The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 2, 1934, Page 3

ORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1934 Codes Jack Up Prices, Cut Wages } N. R. A. Swells Railwaymen Demand! Restoration of 1932 = W all Street Monopolies Reap 4 Millions; Living Costs Up 23% | , come of the coming wage negotia- Slash, Stop Wage Cut e Resolution for Action Is Passed by Three Locals MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 1.—| A resolution for action against the 10 per cent wage cut is having the widest circulation among railroad workers. The resolution already adopted by the Milwaukee Carmen’s Lodge, 209; Railway Clerks, 257; Boilermakers, 11, and Omaha Car- men, 8, and which should be taken xp for discussion and action in every ‘ailroad lodge in the country, reads! 5 follows: Whereas, on Feb. 1, 1932, a 10 per vent “deduction” from basic rates of pay was enforced in the railroad in- dustry, and Whereas, this wage “deduction” s acepted by railroad labor only on condition that it would terminate on Feb, 1, 1933, and would re-emvloy the workers laid off, improve working conditions and prevent a further re- duction:in forces, and Whereas, without the consent of the membership the 10 per cent “de- uction” was con*inued in force (now ring on June 30 of this year), ith large numbers of railroad work- ers still deprived of their jobs and the means of earning a livelihood, and Whereas, the extension of this wage cut, coupled with periodical layoffs and short-time employment affecting. tens of thousands of rail- road employes, has resulted in atly, reduced earnings and thereby rkin? .a severe hardship on rail- road labor, and Whereas, our buying power and, herefore, our wages have been re- duced through inflation and the rising cost of living—according to the U, S. Department of Labor, Bu- reau of.Stalistics “food prices alone have advanced more than 20 percent since the low point of April, 1933,” which still further lowers our living standards, and Whereas, all these conditions have been accepted by the Railway Union Executives without consulting the rank and file membership, thus cre- ating considerable uncertainty in the minds of railroad labor as to what will be the procedure and the out- tions. Therefore, be it resolved by this lodge that we go on record as de- manding: (1) The immediate and mnoon- ditional return of the 10 per cent “deduction.” (2) An additional increase in wages sufficient to meet the rising cost of living due to the inflation, 'Union Heads ' Call Off R.R. Strike Order Cleveland ‘Officials Stop Kansas City Southern R. R. Walkout BULLETIN PITTSBURGH, Pa. March i— A demand for a 10 per cent in- crease in wages and the rescinding of the 10 per cent wage cut for rail- road shopmen was delivered to five division managers of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad today. This action was taken following a meeting of representatives of 35,000 railway shop workers at 2 meeting in Cincinnati yesterday. EB ° DIED IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST FASCISM ‘This dramatic picture shows a Socialist worker, during the Vienna uprising, lying dead near his machine gun. He had fought against the Dolifass and Heimwehr, literally unto death . . his leaders had systematically tried to disarm him and his comrades. Most of his leaders, like Otto Bauer, fled the country soon after the tide had begun to turn against the Socialisé workers, + despite the fact that KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 1—A strike of the Kansas City and South- ern trainmen, which was to have started today, was called off by na- tional headquarters of the Brother- hood of Railway Trainmeti in Cleve~ land. Instead, the union officials are “negotiating” with the railroad man~ agement on the question of postpon- ing until April 1 the installation of @ new wage cut. under the guise of a | 7598)” Monday, Mar, 5, at 3069 Ar- change in working rules. Mitage Ave., at 8 p.m. Admission is President Roosevelt, who held #| free. Recrcdae Pa mgg tt bs Ise rao _— {union officials, o1 fosen) fi ‘ Faster. Seiad cocartinater, 60/20 Week Furniture step in and avoid a strike. The basis Strike Continues PASSAIC, N. J., Mar. 1—In spite ot , in spite of police inti- officials co-operated, what the consequences will be for midation, in spite of the snow, sleet | and cold, workers of the United Bed- the men. A. B, Cranor, general chairman of ding Co. are continuing their strike for recognition of the Furniture the Brotherhood of Railway train- men here, said he would ask for ad- Workers Industrial Union. The strike is now 10 weeks old. I, Amter Will Speak On Jobless Insurance In Chicago, March 5 CHICAGO, Mar. 1—I. Amter, na- tional secretary of the Unemployment Councils, will speak in Chicago on “United Struggle for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (H.R. yice from the national union heads in Cleveland. His orders were not to call the ‘strike. [Ala. Mine Strike Spreads to 8 Towns; | WEST BLOCTON, Ala., March 1.— Miners striking in the Cahaba River Valley for union recognition, higher wages and better working conditions reached a total of 2,000 yesterday as the strike spread to eight villages. Mine pits in the valley are com- pletely tied-up. Miners yesterday were threatened by the appearance of four companies from the National Guard sent down by Governor B. M. Miller because they disarmed com- pany gunmen, The miners have been on strike since Feb. 18 against the conditions forced upon them by the Blocton- Cahaba Coal Co. and the Little Ca- haba Coal Co., owners of the Piper mines where the strike originated. 4 Fired; Philadelphia Knit Shop Walks Out PHILADELPHIA, March 1—The j Rnitting bosses are trying to break their contracts with the Knit Goods Workers Union and force wage cuts by various tricks. The Haber Knit- ting Mills workers are on strike in protest against attempted changes in their working conditions, and the workers of the Philadelphia Sweater Mills, 875 N. 28th St., walked out “when four workers were fired for “unsatisfactory work.” Robert Jaffee, strike leader at the Haber Mill, was arrested for the third time when police recognized him; standing acorss the street from the mill, and charged him with corner lounging. PAYS $2 FOR $5 JOB NEW YORK, March 1.—Sidney Co- Tesult of the pric | of the N.R.A. codes, permitting mon- opoly agreements among | producers and distributors of every- A strike ballot has been prepared for the workers of the Delaware & Hudson Railway, another line con- trolled by the owners of the Kansas City Southern, Furniture workers in all shops in’ When company gunmen were) hen, snow shoveler employed during Newark are prepared to strike if the brought in to cow the strikers, the; the recent heavy snowfall, revealed ‘posses’ association should attempt to miners promptly disarmed them, then | today that he had to pay $2 for a break the agreements’ they: signed patrolled the roads to keep out other $5-a-day job after standing in line with the union. | gunmen and scabs. four hours. Pre-Convention Discussion of C. P. Only 25 P.C. Wage Rise Can Meet Heightened Food Costs WASHINGTON March 1.—As a raising provisions the large day necessities, the daily cost of retail food has now been jacked up to a point 23 per cent higher than ; March 1933, official figures revealec today. The N.R.A. codes, therefor gether with the Roosevelt program of depreciating the dollar, have, sinc Roosevelt began to put them into| effect, effected an indirect masked | wage cut of 23 per cent, or nearly| one-fourth. in the pay envelope of every wage worker in the country. | Unless his wages have been increased one-fourth or 25 per cent since last March, every wage worker has had | his wages sharply cut by the N.R.A. | codes and the inflation of the dollar. | Cheaper Foods Rise Faster This striking increase in the cost| of basic necessities since the passage of the N.R.A. codes is confirmed by the latest reports of a group of re- search workers of the New York Pen| and Hammer, an organization of pro- | fessional economists and statisticians. | Their latest study reveals that a spe- cially devised “Cheap Food Goods” index, whcih includes only the most basic necessities without which no Workers’ family can live, has already risen 11 per cent since the month of December. This index of the cheap- est, basic foods, is probably about 33 | per cent above the same period last | year, the group reports, showing an even faster rate of increase under| the Roosevelt N.R.A. than the other foods. Not only has the N.R.A. forced the most basic food necessities higher out | of the reach of working class families, but the cost of department goods has jumped 24.7 above its position a year | ago. Such items as work socks have | risen 100 per cent, overalls, 80 per cent, shirts, 40-65 per cent, etc., as a result of the N.R.A. price-raising pro- | visions. N.R.A. Has Cut Real Wages The N.R.A. has thus caught the workers in a grip of a scissors of wages held down by the N.R.A. code | “minimums,” while the N.R.A. codes | have sent the cost of food and other | necessities soaring upward. | ‘The result of the N.R.A. has thus} been @ sharp cut in the real wages, @S measured by buying power, of all! workers, with a resulting intensifica- tion of wage slavery and exploitation, | giving huge increases in profits to the largest monopoly employers. N.R.A. Has Increased Hunger The NRA. has brought more | hunger and suffering to the vast | majority of the working class. The | Monopolies Raise Prices Under N.R.A. Merchants Charge R. H. Macy Admits That Wages Lag Far Behind Rising Prices ASHINGTON, March charges that the N.R.A lusi the tod ope! R. H. Macy and C York department st Th murce for the charges made the department store representatives is that the rapidly rising prices ui the N.R.A. ts redui consumer ing. Charging that the tered monopoly a prices, the departm sentative declared “We have seen no nents to raise published warning that open price | associations must not be ter monopolistic practices. Revealing that the N.R.A. has sent prices skyward while wages have been kept far behind, the statement con- tinues: “During a period when whole- sale prices advanced 36.5 per cent and our retail prices 35.5 per cent the average weekly earnings in New York State factories rose 8,2 per cent. It is clear that both wholesale and retail prices have advanced very much faster than average con- sumer income.” dd to fos- DETROIT WOM! DETROIT. Class Wom! nish Hall, 5969 14th St. freshments, dancing and cc ats p. WEINSTONE SPEAKS IN BRIDGEPORT.—Will on “Lessons on Aj Stratford Ave. at BRIDGEPORT ‘Weinstone will speak on Sunday at 296 N.R.A. has fos-| nt store repre-| $441,000,000- Pyro fit Replaces 1932: Loss Since NRA Began NEW XORK, March 1—What the N. R.A. haS teasit ‘to’ thé biggest ist employers. ama corporations ge profits ts strikingly revealed he bulle*in issued today by the mal City Bank, one of the largest Street banks and one of the in the world. 5 ban eport reveals-that the N. R.A. has given 810-ef the coun- try’s leading corporations net profi's $441,000,000 for the first. year in the codes have operated, 1933. with an aggregate de- $46,000,000 during 1932, R. A. codes -were not in Wall ich ficit or lc when the. } N. R.A. codesiis the result that the codes have per- these “corporations: by -up and streteh-out to re- ‘ating’ costs to the bone. cases, monopoly corporations e N. R. A. codes Have shown Pp incréasés ‘of 50-to 250°per cent despite the fact that actusl “busines: done shows only slight increases or no increases -at all. The rise in corporation profits under the N. R. A, has thus taken place as a result of a slash in work- ers’ wazes, while the N. R, A. codes and price-raising provisions have sent prices soaring upward. The huge Nv R:-A. profits: for the Wall Street corporations has-resultec in record -payments~of- dividends and bond interest. to the speculators and investors of the Wall Street financla’ clique.” Interest and dividend pay- ments in 1933, the firs: year of the N. R.A. have established new rec- ord highs, despite four years of the crisis in’ the history of capi- of the mitted talism. Though it has failed to solve an’ of the fundamental causes. of the crisis, and has .in. fact intensified them, the N. R.A. so far Mas been successful in permitting the capitalist employers to squeeze new big profits out of the-working class, Pat Cush Tells of Tasks — Facing Steel Union Meet In Pittsburgh March 3-4 ‘broad and firm local leadership that |can confiuct independent work and stand On its own feet. “Our sincere desire to work with Main Attention Will Be Paid to Organization he all workers to establish unity. in | NUR.A. cut in real wages can be met Problems and (3) Enforcement of agreements and restoration of conditions which existed and were and Sesaains and be i Lbs the di Resolved, that this Lodge calls upon all other Lodges of the 21 raflway labor organizations in the United States to adopt a similar resolution and join in a concerted movement for wage increases in the railroad in- dustry, and be {t further Resolved, that a copy of this reso- tution -be sent to President Roosevelt, Tighten Up By JOHN WILLIAMSON Diselet Oryanier, Distt 6 (Ont) co On Opposition Work in the A _F. of L. our main strategic line in the union field—the building of the revolution- ary class struggle unions on an in- dustrial basis. It is, therefore, wrong A recent leaflet issued in the name to develop any conceptions of reju- of the Auto Workers Union, while venating or “modernizing” the A. F. correctly speaking to all workers and of L., as for instance, the following: in this predominantly unorganized “It is self-evident that unless radi- industry, bringing forward the Auto cal changes take place inside of our Railroad Coordinator Bastman, and| Workers Union, presents the line in own organization, that unless we are to our Grand President and the Rall- way Labor Executives Association to take the necessary steps to immedi- ately re-open wage negotiations for the increases in wages and protec- ion of working conditions as set forth in this resolution, Nat'l Conference to Unite All Milk: Sheds in One Body such a confused way, that it will not able to clean up our own house and bring the desired results. The leaf- modernize our organizations to serve let in question says: us under the present conditions, no “You, who are in the A. F, of L.' benefit can be derived from belonging can join this action movement by to them. Other organizations’ will organizing behind the backs of the have to be formed to serve the work- bosses and their friends, Bill Green ers’ interests to take the place of the and McVeeney, who do plenty behind existing. ones” and “transformation your backs. All those of you who of all existing craft organizations lo- have signed up formerly with the cally and nationally into industrial Auto Workers Union and all others unions.” who have been misled to join the} This is swinging to a right oppor- A. F. of L., quietly to unite; tunist conception. We must not for Joint Action with the Sndustrial| create illusions of “modernizing” the Union, A.F. of L. If the program was put “Those of you who are not in the| forward by backward workers, grop- A. F. of L., sign up the two or three| ing for policy, one could understand whom you know personally in your) it although not agree with it. But Daily Worker, Midwe-’ Bureau) CHICAGO, Mar, 1—Wcr the first lime im the history of the United) States, rank and file farmers from; every major milk shed of the country ; met and planned a joint campaign to force the milk trust to pay higher , prices to the farthers without in-— vress¢ In price to consumers. ‘This meeting, called by the National Dairy Committee of the Farmers National Committen for Action, was held in Chicago last Sunday and Monday. ‘The growing feeling of unity be- tween farmers and workers was dem- onstrated at the meeting. Represen-' tative milk drivers and dairy workers of Chicago participated. A greeting, io the committee was sent by the joint Philadelphia Committee of farmers, dairy workers, drivers, and working class consumers. For Mass Strikes ‘The discussions of the dairy prob-! lem eentered around developing mass strikes of dairy farmers, and the es- tablishment of committees s‘milar to the Philadelphia Committee. An example of the effectiveness of this unity was told by an eastern farmer. A militant Pennsylvania farmer was victimized for his strike activities. The dairy refused to buy his milk. Through the Philadel- phia Joint Committee a delegation of working class women, customers of the same dairy, was organized to visit the company and threaten a boycott. Immediately the farmer was ‘There ‘was considerable discussion of the problem of work within the old Jine co-operatives. Stress was placed upon the popularization of rank and: file control, especially in time of ‘strikes, Most of the delegates to this meet- ing left Tuesday to attend the full meeting of the Farmers National Committee for Action in Dennison, Towa, Mar. ist, Ind and 3rd. to be put forward for consideration Party members, as a program, it know. In this way, absolutely wrong. It raises illu. organized the outside. behind your backs.” Firstly, this leaflet forward directly the front action where both the A. F. in one shop, Te omits the reasons for pest one reasons for! scious of the im} ince of the work, such united front action. It not Recently, after mobilizing through bring forward clearly the idea of the Section organizers and units, four- rank and file assuming leadershin of teen responded out of @ possible 50 & g L. locals con- their local union but talks “organiz-|in Cleveland. ite 3 ing behind their backs,” etc. understanding s absent. cavatiy? Where We Were Lacking the problem is to establish fynction- be Phctlet el ch Caste bn ey groups in at least a for instance, where the workers are| dozen where this can be done still in revolt, despite the betrayals| with some diligent work. We can of the A.A. and Labor Board, that if, accompany this basic work with cer- , We had s leadership of the S.M.W.| tain tactical moves of grouping sev- LU, on the ground for the past three|eral locals around some common months and a policy of united front,| burning issues. there would be a different picture to-} In Ohio our tactics in the trade day. Some of the workers see through | union field must vary according to A.A., but we are not in organized | different industries. In mining and evidence. Therefore, the A.A. is able| rubber, our main tactic is working to lead the present discontent into| inside the A. F. of L.; in auto, we legalistic channels. The fact that it; must follow a policy of building the is possible to bring about possibilities | Auto Workers Union and simultan- of united front action is seen just} eously build opposition groups inside this week by the Canton A.A. Repub-} the A. F. of L. and Mechanics Edu- lic lodge initiating a‘ conference of| cational Society, working for a united all A.A. lodges in Republic Mills and] front struggle by the members of all their invitation of two SM.W.I.U.| unions, where they exist side by side: Republic locals to also participate in} in steel and metal our main work is this conference. organizing the S.M.W.LU., with par- In approaching the problem of| allel opposition work inside the A.A. working out # program for the func-| wherever it has locals. While all tioning of opposition Centers and] union work in Ohio is weak, the A. groups, it must be done on the basis, F. of L. opposition work is particu- of burning issues effecting the A. F.| larly weak. To overcome this needs of L. members in industry and in} thorough-going political apprecia- | struggles “unless we. “intensify our TUUL, activity and simultaneusly work inside the A. F. of L. The outlook of # broad strike wave, is verifled by the growing revolt | greatest danger is a too slow tempo in our Party and union leadership. is the responsibility of the entire Party membership. Up until now in the discussion, there has been an inadequate exam- ination, especially by the comrades involved, of the reasons why between the 7th and 8th National Convention, | when all the objective circumstances | have been favorable, we still have a completely unsatisfactory situation in the trade union work. It is not enough to quote from the Open Let- ter and the 14th C.C, resolution. These documents had to be applied and “effective organizational guar- antees be created for carrying out of this resolution and checking up on its application” (14th Plenum). task of actually having our members in the industries and then through them, developing struggles and con- ducting organized trade union work. At the same time, since the last con- vention, we can presume that several hundred thousand members have joined our Red Unions, who are not in them today. Many of these have been recruited from the “difficult” trustified industries, and yet we have failed to consolidate the union. I would like to indicate sketchily, what may be some reasons for this. Let us compare the Needle Union, which has comparatively the best roots among the masses despite its Other weaknesses (especially no na- tional orientation) with some of the other unions where we have received this} setbacks. While we must recognize that trustification of the basic in- dustries makes the workers and union face a more formidable enemy, let us examine some other reasons which might contribute to the success of the Needle Union in contrast to the other T.U.U.L. unions; 1, There is a more conscious and active party core. 2. They carry on a@ constant daily agitation and struggle, reacting to all of the problems of the needle workers—even beyond the imme- diate narrow economic trade union sphere, : 3. The union has a trade union life, with its roles, practices, etc. Its business is conducted as a mass organization and not as a duplicate of the Party. 4, It bases all of its work in the shops. 5, It has a leadership, which is known to the Needle workers. They have grown out of the struggles of the workers and have firm roots there. The above is no “discovery of America.” But if partially true, might give the way to our union work else- where. In Ohio, as possibly else- where, where there is no Party his- tory connected with trade union | among the workers in the shops. The | ; To overcome this situation in Ohio| We still are faced with the main| work, the Party membership is not yet really conscious of trade union work. The bulk of the Party mem- bers are unemployed or not in deci- sive industries, While within the Party, our educational work from top to bottom, is still too “highfalutin” and | doesn’t register and our section and| unit cadres are not trained and don't | think or react to trade union prob- lems, For instance, in some cities, strikes have already taken place, but the section committee don’t, move a finger. The District Committee even has to get the information through the capitalist press (Columbus, Ash- ; land, Eiles, etc.). This is not only limited to Ohio, I feel sure. Further- more, the activities of other class struggle mass organizations, especially Janguage, have no_ organizational connection with trade union work, despite high sounding resolutions to the contrary. In addition to general educatii nm we hi eo ns a) A street nucleus assigned to that shop. b) One of the most able comrades of the section committee released to direct all work connected with that shop. c) Whatever is the dominant foreign nationality of workers, that language buro must one comrade for nothing else but that shop. _i) The section committee must exercise its ip over the fractions in all mass organizations, se as to orientate their work around this decisive factory. ¢) Once in two weeks, the work around that shop to be examined by the section committee. f) At all times connect shop con- centration with a barrage of poli- tical agitation on all current poti- tical questions, These organizational measures again, are not new. But we feel if we “check up in their application” we may get results. As a result, of some beginnings, 6 new shop nuclei were organized between Oct. 28 Dis- trict Plenum and the Feb. 3 Pienum and since then, 6 more, But these shop nuclei will be mere hollow shells if they are not the instrument to build around themselves a broad union local and, of course, in the process recruit new Party members, issue party shop paper, etc. In another article, I will deal with the question of concentration, the only by a fight to raise the wages| of every worker in the country by at! PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 1.—To least 25 per cent to meet the rising.| work out policy and strategy in the) costs of food, etc. So long as the! face of the rising strike wave and| NRA. codes hold wages down to the| oncoming struggles in the steel in-| minimums,” the N.R.A. price-raising| dustry, the National Conference of | is steadily cutting the real buving} the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- power of every pay envelope in .i¢| trial Union will convene in Pitts steel and “metal industry twill crei a basis for united actions and joint Tuggles*with these new unions that will pave the way for organizationa unity in the nearest possible future “While the 3.M.W.I.U, must system~- atically expose the class . collabora- tion policy of the ‘A.A.’ leadership | vice-president of the United M country, | A determined fight in the shops and| factories for increased wages matter for the entire rking class, | UMWA Head Breaks Through Pickets to Speak in Seab Hotel By TONY MINERICH | PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Phil Murray,| Just about ‘he time Murray came/| to the hotel, the police broke up the | picket line and arrested 12 of the| strikers. This is not the first time Murray broke through picket lines. The miners tell the story of Phil Murray, “coal miner,” who worked in the mine at Madison, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Muray had just come from the unionized coal fields of Great Britain. Some time after that the Westmoreland miners | came out on strike. Madison | mine also came out. did no’, He kept on wor Lewis’ Pard The miners decided to picket his| home. Many miners came. Sone of | them carried big bass drums. They | made music around the home of Phil | Murray and forced him to come out on strike, This same Murray is now| the vice-president of tht United Mine | Workers of America. Surely a good “pardner” for John L. Lewis. When the 12 arrested pickets had @ hearing, they were charted with “holding a varade without ge‘ting e permit.” The strikers answered that they were not parading, but that they were mass nicketing to tell the A. F. of L. leaders that a s‘rike was going on in the hotel, Eleven were released and one was fined $5. It’s a viriation of the law to “embarrass” such labor , lenders in Melon’s to i In the hotel strike, the most mili- tant vickets are women. Recently | ‘dues paying union. burgh for two da: In an interview with the Dai r under | Worker, E. P. Cush, chairman of the| the codes is thus a life and death} union, and veteran union organizer) in the steel industry, detailed the issues and tasks that face the con- ference, “The conference will review the last eight months of the stormy , existence of this union, the’ period | that saw our union grow froma small organization into a fighting power.” Comrade Cush. told of the relent- less company union drive by the steel trusts, and the problems of fighting against it. “Ominous rumb- lings of a new upsurge against the intolerable wages, part-time work, company union shackles and worsen- ing of conditions are clearly evident hroughout the steel and metal in- ” he ence, as follows Organization Problems “The Conference will pay its mai attention to the organizational pro! - lems. The recent past has revealed @ grave weakness in this sphere of the movement. union experienced great difficulties in developing the organization of strikers forces at the rapid tempo which strikes require and demand in order to be victorious. Equally weak has been the organizational consoii- dation of the union following strikes. The slowness in establishing fur tioning department committees a groups has contributed much to our inability to retain the masses strike recruits last Summer. Our best locals are those that rooted the union firmly in thi nil departments and le: new forces in the d gles to solve the grievances in the departments. This is the fundame’- tal problem of making our tinfon {! ‘everyday union of the workers ar not merely a ‘strike’ union or a Similarly, the development of local union executives and committees is of decisive. im- portance to the consolidation of the union and the development of ‘« afterwards Madame Perkins dressed the convention. | Murray's position clear... The working-class women, should. stay. at home. But it’s all right for the boss2s’ Ss women to be active in fighting weakness in controlling decisions; ;the Mayor of Pittsburgh wanted the against the working class. some drastic needed changes in our women to cuit picketing. He said it; This is not the policy of the coa> Party language buro structure as well | Was “degading to women" to seethem miners. It is also not the policy of as the united front problem, from}; Walking around the hotel carrying coal miners to go in‘o scab hotels and other than the angle treated in this Signs. Murray also wants the women, restaurants, and to break through first article. It is my impression that the majority of the Discussion Articles so far are too much general reviews of the work of each District rather than the raising and discus- sion of important problems to be solved by our Eighth National Con- vention, to stay at home. “Woman's Place Is Home”—Murray | Murray was one of the officers at the UM.W.A. convention that put over a resolution against organizing women’s auxiliaries. “The women’s Place is in the home,” was the way they put the question. A day or so| picket lines to get into such places The membership of -the U:M.W.s through the local unions, will swer Murray and the like. Arrang ments are being made to have resolu- | tions against this passed in the lo- cals. They will give the rank andj file view of the question, During strikes the| the National’ Cornferetide "MIF lay the 4 | basis for uniter action. inthe mills with the workers who hold’ member- ship in the A.A, . | “The Conference will give serious | consideration to the growing opposi- tion sentiments inside of the A.A. with the object of forming an or- ganized rank and file moveniént thet will conduct a struggle against re- formist leadership and conduct 2 {campaign for genuine _ struggle | against company unions, against | wage-cuts, against bad shop condi- |tions on the basis of united froni | with all workers and all unions in | side of the. shops. and mills””_ | os | NATIONAL co VENTION | The Conference ¥.< take measures | to improve and strengthen the ma- tional leadership of the union in the fight of the great tasks. confrontin | the union, seek It will further.disctiss and set j date for the National Convention of’ the uw The official organ of the union, “The Steel and Metal Worker" | will be placed on the agenda. in order | to stijl further improve its. contents ens greatly enlarge its circulation. |Finds Workers in Small Wisconsin Town Eager to Read Daily Worker sure enjoy soliciting subseriptions the Daily Worker,” writes Andre> 2, Of Beloit, Wis., who secured four vy subs and two'renewils in a fer days, ‘and’ is oui | i after more, ‘ - “Tmeet different people: while can- vassing. for the Dally.Worker Some of them are Socialists“or A. F members Andrew Olen ‘ Party. T it Daily Worker bhey Nike the workers are’ anxious to” Daily Worker; pemerere). ork? “With the help of other comrades 128 copies of the tenth “ahiiitersary fee of the Daily We re sold | here, Seineeperrre | “I will getzmore subsesoon, ad 1 | will do all I gan to, help putthe ee lation drive over the top.” <= Good work, Contrade Olen! vs, hear what, other comitadés ate doing jin other cities to. spread the oe :