davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-10
Fund Needed
To Fight Mills
Deportatio on

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9.-An APP
peal for funds to finance the mass
and legal fight against the govern
ment's drive to deport A. w. Mills,
District Organizer of the Philadel-
phia district of the Communist
Party, has been issued here by F.,
Holman, District Organizational
Secretary.
The appeal urges the immediate
raising of funds and the sending of
protest kilograms and resolutions by
all workers organizations to Sec
rotary of Labor, Frances Perkins.
Although the attempt to deport
Mills dates back two years, following
his organization of the First Hun
ger March to Washington, D. c., the
immigration authorities are now
demanding the posting of bond
of $1,000 to replace the surety bond
on which Mills is now at liberty.
Philadelphia workers have already
contributed 1920 to the Mills De-
Tense Fund. Contributions should
be rushed to the International La
Dor Defense, 40 N. Eighth ST., Phila-
delphia, Pa.
Mills has rejected an offer for
voluntary departure from the coun-
try, on the grounds that member
ship in the Communist Party and
activities in defense of the working
class are neither Illegal nor justifi-
cation for deportation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-10
Enrolment Celebration
Is Planned in Cleveland
By International Order

CLEVELAND, Jan. 9.-In celebra-
ton of the enrolment Of $500 new
members in the Ohio district of
the organization. the International
Workers Order has arranged a gala
celebration to be held next Sunday,
Jan. 13, at Prospect Auditorium
2612 Prospect Ave.
Max Bedacht. national secretary
of the I. w. o., will be the principal
speaker.
An elaborate cultural program
has also been arranged which in
cluoes music by the Hungarian,
Slovak and Freiheit Singing So
cieties, a skit by the Cleveland
John Reed Club portraying work
ers' life in the United States, a play
and mass dancing by the Interna-
tional Workers Order Children's
Groups and special program by
the Ukrainian folk dancers A
violinist of the Cleveland Symphony
Orchestra will be guest soloist.
A home cooked supper will be
served between 6 and 8 p. m. Com
mencing at p. m. an international
costume ball will take place, with
music furnished by an excellent
radio orchestra.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-10
CHICAGO YOUTH RALLY TO EXPOSE HEARSTS ANTELABOR LIES
WOrkersNOrth and South Plan
For Lenin Memorial Meetings
St. Louis Rally to Hear
Herbert and Jane
Newton

ST. LOUIS. Mo. Jan. 9.-Herbert
Newton, Negro Communist leader,
and his wife, Jane Emery Newton.
will both speak here at the Lenin
Memorial meeting Sunday evening,
Jan. 20, at the Turner's Hall, 1903
Couteau Avenue.
Thousands of Negro and white
workers and intellectuals in st.
Louis are deeply aroused over the
recent chauvinistic attack by Chi
cago landlords and their courts on
the Newtons,
The visit of the NeWtons to st.
Louis comedies with an increasing
fascist-like terror BY employers and
police against the Negro people of
st. Louis. The most recent examples
include ID the singing out by po-
lice of Negro workers for a particu-
larly murderous attack during the
police onslaught on the relief DEM
onstration here on Nov. 30-two
Negro workers are now suffering
from severe internal injuries; ~
the blacklisting Of Negro workers by
the Terminal railroad system. which
dominates the life of this city; 80
the bestial attacks upon militant
Negro and white unemployed work.
ers at all relief stations through
out the city, and the cutting of re-
lief, directed especially against the
Negro workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-10
Pennsylvania
IsIhreatened
By Sales Tax

HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. AL
most open admission that a sales
tax to soak the poor" of Pennsyl-
vanis is on the order of the legisla-
tive day, can be seen in disclosures
made here concerning tasks facing
the state legislature in session here.
With present taxes only capable
of raising $50 100000 the difference
between this and the $390,000,0 600
estimated budget for the next two
years is to be wrung from the man
in the street" by one means or an
other.
Governor "Playboy" Earle's tax
committee has declared in favor of
the sales tax, and the capitalist
press is making it appear that it is
only the opposition of the Governor
which slaves off the adoption of
such plan. They are limiting that
so determined are the proponents
of the sales tax, that Earle may in
the end be forced to accede.
Failing this, the tax committee
is considering flat income levies,
graduated income taxes are "un-
constitutional in this state); a
boost in the gasoline tax, which is
already three cents gallon; and
small enterprises taxes are also
within the plans.
No definite mention has been
made yet of a levy on the giant
utilities concerns of Pennsylvania.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-10
Workers Sing
international"
In Courthouse
Especial to the Daily Worker,

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. ga
crowded courtroom listened yester-
day to arguments at the hearing oil
the appeal on the contempt of
court sentences against Yetta Land,
International Labor Defense at
torney, and Davis, lawyer for the
Small Home Owners Association.
arising out of relief and eviction
struggles here last April.
Mrs. Land was sentenced to ten
days in Jail and costs for defending
the case OF Mrs. Goodman whom
Judge Green wanted adiudged in
sane for fighting for relief. Davis
was fined $500 and costs for in
sisting during the Kollsr eviction
trial before Judge Bear that work
ers have the right to be present in
court.
The Appeal Court, consisting of
three out-of- town judges, was Wis
IDLY impressed by the size of the
crowd tanning even corridors
while the defense outlined the I'M
DERIVING class issue in the cases.
The prosecution injected the Com
munist issue, protesting against the
International Labor Defense meth
DDS of urging workers to be present
in court to prevent frame-up of
their fellows.
The defense exposed the offensive
developed against the unemployed
workers. resulting in the slashing Of
relief, wholesale evictions, and fore
closures on the homes of small
home owners. The two attorneys
we're victims of the hysterical hos
tility of local judges, faced with the
counter offensive of the workers,
the defense declared.
Replying to the Red issue by
the prosecution, Davis stated If
it is an offense to fight for the
hungry and oppressed, I plead
guilty to that offense,"
At the adjournment of court, the
workers gathered in the corridors
and sang the Internationale. The
courts decision has not been an
nounced yet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-10
Strike at Otis
Plant Stops
Sunday Work
Rank and File Walkout
Stirs Action in Other
Departments
BY Sander VOrOs
(DaiIv Worker Ohio Bureau)

CLEVELAND. Ohio, Jan. 9.-Led
by a rank and file committee, work
ers in the picking department of
Otis Steel struck against Sunday
work Saturday night, threw a picket
line around the plant, and in spite
of three squads of police and hosts
of detectives kept out the entire
Sunday shift. Out Of the 200 men
working in the picking department
only two men volunteered to scab,
one an ex-foreman.
Demands for free gloves. free
aprons, overshoes and the abolish
ing of Sunday work had been served
on the company week ago Monday
by a rank and file committee
elected by the men in the picking
department. In it's answer Wednes-
day the company promised to grant
the free gloves and aprons but would
not hear about the overshoes or
the abolishing of Sunday work.
Strike Meeting in Plant
The company had called the COM
mittee and the men into the plant
Saturday afternoon to persuade
them to work on Sunday, The men
came and at an impromptu meet
ing held right in the plant unani-
mously decided to stay out Sunday
and picket the plant to see nobody
went to work.
The bosses and supers tried to
keep the Saturday afternoon shift
in the plant asking them to work a
double shift, offering double pay
and free lunches, but this shift re-
fused to stay,
While this was going on, men in
the open hearth department, where
Shaw, financial secretary of the
AA Riverside Lodge 1874 of Otis
Steel was working, became very
angry They didn't want to work
Sunday either, but were told that
the company is going to lose its or
ders if they stay out. This de-
partment till now had been con-
artment till now had been con-
trolled by the AA officials When
they we're asked by the picking
workers on Monday how come they
worked on Sunday, they answered
they'd been fooled long enough by
their leaders, but in the future they
we're going to follow the rank and
file leadership. They also decided
not to work next Sunday and go on
strike in spite of their leaders.
Following the strike Of the pick
ling department, the men of the
banking department called rank
and file meeting for Sunday after
noon, the first one in this depart
ment, which was attended by more
than $50 workers. They discussed
wages and conditions. elected con-
troll committees to lessen the speed
up and discussed the different
wages that were on the different
jobs. The highest paid men were
also present who expressed their
willingness to decrease their pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-10
Akron Section
HailsExpulsiOn
OF lack by C.P.
Party Membership in
Meeting Repudiates
Renegade's Views

AKRON, Ohio, Jan. "A mem
bership meeting of the Communist
Party section here hailed the &C
ton of the New York District in
expelling Joseph lack, repudiated
lacks incorrect trade union line,
and pledged themselves to build a
fighting united front trade union
movement under rank and file
leadership in the rubber industry
here. The following resolution was
unanimously adopted;
This membership meeting Of
Akron, having learned of the
shameful treachery of Joseph lack,
who has joined the counter revo-
lutionary clique of Trotskyites and
is today in the camp of the rene
gades and is attacking the Commu-
mist Party, Communist Interna-
tional and the outstanding leader OF
the world working class, Stain; as
well as slsndering the working
class of Germany and the glorious
Soviet Union. We greet and en-
dorse the action of the New York
District Committee in expelling
this traitor from our ranks.
I'VE members in Akron realize
more than ever today that the
struggle of the District Committee
against lack and his incorrect
trade union line was correct and
we pledge to make a rapid and
drastic change in our every day
mass work which will result in
building a fighting united front
trade union movement under rank
and file leadership in the rubber
industry.
I'VE support the Central Com
mittee and the District Committee
in Kidding our Party of all such
degenerated counter-revolution
renegades whose anti working class
line places them as the spearhead
of the imperialist bandits in their
latest assassination tie mpts
against the leaders Of the Soviet
Union"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-10

would it be of any benefit to the
workers that instead of Congress
man Dickstein, under the guise of
an anti-Nazi investigation, making
sharp attack on the Communists
and all militant workers, that this
be done, for example, by jacob
Penken. now appointed Judge by
Mayor LaGuardia. The fact is that
these gentlemen are already,
through the New Leader and the
Jewish Daily Forward, competing
with the Hearst press in their at
tack on all militant sections of the
labor movement.
The Minnesota Farmer-Lab Dor
Party is combination of both what
the LaFollette Progressive Party is
and what such Labor" Party
dominated by the Germans and the
Waldmans, would be. The workers
and poor farmers of Minnesota
have had their conditions improved
in no way by the fact that this
party is the ruling party in place
of the Republican Party.
Nor would such a Labor" party
be changed in any way by receiv-
ing the blessings of and support of
the little grouplet around Love-
stone that only besmirches the
name of Communism by calling it
self the Communist Opposition"
1t would be much more correct
were they to call themselves "oppo-
sition to Communism" Such sup
port on the part of the Lovestone-
ties would only be to carry over
the support they give to the Dublin
skys and Germans through the
Zimmermans and Kellers into the
Labor" Party.
A genuine Labor Party, consist
ing of all the trade unions, national
and local, mass organizations OF the
unemployed, etc, who really carry
on the struggle for the workers for
wage increases, for the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill, for the 30-hour week
without reduction in pay, for the
needs of the farmers, for the rights
of the Negro masses, for the right
to organize, strike, etc. against the
growing menace of war and fas-
cism, led by such militant elements
in the trade unions as the leaders
of the rank and file movement
among the steel workers. textile
workers, miners, longshoremen, etc,
among whom there are militant
workers who do not accept the
Communist position all the way
down the line as well as scknowl-
edged Communists, but who carry
on serious fight against the at
tacks of the capitalists, as well as
against their agents in the labor
movement-such Labor Party
, would he real step forward, and
; for such Labor Party TIC Com
munists will fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-10
THE PROBLEM OF A LABOR PARTY
BY JACK sTACHEL

bilities reflecting the two chief
political tendencies of this move
ment-the class struggle or class
collabOrati0n--are Ia popular
or progressive party based on the
La Toilette, Sinclair, Olson and
Long movements and typified by
these leaders and their programs:
tb) 'Farmer-LabOr or Labor
Party of the same character,
differing only in name and
the degree of its demagogy: (c)
Labor Party with a predomi-
nantiy trade union basis, with a
program consisting of immediate
demands POSSIBLY with vague
demagogy about the cooperative
commonwealth a la Olson DOM
mated by a section of the trade
union bureaucracy, assisted by the
Socialist Party and excluding the
Communists; (d) a Labor Party
built up from below on a trade
union basis but in conflict with
the bureaucracy, putting forward
program of demands closely
connected with mass struggles,
strikes, etc, with the leading role
played by the militant elements,
including the Communists. These
variations can develop also paral-
lei or in combination"
This clear formulation not only
analyses the various movements
now going on and the possible crys-
tallizations that may take place
but also establishes first the role
of the Communist Party and the
most advanced workers. the aim we
set before ourselves. At the same
time, it makes clear that we will
not always get these movements in
their pure form SO that they are
Immediately recognizable. 1t will
require skillful working to direct the
mass movement which will take on
numerous forms, into working class
channels and that this can be done
only on the basis of the struggle
against the bourgeois and reformist
elements that attach themselves to
the mass movement.
In this connection the simple
slogan for a Labor Party" which
expresses such conflicting tenden-
cies, of itself is not sufficient to be
an effective banner under which the
class forces of the workers can be
rallied. The Communist enter the
movement for a Labor Party only
with the purpose of helping the
masses to break away from the bour-
geois and social-reformist parties
and to find the path to the revolu-
tionary class struggle" CFrom the
Polbureau decisions.
The Progressive" Type
Certainly the workers do not need
party of the type of the progress
sive" party of LaFollette, Sinclair
and Co. Such a Party would not
serve to better the conditions CT the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-10

Such Party would not
help organize the workers for indie
pendent working class political ac-
ton. On the contrary, such Party
would retard the movement of the
workers for independent political
action. 1t would continue to chain
the masses to the capitalist parties,
it makes no difference whether it
would constitute a third capitalist
party or become the second capitalist
party through the maintenance of
the two party system through a re-
alignment in the camp of the cap
italist parties. Whether such a
party called itself Progressive" or
Farmer-Labor" or Labor" would,
of course, make no difference.
Other Types
A Labor" party dominated by a
section of the trade union bureau
cracy and the Socialist leaders and
excluding the Communists could not
serve the interests of the masses in
any way. 1t would, on the contrary
be used against the workers. A
Party dominated by John l.. Lewis
German, Dubinsky, Waldman, Pan
ken and company. even if it were
based on the trade unions, would
not be a genuine Labor Party. II
would not result in independent
class political action on the part OF
the workers.
The class collaboration policy
that these reformists carry through
in the field of economic struggle
would also prevail on the political
field, perhaps with even greater
treachery to the masses. Such a
Party would not fight against cap
italism. 1t would not even fight for
the immediate needs of the masses,
How can the masses, betrayed by
John l.. Lewis, German and COM
pany in the fight for higher wages,
shorter hours, for the right to or
ganize, hope that these people will
fight for them in Congress, in the
state legislatures, or utilize the or
gained power of the masses in the
form of a Labor Party for mass
action to supplement that fight in
the Congress and the various legis-
latures? Why, for example, should
we believe that Lewis, German,
Dubinsky and company, who oppose
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill today, expel members of
their unions for fighting for this
measure, will fight for it if the
workers send them to Congress?
They would bring to the workers
the Lewis Wagner fake unemploy-
ment insurance scheme, which they
now support, with perhaps the diff
ference that instead of it being
called the Lewis-Wagner Bill 1t
might be called the Lewis VALID
man Bill, with John L, Lewis re-
placing Senator Wagner as U. S
Senator from New York State. Not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-10
New Orleans Club Aids
In ScottsborO Defense

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. q. 49, The
New Orleans Agitators Club pledged
its support to the defense of the
Scottsboro boys and sent contri-
button last week to the National
Scottsboro- Herndon Action Com
mittee, 1916 Seventh Avenue, New
York City.
Under the signature of its presi-
dent, Paul Brown, the club sent a
letter of solidarity to the Scots
boro mothers, which states, in part:
But let me cheerfully say, this
fight for freedom of these nine
boys, is no longer the fight of nine
heart broken mothers But it has
become the direct challenge to
100000 Negroes of the United
States.
To-day we are mailing our money
order of five dollars $500 as our
initial fee in this fight.
1--WE are yours for close coopera-
ton"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-10

III.
THE results of the last elections
4 indicate that the breakaway
from the two old capitalist parties
is under way. While the expression
of this movement is still confused,
it is nevertheless taking place. Even
large portion of the vote cast for
Roosevelt can be accounted for
primarily by the fact that while
these masses were already dissat-
iSfied with Roosevelt and his pol
icies they conceived of practical
politics only through the two-party
system. They considered going back
to the party of Hoover, a step back
ward which they refused to take.
The election results show def
initely that where the masses had
an opportunity to register a vote
against Roosevelt and for what they
considered more radical parties and
candidates they did So where they
thought they had chance for "suc-
cess" This is the meaning of the
election of the Progressive ticket of
La Toilette in Wisconsin, the cleo
ton victory of the Farmer-Labor
Party in Minnesota, etc. Even the
votes cast for Sinclair, Long, ETC..
though still technically for csndi-
dates on old party tickets were an
expression of the masses that they
demand more than Roosevelt prom
Used.
This movement of the breakaway
from the two old parties is causing
great worry to the capitalists and
their old parties. They are there
fore increasing their activity to
sidetrack the movement of the
masses, which in large measure,
though blindly, is directed against
capitalism. Talk of a new, third
party, progressive party, or even
a Labor Party, is increasing. The
various movements such as the
EPIC, the Father Coughlin's League,
etc, are part of the same effort to
prevent the masses from really free
ing themselves from the old CAPT.
talist parties or at any rate, to pre-
vent them from organizing a gen.
uine party of labor, having as their
purpose to further the capitalist at
tacks on the masses. The pressure
of the masses is also having its re-
Election in the cap of the A. F. of
l.. bureaucracy and in the leader
ship of the Socialist Party, which
is also talking of new party, even
of a labor party.
What Kind of Parties
1t is, therefore, necessary to be
clear as to what kind of parties
these bourgeois and reformist ele-
ments propose; and what should be
the character of a Labor Party that
would be a step forward for the
masses.
The Political Bureau. in analyzing
this question, came to the following
conclusion on this point
"As for the nature of the new
mass party. the greatest proba-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-10
Rallies Set in Ii Towns
on Mesaba Range
in Minnesota

VIRGINIA. Mimi. Jan. 9.-Lenin
Memorial Meetings have been ar
ranged in the Messba Range, as
follows:
Hibbing, Jan. 90, at Wasss Hall,
g p. M, speakers j. Wettberg and
J. Hautsla.
Chisholm, jan 10, at Karl's Hall,
8 p. m, speakers j. Wettberg and
J. Hautala.
Tim. Jan, 20, at the zim Farm
ers' Club Hall, p. m. M. johnson,
J. Heiskanen and T. Pulkinen.
Toivola. Jan. 10, at Toivola Hall
p. m. ]. Lindman and NJ. Mache.
Meadowbrook, Jan. 10, at the
Meadowbrook Hall, 8 p, m, Arne
Rome ana A. Hiltunen.
Sturgeon. Jan. 20, at Alango Hall,
p. M, Arne Rome and Verna
Haspals.
Embsrras, Jan. 10, at Farmers
Club Hall, Csslos Corner 8 p. M,
Veikko Kosti and Eva Piirinen.
Corbin, Jan. 20, at Corbin Hall,
8 p. m, Henry Maxi and A. Roi-
vanen.
Markham, Jan. 20. at Palo Hall. 8
p. m, A. Antilla and Donald Harris.
Virginia, Jan, 20, at North Pole
Hall, 8 p. M, Art Kytola and T.
Suakenen.
Gilbert, Jan. 10, at Workers Hall,
8 p. M, Wayne Buranen and Betty
weinberg.
Ely, Jan. 20, at Laajala's Place,
8 p. M, Veikko Koski and H. Wal
lace.
Keewatin, Jan. 20, at Keewatin
Workers Hall, 8 p. M, ]. Lindman
and M. Mackie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-10
|. L. ID. Fights
'InsurrectiOn'
Bill in Georgia

ATLANTA. Ga, Jan. 9.-Locsl
branches of the international Labor
Defense have retained John H. Geer,
courageous Angelo Herndon defense
attorney, to appear before tn e
Georgia legislature to oppose the
enactment OF a new Georgia sedi-
ton law.
The proposed law is sponsored by
Solicitor General John A. Boykin,
under whose direction the assistant
solicitor, Reverend John Hudson,
rsilroaded Angelo Herndon, heroic
Negro leader of the working class
to q sentence Of 18 to 20 years on.
the Georgia chain gang.
Solicitor Boykin declared that the
purpose of the proposed new law is
to put teeth in the Georgia In
surrection law" The Insurrection
law, passed before the Civil War in
an attempt to suppress the insur-
rectionary struggles of the Negro
slaves, is now being used to put
down struggles of Negro and white
workers for better living conditions.
Solicitor Boykin has organized
the Men of Justice, and revived the
XII Klux Khan, both terrorist or
CARNATIONS, to support the proposed
Law.
The I. L. D. here is launching a
wide campaign to defeat the new
law which would be used to crush
the united struggles of Negro and
white workers here.
The constitutionality of the pres
ent instruction law will be attacked
in the Angelo Herndon case which
is now before the U. S. Supreme
Court.