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

[ | DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 16, 1934 Page Three Workers, Organize! Act Against the Firing Today of CWA Men! ea misaon ef ©. W. Ahab Say th Social Insurance cag ae mga Reagelornagonl erg Bill Still Lies in House Committee mid-winter cold and to starvation. Jobless Couneil Calls All of the promises of four million jobs, of wi of millions put back to work through N. R. A., P W. A. and for Mass Pressure On Congress DuPont, Billionaire pete ae J | gain rRedDuLts Arms Manufacturer, Weirton Men Reveals NRA Secrets = unions. “The N.R.A.,” he continues, | “makes compulsory negotiations, and | labor thereby gains.” What has be- come of “collective bargaining?” Who gains? Did the Weirton Steel work- ers gain? Did the Budd, Ford or Philadelphia taxi workers gain? Company Unions Gain One fact we do know. Company unions have gains from 150 to 300 per cent! In short, Mr. Pierre du Pont and his class have gained at the expense of the workers. His prozit sheet tells him he can afford to be entausiastic, and hopeful that strikes will be eliminated entirely in the future. Nasty things, those strikes for the profits of the boss. Then thfs billionaire war monger gets down to a discussion of the workers “rights” under the NRA. and makes some very startling reve- lations. “Diverting for # moment to the question of labor,” he writes. “I fear that many people, many of us, aver~ yated the opportunity offered to labor in the Recovery Act. It was thought that labor was being given the whip hand, to the great disadvantage of industry. “Such is not the case.” No, quite the contrary. Mr. Pierre du Pont’s class has the whip hand. Labor's “Rights” “Labor now has the right to or- ganize in any way that it chooses,” he says, “or not to organize; it is an open field (he means an open shop), for each laborer to decide what union or what association he belongs to, or whether he himself alone will deal with the employer. “That is a great definition for labor. Heretofore the individual jaborer very frequently was led to think he must join a union. But such, it is well defined, is not to be the case today.” Previous to the N.R.A., says this exploiter of labor, the workers thought they must join a union to protect their rights, They do not have to da that today. In fact, they are not permitted to do so in the leading industries in the United States today. In Mr, Pierre du Pont’s factories they are fired if they leave the company union. That, he considers, is the great gain of labor which Messrs. Green, Lewis, Hillman, Woll and Berry look upon “fair-mindedly.” Here we have one of the most vicious enemies of the working class openly telling why he is enthusiastic now stand revealed as the cheapes; form of demagogic y cover for a sharp drive against the sixteen million jobless w Roosevelt regime The New Deal of Roosevelt The unemployed are condemned to the demagogic senators did their best to | gram of Roosevelt, to carry through the p | workers “painlessly.” Renewed appropriati | by such staunch supporters of Roosev “business pickups” and Jand scheme ers fired by Roosevelt. The “delay liquidation scheme has ended. The senate, whe | ended demagogic talk and pushed through Roos¢ | capitalist press “plays down” the firing and takes C. W. 4 | Page. But the stark truth rem already been fired and ten per of the four million C. W. A. workers have jobs. Roosevelt's Promises. Turn Out to Be Sheer Fakery By MARGUERITE YOUNG ) (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—The Na- | tional Labor Board considered the | Weirton case at length yesterday and | then announced, “We've nothing to | say about Weirton.” And thus an-| other strike-stalling maneuver, appa~ | Tently a recently established policy of | NIRAVILLE the Board, stood revealed. | Yells How AFL Officials Help Bosses Keep Back Strikes By HARRY GANNES Pierre S. duPont, one of the rich- ~s¢ manufacturers of war material, powerful banker and industrialist, of- ficial of the N. R. A., has made a dec- laration of faith regarding the NRA that will interest every worker. It 1s printed in an official release of the NRA, (No. 3241) entitled: “Noted Industrialiss Sees Opportunity in NRA.” ‘The NRA. is working towards the iotal elimination of strikes through ‘compulsory arbitration,” says this parasitical exploiter who forces his workers to join a “yellow dog” com- pany union. | His revelations will make the A. F. | of L. leaders on the N.R.A. squirm, | because he has the goods on them. | For instance, here is what he says | about Mr, Green, John 1. Lewis, Sid~ ney Hillman, Major Berry, and others | who have helped industrialists like Pierre §. duPont to break strikes. | “Recently,” says this wealthy manu- facturer of machine guns, poiscn gas, | ammunition, handgrenades, and other | weapons for war, “I have frequently | been the only industrialist on the (National Labor) Board, with all the labor men present; and yet T have Ro fear whatever that the interests of industry are to suffer thereby, for I find the labor men just as fair- minded as we intend to be in indus- try, and perfectly willing to thresh out the different cases on their mer- its.” | Strikebreakers “Fair-minded.” j This open-shop boss, finds that Mr. Green, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Hillman, and Mr, Berry are fair-minded when it comés to preserving the profits of the bosses against the workers. They are “fair-minded” when it comes to preserving the company union of the du Pont Chemical Corporation. Nor does this open-shop boss stop there. He tells quite frankly that he finds that the N. R. A. has become one of the best instruments to at- ack the workers, to smash their strikes, to build company unions, and | to pave the way for the complete suppression of strikes. Here are his | own words: | “T feel that the result of the Na- NEW YORK.—The Workers Un» employment Insurance Bill is new before the House Committee on La~ ich heard Herbert Benjamin delezation of the Unemploy- ment Councils in the name of two million workers demand that the Laber mittee renort the bill ont) to the fiocor of the House. | The Unemployment Counell today ges all workers and workers’ or- tions to immediately rush telegrams and letters to the House Labor Committee of which Con- gressman Connery is chairman, and to their own Congressmen, demand- ing immediate enactment of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, The Workers Bill is the only bill now before Congress which ap- plies to the 16,000,000 workers now totally unemployed. rte s—One half m Cc. W ent More a week are to b The “Re This shack in Niraville on the edge of Minneapolis, was the home | of several jobless men until police and railroad officials burned the shacks, | taking a lesson from Hoover's attack upon the last Bonus Marchers. | The men had lived there during the worst winter weather, but dis- | appeared when the fire was set. “No one knows where they went,” com~ mented a brief news item in the local press. ee, et . gani just as the original strike-breaking | policy of promising an election while driving strikers back to work was in- | augurated at Weirton, the new device | of promising a poll to determine | whether an election is wanted by em- | ployes also was first employed in the | notorious Weirton steel plants. Since President Roosevelt sent Weirton worker representatives home with the promise of a poll, the Na~- tional Labor Board has rendered several formal decisions in other cases, promising tricked and incensed workers exactly the same thing. "These have but to look over the Weir- ton case to understand what this means. The National Steel Company's work- ers struck last summer, and were herded back to work by a National Labor Board decision promising an} election later on, The Daily Worker | exposed this as a deliberate strike~- | breaking maneuver. E. T. Weir, pres- | ident of the Weirton Steel Co., pro- | @ program of ased unempl As usual, the lynch Democ first and worst sufferers. The fir ana ers begins in the South and affe Jim-Crow practices of the C. W. A. under Roosevelt are cor discrimination against the Negroes stands out to the end in ‘NRA Head in Secret Strikers Fill Up sex soompi ‘Taxi Hearings; Cab| Pittsburgh Court; | zat rocsemrs mor oot 70 cn Drivers to Meet Pickets Are Freed) ‘hree A. F. of L. Locals | | Support Hotel Strike; | Conference Tomorrow | ye A Gordon, acting national sec- of the A. F. of L. Trade Union e for Unemployment Insur- nd Rellef, followed Benjamin hearing. Gordon pointea out fespite the great opposition of - iam Green, president of the A. ¥. of L., that more than 1,000 A. F, of L- locals, the Colorado, Iowa and Mon- tana State Federations of Labor, va- rious central labor unions, ete., have endorsed the Workers Unemployment _ Insurance Bill Gordon made it plain that the A- F. of L. rank and file would support the bill to a much greater extent were it not for the fact that Green wages }a continuous campaign agains the A. F. of L, Rank and File Committee land the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill. It was interesting to note how © quickly the members of the Commit= tee of Labor came to the defense of Green and how they tried to mini~ mize the growing mass revolt against |Green and in favor of the Workers’ Bill, as well as for dues exemption of | unemployed, ete. Gordon exposed the h \fact that Green and the Executive | Council of the A. F. of L. was opposed A BROAD UNITED FRONT, AND MASS PRO’ C. W. A. FIRING. The delegates who attended the National Convention against Unemployment recently held in Washington, D. C., should take the lead in organizing the protest against C. W. A. firing. WORKERS—Demand that not one C. W. A. worker be fired Every discharged C. W. A. man to be immediately re-instated. De- mand no wage cuts on ©. W. A. jobs. All wage cuts to be gven back to the workers. ONLY ORGANIZATION AND STRUGGLE CAN DEFEAT ROOSE- VELT’S ATTACK AND WIN THE DEMANDS OF THE C. W. A. WORK~ ERS. SET UP COMMITTEES OF ACTION ON EVERY OC. W. A. JOB. SEND RESOLUTIONS AND TELEGRAMS OF PROTEST FROM C. W. A. WORKERS TO C. W. A. ADMINISTRATORS AND TO HOP- | KINS. HOLD DEMONSTRATIONS BEFORE ALL C. W. A. OFFICES, TAKE UP THE FIGHT FOR CASH RELIEF AT ALL RELIEF OF- FICES FOR ALL THOSE FIRED FROM C. W. A. JOBS. RELIEF TO BE EQUIVALENT TO FULL REGULAR WAGES. |Trade Union Council to| Discuss Hotel and Taxi Strikes By HARRY RAYMOND PITTSBURGH, Pa. Feb. 14.— ae rene taxi.| Workers packed the courtroom here ceeded to form a company union and | ape. Rascal ep roe apd tea, | esterday when Jack Kirsch, leader to hold a company union election on | Wier anes. De iris a ended, | of the Wm. Penn Hotel Strike, and the exact date which the Labor| hd pereaten pea ped 2 na Ad-| 1) other strikers were brought before Board had set for a “supervised” elec- | TUNIS TALON, DEEAD PF eeesult of seta | the judge on trumped up charges. tion to provide a free choice for the | 1 ye ven le oid to Lhe The 11 workers were distharged and workers of the union and the collec-| 70. pire hs io de itl aad fiiged: eel Kirsch was fined $5. tive bargaining representatives they | pe an eae vats will saddle further) “The Sun-Telegraph pressmen took wanted. The Labor Board tried to| © eri crea nar ony ne tae ero up a collection for the workers strike cover up by talking big, threatening], dicated eo pels ane sp i weal fund. Finances are pouring in from to get an injunction to “compel” a| peers poe is vanity - ae bes various organizations. The Greek| “yeal election,” etc. pe pity ane isons sonies within | SPattans Club contributed $15, Work- ‘es indignation, Increased. the in incr > which sate ed plate poles and groups of workers from vt e! ret con-| ;. " 4 resi Basoaage cheabe dear ery ree into simple terms, means further| fp wim DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE PASSAGE OF THE WORKERS UNEM- rere ve to Washington | speed-up and intensification of labor, ote PLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL (H R 7598) BY CONGRESS. and swashbuckled demands for ac- | 77° unemployment and more profits rence Friday . A conference of A. F. of L. locals for rat - re tion, ‘They brought petitions to show eter te CN, Dron ceestortial corgariantions: ie patton yee Ree cater | to any real federal unemployment in- i f Mr, Allen. | 7 i that the overwhelming mafority of | &™ 2 pani 5) Farmers Crowd It was said that there are 18 depu-| surans asure. Members of the Such was th [ 0 | for Friday to take up the question | tles an a sl D measure. Weirton workers were against the ich was the type of @ code that) or’ oorting the strike. Three locals, { i T z | f ties and state police in the courtroom | Committee on Labor rushed t company-union election. Whereuvon Mr. Allen bestowed upon the textile “ in plain clothes. Farmers speaking * Roosevelt’ conferred with them and workers, a code which brought the ae ee ee onere hee your correspondent report large| 7°" pam “ » | wages of many skilled textile hands thing leymen | nw ~pi =| announced that an “honest poll “ aA tailors have endorsed the conference. Ti al F I d BHREXE ie meses, Sais Be ‘Buildin: g W ork ers . ight On C.W.A Defense Is Fig t NU. WA would be taken among Weirton| down to $12 and $13 a week and {clothes men present. At one point workers, and, that if they expressed | even less for Negro workers. A huge affair will be|held Friday in during the defense questioning of | a desire for a new election, they Owners for $8 a Week the Century Building, 130 Seventh prospective jurors, slight laughter ran | should have it. r Th - i § St., in support of the fight of the) through the crowd, The judge, appa- | & sh that tin ne taxi owners laid their cards| hotel workers. KQV radio stars, the} < 4 \ rently on edge Gob Gol “Tet is | ews correspondents at that time|on the table at the last open hear-| Blue Chasers, Ambrose Brothers and | inv Need Of cere dent sida asked the A. F. of L. leaders how|ing. Through their spokesman, Mor-| others will bs j this straight right now. i tional Labor Board effort will soon | be—if it can establish its record prop- erly—to do away with the necessity | : . : A entertain, A -| FF Pee hie *y Ke " | of strikes See een | open’ the MILA. “The reason {s| they could believe in such # promise | ris Markin, head of the Checker Cab| ments of the a Beit eeteae | ess Us Beka: Urges. |Pe node ns in thi NEW YORK.—A delegation of 15 an opportunity to deal with strikes | simply that the N.R.A. is a powerful] When Weir had declared he would| Manufacturing Co., the bosses braz-| cast over the radio. is ee ©! puilding trades workers represel and deal with them in the way that i labor will not want to deal with them, and therefore the strike will weapon for the bosses against the Immediate Aid workers and their ions, juror had he heard Roos: tate organizations. He also tells us that the best allies ment against farm foreclosures, the | prosecutor objected, and the judge never give up his payrolls for com-| == parison with the workers’ petition signers. The A. F. of L. leaders said enly proposed a starvation minimum} wage of $8 a week for the hackmen, The bosses were also represented The strikers are all in high spirits} and plan to send a delegation to a 3 | all sections of the A. F. of L. Build: ing Trades Union, led by Ree Special to the Daily Worker , a hearing to be conducted by t! | Strong, secretary of the Joint Coun |) tisappear.” of the te tedustrlalists are the -A,| the poll would be token ine house-| pva man named Kamm, head of a| Department in peter Bag ced ASST IE 0 STAN bag Moca aang Mie Cog aa ete i That is just exactly what the huge|F. of L, leaders on the National| to-house canvas. Terminal Cab company union ceeare | 500 farmers filling every seat and | Pective jurors are or were members| Workers, appeared at City Hall yes » corporations want. That ts why they | Labor Board. But, instead of that, the Labor| ization, He put forward the La-| jerowding against the walls of the | of the eras . rich farmers’ | terday and placed demands befon are building their company unions,| ‘These facts should be brought out | Board sent representatives Who Boon | Guare Ernst propos for cutting | | court room and 200 hundred more} ati ts Fr "7 ‘ i ime de sum-! the President of the Board of Alder- aided by th 1. R, Ae and the A. F./ in every A. F. of L. local to brand returned from the plants complain- | gown the number of cabs and aroused | mae toot! sau toate filling the corridor, the trial of Al- Sevlaes fe ah eit Be eb oe bei prose- | men, Deutsch, to be given representa~ si he 2 National Lebor | the lackey services of the A. F. of ing that they couldn't get the nay-| considerable protest among the dr ‘Onclaalee , ns.—Unit 1,|fred Tiala, National Secretary of the | CUtion for “making @ speech tion on the ©.W.A. board, extention L. top officialdom, From this ex: posure should flow the demand: Withdraw the A. F. of L, officials from the N.R.A. Boards where they act as strikebreakers! Party, in this town is conducting a drive for new subs for} rolls. Then the Board held the long} session to determine what it would do. And the answer—nothing. “We've nothing to say about Weir- ton.” The Board did nothing when it said everything; it is obvious that if it now declines even to talk, {tf has no intention of even pretending to act. Very likely the story will be the same in other cases in which the Board recently has induced workers |not to strike by promising a poll to determine whether to hold an elec- tion—something which the Daily ‘Worker weeks ago characterized as a double dose of the same “election” medicine. Once more the absolute rule of United States Steel under Roos United Farmers’ League, his wife, | the Daily Worker among the workers Shey F periba ad Tacbaeleaea) Ookrcty | y 4 ie rl 1 sented ne i pe ee |and farmers in this territory. Send Gourtiocas eis oscine. Sane de, sts Gaebiorivand Unitn ib depiande| oe ee pe ake ae Ree eee ene concur: Jolaty by fog a tiltninm of $23.8 week for-day | our quota in the “Daily” circulation | the I. L. D. and the U. F. L. defense Ore She Sok toriniehe arivess [Ce atiomeys, David J, Bentell of Chi- noting Tonight |_ cago and Paul Glaser and Albert 1 is im | Block of Gary. Prosecutor Seth Union Unity Council] Union Unity Council at its offices, |Rowdbaugh is being assisted by it has called a mass| 799 Broadway, yesterday. |former Circuit Judge L. W. Royse mecting at Manhattan Lyzeum to-| “The beginning of the great strike | and Walter Brubaker, local attorney. night (Friday) at 7:30 pm., to dis-| wave in New York is already mani-|Tiala, his wife, and Hann were ar- cuss the taxi and hotel strikes. fest,” continued the statemem. “The | rested several weeks ago for leading “Contrary to the announcements | mass strike of taxi drivers, which|@ group of farmers to stop a fore~ of the officials of the N.R.A. and | resulted in a complete tie-up, the | closure sale. Labor Department that the strike | militant struggle of the hotel’ and] At the opening, the defense moved wave is at an end, thousands of | restaurant workers—all this’ shows|to quash the indictment and dismiss d by low wages | that th vorkers in New York. City) the cas rar ers when he spoke against the mil Resseus for Enthusiasm |mum wage clause in the code pre- Mr. duPont, quite naturally, be- comes enthusiastic about the pros- pects of the N.R.A. He gives a little history of his feelings before he went ‘» to Washington and after he worked there helping to’ smash strikes and i nions on workers. ; shington thinking | says Mr. du Pont, j y fortune is covered with | the blood of millions slain in the last | world war, “that the N.R.A. was an upsetting influence in business and in labor conditions . . .I confess that I have been completely converted in my opinion . Tam more than of C.W.A, work and unemployment ‘The United Farmers’ League, from | insurance. its national headquarters in Chicago, | as Wace “a ‘ Criminal Neglect issued a statement which, in 4 basi rsats: | In view of the criminal neglect on \the part of the AFL. officials to “It is not enough to rely on legal | rajly Tne workers of the construction | defense. Tia’a and his associates | industry against the code, the newly ) will be freed only by the protests | formed Joint Couneil of Independent |. of the workers and the farmers. | Building Trades Unions, which has * Every organization of farmers and | 10 affiliated unions with approxi- workers should be visited and | mately 8,000 members and co! asked to send protests and to con- | with independent trades unions in tribute to the defense fund. Let | several parts of the country, 1s the prosecutor know that farmers | launching an organizational drive to who marched in bitter cold from | rally the unorganized and organized the four corners in this country to | workers for a fight against this code, Washington, D. C., and Chicago | The Council is calling a mass meet- will not hesitate, if meed be, to jing of all ubilding trades workers, Call Painters Meeting Of Harlem Painters NEW YORK.—To take up the ques- tion of organization of the Negro painters in Harlem, the Altera- tion Painters Union has called a mass meeting tonight at 8 p. m. at 415 Lenox Ave., near 132nd St. The situation in the trade is be- coming desperate, due to the fact se, | | Circuit, Judge Donald Van- will be held at Irving Plaza | Why shouldn e be? He sits on | that the vast majority of the painters | velt’s “New Deal’ stands r fi c 3 ulting | to starvation, but “will| derveer overruled the m: a and individuals | Hall at rei St. and ieving EE Tues- t nel Labor Board with Mr. | are unorganized, says & statement|The Weirton Steel Corporation is} from the Roosevelt inflation policy, | organize and fight for better living | defense then reauested separate trials n to contribute to Tiala’s | day, Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. reen. Fine gentlemen, these A. F.| issued by the union yesterday. part of the united-front of steel man-| are organizing their forces and | conditions.” for each of three defendants. defense should address their con- At this meeting the Council will of L. leaders. They understand the| The union urged all painters re-|ufacturers, led by U. S. Steel, key-| coming out on strike against the All union delegates and active workers are urged to attend this im- portant meeting tonight. judge refused. The rest of the day was taken up with selecting a jury. As we go to press the jury had not tributions to the United Farmers’ League, 1817 South Loomis St,, Chi- cago, Il.” needs of industry—smashing wages,| gardless of color, or nationality to | propose for adoption a code based vreventing strikes, building company ! attend the meeting. on the requirements of the workers in the industry. stone of American capitalism, against starvation codes . . .,” said a state- unionization and for company-unions. ment issued yesterday by the Trade _ Every Phase of Work Should Be Examined in Pre-Convention Discussion 5] i d Mass Work of Uni d Fracti i i | Party Discussi | arty Discussion Should Raise i Concentration an ass WOrk O nits an ractions in Chicago Mf pace a Issue of Work Among Negroes| - y Must Use Proper|sucn. there may be some individuals} of 1, Steel and Metal Workers’ In-{ ‘There ts no short-cut to winning|of our work among the rafirosd| Chicago D: Wi r = Slogans to Rally who are not s0 good, but the ques-| dustrial Union and those workers who| the majority of the workers. It is a| workers. ie meet it EDITORIAL NOTE—The ques« The Party can stand at the head tion is to utilize every member of our|have some illusions in the company| systematic, daily work, day in and| These few examples we are citing Recruit 500 New ak the N f the national uti Workers Party to the best of his or her ability | untons, to set up department commit- | day out, to be conscious of every little | to show that work can be done, that Mambe tion of work among the Negro | of the national revolutionary struggle in the light of the tasks of concentra- | tees working toward a delegated body,| problem and to daily acquaint with|the response of the workers grows. e) rs | masses must receive prominent at- | of the Negro masses against Amer- EDITOR'S NOTE:—The follow- | tion in » given unit, fraction or sec-| toward setting up a shop committec|every phase of work demands, District Tasks oe | tention in the Party pre-convention | ican imperialism only if it energeti- ing is the concluding article by Bill tion. and to raise to the forefront this } | Gebert, district organizer of the Communist Party in the Chicago By BILL GEBERT ‘In recent examination of the work ers’ clubs, International Labor De- fense and own juice. That this was continued for months, without remedying it, is a very serious |the demand reflection on the work of our Party. With a little attention and proper distribution and assignment of com- rades to work some resuts have ready been obtained. There is such thing that the members of Party are no good—that, ing of the Party similar organizations, | union where they really were stewing in the ds, in speak~ membership as g g S g al- no the : g ? g ; : 4 united front in a big factory.” T! department, tack, to unite members of the fi i E 5 is, a united front in each and every ioctl ake nd a pe demand because this demand was a showed their militancy. For instance, in one department the workers on ‘ie In another instance, in the same additional days work. Unfortunately, workers, because they see such movements workers, our task is not support, but actually partici- such a movement, develop it, it and consciously to lead it, grievances of the workers, place these demands before the workers and,or- is some discontent and dissatisfaction developed and our numerically small already issues a printed paper. Unfortunately, here, too, there is not sufficient attention paid to the problem of developing struggles and raising the issues of the workers in the plant. This still is in the form of propaganda and not sufficiently in the form of action. This, by the way, applies to the ‘coal fields, where our activities at the present time are not sufficiently connected and in many we will win the confi- eases not at all connected with the immediate issues co! the miners in the mines and among the unemployed. This is especially true In conclusion, we wish to state| recruit 500 new workers into the Party, TEMPO of building the Party and the Y¥.C.L. in the basic industries, and penetrating into the A. F. of L. unions to develop real mass work. ‘All these tasks must be combined with the struggle against war and fascism and that work is to be or-| ganized on the basis of the united front from below. There is as yet not @ full understanding and appre- especially from the basic industries, | depends on the question of the in our work, not only of the district | and section, but each unit of tt A. F. of L., etc. It still too much prove its work in connection with | the struggle against war and fas-) cism, by building shop and neighbor- ittees of the American League Against War and Fascism, involving ‘the workers and broadest masses of tions. For Bolshevik self-criticism. For the improvement of our mass | discussion. We print below a sec the Negro workers, who can con- ‘The Communist Party, as the revo- lutionary Party of the proletariat, as the only Party which is courage- ously and resolutely carrying on a struggle against the national oppres- sion of the Negroes, which is be- coming particularly intense with the work. ciation in our Party of the united front. It must receive our maximum For the increasing of the tempo developing crisis, as shown by the recent death sentence against the cally carries through the decisions of the XIV Plenum of the Central In our mass work, in addit Tesult of the general discontent! ganize them for struggle and action. that the District Committee at ifs| Party. Up till now, unfortunately,| tion from the Open Letter dealing | Committee on work among Negroes. distiet hese articles en. pre-cose |the improvement of the work as we /emong the workers : Te a Metal eho [meeting on Jan. 27 and 28 decided to| there was not sufficient initiolive cn| with werk among Negroes. We |The Party must mobilize the masses tention. discussion should’ reoaive-|{indicated above it is necessary to be| But our unit unfortunately re-| We will cite another example of the|to fulfill the tasks Per thes ieee borate ae ae iat le eee, pai eral cds eerear iad who | for the eee a] oat oti ‘oF gery dn fo gg 8 fn ee nea end all prob-| mained passive and the reason for it| work of our Perly, shop mice. 12) Pian of Work before the District | below, in ihe ahops, among tinem-| Ave Had experience in this. work, | self-determination for the Negroes {2 orker invites » | Jems conf: workers, a that lemand was raised by|an important metal shop, employing 4 _| who have seen concrete examples ] — and questions in connection | given factory, in ole ere among | the rater! Soe cage ey ee eee ae Acie fe Api | tes wemauomeat tee cates Oe ny eins Me or Bosttlist-1ed of our neglect in the daily seaieiie beret 25 i white chauvin- | * 4 Ky ‘and Soeaia cout ee ee eee a ‘valde th sostetieae Tarlda of the company, uAlon, thers mittee. We decided that we are to| organizations or local unions of the| to formulate special demands for ism and Jim Crow practices. It must not only in words, but in deeds over- come all obstacles to the drawing in tribute to the task of overcoming of individual members of our Party} Here I wish to cite a concrete ex-/| night shift refused to leave the plant | unit, with the proper guidance and bea pagers diy ean Beate bree MALL er at et aoe, our weakness in this respect, and asia Whar’ in the steel region (in the Chicago| ample. In one of the steel mills, un-| when they were told that there was | leadership from the district, was able | and to strengthen the Y. C. L. in the} but not in the neighborhood, and| can aid in arousing the whole Part; have shown themselves to Party District) it was disclosed that|der the pressure of the workers, the;nc work for them that night. There | to develop activity, leading to under-| shops and mines and to secure, by| shops. Just because we do not ex- ° i sacrificing fighters in the there are Party members who have so-called “ representative” in| was such militant protest and insist-| mining the company union, leading | May 1, 500 yearly and 1,000 Saturday ‘and build and develop the work| * ‘he failures in our struggles for | scainst capital, In view contact with the steel workers, rail-|the Company Union placed a demand | ance on getting the job, that the su-|to strengthening the S. M. W. I. U.| subscriptions to the Daily Worker. | in the neighborhoods, in the factories, Negro nationa: liberation, against | special attention must be given to road workers, etc. but who are not|upon the company to grant a 33 1-3/ perintendent was brought to the mill} and from a small Party nucleus, we The tempo of work in our district because of this there is not| lynching and Jim-Crowing, to send | the promotion of Negro proletarians active among these workers, but who| per cent increase in wages. This was|at 3 o'clock in the moring and only| have already established two, with all| must be increased. In the course of| sufficient activity and actions of a! us their contributions in the form | to leading work in the Party organ- have been members of the done for the purpose of preventing| under the det and promises | possibilities for the establishment of | examining our work, it must be the| united front character. izations. In all mass actions, strikes ae Se oF Dereaneiens 3 the mill ioe hier a the Reena did the work-|a third shop nucleus, The union| objective to increase the TEMPO of| We want to especially urge the of articles, letters or questions, and unemployed struggles, the Party 3 ba wages. ve lant bt rease rgani as * . y re SS aera a a Oude aE pols Fraypaie Ceriuane tr kis Soa: Pl group that has been built there|our mass work, to ine! the| Chicago Party organization to +m . must pay particular attention that in formulating practical demands, it takes into consideration and gives expression to the special forms of exploitation, 0 and denial of the rights of the employed and unemployed Negro masses. At the same time the Party and in the first place the Negro comrades must geyinely improve the methods of patient, systematic’ but persistent pipe ae the ideology luence bourgeois: ists the Negro