The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1933, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL STEEL UNION — TO TAKE UP STRIKES AND ORGANIZATION IN OHIO Convention Dec. 17th in Cleveland To Combat | N.R. A., Steel Trust Wage Cut Drive; { Fight on A. A. Leaders By F. ROGERS 4M. W. I: U, Organizer CLEVELAND, Ohio, Noy. 27.—The coming district convention of the | ‘Meol and Metal Workers Industrial Union, to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, | mm December 17, is of greatest importance to the stecl and metal workers | of this district. The decision to hold two separate conventions of the wnion in Ohio is a result of the growth of the union in both the Youngs- town and Cleveland districts. The¢———————_——— | conventions will result in setting up/ers struck and won wage increases in ‘wo districts of the S.M.W.I.U. in Ohio. This convention takes place at a time of mass lay-offs in the steel in- dustry with production down to 25 per cent capacity and follows closely after many sharp strike struggles in the industry. Code Satisfactory to Trust the Republic Steel clyppers’ strike. | ‘Strikes in the light metal plants of | Cleveland, led by the S.M.W.I.U., have won wage increases and union recog- nition. Hundreds of new members have been recruited into the union |during the recent period. | | In the major strike of steel work- | ers (Weirton) we lost a favorable The convention marks the end Of | opportunity to establish our union the three months trial period of the! through neglect of constant day-to- bosses steel code. This slavery code) aay plugging and work during the has been again endorsed as “satisfac | so-called “peaceful period” when the tory and pleasing” by the steel trust a a. entered the field unchallenged. “indicating that it is serving well the |Our absence from the field, and dur- Durpose it was intended for—to keep: ing the strike, enabled the A. A. lead- wages at a hunger level while prices) ars to so brazenly betray and the gov- bi nd na to tibet the workers! emment to break the Weirton strike. See stamioy idee aa Cate major attention and forces tions by conducting terror and dis-{ tnt" yo "centered on ‘building, the missals of workers who fight against SMW.LU. in the steel industry— per pe ipl hit med aed concentrating in Cleveland on the unions and the A. F. of L. American Steel and Wire, Otis steel This code has been rejected by d Midland steel thousands of steel and metal work- | ®™' : ers as a slave code of the steel trust. Tasks of Convention. Strike struggles by workers have| gome of the tasks facing this con- raised the wage level above the min-/vention which all locals and groups ‘mum of the steel trust code and at-j should discuss are: 1. How to or- tempts defeated to stampede the panize the campaign against the high workers into company or A. F. of L. cost of living and low wages dictated unions. |by the N.R.A. 2. Relief for the un- In the face of the mass lay-offs it | employed and part-time workers and became a most important question be-| support for the “Workers Unemploy- fore this convention to take up the|ment Insurance Bill.” 3. How to fight for relief for the unemployed | concentrate our forces and resources steel and metal workers and rally!to bufld the union in the basic steel support for the “Workers Unemploy-|pjants. 4. To consolidate the newly- ment Insurance Bill.” formed local unions and organizing 13,000 Strack groups and spread the union in the In Ohio, the three months trial|particular industries. 5. Work out period of the steel trust code has/a definite policy and program of work been marked by struggles against the |and agitation inside the A. F. of L, N.R.A—for the right to organize into. unions and to win the independent @ union of the workers’ own choos-junions into the SM.WIU. 6. To ‘ing and for decent living wages to meet | review the strike struggles and draw the constantly rising cost of living. |lessons for the whole union. 7. To (%! Steubenville and Weirton 13,000;organize women’s auxiliaries and steel workers struck for the right to| youth activity in the local union. 8. organize and for a living wage despite|To spread the “Steel and Metal the orders of the Amalgamated As-| Worker” amongst the workers and sociation (A. F. of L.) leaders who! build it to a mass circulation. termed the strike an “outlaw strike”| or further information or conven- ‘Convention To Have: Steel Workers Strike Following Dismissals CLEVELAND, Ohio. — Several windows were broken and scabs were chased out of the Arrow Manufacturing Co., an affiliate of the Morse Rogers Steel Co., where a strike of 35 workers is in progress under the leadership of the Steel and Met®i Workers Industrial Union. Two other departments are planning to walk out after an appeal for unity from the strikers. The main reason for the sirike action was dismissal of two work- ers for reporting to the local NRA board that the code ws being vio- lated by the company. SMLU. Youngstown ‘Plan for NRA Fight. Amter, Dallet Speak Against Forced Labor YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. — Delegates from mils in the Mahoning, Shen- ango, and Ohio River Valleys will | meet in a District Convention called by the Steel and Metal Workers In-| dustrial Union for Sunday, Dec. 3. The delegates will discuss their ex- periences in the recent struggles, plan the fight against hunger under the N.R.A,, and elect district officers for the coming year. Calling for organization on every | forced labor job, I. Amter, National) Secretary of the Unemployed Coun- | cils, addressed jobless, part-time and employed steel workers in this city | and Campbell, last Thursday. Joe Dallet, District Secretary of the 8. M. I, U., who spoke together with Am- | ter, pledged full support of the union | in the fight for full trade union wages | on forced labor civil works jobs. | Tt was decided at the Youngstown meeting, : attended by 250, to hold an Dec. 8, at the S. M. I.‘U. headquar-| ters, at 7 p.m. In the meantime, com- | mittees are to be organized on each job and a delegated body established | to unite all the men on all the jobs. Five men collapsed waiting in line | ® the 'Ycungs‘own cily-state emp‘oy- ment office for the $15 a week forced labor jobs. The long line extended around three sides of the City Hall, | with police herding the jobless | around. The employment office has been moved to the armory, where the National Guardsmen would better be able to smash any angry disconten’ that might arise from the hungry | workers, The Campbell meeting called by the Unemployed Branch of the S. M. I. U.} open hearing on the Civil Works Job, | 1, because the workers struck over the heads of the bureaucratic officials and against the “spirit of the N.R.A.” tion calls write to: Convention Ar- rangements Committee, 1237 Payne sent a committee to the Home Relief DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1938 Joseph Brodsky of New York; General George W. Chamlee of Chattanooga, Tenu., and Samuel Leibowitz California Wages And Employment Show 13 P.C. Drop SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27.— Figures released by the State La- bor Com! loner show that wages and employment dropped 13.6 pw cent during October as compared tember in California man- ig industries. The de- were marked in the frait and vegetable industry indicating a further lowering of the living standards of the workers. ‘Lynn Forced Labor -23 =" Jobs Flop in 1 Day 500 Laid Off After Rosy Promises LYNN, promises Labor when Nov. 24—The false Civil Works Forced am were exposed today, five hundred men who had one day in the Lynn woods ng golf links were told that “there is no work.” After they crowded into the City Hall to learn the reason for this ac- tion, after so many great promises were made to the jobless, the police were called out. Finally Welfare Ad- ministrator Cole appeared and the |workers were told to report to the golf grounds, where a definite an- nouncement, probably encouraging, would be made. | Joint Stoppage in San Pedro Against French Sardine Co. SAN PEDRO, Calif.—When the French Sardine Co. refused to pay '8 Progressive Mines Call for Convention Illinois Miners See N.R.A. Coal Code Keeps | + Them in Misery With Low Wages SPRINGFIELD, lil, Nov, 27.—Eight local unions of the Progressive Miners of America have demanded the calling of « special seale convention | to take up the struggle to improve the miners’ conditions and develop | Struggles to meet the attack of the coal operators. Three locals of the P. M. A. in Springfield and five local unions outside Springfield have adopted . | The resolution @eciares that 13,000 | and Sangamon counties have not been P.M.A. miners for over 18 months of | recognized. Lewis, the Peabody com- strike suffered untold misery and|pany and the N.R.A., the resolutions | starvation, and that the ten per cent | declared, are carrying on further at- | contributed for relief by the working | tacks on the P.M.A, miners, and at P.M.A. miners did not solve any of | the same time the Executive Board of their problems. “It states that the| the Union is playing around with one | hopes of the miners in the coal code | conference after the other, The wages have been blasted, the miners in the|}of the miners actually amount to) | southern part of the state in Christian | $3.75 per day, the resolution points i | out. | | The Progressive Miner, organ ‘of | the P.M.A., admits that the coal code Chinese Striker does not provide for shorter hours, | and higher wages or more jobs, but | Face Deportation leaves over the whole problem to Jan. |5, where the N.R.A. board will con- | i | tinue with its endless conferences. By Oil Tank Crew Fought Coolie Wages that time the coal season will be over. | Miners’ Demands The demands of the resolution, SAN PEDRO, wal.—The U. 8. De-| tion to the demand for a special scale partment of Immigration holds lege ae no later than Dec, 1 fol- Chinese seamen here at San Pedro/| low: for deportation to the British naval| 1, six hour day, five day week. $6 base at Singapore as a result of u wage | a day basic wage scale for all miners | Strike. Charged with mutiny, these | in and around the mines, with mini- | workers were arrested when San| mum guarantee of $30 per week for | Pedro and Wilmington police “riot” | 49 weeks a year work | squads rushed their ship and herded! 2. Increased unemployment the seamen into the Pedro jail ati and unemployment insurance to be the behest of Captain B. G. Proteroe.| paid by the government and the em- passed by eight local unions, in addi- | relief | r Page Three SOCIALISTS REFUSE WORK OR RELIEF TO 15,000 OF BRIDGEPORT’S JOBLESS McLevy Lies about the Roosevelt Program: Indorses Denial of Relief; Hails Leading Fascist at Dinner i BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Noy. The new socialist city administration | headed by Mayor Jasper McLevy, has not only indorsed the Roosevelt | forced labor program, but is trying to hide the fact that under this pro- | gram, most of the fiftecn thousand r—-mployed workers of Bridgeport are to get no relief or no jobs. Referring to the Civil Works Program.of + Roosevelt in Bridgeport, Conn., the official socialist correspondent to the New Leader, in an article called “So- cialists Get on the Job in Bridge- port,” makes the following statement: Tt is expected that in a few days most of the unemployed in Bridge- port will have been enrolled on the public works program.” Not only is there not a word of truth in this statement, but it also proves concretely that the Socialist press goes even further than the cap- italist press in spreading the vicious, lying propaganda of the Roosevelt administration. For, the Bridgeport Times-Star, a paper owned by large industrial interests, states editorially that the number of jobs allotted to Bridgeport is totally inadequate, in view of the fact that there are a large number of unemployed in the | city. True Situation Suppressed While the unemployment statistics are carefully suppressed here, never- theless, from the few figures avail- jable, we can estimate that there are approximately 15,000 unemployed. The quota for Bridgeport, if the C.W.A. goes through with it is 2,900 jobs. In | face of these facts, how can the So- cialist correspondent report that most of the unemployed will be on the pub- lic works payroll. And in a few days. too, when delay and deceit are the chief characteristics of a relief pro- sam Ss Z The same day also brings us this $15 Wage Is news, from an item in the Times- > ~ “Fred Schwartzkopf (Socialist) 3roken city clerk, will represent Mayor Me- | Levy, at a testimonial dinner, given | PROVIDENCE, R. I.—Pay for work |in honor of John T. Elliano, newly 200 Miners in Pa. View Soviet Film On Five Year Plan Minersville, Pa. Daily Worker, New York City. This little mining town, with the y of men out of work and an existenc by “bootleg- coal, came t h in an affair here for the Daily Worker drive with $4.70 over their quota of $25.00. A showing of the film, “War Against the Cent ” de~ picting the story of the Year Plan, was enthusiastically approved by an audience of over 200 miners, their wives and ¢ showing netted $2. be JOUN ‘New Forced Labor | Jobs Paying Men By Grocery Orde Roosevelt Promise of r projects ted here | elected commander of the Veterans | last Mon is being made in grocery | of Foreign Wars.” | order g from $2.50- | This item speaks for itself. ‘« cash from to $15. In Now when we consider the fact |the city is paying the workers on Civil Works projects less than they | received on relief projects. The pron j ise of Roosevelt of $15 wages w: that the great Jasper McLevy has en- dorsed the Federal Relief program as |a way out of the depression and has endorsed the Community Chest, te+ | broken, 4 \gether with the above facts—we, | Those with the larges S| workers in Bridgeport do not have to Ww worked the fix ait, as we were asked to, by the Socialist administration, to see what y|they are going to do. We see only had been pi °/too clearly that the Socialists have who workes | The capitalist press, which printed lurid tales of Chinese atiacking the | ployers. day received $3.75 in grocery orders, | been on the job; the job of building |fascism; the job of betraying the with pote urgent cases, “Hesolutions | ooo tract price of $7 a ton for sar- Ave., Cleveland, Ohfo, or phone: Pros- pect, 7097. In Youngstown for the first time since the great, 1919 steel strike, work- PHILADELPHIA MASQUE BALL THANKSGIVING EVE. WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 29th GIRARD MANOR HALL 911 W. 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It is the only book that tells what Hitlerism is, what Hitlerism does, what Hitlerism means to the working class and to culture. It exposes the whole bloody regime of the Nazis—from the pogroms and the destruction of workers’ organi- zations to the burning of the Reichstag. You need this book to help you fight fascism! Buy this book for your library. Use it as a prize at all affairs demanding enactment of the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill, the | release of the Scottsboro boys, of Her- bert Benjamin in New Mexico, and against the steel trust terror in Farrel were unanimously adopted by the dines, with the excuse that the fish were too small, a joint committee from the Boat Owners Associations and Fisherman, Cannery Workers In- dustrial Union, notified all fishermen to stay in port. Youngstown meeting. Unemployed Workers Jailed on Frame-up By Mission Head LOS ANGELES, Cal—Two beset Ployed workers, Wharton and Saki, are serving 15 days in jail here, and another unemployed worker, Ed. Hubbard, is being held under $100 bail as a result of a frame-up by | Mrs. Covell of the Brother Tom’s| Midnight Mission and a police Spy. | Wharton and Saki, after consult- | ing with the men at the mission, had set off to the R. F. C., which allots 40 cents a day per man at the mis- sion. McGeary, a stool-j‘igeon, over- heard them and reported them to the police. They were picked up and forced to plead guilty to charges of | attempted riot, drunkenness and dis- | turbing the. peace. arrested at the mission for refusing to go to the C. OC, C. camp. Sh By HELEN KAY NEW YORK.—A sharecropper from the sunny South is in New York. He tells @ story of life and struggle in the state of Alabama that for drama makes the plays on Broadway look His name is John Moore. He is 31 years old. He comes from that terri- tory that has become tradition in the Tevolutionary toilers’ movement, from Tallapoosa county. He is 2, relatye of Ralph Gray, mur- dered sharecropper, and one of four organizers on whose head a price of fifty dollars has been set. ‘Tall, stocky, with stooped shoulders from tilling the soil, he tells the story | of those early days when the share- croppers union was first formed, in a monotone, as though the grim horror of those first few nights, were some- thing apart from actual experience. “In the beginning one of my cous- ins spoke to me. ‘Let’s go over to Rome tonight,’ he asked. ‘A fellow over there, I like the way he talks, He tells about better conditions for colored people and workers, and he's arranging for us to meet,’ “I didn’t go that night. But I went. another night. And I also liked the way he talked, I liked it heaps. He was talking about me. So I joined. One day later, | Tells of Early Days and Nights of Horror When Union of Sharecroppers First Was Formed ORDER 36 East 12th Street, DISTRICT LITERATURE DEPARTMENT Special for This Week Only $2.00 PROM New Yor k City Copies of Daily Worker Helped “They gave us Daily Workers that night. I took a batch home to give to my friends. We couldn't under- stand then what the Daily Worker said altogether. But we understood it in spots. Anyway it helped the speaker to show what he meant about » the working people.” John Moore told of how the meet~ ings began to grow larger. How the people from his territory had to walk A grievance committee united front meeting was held, which broke through racial and craft barriers, and established solidarity between Japan- ese, Italian, Americans, and between industrial workers and fishermen. When a catch was brought into the | French Co. plant, the factory workers refused to pack it Westchester County Pays Bankers and Defaults Payroll NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., Nov. 27.— Rochelle defaulted on | Although New | @ $50,000 pa: 1 to police and fire- }men and w . 1 refuse | pay othe . .Westches | ter Cor n this city i to hand oy | 0,000 to New York bankers on | Dec. 1, for loan payments Mount Vernon has set aside $75,000 c Ed. Hubbard, unemployed youth, was| for the bankers, but has also an-! | nounced that its $160,000 payroll wall not be met on Dec. 1, arecropper, Kin of Slai ¢ four and a half miles to get to the meeting. Then the crowd grew so huge that they had to break it up, because they all couldn’t get into the house. | They divided into two groups so that | those from the center of Camp Hill could have meetings nearer home. Landlord’s Sheriffs Break Up Meetings “The first Wednesday night we had & success, The next Wednesday night the law came down.” John Moore {old what happened when the law arrived, A picture of a crowded rickety farm house and a young organizer speaking to them from the table. He, too, was a sharecropper, but from another county. “I know you all don’t understand what we're trying to tell you yet. If the law should come in, and ask you what you're doing here, you tell them that you don’t know. That's the truth. You don’t know yet.” he said. “And it was just then that the Jaw broke in on the meeting. They run in,” declared John Moore. Carl ‘Young and all the other fif- teen deputies who broke into the meet- ing were known to Moore for years. Moore was sitting in the middle of the ficor, Armed to the teeth, pis- tols, rifles, blackjacks, “What kind of damned meeting are you having here?” they demanded. Hits Negro for Not Answering “Sir” No one answered. Tom Gray and Ralph Gray were there. Tom's daugh- ter was the secretary, The deputy wanted to know who the secretary was, Tom Gray said he didn’t know. “You is a damn liar,” yelled Carl Young, “No, I'm not,” answered Tom. “Can't you say, No sir,” yelled the law, Young. “No,” answered Tom Gray. Young picked up a pistol and hit him to| ~ t 3. The right of the miners to belong | noble Anglo Saxon officer with a! io unions of their own choice, the meat cleaver, were forced to admit that the dispute atose over wages. | in every mine the recognition of mine ‘The facts are these: These men| Committees elected by the miners were shipped in Singapore on the| Without check-off. Shell Tanker Clam (British registry) | 4. The right of Negro miners to some six months ago and have never | Work on any job and live in any sec- | got ashore since. Exploited merci-| tion of the city on equal terms with \lessly at the starvation wage of $Tj | white miners. ane @ month, these men have been sieep-| 5. Unity of all Illinois miners, P. | ing on deck with no accommoda-|M. A. and U. M. W. A. rank and file | tions. ; (not imported scabs), in struggle for Originally it was ititended, accord-| the above program. ; ing to the officers of the Shell Oil} | Corp., to send these strike seamen! | to Vancouver to Stard.trial for mu- | | tiny, but “because of the expense,” according to Captain Protheroe, the men will be shipped back as “indigent seamen” to Singapore. The Shell Oil | Corp. pays the bill and the U, S. | Department of Labor “co-operates” in sending these workers to a port ‘where they may possibly be be- | | headed by the fascist government in 1 —s Painters Union No, 1 ‘| Pledges Support to “Daily”; Sends $10 New York. Daily Worker, New York City. ais! arither pont = (Re || To show our appreciation for paced acke the cooperation that we have re- iniswrevion, and shows |} -cived from the Daily Worker, we ion- tactics of Secre- | 4 °°" $ z . workers of the Alteration Painters Union No. 1, Bronx, are contrib- uting $10 to the Daily Worker, the workers’ newspaper, and pledge to continue our support in the fu- ture. tary of Labor Perkins. ‘The International Labor Defense} here is taking steps-to defend the Chinese seamen who are being held. for deportation. e; ) Pedro Waterfront Worker. | | Gray picked up his gun to fire. His, The next night they went to Rome. sister grabbed the gun away from |The croppers carried their guns, “We him. “! walked along the road and a car came Young came over to John Moore.| up. We all hid on the side of the “What kind of meeting is this?” he|road. All except Ralph Gray. He was | asked. Moore remembered the in-| brave. Ralph stayed on the road. Tt structions of the organizer. “That's! was the deputies in the car. ‘Where what I'm trying to find out,” he an-| are you going?’ they asked Ralph. swered. “Where's the speaker?” was ‘Going home.’ answered Ralph. ‘Where . , | you been?’ they wanted to know, Murdered Cropper ‘Been hunting,’ answered Ralph Gray. i | ‘Give us your gun, nigger,’ ordered | the deputies. ‘I not,’ answered | Ralph. ‘I bought and paid for this gun.’” John Moore told the story in | | graphic style. | Tells of Murder of Ralph Grey “They sho: at Ralph twice from the car, He fell. He levelled his gun. He | fired with both barrels. The shots | went off. They hit Sheriff Young. | He wore a breasi plate, and the shot | few all over, but even so, he was | wounded, because the shot was fited at such ciose range. The deputies got ecared, they picked up the law, and carried him to the hospital.” That night the law organized a gang. Nearly a hundred cars came 30 to 40 sharecroppers there. They couldn’t buy ammunition. Most of them only had two or three shells, | Everyone chipped in their shot, The speaker told about the International Labor Defense, but, “we couldn't see that far. We got tired of lynching and we decided to do what we could.” Determination rang in Moore's voice. RAL?H GRAY his next question, ."T don't know,” answered sharecropper Moore. “Well, tell your speaker to go to church and hoid his meeting there, one reporting an order of $2 for three | workers who yoted for them im the | recognition of all unions in each case, | to Ralph Gray's shack, There were | I know you boys, aud I don’t want to see you get into trouble.” said Young, the law. That night they went to Tom Gray's house to help watch. The croppers stood until one o'clock. But the law didn’t come back, So they left. They arrested two sharecroppers that night, Then after they left, the mob went to Tom’s house, Tom was to bed. They beat him up. They even whipped his wife and hit his baby, with it, People began to run. Ralph who was only two years of * “The gang came. For thirty minutes we shot them off. A fierce battle, and we run them off. We had nothing left but empty guns. So we left. But {they came back. And they shot Ralph as he lay in bed. They took him away with all his bed clothes. They car- tied him to a county seat. They threw him out in the yard, with 86 holes in his body, What became of him IT don’t know to this day. They sent something in a box to the colored) days work. This is the manner in which the demagogic lies of the Roosevelt ad- | ministration are carried out in actual practice. Federal Relief Administrator | Hopkins announced that every Civil Works project would pay its workers $15 for a 30-hour week Rochester Clothing Workers Organize To) Defeat Union Gag Rule ROCHESTER, N. Y. 27 Charging gag rule in the elections of local officals of the Amalgamated Clothing Wo: day and Tu x rank and file member: the workers in the | to end the innumerable gri the membership agai the Abolition of the el organize ances of officials. |rank and file control of el the chief nd of the rank Elections are so mi committee points out, that fifth of the nb | vote. rest 2 ualified by |the ruling that only those paid up| jfive months prior to elections may | vote. The majority of the workers have been unemployed and have re- jhope of getting socialism; the job of | collaboration with the capitalist class. | The Socialist Party overlooks the fact {that they will have to answer to the workers for all this. | CONVICT PRODUCES CHEAP | HYDROGEN FOLSOM PRISON, Cal.—A convie* developed the most inexpensive method of producing hydrogen gas iit an improvised prison laboratory. The process’ value lies in a reduction of electrical consumption, ceived no unemployment insurance payments. Many are far behind. in dues because of the 15 per cent “loan’’ or wage cut imposed by the Hillman machine, ‘The examination board established by the officials weeds out all can- didates who may not be satisfactory to the machine and forces a can- didate to sign an agreement author— izing the Joint Board to remove him aiter election if they find cause. ' The rank and file clothing work- ers Committee is paving the way for a strong rank and file movement io, be prepared for the National Con- vention of the Amalgamated whicly takes place in Rochester in May. oii), Describes Alobarna Life, Sovadll ‘Many Walked for Miles to Get to Meetings: at Meets Emphasized Aid of Daily Worker | cemetery, but they wouldn’t let us bury it, and we couldn’t tell whether it was Ralph Gray or not, becai they wouldn’t let us open the bo: | Wholesale Arrests of Croppers | They arrested 15 sharecroppers that | night, When they finished the round- | up. they had 32 men, women and children under arrest, All they could! get. After fifteen or sixteen da they came to question the cr | “Do you belong to a union? wanted to know. The deny it. “Do you want landlord of the big Gin and Ferti-| lizer Company wanted to know this. They knevy he was no friend of theirs | | and‘they refused his help. |. Finally the International Labor De-! }fense came down. ‘Ti al rested jthen, Soon after they were turned out of jail two at a time in the middle | of the night. Tom Gray and his boy were the last to get out. They were in jail for two months. The whole settlement had thought t they would never be seen again. “Th. opened the people’s eyes. And then) they came in by the hundreds. They | piled into the union. That was the| beginning of the union,” John Moore | went on to the present. He told of how they went from sharecropper to sharecropper to raise money to get to the Farmers Conference in Chi- cago, The farmers have no money, They could only get pennies to put together. They finally got enough to get a truck. They went to Birming- ham, Sixteen came in one truck from Alabama and Georgia, black and white together to this Farm Confer- ence in Chicago. When they got to Birmingham, they couldn't get # real truck with the money they had. Thev had to get | what they could. When they reached | Chicago, it was late. They didn’t have {money for a room, but finally ar- | rangements were made. Their motor {gave “clean out,” and the Farm Con- ‘ference had to buy them a new mo- tor to get back to their work in the South. ‘They reported to the Conference, | “The people are calling for us North, East, South and West. We don’t haye go to organize sharecroppers 20 miles below Montgomery. We walk there. We try to get there any which way. Money Is the big problem. We've got to find a way to get to these \rhey have stopped bothering ws in Tallapoosa County, That’s where we get our mail, They know they can’t scare us anymore since Ralph Gray was killed.” Moore Here to Aid His Fellew Croppers John Moore is in New York to sid his fellow croppers in the south, New’ York workers are urged to arrange meetings for John Moore. He wants to tell the New York workers his story. He has much more to tell than I have related here. He wants help from the New York workers. Workers, write to the Daily Worker. Arrange for speaking appointments. Help the sharecroppers of the South! to build a mass sharecroppers’ be They have 5,000 members now. want to have 10,000 soon. Show your solidarity with the Southern workers who have shown that they are first, rate fighters, “Use my name, that's okay, Go right on, T know what's facing us in the South. They know me. Whatever happens, let it come. The work will go on.” That is John Moore's story.