The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1931, Page 1

Come on THEAYE Wants Tol New With Yous bert ‘ Orge he-Comn ( oe of ene Communist eae Norker Frumict Party U.S.A. Untered an se Vol. VIII, No. 226 nd-clzss matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March <n a 1879 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTE ‘MBER 19, 1931 WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! cIry spies Price 3 Cents = “Socialist” Curs and Traitors ‘HE mutiny of the sailors of the British High Sea Fleet has quickly torn the dirty mask of “socialist opposition” put on by the “Labor” Party led by Arthur Henderson in the House of Commons, leaving no trace of “socialist” shame in the wake of the exposure that the “opposi- tion” is as fully and completely traitors to the working class. as Mac- Donald, Snowden and Thomas. b This latter scoundrel, J. H. Thomas, but recently for the sake of ‘t ®@ppearances excluded from the leading circles of the “socialists,” has openly declared for a fascist policy of violence against the sailors of the fleet; the N. Y. Times of Tlyrsday reporting him as saying: “If he had been in charge of the navy, the sailors would have been disciplined for an example, and the fleet would have been sent to sea according to program instead of allowing ‘these men to Sovietize the British Navy.” So much for the “socialists” still in the British Cabinet. But the N. Y. Times of Friday reports the shameless laying down of the “so- cialist opposition” after a few days of equally shameless blustering. Mean- while the sailors of the Fleet, taking their first infant steps toward revo- lution, were stubbornly holding out, demanding guarantees and for two hours holding up the sailing of the ships to their home ports, and yield- ing only to what is politely reported as “intensive persuasion” by the officers, the scoundrels of the “socialist opposition” were making a grand show of standing up for the sailors. But it was only a fake. The N. Y. Times of Friday relates the tale of treachery as follows: ’“W. BP. Hall, Laborite member representing a constituency which includes the Portsmouth naval base at Portsmouth, at- tempted yesterday to raise fhe question of the naval situation, but was ruled out of order on the ground that the matter was not urgent. The disturbance on the warships was then in progress. “Again, today, when the ships were proceeding peacefully to their home ports, Mr. Hall renewed his motion and there was such a clamor in its favor from the Opposition benches that the Speaker ruled it would be in order and set 7:30 tonight as the hour for the navy debate. This was at 5 o’clock this afternoon. Both sides braced themselves for a fight. But something intervened in those two and a half hours to change the tone of the whole house. “When the debate came this evening there . . . was no abuse of the government by the Opposition. . . . The leaders of both sides wanted to avoid a debate... . So, for the first time since the new government took power, there is a truce between it and the Opposition, with the result that all bitterness was eliminated from the navy debate. Mr. Hall, who raised the question, and Sir Austen, who answered for the government, were most conciliatory toward each other. When Sir Austen finished, A. V. Alexander, his predecessor in the Admiralty, said he had made a very great and noble gesture in agreeing to put this week’s fleet happenings into the past among forgotten things. Then Mr. Hall withdrew his motion.” : Thus the “happenings” in the fleet are “forgotten”—but workers will take notice that the wage cuts STILL STAND! And the vile fakers of the “socialist opposition” have stopped even their fake “fight” in parlia- ment against the wage cut! Why? . Because, forsooth, there’ was another “erfiergency’? An “emergency” always turns upto serve such fake “socialists” as an excuse for supporting capitalists against the workers! The “emergency” that caused such results was, the N. Y. Times says, “declines adverse to the British, pound in American, Swiss, Dutch and Belgian exchange, and the 5 per cent war bonds fell off.” So to “save” the bondholders and pound holders (the workers have neither!), the “socialist opposition” goes over to the wage-cuttets and mutiny suppressors! How “unfortunate” for the American “socialists,” who were just boasting of their “brave comrades” in the British parliamentary “op- position,” and claiming the naval mutiny as being “backed” by this 3 despicable “opposition”! The American “socialist” paper, the New Leader, commenting on the mutiny in demagogic heroics, declared in addition: “Should a final contest for power arise between the working class and the ruling class it is certain that these forces cannot be relied upon to support the old order.” Very true, you hypocrites! The armed forces are part of the toiling masses, and will ultimately fight for the masses against the “old” order (you use the word “old” to avoid saying the “capitalist” order, like the skunks you are for evading the class struggle even in words!). But those who support the “old” order are you “socialist” misleaders and traitors to the working class, disguising your counter-revolutionary actions behind the false claim that you are “socialists”! Answer the War Makers! IOW exactly true were the warnings of the Daily Worker editorial of ‘Thursday that the wage cut strike of the British sailors would speed up the imperialist war aims against the Soviet Union, is seen in the openly war-provocative statements of the French imperialist press. The Journal des Debats of Thursday, concluding an editorial charge that the Soviets were “responsible” for the mutiny, declares: “Weakness in regard to the Soviets is a danger to the moral health * of the army and navy. It simply plays into Soviet hands. Let us hope our neighbors (the British )will accept the lesson of these events and also that they may give our own government pause for thought.” The Paris “Temps,” a paper which speaks for the French govern- ment, chimed in with a like opinion that the Soviets had “indirectly” caused the outburst, and, although France itself maintains diplomatic e relations with the Soviet Union, by inference it proposes to England that both imperialist powers break off suci reiations, in the following words: “The danger from subversive Soviet propaganda has been real in Britain ever since the two countries resumed normal diplomatic rela- tions. Today we see the consequences.” ‘These moves by France amounting to a proposal to take the lead in a new war against the Soviet Union, will undoubtedly be seconded—and outdone—by imperialist America, when Stimson and Fish and Woll awake to the possibility of capitalizing the British naval mutiny for American imperialist aims to head the anti-Soviet war front. The American working class has more reason than ever to stand ready to leap to the defense of the Soviet Union, and the revolutionary workers should’ intensify their work to that end and to establish the closest solidarity between American workers and Soviet workers. ‘The invitation of the Soviet Trade Union Council to American work- ers to visit the Soviet Union for the Fourteenth Anniversary Celebration of the Soviet Revolution on November 7th, should stimulate the utmost activity everywhere in preparing a really representative delegation which is being organized by the F.S.U. (Friends of the Soviet Union). The preparation of such a delegation should, however, not bear the weaknesses and totally unsatisfactory results of some previous delegations, the haphazard and non-elective selection of delegates. The present delegation being organized by the F.S.U. should by all ‘means come overwhelmingly from the basic industries of mining, steel, auto, chemical, marine and rail transport industries, should be real work- ers from the bench, and above all should be ELECTED by their shop mates and fellow workers! ‘The revolutionary trade unions of the Trade Union Unity League ‘and all workers’ fraternal organizations should give utmost publicity and aid in electing the delegates, in rallying the workers around their own delegates and in arranging for extensive reports from them upon their return, when these workers can bring back the truth to the masses on the victorious building of socialism by the Soviet workers under the Five-Year Plan, ‘The revolutionary workers should use this occasion to assist in every way to build the FSU into a great mass organization, The danger of war against the Soviet Union is enormously sharpened as the British Fleet mutiny brings desperation to the mad-dogs of world imperialism! answert. + pct ierneriean workers mush: Bleck poe: }eahidariiys . ail + DEATH FOR SIX CHILEAN - NAVY REBELS Mass Demonstration in Union Square Today Demands Release 'Seamen Rally in the government. British navy | 2:30 p. m. seamen have received the news of enthusiastically, | are on the “beach” in New York. News in the capitalist press of the actual passing of death sentence against the first six sailors of the Chilean navy has given further im- | portance to the mass demonstration | | sets Re ea lay ps Babel | from worsening their conditions. Square. The protest demonstration | | is called by District 2 of the Com- | { munist Party, and the masses of New | York workers will show their soli- Pp have put up so militant a struggle MacDonald government. The Marine Workers’ Industrial Union has distributed over 1,500 | copies of the Daily Worker on the waterfront in the past two days. especially the hundreds of jobless British seamen who In the call for the demonstration the MWIU points out that the | American capitalist class is fitting out the entire merchant fleet as} The Marine Workers’ Industrial Union calls on all seamen in the ort of New York to show their solidarity with the British sailors who to Support Militant British Sailors The Marine Workers’ Industrial Union is calling on all seamen | rally today at Whitehall and South Streets at 1 p. m. solidarity with their brothers who are putting up so valiant a struggle against the hunger program of the MacDonald From this meeting the militant seamen in the port of New York will go to the mass demonstration in Union Square at| to show their | The the actions of the British seamen | | | naval auxiliaries for the next war and that the present struggle of the | | | British seamen is the same struggle that the seamen on the American | navy and merchant marine are carrying on to prevent the capitalists against the. hunger program of the darity with the heroic sailors of the Chilean and British navies for their movement in revolt against capi- talist oppression. The New York workers will demand in strong terms that no acts of revenge against these sailors be taken by the Wall Street government in Chile or the Mac- Donald regime backed by his “so- cialists” in England. Six To Dic. The news from Chile is that death sentence was passed on Ernesto Gon- zales, first class stenographer of the Navy, called by the government the principal leader of the insurrection and the first to sign the manifesto proclaiming a social revolution. | ization that has “ever done a thing Death sentence was also announced | for us.” He places his case in the for the sailors: Luis Perez, Victorino | hands of the I. L. D. as did all the Villabos, Juan Bravo, Lautaro Silva, | criminal syndicalism prisoners in and Victor Zapata. Sentences of life | Harlan jail, the day before. imprisonment were given two others; Dean is suffering from the starva- sentences of 15 years to ofur others, | tion disease called “Flux,” which has and ten year sentences for two more. | ravaged eastern Kentucky mine ‘The workers of Chile are not tak-| fields. He’ bled terribly for days ing quietly this attempt at bloody | while lying in jail before the author- massacre of the workers in uniform. | ities would move him to the hospital. The news dispatches relate that the Warrants are out in Bell County families of the victims filled all the | for all known National Miners’ Union lodging houses in San Felipe, where | leaders. This is the beginning of a the court martials were taking place. | new terror drive. Bell County ad- When the sentence was pronounced, | joins Harlan County on the west, and these relatives and other workers | until recently was not in the grip of stormed the court demanding revoca- | quite such a terror as prevailed in | | HARLAN, Ky., Sept. 18.—Robert | Dean, local National Miners’ Union leader held on a criminal syndical- ism charge in Harlan hospital, told International Labor Defense Attor- ney Goldman Wednesday that the I. L. D. is the only defense organ- tion of the sentence. An amnesty | Harlan. movement is mentioned by the capi- bd ‘a * talist press as “already inaugurated.” HARLAN, Ky., Sept. 19.—Death of Tag Days Today and Sunday Build Communist Campaign Broadway; T.U.U.C., 5 E. 19th St.; N.T.W.U., 121 W, 28th St.; Workers’ Center, 301 W. 29th St.; Spartacus Club, 301 W. 29th St.; Workers Cen- ter, 132 E. 26th St.; Czecho-Slovak Workers Home, 342 E, 72d St.; Hun~ garian Workers Home, 350 E. 81st St.; L.W.O. Shule, 143 E. 103d St.; Finnisn Workers Home, 15 W. 126 St.; Sapn- ish Workers Center, 110 W. 116th St.; Esthonian Workers Center, 1336 Third Ave. Bronx Workers Center, 569 Prospect Ave.; Prospect Workers Club, 830 Westchester Ave.; Bronx Workers Club, .610 Boston Rd.; Concoop, 2700 Bronx Park E.; Middle Bronx Work- ers Club, 1622 Bathgate Ave.; Jerome Workers Club, 1645 Grand Con- course; Harlem Progressive Youth Club, 1472 Madison Ave.; Workers Center, 1400 Boston Rd. NEW YORK.—Mass collection’ to- day and tomorrow by the workers of New York is urged by all class work- ers’ organizations, to raise the $15,- 000 needed for the Communist Party Election Campaign. Unions and workers’ fraternal orders have en- dorsed the two tag days, and work- ers who took part in the great signa- ture drive to put the Party on the ballot realize that there is a deep and hearty response by both indi- vidual workers and their organiza~ tions to the class struggle platform of the Communist Party in this year of unexampled misery, unemploy- ment, capitalist robbery, wage cut- ting and attacks on the working con- ditions in the factories. The Communist Party speaks for the working class in this election campaign and all the expenses of Kentucky Mine Leader in Hospital Hails I.L.D. a more terrible kind than the death inflicted on her miner husband by a gunman’'s bullet awaits Mrs, Julius Baldwin, 22 years old, and her four children, unless they get food and milk within the next two weeks. One of the children is a five months old infant whom Mrs. Baldwin, because of the shock of her husband's death, can no longer nurse. For 47 hours the young wife sat beside Julius Daldwin’s bedside in the Harlan hospital while he lay paralyzed with a gunman’s bullet in his brain. From time to time she nursed the baby in her arms. At the end of the 47 hours the doctors told her Julius was dead.” Since that time Mrs. Baldwin and her children have been living on boiled herbs and grass. They are in danger of contracting the dreaded flux, a disease springing from im- proper diet and ending in a horrible lingering death. Julfus Baldwin was shot before his wife's eyes in the doorway of the soup kitchen he was operating for the starving miners of Harlan County. Help save his fam- ily!’ Send money for food and milk for prisoners’ families at once to the Kentucky Miners’ Aid ,care of the International Labor Defense, 80 East lith St., Room 430, New York City. LONGSHOREMEN’S WAGE CUT LOOMS Fakers Boast They Do Not Prepare Strike NEW YORK.—David Spencer, vice- president of the International Long- shoremen’s Union, and his fellow bureaucrats is dragging out the nego- tiations with the organized ship owners to make possible either a complete open sell-out or a strike without militancy which will end in a defeat. The ship owners, through their spokesman, Frederick Toppin, presi- dent of the International Mercantile jat Court and Fulton Sts., ALL OUT TODAY FOR BRITISH AND CHILEAN SAILORS N.Y. SCHOOL “Labor Opposition” KIDS DEMAND Joins in the Attack FOOD, SHOES 3,000 Children And Parents March On Board, Boro Halls NEW YORK.—Over 3,000 New York workers and working class children demonstrated yesterday for free food and clothing for the children of the unemployed in the public schools Three demonstrations were held; at the Board of Education building on 59th St., at the Brooklyn Boro HaN and in front of the Bronx Boro Hall on Tre- mont Ave. When the delegation of workers and children went into the Board of Education they were refused admit- tance to see Dr. O'Shea, the presi- dent of the board. A picket line of adults and children paraded in front of the building, with placards, ban- ners and songs. In Brooklyn, the delegation was told that Boro President Hesterberg, was not in. Outside in the street a huge crowd gathered to hear the re- port of the delegation, exposing the cowardice of the capitalist politi- | cians, and calling upon all workers | and workers’ children to carry on the fight for free food and clothing. | Speakers representing the Commu- | nist Party, the Unemployed Councils, and the Young Pioneers of Ameri ca | spoke. + 1,000 Cheer Demands. A crowd’ of 1,000 workers the report of the Bronx delegation, after they had been told that Boro President Bruckner was downtown at the City Hall. The delegations’ de- | mand that the government appro- priate money for the children in the | schools. who need it was approved | with enthusiasm by the crowd of workers. Among the speakers were | Sullivan and Jackson of the Unem- ployed Council, Fein of the Women’s Council, and two Pioneer speakers. Issue Statement. Many contacts were made for the} Pioneers and the Unemployed Coun- cil. A statement issued right after the refusal of the authorities to see th workers’ delegations, says: “The fight for free food and cloth- ing is not ended by these demonstra~ tions. The stryggle will be carried on inside of the schools. The Young Pioneers will mobilize the thousands of children who are in need of free food and clothes, and will lead them in their struggles. The action of the boro presidents and the Board of Ed- ucation today has proven to the workers and their children that only the most determined struggle will wrest from them relief for the needy thousands of children. “Carry on the fight for free food and clothing in the schools! Organ- ize parents’ councils to back up the demands of the workers’ children!” Speak Despite Cops. A thousand took part in the Brook- lyn Boro Plaza demonstration. A po- lice sergeant from the 84th Precinct Station threatened to arrest any who might try to speak, but the crowd swelled so rapidly that. the police beat a retreat and speaking went on unhindered. the agitation, propaganda, and or- ganization, must be met out of the pennies and dimes of the working class. The Communist Party looks to every class conscious worker of New York to participate in the Tag Days, today and tomorrow. The Com- munist Party looks to all working class organizations to take up the question of contributing something to the campaign out of their trea- sury. The Communist Paryt looks to all workers in shop and factory to sell the Election Campaign Coupon stamps to help raise $15,000 for the Red Election Fund with which to carry forward the fight against the fascist political machine of the Dem- ocrats, Republicans and socialists, and to win for the workers of New York during this election struggle the immediate and burning demand of unemployment relief for the starving jobless millions of New York and their families. All out for the Tag Day today and tomorrow! Come to the following Tag Day Sta~ tions: Main Station, Workers Center, 35 E. 12th St. Open all day. PhoneAL. 4-5707. Manhattan. ‘Workers Center, 142 E. 3d St.; Downtown Workers Club, 1, Clinton BROOKLYN. Workers Center, 962 Sutter Ave.; Brownsville Workers Club, 1844 Pit- kin Ave.; Williamsburg Workers Cen~- ter, 61 Graham Ave.; Williamsburg Workers Center, 795 Flushing Ave.; Borough Park Workers Club, 1383 43d St.; Bath Beach Workers Clud, 48 Bay 28th St.; Brighton Beach Workers Club, 140 Neptune Ave.; Coney Island Workers Club, 2921 W. 33d St.; Finnish Workers Club, 109-26 Union Hall St., Jamaica; Browns- ville Youth Center, 105 Thatford Ave.; Hinsdale Workers Club, 313 Hinsdale Ave.; Sutter Workers Club, 412 Sutter Ave.; Workers Center, 261 Utica Ave.; Workers Center, 26 Ten Eyck St.; Workers Center, 118 Cook St.; East New York Workers Club, 524 Vermont St.; Brownsville Work- ers Club, 1.8 Bristol St.; Benson- hurst Workers Club, 206 70th St.. QUEENS 8083 Second Ave., c-o W. L. Ward, second floor. RICHMOND. 871, Union Ave., Mariners Harbor, Staten Island. YONKERS, 252 Warburton Ave. One way to help the Soviet Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,’” by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy. ' straight time. Marine Co., issued an ultimatum for a reduction of wages from 85 cents to 70 cents per hour, and of overtime wages from $1.30 to $1.05 per hour, with Sunday work removed from the overtime list and considered as The Young Pioneers Drum Corps played, and revolutionary songs were sung. Cheers greeted the opening of the meeting by the Young Pioneer who was chosen head of the elected delegation of 30 children and parents te present the demands to Hester- berg. This delegation was so insi8- tent on seeing the Boro President that it was finally driven from the Boro Hall doors bystrong forces of police who occupied them. Many workers joined the Parents League, and many children asked to Join the Young Pioneers. The officials of the LLA. have fumbled, delayed, and fought to pla- cate the speeded, and largely unem- ployed rank and file on the one hand, and bargain with the ship owners on the other for some way of slipping over the wage cut that will save the face of Spencer and Presi- dent J. P, Ryan, of the ILA. It is significant that Spencer says of the last conference of LL.A. offi- cials, that though they “refused the companies’ offer because the men are starving now on about $15 a week because of short time work,” he also says: “No possibility of a strike was considered at the conference.” ‘The situation comes to a head Sep- tember 30, when the old contract ex~ pires. The contract was never en- forced by the L.L.A., but now there are to be open wage cuts. About 60,- 000 longshoremen will be affected by the cuts in Atlantic seaports. The Marine Workers Industrial Union. will be a center of resistance oe the wage cutting program of the Ip owners and the L.A, ne ‘ve NEW YORK.—The Committee of Veterans and the Workers Ex-ser~ vicemens’ League will present a peti- tion to the Board of Estimate at their meeting September 25 contain- ing grievances and demands on be~ half of the World War veterans who are now getting the meagres “re- lief” through the Department of Pub- lic Welfare. The committee presenting the de- mands will head a parade which will iSailors’ Wives biors| 'On Struggle Against! MacDonald _ Hunger Rote |Bo | | | | | F ahne Banned ss Press In France| Attacks Soviet Union | government to save the system from collapse have been intensified, struggle of the sailors ts being con- tinued and particularly on the part of their families. The militant ac- tions of the sailors resulted from the jnews from their families that the |MacDonald hunger budget was hit- i} the MacDonald hunger budget was taking the very last bit that kept them above the hunger line. was reported from Southampton as | follows: | “The wives of British sailors are taking the leading role in the cam- paign protesting pay cuts. It was | understood that the agitation among sailors was due chiefly to complaints from home that they | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) BE CRY OF N. Y. Six Demonstrations in eh Others in New Jersey NEW YORK.—Filled with indigna- tion at the revelations ae ad | Frank Spector, former priso! f Tom Mooney, of the latest pies 0 dispose of the Mooney case by | Killing Mooney through undermining | | his health, thousands of New York workers will gather at six demonstra- tions in six different parts of the city on Wednesday, September 23, and demand his immediate uncondi- tional release. The demonstrations, called by the New York District of the Interna- tional Labor Defense as part of the nation-wide campaign in behalf of class war prisoners, will also demand freedom for Warren K. Billings,: for the Harlan Negro and white miners facing charges of murder and crimi- nal syndicalism, for the nine Scotts- boro Negro boys, the Imperial Valley and Centralia prisoners, the Paterson five and all other militant workers now in capitalist jails. The six demonstrations will take place at the following points: Rut- gers Sq. at 7 p.m.; 110th St. and Fifth Ave., at 7 p.m.; Pennsylvania and Sutter Aves., Brownsville, at 8 pm.; Grand St. Extension and Have- meyer St., Williamsburg, at 8 p.m; Madison Sq. at 8 p.m., to be precedea by 15 street corner meetings in the neighborhood at 7 p.m.; a mass meet- ing at 138th St. Sind Cypress Ave., Bronx, at 7 p.m., to be followed bya parade ending with a mass demon~ stration at 7:45 at Longwood and Westchester Aves. Six demonstrations will also be held in New Jersey, September 23. Build a workers correspondence group in your factory, shop or neighborhood. Send regular letters to the Daily Worker, World War Vets to Make Demands on City Sept. 25 assemble at the foot of Broadway, opposite the Custom House on Fri- day morning about 11 o'clock Sep- tember 25, The general purpose of the peti- tion is to improve the condition of relief, which is inadequate, and to protest the degrading treatment re- ceived by the war veterans at the hands of the various investigators in charge of the cases Xen While the attempts of the British | the | ting sharply at their very lives, that | This | “FREE MOONEY” TO, heard | WORKERS SEPT. 23 On British Sailors BRITISH CRISIS. | GROWS ACUTE N. Y. Workers Rally In Solidarity Meet BULLETIN The House of Commons voted | today to authorize the MacDonaid | government to put through the “economy” measures of the new | National budget by means of Orders in Council. The Orders in Council are the open fascist meth- ods of the Socialist MacDonald to put through the wage cutting ard dole cutting program of the Brit'sh capitalist class. This is the open dictatorship of the capitalist class | Today the workers of | will rally in militant solidarity with | the British seamen in a huge demon- stration in Union Sq. at 2:39 pm From this meeting greet sent to the militant seamen workers of the city. |tion will also be a protest 2 | the sentencing to h of the ers of the revolt of the Chiles ors and against the mu: ror that has already been u fascist Wall St. government of C! against the seamen who partic! ed in the recent revolt. The conscious workers of New York 9 protest against thé attempts of the | Bennettgovernment to outlaw tt Commutiist Party of Canada thus deprive the working class of | Canada of revolutione leadership jin the resistance of the workers to the attacks of the capitalist class Among the workers organizations a New y the The demonstra- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE IVES 'BIGLAUNDRYMEET ‘LAYS FOUNDATION FOR REAL UNION Betrayers, Brooks and Bloom Try to Fool Workers With Lies Two hundred and fifty laundry workers disgusted with the sell out tactics and betrayals of the officials of the former Greater New York Laundry Workers’ Union, Inc., re- sponded to the call of the Organiza- tional Committee for -a mass meet- ing. The organizational committee was organized last Thursday, . Sept 10, at an emergency meeting of rank and file laundry workers following the sell out and the breaking up of the Greater New York by the two Officials, Brooks and Bloom, work- ing under the order of their higher- up racketeer, Larry Fay. At the mass meeting the workers enthusiastically applauded the pro- gram outlined by the organizational committee for a real union controlled by the workers and not for the in- terest of racketeers and politicians. A guest speaker from the Trade Union Unity League outlined for the workers the correct way of conduct- ing a rank and file union and was warmly applauded. The two politicians, Brooks and Bloom, were given the floor. They spoke for over an hour, trying to sidetrack their corrupt action in the former union by bringing in the “red scare” to fool the workers, the tac- tics used by every labor faker when they are cornered and don’t know how to defend themselves. This only exposed them more before the workers. The ex-president of the union that | he himself deliberately broke then tried to bring in the A. F. L. as a “life saver.” He painted “beautiful” pictures of the A. F. L., saying it was accepted and welcomed by the police, the courts and finally the bosses. This attempt to spread “oil over troubled waters” did not fool the. workers either, who already knew about the A. F. L. from the sell out in the Bronx of Local 810. The laundry workers now fully un- derstand the critical situation in their union created by the betrayers playing them into the hands of the bossee