The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1934, Page 4

te Oe ne ate te EES, cee WAS SRE TID RMR | Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1934 A. F. L. Auto Leaders Unity of Illinois Miners for Demands of Active in River Rouge Rank and File in All Unions, Is Needed | | Terror Intensified As Farm Strike Spreads pe Seed ces 32 cane a = 4g P * S 1 Musteites Sabotage on the struggle tor Officials-of Both P.M.A, In Impe rial V a ] I e eg orr event trugg es Cleveland Unity naced on the prin: | and U.M.W.A. Oppose | é if | Decisions | ene rank sand <t6: 08 eae ane | Miners’ Demands eras 5 Ee each } Auto Workers Union for| ; United Front With | A.F.L. Members | the Communists supporting it are not | interested in the amalg: both unions on top, or to 2b: membership of one or the othe into either of | PMA. or U. | common act! and locals of | | sist the driving of the miners who are | organizations cf th | members of the P.M.A. into the U.M. | ticul | 7,000 Out; Police Form! there are approximately 13,000 black- | listed miners who are members of | | § Roy Hudson | Ring Around Area; |the PMA. who responded to the | Relief Urgent | strike call issued by the PM.A. Nine-| , See n Taonths have passed since the! BRAWLEY, Cal, Jan. 11—The ning of the strike. The ‘leaders terror drive against the agricultural ed @ policy, in- | Strikers of the Imperial Valley t ruggles, of g) itch ard Victory is As-| reached a high pitch yesterday | By BILL GEBERT e Tinois miners | ‘The history of the Illinois miners 0 Unemployment hit the ids hard. Approxi- cent of the miners are Those employed work DETROIT, Jan. 12—The leaders of the American Federation of Labor, epping for years the key the organization of the uw y loyed councils, a: ‘ ; when more than 150 arrests of the the Ford River Rouge i W.A. a5 8 of the officials indicate struggle tor’ reases in aay most militant leaders of the strike Ford factory in the ngton and his so-called oppesi- | will be t policy. struggle for jobs on the miners ba | |were made and a cordon of. police) decided that the time | tion to Lewis. oe tee y ditt Action Committees || | CWA gnd for the Workers’ macs picketing. Th nt EROUEY | formed an iton ring around. the to offer their services | |, .7pen compe: Alexander Bowstt, with By developing activity. below, form= | Unempios seeps Bill. This | gotten from t to go. to} | nine towns in the strike region, isod sedis nantes } his reorganization movement of the | ing joint action committees, the min-| receives the support of the opposi-|couzts to ge ions from the} lating them from contact with the ! slit riers neg and file move-|ers of Illinois have the same ob-|tion forces in both: unions, rgcinst the Peabody Coe! Co., militant act u * workers outside. Despite’ the concentrated attack of police forces to smash the strike, ent, Roy Ed- | jectives as the miners throughout the ! |munson, in which moyement the lead- ling role was played by Jerry Allard. Among those unemployed miners. terests. ers of the A. F. of L.. United after dickering sions among capitalist cou’ S @d not even con- As vices the ranks of the strikers swelled to c' Ned S Next was the so-called opposition by plea of the leads if the |7,000 today. In the face of ible Sot Bord, wockern. Weasaney {a ee ee eae Sate Gatien aida ai arrest, 3,000 gathered at a meeting ued Woes ae n John Walker stole the ballots $ are defi- | 10) in the Fordson High ti fused cept |at Union Hall to reform their ranks er the miners refused to ace it and broke out in mass ‘Locals Demand U.M.W.A.: wgoewoaue Heads Quit N.R.A. Board: militant miners placed so | es and 1 Com- the side cf the ho of the Peabody Ci ¢ the miners. 19 Months Old ing the black- leaflet calling the aders even stopped ated Ford slaye system, | ense against his rival | the and replace their arrested leaders on the picket lines. The iron ring around the strike d not keep out militant work- these mine: ate relief, f |ing hou: day and five-d: “ ” apy hie lieved ross q ® ta ig | sin x ing aid to the strikers, how- tie ie Se stacriea corpam tent’: eae niet Party, | much hope, Because they, Pelieved |How Officials Sold Out?s came, ne local forces, — paige a ers getting ‘through re- = 5 in the Mlinois District : he Setar : = | goadea undoubtedly by the U.Mw.a.| 2 2 the strike situation is andard of hours and in’ oi ganization and fight for the inter Bethlehem Miners to | é . ee a 2 ; is s, but the competi-| ‘lca a ee ORE ests of the miners. rae no recognition, hence 1 Members of cheap labor by other elled him to sur- anagement ideals.” | Clause, was involved, | , are meeting tomor- @ strike to begin with the new the strike. They ed their readiness 2g) : ge Company Union National Secretary, Marine Workers They learned soon enough that the } Industrial Union vAs) West Virginia leadership which they trusted, the . The min Progressive Leaders’ Betrayals_ | | after ually, = perators and | roins cud being Teacie adopted, 1a| NAC “oMclle in ‘Washington: bad (ig ets a the meray of ‘the coal: operator and | unians and: belie, Teaalls Adbpied) AA; oe Tt ee forth, the strixers| when the mines are bcing overated were referred to a Mr. Carmody at/ by miners who returned to work, and , Pa. To Mr. Carmody a/ !mported it is impossible to nt, but insteed of find-| continue on such a ba most ‘serious history. They nce against the ore police. yesterday Pe vERSCOUG eas This will add ond Offers Hall Pearcys, Kecks, etc, betrayed them | By TOM MYERSCOUGH Y. after telegrams with Ud not be misled by new pro- | — = fhe eae ae Ph mn the Fordson High W D | t t jonce again, deserting the struggles! JOHNSTOWN, Pa-—A resoliiion tne Bee Se ea pratt Pe of se es ers ae Se eS 3 Sra eo he meeting in the Fords | riners and leaving them atjheing circ ¥ the local | ¢ e buck passing re Ss 0 come out in fevor Ss picket- 4 School failed to come off because UM e ega OS TQ | ot tne miners and g Jbeing circulated” among the | pie ary eee ae Priest Persecutes Henry Ford. not yet being convinced} of the necessity of calling on the A. Fyoof L. leaders to assist his stool- | pigeons in breaking up organization, | Saw. to it that the city officials denied | government: The mi Fight Lewis Policy "=": | Illinois miners, nand that all} who are 2al appoini- tely |one dealing with a d organization of the | ofcials of the UM. s and daughters of the | holding national or the: Women's A ments on N.R.A. boards, immedi Woman for Part in : " - is polly okt rok | ‘ ds of special deputy sher- 5 sate ease rc which. t ’ ™ eanten #4 ‘ , they found F. P. Han-| This policy of the leaders of the them the use of the school. onlyi UMWA Misleaders Try jo") chica record of ctrusgle of tie | Toms eee phan tie [PMA. i not in ths interests of the ODIESS ugg EE 2 ee ee ie. 2 : | Pal at 4 a ALON cans pM a Rea E. Bes miners who are blacklist un- | ice drove Filip r rawley Fin semhere ce aprpathines orthe| LO Cheat Locals of Their | tes been turn psa |e ate scan ubacrtaen Sonic lok Ge eee ee ba Calling Of employed. The Communists in par- —- }to Flcentro gins) are trioking che SAA Werte if | 5 int tee: ints tha’ f Mrs, | 22! r equally important resol e's and, believing them-| tievler must. brine this ouestion very | (ps1 t. 5 y : | workers by declarine that the Fili- eb ie erg | Representatives eee ee ree ee ctionary panrt | Hos Ur that diedys solv with a “governmental | forcefully to the forefront and explain |CAildren Thrown Out of | Sincs are being exposed, They milled around for a while ley, although the majority of the| Headed by Lewis—and Green too— | of t | to the mazses of miners how incor- School on Pure “We can win with relief,” wires until Raymond, national secretary of | cy, althoug! Jority és i d litt / oe = pope aaa Hon | PITTSBURGH, Pa. Jan. 11—Of |delegates followed or supported Mrs, | Nationally, all of the big and littie | ed 1 of the P.M.A. lead- Frank Samora, secretary of the Can- the A. W. U., came forward and of-| jirty delegates to the U.M.W.A. in- | Wicks. fakers are playing their strike-breal:- | the company they were ready to re-|ors are in connection with the prob- | Frame-Up nery and Agricultural Workers Union fered the use of the A. W. U. hall @/temnational convention elected from| All this is a bitter lesson for the | ing role in the various N.R.A. boerd:.|turn to work. Hanaway put over his| Jems of the 13,000 blacklisted miners | which is leading the strike. Workers’ few. blocks a MacDonald, A. F.) the scotts Run Section of West Vir-|niinois miners. They began to see|A recent example has had its effect | stu‘? by telling them they need to be of. 3 | organizer, after pretending to nond warmly, turned down| He remarked privately to Musteite S se on. the job in the event an election is| nck at ete held. Now they afe at the “mercy” and revolutionary ele- of the bosses. Today (Wednesday) 2 entering on the correct | °-% every last man has been paid off.| path of class struggle and activity, | York tions are urged to wire funds ately to Azteca Hall, 10th and , Brawley, Cal. ginia, 25 are anti-Lewis men. Most locals passed resolutions de- (By a Woman Correspondent) < CENTERVILLE, Ia, — This little | « city is a coal mining section and is not very good in the mines. Some work on the C.W.A. and are clearly, at least a minority of the|here in Johnstown, Pa., where a miners, that they can no longer trust | ier of ae pes has been or , |Mmanding the release of the Scotts-|in any of these so-called leaders, but |to find 1,7 ocked-out men, who Serr to ass persons warmly, | soro Sek and Tom Mooney. |they have to depend unon themselves | now must fight a; ist the company meee Gren the alter. > TemarNed | 5 —that the solution to their problems | union designs o? the Bethlehem | of Illinois, whose most Has your organization made a privately to a worker that he was| These locals at the same time t Jor J: iq | Voiced their opinion against the ap- Strait bor Maal yuerete Union Pe inte poiees cof the Lewis ie- il eel a \chine. They are going to fight also For $6 Minimom |for the elimination from the consti- Because of the influence of the/ tution of the clause forbidding Com- Auto Workers Union and the recent] munists membership in the U.M.W.A. united front election movement in| ‘The Lewis machine is attempting which it played a leading role, the|to sabotage the delegation going to A. F. of L. leaders have been com-|tnaianapolis, refusing transportation pelled to make certain “friendly’|as per the ‘constitution. overtures. One of them came to @/ ‘The jocals aye financing their own united front conference on Sunday,| transportation through chartering 2 Jan. 7, and sked for “cooperation.”| ‘When the conference decided to adopt} @ Tesolfftion demanding the use of the! bus. In Westmoreland County, Pa., ad- | ditional opposition delegates were schools for all workers’ organizations, | elected, two at Export, two at Her- the A. F. of L. misleader made haste| mie, and one at Fitz Henry. to tell the delegates that such a reso- that) lution was unnecessary and Prank X. Martel, president of the De. tr care of all that. passed, nevertheless. | The Lewis machine is carrying | through its whole system of fakery Federation of Labor, would take|t™_tticking small locals to hand over The resolution was |eredentials to Lewis organizers, or | to those delegates elected supporting | Lewis. The Ford Council of the Auto| ‘This is especially so in Fayette, Workers Union has issued thousands|and Green Counties and in Central of leaflets exposing the A. F. of L. ‘al of the strike in the Ford, Chester and Edgewater plants andj betray oi tu Ford speedup. Has your organization made a | donation to the fund to finance the National Convention Against Unemployment, Feb. 3, in Wash- ington, D. C.?. Send funds to Na- tional Committee, Unemployed Council, 80 E. llth St, New York City. The Communist Part Pennsylvania, as well as in Southern | West Virginia. The miners should refuse to turn ing for a fight for a $6 a day min-/ theér credentials over to the Lewis Wage and against the fiendish| gang, whieh will use them to per- | Petuate its strikebreaking rule. | | All U.M.W.A. locals electing dele- | gates, should see to it that these | delegates get to the convention to express directly the opinion and ‘wishes of the locals and to make (a fight against the Lewis treachery, |agains, the strikebreaking wage agreements and for the miners’ | rights. is a miNtant class program and that the best leaders and fighters for such |@ militant class program ere the | Communist | Communists Party. and the Local Struggles At present, the miners of Illinois who are members of the P.M.A. are entering the road of consolidation of their forces, developing local strug- gles and preparing for further ad- vances through building rank and file oppositign movements. The re- cent elections in the locals of the P.M.A. resulted in fhe election of some of the rank and file candidates in 13 locals. Among those elected are members of the Communist Party and Young Communist League. Likewise, in six branches of the Women’s Auxiliary of the P.M.A. rank and file candidates, some of whom are Communists, have been elected. The opposition movement in the but already shows some crystalliza- tion. Local 5509 adopted 21 resolu- tions based on the principles of the class struggle, to present to the In- ternational Convention of the U.M. W.A., which will open in Indianapolis on Jan. 23. Unity Burning Problem The burning problem confronting the miners of Illinois is the unity in action of the miners who are mem- bers of the P.M.A. and U.M.W.A. The tank and file opposition movement is undertaking the task of unifying such action on the basis of the well- UM.W.A. locals is not broad as yet, | Mines Corporation | Bethlehem Steel. Company Union Installed The credited spokesman of the N.R.A. in this instance—and Region —is F. P. Hanaway, a former Vice- President of District 5, U.M.W.A. who | was kicked out with Van Bittner in} 1916 and who has been on the Inter- national payroll ever since, by virtue of Lewis’ appointive power, which also should be ended by the coming convention. Appearances indicate col- leboration of N.R.A. and coal com-| sidiary of the What are the facts? The miners employed in the three mines of the |company here are members of the! | United Mine Workers of America, with the possible exception of less | than a dozen men. Yet about two) months ago, the company gathered! this mere handful together and| handed to them a brand new com-/| pany union with which they pro- ceeded to sign an agreement. All during this time and ever since or- ganizations of the miners began, those enrolled in the U.M.W.A., at the urging of the U.M.W.A. officials, have been demanding “recognition” and} the “Check-off.” Nothing else mat- tered. Recently, when pleas for recog- Uition and check-off were ignored by the coal company and its “parent” Steel Co., the demands were shifted | to the N.R.A. (from Roosevelt down) for an employees’ election under Na- tional Labor Board supervision. From the N.R.A. nothing but “buck ® bs Even the pay due two weelts hence| must not be misled by the Musteltes was handed to the men today and the tany smugly sits back—playing to further its own company scheme. From the. beginning it has been obvious that the A. as been helping this plan of Bethlehem Steel. and Coal to! defeat the miners by refusing to call | om election until enough men are in the company union fold. How Co. Union Is Brought In The company’s first nlay is, as pre- dicted to meetings in the strike sec- tions in an attempt to involve the men in relief struggles, that “te @id not close down our mines, we aidn't need the coal and only oper- ated them on a ‘welfare’ basis.” notice to the effect that those desir- ing employment, may apply as in-| dividuals, when, if they do apply asj| such, they will be told to join the company union after which an elec- | tion will be conducted by the N.R.A. and only those desired by the com- pany will be hired. Efforts to involve all the strikers in a fight for relief and for the for- mulation of suitable demands will be continued. In the meantime all locals should take action and instruct their delegates to support with both voice and vote, the resolution demanding the officials. from the N.R.A. and the rest of the rank and file opposition resolutions which would eliminate the parasites from the miners, and | Cleveland resolution. The next will undoubtedly be a other workers lives, altogether. who have already sabotaged the Cleveland Unity resolution on the tasks in the mining indvstry. On the very same day that they voted for the resolution, they betrayed it and now they are attempting to form what they call the “Ame'con Miners’ Educational League” and in the whole program prcposed by that organiza- tion, there is not a single proposal | for developing united action of the miners as has been proposed in the Cleveland resolution. Although they copy some of the demands of the Cleveland resolution, it is only done for the purpose of misleading the miners into thinking that they are still adherents of the But, already long ago, they disregarded that reso- lution. ‘The basic problem confronting the Illinois miners are stated in the Cleveland Resolution, which says: “It is necessary to organize the unity of all miners throughout the country in the struggles against the operators and those who support them. “This unity to be established in every mine and eyery mining field in every district through the election of miners’ committees of the rank and file to lead these struggles.” Mr. Allard, and his leader, Reve- rend A. J. Muste, are,offering to the immediate vesighabloh 4 ay | muners. not a solution to the prob- Jem, but further confusion for the miners. Instead of a clear-cut pro- gram. of class struggle, they substi- tute it with generalities, covered with (Continued on Page 7) righty glad to get work. I am a leader of the unemployed. Last May we staged a march on the Court House, when they had no funds for the unemployed, but that after- noon the Governor sent his envoy and the Board of Supervisors made arrangements to feed the unemployed. I sent my children to the Parochial School of St. Mary’s last wee’, be- ginning Jan. 1, go to mass, because we were all ill | from the influenza, and then they | started back Jan. 8, and the Nun | of Humility, who is teaching, sent my boys over to see Father Wolfe, who is pastor of St. Mary’s parish. He said: “You go home. I have bad reports about you, and you stayed out of school needlessly.” The children came home. I, not being over the flu, sent. my daughter, aged 19, to see why he heard those bad reports, and that there was not any truth in them, and to tell him the children were sick. The Rev. Wolfe told my girl he did not want to hear any more about it, and push- ed my girl, and then kicked her on her leg. So this is the kind of religion that is preached in Centerville, to treat the poor like dogs, and kowtow to a few that have a little money. Have you sent your contribution to the fund to finance the National Convention Against Unemployment to the National Committee, Un- employed Council, 80 East-11th St., My boys could net | New York City? donation to the fund to finance the National Convention Against Unemployment, Feb. 3,,in Wash- ington, D. C.? Send funds to Na- tional Committee, Unemployed Council, 80 E. 11th St. New York City. Foundrymen Slashed 20% in Two Years, Admits Gov’t Bureau Daily Worker Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12. —Foundry workers’ earnings aver- aged 48.2 cents per hour and $14.25 per week in 1933 as com- pared with 60 cents per hour and $20.06 per week in 1931, and 62.4 cents per hour and $30.06 per week in 1929, the current monthly Labor Réview of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics an- nounces, “Machine shop employes earned an average of 54 cents per hour and $18.71 per week in 1933; 63.4 cents per hour and $24.22 per week in 1931, and 63.8 cents per hour and $32.06 per week in 1929.” These details are part of a survey of wages and working hours in 364 foundries, having 19,763 wage- earners, and 492 machine shops, with 41,960 wage-earners, made in the Spring of 1933 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Building of Marine Workers Industrial Union, | union which as a result of this is Recruiting for Party, Work Among Jobless, Important The following is the full text of the Resolution on the Tasks of the Party Among the Marine Workers in the North Atlantic Ports, adopted by Party Conference, Jan. 6th, N. Y. C. 1—Conditions of Marine Workers Despite the already low wages, in- tolerable conditions, and mass unem~ ployment affecting the mass of the marine workers (seamen, longshore- men, etc.), the proposed codes of the ship owners clearly reveal the inten- tions of the shipowners to carry through further attacks. The nature of these attacks is exposed in the 25 ber cent wage cut for the radio operators followed by ovress reports that the shipowners and the A. F. of L, officials have reached an agree- ment on most of the codes in secret conferences. The shipowners pro- pose to enforce these codes with the aid of the bureaucrats of the I. S. U. and the I. L. A., who are included in the various N. R. A. boards and who sed atta . All these attacks on the marine workers are closey nterlinked with the war tions of the U. S. government the growing “militarization” of ‘ whole of the marine industry in with the war preparations. They ‘are further revealing the growing tendencies towards fascisation car- Tied. through by the U. S. govern- z nt and the active role of the A. F. icrats in the development of clearly indicate that the marine workers are ready to fight back against these attacks and struggle for an improvement in their conditions. It is also to stop these rising strug- gles for the marine workers that the shipowners, the A. F. of L. bureau- crats and the government have in mind with their anti-strike, com- pulsory arbitration proposals. The tasks of the Party are to give lead- ership to extend and develop the ris- ing struggles of the marine workers, to develop them and win them for munist Party, to win the best ele- ments for the Party. The codes worked out by the Marine Workers Industrial Union with the collabora- tion of thousands of workers organ- ized in the M.W.I.U., in the A. F. of L. unions and unorganized, fur- nishes the basic program uvon which the marine workers can and will be rallied in struggle. At the same ‘ime as one of the means for mobi- lizing the marine workers for the mafor strucgles that are looming, the mimunists mi zation by bu ., the onnositt n the reformist unions, thus laying the basis for the independent leadership in the big struggles that are now maturing. 3—Work Among Seamen For the first time since 1923, the seamen are engaging in strike strug- gles. About 50 strikes haye taken Place, among them the outstanding being 29 strikes on the Munson line, the point of concentration of the M. W. 1. U., clearly showing the cor- rectness of the concentration policy emphasized in the Open Letter. radio operators, ef, by the Marine 1 All of these strikes have been led Workers Industrial the program of struggle of the Com- | establishing itself as the fighting or- ganization of the seamen. The suc- cessful leadership of the strike strug- gles by the M. I. W. U. with the energetic exposure of the N. M. B. and the I. S. U. code served as a means of exposing and to an entent isolating the leaders. of the I. 8S. U. who carried on big campaigns with the support of the shipowners, the N. R. A. and with the added in- dorsement of the Lovestonite and other renegade groups, who put for- ward the policy for the liquidation of the only fighting organization of the seamen, the N. M. I. U., and call upon the seamen to join the I. S. U. The bankruptcy of the I. W. W., the best of whose fighting traditions are now carried forward by the M. W. I. U,, is revealed in its failure to conduct any struggle, its failure to expose and fight the N. R. A. Its sole activity consists in slander- ing the M. W. I. U. especially by confusing the role of the Commu- nist Party in the trade unions and making itself part and parcel of the ted-baiting campaign of all the enemies of the workers. The recent successful united front action in “altimore and New York indicate the remendous possibility for cevelopinz a Iu gle for their daily in- sts, which are expressed in the mds put forward by the M. W. I. U. Chief of these demands are return of 1929 wage scale; 3 watches; increased crews; payment in gold in foreign ports; right to organize and strike; no discrimination against Ne- gro and foreign born seamen, etc. The Communists must be in the fore- front of functioning ship delegates, particularly in carrying through the program of action on the Munson line, to build the M. W. I. U. as THE fighting organization of the seamen. At the same time the Communists, especially in New York, must de- velop systematic opposition work within all the exiytins reformist U. on. the'l un fons, the I. S. U. and the I. W. W., wherever it has influence, on the basis of developing the independent strug- gles of the workers, the catching up of all inner union questions, par- ticipate in all elections, conventions, ete. The Communists at all times stmive for the unity of the seamen into one fighting militant class union. Among the seamen this can be achieved by strengthening the M. W. L U,, by exposing and isolating the Fureseths and Sharrenbergs and Ryans, and thus laying the basis for one united organization of seamen and longshoremen. 4—Work Among the: Longshoremen ‘While some progress has been made in the work among the seamen, the position of the Party among the masses of longshoremen remains ex- tremely unsatisfactory, despite the struggles that have taken place and growing mood for struggle among the longshoremen, The negotiations and final enforcement of the recent wage agreements in the North At- lantic ports especially exposed our weaknesses, in the I. L. A. The strikes of the longshoremen in Phila- delphia revealed our isolation, our inability to’sense the mood of the masses. We were not prepared for the strike. Nor were we able to mobilize our forces and give suffi- cient systematic leadership in the course of the strike, with the result that despite the militancy of the workers, the I. L. A. bureaucrats were largely successful in defeating the workers demands. Even in Baltimore, where we were more alert and played a big role among the longshore strikes, we lacked organization and we failed to sufficiently crystallize our influence in the I. L. A. into actual organized opposition. The basic weaknesses for our inability to im- prove our work among the longshore- men are the continued failure of the Party to make headway in winning Jongshoremen into its ranks, to orientate the Party organizations in these sections for systematic and Serious work among the longshore- men. In only one port (Norfolk), have we succeeded in developing the be- ginnings of a satisfactory base amongst the longshoremen. Here a strong opposition movement has heen built in a number of I. L. A. locals; Hormeeie bona horenan Orleans, has no roo! over his NBA, and Hyan, head ef thelr Jobr ithe marine a branch of the M. W. U. has been established amongst the coastwise unorganized men. And in this heart of the South, we are beginning to develop unity of the Negro and white lJongshoremen. At the same time the Party has recruited a number of longshoremen into its ranks, and has the basis for several dock nuclei. In New York there is a more system- atic effort to really begin the carry- ing through of the program worked out by the fraction and District Bureau, more understanding of the preblem now exists, forces are be- ing mobilized for the work among the longshoremen, although little or- ganizational results can as yet be recorded. : Our policy amongst the longshore- men must be at one and the same time to carty on systematic and stub- born work within the I L. A. and the extension of the activity to or- ganize the un into the LONGSHORE SECTION of the Mar- ine Workers Industrial. Union. The Party Committee must try to assist the comrades working in the I. L. A. to overcome the many difficulties and obstacles in the work in the IL. A., which are especially strong tn New York and Philadelphia. With regard to the organization of the unorzan- ‘zed loneshoremen into the M. W. I. it is necessary-to train and -d cadres for work among t! Jon, oremen, develop the independ- j ent aétivity of tlie longshore locals to be ted a: Longs’ Workers Section. of the M. W. I. U. / It is also necessary to constantly develop the united actions of the Jongshore workers organized in the I. L. 4. and in the N. W. I. U., as well as the unorganized, to consider in the short- est possible time the publication of a National Longshore Bulletin that will take up the problems of the longshoremen, especially with regard to the tasks and problems of the I. L. A. membershi. This is 8 neces- sary step in developing a uniform opposition program for all locals of the LL. A. 5—Work Among the peril While considerable atten aS been given to unemployed work in n for Marine @ Longshoremen, standing struggles have been led in many ports, it is of the utmost im- Portance to give this problem the most serious attention, especially in a more systematic approach to un- employed longshoremen in connec- tion with the decasualization pro- gram. Combined with the struggle for immediate relief, we must inten- sify our struggle for the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill and for the election of delegates to the Na- tional Convention of the Unemployed Councils. It must be emphasized that work amongst the unemployed is basic to the building of the M. W. I. U. and the development of op- position work. ~ 6—Building the Pariy The development of the induence of the Party, the recruitment of marine workers into the Party, is a Key task in the development of the struggles of the marine workers, the building of the M. W. I. U. and the oppositions in the reformist unions. For this purpose it is necessary to extend the independent role of the Party among the marine workers, to | 1 bring forward the Party in. every Struggle of the marine workers. The “narine workers must see that the Party fs a factor assisting them in their daily. struggle against the ship- owners, for improvement of their con- ditions. At the same time it fs neces- sary to show to the marine workers that the basic problems facing them as the rest of the working class can not be solved under capitalism. We must more and more bring to the marine workers the program of the Party in the struggle against capital- ism, the revolutionary way out of the crisis as against the road of the capitalists—the road of ever worsen- ing of the conditions of the work- ers, the roed of fascism and new im- Work Development of Strikes, Struggles Among Seamen, Called For By s Party Resolution ing contacts with the marine worke ers, winning them for the struggle, deepening their understanding is through the Daily Worker. It js also necessary to publish Party Ship and Dock Papers as the organs of the Party nuclei on the ships and docks, The Party organizations (Districts, Sections and Nuclei) must consider it as their chief tasks wherever they are amongst large sections of the marine workers, to mobilize the Party organizations for work amongst the seamen and longshoremen, and not leave this merely as the tasks of some few comrades. It is necessary to give special attention to develop units and sections in the heart of the waterfront, to set up head- quarters, meetings. speak to the marine workers. The Party Districts and Sections must realize that the policy of centration means first of all closest political guidance Sears e marine workers, the mobilization of Parly forees from even outside the marine workers where needed for the carrying through of the tasks. Tak- ing into account the weakness of the Party among the longshoremen, it must be one of the first and main tasks of the Party to this connection all canvessing, educational must be organized with the view in mind of winning and training long- shoremen.