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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-26
Feodor Chaliapir1 Not
 Going Back---But WiH
 Si11gAb0utNatiD
Is Heavyweight and Keeps in Good Condition By Box ing-fis Lands and Title COnfscated- Prison
 Awaits Him if He Returns
BY EVERETT HOLLIS 'F United Press Staff Correspondent

Chicago January 26 - (UP) - Feodor Chaiapin, heavyweight Russian basso cuffed his vales with pair of 16ounce boxing gloves today and muttered few minor-key for the Soviets and Siberia.
 "Go back to Russia nevery' he boomed, with ere. scendo uppercut that caught Michele flush his Muscoya
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CIOudy-COld Tonight; Fair Cold Sunday
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
.COnlpanyUniOn
Voted Down
AT Chevrolet
AFL and MESA Leaders
Boycott NRA-Run
Election
By A. B. Magil

DETROIT, Jan. 8.-Only 325 Of
the 2,7S1 votes cast in the primary
elections for collective bargaining
representatives. held Friday at the
forge plant of the Chevrolet Motor
Company we're for the company
union. the Chevrolet Employees Asso-
citation.
A total of 200 votes were cast for
the American Federation of Labor
and thirty-nine for the Mechanics
Educational Society of America, in
dependent union of tool and die
makers. The trade union vote Is
unusually high in view of the fact
that neither the American Fedora
ton of Labor nor the Mechanics
Educational Society of America has
a local at the Chevrolet plant,
Twenty eight candidates wer e
nominated, of which fourteen are to
be chosen in the final elections next
Friday.
How the elections are being used
to place control in the hands of the
company unions. despite the fact
that the overwhelming majority of
the workers did not vote for the
company unions. is illustrated by
the recent vote at the Cadillac
plant. The Dec. % issue of Auto
motive Industries. employers trade
paper, boasts of the fact that of the
sixteen highest candidates in the
Cadillac primaries, eleven are rep
resentatives on the Works Council
Company union and two are
former representatives. Most of
these people were put forward as
unafiliated candidates in order to
fool the workers.
The first meeting of the newly
elected collective bargaining group
at the Cadillac plant. held Thursday
in the headquarters of the Auto
mobile Labor Board, resulted in the
election of E. H. Gustafson, sec
rotary of the company union, as
chairman.
The Communist Party has de-
manded that these elections be con-
Quoted on the principle Of major
ity representation and has called on
all production workers to vote for
the American Federation of Labor
and tool and die makers to vote
fo- the Mechanics Educational So
ciety of America. The Party points
out that as the elections are now
being conducted, the workers can
expect nothing but betrayal from
the so-called collective bargaining
agencies, which are firmly under the
thumb of the companies. The united
front of all legitimate trade unions
is necessary and the setting up OF
committees of action in the depart
ments and shops to prepare for
strike struggles in order to win bet
ter conditions for the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
United Front
Defense Drive
In Ev an S ton

EVANSTON, Ill, Jan. "A broad
united front conference for the de-
Tense of the militant unemployed
workers who are now awaiting trial
for demanding relief has been called
here by the Unemployment Coun-
ellis for January 81.
Sig workers were arrested Dec. IL,
for demanding relief, but were re-
leased when Negro and white work
ers packed the court room. One of
the defendants, Azelia Bradford,
was rearrested the same evening
with a student who was visiting the
Bradford home at the time the po-
lice arrived, and charged with dis
orderly conduct"
At mass meeting on Dec. 26,
held to protest this action more
than 100 Negro and white workers
turned out. Speakers from the
North Shore local of the Socialist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09

of the Negroes, will speak at the
rally. Karl Lockner, the Communist
candidate for Mayor, and Sam
Hammersmark, candidate for City
Treasurer, are also scheduled to
speak In addition to the city slate.
the Communist Party is support
ing thirty five candidates for Alder
men who have been nominated by
workers conferences in the wards
Six of the Aldermanic candidates
are Negroes.
The Workers United Front Rally
has already been endorsed by the
City Committee of the International
Workers Order, the Unemployment
Councils of Cook County, the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union,
the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights. the Polish Chamber of
Labor Defense.
The building of subway in Chi
cago is one of the major planks in
the platform put forward by the
Communist Party in its program for
the coming city elections in which
it will have full slate of candi-
dates.
The subway project is Just one
part of vast public works program
for Chicago outlined by the Party
all construction on it to be done
by union labor at union wages. In
addition to the subway. the Com
munists call for the building oil
workers homes, hospitals, schools
parks and Fairgrounds.
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year 1922 most of which were
crushed as result of the brutal
attacks of the employers and the
government aided by the class COL
laborationist policy Of the Com
perSes and the Greens, the reac-
tionary heads of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. At that time the
large numbers of workers who had
just entered into the trade unions,
comprising important sections in
basic industries involving some of
the most exploited and oppressed
sections of the working class began
to draw political conclusions from
the role of the government in sup
pressing their struggles They be-
gan to see in the government and
in the two old parties that con-
stituted the federal, state and
local governments, the ruling par
ties, the instruments of the capital
lists, the bankers, the rich. AS a
result, the workers in the trade
unions rebelled not only against the
strike policies of the A. F. of L.
leaders. they demanded not only
amalgamation and industria
unions, but insisted on an end to
the so-called non partisan policy
of the A. F. of L. and the formation
of Labor Party, expressing the
wishes and championing the imme-
date interests of the masses.
The Communist Party then threw
its full force in favor of this ex-
preston of the workers to break
from the two old parties and for
the formation of a Labor Party
The activity of the Communist
Party resulted in the fact that the
movement for Labor Party was
endorsed by millions of trade
unionists and received the support
of large sections of the unorganized
workers.
Naturally, the ruling class and
its agents in the ranks of the labor
movement were not slow to recog-
nize this challenge. They could not
stop the growth of the movement
for a genuine Labor Party merely
/ VIII Ile Two OlQ parties, even Dy
putting forward so-called progress
sive' candidates on the two old
party tickets. They resorted to a
more serious manuever. They pro-
NOTED the formation of a third
capitalist party under the leader
ship of Senator LaFollette, in order
to offset the real danger of the
formation of genuine Labor
Party.
In this swindle they received the
support of the leadership of the A..
F. of L.. and of the Socialist Party
then headed by Morris Hillquit.
The LaFollette Trick
In 1924 the LaFollette Progressive
Party nominated national ticket
headed by the Republican progress
sive LaFollette, and the Democrat
Bert Wheeler. Despite all the hesi-
tation in the formation of even
this third capitalist party, the whole
manner in which the bourgeois and
reformist leaders tried to dampen
and dissipate the spirit of the mass
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instruments of assisting the cap
italists instead of what the work
ers wished them to be, instruments
of struggle against the capitalists.
New Tasks
This situation placed new tasks
upon the advanced section of the
working class, upon the Communist
Party. The central task. the or
ganization of the unorganized. now
took on new forms. 1t could no
longer be carried through merely
within the confines of the A. F. of
L. organizations whose leaders did
everything possible to prevent the
organization of the unorganized. 1t
was on the basis of this situation
that already in the middle of 1928
the Sixth World Congress of the
Communist International on the
basis of the discussion with the
comrades of the c. P. U. S. A. came
to the conclusion that:
"On the question of organizing
Labor Party, the Congress
resolved: That the Party concen-
trate Its attention on the work
in the trade unions, on the or
ganization of the unorganized,
etc, and in this way lay the
basis for the practical realization
of the slogan of broad Labor
Party organized from below.
On the basis of this analysis our
Party correctly opposed all pro-
posals for a Labor Party in the
years since 1929 because it was
clear that any party then formed
would be either an appendage of
the existing old parties, similar to
the LaFollette movement of 1924,
or embrace only the Communists
and their sympathizers.
To work for Labor Party. no
ma ter what its name, which in
reality would be new third cap
italist party, would be against the
interests of the masses. Such
Party, while it would break the
masses away from the traditional
two old capitalist parties would but
create new instrument for the
capitalists To achieve their object
Of keeping the masses chained to
capitalism and capitalist parties.
The role of the Minnesota Farm
er-Labor Party headed by Olson
which differs little in its state
politics from the two old parties
and which nationally supports the
Democratic Party of Roosevelt gives
full proof Of this,
To form Labor Party out of
the Communist Party and its SYM
pathizing organizations would not
only not really advance the sep
aration of the broad masses from
the capitalist parties but would
further cause great harm to the
workers movement by confusing
the role of the Communist Party
with that OF the Labor Party.
Is No Substitute
The Labor Party, even genuine
Labor Party, is not and can not be
q substitute for the Communist
Party. The Communist Party is
the only revolutionary party Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09

Negro masses Will be brought to the
forefront in the City wide election
rally of the Communist Party which
will follow the workers united front
conference on Sunday, at 1890
a. m. at Mirror Hall, 1886 North
Western Avenue,
"Of the five political parties
which are participating in the cleo
lions, only the Communist Party
raises the demands of the Negroes, ="
said A. Guss, campaign manager of
the Communist Party, in discussing
the eviction records. Not only does
it stand alone in appraising the
plight of the Negroes, but it is the
only Party that follows it's disclO-
sures with fight for Negro rights"
And in line with this policy, the
problem of the Negro masses will
be one of the outstanding points on
the agenda of Sundays meeting to
which all Negro organizations are
asked to send delegates" said Guss.
AS further indication of the at
titude of the Communist Party to-
ward the Negroes, our nominee for
City Clerk is Herbert Newton, well
known Negro leader who is now
serving a jail sentence for his fight
against discrimination. The full
support of the Party is behind New
ton, and we ask corresponding sup
port from the Negro population in
Chicago.
Robert Minor, who is we'll known
for his years of activity in behalf
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
. By JACK STACHEL

movement of the workers, LaFol-
lette received the votes of close to
five million workers and poor farm
ers who believed that by voting for
this party they we're voting against
capitalism and for their own in
terest..
BY this maneuver the progress
sive" and reTormist leaders sue
ceeded in diverting the movement
for a genuine movement for
Labor Party into the channels of
third capitalist progressive party.
Those who consciously continued
the fight for genuine Labor Party,
in addition to the Communist
Party were not large enough to
launch labor party on a national
scale. In localities and states for
the most part a similar situation
developed.
Between 1924 and 1929 our Party
continued to put forward. as an
agitational slogan, the Labor Party,
But developments in the country
and in the labor movement robbed
this slogan more and more of its
immediate practical value. In the
first place, this was the period of
so-called Coolidge prosperity and
the beginning of the Hooverian
period of permanent prosperity"
To be sure, for the large masses of
workers conditions continued to be
intolerable and grew worse. But
the prosperity ballyhoo had its
effect nevertheless. But more inn
portant than this was the situation
within the trade union movement
The A. 2. of L. bureaucracy further
developed its policy of class collab-
grafton, adding its so-called trade
union capitalism IN the form of
labor banks, Insurance, etc, but
above all it became the organizer
of efficiency schemes carried thru
in the interests of the capitalists.
The capitalists, on the other hand,
increased their attacks on the liv-
ing standards of the workers, their
attack on the trade unions. The
policies of the A. F. of L. bureau
cracy in meeting this situation led
to the workers retreating from posi-
ton after position, with the trade
unions reduced more and more to
narrow craft unions The more
highly skilled workers retained some
of their privileges, not only at the
expense of the mass of the workers,
but also by increased speed-up of
the skilled workers. AS a result.
while profits of the capitalists in
creased manifold through increased
productivity, the real wages OF
these workers remained stationary
or increased but slightly.
With this situation in the labor
movement, with the more basic Sec
lions of the workers driven out of
the unions by the bosses attacks,
and the ruthless expulsion policies
of the A. F. of l.. bureaucracy, the
leftward movement within the A.
F. of l.. was weakened. The A. F.
of L. bureaucracy. meanwhile, pur-
sued the course OF converting the
trade unions hsore and more into
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09

workers which can organize and
lead the masses to emancipation
from capitalist exploitation. If the
Communist Party promotes the
formation of Labor Party it is
only because large masses who are
ready to break away from the cap
italist parties are not ready as yet
fully to accept the revolutionary
program OF the Communist Party.
The Communist Party sees in the
Labor Party not competing or
ganiza ton. not q substitute organi-
zation but rather a means through
which the Communist Party can aid
in setting the masses on the road of
independent class political action on
the basis of their immediate in
terests and understanding, but
which the hope and the knowledge
that in the course Of the struggles
/ and as result of the experience of
the struggles, the masses will learn
that only the program of the Com
munist Party provides the means
/ for the lasting solutions OF the
! pIOUl0IllS VI bIlC WDl hSl o.
If at present we see in the slogan
for Labor Party means of be-
ginning the mass separation of the
workers from the capitalist parties
it is because the changes that have
again taken place in the labor
movement (the growth of the trade
unions, the entrance of new mil
lions of exploited masses into the
struggle, their partial experience in
/ the struggle) already lead these
masses to take the first steps in
the direction of independent polit
/ icai action. The basis for a genuine
labor party is being created out of
the present struggles of the work
ers, the sharp character of these
/ struggles, and the movements of
the rank and file of the trade
uni ons against the bourgeois
minded and reactionary leader
ship. We wish first to help and ac-
celerate these initial steps. and
secondly. to prevent the capitalists
and their agents from once more
diverting these movements of the
masses into safe" channels. 1t is
for this reason that we emphasize
not merely that the workers must
organize a Labor Party, but stress
especially the character of such a
Labor Party, If it is to be in the
interests Of the masses.
In the next article we shall
deal with the various movements
for progressive and labor" par
ties as expressed by such move
ments as Olsen, LaFollette, Sin
clair, ETC., the role of the differ
ent groups Of the A. F. of L. bu-
reaucracy ana the various eieA
ments within the leadership OF
the Socialist Party. We shall dis
cuss what kind of parties we must
fight against and what must be
the character Of the genuine La
Dor Party. In third article we
shall deal with the immediate
practical steps towards the reah-
zation OF this movement.
Ito Be Contonuedl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
More Are Unemployed
As Mill Shuts Down

SMITHFIELD, r. l., Jan. g.
Closing of the Esmond Mill here is
being seriously felt in this city as
an increased number of its former
1000 employees are applying for re-
lief. Beginning with application for
relief by twenty-four families Fri
day, there has been a steadily in
creasing stream.
The Esmond Mill, owned by Clar-
ence M. Whitman and Sons of New
York, is being dismantled and some
of the machines are being sent to
the companys plant in CRANKY
Quebec, Canada Company repre-
sentatiVes try to cover up their plan
to move to non union cheap labor
centers, saying that they we're mot
able to recover from the effects of
the general strike"
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ton drive.
Within the next two weeks.
members Of the District Bureau
will visit the sections to help
speed the work.
The present drive gives Denver
the chance Of making up for its rec
ord in the circulation and financial
drives of last year. In both cam
paigns, Denver, high up in the lead
in the beginning, gradually lost
place after place.
Denver was the second district to
finish its quota in the circulation
drive, reaching at one time 100 per
cent. But at the end it was in sew
enth place, in the number Of readers
gained. In the financial campaign,
1t jumped ahead of all the other
districts in the beginning, but at
the close Of the race it was in fifth
place.
TASK OF SALT LAKE CITY
lis failure to finish early in the
latter drive was due to the Salt
Lake City section, which did not
begin any serious work until late.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
500 DELEGATES CHEER AMTERS CALL FOR HUNGER MARCH
Ma Ferguson
Gives Lvncher
His Freedom
Last Official Act of Wo.
man Governor Is Blow
to Negro Rights
By HAROLD PREECE

AUSTIN, Tex, Jan. 8.-J..D Nc
Casland, convicted lyncher, has
been pardoned by Miriam A. Fer
guson, retiring Governor of Texas,
as final insult to the Negro people
and the white and Negro workers of
Texas.
McCasland was a member of a
lynch mob which burned the Gray
son County Court House in an eff
fort to lynch George Hughes, Negro
worker framed up on the tradi-
tional rape" charge. The COW
ardly county officials deserted the
building, leaving Hughes to perish,
while state ranger and. national
guardsmen exchanged jokes with
leaders of the lynch mob. Hughes
shackled body was found burned to
death.
No charge of murder was ever
filed against McCasland or any of
his cohorts. But for his attack on
property, he was tried for arson and
riot, and given two years on each
count. He had been previously SEN
fenced to nine years for burglary
and chicken stealing, The ruling
class of Texas evidently consider a
chicken more worthy of pro-
lection than a Negro worker.
After serving only two years of
his maximum sentence, McCaslsnd
has been released by that noted
friend" of the workers, Ma" Fer
guson.
Nor may the Negro workers of
Texas expect any better treatment
from the incoming governor, Jim
my" Alfred. AS Attorney General,
Alfred utilized the loopholes DELHI
erately left by the United States
Supreme Court in decision on the
rights of Negroes to participate in
the democratic primaries, to rule
that Negroes were ineligible to vote
in those primaries. At one politi-
cal melting, Alfred yelled insultingly
to SOM Negro listeners. Stand
back. you 'niggers, in order that
white democrats may hear what
have to say"
The facts of the Hughes frame-up
case clearly indicate that Hughes
was a victim of the usual rape
set-up used by white landlords and
other employers against militant
Negroes. The landlord for whom
Hughes worked had refused to pay
him his stipulated wages. A quar-
rel occurred between Hughes and
the landlord, and the latter's wife
then came forward with tale that
Hughes had raped her. McCas-
land, notorious petty thief,
stopped his chicken depredations
long enough to gather lynch mob
in order that southern white
womanhood might be vindicated."
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Three Times Raided.
Birmingham Negro
Worker Fights Back
tspeeiaI 70 n. paIlr wcrt.rl

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. g.
The home of Steve Simmons, Negro
worker, was invaded for the third
time last night as the reign of police
and Ku Klux Khan terror continued
in North Birmingham. The ma
RAIDERS this time were police
searching for Communist litera-
ture."
In previous raids, Simmons. had
been beaten up, and this time shot
was fired from the house as the ma
rauders attempted to force en-
trance, resulting in minor injuries
to the right arm of Police Officer
T. e. Lindsey, Swearing vengeance
on Simmons, police have instituted
wide search for the Negro worker.
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With the highest subscription
quota in the district (equalled
only by Denver properl-7O daily
subs. and IS Saturday subs.-it is
now up to Salt Lake City to re-
turn the luJ.re to its record by
reaching and exceeding its quota
in double quick time. It must set
the example for It's brother sec
tiOns.
The district, as a whole. too. must
set the example of not losing one
old reader, while making tremen-
dous advances in gaining new ones.
The Denver section quotas fol-
low
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Party, the Unemployment Council,
the International Labor Defense
and the Communist Party we're
present and the plans we're laid to
call the conference for January q.
to which all workers organizations
have been asked to send delegates.
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WHAT'S ON
Philadelphia. Pa.

ORGANIZATIONS Attention. All
organizations are asked not to ar
range any affairs on April rs, 1885
The Freiheit Gesangs Farein has this
date for its Grand 18th Annual
spring Concert In the Academy Of
Music.
Ernst ,Thaelmann." sound picture
frst time in Philadelphia. Nature
Friends Play. German Singing So
ciety. H. M. Wicks. speaker. All
at Liebknecht-Kirov Memorial Meet
ing. Wed. Jan. ., 8 pm. at Gewerbe
Hall. 2532 N. and st. Adm. soc.
Auspices, Northeast Sec. C.P.
Only Showing in South Phila. A
sound picture chewing the life and
struggles Of Ernst Thaelmann. Also
anti-fascist struggles in US, France,
England, Friday, Jan. IL, pm. At
1908 Tasker ct. Adm. use,