The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1930, Page 4

Page Four __ SS Deen a etn = DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1930 an PRE- CONVENTION DISCUSSIO | Trade Union Work---Task of Party Convention By SOPHIE MELVIN. ! (ee *Seventt vention of our Party will e many achievements to record—above all a unified Party — analyzing its weak s and achievements in the light of s ahead of us in a real Communist he t f No longer will serious errors be given | ional group protection, but will ruth. sly be exposed in a spirit of bolshevik séif. criticism. It is therefore important that the pre-con- vention discussion tackle those vital problems which touch directly the life and developmeni of our Party. The transformation of our Party by the best possible methods, and at the fast- est tempo—based on the correct Communisi e—into a mass bolshevik party rooted ng the industrial proletariat. significant that trade union work has been completely absent from the pre nvention discussion columns. Yet it is ad- ed by all Party comrades, and in all oi documents, that trade union work, the ing of the T.U.U.L., is a major task of . Not only a major task of the Party, the “phase of work which will build the vest link between the masses of workers se Communist Party. s almost a year that the revolutionary union center, the T.U.U.L., came into nee. With it came the birth of several l unions. We find, however, that most unions are weak organizationally, extending their influence over a much number. But for most of these newly d unions we can say that they came into ace as a result of militant and courage- ruggles against the bosses and the A. | L. officialdom, like, for instance, the Trades Workers Industrial Union, the . Textile, Shoe, etc. \ ese Unions the instrument of struggle ex Are for the workers in the respective industries? Potentially, yes. But at present to a very small , I'd like to deal with the Textile Union particularly because I know it best. extent. The N.T.W.U. in the South. The outstanding achievement of the Textile Union and of the revolutionary movement as | a whole, is the entrance and struggle in the South. For the first time a revolutionary union, with a program of economic, political and social equality for the black workers, en- | tered the South. And through its!courageous | leadership in the Gastonia struggle it has ral- lied thousands and thousands of native Amer- ican workers. Our comrades entered the South without any understanding of the peculiar conditions there and with opportunist conceptions . (Loverstone- South reservoir of reaction) as to the pos- sibilities of developing struggles. The work- ers were many jumps,ahead of! us. We were overwhelmed with their ‘response and milit- ancy. But the Party was busy: there was a factional fight, and’ Weisbord at the time the C.E.C. representative in textile, was out. for the highest bid (General Secretary of-the Com- munist Party—Why not?). The comrades in | the field were clamoring for a program of | work, for policies. | The difficulties were great and Weisbord’s | ionist policies accentuated these diffi- His policy of the “rolling wave” sort of a cat-and-mouse game, catch every little | strike, once caught kill it and leave it (crudely | speaking it meant exactly that), prevented the | building of mill committees, and the planned | preparations for struggle. Organizers were | continually on the go. The fundamental Lenin- ist teachings of building organizations rather than depending on the spontaneity of the mas- ses was absolutely discarded. And only after | six months of work—at the October 12th and 13th conference in Charlotte—did our Union | put forward > clear cut program of organiza- | tion to the many delegates present. But with the removal of Weisbord the Party did not completely eradicate his policies. Our work in the South continued in a most dis- organized manner. Organizers being sent in and withdrawn. The South became the talk at plenums, conferences, and special meetings, but as something obscure and mysterious, rather then a field of work that demands care- ful guidance, best forces, planned, systematic and continuous work. Our Union has failed miserably to build basic units of struggle—mill committees. An- other method of work, and a very important one, that has been neglected by the Union, is the building of rank and file committees of action, composed of U.T.W. members, non- union members, and our members. Particularly is that of Danville and Greenville where the exerts some in- fluence ‘and has some strength. Since the plenum of the varty, despite the many good decisions on the South, there has been little progress in our work. The Party hes made a sudden switch, from textile to the so-called heavy industry. Birmingham and Chattanooga became the points for concen- tration at the expense of neglecting the work in our listorical points, Gastonia, Charlotte, Bessemer City. The work in the South must become, in real- _ity, the majoy field of activity for the Party. There we reach the real native American who is anost. expicited and most susceptible to re- yolutionary propaganda and organization. The South demands the best organizers and such must be given if the work is to be car- ried on in earnestness. New Bedford: New Bedford is the historical birthplace of our Union. Here too the remnants of the op- portunist ledership of Weisbord, Keller, and Dawson are still manifested in the daily work of the Union. For instance, the continual re- sistance, now ‘acit, at one time active (headed by Keller) against the building of mill locals. Capitulations to the many difficulties and ob- stacles in the building of these committees, to legalism (the question of mill gate meetings with or without permission). Twe months ago we had a situation where our leading cadre was engendered with most opportunist theories (headed by Martin Russak, who has since been removed as district organizer). For instance Russak’s explanation for the failure to build mill locals was that the present economic crisis, rather then presenting better possibilities for work, has a demoralizing effect on the work- ers, reflecting itself in our Union. That, al- though the workers may be radicalized and willing to struggle, they , veveitheless de- | moralized, migrating from plac from place to place, re- fuse to pay dues, usted, etc. At the same time Russak and ose comrades adhering tu such erroneous theories, declared themselves iu absolute agreement with the Party line and in favor of building mill locals, In New Bedford we have a Party member- ship of 75 to 100. But at no time did th Party stop to analyze carefully the work v: the Party there and that of the Union. Tl comrades in New Bedford above all lack pc itical training. They do not understand th relation of the Party and the Union. And ve: often, when the Party is forced to make change in leadership because of the wro! policy pursued by the individual these loc: comrades regard the Party as outside intru: ers. There isn’t enough differentiation betwe: the activities of the Party and the Union, In Paterson; we find an old Party membe) ship both in age and in movement. But mo: of these comrades pride themselves on the revolutionary records of 1905. Practically a are skilled weavers, and are divorced from th unskilled, low paid unorganized workers. A) though there are 50 comrades in the Unior only an average of 15 are active, and most oi these are young comrades, In Passaic, the Union is very weak at pre sent. No activity whatever is being carried 01 Both of these large textile centers are unde: the jurisdiction of district two of the Party Here we-have a situation where the questior: of leadership of forces generally is not the immediate cause for the weaknesses of the Union. It is simply outright criminal negli- gence. The Party in Passaic is very weak, numeric- ally and does not carry on any factory work | whatever. If I were to go over the districts one by one almost the same weaknesses can be pointed out. Firstly, lack of forces. Secondly, pas- sivity and sometimes resistance of large sec- tions of the Party membership to carry on trade union work. Thirdly, which is part of number two, the absence and poor functioning of existing shop nuclei. Our Union is today in a very critical situa- . tion, the causes of which are mainly: 1) The past opportunist leadership and policies; 2) After the removal of the opportunist leader- ship we did not carry on a struggle against the remnant of opportunism, opportunism in practice; 3) The failure to carry on a more systematic struggle against the fascist A. F. of L, and the Musteites (in Greenville, in Dan- ville, in Philadelphia, in Paterson, etc.); 4) The failure to develop a leading cadre, and the lack of attention given by the Party. The Party convention has the task of closely examining its trade union—economic work. Of transforming and building the T.U.U.L. and its affiliated organizations into active-weapons of struggle for the workers in the respective in- dustries. New methods of work must be de- vised. Very often we come across in our work with an exact duplication of old A. F. of L. emethods, such as a local meeting once @ month, with a top heavy aparatus of president, vice- president, and a dozen or so more officers. The Party must initiate a more ruthless struggle against the right danger in the Trade Unions, which expresses itself in the refusal to carry on work and organize on a mill and factory basis, the burocratic methods of work, the craft A. F. of L. ideology. The reliance on the spontaneity of the masses. The failure to build committees of action. At the same time | | we must carry on a struggle against opportun- | ism covered with left phrases. Comrades who become ultra-revolutionary and spout venem- ously at the fascist A. F. of L. and refuse to carry on work within these organizations. The acceptance of decisions and failure to carry them out. The Party must also combat the self-clas- sification of some of our Party members into two categories, “inside workers” workers.” I have often heard comrades pro- claiming themselves to be good Communists. but are “only fit for inside Party work. ‘They don’t know how to deal | with workers.” In fact when our Union req Jested a leading sec- tion organizer of district two to become a union organizer, this comrade put forward such an argument. Such comrades must be re- moved from leading positions. If they are not fit to deal with workers, they are not fit to be in leading positions of the Party. Be- cause ours is a Party of the workers. The slogan of the organization of the un- organized must be the major slogan of the T.U.U.L. and closely linked up with all its campaigns. In the unemployment campaign this slogan should have been one of our im- portant political slogans, instead it was com- pletely pushed to the background. The Party will seriously have to tackle the problem of youth work in the trade unions. In almost all unions, without exception, do the youth comrades find resistance to the youth work and to the building of youth sec- tions. Comrades refuse to acknowledge the youth problem as a social problem and if they do not see the immediate economic con- ditions as different from that of the adult workers, it becomes sufficient reason for not doing any youth work. (Marine). Other comrades who claim to agree with the need of doing youth work wish to transform the youth section into social and educational circles rather than economic weapons of strug- gle for the demands and needs of the young workers. and “outside | Very often our young comrades are utilized | for every phase of work but that for which they are most fit and from which the Union would best profit; namely, youth work. Why? ) Because the adult comrades in these unions ' Building Revolutionary Trade Unions By ANDREW OVERGAARD. hy this article for the Party discussion I want primarily to deal with two questions: one concerning the struggle against the right wing, and the other, the organization of the new revolutionary unions, I believe that there exists a certain tendency to think that with the expulsion of the Love- stonites from the Party the struggle against the right danger would be ended. But on the ) contrary, the struggle against the right danger refuse to understand the need for youth work , (not because of their age) and very often adopt a typical social democratic attitude to- wards the youth functionaries. The objective conditions present the best possibilities’ for the growth of our Unions. But we must strive to have our Unions live up to their inherent task of organizing the unor- ganized, of waging a relentless struggle against unemployment (not only in demon- strations but in the actual building of coun- cisl) of fighting, exposing and divorcing the workers from the fascist A. F. of L. and the social fascist Musteites. The best barometer for the echievements of the Party will be the growth and strengthen- ing of the T.U.U.L. The Party must assign its best and most capable forces for trade union work must be intensified; especially against those elements in the Party that act as a brake on the rapid development of the revolutionary movement at this time. One of the most serious of the right wing vendencies is that of passivity at the present ime, when workers are demanding more guid- ance and more sacrifice from the members and leaders of the revolutionary party, the Communist Party. Some of the most glaring examples of the right wing danger were seen in the Pittsburgh District, where former lead- ers of the movement, like Otis and Schindler, bluffed the Party for years. They were fine “verbal” Communists, but whey the Party be- ran to call them to responsibility they attempt- ed to shift the burden to the District Bureau and the Central Committee. Otis stated that he was willing to admit hat he was inactive, but he would not admit to any right wing errors. Otis and Schindler, ho for years were leaders of the Westing- house shop nucleus failed to bring a single member into the Party during the recruiting drive, gd moreover, failed to develop a strong shop committee of the Metal Workers Indus- ial League despite the fact that they werc given full charge of this work and a most favorable situation for a real struggle existed in the Westinghouse plant. Otis did actually propose that we set a strike date, regardless of organization. Bug this only reveals a dan- gerous reliance on the spontaneity of the masses. Failed on Unemployment. The same comrades failed to carry on any organizational work in connection with unem- ployment. On May 1 the same comrades who proposed the setting of a strike date without organizational preparations, issued a leaflet for the Westinghouse workers setting aside the Party policy by calling for a demonstration instead of Down Tools. They also called on the Westinghouse workers to “boycott the prim- aries and join the Metal Workers League.” When these comrades were called upon to correct their mistakes and help the District Committee to carry on the struggle against the right wing, they answered by organizing a bitter factional fight against the Party. The District Committee and the Control Commis- sion correctly expelled them from the Party when they refused to change their course. Now has the struggle against the right wing ended here? No. Not by any means. In the Pittsburgh District, in the heart of the steel and coal industries, and the home of the West- inghouse shop, there are the greatest possibil- ities for the building of the Party. But here we again confront passivity and non-activity on the part of a great number of the old mem- bers who seem to believe that it is sufficient to drift along as they have in the past: pay their dues and come to meetings only when the mood strikes them. Passivity Must Be Rooted Out. ‘When new members come to the Party they come full of enthusiasm and anxious to do something. But when they see that the old members refuse even to distribute leaflets and leave this to the Party office, they soon be- come demoralized and sink into the same spirit. In connection with the building of the new revolutionary unions, there is not only passiv- | ity but actual resistance. The comrades, and this applies to some members of the District Committee, yes, and even to some of the dis- trict organizers, have not yet taken seriously the Central Committee’s theses on the tasks of the Party in building revolutionary unions. Every member of the Party, from the rank and file members to the C. E. C. members, are in favor of building the Trade Union Unity League, but when it comes to the actual build- ing of these unions and establishing them as the independent leaders of the economic strug- gles of the workers, then I am afraid that the | Party is still lagging behind and that there is a very dangerous tendency to regard the new unions of the T.U.U.L. as another flag which we can occasionally wave to the masses. I must here criticize almost all the districts, as well as the C.C. for not paying sufficient attention to the most basic industries in the United States—steel and metal. We have a correct policy, we agree that we must concentrate on heavy industry, but when it comes to release some of our experienced comrades for the campaign in connection with the Youngstown conference, we say we have none; they can’t be spared, etc. The Daily. Worker, the central organ of the Party, has to be reminded by wires that we need publicity for: the conference and the language press carries little or no publicity. Cadres Must Be Developed, Of course I am thoroughly aware of the weaknesses in forces everywhere, and it is up to those of us. who are entrusted with the leadership of the various unions to. help de- velop new cadres for the revolutionary unions and for the Party. In this connection the problems of organization.come to the fore and must be thoroughly considered in the coming convention. We must especially develop and strengthen the organizational apparatus of the Party because when the Party is weak or- ganizationally the unions and all other orgap- izations under control of the Party are weak. We must first of all concentrate on our shop work and on the building of shop nuclei. These Nuclei must not exist on paper, only but around them. we must organize greater masses of. workers in the T.U.U.L., shgp committees. The necessity of driving our ‘y members into shop activity, to visiting wankers in their homes, to recruiting new elements into the Party and the revolutionary unions, are some of the fundamental tasks before us. What is, for example, our experience here in Pitts- burgh? After the removal of the former lead- ership of the trade union apparatus and the adoption of a practical program of organiza- tion plus constant visiting of conneations, the Metal Workers League in Pittgpurgh finally succeeded in organizing @ shop ‘group in the Crucible steel plant. But when a young: worker was sent there the result was astonishing. The comrades, it was discovered, had actually’ kept workers out of the Metal Workers League “because they were too radical and talked too much.” The workers, however, when they see that we are willing and capable of leading their sugges, are readv to join the Party and the T.U.U.L, HIRE WOMEN AT MOTOR PR PRODUCTS Force Women to Take Lower Wages Daily Worker:— The workers in the Motor Prod- ucts Co. E. Mack St., are suffering | {vom the introduction of the new stem. This plan is certainly rot- The company lays off men and hires women in their places. I was orking in Dept. 18. nightshifis setting from 65 to 70 cen Dy hor. They laid me off. days later my wife went out to look for a job. She went to the Motor Products Co. and got a job in the, same department in which I was working. They also work on a} piéce-work system and turn out just | as much as men did for 28 and 30 ‘cents per hour. Two days later the boss asked | my wife to go out for a good time | with him. She told him she was married. The following night she | went to work, but she didn’t work. | She got laid off because she wouldn’t go out with that-home-breaker. This is a fine system! If you make a report to the bigger officials you | ‘get fired just the same. In some departments the bloody | bosses get so used to this very rot- ten system that if a man doesn’t | bring a silk shirt or a box of cigars | or a quart of moonshine then you | © ‘can’t get a job. There is another bloody place to work—the Hudson Motor Car Co. Five weeks ago I was working in the enamel room, or, rather, paint- shop. I noticed one worker came to work with a box of cigars for | $4.75. He said that this would be la little present for the boss. He} | said that he did not bring anything ‘for the past three months. The | other day the boss asked me when | I was going to take him out. I told | him I couldn’t afford it. I am only leyeetioe 16 hours a week and I have a family to support. But that nasty thing wouldn’t give me a job any more. I am out of work, but I think | things will pick up, I mean pick up out of garbage cans, | | Beco, Michigan. —EX-SOLDIER. 9 Workers Arrested For r Organizing PHILADELPHIA, ; June 19.—Nine workers were arrested Tuesday in front of the Consolidated Cigar Co. ‘factory in the course of their efforts to organize the cigar workers. Two of the arrested workers are charged with sedition and the others with | inciting to riot and disorderly con- duct. The International Labor De- fense is handling their cases As part of its drive for funds the I, L. D. has arranged for a demon- | stration against the Flynn sedition law, together with a picnic, to be held Sunday, June 22, at Straw- | berry Mansion. SLAVE-DRIVING HARD ON GIRLS IN GHIGAGE DEPARTMENT STORE Only Way to Fight Organization CHICAGO, Tll.—In the center of Chicago, there where city is divided! into North and Sout | East stand two magnifice: ings---department stores of Brothers and Boston Store. department stores are nes 'ploiters, slave drivers pay wage slaves, mostly girl: to 18 dollavs per week. At past these two great } ‘tions at least had some 1 lance of human treatment, some consideration for their ‘help’. For three or four hours overtime work cevery girl used to get a big sum of 75 cents. But those days are tgone. During the present period j of speed-up, stretch-up, wage-cuts, pores every boss is trying his best to squeeze out of his workers as much as he possibly can. Sp there is no more payment for overtime work at Mondell Brothers Depart- ment store. Instead workers must West and build- work three or four evenings every, week without any pay. Not only these knight of de- | partment stores are driving their slaves to the limit, but emir] | Mandell Brothers installed a system ‘of discrimination against Negro) workers buyers. Not satisfied with | dumping of all second and damaged’ goods into their basement and sub-! ppc where the majority of customers are white and Negro workers, new system provides for A few! :| heavy burden upon employed work- ‘é EC TERS romthe: ° Big Send O at To ledé At an open-air meeting held last night, Tuesd the Toledo com- rades presented to Fred Totherow | a Chevrolet touring car donated by a Toledo comrade. Although the weather was inclement, a goodly crowd turned out to hear Totherow and other comrades speak. He gave a most inspiring message to the Toledo workers, including a vivid description of the terrible conditions of North Carolina. He also very |ably described how organizational {work and the circulation of the n face of all the brutal persecution | and oppression of our comrades by the bosses’ stool-pigeons, police | thugs and hirelings. | In spite of all this the work is | still going on and Totherow will in the near future vastly increase the prestige and popularity of the Daily Worker amongst the Southern com- rades. Toledo gave him a great send-off and he will address further | meetings on his way home. Toledo | | comrades are endeavoring to fix up| , another car for the Daily Worker | campaign, and, although we have not been able to do very much finan- cially, we intend to say it in circu- lation. Toledo conditions are still | growing worse and lay-offs are the order of the day. We have been dis- | tributing leaflets and free copies of the Daily Worker at the factory gates for three days and hope to have good results. F. S. Toledo, Ohio. Speed-up Leads to Nervous Breakdown (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y.—I am a stu- | dent and I find it necessary to work | |in order to be able to continue with my school work.’ Last summer {after the summer vacation had started I was looking for a job and it was a long time before one of- fered itself. You can therefore im- agine with what alacrity I seized it. | It was in a factory putting out cheap schoolbags. I was put to jwork at a machine to rivet with small staple-like things the buckles to the outside pockets. In spite of the fact that it was very monoton- ous work, and the fact that we had to work from eight in the morning | to six in the evening, with three- quarters of an hour for lunch, and from eight until four with half an hour for lunch on Saturday for $10, | $11 or $12 a week, we were forced | to work overtime at straight pay | |until nine o’clock during the week and until 7 o’clock on Saturdays, and from eight to two on Sundays, on penalty of losing our jobs. ! And all this with only a single | | sandwich to sustain us, which the | boss so magnanimously bestowed)! upon us. In addition, the boss was | continually scolding us and he would become angry if we went to the toilet. ONE OF MANY SUFFERERS. theta Bad Conditions Is Into T.U.U.L. no refund for Negro. Previously, at least, Negro workers had a Daily Worker have to be carried on} |Motor Co. LAY OFF MEN AND Zotherow a FOOD DUMPED INTO RIVER BY TO; AS MILLIONS FACE MASS HUNGE Hundreds of Truckica and Fruits Dump Jobless Workers | Dear Editor Daily Worker:— {dumped into the river by the ter starve. These racketeers and 1 into the river by the ton. It is time that the workers hands. of If the workers don’t do tha run this richest country in the worl Please print this in the Daily Wi (By a Worker OAKLAND, Calif—The demen- strations of March 6 and May 1 show that the workers in Oakland |are becoming more and more radi- calized. On March 6 the workers answered the call for work or w with a determined look in eyes. their On March 6 the city officials allowed us to demonstrate because several city officials were indicted for graft and did not want pub- licity. They offered the Unem- ployed Councils a permit, so we re- built the streets and we are going to parade on them. Oakland has seen more arrest last year. Does Lovestone and his gang still say American exception- alism stands? If so he should see |what the workers in Oakland are {doing. They are fighting back mili- tantly. They know their fight is international, under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League, }a mighty weapon against the boss ‘class. In Oakland there have been (By a3 EMERYVILLE, Cal.—T? economic crisi here at their end means to keep the workers from re- volting against the new wage cuts, speed-up and lay offs. In the BryonPackson Co. and the Hal which employs ne 1,000 workers, the workers b spontaneous walkout and other voicing resentment. These com- panies closed down entirely and now are hiring workers back at a 20 per cent wage cut. Leaflets on the Porter were distributed, and the police ar- rested two workers, Edwin Wang, member of the Communist Party and Archie Brown, member of the torher ent (By « Worker DAYTON, O.—An open air meet- ; ing was held in Library Park Sat- I was just reading the Sun and it makes my heart boil. fused to take it, saying we workers since January up till now than all | ORGANIZER FOR. TH PLOYED CO. | OAKL, meeting | FIGHT THE MURDER BOSS SYST s of Fresh Veget: | Into East River Cannot Even Buy Mik Children and Babies New York, N. ] while millions walk the strec of the working class dun America took matters, into,th« t these racketeers and exploit id to hell. orker, —A JOBLESS WAIT * * The dumping of hundreds of truckloads of fresh vegetables and fruits has now been going on for several days. While the farmers pee going bankrupt and the work- ers, millions jobless and on part time, cannot even buy the neco-si- ties of life, the capitalist hunger | system shows its hideous rottenn: by mass starvation of the 5 amidst the overflowing plenty the organization of the work: poor farmers for the revolx overthrow of the capitalist and the establishment of a W end Farmers’ Government wi antee life to the toiling me Editor. Oakland, Cal., Unemployed Putting Up F Correspondent) | more than 40 arrests since J including two for deportatio: police arrested Carl Tripp Sam Barman before May 1 portation and threatened m bodily injury, but they can’ me. Only when I am six fee in the grave is when I am do May 1 in Oakland was a re day, where they slugged the ers with riot sticks and sent ber to hospital. But that the workers more bitter agai capitalist class. If they se back to Glasgow, Scotland, going to carry on the sam as I did here. Workers, join the Unen Councils. Don’t staxve, bu' back. Build the T..U. U.I. . Ma formidable weapon against fo) class. Three cheers for the comin olution. yu " Emeryville, Cal. Workers Ready for Stru Correspondent) Young Communist League. were held in the county jail : one was allowed to see them day and Sunday. In court the to tie another exorbitant 1 $100 each on the workers, } I.L.D. representative expose y move so that the judge was to reduce the bail to $25 each date was set for the trial. The workers of Emeryvil ready to be organized. The tionary unions together wi: Communist Party and the Communist League have ¢ this ripe field, and no amo persecution will stop the dete tion of the workers to fight £ { —Emeryville Wo Dayton Communists Becoming Atetive Correspondent) ganization of the workers. ' ands of workers are being le chance to exchange or get his money| urday May 381, under the auspices | each week. The Frigidaire back if he is not satisfied with the goods. Now he must keep them in spite of their condition. This discriminatory action laid a ers who must face their customers. | They must very often face both a/ Negro and white at the same time and tell them that there will be no refund for a Negro but a white! one will get theirs. To what low, and terrible conditions the bosses force their workers! In Boston Store the packers also used to get pay for overtime work and by doing so increased their miserable wage of 25 dollars per week for married men. But now the bosses give them ‘privilege’ to} come to work instead of 9 in the} morning at 10 and work till 9 or | 10 in evening without any pay for their overtime work, Workers! The only way to get out of these terrible, slaving con- ditions is to organize into new re- volutionary industrial unions. and! side by side with all workers fight| for betterment of our conditons, Down with speed up, overtime discrimination! Forward to new revolutionary un- of the Communist Party. In spite | the Communist speakers, The work- with more than 400 present. This will begin the open-air meet- ings of the Communist Party thru- out the section acquainting the workers with the program of the Party and our policy in the election campaign, (By a Worker ELDORADO, Ill.--In regards 1 Saline County demonstration we claim it was one hundred percent | a success. Speakers, Leo Brox, | Selma Knox, Ben Gray, L. C. Rice, Rhode Fierney. The Saline officers | allowed all the speakers to give a, complete on each subject. We esti- The demonstration went on record | demanding the unconditional release | ions under the banner of Trade Un- ion Unity League! —L. Ww. of all class conscious prisoners, work | or wages, social insurance for un- employed, 6 hour 5 day week, mini. of the trick of the capitalist Daily News to give the wrong date of the | meeting the workers came to hear | ers were enthusiastic and responsive | Dayton is fertile soil for the or-| mated the crowd at two hundred. | eral Motors owned) laid o: last week. The N. C. R. ku 2,000 men and is bringing in ers from Louisiana to work cents an hour. Even young boys looking fc are told that “we hire gi With the Communist Party . job we will build a strong | ployed movement—the Trade. | Unity League—the American Labor Congress and we wil ready support from the work —DAYTON WORK Saline County Miners Held May Fixst:Me. Correspondent) |}mum weekly wage of 35°¢ ‘Also elected a delegate to t] penplared conference in July held in Chicago. The speake ‘left for West Frankfort to |the demonstration there in |they have the same succes | Publish this article as soon a | sible. Join the militant N. the only miners’ union that the battles for the miners. the fight is on! Make a wi: cision for the N. M. U! Clee [eonmiption and Cot