremost topic Of con-
lecture and gossip in official Wash
ington. There was no comment on
the report from Warm Springs,
Georgia, that President Roosevelt
received it with laugh and an ex-
clamation, fantastic.
1t was generally admitted private
ly, however, that rumors concerning
plots to turn the American Legion
into a fascist organization in re-
turn for payment of the bonus have
been rife since General Butler be-
gan his nationwide tour. The tour
covered several hundred cities
throughout the country. 1t is said
that, in addition, General Butler
! contacted individuals and groups in
labor organizations. He has been
! writing widely played-up articles for
! the fascist-inclined publisher, Will
liam Randolph Hearst.
Fascist Effort Fail
His efforts to talk up his "Inde-
pendent Federation of Labor
among neWspapermen in Philadel-
phia and elsewhere undoubtedly is
responsible for the Dickstein Com
n1ittee's having summoned Paul
Comfy French, Philadelphia re-
porter.
Undoubtedly the public dis
closure Of the fascist plot indicates
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

HARTFORD, Conn, Nov. 2l.-A
spirited united front protest meet
ing against the wanton shooting of
Joe Allen, young Negro G. G. G.
worker, by a white policeman, and
subsequent attempts to frame the
Negro youth on a charge of breach
of the peace" was held here at the
Union Baptist Church, 1921 Main
Street, with the following organiza-
tons participating:
League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie, the Negro Ministerial Alliance,
the Hartford Negro City Council
and the international Labor De-
Tense.
The Hartford Branch of the So
cialist Party and the Hartford Sec
ton of the Communist Party have
announced their united agreement
to support the defense campaign.
A United Front Joe Allen Defense
Committee has been set up, with
the following representatives: Rev
Jackson for the N. A. A. G. P, Rev.
Hopes for the Hartford Ministerial
Alliance, Walter Murray for the Ne
gro City Council, Joseph West for
the 7. L. D., and Miss Laura Hud-
son for the L. s. N. R. This COM
mittee has charge of the defense of
the Negro youth, and has called on
all other organizations to support
the mass and legal defense cam
paign. 1t has retained Attorney
Harold Stranch to defend the Ne
gro youth.
Allen was released yesterday on
bail of 500 provided by the I. L. D..
when a. motion for dismissal of the
charge against him was denied at
preliminary hearing. A physician
has been engaged to investigate his
physical condition and to provide
medical attention.
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on March 6, 1880, raised the de-
mand for unemployment relief and
insurance. The Communist Party
alone carried on the fight against
the Hoover stagger plan, which
William Green looked upon as the
solution for the questions created by
the crisis. When the people of this
country, falling under the dema-
gogic promises of Roosevelt, elected
him President, and when he came
forward with the New Deal" it
was the Communist Party alone
which analysed the situation and
Roosevelt's program and declared
that it was a program leading to
worse hunger, and preparing fas-
cism and war.
Nearly two years have passed
the New Deal is in operation.
After these two years, the people of
this country, including many of the
workers, voted on Nov. for con-
tinuation of the New Deal" They
still believe that the New Deal"
will bring them fruits. They still
believe in Roosevelt.
We wish to ask the 100000 I'M
employed few questions:
lis it not true that only in
those localities where the Commu-
mist Party exists and there is a
fighting organization like the Ma
tional Unemployment Council, the
standard of relief is raised; more
workers are on the relief rolls; dis
elimination against the Negroes,
foreign-born and young workers Is
reduced?
2-Is II not true that in these
localities where the Communist
Party exists, and there is local of
the National Unemployment Coun-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
.NeuU Orleans Union Heads Call
Farley on Social Insurance
Sponsoring Committee
Urges Representation
at National Congress

NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov. al
A call for a conference in support
of the National Congress for Unem-
ployment Insurance, which will be
held in Washington on Jan. and
7, and for a wide campaign for in
creased relief, has been addressed
to all trade unions, unemployed and
mass organizations by the local
sponsoring committee for the Ma
tional Conference.
The call for the local conference,
to be held at Economy Hall, 1922
Ursuline Street, on Sunday, Dec, 1s,
at 2 pm, is signed by the fourteen
trade unionists who comprise the
local committee. They are: Jack
Turan, secretary of the sponsoring
committee and secretary Of the Un-
employment Councils; c. Jones,
secretary of the Brotherhood of
Railway Carmen; w. c. Marine,
chairman, Branch 544 I. w. o.;
Stanley Postek, secretary of the Ma
rine Workers Industrial Union;
James Hamilton, secretary of Local
948 of Firemen and Oilers Union;
Frank Deegan, president of Local
IL Furniture Workers Industrial
Union; Homer Brooks, district sec
rotary of the Trade Union Unity
League; Alden Daste, Bricklayers,
Masons and Plasterers Interna-
tional Union; T. E. Carmichael,
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Engineers; Alphonse Morris,
secretary, Home Local l Of Brick
layers; Ishmael G. Hinyub, secre-
tary-elect of True Blue Lodge of
the Brotherhood of Railway Car
men; Enoch Brown, International
Longshoremen's Association; Jack
Moore, organizer of the National
Textile Workers Union; William
Fisher secretary Of the Waterfront
Unemployment Council.
The call to the local conference,
while urging all organizations to
unite for a fight for adequate re-
lief, points out the immediate need
for the enactment of adequate and
genuine unemployment insurance as
embodied in the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill. The
Workers Bill, the call points out,
provides payment of benefits to all
the present unemployed, and all
workers unemployed through no
fault Of their own. Benefit pay
ments, the Workers Bill provides,
shall in no case be less than $40
for each unemployed worker, plus
So for each dependent, and shall be
raised through taxation on the
higher incomes and the use Of war
funds for the unemployed.
The call to the local conference
urges all local groups to elect dele
gates to. the National Congress for
Unemployment Insurance, to be
held in Washington on Jan. 5 and
7, 1888,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

What is the duty of the unem-
ployed toward the. Communist
Party? 1t is their duty to regard
the Communist Party as the Party
carrying on the fight in their inter-
est. If there were no Communist
Party, the struggle could not be SO
conducted; it would not be linked
up with all the struggles of the
working class.
What is the Communist Party?
Is it group of professional revolu-
tionists who make it their business
to fight for the interests of the
workers no matter where they may
be? Is 1t, as it were, a fire bri-
gade" to be sent out wherever a
struggle of the workers arises?
The Communist Party consists of
some professional revolutionists, but
the overwhelming majority of the
Communist Party members are
workers in the shops and offices,
unemployed and professionals,
white and Negro, who recognize,
through their own experience and
through study, that the workers
will get nowhere unless they fight
for their interests. They are work
ers who have learned that we have
to fight not only for relief and in
surance, not only for wages and
our rights, not only against fascism
and war, but for putting an end to
the whole system, which is called
capitalism, and thereby alone put
an end to the robbery, exploitation
and misery of the masses.
Without this Communist Party
no revolutionary struggle! Without
this Communist Party-a continual
lowering of the conditions of the
working classl Without this Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

Maxim Litvinov. leading delegate
from the Soviet Union to the
League, Immediately took advan-
tage of the framework Of the pro-
posed treaty and declared that an
amendment regulating the transit
of arms would help to make the
treaty really effective. Litvinov
pointed out that the absence of
Germany and Japan from the arms
discussion left out of the picture
two countries which we're rapidly
being armed to the teeth and pro-
posed that Germany be invited to
attend the discussions. These prac-
tical suggestions for controlling the
growth of ornaments and for
staving of the impending conflict
were received by the representatives
of the capitalist countries as "cyni-
cal" AS an impotent mark of its
"peacefulness" the disarmament
conference approves the arm S
treaty Gin principle"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
200 Bargenlen
Out on Strike
On West Coast
StevedOres in PrOtest
Against Shipowners
Balks on Settlement

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21.-Two
hundred bargemen working in this
port and members of the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's Association
have come out on strike when en-
ployers refused to act on their de-
mands.
Meanwhile, pointing out that the
employers refuse to meet with the
steyedores to arrange to carry into
effect the settlement award of the
National Longshoremen's Board, the
San Francisco Local Of the LID.
wired to Secretary of Labor Perkins,
asking that the Labor Department
take action to enforce the agree
ment.
One hundred and forty-four long
shoremen working at the Java Paci-
fic motorship Silver Beach walked
off in protest against the danger
ously heavy loads. The ship was
tied up but the men returned pend
ing action by the Longshoremen's
Board.
Police squads had to be called out
to the waterfront to protect two
hiring bosses known to be discri-
minating against active union mem
bers. The attempts of the employ
ers to organize an independent
union" composed chiefly of strike
breakers is being fought by the
workers. On one occasion nine Gin
dependents" were beaten up by the
workers. Five LILA. members were
arrested as a result of the battle.
One significant point of the set
Element award, upon which the
workers forced action, was the pay
ing Of back wages to make up the
10 cents an hour increase in wages
won. 1t is reported that more than
$25 900 was distributed in this port.
But this did not slacken the deter
mination of the workers to fight for
the preservation of their union,
which the employers are still try
ing to smash.
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tspeoiaI to the Daily worker)

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. I'll
The Cleveland City Council yester-
day refused to consider the bill for
civil rights for Negroes proposed by
the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights. Councilman Weber, who
had promised to introduce the bill,
backed down at the last minute.
Rejecting the concern of the
bourgeois politicians over the rising
resentment and united struggles of
Negro and white workers against
Jim Grow practices in this city, the
Negro Councilman, DR.. Leroy Bun
dy, introduced for a second reading
the bill offered last June by the
International Labor Defense. The
bilb which deals with equal rights
for Negroes in restaurants and
theatres, was carried and referred
to the Councils legal committee.
Under pressure Of the rising vol
ume of protest against Mayor DAVIS
fascist threats against the civil
rights of the workers, Councilman
Krewson introduced a bill prohibit
ing the removal of the free speech
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Arms Traffic Control Treaty
Seen As inexpensive BaIlyhOO
Which Fails To Check Arms
Powers Cool to Litvinov's PropOsa al for an
Amendment to Regulate Armament Exports

GENEVA, Nov. 21.-With hypo-
critical gesture of espousing the
cause of peace, the United States
government, through the medium of
Hugh R. Wilson, Minister to Swift
zerland, today elaborated on the
text Of an arms traffic control"
treaty submitted yesterday to the
League of Nations.
Including the transportation of
every instrument of warfare, from
machine guns to poison gas bombs,
providing not the least check against
the quantity Of arms exported, the
treaty was commented on here, so
far as rendering war less imminent
or deadly is concerned, as a piece of
inexpensive publicity" which cost
and lost American capitalism
nothing in its role as chief war;
monger. In short, it is agreed that
the United States suggestion is
nothing more than request for a
licensing and bookkeeping of arms
transportation.
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also that efforts to build a mass
movement as a base for fascism in
the United States have run up
against serious obstacles in recent
months, as was illustrated when
efforts to get veterans to act as
strike -breakers failed, and when
some veterans in reactionaries or
CARNATIONS outSpokenly opposed
efforts to make strike-break-
ers of them. In this connection il
is significant, also, that the domi-
nant groups of big business men
have strongly rallied to Presiden;
Roosevelt, indicating belief that
all the necessary, especially the eco
nonlic, aspects Of fasciSm can be
introduced under constitutional
screens, and open fascist dictator
ship in that manner proposed.
General Buffers tour eliminated
in his speech to the v. F. w. con-
vention in Louisville, when he Was
cut off the radio at a point at which
he was declaring that veterans
would not be strike breakers. Thai
night the convention endorsed the
stand of the broadcasting company
the next day it reversed itself, en-
dorsing Buffers stand.
Endorse Fascist Program
Then, with the approval of But.
Ter, they endorsed a program essen
italy fascist in that it called fol
deportation of all Communists, ant
additional big-navy and armaments
programs, while advocating rank
and file demands sponsored BY
Communists, such as payment Of
the bonus, repeal of the Economy
Act, etc.
The American Legion Convention
also went on record for denial OF
the mails to all "subversive" litera-
ture, as well as for full payment Of
the bonus and government meas
ures to take the profits out Of
war"
Hickerson's telegram to Butler
follows:
IF you are sincere in opposing
Fascism and War, you will endorse
the program adopted at Chicago on
Oct. l by the Congress Against Wal
and Fascism, called by the Ameri-
can League Against War and Fas-
cism. At this Congress $500 repre-
sentatives of the American Fedora.
ton of Labor, independent unions
veterans organizations, unemployed
organizations, farmers organiza.
lions, including the Farmer Labor
Federation, Socialist Party local
and the Communist Party, pacifist
groups. the Y. M. G. A., fraterna,
lodges, and many students and
church groups, adopted plan fol
action based on the mobilization Of
the American masses against al
manifestations of fascism and prep
arations for war.
Your own testimony proves tn,
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Gil, evictions are completely stopped
or reduced in numbers?
3-Is it not true that where there
are Communists in any kind of or
ganization, there the workers are
led in fighting ranks to protect
their interests, in spite Of all terror?
Yet, in spite of these facts,
masses of workers voted for the
Roosevelt program on New. last.
Hence. today, Roosevelt feels he
has the country behind him." AS
result, at the conference held in
Washington on Nov. Is, called by
the National Committee on Social
Security" Roosevelt made a brazen
attack on the unemployed, COM
pietely repudiated his promise of a
program of full social security" to
comprise unemployment and health
Insurance, old age pension, etc. He
put health insurance and old age
pensions off to a distant date, and
suggested something worse than the
Wagner Lewis bill of so-called I'M
employment insurance, which will
not give single penny of protec-
ton to the 100000 unemployed
and millions of others now work
ing.
Pledge to Bankers
Roosevelt brought forward this
program not only as his own, but
as a pledge he gave to the bankers
on Oct. rs. The mandate" he re-
ceived on Nov. 6 he thinks au-
thorizes him to do so. This means
not only the lowering of relief, the
removal of hundreds of thousands
from the relief lists, the pauperiza-
ton Of further millions, but a gen.
eral drive against the whole work
ing class and increased terror.
The struggle becomes sharper
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Cleveland City Council BaIks
At Bill on Rights for Negroes

-rostrum from the Public Square.
Krewson's real character was ex-
posed later when in an interview
he declared himself against workers
attending the meetings Of the City
Council and only in favor of the
public square rostrum.
One hundred and seventy dele
gates responded last night to the
call of the Communist Party for an
emergency conference to combat
Mayor Davis fascist proposals.
Greenfield, Of the Home Owners
Association, was elected chairman,
with John Williamson making the
main report.
After analyzing the class purpose
of Davis attacks, and showing that
Davis was acting not as an indi-
vidual but as a representative of
the interests of the bankers and
key industriaIsts, and exposing
Davis proposals as aimed to smash
the growing movement for relief,
better conditions and union organ
ization, ETC., Williamson proposed
detailed plans for a broad united
front struggle.
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Amter Calls ALI Unemployed to Join Communist Party

For nearly six years the unem-
ployed have been compelled to fight
for relief. Even before the crisis
broke in 1929 there were more than
100000 unemployed in the coun-
try. AT that time of prosperity"
1t was considered unnecessary to
provide more than ordinary charity
for the unemployed, They were
called the ''ne'er-do wells" or casu-
ally neutrality-suspicious. either in
disposed altogether to work or tenn
porarily jobless.
Today, with 100000 unem-
ployed, no one dares to call the I'M
employed BUNS" or "hoodlums. :"
The unemployed are made up of all
sections of the population. Not only
the industrial workers, but profess
sional and white collar workers,
small businessmen, ETC., have been
reduced to relief and misery. Skilled
technicians and engineers, doctors,
lawyers, dentists, ETC., can find no
work and have to be content to ac-
cept work or home relief. Seven
million young workers leave the
schools and find no work-left to
drift, hopeless. Negroes, always
given an inferior position, live in
misery-their children go hungry.
Farmers who have been ruined by
the crisis, by the government CROP
reduction plans and by the drought,
beg for relief.
In this situation the most i'm
portant question facing the whole
working population is unemploy-
ment. Only one Party puts this
question into the very forefront of
all struggles. not only of the UNI
but of all workers, and
that is the Communist Party.
1t was the Communist Party that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Paterson Strike
March Tomorrow
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responsible fer such advice.

responsible fer such advice.
As was quite commonly expected
among the strikers, the hearing ar
ranged by the Chamber of Com
nerce proved only a means for
molding sentiment against the
strikers. Virtually all who attended,
including those who were styled as
public" representatives, were bust
ness people, Reverend Howard A.
Adair presided. Mayor Hinchcliffe
was one of the speakers.
George Baldanzi, in behalf of the
union, stated that If there is any
doubt about the workers stand on
the proposed settlement, let the
manufacturers open their plants
and it will soon be seen how many
workers will report to work. Fri
days demonstration will be an
answer to the Chamber of Com
merce.
Silk Strike Headed Off
The Joint Board of the Fedora
ton OF Silk Workers refused to per-
nit the calling of the strike sched-
uled for this morning, despite the
unanimous vote for it given by the
silk weavers, the bulk of those in
the industry.
Negotiations are now going on
between the representatives of the
union and the manufacturers, with
Mayor Hinchliffe as mediator. AT
today's meeting of silk weavers who
are on strike, ELI Keller, manager
of the union, who was the main
target for angry workers, stated
that the workers ought to be glad
that the manufacturers are willing
to talk to u.s."
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existence and intensive activities of
powerful forces determined to bring
about further oppression of the
American masses through fascist
dictatorship, and their readiness to
launch a new war for the further
enrichment of themselves. Whatever
your motives are if you fail to act
with the honest and sincere OPP
ponents of fascism, you will actually
give support to what you say you
oppose. We await your answer.
This committee has issued a call
to veterans throughout the United
States to again march on Washing
ton by January 10, 1885. It's pro-
gram is based on the uniting Of all
veterans regardless of organization
or political Affiliations, race, color
or creed. Our demands are: Cd
payment of the balance due on ad-
justed compensation certificates; (2)
repeal of the Economy Act; 90 the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill. This march will be
made by those veterans who realize
that only through declaring unity
with the working class and the I'M
employed, small home owners and
small taxpayers and professional
groups, and by giving support to
these elements in their attempts to
better their conditions, can they OBJ
tain reciprocal support so neces-
sary for the winning of the vet
Grams demands. This march, be-
cause it is in the interest of the
rank and file, is a march against
fascism, as is any action in the true
interest of the rank and file. We
call upon you to endorse it. We
await your answer"
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Mcclure Handled
Secret Bank Funds
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indisputable Authenticity of But
ler's story, Dickstein declared:
"FrOm present indications, Gen
eraI Butler has the evidence.
He's not making charges unless he
has something to back them up"
johnson Mentioned
The name of General Hugh S.
Johnson, recent MIRA. adfninistra-
tor, was yesterday added to the
list of leading military and political
figures involved in the plan to form
a fascist military organization with
the support of leading Wall Street
banks.
Despite the quick chorus of
denialS by the J. P. Morgan bank
and General Douglas Macarthur
Chief of Staff, Representative Dick
stein of the House Committee con-
Quoting the investigation yesterday
made it clear that whatever the
future actions of the Committee
General Smedley Butler, whose
charges brought the whole situa-
ton into the open, has already given
sufficient actual proof to give his
story authenticity.