The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1933, Page 4

@aze Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1933 NRA Ballyhoo Employed to Bar Picketing by Cornell Dubilier Radio Plant Strikers I. PARTY LIFE Stress Development of New} Cadres of Unit Leadership Social: Democratic Actions | bes ps man ; i csalicrs ¢ ee ea Ne Seopa! -\1 Misleaders’ Instructions To Vote for Hinden- ig} Increased Tempo in Carrying Out the Open Yal dT Present Leaders Block Militant Mass weiss | dors tek | burg One of Many Treacheries to Workers aya} Letter Depends on Training of New Forces aie all owne Against Scabs by False Promises eaders broke | SA Ud ERIE brou,? : | (By a Worker Correspondent) | SUN : St on a cet mana ak cece Foundry Closing. xew oex—on tor's\u, te mate owe coma pwsir — Morale of Tool |. cmt mena erty maty wore ean nar Condenser Corp,, 238th St. and Bronx Boulevard, came out on strike for | recognition of their own independent Radio Factory Workers’ Union, for | higher wages and better conditions. the foliowing set of questions: “How did the Communist Party of Germany estimate the role of German social democracy and of the trade unions in the period of Germany's Fascization? Didn’t the Com- in si wpon its solution depends the speeding of the tempo in the carrying out of | Davi the Open Letter. This is the problem of the development of new cadres | ij | Fr. FE of local leadership; the strengthening of the section leadership as the near- Adds to Layoffs FC ast link to the Ic ing of the developed comrades | into the leadership of the units; the| ping of unit initiative and mak- StOP] ing the units conscious that they are Jail of the Party in the shops and PAPE neighborhood: past experi It Crence, and cent events, croW show us that this problem can and 150 “must be solved prim the they course of developing by SPT penetration in s, and _ tbfough the winning of the best ele- ‘Ements to our ranks, as well as the ‘through a more intensive education. the Today more than ever before, with one the z of the influence of the corner of the sed from ev to every land, demand is r comradgs have the various training : Party: Today, how-| ever, if we check up on these forces, | spritwe discover that while a large num-| stoO'per of these trained comrades are| Hin leading positions and are doing] ‘good work, we also find that a large| ritfmumber have disappeared from leads | ‘ing positions. It is significant ‘oo | past Tt gont virtt schools of 0 the “good material,” but later on units; the bring-@ | Party. workers that must be trained to con- stitute the leading These are the com must be developed. The need for leading forces is ades that | not | (By a Metal Worker Correspondent) STAMFORD, Conn—In the Yale here, there has been a consistent lay- off of work partments, because things are slow- only a problem for the concentra-jing up in this factory and the work- | for | the tion distri the Sout the It is a problem Southwest, for Northwest. From every are demands for schools | Schools, alone, however, cannot | solve the problem. There are many | ways of developing new cadres on a large scale. While the District e~d onal schools have to perform the st important function in this re- spect,, other methods of educat be taken into considera | One of the most i methods, a at the present tim: in the S ions and U Circles t not fundamentals of Communism, but should discuss and study all the| problems of the Party, utilizing all) the small pamphlets issued by the! Party. Such circles will be of tre- mendous value in assisting the com- rades to understand these problems in raising the political level of the comrades, who, in turn, will become instrumental in helping to raise the political level of the entire Unit and Section. The Study Circles will arm the} sho ers are told to go home until they will be called. There have been from over three weeks now, and it will probably be permanently. The foundry here was closed on Nov. 13. The men in it that I know have no idea when they will be called bs pair a 2 a pair lasis in @ two moi the spend $2.20 for shoes. 7) The average pay a foundry worker gets is $14 to $15 per week, for 40 hours. Out of cents and up each week for insur- all the workers’ pay, thew draw 33 ance, and when you are laid off, you lose this insurance money. We have held several shop gate meetings heré in the past two months. The workers know that they cannot expect anything from the N.R.A. and show good sympathy toward our re there|200 to 500 laid off in this mmner. | |Some of the workers have been out | | | that we were going to win the strike | by simply presenting our case before cadres of our|& Town Manufacturing Co. plant | the N.R.A., and that because our de- mands are reasonable the N.R. A. from the various de-| would make Mr. Blake accept all our | | demands. Move than two weeks have passed since we walked out, and the strikers are still waiting for the N. R.A. to force Mr. Blake to accept our demands. Mr. Beedy has been phon- ing us up every day that he will have a favorable settlement within 24 hours. This favorable 24-hour settle- ment seems to be taking the same course at Hoover's 60-day “pros- perity.” In the meantime, while we are waiting for this settlement, Mr. Blake has secured a full force of scabs to . how can we win ncn there are scabs pro- As far as the N.R.A. goes, it never yet has settled a strike in the inter- est of the workers, except when the factory was closed down through mass picketing, and in that case, the boss would have to settle whether or not there was any N.R.A. How can the N.R.A. give us.a.favorable settle- ment when we find Swope, the head of the National Electrical Manufac- turers Association, which is backing ducing and taking our jobs away?! The leader of the strike, Mr. Beedie, and the strike committee told us| .— | (By @ Metal Worker Correspondent) | up Blake, also one of the heads | the N.R.A. Board in Washington? é of | can win this strike is by stopping the scabs, through mass picketing, from taking away our jobs. And if Beedy, Drucker or any other member of the Strike Committee objects to letting us stop the scabs, they are doing exactly what the boss wants, and we Temove any one on the committee who is carrying out the wishes of the boss, We must turn this “holiday” into a real strike to win our demands, We must get all the strikers who have become disgusted because of the way the strike is being run to come They should be visited im- | ely. Macs picketing mus' mediately to stop the There should be str every day and the Strike Committee | should report to the meeting the | Plans for the strike, All those on the sirike committee who are against putting up a fight should be removed and sincere fight- ers elected in their place. Demand that final settlement of the strike be made by the strikers themselves at a strike meeting where the settlement is voted upon. | makers’ strike Fellow workers, the only way we} Collapsed. That is the truth, and,| e meetings | And Die Strikers DETROIT, Mich,—The tool and die in Detroit area has | recogni: the facts, the workers must remove from leadership the of- , tiicals of the Mechanics Educational | Society of America. The daranable | worship of the N.R.A. by these offi- | cials show thelr lack of ability to visualize the American strike ‘scene. A Communist, the only man with a true concept of the facts, must be chosen as leader. I am not a Com- | munist. I am not anything, but am | in the state of learning what the | editorial columns of the Daily Worker | show me the line the workers must take, os | of eds ne’ to ensure victory. Shou'd Have Gone Back in Body After a heroic resistance, many of the strikers lost courage, and while the shop committees were discussing matters with the bosses, many of the rank and file were running to the foreman’s houses to make atrange- ments for their jobs. They should have stood out until the decision was announced and then all should have gone back in a body. There was too much of this last minute scabbing, Right at the time of negotiations offer to social democracy?” | vanguard of the working class—bro radical pkrases to cover up its rea’ Possible for the Social Democracy t into the clutches ef Fess!sm. | In the period of partial stabiliza- tion, the Social-Democrats’ deception of the masses was fa the fact that the ine xDloi~ tation cf the work! - sult cf the t va. ionaliza’ a concealed nature. Exploitation in- creased not so much as a result of the direct decrease of the normal wage but much more as a result of a very ra- pid increase of the intensity of labor and the greater utilization of the munist Party of Germany wait too long before it made the United Front Comrade Piatnitsky showed how the long pre-war influence of the Social Democratic Party on the broad masses of the workers—NOT the ught about by its continued use of 1 treachery to the masses, made it ; ‘0 lead the German workers directly In the sccond part of this article, which follows, Comrade Piatnitsky shows how, for example, the S. D. P. slogan of “Whoever elects Thaeimann, elects Hitler,” as opposed to the Com- + munist slogan, “Whoever elects Hindenburg, elects Hitler,” led the German working class straight into the terror of Fascism. Now read ont ing class behind it. That, of course. | dees not an that the Social-Demo- | cratic not lost influencé | among ing class. Despite j all tk ‘Democratic Party pea of the treachery ial-Democratic leaders who. consciousiy and purposely sabotage all | the offers of the Communists to form ja united front of struggle against Fascism, against the capitalist offen+ sive, then we must not close our eyes to the fact that the mass of the So- cial-Democratic workers have also not accented the offer of the Com- munists regarding the formation of @ united front. The Executive Committee of thé Communist International and tke: was when the shop committees needed solid support. That is just when that support was lacking. Every man who scabbed during the strike is working today, many of them working 12 hours @ week. Many hundreds of the the Party members with arguments ‘ se how va aad the bdo of | meetings. Now we are issuing vatsagelt were discovered! the correctness of our program; of | let @ week explaining the necessity o! ition | ization and are on the road to | the correctness of the Party position | Oreanizal in the various national state, county |DUilding department committees and city problems, and especially on | through our contacts. working day, which gave the bourgeois and Social-Demo- eratic economists the opportunity to conceal the real | situation of the workers by means Communist Party of Germany on their part have carried on the struggle against the identification of the Social-Democratic workers with the traitorous leaders because in a number of countries, also in Gers ‘many of them who were character- nized as “excellent” to be unfit. * Are these comrades really toCoOr is th Printed Call to Lynch Boys, Attorneys Circulated in Ala. unfit? some reason that ex- a. rough struggles and | solve, of organizing the masses in| workers when last was gt | the ral unt et no hel ne he jal-Dem Aa nt els vhic! ing schools| the shops and factories, In these| full capacity. Allso it was used in By JOHN L. SPIVAK. Mabry states in his foreword. ‘“Trug) sirikers so well are still unemployed,|of tais for their own purnoses and ~Democratic workers in the fac- positions? I) study circles, as well as in the units|the last war for making munitions, SOUTHERN WHITE MAN KNOWS | owing to that last minute scabbing.| were able to spread the illusion among at the labor exchanges as small “when we are| themselves, ‘the Daily Worker and|and ean be converted for this pur- canes eee Pepe by hie ape THE NEGRO and the NEGRO| The good stuff of the M. B.S, of A.|th> workers that their material situ- jebels,” as “Fascists.” ‘This problem of| the Communist must play an im-| pose in 24 hours. Delonas qdtonneya an, the Sontieboce KNOWS THE SOUTHERN WHITE | must not be thrown away. Start re-|ation was directly denendent upon | tactic delayed the Social-Democratic are of new forces we d the increas? of the ability of German ‘0 take the necessary steps industry to com! on the world | portant role. | ‘The local press this spring and| case, Samuel Leibowitz and Joseph | MAN. Lenape pour pul gente Geka Bctiiuaioe nia tits. tes liane up these forces after they hed the training schools. Tt is the task of the leading com-| euorades to assist them continuously, | “helping the weakest ones, encourag- | The daily work of the Party should |summer carried front page headlines also be made a training ground for} when a few hundred workers were leading forces. The functionazies’| hired here as a sign of returning meetings and conferences, where the | prosperity, but does not give one line results of activities are reported on|to the Jlaying-off of hundreds of and past work checked up, must be} workers and the closing of the sing and assisting them to continue their theoretical education. made by young and less experienced | comrades. Toy: vow! wo ease, Acheracter of asistance by the lead- the ing co! | made to serve also as training courses | In Cor-! for new comrades. While it is true | mistakes made in carry-| that the District and Section Organ- | y @ Gis-| izers are very busy with hundreds/ be drawn between such | o¢ problems from morning until late | may be made by leading | a+ “night, nevertheless since in all| Who from time to time) these activities they are in constant | ovportunist deviations which | connection with functionaries, with | m a hidden political line,| party members, with young com-| he deviations and mistakes | tages, they must realize that this| ery contact must also be made into | a channel of education. The spend- ing of a few minutes in giving ad-| vice to comrades on the planning of | activities, on reading certain litera- | | ture, urging them to read and write, | will help to develop the initiative of | In the first case, the| ¥ truggle Inst opportunism | must | b2 a very sharp one. In the second} the struggle must take the| ‘ades to overcome the mis- foundry. Colonial Radio Fires Hundreds, Doubles Output (By a Young Metal Worker Cor.) BUFFALO, N. Y¥—I am one girl worker in Colonial Radio who is con- vinced that the American Federation take nointing out to the- comrade| the theoretical basis for the mis-| many of these young comrades and| encourage them to combine their | practical work with theoretical train- of Labor, which got us to join their federal union at the end of Septem- ber, has worsened our conditions and of its trained forces is} & sufficient care is not | le fact th *iteken in the selection of the forces| ig’ | NeBts be trained. The background is Whinot sufficiently studied, their quali- it ees of y. loyalty to the cause | Wear the cless, personal integ- | rity, re often not seriously | msideration. They are| Sty frequently selected on the basis | fmopressions. Today there are| ds of workers that are rising | f-om the ranks during struggles, who | Ives, who are com. | leaders, who are Wetting forward as hoWimova to their fellow-workers, who GOM%-re known in factories or in their | Siicealities for their seriousness, cour- Le @ge and devotion. These are the! av — aes ties cONDES: HELEN “ Dear Comrades in the Home: What a showing—what a showing! who contrive to make a pound of flour, an egg, and a few potatoes wheieals. Here we are, who, because of @- king something out of nothing— to tind the “Daily” withirs not ready. | Well, here in the New England Tidictrict we have started something, | the 2d we think it is O.K. for all sec- | phOticns. One comrade buys (or orders | vom the office) five copies of the | isily Worker and then invites five orkers to her home and tells them ppout the D. W.; how it fights in 2 interest of the workers and leads Shei struggle, and about the drive and why we must have such drives. je asks each of these friends to @ nickel, a dime, or a quarter More, and then get five copies of Daily Worker, invite five friends her house for tea, coffee, or a and tell them about the Daily er, ask for a donation and ask wh of these five to do the same, ‘tionend to wrte all about these ex- “Bhd seriences. And so on and so on! “Gent This is very easy to do and is 4 ots of fun, and has great organiza- jonal results because these groups @ndneet again and again, and from gen hem grow study classes and work- Bers correspondence groups. Aden’ Sometimes we talk so much about ge sums we make workers in iso- places think they cannot help mecause the amount they would give So small; but we must remember it is these pennies that give lifeblood to the Daily Worker. whe system thieving from the work- | PrOisrs, have developed our talents for needs us and we | ccmmnien dinner and collected $1.95.) e forward, comrades in the ? We are on our way, marching ‘d@ the dawn! We are in a ish of the great war! On to he Daily Worker! Working realize your strength! Unite! have action, now, today! | ties and frictions. Continuing from yesterday the letters about the drive, Get? ancnymcus one thas full of the old fighting spirit: will do nothing to better them, Here are my reasons: ‘The day after the strike was settled by a secret agreement, hundreds of girls, most of them belonging to the federal union, were laid off. The A. F. of L. had taken $2 initiation fees plus $1 for dues from us. Then the bosses increased produc- tion almost double, so that we were turning out more with a reduced force. The speed-up was increased a great deal. ing. There should aslo be more open forums, more comradely social life. Every affair, even the smallest one, must take the character of a gather- ing of comrades for the discussion of the problems facing the Party. This will not only develop new en-| thusiasm, but will acquaint the com- | trades with each other, strengthen} the ties among the Party members | as part of the fighting vanguard of the working class, will encourage) ss increased one and frank, open, sincere, sharp discus-| Then wages were | ! sions and will eliminate petty enmi- | Sd ae cdi fe Lacey | What does this mean when we have 5 to turn out more, and when the Hold a house party for raising | Frices on food and clothing are go- funds for our Daily Worker. ing up all the time? Seabees Ri | Now there are strong rumors that another layoff will take place. It ' is said that those girls who do not | belong to the A. F. of L. union will get laid off first. Of course, it’s plain, they are trying to force all the girls into their union. But if a layoff is going to take place, we'll get laid off, A. F. of L, union or no A. F. of L. union. I don’t think that this fed- eral union will fight the layoff or protect laid off workers by helping them get relief. Why, most of us don't know when the next meeting of the union will take place! That's why I like the Steel and Metal Workers Union — it not only fights for better conditions, but it tries its best to keep them after they win them. The workers of Acme Steel, Pratt and Letchworth, Wickwire and the other shops and mills organized in the Steel and Metal Union have won | and’still have good conditions, Wake | up, Colonial Radio girls! BD BY LUKE here is an | Boston. Here we are In the home, the ones | into JOIN THE — Communist Party | 35 E. 12th STREET, N, Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name ‘Can. You Make ‘Em | Yourself? Pattern 1588 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. Size 16 takes 25syards 39 inch fabric, Tlustrated step-by-step sewing instructions in- cluded, Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c.) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th | Street, New York City Brodsky, is being circulated here in @ 54-page pamphlet written and pub- lished by one Woodford Mabry, a lawyer of Grove Hill, Ala. Neither the. legal nor police authorities of Morgan County are doing anything to stop it. “Why does the law right to expel the just such force as you find neces- sary?” Counselor Mabry asks in his “brief and argument” as he terms his pamphlet. “It is because the law is too slow to save you and you must Save yourself. give you the with too slow and uncertain to save a menaced community, because of out- side lawyers ... then that community must exercise its inherent right to defend itself. “THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE AND ITS METHODS ARE DESPISED HERE IN ALABAMA.” (Capitals for emphasis are Mabry’s). This crude call and other similar expressions in the pamphlet for a lynching is directed to the people of Alabama and is being widely distrib- uted here and avidly read. Around the yellow brick court house where the Scottsboro boys are to go on trial for their lives this reporter saw two in the hands of grim-faced, over- alled men who were showing them to others on the court house steps. In the center of the town the blue-coy- ered pamphlet is in evidence. Those who do not have it, have seen it and are discussing its contents. Just how many of these pamphlets are in Decatur and Morgan County there is no way of telling. Attacks LL.D. Demand for Negro Equality Not only does it contain this bald invitation to a vee but the tenor of the whole pampHlet is that of fury against the International Labor Defense and “northerners” who are trying to “put negroes on juries” (Nowhere in the pamphlet is the word Negro spelled with a capital N). The pamphlet is a bitter invective against those who try to get the Ne- gro “social and political equality.” The pamphlet is marked by an hysterical tenor, bad grammar and capitalized words for emphasis. Advocates Booker Washington Program “UNTIL THE ADVENT of the IN- TERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE and simlar organizations into the South with their dangerous teachings of Social Equality, Socialism, etc., never since emancipation have the relations between the white men and the law abiding negroes of the South been so cordial, or the confidence of the negroes in their white neighbors “In like manner, the law may be | ruined and employers so strong,” Attorney “The BEST HOPE of the negro of the South lies in the continuance and cultivation of these relations and the education of his children on PURELY PRACTICAL LINES.” Throughout its pages Attorney Mabry brands as “absurd” the pay- ment of taxes to educate colored people in Alabama and urges that the Negro education “be restricted to reading, writing and arithmetic.” Decries Education for ‘Nigger Bucks and Wenches” “A negro crammed on Latin, Greek or on ened and geometry, is a nigger,” the learned counsel pgs Phe continues: ie taxing of poor white ple id furnish “HIGHER EDUCATION” | ‘or negro wenches and sassy bucks, |e ds an OUTRAGE upon the WHITE id an injury to the negroes.” +. Following are a few excerpts from je pamphlet, showing its spirit: » “White supremacy should be es- ee by law, S&T take the position that the ‘Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend- ments of the Constitution should be repealed.” “Don’t you know that Holy Writ expressly sanctions and regulates the system (of slavery) that Christ never uttered a word against it, and that ST. PAUL COMMAND SLAVES TO OBEY THEIR MAS- TERS?” Sees Lynch Courts Blocked by Mass Protests rol “When these things happen (out- siders defending Negroes) it naturally arouses the indignation of the people and sometimes, they do what’ the law would have speedily done but for the SHYSTER interlopers ... who must have been sent to Alabama by or- ganizations like the International La- bor Defense, composed no doubt of a lot of half-breeds, negroes, negro- | petters, negro lovers and anarchists, imbued with the social equality rot and the very foolish idea that negroes should sit in the jury box with WHITE PEOPLE.” Invokes Lynch Law Against LL.D. Attorneys “Speaking for myself alone, it is my deliberate opinion, that a recur- rence of such conduct will bring about the invoking of the exception to the general rule of law (due legal pro- cedure) above referred to it. “This is not a threat BUT JUST GOOD ADVICE.” These excerpts would normally be funny. But here in Decatur where the tension is at the breaking point, this pamphlet is pouring gasoiine upon an already existing flame. And it may be noted again that neither legal nor police authorities are do- ing anything to stop it. Below are listed stations for the Daily Worker Tag Days, Nov. 24, 25 and 26th. Clip out the list of stations our Daily Worker, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Districts, airmail lists of your stations immediately, . # NEW YORK CITY DOWNTOWN—-Workers Center, 96 Ave. C. East Side Workers Club, 165 East Broadway. MIDTOWN—Greek Workers Club, 209 25th St.; Armenian Workers Club, 56 W. 25th St; Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union, 131 W. 28th Bt, HARLEM—Finnish Workers Hall, 15 W. 126th St.; Esthonian Workers Club, 27/W. 1isth St.: Harlem Liberator, 2162 7th Ave. YORKVILLE—Huny 950 E. Bist St. LOWER BRONX—Workers Prospect Ave. Genter, Prospect Workers Club, Boston Road, Clinton Ave.; Co-op Unemployed ye Ave; Workers Cen’er, a St.; Scandinavian Worke: ea ve Club, 5008, 66 Daily ” Tag Visit shops, of- fices, factories, workers’ homes, ap- proach .workers on the streets with Daily Worker Tag Day Boxes on this All arian Workers Home, 1st So. Boulevard; Bronx Workers Club, 1400 UPPER BRONX — Workers Center, 2075 Council, 249 Ochs Day Stations BORO PARK — Finnish Workers Home, 746 40th St.; Workers Center, 1109 45th St. BATH BEACH—Bath Beach Workers Olu), a7. 3 in your city, Volunteer to take tag ‘BENSONHURST —Bensonhurst — Workers day boxes. Help make these three | Center, 2008 70th st. days victorias in the battle to save| qcone A SHAND — Coley Island Workers BRIGETON BEACH—Brighton Beach Workers Center, Brighton Beach and Coney Island Ave. WILLIAMSBURG — Workers Center, 61 Grahem Ave.; Bridge Plaza Workers Club, 285 Rodney St.; Laisve, 46 Ten Byck St.; Progressive Workers Center, 159 Sumner Ave, BROWNSVILLE — Brownsville Workers Center, 1813 Pitkin Ave.; American Youth Club, 105 Thatford Ave.; Hinsdale Workers Club, 313 Hinsdale St. JAMAICA—Jomaica Workers Center, 148- 29 Liberty Ave. SECTION 1 nian Labor Temple, 1051 ‘Ukraii Auburn Av Ve.; Bulgerian-Macedonian Workers Home, 10815 Madison Ave., rea~, \ SECTION 2 lay Workers Hall, 6021 St. Clair z, R. 156 fan Workers Hall, 920 St.; “Lith ‘79th ‘St; Scandiavian Workers Hell, 7010 Wade fark Ave, SECTION 3 Jewish. Wirkers Center, 14101 Kinsman Barker and Britton Streets; Middie Bronx | Rd, ers Home, 11128 Buck~ Workers Center, 3882 ‘Third Ave. eye lore headquarters, §366°’Broud~ SOUTH BROOKLYN—Workers Center, 122 | way. y SECTION 11 e., 3rd land Ay 3874 Payne file to demand and support rank and file leadership. Teach the rank and file that Isst-minute scabbing, even by a union permit cunningly con- nived at, is the worst form of scab- bing. The unemployed M. E. 8, of A. should meet at the earliest moment and get matters going and get Smith and Griffen going with the can tied to their tails. —Chrysler Employes. Sheffield Steel Pay Checke as Low as $9 per Week (By a Worker Correspondent) | KANSAS CITY, Mo.—The living standards of the Sheffield steel work- ers are constantly dropping. Many of the workers on the extra list work ‘two and three days per week since steel production took another slump recently. Many of the pay checks run as low as $18 to $20 for two weeks. In spite of the fact that the steel workers have little or no winter fuel and have such low pay, the local charities campaign never missed the steel workers. The Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers, which signed up several hundred men in the union lest July and still holds meetings, is continuing to tell the men to wait until next July, until a certain contract between the A. F. of L. and the company expires. According to local leaders of the A. F. of L., the company cleared a million and a half dollars from the misery of the workers in the 12 months preceding the N.R.A. The A. F, of L., refusing to do anything until ancther year, means that they are willing that the company con- tinue to reap these profits. All honest workers, both A. F. of L. members and non-members, must see through these tricks and must build shop organizations, and the union based on the class struggle, the Steel end Metal Workers Industrial Union. No Protection for Switchmen in Gary Plant (By a Steel Worker Correspondent) GARY, Ind.—Ther is no protection have it installed at the the train. ~ Most of the work we head forward, and in that obliged to walk back and we cennos ride on the hot ingots buggies. Nothing has besn dene from. the so-called shop representation to get our demands, but instead all you hear is union tall: from the shop repre- sentative, but they are talking the Wrong kind cf a union, AU they mean Is A, F.ofh, | ‘What we want is the workers’ kind of union and that’s the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union's. We haven't made any headway the lest two months. ‘We only had one mass union meeting, and the Am- erican Feceration of Labor is holding two and three ti | week policy. and in my opinion that’s 2 | We are actually giving our chance to someone else to benefit by it. And iv’s up to us to get some action and draw the crowd in our workers’ uhion, ERAS Ave; Milk Station, E. 2th St. and Payne Avenue. ? i SECTION Workers Center, 1943 Rd; Uai- employed 8 Hall, 15286 nac Rd.; Martuccl Home, 15908 St, Clit Ave, market. The Social-Democrats cre- ated the theory of “economic demo- eracy” which in conjunction with the “already existing political democracy,” through co-operation with the bour- geoisic, was to open up the painless path towards the “peaceful develop- ment into Socialism.” The economic crisis threw all these erroneous theo- ries. overboard. Social-Democracy which kept on working in the service of the bourgeoisie also in the perioc } of the crisis, openly took part in the ruthless offensive against the standard of living of the workers and in ali forms of the ruthless cutting of wages, the abolition of social in- surance, etc. It not only silently supported the measures of the Bruen- ing government regarding the cutting of wages and of unemployment re- lief, but even agitated for these cuts. During the last presidential elec- ticn the Communist Party of Ger- many issued the slogan: “Whoever elects Hindenburg elects Hitler!” In contra-distinction to this, the Social- Democrats declared to the workers: “Whoever elects Thaelmann elects Hitler!” It is a fact that it was pre- cisely the Social-Democrecy which which made it nossible for Hinden- burg to be elected by an overwhelm- | ing majority and that a rather large section of the working clas; was obedient to its dictates also in this Guestion, Now the workers can in- vestigate the correctness of our slogans on the bas‘s of their own bit- ter experiences. What we had warned against had taken place, During the election campaign, the Communist Party of Germany, unfortunately, did not understand how to correct proach the masses and convince them of the correcinass of our slogan. Notwithstanding all the treacheries of Social-Democracy, and desvite the exposure of these treacheries by the Communist Party of Germany, the Social-Democratic Party of Germany still had the majority of the work- Letters from Our Readers LITVINOFF’S TRIP Note to Ben Ardsley, John G. Valek and American Ycuth Club Members: The editorial in Friday’s (Nov. 3) issue of the Daily Worker under the heading, “Brisbane and Boudoirs” gives the true facts on how Mexim Litvinoff travelled and exposes the statements in the capitalistic press as downright lies. of the united front of revolutionary struggle more difficult. The C. P. G. came out against these methods of @ mass work. This tactic was cor~ rect at that time and also correct today. Does that mean, how- ever, that we must ignore the new factors that are characteristic for the most recent events in Germany? In every case where the Social Democratic workers took up the siruggle, the Communists always stepped into the front ranks of the. fighters and received the heaviest - blows of the class enemy. Do the. Communists have to come out and Say what was, i. e., that they had called upon the Social-Democratic workers to form a united front and that the mass of the Social-Demo- cratic workers did not accept this of- fer? They must say this by all means! The mass of the Social- Democratic workers did not react to the Communists’ offer of a united front because they were fettered by their leaders, because they still blindly believed these leaders. ‘The main cause for the temporary retreat of the C. P, G. and the vicy ,. tory of the counter-revolutionary fas- “# ss lies in the fact that the Social- Democratic workers still rendered obedience to their leaders who sup-- ported the reactionary front of the bourgeoisie and were against the. ac- ceptance of the Communists’ offer to form a revolutionary united front. The C. P. G. could not organize a suc- cessful struggle against the fascists because the Social-Democratic Party.» which had svlit the working class,i.. was able to hold back its members from establishing a united front with... the Communists. Who is directly to blame for the temporary victory of the Fascists? |! Naturally, the Social-Democratic leaders who consciously betrayed the struggle of the workers in the inter, ests of the bourgeoisie. Can it said, however, that the Social-Demo: cratic workers 2s a whole do not bear any : political responsibility for the ~ practical refusal to participate in a united front against Fascism? No, one eannct say that. If the Commu- nists want to intensify thelr agitation amonz the Social-Democratic work~ ers, they must openly point out their serious mistake which has had such weighty consequences for the working). .., |class. This should be done all the more as the Social-Democratic lead-:, crs still play at “left” maneuvers and can create “illegal” organizations in order to once again deceive the So- cial-Democratic wot and keep... them back from going. over to the Communist Party of Germany. (To Be Continued) ae LUTTINGER, M.D. “ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS * Dry or Humid . H—Personally, we agree with you; but for practical reasons we are forced to write in a different vein. The majority rules! Afraid To Eat—Gasoline Poisoning W. B. Murray, Detroit.—Your vari- ous pains are probably imaginary, ‘The very fact that they change every day from one part of the body to ‘nother shows that you need not pay any attention to them. But we cannot understand your fear of eating. Are you afraid to get fat-or are you in fear of getting pains (in the stomach) trom eating? Your nervousness is probably due to the fact tht you are constantly exposed to gasoline poison- ing, this: fluid being the chief ingze- dient used in the cleaning of hats, If its not the fear of etting stout, or pains which prevent you fro1 then you had crear ering from tha jag” often develop nervous. symptoms, among which we find un- .| Daily Worker Drive: reasonable, unwarranted and gtound- less fears. Baldness fib i HE, that we hold ‘ut. auy hope toe, arrenting “orderly and regular retreat” of u hair. It is probably hereditary. If”: you have plenty of money to squan- der, you may try the anterior c © fthe pituitary gland. It’s a 2 help—to the doctor. A few cases have — been reported where it also the patient; but there are more urs than successes. You may try your |) luck, if you can afford it. ig = Helping the Daily Worker Through Dr. Luttinger . i Contributions recetved to the ered of Dr. Luttinger in his Socialist phn CH petition with Michael Gold, Ed) 3h Newhouse, Helen Luke, J: and Del to raise $1,000 in the aes Nature Friends, Syracuse, N.Y. Previous total Total to date ........ TES