The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 9, 1933, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1933 , MINERS PROMISED “NEW DEAL” |Workers From 18 NOW LAID OFF AND WAGES CUT Lands Hear of Soviet = Close Down insta eprived of Trade Unions’ Gains Young Miner Calls for New Struggle on Discrimination all the mines put on additional men workers to work at the relief jobs, |and additional shifts. This increased|the same time there are actually ;some of the illusions of the miners} millions of workers being laid off. {and raised their hopes. However, | (For instance the Fort Pitt Bridge Companies Close Down Miners Deprived of Many Mines, Others Control of Their | Must First Get Rid of Misleaders Like Cap- On Part Time By V. KEMENOVICH. | these hopes are being shattered now by the recent acts of the coal com- panies, ; Works in Canonsburg shut down, |jaying off 900 men.) It is self-evident that when tens of thousands of min- Checkweighman | Head of Soviet Trade Union Council Answers pelini and Maloney Mines Closing Down. ers are laid off other trades and| ington, D.C., Jan, 13, ‘The Pittsburgh Questions of Foreign Delegates, : | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 8—When| Whereas after the adoption of the| groups of workers are also affected. | District of the Unemployed Council : dust: Sh eae |the Rooseyelt government took over|NIRA, there was continuous news of| U. M. W. A. Leaders Get Jobs, [and the National Miners Union lead- Progr ess in Indus’ ry own @By a Young Mine Worker Correspondent) |the reins, every faker, from John L.| mines opening up and hiring thous-| What role do the U.M.W.A. leaders | ership 1s faced with the task of pene- WILKES-BARRE, Pa.—We min« by the coal operators, with the help ere sick and tired of being robbed of the U.M. . fakers, Boylan and Lewis. The conditions we had to live under were steadily growing worse, working conditions also, and we knew way we could better our conditions was by strike, came along just when the and the U.M.W. of A. 1 not hold the miners ba e could | r. | from bitter experience that the only Cappelini and Maloney Skelly Oil Comopany _ | Lewis down, spilled their guts in the praise of the “new deal.” It was going to eliminate unemployment, in- |crease the wages, bring about 100% closed shop, with elimination of all of the old open shop practices, etc. |Many miners were fooled by this bar- |rage of lies and fake claims and | Tannery Strikers Attacked by State Police | | trating among these locals of the | United Mine Workers of America, and win these masses of the unem- ployed for the struggles for more re- lief and against the U.M.W.A, fakers. Nut Picker Strikers the Daily Worker. By VERN SMITH MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Nov. 10 (By Mail) —Nearly 200 delegates of work- ers In 18 countries met Secretary Schyernik of the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions in its enormous headquarters in Moscow and put questions to him, after he had addressed them as described im another article in These questions came from members of most of the delegations. Answers were given im-@—————_________—-_- \ ", © ¥ “4 | ises. vel son 7 . ‘i | Prepared for Nee monies, Bren some. of teenies Win Wage Increases mediately either by Schvernik or his| answer by Schvernlkt The greatest fae avers not to 2 | With Wage Cuts )ers believed that “something must a assistant Abolin, and both questions | aifterence is in the ratio of one to iuaabetiners of a new | \happen,” and that “Roosevelt must INEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 7. |and answers were three. The reason is to give a stimulus prevent aod des e | a : \do somethng or there will be hell to —The strike of the nut pickers [lated to the delegations, sitting |{) the learning of technical knowl- solar fs, vs the By an Oil Worker Correspondent) edie here at the Backer Bros. shop (grouped about tables. edge, acquiring of technical know!- pj aaa | This is an'oD)" cs mething did happen! The min- ended a week ago after lasting for | Some of the more important ques-|an interest in production. With « ip oe | cnet to silk tries to Secon Wee exactly a week. The voted calling | tions and answers were as follows: |rapidly growing industrial employ- Of course they used a | | zed recently into an A. F. of | €ts ha ovis off the strike was taken after the ment, all the old town workers were ng slogans to try to fool vainers wanted themselves 1 strike’ call to be nave forced the cor ‘oltiery rate sheet, say ‘for yard wage cuts other grievances. pened? Cappellini and Malo: beginning tried to bre just as much as the R. did, Just before the N. y Oil Co laid off and wages to a great comply” with the put a few to work wages a small amount mounted to a big hey reduced the hours. The wholesale price of gasoline has more than doubled since last spring, so you can see that Mr. Skelly has been greatly benefited by the N. R. A. coal compani to grant them the | checkweighmen, mine committees and |the right to meet as a union at each mine. But when John L, Lewis and his gang got through signing the agreements, the victory passed into |the hands of the coal companies. Checkweighman. ‘The mine committees can not set- tle any cases, the checkweighmen can |not “interfere with the running of \the tipple.” Which actually means |Company Controls workers had won a big wage in- crease from the boss. All the workers who were active on the picket line day after day, were taken back. Instead of the former wages of 40 to 60 cents a day, the boys are now guaranteed a min- imum of $1.50 per day and a $1 minimum for the girls. The work- ers in the shop are practically all youth. The strike was under the leadership of the Food Workers Industrial Union. Question from several delegations: If the Soviet Union develops a great industry like capitalist countries, will there be a crisis of overproduction as now exists in capitalist countries? Answer by Schvernik: According to the next Five-Year Plan there will be a yearly increase in production of 12 per cent. The demand increases much more rapidly than that. Such a demand as comes from the rising standards of living of 165,000,000 peo- ple can not be oversupplied for many years, if ever. However if such a absorbed some time ago. Masses are coming in from the villages, unskilled and perhaps with narrow interests. ‘The worker in the lowest grade sel- dom stays there long. It is to his direct immediate personal interest to gain skill and gain a higher wage, and this he does, But this also benefits socialist construction and the whole mass of workers. Question: Is there any danger of a workers’ aristocracy developing? Answer: No. Any worker can easily ors and st: ney! STEEL UN Ff \that the miners now pay additional 2 V ay did: nothing to organize the aie BLEED UNION Sean |men on the flpple without receiving The Young Communist League | condition were ever reached, we could ae eng eee ant rattle ‘tod ; le bs teie A Party for the Steel and | the benefits of a bonafide check-) Participated actively in helping to | switch from one Une of production to| fo @ worker to enter untversities anc fates teas ths nee Metal Work iven by the | weighman. | win the strike. During the course | another, or we could reduce the work | echnical schools, ie industry - is miners to he; Meta! orker given by the Say of the strike, four members of the growing so fast that there is always day to any point. We have planned out. Steel Union Aid Committee | For 4 period mines began to work; ¥. ©. L. were arrested for their ac- | economy and we can do anything we |® desperate need for highly skilled — the eee at 345 E. 17th Street, 1st jaome mines ae Relea deat msabt rs tivity, three of whom were released | wish with it. beech! is iter arerp Merkers on Sag sale floor. Admission 25c. ; Pea 18 ‘dah . week began to and one of whom was sent to the Question: Why is there a difference pier ‘eee pr rapes pan Spuning Wk that there would no y i : work 4 and 5 days a week. Practically work-house for a 10-day sentence. “in wage rates in the Soviet Union? | an who will take the trouble to gain crimination a; t the members of Palas engineering knowledge are allowed to the new unio: pg o ia re eran ae as i e do so, and peepee itchy are They got Mons Curran to e found for them. In grows plead with the x to go back. | C tt M ll W k I I E gl h C t rapidly, and agriculture as it becomes Ernest G. Smith, Editor of the Times ane 0 on ] or ers orner, n 18 ommunis 9| mechanized requires engineers and Leader, the same paper that carried ads for scabs, did likew Now conditions are ever and the N. R. broken and about 1,000 mine being discriminated a t. M are fighting among themselves over | the question of union, and the com- pany will not take grievances with either, While this confusion and | disunity exists the operators are p: paring to put across their c oat | code. The miners should not let | i ould close their | ranks, form a joint committee of | men from both unions, take grievances of the miners ¥ the company, and if they don’t settle them, strike the colliery and spread it to the other collieries, They should unite the unemploy and employed carry on a fight for unemployed and social insurance. Two-thirds of Disgusted with U.T. W. A. are} Ready to Struggle Again Against Speed-Up) and Wage Cut Tricks (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW ORLEANS, La.—Due to picketing at the Lame Cotton Mill, in Nov. were put up by one of the U.T.W.A. However, the union itself did not in the least try to engage a the |lawyer for Mrs. Bordelon, $1,250, Mr. Odenheimer, head of the mill, wants a union which he can control fully. But the many hundreds of mill hands who joined the U.T.W.A. jare very much disgusted with it, not only as regards Mrs. Bordelon’s case, but because over 40 per cent of the ~ |New Orleans. some months ago, Mrs, Essie Bordelon was arrested. Only on 24 did she receive a suspended sentence. Mrs. Bordelon’s three bonds officers, a foreman at the mill, for o— she received $12 a week, but Oden- heimer cut the wages of all who pre- viously had been earning over $12 per week, For instance, Mr. Henry Coleman, a 100 per cent U.T.W.A. Man, was cut from $15 a week to $12. It is hard to say how many people hired thugs brought in from Workers’ Association. The Norwood, Mass., tannery workers were attacked on their picket lines by the Massachusetts state police and by. New York. Above is seen a striker, after being badly beaten, being arrested by state police. The N.R.A. sold out the strike, with the co-operation of the reactionary union officials of the National Leather ands of men, now the news is of the opposite type. During the Thanks- giving week, the Pittsburgh Coal Co., one of the largest in the Pittsburgh District shut down the following mines; Ocean 5, Bannings, Euricka, Westland, also rumors that Dickson mine, Montour 9 and Moon Run are closing down; Montour 10 laid off the night shift of over 450 men. The play in these lay-offs? ‘Their role is as always when the miners are attacked—they do nothing. The U.M.W.A. officials transfer from the union payroll to the relief payroll. As for instaqace Fred Gullick, the Board Member on the Ellsworth branch. Now he is a relief investi- gator for the Somerset township. He is again placed in a position to de- election. Horner, leading member of Cardiff, Sunday. The anthracite miners in the South Wales coalfield have struck a magni- ficent blow for militant trade un- jonism. The final ballot figures in the election for a miners’ agent in the anthracite area were declared yesterday and they register a splen- did victory for Comrade Arthur Hor- ner. The figures are: Wins Mine Union Election Gets 10,180 Votes in Big Victory of Militant Anthracite Miners in Wales CARDIFF, Wales (By Mail) —Arthur Horner, leader of the militant min- ers, has been elected miners’ agent in the South Wales anthracite miners’ the Communist Party, has for many years been a leader of the militant miners of Wales. - oe larly by the local press. Such state- ments as “Horner was responsible for pits being closed in Mardy” have been freely used by his opponents, but with no success. The policy of the militants has triumphed over all obstacles. Interviewed after the election Hor- ner declared: scientists. Question: Why is there piece work in the Soviet Union factories? Work- ers in capitalist countries fight piece work. s Answer: Ours is different. In cap- italist countries piece work is a method of cutting wages. As the workers’ skill and speed increase more and more is demanded from him for the same or even a lower wage per day in a capitalist factory, But with us there is no such thing. The rates are fixed by agreement with the unions, yearly, There is a seven hour day, only. If the worker in- creases his ability to greg he merely gets more wages that. Piece rate is also a means of re- moving inequality. By day rates a worker from the city might toil dili- gently and produce much, and see a new man from the village, with per- haps @ bad psychology, loafing on the the miners are unemployed. jrank and file members of the union | Work at the Lane mill, on the average.|general order was to lay off every|fend the interests of the bosses, to| Arthur Hornell . . 10,130 “The result indicates the desire | jo) ang get! the _ Th: TI would like to see ths miners (the |local in the Lane mill never received |Odenheimer claims that the number|one who secured a job during the/| stool pigeon for them, to fight against} J, D, Brazell . 7,186 | of the miners for a militant policy. J ‘a vee same ee fie rank and file miners) take contro} |their membership books. is between 1,500 and 1,600, while the|month of June and since, In other| the miners, Other leaders both lo- Majority . 2044 It is a tribute to the spendid work | piece rates poate is removed; of their locals and get rid of both “sets of fakers, Boylan and Lewis, Cappellini and Maloney and fight the company. That is what we want a union for, not to have high salaried |ready to fall to pieces from crooked | close to 2,000. In any case, this mill| Pittsburgh papers hit the roof with| than these “leaders.” agent's posision and he commences| Miner,’ the militant miners’ paper | pensions pay e tax? officials and mediators talking it over | planning, the recent sell-out, the fail-|is a place where a good union is very|the news that the Ellsworth Branch Unemployed Councils Organize. work tomorrow. ployed in the election. It did splen- No. Men over 55 and with the bosses. There is nothing jure of the U.T.W.A. to apply honestly |much needed. Here is a very fertile|mines started up and employed 4,000 The National Mt Union 4 . Demands of Workers. did work.” women over 50 years of age get old to arbitrate about. Let them pay the |the rules of the N.R.A. field for the National Textile Workers | miners. Now we find an entirely ete nail fet it Peis ape Bodin ty Horner's success is a tremendous Get Out Injunction. pensions. If they wish to con- colliery rate sheet; stop discrimina-| The various officials at the mill|Union to develop. different situation. The 3 mines of tn a a ad pathy by establish | jipute to the militant miners and| One of the defeated candidates in to work, they may do so and Won. refused from first to last to give Mrs.| There are good chances for the N./the Bethlehem Steel, Marianna, on ee a ibs 's in every| registers enromous support for the|the second ballot, Edgar Lewis, has| suitable light employment will be ea a |Bordelon any explanation as to why/'T. W. U. to grow here. TI have al-|Cokeburg and Elisworth are still out; | Mt Sie wer forees im the U Me | policy on which he contested the elec- | taken steps to take out an injunction |found for them. ‘They then draw 2 UMWA Leaders Help |she wes permanently black-balled at |ready written to Miss Burlak to have |Gibson of the Hillman Coal worked | 37" He Ou Woht Gee the ea a. |tions. During the three ballot votes, |against Horner. Lewis called a snap| their wages for the work, and in ad- i. |the time of her arrest. The workers |some copies of that constitution sent, |3 days in 2 weeks, Ontario of the| Fitton ar in oi ot ste af-| Horner has placed the following pro-| meeting of about 30 at the Great| dition draw 75 per cent of the pen- Owners Blacklist Those waco mignt have been called on to| One girl who had been working for| Ontario Gas and Coal did not work | Fistion of these locals to the Unem- | sramme before the miners: Mountain pithead and got the decl- : +}, |testify in Mrs. Bordelon’s case were |:fine years at the Lane mill was fired|a day in 3 weeks; Cokeburg Junction ee pee SP ths RE ee of| "rhe seven-hour day, 2 minimum |sion for an injunction. He sent a ‘What happens when Who Vote for Strike |so atraia of iosing their jobs that they |by Odenheimer, right after the N.R.A.|shut down for the Thanksgiving. e UMW.A, the NM.U: locals and] wage of 10s. per day for undbilled [letter to. the SWAP. Executive a cinta ee Cte Pees —— all side-stepped. came into existence, and she was re-| Of course the Pittsburgh news-|S°UPS sha call upon all Ae Work) workers, 11s, for rippers, hauliers, | notifying them of the decision. en there is a conflict over (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) Machines Speeded Up hired at the rate of $6 per wek. Papers have not heard this news. | fe. ty ones to affine to the Uan|. etey 128. = day for collfers mnd re- | ‘The lodge secretary also sent let- of the contract? JOHNSTOWN, Pa.—Every miner in| Before the N.R.A. the working day| There is @ substantial rumor now |Prick works 2 and 3 days a week.| ( Maallanes to atihate to the UR-|- pairers, and for the reinstatement |ter to the Executive, intimating that : There are special conflict Sommerset and Cambria County was|8t the Lane mill was rated at 10|current in New Orleans that Oden-| Mather Collieries employ over 800 been time in the past more favorable | °f,the Mardy Lodge. the decision to take out the injunc- to adjust such things, out on strike. ‘The main demand of |hours, but the people had to work |heimer 1s importing totally unSkilled/men but these work on the stagger | (oon. ime on une, past mot ‘And oue| Through the election, Horner once | tion was not a lodge decision. The one from the administra~ the miners was and is that the H.|11 or 11% hours. After the N.R.A,|/help from Alabama, Mississippi, and|plan, and get about 2 days a week. movement must give an Lage eae again becomes a member of the South | rank-and-file Executive of the S.W.- one from the union. If ©, Frick and other captive mines|Odenbeimer speeded up the machines |even trom Georgia, in his plan to|In brief, these few examples show | SOiocene mim tn oan ond watize | Wales Miners’ Federation, from which |MF. decided that the letter should agree, or if either side recognize the union. so that the output in 8 hours had|Keep wages permanently at the low-|the definite trend in the mining in- ue or the Ment fee | he was. expelled in 1929, together | “be noted.” , there are higher bodies We were promised recognition of the union in the N. R. A. and by the U. M. W. A. officials. When the operators refused to recognize our union and we came out on strike, together with the Western Pennsyl vania miners, our officials, just as im 1922-27-31-32, became strikebreak- ers, They signed agreements without the recognition of the union and are now playing the role of the company | yellow dogs. | Our strike was 100 per cent solid until Oct. 3rd. In a desperate at-| tempt to carry out the orders of} Roosevelt that the miners must re-| turn to work, these officials organized | meetings and spoke to i insisting that they must go back to work. Everywhere the miners booed 5 When the top official failed to| drive the men back to work the local | Of course, the union officers regu- larly collected the assessments from the members. According to Mrs. Bor- delon, the U.T.W.A. there is now to equal what used to be done in 11% hours. The N.R.A. made some change in salary there. Before the code was set in the mill, Mrs, Bod- delon earned up to $8 a week, but never over $8, and she worked there from Noyv., 1932 till Sept., 1933. Then | union says the total is closer to 1,700, that is, textile workers strictly so called. The remaining help, su drivers and sweepers, raise the figure est ebb. If @ worker stays in the mill long enough to deserve the pres- ent maximum scale under the N.R.A., he is discharged and if he tries to get back to work, he is paid at the rate of a new hand, namely six cents ‘an hour. as | deal” ballyhoo, words to lay off every one that re- ceived a job as a result of the “new During the month of May, the dustry, and prove the correctness of the position of the National Miners Union that the crisis for the miners is not over, but that on the contrary it 1s increasing. And while the Roosevelt adminis- tration talks about putting 4,000,000 cal and sectional will be placed in the same position in their territories, The bosses know that there are no better watch dogs and stool pigeons all these struggles for the fight for Workers Unemployment Bill. ‘The opportunity presents itself also to send a real mass delegation to the Unemployed Councils National Con- vention that is to be held in Wash- Insurance The vote was declared at the meet- ing of the anthracite district and af- ter speeches of welcome from the del- egates, Horner took over the miners’ with the Mardy Lodge, because of its militant policy in opposition to that of the officials of the SWMF. In Spite of All Lies. Horner’s victory is a tremendous achievement in the face of a virulent campaign of abuse of him, particu- done by both Communist Party members and non-Communists, “I would like to praise the splen- did part that the ‘South Wales ‘The Great Mountain miners are in- censed against Lewis's attitude. The militant miners are jubilant at Horner’s victory, realizing that it miners in every coalfield in Britain. S Task of Rank and File to Defeat Lovestonites’ Attempt to Bring in A. F. of L.; Must Have Fighting Program By J. STACHEL On Monday, Dee. 11, the unity con- Officials took over the strikebreaking | vention of shoe workers begins in rele. These local officials called local | Boston. There will be delegates rep- meetings and permitted only one/ resenting close to 60,000 shoe work- miner at the time to enter the meet-| ers, mainly from the various centers img place. Then this miner was! of New England, and New York City. forced to answer “yes” or “no,” that | Th nizations that have already is whether he wanted to go back to ened said “no” were turned over to company and blacklisting is the thing. Through this scheme or ee the majority of men to go work. ‘The miners are up in arms against this latest betrayal by the U. M. W. A, officials. Every miner is agains’ these traitors. About 80 per cent are talking of coming on strike again and to push aside the traitors. Rush Your Order for worl uhat the next. or not. The names of those| | designated their readiness to be rep- | resented and have elected delegates |are the Shoe Workers Protective | Union, the National Shoe Workers | Association, the Shoe Workers Union of Salem and the Shoe and Leather | Workers Industrial Union affiliated | to the Trade Union Unity League, Oragnized in Strikes | These 60,000 organized workers | were organized during the last 10 | months in the course of very mill- | tant shoe strikes that have taken | place in Haverhill, Lynn, Boston, Chelsea, Salem, and New York City. spite of the sabotage of the leaders it possible for many unreliable ele- hoe Workers Amalgamation Convention Must Build Cl the Shoe and Leauner Workers In- dustrial Union, gained the support of the majority of the rank and file del- egates in the Planning Board, the Lovestoneites (who have succeeded in capturing certain positions of influ- ence on the narrower Provisional Committee, which they are trying to use to replace the functions of the Planning Board) tried, and are still trying to limit the delegation of the united | Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union. The LoVestoneites place every possible obstacle against bringing the S.L.W.LU. into the convention and into the amalgamated union. But they were not successful, What Kind of Union? The Shoe and Leather Workers In- dustrial Union has from the very be- ginning fought for the unity of the shoe workers. It is now fully partici- pating in the convention for the building of a strong united union in the shoe industry. But now the ques- tion arises what will be the character of the union that will be built? What. kind of a union do the shoe workers need? Surely another Boot and Shoe newly formed organization if it is to serve the interests of the shoe work- ers? In the first place the union must. be based clearly on the program of the class struggle. It must make its motto not only a “fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work,” but the abolition of capitalism. The union must be an industrial union, with each shop a lo- cal with real representation in the leading bodies of workers through the shop delegates system. It must declare boldly that the right to strike is the cornerstone of the organization that cannot be bartered away for any con- siderations, It must declare with equal force against compulsory arbi- tration. It must guarantee full de- mocracy to every member and to the lower organizations. Full power must rest only in the rank and file of the membership. It must be made possible for every shoe worker to belong to the organization, by fighting for every section of the workers, and to provide low enough dues and initiations. It must be a truly industrial union, embracing all workers connected with the A. F. of L. If this would be done it would be contrary to the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the membership and would make it im- Nor can the union for long remain a militant union by remaining inde- pendent. The shoe workers have be- fore their eyes the example of the Progressive Miners Union. There also the miners of Illinois, like the shoe workers of New England, desired a militant, honest Maes pe Rakes a pened? The Pearceys, folans in the shoe industry, succeeded in gaining leadership and have made out of the union an ordinary reform- ist union, And for this very reason, ass Struggle Union Struggles of Industrial Shoe Union in New York Defeated N.R.A., Won Wage In- creases, and Built the Union various labor bi and new union at once identifies itself with the Trade Union Unity League, but even if it does not, but takes tle correct path, we shall build the union into a powerful instrument of the shoe workers, and feel sure that the path of struggle will soon lead in that direction. Above all, the convention can only unite the shoe workers if it English trade the general strike Are there special priv- Question: ileges for trade union members? Answer: Yes, preference in to rest homes and admittance to uni- versities. Also, in giving insurance, a trade union member may get = ments equal to the full amount of his weges where a non-member will get _ be In these struggles the shoe workers | ments, especially the Lovestone rene- the shoe and leather industry. the union is now rapidly declining. adopts a fighting program for im- 24-Page Anniversary | have shown that they have remained | sades, Zimmerman and Yonas, ete., pare ® it ee ee re} bape ‘The union must take its place as a| .The new organization can only grow] mediate action, The arbitration bein ot ford rile bs = i J | true to the great fighting traditions | to exert a substantial influence upon futereab.et ths pecs militant union by carrying on an un-| by becoming a real class struggle] award cutting the wages of the {must remember that practloally: ai] f Daily Worker! | for which the shoe workers have al-| the course of the planning board and| "om workers need is a fighting | COPromising struggle against fas-| union and connecting itself up with} shoe workers, the new layoffs, must | the workers who have been in indus- __.| ways been known. to make it possible for the old re-| |. union. The Shoe and Leather| © against imperialist war, for the| the rest of the workers’ militant trade| be met by preparation for big strag- |tiy more than say a couple of ™ JAN. 2 DID YOU HEAR Wow! What A Time! WATCH DAILY WORKER! | In New York City the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union has grown as a result of the recently conducted struggles from an organ- ization of about 1,000 to an organiza- tion of over 10,000 members. In the New England centers the | militant workers’ struggles were able | to bring about solid organization of | the workers despite the fact that the leadership of both the Protective and the National did everything possible to dampen the fighting spirit of the workers. This they tried through all sorts of arbitration schemes that only resulted in robbing the workers of the material gains that they could have achieved as a result of their militant struggle. formist leadership of the shoe organ- ization, the Protective and the Na- tional, to attach themselves to the amalgamation movement. Lovestoneites’ Di ‘These leaders with the Lovestone- ites in their midst, are conspiring for stoneites tried by all means power to exclude the Shoe and Leath- er Workers Industrial Union from convention. When this failed because Comrade Biedenkapp, the leader of Workers Industrial Union, in electing delegates to the convention, has in- structed its delegates to fight for such a union. We feel confident that the tens of thousands of shoe workers er- ganized in the different unions that will compose the convention are of the same mind, They have seen the ruinius results of the class collabora~ tion policies. They have seen the com- pulsory arbitration policies not only of the Boot and Shoe, but also of the Protective and the National. Only this week the arbitration boards have handed down an award which means over 20 per cent wage cut for the shoe workers, full equality for the Negro masses, against discrimination against foreign born workers, women workers or young workers. It must break with all reformist groups that wish to divert the workers from the path of the class struggle. In this category fall those who wish to organize a reform- ist Labor Party in order to stop the masses from entering upon the path of revolutionary class struggle. Must Reject Lovestoneite-A.F.L, ‘The new organization cannot re- main isolated from the working class movement as a whole. It must reject the open or secret maneuvers of many of the socalled leaders (including the Lovestoneites) for affiliation with ‘What should be the program of the unions, The shoe workers can secure this guarantee by collaborating with and becoming part of the Trade Union Unity League. We say this even though the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union has de- clared that it will abide by all the decisions of the majority on such questions, and they certainly will, provided the union takes the road of the class struggle. The eyes of the whole of the mili- tant labor movement and of millions of other workers are apon this con- vention. Will it become a step for- ward in the struggles of the shoe workers and for the labor movement asa whole? Or will it be used by the gles in answer to the bosses chal- lenge, to organize the fight for re- ef to the unemployed, and for un- employment insurance at the ex- pense of the bosses and the govern- ment, By adopting such a fighting program for immediate uwction, by laying a sound foundation for the union in the program and consti- tution, the new organization will not only be able to rally the mass of the shoe workers into its ranks, but also give an impetus to the de- velopment of the struggles and mil- itant organization to the rest of the class. We trust that the convention will fulfill this task. H months, join the unions. Question: What relation have the Soviet trade unions to revolutionary unions in foreign countries? Answer: They belong to the same international organization, the Red International of Labor Unions, Question: Why do you call the So- Haat leaders “Social: Fas- cists?” Answer: Because they talk of so- | clalism and democracy in words, but . by their deeds pave the path to Fas- + cism, Germany gives an example. * The Social Democrat officials Pies cated democracy in words, but helped — the government suppress the Rot Front, and themselves suppressed _ May First demonstrations,