The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1933, Page 3

= a NEW MORGAN BANK GETS — OLD DEPOSITORS’ MONEY Formed for Morgan DAILY WORKER, NE W YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1933 Crowd With Aid of Reconstruction Finance Corp. Funds | WASHINGTON, March 23.—Continuing its policy of aiding ihe biggest | capitaltsta which was introduced under the Hcover administration, the Re- | construction Finance Corporation has immed over $12,500,000 to General | Motors to establish a new institution to be known as tiie National Bank of | Detroit. This was done insicad of aiding the unemployed in Detroit and | the ruined small depositors whose @————— money vanished with the closing of the Detroit banks. | ‘Take Over Assets of Two Banks. The new bank will take over the | liquid assets of the First National and the Guardian National, the two big banks of Detroit that have been closed. Announcement is made that the depositors of these banks will be | paid off at the rate of 40 per cent of] tl There are more than | | SRT. papoaltces affected — many| In Cleveland, Ohio, there is to be | with only a few hundred dollars in | formed a new National Bank, sirnilar the banks who, at one blo~, are rob-| to the one in Detroit, to take over | Extend to Whole Country. According to information from the | Treasury denartment this practice is to be extended to the whole country with the Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration, an agency of the govern- ment, directly helping in the pillag- ing of the small depositors who stand to lose not less than 10 billion dol- 5 in such “reorganization”. bed of half their savings, “alle Gen-| the assets of the Union Trust Com- eral Motors gets its cl cies on ap-| pany, the second Jargest bank in the proximately $160,000,00° ©! what are | city. ‘There are 180 smaller banks in | tleseribed as sound asses ‘the state which are still closed. MEET PERKINS AT COMMODORE WITH PICKETS ROOSEVELT HAS MORTGAGE PLAN Aids MorteageHolders Fearing Cancellation WASHINGTON. March 23. A mortgage “refinancing plan” osten- A.F.L. Group Seab | bly to aid the farmers and small home-owners will be put forward by congress which President Roosevelt will deliver early next week. This was indicated today following a conference between Roosevelt and congressional! chieftains, including the Senate and House chairman of the Agricultural Committee. Another Snare for Farmers. ‘The plan would cal! fora $2,000,- 090,000 federal bond issue. The svon- sors of this program claim. that its | purpose is to “ease the burden” upon the farmers who are now paying from six to nine per cent interest on their morteages. By means of the bond is- sue, they assert, their indebtedness will be transferred to the government to which it will pay lower interest rates. The scheme was submitted today of Beeretary of the Treasury Woodin foxmbproval preparatory: to being placed before Congress by Rooseyelt. on Strikers NEW YORK.—Miss Perkins, will be met by a picket line of the Hotel Commodore strikers when, with Ed- ward F. McGrady of the 4.™L., and a host of other labor “leave” the “liberal” Secretary of the 1 -part- ment of Labor will attend a banquet at the hotel, scabbing on ihe work- ers. Miss Perkins has frequently made stetements “against” the yellow dog contracts in hotels and has as fre- quently “deplored” the sufferings of the hotel workers. The strikers are fighting against a wage cut which would reduce their already meagre wags of $12 a week to $5 “This action on the part of Miss Perkins and the other “laborites” should serve to expose their real role in the labor movement—misleaders,” said a “statement from “the Food Workers Industrial Union, who are Secretary of Treasury Woodin (center) with two aids, gloating over first issues of new 92,000,000,000 of paper money which will raise prices of food and clothing for all workers, and help to wipe owt whatever savings they haye left. Inflation Starts; Less Food for Workers ie MAY AMPUTATE [Southern Press LEGS OF BOMBED — Morris Langer in Crit- BIRMINGHAM, Ala., reh 23.— Page Varee Mobilized Against the Scottsboro Boys STRIKE LEADER | L.L.D. Compels Retraction from United Press on False Story About Defense Attorney The newspapers of the South, as well ical Condition at Newark Hospital amputation of both legs may be necessary for Morris Langer, leader of the fur dressers’ and dyers’ strikes Singer of Newark. Langer was in- jured yesterday by a bomb which tal here night Langer was very weak as a result of loss of blood, and was given two blood transfusions. His right hand is wounded and his body and legs are badly burned. The murderous attack on the life of Langer is part of the bosses’ at- Hoffman Arrested for Demanding Racket POLICE ATTACK =|Waiter Suggests How to NEEDLE PROTEST Fight Tip Racketeering ‘Must Organize on the Job to Fight Grievances tempt to crush the strike struggles of the fur dressers and dyers under the leadership of the Needle Trades | Workers’ Industrial Union. Knows Assailants Langer, although in weakened con- dition, stated that he saw two ma- night preceding the outrage and could identify the men in the cars SUMMIT, N. J., March 28.—The | against A. Hollander and Philip. exploded under the hood of his auto- | mobile. He is at the Overlook Hospi- | When visited at the hospital last | chines parked near his home on the | ae the capitalist press services, have been mobilized to assist the Alabansa landlords and bosses in lynching, judicially or otherwise, the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys when they come up for their second trial in Decatur on March 27. An instance is the false story spread over the country by the United Press, that Irving Schwab, Interna-@——— _———— | tional Labor Def vorney, | id | been withdrawn from the case’ | ‘Tag Days Start the Scottsboro Boys | In a statement issued today from | , Chattanooga, Gen. George W. Cham-| | lee, chief of the Scottsboro legal de- vigorously denied the| | |fense corps, 5 NEW YORK.—Protest resolution: announcement attributed to him that! atone will not save the nine innocent Schwab had been withdrawn | Scottsboro Boys from the electric Following a demand by William L.| chair, it was declared today in a Patterson, national secretary of the | joint’ statement by mass organine- — Se “= —— | tions endorsing the New York Dis W YORK. — A Scottsboro | trict International Labor Defense Ti Unity Conference will be held to- | Day Drive, which begins this Satur- night at 8 p.m., at St, Lukes Hall, | day, for raising defense funds for 125 West 130th Street. All organi- | the nine framed Negro boys. Money zations send delegates. Save the | Must be raised at once for carrying | Scottsboro boys! |on the struggle to save them. | Tacomas - -~ Workers are urged to contribute to IL.D., that it retract the story, the | tl utmost during the Drive, whic United Press sent out the following | will be carried on by hundreds of item: volunteer workers from March 35 tc “Irving Schwab, attorney of the April 2. International Labor Defense is still one of the defense counsel for the eight Negro boys charged with at- | tacking two white girls in the Scottsboro, Ala. case, according to William L. Patterson, national sec- | vetary of the LL.D. ‘Mr, Schwab is | still associate counsel in the Scotts- 500 Negro, White Force Relief in j i if who he believes planted the bomb. End in Spite of Stool Pigeons Ep Debates Diemiee ee roe?) || hero leaselaba wil remain wey Pat Harlem Protest shee SS aa | terson said in denying 2 report y NEW YORK. — Sewral hundred By a Food Worker Correspondent celyes. However this only means that Langer’s MEG ee cee a | that the attorney had heen with- needle workers fought police yester-| NEW YORK CITY.—In the contest | Teaniaation work must be carried on| cccompany iim in the car to their | 4fawn.” vat. Waieis te we ee day afternoon when the latter at-|of the most hard-boiled capitalists for | VY carefully and cautiously, with-| Scheel, On that morning they had| The I. L. D. has subpoenaed 23 Ne-/0n the demands of the successful tempted to break up a demonstra-|the exploitriion and abuse of work-| Ut exposing the members of the oF-| tortumately not yet entered the car, |St0eS in Jackson County, who are|Harlem demonstration yesterday 0 tion before the Emergency Work rs, the ains of the hotel and Bureau at 28 St. and Fourth Ave..|tciaurant sndustey fully deserve ¢ triatt Gil Red Ci Fu |resta stry fully deserve the ae ee See ee 2 et | chamy p. Whereas in other in- racketeering and graft, and against the firing of a Negro worker from a Gibson shop. Hoffman, secretary of the Ni Trades Unemployed Council was ar rested. s the bosses limit their exploit- ation of workers to long hours and jlow wages, in the hotel industry, as far as the waiters are concerned, they ectied in eliminating wages alto- ‘As the workers began gathering in and in securing a considerable front of the offices of the Gibson B prot by robbing the ps’ trom Committee, the police, in the most|the waiters. brutal manner, pounced upon them.| In the hotels, thousands of workers The workers refused to be dispersed,|are employed as banauet waiters who, went around the block and came back| due to the common routine of the again. hotel racket, are not permitted to ac- | cept tips from the guests, Not be- cause of the ethical attitude of the hotel owners objecting to this miser- able and obsolete form of begging. On the contrary, the captains of the hotel industry discovered here a great possibility, for a wonderful racket. Head Waited Gets Cash After the-Jast-eourse of the dinner, 2 DAYS LEFT FOR MAY 1 DELEGATES NEW YORK. — Pointing out ‘that | only two days remained-.before thc leading“the strike, today. ILD Demands Right Aids Mortgage Holders. The key-point of the proposal, however, is that the cash raised thru ; United Front Labor May Day Con- ferenc:, the Provisional, Arrange- | the waiters have.to leave the room | immediately,.and.now- the sly head the floating of the bond issue would be turned over, not to the debt-loaded farmers, but to those who are holding the mortgages upon the farms—the banks, reilroads, insurance nies, etc. would be “taken care of”, thus sav- ing them from the spectre of out- right cancellation which becomes in- creasingly certain as the militancy of farmers increases. Speaker Rainey in commenting to- day.on the mortgage proposa] said that under present plans it would be added to the administration's farm bill, and will be written into the price Axing. bill as a Senate amendment. The administration farm bill pas- sed yesterday by the House, was re- ceived in the Senate today and im- mediately referred to the agricultural ' committee, which will meet tomor- row. and a Handkerchief (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY.—-An old waiter in one of New York's biggest and compa- In this way the mortgagees:| \ to Defend Workers Perkins Weuld Deport NEW YORK.—ht face of orders by the new bosses’ Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins, which prove that she intends to follow the vicious pol- icy laid down by Doak against for- eign-born workers, the legal staff of the New York District International Labor Defense wil send two repre- sentatives to her in Washington with a demand that attorneys for the I. L. D. be given the right to see, inter- view and defend workers held for deportation. At present the bureaucratic au- thorities at Ellis Island refuse to reccegnize the I. L. D. as an organi- zation entitled to have attorneys offi- cially represent it in deportation cases. crimination, the authorities | that the I. L. D. criticizes them “too much.” branches of the I. L. D., are urged to back up'the demand of the legal staff by sending resolutions to Frances Perkins condemning the action of the Ellis Island officials. In explanation of this dis-| stated ; Workers’ organizations, especially | ments. Committee, 799 Broadway,| Waiter, under many bows and com- Room 234, yesterday stressed the urg- | pliments, approaches the entertain- ent necessity of all workers’ organi-|ment committee of the banquet. He zations electing delegates for the Con-| explains that in this exclusive estab- ference to be held this Sunday, March lishment the waiters are.not permitted 26th, at 1 p.m. in Manhattan Lyceum, |to collect Hips'at thé tables, therefore 66 East 4th St. |he would suggest that they hand ‘the The arrangements Committee fur-/money that was intended for the ther stated that in the period in| waiters to him inone sum. This trick which the Conference is called, a! always works perfectly, as the head period in which the crisis has taken’ wajter is the triumphant embezzler, a new downward plunge, must wit-'by keeping the lion’s share for him- nees the broadest gatherlng. of Work-|seif, Not being organized, the un- ers’ organizations through their el-| forcunate waiters are absolutely help- ected delegates to map decisive ac-|jec~ ae, - Hons for the May (Day Desionst® jless against this piracy. sviiindreodstd nstra-| The question arises, how to organ- Men, ize the waiters? An efficiently or- The struggle for immediate ade-| - i % ganized stool pigeon system seems to quate relief and unemployment and | par every opportunity. Yet there is social insurance must be the central RR slogan of Labor on this May Day. \@ possible chance by using certain The Conference will also take up| tactics. the question of fascist terror against} Suppose an organization would get the German masses, and will request out a cleverly written circular letter the delegates to urge their organiza-|in which the methods of the head tions to join with other workers’ bod- | waiters would be exposed, and the let- jes in one united, mighty struggle|ter addressed to the Entertainment against fascism, both in Germany|Committee would appeal to them. and against its growth in the United) They would state that as long as the States. tip system is so strongly established, The Provisional Arrangements| the waiters can choose no other way Committee stresses the question of |of getting their livelihood, and there- the election of delegates. Those or-|fore the committee should insist upon ganizations which have not yet done swellest hotels—a hotel that is known to be making money in spite of the depression—fell ill and was carried off to the hospital. The hotel made no effort to hold his job for him. Instead, for the sin of getting sick, he was fired. ‘When he came back to gather up his things, his locker had been rifled. His dress suit, other articles of his for this loss beyond $1 for the locker. Jobless, enfeebled by sickness, and minus the tools of his trade, the old waiter was turned adrift, A guest complained that a hand- kerchief had been stolen from his room. He valued the handkerchief at $2 (some handkerchief!) A check so should immediately take this ques- tion up and see that delegates are elected. LL.D. Branch Wires Protest To Hitler NEW YORK.—The workers of the Imperial Valley Branch, I. L. D., sent a protest telegram to the German embassy in Washington against the handing the tips directly to the serv- ing waiters and not to the embezzler. Another leaflet, stating the action of the organization could be distributed | at the exit of the hotel among the ; waiters as they leave. —E. M. | Editor's Note—It is true there are jmany stool pigeons who hamper or- walters equipnisht, had been stolen. for the.$2 and a humble letter of apology were immediately mailed to ‘Hitler fascist terror. We also call all | ganization of the rank and file wait- workers’ organizations to follow our | ers, and most of these stool pigeons ganized group until enough to fight openly. Tt is a good idea to expose thie racket in leaflets and newspapers, but we hardly think the patrons commit- tee will be affected by any leaflet ad- dressed to them, because they aren’t it is strong Workers Angry Tremendous resentment is being expressed by the workers in New York and New Jersey against the crime perpetrated against their leader. The Joint Executive Board of the Needle | Trades Industrial Union at its meet- ing last night decided to hold a mass protest demonstration on Tuesday afternoon in New York. Resolutions demanding the imme- diate arrest of the assailants were adopted, Monday at 5 p.m. the In- ternational Labor Defense of Newark will hoid a demonstration at Military | Park in protest against the murder- ous attack. worried as to who gets the tips. It is the waiters themselves to whom leaf- lets should be addressed, explaining jto them how to organize. “TRY TO OUST MILITANT ~ CARPENTERS NEW YORK.—At a meeting of the | Qualified to serve on juries, to sup~ | port its first motion, and other wit-| |Nesses from Morgan County, in| which Decatur is situated, on the mo-} jtion to dismiss the jury panel. | Through these witnesses it will prove| |that Negroes have been illegally ex-| |cluded from grand and petit juries) for forty years. | | Knight was in Decatur today to! | confer with Sheriff Davis of Morgan |County in their last-minute joint preparations to insure the murder of | |the Scottsboro boys. He has an- jmounced in advance that probably call the militia “to prevent the Scottsboro boys from escaping.” |_ This, the I. L. D. charges, is direct |lynch-incitement. There is no dan- ger of the boys “escaping.” The I. L. D. has called on all work-| ers and their organizations, Negro |and white, throughout the world, to The organizational policy of the Food Workers Industrial Union is as follows: In each hotel there. must be formed agroupof the most trustwor- thy and militant workers, organized with the view of fighting all grievances of the workers. In the case of the extras, they must work together with the steady workers. To combat such a@ racket as this, a group strongly or- ganized can demand sufficient wages, or, in case they are not yet in a po- sition to combat the tip system, to réTuse to work for a head waiter until he agrees that the tips go to those who did the work. WAITER EXPOSES SHARE THE WORK ASSOCIATION By a Food Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK CITY.—The “Waiters’ Share-the-Work Association” cele- brated its gala opening at 133 W. 52nd St., with a free lunch to all hungry hash-slingers, but first they had to listen to the palaver of one John Clark, the president of the club, who held @ spiel against “those [intensify their mass protest District Council of Brotherhood of | | tion was adopted to bring up all of- ficers of unions involved in the rank and file opposition movement on ex- ulsion charges. This action was ‘aken following the reading of the demands of the rank and file which call for a stop to the official policy of undercutting the union scale, 10: union obuse and for a program of rellef ahd unemployment insurance. A meeting of the left wing car- penters opposition group is to be held on Friday evening, March 24th, at 106 E. 14th St. cooks and waiters to correctly re- spect an officer, and had requested the oficers to give a black eye to all wajters failing in due respect to an officer and gentleman. For Sharing the Misery. There was much said about Hoover and his laudable share-the-work plan that works so much good. They distributed petitions to gather signa- tures to be submitted to erhployers, ete., “in whom we place our full con- fidence to help us.” As a special drawing card, Clark introduced one “Comrade Bickel,” a former waiter, now a high official. It wasn’t mentioned where or what. This Bickel became headwaiter in Carpenters, Wednesday night, @ mo-) overnment Workers) toBeFired ‘Swiftly and_| 500 Negro and white workers at the Relief Bureau, where food and rent checks were won for 25 Negro anc white workers, the Harlem Unem- ployed Council will start intensive work on house and block committees. When the committee asked Super- visor Moore about relief for single women, he airily replied, “Oh, they can go to the Salvation Army or to the Municipal Lodging House,” in other words, to the flophouses and pig pens. At the Finnish Hall, after the dem- onstration, the striking tobacco work- ers of the Edwin Cigar Co., 127th Street and Third Avenue, exchanged solidarity greetings with the unem- ployed workers. The Unemployed Council at 650 Lenox Avenue wil discuss problems of a united front, Monday night at eight o'clock. Lodges, clubs, churches will be drawn into action on these demands. All elected delegates rep- resenting their organizations must be present at the Council on that date. | Quietly’ Says Paper WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 23.— The Government workers are about to. be knifed in. the back “swiftly and quietly” by the demagogic President Roosevelt. This conclusion may be} drawn from a news item in the Washington Star (March 19, 1933) | which states in pari “The task of cutting down the Government establishment is pro- | gressing swiftly and quietly, with of- | ficials guarding against advance in-/ formation for fear of having their| City Takes Furniture of Ousted Finnish Seamen; Search Men NEW YORK.—The evicted Finnish seamen found their furniture taken away by the city and their quarters nailed yesterday. They were pre- vented from entering the consulate by a squad of police, who kept guare all day. The Finnish seamen voted to par- | work complicated by pressure from| ticipate in the demonstration on | affected units.” March 29 at Whitehall arid South | Roosevelt cuts $750,000,000 from) Streets. This and another demon- stration at West and 18th Streets on the same date are being called by the Waterfront Unemployed Councij to protest the relief cut for al] seamen on April 1 by the Haight Emergency Committee and for increased relief for the sailors and all other marine workers in New York. The officials of the Seamen's Church Institute, of which Roosevelt is an official, are frantically trying to stop the distribution of leaflets for the demonstration in their premises. | the wages and pensions of the Gov~ ernment workers and war veterans. | | Only a few Government workers | are organized, and these are misled by the reactionary officials of the two unions. But the achievement of the Roosevelt. plans, secretiv and other- wise, cannot fail to open the eyes of | both veterans and Government work- | ers to the meaning of the “new deal.” WORKERS OF DRELL SHOE COMPANY ON Yates’ Restaurant, Cadillac Hotel, in| Their stool-pigeons searched the class-conscious radicals who deceive STRIKE | sleeping men Thursday about 2 a.m. the poor workers.” An addle-pated sort of fellow by the name of Le Jaques was then in- troduced as the financial backer who gave his all to help the poor old waiters. Attired in a cook's outfit, adorned by an artist’s tie, he stepped in a ridiculous military fashion be- fore the gathering of some 50 wait- ers, hoping for jobs, and gave them the army salute. Said he had been 1924, and his first act was to reduce the $12 wages to $8 per week for the waiters. He showed his mettle to his employers right off the reel, reduce the wages of the cooks and kitchen crew also. For all his con- descending talk, Bicke) is for Bickel first, last and all the time. Anyone expecting jobs from the likes of them will find himself skil- who, in turn, made him manager, to) NEW YORK.—The workers of the Drell Shoe Co., 7 East 20th St., walk- ed out on strike today against a |Jock-out which the firm was plan- ning to put over on the workers. The strike is led by the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union, Mr. Drell, who was at one time a business agent of the United Shoe Workers’ Union, to try and find the “guilty” person or persons. They found the leafiets already distributed. The institute has millions of dollars in its treasury, but is throwing hundreds of seamen out on the street, while it has empty beds. A crime against the working class equipped another shop at 245 Sevnth Ave., into which he planned t6 move to permit the Daily Worker to sus- The hotel assumed no responsibility| the luxuty-loving gent. example, are head waiters and managers them~ mess-sergeant at West Point, trained! fully trimmed. WORCORR. ‘and hire a new crew. pend. Rush funds today. MINERS PREPARING FOR STRUGGLE TO START APRIL FIRST The miners who have almost without interruption car- ried on a struggle against the lowering of their living standards during the last two years are now again pre- paring themselves for struggl Pennsylvania and Ohio who most militant struggles in 1 es. This time the miners of have carried on one of the 931 under the leadership of the National Miners Union are taking the lead. And just as the 1951 strike was followed by strikes in the anthracite, Southern West Virginia, Illinois, and Kentucky, so the present struggles now develo: ping in the soft coal regions of Pennsylvania and Ohio will be followed by struggles in other fields. The recent conference o: f miners in Pittsburg where some 300 representatives of the employed and uneniployed miners gathered to prepare for a widening of the fight dis- closed, that already sections The unemployed miners have in many fields. Thru the av of the miners are fighting. developed the fight for relief plication of the united front tactic and the adoption of the mass fighting policies of the National Miners Unions and the Unemployed Councils they have already compelled the local governments to in- crease reljef and to extend relief to new sections of the miners. The struggles of the employed miners have also already begun. The miners of the Terminal mines, and in Powhattan Point, Ohio resisted and defeated the payment in scrip. The miners are beginning to sense the meaning of the Roosevelt program and are entering the struggle against it. The conditions of the miners are becoming more and more unbearable. Employed miners the overwhelming majority of whom work part time are more and more finding themselves in no bet Ta Their standard of ter position than the unem- living in many cases is not much higher than that of the unemployed miners who are receiving relief. In fact there are cases where the so called employed miners are even worse off than the unemployed, who are receiving relief. This is due to the fact that no matter how many days they work, no matter how much per ton they receive, the company deductions for supplies, for rent, and other so called fixed charges is made by the company to equal exactly the amount of their “earnings.” The result is that they receive no cash for which to buy food and other necessities. This condition is increasing the fighting mood of the miners and is more and more creating the unity of the employed and unemployed min- ers for the struggle, The recent strikes in the Terminal mines where the U.M.W.A. has an agreement since the last miners strike in 19381 has once more exposed the treachery of the top U.M.W.A, officials, and at the same time shown that the miners wish to forge the united front for action against the operators. It has also shown that many of the lower functionaries, of the U.M.W.A. locals especially, those func- tionaries who work in the mines are ready to take up the united front struggle of the miners of the U.M.W.A, and the N.M.U, This lesson of the miners in the Terminal mines both with regard to the readiness of the miners to fight, the urge of the miners for united action, and the role of the top leaders of the U.M.W.A., was fully brought out at the miners united front conference and was clarified before all the delegates. The conference decided that the miners everywhere begin to elect their committees of action; formulate their demands on the basis of the general demands adopted by the conference and present these demands to the coal com- a panies, and that they strike if these demands are not grant- ed, The conference adopted as the general demands among others the basic demand for a 10 cents increase per ton for all miners. This demand was adopted as against a pro- posal for a flat tonnage rate for all miners, which the over- whelming majority at the conference did not think prac- tical in view of the great difference in the rates at the various mines and in view of the fact that the miners are not ready for and are not striking enough to call a general strike and enforce a tonnage rate that will be in the in- terests of all the miners. The conference also adopted demands for the unem- ployed miners for increase of relief. A decision for joint mass demonstrations of the employed and unemployed miners for joint demands was unanimously adopted. Thus we can see that the miners are not only taking up the struggle, but are measuring their forces and the forces of the enemy in the most serious manner. They have adopted a practical fighting program which can begin to put a stop to the repeated and now renewed attacks on their living standards thru the Roosevelt program. This struggle will Jay the basis for the strengthening of the united front of the miners, the strengthening of the Na- tional Miners Union and prepare the way for more decisive struggles in the interests of the miners. The miners of Pennsylvania and Ohio under the leadership of the N.M.U. by developing this struggle will be in a good position to take the initiative to unite the miners thruout the country now organized into the U.M.W.A., the P.M.A., the N.M.U., the W. Va. Miners Federation and the unorganized for mass struggles to reestablish better conditions in the in- dustry 4 In the Anthracite though the operators and the Lewi« machine did not think it possible to carry through a general direct wage cut at this time, the indirect wage cuts consid- erably lowering the living standards of the miners are pro- ceeding at a rapid tempo. In Illinois the miners have again had forced upon them a renewal of the wage cut agreement, both by the leaders of the U. M. W. A. and the leaders of the Progressive Miners Union. The rank and file of the miners are becoming more and more dissatisfied with these condi- tions. But the rank and file opposition movement is still too weak to organize the forces of the miners, so that the miners can feed confident to enter the struggle over th hads of their leaders. This organization is, however, though at a slow pace, going forward. The struggles now looming in Penn and Ohio will un- doubtedly have their repercussions in the Anthracite and Illinois, where the objective basis for struggle is great and where the miners’ mood for struggle is rising. The workers in all other industries, the whole revolu- tionary movement, must see in the beginning of the miners’ strikes, as in the recent strikes of the auto workers and the mass strikes of the shoe workers, the smaller strikes through- out the country, the gathering of the workingclass forces for mass resistance against the general starvation conditions of the masses. Struggles will be accelerated by the offensive of capital, carried through with the aid and support of the Roosevelt government. This is seen by the strikes of the miners against scrip. The workers throughout the country must watch the developments in the mining fields and not onlv show their solidarity with the miners, but come te their assietance in every way |