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New Fascist Steps
Asked by Bosses
Continued from Page y

the basis for the original MIRA. 1t
was in direct response to demand
by this Chamber Of Commerce that
President Roosevelt made his recent
radio speech extolling the private
profit system and seeking no
strike truce between labor and in
dustry. The committee, headed by
William L. Sweet, treasurer Of the
Rumford Chemical Works, proposed
that the MIRA. be strapped and
that congress provide in its stead:
l. That it be made "unmistakable
in new legislation that the collec-
tive bargaining which is contem-
plated is bargaining with represen-
tatives of all groups of employees
that desire to act through Spokes-
men, and that neither the right of
minority group :. . nor the direct
right of individual bargaining Is
precluded," and that "the right of
employees to choose their own rep
resentatives is to be free, not only
from coercion on the part of en-
ployers, but from coercion from any
other source"
2. That each industry'-specif1c-
ally on its own initiative, with spe-
ciflc authority to terminate at will,
under Government sanction pro-
vided by an agency having only a
veto power Of supervision-be al
lowed to formulate rules Of fair
competition" including provisions
as to minimum prices and provisions
for dealing with over-capacity and
over production" In this connec-
ton the committee specifically urged
that price-f1xing arrangements,
such as open-price filing, depend
upon the circumstances of the par
ticular industry"
Follows SwOpe-Johns0n Plan ~
The Importance of the Chamber
of Commerce committees program,
made public today with an an
nouncement that it will form the
basis Of the organizations recon-
mendations to the new Congress
lies in the enormous influence Of
these industrialists Taken as a
whole, the report follows closely the
recommendations of the notorious
Swope- johnson plan which was
made public last Fall. 1t was dis
cussed at length during the Con-
gTess of Industry, and, as the Daily
Worker long ago disclosed, remained
the guide-post of dominant indus
trialists. although public reaction
prevented its being executed in full,
Under the first point enumerated
above, the Chamber of Commerce
committee, in effect, demands uni
versal application of the President
Roosevelt William Green auto sell
out. 1t would mean open-shop con-
ditions. Experience under the pres
ent MIRA. has demonstrated re-
peatedly that the famous Section
Ia promise Of collective bargaining
means nothing when "minorities"-
company union groups recog-
nized as collective bargaining. The
Chamber of Commences demand for
"unn1istakable" provisions for such
recognition amounts to a demand
that the false promise created by
Section IA that labor would be
allowed" trade union rights under
the new deal" be officially revoked
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-10
By Paul Crouch
District Organizer Of the

District Organizer of the
Communist Party in the Carolinas
The strike vote at Roanoke
Rapids, North Carolina, for the re-
employment Of those blacklisted for
militancy in the general textile
strike, is not an isolated event, but
is an outstanding example Of the
sharpening class struggle in the
Southern industrial conters.
This strike, scheduled to begin
Monday if the demand for rein
statement of the blackqlisted strik-
ers is not granted, involves six mills
employing normally about 5000
workers. In many other mill CEN
tiers in the Carolinas the workers are
demanding strike action for REIN
statement of the blacklisted strik-
for the basic demands adopted by
the convention of the United Tex
tile Workers.
These strike developments are
most significant. And one of the out
standing lessons we must learn is
the Importance of building the Com
munist Party. Only a strong, we'll
organized Communist Party func-
tioning in every large textile center
can make future betrayals, such as
the German sellout of the general
strike, impossible in the future. The
workers are rapidly learning this
act. The bosses already know the
Communists are always in the front
in the struggles for better condi-
tions. Today they are concentrating
their attacks against the Commit
mist Party.
In Danville, Roxie Dodson, local
president of the U.TW., who called
off the strike locally without per-
mitting any vote OF the workers be-
fore the nationwide betrayal by
German, has had James Crews ex-
PEELED from the local on the charge
OF being a Communist" Crews was
secretary of the Strike Committee
and fought against the treachery of
Roxie Dodson in calling off the
strike.
The general strike was forced by
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and native exploiters.
On Sept. II, the Herald ran q
despatch from Tarlac Province
which was headlined Tenancy
Trouble in Tarlac Grows-TenantS
Defy Landlords to Take Over Lands
Philippine Constabulary Asked to
Intervene"
The Herald admitted that "the
tenancy trouble in Conception, Tar
lac, remains tense as the tenants
there still insist on their demand
for bigger share of the crops than
that Of the landowners"
Wholesale EvictiOns
The landlords have resorted to
wholesale evictions of tenants. At
the same time the landowners have
organized a society "Katipunan
Pangbanca" for the attack upon the
tenants. Former Senator Benigno
S. Aquino has been hired to lead
the landlord attack.
The evicted tenants, however, are
not taking the blows lying down.
The Herald frantically shrieked that
these elected tenants are now rails
ing red flags around the lands they
used to till destroying the crops al
ready planted, they defy anybody
to step on the lands and work
there, even the owners themselves"
Terror Is Extreme
This heroic resistance to evictionS
meets with extreme terror. The
constabulary has established head
quarters and remain on duty day
and night all over Tarlac Province
for the landlords realize that the
peasants will seize the land the
moment the constabulary is with
drawn.
That the peasant struggles are
highly effective in smashing the
landsharks is proven by another
despatch from Tarlac three days
later Sept. 20) in the Herald. This
time the headline reads Court Re-
turns Grabbed Lands = Ia r ! a O
Homesteaders Are Given Their Old
Farms by Supreme Court" Eighty
homesteaders who had labored for
years to make farms out of wilder
ness land we're deprived of their
land by court decision in favor Of
group of land robbers. Pressure
Of organization and armed resist
ance compelled the higher court to
reverse the decision.
The struggles Of the tenant farm
erS conceded with the militant
strike Of thousands of cigar makers
in Manila which were marked by
police killing three strikers and
wounding many others. The ten
ants and peasants supported the
cigar makers strike by sending del
egates to Manila who brought funds
and Joined the picket line.
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.JObIess Stop
.ChicagoPOlice,
Force Relief
Dem on stratOrs Take
Member Away from
LawndaIe Officers

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Nov. e-While
police at the Lawndale relief sta
ton branished guns, hundreds OF
unemployed workers here yester-
day tore an arrested worker from
their hands and forced the relief
heads to issue relief orders.
The workers massed at the relief
station in response to leaflets issued
by the Lawndale Unemployment
Club in protest against the relief
cut ordered for all Chicago on Nov
l. Twin, the arrested worker, de-
manded Winter clothing. The head
supervisor offered to deal with the
unemployed individually, but Twin
insisted that the workers committee
Of ten act for all the cases. The
supervisors answer was to summon
police squads. When twin had been
taken from the hands of the police
the workers formed a ring around
him and prevented the police COM
ing near.
The Lawn dale Unemployment
Club is mobilizing the workers in the
neighborhood for participation in
the united front conference on re-
lief cuts on Saturday, No. at
Mirror Hall, 1876 North Western
Avenue. The conference will lay
plans for huge united front dem
onstration of employed and unem-
ployed against relief cuts, for Winter
relief and for the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill.
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the agreement, many strikers have
expressed themselves strongly in
opposition, stating that it was like
rope around their neck.
While negotiations with the dye
house owners were proceeding, mass
picketing spread the strike to sew
raj frere bleacheries. At the St"n-
dard Bleachery, where 500 are en-
ployed, where a large picket line
asked the workers roming to work
in buses to turn back, police, under
the leadership of Chief Of Police E.
Schmaltz, sailed into the workers.
Many were injured, including one
of the police. A scab, trying to get
into the plant, was likewise hurt.
In addition, the Consolidated with
800 workers and the Teichman-
Screen Printers of Passaic, employ
ing $50 workers, are reported closed.
The first of two mass meetings of
striking silk weavers took place to-
day with 400 present. Again the
workers expressed themselves
strongly in favor of calling out all
silk shops in Paterson.
Eli Keller, manager Of the union
in speaking before the workers, was
very indignant at the expose Of him
in the Daily Worker, which showed
that Keller, under the euise of be-
ing for a nationwide strike, re-
fused to take action in Paterson
Yesterday, in an interview with the
Daily Worker reporter, Keller de-
MED being in agreement with Cor
man, but failed to explain why he
carried cut the order to call off
the strike in Paterson without even
meeting. He now claims that
only the convention Of the Silk
Federation can take action, which
could be nothing less than a gen.
J eral strike.
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Southern Workers Ready for Communist Party

lies for a week. Families in the
mill towns average between six and
twelve persons in number. The
average family today in a cotton
mill town does not have more than
one dollar per person for clothing
and food for one week and often
much less than this.
What the Roosevelt New Deal"
and the N. r. A. are bringing the
workers is shown by the statistics
on rising prices in Charlotte, pub
lished on the back page of the
Charlotte News of Oct. "a. In
creased prices of some commodi-
ties during the past five months
as reported by the News are:
butter, 14.2 per cent increase;
round steak, 1872; pork chops, 344;
lard, 1913; eggs, 46; white bread, 5;
-four, 85.
While textile is the main in
dustry of the Carolinas the same
conditions are found in the other
industries = tobacco and furniture
At the present moment hundreds
of furniture workers are on strike
at High Point, N. G. In the to-
bacco industry wages and condi-
tons are even worse than in tex
tile.
The Communist Party in this
District faces the tremendous task
Of giving leadership to the work
ing class, Negro and white, indus
trial workers and share choppers
in struggles for the very right te
live, against the most ruthless ex-
ploitation and oppression. This
must also be linked up with the
struggles for Negro rights and self
determination, defense of the
Scott5boro boys, and constantly
bringing forward our final aim, the
overthrow of capitalism and the es-
Enlistment of a workers ano
farmers government. Our first ano
foremost task must be to make the
recruiting campaign a success-tc
bring these militant Southern
workers into the ranks of the Com
munist Party,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-10
Blacklist, Starvation Wages, Betrayal of Textile
Strike Have Opened Eyes of Many Workers,
and Prepared Them for Party Recruiting

the rank and file in the United Tex
tile Workers, especially the workers
of the South. Mass picketing, the
formation of flying squadrons-these
showed the increasing militancy and
class consciousness of the Southern
textile workers. These workers
learned many lessons during the
strike. They saw the National
Guard, the armed forces of The
state, used against the strikers. Men
and women were tear gassed, stab
bed with bayonets. At Belmont, N.
c., in the same CASTOR County
where Ella May Virgins was shot
down during the 1929 strike, a
striker, Riley, died from bayonet
wounds, murdered by the National
Guard.
Illusions about Roosevelt and the
German leadership of the union
were lost, at least so far as many
workers are concerned, when Roose-
welt called for the end of the
strike" and German Immediately
ordered the strikers back under the
same stretch-out and starvation
wages. Many of the strikers-those
who had been most militant-did
not get back into the mills. Thous-
ands are blacklisted. Many of these
workers openly state: II wish we
had listened to the advice of The
Communist Party" (referring to our
advice to establish rank and file
strike committees and to beware of
betrayals).
Recruits for Communism
Thousands of these militant tex
tile workers, who formed mass picket
lines, who organized flying squad
rons, have demonstrated that they
are the material Of which real Com
munists are made. They have in
telligence, courage, class conscious
ness to a considerable extent, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-10
Union Moves
To Stop Flight
ofknitting Mill

The 80 employees of the Claire
Knitting Mills of 432 Austin Place,
Bronx, are on strike under the
leadership of the Knitgoods Work
ers' Industrial Union. The firm is
under contract with the Knitgoods
Workers Industrial Union, and has
made number of attempts to turn
the shop into en- open shop. These
attempts failed
Now, with the aid of the bosses
association and with the Chamber
NJ Commerce of Shelton, Conn, the
Ilrrn has made arrangements to
move out Of town with the aim of
breaking the union in the shop and
to work under open shop conditions.
The union has made arrange
ments to picket the shop in Shell
ton, Conn, as well as the offices
OF the firm here in New York. The
union calls upon all the knitgoods
workers not to accept jobs with the
striking firm.
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alone, according to private ar
from revolutionary leaders in
This is just one of the rel
the generals, and the Jesuits and
the fascist leaders Of Spain are
bowling for more workers to be
massacred, more prisoners to be
killed, more life jail sentences
handed out. For they know that
their claim to have broken the
revolution is lie. And they are
frightened.
gere, from behind the censor's
sncke-screen, are some of the fects
that frighten them.
Miners Still Armed
In Asturias there are $4,000 rifles
in the hands of the revolutionary
miners in the mountains, and the
revolutionary spirit Of the miners
and ste l-workers remain un-
broken.
At Beiar, halfway between
Madrid end the Portuguese frontier,
the workers in the factories have
never stopped the strike that began
on october 5, and are refusing to
return to work until they are as
sllrad that there will be no victim
ization and no alteration in bar
gaining agreements and wage con-
diticns.
In numerous places throughout
Spain railwaymen, factory-workers
and transport workers are forcing
the employers organizations to
abandon their attempts at victim
ization, and are forcing the en-
ployers to resume work on pre-
strike terms.
In Cuatro Caminos, working class
quarter Of Madrid, few days ago
your correspondent sat at series
Of meetings of such a committee OF
factory workers. There were three
Communists on it, four Socialists
and four Anarchists. Within four
days their united action had forced
the directors of the large factory
where they worked to drop all the
plans Of vietimization they had al
ready announced; they forced them
to reinstate all the men they had
at first refused to take back, and
they forced them to give up the
effort they had started to break the
system of collective bargaining on
wage rates.
This is going on all over Spain
II is a measure of the strength Of
the workers whom the reactionaries
claim to have broken"
Action Effective
It is against this strength and
militancy of the Spanish workers
that the military fascist execution
ers are being set to work. They
are trying to work in the dark be-
hind the censorship But already
there is proof positive that the
international action of the workers
of ether countries against TIL e
Spanish government hes thrown
that government into a state of
alarm and hesitation.
AS result of huge demonstra-
tons Of French workers outside
the Spanish consulate throughout
Southern France, the Spanish am
baSsador in Paris has received
urgent orders to try to get the
French government to put a stop
to these demonstrations. The dem
onstrations are going on. At
Toulouse, at Perpignan on h e
Spanish frontier, and half dozen
other towns, tens Of thousands of
French workers demanded TIL e
hating of the fascist terror in
Spain.
The panicky protest of the Span
ish ambassador, the anxious and
angry comments Of the Right Wing
press in Madrid, are visible signs of
the extent to which this interna-
tional agitation is helping to
brighten the terrorists and to save
the lives of thousands of Spanish
workers.
Every action against the Spanish
terror saves the lives of Spanish
workers.
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Anti-War Rallies
On ArmiStice Day
Continued from Page y

Legion is preparing for an Armis-
tice Day celebration, in support OF
the Wall Street government, rank
and file legionaires and one Legion
post are participating in two large
street anti-war demonstrations and
four indoor mass meetings on Sun
day called by the American League
Against War and Fascism.
More than a hundred trade union,
professional and labor defense or
carnations will take part, carry
ing their own banners. Prominent
speakers including Professor Spen-
Ger of the Y. M. c. A. College,
Waldo McNutt, national chairman
of the Youth Section of the
American League, Rev. j. G. Austin.
pastor of the Pilgrim Baptist
Church, and Thomas M. McKenna,
local secretary of the League, will
address the meetings.
On the South Side march will
start at 43rd and Prairie SITS. at
2 p. M, to the Pilgrim Baptist
Church at 33rd and Indiana where
the meeting will begin at $3.50 p. m.
On the West Side, there will be
a meeting at the Temple Judea,
1927 independence Boulevard at
n p. m.
On the North West Side, as
semble at Wicker Park, near North
and Milwaukee, at 2:So p. M, and
march to the Workers Lyceum, at
2,733 Hirsch Boulevard, where the
meeting will begin at p. m.
There will also be a mass meet
ing on the North Side, at Olivet
Institute, 1,441 North Cleveland at
%. m.
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ANSH WORKERS HOLD us MACHINE GUNS IN CITY OF MADRID
Peoria JObIeSS MOUe
To DrGaU ALL. Unions
Into Action for Relief

PEORIA, H., Nov "a committee from the Unem-
poyment Councils called upon the president of the Peoria
Trades and Labor Assembly Mr. Story who is also Tabor
representative" on the Peoria County Emergency Relief
Commission regarding his position the question of work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-10
ASTURIAS MINERS
ARMED WITH RIFLES
IN MOUNTAIN AREA
international Protests Force Fascists to Hesitate
With Executions-COmmunists and
Socialists Fight Side by Side

MADRID, Nov. 9.-There IT'S machine-guns ana
thousands of rifles still in control of the united front revolt
onary leadership of Communists and Socialists in Madrid
alone according private and accurate information gained
from revolutionary leaders in the capital
inst of the reasons why the big and-oWners
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PEASANTS SPREAD
EVICTION FIGHT
In PHILIPPINES
Tenant Farmers Defy Landlords Attempt to Take
Over Land-Situation Becomes Tense
AS They Demand Bigger Crop Share
By Samuel Weinman

That the report in the Daily Worker recently of peasants
the Philippine Islands raising red flags only the be-
ginning of widespread and growing struggle of thousands
of harecroppers tenanarmers and peasants is confirmed
by the Philippine Herald Manila newspaper published by the
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Continued from Page u

is registering large gains is developing growing
influence. These gains appear in such indus
trial centers as Ohio California, New York and
Massachusetts,. The Socialist Party vote, the
contrary, is either stagnant declining, running
far behind the Communist Party in many places.
Even in Bridgeport, the Socialist Mayor McLevy,
running for Governor, 1000 votes behind his last
years Mayoralty vote in that CITY,
The growth of the Communist Party VOTE WIN
ming former supporters Of the Socialist Party and
new working class support is definite indication
of growing class consciousness throughout the coun-
try.
THESE then must be our main conclusions:
l. The tremendous Democratic vote registers the
demand of the masses that Roosevelt carry through
the New Deal" as they understand 1t, as an al
legged program to better their conditions and end
the crisis In this sense the very size Of the Demo-
cratic vote will register itself in coming months in
actions of the for the fulfllment of the
Roosevelt New DEAF promises. 1t will thus lead
to more rapid exposure of the New Deal" which
will be confronted with the basic questions of the
masses.
2. There are evident tendencies for the re-
organization and re-alignment in the old parties
as 1t becomes evident to the bourgeoisie that the
old two party system Is breaking down as a means
Of deluding and trickng the masses. This will ex-
press itself in the growth Of tendencies for third
party, Progressive parties, Farmer-Labor parties,
etc,
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as against utopian barter schemes
Of Upton Sinclair.
800 Per Cent Rise in New Bedford
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Nov. g.
The Communist vote here increased
800 per cent over the vote in the
last election. Walter Burke, candi-
date for State Secretary, received
1876 votes, only 10 votes behind the
total for the Socialist candidate for
the same ONCE.
Burke was very active in the re-
cent textile strike.
High Vote in BerkIey, Mich.
BERKELEY, Mich, Nov. 8. -
Arend Wickerts, running openly as
a Communist in the final election
for Mayor, received 379 votes. The
capitalist candidate, Baldwin, OBJ
tanned oil.
The high vote for Wickert was
achieved despite vicious campaign
against him in the local press. He
is an outstanding leader OF the UNI
employed.
Waikiki, N. Y, Nov. Erred
Briehl, Communist candidate for At
torney-G General ran far ahead Of
his Socialist opponent in his home
town, receiving seventeen votes to
his opponents two.
The Communist candidate for
governor, l. Amter, got five votes,
while the Socialist candidate, Solo,
mon, obtained only one. The other
! Communist candidates also ran
ahead of the Socialist candidates.
Max Bedacht, the Communist
candidate for Senator, received four
votes to three votes for Norman
Thomas, Williana Burroughs, the
Communist candidate for heuten-
ant-governor got five votes to her
Socialist opponents two; Rose Wor-
It's, Communist candidate for State
comptroller, also received five votes,
while the Socialist candidate got
| two.