The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 5, 1933, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1933 By EARL What is the status of our Party in the struggle against | the social fascist misleaders, that is, the question of the! struggle for the unity of the working class, In the last period of the struggle for a united front against the capitalist offensive, which began with the Comin-| tern manifesto and the rise of fascism to power in Germany, | our own Party has made some improvements in this field.| The manifesto of our Central Committee in March was on the) whole a correct and effective application of the united front | to our conditions. We made some concrete extensions on| these good beginnings. But can we say that we have de-| cisively-overcome our former weaknesses in our struggle | against social fascism? No; we cannot say it. These weak-| nesses still remain and some of them show themselves in even more serious form just now. Let us examine these special weaknesses. FIRST: is the lack of serious and systematic approach to| the rank and file members of the reformist organizations. Literally hundreds of our.Jower organizations still take a} certain pride in the fact that they have no contact what- ever with the workers of the Socialist Party, of the American Federation of Labor, or the Musteites. They make no effort whatever to reach them. They organize meetings only for “our own” workers, those who already agree with us on every- | thing. If they happen by accident to meet a Socialist Party | or American Federation of.Labor member, these comrades} assume a very high and scornful attitude. They appear very| superior to these people. They are very free to speak of them) as “social-fascists,” applying the term to the workers and not to the leaders. They think, these comrades, it is beneath! their dignity to explain carefully, patiently and sympa-| thetically how the Communist Party or the various mass organizations propose united struggles of all workers for their most burning needs; to explain how the split among} the masses arises because the social fascist leaders sabotage | and obstruct the struggle and thereby help the capitalist class. They do not see that it is absolutely necessary to con- vince each worker in the Socialist Party, Musteites or A. F. of L., through his own contact, that the Communists are the only sincere and active and efficient fighters for unity in the struggle for the daily needs of the workers. Above all our comrades do not understand the need for sympathetic approach to these rank and file workers. Un- less we really overcome this weakness in a more decisive, manner we will not make the progress that is required for us towards winning the majority of the working class. Not to Slur Over Differences of Principle SECOND: We have a tendency to neglect or slur over) differences in principle between the Communists and the} Social-Fascist leaders. We can never win the workers to a) united front of struggle, which means winning them away} from the social-fascist influence, unless we meet squarely, and explain sharply, the basic differences between us and them. We see that many comrades think that we will build up. the anti-fascist front by méans of keeping silent about the} betrayal of the German Social Democracy and its open going} over to Hitler. But an anti-fascist front which keeps silent about this basic fact, is no anti-fascist front at all. It is already beginning to go on:the same route as the social- democracy in surrender to fascism. An anti-fascist fighting | front must be built—and can only be built—through exposure Our United Front Policy Is A United Front of Struggle | | Company a subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Cor- | Poration—a Morgan conern—are meanwhile starving miners now BROWDER of, and fight against, those who helped Hitler to power, who| voted for Hitler’s policy in the Reichstag. THIRD: There is a rising tendency, which we must very sharply fight against, to accept conferences, nice resolutions, new united front committees with all sorts of fancy names— that these things are already a solution of our problem. These things become not a means of reaching, organizing and ac- tivizing the masses but an excuse for stopping work and taking it easy. This tendency must be smashed. Words must be checked up against deeds. Action must be demanded and carried out. New masses must be reached. Everyone who hinders this, everyone who sabotages oz neglects this must be exposed, no matter who it is, and fought against. Every committee which does not work must be resolutely liquidated as an obstructor of progress and discrediting the united front. For example, we have a committee which was set up to collect aid for the victims of fascism in Germany. This com-| mittee has been allowed to drift along and has collected very little money for the relie? of victims of German Fascism. This situation is a scandal. We cannot tolerate any such things for our movement. It makes the situation not one bit better, rather all the worse, that the Communists who should be the most active in the committee sometimes leave the responsibility on non-Party elements who for some reason | or other are unable to function. Such a united front is a ae erable parody which discredits the idea of united front. should be in the archives of the past history just as ret as possible. | To Be Tesied By the Masses Every united front must be active, testing all its partici-| pants, including ourselves, above all, ourselves. It must pro-| vide the masses with the opportunity of really forming their | own judgment as to who is who, who is really devoted and capable a leader and fighter and who is a slacker and who is| sabotaging and who has a tendency to surrender and collab- orate with the enemies. Such weaknesses as these that we have just briefly de-| scribed will become all the more dangerous in the coming months if they are not quickly and enefgetically overcome. We are entering in a period of large-scale united front efforts) and actions, of which the August 26 conference in Cleveland is only a beginning, which must be given the most solid roots | and foundations down below among the masses. If we do} not have a correct approach to the masses, if we do not keep| our attention upon the masses, if we surrender to this game of playing around with leaders of all kinds without doing serious work down below, then we are not serious revolution- | aries at all, then we are surrendering to social-fascism, then | we deserve the contempt of every revolutionary worker. | The very first pre-requisite for success in winning of the workers who are in organizations hostile to us, is a creation | of a sympathetic approach to them.. This is the main signifi- cance of our policy of the united front. This requires not only the proper kind of documents and} conferences. Above all it requires an active and sympathetic contact with these workers down below. The offer- ing of joint actions for concrete demands, the meth- ods that must be carried through at every step and especially in the development of the United front from below, the de-| velopment of such joint actions is the only possible basis for a real building up of a fighting united front. Our united front is a united front of struggle. RANKS OF MINERS [NIRA Nearer FIRM; MORE JOIN (@ONTINUED "FROM PAGE ONE) in order to aid in maintaining their famlies. Men Say as Code Chops Pay Baloney Factory Boss Reduces Wages From $27 to $15 To Fit Code, Adds Speed-Up 100 STRIKE IN SHOE FACTORY Baloney, Meat NEW YORK.—With a general | strike of New York shoe workers in the offing, 100 workers struck yes- terday at the stitchdown shoe fac- } the The arresting of miners on trum- ped up charges sworn out by com- pany officials is the next step taken by the Frick Coke Company as well as other coal operators. Officials of the Frick company have sworn out warrants against 43 miners charging them with aggravated as- sault and battery, rioting and in some cases with attempt to maim and disfigure. Most of these miners are already in jail, while Sd bio are seeking the rest. Two este William C. Black and J. C. Bresius were arrested on murder charges, Although held for such serious crimes they were im- mediately released on $5,000 bail each. The bail was furnished by. C. L. Steiner, vice president of the Union Supply Company one of the} subsidiaries of U. S. Steel in this. territory, The deputies have already pre; an alibi that they shot in self de- fense, when their car was attacked. mi vane uae rth the anet that es” re] le con’ sig a ‘pickets Sctorriewed ’ by him “ an hour of the shooting anion ri there had any attack on the ear beyond stopping it to see who was in it.” While the two deputies walked out on $5,000 bail charged with murder, 18 strikers were arrested for picket ing and each held on $1,000 bail. Charges against the pickets were sworn out before Alderman Frank E. Foster, a local official, who is controlled iy the U. S. Steel Com- Peay The alderman postponed the sicle reman ickets to jail over t! Searind, ‘he unconcealed ha’ to the strikers shown by Alderman Foster was seen in aie statement: 1 in jail til the | AeA Ye the adh ao ox Gorley Thad know that the law is still func- tionii By “we” the alderman must have meant himself and the Frick Coke Company, The funeral of Louls M. Padorsky who Abia killed by deputies last Tuesday will take place tomorrow. Padorsky leaves wife and three children, He was a wounded vet- eran of the Rainbow Division: Thousands of miners from all sur- rounding towns are expected to come to Brownsville where the fu- neral will be held " Monday in order ta]. By DAN DAVIS NEW YORK.—The workers of the Provisional Baloney Factory on East 13th Street between Avenues A and B have found the new NRA code which their boss signed “for them” just so much more baloney to struggle with. Wages before the advent of the code had been from from $18 to $27 per week for between 56 and 60 hours each week, Now that Presi- dent Roosevelt's NRA has been brought in the boss politely in- formed the workers that though they would work enly 40 hours a week (as he wished to live up to the code) the hours would remain so only on con- dition that they turned out as much baloney as they did under the old shift. Still wishing to uphold the holy pared precepts of the NRA, the boss has also informed the workers that in- as-much as $15 is the minimum wage required by the code, they could all expect a wage-cut of three to twelve dollars. One of the workers, on hearing of | the bosses’ benevolence, said: “Well the NIRA is the nearest thing to| baloney I've ever handled and I’ve handled tons of it.” Form Food Workers Industrial Union Atlantic City Local) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 4.—Over 500 Negro and white food workers met last night at Waiters Union Hall, and formed a branch of the Food Workers In- dustrial Union. The workers heard descriptions of the different forms of unions, and finally yoted for the industrial union form of or- ganization. Plans were made at the meet- ing to send delegates and a work- ers’ code to the Washington hear- ing. Upholsterers General Strike NEW YORK—On Thursday, July t- | 26th 800 upholsterers of the City of New York walked out on a General Strike against the existing miserable conditions in the trade, and for a fight for better conditions, more wages and a decent living for them- Selves and their families. Despite the demand of the up- holsterers for unity in this strike and despite the attempt of the Industrial Union to bring about one UNITED STRIKE against the bosses, the of- ficials of Local 76 continously re- fused to co-operate in any way to hbring about a United Strike of the upholsterers. The result is that the upholsterers are separated, and one part is striking under the leader- Ship of the Furniture Workers In- dustrial Union and the other under the A. F. of L. Local 76. The present working hours in the wholesale upholsterery trade are in most of the shops, is from 44 to 60 hours per week, the wages range Bid 30¢ to 60c per hour. The demands put forward by th strikers of the Industrial Union are: 1) 35 hour week, $1.15 per hour minimum wages. 2) 1 per cent of the bosses pay- roll for the Unemployed Fund of the Union. These demands were throughly discussed by the strike Committee, and agreed upon as the most prac- tical and realizable under the pre- sent circumstances and conditions in the upholstery trade, The demands put forward by the Officials of Local 76 are—30 hours work week and a minimum wage of $1.40 per hour. The strikers of Local 76 consider the above mentioned de- mands that the local put up to their bosses as a bargaining proposition. Atfer a» week strike the ranks of the strikers are solid, and their spirit is high. They are determined to fight till they bring this strike to a victorious end. ‘The bosses as yet made no ap- proach for settlement. The Up- holstery Manufacturers Association has had frequent meetings during the past week and it seems they could not come to a conclusion. | tory “Champion,” | minimum for young workers and rec- 104 Bleeker St. They demand a 40-hour week, 25 per cent increase in wages with a $15) ognition of their union, The strike is led by the Shoe and | Leather Workers’ Industrial Union, | |96 Fifth Ave. | The strike is expected to spread to other shops. NEW YORK—Fight hundred and fifty shoe workers, at a meeting in Webster Hall Thursday night, called by the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union, decided to strike at noon Monday if demands they Placed before their respective bosses yesterday are not met. The demands include a 30 per cent increase in wages, a 40-hour week and union recognition. ees he Slipper workers will meet in Ir- ving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, next Tuesday night. 100 On Strike in Two; Newark Leather Shops NEWARK, N. J.—About a hundred | workers of the Mutual Brief Case Co.| and of the Merit Strap in Newark, N. J., are out on strike for three weeks for a 40-hour week and for a minimum of $25 per week for me- chanics, $18 for~helpers, $13 for ap- prentices. The bosses have tried out all methods of intimidation to break the ranks of the strikers, but failed to shake the strikers’ ranks. In the last few days the bosses became desper- ate, Scabs are taken from their homes to work, and the Newark po- lice are helping the bosses to break the strike. Donations DISTRICE 2 ‘Shubar 1.00 Anna Halpern, List. 30 May Helfgot 1.00 1. W. 0. Branch 58¢ 2.00, Ri Mutal Aid Soc. Bronx Lists. at r 8 Croton Avenue, Peekskill, N.Y. 40.28 5.00 100.00 nN. X. C. 1.00 |, Rockaway, L. I. 5.00 New Brunswick, N. Je 20 Morgan Shoots Grouse While His Men Shoot. | Striking Miners J. P. Morgan, chief Wait Street banker, shown S. Olympic upon its arrival Sonthampton, England. He’s en-route to his estate in Scotland where he will participate on the S, in the fashionable sport of grouse next month. The thugs of the H. busy shooting down strike. ‘ PICK CLUBBER OF JOBLESS, WHALEN, 10 HEAD N.Y. NRA NEW YORK.— ecovery” act experience in slaughtering shown by the {Post report t x-police her tibiers Whalen endow NRA _ drive energy.” Grover Whalen, chief floor walker’ of the Wanamaker Dera eneDe Stores, in 1930 was po! sioner of Ni r ly led the attack unemployed demonsi: over 109,000 unemployed de: strated for relief and unemploy: insurance. Hundreds of were brutally tants strikebr unemployed for their ing ‘and | is with | tack. With Roosevelt worrying about “riots” and struggles of the unem: ployed in the coming winter, choice of Whalen show ers what they may expect. The Harriman referred to is W. Averell Harriman, son of a multi- millionaire railroad owner, and chairman of the board of the Union Pacific, controlling his own banking house, Brown Brothers, & Co., and owning a huge line. Mr. Harriman, reaping milliong in profit from workers in dozens of the biggest corporations in the coun- | try, is interested leading the NRA drive against unemployment insurance so he can protect his mil- in lions from the starving unemployed. | members of Tammany | out Tam- Both are Hall and helped work many Hall strategy cutting off un- employment relief for the 1,000,000 New York unemployed and their families, | Frame Laundry Striker NEW YORK.—Detectives came ‘to Workers Industrial Union and arrested Murray Feinberg, one of the drivers of the Bond Laundry, | 175th Street and Webster Av where the union is Jendin~ » sty against the firing of a worker and a broken eee with the umou. METAL LOCAL 137 OUSTS OFFICIALS NEW YORK.—At an ent rastic | mass mecting Thursday night in Mansion Hall, 57 St. Marks Place, calied by the Temporary Organiza- tion Committee, atetnded by over | 200 sheet metal workers, it was de- cided unanimously to nullify the ac- tion of the International, which a few months ago reinstated the dis- credited, corrupt clique of racketeers, crooks and gangsters led by L. Sis- kind, Rosen and company, which had been thrown out of office by the membership after their exposure in stealing thousands of dollars of the union funds, including the fund for the unemployed. The workers deceided to enlarge the organization committee to put through plans to organize the entire trade, to work out demands for’ bet- : ter wages, hours and conditions and to set up a headquarters. Meanwhile the offer of the Steel} and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union | of the use of its headquarters at 35 E. 19th St. N. Y. C., as temporary quarters was accepted. ‘The com- mittee will meet there every evening from 5:30 to 7 p.m. and all sheet metal workers in the electric sign, tinsmith supply, soda fountain, beer coller, etc., lines, employed and un- employed, including all members cf Local No. 137 and expelled and dropped out members and unorgan- ized sheet metal workers are urged to meet the committee at this ad- dress until permanent quarters are obtained, and to line up with thé union. Decatur-Born Woman Pleads for Scottsboro 9 NEW YORK—The plea of a South- ern white woman, born in Decatur, Ala., and now living in Hartford, Conn., for the release of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys, is added to the countless demands for their fres- dom received by Governor B. M. Miller, in a letter from Ruth Pointer, a copy of which has been received by the International Labor Defense. elt picks his | workers |” injured in this at- vs the mores (2 Harriman | shipping | headquarters of fhe Laundry | in shooting C. Frick ca MOUNTED POLICE BEAT AND ARREST HOTEL STRIKERS NEW YORK. r | sorik: | wr three | imam: ration id in $100 | et conduct will be tried in the Monday morning. The demonstration was hel |demand the right of th: $ ee any union of their choice for the reinstatement of wo: = | tir because thi belonged to the Industrial Union. All }100 workers who struck ten weeks la gO -as a result of-a broken agree- | ment by the hotel with the union ere still out. Thousands of sympathizers of the strikers tieed un traffic for one hour at the scene cf the demonstration. | ‘Dressmakers Meet Prepares Strike Big Gains Made in Whitegoods Shops NEW YORK.—At a packed meet- |ing held in Irving Plaza, the dress- makers listened with enthusiasm to |@ report given by Weissberg on the fhousands of w . Weissberg par larly stressed the ‘atest developments among tke cut ters who are a re-ult of the betr: [of the officialdom of Lecal 10 ere convinced }the--werkers. During days, a number of impcri {were declared on strike and the cut- | ters are ist he leader- goods Depariment of the Industrial Ynion some definite results have al- ready been obtained. In the Lipman seventy workers were on strike they. have succeeded in de- feating the check-off system, which | means greater speed-up and forced the firm to agree that there should | be no discrimination and no dis- shop, where where over 100 workers went on strike, they are victoriously back at | work having won an ‘increase in Wages from 15 to 30 per cent, no discharges, equal division of work, of the workers have joined the union. “Inthe shon of J. & S. Milberg, the workers stand solidly determined to force the bosses to grant their de- mands. A mass meeting of the Whitegoods day where a complete report on the campaign will be given and _ parti- jcularly about the activities of local 62, where Shore and Mary Goff are play“ the role of strike breakers and keeping back the Whitegoods workers from struggle. John Reed Club to Help Member Jailed . NEW YORK—The John Reed Club of New York has appointed a committee to look after the needs of Carl Carlson, artist member, who has begun serving a 60-day sentence in Wilmington, Del. for having taken part in the defense of the Hunger Marchers last December. The club resolved to raise funds comforts, to send him reading mat- ter, and to keep up a correspondence with him activities of the Dress Department | x6 the Communis os of the Needle Trades ee Cormmnun se Daath dustrial Union on the prep bers of t alist Party for the strike. As a result of the| Will actively support the Congvze: | ons have al- feet irs tens of shons nee al- ia Cokiices strike and won for the only | Ber. of the Indust: el |. NEW YORK.—As a result of the | campaign undertaken by the White- | workers is scheduled for next Thurs- | for Hunger March’ weekly to keep him supplied with | Page’ v Socialist Party Leade Exposed by Own Acti¢ (CONTINUED F ED FROM PAGE ONE) nination to sabotag failed to take tively at eaken the Congress. he Second I ¢ Congress, they But against \ . The willing to fight d S$ will loyaliy fight for and ever s in the ui ed that itatingly ted at all times to ex sabotage or betr been bi the Social: S.P. stand: tries to co’ But the united fr come and by bapt. in whi h Commun pareee is betrayal & is not n be makers, - A united front of struggle agairst rialist war cnn only be built on th million-masses in the fight. and usin, tion against all leaders and parties Every imperialist war-maker, now than were proceeding in the the NEC of the Socialist Party. Articles Force of Socialists, A.F.L. Metal Officials pondent) NEW YORK.—Articles in the Daily Warker on the actions of the offi- clals of the A. F. of L. Union Local 28 and members, the S f 11 Though voted early in th dues of the j;bless rs cf the local the officials decided that this | would not be done. The officials all | but openly stated that the unem- | ployed be ousted from membership. Gerber and Tuvim, to save the faces of the International heads, | made a motion that $3.50 be paid | to the jobless for organizational | | work, But, when the workers called were asked for $3.50. | The employed members are pre- paring a struggle to back the jobless. Go to see every subscriber when his | newal, | | SGN ANNE NTE ) Get your unit, un’on local, or mass organization to challenge another) | group in raising subs for the Daily! ernational (L and their Cor idual who since! The C.P. is even prepared to suspend its criticism: sindvawing from tue Cong ed of sabotaze cgainst the anti-war struggle. Spring of 1914, COMMUNI Sheet Metel| § ve | Tuesda’ |of the United Sample Card Workers % the Congress ingle action t “consistent” The policy in try ing to | is dictated from Amsterdam ation of deve) odder. The le this exert to sm second world slaugh al war situat harpened and mrades & the efforts t age this unit ng for itself, will make every des in this common causes ST PARTY BRANCHES FOR UNITED FRONT , re not in i united act. he Communist Farty 1 to the Socia! States Congr er of July ade Robert Minor, w eleven nominations nat the Communists hp ts prevaratory Committees ant In the Arrangement 1 raised which predetermine ‘The calling of the Congress is no t is only one step in that direc hich it will adopt, must furnist 2 against war. oss very Wisel: all patticlpating organization ndiz2 their own specia cludes that of mutual erft:i. s now ia preparation adopt: } the C. P. declares fi uggle for this proj front of si r this pr am, together with ev and honestly perfo front during the execution of the asures of struggle arc to the end. It reserves the right h of agreement, every ation of policy has of the NEC. The NEC of the- light by the acti nst Comniunist criticism. old hardened sinners can is it a school of etiquette, about Socialist . ice of the war- ‘ the monsirous brutalities of impe- rf ce determination of mobilizing * & the harshest words of condemna- which sabotage that struggle. engaged in more war preparations will rejoice in the action of est worker-mem=< imperialist war, ST PARTY OF THE USS. 700 SAMPLE CARD: WORKERS STRIKE: NEW YORK. Eoven 700 workers, ! young girls are out on a! 1 strike in the sample card in- t in this city. The strike began ? morning after a strike vote f of the entire industry involving oF hops. The strikers, who include printers } and bockbinders, are striking for * recognition of their union, higher pay for all grades of workers and a 35-hour week. The strike is under the leadership 5 we mn Union, an independent organization. 8 A broad strike committee, including _ representatives from the shops was 4 elected to lead the strike. e Mass picketing is going om im q charge. In the Idea Underwear shop, | to have their cards made good, they | front of the leading shops, Peerless Sample Card Co., Charles’ Green |Sample Card Co., and the Steinthall Sample Card Co. On Wednesday one striker was beaten up by a scab. Two girls were s Tecognition of shop committees; most | subscription expires to get his Saad Bara on the picket line. All unemployed workers in the in- dustry are urged to take part in the strike bv reporting at the strike headquarters at Stuyvesant Casino, + €th Street and Second Ave. TORGSIN , orders enable your relatives in | Soviet Ri to purchese all gorts of domestic or imported articles at low prices. | For orders on Torgsin apply to your locel bank, companies listed below or thelr author- ined agents Amalgamated Bank, N. 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