The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1932, Page 3

tion with his friends. Correspondence Briefs IN SEA OF SHARKS (By a Worker Correspondent) HAVRE BOUCHER, Nova Scotia— I work 12 to 15 hours on the farm with the rest of my family of eight, | but there is no cash to be seen. What the farmer has to sell he must give away to get rid of it, but he is} charged the top price for manufac- tured goods. I have hides and woo) to sell, but what I can get for them | won't cover the price of a pair of shoes or a suit of clothing. I may earn a few dollars if con- struction starts on a proposed new highway. I am trying to repair my house, but it can be done only on strict credit, so if work starts T'll/ have a neat bill to pay off. Perhaps | T’ll have to mortgage our little place. | THE WILD WEST (By a Worker Correspondent) BOISE, Idaho—My folks have farmed in America for 316 years, and we are getting the hardest jolt we ever got. They were better off when they were surrounded by wild Indians than by organized “civilized” profi- teers and patriotic and religious racketeers. ‘The Liberty Party here used fascist methods to get their state secretary to resign. They held him under curess for three hours before he caved in, He is too liberal for them. | WAR MEDALS FOR SHOES (By a Worker Correspondent) TORONTO, Geroge H. Dinwiddle, | a Canadian ex-serviceman, wrote a/ letter to a local paper in which he offered, in exchange for a pair of! shoes, his war medals, consisting of the M. V. O,, the D. C, M., the Croix ce Gurre, three Great War and two/ South African awards: TERROR IN AKRON (By a Worker Correspondent.) .—Alsron police are ar- ry one they come across to 8c tisty the A. Polsky Co. Three men robbed tro of their clerks of $7,C'« cnd 100 ¢ more. persons have arrested cod put through the ird dezree behind closed doors. story says that the police drag their victims acrcss a large room by the hair on their heads. “DAILY? FUND $4,511.53 | Previews “total soo|the Tibetan army which is now 5.00 ! onstration, Woodridge N. X. 45.00 | Section 10 L. M. Nucleus, collected by N. Keosseian, City Section 1, Unit 1-A, City Jamaica Unit, Hicksvill Slutsky, City... ‘Tremont Worke Louis Losman, City Max Kaufman, City Unit 2, Section 6, City — Collected by A, Benefer, City —— Sam Berger, City L. Kaskewitz, City Section 1, Unit 2-C, Camp Transportatio Collected by D. Glassman, City Bookshop, City Seetion 15, City I. Rubinstein, City a ge : Hes & Ey =i hig 33322353 it, Committee, Ciky 833 3 Coney Island Workers, Club, City 10.00 East N. ¥. Schale 1 11,00 Basils, City 1.00 A. Hards, City —— 2.00 B. Lyans, City oe Henry Wieber, City ——________ Branen—I. W. 0. No, 122, Coney Island im ° H. George, Bi ear ee aan Sam_Dasser, Bronx ——_——__ Boro Park Workers’ Club, Brooklyn H. W. K,, thra Acme Theatre, City— Ada Marmus, Bronx Soeener Three Workers, Swan Lake, N. ¥.—— H. Schneider, ‘Brooklyn E. Unser, Clty ———______. H. A. Friedman, Woodbourne, N -¥.— Camp Unity, New York_________200. Collection at Conference, Manhattan Lyceum, N. ¥. ©, s Unit 11, Section 6, N. ¥.. DISTRICT 4—BUFFALO L. §. N. B., Buffale —____ Unit 4, Buffalo — Unit 4, Buffalo — Comrades of Nature Friends Camp, Syracuse —__ West Side Unemployed Center, W men’s Auxiliary Rochester Progressive Working Women's Council 2.00 Sam Essman and wife 2.00 Bruno Steiner - 1.00 Comrade Duoba — 2.00 E, Johnson 1.00 M. Kriwitza and wife 1.00 Comrades Silman and Drexler_______2.00 ‘Tkolienko ____. 1.00 Rizzio 2.39 Comrade Petersen 1.00 Rank and File Clothing Workers____ Mrs. Nichols and Anna Pultin_____ Lubitow, Scerkorich, Cherebko ——_ 8. Petine, Unit ¢ —___ Frank Angelini, Unit 6.50 G. Serio, Unit 6—____. G. Guiseppe, Unit 6 Grand Duke Gedimino Club 5.00 Workers’ International Relief 10.00 Collection at Labor Lyceum —____ 2.1 US. State Department ‘BRITISH ARMED |Dalai Lama, the temporal ruler of | with, the British authorities in India, |that the British Army headquarters jin India has already furnished the a“ artillery, a large supply of shells, 0 | golia toward the southern borders of = the execution of Sallai and Fuerst. Nanking Court Violates Chinese Law To Carry | Through Frame-up at Behest of British Tremendous World-Wide Protest Necessary to} Free Rueggs and Prevent Their Murder in Nankir;; Dungeons (Cable by Inprecorr) SHANGHAI, Aug. 21—After a mockery of a trial in the Nanki | Court, Paul and Gertrude Rueggs (Noulens) were s2 commutzticn of the sentence to life imorisonm in effect, a death sontence, since the point that political prisoners do not Icng survive in its prisons, TIBETAN ARMY Inspired. Dr rive On) Soviet Mongolia Ina statament issued in Nanking, | |China, on Saturday, the Panchen | Lama, or spiritual head of Tibet, exposes the present armed Tibetan movement asainst Soviet Mongolia as | inspired and financed by the British imperiolists. He charged that the Tibet, had concluded a secret pact aimed at securing the violent separa- tion of Tibet from China and tight- ening British control over Tibet, The secret agreement contains five points, he declared. The first three points call for preferential treatment for British goods, concessions to the British to exploit Tibetan mineral resources, to open British banks in the country and to have first rghts on the financng of Tbetan loans. The other two points call for the ejection of Chinese troops from Tibet, and pledge British military aid to the Dalai Lama in carrying out this and other projects not named in the secret agreement but understood to have been discussed verbally. The Panchen Lama further charges Tibetan forces with 40 pieces of field 2,000 service rifles and 2,000,000 rounds of ammunition. These supplies were furnished to striking through western Inner Mon- Soviet Mongolia. Heavy fighting is reported to be occurring between the Tibetan invaders and Chinese pro- vincial troops in Szerhuan Province and Inner Mongolia, The Nanking Government is withholding support from tHe provincial troops in their resistance to the invasion. In an article on Saturday, the-So- viet newspaper “Pravda” reviews the situation and points out: “The general aims of British pol- icy in Tibet have not changed since 1914. The Dalai Lama and the whole feudal aristocratic clique which rules in Tibet are little more than puppets for the establishment of a greater Tibet. British im- perialism hopes, in that way, to strengthen its influence over the western province of China, and in particular over Chinese Turkestan, which lies directly on, the Soviet frontier.” The British-directed Tibetan drive against Soviet Mongolia is accom- panied at the same time by a rapid concentration of Japanese troops on the eastern frontier of Soviet Mon- golia, 25 NEW ARRESTS MADE IN HUNGARY (Cable By Inprecorr-) BERLIN, Aug. 20.—It was just re- vealed that the Hungarian police made about 25 new arrests in the last few days. Several left-wing so- cialists, including the well-known authors, Madzar and Sandor, editors of the Socialist Economic Journal, were arrested. The leader of the political police, Hetenyi, ordered ciie press to refrain from publishing the news of the socialists and played a prominent role arrests. Madzar is a university pro- fessor, a leader of the left-wing in the bourgeois revolution. He is said to have joined in protests against Madzar’s courageous opposition to the Horthy terror caused his exptl- sion from the Socialist Party. The police declared that the arrests were Tries to Hide Facts On Tenhunen’s Arrest NEW YORK.—The United States State Department, working hand-in- hand with the fascist government of Finland, has refised to make any satisfactory investigation of the de- tention of Matti Tenhunen, Ameri- can worker held in Helsingfors on vague charges of “Communistic ac- tivity,” the International Labor De- fense announced yesterday. A prom- ise to investigate the case has re- sulted so far only in a verification of the fact that Tenhunen is held, and a statement that he had money to buy tobacco and was in communica- Corarades:—I enclose .. es UIC TR SOE od Addross’ Me. ee N SUBSCRIPTION RATES; one year, $6; six Boroughs | SUBSCRIBE NOW: TOR NEWS OF THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE i OVER WORLD TEVERY DA pay! sssrsrseeeseesss..8ub to the DAILY WORKER. Please send me your list of premiums. FREE Premiums with all subs! mbattan and Bronx, New York made “in connection with the arrival of ® new Comintern emissary,” re- Lites that an illegal printing shop ith modern machinery was discov- ben and its manager arrested. Among the arrested are Sebes and Pohl, whom the police charge with carrying on the work of SaJlai and Fuerst. The police alleged that the “secret communist organization” dis- covered is the same organization which Sallai and Fuerst led. The authorities deny that a deci- sion already taken places the accused before the exceptional court, which can only sentence to death, but the danger is intense, as is shown by the insistence of the police that the arrested continued the work of Sallai and Fuerst. - UNITED STATES AND ALL dasa Qed in pia c Mias watele ROR .. State ... Ask for complete list! mnths, $3; two one $1; excepting Rueggs Sentenced to Life‘ Terms in Farcical Trial \copy of the list of the three steel |boxes confiscated by the police and need to death, with | Tre sentence remains, | er rgime makes it a| Nanking The frame-un nature of the arrest and trial of the two accused is glar- ingly revealed in the following points (the accused ¥ handed over to the Nanking butchers together with man- ufeciured evidence by the British- centrolled International Settlement police): (1) One hundred documents were allegedly found in the rooms of the accused by the police in the absence of the accused or other reliable wit- nesses; (2) the original lists of the documents were not presented during the trial; (3) there was not even a alleged to be the property of the ac- cused, There was no explanation of the fact that none of the keys found on the accused fitted any of these steel boxes, which were broken open by the police. (4) In violation of Chinese law the accused were trans- ferred from the Civil Court in Shang- hai to the Exceptional Court at Nan- king, upon orders of the Nanking Government, in order to more easily deprive the accused of their defense rights. (5) Both courts were accused by the defendants of inhuman treat- ment, endangering their health and lives, (6) The defendants were re- fused the right to employ their own lawyers. (7) Numerous witnesses cited by the prosecution in its at- tempt to build up a case in the press did not appear in court. (8) The defendants were refused the right to present important evidence, which would ‘have cleared the defendants. (9) The Chinese court int eters were thoroughly incapable and served the prosecution with deliberate mis- representation and distortions of the statements by the accused. (10) The protocol of the proceedings was writ- ten in Chinese text, with only spoken translations in English, and with the court refusing to order a written translation into English. (11) The greater part of the documents were not shown to the accused at all. (12) Policemen were accepted as “im- partial experts and witnesses,” for instance, Mason as a handwriting “expert.” (13) On the last day of the trial the accused were dragged from the court room because they protested against the refusal of the court to permit them to make a clos- ing speech in defense, while the prosecutor was permitted to make his closing speech in the absence of the accused, at the same time using his closing speech to introduce new ma- boring which was not previously dealt The Ruegg Defense Committee, headed by Madame Sun Yat-Sen, has issued a statement condemning the verdict as a lynch verdict and world to renew more vigorously the protest against this outrageous per- secution of the Rueggs by the Brit- ish imperialists and their Nanking lackeys, Report Nine Attacks On Nicaraguan Rebels In Last Eight Days WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Detach- ments of the Nicaraguan National Guard, officered by United States marines, had nine engagements with groups of the Nicaragua National Army of Liberation since August 12, Lieutenant Colonel Calvin B. Mat- thews reported to the Navy Depart- ment yesterday, Eight members. of the Army of Liberation were killed and many wounded, he said. Surprise attacks upon contingents of the Army of Liberation were re- ported yesterday gn a dispatch from Managua. Emergency Relief for the Poor farmers w:thout restrictions by the government and banks; exemption of poor farmers from taxes, and This photo was teken in a summer camp to which the Soviet working youth go on their annual paid vacatien, YORK, MON » AUGUST 22, 1932 ‘ADOPT PLAN TO FINANCE THEIR COMING STRUGGLE , | Elect Leadership ae Outline Objectives, Program of Work PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 21.—‘“All |factors are making for greater strug- gles, in the steel industry and in others,” said William Z. Foster, gen- Young Soviet Tramway Workers Greet U.S. Youth Work 7-Hour day, Paid for Studying ; Ask About Conditions Here Moscow, U. 8. Ss. R. Dear Comrades: The Komsomol and non-Party young workers of the Tramway Park, | bearing the name of Comrade Buk- harin, want to tell you about their | life and work. In 1913 the park consisted of 40 two-car and one-car units and em-|} ployed 40 people. At present the | park consists of 93 three-car units| with 2,000 workers employed. The workers employed in the tramway operation work from 1:30 in the morning until 3:30 in the! afternoon, with one hour for lunch.| For 45 copecks we can get a good din-| ner. During dinner we have con- certs and discussions. The conductors and motormen work in three shifts—7 hours each. The average pay of the third cate- gory is, for conductors, 130 roubles, and motormen 165 roubles a month. The average speed of a car in our} park is 18 kilometers an, hour against 14 in the plan, The failure to fulfill the plan is due to the overcrowded Moscow streets. With the constryc- tion of the subway (it is already in the process of construction) the av- erage speed of the cars will increase. 300 Families Get New Apartments. Our enterprise constructed two new houses, at its own expense, for 200 workers’ families. Besides, 100 fam- ilies were moved into good houses, | shows high-grade discipline. |; there at 8:30 in the morning. States. He was addressing, amidst! cheers of the delegates, the last ses- sion of the three-day (Aug. 13 to 15) founding convention here of th: Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union. “Those who attempt to draw che steel workers into the Amalgamated | Association of Iron, Steel and Tir} Workers are acting to destroy their movement,” Foster also stated. “For ” which eens belonged to the|25 years,” he said, “the A. A. has | bourgeoisie. |been used to prevent organization. | At our park one line is run ex- | Leaders ihe DW. Date sen Mike | Tighe are just stool pigeons. In the |elusively by young workers. They) strike of 1919 I spent 50 per cent | fulfilled their speed norm, which} lof my time fighting this rat, Davis. | They|The A. A. leaders have had an un-!“ received premiums more than once.|derstanding all along with the U. S. We have a study combine which/Steel Corporation that the Associa prepares us to be qualified workers| tion will leave U. S. Steel plants Jand spzclalists. ‘This combine pro: |#9ne.” m6 F Peeling off coats sitting vides all necessities free of charge.| through the night in committee | We have 96 young workers studying | meetings, delegates developed the or- | in the combine. ganizational basis for their coming) We get two weeks’ vacation with|fight on the magnates of the heavy | full pay every year. Last spring \and light metal industry. nearly all our young workers re- Agree On Constitution. | ceived two weeks’ vacation in rest} The job of completing the consti- homes free of charge. [ees was deferred, but agreement | and s was reached on all important points} The One-Day Rest Home. of principle. The ae aratiing of] Often we go for our rest day to'the constitution was left to the na- the one-day rest homes. We arrive tional committee, which will circu-| The, late its draft to the membership. day begins with physical culture ex-!Final adoption will be by referen-| ercises. Then breakfast—milk, eggs,| dum. tea or coffee. Before dinner wehave| Finances were the knottiest point mass games, excursions in the vicin-|0f discussion, opinion being divided | ity, rowing, ete. between those who thought the steel} leral secretary of the Trade Union! | Unity League and Communist nom- inee for President of the United | | of the Steel and Metal Workers Build A Fighting Union Lorraine Mills Forcing Weavers to Buy Uniforms PROVIDENCE, Lorraine in the General Fabric ral Falls two years ago. to introduce the tem in the Lorraine mill, ary the weavers here x wage cuts. In Jane ing little enough, But now they And those Automatic loom system L Aus 21.—The wage cut. 1 ordered to wear w itheir work, at |Everyone who kno |about weaving rea means a uniform “wage cuts, and weavers, monstrous new imposi« jonly $14 a w ring a white uniform so the mouths nice*when buyers come spend it for “w ational Textile Workers The idea is thi If Lorraine superintendent of and the man who put over the WALKER, LEWIS THREATEN MINERS | alker Program for Continuous Cuts [Ohio S Steel Workers Resisting Swarm of Spies, Splitters YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Aug. 21. —Like flies and imsects which |swarm around a cake baked by a housewife are fakers and reac- ens | |tiomaries flocking and sending SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. 21. — | | their organizers into the Youngs- “Weeping Johnny” Walker, president | | town steel distritt to disrupt the jof the Ilinois district (District 12) | | building of the union by the Metal Steel Workers Industrial Union. Organizers of the Metal Workers Industrial League, who have been active in building the | Union, report that the I. W. W., | Socialist Labor Party, Musteites jand A. F. of L. fakers are in the | field creating confusion and trying to disrupt the splendid work | which has been done by the or- United Mine Workers and| | and international President Lewis of the U. M. W. continue their strikebreak- ing tactics. Walker yesterday issued a flam- boyant statement denouncing the |strike and demanding the Illinois miners take the $1.10 wage cut. His reasons given are that miners work for 20 cents a ton in Kentucky, for 13 cents a ton in western Pennsyl-| |S@nizers of the Metal Workers |vania, and the Ilinois scale leaves| | Industrial League. — them 68 cents a ton. | | Following the National Conven- tion in Pittsburgh, a special cam- }paign will be launched to build a powerful union in every mill in | the Youngstown steel district. Walker fails to point out the fact | that the low wages in Kentucky and Pittsburgh district are due to U. M. W. A. officials strikebreaking and to their treachery in making just | RARE LABORED RS STERNER Tne, wage-cutting contracts as Walker! authorities to suppress picketing and and Lewis have signed in Ilinois. meet the marching miners with vio- ‘The miners begin to see that if the|lence. Lewis says: “Any man who Ilinois wage cuts go over further|expects to work in the future in the |wage cuts in Pennsylvania and Ken-|coal mines will inevitably be obliged | After dinner is rest hour. Then, tea. At 8 o'clock in the evening is| supper. In the evening there are concerts, performances, motorboats. Dear comrades, please write in de-| tail about the conditions of your work and how you spend your leisure time. With comradely greetings, Denskov, Lsrniacov, Prokhorov, Plankoya. SOVIETS SCORE NEW TRIUMPH Complete ‘Lar gest Power Project In World A new triumph of the ‘proletarian energy employed in the successful} construction of Socialism in th¢| Soviet Union will be celebrated this Thursday, when the. largest hydro- electric power project in the world} will be officially completed and dedi- cated. Bt A Giant Préject. The gigantic project called the) Dnieprostroy and including a power plant, a dam on the Dnieper River, a) Socialist city of 100,000 inhabitants | and several other enterprises, costs about $4200,000,000. Up to 50,000 workers participated in the accom- plishment of this project, completed in slightly more than five years.) The project testifies to the capacity of Soviet planning ang engineering. The chief construction engineer was A. V. Winter, Soviet engineer, who} was assisted by a staff of high-grade! Soviet collaborators. Colonel Hugh L. | Cooper, American Engineer, was con- sulting engineer. Square miles, with a population of 16,000,000. Its great storage of water will provide irrigation for thousands — of acres of farm land on the sur- rounding steppe. The power plant of the Dniepros- troy has nine hydraulic turbines with @ generating capacity of 763,000 horsepower which surpass the gen- erating capacity of Niagara Falls, as- certained at 430,000 horsepower, and | that of Muscle Shoals, which stands at 612,000 horsepower. A coke, a chemical. and an alum- aa plant is also part of the Nniep-j| rostroy. | In addition to the above-men- | tioned features the Dnieper River has |been opened to deep-draft vessels | throughout its entire. length of 1,300 | miles, providing a navigable way from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Soviet Harvest Shows Marked Gain; Exnect Bumper Cotton Crop MOSCOW, Aug. 2 21.—The harvest figures for the third five-day period of August have been more than sat- isfactory, cutting a big piece out of the deficit in the plan caused by heavy rains in the North Caucasus jregion. State grain collections improved |30 per cent over the previous five-day |period. The machine and tractor sta- tions have completed 80 per cent of no forced collecton Of rents or debts. The , Dnieprostroy will provide; power for industrial and domestic use} to a territory of more than 170,000 their program. The cotton harvest began Friday in Central Asin, Th> crop is expected to be a bumper one. NEW YORK WORKERS ORGANIZE TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER Meeting in Manhattan Lyceum Set Up Provisional Committee of Friends of Paper Workers Present Pledge Support to Raise $18,000; Work Out Plans to Hold Wide Conferences At a meeting of 100 representatives and active workers for the Daily Worker, called to take intense \meas- ures to save the Daily Worker from suspension, held in Manhattan Ly- ceum on last Wednesday, a provision- al committee. of nine members were elected to call a conference to mobil- ize support of New York workers for the Daily Worker. Following the report of Comrade Weinstone on the situation and tasks of the Daily Worker, a collection was made on the spot and proposals were made from the floor for a broad cir- culation of the Daily among the bea in the shops and neighbor- Comrade Weinstone pointed out that the cause of the financial crisis in which the Daily Worker finds it- self at the present moment is due to the delay in making the regular semi-annual campaign. The Daily, he stated, always worked at a deficit ayd can be maintained only by regu- Jar contributions from the workers. modic and irregular, because of the lack of an organized conference based on committees and workers’ organi- zations to carry it on, Role of Daily He pointed out the role of the Daily in the present situation against the capitalist offensive, the growing pop- ularity of the paper and at the same time a number of weaknesses with respect to its role as an organizer of mass struggles. He stated that the Worker editorial staff, along with the Party, is conscious of these weaknesses and was making a sys- tematic attempt to overcome them, 4s already shown from the improve- ment of the Daily. He above all urged that a firmer connection be established between the Daily and the mass organizations through the setting is ra Leh pe of worker correspon + formation of groups of friends of the Daily Worker and above all by the formation of commit- tees consisting of one to three mem- The organization of these contribu- tions, however, is faulty, too spas- bers in mass tions, factories, ete, This assure at all times regular support A number of speakers participated in the discussion and all evinced great eagerness in supporting the Daily and enlarging its influence. Upon a motion from the floor, a pro- visional committee was elected whose main task is the building up of com- mittees in mass organizations and calling the next conference, The provisional committee consists | of P. Berman, Brownsville Workers | Club; Rosenfeld, Bronx Workers Clu! I. Greenberg, American Youth Club; J. Williams, T. Hartman, of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union; Saunders, Young, of the Workers Ex-Servicemen's League, and Carroll, of the Hinsdale Workers Club. This committee is to enlarge itself with representatives from trade unions, factories, etc. After the meeting of the committee, the date of the next conference will be set. In the meantime, workers are urged to take up the appeal, to send their contributions, to spread e circulation lists and to build the committees, workers could not pay the $1 initia- | tion fee proposed, and those who| thought they would value the organ-| ization more highly if they paid, even} though the payment were in install-| ments. The $1 initiation fee was) adopted in the end. Dues are to be| paid according to a sliding scale, the lamount varying with the member’s| earnings in the previous two weeks. | Unemployed are to pay 5 cents every j two weeks. While looking forward to the ulti: mate adoption ef the 6-hour day | with the same daily wage as is now paid, the constitution committee rec- ommended that the union confine it- self for the present to a general de- mand for the 7-hour day and 40-hour week, plus a demand for the 6-hour day without reduction in pay for the workers in the hot-mill and on other dangerous and unhealthy jobs. Political Stand. | The constitution contains no speci- | fic endorsement of any political party, | |but calls for political action on the |basis of the class struggle Jack) | Stachel, assistant secretary of the} Trade Union Unity League, explained that such political action is an ab-) solutely necessary prerequisite for the carrying on of the simplest strike| and agitational activity, but that the policy was to let the general board of the union decide in each political campaign which party best carried our the principles of the class strug- gle. He added that as a Communist| he of course hoped his Party would! be endorsed, but would play ball if it was not. Workers of all political) beliefs and religious creeds are ha come in the union, Stachel stressed. Later a resolution was adopted de- claring that “in the coming election campaign only the Communist Party} fights for and represents the inter-/} ests of the workers.” Rank and File Rule. It was also stressed by the com- mittee on constitution that the opin- ion of the broad masses of the work- ers would govern the policies of the) union, and the contrast was Grawn|) in this respect between the S. M. W- I. U. and the autocratic unions affili- ated with the A. F. of L. The spirit cf the later sessions of the convent-« vas markedly busi- nesslike, with arp differences of opinion which were looked on as a healthy sign. The credentials committee reported that additions in later sessions brought the total number of dele- gates to 155, including the fraternal delegates. “Triple Alliance.” Important resolutions were adopted as a basis for the work of the new union. One foreshadowed the luti- mate setting up of a “triple alliance” of steelworkers, miners and railroad workers, and outlined a procedure for | developing joint action in these three industries. Another resolution declaring that! “the outlook of our union is more and broader strike struggles,” called on all leading committees and mill and shop organizations, in preparing for strikes, to organize strike relief funds. The officers of the union were instructed to approach the Workers’ International Relief, both national and district. offices, and joinuy work out the plans to sct up W. I. R- branches in all metal and} steel manufacturing centers. Against Deportation. Another resolution pointed out that “already over 1,000 unemployed Mexican workers have been deported from the northern Indiana steel towns to prevent their fighting against wage-cuts.” The resolution called for struggle to force the im- mediate cessation of deportation of foreign-born workers. Defense Committees. Defense against boss terrorism should be organized in the shops and outside of them, together with the International Labor Defense, the jeruited into the defense comm tucky will be endorsed by the U. M. W., then new wage cuts to “equalize the operators’ profit will be ordered |by Walker and Lewis in Illin |miners want to stop the wage cut- ting right here, and now. Lewis continues to issue statements and calling on state The| to the press denouncing the strike | to work under the provisions of the |contract” (for $1.10 wage cut). | Lewis and Walker signed the wage cut contract in Illinois in the face of two referendums in which the min- ers voted against it- The Walker machine stole the tally sheets of the last referendum and refuse to admit and county the vote was against the cut. Not Individual Ac By JOHN STEUBEN The Franky Madden gang operates jon the New York waterfront for | Ryan of the International Longshore- men Association; the “Strawberry” and “Murder” gangs “working” for the garment manufacturers and their crats. In fact, in each industry, a gang operates, first of all against the |militant and, class-conscious workers. This is not only true of New York, but rather a general characteristic throughout the industrial centers of the county. In Chicago, C: a hand in the trade un period of years. In the coal fields this dirty work is done by deputized gunmen. Down South the Negroes are continually attacked by well- or- ganized gangs of whites. financed and backed by the white landowners and manufacturers. Gangdom is a serious menace to the organized as well as unorganized workers. Inside the A. F. of L., es- pecially in those unions where the bureaucracy has completely lost -the confidence of the workers, the gangs are called in to terrorize the rank and file into submission, endangering ret only the workers’ jobs, but many times their very lives. Thousands of dollars are spent every month from the treasuries of the unions for the maintenance of the sluggers. Only recently it was exposed that the Amalgamated alone has spent over a million dollars on gangsters. Dozens of militant workers were murdered, hundreds were crippled for life. As is well known, each gang has its own “law and order,” which, of course, always works hand in glove witih the police department and its “red squad,” “bomb squad,” “industrial squad,” “radical squad,” etc. Clash In Strikes The unorganized workers |gangdom when they are on against: wage cuts, In s atio: the gangs supply scabs and protect them, smash up picket , beat up active strikers, particip ate in frame- meet union will organize a defense com- mittee to work with and become a part of the I. L. D. Workers members of the union should re- also. The most important tion, that on organiz: ready for the convention, a: referred to the national board, Elect National Commitice. Thirty members were elected to the national committee of the Steel and. Metal Workers’ Industrial Union by the convention. They come from| nine states and all the most impor- tant centers. Four were youth mem-| bers, two were women, five were Ne- gro members, The national committee will meet every three months, and the leador- ship in the meantime will be carried) on by a national board of nine, resi- dents af districts near the national ingle resolu- not qd was convention decided-. Eagh local headquarters in Pittsburgh. jright hand—the A, F. of L. bureau- | fr tion But Mass Defense Against Gangs Bosses Thugs More Active In All Strikes; Meet Them With Largest Possible Force fe The nature of workers’ defense organization against these attacks, as well as its role in the struggle, will |depend on its mass character. Mass |defense can be accomplished only if jit is developed on a genuine united ‘ont basis, of workers from the | Shops, unemployed, from the ranks of the A..F. of L., Trade Union Unity Le@gue, and workers from fraternal organizations! In other words organ- ized from the bottom and centralized |from the top. Not Small Groups | The bulk of the workers involved must be those who daily participate in the various phases of the classs struggle and not “specially picked for this purpose.” We must reject all ideas of defense as the mere organi- zation of a few “groups.” This ‘will not be mass defense. We cannot |pattern workers mass defense on the jmodel of the enemy organization. Their’s consist of specially paid bodies of gangsters. Our Defense must rest on the broad masses, must |draw in the workers, as only by the strength of the masses can the gangs be smashed. The establishment of mass defense is not just an organizational task. | Without the development of genuine working class solidarity this para- mount task will not be accomplished. Concretely, this means the overcom- ing of narrow craft practices which are so widespread in the ranks of our unions. When the shoe workers strike, the food workers will not par- ticipate; when the food workers strike the needle workers will not participate, ete. Especially is this |bad habit clearly expressed in the |struggle against injunctions. | Because defense was not organized . on a mass scale, because the political | significance of it was not popularized | among the workers, we find that from |time to time bad and costly mistakes made, as, for example, actions do not correspond with the importance of the particu- e struggles, with the result that the workers do not participate * ups, ete. a it thus becomes individual action. | When 1,900 Act | Many times when our comrades are |slugged, there is a feeling among me of our comrades to go out and “me a job on the gangsters.” Of co: @, not one blow our workers re- ceive shall be allowed to pass by, but this shall not become the task of only specialized committees, but of | masses of workers. Two weeks ago a ju : striker was beaten up by gang ters. Comrade Gold, the leader of the union, reported this to a thou- furriers and called upon them |to drive the gang out of the fur mar- |ket. In not more than ten. minutes |a thousand went out into the fur |market. This is a good example of mass defense, where the matter was jnot left to small committees ‘sisme, All attempts to substitute mass de- \fense by individual action must be |met with open criticism and imme- \diate correction, But the best way yi leeenase cy eee ae defense. ?