The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 12, 1933, Page 3

Many Youth Hurt. at Work in Wisc. | Forest Labor Camps No Medical Facilities for Them; Strike Against Working in Swamp and Win Demand KENOSHA, Wis.—My brother who is im company 644 and now has an henorable discharge met several of youths whe walked out ef Co. 640. They said that ont of 212 youths, 150 have run away, From Co. 642, 65 ran away, from Co. 644, 40 ran away. Even though the youth are inexperienced they are given axes to chop | down trees for telephone posts. No instructions whatsoever are given nag One ‘gia deen: fellow made a 10 KILLED IN 1H N. J. EXPLOSION; HUNDREDS HURT Materials Made in Crowded Section, for War Use NORTH ARLINGTON, N. J., June 1i.—The fatel explosion that de- streyed the Atlantic Pyroxilin Wast Company at 316 River Road Friday night killing at least ten and injur- more than 183 men, women and a iidven, spreading havoc in a work- ing class section, was caused by the eriminal neglect of the state and municipal government in covinance with the owner of the plant, Alex- ander Schienzeit. In Residential District. Although the plant was used to sert and store highly inflamable cel- luloid material, Schienzeit was per- mitted te carry on this work in the center of a thickly settled neighbor- heod and a stone's throw from 4 erowded bathing beach. In fact, di- reetly behind this powder barrel was the home of George Dale, who with his wife was burned to death as one of the first victims of the explosion, unable to leaye their homes quick enough te eseape the flames. Four other homes were destroyed. Second Piant Destroyed. This is the second plant owned by Schienseit destroyed by explo- sion. Three years ago a plant he owned in Secaucus, N. J., had a blast like the present one. Admission of this criminal dis- regard of worker's lives has been made by Assistant Presecutor Chas, Schmidt of Bergen County, wha revealed that “there were flagrant. violations of the law by the owner, whe has had no permit since he teok over the plant three years age, despite the fact that there is an ordinance, in 1921, requiring one to be issued by the municipal authorities for the storing of ex- Plosive materials within the bor- ough limits,” ‘The prosecutor did not explain just how a company storing explosives in a vesidential section could do this for three years under the nose of officials without a permit, ‘Try To Clear Selves Officials are frantically trying to elear themseves of their guilt by issu- ing flabby statements that “the wrecked planj did not come under either state or local laws governing the operation of factories.” These statements flatly come inte contra- diction with the statement of the district atterney that a permit is re- quired. Mowever, if a permit had keen asked for to store the celluloid. it would have been given, anyhow, for the district attorney revealed that @ company owning the plant former- ly had such a permit. Meanwhile the owner of the plant is trying to clear himself by using the usual stale stery about “labor trouble.” A second after the blast the streets were filled with writhing, screaming men, women and children. Houses showered by the burning celluloid burst into flames. Bathers on the each were knecked into the water and burned by the flaming materia). Death struck three houses immedi- ately. The Dale home, twe dead; the Appleyard home with four dead; the Hitch home with two dead. More May Die A number in the hospital are still in danger. The full extent of the injuries is yet to be determined. Tndignation is running so high in the town that officials are making gestures of investigating themselves and Schienzeit is being held under/| local $10,000 bail for “questioning.” Aiea a very saat war material and is so regarded by the U. 8. War riment, Tt is a nitro-cel- lulose uct closely rélated to the nitto-cellulose which is the basis for dynamite and high explosives used in war, A slight change in the proc- eas of manufacturing is all that is needed te turn a chemieal factory making commercial pyrexilin into an explosives manufacturing plant. The biggest manufacturers of Py | te toxilin in the United States are sub. | 5th sidiaries of DuPont, the giant chem- {eal and munitions trust. WOMEN FAINTING o Pa lite ee. e Sone A woman BY Co) fem ‘hunger today (Jund | A liseman, bedge No. 1689, ‘used to pay attention to the “ans cry, me, Me , oliceman tnd let her fall and she banged her inst the sidewalk. Wid of her. GA other fellew has a porcupine quill in his head. woods when a porcupine dropped from a tree and one of the quills penetrated, % inch into his head, The hospital facilities are very poor, army dogtors scarce, Still they will net send this boy to tewn which is 16 miles away, instead they are wajt- ing fer an army doestor. This youth had had this quill in his head for 7 days, Many of them had fever and a few of them have gotten pneumonia from working in the swamps up to their knees planting trees. Finally conditions have gotten so bad that | fused to work in swamps. | 8n hour they won their strjke. My brother has reeeived an honor- able discharge. When one geis a discharge he must turn in all his must pay for it. My brother had to pay $3 for his O. D. pants which were stolen. Another thing I forgot to tell is this, that jf you are not present when the roll call is called or even if you are one minute late then $1 is de- ducted from your pay and in order to get a discharge one must have proyen that he has a job waiting for him or that his mother is sick or dying.—J. Z. In the face of rising living costs and short time that has cut rail- road earnings to the bone, railroad xeeutives are determined to push through their plan for further wage- cuts. On top of the 10 per cent al- ready in effect until Noy. 1, the roads will ask for an additional 10 per cent | slash. It is admitted by financia] experts that from 1915 to 1932, general trade union .wage ates advanced by ap- proximately 150 per cent.. while wage rates for most classes of the railroads rose by only 90 per cent (the cost of living, of course, soared ahead of such ‘inereases”). At the same time, in 1930, there were fewer men employed on the roads than in 1910. And this smaller working force was moving 75 per cent more traffic. “In t@rms of gross ton miles of freight and Passen- | ger car movement,” according to a} 200-page volume on transportation | prepared by the Brookings Institu- tion, “output per man grew by 36 per cent between 1923 and 1929 and con- tinued to increase even during the recent depression years... .” While yailroad men were speeded yp to pro- duce more, the Morgans, Vaaderbilts, Van Sweringens and their like pock- eted well over $4,000,000,000 in divi-| dends and bond interest. Railroad Income Up—Payrolls Down Of the first 32 roads to report earnings in April, 1933, nineteen showed improyed net operating in- comes compared with last April. The tate of decline in income of all 150 Class 1 roads has evidently been checked, All roads reported a de- cline of only 61 per cent in April 4s against 67.7 in March and 179.6 per cent for July, 1932. The N. Y. Cen- tral showed an increase in operat- ing income of $1,056,000 for the month in spite of a decrease of $4,433,000 in gross revenue. After forcing its non-union work- ers to donate 6 days’ work a month without pay, Illinois Central showed on operating income half a million dollars above April, 1932, Chicago & Northwestern, which laid off 260 rail- way carmen during a single week ip May, reduced its deficit in April by $100,000. By such lay-offs and re- ductions in payroll it will probably wipe out its deficit completely in May. Economies instituted by the Lehigh Valley during the past five years would enable this road to pay $3,50 @ share on its $50 par common stock. Here are some of the “economies”: The Lehigh bought 22 new freight engines in 1932 and cut out two through freight trains, a saving of almast $900,000 a year (two full crews plus repair men lost jobs), Many trains were cut out and 41 sta- tions have either been wholly closed or put on part time, Track sections were reduced from 300 to 131, This triples the load on each worker. Sig- nal sections were either combined or lengthened, and not one cent was put aside for helping the men laid off by these “economies,” N. ¥. Central Milks Willing Gov't Reporting a gain of $5,000,000 in property sold in 1932, the N. ¥. Cen- tral admits that most of this was agg the sale to the government of roperty at Lexington Aye. and ot bg ‘is was the building sold to the government for a post office for $9,000,000, The building cost the Central $1,000,000 in 1910. When the deal went through the Daily Worker estimated a profit of $5,000,000. Not such a bad guess! At the same time the Central re- rela shows $6,000,000 collected from farmers and worker consumers in o| higher freight rates. An order for 500 steel box cars by the Great Western Railroad “will re- Place equipment which is obsolete and expensive to maintain,” accord- He was walking jn the | 15 youths went on a strike and re- | In half | army equipment and if any part of | the equipment is missing then he | DAILY WORKER | “A CENTURY | OF PROGRESS” NEWS ITEM; Colleee students are engaged as ddabaw co on the boardwalk at the Chicago’s World’s Fair. Only those having passed an intelligence test are hired. ‘call Militia heated | Forest Camp Recruits SACKETS HARBOR, N. Y., June 1l.—A disturbance was caused here when 300 men from the Civilian Con- servation Corps stationed at Madi- son Barracks were refused admission to a dance held in this town. There is very little cultural activity for the vecruits, while the officers enjoy all rights in camp and in town. State troopers were called te patrol the streets together with the depu- ties from. the sheers office. Roads Ask 20 Per Cent Wage Cut; Income Up in Year ‘sive vialve poealasle; Mr. self draws a salary of $40,000 a year. Specialized Traffic to Squeeze Train Crews, By pooling parallel lines, such as the New York Central and Nickel Plate, from Cleveland to Buffalo, A, A. Berle, special adviser to the Re- construction Finance Corporation, figures on saving wages of train crews. One of the lines can be used for new fast trains, such as the 100 mile an hour flyer planned by Union Pacific. The other can be used for slow freight. But the R. F. C. will have no funds for the men who will lose their jobs under such “special- izations.” Joyce? He him-| —By Burck. Cheated Out of (By a Worker Correspondent.) CHICAGO, Ill—Along with 125 other “slaves” I was employed by the C. D. Wagstaff Co. of Evanston, Ill,, planting trees on the World's Fair Grounds in Chicago. I put in five weeks of back-break- ing labor in the boiling sun. Then we were all laid off and paid only half our wages, My half amounted to $59. at 30 cents per hour. We were all told to call the following Saturday for the rest of our pay. When we got there, they told us we'll have to wait till the 15th of July for the other half. Some of the men who worked longer than I have about $150 coming. I needed the money badly, so I went to the Legal Aid Bureau of the United Charities with offices at 203 North Wabash Ave. Chicago, Ml. They told me I'd have to wait three months before they could collect it. Then I went to the City Labor Commissioner, He told me the same, fore they could handle my case. Then I went back to see the com- pany I worked for, and now they | want to cut my Wages-—aftor 1 I'm laid Strike Against Ice Company Cut) CLEVEELAND.—Rank and file dri- vers of the City Ice & Fuel Co,, or- ganized in the A. F. of L. Teamsters’ per cent wage cut proposed by the company and will strike if the cut is not Withdrawn. The Qity Ice & Fue} Co, is the largest ice distrbutor in | Cleveland, Sheriff Bars of the coal operators today followed striking coal miners was the reason The decisjon to bar the scabs from the mines came after the sheriffs vealized that the combined forces of sheriffs; local police and a horde of deputized thugs would be insufficient to smash the well-organized picket- ing of the miners who patrolled an area for a distance of five miles. One of the deputies declared that “we never have seen as many guns before. The pickets started out at 3:30 a, m,, dropping off men at shel~ tered strategie points along the road to the mine.” Most of the strikers are members of the Progressive Miners Union and have forced the leaders of the P. M, A, to give at least formal support to previous walk-outs throughout the Tilinois coal field. In the present strike which haé been unusually militant, the rank and file have from the beginning pursued aggressive tactios, and have organized mags picketing—in the spirit of the message from the National Miners Union to the organizing convention of the Progressive Miners Union last summer, FUR STRIKERS FIRM AGAINST A. F. L, BOSSES NEW YORK.—From the sentiment at @ mass meeting of fur strikers Saturday, it was evident that the furriers are determined to strike until the conspiracies of the bosses and the A. F. of L. to force them to join the A. F. of L, union is smashed. Ben Gold, Louis Hyman and other active leaders of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union addressed the strikers, Demonstrate A mass demonstration in the fur market was carried out directly after the meeting, concentrating particu- larly around a few shops where scabs have been sent in by the A, F. of L. scab agents. Two scabs, the Weiner brothers, working at the Geller shop, were so frightened that they would not leave the shop until a squad of police and Plainclothes men came to escort them, As they left the building the cries of “scab” could be heard for ing to P, H. Joyce, president of that road. What about replacing expen- blocks. Jenny Cohen was arrested, Sandwiches were distributed to the strikers by a committee of the Inter- 4 Scabs i in Fear of 3,000 Pickets HARRISBURG, Ul, June 11,—County sheriffs working under the thumb | an unusual method of sirike- -breaking | by preventing 200 scabs from approaching a mine here. | Fear to let the scabs “run the gauntlet” of between 2,000 and 3,000 given by the sheriffs for t thelr actjon. e- “Support Marine Conference” TUUC Urges Backing for Anti War Rally NEW YORK.—The Trade Union Unity Council of Greater New York calls upon the affiliated organizations as well as the labor movement in general to support the coming con- vention of the fighting Marine Work- ers Industrial Union, which will take place in New York in the month of July. The development of a powerful re- volutionary industrial union of deep sea and waterfront workers will be {the best conerete assurance of a real struggle against a new world war and intervention threats against the Sov- iet Union. The struggle of the sea- men and longsheremen to prevent shipments of ammunition to help | kill our fellow workers in other coun- tries must be supported as the most effective answer to the plans of the imperialist powers to plunge the world into another bloody slauzhter. The Marine Workers Industrial Union in otder to mobilize forces of the labor movement and to enlist the utmost support morally and financi- ally for the organization of their na- tional convention is holding a giant anti-war rally and festival at Star- light Stadium, East 177th St,, begin- ning 1 p.m. and ending 11 p.m. The T.U.U.C, is calling upon all organigations not only to mobilize the membership to come to this affair, to elect committees in each union and other working class organizations to popularize this demonstration and sell the tickets to the workers in the shops and factories. Let us show the marine workers that we are with them in this strug- gle and thus unite all ranks in mighty action behind the Marine Workers Industrial Convention and to smash the imperialist war prepara- tions. national Workers Order, whose City Committee made a decision to distrib- ute sandwiches daily to the fargidd Pi ysiod will be mass picketin, the fur market today, and all st has a well as employed and unemployed me and ether workers are asked Employes at World’s Fair ia | sion of its 25th anniversary, General]| jellowances, for support of the work- and besides it would cost me $4 be-| Union, have yoted to reject a 16 2-3| Half Their Pay | off—to 15 cents per hour. When you add up the amount they owe these 125 men, including myself, you can see what a neat little pile the Wagstaff Oo. will deposit to their credit, if they suceeed in beating us out of it, And yet one of the labor laws in| the state of Ilinois is that you have | to pay an employee in full not later than 72 hours after he is laid off. Only when the workers organize} will they be able to fight such lousy| rackets, | KANSAS CITY, Mo.. | Railway voted to strike against a wa, mediately retaliated by advertising in seabs, “APPLICATION WANTED! “Railroad Men—Loeomotive Eng- ineers, Locomotive Firemen, Con- ductors, Brakemen and Yardmen. “TRE KANSAS CITY SOQUTH- ERN RAILWAY. “BY REASON OF A STRIKE | VOTE BEING TAKEN BY OUR | PRESENT EMPLOYEES, above classes, the undersigned will receive for a limited time only written ap- | plications from experienced Engi- neers and Conductors not over 40 years of age, and Firemen, Brake- men and Yardmen not over 35 years of age. “All applications must be writ- ten and state clearly name, address, age, experience, with satisfactory reference as to the character and | | experience; ALSQ WHETHER OR | NOT APPLICANT IS WILLING TO WORK UNDER STRIKE CON- | DITIONS. | “Preference will be given to men | residing along the Kansas City | Southern Railway. “Address applications to: J. M, Prickett, Superintendent of Pi sonnel, the Kansas City Southern Rai way Co. llth and Wyandotte ’ Streets, Kansas City, Missouri,” In answer to the call for scabs the Unemployed Councjls will convene a; united front conference on June 12/ in this city. Leaflets were issued to the railroad workers to attend the conference, thereby establish unity between the employed and unem~- ployed, and stop the scabbing which the bosses depend on to break the strike. Seamen on the Beach Working for a Meal BALTIMORE, Md.—On the 8. 8, ‘Waukeagan, 12 men on the beach had come aboard to bum dinners, One of them was @ jobless steward, We asked the mate if we could eat and he told us if we washed the dishes and cleaned the messroom, he would let us eat as they had no messman on board and did not in- tend to have one while in port. This was because he could get the seamen on the beach to work for a meal. The one fellow who was supposed to be a steward was doing messman’s work for three meals a day, Also there were two seamen on the ship who were going to work their way to New York, The day before we were there, «wo men came aboard and after they ate, refused to clean up. The mate or- dered them off the ship, IB. TEN WORKAWAYS ON ONE SHIP PHILADELPHIA, Pa,—The John Jay sailed from Philadelphia with ten workaways aboard. The compa- ny, fearing action on this issue from the crew and the Marine Workers Industriel Union, smuggled these workaways aboard a few minutes he- fore sailing time. This is one of those ships that make a practice of carrying work- aways from coast to coast. Several members of the crew have started a ships’ committee and will prepare for a struggle DRESS SHOP STRUCK NEW YORK.—The dress depart- ment declared the ©, & H. Co, of 127 West 26th Street on strike last week. This shop, involving over 30 employees is working for the jobber Venus Dress Company. The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union has 3 shops working for this jobber and | Steel and Metal Worker. was | Metal Workers 1j Kansas R R. Wiihobs Vote Strike; engineers, firemen, yardmen, brakemen and conductors, The add in the Star is as follows: | RA? EW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1933 METAL FIXERS UNION ‘JOINS THE INDUSTRIAL UNION NEW YORK. — The Metal Fixer | Union, formerly affiliated with the United Hebrew Trades, decided b: | unanimous vote to affiliate with th Indyst me Union at its membership Thursday night at Irving Pl The decision of the the result of general di: ist ion among the members, with the policies of the right wing leade which they recognize as trea to their interests. Lustig, organize: hip of the Steel and jal Union, re- | ri tivities of the union, ported on the strikes and victories for | Powers, Brooklyn or- ganizer, spoke of the coming United Front Conference to formul to defeat the attacks brought on by | the National Recove: Bill. The union voted to endorse the confer- | enee, | GEN. ATTERBURY HAILS RAIL CUT, CAMBRIDG! Mass., June ‘1.— Speaking before the Harvard Uni- versity Graduate School of Busine: Administration Friday on the occs W. W. Atterbury, president of the} | Pennsylvania railroad, urged consoli-|telief and insurance. | dation of existing railroads into a|the government and the capitalists few systems. This is in conformity with the) Roosevelt rail program of scrapping ing” and compeiitive roads ving transport monopoly to the biggest lines. Hits Railroad Workers Actually being carried through at the present time the railroad re- organization is throwing tens of thousands of railroad workers out of jobs. At completition there will be more than 150,000 added to the army} of unemployed. Wages Cut Jane 11.—The men on the Kansas City Southern The strike vote includes the The company im-| the “Kansas City Star” of June 9 for ge out. Experiences of : an |Ordinary Seaman on |Moore-McCormick Line, BALTIMORE, Md.—I shipped as an Ordinary Seaman aboard the, Commercial Orleanman of the Moore-McCormick 8. 8. Co., for the magnificent sum of $28 a month. My | job consisted of standing lookout from 8 a.m, to 4 a.m. Off watch dur- ing the day I had to keep the fore~ castle clean, keep the two wash- rooms clean, sweep the alleyways and keep the fire extinguishers pol-| ished. I also had to relieve the man at the wheel for half an hour so |, that he could eat his supper. IT had to wait until everyone had eaten because there was not enough gear for every one to eat at the same time and the grub was nothing to write home about. The meat had a queer taste and it was so tough that I could not eat it and I have very | good teeth. | In port I had to stand nine hours night watch. After we left Balti- more, we went to Philadelphia, While on watch I had to shovel a ton of coal into sacks on the dock. I had to hold the sack in one hand and shovel with the other. Try it some time and see what a job it is. The A.Bs on this ship run the winches in port. They don’t seem to realize that this is scabbing on the longshoremen. For running the winehes they get the huge sum of $0 cents an hour, 45 cents after 6 pm. They get $42 a month on this ship and if you can't run winches on this ship, your chances of getting an A. B, job are slim. During the run from Philadelphia to Boston, we ran into plenty of fog but we kept going at full speed. Be- ing on the look-out and. hearing other ships’ whistles around us, it| occurred to me that we were taking an awful chance, What the hell do the ship owners care about the safe- ty of the seamen on board if their ships collide as long as they can col- lect insurance and make big profits? ‘We can see by all these things that the ship owners are out to give us a dirty deal and the only way we ean stop this crap is by organizing, Join a real fighting union, the Ma- rine Workers Industrial Union. It is the only Union today that is leading the fights of the seamen and long- shoremen, as we can see from the actions aboard the Munson line all line ships, bar none.—J. E, IMPORTANT MEETING OF BOTH | STRIKERS AND EMPLOYED WORKERS ON MONDAY. On Monday, 2 p.m,, a meeting of all strikers of 130 and 150 West 30th quarters of the Industrial Union, in Avenue will meet at 2 p.m. at the headquarters of the union, sixth floor. All strike Avenue meet at 5:30 pm, at the headquarters of the union, reom 26. All chairmen of 330 Seventh Ave- nue are called to a very important the workers of the C, & H. are re- ceiving lower prices aT meeting, which will be held at the office of the union at 6:30 p.m. emis, € plans | 8 | the committée, ships. The same can be done aboard) Street will take place at the head- | Room 26. Strikers of 330 Seventh | as well es employed | workers of 305, 307 and 350 Seventh | | Page Three ‘Veterans Learning Who Their Friends And Enemies Are Veterans Delegates at Considered Themselves By I. AMTER, The v ans’ march and eonven- ion in \ ngton represent an im- | portant stage in the development of the struggle of the yeteran: This was recognized by the and all the reactionary They did everything to prevent the march. threats, propagands, estion of force. The lead of the veterans’ organizations lined up with the National Economy League government ions. to cause a diyision among the vet- | erans, to fight against immediate payment of the adjusted compensa- certificates (bonus), and to al- low euts in the disability allowances. The A.P. of L. leaders and the church cpposed = Sreseming Isolation of Vets. he government knew of the three pote program which had been is- | sued by the National Liaison Com- mittee—for immediate payment of |the bonus, against cuts in disability ers and farmers in the struggle for This presented with a new situation. The veteran delegates did not con- sider themselves a group separate from the rest of the population — but part of the toiling masses, from whom they came, They intended to link up the struggle for their special grievances with those of the whole g population. Unite to Defeat Demands. Recognizing this, the government took steps all over the country to raise the “red scare”. This, it hoped, would cause a division that wreck the movement. For this pur- pose the government used men who} had participated in the bonus march | of last year, when Hoover drove them | out, It put into service Woods, an adventurer; Thomas, an assistant to Waters; Foulkrod, an admitted Burns’ detective agency man. This would have been of no moment, but the march was slow in getting under raising the “seare”’. Defeat Thomas’ Provecations. Thomas was the most outspoken. Although he had signed a document that pledged him to the three point | program, he started a movement to confine the convention to the bonus. He refused to go to the camp set aside by the government for the march- , on the grounds that it was nted” with radicalism.” Because | of failure to reach the masses of the | | veterans and prepare them ideologi- cally and organizationally, and in or- der to permit an isolation of the} militant veterans from the bedy of the men as took place last year (the government was preparing to give Thomas a different camp and was as- sisting him in lining up the veterans |}for the “right wing” against the “lefts”); Communists active in National Liaison Committee, yades Levin and Hickerson, against the protest of the other members of temporarily resigned ‘om the committee. This was a re- | treat but the two comrades remained | ‘active in the convention. This did not | stop the provocative actions of Tho- | mas, Wood, Foulkrod and their men, On the contrary. Exposed Roosevelt Game. What was the composition of the try was represented, with delegates |also from the Philippines, Mexico and Porto Rico. They were members of the American’ Legion, Workers’ | Ex-Servicemen’s League, Veterans of EF, Khaki Shirts, ete., and unat- tached veterans. About 30 per cent were Negroes, from all parts of the country, but particularly the south, 3000, were part of the starved-out workers of the country. There were few drifters—only a cross section of the most destitute workers and farm- ers of the United States. They made militant speeches—and the most mil- itant ones met with the most ener- getic response, The Southern veter- ans, and particularly the Negroes, were splendid men, They knew what they wanted and came to get it. The veterans were backward pol- itioally. It was Roosevelt who dealt them the first blow in his “econemy” bill, but still the convention made him an honorary delegate and did not mention his name in criticism! The convention registered certain achievements. It was based on an organized march, not having the spontaneous ¢haracter of last year. It adopted a three-point program giving the veterans a basis for a real struggle against the government, which made pledges that it is not keeping. The convention exposed the Roosevelt democratic regime no less and open | would y, and the groups under reaction- | leadership were in Washington, | the | Com- | | convention? Every state of the coun- | Foreign Wars, Disabled Veterans, B, | ‘These veterans, numbering more than | W ashington Conference Part of Toiling Masses sharply than it did the Hoover ge- | publican administ Hoover drove the v v i ton with fire an Roosevelt | told them blenkly that if congress | should pags a bonus bill, he would | veto it. The Senate and House ap- pointed committees to meet a delega> tion. This will help to clear up the fle lusions that the veterans have about their “commander-in-chief”, First Voted Against Camps. The . convention overwhelmingly Voted down the reforestration camps. of the veterans nevertheless gion signed up for the $ due not only to the starv- have been suffering for (The average age of the n was 40, average period of un- ment 2 years!), but to the leek of local struggles | The conyention elected a commit- tee which will carry on the work outlined in the program of action, New men have me inte the leader- ship and a broadening of the move- ment is now possible. Many Serious Weaknesses. The convention manifested serious weaknesses and shortcomings. Little work had been done in the field for and the convention, The p on the platform of the |convention was inexperienced and manifested such weaknesses that at times it appeared that the convention would end in the disruption the gev- ernment desired. Although there was » good num- roes at the convention— y few came to the front. There was no open white chauvinism et the camp (except in |the Thomas section where the Ne- | Broes were segregated). But there | Was not an epen comradely spirit be | tween the whites and Negroes—more jone of tolerance. Negro veterans were not induced to gs] thes munists months, the other members of the National Liaison Committee were op- | posed to the Party coming forward. When Daily Workers were distributed | at the convention, it was used by some fascist veterans to provoke disorder and again raise the issue of the reds. were unafraid and those . Neglecied Preparations, | The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s Le gue did very little work in prepara- |tion for the march and convention. |Had the W.ES.L. been on the job, {carrying on struggle, reaching the | other veterans’ orgenization the whole | situation in Washington would have been different Thomas, Foulkrod and Woods would not have been able to stir up any seere Party Slow to Act. The Party did not look ypon the mobilization of the veterans as its tas! Although the districts had to | carry out four other national actions | within two weeks—quite a feat for any Party—nevertheless it must be stated—as the small group of Com- munists reperted in Washington— |most of the districts actually disre- garded the yeterans’ march. In some | districts, the ex-soldier comrades had | to fight against section decisions; in | others they had to work single- handedly, with no assistance or guid- | ance from the district There is a possibility today of | building up a militant veterans’ movement in this country. The vet- jerans have learned from the Reose- yelt as well as the Hoover govern- mont that their demands will net be |granted without a struggle. Both | major capitalist parties and alse the | Socialist Pariy, are against them, If Congress is now in an upheaval it is out of fear of the people back home-— which shows the mass sentiment that can be welded into a movement, The building of the W.E.S.L, and of opposition groups in the reaction- ary veterans’ organizations; the build- ing of groups in the shops, unions, fraternal organizations, in the neigh- borhoeds, to carry on the struggle, is an immediate task. The veterans have seen that mass pressure can bring results, It is yp to the vet- erans supported by the rest of the workers, to force Roosevelt to eco- nomize” not at the expense of them and the workers, but of the Morgans, Kuhn, Loebs, Rockefellers, Mellons, ete. In view of the international situ- ation and the grave danger of war, the building of the veterans’ organi- gation and movement is a task that we no longer dare neglect. MORNING FREIHEIT. — 10 Perce: by the Acme Theatre to the DAILY LAST TIMES TODAY! 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