The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1933, Page 2

Sh ateab PAGE TWO DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1933 BARRI IN BERLIN BY KLAUS NEWKRA ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER QUIRT CADES Printed by Special Permis- sion of INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City. AH Workers are urged to read this book and spread it among their friends. NTZ THE STORY SO rAK:—In the workers’ cafe, Red Nightingale, in the proletarian Wedding section of Berli in, # Communist Party street unit helds a meeting to discuss preparations for the 1929 May Day demonstra- that the w ‘Ss arm was outstretched usation over the heads when the Socialist Vorwaerts, lines up of the reactionary press, ountless lies and slanders he alleged blood victims “de- sived” by the Communist Party, and paints the bloody shadow of a Noske or a Severing on the grey house} fronts of Berlin workers’ quar- | ters, then the day will come—when —as in Soviet Russia—the history of the Revolution will hold court over | these servants of capitalism, stained | with the red blood of workers, and | pronounce judgment upon them.” “Bravo, bravo. Koeslin street unit will be there all right!” The former tension had vanished. ‘The room, thick with tobacco smoke, | Kurt began slowly and somewhat | | buzzed with intense debates. Hermann | rose: “Comrades, you have heard the speaker's report. We now proceed to} the disewssion. Who wishes to| speak?” | He looked at the gathering. No one replied. There was a great deal | to be said, but no one liked to begin. It was always like that. One en-| couraged the other. “Jupp, you} begin.” “Let Otto speak first.” “Well, go ahead, Otto!” Kurt rose and caught Hermann’s eye. “Comrade Zimmermann will speak.” MUST CONSIDER FACTORIES Kurt began slowly and somewhat hesitatingly. He could speak more easily to his mates at work. “Com- rades, perhaps this does not belong to the subject, but I think when we are considering the trade unions, we must also talk about the factories. You know that as far as we building workers are concerned, everything will stop on Wednesday, you know that. All of us on the job are go- ing to the demonstration as one man. But how about the other trades in Berlin? As far as I know, | 650 resolutions have been received | from mass organizations and fac- tories, including resolutions from workers’ meetings at some of the) largest factories, protesting against the ban on the demonstration. That is a good deal, but not enough by far. Our unit embraces a number of factories, in some of which there even exist Communist factory units. ‘What's happening there? Why don’t we hear anything about them? We must use the remaining time till Wednesday to get something going there. Perhaps Hermann will tell us what should be done in that direc- tion?” He sat down again. Hermann an- awered at once. In someof the fac- tories, meetings had been organized which were due to take place before the end of the week. It was already quite definite that, with few excep- tions, all work would cease within the area embraced by the Koeslin | local. In one case the Social Demo- cratic factory council had refused and had told the workers that “in the interest of urgent orders in hand” work must not stop. “A fine factory couneil!” “How much will the management pay them for that?” | They would nevertheless try, by | means of leaflets, to get the workers | to stop work. ALL WANT | TO SPEAK Everyone wanied to speak now. |‘: Even old Huebner, who had arrived late, took part. Hermann looked at the long speakers’ list with concern. After an hour he moved closure of the debate owing to the pressure of other important business. . They proceeded to the second point on the agenda: the preparatory work for the ist of May! Leaflets to be distributed in the mornings outside the factories, posters were to be pasted up during the night. There was going to be a big meeting on Sunday night for which house-to- house canvassing had to be done, the May number of the “Wedding- Prolet,” the local paper issued by the unit, had to be finished, printed and distributed. A great many tasks, all of which had to be done by the members after their day's work. Tt was almost twelve o'clock before the meeting closed. Among those who had volunteered to stick posters was Kurt, whose night finished at half-past five. “Tl come over to your place in a few minutes, Hermann, I just want to let Anna know.” “There'll be a little row about this, won't there, Kurt?” seid Hermann laughing as he gathered his papers from the table. 1 which has been banned by the socialist police chief, Zoergiebel. The political leader, Hermann, introduces the representative from the ict, Who exposes the treachery of tHe socialist leaders and declares rkers will not be driven off the streets. the unit is the cement-heaver, Kurt Zimmermann, . . . One of the members too,” answered Kurt. noyed that they regarded Anna as a petty-bourgeois housewife, who did not understand anything about Par- ty work. He knew that one day she would herself reach a stage when she would join the Party. They shouldn’t alWays talk such rubbish! But still, to-night she might perhaps make trouble, he thought, as he went through the passage leading to the street. Hermann stood and chatted to the delegate outside for a few mome' Two more contrasted types could scarcely be imagined than the stock: worker Hermann and the pale littl man who now stood with upturned collar, shivering in the cold. He told Hermann that he was working as a clerk at Lorenz’s and had been elected on the works council in spring. “Don't smoke so much,” Hermann advised him good-naturedly, as the comrade offered him a cigarette and lit one for himself. He had seen in the flickering light of the match that the speaker's eyes were feverish. “Well, what should one do about it, comrade?” he said with a tired smile, “I expect that many of you in this street can’t boast of perfect health!” He looked into the dark, silent street in front of them. “Good-night, comrade.” He shook hands with Hermann, turned and disappeared in the darkness. Until Sunday night nothing in | particular seemed to happen. The newspapers were read more carefully than usual, somebody or other would bring a reactionary paper into the Red Nightingale that would pass | from hand to hand. No absurdities were too great to be printed in those days. The least that was said was that the Communists intended “to have the revolution” on May the Ist. The Vorwaerts was worst of all. There were several young Social Democrats among the workers who smashed the windows of the Bad- strasse branch office of Vorwaerts in broad daylight and under the eyes of the police. On Saturday, someone hung the front page of the Nachtausgabe, (evening dition of the reac- tionary Hugenberg paper, Tag), which carried as usual a blatantly Provocative headline, in the window of the Nightingale. Above it was written “Poison—don’t touch!” Later, someone else wrote across the page: “Therefore, only read the Rote Fahne.” The discussion groups of women in front of the houses were perhaps somewhat more frequent and lasted longer, sometimes men also took part in these talks and told what they had seen and heard in the factories or in town. The “town” was outside. The “town” began behind the Nettelbeck- Platz. It was great Berlin with its motor cars, its traffic, huge stores, policemen, and some millions of people. The people from the alley rarely got so far. Going to work— if you still had work—was the only | Opportunity for most of them. Early |in the morning, when it was still | | dark, they left, only to return late at | night tired to the alley. There was &@ movie round the corner. You could sit for an hour or so near the stove in Krueckmaze’s shop. Finally there were the cafes. The Koeslin quarter | was a self-contained ghetto of pover- ty. the Koesliner Strausse itself was fairly wide, it was always spoken of as the “alley.” These twen- ty-three tenement blocks with their deep back yards had a population thousands. a (To Be Continued) DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 Bristol Street (Bet. Pitkin & Satter Aves.) Biktyn PRONE: DICKENS 2.3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-8 P.M. Dr. WILLIAM BELL OPTOMETRIST 106 E. 14th St., near 4th Av. fatern’] Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 96 FIFTH AVENUE Wh FLOOR KURT IS ANNOYED “Why do you always tease me about Anne? Perhepe shel eome A Work Done Under Persons) Care @ DE JOSEPRSON a a He was an- | Fight for Negro Rights Must Be A Major Task of the Needle Trades Union By BEN GOLD. National Secretary of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union. The Communist Party has on se eral occasions expressed its recogr tion of the fact that the Needle | Trades Workers’ Industrial Union h finally succeeded in overcoming many of its past opportunistic tenden and has considerably improv ; methods of approach, orgar tion and methods of struggle. However, some of the most im- portant problems, of vast political significance, do not as yet | the necessary attention of ship. rec One of these basic weakne: of | the union is the handling of the Ne- gro problem. The needle trades workers st as the Negro| workers in oth e th most exploited paid, and are subject to various specific brutal} forms of exploitations, discrimina- tion and abuse. In many needle trades shops, the bosses practice the segregation po Yet the cla: uggle union caynot claim that it exercised its maximum effort and ability to convince the Negro worker through effective | deeds, that it is championing the fight for Negro rights and equality. | Neither can the leadership of the | union claim that it fulfilled its |lutionary duty in waging a cons j ent, untiring daily struggle again: |chauvinistic tendencies of white are victims of the workers who ideology spread by the bosses and | their agents. Faults Uncovered. | A recent thorough investigation |made by the Union has established | the following facts: (a) The Negro workers don’t feel that there is genuine fraternization between the Negro workers and the | white workers in the union head- quarters, They feel that the Negro department, whi ntly oc- cupied by the tkers only, | gives the false impression of being a segregated space set aside for the Negro workers of the Union, (b) Chauvinistic tendencies are manifested by w! workers not only jin the shops, |: even within the |ranks of the a wor who have |recently been drawn into activities in leader- | the Unemployed Council. (c) In planning the activities and struggles of the unemployed for jobs and relief, the Union failed to take into consideration, and ) Negro rights and equality. | The Subcontract System. | | In many instances the employers | “share” the exploitation of the Ne-| poisonous, ideology, discrimin bourgeois chauvinistic upon racial prejudice, upon ations and attacks upon the leadenship | and their privileged white workers | Negro workers. The class conscious workers, mem- to lay especial emphasis, upon the|gro workers by having these white | bers of the Industrial Union, who struggles against Negro workers by the Gibson Com- mittee Unemployment Council carrying on activities did it cover” the practice of open discrim- in jon against the Negro workers by Gibson Committee. (d) The Union failed to give sys- tematic, daily leadership. and guid- |ance to the Negro and White Com- mittee of the Union; did not as yet | succeed in developing Negro leading cadres, and did not increase suffi- ciently the Negro membership dur- ing the last two years of successful struggles, in spite of the fact that we gained thousands of white workers. (e) The work among the Negro workers nationally has been even more neglected than in New York City, and the National Secretariat as | well as the National Bureau failed |to review thoroughly (since the Na- | tional Convention) the Negro work in the various centers. | this basic weakness of the Union. Considering the fact that the Union had somewhat increased its Negro membership and also increased its Negro actives, even under these | conditions, one can easily conclude |that the Union would have enrolled many more Negro workers in its | ranks, had it made a conscious effort |to fight, in a militant manner, for | the rights of the Negro masses, had | it carried on sharp struggles against all forms of chauvinistic tegdenctes in its ranks, and had it paid special |attention to the Negro complaints | and grievances. | Indeed, one mistakenly charges the leadership of the Union with chau- |vinistic tendencies. On the con- trary, it is an established fact that the leadership demonstrates a healthy |epproach and a comradely attitude jtowards the Negro workers. This, | however, is not sufficient to reach the broad Negro masses. The lead- ership of the Union did not awaken the revolutionary pride and con- sciousness of the white workers to ithe importance of the struggle for had been | “dis- | the boss exploits both the Negro and | sincere effort to head the struggles will | the administration Consequently | |no measures were taken to correct | “employ” experienced and skilled Ne-| In such cases, known to the union, | the white workers, but not pauntly| | Here the Negro workers are exploited ward white workers. | In other instances, the employers give the better line of work to the white workers and the cheaper line of work to the Negro workers. ‘The fault does not lie with the| white workers who are victimized by | {the bourgeois prejudices. The lead-| ership of the Union did not make a) special study of all these facts and | forms of exploitation, did not Ose them, and did not bring thy | the attention of the white wor! Consequently they failed to mobilize | |the white workers to struggle for Negro rights and against these | abuses, | Treated As Slaves. All this indicates a lack of under- | standing of the s\yccific tasks @f the | Union actives among the Negro} workers as the workers of an op-} pressed national minority who are exposed to special forms of oppres-| sion and exploitation. This unique | exploitation is due to historic rea- sons; namely, the Negroes are looked upon by the bourgeoisie as imported | slaves, especially because they are still kept in semi-slavery by the | |Tuling class, as, for example, in the | South. | The Union will have to create an atmosphere in the Union, and in the shops, where the Negro workers will | {feel that the Industrial Union is | their union and the white workers are heading the struggles of the Ne- groes. This can be achieved when the leadership of the Union mobilizes | widespread activity of class conscious | | workers; namely, in the first ranks, the Party members, the trade boards, the shop chairmen and committees, | and all other leading bodies in the union, and through them, the masses, | in order to war upon the criminal,! discrimination of| workers act as subcontractors who| carried through numerous successful, courageous, heroic struggles against and only two weeks after the| gro workers, for a miserable wage. | the employers and their agents will undoubtedly greet the Union in its for the Negro workers. undoubtedly display enthusiasm and They Some Beginnings Made. Some beginnings have been made by the Union, fur shops, the white workers have successfully defeated all the schemes and maneuvers of the bosses to take advantage of the Negro workers. The Union has also brought to the fore, | in many instances, the specific de- mands of the Negro workers, and has succeeded in one of its labor agree- | ments with the Bosses’ Association in embodying specific clauses to guard the Negro workers against the practiced forms of discrimination. The Union also succeeded some- what in drawing Negro workers into its leading commitiees, developing their initiative. But all this is only the first step in the direction of im- proving the Union activities among the Negroes, and are by no means sufficient to cope with the Negro problem, Much more intensive educational and agitational activities are re- quired to call the attention of the masses to this important problem. Above all, it is imperative to carry through our program into life, into actual deeds, into actual praciice, through daily struggles. The G. E. B,, at its plenum, to be held in May, will have to work out Negro work in the Union. It will have to take special measures, or- ganizational guarantees, that this program will be realized. The young revolutionary Needle Trades Work- ers’ Industrial Union cannot be sat- isfied with its achievements, and cer- tainly cannot be boastful of its ac- complishments until the masses are drawn into the activities of the Ne- gro workers under the direct, daily, careful guidance and attention of the Union leadership, | WHAT’S ON | | Thursday | FRED G. BIEDENKAPP will lecture on | Persecution of Foreign rn at 4109 13th Ave., Brooklyn, tonight at 8:30 p.m | free. Auspices Ella May Br LECTURE—Norman Tall Organizer of FSU and for 15 years a ber of the AFL on Trade Union in the | Soviet Union and i U. 8. at 1304 | Southern Bivd., St. subway tonight at 8 p.m. MEMBERSHIP h ILD. MEETING | zetti Branch at 792 Tremont Ave. at 8 p. at Sacco-Vai Y.CL. Ocean Parkway, Brighton Beach, Program. Admission 10c. ILD. BILL HAYWOOD BRANCH meets at 3036 West Second St., Brighton Beach. | At Grossman's DR. 8. LEROY WILL SPEAK on “Why Soviet Russia Should Be Recognized By the U. S. Government” at the Bronx Wom- an’s Club, 2506 Davidson Ave., Bronx (near Fordham Road) at 8:30 p.m. Admission 15¢ Excellent | Auspices—Fordham Branch, FSU. BRANCH 500 IWO regular meeting of the branch held tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Room 204, 50 E. 13th St SPECIAL MEETING of Bronx Unemployed | Council, 1400 Bostoen Road tonight at 8 . house P.m. All delegates from organizat and block committees and core action affiliated to East Bronx, Middle Bronx and 1400 Boston Road Unemployed Councils are urged to send del PELHAM PARKWAY WORKER! holding meeting tonight at 8 p.m |Cruger Ave. near Lydig Ave. Bring yo }friends, A discussion on the Tom Mooney | case will take place. | ALL POST 35, WESL MEMBERS are urged to attend a very important meeting tonight at 8 p.m. sharp at 4215 Third Ave., corner ‘Tremont. WORKERS THEATRE EDITORIAL BOARD | MEETING, 6 to 8 p.m. at 42 E. 12th St | REGISTRATION I8 NOW GOING ON FOR THE SPRING TERM OF THE WORKERS SCHOOL IN ROOM 301, 35 F. 12th st. Friday “FIGHT FOR BREAD," latest Daily Work- er picture, April 7, 8 p.m., Red Front Hi 9 Avenue B. Admisfon 10c. ‘Unit 12, Section 1. DR. R.LIBER ON “THE EFFECT OF CAPITALISM ON WORKERS HEALTH,” at Womens Council No. 5, 2709 Mermaid Ave., Coney Island on Friday, April 7 at 8:30 p.m. WILLIAMSBURG WORKERS CLUB, 43 Manhattan Ave., will have a Red Literary Evening with the following comrades—M. Bragin, -P. Rahv, A. Hayes, 8. Funaroff, Friday, April 7, 8 p.m. ISRAEL AMTER will speak at the Tremont Workers Club, 2075 Clinton Ave., tonight on “THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN GER- MANY.” Saturday | INTERNATIONAL WRITERS PARTY AND | DANCE, Literary and Musical Program. Good jazz band, at the Revolutionary Writ- ers Pederation, 114 W. 2ist St., 8:30 p.m. | Admission 265. | SEVENTH BIRTHDAY PARTY OF LABOR | DEFENDER at John Reed Club, 450 Sixth | Ave, at 9 p.m. Entertainment, refresh- ments, dancing. Also, opening of Exhibit of Pree Tom Mooney posters and drawings. Subscription 25c. RUSSIAN VILLAGE COSTUME DANCE end ENTERTAINMENT at Ellsmere Hall, | 284 E. 170th St., Bronx (near College Ave. eh gare Refreshments. Admission 25c. Auspices Mt. Eden Branch, P8U. To be held on April 8, Sunday Announcement JOHN REED CLUB and Workers Film and Photo League announce symposium—“Crit and the Film’ Sunday, April 9 at 8:30 p.m. at John Reed Club headquarters, 450 Sixth Ave. Speakers: Potamkin, Seldes, Warren, Gerstein, Troy, and others. Adm. 2c. (LABOR UNION MEETINGS UPHOLSTERERS SECTION of Purniture Workers Industrial Ungn meets tonight at 818 Broadway, N. Y. | GARMENT DISTRICT Garment Section Workers Patronize Navarr Cafeteria 333 7th AVENUE Corner 28th St. PATRONIZE “SEVERN’S CAFETERIA ith Avenue at 30th St. Best Food at Workers Prices for GARMENT DISTRICT COMRADES Grand Opera Hand Laundry 902 EIGHTH AVENUE, Near 25th. Adm. 1,000 ON WAY FROM CHICAGO IN ILLINOIS STATE HUNGER MARCH _ Martial Law Declared in Virden, Historic Center of Miners’ | tion | Governor Horner refuses so far | capitol. STUDENTS STRIKE FOR TEACHER PAY 13,500 students reported on strike | as student strike movement spreads against denial of pay to school | teachers by Chigago city adminis- | tration, Students paraded and de- monstrated before acting mayor Frank Corr's home and later at Jackson Park baseball field. Police are being mobilized against demon- strators, rn ar re | CHICAGO IL, April 5.—One third | of the teaching force of Chicago numbering 3,000 school teachers, un- | paid for months, stormed the mayor's | office yesterday demanding their back pay out of the $17,000,000 city fund. The acting mayor was con- veniently absent. When the corpora- ‘| tlon counsel informed the teachers |that the fund could not be used for this purpose, he was hissed and booed jout of the room, | REPORT ON HARLEM HOSPITAL ON FRIDAY NEW YORK.—Reports of the dele- gation of twenty-five elected at a mass meeting of the Committee | Against Discrimination in Harlem | Hospital, which is to go to the city | hall Board of Estimate meeting Fri- day morning demanding the removal of Commissioner Greef, Doctors Con- nor and Wright, will be made Friday |night at Lafayette Hall, 165 West 131st St. The committee elected at the Aobyssinian Baptist Church in- cludes: Rey. A. C. Powell, Abyssin- ian Baptist Church; Lionel Francis, of the Garvey Movement; William | Patterson, International Labor De- | fense and prominent Negro physi- | cians of Harlem, Organizations Partici- | pating in Raising Funds | for the Daily, Worker | gene MOVIE SHOWING Fragments of An Empire TONIGHT at 8 P. M. Finnish Workers’ Club 15 WEST 126TH STREET CARL BRODSKY will speak on “THE END OF CAPITALIST STABILIZATION” FRIDAY, APRIL 7, at 8 P. M. 3034 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn WOMEN’S COUNCIL NO. 17 DANCE AND HOUSE PARTY with Three John Reed Club Artists, Dance Music and Workers’ Bongs, BA’ japanese Jiu-Jitsu at ISHAGARI'S, 213 W. 14th 8, SATURDAY EVE., APRIL 8 ADMISSION M6e, CHICAGO, Ill, April 5—The answer to attempts to stop the State ANTI-WAR MEETING xt 3034, Hunger March was given by the Chicago workers’ sending off their delega- of over a thousand to Springfield this morning. State and county authorities are gathering their forces to prevent ——————* the march, ‘ Militant Struggles to permit the marchers to enter the In Virden, a mining center known for its historic struggle of the min- ers, martial law was officially de- clared. Meetings of workers have been prohibited. The governor de- nied responsibility for this action. But his refusal to withdraw the troops, shows however, that this at- tack is guided directly by him. FOOD WORKERS BEATEN, 3rd DEGREED, 3 ON TRIAL |, NEW YORK.—James Condas, Fol- | tis-Fischer striker, was brutally beat- |en and third degreed yesterday morn- ing at the 30th Street police station after detectives followed him from the picket line at the 34th Street Folis- Fischer store. After the beating he was released | without any charges lodged against | him. The trial of three workers, Pete | Martinis, organizer of the cafeteria section ¢ the Food Workers Indus- trial Union, Burgis and Miahetz, will be held this morning at 10 o'clock in Special Sessions Court, Part 6, Frank- lin and Center Sts. The workers are charged with “violation” of Section 600 of the Injunction Law. BRONX Mott Haven 9-8749 DR. JULIUS JAFFE Surgeon Dentist 401 EAST 140th STREET (Cor. Willie Ave.) MEET YOUR COMRADES AT TRE Cooperative Dining Club ALLERTON AVENUE Cor. Bronx Park East Pare Foods Proletarian Prices DOWNTOWN Workers Welcome at Ratner’s Cafeteria 115 Second Avenue Food Workers Industrial Union. SANDWICH SOLS LUNCH 101 University Place (Just Around the Corner) Telephone Tompkins Sqrare 6-9790-9781 BROOKLYN For Brownsville Proletarians SOKAL CAFETERIA 1689 PITKIN AVENUE Pui Quatity “SUTTER Vogeterian and Dairy Restavrant 589 BUTTER AVE. (Cor. George) B’kiyn WILLIAMSBURG WORKERS EAT AT KALE CAFETERIA CLEANERS CALL Livelihood NEW YORK.—The following call (in part) for @ geneval strike in the cleaning and dying industry to start today has been issued by the Clean- ers, Dyers and Pressers Union, 223 Second Avenue: “In order to protect the welfare and livelihood of all the workers, our Union has decided to call a General Strike, effective Thursday, April 6, 1933. All workers in the trade are asked to come to the strike head- quarters, Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, at 8 a.m. sharp, where the Strike Committee will assign everyone to their duties in order to make this strike a success! “Shop Chairmen are to see that all employees in their shops are at the strike headquarters, “Workers of unorganized shops and hand boxes: This fight is for your conditions and you owe it to your families to cooperate with those who are seeking to better conditions. Do | not fail to respond now!” In some of the dress and | a detailed, clear-cut program for the) GENERAL STRIKE) | unity of the workers, just as brazenly Out Today to Protect. | LEFT WING LEADS THE WAY TO UNITY IN DRESSMAKERS LOCAL 22 |New Elections Begin As a Year of Lovestoneite Misleadership Ends wy MORRIS STAMPER One year ago on the eve of the elections in Local 22, Zimmerman, as the leader of the Lovestone group in the dressmakers’ union, printed a series of articles in the Jewish “Day” in which he criticized Dubinsky and of the Interna- evident that this tional. It was n |more than the white, and this with | courage, and will take pride in such| seeming attack on Dubinsky was the Must Form Leading Negro Cadres. | the direct assistance of the back- ja struggle. fake platform on which the Love- stonites would run for election in the local. Through this demagogy the com- bined bloc of the Circle and Love- stonites misled many workers into believing that they really stand for a@ program of struggle against the | reactionary machine and are ready to fight in defense of the workers’ interests. Now one year has passed and the dressmakers have had the experience of being ruled by this combined fake progressive bloc. It must be clear | that while power was shared between the Circle and the Lovestonites, and Blustein was the official head of Local 22, in reality Zimmerman was the leader and spokesman, A Year's Record What is the record with which they are coming before the members to ask for reelection? At the end of 1932 when Zimmerman helped carty through the sellout against the dress- makers by asking the workers to ac- cept the wage cut fake schedule agreement concluded without the knowledge of the workezs, he told the workers to go back to the shops and. continue the struggle. When they returned to the shops and found their wages slashed, they came back to the union to continue the strike. For days, and very often weeks, they were told to hang around Bryant Hall. Their shops were not declared on strike. Seeing that they could not get any assistance from the union they re- turned to work under the conditions dictated by the bosses. Along came the fall season. The left wing group of the Local, seeing the rapid deteriorization of the con- ditions of the dressmakers, came for- ward with a proposal that the local call a conference together with the Industrial Union for the purpose of | Planning a joint organizational drive in the dress trade. The Zimmer- man-Blustein administration, which had been mouthing phrases about rejected this proposal for united ac- tion as did Hochman and Dubinsky, Instead of uniting with the workers they united with the professional gangsters who had been preying on the dressmakers for years. Their Organization Drive .. They undertook a socalled organi- vation drive. Strawberry and his gang were the all powerful leaders and organizers of this drive. The drive surpassed any previous campaign in its corruption and open use of the underworld. It became Sco open a scandal, that some mem~ bers of the executive board were compelled to openly state at the board meeting that, whereas in the past the union used these elements, today they are the bosses and the union is mortgaged _to them. This was the fruit of Zimmerman’s leadership in Local 22. The workers were dragged from the shops and money extorted from them for the right to go back to work under the same sweat shop conditions. Zim- nerman, just like Hochman and Du- binsky, while allying himself with these elements of the underworld, carried on a most vicious campaign American Premiere New SOVIET Film | “RIVALS” with a detatied “A picture of in the far reaches of the U. 8. 8. R.”—N.Y, Herald-Tribune. worxers ACMe Theatre 14TH ST. 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Seats) #4 0092.80 hs" 9000 Fate teers? aig tieuaa a beonner TICKETS NOW at Gardsn, Giabel Br xo, SAT. ). & Agencies GEORGE ARLISS IN “The King’s Vacation” turd: ‘WHISTLING IN THE DARK,” ERNEST TRUEX and UNA MERKEL RUN, LITTLE CHILLUN! LYRIO, W. 42 St. Tol. Wis. 7-047. Eve. 8:10 Prices 50c to $2. Mato. WED. & SAT., 2:40 CAFETERIA | Grand Opening of the NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS FIFTH ANNUAL BAZAAR at STAR CASINO, 107th St., and Park Ave. BEN GOLD — LOUIS HYMAN ISIDOR WEISBERG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by Comrade Irving R. Koreamon EMINENT SOLOISTS —ADMISSION TONIGHT 20¢ against the activities of the Unity Committee, consisting of Interna- tional members and members of the Industrial Union, The Unity Com- mittee during the fall season organ- ized hundreds of shops with some improvements in their conditions. The Metropolitan Racket The leaders of the International, almost completely discredited, began to manouever in order to build up the Metropolitan racketeering asso- ciation, with whose help they hoped to drive the dressmakers into their union and establish a joint racket that can serve the interests of the underworld and the leadership of the International. Zimmerman, as the leader of Local 22 was well aware of these manouevers with the Metropolitan but for months did not utter a single word against the Metropolitan. The exposure of the Metropolitan racket by the Industrial Union did not bring forth a word of comment from Zim- merman. The shop conference called by the Unity Committee sent a committee to the executive board proposing a joint struggle against the Metropo- litan racket. But it was only after the Indus- trial Union succeeded through its ex posure in discrediting the Metropoli- tan and rallying thousands of work- ers in a mass demonstration against the Metropolitan racket that the Lovestone group in the administra- tion of Local 22 came out with some criticism of the Metropolitan, thus proving clearly that they, in alliance with Dubinsky, had placed their hopes on the Metropolitan racket. At the beginning of the spring season the administration of Local 2 under the leadership of Zimmer- man came to the members with a proposal for a rank and file organi- zation committee. Some workers took this proposal seriously. Th elected workers to serve on the or ganization committee. But these workers were never called. Zimme man and his allies did not dare to place the organization work in the hands of shop workers because they knew that their drive was not a drive to organize the trade, but a drive to extort money from the worl hey 's. They knew that shop workers would n be ready to drag down dressmaker take money out of their pockets and send them back to work under the same old sweatshop conditions. A Black Record The policies and leadership of the Lovestonites have been tested during the past year. The result is that the membership of the local during their administration has been reduced from seven to eight thousand to about 2,500, as openly admitted by Hochman in the beginning of last season. The conditions of the dress- makers during the one-year of this administration have gone down about 60 per cent. Some of the best shops where the workers have suc- ceeded in retaining the semblance of union conditions have been given up without an effective struggle. The administration of Local 22 under the leadership of Zimmerman and his allies had the same cynical attitude toward the misery and suffering of the dressmakers as the officiaidom of the International. It met every real effort of the Industrial Union and the members of their own union for unity of action with the same calumny and lies. During the whole year of its administration it has not got a single important strike to its record in which the workers have gained anything. The Lovestonites during the past year have had their chance. They have had a chance to show what their policies mean for the dress- makers. Their record in office is as black as the record of the most rabid reactionary administration. ' For the dressmakers to reelect these fake progressives for another term to of- fice will mean treachery to their owm interests. Elect The Left Wing Slate The left wing group stands on & program of unity and struggle. The election of a left wing administra- tion will mean immediate steps in the direction of unity with the In- dustrial Union. The election of a left wing slate will immediately wipe cut the division in the ranks of the | dressmakers that has helped the bosses to carry through their most vicious attacks on the workers. The election of a left wing administra- tion will mean immediate prepara- tions for a general strike, paralyzing the dress trade, which is the only way the sweat shop conditions can be done away with and the dress- makers once more establish decent living conditions in the dress trade. Members of the International! The present election is of momentous ime portance to the workers of the In- ternational and to the dressmakers of the entire trade. Repudiate the Zimmerman-Blustein administration and its policies of division, wage cuts, of unity with the bosses against unity of the workers! 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