The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1934 Bosses Raise Their Salaries Despite While NRA Slashes Mi Wages for Bosses Get Millions Men Who Slash Wages Under NRA Codes Get Huge Salaries By KALMUN HECHT NEW YORK. — The employers who are now sitting at the “Con- ‘Economy | ? three-year periods apiece it paid | $301,391 (BE, F. Roberts), and $317,458 | (J, G. Vincent), | In five years Woolworth’s paid | te an average of 15 men the sum of $9,891,156, an average of $131,882 @ year per man. At the same time the Woolworth wages for the girls By ROBERT MINOR VENTS of sharp class struggle caught up with and swamped| General Johnson’s conference be-| fore even its first day was finished. | The open shop moguls—Teagle of| Standard Oil, Swope of General} inor Tells What Roosev Socialist Party Leaders Helped Bosses Spread Ballyhoo, Rapidiy Moving Events Expose More Naked Character of NRA As Brutal Drive Against Crisis, Page Three Survey Shows prinkled With “* Workers Living Standards elt, Gen. Jo Sought to Do by NRA ‘Field Day Criticism’ Secretary Active in iishes that the conditions of em- ployment are the concern of the Government But it has failed to accomplish its not so much because of the Act itself, but because of the methods Gen- eral Johnson bas used for its en- ; Strikes, and more strikes! | States Aluminum Co. at New Ken- | sington, Pa., 3,000 on strike; Toledo | | automobile parts factories, 4,000 on | Strike; at Kenosha, Wis., Nash Mo- | tor Co. on strike! i | | Green, Lewis and Hillman, each | hnson Criticism” About NRA; We've gone as far as we could to | prevent direct action. But the time | is coming when we are going to | have to let go the reins. I hate to contemplate it, but I teil you it's coming.” Former S. P. County Jobless Councils —e Resigned from S.P.After e United | ing the bit between their teeth. ‘Seamen to Demand Control of Relief Refusal to Give Up Jobless Work YORK.—A former secretar ancaster Soci y ‘At Meet Tomorrow « behind the counters and their re- forcement” la stuffed shirt behind which are| But the Communist Party is not a Electric, and Pierre 8. Dupont— gress of Business Men” listening to ceiving clerks in the basements are Rooseyelt talk methos for clamp- ing the NRA. slave codes stdll| firmer about the necks of the work~ ers, have done very well by them~ selves all during the crisis, the latest | investigations of the Feeral Trade} Commission at Washington reveal. The N.R.A. codes applied in the) factories of these capitalist employ- ers, representing the most powerful group of Wall Stret monopolisis have slashed the weges of the American working class to the bone, | to starvation levels. | But for these big employers, who! have been the most active and ruth-| less wage cutters, the crisis and the N.R.A, has meant only fatter prof-| its, more plunder. The unwillingness of the federal government to publish the indivi- dual income returns in the past has | made it next to impossible to prove profits hidden under the cloak of payroll, Just ® partial list comprising the | receipts of only 366 men in thes} vears 1928 to 1933 inclusive shows thet these men received the sum, in laries” $90,828,000 and in “bon- sum of $79,422,000, mak- g 2 ggregate of $170,250,000, or | average of $465,000 per man for too well known. Here in these same figures is a glimpse of what eapitalist ex- ploitation under the N. R, means te the working elass, and the capitalist class. For the own- ers, the employers, the property investors, it means, even in times of crisis for which the capitalists alone are responsible, profits, sal- ary imereases, bonuses, ete. For the workers who produce all the yalue in modern society, it means wage slashes, starvation pay. Only the fight against the N, R, A. codes, for higher pay, for the smashing of the capitalist government State power, the ex- propriation of the present owning class, and the setting up of a Soviet Government in America will turn the process of production from a means of enslaving the masses to a means for building a better life for the working class. Reading Women’s Day Sponsors Ask period, or an annua! average of 500. (It must be unerstood that many of these men replaced others who stepped out of the picture from year to year, so that the aver- age per job is a much greater figure.) Paying Themselves ‘That these salaries go only to! those who own the industries and practically control their salaries can be seen when we read a list of the names of some of these: J. A. Campbell, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube, received in four years the sum of $766,666. B. L. Patterson, president of the American Machine and Foundry Co., received in six years $1,209,156. John D. Ryan, chairman of the Anaconda Copper Co., received in five years $1,524,534. C. F. Kelly, president of the Ana- conda Copper Co., received in six years $1,949,916, ‘The Warner brothers received | | } Unity at Meeting Bronx Meeting Will Score Roosevelt Hunger Plan READING, Pa., March 6,—Spon- sors of the International Women’s Day celebration here are bending every effort to effect a united front with the women of the Socialist Party, who will hold a similar meet- ing on March 9th, the day efter International Womens’ Day. A mass meeting is being arranged for March 8th, at 8 p.m., at 126 N, 10th St., second floor. The meeting, jointly sponsored by the Provisional Committee of the Berks League Against War and Fascism and the Womens’ Branch of the Interna- sought to build a dam against the| rising flood of class struggle. But the class struggle flood is rising| more rapidly than the concerete can} be poured. The purpose of General Johnson's “field day of criticism” undoubtedly | was to form a protective shell} around the real conference of big} industrialists and bankers which | begins in Washington this morning. | The hearings last week were given the character of “labor’s” and “little | men’s” opportunity to present their case. For this reason, on the plat-| form with Johnson were exhibited | the stuffed shirts of the social- fascists—William Green, John L. Lewis, Sidney Hillman, etc., while DuPont, Swope and Teagle were held in the background. Every- thing was given the character as| much as possible of a “working people’s” affair. In the offing, not yet openly and formally enroiled as full partners, were the direct lead- ers of the Socialist Party. Never before was the desperate dependence of the strikebreaking trust heads upon the officials of the American Federation of Labor so clearly exhibited. * 8 | Socialist Party, decidedly dis- turbed by the course of the class struggle in America, which is driv- ing large numbers its members to the Communist Party, and severely shaken by the Austrian events which have blown up the whole pro- gramatic ideology of the Second International, was unable either to te or to fail to participate without severe costs. For the “five- ring circus” General Johnson and the open shop finance-capitalists had arranged a program of labor} leaders jumping through the open| shop hoops at the crack of the) General’s whip. The Socialist | leaders had to jump through the| hoops or else to fail to jump. The Socialist Party leaders have really from the very beginning supported the monstrous strike-breaking pro- | gram of Wall Street known as the} N.R.A. From the visit of Morris) Hillquit and Norman Thomas to the} new President Roosevelt at Wash- cialist Party out in the open with official farmality declared itself as @ supporter of the most brutal of- ist class against the American workers, After Waldman’s arrival in Wash- ington, his speech was somewhat changed from the text of the anced copy that had been n out to the press—changed in the direction of obscuring his Party stand—a change which unquestion- ably was due to the discovery of the ghastly light in which the N. R. A, was beginning to appear to work- ers. Nevertheless he endorsed this strike-breaking measure as “ad- vanced social legiclation!” . ND the whole line-up of social- reformists from William Green down to Norman Thomas and Wald- man (and including in fact the various little schools of “left” so- cial-fascists, renegades, etc.), Was exhibited by General Johnson in Thus for the first time the So- | Teagle, Swope and du Pont, fidgeted | jin their chairs. | In refusing to “come into” the |N.R.A., refusing to become a part |did mot refase to represent the claims of the American workers! = | On the contrary! The refusal to become an agent of the employers | is the first condition for fulfilling the role of leader of the workers | in dealing with the employers For this very reason the C. P. stood out as the representative of the American workers’ interests against the vast offensive which is the N. R. A. It can now, and will, present at ‘Washington the specific disputes on wages, codes, union recognition, ete. It will do so only in the open, | | with Teagle, Swope, duPont and | Johnson, behind the back of the workers. Green in the name of labor made rattled around the insane “eco- nomic” theories of dying capitalism. | Even the “criticism” on the part of the “labor” prostitutes of the open shop could not obscure the facts of declining employment and failing living standards, inhuman speed-up, company unionism, and open strike- breaking of the N. R. A. It became clear that the attack of the rank | forces not in “confidential” relationships | an empty speech in which there| strike-breaking agency. It does not attempt to “prevent the workers jfrom taking the bit between their teeth,” and it does not “hate to con- fensive ever launched by the eapital- | of the employers’ agency—the C. P. | template” the heroic actions of the | automobile workers against open- shop slavery and starvation. The Communist Party is the force that leads the workers to throw off cor- rupt leadership and to organize its for a nation-wide fight against the present strike-breaking drive of the Roosevelt government. i Re the one hand lies the road to lower living standards, disruption |and destruction of the workers own |trade unions, the establishment of company unions, control by the em- ployers and the government, the |ruthless crushingout of every liberty of the American masses—the road toward fascism and into the blood bath of the second World War, as slaves to the Texgles, DuPonts, and Swopes. This is the road that is staked out by the Teagles, DuPonts, obediantly folowed by the Hillmans, Greens, Wolls, and Lewis’. On the other hand is the road to the workers’ way out of the econo- mic crisis. The road of struggle | against the slave codes of the N. R.| A. against the strike-breaking N. R.!| | A. itself, the struggle for the right) | and Swopes and Johnsons, — and| Will March From South | cis Street to State Relief Office NEW YORK—Over 1,000 seamen | ing have signed the demands for fed-| at eral relief for sailors that will be) co; ed by ront Unem-| fo Council Thursday morning : Transient Relief Di- Borst, 79 Madison faving just returned from hel t a sale and evict! e of a famil: her, mot. n (the father has bee: mployed for a long time and back three months in of the smaller children al years old, a girl had one of he legs encased ir plaster cast and as I gazed about I saw th irit of grim determination written n the faces of tnose present who ome to help this f: . fhe women were especially voci- |son Aye. at 10 a. m., March 8. ferous in denouncing the inhumane The federal relief agency has al-| beast who owns about 119 hoe loted 55c a day for seamen, ac-| our city and suburbs. cording to Mr. Borst’s own “Needless to say tl ment to the council when earlier in the month. This money is handed over to the | correspondent an religious racketeers who prey on the ager for newspaper |seamen. The Seamen's Church In-| ‘Lancaster Plain Talk.’ This jour | stitute alone receives money for} nal reached the large circulation 0 1,500 seamen daily. The food yed| 15,000 in a city of 65,000 populatior by these racketeers cannot cost! and was eagerly looked for by its over 10c a day. They were only| readers. | preset 0 the Sts rector, Mr | Ave. | The demands will be presented | the committee bucked up cl j onstration of hundreds of | who will march from the |front at South and and West St and 18th S feeding twice a day but added on the third meal when the seamen began to rally to the council call for action. “Time and space do not permit me to explain the discontinuance of the paper but as a former county sec and file trade unionist and the co-|‘ organize, the right to strike, the ordinating central attack of the|StTuggle for every penny of the) Communist Party were the only vital factor in the hearings, It became imposible to obscure the fact that the Communist Party represented not only the general interest of the working class but was actually the spokesman for the concrete day by day interests of the workers in respect to code leyels, union recog- nition, the fight against company unionism, etc. IS situation compelled General workers standards of living—in fact the struggle for the revolutionary way out of the crisis and to Social- ism! HS is the time for redoubled energy, resourcefulness and ini- tiation on the part of the whole working class, the rank and file of |the American Federation of Labor, |the rank and file workers of the ROBERT MINOR Johnson to the expedient of try- | ing to tar the Communist Party with this grand shimmy dance of the| the same Stick _that had painted Blue Eagle. So far as these were | Green, Lewis, Hillman and Co. concerned there was no attack upon | “Come into the N. R. A. and criti- the N. I. R. A. Every word spoken | clze inside instead of standing out- ican Federation of Labor unions, to- |gether with the Communist Party, | to advance rapidly all along the line, \forcing concession after concession |through united militant strike ac- tion. Every concrete question of | Socialist Party, the red trade unions | and militant minorities of the Amer-| retary of the Lancaster Socialist Party (now extinct) my reasons for pt Memen. Semand Hist & com-| resigning were none other than I mitiee elected by the sailors be! refused to accept criticism from my given the control of relief funds and) comrades (?) for my participation handle a relief station, to be se-|in Unemployed Council demon- lected by the committee. | strations.” CHARLES J. KROPLESKY. Phila. Strikers | —————™ Protest Terror Jobless of Phila. puapstraia, waren sme HOld Hunger March. | cleaning and dyeing strike goes into | . i. its second week, with all but three | T R | f Off | bans closed, and the strikers more | 0 e 1e ice | determined than ever. The police | have sent thugs in plain clothes to ming. with the picke Demand Funds code wages, every “small” ouestion| them into squabbl ington, up to the present days, the jside and throwing brickbats!” from their company in the course of five years $2,778,988, R. W. Wooruff, presient of Coca- Cola Company, in six years received $835,000. Alexander Legge, president of In- ternational Harvester Co., received in the one year 1928, $405,909. Edwerd A. Filene of Filene’s Bos- ton, together with his brother, re- ceived in six years $1,172,000. Cyrus McCormack, Jr., vice pre- sident of International Harvester,.in. four years was worth to this com~ pany $690,938. William C. Proter, president of ProcterGamble, thought he was worth in three years the sum of $700,000. Sidney R. Kent, general manager of Paramount-Publix Corp., in four years hauled down for himself $1,386,370, Jesse L. Lasky, first vice presi- dent of Paramount-Publix, in the same four years, received $1,726,121. Adolph Zucker, president of the same company, in five years, needed $1,828,152. : George B. Everitt, president, of Montgomery Ward, in five years had to have $1,185,607. S. S. Kressge, chairman of 8. 8. Kressge’s, in six years got $929,675. Macy’s thinks very highly of the Strauss family, because in six years them: $2,700,000, an average 9a, fl » year, for the doubtful three or four members family, in six years paid to four men (some part of the time) $2,456,128. . Sears-Roebuck in the same..six years paid to three men $2,670,404, Julius Rosenwald In one year alone receiving $404.639. ie. Bethlehem Steel Corp., while cut- ting wages of its terribly over- worked men, paid out to seven men in the course of these six years the sum of $9,367,171. Charles Schwab, the $l-a-vear-man, in 1930, after the financial crash, received an in+ crease of $100.000 in pay, from $150,000 to $250,000 a year. And he still gets that sum. E. C. Grace; president of Bethlehem, in these same six years. received $4,154,585. ©. A. Buck, 9, “director.” in six years | received $1.112.652, Likewise an- other “director.” Q. Bent. Cut Wages: Pay Bosses Bonuses The U. S. Steel Corp:, inaugurat- ing the wage-cutting program of its and the country’s workers, paid an} annval average of 8213.888 to My- ron C. Taylor, and $216,470 to James A. Farrell. from 1928 to the present time. Altogether to five men in these six years the U. 8. Steel paid $3.492,214, w 2 No‘ to forget George Washington Hill of the American Tobacco Com- pany, who decided that his services were worth for these six years the sum of $2.968,620, an annual average of $661.437. Altogether the Ameri- can Tobacco Co. paid out to six men during this period a sum of $7,727,193. The Crucible Steel Go, paid to its chairman, H. S. Wilkins, $1,055,000 in these six years. The Hupp Motor Car Co. was just as generous to its president, DuBois Young, whom it: paid in these six years the sum of $1,089,583. @ The Packard Moto Car Co. wasn’t far behind. To its president, Alvin McCauley, it paid $827,441 in six years; to its two vice-presidents in Jones & MeLaughlin Steel Corp. | tional Workers Order, will be con- ducted entirely by women, The committee calls all women and those in organizations that are affiliated to the Socialist Party to participate. ‘f . Bronx Women Meet BRONX, N. ¥.—All workers are invited to the upper Bronx mass meeting on International Women’s Day, March 8, at 8 p.m., at Cruger Manor, 3200 Cruger Ave., cor. Blake. The principal speakers will be Henry Shepard, of the Trade Union Unity League; Esther Moore, of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, and Margaret Cowl, a worker who has just returned from the Soviet Union, who will contrast the work- ers’ conditions here with those in the USS.R. Stop Federal Relief to Cleveland CWA Men CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 6.—~ Under order of Roosevelt and Fed- eral Relief Administrator Hopkins, in the carrying out of the newest Roosevelt attack upon the workers, C.W.A. employees here were given notice that no more federal surplus | food will be given them. } Socialist Party leaders have dozens of times. exhibited their support of the N.R.A. in all of its strike break- ing character. But in nearly all cases there had been enough con- fusion thrown around the issue by | the “radical” verbage of social-— fascism to conceal the real meaning | from thousands of sincere workers | who are misled by the Socialist | Party. 2 At the Washington hearings,| amidst rapidly moving events which exposes the N.R.A. in more naked} character as a brutal drive against! the living standards and political) rights of the American workers—| it became impossible to avoid taking | a stand either for or against the N. R. A. This became neecssary partly as a result of the fact that the Communist Party appeared and forced the issue clearly by openly} denouncing the N.R.A. as a great! | offensive against the American! | working class. | The Socialist Party was compeiled to throw the dice. In a press re- lease of the text of Louis Waldman’s speech, issued to the press before the hearings, Waldman said: “We support the N.R.A. for the i good it has done in abolishing | child labor, abolition of home by these “labor” representatives in the ferm of criticism was criticism only. from.the viewpoint of support- ing the N. R. A. as a whole. The outstanding fact that loomed above everything else in the N. R, A. hearings was that the Communist Party and the trade unions and trade union minorities of the Trade Unien Unity League constituted the only force that spoke for the upsurging struggle of the American masses against the slave codes of the N. R. A., against the whole strike-breaking offensive of the N. R, A. In every one of the rings of Gev Johnson's Five-ring Circus the ‘d, brutal facts of class struggles islation” of the “advanced social id pany of New leet legis G i driv e that h taken the blood of our cla: ers from Imperial Valley, Cali- fornia, to Ambridge; Pennsylvania. Meantime every edition of the press hawked at the doors of G: | werk, and the principle it cstab- | Farm Laborers Must Become Basis for Farm Struggles By H. PURO INCE the Seventh Convention, at which the first serious analysis was made as to the task of the Com- munist Party in rural districts, i. e., the work among agricultural work- ers, poor, small and middle farm- ers, our Party has made consider- able headway in this field of work and has gained wide support among the rural toilers. In order to carry this work fur- ther along Bolshevik lines, it is necessary to examine experiences, both on the positive side and in re- gard to our shortcomings in the pre-Convention discussion and in \the Convention discussion itself. The fundamental guide in this dis- cussion should be the 13th Plenum thesis of the Executive Committee of the Cotimunist International, the Open Letter and the Agrarian Resolution of the Extraordinary Conference of last July. Evidently there are still some fears in the minds of many com- rades that devoting our energies to ‘the work in the rural districts will centration in the basic industries. This line of thought is not in ac- cordance with the important docu- ments referred to above. While it is absolutely necessary for our Party ¢ eral Ji € | pleaded the administrator of gov- ;emment strike-breaking. | This invitation repeated three |times should be a lesson to the |American workers. The Communist | | Part cannot make itself a part of |® government agency for strike- | breaking. any more than workers jon the picket line can at the same | time make themseives a part of the | Strike-breakers. (N, R. A. is not a Homuiesive body elected by the | masses, to which the workers could jelect their own representatives.) | Teagle, Du Pont, Swope and C can see the danger to their intere: |in the rising wave of strike strugg: | and the rising struggle of thé un- | employed, taken in conjunction were thrown by the Communist | the existence and leadin activity of|the Communist Party repr: Party spokesman and by the mil-|the Communist Party. In this sit-| tive, are now the life and death nec-| strike at the PI itant trade unionists against the | uation the strongest pressure is ex-|@ssity of the American workers. lercised upon the “leadershi | workers to m: ne | consciously | Hewett of j ciation of nee: as we can |of hours and conditions in the fac- ‘tories and mines, every question of| volyed into the plant offi “sick-back”—every grievance of the | unemployed must be immediate! |taken up on behalf of the worker: The second wave of strike s | gls is only in its beginning and is |on the sharp rise. It is no accident | that the second, like the first | begins in the automobile industry | It can penetrate to the roots of the jmost basic industries. It is bound |to mount to great heights. It must | | necessarily be coupled with a gi gantic struggle with the unemplo, workers to compe! now the gra ing of the social jeven General Jchy jto admit iu the open bk The Communist Party showed it- e ;end in defense of rights. Parity and the e unions and More Atiention to Farm Work in Pre-Convention Dis Party Must Lead Rural Class War: Danger of Farmer-Labor Movement enlarging and strengthening its base in the main industries and among the decisive strata of the proletariat, it must at the same time continue to work for winning over to the side of the proletariat, the most important ally of the proletariat, the semi-proletarian strata in the countryside. “It must not restrain, but develop in every way and defend and revolutionize the farmers’ movement, firmly en- suring the hegemony of the prole- tariat by strengthening the prole-. tarian basis of our Party.” ( Agr. Res. Extraordinary Party Confer- ence.) Herein we have correctly formulated the relation of our agrarian work to the main tasks of the Party. Now, what are our problems? What are some of the chief ques- tions to be discussed? How should We improve our work in the coun- tryside in order to hasten the revo- lutionizing of the masses of the rural toilers? In the sphere of this article it is only possible to indicate these prob- lems. Each question requires fur- ther analysis in the discussion in which the whole Party must par- ticipate. And especially comrades who are engaged in agrarian work must contribute to this discussion in the light of their experiences. Roosevelt’s Farm Program We must, first of all, give the de- cisive answer as to whether Roose- velt’s agrarian program has allevi- ated the crisis and the situation of the rural toilers. To this question, to devote its main energy towards as well as to all other important questions, the answer is given in the 13th Plenum of the E. 0. C. L, which holds absolutely good for the American situation: “The economic policy of the financial oligarchy for overcom- ing the crisis (the robbery of the workers and the farmers, subsi- dies to the captialists and land- lords) is unable to restore the stabilization of capitalism; on the contrary, it is helping still further to disintegrate the mechanism of the capitalist economy (disorgan- ization of the money system, of the budget, state bankruptcies, 2 further deepening of the agrarisn crisis), and to sharply intensify the fundamental contradictions of capitalism.” (13th Plenum thesis.) How well said! It sounds as if this paragraph had been specially written for America. While the Roosevelt Administration and the capitalist press haye made much of the fact that “billions of dollars have been poured into agriculture’ under the Allotment plan, these billions have gone to fatten the capitalist monopolies, landlords and (cotton) the big farmers. As far as price-fixing is concerned, direct beneficiaries are the monopolies, the landlords and big farmers. And as far as the refinancing is concerned, here, again, the definite purpose of the Roosevelt program is to strengthen the capitalist-kulak class in the countryside. The taxes, debts and mortgages of the poor, small and middle farmers are still piling up and these farmers are be- ing sold out by sheriffs because they are unable to pay. The October Plenum of our Cen- tral Committee gave a correct an- alysis of the situation of the toil- ing farmers in relation to the Rooseyelt program, stating that it has left the basic masses of the farmers in a worse condition than | before, increasing prices of the things they must buy over twice as much as the increase in prices of the things they sell. Wallace's pro- |gram to cut further the cultivated acreage to a minimum of 25,000,000 ecres and thereby drive out from production hundreds of thousands of small farmers is a bare admis- sion of the failure of the Roosevelt program. | New Struggles Imminent As the meagre relief in the form of C. W. A. and P. W. A. jobs and the occasional charity relief from the counties is unable to prevent great masses of poor farmers from starving, and as more and more farmers are either losing their farms or are living in constant danger of losing them, and as the growing sections of middle farmers are re- yolting against the Tob- bery of the monopolies (dairy farm- ers), @ new upsurge and new strug- gles in the countryside are im- minent. In the face of this situation, the capitalist-agrarian politicians (Nor- ris, LaFollette, Frazier, etc.), Farmer Laborites (Olson, Lundeen, etc.), Jeaders of the Socialist Party (Thomas) and the high-salaried leaders of the old line farm organ- izations (Milo Reno, Simpson, Sing- ler) who have supported the Roose- velt New Deal, are now coming out with “criticism” against Roosevelt's program. Demagogically they “de- plore” the fact that the farmers are getting a “raw deal” and are pre- | pared to mislead them towards the | third party movement. This con- stitutes the definite danger that we are facing in our agrarian move- ment. And unless we clearly ex- | pose these representatives of the |big farmers, they will be able to lead large sections of the toiling farmers in supvort of the third party movement, even those farm- ers who have engaged in militant struggles under our leadership. The | Farmer Labor Party idea has al- ready affected some of our Party members who have held leading positions in the left-wing farmers’ organizations (Taylor, national chairman of the U. F. L.). \ Milo Reno recently attended the conference in New York of Farmer Labor politicians, where establishment of the National Farmer Labor Party was di:- cussed, Milwaukee Socialists are making alliance with Singier (leader of the Wisconsin Milk Pool). And, as Comrade Bittel- man in his article in the February Communist calls te our attention, the Socialist Party is now begin- ning to pay much more attention to the farmers. They are not, of course, leading farmers into struggle, but they are paying lip service to the farmers’ problems. | tion | ‘-| Knit 11 | In many places local Socialists are | poliae might drag the club | Unemploy on March ut and | to demand a forty per cent. increase in relief to meet the rise in food » bread, coal and rent, a man, his wife and chi Eberhard $500 bail for court | be co: a family unit in ap- jon the above charges. lief. ; The Brotherhood of Transporta- of complaints have Werkers has offered its sup-|come to the unemployed councils of | port to the ikers through its; workers who were forced to live with head, McGlone, but the st com- | th: or four other families in one mittee has not availed itself of the | h Such a group the relief offer. rities considered a family, and one member of one of the was put on a C. W. / him and hold him for ass: id inciting to riot. y Rusel Watson, a Goods Workers Win Strike in Phila. PHILADELPHIA, March 6—The delphia Sweater when the bi of the sti Philadelphia Police Raid Workers Club: 51 Arrested, Jailed ed other jan earlie par of their campaign tion " against workers’ magis to send lctiers of protest to the | Mayor of Philadelphia condemn~- ing these unprovoked attacks on workers’ organizations, A meeting to protest the police raid and the jailing of fifty workers |at the Strawberry Mansion Workere |Club on Sunday, March 4, will, be | held Wednesday, March 7, at 7 p.m., jat Matrona and York Sts. and at 8 p.m. on 3lst and Norris Sts. The protest meetings are under the aus- | pices of the International Labor De- |fense, the Strawberry Mansion | Workers Club, and other organiza- | tions, ussicn | Role of the Party Too Much Hidden in Rural Work much more aggressive in putting forward their party te the farm- ers than our comrades. Some of our Communist agrarian func- tionaries are actually afraid to in- | troduce o to the farmer: Phila. Pressmen in Cut Protest | Here, in m cc eee ting the key qu ie PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 6— jrian work. It is well and good for | } thousand pr at ® Sund Grand us Communists to lead the toiling | farmers in the their immediate demands. do that, because we res 1 | get as much relief to them in their! ' distress as possible. And we are the | only Party that is getting them re- lief through the pressure of mass struggles. But, if after we have led | them in their struggles for immedi- | j ate demands, if after that they will) | support either old capitalist parties | or new third parties of capitalist | jand 1s farmers, it is clear that | we have failed in our most im- = e > portant duty to enlighten them as/ Tn Philadelphia, Pa, |to the fact that these parties are | eye the enemies of the exploited farm-| PHILADELPHIA. March 6.— All jers. And certainly we have failed | Workers of the DeLuxe Shoe Com~ |to point out that the Communist pany, 7th and Green, walked out | Party is the only Party that strug-|on strike in protest against discri- |gles for the revolutionary way out | mination agair unich members lof the present crisis, whereas all|shown by the bo: when they re- the other parties are seeking to| fused to rehire two workers, in yio- solve the crisis inside the capitalist | lation of their agreement with the system, trying to save it at the ex-| union. The workers are members of pense of the toilers. the United Shoe and Leather Wor's- (To Be Concinded) ers Union. 1628 Arch Street, voted to protest a cut in working time with no corresponding wage increa. the Cuneo Fisher Pnint+ ing Industries, Inc., Erie Ave., and F St. A committee of three was | elected to demand a 40 hour week | with a hourly wage rate similar te that received New York press- men, recognition of their union, and improved working conditions, Shoe Workers Strike mass struggles for) we