The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1934, Page 3

Wall St. Fears R DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1934 | Roosevelt Jobless Negroes On CWA Work, in Camps. & Negroes Fired First, Pay Cut; Reformists Try To Stop Protest By CARL REEVE NEW YORK.—Kight hundred and hirty thousand C. W. A. wor'sers were ziven their last pay checks and fired %y Roosevelt within a week. In the outh, being heaviest in the states of Texas, Florida, Louisiana California nd Alabama, ‘Yie Negroes were the first to go. The Negro workers con~ nue to get the worst deal from the yim Crow lynch government of. 200sevelt. Vhe wages of ‘he southern workers, ffecting large masses of Negroes, were ten cents an hour less than sages for C. W. A. workers in the north, when the C. W. A. was first ‘ecreed by Roosevelt. The Roosevelt government again mphasized its Jim Crow policy when re wages of C. W. A. workers were ut twenty per cent a few weeks ago * the request of the employers, specially the employers of the south, Chis twenty per cent wage cut fol- lowed the demand of General John~ on and the N, R. A. apparatus, as pokesman for the employers, that ©. W. A. wages be reduced, The outhern emoloyers admitted that ney wanted to set up a large reser- oir of cheap labor to maintain huge plus profits from the bitter ex- vitation of Negroes, Second Wage Cnt Gut even this twenty per cent wage did not satisfy the employers. The wage cut drive under the N, R. \. must be intensified. So Hopkins, ing. for Roosevelt, ordered C. A, wages to $4.20 a week in nd $7.20 in industrial layoffs in the south ural sectio ions. ‘Th mployed, ducing wages all a, id particularly wages of th orkers who are under conage, Jim Crowing of Negroes on A. jobs is openly admitted and tablishe: The Roosevelt govern- at establishea the Jim Crowing of he unemployed in the 0. C. C. here Negroes are segregated ig quarters, at table and Negroes have been given he dirtiest and most menial work in 3. €. C, camps, This was continued the C, W. A opened. is discrimination and Jim Crow~ however, confined to the tions in New York iberal” Jim Crow ave significant of received by Negro They were a@ further step the line, he Negro southern northern cities. Over ‘oes in New York ‘These jobless Negroes were Jim Crowed in the New York Registretion offices. They were told they must register in Har- Of these jobless Negroes in the y, less than 5,000 were given C, W. A. jobs and of course the worst jebs. The same conditions prevail in all sorthern cities. Jim Crowed On Job Complaints have been made to federal relief director Hopkins of discrimination against Negroes in every state in the union and every city in the country, Negroes are kept out of white collar and skilled jobs, kept off relief rolls, refused C. W. A. work and segregated on the ob. a committee protested necause Negroes were not given any vhite collar or skilled C, W, A. jobs. The few Negroes given C. W. A. jobs are “separated” in and around Los Angeles on the job, and forced ro work away from the white workers. Negroes Faint in Line In New Orleans, where the Negro workers were put into the the river from the registration offices were set up. In Mississippi, Texas and Florida ‘inves‘igations” of discrimination against Negroes brought nothing to the Negro workers. In Dallas of 125 census enumera- tors on a C. W. A. housing survey, the Roosevelt government did not hire a single Negro. Similar charges were made in Richmond, Virginia. Negro Veterans Thrown Out In Petersburg, Virginia, complaint was lodged against J. H. Vanlanding- bem, white official in charge of C. Trial Offer—50c. Help win over your friends and fellow workers to our revolu- tionary movement. You can do this by reaching ‘hem with our Daily Worker, Present them with a real revo- ‘utionary gift, a trial subscrip- tion of the “Daily.” For a limited period, we will send the “Daily” for one month every day or for 4 nronths every Saturday for only 50 cents. List below the name and ad- dress of the one you want to receive the trial subscription. Use coupon below. Trial Subscription Blank Daily Worker, 50 E. 1sth 8t., New York City Enclosed find $...... to the following subseription at cial trial rate. tor e spe Name Address ity, Daily — e not only an attack on the un-| Jim-Crows W. A. employment bureau by three Negroes, James Taylor, Willie James and Henry Williams. Vanlandingham said, “The statement that world war veterans should present their papers for jobs did not mean colored men, it meant white men who were veter- ands and have dependents.” Jim Crow Transient Camps Jim Crowism is maintained by the Roosevelt government in the transient camps as well as in the ©. C. C. camps and on C. W. A. work In California men are sent from various concentration centers in San Diego and Los Angeles to Work Camps, where military training is given. An abandoned “Work Camp” near the Mexican border has been set aside as a Jim Crow camp for Negro transients. The Negroes are given military training here, Discrimination in C.W.A, projects against Spanish-Americans and Mex- jeans in Colorado was so raw that & county relief chairman was dis- missed as a gesture. But the stamp of approval was officially put on the Jim Crow in Colorado. The Federal Government is now conducting an “impartial survey” of the charges of discrimination in Colorado, where the Spanish-Americans and Mexicans are under peonage conditions in the beet fields, The New York Times of Feb. 11, in typical Jim Crow style, reports as fol- lows of the Federal Government’s plan to Jim Crow these starving workers: “Tt is understood here that the Federal Government has concluced the solution of the problem does not lie in forcing the issue, but in cir- cumventing it, A plan is presume to be on foot to set aside large trac of land in the Southwest for sub- sistence farming by these essentially {Spanish people. Such a program would seem wholly logical and intel ligent, because the Spanish-American is not fitted for a high-pressure in- dustrial civilization, His needs are |simpler and his ambitions less com- plex than those of the American of North European blood,” Misleaders Among Negroes The reformist Negro leaders of the Urban League and the N.A.A.C.P, have hindered the fight against the Jim Crow practices of the Roosevelt government. They have merely col- lected complaints and sent them to Washington, They have spread illu- sions among the Negroes that Roose- velt and Hopkins would act on these complaints. They have tried to keep the Negro workers from taking the only action that would be of benefit | to. them—organization together with the white workers in the C.W.A, work- ers’ unions and the Unemployed Councils, These Negro: misleaders have tried to prevent a fighting policy, mass organization and mass protest on the part of the Negro workers, They have Substituted instead the futile mea- sures of bootlicking before OC, W.A. boards and cooperation with the Roosevelt government, Such misleaders as Robert Vain, | who was rewarded with # job as special assistant to the attorney gen- eral in the Roosevelt government, are against discrimination and for better conditions and wages. ‘These are only a few examples of diserimination against Negroes on C. W.A. projects which have come to light. North and South the Negroes ;bave been the last hired, they have ;been given fewer jobs, they have re- ceived the lowest wages. The Ne- groes in C.C.C,, C,W.A, and transient camps have been segregated on the job, forced to pay grafting foremen | and officials in the kick-back racket. They have been the first fired. They get the smallest amount of relief, Only a united fight of Negro and trying to prevent the organization | and struggle of the Negro workers; Pinchot Will F “Investigate j At Ambridge S.M. W.1.U. Demands | | Representation on | | Committee | PITTSBURGH, Feb. 22. (By Mail). —After months of stubborn silence and inaction, Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania has finally appointed a commission to “investigate” the Am- bridge massacre. This move is the lang delayed re-} | sult of persistent demands of the Steel and Metal Workers Indusirial Union for a thorough investigat of the Ambridge strike massacre the trial of the authorities who o; Aboye photo shows workers picket who used mills. Gov. Pinchot is “investigating WHERE WAS PINCHOT THEN? ting in face of the reign of terror instituied by Goy. Pinchot’s police, j les and machine guns to spread death in their efforts to keep the workers from picketing the ” the terror now, months after the strike. | ganized and perpetrated this bloody |~ | Outrage. Hundreds of workers ~« Congressmen Admit: | ganizations and protest meetings {have made similar demands on | Governor Pinchot and President | Roosevelt, Upon the announcement of the et Masses’ Demand for, pointment of the commission, the 8.| . | M. W. I. U. immediately wired | @ ] if | Governor Pinchot requesting that| 0 cia nsurance | | one of its members be included on! | |the commission in view of the fact| that the Ambridge strike was under} Kelly Gets Many Letters | the direct leadesship of the S. M. W.| Jemandinge Passage | Tvs that its members wens wined| De ie eat 3 and wounded by the Jones and Of H. R. 7598 Laughlin thugs, that the Union was/| sien: Se denied all rights to meet and carry | (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) on activity in Ambridge following the | W: ington, Feb. 25, — It seems bloody terror of October 6th andj} that the worker constituents of the finally that four members and ad-| 31st Congressional District of Penn-} herents of the S. M. W. I. U. have} s ania very busy informing} been tried, comitted and sentenced to| their Representative, the reactionary) prison on the frame-up evidence of | Clyde Kelly (Republican) how deter- the agents of the steel corporations| mined t are to see the Workers who themselves organized armed) Unemploy t and Social SDeLEanCe | attack upon the picket line, | Bill (H. R. 7598) enacted. They have The S. M. W. I. U. Board has issued | Written so many letters that Repre- a statement to the local press calling | Sentative Kelly eagerly explained on all workers to continue the de-| when interview, “Of course I’m fun~ mand for a real and thorough public | eet: for something of the investigation, The statement of the} *I¢- . Union points out that it is quite sig- | But ae ene Slee eomn nifficant that Governcr Pinchot pro-| that’s better than the Worl Ent , poses to investigate the massacre | Melly se ae eee * some months after the local authori- | ™¥ ** ninco é j Kelly’s P.W.A. Projects ties had already imprisoned four of; ‘ay? eesti cote, the strikers. Better,” the Congressman evi The 8. M. "W. I. U. is cooperating) Sis viewpoint, Which, emphasizes D scene ae sie aaa oe the necessity for constituents’ em- 5 ‘ ie sg 'e-' phasis upon their viewpoint that the paring the evidence to present to the | kere ail is “better” than bogus| mi KI use| Kelly’s bill, H. R. 7293, would set | the local labor movement to “lesely | yp an “Industrial Adjustment Corpo- follow uo the investigation and to) ration,” whiche would take over all bikeet the Tas Shae mere a =H public works, civil works, sulpiience| Working people 0! ittsburgh and) homestead and other government vicinity. | work-relief projects, and place un-| The Ambridge massacre and the) employed workers on jobs on them | reign of terror following it has pre-| It uld provide — guess what?/| | sented the inion with many w| Wages and hours identical with the | dificult problems of organizing its| low N.R,A. code provisions, a stand-| forces under yeme handicaps. At| ard so bad that it was Hekast the coming na} Conference of| the C.W.A‘ (though that organiza-| the Steel and Metal Workers Indus-| tion soon capitulated to demands by | trial Union called for March 3rd and | N.R.A. cjeamuge sien rae pri- | 4th in Pittsburzh. the Ambrid7e| vate employers, and President Roose- | case with all its lessons and further velt). | plans will receive spezial considera~| ae isu aes insurance for un- $ | employment?” Hon. | Will Not Oppose Workers Bill | . ‘4 | “Oh, I’ve been for that for al- Disclose Huge Graft 00 | most 20 years,” Kelly replied. “Back | Tr ‘ |in 1915 I introduced a bill to pro- | Cook County Cc. W. A. | vide that a commission should study | | the systems other countries have and | CHICAGO Ill, Feb. 23 (By Mail. | yropse one for. the United States.| —At least 2,500 C.W.A. payroll! picht now I want to get my own! checks could not be identified on the| pi) for an Industrial Adjustment | payroll in Ccok County yesterday.) through.” | Graft totalling at least $40,000 week-|""\trave you heard from your dis- ly has been revealed, ‘ trict on the Workers’ Unemploy- Approximately 228,000 C. W. A.| ment and Social Insurance Bill?” he isgicaey Hi er as a ae Ea was asked. @ laid o: y May 1. Fully 20,-| « ” ia. “7% 000 C.W.A, workers throuzhout the| numer of connie © Dad suite state were laid off yesterday. He referred, apparently, to a form | letter which the weekly newspaper, white workers against these policies| “s' le Independent,” published | of the Roosevelt government and the support of the Workers’ | employers can secure the demands for | Bill. the Negro C.W.A. workers. Demand| “What will be your attitude toward | no discrimination against Necro work-| the Workers’ Billi—will you oppose ers, no Jim Crow, no discrimination | it?” in giving out of jobs, no discrimina- “Oh, no!” he hastened to answer. Workers in Detroit, Milwaukee, | Toledo Out; Discontent Rises By HARRY GANNES NEW YORK.—Wall Street is fear- ; ditions are more miserable than they ful of the rising strike wave in the| have ever been in the auto industry. United States, especially the strikes | Speed-up is terrific an@ frightful. in the auto industry. The Herald| Under these conditions the bosses Tribune on Sunday carried a leading | know thas the majority of the auto article by its financial editor, C. Nor-| workers are ready for struggle, and man Stabler, entitled “Labor Unrest that the help of the A. F. of L. offi- | Gives Stocks a Bad Week.” | claldom will not be_able to stop the The parasites are beginning to fear | rising storm. that their profits will be interfered} The Herald ‘Tribune financial edi- with by the workers’ s'ruggles for in-| tor, well-informed through the wide creased wages, for union recognition, | network of company spies, rats and and against the slave codes and the | stoo}-pizeons from almost every au‘o company unions. | plant in the country, tells of the “bad There is already observable the| week” the stock market had, “beset first skirmishes of a huge strike wave! with the growing labor disorde: in the auto industry. In Detroit a! and “receipt of word of the dis whole series of strikes have broken | turbances in the automobile ind out, with strike sen‘iment reaching try,” which haye a “profit to their © very high pitch. In Milwaukee, | account.” @ Seaman Auto Body workers have | i : voted for strike. beginning Monday,| “Additional strike votes are sched- and are appealing to their fellow| wled for tomorrow (Monday, Feb. workers in Racine and Kenosha to| 78),” he adds, “In several units of join them in a walkout for higher| the automobile industry and this pay, azainst speed-up and for union| helped unsetile securities during recognition. In Toledo, over 2,000| the short session yesterday. workers in auto parts plants are out! ‘These facts mus: show the militant on strike, calling on their fellow | workers in the auto industry, espe- workers in other plants to walk out! cially the Communists, that the with them. workers are ready for struggle and N. R. A. Steps In have already entered strike action. Realizine the rising sentiment for |The bosses, through the N, R. A,,/ trike among the auto workers, the | through the A. F. of L. officialdom, | National Labor Board steps in. It| Will do every they can to save} begins by re-shuffling two of the/ the bosses’ profits, to enforce the strikes it broke last year, namely, | Slave codes, by trying to avoid or to those in the Ford. Edzewater, N. J.,| break the strikes. plant. and in the Philadelphia Budd y; is up jo the Communist Party Auto Body plant. | members to take the leading pari in The Na’ional Labor Board. with its | the strike struggles, to help the work- . F, of L. officials, know that the|ers organize their struggle, to bring workers are resentful and boiling! Sut the decisive plants in the auto over with anger at the way these! industry, to profi: by the A. F. of L. two strikes were broken, the workers | officialdom’s betrayals of the last betrayed and company unions] strikes, and to lead the auto strikes shackled on them. The National La- | to victory. bor Board, in order to prepare to | break the other s‘rikes now matur-| zy tars , a 5 ing, wants to give the avpearance of | Use C.C.C. Camps for Preparations, being active to gain “justice” for! Military these workers whose strikes they| Es sinashed, U.S. Senator Proposes In the N. R. A. publicity release | — No. 3478, the National Labor Board| PHILADELPHIA, Feb. publishes the fact tha* the bosses and | ~f Civilian Conser’ the A, F. of L. officials in the United | 8 oo cuvitans Mt Automobile Workers’ Union, Local| Ore fo. onen m 38613, worked tozether to keep the| ee ee ae eee | the United States was definitely pro- | Ford workers from striking. They say: “It was svid by several ‘ aaa ait oatitetne 4 . posed by Senater David A. Reed at} of the employes, testifying in Fri- |. washington birthday meeting held| day's hearing, that sockeamen for | by the National Defense Council, 2] Lol 1°613, Sank g € iL. affiliate, | jingo organization here last week. | sed urged that features of both | C8. My oF combined to attempted to disu: the workers effect: 25. ¢ ation Corps | ary Training from the walkout, and that the n’ant manager, Neil 8. Brown, also remonstrated with them.” “Merit,” Company Union “Clause” a) The auto code, in which the A, F./| he 1, “or J is of L, officials agreed to allow. com-|the C. M. T. C. to build roads and pany unions, through the so-called! trails. It would be a step in the tion in giving skilled or office work| “I'm for anything that will help get | to Negroes, “Workers taken care of!” Work By EMIL GARDOS Article IT The main question facing us, of course, is how the readers of the Uj Elore, the 10,000 members of the I.W.O. and Hungarian Workers Fed- eration shall be mobilized to build the reyolutionary unions and opposi- tion groups in the unions under re- formist leadership, We can record some results here, in spite of the slowness, due to the opportunist and sectarian weaknesses of our fractions, and to the failure to properly under- stand the meaning of concentration, Our LW.O. branches in Logan Coup W. Va. with several hundred have not only helped to organize miners of other nationalities (including native American) into the LW.O., but they are the basis upon which the ition in the UM. W.A. must be built, A mine nucleus of 10 memibers was organized there. Similar ean be noted in northern West Vi and western Pennsylvania, Over 300 members, mainly Hungarians, were brought into the S.M.W.LU. in South Bend, Ind., basing ourselves upon the mem- bership of the Small Homeowners Federation. Trough concentration upon four cities in te East outside of New York, workers were recruited into the Party from important fac- Bethiehem, Pa., including four into the shop nucleus; Johnson and New Brunswick, N. J, with beginning in the wire face tories in Trenton, N. J.) pesides com- mittees to build the unions. Similar Pre-Conventio “merit clause,” is now working havoc' right direction and a distinct con- among the workers. Wages and con- tribution to the national defense.” of Foreign Language Scie of the Bananas Page Three ising Wave of Strikes in the Auto Industsy Over 2,000 Workers Plants Go 1,200 Sir'ke Today At Seaman Auto Body Company Call on I ash W orkers To Join Them; Militant Action Will Win MILWAUKEE, Wis, Feb. 25. Twelve hundred workers of the Sea- man Body plant, making auto bodies for the Nash Auto Co., go on strike Monday morning here. The strike takes place after long negotiations with the company officials failed to reach a satisfactory agreement. ‘The strikers are demanding a 20 per cent increase, the same as the Nash strikers in Racine, Wis., plant. Workers in the Kenosha, Wis., plant have already taken a strik: vote and a committee is now pre- senting demands to ths company. The strike in Kenoshe will tie up all Nash works. The Trade Union Unity League has issued a leaflet to the Seaman workers calling for a united struggle for higher wages, and rank and file control of the strike through broad strike committees, workers’ partici- pation and approval of all negotia~ tions, and mass picketing, ino order to prevent a betrayal of the strike by the A. F. of L. leaders. Particularly militant mass picket- ing during the strike, and rank and file strike committee to represent every department is urged by the Trade Union Unity League. They warn the workers against secret negotiations and arbitration and the strikebreaking role of the NRA. through its National Labor Board which broke the auto strike in Fords, and the Budd Auto Body plant The T. U.U.L. is urging the workers to spread the strike to all Nash plants throughout the country, Illinois Miners and Jobless Protes Against Bad Por By a Worker Correspondent. NOKOMIS, Ill, Feb. 25—Unem- vloyed, C.W.A. workers, farmers. members of the Progressive Miners’ local and the Women’s Auxiliary, un- der the leadership of the Unemploy- ment Council, stormed the office of the Dlinois Emergency Relief, pro- testing against the rotten pork given them as relief. At the Council mreeting held before the |the demonstration, the mayor, chief | of police and members of the Board of Health examined the meat. Mayor leoked at the meat and re- “I can tell that this meat ‘Bror mari ry training for | is rotten without smelling it.” Typi- | ‘3 workers m | cally, he suggested that complaints | be made to the “proper authoril ‘9 which the workers answered, march!” While the speakers at the demon- ration were addressing the crowd, “We ‘‘arge chunks of the meat were piled » and a sign This is the given us by the Send to the Dai'y Worker, 50 E. *3th St, New York City, names of those you know who are not read- ers of the “Daily,” but who would | be interested in reading it. n Discussion of the Communist Party Party examples, although not many, could be brought from other cities, The most characteristic features in this work are the opportunist re- sistance of the so-called old-timers, including Party members, to shop work, the difficulties to make our Dis- trict Fraction Buros concentrate, and coordinate our work properly (altho the 15 concentration cities in the country were already selected last September) and the readiness of the new comrades to understand and ap- ply the line of the Party. The success of the work depends a good deal not only upon the leader- ship coming from the fraction buros, but also upon the attention paid by the Party Committees to language work. Langusge departments in a section scale are mainly on paper, with a definite underestimation of language work as against “Party” work, (This is partly due to the sectarian practices of our fractions, which can only be eradicated under the leadership of the Party commit- tees), The proper recognition of this work by the Districi Committees, coupled with organizational steps, is ath to bring real results (example, lo). Buiiding the United Front. The development of these struggles on the basis of the united front from helow shall not proceed isolated from those on specific issues facing the foreign-born workers, Just like other groups, we have carried on campaigns against the Horthy agents, who have been trying to win over the Hungarian masses to the revisionist war program of the fascist government. Besides the gen- eral weaknesses of these campaigns (mot enough mobilization from be- low, their — counter-demonstration character, without following up and establishing a permanent united front, opportunist mistakes in policy, etc.) we failed to see that these Horthy fascists are also the agents of the American government, that they are closely connected with the manufac- turers and bankers of their respective cities. This way the campaigns haven't been sufficiently americanized and localized; they weren't connected with the burning economic issues fac- ‘ng the workers. Thus, for example, N. E, Nemenyi of Youngstown, Ohio, has been exposed as a fascist, a mis- user of his society's funds, etc., but | we didn’t expose the fact that this same gentleman is the financial editor cf the “Vindicator,” the steel-trusts’s paper, a leading exponent of the manufacturers who went to Wash- ington, D. C., to testify in their be- half at the steel code hearing, and also their stool-pigeon who led to the ictimization of mayy militant work- ers, etc. This led to the weak- ening of our fight against the Hun- garian reactionaries, and to a failure to link up this fight with the main issue facing the workers of Youngs- ‘own: the organization of the 8. M. W. TU. The Hungarian section of the I. W. O. made a good beginning last. sum- mer in calling a united front con- “erence of fraternal organizations on the issue of social insurance and the protection of the unemployed mem- bers who are unable to pay dues, etc. | ders under reactionary leadership. Here too, the mistake was made of | mass work of our Party. not linking up this good general pro- | ccess of mass work and of | gram with the local issues facing the | the organizational cashing in depends workers, of talking about unemployed |on the leadership of our fractions. | comittees in the societies, but failing | The discussion before and at the Con- | to connect these up with the unem-/ vention must hely bring clarity and pleyed council. Notwithstanding the | action on the work of cur Party mem- breaking into many societies with our | bers in the transn n belts to the program, of popularizing the I. W. O./ masses, the organizations under our before the masses (which helped con. | teadership. siderably to recruit over 3,000 mem-{ ‘The poor functioning, and in many bers during the recruiting campaign) | nstances non-functioning, of our the movement hasn't developed to the | frections is a well-known fact. Our, extent it should. The improvement | comrades do not act as a unified in the work depends a good deal on | ‘eadership in the macs organizations. working from below in the societies.) They disagree many times among establishing opposition groups, and | inemselves on the floor, and while che mobilization of the entire I. W.O.| many comrades are active in the a A campaign for Social Insur-| every day work of the o:ganization anee, | Gnostl; heir own choosing and ‘A great weakness of the successful | (MOsty OF Weir owe, choosing and recruiting drive cf the I, W. O. bas | many times act burocratically, sub- been, incidentally, its non-political stitute for the non-Party members, content, with too much stress on the | monopolize the collection of finances, low insurance rate, and with still | cetting of subs for their papers, etc. | Umiting the campaign for social in- | surance to propaganda, without win-| Our comrades capitulate many | ning over to it our full membership, ane tgp the ene aa not oO - | cies in the organization and fa! ee Oren Honary Temata | polllioalize ne life, tocinnmodurs ‘the campaigns of the Party (or do it in a very formal, mechanical way) without env efforts to reise the work on @ higker plane. Furthermore, there is no systematic recruiting going on for the Party in the mass organi- zations. Comrades are crying for help, for the assignment of more Party members to the fractions, with- out taking the trouble of approach- ing the most active workers to join the Party. ‘The weakness of our fractions and their failure to recruit is especially | It was quite necessary to stress all} these aspects of mass work, because the building of our press, mass or- ganizations and Party, cannot be sep- arated from the winning over of workers to our side through struggle. The gain in the membership of the I. W. O. and Workers’ Clubs, the se- curing of 1,200 new subscribers for the Uj Elore during the past two months, and the steps to stabilize it financially, show the possibilities, pro- vided we break with the narrow orientation and participate in the } {dangerous when ew, undeveloped workers are being drawn into our mass organizations. In Trenton, there are over 300 members in the I. W. O., overwhelmingly new, and steps are nly now being taken to build a frac- In Detroit, only one member was recruited for the Party out of (the 1,000 members of the Small Home- own Federation duzing the first six months of its existence. While there has been some improvement since the fraction conference of Dec. 2 with about 150 new members re- | ported to the Central Buro, the link- ing up of our mass work with the most energetic recruiting and the establishment of functioning fractiors directed through the District Lan- guage Buros, remain the main tasks before us. The coming in of new forces into the Party, through sirug- gles, the training of cadres out of these new comrades, replacing many of the old elements who are unable to understand and carry out the Party’s line, is the best guarantee that the language field, this hotbed of op- portunism and sectarianism, will be a powerful instrument for the mobili- zation of workers behind the cam- paigns of the Party. By breaking language sectarianism portant means towards applying the Open Letter and the 13th ECCI Plenum Thesis among the millions of foreign-born workers of the basic in- dustries of this country. Se in Toledo Auto Parts on Strike Mass Meeting Votes to Spread Strike to Other Factories TOLEDO, Ohio. Feb. 25.—Over two thousand Toledo workers walked out of here at noon Friday d workers answered 2 call for a general strike at the Spicer Manufacturing Corp., manufacturers of auto parts. Three hundred women were among the strikers. Only 100 returned after lunch. in response to apveals from plant officials, Three hundred employes walked ; out of the Toledo Elec‘ric Auto-Lite Co, at noon. Two hundred men are said to have returned, althoucth this |is probably capitalist press hokum to | make the workers believe the strike is over. | At the Logan Gear Co. 125 walked | out, representing 20 per cent of the plent’s force. The Bintham plant closed when {450 workers “failed to return” after lunch, Friday night a mass meeting was held, attended by over 1,000 workers They voted to spread the strike and fight for their demands of 65 cents for men and women workers. The business agent of the local, Otto | Broach, told the workers to have faith in Roosevelt and the National | Labor Board, but the workers were too militant to be interested Im his remarks. ‘The strike was called hastily under pressure of the workers. What Workers Want The Svicer strikers demand: 1. Minimum poy of 65 cents per hour. They are receiving 40 cents an hour fer common labor, which falls to 30 cents per hour with the Bedaux sneed-un system used in the plants; and 50 cents for skilled | Tabor, haa Recognition of the Automo- tive Workers’ Federal Employes’ | Union, organized under the slave N. R.A. 3. Recoenition of Tom Ramsay, president of the union. 4. Privileve of seniority rights within the plant. Charles A. Dana, New York, presi~ dent of the Soicer Co., suggested to the workers that they organize the Spicer Employes’ Mutual Benefit As- sociation and named his own candi- dates. He was booed. Dana then threatened to close the plant and put a “For Sale” sion on it unless the strikers went back to work. Officials of the plant called police scout crews, but, so far as we can de- | termine, no one has been arrested ‘yet. Instead of o1 a | strong picket line Involving all the strikers, the union . of- | ficials called for some volunteers and ‘asked all the other workers to “go home and keep out of trouble!” ‘1,500 Jobless Youth Demonstrate, Win | Demands, in Minn. | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.. Feb, 23 (By | Mail)—™ one of the most militant | @omo~-‘rations in recent years..1:500 |sinele unemntoyed men and women rothered st the mvetineg of the Prblic Welt in the City ay. This tine called by the Poard as a rest of a nrevious demonstration for the purvose of taking un solely the demands of the | Sinele unemnloyed. se demonds were that the single unemploved should be given rent and Rrocery orders, s the ti y the U: y Mission and the Seventh St. Girls’ Club. After a lot ot passing around of | the buck, I. S. Joseph, head of the | Welfare Board, and Swanson, an- {other member of the Board, tried to | sneak out of the meeting and avoid | eivitig the workers a direct answer. |However, hundreds of workers | blocked the doorway and said that | they would not be let out until they leave an answer to the demands. Faced by the militancy, determina - tion and anger of the workers, they had to stay and give their answer. All of the Welfare Board members. then favored the demands, and promised to put them into effect: The workers made it plain that | they ‘want immediate action for all of the 4500 who are on the soup line as well as for the single workers in the neighborhoods. Jack Carson, one of the spokesmen, said that “if all those single unemployed who want the rent and grocery orders were not | given their orders within two weeks ‘from this date, then the Unemployed Council would lead a mass march of thousands of single unemployed to )home of Joseph. and take him te | the Mission to live under the condi- | tions of the workers there.” This statement received thunder- ous applause which lasted for several minutes. A stool pigeon and police ‘soy, by the name of Olson, got up during the meeting and called the meeting a Communist meeting and Jack Carson an agent from Moscow. | So provocative were his remarks that a large group of workers seized him | by the neck. carried him out in‘o the | through the participation in the class | Hallway and beat him up. He ts \struggle, together with the workers known for his disruptive tactics at all — lof other nationalities—but linking it demonstrations of workers. |up with issues facing the respective | ‘national group—will we succeed to big victory for the militant program | make the language fractions an im- | of the Unemployed Council and the This concession is clearly another Communist Party. |the meeting pledged to fight until jail the single une: who 50 pst shall be given the rent anc grocery orders. The workers lefi ay § ¥ § nctacaa