The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 21, 1933, Page 3

~ F DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1933 rage Three Fails to Stall Off US. Dist. Attormey SQLIDARITY OF SILK Shop Organization Makes Promise to STRIKERS SM ASHES NRA by Company Union Act on Dope Charge Shoot Picket in [Big Bdkers Announce Higher Wilkesbarre, Pa. Bread Prices; 33 Per Cent Rise Seen Silk Strike Area pnb heeielea iS Strikers Seek to Close Down Valley Mills WILKES-BARRE, Pa,, Sept. 20.—| When he saw a picket Ihe of 400 strikers gather at the gates of the Schneider Silk Mill in Swoyersville the superintendent of the mill stepped into the street and without warning fired three shots into the picket line, wounding ~ Stanley Bosek, a picket. State troopers were on the scene to protect the scabs. They arrested | the mill superintendent, who was } later released on $1,000 bonds, The strikers at the Schneider mill here are among the most militant in this strike area and haye been pick- eting the Hess Goldsmith mil, one of the largest in the section, to win the workers out on strike. Weavers | in all the mills are involved in the strike and are preparing. to. bring out the throwers, and to closé down the entire Wyoming Valley mill region until the bosses grant their demands. Many of these workers are joining the Independent Union. Efforts are now being made by the strikers here to connect the strike committee more closely with the committeés in Allentown, Paterson and Scranton to form a united strike committee for the whole= national strike front to win the demands, National Events Lumberville W.LR. Camp. PHILADELPHIA, Pa—The Work- ers International Relief is arranging a 4 day outing at the WIR camp in Lumberville, Pa., The prices are 4 days for $4.00, beginning today and ending Sunday night, 21st to 24th of Sept. Tricks leave WIR office, 43 N. 4th St, Thursday, 10 a.m. Friday, 19 a.m. Bs Saturday, 2 p.m. Tel. _—— f f Symposium on War. / NEWARK, N. J. — The Newaxk Committee for the Struggle Agaithst War will hold a symposium on fhe war danger and the danger of ffas- cism tonight, at 8:30 p.m., at {the Workmen’s Circle Lyceum, 190 Bel- mont Ave, ¥ St. Louis Anniversary Celebration. — ST. LOUIS—The Party. saty Célebration, sched place at the Gayety Theatre, held instead at the People’s Building, Jefferson and/ Marke’ Sunday, Sept. 24th. . will be the mass meeting, and; in the evening there will be a dance. Prices Spreads in Jersey Towns NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-—Un-| der the impact ¢f the Roosevelt |price-raising program, the | price of bread i) moving swiftly upward, the levest reports re- veal, j The accompan ing letters, typical of thousands of/similar ones being sent throughoutfthe country, were posted by thres large New York baking compaties, the Rockwell Bakery, Teitelbsums, and the Ar- cadia. It is significant that the hig price rise is justified by these bak- ing companies as part of their loy- | alty to the Rogsevelt N. R. A. price- raising progran. The letter of the Rockwell Bakery declares that the price rise is due to the fact that “The baking indusiry is co-operating | |wholeheartedly with President Roose- | velt’s N. R. A. program.” | The prices shown in the top let-| ter show extraordinarily steep ad-) vances from the recent price level, ranging from 20-35 per cent. q At the same time, organized re-! sistance to rising bread prices is | developing. The consumer's strike,! declared seyeral days ago in the town of Lakewood, New Jersey, and out-| lying distvicts, spread yesterday to) the towns of Tom River and West! Farms. ~¢ a mass meeting of protesting workers and housewives, M. Taft, Communist candidate for Judge in Bronx County, New York, showed how the Roosevelt price-raising pro- gram is calculated to increase the profits of the big bakeries and wheat speculators by making the workers pay more for bread. He pointed out the falsity of the bakers’ claims that increased wages makes the price raise necessary. He showed that the Lakewood bakeries pay ‘their workers starvation wages, large bakery paying its drivers a week, with immediate dismissal for any worker who demands more. ‘This bakery flies a Blue Eagle, Taft said, and has attempted to justify the increases in this way. ‘The striking consumers demand a return to the 8 cents a pound for bread and 24 cents a dozen for rolls. ‘The bakers have raised the prices to 10 cents a pound and 24 cents a dozen. Dismayed at the growing resistance of the workers, the bakers have of- fered to compromise at 9 cents a pound and 20 cents a dozen. The strikers, who haye succeeded in reducing bread purchases to 35 per cent of the normal trade,-are firm for their original demands, The si i housewives are under the leadership of the Monmouth and Ocean County Consumers Associa- tion, a united front group which in- cludes the International Workers Or- der, the Workmen's Circle, the In- ternational Labor Defense, and sev- eral local groups. Original GY. i AUTUMN FES'SIVAL SATURDAY, at PEOPLES’ AYDITORI Marrionette Show, Gxkpsy cHoru! ‘SILHOUETTE PLAY. Admission with 5p"Ticket you pay only 15¢ at door; without Ticket 30c RUSSIAN BARBEOUE —— DANCING TILL 2 A. M. CHICAGO, Il. Y CARNIVAL = Colorful of SONG and DANCE EPTEMBER 23, at 8 P. M. UM, 2457 W. Chicago Ave. ‘8. FOLK DANCES. NEGRO SPIRITUALS RED BALLET. VIOLINISMS her Bread Prices Septonter 1sth, 1933 Geatteaen: On ascount of the cont snuous at of Ray Moteriels and Laber or equirssente of the Septenber 18, 1933, Rocnwere- 328 RY) Gentiesen: ith tae aaeeest Bent of ast As ty th net, allowing mo a Blue Eagle prominently. fun Huse ragoecrens, cam revs wweern 'S BAKE NEW Yorn ~ SUreoreLe 8-9717-009, nce Septeaber 14th, 1935, sry © peat thes iscount wha: The aboyg letters, announcing sharply increased prices for bread, are typical of many such which are being sent out by the large baking com- panies to retail stores and groceries. Ali these bakers display the NRA Armour Workers Put Demands; Plan Struggle to Win ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 20—When workers of the pork trim department ; at Armours, most of whom are wo- imen, under the leadership of the Packing House Workers Industrial Union, sent a committee to negotiate with the executives of the plant, workers in every single department stood by impatiently awaiting the re- sults of the interview. Several hundred workers absolutely refused to go back to work while the committee was in the office. Hun- dreds of others were ready to walk out if necessary. The stoppage affected several de- partments. Reports are now piling in that workers all over the plant were ready to go out at a word from { Auspices: Communist Party, Section 9 } the Union. ebb Meet Your at PURE OPEN DAY LAEELELE EEL ELLE EE EE ELE EEE L EE EEL EE EEE EEE 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 BEER ON: DRAUGHT e Comrades the FOOD and NIGH’ the committee and the officials every effort was made to sidestep the is- sue or browbeat them into submis- sion. The committee held firm. The committee was finally assured that the matter will be handled by the chief executives in Chicago. Hundreds of workers, realizing that their only hope lies in their own ac- tion, are coming into the union, this despite the cries of the company that they will never recognize the Indus- During the negotiations between | 1.W.0. Membership Drive. | CHICAGO, Ill—The Chicago | District of the Intrenatonal Work- ‘ers Order is concentrating on a ‘membership drive to end in Janu- ‘ary at the time of the district ; Plenum. Meetings have been’ ar- |ranged with the language sections {as follows: Thuisday, Sept. 21 at 8 p. m. with the Slovak section, Friday, Sept. 22 at 8 p. m. with the City Central Committee, Saturday, Sept. 23 at 6 p. m. with the Ital- ian Section; 8 p. m. with the Hun- garian Section, Sunday, Sept. 24, at 9 a. m. with the English Section; 1 p. m. with the Youth Section; 3 p. m. with the Russian Section; 8 p. m. with the Ukrainian and Polish Section, Tuesday, Sept. 26 at 8 p. m. with the Pre-Plenum Membership Drive Committee, All meetings will be held at the I. W. 0. office, 2457 W. Chicago ro Avenue, trial Union. Some of the demands that the committee put forward to the com- pany are: 1, Abolition of the piece work system; 2. Fifteen minute rest period twice per day; 3. Equal pay for equal work with a minimum of 3742c per hour; 4. A minimum guar- antee of 32 hours per week. The Packing House Workers In- dustrial Union has an office here at 211 So, Concord St., So. St. Paul, Minn, Eveready Label Boss Scared by Progress of Shop Group (By a Printing Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY. — I want to! thank you in the name of the work-| ers of The Everready Label Corp.. for the kindly cooperation you have | given us in the last few weeks by publishing letters sent to the Daily Worker from our workers. All those letters helped a lot. We have been | able to make a further step in the| class struggle by forming a group in| the shop of workers who are stick- | ing together now, but were unor-| ganized before. Now that the boss has found out| that we are trying to organize, he called a meeting last Friday and ne spoke to us as if we were a thappy| family. The question {s who is happy. Maybe it is the boss. One thing is sure, it isn’t the workers, He spoke very nicely to us for a long time and suggested that we elect several workers fromythe shop to form a union of our own, which would be} @ company union. The workers answered him by walking out of the meeting. Our shop-chairman, whom we had elected to represent the workers here | to get us into a union, suddenly got cold feet after a conference with the boss, and now he is backing up the boss in trying to get us to form a company union. If we do as the boss tells us, it will be worse than { it was before. The boss can’t scare us by telling us he is going to close the business or bring in scabs. We can beat the boss by organizing, Everready was one of the first to sign up with the NRA. Our boss went to General Johnson and got an ‘extra extension before putting the| code into effect, because he was “too busy” to put in the NRA, This helped the boss but we suffered, be- cause we had to work the same long hours, even though ‘the boss had signed the NRA. He took along the payroll record to show what high salaries he had been paying to the workers during the depression, but he did not take along the time cards to show how many hours we had to work to get the $18 to $25 every week, Finally about two weeks ago when the boss put in the code, we started working shorter hours, but got wage- cuts. It seems that the government is not very much interested in the workers. If they were they would come around and see how many workers are working without time- cards, and getting wages as low as 10-12 dollars a week. The boss pur- | posely took another loft on the eighth | floor where he keeps these slaves working on Sundays, holidays and as long hours as he wants them to work. I only hope that workers will all stick together and not let the boss | split our ranks, which is what the company union is for, Workers! if you want to learn how to fight the bosses, read the Daily Worker. I wish the worker who wrote the | letter to the Daily ‘Worker on Sept. 8 would leave his name and address in the office of the Datly Worker, because I want to get in touch with | him. Comrade, you don’t: have to worry about giving your name to the Daily Worker. There are more of us here who write lettersto the Daily Worker. —An Honest Worker Who Was Helped By the “Daily.” . * @ Ed Note—The Daily..Worker will be very glad to be instrumental in getting honest workers from this shop in touch with each other. At the same time, the Committee for the | Organization of Unorganized Print- ers is already active in helping to form a group in this shop, as well as in many other unorganized shops, and every worker who realizes the necessity of organization controlled by the workers themselves, and not by the boss, should get in touch with this Committee at Room 240, 80 E. Harlem Meet Tonight! Is Called to Protest| Matthews Murder NEW YORK—In a spirit which can hardly be described as energetic, the United States District Attorney's | office is “proceeding” with its prom- | ise to act on charges regarding the | dope traffic on Welfare Island. Assistant District Attorney Rosen- bloom yesterday told the Daily Work- er that he was “looking into the mat- ter” and going over the records of the committee headed by his chief, | United States -District Attorney Me- | dalie, during the latter’s own recent | investigation of the narcotic traffic on the Island. | Charges about the activity of the | Welfare Island dope ring were con- | tained in.a sworn affidavit by Mark | Shahian in which he told how James Matthews, a Negro prisoner from) North Carolina, was battered to | death while serving a short time on | the Island. | Protest in Harlem Tonight Meanwhile, workers’ organizations were continuing the demand for a Teal investigation into Shahian’s charges—originally made public in| the Daily Worker—and are calling mass meetings to protest the Mat- thews murder, as well as the lynch hysteria against Negroes worked up by the New York police, with the active co-operation of the metropolitan press. Chief among these meetings is one scheduled for tonight at the Abyssinian Baptist Churcn, 151 W. | 138th St. in Harlem. The mecting | is being arranged under the aus- pices of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the International Ia- | bor Defense, the Caribbean Union | and the National Scottsboro Ac- tion Committee, Clarence Hathaway, editor of the | Daily Worker, last week had called | United States District Attorney Me- | dalie’s attention to the dope traffic | charge and informed him that “Sha- | hian is available for questioning by | you or the Federal Narcotic Bureau whenever you so inform us.” | Kuntz To See U. §. Attorney | Yesterday U. S. Attorney Rosen- bloom asked how Shahian could be reached in the event he is wanted, and was told that Shahian’s lawyer, Edward Kuntz, of the International Labor Defense, would get in touch with Rosenbloom sometime today. During the farcical investigation of the Matthews murder by Assistant District Attorney Saul Price last week, Kuntz represefited Shahian and | fought every inch of the way for a sincere and energetic probe into Sha- | hian’s charges that Matthews was | murdered by a prison guard. | After Shahian, accompanied by his attorney and Price had viewed about | 30 guards on Welfare Island in an/ effort to point out the killer of Mat- thews, Price ended his “investigation” | by stating that he would call Shahian again when “I want him again.” Patterson, Ford Speak. Stirred by the cynical manner in| which Tammany District Attorney | Crain's office has conducted its mock’ probe into the murder of Matthews, | hundreds of Negro and white work- ers are expected to crowd the protest meeting in Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem tonight. Speakers include William Patter- son, national secretary of the ILD. Herman McEwain, of the LS.N.R.,| James W. Ford, section organizer of the Communist Party in Harlem, and others. Wholesale Changes in Retail Stores Two Days After Parade NEW YORK. — When Gristede Grocery Co. signed a code for their 177 stores in the city, the clerks had their hours reduced from 12 to 8, without any ¢ >> salary. Richard Gristede ¥ made vice president of | lth 8t., City. the retail chain stores division of the being | STRIKEBREAKING EFFORT AFL Workers on Picket Line Gave Their Reply to Misleaders; They Shut Down Every Mill and Continued Strike By CARL PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 20.—The REEVE. NRA “five-week-truce” aimed to sell out the national strike of the silk and dye workers, has been smashed by . the of all un on the picket lines. was CoC White assistant to Gen, John- Sen. Wagner, the silk manufac- | and the leaders of the United | hiefly retary of the Assoc ion (U.T.W.) and Thos, , president of the U.T.W. Meaning of the “Truce” e of both the d: he str ers, led by ti ers Unior the U.T.W., is more effective tt be weeks truce.” This 4 proposed by Senator Wai ner, aims to send the 50,000 silk) strikers back to work under the $13| a week minimum proposed in the cotton This five weeks could zed by the employers to build | of stock, discourage | by endless “negotiation,” and through the U.T.W. leaders, com- plete the sell out of the strike and force lower wages, speed-up and bad conditions on the workers. Schweit-| zer, in Washington, agreed to go} into conference with the manufac-| turers, on the basis of calling off the rike, and together with MacMahon, | one of the U.T.W. representa-| who agreed to the “truce,” ex-| at the same time doubt as he and MacMahon would to force the strikers back to some increase.” The! ready officially endors- de. be abl work r U.TW. has a ed the N.R.A, Continu with the bo united front unions or with the National Textile Workers Union, Schweitzer and Mac- Mahon in Washington refused to meet with the rank and file N.T.W.U. delegates elected by the strikers, and walked out of the room. This split- ting policy was followed also among the Paterson dyers by the U.T.W.| When the N.T.W.U. called the gen- eral strike of dyers, and had ten thousand on strike, the U.T.W. or- ganized a dual union of the dyers, attempting to disrupt the Weidmann and other picket lines. the policy of meeting sses, and refusing any| with the independent the Lovestonite, the right hand or- ganizer of MacMahon and Schweitzer, played a leading role. Rank and File Position But in the face of the wave of resentment against the NRA betrayal of MacMahon and _ Schweitzer, Schweitzer was forced to change his} tune. Schweitzer and Keller delayed a Strike vote until Monday after- noon. The workers voted, however, Monday morning on the picket lines. | They quickly shut down every mill that attempted to open, members of the U.T.W, and N.T.W.U, marching side by side on the picket line. The up in Washington by A.@—————-- -- —-__-_-— In organiz- | ing this splitting work, El Keller, | lete solidarity and militancy of the rank and file workers The strikebreaking apparatus of the NRA has met its strongest setback to date in this strike. The sell-out mands.” One member of the AFL on strike put it like this, “We should have one union and not two. We know Mac- Mahon. We know his sell outs in Virginia, in Salem, in North Carolina, ete. You can bet, no matter what our leaders say, we're not going back to work, We're not going to allow any sell out.” This rank and file AFL worker said this as if he meant it, bearing witness to a deep seated flame of rebellion against starvation and against traitors. The rank and file workers of the AFL have been greatly affected hy | the militant conduct of the ‘general dye strike by the National Textile Workers Union. The closing down of the Lodi plant of the United Piece Dye Works by the NTWU after one of the most militant picket demon- strations in years, was a turning point in the strike. Two thousand Pickets, in the face of tear gas bombs, machine guns, fire hose, and several hundred well armed police, stormed the mill, were repulsed by tear gas, reformed the ranks, and continued picketing. The picketing started at four in the morning and at five o'clock in the afternoon, the mill was shut down, having already lost more than one half of its 4,000 workers, Schweitzer, Keller and the other U.T.W. leaders had refused to call the dye workers on strike at all, al- though their conditions are going from bad to worse. They did not consider the dye houses as essential to the plans of the silk manufactur- ers of Paterson in their competition with the large rayon manufacturers and the consequent jockeying be- tween these competing interests re- garding the rayon and silk codes. These U.T.W. misleaders did not de- clare a real silk strike, but a “holi+ day.” Time and again they told the workers not to picket but to stay home. It was the general dye strike called by the NTWU, and the mass picket lines which followed, which forced the silk strike into militant and effective channels. The National Struggle The National Strike Committee set up by the united front conference | in Allentown is becoming an increas- ingly strong factor in the national silk strike. Representing at its first meeting, 27,578 silk and dye strikers | from Paterson, Allentown, Phila., Easton, Stroudsburg, Phillippsburgh, ; Emaus and many other towns, its influence has increased. The National strike committee set up in Allentown at the initiative of the National Tex- tile Workers Union and a number UT.Y (Associated Silk) | oniy members of the union to vote— | 1 not one single vote was cast in | favor of the “truce,” more than 3,000 casting their vote for continuing the Ik strike until the demands are met. allowed | of independent unions demands, “One National Strike”’—“One Strike Commitee.” Such independent unions as the Allentown Silk Work- ers Union, the Warpers League and the Loomfixers Club of Paterson sent delegates. Delegates were present who were members of the U.T.W. Tt was only after this vote that | locals. But the U.T.W. officials again Schweitzer issued the statement, “We | 1efused the rank and file demand choose to fight” and “urging all silk | fOr unity and set up a separate na- strikers to stand solidly on strike | tonal committee at Scranton. until we are granted all our de-| local NRA board and everything was | fine. Exactly 2 days after the NRA par- ade, the men were put back on the 12 hour basis again. (All NRA chain | store complaints go to Dick Gristede). | Now when a customer walks into a Gristede store and complains about the high groc prices, the clerks are instructed to say, “Well, you know, | | we signed the NRA code.” | By HARRY GANNES § leading member of the N. R. A. Annual Convention of the A. F. of l., Mr. Green is forced to take a leaf from Robert Louis Stevenson's book, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” From the destroyer of the work~- ers’ rights, through his action with the bosses on the N. R. A. admin- istration, Green suddenly appears in the role of the staid defender of the workers’ rights against the advance of company unions. But the trans- formation is only for the moment and is induced by the growing re- sistance of rank and file A. F. of L. members to the National Labor Board. Dual Personality ‘This assumed dual personality of the same Mr. Green (typifying all of the , F. of L. leaders) should not fool A. F. of L. members. Green's latest effort to jump out of his own skin and get away from the responsibility of his own deeds results in a statement complaining about the rapid growth of company unions since the N. R. A. was passed. “Labor has given the N. R. A. full and unqualified support,” lies Mr. Green. Just the day before he is- sued this statement 30,000 textile workers (including the A. F. of L, members) unanimously rejected the N. R. A,-A. F. of L. decision to re- turn to work on a five-week-truce. A few days before that 9,000 Brock- ton, Mass., shoe workers rejected the N. R. A. decisions. Green 1 Assumes Jekyll-Hyde Role to Hide His N. R. x, Crimes Rank and File Opposition in A. F. of L, Should Expose Action of Leadership and Organize on Program of Struggle for Higher Wages, and Workers’ Rights silk strikers, the shoe workers, and the coal miners, to mention a few, knew differently and remained on strike despite decisions of the National Labor Board. That brings us down to Green's company union bellow. Green now complains that employers are “vio- lating” the N. R, A. by setting up company unions in which workers have ho rights. The New Crusader ‘This assumed role of crusader against comrany unions needs to be explained a little. In the first place, Green does not deny that the com- pany ‘inions have had a mushroom growth under the N. R. A, In the second place, it was the action of the A. F, of L. officials that gave impetus to the development of com- pany unions. Wherever the work- ers fought against the company unions and established their own unions through struggle, Green re- fused to recognize these organiza- tions as, untons because “there is no room for any other labor movement in the United States.” There are still more important crimes against the workers generally and against the A. F. of L. members in particular that Dr. Jekyll-Green wants to cover up on the eve of the To season this unpalatable bit, and to make the strike-breaking National Labor Board appear more digestible to the empty stomachs of the work- Green says that “in every case has been sustained by the Na- Labor Board.” A. F. of L. Convention. + William Green, John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman approved the open Hillman helped put the’ open shop stamp on every code of the N. R. A, through this action. In the coal code, Green and Lewis pledged themselves to carry out com- pulsory arbitration, controlled by the coal operators and the government, that has as its aim to wreck com- pletely independent organization of the workers in the coal industry. The right to strike and picket is wiped out by the coal code. The type of organization of the workers ap- proved by the A. F. of L. officials in the coal industry differs only the slightest from the company union, os «ee HEN the National Labor Board, controlled by A. F.-of L. offi- cials, voted to approve the’ open shop clause in the auto code, they gave approval to every employer in the country to form company unions or run on the open shop basis. The organization of company unions is not in violation of the N, R. A. The N. R. A. merely states that no worker, as a condition of employment, be “forced” to join a company union, But the A. F. of L. officials took care of that, for the bosses in the auto code. In the automobile code they provided that the employers have the right to hire and fire work- ers on the basis of “indivitiual merit.” Smacks a little bit of the much- reviled “rugged individualism.” Where company unioris are formed, the employers consider it the main point’ of “individual merit” whether a worker joins the company union. shop and company unions for the automobile industry. Space does not permit detailing the deliberate and criminal manner in which, Lewis and AS an illustration of how this crime against the workers hit A. F, of L. members, we refer to the action against A. F. of L, members in the Chrysler plant in St. Louis. In this plant a company union was organ- ized, and 150 A. F. of L. members were fired on the basis of the “in- dividual merit” clause because they would not join the company union, At the same time, there are a few, points in Mr. Green's statement of the open shop which he does not) make clear, and which go deeper) than Mr, Green’s apparent “objec- tion.” ‘The list of company unions already formed (quite in keeping with the) wishes of General Johnson and the letter and spirit of the NRA) are the beginning of a definite :policy of the most powerful financial interests and trust in the United States to smash the workers’ own unions. Mellon-Morgan Interests. For example, the leading factors in organizing company unions were corporations controlled by the Mel- Jon and Morgan interests, Mellon organized company unions in the Alluminum Corporation of America, the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. Morgan interests formed company unions in the RCA-Victor, and the Frigidaire Corporation. Then there was the powerful war and chemical industry, the BE. I. Du- pont. de Nemours Co. To round out the scheme, the Jones & Loughlin Steel Co, organizes a company union; the Sinclair Refin- ing Co. organizes a company union (in compliance with the oil code ap- proved by Green); and the Pharis Tire and Rubber Co., Newark, Ohio, falls in line. A company union is formed in the Newport News Drydock and Ship- building Co. < . 8 What N. R. A. Means The manufacturers arg now man- euvering for the next step in the sell out. This step points to further strikebreaking activity of the Roose- velt government. ey Since the beginning of the strike, U .S. Labor Conciliator Moffitt has been meeting with U. T. W. officials and manufacturers as the represen- tative of the Roosevelt government. Now the New Jersey state N. R. A. steps in and announces its “willing- ness” to try to send the strikers ° back to work. The bosses’ press is in the midst of an intensive cam- paign for more drastic strikebreak- ing activities in Washington. The Paterson News of Sept. 19 fttles its leading editorial, “Time for the New Deal to Take Holfl in the Disastrous Silk Situation,” and the editorial concludes, “Something must be done to end this serious deadlock in the silk industry... . We look to Wash- ington for guidance and action. What say you, Senator Wagner and General Johnson?” Meanwhile, every day Police Chief Murphy adds to his forces in preparation for further strikebreaking activity. SHORT, the war industries are arganizing company unions. These | industries are so closely connected But the ranks of the strikers and their mass picket lines are solider and stronger than ever. A member with the War and Navy departments of the National Strike Committee, in of the United States ny dle es that | its first meeting in Allentown, issued we can take it for granted they were| this warning, “Maybe it’s true, what organized wih the approval of gov-| some have said, that Roosevelt and ernment officials. | the N. R. A. want to better our con-_ Furthermore, the basic industries) ditions. But if the N. R. A. means, ere all represented. True, smaller) that we have to go back to work at” plants in most instances are picked) a $13 wage wale, then to hell with= out, as a beginning, as a feeler. But the way is opened. With the NRA and the auto code, Green liberally opened the door, and the basic industries, the powerful trusts march through. Rank and file members of the A. F, of L. should not be fooled by Green’s latest criticism. Green wants to clamp down on the growing op- position against the NRA and its re- sults in the ranks of the A. F. of L. He does not want repetitions of the} silk and shoe strikers’ action. Green’s dual role should he ex- posed. His crimes should be branded by every local of the A, F. of L, and be brought out on the floor of the convention. On the basis of the close relations of Green and the strike-breaking bosses under the NRA to build a powerful opposition in the A. F. of L. to fight for a program of struggle, for a fight for workers’ rights, against company unions, and for a united struggle of all workers against the attack of the Wall Street- Roosevelt regime, the N. R, A.’ Philadelphia Attention! Daily Worker Activist Meeting — Sept. 22nd ‘to Discuss Plans to Build the bo, Worker SLOVAK iL, 610 Fairmond ave. ALL bigest ARE 1 ROBERT MINOR CHICAGO, i. PLAY AND CE Given by i CHICAGO RED CIRCLE CLUB, I. L. D. Sunday, Sept. 24, 4 P. M, HARMONY HALL Thomas and Kostner Streets i a Ee ANNES ete