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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-25

Second. Green is attempting to hide from the
workers the true role which Roosevelt has played
in putting over and leading the open shop drive
against the auto workers Roosevelt is the represen
tative Of big business, and is carrying out every
plank in the program Of the manufacturers. Roose-
velt signed the auto code, set up the hated Auto
Labor Board, backed the infamous anti-union merit
clause, wrote into the March 1884 pact the Iegal-
cation of company unions and the works council
idea, which Roosevelt went out of his way to praise
But Green, in the Feb % issue of the A. F. of
L. Weekly News Service, attempts to bolster the
waning faith of the workers in Roosevelt Green
in an editorial entitled, Tools of Big Business
declares, Labor still looks to the President with
faith and confidence" and claims that Roosevelts
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ll8 Ohrbach
Pickets Held

One hundred and eighteen pickets
were arrested in front of Ohrbach'S
DEPARTMENT store on Union Square.
Saturday afternoon, in one of the
largest picket demonstrations since
the strike was called.
For several hours traffic on Four
teenth Street. between Broadway
and Fourth Avenue, was blocked as
over 100 policemen, many mounted,
tried vainly to suppress the large
crowd of sympathizers, which at
times grew to 5000. Among those
who took leading part in the DEM
onstration we're the Youth Section
of the international Workers Order,
members of the Associated Workers
Clubs and the National Students
League. Of those arrested, forty
one were women, chiefly youth.
The demonstration of the pickets
was transferred to the jail and night
court. So loud was singing of the
Internationale by the prisoners that
the court hearing could not proceed.
Every attempt of Magistrate Cap
shaw to silence the prisoners was
greeted with jeering from the
packed court room.
The Magistrate finally called in
large police detail from the 47th st.
Station and the court room was
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Birthday Greetings
William Z. Foster
STATEMENT OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE. CP.usA
STATEMENT OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE, c. P, U. S. A..

The Central Party
States its wrmest fraterna greetings
Foster chairman of Party his fftyfouh birthday
Central Committee its qualification
Fosters gradual to health activity
illness brought by ceas work the of the
by his msesh devotion the aduou
who like Comrade Foster leadership revolutionary
struggle
ton and inspiration
On his hftyfourth birthday Comrade
the background of the breakdown capitalism powerful
American labor movement whose rise he
the lead il building which
day important part
The unprecedented size mncy organization
strike of last directed against powerful
groups capitalists which
the class struggle huge conngnts
also revived and life to the splendid deriving
the heroic struggle of the steel workers. the
in 1919 which organized and led by Comrade
Millions Of workers becoming disisoned
and millions establishment demagoey
beginning For this almportan
credit From its inception it branded NA
upon the working class this foh birthday
those A. of L. leaders an-workng program he
exposed and fought called
of NRA by militant rank and file movement the
basic industries that within power
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Auto Workers Must Build Uno Prepare Strike Win Demands

The representatives of the A. F. of L. auto local
unions have voted for strike preparations But
William Green, in spite of his militant words, is
now in Detroit once more attempting to sidetrack
the strike sentiment of the auto workers.
William Green in his speech on Saturday de-
nounced the Auto Labor Board as an anti labor
body. He branded the elections held by this board
as favoring the company unions Green declared
that labor will not accept the auto code extended
recently by President Roosevelt. He condemned
proportional representation and demanded majority
rule.
These militant words of Green are reflection
OF the seethng resentment among the masses of
auto workers against Roosevelts recent attacks.
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Build Trade
Unions, Urges
C.. p. Farley
Amter, New Organizer
Pending Return of
Krumbein, Is Hailed

Make New York a union town."
This slogan, announced by Rose
Wortis, reporting for the District
Committee to a district conference
Saturday, of the New York organ
ization of the Communist Party,
evoked tremendous enthusiasm from
the more than four hundred dele
gates present. The conference.
which ended late last night, placed
as the central question before the
Party the work in the trade unions,
particularly the American Fedora
ton of Labor unions.
The conference unanimously en-
dorsed the resolution and decisions
of the recent meeting of the Central
Committee of the Party in which
the building of a mass Labor Party
based on the trade unions, the Negro
people, III unemployed, was
stressed as one Of the main tasks of
the Party. Almost sixty delegates,
many of them active union leaders.
and others from important shop
units of the Party, took part in the
discussion, A large representation
of Negro Party members was one of
the features of the meeting.
Amter Made District Organizer
A rising ovation was given l,
Amter, when it was announced
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AN EDITO RIA |
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Green wants to keep leadership Of the auto work
ers.
But what are Green's proposals for lettering the
unbearable conditions prevailing in the auto in
dustry? Green, it is now revealed has not one whit
changed his time-honored policy of cooperation with
the employers and their politicians, of preventing
strikes, and of sitting the will of the union mem
bership for struggle for their demands.
Green declared in Detroit: I'VE are not talking
about pulling strike. We haven't made any such
plans. We are thinking in terms of peace"
The need of the hour is the building of the
union and the preparation of strike before the
season ends, but Green makes it clear he is irving
to steer the union away from effective action to
build the union and win the workers demands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-25
Ready to D efend the
Cause of whole of
Toiling Humanity
Especial to the Daily Worker

MOSCOW, FEB. "a (By wireless.
THE Red Army has all that is
necessary for the defense of the
workers fatherland," K. E. Voro-
shilov affirmed today in an inter
view with the Soviet press on the
18th anniversary of the Red Arny's
organization. The right, won with
such sacrifice by the workers of the
Soviet Union, of building and COM
pleting a new bright socialist life.
continued the Soviet Commissar
for Defense, will be well protected.
In congratulating the Red Army
men-the term soldier" is not used
in this workers army - Voroshilov
not only stressed that "our fighting
weapons have become still more
numerous, better manned" but "the
cultural level of all our men is
steadfestly rising as our fighting
ranks self-sacrificingly learn to de-
fend the great cause of the whole
Of telling humanity, the cause OF
Lenin and Stain"
He continued: The gigantic
successes of technical reconstruc-
ton Of Soviet industry and agricul-
ture, the yearning, the like Of which
has never been seen or heard be-
fore towards culture on the part
of the millions of the toilers Of
the Soviet country, the irrevocable
victory of the socialist system of
the US.SR., the love and care of
the Soviet nation, which no army
in the world has ever known-this
is the source of the great power of
the workers and peasants Red
Army.
III during all the years of its life
the Red Army has been strong by
virtue of its preparedness to defend
to the end the cause which is near
and dear to it, now, when it's fight
ing revolutionary spirit is multiplied
by the best technique, knowledge
and wealth of our country, we stand
guard on the proletarian frontiers
more confident than ever before.
Let us with even greater per-
sistence and skill, without rest, work
over the further consolidation OF
our ranks and our forces. The us.
SR., untiringly and insistently. is
waging a struggle for peace. But
wherever new thunders of war may
burst out, the peoples of the great
boundless Soviet country may be
assured, the Red Army has all that
is necessary for victory, and under
the leadership of the Party of the
Bolsheviks, headed by Stain, we
will crush any enemy in defense of
the fatherland of the workers of the
entire worldl"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-25
ALL. Chief Announces
Another Request for
Negotiations
BY A. B. MagiI
Especial TO the Daily Worker)

DETROIT, Feb. "a. - Overriding
the decision for immediate strike
preparations made by the elected
representatives of thousands OF
members of the Federal Automobile
locals, the top leadership of the
American Federation of Labor yes
terday indicated that it would con-
tinue the dis2redited policy of beg
ging the companies for negotiations
while attempting to pin the hopes
of the auto workers on some new
employer dominated Auto Labo-
Board.
This move came in the form of
an official statement to the press
issued yesterday afternoon by Fran
els J. Dillon, A. F. of L. national
organizer in the auto industry at
the end Of the first session of the
National Council of the United
Automobile Workers. 1t was re-
peated in the evening by william
Green, President of the A. F. of L.,
in speech at a mass meeting in
Light Guard Armory attended by
about 1900 workers.
Membership For Strike
Dillon's statement declared will
liam Green, president of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, today
received notification from the or
ganized automobile workers of their
action empowering him to act as
their representative and directing
him to Immediately proceed in re-
questing of the proper executives of
the automobile industry a confer
ence for the purpose of negotiating
a mutually satisfactory working
agreement relating to wages, hours
and conditions of employment. to
be approved by the executives and
membership of the United Auto
mobile Workers"
This statement is deliberate
distortion of the facts. The hand
picked National Council is only an
advisory body, with the sole auth
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DISCUSSIONS DEADLOCKED:
GREEN IGNORES DECISION
OF AUTO MEN FOR ACTION
G. ent District Men
May Be Called
Out Today

A strike of 10000 building SER
vice employees Of $40 buildings in
the garment, fur and millinery dis
tricts will be called today If the
workers demands are not granted,
officials Of the Building Service En-
ployees International Union de-
clared yesterday as negotiations re-
manned at deadlock over the week
end.
At meeting Of about 400 garment
center shop stewards in the Labor
Temple, 243 East 93rd Street, Sat-
urday afternoon, James J. Bambrick,
! president Of the union, announced
that only AZ buildings in the district
had signed closed shop agreements
on the basis Of observing the hour
and wage demands of the union.
IF We move he said. 1T must be
rapidly and want you men, shop
stewards, to be 100 per cent ready.
II the break comes and if they don't
come through by Monday, there is
no doubt in my mind but we will
have to strike. Rather than let this
dispute go to the Curran Committee
on arbitration, I'll call strike nv
SELF
Expect Full Tie-up
There will be no ifs as far as
the men are concerned" shop chair
men remarked after the meeting.
All indications point to a COM
plete tie-up during the first days of
this week in all the buildings in the
garment center, the owners Of which
have failed to sign up with the
union. The union demands include
a closed shop agreement with s26,
$24, and $22 as minimum scale in
categories A, B and c, respectively
for 40-hour week.
A tie-up in the garment center
was considered inevitable by the
union as well as by some spokesman
of the realty interests.
In statement issued Saturday.
William F. McShane, executive sec
rotary Of the Associated Merchants
and Property Owners. Inc. $40 Sew
enth Avenue, declared that strike
in the garment section appeared to
be certain.
This highly unionized sector of
fers the union an exceptional op-
portunity for sympathetic support
and a strike McShane's statement
said in part.
Fur Workers Offer Aid
The following letter, addressed to
Mr. Bambrick. was sent to the union
by Joseph Winogradsky, manager of
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aides such as S. Clay Williams, and Leo Woman are
misleading Roosevelt.
Such attempts to maintain the workers conf
dence in Roosevelt can only serve to place Roose-
welt in position once more to flout the demands
OF the auto workers Roosevelt did in March 1884
and as he betrayed the general textile strike last
September, and the steel workers in June 1884 The
chief strikebreaker of the enlployers-Roosevelt-
can only defeat the auto workers demands
Third instead of Immediately building the union
and preparing the strike before the season ends
Green proposes only another impartial" govern
ment board he proposes only elections and one-man
negotiations with the employers Green said in
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Mine Strike
Heads Called
TOFaceCOurt
Fifty-OneUnion Officials
Cited for Contempt
of Injunction
Especial to the Daily worker


WILKES BARRE. Pa, Feb. 25.-
Fifty-one district and local officials
of the United Anthracite Miners
of Pennsylvania, an independent
union leading the strike of seven
teen thousand Glen Alden coal min
ers, we're ordered yesterday by
Judge Valentine to appear in court
next Thursday to show cause why
they should not be cited for violat-
ing the injunction. The injunction
issued by the same judge ordered
the officers of the union to call of
the strike instantly.
The order Of Judge Valentine.
which means that the strike leaders
face arrest next Thursday, came
after he was presented with petit
ton by the Glen Alden Company
demanding that all the union lead
ers be cited for contempt of court.
Local company news
papers openly declared that if the
officials call off the strike they will
not be arrested. The sentiment
among the workers is overwhelm-
ingly for defiance of the injunction
Miners Issue Leaflets
Replying to the strikebreaking
measures of the company, the An
thracite Miners Of Pennsylvania
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Italian Troops
Sail for Africa

ROME, Feb. 24.-The Mediterra-
mean Sea tonight bore an imperial
ist armada toward Africa as six
more ships, bearing 10000 colonial
troops, left various Italian ports to-
day. simultaneously, in brazen-
faced time-saving manner, Musso-
lini issued hypocritical statement
that "a neutral zone was established
between Ethiopia and the Italian
Somaliland."
Both the Vulcania and the Bian-
camano, which are large transat-
lantic liners, have been especially
refitted for the transport of troops.
They will be used until both the
Goth and 30th division comprising
about $4,000 men have been trans
ported to East Africa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-25
BY Louis Colman

''T'he plutocratic press is silent
in our case. Let not one of you
be deceived by the actual apparent
calm. The enemy is at work day
and night = the press knows the
proper time to use the noise or the
silence against us. Let none of
you be deceived by the sneaking,
mortal enemy.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti wrote this in
a letter to the International Labor
Defense in 1926.
In 1885, the same venal press
maintains the most utter silence in
regard to the fate of nine Negro
Scottsboro boys, argument in the
cases of two Of whom, against lynch
verdicts Of death, we're heard a
week ago in the same U. S. Supreme
Court, which found every excuse
even the most ridiculous ones-to
help send Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco
to their deaths.
A Dramatic Story
Saturday, after the first part of
the hearing, most of the metropoli-
tan dailies in New York had not a
word to say about it, The New York
Times had two and half inches
of garbled report. The press of the
country, as. whole, including the
liberal weeklies, took this cue.
There could not be the excuse that
this was not news" for the hear
ing, as reported in the Daily
Worker" at the time, was probably
the most dramatic ever made in the
holy Of holes of capitalist justice.
Tuesday, after the end of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-25
VorosIov Shessng Peace Policy, Yarns Foes of T. S. S.
ScOHsbOrO Decision Soon;
Protests VIII SAGE BOYS
Capitalist Press Was Silent on Appeal to Supreme
Court Mass Pressure Needed Now

hearing, the press was uniformly
silent.
1t is no accident, either that the
Pittsburgh Courier" biggest of the
Negro wseklies, owned by an as
sista2t attorney general Of the
United States, Robert vann, and
one of the bitterest enemies Of the
Scottsboro defense for four years,
was the one which took its cue from
the white bourgeois press without
any dressing, and mentioned not a
single word about the hearing.
CARRIED Stories
The other big Negro weeklies gave
garbled and lying stories about the
hearing, some of them misleading
stories merely, but they had to say
something about it. The same pres
sure that made the U. S. Supreme
Court hear the case, made them
report, something. anything but the
truth, of course, about it.
Vanzetti knew-"the press knows
when to use the noise or the silence
against u.s."
The United States Supreme Court
which once decided lin the "Dred
Scott" CASE that "a Negro has nc
rights white man is bound to
respect" has had thrust before it,
for the first time in 10 years, a
case in which a point blank reversal
Of this dictum is demanded.
Masses Forced Appeal
1t was notes.-the noise of mil
lions of Negro people, and hundreds
Of thousands Of white workers and
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Overs Favor
Labor Party
Especial to the Daily WORKER

Especial to the Daily Worker)
PATERSON, N. j., Feb 24-The
national conference of all locals of
the Federation of Silk and Rayon
Dyers held here Saturday, went on
record for a mass Labor Party and
in support OF the Workers Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance Bill
H. r. 1927.
In adopting the motion for a
Labor Party, the discussion at the
conference made clear that Labor
Party must be such as will fight
for the demands of the trade unions
and will mean a break with the
bosses parties.
A decision was also made for a
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Store Strike
May Spread

A strike of the 1000 employees
of the Daniel Reeve chain grocery
stores appeared certain as 500 em-
ployees took strike vote late
yesterday afternoon. The results
of the vote. together with mailed
ballots, will not be known until
Tuesday, but officials of the Chain
Store Executives and Clerks Union
said that Judging from the senti-
ment expressed, a decision to
strike was certain.
Employees of the Daniel Reeves
stores met late yesterday to deter
mine whether or not they would
join the strike of more than 500
store and warehouse men of the
Butler Stores who walked out on
Saturday.
AS the workers in the James But
Ter Grocery Company warehouse
filed past the paymaster's window
at l o'clock Saturday, they were
asked by the company officials if
they were coming to work Monday
morning. One hundred out of the
100 employees announced in no un-
certain terms that they were ioin-
ing the strike that had alreadv
closed down many Butler stores in
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Win one glorious UctOrg after another in their build
ing of neW Socialist society," the mPeriaIists and
car makers, made desperate by the crisis L0cH they
hare made and cannot sOlUe, begin to plot for uar
against this social order.
In our country, Wall Street is supporting this
Tightening ring of GHti-SoUiet ICar n,orqers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-25

The Hearsts and the 0ar BpOngers hare chaI-
IeHged They hare challenged every aHti-faseist
eUery supporter Of peace.
1t is the duty of every WOrker, every opponent of
fascist plans Of the Hedrsts and the Hters to
raise his Uoice at tOnigHts Madison Square Garden
demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-25
BY EARL BROWDER

The demonstration at Madison Square Garden
tonight is protest and mobilization against the
rising of mperiaIist Oar whose sinister
objective OiH be attempt to crush the Soviet Union
the FatherIand of the workers of the I0OrId.
As the workers and farmers of the u. s. s. r.
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Hedrsts nnti-SOUiet lies find their echo in ROOse-
Uefs State Department. ith Secretary of State Hull
prOUOcatiUeIy breaking off debt negotiations h the
U.S.S.R
Against this increasing menace, against this
grOLCiHg fascist menace IChich looms against the
whole American labor Increment, and the American
people, must unite our forces.
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Thousands of New York workers
are expected to pack Madison
Square Garden at 7:3o o'clock to-
night in a mighty demonstration for
tn o2iense OF the Soviet Union.
This demonstration called by the
Friends of the Soviet Union to pro-
test the breaking off Of United
States Soviet trade negotiations,
will hear Representative Ernest
Lundeen Of Minnesota, sponsor of
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill, H. r. 2827; James Water
man Wise, writer and editor; j. B.
Matthews, of the Socialist Party;
Professor Charles Kuntz, national
secretary of Icor, and DR.. Reuben
Young, outstanding Negro member
of the F. S. U. and of the League
Of Struggle for Negro Rights. Cor
liss Lamont, author and authority
on the U. S. S. r., will be chairman.
Commenting on tonight'S mass
demonstration, Alexander Trachten-
berg, member of the National EX-
ecutive Committee of the F. s. u,
said yesterday that it would not
only rally the masses of New York
City in defense of the Soviet Union,
but also serve as the signal for a
nationwide mass campaign to an
swer to the new attacks on the U. S.
S. r. and the ISLANDERS circulated by
Hearst and the entire capitalist
press.
THE Friends of the Soviet
Union" Trachtenberg said, has al
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RED ARMY CELEBRATES
IT'S 18th ANNIVERSARY:
GARDEN RALLYTONICHT
Til Gus ands of n e "
York Workers to Join
in Demonstration

George Bernard Shaw, inter
nationally famous author and
dramatist, added his voice yester-
day to the worldwide protest
against the breaking off of Soviet
American trade negotiations by
the State Department.
In cablegram addressed to
Herbert GOidfrank. national sec
rotary of the Friends of the Soviet
Union, Shaw said:
Cannot understand America
breaking negotiations, but know
Japan will be greatly pleased"
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