Anti-Fascist League Set up Despite Coast Terror
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DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1935 Page 3 ANTI-FASCIST LEAGUE SET UP DESPITE COAST TERROR OFFICIALS, State Pardon Board | SOVIET WORKERS MAN ICEBOATS New Series on N.R.A. INSURANCE MOVE BOSSES, To Consider Case I To Begin on Monday LEGIONAIRES FAIL Os Phil Frankfeld I In the Daily Worker PUSHED IN STATES (Daily Worker Pittsburgh Bureau) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. I. What does the “reorganiza- j :i: R. the The Pennsylvania State Pardons tion" of the N. A. by • ■M ‘f * Roosevelt government mean to TO PREVENT RALLY Board today notified the Frank- WESS. J AS HEARINGS OPEN ! the workers In the basic indus- feld Liberation Committee that g* the Board will consider pardon ic AvA-A i tries? What has the N. R. A. applications in the cases of Phil ■ j accomplished for the masses in « Jg % M orkers' Organizations. Epic Clubs, and M mpi m' A j the United States? These ques- Sixty-Two Workers Representing Many Groups Utopians, Frankfeld. Emma Brletic • ** Dan Benning on Feb. 20, and tions will be answered in a series ! of by Reeve, ill Coming Technocrats, Liberals Unite to Resist that the result of their "con- /MU articles Carl asso- Testify During Weeks Before | ciate editor of the Daily Worker, ( sideration’’ will be announced by - MuS&mk i * -. House Labor Attacks on Rights in Santa Monica Feb. 23. jtSjft 'yaw, f *,y^Bt^aK^sjc^waßSSe^^^c beginning Monday, Feb. 4. These Committee on | articles will take up specifically The letter states that in case r the situation in the steel, auto, j hearings the &!-' /.c>. ■> I SANTA MONICA, Cal., of the Santa are granted on peti- ••#, > • \ '4, '%&?<&&£ v<* ~ Unemployment and Insurance Feb. I.—Residents SC *SS?i ■* V | textile and coal mining industries The Workers Social Bill tions these not take •• Monica Bay area were treated to practical will place js* g%r-mmm | as they relate to the has been a demonstration ~ JjB&b9HSBKjS2K&' «SKWyattU-<g^'?B£Bwi»ag«B«FjWMggyy^ “reorganiza- introduced into the State legislatures of three until March 20. >*r' '■ '* ' '- - tion” of the N. R. A. of fascist suppression of democratic rights during the past The defense committee is open- States, Washington, Connecticut and Massachusetts, its in- ten days as city officials nnited with Chamber of Commerce ing an intensive drive, especially troduction into the Ohio State Legislature is assured, and centered in the unions, of leaders and local in an attempt suppress trade steps already terrorists to an mass protests to the Pardons have been taken to bring it to the Legislatures organization meeting called here by Board, which now includes •of Minnesota, California. West Vir- the League Against for Fascism thel missioner Sanborne, a member of Thomas Kennedy, International Workers’Enemies ginia and Colorado, the National formation of a local anti-fascist Secretary of the Legion, occupied a block of seats the United Mine Joint. Action Committee for Genu* united front. Workers, in the of the hall, but were now Lieutenant-Gov- Amalgamation ine Unemployment Insurance an- rear ernor of John W. Beardsley of the Amer- deterred from creating any disturb- Pennsylvania. Exposed nounced yesterday. ican Civil Liberties Union was at- ance by the militant enthusiasm of to Aid Hearings on the Workers Unem- tacked by the reactionaries as a the audience. Chief Webb and his JOSEPH BILLUPS, a Negro auto Urged ployment. Old Ase and Social In- “seditious” speaker, following an- daughter, Fay Webb Vallee with Karl Lockner _./’; : './V worker of Detroit, Mich., who has surance Bill, H. R. 2827. will beem nouncement that he would address Rudy Vallee and several lieutenants occupied leading posts in the rev- Furniture Men before the sub-committee of the the meeting on “The Menace to and stool pigeons were present, as olutionary movement, has been House Committee on Labor on r -, i Jptk Jf# ex- Civil Liberties.” was Morton Anderson, president of Class pelled from the Communist Party j Monday at 10 a.m. The chairman Called “Dangerous” the Chamber of Commerce. Struggle for working hand-in-han d with The amalgamation of all unions of this sub-committee. Representa- Big business and its fascist group- After Beardsley’s talk, a prelimi- Negro reformist politicians and in the furniture industry, regardless i tive Matthew Dunn of Pennsylva- lets considered this a dangerous nary organization of the League Veteran at 26 rerving as their tool in the ranks of their present affiliation, into one nia. has already announced his topic at this time when there is a Against Fascism was effected, with of the Party, also for drinking and union was proposed in a statement support of the Workers' Bill, chair- concerted attack throughout the executive representatives nominated iMKn personal degeneracy. issued yesterday by the General man W. P. Connery of the whole CHICAGO, Feb. Executive of the National committee, and Representative Er- country, centering especially in Cali- from the Epics, Utopians, Techno- 111., I. Karl The District Committee of the Board Lockner, also fornia, on the civil rights of the crats, churches, labor unions and the Communist candidate Party established that on a num- Furniture Workers’ Industrial nest Lundeen have announced for to locals. their supoort •toiling population. A campaign fos- other organizations. Mayor of Chicago, belongs to In the Soviet Union the residents don’t have to belong to swanky ber of occasions Billups took money Union all its of the Workers' Bill, mass R. tered by the Chamber of Commerce that ever-growing, world-wide army clubs to enjoy winter sports. Members of workers’ clubs get a taste of belonging to the Party and to work- Reviewing the conditions in the H. 2327. of militant in industry, was launched to bar the meeting youth the world today winter sports In Moscow, and here are three of them whizzing over ers' mass organizations. He even the statement points to The National Joint Action Com- Miles Memorial a city- who are in the vanguard of the of lake collected funds under pretense increasingly bad conditions as be- mittee for Genuine Unemploy- from Hall, working the frozen surface a on an Iceboat. the same class struggle for Soviet that he was going to ing largely caused by the fact that ment Insurance has urged imme- owned auditorium, and at the 25,000 Sign power. South visit time to mobilize Legionaires and the Scottsboro boys and then using the majority of the workers are | diate vigorous action to press for unorganized vigilantes to prevent the holding of This twenty-six year old youth is it for petting himself drunk. and that the small the enactment of the Workers’ Bill. the meeting in any other hall. To Place a native of Wisconsin. While he He was warned several times percentage that is organized is While the Roosevelt administration Sugar was in the university he became Arkansas Farmers about his personal conduct which i divided into numerous rival unions. attempting to rush through the Commissioner Hal Clark Sanborne, in- Plan lis terested discredited This condition, the union points anti-labor Bill, locally as the “Little Hitler,” in Communism as a result the Party and revolu- Wagner-Lewis ev- known of reading tionary working out, plays into the hands of the I ery organization the attack the meeting in the Ballot Lenin’s works. He class movement, I has been urged led on On found the address but he continued on | manufacturers and encourages to wire and send letters, post-cards City Council, where he openly en- of the Young the path which Communist League on a leaflet and 25-Mile Hunger March; leads away from this movement. them to cut wages, increase the and resolutions to congressmen and gaged in incitement to terrorist ac- speed-up and further lower the senators, Legion DETROIT. Feb, I. Maurice became active in the League's work By associating himself with the to the Senate Finance tion by American officials standard of living of the workers. Committee, anti-fascist Sugar, labor’s candidate for judge He came to Chicago to work as Negro reformist politicians he has | and to the House Com- and others against the a .be unemployment in the fumi- mittee on movement here. At of Recorder’s Court, today filed ap- chemical engineer. News of the been doing their work in trying to Labor demanding enact- the same meet- proximately 25 000 signatures Haitian massacres at the Defy Terroristic Acts ; ture industry,” the statement read ment of the Workers’ Bill. H. R. ing. Mayor Carter let the cat out of to hands of keep the Negro masses tied to the place his name on the ballot. Only the American marines to ; in part, “is now greater than ever 2827. bag on tie-up between led him capitalist parties which are the the the close 10,000 required by reestablish Young before. city and fascist are law. the Communist parties of the lynchers of the Negro These resolutions, the National the officials the League Chicago. MARKED TREE, Ark., Feb. I.—ln the face of the most "Analyzing General by stating The filing of 25,000 signatures, in people. Particularly at this time, all this, the Joint Action Committee pointed forces that he had in- all His ability bravery of them gathered by and his were blatant attempts to terrorize them, Negro and white share- when the capitalist class is using ; Executive Board came to the con- out. should oppose the Wagner- structed Police Chief Webb to “as- volunteer put good He to policeman to be workers and labor organizations, to use. was soon an the Negro reformist politicians in | elusion that in order materialize i Lewis bill because it makes no pro- sign at least one active part in the croppers, following the arrest and conviction of Ward Rodg- the slogan of one union in the fur- every of the constitutes a major step working class order to revive their declining in- | vision whatsoever for the millions present at meeting toward struggles of Chicago.