The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1931, Page 6

Page Six Published by the Comprodally Publishing Co., Inc., daily except Sunday, at 50 East 18th Street, New York City. N. Y. Telephone Algonquin 7956-7, Cable: “DAIWORK.” Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 18th Street, New York, N. ¥. Daily, Worker — SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs ot Manhattan and Bronx, New York Ctiy. Foreign: one year, $8+ six months, $4.50, Increasing Unemployment and -Decreasing Reliet Starvation os By LABOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATION HE latest sur was made in Nation, a peared in mayors replied that e—in other words, it 31 reported a that the e worse instead of better. had beeh a sharp increase Prac- s while those reporting ‘vere the large industrial centers. Dayton, Detroit, and Cincinnati ‘situation was worse. (Note ng—capitalist po- liticians, each e t Tosy as possible in his own city.) Out of more than a hundred mayors who responded to this Nation questionnaire, less than half declared that private charity was rendering any kind of relief. Most of them admit that the private agencies have raised insufficient funds and-that the funds that have been raised are being quic used up. Even in January (New York Times, January 26, 1931) it was reported that 120 out of 149 cities had abandoned their bread lines and soup Kitchens. Other “more individualized” forms of relief were said to have been substituted for the lines. This probably means that the regular charity agencies organized the “relief” in such a way that the workers starve in a less con- spicuoli8 manner than on bread lines. ever, there was doubtless some distribution of food to hommes through the usual charity machin- ery, community chests, and other welfare bodies. ‘At that time there were said to be between 90 and 100 bread lines in New York City. Allen T. Burns, director of the National Asso- ciation. of Cammiunity Chests and Councils, is authority for the statement that eld relief cares for one per ¢ent of the wages loss, it is doing well.” ‘And-the number being fed or even asking for aid has little relation to the number that are really close to starvation. For as the social workers usually explain, with pride for Amer- ican “individuelism,” not until starvation is just around the corner does-the average unemployed family swallow its pride and ask for aid. ‘As to the amount of-relief that comes from private charity a5 opposed to public funds, not more than 25 per cent actually comes from charity. .“Something over 75 per cent of relief is coming from the public treasury,” Burns ad- mits. In other words, it has come in response to the pressure of the hunger marchers and others who have protested to town councils and county authorities. (The states have done al- most nothing and the federal government ab- lutely not ay tat atin the welfare workers seems to be that private charity has failed in spite’of the community chests raising this age ‘< ate more hey did last year an at it is seein ae any further “obligations. Furthermore, the city treasuries in many cases are depleted due to the fall in real estate bse tion due to the depression. It is content on therefore, that the only possible source of funds 4s federal, either through pone issues or through xation of the rich. rE never been. anything like what would be called “‘adeouate.” A survey of ‘the situation is 59 NewYork State cities by the Governor’s Commission on Unemployment Prob- Jems showed that public relief is “generally in- adequate to the needs of-the recipient and is usually limited to small food orders averaging about four dollars a week regardless of the size of the family.” (Survey, Feb. 15, 1931.) New York City ‘Most of:the 24,000 men and women on the payrolls of the Prosser Committee—which raised about $7,000,000 partly by taking it out of em- ployed workers pay envelopes—will not be en ployed after April 8. Thousands have already been dropped. And the 11,000 “needy heads of families” who have been working in the parks three days a week will also be out of jobs at the game time unless the State Legislature author- 4zes a. $10,000,000 appropriation by the city for “material, labor, supplies, and contracts.” This appropriation éven if authorized can apparently not be made ‘by the City Board of Estimate be- fore Aprili0. . And the most optimistic reports say that even if passed this would mean only the “gradual absorption” of those now being laid off. : 3 Most conservative estimates still figure at least ‘150,000 wnernployed in New York City represent- ‘mg acmonthly wage loss of about $80,000,000. Bven the social reformists demand a minimum ‘of. $5,000,000" a month to give relief to those facing statvation. All sourcess of “relief” have provided only 2 little over. $2,000,000 in any one month-and-e-lot of this hes gone for overhead. On “Mareh’-1 even the Police Commissioner admitted thatthe demand for relief was con- tinually on the increase. ‘The Mayor's committee was af that-time giving food to 37,000 families using the police department to distribute it. ‘ Buffalo Five thousand men employed under the emer- gency programas laborers during the last three months YWeré laid off April 1. A fund of $750,000, appropriated by the city has been practically exhausted. “Forty-five cents an hour was the paid these men while they were employed r “Even the relief given by both public agencies reached less than Yemily heads who were out of jobs Chicago raised about $5,000,000 partly forced out of workers who still had jobs, but the presi- dent of the United Charities of that city an- nounced (March 16): “Chicago faces a greater crisis in unemployment than at any time n long period of unemployment. .- ands of Chicago families are facing the r ers. of Ipless little children, despairing ~ mothers. and desperate fathers have nothing standing between them and starvation except the help that they are recelving from the Uni- About 408,000. men are out of work in Chicago by the most conservative (Department of Com-~- merce) estimates, which is about one-half of the city’s male working population. A writer in the Nation (March 12) declared, “Two months ‘ago the presence of women and children in bread Ines was pause for comment. Last Sunday one reported 350 womep and-children How=* [ 18:months. ong its 5,000 appli id now even the flor lack of support Detroit January alone more than out of the city budget for th is no let-up in the d applying for relief. They applying each day to ublic Welfare according to ints for bread and soup.” houses are to be closed Although during 000,000 was spe nn number of unemploy were about 500 far the Department of ies that received “relief” were get- $5 a week on which to live—for a fam- of four—out of which to pay for gas and light as well as food. There are close to 250,000 jobless in the whole city. (Even the Department of Commerce found 175,000 -jobless in Detroit or 25 per cent of the “gainfully employed” workers of the city And city departments continue to lay off workers. Over 500 were recently laid off from the De- partment of Public Works and hundreds of others by the Department of Street Railways. Philadelphia Charity agencies still calling for help. 24 per cent of the workers out of jobs. Cleveland About 25 per cent of the workers out of jobs | while the city does practically nothing in the way of “relief.” About | San Francisco Latest report via Federated Press: “The un- employment situation in the Bay District, in spite of promised relief, remains acute." The apple sellers are being driven from the streets (see later.) Pittsburgh The city welfare depattment which spent $200,000 in direct relief on 10,000 families in three months stopped relief when it ran out of money on January 17. Applications. were then being received at the rate of 50.a.day. Then a “plan” was devised to raise $3,000,000, the em- | ployers and employed workers to give a day's pay roll. Only one-fourth of the amount has been raised and recent reports say the plan is a flop. Baltimore When the city fell down completely on relief a-big “drive” chiefly among employed workers resulted in some $100,000 going into a wholly | inadequate fund to meet the increasing need. | ¥ St. Louis | A report from Federated Press, April 1, says: “Having exhausted $400,000 appropriated by | the city, the St. Louis citizens’ committee on unemployment relief is campaigning for $300,000 to continue its work; the first fund was ex- hausted April 1. The committee sees no im- mediate let-up of unemployment. Five thou- sand families are receiving constant aid. ‘The appeal is an indictment of capitalism. | “In most cases,” it says, “through no fault of their own, men have been without work 12 and They have held on to the last, using their savings, selling personal possessions to buy food, moving-to cheaper quarters. We find une dernourishment, need for medical aid, eviction. Children have been taken from school; people who were once staunch, self-respecting citizens are now in ragged clothes, thin because of in- sufficient food, their morale completely broxen.” The appeal estimates 85,000 St. Louis men are without work and unable to find it. San Francisco ‘The latest report from San Francisco is as follows: —_ “The-sale of apples on the streets of San Fran- cisco by the unemp! d will cease April 10. Tt is claimed ‘that this is because of the di- minishing number of those needing this means ‘of livelihood; the real reason, however, is the | resentment of downtown merchants who com- plain that the peddlers interfere with their bus- -ineéss. “Employment conditions. are better in San Francisco than in most large cities of the coun- try, but they are still very bad. An employ- ment bureau manager told the Federated Press that he does not dare advertise the few jobs that come in, because he would be swamped by applicants.” PARTY LIFE... Conducted by the Organization Department of the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A. April “Party Organizer” Another new. issue of this valuable handbook for Party members is off the press. Step by step and issue by issue, the “Party Organizer” is beginning to reflect the work, ex- periences and live problems of the Party in th' field of action. y ‘The April issue is almost entirely written by comrades in the field. Every single. article has immediate practical value for individual com- rades, units and Party Committees in their day to day activities. “What Is a Shop Committee and How to Build It,” is answered by Comrade Jack Johnstone on the basis of the TUUL policies and some recent and interesting experiences in strikes. Comrades from the Anthracite coal region and southern textile areas write about their exper- fences in building the Party and conducting mass work in small company towns. From the Comintern Org. Dept. we’ received articles on Departments, Shock Groups and the “Actives.” Practical guidance for May Day preparations and methods of work in the shops is dealt with in, several articles. A valuable article by a responsible comrade deals with the vital problem of “Safeguarding the Party” which every Communist must read and follow in his daily activities. Additional letters and articles deal with: Func- tions of Unit Buros, Development of New Cadres, Tasks of Agitprop Department, New Members, Street and Shop Papers. About 30 per cent of Party members read the Party Organizer for March. April orders al- ready indicate that the rise will reach 40 per Every, Party member should read the Party Organizer and keep each copy as a reference “handbook for guidance in their work, Copies can be received only through:the Unit, sacecilaiaisat thoracic taal tite “ory By BURCK Greetings to the C. P. of the Philibbines The Imperial Valley Prisoners to the Filipino | : | Workers on the Occasion of the Formation of the C. P. in Philippine Islands. {= Imperial Valley group together with the class conscious Filipino workers here haye learned with great joy of the formation of the Communist Party in the Philippine Islands. From behind the walls of capitalist dungeons we send through the Daily Worker our hearty revolutionary greetings to the young Communist Party in the Philippine Islands. In launching the Communist Party in the Philippine Islands the Philippine toiling masses have served notice upon Wall Street and its lackeys—the misleaders Roxas, Osmena, Quezon, & Co—that side by side with other toilers of other lands, oppressed by Yankee imperialists, the workers and peasants of the Philippine Islands will wage a militant fight until the imperialists are driven out, and a workers’ and peasants’ government is established. That the imperialist jackyls fear the growing fighting mood of the Filipino masses under the leadership of its Communist Party is seen by the terror now waged and expressed in the ar- | rests of the working class leaders, Evangelista, Manahan and Embriano, and the doubtless mur- der of Antonio Ora, who was hounded to death. The Imperial Valley prisoners consider the formation of the Communist Party in the Philip- pine Islands of far reaching importance in the coming struggles of the agricultural workers on the Pacific Coast. Great numbers ef Pilipino workers are bitterly exploited in the factory- fields, owned by fruit and vegetable trusts. These workers along with their Mexican, Negro and Hindu bretucrs, are ground under the bosses’ heel and in addition are discriminated against in the most fiendish manner. A wave of lynchings is now being directed against the Filipino work- ers on the Coast. During the so-called “Race Riots” a number of Filipino workers were brutal- ly murdered and injured—the shacks set on fire, often trapping their occupants (as in Watson- ville, Calif.). These “Race Riots” in reality are lynching’ parties, deliberately carried out by the bosses and their henchman. They have for their purpose the diverting of the wreath of the white agricultural workers, born out of exploitation and unemployment, away from those responsible— | the bosses—onto the shoulders of the Filipino workers, whom they paint to the white workers | as sources of all their ills. Thus, the master | class, at all times, keeps the ranks of the toilers divided through sowing among them the poison- | ous seed of race hatred. Nevertheless, the white workers are fast learning who their real enemy is. Thousands of native workers together with Filipino, Mexican, and foreign born are now unitedly struggling on the Pacific Coast through militant demonstrations for bread and work under the leadership of the Communist Party, U.S.A. Inthe Imperial Valley the Filipino workers haye proven themselves a most militant portion | of the agricultural workers who rose against existing slavery. It 1s no incident that together with other workers, sent up to long prison terms, the Imperial Valley bosses likewise imprisoned Danny Roxas—a Filipino worker who was in the thick of the struggle, side by side with his broth- er—Filipino, Mexican and other workers, That speaks loudly the fact the Filipino workers have grown in revolutionary consciousness and are ready with toilers of other lands, to battle under the banner of the Communist International. The formation of the Communist Party in the Philip- pine Islands will further steel these workers in their resolve to fight against their exploiters— the Imperial Valley and other barons. The role of the young Communist Party in the Philippine Islands and the coming struggles of the agri- cultural workers on the. Pacific Coast must be that of an inspirer and leader of these masses, alongside with its brother party, CPUSA. At the same time the Filipino workers, now in the USA, guided by the Communist Parties of both lands, will work hard to weld the bonds of solidarity between Filipino masses oppressed by Wall Street and the American tollers crushed by their ex- plojtérs, American capitalism. The Filipino workers confined here express the pledge, at once upon their release, to join the fighting ranks of the CPPI and the CPYSA to work’ in this direction. They join with the I .V prison- ers in adding their voices to demand for ‘the immediate release of Comrades Evangelista; Man- ahan'and Embriano—and all. other Filipino fighters.’ Long live ‘unity between USA: and PI toilers, Long live the CP of the Philippine Is- lands. . Long live’ the CPUSA, ..Long live the Communist International—the leader of) the By EVA LEDER. INDER, this slogan the “socialist” party of Cali- fornia enters the city election campaign that is now on in Los Angeles. The election of a new city council will take place June 5th next. The socialist party of Calif. is as open in its fight against the workers as is the boss class of this city and state. Only the S. P. must use its own methods, must fight the workers in its own way—still holding on to “socialist traditions,” so as to better fool those workers who as yet do not give sufficient thought to their every day needs and problents, that are so clossly connected and bound up With the problems, needs and strug- gles of all thé workers as @ Class. Uses Words and Slogans to Fool Workers. To maintain its face as a socialist party, “a party for the workers” the S. P. must come out with slogans that sound like workers’ slogans, and use a terminology, words, that sound like workers’ language. Thus the New Era, “official organ of the so- clalist party of Calif.” (March number) comes out with the following slogan in the present élec- tion campaign: “Open the Factories, is Socialist Demand!” This slogan is printed in heavy, large type—a streamer running through the entire top of the first page of the paper. Well, a pretty good demand: “Stop the Moon from Shining,” a demand equally possible ta at- tain. But this New Era paper takes itself “very serious,” and goes on to tell us: how this “de- mand” was to congress, and how congress paid no attention to it; (such an impudent congress, not to take seriously a “socialist” demand that is intended for this very purpose!) that they, the 5. P., proposed (in this “message to congress”) a 4 hour day and a 5 day week; a $40 week mini- mum wage; social insurance and what not. But this “terrible congress” has not done what “we socialists have proposed" (at this point we would just like to ask “our” Messrs. of the S. P. how many of these “propositions” do they carry out in life in those cities controlled by “socialists” Reading, Pa., Milwaukee—and in Great Britain, a country controlled “by labor,” by the “s0- cialists”?) For Capitalism in Principle. But if anyone thinks that this alone {s the platform of the S. P. in the present city election campaign in Los Angeles, that on this platform the S. P. calls upon the workers to vote for it, than the one thinking so is very much mistaken. The platform of the S. P. in the present elec- tion campaign in Los Angeles is therefore very open against the workers, It is pure and simple a platform of the boss class, serving its needs. “The Socialist Party believes in private own- ership of private property,” says the New Era. “We must not be mixed up with the Commu- nists who want to abolish private property,” con- tinues the’ “socialist” paper, and to show that “we” are still “socialists,” the paper adds: “But, we also demand public ownership of public prop- erty (?) necessities are public necessary (?) and should be publically owned.” Here is “socialism” for you. This is the “new kind,” modern brand of “socialism” the Socialist Party brand! And Now--Openly Against Toilers. But the socialist party, “New Era” is not sure whether it is understood (by the bosses), and whether it makes itself clear in its position in stating theoretically why it is a boss party. Therefore it makes itself very clear in simple English. “Unless the American people wake up and start at once to inaugurate socialism by peace- ful means, America is going to face revolution ‘and Communism as did/ Russia.” \ ‘Well, how is that for “socialists”? “Be quick, master, no time to lose, our’ MacDonald is at- tempting to prolong the life of British capital- ism, we can do that in America, too!” And this too is not enough: “If you want 'to avoid a revolution,” says New Era, “Vote So- cialist!” “If you want to avoid a Communist (read: proletarian) dictatorship, vote Socialist!” and as a sort of a finale, the S. P. assumes an air of importance; and it blurts out what it would ordinarily deny as having said: “The pres- ent chaotic condition demands that you vote Socialist to avoid revolution!” “We must establish an Americanized system of industry in place of the European monarchistic system of money kings"! continues the New Era. “An Americanized system of industry”! What does it mean? What do we have now if not “an Americanized system’?—oh, we see: New Era adds: “It 1s immoral, unjust and un-American that a few should own the government, the na- tural resources,” etc. Well, well, ‘We’ don't mean the America as {t is, but the America as “we” would like the workers, to, believe. it, is! “We have to create illusions and -. {dealisms about “American justice” because the workers see the realisms, the living brutal facts of Amer- ican capitalism and are fighting it. So “we so- Cialists” have to see to it that the workers cher- ish the illusions of “Americanism,” instead of fighting the miseri¢s of capitalism, fighting for a world free of exploitation and parasitism, for the rule of the workers and laboring farmers! This is “Socialism in 1931.” “We Are a Lawful Party!” To approve the Ham Fish desire to outlaw the | Communist Party, the socialist party of Cali- fornia, through its sheet. New Era, boasts of the | fact that “the socialist party is a lawful, legal, party”! Sure enough! Ham Fish has not rec+ ommended to outlaw the socialist party, of course not! - Why should he? The socialist party is a helpful hand of the boss-class in its fight against the workers and laboring farmers! Why outlaw it? But the Communist Party is not waiting to be “legalized” by Ham Fish, by the capitalist class or by the socialist party. The fact, that workers are fighting under the leadership cf the Communist Party assures us that the workers look upon the Communist Party as its | leader, and that the Communist Party will grow | into a mass party notwithstanding the persecu- tion on the part of the boss class, and the treachery of the socialist party! Vote Communist! Workers of Los Angeles! In your past strug- gles you have learned that the city council is the executive committee of the boss class in the city. You have seen how this boss-city-admin- istration does everything in its power to drown your struggles for better working conditions, for social insurance, against evictions, etc., in blood. The “socialist” party has shown that it serves well the boss class in the so-called “planned demonstration” which was intended to demor- alize your tanks, a “demonstration” that was called off the last minute; all this time the S. P. acted at the beck and call of the bosses.’ Mr. Busick and the “socialist” party was invited to | the city council and proposed a “program” sup- posedly for the unemployed, but really serving the bosses. In their platform as outlined in the March number New Era, as we have endeavored to prove, the socialist party has unmasked itself in its true light: It is a party of the boss class and serves its interest. A vote for the socialist party is a vote for the bosses! Workers, do not vote for your enemies! Neither for the republican nor for the demo- cratic party nor socialist party—they are all for the bosses! You must vote for the Communist Party which alone takes the lead in the fight to improve your day to day conditions and to free you from the yoke of capitalism altogether! Eva Cohen and Don Wishnev- sky Are Expelled From the ’ Communist Party By action of the New York District Control Commission, the Communist Party of the USA has expelled from its ranks Eva Cohen and Don Wishnevsky, members of International Ladies Garment Workers Union Local 38, for gross violation of Communist principles and discipline, and for right-wing opportunist tions which amounted to a betrayal of the best interests of the working class. ‘ They persistently fought against the policy of the Party which was outlined to them in con- nection with the fake Local 38 strike among non-Patty members against the line of the Needle Trades Workers, Industrial Union. ‘This line pointed out very clearly the treacher- ous role of the ILGWU leadership. of Local 38, ‘whose aim was not a real struggle for their own miserably selfish and stupid clique over the workers of Local 38. The criminal negligence and wilful unpreparedness of the ILGWU rul- ing clique for a real struggle for the interests of all ladies’ tailors and dressmakers was apparent to every honest and thinking worker. It was the duty of every class conscious worker and especially of every Communist to point out the crimes of the right-wing leadership and to un- mask their real aims before the other workers, in order that these workers should take the fake strike out of the hands, of the ruling ILGWU clique and transform it into a real struggle for their own interests. * yl In this duty, Eva Cohen and Don Wishnevsky, as members of the Communist Party, failed most, miserably. Their actions have. proven ‘clearly that they were opposed to the carrying out of the line laid down by the Party and the Needle ‘Trades’ Workers Industrial Union, which line alone presented a correct program. of struggle of Local 38, . Eva Cohen went } our attention as follows. | wants respected, but each individual Cain, which “We Save Capitalism-—Elect Us” | Red fants | By JORGE | etensmmneccecume ‘Human Brotherhood” We do not follow the honorable calling of a garbage colector, hence only rarely ‘perstie the column of Heywood Broun, the “socialist” who writes capitalist blah for the World-Telegram. So we are obliged to comrade M. K. for Calling “Heywood Broun, attempting to justify his stand against Communism, in his column on April 4, said he gravely doubted the glory of human brotherhood, if there is to be from now on no such thing as man, but only men in the mass. ‘Fellowship will be confounded unless there is respect for the boundary lines which surround each individual Adam,’ says Mr. Broun.” Only @ stupid fool or a lying scoundrel—and Heywod Broun is both, would attempt to make people believe that Communists claim that what exists in the Soviet Union is “human brother- hood.” What exists there is the dictatorship of the proletariat, the transitional periéd of his- tory between capitalism and socialism, only through which socialism can be achieved. “Human brotherhood” has never and can never exist in a society divided into economic classes whose interests are mutually and irrecon- cilably in conflict—and we use the words “human brotherhood” in quotation marks because what the devil it means we don’t know. - It is an abstraction like “justice,” which means anything the person talking about it conceives it-to. mean. Of course, if by “human brotherhood”. you mean that relationship between man and man where no “socialist” like Broun is allowed to prostitute himself for the money there {s-in-it to perpetuate capitalist exploitation of the work- ing class, they have that in the Soviet. Union— and that’s why Broun don’t like It is not “each individual Adam’ which Broun Broun knows himself to be, among a clas of ~ Cains. And he wants the class of. Abels-to “respect” them, instead of hanging for murder those who persist in being Cains, and requiring the rest to work on the pain of not eating. Yet enly after this is done c-nm the individual, asa competent part of society, freely develop. Even Oscar Wilde (in his “The Soul of Man Under Socialism”) understood that. But we would insult Oscar Wilde by expecting Heywood Broun to approach his level of intelligence oi honesty. Oysters for Einstein We are glad to see that, according to the N.Y. Times correspondent in Moscow, the Soviet Goy- ernment is demanding that science be freed from abstractions empty of practical result for social progress. It is said that Comrade Bukharin, speaking at a conference for Planned Organiza- tion of Scientific Investigation, remarked: “So-called pure science, that is science devoid of contact with practical life, is a figment. ‘The whole fabric of scientific investigational work in capitalist countries is a weapon in the hands of capitalist magnates and governments: and: their industrial and military organizations “We Bolshiviki, on the other hand, have de- manded a gigantic increase of scientific effort in the whole system of socialist consttuction. he problems before us require’ a decisive and catgorical break with bourgeois traditions of old academism and their conversion to the task of solving immediate, practical difficulties.” That suits us down to the ground, as does the criticism made of some Leningrad university de- partments which “wasted a whole year” trying to find out exactly what a tree would be like if it were raised in a dark cellar, and whether it was easied to pull a round, a sqilate or.a triangular nail from a piece of wood. But-just such abstractions are oysters for Einstein, Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party 0. S A P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York City. Please send me more information on the Cum- munist Party. Name . Address seesee CHEY ...sseseeecccecseesesees. State .. Occupation Age .. -Mai] this to the Central OMce, Communist Party, P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York City. even so far in this betrayal of the interests of the workers, as to make a motion in theshop committee that the workers should go back under the old agreement and that the question of wages be left to an impartial chairman. The union bureaucrats took it up and presented it to. the workers not as their proposal, but as the pro- posal of Eva Cohen, as the proposal of a Commu- nist.. This was too much even for many non- Party workers, who challenged the correctness of a Communist making such a motion. When the question came up of electing the general strike committee, instead of nominating the best fighters from the left-wing elements, Eva-Cohen ” nominated outspoken right-wingers and protect- ed them in all their acts, She associated herself with anti-Party elements. i, Don Wishnevsky aligned himself with Eva Cohen in all her acts. More thanethat,.as sec- retary of the Party fraction in Local .38, he attempted to influence other Party members for his wrong line and toward an open betrayal of the workers. He sabotaged the calling of fraction meetings to discuss the line of thé Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union in con- nection with the maneuvers of the right wing. At a fraction meeting, called by the District, he failed to appear. At a meeting of ILGWU Local 38 he evaded the issue before the workers and failed to present the program of the Trade Union Unity League. When the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union issued leaflets exposing, the fake character of the strike, as led by the com- pany union, Winshevsky refused to accept them, he advised Party members. and other workers against distributing them, he actually stopped the distribution of a leaflet in front of the shop where he worked. pe The Communist Party, as the vanguard of the working class, has no place in its ranks for sich faithless and undisciplined element in moments of struggle, consciously or, un sclously, betray the best interests of the workers. District Control Comm! Approved by Centra! Central © Communist Party, of the U.S.A.