The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 12, 1933, Page 2

PAGE TWO —— Government Less Workers Produce Increased Pr More Under Speed-Up ; oduetion Based Mainly On Preparations for War relieving of the basic factors of Roosevelt promi: ions nmer. So far they latest economic velt’s economic program as 10t been forthcoming. y MILTON HOWARD data confi a comp > fail ew jobs—6 million by the end of he following figures June la the first million lower xis other prom- foreign | e of m: 1t cae | s not ts is | Co: Reports Show No Let-Up in the Crisis NRA ARBITRATION AIMS TO STIFLE STRIKE MOVEMENT} A. F. of L, Committee Calls Workers to Defy Edict | NEW YORK.—Louis Weinstock, ional secretary of the A. F. of L, Trade Union Committee for Un- | employment Insurance and Relief with headquarters at 37 Bast 13th Street issued a statement condemn- | ing the creation of the National Board of Arbitration as an attempt to stifle the growing strike move- ment. It says in part “The A. F. of L. Trade Union mittee for Unemployment In- | surance and Relief representing more than 1,000 local unions calls 7 8 the summer on the hot, congested DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1933 Victims of Tenements, Victims of A Grafter R These children of the tenements were left stranded when a racketeer who received money from their par- ents left them stranded, hungry and broke in a country camp. Back to the tenements they came, to spend streets, iOS RS cect FiredWhen He Kicked At Getting $4.32 Speed-Up Under NRA Drives Weaver With 22 Years Experience from Job | NATIONAL PECAN PRODUCTS Co ‘FRAME 3 YOUNG COMMUNISTS FOR PASSING LEAFLETS “NIRA Will Take Care of Everybody, Says Judge NEW YORK—“NIRA Will take care of everybody,” was the statement is- sued by Judge Casey as he yesterday announced $5,000 bail for each of the three Young Communis: League members who are being held for “at- tempted felonious assault.” The of- fense consisted of Charles Wil'iams, Negro; Jack Goldberg and Klein, distributing leaflets before a sha factory at Borarum and Bogart Sts., Brooklyn, where a strike is now in progress. The arrest is an attempt to frame the boys “for the possession of a razor-blade,” which was found in the territory of the strike. Klein, who is a very sick high school student, is held in jail while he is having hemmorhages. ‘The International Labor Defense is now suing for a writ of Habeas Corpus in order to reduce the bail. A hearing of the case will take place on Aug. 16 at the Bridge Plaza Court in Williamsburg. —————— |T.U.U.C. Pienic Sunday NEW YORK.—The .pienic ar- ranged by the Trade Union Unity | League will be held tomorrow, Sunday, in Pleasant Bay Park, | (Pelham Bay Park LR.T. East Side | to Zeregz Ave, Station.) All workers are urged to attend, and in that way besides spending an enjoyable day support the mili- tant trade union movement of New York. Jack Stachel, Clarence Hatha- way and Louis Hyman will speak. bette and entertainment until am. Urge Workers to Attend the Fierro \ Memorial Monday NEW YORK.»~—-The United Front Terzani Defense Committee urges al! workers who are concerned with gain- ing the release of Terzani and aiding in the campaign against fascism te attend the Memorial Meeting in honor of Anthony Fierro, anti-fascist student who was shot and killed on July 14 in Astoria, L. I., which is to take place on Monday, Aug. 14, at 8 pm., in Webster Hall, 119 E. llth St. New York City: N \ & f be n- svaee is m: boom.” xploi! de of the The facis ont! 10 in spite of this increase number of duced to 51 ing v Mcre murderou. And even sonal incree to June of tr ers were re lower than c The incre s being over 6 pe i e only about 5 year, per cent. Actua! this meant that more wage cuts had taken place. Increased sneed-up and exploita- tion—end mor T r the work- the wer ers, this is of the Roosevelt eccnomic ND thus talist n pay for have urly rates of pay | s! changed from the | lows The réport contin “The aver: nent during was 7.5 per cen! 1932, while payrc Jower.” Not only is unemploy the 17 million level of point of the c I payrolls is main of dropping even drop in the number On top of this, the gove Teport reveals that the cost-of-living index moved upward for the second Successive month, increasing almost 2 per cent, a sizeable increase in this index. The conditions of the workers has, thus, been in no way improved by the Roosevelt program. In fact, Roosevelt’s program has made life harder for the workers, eee re. S for the fundamental economic conditions, the Roosevelt program of stimulating production by infla- tionary pressure, has only resulted in & situation that has created all the inditions for another economic col- pse that will even overshadow the Swift overwhelming economic disas- ters of the recent past. Roosevelt's program has failed to solve the fundamental economic cause of the crisis—the lack of mar- Kets for manufactured goods. In- stead his program has resulted in thé-piling up of manufactured goods, Om top of the already indigestible surpluses of unbought goods. All the @¢onomic facts prove this to the hilt. For example, the figure which shows how much retail goods is be- ng carried by the railroads for mass Consumption, is lagging far behind the total of railroad shipments. This means that goods are being moved the dealers, but that is where they oy. They don’t get into the hands i vonsumers, who are too poor to buy. ae gi of the U. S. De- partment of Commerce admits when it states, eit “Indexes of distribution indicate @ continuation of the lag in con- sumer purchasing. Department vere 18 per cen store sales in June were off by |them staYned to their very marrow slightly less than the usual sea- sonal amount, and the improve- ment in cerns sales was not Tt would be a simple matter to pba this statement of the gov- ent economists by statistics of og sales. The fact is indisputable the workers are consuming rela- dyely less than ever, and that more own that | ts had less | ation among the sections of the ith vings. What nong the millions s and starvation- n be readily gu is is the situation as Roosevelt makes golden promises of a d Baldwin For Free Speech At Any Cost’ NEW YORK.—In a prompt reply | Burlap's charge that Robert , Civil Liberties representa- ew England was slandering | mal Textile Workers’ Union | purpose of disrupting the | tile workers’ ranks and| hostility of the workers inst the union, Roger Baldwin. director of the Civil Liberties Union ified Bakeman’s disruptive activ- s on the ground that he was exer his right of free speech The letter says in part: “You as us to line Mr. Bakeman for h rema: This nization as you well know is committed to the right of free speech and we do not attempt to censor the utterances of any of our members, friends or those whom we aid. . You had your right of free speech too. He did not prevent you rom speaking even though he ad- vised against allowing you to speak. That was his privilege under any con- ception of free speech.” Mr. Baldwin failed to mention | the loyalty of the workers, who re- | cognized the ser | heard. pe first half of 19 | er than in the same period of | | Sections of the bituminous fields, and that Bakeman tried his best to have Burlak denied the right to speak, and would have succeeded were it not for ices of the National Union in the Salem ike and the able leadership of! Textile Worker jin the Market for a Luxurious Satin Burlak and demanded that she be Board of Arbitration and repudiate the actions of the Executive Coun- cil of the A. F, of L, “Demand the immediate enact- ment of the Federal Unemployment Insurance Bill as proposed by the A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee and endorsed by more than 1,000 local unions in the A. F. of L. lo- cal unions, central bodies, state fed- erations of labor. Notify your In- ternationals and the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor of your action.” Satirical Article In the ‘Daily’ Praised New York City, Aug, 9, 1933. Editor of Daily Worker, Dear Comrade: Sender Garlin’s article, “Are You Spread?” which appeared in today’s Daily Worker, was very good. This is the kind’ of writing I can] show to my friends as an opening wedge in making them class-con- scious and future Daily Worker read- ers. This is the language and the yle which they understand, and idle for long stretches to have the looms fixed, then the way they solved that was to give everybody an extra loom. “And at the end of the two weeks they discharged me, handing me two pay envelopes—$4.32 for one week's work and $5.85 for the other. “It’s not a large factory, only 15 or 16 workers, but 5 or 6 have al- ready left since the NRA started. When I kicked they forced me out of the factory. “I read in the New York Journal where this Whalen Committee is go- sign agreements and fail to carry ing to get after these people who them through, so I thought I’d go up there. My people are old New England stock, settled in this coun- try half a dozen generations ago, I had three uncles fighting with the Union army in the Civil War and I'm an ex-serviceman myself, “I went up to the Pennsylvania Hotel where this committee’s got a whole floor and I waited. Waited about two hours, I guess. Then a girl comes and takes my name and a couple of notes and says they'll look into my case. I asked when I'll hear from them and she says, ‘Later on, be patient.’ which takes the Alice Hughes’, Hey- wooed Brouns and the “‘New Yorker” | boys for a fare-ye-well, as it uses the | same technique, but is, of course, | much more powerful because of the, sincerity with which Garlin rips apart this bourgeois system. Could he perhaps write something | on that subsidized department store buyer of the World-Telegram, Alice | Hughes, who in one column attempts | to analyze Russia and in the next column advertises everything from! lip-stick to cocktail shakers? ! Keep up the good work and ac-| cept my sincere appreciation. Yours, JOSEPH ROBERTS, One Battle in the Coal Fields Has Ended, But the War Goes On By BILL DUNNE The strike of some sixty or seventy thousand miners, starting three weeks ago in the Frick Company (U. 8. Steel subsidiary) coking coal properties, one of the most decisive the most important working class struggles of the crisis period, with the sole exception of the Western Pennsylvania—Ohio and West Vir- ginia Panhandle strike led by the National Miners Union in 1931, has furnished the factual material with which to make an accurate appraisal of the strategy and tactics of the In- dustrial Recovery Act, the basic policy of the Roosevelt administra- tion and its collection of voluble college professors, professional labor experts and the copyrighted blown- in-the-bottle reactionaries of the American Federation of Labor. In Washington there is a great} opening of sluggish veins and sclero- tic arteries. The Industrial Recovery Act by reason of the miracle work- ing wand of a Hudson River landed proprietor picked to pluck Wall Street's chestnuts out of the fire, has become both the ark of the cove- nant and the lamb of god. Washed in the blood of the lamb persons like Edward McGrady, professional state's witness against needle trade strikers in New York and paid disrupter of unions, William Green, head of the American Federation of Labor and self-confessed playmate of Walter C. Teagle, chairman of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, the blatant hero of a hun- dred betrayals of miners, both of with the sweat, blood and tears of miners, their wives and children, sold like chattel slaves to the coal com- panies, are cleansed of all guilt and appear as shining archangels point- ing the way to peace on earth and good will to all men. This is what American workers, driven during four years of the crisis to the lowest economic ard social level in their entire history, are sup- posed to swallow. Coal Strike, Decisive Struggle But the coal strike, because it grew out of the continual class conflict between the most powerful group of American capitalists and decisive sections of the working class—coal, steel and railway capital, and miners employed in a steel company sub- sidiary—far more even than the series of struggles in the textile and shoe industries, has brought into sharp relief the class character of the National Recovery Act and the increasingly active part played by the state and national government in forwarding the fortunes of big capital at the expense of the working class. The coal strike in western Pennsyl- vania has shown clearly that NIRA’s objective is the organization of the employers, the prevention of organi- zation by workers and the disrup- tion and castration of working class organization that may exist. It is of course true that nominally NIRA concedes the right of workers to join organizations of their choice. It is likewise true that in the coal indus- try there are operators who favor organization of miners by the United Mine Workers. These are the so- called “independents,” such as the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company represented by Frank Taplin in Washington, D, ©, They produce for the domestic market for the most part and their economic interests— access to markets, production costs, ete—bring them into conflict with the more powerful coal properties which are appendages of steel, rail- way and automobile concerns. Because such a conflict exists of- ficial leaders of the United Mine Workers like John L. Lewis, William Green of the American Federation of Labor, social welfare workers who have climbed onto the Roosevelt chariot, etc. have found it possible to Spread the theory of “good” and “bad” coal operators. What the “good” coal operators want is to force the “I guess NRA business is just an- other one of those things.” check, at that, as shown above. eye One week of 54 hours netted Ro $3.51 Is Girl's Wage for Full Week’s Work CHICAGO, Ill—What sort of wag- es the workers of the National Pecan Products Co. 15th and Laflin Sts., are striking against is indicated in a photostatic copy of a check re- er, Maggie Clay, for two weeks’ work. Another girl, a fast worker, re- ceived $3.55 for 1144 days’ work. A girl who was a begither made 19 cents on her first full day, and 22 cents on the second day. It was to support such wages that the city of Chicago mobilized police and the Red Squad to attack the strikers’ mass picket lines. It is to support such wages that the Roore- velt administration has set up the strikebreaking N.R.A.. which the AFL. officials have joined to de- clare a “truce” on workers’ struggles. Socialist Party Icader, are “inadvis- able” at this time. ceived by the Daily Worker showing | wages of $3.51, received by one work- | And strikes, says Norman Thomas, | sie bert Fischer $4—and an uncashable Cheat Textile Worker Out of His Back Wages NEW YORK.—Robert Fischer, tex-' tile worker, was cheated out of his starvation wages by the New York Weaving Corporation of 655 Sixth Ave., he told a Daily Worker re- porter yesterday morning. Employed by them last year, he was fired with a balance of $27.50 still owing him on his wages. Last month, he was asked to come back and work again for this firm. After a 54-hour week, he was given a check for $4. The company, formerly the Long Island Weaving Corporation, pays starvation wages. Four dollars is the usual wage for 54 hours work. The employeeS of the place say that sometimes they are not paid for a week and are given six or seven dol- Jars the next week, Nathan Dubinsky is the president of the firm. The two pay envelopes George Carrol received from ihe Macc | Stanofecterng Company tf : the | NRA—$4.32 and $5.85 for two weeks’ work. join us in an evening of fun LAWN & CABARET PARTY, Ozzie Powell Br. 1. L. D., 7th Ave. and 45th St. 9 p.m. unttl—. HOUSE PARTY, French Workers’ Club, 40 W. 65th St., 8:30 p.m. TOM MOONEY WEEK-END by followers of Nature at their camp. Concert, dance for Saturday night, lecture by prominent speaker for Sunday mornitg, and many sport activities, bathing, fishing and dif- ferent games. Directions: Take the West- Shore Railroad on 42nd St. to West Nor- wood, N. J. (Bronx) MEMBERS OF TREMONT WORKERS’ OLUB, participate in Emergency dance at Coney Isiand Center. Come and spend an evening in true proletarian fashion. UNIT PARTY ENTERTAINMENT, refrésh- ments, food music, dancing. Adm. free. At Geto's, 1030 Kelly St., top floor. (Brooklyn) GARDEN PARTY BY JOHN REED BR. 1. W. O. No, 134, at 2006—70th St... Adm. free, Good program, Proceeds for the Communist Party. “MOCK” MARRIAGE, Boro Park Work- ers’ Club, 4314 New Utrecht Ave. Bring your friends to this unusuel affatr, 8:30 p.m. Sunday PIONIC—Tibbets Brook Park. Spend day in open. Good program. Open-air sports. Meet 10 a.m. 238th St., White Plains Road, East Side Subway. jeventy-five per cent of proceeds goes to our magazine, “Soviet Russia Today." Tibbets Brook Park, Lot No, 7. PF. S. U. East Bronx Br. OUTING TO CAMP KINDERLAND by Harlem Progressive Youth Club, 1548 Mad- ison Avo, Trucks leave at 7:30 p.m. Round trip $1. IMPERIAL VALLEY BR. I. L. D. OUT- ING TO VAN COURTLAND PARK. ‘This is to bid good-by to one of our Comrades leaving for Soviet Unien. Committee will be at Mosholu Parkway Sta, from ‘11—1 o'clock. In case of rain party at 288 EL 174th St. ‘W. CG. 18 and Ella May Br. LL.D. giving Beach Party, W. 2nd St. All Beach Coun~ cils urged to participate. ENGLISH BR. I. W. 0. 615 giving 9-course dinner frem 1 p.m. to 9 p.m, . 3rd St. Brighton Beach Workets’ Club. Pro- ceeds to pay dues for those who cannot ay. OPEN FORUM HARLEM INTERNATIONAL BR. ¥. 8. U. 87 W. 128th St. Dr. Rewhen Yound, Md, ‘Soviet Russia.” Adm. 6e. Questions and discussions. 8 p.m. W. E. 8. L. OPEN FORUM, 69 E. 3r¢ 6 Forums free to the public. Speaker: Rob- ert Beck Gren on Fascism in Germany. Post 191. | Coal Strike Shows Necessity of Extending thie | isis ceote 0 tat tae “indepen- Base of NMU, and Rank and File Opposition in U.M.W.A. for Coming Struggles dents” will have a better chance to invade markets now held by the big- ger concerns. Every coal operator figures that if his competitors have to pay higher wages he himself will evade agreements on wage scales and working conditions, in one way or another and thus get the jump on his rivals. The operators know that the UMWA officialdom will make no fight for the miners’ grievances. At the Washington hearings, Lewis in alliance with the “independent” op- erators, gets a chance to pose as a fearless champion of the miners and these operators get a chance to pose as philanthropists. Forces behind Operators But as the recent strike has shown, this is all stage play. The big coal operators, receiving the support of the Roosevelt administration, the UMWA leaders and the Pinchot state government in breaking the strike, know that nothing is going to happen to them insofar as the NIRA is con- cerned. These gentlemen are very class conscious. They are also very practical people. They have seen that it was only with the greatest diffculty and with extensive mobili- zation of the federal forces in sup- port of the UMWA officials; by the use of some 300 armed and deputized Frick company thugs, by the calling out of the national guard and a bar- rage of Washington inspired prop- aganda, that the return to work was brought about. ‘The Frick company superintend- ents know that the very heart of the strike was rank and file organization built around local leaders and that John L, Lewis has very feeble in- fluence in the coke region. The coking coal operators are not swayed by any demagogic appeals in the name of “right” and “justice.” They work on the basis of power and mothing else. They know that the Roosevelt administration dare not and will not proceed against them. They understand that NIRA is a slave pact and they intend to take full advantage of it. Coal companies that have maintained the open shop by murderous terrorism, company towns, company stores and armies of company paid thugs, are willing to big coal companies to increase their use anything that helps to fool the f | LLL RLRTACNNNITT develop into anything resembling improvement in, working conditions. How To Force a Change this is militant mass organization of the miners and the forcing through of the recognition of elected mine committees aind the other points in the program of the rank and file op- position in the UMWA and that of the National Miners Union. ‘The powerful coal companies are willing to play along with the UMWA and use it to head off the rise of militant unionism. It is on this point in the coal strike that the Roosevelt administration gnd_ the U. M. W. A.. officials have shown their basic unity with the big opera- tors against the unity and interests of the miners. ‘No one has convinced the miners that it was wrong to strike. No one convinced the miners, and this is shown by the stubborn manner in which the strikers used every pos- sible pretext to continue the struggle, that the proper thing was to go back to work and await the result of the Washington hearings. Further, it must be remembered that for the most part the miners in other fields, were striking in support of the Frick men and paid but little attention to demands for themselves, The betrayal of the coking coal miners in 1922 and 1927 by the UMWA officialdom was a living issue. Meeting after meeting voted to stay out for at least “one day after the Frick men settle” in order to prevent another betrayal as far as possible, Pinchot‘s “Protection” Pinchot sent in the state militia under the pretense of “protecting” the miners. The militia set up their machine guns at all important road intersections in the coking coal fields, ‘The Frick gunmen and the national guardsmen patrolled the roads to- gether. But the miners did not go back to work. John L, Lewis ordered the strikers to return. But they did ‘not go back to work. Pinchot’s con- ciliators called on the miners to re- turn to the pits and Pinchot him- self told them to go back. But the strike continued. Indirectly, Presi- dent Roosevelt called for an end to % | miners but will not let demagogy | substantial increases in wages and| ‘The only thing that will change | How Roosevelt Used the NIRA to Break the Strike of 60,000 Pennsylvania Coal Miners; Men Are Bitter the strike. “The industrial revival” was threatened by a coal shortage, he said, The miners paid no atten- tion to this heartbreaking appeal. General Hugh Johnson spoke over the radio in Harrisburg and said “God help any man or set of men that get in the way of the National Recovery Act.” But the strike continued. It was not until the continual pressure of the compajnies, their armed forces, the press, the state and national gov- ernment and UMWA officials was climaxed by the visit of Edward Mc- Grady as the personal representative of General Johnson (in itself a method of clearing the Roosevelt skirts in case the strike kept on) convinced the miners that the forces against them were too powerful to combat effectively with their present state of organization, that a decision was reached to call off the strike. Why Miners Went Back ‘The miners did not go back to work because they have confidence in the UMWA code, the national recovery act or the government. They went back because they decided that it was too difficult to fight any longer at this stage of the struggle, and with the present relationship of forces. ‘This is what has happened. There are of course many illu- sions as to the recovery program but when operators in Washington are proposing a basic day scale for the North of $3.49 and $3.14 for the Southern mines, in the most hazard- ous industry in the world, miners understand that the question of wages and hours will be settled in their favor only by united front struggle led by workers elected right from their own ranks, the formation of militant mine committees and a mass industrial union, ‘The coal strike has disclosed the naked truth about the NIRA, It has shown the full force of the govern- ment and all the elaborate investiga- tion 2d conciliation machinery of the recovery act placed at the dis- posal of a group of the most power- ful and ruthless capitalist® (U. S. Steel, Morgan, Mélon, etc.) in the United States. The right of workers to organize and strike has been mocked, They are supposed to act c happy slaves, full of faith in Roo- evelt and Nira his concubine. But they are NOT to be allowed to do the one thing that distinguishes workers from slaves—organize and force from their exploiters by their mass powér the right to work and live at a minimum standard of de- cency. Lessons of Coal Strike To put clearly before the Amer- ican working class the fundamentally important and decisive lessons of the coal strike is a task whose urgency does not allow of delay. To extend the base of the National Miners Union and the rank and file opposi- tiga in the UMWA on the basis of a program developed out of the strat- egy and tactics that the strike has shown to be vitally necessary means to organize the mass challenge to NIRA arid to prepare in the ranks of the miners for the extension of theit struggies that is bound to come. And by no means the, least of these les- sons is that the strike of Frick min- ers brought a response that was not confined to miners in other fields but evoked such sympathy among el workers that in official circle: was @ feeling bordering on panic the result of the fear that any day marching miners would be met in steel towns by steel work- ers and the unity of these two deci- sive sections of the working class welded in struggle against the com- mon enemy. ‘The lords of steel and coal breath | 6To easier for the moment, but there is nothing resembling hilarious rejoicing over the fact that every .re- source except martial law enforced by federal troops had to be used to get rfmers in steel company properties beck’ to work. One battle has ended but the war goes on, Speakers jof the evening will in- clude Frank Spector, International Labor Defense; Carlo Tresca, Italian Defense Committee; Roger Baldwin, American Civil Liberties Union; Ar- turo Giovannitti, Italian Labor Poet; Vanni Monian of La Stampa Libera; Herber Mahler, General Defense Committee of the I. W. W., and Nor- man Thomas, of the Socialist Party. D. W. VOLUNTEER BRINGS IN TEN SUBSCRIPTIONS NEW YORK —A Daily Worker Volunteer, who wished his name withheld, brought in ten paid-up sub- scriptions yesetrday as his first con- tribution to the work of the volun- teers. The Executive Committee of the Volunteers issued an appeal to the trade unions and mass organizations to form Volunteer shock brigades. The first trade union to do so is the Furriers’ Union of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, in which Mary Schneiderman is organ- izing a Volunteer Corps. The Volunteers will meet next Fri- day evening at 8 p.m., on the second floor of the Workers’ Center, to hear the report of their Executive Com- mittee and to give a send-off to Sam Silverman, who won the Daily Worker trip to the Soviet Union. Sam Don, one of the edMors of the Daily Worker, will be the chief speaker, UNITED STRIKE * TO BE PROPOSED AT DRESS MEET NEW YORK.—A huge mass meet- ing of the dressmakers is called for Tuesday at the Hippodrome. 6th Ave. and 46th St., promptly after work. The workers will gather to discuss the general strike which the Needle Trades Industrial Union is calling in the dress industry. Considering the fact that the I.L. G.W. Union is contemplating a strike of its own for the dressmakers, the | Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union has sent its proposals to the leaders of the LL.G.W. to unite the present movement into one big strike, The Needle Trades Workers Indts- trial Union said, “We are convinced that one strike would be very effec- tive in weeding out the sweat shops from the dress industry. Therefore we ask to be informed about the date of the L.L,G.W. call so that we could time the general strike with the other dressmakers. It is still not to late to unite our forces for one gen- eral strike. We are ready to do everything in our ower to bring about a united movement. It is the demand of the workers to have one and only one strike in the dress in- dustry. We are still awaiting the an- swer from the L.L.G.W.U. leaders.” ‘The Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union emphasizes the need that the membership alone and not the leadership of the LL.C.W.U. is com- petent to decide on the policies and the question of one and only one strike. . This Saturday at 12 noon there will be a meeting of the active dress- makers, to be held at the Union headquarters, 131 W. 28th St. to make the necessary preperations for the mass meeting at Hippodrome and the forthcoming gencral strike. All ac- tive dressmakers who will be pres- ent at the Anti-Fascist demonstra- ae alco ha ia wlio na il ig. The union will spread the strike call in the dressmaking centres with leaflets and throw-aways. They will particularly concentrate on the Ne- rs whcese miserable conditions in the sweat shops is summed up in long hours of grind- ing werk in ditty lofts at a° pitiful wages of 10, 8 and as low as 6 dol- lars a week. Militant workers of Harlem, members of the I. L. D. Iwanches, of the Intarnaticnal Work- ers Order and others are asked to cooverate with the unicn in our strike activity. ATTEND THE TRADE UNION UNITY COUNCIL PICNIC AT PLEASANT BAY PARK, TOMORROW, SUNDAY nore distant from solution than ever.| upon the rank and file in the Amer- | cg oy emg Z . . ican Federation of Labor and Rail-| NEW YORK—After @ year’s re-| WHAT'S ON Aone ora ae eer counts, revealed in | road therhoods, to take imme-|jentless siege of unemployment | Saturday of tar a oo prosecuting Ter- Re-| diate steps to defend basic rights| George Carroll got a job weaving | zani, a aan ‘riend of the murdered ely }Of eyery worker; to defend the|rayon for the Mace Manufacturing | 5S WORT ¢ | (Manhattan) anstoe me refuse to divulge the the | right Cy hele the Haht to organ Co., 15 Lawton Ave, Brooklyn. i PERE || DANCE AND ENTERTAINMENT ror ave, is eas ‘pecdeadtan, May t vi r ed that the|ize, and to fight against compulsory] «. ve NATIONAL, PECAN PRODUOTS.CO. | THE BENEFIT COMMODORE Hotel , - t | depositors constituting | arbitration. ek we ped ba Bleed a To Figssir Namonuaw. Bangs, | Ca ee posed, i ne-tenth of 1 per cent of the| “Defy the Executive Council of| they announced that anybody who | 2) Copcage pt oe Cee Cc Z Drs eeu tne “Gommedore workers win| Jt is only the combined efforts | depositors owned 45 per cent of the | the A. F. of L. as you defied them |couldn’t make the $13 in 40 hours_| Eh & thel strike, All workers’ are invited to] Of mass organizations and the + 1 bank deposits in the country! |in the struggle for unemployment} would have to go. I’m an experienced | attend. Good sale ee pte Mako! aroused rank and file that will pre- to further indicate the immense | insurance! Adopt immediate pro-| weaver, worked at it 22 years $3.51 for two weeks’ work. This is the check Maggie Clay got from the | ‘his sicike OSTA TAINMENT, Navienad ase hae ee frame-up of ar. of deposits in the | test resolutions against the National! «phe first few days we'd stand| National Pecan Products Company. student League, 888 Sixth Ave, ‘come and} innocent man from becoming an-