The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 4, 1934, Page 3

| | | » 44 RESTAURANT and | BEER GARDEN DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934 Page Three New Farm Paper t Appear Jan. 15; Will Fight AAA Program Founded At Chicago] sConference; Will Be | National Weekly. OBICAGO, TL, Jan. 3—The first fue of the new amalgamated Na-| tonal Farmers Weekly, the paper) that will represent the interests of the agricultural laborers and the small, impoverished farms of . the ‘whole countryside, will be issued on January 15, it was panne’ today by the editorial boa’ ‘The new Farmers aaa Weekly | ywas founded at the recent historic| ers National Conference heid in Chicago on November 15-18, at which 750 farmer delegates from all over the country gathered to hammer out a fighting program, against foreclosures, mortgae debt, risin cost of livin, etc. Editor’s Statement Erik Bert, the editor of the new farm paper, issued the following state- ment: “The Farmers National Weekly | is going to cover the living conditions of the American farmers and their strugles as its first and foremost duty in helping them to organize, It will} combine the notable work already | done in this respect by the Producers News and the Farmers National Weekly. We are planning to rally many more hundreds of farm cor- respondents to join the ranks of those | who have carried on for the Producers News and the Farmers National Weekly during the past year. In this way we will be able to report to the destitute farm population what is really taking place throughout the entire nation under the reign of the Blue Buzzard. Every week new regulations are formulated in Washington to prevent even the “canned” information of the administration to the press from re- vealing anywhere near the truth. In order to prevent the truth about the activities of the N.R.A. and the A.A.A., he Farmers National Weekly will have its own Washington Bureau and correspondents to supply it with a regular weekly summary of what is taking place behind the scenes and also special stories on hearings and invetigations that take place there where the Blue Buzzard roosts. ‘True Reporting of News The Farmers National Weekly will ‘and political life of the country. Our will be a NEWS paper that give a much wider survey of the ive NEWS of the day than any bankers’ sheet—and, what is more, News will be the truth. will have # survey that will keep our on developments in sea Union, the Far itin America. Sovie} Union—ihe first farmers government—we own special correspond- collective farmers and correspondents who are through the entire country. to be a humdinger of a ese are our plans. Write them to The k we news st about National Weekly at 1817 South Loomis Street, Chicago, Ti. UNION MEETINGS at } NEW ESTONIAN WORKERS’ HOME 27-29 West 115th Street New York City MEET Suld COMRADES AT THE Cooperative Dining Club ALLERTON AVENUE Cor. Bronx Park East Pure Foods Proletarian Price Trade Union Directory «+: ‘UNION has 7 , New York “oes nd ony OLEANERS, DYERS AND PRESSERS ‘UNION poe ee Seeman, Mew. Yoee Ce, : Algonquin 4-4267 WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION A West 18th Street, New York City Chelsea 8-0505 YoRNrrone WORKERS INDUSTRIAL $19 Broadway, New York Gramercy, 5-8956 ey, MBTAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION ‘9% East 19th Street, New York City Gramercy 17-7842 | the second time. Attempts had been Workers’ Club Wins | Relief Fight For Jobless Member | YOUNGSTOWN, O., Jan. 3—The Italian Workers Club here for the second time has won a victory for one of its unemployed members, and | for another worker and his family | living in the same apartment. Patsy Galeotto, living at 920 Em- mett St., had his water shut off for ; made to terrorize him because he had been active in the Italian Workers’ Club, The club sent six committees to the Board of Health, the Water De- partment, and to the bank that owns the tenement. The city was finally forced to order the opening of the water. 16M) CWA Warkorc Are Laid Off in Salt Lake City, Utah Mass Demonstrations Demand Immediate Re-instatement SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan. 3.— Hundreds of unemployed and C. W. A. workers here are organizing under the leadership of the Relief Workers’ Protective Union for struggle against the discharge of more than 1,000 C. W. A. workers, and for better con- ditions on C. W. A. jobs. Immediately after the wholesale layoffs, a mass meeting was quickly organized. At this meeting many new members joined the Relief Workers’ Protective Union. A mass demonstration to demand the immediate re-instatement of all discharged C. W. A. workers was held in front of the City and County Building, at 2 P. M., Tuesday, and an indoor mass meeting was called for Wednesday evening. The workers laid off are charged with “inefficiency.” Officials admit this to be an excuse, saying that they do not have funds to pay all those hired on C. W. A. projects, and more workers are being laid off daily. State Relief Administrator, Hinckley, when torced to meet with a delegation from the union, was forced to promise re- lief to those laid off, and tried to Place responsibility on the federal authorities in Washington, Before the lay off started, there were, according to official figures, 16,- 403 men and 230 women employed on C. W. A. jobs in the state of Utah. Among the demands of the work- ers still on C. W. A. jobs are free transportation to and from work, payment of wages to be made on the job, clothing and fuel to be fur- nished to all unemployed and C. W. A. workers, and increased wages for Forces Relief to Striking | Workers, | Reverses Ruling ‘of the | County Relief Board CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 3.—After |@ series of struggles, the Cleveland Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union has succeeded in reversing a ruling of the County Relief Associa- | tion that strikers are not eligible for unemployment relief. | During the recent strike wave the County Relief Association co-oper- ated with the employers to discour- age workers from striking by their threats that strikers would not be| given relief either while on strike or| anytime afterwards. On the basis| of this policy the South Side Branch | of the County Relief Association re- | fused relief to Irene Tesser, militant } striker of the Arrow Manufacturing } Co. strike. She was told that the| reason for not giving relief was that | she went on strike and this was| contrary to the Governmen*’s Recov: ery Program. A delegation of the union and at employed Council immediately pro-| tested this action at the South Side | Bureau. This brought no results. Another delegation went directly to “The unemployed women of New York City are starving,” delegation to City Hall, told Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in the Board of Estimate meeting Tuesday. The unemployed women demanded cash relief and food for the children of the unemployed. Guardia claimed he had “no power” and offered the women jobs shovelling snow. Tells N. Y M yor 0. Cleveland SMWIU ||We Want Jobs o or r Cash,” Leader of Jobless Women Juliet fiesccas, | Cleveland Sets Up Tag Day for Nat'l Jobless Convention S. Poyntz, head of the women’s Ia Nat’l Labor ‘to Board Seeks Check Rayon Workers’ Granoff, physician, NEWS BRIEFS Doctor Admits Fire Guilt NEW YORK, Jan., 2. - . ple ‘eats | today to setting fire to his office on the Central Headquarters to demand | an answer whether it was a policy| BY * Viscose Worker Correspondent to discriminate against strikers, This! PARKERSBURG, W. Va., Jan. 3.— brought & promise to review the case. | During the first week in January, Another delegation secured a definite|the strike breaking National Labor Teply that the Association would not | Board will hand down a decision on discriminate against strikers, nor was|the dispute between the American it their policy to, refuse relief to| Viscose Corporation workers (some Struggle for More Pay cisions that the National Labor Board may render. The workers are determined that raise in their pay be favorably con- sidered. Fake Threat of Shut-Down their demands for the 40 per cent} Henry St., insurance. | | The body of Dr. Frank Johnson was | found in a quarry near here today 9, to collect the 3 To Tour Country For Ist Convention Of Furniture Union : last April Doctor Dies in Fall SOMERVILLE, N. J., Jan. |cent wage cut. strikers. To avoid publicity on the case the Relief Association rushed a relief or- der of $4.50 per week to the Tesser -| home anda ton of coal. ‘This is the beginning of a broader campaign by the S. M. W. I. U. to fight for relief for all unemployed steel and meal workers. 300 CWA Workers Strike for Wages On Cincinnati Job. Action Gets Immediate | Payment of Wages Due Men CINCINNATI, ©., Jan. 3.— Three hundred workers on the Este Avenue C.W.A. iob here staged a demonstra- tion and refused to go to work un- til they had received their pay, which had been held up. When the demonstration and strike was reported to the C. W. A. office, A. Pecsok, C. W. A. paymas- ter, was forced to organize a special crew of clerks and the pay was rushed to the men. One group of the workers dug a hole, in which they buried a shovel. A pickax was placed on the “grave” to represent a cross, on which was hung a sign reading: “Here lies our last superintendent—he forgot our payday.” unskilled workers with union wages to skilled workers on ©. W. A. jobs. The demonstration started when the men on the afternoon shifts, NEW YORK.—The resolution ty | the New York District of the Com- munist Party estimating the results » and lessons of the last city election campaign (November, 1932 elec- tions), as published below, is of particular interest to all revolu- tionary workers. s 8 6 1, The results of the last election campaign in New York, while show- ing an increase in the Party vote from approximately 27,000 to 30,000 over last year, cannot be regarded as satis- factory in any way, and does not represent by far, the increase in votes that the Party could have zrined. The fact that of all minor parties, our Party was the only one to show an increase, with all others losing heavily (the Socialist Party losing 175,000 votes) shows the growing in- fluence of our Party, and the general improvement and advance in our election work. Nevertheless, this growth indicates what could have been accomplished with better or- ganization and greater political ac- tivity on the part of the Party. 2. While the election of LaGuardia further consolidates the control of finance capital over the city admin- istration (La Guardia being the can- didate of the most powerful finance interests such as the Chase National Bank, the traction interests, etc.) the sweeping LaGuardia victory and the defeat of Tammany Hall for the first time in 16 years, are unmistakable signs of the deep and widespread mood of the masses. The tremendous interest of the masses in the election (approximate sade a aie total ae by 250,000) was clearly due to the widespread discontent with the Tammany. Entertainment & Dance Given by the Greek Workers Club “SPARTACUS” For the | DAILY WORKER | Sat., Jan. 6th, at 8 P. M. SPARTACUS CLUB 269 West “pat Street Special Program—Dancing "Pil Morn, | Speaker, Comrade Taft —Chaik Talk Comedy Singers, ete. Play—‘Into the Night” — bankers program and a desire to eet rid of the Tammany administration. LA GUARDIA SIDETRACKED DISCONTENT 3. The radicalization of the masses was expressed in the broadest wave of strikes since the war period. The revolutionary unions directly led about 60,000 workers in militant strike struggles (metal, shoe, needle, food, furniture, etc), During this same period a number of the most stubborn struggles inst the N.R.A. were raging in N€w York, The LaGuardia Jandslide doks not represent the ra- dicalization of” ammany a@ideks- tration, because of the general funda- mental political and organizational weaknesses of the Party as analysed in the open letter and the short- comings in the conduct of the cam- paign, SOCIALIST PARTY FUSION 4. The unprecedented demagogy of finance in the LaGuardia camp3ign (stealing Party slogans, sweeping promises of food, clothing and shelter for all unemp!oyed, engaging in ex- treme radical phrases, in Harlem using the slogan, “Vote for Comfhu- nism and, LaGuardia,” the slashing attacks against Tammany corruption and for “clean and honest peoples’ government,” etc.) was in itself an admission of the great discontent of the masses, of the need by the bour- geoisie for special demagogy to pre- pang and head off the swing to the The terrific loss in votes by the Socialist Party is due to a very great extent to the indirect, and towards the end of the campaign, direct, sup- port of Fusion by the Socialist Party leaders and the very slight differen- tiation between the platforms of the Socialist Party and Fusion, We did not win over any appreciable part of the vote lost by the Socialist Party due to the failure to develop real work among the Socialist Party members and adherents, PARTY DID NOT UTILIZE DISCONTENT FOR CAMPAIGN 5. While the Party took advan- tage of the great radicalization of the masses in a whole wave of mili- tant strike struggles led by us, we did not succeed in utilizing the discontent of the masses for support of our elec- tion program and candidates. How- ever, the last election was by far the best conducted by the district so far. We have reached and_ influenced greater masses than ever before with the program of struggle for imme- diate demands and the revolutionary way out. There was a decided improvement in the quality and quantity of our election agitation material. Our elec- tion program proved a more effective and better instrument than any simi- Jar document in the past. Our lead- ing candidates, in the main, con- ducted a very effective campaign, reached large masses of workers, par- ticipated in important struggles and were more widely popular with the masses than in the past. In some cases, there was greater activity of trade union fractions than in any Laila! campaign. In general, the orientation of the district fea greater political appreciation SUPPORTED of the role of revolutionary parlia-|ous attempts) 18,000 organized workers) and the management, The workers have asked for a 40 per cent wage in- crease, which was refused by the corporation, However, the corporation knows that the workers will not accept their refusal so they have called in their ally, the National Labor Board. The bosses know that some of the work- ers still have respect for the National Labor Board, therefore they believe that any decision rendered by this j august body will be accepted by the workers as a just one. But already among the workers there is a growing | sentiment for the rejection of all de- Stole $1, Sent to Jail; i Stole $27,000, Set Free LOS ANGELES, Cal—John K. Mc- Daniel, a salesman, stole $1 from a pay telephone. He was sentenced last week to 1 to 15 years in prison by Superior Court Judge Harry F. Sewell. Mrs. Retta Munhall, who confessed to stealing $27,000 from a fund in her care, was released on a 6-year | probation by the same judge. McDaniel was broke, Mrs. Munhall was able to sign over about $5,000 in real estate, stocks and bonds. | after having been promised their pay on Dec, 21, refused to work when C. W. A. officials. Several truck- loads of dirt were dumped by the men, and a few who were going to work were stopped. The- Relief Workers’ Protective Union is actively organizing the men on ali C. W. A. jobs here, and an or- | Police say that the death was acci- See's | this promise was abrogated by the: ‘The Viscose Corporation of America| on Dec, 29th circulated an open let- ter to all of its employees. In this letter, they threaten to shut down} their American plants, if the 40) per cent wage increase is complied) with, thus throwing out of work| 19,000 people. The request for the 40 per cent wage increase is a just one, and we must remain firm in this demand. As for the threat to close their plants down, the company will not do so for the simple reason that their profits are too great, and they only say they) will do this for no other reason than to frighten the workers and discour- age them from struggle. Our greatest danger of being de- feated in this struggle lies in the weakness of our union representa- tives. They will be eager to make any kind of settlement. Since the so-called gentleman’s} agreement in 1929 between the Hoo- ver administration and the A. F. of ki L, leadership, the famous no strike agreement, the A. F. of L. has de- generated to the extent that it is nothing more than a company union. There is evidence that the corpora- \tion’s promise to raise wages in some} of its lower paid plants is nothing| more than an attempt to divide the workers and get them to squabble among themselves. There may be) an offer made to give us the 30-hour | week. While we are for the 30-hour week, we must not be sidetracked | from our effort to gain our demand) for a 40 per cent increase. Any decision that the National La-| bor Board may hand down short of | ranting the 40 per cent asked for must be rejected by the workers and | ganizational committee for the city has been set up. we must strike to gain the full amount demanded. ii quarry, Joseph Riggs of mu: | grocery holdup last April. ly inundated the lowlands Convention to Be Held |* February 9-12 in | New York City Su-| NEW the | its first and | held ling | 12, the Furnity ati n, 812 Br dental, caused by a fall into the Murderers Lose Appeal PHILADELPHIA, Jan. ~The preme Court today confirmed conviction of Wallace Skawinski ler in the Lieutenant Lewis Roberts 2. YORK.—in- ration for| to b in ot Los Angeles Flood Death ch today has 15 Total Rises hip of 8,100, is r its forth- LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2—With a tentative death list of 100, author- the datesox lives jties report 35 known dead and 73 deranged.’ Al actee missing in the flood which complete-| members of the ux e urged to in this arrange for these Ibert Brown, vicinity. ie | Member of the | 1 Committee of F.W.LLU. | Jamestown, land, 0. 12-Year-Old Killer Escapes - Murder Charge WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Jan. 2. — Mary Kavala, 12, who killed her 8. year-old playmate last week polis, ind., charged with juvenile a Jan. 31-Feb. 1; Judge Smyth in the Chil patra ie Bg Court today. ee Five Killed in Boiler Explosion WEST LIBERTY, Ky., Jan. 2. —| jan. Five were killed and twelve injured, | Tour $~M. Pizer. four critically, when a frozen boiler ¥ exploded in a saw mill near here, ) Jan, 19; 21; New Haven, Blind Woman “Commits Suicide | NEW YORK, Jan. 2—Miss Hattie Langton, 60, and blind vince birth, committed suicide by hanging her- | Self. It was said yesterday. She was fearful that ber only remaining re- lative, a sister, 71, would die and leave her friendless. Dorchester. will be Fred Souza, er Manor, 800 Witnesses 4 d other vic- New York District Buro of Communist Party Estimates Last Etection Results | Though Communists Only Minor Party to Gain’ Votes, District Resolution Criticizes Failure to Connect Mass Struggles with Campaign mentarism, and greater clarity on methods and tasks. FAILED TO MOBILIZE UNION FRACTIONS 6. In spite of the many elements of improvement and progress in our election campaign work, the small results obtained insofar as the vote is concerned, are due in the main to the following political and organiza- fonal weaknesses of the election campaign: a)In spite of all efforts, the dis- trict committee failed to mobilize the trade union fractions to persistently bring the election campaign forward to link up the great militant struggles of the workers under the leadership with the election campaign, This failure must be stressed as the chief shortcoming in the election campaign precisely because every struggle in this period bears such a clear political character, and because every problem of the strike struggles is so intimately linked up with basic political issues affecting the most elementary and basic rights of the workers, (The N. R. A., right to or- ganize and strike; injunctions; right to picket, etc.) The serious political weakness dis- Played by our trade union fractions in the election campaign is but a reflection of the failure of the dis- trict leadership to as yet mobilize the fractions for the raising of the class consciousness of the masses and politicalizing each struggle. NO BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF REVOLUTIONARY PARLIAMENTARISM (b), The district leadership did not succeed in mobilizing the entire Party to the basic political under- standing of the role of revolutionary parliamentarism and the nature of the election campaign as an insepar- able and integral part of the daily activities and struggles of the entire Party. Most of our trade union frac- tions did not even discuss the elec- tion campaign with the union mem- bership, and with the exception of the fractions in the marine union, Amalgamated Rank and File Opposi- tion and towards the end of the cam- paign, the needle union, very little or nothing was done by the trade union fractions. This was particularly evident on the part of the fractions involved strikes (shoe, metal, furniture, etc.) (c), The District Committee did not succeed (in spite of many seri- tendency to regard the election cam- paign as another special Party cam- paign separated and divorced from) the day to day work of the Party. In the sections the election cam- |paign was again conducted mainly | through general agitation. The op- portunist separation of the election campaign from the basic tasks and daily mass work of the Party was given crass expression by the objec- tions of some leading comrades in the sections to the attempt to de- velop struggles against the high cost of living and concrete manifestations of Jim-Crowism (called for in the district election plan of work) with the explanation “We are too busy with the election campaign to do anything about the high cost of liy- | ing, against Jim-Crowism, etc.”) | DEMAGOGY LEFT UNMASKED (d). Another of the basic weak- nesses that we k~wst record was the | district’s failure’ to develop the proper struggle to unmask the dema- gogy of the capitalist candidates, es- pecially LaGuardia and Fusion. | While the District Committee ryp=.| erly estimated the role of Fusion and LaGuardia (articles in the “Daily,” Fusion pamphlet), in practice, there was a serious failure to react daily to every speech, every promise, every maneuver of LaGuardia especially. (e). In the neighborhoods the elec- tion campaign suffered from the gen- ‘eral weakness of the unemployed | work of the Party. The district as a whole did not sufficjently bring the election issues , and our platform of struggle before | the masses of strikers. The elec-, tion campaign in the sections in most cases was isolated from the strike struggles in the territories. | Due to the general agitation ap- proach to the election campaign, in- sufficient efforts were made to de- velop firm personal contact with the masses of proletarian voters, to the organization of systematic and wide canvassing, to the building up of our local candidates into real spokesmen, representatives and part of the masses of proletarian voters. WEAKNESS IN APPLYING UNITED FRONT (f), We must take particularly sharp note of our wekaness in apply- ing the united front tactic in the in some of the biggest|shops and A. F. of L. unions and taking advantage of the ferment within the S. P. on the issues of the | and adherents with the candidacy lation. | and record of Solomon, the Socialist | yed work must be im- Standard bearer, It can be positively | mediately thened, The unem- stated that any real efforts to reach | ployed masses must be particularly the S. P. members and adherents | reminded of the La Guardia promises, would have resulted in winning to /and struggles must be developed and} the support of the Communist elec- | demands for the needs of the masses | | He fla’ tion program quite an appreciable portion of the 175,000 voters lost by | the S. P. NEGRO WORK NEGLECTED (g). We must also stress the failure of the sections, and inability of the district to mobilize the membership | to take full advantage of the great ferment among the Negro masses due to the Scottsboro situation, the new lynch wave and the growing police inspired anti-Negro incitation. The plan of work of the district | committee, for the last month of the campaign, that called for actions | in the struggle for Negro rights was | almost completely disregarded by the | sections (with the exception of Har- lem, and to some extent Crown Heights.) reflection of the general weakness in the Negro work of the district. h) Due to the basic failure to make the election campaign an in- separable part of the daily Party ac- tivities, the campaign was almost en- tirely separated from the concentra- tion work, was not brought into the | ‘factories, especially in the concen- | tration industries. The attempt of the district committees to correct the ; Situation in the last month of the ‘campaign did not succeed. Generally, the situation again reflected the fundamental weaknesses and inade- |quacy of the concentration work of the district. MUST NOW EXPOSE LAGUARDIA 7. The urgent task confronting the district at the present moment is to ‘orgenize the struggle against La Guardia, to undertake the most thoreughgoing exposure of his prom- ises and pledges through systematic mass actions and mass agitation. | The district committee, the entire leadership of the Party, must pay the most serious attention to over- come the weaknesses in the Party's) political work. We must take steps} to react promptly to all local political | developments, to all maneuvers and) actions of the new administration, through the press, through pubiic hearings, statements, delegations, etc. | We must pay the most serious at-| tention throughout the district to} systematically remind the masses of) the promises and pledges of La| Guardia, comparing words with deeds, organizing actions and struggies in order to thoroughly expose the La united front; of the marked dis-|Guardia administration before the|the broad masses who havé not yet in overcoming the! content among the S. P, members broadest masses of the working popu- The situation is a direst | {MUST UTILIZE ELECTIONS | directed to La Guardia, 8. A thoroughgoing and persistent} | political campaign shall be launched |in all the fractions to decisively com- | bat the express and practice of |“pure trade unionist” ideology, to mobilize the trade union fractions for the consistent raising of the political issues in the course of economic struggles, for raising the class con- sciousnes the masses in the course of the daily strugg separable from the of the unions. This applies to the fractions in nost other mass organizations. OPEN LETTER LEADS TO GENUINE ELECTION STRUGGLE: | 9. A basic prerequisite for any real preparation of the Party for genuine jelection struggles is the energetic |carrying through of the Open Letter jand District Plan of work that calls \for a real Bolshevik concentration | policy, for throwing the entire mem- bership into active work in the shops and unions, into genuine mass oppo- 1 |sition work in the reformist unions, for the development of genuine mass jactivity among the unemployed and Negro masse: ia is the of the whole turther attack a expr | Roosevelt }on the liv: The pro- jgram of La Guardia calls for in- {creased fares, drastic reduction in relief, the discharge of ten thousand city employees, ruthless salary cuts ;of lower city employ the further jplundering of the work: population to ensure the carrying out of the agreement of the Tammany adminis- tration with the bankers. TO LEAD MASSES TO PARTY The growing attacks on the living standards and rights of the masses comes at a iime of the great radical- ization of the 1m , of the growing mood of militant resistance and counter offensive on the part of the masses. T situation creates the ities for transforminug our Party into the genuine mass po- litical Party of the New York tollers, Now more than ever before can we utilize the occasion of election cam- paigns to strengthen ail the mass work of the Party, to revolutionize lost faith in bourgeois democracy, ‘NRA Drops Hearing For Striking Ship Wireless Operators Meeting Thursday to Rally for Huge Picket Marches NEW YORK.—A scheduled hear- ing on the wireless operator's strike, now in its third week, was abruptiy stponed by the Regional Labor persistent inquiry into the of the postponement, the ‘tan Radio Telegraphists As- sociation, which represents the strik- ing wireless operators of the Morgan and Rocsevelt owned American Mer- t Lines, learned that A. J, hy, general manazer of the , had informed the board that jhe was to attend the | hearing. “too busy” Fight To Finish committee of operators went to fy McCarthy, who promptly declared that the company was going to “fight to a finish.” He characterized |the wireless operators as being. of nor importance aboard a ship, and | denounced them for haying dared to strike against his arbitrary 25 per He also expressed anger at the operators’ picket lines in front of the company's offices at number one Broadway. He repeat- edly referred to the picket line as ‘cloak and suit tactics,” and as- erted that by picketing the pas- sanger ticket offices, the operators had proved themselves to be a lot of “disreputable radicals.” McCarthy also declared that he uld not restore the 25 per cent cut regardiess of what the N. R. A. labor board might recommend. R.A. the ly asserted that the N, had no authority, and that | steamship company would do as it liked about wage cuts. Mass Meeting Thursday A mass meeting in support of the Radio Operators strike and to dis- the Marine Code, will be held Thursday night, 7:30 p. m., at 140 Broad St. The meeting is being held under the joint auspices of the American Radio Telegraphists As~- sociation and the Marine. Workers Industrial Union. ‘The United Of- |ficers Association and other unions are being invited to send speakers; - Speaking at a large membership meeting of the Radio Operators Tuesday night, R. B, Hudson, Na- tional Secretary of the M. W. I. U., pointed out that the radio strike, the lying statements of the Labor Board, and the recent news of the secret conferences, clearly exposed the plans and determination of the ship- owners to enforce their slave codes for all sections of the industry. He stated that mobilizing the seamen and longshoremen for support of the strike meant preparing them to de- feat the attempts of the shipownel to apply the general c eailed, for continuing the Strike with eyen greater militancy and determination and his pledge of the full suppor’ of the Marine Workers’ Industvial Union was received with applause, All marine workers are wo attend the mass meetings tonight, which will also be a preparation for a mass picket line Friday morning on the S. 8. Americdn Merchant Line, Pier 60, North River. Recent attempts of the police to prohibit mass picketing will be answered with an even stronger mobilization of workers in support of the strike and to maintain the right to picket. 10™ ANNIVERSARY Daily, Worker CELEBRATIONS DISTRICT 1 LOWELL, Mass.—Jan, 6 at 338 Central Bt. Dance Concert and Speakers. Adm. 16c. | LAWRENCE, Mass.—On Jan. € at Loom Fixers Hall, 35 Margin St. Entertaln- ment and Dance. Adm, 28c. PROVIDENCE, R. I—On Jsn. 6 at Swedish Hail, 59 Chestnut 8t. MAYNARD, Mass.—On Jen, 6 at 9 Pow- dermill: Road. | BOSTON.—On Jan. 6 at Workers Center in Worcester, Mass. DISTRICT & PHILADELPHIA—On Feb. 9 Manor Hall, 911 W. Girard Ave. program arranged. ALLENTOWN, Pa.—On Jen. 7. WASHINGTON, D. C.—On Jan. ¥. DISTRICT 4 i ROCHESTER, N. ¥.—On Jan, 7 at Worker: Center, Trio; Songs by Lith Club; Al de Grandis Dance HILL SECTION, Pittsburgh —an. 1%. SOUTH SIDE, Pittsburgh.—Jan 13. NORTH SIDE, Pittsburgh—Jan, 18. YUKON, Pa.—Jan. 13. TURTLE CREEK, Pa—Jen. 18. LIBRARY SECTION.—Jan, 13. NEW KENSINGTON, Pa.—Jan, 1%. McKEESPORT, Pa.—Jan. 13. DISTRICT 7 at Gtraré ‘Good MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, Mich.. Jan. ¢ 2t Ukrainian Hall,’ corner on 9th St. : DETROIT, Mich—On Jan, Pinnis! Hall, 5960—14th St. A. W. Marked from New York, will be mat: speaker. Musical program arrangec Dance wil Ifollow. DISTRICT 8 ~ CHICAGO—On Jan. 14, @ at Craftsman's Masonie and LeMoyne, at 6 p.m, Admission DISTRICT 9 Re HIBBING, Minn.—On Jan. 6 SUPERIOR, Wis.—On Jan. % ab. sete Center, 1303 N. Sth St. Musical pro gram ‘and dance. aa DISTRICT 10 OMAHA, Neb.—On Jan. © i-@er-Omahe, DISTRICT 32 ABERDEEN, Wash,~-On 3 2 at Worke: Hall, 13 E. First Bt, Got brogtam, Admission “oe in Riiteses: i as BILLINGRAM, Wash.—Oon se 13, at Tul) Hall, Cornwall Aye. NEWARK, N. J.—On Jan, 6 at the 1) me HA. Auditorium, Robert. Minor, “advange Se oe 300; i