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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
Protest Letters Bring.
US. Charges Against II
Old Federal Statute Invoked in Oklahoma CITY
Against Senders of Demands That
Leaders of JObIess Be Freed

OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. For
exercising their constitutional rights
Of protest and petition, six persons
will be arraigned today before U.
S. Commissioner George j. Eacock
here. They are charged with a
Communist plot" to "obstruct JUS
tice and bring a Federal court into
disrepute.'
Six others we're arraigned yester-
day on similar charges, aftermath
of a militant relief demonstration
here last May. They were ordered
held for preliminary hearing on
Feb. 10.
The IL defendants include Mar
shall Lakey, well-known Southeast
ern artist and sculptor, Harry Ben
der, of New York and Oklahoma
City, and two local women.
They were arrested Monday upon
the order of U. S. Attorney w. c.
Lewis, who dug up an old Federal
statute dating back to Civil War
days in an attempt to make his
fantastic charge of Constructing jus
tice," stick.
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workers, among the miners and garment workers.
confirmed this
But where the A. F. of L. Council policy Of
reliance on the N.R.A. prevailed, in steel and
auto, then the workers lost ground, with company
unions growing with the A. F. of L. unions weak
ened. 1t is fact that this policy has paved the
way for the present anti-union drive in auto and
throughout the country.
In this connection, it is recorded fact that
the A. F. of L, Executive Council itself approved
the first auto code which contained the open shop
merit clause" 1t must be clear that such policy
helped to pave the way for the present ant-union
barrage.
The appeals of the Communists for unity and
their work to build the unions are being met with
renewed anti Communist activity from some of the
upper officials, who use the same lying arguments
about Communists, which the stock and trade
OF every reactionary and labor enemy
The government attack on the Communists is
sure prelude to wholesale attacks against the
whole trade union movement. And the anti Com
munist propaganda Of the Executive Council can
only help destroy the unions More it will weaken
the unions Immediately by explosions, not only of
Communists but Of all militant fighters The threat
OF Mike Tighe In the steel unions is case in point.
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was filed by Mary Conner Myers,
A. A. A. legal official, and former
Chicago Justice Agent, after a
survey of cotton regions west Of
Memphis, Tenn.
Conditions Beyond Words"
The red-haired woman agent said
conditions among poor tenant farm
ers and share-croppers were be
yond words"
She charged wholesale violation
of acreage control provisions sup
posed to protect tenants from evic-
tons.
The report of serious difficulties
in the cotton program came with
the A.A.A. generally upset over the
purge" effected by Administrator
Chester 6. Davis. Mrs. Myers made
her report to Secretary of Agricul-
ture Henry Wallace. 1t was not
expected to be made public.
What action would be taken, If
any, was uncertain and the uncer-
tainty was increased by the shift
ing emphasis of A.A.A. policies I'M
der Davis.
Mrs. Myers made an intensive
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study of social conditions in five
Northeastern Arkansas counties.
She reported evicted tenant
farmer families struggling along
highways, wandering hopelessly in
search of shelter and employment.
She said novels were crowded I'M
til there was standing room only
because families in slightly better
economic circumstances had shared
shelter with the evicted.
Refused Relief
Some landlord planters, Mrs.
Myers charged, have turned out
their tenants without warning and
influenced local relief officials to
refuse them aid.
She exhibited snapshots of rough
boarded shacks in muck mired
fields, the gaps in their walls adj
hitting bitter winds; evicted Ne
groeS standing in the road; a truck
piled high with bed springs, a stove
and ramshackle ends of the house
hold equipment of a poor family
Mrs. Myers characterized the
scene as like those of refugees flee
ing war time Belgium"
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Automobile Workers on the basis
of a closed shop contract.
The following program of actor
was adopted:
I, Immediate preparation for
strike action.
2. Every local to start discus
sion in the departments on the
question of strike action.
3. Committees to be set up in
every department, shop and plant.
4. Mass distribution of leaflets.
5. An organization committee to
be set up, consisting of five from
each local, to start drive to or
ganize the unOrganized, involving
as many volunteer organizers as
possible in this work; the A. F of
L. Executive Council to be re-
quested to appropriate a large
sum of money for this drive.
6. An enlarged City Council
meeting to be held within two
weeks, to include the organization
committee and all volunteer or
ganizers; this meeting being en-
powered to elect a Negotiations
Committee and to set a strike
date.
LOvestOneites Insert Joker
The seventh point was the Joke,
the bureaucrats put over. 1t re,
manned for the Lovestoneite rene
gades from Communism to pave thu
way for this. Their delegates to TIT
City Council, Ben Lipson Oifschitz)
and Red Miller, proposed the ide;
of referring everything to nationa
conference to be held before the enc
Of the month. They also proposed
the sending in of crew of paiC
A. F. Of L. organizers, in 1the,
words, more bureaucrats and mis-.
leaders to take the situation out O.
the hands of the rank and file.
A number Of locals are, however
not waiting for Dillon's rubber.
stamp council to kick the rank anc
file in the pants. They are adopt
ing their own demands and present.
ing them to the companies. A re-
cent meeting of the Kelsey-H Hayes
Wheel local, where about 1000 were
present, adopted demands for pres
entation to the company, and sew
eral departments in the Motor Prod
ucts plant have done likewise. Only
by pressing forward for action anc
taking steps to carry out the fight
ing program adopted by the City
Council can the mass of the auto
mobile workers defeat the employer
government offensive and win bet
ter conditions.
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be completely ignorant on the sub
ject.
Fund Source Revealed
Harris revealed that it was Rachel
Sewers, Of the State Bureau of
Criminal Identification, who got
him Job at labor spying in local
cannery plant while he was still
enrolled on the c. G. G. He made
all his reports to Sewers. His labor
spying activities at klamath Falls,
Ore, admitted in his testimony the
previous day, were performed for
the Weyerhauser Lumber Company
Mills. At the same time he was
being paid by the city.
The labor spy could not remember
the dates Of meetings at which he
alleged d efend t s had made
threats against the lives of relief
officers" The defendants repeated
their speeches to refresh his mem
ory.
Judge Stamps Out
During complaint by Gallagher
on the bad food served by the prison
authorities to those defendants for
whom bail has not yet been Sc
cured, Judge Dial M. Lennon lost
his judicial dignity" and stamped
out of the courtroom. The judge
had previously objected to CAL
1agher bringing up such unpleasant
facts before the jury.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
Alabama House Passes
An Ani-COnlnulITliSt Bill
Measure Prohibits All Revolutionary 'Utteranct
Conduct'-Newspaper Exempted
LID. Organizes Protest Campaign

organized, encouraged or aided by
societies and groups advocating out
breaks against any branch Of Gov
eminent"
The fascist nature of the bill is
clearly exposed in an editorial en-
titled "A Vicious Bill" in the Biz
mingham Post, which admits:
Under such an act there could
be no freedom of speech or free
press. A minister preaching in his
pulpit would not be beyond its
reach. The organization of trade
and labor unions might easily be
curbed. Certainly the right of peace
full picketing would be taken from
them for all time"
A vigorous mass campaign against
the bill is under way locally in the
trade unions and among the unor-
ganized masses. This campaign, the
International Labor Defense points
out, must be developed into united
front fight within the next six
weeks before the Alabama Senate
re-convenes to take action on the
bill. The I. L. D. is calling for ma
tional support of this campaign.
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Especial to the Daily Worker,

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. t.
The Street Anti-Communist Bill,
aimed to further narrow the civil
liberties Of the working class, was
passed by the Alabama House of
Representatives yesterday.
A motion by Representative Tay-
Tor Of Mobile County to reconsider
the vote was defeated by Sc to 80.
An amendment somewhat mod
flying the drastic provisions of the
bill was passed, stating that this
act shall not apply to any writing,
publication or cartoon appearing in
any newspaper or publication per-
mitted to be carried in the U. S.
mails"
The amendment. thus exemptS the
Daily Worker and other revolution
airy publications, pen ding test
threatened by Alabama fascist cir
cles which sponsored the bill. With
the exception of this amendment,
the bill stands as before, banning
ANY publication, writing. cut, car
toon, utterance or conduct which is
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in town and in village. Secondly,
because the time has arrived when
we can develop Soviet democracy to
its limits and in accordance with
this make amendments to our cleo
toral system.
THE present situation in the
country both with respect to the
social and economic structure and
with respect to the cultural and
political consciousness of the toll
ing masses cannot be compared with
1928, when the constitution of the
Socialist Soviet Republics was for
INFLATED by the commission under
the chairmanshop Of Stain.
by 1885" Molotoy continued, "the
situation was completely changed.
Nothing remains now of the capital
ist elements. Private property in
the means of production remains
now, at the outside, only four per
cent of the total sum of the means
of production of our country. Nine
ty-six per cent of the means of
production already belong to the
state, i.e., to the working class Or
ganized as whole.
Indeed" added Molotov, Social
ist ownership is growing before our
eyes in the form of new state mills,
factories, conversations, railways,
state farms and collective farms
with their new buildings and ma
chimes, their new raising
farms. New towns, cultural insti-
tutions, dwelling houses, are grow
ing by leaps and bounds.
For us the Soviet constitution
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Communist leaflets outside the
plant.
The Central Labor Council and
all the large Federal locals in the
city have endorsed the Oliver
strike. Police and employers are
expressing fear of a general SYM
pathy strike in the city. A local
group of the Khaki Shirts is being
organized, and open declarations
are being made that it will plant
stool-pigeons in all departments of
the local plants to combat Commu-
nism and break strikes.
The Oliver Company has sent let
tiers to the strikers limiting that it
will transfer its orders to the Battle
Creek, Mich, Charles City, Iowa,
and Springfield, Ohio, plants, invit-
ing them to scab.
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Workers in South Bend Rally
Behind OIiuer PLOm Strikers

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Feb. 1.-THE
1,400 strikers of the Oliver Plow
Works have entered the second
week of their strike with lines firm
and not a single scab in the plant.
A possible attempt next Sunday to
bring in scabs will be met with a
mass picket line.
A strike of 1920 workers of the
Bendix Brake and Aviation Com
pany was averted after negotiations
with Federal Local 18,347 resulted in
a 5 per cent increase in wages. The
Communist Party unit in the plant
has issued a leaflet calling upon
the workers to prepare for strike.
Lawrence Kanouse, Communist can
dtdate for mayor in the recent cleo
ton. was arrested for distributing
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of the big American bankers, the
trust magnates and the munitions
manufacturers.
To protest against these provoc=
alive war moves must be tremen-
dous and resounding. Against
Roosevelt's new move there should
develop huge mass movement OF
all forces against war-against war
aimed at the Soviet Union, against
a new world war. The fight against
Roosevelt's foreign policy of in
censing the mailman of Europe and
the butchers of the Orient, Japan
csc imperialism, to open theil
bloody attack against the U.S.S.R.
should arouse the greatest protest
in all workers organizations, in the
trade unions, in the fraternal So
cietieS, in Socialist Party locals, an6
among all anti-fascist and anti-wa1
organizations.
Protests Necessary
Protests should flood Roosevelt
and Secretary of State Hull, de.
handing an end to these wal
provocations. The hypocritical New
Deal president should hear that the
American masses do not want 9
new bloody imperialist war against
the only country in the world thai
is advancing the living standards OF
the toilers while capitalism sinks
into greater and more dangerous
crisis, fascism and war.
The -mongers of Wall Street
the gigantic munitions makers, ano
the Roosevelt politicians engineer.
ing support for an anti-Soviet wal
should be let known that million
in the United States are against 8
new world imperialist slaughter
and for the defense of the workers
fatherland.
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Lewis holds the defendants re-
sponsible for a flood of postcards
sent to Federal authorities protest
ing the arrest Of leaders of the re-
lief demonstration of last May and
demanding their release. He al
leges that the postcards are Of a
Threatening nature" because they
demand the release of the defend
ants.
Lewis said that hundreds of the
protest cards had been received by
President Roosevelt, Federal Judge
Edgar S. Vaught of Oklahoma City
and himself. The arrested relief
demonstrators are charged with
"Seditious conduct"
Protest wires were sent out last
night by the National Committee
for the Defense of Political Pris-
oners, with offices at Sc Fifth Ave,
New York City, to U. S. Attorney
General Homer S. Cummings in
Washington, and to U. S. Attorney
w. G. Lewis, Oklahoma City.
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Hull's actions mean Wall Street
considers the attempted war against
the workers fatherland as emf
nently desirable for the interest
of the American Morgans, Rookie
fellerS, du Points, .Raskobs, and the
others who bleed the American
workers at home.
ROOsevelt's Hand Seen
By this aggressive policy against
the Soviet Union the much bally-
hooed hero Of the New Deal, the
self-dubbed liberal" President is
helping to incite new world
slaughter. A war against the So
Wet Union at this time will not
be an isolated war in the Far East,
along the plains and mountains of
Manchuria, or at the border of
Siberia.
The Roosevelt government is a
capitalist government, but it is not
composed of fools. 1t knows of the
existence Of the secret pact between
Hitler and the japanese imperial
lists for simultaneous attack from
East and West. 1t knows that this
war against the Soviet Union will
be fought on a world scale. And
knowing all this, Roosevelt deliber-
ately takes this provocative step to
indicate to every enemy of the
workers fatherland, now armed to
the teeth, to proceed to war in
greater haste with the promise of
definite support of the Wall Street
bankers and munitions manufac-
turers.
Who's Behind 1t
Who wants such a war? The du
Points. who have just built a huge
munitions plant for the Japanese
militarists, would expect to make
millions out of it. j. P. Morgan g.
Co., holding hundreds of millions
of japanese loans, and who look
forward to floating still more super
profitable loans in the event of
such war, certainly had a hand
in the State Departments action.
The Czarist White Guard scum
would want such war. The
Hearsts, and all other scab and
anti-labor fiends work and pray for
just such war.
Many liberals and some Socialists
in the United States -poohed
the idea that the Roosevelt govern
ment, with its benign pose of liber-
alism and pacifism, would ever do
such thing. They miStook the
full significance of the establish
ment of Soviet relations. They
even went further, believing that
the Roosevelt government, which
was in conflict with Japanese i'm
perialism over the colonial booty in
the Far Eastern colonies, would dis
courage Japan.
Illusions Broken
But all these illusions are being
smashed to bits by the reality of
Roosevelt's provocative action in in
dicating to Japan that attacks on
the Soviet Union are on the order
of the day
At its 9th Convention, held in
Cleveland, April 2 to 8, 1884, the
Communist Party, U.S.A., accurately
appraised and forecast the present
situation, and the role of American
imperialism in the anti-Soviet war
front. The principal Resolution
passed at that Convention, stated
"The recognition of the Soviet
Union by the American Gov
eminent, victory for the Soviet
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Writ Sought
In Coal Strike
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Coal Company is ready to go dowr
with the United Mine Workers"
Called Illegal

Coal Company is ready to go dowr
with the United Mine Workers"
Called illegal
Judge Valentine who poses as s
supporter of organized labor stated
that "the strike was illegal" which
is clear indication that he vii
hand down the injunction.
Meetings are we'll attended anc
more support is being aroused be
hind the strike. The Daily Worker
is eagerly read by the miners, A
the meeting last night in st
Stephens Hall, Plymouth, ATTENDED
by over 1900 men, Pat Mangen,
fighting miner from the Lance
local, made a speech praising the
Daily" and pointed out the scar
role of the local capitalist papers
1t is clear that the rank anc
file wants real strike to win con
ditionS. To accomplish this wo-
men must be drawn into the action
it was pointed out.
Local demands should be put for
ward, united action must be planned
wherever both unions have fol.
lowings in the same mine. Striker
are urged to guard against any
ideas now prevalent that "Tht
Governor is misled by Kennedy
the Lieutenant Governor, and thai
this is the reason why the stare
troopers are against u.s."
In its application for the injunc'
ton the company asked that tbs
strike be declared illegal, claiming
that it has a contract with the
United Mine Workers of America
It's representatives stated thai
the company has orders for $4,000
tons of coal a day, and is losing
$4,000 a day. All the collieries re.
main shut, the 1900 workers OF
both unions having responded
solidly, although the officials of thu
United Mine Workers have tried to
round up scabs.
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Fisherman. Frozen. Saved

BUFFALO, N. Y, Feb. Edward
Worth, a fisherman, was taken alive
from the ice-filled water of Buff
falo harbor today, his limbs frozen
from the torture of clinging to his
overturned skiff during near-zero
temperatures for more than Is
hours.
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MIRA. Article on Monday

The next article by Carl Reeve,
associate editor of the Daily
Worker, on the results of the
N. r. A. and the present reor-
gsnization Of the N. r. A. will
appear in next Mondays issue of
the Daily Worker.
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members, we have made progress
under the New Deal.
TT is a whole lot better to
donate funds to a party that has
done something for us than to go
ont and give the money to Huey
Long, Father COughlin or the
Townsend planners, who are
merely making promises.
Our members are schOOled in
the idea Of backing poor but able
men in their local elections with
funds so that they will not have
to get them from some one who
Is anti-labOr and expects COM
pound interest in governmental
favors."
Several Transfers Murdered
Tobin neglected to point out that
the strong Transfers Union has
been built, not by backing capital
list politicians, but by a nationwide
strike movement of teamsters in
many of the large cities, including
hiladelphia, San Francisco, Mime
apolis, ST. Paul, New York, and
others. In Minneapolis several
strikers were murdered In San
Francisco they faced National
Guards. In virtually all these cases
the strikes were forced despite his
wishes.
While Tobin works in close CO.
operation with capitalist politicians
the workers in the locals. after
their bitter experience during the
past year, are increasingly talking
of the need for Labor Party con-
trolled by the rank and file in the
unions. This was especially appar-
ent in the recent discussions in New
York on the Injunction issued by
Justice Humphrey.
Reports from garages OF many
trucking companies in New York
indicate that teamsters are incensed
at the Humphrey injunction, as
they are now realizing that the stay
is meaningless and that it is I'M
lawful for union men to ban non
union truckmen from the piers. At
first the workers we're led to be-
lieve, as announced by Thomas
Lyons, secretary of the joint coun-
Gil Of the Brotherhood of Team
sters that the stay leaves the work
ers free to refuse to work alongside
Of non-union workers. A number
of trucking companies which had
union conditions are now disregard
ing union agreements.
A strike appears almost inevitable
at the first instance where a test
of stay will be made.
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was not mere declaration, but a
most important document in the
struggle for the further strength
ening of socialist ownership, for the
final victory of socialist society.
tApplause) This is our first task
in making changes in the Soviet
constitution.
Molotov's report lasted over an
hour, and interruptions of ap-
plause punctuated his entire speech.
When Molotov enumerated the total
funds of socialist public ownership
accumulated by the proletarian
state, when with crushing criticism
he surveyed the path of capitalism
from the miserable parliamentarism
of bourgeois democracy to fascism,
the hall broke into thunders of ova-
ton.
"At present." he continued, I'VE
have the system of direct elections
only for the city and village So
VETS, which are elected directly by
workers and peasants and members
of the Red Army. The higher or
gans of the Soviet Government, be-
ginning with the district executive
committees, are elected not by the
direct vote of the electorate but at
corresponding Soviet congresses. As
result, these district executive
committees are elected according to
a two-Stage system; territorial and
regional executive committees, as
we'll as leading organs of autono-
nous republics, by a three stage
system; the central executive COM
mittees of the republics of the
Union, and the Central Executive
Committee of the U. S. S. R. by a
four stage system of elections.
But now" MolotoV declared,
direct elections will raise still
higher the authority of the organ
of Soviet Government, will
strengthen still further and link
these organs with the broad masses
of the toilers. The workers and
peasants will hear their represen-
tatives better, not only those of the
districts and regions, but also the
central organs of the Soviet State.
Thus" he continued, while retain
ing the right of the electors to re-
call deputies from any organ, in
surfing the participation of non
Party organizations and groups of
toilers in the nominating of candi-
dates, the Soviet system, through
the introduction of direct elections,
will make gigantic strides forward
toward developing the democracy
of the toilers of our country" ZAP
plause.)
In his concluding words Molotov
made the proposal which in behalf
of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union he brought to the Congress
for approval. Kalinin, presiding
put the proposal to vote. A
minute OF solemn silence was broken
by indescribable demonstrations of
cheers and ovations as the entire
Congress arose in unanimous assent
to the great advance in socialist
| democracy,