The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Amter Shows How Only
Communists Fight
for the Masses
By Sender Garlin
Continued from Page y

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Amter, "acusses Lehman, the Wall
Street banker governor, with direct
responsibility for the murderouS at
tack upon the hunger marchers.
We challenged Gov. Lehman to
make his appearance ct this meet
ing to explain, if he can, the brutal
onslaught against the hun g r
marchers, but apparently he does
not dare accept our challenge"
Amter told how the bloody as
sault upon the hunger marchers
failed to keep them from putting
through the program they had
mapped. Not only did the hunger
marchers enter Albany, present
their demands for adequate winter
relief to the state authorities, but
in addition held militant meeting
attended by more than 5000 work
ers on the very steps of the state
capitol in Albany.
AS evidence of the fine spirit Of
solidarity expressed in the hunger
march, Amter told how Tim Holmes,
Negro needle trades leader, adj
dressed this meeting and was warm
ly received by the Albany workers,
Negroes Especially Attacked
When the Albany police attacked
the hunger marchers, Amter re-
counted, they singled out the Negro
workers for special attack But the
Negro workers not only did not
buckle under, but courageously met
the cossack- attack of the police.
zone Negro woman worker, hun
ger marcher," Amter reported as the
crowd cheered thunderously, beat
up no less than eight cops after she
he'd been cursed at and mishandled."
hmter told how their experiences
with the forces of claw and order
had caused 80 Of the hunger march
ers to join the Communist Party.
In crisp, biting manner, Amter
ezpcsed the hypocrisy of the Re-
publican gubernatorial candidate,
Noses, in pretending sympathy for
the hunger marchers. He cited the
actions of Hoover in ordering the
military attack upon the bonus
raarchers in Washington, and Of
similar terroristic acts on the part
Of Republican and Democratic poll
t,"ians in every part of the county.
-'-ying his respects to the Social
is Mayor Of Bridgeport, Conn,
Mayer McLevy, Arnter told how this
Socialist executive had approved of
the slugging and arrest of anti
fascist demonstrators in that city
recently.
Hunger, war and fascism," Amter
concluded, "are the crucial issues
facing the workers at the present
moment. To vote for the Communist
Party is to strike hard at the capt.
talist system and the misery which
it breeds"
His head bandaged, Carl Green
burg, one Of the hunger marchers,
described the almost incredible
brutality of the Albany police
when the marchers sought to
enter the city last Tuesday. The
crowd booed as Greenberg told
how police pummeled him after
he had been dubbed into virtual
irssnsibiIity. Greenberg graphic
ally described the subsequent ar
rests of the hunger marchers, how
they were grilled in the Albany
police station, of the successful
fight of the I. L. ID. to free them
and Of their conference, where
they mapped their campaign for
immediate relief and Unempsoy-
ment Insurance.
Olsin Cites Freedom in U. S. S. r.
Moissaye j. Olgin, editor of the
Morning Freheit" and candidate
for Congress in the 23rd Congress
sional district, Bronx, describing his
recent visit to the Soviet Union, said
that the pictures of Russian work
ers being sabred by the Cars cos
sacks which he saw in the Museum
Of the Revolution in Moscow coin
clded perfectly with the pictures of
boss terror against workers as re-
vealed in Albany recently. THE pic
lures of pogroms against Jews in
czarist Russia coincide with the
scenes of lynching of Negroes in the
South" When he looked at the pic
lures of czarist oppression, Olgin
said, he felt like saying, ~. S. A.,
I recognize you"
The Communist candidate said
that the United States has we'll
equipped factories, rich land and
unlimited natural resources. All
that is neoded, he said, is to con-
vince the masses of workers and
farmers of the United States that
these vast riches belong to them
and must be made available for
them. Clgin cited the growing
struggles throughout the country to
show that the workers were "look-
ing ahead and were beginning to I'M
deEstand that only the taking of
political power by the working class
will put an end to this system of
hunger and war"
Eon Gold Electrifies Audience
Ben Gold, candidate in the
Seventh A. D., Bronx, electrified the
audience by his vigorous appeal for
support in the Communist cam
paign. Beloved by thousands as a
devoted, courageous leader in the
needle trades, Gold showed how the
New Deal" has brought worssning
conditions, increasing unemploy-
ment and lower wages for the work
ers. He denounced the collabora-
ton of the corrupt labor officials
with the capitalist parties and de-
clared that the active participation
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