The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 26, 1930, Page 4

Published by the Comprodaily New York City Address and mail all checks to the Page Four 18th Street, Publishing Co, tna, daily, except Sunday, N. ¥. Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. Cable Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, at 80 East DAIWORK.” New York, N, be Dail orker Dory US.A By mall everywhere of Manhattan and Bronx, SUBSCRIPTION RATES! ‘One year, $6; six months, $3; New York City. Foreign: One year, two months, $1; excepting Boroushs $8; six months, $4.50. CONNECTIONS OF THE KONDRATIEV SABOTAGERS (This is the second of a series of articles explaining the background, aims and policies ot the groups of sabotagers recently discovered and arrested by the Soviet Government, eight of whom are now being placed on trial after confessing that they were taking money and orders from imperialist governments.) R., Nov. 25—In order to carry out its program, the leaders of the “Working Peasants Party” as early as 1927. got into contact with the “engineering and tcch- _,, Msisaoa U. S. nical center” of industrial saboteurs, whose aim was the restoration of capitalism and the estab- lishment of a military dictatorship in the country. Although the members of the Central Com- mittee of the W. P. P. stated in their affidavits that they were opposed to a military dictator- ship. and they were in favor of a democratic republic, in practice they maintained the closest contacts with the engineer-saboteurs, and were well informed of their criminal activity The W. P. P. was in contact with Professor Riashentsev’s grotp of saboteurs, which was re- ceiving money from British capitalists to disor- ganize the workers’ food supply, with the aim of bringing about a famine in the Soviet Union so as to make it easier to restore capitalism. With Kerensky. Kondratiev’s was in close contact with the “republican-democrats” and cadet amalgama- tion of white emigrants abroad, through their representatives, Prokopowich, Kerenski, Sergei Maslov, Muskova, Milyukow and others. The members of the W. P. P. who were working in our Soviet and scientific institutions, utilized their business trips abroad for establishing con- tacts with these white emigrant bodies for their struggle against the Soviet Government, inform- ing them of the political and economic situa- tion of the U. S. S. R., of the attitude of the peasants and the oppositional bourgeois intel- lectuals, of the work of the W. P. P., etc. On the other hand, when they returned from abroad, they informed the W. P. P.€of the posi- tion of the emigrant groups and their tactical standing with regard to the U. S.S. R. N.N. Sukhanov, who stayed a long time in Berlin and Paris, was there in close contact with the emi- grant mensheviks Dan, Dalin, Abramovich, etc., and assured Kondratiev’s W. P. P. that the mensheviks collaborate with the W. P. P. The leaders of the W. P. P. had extensive contacts with the foreign manufacturers and with financial and government circles. They kept them informed of the political and economic situation of the Soviet Union and of the activity of the W. P,P. False Teachings. ‘The “specialists” of the W. P. P. prepared and propagated bourgeois theories, disguised with so- cialist pheasenveys that nah Soviet system of | | | policy, | the ordinary capitalist commodity fornt of eco- “C. P. S. U. for the collectivization of agriculture, | the right opportunists. economy is a “special form of money-commodity economy,” distorted by an incorrect economic and only in this matter it differs from nomy, “which has many great advantages over | the present Soviet system in the matter of rapidly developing productive forces.” Hence they drew the c6nclusion that there is an insoluble contradiction between the present system of Soviet economy and its monopoly of foreign trade and regulation of the internal market, on the one hand, and the “unchanged and unchangeable laws of money-commodities” which regulate the economic life of industrially developed states, on the other hand. This program and similar tactical lines were laid by the W. P. P. at the basis of all their “scientific” work, reports, social, economic and financial summaries, which were prepared by the C. C. of the W. P. P. for the Soviet organs when the latter were preparing extremely im- portant measures in the sphere of industry, agri- cultural policy, etc. In order to back up these summaries and propositions, they prepared false data on the state of the national economy. Direct Damage. At the same time they carried on work for directly damaging socialist construction and for supporting private capitalist and kulak eco- nomies. For instance, when carrying out the measures ordered by the Soviet Government for combatting drought, directives were given through the apparatus of the Land Department which assured the. greatest help being given to kulak farms through the medium of government credit and the poor and weak peasant farms were deprived of assistance. When organizing credit for agriculture, in practice the principle was applied of giving credit in proportion to assets, which is in reality meant that the kulaks received credit and the poor peasants received nothing. These distor- tions of the class line were disguised under the cloak of the necessity of increasing the produc- tiveness of the country, etc. Besides this, the professor-members of the W. P. P. taught the students in the higher scientific investigation institutions, especially in the Agricultural Academies, their concrete pro- gram, and they recruited active participators in the W. P. P. from among the students, at the same time making a spe@lal effort to disinte- grate the ranks of the nuclei of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the universities. By references to Marx and Engels, they tried to “prove” the incorrectness of the line of the and on the contrary, they defended the views of St. Louis Convention of the League The Dress Makers on the Eve of New Struggles Article No. 2. By I. WEISSBERG. IN reviewing the objeetive conditions in the dress trade as in the previous article, one must come to the conclusion that a general strike is the only method through which the conditions of th: workers in the trade will improve. The second convention of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union, on the basis of this analy- sis, decided to begin a mobilization for a strike. In line with this deciSion the union is now pro- ceeding with all preparations for a dress strike during the coming season. 'To succesfully prepare the strike, {t is neces- sary not only to have the correct analysis of the problems confronting the workers, but also to formulatesdemands that aim to remedy the evils in the trade, around which the workers can be mobilized for the strike, to organize rank and of Struggle for Negro Rights. By CYRUS BRIGGS. Article No. 4. IE St. Louis convention of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights represented the highest point reached so far in the struggle of the Negro proletariat, in firm alliance with the most advanced elements of the white workers, to wrest leadership of the Negro masses from the hands of the treacherous Negro petty-bour- geoisie—rent-gouging landlords, parasitic preach- ers (many of them in the role of landlords), Petty business menNetc, ‘These betrayers of the struggles of the Negro Masses were conspicuous by their absence. Among the delegates to the convention were none of the group of reformists and petitionists whom the bosses name and recognize as “leaders” of the Negro masses. Reformists@Conscicuous by Absence. These traitors tabooed the convention and ‘were taboced by it. Living far apart from the lives of the oppressed Negro masses, immune to their sufferings, feeling only remotely the bit- terness of oppression and that only because they, the socially elect of the Negro race are refused @ different status in capitalist society from the Negro workers, protected by their money and connection from most of the Jim-Crow exper- iences of the masses, these gentlemen could not have understood, much less shared in, the burn- ing indignation, the grim will to struggle which featured the convention of the League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights and marked it as some- thing definitely and widely apart from the usual talk festivals and belly crawling conventions and conferences of the Negro petty bourgeoisie. ‘Would Have Shocked Fashion-Plate DuBois ‘The fashionably dressed and urbane Dr. Du Bois of the National Association for the “Ad- vancement” of Colored People would hardly have understood the frank proletarian denunciations of lynching, jim-crowism and other conditions facing the Negro masses which were given us- terance not only by the leaders in the conven- tion but by the rank and file delegates during the discussions. The language of workers who had hitch-hiked and rode the rods almost penni- Jess and “without baggage” (as one Negro bour- geois paper carefully pointed out!) to voice their protests against the wrongs inflicted upon them by the white ruling class was hardly the language to which the cultured ears of the snobbish Dr. Du Bois are accustomed. And that hoary pros- titute intellectual and perennial procurer for the republican party, Kelly Miller, would certainly have been shocked out of his senile senses by the militant spirit evident on every hand. " Misleader Miller would have found the spirit of the convention too impatient of oppression. But the worker delegates would have retorted that it is all very well for these gentlemen to prate of patience since their contact with jim- crowism and other forms of Negro oppression is very slight. It was Dr. Du Bois who boasted in the “Crisis” ® few years ago of the faciilty with which auto- mobile ownership enables the Negro petty bourg- eoisie to escape most of the unpleasantness of the bosses jim-crowism laws. But not many Negro workers own cars, and even when they do they are liable to be molested on various charges: vagrancy, etc. Convention Points Out Conflicting Interests. ‘The convention carefully pointed out in its manifesto to the white and’ Negro masses the conflict between the interests of the Negro Petty bourgeoisie and the Negro masses: “Bitter experience has proven beyond doubt the utter bankruptcy of the self-styled “race” leaders—the Du Boises, Kelly Millers, Motons, De Priests, Garveys—and the absolute fallacies con- tained in their doctrines. Under the cover of ‘race loyalty,’ race-cooperation, etc., they at- tempt to deceive the masses into support of their own selfish class interests as landlords, insurance brokers, bankers, etc. “Their ‘race loyalty’ is loyalty to their own interests against the interests of the masses of Negro toilers. It is clear that the Negro poli- tician, business men, professional, real estate men, preachers, etc., who have been thrown up to providence and wealth on the basis of segrega- tion and discrimination of the Negro masses, and who are therefore directly interested in perpet-. uating segregation, are incapable of carrying on a consistent struggle against oppression and for the equality of the Negroes. While giving lip- service to the struggle for equality they are con- stantly concluding reactionary agreements be- hind the backs of the Negro toilers (activities of the National Urban League, Chicago race riots, ec). Barter With Rights of Masses. ‘The struggle for the rights of the Negroes is utilized by them as a lever to raise themselves to prominence or to/strengthen their ability for maneuvering and bartering with the white rul- ing class in behalf of their own class. They never question the dominance of the white rulers but merely want a larger share in the profits that come from the exploitation of the Negro toilers. In actuality, they concur in.the policy of the white masters by striving to keep the masses of Negro workers isolated from the militant white workers. This is glaringly rrevealed by the representatives of this group in the Negro work- ers organizations (the activities of Philip Ran- dolph in the Pullman Porters Union, the “so- cialist” re aoatbtataa - Betrayers Busy. ? In glaring contrast to the militant fighting spirit of, the St. Louis convention are the antics of the petty Nef bourgeois betrayers who are meeting in Washington at this moment under the leadership of the reformist Equal Rights League of Boston. This bunch Of lick-spittles and belly crawlers “fight” lynching and Negro oppression by petitioning Hoover, ally of the Ku Klux Klan and the lily-whites of the South, to “issue a public statement in the strongest pos- sible language condemning lynching.” © In other words the lynchers are called upon to condemn lynching. Hoover, agent of the American boss class with its jim-crow laws, its lynching terror against militant Negro and white workers, its ideology of race hate, its policy of isolating the Negro masses for a super exploita- tion—Hoover who jim-crowed the Negro Gold Star mothers is requested to condemn the prac- tices of his class! At the same time, the Na- tional Association for the Advancement of Col- ored People, another reformist organization, launches wide publicity on its projected “cam- paign” to induce the bosses to jail themselves for crimes against the Negro masses, Down with deportation, lynching, Jim- Crowism, segregation; elect delegates to the National Conference for the Protection of Foreign Born, Noy. 30th, Dec. Ist, Washing- ton, D, C, file committees to carry through the prepara- tions for the strike, and to raise the financial means necessary for the struggle. ‘The following are the strike demands of the dressmakers, as formulated by the Shop Dele~- gates Council and approved by the membership meeting: 1—Week work instead of the existing piece work system. ‘Thé workers in the dress trade cannot continue under the piece work system, under which their wages are reduced almost daily. The dressmakers must not permit the bosses to decide on the prices for their work. The dressmakers must not tolerate the competition for the bundle, that arises out of the piece work system and compels the workers to speed each other up. Week work will solve this evil. 2—Guaranteed minimum wage scales for all workers in the shop, so that the worker may know that the boss must pay him a certain definite wage; a thing which is impossible under the piece work system, 3.—The 17-hour, 5-day week. In order to at least partially alleviate the unemployment in the dress trade, it is necessary to cut down the working hours. The thoysands of unemployed workers must be convinced that a victory in the coming strike will give them greater possibilities for securing a job. The demand for the 7-hour 5-day week will make possible the mobilization of the employed and unemployed for the coming struggle. It is in the interests of both the em- ployed as well as the unemployed workers to fight for a shorter day so as to provide more jobs for the workers in the trade. 4—Unemployment Insuranze, paid by the bosses and controlled by the workers. 5.—The union is also demanding guaranteed minimum wage scales for the young workers and a sliding scale of increases for them, so that their apprenticeship terminates at a fixed period, when they will have become full-fledged work-° ers. In connection with the young workers, the union further demands two 15-minute rest per- iods during the day, and full pay for the time spent in continuation school. All workers are agreed that these chief de- mands are justified demands that aim to par- tially wipe out the terrible conditions of the workers in the trade. However, there are some workers who question the possibility of the union to mobilize the workers around these demands, which according to their opinion are too radical, that the industrial union is not sufficiently strong to fight the united front of the bosses, the police, the courts, the company union and the underworld, and lead the struggle of the dressmakers to victory. The only. answer we can give to those sceptics is that so long as we will be in constant fear of the mighty enemy and hesitate to organize for a struggle for def- inite demands that call for the abolition of the present evils, our enemies will continue to make further inroads on the conditions of the wor! The mobilization of the workers in a unit struggle for their justified demands is the only + method for destroying the power of the enemy and win decent conditions for the workers, Lovestone "Treachery. ‘The organized Lovestone opposition in the union, which has definitely come out aga‘ the union demands, must be distinguished from’ other workers who express their disagreement with some of the demands. The Lovestoneites oppose these demands consciously. They are consistent in their treachery of the workers. They stubbornly refuse to recognize the mass unemployment. They attempt to minimize the extent of the speed-up system, In line with the old fakers of the A. F. of L., they talk about ‘bad conditions but refuse to take any steps to improve them. ‘The workers, they maintain, are too weak and terrorized and will not fight for the demands of the union, They fall in line with By BURCK The Reading Hosiery Workers Strike EADING, Pa., Nov. 24—Approximately 350. workers attended the open air demonstration called by the Communist Party to expose the role of the corrupt A. F. of L. officials and the socialist politicians in the present hosiery strike. The meeting, held directly in front of the City Hall, was attended by hosiery strikers, unem- ployed workers and workers of other industries. Also present in the audience were the leading officials of the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers (Musteite) Union: Darlington Hoopes and other “leading. lights” of the socialist administration, organized gangs of thugs and professional dis- rupters connected with the socialist party. ‘The meeting was opened by Max Harris, dis- trict organizational secretary of the Trade Union Unity League. When Harris began to speak the A. F. of L. fakers, socialist politicians and hired gangsters came from all directions and formed a ring around the platform. A good number of hosiery strikers were also present. These strikers had been propagandized by the fakers against the Communists and instructed to disrupt the meeting. Disrupters Outmaneuvered. Sensing the situation Harris went into a talk on elementary trade unionism and strike strategy until the crowd was composed of more strikers and other workers. As his remarks were begin- ning to win the sympathy of the strikers and workers present, he gradually began to expose the fake tactics used by the corrupt A. F. of L. politicians in the present strike, and clearly out- lined the program of the Communists. He urged the strikers to take over the leadership, form rank and file strike committees, organize mass picketing lines and use every possible measure to spread the-strike. His concluding remarks that the Communist Party would do its utmost to assist the strikers were greeted with en- thusiastic applause. Lena Rosenbergh, section organizer of the Communist Party, then mounted the platform and immediately went into a complete exposure of the socialist. administration and its present role in the strike. She pointed out conclusively that the socialists had failed to issue a single statement until the fifth day of the strike. Workers Agree. She explained to the workers present the be- trayals of the socialists in past strikes. Her re- marks aroused the wrath of the socialist ‘pollti- cians present and they continuously made feeble attempts to heckle and disrupt the meeting. However, they desisted in these methods when they saw that this was not meeting with the ap- proval of the workers preserit: At the conclu- sion of the meeting many of the workers pres- ent (strikers and members of the socialist party) approached the speakers expressing sym- pathy with the aims of the Communist Party and clearly showing their disgust with the tac- tics and fake role played by the socialist poli- ticians and A. F. of L. fakers. Another meeting is being planned at the same corner within the next few days. Badly Led? The Full Fashioned Hosiery officials are con- tinuing their’policy of bluff and fake tactics.in the old outworn theory of the A, F. of L. that the workers do not want to fight, and thus they express their lack of faith in the masses. ‘The workers of our union have correctly ap- preciated the treacherous role of this group and ‘will continue, to oppose them as enemies of the union, Call to All. ‘The workers of the open and company union shops must answer the mobilization call of the union to organize shop committees and connect all these committees with the Shop Delegate Council of the Union. ‘We must begin to work more energetically for the strike fund, so as to make it possible’ for the union to carry through the strike prepara- tions and lead the strike in the dress trade. The Industrial Union is confident that the ressmakers will once more take up the struggle against the conditions of slavery and lead the struggle to victory. The dressmakers were always in the front ranks of the struggle, and in the coming strike they will show the way to the cloakmakers, furriers, men's, clothing workers, millinery workers, and all other workers in the needle trades. Only through a united struggle against the enemies of the working class can the workers gain improvements. ished Gressmakers, to the struggle for your the present strike. They are continuously spreading rumors amongst the strikers and gen- eral public that there are anywhere from three to five thousand out on strike. To the workers in this city it is a well known fact that the strikers do not number any more than 400 at present. Many of them have returned to work completely disgusted with the fake tactics used by the corrupt A. F. of L. officials. Picketing has been abandoned at most of the mills. Spas- modic unorganized picketing is being carried in front of the Berkshire and two small mills. In Reading proper police have been stationed in front of the mills but there are no pickets within sight. It is these methods which hay practi- cally caused the entire bottom of the strike to fall out and has resulted in many of the workers Y returning to the mills in disgust. Postponed Parade. The F. F. H. officials advertised a parade for Saturday afternoon but suddenly changed their minds and decided to hold the parade on Mon- day evening with a general public rally imme- diately after the parade. Workers of this city are wondering whether the parade will ever ma- terialize and exactly how many “strikers” will be in the line of march. Try To Sell Out. The mediators have left the city for a ‘“‘week- end vacation.” They are expected back\in the city by Monday. The F. F. H. officials are still making attempts to officially sell out the “strike” -through fake arbitration methods. However, the mill owners are fully aware of the fact that they have the situation well in hand and do not seem anxious to negotiate. It is quite evident from present indications that this strike will be another repetition of Nazareth. Here the U. F. F. H. officials carried on a strike which was lost due to their fake tactics. The strike was never officially called and they are still trying to flirt with politicians, carry on legal battles in the capitalist courts, and use every other method to pretend that there is somewhat of a strike existing. N. T. W. Comes Forward. ‘The National Textile Workers’ Union has opened up official headquarters in this city lo- cated at 221 N. 10th St. The N. T. W. U. will carry on a systematic organizational campaign amongst the textile workers of this city and vi- cinity. A number of leaflets have been issued to the strikers explaining to them the role of their officials and calling upon to watch all their moves. Members of the N. T. W. U. have been assisting in the picketing and carrying on general other work in aiding the workers on strike. The N. T. W. U. has especially appealed to the workers not to lose their morale because of the fake tactics used by tne A. F. L. politi- clans. No matter what the outcome of the strike may be the N. T. W. U. will take every measure possible to organize the workers into a real militant fighting union that will eventually sweep the slave conditions from the mills. Rayon Workers Prepare for Struggle By TOM JOHNSON. rapid growth in strength and influence of the Communist Party in and around Eliz- abethton, Tenn., where five strikes have taken placé~ in the last three years has thrown the owners of the Bemberg and Glantzoff rayon mills into a veritable panic. Faced with a sit- uation rapidly developing toward strike action, the mills have sent out a hurry-call for help to that savior of American capitalism, Ham Fish. ‘Unable to come himself, Fish has delegated several members of his committee now in the South to come to Elizabethton, together with Paul Aymon, head of the Tennessee State Fed- eration of Labor to “investigate” Communist activities in Happy Valley. Aymon, by testifying.in Chattanooga first and now in Elizabethton aiding the committee in its attack on the rayon workers stands completely exposed as one of the worst scoundrels in the whole A. F. of L. leadership. He has posed for years as a “progressive and honest labor leader.” More recently he has inclined toward the Muste gang of socialists, particularly those in the United Textile Wor This gang needs no exposure to the of Elizabethton who have had strike after strike throttled and sold pets § ES ap By JORGE More “Leftism” Recently we received, in an envelope hearing the return of our Party office in Chicago, a line telling us of an enclosure, saying: “Here is a gem! it in Red Sparks.” We looked over the enclosure. It was an In- vitation addressed to “All Proletarian and Lib- eral Artists and Art Organizations.” It spoke of a need for an organization of the more lib- eral and radical thinking artists in Chicago, art in its broader sense including art, literature and music, and invited everybody interested to help form a club of “Proletarian Art, Literature and Music’—the “PALM Club,” they called it. The purpose given was to aid the proletarian movement, saying: “Now, more than ever, do we need you. We must use our gift as a weapon against all reace tionary and backward elements. We must reply ‘with our powerful hand—a biting brush, a worke er’s tone, a powerful word.” Now, we fail to see in this anything to be scornful about. In fact the general idea is high- ly commendable, and we have only good wishes for the effort undertaken. But, evidently, these proletarian and radical artists are getting no support from our Party in Chicago. Evidently they are going to have a revolution in Chicago with all the artists, writers and musicians left out—and left out in scorn that drives them to the other side of the bar- ricade. Of course wé don’t charge that ALL Chicago comrades feel that way, about it, but certainly the one did who thought we could find a “gem” in poking fun at proletarian artists and so on. We found the gem, all right, but the joke is not on the “PALM” Club. Hence we hope that the comrades in Chicago will shed any sectarian tendency and—without neglecting the factory proletariat, the main task, at least encourage the organization of something like the John Reed Club of New York. eee Ways To Get Into The Papers 1, It used to be news if a . factory laid off a thousand workers. It ain’t any more. But if a factory puts ten men to work, it can get a feature story on the front page of any capi- talist daily. 2. Explaining to Americans that the economic crisis is caused by “Soviet dumping.” This is particularly recommended to members of the Farm Board, who are being violently accused in Canada of “launching a price cutting sales policy” which sent wheat in Canada to 58 cents a bushel last week, the lowest in all history. 3. Reviving General Koutiepoff to “prove” why the Soviet Union should not be allowed to buy machinery in the United States. This is particularly recommended to American man- ganese mine owners. 4. Devising something resembling logic to “prove” that the Five Year Plan is a “failure” and that capitalism “stands on the threshold” of an “unprecedented period of prosperity.” 5. Figuring out, with appropriate “statistics,” something to coyvince the workers that wages are not being cut or that the cost of living is “much lower” than it used to be. 6. Inventing some new way of doling out charity soup, without calling it either a “dole” or “charity, the same time explaining that unemployment insurance would be both a dole and charity and moreover “ruinous to the mor= ale” of the workers. We want only to add a bit of comment, Under capitalism all values are distorted. A dumbbell like Gene Tunney or Lindy’s baby or Legs Dia- mond is spilled all over front pages while honest workers, jobless and dying of hunger or at work rendering useful service, are not even noticed. So also, capitalist papers always lie, but now, in the period of capitalist decline and decay, they go absolutely nuts. s * s ‘You might find some use for Society Notes In the theatrical paper called “Variety,” where all the chorus girls are supposed to get their mental pabulum (which is highbrow for food) we ran across the following under society notes from Miami, Florida: “Mrs. Jimmy Walker has leased the Fleish- man estate for the season. Her yacht will arrive in January.” We are quite sure that the 800,000 unemployed, especially those who have been given a wormy potato to last a family of four for one week, as well as all the boys who are trying to sell each other apples, will be happy to note that Jimmy Walker is giving up all his luxuries for the poor. And then, of course, the notice in “Variety” gives all the chorus girls advance information that Mrs. Walker will be in Miami in January. A word to the wise is sufficient. * * Who's “Inflated”? The United Press on Monday said: “Several banks were closed today in four states. Four banks failed to open in Loutsville, Ken- tucky. In Arkansas sixteen banks did not open today. Two small banks closed in Illinois. Four banks in Missouri also closed today.” “Fifty Southern Banks Close, Including the National of Kentucky,” said the N. Y. Times on ‘Tuesday, raising the ante on the Telegram. All of which proves that the brainy guys who write in the capitalist papers about how the Soviet is headed to “collapse” because of in- flation,” while asserting that the U. #* Federal Reserve is about to cutest system ever invented, ought to be decorated with a medal of the Dis- tinguished Order of Prevaricators. out by.the U.T,W.U. and who have finally driven this gang of traitors out of town, bag and bag- gage. Hundreds of copies of the Southern Worker and thousands of leaflets are being distributed right inside the mills by the members of the Communist Party unit in the B. and G, plants, The workers are now organizing their forces for a fight to the finish under the revolutionary leadership of the National Textile Workers Union. Recently, about thirty girls fromthe Bemberg textile department, mostly reelers and twisters, were called into the office of President Wolfe and told that the company “suspects” them of being Communists. The girls were threatened with dismissal if they were found to have any- thing to do with the Reds. They were warned that the company had spies watching their every . move. Some of the more militant girls expressed their opinion; the next day twelve of them were fired. This and other recent acts of the company have angered the workers and they may take action ab any tom =,