The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1933, Page 4

ann a i t } dividual Party members and sympa~ i : Page Four reer nee py DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1933 * Workers’ ‘Struggles i in N.Y. ‘District---Accomplishments, Tasks —— NEW FORCES GROW ON BKLYN WATERFRONT Relief Won for Negro Worker Is Opening Wedge Into | New Territory “WOMEN MUST “BE DRAWN INTO ie CLASS FIGHT “Bos ses Try to Use Them to Beat Down Wages By a Woman Wacker in See, 4.) EW YORK.—We women workers find ourselves in new circum- stances. Our men unemployed and we ourselves are working in- stead. In ndustry, for Zezipstance. women Imost com- # 7¥pletely replaced the men, working “10 hours id longer and receiving Gistarvation wages. In domestic ser- =yice we work for as little as $15 and “$20 a month in order to support the family, and we toil at home twork all day ng for starvation wages. Everywhere women are pushing the men out, because, not being organized or as yet class- “onscious, they are forced to work for less money In the fact of this, our men, even our Party member husbands, not sonly do nothing toward discussing our problems with us, but go off to their meetings leaving us to do all the housework and take care of the children. In this way they neglect the job of winning their wives for the movement, and overlook the value of bringing their children up -im an atmosphere of class-con- Seiousness ‘Where workers’ wives do hot -ework, they, too, must be propa- @andized by the husbands, who “must draw them into mass work, and taken pains to win them for the movement. Many of these ‘women ho have never heard about the Soviet Union, when told about the full equality of women with men, listen amazed. These women have grievances and can readily be drawn into work. The men must help in this direction They must e this part of their revolutionary task Daily Work Will Win Negroes EW YORK.—Section 4, in Har- lem, the largest Negro center ,in the United States, has attempted to draw Negroes into the Com- _ Hiunist Party or into organizations Under its leadership, but with little « Success. In spite of “Scottsboro,” "Police terror, unemployment, dis- crimination in the relief bureaus, and evictions, the Party has failed %6. gain a foothold here. This is “ieproven by the fact that although “the capitalist parties have paid less tattention to the Negro vote, our ‘$ Party vote did not grow in pro- eportion. ° ‘GRO WORKERS STILL UNWON Negro .workers in Harlem know that the Communist Party is the meal friend, and is the only Party ‘that will fight militantly for Negro “wights. But they feel that we can uxemly lead them with success in out- ~pstanding cases (Scottsboro, Orphan Jones, Bronx Swimming Pool, etc.). When they are evicted, when the srelief bureaus refuse help, when a@uideir wages are cut, they do not come to the I. L. D. or the Unem- “ployed Councils, because they be- saWon’t interest the Communists.” e-—mstead they go to the fraternal organizations in Harlem, organiza- * tions that have thousands of mem- % :eers and that are led by Negro a, Petty-bourgeois reformists. “ NEED TO FIGHT REFORMISTS Section 4 has failed to fight these “leaders, who often use radical © phrases to fool the workers and lead them into nels.” ~~ ‘We must fight the bourgeois de- We can best do this by a “Petter approach to the day-to-day problems of the Negro workers. We must prove to them that the C. P. will, and can, lead them success- fully in these day-to-day prob- lems. “safe and sane chan- Take Daily Worker - Collection Lists Into t the Shops! 1 - “By District eit Department) Ha NEW YORK.—In an intensified at- tempt to bring the Daily Worker into the shops and factories of New York, the New York District calls upon in- ‘Vhigers to take the collection lists of the Daily Worker into the shops, make collections there, hold Daily “Worker meetings there, elect a Daily : Worker Committee of from one to tree comrades, according to the size of the shop, to carry on the drive and Ste spread the circulation of the Daily _ Worker. The names of this Commit- tee and the collections that are made _ smouid be immediately turned in to the District Daily Worker Office at * 35 E. 12th St. _ It is not advisable to wait until . the end of the drive to make these » collections. With an intensification of the drive at this point, it will be possible to draw in the workers of ‘these various shops in active work i during the balance of the campaign * for the Daily. ; Every shop—immediate action— vave the Daily Worker from suspen- “iatont Spo os clteve that “this is so common it | | By ANNA. | NEW YORK —Several months ago, Unit 16, Section 7, located in Ne- | gro territory, and consisting of raw elements, was assigned the task of building a block committee. When we started to work, questions arose for discussion, as a result of which a number of comrades were sent to a certain district to inquire into the needs of unemployed families. | Im the course of canvassing, we | discovered one Negro worker, out | of work for five months, who had appealed to the democratic captain in the district, and then gone re- peatedly to the Home Relief Bureau without results. We, therefore, or- ganized the other needy tenants in | his house and went in a group of ten to the Home Relief Bureau, where the supervisor was forced to grant food and rent relief to this worker, GROUP GAINS CONCESSIONS Our victory was made known to the neighbors on the block through open-air meetings and the distribu- tion of leaflets. They responded by coming to us in larger numbers, and we took more and more of them to the bureau, with: militant fights for relief. We oontinued organizing and agitating daily, winning the confi- dence of the workers through ac- tual concessions gained for them, and, in spite of difficulties, built and then enlarged the Unemployed Council through the energies of splendid militant workers. We have not forgotten, at the same time; to build our Party, having already included four or five. néw membérs and having a number of excellent prospects. ‘FREE’ PATIENTS ARE MISTREATED One Threatened With ‘Trip to “Crazy House” NEW YORK.—Two more examn- ples of the cruelty with which hos- pital authorities treat the unem- ployed worker were brought to light today. A few months ago Sarah Greenstein was taken to Kings Coun- ty Hospital after an accident. While thete she suffered all sorts of in- dignities. Her appeals to the staff. to relieve her of the pain were met. with no response. Her bed was shoved into the aisle to make room for a paying patient, and everyone who passed bumped against her, making her con- dition worse.. When she dared to complain she was threatened with | confinement in the “crazy house”. Finally she left and went yesterday j to the Jewish Hospital. She could | get no further help than the “help- ful” advice that. she. return to Kings County Hospital. At the same Jewish hospital a case of similar nature was discovered. Anna Schulman, a free patient, un- derwent_an-operation recently. It was unsuccessful, and the doctor. admit- ted that an “accident” had occurred on the operating table. But’the hos- pital refuses to confirm the doctor's | confession, and, in addition, will not let Anna Schulman remain there. | Either she pays or she must go to | Kings County Hospital, the asylum ; from which Sarah Greenstein .es- | caped. These two cases are only two more proofs in the campaign exposing the hospitals which the Daily Worker | has been waging. The treatment giv- en these workers shows again the complete indifference of the “author- | ities’ to the fate of the unemployed worker as long as he remains pas- | sive. |Women Working For 8e Hourly in N. Y. Cannery Industry NEW YORK.—Women in the can- ning industry in this state-are re- ceiving as low as.8 cents an hour, according to a survey just completed and made public by the Consumers League of New York, a reformist or- ganization. In 714 per cent of the 43 can- neries visited, women were labor- ing for an average wage of 1214 cents an hour. Practically. none. of ‘the plants were paying any attention to passed some time ago to “protect” the conditions of workers; which shows the uselessness of such laws under capitalism. Some men in the industry. were getting as low as 10 cents an hour; and 2714 cents at most. Unemployment Is Increasing Says Frances Perkins NEW YORK. — Unemployment is on the increase. Even the capitalist government authorities now and then admit it, deplore it, and forget it. A sharp decline of 3.1 per cent in New York State factory employment during the November-December peri- od and a drop of 3.6 per cent in payrolls wiped out the gains made in October and September, according to Industrial Commissioner Frances Perkins. Factory employment in New York City dropped 2.6 per cent and pay- rolls decreased 3.6 per cent. And Miss Perkins doesn’t mind . telling you that there is “a long and dificult road ahead of us in any event.” ‘Thank you, Miss Perkins. We knew that a long time ago, but it helps to have you tell us the exact figures. Build = workers correspondence greep mm your factory, uhep or neighborhood. Send reguiar fetters to the Dairy Worker LIFTING LEVEL OF POLITICAL LIFE IN UNIT Planning by Buro Leaves Time for Discussion EW YORK—Although Party members persistently lament the low political level of our comrades, these comrades continue in their failure to insist that unit bureaus arrange all meetings to include dis- cussion. As a new unit agitprop I, myself, failed for some time to see the necessity for curtailing business assignments for that pur- pose. Through an article in the “Party Builder on Oct. 15, how- ever, I became alive to the im- portance of discussion, and got an inkling of what could be done to- wards this end. Now our bureau operates in this way: The bureau knows what comrades are available for assign- ments on certain evenings; it makes proposals for assignments, thus avoiding endless bickering as to who will do this today and that tomorrow; not more than three points ate included in the agenda. Thus, time is left for discussion. the need for which the comrades feel increasingly as we grow in po- litical: understanding of our every- day. jobs. 'WO weeks before the District Resolution was given up for dis- cussion, we had gone over the sub- ject of unemployed work, and in this way. improved our work con- ‘siderably. The importance of at- tending section classes, too, came up, and, as a result, interest in the Workers’ School was stimulated to the extent that several previously uninterested comrades asked to be sent. Our unit is now looking forward to weekly discussions, which, when no material has been prepared, will take the form of questions and an- swers on any issues taken up. Re- cently this interesting question (which we will discuss in the near future) arose: Was it correct for the ‘Soviet Union to recognize China under the rule of the Fas- cist Chang-Kai-Chek? ‘ So in the manner described we improve and stimulate the life of our unit, raising our political stand- ards and making of us more valu- able workers. I. L. D. Investigates Peonage Conditions In Southern States NEW YORK.—The Southern Dis- trict of the International Labor De- fense is conducting an investigation of peonage conditions in the South, and especially in Mississippi and Arkansas, and will present these findings to United States Attorney Swayne D. Maddox for the Federal Circuit including Tennessee, Missis- sippi and Arkansas with a demand for action, it was announced today. The findings of the I.L.D. will also be presented to the workers directly, and a mass campaign will be based on these to expose the peonage con~- ditions and-force Maddox to aban- don any plans to make his own an- nounced investigation of these con- ditions a whitewash of the Southern landlords. Maddor recently admitted from Memphis, Tenn., that he has secretly received hundreds of complaints from Negro tenant farmers and sharecroppers, that all their crops were taken from them, they were chased away from the land they worked, and their wives and chil- dren held to work out the “debt” remaining. He has announced an “investigation” of these conditions in Mississippi and Arkansas. POSTAL SUBS ORGANIZE FOR THEIR DEMANDS NEW. YORK.—Substitute clerks in..the postal service are victims of most deplorable conditions. We re- ceive about 59c an’ hour before 6 p. m, and. 60c after that time. This is compared to 65 to 7ic an hour ‘cent, known as time dif- ‘This was before Hoover's aeenaceiTy Yak; and now we get 5 per cent, and they (the officials) take off from each dollar we make 81-3 per cent, not counting 342 per cent taken off for our “pension” fund. Therefore a sub clerk gets cut 17 per cent of his earnings. Since last March, excluding De- cember, our earnings have been $8 to $9 a week. In December we made from $21 to $26. How can we sup- port. our families on this? We are subbing 1%4 to 3 years compared to 16 months previously. It is known that there are 5,000 vacancies in the postal service, but no appointments are made because of the economy act. We have not given up hope and have formed the “Substitute Postal Clerks Association,” in which each member pays 10c a month dues. ‘There are approximately 700 mem- bers. We are fighting hard to get our demands. The main two de- mands are 36 hour week and sick leave with pay and vacation. As for the foremen and assistant superintendents, words can’t describe our disgust for these bosses, I am sure. we will win our demands. —Al. WEAPON—“I congratulate you for the success with which you handle the weapon of the working class.” S, Ebbins, N.Y.C.—Save the Daily Worker. HY TUMANDA IN New York and Brooklyn there are, at the present time, at least« 500 to 600 Filipinos who face stgr- vation or the relief of the Salva- tion Army soup lines daily. The majority of these cannot get jobs because of discrimination and the lack of money for carfare and ‘em- ployment agency fees. The problem confronting us Filipinos is not one man’s problem, Reports from the Shops in N. Y. By 8S. GUTKIN. Our shop employs 53 workers. Forty-four workers are members of the ILGWU. Nine workers do not belong to any union, and the fore- man does with them as he wishes. In this shop we formed a shop nucleus eight months ago with three Party members. At present, we have five in the unit with good possibilities to fur- ther increase our number. Ten workers of the shop already belong to the opposition group of our trade (raincoats). During this period, we carried through two successful open for- ums, Comrades of the Industrial Union were the speakers. We have discus- sions with the workers in the shop about daily problems confronting the workers, ‘The walls in the shop are decor- ated with our posters and leaflets and slogans of our press, various cartoons. At the time of election, we sold literature (We are going on with this work now), We spread the Daily Worker and Freiheit in the shop pointing out the articles which will make a good impression on the workers, We had gatherings in the shop for the Election Campaign Fund. We raised a few dollars, We raised for the Freiheit $20. Thirty or more workers partici- pated. We are determined to increase our work and to further build the nucleus. By S. GOTTLIEB. I'm working in a shop which em- ployed about 100 workers in 1931— @ right wing union shop. At that time, there were two Party mem- bers and three sympathizers in the shop. No organizational form among these workers, not even among the Party members. ‘The boss demand- ed of the right wing union to help him in @ reorganization since he said he needed only half of the forces. The right-wing leaders per- mitted the reorganization ang half the workers were thrown out. The leaders influenced every worker of the shop, promising each one that he would remain. The fight against this reorganization was led by our Party members and the three sym- pathizers and one other worker who was sure that he was going to be thrown out. But the fight was not organized, and therefore they suc- ceeded in putting through the re- organization. But they didn’t dare to throw out even one of the “lefts” in spite of their original plan to do so. Today there remain around 50 workers in the shop. The Party be- gan a drive for members and two of the sympathizers and one worker through our agitation formed a shop nucleus of five members. The nu- cleus acts on all shop problems. Day in and day out we discuss with the workers. Before May First, ‘we held meet- ings with groups of the workers— we sold our literature, made collec- tions for the Election Campaign. A lot of the workers promised to vote for our candidates. We suc- ceeded in organizing an opposition group of 15 in the shop. ‘The Daily Worker faces suspension. Act now! Rush funds to save the “Daily.” You can’t do without it. Miia eka Support the $35,000 Drive. Ss me a A crime against the working class | to permit the Daily Worker to sus- pend. Rush funds today. FILIPINO WORKERS OF NEW YORK ORGANIZE League to Fight Against. Discrimination and Against Imperialist War nor is it the problem of one race or nationality. It is what every unemployed man has to face, and we must fight together for immedi- ate relief and unemployment in- surance, because only by united fight will we gain these. ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE We must fight too, against Im- perialism, and it is for this pur- pose that the Filipino Anti-Im- perialist League has been formed. The Filipino . Anti-Imperialist League, the only Filipino mass or- ganization in the United States that is carrying a campaign for the immediate and unconditional independence of the Phillippines as well as the rest of the colonies and semi-colonies, is fighting also against police terror, and demands the release of all class war prison- ON 27th ‘We call upon ail revolutionary mass organizations and _ trade unions, students and_ intellectuals to participate in a mass meeting of the League to be held at Stuyvesant Casino, 2nd Avenue, between 8th and 9th Sts., Jan. 27. At the meet- ing resolutions will be indorsed to send to -U. S. Congress, Secretary of War, P. Hurley, and to Secretary of State, Stimson, protesting that ‘we oppose the Philippine Independ- ence Bill that has been passed in Congress recently. 3 Workers, intellectuals, students, show your solidarity and join the Filipino Anti-Imperialist League in its fight against imperialism. ‘STARVE ON LAN ROOSEVELT PLAN Tells Jobless to’ Farm and Curtail Output NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—President- elect Roosevelt, in an address last night at the Metropolitan Club, urged that half the unemployed go back to the farms. This is, in toto the Roose- veltian “solution” for permanent un- employment. In the course of his speech he admitted that even though every factory wheel in the country would start running at full . speed, there would still be five million job- Tess. That this is a sentence to starve on the land, is séen when it is re- membered that. the Jones bill, sup- ported by. Roosevelt's henchmen in congress, specifies that “stabilized farm prices” will be paid only to those who curtail farm production acreage 20 per cent. In indicates-that more than ever must. the. toiling masses of city and country mobilize to fight against the hunger program of Wall Street and for immediate relief arid unemploy- ment and social insurance. Appeal the Filipino Cases; Start Drive for Mass Protests NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Directives on the conduct of a national cam- paign for the release of the Filipino workers condemned by the Filipino servants of Yankee imperialism to banishment and long prison terms were sent out today by the national office of the International Labor De- fense. These cases are now being appealed to the United States Su- preme Court. Resolutions demanding the release of the prisoners should be sent from every district and branch, and from sympathetic organizations and indi- viduals, to Governor-General Theo- dore Roosevelt, Manila, P. I.,-and Secretary of War Patrick Bey Washington, D. C. 17 HOURS A DAY FOR $20 A WEEK IN LAUNDRY NEW YORK.—Last Saturday I found a job as a fire! at a laundry at 335 E. 135th St. is is my regu- lar work, having been at it for 15 years. I started work at 4a. on Monday. The job sHould have three men really, At 4 p.m. I asked the engineer what time I was to quit and he said about 9 p.m.!' I asked about wages and he said $20 a week. So here I am again in the lina. GROUP. WORK PUTS OVER CLASS IN SECTION 7 Negro and Filipino Workers Brought to Fore By ESTHER CARROL «WJITHOUT 4 revolutionary theory, W there can be no revolutionary movement,” said Comrade Lenin, and Comrade Stalin in his book on Leninism pointed out that practice gropes in the dark unless the revo- lutionary theory throws a light on its path—while theory out of touch with revolutionary practice is like a mill that runs without any grist. In connection with the anniver- sary of the death of Comrade Lenin, when we mobilize the com- rades for their daily tasks, we must emphasize strongly that theoretical Leninist education is also the Party task and duty of each. individual member. CLASSES FOR NEW MEMBERS One of the ways through which this education can be achieved. is the’ organization of classes, special attention being paid particularly ‘to new Party members. During the entire period in which these’ classes are functioning we must: develop a Leninist approach tothe. com- rades. Personal guidance, ‘personal attention and assistance’ to: each student of the mew: members’ classes. is of utmost importance. We must help new comrades obtain material, we must discuss with them and help them apply: the theory. they learn: to tenmnediate - daily activities. x In Section 7, we capgigd ‘through such a. class successfully,-.ho}ding the interest of the. new members . fromthe. first .to..the-last—lesson. This was primarily due to the fact that. we conducted ‘it ‘along the lines above mentioned, with or- ganized study groups and reading groups.and discussions in which ex- perienced members led. In addi- tion we arranged group activities, in which actual work was done. Several Negro comrades were brought to the fore. With the help of our instructor and older mem- bers of the Party, we succeeded in bringing forth’several militant and devoted Filipino workers, who are now applying, their — theoretical knowledge in reaching many other Filipinos with whom they, © come in daily contact. COSGRAVE THREAT ! TO IRISH TOILERS Demands Masses Stop Fight for Freedom: Workers and | Working Claes Or- ganizations: Collect. and send funds to the Workers Voice, the official organ of the Irish Workers Revolutionary Groups, to assist it in the revolu- tionary struggle for Irish liberation and a Workers and Farmers Gov- ernment! ete > DUBLIN, Jan. The “army Comrades Association,” (The White Army headed by Cosgrave which sup, ports an open pro-British program) has issues an ultimatum directed against the workers, poor farmers and the militant nationalist forces under the guise of “protection. of free speech.’ De Valera has aided the ,Cosgrave forces by his recent denunciation” of the: Irish Republican Army: and ‘its determined struggle against Cosgrave and other supporters of ‘British im- perialism. The de Valera police forces cooperate openly with the Cosgrave White Army. ‘The LR.A. has issued a manifesto which demands the right of the na- tional revolutionary forces to arm ‘and drill, and the’right to defense against all anti-nationalist. and anti-working class elements. ‘The demand is also made for the nationalization of the principal natural resources, xy fac- tories, etc.: The ‘Irish Workers ‘Revolutionary Groups’ are conducting an energetic campaign but are badly in: need of funds since the’ workers and farmers are living under conditions of ‘actual destitution. ° Roosevelt Letter on | Tom Mooney Typical Boss’ Class. Evasion SACRAMENTO, C: Cal, Jan. 17— Forced by the mass pressure of the Workers. of America to receive Mrs. Mooney, and a delegation which in- cluded William L..Patterson, national secretary of the International Labor Defense, in Albany, Dec. 30, Presi- dent-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, has written a classically men-commital letter to Gov. James Rolph, Jr., an the, subject of Tom Mooney’s ,con- tinued imprisonment for. 16 years 9 Peet and framed testimony. ‘Mrs. Mary Mooney came to see me yesterday,” Roosev lt wrote to his pal Rolph, “and left with me the enclosed letter. “I told her that in my capacity as governor I could not interefere in any. way with the functions of an executive of another state. How- ever, as I am going out of my office today, I told her that I would send you her letter in my private capacity, and that I would: do:so solely on the ground ,that her letter prjaced that additional evidence discovered since your recent waclone more especially, a confession. which she says was made by one ‘Callicotte.” The attitude of Governor Rolph; to- wards “the new evidence” has been | consistent ever since he took office In the face of the proved, fact. Mooney’s innocence, his -answer been complete disregard of all bed BLOCK COM MITTEE BORN OF VICTORY, Y. C. L. Unit Organized ; New Worker’ Cente hed YORK.—One of the most important accomplishments of Units 7 and 17, of Section 6, was the organization on the Brooklyn waterfront, a real proletarian sec- tion opposite Wall St., where, only &@ year ago bootleggers and racke- teers held complete sway and young girls and women were forced into shameful occupations in order to exist. With the initiative taken by the Spanish workers’ center, units be- gan to function and open-air meet- ings started propagandizing. The territory grew more and more to look upon Communists as their real leaders. The bosses, realizing the menace to their security, fought back with: immigration authorities and their henchmen. But, in spite of them, a Y. C. L. unit was or- ganized and new forces are being recruited every day. Under the leadership of the new section a new workers’ center is in ,the’making. The comrades are re- organizing with more determina- tion than ever for a. militant unit to lead the struggles of the workers in this particular territory. W. D. Building Cadres in N.Y. District “ The question of developing cadres, so often raised in important Party “and Comintern documents has re- cently been given serious attention “by the New York District. The dis- , trict fully realizes that the develop- ment of ‘cadres is not a mere routine task, but. rather one of para~ ‘mount “political importance. As ‘Lenin pointed out, “Withouta revo- lutionary theory, there can be no “revolutionary movement.” These words of Lenin aré of vital import- -ance to us, especially in the pres- ent period. The developing of the entire mass work of the Party in the . district undoubtedly depends upon our abjlity to draw into mass struggles ever broader and broad- er sections of toilers, but our abil- ity. to draw these masses into ac- tion depends upon our ability to understand and react politically to events affecting the lives and con- ditions of the working class. It is therefore apparent that the train- ing of cadres more and more as- sumes. signal importance. And closely connected with the develop- ment of cadres, in fact, an integral part of the task, is the whole ques- tion of training the membership. What ‘has the district done in the recent period to effect this task? The first important step was the organization and carrying thru of a full-time district training school, November to December, 1932. ‘This ‘school composed of 25 com- rades of the Party and Young Com- munist League, with a few addi- tions: sent in/by the ‘National Of- fice, was a successful achievement. It’ measured* with, and even sur- passed, other schools of a similar character conducted by the district in'the immediate past period. A week after the commencement of the’ district training’ school, a series of section training schools started. These schools conducted on.a section basis lasted for six weeks and had a curriculum com- prising the following. subjects: “Or- ganization Principles” and “Ele- ments of Marxism-Leninism,.”. The number of students allotted to each section was thirty. Not. every sec- tion, however, had this number. The schools were held one. night during the week, and: the comrades at- 2 Were excused from all other Party work on that night. The purpose of these schools was to de- velop comrades to be unit function- aries. At the same time, classes on Fundamentals of Communism and for new members were estab- lished. Also a central district class on Negro problems, What did the district gain thru these schools?. As previously stated, the District Training School was a success. This was proven by the fact that through the schorl com- rades were’ developed to iill such posts as section agit-prop directors, section organizers of the YCL, Un- employed Council organizers, lead- ers of opposition groups, etc. ~ The results from the section training schools, while not on the same par, as those from the dis- trict, were not unfavorable. At this time of writing, the results are five functionaries from one section, a similar number from another, and two from a third. One short-com- ing of the section schools was the failure of the schools to retain the original. number. of comrades who started the course. If the aggregate results of the’ section schools are considered, however, that is, the clearer understanding of problems which the comrades obtained, clar- ification on many difficult ques- tions, ietc., it could be stated that the results gotten were favorable. ‘The extension of this work, which have beer: adopted ‘direction. ‘The section’ cating penbols are to be continued with a new set of as dents, while other classes will be established. The utmost effort will eT mates, friends and in your oe ee a non he seta arc Are A caching among your shop- | a Is in the Making AFL. LEADERS HELP FLEECE TIE WORKERS Allow Boss to Run Non-Union in Part of. Shop By T. B,,Section 1, EW YORK.—I am working in a men’s neckwear factory employ- ing about 100. The neckwear trade consists of seyeral divisions, such as four-in-hatids, bat ties, shield- tacks and others; the A. F. of L. organized various branches of this trade with the ex- ception of the bow-tie workers, others and myself tried to induce them to organize this branch (which was being mercilessly ex- ploited—with home work mostly in the hands of mothers of families working at any price), but the A. F. of L. did nothing. In the factory Where I work most ‘ of the departments are under the A. F. of L, and the workers in these organized departments are given breathing spells, due to the fact that the employer knows they are connected with a union. But in this same factory, on the other side, sitting where the ventilation is bad, right near the garbage pail, is the bow-tie division, to which the boss comes every night, inquiring of each worker how much he did that day, in spite of the fact that we are all week-workers and receive a third of the pay of the unionized workers on the other side. © ts ae LL these facts prove how utterly corrupt this so-called union is, to organize some+workers so that they are allowed some degree of human wages and conditions, and to leave others in-one corner of the factory at the mercy of speed-up and unsanitary conditions. What Kind of union can this A. F. of L. be when right- under their eyes ex- Pploitation and -fleecing of workers is taking place and where poor women are being continually ex- ploited in their homes? It is time that the bow-tie makers be organ- ized and the misery rising from such corrupt unions as the A. F, of L. be ended- . Only Struggle Wins Relief By ROBERT ADAMS ELL over a third of this coun- try’s normal working population is at present. doomed to enforced idleness. With the increasing effi- ciency of machinery under the system of rationalization, mags un- employment is here to stay, ALL WORKERS ° AFFECTED Through part-time work and wage cuts, all of us workers have felt the blow, brain as well as brawn workers, and even college students have not been spared. Many of us work for board only. Ships sail from New York harbor with workaway crews signed on at @ penny a month. Goucher College students working for the summer earned 53 per cent less last year than the previous summer. BANKERS GET RELIEF In the face of-the subsequent widespread misery and hunger, how does the government meet this sit- uation? With talk and -promises of public works programs, but ac- tually with relief given through the Reconstruction«.Finance Corpora- tion to big capitalists, to pay debts and interest to each other; with “patriotic” campaigns to force from workers already suffering the relief funds that are handled by charity racketeers-and by grafters. religious and political; with the starvation and the evictions appar- ent in Gibson’s declaration that during December wlone 50,000 New York families were unable to get relief. BOSSES FEAR UNITED WORKERS It has only beeh in cases where workers realized the impossibility of success in individual struggle, only in instances of mass pressure in anti-eviction fights, in demon- strations at. relief agencies, in struggles of school children, that relief has been forced and con- cessions gained. ‘The boss class is not afraid of the lene worker. But in an. article in the.bourgeois mag~- azine, The Forum, a bourgeois writer recently warned the bosses that relief is given in direct. pro- Portion to the struggles of the Un- employed Councils in a neighbors hood. To fight alone means star- vation; to fight together, victory. New Council Active, Wins Workers Relief NEW YORK.— ew Unemployed Council has been formed, the Atlantic Avenue Council, at 1964 Atlantic Ave. The council has already token thirty families to the relief buro and won relief for them. Jt has led a number of eviction struggles and won relief for the evicted workers. It has affiliated to it four block committees. The .Gencral Council meets on Fridays al 8:15 p.m. The Council calls upon workers’ clubs and organizations to affiliate themselves f Long ago, wher | 8 Se STEER IREE \