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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
LaFollette Is Silent on
Fascist Acts-Refuses
TO Make Protest
BY MILTON HOWARD

If anybody has any illusions about
the progressive" atmosphere OF
Wisconsin, where the LsFollettes
allesedly reign in liberal paradise
Of tolerance and goodwill" the
recent events in Racine ought to
make some difference.
Little publicity has been coming
out Of Racine on these events.
But the story of the police raids,
the hoodlum terrorism. and vigi-
lante violence against the Commu-
mist Party and working class organ
izations in this town reads no diff
ferent from the stories Of fascist
terrorism in the deep South or the
clubbings out on the Pacific Coast.
Capitalist reaction and terrorism
breed Just as rapidly in the sunny
liberalism of Wisconsin as in any
other district of the Wall Street
dictatorship.
Attacks Began in November
The attack on the Communist
L OIL ny BCSdu Oll WV a. NAANli q
gang of hoodiums armed with clubs
swooped down upon a demonstra-
ton of jobless workers demanding
adequate relief and the protection
of the welfaro of their families. The
Racine police were calm witnesses
of this assault. They not only did
not interfere They actually pro-
tected the thugs in their work.
The same night there was an or
ganized attack on the Communist
Party headquarters, doors were
broken in and furniture was
smashed.
Luckily the workers in the office
had been forewarned of what was
coming, and had cleared most OF
the stuff out, leaving the office un-
occupied
Since this night raid Racine has
been in the grip of an organized
terrorism which has its source and
support in the leading buresucrats
of the American Legion and the po-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
S ciaIist Locals Hit
Raids, But State Head
Fails to Act

Racine vigilantes correspond with
the ideals OF the Hitlerites and the
fascists of Italy" But it will not
unite with the Communist Party in
fighting this admitted fascist men
ace! What this mysterious dis
sension" OF the Communists is the
Council does not make clear, nor
does it recognize that the terrorism
in Racine is a direct outgrowth OF
the Communist Party leadership in
the struggles of the unemployed.
Is this "dissension"? Or is it the
justified defense of the interests of
the workers, of all workers, which
deserves the support Of every labor
groupP Is it not clear that this
talk of Communist dissension" pro-
vides a justification of the police
terrorism against the Communist
Party and the Unemployed Coun-
ellis?
The local Communist Party mem
bers have worked unflinchingly
against this terrorism. Whatever
OTedhQONn Ol lI1G WOTk OF ldCN Oh
initiative in the units was shown is
now being overcome. The fight of
the Racine Communists for civil
liberties of the working class. for
the right to organize for adequate
relief, fer the right to assemble and
demonstrate, is the fight of the
whole country.
Racine is a trial balloon which
the reactionaries are sending up to
see how far they can go with fas-
cist terrorism in the progressive"
communities. 1t is test Of the
resistance of the working class to
the advance Of fascist reaction.
This is what makes it so urgent
that united front meetings be held
OF all workers, Socialist and A. F.
OF L., together with their class
brothers in the Communist Party
protesting the terrorism in Racine
wisconsin. Wire the Racine Mayor!
Demand tie stopping Of all terror
ism against the Communist Party!
Demand the rights Of the working
classl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04

1888 to 1905: The Women.
SO pm. to $40 pm: Fourth Cen
er1i Session.
80 to ESQ: The Youth.
ESQ to SEQ: The Veterans
1920 to $50: The Farmers
$50 to 400: The Experts Social
Insurance in Britain, Germany, So
Wet Cnion).
400 to ago: Domestic and Per-
sonsl Service.
40 to $50: Professionals
$50 to 5:4S: Political Parties.
700 p.m.-10 pm: Fifth General
Session.
y Reports ot Credentials, Reso-
buttons and Program Committees,
y Election Of National Action
Committee.
MONDAY
Sam: General Assembly for For
nation of Delegations.
10-a.rn.: Departure of Deleg cations.
$50 to $50 pm: sixth and FinnI
Gercrrt Session.
II Summary Report: Results of
Visits Of Delegations. Results of
Congress. Program Of Action for
Coming Period.
~ Adoption Of Program Of Ac-
ton
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and their snartly attired escorts,
enveloped the formal opening cere-
monies with a picnic atmosphere.
A visitor from some literary Utopia
or spectator from a strange land
would never have known that to-
days opening took place in the sixth
year Of the capitalist crisis and the
sixth successive New Deal month
showing an increase in unemploy-
ment.
Other measures TO be presented
included Representative Pstman's
(TeXas) Bill for the immediate
payment to veterans Of the face
value of their adjusced-service Ger
tifcates ard for controlled expan-
SION Of the currency; Representa-
tive Mc.swains South Carolina)
demsgogic proposal ito prevent
profiteering in the time of war and
to equalize the burdens Of war and
thus to promote the national de-
Tense; various so-called anti-lynch-
ing bills calling for equal protection
of the laws and to punish the crime
OF lynching" (but not by death as
demanded by the League of Strug-
gle for Negro Rights; Representa-
tive U. S. Guysrs chauvinistic bill
ito require the employment of Amer
lean citizens on observation cars
used by railroads in Interstate Com
merce"; and Congrszsmans William
I,emke's North Dakota Bill to
'liouidate and refinance agricultural
indebtedness at a reduced rate of in
terest by establishing an efIlcient
credit system through the use OF the
Federal Farm Loan System, the Fed
eral Reserve Banking System, and
creating a board of agriculture to
supervise the same"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
100000 Paris Workers
SignPetition Demanding
Release Of Thaelmann

The National Committee to Aid
the Victims Of German Fascism has
Just received cablegram from the
warld Committee at Paris that the
Socialist Deputy Longuet and the
Communist Deputy Peri visited the
German consulate personally. car
rr;nz with them 100000 signatures
demanding the freedom of Thael-
mann. These signatures were gath
cred within two days in Paris and
its suburbs.
The National Committee urgently
requests all organizations and in
dividuals in the United States, who
still have Thaeimann signature lists
in their possession, whether signed
or unsigned. to mail them to its
address at 168 W. 23rd St, New
York City. AL funds collected upon
these lists should be RENTED i'm
mediately
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
Soviets Begin
Sale of Bread
WithoutCards

MOSCOW, Jan. 3. CBy Wirelessl
Throughout the country the sale
Of bead without cards has begun.
Reports arriving from all parts of
the country state how on the flrst
day of the sale Of bread everything
passed in an organized normal man
ner. Bread was sold to all, openly
and freely, in all old as well as
newly-opened bread-shops and
stalls.
There were no lines, the shops
wee particularly clean and decor
ated with white curtains, and we'll
baked white bread OF various sorts
was on sale. Almost everywhere
an intensified demand for white
bread was observed.
The decision of the Council of
Peoples Commissars, concerning the
extension of the network of the re-
tail trade in bread by 10000 shops
and stalls by Jan. l and 2. has
already been considerably ove-ful-
filed. Up to Jan. /, 1885, 1892 new
shops and stalls were built or
adapted for the sale of bread.
The decree concerning the in
crease of the output capacity of the
bread factories and bakeries by TO-
$50 tons of bread daily was also
overfulfllled. On Jan. the output
Of the bread factories increased
1894 tons daily. The opening of
new and also the extension of the
old bakeries and the increase in the
network of shops in such a short
time required great organizstional
ingenuity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
.PrOfes
Demand Spain
End Terror

Seventy-five well-known intellec-
tuals and professional people have
signed a statement drawn up by
the National Committee for the De-
tense of Political Prisoners protest
ing the Fascist reign of terror in
Spain.
The statement. addressed to the
Spanish Ambassador at Washing
ton for transmission to his govern
ment. briefly outlined a series Of
brutal and repressive measures used
by the fascist Lerroux- Robes gov
eminent of Spain to suppress the
heroic struggles of the Spanish
workers and peasants against the
fascination of the government. The
statement lists the following four
demands:
ID Put an end to executions or
dered by your government.
(2) End the cruelties which are
equal to those Of Hitler's Nazi gov
eminent.
90 Free the thousands who
fought for the most fundamental
Of human rights.
~ Cease the censorship which
attempts to hide the activities of
the Spanish Government from the
world.
Some of the signatories are Jane
Adams, John Chamberlain, Quincy
Howe. Malcolm Cowley. John How
ard Lawson, Sarah H. Cleghorn.
Jack Conroy, Bsbette Deutsch. Dor
othy Garfield Fisher, Horace Greg
DRY, Granville Hicks, Maxwell Hyde.
Horace M. Ksllen. Robert Morss
Lovett, Grace Lumpkin. Lewis Mum
ford. Rev. William B. Spofford
Bernhard Stern, Rev. George Parker
weiss. r..
Waldo Frank, playwright and
student Of Spanish affairs. and
member of the National Committee.
sent protest cablegram to Premier
Alexandra Lerroux of Spain.
A memorial, urging the Spanish
Ambassador to forward the protest
to his government, was signed by
Theodore Dresser, Lewis Gannett.
Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Oswald
Garrison Willard, Charles Edward
Russell, Arthur Garfield Hays and
Roger N. Baldwin
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lice, cooperating with the employ
ers and city ofhcials.
Worker Taken for Ride
Every Communist Party sympa-
thizer has been terrorized by the
hoodlums' warning, Lay OF the
Reds No hall proprietor will rent
the Communist Party his quarters
for fear of reprisals by the vigi-
lantes. Kidnapping is recognized as
legitimate if it involves the kid
mapping of Communist workers.
For example, well-known militant
worker was seized in broad day
light, and taken for q ride" Only
his daring in leaping out Of the car
saved him from q cruel beating, If
not worse.
And when this worker demanded
Of the police that they arrest his
known kidnappers, he himself, was
flung into Jail, held on the exorbi-
tant bail of $4,000, and charged with
'1ibelling the chief OF police"l When
two small business men dared to Of
fer bail for the Jailed worker, their
windows were smashed by vigil
lantes!
This is the atmosphere in which
the Communist Party and the IN
employed Councils of Racine are
now working in defense OF the in
terests of the working class.
LaFoIIette Fails To Act
The reaction to this brutal ter
rorism is significant. The LsFol-
lettes refused to soil their progress
sive fingers with the whole matter.
Phillip LaFollette, when asked by
the workers to make public protest
against these outrages, found a
most subtle and hypocritical reply.
His stand on free speech was we'll
known, he declared, and therefore,
no further statement on his part
was necessary He therefore pro-
ceeded to condone the terrorism by
his deliberate silence and refusal to
protest. From this incident alone it
is clear as daylight that the pro-
gressive LaFollettes have their own
firm position in the capitalist appa-
ratus of state terrorism!
Several Communist Party workers
visited the State office of the So
cislist Party the day after the first
raid on the party office, asking for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04

is a wholesale dsiryman who. al
though showing h greatest
anxiety to get on the jury, pro-
fesses that he is mot interested in
politics. and not biased against the
defendants.
Judge Lennon continued to
hamper the defense in its question
ing Of the jurors, sustaining the
objections of the prosecution to
such questions by the defense as:
Would you be biased if prosecutor
presents as evidence the infamous
Whslen forgeries?" Because de-
fendents advocate right to strike
and pickett"
Gallagher then asked Cooper II
he would be afraid to arrive at q
verdict in favor OF the defendants
for fear it would affect the sale OF
his milk. Cooper lodged the ques-
ton with the answer that he was
having hard time getting rid OF
it now.
Defense QuiZzes Juror
When Gallagher asked the juror
If he would be biased if the de-
PENDANTS believed that the State
withers away in classics society
Prosecutor Chris Johnson demanded
to know what the workers will do
with all the capitalists. Il don't
know what they'll do with all the
capitalists" Gallagher replied, but
l know what the workers of Cali
fornia did with some capitalist pros
ecutors. The vote of 10000 people
for one of the candidates Of the
Communist Party is one of the
reasons why the Communist Party
is legally on the ballot in this state. .
Although District Attorney Nc
Allister was smashingly repudiated
and defeated in the recent elections.
the new District Attorney Otis D.
Babcock, acting under orders of the
most reactionary CAPITALIST elements
in this State, is planning to con-
tinue McAllister and his deputies in
the case as special prosecutors. Bah
cock takes office on Jan. Z. Nc
Allister and two special prosecutors
are to receive $50 per day each dur
ing the trial.
Protests against the frame-up
end the tactics Of the prosecution
with demands for the unconditional
release Of the 10 defendants, should
be sent to Judge Dial M. Lennon
District Attorney Otis D. Babcock
end Gov. Frank Merriam Of Cali
fornia, all at Sacramento, Cal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04

The six workers were sentenced
on Dec. 4. Three men, described as
underworld characters, who admit
ted completely in the dynamiting
and turned state witnesses, have
been given jobs by the E. M Holt
Plaid Mill Company, the company
which pressed the charges.
The six framed workers appealed
TO the International Labor Defense,
when it became evident that the
officials of the United Textile
Workers Union had no intention
of defending them or combating
the move to discredit the union.
The IL. D. is actively aiding their
defense.
The Workers Defense Committee
has issued an appeal to all workers,
professional people. intellectuals
and students, to support the mass
and legal fight against this mon
strous frame-up. Its appeal states,
In part
Three of the condemned work
ers are out on bond. Three others
lie in the adjoining county jail
awaiting bail. Since the officials Of
the United Textile Workers Union
kept their hands washed" of the
whole case, the six condemned men
appealed to the International Labor
Defense for counsel. Rank and file
members of the union, with other
workers and syrnpathizers, have Or
ganized the Workers Defense Com
mittee in Burlington and other cen
tiers TO begin a campaign for the
freedom of these workers.
Three hundred dollars is needed
at once to get the evidence copied
for appeal to the State Supreme
Court. This is a cause that no
honest person, worker, student, pro-
fessor or merchant, can afford to
turn down, The future of these in
nocent but condemned workers rests
in the hands Of us who are able to
help"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
Nazi Official Admits
Dangerous Growth
OF Unemployment

COLOGNE. Jan. a The Nazi
press is maintaining a discreet ST.
lence on the speech made by Dr.
Syrup. chairman of the board OF
unemployment assistance" for Hit
Ter Germany, before meeting OF
industrislists. DIR. Syrup made GER
tain revelations which the Nazis are
anxious to suppress.
1T must be admitted" he de-
clsred, that the large towns and
industrial regions are suffering from
an increase in the number of I'M
employed. 1t must be added that
the vagaries Of the seasons, the
difficulties in the way Of German
exports, and the state OF Germsny's
revictualment in raw materials do
not help to prevent the growth OF
unemployment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
Produce Distribution
Is Halted by Walkout
Of Drivers in Cleveland

CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 3.-Distri-
button of fruit and vegetables to
more than 1000 fruit and vegetable
dealers and grocery stores was
halted today by strike.
The members of the Commission
House Drivers and Helpers Union
picketed commission houses in the
food terminal. The strikers are de-
n1andlns closed shop contract and
increased wages. Picketing has now
spread to all sixSy-seven commission
houses in the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
Mass Send-On Tonight

NEWARK, N. j., Jan. 3,--Follow
ing a mass send-of1 meeting at
Sokol Hall. 358 Morris Avenue. to-
morrow night, the New Jersey dele
cation to the National Congress for
Unemployment Insurance will en-
train for Washington.
The special train will leave the
Pennsylvania Depot, Newark, Satur-
day at 12:45 a. m. latter midnight
Friday and will stop in Elizabeth
Saturday morning at l a. m. and
in New Brunswick at 1.15 a. m.
Delegates have been urged to
register at once at 50 West Street,
Newark.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04

crimes naturally grow out of CAPT
tslist corruption and decay.
other Murders
The fisndlsh murder Of the Lind
bergh baby should be placed in
proper perspective to other MUIR
ders, to the murders, for example,
Of 81 strikers in 1894 by associates
of Lindbergh himself; to the murder
Of 1000 workers every dav by star
walton. since the crisis began Ave
years ago; to the murder of Sergei
Kirov, a leader of 160,000,000 people.
How many OF the millions of
words that the American capitalist
press spews on its readers every day
in the year did they give III SYM
pathy with the brutal assassination
last month Of one of the best-be-
loved leaders of the world pro-
letariat2 Did they not rather de-
fend the nurderers of Kirov?
How many tears did the cap
italist press shed over the murder
Of 19-year old Harry Simms, who
was shot down in cold-blood Just
about the time, almost to day,
that the Lindbergh baby was mu--
dered? Harry Simms had mother,
too. And Harry Simms was love-
able, quite Is loveeble as the Lind
bergh baby. When he was shot in
the stomach by a Kentucky deputy
sheriff for organizing the Kentucky
miners in their heroic strike against
starvation in 1892 and left to die,
BLEEDING profusely, on a rock be-
cause the deputy sheriff didn't be-
lieVe that Communists, even when
they are 19, deserve hospital treat
ment, the miners wives cried for
days. And when Simms died in
torture on the following day, was
his murder lamented in the capital
ist press?
What Papers Don't Print
The vast ma iority of capitalist
newspapers didn't even report his
murder, those that did gave 1t one
paragraph. and not one stated that
the Sheriff Of Knox County refused
to even allow Simms to be buried
where he was murdered: his body
had to be transferred to New YORK
to be inferred. And while Simms
body was riding in a baggage car
guarded by miners against a ghoul-
ish assault by drunken deputy
sheriffs, the American capitalist
press, which had ignored his muir
der because Of the effect its telling
would have on the American work.
ingclass, was filling whole PAGES
with the details of the kidnapping
of a rich mans son.
A few weeks ago Kentucky minel
who was an associate of Simms wa,
sentenced to life term In jai
because of his continued militancy
in the struggle for a living wage
His case has still to be reported
by the capitalist press which Is still
using the Lindbergh case as Z
Roman circus to keep the American
workers distracted from their vita
problems.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
Boston A.FL. Unions Act

BOSTON. Mass, Jan. 3.-Local
10, Decorators Branch Of the Jour-
neymen Plasterers Association, en-
dorsed the National Congress for
Unemployment Insurance and
elected one delegate. This is the
largest local of the Plasterers Union
in New England.
In Brockton, the Lasters Local Of
the Brotherhood of Shoe and Allied
Craftsmen elected one delegate to
the Congress. The Hebrew Paint
ers and Paperhangers Association
has likewise elected one delegate.
The Rcxbury Civic Club, 2
Negro organization, has elected a
delegate, and the Reverend Staples.
2 Negro Baptist church minister. is
calling a special meeting of his
delegates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
Phiia. Delegation to Leave Saturday

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. a.
The entire Philadelphia delegation
to the National Congress for IN
employment Insurance will leave
here Saturday morning at $40
o'clock from the Broad Street Sta
ton and arrive in Washington at
IL am.
Coneressman-elect Boyd, when
visited by committee from the
local sponsoring committee prom
ised to support the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill in Con-
gress and further declared that he
would fight in Congress for the right
Of delegation of workers to pre-
sent their demands from the floor
Of the United States Congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
italian Groun Backs ParIev

FALL RIVER, Mass, Jan. 3.-The
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill was endorsed at the last meet
ing Of the Italian Columbus Citi-
zens CLUB here, and one delegate,
William Brillo, was elected to at
tend the National Congress. An
other delegate, Joseph Novo, was
elected in city conference on I'M
employment insurance attended by
nine workers clubs and mass or
CARNATIONS here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
STATE WITNESSES
ARE GIVEN JOBS
BY TEXTILE FIRM
With Aid of LID When Union Officials Fail
to Aid Six Arrested During General Strike

BURLINGTON n c.. Jan. 3.-Rank and file workers of
the United Textile Workers Union have set up Workers
Defense Committee for the defense of six local textile work
raroaded to total of 81 years in jail dynamite"
frameup which grew out of the General Textile Strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04

Bring up the question of greet
ing the Daily Worker on Its
Eleventh Anniversary at the next
meeting OF your organization.
See that your organization gets
on the Honor Roll By sending the
greeting as quickly as possible!
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Continued from Pare II
ness-New Deal Administration de-
sires followed.
Familiar Soft Soap
jolly handshakes, expressions Of
the familiar soft SOAP that marks
the patter Of the professional poll
tician. handwriting. smiles and
laughter. luxuriously dressed women
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
MINERS DEMANDS
In STRIKE GIVEN UP
FOR ARBITRATION
Instead of Unity in Fight on Grievances, Officials
of U.M.W.A Talk Jurisdiction Strike as
U.A.M. Makes Deal in Wilkes Barre

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. Jan. 3--After fve-day strike
the demands of the Glen Alden Coal Company miners have
been placed in the hands of arbitration board The
struggle between the officials of the United Anthracite Min
of Pennsylvania and of the United Mine Workers "a z
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04

Get a greeting from friend
today fo~ the Daily Workers
Eleventh Anniversary!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04

Get a greeting from friend
tcdfy for Tire Daily Workers
Eleventh Anniversary!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04

lean Federation of Labor in the
Philadelphia urea have elected 50
delegates to the National Congress
for Unemployment Insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
Insurance Farley
Ready to Open

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Six Sessions For
Jan. 5 Farley

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Trial of Is to
Begin Friday

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Hauptmann Trial
COyerSSCrdidSt

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Congress to Get
Workers s Bill

Continued from Pare y
, 1935-06-27

It Is said that the 300 900 tons
Of material used in constructing
the Empire State building IN New
York contained about $4,000 worth
Of radium.