The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 29, 1933, Page 3

— —JSOUTH: SIDE, Pitteburgh,—Jan Mass Funeral Held For Marshuk, Ford Gangsters’ Victim To Answer Attack by Building Stronger Party and Union DETROIT, Mich., Dec, 28—George Marshuk, Lincoln Park Auto Work- ers. Union secretary, murdered by Pord gangsters a week ago, “was pia at Chapel Cemetery Wetnes- lay. One hundred and fifty workers at- tended the funeral in the bittter cold. ts were sent to the murdered worker's home at 2091 College St., Lincoln Park, by the Ford section of the Communist Party and the local branch of the Auto Workers Union. Short speeches were made by Max Salzman, organizer of the Ford sec- tion of the Communist Party, Bud Reynolds, Vogel of the local Auto Union branch and a Russian speaker. Salzman pointed out that Marshuk, @ leader in the work of the Party and the Auto Workers Union, was mur- dered by Ford’s gangsters and KKK. members for these activities. Salz- man called for greater effort in building the Communist Party and ; the Union as answer to the Ford at- Semd your greetings to the 24- pege Tenth Anniversary edition of the Daily Worker. Rush them to ws before Dec. 30. 10 ANNIVERSARY Daily, Horker CELEBRATIONS DISTRICT 1 BOWELL, Mass—Jan. 6 at 338 Central St. Dance Concert and Speakers, Adm. 15c. BAWRENCE, Mass~-On Jan. 6 at Loom | Miers Hall, 35 Margin St. Entertain- Ment and Dance. Adm. 25c, ee are R. T—On Jan. 6 at Swedish ‘Hall, 69 Chestnut st. ‘MAYRARD, Mass—On Jan. 6 at 2 Pow- dermill Road. DISTRICT 2 NEW YORK CITY.On Dec. 30 at Bronx Coliseum, 177th St Concert and Dance, WORBTON.—On Jan, 6 at Workers Genter in ‘Worcester, Masé. { DISTRICT 3 PRILADELPHIA.-On Feb. 2 at | Manor Hall, 911 W. Girerd Are. program arrenged, ALLENTOWN; Pa.—On. Jan. 7. WASHINGTON, D. C.-On Jan. 10 ¢ DISTRICT 4 STER, N. ¥.—On Jan. 7 at Workers Genter, 443 Ormond St. Negro Boys ; Songs by Lithuanian Workers Club; Al de Grandis Dance Orchestra, i DISTRICT 5 HLL. SECTION, Pittsburgh.—an, 12. 13. Girard Good (NORTH SIDE, Pittsburgh.—Jan YUKON, Pa—Jan. 13. TURTLE OREEK, Pe—Jan. LIBRARY SECTION.—Jan. -18. NEW KENSINGTON, Pa.—Jan. 1) McKEESPORT, Pa.—Jan, 13. 13 DISTRICT 7 DETROIT, Mici—On Jan. 14 at Finnish Hall, ' soeo—1atty st. A. W.. Markoff, from New-York: stil -be. the main speaker. Music: rc ‘arranged. Dance wil ifollor’ DISTRICT 9 @OPERIOR, Wis.—On Jan. 7 at Workers Genter, 1303 N. Sth St. Musical pro- gram and dance. DISTRICT 10 ‘AHA, Neb.—On Jan. 9 in So. Omahe, DISTRICT..22 , ERDEEN, Wash.—On Jan. 10 at Workers " Hall, 713 E. First St, at 8 p.m. Good Program. Admission ioc in advance; 15¢ at door, DISTRICT 14 ‘AWARK, N. J.—On Jan. 6 at the YM. HLA. Auditorium. Robert Minor, m apesker. Excellent program ai Adm. 30c; in advance 25c, @ Soviet Night in Boston @ PROGRAM Freiheit Gesangs Ferein in Soviet Songs — Rose Namy, Singer, Accordian Player and interpreter of Soviet Songs NEW INTERNATIONAL HALL 42 WENONAH ST., ROXBURY Attention! — DETROIT — Attention! —_———————————eeeeseee Greet the Tenth Anniversary of the Bulgarian Communist Weekly “SAZNANIE” CONCERT and DANCE At WORKERS HOME — 1343 E, FERRY AVE. NEW YEARS DAY, JANUARY 18ST at $3 PM. — Dancing until Inte at night, Admission 250 { | Food Workers Union || Will Sell 300 Copies | Of Jan. 6th Edition NEW YORK —The Cafeteria Department of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union placed an order for 300 copies of the 24-page, tenth anniversary edition of the Daily Worker which will be pub- lished on Jan. 6. An order for 60 copies was ceived from Women’s Council, Branch 31; for 300 copies from the Daily Worker Chorus; for 200 from the Freiheit Gesangs Verein; for 100 from Rosefuli Branch, I. L, D. The Czechoslovak Branch, I. L. D., ordered 50 copies; Unit 5, Section 10, 200 coptes. All trade unions, Party and mass organizations are urged to rush their orders for the anni- versary edition, as well as greet- ings to the “Daily” on its tenth triumphant year. Mobilize all your forces for Red Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 6 and 7, for can- yassing with the special issue of the “Daily.” NRASeeks To Break Porto Rican Strikes SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Dec. 28.— N. R, A. officials have intervened here to break a strike of taxi drivers and sugar workers. Boaz Long, N. R. A. coordinator, is “mediating” in the taxi strike. The taxidrivers are demanding lower gas- oline prices and an end of the gaso- line monopoly maintained by Amer- ican and British oil trusts, mainly Standard Oil and Shell Oil, The men are charged 25 cents a gallon, when the government pays only 14 cents, and big corporations 16 cents. Efforts are being made by the work- ers to call a general taxicab strike throughout the island. Workers of the largest sugar mill in Porto Rico, the Guanica Central, are striking for higher wages and shorter hours. The N. R. A. coor- dinator will intervene to break the strike. 38% of Mortgaged Farms Are 50% in Debt, Survey Shows | | | | | (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Dee. 28.—-On Jan. 1 of this year approximately 8,360, or 38 per cent of the mort- gaged farms operated by owners were indebted for one-half or more of their value, according to a survey by the Bureau of Agri- j cultural Economics covering about | 22,000 farms. | The figures on both debt and | valuations are those reported by the owners of the property. The survey shows that 24.8 per cent of the mortgaged farms op- erated by owners were indebted | for 25 per cent or less of their value; 36.6 per cent were mort- gaged for between 25 and 50 per cent of their value; 20.6 per cent were mortgaged for between 50 | 9.6 per cent were mortgaged for ‘and 75 per cent of their value; | between 75 and 100 per cent of their value, and 8.4 per cent were mortgaged for more than 100 per cent of their value. The West North Central States showed the largest proportion of farms with high debt ratios. Inj} these states 12.1 per cent of the mortgaged farms reported debt in| excess of the farm value on Jan- uary 1, 1933. The proportion of ratios above 75 per cent of value was greater than in 1982, being 18 per cent for 1938 and 16.7 per cent the previous year. Reports from in- dividual. farm owners indicated that the proportion of mortgaged farms indebted for more than their value was 4.4 per cent in 1928; 5.2 per cent in 1931; 5.3 per cent in 1932 and 84 per cent in 1933. Dancing All Night—Good Jaxx: Band—Soviet and American Dances—Rus- sian Beffet CHECKING @0¢ Union Unity League 7ONCERT and DANCE Sketch — Well Know Soloist — Ballet The Famous “Georgia Crooners” Orchestra A World of Fun to Please Everyone SATURDAY, DEC. 30th, from 8 o'clock on DATLY WORKER, NEW YOKn, }RIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1933 ‘Company Union Role ey Bared at Meet with Western Union Head Agree That Demands Should Be Denied to Aid Co. in Crisis By ©. LANDS } NEW YORK. Whatever confi-| dence the empl es of the Western} Union might have retained in the} Association of Western Unicn Em-| ployees; as an 0 in their behalf, w away by th ameful sell-out at the last. Company tion conference | held in New York November. Of- | ficials of the A.W.U.E. had dema-| gogically passed the word along that | it was a foregone certainty that they | would “bring back the bacon” in form of the withdrawal of the last 10 per cent wage cut. Several of th officials even promised the full re: toration of m and holida x s had to do wi to leave these problems in their hands | and they would prove worthy of the| trust. What actually. happened? When the pro | conference, Pri Burton of the A.W.U-E., afte | ing out that the revenue of the West- erm Union had materially improved} in the last few months, merely advo- | cated the return of the wage reduc- tion, Mr. Gallaher, vice-president of the company then spoke for the Western Union, saying that since the business outlook for 1934 was uncer- tain the company must keep on an even keel and could nct think of re- turning the 10 per cent wage cut. Burton, white knight of the Asso- ciation, ventured to remark that the cost of living is rising but that wages are remaining the same. This called for the trump card of the Western} Union Company. Mr. Roy B. White, | the president, spoke and showed the| trend of thought of the company in regard to the employees. And more it showed the teeth of the boss-capital- ist bared against the workers. White said that the necessity for keeping the company in a good financial con- dition falls on the workers, that they must bear the burden of keeping the Western Union runnin, well because in the final analysis it is to the inter- ests of the workers to keep it in such ® manner. Why they are actually doing the workers a favor by keeping the business running! In his opinion, the only people who can help the country out of the de- pression are “the people on bottom,” he said, Yes, Mr. White, your class have put the entire misery of the depression on “the people on bot- tom.” He spoke of his travels, his con- tacts with labor, etc. and came to the conclusion that the Western Union Employees are considerably j Well off, Oh, the return of the 10/ per cent wage reduction? No, it is main problem of the workers. They permitted this sell-out to be rail- roaded through. Our demand for full payment of| sickness benefits was also denied. The | company could not concede full benefits at this time. It would only| give 50 per cent. Concerning the hated re-examination . after six months absence from service, it would be considered. Concerning vacations, employees could take vacations but at 75 per cent of their wages. Every j other problem was worked out in this way to the disadvantage of the work- ers. The officials of the AW.UE. were so awed and impressed by the proximity to the “big shots” of the company that their main concern was to be entirely agrecable. In their mouth-piece, the “Tele- graph World,” these officials voice their impressions of the conference. Vercellino, commercial department conferee, finds “the company confer- ence tending to make the experience -;|Now Ready for Sale Taxi St EVER det sorta WES wt, ee ae ba A group of Philadelphia taxi drivers who are still striking against activities of the A. F. of L. officials after the betrayal of the truck drivers’ general strike, ‘Teachers To Strike, Yor Six Months’ Pay’ 130 in Seranton Won’t Be Stopped by $4) Jan. Issue of “Packing House Workers’ Voice” SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn.—The Packing House Workers Industrial Union announced that the Januar issue of the “Packinghouse Wor! rikers Cheer General Strike Voice.” official national organ of the union, is off the press, and all | districts and sections are urged to | get a bundle order immediately. | | Bundle orders are 2 cents a copy, | Payment SCRANTON, Pa., Dec, 26—Thirty teachess of the Bayfield publit schools will strike January 2nd to enforce single copies are 3 cents, and the} subscription price is 50’ cents a| heir demand of payment of back | salary which has not been paid for six FORE: | and a half months. It is also urgently requested? On Christmas the teachers. were that news and articles on the! paid $40, but they said this. bribe packing industry centers through-/| would not prevent the strike. out the country should be sent in} for publication. Write to the Packing House} Workers Industrial Union, 211 So. Concord St., South St. Paul, Minn. | Worker Needs Shoes; Social Bureau Sends Him to Police a very enjoyable and enlightening one.” Norton, auditing conferee at large, obsequiously discovers that “to sit in the conference room with the company officials brings a more per- sonal interest.” 4 This is all very well, Vercellino, Norton, and ali the rest of you, but what we workers want to know is— Did you bring back even a slight in- crease in pay? Did you bring back double pay for Sunday work? Did you bring back pay for all legal holidays? Did you bring back sickness benefits pay to 109 per cent instead of 50 per | cent as at present? Did you force} the company to assure every em- | ployee his job in case of a merger? | Did you force the company to stop its cruel suspension policy in the traf- fic department? Did you force the company to recall NEW YORK.—When Marvin Alt- feld, an unemployed worker, applied at the Jewish Social Service Associa- | tion for a pair of shoes he was given a sealed envelope containing instruc- | tions to the police to jail him, and sent to a police station after having |been told that he “would be taken care of there.” | Altfeld, a 24-year-old worker, has |been unemployed since May, 1930. |ly employed simplex students in the jcommercial department? Did you | bring back vacations with full pay? And finally did you bring back your decision to the members of the AW.UE, for discussion and ratifi- cation? To all of these questions the answer is an emphatic “No!” And yet by ramming this outrageous sell- out down our throats you expect us to be loyal to a company union. Employees of the Western Union | Company, the A.W.U.E, stands ex- posed before you in all its viciousness. It is up to us to remedy this situation. Other workers faced with similar conditions have taken matters into their own hands and acted. Is there any reason why we can’t do the same? Ed, Note. Send all communications | to Daily Worker which will be gladj| to assist these workers in bettering their conditions and solving their problems, Roosevelt Executive Order Used to | During the summer he hed worked the N.R.A. and the strikebreaking Hold an Affair for Their New Union COUER D'ALENE, Idaho, Dec. 28— Lumberjacks in this important lumber center will hold an affair for their newly organized local of the National Lumber Workers’ Union at Eagles’ Hall on January 9, 1934. A musical program and dancing will be part of .N. the evening's celebration. A speaker from the Trade Union Unity League will address the workers on the union’s program, Refreshments will be served and all workers’ organizations are invited to participate. Unemployed Negro Page Three ‘Miners’ Detgates to Fight CheckOff at UMWA Convwntion | Check-Offiged by the Lewis Gan To Hog- Tie Merg PITTSBURGH, Pa-rprough the vicious check-off systelprovided for in N.R.A. codes in the “1 fields and district agreements, duC are taken out of ners’ pay q handed AmericanYouthClub More Than Doubles Quota in Fund Drive NEW YORK.—The American Youth Club of this city established a record among the English speaking clubs by raising a tot of $125.81 in the $40,000 drive, more than doubling its quota of || directly to the U.M.W. strikes $60. This club is preparing to id BE eo order a bundle of the 24 page, || The question will tenth anniversary edition of the “Daily,” coming off the press on January 6th. It also plans to at the iorthcoming conventic o¢ the UMW. be held in Indigpolis, |Indiana, beginning January yyq, | cals through their rank ar gije ‘ates will present the folk4ne resolution, which all locals of He | U.M.W.A. are urged to take up 5, | discussion and presentation at i¢ national convention: “Whereas: The United Mine Work ers of America is a voluntary Asso- ciation, based on principle of yolun- tary membership; and ‘Whereas: Th’ checking-off of nion dues by the operator is in con- ‘adiction with the principle of vol~ untary membership; and send a greeting to the tenth an- ersary edition. Worker Is Evicted Kicked Out by Police Because of Race | tr “W YORK.—William Bryan, a | ‘© worker on the relief list of the Home Relief Buro, was evicted from | his home at 131 Herzl St., Brooklyn, | . ¥. Bryan after being evicted from his| “Whereas: Tens of thousands of our members are inactive in the union affairs because the operators collect their dues; and “Whereas: Whereas the checking- previous home, in Brownsville, had off union dues by the operator g finally succeeded in renting this ad toe pee natin: cigs, bo ata Sas A deposit was paid and the balance | the miners’ pay for company doctor, was to be paid upon moving in. He|/#surance, sports, store bills, back moved in the following day and the |‘? and many other items; and landlord upon learning that his new| “Whereas: The check-off has given tenant was a Negro family, called the |the officers the unlimited control of Police Department and had the police |the U.M.W.A. and is being used by evict Bryan and his family, hem against the rank and file mem- This took place wtthout any legal| bership; and steps whatsoever, without a warrant] “Whereas: Recently a change has | Ostrofsky went to his office, and came back with a sealed envelope, which he handed to Altfeld, saying: “Go to the address written on the j envelope, You will be taken care of | there.” The letter was addressed to 327 E. 22d St., the 13th Precinct Police Sta- tion. Altfeld opened the letter. Inside |was the card of the Jewish Social Service. On the back was the note or court order, This eviction took|been made to the effect of the op- Place, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 1933, after |erator turning the entire dues money 5.30 p .m, during a snowstorm. Bryan’s | to the district officers instead of to the {child was ill, and needed medical | local union, which gives the officers 2 { attention. heavy club against the membership The working-class organizations of |especially at the time of strike, since Brownsville, under the leadership of|the officers are against strikes; and the International Labor Defense, | have formed a Bryan defense com-| mittee, to fight against the attempt to Jim-crow and segregate the Negro people, The Bryan Defense Committee calls upon all workers in Brownsville to attend a demonstration on Saturday, December 30th, at 2 p. m. before the| house where Bryan was evicted, at 131 Herzl St. Demonstrate against | dim-Crow apartments. Demand re-| instatement of William Bryan and his family in the house, Demand the removal of Judge Hirshfield and the police captain. Protest the use of police in the eviction of unemployed workers, U. S. Firm Receives Huge Soviet Order “Whereas: The voluntary dues pay- ments would make it neecssary for every union member to attend the union meetings in order to pay his dues, which would involbe every mem- ber in all the union affairs; there- fore be it “Resolved: That the International Convention of the United Mine Workers of America decides that the check-off practices be discontinued and that from now on every member pays his dues to the local financial Secretary; and be it further “Resolved: That the operator shall |mot deduct from the miner’s wages for anything and that all expenses incurred by the miner with the op- erator shall be paid by the miler after he receives his pay as in any jother store.” | occasionally at various odd-jobs.| to the police: “The bearer has had to Without money or the chance of a job, he had been forced to live at the flop-house of the Hebrew Shelter and Immigration Society at_245 La- fayette St. —- | Early in October Altfeld fitst ap- | plied at the Jewish Social Sffice, a welfare agency supported by“contri- butions, for a pair of shoes.‘There ; was nothing unusual about” Altfeld’s | request; giving shoes and other ar- ticles of clothing to the unemployed is supposed to be one of the functions of this agency. At this time Ralph Ostrofsky, director of the ageney; re- fused him shoes. Altfeld returned again for «shoes. Fifteen times he came back, Finally, the soles being entirely gone~from his shoes, he simply asked that-the old shoes be repaired. |be ejected from this office by the | disturbances demanding clothes. | “I am referring him to you, as he lis just as ready to go to jail, We do not want him in our office, Ralph | Ostrofs! NEW ENGLAND TOWNS BOSTON, Masss.—Celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the Daily Worker will be held on Jan. 6th in the following New England towns: Maynard, Mass,, at 20 Powdermill Road; in Lowell, Mass., 338 Central St.; Lawrence, Mass., at Loom Fixers Hall, 35 Margin St.; Providence, R. I., Swedish Hall, 58 Chestnut St. Splen- did entertainment is being arranged for these affairs. Police several times when he caused; \Los Angeles F.S.U. To The Bullard Gunpese ninoned ts. | Celebrate Recognition day it had closed an order with the Amtorg tion for nearly $500,000 worth of machine tools for Soviet tractor, automobile plants and oil fields. | The order will afford employment | to a number of workers previously laid off, the company said. TICKETS GOING FAST NEW YORK.—The Workers Book ; Shop reports an unusually large ad- jvence sale of tickets for the Daily Worker tenth anniversary celebra- | ion at the Bronx Coliseum this Sat- | urday evening. Make sure you will be able to attend this historical event by getting your ticket at once. Tickets in advance are 40 cents, | Sram has been LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 26—Los Angeles workers will celebrate US. Tecognition of the U.8.8.R. at an en- tertainment arranged by the Friends of the Soviet Union on Saturday eve- ning, January 6, The affair will take Place at Trinity Auditorium, 730 So. Grand Ave, An excellent musical pro- arranged with prom- inent artists. Nationally known spesk~ ers will address the gathering. Celebrate Tenth Anniversary of the “Daily.” Send greetings to the Daily Worker for its Tenth Anni- versary 24-page edition of Jan. 6. Get ads. Speed your ordets for this historic edition, Break Phila. Truckers’ General Strike PHILADELPHIA STRUGGLES RAISE BEFORE WHOLE PARTY IMPORTANCE OF OPPOSITION WORK WITHIN A. F. L. RANKS By HARRY GANNES «ABSOLUTE power is given to the National Labor Board,” blurted the headlines of the capitalist papers. Strikers of the Weirton Coal Co., of the Budd Auto Body Manu- facturing Co. and of the Ford Co. were smarting under the blow of the trickery of the National Labor Board’s “mediation.” They had been hoaxed back to work with promises, Their strikes were shamelessly betrayed. Franklin D, Roosevelt had just scrib- bled his name to an executive order granting new powers—more terrifying powers—to the National Labor Board. ym all shades of Roosevelt’s sup- come interpretations of the new powers of the National Labor . “They are aimed at the re- caleitrant chiseling bosses,” spouted A. F. of L, teaders. “Amen,” joed the Socialist leaders, » And they bite the ‘Under its new powers the Labor Board makes a de- in the strike of the 1,000 taxi el) the men, It is a symbol ir organization, of their ability fight for better living ocnditions. ‘The company is told to take the men back without discrimination. Union rights and wages will be |‘ “abritrated” afterwards, The com- pany officials laugh up their sleeves, ‘Weirton, Budd and Ford are land- of the Trade Union Unity League decide to join in a general strike. Ostensibly, the strike is to compel the P, R, T. to abide by the National Labor Board Decision in the taxi strike—which the A, F. of L. and) Socialist leaders teli us Roosevelt has | now empowered to carry out against back-baiting bosses. But the strike | is more, It is the accmulated griey- | ance and then discontent of the men against the N.R.A. deeds which forces the local A. F. of L. leaders to agree to the strike. Here we might point out that the Sema ate district of the good ‘k among the A. F, of L. workers, has not suffiicently en- trenched the rank and file opposition to be able to sense the heights of the workers’ indignation and desire for struggle, The Party moved too slowly to face this rapidly developing situation which opened the possibility of a general strike involving the street car men and subway. The gen- eral weaknesses of lack of systematic work within the A. F. of L. of the whole party is showing itself here in this strike situation, Many new workers have come into the A, F. of buts | attention to the organization of op- phi | was quite effective, over 20,000 taking L. with a desire for struggle. This makes it necessary that the Party in its work should pay the most serious Position work within the reformist trade unions, . ff the taxi drivers’ union the So- clalist leaders are entrenched due many of our mistakes, We make @ united front proposal to them which they flippantly toss aside, But our united front action and proposals have not been sufficiently dissemin- ated among the rank dnd file before the culmination of the general strike. For the first two days the strike e« part. There was every prospect of tying up the whole ition, system Having done what it could in the way of strikebreaking through the National Labor Board, the A. F. of L. officials began a direct attack against Party, though it has been doing | said: wor! through the local A. F. of L. offi- cialdom. What the Bosses Wanted The Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger, closely associated with ‘the big banks of Wall Street, as well-as the P, R. T. gave the view of the bosses, which was later sh be own to. the same position taken by the A, of L, leaders, 2 In an editorial on December. 23, the second day of the strike, the “Ledger” sympathy strike called yesterday in the trucking industry, A National Labor Board representative here earnestly warned union officials not to call the general walkout, but his voice was not heeded, “Now other labor elements, allied with the taximen, seck by the-ex- traordinary and dangerous of a general strike to ‘enforee-t decree of the Washington. Board.’ Their effort is out of spirit with President them so, promptly, and outlaw this ‘ PH workers did not heed the Na- tional Labor Board, Strikebreaker Green had another arrow for his strikel began to act in the spirit of the J. P. Morgan | and PRT Philadelphia “Ledger. He wired the teamsters’ local offi- cials that the A. F. of L. is against general strikes, and this one did not receive thelr approval. s re “As bic nko primo baleen! ng tional union, T instruct you to 0 in- form the leaders in this movement he added, “and make the content bar yyeovngiointytaeireded af same time, the Socialist : the striking drivers through the Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauf- feurs, Stablemen and Helpers and! ance of the ers among pee ps cace te owe ie strikebreskers) proved the decision to call off the gen- eral strike, and urged the workers to continue a few individual strikes, Break the General Strike ‘The new absolute powers of the Na~ tional Labor Board, plus the new strikebreaking acts of the A. F, of L. officialdom, broke the back of the general truckers’ strike on its third day. The bosses heaved a sigh of re- Hef. Roosevelt's new executive powers were working against the workers. Several of the A. F. of L, locals re~ mained on individual strikes with promises of arbitration by the Re- gional Labor Board in Philadelphia, which was acceptable to the Socialists. In contrast to the recent Chicago stockyard strike, where virtually no work at all was done among the A. F. of L. rank and file, in Philadelphia contact had been made, but in both places the same basis weaknesses showed themselves. There was no sys- tematic rank and file opposition work to take advantage of the pressure of the workers against their officialdom, in order to force the strike thru de- spite the wishes of the bureaucracy. In Philadelphia, after having made contact with the top strike committee, we did not sufficiently agitate from befow putting thru the basic slogan of tank and file control of the strike thru a broad strike committee, eee ILY one leaflet was gotten out by the Trade Union Unity League at the height of the strike, This leafiet had little value so far as helping the Strikers or exposing the actions of the National Labor Board, particu- larly the A. F, of L. The leaflet merely prevent the sell-out and expose the role of these fakers from the start. At the same time, the developments |in Philadelphia provided a fine op-| portunity for the widest propaganda and agitation among the street car mien and subway workers of the PR.T., for support of the transportation strike, and for the idea of struggle tion within the ranks of the street car and subway men, But no special leaflet was directed to these work- ers to convince them of joining the strike, or urging them to organize their committees as a means of or- to take strike action. No demands were raised for special | them, | In fact, as one comrade put it in| Philadelphia, “Well, they are a reac- tionary bunch. They think they are bosses because they own some stock.” | This opportunist approach to these workers was one of the greatest bars to reaching them and organizing them for struggle. Forget the Daily Worker ‘The Philadelphia comrades forgot about the Daily Worker as a force in the strike. Though Philadelphia is! Teached quite early on the date of publication, no extra efforts were made by the Philadelphia district to issue appeals to the strikers through the Daily Worker, or to use the Daily Worker not only in strike leadership but to raise the important question of the revolutionary struggle against capitalism in the strike. ‘The influx of new workers into the A. F. of L., who come in not because they have any particular illusions about or liking for Messrs, Green) Of and Lewis, but because they are in a t| fighting mood and think they can | win better conditions, sharply raises; before the whole Party the necessity of the most serious opposition work within the A. F. of J, as the {delphia new situation requires that in every district special attention be paid to this phase of trade union activity, with a view towards building up rank and file opposition groups, struggle and lead them as the most militant core in the strike. Work In A. F. of L, and T.U.U.L. Work within the A. F. of L., es was shown in Philadelphia, means at the same time the greatest strength- ening of our revolutionary trade unions and building them as the leaders in the fight for the united front which we at the same time agitate for within the A. F. of L, To achieve this end, under the new situation presented in the A. F. of L., it requires more serious attention to the organization of opposition work, actively participating in all local meetings of the A, F. of L., establishment of permanent system- atic Party fractions, to fight for elec~ tive offices, for winning over of lead g up of demands and in the leadership strikes. Accomplishing this sufficiently, we will be able to write a different chapter to the close of such strikes Lewallen Neda, er