The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1933, Page 3

NRA in Steel Town Joined Wrong Union Told Not to Belong to Steel, Metal Indus- trial Union YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Oct. 23— The local ‘N. R. A; Board (headed by Mark Moore, Mayor of Youngs- town) cynicaly told a delegation of Republic galvanizing department workers Saturday that, although the N. R. A. guaranteed their right to! join “any union of their own choos- | ing,” they had joined the wrong Rockefeller Agents Confer on Next Move #MAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1933 Colorado Miners Told to Work by Sheriff With Guns Refuse Check-Off for Lewis Henchmen in UMWA DENVER, Colo. Oct. 23 — Armed with machine guns, gas bombs and |shotguns, the sheriff came to the |Puritan Mine last Monday and told the men they better go to work, be- cause a contract had been signed with the UMWA. Out of 220 miners 150 refused to sign up with the UMWA, The men are solid against the check “Battered” Jail Door at Princess Anne, Md. “Carpenter Heads union (the ‘S.M.W.LU.) and the local Board could do nothing for them. “We don’t have anything to do with enforcing the steel code,” Mr. Peffer, for 18 years an official of Republic Iron and Stee: and now! one of those in charge at the N. R. A. headquarters, told the delegation. | “The steel industry is so big it ‘po-| lices’ itself. You should take the; matter up with Mr, Purnell (Presi-| dent of ‘Youngstown Sheet and Tube), who is in charge of these mat- | ters in this district, and, if you don’t) get any satisfaction from him, take} it up with the American Iron and | Steel Institute in N. ¥.” “We are investiga'ing the matier,”| he told the blacklisted men who! were openly informed by the com- pany that they were discharged for joining the Steel and Mctal Work- ers’ Industrial Union. One of Youngstown's oldest labor racketeers, Harry Du Chen, who used | his editorship of the Labor Record} to attack the steel strike in 1919, was! the other N. R. A. official ‘to inter-| view the delegation. “You boys made a big mistake,” he said. “Your! organization is 10% recognized by the | American Federation of Labor, How can you expect any protection in an} outfit like that?” Du Chen is an! old-time Socialist and seemed quite, comfortable in his new surround- ings The men are determined to fight this thing through. They are organ- izing stronger inside the mill and preparing to send off their delega- tion direct to General Johnson in Washington. Wash. MinersRevolt Against Lewis, Look to National Miners Charter Revoked When Tells Workers They | The proposed Senate investigation into the Rockefeller loans to the bloody Machado government has been sidetracked, Aldrich, present head of the Rockefeller Chase National Bank, admitted that he had re- quested the stopping of the investigation. (See Story by Marguerite Young on Page Two.) 58 Labor Spy Agencies Found Listed in Chicago Directory (By Chicago Labor Research Association.) CHICAGO, Ii.—Of all the weapons used by the bosses against the | worked out to behead the strike by workers, perhaps the most slimy is the use of the stool-pigeon and labor spy. This is one pestilence that flourishes in times of crists, regardless how other businesses may suffer. Chicago has its share of spy-agencies. Fifty-eight of them are listed in the summer issue of the classified @ telephone directory. These are in addition to the private forces of the big industrial plants like the steel corporations, the stockyards, etc. A few quotations from pamphlets |and letters of three or four typical agencies, soliciting business, will prove highly interesting. “We beg to offer you our services and 33 years’ experiences in labor controversies. We are in a position to furnish you with guards for the protection of property and loyal em- ployees. We are also in a position to furnish you with Secret Service forts of ‘anti-American organizations | which are expending huge sums to destroy American institutions and create a Socialistic and Communistic world government. “To combat and counteract the role of insidious minorities, bureau- cracies and lawless elements. “To operate the Federation on a non-profit basis, “To establish an endowment fund to perpetuate its work in future gen- erations so that our posterity may enjoy the same heritage handed down to us by our ancestors,” etc., and so Operatives to mingle with the strik- ers and gain information as to their forth. Miners Firm for intentions as well as doing construc- Demands tive work among the strikers, bring- ing their strike to a speedy ending. ROSLYN, Wash. Oct. 23—Senti- ment for a new union and especially the National Miners’ Union is run- ning high among the, miners through- out the state with the increasing re- sistance to the Lewis machine which has flared into open revolt in at least one distriet, Roslyn, ‘The Rosiyn miners have been ne- gotiating since June for a 6 hour day without any reduction in pay and for the abolition of the electric machine in the gassy mines here, Last Feb- ruary the miners marched on the ca- pitol at Olympia and succeeded in forcing the legislature to pass a law prohibiting the use of electric ma- chines in the mines, most of which are “captive” mines of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific rail- roads. The company fought the bill and was granted a “temporary” in- junction against the state, preventing it from enforcing the law. For the past two weeks the miners have been in session with the coal operators and have been bucked by District president Nicholas and Smithhurst, 2 member of the UMWA board. At a critical moment in the negotiations John L. Lewis wired re- voking the district charter. A provisional district was immedi- ately established by the miners with Nicholas as president and Dick Francis, a member of the union for three months, who is to serve as vice- president and secretary-treasurer, The operators tried to get a miner to remain at the conference so that they might say the Roslyn miners were represented but the miners re- fused to permit this. Feeling among the miners on the west side of the mountains is running high for joining the Poslyn miners in the fight against th. “MWA ma- chine. Sixth ‘Ave. Agency Preys on Jobless NEW YORK—Mulcting unem- ployed workers by employment agen- cies has been repeatedly reported to the Daily Worker. The latest complaint was brought by two Bronx workers, Ted Harris, of 2800 Bronx Park East, and Sol Katz, 1009 Kelly St. According. to Harris, he paid $3 to the Academy Employment Agency at 1251 Sixth Ave. for a job a% a paint- er. He was given two and one-half days work with Mr. Harrison, paint contractor, 211 West 53rd St. For this work he was paid $6.25, that is, $250 a day. When this ill-paying job ended, Harris returned to the agency and complained against the inadequacy of the job and the wages. To this We will be glad to have a representa- tive call on you at your convenience to go into the matter more thoroughly with you. (A letter by Robert H. Sewall’s International Detective Agency, 82 W. Washington St., Chi- cago, oering services to a plant where @ Strike was in progress.) “Why don’t you defend yourself from the bad publicity of the Herald & Examiner of paying 33 cents a day? You have a strong argument. You no doubt are paying beginners while they are learning the trade and spoilage runs high. This office through its field and staff has worked mightily to reduce the collection ac- count for relief of the strikers led by Communist agitators. The colored girls desiring to return to work are in the majority but are afraid. We can aid you if you call on us.” (A letter from American Vigilant Intel- lgence Federation to Sopkins during tecent strike there.) Spying for Ancestors. And here are the phrases with which the American Vigilant Intelli- gence Federation decorates such work as the above: “To proclaim the truth of the con- structive part played by our ancestors in the building of America through the medium of (a) the press; (b) cinema; (c) public lectures, chautau- qua and open forums; (d) radio broadcasting; (e) wide distribution af educational literature to people of all classes and to those in authority in each and every state and territory in the Union. (Our em- phasis.) “To combat and counteract the in- sidious work of anti-American pto- paganda, including those who have invaded American shores in order to belittle the patriotic efforts of heroes and to tarnish their fair name. “To combat and counteract the ef- By CARL REEVE PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 23.—The attempt of the silk and dye mill owners to break the strike here by their bloody attack of Friday on the picket line, has failed. The police fired without warning into the ranks the National Silk mill at East Pater- Son, critically wounding three and in- juring at least ten others. This was followed by the arrest of 13 strikers, and the attempt to frame them up for the shooting. The terror and of the unarmed pickets in front of | Mr. Dictrow, of the above agenzy re-| frame up was part of a well prepared plied with a demand for an addi-|plan to drive’ the workers back to tional ‘dollar, for which Harris would| Work Monday morning without any be sent on another job, at $2.50 a eng and followed the moves day. At the new job he. was offered $10 & week, which he refuséd to accept. At the agency he demanded his counterman at a delicatessen store. At the same store he was told that no help was wanted. In despair he returned to the agency where he was made to wait for another job. But he was not given any other job and his money was never returned to him, the National Textile Workers’ Union for the formation of one united unton of dye workers. ‘The course of the terror and frame up can now be clearly traced and exposed. There were three separate attacks on the picket lines on Friday. The first came at Qlifton, where the AF.L. dyers were picketing the Cre- tona Dye house, in the morning. e police clubbed a striker, John Cherohe, into unconsciousness, and he was taken to the Passaic Hospital in a serious condition. The police charged the strikers with beating him. At the same time, the police saved Dan- iel Machlin, a professional strike- breaker, who drew a gun, and re- leased him at the station house on Demand for Relief Heard in Capital Ask Roosevelt If $2.80 a Week “Sufficient” WASHINGTON.—Over 500 Negro and white jobless workers demon- strated in the nation’s capital under the leadership of the Unemployed Council last Friday. A parade through the streets, with banners denouncing the dismissal of 5,000 government employees, under the Blue Eagle, demanding the restora- tion of the pay-cut to government clerks, for social and unemployment insurance, preceded the open dem- onstration at the relief station. One banner captioned: “Mr. Roose- velt—how would you like to live on| $2.80 a week?” was particularly re- sented by the Roosevelt police. They attempted to provoke a riot at the relief station. They would not, at first, allow the speakers to address the workers, but they failed. Speakers from the Unemployed Council and the Communist Party addressed the meeting. A delegation presented the de-| mands of the unemployed workers to the relief director, Mr. Halburt. He, a “good, dues-paying member of the Socialist Party,” answered that the demands of the Council for a $2.50 food order every week, that single workers be given work, and that rent of martied workers be paid by the relief station, by saying that these demands will be considered by his committee. These demands have been made some weeks ago, and if the relief station wanted they could have answered already. off which goes to the Lewis hench- men. At the Baum mine the miners held @ meeting and rejected the check-off and membership in the UMWA by a vote of 103 to nothing, with 27 miners not present. The fight of the miners is not against the rank and file of the UMWA but against John L. Lewis and his district officials. The miners pay has been cut. Gloversville N. R. A. Mediator Confers With Police Chief Strike Committee Is! Informed He Wants to Behead Strike GLOVERSVILLE, Oct. 23.— The strike committee leading 2,000 leather | workers learned Friday that the N. R.A, mediator held a conference with the chief of police where a plan was | arresting “outside” agitators and | taking others for a ride. Notwithstanding the threatened | terror, the sixteenth day of the | strike finds the leather workers de- termined as they were on the first | day of the walkous to fight on un-/ til they win recognition. | The government's mediator is do-| ing his worst to break the strike for | the tannery employers, having pre- pared an agreement which contains | no wage increases and provides that | the bosses appoint their own shop} committees. This would make each | shop ® company union. But the strikers have the full sym-| pathy of the workers of Gloversville and are particularly thankful to the | Rabbit workers, who were helpful) with their advice in carrying on the | strike. At two crowded mass meetings | which were held October 19 in Glov- ersville and Johnston, the workers stood up and cheered the proposals} to fight on until the workers win| their demands. N.Y. Metal Union | Calls Convention Map Plan to Root Union in Heavy Industry NEW YORK. — To mobilize the| strength of the union in order to root it in the shipyards, and heavy metal shops, the Steel and Metal Workers) Industrial Union 1s calling a district convention on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 11 and 12 at Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place, on Saturday at 2 P.M. Reviewing the gains made during| recent strike struggles, the Union in} its call to the convention declares | that the great majority of the strikes were won under its leadership and | resulted in higher pay and shorter) hours to the workers. The metal} workers have learned that they can| keep their victories and achieve fur- ther gains only through strengthen- ing their union, which has led them in struggle, the call points out. The district convention will review the lessons of the work of the past few months and prepare for coming struggles, = | Has your unit, club, union, L.W.0. Branch, your organization held a collection for the Daily Worker? | | | | | | | | ‘ | Jail from which George Armwod, Negro worker, was taken by howling mob and lynched, while 50 heavily-armed state troopers and deputy sheriffs looked on. Capitalist press dispatches on the day after the lynching admitted that the inner gate was opened from inside, | The appearance of the outer gate (shown above), photographed im- mediately after the crime, indicates that this gate as well was opened from the inside. Delegation Will Demand Ouster of Governor Ritchig (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) cue from the N.A.A.C.P., Governor} Ritchie refused to revoke the order for the hanging of Euel Lee on Fri- y- Ritchie Had Ample Warning Governor Ritchie, Pilate-like, con- tinued today to wash his hands of the blood of George Armwood. He insisted again that sole responsibi for the removal of Armwood to P: cess Anne rests with Judge Duer and State's Attorney Robins. Ritchie's alibi is challenged even in the local bourgeois press. The Baltimore Sun on Saturday published a tabulation | of phone calls to the governor on v| ‘TI know all juries in the Euel Lee Case, ques- tioned State’s Attorney Robins as to ‘oes were being con- dered for the grand jury. Robins, | reddened and hi ly replied: “Now, don’t bring that up. It hasn’t any- thing to do with the case, Armwood {is dead.” | | Pressed by the reporters, Robins de- | clared: about the Euel Lee |}case and the law. But that hasn’t | anything to do with this case and I don’t want to discuss it, and it isn’t any use bringing it up. We have enough to do now and that question hasn't anything to do with this case | because Armwood is dead.” Local 1051, Supported «age Thres Persecute Local For Referendum by 450 Others in 48 States Demand Endorsement of Unemployment Insurance Bill PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 23.—Plans for the persecution of Philadelphis Local 1051 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners for initiating a referendum for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill is seen in the steps for a trial of the local ordered by the General Executive Board for } closed down their plants throwing | 1,400 employees out of work, }of the union was called. 4-Day Strike of | Nut Pickers Wins Workers’ Demands Food Workers: Union Led Victorious Walk- out of 1,400 ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 23—The Food Workers’ Industrial Union scored an- other victory in winning their strike in the Funsten Nut Co. An agree- ment between the strikers and the boss was reached a.‘er negotiations that was carried on for two days. The strike lasted four days, involv- ing 1,400 workers. ‘Three weeks ago the Funsten Co. Only two hours’ notice was given of the shut down. A committee of the workers im- mediately interviewed the boss and demanded a definite date for the re- opening. The boss refusing any satis factory answer. A special meeting At this meeting committees were elected to present an immediate relief demand to the city and to again see the boss | and demand relief from the company. The city relief agency granted the demand for immediate relief | The following morning 500, work- | ers marched to the factory to again | present the demands of the workers. | The march then continued through ; the clothing district where 1,500 gar- | ment workers under the Amalga-/ mated are on strike, The march was | local, signed by Frank Duffy, General the General Executive : “A copy of the ‘Daily dated New York, Friday, ll, 1933, was submitted to Aug the board, in which it shows that a copy of your circular letter (unem- insurance referendum) was rat paper, and that contents etter were published in the detriment of our organization.” The so-called “false” stat n refer to the fact that Local 1081 harged that whereas seven years o there were 400,000 members in this A. F. of L, union, at the present time official figures show there were only 83,000. The referendum charged that the high-handed methods of the on officials in expelling unem- ed carpenters for non-payment of dues was responsible for the sharp decline. At the same time, they charged that the high officials were fil their own pockets through | high salaries at the expense of the carpenters who were suffering un- employment and wage cuts. The proposed referendum, on which the local is now to be tried, declared for acceptance of the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill, exemp- tion of unemployed carpenters from ayment of dues to keep them im od standing, and the reduction of aries of high officials, The constitution of the United rotherhood of Carpenters and Join- ers provides that if 25 locals in 25 states submit such a referendum, it must be sent out by the Board. To flaunt the 470 locals in 43 states who endorsed the referendum initi- ated by Local 1051, the trial is now ordered, The trial committee, appointed, by the General Executive Board, con- sists of the henchmen who are re- sal stopped by a squad of police demand- | sponsible for the decline in mem- ing to see the permit for the march. | bership and for the maintenance of Several police lieutenants came from | fat salaries at the expense of the rank and file. headquarters and after a short con- | ference gave way. | All carpenters’ locals who endorsed the day of the lynching which clearly; Judges Refuse to Aid Inquiry. show thet Ritchie had had ample} Meantime, Judges Duer, Bailey and warning and could have prevented | pattison, told reporters they would the lynching. rate with the grand At one o'clock in the | refuse to co- afternoon, he was advised “there A mass picket line was re-estab-/| this referendum should immediately lished at the factory. The police ar-|come to the support of Local 1051, rested 75 workers the first day and | now the focal point of attack. They during the strike. The total arrests | should send in their declaration. of |mumber 135. support to the local, protest against might be trouble in Princess Anne that night.” At 7:50 he was in- formed by the Baltimore Sun that the crowd was attacking the jail. At 8:30 he was notified by the Associ- ated Press that the crowd looked like trouble. A few minutes later Gen- eral Reckford informed the governor he had had a call for reinforcements from the 50 state troopers and deputy sked by a Baltimore Sun reporter, “Will you three judges participate in the investigation?” | Judge Pattison emphatically replied | for all three: | “Of course not.” | Asked if the grand jury would con- | duct the inquiry, Judge Pattison re- | plied: “No, Mr. Lane and Mr. Robins will, and if they obtain any information jury inquir At the negotiations conference the | the high-handed trial. They should boss agreed to have his proposals in | fight against this attack of the Gen- the hands of the strike committee | cral Executive Board against a local |that afternoon. The demands of the} that initiated a movement tm the |strikers were 1. The immediate re-/ interest of the rank and file. All hiring of all workers. 2. All Work-| locals endorsing the unemployment ers to be rehired within 10 days. 3.| insurance bill and other measures in Present rate of pay to be maintained. | the interest of the membership of the | 4. Recognition of ae Sica aie | Brotherhood should now voice their distribution of work time ime | strong support of Local could not be guaranteed. 6. No dis- sae 3 sina sheriffs at Princess Anne, The gov-| that will be laid before the grand ernor refused to act. It was not until 9 o’¢lock that the crowd gained access to the jail, with the admitted co-operation of the jailers, and took out Armwood for a prolonged torture, leisurely dragging him behind an automobile through the main streets of the town, pum- meling and tearing his clothes from him, before they finally hanged him on a tree in front of Judge Duer's home. Officials Make No Arrests Today, five days after the lynch- ing, no arrests had been made nor are any anticipated in the near fu- ture. workers boiling with resentment, an attempt is now being made to center attention on the inquest to be held in Princess Anne tomorrow by Cor- oner Edgar A. Jones. Promises are also made of a grand jury inquiry. Both the coroner’s jury and the grand jury are hand-picked all-white juries. their occupations nor their addresses are on the court records. KATMAN——monday Bar Negroes from Juries. Bourgeois newspaper reporters, re- membering the fierce fight made by the International Labor Defense Help save our “Dally.” against the barring of Negroes from With the Negro masses and white The social composition of the | jurors are being kept secret. Neither | | jury.” | “Will the judges take part in the | | grand jury inquiry?” | “Of course not,” Judge Pattison re- | plied. “Sam Dennis, I mean Chief | Judge Dennis, in Baltimore, docsn’t do that.” J mer and State’s Attorney 1 in the lynching 4 Judges Beily he helped 2el Lee to legal lynch ! | mptuous to the nds of the| ero People and the ng class for the punishment of the known mob s involved in the od. Asked if he bringing Arm- wood back to Princess Anne, State’s Attorney Robins refused to answer, or to discuss any aspect of the case. Judge Duer, visited by reporters at his home, was found listening to | radio broadcasts of va s football Questioned in regard to the | games lynchin, ludge Duer answered: | “Do you want to listen to these |} games or to ask questions. I want to listen to the games. He refused to answer the questions of the reporters. crimination for union or strike activi- | ties. Berwyn Jim-Cow | School is Scored | PHILADELPHIA, Oct 23.—Vigor- | ous protests against the jim-crow or- ders of the Berwyn school board bar- ring Negro children from the new| $250,000 school in Berwyn, a suburb of v this tity last | at a mil r meinde Hall. | The meeting, called by the Com- tee for United Action, was ad-| dressed by prominent local and na-/| tional lead including William Pace Al inder, Negro lawyer for the | re registered ant mass meeting in | five weeks ago. Move Picket Lines as Furniture Boss Moves Factory to Waltham WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 23.—The workers at the Waltham Frame Oo, here are on strike for union condi- tions. The conditions previous to the strike were 46 hours a week, boys under 21 averaging $7 to $8 a week, and unsanitary working quarters. This strike originated in Braintree, Mass., at the Woodcraft Corp., about To break the strike the boss moved the plant to Waltham and assumed the name of the Waltham Frame Co. The workers moved their picket line to Waltham. They are demanding a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage of $14 | Negro children who have been con-| to $16 a week for boys under 21, an | ducting a strike for the past year;; increase of 25 per cent for skilled William L, Patterson, national sec-| workers and a union shop. The strike retary of the International Labor | is led by the Furniture Workers’ In- | Defense; Saul Gerson, of the Na-/ dustrial Union of Boston. tional Committee for the Defense of _—__ OO Political Prisoners, and others. 7 s Mleeanen, snes axesvities toe the| YVR P: ay Rise, Union strikers have been attacked by the By Strike in Cleveland leaders of the National Association | py p+ | for the Advancement of Colored Peo-| Packing House Plant CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 23-—The | ple, declared he would continue the ee despite the attacks of the N. A. A. 0. P. SHOOTINGS, ARRESTS, FRAME-UP OF SILK STRIKERS FAIL TO BREAK RANKS the ground that he had the weapon “on private property.” The second clash came at the National Silk Dye Co. at East Paterson, after the Clifton A. F. of L, picket line met the N. T. W. U. pickets by arrangement, where the police shot up the picket line, and followed this by cornering all possible pickets, beating them un- mercifully and arresting 13. Pickets Return in Afternoon The third clash of the day came at the same plant when the strikers at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, returned to the National Silk picket line, and picketed in the face of another bar- Tage of tear gas bomnbs and club- bings. In this afternoon’s clash, the police seriously injured Lem Di Graf by_clubbings in the spine. The papers immediately reported the shooting as the work of the strikers. The Paterson News Friday stated, ‘There was only one police- man on duty at the time. He was Frederick Kaugh, and fired several shots in the air to frighten the Police Chief William Bulmer raced to the scene with 16 patrolmen. He was followed by Under Sheriff Ed- ward Brown, who brought 25 depu- ties,” ete. Police Prepared Thursday But this nicely written story soon exploded. It was established that all of these polise, deputies, and many more private guards, etc., were in the mill since early morning. The picket scouts, as well as others, came for- ward and testified, and are giving affidavits to the ILD, lawyer, that they saw early in the morning, the intense mobilization of the police. Tear gas had been made ready, and machine guns brought into the mill. ‘The lies of one policeman on duty were so obvious, that even the mill owners’ press of Paterson was forced to change the story. ‘The Paterson papers later admitted, not only that the police were present, in the cellar and yard of the mill before the shooting, but that a con- ference was held the night before, at which the next day’s police activities were discussed, and there is no doubt :that at this conference the instruc- tions for the terror were given to the police by the mill owners, The Pater- son Call of Saturday, Oct. 21, con- tradicting the earlier stories said, “News came to Chief of Police Bulmer late Thursday night to the effect that he might expect trouble early Friday morning. He carried the notice (Read orders of the mill owners—C.R.) to Sheriff Reilly and Under Sheriff Bd- ward Brown, and a conference was held in the late hours. As a result the 18 men were augmented by 50 from REILLY’S office and a score of the BerSen County police headed by Lieutenant Matthew Donohue, Most of the staff was lod&ed In the basement of jhe plant, the balance patrolling the outlying sections of the yard early yesterday, when about 200 strikers began to picket.” The story then goes on that the strikers “used vile language” as “Brown and his men went to the group to remon- Strate.” Thus the “lone policeman” has grown to well over 100. Tear gas was ready, revolvers were drawn, and the police “went over” to the picket line, firing revolvers into the crowd and throwing tear gas. Statements of Eye Witnesses It has been clearly proved, in affi- davits of eye-witnesses, that the po- lice were the only ones to fire on the unarmed pickets. The strikers came to the picket lines unarmed. The extravagant police statements that strikers were found with re~ volvers on them boil down to this— that not a single striker’s name has been brought forward who was armed on the picket line. The only revolver found was on Machlin, the scab, and he was released by the police with~ out charges. NOT A _ SINGLE POLICEMAN WAS WOUNDED BY GUNFIRE. Every casualty from the shooting was on the side of the strikers, John Bartolozzo, still in danger of his life with a bullet wound in his lung, made an affidavit for the LL.D. lawyer, A. Brenman, in which he stated: “At about 10:30 o'clock I was standing still about ten feet from the lunch wagon on the other side of ing just come from & meeting in Paterson. I saw an officer, in blue} uniform, run and hide behind a car} on the other side of the street... . He got up from his position behind the auto shooting. The second shot hit me in my chest on the right side. I tried to get away, but fell before I could get ten feet. From then on I heard no more. . . . The cop was not fired at, only stoned.” An A. F. of L. worker stated: “One of the police officers nearest the bridge fired deliberately at the strik-| ers without warning.” Dozens of other witnesses, who saw | the police fire without warning into; the unarmed strikers, will be pro- duced. Nicholas Fauva, still in a serious condition with two bullet wounds in his body, told the LL.D. lawyer that he saw the police officer, in a blue uniform, shoot him down, from across the street. In face of these and numerous} other statements of eye witnesses, the | employers’ press was forced to print the workers’ statements. The final! edition of the Friday Paterson News, in face of these facts, said: “In view of the fact that a fatality may re- sult from the fracas, arrests were most important” (13 strikers were ar- rested and are out on high bond. ‘Three strikers are held for deporta- tion and one is already at Ellis Island), “Police charged the N, T. W. U. members, radical strikers, with Witnesses Expose Mill Owners’ Lies; Testify Police Fired Into Unarmed Line, Threw Tear Gas, Clubbed Workers Market St. from the National, hav-/ starting the bloody battle.” Workers Protest ‘The mass protest of the workers, including the demonstration of ten) thousand strikers on Saturday, is in- | creasing against the attempts to) frame up the leadership of the strike, | the active N. T. W. U, members. The | Passaic Herald News of Friday re-| veals this frame up in its crudest | form, stating: “The strikers, it is al-| leged, opened fire with pistols. . . .| The police, it was said, did not re- turn the fire.” The Sunday Eagle of Paterson says: “It just seems as though it must become the habit of | certain radicals to create trouble and once more put Paterson’s fair name back into the gutter.” Habermann Provision Co, workers, through a strike, won 5 cents per hour raise in pay for all and recognition of their union, the Packing House Workers’ Industrial Union. This was as a result of 2 conference between the Committee of the Union and the management. The workers of the Habermann Provision Co. are organized in the Packing House Workers’ Industrial Union, with headquarters at 4207 Clark Ave., the Union which ts lead- ing the present strike of 200 em- ployes of the Hildebrandt Provision Co. at West 38th St. and Clark Ave, Hildebrandt thus far has refused to negotiate with the Union. The Packing House Workers’ In- dustrial Union is planning to extend its organization and the strike through the entire industry of the city. S.P. Uses Stock Excuse ToBreak United Front OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.—On the stock excuse that the Communists The workers, led by the N.T.W.U.| 8¢ in control, the Socialist Party of and the LL.D, are not through with! this city has withdrawn its support the case. The main purpose of the, ‘0M the United Front Committee, shootings of the police, at orders of | i" an attempt to wreck the United the mill owners, have failed. ‘The | Front movement. strike has not been broken. The| The United Front movement in strikers have not been sent back to, this city was organized to fight work at the point of gunfire. The! ®gainst starvation and to expose the mass picket lines continue. The| bosses’ racket over the oil privileges strikers must see to it that those re-| in Oklahoma City. ; sponsible for this frame up are fully| Socialist Party members have re- exposed and that in spite of terror, ported that Socialist politicians are and frame up of leaders, the strike,| Working with the Democratic Party with the slogan of unity of all dye| to sidetrack the unemployment is- strikers in one union, continues to| sue and to hush up the police slug- victory. (A second article, to appear soon, will take up the role of the A. F. of L. in the presant Paterson strike situation.), : eNO NCC RR ON gings of strikers. The United Front candidate for Mayor, Clemens, him- self a member of the Socialist Party, is one of those beaten up by the police, 5) ALAA CSR