The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 14, 1933, Page 3

| Local Jobless Struggles Preparing B Te ay TT TTT I fe DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1933 |Recruiting-A Barometer for Carrying Out the Wistriet Leadership Pxoys Insufficient At- terntion to Reeruiking ~ "ARTICLE 3, Tie reerux ge. of new members into our Party from among, the best d most active: Workers, should be the: Party. In the four comopntra- comnected up with the daily work yon _ eee and Pittsburgh; these new roust come from the. main ation industMes;—from sijsel tal, mining, packinghorise, ito iiroad. ‘The developny.ent the recruiting of n.xw mem bers mm’ these industries is a barometer ich’indicates the serious®ess9f our jon’ work: nine the resulis. af 1 cvuiting: in ng’ the week ending Decembyr 2nd. Chicago recruited during thi: week Employed) Unemvioyred Oo 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 3 6 2 L ) x 2 | 6 6 | t 0 1 6 TMouseworker 0 1 ‘Total ..2, & 26 What do these ‘igures show? From t, ployed and’ five un recruited during a week’s time. ¥ members: are from tion’ districts, Chicego, Clevelaine!, De- | se four distries dur- | % light industry’ or are housewives. We | want to wim more workegs fiom the | light industaves. The of new | Tecruits from the light incustiries are | also entirely unsatisfactory. Bit what | shall we say about the figures of two | employed and five unemployed work- |ers recruited from the babi texius- | tries, during @ week's time, in a di- strict which has 2800 du¢s paying members? Nothing else bu} that the Open Letter is not persisterttly trans- formed: into life? i One Auto Worker Recruilied Without doubt there are algo some good tendencies in the reerufting in Chicago. Among the new recruits, | there are 26 native born workers and | eight foreign born workers, But this certainly does not justify the small |number of the total recruitment as }@ whole, and especialiy the small | number recruited from the basic in- custries. Now let us comsider recruiting in | Detroit. During the same week, the |Party organization in Detroit re- | cruited one unemployed, foreign born | auto worker, and one foreign born | housewife. In addition, ten unclassi- |fled unemployed workers were rec~ tuited. This is the tatal recruiting | that was done during one week in | Detroit, in a district with 1,000 does |paying members. A few weeks ago } there was @ plenum in Detroit, a ‘very ood one, with very good spseches and with a very good resoluti¢n. But what purpose do all these resJutions and speeches serve, if we to not transform them into life by winning thé workers from the besic industries int) our Party. One Steel Worker in Cleveland Dyring the same week, the Cleve- land District recruited the following number of rs: a "itploed Vesaers €. P. Shop. Naclews Stops Mass Layoffs of N.1. Dye Workers Exposure in Leaflet Makes Boss Change His Mind PATERSON, N. J.— Quick action by a Communist Party shop nucleus prevented @ mass layoff of dye work~ ets here. The dye bosses of the Weidmann Piece Dye, one of the biggest dye houses in Paterson, were all set to lay off two or three hundred work- ers on Priday, Déc. 8. On Thursday, the Communist nucieus met and is- sued a leaflet, explaining to the work- ers in Weidmann’s, just what this layoff? meant. In ihe leaflet, they pointed out that in laying off a large Open Letter New Members Not Gained from Key In- dustries, Figures Show ° 1 9 1 0 1 6 1 9 1 Total .... 1 5 Altogether six workers were re- eruited. From the basic industries, steel and metal, one employed and one unemployed were recruited. Among the six recruited workers, two are native born, and four foreign born. Comments are not necessary on these figures! Pittsburgh recruited one employed steel worker, one employed office Worker, one unemployed laborer and one unemployed electrician. Three among the recruited workers are rative born and one foreign born. What do these figures show of the recruiting for one week, in these four concentration districts with 6,300 dues paying members and with additional membership of thousands in the mass organizations and revolutionary unions. It is not possible to speak of “bad work.” One can only say that the leadership in these districts does not pay any attention to system- atic recruiting of workers from the basic industries, nor to recruiting as @ whole. No other explanation is possible. All functionarfes in these concentra- tion districts should draw the prac- tical conclusions from the above fig- ures, and do away with this imper- missible situation. It is not ni to make new decisions. It és only necessary to begin to carry out the old decisions—the decisions of the Open Letter. NEWS BRIEFS | Typhoid Epidemie in Paris PARIS, Dec. 13.--A. typhoid epi- demic has spread throughout Paris, causing’ alarm arnonig medical au- thorities. How severé the epidemic is was not annownond, but it was stated that cases hmvie been “exceed- 5 e Flames Destroy: Building on Lower Broadway NEW YORK —A blaze on lower Broadway today demolished a six- story building, endangering cotton houses in the vicinity. Traffic was de- layed over two hours. 8 ° Four Killed in Truck Crash SPRINGER, N.M., Dec. 13.—Four were killed and four injured when two trucks crashed and caught fire on the highway near this city. se Detroit Thieves Rob Post on the job into accepting a wage-cut, and that in the Iuture they would rehire.those iaid off at less wages. Through the militant strike of the just itching to get the dyers back on The . At is the busy season, there is no need for a layoff, end no shortage of work, es- pecially since the broad silk workers returned to work, there will be a demand for dyeing piece silk. However, the leaflet has had its effect. The company today, stated there would be no layoff. Quick, mil- itant action what is necessary to maintain co: tis and wages in the shops. SMWIU Forces Quick Relief for Two Civil Work Registrants NEW YORK.—Imniediate Relief for twe C.W.A. registrants was . the Home Relief Bureau @ delegation from Metal Workers Indus- trial Union presented their cases to i } I. L. D. Bazaar ‘Hays to Speak On Reichstag eo Trial BOSTON. — Arthur. Garfield Hays, American lawyer, eye-witness at the Leipzig trial; Anna Schultz, to Ernst , defendant in the trial, and Dr, Alice, Hamilton, author of“ ks,” will on Ger- dmany at a meeting Friday, Dec. 15, At: 7:45 in Tremont Temple Auditori- um, 83 it St.,” Philadelphia DANCE and MIDNIGHT SUPPER SATURDAY, DEC. 16th NEW GARRICK HALL 507 S, 8th St. Onl way through 18 tnchns of brick and mortar, thieves stole registered mail of undetermined value and $19,000 in postage stamps from the city post Office. & ‘i Boy Killed by Policeman GLEN ROCK, N.J., Dec, 13—Robert Applegate, son of a New York news- paper man, was shot and killed by a cop who claimed that Applegate was riding in a stolen sutomobile and would not stop when hailed, Emil de Wilde, the cop, is under technical arrest. ee Dry West Virginia to Permit Imports CHARLESTON, W. Va., Dec. 13.— West Virginia, which forbids the man- ufacture of liquor in the state, will permit liquor to come in from wet states, it was announced today. Hijackers Get Two Trucks of valued at $40,000, A. F. of g Hl ; i i gist | if iis E38 g 2 oe ge i E 5 see SEE 8 a g & F FT g 55 # | FE He | | : i i g : 22 5 4 : z >By i FA g ab Fi E i i ae rit : 58 ig z a gf i a | | i : g | | : 28 i Rabsge g Fe Ford Workers to Be Represented at Auto Conference United Front Meet to Be Held Sunday, December 17 DETROIT.—A strong delegation of Ford workers, both employed and unemployed, will be present at the big United Front Auto Workers’ Con- ference, to be held Sunday, Dec. 17, at 10 a.m, in Finnish Hall, 5969 14th St., near McGraw. The conference has been called by the Auto Workers’ Union to prepare for strike action in the fight against wage cuts, speed-up and unemployment. The two Dearborn branches of the A. W. U. are now active in getting delegates from the Ford River Rouge Plant, despite the intensification of the terror against the workers. Though only a small proportion of the auto workers in Detroit and vicinity are now employed, special efforts are being made to get dele- gates directly from the shops. Lo- cals of the A. F. of L. auto union, the Mechanics Educational Society, I W. W., the Unemployed Councils and other organizations of the un- employed, workers’ fraternal organ- izations and shop and neighborhood groups are urged to send delegates, Unorganized workers are called on to get together in their departments or Pigg and elect déle- gat Representation at the conference will be on the basis of two delenates | for the first ten members, and one for each additional ten or major fraction thereof. ‘The Dec. 17 conference is being held in the midst of a two months’ organization drive that the Auto Workers’ Union has launched. The goal of this drive is 5,000 new mem-~ truckloads of liquor and a sedan, all/ bers and the establishment of solid organization in the leading factories. i f ! ie ze age Ey f é i z z FR 8 id 1 Qk rs E BEES i gs i is i Q i z 2 F 3 i 4 : 3 | ag. ef sf 3° > 2 i || | | | | * the government, The marchers were Part of the 70,000 unemployed French workers who joined in the march to Paris to protest relief cuts by army of police and troops when they sought to enter Paris, Socialists in the Chamber of Deputies assisted “As French Jobless Marched on Paris to Demand Relief blocked by a huge |of the budget.” in the government in putting through the relief cuts on the ground that it was necessary for the “balancing | recent Only the Communist deputies put up a stiff fight against the measure, Jobless Constitution | to Be Adopted at | Meet he bi Council of the U.S.A. whi to be broadcast to all unemployed groups throughout the country for campaign of prepar wed Co! | which will take place ton, D. C., on Jan. 13, 14 central aim of the N: nal | ‘0 force the enactment of th Jers Unemployment and Social Insur. ance Bill by the federal government the preamble states. “This alone wil bility to mnemploy- accident, part-time, sickness, old age or maternity.” adoption at the convention.” This] Page Three _|50 to Be Elected at Natl Convention to The National Unemfloyment Coun- according to the draft constitu- , would be governed by a Council 0 members, elected at the annual nm of the national council. ual convention is to be the body of the council. unit of the Council is 100d assembly, The as: include all workers < to struggle for re- tions and for the ployment and Social the National i to the Nationel rkers are urged to ons on every C.WA nization, can take the of a Relief Worker: jform of a | Protective | tion stamps, Reports indicate a |ical financial situation. Unless | necessary funds are raised the cori | vention will be seriously crippled.” ‘Jobless Delegates Force Legislators to Hear Demands |Speakers Stress Unity | Between Negro and | White | : | | SALEM, Ore—Despite | to keep them standing in the por jing rain, delegates attending the State Unemployment Con- vention here forced thelr way into the state capitol to present their demands to the legislature. teen organizations, represented by |290 delegates, had attended the RFC,AAA,PWA, CWA and Still No Jobs LITTLE ROCK, Ark—Have hope,” “Haye patience,” “Quit worrying about a job,” “Be pa- triotic as during the World War,” are some of the slogans of the of- | ficial spokesmen recommending the N. B. A, C. W. A, P. W. A. A. A. A, F, E. R. A, and other letters of the alphabet to the hun- aty stomachs of workers here. Over 111,000 of these workers were on Emergency Relief rolls in the state—a total of 46,040 have been given Civil Works jobs, Roosevelt promised 50 cents an hour on these jobs—the Chamber of Commerce pays 30 to 40 cents for 40 hours of wor! Negro Exclusion Hit in Crawford Trial LEESBURG, Va. Dec. 13.—The lynch trial of George Crawford, Ne- gro worker framed on a murder ; charge, opened yesterday with the defense following the historic icy of the International Labor Defe! the Scottsboro and other raising the issue of the s exclusion of Negroes from jur Charles H. Houston, headin! defense, plans to move for dismissal of the jury venire on the grounds that it contained no Negroes. At a preliminary hearing last month, Cecil Connor, Assistant State's Attorney, had voiced the slander that Ne- groes in Lowdoun County w it to Serve on juries. In this slander he was supported by Judge L. McLenore, 0 Pittsburgh Steel | Conference Plans | Spread of Union PITTSBURGH, .» Dec, 13.—Over ;100 delegates attended conference of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union here Sun- day at Waldon Hall to plan organ- | ization and future struggles in the | steel industry. Delegates who took part in the Am- at bridge | struggles were prominent | the conference. There were delegat jfrom Central Tube, Jones & Laugh lin, South Side Pittsburgh and Al liquipa; e Steel in Homeste: | Clairton and Duquesne; Westing- house; Wolworth Foundry, Greens- burgh, and many other plants. James Egan, made the main re- ort reviewing the work during the rike period and after. “We must now build our union in all depart- ments, develop department and par- tial struggles to prepare ourselves for the coming major strikes,” |Egan. The main discussion at the | conference concerned itself with root- ing the union in the mills by organ- | izing department committees. | John Meldon, national secretary of |the union greeted the conference in the name of the National Committee. The Ambridge delegates expressed a note of optimism that the union would be built in Ambridge despite the gun thugs and terror A plan of work was discussed and accepted by the delegates. The main points were to bring back into ac- | tivity 50 per cent of the 6,000 mem- bers and recruit 600 new members in different sections. the district | |NRA Cuts Dough Out! of Doughnut Workers nem" Sean Tonia. mine | Wages by Extra Costs) Federation and the Kenton Unem- | Pur eae | ployed League. NEW YORK.—The Mayflower | When speakers from the Unem- Doughnut exhibit shows to passer- | Ployed Convention presented the | bys on Broadway at 45 | Workers Unemployment Insurance through the wide open y | Bill and other demands formulated windows how the N. R. A. cuts the | by the delegates, the workers pres- dough out of the doughnu }ent burst into loud applause. The Workers in the exhibit | speakers made clear to the legisla- | N.R. A. wage of $15.12. For wash- | tors that the workers of the state ing two uniforms a week the com- | Would not be satisfied with prom- pany carves $2.12 from the wages. | ises but that they would organize For cating six 25-cent meals the greater numbers and fight for the | boss ents away another $3 from t to live. convention in response to a call by Multnomah County Federation of Unemployed, composed of the Unemployed Councils, Unemployed | | the salary, The unity between white and Thus the final resuit is the even | Negro work was stressed by the figure of $10 for a 54-hour week. s from the convention. which And a neat little N. R. A, sign is demanded the freedom of proudly displayed in the window heodore Jordan, a Negro rail- 500 Pea-Picke | California Win in 2 Hrs. for P in sentence on a framed-up charge of ance | murder. They pointed out that the Strike | oregon supreme Court had upheld A this sentence only because Jordan ay Rise ; Was a Negro and because the South- ern Pacific Railroad wishes to ter- rorize workers of Oregon by mur- dering this innocent worker. The | worker delegates assembled broke e hun- | LOS ANGEL two-hour |dred pea-r |strike on | patria out time and again with applause | pick and cheers at the mention of unity \for 1 y| between white and Negro workers, two hours t while the legislators grew red in | grant | the face and squirmed in their | involv are erican 50 Mexican. attempts | Six- | \Concede Preference to United Front on ‘Denver C.W.A. Jobs | Militant Jobless Work- ers Win Signal Concession DENVER, Colo—A ruling where |members of the United Front or- {ganization against unemployment in |Denver will be given preference on Civil Works Administration jobs has been announced here. In the ballyhoo in the local press. | this is announced as ® move “to make them forget their ideals.” Actually however, this is an acknowledgemen: of the success of the mass pressure that has been effected through struggle under the united front led by the Communist Party. The ruling of the Federal C.W.A states that 50 per cent of a city's quota on C.W.A. jobs shall be selected from those who in the past have been | working on city odd-jobs for direc: |relief. The Denver ruling places all those who have taken part in the local united front struggies of the unemployed on a parity with men who had worked on direct ‘relief during the summer, ‘This victory of the Denver workers is signalized by (1) a capitulation of the loeal relief authorities to the ef- fectiveness of the united front workers, employed and unemployed; and (4) the correctness of the united front policy of the Communist Party effected by the unity of the rank and file workers over the heads of the Socialist and renegade misleaders. The National Convention Against Unemployment to be held in Wash- ington, D. C. aJn 13-15 will hear re- ports from many cities on how such victories have been won. Plans will be made to assure similar advances throughout the country. The workers are organizing into the Cannery and Agricultural Workers —CHICAGO™ Industrial Union, and all over the Imperial Vall ere talk about the C. and San J | Locals o! lished there in every town and ranch of the valley, FRIDAY DEC. 15 L. Packinghouse Leaders Give Up Right to Strike an entirely disinterested person. The finding of the arbitration board to be binding and religiously res- pected by both the employer and employe.” Livestock Handlers Reject Arbitration ‘There can be no words to express the indigination of the Stockyards workers to this treacherous para- graph 19 in the Memorandum of the Union burocrats, which must be made known to every worker and Particularly the members of the A. F. of L., must be fought and defeated. This memorandum further betrays the interests of the workers, through declaring: “The question of wages may be taken up for readjustment at any time that either party to the agrec- ment makes the request by giving thirty days notice in writing to the other party.” This giving 30 days notice in writ- ing means to serve notice to the company that they are to prepare for strike-breaking activity in an attempt to defeat strike struggles. In the whole memorandum the union burocrats have not a word to say about the right of the workers to strike and to collective bargaining. The whole memorandum is built | around one main policy of the A. F. of L.—class collaboration, and as they declare: “binding and religiously res- pect the decision of the arbitration boards” with which the workers otf the Stockyards already had experi- ence,the decision of the N.R.A. Labor Board, consisting of “liberal” which declared against any increase in wages and that the whole matter be turned over to the arbitration board. The livestock handlers refused to accept this, rejected it and as the P.H.W.LU. in a reecnt statement to the Stockyards workers declared: ‘The strikers knew that if they went back to work and left every- thing to arbitration, they would get posals of their officials.” A. F, of L. Leaders Give Up 8 Hour Day The workers can place no faith in arbitration and they know that every act of arbitration is in the interests of the bosses and not the workers. There can be no neutrality in arbitra- tion. To relegate the whole question of wages, conditions, hours to an umpire means to place the whole fate ot the workers in the hands of the bosses. It means the same as the present company union existing in the Chicago packing houses. This memorandum, although it speaks that “the 8-hour day shall constitute the basic work day” it also speaks that “employers shall not be requested to work in excess of 10 hours any one day.” What does this mean? It means that the union of- fiicals are ready to establish a ten- hour day in the packing industry, be- cause once we would permit the com- panies to work ten hours they will instittue this permanently. So under the cloak of 40-hour week and fasic 8-hour day, the union burocrats are Professor Hutchins, the president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, u Fitapatrick and the Socialist, Levine, Planning to put over the ten-hour day in the packing industry. Finally. as to the problems and nothing. So they rejected the pro- j 2457 9 Accepted Compulsory Arbitration, Wage | “Adjustment” PROCEEDS: Defense of Class War INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE BAZAAR 1°* PEOPLE’S AUDITORIUM WEST CHICAGO AVENUB PROGRAM: Singing, Dancing, Chorases, Ballets, South Siev and Bulgarian “Kolo” nd meny more sétrections, DETROIT TURDAY§JSUNDAY DEC. 16 DEO. # | | | conditions of the workers who are not | | covered by the memorandum, as it is | confined to the butchers and meat! | cutters. The memorandum only has | ithe following to say: | MORNING “We further request that no com- mon labor be employed at a rate less than fifty cents (50¢ an hour).” | The union burocrats only “request” | that no less than 50c per hour be} paid. This is all the interest the} union burocrats have for the deci- sive majority of the unskilled workers in the packing industry. | SATURDAY December 16th COLORLITE DANCING Tickets at the door 35¢ In Advance 25e | union The memorandum of the burocrats of the Ar mated Meat } pve crane Cutters and Butchers Workmen of MASQUERADE BALL Prizes for the Most Original Masks FREIHEIT FT. WAYNE HOTEL Temple at Cass LARGE ORCHESTRA To be gotten—Freiheit Office 8951 12th Street North America, an A. F. of L, union, Cleveland, “Ohio must be explained to the w every department, 5 and serve as a ba unity of the wo ganizations tc united front of the improvement of ti shortening working hours and the restoration of the 1929 wages in the packing industry in the country, mo- bilizing Stockyards workers for com- | ing strike strug; To effectiv: task it is nece: pow- erful P.H.W.LU., which e: es allt workers in the industry, Negro and white, mep women 44 voung workers SUNDAY, DEC. SPEAKERS: Lamont Hays, Edit Crawford, 8 in A. Brow! Emil MUSICAL PROGRAM: Prethelt this Negro Pioneer Group eosin Dilip Ukrainian Mandolin Orchestra and © Gesanes Farein and Oroks Mongarian Male Choros SOVIET UNION DAY CELEBRATION 17, AT 2 P. M. Columbia Profess “Cleveland Citizen" alist, Erle Penn Bro: y Methodist Cherek rdos, Communist Party Norman Tellentire, National Organiser of F.8.V. AUSPICES FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION Masonic Auditorium, Euclid Ave. at E. 36th St. “amperes ON