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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-26
Dear Editor:

OOdr EulCOT.
From all the reports I hear
the people on relief in Sbe- ION
county, there is strong dissatiasuaa
ton with the way the relief = -
tributed and with the whole % ,o Tis,
setup. ienG
1t seems to be the aim Of A..
present relief committee to ~. "o
how little relief they can vivo A. AZ
people and to make them come !;
as often as three or four tiroa :.
without getting their orders
went up to the relief station ona
day last week. I went in tbron 1ais
the back door as several otber.
did; it is supposed to be again.s
the rules, but evidently not tbot
day. We waited for Burleigb wb"
was up to see the &C bows off
You see he has that to do and
worry about also. Then after he
finally arrived and dove into tbs
work there was a young man who
wanted to go to the CCC camn
whom Burleigh evidently had ovor
looked because the young man
came into burleigh's office and
had his papers fixed up, among
which was an order for a train
ticket to the camp.
I thought to myself whv doc,
Burleigh have that job, too? Wby
not have a separate committee 10
look after matters pertaining IN
CCC camps. There surely are lots
of unemployed capable of doing
that work who are willing to take
the job for a reasonable salary. Il
would relieve Burleigh of some Of
the. hard work he was complain.
ing of so much that day; also Of
some of his salary which someone
else could make good use of.
Well, by that time a woman in
our group stated her grievance to
Burleigh. She had been refused a
clothing order for a schoolgirl: il
was her third trip of 20 miles in
to town, but that cut no ice with
the head of the relief administra-
ton. She would have to come in
again, he informed her. Also he
added that they were terribly busy
In there. He worked night and
day, he said, and eff you people
would stay out of here we could
get some work DONE"
We were told to go home and
wait for the orders to be mailed
out to us. wonder how many
people on relief received their Or
ders through the mail? At the
rate they have been mailing them
out it would take at least year
for them to get around to 1900.
And then this insane ruling Of
Investigating everyone each month
and the third degree they put YOU
through. You good people of Sher-
idan county, how long are you go
ing to stand for it? Have YOU
thought of distributing this relief
yourselves as the farmers and
workers do in South Dakota?
assure you there would be no chas-
ing in after your orders three Or
four times if we had a farmers
relief administration. Think about
it, and vote Communist on Nov. o.
The Communists are in the fore
front in the struggle for better
living conditions for everyone. So
give the Communist party a chance
to demonstrate what can be done
to better conditions for the people
of Sheridan county.
"A Farm Woman.
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-26

All through this political cam
palgn The Plentywood Herald has
Oeen begging everybody to be nice
and polite to one another, and the
Herald has good reason for max
ing this appeaI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
Foreign-Born
Back ParIey
On Insurance

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov 3d.
All language groups and federa-
tons here have undertaken con-
ferences for the purpose Of rallying
all foreign-born workers and their
organizations behind the coming
National Congress for Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance which
will be held in Washington on Jan.
ST, 1885.
The united front committee Of
Lithuanian mass organizations at
a meeting last week called a
conference of all Lithuanian groups
in Philadelphia and vicinity next
Sunday, Dec. 2, at 2 pm, at 928
Moyemansing Ave.
The Greek workers organizations
are meeting tonight at the Spar
tacus Club, 1896 Locust Street, at
8 O'Clock, where the basis will be
laid for wide representation at the
Congress.
The cultural and mass organiza-
tons Of the Jewish workers are now
preparing for a similar conference.
Already the Italian workers groups
have met and are visiting all Ital-
ian organizations for participation
in the National Congress.
Herbert Benjamin, executive Sec
rotary of the National Congress,
will meet with the local sponsoring
committee on Monday at 3 pm.
at Room TOT in the Flanders Build
ing, 207 South 5oth Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24

of the Interior is situated. Assault
forces poured into the plaza there
from five arterial streets, a veritable
army appearing to converge upon a
strategic center down the spokes of
a wheel. In one district the
revolutionaries captured a score of
Civil Guards and held them as
prisoners -. Troops began moving
into Madrid, concentrating at stra-
tegic points from nearby barracks.
They had full wartime equipment.
Meanwhile, Madrid was virtually
isolated from the provinces with
communications severed and the
only open channels being used for
The government was slow to
move troops against the workers,
fearing mutiny. Special regiments
were picket to go into action. Or
ders were Immediately given for
the Foreign Legion at Ceuta. Africa,
to proceed to Spain for counter
revolutionary service. These troops
were sent chiefly to Asturias.
In the workers districts in Ma
drid, the fighting continued long
after the central drives were beaten
back, but lack of weapons prevented
development of the battle to a
greater offensive. The capital, not
falling into the hands of the re-
stricted armed groups, the Cata-
lonian debacle (Which We will treat
with later giving heart to the
bourgeoisie, the fighting in Madrid
dwindled and died.
The political and organizational
preparation for the armed insur-
rection was insufficient and was
gagged to the conditions laid down
by the fascist forces who picked
the time for test of strength in
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24

forces, hoping to break their morale
and increase the confusion and
weakness of the precariously or
ganized fascist regime.
The great masses. ready for action,
were not drawn into the fighting
to the fullest extent because of the
basic failures and yacillations of the
Socialist leaders. Largo Caballero
and Prieto, Socialist leaders. from
their secret headquarters directed
the fighting, but they had no clearly
defined objective and had not pre-
viously prepared for mass struggles,
the establishment of Soviets, for
arousing the peasants into stimuli
famous action, which could have
led to victorious revolution.
Workers with machine guns and
rifles made repeated sallieS on such
central buildings as the Cortes
(parliamenD, Bank of Spain, CEN
trail police headquarters, Ministry of
the Interior, Ministry of War and
MlAlAob1y VI OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Wherever employers tried to re-
place striking leftists with strike,
breakers, armed bands of rebels
appeared. In almost all instances
there were sharp brushes with gov
eminent forces protecting the strike
breakers. 1t was almost as though
the rebel strikers had taken up the
gauge of battle flung down by the
two-day old cabinet of Premier
Alexandra Lerroux at an emergency
meeting yesterday" Frank Gervasi
N. Y. American. Oct. 81.
Description of Attacks
A description of the strategic at
tacks of the picked shock forces is
given by the Associated Press cable
from Madrid on Oct. 7: Heavy
firing broke out at the famous
Puerta del Sol, where the Ministry
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
ROOSEVELT
GAVE ORDER
FOR ATTACK
AFL President Glad 10
Consider Proposal
To Slash Pay
TAKE UP ICKES PLAN
Guaranteed Wages Is
Made Slogan for Assault
at Banks Orders
By Marguerite Young
tDaily worker washington Bureau)

WASHINGTON. D. c., Nov. %
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor said
today he would be very glad to
consider" the wage-cutting proposal
announced yesterday by high Roose-
welt officials if it would guarantee
a higher yearly income.
The Daily Worker learned today
that the wage-cut announcement
by the Relief Administration was
made upon direct orders by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, specifying there was
to be no discussion Of it beforehand
within the Relief Administration.
This and other indications pointed
to the fact that the whole series Of
yesterdays announcements were
planned to launch an immediate
.wage-cutting drive. esident
Green's endorsement of 1t today
saying nothing about the fact, well
known in Washington, that it is the
beginning of concerted wage-cut-
ting, understanding drive-lined
him up squarely with those back Of
the drive.
Many indications today empha-
sized that guaranteed wages" will
be the demagogic slogan for the
fast-moving drive by big business
and the Roosevelt government, with
the aid of reactionary labor lead
ers, to cut wages for the employed
and restrict or abolish relief to the
unemployed.
Meanwhile, the Building Trades
Department of the A. F. of L. met
behind closed doors. They declined
to comment, but it was said at
headquarters that they were con-
sidering the so-called housing pro-
posal made yesterday by Public
Works Administrator Ickes, who an
nounced that in connection with
it building trades workers would
have to agree to a lower hourly
wage.
Ickes made no reference to any
guaranteed" larger annual return.
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
launched the slogan, however, and
Green's REPETITION of it today clearly
indicated that it is the one agreed
upon-just as the right to organize
slogan was agreed upon as the
ballyhoo to screen the launching of
the NR.A. codes that resulted in
lower living standards and strength
ening company unions.
Green at the same time took
pains to declare that the abolition
of the 30-cent minimum wage for
relief workers, announced yester-
day by the Federal Relief Admins
tration, was not "just or right" and
would be opposed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
LID. URGES SOVIET ARMY
FUND IN SPAIN BID ADMITTED
FOR WORKERS. ASDISTORTION
French Deputy's Report
Attempt To Put Over
Big War Budget

PARIS, Nov. 23.-French govern
ment officials admitted that the
claim of Leon Archimbaud, re-
porter for the Finance Committee
before the Chamber of Deputies to-
day, that the Soviet Union has
Offered its army to France" in the
event of war by German Fascism
on France, is a distortion of facts.
The Soviet Union, in its peace
policy, has joined the League of
Nations, cooperating with all forces
working for peace and against the
threat of war by Japanese imperial
ism and German fascism.
Archimbaud's purpose in making
the statement was to try to force
through the passage of the huge
French armament budget, against
the opposition of the united front
of Socialist and Communist depu-
ties, and the mass struggle against
increased war expenditures.
In his speech, Archimbaud ac-
knowledged the fact that the main
aim OF the Soviet Union in all its
relations with France, and other
countries. was to preserve world
peace. He and Louis Germain-
Martin, French Minister of Finance,
declared that the Soviet Union had
been most active in reporting the
rapid war preparations of the Hitler
government, making public figures
and facts of the Nazis' huge air
ornaments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
GREEN ENTERS US. WAGE CUT DRIVE
$4,000 MARCH IN DYERS' STRIKE PARADE
Oh i c a & o Launches
Drive to Raise Quota
Of Daily in Week

CHICAGO, Nov 23.-The Dis
trict Bureau has taken drastic
measures to reinforce its deci-
sion that Chicago go over the
top within the next seven DAYS
in the Daily Worker Fund
Drive.
AS Language Buros, with large
mass followings, are holding
back the district, leading COM
rades have been modified to
help them carry through their
work by the time of the city
wide mass affair for the Daily
Worker, on Dec. 1.
The Czechoslovak Buro has
pledged to fulfill its task by next
Tuesday.
Six sections have already COM
pleted their quotas and Sections
7 and IL have pledged to finish
within the week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
National Week Set for
Collections To Aid
Terror Victims

A national week of collections for
the victims of the fascist terror in
Spain, in which scores of trade
unions and other organizations all
over the country will participate,
has been called by the National
Executive Committee of the Inter
national Labor Defense for Deem
Der 10 to Is.
Funds are now being collected
by the LID. organizations in scores
of countries, and transmitted to
the Spanish LID. which in spite
of the terror and illegality is or
ganizing the work of relief to the
victims of the fascist terror while
the Communist-Socialist unite d
working class front continues to
battle for liberation.
More than $4,000 prisoners are in
Spanish jails, prison ships, ware
houses, bull-rings, and every other
place where they can be confined.
Hundreds of thousands of widows
and orphans, children left without
fathers and mothers, whole farni-
lies deprived of their support, by
the fierce reaction which has
slaughtered more than $4,000 and
wounded more than 10000 men,
women and children.
The drive is especially important
to American workers, it was pointed
out, in view of the active partici-
patton and support of the murder
Gus reaction which has been given
by such American capitalist insti-
tutionS as the International Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company and
the National City Bank, which have
made heavy direct contributions for
bonuses to the Spanish soldiers
and police who have been most
active in the slaughter, as we'll as
indirect ones to the Lerroux Gil
government which is direct
ing the attack.
Contributions for this fund should
be sent directly to the national Of
fee of the International Labor De-
Tense, Room $40, 30 East 18th St,
New York City, for direct trans
to Europe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
FIGHT URGED
TO LIBERATE
ANTIKAINEN
F ore st Leader of
Finnish Workers
in Prison

NEW NOTWITHSTANDING an urg-
ent cable yesterday from o. ".
Kuusinen, member of the Execu-
tive Committee of the Communist
International, that to delay the
fight for the release OF Toivo Anti
kainen, anti fascist leader now in
the hands Of the secret police of
Finland, might prove fatal not only
to him but to other imprisoned
anti-fascists as well, the Finnish
Bureau Of the Communist Party,
U. S. A., called for the immediate
broadening Of the movement to
save Antikainen.
The cable, dated from Moscow,
follows:
zone of Finland's noblest, fore
most working class fighters and
leaders of the anti-fascist move
ment, Toivo Antikainen, has been
dragged into the dungeons of the
secret police. His life is in danger
and his landlady. a non political
anti-fascist named Lydia Rask, has
already been murdered in the
police lookup.
"a special duty falls also on the
Social-Democratic workers of Fin
land who still have legal news
papers, organizations and the right
of assembly, to raise their voice
against such rule of tyranny. which
tomorrow may jump at their own
Threats, if by silence they cover up
and permit this dark fascist work
to go on.
Rise quickly in great unified
mass force in open struggle against
the Finnish capitalists, their police
bandits end against the butcher
regime of the Lapuans. Comradely
and assured of the approaching
victory of the Finnish working
class.
o. v. KUUSINEN."
Speaking of the many thousands
of anti-fascist workers in Finnish
jails, the statement of the Finnish
Buro gives evidence of many of
them being tortured to death by
the inhuman treatment of the fas-
cistS."
THE Finnish Buro," it continues,
"has launched a campaign of pro-
tests to be sent to the Finnish
Legation, Washington, D. c. We
are drawing the Social-Democrati
workers with us in this campaign.
However, we feel this is not suf-
ficient. Also the rest of the Amer
lean workers should protest against
the terror of the fascist Lupua re-
gime of Finland, directed against
the class-conscious and militant
workers of Finland"
Protesting against the inhuman
treatment. the political prisoners
of Finland have gone through many
hunger strikes and again number
of them are on hunger strike. Pro-
tests against this terror should be
sent to: Finnish Legation, wash
ington, ID. c. and direct to Finland:
President Svinhuvud, Helsingfors,
Finland and to the Ministry Of In
terror, Helsingfors, Finland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
Old Guard Said
TOBePlanning
Split in S. P.

N0hHy WOrkeT Midwest bureau)
CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 23.-The
''old guard" of the Socialist Party,
the group headed by Waldman,
Oneal, Solomon, Panken, ETC., ap-
pears to be carrying it's fight against
the Declaration of Principles adopt
ed at the Party's Detroit conven-
ton to the point of active prepara-
tons for split. This Is borne out
by a report circulated here, emanat-
ing from very reliable sources, of a
secret conference between Charles
Solomon of New York, representing
the "old guard" and John Fitz-
patrick, president of the Chicago
Federation of Labor, where such
split is reported to have been dis
cussed.
Solomon, your correspondent has
learned, speaking for his reaction
airy Socialist Party group, informed
Fitzpatrick that the "old guard" is
ready to split off from the Socialist
Party if the Chicago Federation of
Labor and similar central labor
bodies throughout the country are
willing to enter into a campaign
together with his group to form
new third party, one that would be
labelled a Labor" party.
Fitzpatrick, it is understood, in
formed Solomon that he was not
yet ready to commit himself for
such a new party. Furthermore, he
declared that even if he we're for
such party he would not agree to
deal with the old guard in the
Socialist Party as group. He in
formed Solomon, it is stated, that
his group would be dealt with as
individuals
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
Transit Strike
In Los Angeles
Set for Today

LOS ANGELES, Nov. ga strike
OF all workers on Los Angeles inter-
urban and street car lines is called
for tomorrow at p m, as employ
ers refuse to concede demands for
wage increases or even to submit
them to arbitration. The two lines
employ 1900 workers.
The strike on the interurban
Pacific Electric Railway lines, af-
fecting daily average of 10000
passengers. is called by the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen. The
1900 workers OF the company de-
mand wage increases which would
bring scales to run from 591a to SO
cents per hour and a forty-eight
hour week. The company offers
rates from 521a to 81 cents depend
ing on length of service. The PER.
is the worlds largest interurban
line, and links the vast area within
the city limits of Los ngeles.
Three thousand workers on the
Los Angeles Railway Co. trolley lines
which serve an average of 100000
passengers daily, are demanding in
creases ranging from ten to fifteen
percent. Their present wage rates
run from 43 to Sc cents per hour.
The strike will mean a tie-up of
many factories in Los Angeles
County whose workers use the lines.
The city administration is very
much alarmed, fearing that soli-
darity from most of the County's
population will mean a virtual
paralysis of many important indus
tries. Mayor Shaw declared, IF the
strike appears inevitable l shall
telegraph President Roosevelt to
intervene"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
Rakosi TrialBegins Soon;
Release Report Vas False

The reports that Matthias Rakosi,
Hungarian anti-fascist leader, was
about to be exchanged for coun-
ter-revolutionist imprisoned in the
Soviet Union, are now fully exposed
as fraud perpetrated by the ter
roriSt Hungarian dictatorship in or
der to quiet the international pro-
test against the impending trial of
Rakosi Imprisoned and tortured for
over eight and half years, Rakosi
now stands in the greatest danger
Of being murdered by the fascist
Gomboes government.
The following rsdiogram, received
Yesterday from Rakosis brother,
zoltan Rakosi, emphasizes the ex-
IRENE peril of the great working
class leaders position. particularly
in view of the universal impression
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24

that world opinion had forced the
fascists to negotiate Rakosi's re-
lease. Dated from Moscow, the wire
states:
Information concerning the al
legged exchange of Rakosi is COM
pletely false. A correction is neces-
sary. The indictment is ready and
his trial is expected any day.
Please undertake the strongest
action to save my brother.
"(Signed) ZOLTAN RAKOSI."
The lengths to which the Hun
garian bourgeoisie has gone in at
tempting to assure themselves that
Rakosi will never again lead the
workers against its fascist dictator
snip is the strongest proof of what
tremendous efforts must be made to
save Rakosi.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
Farm Leader Is Taken
To Jail Hospital After
9-Day Hunger Strike

BRIDGETON, N. j., Nov. %. =
William H. O'Donnell, one Of the
leaders Of the recent Seabrook
Farms strike, was in the Cumber-
land county Jail hospital today in
dangerous condition following a
nine days hunger strike.
Protest should be sent at once to
Recorder Pennington Cramer, First
National Bank, Vineland, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
Urges Yipsels
To Join Picket Line
AT Spanish Consulate

The New York District of the
Young Communist League has called
upon the youth of New York City
to rally together with it at the
Spanish consulate today at IL noon
at SIS Madison Avenue, at 53rd
Street. for mass picketing to de-
mand the release Of the imprisoned
Socialist and Communist workers
of Spain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
MADRID GENERAL STRIKE
OCT. 5 PROVED EFFECTIVE
City Fighting Was Restricted to Picked Shock
Bands Whereas in Asturias Workers Took
Offensive In Mass Armed Struggles
BY Harry Cannes
Flls Six Articles the Situation
SPAIN

In Madrid the general strike of October COM
pletey effective While the Asturas workers went into
the offensive through armed struggles Selling power
and setting up workers and peasants republic arousing
the greatest initiative of the inspiring them to the
most sesacrcng and heroic Deeds the Madrid fighting
was largely sporadic 1t restricted mainly to picked
shock bands They struck with extreme rapdity and
prise and rereaed almost quickly But the great
of the proarat not led to storm the heavens
of capitalism.
fighting Madrid the strategy Vienna the
the strategic of the
strike fight But the assault of
directed mainly against skebreakers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24

Even poor farmers manage to
send contributions to the $4,000
drive. f. w. S. Of Oliver. H.. writes:
Accent our family's bit of 81 to
keep the Daily Worker in the hands
of the workers. Conditions are
heIlish and among the farmers in
this locality"