The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 5, 1934, Page 6

————_—__—_—— DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1934 Bauer Aided § ~ Proletarian Distorted Marxism To By D. Z. MANUILSKY mm Article XII Prepating the Rout of the Proletariat ifr the Linz Austria Secial-démocracy Swer with violence if th TEsOTtet to violence fi s68iaGemocracy in ! Deatedly had good to violence. Such, fo: the case on Aug. 1 Girste-fascist attack on MSteLorentz. Such w: Mm Sept: 13, 1931, durin Wer Putsch. In’ all these cas @ Seistidemocracy preferred to Plo¥emethods of “persuasion” in imgewith“the class enemy of the kteriat’’ The whole idea of t Ostensibly “Fabian” tactic the proletariat to defeat. ie Tuling classes are proc Pen civil war, but not on of the momen mtee Victory. They do not t0 shoot and provoke the oppress Masses until they have s Gisorganized and disarmed the lat From month to month the rul Ss persistently get re: mee on a large scale by a whole ~of acts of “violence” a Scale. And woe to the class Passively accepis today’s small Gf. violence in the hope of re Sisting the “great violence” of to. al es The tactic of the “lesser wil” Teckons on just such a disarm- ing, of the proletariat. It conforms fully with the process of fascization Which has gone on in Austria dur-| ipg recent years, and here, too, lies the ‘real meaning of the treacherous of Austrian social-democracy. ” and “defense”? Where can draw a clear line of demarcation them in the class struggle inwar? The class which system- tically retreats without holding up y sehemy, without ever launching 7780 attack, such a class, like an army “2 War, will inevitably be defeated. Srey ITO BAUER declares the prol farian dictatorship to be a specific form: proper to the Russian revol Support of this theory, he quotes a historical analogy Rob Tid of the relics of feudalism by the Jacobin method, i. e., by a revolu- “bourgeoisie of other countries were Gbliged to follow, for. they carried through their bourgeois revolutions employing Jacobin methods. ssame applies to the proletarian ip in the. Soviet Union. $86 is difficult to read such a state- aut a sense of shame, be- Otto Bauer here comes for- @iter the event, as a defender method by which the tasks bourgeois revolution are solved the bourgeois and os aaelalting al classes. siet us remember what was the .of the Jacobin revolutionary tic dictatorship. It consisted in the fact that the petty , ie and the plebeian elements ptown and country seized the hege- @t the decisive moment of the and succeeded “by the ‘blows of their terrible hammer in ting all the feudal ruins from Whesface of France as if by magic.” Jacobin dictatorship sotved Revolutionary Overthrow of Capitalism tion and the Russian proletariat, In| | France, he says, | iOHEFY democratic dictatorship. But| this method was not one which the| bysreactionary means, by an agree-| ‘ascism: Hougnt) Dictatorship | Justify Opposition Te bo pis revolution by ast e counter-revo- ie, the react: the royal tasks of th the stern w the aristocr lutionary bo? clergy, the courtiers le, and with conquer counter-revo- and the coalition European reaction ancing upon reyolu- lation to the stru; their aid to lution at home f armies of which were a tionary Frane ly, ete. It executed the mon- arc’ plotters and confiscated | their property. And t!~ unflinch- | ing justice ed out to the old | reactionary cla enabled it to | rouse the lower ia of the popu- | | with the of 1848 Tt not} y at] ma- | | | ing democratic, count y solution of the | tasks of the German bourgeois revo- | ion in 1848. | Social-Democracy Supports Reaction | It is no accident that Otto Bauer attacks democracy in this way. The} | fascization of social-democracy also| | finds its expr n in the fact that) jin the epoch of monopoly capitalism, which has der the bourgeoisie bi ring that] democratic p: teristic of ng the his-| cial-dem- ti-democratic revolution to their logical | but left the Prussian in full possession of their| economic foundations. It is just for this reason that the Second Interna- tional is opposed to the plebeian democratic method of solving the| tasks of the bourgeois democratic} revolution in the colonies; it is for) this reason that it supports Chiang} Kai-shek against the Soviet Red| Army in China; it is for this reason | that its leaders talk of the “danger” of upheavals in the colonies. (To Be Continued) JOIN THE Communist Party 35 KE. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- sion on the Communist Party. Name .... Street City Ursin HELE) LOWER THE PRICE OF MILK | We fave reported from time to the progress of the struggle (in City) to bring down living , which was initiated late fall by the United Councils of Class Women. Neighbor- a struggles conducted by the Ac- Committees appointed by the} Seen Against the High Cost of fi “have resulted in the lowering of bread and roll prices in Browns- ‘and the Bronx; the winning of sreshevsky Bakery strike, gother signal victories. title goes on, now, to the ter- milk and dairy products. nm Heights, Brownsville, and York sections of the U. C. have taken the initiative g petitions among the of these neighborhoods, @ lowering of prices of y products, and prot ‘Support a strike or boycott ’s and Sheffield’s, the panies and laid the case before them, making the following demands: (Grade B milk to be lowered from 12 cents to 9 cents a quart; butter, from 33 and 35 pound to 2% cents; sour 10 cents to 6 cents per _and sweet cream from 15 -ua BY IN LUKE est courtesy by the dairies, and given the usual arguments about the cost of distributing the milk, and so on. No definite answer was given, but the committees were asked to re- turn Monday, March 5 (today) for a decision. | The outcome—need we state it?—is anxiously awaited by all the house- wives, Comrade women in other cities, the work of these women has set a splen- did example and given good concrete directives, of use to housewives everywhere. Their method can be | adapted to practically any locality, in.cities and small towns. In the lat- ter, where residents of a given neigh- borhood are fairly well-known to each other, it should not be so diffi- cult to unite the housewives, if a group of four take the initiative, into @ council, and demand lower prices. In the larger cities, door-to-door canvassing is necessary to begin with; this first step is probably the hardest, for once you have estab- lished contacts, it is easier to go on. The petition idea is a good one. Housewives everywhere! Form Councils and take steps to lower grocery costs. Make it a concerted, national drive, The results, obvi- ously, will be more certain than when sporadic struggles are con- ducted in widely-separated spots. Write to us, sending news of all ac- tivities in this field. Publicity will help to interest the housewives. should any of our readers wish to in touch with +he national of- fice of the U. OC. M. C. W., the ad- dress is 80 E 11th St.. Room 535. Arrange meetings, those who have not yet done so, to celebrate Inter- national Women’s Day, March 8, and make it the beginning of a great drive to organize a powerful women’s ae ont. The hirtory of this day is given in the “Working Woman” Magazine, issue of Jan. 30, 1934. (Five cents, published at 50 E. 13th St., N.Y.C.) New York meetings have been ar- ranged: Watch “Daily” for an- nouncements. Working Women! Fight for equal pay for equal work for men and women of all races. Join the indus- Co Drunken Captain | Terrorizes Vets In Illinois Camp By a Werld War Veteran Wis.—Here just | Roose- | another velt o go to the| the bar-| il- | a miles At this camp, got were just another} something to blind the | ad to cut tele- seven acres of oon cut iso were put on the poles were The C.W.A. workers on this job and all the was roll the poles back and the ground for eight weeks. In an in- vestigation to find out who gave the orders to cut poles, they found there} were disconter oon a camp that for revolution. Captain Je Chicago started to bring booze in the camp, and one day a disabled and | sick vet could not get out of Jaim- son’s way fast enough, and the cap- tain shoved him in the mess room door. The mess sargeant, being a good lackey to his captain, hauled off and hit the worker on the point of the him cold. While this broke sev- ribs. from the War Departmen eral of this veteran They called a farm w the vet to Carbondale hospital tell- ing the farmer that this veteran worker was drunk. There were three other vets got beat up by the mess sargeant, and the legalized thug from the War De- partment had the mail censored so the real facts could not come out. It is time the young workers in America know what this country is doing for us vets that put our time in France for Wall St. The only thing we get now is on the point of the jaw from Roosevelt’s murderous thugs in these C.C,C. Camps, Veteran Co, 1669, Ponoma, Ill, The camp leader was demoted on account of protesting against the brutality of Captain Jaimson, and was discharged and sent back to Mil- waukee. ady Sale, However, and Articles Paper Finds Re ps Try to Keep “Daily Worker” From Getting to Workers at Phillips Baker Help to Start Organization Work By a Worker Correspondent | PROVIDENCE, R. I—The “Daily Worker” is proving to us workers in Providence what a great organizer it is. A few articles containing informa- tion from one worker in the Phillips Baker Rubber Co. plant were pub- lished in the “Daily Worker,” and stirred great interest among the 1,400 workers in this factory. We now have ts in three other depart- and a firm foundation on which to build a militant organiza- | tion. The articles in the Daily, Worker made the bosses desperate. They have already showed the workers they want S!to keep them from reading it. The workers on the other hand have re- acted that if this paper is no damn good for the owners it must be real ood for the workers, and, boy, de hey want it. About a week ago the workers in this factory had an old copy of the “Daily” distributed to them inserted with a leaflet telling them to be on the watch and a new copy with an- other article, also written by “Jepru,” would be sold to them in the near Feb. 23, two workers badges were in front selling Daily Workers with the article signed “Jepru.” There were a number of workers roaming around the front of the fac- tory. Others were waiting in the office and other parts of the mill. These workers were kept waiting about three hours for their miserable pays after they were through with their work. On seeing what the newsboys were selling they urged them to be sure and save them each a copy of the Daily Worker. Some of them who had only a few cents with them eagerly bought the Daily Worker and im- mediately gathered in groups with other workers to read the article. One of these workers said, “We can tell you @ hell of a lot more of the rotten conditions in this joint.” They were very indignant to be kept waiting for their pay for such a long time. ‘Two Fat Cops After receiving their pays, the workers began filing out of the mill office. They came straight to the newsboys to buy @ “Daily.” After selling a few Daily Workers, the newsboys were confronted by two fat cops, one in uniform, the other in civilian clothes. The one in uniform said, “What have you got here?” One of the boys instantly answered, “We have the How the Order Stands In accordance we have prepared a financial state- ment of the International Workers Order. The balance sheet of the Order as of January 1, 1934, is a monument to the growth and strength of our organization. On January 1, 1933, our report showed a membership of 20,746. After twelve months, on r January 1, 1934, we can report a net total mem- bership of 33,903 members. This total does not yet include the 6,135 mem- bers added to our ranks during the months of January and February of this year; not does it include the 5,200 children which we have organized in our ranks during the last year. Be- with requirements, ' Annual Balance Sheet of ) Serve of the nearly 6,000 members of the Russian Mutual Aid Society which, though in the process of merging, is not yet formally merged with the Order. ‘The financial balance sheet of the Order as of January 1, 1934, shows total assets of $545,203.03. Of this amount, $27,833.87 are “non-admitted assets,’ which reduce the total re- sources of the Order to $517,369.16. “Non-admitted assets” are values like office furniture, addressographs, typewriters, files, adding machines, safes, etc.; the organization spent money to buy this equipment which Daily Worker, and we have badges, which permit us to sell any papers. Why, what law are we breaking now?” The cop answered, “You will have to tell it to the lieutenant.” With that the cops forced the boys into their car and took them to the Police station. Both boys were kept in the police station for two hours, although no charge was placed against them. They were released at 4:30 after the day and night shifts at the mill had changed places. Their purpose was to keep the workers of the Phillips Baker Rubber Co. from getting the Daily Worker. On releasing the newsboys, the po- lice lieutenant told them they were allowed to sell papers anywhere, but the bosses of the Phillips Bakers Rubber Co. have a right to object to’ having these papers sojd in front of their factory. If we were selling the News-Tri- bune, owned by Gerry or the Evening Bulletin owned by Senator Metcalf, it would be all right. But we were selling the Daily Worker, the only workers’ paper in the country, and the bosses are afraid of it. The “Daily” tries to organize the workers to win better conditions and higher wages. The cops. who’are the bosses’ stool pigeons, try to stop the “Daily” from reaching the workers. Workérs, spread the “Daily” around the shop. Make it your paper to win better conditions. On the following Moniay over 90 copies of Friday's “Daily” had to be gotten to the workers. At 2:30, the same two newsboys were in front of the factory and all of the Daily Workers were distributed to the work- ers of the Phillips Baker Rubber Co. The workers as they got their copy of the “Daily” instantly looked full of enthusiasm in getting their “Daily.” All the workers in the factory seemed to know of the arrest. One worker asked, “Is that the ‘Daily, wow, give me one.” Another asked, “Is that the paper two boys were ar- rested for selling? Make sure you give me one then.” pra About 10 Die of | Cold in Two Days In Columbia, 8. C. By a Worker Correspondent COLUMBIA, S. C.—Just a few lines to inform you how bad conditions are here. I am working at Camp Jack- son, P.J.T. No. 98, and there are about 500 men. We received a 10 per cent wage-cut, and are looking to be cut off soon. They have cut off about 100 here since Feb. Ist up to now, and P.J.T. about 17 or 7i. Friday, Feb. 16, they cut off about 60, and these peo- ple don’t know what they are going to do. We are calling on all workers to join the Unemployed Councils and protest for their right to live and for self-determination in the Black Belt of the South. The commissary plan is bad. It’s rotten. It gives some peo- Ple 4% Ibs. of smoked meat; 6 Ibs. of bacon; 1 to 7 lbs. of butter and no meal, flour or lard, while some get meal, flour and lard and don’t get any meat. They are freezing to death—no wood or coal. Over Saturday and! Sunday about 10 people died from the cold. Frozen to death Saturday in the lavatory. I have a shop com- mittee of three out at Camp Jack- son and 50 well-wishers and support- ers. About 50 out of 500 walked out on strike in P.J.T. 99 but they did not put the 10 per cent cut back, and they are joining the International Labor Defense to struggle for fur- ther rights. So I am hoping you will put this in the workers’ press. ‘The capitalist class plots our des- truction through imperialist war. readers for our Daily Worker, our powerful weapon in the struggle for a Soviet America. Send to the Daily Worker, 0 E. 13th St., New York City, names of those you know who are not read. Patronize Daily Worker Advertisers. vs Progressive Miner” Answers M By Ranting at “Daily” ABLE to answer ‘a single word of the charges made by a worker correspondent from Greenwood, Ark., about Pearcy and Keck’s dance around the N.R.A., the Progressive Miner, official organ of the Progres- sive Miners of America in Illinois, resorts to a hysterical tirade against the Daily Worker. The Progressive Miner of Feb. 23 devotes a two-column, front page edi- torial to our Arkansas correspondent. “Facts about the N.R.A. Make P.M.A. Heads Pose as ‘Radicals’,” was the headline on the story written in the Daily Worker by an Arkansas miner. The Daily Worker correspondent then gives the facts. They must have stung Pearcy and Keck to the quick, for the answer ig- nores them and proceeds to a tor- rent of abuse and lies, and self-con- tradiction that will convince no. unquestionably represents value. This value is an asset to be carried in the books. But this value cannot be ad- mitted as financial resource, because it cannot be drawn upon to meet ides these figures, we have the re- liabilities, FINANCIAL BALANCE SHEET, JANUARY 1, 1984 s Ledger Assets Cash in bank or on hand_ $ 82,970.37 Bonds, government and munici par value $98.400.00) 88,243.89 Industrial Stock Building Loan Associations 15,350.00 Notes Receivab! $$$ nn 3,909.46 Real Estate Pere ee Be. First Mortgages on Real Estate ___________ 244,696.00 Total Ledger Assets — $479,906.31 nterest rued and Due on Bonds, M es 10,409.54 Total Ledger Assets and Accrued... 490,315.85 Add Non-Ledger Assets 54,887.18 Gross Assets — $545,203.03 Deducted Non-admitted Assets — ~ 27,833.87 TOTAL ADMITTED ASSETS = nisi $517,300.16 Comprising the following funds: Mortuary Fund .—________$419,963.57 Sick Benefit Fund 33,857.91 Accident Fund 5,483.28 ‘Tuberculosis Fund — 2,140.89 Children’s¢ Fund 16,196.29 Liability Fund 10,787.45, Expense Fund 8,886.51 TOTAL ~~ $490,315.85 Add Expense Fund (Non-Ledger-Admitted Assets) 27,053.31 ‘TOTAL $517,369.16 During the year 1933, the I.W.O. paid out a total of $54,733.45 in the form of death benefits. During the same period, the Order paid to its members in the form of sick benefits and tuberculosis benefits, a total of $99,078.86, In the form of accident disability benefits, the Order paid to its members during 1933, a total of $2,972.61. Campaign to Build the English Section On March Ist the campaign started for the building and strengthening of the English section. This campaign concerns not only the English the purpose of building English branches, . Social Insurance ‘We wish to emphasize once more the importance of general social in- surance agitation for the of our English Section. If all branches and all leading committees of our Order make efforts to cover every possible workers’ organizations, and especially fraternal organizations, with the propaganda for social in- surance, we will acquaint hundreds of thousands of workers with our Order and thereby increase its re- branches. It is the problem of the whole Order. In order to carry through this cam- paign effectively, all City Central Committees must select definite sec- tions of their cities where to build English branches, or where to strengthen existing English branches. Then they must mobilize the mem- bers of all branches, and work the selected territory by systematic dis- tribution of our propaganda material, by house-to-house solicitation, ete. All of the branches, irrespective of their language, must discuss the prob- Jem of approaching the workers in the shops about the I.W.O., bring trial unions that fight for these de- mands! , & these workers to the propaganda meetings that will be arranged for cruiting possibilities. In connection with this campaign, we ask all branches and City Central Committees to initiate and follow up an energetic campaign to have our Social Insurance Bill (H.R. Bill 7598) as introduted in Congress, discussed in all workers’ organizations, but especially in our branches. The pur- Pose of the discussions in all in- stances should be to win the workers for the support of this Bill and to have these workers express this sup- port by & telegram to the Congress- man of their tertitory, and to William P. Connery, Jr., Chairman of the Committee on Labor of the House of Representatives in Washington, D. C., demanding that, this Bill be reported out to unpre and be passed. ' miner, “Again we are confronted with the insidjous propaganda and treachery of the agents of MONEY POWER, better known as the Communist Party, U.S.A.,” writes the Progressive Miner. Every worker knows that the capi- talists throughout the world direct their main attack against the Com- munists, that the war-mad capitalist powers leave no stone unturned in their effort to destroy the Soviet Union, where the Communist Party led the workers and peasants to @ victorious overthrow of the money power. Furthermore, Pearcy and Keck, in common with John L. Lewis, Matthew Woll, William Green and other A. F. of L, leaders never lose an occasion to revile and slander the Communists because. they expose the corruption of these misleaders and their support capitalism and OTH William Green and Matthew Woll have urged Roosevelt to out- munists in Illinois, saying that they are agents of the National Miners Union, that they try to get Pro- gressive miners to return to work and scab with the U.M.W.A. This is an obvious lic Lecause the policy of the Communist Party in Illi- nois is to work for one rank and file union. “Every Communist is deeply in sympathy with the struzgle of the vank and file miners of Illinois, but the Communists expose the reac- tion of Pearcy and Keck, just the same as they do John L. Lewis and his many lieutenants,” To this Pearcy and Keck had no answer except their usual vitupera- tion and dirt. They know that John L. Lewis regards the Communists as his worst enemies because they ex- pose his stcike-breaking, just as they do Pearcy and Keck’s, and for this reason Lewis has incorporated into the constitution of the U.M.W.A. a clause prohibiting Communists from belonging to the U.M.W.A. This has not prevented rank and file militant workers from organizing the U. M. W. A. members for a fight against iner’s Facts View's betrayals and for unity of all workers in a struggle for their de- mands and real union recognition. After a column of dirt-slinging Without one word of fact or proof, the Progressive Miner declares: “This Greenwood, Ark., correspondent says that the Progressive Miner continues to attack the Communists. That is a deliberate lie.” The Progressive Miner's editorial ends with a hysterical appeal to the members of the Progressive Miners not to “allow themselves to be duped or misled by so-called Communists,” which in itself reveals the great un- easiness of the Pearcy and Keck ma- chine. ‘ETHER with Lewis, Matthew Woll, and William Green, these misleaders of the Progressive Miners of America are intensifying their at- tack on Communists and militant rank and file members because they are calling for a united front of all miners in a common struggle against the coal operators and their agents like Lewis, Maloney, Capellini, Pearcy and Keck. Their editorial is a tribute to the effectiveness of our miner corre- spondent in Arkansas, where the miners have just held an autonomy convention and 50 locals participated in electing their own officials against the orders of John L. Lewis. The Progressive Miner is resorting to the trickery of company stool- Pigeons and all agents of the bosses who want to split the ranks of the workers in order to preserve the pie- cards of the Pearcys and Kecks. ‘These gentiemen have been maneu- vering with Roosevelt and Governor Horner to keep the miners from struggling; have urged them to have hope and faith in the N.R.A, in- stead of in their own might. And when the truth comes tumbling around their ears, and it becomes and open a blast that for is worthy of Lewis himself. How to Sell the “Daily” Despite Bosses’ Spies We suggest the following methods to this worker for reaching the Weckye le OK bose: ao tesco can’t see what is being handed to the in ery step filthiness i be F se Fee i copies. 7 EE comrades in oo Beak : uf PARTY LIFE Dist. 8 Expels Henry Labeau of Home Owners Federation Based His Work on Legalistic Methods Rether Than Mass Action of Workers Section 8, Chicago, has for a long time been contending with a strong Tight wing tendency existing among @ certain section of the Party mem- bers, which expressed itself very crudely in the “small home owners” organization, which is led by Party members, who are known as outstand- ing comrades in the section. This was reflected in an attempt, which Was very nearly successful, to con- vert the Small Home Owners Federa- tion into a purely legal organization, which made its appeal to the small section of small home owners who belong to the petty bourgeoisie, over- looking the fact that the majority of small home owners are unemployed workers, In the struggle against this right wing tendency, the District Buro, found it necessary to expel one of the leaders of this organization from the Communist Party. The statement of the Section Committee is printed here, because the experience of this Chicago section in connection with the Small Home Owners Federation has lessons for the entire Party. ieee ee STATEMENT OF SECTION COM- MITTEE Section 8, District 8, Chicago, Til. HENRY LABEAU joined the Com- munist Party, July 1932, Unit 804; “tv a membe~ of the IW.W.. and other movements, real estate salesman by profession. In the early part of 1933, being a member of the Unemployed Coun- cils, he undertook to organize the Small Home owners in Chicago. The economic crisis has hit hard the small home owners. Foreclosures and evic- tions of these were numerous and they are seeking an organization that will be able to protect them from lor"ne ‘heir homes and their in- vestments. ‘The majority of these small own- ers are workers who were unem- ployed. Many of them are on re- lief. They were looking forward to an organization that would militantly defend the‘~ interests. Their ex- perience in the Unemployed Council has taught them that an organiza- tion with a militant class struggle program and character can serve their purpose. However, in the formation of the Miinois Small Home and Land Own- ers Federation, the program present- ed by our comrades under the lead- ership of LaBeau was of the worst annen’mist levalistic nature. In- stead of giving this ent a class strvectes cherecter linking up its struggles with those of the rest of the workers, the tendency of LaBeau was to completely separate this move- ment from the class struggle, leav- ing the forma*ion of the character of this movement to lawyers with their pure legal aspect of court fights and ings. That such s program is detrimental to the interests of the small home owners is obvious. Such a program will defeat the very purpose for which they have organized. Time and agein we called it to the attention of Le Beau and the other comrades in this movement. The District Secre- tariat has tried to correct the line and policy pursued by LaBeau, bet to no avail. In a very dishonest manner he tried at first to create the impres- sion that the District leadership agrees to his line as against the line of the Section Committee. The Party does not control through dictatorial force any mnon-Party organization. But it is the foremost duty of the Party and its members to propose and try to win the workers to a correct policy, and under no cir~ cumstances, propose incorrect poli~ cies to the workers. This is what LaBeau could not un- ae *is lone vears’ association with different so-called radical move- ments, a conglomeration of I.W.W.isna and reformism, he could not over- come. On many occasions his ideas had to be corrected. And when finally pressed by the Party to work for a correct program within the Fome Owners movement and he “re- signed” from the Party stating that he still believes in Marx and Lenin’ but does not agree with the policy of Section 8 and District 8 in re- gards to mass organizations. So he sets himself up as the only rerrect interoreter of the line of Marx and Lenin, as against the Party. Under the cloak of adhering to the'line of Marx and Lenin he is trying to hide his rank opportun- ism in the work among the home owners. The Section Committee hereby points out to the membership that a member who disagrees with the line of the Party has the full right to present his views. But when one is openly fighting the Party and its line, this is incompatible with principles of Communist organization, and there- fore. it was decided to expel Henry LaBeau from the Communist Party. We call upon the entire membership of the Section to fight against the opportunist line and policy of La- Beau. We must intensify our work in and support the Home Owners Federation, bring forward and fight for a militant class struggle policy in the Federation and win the work- ers for.a program which will be a help and not a detriment to the in- terests of the Home Owners. Section Committee, Section 8, The District Committee fully en- dorses the decision of Section 8, and asks the C.C.C. to publish this state- ment in the Daily Worker. tana Through an error, the article in the Party Life Column of Feb. 21st entitled “Some Experiences of Section 10, District 2, In the Demonstration In Support of the Austrian Revolution,” had the sig- nature “G. W.” This article was written by Louise Morrison, 10 P. C. Wage Raise Promise Broken in Akron Plants AKRON, Ohio—Some weeks ago the local newspapers put on a big splurge that the rubber plants would boost wages 10 per cent. Not only in many departments in Goodyear, Firestone and other plants did the workers find that this was more “baloney,” but Goodrich told workers there would be no raise, as they made no profit last year. forgot that their profits were $2,272,514 for 1933, while Goodyear pulled down a net of $6,- 021,535 in the last 12 months. In Goodrich, Department 17810 of the Hard Rubber Division, they were working 40 men on all four shifts, but last week 31 from each shift got a “furlough” of 60'to 90 days, which left but nine men on each shift, and the other 124 workers are “put on ice.” In Department 7660, Hose Division Goodrich, a number of the work- ers have been told to report, ring in E i Hd 2igesa7 he Bi i a i work 3 more heats. That is, they do 23 per cent more work for 5 per cent more pay, and so Goodrich takes an- other fat rake-off. f The Goodyear Assembly (company union) adopted a resolution last week proposing a 60 cents-an-hour mini- mum wage in the rubber industry code. Mr. C. C. Slusser lets the cat out of the bag with regard to approving this 60 cents an hour proposal for the code. He says that the average wage in Goodyear was 87 cents an hour and that competitors should be required to pay a higher minimum than that stipulated by the code, Thus, it would appear that the Good- year Assembly is serving well to strike another blow at the small companies who do not have the up-to-date equipment of the big plants like Goodyear. It is quite safe for Slusser to approve a boost in the code wages, as his company can dodge this mini- mum as well as any other. India Tire Grants Check-Off The India Tire Co., one of Akron’s way for this By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. used for drinking purposes were | themselves. contaminated by back siphoning of water from the sewage pipes, A similar incident occurred in a certain to| industrial plant in which river water was allowed to fill the boilers. Owing ~ to existing cross-connections between’ the city water supply and the infected tiver water, a large number of work- ers in the factory and the offices con- tracted amebic dysentery and typhoid fever. These two instances which occurred in your city are sufficient 4 themselves to show how vitally im- portant it is for the health of the workers to have modern sanitary, plumbing and how useful plumbers. are in a civilized community. Our Sarcasm was directed to those plumb- — } \ \ ral ers, who, instead of working at their trade, try to become doctors ‘ ferring the title of shiropraten! Pes A : h i\ y ed ] 3