The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 18, 1933, Page 3

RECORD OF JOSEPH McKEE, BANKERS’ CANDIDATE, FOE OF LABOR, REVEALS GRAFT (Continued from Page 1) forth with a fervent. appeal for the crooked administration ... an ad- ministration he is now denouncing with his tongue in his cheek. It was charged and truthfully, too, that Walker, among other things, was ar- riving late at his desk and neglecting his work. But McKee lied in an ef- fort to save Walker. On March 21, 1929, McKee said: “You may have heard jesting ref- erences to the fact that Walker was not on time. But I tell you sincerely that he has been on the job and has kept us all on the job with him. The truth is that he has a keen and analytical mind and is striving con- antly to solve the pressing prob- is that confront him,” Thus spoke McKee in support of his Tammany crony, who has since taken up his home in France, ex- posed and disgraced. As to the press- ing problems, McKee may have re- ferred to the salary grab for which | he and Walker both voted. It is in-| teresting to note here that Borough | ident George U. Harvey, now aj ion candidate, got together with McKee and Walker of Tammany and all three voted to raise their own salaries and plunder the treasury out of thousands of dollars extorted from the workers through sundry taxes. McKee’s official record discloses that he has labored time and again against the interests of the workers, whose votes he now seeks. While a member of the Assembly McKee tried to nuilify the merit sys- tem for public school teachers, In January, 1923, McKee introduced a bill for a Board of Appeals to pass on teachers rejected by the Board of Examiners. The full intent of this legislation was to place the school teachers direcily under the control of Tammany Hall. Under McKee’s plan teachers who wished to retain their jobs or obtain work would be forced to join the city’s Democratic clubs and be at the mezcy of Tammany’s district lead- ficant to point out that ers. It is signif this fiendish measure was supported in the State Senate by Walker him- self, who was then the majority lead- er in that chamber. This bill actually passed the Senate. It was blocked in the Ascembiy after an avalanche of protests by teachers and others. he plan to injure the school teachers did not end there. The Tammany boss in New York ordered | that $5,7 Ww. budget for teachers’ 10 now goes before the masses of the people to assail Tam- many cor mn, Was a party to a plot several years ago to put over the biggest transit steal in the his- of the state. m January 27, 1927, McKee whole- heartedly supported the award of a hise to the Equitable Coach Company. The scheme of the com- promoters was first to take 1 of the city’s bus lines, then ley systems, and later the _ Finally, the backers planned to raise the fares to 10 cents on all of the city’s trans- portation lines, McKee, a leading ‘Tammany official, said not a word at that time against the coach com- vicious program. Although he favored a money grab rimself and his fellow Tam- manites on the Board of Estimate, McKee was strong in his opposition to an increase in pay for city em- ployees. When the Union of Tech- nical Men, Local 37, appealed to the city for a raise in wages, McKec shouted down the proposal. On Sep- tember 29, 1927, he told the technical workers that the city was burdened by debt and that the request for an incroase in wages was “unfair and unpatnotic.” 9 be cut from the fol-| company’s | the health and lives of thousands of working class children. In 1925 the faulty and dangerous construction of the schools was called to the attention of McKee and Walker. Both of these faithful Tam- many officials completely ignored the complaints. But two years later when the contract work was about to develop into a scandal, McKee an- nounced that he would make a thorough investigation of the situ- ation. McKee then, as now, put on the pose that he was working in the interests of good government. McKee has now taken up with John F, Hylan, whom he fought in 1925. Although McKee is supposed to be fighting Tammany, Hylan, a Tam- many Judge of the Children’s Court, is one of his strongest backers. As the candidate of Postmaster General Farley and Bronx Boss Flynn, McKee is merely a puppet of a clique that is seeking to wrest con- trol of the city’s Democratic organi- zation from John F. Curry and John H. McCooey. Should McKee lose the election he will probably go back to banking. His contract as President of the Title, Guarantee and Trust Company has still more than two years to run. It has not been can- celled by the directors. As head of the Brooklyn institution, McKee is in business with several nanceers closely associated with Rockefeller and Morgan, These men include James A. Post, a director of the National City Bank, and A. G. Milbank, a director of the Chase Na- tional Bank. The Wall Street bankers have taken very kindly to McKee’s candidacy. They have no objection to control of the city’s Democratic machine by Farley and Flynn as against Curry and McCooey. As for fusion, LaGuardia and his gang of Republican crooks are just as acceptable to finance capital. And the bankers have many pleasant words for the Socialist leaders, who in this campaign as in past ones dis- tort the issues and seek to confuse the masses of the workers. Against this whole band, fighting Bob Minor and his fellow-candidates carry on and present all the issues affecting the toiling masses as em- bodied in the Communist Party pro- gram. Furniture Workers’ Union Wins Gains in Boston Strikes BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 17—A strike | lasting five weeks has just been won by the furniture workers here. Hours of work were reduced and increases | Were gained as a result of the strike. The upholsterers of the Torrey Warren Furniture Co. are still out on strike and are confident that they will win. Skilled workers in the trade ; here have been earning $5 and $10 a week. The mattress workers are also on strike after the employers refused to recognize the Furniture Workers In- dustrial Union, the closed shop and |the demand for a reduction of work- |ing hours. Four hundred and fifty workers in 12 shops answered the strike, call. During the first four days ten shops settled with the union, granting all demands including more pay and shoter hours. The Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union is leading the strikes. MINOR FOR MAYOR |in pay averaging 25 to 50 per cent Governor Talks of Federal Troops for New Mexico Strike Walkout Solid After 8 Weeks and With Out- side Aid Will Win GALLUP, N. M., Oct. 17—A con- ference in the Governor's office in Santa Fe, scheduled between the op- erators and miners’ representatives, to take place Oct. 11, was attended by miners’ representatives only, the | Governor granting the operators per- mission for a private conference. Regarding the demand of the strikers that all striking miners be returned to the jobs they left pre-| vious to the strike, the Governor asked the miners to agree to replac- ing only 80 per cent of the strikers. The miners flatly refused this, point- ing out that the operators would use this to victimize union leaders, mak- ing it impossible for them to get a job, not only in Gallup, but through- out the entire state. The Governor proposed that the miners elect one representative on a board to settle the strike, Charles Guynn, union representative, stated | that any union representative elected | by the miners could negotiate, but | that was as far as his powers would | go. The rank and file membership, who called the strike, had the final decision about settlement. The conference between the oper- ators and the Governor, held Oct. 13, revealed that Federal troops may be sent in to replace the National Guardsmen, Troops were necessary in Gallup, the Governor said, to “keep the peace.” The eighth week of the strike opens with the strikers’ ranks fas solid as the day when they went out. ‘A sur- vey of the amount or coal produced daily proved that the production scale is less than 25 per cent of what it was before the strike. Considering the fact that this is the time of the year when production is usually higher, the production figures prove the effectiveness of the strike. Inexperienced miners in the mines have done millions of dollars worth of damage to the property. If supplies and funds can be gotten from the outside, there is no question but that the strike will he successful. | Support the heroic fight of the Gallup miners! Send funds or food at once to the Relief Committee, Box 218, Gallup, New Mexico. Detroit Furriers Voted to Join the Industrial Union DETROIT, Mich—At a meeting of fur workers held in Detroit, Tuesday, October 3, almost the en- tire membership voted for affilia- tion with the Fur Workers Industrial Union. The 300 Detroit fur workers were never organized. The feeble attempt of the right wing leadership in 1918 failed almost at the outset and the movement was soon abandoned. This year, with wage-cuts con- tinuing unabated, the furriers finally began a mobilization around the In- dustrial Union, preparing to raise their wages and to improve their conditions, Two Babies Die of Flux ROSEMONT, W. Va.—Two more babies died here of flux, bringing to 25 the number of children who have died of the disease in the vicinity of Rosemont in the past four months. Two doctors of the State Department of Health were here concluding a survey of the locality in an effort to combat the epidemic as the babies died, ‘che same Joseph V. McKee, who today pretends to detest corruption in public office, was ready to condone and overlook it while he was a mem- ber of the Tammany Board of Esti- mate. Early in 1927 it was brought t McKee’s attention that the Civil Service Law was being violated by the Municipal Civil Service Commission. This Commission has authority to place thousands of men and women on the city’s payroll. The Commission had appointed its own investigators in connection with examinations of applicants, an act delikc -‘ely in vio- lation of the law. The © >mmission then proceeded with further violations of law by manipulating its own pay- roll for political purposes. On April 29, 1927, McKee admitted that the law had been broken. But two weeks later McKee and Walker voted for the investigators, illegally hired, and then also voted funds for their salaries. McKee’s present lamentations that he ctands for “clean and decent gov- ernment” are reminiscent of his ac- tfons ssveral years ago in regard to school building contracts. Several schools had been built hastily and noorlv_and in a manner to endanger Philadelphia, Pa. DAILY WORKER CONCERT FRIDAY, OCT. 20, at 8 P. M. Turngemeinde Hall Broad and Columbia Ave, ROBERT MINOR, Candidate on the C.P. Ticket in New York, main speaker, Admission 35 Cents Chicago, Ill. 15" Annual Bazaar at People’s Auditorium 2457 W. Chicago Avenue October 20th, 21st and 22nd SINGING — BALLET — GAME DANCING — FUN Auspices: Communis: Party, Dist. 8 - ' .vkins, Liberal Ornament, Gives Voice to) Fascist Aims Against Labor of the Roosevelt Wall St. Regime | By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Washington Bureau Daily Worker) H Kase cornerstone of the rising build- i ing which is being constructed to house American Fascism has been laid. It was cemented and blessed in ceremonies which marked the further incorporation of the American Federation of Labor bureaucracy into the tottering and jittery N. R. A. or- ganization, The Blue Eagle has taken the jackals unto its bony breast to cushion itself against the arrows of the rank and file. Officiating in these ceremonies, duly heralded as the 53rd annual convention of the American Federa- tion of Labor, were the brains and bullets of the New Deal, the gloved and ungloved emissaries of the coming order: President Roosevelt, Senator Wagner, Secretary of Labor Perkins, Barney Baruch’s doughty General Johnson, the American Legion leadership, the Red Cross, and the Washington Police Depart- ment spy who acted in the dual capacity of A. F, of L. sergeant-at- arms and agent provocateur at the carpenters’ rank and file unemploy- ment insurance meeting, In the rear were William Green, the high- salaried representative of the A. of L. counting house, attended by the usual array of lickspittle priests, ministers and rabbis. It is this group who promise to make the American ruling class’ contribution to the art originated by Louis Bonaparte and perfected, in by Mussolini, Hitler and * 8 ECRETARY PERKINS, the chief liberal ornament of the Roosevelt cabinet boldly announced (with the finesse that marks liberals who stride furiously to the right) what the administration is not yet ready to disclose: “the integration of labor with the modern state.” That is, the emasculation of workers’ organiza- tions for the benefit of finance- capital which is the medern state. trialists, Pilsudski. Admission 10c; For All 3 Nites 25¢ the interests of bankers and indus- o1 The integration of the lamb with (for) the lion “I am one of those,” said the ben- evolent Secretary, fifteen years ago a member of the Socialist Party, “who believe that orderly and sys- tematic relations between the em- ployers and their workers is to the advantage not only of the workers but to the permanent advantage of the employers.” In other words, an “orderly” worker, one who, for in- stance, accepts the starvation wages of the proposed textile code, is the apple of Madame Secretary's eye. With such workers, “integration,” indeed, would be a simple process. “For labor's contribution, which is spiritual and intellectual, will be for the benefit of all the peapie of the United States of America,” declared the Secretary, “even for the banker and the investor and those who look to see some profits returned to them from the investment of the savings which they made in the industries from time to time.” As Green remarked at the con- clusion of the Secretary’s speech, “she could not have selected . . . @ more sympathetic audience to speak to.” Decidedly not. On October 7, two days after the Pennsylvania coal operators’ thugs, F.| both professional and amateur (‘citi- zen deputies”), shot miners who re- fused to allow John L. Lewis and William Green to sell them out again, President Roosevelt warned the mili- tant worker to beware. “Just as in 1917, we are seeking to pull in har- ness; just as in 1917, horses that kick ver the traces will have to be put in a corral.” This unequivocal threat of repressive measures, delivered, with historical appropriateness, at the A. F. of L. dedication of the Samuel Gompers memorial monument, was so clear that even the Scripps- Howard Washington Daily News, one of the President's fervent supporters, headlined it, “Labor Gets Warning from Roosevelt at Gompers’ Cere- mony.” Of course, the New York Times, true to its tradition of casting the most favorable light on the man inthe saddle, narrated the fable: 1 WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1933 Nazi Terror in New York Here Lies | THE REMAINS |. German Commerce | } | | WANTED. FOR | 5 i i | (Grima Troilacts | i Pit Coa | Him With By R. B. NEW YORK.—Mass resent | and officials of the I. L. A. to take s | officially drawn onto t |visory Board of the N | that a “prelimir i |held on the jon Oct, 18 in Washi | sponse to a leaflet iss rine Workers’ Industrial y |longshoremen in the North Ai ports have been raising the dem of action on the longshoren | code by Oct. 18, | When Morris Richman refused to sell , tinued refusal to remove the placards, shown | cial hearings will be German candy, Nazis retaliated by hurling | from his smashed window, resulted Monday jee petit ava ncn ohe a brick through the window of his store at in a death-threat letter sent him by the Nazis shipowners,” and /Oukley Wood of | demanding he stop boycotting German candy. | the Barber S.S. Co. and Ryan of the I. L. A. have been appointed to rep+ resent the employers and employees. 145 E. Houston St., New York. His con- Ford Pickets Clash Strike Flame in Indiana ®i een" ie" s fakers of the I. 8S. U., I L. A. and other organizations prior to the of- ficial hearings. | The preliminary hearing on the |longshore problem was decided upon | overnight as a means of preventing rank and file delegates being sent to present their demands. Telegrams of protest are being sent from the various ports and steps are being taken to ensure that the rank and Leg; Wagner Plans file will be represented at all future Mediation TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—A general strike of all coal miners in this UM.W.A. | hearings and negotiations. CHESTER, Pa, Oct. 17—After a District 11, looms as reports of widely organized mass meetings come in, | Depotiiion 40 Ryan severe tussle with scabs last night, meetings are being organized throughout the district protesting the reign of in which one strikebreaker received | terror in the strike area of the Starburn and Peabody mines, situated in the a broken leg and others were bruised Southern Indiana fields in Sullivan County, A flame was touched to the | in-the first general meeting he 5 and cut, representatives of the 3,000 smouldering tinder of sentiment thate———_—— —__——————~| dared to appear at in the past year Ford strikers here are on their way! has been prevalent since the adoption, because of personal sympathy with|in New York. Seven hundred mem- to Washington to attend a media-| of the coal code, when a truck loaded | the strikers. These men are granted bers of Locals 808 and 975 and other tion conference. | with scabs and ‘purportedly driven| exemption from service by the com- | tocals attended a meeting called in | Senator Wagner, who engineered| by the superintendent ran a gaunt-| manding officer. r z | Brooklyn, where Ryan reported on the Wretrton, Steel 0. sere let of pickets surrounding the Star-| The U.M.W.A. officials are playing| the wage agreement. simi a With Scabs; NRA in Strikebreaking Act One Scab Gets Broken Set Off by NRA Scabbery Miners Talk General Walkout Against the Military Rule and Scabs Run in Under | Protection of Blue Eagle | opposition from the rank and f e buen, mine, crushing to death Frank! their usual reactionary role in an| Ryan told the longshoremen that Stalder, one of the striking miners. | attempt to stem the mounting wrath| the shipowners refused to increase Last night when a group of sev- Four companies of militiamen,| of the rank and file workers at mass | wages until they were able to get an | eral hundred scabs emerged from the | augmented by national guard planes,|mectings. At Shelburn and Clinton, | increase in rates which they expect | plant, under the protection of police,|are in the field, Governor McNutt, | Joe Tinko, president of District No.| under the N. R. A., and therefore he the strikers hooted and booed them,/ who could not spare time from) 11, attempted to dominate and per-!had agreed to extend the agreement pinay clashing with them. | American ee Add 2 olen suade the men hong cpr tts al until a code was applied. he oe + | starving relief workers, hastened to| jobs. He was told to sit down and| spoke at length about the hardships | pected as a eet BI goal he side of the coal barons to pro-, shut up, that the rank and file is in| of the shipowners, stating: “I am not | strikers are fighting against a wage tect their property. Absolute martial | control of their own situation. When | talking through my hat. I know Sut and demand union recognition, | Tule has been declared in the strike|he insisted that the strike at Sulli-| they are not making money.” |zone. Here is an exampieof Roose-| van was soon to be settled.satisfac-| Ryan spent considerable time slan- ‘The A. F. of L. United Automobile | vets right of collective bargaining,| torily, he was called a damn liar and! gering the outside locals, especially Workers of America has organized | choice of union, etc. as interpreted | accused of collusion with the Gov-| Norfolk and Baltimore. He was par- the eorkers, and the Jesdere sce noel by the military proclamation posted|ernor in ordering out the troops, a/ ticularly angry at Baltimore because Pen bol heli as see telling eal throughout Sullivan County Thurs-|charge both he and the Governor | the men had gone on record in favor workers to put their reliance in the | gay: “No assemblage om loitering al-| hastily denied. | of $1 an hour and a 6-hour day, which N. R. A. National Labor Board. lowed in the distriet—all crowds and 5 i ; he stated, was ridiculous. He at- other assemblies of persons will im The sympathy of the officials of | . hesraate eieaes = ~\the Lewis machine for the brow-| diately disperse—all citizens are r | ‘Newark Leather Shop) mediates , beaten starving workers is clearly] Tied Up in Strike teas ah Se ae UPON | cutlined by quotations by them taken | officials join in asking all our mem- 1 p in eee Bh aie er sed eutectic | from the capitalist operators press,| bers to remain at work.” Despite ee ee eetay porganization “We have no desire for a general/ these deterring efforts and opposition NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 17.—The} Litchman Leather Factory at Con-| is endeavoring to apply measures to the Ford strike. rank and file Joseph P. Ryan met considerable} desiring to hold-special meetings will) sire We are opposed to any ac- | fo the strike vote of the officials, the cord and Sherman Aves. is completely apply to the commanding general for | |. Ke Be pee strike movement is such permission’—these with many | tion that will keep our members} tied up as a result of a strike led by |the Leather Workers’ Industrial Union. The strike is called for a 25 per cent increase in wages, a 40- hour week, recognition of the Leather Workers’ Industrial Union and of the shop committee. Ninety workers called to work out plans for spread- ing the strike. “It is fitting that the government through its representatives, should monument,” said Roosevelt. “It is fitting that I should appear here in | my official capaci but it is also | fitting that I should be here | personal capacity, as one j always been proud of the personal | friendship which he held for many years with Samuel Gompers. . . .” in the imperialist world carnage for markets. Secret treaties . . . moun- tainous profits . . . slaughter, slaughter . . . Morgan, the Am- erican fiscal agent for British and French imperialism. Morgan, the founder of the U. S. Steel Cor- poration, “As a member of the advisory com- mittee of the Council of National Defense,” the President continued, “he was a part of the great organi- zation which met the crisis of war. But more than that, it was his patriotic leadership for the unani- mous mobilization of the workers in “every part of the union which sup- plemented the mobilization of the os . ORROWING from Woodrow Wil- son's transparent eulogy of Gom- Pers (“I like to lay my mind along- side of a mind that knows how to pull in harness. The horses that kick over the traces, will have to be put in a corral”), Roosevelt, the pro- ponent of the New Deal, reminded will be accorded the same treatment. Like Mr, Green, Mr. Gompers was an understanding man, “Mr. Gompers understood and went along with that thought (the corral—S, W.) during the years of the war, and we have evidences of his acceptance of the fact that the horses pulling in harness were the horses of the employes and of the employers as well. In those years a few, happily a very few, horses had to be lassoed—both kinds of horses; and today the conditions are very similar.” And curiously enough there are some employers “who think in terms of dollars and cents instead of in terms of human lives; there are some who themselves would prefer government by a privileged class in- “Roosevelt Warns Capital and T.abor,”| stead of by a majority... .’ have joined the union. A mass meet- | ing of all leather workers is being | men who went to the front. . , .”| the workers that the “horses” of 1923 | more equally stringent restrictions have placed the suffering workers here at the merey ofthe murderous, avaricious profit lords by huge mine- owning corporations. Some Guardsmen Balk relatives active inthe struggle, others! | New Dealers Pour Praise on A. F. of L. Leaders } “Even as in the old days—when I | Was in the Navy Department, Mr.| take part in the dedication of this) Gompers and the Federation were ai) | all times on a footing of friendship | en sO and cooperation with me— | today President Green and are wevking. with my admir ‘ation toward the attainment of our | national purposes.” | ington Police Department vention, ejecting the A. F. of L. rank | and file workers who wished to ad- | dress the convention, wore on his | lapel, on that day, the button and ribbon of the Gompers Memorial fund. It is fully realized by the chief Blue Eaglers that the NRA structure is tottering. But until. something else jis ready, until the “corrals” are built, “the horses”. must be kept in | line by threats and bluster. It is hoped that the “corrals” will be | veady before the collapse. Then | threats will be dispensed with, the mask will be dropped and finance- capital will stand in the sunlight, | bold and raucously bestial. ‘aioe ' + 'E second warning to those mili- tant workers (“horses” to Presi- | dent Roosevelt) who are striking ‘against the vicious starvation and Strikebreaking codes of the N. R. A, came from Senator Wagner of New York, the chairman of the National Labor Board and the most illustrious graduate of Tammany Hall. Though | using subtler phrases than Roosevelt, Wagner also called for the cessation of strikes in a speech exhorting the | Federation leaders to more effective strikebreaking efforts. In the teeth of his own startling admissions—‘“payrolls are still 48 per cent below the 1926 level,” .. . “as a matter of fact, during the past 60 days, we have had to adjust pro- duction downward to meet purchas- ing power” . , , “there have not been appreciable changes in rates of pay and consequently the improve- ments have not been general and all- inclusive. . . . Due to the rise in prices, there have been some actual reductions in real wages.” . . . in the teeth of all these admissions Wagner considered it “tragic” that workers should prefer to fight rather & ; on the jol | non, vice-pr | who have end | And William Murphy, the Wash-| “Red | 1917 , . . The slaughter of workers! Squad” spy who officiated as ser-| | Seant-at-arms at the A. F. of L. con-| away from work. Our representa-| gaining momentum hourly, forcing | tives will be at the mass meetings| the reactionary hand of Timko and uade the men to stay says Charles Funcan- lent of District No. to try and p 11. And, sti his clique. | ‘The workers in the strike area are| fighting courageously and stubbornly | president Timko, “I| against great odds, the troops are} am asking the membership not to| unable to quell the revolt as more/ has asked the cooperation of out of the depression. all| have occurred, with reports of spora- | trict, some becalise.they have close| members to help bring this country| dic gun battles, with just the single The district | fatality reported to date. |added to the present negotiation | Committees, and to prepare for strike Several guardsmen of the local| heed those trying to start agitation | scabs are beaten and their homes are | contingent refused to respond to the} to defeat the N.R.A. The president | call to duty inthe strife torn dis-| bombed, many hand to hand brushes | hip’s Fascist Deeds eae “Tt Is Fitting” to Praise War Service of Samuel Gompers, Says Roosevelt, to Justify War | Measures Against Labor Today than go on starving. To the Senator] the side of the bread holding butter gic that workers d so patiently dur- ing years of unalloyed misfortune should resort so largely to extreme methods after revival has begun and when further revival depends upon the program for cooperation.” “Strong counsel,” announced Wag- ner to the A. F. of L, chieftains, should be given to the striking tex- tile worker who refuses to accept the starvation wage of $12 a week in the South and $13 a week in the North; to the automobile striker who it w: azic, is resisting the “merit” clause, the| hire-and-fire-at-will clause endorsed by Green; to the brave coal miners, their wives and children who are defying the guns of the thug “dep- uties” and the manoeuvres of the governmental and private spys “Those who tend to destroy the op- portunities for fruitful industrial re- lations by quick and fanciful resorts to strikes and other forms of war- fare must be given strong counsel.” Thus, when the American worker inscribes the epitaph of Wagner he need only quote Green’s convention introduction of Roosevelt’s chief strike “settler”: “There is no man in public life held in greater esteem by the A. F. of L, (leadership—S. W.) than is Senator Wagner.” General Hugh 8S. Johnson, author of the 1917 Draft Act, Wall Street Barney Baruch’s “personal research assistant” and now the Administra- tor of the N. R. A. was chosen to read the riot act to the A. F, of L. moguls, the men who, in the words of the snarling general, are “the prin- cipal props against collapse.” His speech, broadcast over an in- ternational hookup contributed by the insatiable radio monopolists, de- scribed by him as “the basic prin- ciples of the N. R, A.,” is the death’s head, the blood and iron of the Ad- ministration. “The play stark truth is that you cannot tolerate the strike,” barked Johnson. The be- ginning and the end of the N. R. A, the blunt challenge to militant labor, Page Three Ryan Acts to Halt © Spread of Dockers Strike Sentiment |Meets Vigorous Opposition in New York LL.A. Locals When Rank and File Pepper Questions HUDSON. ent against the extension of the Interma- tional Longshoremen’s Association’ agreement is forcing the government ome action on the code hearings aa = J | means of attempting to check the movement for strike action that is Cws | developing. The New York papers state that Joseph P. Ryan has been e it was “weak” the leadership was in check the rank 2 ejected the lead- the hall, adopted their ie and elected a rank and file ittee to appear at the formal a ted that he had a letter « (presumably the lead- ng their faith in the ess to follow eed to Strike” ided Tis speech by urging men to have faith in ions, but the mili- “We must try everything f there is a strike But I don’t think to say s ent that the ship- d offered five cents in- (when there was not of militant action) at proves that the demands of the longshoremen could have been won if am icy had been pursued and that the extension was unneces- sary. peech was received with e. When the floor was wn open for d ssion he imme- ly met opposition from the rank and file. er wanted to know y Ryan around ex- jcept just before trouble of a wage jcut. The next speaker criticized Ry- an’s statement that union meetings were held, pointing out that the ma- jority of locals never call a meeting. This statement received applause. Another longshoremen told Ryan that he spoke and worried too much about the shipowners. One longshoreman stated that he wanted to ask Mr. Ryan some questions because the landlord was asking his wife .and three kids questions. A longshoreman stated that "0 meetings were held, no local knew what the other was doing, and made |a@ motion demanding that a central mass meeting for all locals be called in order to decide upon definite ac- tion. This motion received tre- mendous applayse from every long- shoreman present and created @ panic amongst Ryan and his gang> ster delegates, who started a com- motion, and the motion was not taken to a vote. sidetracked the next motion calling for a mass meeting on Noy. 4, the day scheduled for the negotiations. | Finally the rank and file foreed a | motion calling for a general meet- ing in the same hall on Nov. 9 to hear a report of the District Coun- cil on the negotiations, The Marine Workers’ Industrial Union is urging the I. L. A. Tong- © shoremen in all. ports to protest against the secret temporary hear- ings in Washington called without notifying the locals; to demand im- mediate reports in all locals; to elect large rank and file delegations to be action under rank and file leader- ship if the demands are not granted or against further delays, OUT OF TOWN AFFAIRS for the A. F. of L. bureaucracy! FOR THE For the rest, we're all one great} D al family, “Our government is govern-| MaRS, ment by the whole people.” The| Gentrd Party TEA, President personally watches over us. “Not one single code has been ap-| Philadelphia proved without his personal and searching scrutiny . . .” Is he still watching over the 65,000 striking tex-| tile workers who are ordered to live | on $12 and $13 a week? | “We cannot stand another collapse. | You are the principal props against | collapse. You cannot escape your! responsibiilty. . . .” “John L. Lewis (against whose; order the coal miners went out on} strike—S. W.) is living up to his contract 100 per cent... .” | “Labor does not need to strike) under the Roosevelt plan, It has a disinterested forum—” | . . N. R. A, Advisory Boards are such disinterested people as Wal-| ter C, Teagle, head of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, the} author of the share-the-work plan; | Mary Harriman Rumsey of the Har-| riman railroad interests; and the | ubiquitous professor, Dr. Led» Wol- man, the liberal camouflage for the united front of financiers, indus-! trialists and labor chieftains. | And what is striking? Striking to the General, is “economic sabotage.” If you A. F, of L. leaders “permit or countenance this economic sabo- | tage .. . public confidence and opinion (that is, the bosses, their} satellites and flunkies—S. W.) will| turn against you and, as Eddie) McGrady said to you the other night, | the turn will be either to the extreme | right or to the extreme left, and either would result in your destruc- tion, as you know better than I can| tell you.” | Thus spoke the Blue Eagle, a! ravenous bird irrespective of its| color, The workers’ answer is being given on the picket lines, F \, 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 38 cents. Boston Oct. 21st: Earl Browder will speak at Daily Mass Meeting. Dudley St. House, 113 Dudley St., Rox- ¥ Ope: bury. Youngstown, Ohio OCT. 21st: Affair given by Unit 655 of OP. at Teor Center, 307 No. Walnut St. Detroit OCT. 2ist: Women’s Polish Chamber of Labor together with the Men's Polish Chamber of Lebor are holding a dance at 12415 Lonat, at 7.30 p.m. . 15c. Door prizes, good music, e. Matapan, Mass. OCT. 22nd: House Party, Musical Program at home of Ed Wise, 4 Havelock Sty Ausp.: American Workers Chorus.’ at 7.30 p.m. Los A ngeles Section Comrade MacHarris, touring for the Daily Worker, with the great Soviet Film “Ten Days That Shock The’ World” and “Bread” will be showr, in the following cittes on the dates) Usted below for the benefit of the Daily Worker: wi Oct. 21—Santa Barbara Oct. 22 to 26 inclusive— | Monterey, Santa Cruz! and Watsonville Oct. 27—Carmel é sera ra am The fakers then ' |