The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1933, Page 2

Page Two — DAILY YORKER Fur Bosses in Joint Move With AFL. to 3 RenewWar on Union WReject Contract With Industrial Union: Out toSmash Wages, Hours ou NEW YOREK.—Wha a repetition of tacks on the Fur Needle Trades Workers Union is seen in the of ring-leaders of the A: New York Fur Trin tiations with ; and again enter | the defunct Jo of tk ¥. of L. In a letter to Herman Scheidlinger, president of the Associated and to} Henry Rosen, president of the New York aciatior dust Union warn inion stand fur worker: It union, “the re-| certain shady | y to foist eff forces in the the ‘grip of racketeers on the indus-| newal of try. It forecasts bitter war between | the fur workers and the bosses for the right to organize into a union| of their own choice.” The Industrial Union has also sent & communication to the individual members of the fur associations. warning that all previous attempts to Keep alive the underworld led Joint Council have proven futile and) costly, and against converting the fur) market into another bloody battle-| field. It urges them against follow- ing the destructive wild and criminal policies of the association leaders and against forcing the workers into the | Joint Council. “The fur workers and their union are not interfering with your right to belong to any associa- tion, We therefore demand that you ‘Anniversary Jan. 27) Celebrate Fifth Year of Needle Trade Union NEW YORK.—The fifth jubilee of | the Needle Trades Workers Industrial | Union, of 131 W » Will be] | celebrated New Dec. 31,| Mecca Temple, 130 W. 56th St The jubilee, the Union reports, will not only be a celebration of the birth of the union fi rs ago during the of 1 pulsions from the rnational Ladies Garment Work- but will also be a dem- wave | In of proletarian dances. les Licht ell-known violinist pianist, will also perform. tickets are very low. and } Prices for igob, IWOtoCelebratedth Costume Ball, Dance to Feature Novelties NEW YORK.—The International Workers Order will celebrate its fourth anniversary of growth from 9,000 to almost 40,000 members with a_costume ball and concert on Jan. 27, 1934, at the 69th Regiment Ar- mory, Lexington Ave. and 25th St., New York City. For the first time in the history of | the working class movement a cos- tume ball will be actually featured by proletarian costumes. There will |be costumes depicting the dress of various revolutionary eras — of the Paris Commune of 1871, of the Rus- an Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. There will be collective costumes representing a group or idea. Prizes will be awarded to the most original and most expressive costumes. do not interfere with the worke’ own. choosing” concludes the letter. Pur code hearings are scheduled to be held in Washington on Friday. All delegates elected to attend the hearings must meet in union head- quarters tonigt "| Various rightyto belong to a union of their) features have been ar- ranged as entertainment. There will be @ pageant depicting the birth and | LLGW. Officials to, Thousands Miss Being Fed | on New Year's Eve Give Dressmakers at World’s Worst Xmas Meal Flat Price System | Xmas Gift Brings Back Sweatshops, Longer Hours, Wage Cuts NEW YORK.—. pres- ance to the attack- ent was handed the dri s by the Hochman-Zimmer leader~ ote dade wom Lote ee Mae ng Program has been’ Garment Workers’ Union this w2e! the celebration The hen they were promised the re- - ger? ; ‘oduction of the old scientific Ss Verein will carry | price schedules in a special Christ- of Soviet and Work-' mas bulletin issued to shop cha ‘known dancer will men. The officials are prepa the ground for the abolition of t minimum wage scale and the int duction of the flat price system which means a return to miserable sweatshop conditions and long hours. The bulletin says: “The present system of price settlement makes it difficult at all times to prevent competition and especially difficult to maintain union standards in the dull on. We are now in the process of preparing system of piece rate settlements that we hope will do away with the chaotic pris adjustments which we have today.” The bulletin makes no mention of safeguarding the minimum wage scales. Instead the officials indulge in praise for the N.R.A. code, again misleading the dressmakers into hoping for improvements under the NRA code, and refusing to admit that the unemployment dressmakers is due to the failure of the NRA. Commenting on the bulletin, the dress department if the Needle Trades Workers’ Industriel Union, declares that the action of the offi- cials dees not come as a surprize.” ‘They are now cooperating with the jobbers who helped them drive thousands of dressmakers into the union. Due to the Industrial Un- ion’s activities in carrying on strikes against wage cuts and exposing the International offi the intte: have been compel! Oo admit that of 89,000 |; | NEW YORK.—Thousands of New | vork’s homeless unemployed were |turned away and refused meals at the Christmas dinner given at the | Municipal Lodging House Annex, an ebandoned pier at the foot of 25th Six thousand, according to the of- Is in charge, were fed. The meal sted of rubbery chicken, pota- turnips, three slices of bread, | mince ple, a an apple. | Since the of New York only a year S$ a pretense of homeless men a full meal, {no ad i were at hand | to provid As a result, | only a few hundred of the men were able to eat at one time. Those wait- for their turn at the tables were i to wait outside the pier in the cold. The police singled out the crowd jinto @ single-file line that slowly made its way into the building, Once inside. the tempo was speeded up. Guards and police were at hand to keep the men moving. | As soon as # man had finished, an- other was ready to take his place at the table. With police and guards standing over them, the men gulped their food; got up from the table; and shuffled out of the building. Once outside, the police were again at hand to keep them moving away from the building. Men who had gathered in the sun were told to “keep moving.” Insice the building the police band played “Auld Lang Syne,” and other tuneful hom: to remind the men of the times in the past when it was not necessary for them to de- pend upon the city flop-house for their Christmas dinner, Prompily ai 2 p. m. a cordon of police formed at the opposite end of the street and stopped all who had not come before 2 p. m. from forming into line to be fed. Disappointed ones gathered about the barbage cans of Belleview Hospital nearby, and pawed over the refuse, looking for scraps of food. \Leipzig Fire Trial | | Proves Nazi Guilt | | Says Soviet Paper | (Continued from Page 1) | | attempts to bolster up the prestige jot persons who were “not subject to | the present trial?” This is the coarse, {cheap work of the fascist judge | Buenger, That the verdict is an attempted justificat‘on of the fase'st leaders it- {self confirms the fact that they and no one else were the organizers of | jthe Reichstag arson. The fascist jleaders did not sucesed in removing the stigma of their guilt. Fascists Guilty The verdict makes their position on this question hopeless. On tle {one hand, they we the four Commun Chicago Parents Hit School Jim-Crowism CHICAGO, Dec. 25.—Over 100 pa- rents and children, most of them col- ored, attended a public hearing last Wednesday on bad conditions and discrimination in the public schools. The meeting, which was organized by the Hayes School Parents’ Com- mittee of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the Young Pio- neers Scottsboro troop, was pre- sented with a mass of detaiicd in- formation, as the workers and their children exposed the conditions in the schools. The vice-president of the Parents’ and Teachers’ Association attended the meeting to contradict the ex- posures and was driven out of the hall by the angry parents. the jobbers are using all methods | to cheat the workers and avoid responsibility for the acrcement. But | this does not prevent them from carrying through strikebreaking ac- tivities against the dressmokers | | growth of the I, W. O. in which jover 100 children from the I. W. O. | Youth sections will participate. The |famous Ether Wave Instrument | which caused a great sensation a | year or so ago will be demonstrated {th j by Louis Barlevy. ‘This instrument i : Fur Workers Condemn | : Lies of “Forward” aged by the lies ih Daily Forward » at a met and drew ¢ deranii ; on the wor ; ‘The r ays in part: “We } declare 2 part of the wea, the Joint Council, the “Forward . the So- ; cialist Party to de: union. Our shop is an Indu on Shop working 35 hows and under union } conditions, ng pay for holi- days.” ‘2 ‘Fhe resolution is signed by all the Workers in the shop. Fur Workers Condemn NEW YORK—Retail fur workers, at a meeting union headquarters Tuesday registered their protest against the proposed N. R. A. code for the retail fur industry and against the treatment of their representatives at the code hearings in Washington last week. In a resolution adopted, the members approve and support the proposals of their delegation regard- ing the code and pledge to resist any attacks on their standards. A protest will be forwarded by the union against the code and against the seating of Pietro Luachi of the defunct A. F. of L. Fur Union as ‘labor’ re: ntative by the N. R. A. Officials’ Trick Stops Election of Rank, File in Hatters Local 7 NEW YORK.—In a surprise move, officials of local 7 of the United Hat- tets (A. F. of L.) announced that elections would take place within a week's time instead of the usual month allowed for this purpose. Militant Rank and File candidates were unable to make satisfactory preparations for the election, but suc- weeded in polling 86 out of the ene cast for the candidates for of- Officials sidetracked a victory by the trick of putting the rank and file can- didates at the end of the list instead of in alphabetical order. Hays Gives Chief Credit to I. L. D. in Ferzani Victory NEW YORK.—Credit to the Inter- national Labor Defense and to its attorney, Harry Sacher, for the work done by them in the defense of Athos Terzani, anti-fescist worker charge of murdering an anti-fascist mot ond murdered by one of Art 's Khaki Shirts, is given in a letter received today by the organ- ization from Arthur Garfield Hays, chief defense counsel in the case. “Credit in these cases usually goes to the man who does the larger part the trial work,” Hays’ letter says. is due to the man who prepares , Pi i CORRECTION article entitled “McLevy on Workers’ Demands, 8. P. Rank and File,” in Sat- Dec. 23 issue, page 5, be- of column two, the sen- ling “He appointed Joseph Democrat, town clerk,” ve read: “He appointed ferer, a Democrat, assist- clerk.” The word “assist- dropped out in the com- room, a SF vt p| READING, Pa., played by waving the hands, the usician doesn't touch the instru- nt. The music is drawn from the —from the ether waves. There will be @ concert orchestra Pieces directed by Irving R. enman who accompanied Isa Kremer on her recent tour through- out the United States. Dance music will be furnished by two Negro and ite bands of 14 pieces. Admis- $ 35 cents. of | 200 Strike on Job When 3 Hosiery Workers Are Fired for Talking Dec. 25.—Because | three of their fellow workers in Local 10 of the A. F. of L. Hosiery Work- ers’ Union were discharged, 200 work- ers of the Full Fashioned Hosiery Mills here declared a strike on the job. They stood at their machines but refused to work. The manage- ment was compelled to stop all oper- ations and later ordered the mill closed. The union workers were discharged because they were discussing a radio Speech with non-union workers while at work. Herman to Head YCL jin Cleveland; Little to Lead League in N. Y. NEW YORK. — In line with its policy of concentrating on the most important industrial sections of the country, and sending the most ex- perienced and capable comrades to work there, the National Executive Committee of Young Communist League has decided to send I. Her- man, District Organizer of New York, to the Cleveland District, an im- portant steel and mining center. Comrade John Little will take the place of Herman as District Organ- izer in New York. A farewell banquet to Herman has been arranged, at which the revolu- tionary youth of the city will also greet John Little. The banquet will be held Friday, Dec. 29 in the Work- striking under the leadership of the | Industrial Union.” Dressmakers Force I. L. G. W. U. Scab NEW YORK. — Enraged dress- {makers, who stopped at the Gold- Sheer shop, 253 West 35th St., to ex- press their solidarity with ers compelled police to scab sent by the officials of the In- ternational Ladies Garment Workers’ Union to parade with a sign declaring that the shop is not on strike. Hun- dreds of dressmakers who came to support the pickets condemned the Hochman-Zimmerman clique for their protection of scabbery and their aid to the bosses in cutting wages. Gangsters and police are stationed at all striking shops of the Industrial Union to intimidate the strikers, Several workers of the striking Ann | Gladys shop, not yet members of the I. L. G. W. U. were enrolled in the union offices yesterday by the boss to enable the continuation of scabbery under the guise of a “union” shop. to continue its fight to stop the gen- eral wage cutting campaign now pre- valent in the dress shops. Wilmington Police “Stop Soviet Film; Arrest Two Workers WILMINGTON, Del. Dec. 25.— A showing of the Soviet film “War Against the Centuries” was stopped by police Saturday, who arrested two workers on charges of promot- ing the showing, The workers, John Adams, Daily Worker repre- sentative, and Anna Krause, local woman, are held ander $500 bail. The affair was arranged for the benefit of the “Daily Worker,” and was attended by over 200 workers, a large crowd for this city, who de- fied police attempts to intimidate them. | The two workers are being de- fended by the International Labor Defense and E, Redding, local Negro ers’ Center, 35 East 12th St, 2nd floor. Admission is 35 cents. attorney. Their trial comes up to- morrow at 9 a. m. A committee was elecied to pre sent demands on the aldermen in the district. A meeting to hear its report will be held next Friday eve- ning at 223 Artesian St. geries and lies on the other hand, they don’t dare to affirm, as stated in the indictment, | Van der Lubbe set fire to the Reichstag single-handed, without any | accomplices. | Off Picket Line |: The Industrial Union is determined | The fascist judge Buenger, to | Shield the obvious Nazi accomplices of Van der Lubbe, speaks of ac: 2s “necessarily from the Com- But the court can: and the whole fas- cist state machine is unable to find them. The fascist authorities suc- ceeded in murdering thousands of German workers, confining hundreds of thousands of working-class vic- tims in prisons and concentration camps and yet they are unable to Giscover the few accomplices of Van der Lubbe.” “They ‘couldn’t’ because these ac- complices were not from the Com- munist camp. Besides, how could the fascist court find Van der Lubbe’s actual accomplices when the verdict designed to ‘exculpate’ them was dic- tated by the higher fascist authori- ties? Defeated in Court “The picture is now clearer than ever. German fascism has suffered a hard defeat at Loipzig. This shows the force of the German proletariat, ts revolutionary vanguard, the Com- munist Party, the powerful move- ment of the world protest and the} heroic struggle of the four accused | Communists, particularly Comrade Dimitroff. Still in Nazi Hands “The defendants are now wrenched out of the hands of thé fascist court, but their lives are still in danger. We must not forget this for one moment. The assurances of the fas- cist authorities that the accused will be given safety and protection are not worthy of belief. These assur- ances are given in order to allay the vigilance of the workers of the world.” Liberty and Safety for Dimitroff, Torgier, Popoff and Taneff! This still remains the battle slogan of the workers of the world. We must not forget that after their scandalous Leipzig failure, that the fascists are already preparing a new trial for the German revolutionary fighters. Proletarians, be vigilant! Down with the fascist executioners! De- fend the prisoners of fascism! Liber- ote the thousands of revolutionary fighters suffering in the torture chambers of the fascist dictatorship! This battle call will echo still louder throughout the world. ‘ Tin Mill Workers Revolt Against A.A. (By a Metal Worker Correspondent) STUBENVILLE, O.—The Amalga- mated Association is gone. Wo $ ere walking out on the leaders be when they ttered the con- r. here in Steub- At the Pope Tin Mill meet- ing Saturday night, 50 got up and walked out whon the officials asked Shem to come and pay dues. They SHOUT SLOGANS IN UNISON New York City, Dear Comrade Editor: I have just seen some of the marchers who were protesting against the Nazi frame-up. They were indeed a very inspiring and ef- fective sight, but I think that we can be still more effective if we would all shout the same slogans, etc. It looks bad, or rather it gives the im-j; pression of lack of organization, when we have a few individuals shouting something else, and in gen- eral all the watcher hears is a few grumbles and squeaks. Let’s have everybody shouting the same thing. LET THEM HEAR OUR ROAR OF PROTEST! Let’s not have in- dividual voices, but the voices of the mass! The voice of the mass is the one that will gain new members to our ranks and make our enemies tremble! ‘This may seem like a little matter, but it will make our parades and demonstrations a hundred times more effective. Comradely yours, LL. ZEE. Tenth Anniversary issue of the Daily Worker, Jan. 6, 24 pages. Articles by leaders of Communist Party, U. S. A; greetings from leaders of the world Communist movement; special features by staff members, Rush your orders. aid, “To hell with you and the A‘) NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, i933 ‘Shop Delegates of ‘Shoe Union Prepare for NRA Elections Greet Merger Revort, Warn Against A. F. L. Seab Agency NEW YORK —Announcement by Fred Biedenkapp that the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union was now part of the new United Shoe and Leather Worters’ Union with @ mem-~- bership of 70,000 shoe workers was enthusiastically greeted by the Shop Delevates’ Council at their meeting on Saturday. The Council met to mobilize for Jan. 2 in shops where there are no full union agreements and to pre- pare for any attacks on working con- ditions which the bosses may attempt during the present slack season. The Council elected a committee of 25 to mobilize the workers in the shops to defeat any trickery in the elections. A resolution was adopted that no wage-cuts, lay-offs or any concessions are to be permitted in any of the shops. The new United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union issued a warning to all slipper workers yesterday against the stool pigeons, headed by Mike} Tesaro, who are trying to break up union slipper shops by offering the bosses new crews registered in the Boot and Shoe scab agency. In or- der to get such crews, the Boot and Shoe Union ig, announcing that jobs are available. Workers are warned’ against applying for such scab jobs, An organization drive will be un- dertaken in the slipper trade, to be! followed by a general organization ‘drive in Worcester, Mass.; Jersey City and Philadelphia, the territory to be covered by the New York Dis- trict of the United Shoe and Leather | Workers’ Union, it was announced yesterday. The coordinating committee in charge of putting into action the de- cisions of the amalgamation conven- | tion are meeting in Boston on Thurs- | day. On Thursday night, at Arcadia’ Hall, the N. Y. de‘egates to the con- vention will submit a full report to the membership. Archbishop Slain By Anti-Soviet Church Members {Murdered Bishop Said USSR Had Religious Freedom NEW YORK—Archbishop Leon Tourain, primate of the Georgian (Armenian) Church of all North and! South America except California, was! slain Sunday near the altar of the Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Church, 578 West 187th St., by mem- bers of an opposing church faction who objected to his recognition of Soviet Armenia as the Armenian home land. Tourain was stabbed to death with a nine-inch butcher knife while con- ducting services. Several assailants gathered around him in the aisle of the church to hide the killer. | Two men, Matos Leyletin, 39, and Nishan Sarakisias, 38, severely beaten by the congregation, were arresied by the police. Four hundred people were in the church when the stabbing oc- curred, | The archbishop, with whom the majority of the church members sided against the anti-Soviet faction, had often stated that while he was not proSoviet, the Soviet Government had aided Armenia. He also said thit tLe Soviét Government had never tn- terfered with the freedom of the church or its members. | Last July 2 the archbishop was to have spoken before an_ Armenian Day celebration at the Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago. He found the stand decorated with the flag of the former Armenian govern- ment. Explaining that Armenia is now a part of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, he insisted that the old flags be taken down and replaced by the new Soviet flag which bears | the N. R. A. elections scheduled for | lw rs { By MILLY B. | (Batting for IHE STATE Central Institu called. One thousand young Sovi must bring up a new genera- tion of workers, healthy, jovial and capable of raising the might of the Soviet country, and to defend it from attempts on the part of the enemy.” Glance through that window there to the banner-furled field of the in stitute ... there, where the lines are gold with autumn. Flash of a crimson cap over the high jump. Sway of are seeing the wives of Red Army and Navy Commanders in their first an- nual track and field meet. Two hun- dred women, all trained and capable of participating in practically all of the sports events. “If a wife stays at home, is physi- cally weak, negligent about her per- Sonal appearance and untidy, she is not a real life partner to a Red Army Commander, but a burden,” the chief at the institute declares. Physical culture as a means of rais- ing the productivity of workers in fac- tories is being thoroughly tested in a dozen Moscow factories under the di- rection of the institute, we are told. Raise Production At the Trekhgorni Textile Mill, ex- ercises were introduced successfully during rest periods. The pfoductivity of the workers increased between 8 and 10 per cent. The Stalin (AMO) Auto Plent, the Kauchuk Factory, she Krasni Proletari Machine Building Works, the Red October Candy Fac- tory, Kazan Railway Shops, Hammer and Sickle and Electrozavod, as well as other large plants are being used as laboratories to work out research problems. Before the Revolution, physical cul- ture was unknown in Russia except to the sons of merchants, nobles and cir- cus performers. The whole movement. was recreational, rather than educa- tional, and not taken seriously. (Ex- cept, of course, by the circus perform- ers,) Foreigners, by introducing soccer about 30 years ago and helping in the dward Yewhouse The Headquarters of Soviet Sports athletes, are being educated here as cultural trainers of Soviet ‘hool children, workers and Red Armymen. Stalin once formulated the? —- ‘aims of physical culture: “We navy blue over the balance bar. You; Ang othe wien MITCHELL re d.. Newhouse) te of Physical Culture, it is et men and women, all crack Thirty-five per Now, 1,000 students are enrolled for the four-year course. Students’ are only admitted to the institute after they have completed a nihe-year school course, duri: hich they have specialized in ping themselves as sportsmen and women, Three Faculties The institute maintains three facul- ties, pedagogical, factory and army and navy. The curriculum for all three contains such subjects as chem= istry, physics, anatomy and physiology in the physical sciences. In the so- cial sciences, philosophy, political economy, dialectic materialism are taught. In physical culture, the stu- dents work at track, swimming, wrestling, skiing and skating, jiu jitsu oxing and other sports. To graduate, a student must be mas: ter of at least two of these sports. Ii soccer is one of his major sports, ther. he must be a first string player; in track, he must not do worse than 115 seconds for 100 meters; in the high jump, not worse than 150 cm. Building New Men “The objective conditions for the new Socialist society are being cre- ated in Soviet factories and plants,” the chief says. “We are building the new men and women for this society in our laboratory.” Many unusual problems come to the laboratory. American baseball is introduced in the Soviet Union by foreign workers, immediately becomes popular. But what to do for balls, bats, catcher’s mitts and fielder's gloves? The old Russia imported such material, when it was needed. Now, the problem is not solved in this manner. “We must learn to make our own sports equipment,” is the slogan, A Soviet-made baseball, a catcher’s mitt, a pair of square-toed skiing shoes, @ smooth, slippery pair of jiu jitsu shoes are passed along for our inspection. A sporting goods factory made them after designs drawn in the institute. Look through the window, there, Those banners, the shouts, the sports organization of football teams in the big cities, were directly responsib‘e for the first organized attempts at physi- cal culture. A sort of Russian base- ball Gopta) was played even before the foreign invasion of soccer, but it ‘was never organized, Only after the Revolution was the idea born in Russia of creating a spe- cial institute for physical culture. In 1918 the institute was organized, Un- til 1923 it moved in an extremely nar- row and restricted field, devoting it- self wholly to research. Then it ex- panded, throwing open its doors as a training school for physical cutture | instructors. The institute worked un- der the Commissariat of Health, and the first instructors specialized in work connected directly with health. Thirty or 40 instructors were grad- | uated each year. The work was an improvement over the earlier efforts, | but still there was plenty of room for improvement. In 1929, there was a! general reorganization, the institute | being placed under the Supreme Counci! of Physical Culture of the! USSR. The policy of the institute! changeu, for it was found that many graduates were not proletarians. | Eighty-five per cent of the students City Events MASS MEETING OF UNEMPLOYED ‘The delegation who visited Frederick Dan- iels, C.W.A. administrator, will report back ‘at @ mass meeting of unemployed “needle , trades workers to be held today, at Union Auditorium, 2 P.M. a white hammer and sickle on a red background. A fight followed. Since that day opposition had been developed against the archbishop, By JOE KISS, Organizing the tens of thousands of unorganized furniture workers, building up a powerful national union, is the most vital matter be- fore all workers in the furniture in- dustry. The organization of the unorgan- ized and building up a national or- ganization is not only necessary at this timé for the coordination of our |struggle on a national scale— but because history teaches us, that the bosses are successful in destroying ;Weak, small and scattered trade Short History of Our Trade Organizations The first important trade union of furniture workers in America, the Furniture Workers National Union, founded in 1873, was composed pri- marily of German cabinetmakers. It made no attempts to organize other trades or even other nationalities. The short-lived organization, merged in 1895 with the Machine Wood Workers International Union. But ; these mergings had no appeal what- soever to the furniture workers, since it presented no fighting program for their benefit, so in 1912 it merged again, this time with the Brother- hood of Carpenters and Joiners, which since then had jurisdiction over a majority of furniture workers, but, the exception of a small number of highly skilled men, has had very few members in the industry. By 1931 it had practically given up jthe idea of organizinng furniture workers, Five other craft unions of the A. F. of L., with considerable jurisdiction in the industry have practically no members in this ficld. They have been at a standstill until they have been instructed by the N. R. A. administration, to go out and organize @ small percentage of the unorganised furniture workers, under such a high falutin’ slogan as: “The government is with you now—organ- ize!” “Opportunity is given to each and every one of us today—provided we organize as the new law urges us to do.” Under these slogans the A. F. of L. has been sending out their field organizers to the larger furniture centers, especially tackling such cities where the workers or- ganized thaueelves or spontaneously went out on etrike after the dozens of wage cuts during the last four years of capitalist crisis. They did considerable damage in the furni- ture industry, to such an extent that in some instances the workers ex- pressed their indignation towards any union. The most outstanding example is Baltimore, Md., where Mr. Deamer, the Upholsterers Interna- tional, A. F, of L. field organizer suc- ceeded in some 400 up- holsterers into Local 75, leading and ‘settling their strike through the local N.R.A. Arbitration Board, with the provision that the bosses may hire non-union help in their “union” shops, The bosses were quick in accept- ing their wonderful “labor agreement” and the strike was “successfully set- tled,” as Mr. Deamer later reported to his boss, Hatch. Later the Balti- more union upholsterers were fired one by one. The bosses utilized that one little point in the agreement, Saying, “bosses may hire non-union help at any time.” The end of this most outrageous sell-out of the A. F. of L. is that “open shop” is es- tablished in all settled “union” shops in Baltimore, with a total demor- alization among the A. F. of L. up- holsterers in Baltimore towards any union, They are not paying their “per capita” or even their local dues, and usually no more than 30 mem- bers come to the local meeting, which is composed of over 400 members, The Baltimore situation is one ex- ample. We could go on naming Los Angeles, St. Louis, Cleveland, James~ town, Philadelphia, Chicago, and a number of other major cities through- out the U.S.A. And while the A. F. of L. tried its best to carry out the instructions of the Federal Government, as its true “agency,” it had no intention of or- ganizing the 268,098 workers em- ployed in the furniture industry, It had no demands for the large num- ber of young and women workers em- ployed in the industry—-nor had any demands whatsoever for the tens of a thousands of unskilled workers em- ployed in the industry. Under this circumstance the East- ern States Conference of Furniture Workers was called on July 8 and 9, 1933, in New York, representing over 3,000 workers organized into exist- ing Furniture Industrial Unions. ‘They formed their rank and file Na- tional Committee, as a central guid- ing leadership towards the end of forming a solid national Industrial Union in the furniture industry. 14 Locals, Membership 8,100 At the last meeting of the En- larged National Committee meeting, the National Bureau reported 14 ex- isting F. W. I. U. locals, with a mem- bership of 8,030, to which we are adding now the Philadelphia local FP. W. I. U., with a small fighting membership of 70, making a total of 8,100. We have in addition Action and Organization Committees func- tioning in 15 different other cities, being active among some 15,000 fur- niture workers. We led nationally more than 14,000’ workers in strike for better conditions in the past few months, winning increases in wages as high as 100 per cent, establishing shorter hours and union conditions which is maintained in most of the Jocals through organized enlig’iten- Furniture Union Calls Convention for Febru-l ary; 14 Locals With 8,000 Members Organized One National Industrial Union of Furniture Workers Is Necessary © ferences, where the sharp issues of | “maintain your conditions” is dis- cussed by the workers at large, de- cision is taken collectively. The Na~- tional Committee also appeared mili- tantly in behalf of the furniture workers at the Washingtoh furniture code hearing held on Nov. @ and Oct. 9, 1933, where a flat minimum wage | scale of 30 cents for the South and 34 cents for the North was proposed | by the manufacturers, with minimum | hours of 40 to 45, These proposals were silently supported by the A. F, of I. lawyers, who were there resenting “labor.” They asked i more lenient consideration, putting | up no resistance, but asking for “representation” in the Code Admin- istration. The National Committee came forward militantly, demanding a minimum wage scale of 70 cents for the unskilled furniture workers and 70 cents to up to $1.75 per hour for skilled furniture workers, with a maximum 80 hours per five working days a week, no labor competition i between the North or South, equal workers in the industry. To Hold Convention The National Committee has de- cided to hold the first convention of | the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union on Feb. 9, 10, 11 and 12, 1934,! in New York City, It also adopted and submitted a draft constitution to the membership for discussion, only | Organizational pay for young, Negro and women tp, paaeliere EECAE RS ee FUR WORKERS TO HOLD OPEN FORUM ‘An open forum of the Fur Workers In- dusttial Union will be held today at 2 p.m. at Union headquarters, 151 West 28th St. “Furniture Worker,” ee te igeed organ, appearing monthly. ‘a~ tional Committee correctly analyzing the present situation calling for ac- tion in its resolution covering (a) breakdown of the N.R.A., (b) un- loyment in our industry, (0) to strike—against injunctions, (a) unity with A. F. of b. workers, (e) need of educational work, en-| lightenment of the T.U.U.L. policies, | izers in preparation at the same time large ots ata ters. ler E80 undertakings in prep- aration for our first convention, it and to the National Committee. For a National Industrial Union ‘The course of the furniture work- bot Neal scr oretowy oe They can’t expect anything from A. F. of L. leadership but a sell-out and craft division, which, in the long plays into the hands of | Es of industrial: unionism advocated by the Trade Union Unity League and | its affiliated union, the Furniture! Workers’ Industrial Union. 'The or- ganization of the furniture workers is a historical task and necessity. We will not fail, Now it is the task of évery individual furniture worker ment, calling periodical Shop Con-| amendment, through the pages of the! to fall in line and organise, field under the pale autumn sun- light. For the first time in the history of the U.S.S.R. and the world, a Spar- takiade of Red Army and Navy Com-° manders is being held . . . most of the participants heroes of the Civil ‘War. Each fall, the youth of the Soviet Union march in vast physical culture demonstrations which bring tens of thousands of young athletes in public review. The new generation of workers, healthy and jovial, is here. NITGEDAIGET FILLED UP Camp Nitgedaiget is filled up. Tf comrades desire to come out please make reservations first by calling the Co-operative, EStabrook 8-1400. Brownsville Pharmacist Directory B. ESECOVER, 447 Stone Avenue. WM. GARDEN, Ph.G., 386 Hinsdale St. WOLF N.PECKER,Ph.G..163 Belmont Ave, FRANK SUSSMAN, Ph.G., 501 Powell St, J. NOVICK, Ph.G., 408 Howard Ave. Tompkins Square 6-913% Caucasian Restaurant “KAVK AZ" Russian and Oriental Kitchen BANQUETS AND PARTIES 38% Bast 14th Street New York City 1. J. MORRIS, Inc. GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS 96 SUTTER AVE. 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