The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1930, Page 4

i Page Four Published by the Comprodaily 18th Street, Address and mail all c New York City, ks to the Daily W: Publishing Co., Telephone Algonquin 795 Inc., daily, ex 6-7. Cable: ept Sunday, at 50 East “DAIWORK.” er, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Daily, Central Onge aWorker SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $2; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: One year, $8; six months, $4.50 Ama By SOL HERTZ The “Advance ficial organ of Hillman’s company union of September 17, lets the world know that the nd clown, Heyw appeared before the board of direct union and asked for their support to the socialist election campaign. The board of directors of the Amalgamated company union of co’ to support the socialist election c: e decided mpa the speed-up in their platform!) | coat M. Blumen nd B. Jackson, the trade | managers of the pants and coat department, were “very sorry” that they could not vote for Mr. Broun because they ates f gress on the in other e themselves cant alist Party Party to outspol end Mr. of the bosse’ ditional merely an attempt to get ad- in the company union pr rt ratus of the. Hillman ized to help the social not only id. A y union leaders are S. P. serve the bosses all year as “efficie experts to inc e the speed-up, to cut wages and to throw hun- ut on the streets through re- time on the tically. In off” system he workers to union. Undoubtedly the the workers toda: eatest lem confronting the rationalization program which they force the en- upon the shoulder of the increasing the speed-up ood out of the masses of toilers. Wa e cut to a starvation level and even lower. Thousands of workers are, as a Tesult of the ever-increasing speed-up, thrown y of unemployed with starva- tion staring in the face. The Socialist Party platform does not say a word on this fun- damental problem confronting the entire Ameri- can working class. This is no accident. ‘The records of the Socialist Party and their candi- dates explain it Who Is B, Jackson? B. Jackson is one of the ringlea Hillman company union in New York. He has been. rewarded by the job of coat department manager because of his continuous betr: the interests of the clothing workers. the period that he was business agent oat department, with his help and active ticipation, the bosses sticceeded in carrying through one of the most vicious of wage slash- ing campaigns as well as tremendously increas- ing the speed-up. Here ave only a few of the shops where the workers have suffered wage cuts and speed-up in this joint drive of the bosses and the company union: J. Friedman, W. P. Goldman, Wolff Bros., C. D. Jaffe, Cohen & workers, Which saps t s of the gamated Company Union Officials on Socialist Party Ticket Sirote & Co. fe to say that the company union n't name a single shop in the that did not suffer a wage cut sed speed-up. Starts With Wage Cut The first week that this yellow nager of the coat department he forced a wage the Glenrock shop and piece work and inc shop, as a result of which the t as high as $11 a week. le bit of B. J n’s record shows his party and why he himself “for- Y about figthi inst speed-up and wage cuts. To do justice to this agent of es, we must mention his g: accom- ment for the bosses. He was instrumental the piece-work system on the tailor: and bosses’ stool pigeon, be- get skate trayer of the interests of the workers, was chosen by the Socialist Party to run on their ballot for congress party of the agents of the bosses ald not do any better. Blumenreich, manager of the pants depart- ment of t any 1 the . is another candidate ticket s of the pantsmakers under the enreich sank even lower than in nakers today are forced ten to twelve hours a day for a.miser- ge of $25 or $28 a week. Blumenreich numerable reductions and in ased the Blumenrei sfime is an exact copy of the Tammany rule. ft, booze, corruption and ter- ror are the means used to keep himself in power. Such are the candidates to congress put forth by the Socialist Party of the bosses and their agents. The workers can’t expect anything them in the union, and surely not in the election Organize! The amalgamated company union is part of the ruling in America. They support the ruling political clique in every city—in New York, the Soci: and Tammany Hail (Orlov- y Local 4); in Philadelphia, the Republicans; in Chicago, the ruling underworld clique; in every city they are part of the bosses and of government The clothing workers are organizing shop com- tees in their shops to fight in every shop for better conditions. The clothing workers more and more come to the understanding that the needle trades workers Industrial Union is the only real union in the industry. The tailors must make all efforts to build the Industrial Union. We must fight these fakers on the political field and in the unions. The only party that has a real program for the workers and which puts | up a fight for this program is the Communist | Party. Every worker must vote Communist in the coming elections. By voting Communist we are voting to fight for a seven-hour five-day week, for week work, for unempl nent insurance, for real revolution- ary unionism, and for the defense of our Socialist Fatherland, the Soviet Union. Vote Red! Vote Communist! Plumbers Helpers Ready for A Real Union Now By HARRY EISENMAN Conditions are today ripe for the reorganiza- tion of the plumbers’ helpers into a powerful union. The present crisis in the building in- dustry which finds a direct reflection in mass unemployment, lower standard of wages and fur- thér intensified rationalization metliods has’ had @ radicalizing effect upon this section of the most skilled workers. This crisis is mostly felt by the pluinbers’ helpers, who are the only section of the building trades workers outside of the reactionary building trades unions. They have had their bitter experience with the fakers and an be won over to thé revolutionary trade union movement. They can also be utilized as an im- ‘portant factor in winning the building trades Workers away from the reactionary unions and into the Trade Union Unity League. “*The installation of the five-day week, which imposed a wage cut upon many of the helpers, has resulted in a few spontaneous strikes. In /™any cases the bosses were forced to yield. These strikes are an indication that the helpers cen be organized into militant straggles for better conditions. They Can Struggle! This is the third: anniversary of the strike ‘of 4,000 plumbers’ helpers in Brooklyn and Long Island. It lasted for a period of ten weeks, wit- essed mass demonstrations of 1,000 helpers in front of the reactionary plumbers’ locals and on large jobs where scabs were employed. An of- ficial organ, “The American Plumbers’ Helper,” Was issued, soup kitchens to feed the strikers Were established, strike, organizational, pub- Heity, educational and many other forms of or- @anizational activities were established on 2 mass acale. “he organization and strike of the helpers ‘was accomplished through the initiative of the Communist Party, the Young Communist League @nd the Trade Union Educational League. The ‘United Association of Plumbers, Steamfitters and Gasfitters (the parent hody of all the plumbers’ Tocals) absolutely refused to take any steps to- ‘Ward the organization of the helpers. Once the organization was established they did everything 4m their power to smash it by fake registration schemes, meaningless promises and sabotage. “The general policy adopted at the time of or- nization, and during the period of the strike, seeking affiliation and recognition by the U. A., Proved the most detrimental factor toward the ning of the strike and holding the member- ip gained through weeks of hard organizational A grave error was committed by the organization in putting too much faith the fakers. Same Treacheries phe U. A. has three affiliated locals in New City. They include Local 1, Brooklyn, and 418, Long Isiand City. On April 1, 1927, cal 1 declared a strike ‘whén the Master imbers’ Association refused to grant their nds of $14 per day, 5-day week, furnishing tools by the bosses and elimination of electric tting machines from the job: When the broke out the helpers had succeeded in practically all of the 1,500 helpers em- din Brooklyn. They immediately struck in y with the plumbers, at the same time their demands of recognition by the U. ‘and Master Plumbers’ Association and the of the $9 per day wage scale and the week, officials of the U. A. refused to call out other two locals to strike in solidarity with 1, When the strike was about four weeks pre Coffield, general president of: the peared at one of the strike meetings and to openly sell out the strike by imploring. GANIZE YOUR the plumbers to go back to their jobs pending the usual fake orbitration methods. The plumbers of Local 1 continued their strike over the heads of their officials and refused to accede to the; counter demands of. the bosses. The fakers, together with the Master Plumbers’ Association, having failed to break the strike through the fake lockout and sell-out methods, then declared the lockout off, ordering the mem- bership of Local 463 and 418 to return to their jobs. _ Build a Real Union It is no accident therefor that we find Mc- Laughlin (former delegate of Local 1) carrying on a fake organizational campaign against the helpers. These fakers realized that the helpers will this time carry on an entirely different or- ganizational campaign. The Trade Union Unity League must organize the plumbers’ helpers as a strong section of its building trades league. A wide organizational campaign must also be carried on among the alteration plumbers and helpers, countermen and | clerks, employed in the plumbing supply houses, Special steps must be taken to carry on a wide organizational campaign among the rank and file of the U. A. locals. This rhust be done with the express purpose of winning the plumb- ers away from the reactionary unions and to turn their support towards the building of the plumbing section of the T. U. U. L. We must also organize the unemployed plumbers and the unorganized as well as the helpers. Not until then will we be able to form a strong powerful section of the T. U. U. L. “Socialist” Platform Stands for “Good” Injunctions By |. AMTER Prisoner No, 52351 (Communist Candidate in the 23rd Congressional District, Bronx) This is the SIXTH of the series of articles written by I. Amter, at Hart's Island Peni- tentiary, on the platform and slogans of the “Socialist” Party. The revolutionary work- ers will find these articles of great value in agitating against the “Socialist” Party and for Communism. Clip these articles and refer to them in your discussions—Editor. One of the most powerful weapons which the bosses have in fighting striking workers—a Weapon that has been strengthened and sharp- ened and has been given the most sweéping character, is the injunction. The injunction is to establish the all-embracing authority of the police, of the military—it means the complete annulment of all so-called civil rights. A. F. of L. Cooperates with Bosses The fascist A. F. of L. officials, who declare that the days of strike warfare are over and the era of “cool-headed debates around con- ference tables” has taken its “place, do every- thing in their power to prevent strikes, They do so not on the grounds that -the strike weapon is not effective—but on the basis of the accepted policy of COOPERATION WITH THE BOSSES, Cooperation with the bosses signifies only one thing in this period—to accept wage cuts, speed up, replacement of adult labor by youth labor at lower wages, acceptance of mass unemploy- -ment and all the suffering it entails, imperialist war, etc.—without a struggle. It means the or- ganization of armies of willing slaves carrying out the will of the master without a myrmur. “Labor” Racketeering “If the employers of the South will assist us, we will bring about the cooperation of the em- ployers and of labor,” says the fascist Green. gh BA bird became | BROADCAST THE ANSWER! BY BURCK NEWS ITEM:—John Willis Clark, a Negro worker who dared to defend himself against the vicious attack by Police Chief Jenkins, was taken from his cell by a mob of a hundred men traveling in automobiles and hanged to a telephone pole less than a mile from the jail. The capitalist has as yet the “cooperation” of the workers both ia the south and north. Un= employment and starvation—and the treachery of the A. F. of L. officialdom and of the “So- cialist” union leadership, have made it unneces- sary to “assist”? the A. F. of L. officials. In those places where workers are organized in the A. F. of L. unions, the officials refuse to sanc- tion strikes. | These officials lead the demands of the workeys into the channels of negotiation and in return for a financial consideration, sell out the demands or the strike if it breaks out in spite of them. Labor racketeering is to the front—to “avoid” strikes, “prevent” strike, “sell out” strikes. Since the big miners’ strike of 1927-28, which WAS SOLD OUT BY LEWIS AND HIS GANG BEFORE IT STARTED, there has been ‘no significant strike of the A. F. of L. workers. The miners’ strike itself was sabotaged by the fascist A. F. of L. officials, who did not even raise strike relief. This i$ in keeping with the conscious, deliberate policy of the A. F. of L. leadership, which believes in and prattices “cooperation” with the bosses, which means sell-out of .the interests of the workers. Hence the injunction has little meaning at the present time for the A. F. of L. In the New York fake strike of the garment trades, not only was there NO injunction against the I. L. G. W. O., but the police acted as agents of the company union, working hand in hand with Schlessinger. In the furriers, cloakmakers and ‘shoe-makers strikes, the most violent Tam- many police actions and injunctions were ap- plied. These strikes were led, however, by left wingers. Communists Leading Unorganized Workers The strikes of the past two years have been of UNORGANIZED workers—the UNSKILLED and SEMI-SKILLED, whom the A. F. of L. re- fuses to organize. In these strikes, white and Negro workers have struggled shoulder to shoulder against the employers. These work- ers have proven to be the MOST MILITANT of tht working class. Being the most exploited and most oppressed by low wages—in the tobacco inn, dustry as low as $3 a week, textile industry, $5 a week—with long hours, speed-up, stretch-out, Savage treatment—men, women and younger workers (PARTICULARLY THE LATTER), white and Negro, frequently without any preparation or organization have gone into strikes against wage cuts which have been put into immediate effect. Auto workers in Flint, agricultural workers in California, textile and dock workers in the South, have gone on strike against the shameful conditions and in correct working class manner, led by Communists and the revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League, have put up mass picket lines ‘to extend the strike and keep out strikebreakers. Injunction—Boss Weapon The unskilled workers are being shown and ave learning what their own weapons are—MIL- ITANCY, SOLIDARITY, MASS PICKETING. Passaic, New Bedford, New York and Boston, needle trades, Gastonia, Imperial Valley, New Orleans longshoremen—all led by Communists with MASS picket lines. The economic crisis is being unloaded on the shoulders of the workers. The capitalists, and the government know the workers will fight back. One of their most powerful weapons in this fight against the workers is the INJUNCTION backed up by armies of police, detectives, stool-pigeons, militia, gas and all weapons of war. The arbi- trary commandment of a moron judge: “Thou shalt not strike or picket” is supposed to ter- rorize the workers. The workers are allowed two or three pickets, no banners, no speaking to scabs—this is the only right they have—FRE- QUENTLY ALL PICKETING EVEN STRIKES, ARE PROHIBITED Injunction “Misused,” S, P, Platform Says The fascist A, F. of L. officialdom propos that the capitalist courts shall issue injunctions only after full trial in court. After the experi- ences which. the workers have had in the capi- talist courts, they have been convinced, without Communist theorizing, that the courts are pow- erful capitalist instruments. These courts are making their decisions and sentences harsher with the sharper development of the class strug- Ble. \ t The social-fascist “Socialists,” in their State ‘platform plead against the “misuse” of the in- junction. WHAT is misuse? WHEN is “misuse”? It is the ORDINARY use by the capitalist class of the courts to prohibit strikes, picketing, etc. It is one of the most POWERFUL WEAPONS of the capitalist class and one it will not give up without the most militant struggle. The ‘ocialist” Party proposes legislation against the yellow dog contract. This vile con- tract for holding the workers down, for keeping them unorganized, will be defeated ONLY, by -PRE-PLENUM, DISCUSSION YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE, U. S. A. Our Work in Opponent Organizations By J. DAVIS (New York District) As a definite and important part of our Plan of Action must be considered our work in the various mass organizations, and especially in the opponent organizations. It was therefore quite correct to consider the question of sending com- rades into these various organizations and begin work. At present the A. A. U. alone has over 300,000 members in its ranks. In the ¥. M. C. A. and Y¥. M. H. A. many more hundreds of thousands of young workers are enrolled. In all these or- ganizations the number of young workers, espe- cially in the industrial cities, is predominant. We find the membership at present steadily in- creasing, and the bosses making special efforts to increase the percentage of young workers. In this task they are making vefy good progress. The bosses utilize various methods, such as sports and socials, from time to time, to keep these young workers in their ranks. Especially dangerous is the various poison that is spread in the so-called discussions. These discussions mainly deal with current problems. However, special emphasis is laid in these discussions on such things, as “equality in this country,” equal opportunities to become.rich, as well as the fact that this country is a land of opportunity. Nat- urally in these lectures special efforts are made to poison the minds of these young workers against the Soviet Union and everythingcon- nected with the working-clags movement. So far we had yery few experiences in our work, in this district, and I believe ‘that our comrades in the other districts must discuss this problem and add their efperiences. In the New York District we found actual resistance on the part of some comrades to this important work. One example will suffice. In one of our units a comrade joined an A. A. U. club with a member- ship of 200. The unit considered his membership and activity in this particular club ag insufficient activity and therefore gave this same comrade the task of anti-director as well as Young Worker Agent. The result naturally was that this comrade has failed to attend the particular club for a period of weeks,.and no activity for the League was carried on. The. underlying cause for this attitude of the League member- ship, and even leadership, is primarily the failure to understand new methods of work. The opinion of many comrades still remains that an active comrade is one that attends most committee meetings, and not the one that carries‘on most activity among the working youth in his factory and_mass organizations. The National Office has not laid sufficient stress upon this field of activity. I believe that this work has been the weakest link in our Plan of Action, and must be changed radically at once. The general line of work in these opponent or- ganizations under the slogan of “Win over the best elements to our movement in these organi- zations, and then smash the organization,” has been transmitted to our membership, Many comrades, however, still face the problem, HOW IS THIS TASK TO BE ACCOMPLISHED? Our experiences are as yet very meager. How- ever, some attempts were made. In one of the Y. M. H. A. branches we have succeeded’in get- ting a good foothold in one of the clubs with a membership of 70, the bulk of whom were young workers. How was this done? The comrade who was a member of this club was active in the club, led in the activity, gave valuable sugges- tions and from time to time brought in the cam- paigns of the League into this club, with the result that now the club is close to our move- ment. The trouble with many of our comrades in mass organizations is that they are very good theoreticians. They come from time to, time to their respective clubs, deliver lectures, and then leave, without taking any active part in the activities, thinking that thus we will win the masses of young workers. In our work in the Y. M. C, A. we face another difficulty. The membership of the various clubs does not meet regularly. However, this difficulty can very easily be overcome if our comrades who have been sent into these clubs participate in the various athletic events, and thus keep in contact with the membership, It is absolutely essential |, that we utilize the united front from below as a means of winning these masses of young work- ers. In using the ‘urited front we must bring clearly before the membership of these organiza- tions the difference between the leadership, which are the agents of the bosses, and the rank and file of the membership. The united front cam- paigns should be based on immediate problems that face the members of these organizations. The present crisis, and especially the unem- ployment situation, affects the membership of these organizations, and we must utilize it. Some. branches of the Y. M. C. A. are facing the neces- sity of curtailing their operations due to the great number of unemployed that they have to care for. If we approach the membership on the basis of this problem, I am sure we will meet with favorable response. Naturally all our activ- ity must be conducted through the organizations of dur membership into functioning fractions. Recruiting into the Young Communist League and the T. U. U. L. must be-a regular feature of our activity. When we consider the question of winning the majority of the working youth, we certainly can- not be successful in this task, unless we win the thousands of meimbers in these opponent organi- zations. Realizing these things we must inten- sify our activity, and carry out this part of the Plan of Action. STRUGGLE—by the workers organizing despite “contracts” and through struggle forcing the capitalists to deal with them as an organization. Soft Brained “Marxism” But the “Socialist” Party does not believe in struggle. For Hillquit, Thomas, Cahan & Co. “Marx is dead” and “we are progressive.” For them the struggle of the working class against the capitalist class no longer exists, Capitalism must be defended—but radical working class Phrases must be used to induce the workers to accept the capitalist yoke. In, fact, Algernon Lee, the “Marxian,” even declares that when workers in a trade or in- dustry engage in struggle, “asserting the inter- it of wage-workers against those of capitalists is not the class struggle, but a number of strug- gles between groups of workers and groups of capitalis (!)” Oh, St. Thomas and Rabbi Hill- quit, may your gods pity this soft-brained “Marxism"! * Fight Injunction and Yellow Dog! The Communist answer to injunction and the whole process, to the yellow-dog contracts and all other suppressive means and methods of the C and government is: WORKERS, OF MILLIONS OF THIS COUN- WHITE AND: COLORED, MEN AND WOMEN, YOUNG AND ADULT!. | OBTAIN NOTHING EXCEPT BY STRUGGLE. YOU WILL INSTEAD OF THE CLASS STRUGGLE HAV- ING BEEN “ABOLISHED,” IT IS BECOMING SHARPER EVERY DAY OWING TO THE CRISIS IN THE WHOLE CAPITALIST SYS- TEM. THE WAY TO FIGHT INJUNCTIONS, THE WAY TO CRUSH YELLOW DOG CON- TRACTS, IS TO ORGANIZE AND THEN FIGHT. MASS ACTION, MASS PICKETING WITH REVOLUTIONARY POLICY AND LEAD- ERSHIP. THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE EMBODY THESE QUALITIES. By its treacherous policies, the social-fascist “Socialist” Party, just like the fascist leadership of the A. F. of L., help the bosses’ injunctions against the workers. If the unskilled and semi- skilled workers are made to feel the brutal ef- fects of the system today, the organized skilled workers feel it also, and tomorrow it will be sharper. Support the Communist program of struggle! SUPPORT THE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY OF THE WORKERS, FIGHTING ON THE BASE OF CLASS AGAINST CLASS! JOIN AND BUILD UP THE REVOLUTION- ARY UNIONS OF THE TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE! is SUPPORT THE COMMUNIST PLATFORM AND CANDIDATES! .. VOTE COMMUNIST! , (Witten in Hart's Island Penitentiary) a sa naa enon oe & By JORGE Those Wicked Bolsheviks : It remained for the N. ¥. Times to discover Inflation of the currency. Not here, of course! But in Soviet Russia, True, it was unfortunately published a day or two after the Gold Committee of the League of Nations admitted that by 1934 there wouldn't be gold enough to give a gold basis to the currency floating in capitalist coun- tries. But that’s hardly news. ‘There isn’t enough now! However, the Times’ sudden righteousness over inflation in the Soviet Union needs a going over. It was given out by a guy named Baker, who is plugging hard for an embargo on Soviet manganese, in behalf of the American manganese interests Baker says that for one ton of Russian man- ganese sold here for $12.50, the Soviet, by some especial Bolshevik magic, make a profit of $45.62! He arrives ati this strange conclusion by beating the devil around a bush. Because the Soviet currency is based on the ratio of thre= to one of what it calls “solid cover.” And because “solid cover” includes foreign money (from gold standard countries) as’ well as pre- cious metals—while the balance of three-fourths, * not “solid covey,” is based on merchandise and paper representing tangible goods, Baker figures: That for the $1250 the Soviet gets for @ ton of manganese here, it issues its own’ currency for three times that, and then adds, under the law, three-fourths of the currency issue in treasury notes, so thus has $65.62. Baker allows a de- duction of $20 for production cost, and arrives at his profit estimate of $45.62! Ain’t those Reds the very devil for tricks! ly one little thing is the matter with this. That is, that it’s not true. Everybody but Baker’ apparently, knows that all sales of the Soviet abroad are being put into machinery for in- dustrialization under the 5-Year Plan. However, if the Bolsheviks have any inflation, they ave pikers beside “our” Federal Reserve. Ask all the boys who got stung on the Stock Market crash, just how it happened that the wonderful brains of the Federal Reserve couldn't stop it. Oh, my eye! The Federal Reserve helped it along with the greatest inflation in the world’s history. A farmer in Oklahoma mortgages his cows and chickens, The bank puts down in its books that so much money is loaned to Sam Jones. Jones has that money, though he don't keep it long. But it's in circulation. Yet the bank dis- counts it to the Federal Reserve District, and gets the right to use 75 percent of the total as “money.” From a number of such bunches of “:money”— merely book money, or “money of account,” it again loaned a holder of $1,000 General Motors stock, let us say, the sum of $1,500 in the days when General Motors was selling at 200, or when baby face value of $1,000 worth of stock was worth 2,000. It issues this sum of $1,500 in currency to the owner of the stock, and takes the collateral, the stock, to the Federal Reserve and gets 90 percent of the $1,500 in rediscount, of which it is allowed to issue 75 percent again in loans to, let us say, @ building investment corporation. And so on— ad infinitum. This gigantic inflation of “money of account” can go on so long as “nothing happens.” But when the price of farm products falls, and Sam Jones the farmer don't pay the mortgage; and the Stock Market collapse sends General Motors down to 80 from 200 (making the $1,000 worth of stock look like $800); and when the building investment corporation finds that it can’t collect and hence can’t meet its loan—then things begin to shrivel up and the whole banking system is rocking like a house of cards. Hence, pardon our smile at the tone of moral indignation with which the N. Y. Times scolds the Bolsheviks for “inflation.” But Baker holds out the pitfying hand to the “poor ignorant Russian worker.” Ah, how these counter-revolutionists break into tears for the Russian worker! But isn’t it funny how they are so hardboiled to American workers? eee Love’s Labor Defenders Lost Talk about casting seed on barren ground! The distribution of “Labor Defenders” to the age gregation of fascists, congressmen, white guards and blackguards gathered in the Fish Committee hearings last week was fruitless, but undoubt- edly funny. J. Louis Engdahl, candidate for Lieutenant~ Governor of the Communist Party in New York State, was on the witness stand, and incidentally was putting Fish, Bachman & Co, on the de- tensive. J. Louis blossomed out into a sort of Houdini when, upon being asked about the International Labor Defense, of which he is the head, he not only produced a complete file of the past issues of the “Labor Defender,” but from somewhere, from everywhere apparently, the red-covered numbers of the October edition began fluttering all about the room. “And here's the latest issue to complete the file,” was all he said. But the Big Fish and all the little fishes got a copy. Murmurs of “ohs” and “ahs.” And they must have found it inter- esting, as the whole works stopped about 15 min- utes before somebody remembered that the Com- munists were on trial and not the Fish Commit- arte The Moral Indignation Of the Goose ‘What is sauce for the goose, is—and by right ought to be—sauce for the gander, according to some old saying. z But what have we here? The White House is being “redecorated,” a bit early, but doubtless in Preparation for a new occupant after the next presidential election. And the A. F. of L., whose headquarters and, we may also add, whose hind- quarters, are right there in the same village of Washington, becomes all het up because the job is given to a contractor who “makes use” of workers who are not members of the A. F. of L. Of course, it would never occur to the A. F. of L. to organize workers, as it is in the business of organizing-bosses, so its local officials begin making funny noises against the government. Yes, sir! Only to be calmly told that the lowest bidder gets the job. ; This is distressing, brothers, after Bill Green blurbing over the country that “Hoover kept up the wage scale, prosperity, the American stand- ard,” and so on. And it is also a bit awkward for the government, which gets morally indig? nant because Soviet Russia sells wheat and de- mands that nobody should buy it just because it’s cheap, while it coldly tells the A. F. of L., which cheers them for this, that it can go jump in the lake—‘“‘the lowest bidder gets the job.” What is sauce for the capitalist government Boose, is—or by right ought to be—sauce for the gander. see . Domestit Ferment Surely the Hoover administration has made @ slip. After its Prohibition Director, A. W. Wood- cock, declares that anybody and ‘body who wants to can make wine in their homes, we don’t see any necessity left for voting for Mr. Morrow, or Mr, Tuttle, or Ruth McCormick, or any of those other damp republicans. AFL!