The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1933, Page 3

i i KKK ‘Appeals’ to Negroes of | Alabama in Anti-Red Leaflet BIRMINGHAM, Ala. May 15.—The Ku Klux Klan is being pushed into a réal organizational revival by the lynch bosses and by the state and local authorities of Alabama, in a desperate move to stem by violence the tremendous tide of mass protest aroused in the Scottsboro case. g A leaflet broadcast by the thous- ands here says in part: “From: The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, | “To: The Negroes of Birmingham and Alabama. “Subject: Communisih, “The Kian has been Watching the| Communist leaders for some time,| we know what they are doing and| how they operate, | “These Communist organizers have come here to start a RACE WAR by) teaching SOCIAL EQUALITY, and. not to help the Negroes. “THE REAL UNITED ACTION of the whites and Negroes of Birtiing- ham and of Alabama ts for them to all Communist meet eith- er to the KKK or to the jee de- partment. The Southern white men of this state will protect the Negro and see that he is taken care of. The KKK will help the Negro of Bir- mingham. Call US. “COMMUNISM WILL NOT BE | TOLERATED.” Other handbills are in the form of manifestees declaring war by the K. K. K. on all efforts to prevent the exclusion of Negroes from juries, or from the ballot, from which white workérs are also to a great éxtent excluded, and.on all movements for the fréedom.of the share-croppers of Tallapoosa county, as well as “the overthrow of our American govern- ment by the defense of the Soviet Union and many other un-American practices.” Masked ridets terrorized the Ne-| “ro neighborhoods here last year, and | it is known that on at least three oceasions the Ku Klux Klah formed! mobs in Huntsville and Decatur dur- ing the Scottsboro trial, to lynch the boys, their witnesses and attorneys. | Only the prompt exposure of these | moves by newspapermen férced At- | torney General Thomas E. Knight to send out word to the Klansmen to disband and await a more favorable opportunity. Schwab and Carter. in Bronx Thurs. For Scottsboro NEW YORK. — Irving Schwab, I.L.D. attorney who defended the Talapoosa shareeroppers, and. Lester Carter, one of the star witnesses for the defense of the Scottsboro Boys, will be the main speakers at a mass! meeting which the United Scottsboro Défense Committee of the Bronx will holt this Thursday night, May 18, at | (he Epworth Church, 834 Morris Ave. by the Decatur lynch-verdict Sis Letters from Our Readers Literature Lacking at Anti-Fascist March To thé Editor of the Daily Worker: Dear Comrade: The revolitionary workérs séction of the anti-fascist parade this past Wednesday Was on the whole splend- idly otganized. The use of a truck bearing amplifiers issuing revolution- ary slogans on the entire route of the match was & master stroke. ‘There were two shortcomings which I noted. First there were no leaflets distributed to the thousands of work- ers lining the streets on the position of the ©. P. on fascism as dis- tinguished from the reactionary lead- ership of the American Congréss. ‘When such a huge gathering of work- ers is assembled we have an audience “teady made” for us in a concentrated form which gives us thé opportunity to bring forward in leaflet form some major campaign underway in the in- terests of the workers. Such as the | question of rents agitating over a) million unemployed. The Unemployed DAILY WORKER, NEW LORK, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1933 Veterans Encamped at Fort Hunt SOLDIERS TOLD SCOTTSBORO MARCH AIM WAS TO “START A RACE RIOT” How Officers Inflamed Men at Ft. Meyers Is Told in Letter from Soldier (By a Soldier Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, May 15.—Before| This year, too, they are restricting our leaves to prevent us from com-| Council passed by an opportunity of the Scottsboro Marchers came, we|ing into contact with the veterans. spreading its campaign for rents ani relief by not issuing a leaflet or sell- ing their special flyer of the Hunger Fighter. Another noticeable shortcoming was the absence of workers selling Daily Workers along the route of the march. The Red Builders concentrated at Union Sdtiare as if it was a violation ington to start a race riot.” Théy| | told us they would go so far 4s to| poison the cavalry horses at the post) | to prevent our coming down to “quell | any trouble, etc.” The officers posted special guards | at the stables to give their stories a} semblance of sincerity. We soldiers| leave when Roose velt says to. NEW YORK.—The Daily Worker| | has received authentic information that the Marine corps in Washington Barracks are being armed with gas bombs, brought from Edgewood Ars- enal, chemical warfare center of the of discipline to move six steps out-| must learn that they are trying to| army near Baltimore. side a section where workers are more inflame our minds against the Negro) The forty heroic marines who re- or less acquainted with the Daily.| Workers as well as against our broth-| fused to fight the bonus marchers The few who did venture out amid|@rs of the entire working class to|of 1932 have not been punished but | the thousands agitated by the Anti- | Hitler question in no way indicated | that the Daily above all papers had news worth reading about the ques- tions. They contented themselves with fepeating over and over “Daiiy Worker Daily Worker, three cents.” As if the sound of the word had such magic that even those who never heard of | the Daily Worker would oe compelled | — REGAL DOLL WORK STRIKE 10 STOP WAGE CUTS J, May 15.—Determined to prevent the A. F. of L. and. the Regal boss from destroying, their union and taking their jobs, the 850 | | members of the Regal Doll Workers’ Industrial Union were on strike today. | to buy one without being told why. | 8. R. More Data Wanted on “Getting” Moscow New York City Dear Editor: I noticed in the Daily Worker on Friday, April 21, ah article with the | “forget” our own conditions. | Seperate Soldiérs from Vets. We remember that last year, théey| held us ih camp and then sent us j against the veterans who were de- | manding their bonus. The veterans are still talking about the heroic| |forty marines who refiised to attack| | them. ! TRENTON, N. are on duty in the Washington Bar- racks, due to the mass protest of workers last year. Workers and their organizations are called upon to flood Roosevelt with protest wires against any attack on the veteran back up their dem: ands by demonstra- tions, ete, Roosevelt Cuts Soldiers’ Pay Roosevelt has cut our miserable pay and we see how he is treating ‘the even totally disabled veterans of the last war. The officers get good pay and| | |graft on us. The post exchange| | |makes profits and nobody knows) | where they go except the officers! |on the inside. Let us form committees and) qd | Soldiets at Ft. Meyers were told that|It seems they will want to use us | sign petitions demantling a 20 per, |the “Negroes are coming to Wash-/| again if the veterans do not want to| | cent reduction in exchange prices, | | |since they have cut our wages; | | | withdrawal of the pay cut. | —From a Soldier Correspondent. | PROTEST STOPS TEACHERS’ CU Shenandoah Board to Rescind Pay Slash | SHENANDOAH, Pa., May 15.—The marchers and to| combined action of the Unemployed | machine guns in Red Cross wagons. | Councils, the general mine workers’ Page Three ‘Wisconsin Farmers Defeat Deputies in Open Battle; Strike Spreads Unemployed Councils Unite With Farmers Against Attacks of Dep- uties and Gun Thugs; Milwaukee Socialist Administration Sets Up Special Committees for Strike Breaking MILWAUKEE, May 15.—In hand- to-hand fighting on the border of Waukesha and Walworth counties striking farmers administered a de- feat to the deputies armed with guns and tear gas who tried to force them to let milk through their lines. | In every part of the state the strike is going full blast and increasing in militancy in the face of complete | Mobilization of police and thugs to | try to smash the mévement. | All highways are lined with groups of heavily armed police. As thi police thugs leave the towns and cit- ies they are jeered ahd hooted by groups of employed and unemployed workers. State to Use Militia. The state administration will un- doubtedly call out the-militia and is making préparations to do so. There | 48 considerable hesitation, however, | because of the tremendous response {of the working class population in} | Support of the farmers. There is fear | expressed at Madison, the state cap- itol, that some of the militia may not prove willing to fight against their own people. For this reason prep- arations are being made to use mil- itia companies in parts of the state | removed from their own homes. | | Unemployed Councils Join Fight. | | Farmers are sending delegations to |the uneihployed councils and many jof the council members are on the | picket lines in Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha regions. A strike breaking committee has been set up in Milwaukee to run milk |and Metal Work N.Y TRADE VICTORY ENDS CENTURY METAL | JOINT STRIKE NEW YORK.—After a three day trike, the workers returned to their jobs at the Century Silver Company with all demands won. The sirike| was under the joint leadership of the Metal Spinners Union and the Steel| s’ Industrial Union The" boss agreed to discontinue send- committee and to divide the work if there is an insufficient ammount of work for each man on a full time basis, The Silver and Holloware workers will meet on Wednesday, May 17 at 6:30 p.m. at 35 East 19th St. to dis- cuss this victors KARP METAL STRIKE WON UNION NEWS NEEDLE PLENUM PLANS UNITED GENERAL STRIKE NEW YORK.—The General Execu- tive Board of the Needle Tradés Union at its plenary session on Sun- day, May 14 made several momentous decisions affecting the forthcoming struggles of the needle workers. Ben Gold, general secretary of the In- dustrial Union outlined in detail the outstanding problems confronting the cloakmakers, dressmakers and furriers jing out work, to recognize the shop! in new York and out of town. After a lengthy discussion which followed the report, the General Bx- ecutive Board unanimously voted in favor of one united general strike in the dress industry in New York and instructed the New York union to proceed with immediate preparations for the strike and for the application of the united front policy in order te mobilize large sections of the working class for the struggle. Union To Send Unity Call ‘The General Executive Board left it to the New York union to work through the picket lines under the | Dretext of getting milk for “babies 5 ue and invalids.” This is the first time) NEW YORK.—A partial victory was the Milwaukee city administration| Won today by the workers of the | has ever shown any marked concern| Karp Metal Products Corporation | nutrition, except for eleation pur-|™Mands for recognition of the shop | poses. This concern is now only a| Committee, no further lay-offs and | cover for the strike breaking activi-;°ther important demands, after a | thea. | four day strike. | Mrs. Berger on Scab Committee. | The workers also forced the bosses The farmers realize that this sort| to agree to take back those recently | | of thing is a fake and are stopping | laid off when new workers are hired all trucks carrying the white cross|and to practice no discrimination jemblem of the city health depart-| against those active in the strike. The |ment. These socialist leaders try to| workers returned to their jobs unani- | break strikes undér the health em-| mous in the determination to organ- blem the same as the allies in the| ize the workers in this section of the world war shipp¢d munitions and) industry into the Steel and Metal about babies who were dying of mal-| When the boss acceded to their de-| | council and the local mine council | late yellow socialist leader, Victor L.} out the concrete demands to be pre- sented to the bosses on the basis of which the struggle is to be conducted, The Board decided that the Indus- | trial Union take the initiative of send- ing out a call to all reformist needle unions for a united front on the basis | of struggle against the Roosevelt hunger program, for a shorter work week with no reduction in pay and | other demands. In order to strengthen the cam- | paign for unemployment insurance |and build up the unemployed coun- cils in every center, the work among |the unemployed must be greatly in- | tensified, the Board decided. of Shenandoah resulted in forcing | | the school Board here to retain its| breaking board set up by the Mil- Workers’ Industrial Union, which led| , NEW YORK.—A mass meeting at— Mrs. Meta Berger, widow of the| this strike. ge be nA oe bring rR 9 Bre salle hone ate Brooklyn metal workers are called| General” Executive Board of the Brae DOALd eet Ue ben ee nee, | bY, the union to a mass meeting on! Needle ‘Trades Workers’ Industrial Friday, May 19th at 5:30 p.m., at 136 ERS OUT ON Additional speakers will include | title “Can Get Moscow on Low Wave”| The Industrial Union was organized following a struggle last July when the H. A. Taylor, pastor of the ehurch, and James W. Ford, who will give a I am building a short wave set| doll workers, with the utmost courage and militanc: myself and would be glad to get a! and union conditions tn their shop.« first hand aecount of the Scottsboro | Russian program on it. But I am|The workers are not going to permit March to Washington. Montgomery,Ala. Puts having some difficulty in winding the| I would be grateful to the comrade | ho wrote that article, to give me in-| * | coil for a wave-length of 50 meters, to rob them of this victory. the A. F. of L. or Friedman, the boss | The Doll workers were negotiating an agreement to be renewed in July, Thru ‘Red’ Ordinance (in wiiding the coll, stating how many to Halt Organization |turns on the ticker and how many turns on secondary, in order to ob- tain that wave-length. MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Increased | Comyadely activity among the unétployed of | ‘A. G. Montgomery and growing unity of | ey Negro and white workers, has| formation through the Daily Worker | prompted the city commission to put through an “anti-Red” ordinance in| S@¥eT@l requests for information on|to have made a trip to Washington| the hope of preventing organization. Loosely drawn in order to furnish @ general dragnet for militant work- ers, the ordinance, which was drafted by John L. Goodwin, city attorney, makes illegal the “teaching of sub- versive doctrines by word, sign or writing,” and definés ¢riminal anarchy as “doctrines” or teaching of doctrines for the over- throw of organized government, sabo- tage, or advocating the murder of any tederal officer, or officer of ahy gov- ernment.” Violation of the ordinance is pun-} ishable by a fine of not less than $1 or more than $100, or not more than six months’ hatd labor, or both. In order to terrorize owners of halls where workers might meet, the or- dinancée specifically declares that | “assemblage to advocate such sub- versive doctrines also is an offense with the owner, ageni, caretaker or occupant of any quarters knowingly permitting such assembly.” | Biditor’s Note: We have received} the item referred to, and would ask| the comrade who sent in the infor-| mation either to get in touch with us, or send in the information re- questéd above, Concert for W.I.R. Friday A monster concért by the Musicians Concert League of the Workers In- ternational Relief for the latters campaign against Child Misery, will be held in the New School for Social Research, 66 West 12th St., Friday, May 19th, at 8:30 p.m. Among the interesting numbers of the varied and éxtensive musical pro- gram will be Beethoven’s Fifth Sym- phony, two movements of which will be played by 4 well-known artists on 2 pianos. Amhong the artists who will appear, are Nigob, Diloff, Kornman, Codkin, Farber and others. SUBSCRIBE yourself and get your Now workers rea! ¢ Daily Worker. 1200 Attend Anti-War Meet Boo New Leader NEW YORK. — Twelve hundred vorkers and students attended a| asked nééting against fascism and war in Cooper Union Sunday, called by the New York Committee for Struggl¢| ice Way, district - jeer of the Communist Party, sealived & two minute ovation when int 4 by Donald Henderson, the chair- in. Amid the hissing and booing of the socialist leaders by the audience, Hathaway read this week's Berlin letter of the New Leader, socialist otgan. (See editorial on page 4—Ed). He then stressed the fact that the next war would be as equally imperi- slistic as the last one. am of struggle agatngt war before gram a Saat it actualy bas Begun, a s , an attemty made put out the lights, but the audience demandéd they be left on and Hath- away was able to fihish his speech. A. J. Muste of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action also spake. Rabbi Goldstéin, a délegate to the Amsterdam Congress Against War recsived an ovation When he stated, “the only country that sincerely strives for peace and also punishes anti-semitism js Soviet Russia.” Donald Henderson announced that a United States Congress against War would be héld this fall. He also an- nounced Henri Barbusse, or some coually famous international figure, would tour the country to rally sup- hort for the congress, All organiza - Pro-War Letter | tions and interested individuals were to communicate with the New| York committee at 104 5th Ave, New) York Oty. | JERSEY YPSL'S JOIN UNITED BREAD STRIKE PASSAIC, N. J., May 15.—Five hun- dred workers met here last night and elected a committee of 30 to map out plans for a strike against the rise in the cost of bread in the local bakeries here. The meeting was called by the Pas- ’s Council. The local women’s auxiliary of the Circle, who after being invited to the meeting, set a date for a meet- ing of their own in an effort to dis- rupt the strike. | Local baker's raised the price of | bread three cents ® pound and rolls eight cents a dozen using the pre-_ text of a “rise in the cost of flour.” A check-up revealed that flour has) been raised 55¢ a barrel (200 Ibs.). Wages of bakery workers were cut from $60.00 to $50.00 at the same time as the rise in bread was set, for a 96 hour week. The union scale is $30.00 for x 48 hour week and the bakers work what is known as “double week” or 96 hour |report to the union office. jwhen Friedman abruptly cancelled} |negotiations refusing to have any- |thing to do with the workers. Back of this move, were all the forces hos- |tile to the interests of the working | class, including the local Chamber of | |Commerce, the Central Trades and | Labor Council and the politicians at Friedman is said} the State House. to get the assistance of the State De-| partment of Labor in smashing the| union, It is Friedman’s intention to| slash wages and reduce the doll work- ers to the conditions which they had | prior to their strike, Manchiani, president of the Central Trades and Labor Council in line with this policy, has organized a fake outfit composed of elements who have been expelled from the Industrial Union which the boss is recognizing in place of the Industrial Union, On Friday. when the A. F. of L.} supplied scabs for the factory, the | union izsued a call to the workers to About 400 workers, despite police provocation paraded to the factory and sent a committee to see Friedman. The commitiee was refused admission. While waiting for a report, three strikers were arrested by police who used their clubs fiercely on two of the women workers. More than 800 Bathered at the factory to show their solidarity with the workers, The| strike action followed Friedman's open bteach of contract. The work- ers are stirred to Struggle at this |brazen attack on their union and) their working conditions and will fight this out to a showdown. | N.E. Textile Workers Strike for Pay Rise WOONSOCKET, R. I, May 15.—| Weavers of the Schuster Woolen Mill refused any compromise of their de- mai and remained out on strike for a 12 and a half per cent increase and « reduction from four to three looms. The plant closed down af- ter the workers refused to take a 5 and a half per cent increase. oe 8 FALL RIVER, Mass. May 15.— Weavers of the Arkwright Mill No. 2, rejected a wage cut of 8 per cent and instead struck for an increase of 10 per cent in their present wages. A conference is now pending between the union and the management. 3 W. Va, Workers on Trial for “Sedition” FAIRMONT, W.Va.May 15.—Three workers, one Negro and two white, are on trial here on the charges of “sedition,” “possessing se- ditious literature,” and “possessing & red flag.” They are Jack Robinson, Negro, Walter Requilez, and Grace Williams, members of the Unem- ployed Council. They are being de- fended by the Pittsburgh Branch of the International Labor Defense. | y forced wage increases 2 SEAMEN IN PROTEST MEET NEW YORK.—Two hundred long- shoremen and seamen demonstrated yesterday at the call of the Water- front Unemployed Council at 18th and West Streets in protest against the jailing of 57 seamen for resist- | ing eviction from the Jane Street “Y" mission, Speakers from the Marine Workers Industrial Union, National Commit- tee for the Defense of Political Prid oners and the Unemployed Councils exposed the Tammany drive cutting off relief of all needy jobless. The demonstrators applauded a call for | longshoremen to demand relief from Joseph Ryan, president of the In- ternational Longshoremen’s Union. Ryan has been appointed second vanking felief official of the state | Emergency Relief Bureau. The workers at the demonstration pledged to attend the trial of the 57 militants which will be held at the Jefferson Market court, 6th Avenue and 10th Sireet, Thursday morning at ten o'clock. NEW YORK.—Labor Secretary Perkins admitted in a letter received yesterday by the International Labor Defense that the foreign born sea- men held for deportation after the arrest of 57 in a relief fight were re- Ported to the Labor Department by the police of New York. She kept silent on the demands made by the LL.D, SALEM, Mass., May 18.—What may be consideréd the biggest blow ever delivered to the officialdom of the United Textile workers, occurred on Friday, when 1,800 strikers of the Pe- quot, the union’s only 100 per cent organized mill, refused to be brow- beaten into returning to work on Mon- day on the basis of the company’s latest. speed-up plan. Barring Mc- Mahon, président of the U. T. W. and O'Connell, business agent of the union from their strike meeting the workers decided to continue their strike in defiance of the orders of the Officialdom to go back to work to operate 24 instead of 20 looms. The united action of the workers and their solidarity made possible this important decision. Ignoring the threats that the strike was “illegal” and the fuming and stamping of President, McMahon, the strikers pro- ceeded to enlarge their strike com- mittee from 10 to 26 involving larger numbers of workers in the actual conduct of the strike and to organize Staff of school teachers at the pres- ent salary although a cut had been ordered in the new school code rec- ently adopted in the state legislature. All teachers in the Shenandoah Borough District were s¢heduled to receive a 20 per cent wage cut at the beginning of the next school term according to this code. The school board announced the proposed cut in the local press and threatened those | who failed to sign the contract on this basis with loss of jobs. When the councils called for the wage cut to be rescinded, at the were informed that the budget could not be balanced in amy other way. ; Dunlevy, spokesman of the Unem- | ployed Council then démanded that the cuts be made from the top first. Fearing that their own salaries would | suffer and feeling the pressure of the mass demand, the board acceded, re- jected the code and re-elected the teachers oh the same contract and wages as herétofore. recent school board meeting, they | | waukee socialist city administration. | Also the head of the Wisconsin Fed- | | efation of Labor, Ohl, is on the board to break the farmers’ strike. They are working hand in hand with the democratic party state administra- | Report Strike Grows in Two States. In Illinois reports are to the effect |that the strike is spteading in spite of the fact that- E. L. Bost, who | claims to lead the Tilinois milk strike announced that an “armistice” has beer éffected. In Chicago the price of milk has | been raised one cent under the éame pretext as in New York—that the| {consumer must pey more so the} farmers can get a higher price for milk, In reality this only helps the | milk trust at the expense of both the farmer and the consumer. W.LR. CHANGES ADDRESS The headquarters of the Workers | International Relief, District and Na- tional Office moved to 870 Broadway, ‘near 18th St. Telephone GRamercy 7-9467. | |_ NEW YORK.—Although the Young Peoples Socialist League city commit- tee was extended an invitation to attend and participate in the Na- | tional Youth Day conference and in the preparations for a mighty anti- | war action on National Youth Day, | the city committee of that organiza- tion has definitely rejected these pro- | Posals. | At the conference that was held in preparation for National Youth Day all the delegates that spoke ex- pressed the desire for developing unity of the youth in the common struggle against the menace of a new world war. Though the Y.P.S.L. city commit- tee has definitely ~efused to parti- cipate, a place was left open for a representative of the Y.P.S.L., the League of Industrial Democracy, and the Young Circle League on the per- ‘manent committee set up to prepare Salem Textile Strikers Overrule Union Officials Decision, Vote to Continue Strike Against Speed-Up a picket line which was scheduled to mass at the mill gates today. Halt Re-Opening. J. Poster Smith, agent of the mill announced yesterday that the mill would not re-open on Monday, action of the strikers having forced the bos- ses to change their plans to reopen the plant. The local press admits that union officials are in sympathy with the company’s plan to increase its speed-up at the expense of the workers, and has announced that should the plant reopen those who yveturn to work will not be considered strike breakers, while those who stay out on strike will be so considered, But these threats have not affected the workers’ decision to strike until they have forced the bosses to withdraw the new “efficiency” plans. The resentment of the strikers is the result of a long series of wage cuts and speed-up plans imposed on the workers as a result of the union- management co-operation _acheme which the United Textile WoFkers YPSL LEADERS REJE CTA _ UNITED YOUTH DAY | | 15th St. where a report on the strike and the organizational drive will be given, WORKERS DRIVE SCABS AND COPS FROM FUR CENTER NEW YORK.— Two seabs: under the protection of a dozen detectives land the police appeared in the fur market yesterday at 12 noon, and attempted to distribute a leaflet in the name of the Fur General Coun- cil, affiliated with the American Fed- eration of Labor, without success. Union on Friday night. The meeting opened with a tribute to Morris Lan- | ger, martyred needle trades leader. | Chairman Louis Hyman summarized the achievements of the union and stressed the importance of a united front of needle workers in the coming struggles. He pointed out that the cloakmakers’ agreement is about to expitfe which makes it imperative to build a united front of all cloakmak- ers, Jack Stachel, assistant secretary of | the Trade Union Unity League ex- posed the hunger program of the Roosevelt administration concealed | under the guise of a “liberal” policy. | He called for unity of the workers and stressed the point that “we do | not ask the workers to leave their Hundreds of workers immediately | unions and organizations, but to unite surrounded them and the demonstra- | with us in struggle against the boss- tion grew to such proportions that | es,’ the scabs together with the detectives! Clarence Hathaway of the Commu- and police were forced to leave the | nist Party pointed out that the unit- market. | ed front is being built in spite of the Having been successful in driving | §abotage of the Socialist Party lead- the scabs out of the market, the fur- |@rship. Lipman of the Fur Dressers riers marched in a body and demon- | strated their loyalty to the Indus- | trial Union by shouting slogans such | as, “Long Live the Needle Trades | Workers Industrial Union”! | NEW YORK. — A striker of the | also addressed the meeting. An interesting and colorful musical and dramatic program rounded out the meeting. CALL FOR SUPPORT IN FOLTIS STRIKE | Acme Fur Dressing shop was arrested | |at the strike headquarters last week| i + . and taken to Ellis Island for deporta- jae Retoded Saute Lay: |tion in an. effort of the bosses to Tends to Disrupt demoralize the strike. The firm had | The actions of the Y.P.S.. city | the full support of Moe Harris, notori- | committee tend to disrupt the de- | US Stool pigeon of the Joint Coun- velopment of united action of the | il in this move. youth against war. All members of | Prompt action of the Fur Dresser the Y.PS.L. and the Young Circle |®4 Dyers Department of the Needle | League are urged to adopt resolutions ey Panes Pisceedriey eee, | Of protest against the actions of the | j.. workers coe ney SHiRe SeCUre | City Committee in refusing to unite | ertNe genta | behind a joint anti-war action on | } National Youth Day, which comes out on the occasion of Decoration Day, | May 30, and to call on their city | cipal to enter this united strug- | gle. % | NEW YORK. — The Young Com- . munist League of Brownsville called, _ ‘BY * Worker Correspondent) | United Front National Youth Day, NEW YORK.—If you are unem- Scottsboro Conference on Thursday| Ployed, if you look like a hungry evening. About 10 organizations re-| Worker and you are not dressed in | sponded to the call. a $90 coat, $15 hat and your belly is not bulging, then in Jersey City you are a criminal and you'll be thrown into jail. The Daily Worker has received dozens of reports from workers who | While passing through Jersey City in | their search for work were picked up by plain closbes thugs, hustled to | jail, third-degreed, beaten, tried on | framed-up charges and railroaded to | prison. This happens to workers liv- ing right in Jersey City, too. Here’s a mild example of what is happening as reported to the Daily Union effected when the plant was 100 per cent “organized”. From the very inception of the plan the work- ers have had to help the bosses’ ‘compete” lower production costs, and effect “economies” for the bos- ses through dismissals, wage cuts and increased speed-up. The right to strike was practically outlawed as a result of the plan and union officials were pledged to cooperate in break~ ing any strike which might occur, when the membersnip refused to ac- cept policies agreed to jointly by the | management and the union officials. | The workers have fully realized that the union-management scheme is not what it has been hailed to be by officials but rather a vicious speed- up plan for the benefit of the bos- ses. The solidarity of the strikers, | their proper organization to defend their jobs at the mill gates by mass picketing and to con@uct their strike | under rank and file leadership will defeat the plans of the officials and the management to defeat the new | | attack on the works vi Worker by a young worker, a fine, NEW YORK.—In an appeal to all workers’ organizations, the strike committee of the Foltis Fischer Chain lealls for support to continue the struggle which is now in its fourth month. Workers are urged by the Food | Workers’ Industrial Union and the strike committee to answer the call to picket and report to Union headquar- ters, 4 West 18th St. for assignments. HUNGRY WORKERSARE ‘CRIMINALS’ IN JERSEY CITY and said: with me.’” The youth was thrown into a cell, the police ignoring his protests. “They lined me up like a crook with other fellows in the same fix as me. They put spotlights on ug and a bunch of detectives looked us over, asked us all kinds of questions and insulted us, saying: ‘You god~ damned bums,’ and other things. “While I was in jail a fellow |in the same cell showed me black | and blue marks where they beat him | With a rubber hose. Another fellow was picked up just three blocks where he lived and charged ‘vagrancy.’ “I was held exactly one week. After investigating my record, which is ab- ‘Oh, Yeah, you're geing, clean-looking boy, who left his home! solutely clean in my home town as in Sctanton hoping to pick up\a job| elsewhere, they brought me to trial, and send money home to his folks.| April 8. The thug who arrested me “I was walking through Jersey| lied terribly to frame me up. City on my way to the New York! they would have framed me, too, Ferry when a man grabs me, and| the International Labor Defense law- hollers: ‘Where ate you going, you?’| yer, Ducoff, saved my skin from 30 I told him, He flashed his badge days in jail—or more. ‘ IRON AND STEEL PLANTS CLOSING AS THE CRISIS CUTS DEEPER Abandonment and dismantling of plants in the iron and steél induse try steadily continue, recent reports The American Steet & Wire Co. indicate. (U. 8. Steel subsidiary) has discon~— tinued its Morris & Bailey division at Wilson Station, Pa. This division manufactured cold-rolled strip steel The same company's Newburg plant in Cleveland has been definitely closed and its operations transferted te the Lorain plant. The Horrocks Iron Works at Phitadelphia, Pa., has been shut down, Machinery and sqypment and meteriel will be sold af a pubite Diptida. tion sale,