The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1934, Page 4

strike sentiment and the burning les: f tt precedented treachery of the A. . Of L. leaders searing into the minds of the auto workers, the most isive days in the auto indust are yet ahead. The auto workers, still anxious to fight, clear the road of the debris piled up by the Roosevelt government and Messrs. Green and Collins. The} lessons of the past week should open the eyes of the workers and weld| their ranks for the struggle. The NRA. and th Roosevelt government have performed yeo-; man service for the automobile} bosses. At the first signal of strike! sentiment, the government stepped in as strikebreaker. What better instrument could the automobile manufacturers have used than the Roosevelt governm and the A. FP. of L. leaders their battle against the wor It was the Roosevelt gove' acting through General Jot and the A. F. of L. officialdom first put over the automobile sla code. General John personally visited the automobile manufac- turers in Detroit last August. At that time Business Week, organ of Wall Street, declared that the auto bosses got what they wanted from General Johnson because he was a close friend of theirs. They also got what they wanted from the A F. of L. leaders. The auto code originally openly declared for the | conditions resulted, .| Votes for a company union to en- {| dire threats. The Story of Betrayals in Auto by A.F.L. Heads; Aiding New Deal Strikebreaking By HARRY GANNES the Weirton Steel Co., at the Budd; Stocks of automobile manufacturers auto plant, the N.R.A. elections} which had slumped the day before firmly established the company/ jumped up. The stock gambler, the union over the workers. The A. F.| automobile manufacturers, were of L. leaders had al: more confident. The Roosevelt gov- ernment had not failed them in the most critical situation in their his- tory. The flood-gates of strike that would have eaten into their profits, that would have won higher wages for the workers, were kept closed, with William Green and William | Collins firmly standing against | them, | The next day, Roosevelt took a hand in another strikebreaking venture. He wired the Pacific Coast longshoremen to hold off their Strike “until he negotiated.” Having held back the strike thus far General Johnson and Edward} McGrady, former A. F. of L. official, met with the A. F. of L. leaders to work out further methods of keep- ing back the strike indefinitely. General Johnson, as the spokes- man for Roosevelt. made no pre- tenses whatever. He spoke in the voice of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. The New| York Times reported his conference with William Green and William Collins as follows: “It was indicated that in appar- ently adhering to the side of the employers and taking a stand against an election among the em- polyes to determine spokesmen for the bosses, that if in the workers remain under the com- pany unions. William Collins declared an election outside the pl under the supervision of RA the automobile workmen vote in favor of company unions, or any other program of representation, the A. F. of L. will bow its way out) of the picture.” | Hereby “If, after and the pretenses of t the company union | In every instance ich the besses have proclaimed | a victory for the company union, it has been through fraud and inti- midation. No intelligent worker ave , except under the most In short, the A. F. of L. leader- ship would have served its purpose The strike would be staved off. Com- | pany unions would be more firmly riveted on the workers. The “bene- | fits” of the New Deal would be in- sured. But such talk served merely to| embolden the automobile manufac- | turers. The government strikebreak- | ing program was working. Even fake | elections were not necessary now.| company union. This was to be/qne A. F. of L. leaders modified their collective bargaining, oi pec i achieved by the “merit clause.”| Ganands, feeling more confident | istrator might have been ‘feeling William Green, John L. Lewis, Sid-| +144 they could smash back the| Ut’ how stubborn the unions were ney Hillman, and the other A. F. of L. members of the National La-/ bor Board approved the “merit| clause,” as an “exception” for the) auto industry. This brought the company union. | In the present strike situation, | Bill Green and William Collins were | merely continuing the good work| they had begun in the historical! battle of the aufo workers against | the powerful automobile trusts. What a Strike Threatens Bill Green and William Coilins| met with President Roosevelt with! the firm determination, already ar- rived at by the automobile bosses, that there must be no strike in the} automobile industry. They knew} that once the workers went on | strike at the height of the season, every element for victory was fa-| vorable for them. On the ground | that the N.R.A, “recovery” program he program that is costing the ers lower wages and the most miserable conditions ever imposed on them—must go through. A strike would threaten this program by in-| creasing the wages of the workers | and winning union conditions for | them. The Roosevelt government | saw in the pending automobile Strike the beginning of a new wave} cf strikes in auto, steel and rail-| roads that threatened to throw into| the dust heap the whole chain of| Slave codes riveted on the workers. | Never before in the history of the | United States have strikes become} so clearly political issues, in which | the government, working with the/ A. F. of L. leaders, works so openly | with the bosses to stave off strug-| gles by the workers. Every trick known to a capitalist government was used against the! auto workers. | On Wednesday, March 21, the | auto workers were geared up for! strike. Over 250,000 workers would | have been involved in the walkout that would have brought the auto- mobile bosses to their knees, be- cause the strike was timed through the pressure of the men themselves to take place at the height of the Season. } The auto bosses were adamant. They knew everything was coming their way. The government was their government. The A. F. of L. leaders, who had the confidence of | the men, who were placed in stra-| tegic positions, were working for the automobile manufacturers. | On the eve of the calling of the great strike that would have had a| Sympathetic response from the whole working class suffering from| the same conditions the auto work- ers are undergoing, the great be-! trayal was laid by the A. F. of L.| leaders. President Roosevelt wired | them to come to Washington. On Thursday, after Roosevelt had first | met with the leaders of the Na- tional Automobile Chamber of Com- merce and laid down the strategy of the automobile trusts, the A. F. of L. leaders were called in—not to negotiate for the workers, not to present the workers’ demands—but to work out the most despicable methods of keeping the strike back at all costs. Preparing the Ground Both Collins and Green had prepared the ground previous to the Washington conferences. On the day the strike was supposed to have| begun, the auto bosses speeded-up production. They had gained the first encounter, Strike sentiment was spreading from Atlanta to Detroit. Strike votes were in the ratio of 3,000 to 1. But automobiles were rolling out faster than ever. Stocks were being piled up. The stool pigeons and scabs were being mob- ilized. At a meeting in Detroit, Collins leclared: “This would not be a strike for wages, but rather a strike for the benefits of the New Deal.” This was laying the basis for every treacherous proposal that President Roosevelt would make, This is an effort to stir up the dwindling illu- sions of the workers in the Roosevelt government. What were the ‘bene- fits” derived from the New Deal by the auto workers? They got the 43 cent an hour slave code. They gained imereased speed-up, discriminations. They got entangled in the meshes of company unions. Are these the benefits Mr. Collins wants you to fight for? In Washington, Green worked out | the axis of the betrayals. The men want two things, he seid. First, a} in their demand for an election.” His “feeling” touched the right spot. Green and Collins even aban- doned the old trick of “elections.” Then General Johnson went further. “Pounding his fist on the table, the former cavalry officer asserted that charges of discrimination in 200 cases out of 250,000 employes ‘was nothing at all.’” It’s All Very “Pleasing” All of this was very “pleasing” to the A. F. of L. leaders. The ques- tions of wages and conditions were Recovery Act. ditched. The government had “2, An impartial industrial rela- | stepped into the breech and a strike tions board shall be set up for the| was not on. Delay, more delay and prompt determination of cases of | still more delay was in the offing. alleged discrimination against men| Mr. Green emerged from his con- for joining the union.” ference with President Roosevelt, This news pleased Wall Street. | now the spokesman for the National great strike. The Reviewed Proposals After the conference with Presi- dent Roosevelt, some more of their demagogy was thrown overboard. Wages were already cast aside by Collins. On Thursday, Mr. Green abandoned his request for elections. He reduced his demands to the fol- lowing: “1, The employes shall be per- mitted to bargain collectively thru organizations chosen by them as guaranteed in Section 7a of the More Partner Shoe Workers Hit ApprovesRoosevelt NRANegotiations Inflation Policies At Board Hearing Finds It Gives Wall St.| USLW Group Demands | Bigger Profits; Recognition and More Inflation Uniform Rate NEW YORK —Complete ap- Pproval of Roosevelt's inflationary policies of credit expansion, cheap- ened money through devaluation, and the purchase of government | bonds by the Federal Reserve banks | was expressed here yesterday by Russell Leffingwell, a leading part- ner of the Wall St. bankers, J. P. Morgan, before a meeting of the | Academy of Political Science. | “I am wholeheartedly in favor of the general policy of monetary reconstruction which the President | has pursued.” (Daily Worker Washington Bu.) WASHINGTON, March 23.—Rep- resentatives of the striking snoe workers who have kept 25 factories closed since March 5 in Haverhill, Mass., and Vicinity came before the Nat'l Labor Board Wednesday, op- posing arbitration of the dispute and demanding recognition of the United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union, as well as uniform rates of pay. Labor Board spokesmen estimated | those on strike at from 7,000 to 8,000. Led by Sam Ziebel, the delegation | included Leonard Ford, chairman of | Leffingwell continued the same) the District Council, and the fol- | y of approving actual inflation | lowing rank and file committee: 3 while pretending to oppose it in| principle that characterizes Roose- | velt’s monetary policy. While stat- | | thony Liberato, Pearly St. Onge, Eula Martin, Alice Godboult, George Ralph Holmes, Tony Del Rosso, An-| Taise prices “in order to restore profit to business,” a policy which is none other than inflation, Toward Further Inflation Professor Warren, Roosevelt’s fin- ancial adviser, also spoke at the same meeting urging that it was urgent for American capitalism to keep domestic prices rising even at ing himself as opposed to the prin-| Weinig, Charles Trumbley and |ciple of “uncontrolled inflation,” | Lewis Flagg. | Leffingwell urged cheap money to| The National Labor Board called the hearing after the strikers re- fused to accept a decision by the Regional Labor Board calling for ar- bitration of the issues in the strikes. The Board here explained that a central issue is recognition of the “new type of organization,” a combi- nation of the A. F. of L. and the Shoe and Leather Workers Indus- trial, and several independent unions, the risk of upsetting international financial stability. The moves toward further infla- tion are becoming more open as the effects of the recent dollar devalua- tion to 59 cents are beginning to wear off. It has been intimated that the Roosevelt government will soon pay off some of its bonded in- debtedness by issuing paper money. Leading industrial Wall Street mo- | nopolies are also beginning to come into the open with demands for Labor Board officials said the new union “has a prospect of bringing in from 35,000 to 70,000 shoe workers.” Also present at the hearing were representatives of the shoe facto- ries involved in the strike. more inflation to raise prices still higher, since the present price ad- vances have already given them huge profit increases over 1932. | Automobile Chamber of Commerce, |} and said: “We had a pleasing and most in- teresting conference with the Presi- dent and in my judgment substan- tial progress is being made toward settling the dispute between the automobile manufacturers and their employes.” The automobile bosses recognized | their new victories, They issued a | statement declaring: “Confronted with the plain truth that the threatened strike is for union domination of the automobile industry, Mr. Green has now shift- ed his ground. “He says recognition of the A. F. of L. is not an issue and has not been raised ... Mr. Green now states that the workers have merely asked that the manufac- turers deal with representatives of their own choosing .. . What Mr. Green now says he wants is exactly what the manufacturers have done and are doing.” Even the phrases uttered by Green and the automobile manu- facturers are narrowing down to their common interests — that of stopping a strike at all costs. Having won all these victories (made possible because no strike is in progress), the automobile manufacturers can afford to become generous. The New York Herald Tribune Washington correspondent reports their offer to the workers say they “have pointed out that elections would have to be held when the present officers of the company unions reached the end of their one-year elective terms in Au- gust, September and October. The manufacturers were said to have told the President that they would ‘consider’ National Labor Board- supervised elections at that time.” When automobile production is at its deadest point, when they would want to precipitate a strike to draw the teeth of the workers, when the whole ground has been prepared through relentless dis- crimination, then the auto bosses are ready for “elections.” The Communist Party has pointed out that the policy of the Roose- velt. government from its very in- ception has been to attempt to solve the crisis in the interest of the trusts and against the workers. The automobile workers now are experiencing the most criminal ac- ing this policy. The National Au- tomobile Chamber of Commerce has moved to Washington, and it hi two sets of spokesmen, the Roose velt regime, and the A. F. of L. offi-| cialdom. Betray 900,000. | The Roosevelt government has used the National Labor Board to break strikes of over 900,000 work- ers. It is now preparing a new anti- strike bill, the Wagner Bill. But in the present’ automobile crisis it does not have to wait for this bill to pass. William Green and Collins who favor the Wagner strikebreaking bill help Roosevelt put its provisions into action without even the formal- ity of having the bill passed by Congress. Only the Auto Workers Union, organizing for a decisive and victor- jous strike by the united action of all auto workers regardless of union or non-union affiliation, warned of these betrayals. It is the Auto Work- ers Union now that is rallying the workers for struggle and for victory on the basis of united front action. | All workers, especially members | of the A. F. of L., must draw lessons | from their leaders’ treachery in this, situation. The rank and file of the A. F. of L. should organize in their unions to make impossible such actions against their membership in the future, in the pending strug- gles in other industries. Every automobile worker should make up his mind now. without any further question, that the Roosevelt government is determined to delay a strike indefinitely, without in the slightest injuring the profits or the company unions of the automobile bosses. Whatever comes out of Washington wil be to the injury of the workers. Strike is their only weapon to win higher wages and union recognition. Every day, every moment that strike is delayed, works against the auto men. There must be no more delays. Action, the power of 250,000 auto workers united in the mightiest struggle in their history, will change the whole face of things. The Roose- velt government will talk differ- ently. The automobile bosses will be forced to negotiate with the workers. The workers can then talk, not through the treachery tongues of Green and Collins, but through their own elected strike committees, tions of the government in pursu- | ~ ® m2 ; ‘iias Workers on their way to auto plants, where through the betrayals of their leaders, they are being forced to pile up stocks for the auto bosses in preparation for strike. The A. F. of L. leaders, now in Wash- ington, are using all sorts of maneuvers to delay and postpone action by the men, A group of Budd workers, who refused to vote for the company union, in the fight which is being waged against the company on the right of the workers to organize in a union of their own choice. The N, R. A. Board has consistently stalled off forcing the Budd Company to grant the demands of the workers, LS Government’fe Sold Warkere Acts to Break Big Hearing on NRA. Series of Strikes In N. Y., March 29 Workers Over Country) naw yvorK—to show how the . “ce ” | N.R.A. has reduced the living and F ight Benefits working conditions of the working class, how it has slashed the wages of New Deal and intensified labor and aided the Ms growth of company unionism will be WASHINGTON, pares ook revealed at a Workers Open Hearing tempts are being made by the U. &/on the N-R.A., to be held at Irving Department of Labor to press 900 | £iaz8 Hall, Irving Place and 15th Parke the Naticnal. Labor | St» March 29, at 7 pim., under the workers, Brno ino | auspices of the Trade Union Defense Soe Bakes) te tsi | Committee, with offices at 1 Union me Square, into company unions. | : i spi icreasieiy do ae same in|, Fred Biedenkapp will open» the ten strikes, with 12,500 workers. ieee fd gee TeRGEY ae ‘4 é | Washington hearing. jury o! The Labor Board is harassing | worers-will be selected to listen to workers in the following strikes: | the testimony and to bring in rec- Haverhill, Mass., 6,000 shoe fac- | ommendations as to how the work- tory workers; Stoughton, nang ers can improve their conditions Corcoran Shoe Company, number | ang defeat the attacks of the N.R.A. unreported; East Liverpool, Ohio, | workers from the laundry, needle. 500 pottery workers; Harriman, | furniture, metal, building and all peas - eget Salona anal | other industries are invited to testify. jon, N. J., 25 ington ‘ Company employes; Wisconsin | This hearing is of the greatest |funds, which would kecp the budget |out of balance, I shall not hesitate | | | These letters are all answered by a | form letter, expressing regrets that | plants, Nash Motor Co,, 4,600 employes; Rockford, Il, 400 Na- tional Lock Co, employes; Indianapolis 190 Kibler Trucking Co, employes; Imperial Valley, Cal, “several thousand” agricul- tural workers; Trenton, N. J,, 135 C, V. Hill (Refrigerator) Co. em- Ployes. The Department of Labor is try- ing to break the following strikes: | East Hampton, Mass, United Elastic Co., 800; Akron, cleaners and dyers, 120; Johnstown, Pa., Ferndale Button Factory, number unreported; Mineral City, Ohio, Federal Clay Products Co, (lock- out), 1,500; Belmont, N.C., hosiery workers, number unreported; Buf- falo cleaners and dyers, 150; Nashua, N. H., La Salle and Fleisher shoe factories, 900; Farm- ingham, Mass., American F. and W. and Friedman show com- panies, 300; Dayton, Brown- Brockmeyer, Inc., number unre- importance to the entire labor move- ment of New York. Take this mat- ter up with the workers in your shop ; and your union and see that they | come in mass to hear the real facts | about the N.R.A. and the best meth- |ods of fighting for decent living | conditions and for the right to or- | ganize, and Chemical Co., 850; Gardner, Mass,, O. W. Seibert & Co., (fur- niture), 175; Philadelphia, S. K. F. Ball Bearing Co., 900; Detroit, Bower Roller Bearing Co., 800; Philadelphia, dye workers, 500; Detroit, Peninsular Moter Prod- ucts Co., 800; Des Moines, Penn Electric Switch Co. (reported lockout), 125; Des Moines, Bolton and Hay Restaurants, number un- reported. Approximately 8500 workers are involved in disputes in which work continues during conciliation ef- ported; Buffalo, National Aniline forts. |\Letters of Workers Show Hun ‘Deal of R We Must Fight te Force | Roosevelt to Keep His | “Security” Promises By CARL REEVE NEW YORK. — President Roose- velt said on Oct. 31, 1932, in his campaign speech in Boston, “The first principle is that this nation owes a positive duty that no one shall be permitted to starve.” He said in his Pittsburgh speech on Oct. 19, “If men or women or chil- dren are starving in the United | States, I regard it as a positive duty of government to raise by taxes whatever sum may be necessary to keep them from starvation.... Ef starvation and dire need on the | part of our citizens make necessary the appropriation of additional to tell the American people the full truth and recommend to them the expenditure of this additional amount.” Federal Relief Director Hopkins repeated these statements that “no one will go hungry,” in his recent visit to New York. Scores of thou- sands of workers have written to Roosevelt, phoned and telegraphed him, asking him to live up to these promises and telling of their des- perate condition. No Jobs 5 The Daily Worker has copies of many such letters from workers to Roosevelt. One letter from Kewanee, Ill, asked Roosevelt, “Why can’t I, &® young man, twenty-four years | old, get a job on a C.W.A. project?” | Another worker wrote the president, “I have been out of work for over two years. I was one of the first to register on C.W.A. in Chicago. My mother is unable to work.” Thou- sands of these letters are flooding into the White House weekly at the same time that Roosevelt keeps re- peating that no one will go hungry. no help can be given. They are not answered by Roosevelt personally, but referred back to local relief |Offices, from which they are an- swered, | Evictions | The sixteen million unemployed together with their families, are be- ing starved to death under the Roosevelt regime. Evictions are in- creasing. Dozens of reports weekly reach the Daily Worker of such evic- tion cases, A typical example is the report of a worker correspondent from Princeton, Indiana. “Last week one of the former C.W.A. workers was served with an eviction order, and was given a farcical trial. The| worker and his six kids are being thrown out on the streets, Another militant worker is to come to trial on eviction charges in a few days. The workers are filling the courts in protest.” From Yukon, Pa., a mining town in Westmoreland County, a worker correspondent writes the Daily | Worker, “The workers of Yukon who | live in private houses are going to be evicted. The Unemployed Coun- cils are sending a delegation to the County seat at Greensburg to pro- test. Roosevelt said that none shall go without shelter. Make the bosses keep their promises by workers or- ganizing.’> Deportation —| Evictions are going on wholesale, and deportation from residence is a common practice. As a worker writes from Hamilton, Ohio, “A worker no longer has to be born in Europe to be deported. If you happen to be born in Cincinnati, 25 miles away, and live in Hamilton less than @ year, you are deported back to Cin- cinnati. A worker's wife here, 28 years old, is suffering from cancer. She applied to the hospital for aid. They refused to accept her, and after finding her born in Cincinnati, deported her there. The doctor says her life is a matter of hours, not days.” This practice of deportation, in addition to eviction, is carried on in all parts of the country. , ‘Fellow worker Lilly Salzman died in the white Jim Crow hospital Sunday, Feb. 25. She was the mother Progressive © sherry 1 | Follow Lewis Poliey im are moving in a revolutionary di- Order to Behead the “>.” g The March 2nd issue of the Miners’ Struggles | “Progressive Miner” is sufficient | proof of this, It shows also the | depths of political depravity. mis- By PAT TOOHEY | leadership and agent-provocateuring Article I |to which these social-fascist fakers | have descended. The capitalist class and its yellow | The contents of this issue ex- press, the Department of Justice,' plains the reasons for the steadily William Green, John L. Lewis, dwindling strength influence and National Civic Federation, Hamil- position of the P. M. A. among the ton Fish, Ralph Easley and rene- Tilinois Miners. It is because the gades from Communism have been bankruptcy of the program and joined by a new ally in their; Policies of P, M. A. leaders are ap- struggle against the revolutionary | parent to the miners who have lost workers and their fighting leader, faith in the abilities of the Pear- the Communist Party. The piping cy’s and Kecks, following the road voice of the peanut racketeers head- | they now follow to win better ing the Progressive Miners of ili- | ‘wages, conditions and standards for nois now join the chorus and aspire | the miners. to a leading position in the “holy | Follow Lenin’s Policies war” against the Communists. | The Illinois miners see not a What is behind this attack, now whit of difference between the P. joined in by the P. M. A. fakers? M. A. of Pearcy and Keck, on board of arbitrat: n to investigate” | It is because the workers, rank and| the one hand, and that of the U. cases of discrimination. Second.| fic, members of the reformist or-|M. W. A. with Lewis and Murray “elections” through the Nationa) Labor Board to determine the union { ganizations, desirous of unity, com-/ on the other. mon action and joint struggle, con- | social-fascists, which is {o set them- | vinced of the correctness of the | selves at the head of the workers of their choice. ” matter te “el when mew that in revolutionary way out of the crisis movements in order to mislead and Pointed by the Communist Party’ betray, is the role played by Messrs, M iors M isloaders Tak e Up the Boss’ Cry Against Communism Pearcy and Keck, The Illinois miners have seen their struggle be- trayed by these social-fascist lead- ers, and diverted from real strug- gle to paths of class collaboration. The P. M. A. came into being be- cause of the deep hatred of the miners for the treachery and mis- leadership of Lewis, because of a determination to do away with his Political machine, army of appoin- tees, graft, bribery and robbery, ex- pulsions and gagging the member- ship from protest. But the Illinois miners now see all these rotten fea- tures of Lewisism installed in the P. M. A. Militant miners are expelled. Any rank and file protest is met by expulsions and gag rules. Pearcy and Keck have built themselves a Political machine in the hope of continuing to mislead the miners. The “Progressive Miner” is the same as the old U. M. W. A. Jour- nal under Ellis Searles. All the | rotten U. M. W. A. features of | Lewisism, class collaboration, treach- ,ery and misleadership — against The classic role of | which the miners fought in the U. M. W. A.—now exist in the P. A. under Pearey and Keck. fat a Wee ae ee miners are beginning te no difference between Pearcy and Keck, and Lewis, Farrington, Fish- its and Walker of the U, M. W. Any protest or expression of opinion of the P. M. A. rank and file is answered with expulsions, gagging and a resort to that an- cient stand-by of all labor fakers, the red baiting campaign. And since it is usually Communists who expose the treachery and misleader- ship of fakers, the red baiting is directed against the Communists. The P. M. A. leaders slander, in- vective and raving against the Com- munists, to cover up their treach- ery and misleadership, will fail, the same as Lewis attempts failed, The fighting Illinois miners are too ex- perienced in dealing with fakers and racketeers to fall for a réd baiting, anti - communist campaign. The Illinois miners know what is behind such efforts. For many years now other fakers tried the same racket. When they start this campaign the miners know they have something to hide, After years of experience M.| the miners are learning to know that when the Communists fight against and expose certain leaders and programs that these leaders y and programs are against the workers, Precisely because of the leader- ship of the Communist Party among the miners in their struggle against the employers and Lewis the miners have deep confidence and faith in the Communist Party. The red baiting campaign of the P.M.A. lead- ers will not break that confidence. Lewis tried the red scare and red baiting many times. But the miner followed the Party in struggles against Lewis and the operators, miners is hated, The Communist Party is looked upon by thousands of miners as its leader and cham- pion. Peanut racketeers like Pearcy and Keck cannot destroy this. To cover up their misleadership, to distract the rank and file from the treachery and misleadership, the P. M. A. leaders commence red- | baiting. By making a lot of noise, clamor and racket and utilizing dis- tractions, they seek to stampede the rank and file into confusion and a rout, as they have no other argu- ments or weapons. Evidently their 5) ‘ual leader, Rev. Muste has tai them tactics Today the name of Lewis among, Red- Baiting Campaign | Will Not Break Gorwing Militancy in Mlinois from the Bible. In Sunday schools and Bible classes the preachers | relate how two armies met in | battle one day. One was a small, (Weak army and had no weapons. The other was large, strong and had many weapons. The general of the small army, blessed with the wisdom ‘of Jehovah and the angels, armed his soldiers with pots, pans and whistles, and told them to beat it down the hill, making a clamor, raising hell and plenty noise, to make the big army think they had plenty of soldiers and weapons. This was done and the big army turned and ran. Messrs. Pearcy and Keck, trying out the biblical tactics of the Rev. Muste rush down the hill beating their pots and pans and making a | lot of noise. But they are not fooling anypne. The miners know them to be fakers, misleaders with ger, Death oosevelt of 9 children. The hospital did not notify the husband of this unem- ployed worker for two days of the demise of his wife, but kept the death a secret, claiming they could not get in contact with him. John Salzman has been working in the C.W.A. projects, getting two days work a week, making $7.00. His chil- dren have been living out of garbage cans and swill barrels in alleys. Salz- man is laid up with a broken arm. Ee has neither coal nor food in the house.” So writes a worker corres- pondent from St. Louis, and Roose- velt says, “No one will go hungry!” From Oil City, Pa., comes the re- port that three members of one family, a father and his two chil- dren, Jay dead at the hands of the father “because of a long seige of unemployment” (Erie Daily Times, March 7), A. G. Anderson, unable to provide food for the family, stabbed his daughter Mildred and his son Paul to death with a knife and ended his own life with a double barrel shotgun. “The Andersons were well known and highly res- pected,” states the newspaper. Every day, such cases of suicide and death, are reported to the Daily Worker. Roosevelt thus fulfills his promise that “No one will go hungry.” a In Cleveland, the mother of six children, Fanny Gulkin, was sen- tenced to jail for ten days for de- claring a social worker to be a liar. Her husband, Isadore, was also jail- ed charged with “creating a disturb- ance” at the county relief admin- istration offices, 9503 Miles Ave. The six children were at home. Police ejected protesting workers from the courtroom, and one was arrested there. This family committed the crime of demanding food for their six children and were given jail in- stead. eee Poison Food =| A piece of salt pork was publicly analyzed by W. D. Stone, previously a& meat inspector for the gover: ment, at a meeting in Rochester, N. Y¥. Stone pointed out the hog cholera spots, explaining that the pork was rotten and could not pass any honest inspection as eatable. Unemployed workers throughout the country have protested at being fed this rotten pork by the Roosevelt government. A score have died as a result of eating this rotten poisonous food. 250 were poisoned in Chicago by Salvation Army “food” and city fiop house slop, some being fatally affected: Prostitution | Court hearingg have brought to light the rapid increase in prostitu- tion. In Akron, Ohio, hundreds of prostitutes have been brought before Judge Herman E. Werner. It is ad- mitted in the Akron newspapers that from 300 to 600 prostitutes live in Akron. About twenty-five a day are brought before this judge. The Akron Beacon Journal of Feb. 24 says, “Akron has neither cot nor crust for unemployed girls... . AD- peal was made almost three weeks ago to the Y.W.C.A. to ‘do the Christian act’ and supply a room and a meal or two a day for girls of good standing now on the border line of prostitution. The final answer has been delayed. First reactions were not encouraging.” Judge Werner said, “A girl comes before me. I order her to pay the costs of $4.80. She hasn’t even that much money. I send her to the work- house and she may get in with worse associates. I turn her loose and she goes back to the joint where she was arrested.” Scores of similar re- ports from other cities are received by the Daily Worker. “Del Scheffer, 52, fell dead Thurs- day afternoon while stealing a base ket of coal.” This is the begin- ning of a “feature” story in the Toledo News Bee of recent date. “He went along the railroad tracks. The eldest of his four children, Helen, 10, stood shivering by the kitchen stove. She saw him slump to the ground.” He was dead. There was no fire in the house. The family of six were depending on the relief for a year but the relief supplied only a little fuel. “He registered with wasn’t called. We couldn’t keep up his insurance. We tried to peddle our radio for coal, but no coal com- pany would take it. Del's heart was bad. But the children were freezing. I knew it wasn’t any use to argue with the Social Service Federation any more. They refused us. If you plenty hard for you. I know.” How many thousands of families, in a land where Roosevelt says no one will go hungry, rely on the garbage cans for food and the railroad yards and dumps for fuel? This is only a glimpse at the stories of starvation that come every day into the Daily Worker. The workers are given empty promises of “security” by Roosevelt. Instead their lot is sickness, disease, poison food, jail, prostitution, eviction, starvation. the Unemployed Councils, the Re- lief. Workers Unions, etc., protest and fight, do the workers gain in- creases in relief. The workers can- not rely on Roosevelt's broken prom- ises to live. We must fight for se- curity by intensifying our mass campaign for the enactment of the an empty program and with tactics of defeat, Workers Unemployment and Insurance Bill (H.R, T599R. the C.W.A.,” his wife said. “But he make them angry they can make it ' The facts show that only where — | ee RRR ao SRNR: H i i