The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1934, Page 3

Custom Tailors in Pittsburgh Union ‘Men Forced! er Gen'l Strike in Phil. To Hand Over Half of CWA Pay ~ Resist Amalgamated. Contract With Bosses PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 15.—A general strike of custom tailors was voted at a meeting of the Needle| Trades Workers’ Industrial Union last Thursday night to prevent con-| tractors from forcing the workers to| join the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. The Amalgamated officials signed an agreement with the Custom Tail- ars’ Contractors Association last week, although they knew that the work- ers employed in the industry are all members of the Needle Trades Work- ers’ Industrial Union. The general strike was considered imperative to stop the plans of the bosses to smash wages and force the workers to join a ginion whose lead- ers will readily aid the bosses in low~ ering the workers’ conditions, while exacting high tribute from the work- ers in dues. It has been called against the Merchant Tailors as well as the contractors, since the former provide work for the contractors. ‘The general strike was scarcely a few hours old when the ited was functioning in its role of scab agency. The militant tailors, how- ever, succeeded in bringing the scabs out on strike with them. The Industrial Union is appealing to all Amalgamated members to re- fuse to scab and help the strikers win their demand for the right to belong to a union of their own choice. Ruby Bates, Thibodeaux Will Speak at Meeting Against Lynching,Jan. 19 NEW YORK.—Ruby Bates and Norman Thibodeaux, Negro worker saved from Louisiana lynchers white workers, will be the main speakers at an anti-lynch mass meet- ing Friday night, Jan. 19, at the Spartacus Club, 25th Street and 8th Avenue. Other speakers announced are Tauber, International Labor De- fense attorney, and I. L. Weinberg, chairman. The meeting is under the auspices of the Midtown Section of the LL.D. Has your organization made = flonation to the fund to finance the National Convention Against Unemployment, Feb. 3, in Wash- ington, D. C.? Send funds to Na- tional ittee, Unemployed Council, 80 E. llth St, New York City. Soviet Film Showings in Calumet Section Comrade Mac Harris, who is on @ National Tour for the Daily Worker, will show the Soviet Film “War Against the Centuries” in the following cities on the dates listed below: Jan, 28—Rooseyelt School Audi- +orium, Elxhardt, Ind. Jan. 7—Hungarian Hall, 820 W. Indiana Ave., So, Bend, Ind, Jan, 30—Stolzman Hall, Calhoun and Brakenridge, Fort Wayne, Ind. Feb. 1—-Washington Hall, 1545 Washington St.,Gary, Ind, Feb. 2—Trinity Hall, Howard and Ames, Hammond, Ind. Feb, 3—Indiana Harbor, Ind. LENIN Memorial Meeting @ PHILADELPLIA Friday Eve., Jan. 19th at the initiation fees. But the union of-| these jobs BROADWOOD HOTEL Broad & Wood Streets MAX BEDACHT, main speaker on “Leninism and the Amer- ican Workers” LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI, an explanation on “The Ode to WORKERS CHORUS — John Reed Club, Pierre Degeyter Admission at Door—35c Unemployed—15e @ DETROIT Sunday, Jan. 21st, 2 P.M. at ARENA GARDENS Woodward & Hendrie — (Continued from Page 1) : port of the A. F. of L. leaders, they | eers to.take half of the total payroll | paid to unemployed workers taken on | the Melion-C.W.A. job. | Million Doilar Racket Plasterers, painters, bricklayers, | glaziers and lathers in Pittsburgh | who were suspended from their | union, because they could not pay) dues, at a meeting held in Pittsburgh | recently declared that “union busi- | ness.agents were attempting to build | up-@-million dollar racket in Pitts- | burgh at the expense of 10,000 unem- ployed but qualified trades workers.” With the knowledge and permission of C.W.A. officials, union’ heads in Pittsburgh devised a graft scheme that they figured would net them | tens of thousands of dollars, and) probably millions in tribute. | ‘The scheme worked out tn this} way. During the crisis, with around 75 per cent of building trades workers without jobs, union members could | not pay the heavy, gouging dues re- quired by the higher ups in the union. | The men were, therefore dropped. Finally came the big ballyhoo on | C.W.A, construction. Jobs by the mil- lions were promised by President Roosevelt and Administrator Wallace. Though Wallace still uses his fan- tastic, imaginary figures of 4,000,000 employed on the projects in Pitts- burgh between 30,000 to 35,000 jobs were allotted. In reality only 13,000 were given these jobs. But most of them were politicians who acted as foremen and held other cushy posi- tions, getting money that was sup- posed to go for “relief.” Mellon’s “Cathedral” The Mellon “Cathedral of Learn-/} ing,” which Andrew Mellon had of- fered to finance to the tune of $10,- 000,000, stood unfinished since 1929. To show his “philanthropy” Mellon by | proposed building this institution for the Pittsburgh University. Here the Mellon family was to erect a monu- ment to its greatness. From the bil- lions squeezed out of the toil, sweat and blood of the miners, steel work- ers, aluminum workers, Andy Mellon offered to finance the construction of this gigantic building where only those ideas would be taught that suited the Mellon system of exploita- tion. Of the 25 directors of the univer- sity, only three were not directors of Mellon banks or corporations. Among the three is the present Gov. Pin- chot, whose henchmen use the C.W.A. to bulid their political machine and help grafting A. F. of L. officials, Huge Structure The building was to shoot up 52 stories, 680 feet. But Mellon, whose profits during the crisis dropped a few millions, leaving him only tens of millions yearly, decided to renig on his financial promises. “The .” writes Harvey O'Conner, in his book “Mellon’s Mil- lions,” completed only on the upper stories, ended at the 4th, and the steel work of the first three stories stood gaunt and naked... .” Somehow, instead of building work- ers' homes, and schools for the chil- dren, the ©.W.A. provided millions to complete this monument to the Mellon family who were making more millions through N.R.A. war expendi- tures. The grafting, racketeering officials of the A. F. of L. saw their chance for new depredations against the workers, Officials of the Carpeniers’ District Council (A, F. of L.), through its business agent William J. Kelly, worked out a scheme whereby half of the money going to carpenters em- ployed on the job would go to the pockets of the officials. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1934 ately named), secretary-treasurer of the District Council in Pittsburgh. When thousands began to complain | permitted these grafters and racket- | against this crushing tribute, C.W.A. officials scurried about to hide their complicity in the graft. they received any share of, i of course, known at this time. Complaints reached Washington. To put a lid on the graft expose which would involve still higher officials of the American Federation of Labor, C.W.A. Administrator Wallace deciared that the matter was up to the county and state Whether is not, C.W.A, officials. He said he would | not handle the situation. These conditions are not restricted to Pittsburgh. They are statewide, according to reliable information coming from Pittsburgh. They are not peculiar to the Carpenters Union alone, but involve all the A. F. of L. | officials in the construction industry. When thousands of union members complained and the scandal could not longer be kept hid, William J. Kelly, business agent for the Carpenter's District Council issued a statement defending this “kick-back” racket. In the Rockefeller Center, the “Kkick-back” was usually returned to the sub-contractors, or foremen. Wages were lowered by this method. Where the money went from there hhas never been clearly established. That union officials got some is be- yond dispute. In Pittsburgh, no round-about methods were used. The union offi- cials got the graft, and made the men come to the office to pay it. Business Agent Answers teering, Business Agent Kelly said: “Anyone reading the statements the Carpenters’ Union of the City of Pittsburgh was doing a terrible thing by requiring certain consid- erations from carpenters who have obtained work on the (Mellon) In short, he thought it was the usual thing for union officials to de- mand half of the pay for giving the workers the privilege of slaving and trying to-feed their hungry families. | Kelly said he alone was not in-| volved. He stated: “The District Council was unani- mously of the opinion that some | arrangements should be made so as | to take care of members who were | most in need and to accomplish | this a resolution was presented that 2% special permit card be granted to | members in arrears and ex-mem- | bers permitting them to work along | with members in good standing { | on this work.” | | Members in need were told to) poney up $100. Because they were in need, because they required every penny they earned to pay their back debts, to feed their children, the union officials agreed that one-half of the pay should go to contribute to the outrageous salaries of the bureau- crats. | Many union members owed from | | $10 to $100 for dues. The job would {never last long enough for them to pay up the $100 initiation fees and back dues. Hence, the union offi- | cials had a mortgage on half of the} pay the men were to receive on the} Mellon-C. W. A. job. | “This action,” says Kelly, “was taken for the purpose of benefiting these men and allowing them to earn @ livelihood.” To this he added: “There was no compulsion on the part of any of) | these men to sign the contract with the organization that they did sign, if they were not satisfied.” Here the men were hungry, with- out work. No job was to be had. ‘This was their only opportunity, It meant taking this or going to the breadlines. “There was no compul- Answering the charges of racke-| as published would imagine that | he “Vigilantes” armed with clubs, shotguns and tear gas bombs, arrest hundreds in struggle of 7,000 Imperial Valley Agricultural workers, | In the News TWO KILLED BY HIT-RUN DRIVER BUTLER, N. J., Jan. 15.—Ernest Fenner, 20, and his flancee, Kathleen Weaver, 18, who were to have been | married Feb. 3, were killed here by {a hit and run driver. Leroy Van {Orden returned later to the police | station and admitted running them | over, it was reported. Thugs Ready to Attack Imperial Valley Strikers fierce drive to smash | U.S. Enlists Police, Relief Heads In Drive on Jobless Transients By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Deiailed instructions under which the home- less unemployed are being nabbed off railway trains by the railroads’ private police, haled into court under local | |vagrancy laws, and handed over to “relief” authorities to be forced to} WHALE WASHED ASHORE OFF | Work for _ their keep in transient | QUEENS; TO GO TO MUSEUM camps, have been sent out by federal) NEW YORK, Jan. 15—A whale, of| uthorities. the two toothed species, 15 feet six Morris Lewis, director of transient | inches long, similar to the one found | activities of the Federal Emergency on Rockaway Beach several weeks) Relief Administration, has written to | ago, was found washed ashore yes-|the relief authorities n the various terday on the beach off Edgemere,| sates: “The success of this entire pro- | Queens. The Museum of Natural | gram will depend upon the effective- History intends skinning the whale | ness of your arrangements with local and placing its skeleton on exhibi-|and railway police and the courts.” tion. | These words appear in a lengthy | directive to all state relief adminis- | Gunman Halts Card Game to trators and state transient directors. Murder Racketeer Altogether, the letter gives full details | NEW YORK—A gunman halted a|of what Roosevelt's relief director, card game which had been in pro-| Harry L. Hopkins, means, when he| gress all night in an apartment house | announced the transient camps pro- im the Bronx, lined up the five play- |gram, saying that under it the ers against the wall and shot Angelo | unemployed could choose between a Pezullo, small time Bronx gambling | camp and fail. racketeer. Ba 42 | Lewis’ directive urges “vigorous en- , a . forcement of local vagrancy laws” in | ihernecaye aaah muulcting the | connection with the transient camps No capitalist newspaper outside of | LpBed reel Lapa dil des Hae eel Pittsburgh has carried the story of |iN& the public that free rides this C. W. A-A. F. of L. official-| tains is being ‘restricted’” sh dom’s grafting. be placed—and how this and other Pittsburgh is not alone, It exists| Propaganda should create the im- throughout the country. So putrid | Pression that all of this is being done has the stink become over this|by the “relief” agencies. vicious system, that the rank and| At the very outset of his letter, file in Pittsburgh in the A. F. of L,| however, Lewis reports that the pro- is beginning to organize. |gram is backed by the railroads— The government is making a pre- | that it was worked out in conferences tense at “investigation.” But, like | between authorities here and officials all graft investigations, the main|of the American Railway Association. purpose is to cover up and proiect| ‘The letter also explains how the the real culprits. Whatever facts are | relief and transient camp authorities brought out will be used in the man-| are to “contact” local police and court | ner of Hearst and Senator Copeland | authorities to arrange the shunting ~—to force through fascist measures|of the unemployed from the hands | of government control of trade unions | of the railway police, into those of | in order to defeat the rank and file, | the transient camp officials. | keep them from throwing out their) “Railway police or special service | |tration and other lief Administrators for tion to the nearest transient camp, and state directors are asked “to have a representative of their organizations accompany the person for whom the ticket has been purchased to the railroad jon ...so as to avoid the possibility of these tickets being sold by the beneficiary before being collected.” “Any future distribution posters printed for rect understanding if these posters showed the name of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration at the top,” and the wording should be “so arranged as to show that the railroads are co-operating with the Federal Emergency Relief Adminis- agencies with a view of restricting the use of their properties for free tran: tation. It was unanimously agreed (in a con- erence between relief and railroad men) that such changes in the word- ing of those p would have a very good ps; the public, ords, it would miake clear that this movement was primar something being handled by the Federal Emergency Relief Ad- ministration.” It is further explained that any matters “of a general nature” that | Lewis desires to take up with railway ill be handled through the ary of the Protective Section ct the Railrcad As: Plea advise ie regarding any ram so that we may discuss future planning with the central rellway authorities,” Lew- is adds. He also repeats that necessary police a orities “imme Examination of CWA Job Seekers Shows Most Undernourished NEW HAVEN, Conn.—“The ma- Make Final Preparations for Nat’l Jobless Convention, Feb. 3 Benj inti ee Federal ponsors for Workers’ Jobless Insurance Bill Final Preparations | Senators to Be Asked to Introduce Bill House transporta- | . would carry consid- | jerably more weight and insure cor- Being Made for Nat'l Jobless Conventio Arrange Mass Meeting at S . Nicholas Arena to Send Off Delegates NEW YORK—Final instruciions to a ions sending delegates to tional Convention Agkinst Un- nent to be held in Washing- on Feb. 3, 4 and 5, are being issued by the New York office of the | Unemployed Council, 29 E. 20th St. | It is urged that all credentials and | | expenses of delegates be turned in to the New York office not later than Jan, 29. Twelve dol’ars is required |for the expenses oi each delegate. This will cover all expenses for food, lodging, transportation, ete. Delegates to the convention are to report on| Feb. 2nd at 7:30 p.m., at 29 E. 20th | St., ready to leave for Washington. | A mass meeting to send off the | delegates will be held at St. Nicholas | Arena, 69 W. 66th St., on Feb. 1, at/ 18 pm | Tacoma Convention’ Send Delegate to ‘Nat'l Jobless Meet ® Trade Unions, Farmers, Mass Organizations En- | dorse Workers Insurance TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 15—The |most successful conference of work- jers ever held in Pierce County was |the unemployment conference held |here on Jan. 7. Although the Central | Labor Council refused to support it, | Many affiliated unions sent delegates. |The number of workers represented |by delegates from A. F. of L. unions | was far in the majority. One delegate | ical effect upon | Ww ence elected to the National Confer- Avainst Unemployment to be held in Washington on Feb, 3, 4, 5,| Seventy-nine delegates were pres- | jent, representing 29 organizations | vith a total membership of 3,539. | There were seven delegates from A. F. of L. unions representing 1,741 | workers. These included the Carpen- ters, Longshoremen’s, Iron Moulders and Machinists Unions. Three T.U. U.L. organizations were represented: the Fishermen and Cannery Workers | Industrial Union, the National Mine | Workers and the National Lumber | Workers. Seven fraternal organiza- | tions, nine neighborhood committees ;of the Unemployed Councils, the to contact local and state | United Farmers League, six C.W.A.| | groups and the Liberty, Socialist and Communist parties were also repre- sented. | Delegates of the Liberty Party and the Economic Equality Club reported | their organizations in favor of the | Workers Unemployment and Socal | Insurance Bill. | The Socialist delegate present | declared on the floor that the Social- (Daily Worker, Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 15—Herbert Benjamin, National organizer for the unemployed councils, came here to seck a sponsor in Congress for the workers unemployment in- surance bill and to further prepara- tions for the National Unemployed Convention in Washington next month. After checking local arrangements for the big meeting on February 3, 4, and 5, Benjamin reported swift progress. He said negotiations for a convention hall probably would be concluded at once, and that housing has been secured for about 800 dele- gates. Places still must be found for at least 200 others. Local Forces Help “Local workers have assumed the tasks of getting ready for the con- vention with very good spirit,” Be added. “The local Unemployed Coun- cil is making a house-to-house cam- paign for signatures in support of the Workers’ Unemployment ‘Insur- ance Bill and in this way small con~ tributions and pledges for lodgings also are coming in. “James Murphy, Negro Editor of the Afro-American, is co-operating. We are meeting a group of Wash- ington Liberals and indications are that they also will help. The local I.W.O. will provide lunches for all convention delegates. Bone’s Stand Sought With a letter from Senator Homer . Bone, (Dem.) of Washington, pledging to “follow through on the battle I have been trying to make for the average citizen.” Benjamin went to see the Senator to ask hint to introduce the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, Bone wrote the letter to W. H. Holloway, Secretary of the Pierce County (Tacoma) Un- employed Council. This Council's work forced the City Council of Ta» |coma to endorse the bill and mem= orialize Congress for enactment, The | Unemployed Council forwarded a copy |of the City Council's resolution, and Bone replie: “I want you to know that it is my desire to follow through on the battle I have been trying to make for the \ average citizen and I shall have these bills before me for study at the time they come up. I know that there jare @ great many resolutions pending jand it, of course, would be my desire to support the one that would seem more likely to give the maximum of help.” Bone should have small difficulty |choosing the Workers’ Unemploymené jInsurance Bill as “the one that would {seem more likely to give the maxi- jmum of help,” because this is the jonly measure yet brought forward which would provide Federal unem~- ployment insurance, guaranteeing every worker who is jobless from no fault of his own, a $10-a-week bene- ft for the full period of enforced | idleness. | Also Visits Cannon | Besides Bone, Benjamin will at- |tempt to see representative Cannot |(Dem.) of Wisconsin, whose own Mil- |Waukee City Council has endorsed jthe Workers’ Bill, Cannon has “in- troduced an unemployment bill of his own, which would not guarantee con- tinuing benefits. Benjamin will also present the | Workers’ Bill to Ernest Lundeen, Building. trades workers employed | 10,” says the A. F. of L. officials on the job, who had been dropped |for non-payment of dues, were told they must get permission to work on Mellon’s “Cathedral” from the union. $100 “Initiation” Fee Union officials told them they must | pay $100 initiation fees before they could get the job. Then they had to sign a contract promising to “kick back” half of their pay every week to the union officials, under the disguise of “back dues.” Starving workers, some who had/| that where collective bargaining is in| under the circumstances. all in line with the C, W. A. The C. W. A, he contends, has turned the matter over to the union officials, and they can force the men to pay half of their pay to the racketeers. “We would like to add,” he de- clared, “that the rules governing the Federal Civil Works Administration does not require a union man of any | craft to register with the U. S, Em- | ployment Service but distinctly states Kelly argues further that this is| j corrupt officials, and building the unions into fighting organizations for better conditions. | The Daily Worker has only begun its exposure of graft and corruption in the A. F. of L. unions. We have |mnow in preparation a series of ar- ticles, written by workers and inves- tigators from many unions, and on the Daily Worker staff. We urge workers in New York and throughout the country to send us their stories, with the proper evidence for publication. We particularly call on other not worked for years, could not raise | effect, that skilled labor required on | Pittsburgh workers who have been \ficials were accommodating. They told the men they could pay the tribute in installments—$10 at a time. Many unemployed workers went to their relatives first—end C.W.A. officials knew about it. Slave Contract Before going to work, the men to the following contract: MASS SINGING—International | must report to the district hed 2 Panache Pageant of Workers | overy Saturday and Day one-half of truggles the amount earned, until all dues ANNA SCHULTZ, recently re- in arrears are paid in fall. turned from Germany, “The above conditions is speaker, cepted by....” Siler nat ar tae, a ve fore @ CLEVELAND were taken on the job. The O,W.A. TWO MEETINGS officials would not give their consent Jan, 201K 5-750 PM. lace ae, ene Oe West Side The C.W.A, worker had to come SWISS HALL ber half of lis pay to the ttn or PAY WALEON AVENUE. | cuaik at beidia fee be wea aot clies WOODLAND CENTER 46th AND WOODLAND peakers: C. A. HATHAWAY, Editor, Daily Worker ROSE CLARK JOHN WILLIAMSON, Organizer, O. P. Dist. that. He had to pay over $10 additional for “initiation.” |-worker “kicked back” from $25 to 40 every week to the union offi- cials,..Out of this, these blood-suckers paid themselves their thousand-dollar “salaries.” * | The contracts were counter-signed | by M. D, Cashdollar (quite appropri! had | shall be secured from the unions of the various crafts.” On this ground he insisted there j mulcted to send in full particulars, ving dates and names. for pub- ai |Heation in the Daily Worker. == Some Facts the| Big Dairies Instigate Ac- tion to Hit at Smaller | Firms By H, PURO ‘The farmers strike in the Chicago milk shed is over. It lasted from the morning of January 6th to noon, January 10th. Eighteen thousand members of the Pure Milk Associa- tion, a farmers “cooperative” market- association, composed in the main of hard-hit middle farmers, were in- vited in the strike. ‘The strike was instigated by the big Borden, Bowman and Wieland dairy companies, in agreement with the high officials of the Pure Milk Asso- ciation, It was directed ostensibiy against the independent or so-called “cut-rate” dairies, but in reality it was directed both against some 7,000 milk wagon drivers in an effort to create a favorable situation for wage cuts and against the 18,000 and more farmers, with the aim of cutting their milk prices. Farmers Take Strike Seriously The big dairy trusts and the high- salaried officials of the P.M.A, under- took to use the 18,000 farmers as play About the F armers’ Steike iis Chica % strike was so effective that less than 20 per cent of the regular milk supply reached the city of Chicago. The suburbs got even less. On succeeding nights and days the character. Not only were the high- ways blockaded, but the militant pickets seized express and mail trains; their milk loads were emptied, Representatives of the United Farmers League (National Executive Council), together with the repre- sentatives of the Farmers National Weekly, visited one of the picket lines on the Illinsoi-Wisconsin state line last Sunday. We got a first-hand impression of the effective picketing. Every car, even passenger autos, were stopped and searched. We talked with the pickets and found that the rank and file farmers were not clear on the aims of the strike, except that some of them expressed the opinion that the strike had been instigated by the big companies. As to their demands, they said that they were against a cut in prices. They wanted the same price from all dealers. Big dairies closed their plants Sun- jon the picket line was taken most|pendent dairies. Some of the drivers things, But a strike is not always a|/day evening, making practically no thing to be played with. The ma-| effort to get milk for their plants nor jority of the farmers entered the|to make deliveries. At the same strike with the alm of winning some-|time they openly incited their drivers thing for themselves. The struggle|to go after the drivers of the inde- departments will handle those tran- sients or illegal train riders or tres- passers the same as in the past,” the letier says. “uch persons would be taken into custody and arraigned | before the proper authority, the | same as a person taken inte cus- | tody on any other charge. This method of handling will practically eliminate the possible claims for illegal detention whieh wesld un- doubtedty follow, if on atterspt were made to take such transients into custody and hold them in railroad yards or other places await- ing arrival of a representative of the Director of Transient Activities.” | Tickets will be supplied by the Re- dumping cf several milk trucks into the Chicago River followed. | In the meantime militant rank and | file milk drivers issued leaflets to the drivers, urging them to stand against | |Teamsters Union contrary to the| |unanimous vote of the milk drivers’ \local, In their leaflet rank and file drivers also urged their members to) ‘support the farmers’ strike and their, |strugele aginst the price cut. | | Rank and file drivers also sent a} delegation to the farmers’ picket-lines to express their solidarity and sup- port for the farmers’ strike and in- vited them to the drivers’ union meeting. The farmers promised to send their delegation, also promising to support the drivers’ struggle against |the wage cut, | Officials “Call off” Strike As the farmers strike assumed a more and more militant character, representatives of Secretary of Agri- culture, Wallace, and of the Agricul- tural Adjustment Administration, city officials, and representatives of the big dairies, and high officials of the Pure Milk Association got together and declared the strike off. Just prior to this a general manager of the | P. M. A, Mr. Geyer, resigned his | $10,000 a year job, stating that he) would not assume responsibility for Seriously from the first hours of the|fell for the propaganda of the big the strike. Only after the strike is over, he said, might he resume his jority of the men examined for C. W. A. jobs during the past ten days are suffering from malnu- trition and are physierlly unfit to do the work,” according to H. R. Ster- rett, chairman of the C. W. A. com- mittee here. About 3,400 workers | were examined, Has your crganization made a donction to the fund to finance the National Conve Against Unemployment, Feb. 3, in Wash- ington, D. C.2 Send funds to Na- tional Committee, Unemployed Council, 80 E. 11th St, New York City. jstrike, Already on the first day, the|dairy managers and the violent|position if the farmers wanted his) Farmers services. Mr. Geyer was thus pre- paring the stage for the betrayal and resigned in order not to be blamed for the sell-out. At the present moment, acccording ‘farmers made their picket lines so|he wage-cut negotiated between the |to reports, farmers are compelled to | i solid that no milk passed through. representatives of the big dairies and ‘accept a price of $1.80 hundredweight, Picketing assumed a yery militant |the Central Council of the Chicago |instead of the present price of $2.10. In addition, it is said that this agree- ment will be made retroactive. Thus the milk trusts, the auditing of whose books recently made by the A. A. A. divulged “an enormous” profit, through manipulating with the \strike with the veident cooperation of the P.M.A, high officials, are now bent on making even greater profits. Sec- retary Wallace declined to support @ settlement unless the farmers were ready to accept a cut in prices. Wal- lace thus openly supported the milk trust against the farmers. Having been able thus through be-, trayals of the P. M. A. leaders to crush the strike and compel the farmers to take a price cut, the milk trust with the aid of the gov- ernment, is ready now to cut the wages of the milk drivers from $8 to 10 per week. However, the rank and file left wing is preparing the drivers to wage a stubborn fight against the wage cut, which is being prepared with the help of the re- actionary leaders of the Teamsters Union. Work of Left Wing Weak. Utilization of this splendid strike of the rank and file farmers in the jist Party had no organization in| oO Pierce County bu ers of the par of the bill. Reports from Upholsterers’ local | No. 40, A. F. of L., Carpenters’ local | No. 470, the Iron Moulders and Long- shoremen’s delegates, reported their | locals in favor of the bill, as did the jdelegates of the United Farmers League and the My Workers and Lumber Workers Industrial Unions. The conference decided to form local committees to take the bill be- ui that the few mem- there were in favor fore all workers’ organizations and to | take advantage of every moment un- \ til | mobilize all possible pressure behind ‘the bill, Milk Shed Sought to Win. Gains, But Officials Sold Them Out the dairy trust and its | was possible, in spite of the militancy and efficient pick- eting of the rank and file farmers, because of the weakness and inat- | tention of the Party district to the! work among the farmers, because of | the absence of a left-wing within | the Pure Milk Association. The United Farmers League has not yet extended its work into Illi-| nois. It has only one local near the Illinois border in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, and there the Party sec- tion as well as the U. F. L. members were actively engaged in the strike. This strike again demonstrates that the radicalization of the farm- :ers and their readiness for struggle | is penetrating deeply even among those farmers who formerly were more well-to-do and _ conservative. On the other hand, this strike dem- onstrated to striking farmers the side which the capitalist govern- ment invariably takes in their strug- gles. the Washington Convention to} | ington. |Farmer-Labor Representative of Min- |Resota, and to Marion A, Zioncheck |(Dem.) of Washington, who was At- torney for a big unemployment move- ment of Zioncheck’s home city, Seat- tle. These members of Congress will be asked to introduce the Workers’ Bill, whether or not they actively fight for it. The Unemployed Con- |vention will launch an intensified nationwide campaign for it, | Elect Delegates to Jobless Convention from Minn, AFL Loew | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 12—~ A. F. of L. Cabinetmakers and Mill- |mens Local Union No. 1865, after hearing a representative of the Un- jemployed Council, voted to endorse | the National Unemployment Conven- | tion and elect a delegate to Wash- A City Unemployment Con- ference held last Sunday by the | Minneapolis Unemployed Council, de- cided to call a demonstration at the Courthouse on Friday, Jan. 26, at | the time that the City Council is in session, to demand that it endorse the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- ance Bill to be presented to A send-off mass meeting for the Minnesota delegation to Washington will be held on Sunday night, Jan, 28, in Minneapolis. netic Three delegates from Portland: Ore., arrived here on their way=te Washington. 2: 2 Delegates to National Jobless Meeting Sent By Providence Club PROVIDENCE, R. I, Jan. 14— Two delegates and one alternate to the National Convention ~ Against Unemployment have been elected by the Right to Live Club, dent organization of workers, with 1,200 members. The two delegates elected are members of A. F. of L. unions, one of the Iron Moulder and the other of the Paint- ers and Decorators. It is necessary now that the few) contacts which were secured on the |one hand with the striking farmers, “We are very much interested In uniting our local struggles with the struggles of the other unemployed and on the other hand with the city | workers in the United States,” writes workers should be systematically de- | James Rooney, secretary of the or- veloped by the Party and the United ganization, to the National Commit~ Farmers League tee of the Unemployed Councils,