The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 5, 1933, Page 3

ate LEGION OFFIC IALS TRY TO KILL FIGHT AGAINST COMPENS ATION SLASH Vote Down Consideration of Bonus Payments, Féarful of Rank and File Sentiment Against Roosevelt Program & ‘3 is | & PE TRL A TERE CHICAGO, Oct. 4—Amidst deliberately stimulated war-time jingoism, and riotous carousing, the upper officials in the American Legion Resolu- tions’ Committee today killed the proposal to raise the bonus and veterans’ compensation question on the floor of the Convention. This action was taken in recognition of the fact that a powerful feeling in favor of contint the bonus fight & . ae and the fight pooch selina Ameiic. Legion the reason for this cuts is growing among the rank and ; demand 1s, according to the explana- file of the Legionnaires. The commit- | tion, to secure “documentary evi- tee frankly is afraid to fight the bonus |@ence of the connection of the Com- and compensation issues out on the |munist Party in Chicago to the So- floor of the Convention. viet government,” and use this evi- Officials Support. dence “against the recognition of the Instead of fighting for the bonus and against the Roosevelt» $300,000,- 000 slash in veterans’ compensations, the officialdom of the Legion has joined with Roosevelt in crippling the rank and file fight against the Roosevelt veterans’ program. National Commander Johnson warned the Convention that they must fight against “government ex- travagance and recknessness.” Refer- ring to the bonus in a thinly veiled statement, Johnson urged to dele- gates to “refuse to be led into danger, no matter how tempting the fruits may be.” Calls for War Program Referring directly to the demand that exists on the floor of the con- vention among the rank and file op- Position, that the Workers Ex-Ser- vicemen’s League be permitted to rep- resentative in the convention, John- son declared: “We should never agree to accept one shred of responsibility for what any other organization chooses to! do,” Johnson’s report contained a call for “saving «the national defense structure,” a call for support of the Roosevelt war preparations program. | He also spoke of the Legion’s fight against “Communism, radical pac- | ifism, and subversive radicalism.” | This fight, he declared, “has gained | increasing importance during the past | year.” He urged greater efforts | gaainst the revo.utionary movement. | Plan Atiack on Communists While all this is, going on, in the| high circles of the American Legion there are Open demands for organ- ized raids during the convention upon the headquarters of the Communist Party and. Communist Party publica- tions and working class organizations in the city of Chicago. In the high | circles of the officialdom of the} OUT:OF TOWN AFFAIRS San Francisco OCT. 7th: Film showing of “1905” at Workers Center, 1225 Fillmore. * Chicago OCT. 7th: Party Entertainment and Dance at W.LR. headquarters, 2552 W. Divi- sion St. Auspices, C.P, Unit 912, Detroit OCT. 7th.: Big Dance at Magnolia Hall, 28th Street and Magnolia Ave. Good Music. Beer. Admis- sion 0c. : Soviet government by the U. S. gov- ernment.” It is also known that a meeting of the representatives of the American Legion and city officials of Chicago have been held in which this whole matter has been discussed. The Legion proposes to receive a search warrant signed by a friendly to the Legion judge and the Legion- naires together with the city police to make raids. At their last convention at Detroit the bureaucracy of the Legion broke into the office of the Communist Party am wrecked all the furniture. A message of greeting was read to the convention from Mussolini. Pursuing its Jim Crow policy, Dr. Emmet J, Scott, of Howard Univers- ity, who was invited to address the convention, was permitted to talk only to the Negro members. Three Injured in Fight to Stop Scabs Entering | Jamestown, N.Y., Plant JAMESTOWN, N. Y., Oct. 4—An attempt to bring scabs in to the Art Metal Construction Company plant, where 500 workers are striking, re- sulted in a battle with three people injured. Additional guards were brought in to protect the scabs. The men struck for higher wages and lower hours. One of the strikers was arrested. They Sign N. R. A. and Lay Off Men in Waukegan, Ill. WAUKEGAN, Ill—After having signed the NRA presumably for higher wages and shorter hours, the Steel Kitchen Corporation proceeded at once to initiate wage cuts. Thirty workers were laid off. The stipulated scale of 40 cents an hour was cut by 25 to 30 per cent; the hours were not shortened. National ' Events Philadelphia N.R.A. Sym- posium. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The Trade Union Unity Council has arranged a symposium for today at the Kensing- ton Labor Lyceum, 2916 N. Second St. Representatives from the Phila~ delphia office of the NRA, Central Labor Union of Philadelphia and the Trade Union Unity League have been invited to participate. It is expected that Bill Dunne of the Trade Union Unity League will be one of the speakers, THE BROWN BOOK OF THE HITLER TERROR PREPARED BY THE WORLD COMMITTEE TO AID THE VICTIMS OF GERMAN FASCISM Here is the truth about Hitlerism! This book tells who really burned the Reichstag and exposes the Nazi plot against Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff, and Taneff! It describes in detail the po- groms, the destruction of workers’ orga- nizations and the culture! It exposes campaign against the alliance between the Nazis and German capitalists! It reveals the facts about the systematic torture of working class leaders! Every American worker and intellectual should read this book! ORDER $2.50 FROM DISTRICT LITERATURE DEPARTMENT At Regular Discount 35 East 12th Street * New Yor k City CHICAGO, ILL. CELEBRATE 14th ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY Sun, Oct. 8, 4 pm., Albany Park Workers’ Center —VARIED PROGRAM— 4P.M—Grand Concert, Mass Revolutionary Chorus, __Dancers, John Reed Club Sketch, Many Novel Features. 6 P. M—Lecture. History of the Communist Party—B, SHIELDS. 8 P. M—Dance, Supper, Dance, ADMISSION 25¢c. Auspices: Communist Party, Section 5 Dye Works, was first closed down, Aricraft Workers Force Demands Despite A. F. of L. (By a Group of Aircraft Worker Correspondents) BUFALO, N. Y—It has been | learned from reliable sources, on | Sept. 15th a strike was unanimously voted for at a union meeting and a committee set up to handle the strike situation at the Curtiss-Wright plant stead of a 614 per cent increase as was stated in the local newspapers at the time of occurrence. This union was formed by the Am- erican Federation of Labor-represe! tatives with the Curtiss-Wright Co. approval, At this meeting, when the Strike was voted, A. representatives and organizers realized the militancy of the workers and obviously became worried as the morning the strike was to materialize drew near. A, F. of L, representatives (at the instiga- tion of government representatives who were trying to shield the com- pany from disgrace after allowing it to display the Blue Eagle) were at the plant telling the workers an arm- istice had been signed with the Cur- tiss-Wright Co. as the union had not been fair to their employers, although a week's notice warning had been sounded. Win Demands After considerable deliberation and delay, the A. F. of L. and the Cur- tiss-Wright Co. were forced to. ac- cept the workers’ demands. They would not tolerate any change in their decision to strike unless their demands were granted. The question is now much longer can the A. F. of L. hold a whip hand over these workers before they bolt from their strategy and non-strike policies to seek other,. more re- Hable union leadership that will back them in their fight or strikes’ for higher wages? Especially now, as inflation ad- vances so rapidly, cutting more and more from their weekly pay. sta EDITOR’S NOTE: The situation described by the worker corres- pondent is the first stage in the struggle against A.F.L. mislcaders. Now is the time to consolidate the gains made by the workers in the rank and file struggle against these A.F.L. officials. This can best With 25,000 dye and silk workers still soli Photo shows a police attack on strikers with tear gas and fire hose when the Lodi plant, of the United Piece ‘DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1933 in Paterson, mass pi This plant, with 4,000 employees, is The National Textile Workers Union’s mass picket lines have succeeded in keeping the plant closed down. Kidnapped Communist Names Officials Who Attacked Him COLUSA, Cal. — Neither the sheriff nor the district attorney of Butte county will prosecute the kidnappers of Herbert J. Journey, |Colusa Communist organizer, it ap- |pears. Journey was kidnapped by |five men, held captive and beaten \for three days, then shackled with |padlocked chains and set loose in |the streets in a dazed condition. He was seized at a point of a jhis head, and was taken 50 miles jto e shack where two other men |kept him a prisoner. Journey |named residents of Gridley and Co- lusa ith whom the Butte county officials are allied. Terre Haute Stops | Unemployed Relief TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Oct. 2— | Destitute workers and their families jare today faced by acute hunger re- sulting from the refusal of all gro- by the township relief. Grocers state that the warrants have not been paid for by the county for the past seven months. In the beginning of Sep- tember the Q. & S. Grocers Alliance rejected the warrants for the first time, throwing the burden of relief on the shoulders of the smaller in- ‘pendent. stores. When Governor. McNutt refused to pay more than 50 per cent of the total value of the warrants these stores also refused relief. Political charges of maladministra- tion were passed from the township trustee to the office of the Governor, while workers and their dependents wonder how to find food for today’s meals. County Auditor Propst was commissioned to confer with the Gov- ernor and relief. officials and has | promised an announcement not later »than 5 p.m. tomorrow. be done by the workers themselves as quickly as possible, building up opposition groups to give the union membership rank and file leader- ship in future struggles, which are inevitable, for the workers’ own demands. This is a stronger meth- od of struggle than just to look around for “more reliable union leadership.” Page Thtee Bitter Experience Has Taught Miners Not to Trust * “The President Himself Could Not Get U Back Unless Union Is Recognized,” Declare the Miners By HARRY GANNES PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 4—If the President himself came out here he couldn't get us to go back to work unless they recognize the union,” shouted the miners at a meeting of 15,000 held Tuesday at Searight, Pa., five miles east of Uniontown. Local leaders from nearly every in Pennsylvania declared solidarity with the Frick Co. miners for a finish fight, no matter what ernment force moved along with the The Searight mass meeting was called after Philip Murray, U.M.W.A. vice-president, held a rump confer- ence in Pittsburgh on Monday, at- tended by some of the insurgent gov-|® U.M.W.A. leaders to break the strike. | jicketing continues each morning. | the largest dye house in the world. Offer $1,500 for Calif. Grape Picker Strike Betrayal LODI, Calif., Oct. 4—Twenty-nine| striking grape-pickers have been ar-| rested here in a reign of terror to | break the strike of 2,000 workers who| are demanding 40 cents an hour. | Armed vigilantes failed in an at- | tempt to herd the strikers out of town A reward of $1,500 has been posted in Buffalo, N. Y., by dissatisfied work-|gun in Gridley, where he had been| for ‘the betrayal of militant leaders ers who Had received approximately |active in a fruit-pickers’ strike, was | of the strike and of the Sacramento| ' 6% per cent cut in weekly pay in-|7orced into a car with a sack over | leader of the TLD, In Fresno, where six workers who participated in the recent strike of grape-pickers face long terms on} criminal syndicalism: charges, and in| | the Bakersfield region, cotton pickers | | are walking out in the face of threats) of murder, jailing, and kidnapping =| The I.L.D., organizing defense com-| mittees in the strikers’ ranks, andj} mass as well as legal defense for the| arrested workers, has called for work- | | ers everywhere to send protests on| the Lodi and Fresno arrests to Gov- ernor Rolph, demanding the right of| the workers to organize strike and) | picket, immediate removal and pro- secution of all officials who interfere | back to work, leaders like Martin Ryan and Steve Petrone. Murray announced that Ryan and Petrone had agreed to send the men considering General Johnson’s telegram and the_H. Frick Co. declaration as “vir recognition of the U.M.W.A Syddenly, as one of the agen the’ coal operators, Anthony C: cante, a representative of Governor Pinchot, was about to conclude his speech, a truck mounted with a loud speaker on top drove to the platform. William Feeney, president of U. M. W. A. District 4, alighted. He sneaked up to the platform, out of view. “Throw Him Out” He did not dare face the miners but stepped down and hid in the truck while he attempted to speak. Everything had been pre-arranged |for a quick exit for Feeney. “You have put up a remarkable fight,” began Feeney. “Boo, throw him out.” “You betrayed us in 1922, but you on’t betray us now.” The whole ‘assembled mass of miners vented their rage and anger, Hidden in the truck, Feeney d speak again. But not a this was then heard above t and shouting of the emt miners. “Go down there and take him out. Throw him out,” shouted the miners. The men be surging toward the truck. Feeney’s henchmen slammed the doors sl hurry. and sped off in a Pinchot Mes: The stage had been pared for Feeney'’s entr: cante, in a smooth and ingr in| you. cers to honor food warrants issued | with this right, and release of all| Manner, told the miners how much \the California criminal syndicalism|N. R.A. He hailed Roosevelt. Then arrested workers, as well as repeal of He was for them. He praised the| | law. |he told the miners he had a special |Brockton Strikers in the Shoe Industry Hold Mass Meeting BROCKTON, Mass., October 4.— At a mass meeting of Brockton shoe Workers which was held at Pythian Temple, District Organizer Sparks of the Communist: Party of |New England exposed the illusory aspects of the NRA and the strike- breaking’ tactics of General John- son of the NRA administration. He. also flayed the A. F. of L. | burocracy for sabotaging rank and file strikes. need to continue the strike of the Brockton shoe .Workers under rank and file control until higher wages and better working conditions are won. The workers-were told to oust every. corrupt A. F. of L, official from the unica organization. There is a demand for more copies of the Daily Worker among the striking shoe workers, Compared to Unemplo By BILL DUNNE. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4—If ] any doubt lingers that the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor has made the National Re- covery Act its official program, the report of the Council to the Fifty- ae i Annual Convention should dis- pel it. ’ If there has been created any doubt that the A. F. of L. leadership whole- heartedly supports the N.R.A., and if such doubt has been strengthen the recent criticism of some of its administrative features, in the public speeches of President Green and others, the report of the Executive Council, containing 125 pages, should settle this question. 2 Working Out “New Deal.” For the Executive Council rej begins by printing the N.R.A. in full and concludes with the following statement: “This convention meeting at a cru- cial period in the history of this country has the opportunity and the responsibility for shaping policies of momentous importance. We are at least attempting to work out the principles of a New Deal which our government has legislated. As unions, we have no choice but to obey the law and to serve the agencies for put- ting it into effect. Our immediate problem is to function so as best to advance justice and economic prog- ress for all those concerned in carry- ing on the industry and all those (My em- Here, in one short paragraph, is the pledge to keep the union activities inside the framework of the N.R.A. Here, in one sentence,-is the whole policy of surrender of the interests of the workers and their organiza- tions to the interests, special and gen- eral, of American capitalists and is the Executive Council's con- tribution for this year to the drive to strangle labor unions as independent Federation Bureaucra “Number Who’ Returned to Work Is Trifling yment,” Report Shows of the anti-strike and compulsory gov- ernment dictated arbitration in the supplementary agreement to the coal code flow logically. Fight for Their Privileges. ‘The only fight the bureaucrats are making is for the protection of their privilege of being the ones who sell the working class down the river into the forced labor plantations of the N.R.A. and the organizations of em- ployers which it has made more powerful, from which it has removed ed bY | even the formal restrictions of the Sherman anti-trust law, “to assist and speed up national recovery.” Compared with such deliberate dec- larations of basic policy, the sniping criticism of “unduly” long hours and “unduly” low wages by this or the other A. F. of L. leader are seen to sport | be merely some fancy feats of mark- manship indulged in with the full consent of the Roosevelt administra- tion since they serve to give an ap- pearance of militancy to leaders, who need it badly because of growing disr illusionment among workers and other toiling sections of the population as to the purity of the N.R.A. intentions regarding living standards and ele- mentary political rights, evidenced by the great strike wave. ‘The body of the report is full of facts and figures used by the Execu- tive Council's brain trust of Socialist Party and Amalgamated Clothing Worker's trained interpreters to prove that the N.R.A. is the only hope for the masses, but which actually prove the criminal character of the official labor support of the N.R.A. For in- stance: On page 63 the following statement is made: “A report of the National Bureau of Economic Research shows @ 12 percent increase in production per worker per hour from 1929 to 1932 in_manufacturing industries... For the period since 1932, judging from the statistical data available, production per man hour has in- creased even more rapidly with the rising industrial activity this spring organizations of workers, From such @ policy such acts as the acceptance ts’ Interest Is to Harnes Sparks stressed the} ; the conference with the U.M.W.A. of- | The capi-} message for them from Governor Pinchot. “It’s a special appeal to you men. Listen carefully.” He read the letter worded almost ex- actly as General Johnson's state- |ment of the previous day, authorized by Roosevelt. “That means recognition of the committees chosen as their represen- {cluding sentence of the Governor's | message. | “Stay out,” shouted the miners. |and_ white.” “The question is,” shouted Caval- cante, “are you going to go back?” “No, no, no,” resounded from 15,000 throats. ficials, got up to speak. |talist press had announced in the morning that Ryan favored going {back to work, but if union recog- | nition was not real, the men would be pulled out again. The miners wanted to hear what Ryan had to say. “They tried to put something over on us,” said Ryan. “I didn’t leave | July 1933 (less than one year) pro- duction rose 49 percent, man hours only 25 percent.” (My emphasis.) Outlaw Strikes. To remedy this alarming condition the Executive Council proposes to “press forward” for the 30-hour week. If, for the sake of argument, we ac- cept this as a solution of the burn- ing question of the ever more in- tensive speed up of American work- ers, let us remember that the A. F. of I, leaders, Lewis of the United Mine Workers, and Green, have al- ready established a precedent in the coal code for the outlawing of strikes. Even the 30-hour week cannot be won without strikes and the wide- the shorter work week with the cor- responding—or greater—reduction in pay upon which the big corporations insist. This is the meaning of the “mil- itancy” of the official leadership on this issue. The report makes some more dis- closures: On page 66 we find the fol- lowing: “Although the field agents of the Federal Relief Administration are instructed to raise standards of relief (the boys never forget to absolve the government of blame—B. D.), the amounts given are seriously inade- quate in many cases. While relief per family averaged $16.85 a month from April to July, amounts vary from $4 per family per month in Mis- sissippi to $30 in New York state. The average family receiving relief has between four and five member (4.4 members). When it is considered that, at June 1933 prices, $21.50 a week was the necessary budget to give @ family of four even @ bare sub- sistence, the serious inadequacy of even the highest relief of $30 a month —$7.50 a week—is obvious... . Reports from Philadelphia and New York state show that 44 percent of the persons on relief rolls are children under 16 years of age.” (My em- phasis.) Since the members of the Executive over a $12 and $13 weekly wage on the workers, these two facts give an ac- curate measure of both their hypo- erisy and the stupidity of their ad- visers from the ranks of the reform- ist intelligentsia. Coming Winter Worse. Another revelation: On page 59 the following statement occurs: Although our trade union employ- ment figures show that employment was still gaining in August the gain was too small to make any substantial decrease in the army of unemployed. .». Unless the return to work takes place at a faster rate in the months just before us, the unemployed will suffer worse hardchip in the coming winter than ever before.” (My em- phasis.) Since the opulent gentry of the Executive Council who make this statement are the same ones who have fought tooth and toe nail against compulsory federal unem~- ployment insurance for four years of the crisis, are the same ones who have expelled Communists and rank and file union members for advocat- ing federal unemployment insurance, we have here an additional guage of their sincerity. In the 125 pages of the Executive Council report unemployment in- surance is not even mentioned. Gap Between Facts and Conclusions. The deeper one digs into the report of the A. F. of L. Executive Council to the Fifty-third Annual Conven- tion, the greater becomes the gap between its facts and conclusions. This is especially true in regard to unemployment and the measures pro- posed for taking care of the jobless millions and their dependents, The Executive Council recommenda- tions are based on the theory which its own estimates of numbers of un- employed and employment trends ex- plode, the theory that mass unem- is merely temporary. The corollary of this theory is that the only neces- sary measures are temporary relief Council who in their report speak of $21.50 per week as giving only a bare than it did in the full three years of the depression... . . From 1932 to subsistence for a family of four, arc the same gentlemen who, backing the \ ing and provisions bought and handed out by government agencies, with the boundless opportunities for graft at the expense of the unemployed, op- | “Let them put recognition in black) ployment—-now in its fourth year—/ —not cash, but in the form of cloth- | county in the soft coal strike field they would take back to work. We the power to we will get t in the mo) put. a pie get em. of Guts’ etrone of al got up to were in Wher dale 1 mine Petro. to go back to for what happened, W 1y fault. “I am sorry ne pleaded. “It You got me on the floor at times, and they us to send the Bill Heines ac- We all me shoved They misunder- men back to wor’ ly cried, we ie our union. Last i e up to me and a gun in my belly. stood me. I didn’t send them back} to work. They told me they would shoot me. Shoot me now if you don’t think I’m for ‘the str didn’t tell tk he to go back to w incident r ge-in a little self am going to be n If anyone wants to ist me let him do it that the Steel and Me' s’ Industrial Union were with the coal miners 100 per cent. “We have a rank-and-file ‘olled union,” he s: “We are ou against your fakers, Feeney, Murray and Le Drive them all out as you did Feeney here.” He was greeted with loud shouts and cheers. About a dozen miners Every one of them declared for con- tinuing the strike despite Roosevelt, |Pinchot, Lewis or anybody else. “We | are out to win and we will not go |back into the pits until an agree-| ment is signed with our union so that we can all see. No more be- trayals and sellouts.” | Pat Minerard of the Republic Mine spoke | “It wouldn’t make any difference 'tatives by the miners,” was the con- whether Roosevelt himself came here | today. He couldn't get the men |back to work under present condi- tions.” ‘Hell, no,” echoed the miners. | A Negro miner from Newburg then spoke. “The so-called signing by Mosses is a fake. When’a contract is drawn up it must be drawn up in jblack and white so we can all see it. Martin Ryan, who had attended The operators said ‘We will,’ but| they didn’t say when.” italist Press Lies list press is already busy to split the ranks of by announcing figures of returning to work. The miners miners know of this attempt, and jthis morning are planning huger and more militant picket lines than ever to meet the threat. | “A majority of Western Pennsyl- s Workers to: the N.R.A. portunities which American history assures us Will not -be overlooked— and a reduction in hours of work. The Executive Council shys away from the issue of compulsory unem- ployment insurance at the expense of the employers and the government as if it were the smallpox. It con- tends, taking its cue from the Roose- velt administration, that the crisis— “depression” is the A. F. of L. trans- lation—is being overcome and that the 6-hour day and 5-day week is all that is necessary to give jobs to the jobless, for which its own estimate is 11,781,000. Gives Lie to Optimism. But the statistics on which it bases its program give the lie to its op- timism. The Executive Council figures for total unemployment and part-time work among union mem- bers show that there is now, in spite of all statements to the contrary, a certain stabilization of mass unem- ployment taking place and that, within the vast army of unemployed there is now a fluctuation up and down of not more than 1,400,000 in basic industry on the upward trend, but running as high as~4,000,000 when the curve plunves sharply downwards. Re-employment Trifling The report itself states on Page 62: “Tn any case, the number who have returned to work is trifling compared to the large unemployment in our chief industries. By July, 1933, the jbuilding industry had re-employed | only 7 per cent of the 75 per cent laid off since 1299, the railroads only 4 per cent of their 45 per cent, facto- ries 13 per cent of their 44 per cent, and retail trade 3 per cent of its 29 per cent.” (My emphasis.) The most optimistic estimates do not dare to claim that more than 1,400,000 have returned to work in these four big occupational groups. ‘The trade union percentage figures are even more convincing in regard to the persistence of the high level of total unemployment and part time work. (It should be remembered that part time work means anything less than five days per week, and that spoke. | Promises Minnesota Farmers ‘Denounce Roosevelt ‘Cuba Intervention (Special to Daily Worker) CROSBY, Minn., Oct. 4 (Delayed). —The State Conference of the United Farmers League of Minnesota closed here with the unanimous adoption of a resolution demanding the im- | mediate withdrawal of battleships from the harbors of Cuba, and the cancellation of all debts to Wall Street and the abrogation of the | Platt Amendment. In addition to demanding the can- ° cellation of all farm mortgage debts, back taxes, and feed and seed Jos: the 80 farm delegates, representing many hundreds of dirt farmers, also passed resolutions demanding the recognition of the Soviet Union, and pledging their solidarity with indus-. trial workers in their fight sgeinst the NRA slavery codes. A dramatic incident of the confer- ence was the story told by Frank Murtland, militant farmer of Bemidji, who came to expose the attack, made on him by the Farmer-Laborites who control the state. Murtland told how his children had been taken away from him because he had denounzed the hospital authorities for dishon- est The delegates unanimously Pp da resolution demanding the Farmer-Labor Governor Olson return Murtland’s children from the County | Ward. vania soft coal miners today defied the virtual command of the Presi- dent and General Hugh S. Johnson that they return to work,“ declared the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph Tues- ay night. ‘ “They defied also the instructions of their own union commanders, among them Vice-President Philip Murray, who told them yesterday that if they continued to strike to- day they would be ‘conducting a re- bellion. The fact of the matter is, Murray threatened that the President would order the United States Army against the miners. He threatened the death of their union and the murder of their rank and file leaders | “We have received a command from the commander-in-chief of the United States asking us to resume operation under the terms of the jagreement which has been entered into between General Johnson and Murray told the steel executives,” |the miners on Monday. “As far as the United States is concerned it has said its last words.” But the miners continued to strike. They did more, they declared they. jwould strike until they win and no |foree would stop them. | “We've got to say yes or no to the | President of the United States,” Murray exhorted. The miners, in one solid chorus, | said “No!” | They did ‘more. They began pre- paring more drastic picketing. They are determined not only to keep their |strike firm, but to help close down |the Carnegie Steel plant in Clairton, and to help close down the steel | mills in Ambridge and throughout |the Allegheny Valley. “The union that does not respect that command (of President Roose- | velt),” warned Murray, “will live but a short time. And the officers of that union will live but a short time.” | Nor did this murder threat make | the miners flinch the least bit, The answer of the miners to every plea, from the White House down, to |return to work is: “One hundred per |\cent no, until Frick recognizes the | union,” NRA code in textiles, tried to. put | Green '‘& Co. Are Hostile to Jobless Insurance | in Order to Safeguard Bosses’ Profits |actually millions of workers rated es employed part time have such low in- comes that they are in some instances worse off than those eligible for relief.) These figures show that for ine three years 1931-32-33 (the estimate for 1933 is for eight months only) the percentage of totally unemployed among union members runs as follows: 19.1, 23.8, 25.3. The figures which make up the average for 1933 include the months of May, June. July and August—the period of most intense activity of the N. R. A, ad- ministration and the period of the greatest advertisement of it as @ panacea for unemployment. Unemployment among trade union | members was as follows for these four months: 25.8, 24.5, 24.1, 23.7. For part- time work the percentage was; 20, 21, | 21, 20. ‘The percentage over the three-year pee for part-time work was: 19. These cold figures, of such a decisive character that even the expert sta- tisticlans of the Executive Council are unable to conceal them (they are able only to keep them down to the abso- lute minimum), show that the N. R. A. has made no real step toward industrial “recovery.” : ‘These figures show that it is not any genuine evidence of the ir coming of permanent mass unem- ployment which actuates the Exec- | utive Council in its hostility to, and | sabotage of, compulsory federal un- |employment insurance, but loyalty te | the slave and hunger program of the N. R. A., keen interest in keeping the | swollen fortunes and incomes of its capitalist masters free from the nec- essary taxation for unemployment in- surance, and betrayal of the most | vital interest of the working class that {is behind its tremendous efforts tc |keep the A, F. of L. program within |the framework of the N. R. A. | This is the main motive determin- ling the character of the, conclusions lof the Executive Council and the main motive behind its activities in the convention.