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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
Youth Rally
Maps Fight
On Fascisn1

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Dec. 10
About 600 delegates from $50 youth
and student organizations, convened
in the Regional Youth Congress held
here last Friday, Saturday and Sun
day, and adopted common pro-
gram of action in broad united
front movement for the defense of
the interests of the youth. The
Congress elected eight delegates to
the National Youth Congress to be
held in Washington, D. c., on Jan.
4 and 5.
Delegates were present from 81
cities and towns in Michigan, with
a combined membership Of over
10000 young workers and students.
They represented trade unions, farm
groups, church organizations. Demo-
cratic Clubs, Y.MC.A's, Y.W.C.A.'s,
the Young Communist League, the
Young Peoples Socialist League,
high schools, colleges, boy and girl
scouts, community centers, etc. AL
though representing organizations
of widely differing programs and
political tendencies, the delegates
were, with few exceptions, finally
united on the basic issues of the
struggle against war and fascism,
against the New Deal program Of
militarization of the youth, together
with cuts in educational appropria-
tons; and endorsed the Workers IN
employment Insurance Bill, H. r.
1898, and the Farmers Emergency
Bill.
The resolution on Youth in In
dustry declares that the New Deal
"has not improved the status of the
youth nor in any way indicated a
solution for the young generation
of today" and that "the New Deal
has brought security to a small
minority Of industrialists and bank
ers."
The Congress demanded the abo-
lition of the C. M. T. c., the r. o.
/ T. C, and ali forms of military
training in the schools, and an end
to discrimination and oppression of
the Negro people.
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Labor in Three States
Opens Broad Campaign
Against Runaway Shops
Interstate Conference To Be Held in Newark
Jan. 27 to Rally Unions Against Inreasing
Menace to Worker Organizations

the Independent Shoe and Leather
Workers Union; Irving Levitt, Of
the Steel and Metal Workers IN
dustrial Union; NJ. Perlow of the
Furniture Workers Industrial
Union, and Alexander H. Kolkin Of
the Knit Goods Workers Union.
Speakers included Page, Martin,
Levitt and three strikers represent
ing runaway" shops on strike in
the smoking pipe and knitgoods in
dustry. Kolkin was chairman.
The workers gave unanimous en-
dorsement to the following propos-
ais submitted by the committee of
five: That two members of each
of the five unions be added to the
provisional committee of five, to
make a permanent body Of fifteen
to conduct the fight against run
away" shops; to endorse the Inter-
state Conference to take place in
Newark on January 27 and call
upon all A. F. of l.. and other locals
to send delegates in support of the
fight; to call another mass meeting
next Monday at IL am. at Irving
Plaza.
A decision was also made to send
kilograms to the Mayors of Summit,
Railway, Jersey City and Union
City, all in New Jersey and Shelton
Connecticut, demanding the right
to picket and protesting intimida-
ton of strikers. Runaway" shops
are on strike in all these towns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20

A call is being mailed out to every
local of the A. F. of L., Trade Union
Unity League and independent
unions of Greater New York, Con-
necticut and Northern New Jersey
for delegates to the Interstate Con-
ference in Newark on Jan. q, to
mobilize the united efforts of the
labor movement against the run
away" shop menace.
The arrangements for the con-
ference are being pushed by pro-
visional committee with represen-
tatives of five unions, most affected
by the moving Of shops to escape
union control. A number of A. F..
of L. locals have already expressed
readiness to join in the move, ac-
cording to the committee.
Three hundred workers of shops
which have recently moved out of
New York to New Jersey or Con-
necticut towns, to escape union con-
troll, met in Irving Plaza, Is Irving
Place, Monday afternoon and en-
dorsed the fight now initiated to
follow and strike every runaway
shop.
The meeting was called on the
initiative of the following pro-
visional committee of five, repre-
senting the five unions which
opened the drive against the run
away" shop menace; Ralph Page
of the Independent Smoking Pipe
Makers Union; George Martin, OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
Relief ParIey
In Pittsburgh
To Plan Drive

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 49,
Delegates from unemployed organ
izations, trade unions and fraternal
and beneficial bodies will assemble
in National Slovak Hall, 51S Court
Place, Pittsburgh, Saturday in a
conference on unemployment and
social insurance called by the I'm
employment Councils of Western
Pennsylvania in preparation for the
National Congress in Washington
Jan. ST..
On the agenda of the local meet
ing will be reports on the activities
of various groups in support of the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill, the struggles of the
unemployed workers organizations
for adequate relief, and the need
for intensification of the drive here
for enactment of the Workers Bill
in view of the present wage-cutting
and part-time employment sched-
ules of the big steel and coal en-
ployers.
Calls for the local conference
were issued along with those for the
National Congress to every A. F. of
L. trade union in the district, and
part of the work Saturday will be
the completion of arrangements for
transportation Of delegates to
Washington.
1t was announced yesterday that
the city delegates from fraternal
organizations connected with the
Federation for Social Insurance will
attend the local conference.
The main report will be given by
James Egan, representing the ma
tional arrangements committee fol
the Washington conference.
Organizations desiring informa-
ton concerning the meeting Satur-
day should write to Bill Doyle, sec
rotary of Arrangements Committee
1924 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh.
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N. ]. Assembly
Votes to Back
.Newar Guild
Resolution Is Response
To Broad Support
Given Strikers

NEWARK, N. J., Dec. $50
great is the mass support behind
the striking editorial workers Of
the Newark Ledger nat the State
Assembly Of New Jersey last night
passed a resolution endorsing the
efforts Of the American Newspaper
Guild to obtain recognition, and
b etter conditions for editorial
workers.
The resolution does not mention
the Ledger strike, but in a general
way cites the aim Of the Guild to
obtain recognition, the right of COL
lective bargaining, and raise the
standards Of living Of editorial
workers.
BE it resolved" the resolution
concluded, that the House of AS
sembly endorse the further efforts
Of the Newark Newspaper Guild to
obtain recognition and secure for
overworked, underpaid newspaper
men and women in the state Of
New Jersey a living wage, reason
able working hours and soma
measure of security in their en-
ployment."
After being addressed by repre-
sentatives Of the strikers, the IN
ion County Labor Council, meeting
the same evening, went on record
endorsing the strike of the Ledger
workers. The council represents
$4,000 workers in an area which
includes much of the circulation Of
the Ledger. All delegates were in
structed to report to their locals
that the Ledger is on the unfair
list.
Meanwhile strikers and many
sympathizing organizations are
going ahead with preparations for
the mass labor parade on Dec. %,
which may prove to be a record
demonstration for Newark. More
than 10000 trade unionists in the
immediate vicinity are expected to
take part. Delegations from chap
ters Of the Guild in other parts Of
the country are expected to arrive
for the march. The parade will
begin at p. m. from Washington
Park.
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mass pressure, organized and aware
of tire pitfalls of constitutional illu-
sions and ready to demand and
fight for its enforcement at the
first opportunity. But this means
rousing and organizing a mass
movement, sweeping broad masses
Of both whites and Negroes into it.
This is something neither Wagner,
Costigan nor the N. A. A. c. P. de-
sires.
1t remains for us to do it. The
already large Scottsboro defense
movement is the starting point for
such a campaign, for it is already
aware of everything that has to be
done and is already involved in a
struggle for civil rights. We also
have a bill. clear of the illusions
which the N. A. A. c. Unsupported
bill fosters. 1t is the Civil Rights
Bill, draft of which was already
presented to President Roosevelt by
the Scottsboro March to Washing
ton afte:- the first Decatur trial. AS
its name implies, this Bill presents
clearly the connection between
lynching and the general oppression
of the Negro masses and raises all
the social issues so keenly felt by
the Negro masses today. 1t pro-
vides the death penalty for lynchers.
1t is the instrument around which
the whole Negro people will rally
once it is properly presented and
explained.
Fight For Civil Rights
But we have not yet taken up
this task with the energy it deserves.
This is the present necessary task
not only in connection with the
Scottsboro case but also with regard
to the fight for Negro rights. We
stand in danger of tripping on the
next step in extending the Negro
liberation movement unless broad
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
By JAMES S. ALLEN

to demand action against lynehing
indicates how deeply all sections of
the Negro masses are moved. 1t is
on the basis of this vital interest
that the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
together with a number Of middle
class and liberal organizations is
carrying on campaign for the
Wagner Costigan Anti Lynching
Bill, holding mass meetings, carry
ing on petition drive, etc. Al
though the N. A. A. c. P. lost much
of its prestige among the Negro
masses because of it's Uncle Tom
role in the Scottsboro and Crawford
Cases, it now stands good chances
Of regaining at least some of this
prestige at the expense of the mill
tant and revolutionary movement.
N. A. A. C. p. Reforni'sm
This does not mean that the N.
A. A. c. P. has lost its Uncle Tom
ism. The Anticipating Bill it
supports and attempts to get the
masses to support is essentially a
measure to "save the face" of the
Roosevelt Administration, which
despite all its beautiful promises,
has not only done nothing to stop
lynching but has intensified those
conditions, such as the differential
wage of the codes, which give rise
to it. 1t is sufficient to point to two
main conditions of the Wagner
Cossigan Bill to show that in itself
other things being favorable (such
as the willingness of the federal
government to stop lynciing), it is
not and cannot serve as an anti
lynchirg weapon.
In the first place, the death
penalty is only conditional: it sets
the penalty for lynchers at from 90
years imprisonment to death,
leaving 1t entirely to a jury In a
southern state to decide which 1t
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the advertisement states, According
to the public press reports, even the
leaders of organized labor, with the
interests of the workers at heart,
have pleaded with the pickets to go
back to work on the terms suggest
ed" This refers to the fact that
union officials tried to get the strik-
ers to accept the sellout agreement
and they rejected it almost unani-
mously.
The ad continued, 1.-THE strikers
have refused these terms. They have
disregarded the advice of their more
responsible leaders" The demands
of the strikers are termed "unrea-
sonable and destructive" The store
ad claims that more than thirds
have gone back to work and that
the pickets are annoying the shop
ping public and the employees who
have remained at work"
In an attempt to show impartial
ity" between the strikers and the
DSoIOlI SOOIc, GLle M4lWdukoe ISdOer
prints also a full page ad of the
three unions involved in the strike
the clerks, building service en-
ployes and truck drivers-in the
same issue.
Unions Demands Listed
The unions gave the demands of
the strike of $40 week for women
and S25 week for men; for rec
ignition of the three unions. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
ICOmmu nists
Bid for Unity
In Milwaukee
Ask Rank and File of
Socialist Party for
Immediate Action

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Dec. 49,
Socialist rank and file members in
Wisconsin are being circulated with
call for united front struggle
against war and fascism, issued by
District 10 of the Communist Party.
This and other experiences, in
Germany, Austria, Spain should
prove to us that although the capi-
talist class will first attack the
Communists, other working class
organizations, like the Socialist
Party and trade unions, will also
feel the blow of capitalist terror
Immediately following" the Call
warns.
1t contrasts the expressed SYM
pathies Of the majority of the So
cialist Party membership for the
united front with the action of the
Boston meeting of the National
Executive Committee of that Party
in rejecting the united front pro-
posals Of the Communist Party in
favor of a united front with capt.
talist elements and parties, such
as the LaFollette Progressives, Up
ton Sinclair and Governor Olson
of Minnesota. The Boston meet
ing Of the N E. c. postponed any
negotiations for a united front witt
the Communist Party until thu
next convention of the Socialis
Party, but decided to immediately
undertake negotiations with thu
LaFollette Progressives, etc.
THE Socialist Party member.
ship" the Call declares, must
now decide which road to follow
unity with the forces of capitalism
or united action with the forces
fighting for the destruction Of
capitalism"
Pointing to the achievements
already made in forging the united
front anti-Fascist struggles of So
cialist, Communist and non-Party
workers, the Call declares: 1.-THE
united front of the working elias:
and not class collaboration with
the enemies of the working class
should be the watchword of al
real Socialists
The Call offers an eight-point
program around which all workers
can unite in the fight against fas.
cism and imperialist war and ir
defense of the rights of the work.
ing class.
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YoungGernan
Worker Faces


SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 10.
Otto Richter, militant young
worker arrested during the West
Coast longshoremen strike, is in
imminent danger Of being deported
to Hitler Germany, where he faces
certain torture and death.
Federal Judge st. Sure last week
denied a petition by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense attorneys for
a writ to reopen the case. The
writ was based on the traditional
right of political asylum.
An I. L. D. motion for a ten-day
stay in the execution of an order
for revocation Of Richter's bail and
for his re-arrest was also denied by
the federal Judge. Richter'S state
ment from prison, following his ar
rest in the strike, calling on the
workers to vote Communist, was
introduced as evidence against him
by the prosecution.
Richter is 20 years old and has
a revolutionary record in Germany
as a member of the Soung Com
MUST League Of Germany. In the
light Of the bloody record of Hit
ler's murder crew there can be no
doubt of Richter's fate if he is
handed over to the Nazi butchers.
The Committee for the Protection
Of Foreign Born and the LID. are
urging all mass organizations and
individuals to rush protests at once
to D. w. Mccormack, u. S. Labor
Department, Washington, D. c., to
Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor,
and to President Roosevelt.
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unions point out that the offer
Of the store is so small that all the
workers rejected it. They show the
big increase of profits gained by de-
partment stores, as an answer to
the stores plea Of inability to pay
mere. The Federated Trade Coun-
Gil fully supports the strike, the
unions declare, and quote a recent
statement of the Council to prove
this. The Milwaukee Building
Trades Council has called on all
building workers in the store to join
the strike, the ad states.
The charge Of the Boston Store,
that the strike was called by out
siders, is branded as entirely I'M
true, "The workers themselves
voted to strike and voted to con-
tinue to strike after the measly Of
fer of the store was presented to
them last week" The store keeps
quiet about the dozens of profess
SIGNAL strikebreakers it has import
ed" the union points out.
The strike of the Boston Store
employees has aroused the support
of the broadcast ranks Of the Mil
waukee workers. Many workers are
on the picket lines and are refusing
to buy at the scab store.
Rank and file Socialists should re-
pudiate the strikebreaking act OF
the Milwaukee Leader in printing
full page ad against the strikers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
Struggle for Negro Civil Rights Spurred by Scoboro Case

When Samuel Leibowitz, for
merly associated with the Inter
national Labor Defense in the
Scottsboro Case, first made public
announcement of his renegacy there
was an immediate response from
the southern ruling class. This
response came in the form of re-
doubled reign of terror against the
Negro masses and labor organiza-
lions in the South.
Sensing what they believed to be
a weakness or a split in the mass
movement for the defense of the
Scottsbcro boys, K K. K. bands
and government forces Of the
Southern states set loose a series of
raids on the homes of militant
Negro workers, acts Of violence
against the Negro beatings and
killings, the most ferocicus OF which
was the well advertised and public
iy planned lynching az Mariana,
Fla. The terror is still running
wild in the Vicinity of Mar anna,
while the threat of terror hangs
low over the whole South.
Case Not Isolated From Broad
Struggle
These acts by the southern ruling
class serve to clarity two principal
aspects of the Scottsboro Case
which have not as yet been suffi-
Gently appreciated. The Scots
boro case is not simply dramatic
incident of persecution, isolated
from all other aspects Of the cpp-cs-
SIGN o. the Negro people. 1t takes
place within the same social en-.
vironmert which produces lynching,
jim crcwisfn, terror. degradation
and ostracisin of the Negro masses.
And secondly, arising from this fact,
the Scottsboro Case, because of the
mass movement it has aroused, is
the pivot, the central point around
which the whole struggle for Negro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
Working Glass
5roupsOppose
F ascist Edict
Demand CityAccord Full
Protection to Relief
Marchers Saturday
Bv Sander VorOs
DAILY Worker Ohio Bureau

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 10. -
Responsibility for provccation at
Saturdays city-wide relief march
will rest with Mayor Davis" as
serted I. o. Ford, former Commu-
mist Party candidate for Governor,
before the legislative committee of
the City Council at public hear
ing yesterday afternoon. 1. o. Ford,
who polled close to 1900 votes in
the last election, speaking in the
name of the Communist Party, sup
ported the Krewson resolution pro-
testing the removal Of the free
speech rostrum from Public Square.
Exposing the economic back
grounds Of the attack on the civil
rights of the people and claiming
1t as the first step towards abolish
ing free speech in the entire city
Of Cleveland, he served notice on the
Mayor that the Communist Party
is giving its complete support to the
city-wide relief march Of the un-
employed, under the leadership of
the Unemployment Councils, Small
Home Owners Federation and other
working class organizations this
coming Saturday, Dec. %, at l pm,
starting on Public Square.
At the hearing the Mayors sup
porters we're conspicuously absent.
The city chambers, however, where
the meeting had to be transferred
owing to the large size of the audi
ence, were filled with people who
expressed their enthusiastic ap-
proval of the Communist Party
fight for free speech.
In the name of the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights, Walter
Dicks vehemently attacked Mayor
Davis's fascist. move and stated that
the Negro people Of Cleveland will
fight together with the white work.
ers to preserve their civil rights.
H. Stasfurt, representing the
Workingman's Sick and Death
Benefit Lodge of 10000 members, a
German founded organization with
the majority of the members
American-born, called to the COM
mittee's attention that Lavalle,
Sefety director, speaking before his
organization, stated that the pres
ent city administration is opposed
to fascism and this same city ad-
ministration now intends to take
the same fascist steps as they do
in Nazi Germany.
John Roman of the Vi Elore,
Hungarian daily, and in the name
of a protest meeting of 1000 Hun
garians held last Saturday, pre-
sented a resolution demanding the
free speech roStrum remain on the
square.
Resolutions we're read from the
st. James Literary Forum and from
Julius B. Cohn, a Davis-appointed
member of the City Planning Com
mittee, who resigned his post in at
lacking the Mayors action protest
ing the intended removal of the
free speech rostrum, and a resolu-
ton from the Ladies Auxiliary of
the Spanish War Veterans uphold
ing the Mayors attack.
After other speakers, including
the Socialist Party representative,
were heard in favor of the Knew
son resolution, William F. Eirick,
city service director, in an outburst
of patriotic demagogy, disclaimed
that the Mayor intended to abolish
free speech, but demanded that the
rostrum be removed nevertheless.
Following this the hearing was or
dered continued Monday, Jan. 7, at
n m
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at the local police court yesterday.
The charges were so patiently false
that the authorities did not dare to
go through with the trial in the face
of the angry protests of Negro and
white workers who packed the court
room, in response to an appeal is
sued by the local Unemployment
Council.
Jane Allen and Ann Burlak, who
is touring the state for the National
Sponsoring Committee of the Ma
tional Congress for Social and I'm
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employment Insurance, to be held
in Washington, D. c., January 5,
appeared in court ready to conduct
their own defense. Police Lieuten-
ant Mayberry told the court, how
ever, that the police department
thought it best to dismiss the
charges. The Chief of Police, who
had received numerous protest tele-
grams and letters from workers Or
CARNATIONS all over the country,
sneaked out of the court room be-
fore the case was called.
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In getting signatures for the
Daily Worker ballot on the
workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill (H.K. y5ys), speak TO
the voter about the Daily Work
er and ask him TO subscribe. An
increased circulation of the paper
is imperative TOR the organ1za-
tion of workers around the fight
for unemployment insurance.
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Danville Court Clears
Ann Burlak, Jane Allen
OF Framed-Up Charge

DANVILLE, Va, Dec. 19.-The
charges of bad fame and charac-
ter" against Ann Burlak, national
textile workers leader, and Jane
Allen, local worker, were dismissed