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thought it was necessary; the con-
troll over the States educational in
stitute with its 5000 students taking
military training. Long may not
succeed in being the American fas-
cist dictator. Others like Sinclair,
Olsen and their type may beat him
to it, but he is certainly placing a
high bid for the job and he is NOV
ing fast.
No story about Long can be COM
plete without mentioning his free
school books and the bridges. When
the Western Conference of College
Editors protested his gag rule on
the "Reveille," Long wired back
with a lecture on free school books
and bridges, Criticize Long for what
you will and he yells with childish
glee: Look at the school books.
Look at the bridges 1 built The
poor farmers and workers are taxed
to the limit to pay for this plus the
graft Long pocketed.
The Communist Party is the only
voice raised against this demagogue.
Weak as this has been, the organ
lied workers under the leadership
Of the Party has been the only force
demanding and forcing the govern
ment, both local and federal, to
grant relief for the unemployed. 1t
Will be the Party that will put up
a real resistance to his fascist ma
neuvers and upon the Party rests
this great task to save the workers
Of Louisiana and the South from
the experience that befell the work
ers of Germany and Italy.
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Japan's Envoy
TOManchukuO
Peril to China

TOKYO, Dec. 10.-With the ap-
pointment today of General Jiro
Minaini as Japanese Ambassador"
to Manchukuo and communicative
chief of the Kwantung army (the
Japanese military forces on the
mainland of Asia), the war aims
and territorial aggression OF Japa-
nese imperialism received further
support. He will leave for Hsinking
on December 10.
Hailing him as an "unwavering
believer in his eountry's imperial
destiny on the continent of Asia. !"
and one who was for direct force
full methods Of DAZZLING with any that
oppose Japan's mission to maintain
The peace of East Asia" writer's
and officials here released state
ments which were in effect a blank
forecast that the Chinese provinces
Bordering Neutrality-suspicious. and
Chahar-which have already been
invaded. would soon be crushed
under the fire and sword of Mininii's
vandalism.
Several japanese and Mafichu-
kuan expeditions have crc~-sH into
Chahar since the seizure Of Jehel
in March, 1893,
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and support for its revolutionary policy Of
peace.
The struggle for the defense Of Soviet China
Support for the anti-imperialist struggles in
China.
g. Our program of the revolutionary way out
The relation between the Socialist revolution
in the u S. and the colonial revolutionary
movement in the Caribbean and South
America.
y The significance for the U. S. of the Socialist
construction IN the U.s.S.R. and Of the existence
of Soviet China.
The effects upon the revolutionization of the
class struggle and the fight for Soviet
America.
Bourgeois planning" Socialist planning
81 The struggle for unity Of action and for the
unity of the working class.
In the unions
Socialist Party and Communist Party
League Against War ana Fascism
Unemployed movement
Farmers.
Negroes.
Youth.
I. L. D. and general struggle for civil rights
Protection Of foreign.born
Cultural
81 Trade union work.
The major problem of building the rank and
file movement in the A. F. Of L. unions of
winning the local organizations, of winning
the decisive sections of the A. F. Of L. mem
bership.
Forms Of organization and methods of work
OF the rank and file opposition in the A. r.
of L.
Problems Of work in the independent unions.
Problems Of building the revolutionary
unions
Problems Of work in the company unions
lO) On the struggle against oppOrtunsn on two
fronts.
III The fascisatiOn of the rule Of the American
bourgeCisie.
The Roosevelt N. r. A. as a method of
masked fascsaton and war preparations
The growth Of more open fascist movements
and formations
l2 The specific characteristics of the growth Of the
revolutionary npsurge In the U. S.
Strike struggles Of a class war nature
Sympathy strikes, general strikes
Mass urge to trade union organization, espe-
cially seni-skied and unskilled.
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P AND TO ALL PARTY ORGANIZATIONS

Movement from below for the united front
Resurgence Of unemployed struggles and of
the movement for H. R. 1893
Maturing forces for mass break-aways from
the old capitalist parties and toward organ
lied working class independent political
action.
Significance of Communist Party vote in
crease in the last election
Third bourgeois parties as a capitalist and
reformist way Of checking this process Of
mass break-aways from the old capitalist
parties
Our experience and policies in linking up the
Communists more firmly with the mass
movements and organizations for the pur-
pose Of directing them into channels Of indie
pendent political action and revolutionary
struggle.
1S The allies Of the proletArian revolution.
Toilng farmers Problems Of penetrating
their mass organizations and of unfolding
the daily mass struggles of the toing farm
eFs under the hegennony Of the proletariat
Negroes-Negro proletarat Sharecroppers
The problem of the organizational crystalza-
ton OF our political influence. Our expert
ence in the struggle for Negro rights and
Self-deternination. The review of the Scots
boro struggles. The role Of American irnpe-
rialism in Liberia and in the West Indies
Urban middle classes Methods of work Elk
posure Of the reformist assertion Of the de-
creasing role of the proletariat (Thomas)
14 The special role Of the youth and women in the
struggle against fascisation and war.
Isl The political education Of the armed forces Of
the bOurgeoisie (Federal Army and Navy, State
militia, American Legion etc.,. A thorough sur
vey of the social composition of these forces and
their commanding personnel
49, Problems of Party Building.
Recruiting.
Struggle against fuctuation
Building Of cadres.
The contents of work of the Party units
Special characteristics of work in the facto-
ries and the special problems involved
Concentration (methods and experiences.
The Agit-Prop Commission of the Central Com
nittee has been instructed to Immediately take UP
the organization Of all available forces to collect the
information and to build up the necessary outlines
for these discussions.
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State Reply
In ScottsbOrO
Case Is Filed

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 10
A 1t r n ey-General Thomas E.
Knight, Jr., of Alabama, today filed
with the U. S. Supreme Court a
brief opposing the application by
International Labor Defense at
torneys for a review by that court
Of the lynch death verdiets against
Haywood Patterson and Clarence
Norris, two of the Scottsboro boys.
In his brief, knight conceded that
systematic exclusion of Negroes from
juries would violate the 14th
Amendment to the Federal Consti-
tuition, but proceeded to deny, in
the face of overwhelming proof Of
such exclusion Of Negroes from the
ScottSboro juries, that Negroes had
been excluded because OF their race
and color.
The court is expected to act soon
on the appeals of Norris and Pat
terson. 1t is the second time that
I. L. D. attorneys, backed by the
worldwide fight against the rape"
frame-up of the nine Scottsboro
boys, have taken the case Of the u.
8. Supreme Court. On the first
occasion, the court reversed the
death decisions and ordered new
trials for the boys as a result Of
the mass pressure. The present APP
peal is being handled by walter
Pollak, famous constitutional at
torney, who successfully argued the
first appeal. Pellak is being assisted
In the case by Osnond Fraenkel,
noted appeal lawyer.
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rnent relief" The reply was Signif1-
cant; I'VE are too damn busy passing
our own laws to listen to the de-
mandS of the unemployed.
One Of the unemployed delegates
was Negro woman. This was too
much for Longs lily-white bench
men. They let forth a fury of frothy
indignation: mo niger has ever
been in the capitol building and
never will" "Niggers amt got no
right in Louisiana and you whites
ought to know it." And whole
nice lecture on how they should
look to their "betters" for succor.
If anyone is fooled by the fact
that this was not Long in person
and he was not responsible for this
just listen to his argument on the
poll tax law. This was one of his
pet relief" measures, a law doing
away with the poll tax as a quail
fication for voting. 1t was mainly
relief" for Long and his sup
porters who had to pay thousands
of dollars each year to register pros
pective voters. His enemies attacked
the law on the ground that it would
enfranchise the Negroes. Longs an
SWer is: There are other ways tc
keep the Negro from voting. We
have the education qualification act
and other means may be used il
necessary. This is a white mans
government and will remain So
This Long assures them over the
radio (WDSU), and in special cir
culars.
Finance Capital Supports Long
How well Long follows the foot
steps of Hitler and other fasciSts
can be seen from his demagogic acts
and promises to the large section of
the middle class and the farming
section. But there is another very
important phase to this: Long is
supported and his movement is fos-
tered by the large capitalists-the
very ones whom he denounces in
the most vicious terms. Baton
Rouge, the State Capitol, is owned
and controlled by Standard Oil.
Here is located one of their largest
refineries in the South. The whole
Mississippi River valley is decked
with large oil refineries and other
equipment. Standard Oil supports
and helps to finance Long. The L.
and A. louisiana and Arkansas
Railway is one of the States most
important railroads. This is one of
the big corporations which Huey
warns is robbing the people. But,
he has often been seen with Harvey
Couch, the president of the L. and
A., in his private car riding be-
tween New Orleans and Baton
Rouge. Couch and Long are close
personal friends. The American
Sugar refinery, controlling most of
the States sugar industry and the
N. o. P. S. I. New Orleans Public
Service Inst0, another of the largest
corporations, are also reputed sup
porters of Long.
just now, as the latest maneuyer
to fortify his control OF the political
machinery, Long has had Walmsley,
his political opponent, ousted from
the Craftsmanship Of the Democratic
Party and has himself been elected
to that post. This gives Long full
reign in all important political fields
of the State. Controller of the Of
ficial political machinery, the State
legislative and judicial, and also the
military apparatus since the first
special session empowered his pup
pet, o. K. Allen, to call cut the
militia whenever in his opinion he
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NS0HbttNcU TOW UHG
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tives and the organization they
desire to speak for them in collec-
tive bargaining. Those who do not
specify an organization will them
selves be considered as group,
and in this way so-called proper
tional representation" will be estab-
lished.
Contains Traps
This apparently democratic scheme
contains a number of traps for the
workers. In the first place, no at
tempt was made to hold such cleo
tions right after the washington
settlement, when in a number OF
important plants the A. F. OF L
had the majority Of workers organ
lied and would undoubtedly have
won.
Instead, the Automobile Labor
Board, creating the impression thai
the A. F. of L. was the only unior
to be dealt with, began a long proc.
SNo "a NAACNN1A4S OltC n. t. Vi II. iIl6iIi-
bersllip in various plants for The
announced purpose Of establishing
proportional representation. Thi.
checking was dragged on for month";
till the production season was ovel
and the vast majority of the work
ers were laid of. No announcement
was ever made as to the results o.
the checking.
bitches Original Plan
Now the Automobile Labor Boare
completely bitches the original plar
and adopts a new scheme. The IN.
tent Is clear: The membership o.
the A. F. Of L. automobile local
had declined sharply; moreover
many workers, because of the be.
trayal policies of the A. F. of L
leaders, have grown skeptical Of al
trade unionisrn. The Auto Labo,
Board calculates that these workers
under pressure of the companies
can be lined up behind the com.
pany unions. In addition, the Board
in a grand and democratic gesture
throws the elections open to al
unions, hoping to split the vote ane
assure victory for the conlpany
unions.
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(C0ftttueG from rage ~
small groups above the $4,000 .
year class. 1t shows that while the
poorest section of the population
lost close to a billion dollars in net
income during the first ten months
of the New Deal, the millionaires
doubled their incomes.
Capitalists Take Half
The government survey also
showed, despite all the nlaaipula-
lions Of the figures and concealed
capitalist exploitation, that fully SO
per cent of the national income is
officially admitted to come from
open appropriation Of surplus value
produced by wage labor and appro-
priated by the capitalist class in one
form or another. Thus. while the
Income headed "wages and salaries"
was s6,S28 256 for 1888, drop of
over half a billion dollars, the in
come listed Under dividends" or
business" or rents" etc., totalled
about s6,0oo.000.00
The report showed that rich cor
porations and individuals were per-
fi1itted to make deductions" from
their taxable income amounting to
more than two billion dollars.
Also of significance was the data
showing that the so-called excess
profits" tax of the N. r. A. cut into
the incomes Of the richest CORPORA
tions ofllv to the extent Of ss.2s6,27l,
a negligible figure.
The number of returns from cor
porations showing increased income
Jumped 81 per cent while the num-
Der showing no income decreased 9
PEI cent. and the total corporation
deficits reported dropped "a Der
cent, showing the way in which the
Roosevelt New Deal end the N. r. A.
helped the biggest CORPORATIONS to
increase profits while the wages Of
the lowest srouos were being rap.
idly reduced by the N. r. A. codes.
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Leagues SUPPORT CONGRESS

Leagues Support Congress
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, Dec. TO-
The Unemployed Leagues OF Musk
ir1gum county voted last Thursday
to give complete support to the Ma
tional Congress for Unemployment
Insurance, elected delegates from
their organization to attend the
Congress, and issued a call to all
the Ohio Unemployed Leagues to
likewise back the National Con-
gress.
Fred Psyton, county chairman Of
the Unemployed Leagues, placed
the question squarely before the
large number Of delegates present
at the county committee meeting.
This is a national campaign" he
said, ITO obtain unemployment in
suranee as defined in the Workers
Bill. This is a vital need of the
whole working class. We will, each
and every one Of us, take our stand
right here and now. we are either
for or against unemployment in
surance. If we are honest men,
bers Of the Unemployed Leagues,
then we must be for the Workers
Bill.
Declares Inact;on a Crime
ITO be in favor of the Workers
Bill and do nothing is crime, .
Payton continued. 'To render lip
service and avoid action is the role
Of a coward. The county commit
tee must fully discuss this matter
We want no misunderstanding. But
in my opinion, any member of this
committee who opposes action to
secure unemployment insurance will
not be able to show his or her face
before honest workers, when the
workers know that such denial OF
the struggle is against the best in
terests OF each and every worker
I am asking you to give this Con-
gress your full support"
When he finished, delegate after
delegate took the floor and urged
immediate endorsement and action
on the National Congress for I'm
employment Insurance.
State Organizer Delegate
Harry Stots, Negro worker ant
State Organizer Of the Ohio I'm,
employed Leagues, and Fred Paysor
were elected as delegates to repre-
sent the County Committee of tn,
Muskingum County Unemployed
Leagues at the National Congress
Nest Of the local units have alread,
elected their delegates. Alternate
have also been elected in many tt
make certain that they shall hay,
representation at the National Con
sress. The delegates from ali owe
the county will hold special meet
ing on Saturday, Dec. Is, to plan fo
broadening the delegation and rails
ing necessary funds.
The county committee will holt
their next meeting on Dec. 81, OH,
week before the usual time, to checl
UP on full arrangements, and ii
plan a huge send -off mass meetini
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splitting of the working class and consequently Of
its weakening in the face of the class enemy.
The Party organizations must draw into this
discussion and campaign the nom Communist work.
ers Socialist Party members, members of the A. F.
Of L., etc., We must invite these workers and non
Party workers generally to the meetings for discus
sion of the questions on the agenda of the 18th
World Congress Of the Comintern and its Sig
nifcance for the entire working class.
All this preparation for the It'll Congress must
be utilized for intensified recruiting Of new members
into the Party.
OUTLINE OF TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED IN
CONNECTION WITH THE FORTHCOMING
SEVENTH WORLD CONGRESS OF THE
COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL
II The general tendencies of capitalist develop
ment since the 18th Plenum of the Communist
international.
q The specific characteristics in the United States
Of the depression of special kind"
From the old deal to the New Deal"
The crisis of the New Deal"
The bankruptcy of all theories Of American
exceptionalism bourgeois, Lovestone, Trotz-
ky).
To what extent and in what forms was the
transition to the depression accomplished
ers, Co Negroes, Id Urban middle classes,
(e) Colonies.
Plundering The public treasury to substitute
the monopolles- Inflation-War preparations.
81 The question of the relations between fascism
and social-democracy.
Before the advent of Hitler ana suisse
quently.
a. The crisis of the Second International
The present role of the Socialist Party Of
America analysis Of its various groups and
tendencies
The role Of the reformst leadership Of the
A F. of L.
81 The concrete application Of the feminist prin-
ciples of anti.war struggles in the present world
situation.
Present role of U. s. Imperialism in relation
to the war danger and to the peace policies
of the Soviet Union.
The struggle for the postponement of war
The struggle against the present chief war
incendiaries Germany, Japan, and the most
reactionary circles of monopoly capital in all
inhperialist Countries
The struggle for the defense Of the UsSR
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Kill More Crops,
Says Roosevelt
fCna, tia,An0 fnntn pnnn IL
Continued from, Pase /

from its major rivals, British and
japanese Imperialism.
Hull showed that American i'm
perialist groups negotiated an
agreement through Ambassador
Caffery in Havana whereby Cuba
pledged to give preference to Amer
lean manufacturers in return for
certain concessions granted to Cuban
products in this country. In this
way, both the Cuban workers and
the American workers are forced I'd
pay higher prices for daily necessi-
ties in order that groups of Amer
lean capitalists and big farm land
lords and wealthy Cuban Interests
can reap bigger profits. The prod
ucts involved in the agreement in
clude pork. beans, tobacco, autos
iron and steel, sugar, paper. electric
fixtures, chemicals and other ar
tieles.
Fight A.A.A. Policies
These agreements with Latin
will be pressed by American agents
American and European countries
Hull stated. Thus the imperialist
struggle for markets, at the expense
of the workers at home and in
the foreign countries, is sharpening
bringing with it more naval arri1a-
ments and the menace of impe-
rialist wa.
The building of trade agreements
cannot help the vast majority of
small American farmers who have
oaen ruin ID by the Roosevelt A.A.A.
and NR.A policies. Their remedy
can cnlv come from a struggle
against these policies here at home.
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The fight for the passage Of the
Unemployment Insurance Bill III.
n. 1881 must be tied up with the
CAMPAIGN TO asc.ire publication of
the Daily Worker for the next
year. Ask for contributions imsfsc-
diately. More than $1,000 must be
raised by Dec. IL.
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Down With Starvation
Is Cry in Berlin Circus

BERLIN, Dec. 10. - The Busch
circus has been the scene of DEM
onstration against the government.
The Nazi press has been careful to
pass over it in silence. During the
performance, when the house was
plunged in darkness, shouts came
from the audience: Down with the
starvation government! Down with
the present reginne!" The police
were warned, surrounded the circus,
and made 300 arrests.
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I.R.T. Workers Vote support

IR.T. Workers Vote Support
NEW YORK Smashing through
the influence and pressure of the
officials and delegates of the
Brotherhood of I.R.T. Employees,
company union, workers OF Local /,
representing the 14Sth Street repair
shop, voted at their last meeting
to elect a delegate to the National
Congress for Unemployment Insur-
ance, which will meet in Washing
ton on Jan. to I. In addition to
the delegate who will represent the
Brotherhood Local, the men will
send one delegate to the Congress
as their direct representative from
the shop.
This action was another express
sion of the contempt which the
men have for the wage-cutting pen
sion plan which the company forced
upon us recently" one Of the sub
way workers wrote to the Daily
Worker. This Pension plan" is a
disguised 3.5 per cent wage cut and
a yellow-dog instrument. Since its
inception last October. more than
5000 subway workers have refused
to join the pension plan" or joined
under the pressure OF the company
union officials and later resigned
from it under a mass campaign
waged by the Transport workers
Union.
Hugh Conner, recently chosen
new delegate in the 148th Street
local of the Brotherhood, was elect
ed as delegate. His acceptance is
conditional on the approval of the
General Committee.
shop Delegate Elected
Not to be t1warted in their de-
termination to be represented at
this congress, the men Immediately
made provisions for a substitute, in
the event that Connor is influenced
by the General Committee not to
attend the Congress.
In addition to the delegate that
viii represent the Brotherhood Lo-
cal, the men have decided to send
one delegate to directly represent
tn shop.
Although each Of the company
union delegates received copy Of
the call and one was sent offlcially
to the local, in care of the secretary,
It was not Until raised from the
floor that the issue was reluctantly
permitted to come up for discus
sion.
The sentiment in favor of ma
tioral legislation providing for I'M
employment and social insurance
was greatly stimulated by the fight
which the men on the entire I.R.T.
system waged against the New
Pension Plan" for reinstatement Of
workers discharged for union ac-
| tivity, and other improvements, led
by the Transport workers Union.
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Units which have completed
their quota in the Daily Worker
financial campaign must continue
rsising additional funds SO that
the drive will end by Dec. Is.
Students: Ask your classmates
for contributions to the Daily
Worker drive.
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for the delegates to the Congress
They further plan to involve all
GAINESVILLE in support OF the Ma
tional Congress for Unemployment
Insurance.
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Jersey s. P. Backs
The Workers Bill
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restored to the unemployed in
Essex County.
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Rich, Richer,
Poor, Poorer

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United Vote in
Auto Is Urged

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