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the employers but strictly limit themselves to the
status of a legal opposition strictly within the
union.
To this there are some notable exceptions as
for example the role of the opposition in the
lila in the West Coast strike. But the success
of the opposition in this strike only emphasizes
the need for rapid change in the character of
the entire opposition work in the A F. of L., espe-
cially in view of the advancing struggles among
the A. F. of L. workers.
The report on the A. F. of L. work pointed out
that the solution of these problems in the work of
the opposition groups is the condition for their
further growth and development into real instru-
ments able to defeat the bureaucrats in the grow
ing strike struggles and able to organize successful
strike struggles in the interests of the workers
over the heads of the strikebreakng bureaucrats
who are part of the NRA. machinery.
The weaknesses in building the Party fractions
in the trade unions in recruiting A. F. of L. work
ers into the Party and building Party nuclei in
the most important factories the still inadequate
attention of the Party organization to A. F. of L.
work is at the bottom of the inability to solve
these problems more rapidly
The report called for the mobilization of the
entire Party to prepare for the coming A. F. Of L.
convention to be held on October End in San
Francisco scene of the militant battles of the long
shoremen and seamen in the face of the greatest
display of armed forces, including the National
Guard This requires that the issues facing the
workers be brought into every local union, that
resolutions embodying these demands be passed
that every effort be made to bring rank and file
delegates to the A. F. of L. convention, concen-
trating especially among the federal locals and
central bodies to secure these delegates. since the
national unions are represented by the bureaucrats
who control the national unions.
The c. C. decided to take immediate steps to
strengthen the Party fraction in the leadership of
the A. F. of L. work nationally and instructed the
Party Districts to carry through similar strength
ening of the work in the unions and localities,
giving special attention to the industries sections
Problems of Sections
Conrade Trachtenberg, in reporting on the COM
ing Congressional and local elections, pointed to
the great possibilities we have in modifying the
masses of workers and farmers around the Party
He stressed the necessity for immediate political
and organizational we'll technical preparations
to make sure that the Party candidates will be
placed on the ballot and a mass campaign devel-
oped. This of course, means that the election
struggle must become part of the daily actions of
the Party in the factories and unions, in the strike
struggles among the unemployed in the fight for
the Negro masses, for the needs of the farmers,
in the struggles against war and the growing menace
of fascism.
This requires that while bringing forward fully
the Party program for a way out of the crisis as
embodied in the Convention Manifesto that we
masses who wish to struggle for immediate de-
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she found it was an instrument to
further Cypress the Negro people,
and Mary Sedwick, young stock
yards worker, were elected dele
gates to Paris, and campaign to
raise funds for the trip is to be
started at once.
The conference passed resolutions
unanimously for the release of Tom
Mooney, the Scottsboro boys, Poin-
dexter. and the Hillsboro prisoners.
Support West Coast Strikers
A resolution was adopted sending
the greetings and pledge of solidar-
ity of the women represented at the
Conference to the striking marine
workers of the West Coast.
The permanent organization set
up by the conference included an
executive committee composed Of
the conference committee and Is
new members elected from the floor.
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Lawson Jailed for
CiyilRights Inquiry
By JOHN HOWARD LAWSON
Continued from Page ~

Grow Kangaroo court" The real
crime" consisted in having pub
lished the truth about the White
Legion and the Klan-in having
shown the close tie-up between
these criminal gangs and the po-
lice in their campaign of terror
against workers and working class
organizations.
Mozer himself has had a long
and intimate association with the
Khan and the White Legion. was
informed indirectly buS on good
authority that the Khan and the
Legion were probably behind Mo-
zer's frantic efforts to put me in
iail I was also informed indirectly
that Commissioner Downs disap-
proved of the frame-up and had
tried to prevent Mozer from going
through with it.
/ All this simply means that Downs,
being q suave politician, uses Mozer
to do the dirty work. 1t would GER
tainly be strange if the commits
sioner in charge OF the police de-
pertment were unable to control
the activity OF detective under
his supervision.
The real political game behind
the ruthless oppression and red
batting in Alabama involves the
influential forces which work
through the Khan and the White
Legion. Downs himself owes his
political career to Bib Graves,
Klansnaan who has just been re-
elected governor Of Alabama. A
few years ago, Graves took Downs
cut CT hundred and fifty dollar
rer week job and made him
slisriff &C jefferson County. From
this Job he stepped up to his pres
ent position.
The political bosses of Alabama
are Hitlerizing the state in con-
junction with the criminal elements
in the White Legion and the Khan
My own arrest shows their deter
mination to suppress free speech
and free press. It's direct case
of censorship; it furnishes proof Of
the extent and character of the
fascist terror in Birmingham. The
anxiety of the ruling classes to sup
press the truth is practically an adj
mission OF guilt.
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mands in the election platform. 1t also decided
that number of Congressional districts be selected
for concentration That in these districts we make
every effort to elect Communist Congressman.
Practically all the members of the G. c. par
ticpated in the discussions the above questions.
Especially instructive reports were made on the
Toledo and Milwaukee strikes.
Work Among Negro Masses
There were a number of other questions taken
up at the meeting of the c. c. Comrade Ford
reported on number of the problems in the work
among the Negro masses and stressed the need
for the development of mass campaign for the
freedom of the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Hern-
don. He emphasized the necessity for giving active
support to the Liberator, and to the L.SNR.
Three reports were made on the carrying through
of the decisions of the Party to build the Y.CL.
These reports were made by Comrade Krumbein
for the N Y District, Comrade Johnstone for the
Pittsburgh District and Corrade Gebert for the
Chicago District. These reports broug/ out that
among these Districts, the New York District has
most seriously taken the decision of the convention
about the support of the Party for the Y.CL.
Conrade Weiner made an extensive report on
the progress of the campaign for the release of
Thlelmann. He pointed to the progress made in
developing the campaign through districts,
among them Pittsburgh and Detroit, Jagged behind.
He called especially for the extension of the
palgn among the a r. OF L.. and socialist workers.
Other reports made were on preparations for
August First on the preparation for the coming
Seventh World Congress of the Communist Inter
national
Comrsde Brown, in the concluding session, made
special report on the problem Of the fuctuaton
of the membership and the need for carrying
through the decisions to increase the Party mem
bership to 10000 good standing members by the
end of the year. 1t was decided that the c. c.
shall delegate committee to make thorough
study of the problems of 1uctuation in one of the
sections in the concentration districts and that the
districts shall make similar studies of at least one
section in their respective districts
One of the important questions dealt with at
the meeting of the c. c., the work among the
farmers on the basis of a report made by Com
rade Hathaway the recent Convention of the
mobilize the struggle in the interests of the farm
ers suffering from the drought The Farmers Emer-
gency Relief Bill is well received among the farm
ers But We must carry on struggle against
tendencies to hide the fact that this bill was first
proposed by the Communist Party Furthermore
it IS necessary to mobilize the Party fractions in
the U-FL. and the other farm organizations to
bring forward the Party program as against the
proposals of the Democratic, Republican, Farmer
Labor and Socialist parties. We must overcome
the confusion which, while hiding the face of the
Party among the farmers, would make out of the
United Farmers League a sort of left" Farmer
Labor party, instead of a organization of
poor farmers.
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National LID.
Meeting Maps
Defense Plans
IL Delegates Plan Fighi
for Scottsboro, Hern-
don and Thaelmann

NEW YORK-In a national mo-
oilization to meet the most urgen1
tasks facing the international Lab
or Defense, especially in the camp
aigns around Scottsboro, Herndon.
and Thaelmann, IA representatives
Of the districts and members Of the
National Committee of the I. L. D.
met here Saturday and Sunday to
map their work in the coming
months.
Thirty-nine delegates from all
districts of the I. L. D. as far west
as Arkansas, from New England, the
eastern seaboard, the middle west
and the deep South. discussed the
problems faced in building the IL.
D. into mass organization equip
ped to meet and organize resistance
to the growing terror against the
economic struggle Of the broad mas
SEES. and the national liberation
struggles of the Negro people.
In a message to the meeting Will
liam L. Patterson. national secretary
of the I. L. D., whose present illness
prevented his attendance, called for
the broadcast mobilization, through
this meeting, in defense and support
of the strike struggles now going on
throughout the country, pointing to
the inseparable unity between these
struggles and the national and in
ternational campaign of the 1. l.. D.
in defense OF Ernst Thaelmann, the
Scottsboro boys, Angelo Herndon,
and Tom Mooney. Recent victories
of the I. L. D. in the Victory case in
Detroit, in the Jordan case in Ore
gon, and in other struggles, he
showed, have contributed to the
strengthening of the whole working
class movement.
Greetings of the Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party were
brought to the meeting by Earl
Browder, who stressed the neces-
sity forthe broadening of the or
ganization, and for mass sale OF its
organ, the Labor Defender"
at would not be at all difficult"
he said, ito raise the circulation of
the Labor Defender to $4,000"
Kurt Rosenfeld. refugee from
Nazi Germany, and a lawyer active
for the I. L. D. of Germany for many
years. brought fraternal greetings
and a message of struggle for the
freedom of Ernst Thaelmann and
all anti-fascists in Hitler's iails.
The broadcast Scottsboro-Herndon
conferences, to be held in every
district within two weeks, to mobil-
ize the masses in the struggle around
these campaigns, and to raise the
$4,000 bail for Herndon and the
$4,000 costs of the appeals to the
u. S. Supreme Court in both cases,
were decided upon.
Messages of solidarity, endorsing
the call for a general strike in sup
port of the struggle of the marine
workers of San Francisco against the
bloody terror unleashed against
them. were sent to the Marine
Workers industrial Union OF San
Francisco.
Telegrams and cables OF solidarity
and greetings were also sent TO
Ernst Thaelmann, the Scottsboro
bows. Angelo Herndon, Tom Mooney,
Billings, Theodore Jordan, as well
as to the Defense Obrera Interna-
cional GLD) of Cuba, the Can
adam Labor Defense League, and
the Executive Committee of the In
ternational Red Aid.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
Women IrdUeI in Box Cars
To Reach Anti Var COncLave

can League Against War and Fas-
ciSm
The 1919 delegates elected by rs
different organizations were present.
Lucy Parsons, widow of one of
the Haymarket martyrs, received a
tremendous ovation when she adj
dressed the meeting, despite serious
illness.
Three of the delegates, Mrs. Parck
of Centralia and Mile Yotke and
Frances Millnisch, rode box cars to
get to the conference.
Mable Byrd, noted Negro woman,
who resigned from the MIRA. when
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
DAILY worker Midwest Bureau)

CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 8.-Repre-
sentatives of over twenty-five thou
sand Illinois women met here Sat-
urday to unite their forces In the
fight against war and fascism. Three
arrived via box car route. First
actions to build this unity included
the establishment of a Regional
Women's Committee Against War
and Fascism, the election of five
delegates to attend the Paris
Women's Congress and the aff1lia-
ton of the committee to the Ameri-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
On the
World Front
By HARRY CANNES =
III POnt on the U.S.S.R.
A S6O,OOO,0Oe Check
Crude Liars
On August 1st
: By HARRY CANNES

ONE of the chief merchants
" of death in the United
States, Irenee du Pont, has Isl
sued an attack on the Com.
munist International as the
main culprit trying to UNDER
mine the war preparations OF
capitalist countries.
This leading light in the du Pont
Co., the largest manufacturers Of
explosives and poison gas in this
country, wrote letter recently de-
Tending his bloody profits. The "at4
tack on the munitions makers" Id
writes, lis caused mainly by "a
subservient force instigated by the
Third International and allied in-
terests to weaken the defensive
powers Of capitalistic countries"
War against the Soviet Union ia
inevitable, Mr.. du Pont infers, and
in the usual style of Hitler, Deterd-
ing, ct al, he already iustifles this
war against the workers fatherland
by declaring the U.S.SR. will BE-
the first to launch an attack.
NOW we have it on excellent
~ authority that Mr.. du Pont and
his ilk have been doing everything
possible (not without great profit)
to provoke war against the Soviet
Union, particularly by backing
Japan in Manchuria.
Recently Mr.. du Points firm built
huge chemical plant for the man.
ufacture of nitrates in Japan, part
of Japanese imperialism's plan in
the plotted war against the Soviet
Union.
We are further apprised by Gem
eral William S. Graves, who led the
American Expeditionary Forces to
Siberia in 1919, that Japanese inn
periahsm has been assured financial
and military aid by men like Mr..
du Pont for the destruction of the
land of successful proletarian revo-
luton.
For prosecution of a war with
first class power, Japan must
have financial assistance and sup
plies" wrote the general in the
June 1884 issue of Current His
tory. II anticipate Japan will have
no difficulty in getting all the aid
she needs. There are many people
in the United States who would
be glad to assist in the destruc-
ton of Communist state, and
similar sentiments are to be found
in England"
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WHO'S plotting against whom, Mr..
w du Pont?


Irenee and his brothers, uncles,
cousins, aunts, and the rest of these
verrnin who have fattened on the
blood of American and other SOL
diers, who live in the most riotous
luxury while the war vets starve
and are shot down here for insist
ing on the bonus or relief, longs for
the return of the Car. Why
shouldn't he? During the last World
War, when the Gar bought his war
supplies from the du Points, they
received from the Russian govern
ment g single check of 100000, 900,
the largest check ever written.
No wonder the du Points burn
with fierce hatred against the
Soviet Union that wiped out so
beneflcent a patron.
During the last World War. the
du Pont concern supplied 40 per
cent of the ammunition used by
the allies. While millions of work.
ers were being slaughtered, the
money poured into the du Pont cof-
fers as torrentially as the workers
blood flowed on the battlef1elds. The
value of the du Pont stock jumped
5000 per cent during the war
period.
MR. du POINTS letter further de-
ln MES the international connec-
tions of his munitions firm, declar-
ing:
1.-THE statement that the Imperial
Chemical Industries are owners in
the du Pont company I believe is
incorrect. If they have stock I am
unaware of it,"
Crude liars, these du Points. At
the 1882 annual meeting of the I'M
perial Chemical Industries, the Lead
ing British munitions firm and the
worlds largest arms trust, Sir Harry
MCGOWAN, speaking for the Board
of Directors, said:
The marketable and other in
vestments, standing at 9,540,677
pounds sterling (around S47,703,-
000) mainly represents invest
msnts in large industrial COM
panies with which we have, di-
rectly or indirectly, trade connec-
tons. The chief items are invest
ments in the General Motors Cor
| pc-ation. Du Pont g. Co.. and the
Allied Chemical Company of the
United States, the International
Nickel Co. in Canada, the l. G.
! Farbenindustrie in Germany, and
Joseph Lucal g. Sons in this coun-
try" Nor does Sir Harry reveal
the full extent Of these connec-
tions.
THIS openly expressed hatred o.
i the Soviet Union, the tremendous
war preparations of the imperialist
i powers throughout the world, the
support to Hitler by British imper-
ialism, to Japanese Imperialism by
the du Points, show how, in the
! growing crisis of world capitalism,
the capitalist carrion is preparing
again to pick the bones of millions
OF workers.
] Twenty years after the last
world slaughter, Mr.. du Pont
wants more S6O,000,00O checks. He
should be given his answer on
August LIST, when the Communist
Party throughout the country
mcbilizes mass demonstrations
against the imperialist war prep
arations and for defense Of the
Soviet Union.
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LITTLE RIVER

LITTLE RIVER, Jan. 3D.
Mrs. w. P. Holtzclaw spent a few
days with Mr.. and Mrs. c. A,
Blythe and family, Of Greenvil!e,
recently.
Miss Reba George visited Miss
Floride Shipman, Saturday.
Mrs. O. S. Gray, of Pleasant
Grove. spent a few days with Mr..
and Mrs. Hall Gray, last week.
w. p. Holtzclaw has been i'll for
the past week.
Luther Couch left Tuesday for
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Frank McCrary's children. who
have been i'll with measles at T.
r. Pickelsimers. have returned to
their home near Hendersonville.
Elmer Holtzclaw was unable TO
return to school at Etowah on az
count of illness.
Vernon Gosnell attend the y.
Y. P. U. meeting here Sunday:
Mrs. Robert Jones visited Mrs.
C. Capps last Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Davis. OF
Asheville, Mr.. and Mrs. o. ::
Gray. Mrs. Clarence Wright of
Pleasant Grove, Miss Floride
Shipman and Ralph Mccall of this
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PATRONESSES
LIST GROWING
Additional Names Added
To Those For Presi-
Dental Ball, Jan. 30

Additional patronesses for the
Presidents Birthday Ball which
will be held here on next Tues
day, January 80, were announc-
ed today by Mrs. Michael Schenck
co-chairman, as follows:
Mrs. A. F. Barber, Mrs. B. F,
Cliff, Mrs. Grady Jones, Mrs,
George Flanagan, Mrs. Earl Pen
ny, Mrs. O. A. Meyer, Mrs. Paul
il. Johnson, Mrs. Thomas Shep-
herd, Mrs. NJ. NJ. Redden, Mrs
b. A. Whitmire, Mrs. E. NJ. Sal
ley, Mrs. J. H. Reaben. Mrs. R.
c. Sample, Mrs. W. C. Meekins,
Mrs. c. NJ. Ogle.
Mrs. Frederick Mohr, Mrs. j.
f. Shipman, Mrs. J. A. Smyth,
Mrs. b. F. Station, Mrs. p. F.
Sudduths Mrs. w. A. Young, Mrs.
F. NJ. Waters, Mrs. H. G. Love,
Mrs. E. +. Lott, Mrs. +. A.
Smyth, III, Mrs H. V. Station,
Mrs. J. H. Woodcock, Mrs. J. L.
Wellington, Mrs. Leona Allen
Young, Mrs. G. w. Brooks, Mrs.
I. F. Ball, Mrs. Michael Schenck,
Mrs. +. L. Feagin, Mrs. w. r.
McGaw.
Mrs. L. A. Blair, Mrs. j. F.
Brooks, Mrs. George Wing, Mrs.
Frederick Brown, Mrs. w. Z.
Bracket, Mrs. Hyatt Brown,
Mrs. f. r. Dolbee, Mrs. Il. W.
Ewbank, Mrs. w. NJ. Gregg, Mrs.
l.. r. Geiger. Mrs. Thomas H.
Franks, Mrs. Malvern Jackson,
Mrs. w. A. Keith, Mrs. W. B. w.
Howe, Mrs. Almonte Jones, Mrs.
Brownlow Jackson, Mrs. Camp
bell King, Mrs. A. c. Hewitt,
Mrs. A. Flicker, Mrs. Arthur Red
den. Mrs. R. H. Station.
Mrs. 7. L. Smyth, Mrs. j. W.
Bailey, Mrs. Garner Hirons, Mrs.
A. S. Browning. Jr., Mrs. S. Y.
Bryson, Mrs. A. S. Truck, Mrs.
Georgia Hunter, Mps. r. l.. Ed
wards, Mrs. J. S. Brown, il,
Mrs. Thomas D. Clark, Mrs. +.
r. Sutherland, Mrs. H. Y. Fai-
son, Mrs. J. V. Goodrich, Mrs.
C. l.. Stark, Mrs. b. l.. Foster,
Mrs. Jno. 7. wilkins, NJ S. w. O.
Croft, Mrs. O. p. Smith, Mrs. b.
p. Burchmyer.
Mrs. Nathan Bremen, Mrs. Lee
Allen, Mrs. +. R. Osborne, Mrs.
Sam Kalin. Mrs. Alex Patterson,
Mrs. Lewis Sherman, Mrs. Ed
Anders, Mrs. Wade M. King, Mrs.
Horace Morris, Mrs. John 10y,
Mrs. J. &. Creech, Mrs. Sam Lu-
bow and Mrs. w. j. Reese.
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ROSS DEFEATS
DAKOTA PUG
Petrolle Takes Unmerciful
Beating; Ends His Ring
Career

NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-(UP),
Barney Ross of Chicago. the
lightweight champion Of the world
and one Of the slickest 1876 pounds
seen in many a year. gave Billy
Petrolle an unmerciful beating in
10-round overweight bout at the
Coliseum last night.
A crowd of $4,000 spectators
TANNED the great, barn-like coli
scum from floor to rafter. Out
side a yelling. pushing mob fought
with mounted policemen TO,
standing room near the scene OF
battle.
Those who had their money on
Ross-and nearly everybody did
the goines-on inside was WORTH
the trouble. For they saw great
champion fight a great fight.
From the opening gong until
the final bell the little Chicagoan
with the fire and stamina that
goes with youth. was all over the
fading veteran from North Da-
kota. Petrollc did not win a sin
gle round, and in only one, the
seventh, when Ross coasted. did
he hold his man even.
How Petrolle ever weathered
the barrage of blows that Ross
laid down over the full route will
forever remain a mystery. Not
once, but a dozen times it seemed
that he must crumple under the
impact of Barney's failing fists,
but he didn't. Just when it ap-
peared that he was going down,
the old fellow spraddled his legs,
hitehed up his sweat soaked pants.
and took it.
He won't have to take it again,
however, as Petrolle headed for
the dressing room his manager,
Jack Hurley. sent the word along
the press row that this was Billy
the Kids last fight.
Ross COMPOUNDED the critics,
who. in pre-battle articles. said no
lightweight in the world could
wade in and swap blows with Pc
trolle. Ross did just that. What
is more, he did it over the full dis
lance. Only occasionally, and that
in the late rounds, when he had
the fight cinched, did Barney back
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-25
Better After Taking
First Bottle Of Cardui

.r was il need Of something 10
brild me up. as 7 was IN a run
down condition and suffering with
M hack and sides" writes Mrs. M.
M, Cock, OF Fort Payne, Ala. 1.-THE
rain ir. my side seemed to cause q
soreness all through my body. 7
was reading she newspaper and
saw Cardui advertised. I thought
it might help Ire. After my first
tottlc, 7 felt better and I took an
other, after Wfich I was greatly
improved, 50 much 50 that I have
recommended Cardui SINCE
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-25
Plan Community
Center In Brevard

BREVARD, Jan. %. (SpeciaO
Plans for promoting the build
ing of a community center in
Franklin Park will be discussed
at a special meeting of the Amer
lean Legion to be held in the
court house here Thursday night.
Estimates on costs of materi7
ais and labor are now being pre-
pared for the Legion, and these
together with amount of help to
be secured through the CWA
will be gone over by the soldier
group before announcing the
project.
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place visited Mr.. and Mrs. Hall
Gray last Sunday.
The people here are very glad
to see the roads being improved.
Amos Mccall and son. Ralph,
were in Asheville on business last
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Fisher spent
Tuesday with Rev. and Mrs. Holtz-
claw.