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lence, but emphasized their right
of self-defense from the armed
bands of the vigilantes. Despite
the penciling out by Judge Lem
mon of certain parts of the edi-
torial, the portions read smash
ingly refuted the lies of Special
Prosecutor Neil McAllister that the
Communists advocate individual
acts Of violence and terror.
While Darcy read the editorial,
Judge Lennon and Prosecutor Nc
Allister stood peering over his
shoulders.
The court refused to recognize
Darcy, leader of the Communist
Party and an instructor in the San
Francisco Workers School, as an
authority on Communism, and also
ruled out the program of the Com
munist International as the official
guide of the Communist Party of
the United States of America.
ITcSS Aus PROSECUTION
McAllister now realizes that the
frame-up case is crashing about his
ears, but Is depending on the power
Of the local political machine and
his hand-picked jury to railroad the
defendants to long prison terms. In
this effort he is being ably aided by
the local boss press, which continues
to whip up lynch hysteria against
the defendants and the Communist
Party, publishing reports that the
Reds intend to seize the State gov
eminent any day" Local hysteria
is further developed by the action
Of the authorities in keeping a
special division of the National
Guard under arms in readiness to
block the Red insurrection.
Confronted by doctors affidavits
that three Of the defendants are
seriously i'll as a result of the bad
food and treatment during their
seven months confinement, the
court was forced to grant a con-
tinuation until next Monday. The
three sick defendants are Lorene
Norman, Caroline Decker and Mar
tin Wilson. McAllister had OBJ
iected to the continuation, stating
that the defendants, who are now
out on bail, were running all over
the State making speeches during
week-ends."
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that the joy Of Germany. Japan
and our own war-wisherS" should
keep American workers S3lidlv be-
hind the peace policy of the Soviet
Union. He urged American work
ers to work toward closing the
breach with the Russians" who
have a thousand times proved the
sincerity Of their peace policy.
New statements continued yester-
day to follow up the barrage of
statements and calls for mass at
tendance at the Garden demonstra-
ton issued during the past few days
by the International Workers Order,
the Trade Union Unity Council, the
international Labor Defense, the
Food Workers Industrial Union, the
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
the Young Communist League, the
IGOR, the National Unemployment
Council and other workers organ
izations.
furniture Union writes
In a letter to the F. S. u, M
Pizer, general secretary Of the Fur
niture Workers Industrial Union,
said
The F. w. I. U. endorses the
meeting called by your organization
We call upon the furniture
workers to come to Madison Square
Garden on Monday, Feb. Is, to dem
onstrate their sympathy and sup
port to the Soviet Union and to ex-
press their bitterness against any
possible attack on the U. S. S. R"
Another new statement of sup
port was issued jointly by H. I. Cos
trell, National Secretary of the
Jewish workers Clubs and A.
LechoWitzky, Secretary of the New
York City Committee of the same
organization.
To-day more than ever before. -
their statement said, the world
imperialistS are seeking to solve
their crisis by means of a robber
war on the Soviet Union, the work
ers' Fatherland. The Soviet Union
stands as an inspiration to the
workers throughout the world and
as a challenge to decaying capital
ism.
Workers Clubs Act
THE National Executive Commit
tee calls upon all members of the
Jewish Workers Clubs, who have in
scribed on their banners the words
Defend the Soviet Unionr to par
ticipate in nation wide meetings
and to mobilize the workers in their
neighborhoods for these meetings
especially for the one that is to
take place at Madison Square
Garden on Monday, Feb. Is"
The F. S. U. again called for
volunteers to distribute the special
Soviet Russia Today broadside, and
for organizations to bring their
banners to the F. S. U. office at 30
East 18th Street, to be used to
decorate the speakers stand at
Madison Square Garden on Monday
evening.
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there several days ago. An investi-
cation was promised.
Following speech by Joe Prusch,
check-weighman at Wanami mine.
before a meeting of three hundred
farmers at Nescopeck, pledge was
given by the farmers that they will
not be strike breakers any more.
Prusch is addressing a similar
meeting in Berwick tonight. The
Wanamie miners, who already re-
ceived their second eviction notice,
sent protest telegram to Governor
Earle and Lieutenant Governor
Kennedy. The latter is secretary
treasurer of the UM.WA.
When the appeal against the
Valentine injunction which outlaws
the strike was filed in the Phila-
delphia Supreme Court, it was
learned that the judges are on va
cation and the appeal cannot come.
up until April Is.
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IlrSJ street.
The call for the conference points
out that Governor Earle's taxes
upon the masses call for relief ex-
penditures of S12O,000,O00 over a
two-year period despite the fact
that under the present relief, a total
of $3.50, 100000 is being spent for
a similar period. This doubles edged
sword aims to slash relief even be-
low the present standards while at
the same strike 1t will put the burden
squarely upon the backs Of the
working population.
Relief Stop Threatened
While unemployed throughout the
State are threatened with a COM
plete stoppage Of all relief under a
recent announcement of Relief Ad-
ministrator johnson, the city Of
Philadelphia has contributed not
one penny to relief to its 100000
jobless since 1881, it was reported
here yesterday.
The barrage of publicity being
given to this fact at present is in
tended to prepare the way for
sweeping sales taxation upon the
masses.
While the city is completely
ignoring the restitution among the
working population, the relief lists
in Philadelphia last Friday reached
the highest point of the crisis with
$4,000 families on the lists The
previous peak was reached in May,
1888, when 10000 families were on
the relief lists. Fully 100000 are
unemployed, the Unemployment
Councils state. Relief, when given,
averages only 1928 a month for
each family.
Around a program for relief
financing, which calls for increased
taxation graduated upwards on all
incomes above $4,000 a year, in
creased levies on large realty hold
ings and taxes upon the profits Of
all utilities and corporations, the
Unemployment Councils are hold
ing mass meetings and calling for
support from all groups.
Plans are being pushed to send
a mass delegation to Harrisburg,
the State capitol in March to de-
mand increased relief and enact
ment of the Workers Unemploy-
ment, Old Age and Social Insur-
ance Bill by the State pending its
enactment by the Federal govern
ment.
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.SSR Urges
Peace Pact
Continued from Page y


time it considers as a step forward
the establishment during the Lon
don conference of the necessity of
rendering immediate assistance to
any country attacked in cases fore
seen by the pactS.
NO War Can Be Localized"
I'm setting up a unified scheme
embracing various parts of Europe, -
the statement continues, "the Soviet
government is inclined to see the
recognition of mutual dependence in
preserving the integrity Of all these
pact&this being a recognition of
the impossibility under present cir
cumstances OF localizing any war
started in Europe.
1T therefore considers that the
aim set by the London conference,
the organization of the safety of
Europe, can only be reached by the
realization of all regional pacts and
agreements mentioned in the Lon
don communication, a--d that on the
contrary, disregarding one or the
other of these agreements not only
will not serve the strengthening Of
the prospects Of peace, but rather
can be considered as an open en-
couragement to the violation Of
peace in any given territory. The
Soviet government hopes that the
same is the conception of the
authors of the official communica-
ton and that the regional agree
ments discussed among some states
prior to the London conference not
only will not be impaired but will
receive in London new forms of
support.
Few for War
after the London agreement 1t is
possible to state that the idea and
the necessity Of adopting the swift
est and most effective measures to
counterfeit military aggression
through pacts Of mutual assistance
is. actively supported by the four
largest states in Europe, namely, the
q. S. S. R., France, England, and
Italy, as we'll as the countries of the
Little and Balkan Ententes. All of
these jointly possess population of
365 million, or 10 per cent of the
population of all Europe. Can it be
doubted that the prevailing majority
of the other countries of Europe
also regard sympathetically all that
can be undertaken for the strength
ening of peace, that thus the exist
ing tendency for the aggravation of
the danger of war is represented by
comparatively small number Of
adherents?
Under these conditions" the
communique concludes ut is diff
cult to suppose that such an enor-
nous majority Of European coun-
tries, inspired by one purpose and
united in this struggle for peace,
would be unable to realize the set
task of strengthening peace by those
measures which it recognized as
necessary and irreplaceable. Wei
coming the London agreement on
the condition of its full undivided
realization in the spirit of the above
remarks, the Soviet government
wishes to hope that it will be fully
and consistently carried into life"
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Continued from Page y
section that the reign of terror is
a preparation for such a move; that
the miners should not be caught
mapping but prepare to meet it with
mass picketing. Tomorrow morn
ing, it is expected, will prove of de-
cisive Importance in the strike.
Strikers Released
Three of the six strikers at No 20
Tunnel Local of Glen Alden are
charged with dynamiting homes of
strike breakers on company prop
erty and were released yesterday on
$4,000 bail each. The release of the
others also is expected soon. The
local press continues to publicize
these six workers as a "dynamiting
ring and that they confessed, but
no word is said that they pleaded
not guilty and were put under the
third degree.
-Four thousand unemployed in
Luzerne County, chiefly miners, on
"a relief projects, we're suddenly
laid off and transferred back on
relief. The reason given is lack of
funds. The lay-off, it appears, has
been timed to coincide with the eff
forts of the Glen Alden Company
to obtain strike-br The IN
employment Councils will fight the
move and intensity efforts among
the jobless to increase support for
the strikers.
Demand Investigation
A committee of the Unemploy-
ment Councils went today before
the County Relief authorities and
demanded investigation of Ann
Crawl, head of the Pittston Relief
Board, in connection with the shot
fired at John Muldowney, chair
man of County Unemployment
Councils on Tuesday, when he ad-
dressed a Council meeting in Pitts
ton. She previously threatened un-
employed leaders with the fate Of
Campbell and Reilly, murdered
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platform his proposals were greeted
with a storm of boos from the en-
tire membership. He proposed that
the membership reject Colds rec
ommendation for merging with the
Joint Council as a body, and urged
the workers to leave the Fur Work
ers Union and join the Council
CA. F. of H. as individuals.
When he insinuated that the
membership was accepting the pro-
posal to Join as whole body only
because Gold was ordering" them
to do so, the membership made such
a demonstration of disapproval by
boos and cries that the Lovestoneite
found it impossible to continue his
speech and was forced off the stage.
In his summary, Gold empha-
sized that the union act immedi-
ately on the memberships vote,
leaving no stone unturned for the
organization of the whole trade
for struggle against the employers.
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tCoHtlnued from Page j
in the fur, garment and millinery
districts of Manhattan. saying that
if they continued to refuse to ac-
cept the terms laid down by the
Union at the conference with real
tors Representatives Wednesday at
the Hotel Holland, the Manhattan
members of the union would be
called out on strike.
Realtors Walk Out of Session
The conference was broken up by
the realtors when their leading rep
resentative, Walter Gordon Merritt,
notorious open shop attorney,
walked out of the meeting. Bam-
brick had presented the Unions de-
mands of S26, $24 and $22 minimum
wages, respectively, for buildings in
A. B. and c categories, while the
landlords agents had offered S24,
S22 and $40. At the meeting in Star
Casino Bambrick declared the
union would refuse to bulge an
inch on these demands.
The groups representing the Man
haitian landlords at the conference
own $40 buildings in Manhattan,
most Of them in the midtown
sector.
Bambrick entered another con-
ference with the representatives of
the Manhattan realtor groups yes
terday afternoon. 1t was expected
that the conference would last be-
yond the 24-hour ultimatum set by
Bambrick would expire at pm.
City Ready With Scabs
Board of Health inspectors were
still being held in reserve by Mayor
LaGuerdia to help break a general
strike should one be called. They
have been instructed to telephone
Board of Health headquarters every
hour for instructions and have been
ordered to report for special strike
duty today, legal holiday.
Thousands of police were mobi-
liked in the Bronx yesterday when it
seemed certain that strike would
be called. Police officials had scores
of trucks ready to transport the uni
formed thugs to strike points.
Resentment against the leaders
for postponing the strike call is
widespread among members of the
Union. At the mass meeting in Star
Casino addressed by Brambrick,
strong arm men attacked several
members who insisted on knowing
why a strike call had not been is
sued. Bambrick admitted, during
the course of his explanation for his
failure to call general strike, 81
have been severely criticized for not
calling a strike when the mem
bership voted for it. Maybe was
wrong"
Every reference made by BAN
brick to Mayor LaGuardia was met
with catcaus and jeers by the mem
bership. When Bambrick demanded
that the members show their re-
spect for the Mayor the jeers in
creased. He was forced to drop the
subject when workers shouted, 1--WE
remember what LaGuardia did in
the taxi strike
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WagnerAdmits
Bill Is Aid
To Open Shop
Continued from Page y

dorsed the Connery bill to place
additional Labor representative
that is, A. F. of L. bureaucrats-
on the Roosevelt Boards which carry
out the anti-union tasks Of the
N. R. A.
Green testified that it was Emer-
gency Council Director Donald
Richberg's Interpretation Of the
collective bargaining" promised by
the n r. A. that led to present
unrest" in the auto industry.
Green faild to say that he person
ally signed the Infamous Roosevelt
auto agreement against which the
auto workers are preparing to strike.
He gave away the inevitable results
of adding more bureaucrats to the
Roosevelt anti-strike machinery,
however, when he testified that en-
ployers themselves and the Gov
eminent already recognize that they
need the participation of labor mis-
leaders to solve the employers prob
lens Green said:
~ wac 40 O ACDAAAb VI VI dOGACoA
experience in a small but important
group of industries that both the
Administration and management
recognized that representatives of
organized labor must participate in
the code authority work in order
to be able to deal realistically with
the employment problem of codi-
fed industry"
Boldly attempting to revive
worker illusions in the N. r. A. by
confessing that it has helped in
dustry and promising that it will
now, through this bill. get around
to helping labor, Senator Wagner
said:
I'VE have released the business
man from the undiscriminsting en-
forcement of the antitrust laws.
which had been subjecting him to
the attacks Of the price cutters and
wage reducers-the pirates of in
dustry.
while industry's freedom of
action has been encouraged until
the trade association movement
has blanketed tbH entire country,
employees attempting in good faith
to exercise their liberties under
Section IA have met with re-
peated rebuffs."
Wagner naturally refrained from
adding that he himself directly par
ticipated in devising such "rebuffs"
to labor as the Weirton. captive
mines and other now notorious de-
cisions. Desperately attempting to
maintain the fiction that the Presi-
dent still has Labor's interest at
heart and wants a partnership"
which would be fair to labor as well
as industry, Wagner phrased the
universal discrediting Of Section IA
as a breakdown" of the Section.
He said that "a practical situation"
is reducing Section IA to a sham
and a delusion." Then he promised
to remedy the breakdown" which
last Summer lied to a procession of
bloody and costly strikes which in
some cases swelled almost to the
magnitude of national emergencies"
Attempting to conceal the anti
labor Roosevelt DEGREES against
which these strikes took place, and
the merits of Labor's detectives in
the struggle, he declared it is mot
material" to inquire where the bal
ance of right and wrong rested in
respect to these various controver-
Sizes"
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Firm Caused Death of
Is Miners

HARRISBURG, Pa. (FP). = The
blame for the death of 10 mine
workers in an explosion on Jan. 81
has been placed on the Philadelphia
& Reading Coal g. Iron Co. by the
Pennsylvania Department Of Mines,
which ordered the company's Gill
berton mine closed until the safety
laws are complied with.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Firht Iersev Sales Tax

NEWARK, N. j., Feb. 21.-In an
open letter to Governor Hoffman
of New Jersey, the Communist Party
New Jersey, District IA demands
that he drop his entire sales tax
program, which places levy on
every common article of consump-
ton including foodstuffs.
The Communist Party has put
forward it's six-point program for
relief financing, and is modifying
the workers behind this program.
These call for: endorsement of the
Workers Unemployment, Old Age
and Social Insurance Bill, HR. 1927
by the State Legislature, graduated
income taxes upon all incomes and
inheritances above SIS 900 a year; all
war funds (National Guard, State
armories, etc. to be applied to I'M
employment relief; relief in accord
ance with the benefit scales pro-
vided in the Workers Bill, H. R.
1927; complete tax exemption for all
persons earning less than 5000
yearly, and abolition of all forms of
discrimination against the Negro
people, youth, women, foreign-born,
part-time workers and others.
C. P. Issues Open Letter
The open letter of the Commu-
mist Party to Governor Hoffman,
which has been reprinted and is
being circulated by the tens of thou
sands, brands his tax program for
what it is-taxes upon the masses
and increased exemption for the
large property owners and the
wealthy.
I'VE read your bill for the sales
tax the letter states, which also
includes tax on food. The taxes
according to your bill would yield
S35, 100000 a year for emergency re-
lief, reducing the income from real
estate taxes by one third. You
would exempt from taxes hotels and
places of amusement which are fire.
quented mostly by those in better
circumstances, and make UP the
amount by a two per cent food tax,
thereby reducing the purchasing
power of the employed and unem-
ployed workers.
"All you have to offer to the tens
of thousands of unemployed young
workers is militarized C.C.C. camps,
where they are forced to work I'M
der the most unfavorable condi-
tions."
Mass Meeting Saturday
At a hearing on the sales tax
measures yesterday, Governor Hoff-
man admitted that the taxes were
unpopular and would be defeated il
placed before the people for vote. At
the hearings, representatives of the
Communist Party and other work
ing class organizations united to OPP
pose the tax measures I. Gordon
of the Communist Party demanded
the enactment of the Communist
six point program and the enact
nent of the Workers Bill. Jack
Rose, State organizer Of the power
full New Jersey state Federation of
Unemployed and Relief Workers,
and F. Haugh of the same group,
presented the opposition of the IN
employed to the sweeping taxes.
Others who spoke in opposition to
the tax measures included G. Ma
nago of the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights, I. Achterman of the
United Council Of Working Glass
Women, and a representative Of the
inter- Professional Association.
A call was issued yesterday for a
mass demonstration of all workers
against the sales tax. The demon
stration will be held Saturday morn
ing at II O'Clock in Washington
Park, Newark. N. j,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
is RISING
AGAINST SALES LEVY
PLANS IN TWO STATES
Mass Conference in Philadelphia MOnday-City
Pays Nothing for JObless-N. J. Tax
Plan Scored by Communists

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. 21-The West Philadelphia
Unemployment Councils today called for conference
of all groups to plan the fight against the State sales tax
proposals of Governor Hoffman The conference will be held
Monday night at o'clock at Kings Hail. 507 North Forty
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Fur Union to Strive
For Unity with AL.

NEW YORK.-At a meeting which packed Webster
Hall here the Fur Workers Industrial Union affiliated with
the TUUL, Wednesday unanimously and enthusiast
Joint Council of Fur Workers Ca F. of L. for united
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
railway HEADS PUSH
CONSOLIDATION PLANS
TO CUT OUT MANY JOBS
Eastman Report on Possible Savings Shows That
Job-Slashing Campaign Is Going On
BrOtherhoOds Must Act Now
IN Kenneth Eggert

TOLEDO, Ohio Feb 21.-That The railroads are pro-
ceedng with their plans for further consultations which
will deprive tens of thousands of railway employees their
jobs is shown by report just made public by Federal
Railroad Coordination Eastman COMPLETE coordination in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
sacramento
Judge Riled

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Bosses
Plan Terror

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Support Grows
For FSU Rally

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Chiefs in New
Truce as Bronx
enVOteStrike

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-17
DeyOtions Friday.
ALLEGED DRUNKS, GET CONTINUANCE
Giovanni PitrO and David Minogue Freed After
 Posting Bonds

Two alleged drunken drivers se- cured continuances of two weeks when arraigned in city court to- day. Both men are free on bonds.
 The men charged with operating while under the influence of liquor are Giovanni Pitro, 45, of 72 Pleasant street, and David Minogue, 38, of 236 Wood street.
 Pitro was arrested early this morning on East Main street near Hamilton park, the arrest being made by Patrolman John Cronan. The officer halted the car when he noticed it zig-zagging across the highway. Several bottles and jugs were found in Pitro's car, some of them empty and at least one half filled with what police said was alcohol
 Minogue was arrested by Patrol man Terence Lynch and Sergeant James Gibbons. The officers also charged Minogue with operating without license.
 The two cases will be heard the 31st.
 A nolle was given Ben zanevicf, 28, of 1154 Bank street, charged with breach of the peace.
 William Turek, IS, of 473 Hill street. charged with theft of auto markers, was placed on probation.
 Continuance till Monday was giv- en Harold Gay, 43, of 261 Abbott avenue, charged with neglect of a minor child.