The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW Y ORK, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1934 Page Three 70 A.F.L. Locals Endorse HR 7598 in Past Month; Defy Green Lovestoneites Ejected From C.W.A. Union Disrupters Attempted To Stop Unity With Other CWA Groups NEW YORK-—As a result of their disruptive and anti-organizational activities, Miriam Silvis and other Lovestoneite renegades in the As- sociated Office and professional Emergency Employes, have been ousted by the membership from their positions of leadership in that organization. On Sunday, March 11, Miriam Silvis, in the name of the small ex- ecutive committee of eleven of the Association, called by mail a dele- gated meeting of the large executive committee which has been elected by the workers on the jobs. When the delegates reported at 32 E. 22nd St. to the hall at which the meeting was to have been held, they found that Silvis and her few renegade associates had notified the owners of the hall that no meeting would be held there. The hall was locked. The delegates then went to the hall of the Unemployed Artists at 11 W. 18th St., opened the meeting with 54 delegates present, and proceeded with the order of business. Climax of Disruptive Activities This action on the part of the small group of Lovestoneite ele- ments in the Association was by no means an isolated venture. At previous meetings the Lovestoneites had attempted to prevent the achievement of united action by the membership with other C.W.A. workers. In meetings with the heads of the C.W.A., Silvis had repeatedly collaborated with these C.W.A. offi- cials in order to head off the pro- tests and grievances which the members directed at the C.W.A. At a meeting of the executive council of the A.O.P.EE. about a month ago, Silvis, with the aid of her clique, packed the meeting with fraudulent delegates bearing the stamp of Lovestone, Trotsky, and Socialist leaders, and foisted upon the membership of the AOP.EE., a so-called “top committee of eleven.” In order to avoid exposure, these fake delegates later resigned. ‘The top committee of eleven, over- whelmingly composed of renegades from Communism, remained. Al- though subject to the orders of the large executive committee, and fur- ther subject to ratification by the membership, this committee of bureaucratic manner, and failed to eleven proceeded to function in a consult either the large committee or the membership in any matter. Lower Committee Acts Meanwhile events of tremendous importance faced the membership. Wholesale tirings of C.W.A. workers were being prepared; the infamous “paupers’ oath” questionnaire was thrust upon the C.W.A. workers with the demand that it be im- mediately answered and returned to the C.W.A. Instead of arousing the membership to action, Silvis and her clique met with the C.W.A. officials, held private conversations with De Lamater asking the C.W.A. officials not to meet with any dele- gates from the A.O.P.E.E., elected by their projects. The large committee, composed of about 65 elected delegated members, met on March 3, at 232 Seventh Ave., where they found Silvis and several other members of the top committee, and demanded that a meeting of the entire executive be called at once. This Silvis refused to do, stalking out of the meeting. However, several of the small com- mittee stayed for the meeting of the large committee members. Since a quorum of the large committee was present, this meeting called a meeting of the entire executive for ratification of the decisions put be- fore it. Depose Committee of Eleven Sn March 7, forty delegates turn- ed out for the meeting. A letter from Silvis was read which stated that in her opinion this present meeting was illegal, and calling for a meeting of the large committee to be held at 32 E. 22nd St., March 11, at 7:30 p.m. However, since most of the delegates were present, the meeting proceeded with immediate business. It deposed the entire com- mittee of eleven, by unanimous vote, the committee never having been ratified by the membership, and elected an activizing committee which promptly took steps against the firings of C.W.A. workers scheduled for the coming week. It appointed a committee of five to function until the. adoption of a constitution. Since its inception, this committee has mobilized the membership for a demonstration on ten hours notice and has further activized the mem- bership on the projects, urging them to deluge Roosevelt, Hopkins, Daniels, DeLamater and C.W.A. with resolutions, protests and delega- tions protesting lay-offs and the “paupers’ oath” questionnaire. Death Blow to Lovestoneites On March 11, the membership of the A.O.P.E.E. came to the hall at 32 E, 22nd St., at which a meeting, called by Silvis, was to have been held, only to find that Silvis and her small group had privately met at the home of one of the Love- stoneite members, refusing to face the membership. Fifty-four of the 65 job delegates in the association met at 11 W. 18th St. Steps are being taken by the members to ef- fect a united front with all C.W.A. workers’ organizations in the strug- gle for the continuance and en- largement of C.W.A. and to stop all firings and re-instate those already fired from C.W.A. At the meeting on March 11, two workers active in the struggles of the Association, Taylor and Fox, were elected to the offices of secre- tary and treasurer, and Silvis her clique were voted out of Phila. Worker | Expelled by C. P. Admits Mistakes Sam Leckerman Issues Statement Against Lovestonites PHILADELPHIA.— Sam _ Lecker- man, a Philadelphia carpenter, who joined the Communist Party in 1923, and was expelled from the with the Lovestone renegades, has now made a public statement rec- ognizing his errors and disassociat- ing himself completely from these renegades. In his statement, Sam Leckerman | says that: “In the beginning my mistake was that I had associated myself with the ideology of the ~Love- stone group, and with their dis- ruptive work, which is against the working class and their leader, the Communist Party. About four years ago I severed my connections with them organ- izationally, but the tendencies and this disruptive work I per- sisted in carrying for some time afterwards. “One of the glaring examples of my crimes against the workers’ movement was, that I permitted myself to be used at a trial against the militant workers of that organization. As a worker myself and now fully recognizing that the Communist Party is the only Party that fights for the in- terests of the working class, I see that, when I assisted in the mak- ing of an attack against the Com- munist Party, I was doing much harm to the best interests of the working class, “I disassociate myself from this Lovestone ideology and tenden- cies, and I condemn them as anti- working class. I will do all within my means to correct my former actions and the harm done thereby. I request to be given an opportunity in my work in the mass organizations to prove that og attempting to outlive my The trial mentioned in Lecker- man’s statement is that, in which a number of members of the Jewish carpenters’ local of A. F. of L. were brought before the District Council on charges of being left-wingers. Leckerman appeared against them and testified that they were Com- munists, At present Leckerman is active in the South Philadelphia Workers’ Club and in his union. “His state- ment is published,” declares the Central Control Commission of the Communist Party, “in order that the workers in these organizations, and all workers in general, should know that Sam Leckerman has recognized his errors and is trying to regain his reputation as a good left-winger.” Ball Bearing Strike Still on in Richmond RICHMOND.—The strike of the ball bearing workers still continues militantly despite the police, who are trying to break up the strike, Friday, police broke up a picket line where they arrested eight work- ers. ARMY FLIER KILLED CHEYENNE, Wyoming.—Lieut. R. G. Richardson of the Army Reserve Corps was killed Saturday in a test flight of an army plane to be used for carrying mail. This is the eleventh death among army mail fliers in the four weeks Lond the army has been flying the mails. Party in 1939 for aligning himself NEW FASCIST GROUP Members of the United States Fascists, who are incorporated under the laws of the State of New Jersey, in front of their Newark head- | UNITED STATES FASCISTS 2 TO FIGHT WORKERS. quarters. This newest of the fascist groups in the United States plans to fight “Communists, poverty, municipality police departments and misunderstanding between capital and labor.” Socialist Party Heads, Jersey City Police Ban All Communist Party Meetings Acting in Unity With Police, Refuse Hall for Meeting The Communist Party three weeks ago planned an anti-war meeting at the Socialist Labor Lyceum for March 12th. Two days before the meeting was scheduled the police | came down to the hall and ordered the hall to close its doors, otherwise “the police will find it necessary to come in and physically break up this Communist meeting.” The order also was given that no Communist meeting was to be permitted any- where in the city. Nevertheless the Party carried on its preparations and on the night of the meeting was ready to carry it through. At the hall the police were well mobi- lized. A fire hose was prepared across the street. Twenty-five de- tectives were on hand at the hall. A number of radio cruisers stood at the door ready for arrests. The Communist Party at Jersey City, N. J., has in the past had the greatest trouble in holding any sort of a meeting, indoor or outdoor. Whenever such meetings were plan- ned the police eithef closed the hall, or used other methods of terror such as visiting every workers’ home in the vicinity of the hall and terror- izing the workers with threats of arrest. The Labor Lyceum, although owned in the name of an individual member of the Socialist Party is the official hall of the Socialists in Jersey City. Although previously they had agreed to permit us into the hall, on the night of the meet- ing they acted with the police, and locked the doors. Many workers came. Especially were Negro work- ers noticeable. All were asked their names and addresses and whether , they were Communists. Mayor Hague Opens Drive for Miegality of Party This city is ruled by Hague, who was previously connected with the czar of the labor racket, Brandel. Hague has been Mayor for 20 years, and holds Jersey City in the grip of the most vicious terror. Shops in New York which want open shop conditions, find their best guaran- tee for low wages, long hours and speed-up by moving to Jersey City. |Hague gives them assurance that they will be troubled no longer with unionism. This has happened many times in the past year. Unions which show any sign of militancy are immediately checked by the po- lice. Only one week ago the Na- tional Hotel & Restaurant Employ- ees Union, which had a strong left wing group held its elections under the direct surveillance of policemen, and detectives. These stood at the doors and instructed every worker whom to vote for, and threatened those that showed support to the \left. wingers, | Hague Strongest Support to Fascist Organizations | Shirts, the Friends of New Germany ernment. McFeeley, right hand man to Hague, and Mayor of Hoboken, also in Hudson County, recently gave a public school to the Fascists for their meeting. Organizations like the Socialist Party are per- mitted meetings and activities, with police protection guaranteed. The City government finds its bitterest enemy in the Communist Party. Party Organizes Struggle for Legality and Against Terror Under the leadership of the Com- |munist Party an anti-terror anti- injunction conference has been held, to which over 50 organizations sent delegates. These included A. F. of unions. organized tc break through this terror. The Communist Party of Hudson County calls upon all work- ing class organizations to send tele- grams of protest and resolutions to the city government of Jersey City. Such organizations as the Silver | and other Fascist organizations find | their best support in the city gov-| L. unions and left wing groups in| A campaign is now being} |Salt Lake Federation of Labor Adopts Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill Rank and. File Endorse Only Genuine Jobless Insurance Bill CITIES ENDORSE Mass Pressure For H. R. 7598 Continues in A. F. of L. NEW YORK —The lying paign which William Green conducting inside the A. F. of L. against the Workers’ Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598), has not been able to, halt the sweeping demand of 4 of L. local unions and city central bodies for the enactment of the Workers’ Bill William Green is sending letters to the local unions, spreading the |slanderous insinuations that the | Workers’ Bill is “unconstitutional.” He is boosting the Roosevelt backed Wagner Bill, which does not do a are now jobless. | In spite of these vicious attacks of William Green and the A. F. of L. executive council, since Feb. 4 close to 70 A. F. of L. local unions, in addition to such important Cen- tral bodies as the Philadelphia, St. Louis, Salt Lake, Spokane and a number of others, have defied Green and endorsed H. R. 7598. These locals, in addition to another 1,000 who previously endorsed the bill, wrote Green demanding he support the Workers’ Bill. In a letier to an A. F. of L. local union in Philadelphia, which de- manded that Green act on behalf of H. R. 7598, Green, writing as a supporter of Roosevelt’s hunger | drive on the unemployed, made the following remarkable admission, “The committees (of Congress) which have held open hearings on the various bills introduced will not approve of any that provide the government should pay unemploy- ment insurance to all unemployed in the United States.” Green says further in this letter, copy of which is in the possession of the Daily Worker: “Congress cannot enact an un- employment insurance law for all states. It can only legislate for the District of Columbia. well known in Washington. .. .” This rot is peddied out to A. F. | of L, locals in order to try to | stop the demands of the thou- sands of workers who, are .writing Green demanding he act on the Workers’ Bill (H. R. 7598). Green well knows that the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) is the only bill now before Congress which applies to those now totally unemployed. But he is propagating among the A. F. of L. locals for the useless Wagner Bill, spreading false statements as to the “legality” of the Workers’ Bill, which was presented to Con- gress in exact legal terminology. Green is working for the employ- ers’ government and is aiding Roosevelt in trying to sidetrack real unemployment insurance. The rank and file inside of the A. F. of L. in one local union after another are repudiating Green’s at- |tack on the Workers’ Bill (7598) and is demanding that Congress The workers inside the A. F. of L. | demand that the A. F. of L. execu- | tive council and Congress shall im- mediately grant security from star- vation to the unemployed and pass the only real unemployment insur- | thing for the 16,000,000 workers who | This is | shall immediately enact it into law. | Owing to With beet len Dear Sir and Brother: unconstitutional the Americ ie supporting the Wagner Bill, a copy of which 1 We will do everything poseible to have the proper law enacted, oe a President, American Federation of Labor. AF OF L Buona Washington, DE, Merob 8, 1934, the belief that H.R. 7598 te Federation of Labor loyment Insurance sed, wishes and kindest regarde, GREEN SUPPORTS FAKE BILL In a letter to the United Leather Workers’ Union, Local 52, Wil- | liam Green supports the fake Wagner “Reserves” Bill of the Roose- velt government, which makes absolutely no provision for the present 16 million unemployed. Communist Party Gains 400 Per Cent In Seattle Election | Votes Polled in Primar- ‘ies Show Marked In-/| | crease Over Last Year | | SEATTLE, March 15. (By Mail).| —Polling 2,394 votes in the Seattle) primaries election, Feb. 27. James Murphy, Communist candidate for | | City Councilman and National Sec- retary of the National Lumber- | workers’ Union, increased Commu- nist votes by 400 per cent over the | last city election. John Laurie, Communist candidate | for Mayor, polled 1,792 votes, com- | pared with 700, when he ran in the last city election. Running with Murphy on the | Communist ticket in the councilman race was Revels Cayton, Negro worker and District Secretary of the International Labor Defense. He received 1,737 votes, and Tom Burns, jorganizer of the Marine Workers’ fees Union, polled 1,945. Of special significance in the elec- |tion returns was the vote for Rob- ert Harlin, labor misleader of the A. F. of L., strike-breaker and mem- ber of the City Council, who lost 60 percent of his votes. John Dore. who came out highest in the pri- maries, and who was elected Mayor two years ago by his promises to the | |unemployed, lost 30 per cent of his votes. | The Communist Party, in a state- |ment issued after the primaries, points out to the workers of Seattle ance bill now before Congress. The|the danger that lies in the rise of continued mass pressure of the! the Cincinnatus group, an open workers can force Congress to act. | fascist organization, backed up fi- Office Equipment Is Needed by County Unemployed Council NEW YORK.—The New York County Unemployment Council, recently organized on a county Unemployment on Feb. 5, has opened headquarters at 164 W. 22nd Street, 2nd floor. The Council is in need of desks, chairs, benches, coal stove. lumber, typewriters, etc. for the new headquarters. Any one who can donate any of these articles is asked to communicate with the council or bring these di- rectly to the Council head- quarters. Kosher Butchers Call Philadelphia Strike PHILADELPHIA. — The Kosher Butchers’ Union have called a strike in their industry. The Regional Labor Board tried continuously to throttle possible militant action on the part of the butcher workers, who wanted to win their demands when the union was called into con- ferences ‘with them. nancially by the power trusts. One of their main planks was “one year's intensified training for the | State police.” The Communist candidates lost many votes through locked voting from the finals, the Communist candidates are carrying on a write- basis following the decisions of | the National Convention Against |} machines, clamps over their names, | ete. Although officially eliminated Federation Represents | 30 Local Unions of A. F. of L. |HIT WAGNER BELL P.M.A. Miners Endorse | Bill; Rank and File Hold Conferenee NEW YORK ~—The Salt Leké, h. Federetion of Labor, repre- senting over 30 loca] unions of the A. F. of L., has adopted the Work- ers’ Unemploymen: 1 Social In- surance Bill (H. R 98 In the Progressive Miners of | America the ri and file miners are defying the campaign of their leaders for the fraudulent Wagner Bill and endorsing the Workers’ Bill (H. R. 7598). The Wagner Bill does not apply to the sixteen mifl- lion now jobless. In addition to the five P. M. A. local unions, which haye already en- dorsed the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, in the past month, the regular meeting of the Wom- ens’ Auxiliary, (P. M. A.) at Belle- ville, Illinois, endorsed the bill. | At a conference of 126 miners, elected by opposition groups in the |P. M. A., which met at Centralia, | Illinois, to further the demands of the rank and file, the Workers’ Bill (A. R. 7598) was endorsed. This ‘onference called on the rank and file in the P. W. A. to give full sup- vort to the Workers’ Bill. The con- | ference also protested lay-offs and wage cuts on the C. W. A. jobs. The Caspian, Mich., Single Men’s Club has passed a resolution, calling for enactment of the Workers’ Bil! (H. R. 7598). Knitgoods Shope Vote for Strike 1,000 in Philadelphia Prepare Walk-Out PHILADELPHIA. — A thousand | knitgoods workers unanimously ap-~ | Proved a resolution presented by the committee of shop chairmen and shop committeemen calling for a general strike in the industry and for the election of a rank and file committee to make final prepara- tions. The committee will demand a 35- hour week, complete upon recog- nition and a graduated wage scale of from $14 a week for unskillec apprentices to $60 a week for skilled workers, At a mass meeting last Friday | night, a chairman of the Haber Mill workers, who had just ended a 12- week strike, called on the other workers to resist the attacks of the bosses and that his shop would be with them when the general strike was called. COHEN’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr. Delancey Street, New York City EYES EXAMINED By Dr. Joseph Lax Wholesale Opticians Tel. ORchard 4-450 Factory on Premises in campaign, “TCI BLAST,” issued by the Com- munist Party Units in the TOI, Box 1813, Birmingham, Ala., Feb- Tuary, 1934. Issue No. 1. Reviewed by Gertrude Haessler If Hed means bread for wife and A job for you and me, Why be afraid of being Red, Of wanting work, of wanting bread? If organizing means we're Red, Then RED'S the thing to be! With this rollicking song on their , lips, the Communist workers, Negro | and white, within the Southern stronghold of capitalism—the Ten- nessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Co., subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Corpo- ration—challenge the power and the very existence of this economic and Political Goliath in the South. The T.C.I. dominates the entire economic and industrial life of Ala- bama, and practically of the entire South. It has many steel mills and ore and coal mines in several Ala- bama cities, and an extensive rail- road of its own. The majority of the 12 to 15 thousand workers now employed (30,000 capacity), are Negroes. In quite a number of these steel mills and mines the Communist Party has obtained a foothold among the workers. It has organized Party units, including Negro and white workers. In the rest of the company area, which, by the way, covers a radius of about 15 miles, there are other Party members, and sympathizers of the Party. It is this network of miners, steel work- ers, and railr workers inside the Plants, that gets out the “TCI Blast,” the first shop paper to be issued in the South in over two years. When we consider that some of these plants are pretty well organ- ized by the varfous A. F. of L. and Railroad Brotherhood Unions, while others have hardly been touched by these organizations,“we can begin to understand what an organizational problem our courageous Party com- rades in the South have tackled. Three basic industries under the domination of one giant corpora- and out of the Association, wih aia isa the workers; Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers trying to mislead the organized and unorgan- the leaders of the ized steel workers; the leaders of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica trying to sell out the coal min- ers; the leaders of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers trying to keep their ore miners and smelter workers from struggle; and no foothold to speak of, as yet, for the militant industrial revolutionary unions; this is the situation facing the “TCI Blast” when it sets out to organize the workers for struggle for better work- ing conditions in the plant, and to challenge the power of the entire corporation, and of the government backing the corporation, with the slogan of a Soviet America. Struggle On Concrete Issues This is the first issue of the “TCI Blast.” Considering that the work- ers getting it out have had no ex- perience in such work, it is on the whole a good issue. It tries very hard to balance its shop material and political material, but in do! so, it separates the two. In its very handling of the profuse and excel- lent shop material, the “TCI Blast” fails to draw organizational and po- litical conclusions and to give lead- in struggle for either the shop demands or for the ultimate aims of our world Com- munist Party. There are three articles giving aims, program and demands — the introduction for the paper, a list of shop demands, and an article on form of letters from workers from the various shops, but no answers to the problems raised by the work- ers, To sum up the paper: Three basic articles of organization and pro- gram, not linked up with specific shop conditions; and two pages of shop material, not linked up with organizational and political pro- grams. This shortcoming is due, obviously, to editorial inexperience, and very likely also, to some unclar- ity on organizational policy inside the shop. In many big plants in the United States, the comrades find it diffi- cult, in their shop papers, to draw lessons of economic and _ political struggle from concrete shop condi- tions because the contact for infor- mation on conditions is faulty. This lack of information is not the case here. The comrades should study their shop material very carefully and try to understand how they could have accomplished this very necessary linking up, and “how they can in the future overcome this very basic weakness. Shop Material Not Utilized For instance—a miner writes a brief letter on a lately-developed grievance. In an editorial note, the paper could have drawn the atten- tion of the miners to the fact that the leaders of the U.M.W.A. are not lifting a finger to fight these wors- ening conditions. It could point out that the members must force the local leadership to act. Here is the first step toward oppositional work in the U.M.W.A—the first step to- the “REDS.” There is also an ar- ticle of a general nature on unions. There are two full pages of excep- tion; a company union foisted on tionally fine shop material in the ward realizing the paper’s own slogan—rank and file control of the U.M.W.A. Instead of using this con- workers themselves, this is neces- sary. And this is true of all our political slogans in the paper. If the proper conclusions are drawn from the shop conditions, in| future issues, then our demands and programs, now being put forward in this issue as general articles, We Have Reopened JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE (Bet, 12th and 13th St.) organization, the main emphasis in the paper must be the building up| of shop organization inside the shop, | on a department or planf basis, | comprising unorganized workers, | and the organized workers, no mat- | ter what their organizational affili- | ation. This shop organization must | ity and sell-out character of the attacks this leadership only for sit- ting at tables with the bosses and smoking 60-cent cigars. This article flings out the slogan of rank-and- file control of the A. F. of L. unions without telling how to go about it, and on what issues to mobilize the workers around the opposition. This is true also of letters from the steel workers in various plants. Unity of Negro and White Another example—a worker writes of many grievances in the Ensley steel mill, but points out particularly that the Negro workers labor longer hours for less pay at the very same work as the white workers. Here’s our chance to explain the boss tac- tic of “divide and rule” on a con- crete situation, and bring forward the Communist Party program. In another letter the contemptuous at- titude toward Negroes on the part of the company store in the Wylam No. 8 Mine is complained of. An- other chance to bring forward our program of unity of black and white. Instead, in the articles enumerating economic demands, the slogan of equal pay and conditions for Negro and white is put forward without any explanation. In the article enu- merating the planks of the Party platform, the slogan of complete equal rights for Negroes is put for- ward without any explanation. We cannot fling out among these white Southern workers, who are filled with the traditional bourgeois hatred and contempt for the Negro, the slogan of complete equal rights for Negroes, without a single word of explanation of why, from the point crete material to expose the passiv- t of view of the interests of the white U.M.W.A. leadership, the paper in-| stead, in a long article on unions,| divorced from concrete shop condi- | tions, will not sound so much like |an enumeration of certain platonic ideas, but will have flesh and blood and a good solid bony skeleton.| Build the Revolutionary Unions The handling of the organiza- tional situation inside the plants seems to be unclear. The fight against the company union is clear- | cut, although not enough was made of the fact that a successful strug- gle had been carried on against it. | There is nothing in the paper, how- ever, to awaken the workers to the very elementary realization of the need of economic organization of some kind. They therefore would tend to become confused at our tac- tic of organizing them into the re- formist unions, at the same time criticizing the leadership of these unions, and criticizing not on the basis of shop conditions. Then there is nothing of a definite concrete nature to guide these workers to put into effect the slogan of rank-and- file control of the A. F. of L. and Railroad Brotherhood Unions. Fundamentally, it is not correct) to have a blanket policy of putting all the workers of this widespread company into the A. F. of L. unions. In those plants where the A. F. of | L. has strong or predominating in- fluence, the policy should be to rank-and-file opposition work while organizing the workers into these reformist unions. In the other plants the policy must be the building of our revolutionary unions. On the railways, of course, the Railroad Brotherhood Unity Movement is the vehicle through which the railroad workers must be organized as op- positioi groups within the Brother- hood, for struggle and rank and file control. But no matter what the organiza- tional policy is with regard to union have as its immediate purpose the development of shop struggles on the job against grievances. In all this work the demands of the Negroes must be in the fore- front. In those unions which dis- criminate against the Negroes, by placing them into Jim-Crow Locals. the Negro and white members must combine to smash this Jim-Crow- ism. In those unions which go even further, and do not accept Negro members, even into Jim-Crow locals (some of the Railroad Brotherhoods, etc.), our white comrades and sym- pathizers must put up a militant fight for admission of Negro work- ers on terms of complete equality. In general, politically, the paper loes not somehow get across the idea that the Communist Party is grappling with the T.C.. and the government supporting it, for class power in the South, and the slogans do not put forth this issue. Even in the program the Negro question is restricted to complete equal rights for Negroes. This company is the stronghold which must be bombard- ed in order to realize the slogan of self-determination for the Negro in the Black Belt. This slogan is not even mentioned in the paper. This bombardment of the TCI. is the key to the emancipation of the Southern sharecroppers, Negro and white. It is the key to the emanci- pation of the Negro steel workers, who comprise over 80 per cent of all the steel workers in the Bir- mingham area. It is the key to the proletarian and agrarian revolution in the South! Comradely Atmosphere The Lychee Garden Chinese & American Restaurant Special Lunch Special Dinner 30 45 49 East 10th Street, N. Y. €. 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