The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 4, 1933, Page 3

en yted ESE PES EPRITRER EES DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1933 Page Three Industrial Heart of U.S. Aflame With Soft Coal and Steel Strike pO BS RO aR RS Las “Stick ‘Till We Win,” Workers Shout at Meetings Throughout Western Pennsylvania By HARRY GANNES. @aily Worker Correspondent.) PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. 3—Frantic efforts are being made by the U.M. W.A. officials, who are working secretly with the coal operators and openly with the N.R.A. chiefs, to drive the miners back to work as the soft coal | code has already been inaugurated. Wage agreements were today answered by seventy-five thousand Pennsylvania miners spreading their walk-out, gaining powerful support from the’ flaming steel strikes. Dawn today saw the greatest and most militant picket lines of long series of strikes since N.R.A. Thirty thousand miners and their wives marched on Clairton alone, but were deflected to mine picketing. Their objective was to shut down Carnegie Steel. Corporation Plant. “Join the strike; stick till Frick recognizes the union,” read the banners. Determined to Win. Many of the pickets, more de- termined than ever to win, armed themselves with iron bars, pick hand- les and other home-made weapons, It was a grim fighting mass that turned out before daybreak. They swarmed oyer the soft coal fields in Pennsylvania to set up in place of official Roosevelt’s approved slavecode an agreement won by fighting ranks of miners themselves. Above all, they demand union rec- ognition so that they may continue to fight and win better conditions, code or no code, Capitalist papers here conservatively estimate over 100,- 000 coal miners and steel workers now on strike. “We won't go back to work unfil the union is recognized everywhere,” is the universal cry of miners and steel workers. Other steel towns are either already on strike in common cause with coal miners, or have taken definite action for strike within the next few days. Despite all efforts of operators, government, U.M.W.A. officials, N-R.A. and press agencies, to make it appear that the strike is restricted to so- called captive mines and pits owned by and working for large steel corpor- ations, the strike itself is engulfing the entire soft coal field of Pennsyl- vania for definite demands of min- pe) contrary to the terms of the coal le. Pinchot’s Treachery. Governor Pinchot is adopting this strategy and calling on the miners at Carnegie Steel mills at Clairton to go back home. Working with Lewis and Pinchot is Roy Hallas, President of the Clairton Local of A. A. In an appeal to Pinchot yesterday, Hallas declared “For God's Sake, take action quickly, if you want to prevent blood- shed.” He demands protection against striking coal miners to prevent steel workers from joining the strike. At Uniontown, the miners were planning to march on Huge Donora Plant, American Steel and Wire, another U. S. Steel subsidiary, to en- with steel workers. Nevertheless, Weirton Steel Com- pany workers, against the wishes of strike ranks and conduct picketing daily, building a union organization. A, A. officials are pressing only for union recognition, hoping sticking out for higher wages, union recognition and not the type of union Tighe and other A. A. officials desire. The very extension of the strike on the day the code and wage agreements become law, with their specific declaration that strikes of any kind in coal fields are illegal, shows that miners are fighting against the substance of the code on almost every point. Miners are demanding recognition of U. M. W. A. without its Lewises, with rank and file con- trol. They demand the six hour day and five dollar day. Secret Maneuvers, The strike-breaking plans of the U.M.W.A.officials were partly divulged today in a dispatch appearing in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, reading: “What mines are to be reopened first was a closely guarded secret last night, company and executive officials of the U.M.W.A. refusing to make this known and indicating a fear that knowledge of their plans might enable outside agitators to concen- trate their trouble, making forces at OUT OF TOWN AFFAIRS Daily, Worker Salt Lake City OCT. 4th: Film showing of “1905”, Hippodrome ‘Theatre, 2nd and So. Start, 7:30 p.m. San Francisco CT. 7th: Film showing of “1905” at Workers Center, 1228 Fillmore. ‘ Chicago OCT. 7th: it and Party Ent Dance at W.LR. headquarters, 2552 W.. Divi- sion St. Auspices, C.P, Unit 912. Furniture Workers! Subscribe! the points named.” This is followed up by attempts where miners refuse to quite picketing to restrict pickets to one county so struck mines or to steel centers. Strike action was approved by a mass meeting of 800 workers that listened to a report of their delega- tion. Workers from nearly all other ‘steel mills in Ambridge and Aliquippa were present. “When are we going to strike,” was the question asked by workers from score of steel mills. A march is being planned to Aliquippa across the River from Am- bridge to spread the strike to J and L Steel Mills. “If the two mills in Ambridge go out, we go out,” say J and L workers in an effort then to be made to join in a united struggle with miners of J and L mines, fifty mills out of Aliquippa. Miners will come to Aliquippa and Ambridge to enlarge picket lines and endeavor to close down every steel mill in the vicinity. Two hundred Negro workers of J and L plant belong to the Negro Fraternal Club and are in favor of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Indus- trial Union. a Greek preacher in this vicinity urged all workers in his congregation, mostly steel workers, to join the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union and support the pending strike. Over 1,000 miners and steel workers from Ambridge, Turtle Creek, Heidel- burg, Yukon, Jeannette and other mining and steel centers came in trucks to Greensburg today to join mass picketing of Walworth foundry strikers now in their fourth week of strike. Attack Strikers. Yesterday 2,000 young miners paraded into Clairton from New Ken- sington fields. When they approached the mills a group of armed deputies attacked them, head on, wounding many. One miner, fifty-four, had his skull fractured. For a while ranks were broken, only to re-assemble and continue picketing: A mass meeting of over 3,000 Wal- worth Foundry strikers and their wives, over one-half of the audience being women, took place in Greens- burgh Sunday. Lena Davis, of Pitts- burgh Unemployed Council, addressed this largest mass meeting since the strike was declared. “Two types of people coming into your strike, one steel workers, and miners, helping you picket; other gunmen and depu- ties attempting to smash the strike,” she said. Other strike leaders, John Morris, and John Dresdeck spoke. “I was other strike leaders are going to be taken for a ride. Well, I'm ready. We know how to answer these threats, by stronger picket lines, eo determination, stick ‘till we UMWA Heads Betray Strike; Operators Fire Militant Men JENY LIND, Ark—Many strike leaders are being fired here for their activities in the recent strike. About 15 men were reported fired at Mine No. 18 and more than a score at Mine No. 20. The men were fired the first morning they returned to work after the end of the strike and no pretense other than their activities in the union was made for their release. The strike ended due to the dis- ruptive policy of David Fowler, president of district 21, of the United Mine Workers. He threat- ened that the government would “send men in and put you to work if you don’t take my advice and go to work.” iners Live as Peons in BeachBottom, W.Va. PITTSBURGH, ; Pa. — Revelation of peonage at a West Penn Power Co. mine at Beach Bottom, W. Va., was made by B. W. Davis, an itin- erant merchant arrested near there for selling without a license. He was arrested, Davis states, be- cause he exposed exactions made at a store on company premises that worked hand in glove with ee company by the check-off sys- Miners are charged 25 per cent interest on 2-week loans, Davis told the Pennsylvania Security League. Wages are so low that the debts are renewed from payday to payday, keeping the miners in Peonage. ; STATIONERY and | WIMEOGRAPH SUPPLIES October Issue Out! THE FURNITURE . WORKER National Publication of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union with the At Special Prices for Organizations Lerman Bros, Inc. Phone ALgonquin 4-356 — 8843 29 East 14th St. N.Y.C. Affiliated Trade Union Unity League Published Monthly at 818 Broadway, New York City Tel. GRamercy 5-8956 Editor ... ........ JOE KISS Subscription 50 cents » ‘single copies 5 cents WORKERS PATRONIZE CENTURY CAFETERIA 154 West 28th Street Pure Food —Proletarian Prices that miners will not march on un-| told,” said Dresdeck, “That I and | hands. Wagner Meets Silk ‘Bosses in New Move ito Break Strike’ Dye Workers Close! Plant in E. Paterson PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 3—Hun- | dreds of dye workers in mass picket- | ing this morning broke through the | closed gates of the Crew Dye House, | East Paterson, pulling out a few fore- 'men who were working there. One | scab was injured and two strikers were arrested. The plant was shut} down tight. Senator Wagner, chairman of the | National Labor Board, entered the strike situation, arriving in New York | Tuesday to meet secretly with the manufacturers’ representatives. On leaving Washington he issued a state- ment indicating clearly that his mis- sion to New York is for strikebreak- | ing. He declared, “I would like to see the silk code approved. This strike is a demonstration against the code as proposed by the manufacturers.” The United National Strike Com- mittee sent a delegation to Wagner’s conference in New York with the de- mand for open negotiations on the basis of the strikers’ demands. The } A. F. of L, is maintaining a strict silence on Wagner’s strikebreaking moves while attacking the N.T.W.U. as “strikebreakers.” Thousands of N.T.W.U._ strikers turned the parade following the dem- onstration at Hinchcliffe Stadium yesterday into a mighty demonstra- tion of unity, marching three miles through the streets of Paterson. Al- though A. F. of L. officials tried to! disrupt the ranks of the strikers and | keep the N.T.W.U. strikers out, they failed, and the section of the N.T. W.U. was the most spirited, making the streets resound with strike songs and demands for unity and drawing applause from massed spectators. The local press today was forced, by yesterday’s demonstration, to print the entire statement of the United National Strike Committee and called Kellers’ lying attack on the N.T.W.U. as “strikebreakers” a “pro- vocative” statement. The parade and demonstration greatly increased the influence of the N.T.W.U. in the strike. A delegate of the Associated, who has just returned from Rhode Island, spoke this morning at an A. F. of L. strike mass meeting at Roseland ballroom. He exposed the refusal of the U.T,W. chiefs to call Pawtucket and Central Falls silk mills on strike, stating that the officials referred the Paterson delegation to the New York office, where they were told they would not call a strike in Rhode Island. He declared that the Rhode Island workers want to strike and will take matters into their own The United National Strike Com- mittee will meet Wednesday at Emaus, Pa., to push plans to spread the strike to Rhode Island. Twenty Paterson teachers, lawyers and other professionals constituting themselves a citizens’ strike relief group decided to support the strike. They refused to turn over all funds to the A. F. of L. as demanded by Kel- ler, but to supply. relief both to N.T. W.U. and A. F. of L. relief stations equally, The committee is working for relief on a united front basis, Doll Strikers Vote | Down AFL Sell-Out NEW YORK. — Stuyvesan Casino | was packed to overflowing when 2,000 | striking doll workers voted to reject the settlement arrived at by the A. F. of L, Cannon-Ferrula machine to- gether with the bosses and assisted by the NRA. Showing that they would not be so ready to accept the decisions of the settlement committee, on which the strikers themselves had no voice, the doll workers shouted down the com- promise agreement of a 10 per cent wage increase made by their A. F. of L, officials. Charley Warrants, a rank and file leader, in his speech exposed the role of the Cannon-Ferrula ma~ chine as mere lackeys of the bosses. Instead the workers demanded that the A. F. of L. leaders spread the strike to the big shops who have been protected by these officials and to compel the bosses to grant the terms of the agreement. They called for a strike of the Regal Doll factory at | Trenton in support of their demands. Officials Whip By MORRIS BACKALL CHICAGO, October 3 (Special to the Daily Worker).—War spirit, hys- terical and brutal, is being whipped up at the opening of the American Legion. War spirit prevails. The speech of Henry H. Woodring. Assistant Secretary of War, soundéd the keynote—preparations for immin- ent attack from “enemies.” , The capitalist press estimates that 300,000 legionaires gathered together inl Chicago. Ten thousand legionaires are occupying the best hotels in the , the Stevens, Sherman, Palmer House, Morrison, and other fashion- able hotels. These are ‘the aristocracy of the American Legion. The rest, the rank and file, the jobless veterans, are housed in cheap rooming houses in the flophouse districts, Delegates to the American Eegion convention were elected by districts and consist only of a few thousand men. The,rankx and file have come to Chicago io fight against the econ- omy act passed in the last section in Congress in regard to the veteran payments. At the opening of the conventicn, General Aldebert de Chambrun of France, the murderer of the Moroc- can people, greeted the legionaires in g e Striking Penna. Miners Mobilize at West Virginia State Line Photo shows coal miners from Pennsylvania at the West Virginia state line in an effort to mobilize Scotts Run, W. Va., coal diggers for strike action. of the Standard Forgings. such as Gary, Indiana South Chicago, Roseland, Chicago Heights, Hegewich. There will also be metal workers from Chicago. The caravans will reach Indiana Harbor on Thursday, Oct. 5, at 5 p. m. and after marching to the center of the city, they will assemble in the Audi- torium, the largest hall in the city. stration is arranged for the purpose of demonstrating support for the ing are kept continually twenty-four hours. In addition to the strikers and their wives, hundreds of work- ers from other mills, the unemployed in Barlow Murder Police Try to Hide Killing of Worker FORT WORTH, Tex., Oct. 3—The police department attempted to smash the workers open investigation into the murder of T. E. Barlow, who was Killed in jail here when he was ar- rested for leading the “unemployed for_ increased relief. R. Lee, Communist organizer, and Macombs, who were arrested . with Barlow and are chief witnesses. of the occurrence, were jailed two days before the scheduled investigation. They are held for investigation and are charged with vagrancy. They face the same fate as Barlow unless strong protests are sent to the police officials. Telegrams should be sent to the chief of police in this city demand- ing safety for both workers and their immediate release, as well as the right to hold mass meetings. Strikes Called in the B’klyn Fruit Markets NEW YORK. — Several strikes are being led by the Food Workers’ In- dustrial Union at Benson’s food mar- ket, 2267 86th St., at Grossman's Fruit Market, 2275 68th.St., Brooklyn and at Abart’s fruit market in the same neighborhood. The bosses called in A. F. of L, local 338 to help break the strike, but the latter, fearing the mill- tant spirit displayed by the strikers dared not enter the situation. The strike is being aided by the ‘Women’s Council of Bath Beach and the Young Communist League. The union {s appealing for support of the housewives. |and Negro workers are taking part. |In the last few days the police at- | tempted to prevent mass picket lines |in front of the shops but without | success. Another important decision made by this meeting is to issue a call for @ mass steel conference to take place This parade and solidarity demon-|on October 15 in Indiana Harbor. | wall st The call will appeal to the work- ers in every mill and department and | Association of Iron and Steel Work- |ers to send delegates for the purpose |of outlining for the preparation of | struggles in the steel mills, against the N. R. A. which cut the wages of the workers and increased the speed- up tremendously. The call has also been sent to all | fraternal organizations to send dele- \gates of steel workers to engage the | Jargest possible number of workers in the drive. Special attention is being paid to the unemployed and Negro workers. At the meeting of the wives, mothers and daughters of the Standard Forging workers, Women’s Auxiliary of the Steel and Metal Workers has been organized. ‘Women will also send their delegates to the confersnce on October 15, Fourth Week of Strike The Standard Forging workers are | entering the fourth -week of the strike. |; The plant is completely tied up and not a single scab in the mill in spite of all the \attempts of the stool pigeons, A. F. of L. heads and com- pany to break the strike. The strike remains solid and out of 500, three hundred and fifty joined the Union. |So far the company has refused to i negotiate with the Union and the | Strike Committee. Acting under the direct instructio of Washington, Mr. Hyland, of Department of Labor, had a meet: ing with the strike committee, in which the strikers very definitely told Mr, Hyland that they would never consent to. arbitration, they | negotiation with the company. Mr. | Hyland also showed very clearly his role when he advised the workers to join the A. F. of L. The workers de- clared they want the union and will stand by it. They don’t want to have anything to do with the A. F. of L. Strikers receive support not only from the workers, but small business men in the region are donating gen- erously to the relief, and the Re- lief Committee kitchen has been open daily serving meals.to the strikers. At a mass meeting organized by the Communist Party, a number of strikers joined the ranks of the a} | stand pat on their’demand for direct |! Calumet Region March Dakota Farmers in to Support Steel Strike To Outline Activities in Mills at Conference in Indiana Harbor, October 15 INDIANA HARBOR, Ind., Oct. 3—The District Board meeting of the | | Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union together with representatives | from all the important steel mills in the Calumet Steel region decided to hold a parade and solidarity demonstration with the striking 500 workers | 4 resolution demanding the imme. The parade will start from all the steel centers | diate cancellation of all back taxes Harbor,¢- - Conference Demand | Debt Cancellation \Pledge Solidarity With |City Workers in Fight for Low Milk Prices ABERDEEN, South Dakota, Oct. 3. mortgage debts and food and seed |loans was passed by about 200 farr delegates assembled at the first Sta Conference of the United Farmers | League. |, Alfred Tiala, National Secretary of \the U. F. L., the main speaker at the Conferente, pointed out that the “New Deal” of the Roosevelt government is a “beast with its headquarters in reet and its hindquarters in Washington.” On the second day of the Confer- strikers. In many mills workers are | every union group of the Steel and jence the farm delegates overwhelm- collecting money for the strikers. | Metal Workers’ Industrial Union and |ingly adopted the resolutions Picket lines around Standard Forg-/|to the locals of the Amalgamated | posed by the resoluti Among the demands we: relief, cost of production price for all farm products, against reductions in school appropriations, abolition of sheriff sales, foreclosures and evic- tions. | In addition, the farm delegates |pledged to be ready to strike! and | picket with the city workers in their | demands for lower milk prices at the jexpense of the huge profits of the | middlemen. National Events Bazaar in -Chicago. The South upon all other to enter | n cal ganizations competition for the Communist Bazaar |to take place October. 21 an at Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. go Avenue. The South S |Federation pledged to have a with more articles than any mass or d insert Souv than -any reeti n ‘ger am for the Baz anization. Unit No. 305, Section No, 3 in lenges all Party units C that they sell m 3, col more articles and get more & gs than any other Party unit. ti ick | Ward to Speak on Russia . | CLEVELAND. — Harry F. Ward, Professor at Union Theological Semi- nary, will speak on “Shall Soviet Rus- sia Be Recognized?” at Moose Hall, 1002 Walnut St., next Sunday, at 2:30 p. m., under the auspices of the Friends of the jet Union. . . Anti-Fascist Meeting. * MILWAUKEE.—Maria Halberstadt, school teacher who fled from fascist Germany, will address a mass meet- ing at Bahn Frei Hall, 12th St. and W. North Ave., next Sunday, at 3 p.m, pro- | $ committee. | e immediate | LABOR TRAITORS GATHER “IN OPULENT ATMOSPHERE AS UNEMPLOYED STARVE Green’s Speech Makes Pretense of Criticism While Lauding the N. R. A. By BILL to the (Speci WASAINGTON, D. € DUNNE. Daily Worker.) , Oct, 3.—The fourth year of crisis and the ap- proach of winter, with the worst suffering yet seen in store for union mem- be and the working class as a vwéhole, finds the American Federation of Labor officialdom, gathered in the magnificent grand ballroom of the Willard N.Y. Dockers Spread ‘Leaflet in Defy to | Ryan’s Gangsters Coastwise Men Support C. P. Election Meeting; Action Looms NEW YORK i saps onday, a squad of en and longshoremen ireds of leaflets at hese docks, ing upon the long- shoremen to demand a new agree- ment on wages and conditions. Coastwise longshoremen of the Clyde-Mallory and Morgan docks en- thusiastical! attended a noon-hour Communist election meeting, despite the presence of company spies. The situation among the longshore- men is growing more tense daily and is liable to break out into open resis- tance to the betrayal of the LL.A. of- ficials and the 40c an hour code pro- posed by the shipping magnates, at any moment. | -ILG Shop Chairmen Protest Effort to Destroy 5-Day Week Hochman Demands Half Day Work Saturday NEW YORK—In a outburst of indignation. men of the dr na. spontaneous | with the International Ladies Gar- ment Workers Union, protested a proposal made by Julius Hochman, Joint Board Manager, that the dressmakers work on the follow- jing Saturday. Ready to resist any | attempt to undermine the standards recently won as a result of the strike, the shop chairmen sensed a trick in Hochman’s recommendation that the Saturday work be done in order to | enable the dressmakers to quit work j at one o'clock Wednesday and march | to Madison Square Garden where the intends to hold a ILGW tion.” “celebra- The Since the eir in violation of ided in their y three times ly railroaded rman of the an to take indicates Jo not intend week lightly. led to promise y work again. Union Hatters Protest NEW YORK.—Union hatters of Local 18, meeting at Beethoven Hall this week registered their emphatic | protest at the attempt of the NRA }to lower their living standards through the adoption of a code which fixes a lower minimum wage scale than the union wages won by the hatters after many years of struggle. The union desided to send a wire to General Johnson opposing the code of the Hatters Institute and Pledging themselves to fight against any code that may be adopted low- ering their present wage standards, Up War Spirit at the Conference of the American Jingoistie Hysteria, Drunkenness, Rioting, Used to Cripple Fight of | the Rank and File Veterans for Bonus Payments; French War Chief Greeted by Rich Delegates country and urged for a united front between the military forces of France and those of the United States Of course, the main event of today’s convention was the hurried trip of President Roosevelt to the stadium. Roosevelt came to Chicago first, to dramatize the war spirit among the legionaires, and second, to kill their demands for a cash bonus and the fight against the veterans’ economy act. Thirty thousand people, legion- aires and non-legionaires, came to listen to Roosevelt, and they were disappointed after he was through. Prior to President Roosevelt's ar- rival to Chicago, the capitalist press of the city spread the rumor that he was coming with a new program of relief for the unemployed and assist- ance for the farmers. But*his speech was silent on this problem. ‘The rank and file of the legionaires are not only dissatisfied with his speech but are taking his arrival at the name of the war lords of his|Chicago as a direct effort to quiet their struggle against the Veteran Economy Act. ‘Thousands and tens of thousands of legionaires even failed to come to the Stadium to hear President Rocse~ velt. The meeting at the Stadium was so Gisappointing to the legionaires, that the opening of the Auxiliarly Con- vention at the Auditorium Theatre was attended only by the officers of the Auxiliary Corps, The greater part of the hall was empty, The downtown streets of Chicago are crowded with legionaires and their friends. The richer element is drunk. There are drunken legionaires all over. They are disturbing the peace of the city. Their hooliganism is a disgrace. They stop every women that passes with obscene or suggestive re- mar! The downtown district of Chicago where. Legionaires are shouting. Le- gionaires are singing in the middle of the street, violently drunk. It seems as though the officers of the American Legion with the military guests and the City Administration are letting loose the spirit of hooli- ganism among the legionaires in order to make them unfit for any struggle again the Veteran Economy Act and impotent to discuss any vital problem that some of the rank and file want to take up at the convention, The entire convention is prepared as a burlesque show. For this evening a parade is ar- ranged by the “Forty and Fight,” which is the committee that defends the honor of the Legionnaires and is keeping the American Legion alive. Tomorrow is American Legion day in Chicago with all the libraries and schools closed. A parade will take place. The real business at the con- looks like an invaded region with uni- formed legionaires parading every- vention will start Wednesday morning at the Chicago Opera Hous Legi Until then, the delegates will be so tired out and so “amused” that the actual business and’ problems will be pushed thru by the officials fight- ing to keep the American Legion as @ reactionary force in American life. Interviewing the official delegates | to the American Legion convention | and asking them what are the prob-! lems of their gathering, they an- swered: “We did not discuss any prob- ; lems at the election meeting. The | majority of the delegates considered their coming to Chicago a good time, to enjoy themselves, Those that have | problems and are sincere could not get elected. We don’t like those that are associating with the workers.” Hundreds of bands and drummers are brought to the Legionnaires con- vention. A great deal of color is dis- played, uniforms seen. The World’s Fair is preparing a special day for the Legionnaires, Department stores are decorated with flags and pictures of war. Every city institution is salut- ing the Legionnaires. The entire city takes the form of a war camp, with picture. rdered | hops on | | Wage Cuts in Code} the population running to see the/| Hotel, opulent as usual. The union chieftains look prosper- ous enough, as they swagger through the Willard's famous Peacock Alley, to make its lolling prostitutes primp and bridle and cast longing glances toward these expensively tailored mbols of ready money. The womep sitors to the convention who are of the official caste run heavily to mink and sable scarfs and peroxide coif- fures. No one here is living on unem- ployment relief or its equivalent, No echo from the more than fifteen million unemployed has so far been allowed to penetrate this exotic at- mosphere composed of equal parts | of Havana cigar smoke and costly perfume which by long established custom has become the official odor of the A. F. of L. Convention, Green's sole mention in his opening speech of the urgent need for the rapid enactment of unemployment in- surance made manifest by the crisis in N.R.A. and the palpable failure of its reemployment program was: “We are going to press for the enactment of our social justice program, which includes unemployment insurance.” | But he had time to lift officially from the Red Cross the curse which mil- lions of workers and farmers have put upon it and its callous treatment of hungry toilers and their families. President Green introduced John Barton Payne, Red Cross head, as distinguished citizen “who has graci- ously consented to address us.” Evidently answering the flood of crit- icism of Red Cross handling of the unemployed, Payne denied charges and stated that his organization had aided the unemployed in 1931, Green then said that he had been deeply touched by some of the complaints, but that Payne had always responded in “a sympathetic and appropriate ' way.” This little job of whitewashing one of the most vicious propaganda agencies of Wall Street imperialism | attended to, and the Red Cross wel- comed back into the Happy N.R.A. official family, Green himself read a | wire from Louis Johnson, commander of the American Legion, which said that the two organizations held com: mon ideals of citizenship and labor; that in the joint support of NRA they had made common sacrifices for the | good of all. Green promised the convention that this heartening message would be an- swered appropriately. Green’s open- |ing speech contained some criticism |of the administration of N.R.A.but its whole tone was one of enthusiastic support of N.R.A. and the Roosevelt ‘Administration. The summary of the |ex-Council repert given the Conven- tion deplores slowness of the public works program. Newspapermen estimate that 445 delegates are present instead of 800 | officially predicted. New York RED PRESS BAZAAR —FOR— @ Daily Worker @ Morning Freibeit | © Young Worker , Friday, Saturday, Sunday OCT. 6, 7, 8 Madison Square Garden MAIN HALL ADMISSION Friday and Sunday... .350 Saturday ....+..0++++.400 | —_— | Total for Sat... . 50 With Advance Ticket Obtainable At Every Organization, 10 Cents Less At Door. 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