The daily worker., 1934-12-27

Are Used
To Sabotage
Jan. 5 Parley
w Orkers Party in Ohio
Raises Red Scare
Against Unity


the red-baiting cry of Communist
controlled" Truax, leader Of the
Unemployed League and the newly
launched Workers Party here, is
endeavoring to sabotage the plans
for the Washington Congress on
Unemployment Insurance and dis
credit the work Of the united front
organizations who have built up a
strong movement against war and
fascism in Northwestern Ohio.
william Cooper, a delegate from
the Unemployed League to the First
Toledo Conference Against War and
Fascism, held in Toledo last Sun
day, was sent in by Truax to work
toward splitting the conference by
spreading rumors there and later.
On Dec. 81, both the Toledo News
Bee and the Tiff1n Daily papers
carried STOKES stating that the
members Of the Unemployed League
had been given about 1000 hand
bills by Cooper calling for support
to the Washington Congress, that
Cooper claimed to have received
these bills at the Sunday conference
and that after the distribution had
started it was discovered that the
bills had been printed by "the Com
munist press" that on discovering
this the members of the League I'M
mediately stopped the distribution
and proclaimed that the League was
in no way connected with the Com
muniSts.
The following statement issued
yesterday by the Communist Party,
here, gives the lie to these attempts
to sabotage the growing unity Of
the workers in their fight for Un-
employment Insurance and against
war and fascism: unable to pre-
vent the move of large and strong
trade union organizations into sup
port of the American League
Against War and Fascism over the
heads of the Central Labor Union
of this city, these renegade
nter-revolutionaries who have
found common haven under the
banner Of Trotsky and Music, come
to the rescue of the fear stricken
bosses of this section by themselves
carrying the brunt Of the attack
against the powerful resistance
against war and fascisn1 which was
evidenced when more than 1900
workers were represented in the
this the members of the League i'm
Anti War Conference in Toledo
last Sunday. This Conference
did go on record en- dorsin g
the Workers Unemploymen en- t
Insurance Bill but the dele
gate from the Tifin Unemployed
League certainly did not receive
any handbills relating to other than
anti-war and anti-fascist activities
there.
ut is by such statements that
Truax and his cohorts in the local
Trotsky Music organization, the
Workers Party, make a conscious
attempt to discredit the conference
and increase the difficulties of the
American League Against War and
Fascisrn in winning the support
from the more conservative sections
of the working class.
ut is important to note the
vicious attempt of these people 10
sabotage the call to the National
Unemployment Congress which is
meeting with such a splendid
response here from all working class
organizations. With the many
American Federation of Labor
locals, the City Council, the County
Commissioners, the many groups
and clubs supporting the call for
the Congress and sending dele
gates to Washington, these rene
gades are working overtime in a
belated effort to raise the red-scare.
Hitherto posing as supporters Of
the conference against war and
fascism, the local Muste- -Trotzky
organizations now come out openly
in opposition with statement that
it carries Communist Party COM
plexion, and that the conference
was stacked The many workers
from conservative organizations who
were in attendance at the confer
ence, and who were drawn into the
most responsible activities, are
themselves the best answer to this
allegation"