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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
$50 Jobless
Demonstrate
In Kentucky

CONVICTION, KY, Oct. 29.-Six
hundred and fifty workers demon
strated here last week under the
leadership of the Unemployment
Councils demanding adequate relief,
payment of rent, and issuance of
Winter clothing.
For the first time in the history
of this city, Negro and white work
ers demonstrated together, jointly
raising the demand for doubling the
present relief.
Under the guidance of the I'M
employment Councils of Great e r
Cincinnati, which includes the
Northern part of Kentucky and
such cities as Newport, Dayton and
Covington, the workers In the local
unemployed groups are ousting the
local politicians and electing leader
ship from their own ranks. The
Covington unemployed organization
has affiliated with the National
Unemployment Councils and the
former Khaki Shirts" have changed
their name to the True Brothers
of America and are cooperating
fully with the Councils.
The unemployed workers afte I
their mass meeting at Goebel Park
here, marched with banners and
placards to the Court House, where
meeting was held and a commit
tee presented relief demands to the
city officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
Flint Workers
Spike Slash
In Relief Rate

FLINT, Mich, Oct. 29.-Alarmed
over the growing mass resentment
against an announced so per cent
relief cut, the relief department
here announced over the local radio
station that all cuts would be re-
stored if the workers would make
application at the welfare depart
ment.
At the announcement Of the cut
last week, the A. F. of L. Buick
local condemned the starvation
relief policy and elected a commit
tee to take up relief cases
The Unemployed Workers Asso-
citation electe d a committee of
seventeen to meet with the welfare
officials and to report to the sue
ceeding meeting if the cut was not
restored.
At the third meeting of the newly
formed Unemployed Workers Asso-
citation grievances and cases of dis
elimination were taken up and a
committee appointed to place de-
mands before the relief officials.
Numerous cases of inadequate food,
clothing and fuel were presented
1t was also reported that some
of the welfare officers had en-
ployed men to open a window and
remove food intended originally for
the unemployed on relief. The AS
ISOLATION pledged to trace the
thieves
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
about to Be Laid Off,
Worker Is Happy He
Has IS for Daily
Chicago, III.
Editor, Daily Worker,
Dear Comrade:


Editor Daily Worker,
In appeal paper
$500 about laid days happy
have these five dollars they
have been working life
Joined the the good
So have what will
single many healthy people
reduced to living skeletons by eating county lines
sew survive these conditions? This
good citizen and hard working patriot
is pity that cannot
support many thousands others
worker induced to buy for $780,
paid $4,000 and can't he is ordered
grmbe all his life his
from him by after another
about it. But sometimes when ask of these
protect himself, feels
for somebody who fighting being jailed being
and his class, it him.
Once read in capitalist that
like flock Of sheep then wondering
people feel they flock of sheep
Ny sympathy holeheartedly to spite
cute fighting working shot down
Jailed and getting fractured skulls fighting the
Keep the good work!
My only regret is that the whole
have word that time my best
GrIA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30

The Socialists refuse to answer the
United Front appeal of the Com
munist Party precisely on the
struggle for civil rights.
Communists Fight Fascist Terror
In this situation only the c. P.
comes forward with program
which is in the interest Of the
Negro and white masses of the
state. Only the G. P. proposes a
program of struggle against fascism,
lynching, and for the rights of the
toilers. The Communist candidates
are workers who are active in the
labor unions and in the struggles
of the workers against the capitalist
class. Giving full support to the
congressional platform of the Party
in the struggle for unemployment
insurance, for self determination in
the Black Belt, the struggle against
imperialist war, and for the revolu-
tionary way out of the crisis, the
Party in Alabama presents the fol-
lowing State planks before the
people OF ALABAMA.
/. Emergency seSs on of State
Legislature to devise ways to i'm
mediately appropriate fifteen mil
lion dollars for cash Winter relief
for the unemployed. Minimum SO
cash weekly relief for families, with
out forced labor. Against the
Community Chest drives: all funds
from the rich-none from the work
erS.
g. For abolition of the N.R.A.
wage differential. For higher wages
in Alabama to meet higher cost of
living, equal with wages throughout
the United States.
8. Against eviction of unemployed
workers and needy choppers and
tenants. Against foreclosures of
small farm owners.
4. Adequate relief for all farmers,
providing food, clothing, seed, fer
tilizer and implements. Cancella-
ton of back debts, and reduction of
rent for farmers. Repeal of Bank
head Bill. For the right of troopers
and tenants to grow, gin and sell
their own cotton.
5. Equal rights for Negroes, and
their right to any job, with equal
pay. For laws against acts of dis
elimination, Jim-Crowism, segrega-
ton, and lynching of Negroe S.
D e h penalty to lynchers. For
abolition of all remnants of chattel
slavery (peonage, landlord sore
and commissary, chain gang, forced
labor, etc..
s. For the absolute right of all
workers and citizens to vote, with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
C.P. Election
Headquarters
Is r al d e d
Green's Letter Scored
By Western Garment
Workers Union
Especial to the Daily worker

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Oct. g.
Groups of "Vigilantes" raided 3
Communist election headquarters
last night, breaking plate glass
windows and causing several hun
dred dollars in damage.
The election headquarters are
located at 1197 Stockton ST., 81
Grove ST., and 1892 Valencia Street.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28-The
West Coast Federation of the In
ternational Ladies Garment Work
ers Union, during it's two day con-
vention here, went on record
against the expulsion policy or
dered by President Green of the
A. F. of L. The Federation now
includes over 5000 memers, and
has locals in Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Portland and Seattle.
Other important progressive de-
cisions were, to protest the 30 per
cent wage differential for west
coast dress workers, and for a 80
hour, five day week.
The convention decided for a
special Chinese organizer, and
field organizer, to bring the Chi
nese, the most exploited in the in
industry, into the union. This is the
result of long fight waged by the
left wing in the. union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
W orkers' Candidates
Demand Right of
All to Ballot

out payment of poll tax. Against
all discrimination which prevents
Negroes from voting. holding office,
and sitting on juries.
7. For recognition Of the labor
unions. For right of workers and
farmers to organize, strike, picket.
Against the use of police deputies,
troops, or injunction against strik-
ers. For disbandonment of xxx.
White Legion, and other armed fas-
cist bands.
8. For a so per cent reduction in
electricity, gas, water, and phone
rates.
9. Equal pay for women and
youth. Abolition of child labor in
industry and agriculture, with State
maintenance of child laborers.
10. For a nine months grammar
and high school term. Free school
books, supplies, and hot lunches for
needy children. Adequate pay for
teachers.
II. All funds necessary to carry
out this program to be raised by
reducing unproductive expense
police, military, prison. bureau
cracy); and by steeply graduated
income. property, and inheritance
taxes on all who earn over $4,000
yearly, and whose capital is over
$4,000. Against the sales tax.
That the struggle of the Com
munists is having favorable results
is seen from the statement in the
press that:
1T seems practically assured that
the next legislature will pass law
to make it possible for those delin-
quent in their poll taxes to qualify
for a vote by paying up two years
back poll taxes. In the Black Belt
this proposal brings a fear of the
Negro vote"
AS one Of a number of steps that
the Party is taking in the struggle
against fascism, and for the rights
and needs of the masses of Alabama,
the Party is calling on the white
workers and Negro people of Bir-
mingham to come before the Jeffer-
son County Court House on Mon
day, November 5th, at p. M. to
demonstrate their support of the
committee which will go before the
authorities demanding the unquali-
fled right to vote in line with plank
six of the State platform.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
John Pace
Is Nominee
For Office
Is Leader of Workers
Struggle in Michigan
Automobile Center

DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 29.-John
Pace, militant ex-serviceman who is
best remembered outside of Michi-
gan for his leadership of rank and
file bonus workers in Washington,
in 1892. has not been divorced
from the scene of working class
day to day struggle in Michigan
since his return.
Currently he is candidate for
Congressman on the Communist
ticket in the 18th Congressional
District.
PAGES working class background
is rooted in the soil Of the Ken
lucky farm where he was born IN
1897.
His parents were farmers and his
father worked in the winter IN
mines and lumber mills. At the
age of IA Pace worked as a cotton
picker in the summer and trapper
in the winter. Later he worked in
lumber mills and mines until 1913,
when he joined the United States
Marin Corps during the World
War.
After his discharge from the
army, Pace returned to the farm
in Kentucky. He then came to De-
troit and secured work in the steel
mill in Ecorse. In 1924 he worked
in the machine shop of the Ford
plant and later in the Hudson
plant. At one time a Bible teacher
and Red Cross worker, later active
in the Ku Klux Khan, Pace finally
learned the true role of these reac-
tionary organizations and found
his place in the ranks OF the mill
tant working class, where he quickly
became an outstanding leader.
In 1881 he took an active part
in the fight against evictions and
for increased relief in Lincoln
Park, suburb of Detroit, where he
lives. AS a result of these struggles
he was drawn closer to the Com
munist Party which he joined later
the same year. In 1882 Pace was
the rank and file leader of the his
toric bonus march to Washington
where he was arrested and sent to
iail for his activities in the fight to
secure the bonus for the ex-service-
men.
Since then Pace has been active
in unemployed struggles which
have won him wide influence
among the workers and the hatred
of the employers and heir
flunkeys. On two other occasions
his activities have resulted in his
arrest and imprisonment. He is at
present Michigan State Secretary
of the Unemployment Councils.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
Communists Fight Growing Fascism in Alabama Elections

airy movement. The left wing move
ment issued leaflets protesting this,
and demanding Woods removal.
The other day the student body,
with the support of their parents,
walked out to support this demand.
In order to hide the facts, the press
declared that the students walked
out because Communists threatened
to bomb the building. On the basis
Of this damnable lie, the Age
Herald says;
ut is hard to find words to
describe the ruthlessness of such
(Communist) tactics. The authori-
ties, we are sure, are now prepared
to deal competently with this kind
of brutality"
In order to help this fascist drive
along, the prominent Rever e n d
Edmunds declares why his Chris
tian Communism" is different from
Marxism -Leninism. He gives four
reasons:
First, Russia is governed by a
few people. The Christian ideal is
for everybody to have part in the
government.
Second, there is no freedom in
Russia the Christian ideal is for
freedom.
Third, Russia is built on revolu-
ton; Christianity is for peace.
Fourth, Russia's religion is athe-
ism, which is an impossible basis on
which to build character or q
nation"
At this point the Birmingham
police announce that 1902 arrests
we're made in September. At this
rate ten per cent of the city popu-
lation is arrested annually. And yet
the authorities vainly try to hide
their own capitalist landlord vio-
lence by blaming the Communist
Party.
Such is the situation in the sup
posedly parliamentary n d fire e
period that precedes election day
The Democratic candidate for gov
ernor, Bibb Graves, former xxx
leader, is having many conferences
and making plans about reform OF
the counties, the courts, the prison
system, and so on. But he says nc
word against the terror, against the
attack on the Scottsboro boys; nc
word about the vital issues thai
confront the masses in Alabama
The socialist candidates, who are in
the main composed of well-to-dc
insurance brokers, lawyers, ano
wholesale furniture dealers, etc.
also see fit to do nothing about the
attack on the rights of the masses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
700 Workers
Halt Eviction
Unemployment Council
Win Recognition of
Grievance Committee

DANVILLE, Pa, Oct. 2e.-Seven
hundred workers assembled before
the home of Herbert Buck on Canal
Street last week and for the second
time forced Constable Young to
postpone the eviction and sheriff
sale. The sale has been postponed
to Wednesday, at which time IN
employed workers will again as
semble to stop the sale.
Last week, workers from the Sun
bury, Northumberland and tn
Shamokin Unemployment Councils
massed with banners and signs
against evictions.
When District Attorney Robbins
tried to split the workers from the
different towns by calling them
outsiders and troublemakers," the
local workers greeted and shouted
their approval of the support from
the out of town workers.
Enthusiastic plans were made for
building a strong Unemployment
Council in Danville despite the diff
ficulty in finding a meeting place.
Many workers joined the Council.
Last week. Snyder, who was ar
rested on charges of interfering
with the constable" was discharged
after it was clearly shown that the
whole case was a frame-up. War
rants are still out for the arrest of
Harold Thomas and Herbert Buck,
but when they appeared at the
mass meeting last week, the police
feared to serve the warrants be-
cause Of the large assemblage of
workers.
After the meeting, the local relief
supervisor asked for a meeting with
the representatives of the Unem-
ployment Council. The supervisor
agreed to recognize the grievance
committees from the Council as
we'll as to have those workers whose
cases are being taken up to be
present.
Plans are being made for the cir
culation of a petition and the
building of a mass campaign to
pass local law declaring a mora
forum on evictions of the unem-
ployed and tax exemption for small
home owners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30

ing" But it adds, There is of
course place in the police jurisdic-
ton for combating any form of
violence, whether it springs from
radical political sources, etc, etc"
Continuing the anti Communist
drive, the Birmingham News writes;
Another proponent of legisla-
ton against Communist activities
is A. L. Hanks, who is seeking the
speakership. Communist activi-
ties have seeped into every social.
political, commercial, educational.
industrial. and agricultural ac-
tivity of Alabama, he says. Com
munism is an actual state and
local menace, and laws must be
enacted to stop it. The results
of the November elections will not
show the extent of Communist
influence in Alabama, as it is
largely among Negroes, who do
not vote. The Communist vote in
November will onl y represent
about one-third of the white
Communists in the state, as only
about one-third of eligible voters
go to the polls"
A theoretically" polish to the
fascist drive is given by the Birm-
ingham News, which continues to
pour out lavish praise on Mussolini.
1t says:
There is a tremendous difference
between the Italian and German
forms of what is called fascism.
Mussolini's system of government
operates successfully in Italy
and it seems suited to the present
temperament of the Italian people,
as well as to the peculiar conditions
in that country"
Alabama Fascists Active
Following on the heels of this
editorial, the Alabama Black Shirt
branch of the American Fascist
dedicated to "the worldwide fight
against Communism, announces a
drive for 100000 members limited to
white males. One article of this
new American band of fascism says:
when our forefathers started to
write the cons tuition, they meant
to establish Fascist government
because they started that document
with these words, We, the people.
They did not say, We, big business,
ETC."
The terror drive is continued in
other forms. Principal Wood, of the
Council School in Ensley, which has
1000 Negro students, was trying to
organize his eighth grade students
as stool pigeons for the TCI, against
the labor unions and the revolution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
TO Furniture
Plants Meet
Union Demand
Workers Get Increase
In Pay in West Coast
Strike Action

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29.-Ten
furniture shops have partially met
demands of the striking upholster-
ers pending arbitration. The work
ers have gone back with a Csc per
hour minimum wage, 60c for girls,
with a 40-hour week. The agree
ment recognizes the shop commit
tees of the Furniture Workers IN
dustrial Union. Original demands
to serve as the basis for arbitration
are for 81 per hour and 35-hour
week.
Mass picketing is still going on,
however, in the unsettled shops, in
Guiding the important shops of Rob
erti and Universal, where Is and Is
men respectively remain at work.
Relief is being handled for the
strikers by rank and file commit
TEE, which works in conjunction
with the Workers International
Relief. The International Labor
Defense has given legal advice and
will defend strikers in cases Of ar
rest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30

Communists Active
In Spokane; Spread
Election Program

SPOKANE. Wash, Oct. D.
More than $4,000 copies of the
Communist election program and
1000 copies of the Voice Of Ac-
ton, newspaper of the unem-
ployed groups in this state,
we're distributed recently in
Spokane and vicinity as part Of
the election activity being car
ried on here by the Communist
campaign committee.
The state slate of the COMMIT
mist Party here is:
j. H. Van Orman for State
Representative in the Fourth Dis
trict; r. K. Wilson, for State
Representative in the Fourth
District, and J. A. Winburn for
Sheriff of Spokane County.
George Bradley is candidate for
United States Senator.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
Boss Candidates Saw
They Fear Communist
Party in South
BY NAT ROSS

In the past ten days a flood of
fascist statements and actions has
spread over Alabama. This fascist
upsurge is not an accident. It arises
out of the following situation.
1. The Alabama ruling class is
preparing sharp attack on the
wages, conditions, and unions of the
workers.
2. They are trying to head off the
growing spirit of struggle among
the textile workers who are getting
ready to strike again, among the
steel workers and miners. among
the sha are choppers and Negro
masses as a whole.
3. There is great fear of the grow
ing prestige that the Communist
Party is gaining as result of its
being officially placed on the ballot
with white and Negro candidates.
4. The Alabama and the southern
ruling class are the springboard Of
the rapid drive of the New Deal
towards fascism The Democratic
leadership of Alabama is working in
the main under closest guidance
from Washington. as seen in the
latest Scottsboro developments. The
success or failure of the fascist
developments in the South will have
an important effect on the develop
ment of the revolutionary move
ment throughout the country.
Southern Authorities Speak
Tom Knight of Scottsboro lynch
fame, now running for Lieutenant
Governor, declares before the State
League of Young Democrats, that
THE chief dread and concern of
every loyal Democrat should be the
specter of Communism. We need not
fear the Republican Party, neither
need we fear the Socialist Party.
But we must fear the Communist
Party 1t is movement which
should be stamped out by armed
force if necessary"
Commenting on this speech, the
Montgomery Advertiser says edi-
torially:
Communism as political prin-
ciple should be combatted as a
political principle by sound reason
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
Black Shirt Fascist
Group Formed in South

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Oct. %. -
Spewed up by a decaying social
order and nurtured by a vicious
reign Of terror against the working
class, a new and openly Fascist
group has appeared on the scene
in Birmingham, calling themselves
the BLACK Shirts"
Their official organ, 1.-THE Ala
bama Black Shirt" was issued and
distributed here last week.
Openly proclaiming itself the
state branch of THE American
Fascistic Order of Black Shirts, I"
the group lists as its commander
and publisher of its paper, T. e.
Brooks, who announced a drive for
100000 members to begin imme-
diately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
Discrimination Cited
Against Negro Women

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.-Out of
some 100000 Negro women en-
ployed in industry, only Is per cent
come under MIRA. codes, Mary
Anderson, director of the U. S.
Women's Bureau admitted at a
meeting of the Joint Committee on
National Recovery. Discrimination
against Negro workers is rampant
in many of the codes, she said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
Communist Nominees
Officially on Vote
Lists in In diana

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Oct. %
Official sample ballots have been
distributed by the State election
authorities here which indicated
that the Communist Party Of In
diana is ofhcially on the state
ballot.
The Communist State nominees
are:
Wenzel Stocker for United
States Senator; Fay McAllister
Ellen for Secretary of State;
Allen Pickett for State Auditor;
Ruth L. Griffin for State Treas
urer and Rene Theyssen for
superintendent of Public In
struction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
FRANK SYKES FOR CONGRESS

DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 29-Frank
Sykes, Communist candidate for
Congress in the First District of
Michigan, is an outstanding leader
of the struggles Of the Negro masses
in Detroit.
Born in 1907 in Louisiana. the son
of q poor tenant farmer, Sykes
started working on the farm at the
age Of II. At "A he got job in a
sawmill and later worked on rail-
roads.
In 1923 he came to Detroit. He
got a job in a steel mill and later
worked for seven years in the Ford
plant. In 1880 he joined the Com
munist Party. He also became &C
tive in the Unemployment Council,
Auto Workers Union and League of
Struggle for Negro Rights. Sykes
has led many struggles in North
Detroit and in the Negro sections,
where he is now section organizer
of the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
500 Unemployed Mass
Before Welfare Offices

CLARION, Pa. Oct. 2e. = Five
hundred men and women demon
strated before the local relief Office
here last week while a committee of
ten representing the unemployed Of
Glassport and Clarion presented
relief demands to the supervisor.
The committee set forth de-
mands for increased cash relief,
winter clothing and fuel. A COM
mittee from the Young Communist
League also presented demands for
adequate cash relief to young work
ers and an end to to all form Of
discrimination.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
U.S.S.R. Is Building
New Porcelain Plant

MARIUPOL, U. S. S. r.. Oct. 90.
AS evidence of the vigorous de-
rland for and interest in radios,
chinaware and ornamental objects
a new porcelain factory is soon to
be finished here. The cost of con-
struction was $5O,Oooo00 and the
establishment will employ 5000
workers. Household china, vitrified
ware for plumbing and electrical
porcelain insulators will be made.