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Carolina watchman., 1935-05-24

roar. This marksman was no
more than a hundred yards away
Nothing showed behind him
either. He waited for a gur
muzzle to show; for some tremor
however slight, in the snow above
Why didn't the fellow shoot? Hi
ear, close to the snow, detected tn,
crunch Of running feet, recedins
from him.
He jumped up and ran to tn
nearby point from which tn,
shot had seemed to come. Thert
he found a hollow in the snow
where the sniper had lain conceal.
ed, and the marks; of his fee1
leading up from below to this de-
preston, and running away from
it. The fugitive was headed fol
the cabin and had left a mecca.
sin track!
| There was a spreading darl
pink stain in the snow where he
had hidden, and a blood trail al
along his course!
A wild scramble along canyon
Drinks and ledgers brought him te
the head Of the jackpine gulch
and the absence of a blood trace
in it assured him that he had ar
rived in time.
Maitland stood waiting with the
carbine and with Pete close by
He motioned them to back in
close to the cliff, in silence. They
had caught the alarm of the shots,
but had no notion of what was
about to happen.
After a still wait, a voice spoke
abruptly from around the cliff
and close at hand-a husky, bro
ken voice. Don't shoot - it
said weakly. ''It's your game.
I'm out of Shells
Along the cliff wall and into
view, covered by Speeds guns, a
fur-clad and moccasioned figure
CROPPED its way, twisted with
agony. Maitland recognized at a
glance the man who had held
them up at their winter camp.
He held revolver in his right
hand. The other hand clutched
at his side, and dripped blood.
When he raised his head and look
ed at them, his eyes changed
strangely from the look of a
fighting animal brought to bay,
to an expression of wild astonish-
ment.
ssPete!" he murmured, almost
under his breath. ''How did they
find this?''
"They found your lead dog on
the lakes" said Pete. cit brought
us here
The deepening wonder in his
face was a thing to see. "The
dog!" he muttered huskily. There
was a choking in his throat like
a chuckle-it became a desperate,
blood-chilling, mortally exhausted
laugh. "We've won now, kid!''
he chortled in hard elation,
"Beat the game with-a damn
Siwash!'
When they would have caught
him, he waved them off again
"Get this-Pete,' he mumblee
thick1y. ''Somethin' else - I've
got to tell ye, kid. And I will
But-give me time-but first
get this. The gold IS" He los1
his voice and found it by sheel
force of Wilt saw it-jus
now. Two men-in the-gulch
In bright snow His voice ebb
ed from him. His disclosed ane
racked face turned gray with
deathly pallor of weakness ane
stupefaction at the failure of hi
tongue and his brain to answe
his will. "The gold-!''
/ With an agonized, astonishee
curse at his defeat, he slumped
held rigid an instant against tn
! wall, and then with slow, lur
ching slide, sank down.
Speed, who had taken step tt
! break his fall, caught him, ant
leaned over the still body.
stTIe told the truth about hi
: last SHE'LL" Speed unused alou'
sHe was tryin' to reach the cabi,
and his shells for a last stand
But he saw our marks in tn
gulch. Who did he think I wa
at first? And where did he sc
that wound2'
The daily worker., 1935-01-12
Unity of cialists,
Communists Widened
the Defense

mass fight for the repeal of the
anti-working class law.
Efforts to secure the endorsement
of the Socialist Party and other
groups for broad mass united front
conference are now being made by
the I. L. D. The conference will
be held under the joint auspices of
the endorsing organizations. It
Will serve to further mobilize the
toilers of Illinois to bring about the
repeal Of the criminal syndicalist
law.
The Socialist Party organizations
IN Montgomery County. as we'll AS
throughout the entire down State
sections, were very active in the
struggle for the Hillsboro defend
ants. 1t is necessary to record.
however that the State Committee
OF the S. P, which belatedly agreed
to join the united front defense,
did not even send a lawyer to the
trial on Jan. 7. The State Commit
tee also failed to support the pro-
test activities. The workers. includ-
ing those who are members of the
Socialist Party, will draw their own
conclusions from these facts.
The fourteen Hillsboro defend
ants, vrested by the mass defense
from long prison sentences for their
activities in the fight for unem-
ployment relief, are: Frank. -ric-
kett, Communist president Of the
Village Board of Taylor Springs;
Frank Mucci, Communist member
OF the board and chairman of the
Montgomery County Unemployment
Committee; John Panscik, Commu-
mist member of the Taylor Springs
village Board; John Jurkanin, or
ganizer of the Young Peoples So
clelist League; Gordon Hutchins.
Victor Renner, Carl Gerulla, John
Holland, George Reid, John Lap
shansky, Robin Staples, all of Hills
bore, John Adams and Jan Wit
tenber OF Chicago.
The daily worker., 1935-01-12
Unions to Meet
Next Month on
Fugitive Shops

NEWARK, N. j., Jan. 1l.-Al-
though the cell to all trade unions
for delegates to the interstate con-
ference to fight the runaway shop
menace to take place at Newark, on
Feb. 10, has not yet been issued
officially, unions are already elsct-
ing delegates. The latest is the Fur
Floor Workers local of the Intsrna-
tional Fur Workers Union, A. F..
Of L. here, which has elected two
delegates.
When committee approached
the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union Local 144 here, it
was told by officials that first the
matter has to be taken up with
their international office, and they
are not empowered to take up such
matters" The call will be in tie
mails within a few days, the ar
rangements committee reports.
The Importance Of the aims of
the conference will be popularized
among large numbers of trade union
The daily worker., 1935-01-12
HerndonUr
Mass Struggle
For Ill. r. 1927

The National Committee of the
Congress for Unemployment Insur-
ance yesterday received the follow
ing letter from Angelo Herndon:
"To the National Congress for TN
employment and Social Insurance,
washington Auditorium,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Comrades:
Il regret very much that I was
not able to attend the sessions of
the National Congress for Unem-
ployment Insurance, but may I be
allowed to extend my sincere greet
ings and my pledge of full support
to the fight for the enforcement of
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill
The misery, poverty and destitu-
ton Of the masses of workers
throughout the country is increas-
ing at rapid pace, and the Roose-
valt-Wall- Street government are
using overy conceivable means of
5lcody fascist terror to entrench the
workers even more dsepsr into star
yation, hunger. etc. But in spite of
the desperate attempts of the cap
The daily worker., 1935-01-12

italist robbers to violently suppress
the rights of the working class. the
workers are resisting their oppres-
sion militantly
THE forcing of my release from
the death clutches of the fascist
slave rulers If Georgia, and the
heroic fight to save the Scottsboro
boys from a legal lynching By the
lynch-slave lords OF Alabama is liv-
ing evidence of the growing mill
fancy and the courageousness of the
American working class. With the
lntensification Of the militant strug-
giles that We havs been able to carr
on thus far, we not only will force
the bosses and their government to
pass the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill, but will emerge from
the struggle with our enemies as the
.victors, as the ones who will exter-
inmate the capitalist murderers and
their whole vile system Of oppres-
sion.
ITO achieve this, we must never
forget the October Revolution of
our working class brothers in the
Soviet Union. Let us make this
Congress one the bosses will never
forget.
Demand the enactment of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill! Demand that all funds for war
and graf he turned over to the
unemployed!
With profound md sincere revo-
luticnary greetings.
tSignsd) ANGELO HERNDON'
The daily worker., 1935-01-12

lutte contempt of court Z"
Judge Paul McWillians. from
Litchfeld, had been called in to
preside at the trial because the
other judges we're afraid to go
through with the Job in the face
Of their knowledge of the deep re-
sentiment of Montgomery County
workers, The judge feels that he
has been made the goat, and NUT
ters, 1--WE never seen such a thing
IN any court"
Before the determination of the
workers, the prosecution is forced
to retreat. 1t resorts to bargain
ing" The defense rejects the first
Two offers. Finally, the States At
torney and the Judge sign a state
ment that they are willing to drop
the charges Of criminal syndicalism.
and to content themselves with Civ
ing the defendants nine month
suspended sentences each, on a minor
charge, as q face saving measure.
The defendants agree, and seek the
approval of the assembled workers
The workers, realizing their victory,
approve, and the judge okays what
is already agreed upon by the work.
ers.
These events mark a new page in
the fight against fascist reaction in
this country. Once again it has been
demonstrated that only mass pres
sure can snatch the workers from
the clutches of capitalist Justice.
that the united front of the work.
ing class can beat back fascist-like
attacks. It is true that the defense
counsel, D. J. Bentall and Hart E.
Becker Of Chicago, and Edward e.
kaburick Of Hillsboro, International
Labor Defense attorneys. made a
brilliant defense. But without mass
pressure this defense would not have
availed anything before the deter
mination of the bosses to crush the
struggles Of the unemployed for re-
lief.
State Senator James G. Monroe
OF Collinsville, attended the trial.
and once more pledged to Introduce
bill for the repeal of the Illinois
criminal syndicalist law at the
opening of the State legislature. The
Hlllsaoro victory will stimulate the
The daily worker., 1935-01-12
DemagOgic Promises Helped Bring Fusion Mayor
to Ofice-BuiIt Machine of Pseudo
Liberals and Socialists

liberal" with which New York is
infested crawled out of his Park
Avenue retreat and began to shout
that "Tammany must 60" The
stage was set. Only leader was
needed. LaGuardia, smarting under
the defeat handed him by the Tam
many LanEetta in his Congressional
fight, was available" Overnight
he became the Moses who was to
lead the city's masses out of the
Tammany wilderness.
Samuel Seabury, the wealthy
lawyer who had conducted his fam
Gus investigation OF Tammany's
misdeeds so skilfully, dictated the
choice. General Organ, Robert
Moses and Fiorello LaGuardia we're
the leading contenders. Seabury
chose LaGusrdia to be the stand
srd-besrer, with the understanding
that the other two were to be
placed"
The campaign is now history.
Mud-slinging and shady blocs.
promises to all and sundry - this
featured the fight waged by the
progressive" Fiorello. Queens was
an important element. Hence-an
alliance with the shady George U.
Harvey, and John j. Halleran, real
estate operator and Queens Public
Works Commissioner. The italian
vote was garnered by quite frank
appeals to racial pride. Jerome @.
Ambro, gsngster lawyer and Brook
lyn politician, delivered" 100000
votes in the italian section of that
borough to Fusion.
Anti-semitism was made an issue.
with the famous LaGuardia tele-
gram to Mckee, recalling that
Tcrthy's article attacking the jew
ish race, written in McKee's youth.
Nor was the fact that LaGuardias
mother was Jewish kept a secret
from Jewish voters)
Large promises were made to
labor. The man who had helped to
draft the aGuardia Anti
Injunction Act in Congress would
not forget the workers. No, mol He
would champion civil liberties, too.
He would reduce water rates, cut
out political jobs and introduce
cheaper" government, a non par
tisan" administration. He would re-
construct the shattered credit of the
city.
The daily worker., 1935-01-12
RELEASE OF Il HIII1SBORO DEFENDANTS
IL VICTORY FOR WHOLE WORKING GLASS

member of the Village Board OF
Taylor Springs. One of the de-
PENDANTS, Mucci speaks from the
defendants bench. His defiant words
ring through the courtroom. He
greets the solidarity Of his fellow
workers, and tells Of the heroic
struggles Of the unemployed of
Montgomery County against hunger
and starvation, agairst official cor
ruption and pilfering of relief
funds. He halls the National Con-
gress for Unemployment and So
cial Insurance, meeting in Wash
ington, D. c., at the same hour
that these fourteen defendants were
facing prosecution for fighting
against hunger. The workers en-
Enthusiastically adopt the following
resolution to be sent to President
Roosevelt:
Spectators in trial of fourteen
M ont 6 m.ery County workers
charged with treason for militant
unemployed activity endorse the de-
mandS of the National Congress for
Social and Unemployment Insur-
ance. Protest against use OF court
to frame militant workers and
recommend Federal legislation for
the rights Of workers"
Among those who vote for this
resolution are workers and farmers,
and small business men, some of
them called on the jury panel for
the trial. Even the County Sheriff
not only did not dare to interfere
with this 'unheard of action" in
the court, but did not dare to vote
no. in face Of the assembled
miners and their wives.
The defendants then dispatched
q telegram Of solidarity to the
ker-defendants in Sacramento.
facing trial on similar charges of
treason to the bosses hunger pro-
gram, specifically, of violation of
the California criminal syndicalist
law.
Meantime in the judges chamber
CONSERVATION and commotion. As
sistant States Attorney Dennis
screaming, Judge, they are taking
possession of the court room
Judge, do you know that it is abso-
The daily worker., 1935-01-12
By SIMON w. SERsON

YER network of twenty six
" radio stations, Mayor Fiorello
LaGuardia gave an account Thurs
day night of his first year in Office.
The newspapers have already car
ried long articles on Fusion's first
year. Mingled with official boasts
OF accomplishments" were the
eulogies Of the metropolitan press
to "non-partisan" regime.
But militant workers and honest
students in general of municipal
politics will examine the First Year
Of Fiorello a little more carefully.
Close scrutiny will reveal that under
the mask Of non-parSisan NUM-
cipal government, Mayor LaGusrdia
has carried out the policies of the
bankers, the real dictatorS OF the
city. and has been, simultaneously,
building his own machine. He may
have forgotten some of his promises
to the voters, but the Mayor has
not for one moment neglected his
own political fortunes. What he
fondly hopes is political capital on
which he may later draw has been
carefully deposited.
LaGuardia rode to power on the
tide Of a political reaction that had
set in against established political
machines throughout the country.
His demagogy was the oar that
helped propel him to the shores of
City Hall.
In New York City in the Summer
of 1898, when the nomination of
ex-Congressmsn LaGuardia was
announced, a number of peculiar
factors obtained. Basic to the whole
situation was the widespread un-
employment and the sharp strug-
giles, led by the Unemployment
Councils and the Communist Party,
against the callous refusal of the
Tammany administration to give
relief to the jobless that was any,
where near adequate. Broad actions
led by the Communist Party in the
teeth of the bitterest police terror
had a great deal to do with bring
ing the Tiger into disrepute in sec
tions ordinarily considered Tam
many strongholds.
The Metropolitan Moses
With the bottom dropping out of
business and real estate values
shrinking, middle-class taxpayers
began to howl to the high heavens
for relief. Bankers and other large
capitalists who had not been too
disturbed about the antics of the
Iammany crew began to bestir
themselves. A certain species of
The daily worker., 1935-01-12

workers, and reactionaries will not
find it SO easy to oppose the send
ing of delegates, the committee
statec.
Commenting on the aim of the
conference, Abraham j. Isserman,
Fewark attorney, who has been
chiefly engaged as representative of
unions in the fight against en-
ployers running away to New Jer-
sey towns, stated that the increased
moving Of shops from regions where
workers are organized. Is a move
to escape union conditions and es-
tablised wage scales.
In each case 1t Is found that the
practice is closely tied up with the
local Chambers of Commerce which
offer inducements to the opening
of plants. Mayors of these small
towns also are often found to be
engaged in businesses which re-
ceive advantages from the opening
of new plants.
In return, the runaway employers
are offered police protection against
strikes, cheap labor, and often
those on relief are given the alter
native Of either working in these
plants or to go off the relief rolls.
Iessrman declared that if the
is not checked it will spread
and have serious effect upon the
conditions Of the workers..
The daily worker., 1935-01-12

1t was the last pledge that was
taken quite seriously.
The town was astonished by the
Fusion sweep. Close observers
blinked q little at the fact that
while Fusion stormed the Tammany
barricades everywhere else. the
Tiger forces were left practically in
tact in Manhattan. retaining the
important District Attorneys Office
as well as that of the Borough
President. Vile people whispered
that there had been an old-fash-
ioned last minute trade executed
between the Hall and the knightly
gentlemen of Fusion, but by that
time 1t didn't matter. Fiorello rode
into City Hall on Jan. 2, the plume
Of victory waving in the new winds.
"Non- Political" Appointments
No sooner had the election fig
ures been certified when LaGuardia
began to make mon political" ap-
pointments. Before he could do that,
however, there we're some debts to
pay. General John ORyan, who
had gracefully withdrawn from the
fight for Mayor, was appointed Po-
lice Commissioner. Maurice D.
Davidson, whose knowledge of water
and electricity, it is reported. can be
safely tucked under the eyelid of a
medium sized mosquito, was made
Commissioner OF Water Supply Gas
and Electricity. Langdon w. Post,
formerly Tammany AssemDlyman
a personal friend of Roosevelt, and
a gentleman with national politi-
cal ambitions, wes appointed Tene-
ment House Commissioner. Fred
eric j. H. Krscke, formerly Repub-
liean leader in Brooklyn. was taken
care of in the post of Commits
sioner Of Plants and Structures.
Then began series of ALLEGED
real 'non-political appointments.
William Fellowes Morgan, a rich
fish dealer, president of the Middle
Atlantic Fisheries Association. had
been at daggers-ends with Tam
many racketeers in the food indus
try, particularly with a gentleman
by the picturesque name of Joe
tSocks) Lama, who controlled the
Fulton Market through a few So
called unions. Lanza had been
bleeding Morgan and the other big
and little dealers under the benevo-
lent protection of Tammany. Nor
gan, who saw in the Fusion eff
The daily worker., 1935-01-12
The Achievements of Mr.. LaGuardia;
His Non>Partisan' Regime Examined

forts the possibility Of breaking the
LAMA crowd and saving himself a
lot of money, supported LaGuardia
literally and Loyalty. P. She got
the Job as Commissioner Of Markets
as ''non-political' appointment.
But LaGuaTdia and Seabury, his
political master, had no small ideas
on this matter of mon political
appointments. They placed in their
cabinet the erstwhile militant" So
cialist, Paul Blanchard. as Commits
sioner Of Accounts. This. it must
De explained, is a sort of city sleuth
service. He and his staff Investigate
reports Of graft and, in general, see
to it that the process of plundering
the city's masses goes on in clean
way, consistent with the highest
ethics of capitalism.
BIanshard "PIaccd"
To the uninitiated the Blanshard
appointment came as a shock. But
Samuel and Fiorello knew what they
were up to. Not only did they ap-
point BlsnshA"d to Office, but they
saw to it that a number of worthy
Socialists" got into office. B. c..
Vladeck, for instance, the high
priced business manager of the mil
lion-dollar Socialist daily, the Jew
ish Daily Forward. was appointed
to the Municipal Housing Author
ity under Post. Gster In the year.
Jacob Panken was appointed to the
bench0
A slew Of liberals and social
workers were given Jobs in the ap-
naratus. Chief among these was
William Hodson, appointed welfare
Commissioner on the basis of well
fare Council work and social SER
vice connections. Mrs. Justine Wise
Tulin, who had only recently re-
turned from an extended visit to
the Soviet Union, was appointed as
an Assistant Corporation Counsel.
The new day had dawned. ac-
cording to MANY liberals. A "pro-
labor" Mayor. who had social Vi
SION" was in Office. LaGusrdia's
"non.political appointments" had
their effect-he built base for
himself much broader than that Of
Tammsny extending his influence
in the labor movement. among So
cial workers and among certain pro-
gressive intellectuals The Nation
was in ecstasies.
TO Be Continued.)
The daily worker., 1935-01-12
Shows Possibility of
Defeating Attacks
of Reaction
tDalIy WORKER MIdwest Rureaul

CHICAGO, ILL.,. Jan. 1.-THE re-
lease Of the fourteen Hillsboro de-
fendants is an outstanding victory
for the working-class. and a con-
f1rmation of the correctness of the
policies pursued by the Communist
Party and the International Labor
Defense in mobilizing broad masses
Of workers in their defense and
against the Illinois criminal SYM
dicalist law.
The release of these fourteen
leaders Of Montgomery unemployed
workers is particularly a victory for
the coal miners of Illinois, who fully
realized the Importance of the Hills
boro cases. Scores of local unions
Of the Progressive Miners of Amer
lea and of the United Mine Work
ers OF America had backed the de-
tense. passing resolutions demand
ing the quashihg of the indictment
and for repeal of the criminal syn
dicalist law.
The trial, which opened on Mon
day in Hillsboro, saw an unprece-
dented mobilization Of workers in
the little town. The court room
was packed, with many workers
standing in the aisles, and another
crowd of workers outside the court.
There were present members of the
Progressive Miners of America. Of
the Unemployment Councils, of the
Communist Party, of the Socialist
Party, Of the Womens Auxiliary of
the P. M. A. and of the United
Mine Workers Of America. They
had all come to demonstrate their
solidarity with their beloved lead
ers in many relief struggles.
An impromptu meeting inside the
court room is addressed by FranS
Mucci. baseball hero of Montgom
cry County, manager of the Rec
Birds baseball team, chairman OF
the Montgomery County Unem-
ployment Council and Communists
The daily worker., 1935-01-12
Bill Prepared by CTG
To Raise School Funds

In order to make more possible
the appointment of teachers and
the restoration of those services
which have been eliminated from
the schools to save money, the
Classroom Teacher Groups has pre-
pared a bill for the State Legisla-
ture which would force the city to
allocate larger sum for education
in the budget.
The bill would raise the
present 40 mills per dollar of as
amount to be appropriated from the
sessed valuation to 81 mills. At the
present assessed value of property
in the city. this would amount to
an increase of about $4,000, 600.
The daily worker., 1935-01-12
Dutch Communists Win
Fight to Save Paper

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 1.-THE COL
jim government has suffered a de-
feat in its struggle against the Com
fnur1ist daily paper, the Tribune.
1t was the intention of the gov
ernment to have the paper declared
bankrupt, and thus to put stop
to its publication. Now, after a
fivs-month struggle in which the
The daily worker., 1935-01-12

Communists utilized all possible
legal aids ard mobilized the msssea
in support of the paper, the Sui
preme Court of Appeal has declare
that there is no bankruptcy. y
With this decision the Commu-
mist Party has regained possession
Of the confscated printing machin-
cry. The government still refuses
to give up the machinery. however,
and is attempting to force a dec
laration of bankruptcy by privats
persons.