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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
Soviet Friends
Protest Ban
la ROumania

Protesting against the suppression
of the Roumanian Friends of the
Soviet Union, the National Execu-
tive Committee of the Friends of
the Soviet Union in the United
States, sent a resolution of protest
today, to Ambassador Charles A..
Davila, the Roumanian ambassador
Other startling charges were pre-
scented against the Roumanian gov
eminent to the effect that pass
ports of Roumanian delegates to the
Soviet Union have been taken
away and the delegates sub
jected to an unwarranted search of
their premises. Students and teach
ers who are members of the Friends
of the Soviet Union have been
threatened with expulsion unless
they relinquished membership in
the Friends of the Soviet Union.
The National Executive Commit
tee of the Friends Of the Soviet
Union has advised its branch in
Washington, D. c., to visit the Rou-
manian Embassy and demand that
the Roumanian Friends of the So
Wet Union "be assured organiza-
tional freedom to carry on, without
hindrance, the broadcast of the
truth about the Soviet Union, to
which end, the Roumanian Friends
of the Soviet Union and the Friends
of the Soviet Union in % other
countries are dedica- ed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
Stu dy of Experiences
in Elections Can Lead
To Successes

in Crosby, Mimi, where, after one
year of office of the Communist
Mayor, we were badly defeated in
the next election. Had we thor
cughly examined the experience of
Crosby, we would have learned
many things. Even now it is not
too late to study Crosby. The
working class can learn from its de-
feats, as from its victories. There
fore, a more critical examination of
the election results must be placed
before the Party in every state and
nationally.
Must Lead At Polls
If our Party is to play decisive
role in the struggle of the Ameri-
can proletariat it must not only
lead strikes, struggles of the unem-
ployed, Negro masses, farmers, but
also must lead them to the polls.
Not that we believe that as result
of the elections we will be able to
change the present social system.
We will not change it. But every
election victory, every election of a
Communist to office strengthens
the march of the proletariat in its
struggle against capitalism.
Our Party must break through
the present sectarianism and really
organize itself to elect Communists
as mayors, councilmen, to the State
Legislatures and to the Congress.
This work must not begin and end
only around election day. The
conscious task must be placed in
our daily work in the factories,
trade unions, among the masses of
the unemployed, Negro people, etc.
1t is in the light of this exam
nation and in the light Of these ex-
periences and understanding that
we must approach the municipal
elections that will take place in
many states soon. The vote for the
New Deal, as the Party correctly
estimated, is a vote Of discontinued
masses, deceived by Roosevelt and
his supporters in the labor move
ment. The Party also correctly
estimates the sharpening of the
class relations and class struggle in
the United States.
And if in this situation our Party
cannot gain mass support on cleo
ton day, we must see that we are
not approaching the masses in such
manner that they really feel that
it is worth while to vote for the
Communist Party. We must con-
vince the workers, in a very prac-
teal manner, that the Communists
can win in the elections; and
wherever Communists are elected
their activities must be popularized
in the press, which we are not doing
sufficiently. We have number of
Communist officials in the State of
Illinois, but we seldom popularize
their work, their achievements,
their leadership
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
Party Must Learn to Lead at Polls as in Strikes

in spite of the fact that we have
more than 40 Party shop nuclei
in Illinois, in the basic shops,
number of which, such as the
stockyards, International Harvester,
steel mills in Chicago, and the mine
units, are points of concentration.
The Write-In Campaign
Nor was there an election cam
paign struggle led by the Unem-
ployment Councils or the Interna-
tional Workers Order, or the vari-
GUS language organizations. No
wonder then that we had the re-
suits we have seen. The writing
in of the name of the Party and its
candidates on the ballot was diff
ficult task, and UP till now we have
no complete report. But isolated
reports from the precincts indicate
chat a large number of workers
went to the pools and wrote the
names of the Communist Party
candidates on the ballot. 1t is re-
ported that in South Chicago, in
one precinct 20 votes, in another 40
votes were cast for the Communist
Party. In Montgomery County,
where the Workers Ticket was
placed, our candidates received
more than 500 votes according to
incomplete tabulation). Likewise,
incomplete reports for Laura Osby,
in the Fifth Congressional District,
indicate some growth in our votes.
In the election struggle, if we are
to be successful, we cannot work on
the basis of propaganda and agita-
ton only, and that is what our
election struggle primarily amount
ed to throughout the country. 1t is
also not sufficient to speak of con-
Meeting the election campaign with
the daily struggles of the masses.
1t is necessary, on the basis of the
election program, to develop specific
struggles to involve the broadest
strata of the masses around the
program of demands in the cleo
tons. When these struggles are
linked up with the daily struggles
of the masses then it is possible to
have real election campaign.
Big Vote Possible
Basing ourselves upon such a
program, combined with merciless
struggle against the social dema-
gogy of the bourgeoisie, the New
Deal, Farmer-Laborites, Sinclair,
Socialist Party, A. F. of L. official
dom, ETC., it is possible to rally a
huge vote and it is possible to win
elections. If we did not organize
our election activities right, and we
did not, we could not expect any
other results than we got.
1t would also be incorrect to say
that after all one cannot expect
more votes for Communists in this
period This is wrong. 1t is pre-
cisely in this period we cannot be
satisfied with hundred per cent
growth in the Communist vote.
This is the period when we should
really rally workers and toiling peo-
pie to vote for the Communists. It
was serious mistake that we did
not thoroughly analyze the defeat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
BY Bill Gebert

N the previous article, in the light
1 of the already correct estimate of
the Daily Worker as to the results
of the elections, we pointed out that
the results of the elections indi-
Gated that the masses which are
manifesting deep rehabilitation in
strike struggles do not as yet draw
the correct political conclusions as
to the real role of the Roosevelt
New Deal.
In this article I wish to deal with
the Communist Party votes, the
election struggles led by the Com
munist Party and our immediate
tasks. The reports so far printed
in the Daily Worker indicate a
significant growth in the Commu-
mist votes throughout the country.
The growth, however, is very un-
satisfactory. Surely we cannot be
satisfied with about 5000 votes for
Sam Darcy as candidate for Gov
ernor of California, although Anita
Whitney received 10000 votes. Nor
can we be satisfied with the votes
of about $4,000 in New York. Nor
even in Ohio, where, judging from
the reports of the Daily Worker, an
excellent campaign has been car
ried on. And, above all, our task
is to review very critically the cleo
lions in the States of Illinois and
Indiana. Our approach to the ques-
ton of the votes for the Communist
Party is not from the point of view
of minimizing the progress made.
But it is necessary to examine very
critically the election struggles for
the purpose of learning from our
shortcomings and even setbacks and
blows against our Party in this
election.
The Failure In Illinois
In Illinois, the Communist Party
ticket was ruled off the ballot. 1t
was very easy for the capitalist
class, for the Roosevelt Homer
Kelly New Deal administration, to
rule the Party off the ballot be-
cause it is easy to disqualify 1000
signatures out of total of $1,000,
when $4,000 is necessary to place
the Party on the ballot. We must
say very frankly before the working
class, that had our Party secured
not $1,000 but $4,000 signatures, for
the State petition, we would have
heen on the ballot. AS a matter of
fact, the Party did collect more
than $4,000 individual signatures.
But they were collected for the local
candidates after the State petition
was filed. This clearly shows that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
SALES TAX In OHIO
DESIGNED TO PLACE
BURDEN ON POOR
Cleveland to Hold Big
Lenin Memorial Rally
In Settlement House

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. IL
Plans are going forward to hold
the largest Lenin-Liebknecht-
Luxembourg anti-war meeting
ever held in Cleveland. The
largest settlement house in
Cleveland, the Hiram House, has
been secured for Sunday, Jan. 6,
at 7:30 pm.
The whole Young Communist
League, together with the SYM
pathetic youth organizations, is
already being modified for the
event. Special attempts are be-
ing made to draw factory youth,
unemployed youth, Negro youth
and settlement house youth to
the meeting. Special work for
the campaign and meeting is be-
ing planned for the Hiram House
itself, where over so youth clubs
meet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
RIVE OPENED TO ORGANIZE HALF MILLION STEEL WORKERS
AnnualCOunciI
Farley to Open
In W ashingtOn
Sessions Will FOlIOw
National Social In
surance Congress

The fourth annual convention Of
the Unemployment Councils will
take place in the Masonic Audi
forum in Washington, D. c., on
Jan. 8 and 9.
1.-The forthcoming convention of
the National Unemployment Coun-
cils," declared the call to the con-
vention issued by the National I'm
employment Councils, taking place
just at the time that the U. s.
Congress will assemble, and imme-
diately following the National Con-
gress for Unemployment and Social
Insurance, will be Of vital impor-
lance in the mobilization of all I'M
employed organizations for the pur-
pose Of strengthening the organiza-
ton and building up forces to carry
on a struggle for genuine unem-
ployment and social insurance as
embodied only in the Workers I'm
employment and Social Insurance
Bill"
Unemployment Councils are in
structed by the National Council to
approach all organizations in their
vicinity, particularly the independ-
ent and opponent unemployed or
CARNATIONS, to induce them to send
delegates to the National Congress
for Unemployment and Social IN
surance to be held in Washington,
D. c., Jan. 5, 6 and 7, and to par
ticipate in the local arrangements
committees for this Congress.
The opponent unemployed organ
izations should be urged to elect
delegates to the National Conven-
ton Of the National Unemployment
Councils, the call states, 80 that
they may witness how we conduct
our discussions and make decisions,
and thereby be in a position to re-
port back to their organizations"
a Independent and isolated unem-
ployed organizations should also be
urged to send regular delegates to
the National Convention of the I'm
employment Councils as we'll as to
the National Congress for Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance
while laying the stress upon the
National Congress-" I. Amter, Ma
tional Secretary Of the Unemploy-
ment Councils, states, I'VE wish,
nevertheless, to emphasize that in
the midst of the preparations for
the Congress and for the National
Convention, we must build I'D,
strengthen and broaden the base of
the National Unemployment Coun-
Gil by drawing in as many indie
pendent unemployed organizations
as possible, form committees in
other organizations as well as unity
groups inside the opponent organ
izations which will result in the
unification of the unemployment
movement throughout the country
at as early date as possible"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
Riot Charge
Holds Phoenix
Strike Leader
Courageous SO calls t
Defends Communist
at Court Trial

PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. II (By
Maid Clay Naff, unemployed Lead
er and Communist candidate for
governor in the last elections, was
convicted last week by a Superior
Court jury on charges Of riot" Naff
was released on bond he had pre-
Yiously posted, and Judge Speak
man set sentence Monday, Dec. II,
at 1870 pm. The maximum penalty
is two years imprisonment, $4,000
fine, or both.
Naff and 27 others we're arrested
on Sept. when police, acting di-
rectly uder the orders Of Gov.
B. B. Moeur, an ex-klansman,
! launched a fierce attack upon a
demonstration of 5000 striking F.
E. R. A. workers.
One of the witnesses in the trial,
James B. Carr, a militant Socialist
worker, was sentenced to jail when
he refused to keep quiet in the court
and permit the outrageous frame-up
Of Naff. Just before the defense
rested its case, Carr was brought
before the court. He announced
that he was entering on a hunger
strike to protest aaginst unjust
judgment. He was returned to a
cell when his testimony was fin
ished.
In his testimony, Naff defended
the right of workers to organize,
strike and picket. He spiked the
arguments of the prosecution that
the workers were responsible for
the fight that ensued when the po-
lice attacked the F. E. r. A. strikers
Another defense witness, Kirk
McGlocklin, a mechanic and sub
foreman on F. E. r. A. work, plac-
ing his very existence in jeopardy
testified that he saw Lon Jordan,
deputy to Sheriff j. r. McFadden,
strike Naff several times on the back
of the head, and that when Naff
fell, the officer kicked him
Following the trial Of Naff, the
q other workers who we're arrested
with him were placed on trial be-
fore Judge David w. Ling, of the
Superior Court. Each face the same
charge-"riot.' Each has demanded
a separate jury trial. Each is de-
Tended by Thomas j. Croaff, noted
labor attorney and former presi-
dent of the Arizona Federation OF
Labor, and Grover Johnson, Inter-
national Labor Defense attorney.
The international Labor Defense
has issued call for the widest pos
sible mass support behind all these
workers. All workers and other or
CARNATIONS have been appealed tc
TO forward protests against this
frontal attack upon the rights Of
the Arizona workers Protest reso-
lutions should be sent to Gov. B. B
Moeur, Attorney General Arthur T
LaPrade, Judge Howard Speakmar
and Judge Dave Ling-all of Phoe.
nix, Arizona.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
Legion Heads
Back Hearst's
Red Batting
Chi. Workers S ch DOL
Calls Defense Farley
on Workers Rights
DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)

CHICAGO, Dec. ia conference
Of leaders Of the Illinois State or
ganization Of the American Legion,
held last Saturday in Bloomington,
eagerly responded to the signal
given by the pro-fascist Hearst
press for an attack on the Chicago
Workers School as the forerunner
Of general attack on all working
class organizations.
The conference, attended by Ma
tional Commander Belgrano, iHi-
tiated drive against the Commu-
mist vanguard Of the working class
and issued a statement, declaring
by the militant program, adopted
by the Illinois Legion, this State
in effect virtually becomes the
spearhead of the American Legion
fight against Communism and radi-
calism throughout the nation" Al
though the Hearst press was not
mentioned by name, the Legion
statement stresses that the Amer
lean Legion is not alone in this
drive"
U. S. District Attorney Dwight
Green was commended by the Legion
AmericaniSm Committee in an off,
cial letter for promptly launching
a Federal investigation into "the
operations Of the Chicago Workers
School, which were revealed by the
Chicago American"
A. ]. Poorman, chairman of the
Legion conference, stated he would
push through the Illinois Legislature
a measure requiring teachers in pub
lie schools and all city and state
employees to take an oath of allie
glance to the Federal and state
constitutions.
To combat these attacks on the
right Of workers to organize, speak
and conduct schools and study
classes, the Chicago Workers School
has called an emergency defense
meeting for this Saturday afternoon,
at 2:30 O'Clock, at sos South State
Street, and is urging all working
class and sympathetic organizations
to send representatives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
Chicago Unemployed
Agree To Continue
United Front Action

CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 11.-Vot-
ing to continue the united front
welded between the Unemploy-
ment Council and the Workers
Committee on Unemployment
Local 10 for the gigantic Nov. "a
march, the executive committee
of the Workers Committee on
Unemployment decided at its
last meeting to elect a joint
grievance committee with the
Council. The joint committee,
which will number not less than
twelve, will take up all griev-
ances directly with the relief
station.
The local also acted on a
united front call against the is
suance of contaminated F. E. R.
A. canned meat. Both groups
will hold a joint open hearing on
Thursday at 1907 East Fifty
fifth Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12

had the Party and the organiza-
tons around the Party been mo-
bilized a little earlier, we would
have been on the ballot, because
the signatures could have been got
as they were got for the local candi-
dates.
Why is it that such neglect could
happen? The reason for it is this:
The Party membership, as yet, does
not fully understand the impor-
lance of revolutionary parliament
tarism, and as yet does not
fully appreciate that the elections
are also a part of the class struggle.
There is still a division between
strikes, work in the shops, struggles
of the unemployed, Negro masses,
on the one hand and the elections
on the other. 1t is only a small
section of the Party membership
that was enthused and modified
for the collection of signatures.
This is true not only of the Party
membership. To blame the Party
membership for it would be GRIM
inal. The membership was not mo-
bilized because the leading Party
organs did not themselves take the
election struggle seriously enough
In the District Bureau, even, with
the exception of the comrades of
the District Secretariat and the
campaign manager, there was no
daily conscious understanding of
the Importance of the elections.
Then in the Section Committees
the situation was even worse.
Sectarian Approach
But to stop here is also not
enough. The election struggle in
Illinois and Indiana was organized,
not on the basis of broad united
front approach, but on narrow, sec
tartan lines. Despite all good con-
crete instructions on how to or
ganize the election campaign, the
district leadership itself failed to
prepare sufficient ground and
means to give an opportunity to the
lower Party organizations to really
make the election struggle a broad
one.
will not go on here to point out
how in every field of activity of
the Party broad election cam
paign could have been organized. I
will cite only one. In the middle
of summer the conference of
twenty-seven locals of the A. F. of
L. on Unemployment Insurance and
Relief decided to organize a SYM
postum on the Workers Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance Bill. 1t
meant that a mass meeting was to
be organized in the name of these
twenty-Seven locals of the A. F. of
L., to invite representatives of all
the parties to present their stand
on the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill. Even this decision of
the locals of the A. F. of L. was not
carried out. If such a decision is
not carried out, one can clearly see
to what extent the election struggle
has been neglected.
In the shops, we had only three
Vote Communist groups organized,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
PhiLadeLphia, Pa.

Canton Commune Commemoration
Saturday, Dec. Is at 8 pm. at Girard
Manor, GIL w. Girard Ave. Speakers:
Hansu Chan, editor China To-day;
Mother Bloor; also workers Mandolin
Orchestra, Workers Chorus and Play
by Nature Friends. ommemoration
Event under auspices of LID. Adm
Csc. Tickets at the door.
Film and Photo League of Phila.
presents Eisenstein's masterpiece
''Potemkin." also Dredging Canoe
Rhythm; Littoral-Film Sketch; Tom
Mooney; Cannon Fodder; Sunday,
Dec. l6, three shows: 7, 9, II pm
at Federation Building, 1905 Walnut
st. Adm. 25c.
Philadelphia District lid. Conven-
ton Saturday, Dec. Is, starting at
pm, Sunday, Dec. 16, starting at
10 am. at 1893 Girard Ave. See that
your organization is represented.
Anna Damon, acting national organi-
rational secretary, will report.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
JOBLESS RELEASED

WAYNE, w. Va, Dec. 1.-THE
frame-up charges against Harve
Estep and three other Wayne
County members of the West Vir-
ginia Unemployed Leagues we're dis
missed here last week.
The charges grew out of dem
onstration of 1000 unemployed
against the rotten meat distributed
by the Wayne County Welfare last
June. At that time an unemployed
worker was thrown into jail for de-
handing sufficient relief. A COM
mittee of five served notice on the
sheriff to release the man within
five minutes. He was freed at once.
Estep and three others were ar
rested the following day and
charged with treason, melting to
riot and other charges.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12

crease to $2,1OO,OOOoOO in 1885. or
about 20 per cent better than the
business done in Ohio in 1884. and
about IS per cent better than 1893.
But. as the Governor himself stated
in his message, Although condi-
tons apparently are improving,
there is nothing in the nature of a
boom in immediate prospect" In
the effort to refrain from taxing
the certain wealth of the rich, it is
only logical to see the Governor at
tempting to base a fixed budget on
the uncertainty of the questionable
volume of the retail purchases of
the masses. Such a course not only
means the further impoverishing of
the masses but actually risks new
tax crisis next year No wonder,
therefore, that John Love, writing
in the Cleveland Press of Nov. q,
exclaims: IF Governor White and
Major Angus were wrong dn their
estimates), though, it would be too
bad!" Too bad, indeed!
In the third and final article
we shall deal with the struggle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
Paterson

Paterson
Lecture by DR.. S. Littman on Health
of the Worker" Sunday. Dec. IS. $3.50
pm. at junior Order Hall, Union and
Smith SITS.
Newark, N. J.
Illustrated lecture by Thomas Cobb,
just returned from the Soviet Union
on Soviet RUSSIA New World"
col Bread St. Auspices Jack London
Club Adm. Csc Time: Thursday, De-
cerber IS, $3.50 pm.
Evening Of Revolutionary Plays given
by Jack London Theatre in conjunc-
ton with Y.C.L. at West Side High
School, Wed, Dec. 10, $3.50 pm Adj
mission 35c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
Setbacks Show Narrow
Approach to Needs
of Masses

This is the second article on
the results of the elections. The
first one was printed in the No
vember 18th issue of the Daily
Worker.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
W est Virginia
Mayor Backs
Workers. Bill

BARBOURSVILLE, w. Va, Dec.
1.-THE Mayor and the entire City
Council endorsed the Workers I'm
employment Insurance Bill at the
last regular meeting of the city
body here. Bill Rifle, president,
and William Stafford, secretary of
the West Virginia Unemployed
League, Local IS, presented the bill
to the City Council.
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