The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1933, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1933 Page Three Jobless Councils Make Demand for U. S. Congre International Notes By ROBERT HAMILTON COMMUNIST GAINS IN TORONTO TORONTO, Jan. 3 (By Mail) —In the municipal elections held yester- day Mrs, Tim Buck, wife of the im prisoned Communist Party leader, polled the largest revolutionary vote ever cast in any Canadian city, re- ceiving 10,236 votes as candidate for Controller. This splendid total com- pares with 5,900 polled by Tim Buck a few weeks before he entered King- ston Penitentiary in January, 1932. ‘The campaign was managed by the Workers’ United Front Conference. The huge rise in the Communist vote is the result of a tireless and effec- tive campaign among the Toronto workers for unemployment relief. Congratulations to our brother Party across the Northern berfler! ee THE GODS OF WAR! “Munitions plants, airplane factor- ies and navy yards of the Old World are working overtime providing the sinews of war, while a disarmament conference, lasting nearly a year, has failed to reduce armament by a single gun, or a single ship. WHY DOES EUROPE REFUSE TO DISARM?” This quotation from a United Press release indicates the age-old tactics of the capitalist news agencies. Writ- ing for the American public, they portray the militarism of the Euro- pean powers, but say not a word about the giant Edgewood poison gas arsenal, or the latest engines of de- struction designed in the United States for the army artillery. It’s always the other fellow who's the militarist, never one’s own capitalist class. That's how supposed pacifist propaganda lulls the American work- ing class to sleep—always pointing out the foreign powers’ war prepara- tions, and then—when war breaks out—piously rushing to the defense of “peaceful” American imperialism! HOOVER SAYS U.S. WAR BASE NEEDED “hilippines Are Aimed of Japanese (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) “abinet joined in similar representa- tions to Congress. Stimson declared that maintenance of the present sta- tus of open control of the islands was necessary to protect “U. S. prestige and influence”—that is, the interests and prestige of Wall Street imperial- ists. He hinted at the imminence of war with Japan, stating that “out of the orient may again come one of ‘hose historic movements which might disturb the whole earth.” Charges of Japan War Office. The Japanese boss press immedi- ately took up the accusations of the Japanese War Office that the U. S. was aiding Nanking with loans and munitions. The Japanese War Office charged specifically: “A& supply of arms to China, es- pecially to Chang Hsiao-ling (com- mander in North China), has een made principally by the United States and Germany, !Americans_ selling the Chinese airplanes and motor cars, mostly delivered in Shanghai and the Germans deliy- ering guns and machine guns to Tientsin,” American munition makers, with the sanction of the Wall Street gov- ernment, have been shipping vast supplies of war materials to Japan for its robber war on China and its plans for armed intervention against the Soviet Union. Thus the U. S. munition makers have been collecting blood profits from both sides, while attempting to egg on the Japanese imperialists to attack the Soviet Union. Most of the war material shipped by U.S. interests to China have been designed for use against the Chinese Red Armies and the revolutionary masses. This is known to the Japa- nese imperialists, but the latter now fear that the Nanking tools of ‘world imperialism will no longer be able to stem the tremendous anti-imperialist upsurge throughout China, with mass indignation sweeping the | entire country as a result of the new Japa- hese aggressions. In addition, the Japanese advance into North China Shanhaikwan) is threatening the U. S. spheres of influence and al- ready has been met with a threat from U. S. military attaches in China of U.-S. activities which would give Japan “a military problem of suf- ‘cient magnitude to delay indefinitely voy possible intention of adventuring in a political or military way between she Yeflow River and the Great Wall.” ECUADOR RUSHES TROOPS TO WAR Colombia “Prepares A Joint Sea, Air Attack The Government of Ecuador yes- terday rushed additional troops to the Leticia region as the Peruvian and Colombian forces prepared for a resumption of the undeclared war for which the armed forces of five nations have been mobilizing during thg past month, Colombian warships and transports which have been delayed at Manaos, Brazilian river port on the Amazon, are reported ‘paring to proceed up the river to the Leticia region, The Colombian command is planning a joint attack from air and water on POPE COVERS UP WARS NOW ON Latest Bull. Calls for “Peace of Death” ROME, Jan. 16—Pope Pius, for- merly: Cardinal Ratti, one of the chief organizers of the Polish-French invasion of the Soviet Union in 1920, and commonly known in diplomatic circles as “the French pope, has shown himself once more to be a disciple of the modern school of ad-j vertising and publicity. All Time Record. With the issuing of his latest bull the present pope has established an! all-time record. Including his latest. pronouncement Pope Pius has issued more bulls, encyclicals and other statements than all his preceding oc- cupants of the Vatican did in two and one-half centuries. The world crisis of capitalism accounts for this. His latest effusion, “Quod Super,” (meaning “since the last one”)) de- crees a “holy year of peace.” With that disregard of reality that is pe- culiarly the apparent privilege of the head of Holy R. C. Apostile Church, (there are more workers and péas- ants conscripted for and engaged in imperialist butchery than at any time since 1914-18) the pope states: “It is this peace which Christ re- deemed brought to the world, affix- ing to his cross his sentence of death which was transformed into a sen- tence of salvation. It is this peace which we wish proclaimed through- out the world during the holy year.” What It Really Means. The social content of the Papal bull is, of course; the “Pa~ Romana,” the ‘peace of death,” (“he fcund a nation and left a desert’”—Ca for the working class groaning under the. blows of the world offensive of the pope’s supporters, the capitalist rulers. The working class should take it on the chin now and live in hopes of pie in the sky after death. This is what the Papal bull really means. It is a document for “class peace” and a justification of capital- ist robbery. Cae Eas VICIOUS MEERUT CASE SENTENCES Savage Exile for India. Revolutionists (Cable By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Jan. 16.—Vicious senten- ces were pronounced today in the} Meerut “case, the longest case in Indian ‘history, which lasted three and a half years. Muzaffar Ahmed was exiled for) life; five others, including Spratt, member of the British Communist Party, received 12 years exile; three including Bradley were exiled for ten years; three more for seven years; four for five years; six, includ- ing Hutchinson, were condemned to four years’ rigorous imprisonment; and five to five years’ imprisonment, of which three years are to be rig- orous.: Three were acquitted. The exiled prisoners will probably | be sent to the penal settlement of the atrocious Andaman Islands, whch ~is practically equivalent to a death sentence. The Meerut prisoners were ar- rested in 1929 on charges of “con- spiracy” because of their activity in organizing a general strike. British imperialism, including its erstwhile “Labor” government, kept them in jail all this time under the most ter- rible conditions. Workers, farmers and intellectuals throughout the world are called on to protest these savage sentences and to demand the release of these heroic fighters for Indian freedom, | Force Down Rents in Your r Own Home! How to do it: 1. Call together all the tenants in your house for a meeting. 2. Talk over the conditions in your house at the meeting. Have the wages of the tenants been cut? Has the rent been reduced? If not, why? Does the house need repairs? Do the tenants want to elect a committee to go to the landlord to ask for cheaper rents? What does everybody think about striking for cheaper rent (refusing to pay any rent), in case the land- lord refuses? etc. 2. After every tenant has had his say, then elect a house com- mittee to go to the landlord to ask for cheaper rent, necessary re- pare, no evictions of unemployed, Cc. 3. With a solid organization and house committee, you can force cheaper rents by striking and fighting. 4. Get in touch with your block committee or neighborhood unem- ployed council when you start your strike, and be sure to let the “Daily” know about it. Now is the time! Hundreds of tenants are winning cheaper rents by striking against the landlords of New York City today! Organ- ize and fight for cheaper rents, and better conditions in YOUR HOUSE! FOR SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION Letters on the following sub- jects will be published as a group in the Worker Correspondence Section, making special distribu- tion at strategic places more ef- fective: Frday, Jan. 20.—Letters on dis- crimination practices against Ne- groes. Saturday, Jan, 21.—Letters from farmers. Tuesday, Jan, 22.—Letters from || railroad workers, Thursday, Jan, 24.—Letters from steel and metal workers. | Workers Assocation. | ious institutions, through a struggle CARLOADS OF ARMY BULLETS (By a Worker Correspondent.) BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—Reming- |ton Arms shipped four or five) carloads of army bullets to New York City on Tuesday, Dec. 27, by | way of the Thames River Line, ar- riving in New York City Wednes- day morning, Dec, 28. There they were ‘transferred to the Old Do- | minion S. S. Line for shipment the Same day at noon, the shipment marked for Los Angeles, Remington Arms also shipped two carloads of army bullets to New York by the Thames River Line Thursday morning, arriving in New York City Friday at 3 a.m. ria 30,° marked for Newburgh, PHILA. ILD BLOCKS VISCIOUS JUDGE Defends NegroWorker from Jim-Crow Attack PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 16— Attempts made by Judge George G. Parry to over-ride a jury verdict acquitting Jesse Griffin an unem- ployed Negro father, by getting him to sign for a $250 peace bond, and to terrorize, Jennie Cooper, representa- tive of the International Labor De- fense, who protested this outrage, failed completely. Jesse Griffin, was arrested and locked up several months ago for carrying hand-bills scoring the relief authorities Tor discrimination in handing out the few miserable store orders. The judge called Jennie Cooper into court demanding retraction of a telegram of protest sent to him on the case but met with a flat refusal. She° demanded, instead, that the judge axnologize to the hungry mas- ses of Philadelpha and the victim of his class “justice.” Mass pressure mobilized by the ILD compelled the Judge to discharge Jennie Cooper. A fight is now being waged for the unt conditional release of Griffin. Party Wins Ballot Place in Important Steel Center of Ind. GARY, Ind.—In spite of the out- right intimidation of workers at the polls, disfranchisement and theft of Communist votes, the Party won a permanent place on the ballot in this immensely important steel and industrial center—Lake County. Here, Foster received 646 votes, Norman Thomas 1,474 and Reynolds of the 8..L. P., 197. Although Communist watchers were excluded from all the polling places in Indianapolis, and other places, the Communist Party is cred- ited with a total of 2,129 votes for Indiana, registering an enormous in- crease over 1928, “Y” GIRLS LEARN HOW TO FIGHT MILITANTLY New York, N. Y. I am an unemployed office worker, @ member of the Unemployed Office A number of members, including myself, have received shelter at var- at the Emergency Relief Bureau. I am staying at the Young Women’s Association. As far as work is con- cerned we have been forgotten. In order to combat this attitude, a del- egation went up to see Mr. Belmont, head of the Women’s Division. Two office workers, living at the “Y,” unemployed said they would cqme with our delegation. At. first they were very hesitant about de- manding relief. But we explained to them that they were not individ- ual cases, They were but two of thousands, The emergency was col- Jecting funds in their name. After a while they were convinced. We went with them to the emer- gency. Surprisingly, these girls who have been so backward, demanded relief in the name of the Unem- ployed Office Workers’ Ass'n, a mili- tant organized group. An interest- ing feature is that they are not grateful to th’ Emergency. They absolutely resent being without work and forced to demand relief. They are more grateful to our organization for supporting them in their fight for immediate cash relief. They have promised to continue the strug- gle under our leadership. —Y.K. PROMISES KEPT—AFTER COUNCIL LED A FIGHT BROOKLYN, N. Y.—I am an un- employed worker who has been going to the Relef Buro for two months and been promised time after time but never got anything. I appealed to the Boro Park Unemployed Coun- cil after my four months old baby became sick from starvation. They mobiilzed the workers and demonstrated at the relief buro at Gravesend and Albermarle Avenues. Immediately they bought $3.50 worth of supplies for my child and as I was writing to you at 9 p. m. the investigator brought a check for $8.50 for food. This shows what or- ganized workers can do under the leadership of the Unemployed Coun- cils, —Irving Goldberg. Veterans’ Organizing Squad Speeds On; In Toledo, 0. | Tomorrow TOLEDO, O., Jan. 16—The veter- ans’ organizing squad, consisting of nine members of the Kansas City contingent of the last bonus march, is speeding on in its tour to rally the vets of various parts of the country for the fight for immediate bonus payment and relief for the unem- ployed ex-servicemen. Wednesday night they expect to hold a meeting in Toledo and Thursday, Jan. 19, they will be in Detroit. From Jan. 20 to ris will be in Hammond, Ind, nee ‘ ® ® WALL ST. AGENTS IGNORE. DEMANDS OF HUNGER MARCH Wash. Gov't Forced to| Feed Marchers; Colo. Report to 300 NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—Partial vic- tories are being won in many states} and localities in the struggle against! hunger and for immediate relief. The three thousand workers who partici- pated in the National Hunger March are, for the most part, taking leading roles in all the local and state cam- paigns. The capitalist class is be- coming alarmed as all parliamentary deceptions fail to stem the rising tide of struggle. The National Committee of Unemployed Councils, with offices at 80 East llth St. New York, has issued a statement denouncing the political agents of Wall Street in the United States congress and senate and calling upon the workers and farmers to immed‘ately Iaunch a powerful concentrated drive to compel immed- iate cash relief at the expense of the government and the employers, Expose Political Tricksters “It is now a month and a half,” declares the National Committee of Unemployed Councils,” since the de- mands of the Hunger March were presented to the United States con- gress, both to the senate and House of Representatives. Although in the beginning both the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the U. 8. Senate and James W. Collier, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Repre- sentatives denied that the demands of the Hunger March had been re+ ferred to them by the House and the Senate, nevertheless, they have been forced to admit it. “Nevertheless,” continues the state- ment, “these representatives of Wall Street continue to ignore the de- mands of the unemployed despite the fact that every investigation, both by the federal, state and local govern- ments is proving the contentions of the unemployed, that unemployment is increasing, the conditions of the workingclass becoming worse, child misery increasing, and at the same time relief is being systematically reduced. Demand Immediate Hearing “The National Committee of the Unemployed Councils calls upon all its local organizations, unions, frat- ernal lodges, clubs, ete., to send re- solutions to these gentlemen de- manding an immediate hearing on the Hunger March demands. Let Wall Street, Roosevelt and the De- mocratie Congress know that there is one main order of business—that is immediate cash relief and unem- ployment insurance at the expense of the Government and the employers. Stop the hunger of the masses! Fight for relief for yourself and your children! Force the bosses and the Government to grant our demands!” Washington Governor Yields OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 16.—The State Hunger March committee and the Olympia Unemployed Council forced Governor Martin to grant food, housing, a conference hall and a legislative hearing for the march. The lines of march are constantly increasing, with fishermen from the Coast, farmers from all aleng the lines of march and carloads of native Indians from the reservations join- ing in the march. The returning Na- tional Hunger Marchers have aided tremendously in preparations for the State action, especially in Spokane, Not only are demands being made upon the state and local govern- ments, but all along the lines of march workers and farmers are be- ing aroused against the attempts of the congressmen and senators at Washington, D. C., to ignore the de- mands of the National Hunger Marchers and to try to dupe the workers with such deceptive measures and the Black Bill for legalization of the stagger system and the spuri- ous La-Follette-Costogan unemploy- ment bill. ee 6 Hunger March COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Jan. 16.—More than 300 workers and sym- pathizers crowded the Little Theatre of the City Auditorium, to hear the report of the National Hunger March and the plans for the State Hunger March to Denver, on January 22 and 23, as well as the plans of the Un- employed Council for continued struggle for relief and unemploy- ment insurance. Expose Government Attack P. C. Feste, who was the delegate from this town reported the experi- ence on route, the hostility and pro- vocation of the police, and pointed out how the delegates combatted all of {t by solidarity and working class discipline. He then called upon all workers (Negro, Spanish and white) of Colorado Springs to rally to the program of the Unemployed Council and help carry on the struggle for Unemployed Insurance and imme- diate cash relief. The high note in the meeting was struck by Charles Guynn, who was Column Captain of Columns 2 and 3 to Washington, when he pointed out the victories on the side of the workers in this historic march, and the lessons which the workers must learn from it. He said in part, “They said we would not go through Cum- berland, and we did go through Cum- berland. They said we would not en- ter Washington, and we did enter Washington. They said we would not, march, and we did march and pre- sent our demands, the demands which the millions of unemployed workers sent us to present to the Na- tional Government.” He also” rela- ted several instances of how the or- ganization and iron discipline of the marchers was able to get them across all the terror and threats of the po- lice and deputized thugs. Nail Boss Press Lies An interesting factor connected with the success of this meeting is that all of the speakers had been Jobless Insurance--Relief ! A column of the Oregon State police mobilization and threats, marched on Salem, the state capitol, and presented demands for immediate relief for workers and farmers. | ss Hearing Hunger March that, in defiance of accused in the local press as being “criminals” after the mass meeting which was held “here before the marchers left for Washington (the first mass meeting ever held in this town by a revolutionary organiza- tion). At that time the so-called criminal record of each of the speak- ers was printed in a lengthy article. Feste had been arrested in Flint, Mich., where he had joined his fel- low workers in a strike at the Fisher Body Co.; Guynn had been convicted of Criminal Syndicalism in East Ohio for speaking at an Anti-War meeting and Ree Green had been arrested and served a jail sentence for taking part in an Anti-Jim Crow demonstration in Denver. In spite of these attacks, however, twice as many wofkers came to Monday's meeting as did to the first meeting. A collection of $10.24 was taken with which to carry on the work. The local Unemployed Council is now busy building neighborhood branches. Two branches have al- ready been set up this week and pre- parations for two more are now on the way. A quota of 15 delegates has been set. TS Fight Denver March Ban DENVER, Colo., Jan. 16.—The city council, Mayor Begole, Chief of Po- lice Clark and Safety Commissioner Millikan have refused a permit for the State Hunger’ March scheduled for January 23. Harry Cohen, sec- retary of the United Front Commit- tee, was arrested here Saturday while he was addressing a protest meeting called to demand that the permit for the march be given. Wm. Deitrich spoke after the ar- rest and denounced the action of the police and the policies of the City Administration, declaring that the hunger march would be held in de- fiance of the ban. Cohen is the Denver correspond- ent for the Federated Pr The International Laber Defense is tak- ing up his case. : The mayor of fe city sent a three- page letter to tffe United Front com- mittee stating why he regarded it as “wrong” to hold a state hunger march. It is quite evident that the petty politicians who were sent to congress at Washington from Colo- rado are urging their fellow crooks to do everything they can to stop the Niagara of protests that are pouring into Washington demanding action on the demands of the Hunger Mar- chers, which include immediate re- lief at the expense of the government and the bosses and unemployment in- surance. 400 At Socialist ‘ Meeting Repudiate S. P. Propositions NEW YORK.—The Socialist Party advertised Panken to speak and call- ed a meeting for Thursday in Grand St, Neighborhood Playhouse to organ- ize Fast Side unemployed in the New York version of the Chicago “Bord- ers Committee,” called the “Workers Committee on Unemployment.” Panken’s place was taken by Doctor Louis Sadoff, a landlord, and Mary Fox, of the LID. A hot debate sprang up when workers spoke from the floor and proposed the Unemployed Councils as a better form of organ- ization. The crowd was sickened by Sadoff's \ declaration: “The police are our friends, they help little children over the street, but the Communists are no good, they stick pins in police horses to start riots.” A worker an- swered that when the children grow up and picket, the cops break their skulls, and anway, the riots are start- ed by police in every case, More than 90 per cent of the meet- ing, judging by applause and the fact that only about 10 signed up with the Socialist “Workers Committee,” were convinced by these arguments. Workers! Fight the Boss Wars Now! Every worker should help in taking the following immediate steps against the imperialist wars now raging in the Far East and South America: (1) Organize Vig- ilance Committees on docks and ships to stop munitions and re- cruits to warring nations. (2) Or- ganize Anti-War Committees in shops and organizations. (3) Ar- range Anti-War discussions and meetings and adopt resolutions. (4) Support the Anti-War Con- gress, Montevideo, Uruguay, Feb. 28th. (5) Turn the Liebknecht and Lenin memorial meets this month ie mighty anti-war demonstra- ns. STILL HOLD 18 ON MURDER CHARGES Women to Demand IIl. Miners Be Freed SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Jan. 16. Eighteen striking miners of Christ- ian County arrested on murder charged for defending themselves against an armed attack by depu- tized gunmen, are still held without bail in the county jail. The grand jury is now oiling the machinery for railroading these fighting miners to death or life imprisonment, The lefense is being greatly hindered by the refusal of the officials of the Progressive Miners of America to accept the offer of the International Labor Defense to develop a broad mass movement that alone can force the release of the arrested strikers. In connection with the Mlinois conference on unemployment, to be held at Springfield Jan. 24 and 25, the Women's Auxiliary of the Pro- gressive Miners will march to Spring- field January 26 and demand of Governor Horner the immediate re- lease of the 18 miners, the with- drawal of the troops and the right to picket. . Many locals of the P.M.A., as well as United Mine Workers locals, are sending delegates to this conference. Ask Referendum on New City Charter Aimed at Workers ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 11—A city referendum the first Tuesday in May on a new charter for New York City | was recommended yesterday in a re- port by the republican majority of the Hofstadter committee, which has spent 20 months conducting a so- called investigation of the city. The report embodies some of the suggestions for a new charter made by the committee’s counsel, Samuel Seabury, whose plan would foist a bankers’ dictatorship on the city. The report accepts his proposal that the Board of Aldermen and Board of Es- timate be supplanted by a single body known as the City Council, Also, that members of this council be nom- inated by petition and that they run under a so-called non-partisan dis- guise. This is an effort to keep Com- munist candidates off the ballot and to fool the workers into believing that candidates of the capitalist parties are non-partisan. The republican majority, however, rejected the Seabury (that is, the bankers) proposals for greater cen- tralization of the city government, but proposed instead greater decen- tralization. In this way the repub- licans hope to split up and weaken Tammany’s control. DE VALERA’S COPS) HELP COSGRAVE Aids British Imperial Tool; Fights Toilers DUBLIN, Jan. 16—The police of the de Valera government have been mobilized to protect “the right of free speech,” which means, as was shown on Saturday here, wth 500 police constables on duty, suppressing hecklers in the Cosgrave meeting, the full power of the Free State tc ensure a “foir hearing” for advocaiss of submission to the British Empire. There is great popular resentment. growing against this new move by the’ de Valera, government. At no time has de Valera used the police to protect the rights of strikers or farmers and farm laborers in strug- gle against the exactions of the land owners. On the contrary, as the Ir- ish Workers Revolutionary Groups point out, the police have always been used to put down the struggles of the workers and farmers even when these have been directed main- PAY CUTS, NO AID TO JOBLESS IS AIM OF BLACK BILL A. F. L, Officials for It to Stifle Revolt of Rank and File (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) lied all of the middle class forces, the offic’ of the A and those manufacturers, in the textile industry, whose plan’ have the modern equipment they be. lieve sufficient to put their competi- tors out of busi tional thirty-hour would be passed. The strategy of the A. F. of L cialdom in support of the Black Bill offi- | is very plain and simple. It is to put this Black Bill with its shorter work | week, no prohibition against wage cuts and no stipulation as to the hours of work in any one day—a leg- alization of the share the work plan and the stagger system as the TUUL and the Communist Party has cor- rectly characterized it—before the American workers as a substitute for) Unemployment Insurance as @ way oufé of the pr crisis and permanent mass unemployme Hero of Alabamz Landlords. Senator Black, coming from Ala- bama, the state made notorious throughout the world for its org ized murder drive aganst the Ne; masses (the Scottsboro case, Tallapoosa atrocities against share croppers) overnight has be-} come the hero of the A. F. of L, offi- | cialdom. 5 President Green, speaking for th Executive Council of the A. F. of L. endorsed the Black Bill without re. servation—although speaking off the record to newspaper correspondents, | many prominent heads of A. F. of L.) Unions characterized the bill as “just | another share the work plan.” “Labor,” the official publication of the “Sixteen Standard Railway Or- ganizations,’ in its issue of January 17 devotes almost half of its first page to an indirect reply to the tes- timony of William F. Dunne Lewis Weinstock representing TUUL and the A. F. of L. Rank and File Committee for Insurance and Relief respectively, before the Senate Sub-Committee on the Black Bill. Can’t Stop Mass Movement. “American Federation of Labor of- ficialdom and the leadership of the Railway Brotherhood Union are de- ely on the defensive. The dema- gogic program for Unemployment Insurance by separate sta as @ weapon for the destruction of the national movement on a mass scale for compulsory Federal Uner ment Insurance at the ex; Government and En had the results expected by the A. F. of L. burocrats and their m in the two big parties of American capitalism. The National Hunger March to Washington, occurring af- ter the A. F. of L. Cdnvention, showed in the most positive and de- cisive fashion that the A. F. of L. officialdom not only does not lead the fight for Unemployment Insurance| but cannot check the ever growing | mass movement for Federal Unem- ployment Insurance. A. F. of L. officialdom has been compelled to shift the direction of} its attack. It now concentrates on} the issue of the shorter work day and| work week as a method of diverting the ettention of the toiling section of the population from the main is- sue of compulsory Federal Unem- ployment Insurance. In p uit of this objective, quite obviously se- lected for it by the big bankers and industrial lords, the A. F. of L, Buro- crats are mobilizing and cooperating with certain groups of rmanufactur- ers. at TO | the Negro} | work per day. ved that discretion should the} “Sight for the Gods” It is a sight for the gods to see} appearing before the Senate Sub- Committee manufacturers who for years have fought unionization, who have paid starvation wages, who have put in force the most ruthless meth- | ods of speed-up, attempting to pose as great humanitar and philan- thropists, whose only desire is to make conditions better for the American | working class. | But not only has the A. F. of L.} officialdom rallied a number of sta vatisex wage employegs for the Bla Bill, it has also recMited from the ranks of eng cieties such as Hyman Aaror cieties composed of Electrical Engineers, ciation of Civil Engineers, Americar Mining Institute and th® Society of Mechanical Engineers, With a un- animity obviously resulting from close consultation with the A. F. of L. of- ficialdom and demagogues like Sen- ator Black, the latest white hope from the SNack Belt, these spokesmen for manufacturers and engineers solemn- ly declare that the future of Amer- ican civilization depends upon the passage of the Black Bill or similar measures. New Economic “Expert” Senator Black himself suddenly has become an expert in economics. Com- ing from Alabama, a state which ranks second to Mississippi in the low cultural level of its politicians and government “leader's,” Black, bul- warked by the assistance of the Re- search Bureau of the A. F. of L. Ex- ecutive Council, speaks over the ra- "| of [in that | lentown, American factories in one s 300 Million pairs.” Th men and other millions like them can not buy shoes, cannot buy food, cannot buy shelter, because they | have no way to work and raise money |to buy the abundance of shoes, food | and er in the nation. This wide- | spree nt in the midst of plenty |is America’s paramount problem and upon its solution hangs our future.” qid by year W denunciations of American n, however, have been made > only since the apeparance of m F. Dunne, credentialed by | Wm. , National Secretary of ; the Trade Union Unity League, and Lewis Weinstock, National Secretary the A, F. of L. Rank and File Committee for Unemployment Insur- ance So devastating was the exposure of the purposes of the Black Bill and ‘ the position of the A. F. of L, of- ficialdom by these two witnesses, that a eral call has been sent out ‘by the F. of L. and the Senate Com-~ / mittee for a mobilization of support ers of the Bill. This accounts for the appearan before the Committee and the ei dorsement of the Black Bill by suc! individuals as Levine, from Paterson iming to represent more than r cent of the silk manufacturers , the silk indt Pa. and cer urers in the Southern States. Levine made admissions before the commit- re of basic importance to the American working class in de- | termining the tactics of struggle in the organization of the silk section of the textile industry. He support- ed the bill in principle but stated. he belie it would be better to start | with 40 hour week and under no | consideration to limit the hours of He be | be invested in the employer as to,the distrib ion of work time in any ek. He stated that out ‘of han a thousand silk plants in mo Paterson he spoke for 531 and that the great majority of these plants ated by a man, his wife and children; that hours of work ranged |from 9 to 16 per day; that whereas jin the pre-war period silk weavers jTeceived 12 cents per yard, they now | receive two cents or less per yard | but are producing from 10 to 12 times as much as in the pre-war period: and| that in the three years of the crisis wages and the total | workers have been reduced more than income of silk Unemployment | 50 per cent. This revelation of feudal condi- tions prevailing in what is generally | ries in America is by no means an isolated example. It is plain that the Black Bill, without such amend- ments as those proposed by the T.U. ULL., prohibiting reduction of wages and stipulating a national minimum w law for all workers, could-re- sult only in putting the powerful weapon of government enforcement at the disposal of the share the work scheme with its objective of whole~ sale impoverishment and pauperiza- tion of the American working class. It is quite clear that the Black Bill and its demagogic wording has great dangers for American workers. The unity of A. F. of L. officialdom and employers, expressed in the period of rboom before 1929 by the formula kers management cooperation” is now being manifested through such | legislative proposals as the Black Bill. Sign of Desperation It is in the exposure of the purposes of ‘such legislation, an integral part of the drive of Wall Street capitalism against the living standards and so- cial conditions of the American mass- es, that the importance of the strug- gle against this Bill both in Wash- ington and throughout the country by the TUUL and the Rank and File Committse of the A, P. of L, lies, That the A. F. of L. leadership is forced to adopt such elaborate, com- plicated and dangerous maneuvers is testimony to its desperation, faced as it is with the rising mass movement against the starvation program of the Wall Street Government and the whole hunger offensive of the Amer- van ruling class. ‘ The developments in Ws: around the struggle against the Black Bill by the revolutionary trade union movement and the Communist Party permit of only one conclusion: that it is mow necessary without further hesitation to throw all available forces into the organization of the struggle of the A. F. of L. membership against the bureaucrats, really to give organ- ized direction to the tremendous rée- | Volt that is under way in the unions filiated to the A. FP. of L. and’the Railway Brotherhoods, | Pocketbook Workers: Sick of Promises; Demand Real Action NEW YORK.—“We're tired of the Gibson committee's promises! We want some action. We will haye,jt! ‘We're going to demonstrate in mas We're going to keep on demon- strating until those racketeers give relief!” s These were the words of a - man for the Pocketbook Workers ta. employed Council recentiy efter a representative of the 28rd Street and 4th Avenue branch of the Gibson Committee had failed to meet a dele egation of the council which went there to demand relief, ap Time and again the committeé has “promised” to help hundreds of hungry pocketbook workers, despere ately in need of aid. After another period of waiting, the council sent the committee a telegram ly against British imperialism which de Valera claims to be opposed to. Unemployment relief is being cut down throughout Ireland, say the Workers Revolutionary Groups (and this is a-well known fact) but there to be plenty of money to pay police to protect such open advo- seer>~ dio in a national hook-up and uses phrases calculated to entrance the hungry millions of American work- ers and farmers and enlist them in suppc@ of his legalized share the work scheme as a way out of the is. With a lack of embarrassment cates of Britich imperialism as Cos-| Characteristic of ignorant capitalist grave. It took more than two hours for|from some of the publicity of the 500 polce, cooperating with Cosgrave’s | Technocrats such statements as quiet a meeting of | following: 50,000 people here sufficiently to al- can produce 900 Million pairs of low Cosgrave to be heard, ns ““white army,” to party politicians Black lifts verbatim “United States’ fact a year and the greatest number ing the coming of the delegation asking the reason for the delay, | The manager of the branch, hotwe ever, was “out,” when the di arrived. Demonstrations will it was announced, “The straggle against must not be postponed until. breaks