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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
Fascist Bill
Is Defeated
BY SAM KRIEGER
Especial to the Daily Worker)

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Feb. IA
powerful united front of Commu-
nists, Socialists and labor unions
completely overwhelmed the fascist
supporters of an anti-labor bill at
the public hearing before the Judi
ciary Committee of the General AS
sembly in the State House at Hart
ford yesterday.
The bill, known as H 3. BIT, bans
the right of the American people
to overthrow the government, a
right guaranteed in the Declare
ton of Independence and advocated
by Abraham Lincoln and Thomas
Jefferson. 1t is sponsored by Archi-
bald Stevenson, general counsel for
the National Civic Federation, of
which Matthew Vol, member Of
the Executive Counsel of the A. F.
Of L., is acting president.
Stevenson, with an oily smile, ex-
planned that the, bill was aimed
against the Communist Party and
the industrial unions, which, he
said, wanted to cause general
strike, He insisted such bill was
necessary
I. Wofsy, District Organizer OF
District Is, Communist Party, ex-
posed Stevenson and his organiza-
tions as part of the fascist gang,
led by the U. S. Chamber Of Com
merce, Hearst and other million
aires, aiming to throttle all work
ers' rights and lower their living
standards. He called for a united
front against Fascism in opposing
the bill.
Several leading Socialists in the
State, including Martin Plunkett
State Chairman, Albert Eccles, State
Senator, and Jack Bergen, State
Representative, spoke against the
bill.
John Egan, State Secretary OF the
Connecticut Federation of Labor
also registered his opposition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
Carolina UniOnists
Send Contribution
to HerndOn Defense

The Burlington Six branch of
the I. L. D., newly organized in
North Carolina, where the LID.
is conducting the defense Of six
textile workers framed on "dyna-
hitting" charges for their activity
in the general United Textile
Workers strike of last Septem-
Der, has contributed $3.50 for the
defense of the Scottsboro boys
and Angelo Herndon. The
branch. of which T. J. Canipe,
U. T. w. member and one of the
defendants, is organizer, is com
posed of poverty-stricken work
ers in the silk and cotton mills,
many of them blacklsted for
union activities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15

pletely prepared to smash insur-
rection.
The proposals follow closely the
recommendation of the United
States Chamber of Commerce for a
nationwide, concerted fascist drive
to smash the rising strike wave.
The report has been received with
ridicule by the local press, pooh
poohed by clergymen and liberals,
revealing a dangerous under esti-
nation of the fascist danger. The
Cleveland Federation of Labor i'm
mediately and unanimously went on
record for repeal of the criminal
syndicalism law.
Inquiry Demanded
Councilman Kohen has an
nounced his intention to introduce
a resolution in the City Council de-
manding an investigation of the
Chamber of Commerce and its
espionage.
Acting upon the report of the
Secret Seven" State Representa-
tive Newton H. Fairbanks of
Springfield has introduced bill in
the State Assembly to bar from
the ballot the Communist Party or
a n Y political party advocating
the right of the American people
to overthrow government by force
or violence.
On the other hand, opposition to
the fascist attack is rapidly grow
ing under mass pressure. Stanley j.
zablotny, State Representative. has
Joined Representative iona in
sponsoring the bill in the Lower
House for repeal of the criminal
syndicalisn law.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15

(C0ntlnUe0 from EUg6
docs not stand for the revolution
airy overthrow of the bourgeoisie"
by the working class, as taught by
Marx and Lenin.
The planned effect of this
Schemed testimony is to refute his
stool pigeon statement and divert
the anger of the workers from the
Trotzkyite clique by an impudent
"exoneration' of the Communist
Party from revolutionary leadership
and activity in defense of the in
terests of the toiling population,
and thereby to discredit the Party
In the eyes of the working class.
Betrayed Workers
But no dishonest strategy like this
can minimize the damaging effects
of Minis stool-pigeon statement,
despite the fact that Judge Lennon
has been forced to reverse his pre-
vious ruling holding Minis t:each-
erous statement binding on all the
defendants. The workers will re-
member that Donald Bingham, one
of the eighteen defendants, was ar
rested as direct result of Minis
treachery against the working class.
The Trotzkyite attack in the court
on the other seventeen defendants
and the Communist Party, is sup
ported on the outside by flood OF
SANDER emanating from the Work
ers Party, offspring of the recent
marriage of the Trotskyites and
Musteites, and the Trotzkyite Com
mittee for Partisan Defense"
Sixteen of the defendants en-
phatically repudiated these groups
today, denouncing the Workers
Party, the Committee for Non-Par-
tisan Defense, Albert Goldman and
the various Trotzkyite disruptive
maneuvers. A statement to this eff
feet is being prepared by the sixteen
defendants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
WOrkerS'EnemieS
Exposed

HARRY BENDER. of Oklahoma
City, Okla, is exposed by the Com
munist Party as an agent provOca-
teur and impostOr of the most de-
ceptive and brazen kind.
He has gone from place to place
and has used number of assumed
names, such as VIM. Valid, VIM.
Draizen, Manners, Maness, Marks,
etc.
Under the name of VIM Valid
he was expelled from the Commu-
mist Party in New York City in
August, 1881, after a few months
membership, as a frequenter of
gambling houses and detective
agencies.
A few months later, when he had
unsuccessfully tried in Kansas City
and in San Francisco to misrepre-
sent himself as a special 1nyesti-
gator" for the Party, a general
warning was sent out against him.
In the later part of 1884 he
turned up in Oklahoma City, Okla,
and by means of forged credentials
and all kinds of lies and pretensess
gained the confidence of local COM
rades and succeeded in putting him
self into leading positions in the
Communist Party and in the unem-
ployed movement.
When his bluff was called by a
representative from the Central Of
flee of the Communist Party, he
admitted having forged the name
of Earl Browder, General Secretary
Of the Communist Party, on his
fake credentials, but had the eff
frontery to claim that he had done
this with the good intention" of
building up the Party in Oklahoma
City and then, on the basis of
results achieved" to gain read
mission into the Party.
Later, there were found among
his papers other forged documents,
on fake letterheads and with
forged signatures purporting to
come: Cd from the c. P. of U. S. A.
introducing F. Lorenz (another as
sumed name of this impostor) to
'rYzaguirre" in Saltillo, Mexico,
dated May 20, 1884; 90 From
Labor Research Bureau" 1893
Broadway, New York, N. Y, with
forged signatures of Rober t
Dunno" and Grace Hutchins, dated
April %, 1884; CD From National
Congress for Unemployed and So
cial Insurance, Washington, D. c."
with the forged signature of IF.
Elmer Brown, Chairman"
He has also swindled organiza-
tions and individuals out of various
sums of money.
Description: #. inches in
height; dark, bushy hair; dark
complexion; light blue eyes;
speaks fluent English, but sIurs
the RS.
All workers and their organiza-
tons should have nothing to do
with this rat but should drive him
out from their midst wherever he
may appear and try to ply his
Shiny business again.
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Russell Reported Ready
To Negotiate With Guild

Haywood Broun, president of the
American Newspaper Guild, has
been informed by Assistant Secre-
tary of Labor Edward McGrady that
Lucius T. Russell, owner of the
Newark Ledger, the editorial en-
ployes of which have been on strike
for more than IL weeks, is willing
to negotiate with the strike COM
mittee, the Daily Worker learned
yesterday.
Mr.. Broun has advised the New
ark strikers of this fact The latter
are expected to approach Mr.. Rus
sell or the trustees of the newspaper
shortly.
Strikers are issuing $4,000 copies
of The Reporter, Official strike bull
letin, this morning, advices from
Newark stated.
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Continued from Page u
and brain trusters" to lift the ma
ton out of its economic chaos.
Against Leftward Trend

ana Drain u uSJSIS 10 lllb blle ia
ton out of its economic chaos.
Against Leftward Trend
Further, the drive was precipi-
tated by the knowledge Of the bank
ers and industrialists that the
masses are moving leftward, away
from the false promises of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and toward the ban
ner and program Of the Communist
Party.
WALL STREET, IN A WORD,
HAS BECOME CONVINCED THAT
ROOSEVELT is LOSING HIS
POWER TO DECEIVE THE
WORKERS AND FARMERS OF
AMERICA.
With the wave of strikes and the
otherwise mounting resistance to
the Roosevelt hunger program, Wall
Street has found it necessary to
move toward a fascist dictatorship,
AND HEARS ST, WITH THE
LARGEST READING PUBLIC TO
INFLUENCE, is IN THE FORE
FRONT OF THE MOVEMENT.
Read the Daily Worker
1t is vital at this time that work
ers, farmers and all those allied to
the toilers Immediately boycott the
Hearst press. But, as has been ex-
plahed, they cannot get any truth
full news in any of the other CAPT
talist newspapers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
Observation-Disclosures
Defense Fund Drive
Must Be Spurred

Finances are the immediate
burning need of the Scottsboro-
Herndon campaign. At any
moment the hearings may begin
in the U. S. Supreme Court in
either case, and at least $4,000
is necessary to carry through
both cases. The N. Y. District
has pledged itself to raise $4,000.
Thus far in the first three weeks
it has raised $4347o, or, in other
words, not quite 20 per cent of
the total. The standing of the
sections are: /, West End,
$146.14; 2, Harlem, $3.50; 3,
Bronx, $63.05; 4, Downtown,
$3.50 5, Brownsville, $14.69;
6, Midtown, So; 7, Queens, $7.32;
8, Williamsburg, Sc; 9, South
Brooklyn, So; 10, District, $64.S0.
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vided by the Workers Bill should
be compared" the association esti-
mate declared.
The Roosevelt administration ex-
poets to spend five billions this year
alone in war preparations.
Mrs. BelIamy Endorses Bill
Mrs. Edward Bellamy, the 73-
year-old widow of Edward Bellamy,
author of the internationally known
Utopian work, Looking Backward"
came from Springfield, Mass, to
add her endorsement of H. R. 1927
to the millions from workers, farm
ers and professionals all over Amer
lea. Others who requested the i'm
mediate enactment Of the Workers
Bill today included spokesman for
veterans, metal workers, radio
workers and domestic workers or
CARNATIONS and the National Urban
League.
The kilograms and letters calling
for enactment of H. R. 1927 con-
tinue to flow into his office, Chair
man Dunn remarked today. To-
days batch were from textile and
white collar workers, unemployed
and foreign language organizations,
the Writers Union of New York,
religious, recreational and must
clans groups.
Ida M. Evans of Camden, N. j.,
the representative of 5000 workers
OF the Radio and Metal Workers
Industrial Union, reported enthu-
Siastically to the Sub Committee,
Our organization has conducted
and Is conducting a vigorous fight
for enactment of H. r. 1927. We
have printed 1000 copies of the
bill, and 5000 postcards" She
quoted from a four page folder,
distributed by her union, which
urged "All radio and metal work
ers, their families and friends" to
get behind H. R. 1927.
Domestic Workers Benefited"
Rosa Rayside of New York City,
Negro representative of the DOM
este Workers Union, declared that
H. R. 1927 lis the only Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill which does
not exclude domestic workers from
the categories of workers entitled
to receive benefits under the act"
She endorsed H. r. 1927 without
reservation" and pointed out that
the section in H. R. 1927 which
provides for the extension of the
benefits of the act to workers and
farmers without discrimination be-
cause Of sex, race or color is Of ut
most Importance to domestic work
ers." Negro women, she said, rep
resent nearly one-third of all
women employed as domestics."
According to the 1880 U. S.
Census, she added, there was a
total of 4,952, 45l domestic workers
"cf which number 1,772,200 were
men and 3,180,251 were women"
Benjamin to Sum Up
Because Of the unexpected num-
Der of witnesses who appeared to-
day to endorse H. r. 1927, the
hearings were extended until to-
morrow, when the Committee
will hear Dorothy Douglas, Pro-
lessor of Economics at Smith Col
lege and Herbert Benjamin, execu-
tive secretary of the National Joint
Action Committee for Genuine
Social Insurance, who will sum up.
While posing for the half dozen
newspaper photographers who sur
rounded her, Mrs. Bellamy reported
to Matthew A. Dunn, Chairman of
the Sub Committee, that she was
glad to be here today to endorse
the Workers Bill" and that Bel
larny Clubs throughout the country
have endorsed H. r. 1927"
The Workers bill. she testified,
SIS the most inclusive OF all bills
aimed to provide social security; in
fact, It is the only one y
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are interested in keeping independ-
ent, candidates off the ballot, in in.
formed political circles, as the Times
correspondent indicates, it is. known
that the main objective of tbs
STREET. amendments is to keen
the Communist Party off the ballot
Similar measures, all intended tc
hamstring the Communist Party in
reaching the working and farming
population, have already been intro
duced in the State legislatures Of
Washington, Indiana, New Hamp.
shire and Ohio. Strikingly alike ir
tone, they are seen as companion
pieces to the reactionary Legislation
now being introduced in Congress
by the Observation-Disclosures Com.
fnittee. All are attacks upon anC
restrictions of basic democratic
rights of the toiling population.
Protest Movement Under Way
Vigorous protests have already
been forwarded to Governor Herber
H. Lehman and Assemblyman Streit
by Carl Brodsky, secretary of thu
State Committee of the Communis
Party. Demanding a public hearing
on the bill, Brodsky termed the
measure restriction of funda
mental democratic rights"
The text of Brodsky's wire fol
lows:
Saul S. STREET.,
Assembly, II
Albany, New York:
Communist Party New York
t a emphaticaIly opposes
changes in election law as pro-
posed by yourself. We consider
changing required number of
votes to $4,000 to appear officially
on ballot as an attack upon and
restriction of fundamental demo-
cratic rights of minority parties.
Communist Party is automatically
ruled off ballot in spite of ful-
fillment existing legal require
ments. New York City Board Of
Elections Commissioner S. How
ard Cohen has promised to put
his opinion in writing in response
to my letter to him on this
matter. Will you please inform
us whether Communist Party will
have to obtain signatures to APP
pear on ballot in 1885 and 1886.
Please advise dates of public
hearings on your measure. Many
organizations besides our own
wish to be heard on this ex-
tremely important issue. Filing
protest with Governor.
CARL BRODSKY, n
State Sec'y, Communist Party,
799 Broadway, New York City.
A wide campaign to defeat tn
bill will be undertaken, Brodsk,
told the Daily Worker. The Stat
Committee of the Socialist Part
and various trade union organiza
tons will be invited to send thei
protests, Brodsky intimated. H
Signs that the New York Cit
Board of Elections does not care
let it be known that it fathere
these reactionary proposals are al
ready evident. While COMMISSIONS
Cohen, a Tammany man, told tn
City Hall reporter of the Dali
Worker that place on the ballc
would be determined by the vote
cast for the gubernatorial candi /
= = 4 =.
ton in a later conversation wit
Brodsky. He assured the latte
that the bill will not be retroao
tive" and that the Communi
Party doesn't have to worry"
The State Committee of the
p, however, is not basing itself t.
much on Mr.. Cohen's reassuran6 VI
and is planning a wide campaM
TO defeat the measure.
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In 1884 he was
enjoined from
h o1din g any
posts or func-
tons, because of
financial ire
sponsibility. He
was placed I'M
d e r probation,
b u t failed to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
Rally For Sugar

DETROIT. Mich, Feb IA. An
election meeting in support of
Maurice Sugar, labor attorney and
candidate for Recorders Judge will
be held here on Sunday at 8 p. m.
at 63S King Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15

dropped from all activity and
it is now reported that he was in
volved in some form of racketeer-
ing. This fact has not been estab-
lished because of his disappearance
from Los Angeles.
Description: He is 5 #. 9 inches
in height; weights ITO pounds; has
very dark brown hair, brown eyes
and fair complexion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
FARMERS IN U.S.S.R.
PROVE THEIR MASTERY
OF AGRARIAN SCIENCE
$4,000 Tractor Experts Working on Farms
and $4,000 Enrolled in Academies,
Agricultural Congress Reports

MOSCOW Feb. IA (By Cable).-The Soviet farmer had
become Neutrality-suspicious. long ago-he is complete
master his socazed machinery This the impress
sion created by the remarkable figures discussed today
the Soviet Farm Congress For example by the end Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
IN OHIO /
ISSUE UNITY APPEAL
TO CLEVELAND AT. |.
Greeting Action of Federation in Calling for
Repeal of Syndicalist Law, Party
Urges United Action

CLEVELAND Ohio, Feb. 14-Greetng the action of
the Cleveland Federation of Labor in calling for the repeal
of the Ohio criminal syndicasm law, and endorsing the
mass organzatona drive into the unions started by the
militant auto workers. the Cleveland District of the Commu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
Relief Less Than Prison Fare

MARION, ILL.,, Feb. 14.-Budgets
for prisoners in Williamson county
Jail allow sixty cents day for food.
Relief clients in the same county
get twenty cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15

RAY SWINDLE, of Los Angeles,
California; dyer by trade, who
belonged to the Cleaners and
Dyers' Union and was subsection
organizer of Goodyear Section, has
been expelled 'front.' he Communist
Party for unreliability, financial
dishonesty and disruption,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15

1t pays to save-i5 coupons am
81 will get you copy of BurCk'
Hunger and Revolt"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
Launch Fight
Against Sales
Tax Proposals
Councils Urge Campaign
Against New Levies
in Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Feb. IA
Governor Earle, taking a page out of
the book of his friend, the butcher
of the Austrian workers, Dollfuss,
whom he called "the most humane
man ever knew" has launched a
vicious attack on the living STAN
dards of the workers of Pennsylva-
MIA. His budget message to the Leg
islature demanded sales tax on
workers Notwithstanding 10
per cent tax on all amusement adj
missions, a two cent tax on a pack
age Of cigarettes, a tax of one cent
per kilowatt hour on electric cur
rent, an increase from three to five
cents a gallon on gasoline is
obviously an attempt to fasten the
cost of the depression still tighter
about teh necks of the workers.
Earles attack, coming simulta-
neously with the stoppage of several
P. W. A. projects and the announce
ment that relief funds would be de-
pleted by the end of the month, has
aroused intense indignation. The
Unemployment Councils have
launched a mass campaign against
this attack. Mass meetings in work
ing class neighborhoods throughout
the city will expose EaTle's New
Deal" as the same old Pinchot-
Roosevelt Hoover attempt to force
the cost of unemployment on the
employed workers, and an obvious
effort to defect the tremendous
support forsthe Workers Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance Bill
III. R. 282D.
Petitions will be circulated de-
handing every Philadelphia member
of the State Legislature to actively
work for the defeat of Earle's pro-
posalS for sales tax. Neighborhood
delegations will be organized to visit
their respective legislators and de-
mand their support of the drive
against the sales tax.
The Unemployment Councils call
on all workers and workers organ
izations to Immediately flood Earle
and members of the Legislature
with resolutions, kilograms, letters,
and delegations protesting the sales
tax, and demanding support of the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill Oh. r. 282D.
Unemployed Get 2 Cents for Meal
WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Feb. IA.
"A little over two cents a person
for each meal is all the Franklin
County unemployed get on relief.
One unemployed worker who kept a
record of everything he had received
during 1884, itemizing how much
was granted for each item, found
that he was given $208,05 for his
family of three for one year.
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I ascist Law
Hit in Ohio

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HR 1927 Total
CostCOnputed

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State Rests
In Trial of l8

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Seek to Bar,
CP from Ballot

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Writ
To Be Fought

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