The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1934, Page 3

Boston Stevedores| Carry on Meal Time, Strike for 2 Months Defeat LL.A. Officials’ | Move to Scab and Break Their Action BULLETIN BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 18.—One | hour after a leaflet was distributed | om the docks exposing Ryan, head of the International Longshore- men’s Association, and his attempt- | ed sell-out of the meal-hour strike, | police visited the hall of the Ma- rine Workers Industrial Union and | beat up the port delegate who re- | fused to inform them of the secre- tary’s residence or whereabouts, The police visited the headquar- ters twice later. Ryan has post- poned a meeting of the longshore- men until Sunday fearing the ef- fect of the leaflet would defeat the sell-out. BOSTON, Mass. J 18,-—Long- horemen of Boston, organized in the International Longshoremen’s Asso- ciation, are today rallying their forces to prevent a sellout of their meal hour strike, by Ryan, their president These longshoremen have been striking on the job for the past two months, refusing to work the meal hour until they are paid the old double time rate which was taken away from them through the trea- chery of Ryan. As a result of their action, many passenger ships in order to maintain their schedule have been pulling out with as much as a third of the cargo still on the dock, The ship- owners have tried all kinds of tactics to break the ranks of the longshore- men, without success. ‘The press has launched the most vicious attack upon the strike. Attempts have been made to break their ranks by offering in- dividual gangs the double time rate to work certain particular ships, These attempts have fefled, largely because of the strong opposition movement in Local 800, which is leading the revolt against Ryan and his officials. Local 800 has gone s0 f to oust entire leadership, pres- ident, executive commettee, and all. The shipowners, now desperate, are peir last card. They have | ' faithful servant Ryan, scabs to break. the in 1930. This. slimy New England Units to Discuss “Daily” Feb. 6 BOSTON, Mass.—The Units of the Communist Party of District 1, which takes in the New England states, wil. Jeyote their discussions at their Feb. Worker, and as to the best means ‘or spreading it among the workers. All Unit members are asked to study the contents of the tenth an- | niversary edition of the “Daily,” and |the Open Letter, in preparation for | these discussions, AFL. Officials Rob CWA Workers’ Pay in New Job Racket (Continued from Page 1) while the unemployed can’t get work. The artices of Comrade Gannes have shown the graft centering around the | Mellon “Cathedral of Learning,” « OC, W. A. project. While hungry un- employed union members’ were charged hundreds of dollars for jobs, men like David W. Charles, a banker under suspended sentence for steal- ing the funds of depositors in the Merion Title and Trust Co, was made asistant C, W. A, comtroller by Eric H. Biddle, Pennsylvania state Cc. W. A. administrator, When Thieves Fall Out When “thieves fall out” interesting facts come to light. resigned in attempting to save Biddle’s neck. It has ben revealed that the Roosevelt government, through the U, 8S. Departemnt of Commerce, attacking Biddle’s graft, themselves are placing 2,000 hand- picked C. W, A, workers as census enumerators in Pittsburgh, selecting them not even from the registration lists, but dishing out jobs purely to political favorites. Biddle said the U. S. Government was “handpicking them after consultation with local political leaders.” An Allegheny Qounty official placed his son on the C,W.A. payroll as draftsman at $1 per hour. Fifty- nine unemployed Oakland (Pitts- burgh) citizens have taken up |charges of political favoritism on! C.W.A.. jobs with Major Charles Gibbs, ©.W.A. employment director, They declare in their petition that the most of the Fourth Ward C,W.A. workers were formerly on the city payroll and are part of the Repub- 3 meetings entirely to the Daily| Charles has now | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDA Y, JANUARY 19, 1934 ‘Calls Meet Against War, Fascist Terror |Group Endorses Work | of U. S, League Against | War and Fascism j |_ CHICAGO, Jan, 18—A |Front Call for a Conference aga War and Fascism was today to all organizatio: unions, clubs, churches, ganizations, etc., willing to unite in resistance to the growing drive for war reflected in the monster war pr parations and increasingly bitter trade and currency wars by the im- perialist powers, The Conference will be held Feb. }10 and 11, at the Abraham Lincoln Center, 700 Oakwood Boulevard, un- der the auspices of the Chicago Com- mittee of the American League | Against War and Fascism. The call for the conference is signed, in their individual capacities, by Dr. Arthur G. Falls, Chairman, International Commission, Urban League; Miss Julia I. Fel- ence of Jewish Women's organiza- tions; Morris Fine, Chairman, Chi- cago Youth Conference Against W: jand Fascism; Prof. Robert Morr Lovett, chairman, League for Indus- trial Democracy; Mrs. Lola Mavi rick Lloyd, National Board member, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; Thomas M. McKenna, Executive Secretary, Chi- cago Civil Liberties Committee; Dean Curtis W. Reese, chairman, Chicago branch, League for Industrial Demo- cracy, Rev, W. B, Waltmire, execu- tive secretary, Socialist Minister, Fel- lowship; and John Werlik, Local 6, Metal Polishers Union of the A, of L. All the signers pledged themselves \to work in their organizations to ob- tain support for the Conference and to establish a broad and effective base for the Chicago branch of the American League Against War and Fascism. Organizations are entitled to rep- resentation on the basis of one del- egate for each 50 members or fra tion thereof for city-wide organiza- tions, or one delegate and one al- ternate for each Chicago branch or Chicago | senthal, president, Chicago Contfer-| Chicago Committee | | ; Cuban Teachers in Strike Pieasnunie | | = ” i | | increased pay and free lunches for Terror | workers were jailed at Bear Moun-| |tain Wednesday for resisting the for- | |cible removal of their overcoats by a| |brutal foreman. The men are not| |permitted to wear overcoats working on the icy slopes of a moun-| tain. | | Last Tuesday, a natural leader| {1,100 men who are working on Proj- ect 77 there, and, with the aid of four others, explained to all, that |they must fight together to improve | their conditions. On the long trip |from Chambers St. New York to] | Weehawken by ferry and then by) train to Bear Mountain, 500 signa-| jtures to a petition were obtained, which asked for the right to elect | their own foremen, Skilled Workers Get Laborer’s Pay Eleven hundred men are working| lat Arden, N. Y. Carpenters, me-/| | Cuban teachers, along with all other educational workers, supported by the students and industrial workers, went out on strike lact week for |™y Own dues are mounting up and their pupils. Above photo shows a typical demonstration of the militant school employees. Bear Mt. CWA Workers Fired, ed by Brutal Foreman me et ga | NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—Five C.W.A. | Orange County politician got the job. The workers’ demands are: stand- ard union wages for skilled work; pure drinking water and for the con- struction of latrines; C.W.A, to pay while | transportation with no docking for! sickness or bad weather; Workmen’s Compensation for injuries on the job and to and from work; full rights *|sprung up from the rank and file of |for Negroes on the job; and for-ree- ognition of job committees and unions of their own choice, There is no pay for rainy days al- though the men must travel all the way to Bear Mountain to report. The O.W.A. deducts 50c a day for trans- 20c each day for subway fares to the Chambers St, ferry from their homes, Page Three |A.F.L. Officials Get $125 Weekly By Forcing Starving Workers | portation and many men have to pay| your paper, To Pay; L || Workers Write to ‘Daily’ of Racketeering AFL Local. Officials To Editor of the Daily Worker Dear Sir: I am a member of the Metallic Lather's Union, Local 47, 76th St. and Third Ave. New York City. I am working on the C.W.A. relief work and for every day I work my union makes me pay 1 of my wages to pay the delegate’s wages which are $125 a week. I don’t think it is fair, as I am nearly two years behind in my does and have a family to support; and must be paid soon or eventually I will be suspended from the union. Our constitution states a member cannot be assessed more than his dues for any one month, which is $3.50. If we complain the union guer- rillas will beat us up, There is no ac- count kept of the money. It is taken from the men. Every delegate for himself. Will you kindly investigate and see what can be done to relieve this con- dition. A Union Member. P. §—All men outside of relief, working, are also made to pay; that is, men employed on building con- struction. ae In the Waiters’ Union To Editor of Daily Worker, Dear Sir; We read your paper every day now and find it in every respect extraor- dinary good. Just the paper we needed so long, us workers, It can't be beat. The E, C. C, I. has got the right stuff and idea, I follow the racketeers’ expose in especially the waiters’ racket, on account of my line. You tell exactly the truth, as I belong to @ local of the International Alliance | affiliated with the A. F. of L. It’s a} Bethlehem Steel Co, | Jobs and if you don’t pay you don’t | blood-sucking local union. But what can you do about it. They got the EDITOR’S NOTE The Daily Worker begins today the publication of letters from workers exposing some startling facts of racketeering and graft by A. F. of L, union officials, We urge all workers acquainted with simi- lar or other racketeering to write us their experiences for publication. We also publish one letter from an A. F. of L. member in Detroit | telling of the upsurge of the rank and file in his union against the high-salaried, strike-breaking offi- cialdom. The victim of racketeering in the waiters’ union asks: “But what can you do about it?” Their are thou- | sands and thousands of A. F. of L. members, victims of the racketeer- ing of the leaders who individually ask this question. What is necessary is the organ- ization of rank and file oppositions | in every local of the A. F. of L. | The most militant workers must take the lead, organizing these | workers who are ready for strug- | gling and looking for the means to | fight. Only in this way can these | | racketeering leaders be defeated, | The A. F. of L. leaders prey on the | workers individually, trying te keep them from forming a powerful op- | position. But if an opposition is | formed, no matter how small, it will | | gather force, It will be the means | of arousing the whole membership | | to a successful fight in the interest | of the rank and file. We urge all these workers to get in touch with A. F. of L. Rank and File Opposition Committee at 1 Union Sq. New York City, in order to get help and advice in their | struggles. Send in your letters, A. F. of L. members, Tell us about racketeer- ing of your officials and discuss your problems of rank and file op- position struggles.—Editor. Rank and File Upsurge To Editor Daily Worker, Dear Comrade: i} | etters Tell of Graft Upsurge of Rank, File in Detroit Shows Growing Opposition mo rank and f class in gener g on the part of all and the entire working al. Most every one of our members when discussing the question of lead- ership, reply that “They sell us out e chance they get” and that “They ne tools of the bosses.” These answers pretty generally, I think, ex s the sentiment of most le members Green says he is against persecu- tion and Fascism. What is his latest outburst but a call for Fascism and persecution against a militant union and a great section of the working class. What a cowardly way to fight Pascism. Contrast this with the heroism ‘of George Dunitroff in the interest of the working class against Fascism. What figure in drama could rival the matchless leader of the working class. Facing the most fiendish enemies of the working class he triumphantly emerged the victor and restored the confidence and ad- miration of the great mass of work- ers in the leadership of the Party he so ably and heroically defended. What have the Greens, Matthew Wolls, Martells done for us? I am not a member of the Communist Party or any branch affiliated with jit, but how can any worker with a jsense of justice surging in his breast | fail to sympathize and lend a help- ing hand to your organization that | fights so valiantly for all workers, as exemplified by the Scottsboro Case in the face of the open betrayal of | our leadership? | My local has about 400 members | Most of us have been unemployed for jover three years, without any pros- jpect of ever getting work again. | Some of our members are on the wel- fare, most of us can’t get any relief | at all. But what do our leaders care {about that? The President of the Detroit Federation of Labor, Prank local of city, state or national or-|Cbanics and blacksmiths are using lican Party Machine. In Brent- work and starve. warned by the longshoremen to stay Martel, drives a LaSalle automobile, the hell out of Boston, now dares t ne io town and try to break spirit. Already the press re- that he snd the local offtcials satisfactory agree- powners. t nk and file to call a meet- at Fanual Hall sshoremen, who are h in their Yocal ave turning more than ever to the Marine Workers Industrial Union for guidance. A leaflet issued by the M. W. I. U., warning them against a selloul, received a tremen- fous response on the docks, LENIN Memorial Meetings @ PHILADELPHIA Friday Eve., Jan. 19th at BROADWOOD HOTEL Broad & Wood Streets MAX BEDACHT, main © on “Leninisin and the Amer- ican Workers” LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI, an explanation on “The Ode to Lenin” WORKERS CHORUS — John Reed Club, Pierre Degeyter wood, Westmoreland County, a coun- cilman, John Sankey was given a job as C.W.A, foreman, in violation of C.W.A, regulations that officeholders shall not get C.W.A, jobs, Whitewash Applied The Roosevelt government, while trying to oust Biddle and put in one of their own democratic grafters, has already shown that it will gloss over all Pittsburgh graft charges and ai- low the A. F. of L. officials to con- tinue to rob the poverty stricken unemployed, Already it is announced that Robert Kelsoe who was reported assigned by the Roosevelt govern- ment to “investigate” charges, -will not go to Pittsburgh “until Jan, 30.” The Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph says, “It appeared doubt- ful that there would be an investiga- tion of complaints that the C.WA, Rash, ith he Hd is dominated by polities, or of agreements required by labor unions that C,W.A, workers as~ sign large portions of their pay to the unions to pay up delinquent | dues,” | The Roosevelt government, content with getting in their own man in the place of Biddle, again ts the A. F. of L, officials in rob- Roosevelt; government is content to turn over to the A, F, of L, officials latge sums of O.W.A. money which {should go to the starving unemployed. $1 a Day in New York the graft| © ganization, National Events LW.O. YOUTH SECTION CIRCUS CHICAGO.—The L.W.O. Youth Section will give an International Circus and Carnival of Satire and Cericature on Saturday, Jan, 20, at Peoples Auditorium, hohe bia LENIN-LIEBKNECHT-LUXEMBURG MEMORIAL ALLENT! i, —A_ Lenin-Liebknecht- Luxemburg Memorial Meeting will take place Sunday, Jan, 21, at Hungarian Hall, 520 inion St, e558 WORKERS RELIEF UNION MEETINGS , —- Workers Relief Union, Local 5, meets every Sunday, 2 p.m, mt 6021 St. Clair Ave, Rank and File Committees in each local union to control the giving out of all ©. W. A, jobs to organized workers, All union officials participating in the taking of money from the unem- Ployed 0.W.A. workers should be im- medaitely removed from office. A. F. of L. Workers! Demand in your local unions—No assessments or ‘The |back dues to be paid by an un- employed member of the A. F. of L.| on C.W.A, jobs, All unemployed shall be placed in good standing immedi- ately without the payment of any back dues. Organize the rank and file opposition, Defeat the proposals of Hearst-Copeland for statae con- trolled fascized unions, Fight for rank and file control of the local unions, Note—A second article, on graft of A. F, of L. officials on ©.W.A, work will appear tomorrow. |their own tools and are doing skilled work at laborer’s pay. Six hundred of them are getting 60c an hour be- cause they struck the first day on the job but five hundred later arri- vals get 56c an hour for the same work. Men who get hurt on the job, instead of getting medical attention | |and Workmen's Compensation, are | |fired at once, | Men sixty-five years old, though |weak and sickly, are chopping down jtrees, Some, who have from five to nine children, are taken off relief and given jobs under the C.W.A. and when they can’t stand the pace and get sick, they are summarily dis- charged. Workers are travelling from Coney Island, Yonkers and the upper Bronx to get to Weehawken by |6.40 3, m. when the work train leaves; many, therefore get up at 3.30 a, m. jand don’t get home before nine at night, Negroes are about 60 per cent of the whole, which means that they are being sent far away from their homes to discourage them from ap-| plying for work, | Fired for Lighting Fires No clothing or boots has been| provided. If a man lights a fire to help warm his fellow-workers, Lloyd, |the brutal foreman stamps it out and |fires the offender, Lloyd was so jrotten that three different gangs of men refused to work under him. | | There is no sanitation whatsoever |for these 1,100 workers. ‘The only jdrinking water comes from a creek which passes houses and a dairy, which means that the water is pol- luted. Charles Seideristricker, official in the C.W.A., who spoke up on behalf of the men, was, in his own words,| “unceremoniously removed—” and an| Withdraws Pay Cut Postpone 50 Percent Cut As Shearmen Organize BALTIMORE, Md., Jan, 18,—Offi- | |cials of the Bethlehem Steel Corpo- | tation were forced to back down and postpone an intended wage cut of nearly 50 per cent for shearmen in the sheet mill at Sparrows Point this You do not write enough about the waiters and what we make in tips after we work for almost nothing, and after paying the union, the graft to the officials of the union, the headwaiters, the captains, the bus- boys and now the food, all from the few tips we make a day. It’s a dog’s life, worse than that, and the clothes, uniforms we have to buy, to keep them clean and neat as the bosses want us, all from a few tips, and if we dare complain we get kicked out on week, after they learned that the|*he spot and put on the blacklist— workers were being organized by the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union to reject the cut, Called together by the S.M.W.1.U., the shearmen, who are unorganized, unanimously voted to reject the cut, | Which would result in bringing the scale of wages down from 18 cents per thousand to 11 cents and 9 cents, Working two days a week and ing carfare amounting to 30 cents daily, the steel workers would have found less in their pay envelopes than the sum allowed unemployed workers | by the county relief board. The shearmen decided to elect a| | committee of three to present their decision to the company, It was also decided to call a special meeting for Sunday, Jan. 22, to which all 5 and shearmen’s helpers, who are all Negro workers, are being invited. Although none of the shearmen are members of the §.M.W.LU., when they saw the efforts of the union to organize them, they instructed their committee to report to the union and get further advice. The action of the S.M.W.I.U. won a partial victory for the workers when the superintendent, later, announced no more work, ‘The employment agencies take $5 and $10 fees for one week’s work. We work one week and we get fired so the agency can send another man, taking another fee, as the law in the receipt says after a week the fee is forfeited, and so they split the fee, I presume, with the employing head- waiter or manager. ‘Two months ago the Paris Employ- ment Agency on Sixth Ave. adver- tised in the New York American, the Hearst paper, as you know, for 100 waiters for a high-class restaurant. When several of us waiters applied for the job, the manager told us con- fidentially he wanted his fee of $10 for promising the job at $6 a week, for while he should charge $2.50, 10 per cent according to the law, 10 per cent for one month’s work, and what else. We were supposed to pay the pro- prietor of the restaurant $150 to ob- tain the job, A few of us understood the racket and politely told him we would be back. I do not know if anyone did pay the amount or not. This is true, as you can look up the editions of the American between the first to the fifth of November. I thought I'd write you then, but I T lack words to adequately describe | the disgust that wells within me at| the latest vicious outburst, which is| devoid of sense, by William Green| against the only force that is worthy | of speaking in the name of labor, the | Communist Party of the U. S. A.| and its organ, the “Daily Worker.” | I want to assure your organization | that there are hundreds, yes, thou- sands, of rank and file members of jthe A. F. of L, who resent most| deeply this anti-laboring class rant-| ing of our $20,000-a-year official, | whose concern is entirely in the in-| terest of the biggest industrialists. | Our members are beginning to| hear the buzz of your daring initi-| |ative for a Workers’ and Farmers’ |Government. Naturally it frightens and irritates these strike-breakers. | We, the rank and file, are in sym- |pathy with you towards the great goal to which your Party has pledged | themselves. | Our bureaucrats mobilize their en- | | tire press, which dispenses lies daily against the most devoted and} consistent fighter for labor, We| know you are forced to contradict | these filthy fabrications. These wan- ton tongues are, in reality, nothing | but the voices of the exploiters ot | the Wall Street government. We also know this noise was not raised | for the first time yesterday and will! not end until by our collective energy | we sweep them aside. | | Organize Rank and File | |_ The yast majority of us in the A, F, of L. long to shake off the yoke | of these strike-breaking allies of capital. To work against them in one union means not only to work for ourselves, but for the entire work- ing class. This course of action will create temporary inconveniences for | us rank and file members, but it is} ’ | ternational Labor has a nice home and indulges in ex- pensive parties, while the rank and file rack their heads how they are going to continue to live. The N. R. A. and the part played by the A. F. of L. officials in the New Deal has disillusioned many of us to the ex- tent of seeing the utmost necessity for doing away with the capitalist system, based on the scandalous and inhuman exploitation of the workers and poor farmers, and establishing in its place a society that will start forging ploughs out of swords and produce commodities for the use of all instead of a few parasites. AN A. F. OF L, MEMBER. Chicago ILD, LSNR Call Conference to Urge Demand Negro Rights Organizations CHICAGO, IL, Jan. 18—The In- fense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, have issued a joint call for a con- ference to be held on February 3, at 2 p. m, at the Forum Hall, 322 E. 43rd St., Chicago, Til. In this call it asks all organizations and groups of workers to send delegates to the con- ference to fight against the nation of the Negro workers on the C. W. A. projects and in the Stock- yards, and to continue the work of the Baltimore Anti-Lynch Conference held some time ago. Postponement of the cut. dit. A VICT™, duty if we want t vent much| ‘The struggles that have developed, Admission at delegate of ion gets $125 a wee! Sate Sediie raises us ; : : ‘eho aed aoe mee (_ ist Party Textile C Plans Work In Key Centers 2222 2 = have bese tenets ores eee CLIOMMUNIS ar 4 extt onyerence ns or, n ey enters against the Negro, worker. Clade @ DETROIT Sear et tl Sen tek Me ae —— pete ertetoxlies aera ns ee aN a Sen epete N. R. was brutally slugged by police Senter) Jase Asi, 2 BM. |e 2 hot eee tas ONE INION, € 5 iW well Known for his. activities cn. the { j Yi rv 7 r \ vi mo 7 ae s y at ARENA GARDENS _ /{iitution of that union hice Metas| UNITED UNION, OPPOSITION WORK, BUILDING PARTY AND NTIWU, CONCENTRATION ARE TAKEN UP South Side together with Barker in Se eae eee ae | ee, eee a are Meat By ANN BURLAK , ae: : | fag 'Nonto. aac wil ay o2ites ae 4 - MASS SINGING—International [MODH The Cet sie See A soit idecretmay, N, F. W. U,) through amalgamation alone, but the | jment in the textile industry, This) ‘The conference clearly exposed our | “Spyice beatelity ageing the No. Chorus, Pageant of Workers development of our day to day work jcurtailment of textile production by failure to build strong Party Units| nding,” the call states: assess the O.W.A, workers $i day, groes is outstanding,” Struggies In ‘Gand +} Ob January 7th, the Central Com-| in the shops, and of struggle around | 36 per cent actually means a drastic|in the mills during the periods of |The growing unity of the white and ANNA SCHULTE, recently ne- se ee Seale tr pre-|mitteo of the © y|immediate demands in the shop, cut in the weekly wages of the tex-| mass struggle. ‘This in the main is| Negro workers is feared by the boss : sibel mls Bana Saecullve wate cf tee OWA et lian Eee det centtecae’ | cath aa eee eae Bot CONTIN OF I hese Only is| responsible for the weakness of the|ciass, We must not allow the ruling speaker, Tilinols that “‘we have found s lot of |trlots, including the Textile Union| mass industrial silk union are the Te Toners of, GOCeeae eins | oe cle ee ee eeted by | cinas to break this unity.” this lowering of workers’ standards | the big turnover in membership, The ae men who were placed on ©.W.A. pay-|organizers, A. F. of L. opposition| building of the broadest united front curtailment, but actually| conference demanded that the Party| 22° t 1. D. and the L. 8. N. R. rolls improperly or through leaders, District organizers and | mill committees in the mills and then it. 4 to r district and |S upon all organizations to send @ CLEVELAND manipulation, hd af ust ¢ few in-lactire Party mumbers from the tex-|uniing them on « distr sale The te vue ctacaes pelos Gan ee ee falcon Pebcuey La gem TWO MEETIN divide several payrolls mills, This confi erence stressed the gram by issuing @ statement for a|for the development of struggle and edly hog Rt a es thi eae ee ot the | is necessary to reject the theory that strike for a 30 hour week, three days| organization in the textile industry | Jan, 20th at 7:30 P.M. beeen a ee Pa gphiead boiehing Communists in this im-|such a mass union can be built thru before the curtailment program was|in the light of the Open Letter. 0/P rt] M CWA West side fgation Nuahods se hee toeae seta ny (Ee yg i ig ee eo announced. ; connection with this, the Party must |{ OFAN é., SWISS HALL however, that “Mike Carrozzo, head|mass movement around our program. Bola at Ne. We Worker Cote __ | develop regular agitation among the} * 2218 WALTON AVENUE of the Street Union (A, F. of | On the other hand, although the The conference emphasized tie | textile workers in the name of the WorkersFormUnion Eost Side of &) hes been ext grat from Leading members of the Central) wr.w. in its prograi and policy necessity of popularizing the original | Party. The Party must organize sep- = OWA, workers before ie Cosunitiee Participated in the dis-/ represents the interests of the textile| code demands as presented in Wash-| arate meetings, statements and mill WOODLAND CENTER | Scns. Ap Lon ee helping to formulate! workers, it has nob yet been able to| | ington by the National Textile Work- | Papers in the name of the Party. D d $18 Mini 46th AND WOODLAND “No Probe Nested” fe tasks mmunists in the heeame the mare union, of silk work- Ce Union. These 30 hours a week,| A systematic mass distribution of | Veman “inimuni ‘Walter Ellison, 5633 Calumet Ave., ers, erefore, it would be a mis- |40 weeks a year minimum wage of | the Daily Worker must be organize Wage: Union Rates Speakers; ©, A, HATHAWAY, Chicago, went delegation take to make a pre-condition for the $720 & year, can be developed by or-| among the textile workers, especially ses ROSE. cane. io 1 theo de and re ic nee. ts aationat” foce ee GC eruas cart ane ae es eae eee PORTLAND, Me., Jan. 18,—Fifty offices protesting 8 movement e8e work- Activity Inside Mills | Porn bears JOHN WILLIAMSON, Dist. dismissal from Workers Union, y 1. W. A. bureaus local iy le |C. W. A. workers, representing the i Ougtnbeed, ©. F. : ‘Works pei Nareornat ok N The N, TW, must build and vet he ec pe fon they| The central organizational task {s| workers on C. W. A. projects here, ‘ job at Giles Ave,, because he had re- forth Carolina, strengthen its base among the unor- make up the difference between the | the initiation of the most hesponrtgled petit eR ae Relief ae i ’ ‘ fused to kick in for “the timekeeper's United Front ganized, at the same time it must workers’ shrunken wages and the $16) fight for the fullest development of Py wee ae Bs Progen @ NEWARK carfare.” He was fired after he re-| ‘The Central issue discussed was the|evelop the united front, and take minimum, our activity inside the mills. Success | a! e Workers’ Center, ion. fused to give money for “liquor and|@Pplication of the united front policy| the lead in the fight for one indus- Concentration will depend on our activization and | Street, YMiLA, AUDITORIUM R's Bash mt era ea Maes cart a at etna sonn ing | a, eo man] SS Oe ee |, The wrk rule ean + jam, state nal 5 le KS _ . . High aW, Kinney Sts, | Civil Works and Relief Administra- | our struggle ‘The conference |National Textile Workers Union is| ites (Keller) made such statements oo rahe Bedford paren was | leadership. The textile workers are/|the job; a minimum wage of $ é ‘ tion, refused to investigate this case hoted the great desire for unity among |the best guarantee for the successful within the A. F. of L, strike com-| severely criticised. Both of ‘these |‘ Movement everywhere. They are|week supplemented with city ‘3 We GATTERSON, National and’ said that “no investigation is|the textile workers, =| organization of a mass silk union, | mittee as “I'd sooner see this strike in| centers are strategically important | l00king to our Party for Jeadership. |for heads of families; union wages y bveiged FM 1. D. will be/ necessary,” emplified by the splendid fourteen Opposition Groups hell and than permit unity with the/ textile centers where we led big rk eat go Pel: cab igghons Rls for cet workers; right of the z 4 Protests of the rank and file mem-| Week national silk strike, ‘The conference strongly emphasized |Communists!”, Communists did not struggles of textile workers, The Po be cng a cneto tin bal a to organize on Hath job; and Special Musical Program | bers of the A. F. of L. unions are| Because there are numerous untons|the necessity of building opposition} organize the rank and file to force| conference sharply stated that we va accept eed a rugcie auteet | ho right of workers, elected by the ) Revolutionary Chorus jflooding into the ©.W.A. offices in|in tho silk industry (N, T, W. U.,,stoups within the A, F. of ZL. silk|the united front over the heads of| must learn to dig’in’ Build sna’ stee Sola ica, Oona Saree Workers, to handle "distribitions#t Admission 25¢; Unemployed 1c | Chicago, coe tee cities | U.T.W., dents) the Confer-|locals as a major task in preparing|the A. F. of L. bilize the National Textile Workers’ | ®2¢ 8 mass Comm v. relief. by the scores, of pro-/ence set as a@ central task the|the ground for the mass industrial Even now, after the strike, when| Union in those places where we lead| The resolutisn adopted at this An organizational committee, rep- fan see ee ott omtaucking of the bringing together of the members of| unlon. the A. F. of L. got some signed agree- | struggles. Party ‘Textile Conference will be|resenting the C. W. A, workers on @ BOSTON A. F. of L, officials on the|the various unions and the unor- There was ® good report on the|ments with the silk employers, the ‘We must realize that those are the| printed in the Saturday issue (Jan.|the projects at Forest City Ceme- O.W.A, workers, are increasing, ganized into one class or-| work carried on by the opposition|work inside this organization was 80| best places for building our union. a ie be Work Tt must | et, St. John St. Sewer Job, Mon- Sun., Jan. 21st, 2:30 P. M., Rank and File Action Sanization in the industry. na-|Wworkers union (A. F. of L.) in Phila-| neglected that our union did not even | The conference further criticized the | 2” Aner be hisbv ok Joy Hill, Rocky Hill, and North St, + CONVENTION HALL Tt is necessary to expose the A. F./tional silk strike and the united|delphia. The comrades reported the| prepare the workers for the elections tendency of union organizers to|be carefully studied by our various| was elected to organize the men on 3 al of L, officials robbery of the suffer-| front policies proeee by the N, T. influence of the rank and/of officers within the A. F. of L.| abandon regular union functions,| Party organizations (District and|the job. 36 St, Botolph St. cor. Garrison |/2 unemployed union members, The |W. U, during course of this strike file opposition, and the preparation | when elections came up. procedure and rules during the/ section Committees and units) and| A resolution for unemployment ¢ PROMINENT SPEAKERS rank and file opposition must be or-|have already laid a basis for such|for the ousting of the Sociaist Party “Curtailment” strikes. This organizational loose-| i+ must be used as ® guide in our |{™Surance was tabled until the next INTERESTING PROGRAM feoler, against these thieving prac-|a union, However, the question of |leadership in the hosiery union. Every delegate reported that the|ness disgusts the workers and con- meeting to be held on Wednesday, Admission Me of should demand the’ dechon él union Shane bs Saeatmtnat RUE | MO conference, severely eritiiad 7 the pecibeen ch aneah: itn eae — us ig A LS oe BI | 4