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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
BY SENDER GARLIN

Georgia treats her niggers bet
ter than any other state in the
union" Hon. Eugene Talmadge,
governor of Georgia, assured me
during an interview in his suite in
the Commodore Hotel.
Good niggerS get along fine in
Georgia, in spite Of what you folks
up North sometimes hear" the
governor continued.
Yet, according to a writer in
yesterdays New York Times, the
great state of Georgia has the
highest Iynching record for the
past five years-excelling even the
great state of Alabama!
Prior to the interview Talmadge
had received the welcome accorded
a returning hero when he spoke at
a luncheon of the Advertising Club,
of which Grover Whalen, former
chief gendarme of the city Of New
York, is president. Talmadge's
speech, vaguely entitled, The New
South" recounted the achievements
Of his administration, chiefly So
a-year license plate for automobile
owners.
One Strikebreaker to Another
Grover whalen, in presenting the
Georgia governor, brought forth a
storm of applause from the as
sembled businessmen when he quoted
Talmadge's declaration during the
recent textile strike that when any
citizen of Georgia wants to work
they have an inalienable right to
do So"
at is a great honor" the South
ern governor began modestly, "for
a Georgia cracker to have the pleas
ure of addressing the greatest adj
vertising club in the world. 1t was
146 years ago that my grandfather
left Newark, N. j., and walked to
Atlanta, Georgia. Later he walked
back to Newark, took himself a
wife and brought her back to At
lanta on donkey"
Having properly introduced him
self, Gov. Talmadge plunged into
economics. Forty years ago." he
said, land brought $40 an acre in
Georgia. Recently bought out my
sisters interest in some land and
I paid her only S. an acre"
Competition from Europe was the
chief cause of the slump in prices,
the chief executives declared, and
pointed out that thirteen million
bales Of cotton are grown outside
Of the United States. Years ago,
Gov. Talmadge said sadly, "a man
who owned red land could live in
town and have niggers work his
land, but now every large landowner
is a poor man."
TOO Much Relief"
Indian war-whoops from th@
banqueteers greeted Gov. Tai
madge's declaration that "the gov
eminent should not be in business.
We in Georgia and we in the South
don't believe any man knows how
to run another mans business just
because he has been elevated to
bureau"
Federal relief projects is what the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
George Issosl<i, Steel Worker, Railroaded
Into Insane Asylum for Union Activities

What was the result of their ex-
amination?"
They said I was sane"
And did they then make any
moves to cause your release"
mo, they kept me there until
Oct. a." (The day Issosh's release
was demanded by Governor Pin
chot.)
Your correspondent asked the
victim if he had been beaten while
in the borough and county jails.
He declined to answer the question.
Now that you are released, do
you intend to give up your activi-
ties in the unionp"
mo, I shall continue them"
Whether it is hard or not, that
is the only way the workers will
ever better their lot, isn't it?"
Issoski grinned, You bet," he
answered.
Pinchot VIII Use Whitewash.
The A. A. top leadership, how
ever, has washed its hands of any
meetings or other forms of protest
against the framing of Issoski. They
intend to leave it up to the gov
ernor-he will handle it." The gov
ernor will probably handle it--with
a whitewash brush, as he did in
the case Of the Ambridge murder
investigation this spring, for cleo
lions will soon be over.
Meanwhile, an investigation is
being conducted into second case
of this kind. Workers refuse to re-
veal the name of the victim, but he
has been twice railroaded to Tor
rance, and has been there since
January, 1884. Only few days
ago he was able to smuggle a let
ter out to friends of his, and the
case is now being looked into" by
state Investigators assigned by
Pinchot.
The Amalgamated lodge in Ali
quppa has succeeded in holding
two mass meetings in the borough,
but is still unable to hold member
ship meetings because of the ter
ror. Borough police wear regular
wartime steel helmets, and carry
extra long riot clubs on duty, in
place of the shorter maces.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
BY TOM KEENAN,

ALIQUIPPA, Pa, (By MaiD -
George Issoski told the story Of his
frame-up to the Daily Worker, each
fact related by the raidroaded steel
worker another link in the chain of
evidence which closely connects the
Jones and Laugh1in Steel Corpora
ton, Aliquippa, Beaver County and
State authorities in the plot by
which he was committed to Tor
rance State Hospital for the Insane,
for his activities in the Amalga-
mated Association of Steel and Tin
workers.
In mill accident in 1916, Issoski's
back was seriously injured and since
that time he has worked on and OFF
for the corporation, each time being
rehired at lower rate, up until his
final discharge in 1929.
Since that time he has been with
out work, but when the Amalga-
mated operated its organization
drive in the and L plant late this
Summer he worked hard to build
the union and signed up himself
early in September.
On September II, Issoski made an
evening visit to the A. AS local
headquarters in Aliquippa for some
application cards, fifty of which he
took home under his shirt for friends
who we're anxious to join the union.
AS he neared home friend in
formed him that police were follow
ing him, but he disregarded the
warning and few minutes later
was accosted by pair of the cor
poration's armed thugs in uniform.
The guards commanded him to
surrender the application cards
which he carried. Issoski denied
having any, but the thugs tore open
his shirt, captured the cards, and,
cursing him violently, threw MIN
into their car and took him to the
Aliquippa jail, where he was charged
with being drunk and disorderly."
The next day, at a hearing before
Justice of the Peace c. R. Hayward,
Of Aliquippa, Issoski was found
guilty as charged and fined SIG and
costs. Having no money to pay the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05

the lunacy commission very bitterly
for framing ISsoski, the commission
made up of DR.. Margaret Cornelius,
DR.. M. M. Mackall, and Attorney
James K. Stone. CDR. Cornelius
threatened to cut off the relief sup
piled Mrs. IsSoski and her seven
children if she refused to sign COM
mitment papers, but in vain; and
Attorney Stone distinguished him
self in the service of ] and L last
year as one of the deputized thugs
who massacred the Ambridge picket
line.)
The governor has tried to throw
the whole blame on Beaver County
officials as being under the steel
company's domination, but the fol-
lowing reveals the position of state
authorities
Issoski was asked, when you ar
rived at Torrance did the doctors
there examine you?"
eyes"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Good Niggers Get Along In Georgia.
Coz. TaInnadge Tells Daily Writer

spend all your time farming7"
well, between crops, I'd tend to
my law business" he replied simply.
Vague on Herndon Case
Gov. Tslmadge was surprisingly
vague on the Herndon case. Il I'M
derstand," I informed him, that a
young Negro by the name of Hern-
don was sentenced to serve 20 years
on the chain gang for speaking at
relief meeting in Atlanta. What
DO you think of that caSe?"
We'll, I don't know much about
that case" the governor countered,
except that I know that that young
niger got a fair and square trial,
and the jury must-a known what
they were about"
Asked about John L. SpiVak's
dramatic exposure of the chain gang
system in Georgia, the governor said
that he had never read the book,
but assured me that chain gangs
aren't half as bad as some folks
make them out. In this the COVER
nor was vigorously seconded by the
political flunkeys who sat by his
side. "Yaah," said the governor,
these fellows on the chain gangs
are in the open air, they see mules
and children and sometimes get
cigarettes from folks passing by,
and being in chain gang is GER
tainly much healthier than being
locked up in a prison cell-like folks
are in other states"
Besides, Gov. Talmadge informed
me - almost confidentially - "if a
convict behaves himself, the guard
let's him go loose after few
months"
you mean he let's the prisoner
go free?" I asked naively.
"Oh, no, I mean he takes the
chain of the convict for a spell"
What-SOcial Equality!
Returning to the Herndon case,
I asked the governor whether it was
not true that the young Negro or
ganizer was convicted on an "insur-
rectionary" statute passed shortly
before the Civil War.
The governor was vague on Amer
lean history, but
What these agitators are want
ing is not relief, or even unions, but
social equality, and there's no place
for that kind of stuff in the state
of Georgia"
What do you mean by social
equality'?" I asked.
We'll, this idea of niggers coming
into front doors of white folks
homes instead of back doors and
carrying on as if they were the same
as whites. ="
I was about to ask another ques-
ton when Gov. Talmadge suddenly
remembered that he had another
appointment in the lobby of the
Commodore. Grasping my hand.
Talmadge assured me that it was "a
distinct pleasure" to make my ac-
quaintance and asked If wouldn't
please mail him copy of the in
terview.
I shall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05

fine, the prisoner was sent to Beaver
County jail, at Beaver.
Railroaded to Asylum
Here he was kept incommunicado
in cell, and few days later was
sent to the insane asylum at Tor
rance, Pa, without a single mem
Der of the lunacy commission which
was responsible for his commit
ment ever examining him in any
way--one of the most brazen frame
ups which even Beaver County has
ever known.
Today Issoski was asked, Did any
of the members of the commission
examine you in any way before you
we're sent to Torrance?"
The steel worker replied, Not
one"
Did they question you in any
way?"
NO"
Pinchot Acted Late
Governor Pinchot has attacked
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
CHANGE
Tine
WORLD!
By MICHAEL GOLD

ENIN called the film the most powerful cultural weapon
the militant woringclass could Now many years
later after bunders and false starts and curious apathy
among woring-cass leaders, the film is about to
into its in proetaran America.
We are commencing to learn how use this wonderful
90 farming villages proletarian
shown through
Film corporation.
west organizing
the possibilities
three states"
pictures already the the
pictures among Potemkin Fragment Empire
Of ST. Petersburg, and Gorkys Mother with sound.
operator travels an to town. but
milimetre protector job
up They miles around
pictures barns schools halls
parlor loaned by friendly mortician.
now organizing Michigan Illinois
workers workers.
showing pictures Kameradschat
Chaplin comedies picture
working League.
cts experience personally really thrilling
it demonstrated that the American workers and farmers
Hollywood says they good
pictures they love good pictures and America today that
OUR pictures this thing keeps growing at its present
going give Hollywood competition way
of audience have already given hundred
sand real Americans of they
Let's fm-minded
may prove organizing weapon country
like American"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05

attack on the Jews and if so, why,
as an American patriot" did you
undertake to distribute a book
which you knew carried insidious
anti Semitic propaganda?
s. How much money did you
get from George Sylvester Viereck
to help defray the cost of distrib-
uting this anti Semitic book?
Z. How much did your wife,
who is your assistant, get to help
defray the expenses Of distribut-
ing this bOok9
3. Your wife expressed the
hope that before long she would
have an Office Of her own to carry
on the distribution of this anti
Semitic book. Who proposed to
pay for this office of her own,
about which she confided to sew
eral of her intimate friends?
9. You solicit and receive con-
tributiOns for anti Communist
propaganda. How much Of this
came from wealthy Jews and what
portion Of it was used to dissemi-
nate this anti Semitic book?
10. Why did you not inform
the public or Judge PrOskauer and
other prominent Jews whom you
tried to get to indorse this book
that it had been imported into
this country by George Sylvester
Viereck?
IL. Did you inform your aSso-
ciates, such as General DelafieId,
when you, they, and prominent
Jews who were fighting anti Sem
itism in this country were meet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05

ing secretly, that the meetings
had been first suggested to you
by George Sylvester Viereck? L
am referring to your proposed
committee of 100 which YOU tried
to get formed.
IL. Since your fight is against
Communism and radicalism what
has that to do with your efforts
to get the Jewish boycott of Ger
man goods in this country
stopped?
10. The American Federation
of Labor, of which Matthew VOL
is president and is also act
ing president of the National
Civic Federation, went on record
favOring the boycott of German
goods. Did you tell Mr.. VOL Of
your recent activities to get this
boycott stopped and what did he
say?
ID. Why did you go to The
State Department and discuss
with Under Secretary of State
Phillips the stopping of the Jew
ish boycott of German goods?
What has that to do with Com
muniSm?
Is. Why did you report con-
fidentially to George Sylvester
Viereck on the activities of the
American Jewish Committee, an
organization formed to fight antI-
Semitism in this country?
16. Why did you plot confiden-
italy to have the American Jew
ish Committee issue a statement
which would give the National
Socialist Party of Germany an OPP
portunity for blast of publicity
in defense of anti-Semitic activ-
tiles and confidentiaily report on
this to Viereck, the Nazi agent?
IL. You met secretly at the
home of DR.. Stein, 375 Park Ave,
with Royal Scott Gulden, head of
the secret espionage Order Of IS,
who, you knew, was carrying on
anti-Semitic propaganda. What
are your relations with Gulden?
Is. Did you meet with Col. Ed
win Emerson, the Nazi anti Sem
itic agent in this country? What
was the purpose of your meetings?
10. Did you meet Sidney Brooks
of the Republican Senatorial and
Congressional Campaign COM
mittee, the son Of Col. Edwin
Emerson, and what reason did
you have to meet with him?
20. Your wife distributed this
anti-Semitic Communism in Ger
many" giving free copies to VIII
liam Dudley PelIey of the Silver
Shirts. Did Viereck suggest giving
him these copies?
81. What other propaganda
material did Viereck ever give you
to distribute which was imported
from Germany?
%. What financial contribu-
lions did you receive from Nazi
agents to carry on the work of
distributing material which they
wanted spread throughout this
country?
JOHN L. SPIVAK.
The response to this communica-
ton, sent by Archibald E. Steven
son, is reproduced in facsimile
above.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
T u n In G. IN

100 P. M.-WEAF-Campaign Talks-sen-
ator Robert F. Wagner; Represen-
tatIve Theodore A. Peyser
WOR-Sports Talk-Ford Prick
WJz-Amos N Andy-Sketch
WABC-Myrt and Marge-Sketch
7:15-WEAF-Gene and Glenn-Sketch
WOR-Comedy and Music
WJZ-Plantation Echoes
WABC-Just Plain Bill-Sketch
0-WEAF-Campaign Talk-Robert
Moses, Republican Candidate for
Governor
WOR-Mystery Sketch
WJz-Red Davis-Sketch
WABC-Paul Keast, Baritone; orch.
7:45-WEAF-Frank Bucks Adventures
WOR-Dance Music
WJz-Dangerous Paradise-Sketch
WABC-Boake Carter, Commentator
$780, WEAF-Campaign Take. Harold
Cluett, Republican Candidate for
Senator
WOR-Lone Ranger-Sketeh
WJz--Jan CARRIER, Supper Club
WABC-Bar X Days-Sketch
i5-WABC-Edwin C. Hill, Commentator
30-WEAF-Symphony Orchestra; Gladys
Swarthout, Soprano Margaret
Speaks, Soprano; Frank Chapman,
Baritone; Fred Hufsmith, Tenor
WOR-Variety Musicale
WJz-Campaign Talk-Governor
Lehman
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05

WABC-Everett Marshall, Baritone
00-wEAF-Gypsies Orchestra
WOR-Campaign Talks-Governor A.
Harry Moore Of N. j.; Judge will
liam Dill, Democratic Candidate
WJz-Minstrel Show
WABC-Rosa Ponselle, Soprano
0-WEAF-Joe Cook, Comedian; Donald
Navis, Tenor; Frances Langford,
Contralto; voorhees, Orchestra
WOR-Lum and Abner-Sketch
WA Good Soldier--Sketch
WABC-Gluskin Orch; Block and
Sully. Comedians; Gertrude Niesen,
Songs; Chiquito, Songs
9:45-WOR-Br Breckenridge Campaign Talk
WOR-Frank and Flo, Songs
WJz-America in Music
WABC-Sumnine Up the Campaign
Henry P. Fletcher, Chairman
Republican National Committee
;l5-wOR-Current Events-H E. Read
WJz-The New Deal, Americas
Hope for the Future-Postmaste
General James A. Farley, Chair
man Democratic NATL Committee
WABC-Same as WIZ
$780, EAF-1s34 Mobilization for Human
Needs; Play-The Lost Generation;
The Real Values OF Life-Robert
E. Sherwood (Also WABC. WIZ
WOR-Lehman Campaign Talk
i1:oo-WEAF-The Crummits-Sketch
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05

there are two kinds of elections,
the prirnaries-what we call the
white primaries and the regular
elections. A niger that has some
property and pays his taxes can
always vote-eYen in the white pri-
mary. All niggers can vote in the
regular election, but that's not so
important, you see, because the
primary usually decides what can
didate is due to win"
"Strike and Go Home"
"Oh, that textile strike? You ask
if my administration is against
strikes. 1t is most decidedly not,
young man, providing, of course,
there's no intimidation or violence.
It's alright for folks to quit work if
they're a-mind to, but they got no
right to stop other folks from work
ing. Like I already explained, if
they just quit and go home and
don't cause no trouble, we'd have no
call to put EN- in those camps. Take
the way my niggers quit on me.
They just left my farm and went
home. There's nothing illegal about
that, but these textile agitators, they
tried to picket, I mean stop other
folks from working"
The governor was insistent that
he was not against the rights Of
labor. why, you're talking to a
working man right here and now,"
he exclaimed pounding his fist
against his heart. IT own a farm
myself and there's lot of work
I've done in my day with these here
hands"
Before you were elected COVER
nor" asked Talmadge, did you
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
the
AMERICAN POGROMS

This is the last instaIment
Of the sixth article by JOhn L.
Spivak in the series, Plotting
the American Pogroms," appear
ing weekly in the New Masses.
In these articles, Spivak exposes
the widespread organized anti
Semitic activities, closely linked
with Nazi Germany, of such or
CARNATIONS and individuals as
the Order of rs, Silver Shirts.
Congressman Louis T. McFadden
Of Pennsylvania, and, in the pres
ent article, Ralph NJ. EasIey,
famous red-baiter and George
Sylvester VieTeck. high pressure
Nazi agent in this country.
BY JOHN L. SPIVAK
III.
EFT me quote from a secret report
4 Easley sent to Viereck on July Is,
1884. The emphasis is mine:
Dear Mr.. Viereck:
In thinking over the situation
WHICH HAS GROWN OUT OF
MY PROPOSAL FOR YOU TO
HAVE YOUR FRIENDS IN GER
MANY ANSWER THE STATE
MENTS contained in the PAM
phlet THE JEWS IN NAZI GER
MANY purporting to be "the
factual record of their persecution
by the National Socialists" and is
sued by the American Jewish
Committee of New York, 1 am
wondering If, instead of answering
that Memorandum, 1T WOULD
NOT BE BETTER IF THE Ma
TIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY IT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
"Three Songs About Lenin"

OUR Photo League years.
but outside of newses, bring
this great cultural to the working
AS yet they haven't produced single comedy agitation
satire working class drama.
bourgeois film produced
shorts The cost comparatively slight writer's directors
and Aim ehnicians in plenty And have this great audience
waiting An organizer be needed perhaps gather
all the threads together.
Meanwhile should advise workers Aim technicans both
the Soviet picture Three About Lenn"
pears film peak highest
director Vertov
But he has them pattern of sight and that
stunning great symphony grand Even Will Rogers
seemed to confessed
When touch Babbitt like with your
art it something that
life with force clarity that he
Vertov deals with Soviet life He
epic contains into his furiousy hope somebody
the Film and Photo League finally Aim
proetarian America The workers
the circuits waiting for it hungriy.
competition Ramsey Harry Cannes
Barton the Medical Advisory Daily
Quoa-S50e.
Harry Rutland LOO
p & G. Workers 165
Previously received 1862
Total 10 S2s2a7
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05

Contributions received to the
credit of David Ramsey in his
Socialist competition with Jacob
Burck, Mike Gold, Harry Gan
mes, Ann Barton, del and the
Medical Advisory Board, in the
Daily Worker drive for $4,000
Quota-S250.
Eva 0strow ..............S LOO
Previously Reed .......... 1924
Total to date .................... s28.24
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
"I'm From Missouri"

THERE something about picture that is convincing than
words. I'm from Missouri you've got to
the In moving picture show him. You
him the contrasts capitalism; the
the garbage dumps where the live him
capitalist strikers armed forces the capitalist
state against workers and against capitalists
him. there great things
that being for the
don't need you show
tiona impact that into his deepest being
written and spoken propaganda
consciousness
It talk the whole is kind of algebra
afraid many prejudiced against algebra
the movie emotion into deeper
and primitive and unconscious layers of the mind.
illustrate: you
paper, you slight shock but the whole
that accident the blood agony it,
with the greatest writer could you
You would always remember your experience
The the revolutionary
food to workers The movies experience This life
itself unforgable about life Psychologists
discovered this the today
children being taught through moving pictures instead
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
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