The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1933, Page 3

TADIUM oC TEP ECG TAY Ia Philharmonic: hony Orchest Lewisohn Stadium, Amst. Av. & 138 al Marine Delegates Workers and Longsh' their constitution. ‘white delegates enthusiastically dis- jeussed demands, demands. which will | / form the basis for a fighting program | for longshoremen, harbor workers and | seamen. But delegate after delegate | / stressed the necessity for building f and strengthening the Union. “We} have got to build our union not only} to make demands but to be able to} fight for them,” declared one of the} | delegates, former member of Andy/ | Furuseth’s Union. He told how the| International Seamen’s Union was | financed and emphasized that funds | | must be raised to help build the union | | on a strong foundation. Codes for the longshoremen, the seamen and the harbor workers were proposed to the convention but the details are to be worked out in spe- cially elected committees. Thev were all concerned with the basic questions of guaranteeing a decent minimum wage scale, assuring a full year's w or unemployment insurence to ‘> workers and establishing decent work- ing conditions on the docks and ships. Special demands for Negro workers | are ineluded in all the codes. Provi~| sions for wage increases, for no more than an 8-hour day and a maximum week of 48 hours with @ guaranteed number of weeks work a year are con- tained in all the codes. Special Demands for Colonial | Workers A Negro delegate from Philadelphia | onial workers were presented today | calling for the right of colonial work- ers to all jobs, equal pay for equal work, freedom of shore leave and the establishment of committees of sea- men. A proposal for a Chinese issue of the Marine Workers Voice was also made. Negro delegates from Philadelphia spoke of the need for carrying on minor struggles to give the workers confidence in the union and which } will lead to bigger and more effective struggles. “The program we are adopting here must be put into life on the waterfront and on the ships,” he declared. Delegates From Many Perts Credentials of delegates revealed that 134 delegates are present from 10 ports. Delegates came from the Northwest, San Francisco, San Pe- dro, New Orleans, Savannah, Norfolk, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, with a good proportion of Ne- gro workers present. Ben Gold Speaks Ben Gold, secretary of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, addressed the convention, bringing \, greétings from the thousands of \ fighting needle workers. In recount- ing the experiences of the union in building a fighting organization ,/ Gold said: “We thought we would never learn the proper methods of approsch to the worlers, the proper forms of organization. But we put the united front policies into action and as soon as the workers saw firm leadership, militancy and organiza- tion they came in and fought. To- day we can show achievements as a result of struggle.” Gold concluded his speech, pledg- ing full support to the Marine Work- ers’ Industrial Union in their com- ing struggles. McHenry of the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born and Take Up Program for Seamen, }at the command of Lawless, the National Miners’ Union pre- Discuss Demands at the Convention Harbor oremen As Basis for C’ming Struggles; Discuss Constitution NEW YORK.—On the third day of the convention of the Marine Work- | ers’ Industrial Union, marine worker delegates from all sections of the | country were absorbed in the important questions of drawing up fighting | demands/for each section of the industry and in discussing proposals for | ) Representing most of the important ports in the peey ii and | Striker Describes Resolve to Continue, Despite the Police (By a Food Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY—We, the work- ers of the Hotel Commodore, being working for $5 wages, being given | the worst of foods, being insulted and | overworked with 10 to 12 hours a| day, decided to go on strike rather than stand the conditions to which we were subject. We are determined to win this strike. Last week we had a demonstration, | which was, as usual, broken by police, | we saw the result of it that same The opinion and sympathy of the passers-by was for us and besides many customers left the place that | same day, and others have been do- ing so ever since. Wednesday we had another demonstration, which ended just the same as before, but th’s time the manager of the hotel. At the moment that the workers began shouting our demands, the police ran their horses on the demonstrators and on the onlookers who were sympathizers, and he arrested a girl. We are certain that success will be ours this time, and that means a more decent living for us workers. The workers will support our strike, and here is ‘an example of a worker out of town, who sent relief money to the Food Workers Industrial Union for us: “I received the collection list for the Hotel Commodore strikers and I collected $5. It did not take me long to collect it. When I explained to the workers here that the man- agement is trying to force the work- ers to work for $5 a week, they were very glad to give some help. “At least if I cannot be on the picket line, I will try my best to collect money for the strikers. From heré T will ‘send some: ‘ammunition’ money to fight until you win. I challenge anyone to collect more than I. For a victorious end of the strike! Comradely, E. Rosen.” Let those hotel workers who did not act as yet towards relief take a lesson from this worker, and we expect them to act right away. Food will help us win the strike. F. [Editor’s Note: Money for the relief of the Commodore strikers should be sent to the Food Workers Industrial Union at 4 West 18th Street, New York City.) et greetings from nis organiza- on. After a report by Roy Hudson, secretary of the Union, on the fi- nances of the union the session ad- journed to take up questions con- cerning the constitution. The eve- ning session will be devoted to a dis- cussion of anti-war activities. The convention will. continue on Wed- nesday. AMUSE MENTS LAST TWO DAYS The DAILY WORKER sz. question . . . decidedly worth seeing.” “HORIZON” mo “BORN ANEW’ AMERICAN PREMIERE OF NEW SOVIET FILM “Interesting film on Jewish THE WORKERS CME THEATRE 4TH ST! UNION SQUARE Continuous from 2 AM, (THE WANDEKING JEW) Midnite show Sat. | "K0 Jefferson 1*h 3. * | Now na cake GEANT in “EAGLE an and the HAWK” Ant, FAST OF MARY HOLMES” wi LINDEN and HELEN MacKELLAR MUSIC Hans Lange, C EVERY NIGHT PRICES: 25e, 50c, $1.00. (Circle 7-757) ‘ISLAND OF DOOM” “MOSCOW TODAY” “FLAME OF PARIS” —Coming “STRANGE CASE OF TOM MOONEY” BEKO CAMEO}34, 37 Or aed and la eae eth Seams cl sroap in raising owe for’ the. 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Jackson, Negro idelegate to the 2nd National Con- | vention of the »M.W.I.U. had never heard of the union, The “line” he | had caught was a copy of the/| Marine Workers’ Voice. He picked | it up on the Savannah dock. It said: | “Unite behind the National Convention of the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union, which will be | held in New York on July 16, 17 and 18, Make it a convention of all marine workers to unite the strug- gle for better wages and condi- tions!” Jackson read other parts of the paper. It sounded good to him. Here was something he had been looking for. Seemed like a real workers’ organization. Six years ago Jackson had tried to organize the port. He failed. He tried several times since then. This time in the 2 weeks before the con- vention he found 300 Negro workers reaching out for the program of the militant M.W.LU. They organized, elected him president of their new local and sent him to New York as their delegate. “Another picture I want to draw’, Jackson continued in his report, “is that regardless of all other locals | with which I’ve had experience, like the International Longshoremen’s Association and the I.W.W. I picture the Marine Workers Industrial Union the mule and the wagon and all the others I picture as the bear, “Phere was a wagon load of ani- mals—the bear did not want to ride so we tied him around his neck with a rope and he pulled back, but that mule was still agoing. After a while he got tired and dragged and then jumped on the wagon. That is how it will be with all locals of the M.W. LU. All the rest will jump up on this wagon. Each time he mentioned the M.W. I.U. Jackson pointed to the red banners of the Philadelphia and Baltimore locals of the Union hung} together on the wall of the convention hall. Between the banners, pushed at a careless angle but very definite- | ly placed, hung a picture of Karl Marx. He shifted his notes easily from one hand to the other. There was no self-consciousness, he was amongst | his “own kind”—workers, He told of the miserable conditions the Southern longshoremen labor under. “Comrades”, Jackson said, conclud- ing, “I left my wife home with $2 to live on until I get baek. “Are you really going?” she said. I said, “I am not going, but I am gone, and here I am.” JACK SHAFFRON RELEASED NEW YORK.—The case of Jack Shaffron, militant leader of the Re- tail Dry Goods Clerks Union, who us @ line but the Marine Workers Industrial Union. the one to see the line caught on to it.” these words made his yeport as a @- Workers, ‘Sinking’, Reach Union Line DAVIS. _ of Savannah, Georgia, were overboard | sink and there was no one to chuck I happening to be leongshoreman of Savannah, who in Scottsboro Meet To Demand Freeing Of Anti-Fascists. NEW YORK.—At a city-wide dem- | onstration demanding the dismissal | of the Scottsboro cases, which will be | held by the I. L. D. New York Dis- | | trict at Union Square, Friday, 21, the frame-up of the two anti- fascist workers, Terzani and Palum- bo, will be made one of the central issues. ‘The demonstration is called to mo- bilize all forces to bear pressure against the lynch system that keeps the innocent Scottsboro boys in jail | despite the recent statement ren- | dered by Judge Horton admitting the Jack of evidence; that keeps Palumbo and Terzani in jail on a frame-up. Among the speakers, which include Ada Wright, mother of two of the Scottsboro boys, Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union, Robert Minor of the Communist Party, Ruby defense of the nine Negro boys, William L. Patterson National Sec- retary ILD, Ben Gold of the Needle Trades; Workers Industrial Union. Arturo. Gioyonniti. will speak for the | Anti-Fascist. Committee. An automobile parade from Har- | | Hosiery Mills are expected to go on lem to. Union Square will precede the demonstration. HATTERS REJECT BOSSES’ OFFER: NEW YORK. — Members of the United Hatters’ Union, Local No. 8 |of whom 2,000 are on strike for wage increases and improved work- ing conditions, yesterday rejected the bosses’ offer, reported by their union officials, of a price rate of 15 cents a dozen. The workers, at the | general membership meeting, voted to continue the struggle for 50 cents a dozen. Union officials in the strike com- mittee are hampering mass activity of the strikers, it is reported by the rank and file opposition movement in the locals. For example, it was said, at the strike committee meet- ing the proposal to hold a mass dem- onstration in the hat district was vetoed, and union officials are not active in fulfilling the workers’ de- mands for mass picketing. Louis Africk and Dick Humphrey, in par- ticular, are trying to stifle mass ac- was arrested for picketing at the Superior Silk Mill Store in Brooklyn, tion. July | Bates heroic witness in | Roy Hudson National Organizer 500 JOIN HOSE Morris Wickman Phil. Longshoreman Organizer AMERICAN, NEGRO AND WHITE AND FOREIGN-BORN Seamen, Longshoremen and Harbor Workers at the National Convention held at the N. ¥. local of the union, 140 Broad Street. ‘Electrical Wares, Framed by Inspector, | STRIKES AGAINST SLAVERY CODES SPREAD IN U.S. Albert Lannon j 3altimore Local (Daily Worker Staff Photo) | | | | | | | | | | | | (Daily Worker Staff, Photo) STEEL WORKERS STRIKE IN PHILA. Fined Instead of Paid WRITE DEMANDS PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 18.—Five hundred workers at the Cambria Silk | Hosiery Co. and the Sportwear Hos- jiery mills here walked out today, as | the strike spread in Eastern Pennsyl- |vania for increased wages, shorter thours, and~ the right to organize. Workers at the International Silk & strike in a day or two. Reject 40¢ an Hour For 30-Hour Week; | | | | WINGDALE, N. insane asylpm job is almost finished | here and a few hundred men will be |Jaid off soon. A dam job is opening | 25 and 50 men. | an hour and hand us the “New Deal” | 30-hour week. We are meeting and have decided to work only for $4 a day, and we are willing to take the 30-hour week on this basis. buying jobs on this work through Sixth Ave. job sharks in New York | City. We sent a letter to the Sixth Ave. Grievance Committee to spread the word that there is already over 200 workers in this section waiting on j this job. We will enforce the maintenance of the $4 a day’scale, because, if we | don’t, other jobs in this section will |cut wages. We can just manage to live here and send money to our fam- ilies as it is. We live in shacks and go home in the city over the week- ends. Demand $4 Per Day, —The big state} and will employ somewhere between) The boss intends to pay 40 cents} Some workers are being duped into} (By An Electricai Worker Correspondent) | PATERSON, W. J.—I took an elec- | trical job recently for $75 for rough) work onty. When I.was almost fin- ished. with my. work the. owner, be-| ing one of my own nationality, Ital-| ian, thought that I should do the} work for nothing. He asked me to also wire the garage for the same | $75, and tried to find all sorts of ex- cuses so that he would not have to} | pay me. After all the ground wiring was installed and inspected by the city electrical inspector, the owner or- dered his plumber to remove the} | water meter from the rear of the/ building to the front, also rewiring the grounding system. Upon the second inspection by the city, the job was found dangerous and defec- tive. I, being the one who did the job, was the one who had to get hit with an unjust fine of $25, which my wife had to borrow from my brother in} order to get me out of jail, after I | had spent a full day behind the bars.| I am asking the city to see that I/ get my $25 back. Besides I did not get the $75 from the owner on ac- count of the inspector's dirty trick. Trial | Postponed NEW YORK, K —Cases of the five women laundry strikers arrested Monday following a fight near Kelly | | | which they were attacked by scabs | of the Active Laundry, were post: | poned until Aug. 2. In the meantim: |the strikes in the Active and Mott | Haven laundries continue with in-| creased militancy * Federal Government. | code. CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE: The pace of production on the job to be decided by the workers af- fected. Restoration of full crews on all jobs, and of spell periods similar to 1929 working conditions. | Strict observance by the comipany of all safety laws. Safety appli- | ances on dangerous jobs to be des- ignated by the workers’ elected committees. Old-age pensions equal to two- | thirds of regular wages for all work- | ers 25 years in the industry, full cost to be paid by the company and No hiring of workers under the | age of 16, All now working at that | age or less to be taken off the job, | given schooling and maintained at | the expense of the Government. At least two 15-minute rest periods per turn for all workers under eighteen, exclusive of Iunch period, at com- pany expense. Same for female workers, regardless of age. Sanitary | Surroundings and facilities and constant medical supervision for all female workers, Abolition of compulsory company insurance and all “welfare” and “charity” collections inside the plants by the company or outside | agents. The right of all workers to as- semble, strike and picket without company or government interfer- | nee, for an ever higher standard of ng. | mal steel workers are urged to dis-| their fellow workers, organize com- ittees to formulate the specific de-| mands for their mil and to take| part in the delegations to Washing-| ton for the hearings on the steel| By L. ‘SISELMAN. Tt was about 7:30 in the morning. | A picket line of striking furriers sur- rounded the building at 333 Seventh Ave. As a Lincoln car rolled up in front of the building, a detective emerged from the car, followed by two young men. They took out signs from the car which read, “There is ‘The Bosses’ Union ‘This is an actual picture of how the bosses, police and Socialists work in hand as_ strike-breakers business of the ‘Joint bp iger} and the business of the turers Associa pe and A. F. of L. Officials "penncrite As Fur Department of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union Prepares Own Code - Bosses, Cops, Socialists Join Hands As Fur Strike. Breakers ® of Militant Demands to N.LR.A. Board so-called “union.” Mr, Pike even looks over the books of the A. F. of L. “union,” and checks up the expendi- tures. Never before has an A. F. of L. union, in the city of New York come out so openly, working with the bosses and police as in this case. Why did the bosses engage the Socialists to aid them in this fight against the furriers? The bosses know that dur- ing the five years.in which the A. F. of L. and the Socialist leaders were in power with the aid of the bosses, Police and the underworld, these racketeers actually destroyed the con- ditions of the workers in the shops, and did away with the 40 hour work week which the furriers won in the glorious strike of 1926. They have increased the contracting and sub- contracting evil in the trade, lowered the wages to far below the minimum scale and in many cases in half. ‘The workers were left completely at | the mercy of the bosses. The bosses’ aim is to destroy the militant class-struggle union of the furriers which is part of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. The bosses know that such a union as the furriers’ fights for the inter- ests of the workers in the shops. They know this from experience. The bosses know that they are forced to pay to the Unemployment Insurance Fund, where the workers administer it. This is the only union which has established such a fund, The bosses also know that during the months from September, 1992, till May, 1933, 7 the Fur Department of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union has collected nearly $32,000.00 in back pay that the bosses did not pay to some workers, for overtime or when the bosses paid below the minimum scale, Even now in the slack period, during the months of May and June the union has held 105 shop strikes, has collected over $3,000.00 in back pay from the employers for the workers, has held over 500 shop meetings and is on the job to defend every interest of the workers in the shops. The Union’s Code At present, the Union is preparing its code to the Industrial Recovery Act Board and it surely means busi- ness. The Union demands a 35 hour week in the season; a 30 hour week in the slow period; a minimum scale ranging from $51 a week for the cut- ters to $38 a week for the finishers; in seasonal period; no contracting; and the right of the workers to strike. Trades Workers Industrial Union will with them and the agreement will have to be enforced. They also know that if the workers in the fur indus: try will be able to force the employers to live up to the agreements made ey h the code, then the workers in wel as in other industries will realize that only through militant action and the building of militant organizations will they be able to safeguard their 4 a 20 per cent raise for the workers} The bosses know that the Needle! make no supplementary agreement) her branches of the needle as} standard of living against the con-| stant rise in the prices of commo- ‘dities, against company unionism, and for the workers’ right to belong to a union of their own choosing and the right to strike. Socialist Party, A.F.L. Officials \ Desperate ‘The Socialist Party, A. F. of L. lead- | ers and the bosses are running wild. | They feel their defeat and they are getting more desperate from day to day. Eighty per cent of the shops) | which were on sirike, where the bosses | tried to force the workers to Cineartvel in the scab council, have already se; tled with the Industrial Union. \e injunction which the Manufacturers) Association together with the scab} council lawyers took out “against” the association, did not work. The judge| ‘on the bench wes forced to recognize | that the union of the A. F. of L. | only on paper, and that the Fur De- partment of the Needle Trades Work-| ers Industrial Union controls the vast majority of the workers in the fur) industry. The judge had to give his | decision that the injunction really directed against the Industrial | Union and that the NTWIU is a bona fide union in the trade which controls the vast majority of ¢he workers in the trade. So the Union has a right to step into the case. | Not because of his own good will, | | did the judge give this decision but because of the struggles of the work- | ers on the picket lines, because of the convincing facts of thousands of shop i S| | meeting cards, petitions, etc. | furriers, So the due to their struggle have | again defeated the “Socialist” strike | breakers and the bosses. But the fight | is not over yet. They will still try all kinds of maneuvers in their at- | tempt to destroy the Fur Workers Union. They will surely try to get the aid of the Roosevelt administra-| tors in the Slavery Act, they will again resort to underworld and police terror, but no matter what their plans | may be, the furriers have already| shown in action that they cannot be | defeated. They will fight! In this fight, the aid of all work- ing class organizations, the solidarity of the entfre revolutionary working class movement is needed. It is a struggle for the right of workers to belong to a union of their own choos- ing. It is a struggle to uphold the independent working class character of the trade unions. It is a struggle for the defense of the trade union} against fascist attacks. It is a strug- gle for the union conditions in the shops to safeguard the standard of the living of the workers. It is a covery no | tions, | out that marked recovery (slavery) code of the cotton | mills, which the silk mills have also | adopted. found were cut when the 55 hour | ating 154 looms, the boss to come across with a 10 per cent increase in wages. |MASS PICKETI 1/150 Out in Steel Mill; Walkouts in Cotton, Silk Plants Strikes in industrial centers throughout the country are spreading as the workers see in actual practice that the re- code means in wages or (slavery) real increase betterment of working condi- but is on the contrary being used by the bosses in their campaign to deprive the | workers of the right to orga- nize and struggle for better conditions. The latest reports of the strikes | include the following PATERSON SILK WORKERS FIGHT SLAVERY CODE. PATERSON 150 workers in on , July 18.—Over Ik mills here went strike today, the first day the introduction of the The workers walked out when they that their piece work wages a week that they worked were shortened to 40 hours. At the Commercial Silk Co., oper- a walkout forced | STRIKE AGAINST SPEED- |UP IN NEW BEDFORD NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 18. —The spinners and carders of the Hathaway mill went out on strike yesterday when they found that the imposition of the recovery (slavery) code meant for them only an in- crease in work of 20 to 100 per cent. Strike sentiment is also strong in other mills here. Twenty sides were yesterday given to the spinners to run, whereas last week 12 sides were the usual number. Leaders of the United Textile Workers, who persuaded these work- jers, as well as the workers in the other mills here, to return to their jobs when they struck against the | increased speed-up, are again busy trying to get the workers back into the Hathaway mill before their de- | mands are won. The strikers, how- jever, have elected their own com- | mittees. The weavers in the Pierce Mill got a “new deal” yesterday when a large number of them were fired and the work of the remainder was doubled up. Before the weavers on box looms worked three looms, now they have to run six. Those working on plain looms have their work increased from six to eight looms. The auto- matic loom weavers have to run 16 looms now. In the past they worked on 12. The weavers in the Nashawena and Wamsutta mills walked out last | week for an increase in wages and fewer looms. Both strikes were settled in workers favor through their own strike committee. Batty, the local labor misleader, was booed down at both of the mills, and told to “beat it.” tee WaT SWELLS |READING STRIKE RANKS READING, Pa., July 18. — Mass picketing today stopped an attempt j and Intervale Aves. in the Bronx, in| cuss these demands in the shops with! {¢ open the Dexdale Hosiery mills, at Lansdale, one of the mills closed by the strike of over 13,000 workers in this area. Mass picketing at other milis added to the ranks of the | strikers, especially in the suburbs, Police were mobilized at the Der- dale plant, and Burgess E. K. Bean, | invoking an ancient law, ordered the piekets to keep 50 feet away from the mill, but the pickets disregarded the order, swept the cops aside, and kept | the plant shut. Meanwhile the mayor's committee, which includes Emil Rieve, president of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, is con- tinuing its secret session, in the hope of satisfying the manufacturers that misleaders like Rieve can be trusted to keep down wages if the mills recog- nize the union. That point, and not any question of the slavery code star- vation pay, is the only thing being discussed at this conference. At the end of the session, it was decided to send an appeal to William Green, president of the American Fed- | eration of Labor, asking him to make a statement on the definition of the closed shop under the code. statement is still being awaited. Trotsky Again Visits Europe; This Time on Permit by Mussolini ROME, Italy, July 18.—The Mus- solini government has granted Leen Trotsky permission to come to Italy. | Announcements are that he wants te leonsult doctors about his wife's {health and that she will afterwards in Corsica. Trotsky left the struggle for the right to strike. Every working class organization must rally to the support of the fur-| riers, to render financial aid, which | rest is of the most important need at| island of Prinkipo last night, with this time; in order to feed the strik-| his wife and five bodyguards for This is his sec- ers, the unemployed; to combat these frame-ups made by the Socialist pro yocateurs with the aid of the bos: and police. Only last week, they ar. rested Jack Schneider and other mil- itant workers of the Union who ar Marseilles, France. | few months. proved to the capitalist and fascist governments that he could be relied held under $25,000 bail. The workers’| upon to aid them in the conspiracies organizations and trade unions must) against the Soviet Union and in rally to the defense of the mt the [stag attempts to cripple the macs | tionary trade unions and defeat the! struggle against fascism in capitalist “socialist” strike breakats ‘countrie