The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 1, 1934, Page 3

Madam Perkins, See’y Ford Workers Will ' Of Labor, Aids Le DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1934 - Demand Showdown WIS (n NRA Treachery | In Convention Stunts 6s of Tockea-ou Election of Officers Set) for December | by Mail | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 31. Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, called on workers to “contribute con- | structively towards the N. R. A.,” when she spoke today before the seventh session of the 33rd United Mine Workers of American Conven- tion. This afternoon also saw the last of the resolutions being brushed aside, and the constitution remained a Lewis weapon. Asserting that business conditions generally appeared to be greatly im- proved under the codes of the Na- tional Industrial Recovery Act, Miss Perkins then admitted that: | “With a decrease in the coal miners | employed and a drop in payrolls,! many of your members have suffered a haunting fear of disaster and pov- erty in the last few years.” Miss Perkins and John L. Lewis eulogized each other and literally took formal bows on mutual compli- ments. A Negro quartet of Logan County, West Virginia, Lewis’ strong- hold, sang “Do You Love Your Union and Do You Love John L, Lewis,” while Negro delegates were Jim- Crowed to the Negro section of this cf Fraught With Modesty ‘The head of the American Depart- ment of Labor apologized for not knowing working conditions as well as Lewis and said she was “fraught with modesty.” “You know the: problem of the worker and miner,” she said, ad- dressing Lewis, “better than I shall ever know. There is very little I can tell you, but you through some form of expression can tell me a lot,” Speaking of the cause of the crisis of capitalism, she said: “It is not a chaos of what some of our revolu- tionaries would have it, but it is a chaos of individuals,” At the conclusion of her speech, Lewis thanked her with his stereo- typed: “Highly educational and ilu- Ca Madam Perkins | zs Frances Secretary of Labor, who heaped praise on John L. Lewis at U. M. W. A. Convention. : Perkins, Roosevelt's William Green, head of the A. F. of L., Governor McNutt of Indiana, the local Mayor and various other dig- nitaries of the A. F. of L, | The report of the constitutional committee was pushed through with few dissenting noes. The convention fixed the date of | the next biennial convention for the | fourth Tuesday in January, 1936, The convention city was mt speci- fied, but it is understood that the national headquarters are to he/ moved to Washington and that the/ convention will also be held there. | The next election of international officers was set for the second Tues- day in December of this year. The election is to be conducted by mail. The present conyention will no doubt adjourn Wednesday, thus fin- IA. F. of L. Chester Workers to |: Appear in Capital PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 31.— Still another showdown on the de-| ceptions of the N.R.A. and treachery | of the A. F. of L. officialdom will be forced upon the Roosevelt govern- ment Feb. 5, when representatives of 2,000 locked-out Ford strikers of Chester, Pa., will appear before Gen. Hugh Johnhon. They will demand the auto magnate and immediate ful- filment of the Labor Board’s unkept promises to reinstate all workers. elected at @ mass meeting recently held in Philadelphia where the Ford men organized themselves into the Ford Workers Protective Association Against Discrimination and drafte ® militant plan of action, as follows 1, To demand a hearing with five rank and file workers to pre- liams, Ed, Hoffman, Jr., and Frank Konok, fore the Unemployed Convention now in session and appeal to that body for support. 3. To arrange a mass meeting the re-opening of their case against | The delegates to Washington were | Jobnson and authorize the following | sent him with the demands: Harry i Gerstein, William Martin, J. 3. Wil- | 2. The committee to appear be- | for Feb. 9 at 913 Arch St,, Phita., | eweiry Strike in Jersey Broken; N.R.A. Orders Strikers To Return NEWARK, N, J, announced today that the three s of the 600 jewelry, The National Labor chairmanship of r, has hoodwinked ‘the without a set- them an agree- r futw Jan. 31—It was} ment in the The so-called agreement, signed by the N. R. A. Labor Board, states only that the workers are to report back as possible and sentation for the purpose of collective bargaining” will | be taken up at an early date, $15 A WEEK ON C. W. A. By a Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich The Direct Credit Society [a new organization se of cementing closer een labor and capital —Editor.] is strong around here in | Ecorse The C. W. A. is cutting off the | workers here in Ecorse. One or two get 22 a week, and the rest get only 15 a week, to hear the report of the return- | ing delegates. 4. To call a united front confer- ence involying all labor organfza- tions for wide financial and moral support of the strikers. As soon as the news of this plan | reached the press, the Steel and | Metal Workers Industrial Union in | Baltimore announced their intentions | of welcoming the association’s com- mittee enroute. Ra By A. 8S. PASCUAL NEW YORK. — Pork barrel graft on a tremendous scale marked the period when In- ternational President Howell cketeer Resigns After Grafting Millions International President of the Electrical Union Systematized Graft Campaign oo | | Convicted Racketeer | Norfolk Stevederes!| (Jnem Support Fight on) NRA Dockers’ Code Hudson, Deadue of M. W. | LU., Greeted by Negro Longshoremen. j NORFOLK, Va.—A mass meeting of | Negro Longshoremen of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va, held on Sunday, Jan. | 28th, enthusiastically greeted | Hudson, national secretary and Alex- ander Wright, secretary, of the | Hampton Roads Marine Workers In-| dustrial Union, when they exposed | the code of the ship owners as in-! | tended to still further worsen the con-! | ditions of the waterfront workers. | j | The only provision that is new in | the code, said Hudson, is that the | Wages of all waterfront workers shall | be regular day time wages as of July, 11933. The code says nothing about | conditions, overtime or compensation | in case of injury. The sentiment ex-/ | pressed by the mass meeting was| | overwhelmingly against this code, The mass meeting heartily ap- | proved the code prepared by the | Marine Workers Industrial Union, as} it was read and explained by Alex- | the needs and interests of the water- | front workers. |__V. W. MCormack, member of the M. W. I. U., greeting the longshore- men in behalf of the seamen on the coal boats, who are vitally interested in the code presented by the M. W. I. U. and are organizing in solidarity with the longshoremen for joint struggle. Two delegates, Alex. Wright and R. Terry, were selected by the men at the mass meeting to represent them at Washington. The meeting decided to send a telegram to the N. R. A. Ad. ministrator supporting their delega- tion and their demands, The meet- ing also decided to call another mass meeting for Monday, Feb. 8th, 8 P.M., at Giddons Hall. 1063 Church St,, | Norfolk, to hear the report of the delegates upon their return from Washington All waterfront workers, organized and unorganized, are urged to attend this meeting and learn about the fight that the workers have to put up to get a code that will be in their interests. 1 ander Wright, as truly representing | Page Three ployment at 17,000,000, Labor Research Survey Shows C. W. A. Wisckers Form Unions, Fight Agaii-. Pay Cuts CHICAGO, Ill., Feb. 1—C. W. A workers in the Hyde Park neighbor- | hood have organized a local of the Civil and Public Works Labor Union The union meets on Mondays, at 1004 E. 65th St. Among the demands of the union are: minimum wages of 83 cents an | hour, skilled workers to receive the union rates of pay; free transporta- tion to and from the job, and recog- nition of the job committee. at eee a Form Linden, N. J., Union LINDEN, N. J.—C. W. A. workers | here have formed the Linden Relief Workers Protective Association to |fight pay cuts, layoffs and the Roosevelt abandonment of the entire C. W. A. program. The Linden Un- employed Council and the Commu- nist Party have played a leading role in organizing the C, W, A. workers, Under the leadership of the Un- employed Council, the workers here are to hold a mass demonstration on Feb, 3, demanding that the city endorse the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, ‘Two delegates have been electeg to the Washington National Conven- tion Against Unemployment, to be held on Feb. 3, 4 and 5. One dele- gate is from the Relief Workers Union, and the other is from the Linden United Front Organizations. eC ee Lynn C. W, A. Workers To Meet LYNN, Mass.—Workers’ represen- tatives from every C. W. A. project here will hold an organizational meeting for the purpose of forming a C. W. A. workers union, The meet~ ing will be held at the Cutters and Lasters Hall of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, 7 Monroe | St., Friday, Feb. 2, at 8 p. m. The workers are demanding the return of the Roosevelt wage cut on 2 CWA Unions Fight for More Jobs Conservative Tabulations | Show How Green Falsified NEW YORK. Sixteen million workers are entirely without jobs’ i the United States, in addition to those jobless who are on the tem- | porary emergency relief rolls of the Cc. W. A. and on federal projects, soon to be fired, the annual estimate lof the Labor Research Association, just issued, shows. | This yearly estimate confirms the estimate of the Daily Worker that at least seventeen millicn workers in the United States are totally job- less. The thousands of C. W. A. workers fired in recent weeks were {not included in the L. R. A. total of those unemployed Figures Conservative The new survey of the L. R. A. Js based on official government indexes of unemployment. It is checked up by such estimates as that of the Alexander Hamilton Institute, which showed a fiture just above 17,000,000 March 1933. ‘| Unemployed Leader | William (Bud) Reynolds, Chair- | f | man of the National Committee to The figures seem very conserva: | the Unemployed Councils, organ- | ‘ive. The estimate for unemployed izing the National Unemployed Con- |°0al miners, for example, both anthracite and bituminous, totals | only 193,000. Bourgeois sources haye “laced the number between 250,000 vention in Washington, Feb. 3. | ond 300.000. (See New Republic of The L. R, A, estimate refutes the res given out by William Green, sident of the A. F. L., who. by | ‘ I | distorting and doctoring figures, ar- | Against Low Wages gainst Low Wages, se. |L. R. A. on how Green distorted the | j unemployed figures, follows: |Reject Racketeer Moves| "1. “the AF. of L. doss. not t of A. Fi; Heads Who {correct the census of unemploymen’ © | August 30, 1933.) N. J. Packing House) “iow ‘rcen russes virus “ ‘Workers Organizing rived at the figure of only 10,702,000 unemployed. The statement of the |of April 1, 1930, which together with Betray Strikes | the census of occupations serves: as | {the basis for its estimate. Yet itvis RSE" _ | Senerally conceded, even by conserva- | JERSEY CITY, Jan. 31.—The|ive students of this unemployment | workers in the packinghouse industry | cen: us, that the figure of slightly | | {here are organizing. Of the 1,50( over 3.000.000 for unemployment on mineting speech.” ishing in seven days what in former|H. Broach controlled the| | * A C, W. A, against the abandonment | workers employed by the Armour, |’ 5 ded undevalities Miss Perkins’ address today oli-| years took up to three weeks. Brotherhood of Electrical| Bo: ‘ W thi R ts of the 0. We &. ape ihe enersien | Swit and Wilbon companies, 600.ars|serg he maxed tha array_cf able misieaders sae mea mapa Work aes | ‘DOSS WITHIN hl and enlargement of the C. W. -A..| girls and women, nearly 100 are Ne-|™™% res on Farmefs Oe eiabey mniane ro the * forkers, Local 3, up to the| gnd to plan for @ wide campaign | gro workers. Many workers are paid| » ,,, “i ; rept ‘Satin 6. suelae wens’ | Graft, Favoritism On made’ ce 199. To Call Cops, Says] se ecssr teers acl | Sir oc cota" | 2 oa Pott eat eum tive of the coal operators, to those of Seven and half millions of dol-| | 10 ps, ays ee aor | ‘The local leaders o fthe A. F, of L.|tives on farmer “They ave foul 3 - Harlan c W.A Jobs ia fea from the workers in | 6 * ae yyy ag esa j called mosting two weeks ago andl and’ shelter, Dut. are, nok eakene lues, harsh fines, special assessments Soc | t M roduced their international. The provi , Trade Union cick aad and taxes, all passed through’ the Tails AY OL - voce me-insatement ot Fired | workers resetered, but reused to pay ia te seas it gives 10 Nei HARLAN, Ky-—Graft and discri-|hands of an “organizing committee” | | oe ee initiations. They are skeptical of the| in A. F. of L | | Millinery Workers Picket them. In A. F. of L. estimate, in~ |creased unemployment among farm hired labor is balanced off against mination in apportionment of ©, W. A. Jobs has led to wide dissatisfaction among the jobless here, The authori- appointed by Broach. The money | Was never accounted for; the vouch- | ers for $1,500,000 were destroyed. | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb, 1—-TIwo C. W. A. workers, George Chase, and Directory +++ | leaders and want to control their own | union. BUILDING MAINTENANCE WORKERS UNION 199 Broadway, New York Clty erey 5-0857 FOOD WOBKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 4 West 18th Street, New York City Chelsea 8-0505 FURNITURE WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 912 Breadway, New York Clty Gramorcy, 5-8056 METAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION ‘35 East 19th Street, New York City Gramerey-7-7842 NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 181 West 28th Street, New York City Lockewangn 4-010 SERGEI AND MARIE RADAMSKY in & program of Soviet Songs ROBERT MINOR, Speaker SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3rd —8:00 P.M NEW SCHOOL 66 West 12th Street, N. ¥, C. Tickets 50c. and 5c. at the Daily Worker Office at Section 2, 56 West 25th St, and at New School, 66 West 12th St. Special Convention Issue Out FURNITURE WORKERS! SUBSCRIBE! THE FURNITURE WORKER National Publication of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union Affiliated with the ‘Trade Union Unity League Published Monthly. at 812 Broadway, New York City ‘Tel, GRamercy 5-8956 Editor .., .. -» JOE KISS Subscription 50 cents Single copies’ cesta 10" ANNIVERSARY Daily Worker 2 CELEBRATIONS hiladelphia: On Feb. 2 at Girard Manor Hall, 911 W. Girard Ave. Good program Pittsburgh, Pa. — On Feb, 3 at Ri Hall, 1508 Sera St.S.8. Ini ting program, Boston, Mass. On Feb. 10 at Dudley St. Opera House, 13 Dudley St, Roxbury, Clarence Hathaway, Editor Daily Worker, main “Speaker, Varied program, including Russian Work~- Chorus. Presenting of Daily ties are trying to discourage all at- tempts at discrimination with their usual terroristic tactics. Administra- tors and clerks in relief offices have been sworn in as peace officers. In- ‘Twenty million dollars were paid into @ group insurance plan fostered by Broach for his favorite big contrac- Officials, The money was lost to the tors and the money lent to union | vestigators making home visits ,0 out/ workers as a final outcome. heavily armed and ready to make trouble at any time for anyone who demands his rights, Harlan men have been placed on Jobs often 2¢ miles from town. where- as men from 20 miles away come here to work. The same work sometimes pays 30 cents an hour and sometimes 45 cents. Food and clothes which have been | sent in for the unemployed have been Graft, entered into the electrical union picture back in 1926. He spent O'Hara machine, then in charge of Local 3, and finally succeeded in corruption. Broach must have held his tongue in his cheek when he preferred such charges, because after he suc- Racketeer Howell H. Broach, who organized this systematic business of | two years in New York fighting the | ousting him on charges of graft and | sent to coal mining camps, Food of all kinds which was sent for relief in this county was held 50 long by officers iLat it spo’ ed and ceeded J. P. Noonan as Interna- tional President in 1929, corruption and graft in Local 3 stzrted in real earnest, had to be dumped into th. garbage. Furniture Union Convenes Feb. 9 NEW YORK. — The first national convention of Furniture Workers will take place in New York City on Feb- | ruary 9-12 at N. Y. headquarters, 812) Broadway. | The convention will open with a | mass meeting and concert on Friday evening at Irving Plaza Hall with speakers from the Trade Union Unity League and other labor organizations greeting the convention. From a small group two years ago, | the Industrial Union comer o its first | national convention with a member- | ship of more than 8,000 in 16 locals in| all the furniture centers of the coun- | try. On Saturday night, February 10, the New York local of the Industrial One of the first things he did was to organize the organizing committee | Under appointments from the Inter- national, Then he transferred $50,000 from the general fund to the organ- izing fund. That chicken feed soon gave out, so that Broach drummed up a lock-out scare and assessed the 8,000 members of the local $50 and $25 to “fight” the bosses. The money, some $283,000, was put into a fund for a strike that never came off. And the money was never returned. rub his hands. In the same year, 1929, Broach and his pals put across a group insur- ance proposition on Local 3. formed the Union Co-operative In- surance Corporation, of which Broach was one of the officials, and put the stock of the company into the hands of administration officers. (Matthew Woll, Vice-President of the A. F. of L,, heads the Union Labor Life In- surance Company D.C.) Union will greet the delegates with a banquet and dance. Three thousand dollar policies were issued. The oss contributed 20 But Broach was just starting to/| They | of Washington, | Harry Van Arsdale, Jr, former business agent of Local 3, Et trical Workers’ Union, who wi convicted Monday of shooting two members of the opposition group. cents an hour for every hour put in by an electrician and the workers | made weekly contributions. | Broach rubbed his hands some} more. The insurance scheme, he | relationships that he had established | between the boss and the electrical | worker. Then he clapped his hands, and in April, 1932, the membership | was notified that the money paid |into the insurance fund was lost to them. Of course he blamed “union wreckers,” “labor spies,” and militant surance graft as the cause of its breakdown. {that the trick had and could no lonzer be used. When the membership of Local 3 | started clamorins for an account- | ing of these tremendous expendi- tures by officials of one of the | richest locals in the country, Broach and the other corrupt gang- ster officials moved swiftly, murder- ing and slugging the members. From 1926 to the middle of 1933, _ 800 members have either been ex- | pelled, barred from attending union meetings or suspended. But in 1933 the rank and file made it too hot | for Broach and he resigned from the International Presidency. Furniture Workers Convention to Establish Strong Industrial Union ® Energetic ‘Struggle Was Carried on Against Company Unions By JOE KISS (National Secretary of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union) pare convention, which will consolidate our scattered locals and action commit tees into one militant National Furni- ture Workers Industrial Union. F.W.1.U. has organized four national tours, covering the States of Penn- sylvania, Maryland, New England, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecti- cut, and the far middle west states. Its field organizers have made con- tact with groups of furniture workers, who in many instances never heard of any organization in the furniture industry. e Worker Banner to Boston District. Tn many instances the bosses or- ganized their company unions under the gause of “chop committees.” We contacted the Independent Linoleum Workers Industrial Union of Lancaster, Pa., with a membership of 1,200. The workers are employed by the powerful Armstrong Linoleum Co,, which, in line with the Presi- | dent's “recovery program” is operat- | ing on & two-day week, strictly pay- ing the minimum wage scale of 40 cents per hour as @ maximum pay. During the high peak of the N.R.A., the bosses set up a company union, which is called by Mr, George B. Blaisdell, the plant superintendent, ‘2 Shop Committee.” And as & matter of routine this so- called “shop committee” meeting is usually called to order by the chair- man, who is nobody else but Mr. Blaisdell, Vote to Send Delegates This numerically strong inde- pendent union has found itself in- capable of liquidating the company union by winning the confidence and support of all the 2,000 workers em- ployed by the company. Its honest and sincere leadership did not realize that behind the Armstrong Co. is the powerful Linoleum and Felt Base Manufacturers Association, and that therefore for them also it requires a stronger national organization which guides and leads them in their battle against the powerful trust in their industry. So when the repre- sentative of the National Committee of the F.W.I.U. addressed their meet- ing, inviting them not only to par- ticipate but to affiliate to our ni tional body at our forthcoming con- vention, the body voted unanimously to send delegates and affiliate with the Furniture Workers Industrial Union. | copies of the next issue of our of- ficial organ, the “Furniture Worker.” ‘Thus we see that the many inde- | pendent unions now scattered throughout the country can be brought into affiliation when they are properly approached, and when the T.U.U.L. policies and tactics are explained to them, the question of affiliation is no longer an obstacle for them. The National Committee at the present is also approaching another jJarge independent furniture union in the State of Massachusetts for sim- ilar action and we feel confident that the workers there also will take the correct road establishing unity in the trade, The Jamestown local of the F. W. I. U. has also carried on some good united front activity in that large furniture center, bringing about unity in the trade and building up its ex- isting local to be the third largest local of our national organization. In Chicago the local F.W.LU. is going forward, entrenching itself mainly among the piano workers, but making slow progress among other trade workers as well. In Philadelphia we have @ small fighting local, which only recently has won its second major victory, Settling a strike with a 100 per cent | victory. In Baltimore the local just | organized its first union shop and/ said, was a sign of the harmonious | Communists for attacks on the in-| But the real reason was | rved its purpose | | It has also decided to order 1,000} Struck Shop in Bridgeport BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Jan, 31. -- | The strike of 40 millinery workers of | Klein Bros. on Wells St. continued | yesterday with mass picketing in spite of the bitter cold weather and the | police intimidation. The workers | struck on Monday under the leader- | Ship of the Needle Trades Workers | Industrial Union. | When the boss called in the Shop | Committee for a conference yester- | day, the committee was confronted by & sergeant and two policemen who helped the boss in trying to brow-beat | the committee into calling off the; | strike, The strikers sent a delegation to the Socialist Mayor, Jasper McLevy and | | demanded that he withdraw the police from the shop. | The Mayor answered that the | boss was within his rights to call | upon the police to guard his prop. erty but that the police would not . protect the scabs. However, since | the boss has not been able to get | seabs to work so far, the presence | of the police in large numbers is meant to intimidate the pickets. The police are acting as scab herd- work under their “protection.” The strikers are demanding recog- nition of the union and re-instate- ment of two discharged workers. The | boss had agreed before the strike was | called to raise wages but then pro- | ceeded to fire two of the workers most, active in organizing the union. Do you want to hzar how the Ger- | man Party is able to effectively lead the German working class in spite of illegality? Hear Earl Browder ‘at the Bronx Coliseum, Feb, 11! ers for the boss by trying to induce | | some of the pickets to go back to | W. A. job here on Jan, 25, on the excuse of insubordination, but in reality for attempting to organize jthe men on the job. These workers immediately cir- culated a petition among the work- ers, stating that they were fired without cause, and after obtaining 28 signatures from the 30 men on the job demanding that they be re- instated, forced the superintendent to re-instate them. As result of this struggle, steps are being taken to organize a griev- ance committee on the job to take up all the workers’ complaints of discrimination and favoritism. .. Oshosh ©, W. A. Workers Form Union ers Union has been formed | under the leadership of the Unem- {ployed Councils, for a struggle against the Roosevelt abandonment of the OC. W. A., against wage cuts hive and lay-offs. Membersh'p meetings are held on Thursday at 92812 Oregon St. “Honor” Roosevelt EL PASO, Texas.—C, W. A. work- jers heré were forced to buy tickets ;to the ball to “honor” Roosevelt on |his 52nd_ birthday. tickets have been distributed here. Foremen on C. W. A gangs are given tickets to sell to the underpaid C. W. A, workers at 50 cents each. The ball is to be held in Liberty Hall which holds 3,000 persons. C. W. A. workers here receive from $6 to $12 1% week. 2 Beid Airport With C. W. A. | OCEAN CITY, Calif, Jan. 31— | Under the pretense of giving employ- ment to 400 men, C. W. A. funds are being used to build an airport here. The airport is being built to Dave Martin, were fired from a C. | The A. F. of L. leadership is well known here in Hudson County for | its racketeering under leaders like | Brandle and Fay. They called a second meeting and | attempted to trick the workers inte | ‘increase in family workers.” This }is done on assumption that many farmers cannot keep any hired labor ;and therefore have to use members jot the family to do the work, This is @ correct statement but, as often | paying initiations, telling them, | “We'll get you a charter whether you pay initiations or not.” They} had several workers organized (prior to the meeting) to pay initiations, | as an inducement to the others, but | happens in such cases, it distorts the real situation. “The distress of farmers does not |result only in cutting down hited labor. Farmers—both owners ‘ahd tenants—abandon their farms as a | ue workers were not to be tricked.| result of bankruptcy and fore~ | Only 15 paid initiations. jclosures. ‘Thus while unemploymient | In the recent betrayal of the work-| among farm labor does increase, it | ers in the Ford plant at Edgewater, | is not offset by an increase in family Mr. Reilly, state secretary of the A.j Workers. On the other hand, ‘un- | F. of L., assisted by the N.R.A. rep-|employment is OSHKOSH, Wisc.—A Relief Work- | | resentative, played the leading role, and spiked every attempt of the workers to win their strike. In Bay- onne, Mr. Jennings, assisted by the| increased by the plight of agriculture itself andthe consequent unemployment of foriher tenants and farm owners and their family workers. | N.R.A. representative and the city politicians, deserted the strikers of | the American Radiator Company. | _ The packinghouse workers of Jersey | City led by representatives of the | Packinghouse Workers Industrial Union are organizing for struggle. The P, H. W. I. U: are helping the Increase Forgotten By Green | 3. “Since April, 1930, when the }census of population was taken, | there has been a natural increase‘in | those seeking gainful employment. This increase amounted to ovér'2,~ 500000 by November, 1933. Thé A, F. of L. recognizes some increase Force El Paso C. W. A. Workers To | Workers of Armour's, Swift's, Wilson’s | here, but its figure is only 1,400,000. Ten thousand | | to organize their union, a union| Its method of computation seems! to | which they will control, a rank and/be incorrect. In the Ameri¢an | file controlled union. Federationist, October, 1933, it.de- Pets ribes its method of finding in- ON COMMUNISM IN PHA, | Creases in those seeking gainful em- Org. of the Philadelphia | ployment as follows: | rl peak on a ny | “This is combined from ~ two pees pit je Lancaster rum, | sources: 1. Monthly Labor Depari~ ue ‘ ment reports on immigration, show- DAILY WORKER CELEBRATION IN Pamia.| ing the number of working men and PHILADELPHIA. — The tenth anniversary} Women entering and leaving «the 8) country; 2. Birth and death records, i births of 16 years ago to give se coming of working age, minus current year, and tak- ent of this figure since ! Sec w | accomodate sea well as he normal percentage of th land planes. Similarly, s through- i Dentage. OF Sie out the country are being urged to er aaa seeking gainful employ~ id rts for war purposes with eee build airpor for purposes } F = Cc. W. A. and W. A. funds, “Thus, oft ‘ feels confident in its organizational strength. Organize in New Orleans organized some few weeks ago with! a fighting membership of 100, In Los | Angeles, Cal, we also have a local | carrying on militant organization , Work among the very low paid West~ ern furniture workers, and last but not least, we have our two main | fighting locals in New Yor kand Bos- ton, each 2,000 strong. A. F, of L. Locals Simultaneously with the organiza- tional rise of our national organiza- tion in the furniture industry, we see the total bankruptcy of the A. F. of L. especially of the upholsterers international under the leadership of that old degenerate, James H. Hatch, president. We bring only forward three cities as an example, The same situation exists throughout the in- ternational. In Philadelphia, Local ‘77 is on the verge of destruction, The bosses in that city got tired with the “recovery” paying union scale, and came forward with an ultima- tum to the union—either the local accepts the “standard of production system,” whereby each worker will be compelled to finish a piece of furniture in a given time—or the bosses will declare a lock-out of the union men and hire non-union help, The business agent, Mr. Hoffman, is for the standard of production. He claims that the workers have no right to interfere with the “recovery” at- | main “union” shops. ‘The New Orleans local has just been | +4 ‘mention that this local has a shop | proposes to the workers not to have any trouble but accept the ultimatum of the bosses, so the shops can re- It {s important on strike, the Becker shop, since June, 1933, without being able to Settle, because of the “de luxe” man- ner in which Mr. Hoffman intends to gain condition for the workers. The workers in this local are extra taxed since the strike started. Int Local 56, Wilkes-Barre, Pa,, the Situation is not better. When the local was organized in August, 1933, the first move of Mr, Graves is to collect $420 from the strikers, before moving his little fingers for them. The strike then was settled at a back door on a 10 per cent increase. It is important to know that before the workers went out on strike, the bosses offered 15 per cent increases. Now, wih the wonderful A. F, of L. organization, all the men are put on piece work. High dues of $1 and $1.50 quickly have been initiated in this local. The revolt has already been started in this local. The men cut down the high salary of the business agent, and the local refused to send its per capita to the inter- national, The workers organizing a militant lef wing group in the local, putting a militant program of action forward in contrast to the soft lem- -nade talk of the AFL. officials. In Baltimore, Md., at Local 75, the members even don’t attend any meet- ing after the postponement of the | tempts of the bosses. He therefore elections st which meeting the left | ~< increase in total population toe which the 39.8 per cent could be properly applied, since it represents the ratio of gainfully occupied persons to total | Population as revealed by the 1930 | census, the A. F. of L. applies this | percentage to a smaller number—an estimated Workers From All Over | Store of ag eae, Population 16 cars of age and over. U. S. To Gather in | “The figure thus derived by A. F, New York Feb, 9 jof L. is more than a million the Labor Research Association’s es j timate of 2,586,000 increase in per< | | Sons seeking employment. In deriv= wingers were rei to take the mat-|ing our figure we assume thaf the | ters into the proper hands. Nobody | increase in numbers ‘gainfully oc- pays any dues for the past four | cupied’ (or seeking employment) ‘has months, and there is a widespread} continued since 1930, with the same Tumor among the upholsterers in| average yearly increase that is shown Baltimore, that if Deamer, the sell-| for the decade 1920-1930. During out field organizer of the interna-| these ten years the number “in- tional ever puts his foot in Balti-/ creased by 7,216,000. In three ‘years more, he will be carried out by anj| and seven months from April 1, 1930 “N.R.A. Ambulance.” The biggest A.| (date of census), to Nov, 1, 1933, the F. of L. union shops slowly are turned | increase on this basis would be 2- into a yellow company union, Rank and File Leadership All affiliated T.U.U.L. unions stand for real democracy in the unions, for | the control of the union by the rank | and file. This historical convention || Ralls by Economy Act of furniture workers will elect its} : rank and file leadership from its| WASHIN : own ranks, will decide on the finai|| —The civien cr eee Beri Rit constitution. The convention un-j] have been taken off cl a doubtedly will register its full ap-|| tion rolls under the Boonomy Wee Proval to any united front action with || General Frank T. Hines, admin= A. F. of L. workers and independent | istrator of veterans’ affa a Senate appropriations 486,926 Exservicemen Removed from Pension unions, and will put forth as its main aim the organization of the under- paid, unorganized furniture workers, | By adopting such fighting policies | of the T.U.U.L., working constantly | toward unity, exposing the fake mis- leaders of labor, will the National Furniture Workers Industrial Union become a factor in the furniture in- tee Tuesday, ee Hines praised the “soun ‘ef? of this procedure, which is depriy- ine Jobless ex-servicemen of their | only means of existence di 3 fifth winter of the csi Ont urged that even greater dustry, and in the American Jabor | movement as a whole, numbers. of ex-soldiers be deprived of their miserly monthly allowances.