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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22
MANY RALLIES
HONOR LENIN
10000 Attend Meeting
in Chicago; Many Join
Communist Party

CHICAGO, Jan. 21.-Ten thou
sand workers, Negro and white,
American Federation of Labor
members and unorganized workers
packed the Coliseum here on Sun
day for the Lenin memorial meet
ing and election rally held here by
the Communist Party.
Last-minute efforts of police to
prevent the meeting from being
held in the hall were defeated.
Robert Minor, who made the
principal address, was cheered by
the audience after he outlined the
action which the Communist
Party has taken and will take in
the future to weld the united front
of all working class groups in
political as well as in trade union
struggles.
Frank Mucci, Communist alder
man of Taylor Springs, brought
greetings from the Village Board OF
that community and urged Chicago
workers to follow the example OF
Taylor Springs in electing Commu-
nists to office.
Tremendous enthusiasm greeted
the appearance of Claude Lightfoot
and Karl Lockner at the meeting
Lightfoot, young Negro organizer for
the Young Communist League, was
recently released from Jail a candi-
date for alderman on the Commu-
mist ticket. Lockner is Communist
candidate for Mayor.
The assembled workers pledged
their defense to the Soviet Unior
against the danger of war by capt.
italist governments, and voiced Their
condemnation of those actually and
politically responsible for the as
SasSination of Sergei Kirov.
Many workers present made ap-
plication for membership in the
Communist Party. More than $500
was collected for the Communist
PARTY election fund
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22
McLevy Sends Cops


BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Jan. 21-
More than fifteen uniformed police
and many plainclothes men were
dispatched by the Socialist McLevy
administration here to guard" the
Lenin Memorial meeting held last
night at the Central High School,
attended by more than 300 people.
The captain of the police detach-
ment pocketed copy of Stains
principles of Leninism, but under
protest of the workers present he
was forced to pay for it.
Greetings were read from Sam
Kreuger, section organizer who is
serving an eighty-day prison SEN
tence for taking part in an anti
Fascist demonstration for which
Mayor McLevy had refused per-
NIT.
Young Communist League Dis
trict Organizer Kaplan, who had
just been released after serving
thirty-flve days in Jail for the same
reason, was enthusiastically greeted.
Harry Cannes, associate editor of
the Daily Worker, main speaker of
the evening, pointed out the great
Importance of Leninism in the fight
against the Socialist Party leaders
who in the state legislature had
formed united front to help the
Republican Party organize" the
Assembly and Senate. He urged the
Socialist workers to repudiate this
(ContinMed Oh Pare y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22
New Jersey Governor
Pushes Sales Tax Plans

TRENTON, N. j., Jan. 21.-Bills
providing for sales taxes will have
first precedence in the State legis-
1ature, Governor Harold G. Hoffman
said today.
The governor further indicated
that he might urge that the sales
tax rates be raised to per cent
instead of the 2 per cent which he
had asked in his inaugural mes
-age. ut is absolutely necessary
that the State raise $4,000 900 for
relief" he said.
The F.ER.A. yesterday advanced
100000 to the State for relief in
pc 5ruary. No further funds, would
10 forthcoming unless the State
provided for raising funds, Hopkins
said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22
RAKOSI TRIAL
BEGINS ON old
IN dict MENT
Judge Accepts Count
for Which He Has
Served 8 Years
Especial to the Daily wOrker)

BUDAPEST, Jan. q (By Wire
Less Stating he had lost" the
new Indictment against Matthias
Rakosi, Hungarian Communist
leader whose trial opened here this
morning, the prosecuting attorney
of the Fascist government received
the astounding permission from the
chief justice to use instead the
indictment Of Rakosi's first trial,
on the basis of which RakoSi was
condemned eight years ago and has
since served full sentence!
From thirty to forty Hungarian
and foreign correspondents, whose
presence bore testimony to the
anxiety and interest of the interna-
tional working class in the fate of
Rakosi and the fear of Hungarian
fascism lest it fail to justify its
frame-up of the greatest proletarian
fighter, hung on every word of the
proceedings. The public, however,
was excluded from the trial-room.
While the accused, thanked by two
court officials, answered the usual
questions, correspondents took note
of Rakosi's militant bearing and
also of the terrible effect of nine
long years of imprisonment on his
once stalwart frame. The defense
counsel, Vambery, at once entered
upon a vigorous protest that the
hurried proceedings against Rakosi
were astounding from the point of
legality. The entire trial, Vambery
insisted, could be conducted only
before a jury.
The judge read the details of the
Indictment" and asked Rakosi
whether he was guilty. did you
sign these proclamations9 the
judge inquired, waving certain de-
crees signed by Rakosi at the time
Of the Hungarian Soviet Workers
and Peasants Government.
Eyes," answered the accused, land
I would sign them again imme-
diately if it were necessary to do
So"
Asked whether he took RESPONSE
oility for the revolutionary DEGREES,
Rakosi declared, st assume respon-
sibility for all that I did, since
everything was done in the name
of the workers and peasants re-
girne."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22

tive operation of the espionage
agency on behalf of the Mussolini
government.
Interviews by Marguerite Young
with a number of individuals who
have figured in recent fascist de-
velopments will be among the high
lights of the series which will start
in the Daily Worker on Friday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22
LEGION PLANS
new POGROM
Commander Swe eny
of Buffalo Leads
Anti-LabOr Drive

BUFFALO, N. Y, Jan. 21.-"The
American Legion is ready to mobil-
ize for the greatest crusade in the
name of Americanism in history.
It will be waged without mercy"
With these words, John j. Swee-
ney, County Commander of the Le-
gion in Buffalo, announced a drive
against the Communist Party in
particular, and all working class or
CARNATIONS in general.
Featured in Press
Featured prominently in the local
capitalist press, Sweeney's statement
declares that, Following the ma
tional commanders visit Ito Buff
falo on Jan. 25), legionnaires of
Erie County will be engaged in a
survey to procure full information
on the names, addresses and &C
tiVities of the Communist Party
candidates who appeared on the
ballots at the election of Nov. g."
While Sweeney does not reveal
how this campaign is to be con-
Quoted, it is known that directives
from the Legion National Amer
icanization Committee, calls for the
organization of special Legion
squads, with their members to be
known by numbers only, for a cam
paign of terror against militant
workers and for extensive shopping
activities.
Directed Against Workers
While the Communist Party is
meant to receive the brunt of the
attack engineered by the rich Of
ficials of the Legion, the drive will
be directed against Buffalo workers
as a whole, and against all oppo-
nents of imperialist war. Sweeney's
statement expressly declares that
the Legion will be "active in the
fight against every ism that raises
its head in America-from Commu-
nism to pacifism.'' He plans to
carry the light into the class room,
into the sanctity of the pulpit
against those traitors" who oppose
war and fascism and stand by the
rights of the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22

This startling fact is only one
aspect of the revelations unearthed
by Marguerite Young of the Daily
Worker Washington Bureau, John
L. Spivak, author of America Faces
Pogroms," and Sender Garlin, Daily
Worker staff writer, in the course
Of a seven weeks investigation Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22
Mississippi High Court
Sustains Conviction of 3
Negroes in Frame-up

JACKSON, Miss, Jan. 21.-Three
Negro workers were sentenced to be
hanged here on Feb. 8 on a frame
up conviction for the alleged MUIR
der of a Kemper County planter.
The Negro workers appealed their
case, giving proof that they had
been severely beaten in order to OBJ
tain a confession" The State Su-
preme Court refused to heed their
appeal although one judge dis
sented on the basis of the evidence.
We case is described here as a
second "Scottsboro case"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22
Dickstein Committee Shields Italian Fascist Spies in IT, S.
STARTLING IN

How the Mccormick Dickstein
Committee Inestigating "un-Amer-
lean" Activities winked at evidence
charging the existence of an Ital-
ian Fascist espionage agency in the
United States, will be revealed in
wall Streets Fascist Conspiracy, :"
scheduled to begin in the Daily
Worker on Friday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22

fascist activities in the United
States.
In interviews with two witnesses,
who appeared before the Dickstein
Committee, the Daily Worker will
show how the committee failed to
follow up leads" tending to prove
conclusively the existence aud ac-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22
NAVY GIVEN
PACIFIC ISLES
Roosevelt Act Follows
League Concession
to Japan

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 21.-
Following almost Immediately on
the announcement that the League
of Nations was about to yield in al
lowing japan permanent possession
of certain inundated islands in the
Pacific, President Roosevelt per-
sonally issued an executive order
giving the Navy complete control
over small Pacific islands of great
strategic Importance.
These are three tiny island groups
In the Far Pacific, lying south and
west of Hawaii. The islands are
Wake, which lies about halfway
between Hawaii and the Philip
pines; Kingman Reef, several hun
dred miles south of Honolulu. and
johnson and Sand Island lying to
the southwest of Hawaii. All of the
islands are uninhabited, and have
never been placed under the iuris-
diction of any government depart
ment until yesterday. Moreover, the
islands are directly along the line
of the proposed trans-Pacific war
and commercial air route.
TOKYO, Jan. 21.-A place of
honor was recently given by the
Japanese press to the article by
Tadashi Kodzima on the subject of
the Pacific Islands under Japanese
mandate.
THE economic and strategic i'm
portance of these islands is tremen-
douS," Kodzima declared. Japan
must fight with every means in her
power, force included, to prevent
any attempt by a foreign power to
interfere in matters concerning
these islands"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22
Negro Minister Warned
to Keep Away from LID
By Birmingham Police

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. I'll
Rev. E. H. Hammond, Negro min
lister, active in the fight for the
Scottsboro boys, was picked up on
the street by police in radio car
last Monday, and subjected to a
grilling examination at the City
Hall by Chief Detective Giles of
the Birmingham force. He was
later released with a warning to
keep away from the I. L. d.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22
PRAVDA NAILS
ANTI.SOVIET
FALSEHOODS
RefOrmists Kept Silent
When KirOv Was Killed
Editorial Says
Especial to the Daily wOrker)

MOSCOW, Jan. 81 CBy Wireless)
In sweeping editorial the Soviet
Communist Party organ, Pravda, to.
day assailed the hypocritical posi-
ton Of the reformist trade-unior
leadership of Paris, whose district
committee had passed a resolution
"in protest" against the execution
of the White-Guard terrorists and
murderers of Sergei Kirov. More
over, the insolence of this resolution
was so great that it dared to por-
tray the White Guard bandits who
were shot as workers" Under the
headline, Paris reformist trade
union bureaucratS in the employ OF
the bourgeoisie," Prayda comments:
''The general committee of the
Paris Menshevik trade-unions acted
not in defense of the rights of the
working class, because it kept ST.
lent when enemies of the working
class killed Kirov, but in defense Of
the rights of the VIII te- Guard muir
derers and their associates.
Spikes ScurriIOuS Lies
"The reformist trade-union bu-
reaucratS lie and calumniate the
French workers when in their reso-
luton they speak of the great agi-
tation which seized the working
class 1t is known that the French
workers were indeed greatly moved
when they heard the news of XII
rows murder. But it is equally
known that the workers of France
welcome the f1rmness and resolute-
ness which the Soviet authorities
showed against the murderous
White Guards, against the rea.
dregs of the zinoviev groups, these
enemies of the working class of tht
U. S. S. R.
AFTER this how can one but mai
the so-called General Committee
of the Paris trade-union bureau.
Gratis to pillar of shame?"
Soviet Workers Reply
The inexpressible indignation anC
wrath of the toilers of the U. S
S. R. paralleled the Pravda reporr
concerning this base action of tht
Paris trade-union officials. In thu
largest enterprises in Moscow
Leningrad, Tula and Podolsky, a!
well as of other important industrial
centers, the Soviet proletariat il
their resolutions brand with shame
the anti-Soviet sallies of the unior
bureaucrats. In their resolution
the Soviet workers, above the head
Of the union officials, extend {
friendly hand to the proletariat O
France, call upon them to repulst
these leaders who have reached
every possible extreme, and den!
the insolent lie that the White
Guard bandits who were shot wert
workers
"Class brothers!" say the work.
ers of the Kalinin Leningrad fac
tory, addressing the French pro-
letariat, there never was such
a free life of the proletariat as in
our socialist country, where we
ourselves are the masters. The
Union of Soviets towers high as
a brilliant torch of happiness and
creative joy amid the darkness
and fetidness Of dying capitalism.
The edifice of socialism is rising
daily, ever higher and statelier,
under the leadership of the Party
Of Lenin and Stain, and the might
of the first proletariaE country in
the world is daily strengthening.
We know the Paris workers are
with us. Together with us you
will answer with deep indignation
and hatred this brood of hired
dogs"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22
SOVIET INVITES ANTI-FAsCIsT

STOCKHOLM, Jan. 21. = Heinz
Kalbfeich, the German anti-fascist
and emigrant, who began a hunger
strike here in protest against the
refusal of the Swedish authorities
to allow him the right of asylum,
has received an invitation from the
Soviet Embassy to c-l',r the Soviet
Unjna
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22

The International Labor Defense
National Executive Committee yes
terday called on all its districts and
branches, on all affiliated and SYM
pathetic organizations and indi-
viduals, to redouble the campaign
of protest, demanding the immedi-
ate, unconditional release of Tom
Mooney.
Protests embodving this demand
should be sent to the California
State Supreme Court and to Cover
nor Merriam, at Sacramento, Calf.
Protests against the U. S. Supreme
Court decision, also demanding
MONEYS freedom, should be sent
to President Roosevelt, washington,
D. G.
Expressions of solidarity with Tom
Mooney were sent yesterday in the
forms of wires by the International
Labor Defense and to Angelo Hern-
don. 20-year old Negro facing an
l8-year term on Georgia chain
gang and now out on bail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22
LID. Urges RedOubled
Campaign for Class
War Prisoner

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81. - Tho
United States Supreme Court In a
decision handed down today refused
to free Tom Mooney on a writ of
habeas corpus. At the same time
the court issued an opinion which
sharply criticized the conduct Of
the California authorities who for
the past eighteen years have kept
the militant labor leader a prisoner
in San Quentin penitentiary.
The opinion was delivered by
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes
before a crowded court that had
gathered to hear the courts opinion
in the gold cases.
The verdict Of the Supreme Court
extensively reviewed the history Of
the Mooney case as well as the
labor leaders charges against the
prosecution, which included allega-
tons that he was convicted on tes-
timony known to the prosecution to
be perjured.
Cannot Evade Charges
The most serious charge made by
Mooney-and which the Supreme
Court was unable to evade-was
that the San Francisco prosecuting
attorney had suppressed evidence
which would have definitely estab-
lished MONEYS innocence.
While refusing to order MONEYS
release on the basis of his plea for
writ Of habeas corpus, the Su-
preme Court declared that it was
not satisfied that Mooney had no
recourse in the state courts" The
court made this statement with the
full knowledge that the California
authorities have for the past
eighteen years declared that they
were without power" to free
Mooney because the laws Of the
State made it impossible to order a
new trial even though new evidence
had been uncovered proving the
defendants innocence.
Sent Back to State
The court solemnly suggested that
Mooney should apply for writ Of
habeas corpus in the State Courts
of California before coming to the
Supreme Court. Mooney, in his ap-
plication to the highest court Of
the land, had declared that he had
exhausted every recourse under the
law to obtain his freedom, and that
they had failed.
So crude was the reply of the
California attorney general in OPP
posing MONEYS plea that it was
sharply criticized by Chief Judge
Hughes who declared that the reply
had failed to meet the issues
presented"
The attorney-ge general in his reply
defended the charge of denial Of
due process of law in holding
Mooney with the contention that
the "acts or omissions of a pros
ecuting attorney could not, of
themselves, amount to a denial Of
due process.
Commenting on this brazen alibi,
the Supreme Court said:
without attempting at this tins
to deal with the question at length,
We deem it sufficient for the present
purpose to say that we are unable
to approve this narrow view Of the
requirements Of the process"
Inconsistent with Justice
The court also said:
"Such continuance by State
to procure the conviction and i'm
prisonment of defendant is as
inconsistent with the rudimentary
demands of Justice as is the OBJ
tanning of like result by intirni-
dation"
While the action of the Supreme
Court is undoubtedly a defeat, the
opinion of the court was worded
in such way that MONEYS at
torneys in Washington regarded it
as partial victory for the framed
up labor leader.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22
Contractors Lock Out
10000 Shirt Workers

Twenty thousand workers were
locked out yesterday by shirt manu-
featuring contractors in New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Con-
necticut, as the National Associa-
ton of Mems Shirts and Boys
Blouse contractors, had organized
100 of its members to shut their
plants until higher prices could be
obtained from the large manufac-
turers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22
COURT REJECTS MOONEY PLEA
Ohrbach Feast Spoiled
By Two Conaely Pickets
Voicing Strike Demands
Striking Department Store Employees Interrupt
Banquet Presided Over by Owner to Protest
Against Injunction and Arrests

Anne Miller and Anne Freedman pretty, youthful
cashiers strike at the Ohrbach department store still
receiving the praise of their fellow strikers for their
rageous interruption of Mayor LaGuarda at banquet in
the WadorfAstor Sunday night to confront their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22
BANQUET IN SUPERIOR

SUPERIOR, Wis, Jan. 21-The
Daily Worker Committee here will
hold public victory banquet on
Feb. at Vasa HALL at 8 pm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-22

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Observation-Disclosures
DEFENSE FUND

$4,000 mark passed by S22I.S5 IN /.
L. d. $4,000 campaign.
S9,776.I8 more must be raised ct once
for the appeals.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26
AUXILIARY HEAD I
TO VISIT VALLEY
THIS WEEKEND

All arrangements have been COM
pleted for the visit of Carrie TeS-
sin Baade, department president
American Legion Auxiliary who
with other department and district
officials, will spend the weekend in
the valley.
Tonight the county council, AM
erican Legion Auxiliary is sponsor
ing a banquet to be held at Z D. m
in the Hotel de ANA, Calexico
Representatives of other women s
organizations are invited as we'll as
Auxiliary members. Mrs. George
Fleming has been taking reserva-
tionS.
Mrs. Baade Will DE speaker of the
evening. discussing national defense
as seen by woman; Grace Ware
of Calipatria, county council pres
ident. will preside.
The following morning, the twen-
ty-second district will hold an all
day session, also at the De ANA,
adjourning at noon for luncheon in
the CaleXico unit s soup kitchen.
A large number of department
and district chairmen will be pres
ent and it is anticipated that Thel-
ma Johnson of Yuma, department
president for Arizona, will attend.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26
PRE-SCHOOL
CHILD CLINIC
ON TUESDAY

Mothers Of pre-school children
and all women interested are invit-
ed to attend the free Mothers
Study club for the pre-school child
which will meet Tuesday after
noon, January %, at 2 p. m. in the
Children's shop, located in the
basement of the local I. v Hard
ware company store.
Mrs. Emily Gillis, head of the de-
partment and an authority on the
subject, having been a teacher and
student, and also being a mother
herself, will talk from 22:30 on
care of the infant.
AT 2:30 DR.. John Keye will speak
on proper feeding of infants which
will prove of value to mothers.
These lectures are sponsored by
the Women's University club and
I. V. Hardware company and are
open to all women interested There
is no charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26
SIGNAL CHAPTER
HONORS MATRON

Signal chapter No. 276, O. E. S
surprised the worthy matron, Mrs
Grover Baker, last night when the
members honored her wedding an
niversary. -.-.
After the brief business meeting
at which plans were completed for
the visit of the grand Officers, an
informal social hour was enjoyed,
followed by the serving of refresh
ments.
Mr.. Baker arrived for the occa-
sion and was a special guest. A
lovely cake, a gift and other re-
membranes were presented Mrs.
Baker. Gold and white wedding
bells, orange blossoms. miniature
bride and groom made fitting de-
corations for the table.
Lucille Zurcher was chairman of
the committee in charge, assisted
by Hazel Reynolds, Bess knights
and Helen Cook.