The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-08
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Press Attempts to Discredit

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Convention
The attempt Of the capitalist press
OF this Jim Grow town to d.Scredit
the convention on it's last day of ses-
sion was answered in the last session
when the convention exposed the lies
OF the Washington Star and other
papers here regarding the Alabama
delegate, j. H. Paxton. The Star"
writing up this southern fighter as a
clown, quoted him as intimating at
the White House that if given a mule,
he would stop fighting for the I'M
employed workers demands, and that
he was promised a mule by he IN
employed Councils. The convention
gave Paxton a great ovation when he
answered these crude ISLANDERS. A
motion OF protest was passed.
Paxton wrote the Washington Star
a letter as follows: After reading
your reporters story Of my visit to
the White House I want to say your
story Of my interview with the Presi-
dents secretary is the biggest lie that
I ever saw in any capitalist paper in
my life and have been reading them
Tor nearly so years. The statement
regarding anyone promising me a
mule or anything else Is one Of the
dirtiest lies. If the unemployed peo-
pie were able to give away mules they
would not have to come to Washing
ton, d. c., to get help for their Starv-
ing families. want to say that all
the mules in the U. S. would not keep
myself nor my wife from working to
better the conditions Of the starry
ing millions of this country" Paxton
wrote the following P. s.: Speaking
Of mules, I think your reporter is a
jackaSS."
The concluding session of the con-
yention sent the following message
TO William q. Foster, who was again
cheered and applauded for several
minutes, This National Convention
Against Unemployment regrets ex-
ceedingly that you, the outstanding
leader of the American workers, were
unable to attend our convention. This
convention greets you heartily and
hopes that within d short time you
viii be restored to health so that you
may return to the leadership of the
fighting ranks that are being built
IN the struggle against the hunger
var program OF the Roosevelt Wall
street government"
Resolutions were passed against
error OF the government practiced
Jn the workers; against the govern
nent's forced labor program and for
the organization of the relief work
ers; for the immediate payment OF
the bonus to the veterans; for the de-
mands of the women, youth C.W.A.,
Negro workers; on the work of the
trade unions in the unemployed
movement; on the demands OF the
poor farmers, etc. The draft consti-
tuition was adopted.
A resolution was passed demanding
the withdrawal of the police from the
convention hall by the District of Co
1umbia commissioners. Resolutions
we're passed demanding the release Of
number of political prisoners such
as Louis Berger Of Baltimore, George
Powers Of New York, and Angelo
Herndon of Atlanta. The release Of
Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro boys
vas demanded.
The convention demanded the Inn
mediate release OF the four revoIu-
tionary leaders Of the German work |
ing class, Dinitroff, Torgler, Popof |
and Taney. The delegation which |
vent to Hans Luther, was refused sn