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, 1935-06-12

Bob Lefty" Grove, the costly
darling OF the Red Sox whose sore
arm was a Sadder blow than the
depression TO Boston fandom, is
riding his fire ball back into the
favor of the bleacherites.
his record gives him four games
IN the win column and an equal
number on the darker side but in
the last three games, two Of which
he won. he has shown some OF the
stuff that once made him the out
standing pitcher in baseball
Tuesday. the Red Sox won both
ends Of & double header from De-
troit. 81 and So. yanking Mickey
Cochraneis boys out OF fourth posi-
ton and moving in there them
selves. The double win brought
them within one point of the third
place Cleveland Indians.
Grove was in there in the first
encounter. allowing only five hits
TO best Lefty Joe Sullivan. on the
mound for Detroit. The veteran
fire-baller. who has been pretty
wild at times this season, had his
old-time magic control and he
issued nary a walk.
Yves Terrell pitched another five
hitter for the Sox in the second
game but he gave up six walks.
But II history was made Tuesday.
70 was made in negative fashion by
the league-leading Giants.
, 1935-06-12
Giants Fall Twice

The lowly Cincinnati Reds drub-
bed them twice in a doubleheader;
IN full sight of the home folk. They
scored a total OF two runs. nj in
each game, as the young, fighting
Reds scored 4 and 3 respectively.
One has to reach back into the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-02
Welfare Board Hires
Prison Labor in South

LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. THE
Executive Council of the Kentucky
Federation of Labor has sent a pro-
test to Governor Ruby Laffoon
against the proposed contract be-
tween the Huffins Shirt Company
of Nashville, Tenn, and the Ken
lucky Board of Welfare. The con-
tract if effective will mean that
1000 Kentucky convicts will be put
to work in prison shirt shops, and
would prove an effective weapon
for increasing unemployment and
driving the wages of shirt workers
to still lower levels.
1t is considered that MIRA. labels
will be placed on the shirts as the
contract was submitted to the re-
Gently established Prison Labor Au-
thority. This condition exists de-
spite the Hawes-Cooper Act which
prohibits such practice, but is never
enforced. New York shirt manu-
facturers, operating plants in Ten
nessee, declared that if the contract
goes through its plants in New Yor
will close.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-02
Trotsk Writings Linked Motive Behind Murder KiroV

Trade Unions, have been defeated
by the facts along the whole line.
The fact that both the faScistS and
the reformist leaders have defended
and still defend the Denikinites and
the zinovieY- Trotzkyite gang of ter
roristS. with equal zeal and identical
arguments, is in itself further
plain proof of the community of
nections of all the anti-Soyiet
groups on whom the sentence of the
proletarian court fell pitilessly.
Trotzky the Inventor
And so the slanderers, deprived
of any possibility Of opposing in
disputably proved facts, are trying
to make play with psychological
considerations" Trot1ky himself
was primarily the inventor of these
psychological" tricks. And Trot-
zky, you are asked to understand,
during the forty years of his revo-
lutionary CD activity, has always
as a Marxist ID repudiated, from
the point of view of the interests
of the workers movement, the use
OF any measure of individual terror
even against Czarism and not only
against the workers government"
and he docs not see any reason
to change his opinion now" And
the editor of the British New Lead
er" pretends to take this argument"
seriously.
"Trotzky," writes the organ of the
Independent Labour Party in the is
sue of Jan. 4, 1895, has denied any
contact with a foreign consul in
Russia, and states that as a Marxist
he has always condemned the use
OF individual terrorist methods. The
history Of Zinoviev, Kamenev and
their colleagues would indicate a
similar attitude on their part"
The would-be naive leading ar
ticle of the New Leader" pretends
that 1t does not notice that when
Trotsky telks about his "Marxism"
he merely repeats the method of
the Latvian Consul who attempts
to wriggle cut by the claim that as
loyal diplomatic agent" he is
not supposed to take part in the
work OF terrorist gang.
Memory CI0uded
Evidently, although the writer of
the leading article appeals to his
tory, his memory is greatly clouded
owing to his desire to help Trotsky
and his colleagues to cover the
traces of their crime against the
Soviet Union and the toiling masses
Of the whole world. Otherwise, for
example, he might have remem-
bered that the Mensheviks who re-
pudiated civil war in the struggle
against Czarism and were ardent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-02

and hypocdtical trickery to creep
into and maintain themselves in the
Soviet apparatus and even the
BolShevik Party.
To what police" measures does
Trotzky call the fragments of the
politically and morally defeated op-
positional bloc who are becoming
more and more convinced every day
of their HOPELESS isolation from the
masses, who are driven to frenzy
and despair more and more by every
victory Of socialist construction, by
every new manifestation of the love
of the masses for the Bolshevik
Party and its leader Stain, who
are more and more being convinced
of the complete hopelessness of the
ambitious intrigues of the zinovievs
and Kamenevs?
Used Police Measures
The things which the leaders of
the TrotEky-zinoviev bloc on the
territory of the U.S.S.R. could feed
the terroristic sentiments of the
miserable remnants of their sup
porters are vile rumors, malicious
kissing and slanderous hints. But
Trotzky, the "superman,' who uses
the freedom" of the bourgeois press
for anti-Soviet work, could openly
shout his political directives.
He gave the signal to remove the
abscess." Nikolaev had no other
lancet except a revolver to reach
the leader of the Soviet and the
world proletariat. The Nikolaevs
threw themselves into the chase of
the leaders of the proletarian die
tatorship whom they most hated,
hunted them, carried out the polit-
ical directives to remove the alb
scess by police measures
Comrade Kirov lies with head shot
through with treacherous bullet,
and Trotzky takes up the pose of a
neutral observer, as if to say: I am
not concerned in this-I am a
MarxiSt!
But TINS lying pose will not, OF
course, deceive anyone. 1t will not
deceive the toilers of the whole
world who replied with unparalleled
rage and sorrow to the murder of
the brilliant fighter of the prole-
tartan revolution, this pose of Trot-
zky will not embarrass the agents
Of the international gendarmerie
who, when giving money in the fu-
ture to terrorists and wreckers
against the Soviet Union, will not
forget to proffer their services also
for the establishment of contacts
with Trotzky who is living in some
unknown place" in the beautiful
capitalist world
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-02

this question?
IF it is true that the bureaucrats
hold the entire power and the ap-
proaches to it in their hands"
wrote Trotsky, "and this is the &C
tual state of affairs, then a ques-
ton of no small Importance arises
how to bring about the reorgan-
ization of the. Soviet Government.
And can this task be solved by
peaceful methods? /. No normal
constitutional methods remain for
removing the ruling clique"
A Question of Method
From these equally characteristic
standpoints, what conclusions are
drawn by each Of them, by Nikolaev
and Trotsky, on the question of the
methods of struggle against the
Soviet Power?
Nik0iaev's conclusion: :" H n e
there remained only one path-the
path of te.roristic acts"
Trotsky's conclusion: 1.-THE bu-
reaucrats can only be compelled to
give the power into the hands OF
the proletarian vanguard by force"
The wiseacres from the New
Leader" may say: "There is politi-
cal difference between the points OF
view Of Trotsky and Nikolaev. 1t is
true that both of them were enc
mics of the C.P.S.U. and the Soviet
Power. Each of them could not see
any other method of overtnrowing
this power except by force. But Nix
olaev speaks definitely of terroristic
acts, while Trotsky uses more gen.
eral formula" overthrow by force"
Internal Forces"
These wiseacres, however, will
have to consider which forces inside
and outside the U.S.SR. Trotsky
was reckoning on to carry out his
plan of overthrowing the Soviet
Power, and in particular how he
educated these internal forces"
and for what purpose he tried to
mobilize them.
First Of all, what do both of them
say about the external forces which
in their opinion will "liberate the
country from the Stalinite bureauc-
racy." They are both unanimous
on this question-they base their
hopes on military Intervention. In
the article quoted, Trotsly more
openly develops his formula on the
"Clemenceau method a formula
which he let slip even at the time
when he was trying to build up an
anti-Soviet opposition in the Boil
shevik party, and the meaning Of
which was that the defeat of the
Soviet Union would open the path
to power for the zinoviev -Trotsky
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-02
Locals Of A. A. Issue Call
For February 3 Conference

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb 1.-The AmaIgamated AS
ISOLATION Of Iron Steel and Tin lodges for min
ing locals to participate in the Feb joint
and mining
Spang Pittsburgh District president of the A A.
To all local unions Of the United Mine Workers America
Brothers Greetings:
The Amagamaed Association of Workers in
joint conference held headquarters and
attended by the international officers delegates representing
the lodges Of five districts decided the
United Mine Workers of America to be con-
ference of the lodges Of the Ammated
Sunday Feb at in Hail. corner of Seventh and
Duquesne Way Pittsburgh Pa is desire the repre-
Senv Of the local unions Of the United
with joint meeting of achieving
I'VE feel that in the present important DEVELOPMENTS in
this country closer cooperation between the workers the
miners is Immediately necessary urge every local union to
elect delegates to this conference"
Fraternaly yours,
(Signed) WILLIAM SPANC
Chairman, District One A. A. O T. S. and T. W.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-02
LID. Enters
Fight to Free
7 Mill Hands

CHALLENGING the framed-up
conviction and sentencing of seven
textile workers of Burlington, N. c.,
in December on a charge of "dyna-
hitting the international Labor
Defense, through its acting National
Secretary, Anna Damon, yesterday
announced plans to enter the case,
appeal the conviction and expose
the Vaccinations of the frame-up.
A thorough investigation on the
ground, conducted by attorneys sent
down by the International Labor
Defense reveals 'one Of the newest
frame-ups in many years." the I.
L. D. stated. Steps already have
been begun to bring the case before
the Supreme Court Of North Caro-
lima by March.
The seven defendants in this
case are all mill workers. Four of
them are members of the United
Textile Workers Union.
Given Long Terms
They were sentenced to terms
varying from ten to two years. The
defendants are John Anderson,
Florence Blaylock, Howard Over
man, ]. P. Hoggard, j. F. Harraway,
Tom Canipe and Avery Kimry. They
are charged with dynamiting the E.
M. Holt Plaid Mill in Burlington
, during the textile strike in Septem-
Der, 1884. They were sentenced on
December 4 in the Superior Court
Of Alamance County, by a hand
picked jury from which all union
members and union sympathizers
were Systematically excluded.
The International Labor Defense
is basing its appeal on the grounds
of conviction obtained against the
weight Of evidence, the introduction
Of faxed confessions" and open
prejudice on the part of the Judge
Behind this frame up the I. l.
D. said, in announcing its entry into
the case, is the burning question
of the right of workers in the South
to organize into unions. The basis
Of the States case is planted dyna-
mite, perjured evidence, intimida-
ton, bribery-and a vicious hatred
on the part of the mill owners for
the unions and those who Join
them"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-02
By JAMES EGAN

Since the betrayal of the proposed
strike action of last June the steel
workers have been given proposals,
/ counter proposals, labor board hear
ings, court proceedings, statements
by Roosevelt, by the Iron and Steel
Institute. Green and by Mike Tighe.
A multitude Of confusing, delaying
and demagogic maneuvers. provid-
ing a smoke screen to blind and
confuse the steel workers angry and
demanding action.
From this maze of confusion the
steel workers are now moving clearer
and clearer. They now understand
more clearly what Green, Roose-
welt and Tighe did to them at the
June convention when under the il
lusions Of the New Deal and faith
in Roosevelt, the delegates accepted
Green's proposal for an impartial"
board Of three.
First. The Roosevelt ighe- Green
proposal for an impartial board of
three has achieved its real purpose,
namely, to avert a strike in steel
last summer.
Second. 1t has given the steel cor
poratiins time and opportunity to
strengthen the company unions.
The companies favoring those in
the company unions in giving better
Jobs and steadier employment and
discriminating against Amalgamated
men.
Third. This policy of arbitration
and class peace has led to decline
in the active membership in the
A. A.
Fourth. Thousands of A. A. men
have been discharged and their
cases presented to this impartial
board of three, but today, seven
months after its appointment, not
one man has been reinststed by the
board.
The company always states "these
men are not discharged, they will
be placed on the Job when produc-
ton picks up. On Warren, Ohio,
there are IL such men who were
discharged when only three open
hearths were operating. now there
are seven furnaces working but the
IL still remain idle and the COM
pany works its short force 8 hours
on and hours of. Each man works
16 out of "a hours but the IL dis
eliminated men get nothing from
the impartial Labor Board.)
Fifth. In dozens of mills the work
ers have met every requirement of
the board, including elections, etc,
but no place in this country has the
arbitration of this impartial board
OF three" resulted in a signed agree
ment with the A. A., better wages
or better conditions.
The Iron and Steel Institute and
President Roosevelt now become
app-ehensiVe of the situation in
steel. Why? Is it because the i'm
partial board is not fulfilling it's
role? No. Roosevelt and the Iron
and Steel Institute are perfectly
satisfied with the work of the board.
On the surface of things every
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-02

THE frantic anti-soviet campaign
undertaken by the capitalist and
also to a considerable degree by the
reformist press of all shades with
the aim Of concealing from their
readers the truth about the das-
tardly murder of Comrade Kirov,
the brilliant fighter of the prole-
tartan revolution, has already ut
terly collapsed. Facts speak so
clearly and convincingly that the
whole chorus of slanderers is unable
to shout them down. These facts
show that the Denikin press in a
number of countries (Yugoslavia, U.
S. A., etc. boast about being i'm
plicated in wrecking activity and
terrorist murders on the territory
Of the Soviet Union and against
Soviet officials in capitalist coun-
tries, and that some of these papers
directly singled out Comrade Kirov
as the next victim of their Grim
inal conspiracies.
The actual facts, the admission
Of the members of the Leningrad
Centre at the preliminary investiga-
ton and in court, leave no doubt
that the murder of Comrade Kirov
was politically and organizationally
prepared and perpetrated by the de-
generate dregs of the Trotzkyite-
Zinoyiey bloc with the aim Of carry
ing out the program of this bloc
and overthrowing the Soviet power.
The facts show that the so-called
Moscow Centre, which consisted of
the former leaders of the Zinoviev-
snti-Soviet group, knew Of the ter
roristic sentiments Of the members
of this group, fired these sentiments.
and is Responsibilities of all. in
the persons of Zinoviev, EvdotNmov,
Gertik, and Kamenev-for the ter
rorist acts organized by the Lenin-
grad Centre.
Finally, the Latyian Consul in
Leningrad who recently made trip
to HelSingfors for some reason or
other, fastened to announce to the
representatives of the Finnish press
that he had never seen the muir
derer of Comrade Kirov, had not
given him money and had had no
intention Of putting him in contact
with Trotzky.
In such cases the Russians say,
The cap on the thief is burning"
Cby his fear, a guilty person is bound
to expose himself. In any case.
the personality of the mysterious
diplomatic gentleman, whom the in
dictment for OBVIOUS reasons indi-
Gated with as'-risks, is also quite
plain.
Thus, the organizers of the anti
Soviet campaign, including tn e
members of the General Council of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-02

patriots during the imperialist war,
changed their opinion" when it
came to a struggle against the
workers government, and organ
lied and provoked armed risings
against the SoyietS, took part in
the war Of intervention against the
country of the proletarian dictator
ship.
1t would also not be difficult for
Trotsky's advocates in the indie
pendent Labour Party to under
stand that Trotsky, who strongly
opposed the Bolshevik slogan of the
defeat of the bourgeois fatherland,
is now the most fervent defeatist
in respect to the country of the
dictatorship of the proletariat.
aims, the internal and political con-
There is nothing astonishing in
! this, of course, because in both
] cases Menshevism and its Trotskyite
fraction defended and still defend
the interests of the bourgeoisie
against the proletarian revolution.
There is nothing astonishing in the
fact that the Observation-Disclosures
bloc which began with the shame
less distortion of Marxism- Lenin-
ism stopped so low that it does
not hesitate at the use of any meth
DDS of struggle against the country
which is the living embodiment of
the teachings of Marx and Lenin.
In order to realize how deep are
the moral and political contacts be-
tween the foul murderers of Com
rade Kirov and cynical self-styled
. "Marxist" Trotsky, we do not even
require to remember everything
written during the last few years by
this has been" who has been cast
out by history into the filthy back
yards of the bourgeois parties. 1t is
sufficient to compare two human
documents" of this kind: Trotsky's
article Two Outlooks for the Soviet
Union" published in the "Neue
Weltbuhne" at the end of 1888 (at
the very time when the under
ground zinoviev-T rotskyite groups
. in the Soviet Union began to be-
come more active), and the testi-
mony of Nikolaev as given in the
indictment on the murder of Com
rade Kirov;
, 1--WE could not expect a change in
Party leadership by the methods OF
inner Party democracy" said Niko-
laev. I'VE realised that this path
was entirely out of the question"
Whose words is Nikolaev repeat
ing, almost literally? The words
Of the leaders of the zinoviev-
Trotsky bloc. What had Trotsky
prompted to his fellow thinkers
| from abroad a year previously on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-02

opposition, just as the defeat Of
bourgeois France opened the path
to power for Clemanceau. Trotsky
no longer thinks it necessary to use
historic symbol" He sets out his
calculations on intervention in a
simpler fashion:
THE relationship of forces inside
the Soviet Union will be firmly
established in case of some big his
torlc trial which might be a war.
In any case it is clear that by in
ternal forces alone, in view of the
further decline of the world prole-
tartan movement and the spread of
fascist rule, the Soviet power will
not be able to hold out long"
There is no need to prove that on
this question as well-reliance on
true disciple of the leaders of the
Trotskyite Zinoviev bloc. The
brother of the murderer makes the
following statement in his testi-
mony:
"Leonid also said to me that it is
only possible to overthrow the So
Wet Power by an attack of foreign
capitalist states on it, and if he were
abroad he would do everything in
his power to help any capitalist gov
eminent which attacked the Soviet
Union in order to overthrow the
Soviet Power"
Violent Methods of Struggle
Let Us examine the violent meth
obs of struggle inside the Soviet
Union on which Trotsky and Niko-
laev put their stake. "If the prole-
tariat gets active, the Stalinite ap-
psratuS will hang in the air. If this
apparatus tries to resist. then not so
much measures of civil war as police
measures will be used against it. In
any case, the matter in question is
not so much revolt against the
dictatorship of the proletariat as of
removing an ahscess."
Trotzky's reservation about the
activity Of the proletariat" will
naturally not deceive anyone. 1t is
the same activity" which NikoIaev
had in view when he murdered Com
rade Kirof.
When I shot at Kirov, my cal
culetion was as follows: Our shot
will be the signal for an explosion.
actions within the country against
the CPSU and the Soviet Power"
These calculations" of Nikolaev
are the natural fruit of the disgust
ing, base, and at the same time
helpless end toothless hatred which
Trotzky inflames from the lurking
place abroad in the hope that his
directives would be seized on by
those who are apostates like him
| self but who are able. bY cunning
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-02
Birthday Ball
OrPresident
Hears Protest

EASTON, Pa, Feb. Am unex-
pected note of reality struck
through the ballyhoo connected
with the Presidents birthday ball
given here for the benefit of the
Warm Springs Foundation when
the dancing was suddenly halted
and a resolution read demanding
that President Roosevelt free Tom
Mooney.
The ball was arranged by labor
unions here and attended largely by
the membership of the unions. The
resolution was unanimously passed:
The resolution said, in full:
ITO President Roosevelt; Whereas
on the occasion of the birthday of
President Franklin Delano Roose-
welt on Jan. 30, 1885, we members
of labor unions and other organiza-
tons in the city of Easton have
participated in a birthday ball to
aid victims of infantile paralysis;
and, whereas, few days ago
marked the end of a period of
eighteen years and six months Of
imprisonment for Tom Mooney;
and, whereas, Tom Mooney was
imprisoned as a result of a conyic-
ton that was secured through per-
jured testimony; and, whereas, we
fully appreciate and sympathize
with the spirit that prompted the
President to lend his birthday to
the cause of the victims of infsn-
tile paralysis; nevertheless, be it
resolved, that we respectfully re-
quest on this occasion that the
President use his good offices to in
tervene and put an end to the I'M
just imprisonment of Tom Mooney"