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| Nash Strikers Roar Down Suggestion to jt ! DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MO! NDAY, APRIL 2, 1934 Page Three Call Off — % ] Say They Are Watching | Detroit Plants With Anxious Eyes KENOSHA, Wis., Mar. 29 (By Mail).—The Nash Motors Co., whose plant here in Kenosha has been on strike since March Ist, sent a strike- breaking letter to all employees on Tuesday, March 27th. stating that it “is unfortunate that the local leaders of the American Federation of Labor called our employees out | on strike.” The true facts in the case are that the men themselves wanted to stfike, as was shown by the over- whelming strike vote. The A. F. of L. officials who came in from out- side did anything but force the strike. It was the other way around. The men themselves forced the issue on the strike, and for- mulated the demands, chief of} which are for a 20 per cent increase, with a 60 cents an hour minimum, and recognition of the department and shop committees of the Federal Union, 19008. This attempt to break the morale of the strikers failed miserably. At a union meeting it was reported that only one hand was raised out of ‘over 1,500 present, when the Presi- dent, John Milikent, asked how many wanted to return to work on the basis of Nash’s offer. Tremendous Unrest There is tremendous unrest and disappointment with the results of the Washington conference. The strikers are becoming aware of the trick that Roosevelt has played on them with the N. R. A. and the ballyhoo ahout the National Labor Board and “arbitration.” The 5 point program of Roosevelt stinks to high heaven of Charley Nash’s company union proposal, which was decisively rejected last November when Nash attempted to stage a fake election to an Employees Coun- cil. The little Blue Book issued at that time explaining the company union proposal, stated that all dis- putes that the council could not settle would be handled by an arbi- tration committee of three, one to be appointed by labor, one by Nash, and one to be a neutral. This is exactly the same thing as Roosevelt and Green are giving the workers in the entire auto industry, with their infamous betrayal settlement. A Question The Nash strikers are also asking the question: After the freely chosen representatives of the auto workers have been selected, what || are they going to do about getting || higher wages? This is not even “ mentioned in the 5 point agree- ment. Jt is obvious that after all the red tape of impartial elections, etc. has been gone through, that the auto workers will have to strike anyway, if their demands for in- creased wages and union conditions are to be won. The Nash strikers are looking to their brothers in Detroit and other auto shops with anxious eyes. The Nash workers were betrayed last November by the leading officials of the 4. F. of L. They are hoping that the rest of the workers in the auto industry will refuse to permit betrayal to ruin their chances of winning decent wages and condi- tions. == F armers, Workers Hit by Recent N. Y. Milk Control Law Farmers To Fight Dairy Trust in United Front WALLKILL, N. Y., April 1—The milk control law just passed by the New York State Legislature will hurt the farmers and the workers alike, declared the New York State Farmers Committee for Action in a statement issued today. Of chief concern to farmers and workers ate the provisions for pro- duction curtailment, states the State Committee. These provisions permit the Commissioner of Agri- culture to fix a greatly lower price for all milk produced above any quota he may set. This means that farmers will have to sell cows in a falling market. It also means that the supply of milk will be cut. The farmers and workers will bear the entire burden; the market will be “stabilized” for the dealer, who will continue to reap big profits. Other provisions continue the old policy of the State of guaranteeing the profit of the dealers. The com- missioner is given power to be sole judge of whether or not a man is of good enough character to become This is for the ad- mitted purpose of protecting those dealers already selling milk, and may be used to further monopolize the industry by revocation of licenses to the smaller dealers. However, the State Committee concludes its statement, while the State may seek to legislate the farmers off the land and the price of milk so high that the workers continue going hungry or with short a united front against the Dairy Trust, the State Committee is co- operating with the Women’s Coun- ciis and will send a representative to speak for the farmers at the Conference on the “High Cost of Living,” on April 14th the Strike Suspend Chi Schoolboy For Protesting Against Star Spangled Banner| (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, April 1—A Manley High School youth, Eddie Richman, 16, was suspended last Monday for distributing leaflets protesting the recent decision of the Board of Education ordering that daily ses- sions of all public school classes be| opened with the singing of the Star Spangled Banner. The leaflet ‘pointed out the jingoism of the or-| der, The school heads expelied Rich man through the roundabout} method of having the orphanage at | which he lives, the Marx-Nathan Home, whose director is a Mr. Trotzky, order him not to attend school unless he sings the song. Richman flatly refused, and a cam- paign has already been launched to | force his reinstatement. Phila. Knitgoods Strikers Assail Slander in Press Petitions Signed by 4,000 Proves Boss Ad a Lie PHILADELPHIA, April 1, - ie knitgoods employers’ campaign in the newspapers is being met by added determination on the part of the 4,000 knitgoods strikers. The workers resent the lying propaganda appearing in the paid advertise- ments in the dailies. The ad claims that the workers are being forced on picket lines and are being generally intimidated by a few outsiders. Worker after worker arose at the strike meeting held Friday to ex- press their willingness to go to any | lengths to throw the He at the em- | Ployers. Over 4000 workers signed peti- tions stating that they joined the union voluntarily and willingly. They again voted confidence in the leadership. A committee of strikers issued the following statement: “Over a period of months we have been demanding and preparing for @ general strike. Our conditions were miserable, week after week we worked without making even the low code minimum of $14.00. Our families suffered because of hunger, and we had to demand relief from the public relief agencies. One of our co-workers, Julius Segal, because of starvation and general rundown condition became very ill. He had to go to the Jefferson Hospital. The workers in his shop, the Nueco, gave a part of their pay to support him there. Yet the employers took credit for this. “Yesterday an appeal was made to give him a blood transfusion, and many of us volunteered our own blood. “He lies near death as a symbol of the miserable conditions under which we were forced to work. “Yet we called upon our employers in a conference to rectify these con- ditions. We gave them ample time to answer, They ignored us. They did not want to give us an oppor- tunity of making a living. Now they appeal to us.” _ WHAT’S ON CLASS ON HISTORY of Soviet Russia, “Period of Intervention,” by Theodore Bayer, Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, 947 Wil- loughby Ave., 8:30 p.m. Auspices Williams- burg Br. P.S.U. Adm. free. ACTION COMMITTEE, Film and Photo League, meeting, 12 E. 17th St., 7:30 p. m. Potamkin Film School meeting, p.m., Ralph Steiner, conducting, RELIGION IN U.S.S.R., first of series of four lectures on “Conditions in U.8. SR.” by Albert Morris, Brownsville Br. F.S.U., 120 Glenmore Ave., Brooklyn. Ad- mission free. | hood chiefs to restrain. A railroad Compulsion in R.R. Questions) Wants Courts to Enforce Labor Rulings; Aids Open Shop WASHINGTON, March 31—De- claring that the present situation demands “an element of compul-| sion,” Joseph B. Eastman, Roosevelt- | appointed “transport co-ordinator,” yesterday proposed a national board of compulsory adjustment for rail- road struggles between railroad | workers and the railroad owners on| questions of hour and pay. | Eastman’s proposals are a di- | rect attempt to place further ob- stacles in the way of a railroad strike as the resentment of the railroad workers becomes more | and more difficult for the Brother- | strike at this time would strike a heavy blow at the profits of the Wall Street monopolies, and would be able to force concessions from the big employers. Eastman, who still has a reputa- tion as a ‘liberal’ among railroad experts, proposed a series of four rules to apply in railroad disputes which under the cover of seeming attack on company unions really give legal sanction and government approval to the open shop, After declaring against compul-| sion in forcing the railroad men to join company unions, Eastman ar- gues against any bone fide union insisting on the closed, union shop in the following proposed rule: “It is unlawful for any raifroad to require any person to sign a contract or agreement to join or not join any labor or- ganization.” This provision would make it un- lawful for a real union to demand that only union men be employed on the roads, Eastman’s plan would abolish the present Mediation Board which has successfully prevented any railroad strikes, and places in its stead ‘a board of 36, divided into four parts to handle all labor disputes. It is significant that the dis- | putes will be divided into four | divisions, thus weakening any | united action of the workers. Fur- | thermore, the decisions of the pro- posed board would be binding and would be enforceable by the United States courts. This would bind the railroad workers to offi- cial decisions in matters relating to hours and wages, and would make strikes criminal actions against the government In eessence this is a fascisation of the railroad labor unions. Eastman has just refused to make any decision on request of the roads to extend the 10 per cent pay cut for another year. He referred the matter to Roosevelt, who has al- ready proclaimed that he will act, not in the railroad workers’ inter- est, but in the “public interest,” that is, the stockholders interest. Messengers Send Group to Hearing Union Demands Mini- mum of $15 a Week NEW YORK, April 1—The Tele- graph Messengers’ Union, 114 West. 14th St., has arranged to send a delegation of messengers to the Telegraph Code Hearing which will come up in Washington tomorrow. This union is the first and only one that has made attempts to organize this large group of young workers. Since its inception it has gone far in uniting these exploited young workers to fight for the betterment} of their conditions. The money for this delegation to Washington has come from the hard-earned pennies and nickels of the boys themselves, who feel the need to expose their miserable con- ditions at the hearing. They are going down there to demand a $15 minimum wage and to demand that the companies pay for their equip- ment, such as shoes and bicycles. As in the past the Western Union Telegraph Company is attempting to intimidate the boys and threatens them with the loss of their jobs. Any measures of these corporations to molest or terrorize this delega- WORKERS SOHOOL Spring Term. Last week of registration, 35 EB. 12th St. Classes filling up. ELIZABETH, N. J.—Peace and tage lecture by J. Areh. Auspices Elizabeth F.S. U., at Lithuanian Club, 408 Court St, Ad- mission free. tion will be militantly fought by the Telegraph Messengers’ Union and organizations of other workers. The report of the hearing will be Fight on Jim-Crow Attaeks on Negroes BULLETIN NEW YORK—Tenants at 425 E. 6th St. were planning yesterday te go on a rent strike in defense of the right of Negro workers to live in the building. Picketing of the building and the owning bank is expected to go into effect to- night or tomorrow. The House Committee is appealing to all workers and their organizations to support the anti-segregation fight, ee ee NEW YORK.—A 30-day eviction |notice was served on Cyril Briggs Thursday in the chauvinist cam- | paign of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank to evict the working- Negroes. The bank owns the build- ing and several others in the neigh- borhood. Briggs, a member of the editorial staff of the Daily Worker and vet- eran of many battles on the Negro and labor field, ..... rented a two- room apartment in the building two weeks ago, obtaining a two weeks’ _conces- sion, His rent is paid up until © April 30, the ~ date named in the eviction no- tice for his va~ cation of the premises. The bank's action has aroused the indignation of white workers in the house and neigh- borhood, who have been quick to realize that the attack on Briggs is an attack on the whole working Cyril Briggs class leader and his family from| |425 E. Sixth St. because they are | class as well as on the oppressed |Negro masses. Denouncing the | chauvinist persecution of the Negro |masses as aimed at smashing the growing unity of Negro and white | workers and thus preventing effec- | tive struggle against constantly wor- |sening conditions, the workers are organizing around the demand for | tice, abolition of segregation prac- tices and recognition of the right |of Negro workers to live where they |;choose. The agent of the bank has been forced to admit that he has} | | officials of the striking union, and} received no complaints from other tenants against the presence of a | Negro family in the house. | Delegation to Visit Bank A delegation of three has been elected to visit the bank’s offices at |51 Chambers St. on Monday to de- |mand the right of Comrade Briggs |and his family to remein in the |house. Worker-depositors, having |savings in the Emigrant Industrial | Savings Bank, as well as all work- ers and their organizations, are |urged to back up the delegation | with protest telegrams and resolu- |tions to the bank, demanding the abolition of its segregation policy. E. Hagler, a worker-depositor, re sponded yesterday with a protest to the bank. Other depositors are urged to register their protests at once, Meantime, several tenants in the pay rent until the eviction order against Comrade Briggs is withdrawn. Other tenants are expected to join the protest, while depositors with | |the withdrawal of the eviction no-| Philadlephia St rikers | Aid N. Y. Shipyard Co. Workers By H. M. WICKS PHILADELPHIA, April 1.—With/ the strike of the New York Ship- building Co. in Camden winning support of workers in other indus- tries, the employers and their agents are trying to force the men back to work. In this they have the support of the local and national | Socialist leaders who have recently betrayed a number of strikes in| | Philadelphia. At a mass meeting called by the with the aid of Socialist leaders on | Thursday evening, Frances G. Hun- |ter, president of the union, p |posed to the more than 4,000 in at tendance that a resolution be sent to the Camden City Council and Police force congratulating them for their co-operation—which con- sisted of permitting the meeting to | ; be held on city property. | delphia, one Felix, talked, praised the action of the evangelist ty) opened the meeting with prayer for | victory after the audience had been }asked by the leaders to rise and |sing “America.” Felix, the Social- ist, who was active in betraying the | Philadelphia taxi strike and help- |ing the Regional Labor Board im- | pose a company union upon the |men, said: “This strike is led dif- ferently from the taxi strike. If |they had opened their meetings | with prayers the results might have | been different.” Norman Thomas, brought in for the purpose of addressing the meet- Then a Socialist lawyer of Phila- me gant will be urged to sharpen | eir protests if the bank does not| ing: “tt j back down on its vicious attack on| Peers ecu aay ie ee the unity of white and Negro work-| workers in line” and that in the ple Pe delegation declared yes-| auto settlement the workers lost through the legitimatizing of com- ing, talked about the N. R. A., say~ John F. Sherman, His Organization “Inac- active Until N.R.A, Came on Scene” (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK —A few days ago New York papers carried the story of the death of John F. Sherman. The papers did not state that this man was the head of one of the largest stool-pigeon outfits in the United States. For years this fel- low, at the head of a nation-wide organization, had on his staff thou- sands of men and women sold their self-respect for a few paltry dollars to spy on and expose their fellow workers. Several years ago Sherman made a boast that he had a large num- ber of spies planted in the Workers (Communist) Party. Some years back, in Chicago, it was revealed that Sherman and his pals had stirred up violence in strikes through their spies and then placed the blame on workers who were fighting for the right to live. ‘The men and women employed by the outfit that this man Sherman operated were so lacking in princi- ple that once they left the employ of Sherman it was practically im- possible for them to get a job with other spying, scabbing and strike- breaking agencies. They became so rotten in their work that even other | groups just as bad were afraid of them and did not trust them. In the past few years the Sher- man Agency has been rather inac- tive until General Johnson and the N.R.A. appeared on the scene. Sher- man and his agents came to life again and elaborate offices were set up in Chicago, New York and Wash- "AN EX-SHERMAN SPY, Re er (John F. Sherman, “business man- agement expert” and chairman of the board, treasurer, and managing director of the Sherman Corpora- tion, 22 E. 40th St., died in the Post- Graduate Hospital last week. The Sherman Corporation was founded in 1920. Sherman was a director of the Bankers Securities Corp., Bankers’ Bond and Mortgage Corp. and the McLellan Stores Co.— given in the Daily Worker. Editor.] Head of Big Stool Pigeon Ring, Dies pany unions. He did not mention his own advice to the workers when the N. R. A. was launched that “Now is not the time to strike.” In speaking of the fact that the strike is under the leadership of an independent union, Thomas said: Pittsburgh Hotel Strikers D rl er N emand “I do not like dual unions. I still thik the A. F. of L. is the only Seabs Be Removed legitimate movement provided they adopt the industrial unions.” 0 Se | In the midst of the meeting a |group of 50 knitgoods strikers from ere Lock Doors As | Philadelphia, led by their manager, Pickets Demonstrate | Feingold, marched in, pledged sup- |port to the shipyard workers, as- at Wm. Penn Hotel _ | caiiea the N. R.A. particularly the Regional Labor Board, and exposed PITTSBURGH, Pa. April 1 —)| the fact that Emil Reeve, president Five hundred William Penn Hotel|/of the Full Fashioned Hosiery strikers and sympathizers paraded | Workers and a prominent Socialist, through the streets of Pitisburgh|on the Regional Board, was even Friday afternoon bearing placards|more vicious than the open repre- demanding removal of scabs from|sentatives of the bosses. Thomas’ the hotel and their jobs back. The parade was led by many. children of the strikers, starting from strike headquarters and terminating with a@ mass mecting in West Park on the North Side. Mass picket lines were formed around the hotel before and after the parade. The management and these demonstrations that all doors leading into the hotel were locked, in order to prevent the strikers from marching in and taking their jobs, as they threatened they would if the decision of the Regional Labor Board, setting March 24 for the re- employment of all strikers, would not be carried through. The strikers unanimously voted against the proposal of the hotel management today which were: to rehire 20 per cent of the strikers within five days, and 10 per cent more within the next 15 days, and the others were to be re-hired whenever vacancies occurred. The strikers are aware of the fact that these vacancies wil never occur. There have been previous confer- ences with the management in which the same proposals were made. The demands made by the strik- ers were: to rehire 60 per cent within five days and the remaining 40 per cent within 15 days. This was refused by the management stating that they must show some consideration to their loyal scabs. Nevertheless, with sufficient press- ure brought to bear through mass action, the strikers believe more concessions can be won. Although this is the eighth week of the strike, the strikers are still in high spirits, and have succeeded by mass picket lines to break through the terror of the police and conduct mass remonstrations around the hotel at least twice a day. the scabs became so frightened by | face became livid at this unmask- ing of one of his principal aides in |the Philadelphia section. On Friday the meeting was quite | different, and the strikers, who had {heard nothing from the Socialists | about extending the strike and win- |ning support of other workers, lis- tened to Percy Bryant, member of the Federation of Technicians, En- |gineers and Chemists, urge the |spreading of the strike, the ques- tion of rank and file leadership, and urge the unity of Negro and | white workers. He warned the | strikers that the bosses would try | every sort of trick to stampede them back to slavery, including the rais- ing of the issue of the “red scare.” | D. Davis, of the Tool Makers’ Union, spoke at that meeting urg- ing the maintenance and strength- |ening of the picket lines on land | and on water (the strikers are pick- jeting the Delaware river in boats |to prevent scabs from entering the |yards that way). He also urged the strikers to be on their guard against attempts to compromise and betray them and against the arbitration scehmes of the Regional Labor | Board. I. L. D. Starts Mass Campaign to Force the Removal ofTerrorJudge NEW YORK.—A campaign for the removal of General Sessions Judge Corrigan was instituted last week by the International Labor Defense. Corrigan openly assisted the pros- ecution in the railroading of Michael Hagopa, needle trades worker, to prison in a flagrant frame-up. “Judge Corrigan’s actions and statements during the trial, ” I. L. D. leaders declared, “are a distinct challenge to every fighting workers’ group in the city.” Mr. Smith in SplitCabm Anti-Communist Tale In Jewish Forward Is Assailed by Workers NEW YORK.—At a shop n held Monday, e ers of the Meisel an unanimous], condemning t ward, organ of the i for a story they ran headline “Commun: Check-off System in and Dyeing Shops.” In olution the workers stat realize the intention in sp d ward or any other prov all their us statement reaking the of t Dyeing Shop olution la | “check-off system” | Thirty workers | Signed these resolutions, ChicagoCabOwners ‘Use Thugs to Stop ‘Organizing of Men |Parmelee Thugs Beat Forbes, Militant Worker (Midwest Bureau Daily Worker) CHICAGO April 1—The Chi cago Yellow Transportation Com. | pany, a subsidiary of the Parmele | |'Taxi Company, instigated violence | at the first attempts Wednesday night of Chicago cab drivers to or- ganize in solidarity with their New | York brothers against conditions} | even worse here than in New York. } Russell R. Forbes, militant cab driver, was fired yesterday and bru- tally slugged when he went to col- lect his salary last Friday at the) | company’s offices, 57 E. 2ist Street. The gangsters of the company held | | him while another beat him. Parmelee thugs had barred the meeting called for Wednesday to} organize the drivers. Earlier in the day they had threatened Forbes against attending the meeting. Friday’s local papers in a quarter- page advertisement said that 2,203 | |Checker Taxicab drivers (also a | Parmelee subsidiary) had petitioned the president of the company to raise cab rates to leave the drivers |“a sufficient amount for living ex- | penses.” The drivers were of course forced to sign the “request” or for- | feit their jobs. Even in the face of the terror, | Chicago's cab drivers are determined to fight against wages averaging ten dollars a week out of which they |had to pay for gas. “Daily” Reporter Trial Postponed Charged With “Criminal | | Libel,” Exposing Taxi| | Strikebreaking Agency | NEW YORK.—The trial of Harry Raymond, Daily Worker staff writer, covering the taxi strike, on a charge of “criminal libel,” which was sup- posed to be held yesterday at the City Magistrate’s Court, 425 Sixth Ave., was postponed to April 6, 10 o'clock in the morning. Raymond was served with a sum- mons by George Williams, one of the lieutenants of the Sherwood Detective Agency, a scab recruiting agency, understood to have procured scabs in the taxi strike, for exposing their strikebreaking tactics during the taxi-strike in a signed article. | The Daily Worker calls on all| taxicab strikers and workers to pack the court on the sixth, in a power- ful protest demonstration against | the latest attack on the strikers} and upon the only newspaper sup- | porting their struggles. | Aim of Wagner Bill Is t Speech at the Senate Committee Hearing Exposes the Purpose of Measure As in Line With N.R.A. Attack on the Working Class By WELLIAM F. DUNNE Note: The following is the sec- ond installment of the speech de- livered by William F. Dunne, rep- resenting the Trade Union Unity League, before the Senate Com- mittee on Labor, exposing the strikebreaking Wagner Bill. In the previous installment, Comrade Dunne analyzed the background and forces behind the Wagner bill, showing it a continuation and development of the strike- breaking tactics of the N.R.A. , @ . . Strikes is an increase of sympa- in auto, sections 9 among workers irrespective of union affiliations, as seen in an Ohio con- ference of steel workers where A. A. members invited members of the Steel and Metal Workers Union to have united, etc. 11. There is the special and ex- tremely significant factor of the conjunction of all these movements and struggles ‘| ditions and union recognition as in acter, that is, they take place infor compulsory federal insurance defiance of N. R. A. and its local and regional boards, This is to be seen especially among coal miners, aluminum workers, metal and auto workers, in such incidents as that of the boycotting of the election at the Budd company and the booing of General Johnson. It has been noted among the thousands of striking New York taxi drivers and in many other places. So far it consists mainly of re- fusal by the workers for supervision of their voting on working condi- tions and wages, in regard to union affiliation, and in general is against the N. R. A. theory that the in- terests of capitalists and workers are identical. for all unemployed workers at the cost of the government and the em- ployers, over the opposition of the heads of the American Federation of Labor. Hundreds of A. F. of L. unions, many city central bodies and some state federations of labor have endorsed this bill. There have been no refusals to endorse where workers have been reached with the bill. 16. There is a marked growth of anti-militarist sentiment which the press notes principally in schools, colleges and among intellectuals and professional workers, but which is unquestionably developing widely in the ranks of workers, In connection with the develop- 14. There is to be seen the ad-*ments I have enumerated, and in vent of large numbers of Negro workers in the South into struggle for better wages and working con- the Alabama coal mines, together with white workers. There are such developments as the revolt of Negro workers in the Civilian Con- servation Camp near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, against intolerable con- ditions, discrimination and segrega- tion, 15. There is the growing mass sup- connection with the provisions of the Wagner Bill, we must regard with the utmost seriousness such other developments as indicated a clarification of the N.R.A. program. These facts force the conclusion that the N.LR.A. and its admin- istration will take on more and more the character of an open of- fensive against the economic and social stands and elementary po- litical rights of workers and their organizations. Some of these factors are: port of the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill providing A.—The progressive militarization o Weaken Workers’ Struggle, Bill Dunne Shows of N.R.A. administration by the systematic appointment of military officers to key posts in the appa- ratus. [Here the speaker inserted in the reeord the names of 11 mili- tary officers appointed recently to N.R.A. posts in important indus- tries.] B.—President Roosevelt’s descrip- tion of the relationship of workers and capitalists in so-called repre- sentative government in industry, versary speech; and his emphatic restatement of the purpose of N.R. A.: “To promote organization in industry for the purpose of cooper- C.—President Roosevelt’s descrip- tion in his anniversary speech of his powers in terms of a constitu- tional dictatorship. eulogy, before a code meeting of em- Ployers, of A, F. of L. leaders such as Green, Berry, Lewis and Moc- which he emphasized in his anni- | ative action in trade groups and to_ induce and maintain unified action | of labor and management under adequate government sanction and > D.—General Johnson’s inspired | Donough—“Their interests are your) interests.”"—“The A. F. of L. is the worst enemy of the Communists.” E—The revocation of the citizen- ship of Emil Gardos, recently, on| the basis of a charge arising out of | an eight-year-old strike case; the) conclusion must be that this deci- | sion was handed down to lay a basis for mass deportations of for- eign-born workers under the guise of relieving unemployment but ac- | |tually to split the ranks of the) | working class, | | F.—The two-to-four-year prison |sentence handed out in Pittsburgh | to Phil Frankfield, the leader of} the biggest Unemployment Council, | some 20,000 workers, in the country. | His crime was that of organizing | workers to fight against starvation. | Fits Anti-Labor Mosaic G—The actual incorporation of | official leaders of the A. F. of L. into the administrative apparatus | of N.R.A—in other words, into the main machinery set up for capi- talist recovery, where they operate (Continued on page 4) Eastman Asks|Bank Serves Eviction Notice'S. P. Leaders Socialist Paper and On Briggs in Anti-Negro Drive Move to Betray Indignant Workers Elect Delegation To Visit Camden Strike Chauvinist Tenement Owners; Launch Mass ivi ove to en’s Ranks Joins With Capitalist Press In Raising “Red Scare” Cry By HARRY RAYMOND NEW YORK.—Joining with the capi press in the al campaign of slander to divide the ranks | i drivers, , the “New self to. be even a ackmen than ed anti-labor vews.” While is openly against the union, the lew Leader” is trying to split the unity while stating that it supports it. Pretending to support the strug- gles of the hackmen, the leading articles on the first page of the “Labor Section,” which quotes at great length from a radio speech of Matthew M. Levy, a lawyer and chairman of the Bronx County or- ganization of the Socialist Party, who with Judge Panken aided in the shameless betrayal of the first strike. Levy, in his speech refers to the Communist policy as one of “splitting the labor movement.” Who Are the Splitters? Now, let us see who the splitters are. The first and most obvious plitter within the ranks of the taxi rivers is one Samuel Smith, presi- dent of the Bronx local of the Taxi Drivers Union of Greater New York. During the early days of the strike, Mr. Smith was forced to go along with the militant wave of struggle of the taxi drivers. Despite his underhanded attacks on the mili- tant leadership of the Manhattan ch 31, | local, the rank and file forced Smith into a position where he could not openly oppose the correct strike Policy proposed by Samuel Orner and Joseph Gilbert, the undisputed, outstanding and most beloved lead- ers of the strike, But Mr. Smith did not rest long on his oars. He soon was working | untiringly for a split. Backed by such leaders of the Socialist Party as Mr, Levy and Mr. Amicus Most, Smith began to raise the “red scare.” He raised this cry last Fri- day night in a speech to the wives of the drivers. “We are not only fighting the General Motors,” said Smith, “but we are fighting the Communist Party.” Clever Mr. Smith, you who were against the strike in the beginning, how do you expect to bulldoze the hackmen with such trash? This was said in face of the fact that the Communist Party was the only Party that supported the strike in every possible way from the very beginning of the struggle. Taxi drivers know from experi- ence that the Communists within the union were the best fighters and the ones who united the ranks of the strikers regardless of polit- ical opinion, Smith Against Strike The strikebreaking, splitting policy of the Socialist leaders was brought out more clearly in a speech made by Smith in the Bronx on Satur- day. Smith, the mouthpiece of the Socialist Party, admitted that he was against the second general strike. He said that this strike was the idea of Manhattan local and that he “wanted no part of it.” Following the policy of the So- Cialist leaders, Smith attempted to get the rank and file hackmen to have faith in the capitalist politi- cians. He said that Mayor La- Guardia would see to it that “jus- tice is done to the men.” In order to halt any militant fight of the drivers which is necessary to force the city government to return the hack licenses that were taken away from strikers who were arrested while on picket duty, Smith “prim- ised” the men that the licenses would be returned with the help of the city administration. Also, on the question of the blacklist, Smith told the drivers “not to bother” for he would “personally see the bosses.” Upen Call for Split The real e of Mr. Smith’s move, which is in reality a man- ver of the Socialist Party leaders, s revealed in all its nakedness ; . Fe | Saturday. While the Socialist paper Cites Working of Lemieux Act in Canada to Prove How Similar Law There Is | Blow at Labor Conditions was shouting “Communist splitters,” the Socialist spokesman in the ranks of the taxi drivers was openly call- ing for a split in the union. Mr. Smith called on all Bronx men to stand behind him in laying the basis for the Bronx local to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor, thus breaking up the militant independent union, Supporting Mr. Smith’s man- euvers to split the union, the So- cialist “New Leader” publishes Mr. Smith’s resolution, a Socialist in- spired document, stating that the Bronx local repudiates all “taint, action or statements of the Com- munists.” Mr. Smith’s activities, however, have so far been unable to bring about the split so devoutly wished for by the Socialists. The majority © of the drivers know that it is the Communist Party and the Com- munist paper, the Daily Worker, that has helped them build their union, that has given them good leadership in the strike, and fs helping them now to consolidate their union in every garage in the city, Send us names of those you know who are not readers of the Daily Worker but who would be interested in reading it. Address: Daily Worker, 50 E, Sh x