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Chica Fitzpatrick Unable to Prevent Unanimous Vote for Conference o Federati DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1984 on of Labor Endorses United Front Unemployment Meet Browder to Discuss Problems of Nuclei With 15 Organizers Earl Browder, General Secre- tary of the Communist Party, will discuss the problems confronting the shop nuclei and Party units with fifteen best unit organizers. Eight of them are invited from New York, four from New Jersey, three from Philadelphia. The Districts will have to select these comrades and get in touch with the National Committee in regard to preparations for the meeting. Unemployment Council Launched Move for Internat’| Women’s Day Issue Tomorrow United Fight By DAN DAVIS GHICAGO, March 6.—The Ohicago Federation of Labor | voted unanimously at its reg-| tlar meeting yesterday to en-| dorse and send representa-| (ives to s United Front Conference | gm Unemployment called for this @aturday by a joint action commit- | tee of eleven. This committee was | elected at a conference of the Un- g@mployment Council, Civil and Pub- | Works Labor Union and eight | is of the Chicago Workers Com- | mittee on Unemployment, last| Saturday with sixty delegates, in- eluding those of other organizations | sent. aaa Fitzpatrick Powerless. The special International Wo- |/ men’s Day issue of the Daily || Worker w be out tomorrow and not today as originally an- nounced. Look for the features —a special statement from the Central Committee, Communist Party, Lenin’s speech at the Second International Congress of Women, Kuusinen’s speech at the 13th Plenum of the E. c. c. I. Mass Meeting Today in the Fur District in Defense of M. Hagopa) NEW YORK —A mass meeting} today at 12 noon, at 36th St. and Eighth Ave. has been called by the) than two hundred delegates | Joint Committee for the Defense of "the Chicago Federation of Labor | Michael Hagopa. | Pass cast the unanimous vote to| Hagopa was arrested on July 5, foin the conference. John Fitz-| 1933, because he participated in a patrick, President of the Federation, | demonstration with the furriers of | ‘who was in the chair at the time, | the Needle Trades Industrial Union, | was powerless to stop the vote after|in protest against the strike-break- the committee of eleven, refused | ing tactics of the Socialist Party and the floor, secured the reading of | the Young Peoples Socialist League. re eovcpmee wrap the United Workers are urged to watch the mt Conference . Daily Worker for the announcement | Choosing of delegates to the con. lof the date of trial, and pack the| Bids ‘of the Federation official | OWE room. | am Patterson of the ILD.| m" |i oe at = open forum at the) |N.T.W.I.U. hall, 131 W. 28th St. held ot, 1508 Wiaared © pectin. |Mateh 14, at 2:30 pam, on the Ha conference, will work to unite |S0P& and the Scottsboro cases. Saturday's conference, which wil It is essential that units, espe- cially shop nucieio shall send in all their suggestions to Comrade Browder personally with regards to methods of improving the po- litical life of the shop nuclei and the units, how better to recruit into the Party, how to involve new Party members in active Party life, how to struggle against wage cuts, and for improved con- ditions in the shops, how co build trade unions and to struggle against fascism and war. It is advisable that the com- rades will discuss all these prob- lems in their units, form their opinions, and send Comrade Browder all their suggestions so that before the Party convention the broadest participation will be organized in the solution of the very important question con- fronting our Party today. ORGANIZATION DEPT., | Central Committee, C.P.U.8.A. N.Y. Workers to Stop Scab Cargo FromCubaToday Pittsburgh Con ference Maps fo mpaign to Boost the ‘Daily’ (Continued from Page 1) | strike here against the strike- | breaking of the army and the ship-| ping of this scab cargo, of the Par-| GUTTERS OF NEW YORK Free platform for Matthew Wot and—tfor the Rank and File of the S. P.: | “No party member is to participate in any debate, symposium, | or joint meeting in which Communists take part.” By DEL AF. L. Heads Join’ N.R. A. to Smash! Auto Strike Wave (Continued from Page 1) |ing nation-wide spring strike. The announcement came just af- | chinery now to mow down the com- ter the Labor Board boasted in a formal announcement that it broke the general strike of Public Utilities workers in Milwaukee, Wis. About SAM ROSS Chicago Bats Again , & a i D time to wade into. the organizational work of the Chicago Official Order — ALGERNON LEE, Chairman, JULIUS GERBER, Secretary, S$. P. the same time, the N. R. A. Com- |pliance Board formally announced | it will hold an election in the Budd Plant at Philadelphia—an election }in which hundreds of blacklisted strikers cannot vote, and with no Brown, General Motors executives, and William Green and other Labor sent to break the strike, reports the situation “very serious.” Wagner explained that the companies held @ company union election last Au- |gust and now categorically refuse union recognition and all other de- mands. “E am very eager to stop the strike before it begins,” Wagner re- vealed the cold brutality under- neath his liberal demagogy, “be- cause after a strike starts, each day that it goes on hatreds become more Ca PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 5, — jorces of the workets around the/ oa lowing issues: 1. Extension and improvement of the ©. W. A. 3. For jobs and cash relief. 3. Unemployment Insurance. 4. Against Negro discrimination. Support May Day. The conference which was held | last Saturday and from which the joint action committee of eleven were elected, was called on the ini- tiative of the Unemployed Council wf Cook County. This conference resolutions supporting one united May Day demonstration and Atlanta Lynchers Slowly Killing Angelo Herndon |LL.D. Urges Immediate |Protest Actions to Save | stration at ier 33, Hamilton Ave., Heroic Organizer tagas and Upmann companies. The Cuban National Confedera-/| tion of Labor calls on all New York | workers for solidarity action on the | arrival of this ship. o eany N. ¥. Workers Respond NEW YORK. — The Marine | Workers Industrial Union issued @ call yesterday to all workers of New York to join in solidarity action with the Cuban strikers by coming out in a mass demon- Brooklyn, at 5 p. m. today when the Grace Line ship Santa Bar- bara docks oe carrying tobacce NEW YORK. — Angelo Herndon, | ig tens by strikebreak- The demonstration which was originally called for 9 a, m. was postponed due to the fact that the ship has been delayed on ac- count of bad weather and will not arrive until late in the afternoon. A call was likewise issued to all longshoremen to refuse to unload the ship. The ship’s crew, led by the Marine Workers Industrial Union, had refused to handle the cargo in Havana. How To Get to Dock The Trade Union Unity Council of Greater New York called on | all its affiliated unions and all | workers in the A. F. of L. to sup- port the Cuban strikers by chm- ing in masses t ier 33, Brooklyn, to protest against the strike- voted to join the United neNpgiored | d by iom~ eebuct Parg fee Marah ‘ll at Peop- | militant young Negro organizer of je’s Auditorium here. Resolutions |the unemployed, is in danger of were also passed endorsing the| idee poisonous prison food in 3 oyment Insurance | Otlante, Ga. | one x 10 fei its populari- | This was revealed in letters re- ‘ation. \ceived by the national office of the Senate Rushes tensification of the campaign for Through Big Navy Bill Herndon’s freedom, on a nation-wide scale. Health and Sight Endangered Herndon, whose appeal from a| sentence of 18 to 20 years on the| chaingang for organizing whites and | Negroes in a sucessful fight for re- | lief, has been pending before the sai state supreme court for more than (Continued from Page 1) |five months, is being systematically | |tortured in prison with the pur. |pose of killing him, the news re-| peace role of the Soviet ion in his speech against the bill. “Tf we want to bring about world Gisarmament we can do it,” he said, | by following the example of the So- viet Union. “I'll hold up the exam- ple of a government (Soviet Union) | ‘we have condemned. Mr. Litvinoff offered to bring about total dis- armament. He was treated with contempt when he made that state- ment, though no one could ques: | tion his sincerity... . He was will- | tng to bring about total land dis- | armament.” Fight for Markets Johnson, of California, one of the | @taunchest “progressive” supporter: of Roosevelt, ghastily picked up imperialistic theme. The opponent: of the bill, he sang out in his most fervent pulpit tones, “do not un- derstand what may happen in the Orient and in Japan,” and quoting the Tommy Atkins of the outstand- ing British imperialistic poet, Kip- ling, he shouted, “I want a navy, a Teal navy,” that will act “on the Atlantic or Pacific on behalf of the commerce of this nation.” | Thus, the Roosevelt administra- tion has completed one of the most important parts of its plan to form ® United Front with Great Britain, to keep down the Japanese fleet as fear its present London treaty sta- fus as possible. Though rivals in fighting for markets throughout the world, the two English speaking im- perialist powers have, for the pres- | ent at least, virtually agreed to com- bine to prevent Japanese imperial- | $sm from ousting them in the Far | | | But for the workers in ali three | émperialist: countries, its starvation nd war preparations—as far as the capitalist ruling class is concerned. Brooklyn Pipe Workers Strike for Union Rights BROOKLYN.—Sixty workers from the Knickerbocker Pipe Co. went out on strike yesterday morning follow- 4ng refused demands for union con- (cod Sige! the right to end col ively through repre- wentatives of their own choosing, and @ 10 per cent increase in pay. At the conference between the @mployers and the shop committee @f workers, two representatives of the Independent Smoking Pipe Makers Union of America were de- @ied admittance by the bosses. The men immediately retaliated by} walking out of the shop. | Send us names of those ou who are not readers of the | Ville will meet at the Brownsville | ceived by the I. L. D. reveals. He sufferers from constant, vio- lent pains in the stomach, and in- cessant vomiting caused by the intolerable prison food. He is con- fined in the death-house, and for good measure is periodically placed in solitary confinement. The cell singled out for him is immediately below one with broken sewage, and water and excrement constantly drip on him. Through his sickness, he Is gradually losing the sight of both eyes. Protests from every part of the ‘ountry should be sent to the Georgia Governor the warden of Fulton Towers, and the state prison commission, all in Atlanta, demand- tate Supreme Court, Eugene Talmadge, ing: Immediate, unconditional, for Angelo Herndon. Immediate action on the appeal) from his conviction. That he be transferred to a hospital where he must receive the best me- dical treatment, proper food, and the | care he needs, The I. L, D. has also called for| contributions to be sent through the | prison relief department, Room 430, release | breaking activities of the Grace Steamship Co. Demand that not one ounce of Cuban scab tobacco be unloaded in New York Harbor! Workers from Manhattan, the Bronx and Harlem can get to the Grace Line pier, by taking the B. M. T. subway to Whitehall St., or the I. R. T. te Battery Park, and then the Hamilton Ave. Ferry at the foot of South Street to Brooklyn, . 90 Labor Leaders Jailed HAVANA, March 6—Ninety labor the United Hatters were able to|°% Joseph Brodsky, chief counsel for | leaders of Havana are in jail today and armed soldiers are patrolling | the streets in a desperate attempt | of President Mendieta to smash the strike of 40,000 workers in protest | against a scab shipment of tobacco |from plants which haye been on | strike for several months. | The strike is rapidly assuming the | proportions of a general strike. Un- cree-law passed by the Mendieta government with the advice of U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, these | strikes are all “illegal.” ‘Woud Smash Unions Tn an all-night session, the Cab- | der the recent strike-breaking de- | Thirty delegates from working class organizations and shops from Pitts- burgh and surrounding cities met in @ conference to work out plans for spreading the Daily Worker in this important industrial area, and to develop workers’ correspondence from mills, mines and shops. The delegates accepted the chal- lenge by the Boston district in the Daily Worker sub drive, and pledge to do their utmost to put Pittsburgh over the top in the drive before Boston reaches its quota. The quota for Boston is 200 new daily and 1,000 new Saturday subs, and that of Pittsburgh is 300 new daily and 600 new Saturday subscribers, Workers Welcome “Daily” Comrade Curson, one of the del- egates, who sells 50 copies of the Daily Worker every day, told how doors were slammed in his face when he first canvassed the hill sec- tion of Pittsburgh. When the work- ers, however, learned that he was trying to Sell the Daily Worker they invited him in. Now as he comes With the “Daily,” the children run to greet him, with the shout, “Here comes the Daily Worker.” A worker from tho Jones and Laughlin Steel Mill said: “My introduction to the Daily Worker was by picking it up on the street. I read it and found it was my paper.” A worker reporting from McKees A. F. of L. Leaders Ala. Supreme Court By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Eight months ago| the national and local officials of | make the majority of Local 8 mem- |bership believe the N.R.A. | would be good for the hatters, After | they have succeeded in accomplish- |ing this, it was already easy for |them to make the hatters give up | their strike for $8 a day, accept a smaller increase than they originally demanded: 35 cents instead of 50 | cents per dozen, and go back to work Now the hatters know different. | They know that the Hatters’ Code, | which was sanctioned by the Hat- | ters’ Institute and by the president of the United Hatters, Michael | Greene, is an anti-labor, slave driv- ‘ing and wage-cutting tool of the 80 East llth St., to insure that) inet discussed a plan to outlaw all | ai, manufacturers. to him in jail. Insull’s Heart Goes Bad When Told That He Must Leave Greece ATHENS, March 6.—Ordered to leave Greece within forty-eight hours, Samuel Insull, notorious Chi- cago utilities operator wanted for grand larceny and embezzlement, called a heart specialist to make an examination of his health today. The specialist did not immediately make his findings public. Shoe Strike Report To Be Given Today NEW YORK.—Important mem- bership meetings are being called this week by the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union of New York in every section of the city. The purpose of these meetings is to be- gin an organizational drive and in- volve every organized shop in this drive, Today, Wednesday, at 5:30 p.m., all workers employed in Manhattan will meet at Irving Plaza Hall, Ir- ving PL, corner 15th St. All workers employed at Browns- Worker but who would be Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackman 8t., in BA it. Address: | Brooklyn, also on Wednesday at veo E. 13th St, New ne 30 p.m. All workers employed at the Bor- |proper food be obtained and sent} unions and to put the whole coun-/| | try under military rule, with sus- |pension of all cénstitutional guar- antees. | A 24-hour general strike against ‘the military scabbing will continue indefinitely, and more workers are | joining it hourly. Among those now | out are dock workers, bus and truck drivers, railway and newspaper workers, nurses, pharmacists, shoe- makers, in addition to the tobacco and sugar workers, who have been on strike for some time. Soldiers Fire On Demonstrators Transportation and business in Oriente, Camaguey, and Santa Clara Provinces are practically paralyzed by the strikes of railroad, port and other workers. The arrest of thousands of strik- ers and sympathizers all over the island has only served to steel the militancy and determination of the workers, Soldiers and police fired on 2 workers’ demonstration on the Prado yesterday. All public meet- ings and demonstrations have been |forbidden. Four hundred students | demonstrating before the Depart- ment of Public Instruction building | were fired on by soldiers. ough Hall section will meet Thurs- {day at 5:30 p.m. at 280 Bridge St., |mear Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn. All shop chairmen are called} | upon te bring their respective shop crews to these section meetings. A report will also be given about Ha~ They also know that instead of expecting anything from the code, they have to, on the contrary, fight | against it, This the hatters proved last Thursday, March 1, at Local 8 meet~ ing. Disregarding a long commu- nication to the local from Michael Greene in which he was trying to whitewash himself, and disregarding a long speech by Louis Africk, local secretary, who was trying to de- fend Greene, the membership unanimously voted a protest against the national president, and also went on record against the time clocks which the hat manufacturers are trying to install as a first step to enforce the code. The hatters must always keep in mind that Michacl Greene is not asleep and his “yes-men” are on the job, During the strike they painted rosy pictures about the code in or- der to drive us back to work under the same conditions. Now, seeing we are preparing to fight against the code, they will once more try to meaning of the code, In fact, they have already started by trying make us believe that “it will not af- fect us” and as Greene wrote in his long letter to the local, “4 will bene- fit the industry as a whole.” But this is the same line they have given us last July, only in different words, let's insist on a joint meeting of Locals 3, 7 and 8 which was pro- Posed at Local 8 meeting, to take up and prepare a struggle against the verhill general strike code. Rocks, said: intense and it is more difficult to | get a settlement. If we can prevent Strikes, particularly now, there will | be @ great economic saving both to the industry and to the workers.” He didn’t say, of course, that a | strike at this strategic time means no greater loss of wages than at |other times—though it means tre- conferred all day long with Wagner “My father reads the Novy Mir | and when I was 14 he said te me ‘Here is a Daily Worker for you. Read it and see to it that the workers you come in contact with read it’ I did and I got six sub- seribers that same year, and they are still reading the Daily Worker.” This delegate also reported that McKees Rocks has already fulfilled its quota in the Daily Worker sub drive, and is ready to challenge any other section in the Pittsburgh dis- trict to double the quota in the “Daily” circulation campaign. He declared that through the Daily Worker they have been able to rally the young workers in McKees Rocks to the struggle for unemployment relief and unemployment insurance, Sections will hold Red Sundays to speed the sub drive. Two minute speakers will be sent to workers’ or- ganizations and groups to boost the drive and to organize workers’ cor- respondence for the “Daily.” The Daily Worker will be used in all con- centration work. Organizations will be asked to add to every leaflet, bul- letin, shop paper published by it the line, “Read the Daily Worker,” and to give an address where the “Daily” can be obtained. The next meeting of the District Committee on the circulation drive} will be held at the Daily Worker of- fice, 2203 Center Ave, Sunday, March 18, 2 p. m. mendous loss | solicitously, “Do you think you have ‘Wagner replied. “You cannot change Which, apparently, is supposed to to employers on spring orders. - “Can Stop Any Strike” A capitalist correspondent told Wagner of general reports of the coming spring strike wave and asked enough machinery to deal with it?”} “Yes, I think we have enough ma- | chinery to stop any strikes,” ‘Wagner | said, “I think we can cope with| the situation.” “What about the merit clause (fire-at-will) in the auto code?” ‘Wagner was asked. “The merit clause is innocuous,” the law (N. I. R. A.) by any clause.” explain why the employers kept it} in the code over bitter worker pro- | tests. Wagner to parade his liberalism) then told an anecdote about how a} reporter contended that the new | Wagner bill, allegedly to thwart company unions, was “somewhat drastic” to which Wagner gave as- surance that he merely “wanted workers to select their own rep- resentatives.” He added “enlight- ened employers want their workers to choose their cwn representatives. It’s only a minority who want to} control the representatives of their workers.” “You mean by ‘enlightened em- ployers’ those like Gerard Swope?” on there, with the help of Bill Zas- lowsky, district secretary of ldson the L. S. U. What he’s beef- ing about is the Jack of unity among the Y. C. L., L. 8. U. and the Young Pioneers. Here’s his indictment and a damn good one too. Perkins “Ignorant” Of Unemployment (Continued from Page 1) program I’m not at this moment prepared to say. ... There’s been a great growth in the membership of the regular trade unions, In human institutions, you know, growth is more important than rules.” Early in today’s press conference, Madame Secretary announced pon- tifically that “the C.W.A. retrench- ment comes at the most suitable time.” Asked where the officially estimated 4,000,000 C.W.A. workers will go when the C.W.A. tent is folded up completely on May 1, she replied, exhibiting a broad patron- izing smile, “they will find their way into the usual channels which ap- pear to be opening up in February and March.” When reminded of the recent A, F. of L, announcement of the in- crease in unemployment for the fifth successive month (921,000), Miss Perkins professed ignorance of these figures, though they were quoted throughout the United States, and cautioned her questioner not to quote from memory. ¥ Madame Secretary had “no com- ment to make” on the new Wagner anti-labor bill demagogically broad- cast as an anti-company union vi- talizer of Section 7(a) of the N.R.A, but she did bring forth “The Con- stitution” as a protection to workers when told that automobile workers had to meet secretly to avoid the private police of the manufacturers. Later, when asked by your corres- pondent what she considered the Telationship between the Federal Constitution and the shooting down of workers in Ambridge, Pa., Miss Perkins replied angrily: “I think I Won't answer that, Please put that in writing.” “But a delegation of steel work- ers came to your department several months ago to protest the shooting down of their fellow-workers, Miss Perkins, and the shooting was print- L. 8. U., to write us timely letters informing us what’s Figures of ‘Green. code | Keep us back by hiding the real! to/ Paris Commune Celebration, Sun- Hatters Fight NRA Scottsboro Appeal Slave Code; Reiect Filed Monday With | Wagner was asked. And he ac- | tually said, about the notorious | Swope’s General Electric Company | unions, “I understand his unions are now disconnected from the ‘ company—” but the correspondents gagged and snickered so that he became completely flustered and | tried to cover up—‘“but I really | don’t know and this is one of the | | | (Continued from Page 1} | (te Tet, Dy | Fraenkel. | The I. L. D. has called for intenst- \fication of the campaign over the ‘entire country for the immediate, unconditional, and safe relerse of the Scottsboro boys. Protests and | demands should be addressed to the | State Supreme Court and to Go |ernor B. M. Miller. Montgome! jAle., and to President Roosevelt. Washington, D. C. . and Osmond K. Siew | DENVER, Oolo., March 6. — A| | Scottsboro Emergency Committee of | Action, composed of ten Negro and white workers and intellectuals, was | elected at a mass meeting, held here lin Fern Hall, to protest the latest moves of Judge Callahan in refus- ing to hear a motion for a new trial | for Heywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, and to plan mass action in Denver and Colerado. More than 300 attended the meet- ing, which was called by the Inter- ;hational Labor Defense. Ancther ;Mmass meeting will be held Sunday jin a Negro church whose minister | volunteered its use at the previous | meeting. | Raise Scottsboro Defense Funds. NEW YORK.—Right dollars and fifty-seven cents ($8.57) was col- | lected for Scottsboro Defense at the Communist. Party Forum, held at |Monroe Court Community Room, ith Street and Foster Avenue, Sun- nyside, L. IL, Wednesday, Feb. 28; Comrade J. Allen speaking on the Negro Question. The money was turned over to the International La- bor Defense. | ae Paris Commune Meet in Cleveland Maren 18, | CLEVELAND, Merch 6. — The Cleveland District cf the Interna- tional Labor Defense is holding a day, March 18, 3 p. m,, at the Ukrai- nian Labor Temple, 1051 Auburn Ave. This meeting will be linked up with the situation in Austria, Ger- many, and the Scottsboro case, and will open a 3 months’ recruiting campaign for new members. There will be a yery interesting program and gveakers. Dancing will follow. The a ion is 20¢ in ad- vance and 25c at the doar things I know I don't know. You know, there are some things I think I know and don’t know, but this is) one’ of the things I know I don’ know, so I'd better not discuss it. He doesn’t “know” although Swope | is from his own state and sits wise | him in the N.R.A. | Wagner said he had “nothing yet”) from the Justice Depertment on the Weirton case, and that there's “nothing new” in the Ford kd He roundly denounced the Harri-| man Hosiery Mill in Tennessee and | jexclaimed with pride thet it has| by only been cited to show cause why the Compliance Board should not— guess what?—take away its Blue Eagie! Last night the Labor Board an- nounced that its strike breaker had “success in having the utilities strike” in Milwaukee postponed, and | that this strike “would have tied up the city’s electric, gas and tran- sit systems.” Both sides haye been summoned to a hearing here on) March 13, Wagner announced. | The Compliance Board announced thet the Budd Election will deter- mine the “free choice” of the em. ployes “among the following altez- natives: seM-organization through the plan of employe representative posed by the nineteen elected | e@ Workers Federal Union; self-organization through any other agency; and no self-organization.” | In other words organization in a, company union would be “seli- | organization” to the Compliance} Board. | Twelve to fifteen hundred strik- ers in the Budd plant have not, been re-employed, and apparently will not vote in the poll. Further, the announceemnt carries no guar- antee whatsoever that those elected will be in collective bar- gaining. Therefore, the Board can say with bitter accuracy, “It is the ance Diretcor’s understand- | # large increase in payro! ed in nearly every paper in the United States.” “Yes,” followed Mary Heaton Vorse, well - known labor correspondent, “Workers were shot down in the streets of Am- bridge.” fessed to know nothing about the matter. But, “please put such ques- tions in writing, after this,” she ad- monished, “There is no startling news,” the Secretary announced a the begin- ning of the conference. “Employ- Ment figures have dropped for three months (she considered the A. F. of L, figures a ‘guess’ successively by ® small increment.” “The February increase will show and em- ployment.” By thai, she explained, she will consider it a gain if the employment and payroll figures drop two points, | Cials in Flint, Michigan, are meet~ |ing wich James Dewey, N. R. A. conciliator, in an effort to prevent a strike of the auto workers in Buick, Hudson and Fisher Body. “I've opposed this strike all the way through,” Coliins said in an in- terview here. “The local unions have taken the situation into their own hands.” “We don't want to strike,” de- clared Dillon. “What good is a | strike? We want to work with the United Stc.es government, and if I am informed by Washington that a conference of representatives of employers and workers has been called, there will be no strike.” Workers ir cher Body Plent No, 1 in Flint voted 1,800 to 2 to go cut on strike, if the union de- mands are not met. The A. F. of 'L. officials are for smashing the ‘ny demands, strike without a eons e DETROIT, Mich., March 6—Ad- dressed to auto wor in the Hi son, Buick and Fishet. Body plants, a leaflet has been issued yy by the Auto Workers’ Union, urging all workers to strike. “Paul Smith, A. F. of L. repre- sentative, and the N, R. A. are stall- ing off action,” says the leaflet, The union leaflet calls on the work- ers to mobilize their strike ma- ing that the Budd Company has}chinery, to build their union, and Th aecepted the plans.” recom- mendations for re-employment of strikers is that strikers be taken on “as rapidly as the volume of the business makes it pos- sible to do so.” A. F. of L, Leaders Sabotage Strike DETROIT, Mich., March 6.—A. F. of L, officials here are working hand-in-glove with the National to join the Auto Workers’ Union. crease in wages; (2) reinstatement of all workers discharged for union activity; (3) 44-hour week, time- and-a-half for overtime and double time for Saturday and Sunday; (4) abolition of the bonus system; (5) against speed-up and for election and | trol of committees of workers to con- the rate of production; (6) against any form of arbitration. Madame Secretary pro-/| AN DAVIS, our Midwest Bureau correspondent, not sky keeps the wires busy around the office, but also finds going and giving an important hand in the sport prob- lems existing down around the Hog Butcher of the World. He’s right on the spot and is trying to perk up interest among the workers?—-——— NEAR SAM: Well it looks as though the note I sent you on the lack of 2 bouncing L. 8. 0. out this way has the tovarishes 1L.S.U.-conscious—at least you hear rumors on all sides now about action in the sport field. Before I wrote that note, though, |I did ask many of the leading com- rades in the district where T could find an L, 8. U. group in order to get in some good old-fashioned wrestling or basketball. I was told there isn't a gym in the city the L, 8. U. has access to, and this fact | Was confirmed to me today by Bill |Zaslovsky, secretary of the local L. 8. U, But Bill also told me that the Y. ©, L, has consistently ignored 1. S. U. work except for assigning sev- eral comrades at different times and then immediately withdrawing them for “other work.” The Soccer League Comrade Heikkenin mentions is of the hardy perennial type that ts com- posed of mostly revolutionary workers, and they therefore carry on, LSU. or no L.S.U. These workers are connected with, a» Comrade Heikkenin says, foreign language groups who already un- derstand the difference between workers and boss sports. But it is mainly the workers outside the revolutionary movement that we want to win away from bourgeois sports and into the revolutionary workers’ struggles. T have not been isolated from the sport-loving revolutionists out here because it so happens that the sport center Comrade Heikkenin men- tions, the Workers’ Book Store 2019 W. Division St., ts also the night office of the Mid-Western in New York that it isn’t even star‘ed and that the comrades here are begging leadership. The setre- tarv cannot do it all. by Comrade Zaslovsky, in which he sends out @ necessary call for ac- tion and announces an L. 8. U. meeting on Saturday, March 10, at 3 nm. in the Imperial Hall, 2409 N. Halstead St., to which a!) organizations are urzed to send representatives. The letter reads, in part: “Remarks have been heard throughout the district that the Labor Sports Union in the Illinois Dis‘rict is dead—in other words, it is not functioning. Yes, this mav be true to a certain extent. But ; whom are we to blame for this? Who is the Labor Sports Union in | this district? Not the district sec- jretary alone. Your club is a part of the Labor Svorts Union. Our organization is composed of various affiliated bodies, of which your or- | ganization is a part, or, if it isn’t. it should be... . Forward to somc real sports activity in this district. Let's have a real mass represent2- | tion from YOUR CLUB on March {10 at Imperial Hall.” Alsc, the swimming meet sup- to take place in Chicago, h 17, Which Comrade Heik- efers to,hes been called cif lack of comrades to car | the meet through. Les me, at this time, as long 25 {all the dust is being kicked up, urge every organization to get behind the L. 8. U. in Chicago and start “the ball rolling.” With workers’ sports greetings. DAN DAVIS. Hotel Nitge daiget Dodges Snow Storms BEACON, N. Y.—The dwellers of cur small community “Nitgedaiget,” which means “Me no care” did do a little worrying in the last snow storms, |__When ohne stepped outside of the | Nitgedaiget Hotel doors, it looked as |if Nitgedaiget mountains were ap- proaching one another with such # rage, that they will devour each other. Even the big Lenin mountain looked up in the air with a readiness to cover up and bury underneath all the small Nitgedaiget, mountains. Sure encugh those who were in- side within the walls of the Nit gedaiget Hotel reading a book fro} the Nitgedaiget library, playing’ chess or ping-pong or dancing to the tunes of fine music or partaking in @ campers symposium on current events or listening to a lecture given by prominent speakers, did not be- lieve what was really taking outside of the Nitgedaiget Hotel doors. Hotel Nitgedaiget stood its test and faced the storm undauntedly, Camp Nitgedaiget looks now like @ sphinx, bright snow is glittering from its mountain tops, little streams from the melting snow are murmuring, coming down the hills. The air breaths the full fragrance cf Spring. The sun warims overhead and coopers the faces af the Nit- Sedaiget dwellers. It is good now in Nitgedciget. Hotel Nitgodaiget is a workers rest place and charges prices. (ady.) '