The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1933, Page 3

® ‘ : i Eye-Witness to Murder of Negro Points Out ‘vx Own Assailant; Not All Guards Called ‘ B DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1933 General Wood to Court-Martial Utah Mine Strike Leaders SHAHIAN SEEKS SLAYER OF! National MATTHEWS IN LINE-UP OF|_“vents_}, } . effort to pick Matthews’ The majority of the guards were from Welfare Island, presumably on. duty in that section of the city prison’ in which Matthews had been confined, while a number were brought from Harts Island where Shahian himself had been attacked. Not all of the guards at the prison were called out for identification. Untermeyer Denies Application. At the same time, Supreme Court Justice Erwin Untermeyer, son of. Samuel Untermeyer, the Tammany advisor, denied John L. Spivak’s ap- plication for an order compelling Commissioner of Correction Cahill tq permit Spivak to see the Correction Hospital records which prove the charge that James Matthews was murdered on Welfare Island. The ap- plication was made through Attorney Elias Schwartzbard. Frankly serving notice that the right of citizens to view public records was confined to property owners. Justice Untermeyer, in denying the. application, said, that he did so “without prejudice,” and that an- other application may be filed pro- viding it is accompanied by proof that Spivak is a tax-payer. Identifies Own Attacker. While Shahian was unable to identify positively the guard who at- tacked Matthews, he nevertheless did point out Edward Dross, the guard, who had assaulted him, knocking three of his own teeth out. He singled out another guard who he said looked like the man who murderously slug- ged Matthews, but inasmuch as he was not absolutely certain that he was the man, Shahian refused to aes @ positive identification. The eye-witness to the Matthews ( murder drove to Welfare Island in a }/police car with the Assistant District Attorney and the I. L. D. lawyer, and upon their arrival great curiosity was evinced by the inmates who had ap- parently heard of the “big stink” via the “grapevine route.” A few minutes later the uniformed guards were lined up on an upper tier and Shahian walked up and down for about ten minutes examin- | ing them closely while the guards | looked sullenly at Shahian and his attorney. Shahian told Assistant District At= _ torney Price that accidents are usu- | ally reported, and the Welfare Island prison records ought to contain the name of the guard who brought in “suggested that Price examine the the report regarding Matthews. He “records. The assistant district attor- i NEW YORK.—Accompained by his attorney, Edward Kuntz, of the International Labor Defense, and Assistant District Attorney Saul Price, Mark Shabian, who charges that Welfare Island guards murdered James Matthews, a Negro inmate, yesterday Viewed thirty uniformed guards in an assailant. 1 SES Das LODE ARRAS Ne LEN card, “here we have the record show- ‘that, “I am not through with this = mney promised to “look into it.” Warden “Genial” This Time While the prison guards seemed! openly hostile, Warden Schleth was}. all salve. He was extremely ingratiat~ ing and very eager to please. “You | see, counselor,” he said, “our records show....” he kept on repeating. Clearly revealing that the Daily }with the Chicago Embroidery Manu- Worker expose of Welfare Island |facturers Association and the shops greatly disturbed him, the warden|belonging to the association, which outdid himself in the social ameni-' ties. “ thbhdebdebbdbbbb bbb bt Meet Your PURE hy,” said he, holding up al: at the New--Modern-- Up-To-Date ALE RAIL BAR AND GRILL 106 East 14th Street Between Fourth Avenue and Irving Place \WHERE YOUR NICKELS AND DIMES BUY THE MOST AT PROLETARIAN PRICES _ KING'S BEza ~ ON DRAUGHT OPEN DAY. ing the day, Shahian arrived here,” not an important detail, but signifi- cant thought the warden, to indicate the accuracy of their records. Assistant District Attorney Price's “thorough investigation” is apparent- ly off again, for he yesterday in- formed Attorney Kuntz that, “I'll be in touch with you and let you know when I need Shahian again.” Price was careful to add hastily, however, yet, of course.” HARLEM PROTEST THURSDAY NIGHT A united front protest meeting against the murder of James Mat- thews on Welfare Island will be held this Thursday evening at Abyssinian Baptist Church, 138th St., between Seventh and Lenox Aves., under the auspices of the Harlem branch of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. Speakers include William L. Patter- son, national secretary of the I.L.D.; Robert Minor, Communist candidate for Mayor; James W. Ford, organ- izer of the Harlem section of the Communist Party, and Herman Mc- Ewaine, for the LS.N.R. Freight Trucking From Philadelphia Paralyzed by Strike PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 18— One hundred million dollars worth of merchandise and perishable goods are estimated to be tied up here as the result of the strike of several thousand truck drivers and helpers engaged in interstate shipping. The strike, under the leadership of the Brotherhood of Transporta- tion Workers, broke out when the Operators rejected the demands of the workers -for a minimum scale of $35 to $62.50 and a 40 to 42-hour week. The men had been getting from $35 to $52.50 for a 48 to 54-hour ‘week. . A. F. of L, union officials offered submit the question to the arbi- ration of the National Labor Board. 'UUL Embroidery Union Wins 45 P.C. Raise for Chi. Toilers CHICAGO, Ill. — The Embroidery Workers Union of the Needle ‘Lrades ‘Workers Industrial Union signed an pagreement, effective on September 12, Tepresents 90 per cent of the trade, This agreement, providing for a Comrades FOOD and NIGHT 1187 N. 41st St. Good food and short speeches are promised. Ad- mission is 15c. | Four Days’ Outing. PHLADELPHIA.—The Workers International Relief has arranged a four days Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 21st to 24th, at the W.LR. office,, 473 N. Fourth St., 10 o’clock in the morning on Tuesday and Friday; Saturday at 2 p.m. Best local pro- letarian talent will entertain. A place to sleep will be reserved. All proceeds for the support of the workers on strike, particularly for the striking workers of the Hellwig Silk Dye Plant in Ken- sington. For 0299. Recent Retail Price Rise Is Sharpest in More Than 10 Years NEW YORK, Sept. 18—Retail prices of all store commodities, such as clothes, shoes, blankets, home furnishings, etc., have advanced more rapidly during the last month than at any time in the last decade, the Fairchild price reports revealed yesterday. The index of retail store pricés on Sept. 1 was 18 per cent higher than when Roosevelt took office in March this year. As a result of the Roosevelt infla- tion program, retail and wholesale merchants are quite open in their predictions that retail prices will continue to sweep upward under the pressure of the Roosevelt program, reaching a level that will be 35-40 per cent higher than March. They expect to see these prices about Oc- tober or November, they say. This upward march of retail costs of clothes, shoes, shirts, ete,, is work- ing severe hardship on large sec- tions of the working class, which is finding out in practice that the re- tail price rise, in the face of either reduced, or, at best, slightly in- creased, wages, is-a wide-sweeping, indirect wage cut affecting all work- ers, The largest shoe merchants de- clare that shoes will cost from 60 cents to $1.50 more per pair. Cotton merchants adimt that the cotton destroying program of Roose- velt’s Secretary of Agriculture, Wal- lace, will add from 10 to 75 cents to the retail price of every shirt. ‘Women’s apparel shows the high- est advance, having soared 25 per cent since March. information call: Market closed shop and a 45 per cent in- crease for the workers, follows a six- month fight for organization. Today no workers can be fired ex- cept with the consent of the union, the employer recognizes the shop chairman and price committee elect- ed by the workers, overtime {s abol- ished and wages have been very sub- stantially increased, outing for Thursday, | © Strikers of the Woolworth Foundry, Greensburg, Pa.; have so that it is entirely shut down, The workers are fighting for higher wages and union recognition. cee “effectively picketed the plant night and day Steel Industry Faces Winter With No Orders Thousands of Workers Face Lay-Offs As Pro- duction Drops Swiftly for Lack of New Business from Main Steel Consumers NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—So rapidly are available orders being eaten up, and so little new business is coming in, that it seems certain that the steel industry will enter the fourth quarter of the year with practically no orders on hand. This was revealed yesterday by “Steel,” the leading magazine of the steel industry. This will mean wholesale firing of @—~ the several thousand steel workers who were hired during the summer months to take care of the recent in- flationary spurt in steel production. The analysis made by steel con- firms the analysis which the Daily Worker has been consistently mak- ing of the steel “boom.” Steel ad- mits that the “recent bulge in pro- duction which ran along for several months was in great part due to stocking of steel in anticipation of higher prices,” not because of any real demand for steel products. The outlook for steel production is made even more disastrous by the fact that the two basic consumers of steel, the railroads and the building construction industry, are not plac- ing any orders. New buying is “vir- tually absent,” “Steel” says. The steel backlog of accumulated orders is now at a point where only once before in the history of steel production has it ever been so low, at the recent low point of the crisis in April. Present developments point to a decline in steel production which will smash through the all-time low made last year of 12 per cent of capacity. Steel men admit the possibility of a new low being made this winter. Strikers Reject NRA Settlement —Strikers of the Boonton Molding Co., who walked out on Sept. 1 in protest against a wage scale under the electrical code which actually meant a wage cut, voted to reject a settlement arrived at by their strike committee, George K. Scribner, the employer and the local NRA, on Saturday. The settlement would have sent the men back to work without any change in, their con- ditions. The local NRA head, who is also head of the Chamber of Commerce, said. the men misunderstood the code. The men, however, refuse to take a cut, code or no code, 270 Girls Walk Out Against American Can Co. Wage Code JERSEY CITY, N. J.—Police under orders to keep union organizers away from the 270 girls who walked out spontaneously yesterday against the Proposed code of 30 cents an hour presented by the American Can Co., attempted to arrest a Daily Worker reporter on suspicion. ‘The walk-out was accomplished without any outside leadership or or- ganization, a girl from each depart- ment was selected by the workers to speak for those in her section. These workers must elect a strong strike committee to carry their demands to the boss of the American Can Co. if they are to win wage increases and better hours. An official of the comuany speak- ing for Arthur Saalrach, superin- tendent of the plant and who refused to be quoted, said that “the girls don’t know what they want. They just read a couple of codes presented by other factories in the same line and decided they ought to get more than our code proposed. It’s just a misunderstanding,” he added, “the girls will be back tomorrow.” When Saalrach’s statement was re- peated to Anne, an older and more militant girl, she said, “Yeah, we'll on him if we don’t know what we want? Registration for Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—All Phila- delphia workers who want to vote for the workers’ candidates in the next election must register. Reg- istrations will be taken any time between October 2 and 28 at Room 824, City Hall, between 9 and 12 AM. and 1 afd 4 P.M. It is im- perative for all to register, Mr. William Green of A.F.L. Makes (Continued from Page One) thousand. In this connection it 1s worth while to note that the building trades unions that have expelled hundreds of thousands of members in the last four years for non-payment of dues, have in the last weeks also tried to pad their membership and have be- come more lenient towards the un- employed and have even reinstated some membership. This, as can be seen, was part of the little family fight in the top +teadership of the American Federation of Labor. Actual Growth of A. F. of L, What are the actual facts as to the recruitment into the A. F. of L.? The figure of 300,000 new members, which we estimated and made pub- lic some time ago, as against the original figure of a million, which Green boasted about, it is, without doubt, correct. Of this number, more than 200,000 we had alloted to three industries—mining, textile and needle. But we can add that many of these new recruits in these indus- tries do not yet consider themselves part of the: A. F. of L. and some have already fallen away. This is to be seen from the fact that the majority of the newly-organized min- ers are not paying dues. Not all are actual members. They merely signed a card giving the U.M.W.A. the right to represent them in the negotia- tions. These same miners are now again on strike, despite the wishes of Lewis and Green, In the textile industry the silk pletely leadership. Here we already witness a falling off of membership in the A. F. of L. union, As for the basic trustified indus- tries of steel and auto, the A. F. of L,, while gaining some membership, has hardly made any serious im- pression. Aside from this the A. F. of I. Council does not state how many workers have left the A. F. of L, since last October, but merely state that 500,000 will have been added since the last convention, Furthermore, there has already been a distinct slowing down of the trend for organization into the A. F. | they are told by the leaders not to 47 Delegates Attend First Youth Steel Conference in Penn. PITTSBURGH, Pa. Sept. 18— Forty-seven young steel workers at- tended the first Youth Steel Confer- ence held here on Sunday. The delegates, representing 35,700 work- ers, stressed the low wages and the speed-up conditions with which the young workers in the steel mills are faced. Indications of the militant spirit of the steel workers were re- ported by two delegates from the Woolworth Foundry of Greensburg. After drawing up a program call- ing for a minimum wage of $5 a day on a 6-hour day and 30-day week, no night work for youths under 21,| |no discrimination against Negro and young workers, two 15-minute rest periods a day on full pay, and med- {eal attention for female workers, the delegates pledged themselves to organize the young workers in their plants around these demands. A committee of 15 was elected to un- dertake the leadership of the young steel workers, with the help of the Steel and Metal Workers’ {ndustrial Union. Among the steel mills represented were the following: . Woolworth Foundry, Cones and Laughlin Alle-| quippa, Southside, So Ho, Columbia Steel Central Tube, Shang Chalfant, | Mclintic Marshall, A. M. Byers, Na- | tional Electric, and Republic Steel. RFC Negotiating $50,000,000 Credit To the Soviet Union NEW YORK. — Negotiations are now going on between the Recon- struction Finance Corporation and the Amtorg Trading Corporation of this city to arrange a $50,000,000 to $75,000,000 loan to the Soviet Union. The R.F.C. is ready to grant the loans, it is reported, but final agree- ment on details has not yet been reached, although announcement of agreement is expected soon. The Government, through the | RFC. is eager to get some of the vast purchases which the Soviet Union has been making in other countries. The Soviet Union is now considered to be one of the richest | markets in the world. If it were per- mitted to place its huge orders for | machinery and manufactured articles in this country, it would create thou- sands of new jobs, it was said. 5 Page Viree MORE JAILED, HELD INCOMMUNICADO; LL.D. URGES MASS PROTESTS Demand Abolition of| Martial Law and | Gunmen Rule ¢ NEW YORK.—Appealing to an| districts, sections, branches, of the organization, and to all sympathetic organizations and individuals to help with mass protest and with funds to smash the reign of terror in the Utah and New Mexico coal fields, the International Labor Defense to- day raised the following demands: Abolition of martial law. Disarming of deputized company) gunmen. | Right of the strikers and their} sympathizers to self-defense and to defense by their attorneys in civil) courts. i Release of all arrested strikers and their sympathizers. | Withdrawal of National Guard| and U, S. A. army forces from Gal- | lup, N. M., and Helper, Utah. | Repeal of the Utah Criminal Syn- dicalism law. Immediate public recognition of | to a trade union of their own choos- ing. Wires with these demands have been sent to Governors Blood and Seligman of Utah and New Mexico} and to President Roosevelt. | The call of the I. L. D. asked all} organizations to send wires, letters| and resolutions with these demands to these three officials, from their organizations, from all regular meet- ings, and from meetings to be espe- cially called. Protest New Jailings In Mine Strike, Help | Them Win; Send Aid’ With the increased terror, a new | flood of protest telegrams should | be sent immediately to President | Roosevelt, Governor Blood of Utah, and Governor Seligman of New | Mexico. The miners are strengthening | their picket lines, determined to stick until they win. But relief is | running very low. Funds are needed for food and defense. | All workers are urged to send funds to the Relief and Defense | Committee, National Miners Union, | Box 218, Gallup, New Mexico. | Kentucky Coal Miners | Protest Armed Terror In Utah Mine Fields) —— | PINEVILLE, Ky., Sept. 14—A | group of miners here, affiliated | with the National Miners Union and the United Mine Workers of America, sent the following tele- 4gram of protest to Governor Blood of Utah condemning the use of state militia to smash the general strike of miners. “We, a group of Kentucky min- ers,” reads the telegram, “members of the N.M.U. and the U.M.W.A,, have unanimously passed a motion to protest to you the treatment of miners on strike in your state. | “We demand for the miners the | All Schools Closed By Strike of 2,000 Kids GALLUP, New Mexico, Sept. 18. —Five more strikers were arrested here near the office of the National Miners Union on orders from Gen- eral Wood, dictator here under martial law rule. A total of eleven are now in jail being held incom- municado for court martial set for tomorrow. General Wood is the son of the late General Leonard Wood, former governor-general of the Philippines, and an experienced ~~ | strikebreaker. Attorney Tittman, representing the arrested strikers, was refused admittance in court when attempt- ing to defend the miners. All schools in this city have been closed by a strike two hours after the arrest of students. Two thows- and of the school children paraded around the county jail despite the |the right of the miners to belong) presence of the military. All Strike Leaders Held By Military Authorities in Utah Miners Retaliate By Withdrawal of All Maintenance Men DENVER, Colo., Sept. 18.—AN strike leaders of the National Min- ers Union in the Helper, Utah, coal strike, are still being held incom- municado by military authorities. No charges have been filed against them. The purpose is to hold the leaders while the military authori- ties and company gunmen try to drive the men back to work through a reign of terror. Attorney Robert LaFollette of Albuquerque filed a writ of habeas corpus in the Federal Court at Santa Fe. All newspapers in this vicinity are featuring the wire of protest sent by the International Labor Defense, by its secretary, Patter- son, to Governor Blood of Utah and Governor Seligman of New Mexico. The strikers are swiftly retailiat- ing against the terror by ordering the withdrawing of all maintenance men at the mines and cancelling present negotiations with three of the mine owners. Picketing has been strengthened. right to strike and picket; the right to belong to any union they choose. “We demand the withdrawal of state militia from the strike zone, and that gun thug rule be stopped.” Some Admissions--and Some Threats of L. The workers do not see why they should join the A. F. of L. since strike, that the N. R. A. will take care of everything. This has been the latest development which occu- pied the attention of the A. F. of L. Council and which prompted it to new maneuvers, about which we shall speak later. Growth of Militant Unions However, this is not all. At the same time other organizations have, gone forward and organized the work- | ers. The unions affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League have al- ready recruited close to 75,000 new members in the course of the last few months. And one of the most im- portant features of this gain by the TUUL unions has been the gain in such industries as textile, mining in the western sections (Utah, New Mex- ico) and above all in the steel in- dustry where the Steel and Metal Workers Union has recruited more members than the AFL organization. In this industry the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union alone has conducted a number of important and successful strikes. Furthermore there have been formed a number of im- portant independent unions that are close to the program and policies of the TUUL organizations. Such or- ganizations have been formed in the textile, cement, packing and numer- ous other industries. * * . * WE take these unions into account then we can state that the number of workers organized into the TUUL and militant independent unions are almost 50 per cent of the number of workers recruited by the American Federation of Labor. Aside from the mining industry, the specific gravity of the recruitment here is greater than that of the AF of L because they include more decisive industries, while at least half the recruitment of the AFL has been in the needle industry. And finally with the growth of the membership of the AFL in mining, textile and needle there has been a growth of the left wing oppo- sition in these unions. All this is now being grasped by the AF of L chiefs and they are planning to counteract this developmente It is in the light of this situation | defended against the workers for so that we must understand the state- ment by Green that the AF of L will organize the unorganized, that the AFL alone will organize the work-| ers and that there is no room for any other labor movement. This is a clear recognition of the activity and thegrowth of the TUUL unions. It is a recognition that there is an- other labor movement. It is the mili- tant trade union movement. This is not limited to the unions affiliated to the TUUL and the other independ- ent unions. It is also existing right within the AF of L organization in the organization and activity of the growing left wing oppositions. Mr. Green now promises to orga- nize the unorganized. Where have you been, Mr. Green, all these ycars? Why all of a sudden are you so con- science-stricken that you are going to “help” the unorganized steel workers, auto workers and others. We under- stand the reason. Because you and a section of the employing class, many of the government officials realize that the workers are organizing into the left wing organizat‘ons. You and/ the government want to crush these) militant unions. You want to drive the workers into the AF of L. You are attempting to divert the move-! ment of the workers for struggle against the employers. You are as usual coming to the assistance of the employers whose interests you have jong. Mr. Green is now like at the time of the last world war trying to herd the workers in basic industries, in industries connected * with war preparations into the AF of L for the der that Mr. Green is nervous, that the Executive Council is nervous. It} is because the bosses are nervou It is because the government is learn- ing in Utah and Mexico that even Federal troops csnnot stop the strug- flies of the mints. Some Admirsion on NRA—And Why? Mr. Green and his colleagues also speak about fighting for higher wages and shorter hours. They already tell the workers that the NRA which is of course still good for the workers, has not done as much as was ex- pected. What else can they say to the silk workers who are fighting against the $13 code? But this is just for public consumption. This is for the purpose of gaining the confidence of the workers to carry through the old betrayal. For we can ask Mr. Green whether or not he voted for the NRA cudes thet were wo! out by the administration. He di He voted for the steel code. He voted for the open shop auto code. He and Lewis have voted for and even demanded} the strengthening of the clause deal-! ing with compuls rbitration and; outlawing of strikes, He has and is} fully supporting the attack on the! workers carried through with the aid of the NRA. Did not Mr, Green and‘ McMahon vote for the $13 textile code? They did. In fact it was proy- en by the NRA officials at the cotton hearing that Mr. McMahon worked out the $13 cotton code, »And today is not this same Mr, McMahon try- ing to send the silk Workers back to Work without any gains? At a time] when there are over 50,000 silk and silk dye workers on strike, with the purpose of continuing starvation con- ditions and preventing strikes. Mr. Green in his announcement about or- ganizing the unorganized, announces the policy of the employers and the government to prevent the workers from organizing into unions of their own choosing and fighting for better conditions. The workers will more and more learn to understand this. They are learning it in the textile industry, they are learning it in the mining industry, The Neel workers who are*joining the Steel and Metal Workers Union have learned this. ‘They have repudiated the strike- breaking activity of the AF of L lead- ers in the steel industry. Little won- entire industry tied up by the strike. But the workers voted unanimously against the McMahon truce. Not only the workers organized in the National Textile Workers Union, and the inde- pendent unions but the workers or- ganized in the AF of L union voted unanimously aga‘nst the McMahon truce. Little wonder that Mr.'Green rush- es in with some sweet words that the NRA has not solved anything. The workers, however, as can be seen from the silk strike, will not be so easily fooled at this time. Unemploynient Insurance Mr. Green states that the coming convention will be the largest since 1917. Does he mean in membership? | This is a lie. After the war the AF | | of L had between four and five mil-| lion members, twice the present mem- bership. What happened? Green and his predecessor Gompers betrayed these workers. They found that they} could not improve their conditions through the policies of Gompers and| Green. They left or. were driven out| through expulsions and other means| when they took up the fight despite} the leaders. The last convention, be- cause of the pressure of the rank and file, went on record for unemploy- ment insurance. And what has the Council to report to the coming bes vention? One would think that there is no more unemployment. The rank and file of the AF of L and the work-| ers throughout the country should ask| Mr. Green what activity did the red of L carry on for unemployment in- surance in the last year? The Coun-/ cil has completely forgotten, sabot-| aged and openly opposed the fight for | unemployment insurance. We Fight for United Labor Movement So long as the Greens and Wolls} and Lewises are at the head of the| AF of L there will be another labor | vement. One led by the Greens} ying to stop the struggles of the orkers, preaching the common in-; rests of the bosses and the workers. | The other based on the united strug-| ge of the workers against their em- ployers. And furthermore the reform- | ist policies of the Green will rally; jess and Jess workers. The class strug- | gle policies of the TUUL will rally; more and more workers. The division is not between the) AF of L ond the Trade Union Unity | League. The divison is between the! Greens on the one side and the work- ers of both organizations on the other. | There is no quarrel between the rank) and file of the AF of L and the) TUUL. The aims of the workers of both organizations are the same even though they are not always fully con-} scious of it. The left wing will not abandon the work in the AF of L/ organizations. It will increase and improve it. It will fight for the unity of all workers on the basis of a united front program expressing the interests of the workers of the various unions. It will unite the work of the left op- positions in the AF of L with the ac- tivity of the TUUL unions more and more. And we shall continue and in- tensify the fight for one union based on the policy of the class struggle in each industry, This we shall achieve in each indus- try, in the labor movement as a whole when we succeed in unmasking the policies of the Greens and Lewises, and liquidate their influence in the organizations they now control. The road for one union in each industry; is not a smooth one. There are many problems, many difficulties to be over-. come. It may take on in different industries different forms. We on our part shall always be willing to see the content and not quibble about the form. We stand for the demo- cratic décisions of the workers based on the principle of the class struggle. Today the first step in this direction lies in the development of the united struggle of the workers irrespective of their union affiliation, in the strengthening of the TUUL unions, in the strengthening of the opposition work in the AP of L untons. As for the threat Mr. Green makes that “there is no room for any other ‘ labor movement,” we know he is only stating what the employers and. the government are already doing with the aid of Green—trying to crush the militant unions, refusing to them, But the workers think quite differently. The miners strike while Lewis in their name promises no strikes, The silk workers refuse to go back to work after McMahon ! promises to send them back. The » Brockton shoe workers repudiate the ! agreement reached by the AF of 1 leaders and the NRA. Thus we can see flat not only can Green not speak for all workers, the overwhelm- ing majority of whom are not in the AF of L, but he cannot even speak for the rank and file of the AF of L. The employers and the Roosevelt government are trying to help Green. This is the meaning of Green's latest statement. But more and more the workers speak for themselves. More and more the militant unions and | AF of L left oppositions not only rep- resent but speak for the workers. ‘They will force the employers to deal with them and the unions of their fholce ’ \ aorasare enna: