The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 25, 1933, Page 3

| SS ‘ 2 pet WEVA RE SRN RRS ORNS ie \ NEWSPAPER WRITERS GET BLUNT WARNING AGAINST ORGANIZING INTO UNION Broun Burns Incrimi- nating Paper by NRA Official By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—An N. R. A. official’s warning that newspaper writers would find the outcome “quite adverse if they try union tactics” confronted reporters in the midst of their recent meeting here to organize into a national union, : The suggestion appeared.in a memorandum which Lindsay Rogers, world-famous liberal professor, now a Deputy Administrator directly in charge of the newspaper code, pri- vately delivered to one of many dele- gates to the American Newspaper Guild’s organization meeting in the National Press Club on Dec, 15, Rogers handed over the memo, say- mg: “Here's something you may be waterested in.” The delegate, be- iwildered, turned it over to the Guild. Burns Paper Heywood Broun, sometime Social- ist, the columnist for the Scripps- Howard papers, read the’ memo aloud; sputtered, “It’s a gross im- pertinence”; then burned it before the eyes of the excited delegates. A hail of discussion broke, but in the end the meeting was pledged to “drop the subject.” ‘The memo expressed Rogers’ opin- jon that the newspaper men and women “should undertake no activ- ity to make the publishers resent- ful,” and that it would be “disas- trous” to elect Broun as their leader: “for the head of the Guild to be a Socialist (Broun resigned from the %. P. long ago) would be to wave a red flag in their (the publishers’) faces.” “You know the newspaper publish- ers would not assent to a real code im respect to hours and wages,” the memo continued. “The Guild situa- tion is pregnant with harm. ... One Hundred wildcats may be let loose” -.. in answer, “there would be a roar of lions.” In the light of events since the or- ganization of the Guild, the melo- dramatic incident of the memoran- dum assumes additional significance. The newspaper code is now before President Roosevelt, awaiting his sig- mature to go into operation. Al- though its provisions are still offi- cially withheld, it is reliably reported that it disregards every important de- mand raised by the Guild. It is said that the code classifies reporters as “professionals,” exempting them from hour and wage provisions, and ig- } nores the Guild’s demands for a \, five-day week and for security of their jobs. , The question arises, if news writers sppinely accept intimidation and ex- jsitation of themselyes, how can they be expected to give other work- ers a picture of the operation of the New Deal? It is axiomatic that they accepted white-collar slave conditions for years under the influence of the inspired traditions of “Newspaper work is so romantic,” and “You meet ‘sO many interesting people.” It is equally well known, however, that Since 1929 they have become. ever more enlightened, as a group, and proportionately more eager to or- ganize and fight. Unite With Workers Broun initiated the union move- ment, but the rank and file of jour- nalists throughout the country have organized into many groups much more militant in spirit than Broun has been in leading the union. In one Western city the reporters or- ganized jointly with the mechanical ; » Workers, and there are uncounted in- ! {dividuals in all of the groups who \ _ realize that this is the strongest posi- \ f#fon they could assume, They are ‘gware that the stereotypers, printers, Mnotypers and other mechanical em- ployes actually have been able to win ids by threatening to organize editorial workers into their unions, Ignore Whalen ‘Fhe New York Guild voted unani- mously against even replying to a message of “congratulations” which had been sent to them by the local . NRA. Chiefiain, Grover Moissaye from Lindsay Rogers to General Hugh S. Johnson.” The fact that he handed it to the delegate, however, shows not only that the sentiments were his own, but that he expected the delegate to convey the situation to his fellows to sway them toward a conservative pol-| icy if he didn’t actually intend that the entire group should be warned. I telephoned to the Professor on Friday to ask what he could tell me about the memorandum. “I don’t know what you're talking about,” he said, and again, when I described the memorandum, “I am sorry, I can’t discuss it. I don’t know anything about it. I have written a thousand memorandums in the last month and no one of them was for publication.” . Many of the convention delegates, including Broun, regarded it as a threat. At least one of them called for exposure instead of suppression of the document—and that delegate was not I. Urgent work kept me away from the meeting. I am a charter member of the New York Guild, how- ever, haying joined while I was a member of the World-Telegram (Scripps-Howard) staff. Therefore when I learned what had transpired, I rushed to the meeting. It was just breaking up. Departing delegates said that. Broun burned the memorandum “in order to save the person who was given the memo because, after it was read, that individual became excited and said the memorandum might have been passed on in confidence.” To my assertion that this was no excuse sine the delegate concerned could be protected, an officer of the Guild responded, “I don’t want to be snooty, but we already have agreed to drop the matter. It’s all over. We decided.” This same officer, I am informed, warded off a proposal made during the meeting, to take the memorandum to Roosevelt with a protest, pleading: “Now listen, fellows, the President is on our side. We can’t afford to put him on the spot by bringing this thing up.” Try To Spike Affiliation A few days after the convention, Broun interviewed himself in his col- umn. Asking himself whether the Guild intended to “become a regular trades union,” he replied to himself, ‘at the present time a very large ma-~ jority of the Guild membership is against any sort of affiliation.” Then Arthur Brisbane, the real- esate-man colunmnist for William R. Hearst, flung out the hint, in his column, “General Johnson guaran- tees newspaper reporters ‘the right to organize for collective bargaining with publishers.’ Young gentlemen most anxious for a reporters’ union will make the worst reporters and a ma- jority will REMAIN REPORTERS.” (capitals Brisbane’s). P. S—The ‘guarantee’ was given by General Johnson in @ speech to the Guild delegates at a luncheon. It was just a few moments later that Rogers, who accompanied Johnson to the luncheon, did his part by deliv- ering the memorandum. Chicago Workers on C.W.A. Meet Dec. 26 CHICAGO, IL, Dec. 24.—The Pro- visional Organization Committee of 19 representing workers from over 50 different C.W.A. jobs in the city of Chicago is calling a mass meeting on Tuesday, December 26th, 7 p. m. at the Northwest Hall, 2403 W. North Avenue, for-the purpose of organizing @ union of all the C.W.A, workers, and those on public and federal jobs in the city of Chicago. The Organization Committee for- mulates the following demands: 1. Im- mediate and regular weekly pay days. 2. Union wages on all jobs with a minimum of 83c an hour. 3. Time and transporation to be paid from city limits. 4. Shelter and fire to be pro- vided on all jobs in open, 5. Pull pay for time lost due to weather, 6. Men against accident and injury as pro- vided by Tlinois Workmen’s Compen- sation Act. 7. Relief to be issued in ease of part time work and imme- diately at end of job. 3. Recognition of Job Committee. 9. Against discrim- ination against Negro, Mexican, youth or other workers, 10. For the Workers’ Unemployed and Social Insurance Bill, J. Olgin . TENTH ANNIVERSARY DAILY WORKER MIKE GOLD, Chairman - KADAMSKY. An evening of new interna- t<... Cougs in German, Armenian, Caucasian, Russian CLARENCE HATHAWAY, E4., Daily Worker, Speaker DAILY WORKER CHORUS, A New Song Program WORKERS DANCE LEAGUE, Unique Presentation THEATRE OF ACTION, “The Holy of Holies” etc. TEN-PIECE NEGRO JAZZ BAND, Dance till Dawn Sat., Dec. 30, 8 P.M.--2. AM. BRONX COLISEUM FEAST 177th STREET Tickets 40c at the door (plus 10c ; fund) cates age Communist Candidate] Records Big Gain in Washington Election) ate for Councilman at Large, Horace Cup- ples, in the elections here Dec. 2, received 125 votes, as compared to 76 polled by the Party last year. Communist candidates for other offices, including that of Mayor, were yoted for through a sticker, or “write in campaign,” because enough money could not be raised officially to file their names. John A, Sells, the winning Mayoralty candidate, running on a Democratic ticket, was originally a Socialist, and had served one term on the Citizens’ ticket. Brooklyn Meeting Protests Decatur, Reichstag Trials I. L. D. Needs Funds for Scottsboro Appeal NEW YORK.—Printing of Scotts- boro trial briefs necessary to appeal the case, will cost $3,500, while $1,- 500 is required for court stenograph- ers’ fees and ‘other appeal charges, William L, Patterson, National Sec- retary of the International Labor Defense, declared yesterday in ap- pealing for defense funds. Samuel Leibowitz, one of the Scottsboro attorneys, speaking at a Meeting at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last Friday night, charged the State of Alabama with perjury and forgery in the conduct of the Decatur lynch trials, at which Hay- wood Patterson and Clarence Norris were sentenced to burn in the elec- tric chair on Feb. 2. Leibowitz told how the names of Negroes had been inserted on the venire in the original trials at Scotts- boro in an effort to hide the sys- tematic exclusion of Negroes from juries. Dr, Broadus Mitchell, professor of economics at John Hopkins Univer- sity, speaking at the same meeting attacked Goy. Ritchie of Maryland for his failure to prosecute the known lynchers of George Armwood, Ne- gro worker, taken out of the Prin- cess Anne jail, Eastern Shore, and lynched on Oct. 18. The meeting adopted resolutions against the Decatur lynch verdicts and for the_release of the defend- ants in the Reichstag trial and of the hundreds of thousands of politi- cal prisoners in the Nazi dungeons, ‘Southern Farmers Demand CWA Jobs By JIM MALLORY BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec, 24— ‘The wave of mass meetings and demonstrations against the policies of the C. W. A,, that has swept Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee and other Southern states in the last few days, has moved further South into Louisiana. The chief grievances of the work- ers in Louisiana are that the offi- cials are using C. W. A. jobs to build up political machines, and that farmers, though they may be starv- ing, are forbidden to register for Cc. W. A. work. A mass meeting of 400 people at Arcadia, La,, charged that the re- lief officials are playing politics with the empty bellies of the workers. It was revealed that workers applying for jobs with the C. W. A. are asked about their political affiliations and sympathies, It their amswers are not acceptable to the officials, their applications are invariably side- tracke d. Two hundred hungry farmers and a get DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 235, 1933 Page Three Merry Christmas! This is how thousands of men spent their Christmas eve. And yet these men others, who have not even the miserable shelter of 1 New York subway passage for their “home.” are luckier tham many 4 to Tour Country for Ist Convention of Furniture Union, Industrial Union Has 14 Locals, 8,100 Members NEW YORK.—The National Com- mittee of the Furniture Workers In- dustrial Union, has issued a call for its first convention to be held in New York City on February 9, 10, 11 and 12, 1934. From the few scattered or- ganizations which the furniture work- ers counted at the time of the Eastern State Conference held at July 8 and 9, 1983, today the National Commit- tee reports 14 existing locals through- out the country with a national mem- bership of 8,100, The National Committee in prep- aration for this convention has de- cided to send out four field organ- izers covering the most outstanding furniture centers in the United States. The following cities will be covered by the field organizers: Tour No, 1—Albert Brown, member of the National Committee of the FP. W. I. U. will cover the following cities between January 1 and February 8, 1934: Jamestown, N. ¥.; Buffalo, N. ¥.; ‘Tr N. ¥.; Amsterdam, N. Y.; Albany, N. Detroit, Mich; Grand ‘Rapids,’ Mic Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; cago, Ill; Rockford, Il; Richmond, Ind.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Evansville, Ind.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Milwaukee, Wisc.; Kenosha, Wisc. Tour No. 2—Joe Kiss, National Secretary of the F. W. I. U., will cover the following cities between January 1 and 10, 1934: $ Allentown, Pa.; Scranton, Pa.; Wilke Barre, Pa.; York, Pa.; Red Lion, Pa.; Philadelphia, ; Baltimore, Md.; Hagerstown, Md. ‘Tour No. '3—M. Pizer, National Chairman of the F. W. I. U., will cover the following cities between January 10 and 20, 1934: Boston, Mass.; Springfield, Mass.; New Haven, Conn.; Providence, R, 1; Hart- ford, Conn. ‘Tour No. 4—Jack Novak, Representative of the National Committee of the F. W. I. VU. will cover the following cities be- twen January 10 and 20, 1934: New Jersey State, exact cities to be worked out with the New Jersey T. U. v. C. Furniture workers in these cities are asked to give all assistance in the organization undertakings of the F. w.Lu. ————— farm laborers met at the Shreveport, La., city hall and passed a resolu- tion condemning the discrimination against their group by the C. W. A. The C. W. A. officials have an- nounced that they will aid no one in any way connected with farm- ing, no matter what their need may be, NOTE: In future the method of handling shop paper reviews will be changed. Instead of reviewing one paper a week from all angles, we will take up each week one specific shop paper problem, and discuss it on the basis of how the various papers at hand have handled that question. The first problem we ex- pect to take up, next week, is how ® paper should be issued by an in- side shop organization. This article must necessarily be based primarily on the methods of work of the New York City shop papers, since they are the only ones from which con- crete detailed information is at cast oe “THE SHAPE-UP NEWS,” Vol. 1, No. 1, Dec. 15, 1933, issued by the North River Rank and File Action Committee of the I. L. A., 799 Broad- way, Room 328, New York City. Reviewed by Gertrude Haessler Here we have a dock paper issued by the Opposition Group within the International Longshoremen’s Asso- ciation, which is affiliated to the American Federation of Labor. The I. L. A. controls the jobs on the docks on which this paper is issued. Thus there is a rather complicated organ- izational situation here, which re- & powerful factor In putting this pol- iey into effect. Its first issue, how- ever, does not clearly enough follow these tactics. Specific Organizational Advice To the very excellent dock news contained in the paper, the editors “Build Rank Docks and in the L L, A. locals.” This is one step it advocates. But it should give these workers some ex- planation, particularly in this first issue of the paper, on how these com- mittees should be built, In practically every article the con- clusion is what—PROTEST. Protest to whom?—to the I. L. A. officials, to the N. R. A., and to the bosses. quires the utmost clarity in handling. It is just as important to be abso- lutely clear on organizational policy and tactics in to be clear on questions in the “Daily Worker” or any other work- ing-class paper. The “Shape-up News” becames the educator on the docks, But the “Shape-up News” is not clear and not specific. In fact, it betrays lack of a clear-cut policy, ‘The jobs on the docks are con- trolled by a gang of the most notori~ ous racketeers that even the A, F. of The rank and file I. L, A. for what purpose? (1) to bring pressure to bear on their union | locals to act on dock grievances; (2) to gain rank and file control of the I. L. A. locals; (3) to organize struggle directly against the employ- ers on the docks, over the heads of the officials of the I.L.A., who won't be moved to act, and even refuse to call local meetings. The “Shape-up News” can become Protest how—nobody knows. What do these workers expect to achieve through this protest—this is not clearly stated. Remember that this is the first issue of the paper, It would have been a good idea to have carried a statement on the aims of the or- ganization, on the structure of the organization, on the methods of struggle of the organization. organization already so well estab- lished and recognized that the long- shoreman not directly connected with the movement knows what it is all about? No paper can take anything for granted. You are dealing with workers like any average worker—not yet understanding the political sig- nificance of events and conditions favored to “decasualize” means to register divide them against each other, drive a considerable proportion out of the industry, and retain just a sufficient News Briefs Dillinger Gangster Arrested in Chicago CHICAGO, Dec, 23. — Hilton Crouch, member of the notorious Dillinger gang of escaped convicts of Indiana Prison, was arrested today. | Police said he confessed participat- ing in the Massachusetts Ave. Bank robbery in Indiana last summer, along with the Dillinger gang. Thirteen Dead in Pacific Storms SEATTLE, Dec. 23.—Thirteen were killed, countless were injured and thousands were left homeless in the worst storms which have swept the Northwestern Pacific Coast in years. A hope for relief came with the fore- cast of lower temperatures which would stem the floods. 134 Die in French Train Crash LAGNY, Prance, Dec, 24. —.One hundred and thirty-four Christmas travelers, many of them students homeward bound, were killed last night’ in a collision of the Paris- Strasbourg express and a local train in a heavy fog. At least 280 were killed. It was reported to be the worst train wreck in the history of the country. * * * Lost Pay Leads to Killing of City Employee NEW YORK, Dec. 23. — August Clappert, employed as an extra in the Street Cleaning department, lost his pay envelope yesterday. Michael Connelly, another city employee, started to take up a collection to make up the lost pay. He had col- lected about $2.50 when he asked Guiseppe Novello, who refused to contribute. A fight started in which Novello suffered a fractured skull and died later in a hospital, Con- nelly was held for manslaughter. oe oe Insull Asks to Remain in Greece ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 23.—Samuel Insull, who found refuge in Greece from Chicago indictments for grand larceny, appealed from an order handed down by the Minister of In- terior requesting him to leave the country by Jan. 3ist. si 6 Twe Brothers Killed in Auto Crash PITTSBURGH, Dec. 23. “Pwo brothers were killed when their auto Is the! plunged into a creek near here to- day, it was reported. of those employed. each other for jobs, that these work- ers are filled with prejudices against these prejudices. It must be careful not to take for granted that the workers are born with a spirit class solidarity. They should stantly and patiently explain tics of the bosses, unity. It must workers who boss that if Rank and File Win Pass Resolution on Unity of Action; Pick): Code Delegates | — | DANVILLE, Ill, Dec. 24—At the +) Conference of the Danville Sub-Dis- | trict of the United Mine Workers of | America, of 13 local unions, in spite | of the presence of 11 sub-district board members, the rank and file) delegates were able to defeat the maneuvers of the board members to tsidetrack the basic demands of the miners. The conference adopted | resolutions based on the Cleveland United Front Conference, which had) the U. M. W. A. ‘The Resolution on Unity in Action, ! which was adopted by a vote of 19 to 13 (in spite of the fact that all) board members voted against the | Tesolution), calls for the election of the rank and file delegation to Wash- ington to the hearing on the Bitu- minous coal code and for a strike on | Jan. 5, to enforce the decisions as proposed by the miners in opposi- tion to the sell-out policies of the Lewises and Pearcys. ‘The resolution reads as follows: “Whereas, the Bituminous coal code tends to establish even worse conditions for the miners, supported by Lewis and Pearcy, proposing the $5 basic wage scale without any minimum guarantee of earnings, with its 40-hour week minimum, without any demands for unemploy- ment insurance or strike proposal to secure a better code, buf compulsory arbitration; “Therefore the code does not repre- sent the interests of the miners. and, “Whereas, the coal miners, divided and engaged in discorded movements, have been unable to actually present a code expressing their demands, and : “Whereas, the rank and file code, endorsed and adopted by this con- ference, represents the interests of the miners, therefore be it “Resolved that we elect a mass rank and file delegation of as many as possible to present our code to the N.R.A. Labor Board Hearing on Jan. 5th, and also deciare Jan. 5th a miners’ holiday and on that day hold huge mass meetings in support of our code and send messages to the | Labor Board demanding that the miners’ delegation be heard, and be it further “Resolved that this conference’ elect an official committee that will the basis of the analysis. pai The mistake made, in handling the Decasualization Plan, was that it is made abstractly, on the first two pages of the bulletin—a long edi- torial, occupying just one-half the entire paper. As far as the plan goes, the paper could have gone even farther—the whole paper could have been taken up with this plan—but how? In short articles, on the basis of dock grievances, with explanations and advice on what to do. Then the analysis, the grievances, working- class political issues, and organiza- tional advice could have been dealt with inseparably, as they should be. Then concrete organizational tactics of struggle on the docks could have been put forth, Struggle on the Job The most serious organizational de- fect, however, is an organizational shortcoming which almost takes on the nature of a contagious disease in nearly all shop papers—no strug~ gle on the job. This paper is not alone in this weakness and should not be too drastically taken to task for ét. The whole shop paper ac- tivity of the workers must begin to orientate on struggle on the job. This paper puts forward nowhere in its pages the struggle on the docks against the employers. The employ- ers are our main 4s. When we hit out at the union officials, we hit at them as agents of the em- ployers, but it is the employers who must get the most concentrated fire. How will the rank and file opposi- tion convince these workers, who are in the grip of the bosses, and also in the grip of their own racketeering officials, that their program is cor- rect and effective, unless they show this in concrete leadership right on the docks. We realize space limita- thons, and the harassing conditions « already been endorsed by 13 locals of |. oe pice hs aoe ROOSEVELT SPENDS BILLIONS FOR WAR UNDER GUISE OF PUBLIC WORKS MEASURES 4 |Protesting Treatment TWO HARBORS, young ers , Camp B of the Civil- Corps, ” having in protest Minn. w | ian ¢ here | camp er the rotten ceived at the [Women to Demand CWA Jobs Dec. 28 Special Women’s Pro- | Jects to Be Stressed obs omen n relief to the Civil Wo: 28 E. 28th St. Thurs il a. m. tion will repi ne needle trades, office work- ing houses | ted meeting to P. M., at the} 29 E. 20th St.,j he demands will be put into final} form Special preparatory meetings are held by unions and various} n’s organizations in preparation | r the mass del jon. These meet- ings will work out the demands for women workers in their particular) trades. The laundry workers will meet at 415 Lenox Ave., Dec. 26th at 2 P. M. Williana Burroughs will be the main bei aker, The shoe wor! will meet Dec. 26th at 11:30 A. M., at the union audi- torium, 77 Fifth Ave. A meeting of homeless and unor- ganized women will be held on Dec. 27th, et 2 P. M., at 114 W. 21st St. The W 's Unemployment Com- mittee calls upon all working class women, employed and unemployed, to support the delegation by coming to the mass delegation meeting, Thurs- day, Dec. 28th, at 124 E. 28th St. Mass Meeting to Hit Eviction of Williams Family NEW YORK.—A committee of 21 organizations has called a mass meeting to protest against the evic- tion on Dec. 7 of the Williams fam~ ily. At the time of the eviction an in- dignant crowd gathered and the po- lice brutally beat Jans and Michael Williams and threw them into jail. The meeting, which will take place Tuesday, Dec. 26, at 8 p.m. at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., will be addressed by Israel Amter, National Secretary of the Unem~- ployed Council; Sadie Van Veen and Louis Fleischer, I. L. D. attorney. ‘The trial will come up in the Sec- ond Ave. and Second St. Court on Wednesday, Dec. <7, at 2 p.m. send copies of our code to all locals of the U. M. W. A. and P. M., A. to develop an exchange of opinions of rank and file of both unions that will lead to the establishment of} fighting unity of the rank and file miners of Illinois in struggle for these demands.” under which shop pap are issued, when it is the wo themselves who issue them (as is the case here), But we suggest that in future issues, more political material be included, for instance, the close tie-up of the Ryan gang with city politics—former- ly the Democratic gang, and now the Fusionist. How about tackling the question of the $25,000,000 graft suck- ed out of the waterfront workers every year by the LL.A.? How about the Jim-Crow policies on the docks— tying this up skillfully with the 9 Quit C. C. C. Camp, | Expend Big War Fund Under Guise of “Public Works” nued from Page 1) ble results of the pro- “higher standard of liy~ of the following in- : rp Air Corps ation .... 10,000,000 Navy Di neering ... _ 712,500 r ns weenie 330,225 ry's Office (ma- tO0Is)) ...csescaee 2,100,000 s and Accounts 205,662 | Construction at Shore Stations seveeeees 9,810,552 Aeronautics awke 7,500,000 Naval Construction (Ex: ecutive Order) ...... +++ 238,000,000 Totals. caw aacaseae $364,726,498 Indirect War Preparations ,| Insular Affairs (War De- partment supervision. Coast Guard (to be offi- cered by Naval Acad- emy graduates Panama Canal (tremen- dously important for War communications control) National Advisory Com- mittee for Aeronautics... 274,904 Civilian Conservation Corps (Executive Or- der) Purchase of land.. 20,000,000 Civilian Conservation Corps, Estimated An- ticipated Expenses ..... 301,037,315 Total ...... see eeee e+ -$349,004,131 C. C. C. a Military Weapon General Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff of the U. 8. Army, clearly ad- mitted the war character of the Civilian Conservation Corps in his recent annual report to Secretary of War Dern. MacArthur frarikly treated the C. C. C. as a military weapon. “Plans prepared for the emergency of war were applicable after rapid revision in some of their details, to most of the problems that AaTOSe.. 46 “To epitomize the military lessons of the 1933 mobilization, it has given renewed evidence of the value of sys- tematic preparation for emergency. including the maintenance of trained personnel and suitable supplies and the development of plans and policies applicable to a mobilization. Par- again the vital need for a strong corps of professional officers and for an efficient body of commissioned reserves. ... ee is true that certain benefit: ave accrued to the army through its administration of the Civilian Con~ servation Corps project. Junior offi- cers in particular have obtained valu- able training in mobilization pro- cesses and jn leadership. Staffs have been enabled to test in a practical way certain phases of theoretical plans...” Ickes also played Santa Claus to the railroads. On Dec. 23 he said: “Railroad allotments amounted to $182,808,000.” Of this sum $84,000,000 went to the Pennsylvania Railroad. Concerning the $48,571,958 which has been allotted to limited dividend corporations “for a score of housing and slum-clearance projects in a dozen states,” it has been said that the contemplated rents are far above the figure within the means of work~ ers. Furniture Workers Subscribe! Special Convention Issue Out December and January THE FURNITURE. WORKER ; National Publication of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union Affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League ~ Scottsboro case? How about begin- ning to unfold an anti-war cam~- ign? The longshoremen are han- dling munitions almost every day, and will, sooner than we think, be called upon by the whole working class to take political as well as economic ac- tion on the war question. We must educate the workers all the time, and not confine their attention and ac- tivities to purely economic issues, Good Technical Make-up ‘The technical make-up shows care. The typing is feirly well done, the pictures are good and well placed, margins wide and attractive. Un- fortunately One small detail destroyed all this good work. The paper that was used was so thin, that the print from one side shows through on the other, and a messy, blurred effect is the result. The paper shows that workers on the dock are themselves active get- ting it out. That in itself is a first- class achievement. Now they can improve the contents of their work by casting about for some help in editing it. They can get it from unions with a fighting policy which haye had experience in this work. We recommend to this group that they tie up their work and activities more closely with the Rank and File Committee of the A. F. of L., which has just opened its new headquarters at 1 Union Square. Here they can get the benefit of the experience of opposition groups from all industries, and from all over the country. NOTE: The only District which has answered our request for in- formation on shop papers in con- centration industries, is Chicago, which lists quite an imposing array of papers. Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Detroit, have not yet replied, Please send papers if they are is- sued, and inform us when papers will be issued in those concentra~ tion plants where none exist as yet. SON en Published Monthly at $12 Broadway, New York City — Tel, GRamercy 5-8956 z Editor ... «sees JOE KISS Subscription B® conte ‘tusle copies 5 cele ANNIVERSARY Daily qlorker CELEBRATIONS DISTRICT 1 ment and Dance. 4 PROVIDENCE, R. 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