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Page Eight DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1934 PARTY LIFE How a Party Unit Organized, Led Opposition Work in AFL ‘More Than Half Of C.W.A. Workers Fired in Helper By a Miner Correspondent HELPER, Utah.— Comrades and; working men, I would advise you| all to subscribe to your working | World Revolution Now Under | PMA. Heads Lead ’ Leadership of Comintern Zeigler Miners Into Re Government Trap (By a Mine Correspondent) ZEIGLER, Ill—We are on strike all year around and we do not know when this strike will be over. The Worker Correspondents! Help Us with the May Day Edition Many of the readers of the Daily Worker have participated in May Day struggles in the United States and in other countries. A good many of them undoubtedly took part in the historic and inspiring 1919 May Day demonstrations. Still others remember the May Day struggles during the period when the Communist Party was under- ground. May Day in 1917,—which was devoted to protest against Second Iniernational Bankrupt, Has Gone Over to Side of Counter-Revolution By Opposition Work in A. F. L. Is Not Diftewk When We Carry Out Correct Policy ROBERT MINOR. ARTICLE XI er offered to co-operate pa wi He oD 1 Plen USSR., the bulwa: national prole' at 2 ms, is dev ruction and nd he fonary crisis an extent ime the world Z a new round claws upon Germany and upon Austria—and the harpies of the Second International, fresh from the k of fighting against the volution and paving the t shout that this means the decline of the revolu- tion and the consolidation of capi- talism. But the Communist Inter- y indicates methods of of bourgeois » And “capital s to open terror- hin the country chauvinism in resents di- Democratic Party leaders to n to the Hitler gov. the Socialist Party of 148 against 17—the turn- r of the trade cond International—could 9 ders of the Second Inter- ving now to capital- ize on the spilled blood of the he- roic Austrian working class—vic- tims of their own betrayal! The seme leaders who six days before! national fastened its bloody | into power | imperialist | refusal of the German So- | calling of a general t Hitler—the vote of} action, decided upon by unions of to Hitler by the leaders more highly dramatized munist International. | be gained. ng the bloody Dolfuss| tried to the] ‘m the workers e fascist bandits— leaders are now strut- heroes of the struggle Did Dolf jmachine guns | working ciass? Yes. But did Dolfuss do anything ore to the Austrian working class 1934 than was done to the Ger- class in 1918-19 by ss turn howitze on the \ of the nal and the So- Germany? In he monarchist ie command of turn the field ar- on the of If 1934 the bloody Di iss mur- dered 2,000, did not Noske murder 20,000 in Berlin and the Ruhr in 1918-19? Did not Noske murder 20,000 Ger- |man workers to prevent the estab- | lishment of a Soviet Socialist Ger- |many on the excuse of “preserving Democracy’? Did not Noske shoot down the democracy—the only true democracy, the democracy of the proletariat? Today Bauer of Austria and Wels of Germany are asking the Austrian and German workers to “fight fas- | | cism”—and how! By fighting to “re- | establish” the rule of the same men |who are now ruling Germany through Hitler, and Austria through | Dollfuss, in the “democratic” form. | This is the consistent policy of the | Second International. | But the Communist International | points out to the heroic workers of | Austria and of Germany that fas- cism is “born in the womb of bour- geois democracy” and leads the dis- |illusioned Socialist workers to the struggle for the over-throw of fas- |cism together with the bourgeoisie | which js the ruling class and the bourgeois system which is the mak- jer of fascism. Pareto heen Seventh Congress of the Com- munist International is ap- | proaching. It will come in the midst |of the most decisive period of all istory. The year 1934, even though mly two months of it have gone by, can already be said to mark the highest rise of the Communist International since its founding. The crisis in the Second Interna- tional, precipitated by the ghastly exposure of its betrayal of the Ger- |man masses to fascism, has reached |the sharpest stage through the repetition of this betrayal in Aus- | | tria. The future belongs to the Com- A world is to (Conclusion) LUNwe the He vied BY LUKE “razing slums” and re-housing the poverty-stricken workers. “500 There follows a description of the | splendidly equipped kitchen and the Progressive Miners’ leadership is so reactionary, saying that this strike depends on on appeals to the authority of the U. 8. which never | has and never will do anything in| favor of the working class, so we | Practically lost everything. The} County authorities are taking dras- | BULO THE = DAILY!” tic measures against us strikers. Miners have already revolted be- cause they have been forced to that by hunger. One thing is worst of all; that the Party Press doesn’t come in this part of the country at all, so miners do not know which way they have to go, or what they have got to do. We must organize the sale of the Daily Worker here. Pullman Worker Urges Movement To Increase Pay (By a Worker Correspondent) LONG ISLAND CITY.—when the Pullman Company cut our wages} they said that they were not making | any money. Since that tirhe, the Pullman Co. has declared a dividend. Last year the salary of President Crawford | was $51,000. Fellow workers, the average porter’s salary is less than $1,000. Now, although the company is again making money, they don't say anything about returning our 5 per cent cut. The other railroad workers are demanding the return of their cut. We, the lowest paid of all railroad workers should not only demand the return of our cut but an increase in pay to meet the rapidly rising cost of living. Instead of raising our wages, the company has forced even more work on us than we did before the cut. For instance, they changed the style of bed, which takes about an hour longer to make down. Then we have to clean the car of all papers and litter before getting off. After all, our work is only sea- sonal. After Easter we will be press- ing the bench again. Then what will we support our families on, those of us who are not furloughed? And those who are furloughed |won’t even make the few dollars that we ordinarily make. It seems to me that the only way we porters can better our conditions is through organization of some sort, and since we haven’t anything we should build one. NOTE: We publish letters from coal and ore miners, and from oil field workers, every Saturday. We urge workers in these fields to write us of their conditions of work and of their struggles to organize. imperialist war, is another struggle which we want to recall. There may even be some readers of the Daily Worker still alive who remember the historic days of 1886 to 1890—the period when the International Day of Working-class Solidarity was born in this country. Workers who took part in these historic demonstrations! us what you remember of what took place. Write Let us know how the shop workers were mobilized. Let us know about the clashes with the police, Let the new readers of the “Daily,” who have come to the movement recently, hear from your own experiences what the militant traditions of May Day are! Preparations for May Day have begun. The Daily Worker wants to know how the workers, especially those in the shop and mines and waterfront, fee] about May Day this year. Write us, and help to make our May Day supplement a glowing history of May Day struggles and achievements. Socialist Misleaders Disrupt Struggles of Pottsville Unemployed Raise Red Scare Unite With Fight Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill; to Split Ranks; Politicians POTTSVILLE, Pa.— The Unem- ployment Councils issued a cal for @ county convention of all workers’ organizations in the county. The convention was held in Shenandoah, Pa., on Jan. 28, 1934. Two locals branches of the La- borers and Farmers Union elected delegates to the convention from Port Carbon and Coaldale, Pa. At the convention we elected del- egates for the unemployment con- vention, which was held in Wash- ington. One of the delegates elected was a member of the Port Carbon branch of the Laborers and Farm- ers Union and five from the branch of Coaldale, Pa. The Socialists, who control the Pottsville branch of the Laborers and Farmers Union, and also the County Committee of the same or- ganization refused to elect delegates to the convention. In spite of the opposition of the Socialist leaders to the Unemployed Bill, and the con- vention, @ group of workers, mem- bers of Pottsville branch of the La- borers and Farmers Union, came to the convention at Shenandoah and took part in the convention. When the Socialist leaders found out that some rank and file workers were in favor of the Bill and are fighting for it, they condemned them for that and threatened to expel them. A Socialist Splitter Flannery, a Socialist job seeker, stated at the meeting that every- body who is a Communist, and a sympathizer of the Communist Party or a member or sympathizer of the Unemployment Councils, can- not be a member of the Laborers and Farmers Union, and should re- sign right away.” On another occasion the leaders of the Laborers and Farmers Union pigeon-holed the Unemployment Social Insurance Bill and did not send it to Washington though it was passed by the rank and file. When John Heitz, a delegate, re- turned from the convention, he was denied the floor by the Socialist leaders when he attempted to re- Please get your letters to us by Wednesday of each week. L. Three years ago, in April, 1931, port on the Washington Convention. Farmers Union in Pottsville now take action against militant workers and want to expel them for sup- porting Unemployment Insurance, United Front with Police At a mass meeting called by the Laborers and Farmers Union some of the Socialist leaders made an agreement with the police to keep the Communists and Communist sympathizers from taking part in the meeting. One of the most outstanding fakers of the Socialist Party here. Thomas Howells, is the leading gun of the Socialist Party against the rank and file workers who fight for the Unemployment Insurance Bill, Thpmas Howells has on many oc- casions proven that he is a regular job-seeker and an agent of the coal company where he works. While he was a member of the grievance committee and also chairman of the Jocal union, he was running for re- election, and it is a known fact that the company mine foreman went to saloons and homes of miners and asking them to vote for Thomas Howells, the “Socialist.” This same Thomas Howells is to- day opposed to the Unemployment Insurance Bill and fights to split the workers of Pottsville. However, the workers of his local union have become wise to this Socialist mis- leader and have eliminated him from leadership of the union. Now these same Socialist mis- leaders of Pottsville are playing pol- itics with the city and county poli- ticians. They invite them to affairs and pig-roasts. They try to get the support of the politicians and are trying to get the relief adminis- trator of the county to give relief only to those recommended by the Laborers and Farmers Union. In this way they want to force the workers to become members of the Laborers and Farmers Union so they will have to pay dues to these misleaders. Seeing that the workers have no faith in them, they are trying the dirty scheme of denying the right to individual workers to bring their grievances before the Relief Ad- Leaders of the Laborers and embassy buildings, carrying banners They put them into dark cells all alone—it’s called solitary confine- ministration, hoping that hunger WITH OUR YOUNG READERS class paper, the Daily Worker. We have supported capitalist papers | long enough and when you pay 5 | cents for their paper that much you are supporting them and that much you bring the poison in your head. I have seen so much in the Daily Worker about the C.W.A. through- out the U. S. Well, here in Helper, they had about 480 men working on C.W.A. but now it isn’t more than 200 and they are still laying them off, and will lay off more. There will be no work on the C.W.A, in about a month’s time, so, fellow- THE Fc DIDNT Corte YET~ ND COMDESATHERE US, 4 OUT, THERE perce Bee Morn Wer! gf workers, it is up to us to organize, you can see for yourselves. When you come after your pay-check on Saturday at 3 o'clock you wait there in City Hall until 5:30 or 6 o'clock, then they tell you that the check didn’t come and at the same time tell you they have no money. Comrades and fellow-workmen, lose no time, come on and organize in a rank and file organization, in the Relief Workers’ Protective Union. This is a notice to those who haven’t joined yet. Further- more, we have some elements here that have worked for the coal com- pany all winter and now the mines have slacked down and some were slick enough to get jobs like the Re- lief Officer here in Helper and lots of us could just as well have that job who need it more than he does. will force the workers into Laborers and Farmers Union. With the closing down of OC. W. A. projects, the officials of the Laborers and Farmers Union are re- joicing, hoping that the workers will flock in hundreds into the organ- ization. J. Dixon says, “You work- ers will crawl on your bellies to Laborers and Farmers Union.” What will be your answer, work- ers of Pottsville? Are you going to stand by and let a few mislead- ers represent you? We think it’s time that we should tell all the fakers that we workers of Potts- ville can stand up on our own feet and to have one of our own organ- ization that would fight for the workers’ rights. We propose the organization of an Unemployment Council which has a real lghting program for cash and more relief, more shoes, more clothes, rent, and Unemployment and Social Insurance. BUILDING I. L. D..IN MINE AREA (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) UNIONTOWN, Pa—I am send- ing money for the paper and want to let. you know that conditions here are very bad for relief work, be- cause they put what men they want on the job, especially the H. C. Prick Coke Co. They took a man who belonged to the United Mine Workers’ off the job and put a Brotherhood man in. This helps the Maxwell mine. This hurts because we don’t all get together. Well, I want you to know we are building the Inter- national Labor Defense. | How a Communist Party Unit Organized and Led Opposition Work in the A. F. of L. Last fall, Brewster of Hackensack, N. J., one of the biggest contractors in the country, decided that since the Blue Eagle had gone into ac- tion, it would be beneficial for him to have his workers organized. He got in touch with the Building Trades Council stating that he wanted to run a closed shop, and that they should send organizers down for this purpose. The Building Trades Council of New York sent in D. Colucci who was shown the payroll by Brewster. and who thereby called a meeting of all the workers employed by Brew- ster and other contractors of Hack- mass meetings of these workers and benefit and the desire of the con- tractors of Hackensack that they form a union of. the A. F. of L. The workers were not adverse to this, and 200 of them joined up and paid $2 initiation fee and formed local No, 472 of the International Hod Carriers, Building, and Com- mon Laborers Union. During this period, a number of these workers joined the Communist Party and organized a Communist Party unit in Hackensack. This unit being composed of the most ad- vanced workers, began to take up the question of what benefits they would derive from being organized in the union. A meeting was called of the unit, also a number of work- ers belonging to the local. The Sec- tion Organizer of the Communist Party, J. R., was also called to this meeting. Here the problem of wages and hours was discussed, as well as the demands that should be made by the local union. The de- cision was that the unskilled work- ers should demand 60c an hour over 45c an hour which they had been receiving last year, and an 8-hour day; and that the skilled workers, cement finishers, carpenters, etc., should demand 8c an hour and the 8-hour day. They then demanded & meeting of the local and made a motion that the demands should be taken up with the company and the agreement made up. However, Mr. Colucci, president of the local, had different ideas, and he told the workers that they should demand the same wages as was laid down by the Federal Gov- ernment, the N. R. A., 45c an hour for unskilled and $1.20 for skilled. This had the effect of splitting the unity of the skilled and unskilled workers, and even went so far as to break up the meeting. Many of the workers were thouroughly disgusted and were deciding upon forming an independent union. However, the Party unit decided that before tak- ing this step they would call another meeting. Rebellious A. F. of L. Workers Advised to Form Opposition The Section Organizer was called in for advice and he stated that an independent union would not be possible but urged further that they should use the union they already had to win the demands that they, the rank and file workers, wanted, and that they should force the offi- cials to concede to these demands of the rank and file or oust them from the union. To this the workers ensack. Mr. Colucci then called} told them that it was for their/| | agreed, and then got together a committee who visited members of the local and presented a slate of new officials who were rank ang file workers and stated that they were going to demand another meeting at which the demands of 60¢ and 80c and an 8-hour day would be put over, and that if the present officials | Sent in by the A. F. of L. refused |to take these demands to the boss | With the rank and file committee which would be elected, then they | would throw these officials out and | elect officials of their own. They also visited the skilled work- jers pointing out to them that | through united action of the sieiHed and unskilled, wage increases could | be gotten. Rank and File Committee Blected A meeting was called on March 2, where a rank and file committee was to present to the A. F. of leaders their ultimatum. Ei would concede to take their mands or they would be ousted new Officials elected. The A. F. of leaders did not appear at thig m ing, with the excuse of Thereupon, the workers elected a rank and file committee and a tem- porary president and , a structing the secretary to an- rete I other meeting on Mareh 16. At this meeting, new elections would be run Join the Communist Party 36 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. ©. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street City nine Negro boys were taken off a|@nd shouting the slogan, “The By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. freight train in a little town called | Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Die. The Paint Rock, Ala, Since then’ one Scottsboro Boys Must Be Freed.” Baking Soda for Malaria quinine, you may double the dose. 2 : Two of the boys were children Thomas 0., Albany—Baking soda | Let us know how you feel in a couple of them has been sentenced to death | about 14 years old when they were seems to have become quite a| of weeks. three different times, another twice| arrested three years ago. Today Sap! panacea. First we hear of it as a eee and the other seven are still wait-| they are young men. Instead of sure preventive against conception Cure For Dandreff (@) ing for a trial, which, if the lynch-| 80lNg to school like you do, or play- Three Hitler eggs Sat and now you are telling us that you| “Dear Doctor: ing ball out in the street, or work- are taking it morning and night| “I , ; . ers have their way, will sentence| ing to help out at h th To make NG. "4 3 am sen @ cure for dandruff An Indian Rhinoceros Costs $8,000 ata id Asad te ku * he ip out at home, these boys we On a Wa for malaria and for acidity. Baking | through your column for I, L., Bronx. tee Watince’ leat ‘or the second and/have spent three long years behind| @ soda or bicarbonate of soda has been | Use egg yolk instead of soap for ae at ae oe ee : a3 Le eae last time. pan bars under the shadow of MAG \O They certaaly 1 ‘ought given up by stomach specialists as a| shampoo, rubbing it well into sealp. con, Langdon W. Post, (New York's All around the world, from Berlin} They know that they have be- ? all — | that for acidity. Tt has been found|'Then wet scalp and continue rub- Tenement House Commissioner) to Shanghai, from New York to|come the Scottsboro Boys, they! Change CAT ito DOG they Knew if a Dee ultimate result is that the| bing, and finally rinse it out. One “me declared that the interest charged South Africa, in Moscow and in|know that workers all over the ag a sa pee ao, owing to the|yolk is enough for short hair. My y the P. W. A. for housing grants | Peru, workers have marched through | world believe them innocent and Change one TT] But the first Chance € “ A at_the body makes. to| case was so bad that my sister re- much too high, and that the the streets, have stormed American| are trying to get them free. They le tte rr cach. iT th ew orke, cs hie pe ral ae the alkaline bicarbonate | fused to cut my hair any more say- govérnment, so far from doing any know that the International Labor b g 7 as eta out more hydrochloric | ing it disgusted her, and one treat- favors, makes money on_ these Defense has been doing everything] Cine so as to IDIOIG| 3 acid into the stomach. ment cured it. I hope this will keep .. grants. a has kept them alive until to- forma new ° . . . oe e ee ue the cure of your malaria,| comrades from wasting money on ay. It's the only thing that keeps ad EXAMPL ere is no better treatment than| fake dandruff ‘cures’ and that those After_a dozen deaths from tene- their courage up. During the last| “4 ° FOR EXAMPLE quinine. If you have never taken it,| trying it will report on results. Teks, the city’ goverment made ?the animals averages approximately few weeks, the jailers have begun| CAT 4ecormes ¢QT, <Zt- begin with four grains every three “Comradely, : some * magnificent gestures toward | $45,000 a year.” | to torture them more than ever. ours. If you have already taken “nN. H” Firemen Ordered to Find and Cause Removal of Rubbish in Tenements,” | said the New York Times, March 20. “507 Old-Law Buildings Owned by City—Some of These Will Be fastidious among them .... Inspected the other children at home, Don't S6 RAST 12th 8.,"Seound Floor wrecked by “Jobless.” (Our em-|beef, of the same grade as. that you want to help free the Scottsboro end whatever you can ANDREW OVERGAARD _ phasis.—H. L.) eaten by the people of New York, Boys? do to Will Speak On The Times of March 21, reports, “Post Gets Permission to Raze Five Vacant Buildings on the Lower Hast Side.” (Our emphasis again.) Meanwhile, seven more lives were lost on March 21, while the city “wonders where to find money to raze firetraps and build decent . houses. However, there was appar- + ently no difficulty in finding funds + for new z00s, as work is beginning ; on the three new zoos pictured. {Not only will the animals have + hotel accomodations and _ service * Gwhile workers starve in filthy old + firetraps) but they will live on the { fat of the land. The palatial Bronx + Park Zoo (not sketched) feeds its} animals well. In his book “In the this page and serd. z ee diar pirestor act who starve, freeze, and burn. ae 2 C+ 2 : A 6b ‘DEL,’ Master of Ceremonies Zoo,” W. * | Only when the workers them- Be a ° 3% = = ; General Curator of this Zoo; states, seives take matters in hand and 3 y KER puz2.e MANHATTAN LYCEUM a the chapter “Feeding Captive | institute a socialist system will such Address you letters to Children’s) yo 7 je our leader. DAILY WORKER ‘cLve 66 East 4th Street, New York City = 4 zoo on a large scale has an enor- __ + mous appetite, The food bill for all |experienced chef in charge, “who not only prepares all the regular food for the guests but also caters to the individual whims of the most is fed to the lions, tigers, leopards, and other members of the cat fam- ily.” (Our emphasis once more— H. L.) This zoo also has a hospital and a staff of “physicians, veterinarians, and pathologists” for the benefit of the animals. The hospital “is con- veniently located near the center of the park and well isolated within a walled enclosure, which insures quiet. Let no one think we object to |zoos. On the contrary. But cer- | tainly there is no VALID reason why “the people” cannot be housed, fed, and doctored at least as well as wild animals. The bourgeoisie fares well enough. It is the workers |conditions change, and funds be available for adequate housing for all. RED PEPPER ment—so that they can’t even talk to each other. Their parents are so poor they hardly ever get to see them, They have to spend whatever money they get to feed Write to Governor Miller of Ala- bama and tell him what you think about keeping nine boys in jaii for three years for something everybody knows they didn’t do. Tell him that you and your friends and your parents demand that they be freed. And send copies of these letters to the With Our Young Readers Column, so that when we print them other boys and girls will see what they can do. Sone aS F. D. Roosevelt sat on the wall F. D.’s recovery had a great fall ‘|All the Blue Eagles and all the NRA. Cannot stop strikes in the whole USA, Editor, Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St. New York City The best answers will be printed rext Saturday. Finish the poerr and draw the other two eggs - Picture~Tark 7 Sometimes pictures can talk- for example e+ a/-¥ STAR +ALINE -£aR What ‘db ttsego “Ss STALIN, Says + 9F- G the second is im prison “he Daily erker Puggle Club” kas beer formed. To become a member Work oul any puzzle on Sunday, March Workers School Forum The Role of Revolutionary Unions in New York Strikes Questions — Discussion — Admission 25¢ 25th, at 8 P. M. =} Po - e me 4 ° i] ai & i] <i 5 e 2 | : 7] ANNOUNCES Dance and Entertainment Saturday Evening, March 24th Dance Music by Harlem Hot Shots GOOD TIME—FEATS Admission 30 cents in advance; 35 cents at door ALL PROCEEDS TO THE DAILY WORKER Nona — OIsAW LOH