The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 29, 1933, Page 1

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Your _ (Section of the Communist International ) Spread the Daily Worker to Best Expose the Industrial Vol. X, No. 155 ee NEW YORK, THU SDAY, JUNE 28, 1933 NA svete SeORy New Manoeuvers of the Socialist week, two articles have appeared which illuminate the position of | | Leaders the Social-Democratic Party of Germany. | ‘The first, which appears in this week’s issue of the New Leader, lead- img organ of the American Socialist Party, is as follows “Those (Socidlist leaders—Ed.) who felt that by bowing to the storm, or by going through the forms of legaltty, or even playing bell (!) with the Naai regime are either thoroughly disillusioned or repudiated.” In these words, the New Leadertdescribes accurately tne three courses which the “Socialist” leaders in Germany took with the coming of that Fascist. dictatorship for which they so diligently paved the way. ‘We can illustrate these various attitudes which characterize the whole Social-Democratic leadership by pointing out some of the specific pro- posals of these leaders. Stampfer, the editor of their leading paper, “Vorwaerts”, told the German workers that to resist Hitler would be “Itke shooting into the air’—he “bowed to the storm.” ‘Wels, the leader of the Reichstag, told the German workers that Hitler, “has a legal and moral right to rule”’—he “went through the forms of legality.” The Socialist Deputies in the Reichstag overwhelmingly supported Hitler's speech in the Reichstag, cheering his “love of peace”—and Leipart, the head of the German Federation of Labor, offered the German Trade Unions to Hitler, to “consider together” the problems of the workers— they offered to “play ball with the Nazis”, ND 2 leading member of the Socialist, Party, candidate on the Social~ ist ticket in the last election, Reinhold Niebuhr, writes in this week’s “ew Republic: “Se hopeless is the situation of the Socialists and se broken their morale that Hitler was actually negotiating with the bureau- ‘cracy of the Socialist trade unions to take them over into his movement bag and baggage when his hand was forced by an order from some mysterious source in entirely in order that National boilt up anew... doth... rorism. It is proof of the fact moribund.” the party to destroy the unions Socialist trade unions might be The Socialist Party is in a state of living This destruction is not merely the result of Nazi ter- that the party was thoroughly In this statement, of course, the writer attempts to fasten upon the German workers the blame for the treacheries of their leaders. But aside from his, his statement, together with the New Leader's, is a con- fession of the Social-Democratic betrayal, forced from them by the overwhelming pressure of the events in Germany. The one powerful event in Germany which is forcing the German “Socialist” leaders to readjust their tactics, and which is forcing the | Social-Fascists all over the world to “repudiate” the betrayals of their German colleagues, is the profound the German Socialist workers, who are beginnin; stirrings am: the deep masses of to unite with Com- munists under the leadership of the Communist Party in the fight against Fascism. * 'UCH are the leaders of_the..German. ‘Socialist’ Party. * They offered. their prostitute embraces to the Fascist butchers, and when their ad- vances are rejected, they are “disillusioned”. But this “disillusion” of the Social-Fascist leaders does not make them any less dangerous to the workers. Tt merely means that the Social-Fascist leaders are now again attempting to place themselves at ‘the head of the German workers, on the grounds that their “disillusion” with Fascism guarantees that they will henceforth be a “revolutionary” opposition against Hitler. r . is because the German Social-Fascist leaders are unable to find a place in the Fascist state machine, that they are now maneuvering to place themselves again at the head of the German Social-Democratic workers, whose faith in these leaders has been so profoundly shaken by the events of the last few months. It is to prevent the streaming of the German workers ont of the Social-Democratic Party that the Social- Fascist léaders now come parading . their “disillusion” with Fascism. UT the Socialist leaders, who are now so quick to “repudiate” their colleagues had not one word of criticism of those political policies which inevitably led to Fascism. These leaders also supported Hinden- burg as a “great democrat”. These leaders also prostrated themselves before the capitalist Weimar Republic. ‘These leaders also were united with the Social-Fascist traitors in the policy of the “lesser evil’, the road by which Hitler marched to power. These other Socialist leaders cannot repudiate their colleagues because their fundamental policies and political philosophy are exactly the same as that of the German Socialist leaders—the policy of defend- ing capitalist “democracy”, the policy of repudiating the dictatorship of the proletariat, the policy of the “peaceful” transition to Socialism.” Against these latest stratagems of the Social-Fascist leaders, the class-conscious workers of the world and the Communist Party must fight relentlessly. We will not permit these traitors to “forget” the treacheries for which the German workers have paid so dear, in agony and tortare, with the best proletarian blood of Germany. ‘We mnst form the closest ties of proletarian comradeship with the Social-Democratic workers, guiding them, revealing to them how it is the treacherous policies of their leaders that led to the Fascist terror. ‘The Social-Fascists prepare for new betrayals. It is our task to make it impossible for them to lead the workers again into another trap. Laundry Workers Lay _ Plans to Spread Strike NEW YORK.—Plans to rally the Bis 3s of the Bronx in mass support, of the laundry workers now on strike against unbearably long hours and starvation wages will culminate in a conference of mass organizations to be held this Monday. Meanwhile the women’s council: of the Bronx are actively engaged in relief, while the laundry strikers, un- der the leadership of the Laundry Workers Industrial Union, are holding mass demonstrations and mass pick- eting, particularly at the Mott Haven Laundry, where police attacks and mass arrests have failed to break the strikers’ ranks. Wages at the Mott Haven are as low as $3 a week. At the Mott Haven Laundry, where 35 “workers are out, mastly Negroes, the police are particularly vicious in their attacks on the picket line. Their mass demonstrations, however, forced the release of 60 who were. arrested Mondlay, 21 receiving suspended sen- tences, and the rest dismissed. The tases of 35 who were arrested Tues- day were also dismissed. At the Nonpareil and the North Laundries, A. F. pe lead~ Ae tia in their usual strtlee Tecoablnn rele, 4 After vainly} keeping up the strikers’ trying ‘to get the workers into their now defunct A.F.L. union, by talking about the Recovery (Slavery) Act, these officials resorted to sending scabs into the two shops. They are following their usual tactics of organ- izing a few drivers so that they can give the shops a “union label,” while helping the boss to keep most of the inside workers, particularly the Negro workers, unorganized. Look to Mass Support . The strikers, at their strike head- quarters at 569 Prospect Ave., 3882 Third Ave., and the Tremont Workers Club, Tremont and Third Ave., ex- press ‘confidence that the lineup of bosses, police and AFL. officials will not keep them from winning a vic- tory. To oppose these forces of the besses, they look to their own mass picketing, and to the mass support ef the Bronx workers, which will be wiven organizational strength at Mon- day's conference of mass organiza- tions. The help given the laundry work- ers is not confined to the Bronx, The strike committee reports that the Harlem section of the Communist Party, where many of the Negro laundry workers live, is also active in morale, ‘ Roosevelt’s Private Ambassador in the Pay of Kuhn, Loeb Banking Firm Which Made Millions Paid No| Income Taxes During Last Three Years WASHINGTON, June 28—Otto Kahn, international banker, and part- ner of the Wall Street house of Kuhn, Loeb and Company told the Senate Finance Committee that his firm had paid a $35,000 fee to Norman H. Davis, | Roosevelt’s private Ambassador-; at-large te Europe. Davis’ name had appeared previously on the lists of Morgan’s “stock WIN STRIKE ON FORCED LABOR JOBS IN ELKHART ELKHART, Ind., June 26.—After a strike against forced labor lasting four days officials conceded to the | ! Not only did the firm pay no taxes, | but Otto Kahn, multi-miliionaire) Workers demands of the National Unemployed Council. The Council printed leafleis exposing the corruption of the offi- cials, distribution of rotten food, evictions and shutting off of water meters of jobless workers. When a water meter is shut off it is again turned on by the workers and a tag hung on the meter: “This meter was turned on by the National Unemployed Council this resident is not responsible for this act in any way in ordering it done or in par- ticipating im said act. ‘STRIKE ON REC: JOB IN SOUTH LAWRENCEBURG, Tenn., June 27. —Following the victorious strike of the Memphis R. F. C. workers, 45 men employed on an R. F. C. project, @ rock quarry, in this city, left their work Monday. They refused to re- {urn unless their wages: were raised to $1.85 a~day. sige er Wages on all R. F. C. projects in Tennessee were recently cut to $1 a day, but the strike of the Memphis jobless forced the scale back to $1.25 for Memphis, Chattanooga, Knox- ged and Nashville. Browder Article, Other Features, in ‘Daily’ Sat. - Features in this coming Satur- day's issue of the Daily Worker will cover a wide variety of top- ies, including an analysis by Earl Browder of recent articles appear- ing in the “World Tomorrow” and “The Nation” by Reinhold Nie- buhr, dealing with the collapse of thé Social-Democracy; a letter from Scotland, written by Mrs. Sue Stalker, whose husband was deported from Omaha recently; book and movie reviews, poems, sketches, etc, A special feature of the six- page Saturday edition will be an open letter to the Chattanooga News from Claude Patterson, father of Haywood Patterson, for whom the International Labor De- fense has just won a new trial. This article will be accompanied by a drawing of Claude Patterson by Hugo Gellert, well-known revo- lutionary artist. ® favorites.” Davis 4s now in Europe acting for Roosevelt. Davis got the fee for arranging a loan for Chile with the bankers. Tt was also revealed today that the banking house of Kuhn, Loeb, and | Company paid no income taxes dur- ing the last three years of crisis, de- spite its enormous holdings of cash, and its interest-paying loans running into millions of dollars. In this res- pect, Kuhn, Loeb repeated the per- j formance of the Morgans, who also paid no taxes during this period. ‘banker also paid no taxes. Concealed Information Tt was also revealed that the Kuhn, Loeb Company, like the Morgan- | dominated National City Bank con- 'cealed from thousands of small in- vestors vital information about the financia] condition of the countries whose securities it was selling in this country, Big Profits on Worthless Bonds How enormous profits are made by the Wall Street bankers in arranging for loans to foreign countries was brought out in the testimony of B. Buttenweiser, a partner in the firm. For arranging a $20,000,000 loan to Chile, the firm made a profit of $1,- 626,000. For selling $70,000,000 of a $90,000,- 000 Chiltean loan, Kuhn, Loeb made @ profit of $3,927,850. The company simply sold Chitiean bonds to ‘buyers in this country, many of them small investors who plunged their life-say- ings into the speculation of 1929, and then collected its four million dollar profit as a commission. All of these. bonds are-now- in default and - are}, practically worthless, representing a $90,000,000 loss to small American in- vestors. The house of Kuhn, Loeb is one of the most powerful banking firms in the country, controlling a large part of the railroad financing. To- gether with the Morgans it domin- ates the leading roads in the country, notably, ' Missouri Pacific, and the whole Alleghany group, in addition to the Pennsylvania, the Erie, and the New Haven. A short time ago the R. F. C. loaned $14,000,000 to the Missouri Pacific most of which went to the Morgans and Kuhn, Loeb as interest payments on_bonds. Durifig the last presidential elec- tions, Otto Kahn was a generous con- tributor to both the Democratic and the Republican parties. LL. D. Gains Ferrera’ | SCOTTSBORO MEETING 1S HELD Voluntary Departure NEW YORK.—Conchetta Ferrara, militant worker thteatened with de- portation to fascist Italy, was granted voluntary departure to another coun- try as a result of mass pressure. The N. Y. District International Labor De- fense wrung from the Department of Labor voluntary departure for Fer- rara, who left this country Wednes- day, at 12, noon, on the Hamburg- American liner Albert Ballin, Ann Burlak [Now Needs Rank and! {tion to the policy of the leaders of \the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- [ENGINEER CHIEFS TRY TO NULLIFY) INSURANCE VOTE Convention Resolution | File Or, rganization CLEVEL AND, | June 28.—In opposi-| ' Leader of many textile strikes. Will bring a group of Massachu- setts textile workers to Washing- ton to protest the slavery condi- tiona in the proposed textile code. DELEGATION FROM TEXTILE MILLS TO, PUT OWNDEMANDS. ‘AFL and Bosses’ “0 Oppose Pro gram at Meet WASHINGTON, June 28.—With workers from the textile mills, and rank and file members of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union either alrady here or on their way, June Croll, of the union, will lead a dele- gation to voice the textile workers’ opposition to the Textile Institute's slavery code now being discussed here by the bosses, the A. F. of L. and its boss-controlled United Federation of Textile Workers. Ann Rurlak, of the National Textile Workers Union, who was originally announced to lead the delegation is expected to arrive later with a contingent of workers from the Massachusctts textile mills. The majority of the textile bosses, as the speeches here showed, were | solidly lined up. behind the wage schedule for textile workers which is to be set as a precedent for future wage codes in other industries. Russell Watson. representing John- ‘gon & Johnson mils, sava-tiat ho“was for a weekly hour rate higher than 40, hours. While he said he favored a' few dollars increase above the $10 and ${1 rate, Watson did not say he meant in reality a lower hourly rate, with greater exploitation of the work- ers. An important point brought out by Watson was that under the pres- ent textile code his company would fire one-third of its workers. He said that other mills would fire 5,000 tex- tile workers. One of the central points of discus- sion has been child labor. George Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile Institute, said that a clause would be put into the code eliminating the em- ployment of children below 16 years of age. Sloan overlooked the fact that the bosses propose to pay the workers that may replace the child laborers the same wages which they were paid. IN NEWPORT NEWS, VA. NEWPORT NEWS, Va—Over 250 workers attended a Scottsboro protest meeting here at the Zion Baptist Church recently. Despite the efforts of Walter White of the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Colored People and local pastors to disrupt the meeting, the workers staged a very successful meeting. Allan Taub, who addressed the meet- ing, is addressing meetings all over Tidewater Virginia. gineers, now meeting in convention lin Cleveland, and with express dis- \agreement with the A. F. of L. policy and actions against unemployment in- surance, the following resolution fa- voring non-contributory unemploy- |ment insurance was passed by the convention. “Whereas a condition has developed so that many of our brothers are un- ‘employed through no fault of their |own, be it therefore resolved that this ‘convention goes on record endorsing non-contributory unemployment in- surance, provided by ihe federal gov- ernment.” This resolution, despite its limita- tions, is an import advance at this time ‘when William F. Green, Matthew Woll, and other yellow lead- ers are trying to dragoon the workers behind the Roosevelt program which definitely Js directed against any form [ot unemployment insurance. President Johnsson of the B. of L. E.,, and the other officials though continuously fighting against unem- ‘ployment insurance did not take up the cudgels against it in the conven- tion because of the overwhelming support for it given by the delegates. Their aim is to keep back the devel- opment of a real struggle to carry through the demand for unemploy- ment insurance in the lodges of the union. They know -that without action the ‘workers cannot achieve unemploy- ment insurance. They believe they can effectively block such action. This is the main limitation of the resoly- tion, that it does not provide for or-| . ganization, together with the great masses of unemployed, to force thru the demand by united action. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 28—The| internal struggle over financial mat-| ters has become increasin: acute jat the Locomotive Enginee: ionven- tion with a showdown expected when the committee elected to investigate the Standard ‘Trust Bank reports. More than $1.200,000 of insurance funds, $88,461 of pension funds, and huge amounts of the Brotherhood’s protective funds were lost in this bank crash, besides the $490,000 liability of the Brotherhood as stockholders. In addition many divisions and individ- ual members lost large amounts both as depositors and stockholders. A number of indictments have been is- sued by grand jury against Grand Chief Johnston, Secretary-Treasurer Cassell and other bank officials for misapplication of its funds In spits of its uncertain position, ! the administration has succeeded in slipping a fast one over on the rank | and file, by passing a resolution to} keep delegates’ names and division numbers from being printed in the ainutes. | The minority report of S. J. Fergu- -on of the auditing committee has been the subject of long and bitter fights. Ferguson declared that “the secrecy surrounding the activities of the Protective Department and un- ethical and unbusinesslike methods on the part of past and present officers, are largely responsible for the plight of our organization today.” By a close vote of 464 to 415 the adminis- tration succeeded in having this com- mittee discharged before it could make too many disclosures in regard to the financial honesty of the officials. | of every jobless worker. =i TAKE AWAY RELIEF FROM THOUSANDS, SAYS FEDERAL Families Needing Aid RELIEF HEAD Increase But No New Federal Appropriations Until January Continuous Threats of Relief Cuts Show Increased Need for Jobless Insurance NEW YORK.— Federal Relief Administrator Hopkins, promises to weed out additional thousands now receiving re- lief as a part of the nation-wide campaign that “relief needs are on the decline.” At the sa that half of the $500,000,000 a in May is already spent. While $250,000,000 was spent in a period of six weeks since May 17, the balance will have to be spread over a period of seven months until congress meets next January. Relief Needs Increase At the same time William Hodson, executive director of the Council, concedes that there is an increased need in relief, more than} ever before. Pointing to the relief decline, Hodson states: “A glance at the charts of our Research Bureau | showing the month to month trend) of relief in this city, justifies the caution that we cannot assume that the worst is over in the matter of relieving the distress of destitute un-/ employed.” Hodson admits that the “usual de- cline in the need for relief was not apparent during the last month.” Contradicting the statements of Roosevelt's relief administrator, the welfare official continues, “even now, with nearly 275,000 families on the relief rolls of public and private agen- the Home Relief Bureau is re- each week new applications from thousands of additional families made destitute by exhaustion of life's after three years of unem- ployment.” “Hodson, of course, hails the Roose- velt, “turn to prosperity,” and says: “While there are many signs pointing to improving business conditions,” but.fa aud. continues, “it. is. im- portant that the community realize it will be a long time before the hun- Greds of thousands of families who now need’ the aid of relief societies to avert suffering will be able to return to erhployment and self-support.” The constant relief cuts and threats to remove additional thousands of families from relief stalk in the face No one with- out any income is assured that the | following week he might face com- | Piste starvation without any means of 100 Stagger Plan. Jobs| Promised by Hoboken | \Plant; 1 Worker Hired “5, HOBOKEN, N. J., June 28.—An- nouncement last week by the Am- erican Lead Pencil Co. that their fac- tories have reduced working time from 9 to 8 hours a day in order to “spread work and raise basic wages” under the Roosevelt Rocovery (Slavery) Act brought 100 jobless workers to the factory to apply for the jobs. The company declared in its Roosevelt ballyhoo statement th¢~ it would require the addition of some hundred employes. The workers who applied for jobs after this company “prosperity bally- were told to return several times. Finally they gave up in dis- hoo” Inflated expense accounts have come in for sharp criticism. gust. One worker is reported to have been hired out of the 100 “required.” Atlas Cement Co. “Employee Representatives” Defeated Workers “Elect Own Opposition Slate to All Seven Offices An election for Employees Repre- sentatives, part of the machinery of the National Recovery: (Slavery) Act took place a few days ago in the Hud~ son, N. ¥Y. plant of the Universal At- las Cement Co. In this election all seven of. the company’s candidates were defeated, and those running in opposition were elected by the workers, The Universal Atlas Cement Oo. is a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation. U.S. Steel is driv- ing through, in all its subsidiaries, a company union plan, by which seeks to completely control both the employers’ and employes’ end of the “industrial representation” feature of the Slavery Act. stance, have shown a tendency to rely on the treacherous officialdom of the A.F.L. for their control, but: U. 8. Steel seeks now to avoid even the A.F.L. form of unionism. ‘The steel company union plan was de- scribed in the Daily Worker of June © 22, as if applies in Tllinois Steel, other subsidiary of U. S. Steel. (See on page 3, reprinted, a photo- graph of the le. ment of Illinois Steel, announcing its company union). The company union plan for U. S. Steel subsidiaries provides for elec- tion, by complicated methods, con- fusing tothe workers, of one represen- tative for every 100 men in small shops and one for every 300 men in large shops. These representatives! codes made it} The workers of the Atlas Cement Co. are to be complimented on see- ing through the company union propaganda, and on_ recognizing the company union ‘employees’ rep- resentation plan” as a scheme of the management to prevent” their getting any real organization and having anything really to say about, the hours, wages and working con- ditfons. Blection of an opposition slate shows the fighting spirit of the man and their ability, even though unorganized and handicapped by language difficulties, to defeat the Other companies, in mining for in-, open agents of the company. But this is only the first step. Experience during the company union period of 1922-25 shows that the management always has things so rigged that the final word in ne- gotiations is with the company, either directly, under the consti- tution of the fake union, or thru some complicated arbitration ma- chinery. The workers’ ability to get their demands across, depends first and last on their ability to organize, to set up effective shop committees and a militant fighting union which is able to control tneir spokesmen, com- pany union or no company union. Against the determined organized mass of the workers, the company union legalities and trickery must quickly collapse. Without waiting even for shop or department meet- ings, organized groups must take form in every department. Indivi- dual workers should take the initia- tive, inviting reliable men, whom they know, to meeting places in private houses, forming groups as rapidly as possible, though perhaps small at first, and expanding quickly through- out the plant. As soon as a basis is secured department committees should be elected to direct the work, and may be relied upon.—Editor. | TO THE ATLAS CEMENT WORKERS | and to call department meetings. De- | partment organizations should elect representatives to a central shop committee, which will present its de- mands through the company union representatives only if necessary or directly by a workers’ committee to the management if circumstances make this at all possible. Before go- ing too far it is advisable for the workers to get in touch with the Trade Union Unity League, 2 West 15th Streei. The unions of the Trade Union Unity League will co-operate fully, with advice and with the solidarity of its organizations in other U. S. Steel subsidiaries. The Daily Worker prints on page 3 such information as is available at this moment on the finances and structure of U. S, Steel and the com- panies it controls. This information is from Labor Research Association (an- 1 musi have been one year in the r of the manage-, be recalled only by consent of the steady employ of the company, and must be American citizens. They can company ntrolled Committee on Rules. Uné@er the National Recovery (Slavery) Act, these representatives, meeting with the representatives of the company (who could get the men’s representatives fired any time they wish) will negotiate wage scales, within the limits set by the Act and under it, and negotiate! pany. working conditions, etc. How the Company Works | The company, needless to say, re- gards control of the men’s represen- tatives as very useful to’ it, and has things so arranged that it can gain this control at various stages of the game. First of all, the native born and foreign born are set aga! each other, through the citizenship clause. out possibilities of bribery through promotion, easier or better jobs, etc.,t to get the company slate elected. Once elected, the men’s representa- tives are as far as possible removed from control of the men. Meetings to instruct or revise the proposals made by the representatives are not encouraged. The representatives are nearly safe from recall if they work against the interests of the men em- ployed Secondly, during the elections, com- bosses exert pressure, and throw ; ; ‘The workers at Atian Gement, al- — @ Atlas Workers Should Now Build Their Shop ‘Organization though entirely unorganized, without organizational experience even, and largely foreign born so far saw thru the company union plan that in the elections just finished every one of the seven representatives elected was e Welfare | me time he confirms the report ppropriation made by Congress | subsistence This problem brings forward the primary necessity of usemployment insurance. The need of establishing some meatis, which should provide the elementary needs of the workers in the form of regular weekly pay- |ments. The Workers Unemployment Insurance provides these very needs. This new national relief cut should | add increased incentive to the cam- paign for federal unemployment in- surance. Mayor of Salem Moves to Bar Ann | Burlak from Strike SALEM, Mass., June 28.—The Massachusetts State Board of Ar- bitration is out to break the strike of 1800 textile workers of the Pequot Mills. Today Chairman Fisher of the State Board of Arbitration met with the Strike Committee, the U T. W. Local Executive Board and mill agents and tried to settle the strike on the basis of the Company plan of more speed-up. Mayor Bates has been instru- mental in getting the strike commit- tee to vote on the question of bar- ting Ann Burlak from their meet- ings, because it has turned public opinion against the strike” according ~ to Mayor Bates. The Strikers’ relief committee and the mass of strikers have not approved of this move of the Strike Committee, and continue to take advice from the National | Textile Workers Union. ‘The National Textile Workers Un- ion is ‘distributing a leaflet to the strikers. This leaflet answers this important question: “Who is pre- venting the settlement of the Pequct strike?” The leaflet declares that those who lare preventing victory for the strikers {are responsible for preventing the settlement of the strike. It reads in ‘If Mayor Bates wants to settle the strike, let him help you win your de- mands of no research. “He is trying to make the presence of Ann Burlak the main issue in this strike. This is not an issue. The main issue is to defeat the vicious research plan, which constantly re- duces your wages, piles more work upon you and then throws you out on the street. Public Opinion on Strikers’ Side “Mayor Bates has stated that the presence of Ann Burlak has turned public opinion against the strike. This is not true! There are two kinds of public opinion. There is the public opinion of the mill-owners, the bank- ers, and the city authorities, which are always against strikes, and which is particularly set against those work- ers who are helping to win the strike. There is also the public opinion of the masses of workers in other mills, fac- tories and organizations, of the small businessmen and storekeepers. All of these can be brought to support your | strike. | The feaflet proposes the following jaction to settle the strike success~ fully: “1. Open direct, negotiations be- tween a large representative strike |committee and the mill management, |to settle the strike on the basis of no research, and your other demands. “2. Continue mass picket lines at | the mill and the bleachery to prevent jany scabbing. Strengthen the strike during the negotiations, to insure yic- a man who ran in opposition to the| tory. slate proposed by the company and passed around by the bosses and com- pany suckers. Furthermore, in the course of the election, groups of the workers began to consider the possibility of instruct- ing and watching the actions of the elected employes’ representatives. At present they are agitating for meet- ings by departments and meetings of all workers in the whole shop, to con- sider the proposals of the represen- tatives and hear their reports. It is proposed that a demand for the right to hold such meetings be made at the first conference of the men’s rep- resentatives with the company repre- sentatives, Preparing The men foresee that. the company will probably plead poverty when the | wage negotiations begin, Some among them are anxiously enquiring when they can get the figures of Atlas Cement earnings. Some among them are looking toward the groups of workers organized in other U. 8. Steel subsidiaries, for advice and guidance, and particularly are enquir~ ing about the state of cher aeauae in Tilinois Steel, where the use pass ae seemed “3, Hold regular strikers’ meetings to inform everyone of all moves taken. “4. At all times keep the right of settling the strike in the hands of the mass of strikers only. Do not place your fate in the hands of the arbitration board.” Workers Thank Union for Leadership In Winning Paint Strike NEW YORK.—The following is the copy of a letter which the Alteration Painters’ Union Local No. 2 of Brownsville received after organizing and conducting a successful strike in a shop. “Please acacept our sincere thanks for the way pou handled the strike called against Mr. Samuel Leff. “The men in this shop worked for wages ranging from $3 to $5 per day. Open discrimination against the militants were the rule, “We hope to prove our apnrecia- ee | , S82 SMa Laer selon.