The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 23, 1934, Page 3

Vi \ q P | v 4 De na ere enn ee” soe Ag Co. Union ‘Vote Despite Th Threats Mae ‘Uses Tricks | te Win Over Negro Steel Workers BALTIMORE, Md. (By} Mail) —In spite of all threats | and tricks of the company, | the overwhelming majority of the steel workers in the Beth- lehem Steel plant at Sparrows Point boycotted the elections for company | representatives (company union) this week. This is a direct result of the campaign of agitation and organization conducted by the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union for the past month, to defeat the company union. Last week, when the nominations were held the workers made a huge joke of voting, many of them ac- cepting the ballots and writing Mae West, Popeye or Andy Mellon on them and dropping them into the} ballot box. The company counted them later for the company union. | The workers soon learned what a} serious mistake this was; that in| order to really boycott the elections, it Was necessary to refuse to accept the ballot. They did not repeat this mistake in the final elections. Im the sheet mill, the first day of the nominations, the Negro openers boycotted the elections. The fol- lowing day, however, the company officials went among the Negroes and nominating a Negro as repre- tel succeeded in fooling the to vote. However, a special issue of the union Bulletin exposing this trick, together with the personal activity of the members of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union in this department, succeeded in con- vinecing the Negroes that it was in their interest to boycott the elections. S. M. W. LU. Asked United Front During this campaign, the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union made repeated efforts to ef- fect a united front with the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Tin! and Steel Workers. The leadership of the A. A. rejected all offers, at the same time warning their mem- bers not to follow any actions pro- posed by the “Steel & Metal’ in the campaign to defeat the com- pany union, on the grounds that it would be “coercion.” In spite of their sections, the united front was carried through right on the job, with members of the A. A., members of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, and the unorganized workers unit- ing to boycott the elections. As the next step in this struggle, the Steel and Mctal Workers In- dustrial Union drafted the follow- set of demands to be discussed by the workers in the mill for ap- proval. On Saturday, a well at- tended open meeting of steel work- ers unanimously adopted them. They are now being circulated in the mill. 1. A general increase in wages to meet the rising cost of living. 2. A six hour day with no re- duction in wages. 3. Abolition of the company union. 4. The right to elect depart- ment committees by all the workers without intimidation and the right of the workers to choose their own union. 5. Against the speed-up system. The workers are being urged and invited to discuss these demands amd prepare for action that will defeat the company union and win improved conditions. Chieago YOW ave invited to be a Judge at the MIDWEST FESTIVAL League of Workers Theatres Chicago Theaters of Action ‘Sunday, March 2%, 1034—2 P.M. PEOPLES AUDITORIUM Chicago Avenue Proiié 5c with plugger — Lancaster, Pa. — MOVIE SHOWING SAT. MAR. 24, 7:30 P.M. RED MEN’S HALL 2%9 East King Proceeds: “Daity Worker Admission 25¢ [KARL MARX “CAPITAL” IN PICTURES Essential Fexts of Marx’s History-Making ‘Das Kapital, By HUGO Easy Reading ! A Book You POPAB. 0.50... 98.00 Our Price for Both, Only. For Manhattan and Bronx, New | organized Kilby Manufacturing, pro- | ducers of chemical equipment at Hospital Racket Beautiful THustrations ! Wil Be Glad to Own! Combination Offer “CAPITAL” IN PICTURES...... A YEAR’S SUB TO THE “DAILY”.... 6.00 Cleveland Steel And Metal Union | Builds New Locals | Need New Quarters to) Keep Pace With the Growth of the Union CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 22.— The workers of Chandler and Price Manufacturing Company, manufac- turers of printing equipment, have organized and joined the Steel and| Metal Workers Industrial Union. Their next meeting will be held Sat- urday, March 24. At this meeting the charter of the local union will be installed. This union will be known as Local 1104. Their meet- ing will take up the question of union recognition by the company | and a wage increase. In addition to that, the Steel and | Metal Workers Industrial Union has present employing about 80 workers. Local Union 1102 of the Eaton Axle Company has presented de- mands for a wage increase from 15 to 40 per cent. The strike is ex- pected within a short while unless | satisfactory settlement can be made. This plant now employs 500 workers. The Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union has started an en- ergetic campaign to bring up the membership to 3,000 this production season in the city of Cleveland. Due to the growth of the organ- ization, new headquarters are being | established in the center of the city. There are many strikes brewing in the metal plants right now which are expected to come off within the next three or four weeks. Fire 18 Nurses At Beth David In New (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—At the Beth David Hospital, 1834 Lexington Ave. 18 nurses were kicked out of the train- ing school without a day’s notice. Some of these girls had only two months to graduate, after having served for two years at $10 a month pay. These girls were accepted under the false pretense that within a year the hospital would be regis- tered, and that the student nurses would have to complete some ad- ditional academic points. Mean- while, they were kept under the most miserable conditions, paid $10 a month, received no training, and were forced to work 12 hours a day, seven days a week with only one afternoon a week off. As a result of overwork and poor food, these student nurses were often confined to bed. Out of the $10 monthly wages, $5 had to go to pay for uniforms and additional food. On Jan. 1, a new administration came in. A “New Deal” was given to the workers. Some of those who had worked there for 12 to 15 years were fired. The superintendent of nurses fired all Jewish nurses, re~ placing them with gentiles, claiming that Jewish nurses will not work for $150 a day. (Porters, laundry workers and kitchen help get 97 cents a day). — Chicago — 3 Days of Surprises! AZAAR Communist Party, See. 5 MARCH 23, 24, 25 ALBANY PARK WORKERS CENTER 4825 N. KEDZIE AVE. One Admission — 10 cents Three Days — — 25 cents Greet the Communist Party At the Section Banquet on Sunday, March 25, at 8 P.M. |} Prominent speakers—Excellent program ” Tlustrated GELLERT +++ $3.00 $7.00 York City, the price for a year’s sub to the “Daily” and the book is $10.00 DALY WORKER, 56 B. 13th St., New York, N. Y. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1934 Tenants Picketing pr seta F ire-Trap Cc dishes on ia Base ‘Side Working-class occupants of the five-story old-law their strike for safety against the fire death menace, Ht was at 40 tenement at 221 East 6th St. picketing in E. 7th St., behind this building, that eight lives were lost a month aco in » t-noment blaze. Left to right, the ‘pickets are Charles Solinsky, Mrs, Solinsky, Mike Pellegrino and Mary Kopezak. Musicians’ Union ‘Daily’ Reporter Pickets With Votes for Right Cabmen; Drivers Cheer Paper To Govern Self |Rank and File To Take Over the Leading Offices NEW YORK.—At one of the most militant meetings in the history of Local 802 of the American Federa- tion of Musicians on Monday morn- ing, March 19, the rank and file succeeded in smashing the ob- stacles in their fight for local auto- nomy (self-government). meeting it was reported that in the official referendum held Monday, March 12, the members voted over- whelmingly in favor of self-govern- ment, there being 3,728 votes for local autonomy and 127 votes against it. Since the referendum a self-con- stituted committee of disreputable job-seekers, mixed with some sin- cere but misguided members, at- tempted to invoke the aid of the N.R.A. “labor” board in the fight for autonomy, The committee was headed by ex-Tammany Judge Oberwager, who was reputed to be able to “pull strings” in Washing- ton. This committee had attracted much attention by running N.R.A. mass meetings which hundreds of unemployed musicians attended since the committee announced they would register the unemployed, and oe “relief” jobs through the R.A, Lots of Bally-Hoo To date there have been no jobs given, although there was lots of bally-hoo, The judge and the com- mittee appeared quite bankrupt after making several secretive trips to Washington. Their complete fiasco took place at a meeting on Friday, March 16, when the “hun- gry” labor “specialist,” Judge Ober- wager, silently conceding the bank- ruptcy of his plan of getting help from N.R.A. or Washington, ap- pealed to the rank and file for ideas or suggestions as to how to get autonomy, One rank and file member told the judge that a Jabor specialist should be able to give advice to the rank and file, and not ask for a plan, The musicians have taken over the right to govern themselves, They must now militantly consoli- date their power and proceed to take over the apparatus of the or- ganization; that is, the offices of secretary, treasurer, chairman, and four appointive members of the gov- erning board, At the} “You're the Only Guys That Print the Truth About the Cops’ Violence,” Says Taxi Striker By HARRY RAYMOND NEW YORK. —Two thou- sand striking taxicab drivers meeting in Germania Hall, 16th. Street and Third Ave., Tuesday night cheered the Daily Worker for several minutes when I spoke there on the platform on the rote of our paper in the strike. Following the meeting, when the stritters surged out into the street in one of the x most militant and effective mass picket demonstrations held during the course of the strike, the Daily Worker distribu- ior who was sta- sioned at the ne door of the hall parry was nearly swept eee off his feet by drivers in their ef- forts to get a copy of the paper. Hundreds of copies of the “Daily” were distributed and sold among the strikers. Samuel Orner, president of the Taxi Drivers’ Union of Greater New York, had invited me to speak at this meeting. He asked me to tell the drivers about the strikebreak- ing activities of the Sherwood De- tective Agency, which were revealed following an investigation made by the Daily Worker and published in | yesterday’s issue of the paper. Daily Worker Aids Union Prior to the publication of the Sherwood Detective material, the Daily Worker sent a letter to the union giving detailed information about the thugs and gangsters who were supplied by Sherwood to ter- rorize Parmelee drivers. Orner also had in his possession material evi- dence proving that Sherwood thugs were working for Parmelee; and on the basis of the combined facts gathered by the union and the |Daily Worker, Orner sent vigorous letters of protest to the Mayor and Police Commissioner O’Ryan, de- manding that an investigation be conducted into the activities of Sherwood and that he be ousted from business, The hackmen now understand the powerful role played by the Daily Worker in the strike. They know that it is their paper. The applause given when the name of the paper was mentioned at the strike meeting proves this. I went to the meeting as a re- porter, but was officially accepted as a strike picket before the evening was over. “You're one of us and we want you with us on the picket line.” a hackman from a 23rd St. garage told me. I went out with them and sent for a delegation of pickets from my union, the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union. The seamen and .longshoremen will be on the cab strike front today. On the Line And what a picket demonstration we had! No Parmelee or Terminal cab dared to cross our path as we swung up Broadway in an orderly manner. The trouble started when the po- lice arrived at Madison Square. Here LaGuardia’s finest went pell- mell about the dirty work of break- ing the heads of men whose very life depends upon the success of the strike. Every picket who was attacked defended himself well. The line moved on up Broadway. At Greely Square the cops rallied. In their viciously brutal manner they began to swing their clubs, hitting any one who came near them. Three men were knocked unconscious. Martin, living at 224 22nd St., Brooklyn, an auto mechanic who was waiting for a street car, was assaulted by officer No. 9394. Mar- tin was beaten unconscious and was taken to a hospital with a gaping scalp wound. “Get this story, Daily Worker,” a striker shouted to me. “You're the only guys that print the truth about the cops’ violence.” I got the story. Our paper is not only satisfied with printing it, but the Daily Worker demands that Mayor LaGuardia carry out his promises and stops the police bru- tality. The Daily Worker demands that police violence against strik- ers cease, The Daily Worker demands that the Sherwood Detective Agency, 1457 Broadway, which supplied gangsters and thugs to beat up strikers be put out of business. The Daily Worker demands this because it is first last and ail the | time a WORKERS’ paper, a paper for the taxi workers and for all who toii. | tine, Clinton St | Apollo. | between Secor James | | Lower East Side | Tenants Strike to End Fire Menace Plan Mas “Faneral Harlem Fire Victims at 1 P.M. Today (Continued from Page 1) Sunshi: Ho near 14th 8t Second Avenue Th others. Landlord Leads Thogs The two bu occupied by fi | stores. Whe: ploged Cour lord’s offic they were refused On the same even: by the landlord w ent to the | } two houses to terrorize the striking tenants, who point out that the woeden stairs leave them unpro-| |tected against fire, which could |mination of dangerous fire haz: and a 25 ver cent reduction in In a letter sent to the Da | Worker, Mrs. Evelyn Hamilton, sec- retary of the striking tenants at |221 FE. 6th St., declares that “in view of the many recent fires in old-law tenements, we have organ- | ized to force the landiord to fire- | proof the house. List Fire Hazards “The building is an old-law five- | story wood frame one—only the | Jouter walls are brick. The back | |fire-escape has a ladder instead of | | stairs. The chimneys are clogged | jand otherwise out of repair. The |; | stairs are wooden. There are no| bells to warn tenants of fire if seen | from outside the house. The street | door is kept locked at night. The | backyard has no exit to the street | except through the house. “The tenement at 40 EB. 7th St which recently burned and took the lives of eight people is almost di- rectly behind this building. More- over, last year there was discovered | in the cellar a fire which might | have taken the lives of many of | the tenants. This fire was caused by seven cans of gasoline and kero- sene connected by ropes of inflam- | mable materials, and there were | candles lighted on top of two of the cans. There was tar on the floor of the cellar and a heap of it on some rubbish. Fortunately the fire was discovered in time. It is understood that the house car- ries insurance to a greater amount than its last purchase price. “The demands we make of our landlord, Mr. Abraham Goldberg of | 751 Gerard Ave., the Bronx, are that he: “(1) Fireproof the stairs. “(2) Fireproof the chimneys. “(3) Replace the fire-escape lad- ders by stairs. “(4) Install bells in the vesti- bule to ring in each apartment, so the tenants may be warned of fire. A buzzer to open street door | at night would ailow firemen to | ret in without breaking in the | door. | “(5) Make an emergency exit from backyard to street. “(6) Test flre-escapes for their | weight-bearing capacity. | “(7) Come and deal with us, “So far, the landlord has been in- vited to the only two tenant meet- ings, neither of which he has at- tended. He treats with contempt) our iaiasigns to these meetings. He says he wiil make repairs only when the city forces him to. “The house has a militant or- ganization. The tenants have de- cided not only to go on rent strike but to picket the building and to place rent-strike placards in the front windows. We are distributing leaflets ‘to all nearby tenements calling a joint meeting to take place Thursday night at 8 o'clock in front of 221 E. 6th St.” Three tenants in this house were yesterday served with sum- monses to appear in Magistrates Court, at Second Ave. and Second St. at 10 a. m. today. They are charged with “interfering with and obstructing the complainant in the collection of rentals . \t | Ave., | daught Two City Coons in Illinois ‘Endorse Bill 1,000. Pi icket| Nash Motors; * Strike Enters| Fourth Week: Strikebreaker Makes Defense of | Capitalism Wisc., March 22.— Motors work begin: ing the fourth week of thi with splendid spirit and to win. The greatest in the treachi n the pert of the Nat 2 by the } d resident of the Tr and Labor Cour neil, Felix Olkiv having been thoroughly exposed for | his strikebreaking activities in the | strike of last November, is keeping | in the background. The militant | rank and filers in the Nash Fed- | eral Union, affiliated to the A. F./ of L., are demanding in no uncer- tain terms that there be no return | to work on the same shameful basis | as that of the last strike. This same Mr. Olkives, in a letter | printed in the local capitalist paper, | the Kenosha Evening News, has the following to say about the capital- | ist system: “Capitalism itself is on trial to- day. Most American peopie pre- | fer the existing system if it can be made to work. I beHeve the chances are even that it can be made to work unless the overlords of capitalism are as blind afid stupid as the Bourbons of France who ignored every danger signal and sneered at every wise couneil until the mob set up a guillotine | in the market place.” This apologist for the present | system, the system of wage slavery | and oppression, that has forced the Nash workers to strike to secure a living wage, likes to imagine him- self in the role of wise councillor to | the wealthy. Instead of fighting | for the interests of his class, he of the capttalists. Let him do so. The Nash workers, who have to work for these same overlords of | capitalism, are more concerned with wresting a decent wage from the | hands of their masters, than in| arguing with them about what will | occur if they don’t get it. | and refusing to pay rentals due,” ete. Workers are urged to pack the courthouse this morning when these cases come up. Mass Harlem Funeral Today While city officials yesterday tried to shift the responsibility for the gic tenement fire at 1909 Second where seven were burned to death Wednesday, away from itself, workers of the neighborhood, led by |the Lower Harlem Unemployed Council, 63 E. 104th St., were pre- paring for the burial of two of working class victims, Mrs. Rose| Brolo, 36, and Anna Brolo, her| 6 years old. Following an open air meeting Wednesday night on the corner of 98th St. and Second Ave., the Un- employed Council announced that the funeral would take place today at 1 p.m. The bodies will be taken from the funeral parlor at 72nd St. by Salvatore Brolo, father of the family, and his son, to 98th St., where they will be joined by neigh- borhood workers, who will form a procession and march through the rests, past the scene of the trag- The Unemployed Council called on all work in Harlem to turn out in mass for the fune Salvatore Brolo, it was learned yesterday, is an unemployed worker who had been on the Home Relief lists for several months. | vote | Bill « For Social Insurance UMWA Local Enderses, Paving Cutters te Hold Referendum NEW YORK. The city are of Harvey and Mid- nian, Illinois, have endorsed te Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7898). mal AF.L. local unions en- corsing the Workers’ Bill include: U.M.W.A. Local 4472, with 600 mem- bers at Glen Robbins, Ohio. whieh | endorsed the bill at its membership meeting an March 9. Local 87, AFL. Watchmakers of Newark, N. J., unanimously en- dorsed the Workers’ Bill at its last meeting. Telegrams were sent to Congressman Lundeen and to the local congressmen demanding en- dorsement af the Workers’ BM. Paving Cutters Referendum > the action of the Clark branch of the Paving (AF.L.) the Work- (HR 7598) is being placed | before every branch of the inter- national union far a referendum Foreseeing the compiete sup- port of the union membership for the bill, the Paving Cutters Jounal has already come out officintly exill- ing upon the members to endorse the Workers’ Bill (HR 7508) and ask its support by thetr congressmen | and senators. The Paving Cutéers im the Rook- | land. Me., area, who heve been béen foxe- most in the campaign for the bill. are strongly opposed to the Rhyl Bill, which is being put before 1) | Quarrymen’s branches by their me | ternational officials. They intend not only to repudiate the Wagner Bill inside the Paving Cutters Union, but to warn their union brothers within the quarrymen’s union not to be misled and urge them to throw out the Wagner Billi as a piece of bosses’ legislation whieh does not apply to the sixteen milion now jobless. They consider the Wagner Bill a shrewd piece of legislation designed to strangle the trade union movement. The Wagner Bill would not take effect until after July 1936. Town Meeting Endorsed On Monday, Mareh 19, the regu. lar annual town meeting of St. | George, Me., with over 300 citizens | Worries over the stupidity and gread | present, unanimously endorsed the Workers Unemployment Insurance They voted to request their congressmen and senators to sup- | port the bill in congress. The bill | was actively supported in this meet- ing by Hino Stein. delegate to the Washington National Convention | Against Unemployment from four branches of the Quarrymen’s and Paving Cutters’ Union. The meet- | ing was composed largely of paving cutters, quarry workers, fishermen and small farmers. Both shifts of the Davison Mine in Iron River, Michigan, about 75 iron miners. have all signed en- dorsement of the Workers Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Bill (HR 7598). The Italian Lodge on March 18 sent a resolution to the local congressman demanding sup- port of the bill. Farmers Endorse At a joint commiteee meeting in Mitchell. 8. D., of farmers and workers, the Workers Unemploy- | ment Insurance Bill (HR 7598) was | endorsed, and resolutions were sent to congressmen and senators de- manding its immediate enactment, At the joint meeting there were rep- |resented Farmers Union Legislative from Baker, Tobin, Rome, Prosper, Bulah, Budger. Perry and Mitchell, together with committees from the Mitchell local of the Independent Union of All Workers. the Taxpayers’ League, and the Davison County Labor League. The Farmers Union Legislative committees were elected a few weeks ago in conformity with the ruling of the reactionary executive of the union. The functions of these com- mittees is to pass on all candidates for office, and to formulate pro- posals for the organization, Committees T. U. U. L. Executive Boel ‘Meet Adopts fall to Action: in Strike Wave Tremendous. Against Effects of The New Deal NEW YORK.—The National Ex- ecutive Board of the Trade Union Unity League held a special meet- ing here Friday, March 16, and mapped out plans for action in the various industries in the present tremendous strike situation and at- tacks against the workers by the Roosevelt government. Leaders of various unions affili- ated with the T.U.U.L. in New York, New England, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were present, besides the members of the executive board. Jack Stachel, acting general sec- retary, reported on the present situ- ation and the tasks confronting the trade unions. The Board adopted a Call to Action, Speaking of the huge strike wave in auto, aluminum, taxi, coal, the Call to Action, which is addressed to all members of the T.U.ULL., A. New Deal, and eight months after the N. R. A. and its promises, finds us worse off than ever before.” Pointing out that over 16,000,000 are still unemployed, and that C.W.A. workers are being flung back into the ranks of the jobless, the Call Struggles i to Action details the methods by which the codes undermine wages. “The N.R.A. codes were used to especially beat down the conditions of the Negro workers for whom the codes provide lower wages through the so-called differentials for the South, or because they have been left out entirely in the code provi- sions. Women workers and young workers are being discriminated against and more ruthlessly ex- ploited than ever before. “The right to organize and strike, which has always been the right of the workers, is being met by the most brutal suppression of the po- lice terror and the armed gunmen of the masters of industry, whete the workers cannot be demoralized through the policies of the labor bureaucrats.” Nor is this attack be- ing made only against the militant and independent unions. The at- tack on the Alabama miners which is now going on, shows that where the rank and file of the A. F. of L. unions take up the fight for better conditions, against company unions, the A. F. of L, leadership stands shoulder to shoulder with the bosses and the government against the workers,” ‘Where workers have made gains, the T.U.UL. board points out, it has been only through struggle against the wishes of the A. F. of L. leadership. Now with the deve- lopment of a new strike wave, and with the growing disillusionment of the workers in the N.R.A,, the bosses through their government are moving against the workers’ or- ganizations and against strikes. Meaning of Wagner Bill “And just as the government with the N.R.A. came to the assistance of the employers’ last year, so again they are trying to create new hopes in the minds of the workers that without struggle the workers can gain higher wages and_ shorter hours. And again the A. F. of L. leadership stands on the side of the employers and the government against the workers. The govern- ment is trying to stop the rising struggles through the so-called Roosevelt plea for a reduction of hours by 10 per cent and wage in- creases by 10 per cent to be carried through “voluntarily” for those in- dustries that can afford it. In line with this, and faced with the wave of strikes in the auto industry, Ford and the other companies are trying to stop the struggles of the workers through small concessions just as they tried last year. But at the same time, the Wagner Bill, which is hailed by the A. F. of L. leaders as something in the interests of the workers, aims to strengthen the strikebreaking machinery of the government to make it more easy to break the rising strike struggles of the workers. This is the aim and meaning of Wi Bill, “Th Wagner claims that it will outlaw the company union. This is only intended to fool the workers and to stop the many struggles that the workers are car- rying on. against the company| unions. At the same time, the role of the A. F. of L. leaders was clear- ly shown in the statement of Gen- eral Johnson to the 4,000 chief cap- italists of the country, when he told them that Green, Lewis, McGrady, Berry and Co. are a better guar- antee against strikes than even the company unions. All of these labor leaders have proven the truth of this statement of Johnson through their strikebreaking activity.... United Struggle Can Defeat Attacks “It is especially the duty of the T.U.U.L. unions and the oppositions within the A. F. of L. unions of the) militant elements in the indepen- dent unions to make these issues| clear to the mass of the workers and to organize them for struggle on the basis of the united action of the rank and file of all organi- zations together with the unorgan- ized, to expose the maneuvers of the A. F. of L. leaders in the auto and other industries who are trying to prevent the workers from strik- ing for their demands. It is neces- sary to especially give all attention to support of the present strikes of the auto workers, steel workers, railroad workers, miners, textile and marine workers, “The unions affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League must. |sary to give the greatest attention everywhere increase their activity to rouse the masses in struggle against the new attacks, to strengthen their | position among the unorganized workers, to build a solid eaNee front of struggle. We must show to the workers that our analysis of | warnings about the N.R.A. were/ correct, and convince them that} only the road of class struggle as represented in the program of the T.U.ULL, offers the road to success- ful struggle. We must show to the workers that the only way to win| their demands is to organize and | strike. | “The oppositions within the A. F.| of L. should expose the strikebreak- ing role of the leadership, mobilize the masses of workers for struggle for better conditions, for the united front of struggle with ail other workers in their industry. “In all these struggles, it is neces- te the needs of the Negro workers and to struggle against any form of discrimination. To fight for the right of the Negro workers to work on all jobs and at equal pay with the white workers. “The fight for the unemployed must become the fight of all trade unionists. The struggle for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill offers the best means to unite the struggles of the employed and unempioyed, Also to unite the er- ployed and unemployed against the hii |Militant Unions Must Take Lead in Fight on NRA Strikebreaking Workers: Organize to defend yout interests. Organize the broades( united front of struggle, For immediate wage Increases, for the shorter workday without reduction in weekly earnings, against s] up, stretch out, ete. vor ee verkers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill; against ©. W.A. layoffs. For the unconditional right to strike. Defeat all attempts te fasten compulsory arbitration to the workers through the National La- bor Board, the Wagner Bil, or any other means. Demand the immediate with- drawal of all A. F. of L, leaders from the N.R.A. and labor boards. Against any and all forms of government regulation or control of the Trade Unions. For the right of the workers to join any Union of thetr own choice. Defeat the class collaboration policies of Green, Lewis, Hittman & Co, Smash the company unions. For a powerfnl indopendent class Trade Union Movement. C.W.A. layoffs, for demonstrations, strikes, etc, NATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE