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

DAILY WORKER. EW YORK, FRIDAY. OVEMBER 24, 1933 Page Three Carpenters’ Local Fights Expulsion Order of Officials Philadelphia Local Ordered Disbanded for Demanding Chang ein the A. F. of L. By-Laws; Other Locals Protest PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 23.—Czar Hutcheson has ordered Phila- delphia Local Union No. 1051, Carpenters, disbanded on account of the rad- ical standpoint this local is taking in regards to by-law changes of the Brotherhood of Carpenters (A. F. of L.). Local Union 1051 of Philadelphia submitted a resolution on the above question to all other local unions.¢——+ This was published in the Daily Worker, of Oct. 24. This resolution has been seconded by nearly four hundred locals in forty-three states. These facts, no doubt, must have created a sensation at the main of- fice of the Brotherhood in Indian- apolis and caused that office to send five main office officials to Philadel- phia to a Trial Board to hold Judge- ment over Local Union No. 1051. Charged With Printing in D. W. The officers of Local Union No. 1051, which attended this trial, re_ fused to recognize this Trial Board from Indianapolis. No proof has been established that the resolution in question has been sent to the 8 i | Daily Worker by Local Union No. 1051, any other local union or any local member. One charge was that the local sent the resolution to the Daily Worker. It has further not been proven that the statements in regards to loss of membership as published in the Daily Worker were Incorrect, untrue and false, because the members who are more than four months in arrears in paying eir dues are disqualified and lose all membership rights. The local union has gone on record for rank and file control of the union and for the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill. The main office re- cently included in the membership list, all members in arrears and all passive members, thereby trying to conceal the enormous loss of mem- bers since May, 1926, the number of which at that time was 312,345. With what amount of prejudice this Trial Board came to Philadel- Phia, is proven by the statement of the General Secretary, Duffy, who says, that one local union submitted @ resolution which has been sec- onded by. 1,500 local unians and yet has not been submitted by the main office to a referetidum vote by the ‘@ membership. He Duffy, also stated “and I don't give a goddamn if ten thousand local unions or a million members will sign your resolution. tam never going to send it out for a referendum vote.” Orders Charier Revoked After these five representatives from the main office departed from Philadelphia, the members of Local Union 1051 received registered letters, from President Hutcheson, informing them to join Local Union 1051 be. fore December 1, 1933, otherwise they ‘will be subject to lose all membership rights, because the charter of Local Union 1051 will. be revoked. A membership meeting of Local Union 1051 was called immediately, which, by the way, was the best at- tended and most interesting meeting for years. At this meeting the mem- bers decided by a 95 per cent maj- i ority, individually voted, to carry this | struggle to the very end. This strug- | gle of the Local Union 1051 will be directed with all force, against the Fascist Dictatorship of the Hutche- “son machine. "Henry Gripp, “The Job Hunter” and representative of the Hutcheson- Allen machine, made every attempt to'overcome the closely united mem- bership. But in spite of this, he only managed to get 10 votes to support Bis foul tactics. After the vote has taken, representatives of other unions, who attended this meet- > Gave assurances of their sym- {pathy and their willingness to sup- port this struggle and pioneer work # the Local Union No, 1051. Rank and File Acts For 19 months Philadelphia has been under the dictatorship. of the Board Member, Allen, who, by the way, is the biggest advocater for low wages. He rules out of order all res- olutions not suitable to him. He prohibits all mass meetings, but re. cently the local unions of Philadel- phia District found a way to help themselves. They called a special meeting of one local union and in- vited all other local unions to attend this meeting. Then a motion was made to admit all the members of the other local unions present as fraternal delegates and allow them to take part in the discussion, and by doing so we have a mass meeting. Last year Allen taxed all members who were employed with one dollar assessment a month, but has been unable to collect same. Another un- lawful assessment of 50c per week has been imposed on the membership, and when they refused to pay, Board member Allen sent a letter to all local unions in which he stated, that those local unions which fail to col- lect this assessment within 30 days will be disbanded. The 30 days grace has elapsed long ago, but these local unions are still here. Union colleagues of the United Brotherhood: What happens in your town? What happens in your local unions? The Hutcheson machine is an apparatus of oppression over all proceedings in our own organization. Hundreds of cases came up in the various local unions of which the membership at large is kept in ig- norance, because the local unions are without the necessary funds to sub. mit these reports to all other local | unions. Being that reports are not | suitable to the main office, they are | not published in our own paper “The | Carpenter.” I, therefore, urge you to | send all reports of your meetings of all important proceedings in your newspaper, the newspaper for every progressive working man, the Daily Worker. Fight with all means at your dis- posal against the Fascist apparatus of might, which dominates our Brotherhood. Knock down the charges of the main office against Local Union No. 1051. ‘ Demand that charges be preferred against Hutcheson and the entire National Board, who violate the By- Laws of the United Brotherhood every day. Our struggle is your struggle. Our victory is your victory. Philadelphia Packing Workers’ Ball Nov. 24 PHILADELPHIA.—The P; House Workers’ Ball on Friday, Nov. 24, will be the first annual ball since | the formation of the union. It will be held at the Turngemeinde Hall, | Broad and Columbia Ave. | Workers from all packing houses | in Philadelphia, including Armour's (and Swift’s; are expected to attend, for the affair will celebrate estab- Sieg of the union in Philadel- Pl Milwaukee Expose S. P. Misleaders MILWAUKEE, Wisc.—Mass layoffs | here are daily proving to the work- ers the bankruptcy of the N. R. A. and revealing the betrayal policy of the Socialist Party, city officials and A. F, of L. leaders in endorsing it, On one Saturday this month the Globe Seamless Tube Co. laid off} 200 workers. On the Tuesday fol- | lowing 200 more were laid off. A} good many of these workers spurned | the A. F. of L. union in favor of the | Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union. | Miller Furnace Co. laid off 250 men, About an equal number were | thrown out onto the streets by Cutler | Hammer, Vilter Ice Machine Co., Greenbaum Tannery, Sievers Steel Casting and A. O. Smith. Rank and file pressure forced the new A. F. of L. union to take the A. and P. bakery down on strike. And the members answered the A. F. | of L. ruling of only two pickets by | |coming down to picket 50 strong the | second day of the strike. | Hundreds have been fired in the | Pressed Steel Co. plant at West Allis, a neighboring town. George Meyer Co., makers of beer bottles, laid off the whole night shift, speeding up| the rest of the workers. Member- ship in the S. M. W. I. U. is in- creasing rapidly. Leading Socialist city officials who F, of L. are still trying to blind the N. R.A. [Mass Layoffs in | occupy prominent positions in the A. | workers with the golden lies of the | Chains Alone G post ak Roth, unemployed worker, chained herself to a lamp- front of the German Embassy in Washington to prevent police from taking her away before she finished a speech exposing the Hitler leaders as the real incendiaries in the Reichstag fire. et “Free Speech” 4 Atlanta Clothing Relief Graft Is Found by Workers ATLANTA, Ga.—Wholesale graft in the clothing distribution through the Relief Station here has been dis- covered by the workers. One worker's family received $5.69 from the relief visitor for clothes. This could never adequately provide for his family who were dressed al- most in rags, but he was told to be thankful for it. When he examined the acount stub of the relief visitors record, he found she had charged La with receiving $12 instead of 69. Further investigation by workers Tevealed that one relief visitor had 49 new dresses in her wardrobe. Still another had 75 new dresses, And when the workers get a shirt, a pair of overalls and shoes they are told “you are all fixed up for the winter.” Jobless workers here are organizing to fight not only against these miser- able conditions, but against the scheme to drop them from relief and put them on forced labor. Detroit A.F.L. Head Tries to Sabotage Insurance Meeting DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 23.—The A. F. of L. Committee on Unemploy- ment Insurance held a successful meeting here, with delegates to the recent Washington Second Annual Rank and File Conference reporting to more than 100 A. F. of L. and Railroad Brotherhood’s members. The attempt of President Martel of the Detroit Federation of Labor to| sabotage the meeting failed. Ten days ago Martel’ called in Tom | Ross, business agent of the Plaster- ers’ Local, to explain why his organ- | ization was allowing the local A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment to use their hall for its Mass meeting. Ross explained that! acted upon. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Ninety-six on all public works jobs. The con- ference determined to carry on a struggle especially in the trade unions for unemployed insurance. This first Conference on Unem- ployment, called by the Unemployed | Councils of Philadelphia, was at- tended by delegates from six A. F. of L. locals, two independent unions, ten T. U. U. L. locals and 12 fraternal organizations. Frank Fisher, Secretary of the Un- | employed Councils of Philadelphia, in | his report stressed the need of strong united fronts among all trade unions and organizations of the unemployed in order to carry on the struggle for unemployment and social insurance. He also pointed out to the conference that Governor Pinchot’s Commissary Plan was abolished due to the strug- gles of the unemployed. ‘The conference adjourned after en- dorsing the city-wide hunger march to Reyburn Plaza on Nov. 29, the National Convention on Unemploy- | ment in Washington on Jan. 12 to 15, front struggle of employed and un- employed for unemployment insur- ance. Painters’ Local 37 had set aside their Tegular meeting night to allow the committee the use of the hall for the purpose of holding a mass meet- ing to hear the delegates’ report on the Washington Convention, and Martel would have to take the matter up with Local 37 if he wanted to stop the meeting. Many local unions sent official | delegations to the meeting with in- | structions to bring back a full report on the proceedings. The local com- mittee announced a delegates meet- ing to be held Wednesday, Nov. 29, at 8 p.m. at 225 E. Forest Ave., where further plans will be discussed and | and adopting a resolution for a united | Hunger March Voted by Phila. Jobless Meeting delegates, representing 64 organiza~ tions and fraternal bodies with a combined membership» of 95,000, met here Sunday in a conference and endorsed a city-wide hunger march. The con- | breaker, who has been chased away} ference demanded that the City Council provide increased food orders to | fom Pawtucket, R. I, and Central/ the unemployed commensurate with the rising price of food, and in addition | that the city pay union wage rates@ - National Events Painters Meeting CHIGACO.—Painters and Paper- hangers Union, affiliated with the T.U.U.C., will meet Saturday, 5 p. m., at 3317 W. Roosevelt Rd., to organize a fight for relief and relief jobs for unemployed painters and paper- hangers, * Report On Youth Anti-War Congress GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Lonnie Williams, recently returned delegate |to the Youth Congress Against War |and Fascism, will speak at a rally against war, and entertainment, Sat- jurday, 8 p. m., at 1057 Hamilton | Ave. T.U.U.L: Vs. A. F. of L. NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Jack McCarthy, New England Dist., T. U. U. L. Secretary, will speak Sunday, 7 p.m, at Union Hall, on the sub- ject: “The Trade Union Unity | League Vs. the A F. of 1.” | * | Speak On Trip Through Soviet Union | DETROIT.—William Goeiz, young | Detroit worker, who recently returned from a trip to Soviet Russia, will speak on “What I Saw in the Soviet Union,” at the Workers School Tannery Strikers 45,000 MEMBERS NOW IN | Keep Out Scabs in Mass Picketing | | | | | | | NORWOOD, Mass., Nov. 23.—T |the plant militantly. |ing to the Pierce Transportat | was stoned as it was bringing breakers from work. The poli |to arrest some of the pickets. | were prevented from doing so by the Jother pickets and sympathizers, who |were at the place. | Anna Weinstock, U, S. Labor “Con-| |ciliator,” was here trying to get |strikers back to work. The wor! have a good chance of winning their demands a hundred per cent, if the ted! {not to let any of the labor fa jor government representatives like |Anna Weinstock, sell them out, and Jif they continue to stick together in back of their demands. Strikers Picket All Entrances ‘The mass sentiment throughout the} }town is with the strikers. | The strikers are picketing the fac- | tory at practically all entrances. Sun- | day, at their meeting, at which abou’ 500 strikers were present, a large rank and file committee was elected and also a relief committee. Peter Walsh, the National Leather Workers Association attorney, spoke Jand told the workers to deer jthe N.R.A, and Anna We! workers, and he said to leave every- jers will try to sell out the strike through the N.R.A. Communist Party Supports Strike Sunday night there was a program to commemorate the 16th Anniver- | sary of the Russian Revolution, at the | Finnish Hall. There were about 200 present, including quite a few of the tannery strikers. The mein speaker of the evening, Comrade Appel of the Communist Party, warned those strikers present not to depend on the N.R.A, and Anna Weinstock to win their strike. He pointed out that Anna Weinstock is a very clever strike Falls, by the striking workers because she tried to sell our their strike. He |also pledged the full moral support} |of the Communist Party to the strik-| jers, and pointed out that unity and| |militancy of the workers will win/ the demands. The tannery workers| are demanding a 25 per cent increase| in wages and union recognition. | Twenty-five per cent increase is not too much, he said, because the cost jof living has gone up from 30 to 35 per cent in the last few months, and will continue to do so because of} |the Roosevelt inflation program. | as p. m. The forum will be held at Finnish Hall, 5969 14th St. | * ae Speak On Fascism In U. S. DETROIT.—A. B. Magil, editor of | “Auto Workers News,” will speak on “Is Fascism Developing in the United States,” on Sunday (Nov. 26), 3 p. m., at 10709 Dix, Dearborn. * To Speak On Recognition CLEVELAND. — Rev. J. B. Mat- | thews will speak on “What Does Re- | cognition of the Soviet Union Mean,” tonight, 7:30, at Moose Hall, 1002 Walnut Ave. ee Forum On Germany CHICAGO.—D; E. Earley, educa. tional director of the Chicago Work- ers School, will speak on recent de- velopments in Germany, at the LL.D. weekly forum, Sunday, 3 p. m., at 1326 E. 55th St., 2nd floor, Admis- | sion free. | Postpone Anti-War Conference DETROIT. — The conference to }launch a united movement against | war and Fascism in Detroit, wh: was scheduled to be held on Nov. 20, has been postponed till Saturday, Dec. 2. It will start at 2p. m.,, in the Downtown Y.M.C.A, Adams and 8] U NEW YORK T. U.U.C. GAINED Overgaard Shows Big Gains in Strikes of put|65,000 Workers Under Left Leadership; Calls for Support to Unemployed Convention NEW YORK.—“Although there is a temporary lull in the strike move- ment in New York, strikes continue and the workers are preparing for big- ger struggles to maintain those condi as to force improvements in shops where no strikes have taken place.” strike committee will be very careful) Andrew Overgaard, secretary of the Trade Union Unity Council, summed ine— tion the present strike w York City when inter the Daily Worker. Overgaard estimated that about 65,000 workers had been led in strike strug by unions affiliated with |the U. L. in the past three be have won increas urs union r immediate demands, “In some in declared Over- gaard, in kes of the metal |workers, furniture workers and shoe |workers, wa of 25 to 50 | nt have been won, The T. U. >. has organized a number of N Insurance jand many o' claiming them to be friends of the|Smaller unions as a result of strikes | and has participated in a number | thing to the leaders. The Union lead-|0f spontaneous struggles of the work- | jers.” | Big Membership Gains | When asked what organizational gains to the T. U. U. L. had come out jof the recent strike struggles, Over- |gaard pointed out that in practically jevery strike the T. U. U. L. unions |gained the confidence of the workers who wholeheartedly accepted its |leadership and its policies. “Due to the militant united front policies ap- plied by our unions most of them |have ben able to double their mem- | hip,” said Overgaard. imple, the Shoe and Leather ’ Union, which had a mem- hip of a little over a thousand a : “Pre-Thanksgiving” Hunger March in Pittsburgh, Nov. 28 30 Labor Organizations | Endorse and Support March PITTSBURGH. — A _pre-Thanks- giving Hunger March will take place in Allegheny County, Tuesday, Nov. 28, demanding increased relief, the stopping of evictions, providing shoes and clothing, and the passage of the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance bill. |, The march has been organized by |the Joint Action Committee of the Unemployed Councils bers of the Unemployed Citizens |Leagues. Thirty labor organizations have supported and endorsed the Hunger March. The call for the Hunger March states that there are 200,000 un- employed in the county. Twenty-five per cent of the Pittsburgh school children are undernourished. With \the deepening of the crisis, the call jcontinues, “housewives worry them- jselves sick trying to make both ends |meet on a starvation 90-cent relief ration, w ri go up daily.” | Urging s to demons ek, \the call states that youth cut off |from relief are forced in this way 0, |to join the C. C. C. to train how to become cannon fodder. All unem- ployed, employed, Negro and white workers should participate in this wed yes- tions gained in recent strikes, as well Se prior to the strike wave, today has a membersip of approximately 9,000. The Metal Workers’ Union, which had a membership of approximately 800, has a membership today of over 2,800, The Furniture Workers’ Union grew from a membership: of about 800 to 900 to a membership of over 2,000. ‘The Food Workers’ Union in- creased its membership about 50 per cent. The Needle Trades Union to- day has a membership of approxi- mately 20,000 in the city of New | York, as against 12,000 a few months | back. The Tobacco Work Union, which had a membership of 150, has a membership today of over 1,000. The Marine Workers’>; Industrial Union shows a smallér growth, due to the fact that no major struggles | took place here as yet, although the | union is growing id there are all | indications of developing - struggles | among the seamen and. longshore- |men in the near future. | Struggles Developing | “In addition, other organizations | are beginning to develop -struggles, such as the Taxi Workers’ Union, and some small progress--has been | made in the development of work ;among the transport workers, book- | binders, office workers, retail’ clerks, jeducational workers, professional | worker's, etc. |__“We can state that today the T. U U. C. has an approximate” affiliated membership of 45,000 in the city of New York, di: ly members of the revolutionary trade unions. “Only in the industries where a Powerful revolutionary union, con- ducting a correct united front policy of winning over the A. F. of L. work- | ers to joint struggles and at the same | time developing a powerful revoln- | tionary opposition within the A. F | of L. itself, have the workers beer able to win much greater’ increases,” said Overgaard. Wherever the T. U. C. has sue- ceeded in winning workers, the A. F. of L. has maneuvered, together | with the employers, .to prevent the class struggle unions _from_develop- ing, and instead put forward theis class collaboration policies “and at- tempts to foist the A. F. of L. om the workers. Overgaard called for. support for the National Unemployed Conven- tion in Washington on Jan. 13. Al T. U. U. L. unions should be. active jin the preparations for the conven- | tion, Overgaard said. “Our experiences in strike strug: |gles have shown us that the terror is becoming sharper and or- ganized struggle of the workers in al unions must be waged to defeat in- Junctions and this terror drive an¢ establish the right of existence for all workers’ organizations, “The T. U. U. C. considers it of greatest importance to develop 4 powerful _ revolutionary opposition within the A. F. of L. unions and |the independent unions, of which | there are now a number in New The T. U. U v all its efforts center of the na | which will make it poss‘ble fo con- | duct joint struggles of #1 workers irrespective of union affiliations.” Overgaard stressed‘particularly the importance of building the revolu. tionary trade union center in New ’ Forum on Sunday (Nov. 26) at 3! Witherell, Hunger March, York, Only Mass- Actions of and File on Pick Farmers Led by Rank et Line Can Win “The following is the Call to Ac- cepted the 70 delegates the by the 700 at the historic National-Farm Conference, which closed at Chicago on Novem- > ber 18. It is the program which these delegates, representing over 35 farm organizations will carry back with them to the farmers in over 40 States, * be Fellow Farmers of the United States: | ‘We, the delegates of the exploited and embattled farm population to the Farmers’ Second National Conference, gathered with fraternal delegates of our brothers, the farm and city work- ers, call for united struggle to save our farms, our, homes, and our fam- from the ruin being brought Poet baie sor aaa ates : es, ~ Our First National Conference, held last December in Washington, was a - step in uniting the struggles of exploited farmers of the nation, Jearned what we may expect from elected representatives in Con- We learned that these rep- 3% resentatives would do nothing for us. They said they had no power. Whatever benefits we have gotten we have won ourselves by our united struggles with leadership elected by the rank and file and tested on the farm battle front, Besides the agricultural crises of the past thirteen years, we have suf- fered four years of general capitalist crisis, which has tremendously sharp- ened and has plunged us into greater misery. The fight for profits by the trusts and monopolies has so robbed the working people that they were able to buy but a small part of the Products of agriculture and industry. [|e Farm Income Cut by 70 Per Cent | More and more unemployment has taken the purchasing power from ex- tra millions and cut our markets to @ starvation demand. Speculators’ stocks, bought at low prices from farmers, bulge against the walls of warehouses while the millions of peo- ple walk hungry and ragged. .Gross farm income has been slash- ed by 70 per cent—a cui from 17 billion in 1919, to five billion in 1932. Over two billion dollars in taxes, in- terest, and rent, are demanded an- nually by banks, landlords and gov- ernment. Today over half of the farmers are tenants, and every day more and more farmers are forced into tenancy. Tax sales, foreclosures, and evictions have destroyed farm homes from one end of this country to the other, and remain a constant threat to all small and busted farm- Coolidge and Hoover openly carried through the dictates of Wall Street against the toiling farmers. Hoover and the Republican administration So aroused the wrath of the working people that Wall Street needed a new face, one that would speak nicer words, one that would raise new hopes, but behind which would be hid the same kind of program. Hence Roosevelt, the Democrat, was brought forward with many promises and the New Deal, Roosevelt's democratic government gave him greater dictatorial powers than were given during the World War, The Agricultural Adjustment Act he has used as a weapon against the farm unrest. Slogans of patriot- ism were raised to deceive us, Blue Eagle banners were waved to hide the real purpose of the New Deal. This Purpose was to help the financial in- terests at the expense of the lives and homes of the working people—to save the food speculators, banks and insurance companies that had led the attacks of foreclosures, bankruptcy and evictions. These forces in many instances we were holding at bay by our united action, The New Deal is an attack on us. | New Deal Guilty of Crop Destruction The New Deal dictators .began to put into action the crime of crop destruction which was advocated by the Republican President Hoover. The policy of the government is like bad weather, drought and hoppers. Crop destruction and acreage reduction will cut the means of making a living from under hundreds of thousands of small farmers and aims at a final elimination of these impoverished farmers from the land, while the well- to-do farmers and big trusts benefit. ‘The New Deal plans to keep millions of our acres from the plow by with- holding production credit from: farm- ers who have no collateral, which means that more and more farm fam- ilies will be ruined. ‘We have been promised bonuses and rentals for cooperation with the New Deal destruction. And we have learned the bitter lesson that the government and other creditors garnisheed our bonus payments and made the check so that the small amounts of money due us went into the vaults of our creditors, We have seen the New Deal push our purchasing power down as infla- tion raised general comimodity prices faster than farm prices. The mono- polies have robbed us by paying us low prices and then used inflation to raise prices before they sell our crops. We have seen our purchasing power sapped further by sales taxes. The A.A.A. processing taxes, instead of being taken from the profits of rob- New Deal Adds to Slavery of Negro People ber trusts are being passed on to the workers and farmers through greatly increased prices. On the other hand we have seen the N.R.A. attack the purchasing power of the workers by decreasing wages as it raises prices. All of these things shrink the demand for our crops still further. It is criminal to raise rctail prices while millions starve. Processing Taxes Rob Farmers and Workers | We have seen refinancing of farm mortgages begin to save the banks and insurance companies who were overloaded with farm mortgages. We have seen the farmers on lands which have immediate sale values fail to get refinancing and be foreclosed be- cause they could not raise the re- quired 50 per cent collateral. Refin- ancing in no way helps the busted farmers. In fact the program is eventually to sell out the small farm- ers instead of to refinance them. We have seen the New Deal in the South bring much sharper terror and lynchings to the Negro people. They are exploited not only as farmers, but as members of a nation kept in sub- jection by the white ruling class of the South, We are against this vicious dim-Crow and race hatred bred to divide and keep down both races, We declare ourselves for the firmest sol- idarity with the Negroes and all other oppressed people at home and abroad, We declare for the firmest | The “New Deal” Prepares for War The New Deal is part of the war preparation, part of the plans to use “surplus” farmers and workers as cannon fodder to conquer new mar- terests of financiers, big export corporations. We declare our- selves against being used to kill other farmers and workers. We will begin at once to fight against war and war preparations, We see the New Deal using force, terror troops and police to suppress any opposition. And as the failure of the New Deal becomes evident, governmental officials openly threaten more forces. The iron fist of the gov- ernment, private thugs, Law and Or- der Leagues, the Ku Klux Klan and other terrorists come more into the open. Rich farmers are formed into kets in which to sell “surplus” goods. Millions of veterans funds and pub- lic relief appropriations are turned over for a new slaughter in the in- bands to suppress the struggles and to terrorize impoverished farmers. Big financiers as well as “liberal” leaders, are already advocating a sys- tem of open capitalist dictatorship. This is fascism, a further denial of democratic rights, of the right to strike, to picket, of free speech—a rule by terror. This is the sort of rule which is now crushing the exploited German and Italian farmers and workers, The N.R.A. and A.A.A. are steps in the same direction. We will fight against these developments with all our united strength. I Farmers and Workers Fight Together | Deal used against the workers, just as the AA.A. is used against the struggling farmers. The New Deal tries to divide and set the workers and farmers against each other, by pretending to relieve one at the ex- pense of the other. It is our common enemy which we must fight together, At this moment, exploited farmers are on the picket lines, in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and other states, Some have been murdered in this fight for the right to live. They are fighting militantly and we are proud of them, we pledge to them our ac- tive and strongest support. We have learned to use a weapon, a powerful weapon, the strike. It is a weapon of the wage workers, whose example we are following. We farmers will same time the city workers are strik- ing with the farmers against the New Deal. Struggles have been sweeping through industry after industry. Agricultural workers are most terribly exploited, they work under unlivable wages and conditions, worse than the city workers. They are also militantly ditions. | Misleaders Work Against Farmers | Wom the growing struggle, with the failure of the Wall Street Roosevelt New Deal being admitted even by its friends, with the much greater suffering which it has brought to the unity between Negro and white toil- ers, ine anne nai MRA hae nRa Secon nn impoverished farmers and workers, new illusions and new schemes are being advocated for the farmers, “Farm Leaders” tell us that the New Deal is rotten, but that Roosevelt is all right—the egg 1s rotten, but the shell is good. Leaders who have con- , | crisis. 700 Delegates Unite on Platform Against New Deal Robbery of Farmers of-Fight tinually supported the New Deal, now under the pressure of our mass ac- tion, begin to attack it. At the same time they advocate measures, like in- flation, refinancing, N.R.A. codes for agriculture—measures which have al- ready proven failures, These leaders Within our own ranks who pretend to represent us, but work always in the interests of the big farmers and business men, we will have nothing to do with them, We want no mor of them, “Progressive” Third Parties No Solution =] Now they are advocating the build- ing of a new party—a People’s Party, a Farmer-Labor Party, a Liberal Par- ty. We have had plenty of exper- ience with these “progressive” third parties, representing not the interests of the farmers and workers, but rep- resenting the interests of the big farmers, fat labor officials, business men, and finally carrying out the dictates of the financial rulers of the country. We have only recently seen a Farmer-Labor governor act as s strikebreaker, at the same time that tax sales, foreclosures: end -evictions are rampant in his staté, that the smell of tear gas was still-fresh im the nostrils of the working people. | __ Capitalist Controlled Cooperatives ie These leaders offer cooperatives as a& way out. Under the New Deal, use it; we will strike hard, At the| Wall Street bankers are hog-tieing | the farm people to the A.A.A. through the various agricultural and market- ing cooperatives controlled by fin- jancial interests, and used to en- slave us. But many impoverished farmers belong to these organizations; many are compelled to belong in or- |der to sell their crops. We will fight jfor the interests of these exploited striking against these unbearable con- | farmers against the domination of the jcapitalists and the rich farmers in | the cooperatives. We will support the small farmers who have been able jby a hard and continuous strug-le te keep some sections of the cooperatives from the hands of the trusts. These cooperatives have helped striking farmers and workers with food and money. Cooperatives benefit farmer and workers only in so far as they help the toiling people in their needs | We Call for United Struggle and demands, There is no end in sight for the The false leaders and their “solutions” make our conditions more intolerable. We working people must find our own way out. The only way to save ourselves from ruin is to fight against these forces destroying us, is to carry on our own united fight, to rely upon our own leader- ship elected by the rank’ and file, te join together with tHe ‘farm’and city workers who fight thé same enemies to fight for the poorest and most oppressed farmers, to struggle “by ow 1 porter