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The daily worker., 1934-10-29
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MOTHERSURCE

A stirring appeal for mass sup
port IN the fight to save the lives
of the Scottsboro boys was made
yesterday by four of the Scottsboro
mothers-Mrs. Viola Montgomery,
Mrs. Josephine Powell, Mrs. Ida
Norris and Mrs. Ada Wright.
In their appeal the mothers of
the framed-up Negro boys call for
mass backing of the international
Labor Defense and the Scottsboro-
Herndon Action Committee. At the
same time they urge Mrs. jamie
Patterson. whose son, Haywood, is
condemned to die in the electric
chair on Dec. 7, to "join with us
again under the banner of the or
ganization that has saved the life
of her boy as well as all our boys"
The appeal of the Scottsboro
mothers follows:
"At this crisis in the fight for
the lives of our boys, We. Scots
boro mothers, call upon all people
to support the International
Labor Defense and the National
Scottsboro- Herndon Action Com
mittee in the fight for the lives
and freedom of all the nine in
nocent Scottsboro boys.
We want only the I. L. D. and
its lawyers to have charge of our
boys cases. because it has for
more than three and half years,
with its worldwide mass protest,
saved our boys lives. In April.
1881, when our boys were first
framed on a fake rape charge. the
I. L. D. came to our rescue when
we were unable to help ourselves,
and since then the I. L. D. has
never failed us.
Attorney Samuel Leibowitz
and some New York Negro mis-
leaders led by William H. Davis,
publisher of the Amsterdam News.
Reverends L. H. King, Richard
Bolden, A. G. Garner, DR.. George
E. Haynes, and others are trying
to take control of the cases of
our boys. We don't know what
purpose they have in mind, but
we do know that they have been
having shady dealings with At
torney General Thomas Knight
OF Alabama and other enemies of
our boys, helping them in their
attempt to take our boys cases
away from the I. L. D. If they
Continued on Page q
The daily worker., 1934-10-29
Asturias Min ers Wage
Heroic Fight on Troops
Of Spanish Government

OvIEDO, Spain. Oct. 2s.-Fight-
ing against heavy odds, miners
under the leadership of the united
front Of Socialists, Communists
and Syndicalists waged heroic
struggle in Asturias against the
fascist government. Twenty-six
persons we're killed and twenty-four
wounded when troops column
commanded by Colonel Amanda was
reported to have pursued revolu-
tionaries in to the mountains
thanking the valley of Nalon. The
clash took place near Bimenes.
Numerous weapons were said to
have been collected.
The campaign OF spreading stories
of atrocities committed by workers
has left the countryside incredulous,
and the avowed intention of stir
ring up the sentiment of the people
in favor Of the fascist court-mar-
tials has provoked nothing but
storm of protests, delaying mo-
mentarily the intended execution of
Socialist and Communist workers
sentenced to death.
The daily worker., 1934-10-29
Report 10 Per Cent
Job Drop in State
OF Massachusetts

BOSTON, Mass, Oct, 2S.-En-
ployment and wages in 1899 rep
resentative Massachusetts, manu-
featuring concerns dropped dras-
tically during the first half of
September, according to a report
just issued by the State Depart
ment of Labor. The survey re-
ports that jobs dropped is per
cent as compared with the cor
responding period in August.
A survey of the State made in
June by the Massachusetts, De-
partment Of Labor showed that
1,808,S40 employable persons lived
in the State. This figure did
not include students, housewives,
persons unable to work, retired
and aged persons or those not
seeking jobs. OF this number,
341a per cent, or 624,526 were
employed whole and part-time.
On the basis of these figures,
the latest available, 99,924 work
ers were added to the unem-
ployed in the two week period
during September.
The daily worker., 1934-10-29

employed Councils, they went out to organize new
unemployed organizations under Socialist Party
control They were more concerned with Socialist
control than with the fighting unity of the un-
employed. They have refused to support the only
genuine unemployment insurance bill now before
Congress-the Workers Unemployment insurance
Bi-or to organize the united action of the
ployed organizations under their leadership with
the Unemployed Councils for relief and unemplcy-
ment insurance. Where the Socialist Party is in
control of the municipal government, as in Mil
waukee and Bridgeport, they have given the same
deal to the unemployed that the Republican and
Democratic Mayors have. They sent their police
to break up workers demonstrations and have jailed
the militant leaders of the workers This shows
that, despite all their talk and pretense, when 1t
to showdown they pledged to preserve
the interests Of the capitalists, the rich.
The Communist Party, of all parties, has at
all times fought for the interests of the unem-
ployed Even before the Wall Street crash the
Communist Party had already taken up the fight
The daily worker., 1934-10-29
NEGRO YOUTH
is TORTURED
AND KILLED
KillersAnnounced Their
Plans in Press "a
Hours Ahead
U. S. WILL NOT ACT
LID Organizes Protests,
Demands Death to
the Lynchers

MARIANNA, Fla, Oct. 28.-
Claude Neal, 24-year -old Negro
youth, was fiendishly tortured to
death near here last night, his body
mutilated with knives, riddled with
bullets and then dragged behind an
automobile for several miles and
rung up to tree in the yard of
the court house here. State and
county officials of Florida and Ala
bana and the Federal authorities
refused to lift a finger to prevent
the plans of the lynchers, which
we're publicly announced twenty
four hours ahead through invita-
tions in the local boss press and by
runners along the countryside for
all white people to turn out to
watch the fun"
Only after the lynchers had car
ried through their hideous crime
we're Florida guardsmen called out,
and then not against the lynchers,
but for use against indignant local
Negro workers, who sought both to
protest the lynch murder and to
protect their homes from the lynch
gangs that had begun to terrorize
the Negro population, raiding the
Negro section of the town and set
ting fire to several houses. Bud
Cannon, another Negro, was ar
rested and threatened with lynch
ing for striking white man, Wal
ter Cook, in elf-defense. Cook has
not been arrested.
u. S. Won't Act
Neal was kidnapped early Friday
morning across the Florida Ala
bama state line, after he was
handed over to a joint Florida Ala
bama lynch committee" by Sheriff
G. S. Byrne, in charge Of the Jail
at Brewton, Ala, where Neal was
confined. following his arrest on
charge of numbering white woman
in Mariana, Fla. Directly after
the seizure of Neal by the mob, the
sheriff issued the usual statement
that "the Negro hac confessed"
Transported in motorcade
across the Florida line, Neal was
held captive by the lynchers for "a
hours, while they prepared the
lynching and broadcast invitations.
Although the attention of the Fed
eral government was called to the
kidnapping by the International La
Dor Defense, which warned of the
announced plans of the lynchers,
Attorney General Cummings an
nounced on Saturday, several hours
before Neal was lynched, that the
U, S. government had decided
there was no basis for Federal ac-
ton"
Neal met an agonizing death on
the banks of the Chipola River. He
was brutally tortured in the light
of bonfires, while a mob estimated
at 1000 looked on and cheered in
fiendish glee. Burning brands we're
taken from the bonfires and ap-
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The daily worker., 1934-10-29
7 0 PICKET T
ALL PLANTS
IN PATERSON
Negotiations Are Broken
OFF Abruptly With
Mill Owners
WORKERS FURIOUS
Say They Won't Return
To Shops Unless All
Vote on Settlement

PATERSON, N. j., Oct. 2S. -
Speaking before Communist
election rally. most Of those being
present being silk weavers and
striking dyers, Clarence Hathaway,
editor of the Daily Worker, out
lined the working Of the New Deal,
and showed it is the direct cause
of the conditions they are strik-
ing against.
"The E.R.A. is system Of codes
which mean eight to twelve dol
lars a week for you,' Hathaway
said.
Other speakers were Moe Brown,
Communist candidate for Cover
nor of New Jersey; Martin Rus
sack, Communist candidate for
Congress. Brown, leader Of the
1883 dyers' strike, showed how
the militant policy then Of the
National Textile Workers Union
and the Communists laid the
foundation for the union which
has now accomplished hundred
per cent strike.
The daily worker., 1934-10-29
DYE STRIKE SOLID ON FOURTH DAY
AUTHORITIES REFUSE TO ACT IN LYNCHINC
Conference Again
Asks Funds Quickly
To Aid Marchers

NEW YORK.-The United Ac-
ton Conference has again ap-
pealed to all workers and organi-
cations to rush Hunger March
funds Immediately to the head
quarters, IL West Eighteenth
Street. The appeal for imme-
date funds declared that with
the refusal of the Mayor of Al
bany and Governor Lehman to
make provisions for the Hunger
Marchers in Albany, the march
ers will not have sufficient pro-
visions while in Albany.
Refusal Of the owners of halls
to rent a meeting place because
OF pressure from official sources
has forced the Hunger March
Committee to incur additional
expenses in Albany. A meeting
hall has been secured only at a
prohibitive rental.
All collection boxes, lists and
contributions must reach the
Hunger March headquarters at
once.
The daily worker., 1934-10-29
Pit TTSBUR RGH
A.F.L. PARLEY
MAPS ACTION
Pie edges Joint Action
for Social Insurance
and Relief
HITS SUSPENSIONS
Repudiates Ex ecutive
Boards P Olicy of
Dividing Workers
BY Tom keenan,
Especial to the Daily worker)
Additional News m Pare q

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. 28.-
With the number of delegates at
tending increased to ITO, at The last
report of credentials committee,
the A. F. of L. rank and file con-
ference continued this morning as
delegates met in industry groups to
lay the basis for coordinating fu-
ture work in unions, various indus
tries including mining. steel, metal,
food, needle trades, building trades,
etc.
The conference has drawn up q
program Of action on the basis Of
the following vital issues: Campaign
for the enactment of the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
'afice Bill; for organizing all the
uaorganized, in preparation for a
joint struggle with the organized
workers to gain higher wages, bet
ter conditions, higher living stand
ards, shorter hours and to provide
for the jobless; stopping of all sus-
pensions and expulsions for nom
of dues as result of unem-
exemption Of unions
from per capita tax where the
maj jority of members are unem-
ployed; all headquarters expendi-
lures to be reduced in accordance
with the reduction of revenues from
above measures; for withdrawal Of
all A. F. of L. officials from all
N.R.A. or other Governmental,
State, Federal, or other Govern
mental positions; to force full
to Federal locals from tine
Executive Council, in their effort
to improve conditions and CO.
operation to these locals in or
ganizing into industrial unions; For
one industrial union in each in
dustry; for rallying all unions
against the use Of injunctions,
troops or other military, or other
wise strike breaking measures to
break strikes; For an organized
drive to wipe out gangsterism and
racketeering from all unions; for
the policy of sympathy strikes and
for the repudiating of the Execu-
tive Councils action in sabotaging
such struggles.
Other points in the program are:
For joint action of all unions, re-
gardless of affiliation, in support of
strikes, condemning the policy of
A. F. of L. officialdom, against in
unions outside of the A.
F. of L.; to arouse workers for a
determined fight against company
unions; against NR.A. labor boards
and similar government agencies,
and for the right of workers to join
unions of their own choice, to
choose their own representatives, to
strike and picket; and to give all
Continued on Page q
The daily worker., 1934-10-29
TEXTILE men
IN SOUTH ASK
FOR RE.STRIKE

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Oct. 28.-
Local unions of the United Textile
Workers Union from eight mills of
the Concord, Charlotte and Gas
tonia areas demanded of U. T. W
leaders permission for an immediate
restrike, at the meeting yesterday
Of the Western Carolina Textile
Council.
The U. T. w. leaders succeeded in
postponing action on the strike de-
mand on the grounds of The
U. T. w. Executive Council meeting
held in New York Friday. They sue
ceeded in postponing action until
another meeting of the West Caro-
lima Council, to be held in few
days. The Roanoke Rapid Workers
are going ahead to strike six mills
there tomorrow
NEW YORK. Oct, 28.-Many local
unions have demanded permission
to strike their textile mills, against
discrimination blacklist, stretch out.
wagecuts and eviction, growing out
Of the settlement of the general
strike, it was admitted by Francis
German, leader of the United Tex
tile Workers Union. following a
meeting of the Executive Council of
the union here Friday afternoon.
German, after the meeting, admit
ted he feared new crisis of i'm
pends," and repeated he and the
Council is trying to prevent strikes
through arbitration moves. German,
who sold out the general strike,
called the meeting of the Executive
Council of the U. T. w. in a des-
perate effort to forestall spreading
strikes. He is trying to give strike
sanction only in individual mills, in
order to split up the struggle and
prevent a new broad strike move
ment in the textile industry. 10000
dye workers are now out in three
states and the silk workers are dis
cusSing strike action
German admits that $4,000 are
(Coutinued o1 pooe 0l
The daily worker., 1934-10-29
By George Morris
Especial to the DaiIy worker)


PATERSON, N. j., Oct. 28-The
fourth day of the dyers strike finds
the ranks completely solid, while
negotiations which extended until
late Saturday night were broken off
with no headway toward settle
ment. At the RoSeland Ballroom
meeting held Saturday every strik-
er was called upon to turn out for
picketing at his own shop Monday
and not return to work until the
shop votes for the settlement. The
deadlock in the conferences shat
ters the hopes of an early settle
ment on the basis of tentative
agreement in Washington, provid-
ing: thirty-f1ve hour week at the
present scale for forty hours with
a tWenty-three dollars a week min
imum and recognition of the union
with the understanding there will
be no interference from the en-
ployers and an impartial board to
hear complaints.
Union leaders denied that any
final agreement had been made and
at Saturdays Roseland Ballroom
mass meeting Ammerato, head Of
the dyers federation (U. T. W.,
stated, Don't believe any rumors
in the newspapers. There is no set
tlement."
Sentiment Tremendous
But while the workers take little
stock in newspaper reports the de-
mand is increasing to know what
are the tentative proposals and
what settlement basis the leaders
are providing. The militant senti-
The daily worker., 1934-10-29
Boston Fulfills Pledge
Especial to the Daily Worker)

BOSTON, Mass, Oct. 28.-Pledge full
filed to pass seventy-fve per cent mark
through last nights affair, Jewish organiza-
tions brought in two hundred dollars, Armen-
ians fulfilled quota seventy-five dollars, total
raised last night four hundred and eigbty-two
dOllars-bringing us up to eighty. even per
cent stop Over top soon.
ALICE WARD.
The daily worker., 1934-10-29
I.S.U. Seamen W ak Out
In Alaska as M.W.I.U.
Longshoremen Strike

PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. %. =
James Williams, Portland sailor,
was slain in the Ferry Building here
on Friday by Leo Baker, a strike
breaker. Baker is under arrest
charged with murder.
The daily worker., 1934-10-29

tSDecial to the Daily Woyker)
JUNEAU, Alaska, Oct. 28-Long-
shoremen led by the Marine Work
ers Industrial Union are on strike
here demanding the West Coast
scale of wages and working condi-
tions. Ship crews organized into the
International Seamen's Union CA.
F. of L. on the Yukon, North
western and Northland steamships
have taken united action with the
longshore strikers.
The daily worker., 1934-10-29

BELLINGHAM, Wash, Oct. 28.-
Longshoremen, organized in the In
ternational Longshoremen's Assoc
alton CA. F. of L.) here. organized
a rank and file strike and won their
main demand, for all hiring to be
done through union controlled hir-
Ing halls.
The daily worker., 1934-10-29

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H. The Upsuge of the Mass Struggles and Work of the
Communist Party

The United States, stronghold of world cap
italism exhibits at the same time its deepest
contradictions. The blows of the economic crisis
struck heaviest relatively, here. The contrast
between mass hopes and illusions in 1929 and
bitter reality in 1884 is greater than almost
anywhere else. The greatest accumulated wealth
and productive forces, side by side with the
largest mass unemployment and starvation of
any industrial country, stares every observer
in the face. Revolutionary forces in the U. S.,
developing more slowly than elsewhere, are yet
of enormously greater potentially and depth.
All capitalist contradictions are embodied in
Roosevelt's New DEAL policies. Roosevelt pro-
misses to feed the hungry, by reducing the pro-
duction of food He promises to redistribute
wealth, by billions of subsidies to the banks and
corporations He gives help to the forgotten"
man, by speeding up the process of monopoly
and classification. He would increase the pur-
chasing power of the masses, through imitation
which gives them dollar worth only go cents.
He drives the Wall Street money changers out
of the temple of government, by giving them
complete power in the administration of the
governmental machinery of the industrial codes.
He gives the workers the right of organization
by legalizing the company unions. He inaugur-
ates regime of economy, by shifting the tax
burden to the consuming masses, by cutting ap-
preparations for wages, veterans, and social
services, while increasing the war budget a
billion dollars, and giving ten billions to those
who already own everything. He restores the
faith of the masses in democracy, by beginning
the introduction of fascisn. He works for in
ternational peace, by launching the sharpest
trade and currency war in history.
Roosevelts program is the same as that OF
finance capital the world over. 1t is program
of hunger, fascination and imperialist war. 1t
differs chiefly in the forms of its unprecedented
ballyhoo of demagogic promises, for the crea-
ton of mass illusions of saviour who has found
the way out. The New Deal is not developed
fascism. But in political essence and direc-
ton it is the same as Hitler's program.
Under cover of these mass illusions, Roosevelt
launched the sharpest, most deep-going attack
against the living standards Of the masses
Even though the workers were still under the
influence of illusions about Roosevelt tthese
illusions continue to stand up under repeated
bIowsD they could not but recognize what
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bridge; by increasing appropriations for police
and military; by fascist preparations of War
Department occupation of the strategic points
in the economic system by Incorporating the
A. F. L. leadership into the government mach
inery; by the new course" of compulsory ar
bitration and legalization of company unions
'charted7 by Roosevelt in the automobile settle
ment and the Wagner labor" bill A wave of
chauyinism is being reused by capitalist press
and statemen, without precedent in time Of
peace. Fascism is rearing its ugly head more
boldly every day in the U. S. A
The rape of China by japanese imperialism;
the wars in Latin-America in which America
and British imperialisms begin to settle accounts
these were but the first links in the chain of
imperialist wars being forged by the blows of
The crisis. The rise of fascism in Germany
and Austria further shattered the postwar
system of international relationships. The i'm
perialist powers are arning to the teeth. They
are desperately striving to come to an arrange
ment that the next decisive step in the armed
redivision Of the world shall be counter-revo-
lutionary invasion of the Soviet Union War
budgets are shooting upward at a speed matched
only by the speed Of deterioration of the living
standards of the masses.
Meanwhile, the Soviet Union, the land where
ism, moves in a direction exactly opposite to
that of the capitalist world. While the capt.
talist world suffered economic paralysis, in the
Soviet Union a historically backward land has
leaped forward to the first place in Europe, and
in the whole world second only to the United
States. While living standards in the capitalist
world took a catastrophe drop of 40 to 60 per
cent, in the Soviet Union they eaped upward
by more than 100 per cent. While capitalist
policy is directed with all energy to cut down
production in the face Of growing millions of
starving and poverty stricken workers and farm
ers, in the Soviet Union the productive forces
have been multiplied manifold, half continent
of So nations, of 1865 100000 population is being
lifted out of poverty into material well-being
and rich cultural life. While the capitalist
world drives feverishly toward war, the Soviet
Union energies more and more as the great
bulwark of world peace. Clearly the world is
divided into two systems moving in opposite
directions.
This is the world situation, described by the
general staff of our World Party, the Executive
Committee of the Communist International, as
a situation closely approaching a new round
of revolutions and wars" in which the Com
munists of the United States meet in our Eighth
National Convention to chart our course for
the next period, to prepare our forces for the
next great task to win the majority of the
American workers and their allies for the revo-
lutionary way out of the crisis, for the uncom-
promising fight for immediate economic and
political needs, for the overthrow of capitalism,
for the building of a new, socialist system by
] revolutionary Workers Government.
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agricultural crisis, the absence of tendencies
towards any serious renewal OF basic capital
which usually herslds the approach of a
boom, etc. etc.
Apparently what We are witnessing is the
transition from the lowest point of decline of
industry, from the lowest depth of the in
dustrial crisis to a depression, not an ordi-
nary depression but to depression of a spe-
cial kind which does not lead to a new boom
and fiOurishing industry, but which, on the
other hand, does not force it back to the
lowest point Of decline
1t would be vulgar fatalism to think that
no matter what measures the capitalist class
undertakes, they have no effect upon capitalist
economy. 1t would equally be wrong TO think
such effects are exclusively negative, to fail to
see how capitalist industry has eased its posi-
ton (even if only temporarily at the great ex-
pense of the workers and toiling masses. We
must avoid such mistakes, to be able to unmask
the crude illusions propagated by the labor
agents Of capitalism, and prevent them from
sowing confusion in the working class ranks.
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Of the general crisis, the blows delivered by the
world crisis to U. S. economy, are the first
factors which make it impossible for American
capitalism to return to boom and prosperity.
The very measures employed to improve the
immediate situation, even though they helped
in passing over from crisis to depression, had
the effect of deepening the general crisis of
capitalism.
Even the capitalists, in their confidential dis
eussions, are adopting the view that Che depres-
sion will be a prolonged one, that a quick re-
covery is impossible. Thus the Kiplinger
Agency, in its weekly letter Of March IT, speaks
on this point as follows;
washington feeling about the course of
recovery; Most private discussions by the
authorities here reflect resignation to the
idea of slow and irregular recovery, not rapid
recovery Some, progress, then setback
Further progress, then breathing spell. Talk
of spring boom has disappeared Talk of fall
boom, under belated infationary influences,
has lessened."
Yes, there is an improvement in business and