The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1933, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1953 Fage hice H. H. Broach Resigns As PARTIAL VICTORY U.S. Ambassador Welles, Machado (QNTINUED LAY-OFFS GIVE Electrical Union Head WON BY HATTERS Plot to Crush Struggles of Workers ||F }Q ‘JOB GUARANTEES’ ‘AS STRIKE ENDS : “OF EMERGENCY R. R. ACT Feared Exposure by Rank and File of Connec- | Coordinator Eastman Forced to Admit Nothing . tion With Godel Murder In Act Provides Against “Dismissals” NEW YORK.—The hatters’ strike ended last week with a partial victory | for the 2,000 strikers, who retudn ta | work today and tomorrow. The} workers have received an increase to | 35 cents per dozen. The original de- | By SPARTACUS NEW YORK.— H. H, Broach, president of the International Brother- hood of Electrical Workers since 1929 resigned from office last week. Broach. mand was for 50 cents. anneunced that his resignation was due to a nervous and physical break-| Two hundred and fifty workers of | down. The real reason for his resignation lies.in his fear of the exposures of ; Shops that were unorganized before | the organized opposition of the rank and file members of Local 3, which | the strike are still out. | i Ne ens Ae Oot | The percentage increase is from 15 link him up directly with the recent # to about 30 per cent for the finishers | In the face of the frank statements of Coordinator Eastman it is be- coming increasingly difficult for the railroad brotherhood chiefs to keep ay cause he was an active fighter in the rank and file opposition movement against the Broach machine. } Broach started out as an I. W. W., and capitalized on this connection to pose as a progressive in the labor movement. As head of Local Union number 3, the largest local in the Brotherhood, he soon built a strong machine bolstered up by gangsters, Tammany police and the building bosses and became undisputéd ruler over the union. Any expression of opposition by the rank and file .was crushed by terror, gangsterism, mur- der, acid throwing and the institu- tion of the black list. “Any one against us or suspected of being against us will be thrown out of their jobs and kept from working,” he told members of the union. Some time ago, members of local 3 brought suit against the officials Durine the trial it was revealed thar | Broach had given twenty-seven $500 bills to Dist. Attorney Crain when he was judge to get 2 fake injunctions | against the old cficers of local 3 in| order to oust them and gain control! of the union. | Officials of the local are said to have | squandered $8,000,000 of the members’ | money. Broach is listed as having an income of $390,000. Although Broach has been respon- sible for murder and terror in the local, his resignation has not wiped out the nest of racketeers and cor- rupt officials which he has left be- hind him. The rank and file of the union will not stop until its work of cleaning up the union of graft, ter- rorism and murder is completed. We are working to win the whole membership to a struggle for low dues, unemployment insurance, re- duction -of officials’ salaries to the same amount as the members earn, democracy in the union, rank and file control and other measures af- fecting the welfare of the member- ship. gangster killing of Henry Godel, be- } | (men, Local 8, United Hatters of N.} | A.) and from 10 to 20 per cent in- | crease for trimmers (women, Local 7). | The shops that have not settled yet are those that were unorganized | before the strike. The demands of those workers are an increase of 75 | cents on the 50 cents per dozen that GANGSTERS SENT TO BREAK PA. NEW YORK.—One hundred se-| to work, voted, on a motion made by venty five thugs and professional| members of the opposition group in gangsters have been secretly sent to| Local 8, that half of the shops re- Pittsburgh in the attempt to smash | turning to work should start work- | the strike of the miners who are, ing at a later hour each morning in} | order to help in the picketing of the out in Western Pennsylvania, |o Aes Sea ith i ve Shops that have not settled, while This is part of the general move | half should stop work all over the country to smash the| the other ' rising strike wave ty alas terroristic | earlier and picket in the ev pa: methods against the strikers. State | pe Police, the national guatd, and, es- pecially, professional thugs and strong | arm men to act as deputy sheriffs, are being mobilized to force the Slav- ery Act on the workers. The company sending these men to Pittsburgh to act as mine guards and deputy sheriffs is the “Railroad Audit and Inspection Company” under the direction of Whitney (“Boilermaker”) Williams. This com- pany has offices in the Garnd Cen- tral Terminal Building ingNew York City, the Commonwealth Building in Pittsburgh, as well ag offices insev- eral other large citica ‘The financial backers of this com- pany is the Brown Brothers Bank- ing Corporation in Philadelphia. It has engaged recently in several other large “operations,” including the Follinsbee, W. Virginia strike, the This will be continued until shops are settled. The opposition group in the union was active throughout the strike, pointing out to the workers that they | can win their demands only if they | stand united and put up a militant | fight. Many times the officials of the union were forced to give in to mo- tions and proposals made by the members of the opposition group and favored by the workers. This was the case in the motion to declare a general strike, to elect a strike committee, to hold a demon- stration, and in the admission of the Officials that their policy against inass picketing had to be discarded. Naturally, while coming out in favor of these proposals under pressure of the membership, the officials followed a line of sabotage, such as the dem- onstration which they refused to hold in spite of the fact that the over- street car strike in New Orleans. According to the latest reports 10,000 miners are on strike in the| coal region near Pittsburgh. State police have been rushed to the rée- gion to aid the thugs in breaking the strike. Reports have come in that pickets have been shot . down and that a general campaign of ter- ror is being organized against these workers striking against the slavery whelming majority voted for it. They also tried to use the strike committee as a rubber stamp. The aceptance of the 35 cents in- crease per dozen took place Friday. The opposition pointed out that the entire 50 cents demand could be won if the workers remained on strike a little longer, pointing especially to the fact that the bosses were con- stantly weakening, which was shown in their offer of a 15 cents increase Wound Fifteen SANTA CLARA, Cuba, July 30.— A demonstration of unpaid teachers, demanding more than a year’s back pay, was fired upon by o detach- ment of Cuban soldiers and police, wounding 15 of the demonstrators. Fur Dyers Ready terms of the “Recovery” code. é The large crowd had gathered in front of a thertre which the au- thorities had forbidden them to use as a meeting place. Cuban teachers arrested during a demonstration In Havana before the newspaper El Paris for payment of their back salaries are shown being loaded into patrol wagons by Machado’s soldiers. ‘US. ADMITS OPEN INTERVENTION IN CUBAN REGIME Official Statement of the government.” This flatly contradicts the state- | ment of Welles made a few days ago | that his direct intervention in the Cuban government was a “spontan- eous and personal” affair. | It also gives the direct lie to the | statement made before the Cuban |Senate by the bloody President of | Cuba, Machado that Welles’ inter- | ference was the act of an individual, | up the fraud that every railroad worker employed in May is guaranteed his job. “Nothing in the Emergency Railroad absolute protection to railroad work-¢ ers against furloughs or dismi by individual railroad said Eastman in an offic from his Washing This statement wa because he complaints of 1 from i ie road have been fired since the Emi Transportation Act went into ef June 1. The restrictions “do not any lawful action vidual carriers or by carriers joint which does not result from any thority conferred by tk | ing to Eastman (our i | Perhaps it is no accid ald Richberg, former t Don- for the |r rotherhoods ud pro- claimer of labo: vi ies” in the | Coordinator Bill, is no longer with |the brotherhoods, now that the bill |is being interpreted for the benefit | of the roads. In the “transfer of jobs” | from labor counsel to counsel for the | Industrial Recovery Administration | at $12,000 a year, Richberg is well taken care of, especially since ran | and file revolt the brotherhoods jis cutting salaries in these organi- | | zations. (The Engineers last week cut | Joh ’s sdlary from $15,000 to} | $10,000 a year and assistant grand | | chiefs ‘from $8,500 to $6,000). Eastman’s statement comes at the | time that Labor, official railroad bro- | therhood weekly, features the cases | | The Transportation Act provided for no additional forces. The Penn- ia increased freight revenue by $3,000,000 in June, but while it spent $22,000 more in that month to keep up equipment, it spent $24,694 less ng up its trackage. In other he roads are able to handle increases of from 25 to 40 per t without increasing payroll costs. union leader like Secretary 0 make the men y channels of is. strikes, are not pos- vicious and increas- Mediation Used Against Workers With strikes banned and all dis- putes goi mediation, the report of the emergency board appointed by President Roosevelt to mediate the Kansas Ci Southern dispute will give concrete expression of the Prés- ident’s “New Deal” for railroad labor. union membership on_ this Loree-controlled road refused to ac- cept the D. & H. plan proposed by the K.C.S. They voted overwhel- mingly for a strike. The report of the mediators is said to be against the workers. Will the government force this obnoxious plan, which abolishes seniority and overtime pay- ments, on the unions? And will the membership sit’ by and allow their right to strike to be taken from un- der their feet? If this is so, them For General Strike NEW YORK.—The fur dyers are ready for their general strike today. ‘The conference with the bosses’ asso- ciation has made no progress. A statethent issued by the Fur Dyers and Fur Dressers’ Department NEW YORK.—The “Daily Worker” received a letter from the National Executive Board of the Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund pro- testing against the printing of evic- tions at 556 Fox St., Bronx, N. Y., a | house owned by the organization. of the Needle Trades Workers’ In- “outrageo dustrial Union declares that at | case aon cataealna ve union éxnects every fur dyeing shop | ‘Daily’ Answers Organization Using Evictions in Its House The official organ of the Work- men’s Sick and Death Benefit Fund, “Solidarity,” by its own admission, states: “Now it has come to pass, after all, that two tenants were dispossessed at | 556 Fox St. and a third one will have followed by the time this issue of ‘Solidarity’ is in the hands of the members.” A similar demonstration of teach- ers was broken up at Camaguey, where over 2,000 gathered to de- mand back pay and to greet several released. prisoners. Many of the women were beaten and trampled upon. Forces Wage Increase tery Place, the adderss of the Cuban DETROIT, Mich. July 30.—Wage Gives Lie to Denials of | ana “aid not represent any foreign |of 70 railroad clerks on the Boston | the toads will indeed be free to go |@& Maine and Maine Central who |@head with every one of their wage~ |have been compelled to move cutting economy measures. | through the consolidation of the of- Sea an ak a Organize For Steel in moving. But the action of the| bs roads was taken “voluntarily.” be- earing Struggle fore the Coordinator Bill even be- | benefit the men in practice. R | Another “loophole,” which the rail- | ¢nstead demanded that their own road labor chiefs conveniently for- af ee sate Perkins then adjourned the meet- | fices of these two roads. The clerks came law. Eastman’s ruling in this | (CONTL: got, but which they now seem to re- | z Auditorium, |claim that the roads must repay | particular case will show just how | NUED FROM PAGE ONE) |them for their expenses and losses | | “labor amendments” really |. ————_—— Slat Date sat att cet ey ¥ | $15-$16 in the North. The workers ef New York and suburban New Jer- sey towns to walk out on strike this morning, completely naralyzing the The “Daily” has always guarded with the greatest possible care to print in its columns facts which are The reasons for the eviction, as al- | increases of 5 to 10 per cent, on an are “undesirable” | hourly basis, were won at the Hud- Teady mentioned, are son Motor Car Co., for over 5,000 verified and correct. On -occasions} tenants. But no worker will accept industry. Bathrobe Workers’ Strike Plans Ready NEW YORK.—The bathrobe work- ers’ union, affiliated with the Néedle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, for the last several months conducting a campaign for organization, has estab- lished contact with every important shop in the industry, and is now | completing preparations for a gen- | where a misrepresentation occurred | we were only too glad to be corrected. | But what are the facts in this case? ; On July 15 the “Daily” reported the eviction of Elion, his wife and three children at 556 Fox St. We even printed the picture of the fur- niture lying in front of the house. This worker and two others were| evicted, according to the organization, for being “undesirable.” They, among many other workers in the building, were militant and participated in a strike in the building last March. ', such decision. Every worker will agree that the capitalist courts and its evicting marshals are not the peo- ple to settle any question in a work- ers’ organization. We cite the example of the evic- tion of the Elion family and quote their own organ, “Solidarity,” a: proof that our reports in the “Daily” were correct. We did not print “out- rageous lies and misrepresentations” as that organization aecuses us of, workers as a result of the organiza- tional activity of the Auto Workers’ Union inside the shop. A committee representing 22 de- partments had been elected in the course of the union’s activity, and the demand was raised for an ‘in- crease in wages of 15 to 20 per cent. That the workers realize the union’s activity was responsible for the increase was shown by the fact that 70 new members joined the} but reports from workers who were | Auto Workers’ Union in the course aware of the true facts. of this campaign. eral strike in the industry. | The bathrobe workers’ demands are: 35-hour week, minimum wage for each craft, establishment of an unemployment insurance fund, rec- ognition of the union. A final meeting of all bathrobe Cappellini and Malone workers of New York and vicinity will take place on Monday night at 7 o'clock at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. The meeting will be ad- | By BILL DUNNE labios were not even allowed to | WILKES-BARRE, Pa., July 30—j; be present at convention sessions or Rinaldo Cappellini, former president) enter the hall. of District One, United Mine Work- Rank and File Aroused dressed by leading comrades of the union, as well as the organizer of the department, Guisepe, Oswaldo. the peace, both professional leaders of “opposition” movements for aid- ing the coal operators in emergency situations and advancing their per- | sonal fortunes, again have under weigh a maneuver to head off the oncoming wave of rank and file min- ers, employed and unemployed, now causing the most serious concern to the operators and the Lewis-Boylan- Kennedy machine in the anthracite. That a serious struggle against the Lewis machine and the, Roosevelt hunger and slavery code is the last thing these two confidence men want was evident at a meeting in Regal Hall, Scranton, on July 21, where Maloney, presiding for Cappellini, ruled out of order a motion by a miner to wire Secretary of Labor Perkins that the meeting did not consider that President John L. Lewis represented the anthracite miners, stating that “we don’t want to get | in trouble with the government.” Convention August 7 ‘The \Cappellini-Maloney combina- tion has called a convention for August 7,in Scranton, The sole ques- tion raised so far by Cappellini has been the refusal to pay dues to the Lewis-Boylan machine and the for- mation of a new union in the anth- racite, headed by himself and Mal- oney, He has made no proposal for organizing a fight against the con- tinual attacks of the companies on the wages and working conditions of the miners. Realizing the danger to the unity of the miners and the op- erator-inspired character of the Cap- Pellini maneuver, the Rank and File opposition is carrying through elec- tions in local unions and mass meet- ings for delegates to its own confer- ence on Aug. 6 and for delegates to the Cappellini convention who will fight for the Rank and File program, The regular biennial convention of District One which adjourned July 21 after a five day session gave Cap- pellini much material with which to disguise himself as an honest op- ponent of District President John Boylan and the Lewis machine. It met behind closed doors, the deleg- ates were handpicked as far as pos- sible by ruling out rank and file can- didates, and union members in good Printers Demand 30 Hours UTICA, N. Y., July 30—The Allied Printing Trades Council of New York, which closed its 37th annual conven- tion here Friday, went on record for the 30-hour-week in the printing in- dustry, with the same pay as now prevails for the 44-hour week. Au ommndes Meét at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 348 Claremort Parkway, Bronx DOWNTOWN JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant ' 197 SECOND, AVENUE Bet. 12 & 13 Welcome to Our Comrades. Phone: TOmpkins Square 6-9554 John’s Restaurant “ SPECIALTY—ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere meet where all radi New York _ BROOKLYN ra dise’ for jal Gar - Feins Restaurant 1626 PITKIN AVE., B'KLYN ————— Williamsburgh Comrades Welcome De Luxe Cafeteria 94 Graham Ave. Cor. Siegel St. int tisk ‘apenas _ LRA MT: RC EEE ers, and William Maloney, justice of} nese methods and the relegation of the question of relief for the un- employed and federal unemployment insutance to the background gave new stimulus to the revolt of the rank and file against the Lewis-Boy- jan machine which has been gain- ing neadway for the last two years. In District One alone there are 114,- 652 unemployed, according to the of- ficial figures of the State Department of Labor and Industry, published June 29. In these two counties, Luzerne and Lackawanna, only 22,000 miners are rated as employed and the most of these get from one to three days work per week. Verified instances of miners loading 32 tons of coal for $5.36—about 17 cents per ton—and checks of $14 for 13 days work— give some idea of how little the Lewis-Boylan machine cares about enforcing the ‘contract which speci- fies 68 cents per ton and $5.87 for day work. Miners Back Unemployed @ouncils More than 7,000 miners came into Scranton, held a mass meeting in front of the Town Hall where the convention was in session and de- nounced the whole proceeding, listen- ing to and applauding Joe Dougher and other speakers of the Rank and File Opposition, endorsed the de- mands of the Unemployed Councils and pledged themselves to fight against all attempts to reduce relief. | bi The mass character of the Rank and File movement, the fact that a number of strikes for enforcement of the contract have taken place, the leading positions in the move- ment held by Communists and sup- porters of the program of the Trade Union Unity League, frightened the coal operators. The rank and file re- sistance to the 35% cut last April by the operators which developed such force as to compel the Lewis-Boylan machine to retreat, and which defeated the cut, con- vinced the coal operators that Presi- dent Lewis, District President Boy- lan and International Secretary Ken- nedy whose home town is Hazleton in the lower and less decisive section of the anthracite region (Districts 7 and file even with the aid of the check- off and the Roosevelt recovery bally- hoo. Confuse Real Opposition Cappellini and Maloney have been called upon or at least allowed by the operators to launch the pretense of opposition. Its main purpose is to confuse and split the genuine rank and file opposition, Cappellini has brought ‘eut no pro- gram except that of refusal to pay dues. The check off here is some- what different than that in the bi- tuminous fields: On pay day min- ers receive two checks. One is made out to them and the other to the District office of the UMWA. This they are required to turn over to the union officials. Failure to do so means discharge. Cappellini and Maloney adXise the miners to re- fuse to turn over the dues checks to Boylan but to hand them to them. Cappellini announces that he has retained a lawyer who will make a court fight against the checkoff. ‘Meanwhile he is preparing a rump district convention where the deleg- ates avill probably be called upon to split from the UMWA and form a new union under the Cappellini- Maloney leadership. For about twelve years there has been constant rank and file opposi- tion to the Lewis machine in the Tri-District. It has been necessary for the operators therefore to have a reserve line of misleaders, career- ists and operators’ agents appearing as leaders of rank and file move- Ete which at the proper time they ak up or desert. Of all these ele- ments Cappellini is the outstanding figure. His chief stock in trade now is the tyrannical rule of the Lewis- Boylan machine. He has only to quote such choice bits as the fol- lowing from Kennedy's paper, “An- thracite Tri-District News,” to get applause at the many mass meet- ings he is calling throughout District One: “Closed Doors” “Closed doors will be the prevail- ing style at the biennial convention of District One . . . which will open next Monday morning in Town Hall at Scranton. This policy is designed to aid the officials of the district in the proper conduct of their business and to protect themselves and the Welles and Machado NEW YORK.—In protest against the Machado terror in Cuba. there will be a demonstration called by the Anti-Imperialist League at 1 p. m. tomorrow in front of 17 Bat- Consulate. A delegation, headed by Robert Dunn, national secretary of | the A. I. L., will go from the dele- gation to present the protest to the government.” | Welles is now in Cuba meeting with |the Machado government to see if | he can not arrange some sort of unity | among the various factions among | the Cuban upper classes, so that ‘they, together with -American impe- | rialism, can establish a united front | against the Cuban workers and peas- | ants, whose revolutionary activ! against Machado is growing violent every day. . more | Workers Denounce Welles member, is that nothing was said about putting on mote men if traffic picked up. “The speed-up is hitting ing in the Municipal and asked Cush and Beaumont to confer with her in the Post Office. One thousand steel workers followed, y|extra trains, has to be handled by | railroad workers hard now with the increase of traffic,” said Secretary Darling of the American Train Dis- patchers Association. “For example, To “Investigate” Deportations the added passenger business brought| The workers also demanded to by the world’s fair, though it means | know what Perkins was going to do about the deportations of militant the same number of train dispat- | workers, including the threatened de- chers as before, and they were al-| portations of Frank Borich, national ready overworked. While extra trains/| secretary of the National Miners’ mean extra crews, much of the traf-| Union; Vincent Kemenovitch, secre- however, and there compelled Per- | kins to read their code aloud. fic is handled by additional coaches tary-treasurer of District 1 of the on ordinary trains, meaning the ad-| N. M. U., and B. C. Thomas, now in Cuban Consul. | HAVANA, CUBA, July 30—|/ ee eas a08 | Thousands of workers demonstrated “WASHIN today before the offices of Am- arnt gO uk ae shouting their de- bassador Welles, nunciation of Cuban politics. heavy-handed club of Wall Street intervention in Cuba was acknow- ledged by President Roosevelt in a statement issued by the State Depart- intervention in crowd of Ww ment on Saturday. The statement 4 n organized made public by Acting Secretary of |Cuban Comm success- State Phillips, said in part that the|fully repulsed the attacks of the present intervention in Cuban poli- | police, severely be the Havana tics by U. S. Ambassador Welles has lef of Police and taking his gun the “full authorization and approval tion of 1931 .. . While the election ge Two, July 21). ditional responsibility for the ordin- | jail for having once been a member ary crews. There is no way of for-| Of the Young Communist League. cing the roads to maintain adequate | Perkins promised an immediate in- sonnel and if they decide to lay | vestigation, off men or make no replacements Contrary to the aims of the Per- the ordinary channels of protest are | kins visit, the workers’ and not the not provided against this form of | bosses’ code dominated the entire speeding up.” (Italics ours) proceedings. The A. F. of L. officials Freight handled by the New York | Were also given very little chance by Central is running, over 40 per cent | the workers to get in their dirty bove the same period last year, but | Work. his traffic is handled with practic-| The delegation elected here to go to Washington will include Graham, the Negro steel worker who was slugged by the Homestead thugs. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY Miners | dollars, a seven or eight room house this year does not entail the contest that marred it two years ago there | are certain conditions in the district | these examples of bellycray that dictate the need for the new) tory as practiced by a B Uses Scab Labor Cappellini makes skillful use of ling ora- lan whose | News, Pa with the appropriate amount of yard and garden space and some $10,000 in cash — all contributed from the union treasury and donations from 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-8 P.M. policy being invoked at the start.” devotion to union principles is shown (July 14 issue of A.T.DN.). Certainly it must be a very repre- sentative convention presided over by officials enjoying wide confidence and popularity among the dues paying| members that has to barricade it-| self under police protection to pre- vent working and unemployed union | members being present to see their This beloved “leaders” in action. editorial explanation of the exclu- sion of miners from the convention supposed to represent them lights up the whole picture in which a dema-| gogue of the Cappellini type is thrust into the foreground. |by the fact that a sum of $10,000/ from the union treasury, being placed at his disposal for the repair of his house, damaged by a bomb which some miners are unkind enough to say he had a friend place, he hired a scab contractor to do the work. Even officials of the Central Labor Council have denounced this action. | Neither has the Boylan officialdom | | taken any action in the numerous | strikes of miners’ wives, daughters | {and sisters working for a pauper wage in the local silk mills and gar- ment shops. Under such circumstances the ex- Cappellini, in a meeting where no| posure of Cappellini and all his chet | miner mentions the name of Lewis| supporters is a pivotal point of the without a curse, has only to quote from the same paper the eulogy of Lewis delivered by President Boylan at the convention where “closed doors” were the prevailing style: “No one who has not been inti- mately associated with him can pos- sibly know what he has suffered dur- ing this trying period. I wish I had the power to describe what he has been through, but I fear no state- ment of mine can make you under- stand the perils that have threaten- ec him and our organization. He nearly died of indigestion on two different occasions. (This is an ex- ceptionally neat touch at a time when miners and their dependents are dying of starvation—B.D.). He had death in the family; blow after blow fell upon him. Storm after Storm enveloped that heavy set figure; the hardest to endure were forced upon him by members of this organization, (Hide faces red with shame, you rank and file critics!— B.D.) but in the midst of the hur- ricane, when things looked black ahd we were nearly all discouraged, he rejected every counsel of weakness and cowardice and marshalled his forces for another advance toward his objective and finally achieved victory in the form of federal legis- lation .. . And I say to you simply and frankly that if prosperity does return to this region, we can thank no one but International President acckedited delegates from a repiti- 9), could not control the rank and tion of the incidents of the conven- John L. Lewis and his immediate associates.” (Anthracite Tri-District | work of the Rank and File Opposi- | | tion in preparation for their con-| ference and for the struggles that| are certain to develop as relief is cut down, incomes of the employed | reduced and the ‘pressure from the | | coal operators and their auxiliaries | | becomes heavier under the “work- jings” of the Roosevelt recovery | measures. | Cappellini should“be shown up for | the tool in the hands of the opera- tors that he is. His record stinks to high heaven. In 1922 he united with the opposition to Lewis, and the then District President William Brennan, which was led by the Trade Union Educational League (the fore- runner of the TUUL). He sold out, became part of the Lewis machine and denounced “the reds” and the @ank and file opposition at the 1924 | convention of the UMWA, at the behest of John L. Lewis, Feathers His Own Nest Later he organized another “op- | position” but helped Lewis put over the five-year contract signed in 1925) and the contract of 1930, which for} the first time included the checkoff | pf $14 per year for the Lewis mach- | ine, and under which the conditions of the miners have been forced down | to the starvation level. Cappellini, even more than Boylan, | is expert when in office organizing movements for his own financial benefit. ‘He engineered one such | testimonial for himself in the form of a car costing several thousand . | The exposure and defeat of Chappel- | duped miners. Later, out of office, and needing ready cash, he burned down two or three buildings he owned to get the insurance. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years in’ the penitentiary—a very mild sentence | under the Pennsylvania statutes. He is at liberty again and heading a new movement for Cappellini and the coal operators. Seven Mustei! graduates of Brookwood, are in the field, working ‘with Cappellini and| Maloney. They are especially active | in the lower anthracite. Vratarich,| the Lovestonite representative in the anthracite, has frequent meetings with Cappellini at Maloney’s house. | The Roosevelt “recovery” codes—al- | though the anthracite code has not! been made public as yet—has brought | all these verminous elements out of | their holes striving in typical parasi- | tic style to attach themselves to the growing movement of militant op-| position showing itself in strikes, un- employed demonstrations and mar- ches, and involving great groups of women and young workers, both boys and girls, never before taking part in the class struggle. Misleads Italian Miners Cappellini’s main base is among| the Italian miners in Pittston, Dur- | == yea, Wyoming, Exeter, etc., and it is here and in neighboring areas that | the Rank and File Opposition is con-/ centrating in preparation for the im- portant meetings on Aug. 6 and 7.) Intern’l Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE 15TH FLOOR Work Done Under Personal Care ef Dr. C, Weissman All Garment Section Workers Patronize Navarr Cafeteria 333 7th AVENUE Corner 28th St. Are You Moving or Storing Your Furniture? CALL HARLEM 7-1053 COOKE’S STORAGE 209 East 125th St. Special Low Rates to Comrades Hospital and Oculist Preseri At One-Half Pri IPD White Gold Filled Frames____81.30 ZYL Shell Frames ———_____., ,$1.00 Lenses not included COHEN’S, 117 Orchard St. First Door Off Delancey 8t. Telephone: ORchard 4-4520 lini and his allies is necessary for | uniting all rank and file forces in| the struggle against the operators, the official Lewis machine and the} Roosevelt slave and starvation code. | The organization and carrying through of strike struggles for the} enforcement of the favorable features | '~. of the UMWA contraet for relief and nuisance. the forging of the unity | LPRRE j of ihe employed and unemployed | LICENSE NOTICES miners in the struggle for decent|| ow standard of living is the central point | of the policy now being followed by | the Rank and File Opposition.) Thousands of miners are attending meetings at which the program of the Rank and File Opposition is en-| dorsed NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that License No. NYA-9907 has been issued to the undersigned to seli beer and wine at retail, under Section 75 of the Alcoholic Control Law, at 488 Pleasant Avenue, New York, N. ¥., not to be said premises. [ant Avenue, New York,