The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 6, 1933, Page 3

NEWS BRIEFS Hurricanes Sweep South. HOUSTON, Texas —Two hurricanes of terrific intensity swept across Texas and Florida yesterday, causing prop- erty damage into the millions. The storm that swept Texas is the same that hit Cuba Saturday. Deaths Mar Air Races. CHICAGO. — Florence Klingen- smith, noted woman flier, was killed here while flying at 200 miles an hour in the race for the $10,000 Phillips trophy. Saturday, Roy Liggett, 22- year-old Omaha flyer, was killed when his plane fell in a test flight. A speed record of over five miles a minute was established here by James R. Wedell of Louisiana. ‘ Registrations IHegal. NEW YORK.—That three thousand (om of the 15,000 registered voters in the 14th Assembly District of Brook- ’ lyn are illegal registrations, ‘was charged yesterday by H. H. Gold- stein, Democratic official. / Machine Supporters Pack A. F. of L. Longshore Meet Few of Rank and File at Wage Conference By H. J. FARMER. NEW YORK.—Thé Atlantic Coast Conference of the Longshoremen’s Association opened yesterday at 164 Eleventh Ave. ‘This is the yearly wage conference @alled to decide what the I. L. A. will ask of the shipowners. Most of the delegates are old-tim- ers at this conference, coming year after year. The Philadelphia Longshoremen will be surprised to know that Polly Baker is representing them again this year (without being elected). There is a worried look in his eyes, ‘but he looks as though the depression had not affected him. He wore a new blue suit, Panama hat (that was too large), a gold watch chain across his oyer-stuffed belly, patent leather shoes—smoking a big cigar. Polly was in the group of the first gang of racketeers I ever saw. Patzi, Gen. Sampson, and the usual hangers-on All of the delegates are enjoying the conference (though some of them looked as though they had had a tough night). There are a few rank and file del- egates. These fellows are out of place and know it! They fe’) ill at ease and don’t kno’ just ‘what to do. They are in no position in num- bers or preparations to defeat the I. machine is well oiled to once more sell out the interests of the long- shoremen. | A committee will be elected at this conference to go to Washington ‘on the 10th for the hearings on the code for the marine. industry, The delegates are strong for a 6- hour day and a dollar an hour wage. This demand was placed before Gen- eral Johnson in Washington August 23rd when the rank and iile delega- tion of the Marine. Workers Indus- trial Union had a hearing with Johnson. There is nothing the long- shoremen can expect from this con- ference. National Events Chicago Celebrates 14th CHICAGO, Ill—The Fourteenth Anniversary Celebration of the Communist Party under the com- bined auspices of the two Party Units and one unit of the Youn, Communist League, will be hel Saturday, September 9, at the Al- bany Park orkers Center, 3507 Lawrence Ave. Prominent ‘speak- ers will teview the history of the Party and stress the significance of this anniversary. Wisconsin Scottsboro Tour. MILWAUKEE, Wis.—The° Milwau- kee district of the International La- bor Defense announces that Ruby Bates and Alice Burke are now tour- ing this city and vicinity. The first of the Scottsboro meetings will be held at Liberty Hall, 8th and West Walnut Sts., on Thursday, Sep- tember 7. On Friday, Sey they will be at Foster's Wisconsin Ave., Racine. Admission for all these mass meet- ings will be ten cents for employed and free admission for unemployed. , 421 BOSTON, MASS. Daily Worker CONFERENCE All Mass Organizations All Trade Unions~ All C. P. Units are called upon to send 2 delegates ton Mass Conference / to initiate the Daily Worker Financial Drive at 10 BEACH STREET BOSTON DAY, SEPT. 10, 2 P.M. Individuals are also invited Retain the 6 and 8-Page “Daily”! International | L, A, steam roller and the I, L, A.| “| anization, the lamp shade workers 8,; With Clem H. Norwood, gave their Weaknesses in It is now seven weeks since the Extraordinary Party Con- ference addressed the Open Letter to the Party and fixed im- portant and concrete tasks for every member and unit and committee of the Party. These weeks have seen the unfolding of the NIRA attacks upon the workers, and the beginning of a movement of struggle to resist these attacks. It is time for serious stock-taking. Have we begun to move events in the direction laid down in the Open Letter? Did we do everything possible to organize and lead the rising mass struggles? What has each of us, individually and col- lectively, done to carry out these tasks? Something has been done. The Steel and Metal Workers’ Union has emerged from its condition of stagnation. Through a few weeks of serious mass work, around the steel workers’ code, it has multiplied its membership several times, begun to penetrate steel plants on a mass basis, conducted six su ful strikes in the steel industry, and several successful strikes in light metal. The textile union, likewise, has begun to grow, on the basis of successful strike leadership and mass mobiliz tion around the textile code demands. A number of minor unions have expanded their membership and activity. The miners’ union is leading serious mass strikes in the West. The revolutionary trade unions as a whole have more than doubled their membership, and several militant independent unions have sprung up alongside them in more or less close co-opera- tion. | Can’t Say We Are Moving All Along the Line| We have made a serious step towards united front of all workers’ organizations prepared to fight against the NIRA, held in Cleveland on August 26-27, including the united pro- gram of struggle for Unemployment Insurance and unification of the unemployed organizations. Our most important weapon, the Daily Worker, has begun to move in the direction of a really popular workers’ mass paper, organizing around itself serious collaboration of hun- dreds and thousands of workers. These are important steps forward. mize them. But can we say that we are already beginning to move We shall not mini- moving” as they should? No, we cannot. Unfortunately, as yet such a claim would be idle boasting. First of all, there is as yet no serious building of the Party, the trade unions and in leading strike struggles. This is true especially in steel, coal and textiles, precisely the three most decisive points. No systematic attention is yet given to Party recruiting. There is not yet that essential concentration of the best forces in the Party section activities, and around the de- LampShadeWorkers| Strike Led by TUUL: PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 5—| After three weeks of intensive or- Weidman Dye of this city were organized for a strike under the leadership of the Lamp and Shade Frame Workers Union of the TUUL. The trade had been organized almost 100 per cent against the NRA wage cut program. The code drawn up by the work- ers calis for recognition of the union | and closed shop; a minimum wage | of $15 a week for beginners; a 35 hour week with provision for 40 hours during the busy season; recog- nition of shop committeesfi and the nition of shop committees, and the left their benches and walked out on and were gathered at the mill gate, at 7 a. m. to urge the day work- ers to follow their example if the compeny failed to grant the de- mands of their committee for wage increases and union recognition, When the management rejected the demands presented by a com- mittee elected from every depart- ment of the plant on both shifts, the workers went back to their de- partments and gave the signal to i Thousands waiting outside the plant applauded and cheered as department after department walked out and turned the walkout into a militant strike demonstra- tion for their demands, Great enthusiasm and determi- nation to spread the strike in the dye industry throughout the city Write to the Daily Worker about every event of interest to werkers which occurs in your factory, trade union, workers’ orgénization or lo- cality. BECOME A WORKER COR-/; RESPONDENT! in the National Trade Union Conference for United Action, | forward all along the line? Can we say that “things are really | even in those fields where steps forward are being made in| By Nat'l Textile Union PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 5.—At 10 o'clock sharp this morning, nearly 1500 workers of the Weidmann Dye shop, one of the largest dye shops in the | Piece Dye Works, of whieh the city, a branch of United Piece Dye Works, shut off the power in the factory, tile Workers’ Union, The night workers had already declared for the strike | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1933 Out the Open Letter | Carrying r mus? now understand that it depends on cor- the EXECUTION of the correct policy whether | the masses of workers for struggle and whether in this historically favorable situation will becom: the decisive mass Party of the American proletariat, or whether the bourgeoisie with | the help of its social-fascist and fascist agents will succeed in disor- | | ganizing the mass movement and keeping it down. Never before was | the situation in the country so favorable for the development of the munist Party into a real revolutionary mass Party. | It is idle chatter to talk about the revolutionizing of the working class by the Party untess the Party conquers a firm basis for itself among | | | textile workers, It is idle chatter to speak about the leading role of the Party without ectablishing contacts with the decisive strata of the work- | crs, mobilizing these workers and winning them over to our side. —FROM THE OPEN LETTER. cisive factories. The Section Committees have not yet pulled themselves together for a collective drive forward to carry out the Open Letter. There is not yet a serious improvement in the work of the units, especially the shop units. —— Secondly, while the workers are responding with enthusi- asm to the improved Daily Worker, yet most cf the District land Section leade: ships of the Party have shown a callous in- | difference to it, especially in regard to circulation, that can only be characterized as scandalous. Because of these weaknesses, the rising wave of working- class struggles is threatening to sweep over our heads instead of placing us at the head of a mass movement, of which we are the conscious guides and organizers. Most serious political | weaknesses are showing themselves. The right danger is grow- ling acute, Local leading cadres in many cases attempt not to face and solve difficult problems, but to slide around them, to | evade them by “clever tricks”. seen such things as our own comrades surrender to the illusions of the workers about NIRA, trying to organize them into metal and steel workers, railroad workers, auto, marine and | | | Open Letter Not Studied Sufficiently | For example, we have even | “gnions” on the basis of “supporting Roosevelt” and “keeping | tention than ever m out the reds”, thinking to “outwit” the reformist misleaders | tinve to ignoré‘it, as in most district by looking as much like them as possible. This tendency shows| Many workers are going into the A. F. of L.; | itself not often in such flagrant examples, but the same di-| Work there means to leave them at the mercy of the bureau- | strengthening of the foundati roots firmly among the workers who are moving into struggle. | This is even more true in mining th: we already have mass contacts. ‘of the Party, units and sections, have not consolidated them- | selves. Chicago as yet does not move in s from=our own inner is demonstrated by the f results; ~Leok a: the succ spontaneously c | condition of r¢ ot th es. Clevel: |nings of t |naturé, brt n small ad political can 1 sho e union in ] ve been lost advances have been isolated fr to be-isolated and does not yet it is of NoW, more than ever, our forces inside the A. F. rection is taken in such “little things” as keeping away the | ¢Tats. Daily Worker from strike meetings and headquarters, and a| | host of similar actions, such as hiding the face of the revolu-| These things cannot be remedied fundamentally merely by de- | | cress from above by the Central Committee! Thy can only be overcome by the energetic, clear-headed, and bold initiative of | tionary unions, and especially of the Party. These are danger signals. They show that the Party as ja whole has as yet not sufficiently studied, understood, and | begun to apply the Open Letter. | The condition of the whole Party is not improyed much | | by the progress of the four main industrial concentration dis- |tricts. Pittsburgh has moved—but not yet with decisive Members of the Party! the members and lower Party | help and participation of the Central Committee and District You must take charge of things from below! Cominittees! Everyone into ac | Letter! political and organizational sful strike in G ing under our leadership, inéss to struggle among the auto have not yet made use of this condition in the | Detroit; during these months of rising activity. vs for the f ight indust 3 yet in b: ation before the NIRA ballyhoo, and of hiding the face of the militant unions. rom the Party, Avpeals to the Entire Party Membership |in all dtstricts of the old mistaken idea that we cannot both build the’ militant unions of the T. U. U. L. time the left wing opposition inside the A. F. of L. More at- | xst be given to this problem. Section and District Committees! tion to carry out the tasks of the Open Page ‘Act to Crush Yakima Fruit Pickers’ Strike WithReignofTerror s of the Party, of sinking its!100 in Jail as Workers Battle National Guard; Striker Whipped YAKIMA, Wash. Sept. 5—A fero- | cious reign of fascist terror has been developed by the local Viligantes to crush the strike of fruit pickers here 1 in steel, where at least | ecially the lower organs | teel; its growing trade | i - <waly ¢ 5 g ¢ in | Five workers were taken from jail by et a S e smallest shops and unions are y t almo: it entirely in Ah nalle Bt shops and in | Natlonsl, Chanmamen, aecniy enecerd | | light industry; the miners have not yet een fundamentally in-| ana rich farmers 24 0. horae- | fluenced by us; the unemployed movement is lagging. | whipped. } S ‘ ‘ D. M. Boskeljon, secretary of the In Detroit, where the auto industry predominates, and| united Farmers League, after being where:the Auto Workers’ Union had led the way with suc bey age nies Pte ibsie es - a, he 0 the J ful strikes so long ago as last F ebruary, this good start has | cnerift ha was then taken ot ot |not been followed up. That the condition in Detroit results town and horse-whipped. His scalp ain *t --Kl ( ao Sasa and painted red. Finally he was dragged over the ground with a rope around his neck and left in a semi-conscious state 25 miles ircg1 the nearest city. The workers getting pitiably low | wages were organized by the LW.W. No sooner had picket lines been es- tablished, when a gang of three hun- dred uf invaded the or- chai Armed with iron pipes, pick handles, and mounted on horses, they tacked the 100 pickets. The work- defended themselves. As a re- lt fifteen were injured seriously. About 80 were placed in jail. As the LW.W. was unequipped to prepare an adequate defense for the arrested pickets, the International Labor Defense offered its services. It immediately called a mass meeting of kers and poor farmers. But this ing, too, was attacked by an armed force of National Guardsmen, veaknesses, at even a little real work gets rand Rapids, almost | saling a general vorkers. We main center, | irst time in ye small begin- worthy | uven some because of to the A. F. of L., mall trade union which continues tantially. Even the grow su who, after a two-hour battle with aAnaee ES CE tear gas and machine guns, dispersed necessary to seriously build up| i). workers, who sgain put up a L. There is still the remnants | valiant defense Now, about 100 workers are being held in jail on various charges, rang- ing from first degree assault to crim- inal syndicalism. The authorities are erecting a stockade for the atmed thugs of the state, in order to smash this strike. No meetings are being permitted, and the workers are de- nied all legal rights. The I. L. D. has issued a United | Front appeal to the general defense committee of the I. W. W. to smash the fascist t&rror. and at the same If we con- all our work will suffer. | to neglect the Miners, Factory Hands Strike Against NIRA in Tacoma; Mills Close TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 5.—A num- ber of strikes was the answer of Washington workers to the Roose- velt slavery act. Roslyn miners have committees, with more active | defied John L. Lewis, the government + | strike breaker, and are striking for Nearly a Million in | Profit Made by United Strike Led PATERSON, N. J.—The United | Weidmann shop in Paterson, which is on strike, is a subsidiary, made ample profits in the crisis year of 1932 to enable them to increase the wages of the werkers and impreve their working conditions, In 1332 the company paid divi- dends to their stockholders amounting to $896,337 while at the same time they set aside $1,100,000 for depreciation. The item for de- preciation is part of the surplus of the firm used to build up and ex- tend the industry. strike at the call of the National Tex- , Was expressed by the strikers. To-| |night a strike meeting at 612} o will co: r 1. Steps lare being taken call out | | branches of the plant in Haw- thorne and Lodi. | Shop delegates of many dye | shops, at a conference called by| the A. F. of L. last night, voiced | emphatic opposition to the propos- als of the A. F. of L. officials to |leave the matter of their demand: qu to to the NRA authorities in Wash-|favor a strike. ington. Many spoke in favor of| The National Textile Workers’ following the example of the} Union calls upon the workers in Weidmann workers and going on|all the dye shops in Paterson and strike, instead of waiting for the’ euccounding cities to join the ranks F RA. Officials adjourned the meet-|of the Weidman workers and pre- ing when the workers appeared to pare to strike, 15,000 Workers at the Funeral of * A. F. of L. Officials| Plead for Boss Class Loyalty PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 5.—| In indignation and sorrow, 15,000| Philadelphia workers gathered at McPherson Sq., Kensington, to pay their respects to Frank Milnor, who lives on the picket line at the Cam- bria Silk Hosiery Mill last Thurs- day, victims of police bullets. Nor- wood’s body was sent to North Car- Olina, his birthplace, for burial The funeral arrangements open-air meeting were in hi of the A. F, of L. offi who feared the tremendous resentment of the workers against this murder and attempted to dampen the work- ers’ spirit and divert the meeting into a patriotic demonstration, Speakers were all A .F. of L. of- ficials: McKeown, er and Ritchy of the Hostery Union, and na Adolph Hirschbewz «' thy C2. ¢2 Labor Council. No mention was made of the class struggle in which these two workers fell victims of class hatred and oppression, No criticism of the police or the arm- ie oe Seabs was voiced by: these labor “leaders.” Strikebreaking was defended by them and one speaker attributed ‘the murder to “God’s will.” A aie detail of police min- led with the crowds and escorted the slain picket’s mother behind the murdered picket’s bier. No doubt this was arranged to give patriotic color to the ithering, Hirschberg even spoke of this working class mother as a “gold star” mother. To lessen the effect of this boss class murder, A. F. of L, officials in’ a circular entitled “Ruthless Murder,” ask that the flag of American imperialism be lowered at half mast during-the next week in open alliance with the bosses in their papel deeds against the working The mass funeral demonst Mass Funeral for Murdered Picket ration in Philadelphia for Frank Miln or, one of the two pickets of the Cambria Silk Hosiery Mill who battled scabs to prevent them from entering the plant and were shot by police, Protecting the strikebreakers, Clem H, Norwood was algo murdes ‘UMW Tries to Break FREDERICKTOW? —The Melros? min? South Fayette Ccrl Company ar still out in swite of the UMWA of- ficials,~who have been urging the men to rsturn to the pit When tke. district crsenizer Kram- h told the min “This is the . 2 to tell you (to er! | back, wants you here.” \Maine Workers Strike 'As NIRA Backs Boss | PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 5.—Work- | ers of two Capitol Restaurants here walked out out when the owner, un- | der the provisions of the restaurant |code paid the same minimum wage to all workers below executive rank. | The workers declared they were get- ting 26 cents an hour for a 54 hour week with $3 deducted for meals. [Piece Dye Works Melrose Mine Sirike | “4 are | $5.40 for 6 hours and a five-day x : 5 . week. Lewis wants the miners to Furniture Strike in return to work under the old seale, | Boston Going Strong; | which means starvation, | ‘ The Northwest Woodenware Go. Bosses Call for Scabs| workers walked out when hours were | o far that although the hourly 5.—Furni-| Vase wes raised the weekly wage wes much lower, Two lumber mills closed down as | a result of overproduction and laid | off over 300 workers. BOSTON, Mass., Sept ture strikers here turned down the | offer cf the Federal Arbitrator, Woeds, “settle” the general strike of some 500 workers in 21 shops The bosses have advertised for| _ de | scabs. They are ready to gnize | | the of L. union bu are holding out firmly. Some | h the Furniture Work have already settled and others | Union Neverthe! || Workers Cooperative Colony 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST | (OPPOSITE BRONX PARK) | has now REDUCED THE RENT | ON THE APARTMENTS AND SINGLE ROOMS | CULTURAL ACTIVITIES \|| Kindergarden; Classes for Adults and Children; Library; Gymmastam; Clubs and Other Privileges NO INVESTMENTS REQUIRED 3EVERAL GOOD APARTMENTS & SINGLE ROOMS AVAILABLE Take Advantage of the Opportunity. 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