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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
Unity Proposed in Fight for Drought Relief

Of the Farmers Union Herald.
The letter proposes four points as
the aim of this farm united front
l. Organized struggle for relief
for family and stock.
2. Mass resistance to evictions
or foreclosures, to subsistence
farms or to any other means used
to separate two million or fewer
farmers from their homes and
means of existence.
3. Defense of all civil rights by
organized action, defense against
hoodlums, terrorists and fascist
gangs. Organized opposition to
all fascist oppression on the part
of the government.
4. Mass opposition to the war
programs and war preparations of
the Roosevelt administration.
IF you are in agreement with us
that organized action is necessary
on all of these points, as we hope
you are" states the letter, "or if
you are convinced that united &C
ton of working farmers should be
on any one of them, we
feel that the basis is laid for joint
action"
1t is difficult to see how National
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
Workers Halt Inquiry Shows
Effort To Shut War Schemes
C. 2. Center Of Japanese

An effort to disrupt the election
day activities of the Communist
Party in Washington Heights was
frustrated late yesterday afternoon
by workers who prevented the re-
moval of furniture from the Work.
ers Center, 4046 Broadway.
The men forced their way into
the locked headquarters and pro-
ceeded to move furniture to the
street when they were interrupted
by workers who had come to the
Center.
A hurry call sent through the
neighborhood brought more than a
score of workers to the building to
guard against another attempt. An
employee in the Office of the land
lords legal representative refused
to show an eviction warrant, which
she claimed was in her possession.
The two men who, she declared, were
deputy marshals denied they were
such and said they had merely been
hired as movers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06

GENEVA, Nov. 5.-Japanese for
tification of the inundated South
Sea Islands was brought out to-
day before the League Of Nations
Mandates Commission in a five
hour questioning of Nobubumi Ito,
Japanese delegate.
Pressure to wrest the islands
from Japan, on the basis of its
leaving the League of Nations, was
brought by American imperialism.
The islands, formerly belonging to
Germany, forming the Caroline
and Ladrone group, were inundated
to Japan in 1922. Since that time,
japanese imperialism has been for
tifying the harbors, and building
war air bases. Ito, the japanese
delegate, denied all these charges,
but the chairman of the Commits
sion declared 1t was up to Japan to
refute the charges by evidence.
In preparation for war in the Far
East, Wall Street is fortifying
Guam, the Philippines and Hawaii,
and wants the League of Nations
to end the Japanese mandate in
these islands, which are strategi-
cally located with relation to the
United States imperialist possessions.
The japanese declare they will I'M
der no circumstances return the
Islands or give up possession
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
PinchOt EvadeS
JObleSS Demands
In Pitts bnrgh
Turns Down Delegation at Election Meeting ;
10000 Demand Freedom of Phil Frankfeld
and Jim Egan, Jobless Leaders

chot's guard of policemen sur
rounded him and he was hurriedly
escorted from the hotel.
The committee had been pre-
pared to present written state
ment to Pinchot calling his atten-
ton to the frame-up of Frankfeld,
Emma Brletic and Dan Benning,
the latter two victims of the Am
bridge strike who are now in Jail.
The statement was sent by regis
tered mail this morning.
Demand Public Statement
It calls on the Governor to take
action in these cases as he did in
that of George Issoski, Aliuuippa
worker who had been railroaded to
the insane asylum by Jones and
Laughlin Steel Corp, and requests
that the chief executive issue a pub
lie statement making clear his
stand on the cases mentioned. The
letter is signed by the Frankfeld-
Egan Liberation Committee, Har-
vey O'Connor, chairman.
Unemployment Councils which
send demands for the release of
Frankfeld and Egan now receive
acknowledgements from the Cover
nor'S Office in the shape of post
cards stating that their freedom is
a matter upon which only the Par
don Board can act. SO many pro-
test-letters have been received at
Harrisburg that the cards are now
being mimeographed by the Gov
ernor's Office force.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
Workers Jury Returns
Murder Indictment
Against ID eputies

BRIDGEPORT, Pa, Nov. s.
Workers of Bridgeport sitting on the
Grand Jury, took only five minutes
to return an indictment for murder
against each Of five deputies whose
gunfire killed Elwood Quirk, %. last
September. The deputies were trying
to force a group of scabs and officials
OF the struck Lees Wooden Mill
through an aroused mass of pickets
and sympathizers, and fired point
blank into the crowd, killing Quirk
and wounding more than a dozen
other workers.
When a Bridgeport magistrate,
acutely conscious of the solid sup
port of all Bridgeport workers be-
hind the strikers, refused to set bail
for the thugs, they were spirited
into Norris5own, nearby, where
Judge knight quickly released them
in $4,000 bail.
The trial opens Wednesday morn
ing at 10 O'Clock.
The strike at the Lees Wooden
Mills here was the most militant
in the city's history.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
investigations
Into Lynching
FOrcedinSOuth

Under pressure of mass indigna-
ton throughout the country against
the Interstate kidnapping, torture
and lynching Of Claude Neal, "a
year old Negro youth. the Cover
nors of Florida and Alabama have
ordered Grand Jury investigations"
in both states into the crime.
The Florida investigation" will
begin today, that in Alabama is
scheduled for Nov. 10 at BreWton,
Ala, where Neal was turned over
to the mob by Alabama authorities
The Federal Government has so
far refused to make even a pretense
of investigation of the Interstate
kidnapping and murder of young
Neal. u S. Attorney General Cum
mingS, when notified of the kid
mapping several hours before the
lynching took place, refused to take
any action, declaring that the Fed
eral Government was interested only
in Furnishing kidnappings for ran
som, that is, kidnapping of bankers
and other rich men.
A call to food Alabama, Florida
and Federal authorities with de-
mands for the arrest and prosecu-
ton Of law officials and other in
volved in the lynching, with the APP
plication of the death penalty, was
issued yesterday by Harry Haywood,
National Secretary Of the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
AAA and Drought Bring
Ruin to the Majority
of Small Farmers

were destroyed by ugly fascism.
At this convention, Mr.. Ever
son told of talking to 1900 Iowa
farmers, not one Of whom had
enough feed for their stock this
winter or enough seed for next
spring or the money to buy it.
Members of the Farmers Union
should take up the question of the
united front in their locals" Henry
Puro stated, discussing the united
front proposal. Delegates elected
to the convention should be in
structed to work for the united
front. But it is not necessary to
build united front only by agree
ment with the national officials,
The united front can be built be-
tween locals for joint action on
local issues. and members of the
United Farmers League and the
Farmers Union and other organiza-
tons should undertake this work in
earnest at once"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
By TOM KEENAN,

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. g.
Governor Pinchot lays claim to be-
ing a liberal" and a friend of the
working class of Pennsylvania, but
he refused to hear a committee of
workers, who had gathered in Nc
Keesport from Unemployment
Councils in every section of Ale
gheny County, to present their re-
quest for the freedom of 0 Phil
Frankfeld and Jim Egan.
The Governor, in the middle of a
campaign transforming tour for the
Republican slate, spoke to a meet
ing in the Penn-McKee Hotel, but
evaded the committee representing
over 10000 workers.
The following telegram was de-
livered to Pinchot when he ap-
peared at the hotel for the meet
ing:
Hon. Clifford Pinchot,
Hotel Penn-McKee,
'McKeesport, Pa.
Committee representing 10000
workers Of Allegheny County will
be waiting in lobby Of hotel to see
you on important matter follow
ing meeting.
(Signed) ROY HALLAS."
Escorted by Cops
The workers waited patiently in
the lobby until the G. o. P. rally
had concluded, but when the crowd
had thinned out Of the hall Pin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
.JOblessSeannen
Win Relief Aid
In Cleveland
Waterfront Councils in
All Ports Score Big
Victories

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. s.
Coupled with mass demonstrations,
picketing and other organized &C
tivities, delegations Of seamen or
gained by the Waterfront Unem-
ployment Councils and the Marine
Workers Industrial Union have
stormed the offices of William
Plunkert, Federal director of tran
sient relief here.
Latest of the seamen's delega-
tons to visit the federal offices has
been committee of seven elected
by Cleveland seamen, who protested
the inadequacy of relief standards
and presented concrete proposals
for their relief demands.
With cold weather already here,
the Cleveland seamen demanded
that they be provided with Winter
clothing, as is done in Baltimore.
The jobless seamen are given a
choice between meal tickets and
food orders, but in Cleveland the
meal ticket is for only $40 a week,
as compared with $3.50 in Buffalo
and S4.20 in Baltimore, where the
seamen are most strongly organized
and have conducted greatest strug-
gle. Food orders are for only $2.15
a week in Cleveland, the delegation
pointed out, as compared with $3.50
in Chicago.
Among the successes of the
Cleveland seamen is the recent
raising of the rooming house allow
ance from $1.40 to 50 a week. They
also smashed the woodward" relief
at Wayfarers' Lodge. AS mIny as
thirty-five were arrested while
picketing at this time. An old hotel
is now being taken over in Cleve-
land for the seamen's project, and
the Unemployment Council has al
ready obtained an agreement for
recognition of the seamen's elected
grievance committee. Control of
the project, as was achieved by the
Baltimore seamen for some time, is
also demanded. A centralized ship
ping bureau, in place Of the fink
halls run by the Lake Carriers As
ISOLATION is another of their de-
mands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
City College
Pickets Win
Their Release
Militant Demonstration
Near Court Building
Sways Magistrate

Magistrate Frank Oliver played
the smiling, broadminded liberal in
Washington Heights Court yester-
day as he freed City College stu
dents arrested for picketing the
home Of President Frederick B.
Robinson in protest against his ar
bitrary discipline directed against
anti-fascists on the campus.
But more significant than the
magistrates liberal posture in ef-
fecting the release Of the students,
was the demonstration of under
graduates outside the court build
ing and the presence of many Of
them inside.
Immediately upon their release
the eighteen and many others went
to take up again their picket posts
in front of the college presidents
home at Convent Ave. and 145th
st.
The students declared yesterday
that they were in earnest about
their campaign to GUST Robinson
from the College in order to assure
at least minimum of academic
freedom to the student body and
to teachers.
The eighteen students who were
released today are:
Elmer Scheinberg, Morris Milgram,
zenas Block, George Rubenstein,
Murray Sawits, Bernard Klibanof,
Henry Gilerowitz, Edwin Alexander,
Jerome Lipschitz, Edward Selikson,
Lawrence Cohn, Joseph BALKAN,
Oscar Jaffee, Irwin Price, Abe
Levine, Nathan Applebaum, Law
renee Kaye, Edward RolfStein.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
$4,000 Homes
Tn Detroit Face
Slash in Relief
By A. B. Magil
Especial to the Daily Worker)


DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 5.-A new
cut in relief is facing $1,000 fam
lies on Wayne County relief rolls.
Following on the heels of press
reports that members of the Wei
fare Commission have proposed
that the food budgets, which on
OcS. 10 were cut five per cent, be
slashed an additional five PEI cent,
today's Detroit Free Press publishes
statements by John T. Ballenger,
County Welfare Administrator and
other relief officials indicating that
a drive will be launched against So
called 'borderline cases" on the re-
lief rolls and against the distribu-
ton of Federal surplus food to well
fare dependents.
The Free Press, Republican
newspaper, also reports that Demo-
cratic campaigners have gotten
hold of the relief rolls in Detroit
and other cities and are trying to
line up votes through issuing
missionaries that promise further
relief to those who vote Demo
cratic.
Bailenger, who poses as a liberal
and friend of labor" in addition
to attacking the so-called border
line cases" is quoted as saying that
the standard of living of those on
relief is higher than many of work
erS with jobs. This is said of
people who are being forced to live
on twenty-one or twenty-five cents
q day per person in the face of
mounting food costs. Undoubtedly.
Ballenger's statement is intended
to lay the basis for another cut in
line with the policy of both Repub-
lic2n and Democratic parties of
solving the relief crisis at the ex-
pense of the workers rather than
tax the swollen profits of the open
shop auto companies.
T1cse statements follow admis-
SIGN by Ballenger that the number
on the County relief rolls, which
is now about 10000 above the to-
tel for last year and is close to the
all-tirle peak, is expected to rise to
the staggering total of $4,000 fam
lilies by February.
John Pace, Secretary of the Mi
CHIN District of the Unemploy-
men Councils and Communist
candidate fer Cor Tross in the Six
tenth District, today denounced
the proposed new cu3.
"77he unemployed workers" he
said, "are not going to take these
attacks lying down. We are build
ing up organization in all the
neighborhoods and will put up
such battle against any new at
tempt to lower the already low liv-
ing standards that the relief Off
Gals may soon be forced to sing
another song. Ballenger has so far
not kept single one of the prom
ises he made to our delegation of
forty six that saw him Get. rs. In
stesd he is planning a new cut"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
Socialist Head Urges
Workers to Cast Votes
For Nominees of C. P

TOLEDO, Nov. 5--Because the
officials ruled the Socialist Party
off the State ballot, F. Taylor, sec
rotary of the Socialist Party local
here, urged Socialist workers to
vote for the Communist candidates
in the coming elections.
This action is based on the re-
cent joint actions which the Social
list and Communist workers have
been organizing in the struggle for
adequate relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
Hathaway Will Speak
in Newark Tomorrow

NEWARK, N. j., Nov. 5.-The sew
enteenth anniversary of the Russian
Revolution will be the occasion on
Wednesday of mass meeting in the
Y. M. H. A. auditorium at High and
West Kinney Street, under the au-
spices Of the Communist Party,
which will be addressed by Clarence
A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily
Worker.
Hathaway will speak on The
American Working Glass and the
Russian Revolution"
A cultural program will b. pro-
vided by Eugene Nigob, concert
pianist, and the presentation Of
"Newsboy" by the Jack London Club
dramatic group.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
COMMUNIST PARTY
CITES WAR DANGER.
URGES BIG TURNOUT
Workers Leaders To Be
Speakers at Mass
Demonstrations
Continued from Page y

kCOUGtICNCO jfOHt L U3O
against capitalism and its twins
war and fascism.
"Fascist Hitler Germany is armed
to the teeth. The bloody Nazi re-
gine Of German finance and trust
capital and the Junkers do not con-
ceal their bloody provocative ambi-
tions to conquer Soviet Ukraine.
War against the Soviet Union is one
of the basic tenets of fascism. 1t
is one of the reasons for the very
existence of the fascist regime. Hit
Ter is in open war alliance with
Poland and Japan.
Japan is the spearhead of the
anti-Soviet war forces in the East.
Daily the japanese imperialists in
crease their criminal attempts to
provoke war on the Soviet Union.
It's puppet Manchukuo government
is daily increasing its criminal terror
campaign against the Soviet citizens.
The growing fascination Of imperi-
alist France increases the danger of
war against the Soviet Union. Great
Britain still maintains the leader
ship over the anti-Soviet bloc. The
United States is arIning the war
plotters against the Soviet Union.
While it's rivalry with the Japanese
imperialists and with Great Britain
grows to fever heat, Wall Street has
not given up its attempt to settle
differences with Japan at the eX-
pense of the Soviet Union.
workers, Negro people! Stu
dents. professionals! Turn out in
masses. Greet the triumphant
march of socialism in the Soviet
Union-the mighty inspiration to
the world October. Hail the rapid
realization of the dreams of the
oppressed and exploited through
out the centuries-the abolition of
cIasses-the abolition Of the ex-
pIoitation of man by man - the
abolition of poverty forever. Hail
and support the mighty struggle
o. the Soviet Union for peace
against the criminal plots of the
imperialists. Rally on this 18th
birthday of the Russian revolution
in defense of socislism--in defense
of our common socialist father
land. Jam the celebration meet
ings. Organize unite in the
struggles fer the needs and rights
OF the masses-Join the COmrnu-
mist Party-March to the Amer
lean October - to Soviet Amer
ica,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
Farm League Issues an
Appeal for Unity in
Action Against AAA
BY ROB F. HALL
Associate Editor, Farmers Weekly


CHICAGO, Nov. 5-A Joint strug-
gle of the Farmers Union and the
United Farmers League for relief
for impoverished farmers and their
animal stock, to stop foreclosures
and evictions, and against the
growing danger of war and fascism
has just been proposed to the
Farmers Union by the leaders of
the United Farmers League, which
has its national office here.
The proposal was made in a letter
signed by Alfred ITALIA, president,
and Henry Puro, secretary, and adj
dressed to the national convention
of the Farmers Union, which will
be held at Sioux Falls, S. D., on
Nov 20.
Copies of the letter were sent to
E. H. Everson, who succeeded the
late John A. Simpson as national
to E. z. Kennedy. secre-
tary, and to A. w. Kicker, editor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
Poultry Strike Gains
Strength in Detroit
Especial to the Daily worker)

DETROIT, Mich, Nov. with
the pulling out this morning of the
two largest companies, c. A. Mann
and Gillow, the strike of poultry
workers, which started Friday, gains
new strength. The strike is led by
the militant United Poultry Work
ers Union, affiliated with the Food
Workers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06

sAnthracite Miners of Pei
have a convention. Car
AIaloney, and the N. R. A
ing to put something over
The Progressive Miners o
have just concluded thaj -
ton. Something was pu ser on
them. Together with this, we have
the fact that the miners Of Hun
gary have just concluded one Of
the greatest strikes in mining his
tory.
The truth about all these things
can be read fully in the miners
paper-the Daily Worker.
Mouthpieces of Union Bosses
There are many coal miners
papers. There is the U. NJ. w. Of
A. Journal. 1t is the mouthpiece
of John L. Lewis. In it you will
find articles by Henry Warrum,
chief lawyer for the U. NJ. w. A.,
telling how "Fascism is working
cut in Italy," and how bad things
are in the Soviet Union.
The Progressive Miners have a
paper. Their chief writer is also
a lawyer. He also writes the
speeches for the leaders" Ac-
cording to this paper, the Soviet
Union is the case of all bad
things.
Rank and File Spokesman
The rank and file coal miners in
the United Mine Workers have
paper. It's called the Coal Dig
ger" This is not a bad paper It's a
real rank and file paper. Gotten
out by the rank and file and devoted
to the rank and file coal miners.
But even more important than
this paper, is the Daily Worker
In all fights Of the coal miners,
the DAILY" has faithfully done its
part. 1t has always been open to
the news Of the coal miners. II
prints news and gives advice,
Carries news of conditions and
the strikes of miners. 1t helps to
get relief. The Daily Worker is
always in the fight on the side of
the miners. To be able to carry
on better, the Daily Worker is
now publishing national and
city edition. This means more
news of the coal miners.
Fights Owners and Lackeys
But in taking this step, the Daily
Worker needs our help. The i'm
provements, added to the ever in
creasing deficit, have forced it into
a campaign for $4,000. The thou
sands Of coal miners who read the
Daily" who have been helped by
the DAILY" must come to the aid
Of this campaign to preserve the
paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
Big Railroads Reveal
$342, 600, 900 Profit
For First Nine Months

NEW YORK-The leading rail-
roads of the country yesterday re-
ported total net profits of $342, 6O9,-
842 for the first nine months of
this year, the American Railway
Association reported.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
Negro Is Held
In Georgia
Terror Drive

ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 4.-Three
white defendants were uncondi-
tionally freed in Decatur, near here,
Saturday, when the grand jury,
fearing the tremendous protest
which has been organized against
the reign of terror conducted by
Assistants Solicitor, the Rev. John
Hudson, refused to bring indict-
ments against them under the
Georgia slave-law of 1861. The
fourth defendant, Clarence Weaver,
a Negro, against whom the grand
jury also refused to bring an indict-
ment, was Immediately re-arrested
and held in Fulton county on
charges which have not been made
public.
The three freed are Nathan
Yagol, graduate student and in
structor at Emory University, Alex
andet' Rakolin, New York attor-
ney, and Mrs. r. w. Alling, a
school-teacher.
Protest Spreads
Protest against the reign of ter
ror and raids which resulted in
these arrests, and the arrests of 7
Negroes in Fulton County charged
with circulating insurreectionary
literature" chiefly because of the
membership of some of them in the
International Workers. Order, had
reached even into petty bourgeois
circles, and Emory University had
put itself on record as opposed to
Hudson's terroristic activities.
Six of the seven under arrest in
Fulton County are still held in high
bond, while the seventh, John
Grant, of the four held merely be-
cause they lived in the same houses
with Two. members, was released
on his own recognizance Friday.
Would Break Unity
Solicitor Hudson hopes by freeing
the white defendants, to strengthen
his terror reign against the Ne
groeS and break the unity of white
and Negro workers forged in the
common struggle in Atlanta.
The International Labor Defense
and the International Workers Or
der, which has elected a special
committee in the national executive
to cooperate with the LID. in the
defense of the Atlanta prisoners.
have called for increased protest to
the Rev Hudson, Assistant Solicitor,
Atlanta, Ga, to smash this move
and to force the freedom of the
remaining prisoners.
A Vote for Communist Candi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
MINERS NOMINATE
SLATE TO OPPOST
LEWIS IN L. NV.
Minerich Says Daily Worker Aids Struge
Mine Fields to Elect Rank and Fill.
Officers in Union Locals
BY TONY MINERICH

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 5.-The coal miners ar
big battle. 1t started years ago.
Today, the members of the United Mine Wor
nominating candidates for the elections in Decembe
want to GUST the Lewis machine. The members of tn