The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1933, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1933 BARRICADES Printed by Special Permis- gk B E R L a Fo] sion of INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 381 Fourth * Avenue, New Yerk City. All Workers are urged to read this book and spread it among their f ads. BY KLAWS NEWKRANTZ ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER QUIRT THUS FAR—The workers of the proletarian district, THE STORY Wedding, in Berlin, are preparing to demonstrate May Day, 1929, despite the ban issued by the Socialist Police Chief, Zoergicbel. Anna, wife of the worker, Kurt Zimmerman, an active member of the Communist Party, discovered that the owner of an ice-cream store on their street is a police | spy. Meanwhile, preparations are being made at the police-station to erush the coming demonstration. The workers’ demonstration is attacked by the police. | | A cold rush zone first safely under the protection | Peng... peng... The plaster |of the police cordon. The workers of air passed his brow flew in white powder from the wall | watched. She was a civilian who had} blundered by accident into the be- near the entrance to the next house. leaguered area. “Back from the windows. 4 gave chase At the very moment the police-|" ‘Terrified, she turned round and men fired at the window Kurt sprang | started to run with helpless trem- back to the stairs. The quick warn- | bling The policeman reached ing from above had probably saved | her in a few strides. He shouted at his life. On the first landing he | struck her on the head from wes drawn into a and hidden. |. She ran across the street He could hear the policemen rush | under a hail of blows, towards the past the closed door and up the |pavement. After about twenty paces geairs. In an attic they tore the |she was at the end of her strength, washing from the handé of a terror-|swayed, and fell with her back stricken washerwoman and even out against a house wall. Her head fell of the steaming boilers, to look for | exhausted to one side. Again the} him there. policeman shouted at ae be she| js " di re could run no further, through fright | eee Bice aay ata Stn and pain. He raised his baton once shots from the house on the other more and struck the girl with all ote ogi Bee his strength in the face—a face dead Sede white and numb with terror. The to be shot dead, ¢ t the a aze wall, her hands gripped the air, and she collapsed. | At the corner, the road was up 4 2 a hail of sharp stones flew through the air.! The helmet of a commanding officer lay in thé mud. A stone creashed ‘into the middle of the provocative silver ensign. | HELLO, FRIEND” t her as he . “Do you She tried in the fingers round ng out. Anna a moment, ce in suc- He fell zB open e cor oung and ne flag vain to ben: her arm. joked at the wor 1 she beat The officer whipped out his pistol: See peng... peng... The ated into the alley be- onslaught of the police. But this time they locked the doors be- Pe Four re came Tusne hind th Again the revolvers doy n the Wies choed between the walls. In the de- Uler ed street, red flags were hanging while t mes on the grey houses. From corner Wi and invisible hiding places batons. hundreds of eyes were looking down w 30T on the raging policemen who rushed about firing into the houses, Al- Anna saw though not a single civilian was to be seen in the street, they continu- ly shouted; “Clear the streets 1 of your lives... !” the third floor of No. an worker looked r, y down on the police. He smiled | -|in a friendly manner and called out: | | “Hallo!—Friend!” } he? Why had h them like on per A winodw 19 r A policeman suddenly | | ger STRIKES INCREASE IN JAPAN AGAINST GROWING WAR BURDEN FORCED LABOR IN | ‘CHILD MISERY: Walkouts in 13 Munition Factories in Tokyo Held in Protest Against CITY ORP HANAGES Arrest of Revolutionary Wo Machine Guns Cover Toilers in War Plants to | and Wage Cuts ° eS ad By J. R. The crisis of capiialism in Japan uid the imperialist war against the Chinese people has resulted in the general worsening of the condilions|ij4° “jor instance, in the Jujo Mili- of the workers and peasants in Japan \tary Ammunition Factory they have Since the workers in the war plants| “,i:oned two heavy and six light are part of the working class, and) machine guns covering the workers to the privates in the armed forces come | terrorize them, In addition, gen- mainly from the working class and| Garmes continuously watch the work- poor peasantry, the misery of the| This system of terror, in one k | ers. toilers generally also has its effect) t pon he: workers in tnecwar pale |form or another, prevails throughout a iv the war industry. and the privates in the armed forces.) “Tn the military forces we already ier the guise of “national emer- | Enow of the discontent that prevailed try Pee workers in the war indus- | among the rank and file soldiers sent placed in the condition |t) Manchuria and Shanghai. of slav Their real wages are |much lower as a result of the in- fiation that exi They are forced) sent back to Japan. to work mai hours overtime, for) ‘These soldiers saw th which they receive very little addi~|nof improve the conditions of their nal pay, and they are forced to/ relatives and frierids at home, as well work under extreme conditions Of | as the fact of their own torture and terror and espionage. _.. |misery. The soldiers are forced to The privates in the armed forces,!jive in hovels and dirt: and receive bosses are using extreme. terroristic |methods against the workers, espe- cially in the war industry, which is so important for Japanese imperial- | of these were ordered shot by their officers, and entire units had to be war did ‘An Anti-War Demonstration in Tok the military authorities and the their activity both ideologically and Many | rkers Enforce Longer Hours x S yo organizationally. The lie of Japanese imperialism, to the effect that the Japanese nation is a unit in support of its imperialistic aims, is exposed by all the above facts. In addition, why is it neces- ;sary to carry on all the terror and | mass arrests if the nation is a unit? Not only are thousands of revolution- aries and militant workers arrested, but the terror is carried on against the toilers as a whole. Continuous Searches Continuous searcl: | not only in the h of ¥ jalso in those of students and intel- ectuals, Street c stopped and the passengers s' Thousands jot special police and gendarmes are | med in the working class and industrial sections of Tokyo, Osake, Kobe, Kyoto, ete. The police are organized along mili- tary lines and must reside i i |places that they can be mol: ja minimum of time. This surely | kids who are being killed by the thou- sands on the battlefields, are forced to exist on the scantiest rations, while their officers live in luxury. Discontent in War Industry From all this, it is easy to under- stand why the discontent and strug- |gles of the Japanese toiiers is slso|is against workers and pe: refiected in the way industry and the armed forces. “In a certain naval arsenal, employing about 10,000 work- 4,000 of whom are temporary, wages for the permanent workers are only boiled barley for food, while gives the lie to the imperialist claim their officers live on the fat of the| of “national unity.” On the contrary, land in warm houses, surrounded by|we see an increasing division, and prostitutes. this on class lines, On the one hand | Class Issue Uncovered the toiling masses, on the other the | ‘rhey are also learning that the war| imperialists and their reformist nts who | lackeys. A ‘ like themselves suffer the same mis-| The task now is to extend this erable conditions. They see that the movement and organize it, especially | war is entirely in the interests of the|in the factories, mines, docks, ships |bankers, industrialists and landlords,| 2nd among the military forces. and that the toiling masses will have | at (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK. — In the orphan | asylums of New York City there are thousands of suffering children. Now | with the depression the ‘authorities are taking it out on them by cutting ‘down on help and making these poot do all kinds of work. They must clean toilets, work in dining room, the dormitories—as is the case in the Hebrew Orphan Asy- lum, Also sweeping, washing the | floors, taking care of the chickens, as is the case of the Edenwald School for Boys, a section of the Hebrew Asylum. 15-Year-Olds Hunt Jobs Now with more and more families being broken up by the depression, they are trying to get rid of the orphans for whom they do not re- |to take on others whose parents or relatives can pay for them. So they |are sending into the streets fifteen- |year-old orphans to look for jobs. Legally, they cannot do this, so they jchange the birth records of these |helpless children and tell them they lare eighteen. Young Boy Dies From T. B, | In one particular case they sent a fifteen-year-old boy to his death from tuberculosis, He caught it when they kicked him out of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum without a cent to his name, For about a year and a half he roamed everywhere, hoboed down to Texas, begging for work, while he became more and more run- down. At the aze of about 18, he died, after & year of suffering on a hospital bed. Child Beaten For Complaining This is just one case. There are thousands of others. If a child dares to complain about conditions, he is persecuted in every way. beaten up, terrorized and, worst of all, after being examined by the psychiatrist, + he or she is going crazy is doesn’t work, they actu- them to Bellevue, to m out of their wits and Ifa ron. br military discipline, method is to punish everybody, or set an ple by punishing the hid This is done by shaving his hair, hit! him before 1 the other children, ete. | Special Clean-Up for Visitors | They have a whole crew of “Iib- eral” social workers to pacify the children and reconcile them to con- ditions there by telling them how terrible things are in the outside world, and how grateful they should ‘be to the institution, Every once in ja while they make visiters’ days. |They make the children clean the | a n tt them. tal | place up, dress up, line up, tell them | to put on their best manners, so the visitors go away thinkimg that the the | |ceive so great an income, in order | 'A. F. L. Leaders Choke Life of Painters’ Union | bership, is exposed before all the jocal that when the Council report is read in the locals the membership de- clared that this “bunch of crooks should be cleaned out of the Council.” These recent maneuvers in the Coun- cil are the following: 1, The unconstitutional expulsion of 26 members from the organization and keeping them out of the locals by the use of police, except in local 499. 2. The agreement with the bosses to have a joint organizaton campaign whereby the union shall strengthen the bosses association and shall help them to get contracts, and for these services rendered to the boss, the boss is willing to institute a check-off sys- tem whereby the union shall assess every member who is working for a union boss 50 cents a day. The em- ployer is to check on whether the assessment is paid. Only such men would be employed by the bosses. 3. Maneuvers to do away with the coming elections. 4. Paving the way for the election of Philip Zausner. Defeat Assessment To force through the 50 cents as- sessment, a referendum was sent out to the local unions playing it up as a blessing to the membership, placing the men to work, but not mentioning that the 50 cents assessment is nec- essary to collecting $10,000 to $15,000 a month from the membership for the benefit of the “machine” in the Council. Since the last strike, the debts of the Council have doubled, although through special assessments they have collected over $40,000. The first vote on the referendum was taken in local 499. Bruno Wag- ner, the Socialist business agent, a staunch supporter of the District Council “machine,” seeing that only 4 people voted for the proposition and 136 against, demanded a recount of the vctes three times, and finally a secret ballot vote. To the surprise of this Socialist faker, the result of the secret vote was four votes for the proposition and 136 votes against the assessment and against the leader- ship of the district council. General Exeentive Board Threatens Local 499 Again After voting down the proposition | of Distriet Council No, 9 on the as- | sessment, four letters were received from the G. E. B. One of them was sent straight from the Board meet- ‘Corruption in Finances Grows, Following the Expulsion of 26 Active Members The expulsion of 26 of the most active members from the Pail Brotherhood did not bring back prosperity to the New York District Coun~ | cil. On the contrary, the inability of the District Council to conduct its | business and the unwillingness to fight for better conditions for the mem- Is, The corruption in the Council, giving jobs to henchmen, collecting money for “services rendered” to thee— es Council by the politicians is so open Bruno Wagner made a motion to comply with the decisions and com- munications of the G. E. B., which was lost by a big majority vote. Six votes were cast for the motion and the rest of the members voted against the motion. The members of local union 499 will never cease to fight against the corruption in District Council No. 9 or in the G. E. B, Proof of District Council Corruption The best proof that the District Council is bankrupt is the statement of their own certified public account- ant, J, A. Falk, In his February 9th statement to the District Council No. 9 for the fourth quarter of 1932, he states that the outstanding rae | ers for wages amounted to $10,602: At the end of the statement is tp following, “that the method of cong ducting its finances by the Council is unscientific and haphazard goes without saying. This is probably the most serious matter that the Council is confronted with and I hope to see some steps taken to at least partially remedy the financial muddle in which you are now entangled.” What is to be Done? The rank and file members suffer because of the corrupt leadership in the District Council. To be able to carry on a fight against the em- ployers who are taking advantage of our weak organization, it is necessary that we get rid of these people and establish an honest leadership in the organization. It is necessary to join hand in‘hand with all painters working on the jobs irrespective of their trade union, af- filiation and to carry on a fight on the jobs for higher wages, for union conditions, against long hours, and for the five day week. There must be uni~ ty among the painters against the employers. Dunnellen Printers t Repudiate Green’s Attack On U.S.S.R. DUNNELLEN, N. J. — Dunnellen Typographical Union No, 157, at its recent regular meeting, adopted a resolution repudiating the activities of William Green and Matthew Woll, Américan Federation of Labor of- ficials, in fighting the recognition of the Soviet Union. sone paroncersaniemtacenaaem <a place is a children’s paradise, where- as it is really a hell for them, But they have no one to tell this to who Such activities, says the resolution, “represent neither the will nor the best interests of American labor.” ‘Two policemen were standing out- side the house. They at once raised their revolvers and took aim at the | about 1 yen and 30 sen per day, while |t© pay not only with their lives at) for the temporary workers the wages | Present, but for years to come the! are 1 yen and 20 sen. Apprentices | tremendous expenses incurred as ny ing, which is now being held in La- fayette, Indiana, giving a final warn- ing to local 499 if the local will not CT TO PREVENT | with them £ Down with the starya-|Mman in the open window. For the| (whose apprenticeship lasts | result of the war. |can really help them. GSN EN RY cE sovernment' |fraction of a second the light 61 tne 2 Lai rts leak out fr 9 4 Should Organize throw Weinstock out and will con- tion government | ight spot) three years) receives sen r day. | ‘ports leak out from ttme to time Fziends Sho Be paidaen 3 them with |! his forehead was in the line of| "prio to the wae the workers soc | of the anti-war actfons on the part of|| j it the parents, Teintives, friends |tinte to fight for the reinstatement | RELIEF BUREAU WOULD & lab fell Ao. the sents a finger pulled the trigger: | ceived a minimum raise of wages of |the rank and file soldiers, A recent | FRE and alumni would organize Sogsitit, se ae ae others, the local will be) DEPRIVE WOMAN OF BABY 1, Afte terrific club blow | Pens! ; 115 sen a day every two years, which |Teport.states, “Eight out of fifty ex-| NEW YORK.— Over a hundred/thoy could force the authorities to See esised. head fell: ath “& hollow |, The worker’s hand dropped, the+is now reduced to 5 Toa a day every (servicemen of Akita Prefecture who! neighbors of Joseph-PowelleSpanisi-}give better conditions for them. Here again, the Socialist agent,| NEW YORK.—Home Relief Bureau aatad hack de hie pay ieintk, There | 2e2d fell forward ‘on the window sill, | four years. Likewise, the two bonuses | VOlunteered in response to the ye-| American war vet, 386 Oak Avenue, From One Who Was There. runo “Wagner, who calls himself an| cfficials are trying to strike down a he remained lyi |and the body capsized slowly into the! of 95 days’ and 15 days’ wages re-|CTuiting of colonial soldiers for Man-| Oakwood, Staten Island, gathered at ——— anti-fascist, who spoke at Union Sq.| militant worker through her baby. : : r TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM last Saturday against Hitlerism, ap-| They threatened to take away the. room. The window was empty. .. ‘The policeman stared into the gap which had so suddenly swallowed up the face. He looked around in terror, e cheers for the Communist shouted, the~ whole alley shouted, and Anna with the othe: “Hurrah ... . hurrah... . hurrah!” | the ‘police had driven them|™&n next to him .and both ran rap- one side, they shouted on the| idly down the street. shouted from the win- A red flag was shot down from the sec- | withdrawn. The alley was again empty and filled with an uncanny silence. ond floor; a woman snatched it up i. from the pavement. | (To Be Continued.) Peng... peng . . . peng. Rabe The round bullet holes on the grey; house fronts were like white pock marks. ‘The loud echo of the shots alarmed the workers of the surrounding dis-| trict. More and more reinforcements came into the alley. Those eoming from town reported that the police were attacking everywhere with the} utmost brutality. On the Hackesche | Market they had fired into the dem-| onstration of the tobacco workers. Three workers dropped—one was dead. In Kliems halls on the Hasen- heide they had fired into the meet-| ing of the plumbers. A woman told how demonstr: n had been broken up with bloodhounds only ten minutes away, in the Badstrasse. It was said that armored cars had been used in Neukolln. Trams had been upset by the workers. People who came from the indoor meetings of the trade unions in which not a|| SPLENDID LARGE word of protest: had been heard told | | how they had been met at the very, | Hall and entrances of the halls by ¢ who batoned them. Anyone wearing a red carnation was a target for the police. In the Kleine Tiergarten in Moabit they arrested forty carpen- ters in one swoop and rushed them off in cars to the police presidium, although they had participated in a meeting sanctioned by the police. KNOCKED SENSELESS Police lorry after police lorry rolled into the Koslin quarter. Wherever they jumped off and batoned the workers, the masses them again as soon as they went on. | DAYTON 9-1000 D. BACKER On the Nettelbeckplatz a worker who ‘was supposed to have shouted some- I N TER VAL E thing was arrested. As the police | car drove off with him, he clenched o his fist surrounded as he was by the Moving & Storage Co., lac. police and shouted to the workers | e R On the street: “Red Front.” He was | BRONX, N.¥ not silenced till, as the car rushed away, they knocked him senseless. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 Bristol Street (Ret. Pitkin & Sutter Aves.) B’klyp DICKENS 2.301% Intern] Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE Ith FLOOR AD Werk Done Under Versona! Care of Dr. C. WEISSMAN Meeting Rooms 10 MIRE Verfect for BALLS, DANC! LECTURES, MEETINGS, IN THE New ESTONIAN WORKERS HOME 27-29 W.115th St., N.Y.C. Phone UNiversity 4-0165 96% WESTCHESTER AVE. | NEEDLEWORKERS APPRECIATE | | Near Wedding Station the police | | THE LITTLE | turned on hoses and attempted to , 7 Gisperse the. workers “with, water| | WATCH REPAIR SHOP | amidst a pandemonium of whistling, SIXTRAQRENUS, AT 99TH OPRERT booing and mocking laughter. The - a oe | police yans which dashed through the BROUKLYN | streets, were greeted with piercing 4 a | boos by the excited masses. Ever! alice new demonstrations formed them-||] For Brownsville Proletarians selves which were dispersed “fier marching a few hundred yards, only to be reformed afresh. The ie yor SOKAL CAFETERIA had learned to evade the rushing po- 1689 PITKIN AVENUE lice and to expose themselves as little | ag possible. | SESS Es SAURINPA ec SROROLEST AS The following happened about | AVALON Cafeteria! | noon :— | | Until the police had cleared the|| | 1610 KINGS HIGHWAY | entrance to the Reinickendorfer- SA, m | Bivese on the Nettelbeckpletz, the | | DEWEY *-velt | Street was full of policemen with | - drawn revolvers. In the center of | PuRITY QUALITY the empty road a trembling pout | i ll SUTTER girl who had just come out of a shop Was attempting to get out of the \ e egeteria y an tanze: zone rs og Hom peed gc She honed to get oul of the danger I. ht a -| ceived yearly have bee! | A few minutes later, the police had closed behind | ———— | \— discontinued, |Churia escaped and came back to The temporary workers receive no|Japan and related the miserable life bonuses or extra pay whatsoever, The ;Of the colonial soldiers, saying that | regular work day is 9 hours, but over- | they were watched daily at the point work comparable to convict labor, and Wages Cut, Hours Increased | that it was impossible to endure.” The Uraga Dock Co. and the Yoko-| , From Yokosuka a press report hama Dock Co. are very important |Gated March 28, 1983, states that jenterprises in the war industry. In| Sailors from three gun-boats of the these, real wages not only depféciated| YOKosuka Admiralty port were ar- because of inflation, but the nominal | Tested. They had been serving on the | wage was actually cut, Hours of | following gunboats, “Haruna,” “Na- work have been increased, and the | Sato speed-up system greatly increased as|POrt from Japanese newspapers states la result of elaborate rationalization |that in the beginning of March of ‘schemes. The above are only a few | this year, the gendarmes arrested ‘a instances of the conditions in the war | MUmber of soldiers in the Tokyo sub- industry, & urb of Shybu, and charged them with The workers in the war Industry | leadership of Communist activities in 4 hei {. | the army. we not accepted their slave condi- y ons without struggle, The press re- Struggle in Manchuria | ports that in February this year the| At the same time we learn of the | woners of thirteen munition factories | increasing discontent among both the in Tokio declared a protest strike| Japanese and “Manchukuo” troops | against the arrest of a number of rev-|in Manchuria. The Manchurian peo- olutionary workers who were the Jead-| ple have not been subjugated by the ers of all the workers in their fight|invader. Proof of this is the contin- against their worsening conditions.| ued need for large Japanese forces in The press report states that “the War | Manchuria, as well as the continued Minister gave instructions to crush |offensive against the invader carried the strike even if the most severe on by the partisan troops, who are measures had to be used.” representative of and come from the Developing Strikes toiling masses of Manchuria. In the ammunition factory ‘Satu-| The “Manchukuo”+troops are unre- | mei’ the police broke up a meeting of | liable insofar as Japanese imperial- rikers, injuring quite a number. In| ism is concerned. They also come | two important war industry plants, the Fuji Nagata Shipbuilding Co and {the Kobe plant of the Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., the workers on strike against th: miserable con- ditions. In the latter plant the work- | Partisans Increase Activity |ers of the engine department again! In the attack on Jehol it was neces- |came out on strike at the end of|sary to alternate Japanese and | February this year. The report states , “Manchukuo” troops, because the mil- that the workers of the other depart-/|itary clique feared that if ‘“Manchu- | ments were much agitated about their| kuo” troops were left to themselves conditions and threatened to join|they would go over to the partisan | the engine department in its strike. | forces that defended Jehol. Recent | Workers from the different war in-| reports are that large forces of par- dustry plants, in writing to the revo-| tisan troops are again attacking the lutionary press, state that many! Japanese and their puppets in. dif- workers are not only discontented | ferent parts of Manchuria. with their economic conditions, but| Although news from Manchuria {s that many of them are showing spe- | highly censored, reports leak out that cifie anti-war sentiment. |the Communist Party and Revolu- From all the above we can see why tionary Trade Unions are increasing | worked, for which very little is paid. ‘ | from the toiling masses of Manchuria and reflect the discontent of th who are being oppressed and went/ suppressed by Japanese imperialism and its “Manchukuo” lackeys. _ AMUSEMENTS (rcs WEEK *DOTEMKIN’ With Original Odessa Massacre Scenes Prologue and Epilogue in English, Engltsh Titles EXTRA GANGSTER ATTACK ON worrs Acme Theatre NEEDLE TRADES UNION WITH ST, AND UNION SQUARE Ritehine BARN Celebrating RINGLING GOLDEN JUBILEE with 1000 Amazing World-Wide Attractions including THE DURBAR, Colossal Spectacle Lickets Admitting to Everything (including Res, Seats) $1 Geeter Boa PF Childrenunds 8. Every Afternoon and Night eExcept Sat. 3000 BALCGRY SEATS sti¥io 5c hx THE THEATRE GUILD presents BIOGRAPHY ON AND NIGHT A Comedy by 8. N, BEHRMAN TICKETS NOW at Garden, Gimbel Bros. & Agencies 7 THEA, 43th 5 at aay AVON inossio; a BKO JEFF EASON 40 84 (NOW The bourgeoisie has torn away | “ 4 a : from the family its sentimental = wancy CARROLL and CARY, GRANT veil, and has reduced the family rotation (0 a mere money rela- tion.—Communist. Manifesto, in “Woman Accused” Added F } with Diana Wyayal v and Phiitips Molmes | gato” and “Yamashiro.” Another re-| | his home to protest his eviction Sat- |urday. The meeting was called, by | the Home and Small Property Own- Jers Defense Ledgue, and adopted a |called out something to the police-|time of from 2 to 6 hours a day is/ Of pistols while being forced to do} resolution to be presented to the jus- | tice who signed the eviction order, demanding a stay on the eviction, which is due to take place today. | Powell has paid over $2,000 on his home, onthe purchase price of $3,100, |besides spending $500 for repairs jSince 1928. Jobless, he is unable to meet his payments now. Spanish-American war vets’ are | Modern | workers has received his re- |ward at the hands of the bosses. | With McGrady in the Labo: Departmert the bosses’ government ‘will be able to carry through more | effectively the hunger program, forced labor, and the ruthless attack on the conditions of the workers. It is important for the workers to know why this bitter fighter of the. militant | workers received this high govern- | ment post, ‘The needle trades workers, espe- cially. the furriers, know from bitter experience the price paid for Mc- Grady’s betrayals. Here are some role in the needle trades. In 1926, the furriers, after many j years of struggle against the corrupt grafting Kauiman-Stetsky machine, gained control of their union and car- |tied through a militant seventeen | weeks long strike that will remain one of the mst brilliant pages in the history of not only the needle trades workers, but of the entire American labor movement. In this strike the workers won the 40-hour week, in- creases in wages, and succesded in establishing one hundred per cent control of the industry and control of their union. The ousted officiais, hated and de- spised by the masses of the futriers secured the help of the A. F. of L. with whose aid they launched a vi- cious pogrem against the furriers which lasted a period of six years and has brought untold misery and suf- fering to the thousands of furriers ; and their families. | Chief Pogromist. Edward McGrady was the leader and chief of this bloody pogrom. Mc. Grady came in as chief supervisor of the Joint Council. McGrady made a common cause with the bosses who had already felt the power of a class topgate voton undey militent leader ship, A Chapter in the History of Edward McGrady, Newly Elected Assistant Sec’y of Labor By ROSE WORTIS Last week the press announced the appointment ef Edward! | McGrady, organizer of the American Federation of Labor as! ‘assistant secretary of the United States Department of Labor. ' | McGrady, the arch traitor of the American working class who! has carried through the most wholesale betrayals against the! facts about McGrady’s treacherous!’ NEW YORK.—‘“Technological De- yelopment and the Future of Ameri- can Teohnicians” is the topic for @ {symposium at Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place, this Wednes- day night, under the auspices of the | Union of Technical Men. Prominent technologists will speak. ; among those affected by the Roose- velt economy cuts, and many are joining the march on Washington, peals to the membershp to comply with the decision, as the members will lose their_death benefit, and they will have’to~transfer into other lo- gal unions, This same faker, who is shedding crocodile tears that this great local union might lose its charter, never protested against the arbitrary sus- pension and expulsion of 50,000 mem- bers in the past year because of un- employment, or against the cut in May 12. ROSE WORTIS | Imprizonment of the lendors of the furriers’ unicn in the hops that he would thus be able to break the back- | bone of the furriers’ union. }in the manner of a true agent pro. tigation against Ben Gold and the entire leadershin. When the leaders of the union exposed this open agent provocateur work and were cleared in this investigation, McGrady began a new wave of conspiracies through which he wanted to railroad to jail not only Gold and Schneider but ten other militant workers, Arranges Frame-Up. The famouse Mineola trial was the work of McGrady. He prepared the trial and witnesses. In his office the frame-up was hatched, The state witnesses, the police testimony, ev- erything was planned under the leadership and guidance of McGrady. With his aid the bosses broke the agreement with the Furriers’ Union and concluded a company union agreement with the Joint Council led by McGrady. The entire underworld, the police, the industrial squads were organized to crush the fighting fur-_ | riers, McGrady instituted a reign He began a series of provoea+ of terror, the like of which New York’ @ | tions in an effort to bring about the! MoeGrady | vacateur instituted the police inves- | death benefit fund from $400 to $200, baby of Mrs. Work, 195 East 13th St. unless she stops attending block com. mittee meetings and taking part in| the ‘struggles for relief on that block. Neighbors are aroused by this threat and say if the Home Relief Bureau dares to touch Mrs. Work’s baby they will have to account to them, “The Chicago Mooney Congress, April 30 to May 2, will be a big step toward my freedom.”—Tom Mooney. A.F.L. Judas Gets His Pieces of Silver has never experienced. The fur market, the gathering place of the workers, became a veritable battle- field. Hundreds of workers were maimed and crippled by the under- world thugs hired by McGrady. Aaron Gross, at that time one of the leaders of the union, was murderously at- tacked. The attack finally led to his death. Destroys Furriers’ Union. The furriers’ union built through years of struggle and sacrifice, the ains won by the workers in the 1925 rike, were reduced to naught. Witir 9 k and fist, with police and tomporarliy ds- fers and placed them t the merey of the bosses. Numer- ous frame-ups were instigated by McGrady against Jack Schneider, Irving Potash, Ben Gold, J. Wino- gradsky and tens of other militant workers who fought heroically agains. the regime of terror. McGrady be- came the most hated and despised men. His name was uttered with a curse. For a while the furriers bowed to the yoke of this agent of the bosses. Under McGredy’s rule every vestig> of union conditions was’ wiped out. The once powerful union of t! workers was reduced to a co.lecti agency of the bosses. The once proud furriers were reduced to a ject slaves at the mercy of the bosses. McGrady for a while defeated tho fvrrlers, but he did not crush them, The Rank and File Fight Bock. In 1931 the furriers rose’ in mess | revolt against this corrupt terrozistic regime of McGrady. This time the renewed attacks.on the workers, the mobilization of the Myer and Izzie Shapiros and the gangs of New York and New Jersey were of no avah The furriers had learned from theit bitter experience that to submit te the rule of McGrady means to di¢ of misery and starvation. The revolt of the furriers, the united struggle | of the furriers against their oppres- sors delivered a crushing defeat to McGrady and the entire A. F. of L. outfit who were completely driven from the fur trade. : The treacherous work of McGrady in the fur trade is but one chapter in his history of betrayals which: he. j earried through against every of workers with which he ever cfm ‘im contact. No wonder that he wa: eueson as a high ranking official tar’ | the United States Department of Lay bor, With his aid the bosses will attempt to stifle the rising revolt of the American working class against hunger, misery, against wage cuts and unemployment. = | McGrady Figures in Recent Attack. "rom authentic sources it has been learned that last week a conference was held in Washington which was | attended by officials of the A. F. of L., representatives of the bosses’ Associ~ ation and the Joint Council where the pogrom attack on the union last | Monday was decided upon so as to | prevent the complete unionization of the fur industry. McGrady, as As- sisiant Secretary of Labor will util- ize his position to continue his treach= | ery against the workers, | dust as the workers in the fur trade | through their united struggle have | driven McGrady from their ranks, so | the Ameriean working class, through unity and struggle, will defeat an drive out McGrady and all his allies. 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