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The daily worker., 1935-02-26

What l really said on that day
was: Plans have been made by
the growers for concentrated at
tack at all points. We are faced
with the immediate task of solidi-
flying our ranks and refuse to be
intimidated by any attacks what
soeyer. 1t is evident that they are
determined to make Pixley a sec
ond Harlan, Kentucky. Under the
laws we have the right to organ
1ze, strike and picket, and these
rights must not be relinquished by
us nor violated by unlawful attacks
of vigilantes or police. Already,
force and violence and bodily harm
has been inflicted on us by the
growers. Our appeal to the county
authorities, as well as to the State
to disarm the growers and protect
our rights has met with no re-
sponse. We must be ready and will
be ready to use all force that is
necessary to do what under the law
we have right to do. From now
on we must be fully determined, no
matter what the suffering or vio-
lence is committed aaginst us to
carry on until our strike is won"
1t is impossible for one short
statement to describe the full evi-
dence on which the prosecution
hopes to railroad us. Over one hun
dred and fifty items of working class
literature which has been openly
published, displayed and sold for
many years has been introduced
against us.
The witnesses who have already
The daily worker., 1935-02-26

testified against us are six police
officers, five stool pigeons, a clerk
from the State Department Of
Criminal Identification, two ranch
owners and a former deputy sher-
lff of Contra Costa County. All
of these witnesses are definitely
under the thumb of the special
prosecutor, Neil r. McAllister, who
was defeated by the people for re-
election as district attorney and
subsequently appointed by Attorney
General U. S. Webb to continue the
prosecution OF the C. S. cases.
Behind the scenes we have a
united front of the capitalist oil
garchy who are pulling every string
to get convictions. Some of these
organizations are, the Industrial
Association of San Francisco. the
P. G. and E., the Bank of America.
the California Packing Corp, the
State Agricultural Bureau, all the
Chambers of Commerce and the
Associated Farmers. It is a united
front of capital against the whole
working class who are rebelling
against the miserable conditions
forced on them by the social order.
All their evidence is framed and
rehearsed and cross-examination by
Attorney Gallagher and the de-
fendants is hampered by constant
objections of the prosecution which
are sustained by the court.
The testimony is being submitted
to a reactionary jury, hand picked
by the prosecution after the defense
had exhausted its challenges. The
The daily worker., 1935-02-26

warrant charging me with criminal
syndlcalism and whom subsequently,
l sued for false arrest. faced trial
on this charge upon evidence that
was so f1imsy that even the iurv.
composed mostly of ranchers, dis
agreed, an consequently the
charges were dismissed. This testi-
mony again is being used against
me in this present trial and also
reflects as railroading evidence
against the other defendants.
This ruthless killing and wound
ing Of the strikers resulted in a
nationwide protest which forced
the fact finding commission ap-
pointed by Governor Rolph to ad-
NIT the fact that workers civil
rights were being violated through
out the agricultural fields. This re-
suited in forcing the local authori-
ties to stage a fake trial of eight
growers on the charge of murder.
They were subsequently acquitted.
Next year the workers placed a
boycott on Petersons ranch and
the others who participated in the
killing.
Merely Disturbances"
The vicious framed testimony
of one of the deputy sheriffs now
goes so far as to declare that there
was no strike at all, merely disturb
ances caused by agitators. The most
trescherous aspect of Rancher Pc
terson's testimony is the accusation
that the workers themselves had
The daily worker., 1935-02-26

Determined by means of the
Criminal Syndicslism trial of the
seventeen working class organizers
and the drive for the passage of
suppressive laws in the Legislature
to outlaw strikes and working class
struggles in California the prosecu-
ton representing capitalist inter
eSts is bringing the entire agricul-
tural strike wave of 1888 and 1894
into the trial as evidence against
the defendants.
Ranch owners and deputy sher-
IFS from Contra Costa County and
the San Joaquin Valley have been
placed on the witness stand. whose
lying testimony beclouds the issues
and hides the fact that strike strug-
giles under militant leadership have
resulted in raising wages for tens of
thousands of workers.
The giant cotton strike of 1888 in
which three workers were killed and
about thirty men and women were
wounded by the ruthless violence of
armed vigilantes was introduced as
railroading evidence against the de-
PENDANTS. Ranch owner Frank M.
Peterson, who not only participated
in the vigilante attack at Pixley, but
was accused by workers of having
been one of the killers, took the
stand last Friday (Feb. 81 and gave
testimony which was not only aimed
directly at me but reflected upon all
Of the seventeen defendants.
Signed Warrant
He Is the person who signed the
The daily worker., 1935-02-26
United Front
Acts Against
Bill in Detroit
BY A. B. MagiI
Especial to the Daily Worker)

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 25.-Joint
action against a proposed amend
ment to the city charter that would
practically prevent workers and
workers parties from participating
in elections was decided on today at
a conference Of representatives of
the Socialist, Proletarian and Com
muniSt Parties.
The joint committee of the three
parties decided to launch a protest
campaign, contracting organizations
and individuals, with the immediate
objective of compelling the City
Council to grant a public hearing
on the proposed amendment.
The amendment proposes that in
stead of nominating petition sigma
lures checking of which costs $10,-
900, every candidate be required to
pay a fee equal to three per cent of
the annual salary of the Office he is
running for, but not more than two
hundred dollars.
Candidates receiving more than
fifty per cent of the vote of the sue
cesSful candidates will have their
fee returned to them; the others
lose it.
If the amendment is passed by
the City Council, it automatically
goes on the ballot in the elections
April first for approval Of the voters.
Following the meeting of the joint
committee, Al Renner of the Prole-
tartan Party, and Max Salzman of
the Communist Party, denounced
the measure before the City Council
The daily worker., 1935-02-26

the Cleveland gangsters, dignified
with the title Of deputy sheriff"
when the strike broke out.
Company Refuses Demands
At the only meeting held so far
with union representatives, the
company refused all of the de-
mands. These are for recognition
of the union as against the COM
pany union, and for seniority
rights. At this conference, Lake
County Sheriff Kilcawley and
County Prosecutor Daniels were
brought in as neutral members" !"
The deputizing of the Cleveland
gangsters and the clouds of tear
gas have convinced the strikers that
this neutrality" is lined solidly be-
hind the Ohio Rubber Company.
The Importance of the Ohio Rub
Der Company strike for the entire
industry makes it apparent that the
efforts of the company to smash
the strike and the A. F. of L. union
have just begun. In spite of the
success Of the workers so far in
tying up the plant, it is clear that
several steps must be taken to
strengthen the strike as the COM
pany increases its attacks.
New Steps Proposed
A broad strike committee consist
ing of the most militant and active
strikers should be elected. At the
present time negotiations and the
direction of the strike are in the
hands OF the officers, together with
George Roberts of Akron. Compul-
sorry arbitration should not be per-
mitted or any return to work with
out all the workers voting on the
settlement.
All strikers, their wives and chill
dren, as well as the unemployed
and sympathizers, should be on the
picket line. To make this effec-
tive, the strike demands should be
broadened to include hiring of some
of the laid-off men, relief for the
unemployed, abolition of speed-up,
higher wages to meet the rising cost
of living. Wide publicity should be
given the strike in order to enlist
the support of the rest of the work
ers and farmers in the county, and
protests should be organized against
the city and county authorities for
aiding the attacks on the strikers.
The daily worker., 1935-02-26
Press Barrage Begun

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-Speaker
Joseph w. Byrnes, an administra-
ton leader. today expressed the be-
lief that the House would stand by
Rooseyelt's demand for slave wage
on work relief
Meanwhile. a newspaper barrage
was started to bring about mass
pressure" in the form of telegrams
from mayors and governors, social
work leaders and others in support
of the Roosevelt security wage" Of
not more than an average of $50
a month for work relief.
In Atlantic City, Jesse Jones.
chairman Of the RFC, told a con-
vention of the National Education
Association that public support
should be rallied behind the Roose-
welt stervstion wage.
Senators and Representatives yes
terday admitted that tremendous
mass movement was afoot and that
they were being deluged with tele-
grams and resolutions demanding
Chat trade union wages be paid all
relief workers.
The daily worker., 1935-02-26
500 w Orkers
Demonstrate
For Relief

NEW CASTLE, Pa, Feb. Is
Marching through binding sleet
storm, 500 unemployed workers
demonstrated here last Saturday to
place their relief demands before
the local relief officials.
An eight point list Of demands
were presented by the committee
for: adoption of the workers mini
mum cash relief budget; adequate
medical and dental treatment; rec
ognition of all union committees; /;
all works division funds for housing
projects; full share Of surplus food; :;
six hour day, thirty hour week; 81
an hour minimum wage; endorse
ment of the Workers Bill HR. 1927; (;
the stopping Of foreclosures and
Sheriffs' sales.
The daily worker., 1935-02-26
OfS.P.
Is Convicted
In Arkansas

FORT SMITH, Ark, Feb. 25.-
Rev. Claude C. Williams, leading
Socialist, one of eight persons ar
rested last week in connection with
the strike preparations of relief
workers, was convicted Friday night
on charge Of barratry dnciting to
litigationl.
The jury took only five minutes
to return its verdict of guilty"
against the minister who was re-
Gently ousted from his church be-
cause he supported the struggles of
the sharecroppers against appalling
conditions.
Eight relief workers are docked
for trial on the same charge, in
cluding Horace Bruan, young Com
monwealth College graduate, who
earlier in the week was convicted
on anarchy accusations in the
States second such case in recent
weeks. The relief workers are de-
manding more food and better
working conditions.
The daily worker., 1935-02-26
Service Strike
Again
Continued from Page u

they had to deal with Merritt. AS
a result, the realty owners them
selves were to be present when the
conference met again last night at
1880 at the Hotel Commodore.
Mahoney told a Daily Worker re-
porter the conference would prob
ably last through the night and that
he thought settlement would be
reached in this conference. This
was in line with Bambrick's state
ment that there would be only one
session.
The agreement made by union Of
ficialS to call no strikes during the
conference, threw away the unions
strongest weapon by removing all
pressure against the realty owners
while a settlement was being
reached.
Strike Put Off Again
Postponement Of the strike which
would have involved 10000 building
service workers in the garment and
fur districts Of Manhattan, followed
Bambrick's appeal to Francis B.
Biddle, chairman of the National
Labor Relations Board.
Upon receiving word from Biddle
that he had asked Judge jeremiah
T. Mahoney, chairman of the New
York Labor Relations Board to act
as mediator, Bambrick issued orders
to the 400 shop stewards in the dis
trict to stand by for twenty-four
hours.
Bambrick stated that he had
telegraphed to Washington because
the union would have no further
dealings with the Curran arbitra-
ton committee, appointed by Mayor
LaGuardia. The realty owners on
the other hand, broke off confer
ences, declaring they would deal
with the union only through the
Curran committee.
&C Buildings Sign
Individual agreements have been
signed with sixty-six buildings in
the garment and fur district. The
union demands minimum wages of
$40, $24, and $26 for porters, de-
pending on the size of the building.
with graduated scale for other
employees.
The owners, most of them mem
hers of the Midtown Realty Owners
Association and the Penn Zone AS
sociation, offered flat minimums
for all classifications of employees at
$40, $40 and $24, refusing to con-
slider graduated scale. If this of
fer was turned down, the owners
proposed arbitration by the Curran
committee, whose earlier award had
been entirely in keeping with the
wishes of the owners.
A partial victory was scored at
the Salmon buildings, according to
union officials. The property at SIS
West And Street, one of the three
Salmon buildings involved, agreed
to take back the union men who
we're locked out last week,
The daily worker., 1935-02-26

prosecution had eighteen challenges
left, SO they cleaned out anyone
whom they had any doubts about
and installed jurors whom they
could trust to aid in the railroad
ing.
Mass Protest Needed
Faced with this grim railroading
machine, we have only one hope of
avoiding convictions and sentences
to the penitentiary. That is an
immediate and powerful protest
from the working class and their
friends throughout the country. 1t
is not a matter concerning only the
defendants nj this case. 1t is a
matter of vital concern to every
worker. This is a test case in Cal
ifornia which will determine the
future activity of the workers. Con-
viction in this case means that the
iron heel of the C. S. law will come
down on every workers organiza-
ton and will also be used against
any progressive thinking man or
woman or any group sponsoring
freedom of speech and organization.
Fight for these demands:
Freedom of all working class pris-
oners including the eighteen C. S.
defendants.
Against anti-working class legis-
lation.
For passage of the C. S. law re-
peal bill now pending in Legisla-
ture.
Unity of action of all people in
defense of workers rights
Build the United Front
The daily worker., 1935-02-26
Ohio Struggle Augurs
Rubber Strike WaUe
900 Strikers at Ohio Rubber Co. Meet Attacks
OF Hired Thugs with Fighting Spirit and
Brickbats, Keeping Scabs from Plant

WILLOUGHBY, Ohio, Feb. 25.-
The rubber industry strike wave,
which every one in this section has
seen coming, has been brought
nearer by the strike in the Ohio
Rubber Company. The Federal
Court at Cincinnati has announced
that the Goodrich and Firestone
election cases would be heard in
April. But the absence of union
representatives at the hearing
points to the fact that the rubber
workers in the largest companies
are not counting on the court for a
solution of their problems.
Meanwhile 900 employees Of the
Ohio Rubber Company, members of
the United Rubber Workers Union,
Federal Local 1924, have been
meeting the gas bombs and black
jacks of the company thugs with
stones, bricks, bolts and a solid
mass picket line.
The policy of the local govern
ment is to use company strong arm
men against the strikers, saving the
police as a reserve to be called out
later. At the present time, the
police pose as friends" of the
strikers, even urging them to keep
out the scabs."
Notorious Scab- Herder on Job
William Frew Long, head of the
Associated Industries of Cleveland
long known as a top-notch scab-
herder and connected with the anti
labor Secret Seven" committee of
the Cleveland Chamber of Com
merce, is handling" the strike for
the company. Under his expert
guidance, the company has been
trying to bring in scabs and we'll
guarded truckloads of food for those
on the inside. Most of these are
office workers and foremen who
have been in the plant since the
beginning of the strike and are
afraid to come out. In spite of the
heavy attack on the pickets, the
arrest of six of them, the injuring
of many more and the gassing of
women and school children, not one
single scab has been able to pene-
trate the picket line and get inside
On the contrary, the determined
resistance of the strikers has landed
number of scabs and foremen in
the hospital and injured several of
The daily worker., 1935-02-26
Educators DenOunce Hearst is Menace To PrOgres
,mand Union Wages on Work Relief Jobs

general wage cutting drive, not only by
Roosevelt, but in private industry as well.
Every local union should act Resolu-
tions for the union wage and against the
security wage" should be adopted in every
workers meetings. kilograms, letters and
resolutions should be sent to every Senator
and Congressman.
Special protest meetings should be or
ganized on the broadest united front basis
to draw all workers into this fight. The
fight for union wages on all work relief
jobs should be inseparably bound up with
the fight for adequate relief and for the
Workers Social Insurance Bill H. r. 1897
Communists in every city, in every trade
The daily worker., 1935-02-26

union, in every workers organization,
should take the initiative Around the
fight for union wages and the 3O-hour
week, the united front of the workers
should be advanced the trade unions of
the A. F. Of L. should be built
All readers of the Daily Worker, all mil
liant workers, all Communist Party mem
bers are urged to raise this question in
their trade union.
Let us all get together to fight for union
Wagesl
Let us unitedly defeat Roosevelt's plan
to cut wages
Let us quickly register our demands with
Senators and Congressman!
The daily worker., 1935-02-26
Congress Group Votes
Another $38,OOO,OOO
For Pacific War Bases

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is. = The
Roosevelt war program proceeded
another step forward today as the
House Committee on Naval Affairs
voted favorably on the measure
giving s3s,OOO,Oo0 for the building
of naval bases and shipyards in
Hawaii, the Canal Zone, and the
Pacific Coast.
Ten million dollars will 60 to an
immense floating drydock in Ha-
waii, naval outpost in the Pacific.
There will also be millions for
airplane bases in Hawaii and the
Canal Zone.
The significant fact of the whole
matter is that the money is ex-
pected to come from P.W.A. funds,
The daily worker., 1935-02-26

hand with this policy goes the duty
of the l. L. D. and all its support
ers to expose all those who in eff
feet are weakening the defense Of
the Scottsboro boys.
The future tasks in the effort to
set the Scottsboro boys free are
clear. They consist in Immediately
consolidating all friends of the
Scottsboro boys-Negro and white
into a powerful unity to lombard
the Supreme Court in reversing the
Patterson-Norris lynch verdicts. 1t
is plain that the George E. Haynes
the Amsterdam News, the New
York Ages and all their disruptive
cohorts will continue their attempts
to split the Scottsboro defense into
pieces.
Basic Issue
Not only does the unconstitutional
exclusion Of Negroes from juries
show that Patterson and Norris
were indicted, tried and sentenced
illegally, but 1t shows that all Ne
groes who are imprisoned and tor
tured by the brutal state officials
of the Southern lynch system are
deprived of their rights in a vicious
fouting of the fundamental rights
of the Negro people. This basic
issue must be made the rallying
point for the widest sections of the
Negro population and white SYM
pathizers in a gigantic struggle for
the lives and freedom of the Scotts-
boro boys and for the complete
political, economic, and social
equality Of the Negro people.
The lead of The I. L. d. in unit
ing the legal defense must serve
to the Rev. Haynes group for
uniting all true friends Of the
ScOttsbOrO boys and all true
fighters for Negro freedom and
constitutional rights. This unity
must be sextended. The present
ScOttsborO Action Committees
should approach those who adhere
TO the Rev. Haynes group for
united action. Joint mass meet
ings to report the supreme court
hearings; post cards and resOIu-
tiOns to the supreme court; re-
ports on the hearings in all
churches and lodges; campaign
for funds for the defense.
The Scottsboro Action Commit
tees should be real united front
organs uniting around the Scotts-
boro issue and the constitutional
rights of Negroes, with the broad
est representation of churches.
lodges, clubs and mass organiza-
tionS.
For a united front on the free
dom of the ScOttSboro boys and
the civil rights for Negroes!
The daily worker., 1935-02-26
Landslides in England

LONDON, Feb. "a (U.P0 Snow
storms and landlslides today had
climaxed week of unsettled wealth
er throughout England. Inhabitants
Of the town of Abertysswg, Wales,
were reported to be alarmed by the
actions of Mount Troedrhifuwch,
the moving mountain" which is
said to be again moving as a result
of recent heavy rains and is threat
ening the township.
The daily worker., 1935-02-26


distributed grain alone. excluding
money or other income, was one
ton, forty-six pounds. You can't
starve on that, especially as each
farmer has vegetable garden
and usually some livestock, and
also gets vegetables and money
from the collective farm.
A typical report to the peasants
paper by Ukrainian collective farm
ers is the following from v. Lipo-
vati and L. Tobolchenko, from the
collective farm Red Dawn near
Poltava in the village named Ma
chuhka, on January of this year:
Before the revolution our vii
lage had church, small peasant
huts, and one big estate of about
300 acres belonging to the Kuiak.
There was hunger, cold, disease
then, and only l5 per cent of the
people were literate.
Now the collective farm unites
BIT families, possesses new barns,
stables and farmhouses; the pig
farm has 181 swine, the COW barns
102 cows
The daily worker., 1935-02-26
Deterding in Germany
In War Deal with Nazis
Especial to the DAILY workerl

BERLIN, Feb. 25 (By Cable) =
Sir Henry Deterding, British capi-
talist and president of the Shell Oil,
Ltd, arrived in Berlin yesterday,
according to reliable information.
Deterding is to carry on negotia-
tions concerning supplying Germany
with fuel for military purposes, duty
exempt. Actually this is a loan to
Germany, to be paid back in kind
Deterding is soon to be received
by Hitler, it is reported.