The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1933, Page 3

ae en a s DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1933 Wa enn Page Three Atlanta Workers Attack NRA Parade; Police Helpless Destroy “Prosperity” Floats, Pictures of Roosevelt ATLANTA, Ga., (By mail). — Fierce anger of the masses against the “New Lynch Deal” under the N. R. A. was expressed by the yworkers of Atlanta when they at- 7, fia floats and destroyed por- ff — its of President Roosevelt in the official N. R. A. parade here on Oct. 4. { The New Deal has here taken the ; form of a tremendous increase in \ the open murder of Negroes and the terrorization of white workers by police. Class-conscious white workers were made the special »bjects of police attack at a mass orotest funeral recently for Glover Davis, blind Negro worker shot ‘down in cold blood by Policeman 0. W. Allen. Police Chief 0. E. Sturdivant has demanded an appropriation for armored and machine gun armored cars to “shoot down Communists,” and has announced he will arrest every member of the I. L. D. he can lay hands on. In spite of this threat, the I. L. | D. membership is growing, and mil- itant organization of united front committees to fight police terror and lynching is constantly increas- ing. } Police dared not interfere with | the spontaneous attack of the out- \ raged workers upon the N. R. A. parade of Legionnaires, Ku Klux Klansmen and the Chamber of }} Commerce. ' Over 5,000 at Calif. Scottsboro Meetings i 3 } LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15.—An aver- { age of more than five hundred work- | ers, about half of them Negroes, attended each of the ten Scottsboro tour meetings held in Southern Cali- fornia in September. The meetings were addressed by Mrs. Janie Pat- terson, mother of Heywood Patterson, Richard Moore, member of the Na- tional Executive Committee of the I. L. D. and well-known Negro orator, and Lester Carter, white boy witness for the Scottsboro defense. You need the revolutionary move- ment, The revolutionary move- ment needs the Daily Worker. The \“Daily” needs funds to continue. Help the “Daily” with your im- ‘mediate contribution. OUT OF TOWN AFFAIRS Dail FOR THE ker Chicago OCT. 17: ‘A city-wide meeting of Daily Worker readers will be held at People’s Au- ditorium, 2457 W., Ohicago Avenue, ‘The Volunteers Committee will be elected at this meeting to carry on the work for the benefit of the Daily ‘Worker. \ Philadelphia OCT. 20th: Gala Concert at Turngemeinde Hall Broad and Columbus Ave. Robert Minor, candidate on the ©. P. ticket in New York will be the main speaker. Interesting program. Ad- mission 36 cents, Los Angeles Section Comrade MaeHarris, touring for the Daily Worker, with the great Soviet Film “Ten Days That Shock The World” and “Bread” will be showr in the following cities on the dates listed below for the benefit of the Daily Worker: Oct. 17—San Diego Oct. 18—Long Beach Oct. 2i—Santa Barbara Oct. 22 to 26 inclusive— Monterey, Santa Cruz and Watsonville Oct. 27—Carmel Philadelphia, Pa. DAILY WOKKER CONCERT FRIDAY, OCT. 20, at 8 P. M. at Lulu Temple Broad and Spring Garden Streets ROBERT MINOR, Candidate on the C.P. Ticket in New York, main speaker. — Admigsion 35 Cents Chicago, Ill. th L; Annual Bazaar at People’s Auditorium 2457 W. Chicago Avenue October 20th, 21st and 22nd SINGING — BALLET — GAME DANCING — FUN Auspices: Communist Party, Dist. 8 Admission 10c; For All 3 Nites 25c LOS ANGELES, Calif. International Labor Defense 7” Annual Concert SUNDAY, OCT. 22, at 8 P.M. ‘WOMEN’S COUNCIL HALL, 214 Loma Drive Surprise Program Featuring FISK O'HARA Famous Irish Tenor ani MAYNARD HOLMES Hollywood Actor and Vocalist BILL GHERE Master of Ceremonies Dearborn Poll Is Challenge to Ford’s Nominee; Schmies Heads De Detroit Leader JOHN SCHMIES | Raymond Polls Highest | Communist Vote in | City Election DETROIT, Mich.—In one of the lightest votes cast in years, the Com- munist Party made small gains in the city primaries held on Oct, 10. The highest Communist vote was received by Phil Raymond, secretary of the | Auto Workers’ Union, who polled 6,725 as a candidate for the City | Council. John Schmies, district or- ganizer of the Party and candidate | for Mayor, received 4,339, Three other Communist candidates for the City Council received the following vote: Earl Reno, secretary of the Unemployed Councils, 3,640; Frank Sykes, Negro worker and member of the National Board of the Auto Workers’ Union, 3,359, and Heywood Maben, of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, 2,230. Though Schmies received a lower vote than he did when he ran for Mayor in 1931, in proportion to the total cast, his vote improved. In 1931 he received 1.2 per cent of the | total vote cast, and this year, 2.5 per |cent. The highest Communist vote | for City Council in 1931 was 1.3 per | cent of the total cast; this year it was 3.9 per cent. Frank Couzens, son of the Senator, who became Acting Mayor when the New Deal watchdog of American imperialism as Governor of the Philippines, was nominated for Mayor by a big majority. In the finals on Nov. 7 he will run against Philip Breitmeyer, former Mayor. Only about 170,000 ballots were cast this year, as compared with 486,000 in 1931, The Socialist Party candidate for Mayor, Dr, Walter Bergman, received 5,516 votes. Howard Starret, a notorious dema- gogue, who polled a large vote two years ago, flopped miserably despite generous publicity in the capitalist Press, receiving only about 400 votes more than Schmies. Highest Pay Is $9 _in Leather Goods _ Shop, Middletown MIDDLETOWN, N. Y.—The 200 | Workers in the Classy Leather Goods | Corp. in Middletown work under the | most miserable conditions: The ma- | jority of the workers are on piece | work, The highest pay for operators | is about $9 per week. The boss forces the workers to work overtime many nights a week, also Saturdays and Sundays, with no extra pay and on the threat of losing their jobs. The time workers work 43 hours a week and are paid for 40 hours. Their pay is from 16 cents to 25 cents per hour. If a worker comes one minute late, he is docked for an hour’s pay. There are no safety devices on the machines and every worker on. the machines has been injured at least once. There have been cases of work- ers who were working on eyelet stamp ing machins, where the pin has pen- entrated right through the bone. No compensation is paid. One worker, whose foot Poisoned was told by the boss that “you don’t work here” when he told the boss about the injury. When he returned to work, he was fired. For the week that he was out, he received $1.96 pay. Most of these injuries are due to the terrific speed up. One worker, while being speeded up by the boss, caught his finger in the gusset machine and nearly lost his thumb. On Friday, the workers are only given 45 minutes for lunch. The work- ers are paid on Monday for the week ending on Thursday. The workers are forced to work on all legal holidays, and must work overtime every night in the week preceeding a Jewish holi- day. There is always the danger of disease because of the terrible sani- tary conditions. These workers have already had their experience with the AFL. A few years ago the AFL called a meet- ing, which was announced by the boss’ putting up a notice in the factory. After that meting, there was only one representative of the AFL in town, lecting dues. The AFL did absolutely awe for be workers. few weeks ago, the AFL came back to town, and called a meeting in the same way. They were hooted out eh Md Ree tence who re- mem ei! experiences with oth outfit. le Workers are now organizing iti- to an independent union. to fight against these miserable conditions, To keep up a six-page “Daily Work- Frank Murphy resigned to become | | | By A. B. DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 15.—“General strike!” Arena Gardens Friday night and were storm of applause and cheering. The meeting, attended mostly by Mechanics’ Educational Society, which troit, Flint and Pontiac, It took concrete steps toward the organiza- tion of a general strike of all auto workers, irrespective of craft, on a united front basis. The meeting was held on the very day of a new mass layoff, involving thousands of workers, at the Ford River Rouge plant. Layoffs are also taking place at other plants. These layoffs are actually lockouts and are so regarded by the workers—lockouts intended to strangle the strike move- ment in its infancy. For the second night in succession @ thunderous ovation was given to David Jones, workers’ united front candidate for Mayor of Dearborn and national vice-president of the Auto Workers’ Union. The evening before Jones had spoken in the same hall to a mass meeting of striking tool and diemakers. He again called for a march on the Ford plant and for a general strike to win better conditions for the workers in the en- tire industry. Raymond Speaks A great ovation was also given Phil Raymond, secretary of the Auto Workers’ Union, who was sitting in the audience and was called up to the platform to speak. Raymond outlined concrete demands and or- ganizational proposals for the gen- eral strike and called for a united front of workers belonging to all or- ganizations—Auto Workers’ Union, Mechanics’ Educational Society, I. W. W., American Federation of Labor— and of employed and unemployed, as well as unorganized workers, in the fight against the N. R. A. slavery. “The time has come,” Raymond said as the audience cheered wildly, “to tell King Henry I of Dearborn to join the Czar of Russia.” The demands proposed by Ray- mond and approved by the mecting were a minimum wage of $1 an hour for all auto workers; the 6-hour day, 5-day week, with a guarantee of 40 weeks work a year, and a minimum of $15 a week for the unemployed. of 15,000 tool and diemakers in De-» a MAGIL. The words rang through caught up by 4,000 auto workers in a | production workers, was called by the is leading the three weeks old strike applause, that he was not only sec- retary of the Auto Workers’ Union, but a member of the Communist Party. Shop Registration He called on all auto workers” to/ begin registering by shops with an} organization of their own choice. He | also asked every shop to elect a delegate to the general strike com- mittee, | Others who spoke were Paul Grow, | militant member of the tool and die-| makers’ strike committee; F. T. Cederwal, of the I, W. W.; Jack Fisher, of the Auto Workers’ Union; John Mack, of the Flint Strike Com- mittee; a woman from the League for Industrial Democracy, who had been a delegate to the U. S. Congress Against War and who urged united strike action; and two workers from the shops. John Anderson, the scrapping Scotchman who is leading the striking tool and diemakers at the Ternstedt (General Motors) plant, acted as chairman, The meeting revealed that the rank and file of the Mechanics’ Edu- cational Society are taking control) of their own strike and are spread- ing it further over the heads of their leaders, J. J. Griffen and Matthew Smith, It is significant that while the meeting was in progress, another meeting was taking place elsewhere, at which Griffen and Smith were negotiating secretly, behind the) backs of the workers, with a group of employers and three congressmen. These two misleaders are also plan- ning to appear before the N. R. A. Board in Washington on Wednesday in an effort to bring in the N. R. A. to break the strike. Meanwhile, plans for the general strike are being pushed. Tomorrow night at 8 o'clock a meeting of dele- gates will be held in Carpathia Hall, 3500 Elmwood. Workers are urged to elect delegates from every shop and department. Unemployed work- ers and welfare wage workers should Raymond boldly declared, to loud also send delegates. troit Ticket Call for General Strike Rings Through Detroit Meet Urge Workers to Register by Shops; Adopt| Workers’ Candidate DAVID JONES David Jones Is Former Ford Worker; Final | Election Nov. 7 | DEARBORN, Mich.—For the first time in American history a real! workers’ candidate has a good chance of being elected Mayor in an im- portant industrial city—a city, more- over, that is practically a company town, ruled by one of the most pow- | erful trusts in the country, Dearborn, where 65,000 people live | under the dcmination of Henry Ford, has just gone through the stormiest primary election in its history, and it has resulted in a smashing victory for the United Front Working Peo-| ple’s Ticket. Despite the use of all sorts of intimidation and trickery, | despite the mobilization of Ford's gangster service men (spies), who visited workers in their homes and | threatened them with loss of their | jobs, despite undoubted stealing of votes, the United Front candidate for Mayor, David Jones, national | vice-president of the Auto Workers’) Union, outdistanced eight of his nine rivals, winning the right to run in) the finals on Nov. 7 against Mayor | Clyde M. Ford, cousin and faithful | tool of Henry. Mayor Ford, who had a strangle- | Central Sections of the International |“blue buzzard” was hold on this office since Dearborn was incorporated in 1928, received 5,464 votes, while Jones was official! credited with 1,444. Significant is} the fact that Ford did no poll a ma- jority, the total vote of his opponents | being 6,153, This shows how strong, | despite all terrorization, is the de-| termination of the Dearborn work-| ers to oust Henry Ford’s gangsters | and stoolpigeons from the city ad-| ministration. White Powder Gets in Lungs of New Haven Shop Workers NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Conditions in the Goodyear Rubber Sundries shop in this city, mentioned in last week's edition of the “Daily,” grow steadily worse every day under the blue eagle. The working conditions go from bad to worse. When the workers coms out from the shop they are covered with the starch in the air which penetrates right into their lungs, and they Four other workers’ candidates, Charles A. Regan for City Treasurer, and Walter Colton, Frank Fraley and also received enough votes to get on the final ballot. A Former Miner Jones, the nominee for»Mayor, is a fighting candidate who=has beon in the forefront of the struggles of both the employed and unemployed William V. Fayette, for Constables, | all look like old men and women@ them. Those who work here for a while not only lose weight and ap- petite, but one girl contracted tuber- culosis, was fired without one Penny | compensation, and her girl friend, who works now constantly with the dread of also getting T. B., now has her job. This is only part of the rotten working conditions in Goodyears. The workers are given only 15 min- utes for lunch, and do not leave the | shop. Mrs. Lewis, the nurse, who acts as a general spy in the place | snooping into the girl's private busi- | ness, is very strict with the workers! in the shop. When one of the girls mentioned to the others that she| knew Newman's Corset Shop was out on strike, and that she thought it wouldn't be a bad idea for the Good- year workers to join them, this worker was fired immediately. In! spite of this some steps are already being taken in this shop for organi- from this white powder which covers | zation. Not only do the workers receive miserable wages, as low as $10 and even less a week, but those workers who cannot make the minimum of $2.40 daily by piece work, are forced to take work home, to fill out this minimum. Yet this shop was one of the first in the city to show the blue eagle, and that Mr. Murray, senior, head of the shop, is a big shot, and a “prominent citizen” who thrives on the sweat and the rotting lungs of the Goodyear workers. fight for better conditions are re- All Goodyear workers who want to| quested to get in touch with the New Haven Trade Union Unity League at 70 Congress Ave., and your shop organization to struggle for higher pay, and decent working conditions. Every dollar you send to the Daily Worker is a blow in the face of Fascism, SE ea th whose sole activity consisted of col-| L. er,” the circulation must be doubled. Admission 25 cents. Do your share tt = on by getting new sub. “Unite Below we print the concludin, part of the call for unity of al workers made by the National Board of the Trade Union Unity League and addressed to the 53rd annual convention of the American Federation of Labor, to its affil- iated locals and to all organized and unorganized workers. The first part of the call appeared in Satur- day’s issue, The statement pointed to the ‘owing strikes affecting numerous industries in every part of the country, laying main emphasis on the coal and steel strikes, It em- phasized that “during the first nine months of this year a million work- ers struck for better conditions.” In a number of these struggles the unity of all workers has been ef- fected in the course of the strike. As an example, the national silk strike, where a joint strike com- mittee comprising representatives of the A. F. of L. (United Textile Workers), the T. U. U. L. (National Textile Workers Union) and inde- pendent unions, is cited. It proceeds to point out “that the Executive Council of the A. F. of and the entire top leadership” do not represent the interests of il rank and file membership of the unions, The statement concludes thus: an attack on the living e@ workers. It or- Your Ranks ‘ workers of Dearborn against the Ford slave system. Born in Blakely, Pa., in the heart of the anthracite region, he has a record of 30 ye: | activity as a militant trade uni | The son of a coal miner, he went to work in the mines at the age of 12 and became one of the -youngest members of the United Mine Work- ers. He mined coal till “he-was 19 and then went to Philadelphia, where he learned the -dhachinist trade. He worked at this-trade in Philadelphia and New York-till the | war and then came to Detroit, In Detroit Jones worked in varl- ous auto plants, becoming: se: of Local 642 of the International As- | sociation of Machinists, and later the I. A. M, and a delegate to the Detroit Federation of Labor. a strike broke out at the ‘Timken Axle Co. he became one of its lead- | ers, ployment, Jones got a jcb-in the | st. In 1930, after a period of unem- | | NEWS BRIEFS Five Escaping Gangsters Shoot Two INDIANAPOLIS. — One man was seriously wounded and another was shot in the arm by five bandits who shot their way to freedom with a machine gun after holding up a | tobacco warehouse. | Bull Injures Farmer BINGHAMTON, N. Y.—A seventy- two year old farmer,*William A. Mc- Phesson, of Afton near Binghamton was critically injured when an en- raged bull broke his back. Buckle Saves His Life NEWARK, N. J. — Nathan Zuck- berg gave up suspenders last week to try a belt, and it saved his life. A man demanded money from his butcher store at 137 Aldine St. He said he had no money, the man shot him and fled. It was several seconds before Mr, Zuckberg could convince himself that he was still ali The bullet had been stopped by his buckle, and he only suffered abra- | sions of the skin. Canadian Coal Output Rises Bank Officials This is the second and concluding article of a s¢ A. Complaint Bureau in Breoklyn, New York. The working of the NJ | NRA Complaint Bureau in Charge of Workers Bringing Complaints Find Same Employers in Control as Those Who Exploit Them—Get No Action ies on the inner data was supplied by several workers in the N.R.A. offices, and is ab- | solutely authentic, H herpes was, of course, plenty of reason why the muc Complaint Bureau buried every one of the complaints of the hundreds publicized N.R.A. jot workers who came with evidence of sweatshop cenditions and starvation | wages. 500 Strikers Forced to Work __ by Murder Threat | Defiant Workers of | Bayonne Get Threat MONTREAL.—Prodoction of coal in Canada during the month of T T ey Ag August, 1933, totaled 3,381,801 tons,| from ILGW Leaders an increase of 21.3 per cent over = August of 1932. |_ BAYONNE, N. J., October ; aes \Five hundred of Pigeon Flies Bering Sea (Males Form | Bressiere VISALIA, Cal.—A carrier pigeon ot ‘ iy teen of ok bearing a leg band marked “Siberia, ') the “hit htiea Gee 1931,” was captured near here re- maaivit. Wo 7 cently. The bird was believed to|y. ates have flown during the last two years across the Bering Sea. Stunt Planes Crash in Air WILMINGTON, Del. — Two stunt planes crashed together 2,700 feet above the heart of Wilmington on Saturday and dropped while horror stricken city dwellers below watched. Ten people were injured when one of the planes crashed into a house, rien Over 21 . Y—When asked how old he was on registerin; Board of Registry to vote in elections, M: "Brien said that he was “over 2 It brought loud laughs from the embly. Concert in Chicago CHICAGO—The South Side and Labor Defense are holding a concert and dance on Saturd: 8, at Liberty Auditorium, 3018 S. Wells St. Proceeds of this concert will go for the defense of class war prisoners and the Labor Defender. Admission with plugger, 20 cents. Starts at 7 p.m. Choruses, singing, dancing, etc., will be features. Ford River Rouge plant, working till) \the beginning of 1933, when he was’ |fired for union activity. He joined the Auto Workers’ Union in 1931, soon became Dearborn organizer of | the union, and at the national con-| vention of the A. W. U. in June was elected vice-president, | He was one of the leaders of the| j last Ford Hunger March and hes | time and again led demonstr- ‘ions | of unemployed workers which have |forced imp | the city adr er of the Commu: the other United dates are the rep- resenta es of a movement em- bracing 40 organizations. Though the Auto Worke: Union and the Communist Party were the driving force in this movement, its broad |character is evident from the fact that most of the workers involved have in the past voted for capital Front candidates ran anti-Ford platform, de- cash relief, abolition of forced labor schemes, against the in- manding help build up| vice-president of District No. 6 of| human speed-up in the Ford plant,| the state board of public | abolition of the safety Commission, When | which is’ composed of Ford’s hired| tion Consolidated Copper ir |men, and other demands. The cam- ;paicn for the finals will now be in- | ti led; its keynote will be the or- vanizetion of a strike struggle in the Ford plant. or; |to work under a s-1l- {by the union leaders and the bos: The workers were promised a minimum for a 3 |no blacklisti l jsigned, at w was permitted vor’ Ss are to num for a 45 | hich no to be hop delegate present, the |m! Jno shop committee jto take up the |workers. The union is to be gua anteed $31,000 for the two year contract, the money coming out of the we pay envelope and go- ing to York union racketeers of the A. F. of L. f s are still infuriated y the I. I G. W. U,, 2 ship and o |go forward in |higher wages jcondit All during the d under proper le and , the N.R.A strik women | scab, arres the local |police. Trials ae still pending. Jobless Convention | Held in Arizona ‘The reason appears when one examines who had charge of this N.R.A. bureau that was to be so r for the righting of f the New York workers. place, the N.R.A. com- 1 was subsidized by the most reactionary em- klyn, It was the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce that footed the initial expenses of the swanky N.R.A. offices. ompla y for something they will get their money's got it. y paid for the telephones, the the office expenses, etc, alled as officers of A. a group of busi- whom they could trust to the workers’ rev- on exploitation and They knew what rman of the main n was chosen to be n G. A. Barnewell. iemen that he is so t r ning to the workers’ exposures of starvation wages and sweatshop hours? He is the presdent of the Brook- amber of Commerce and a al of the Brooklyn Trust rich banker—that’s the had to listen to the work- plaints brought to the N.R.A. second man chosen to act as rmediary between the work- yn employers was John ‘a leading official in the ational Bank, and a leading member of the Chamber of Commerce. was James L. Meeks, vice-president of the Lincoln Savings way the names read down the line—big mer- manufacturers, busi- oliticians... Maybe t explains why the big groceiy © H, O. Bohack, could aire its w 's without their protest to the N. R. A. office getting the est response. Because the Bohack Grocery com- | pany is a member of the Brooklyn PHOENIX, Ariz—The second an-| Chamber of Commerce, which or- nual state convention of the Unem- ployed Council was held here, at- tended by 37 delegates from nine towns in this state. Besides the resentatives of the Unemplo Council, 150 fraternal delegates gan.zed and paid for the N.R.A. of- tices! that explains why a worker 300k Savings Bank who . compldining of a 65- got not the slightest re- lief or accion from the N.R.A. Because his bank is a part of the N. R. A. adminis.ration and the at- tended, including a representative of the Socialist Party local in Yuma. Preceding the convention a huge mass meeting was held at the City Hall Plaza, where Herbert Benjamir national organizer of the U: ployed Council, addressed an at ence of 1,000. Delegate after del need of developing a paign for the support employment insurance. Single men in this city are d being denied relief by the local F, C. offices and are being herd into a concentratlor federal un- of Hitler In Miami tense. T, H. O’Brien, cha | and general manager of the In is accused of sta the ployed. His under guard, is growing, among the uner against this starvation program, in Every Shop, Mine, Mill,” Calls TUUL Revolutionary Trade Union Center Supports All Strikes and Is Active in Campaign for Adoption of Federal Unemployment Insurance races, nationalities, religions and po- litical affiliations into industrial unions. It defends the right to strike and all other elementary rights of the workers. It fights for unemploy- ment relief and insurance. The T.U. UL, and its affiliated unions are based on the control by the rank and file and stands for the united action of all workers, irrespective of their trade union affiliation, Our enemies attack the T.U.U.L. unions as Communist unions. This is a lie intended to disrupt the growing unity of the workers. The T.U,U.L. and its affiliated organizations are not political parties, They are trade unions based on the struggle of the workers against the bosses. They em- brace workers of all opinions, in- cluding Republicans, Socialists, Dem- ocrats, Communists and others. Of course, in the T.U.U.L. leadership there are also Communists, just as there are workers of other political affiliations. The T.U.U.L. unions rec- ognize, however, that the Cotmmu- nists fight in the interests of the workers, and welcome their support as they do all other groups who sin- cerely fight in the interests of the masses. But the T.U.U.L. unions are democratic organizations. The work- ers themselves decide all questions of Policy and leadership, You members of the A. F. of L. know that the bureaucrats of your organizations, on/ the other hand, expel Communists, and cther honest fighters from the A. F. of L. organizations againgt the t ganizes the workers of all ages, colors, ones who are expelled from the T.U. stool pigeons who enter to disrupt the workers’ organizations. We want to make clear to you at this time that we are not in favor of organizing new unions where unions now exist. We organize new unions only when the open strike- breaking and expulsion policies of the A. F. of L, leaders make it necessary to found such unions to defend the workers’ interests. In such cases we do not consider our unions as ene- mies of the rank and file of the A. F. | of L. unions. On the contrary, we | stand for the unity of the rank and file. We are working for one union in every industry based on the class struggle. If you workers would take matters in your own hands, become the rulers of your own organizations which you alone have built up, oust your corrupt boss-controlled leader- ship, you would be taking a step in) the direction of uniting the workers | in each industry into one strong class | industrial union. Very often your leaders tell you that we are out to destroy your organization. This is a shameful le, spread in order to maintain their hold on your organi-/| zations, Our fight for the miners’ struggle for recognition of the U.M. W.A. and the ‘strike-breaking order of Lewis and Murray to send the miners back to work without recogni- tion, shows clearly who is destroying | your organization. Brothers: Consider this appeal of will of the rank and file. The only U.L. unions are habitual scabs and | Act quickly! The attack of the bosses is becoming more intense. Every ef- fort is being made to break your strikes, to stop your organization. We | as admitted even by the ruling class, the blackest winter of hunger and starvation in our history. There is no time to be lost. Let us in every shop, mill and mine, in every local- your fellow workers organized in the T.U.U.L. unions and other organiza- tions, with the unorganized workers. Block the disruptive tactics of your leaders. Show them that you are wise to their game of posing as friends of labor to carry through the bosses’ in- terests. Clean house. Elect your own officials chosen from your ranks and responsible to you. Do not depend upon the “clever” back-door nego- tiations of your leaders to bring you better conditions and strong organ- ization. This can be achieved by you only through organized, united, mili- tant action of the employed and un- employed. Brothers: Redeem the good name of your organization by adopting the policy of class struggle and place yourself solidly against the attempts of the N.R.A. to bind and gag you, to make out of your unicns com- pany unions subjected to the rule of the bosses’ government. Your leaders who have accepted positions in the N.R.A. administration, claim to act in your name. They at the same time act in the name of the N.R.A, and our membership to you. Act, upon it, the government. It is in this double | are facing a winter which will be,| ity, unite our ranks, Join hands with | capacity that Murray commands the | miners in the name of General Johnson, in the name of President Roosevelt, to return to work. Look at what has happened in Germany,} where, as a result of the treachery | and betrayal of the trade union lead-| ers, the unions have become part of | the government apparatus. Your | leaders make gestures of being against Hitler because he has destroyed the free trade unions and converted them into appendages of the fascist state Yet, are they not doing exactly the| same when they commit your unions to the dictates of the N.R.A., when in | your name they become part of the N.R.A. administration, when they agree to outlaw strikes and establish compulsory arbitration? | Brothers: Meet in your local unions | and adopt resolutions repudiating the stand of your leaders on the N.R.A,, on strikes, on the codes, on ‘the strike of the miners, on indus- trial unions, om the unity of all workers in the fight for better wages, for unemployment insurance, for the rights of the Negro toilers! | Honest fighting delegates, these issues on the floor of th vention! Let your fight at the con-| vention be a rallying call to the r and file to take up a united stru; against the attacks of capital disruptive action of the Lewises, and other labor bureaucrat: | Forward to Fighting Working Clacs nity! NATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD | TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE | 80 East Lith St, Room 326 | ( New York City, New York. | part-of the NR Chamber of Commerce! yany who $7 a week nerce, Louis § R. A. official * Py big m nts And one of the 1et the N.R.A. official y Island boasted that his was 100 per cent organized the N.R.A. s therefore no wonder that the rs in’ the Shaffer Auto Com- pany got no action when they com- plained that they were working 77 hours a week! This list could be extended for a long way. These cases are not iso- lated, unusual cases. They are typical of the set-up be- tween the N.R.A. and the very em- ployers, against whom the workers were complaining. The tieup between the bosses and the N.R.A. was too tight, too close, to permit of the slightest hope that the N.R.A. complaint bureau would ever do anything for the workers. There are supposed to be two sides to the N.R.A.—one side to protect the employers, the other to take care of the workers, The second has turned out to be a fraud. It was never meant sert- ously, anyway. The employers side is growing more active every day. In New York Grover Whalen is increasing his kebreaking activities every hour. The police clubbed hundreds of dress workers who tried to visit the N.R.A. offices on Saturday to protest against the non-recognition of their union, The N.R.A. Labor Administration Board, which breaks strikes, through | forced, compulsory arbitration — this is func.ioning day and night. This hasn’t been aban- aint Bureau was doned as the C Tt workers of Brooklyn are be- ginning. to learn that the work- ers will never get any action on their grievances from the N.R.A. because y. mrch'nery consists of the y people asa‘nst whom they are Tt is the outfit of the y are begin: only by ing to see that nizing themselves it is ds. e the N.R.A. for what but the old capitalist They can s it is—nothing sitn game,