The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1934, Page 3

Minneapolis Social Insurance Is Hie Demand of C.W.A. Workers MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 8.— Mundreds of C. W. A. workers here are signing up in the newly-formed } United Relief Workers’ Association, 5 and electing delegates for job com- } \ mittees from every C. W. A. gang. ‘ ‘The Relief Workers’ Association, ‘an independent union, was formed at the initiative of members of the Un- employed Council, who are working on C. W. A. jobs. Weekly meetings are held every Wednesday night at 329 Cedar Ave., and plans have been made for the organization of neigh- borhood meetings. The program of the United Relief Workers’ Association calls for a fight for more relief work when the pres- ent work expires, or the guarantee of immediate cash relief; union con- ditions on the job, and Unemploy- | ment and Social Insurance at the! expense of the government and the employers. The union is actively participating in the preparations for the National Convention Against Un- employment, to be held in Washing - | ton, D. C., on Feb. 3, 4 and 5. To split the ranks of the workers | and to counteract the activities of | the Relief Workers’ Association, some foremen and bosses are organizing the Citizens Social Justice Associa- tion; but this maneuver is being ex- posed by the workers. Compe! C.W.A. Boss To Permit Fire Warmly Dressed Fore- man Objected (By 2 C. W. A. Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill—A line or two on the C. W. A. work here in Chicago, and this is no fairy tale, as I work on this C. W. A. Project No. 437. I went to work Dec. 1. The fore- man let us have a fire. The follow- ing week he stupped us from having a fire. There were three members of the Unemployd Council in this @ang. The three of us got together to talk things over and started to work on the boys of our gang. If was hard, as some could not see our point, as it was somewhat warmer. But one morning it was cold and ur point came to light. One of the three started a fire at 8:30 a.m. At 9:30 a.m. the boss told him to put out the fire. We showed them our point now and they picked it up. At 10:30 a.m. about 24 of our gang walked off of the job, start- ‘ing for the office to find out why we couldn’t have a fire. After walking up the road about, 500 feet one of the boys that wasn’t with us toid the boss we were on ow way to the office to find out why we could not have a fire. After getting this 500 feet the boss came om a fast welk. Me asked us what was wrong. We wieted thai we wanted our fire a also wanted to quit at 2:40 pm. in+ of 2:50 p.m., as we could not it up to the tool house as we Should. We also showed him he was better dressed than we were, as he had @ sheep-lined coat, wool under- wear, wool socks and high top shoes. After about 20 minutes he said he Was wrong and gave in on all points | at issue. (Classified ) Se ee ATTRACTIVE furnished room; sacrifice; front; private; adult family; separate en- trance; 145 Second Ave., apartment 20. GR 18 AR NORE aeRO NICE ROOM, all err yay separ entrance; 433 E. 147th St. Apt. tot cad 10™ ANNIVERSARY Deily.qlorker CELEBRATIONS PUILADELPHIA.—On 4 Girerd Manor Hall oil. isnt Ate, “Good program arranged. WASHINGTON, D. 0.—On Jan. 1, DISTRICT & HILL SECTION, Pittsburgh—Jan. 9. SOUTH SIDE, Pittsburgh—Jan, 12. Pa.—Jan. 13. Pa—Jan. 38, TURTLE CREEK, ee KENSINGTON, Pa.—Jan. 1. » Pa—Jan. 18. DISTRICT 6 SOLLINWOOD, O.—On Jan, 15 af Slovenian Home, 15335 Waterloo Rd., a 8 P. M. Good speakers, very inter- esting program. DISTRICT 7 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich—On Jan. 10 a 8 BR at LSD. Hall, 1067 Hamilton Ave, LW. Interesting program. Adm. 10c, DETROIT, Mich.—On Jan, att at Finnish Boll, "50¢0—iath st. W. Markoff, from New York, will ei oe main speaker. Musical program arranged. DISTRICT 8 ee cana ae ee Craftsman’ ple, Harding Admission 250, ~ at 8 ‘Good js eet ‘Admission i0¢ in saranees be » Va.—On Jan. Ebel at Waltz Dream Church St, Brambleton Ned at 2 P.M. . Milton Good ‘pros Program, Editor, Daily Worker will be main speeker. LTT PTO AI TE emer cats. ea | ad CWA Union Enlists Hundreds; Will \Aid Feb. 3 Convention Viscclics Work Full Time on Huston Idaho Civil Works Projects (By a C. W. A. Correspondent)” HUSTON, Idaho.—I see so much in the “Worker” of the C. W. A. ‘Thought you should know how it is working here. All the pets and a great many who do not need the work are getting full time. Any- one who really needs the work is subject to these rules: Must appear on time when called; no excuse ace cepted. If he gets sick on the job, or a horse gets lame, or for any | reason he must stop work, his name | is taken off the list for good, and cannot be reinstated again. Roads on which there is no travel to speak of at all are being graded and Nedade wel 4,000 Jobless in Colorado Capital ‘Demand Food, Cash Legislature Adjourns in Haste; Workers Speak DENVER, Oolo., Jan. 8—For the second time in two days the unem- | ployed workers crowded into the gal- Jery of the state senate and tried to force their way into the house gallery, on Jan. 4, to demand relief from the state government. The halls of the capitol were filled with work- ers. When the senate for the second time in two days adjourned at two o'clock, in fear of the unemployed, Speakers from the gallery represent- ing the Communist Party, and the Unemployed Councils denounced the legislature's buck passing and were given ovations by the crowd. Forty thousand dollars has been spent al- ready on this second special session which has been on three weeks, and nothing has been done for the un- employed. Invade Senate Flog On Jan. 3, a big demonstration of 4,000 workers was staged in the legis- lature by the unemployed workers. ‘They demanded relief, and also that sixty tons of stored food be imme- diately released for over 10,000 fam- ilies cut off relief. The legislature hastily adjourned as speaker after speaker rose in the galleries, <A meeting of the unemployed was then held on the floor of the senate. Demand Social Insurance Dick Allender, of the Unemployed Councils, and Bill Dietrich of the Communist Party, spoke. They de- manded the legislature appropriate immediate relief, and indorse the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. Rydeberg spoke in the house on the demands of the Workers Ex- Service Men’s League. The house then hastily adjourned. The speakers denounced discrimi- nation against the Mexican and Negro workers and pointed out that in three weeks session the legislature has done nothing for the unemployed. Jersey C.W.A. Men Organize on 17 Jobs By a C. W. A. Correspondent LINDEN, N. J.—C. W. A. workers here are organizing for struggle. Over one hundred workers from various C. W. A. jobs in Linden answered the call of the Action Committec en the Cc. W. A. project, and unanimously voted and adopted the program of the Unemployed Council. They indicated their willingness to struggle by elect- ing an executive committee of 17 |from the various jobs, na pheepirped several hundred workers. N. Randen wes elected as chairman, and Bill Chandler, the District Organizer of the Unemployed Council, spoke on the need of organization and strug- gle which was supported by the OC. W. A. workers. Workers took the and DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1934 SOVIET ENVOY TO U. S. publics, at his arrival at the railroad station in Paris. Troyanovsky presented his credentials to President Roosevelt yesterday. Alexander Troyanovsky, first ambassador to the United States from the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- At his left are his wife and eldest sop. Ambassador 'Forced Labor Drive’ ‘Against Single Men Starts in Minnesota | “Transient” C Camps Pay Men 90c¢ a Week for 30 Hours MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.— Concen- tration camps have already been established in some parts of (Farmer-Labor administrat un- der the name of “transient” camps. This name has been placed on the camps to fool the workers of the| state into believing that if they are/ residents of the state (single workers) that they will not be forced into the camps. However, in some parts of | the state local residents who are on the soup lines have already been forced into the camps. The workers in these camps have to work 30 hours a week for the meagre subsistence, and then get a chance to earn the magnificent sum three extra hours above the 30. Highways and railroad yards are be~ ing closely watched and numbers of workers who have no other way to travel but this are being picked up daily since Jan. 1. The single unemployed of Minne- apolis have been organizing under the leadership of the Unemployed Council and are prepared to resist | any attempt to herd them into these slave camps. Only that fact postponed the putting into effect of the camps around Minneapolis. In place of forced labor, the slogan of “A C. W. A. job for every single un- employed man and woman,” is be-| ing raised. Preparations are going forward to hold demonstrative ac- tions to compel the local ©, W. A. administration to give jobs to the single workers, whom they have en- tirely discrimmated against so far. The local officials themselves admit- ted that not one of the applications | of 6,000 single workers, without de- the jobs have even been considered. | Seabs Made Foremen On Great Falls Projects (By a C.W.A. Correspondent) GREAT FALLS, Mont.—I am work- ing on the C.W.A. project here. The local paper claims that about 71 per cent of the unemployed are employed by the C.W.A. at a weekly wage of $18, About 700 men are working and we are informed by reliable sources that 1,400 men are still registered for jobs. It is doubtful if more than 15 per cemt of the unemployed went to work in Cascade Co., let alone 71 per cent. Also the bosses for the C.W.A. are picked from the class of degenerates who have proved from past reports that they are willing to do anything for money. Some of them worked previously for a scab contractor, who is chairman of the local relief com- mittee and a member of the Cham- ber of Commerce. state | of 90 cents per week by working | has} Ppendents, who signed applications for | Whalen in Booze Game | NEW YORK.—Red-baiter Grover | Whalen, former police commissioner |under Tammany Mayor Walker, has | resigned from the local N.R.A. board, to go into the booze business. He will be chairman of the Schenley | Affiliated Corporations, formed large- | ly of wine and liquor companies. | Billy Sunday Here NEW YORK.—Winding up his ser- mon with a prayer that the “devil will feel so bad he will get pneu~ | monia,” the pulpit thumping evan- | gelist Billy Sunday, arrived in town after an absence of 17 years. He | pointed out that if God had so chosen | he might have “made food taste like | garbage and sawdust.” Oppose Military Drill COLUMBUS, Ohio, — Five Ohio State University students are being | threatened with expulsion by Presi- | dent George Rightmire for opposing | compulsory military training. The students are: Donald Leach, David Telfair, Edward Lepon, Richard | Baumgarner, and Paul D. Sutley. 2 Children Survive Suicide NEW YORK.—Two children and their mother survived Raoul Ygna- laada, 35, who hanged himself in |the bathroom of his apartment at 1536 W. 145th St. He was despond- ent over unemployment. | Rich to Walk on C.W.A. Funds | ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—More than $75,000 of C.W.A. funds will be | spent on this millionaire’s pleasure city, in redecking the boardwalk and | painting _bublic y buildings. ‘Starving Workers Speeded on | on (. W. A. By a WAL “A. Correspondent ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Well, the Civil Works Administration has started, and it is sure a dirty deal for the un- |employed starving workers in St. Louis. One of the workers yesterday was put on a wheel-barrow moving heavy wet clay on the Delmar project. This is in the neighborhood of the bour- geois river front. This project is beautifying the river front for a driveway for the parasites to drive in their $10,000 cars. Casher, the boss on this job, asked this worker to hurry up. Well, he could not hurry, as he was sick from starvation and malnutrition, being unemployed over three years, living off charity put out by the St. Vin- cents de (Bunk) Paul by a holy rack- eteer by the name of Father Butler, who has had charge of starving thou- sands of workers for three years or more. This worker could not push an empty barrow, let alone a full one, through the mud, and he got fired, and his relief was cut off. On this project the workers also have to give the Hitler salute by the raising of the right hand with palms facing front when they have to go to the toilet. Some of the workers are following the lead of others in raising the right fist, and Casher, the In the News [In the News| Anti-Lynching Bill Introduced; Aimed To Balk Protests Legal Lynchings Like Scottsboro Are Ignored (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—A bill pur- porting “to secure to persons within the jurisdiction of every state the equal protection of the laws and to punish the crime of lynching” was in- troduced yesterday by Senators E£d- ward P. Costigan (Democrat, Colo.) and Robert F. Wagner (Dem., N. ¥.). It will be introduced in the house soon, and has excellent chances of being acted on at this session of Congress. It is sponsored by the reforrnist leadership of the National Assccia- tion for the Advancement of Colored People. The “liberal” legislators who are pressing the bill claim that it would be a deterrent to lynching, but actu- ally it is designed to halt the increas- ing clamor of revolutionary protests by white and Negro workers against lynchings both in and outside of class-justice court-rooms. Frame-ups such as the Scottsboro trials, are ut- terly ignored by the bill. It would declare that if any state glected or refused to provide protec- tion against lynching, deemed to have denied “equal protec- tion of the law.” Must Prove Neglect of Officers The bill would provide that Fed- eral District courts prosecute par- ticipators in lynchings on the condi- to punish the offenders, or that state court having jurisdiction... so strongly opposed to such punish- those guilty.. such state court.” It would declare that any state of- or both. The bill define: person of his life, physical injury.” penalty of It would place imprisonment for from would make any county in which one occurred liable to a forfeit of $10,000 for the use of the family of the vic- tim. boss, is trying to find out who started this red salute. When the workers started to work on this project, they were told that the pay would be 66 cents an hour, but on pay day, they were paid 45 cents an hour. Some of the thieving high up racketeers stole 20 cents an hour on all workers on this job, or government subdivision failed, ne- it would be tion that a showing first be made to the court that officers neglected} “jurors obtainable for service in the are ment that there is.no probability that + Can be punished in ficer or employee who failed to pro- tect an individual from being “injured or put to death’ by “any mob or riotous assemblage” guilty of a felony, punishable by a $5,000 fine or im- prisonment not exceeding five years, “mob or riotous assemblage” as “an assemblage com- posed of three or more persons act- ing in concert, without authority of law for the purpose of depriving any or doing him five years to life on conspiracy by a state officer in open lynching, and e iners to Fight Lewis Stranglehold At U. M. W. A. Convention * Check-Off Robs Miners, Helps ‘Union Misleaders and Operators | Used in Many Forms To | Cut Miserably Low | Wages of Miners® | FIGHT SYSTEM Demand Re-Distribution of Dues to Locals By FRANK BORICH PITTSBUR' one of the gr 1,700 in Illinois UMW A Local Vote Rank and File Program 2 atk we Resolutions Demand U.M.W.A. Convention Go On Record for Higher Pay, Right to Strike DANVILLE, Il., olutions calling for a struggle on the | | floor of the international convention standards of the miners; and, Whereas: The prices will c to increase as the inflation d which means still further reductior the miners’ standard of living; ther fore be it Resolved Jan. 6—Ten res- | Pe—The check-oft test curses for the form of robbery. against the policies of the John L.| Lewis gang were passed at a regular meeting of the Bunsenville Local 5509 of the U. M. W. A. This is one of the | largest locals of the U.M.W.A. in Il- | That t to be e agreeme nded at once the chetk-off |linois, with a membership of 1,700. read: “Wages shall be increased reg- Ma Bi | At the convention which opens in | ularly corresponding to the increase 's of more thei | Indianapolis on Janua 3rd the res-| in prices on the necessities of life.” : tare | olutions which were unanimously ac- On the Right to Strike s = : pe" : | cepted will be presented. Whereas: The right to strike was , Supphes, sind a | The chief resolution demands a re- | won by the American worker smithing, through | ! gle in which thousands lass lives were sacri opening of negotiations on wages and | for increased pay. There is a resolu- numero’ of work initiations, dues, weighman and cd tion on the right to strike, directed | and se : | against the N.R.A. and wage-agree-| Whereas: Ti > weapon is the nian Aare ‘ments with anti-strike provisions. most importa of the mii ce spies fs ot the One resolution hits at the high sal-| against the coal operators for ' » ting to as high as er. All of this is ked-off before the miner can buy food or draw any money. is the result of the check-off y pay envelope and ime no bread in the house, ause of the mass opposition of the miners to the check-off, the fol- lowing clause has been inserted in the “Appalachian Agreement” for its pro- tection: “The United Mine Workers of America agrees to protect the Opera- tor under this section.” wages and better working and living eement, conditions, and President Lewis, In! 1 tive Board of the U a. and all District Office: d together with rey of the coal operators and the Board to take the right of the m to strike away; and Whereas: The coal miners of the United States without this most im- portant weapon, “the right to strike and picket” will be subjected to even worse slavery and misery than they aries of the U.M.W.A. offi .. De- claring that there are more than 350,- 000 unemployed miners, with hundreds of thousands unemploy one resolu-| tion resolves, “that the international} convention of the United Min ers of America goes on record de- manding of the United States govern- ment to enact a bill to establish a system of unemployment and ‘social insurance at the expense of the gov- ernment and the employers, as pro- vided for in the Workers Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill al ready presented to the United States at this time and Fight All Check-off Congress.” Whereas: The newly signed agree- The right of the operator to check- Against Fascism ments go to the extent of providing | orf for the company insurance, doctor, Expressing solidarity with r| penalty for the miners who come on strike to protect their rights; there- fore be it Resolved: That the International Convention of the United Miner Workers of America repudiate these strikebreaking visions of the agree- ments, declares them inv: cldes that the members! right to strike and picket at any time to protect their interests against the attacks of the coal operators, without being subject to any fine whatsoever, and be it further Resolved: That all disputes between the miners and the operators be settled directly between the represen- taives of he minrs and the opera- tors, without any interference Labor Board or any other agency. Note: The local also voted for im- mediate preparation for strike to start on February 1st, Bosses Fail To Crush Spirit of Leon Blum Laundry Union Leader Writes from Jail sports, etc., is one of the conditions for the check-off of union dues. As as the operator checks off union he will insist on the right to chi off for himself. The checking- off of the union dues legalizes this right of the operator. The abolition checking-off the union dues will lay the basis, strengthen the whole fight against all forms of check-off, and make possible its defeat. Every worker's organization, includ- ing the U.M.W.A., is a voluntary asso- ciation. The membership in the or- ganization is based on the principle of a voluntary affiliation, Since this is the basic organizational principle of the U.M.W.A., it is but logical that dues payment must be based on the same principle, that is must be volun- tary. The check-off is a form of com- pulsory dues payment. It is ashy clear, therefore, that checkin; if of dues is in contradiction to tle basic organizational principle of the U. M. W. A, { a resolution against Ge They call on the convention to de- mand “unconditional release of all fascist victims, the legal right of the workers to belong to the organiza- tions of their own choice to protect themselves against the employers and the fascist bands of Hitler.” The two most outstanding resolu- tions passed read as follows: Resolution on Wage Scale Whereas: The present wage scale embodied in the agreements signed by the officials of the United Mine Workers of America, without the con- sent of the membership, is entirely too low to meet the needs of our membership, especially in view of the universal part time work, and Whereas: The prices of the necessi- ties of life are increasing daily, re- sulting in the lowering of the living s ou e Don't Attend Meetings The check-off is one of the basic Teasons that tens of thousands of | members never attended union meet- | ings and take no part in the life and struggle of the union. This natrows down the union activity to a small group of individuals, quite a few of whom are active only because of per- sonal gains, and always subject, to corruption, which paralyzes the whole work of the union, and make" ft pos- sible for the top officials to build for themselves a powerful machine. for the control of the union; The aboli- tion of the check-off~and establishe ment of a yoluntary dues payment, accompanied with a real educational work, would involve tens of thousands of miners in the daily life and struggle of the union. ; This in itself would be one of the | best guarantees to make it impossible |for the top officials to control and misuse the organization and would help to establish the rank-and-file control over the union, which fs one of the greatest necessities of the day. The check-off has always been a powerful weapon in the hands of the top officials against the membership. Plan Anti-Lynching ‘Meeting In Harlem Protest Marder of LSNR Member in Detroit NEW YORK.—Protesting the mur-| der by Detroit police of a member of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, Herman McKawain, president of the Harlem Council of the League, yesterday announced plans for a del- egated conference this Thursday evening to intensify the fight against lynching and to formulatae plans for @ campaign against job discrimina- tion in Harlem. The conference will be held at the League’s headquarters, 119 W. 135th Street. All organizations, churches, lodges, clubs, union, ete., are urged to send two delegates. Yn a statement on the police murder of Alfred Alex- andrine in Detroit, McKawain stated yesterday. “This wanton murder NEW YORK.—The following is an excerpt from a letter recently re- ceived from Leon Blum by the In- ternational Labor Defense, New York District: “Dear Comrad Your letter and money order received. It helps to make life less hard Although my needs are few 1 am not going to pre- tend that I do not care for small comforts and little luxuries. “The prisoners here know as little about the real reasons for their be- ing here as the workers outside know the real cause of their misery. Even the professors are afraid to shed light on the causes of crime; so it is no wonder that the workers are con- fused. They try to solve their in- dividual problems in the ways they of our members must be answered by | have learned in school and from the | 7¢ the miners in any mine go on strike Seceeetee ee Maes CateeSIEA | syitern y have been | in order to protect their interests, the against lynching, police violence | foq on Lie: officials revoke the charter, reorganize and discrimnation, the local and make every miner in We are wiring the mayor of De- troit protesting and holding him responsible for the murder of Alex- andrine by a member of the city police force, and we urge all other organizations to also telegraph the Detroit mayor.” | system, which makes jungle beasts out of men. | the mine to re-join, to pay full inita- “I follow with the | tion and fine, or lose his job, All of © E 1 and economic situation in| this has been done and is being done 7 all details. I am exasperated and | mostly as a result of the check-off, i elated by turns, Where Dues Go “One thing makes prison less diffi- . a cult and that is the knowledge that | girittion ot ee ote on unter you who are out are carrying on the | minions of dollars go into the tress- fight. We need a powerful defense | ries of the districts and the interna- organization, Build the I. L. D.|tional office. The money is being Comradely yours, Leon Blum (Great used mainly for the building and Meadows Prison, Comstock, N. Y.).”| maintaining of a powerful machine, Help The Fight For the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill.—See “Peace on Earth,” Jan. 11, Thurs- day evening. Tickets at Unemployed Council, 29 E. 20th St, McLevy’s Two Month’s Record Contains No Act for Workers SLANDERED SOVIET UNION; HELPED BREAK STRIKE; DESERTED JOBLESS; AGREED TO BOSSES’ APPOINTMENT > By SAM KRIEGER (C. PB. Organizer, Bridgeport, Conn.) BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Jan. 7.— Mayor McLevy and his Socialist ad- ministration have been in office here for two months. The record of the Socialist office-holder in this period shows that the Communist Party was right in warning the workers of Bridgeport that the Socialist Party is @ party of the employers. Mayor McLevy’s first official act was to endorse the Community Chest swindle. Then he reciprocated the Many pledges of co-operation made by the Democratic and Republican Politicians upon his election by ap- pointing some of them to k lynching presented by the I. L. D. to be read. (He was forced by pressure from the workers to read the same resolution at the next Common Coun- cil meeting). Mayor McLevy's next action which caused a big stir among the Socialist In order to be able to carry on its ternational - work effectively, the I. L. D. must a ee at hate wee have funds. Therefore it has ar-| main job has always been to main- ranged for @ five-day bazaar, be-| tain the gangster rule of Lewis. — ginning Feb. 21, to and including Under the “Appalachian Agree- Feb. 25, at Manhatten Lyceum, 60 E.| .. ont" the check of becomes ® pote eee erful weapon of Lewis and his hench- men. In the past the dues money ; Was turned over to the local -by the NMU Women’s Auxil’ry Party rank and file, was to endorse the re-appointment to the Board of Park Commissioners of the Repub- lican, Georges Eames, manager of the local branch of the Singer Sewing Machine Co,, and an open admirer of the Hitler terror regime in Germany. Then, swinging into his gait as a supporter of the manufacturers and tuling class of Bridgeport, McLevy openly came out for increased taxes for all taxpayers, small as well as large. In Connecticut, all personal property is taxable as well as homes, etc.), MeLevy Slanders Soviet Union, Helps To Break Strike The “socialist” mayor of Bridgeport Tang out the old year on December 31st with a speech at the United Church in which be depreciated the role of Karl Marx in history by as- serting that “Marx was only a his- torian. . . . he wrote a book called, ‘Das Capital,’” and then slandered the Soviet Union by declaring that there are still many unempleyed in McLevy started off the new year with a, grim portend of what the Bridge- port workers can expect from a “so- cialist” administration, The social- ist controlled Bridgeport police act- ing on the orders of the captain and owners of the Greek ship, “Kalypso Vergotti” whose crew went on strike for better conditions, arrested five striking members of the crew on charges of “mutiny” which were later changed to “breach of peace” and then held the crew in jail for four days without bail while the captain mustered a scab crew to take the ship out of the harbor. The “socialist” mayor refused even to “investigate” to find out if the Tights of the workers to strike were violated. On, the contrary, when the police court was forced finally to free the crew after mass pressure was brought into play by the Party, T. U, L. and I. L. D., Mayor McLevy in- sulted the strikers by telling them that they were not citizens of this country and should not argue with the mayor, Just the same, McLevy the “Land Without Unemployment.” was forced to pay for the transpor- tation of the crew to New York be- cause their presence in Bridgeport was too “hot” a proposition! Communist Party in Action for Workers The election of the socialist mayor and administration in the fifth year of the crisis in Bridgeport and the country, has already shown that the workers cannot expect the Socialist Party to lighten their burdens or to improve their conditions. Not only has McLevy not put forward a pro- gram for taking care of the imme- diate needs of the unemployed (de- pending only upon federal aid in the form of the C.W.A. etc.), but the Socialist Party is trying to be as “regular” as the old parties so it can be re-elected again. All the sections of the administration since they took office prove this. But the workers who were dissatisfied with the cap- U. |italist politicians and the boss system are becoming more dissatisfied than ever with the inactions of the social- ist administration so far as taking | any real steps on behalf of the work- ers is concerned. This dissatisfaction exists in the ranks of the Socialist operat The locals would send to the district and international offices ; their respective share. This has been changed now. Now. the operator sends the dues money siege: to the district office. In the past at least occasionally. the international and districts would spend small sums of money. for strike relief and other strike activity. Now the entire U.M.W.A. offictaldom is“ definitely and openly against strike. — They have signed an agreement with | the operators depriving the miners of j the right to strike. Not 1 this. They have agreed with the tort to impose a fine upon the miners whe will dare to strike for ee tions, It is clear that one of the. "greatest tasks of the miners at the next-con- venion will have to be to fight against every form of check-off, i be for the operator or for the unior dues. The miners will also havesthe task of fighting for the re-distributier of the dues so thet the, larger sharc will remain in the local. treasury which will be needed in order carry on a fight for the of the working and living Sends $10 to “Daily” By a Woman Worker Correspondent HELPER, Utah.—Find enclosed $10 | donated to the Daily Worker by the | Women’s Auxiliary of the National Miners’ Union which we raised by} putting on a bazaar just before Christmas. ‘We hope the Daily Worker keeps up the good work forever. It really is the best organizer anyone could ask for. And the only honest true workingman’s paper did get in Utah. Here’s hoping you keep carrying on the good work as you have been | doing in the past. SECRETARY TREASURER, Women's Auxiliary of N. M. U., Utah bi sailas Party itself. It has been increased because of the example of real action on behalf of the unemployed and the workers generally which has been shown by the Communist Party, Trade Union Unity League, Interna- tional Labor Defense and the Unem- ployed Council. These actions in the last two months included concrete gains for the unemployed, concrete victories in the struggle for Negro rights and concrete assistance to workers who were on strike for bet- ter conditions. Our party has only made a be- ginning in this direction. We must continue to show by our deeds that Wwe are the only political party that fights for the workers’ interests. That we are the only real party of socialism. There is work for every member in the Communist Party—and especially in Bridgeport. The situation demands that our pariy now make a real change in its method of work so that we can build up a collective and a bigger membership, We must char- ter our course by the Open Letter if we wish to succeed. STEEL WORKERS GREET “ps AILY” (By a Worker Correspondent) CINCINNATI, Ohio—The Steel Subdivision sends its greeting to the 24-page January 6th Daily Worker. We not only hope, but will try to keep the “Daily” all through 1934. GEO, GENS. |