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Unemployment Council movement,
and unifying all mass organizations
of the unemployed.
3. For the immediate enactment
of the Farmers Emergency Relief
Bill, to secure the farmers in posses
SIGN of their land and tools, to pro-
vide them with the means to culti-
vate their lands, and to produce the
abundance of food that the masses
need. This is the only measure be-
fore the country which, if carried
out, will really meet the needs Of
the masses of farmers.
4. For the immediate enactment
Of the Bill for Negro Rights and to
suppress Lynching, proposed by the
League Of Struggle for Negro
Rights: for daily struggle to i'm
mediately win equal rights for the
Negroes in every phase Of life; for
the unconditional liberation Of the
Scottsboro boys.
5. For the united struggle against
War and Fsscism. to stop shipments
Of munitions, to defend the Soviet
Union, etc, along the lines Of the
program of the American League
Against War and Fascism, adopted
unanimously by the great U. S. Con-
gress Against War on october l,
1888, by ISIS delegates from the
broadcast variety Of organizations
ever gathered together in the United
States; for the freedom Of Thael-
mann and all other anti-Fascist
prisoners in Germany.
6. For the broadcast possible united
action in localities, in the factories
and trade unions, on every question
affecting the workers and toiling
masses, to win better working con-
ditions, relief for the unemployed,
etc. and to build and unity the
existing mass organizations of the
working class.
Convention Ignores c. P. Proposals
We have received no reply from
the Convention to this proposal We
understand that this whole ques-
ton was referred to the newly elect
ed National Committee of the So
cialist Party for action. However,
we have not as yet received reply
from the NEG. of the Socialist
Party,
In the face Of the rapid develop
ment of events the time already
lost since the close of your conven-
ton is most costly. The reasons,
stressed in our letter, for the need
Of such united action have greatly
multiplied since it was written. To-
day, more than ever before, in the
face of the growing and vicious at
tack of the employers, backed by
the Roosevelt Government, the need
of the unity of the workers is a life
and death question for the labor
movement.
The steel trust In the most brazen
and cynical manner refuses to con-
slider the demands of the steel work
ers, but on the contrary is forcing
them into the company unions and
is preparing with bayonets and poi
son gas to suppress the struggles OF
the steel workers in blood. This
challenge is part and parcel of the
whole attack now being launched
against the workers and their or
CARNATIONS. The approval of Gen
eral Johnson, agent of the Stee
barons. Of the proposals of the Steel
Institute, and the contemptuouS
manner in which he treated the
representatives. of the steel workers
| can hardly be matched by Hitler
servant of the Thyssens. Certainly
everyone who understands the stu
alton must realize that this is the
whole policy of the Roosevelt gov
eminent, which is the government
Of the big trusts, the government
Of monopoly capital.
This attack of the employers was
clearly revealed in the recent strike;
in Toledo, Minneapolis, Birming
ham and San Francisco. The grow
ing resistance and new fighting
spirit of the workers was also dis.
played in these strikes, in which
Negro and white workers showed
their unmistskable desire for mill
tant united struggle
The whole Roosevelt program is
becoming more openly and more
brazenly one of attack on the work.
ers and masses of farmers, who suf
fer wage cuts, unemployment anc
starvation New miSeries have beer
brought upon the farmers by the
drought, and upon the city workers
by the ever-increasing high prices
all of which increases the profits
and the power of the monopolies.
NEG. Must Take Definite Stand
The capitalists and the govern
ment are replying to the efforts Of
the workers to improve their con.
ditions with new wave of terror
and lynchings. They are robbing
the workers of their most elemen.
tary rights, to organize, picket
strike and assemble. The Roose-
welt government is now trying tt
pass new legislation designed to le-
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galize the company unions, OUTLAW
strikes and enforce compulsory arbi.
tration. These are clearly new anc
more rapid fascist developments
which represent real and pressing
danger to the entire working class
In New York City, the LaGuardia.
Organ regime in the most provoca-
tive manner is making war on the
workers in the interests of the
bankers.
The imminent trial of Ernst
Thaelmann before the Fascist "Peo.
pies Tribunal" raises the task oil
making the movement for his lib
Grafton a smashing blow against
Fascism and for the freedom of al
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