DEMONSTRATE MONDAY AGAINST FOES OF SOVIETS IN U. S., URGES FORD By JAMES W. FORD The war that Hearst wants against the Socialist Roosevelt and Hearst are playing the game of Hie duty of every fighter against oppression in at! its There is a grim warning to us, to every worker, Fatherland will unloose bloody terrorism and oppres- Hitler and Japanese imperialism. What this fascist forms. reaction means to the Negro people can be seen from All the Madison every oppressed Negro in the country, in the way sion against the whole American people, and above out to Square Garden demon- the vile poison ihai Hitler spills about the "racial stration on Monday, February 25! Lei m raise our the multi-millionaire Hearst has received the obvious all, against the Negro people whose chains of national inferiority" of the "dark races.” strength against this vile Hearst and his iear-mon- approval of cry war against the oppression by the Roosevelt in his for Wall Street masters will be drawn The defense of the U.S.S.R., land which has gering.' Soviet Union. tighter about their necks. abolished forever the yoke of national oppression, is Defend the Soviet Union!

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Nazis’ Chief Aim Is War On Soviet Union, Says Pravda ANTI-SOVIET WAR-MAKERS A.F.L.LEADER | STRIKE CALL WALK OUT IN PROTEST IN U. S. WILL BE ASSAILED THREATENS PUT OFF AGAIN AGAINST F.E.R.A. WAGES; IN GARDEN RALLY MONDAY AUTO STRIKE BY BAMBRICK RELIEF OFFICE STORMED Dillon Talks of Walkout Bronx Leaders Also An- After Unions Vote nounce Bri t i s h-German Plans Lundeen, Wise to Speak Ten-Day Toledo Building Trades SPEAKS MONDAY for One Truce Enemies Temporarily Foiled, At Demonstration of Scottsboro Boys Fight Roosevelt Wage Says Paper for U.S.S.R. DETROIT. Mich.. Feb. 22.—After Strike calls of building service Program most of the A. F. of L. auto unions workers were again postponed yes- Lie About High Court Hearing | MOSCOW, Feb, 22 (By Cable).— Representative Ernest Lundeen of had already voted for strike, Francis terday in Manhattan and in the Dslly Worker) The danger of embroilment of all Minnesota will arrive in New York i the! J. Dillon, American Federation of j Bronx by officials of the Building TOLEDO, Ohio, F*b. 32 —Fifteen in a touched off by Ger- City Monday to be the main Associated Negro Press and Amsterdam News At- Europe war on i Labor organizer, today threatened j Service Employees' Union despite hundred building trades workers man fascism makes essential the speaker at the Madison Square a walkout of the automobile work- j the breakdown of two conferences tempt to Hide Leading Role of 1. L. D. walked out on strike here today speedy conclusion of regional pacts Garden demonstration at 7:30 p.m. ers. | against wages paid on of mutual assistance and non- that day in protest against the Dillon, replied today between representatives of the the slave who to j A barrage of venomous lies about Davis, was in the courtroom and aggression, Pravda warned in an United States government’s break- manufacturers’ criticism of the Na- | union and realty groups, and in the local F. E. P A. projects as the editorial yesterday. Pravda is the ing negotiations the Scottsboro defense, and about knew the facts, stated that Attorney off trade with the tional Industrial Labor Relations face of the mounting anger of the hearing protest movement against the organ Party of S|prf4 I the on the Scottsboro case Samuel S. Leibowitz presented argu- of the Communist Soviet Union. Board of findings deplorable con- workers at the protracted dilly- before the United States Supreme ment on behalf of Clarence Norris, Roosevelt *SO-a -month-relief-wage the Soviet Union. Congressman Lundeen is known ditions in the industry, said that dallying of their leaders, no words, em- Court, which was held Feb. 15 and on Feb. 15, and that "after the oral program begins to take on the pro- Mincing Pravda to thousands of American workers the national council the federa- J. Bambrick, president of of j James 18. has been let loose by the ene- arguments on the Norris case the portions of a tidal wave. The strike phasized the chief menace to Euro- as the sponsor in Congress of the ; tion would consider : 32-B, the question of Manhattan Local, while ad- mies of the Scottsboro defense U. S. Supreme Court reserved deci- 3 of pean peace: "German fascism is ac- Workers’ Unemployment Insurance a in Detroit is under the auspices of Local strike at a meeting to- mitting that "the negotiations have among Negro newspapers, con- sion,” and that “it is of L. tively preparing for seizures of ter- Bill. the believed that the Bricklayers Union. A. F. morrow. jbeen deliberately sabotaged by the trolled in behalf of white bosses, I. L. D. attorneys will argue the 1,400 ritory in Eastern and Central Eu- 'lff--*-tetter received yesterday by A further walkout of at the Workers Ask for ; realty owners," declared, "we will during past ap- rope in order to prepare for war in ■ Union, Strike the week. Patterson U. S. Supreme Court end of work today will tie up every the Friends of the Soviet Strike action, workers in do our best to prevent a strike." The Negro and peal.” the west by this means. That is under whose auspices the demon- the the ■ Associated Press relief job in the city. industry overwhelmingly declare, Proposed Arbitration the Amsterdam News. Harlem time this was written, At- why it, opposes the Eastern Pact of stration in defense of the Soviet j news- At the The men, now working on a sub- must be taken at Unorgan- j paper consistently sought torney presented security and mutual assistance. It Union held, Congressman J once. In a letter received by Bambrick which has i Leibowitz had the sistence level budget, are demand- will be j ized workers must be prevent a defense the is interested in the dislocation of referring stand on drawn into from the Pennzone realty owners to united for facts in both the Norris and Pat- ing a five-day, thirty-hour week Lundeen. to his organizers boys, the any agreements whatsoever con- the U.S.S.R., wrote: the unions and more i yesterday, they proposed an end to have led attack with lies |j terson cases to the court, and At- with full trade union scale wages must be thrown into the and distortion. cluded upon the basis of mutual de- "I will refer you to my speech field, it all conferences and the throwing jtorney Walter H. Poliak, constitu- and conditions. is felt. The “Amsterdam News,” whose pendence in the cause of the main- James Waterman Wise in the Congressional of The recent meetings in of all "disputed questions" into the The strike wave here has grown Record Cleveland, Detroit and other general manager, William H. (Kid) (Continued Page 2) tenance of peace in all parts of Eu- January 4, 1919, in which I first auto j lap of the LaGuardia arbitration 1 on. in the past week. Between three centers are not enough, rope. German fascism is openly demanded the recognition of the workers : board. Bambrick countered this and four hundred workers led by point out; action taken ! seeking to drive a wedge between Soviet Union, and in w’hich I also must be at ■ proposal with another one that the the United Automobile Workers Britain and France and to upset demanded the withdrawal of the ! once while the busy season is on. j landlords signify their willingness to Federal Union walked out Wednes- Franco-Soviet collaboration with American troops from Soviet soil. Dillon left every loophole open in allow the Regional Labor Board or day afternoon s a result of the re- 325,000 his statement. of AID "In I He pointed to the the State Labor Board to arbitrate of Myers Com- the assistance Britain. this speech made the state- j MINE LEADERS ACTS TO SPIKE fusal the Regulator U. S. S. R. for Real Pant ment that President Wilson made I auto barons and said that "unless Ij all the demands raised by the pany, an auto parts company, to Alfred P. i "The Soviet government, on the himself liable for impeachment Sloan and the automobile union. keep an agreement on wage in- Contrary,” Pravda continues, “is ac- and removal from office by his ; industry comes to a realization of Failing this. Bambrick said, he creases entered into three weeks CUBA STRIKE | their duties as ■ tively struggling for a strengthening illegal, unwarranted and uncon- citizens and em- would call a strike in 640 buildings THREATENEDWAGE FIGHT j ago after an earlier strike. of the security of all states in Eu- stitutional sending of troops into i ployers, I will advise a strike vote in the garment, fur and millinery Police were called and three rope, as well as the organization Students Demand Ouster the territory of a friendly na- I at the Council meeting." sections of Manhattan. A meeting pickets arrested in an unsuccessful In prepared Goal Gomj> an y Ask« Senate Will Refuse to of peace, with the assistance of a of U.S. Ambassador tional, without a declaration of a statement issued to- of shop stewards will take place at attempt to smash the picket line. system of regional pacts. The Soviet war by Congerss. Court to Jail Heads Accept Prevailing Wage Calls for a mass picket line brought government is ready to welcome the and Mendieta “I served in Congress during (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) support from the Young Commu- London agreement, on condition of the 65th (War) Congress and of Union Proviso,Savsßobinson nist League and the Unemployment Its absolute Indivisible fulfillment. voted against entering war; Councils when Samuel Solomon, HAVANA, Cuba. Feb. 22. The “Such are the two answers. Which against conscription for foreign Bv George Morris I WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—The president of the firm, announced powerful general Hitler Court U.S. Gets of these corresponds to the interests strike of students, service and all espionage laws.” Army (Special the Daily Worker) that hundreds of scabs would be to clear I Roosevelt machine today moved to of the laboring masses—this is teachers and professors today in- Many Telegrams of Support hired. Workers were mobilizing to- For fascist Germany WILKES-BARRE. Pa., Feb. 22 spike any attempt to over-ride day to everybody. volved more than 325,000 persons in date of 1 to add more support to the very of the French, and As the the Madison To Try’ 200 $378,000,000 i the Roosevelt’s demand that slave wages the fact In one of most dramatic strike- ; picket line, which time after time govern- its sweep. The Cuban Confedera- Square Garden demonstration ap- j particularly the British, of not more than *SO a month on ; has tion of Labor, the militant organ- proached. hundreds of telegrams breaking measures ever taken, the repulsed police attacks. ments addressing themselves to the I the average be paid on relief jobs M. ization of some 325,000 workers, yes- and letters of support were received Glen Alden Coal Company insti- E. S. A. Strike Looms government of the U. S. S. R. must Communists From : under the administration’s $4,880,- terday issued a fervent appeal to by the F. S. U. Congress Six hundred workers led by the serve to recall that Germany's ad- tuted court proceedings against 000,000 relief bill. After its passage Mechanics the working class of Cuba and to Among these statements was one Educational Society of plans will not be so easily j fifty district and local of in the Senate yesterday by a margin America venturous all Cuban James who, ' BERLIN, Feb. 22.—The barbarous WASHINGTON, D. C.. Feb. 22. officials issued an ultimatum to the realized the hope of sup- exploited strata of the from Waterman Wise, of one vote, the bill was returned even with population support the demands together with Corliss Lamont, Con- “People’s Court,” with its bloody The Roosevelt war program took the United Anthracite Miners of Mather Spring Corporation against port from without. to to committee today. of the and teachers, gressman record of executions and vicious another step forward as Congress Pennsylvania for failing to carry ; discrimination of the firm toward British AVar-Makers Checked students and Lundeen. Professor Speaker Joseph W. Byrnes, an is striving to spread the strike Charles J. B. prison sentences, will soon try about passed the $378,000,000 war depart- out the order of Judge Valentine to | union employees and for a return "We can only repeat,” Pravda Kuntz, Matthews and administration leader In Congress. among the broad sections of the Dr. Reuben Young, will at 200 Communists on charges of anti- ment appropriations bill. call off the strike of its workers. of 250 who were laid off 8t that stressed, "that the fate of European speak ! said today that the House w’ould Cuban proletariat for their own de- Madison who fascist activity, it was announced An attempt to reduce the swollen The strike is still solid despite the plant. The workers were discharged peace no way depends only upon Square Garden. Wise, refuse to accept the "prevailing In mands. as here today. war budget by 20 per cent de- injunction. without notice on Wednesday. The political maneuvers of resigned elitor of "Opinion” was wage” amendment to the work re- the external The government of w’rote part: Hamburg | seated as the The of the company be- ultimatum states that unless com- fascism and advocates. murderous Thursday, in Arrested in last year, j administration whip petition lief bill, "If the Senate sends the German its Mendiete-Batista-Caflery is being "Recent they Judge Valentine, a plete satisfaction is rendered by two British bourgeoisie is forced to attacks on the Soviet are now facing death and im- cracked. fore w’ho is ! bill back with that amendment,” The shaken to its very roots by the Union, with attempts of In its present form, the bill con- director of the o’clock Sunday afternoon, strike ac- reckon with the fact that the wid- coupled prisonment. Three leading members company-controlled Byrnes said, "the House will stand strike, and It is reacting accord- powerful interests to of tains large appropriations for the Wyoming National Bank, charges by President," and tion will be taken. est masses of the toilers of Britain secure the the Communist Party of Germany the write his ingly. By means of martial law. withdrawal of recogni- from National Guard following the rec- | although tw’o meetings of wage demands Into do not desire wT ar and also do not American have already been sentenced that the slave the bill. suspension of all constitutional tion of Russia and to hostilize the to four ommendations of Brigadier General general grievance body of the Glen Roosevelt, it is reported, will Jobless Storm Relief Office approve of encouraging the adven- three years each. One of veto guarantees, special emergency people, on held, wage 'Special to she Bailv Worker) plans of German fascism. American and Russian con- them. Karl Rattai, who returned to Howard the "strike situation." Alden miners were the order 1 the entire bill unless his slave courts, and the cold-blooded mur- stitutes a. national and an Thirteen million dollars are pro- to call off the strike was not issued. is carried. TOLEDO, Ohio. Feb. 22. Two The British government is there- menace Germany on Hitler s accession to der of militants without trial, the peril. The power vided for the immediate construc- The company cited a of dyna- | hundred unemployed workers led by obliged to resort to complicated international inflamma- in 1933. was arrested while series Not Union Wage fore Mendieta lackeys of Wall St. are tory propaganda by planes and equip- mitings, for the Northwestern Ohio Unemployed Iturous and these maneuvers unleashed the carrying on an illegal news agency tion of combat which form the basis The "prevailing w’age’’ in no sense maneuvers Council and the Farmers attempting to force through the Hearst press and other reactionary for the Communist Party. -1 ment. ; the framing of seven active strikers Ohio have not as their realization the : implies the union wage which is de- League the sugar harvest (the zafra) under groups is part and The ; and the recent murder of tw’o pick- stormed Lucas County plan of fascist Germany to set Eu- parcel of the "People's Court” is the court manded by organized and unorgan- conditions of unprecendented slav- cynical attempt to Amer- ets as the basis of its contempt Relief Administration headquarters rope against the Soviet Union. The fascize before which Ernst Thaelmann, the Strikers Shot Down pro- ized labor throughout the country. ery. ican life institutions. , ceedings. Judge Valentine stated here today. circles of British imperialism ana Un- most beloved and militant leader of CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.. Feb. 22. In some sections, especially the ruling Ask Mendieta Ouster checked, he will decide At first J. S. Thompson, relief ad* must with the position of it would inevitably plunge the German workers, is awaiting (UP). Three strikers and one 1 tomorrow. South. SSO a month, which Roose- reckon To demands ministrator and officer of the Na- France remember the extent their original of the United States into war. trial. The severe sentences dealt worker in the Daisy branch of the In face of this threatened arrest velt demands as an “average” is and more aid to “For our owm sake tiona! Guard, refused to see the which they take upon needv students and a and to main- to oth°r active anti-fascists are Richmond Hosiery Mill were of all leaders the union only an- equal or more than the "prevailing of the risk of world peace, committee of nine headed by Ken- in fascist minimum SIOO a month for tain this guerilla war- known to be only a prelude to a sud- wounded late today when a fusillade nounced that it will take court ac- wage.” Roosevelt’s demand would themselves encouraging neth Ostheimer, but two hours, , den move by Hitler fasc.sm to de- cf fire a parade in after adventurers. rifle ended front during which time the workers (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) ' stroy Thaelmann. I of the mill. invrd on Page 2) (Continued on Page 8j Fascists Foiled cent effectively brought all office why they do routine "That is not decide to a complete standstill, Thompson openly break Immediately and to withdrew his demand that all dem- London agreement as German the onstrators leave the building before them to do fascism is trying to get he would see the committee. Meet- by to realize onl” one clause a offering Only Fighting Policy Can Win the Building Service Workers’ Demands ing with them, he endeavored to proposal—the of the air convention. pass the buck by stating that he “Thus the plan of fascist diplo- — —AN EDITORIAL —— was only "carrying out his orders.” macy—to dislocate all at once the and was powerless himself to in- system of peace and security in The policy retarding strike, and of of the rely- The Daily Worker predicted in the beginning deliberately sabotaged.” But Bambrick again adds. slicing down of the demands. crease relief. Eastern Europe which is being "arbitration,” pur- ing on which James Bambrick that if Bambrick prevented a city-wide building “We will do utmost to prevent strike March on Relief Office formed and which consequently is our the and The Building Service Employes Union above all sues in the Building Service Workers Union, is al- service strike and The workers marched from affecting the whole continent—fails. cooperated with the employers the resulting loss to everyone.” must be strengthened, and built up. All unorgan- the ready bearing fruit in the sharpened attacks of relief headquarters to the Lucas This, however, does not signify that to keep the men at W’ork, the demands of the union It is the policy which Bambrick followed which ized service workers must be brought into the union. the building owners. County Court House shouting German fascism is renouncing its would be defeated. placed the union in its present position. After the of Bambrick. i Bambrick Above all. the vacillating policy of rely- slogans and there won an audience aims. Only one conclusion can be and some of his lieutenants leading The building owners are well organized. They building service workers voted to strike, LaGuardia ing on the good will of the employers and their with the County Commissioners. A made: It is necessary to hasten by the Building Service Employes International Union will follow up their victory in preventing a strike to smash the mobilized his entire administration politicians, must be rejected inside the union. ; resolution to carry the passible conclusion refused sanction a general They accepted on fight with all means the of to strike. by discrimination against union members. They threatened walkout. LaGuardia mobilized his police, another demonstration regional pacts of mutual assistance, board The membership demands a fight. They have Tuesday and LaGuardia’s arbitration “awards.” will now launch a vicious attack on the union and firemen and heath officers to act as scabs and pro- another resolution to in the first place, the Eastern voted for strike. The rest of New York labor favors support the and What has been the result? Now, the building attempt to destroy it. tectors of scabs. striking workers at Pact. The governing circles in Brit- and backs the demands of the building service work- the Myers owners, believing they no longer face the danger The building service workers have won substan- And in the face of Regulator Company ain especially must drew’ this Bambrick, this strikebreaking ers. were adopted. of a strike, are arrogantly walking out of confer- tial concessions in many buildings only because of terror of LaGuardia, signed LaGuardia’s "truce," conclusion.'’ ences, and The building owners’ refusal to negotiate must are even refusing to confer with the the threat of a general strike and because of the together with Joseph Ryan, head of the Central La- Power Strike in Brazil union. be met by the striking of those buildings in the city strikes that W’ere actually called in key buildings in bor Union, agreeing not to strike. Bambrick fol- NATAL. Anti-Fascists Sentenced the Brazil. Feb. 22.—A strike The building owners fear only one thing now—- Manhattan, especially in fur up by where employers refuse to meet the union's ROME. Italy, Feb. 22.—Nine per- the district. lowed this preventing borough-wide strikes. in the American-owned Light and a strike of their employes. They feel that the It because of the threat of a strike, building demands. Power sons have been sentenced to from was city-wide The service workers were kept at work Company of Northeast Brazil danger of a broad building past, of The accommodating has paralyzed , three to twelve years’ imprisonment service strike is and because the strikes actually called, that some mainly AT THE EMPLOYERS’ OWN TERMS AND policy of endless delay and street-cars, light and ’ because of by the special tribunal for the de- the past deeds of Bambrick and his buildings signed up with the union, that better eco- WITH THE WORKERS' DEMANDS DEFEATED. cooperation with the employers and their politicians water and telephone services Thus, ' iense of the fascist state in Rome. aides. the landlords are going ahead with nomic conditions W’ere won in some buildings, and If the building service workers are not must be ended at once. throughout the city. The strikers able to are wages. Po- ! because of carrying on anti-fascist their next step—refusal to deal with the union, and that the union was strengthened. enforce a militant, demanding higher fighting policy in the union, they STRIKE EVERY BUILDING THAT DOES NOT were detailed propaganda in the province of Istria. victimizing union members Bambrick now says, : hcem«n to guard the "The negotiations have been will face blacklist and discrimination, as well as MEET THE UNION'S DEMANDS. * properties of the company,