The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 27, 1933, Page 3

MURDERER OF JULIO MELLA, IN PAY OF MACHADO, GETS TEN YEAR TERM IN MEXICO Continual Mass Protests Since Slaying Four Years Ago Held Responsible for Conviction By JOSEPH FREEMAN Mexican newspapers arriving in New York report that the First Penal Court of Mexico has sentenced to ten years im- prisonment a Cuban named Jose Agustin Lopez Valinas for the murder of Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban Communist leader in 1929. The court explained the mildness of the sentence on the ground that Valinas was merely a tool in the hands of the real instigator of the crime, Jose Magrinat. One of the judges pointed *— out that the evidence directly BSE RSENS oat AB ae Se borated with Machado in preparing acts of provocation against Mella. | committees of unemployed members | Worker Sees Chance for Union Recruiting GREEN FORCED in State Job Bureau, T0 ADMIT FLOP | tl hve, ee ON EMPLOYMENT | at the New York State Employ- ment Bureau at 28th Street for many months. Other workers with ing there for over six months. Jobs The workers are becoming entire- | Than Was June ly. disillusioned. They understand | —- camps and the “Recovery” act and | of the obvious deepening of the crisis! see through the ballyhoo spread | Bill Green, president of the American around the fake “investigation” of | | busy with Roosevelt ballyhoo to the One worker accompanied me to | effect that workers are going back the Food Workers Industrial Union | © their jobs, is now compelled to ad- pes fui | employment gains.” A good deal of recruiting could| Further Deception of Members be done here by the unions. The| Local unions affiliated with na- vided into departments of the vari- | nected with the A, F. of L. have been ous trades. Each of these depart- | demanding to know when the “bless- ments should be visited daily by | 8s” of the “new deal” that Green | Green is forced to admit that July |Tammany Chiefs’ Sons -|Salesmen of the City’s bonds, osten- AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 27 , 1933 Page Three Get $15-§20 A Day | from Relief Funds NEW YORK, July 26.—The bright young sons of the Tammany lead- ers are cashing in handsom the City’s appropriations for lief.” It was disclosed today that many of the young Tammany sons are getting $15 and $20 a day as Te- sibly for providing relief to the job- tess. The son of Controller Berry was | promoted yesterday from $5 to $15 a day as a bond salesman. Five other salesmen were raised to $20 a day. Their names were not made public. Only a few of the City’s salesmen have been so favored, the majority still working for $5 a day.| The son of the Tammany former } Welfare Commissioner Coler is get- | ting $10 a day, | These high wages are paid to these Tammany beneficiaries regard- less of how many bonds they. sell. | APPROVE CODE PAN GOLD, SAYS GREEN TO MEN NOW JOBLESS Urges Gov't “Gift” of Shovel and Dishpan to Unemployed WASHINGTON, to unemployed wor! to go out into the barren hills, the deserts and waste-lands, among the “ghost towns” of Nevada, where during the gold rush period cities thrived, is the latest from Bill Green, president of 26.-—Advice |the American Federation of Laboy.| A certain Randolph Walker of Colorado, whose father was in the gold-digging business, proposed the scheme. It w approved by Green and has now been endorsed by some- thing that calls itself the “committee for establishing a free gold market in the United States.” ‘he proposals of the sponso: that state and federal agen S CO- “in- ~ WORKERS’ CODE {Workers Paying Over| | $36,000,000 a Y ear) |Under N. Y. Sales Tax ALBANY, tur f t y 26—The early r York State 1 per re fully up to > ssion The re-| DAIRY FARMERS SET TUESDAY AS ‘DATE FOR STRIKE | furns are running at the rate of over| evepare Biggest Fight | $36,000,000 @ year, he said |Yet Against Lehman’s | This t i all consumers 4 < jin the lothi | Milk Control Board | ture, ete. large 5. eae pee os ALBANY, July 26—Dairy farmers | The It De ‘mer me ned by nan, f strike next Tuesday ion of Governor Leh- 91 Board which has n to go on inst the dec: Milk Con high prices to the consumers 1 fixe | Gorert- Pan house of Lehman) the cities in order to aid the milk Nien | trust, while refusing to pay prices ie x a 1 per cent tax on| covering the cost of production to a ee | milk producers added to the price of the article.| en capital rts admit that a| The decision of farmers in the vi- x falls heaviest on the work-| JI consumers al ers and t cinity of Rochester and Syracuse to withhold milk from the market until demands for 45 per cent of the re- tail price are met is approved by farmers in all other parts of the state. The leaders of the Empire Producers’ with a membership of thousand, state that they implicated in the murder Fer- nandez Mascaro, who was Cu- ban ambassador to Mexico at the time Mella was killed by Machado’s agents. “I Die for the Revolution!” On January 10, 1929, a Cuban warned Mella that two paid assas- sins had arrived in Mexico City from Hayana and had visited the Cuban | embassy that very morning. Mella from the unions. Workers failing to get jobs month after month very readily understand the need of or- ganization and the need for unem- ployment insurance at the expense of the bosses and their government. —D. Richards. _I have been applying for a job! |Concedes That July Is whom I have spoken have been try-| Worse Month for the real import of the forced labor WASHINGTON, July 26—In face | Federation of Labor, who has been Morgan and Mitchel. where he joined the Hotel Workers | ™t that there “is a slowing up of bureau has six floors which are di-| tional and international bodies con- | supports may reach them, So now)/ | was a@ worse month for unemployment ; than June. | He tries further to deceive the| membership by praising the blanket code of starvation wages. He said: | “Union employment figures for July | come as a warning that business has operate in securing funds to struct” the men on how to dig gold | out of places that have been pillaged |of all the metal, supply them wit: outfits (which means a shovel and a 'pan) and turn them out to search | in places designated by the commit- IN SILK, RAYON, DYEING TRADES = | tee. for not less than 45,000 dairy |farmers. From Utica comes word that those in Central New York will | in stopping milk transportation. | PROPOSED BY The conviction of Valinas ends another stage in a political murder which for the past four years has agitated the Latin American world. There is every evidence that the Mexican authorities were from. the beginning aware that Mella was kill- ed by Machado's agents. They have postponed action until they are cer- tain that Machado’s position was weakened. * 19-Day Hunger Strike Julio Antonio Mella was already in his early twenties a leader of the Communist Party in Cuba. In 1927 he was arrested in Havana, charged with attempting to assassinate Ma- chado's predecessor as president. Mella went on a hunger sirike last- ing nineteen days. Working class demonstrations on his behalf in every country finally compelled the Cuban government to release him. His life, however, was threatened by Machado’s armed gangs, and he escaped to Central America. After great hardships he managed to reach Mexicg where he at once became active in the Communist Party. He was warned that his life was in grave danger, Half an hour later, Mella was walking down the street called Abraham Gonzalez with the well- known Communist artist, Tina Mo- dotti. From behind a fence, two men fired at him point blank. As Mella fell, he cried, “I die for the revolution!” He was rushed to the hospital, where he issued a state- ment saying he had been shot by two paid assassins of the Machado gov- ernment. Shortly afterward he died. Two days after Mella died, Mella clubs began to spring up all over Latin America and in the Ustin Am- erican colonies and in this country. These and other organizations have continued up to the present to agitate i against the Machado government for the Mella murder. The Communist Party openly ac- cused the Machado government of having organized the murder of Mella. It was well known that the Cuban secret service in Mexico City was headed by Jose Magrinat, and hoth the Communist Party and Tina Modotti charged him with engineer- ing the crime. | not been quick enough to reorganize itself under the recovery program. The President's general code comes | just in time.” Green, bu such decep- 2,000 OUT IN CAP | tive talk, tries further to paraiyze ac- WORKERS’ STRIKE &: of the workers against the Roosevelt program which manifests | itself more frequently in strikes. Officials Silent ‘On Week Work Demand NEW YORK.—Two thousand cap workers went on strike on Tuesday, following the call for a walkout is- sued by the Cloth, Hat, Cap and Millinery Union. Workers who expected that this strike would be a struggle for week work, for which the union members have voted by two to one in a re- ferendum a few months ago, were dis- appointed to find that Zaritsky and Herskowitz, the union officials, were silent on that subject. Militant rank and file workers, over the heads of the officials, have Don’t forget the Daily Worker Picnic at Pleasant Bay Park on July 30. Be there with all your friends! PART OF FINGER - CUT OFF BY PRESS Presto Lock Speedup Causes ‘Accidents By a Metal Worker Correspondent NEW YORK CITY.—Last week I described the conditions in the Presto WASHINGTON, D. C,, July 26.—| Codes for the silk and rayon dyeing and printing industry were approved | by President Roosevelt yesterday without any hearings and are to go into effect immediately. This is the first time that a code has been made legal without the pretense of a hear-| ing, and promises to set a precedent for future codes which will be rail- roaded through in a similar man- ner. The codes made effective by presi- | dential order will affect approxi- mately 30,000 workers, who have had nothing to say about the slave code under which they are to work. The code provides for a 40-hour week, with the provision that this may be extended to 48 hours. The minimum wages fixed are 45 cents for men and 35 cents for women. Members of the Labor Advisory Board who have al-j| ways declared their support of “equal | pay for equal work” have not raised any protest against this discrimina- tion. . 1,200 EVICTED IN MONTH IN BRONX Will Grow in Winter Predicts Court Clerk NEW YORK—Twelve hundred families are being evicted each month in the Bronx according to a report from John Monahan, acting court clerk. In the first and second district municipal courts im the Bronx, land- lords have filed 4,351 eviction actions since the Tammany decision to stop paying rent on July Ist, What can be expected in the winter months is estimated by the court clerk. He said,’You can imagine what the situation is going to be in the Bronx when four justices are sit~- ting every day,” where as now only one justice is sitting two days a week in each court during the vacations. ‘Landlord and tenant litigation this winter,” said Monahan, “will find be- the Work tion at w | were present, front for struggle on a mil | gram better the conditions of the towboatmen. Monthly minimum pay for licensed section as follows Deck mate, $150.a month; engin- eers, $225; captains, $235. Yearly guaranted income of $1,500, $2,250, and $2,350 for these three classifica- tions respectively. | Wages to be adjusted as prices rise; 10 per cent raise for all work- ers getting above minimum; 70 cents a day minimum food allowance paid jin cash to cooks to trade where they choose, subject to approval by the | crew; a rotary system of hiri un- der supervision of rank and file com- mittee; no blacklisting of workers for. union activity; the right to organ- ize into union of workers’ own choice, and the rgiht to strike. | to WHAT’S ON | _N YORK—The rank and file Rousing Meetings te Prepare } opposition in the towboatmen’s un- ten. Hae acne: Sey’ aceon? Deep unrest among the whole farm 4 population is seen in the meetings being held in every town and village in the dairy farming sections of the state. Local leaders are springing up and there is every indication that this strike will far surpass anything that ever occurred among the farmers. Besides the bigger association that is concentrated mostly in the north- ern pa there are springing up county ganizations all the way down to Albany and below for ap- proximately fifty miles. Prepare Strike-Breaking Machine The Milk Control Board, an agency of the dairy trust which was created to maintain and increase high mono- poly prices to consumers and to force low monopoly prices to producers sc that the dairy trust could rake in enormous*"profits, threatens to use all the means of coercion at the hands of the state government to try to smash the strike. With the legislature in session st Albany, however, the farmers feel that they can bring pressure enough to bear on members of the state as- sembly from the farm districts to constantly aroused the hatred of the Cuban government by the publica- tion of his magazine “Free Cuba,” and by his attacks on Machado in “1 Machete.” central organ of the Mexican Communist Party. “Cuba Libre”—Free Cuba—was a small ma- It Press Shielded Machado The reactionary Mexican press, on the other hand. attempted to shield Machado. It insinuated that Tina Modotti was involved in the murder, trying to make it appear that it was a crime of passion. Nevertheless, the evidence against Magrinat was sufficiently. strong to compel the printed on thin paper. was smuggicd into Mexico. Machado Sought Extradition already organized demonstrations. At the scab shop, the Good Value, at 4th Street, a demonstration of 150 workers, among whom left wing workers were prominent, was held Tuesday. This was attacked by the police, and one worker was arrested, but an even larger demonstration followed yesterday, helped by mem- bers of the United Hatters’ Union, with the result that half of the 100 Lock Co, During this week some new things have been happening in the shop. Every week accidents are happen- ing. Due to the speed-up, on Tues- day, July 25, in the Power Press Dept. a worker cut a piece of his finger off. The workers are talking organiza- tion and some of them are organiz- ing. The boss, Mr. Levin, smells some- thing is going on. In order to keep Hyman, Powers to Report Tomorrow, To Describe Hearings on Cloak, Ship Codes NEW YORK.—A mass meeting of tween 3,600 and 4,000 families evicted every month.” Since the first of the year 28,050 eviction actions were filed while in the same period last year there was 20,150. At this rate there will be more than 60,000 evictions in the Bronx by the end of the year. TWO MORE SHOE Thursday WORKERS’ SCHOOL SUMMER TER: opens this week. Registration 1s accept ek for any course before its firs at the school office, Room 301, 35 E. 12th St. | Special 20 per cent sale on all books and pamphiets, now going on im ALL SEC- TION heada' sale open to all individual work: s. Office Workers make them fear for their seats at the elections next year. The Tammany gang that dominates the Lehman ad- ministration is alarmed at the turn of events and is trying to prevent the matter coming up in the special session of the legislature, | Preparing to Attack Farmers emple, 242 E. 14th The Cuban dictatorship made sev- eral eatiempts to stop Mella’s acti- vitics in Mexico. Machado sent en- voys to negotiate. for his extradi- tion to Cuba. High Cuban officials visited Mexico and bestowed the highest decorations of the Cuban government on. Mexican officials in an effort to obtain Mella’s expulsion from the country. In addition, the Machado regime tried to inflame the backward masses against Mella by circulating the false charge that at a demonstration he had torn up a Cuban flag. The Mexican ambassador in Havana ap- ologized for this “incident’—which never took place—and promised that Mexican authorities to arrest ~him. He was, however, released and im- mediately fled to Cuba. In 1932 a woman informed the Mexican police that her lover, Jose Valinag,: who had ‘threatened® to Keil her. was one of the two killers of Mella. She added that he carried out the assassination in complicity with Jose Magrinat and the Cuban am- bassador Fernandez Mascaro. Her denunciation led to Valinas’ arrest and conviction. The trial established the fact that from the day of Melle’s murder in 1929 until Valinas’ arrest in 1932, Va- linas received regularly fifty dollars a month from the Cuban embassy the workers from organizing, he is telling them that he will raise their wages, according to the Blanket Code. But what really is happening today is more speed up. He wants to lay off higher. paid men and hire new ones at lower wages. The prices are cut on piece rates. Workers in the Presto, organize in your department. Draw up your own code. Demand to be paid for waiting time. Mr. Levin would not give you a raise. You know him better than , that. The only way we will get a dec- ent wage and shorter hours will be thseugh organization in your de- partment. Buy and read the “Daily Worker” and write for it. It is a workers’ workers in that shop joined the strikers and promised to picket to- day. Brooklyn Memorial for Zetkin, Stokes NEW YORK.—The merican Youth Club has organized a memorial meet- ing for Clara Zetkin and Rose Pas- tor Stokes to be ‘held Friday night, 8:30, at the club's headquarters, 407 Rockaway Avenue in Brooklyn. ‘The main speaker will be Max Be- dacht, men:ber of the Central Com mittee of the Communist Part; all workers has been called by the Trade Union Unity Council for to- morrow (Friday) at 8 p.m. to hear the report of Louis Hyman,, presi- dent of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, and George Pow- ers, organizer for the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, on the code hearings in Washington. Hyman will describe what went on at the hearing on the cloak code, at Which he presented the demands of the cloakmakers, and Powers will tell about the shipbuilders’ code hearing. at which he presented the shipyard workers’ demands. Developments in the strike strug- gles to enforce these demands will STRIKES ARE WON NEW YORK.—Workers at the Lipp Shoe Co. and the Strassburger Shoe Co. won their strike, under the lead- ership of the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union, when the boss agreed to an immediate wage increase rangimg as high as 25 per cent. Both strikes lasted only half a day. The Shoe and Leather Werkers Industrial Union has called a mass meeting for tonight at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Street and Irving Place, to endorse the revised code for shoe will follow t: Julius ¢ in will lecture “The New| Deal Contrasted with the Second Five Year Plan 110th Side ” West Side Meeting. House, 550 West | St. (near Broadway). Auspices West ‘anch F.S.U. Admission 10 cents. | on} T. ical No. 6 lecture, the National Industrial Recovery Act in| the Carpenter Local 2090, 247 E. sith St.,| 8 pm. Brother Ross will be main speaker. | He will also report on the Conference| Against the Recovery Act. Friday Zetkin, St Youth Club, 407 Mass Megting of Bookbinders, and Unorganized to discuss the Memorial at Rockaway Ave., American Brooklyn. Organized Bookbind- ing, 8 p.m., Labor Mass meeting of Unorganized Pri | Already the Lehman administra- Fi taka tase te viene Pibans 10 | tion, through its Milk Control Board, and 15th Street, at 8 p.m. | is issuing lying statements trying to “The Art of the Motion Picture,” subject| brand the farmers as outlaws because of a lecture by Ben Maddow at’ the Pen} they demand a fair price for their and Hammer, rest 2ist St. Open Foru produce. Invites Arrest to Get Food NEW YORK, N. Y.—Interrupted while digging a deep hole in the Cen- tral Park lawn yesterday, Frank Guirassick, 29, unemployed and home- less restaurant worker, told Patrol- man John T. Fitzgerald that he was trying to get arrested. He was taken to the Arsenal Station where the ma- gistrate gave him a choice of $10 fine or three days in the workhouse, “I want to eat and sleep,” the pris- corrective action would be taken. ‘Thus the Mexican government colla-|in Mexico City. There will also be a cultural program. Paper. also be taken up at that meeting. workers, ers Code, Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th st.| Oner said, “I'll take the workhouse.” Not Jobs, But Coolie Wage Standard a © Rising Strike Wave Shows Workers Can Win Higher Wages Against Bosses’ Program of Low Living Standards OOSEVELT reports that tens of thousands of exploiters are responding to his radio speech, opening the war-time drive for the blanket (slavery) code, Certainly every boss understanding the real meaning of Reosevelt’s speech can respond because he feels that the crux of the Reosevelt “recovery” program is an effort to drag capitalism out of the crisis through a smashing attack against the entire working class, em- ployed and unemployed. The “New Deal’ president had a lot to say in his broadcast, but boiled down, the significance of the speech to the workers lies in the Roosevelt program on wages and unemployment. Mr. Roosevelt said his “plan does raise wages, and that it does put people back to work.” The gist of Roosevelt's speech, and the point that the capitalist press harps on and rep2ats again and again is that there is no need for giving relief to the unemployed because Roosevelt will supply jobs. The army of 17,000 unemployed have no business asking for relief. In fact, Fed- eral relief is being cut and will be cut more. There is no necessity in struggling for unemployment insurance. Mr. Roosevelt promises millions of joks, At the same time Roosevelt yelps about economy. He is relieving the bosses of taxes. He pointed the way himself by being the first great wage cutter, slashing the wages of federal workers on the lying ground that the cost of living was decreasing. He began helping the bosses by cutting veterans payments by $500,000,000, Roosevelt points to the 350,000 unemployed youth who were driven into the reforestation camps at $1 a day as an example of “raising wages,” and putting people back to work. But he does not say what a tremendous gain this was to the parasites by cutting the relief of the families of these youngworkers, actually leaving the bosses millions of dollars ahead at the expense of these starving families, speaks about “a universal agreement.” Where did this agreement come from? Who originated this universal coolie level for the American workers? The universal agreement arises out of the slave codes in the textile industry, that has driven thousands out of jobs. It comes from the offices of Morgan & Co., from Mr. Swope of the General Electric Co., it comes from the agreement with the A. F. of L., that is not at all hidden by their sham opposition to the codes. The universal agreement is approved by the socialists with their sham left opposition to the “recovery” act but with their statements to the workers that Roose- velt’s “New Deal” offers them golden opportunities to gain wage increases, He talks about the $3,000,000,000 public works building program as a solution for unemployment. This is the boldest swindle of all. Here he tries to sneak in the greatest war building program ever undertaken by Wall Street since the last World War as a remedy for unemployment, Mr. Roosevelt knows this needs some explanation, because the work- ers are beginning to seet hrough these war preparations. “First,” he, says, “We are using the utmost care to choose labor-creating, quick-acting, useful projects.” In. the original act, something was said about slum- clearance and building workers’ homes. But when it comes to spending $3,000,000,000,' the first to get hundreds of millions were the army and navy. The navy got $238,000,000 for warship building—‘quick-acting, useful projects” for capitalism which is preparing to explode the country out of crisis by war. Hundreds of millions more will go to the navy and army. But mighty few jobs will be created for the workers, The bulk of the money will go into the pockets of the rich munition manufacturers. Hea cs pee ents cecil only La brgene dc may to mun - rr construction—a good lon of which the city politic! will stick in their it as 8 uf ee UT Roosevelt doesn’t specify his inflation forced rise in production, as ® means of raising wages and putting men back to work, And for a ak a By LIMBACH very good reason. : The most palpable result of the Rooseyelt inflation program has been a tremendous rise in the cost of living—acting as a direct wage cut to the entire working class. Roosevelt keeps ominously quiet about the rising cost of living, the rise in bread prices, which he ordered, the rise in milk prices, the rise in meat prices, the rise in clothing prices. | The workers should not forget that the slave codes in the various | industries, as well as the blanket code, are designed to reduce the num- | ber of workers necessary in industry regardless of rises in output. This | is being done by speed-up and by the elimination of workers as well as | through lower wages and the universal coolie level. All this is done to | permit the capitalists to increase their profits by the double acting attack | on the living standards of employed and unemployed, . * * . gaps cular inflation Roosevelt has been able to force up production in certain lines, but as the Daily Worker has proven time and again, and as the capitalist press admits, this took place with a great lag in employment and in payrolls. This is the result of the slave codes. The bosses are increasing production without increasing employment. The very rise in production is leading to overproduction and deeper crisis. A symptom of this coming deepening of the crisis was the stock crash, ba a ea downward trend in production will throw millions more out worl Not new jobs for the unemployed is the real program of Roosevelt, but more unemployment and less relief. Roosevelt again gives us an example of what he means by “partner- ship of capital and labor,” by talking about wages and profits in the same breath. “If all of our people have work and fair wages and profits,” ig Baciyl “they can buy the products of their neighbors and business ‘Wages mean what the workers can get through struggle and profit what the capitalists get through the aid of their capitalist state in crush- ing down the workers’ living standard. Let's investigate the profits that Roosevelt talks about. By the attack on the railroad workers, continuing the wage slash of 15 percent he put $125,000,000 into the pockets of the railroad company stockholders—the big banks and insurance companies. General Motors Corporation, on the day Roosevelt made his speech, Teported an increase in profits of 800 per cent over 1932—a net sum of $44,000,000 in three months, Roosevelt's scheme was able to give the United States Steel | Corporation an additions, profit of $4,881,554 for four months of 1933. Despite the crash in the’ ‘ock market, the stock and grain gamblers, cleared billions through high. 2 prices that came out of the wages of the workers. Profits have gone up in spite of the tremendous crisis, How was it possible with the admitted reduction in purchasing power to raise profits? ‘The increased profits were taken out of the very life blood of the workers, by the “universal” coolie level of wages and the rise in prices. The pro- fits have come out of the wages of the workers, out of the cut in un- employment relief, out of the cut in veterans payments—out of increased prices that have reduced the standard of living. They are piling up cash surpluses, i Seventeen million unemployed cannot be fed by promises of illusory jobs. Three million jobs are promised for the summer time, but that flops, and now 6,000,000 jobs are promised for the sweet bye and bye. What must we do to get relief. We must create a fund, taken from the bosses’ profits, from the war funds, from levies on the capitalists’ income to guarantee a living to the unemployed and their families. How can this be done? Through a straggle for unemployment insur- anee, through forcing the capitalists to provide unemployment insurance. The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, around which the strug- gle for social insurance is rallying, demands that unemployment insur- ance be paid to all workers, without discrimination, of not less than $10 weekly for adult workers, and $3.00 for each dependent. It points out specifically that: “Insurance at the exp2nse of the employers and the government—that the full funds for unemployment insurance shall be raised by the government from funds now set aside for war preparations and by taxation upon incomes over $5,000 a year.” nee fig NONE OOSEVELT’S speech is delivered because the bosses already see the | rising wave of strikes and other struggles. In Salem, Reading, and | other places, the textile workers struggle against the code and slave | conditions and low wages. The steel workers in Buffalo, Michigan, in | Gary, Indiana have rejected the slave codes and are organizing against it. It is against this mounting tide of struggle that Roosevelt directs his sharp threats, “Thi is no time to cavil or question the standard set by this uni- versal agreement,” he warns the stee) workers, the coal miners, the tex- nd Jobless Relief Cut Is the Roosevelt Plan | Answer to Roosevelt’s Starvation Program | Should Be Broad Mass Movement for Jobless | Insurance and Immediate Relief attain these rights” (certain unnamed rights the workers are supposed to have). j The A. F. of L. is co-operating with the bosses to put over the univer- sal coolie level and the fight against unemployment insurance. The socialists who greeted the industrial slavery act as a new deal offering golden opportunities, despite their left critical phrases about its dangers, ; attempt to head off the struggles in order to give the bosses an oppor- | tunity of gettting out of the crisis. | Only the Communist Party and the revolutionary trade unions are leading the struggle against Roosevelt's offensive against the working class. The chief attack against the slave codes in the textile steel, coal, gar- ment and shipbuilding industries came from the militant unions and oppoe sition groups affiliated with the Trade Union Unity Leasuc. The bosses have already in the struggles of the textile, coal and steel industries ex- perienced some defeates in their efforts to smash down the workers’ living standard, and fear a mass wave of such struggles. It is true that the struggles that have already taken place are only symptoms, They are not yet widespread. But the bosses have not mistaken the meaning of the resistance of the workers in the steel, coal and textile industris. It is to smash this resistance in the bud that Roosevelt threatens against “aggression’"—by which Roosevelt definitely means strikes for higher wages or mass pressure for unemployment insurance. * * * AN we compel the bosses to give relief and to stop wage-cutting—to raise wages to meet higher prices? Yes, we can. Roosevelt realizes the workers can do this. That is why he makes his threats. He knows that the bosses’ program is endangered by rising struggles. How can we compel the bosses to raise wages and give unemployment. relief? Through the most determined struggles, in which the revolu« tionary trade unions and the Communist Party take the lead in organ- izing the workers to resist the slave codes, to draw up and fight for their own demands, and through leading the struggles of the unemployed on the broadest front. In every shop, in every factory, mine and mill, the workers must bee gin now to resist, to organize their committees, their united fronts, their revolutionary trade unions to fight against the blanket slave code, to demand higher wages. In every block, in every house, we must organize against the cuts in relief, to build the widest movement for unemploy- ment insurance. The Roosevelt program shows clearly that mass stare vation will be intensified and only the most determined struggle for social insurance, for definite relief payments, at the expense of the ex~ ploiters who are coining new millions, can prevent the suffering and death of hundreds of thousands. RE is every possibility of winning the struggles against the bosses’ offensive. Wages can and are being increased through strike struggles, The unemployed can fofce more relief, can win unemployment ine surance. The very severity of the threats against the workers’ aggres~ sion, the appeals to the workers to keep quiet, not to question, not to demand, shows the fears of the bosses for the organized resistance of the workers. Roosevelt dreads another winter of mass unemployed struggles that may break through the bosses’ offensive. We can win on every front through a united struggle of the workers, through correct leadership, through penetrating the basic industries and preparing and leading strikes, through building a firm, broad movement of the unemployed, by developing the initiative of the workers—an initia- tive that is growing The answer to Roosevelt's program of a sharper offensive against the entire working class should be a mighty wave of resistance on all fronts, especially a determined struggle for higher wages and for unemployment tile workers, as well as the unemployed. “It is time for patience and understanding and co-operation... no aggression is now necessary to insurance.