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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15

Joseph lack, Jack Taylor
And Robert Strong Expelled
From the Communist Party

I Trades Council should become the
instrument for unifying the build
ing trades workers in united strug-
gle for higher wages, shorter hours,
against the planned offensive of the
bosses and the reactionary A. F. of
L. bureaucracy.
A. Jack Taylor has developed
and put into practice, against the
efforts Of the Party to correct him,
completely right opportunist posi-
ton based on opposition to the very
existence of independent unions
and to the independent leadership
of struggles over the heads of the
trade union bureaucracy. This is
shown by: al His utilization of the
fascist Hearst press about eight
months ago as channel for a So
called exposure of racketeering in
the trade unions, which in reality
was used by Hearst to further the
fascist plan of Senator Copeland
and Hearst for government control
and supervision of trade unions.
b. His attack on the policy of in
dependent leadership of struggle
over the heads of the Bureaucracy
in Painters District Council No. 9,
which turned the fake Zausner
strike into real strike and de-
feated the pre-arranged plot be-
tween ZauSner and the bosses to
cut wages and increase hours of
work. G. His attempt to keep the
militant workers of Local No. 3 iso-
lated from the burning issues and
struggles of the working class by
refusing to involve the opposition
in the campaign for the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill over the heads of the
leadership, by sabotaging the Rank
and File Committee for Unemploy-
ment Insurance, by refusing to at
tend the recent New York A. F. of
L. conference for social insurance
and workers rights, even though
some conservative leaders were COM
PEELED to attend.
All experiences of recent strike
struggles prove conclusively that
only where the workers took indie
pendent action over the heads of
the Ryans and McMahons did they
make any gains (West Coast, Pat
erson). Any one who Subordinates
the interests and struggles of the
workers to the wishes and actions
of the bureaucrats, and who on
principle opposes the independent
struggles of the workers, betrays the
workers to the bosses, and this was
precisely the line of the Trotskyites
in Minneapolis, etc.
81 Joseph zack, by clasping the
right opportunist Taylor and the
left" opportunist Strong to his
bosom, emphasizes still further the
unprincipledness of his fight against
the line of the Party.
The Communist Party, District 2.
states that by fighting to put into
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15

The district committee of the C.P,
U.S.A., District 2, after thoroughly
discussing the case of Joseph lack,
Jack Taylor and Robert Strong,
comes to the following conclusions:
u At moment when the Soviet
Union is achieving unprecedented
victories in the construction of So
cialism, and at a moment when the
authority and prestige of the Com
munist International and its vari-
Gus sections is growing among in
creasingly broad masses of workers
and the exploited masses, Joseph
Zack, by his factional activities
within the Party, not only acted in
a conciliatory manner to the enc
mics Of the Soviet Union, the Com
intern and the C.P., U.S.A., but as
sisted in spreading ISLANDERS of a
counter revolutionary Trotzkyite
character.
p He persistently fought against
the feminist line Of carrying on work
in the mass trade unions and at
tempted to substitute for this cor
rect line his own sectarian abandon
ment Of mass work under the slogan
Smash the A. F. of L. since it is
dead anyway" For a long time, in
both the New York and Cleveland
districts, before, during and after
the 9th Convention of the Commu-
mist Party, the Party attempted to
correct lack and to bring him on
to the correct road of mass work
in the trade unoins, but like a petty
bourgeois individualist, lack not
only chung to his erroneous and
harmful conceptions, but became
the theological leader and supporter
of ell right opportunist and so
called cleft" tendencies in our trade
union work as expressed by Strong
and Taylor.
- The anti-Party position of
Robert Strong led to such degenera-
ton that: a. He was instrumental.
as Secretary Of the independent
Building Trades Council, in putting
over an agreement with the Vaci-
leros shop by the Independent
Structural Steel Painters Union for
a wage scale of 81 day, while A.
F. OF L. workers were striking for 50
day; b. He allied himself with
the most reactionary elements in
the Independent Building Trades
Council in an open attack on the
Communist Party, which resulted in
the expulsion of Communists from
the Structural Steel Painters Union;
g He attempted to use strong arm
gangsters to beat up revolutionary
workers in the council and when
defeated attempted to split the
council; ID Under direction of lack.
he has been trying to organize fac
tlcnal oppositions and to split the
independent building trades unions
against the correct line of the Party
that the Independent Building
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15

In his reply the special agent
for Manchukuo insists on the
legality" Of the measures of the
Manchurian authorities. Without
giving any information as to the
precise nature Of the crimes attrib-
uted to the arrested citizens, the
agent limits himself to the state
ment that they "have an extraor-
dinarily malicious character and
were committed on wide scale."i
Denying that the arrested workers
had been tortured, he points out
that the treatment Of the author
tiles toward those arrested was not
beyond the limits permissible with
regard to ordinary prisoners"
In answer to this note the Soviet
Consul General at Hardin again
forwarded message of protest in
which he vigorously declared that
instead of giving me clear and
concise replies to the concrete facts
of illegal arrests and violence, in
stead of informing regarding the
measures of punishment accorded
to the guilty ones in these illegal
actions taken by you, you limited
yourself to letter merely contain
ing general discourses, which testify
to the attempts of the Manchurian
side to eVade concrete reply cor
responding to the actual condition
Of affairs contained in my presenta-
lions. I repeatedly requested you to
inform me as to the whereabouts
of the arrested Soviet citizens and
in whose custody, whether Of po-
lice court official or administrative
authority, each prisoner is. To this
received no answer from you.
I insisted that you inform me as
to the exact charge pressed against
each prisoner who was a citizen of
the U.S.SR.
Instead Of concrete replies to
these questions, you make the en-
tirely unfounded statement in your
letter that the crime which the
prisoners are charged with is I'M
known to me but that it has an
extraordinarily malicious character
Ordinarily if any person is sub
jected to arrest and kept under
preliminary investigation for the
course of two and half to three
months on an extraordinarily
malicious charge it must at least |
be known under what article of
the criminal code he is suspected |
and charged.
1.-THE general discourses on the |
subject of criminal malice con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15

Am2lgamated is preparing Tor the
next convention April Is, as its first
objective in gaining control Of all
union action. At the District con-
ference in Elwood City last Sunday,
motion was passed unanimously
demanding the calling Of joint
conference Of all District Commit
tees in Pittsburgh, Dec. 80,
If Mike Tighe, A. A. president re-
fuses to call this meeting, the SEN
timent Of the rank and file will
probably take the form of calling
it over his head. The meeting of all
District Committees, comprised Of
five delegates from each lodge, will
be held in the Amalgamated Hall in
West End.
Ten lodges were represented at
the meeting Sunday the interna-
tional officers being conspicuous by
their absence.
No District One meetings will be
held between now and the joint
meeting Of all district committees.
In the meantime Tighe and the
1nternatioal Lodge are having Their
hands full with the Aliquippa local.
There they have met continued OPP
position to their orders since the
lodge was started.
Some time ago the Aliquippa man
demanded the removal of John Ia
felski, who enjoyed an exceedingly
unsavory reputation with the rank
and file as result of padded ex-
pense accounts, and the Interna-
tional officials were forced to con-
sent.
Elections are scheduled in Ali
quippa one week from Sunday.
Earl Forbeck, district chairman
and erstwhile Committee of Ten
leader, was forced to carry through
the organizational resolution which
had been enacted at the preceding
meeting, and tabled. 't''
Delegate Sander, of Cannonsburg
Lodge, who is expecting a job as
organizer for his loyal support Of
the Tighe machine, protested siren
uously against setting up the Or
ganization Committee of eleven pro-
vided for in the resolution, declar-
ing that the delegates have no
right" to elect organizers for the
coming drive. 1t was pointed out
that the election was not of paid
organizers, but rather of COM
mittee which will direct all organ
national work in the district, and
the committee was then duly elected,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
Anti-SOviet Rally
StirS Mass Anger
Continued from, Page y


under Mussolini, under Hitler or
under the Balkan dictators. We
should not justify it under Stain,
even if Stains dictatorship has
higher ideal for the workers"
Giving direct aid and comfort to
the ter-revolutionary plotters
who still hope to overthrow the rule
OF the workers in the U. S. S. R.,
the New Leader, in it's leading ed
itorial, uses the language of White
Guard utilization against the Soviet
Union. writing:
Whatever may be said for the
need of any regime protecting it.
self, the proceedings in Russia
have been revloting. 49,. If this
is proletarian justice as Commu-
nists claim, we answer in the
name of the working class, that
we are not barbarians and that
the secret military tribunal can
not be reconciIed with the equity
of Socialist ideals
SANDERS Kirov
Thus the New Leader this week
is one gigantic piece of publicity
for the vicious anti-Soviet incite-
ments to be nedGled by Matthew
Vol, notorious red batter" and
stool pigeon for the reactionary Ma
tional Civic Federation, and the pen
prostitute Isaac Don Levine, at the
Sunday afternoon meeting.
Slandering the memory of Kirov,
beloved leader of the Russian work.
ing class and a staunch fighter for
the cause of the working class revo-
luton, who met his death at the
hands Of an assassin, the New
Leader compares MIN with the de-
generate militarists of the Nazis,
and sneers at the anti-fascist dem
onstrations which the Communist
Party has been calling in front of
the Nazi consulates in this city.
Eidicules Anti-Nazi Fight
Writing in derision Of these anti
fascist meetings, the New Leader
states:
at is rumored that New York
Communists will not picket the
Soviet consulate after they have
finished demonstrating at the
German NaZi consulate"
Aroused at the new attacks
against the Soviet Union, Socialist
and Communist workers are work
Ing to build working class united
front on Sunday to answer these
indictments against the land of So
cialism by pledging renewed loyalty
to the U S. S. r. and a solid front
against all its enemies, within and
without.
Thousands of workers and friends
of the Soviet Union are expected to
rally outside Cooper Union on Sun
day afternoon, and calls are going
out to all workers organizations to
honor the memory Of Kirov and
pledge defense of the Workers
Fatherland
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15

corning $50 Soviet citizens cannot
be considered satisfactory. The
charges against the Soviet citizens
were not proven and could not be
proven anywhere and by anyone,
due to the fact that the crimes for
which they are to be tried and with
which they are charged, were never
committed.
I'm my application of protest I
repeatedly inyeighed against the
fortunes and other violence used
against the Soviet citizens kept as
prisoners in Manchuria. Inasmuch
as you allowed yourself the liberty
of stating in your official note that
you doubt the authenticity of these
data, am forced to remind you
Of some facts.
Thus on Sept. 5 I sent you copies
of the medical examinations of the
prisoners Golovina and Grigoriev,
who were subjected to tortures in
the gendarmery at Hardin. The
vice-consul of the u. S. s. r. on
Sept. 4 showed you the blood
stained underwear Of Citizen Gvoz-
dev, which was given to members
Of his family after his arrest by the
railway police. On Oct. 3 you were
informed about the results of the
tortureS of Soviet citizens Patserin
and Borovik, and about their hav-
ing been MANNED On Oct. 10 you
were informed concerning the tor
lures of Soviet citizen Osadchup,
and on Nov. 5 informed you about
his death as a result of these tor
lures. In informed you also on
Oct. 10 about the death, resulting
from torture, Citizen Kubatsky,
who died in a frontier police de-
tachment town in Manchuria.
Today am forced to tell you
plainly that, according to the fully
authentic information received by
the acknowledgement, citizens Kis-
lyi and Laushkin also fell victims
of tortures on the part of the Off
Gals of the police, and all the obvi-
ously untrue statements of the au-
thoritieS concerning their fate are
an attempt to conceal the traces of
the crime committed by them.
Confirming all preceding pro-
tests against the illegal arrest and
violence against Soviet citizens, the
Soviet consul again insistently de-
mands the immediate release of all
Illegally arrested citizens Of the
U.S.SR., let alone the discontinue
ton Of all violent actions against
Them and the punishment of those
guilty in these actions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
C.. p. Leader
Is Kidnapped
By Viggilantes
Special to the Daily Worker,

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Dec. IA
Samuel Herman, section organizer
OF the Communist Party in Racine
was kidnapped and beaten yesterday
by vigilantes who are continuing
their terroristic attacks on working
class organizations with the COOP
GRAFTON of police.
Herman's life was probably saved
by the fact that group of railroad
workers spotted the kidnapers' car.
Herman was dumped into a ditch
where he was found by a farmer
who gave him first aid and sum-
moned a doctor.
Later the same evening vigilantes
again attacked a meeting of unem-
ployed workers in Sokol Hall, smash
ing windows. Police near the hall
covered the escape of the hoodlums.
When Herman attempted to file
charges against the kidnapers at
the Racine police station he was
himself arrested. He is now in Jail
under bond of 5000.
Police are making raids on the
homes of all known militant work.
ers and Communists.
The District Committee of the
Communist Party has wired to
Governor Elect Philip LaFollette
demanding that he state his atti-
tude toward the reign of terror.
The workers here are organizing
defense groups to protect their
headquarters, organization, prop
erty and their lives.
The attacks on the Communist
Party and other workers organiza-
tons here are closely related to the
strike of Boston Store employees
here called by the Retail Clerks.
Building Service Employees and
Transfers Unions. The strikers
have rejected all settlements Of
fered by mediators which would
send them back to work without
any gains. They are resisting the
efforts of their union leaders to
send them back to work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
Link Morgan Loan
To The World War
Continued from Page y

NNObCGtNbC OHt L Uy6 L
and increase it, till the war ends.
and after the war Europe would
purchase food and an enormous sup
ply Of materials with which to re-
equip her peace industries. We
should thus reap the profit of an
uninterrupted and perhaps an en-
larging trade over a number of
years and we should hold their Sc
curities in payment"
1t was brought out during the
days probing that the Gu Points had
bargained the government into
building an S8O000O0O munitions
plant at government expense, and
then proceeded to run it in such a
way that it netted them $4,000. 600
profit in three weeks, without their
having to risk cent Of their own
money.
1t was also shown that the du-
Points held 10 the coatrc = for soma
months until they could force the
to meet their terms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15

practice the line of the 9Th Con-
vention of our Party it will, as it
has in the past, fight ruthlessly
against all efforts to distort this
line by right and left" oppor-
tunistS, will wage war against Trot-
skyism, and will burn out of its
ranks all manifestations of con-
Citation to counter-revolutionary
Trotskyism.
1.-THE Party strengthens itself by
purging itself Of opportunist ele-
ments "-Lenin.
g. Therefore, the District Com
mittee of the c. P, U. s.. A, Dis
trict 2, decides to expel Joseph
zack, Robert Strong and Jack Tay-
lor from the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
Second Conference Planned

WATERBURY, Conn, Dec. IA
A second conference on the Ma
tional Congress for Unemployment
and Social Insurance will be held
at the Y. M. c. A. here on Dec. 10.
1t is expected that a large number
of delegates will attend this con-
ference. At the first conference re-
Gently held, fifteen organizations
were represented, including A. F.
Of L. independent unions and fra
ternal societies. The local sponsor
ing committee for the Congress
represents a broad group of the
city's population. Among the spon-
sors are James Quinn, Vice Pes
ident of Local 1885. National Asso-
cation of Machinists; Sam Schnar-
off, member of the city executive
committee of the Socialist Party,
Rabbi VIM. r. Greenfield. Rev.
Thomas Leroy Crosby. Rev. Jas. O..
Todd, Rev. A. A. Perry, representa-
tives Of the local Unemployment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15

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Collect what you can from your
shopmates, fellow-members in
trade unions and mass organiza-
items, and rush funds into the
Daily Worker to help raise the
necessary $4,000 still needed to
complete the financial drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15

Council and also of the Communist
Party.
Trade Unions and JobIess Unite
SHARON, Pa, Dec. IA. - The
Shenango Valley conference in sup
port of the National Congress for
unemployment Insurance will be
held here on Friday, Dec. 81, under
the auspices of the Relief Workers
Union, church, fraternal and mass
organizations and trade unions,
Unemployed Leagues In United
Front
EAST LIVERPOOL, O., Dec. ID
"A united front between the Ohio
Unemployed Leagues and the I'm
employment Councils here has in
itiated conference supporting the
National Congress for Unemploy-
ment Insurance.
The conference will be held Sun
day, Dec. %, at the National
Brotherhood of Operative Potters
Hall, and will unite unemployed
organizations with trade unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
STUDENTS ON FOOD STRIKE

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Dec. IA.
New Bedford High School stu
dents went on strike here against
the quality and quantity of food
served in the school cafeteria. The
cafeteria manager trying to dodge
the charge that the food served in
the school is unpalatable and tough,
declared that the strike is being
led by bunch of hoodlums.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
MANCHURIAN NOTE
SIDE-STEPS KILLING
OF SOVIET CITIZENS
Especial to the Daily Worker,

HARDIN, Manchuria, Dec. IA (By Wreless) The So
Wet government has finally received reply to its nsisen
protests concerning the provocative by the Manchu
rian authorities of Soviet citizens employed on the Chinese
Eastern Railway and the torture and murders inflicted on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
RANK AND FILE HIT
n. r. A. ARBITRATION
WITH ACTION PLANS
BY Tom Keenan,

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 14.-Whle the Labor Board,
the federal court and company union elections being
used to the utmost by the steel barons and Roosevelt to try
and divert the sentiment for struggle among steel workers
into blind alleys of arbitration, the rank and file of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
Conference in Houston

OUHItTtHCe III HUH5t0n
HOUSTON, Tex, Dec. IA mass
conference in behalf of the National
Congress for Unemployment Insur-
ance is being arranged here for the
election Of delegates.
Three hundred unemployed work
ers, Negro, white, Indian an d
Mexican workers, most of whom
were barefoot and scantily clad.
demonstrated before the local relief
station here this week, demanding
Winter relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15

$4,000 are still needed TO com
plete the full quota in the Daily
Worker drive. Speed collections
and proceeds from affairs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
Binghamton Groups Act

BINGHAMTON, N. Y, Dec. IA
city wide conference on unemploy-
ment insurance will be held here
Friday, Dec. 81 at 7:30 p. M, at the
Central Labor Hall. Forty-four or
CARNATIONS have been asked to send
delegates. Representatives to the
National Congress will be elected
and permanent group set up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
City Council Backs Congress

JAMESTOWN, N. Y, Dec. IA
The City Council here has endorsed
the National Congress for Unem-
ployment Insurance at the demand
of the local sponsoring committee
which is composed of "a members
from A. F. of L.. independent
unions, and fraternal groups.
A motion for the appropriation of
500 for the Congress expenses was
turned down by the City Council.
The number of delegates from
Buffalo" the local committee stated,
sis dependent only upon the amount
of money which can be raised to
send them"
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Jews without Money--Michel Gold.
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Memories of Lenin-Krupskaya-Vo /
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Russia Day by Day-Lamont.
The National Policy of the Soviet Union.
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