The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1933, Page 3

— | ». DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1933 New Strike Spurs Plans for Auto C USSR WRITES A NEW PAGE INITS FIGHT FOR PEACE | For Charter Rights of Minimum of Safety and | Independence AFFECTS ALL NATIONS | Only 9 Districts Contribute Tuesday; Philadelphia and Detroit Fail to Aid “Daily” $500 Each Day Must Come In to} Raise Needed Funds! SOCIALIST HEADS BAR COMMUNIST AT BERLIN MEET Won't Let Reading of Call for Unity Against Nazis E. Side Workers Show | Socialist That Action Is Better Than Words NEW YORK.—Revealing to unemployed Socialist and his « mother who were evicted from apartment, and other workers in the neighborhood, that action and struggle, not words is necessary | against capitalism, members of the | East Side Workers Club and the East Side Unemployed Council replaced | the furniture in a spirited demon- stration. | Informed of the eviction one cold | night last week, the ed ine | heir | members left Page Three > % BROAD CAMPAIGN FOR A DELEGATE 10 MONTEVIDEO Will Go from T.U.U.L. to Latin American Anti-War Session | (By National Bureau of the Trade Union Unity League) onference February 19 ASKS U.S. GOVERNMENT T0 HELP BREAK AUTO STRIKES Bosses’ Agent Requests Deportation Doak to Act When Hudson Men Join Briggs Fight Prepare Conference Feb. 19, Hunger Marches on March 4, 7; Hu —NEW YORK.—The ational Buro of ndreds Join Union DETROIT, Feb. 8—The strike of 3,000 workers in the Hudson Moter Defines an Aggressor; Supports Oppressed By N. BUCHWALD. (European Corresponder:. Daily Jand’s $25 and Buffalo's $22.89 are the | Worker.’ MOSCOW, Feb. §.—(By Ra- | dio).—In an editorial “Char- | their new clubrooms, 165 East Broad- wi While one member addressed the passive neighbors the o S the Trade Union Unity League de- cided some weeks ago to send a del- egate to the Montevideo Anti-War sisted by the newly awakened work- | Congress. This Congress is of the ers returned the furniture. The | greatest importance, since U. S. ita: children living near the house, 34) peri; is the chief aggressor in Norfolk St., also helped and stood on the lookout for the police. the LatinAmerican wars and the workers and toiling farmers of Latin | America are bleeding. The wars now, going on are only the prelude to a greater conflagration on the South ',ment directly in an effort to smash ¢——_— Company's Gratiot Avenue body plant, who ytsterday joined the thousands of Briggs body strikers in a fight for wage increases and other demands, has thrown such consternation into the camp of the auto barons and their flunkeys that a movement has been started to bring in the federal govern- the struggles of the auto workers. | Democratic Representative - elect Cal M. Wideman last night requested | 1,000 ANTHRACITE vene after he had received a peti- ter Rights of Nations’ Safety | and Independence,” the Soviet | paper “Izvestia’” comments on_ Maxim Litvinoff’s speech at the “disarmament” conference, in which the Soviet delegate boldly defined an aggressor nation. After many years of preparation, “Izvestia” writes, the “disarmament” | conference made no step forward during the past year, being unable | to find a way out of the net of con- tradictions in which all the imperial- ist powers are entangled. The Soviet delegation advanced a plan for in- temational disarmament, it demand- ed that all powers shall throw out the monstrous modern means of war Although only nine districts Cons beeen ae 3 el | | tributed to the “Daily” campaign on i 3 ‘on | Pa : Tuesday (as compared with 14 On} Unit 2a, Lea Les a HITLER RAIDS ON | Sunday and Monday), total dona-/ Unit 1, See 2 1.05 AS fee i, | tions for the day rose slightly above | Britre Plate Wr, | Salon *) Hugenburg - Hitler | the $329.96 of the week-end. Tues-| @ Brown 2.00 A Budreike ta5| B _ k D lo S | day's total was $351.99, which might | Cloakmakers Coun- 8 Crystat 10 rea levelop be considered an advance if it were| cil 1, Bronx 156 M Crystal 4 st not for the fact that New York made| yy yoreiyn 1.00 i rt (Cable By Inprecorr.) | up $269.07 of the entire sum. Cleve-| wut 63 1.0! BERLIN, Feb. 8.—The situ- House Party 21.00 1.00) . , Mah cnly other halfway sizeable contribu- | Mepicton Workers, 100! ation in Germany was fairly tions of the day. The fact that only | zukunrt Workers 1.00) quiet yesterday, with little loss we | east Side Wars. rial of ite, _ semeves col- * Ose ean ‘$,| sions and shootings at Muen- / ENY Wkrs Club 10.15 25) é: Strike A Blow! Raat Bae Warten -20/ ster, Striegau, 'Gladbach and oth 'by see 8: 10} Berlin. P: 05 | ws L Kenigabery 3 The Communist Deputy and peeved Fe hie ‘ji leader of the Communist Reichstag B Koomp hg: tere -$t| fraction, Torgler, appeared at a big Sane © peste. ‘| socialist demonstration in the Lust- Sea pee ‘18\garten yesterday, asking permission Safrun Lemlech _ :10| to read the Communist appeal to the L Goodwin M Gregaris 1.00) socialist workers for a united front 3 Brausi J Sewchuk | against the fascist dictatorship. The .10| socialist leaders refused permission. © Vissers Charles Fuch J Finkelstein as unnecessary rubbish, rejecting the orinciple of force in the solution of aisputable questions. The capitalist | politicians rejected the Soviet pro-| posals under the pretext that they are utopian and demagogic. The So- viet Union then advanced a mini- mum program for the reduction of| battles. armaments by 50 per cent. This also has been rejected-as “unreal.” The conferefice itself, however, was unable to elaborate any real program for arms reduction. It raised the idea of “safety” in opposition to the So~- viet proposals. Litvinoff's speech at the conference on Monday wrenches | the “safety” argument from the! hands of those who wish to represent | certain nations as the only ones ca- pable of attacking others. But how | is one to define who is the attacker? | The imperialists have balked at such a definition. Litvinoff answers this fundamental question in a way which admits of no evasions. He boldly de- fines as an aggressor that country which first invades the territory of another or which attacks by sea, land or air forces another country, or finally declares a blockade against another country. This definition once and for all puts an end to any slander of “Red imperialism” against the Soviet Union. Litvinoff declared in front of all the world that the U. 8. S. R. doesn’t intend to resort to attacking anyone. Let other great powers and their vassals display @ similar readiness to reject force in international relations or have the courage to openly reject the Soviet’ proposals. Rights of Oppressed Nations. Does the Soviet deciaration imply that the Soviet Union recognizes the sanctity of existing frontiers which as is known in many cases do not cor- respond to the iaterest of the op- pressed naticualities? No! The So- viet declaration does not reject the right of the national masses to change these fronties by force. In front of the entire world, the Sovies Union has advanced a propo- sal which is of the greatest histo- rical significance. Faced with the menace of armed intervention, which increases yearly, the Soviet Union has advanced a great program which can give all nations the feeling of cer- titude of tomorrow and enable them to adopt a course of reduction of ar- maments. The charter rights of na- tions to safety and independence pro- posed by the Soviet delegation con- stitutes concrete demands would convince every one who really wishes to ensure the safety of na- tions. The imperialistic powers will not be able to uproot these proposals from the consciousness of the na- tional masses. Should the “Disarma- ment” Conference reject these propo- sals then the worse for world impe- rialism, whose real aims will thus become obyious to all toilers. By its proposal of charter rights of safety and independence for the na- tions, Soviet diplomaey has written a splendid page in the glorious his- tory of the struggle for peace which the Soviet proletariat are conducting under the direction of the Soviet Go- yernment. All those who hate imy perialistic wars and crave peace will advance this charter as their de- mands. “Fighting Sixth” Gets Back Swindled Fees For Two Workers NEW YORK, N. Y.—The “Fighting Sixth” otherwise known as the Sixth Aye. Grievance Committee has gain- ed such prominence among the employment sharks on that avenue that many of them now accede to its demands without a murmur. Last Saturday the “Fighting Sixth’ com- pelled the return of swindled fees to two workers. When the Chelsea Employment Agency, 769 Sixth Ave., refused to re- turn the $10 fee they had charged Michael Barrett, for a job which only Jasted seven hours because of no fault of his, the case was taken up at Barrett's suggestion. After the com- mittee introduced themselves and asked for the fee, the shark coughed up pretty fast. The same courtesy was given Mor- ris Brill when he came with the “Fighting Sixth” after the Academy Employment, 1251 Sixth Ave. He paid $5 for a $7 a week job as canvasser for the White Duck Mfg. Co,, but changed his mind. When he applied for the return of his fee he was re- yfused, The committee got his fee which | a pelted pet rate el Today's “Vorwaerts” publishes a ser- metered lies of lame excuses, attempting to M. tion 1 thao G Pitter 1°" Yon! erase the bad impression among the a iF Sten . es Be emer workers by the action of Fridman ax r r R Tracull Cofl, by Section 2: | thelr leaders, Shuman ee ee ee Police Raids Continue. itm ¢ its any . Just as the rank and file in ayto, Seana” = (ea Milter 5; Police raids, searches, arrests and steel and other industries are now | H Canonowite Rg int suppressions of working class news- striking blows at the bosses, so eee nip ‘ papers are continuing. Both the must we now strike blows at the | J*Msty Galutsky | Communist and the socialist press | entire boss system by saving the |W Miller M Seltzer [have been heavily hit. The police | Daily Worker, which guides these | R Di Podova Seticher have even confiscated the sport Speed your contributions | f,,olne py equipment of the revolutionary sports ; now! |B Camba D Buono movement, including footballs, air- fa i $ pha guns, etc. | a nine districts contributed is again| F Armstrong Coll. by Nick First signs of open dissension are an indication of the widespread un- pede LS ei ogee appearing in the government camp, in : der-estimation of the seriousness of | 7°x, the Daily Worker's crisis. - | Clara Rosen |W Polansky Philadelphia, Detroit, Minnesota, | 1 Ferris Seattle, New Jersey and Milwaukee, | 3 porerolg p Pr ove | ansky yas Neither did anything come in from J Glenn James Pappas Kansas City, the Dakotas, the Car- | Schlossburg Poe i agee olinas and Alabama-Florida, Con- | Al Goldstein ©" Miosreplon necticut’s contribution, $4.88, does | H Tuchman not even begin to make up for the | Murray | five days when it was completely | Goran” TOTAL $209.07 inactive, Colorado at last broke | Anton Moses Ttl to date $3512.26 | through the ice with ten cents! This | pistricT + | is its first contribution. When-will | W. Herman, collection Unit 7 (238) | We get more—tots of theni? ~~ = Dati <6: ae 2 > Bathod | Unless donations immediately go} ‘TOTAL $22.89 | up to at least an average of $600 a} summer $64.24 day, the Daily Worker will not be| waiter archey 50 able to keep going. Take advantage | Anna Patisek 1.00 | of every way possible of raising funds, | Joseph Chimet bid and rush them by wire, air mail or | TOTAL {regular post to the Daily Worker! | Total to date | nas | DISTRICT 6 ‘Total received Tuesday $ 351.99) Bishop Wm. Montgomery Brown 25.00 | Previously received 1509.43 Total to date $185.25 ———-— | DISTRICT $ Total to date $4861.42 | A Lileikune 1.60 | TUESDAY'S CONTRIBUTIONS William Schmitt 1.00 | DISTRICT 1 Anonymous 2.80 | Thomas A. Baily 5.00 | Unit 814 1.00 | South Boston Unit 5.50 | Prisoners collection in jail 4.00 — TOTAL 39.80 TOTAL TUESDAY $10.90) ‘Total to date $175.40 | Total to date $151.40 | DISTRICT 12 | DISTRICT 2 * William Dillingham 3.00 Ruth Hirsh 1.00 Séc i5, Unit 2 85.00) Total to date $19.35 Truck F. Needle © American Youth’ DISTRICT 15 ‘Trades Whrs. Del. 4.10) Daily Worker Affair 25 Hunger March 1.75 | Collenberg funéral collection 11g Dubow 2 | es East Side Unem- N Minkin ‘TOTAL 34.88 | loyed Council 10.00 Section 5 Total to date 360.68 Anonymous 20.00 Section 2 DISTRIOT 19 J Pasman 2.00 Section 8 Lee W Lang 10 “peroan Youth Intl Seamens Total to date $. 10 Club 30.00 Club I. W. 0. JW McConnlin 1.00 Unit 7, See 1 Branch 9 5.00 L Lamacenia 2% Total to date $308.04 Piedged Per Cent © & 4 al Stliisesil FLATBUSH WORKERS CLUB RAISES $14 FOR ‘DAILY’ NEW YORK.—An affair featuring the film, “The Struggle For Bread,” attracted an attendance of 75 at the Flatbush Workers Club, A collection made during the course of the lec- ture given by the Daily Worker's re- presentative, brought contributions totalling $11. A total of $14 was raised for the Daily. ‘DAILY’ DANCE AT BROWNS- VILLE YOUTH CENTER SAT. BROOKLYN, N. Y.—A concert and dance for the benefit of the Daily Worker drive will be held under the auspices of the Brownsville Youth Center, 105 Thatford Ave. on Sat- urday, Feb. 11, The members of the Center stg Pledged themselves to fulfill their driye quota of ° N. Y. Clubs Committee Urges Prompt Aid to “Daily” Drive ers clubs to get wholeheartedly into| ers’ Clubs of New York, has issued | ‘an appeal stating, in part, that “the | the drive to raise funds for the Daily | members and ayiipathisers of the | answer the call of our “Daily!” The NAVY MUT R |elubs must broaden their activities | to raise more and more funds to keep Below is a list of clubs affiliated |with the City Committee, their oer gag? | quotas and accomplishments in the Socialist Leaders Loyal |« to Boss Rule | native seamen who mutinied last | Sunday and seized the Dutch war- ship “De Zeven Provincien’ today | Prospect Workers Club...$175 pursuing Dutch East Indies squad-| rion, Worker Gist. | Ton drew near. Down Town rs Club dered its naval commanders to in-| Heit Side Workers Club sist on the unconditional surrender | vegetarian Workers Club drastic martial law action against! x, them. It plans a bloody suppression of the mutiny and the developing East Indian workers as a monstrous warning to the colonial masses to docilely accept the starvation condi- ism. Murderous attacks have been also launched against the native workers of Dutch Guiana, South ficent solidarity with the struggles} in the East Indies. Police at Para-| maribo, Dutch Guiana, yesterday onstrating in sympathy with the nayal mutiny and for the release of the Communist Deputy, de Kom, onstration. Two persons were killed | | and 15 wounded. The socialist leader M. Wibaut op- the government, declaring yesterday he “could not approve the mutineers’ attitude.” In Batavia, Java, the so- calling for loyalty to the govern- ment, A counter demonstration or- ganized by the Communists was sup- | NEW YORK.—Calling on all work- Worker, the City Committee, Work- Workers’ Clubs must immediately PREP ARE DEFENSE | the Daily Worker out of danger!” rive to date: THE HAGUE, Feb. 8—The 400 stripped their guns for action as the | Bronx Workers Club cry ‘The Dutch government has or- | Zukunft Workers Clui of the mutineers and to carry out | Bri sympathetic strike movement of the tions imposed on them by imperial- America, who are showing a magni- fired into the ranks of workers dem- who was arrested in an earlier dem- enly supports the repressive policy of | cialists sponsored a demonstration, pressed by the’ police. | and Hitler’s Nazis. between the Hugenburg nationalists The nationalist press is attacking the fascists, accus- 3/ng Hitler of backstairs intrigues against the nationalist ministers and jYegretting fascist conduct of the | election campaign as destroying con- fidence and credit created by the for- mation of the nationalist-fascist | cabinet. Today, the socialist mayor Kastner, murdered by fascists at Strassfort was buried. Socialist and Commu- nist workers organized a joint gen- eral ‘strike in protest against the murder and~marehed behind the coffin. ANTI-WAR MOOD STRONG IN S. A. Reaches Armed Forces of Peru, Colombia The anti-war sentiments of the toiling magses of Peru and Columbia have penetrated the armed forces of the two countries mobilized at Le- ticia for a resumption of the unde- clared war. The crews of the Colom- bian war ships are said to be parti- cularly affected, while the situation is being aggravated by the shortage of food and the poor quantity of the | present scanty rations. Peruvian troop movements to the front have been held up by the de- veloping of the mass struggles against the war. An uprising is reported im- minent. The murderous attacks by the government on anti-war demonstra- tions, the shooting down of workers, the jailing of over 6.000 workers and their Communist leaders, have served only to fan the blazing indignation of the Peruvian masses against the native puppets of the imperialist war- mongers. Inereasingly, the masses are realizing that the war is part of the | P' fierce struggle between U. S. and British imperialists for control of South American markets and re- sources, as well as a drive by the “national” bourgeoisie against the developing struggles of the starving masses and for a capitalist “way out” of the crisis at the expense of the masses. Mass support is rapidly de- veloping for the South American An- ti-War Congress to be held in Mon- tevideo, Uraguay, beginning Febru- ary 28, FIGHT ON SANDINO BETRAYAL GROWS Many of His Men Refuse to Disarm MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb 7—An attack by rebel forces on a National Guard patrol at Jicomico yesterday shows that Sandino’s plans to betray the national revolutionary struggle against Wall Street's puppet govern- ment are not proceeding as smoothly as the imperialists and their native lackeys hoped. Many of the Sandino’s men, in- cluding one of his former chief lieut- enants, have rejected his orders to| gather at San Rafel del Norte to_ surrender their arms. A body of the | rebels, under Pedron, haye expro- priated the big plantation owners of | large numbers of cattle during the | past few days. They have defied Sandino’s orders for the return of the, cattle. At San Rafael del Norte, where 1,800 Sandinists have gathered to; surrender their arms, the situation became so tense that the National Guard troops at the town were re-| moved “to reduce the danger of a) clash.” Manwhile ,the traitor Sandino has FORCE DEMANDS | ON HAITI CONSUL: Negro and White Mass Meeting Successful NEW YORK.—A committee of Ne- | gro, South American and American workers, elected at the Haitian pro- test meeting in St. Luke’s Hall, Fri- day night, presented a resolution adopted at the meeting to Chas. B.| Vincent, Haitian Consul, Broad St., | New York City, Saturday morning, demanding the immediate release of | Haitian workers imprisoned by the Haitian government; also that Am- | erican troops be withdrawn from Haiti; the disbandment of the Am- erican controlled Haitian Guard; the nullification of the robber treaty | forced on the Haitian. people by the | Wall Street U. S. government; ex- pulsion of the American-Haitian Su- | gar Company, the General Electric | Company; the right of free assem- | bly; free speech and the right to or- | ganize the Haitian workers. | Insistence by the committee forced | a reluctant promise from the consul | who is a brother of ihe Haitian pres- | ident that he would forward the de- | mands to the Haitian minister in| Washington, who would in turn send them to the government of Haiti. Funds raised at the LL.D. Bazaar in February will be used to defend the Haitian workers against the goy- ernment’s program of terror. About 150 attended the St. Luke's Hall meeting. They were Negro and | white, native born and Haitians. They cheered the speakers; James W. Ford, Communist candidate. for | vice president in the last election; and a Negro worker himself; Robert W. Dunn, John Ballam and E. Glass- ford, the chairman. | The meeting was held under the auspices of the New York District of the Internations! Labor Defense, the Anti-Imperialist League, the | Trade Union Unity Council, and the | League of Struggle for Negro Rights. STUDENTS ATTACK JIM CROW SYSTEM: ‘Convention Sympo- ‘sium on Negro Student NEW YORK. — A symposium, | “Whither the Negro Student,” held} | during the National Students’ League | Convention, Saturday evening at} Irving Plaza Hall, in which James W. | Ford, Louise Thompson, and William | Pickens, Jr., addressed the audience | of about three hundred, described the | status of the Negro student in college | circles of the United States. Charles) Keller of the Frederick Douglas So-| ciety of City College acted as chair-| man. | Louise Thompson, Assistant Sec-| retary of the Committee For Defense | Ue SsvlO BulyIOM ay} JO qed Bulvo of Political Prisoners, and a former teacher at Hampton Institute, a school for Negro women in the South, related her own personal experiences both as a teacher and student. She! exposed the system by which the ruling whites make the Negro student feel that his education is pure charity. | She pointed out the fact that under) | this system the Negro student can- | not be militant but must fall in line | with the reactionary ruling class. In | summing up Thompson stated that! | the Negro student cannot divorce himself from the struggles of the working class, that the Negro student will soon realize the importance ot participating in their struggles; and | that the Negro student is looking towards the U.S. S. R. as a concrete example of what real intellectual) freedom can be. | James W. Ford, candidate for the viee-presidency on the Communist | ticket, and a member of the Central! | Committee of the Communist Party,| U. S. A., declared that education in| capitalist countries was bankrupt) along with the decline and decadence | | of capitalism. Ford denounced the | Jim Crowism and discrimination that | is part of Negro student life today.) He pointed out that the equipment, is inferior to that of the white Secretary of Labor Doak to me | tion from the bosses stating that “an attempt is being made by certain groups who are opposed to our form of government to wrest control of said strike from loyal American citi- zens.” The “loyal” American citi- zens” referred to are the stool pi- American continent, instigated by U. S. and British imperialism in their struggle for control. Although the National Buro called this to the attention of the revolu- tionary unions and mass organiza- MINERS STRIKE Demand Fired Men Be Reinstated SHENANDOAH, Pa Feb. 8—One tions, the National Buro must severely criticize itself for not allowing up this most important question, te see to it that an energetic campaign fas con- Beons and disrupters whom the bosses managed to smuggle into the Briggs strike committee, a tactic they are trying to repeat in the Hudson strike | workers to acquaint them with the ducted in the unions and among the) Aimed at Foreign Born. situation and to stimulate action in| This petition is designed to pave support of the Latin-American work- the way for splitting the strike ranks ers. The National Buro has been | >y dividing American and foreign remiss in this most important ques-| born and for wholesale deportations tion, which represents an underes- °f foreign-born strikers, a game at timation of the war danger. The re-| Which Doak is an expert (18,000 de- sult is that the unions and mass or- Ported last year), and for invoking ganizations did not respond—and the vicious Michigan criminal syndi- thousand anthracite Brook: miners of the side mine near here are now ike against the policy of the 'y of firing members of the nited Mine Workers local on the pretext of “no work” and then hiring miners brought in from other citi at lower wages. This is the fruit of the betrayal policy of the Lewis- | Brennan U.M.W. machine, which is Supposed to have an agreement with the company. The Brookside mine is owned by | “Organizational now there is the gravest danger that | a delegate will not be able to attend | the Congress. The National Bure makes a most | earnest appeal to the revolutionary | unions and mass organization im- | mediately. | 1) To initiate a broad campaign | among the workers on the war) situation, 2) To help raise funds for the delegates, | These funds are needed at once.| Do not delay, otherwise our delegate | will not be able to get to Montevideo’ in time for the Congress. This would be a serious omission, for which the Latin-American workers would cor-| rectly reprimand us. Bring all funds immediately to the Trade Union Unity League, 2 West 15th St. N. ¥. REVOLT BEGUN IN MILLINERY UNION Stealing of Votes Rouses Local 42 NEW YORK.—As a result of the; stealing of votes in the election of a | new executive committee of Loca] 42, | Millinery Blockers, an undercurrent | of revolt has begun. Many of the} rank and file members, realizing they were duped by Zaritsky and his} clique, walked out in protest. | Zaritzky’s demagogy and intimida-/ tion is a mockery of the Blockers’ Union. Whenever he ajlows the rank and file to vote and participate | in “limited discussion” .his methods | of deception guarantees his getting the majority of votes. And when his brazen deception and intimidation fails he resorts to direct force through his gangsters, For this election he formed an Committee.” The composition of this committee con- sisted of misled workers and armed gangsters, Another instrument he uses against the rank and file is the giving out of jobs. Those obedient and faithful to him are given first preference. Regardless of these difficulties, many rank and file blockers voted for candidates of the United Front| Millinery Committee. Since the or-| ganized clique counted the votes the| United Front candidates received less | than the estimated amount received. This was obvious to everyone present. | One of the blockers openly charged that Zaritsky was aided by gangsters to keep us just like cattle. After nine months of splitting and calism law to break the strike. Meanwhile the Briggs and Hudson strikers are showing by militant Picketing their determination to fight | all efforts to drive them back to the old slave conditions. The Hudson strikers are demanding: 1—A 20 per cent increase in all day-rate wages and a 150 pér cent bonus on the basis of volume pro- duced; 2.—A 30 per cent raise in all hourly wages, with 5 cents ad- ditional an hour for night workers; An cight-hour day and five- day week; 4—Time and a half for | overtime and double time for all holiday and Sunday work; 5.—An adequate number of relief men on all assembly lines; 6.—New stock and tools to be supplied in all de- partments; 7.—Adequate ventila- tion; 8—In case of absence, work- ers not to lose jobs until absent ten | days; 9—At least one hour's pay for each time called to work; 10.— | Abolition of repeated physical ex- aminations and fingerprinting; 11. Recognition of grievance com- | mittees in all departments; 12.—No penalty against men on grievanee | committees. | Briggs Demands. Among the demands of the Briggs | strikers are minimum wage-rates of 45 cents an hour for women and 50 cents for men; abolition of “dead time” (unpaid time); elimination of the group “insurance,” “welfare” and other boss swindle schemes; and rec- ognition of shop committees. The strike of the 3,000 Hudson workers has foreed the company to shyt all its plants here, manufactur- ing Hudson and Essex cars and em- Ploying 6,000 men. The Hudson strike is proving of great help to the Briggs men and has given a serious setback to the bosses and their agents, Mayor Murphy, Governor Comstock and the mis- leaders of the American Federation of Labor, Socialist Party and I.W.W., who thought they had had the Briggs strike in the palm of their hands. Hundreds Join Union. The Auto Workers Union and the Unemployed Councils are organizing neighborhood meetings in support of the two strikes and are demanding the withdrawal of city and state po- ice and hired gangsters, mobilized to break the strike. Hundreds of Hudson workers are joining the union and shop branches and depart- ment organizations are being built vu Ip. The Auto Workers Union and the Unemployed Couneil has decided to call a conference for Sunday, Feb. 19, to take up the joint strugle for immediate relief, unem- ployment insuranee and against the wage-cutting program of the the auto bosses. This conference dividing the blockers Zaritsky now! has formulated a new scheme of | merging the two international unions, | the United Hatters with the Cloth, | Hat, Cap and Millinery. The report | wasn’t a suggestion; it was a com- mand. The members had no right to discuss the report. One worker, Wallman, made a motion that the rank and file should discuss the re- port. Barten, who was chairman and a member of the elique, refused to take this motion to a vote, and the! blockers had to swallow the report whether they liked it or not. WORCESTER COPS HIT AT JOBLESS WORCESTER, Mass., Feb, 8,—In/ an effort to smash the workers’ fight against relief cuts, against evictions, of the Negro student is far less nte| student. He showed by statistics | the police here have begun a series that total yearly expenditures per/of raids and arrests. The Young! capita for the education of a white | Workers’ Center, 194 Harding Street, student in North Carolina is $60.25,| Was raided by police and closed down. | while the amount expended for the | Four workers were arrested and are held incommunicado, without charges | being laid against them, despite the! protests of the International Labor | Defense, Arrests of Workers on Street Workers are being arrested on the streets for “questioning” by police who have seen them in unemployed demonstrations. Negro student of that same state was) $7.65. A representative of the National Students’ League pledged his organi- zation to wage an unceasing struggle aainst Negro discrimination and Jim Crowism. He reported that already a fight has begun in Detroit against the barring of Negro students from swimming pools. A_ collection to carry on the agitvtion work for the tion drive to defeat the growing | reinstatement of the 19 students who! struggle for bread and for shelter, were suspended from City Coliege for started at the Jan. 29 United Front | testifying at a mass trial against the Conference. Workers are indignant | administration was made. will also make final arrangements for the city hunger march on March 4 and for the hunger march on Mareh 7 of the employed and unemployed Ford workers to de- mand immediate relief from the Ford Motor Company, the stopping of wage-cuts in the Ford plant and an increase in wages Mareh 7 is the anniversary of last year’s mas- saere at the Ford Dearborn plant, at which four workers were killed. Cop Shoots Negroes The Briggs strikers were in a fighting mood yesterday and defied the police to stop a number of street-cars that were carrying scabs. One Negro worker, Sam Reed, was shot in the back when Patrolman Koontz opened fire on the strikers. The trial of 51 Briggs strikers, who have been arresied in Highland Park during the course of the strike, began yesterday with the arraign- ment of three women workers. The the Philadelphia and Reading Coa! and Iron Company, in which the House of Morgan has a strong in- | terest. Throughout the mines of this dis- trict the companies ignore the U.M. W. sellout agreement and do as they please. Brennan, president of Dis- trict 9, is hand in glove with the | bosses and opposes all strike action. The 1,000 men of the Brookside mine |have gone on strike over the heads of the union officialdom and are de- |Manding the reinstatement of all | those fired. SEAMEN STRIKE; ‘WIN ALL DEMANDS Militant Union Leads Baltimore Struggle BALTIMORE, Md. — Under the leadership of the Marine Workers | Industrial Union, and with the help | of the Waterfront Unemployed Coun- cil, the crew of the S. S. Munmystic won a 100 per cent victory in their strike. The crew, which {s composed of | Greek, Spanish, Negro, German and | native American workers, struck be- cause the company held back their pay although they had been aboard | Ship for 60 days and the Munmystic | had been in port nearly a week. The | strikers picketed every shipping | agency and prevented the hiring of scabs, finally forcing the company to grant the following demands: : 1, Immediate payment of full wages jue. 2. No terrorization of any striker. 3. No firing of strikers. Several members of the crew joined the Marine Workers Industrial Union and the rest promised to join later. REVOLT BY LOCAL 325 MEMBERSHIP Demand Admission of FWIU Speakers NEW YORK.—Members of Local 325 Cooks and Countermen shouted down officials atempting to put over | the association demands for wage- | cuts and longer hours at their meet- ing Monday and stuck solid in the demand for admitting into the meet- ing a committee of the Food Work- ers Industrial Union and the rep- resentative of the mass organizations of Brownsville. The workers are locked out in 12 Brownsville cafe- | terias. | The Committee, Bill Albertson, William Beale and Charles Obera- | kaich for the F. W. I. U., and Hor- | watt for the mass organizations were kept o ut of the meem cm em cm kept out of the meeting by gangsters | of the officials, but were kept in- | formed of all the proceedings by the | membership. | General president of the Interna- tional, Flore came by plane from Cincinnati and with the help of other Offiicals made a futile atempt to suppress the militancy of the work- lers. He was supported by Vice- | President Lehman, whose combined | threats failed to shake the mem- | bership. Lehman offered to “settle” the strike and tried to impress the work- ers that “times are bad” and they should buckle under to the boss at~ | tack, At 130 a. m. the mood of the International Labor Defense, which | workers was such that the officials 4s defending them, demanded a jury | trial for each. Tampa Bosses Try to | Cash In On Torture) TAMPA, Fla.—Not content with | tor-oiling” Hy Gordon, leader of the | militant workers of Tampa, last fall, the city authorities arc trying to the long weeks of torture he endured in the city hospital. The city attorney, Alonzo B, Mc- Mullen, is sending letters, threaten- put in a hurried call for Epstein of Local 302 who brought with him a strong arm squad of gangsters. Fight Attack Epstein was continously inter- rupted as he made a viscious attack on Communists, and 40 workers left the hall returning only atfer he was through. Dead silence ee the | beating, tarring, feathering, and “cas-| conclusion of his speech. The militant stand of the rank and file prevented the officials from making any definice decisions, After All this is part of | Collect from the International Labor the end of the meeting at 3 a. m. the bosses’ and the city administra- Defense a hospital bill of $64.24, for the officials retired to a hotel to “telk over” the situation. “SOUTHERN JUSTICE — Sen- tence of Negro worker to living Students, and organizational steps are on foot ing suit, to Gordon, and is trying to, death for leading fight for bread— been rewarded by the government by| both Negro and white are urged to! for mass demonstrations against the| use them as clubs over the I. L. D. | American Workers must save Hern- appointment as its representative at| fight for the unconditional reinstate- | police attacks, the arrests and inti-| workers in Tampa, since Gordon is San Rafael del Norte. ment of the 19 stude: a ‘ion. no longer. there a don and other Atlanta defendants from clutches of vicious chain gang. ~