The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 10, 1934, Page 4

Page Four trikes Why 5,000 Wickes per Striking in Auto and Tractor Plant AFL Heads Try to Hold Men Back from to Win Demands Action By M. CHILDS nds of wor! Auto Company was F 4 he Automobile code, M Nash is an active member of th Automobile Chamber of Comm Mr. Seaman, the head of the Sea- in A uto, Coal BAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1934 Show Rising Struggles Against N. R. A, Wisconsin = rank and file takes the ip into its own hands, The i are repeating the same a. as in the Kenosha Nash There is no broad - strike mittee. The executive commit- | d of seven men plus A 2 m the Wis- | die im that these men ng to the federal ised to permit them to e are making all efforts They ref! Max Raskin, a Soci- de the following state- “The men have no right forcibly keep any person or vehicle entering or leaving the Ss, and let’s not sacrifice to from gr watchmen. | AFTER ONE YEAR OF ROOSEVELT Women aad children im a breadline om Cherry Street, om New York's East Side, only a few biecks from where nine unemployed workers were arrested for demanding relief. man Company. which is an affiliat peace to a police record. If there to Nash. is the c of the infractions of the law, the N. R. A. board of M Police should make arrests.” . When the code w This strike also teaches the Nash and Seaman Companies workers that the Socialist public promised that wages will now he officials are not their friends, but raised by 10 per cent. Even though) as in the past, are under the cover the American Federation of Labor|of law protecting the interests of leadership agreed to the open shop automobile code with it 48 cents an hour, the workers could lants not swallow it. The Nash utilize the gang system in order to speed up the worker how hard the men wi make the minimum and when you is not enough to exist t the chief reason for the strike Try To Hoid Strike Back The A. F. of L. leadership in Wis- consin tried very hard to prevent there strikes. When the Nash workers originally struck, spontane- ously, the A. F. L. leadership, in- cludi the personal representa- tive of Wm. Green, Mr. Smith, be- trayed and sold out the Nash work- ers. They terrorized the workers to 0 beck into the shop on the promise of arbitration. An “im- partial” committee was to re-adjust is is the grievances in the Nash plant. | Every worker in Kenosha now knows that this was a sell-out. The workers did not receive the things they were promised and the ar- bitrators have not acted even to vicious no matter k, they bearly wage the corporations. Party, on men that, The Communist he other hand, tells the regardless of the legal about blocking traffic, J duty of the strikers to mobilize many workers as possible to as throw a mass picket line around the plant, and through militant ac- | tion prevent the ke breakers from ta In ing their jobs. where we have four sent time—the most important of which are the trike he Case tractor strike—the A. F. of L. offi- cialdom is acting in a similar manner. Instead of mobilizing the workers for victory, they are work- ing hand in hand with the police department and the bosses to hunt for Communists and to break the unity of the workers on the picket In all of these strikes the chances for victory are great, providing the strikers organize themselves, picket militantly, and do not permit the A. F. L. leadership to trick them into arbitration and compel them to go into the plant before they this day. This explains why the |Win anything, as was the case in men in the Kenosha Nash plant | Nash The Communist Party voted the other day 1,200 against warns the workers about these 2 for an immediate solidarity strike with the other Nash plants During the Nash strike in Ken- osha, the officialdom kept the work- ers in ignorance of the negotiations There was no broad strike com- mittee invotvine the men of all de- partments. The strike was con- ducted by only a handful of offi- cials. The workers in the Simmons Plent strike profited from this be- trayal. They organized differently, they set up a mass strike commit- tee, they voted against arbitration. They did not permit a few officials to run the strike—and the results were entirely different. They won their demands after a five day Strike. The workers in Seaman Body voted for strike a long time ago, but the A. F. L. officialdom dis- couraged strike action. Mr. - man issued a statement to the \gn- ployees. which exposed the way the A. F. L. officialdim worked behind the backs of the workers. Seaman said that when he met with the committee of three from the union “the management then presented to this committee a careful analysis of the situation. after hearing which, ali members of this com- mittee agreed that it would be un- wise for the company and that it would not be to the interest of the employees, to increase wages at this time. The meeting then adjourned with the statement that the only Sofution of the present Problem was closer cooperation between em- Ployees and management.” Here was a committee of labor leaders | thet was supposed to go to the aan ae the interest of the Workers. but ends up agreein, with Mr. Seaman thal what 4 needed is more cooperation and not higher wages. The workers however, the question of an increase in wages and compelled this committee to the Seaman company for a 20 per cent increase. This was on Jam. 30. Let us hear what ap- pened at this meeting. Meeting Mr. Seaman following statement: When we met with your com- mittee on Jan. 19, we fully ex- Plained the situation to you, and after considering the facis, YOUR ENTIRE COMMITTEE AGREED THAT IT WOULD BE DETRI- MENTAL TO THE INTERESTS OF OUR EMPLOYEES TO HAVE WAGES pressed issued the INCREASED. AS A MATTER OF FACT, You STATED THAT YOU DIDN'T WANT TO KILL THE GOOSE THAT LAYS THE GOLDEN EGG, AND AT THE END OF THE MEETING AGREED THERE WAS NOTHING THE COMPANY COULD DO.” Strike Despite Leaders How is it then that Seaman Body workers are out on strike in spite of the sabotage of the A. F. L. of- ficials? This is due first, to the Brievances and militancy of the workers who compelled strike ac- tion. Secondly, it is due to the activity and exposure by the Auto Workers Union and T. U. U. L. of the machination of the A. F. of L. Only efter the Auto Workers Union issued its leaflet on Friday, Feb. 23, exposing the secret talks be- tween Mr. Seaman and the leaders, was the final strike vote put into effect. There are dangers for the work- ers in the Seaman Body strike, un- After the | agents of the capitalist class, who have wormed their way into the labor movement. two weeks time, there will place elections for city of- fices in Kenosha and Racine. The wo. 's in all of these strikes must learn through experience who are | their friends, who are their enemies. The only working class Party is the Communist Party, and the strikers should throw their support behind this workers’ Party, that fights not only for better conditions in the |Shop, but also for the emancipat- take ing of the working class from capi- | | talist wage slavery. The workers in the factory, as well as unem- ployed, must disregard Mitchell and the A. F. L. leaders who claim that strikes have nothing to do with the class struggle. Only through the class struggle can the workers \ hope to win anything. The action of the bosses and the police on the picket line proves that there is a class struggle and that the gove: ment is an instrument of the ca talist class. Penn. R. R. Gets Preacher to Tal Against the Reds By A Group of Railread Correspondents, LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. — | Would you please publish this let- | ter in the Daily Worker so our fel- | low workers can see how the Penn- |sylyania R. R., is trying to give us @ preacher instead of reinstating | Steward Sandborn and Chef An- derson and how it is trying to give jus religion instead of food and | proper pay: | Fellow Workers: Now we are being preached to in the sign-out room about every other | morning that we shouldn’t embrace any radical movement, anti-christ- | ian, | This preacher claims that the |company did not tell him to do it. |That he does it of his own accord |and yet the company lets him do | it so evidently they are not against | it. They let him preach seemingly | to scare the men from radical move- |ments meaning reds and who are |the reds? The reds are your fel- |low workers who fight for unem- ployment insurance, against evic- tions, who fight for better condi- tions and higher wages for workers and farmers and who fight for the reinstatement of Steward Sand- |born and Chef Anderson. Yet the company don’t see to | better conditions for the men. The average man is running on emer- gency employment. His rate is 20 cents an hour. Our 10 per cent cut comes out of that and lodging at the company’s quarters. You can’t | make more than five hours one way. And the only way to fight is to organize. Not in company unions which can’t get a steward and chef re-instated for giving food to a hungry worker but in a union of our own, controlled by us, which can force the company to re-instate | born. -~The Communist Workers im the Yard. x with scabs, etc., it is | |Chef Anderson and Steward Sand- | | TOLEDO, Ohio—The strike of |4,000 Toledo auto-parts workers, | which threatened to involve auto- mobile workers throughout the en- | tire country, has ended in another betrayal of the workers by the str reaking A. F. of L. officials. At mass meeting Wednesday night, poorly attended for sueh an important occasion, the strikers were misied into voting for the very demands they had rejected two nights in succession! Not more than |1,500 workers attended the final | | meeting, and it was their vote, rail- jroaded through by Ramsey, A. F. |of L. business agent of Automotive | Workers’ Federal Employees’ Union, | Local 18384, which was supposed to be the voice of the 4,000 strikers! As a result ‘of the sell-out, 4,000 strikers went back to work at the Spicer Electric Auto-Lite, Bingham | Stamping and Logan Gear plants. | The original demands were: 65 | cents per hour for men and women; | right to join a union of their own a choosing, rather than having a |compeny union foreed down their throats; senior rights of em- | ployees; weekly pay envelope and | pay for waiting time. Thomas Ramsey, one-man leader of the strike, said repeatedly that “the almighty” would strike him | dead, if he took the strikers back | ‘at such damnable low wages as ex- isted before the strike.” Yet this same Ramsey united with the slave- driving multi-millionnaire employ- ers in sending the workers back to the plants at the very same terms Proposed by these mannfacturers, with the help and connivance of the sub-regional strike-breaking National Labor Board and “impar- | tial chairman” H. D. Friel, medi- ator of the U.S. Department of La- bor, Others Had a Hand Several of the central labor union | (A. F. of L.) officials who took part in the secret negotiations were | participants in the famous Overland strike sell-out in 1919, of which the strikers were informed by a leafiet issued by the Auto Workers’ Union. The strfke settlement “agree- ment” provides immediate 5 per cent blanket raise (a cent to a cent and a haif per hour) for all em- ployes in four struck plants; addi- tional 7 per cent average boost in | Spicer plant (the only plant where workers struck almost 100 per cent); permanent wage scale to be ses April 1 to be retroactive to March 1 for machinists’ and forg- ers’ unions, The “Armistice Pact” under which the strike was “settled” was dictated by Philip C. Nash, chair- man of the sub-regional National Labor Board, with the aid of manu- facturers and “labor represen- tatives.” Under the agreement, the male employees of the Spicer plant (the company paying the highest wage) will be paid $18 for a 40 hour week; women $13.70. This, in spite of the fact that the strikers had demanded equal pay for men and women before the sell-out! Nego- tiations shall take place “between the representatives (misleaders of the A. F. of L.) of the unions in- volved and the officials of the com- panies concerned.” In other words, the loudly heralded “collective bar- gaining” becomes the basis for se- |eret negotiations between A. F. of L. officials and exploiting manu- facturer The “pact” further carries out the old policy of the A. F. of L., in that it provides: “It is understood that there shal be no strikes at any of the companies concerned so long as | peaceful methods for adjusting dif- ferences have not been exhausted.” Against Speed-up At Wednesday night’s meeting, when the sell-out was put through, Ramsey, pretending to be nervous and half-dead from lack of sleep as usual, asked: “How many of you believe in the U.S. government?” How Toledo Auto Strike Was Betrayed by A. F. of L. Officials | | The strikers cheered. “Are you will- ing to take the government’s word that it will stand behind the work- ers?” The strikers shouted: “Yes! Under Roosevelt we will!” Ramsey, having thus prepared the workers for the disgusting betrayal which followed, said: “From now on the attitude of your employers is go- ing to be absolutely square with their employes. They have even agreed to let us—you union officials —come into their plants and sit down with them anytime. My judg- ment is this—accept this offer as it stands. Go back to work tomorrow.” Dana appeared at Wednesday night’s strike meeting, with one of his foremen, sitting in the gallery (for the purpose of frightening any worker who might otherwise have taken the floor, in protest of the manner in which the sell-out was railroaded through). “Union leader” Thomas Ramsey introduced multi- millionaire Dana, who was cheered more enthusiastically than Ramsey himself. Leafiet Exposes Sell-Out A leafiet issued by the Auto Workers’ Union, affiliate of the T.U. U.L., Friday afternoon, was cazerly accepted by the workers, who are angry because of the rank betrayal of their strike. The leafiet asked: “Why didn't Ramsey give the workers an oppor- tunity to say what they thought of the agreement? Why didn’t he give the girls an opportunity to say how they liked a wage of $13.70 a week, which is below the code minimum?” The workers were warned to “Be- ware of a Huge April Fool Joke— We know full well. that once the employers fulfill their contracts they will again resort to discrimination, wage-cuts and speed-up. Ramsey himself, once promised the bosses that he will show them how to in- crease speed-up. No wonder Ramsey is in favor of the N.R.A. which helps to put over such dirty deals!” Sees Error Of His Ways | Men Vote te Strike When Miners Are Discharged SO. BROWNSVILLE, Pa.—aAt the meeting of the local No. 2230 of the | U. M. W. A., last week, it was unani- ;mously decided to strike the mine unless the company agrees to the | following 3 demands. | 1—Reinstatement of fired in January. On the 4th of Jan. local president | and one of the mine committeemen | were fired for violation of the state | mining laws. Their crime consisted |in the fact that they went from | place to place to collect from the |miners money to pay the lawyers | that are prosecuting a case against the Valley Camp robbery in the company store. This case was started in the early part of 1933. The miners wanted to strike im- mediately, but one of the fired men, the local president, who is a 100 per cent supporter of John L. Lewis and Fagan, was responsible for dis- charge of at least 30 men whom he had expelled out of the local as “Nationals.” He prevented the men | from striking because he claimed strike was illegal and he had a promise of Fagan and other U. M. W. A., that he will win his case. He pursued the men to postpone the strike action until Feb. 15, when his case was to come up before the N. R. A. Compliance Board. ‘We may state in passing that the Valley Camp Coal Co. violates the mining laws every moment that & wheel turns in the mine. So this | excuse in the firing of these two men is understood by all the miners as a new means of blacklist- ing. Finally when the date of the hearings came on Feb. 15 they were nostponed to May. Of course, in May the hearings can be again | postponed to Jan. 4, 1935, to cele- brate the anniversary of the dis- | charge. Double Cross Action | It then became evident to our} local president that he was a victim | of a grand double cross by the U.| M. W. A. district machine and the company and he did not discourage the strike vote; on the contrary he now clearly saw what we saw the day that he was fired; that is. that while he was servile tool of the Valley camp and stool pigeoning for them on all real fighters, he was O. K,, but as soon as he began to fight against the company store he wes slated for discharge and black- | ist. two men | | 2—The Power Question Recently the coal company pro- posed a new condition in the mine. Namely that the men are to receive 2 cents a ton less, and in return will/get free powder and caps. Our local president and the mine com | mittee, under the leadership of | | Wm. Feeney the new Sub-District | |Board member (appointed, of course) made this agreement with the coal company without consult- ing the men. The men were op- posed to this change. The men— very logically — figured that any | such proposal of the company was in favor of the company. The com- | pany was going to save money at | the miners’ expense. Also since the | company pays the shoot firers, the | | j and an agree Lewis Agent |History of Progressive Miners’ Leaders Prove They Follow Lewis Aims Stop Company's | First Attack By a Mine Worker Correspondent BROWNSVILLE, Pa.—A man laid off a day at the Allison mine of the | Rainey Coal Co., and when he came jto work the following day the boss gave him a week off. The man im- | mediately took the case to the Mine | Committee, and they struck the !mine. The company agreed to place |the men back to work without any | penal | Allison mine was one of thé worst |hell holes in the Coke Region and the conditions now are nothing to |brag about. However, the miners |are in a mood to streggle against |the bad conditions and this one- | day strike to protect one man is the | best example of it. | Here the company violated the |agreement which specifically states |“any man absenting himself for two | days from work without permission |shall be fired or laid off equal | amount of days.” Yet, the coal com- | pany wanted to lay a man off for a week over one-day lay off. Without the timely and effective action of the men, this would heve been the beginning of all kinds of fines. Vesta Mine § By a Mine Worker Correspondent DENBO, Pa.—The coa] miners of the three Vesta Coal Co. mines, a subsidiary of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., came out on strike Feb. 19, in sympathy with the Vesta 8 miners who have been locked out since the September strike, and also to drive out the company union, get recognition of the U.M.W.A., nent. After a week's strike, the U.M. W.A. officials, with the aid of the strikebreaking National Labor Board, signed an agreement with the company, miners at Denbo, Richeyville, and Vestaburg. The latest agreement is nothing new in the way of negotiations by the U.M.W.A. officials as individuals. The agreement although not a regular union contract, permits dic- tator Lewis and his gang the check- eff of union dues, The agreement has the same wage rate as the Appalachian Coal Code, with an 8-hour day and a 5-day week. It also provides that non-members of the U.M.W.A. working in these mines, or any new employes may by a written order authorize Lewis to represent them in negotiations with representatives of the company, in all matters aris- ing under this contract, which, of course, is only the check-off and the coal code provisions. The agreement will expire with the coal code March 31. The U.M. W.A. officials hope for a renewal (Continued on Page 5) of the agreement at that time, “for the best interests to all concerned.” | | Spy Agency Detroit AFL Chiefs k WorkedWith Agent hall By A. MAGIL Of Labor Spy Outfit | | | In this issue we present | documentary proof that Con-| |gressman Carl M. Weideman | of Michigan, whose candidacy | was endorsed by the Detroit | Federation of Labor and who, |has been closely associated with | |Frank X. Martel, president of | the Detroit Federation, and with | William Collins, national organ- | jizer in the auto industry of the | American Federation of Labor, | |is a director of an industrial spy agency. | | | | | This letter was sent to a De- |troit tool and die shop whose |mame, for obvious reasons, has | been eliminated from the photo- | Statice copy. | Another member of the Board |of Directors is Robert E. Sage, |Circuit Court Commissione: | whose candidacy was also en |dorsed by the Detroit Federation | of Labor. New Deal Supporter. | | Weideman, who is an ardent | supporter of the Roosevelt New Deal, is known as one of the most energetic slingers of radi- cal phrases in Congress. Last summer, when the American Federation of Labor launched its organization drive in the auto industry at a meeting in Cass | Technical High School, Detroit, | Weideman, was the chief speaker. Martel and Collins also spoke at | this meeting. | The Auto Workers News has | publicly demanded that Mr. Mar- tel and Collins give clear an- swers to the following questions: | 1. Did you at the time you, invited Weideman to speak at ithe Cass Tech meeting know of | { wasn lle Sait Gentlemen: = this agency was Prone NiMeARA SOT Dawn Patrol RESIDENTIAL POLICE 15000 Mack Ave. Rees cok sae ith AFL Heads; SP. Press Aids Scabs January 27, 1984, During the recent Tool and Die strike siled upon for several men to Property, we were very successful in handling rotect their @ situation, in fact, two of these companies that employed us during th trike have now pealed to ue for under-cover men. shops realize that a good under-cover man can turn over of information thet would de var; employer. Some Tocl and Die shops in ti Valuable to their state employ under~ he cover mne the year around end find it very valuable, We have several experienced men who are good mechanics with plenty of servi would simply employ them through this aj on the payroll as any other employe the employer would know who the 1. cover man, and if anything te being stolen the employer woula should undoubtedly, know who the thieves are, If a strike occurr you would be informed daily what the strikers plans are. Our charge for service of this nsture mould be $50.00 per month. We would very much appreciate 4 you would kindly give this matter your consideration and let us hear from you either by letter or telephone. ME truly y EAP MJG. * 7 Lieve TAMN PATROL The above letter is documenta: y-20f that Congressman Weide- man of Michigan, associated with Detroit A. F. of L., and William auto industry of the A. F. of L. agency. Frank X. Martel, president of the Collins, national organizer in the is a director of an industrial spy his connections with the Dawn Patrol? 2. In view of the documen- tary proof offered by the Auto Workers News, are you prepared to issue a statement publicly re- pud all connection with Weideman and Sage and de- nouncing their stool pigeon ac- tivities? 3. Do you intend to continue color or na‘ your policy of forming a united front with capitalist politicia: and other similar “friends of la~ bor,’ while opposing the united front of the workers, based on UNITY OF ACTION IN THE SHOPS in defense of the vital interests of al tomobile work- ers, irrespective of union affilia- tion, political or religious beliefs, mality? ¥% The r HOME EDITIO! Mi ae Pm xa lIwaukee Leade aT ae Tape ee Ha Socialist Paper Printed Scab Ad For Milwaukee Co. NEW YORK.—As fact upon fact continues to pile up proving conclusively the counter-revolu- tionary and anti-working class role of the leaders of the Social- ist Party, new damning evidence against these self-styled labor leaders comes in from the far- famed Socialist controlled town of Milwaukee. This evidence is in the form of a clipping from the Milwau- kee Leader, a paper which was listed at the last convention of the Socialist Party as one of the leading Socialist newspapers. On March 5, the day set for a general strike of heat, light, transport and power workers in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Leader published a large three column statement, signed by S. B. Way, president of the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Cempany, uphold- the company and denouncing the workers. “If strike agitators threaten the safety and convenience of well over half a million people, the public can count on the con- tinued service of our employes and their keen appreciation of their obligation to the public,” the statement said. A more. brazen and open strikebreaking statement than this could not even be found in the columns of the avowed cap- italist and anti-labor papers. It shows clearly how the So- cialist leaders are linked up with The ‘Strike’ Our company and rinety-six per cont of the ‘employes believe that the puble i primarily iwerested in adequate and continuous public utliry services. This belie is demonstrated by fur Labor contract of 1918 providing for arbi- leapon as the means of seting Sopites 1s our option, the "arike” leaders never hoped foe more than pyblcty ot ofthe present arjtaton, They expected hat federal authority would step in and "op the “atike”, 1 sike agitators again threaten the safety and convenience of well over half «milion People, the public can count on the continued service of our employes and their keen appre Aston of theie obligation to the public. The Service Will Not Stop S$. BL Way, } Ponder, THE MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC RAILWAY Ano, LIGHT COMPANY Sere Few | A fascimile of a strikebreaking advertisement which appeared in the Socialist newspaper, Milwau- kee Leader. power magnates, and how they ave working hard at their job ot halting any strike movement against these capitalists, The N.R.A. was successful in stopping the strike, after the workers had voted for it. The Labor Board gave false prom- ises of an early settlement of grievances. Then the Socialist leaders through their press de- nounced the “strike agitators,” A more brazen piece of strike betrayal than this can be found On Conditions and the strike was settled. | trike | ‘Sold Out by UMWA which affects 1,800) | Attack on Communists | Shows Fear of the Rank and File By R. SHAW Organizer C.P. Southern Illinois The officialdom of the Progr ve Miners is in a dilemma: Either | to come out openly like Lewis in a | reactionary garb or try some more social-fascist sand throwing into the eyes of the Progressive Miners. The latest attack on the Commu- nist Party appearing in the Pro- gressive Miner of March 2nd, under the heading “The Communist Party,” in spite of all the word juggling is a frank admission of lesperation. First they attack the Party for “minimizing” the struggles of the Austrian workers. But when we read a little further we discover that in speaking of the militant fight put up the Socialist and Communist workers in spite of the open betrayal \by the Bauers and Deutchs, they are actually attacking the heroic struggle of these workers. Here is what they say: “We would not be | surprised to hear there was some | fine oriental Commumist hand be- hind the (Austrian) scene.” | These tools of the coal are actually ready to defend Woil jand LaGuardia, like the Socialist Party leaders who attacked the leditor of the Daily Worker in the Madison Square Garden, Secondly the article attacks “Com- munist scabbing.” The PMLA. of- ficialdom would not dare come into the open and call those thousands of Progressive Miners who were forced by their betrayal baek into the U.M.W.A. pits, scabs. We chal- lenged these same officials im an open letter several weeks ago to come out into the open and defend their policy and strike policy. But instead they have evaded the ques- tion by saying: “We would not debate those who always kick us in the back,” thereby admitting their bankruptcy. Likewise, because the miners of the Midland territory are today openly coming more and more to look for leadership from the Com- munist Party, these lackeys try to |put the blame for their dastardly | betrayal of these miners upon th | Militant National Miners’ Union Strike of 1929. We leave it to the |rank and file of the Midland to judge the fight of 1929 and how it was led, to the open betrayal of the P.M.A. officials, who have left the miners stranded long after the strik> | was over. The P.M.A. officials would not dare come to Kincaid and the miners who is responsible f their plight. For thousands of blac listed miners being terrorized, their homes bombed and officials yet tell- ing them to keep peace. There is a very good reason why the attack upon the Communist Party comes precisely at this time. The Communist Party of Southern Illinois, composed of the most mili- tant and class conscious miners is more and more being looked upon as the only working class party which has consistently fought all misleaders, no matter under what garb they come before the miners. ‘The Illinois miners today are recall- ing the advice and policy by the C.P. members at the time of the formation of the P.M.A.— Policies which would guarantee making it a real class struggle organ of the rank and file. The miners remember that while the S. P. leaders (half of whom are lined up with the A. F. of L, and U.M.W.A,, Hillman, Germer, in Uli- \hois, etc.) were considering P.M.A. as a faction, the C.P. came openly and unreservedly in support of the P.MA. and militant fight put up by the rank and file to throw Lewis out. But while hajling this struggle We pointed out at the same time that empty talk about militant union will not bring the bacon home. Hundreds of miners remember the Speech made by Foster in Gillespie and Springfield at the time when P.M.A, was formally organized, in which he stated: “The success of the P.M.A. lies with the policy of class struggle and the application of this policy in the present strike, otherwise the new union will degenerate into just another U.M.W.A. collaboration sae the operators.” At that time we roposed an 8-point program, including a uni- fied strike struggle on a state-wide Scale, state-wide agreements, broad strike committees, against arbitra~ tion and individual agreements, a broad united front of all sincere rank and file groups of various Political opinions, as the first ele- mentary step towards making P. M. A. a real union, instead of another reformist tool of the coal barons. But not one of these militant meas- ures were carried out. Today, 25 a result of consistent betrayals, substitution of class collaboration for class struggle has brought the Progressive miners worse conditions in the mine and in the union. (To Be Continued) International Harvester Workers Send Greeting To Racine Strikers CHICAGO, March 9,—Workers of the International Harvester Co. here who are organized into the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union sent a telegram of greetings and solidarity to the 1,200 strikers of the J. I. Case Co., farm thachinery manufacturers, in Racine, Wis. The Harvester workers pledged to mobilize “the full support of the McCormick and tractor workers’ to the finance capitalists. the big nowhere in labor history, the support of the strikegs