The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1933, Page 3

H TWO STRIKES CALLED IN W. PA. MINES 40 Strikes Led by the| Union Since April | 14 STRIKE VICTORIES Miners Respond to the; Union, Form 8 Locals PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 5—Miners of the Patton mine came out on strike Thursday for local demands inder the leadership of the National Miners’ Union, The mine is in West- moreland County where 3 other strikes are now in progress, the Edna number 1 and 2 and thy Tomajka mines. On Friday approximaisiy 300 min- ers on the day shift of ihe Hubbard mine came out on strike. Organ- izers of the National Miners’ Union are at the scene and are giving guidance to the strikers. This is the third strike to take place this week in the Western Perasylvania field and is a continuation of the strike movement developed through the united front, organized by the Na- ional Miners Union. The mine strikes are solid. Pres- sure of the strikers and the Unem- ployed Council has forced the relief agencies to grant relief to the strikers. Over 200 miners have joined the National Miners Union and three New ocals have been organized. The miners are displaying a mil- itant spirit and are determined to carry the strike on to victory. A totel of 40 strikes of which 1¢ have ended with a yictory for the miners’ demands have been conduct- ed in the Western Pennsylvania and Ohio coal fields since April 1. The strikes point to a broad struggle in the near future and indicates the tre- mendous vitality existing in the mine fields. Last week the Renion and Allison mine strikers returned to their jobs with all demands won, There ave still several mines out on strike; the Tsabelle, Hays, Hammond, Lilly mines the Edna number one and two, the Tomajka, Patton and Hubbard mines. Funds are urgently needed and workers and their organizations are asked to rush their collections and donations to the office of the Na- tional Miners’ Union, 1524 5th Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Commodore Strikers to Join City Hall Relief Demonstration Today NEW YORK.—The strike at the Hotel Commodore led by the Food Workers’ Industrial Union is strong with picketing well organized. At-| tempts of the police to intimidate the pickets has not shaken their de- termination to keep up the fight. Strikers decided by unanimous vote at the strike meeting Sunday to join the city wide unemployed demon- stration for relief and against evic- tions. 3 l Wonld You Like to Learn How to Dance? A DANCE GROUP WILL TEACH YOU AT THE DAILY WORKER -: PICNIC:- SUNDAY, JULY 30th Would You Like to Take a Trip to the SovietUnion? Get the Daily, <Horker DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME EVERY MORNING! MAIL THIS AD TODAY! DAILY WORKER 50 Kast 13th St., New York, N. Y, AILY WORKER de- (before 7 a. m.) nin} will pay the route- cents at the end of tl eek. APARTMENT ..__._. FLOOR. BOROUOR ctnereineriennere | sponsibility for lack of hospitalize- THE CASH IS THER anne re Supreme Court Holds | Sailor Guilty of Own | Death While at Sea) NEW YORK.--A seaman who con- tracts pneumonia and dies is respon-| sible for his own death! This is the decision of the U. 8. Supreme Court in the case of Manuel Santiago, sea- man “board a vessel of the Baltimore Insul. * Line. The so-called liberal Judge Car- dozo gave this decision in favor of the shipping bosses on the basis of the Jones aet. The robbing of the dead sailor's family from any in-| demnity is clearly putting the Te-| tion on the patient himself while at sea. They call it “personal negli-| gence.” | | TO BUILD FIGHTING TEXTILE UNION AT MEET TONIGHT The workers in the Textile Trim- | ming Industry: Knitters, Braiders, Chenille Makers, etc. are meeting to- night to discuss the question of a| strike to force the bosses to return the wages which they have cut to a starvation level, and to stop the speed up of machinery. The bosses in the industry have organized for the purpose of cutting | wages and increasing the number of machines to be run by the knitters. Since last year wages have been cut from $30 per week for one machine | to $18 per week running three ma- | chines. The Textile Trimming Workers | Union which was organized a year | ago was dominated by an element that was friendly to the bosses and | refused {o carry on a fight against | alin, PAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDA 1 OA JUNE 6, 1933 Page Three —By Burek. | Chevrolet Plant in |Norman Thomas Visits Fur Market and “Investigates” '| Flint Builds Army Trucks, Cuts Pay By a Worker Corresponden to the “Michigan Worker” FLINT.—The Chevrolet plant is now working on an order for 75,000 army trucks, As this order nears completion, the company is ex- pected to cut the hours ef work down from 10 to 8 hours daily. Re- cently a 2 cent wage-cut from 46 cents per hour to 44 cents took place in one department, also a cut in the bonus. DIVIDENDS GROW “AS STANDARD OIL | | ‘4 SLASHES WAGES Rockefeller Firms Cut Wages 14 Million Dollars NEW YORK, June 4—The Siand- | ard Oil group of companies which are | controlled by the Rockefellers will pay ~ | even greater dividends in the second | quarter of this year than they did in . rer Strike: Wave Increases in South; 700 Columbia = z223h Mill Workers Win Raise wage-cuts in the industry. As a re-| sult the workers became discouraged | with a leadership which refused to| lead the workers in the :. g7le for) improved conditions. Many ¢ organization as a result. | ers. The bosses quickly took advantage | almost on the heels of the victor- of the weakness of the Union and | ies of the workers in the Anniston enforced starvation conditions on the | Cordage Plant and of the W. T. Poe whole industry. | Manufacturing Company in Green- Confronted with the real facts to- | ville, 8, C,, comes news of the suc- day, the workers are now responding | cessful conclusion of the strike of the to the call of the Executive Com- | workers in the Prichard Cotton Mill mittee to organize for a real fight | Products Company in Anniston. The against starvation in the shops. | workers in the Prichard Mills have The Executive Committee of fhe | won their strike for a 10 per cent Textile Trimming Workers Unio! increase, and the management has calls on all workers in the industry | announced that there will be no dis- to attend the mass meeting held in | crimination against strikers. It is the headquarters of the Union at 40 | now up to the workers to keep strong West 18th Street, Tuesday, June 6,| committees in every department, to |at 8 p.m. to lay the foundation for | build a militant union, as a guar- @ real fighting Union. | antee that the Prichard bosses stick to ; the terms of the agreement | STRUGGLE AGAINST 10 Per Cent Increase Won At | Columbia, 8. C. | | Seven hundred workers of the Mt. | PROVOCATION Vernon Woodbury Mills at Columbia, | > |S. C., went on strike May 29 for an | ’ . | increase in wages. | Workers’ Enemies | .c°compicie that within a few hours | L. G, Smith, mill agent at Columbia, | Exposed | was forced to announce.a 10 per cent | All workérs and all workers’ organ-| increase, effective immediately. He izations aye warned against the fol-| announced also that the same in- lowing stool pigeon. crease would apply to the company’s ANTON WASCHKIS (Ewald), who| Alabama plant, evidently fearing a for some time before 1929 was a mem-| strike of the Alabama mill workers ber of the Communist Party of Union| as well. City, N. J., and who is now supposed| At the Belton Mili in Belton, 8. C., to be residing in Brooklyn, N. ¥., has| 500 workers struck, Part of the day been definitely found to be a stool| force at the Lonsdale Mills at Seneca, pigeon and an agent of the Tam-|S. C., went on strike and forced the many Hall. mills to shut down completely, When the Lithuanian renegades A. F, of L. Sell-Out came out in the open against the) The strike at the Blue Mountain Communist Party, Washkis also be-| Mill of the American Net and Twine gan openly to attack the revolutionary | Company, near Anniston, has been movement. sold out by George L. Googe, South- He always travelled in expensive| eastern representative of the Amer- automobiles, and at one time, when| ican Federation of Labor, and Feder- he was stopped by a traffic cop, while | al Conciliator Richardson. The work- a Party member was also in the car,| ers were on strike against the new Washkis displayed a badge (instead | efficiency system, which forces them of showing his driver's license). Then} to do more work for the same pay: he confessed that he was getting $60| None of the demands were won. The per month from Tammany Hall and | efficiency system remains in force. also extra payments for whatever in- The management has promised the formation he gives to the police. workers the “right to organize a Description: About 32 years of age,| union.” It is evident that Googe has about 5 ft. 9 in, tall, dark hair, round/ convinced the Anniston bosses that face, proportionately built, He is a| the A. F. of L. union will be very Lithuanian, speaks Lithuanian, Rus-| helpful to them. In spite of the sian, Polish and English—poses as a| strike “settlement,” the plant remains radical, and mingles mostly among} closed. the Russians, Googe told the workers of the Blue By JIM MALLORY The strike waye continues unabat- ed in the South. Many of the strikes oft the | have already been won by the work- The strike was) Mountain plant at a mass meeting that their general manager was much were “better than in most mills of the South,” and that “the strike there seems to have been a recoil from the one at the Utica Mills.” In other words, Googe told the strikers in ef- j fect: “You're well off; be satisfied; an efficiency system that makes you do more work for the same pay is nothing to strike about.” | _ Utica Strikers Fight Sell-Out Six hundred workers of the Utica Knitting Mills at Anniston are still jon strike. The strike committee, which is evidently under the influ- | ence of the bosses and the A. F. of L. representative, last week agreed to send the workers back at the old scale and “arbitrate” later. The rank and file indignantly rejected this deal and remained on strike. Further details have been gathered these workers are girls and women. Shortly before’ the strike, men with watches in their hands appeared and watched every movement of the work- |ers. These “minute-men” then work- ed out a system which, as far as the writer knows, has never yet been tried, even on the ‘misérably-sweated South- NOTE ON MAP OF MORGAN EMPIRE Owing to lack of space in the Daily Worker of Saturday, June 3.| | |the explanation of the Map of Morgan's Empire was abbreviated 80 much that the meaning of the chart was not made clear. ‘The corporations listed are non- financial corporations which have) assets of over $100,000,000 each.| The eleven underscored have as- sets of over a billion dollars apiece. Companies in the right hand list are linked to Morgan either be- cause (1) they have had large de- posits with the Morgan firm or (2) Morgan or his First National Bank or Bonbright &. Co, has floated stocks or bonds for these companies; or (3) at least one ex- ecutive of the company was on one or more of the “favored” lists for buying stock from Morgan below the, market price. Companies in the left-hand li: are linked to Morgan by cross-di rectorships with the Morgan firm, the First National or Bonbright & Co, By H, E, BRIGGS 'HEN we came to Washington for our bonus the government thru Roosevelt put us in a nice camp at the abandoned Fort Hunt. The first week nothing was said about putting the vets in forest camps. Just the same we were skeptical of the reason for the nice tents and good chow. My buddy and I realize now that it was just another “dirty” Deal. He came all the way from San Fran- cisco, and that’s some walk if you haven't transportation. I came from Boston. We found out the first day that all the veterans like ourselves, were out of work at least two and a half years. LOOKED LIKE PARCHED WEED Now, when a man is knocking around from bread line to flophouse and back, with the future just an- other handout his morale begins to crack, My buddy looked like a parch- ed weed when I met him and I hadn’t slept in a decent bed for two months before I arrived at Fort Hunt, Everybody knows that the first thing a starving man wants is food and first thing a tired man wants is leep. Well, they let us eat and they let _us sleep for a while .., ‘When the vets’ convention got down to serious business, we soon learned that the hospitality of the govern- ment was a manuver to divert us from our three-point program! I talked this over with other vets. They agreed to keep up the fight for their original demands no matter what happens, And these demands as adopted by our convention are: 1, Immediate cash payment of the adjusted rvice certificates, called the Bonus; 2. Postponement of the enforce- ment of the Economy Biil until the next session of Congress and pub- lication by the veterans’ bureau of the details of veteran cuts, amounts, number of veterans and depend- ants who will be affected. 3. Immediate remedial relief for the unemployed and, After the government heard from its agents that no tricks could shake the determination of the vets, Roosce velt simply issued an executive order turning Ft. Hunt into a “Reforesia- tion” camp. The governmént by this time was hard put to it to find means of split ting the vets. The “red scare” failed. So a clever device was use | This was the “Bonus Only” stand of la small group headed by Mike | Thomas. But this too was exposed and routed by the honesty and mili- tancy of the majority of the vets. Especially when such men as Blan- chard from Chicago, Pace from Detroit and the constant battering of Sellers against “Reforestation” broke down the resistance of Mike program, Now I know my buddy is no traitor. He fought for the three-point pro- gram all through the convention. But hhe was unemployed with no home or friends to go back to. He could get his transportation back to San Fran- cisco, but the prospect of nothing but charity soup added another recruit to the “Reforestation” camp. As my buddy says, “Look at me. I weighed 190 pounds three years ago, a lumber- jack on the coast, col swing an ax? all day without stopping. But three years of sleeping on park bench- and flophouse floors with slum ‘ee and handouts has got me down, If these army officers think I'm go- ing to kill myself for a dollar a day, they're crazy. I’m going in because I’m desperate. Listen, comrade. And, as for the Negroes—they tell me they are to be segregated. Well, not if I can help it. There's a Negro came from the coast with me. We hopped freights together, shared our grub, smokes and hardships together. If they try to keep us apart in the ‘Reforestation camp,’ I’m going to raise hell, All the vets I talk with think the same way. I heard a fellow say, we ought to build grievance com- { \ Thomas’ henchmen to the three-point | # BONUS good idea, because we're going to have a lot of grievances. The way I figure it put, why should we vets let these swivel chair cowboys ride us? No sir, we need grievance committees alright and rank and file leaders too,” The majority of the veterans feel the same way. Farmers who had seen their bumper crops and homes swallowed by loan sharks, mechanics who had not seen a wheel turn in three years despite the ballyhoo about an upturn in business. Emaciated clerks who used to be proud of their white collar slavery, wounded men who had been thrown out of hospitals for economy's sake, forced to peddle pencils and play blind, only to find out that the buddies could not spare lime. ‘ “DIABOLICAL TRICK” ‘These vets, who like my buddy, had tramped the soles of their shoes to get to Washington or “rode the rods” joined the Reforestation camp only as @ temporary measure. This dia- bolical maneuver of Roosevelt is part and parcel of his new “dirty” deal on the veterans of 1917. The vets do not thank the goyern- ment for this “chain gang relief.” The vets are determined that no amount of stool pigeons, government agents or army officers can change their attitude, with martial music and patriotic speeches towards @ govern- ment that refused to give them their back pay but instead gave them forced labor at a dollar a day. The majority of the vets want their comrades to know that they are not out of the fight just because Roose- velt deceived them by turning their convention camp into a “Reforesta- tion” camp, They intend to stick to the three-point program and build rank and file committees wherever they are. As my buddy says, “when! we have a solid rank and file or- ganization from coast to coast, those phony politicians in Washington will come across.” to be praised; that their conditions| | the first, it was announced today by | a Isading Wall Street house. | ists who own Standard Oil stock col- | lected $32,406,000 in dividends for the first three months this year. During the next three months, they ill collect $34,160,000 an increase of This will make the total dividends | paid out to the handful of Wall St. | stock speculators, and Rockefellers over $66,500,000 for the first six months of this year. One of the directors of the Stand- | ard Oil Company is an offical of the ern workers, and is something quite| Chase National Bank, which in turn new in the way of “efficieney” sys- ithin the influence of the Mor- tems. They figured the maximum) gans. possible production that could be| The toial dividends paid out by the squeezed out in a given period, and) Standard Oil Companies last year made it the standard for the ten-| was close to $10,000,000. hour day. They decreed that if the| en eh workers dropped below that produe-| STANDARD OIL CUT WAGES tion standard, their work would be) How the Standard Oil Companies docked by that much. No minimum) manage to pay out tremendous for- rate of pay was provided for any job.| tunes to their stockholders is partly Now the time records no longer| revealed in the report made by Her- showed how many hours the girls) bert L. Pratt, the chairman of the worked, but how many hours they| Board of Directors of the Standard- “made” by the standard of the new) Vacuum Corp. before the annual efficiency system. | meeting today. For instance, the girls in the label| He boasted to the assembled direc- division were sewing labels on 144) tors that the payroll had been re- | | | The Rockefellers and the capital-| Former Members of Joint Council Demand He Give Stand on A NEW YORK.— Norman T FL-Boss Attack homas visited the fur market and the headquarters of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union yesterday. He came not on his own initiative, request of a group of strikers,® former leaders of the defunct | Joint Council of the A. F. of} L. who are now united in struggle with all other fur workers in the In- dustrial Union | Yesterday morning fur workers called on Norman Tho- mas to ask why the Socialist Party is supporting, in the name of the this group of dead Joint Courcil, the pogromist attacks of police and fur bosses and | the injunction proceedings in the at- | ash the union of the fur vhich has united the wor! common struggle for bet- ter conditions. “Not Acquainted With Situation’ — Thomas Thomas declared that he could do nothing about the situation since he S$ Not well acquainted with it but he would “investigate. The fur ers then induced him to go with to in the fur re, sured him, he would see clearly th among the fur workers there are now strong bonds , that there are no differen- ces between left wing and right, but a struggle of the fur workers on the one side against the bosses and their henchmen on the other. Thomas could not refuse the re- | quest made by the workers. He went to the fur market where he saw the bursting indignation of the fur work- ers against the bosses and the spirit of unity and determined struggle to |defeat the bosses’ front with the un- derworld police and A. F. of L. to drive them into a company union. | Thomas Comes to Union Inspired by this and upon the re- quest of the committee, Thomas also | consented to go to the Union head- | | quarters, where a meeting of the | striking fur workers was scheduled When Thomas entered the hall the meeting had not yet started. On re- | cognizing him, the workers shouted, | |“Long Live the Industrial Union!” | Ben Gold, entering the hall soon af- | ter, was greeted with a tremendous demonstration and again shouts of but at the lic declaration against it Discusses Roosevelt Recovery Bill Thomas then discussed the Roose- velt National Recovery Bill. He de- clared it contained many points which might be utilized by the work- ers if the workers were united. He declared it to be, not socialism or Communism, but a scheme of state. capitalism. He declared he did not believe unions should be controlled by Mussolinis and Hitlerites or semi- Hitlerites. He did not mention who. these fascist are, nor that his own, Socialist P; y pursues fascist tacy ties against the fur workers. He con- cluded by telling the workers that they had a right to determine what union they wished to join He made no mention of the mur- der of Langer and of the murderous attack on the headquarters of the Industrial Union, whieh received the full support of the New Leader and the Forwerds. Nor did he condemn the role of the A. F. of L. officials in the fur struggle Further comments n Thomas’ speech will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Daily DRIVERS PROTEST CAB TAX TODAY AT CY HALL NEW YORK. — Taxi-drivers are called today to City Hall to protest against the new 5c tax on rides and against the Home Relief Bureau dis- crimination against cab drivers. The Provisional United Front Committees which is issuing the call, will mobilize at Broadway and 11th Street at noon, At a meeting of the Board of Es- timate to discuss a tax on taxi-rides last Wednesday, Norman Thomas stated, “I am in favor of this tax as a last resort.” This was the So- cialist Thomas’ reaction to the city’s Proposal to place another tax on the of the conditions of the workers in| the Utica mills. Ninety per cent of) mittees in every camp. That's a damn) garments an hour — an average of| duced over $14,000,000 during the year| “Long Live the Industrial Union!” The| through wage-cuts and making the) "aps through the hall, |about 214 labels per minute. efficiency engineers decided on a| men doing more work for less wages. | standard of 162 labels per hour for 15 cents an hour, If the workers sewed only half that many labels,) they got only 742 cents an hour, be- ing docked for everything under the standard. Sweatshops At Home | The girls had gotten into the habit of taking home the work they could not finish during the day, and work- ing on it at night with other mem- | bers of the family, to make up their | quota. But some material was lost in this way, and the girls were for- bidden to do it any longer. Instead, the plant hited other girls when the regular crew was unable to keep up, and whenever the regular girls had | to receive such help they were dock-; ed an hour a day for it. | Very often material failed to come thru, and the workers, forced to sit idle, were docked for this time also. | Under this system, only the fastest girls could earn $5 or $6 a week. Many of the gitls got pay checks of $1.50 for 55 hours in the mills. 2,000 AGRICULTURAL WORKERS ON STRIKE EL MONTE, Cal, June 5—Approx- imately 2,000 Mexican, Japanese and | Filipino agricultural workers in this | section are on sirike against wage cuts and miserable working conditions. 800 raspberry and potato pickers of San Gabriel Valley who struck June 1, rejected a compromise offer by the bosses today. The Cannery and agri- cultural workers Union has sent organ izers into the field and many strikers have joined the union. Other expenses were reduced by $X300,000. These reductions were tal out of workers’ pensions, com- pensations, etc. & |Sherweod “Negotiates” With U. S. on His Appearance in Court NEW YORK.—Russell ex-Mayor Walker's confidential fi- nancial agent, after making a thea- trical appearance last week in Ho- boken, is now engaged in hair-split- ting negotiations with the Federal Government for his appearance in court to be questioned on his income tax. Sherwood fled two years ago to avoid being questioned on Walker's and Tammany’s tin-boxes. Accord- ing te police officials an elaborate search was made for him but with- out success. It has now been revealed that Sherwood has been living in Hoboken for a number of months with the (knowledge of federal authorities. When served with a subpoena yes- terday, Sherwood ignored ij on the grounds that it did not give him the usual “fee.” Thus the grafter and cover-up man for grafters is sitting in Hoboken playing legal games. When he is eventually tried it will be like Charles Mitchell, not for muleting public funds, but for “not paying income taxes.” ‘Daily’ Articles Denounces “Exposure St. Paul, Minn., June 1, 1983. Editor of Daily Worker, Comrade :— Anna Rochester's articles on Mor- gan & Co., in the “Daily” are damm good, and very opportune. Wherever I talk with people these days, in street cars, in restaurants, barber shops, on the street, the talk gets very quickly around to Morgan, The people are uneasy and sore; but they know very little, They have no idea of the real concentration of Morgan's wealth, or of the general concentra- tion of wealth. They obscurely feel and resent that concentration but are unaware of . its extent and of its implications. Here is a great chance to reach the masses. They are anxious to read about Morgan; they will buy a pamphlet on Morgan. Such a pamph- let, full of facts and carefully point- ing out their implications could be sold in quantity from house to house. It, of course, should not stop with) Morgan, but give facts and figures on. the general concentration of wealth.! But the title should be baited with Morgan. In order to insure a wide circula- tion, a certain percent could be given to the vendors. je pamphlet should contain 20 to 25 thousand words and sell at 20 or 25 cents. Give the vendors five cents for each Pinphet sold. Distribution could be hrough the Unemployed Councils, Within the past week I have recom- mended the chapter on Morgan in Myers’ “History of the Great Amer- ican Fortunes,” to several juain~ tances. The reaction was very strong. “T never knew ..... I never realized,” they said. Every one of them is now definitely on the road to the Party. I am convinced that a good pamph- let, would have the same success on a much larger seale, The bait has } on Morgan Probe Praised by Reader Veiled Propaganda for Financiers been thrown into our hands by the shadow-dance in the Senate. The masses will read anything about Morgan. The bourgeois press is al- ready printing Sunday supplements full of the old “Great Man” hocus- pocus. They prentend to be mere “histories” of the House of Morgan: really they are bourgeois propaganda, “Suceess Stories.” Anna Rochester would seem to be one to make up this pamphlet. Per- haps the chapter on Morgan from her forthcoming book on Finance Capital in the U. 8. could be easily developed into such a pamphlet. Perhaps the book itself is what we want. But it must not be expensive, it must not be too big, it must come out as quickly as possible. It must have a title that catches the atten- tion. A few good illustrations and cartoons might be worth while. If it is possible for “Labor Re- search” to get such a pamphlet out, it should be done at once. Commradely, TOM TRACY, St. Paul, Minn. Baker Local 505 Votes Approval of 4 Strikes NEW YORK.—The membership meeting of Local 505 International Bakers Union, voted to approve the strike decision for the four large bak~| eries that locked-out their workers in the past week. Two hundred and fifty workers were locked-out by the Messing, Pechter, Levy and Bell companies. Picketing on the struck shops continues daily from 6 a. m. to 10 p.m, Working-class organizations are supporting the union's strike activities which now spread to all parts of the city, | Sherwood. | masses. After opening the meeting, Gold |told of how Thomas came to the | meeting. He then introduced him. | Thomas declared that he did not intend to make a speech, that he was not prepared as he w. i In favor of more immediate action jand not just as a “last resort” were |the big taxi fleet owners who ad- vocated the 5c tax. Any tax on the users helps these capitalists to avoid tigating” the situation, but he said |P@/!N€ out any of their profits. that he wished to make a few state-| The tax also is so framed that it ments: | will drive out the small taxi owners “I am a member of the Socialist |and give the monopolisis complete Party and intend to remind there,” | control. This will help to throw more {he said. “There are deep going dif-| drivers out of work and the Taxi ferences between the Socialists and | Workers Union opposes the tax. Communists, differences which make | 1 unity between the two parties impos- | |sible. But I believe that in a great many questions which confront the | Workers, united action is possible, fas still “inves- ‘Tite ‘union representatives called attention to the fact that the aver- |age pay of a driver was $8 for a | 60-hour week and that many of the | ss ri j unemployed drivers were blacklisted especially in the industrial field, lby the Home Relief Buro and in | | “In regard to the present struggle | need of relief. The officials of the BS ad Sa cages Want to Sy ole |H. R. B. maintain that anyone with | oug am still investigating the | ‘taxi license is employed, matter,” Thomas continued, “I con- | demn such attempts as that of Mayor |, The union position and demands O’Brien, the police and Malone, the | {or Telief for taxi drivers was made attorney, to organize the workers, No|®Y Enoch Henry. The board made one can defend such actions.” |no reply to the demands of thousand Thomas then mentioned the news | of taxi drivers. report in the New York Times of | " sss May 24 which announced the joint | WHAT'S ON action of the Associated fur bosses, | Tyesday the police and the joint Council of | prose: hnseseadh | Colatiobel ale the A. F. of L. to destroy the In-| gu members to demonstrate for relief a dustrial Union and compel the fur- hall for unemployed workers, Meet riers to join the Joint Council. When | ** the center, 9:30. he read this, he said, he condemned | , ANT! FASCIST MASS MEETING, ; Grand Str, 8 p. m. Auspices: East it, However, he never made a pub-|pr. wir. ‘Adm free, good speakers. (MISLEADERS SPLIT MARINE UNITY ~~ BUT SEAMEN MAP STRUGGLE PLAN NEW YORK,—Rank and file of various organizations in the marine industry attended the united front conference called by the Marine Work- | ers Industrial Union, objecting to the refusal of their leaders to participate. | The conference was called to work out plans for a united struggle of all 380 ” Stuff in Boss Press As | workers’ organizations in the marine industry, on the four points of: (1) Adequate relief for every un- *— | (the eight hour day) on every ship, | (3) full crews on all ships and (4) | ships, Such a picket line would show no workaways (labor for a bare sub- sistence) on any ship. the support of the unemployed ashore A broad commitiee was elected to | in their fight for better wages and prepare for another conference for | Working conditions, and strengthen united setion in the near future |their arm for battle. | All Unions Called. | The M.W.LU, issued the confer- Jence call to all marine unions, and |made it public to the seamen along |the beach in a leaflet. The letter went to organizations of towboatmen, aa Ge officers and engineers as well as to | BRONX, %. ¥ |the unions of the unlicensed men in| py, abe 5,2 | righton Beach Workers y S| the industry. None of these organi | WELOOME at | | zations sent delegates to the confer- | Hoffman’s Cafeteria ence. 282 BRIGHTON BEACH AVENUE OPEN DAY AND NIGHT DAYTON 9-4 D. BACKER INTERVALE Moving & Storage Co., Inc. 962 WESTCHESTER AVE, 000 I. W. W. Backs Out. The I.W.W., which took part in the May Day united front was ex- pected to send delegates and make proposals for action at the confer- ence. In its reply to the call: sent by the M.W.L.U. the L.W.W. said that it would follow the “traditional policy of the I.W.W. which is to support the struggles of the workers in all places at all times.” The Marine Workers Industrial | Union answered this with another | letter pointing out that tne program of the meeting was not only to sup- | port struggles, but “to work out a plan to develop and lead struggles for unemployment relief, full crews, three | watches and no workaways.” | The I.W.W. did not answer this | letter and did not appear at the con- | ference. | Since none of the unions called on sent delegates, the conference was | turned into a discussion among the |" seamen present, ‘organized and unor- ganized, on the questions raised. | Good Proposals Made. | BROOKLYN JOSEPH 6. LAX, 0.D. OPTOMETRIST IFR BROOKLYN, N. Y. Tel. Main 4-3927 your eyes 48 Flatbush Av. —or~ 383 Livingston Street jsion have tested yearly BENSONRURST WORKERS Patronize GORGEOU’S CAFETERIA 2211 86th Street Near Bay Parkway Fresh Food at Proletarian Prices FOR BROWNSVILLE PROLETARIANS: SOKAL CAFETERIA 1680 PITRIN AVENTE Many good proposals for action developed out of the meeting, includ- ing a suggestion for picketing the Sido , Jemployed seaman, (2) three watches | docks of companies that habitually.” carry workaways and underman their. the working seamen that they haveo>*