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Evening star., 1935-01-27
AIR WATCH DELAYED
Emergency E Service Waits on
Materials.

Plans to have all Department of
Commerce airways radio stations
maintain a continuous listening
watch on the 3,105 kilocycle (96.5
meter) wave length so that emer-
gency and distress calls can be heard
instantaneously, have been deferred
until a later date pending the ac-
QUESTION OF necessary additional
equipment, the Bureau Of Air Com
merce has announced.
The plan is to have one wave
length to which all Government sta
tions shall always be tuned, just as
the 800 kilocycle (500 meter wave
length is q continuous watch on all
maritime vessels and coastal radio
stations for the reception Of SOS
calls.
Evening star., 1935-01-27

in telegraph Offices in all important
cities in Japan to insure communica-
ton in cases of emergencies such as
land line failures. Unlike the United
States, these countries do not have
great numbers of radio amateurs as
stand-bys when other means Of COM
munication fail.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
Engineers Plan Meeting.

The Institute of Radio Engineers, an
organization Of more than 5000 radio
technicians and their afiliates, will
hold its tenth annual convention in
Detroit, July l-3, according to an
announcement from New York head
quarters.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
Recovery Is Topic.

Maj. Henry H. Curran, director Of
the National Economy League, will
discuss Recovery in 1885" during a
broadcast over Columbia Thursday
at 1880 pm.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
CAPITALS RADIO PROCRAMS

Sunday, January 81. Copyright. 1913
Evening star., 1935-01-27
NON-PROF|T RULE
| OF F. c. c. PRAISED
Few Wave Lengths Avail
able Make Plan Impos-
SibIe, Officials Say.
BY MARTIN CODEL.

BY MARTIN CODEL.
~ EJECTING as needless and i'm
- practical the proposal Of GER
tain dissident educators that
25 per cent of the radio broad
Evening star., 1935-01-27
Amplifiers in Congress
Sought by Ex-Announcer
Nebraska Lawmaker Says Modern Acoustical
Devices Would Make All Important
Announcements Audible.
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

ECAUSE he such things Representative Karl
Stefan Nebraska city editor radio who
elected to Congress that States only Republican member
A his maiden speech the
urged the House acousca devices
perfect the conveyance of sound in the chamber
Out radio and its kindred arts Stefan pointed out has
speaking equipment that render CongreSSman
audible fellow members the galleries if it is low
pitched former Senator Shoots The equipment might
believing
Evening star., 1935-01-27
Ray Noble to Begin Series.

Ray Noble, celebrated London COM
poser and conductor, will begin his
first series over an N. B. c. network
February 20.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
BY l. Amter

The standard of living Of the
whole working class is threatened,
Roosevelt is acting on the pretense
of putting 100000 unemployed to
work.
Roosevelt proposes that the aver
age rates on the Jobs shall be 80
cents an hour, and that the work
ers shall put in 1870 hours a month.
This means reduction of fully so
per cent in the scales of the build
ing trades workers. The purpose
OF this attack on the building trades
workers is two-fold:
ID It will bring down their scales
and automatically reduce the scales
in private industry. This is part
OF the program of the National
Manufacturers Association and the
U. S. Chamber of Commerce. the
program which they presented to
Roosevelt on Dec. Is. This is a
attack on the living con-
ditions not only of the 1000 600
building trades workers, but of the
whole working class.
Against Trade Unions
D 1t is also an offensive against
the trade unions. If the trade
unions permit this decision to go
through Congress then the unions
will receive blow. The Russell
amendment, which gives Roosevelt
power to fix the wages land he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
Councils Push
Fight To Free
Phil Frankfeld
Call on All Workers
to Demand His
Release

The Ma tional Unemployment
Councils yesterday appealed to all
organizations to support the fight
now being waged to win the release
Of Phil Frankfeld, member of the
National Executive Board of the
Unemployment Councils and organ
izer of the Pittsburgh Councils.
Frankfeld, who is now serving a two
to four year sentence in Blawnox
Prison, Pa, will appear before the
State Board Of Pardons on Wednes-
day, Feb. 20, in Harrisburg.
Thomas Kennedy, lieutenant-gov-
ernor and secretary treasurer of the
United Mine Workers of America. is
member of the Board of Pardons
The Natienal Unemployment
Councils has called upon all work
ing class organizations, union locals.
unemployed and fraternal groups.
to send resolutions and wires to the
Board of Pardons d mandfng
Frankfeld's release. Resolutions
should be sent to the FrankfeId-
Egsn Liberation Committee, $50
Court Place, Pittsburgh, Pa, for
forwarding to the State Board of
Pardons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
United Front
In Carolina
Defends Six
Framed Textile Workers
Will Be Defended
by the LID.

HIGH POINT, N. O.. Feb. 13.-
The North Carolina State Commit
tee of the Socialist Party is off,
cially supporting the united front
campaign for the defense of six tex
tile strikers railroaded to a total of
81 years in Jail in what is popularity
known throughout the South as the
Burlington Dynamite Case"
In endorsing the defense. the
State Committee authorized E. E.
Ericsson of Chapel Hill to represent
it on the Workers Defense Commit
tee set up soon after the trial, and
composed of members of the United
Textile Workers Union, Socialists,
Communists and prominent North
Carolina liberals and ministers. The
Southern Socialist, published here,
reports the action of the State
Committee and announces that it
will publish supplement on the
case in the near future.
The International Labor Defense
has been retained by the six de-
PENDANTS, with the approval of the
Workers Defense Committee, to
conduct their defense.
The Burlington Dynamite Case
grew out Of the September Textile
Strike during which a Burlington,
N. c., mill was bombed in an at
tempt to discredit the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15

fixed $50 a month"; has passed the
Senate Appropriations Committee.
William Green was content with
an average wage of $50 a month or.
to quote him, even $40 a month. y
provided the hourly scales were
raised. He proposed in Senate
Committee that the scale be SO
cents an hour, but the hours be
reduced to 84.7 month. But the
wages would remain the same.
Thus it is not the pay envelope
that concerns Green, but the hourly
scale.
The situation is one of the gray
est danger to the whole working
class. The whole trade union move
ment is menaced. The wage stand
ards face destruction.
Unity Proposals
What is to be done? The Ma
tional Unemployment Council calls
upon the workers NOW ABOVE
ALL TIMES to unite forces in the
fight against the reduction of trade
union standards, against the slash
IN the wage scales all around.
We propose: Cd When the I'M
employed are put on the iobs-and
all able-bodied men now on relief
will be compelled to accept jobs or
be removed from the relief rolls
they Immediately organize on the
job and elect a job committee to
take action, The National Unem-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15

ton Ia: the 30-hour week, You
talked about putting up hell Of
a fight"
Where is this fight, Mr.. Green?
The most videspreed publicity
must be given to the Roosevelt pro-
gram Agitation, leaflets, meetings.
demonstrations, resolutions - but
also organization of conferences and
above all, preparation for struggle.
The unemployed not obtaining jobs
must be modified to support these
struggles. The united front of the
whole working class, employed and
unemployed, white and Negro, must
be built on this issue,
For Workers Bill
And above all facing continuing
lowering Of our standard OF living,
with the number of unemployed in
creasing, we must carry on a most
militant campaign and struggle for
the WORKERS Bill HR. 1927. This
is basic issue that must be con-
nected with this fight.
Adequate cash relief for every
worker without discrimination
union wages on the Jobs. with a
guaranteed number of hours per
week and month enactment of
the Workers Unemployment, Old
Age and Social Insurance Bill. H.
r. 2S27-these are our de-nands--
the demands that we will fight
for.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15

FELICITY Slate

SUPERIOR, Wis, Feb. 1.-THE
Communist Party of Superior will
participate in the spring primary
election which will be held March
IL. The candidates have been filed
for the following offices:
Rudolph N. Hariu for mayor;
siiri Anderson and Walter A. Hariu
for the school board; Hjslmer San
kari, Councilman, fourth ward;
Sarah Morris. councilman, sixth
ward; Alma Kantola, third ward;
Henry Tiainen, fourth ward: Joe
Polin, fifth ward and Axel Neslund,
ninth ward, for supervisors.
Plans are under way for an active
campaign. House to house can
wasting and mass meetings are a
part of the compaign plan. A wide
distribution of the platform as we'll
as other election material will be
organized in the course of the cam
paign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15

be called upon to initiate confer
ences of all unions, unemployed and
fraternal organizations, etc, to mo-
Billie the workers for a fight. If
the central labor councils refuse. a
union or group of unions or the
Unemployment Council should take
the initiative.
Never was the Roosevelt admin
istration more cynical than now.
Never did William Green talk
fight" so much. He is doing it
because the workers will no longer
be fooled by new deal" talk. They
are experiencing systematic attacks
on their conditions, the systematic
taking away of their right to or
ganize the unions.
Organization and Struggle
Only one thing can help the
workers in this situation: organiza-
ton and fight. We must prepare
for widespread strikes on the relief
jobs. Millions who are being de-
MED relief will feel the pinch more
and more. Twelve million unem-
ployed are getting no relief. Mil
lions of Negroes are Disseminated
against even more viciously than
before. Farmers, white collar work
ers, professionals, young workers
face desperation. We must act.
To William Green, we say the
following: You were rebuTed on
three issues: rates on the Jobs; Sec
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15

ployment Council will help the men
organize, and will throw its whole
organizational strength into this
work. Then men should affiliate
to the Unemployment Councils and
thus be lined up with the fighting
organization of the unemployed
throughout the country.
Demands
We demand: Union rates on all
Jobs, with a guaranteed number of
hours per week and per month to
provide a decent standard of living.
D The trade unions must be mo-
bilized for the struggle. The only
power that the workers have is their
organized power and the right to
strike that they take through this
power. The unions must be enlisted
in this fight Immediately. There is
no time to be lost. The National
Unemployment Council in all locali-
ties must Immediately canvass all
the unions-A. F. of L. and indie
pendent. They should pass resolu-
tons condemning the government
plan, send them to Roosevelt.
Green, and their congressman and
senators. They should also send
resolutions and delegations to the
mayors and governors, for these
are using Roosevelt's de-
oision to reduce scales in the cities
and states.
y Central labor councils should
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15

We, the Communists, have very
important tasks in connection with
preparing this conference. First of
all the need of an immediate pro-
gram, around which this conference
is called, have to be made clear to
the largest number of poverty
stricken farmers. In order that this
can be achieved, the Communists
and other militant farmers must
visit every possible farm and rural
toilers' organization to familiarize
them with the issues of the confer
ence, to get their support for and
participation in this conference es-
pecially in the great prairie states
and the bordering areas. The con-
ference preparations should be
utilized for greatly extending our
work and influence among the
farmers and the rural workers.
Bring Forward Militant Program
But we Communists cannot limit
ourselves merely to raising the par
tial demands to which this confer
ence is limited. We have to show
more fundamentally the economic
ruin and pauperization of the great
majority of the American farmers
as result of the ruthless exploita-
ton of the bankers, industrialists,
monopolies and trusts, under the
capitalist governments New Deal"
1t is necessary to explain that the
drought has only intensified the de-
struction policy of the A. A. A.
Moreover, due to the fact that the
countryside is literally now flooded
with all kinds of reformistic and
semi-faScist propaganda, as the
masses begin to lose their faith in
Roosevelt, we must prevent these
radicalized laboring masses from
being misled by demagogic oratory
and promises of progressives,
farmer-laborites, Father Coughlin, /
Huey Long, Townsend, Milo Reno,
etc.
AS against the Roosevelt A. A. A.
policy and against the demagogic
promises and program of the re- |
formistic and semi-fsscist leaders,
our program of the Workers Bill, |
H. R. 2627, and the Farmers Emer-
gency Relief Bill, H, r. 3471, should I
be brought forward and to show
that only united mass struggle for
these bills, along with immediate
relief, will help the laboring masses
in the present situation.
This is an important struggle that
only Communists and other mill
5ants can lead. These problems are
to be taken up and dealt with in
detail in the Daily Worker aha
Farmers Weekly and other fighting
class papers in connection
with preparations for the Farmers
Relief Conference. Therefore one
very effective way to build UP this
and to advance the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15

militant class struggle program at
the countryside is to organize
much broader distribution and cir
culation of the working class press,
and especially the Daily Worker
and the Farmers Weekly, among
the farmers and rural workers.
The preparation and organization
of the conference must become an
occasion when the Party itself will
again enlighten its membership and
the working class as to the i'm
portance Of the toiling farmers as
an ally of the revolutionary prole-
tariat in the coming struggle for
Soviet power. But we cannot limit
ourselves to educational discussion
only We must understand that this
alliance can be realized and
cemented upon the conditions that
the Communist and the revolution
airy workers will give practical as
Sistance to the poverty stricken
farmers in their struggle for the
right to live, right to organize and
right to maintain their farms, i'm
plements and livestock.
The great majority of the Amer
lean farmers are now in the mood
of great establishment toward the
capitalist system of robbery and ex-
ploitation.
Every Party District, Section,
Unit, Fraction and every individual
Communist should Immediately
take up the practical steps of Civ
ing support and getting workers
to help the farmers
fight for immediate relief, help
them to fight back against such at
tacks as are now launched against
their right to organize and protect
their homes in Arkansas and North
Dakota.
On the basis of these local strug-
giles we can show the need and help
to build broad united front
Farmers Relief Emergency Confer
ence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
DEMOCRATIC machine
AIMS TO BAR WORKERS
IN CHICAGO ELECTIONS
Election Board DELAYS
Ruling on Challenged
Petitions

CHICAGO, Feb. IA campaign
Of mass protest and legal action
has been launched here to protect
the places on the Aldermanic cleo
ton ballot for twenty-six united
front workers candidates who have
been challenged on supposed tech-
nical irregularities in their noni-
mating petitions.
The Board Of Election Commits
sione1s here. after stringing out
hearings on the challenges, is now
delaying final decision so that the
candidates may not know until ten
days before the election whether
they are in the running.
Besides the workers candidates
some 1T other nominees have been
challenged and are being hamstrung
in their campaigns. The reason for
the action Of the Election Com
missioners, controlled by the Dem
ocratic political machine, is the
wide support mustered for the
workers candidates, which continues
a serious threat to their control Of
the city.
Only IS candidates, including
three of the workers candidates
have not been challenged. Thou
sands Of kilograms, letters and tele-
phone messages are being sent to
the Board of Election Commission
ers to protest their high handed &C
ton and q writ Of msndamus will
be sought If necessary, to compel
immediate placing Of the challenged
workers candidates on the ballot.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
Resolution Passed
Against W. r. Hearst
By 200 Shop Workers

A resolution vigorously pro-
testing the campaign Of SANDER
being carried on against the
Communist Party by the Hearst
and Macfsdden press has been
unanimously passed by 200 work
ers at the Presto Lock Corp.
plant.
The resolution follows:
Be it resolved that we. the 200
workers employed at the Presto
Lock Corp, at 70 Washington st.,
Brooklyn, assembled at our regu-
lar shop meeting hereby most
vigorously protest the campaign
of SANDER conducted by the
Hearst press and the Macfadden
publications against the militant
section of the American work
ing class, the Communist Party
and other workers organizations.
Be it further resolved that
copies Of the above resolutions
be sent to the Dickstein Con-
gressionaI Investigation Commit
tee, to the Hearst press and to
Macfadden publications, and to
the press in general.
SECRETARY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
Protests Urged
AgainstArrests

MINOT, N. D., Feb. 14-Protests
from workers and farmers organi-
cations throughout the country are
called for by the United Farmers
League and the Holiday Association,
which are organizing defense for
seven farmers arrested by the
United States Government and four
farm leaders ordered arrested by
Federal Judge Andrew Miller for
protesting the arrests.
Declaring that "the attitude of
Judge Miller shows clearly how I'M
welcome organized mass defense,
mass protests and collections of
funds are to the bankers and the
prosecution" the two organizations
urge that Judge Miller and United
States District Attorney PW. Lanier
be flooded with protests.
The seven North Dakota and
Montana farmers were arrested for
taking part in penny" mortgage
sales.
Those ordered arrested for send
ing protests against this attempt by
the United States Government to
smash the struggles of the farmers
against seizure of their farms are:
Francis w. Holte, secretary of the
Bergen, North Dakota local of the
United Farmers League; U. Point,
secretary and w. Mustonen. chair
man Of the Vandalia, Mont. local
OF the United Farmers League, and
Charles M. Joselyn, of Glasgow.
Mont, secretary of the Farmers
Holiday Association of Valley Coun-
ty, Mont,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
Artists in Chicago
Fight Censorship
In Store Exhibition

CHICAGO, Feb. 14-Artists
here are conducting a fight
against art censorship by off
Gals of the Davis store, a Mar
shall Field subsidiary.
The store management refused
to give display to painting by
Gilbert Rookie. young revolution
airy artist, after announcing an
exhibition of all paintings re-
jected by the Chicago Art In
stitute.
The title of Rockies entry is
May Day, 1882" Following pro-
tests, the management compro-
missed by hanging the picture
behind an exit sign. A protest
meeting against the action of the
store will be held here on Sat-
urday evening at the John Reed
Club, sos South State Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
Backs Workers Bill

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. IA
Representative Sirovich, Democrat,
New York, endorsed the Workers
Unemployment, Old Age and Social
Insurance Bill, H. R. 1927, on which
hearings are now being held in the
House Committee on Labor. Sirovich
endorsed the Workers Bill last year
after flood of resolutions from his
Congressional District, Lower East
Side, had reached hi min Washing
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
Fur Workers
Win Strike

Especial to the Daily WORKER
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Feb. 14-Strikers
of the Evans Fur Company, all of
whom are members of the Fur
Workers Industrial Union, have
gone back to work victorious, with
the old agreement, which the COM
pany violated, renewed. The. agree
ment provides for a 35-hour week.
no firing without the consent of
the Fur Workers Industrial Union.
The wage scale as provided in the
agreement remains until the August
season. The scabs, which we're sup
piled to the company by officials of
Local IS of the International Fur
Workers Union of the A. F. of L.,
have been dismissed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
Workers Bill in Michigan

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 14.-Mem-
berS of the Forgotten Mems Club,
Division 106, which was represented
at the recent National Congress for
Unemployment Insurance, sue
ceeded in introducing the State
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill into the State Legislature as
House Bill Ill, it was learned to-
day.
The State Workers Bill of Mich
igan. like the Federal Workers Bill,
H. R. 1927, provides for the pay
ment of full average wages to all
workers unemployed through no
fault OF their own.
Except for the omission of the
clause which specifically states that
the funds shall be raised by direct
taxation on incomes and inherit
ances above $4,000 year, the State
Bill, Ill, is in all other respects
analogous to the Federal Workers
Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15

at the center of the drought area. al
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, towards
the end of March.
The call is issued to all farm or
CARNATIONS, all working farm people
and to rural workers, relief and I'M
employed organizations.
Based upon the urgent needs of
drought-stricken farmers and the
relief needs of ever growing number
Of farmers, this conference will
unity and organize the mass fight
for the immediate relief for farm
families and livestock and the
struggle for production credit and
seed.
AS the majority of the farm fami-
lies are in urgent need of relief, and
as on the other hand the relief is
being constantly cut, an emergency
conference has become an urgent
necessity to save the farm families
and the livestock from starvation.
The ruthless policy of Roosevelt's
A. A. A, greatly intensified by the
devastating drought, has utterly de-
stroyed the basis of livelihood for
many hundreds Of thousands of
working farmers. drawing them into
utter poverty. Their crops, in the
limited area they were allowed to
plant under the autocratic codes of
the A. A. A, were destroyed by the
drought. Their cattle and other live
stock were slaughtered by the AA.A.
officials, They have been thrown
upon the mercy of relief. And yet,
they are being denied even the mis-
cradle relief allotments until they
have disposed of their last milk
COW, herd, pig or chicken or have
mortgaged or sold everything.
Countless stories are pouring in
from all parts of the American
countryside describing the unheard
of pauperization of American
farmers.
Call Gets Wide Support
In this situation the rank and file
farmers of all organizations are be-
ginning to wake up and to see the
need of organized united action in
the struggle for relief. This is al
ready reflected in the large number
of farmers who have signed the pre-
call for the Farmers Emer-
gency Relief Conference, and in the
response that the call received after
reaching the various farm organize
tions. The endorsements for the
are pouring in from all
parts of the country.
However, We cannot rely entirely
upon the spontaneous response of
the farmers themselves. First of all
the call for this conference will
reach only limited numbers, unless
our Party and the class conscious
farmers take responsibility and ini-
tiative to make the issues and the
conference widely known