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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
PHILADELPHIA COUNCILS SET DEC q AS EVICTION DAY
NY. Farmers
Block Attempt.
At An Eviction
Milk Producers Band to
Protect Farms Ruined
by Price Chiseling

SPENCER, N. Y, Dec. 12.-Roo6e-
velt's plan of driving millions of
surplus" farmers from their land
onto substance homesteads suf-
fered an abrupt halt in this Sec
ton when more than IS determined
farmers met at Mrs. Wilson's small
dairy farm, near here, in Tioga
County, to precent the eviction of
this widow and her family. Mrs.
Wilson will stay on her land and
the fight to prevent future evic-
tons has begun.
The Federal Land Bank had al
ready foreclosed on this farm and
the government officials had re-
fused to allow Mrs. Wilson to stay
and continue her payments. But
the fear of what the organized
farmers might do caused the bank
to send their representative, on the
night of the meeting, to tell Mrs.
Wilson secretly that she could stay,
demonstrating clearly to the farm
ers the force of united action.
The farmers here are already
aroused over their treatment at the
hands of the Dairymen's League
whose policy of a regular below
cost-of production price for milk,
added to the consistent policy Of
cheating on the butter-fat tests
has driven many Of the small OPP
orators to the wall. They responded
to the leaflet, which was distributed
throughout the countryside by Rob-
ert Mintz and Arvo Salo, ComInu-
mist candidate for State Senator in
the last election, by coming from
miles around through driving
rain and over almost impossible
roads to form an action commit
tee that has pledged to fight
the growing policy of evictions in
this section.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
JObless Men Who Took Food
For Families Given TaUO Years
Defense Witness in Texas Trial Tells How Sick
Child Died in Home for Lack of Food
Refused by Relief Officials

to make some hot soup for her.
They were turned away and told
they would have to wait for thirty
days. 1.-THE child was very sick
with high fever and in this con-
dition we had nothing to give her
but bread made with flour and
water and beans cooked in clear
water without any seasoning of any
kind" At the last moment, Sandin
testified, he went himself to the
agency but was turned down by
Mrs. Plath and when he appealed
to Mr.. Maxwell, this gentleman
mumbled something about an ap-
pointment and walked out of the
office. The child became extremely
i'll and after three days of violent
commissions, died without the par
ents being able to get a doctor I'M
til 1t was too late.
Just a few weeks before the death
of the child the officials of the re-
lief organization treated themselves
to a grand banquet in the relief
headquarters.
In spite of all this evidence that
was brought out in the trial, the
judge callously sentenced these
workers to long terms at hard labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13

BRECKENBRIDGE, Texas, Dec.
ITO take food that belongs to
you even when your family is
hungry is considered a crime by
the local relief officials and the
courts, especially if you are unem-
ployed.
Tom Owensby, H. L. Stevens, and
L. A. Roberts were sentenced here
last Wednesday to two years in the
penitentiary for taking food which
was overdue on their relief card
from the relief Office to feed their
starving families. Jack Owensby
and P. D. Wimberly were acquitted.
When officials in charge of the
relief store refused to honor their
vouchers because of a technicality,
the men entered the supply room
and took food without trying to
hide their action.
The conditions Of the unem-
ployed are so bad here that only
two months ago a little girl died
of starvation. Her grandfather, E.
w. Sandin testified on the stand
that when this child became sick
the parents went time and time
again to the relief agency to beg
for a few cans of tomatoes in order
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
HerndOn Tour
Is Extended
To Northwest
To Spur S C OFT S b O. o
Campaign Along
the West Coast

SEATTLE, Wash, Dec. 12.-The
western tour Of Angelo Herndon,
heroic young Negro working class
leader now in California, will be
extended to the Pacific Northwest
this month, it was announced today
by the Seattle district office Of the
international Labor Defense. Hern-
don's tour is part of the mass cam
paign against the Scottsboro frame
up and the efforts OF the Georgia
lynch courts to railroad Herndon to
death on the chain gang for organ
izing white and Negro workers in
the fight for unemployment relief.
Speaking dates for the northwest
district follow:
Astoria, Dec. II; Aberdeen, Dec.
10; Centrala, Dec. 10; Olympia, Dec.
20; Tacoma, Dec. 81; Seattle, Dec.
%; Everett, Dec. 26; Anacortes,
Dec. q; Bellingham, Dec. %;
Seattle, Dec. %; Yakima, Jan. q;
Spokane, Jan. 3, and Occur d'Alene,
Jan. 4.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
Anti-WOrker
Writer Sent
To Coast Trial
BY Jack Crane
Especial to the Daily Worker)


SACRAMENTO, Calf, Dec. H.
Gilbert Parker, notorious for his
anti working class articles, is COW
ering the criminal syndicalist trial
here of Is workers for the Associ-
ated Farmers of California, one of
the most reactionary, anti labor
groups of employers in this state
in which innocent Tom Mooney has
been held in jail for over II years.
The Associated Farmers group
played a leading role in the organiz-
ing and ar1ning of vigilante bands
which have been used to crush the
strike struggles of agricultural work.
ers and for terroristic raids on work
ers' headquarters and their homes
during the West Coast marine strike
and the San Francisco General
Strike last summer 1t was in these
vigilante raids that the 18 work
ing class leaders, now on trial, were
seized by vigilantes and turned over
to the police, acting in cooperation,
That this reactionary group is now
employing Parker to color the
news" of the trial and whip up
lynch sentiment against the de-
PENDANTS, was revealed in open court
yesterday when the notorious pen
prostitute was referred to as rep
resentative of the Associated Farm
ers of California.
Leo Gallagher, defense attorney,
forced an admission from a pro-
spective juror, Albert j. Guy, that
the vigilantes had brought pressure
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
Dismissal Is Refused
ITO Bayonne Strikers

BAYONNE, N. j., Dec. 12.-The
five unemployed workers who pro.
tested the forced labor on the Bay
onne relief project on Nov. 81, anc
were arrested and taken before
Judge Cullurns court in Hudson
county were denied the motion 70.
dismissal, and bail was reduced
from $4,000 to $4,000 each.
The trial is being conducted b.
the International Labor Defensc
and the Civil Liberties Union, tht
representatives of these organiza-
tons pointing out that the charge
of "riotous and unlawful assembly
were ridiculous, that none of the
witnesses of the prosecution knew
anything about the case except BY
hearsay. Workers and organiza-
tons have been urged to send pro-
tests to Judge Cullun, Hudson
County Traffic Court, Jersey City
demanding the immediate release
of these workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
Warrant Refused
For Student Thug

BERKELEY, Calf, Dec. H.
Prosecuting Attorney L. S. Fletcher
has refused to issue a battery war
rant against Kenneth Cotton,
freshman football player of Berk-
eley and one Of a gang that at
tackled group of students protest.
ing against the dismissal of radical
students at the Los Angeles branch.
Application for the warrant was
made by Aubrey Grossman, one of
the students attacked.
Although the assault occurred
outside the campus on the streets
Of Berkeley. Fletcher declared that
disciplinary action must come from
the university authorities.
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their lackeys, the bosses Of the
Democratic Party, decided upon the
slate. 1t was agreed there that Ed
ward Kelly, the present Mayor Of
Chicago, who has been selected by
the City Council after the death Of
Cermak, is to be the candidate in
the spring elections Of 1895. That
Governor Horner is to be candidate
for governor in 1896. That the we'll
known anti-labor leader, States At
torney Courtney be candidate for
Senator from Illinois in the 1895
elections.
What have the masses got to say
about these nominations? They we're
not consulted and not asked. These
people we're picked for their loyal
service to the capitalist class. We
can recollect further that Walter
Nesbitt, the present Democratic
congressman at large, was elected
in 1882 for a two-year term in the
u. s. Congress, after the services
he rendered to the coal operators in
the State OF Illinois, who together
with the rest of the Lewis machine
put over a wage-cut for the miners
from $6.10 to SIS day. After his
two-year term he was dropped. They
did not need him any longer. He
received no nomination in the last
elections and he was defeated very
badly when he ran as independent
progressive in the Nov. elections.
And the Republicans
According to the Daily Times, a
New Deal paper, Oscar De Priest,
Negro Republican, has been dropped
by the Republican Party and they
agreed two days before the election
to support Democrat Mitchell, Negro
politician, for the price that the
Democrats will support two candi-
dates who are connected with the
Capone gangsters to be elected to
the State Legislature and State
Senate. The Republican Party, in
all probability, will place Oscar Nell
son, vice-president of the Chicago
Federation of Labor, and floor lead
er of the Republican party in the
City Council, as the next candidate
for mayor. The Republican party
wants to gain some votes among the
trade unionists, among the workers.
They want to place this labor lead
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13

ulation. The bourgeoisie is not much
worried about subways. They own
automobiles. The majority of the
workers use the elevated lines or
the street cars to and from work.
The industrial section of Chicago is
located on the southwest side and
the working class neighborhoods are
on the Northwest side. A subway
becomes a burning issue. In addi-
ton to the conveniences the work
ers will get from a subway, the
building of a subway means en-
ployment of tens of thousands Of
workers.
We place the building of sub
way as one of the most burning
questions. We will raise this ques-
ton not only agitationally, but the
Party has the task to work out a
concrete plan of building subway
and around this plan to involve the
broadcast masses of workers, includ-
ing the building and construction
unions of the A. F. of l.. and masses
of workers in general. We are sure
that around this issue additional
thousands of workers can be drawn
into the election struggle.
8. Hospitals: The present hos
pitfalls are overcrowded. Unemployed
workers who need medical attention
are hardly able to break into the
hospitals. Service in these hospitals
is impossible. We demand the build
ing of new city hospitals, and free
medical service for the unemployed
and part time workers. Here is an
other issue around which we can
rally broad masses of workers.
4. Building of workers homes, in
place of the present sluns, is a
burning issue confronting the
masses.
5. Sc hools are overcrowded
Teachers are being laid off at the
same time. Building of new schools,
Fairgrounds for the children, parks,
etc, is becoming burning issue
also.
These are specific city problems
and let no one come and tell us
that these are reforms Of capital
ISM These are not reforms. They
are very necessary things in the
lives of the workers today and the
capitalist class and its government
is not moving finger to remedy
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on the prosecutors Office to force
the prosecution of the 10 defend
ants. Guy, a member Of the Young
Citizens League. admitted during
his examination that the League
was hostile to the doctrines of Com
munism. He further admitted that
the so-called Young Citizens League
is generally known as the Vigilante
Committee.
Guy and several other members
of the new and third special jury
panel we're excused for cause.
The court room was again crowded
by workers from Sacramento and
several nearby towns who availed
themselves of every opportunity to
express their solidarity with the de-
PENDANTS and their hatred of the
criminal syndicalist law which is
being used to restrict the rights OF
the working class and to railroad its
best fighters to prison.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
Workers in Wards Must
Take Active Part
in Nominations
from the bourgeois parties.
Building the Party

Duuulng the IdTLy
We don't create an illusion that
by one act we will be able to do so.
But this act will help us in this
direction. The workers will also be
able to see clearly the meaning of
the revolutionary way out, they will
begin to recognize and realize the
Importance of the Communist Party
and its real role as the vanguard of
the working class. 1t also will mean
that the Party will gain prestige,
standing and will grow among the
masses. This will bring workers into
the Party. Building of the Com
munist Party is the most urgent
task now--today.
1t is also quite clear that we must
draw into the election struggle those
sections of the working class which
are most neglected, namely, the
women, young workers, Negro
masses, whose problems are i'm
mense, and here, too, concentration
of it is necessary.
In this article we are not in a
position to go into every phase Of
the Chicago working class problems
and how to meet them. We cite a
few, to give a general outlook on
how to really organize an election
campaign. We are learning this on
the basis of our setback in the last
elections, and if the setback in the
November elections brings this real
ization we can profit from this set
back. We must not close our eyes
to our mistakes and shortcomings in
the November elections. We must
scrutinize and examine every detail
of the last elections for the purpose
to make the Spring, 1885, elections
such a mass struggle in the city of
Chicago, that it will really be a
demonstration of the masses of Chi
cago against the New Deal, against
capitalism, for the revolutionary way
out of the crisis, for a Soviet Amer
lea.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
Program Broadest United Struggle Chicago Elections

err" in opposition to Edward Kelly,
the Democratic New Deal politician,
to gain some support among labor
and at the same time by this div
ision attempt to prevent large vote
for the real working class candidate
for mayor, Karl Lockner.
Workers Themselves Must Nominate
These things must be explained
in minute detail to the masses of
workers and pose this in opposition
to the question of how the Com
munist Party proposes to nominate
the candidates in the coming cleo
tons. The Communist Party pro-
poses a working class united front
conference in every ward to which
delegates should come from the
trade unions, from shops, from Or
CARNATIONS of the unemployed, from
Negro organizations, women, youth,
fraternal and social organizations,
from the Socialist Party, etc., and
in every ward the delegated body of
workers and workers organizations
to nominate working class candi-
date.
We must explain this in patient,
systematic manner to the broad
masses pointing out the meaning
of working class democracy, versus
bourgeois democracy, which is really
a fig leaf for dictatorship of Nc
Co.Ilic6, insult, packinghouse bar
ons, railroad magnates and bankers,
the robbers of the toiling masses OF
Chicago. If we will place our cleo
ton struggle on such a basis, the
working class will understand the
meaning of the election campaign
as it should be understood and we
can expect a good response.
Therefore, the task of collecting
81. 900 signatures to place the Com
munist Party candidate for mayor
on the ballot will not be too big if
we involve broad masses of workers.
The question of the candidate Of the
Communist Party for mayor and the
candidates in wards will arouse the
masses and will concretize the issues,
sharpen the class relations and will
be an opportunity to drive a wedge
between the bourgeois parties and
the working class and will be step
toward divorcing the working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
for
ActiOnPlaced
By JObless
Reading Joint Grievance
Committee Present
Its Program

READING, Pa, Dec. IL. - The
joint grievance committee elected
last week at a general mass meeting
of workers representing the Unem-
ployment Council, the Italian-Amer-
lean Independent League and the
Goodwill Citizens League, met yes
terday and unanimously adopted a
program of action demanding, that
the investigation of cases be speeded
up, that rent payments be made i'm
mediately, coal distributed, discrim-
nation on relief jobs stopped.
The joint program of action in
full follows:
THAT case Investigations be
speeded up, seventy-two hours for
new and twenty-four hours for old
cases, That supplementary vouch-
ers be issued to cases that cannot
be investigated in twenty-four hours.
2-That rent payments be made
Immediately for all on relief rolls.
3-That coal be issued at the rate
of at least one ton per twenty eight
day month per family, with addi-
tional coal to those families having
no gas facilities for cooking.
EThat discrimination against
workers on relief jobs be stopped.
SHAT representatives of the I'M
employed chosen directly from I'M
employed organizations shall replace
vacancies on the Relief Board.
6-The payment of relief in cash;
Ten dollars per week per family,
with three dollars additional for
each dependent.
Full medical aid to the unem-
ployed.
8-That the joint grievance COM
mittee have access to see Miss Boil
ger Qocal relief administrator or
the Relief Board whenever cases
warrant and demand for a meet
ing is made by them.
The united front joint action COM
mittee voted full support to the en-
tire campai.Gl for the enactment OF
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill.
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this situation. But If we can put
masses into motion on the basis of
these special problems around the
election struggle we can broaden
the election struggle immensely
Naturally, here is danger for all
kinds of opportunism. But that de-
ponds upon our understanding OF
how to place this question before
the masses how to organize and
lead these struggles.
Ward Conferences
This outlook must be combined
with a broad united front approach
to the masses. The District Bu-
reau outlines a concrete plan that
in every working class ward broad
united front election conferences
are to be organized at which the
concrete problems of the workers in
the given ward, the workers in the
factories, trade unions, are to be dis
cussed, program adopted and can
didates nominated who are known
as fighters in the ranks of the
working class. In some cases it is
advisable to nominate not only the
leaders of the Communist Party as
candidates for alderman in the
given ward, but also non-Party peo-
pie who are known fighting men,
bers of the working class, members
of the A. F. of L., the Socialist
Party, etc.
Further, it is necessary to expose
bourgeois democracy. There still
prevails mass opinion that the
workers really elect somebody. We
do not sufficiently concretize and
explain to the masses the formula
ton of Lenin, that the workers
really have the right only to choose
between different groups Of politi-
clans, which one of them will ex-
plot and rob them. Here are some
concrete examples:
How Bosses Nominate
Immediately after the November
s elections, the bosses Of the Demo-
cratic Party in Illinois and those
who control the Democratic Party
went into a secret conference in
French Lick, Indiana (where hotel
expenses are only So a day., to de-
eide upon the slate for the Demo-
cratic Party in the coming elections,
and there, behind closed doors, a
handful of Chicago capitalists and
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VI w A414dAAl AACdbSA4yg oil ul4C111p4OJC0
Negro, who was shot during an evic-
ton.
The campaign is being undertaken
in the light of the fact that all
details of the savage attack have
been suppressed by the local news
papers.
William Heaterly was shot two
weeks ago when police smashed
through the protecting lines Of
neighbors, battered down the door,
entered the shack in which lived
William Heaterly, his family and
brother, and shot the Negro in cold
blood. AS the dead mans brother,
Samuel, sought to escape the dead
ly aim of the police, he was cap
tured, slugged into Inconsistencies,
and jailed. He is being held with
out bail. Meanwhile, the police
man who fired the shot has been
exonerated by the Police Depart
ment.
City-Wide protests have met with
brutal suppression by the police and
city authorities. Last Thursday, a
delegation of 100 was ambushed at
City Hall by police, and 10 arrested.
On the following Saturday, hun
dreds of workers picketed the Office
of constable Gilman, who led the
police attack, and demanded his re-
moval from Office. The pickets, most
of whom were Negroes, were dis
persed by police.
Leaflets setting forth the Heater
ly case will be distributed on Sun
day, Dec. %, as every home will be
canvassed and all workers will be
urged to rally behind the National
Congress for Unemployment Insur-
ance, which will meet in Washing
ton on Jan. to 7. Side by side
with this campaign, each worker
will be asked to sign the Daily
Worker ballot for the Workers I'm
employment Insurance Bill. Mass
meetings will be held in every IN
employment Council local.
Every workers center and work
ers' club will be used as headquar-
tiers in this house to house canvass,
and all workers have been asked to
report at their nearest headquarters
to obtain supplies.
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The conference will take further
steps to carry the fight for SUBJ
district autonomy
The call is signed by the follow
ing ten locals: Glencoe 1893, Neffs
1913, Lansing 3917, Glen Robbins
1879, Warwood, West Virginia 1892.
Gailord II, Lafferty 1892, Fairpoint
4577, Fairpoint 4407, and Smith
field 926.
Each local is asked TO send two
delegates and credentials should be
sent to Tom Hall, at Fairpoint. Ohio.
Telling how the Lewis dictatorship
in the union maintains itself by
appointive power, the call of the
locals declares:
Fellow Workers:
1.-THE time has come that we
arouse ourSef on the question Of
the election Of our own officers. At
present there are three officials in
Bellaire who were appointed by J.
L. Lewis. We, the miners, through
the sweat of our labor, pay dues
and still we have nothing to say
as to who should be our officers.
These officers in Bellaire were not
elected by us and why should they
represent us? The miners all over
the country are fighting for sub
district and district elections resliz-
ing that appointive power leads to
a one-man union in which the rank
and file has nothing to say.
Eve have been promised that
when we are organized we will have
the right to elect our own officers.
This promise was like a dream which
never came true.
AT the last convention it was de-
cided that the International Execu-
tive Board will take this matter up
but they also failed This is in di.
rect contradiction to Section IL
of the MIRA. code which grants III
the right Of collective bargaining
and the right to choose our owl.
representatives"