The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1934, Page 2

age Two OAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1934 Open Call to Split Taxi Union Issued In Socialist Paper: “PREPARE FOR GREAT TASKS,” SAYS NRA Auto Pact BROWDER, CLOSING CONVENTION Cracks 2,200 Tool Up in Indianapolis (Continued from Page 1) ention heard on. analyzed tended down through the ranks and that more concrete conclusions as to the means of struggle be drawn from correct observation and an- ] | 3 Silk Mills Tied | | Men Vote to Strike Strikers Ave To Resume} Geet J = | For a Daily Worker A.A. (Continued from Page 1) Picketing Today showed the Party's -| alysis of conditions. He remarke a Special to Daily Worker ‘ its roots in the|the growth of revolutionary experi. | Position f ainst misleaders is saapatose soli “ 6 in the dec ence of the Communist Pa gaining & . 2 eats ere Sc ee 23 ; the laboring class of| throughout its work and again cited | 4; W- U- Exposing A. F. of L. Game| | INDIANAPOLIS, April 8—The| MASEBALL fever's in the air right now. All the sport Hackmen Must Combat States. Of the 470 dele-| : : The A. W. U. is now distributing|Real Silk, the National Hosiery Disrupters and Build Strong Unity gates, 233 were regular delegates,| 121 fraternal delegates from Party districts, and 116 national fraternal ing this prac- tice with continuous study of theory, for, he said, “only thus can we become Bolsheviks.” He commended leaflets exposing the game of the|and the American Silk Hosiery Federation of Labor| Mill were tied up here today after | Tigers, American officials and Labor Board. “The A. F. of L. officials are the chief movers workers of the American Federa- on of Hosiery Workers voted to} pages are full of “our Giants,” or “our Cubs,” or “ow. ” and the scribes are already batting their heads up against the walls trying to dope out the winner of the major delegates. They were 92 r cent} clarificati uest: | 2 ole qeotariani i aeal angie, eater ede ma the Negro question | in this game,” says the leaflet.| strike on Friday ; | leagues. By HARRY RAYMOND cent petty bourgeois, and’ 12 per|Gemarded continued inner party | They tell you to place your faith in) The second strike meeting of| It’s great fun, trying to put your finger on the best team NEW YORK Backin cent ho ves, nies aed sortie Be Party the Labor Board whose first official| 1,700 knitters and other workers | | ste tty ‘ith : me “Guihle oP waele NE ~ cking vigilance to remain “the Party of| act parred the building of a union| revealed a militant determination | at this time, with opening date just a couple of weeks off Samuel Smith and Herman Goldstein, presidents respec- tively of the Bronx and Brooklyn locals of the Taxi Drivers Union of Greater New York, in their move to split the union, the est issue of the “New Leader,” official organ of the Socialist Party, came out openly calling for the Bronx and Brooklyn locals to split from the Manhattan local and be- come part of the American Feder- ation of Labor. Fe a MOTHER BLOOR Mother Bloor Gets Ovation at C. P. 38 A. F. of L. Members A total of 38 delegates were Amer- ican Federation of Labor union members, 18 Independent unicn} members—a total of 64 per cent of} the Convention holding union mem- | bership. There were 145 native-! born, 88 foreign-born among the| voting delegates. They came from} the following industries: Steel and metal, lumber, auto, textile, mining, transportation, including 16 marine| and 15 railroad representati agriculture, farming, needle trades, building trades, food, printing, shoe Internationalism, against all forms of chauvinism.” Anti-War Fight this connection he greater efforts, citing, for example, | the necessity for making the de-} velopment of torture of the Scotts-| boro boys and of Ernst Thaelmann, | German Communist leader, real is- In urged ing class throughout the world. He called for greater efforts in the} movement to stop munitions ship- ments in the anti-imperialist-war | organization in the shops and whose to continue strike until all de-|and the closing day only a six® second act was the negotiations of| mands are won. an agreement for the Nash strikers in Wisconsin completely on the com-|ers of Hosiery Mills grected two | they don’t pick you a winner pany’s terms, which the strikers re-| delegates from the unemployment | now, you won't have any fun watch- jected only two weeks ago.” The leaflet warns against company maneuver of calling mittee with representative the| employed the| supporting the workers trike a lock-out and urges strikers| struggle to organize and fight for sues with the masses of the work-| to organize mass picketing and “set| better wages and living conditions. | right.” | up a broad rank and file strike com-| Demagogic appeals were made by| cee Same from| Leo Fritz, secretary of the councils who reported trat the un- | of Indianapolis in thee | In- every department, including all un-| diana State Federation of Labor, | ions represented in the strike.” The} and by Fuller from Washington, | sport critics of the various syndicate | leaflet ends: “The Auto Workers educational director of the A. F, were |be able to say | atr. sr * Doud-@entanse sham she wosk- | month stretch away; but if ing the local boys and they won't | ix months hence, or “maybe I was a} but nobody's ever | “T told you so, little wrong, (OSE winner dilemmas are nerve- | wracking. Chances are, the great| good character,” and «the purposes are purely educational and in the public interest, and all services and proceedings are to be rendered and done not for profit or gain.” No doubt, the athletes are playing for “public interest.” But Mr. Public is net the worker; he disguises him- self under the names of Gustavus T. Kirby, Milburn, a millionaire polo player, and Daniel Chase, head of the Kiwanis Club, to name only a few of the many names on the lay y ty ‘ce| fight, and repeated, “One of our| | +| newspapers dream nightly of bats| committee. And good baseball play- petit un cundes Hey nave 10s ie gga Alera Leen i es Political tasks today is the| Union, which led the successful] of 1. being bounced against their brain|ers of a semi-pro ability are subsi- the front page af the so-calle - er en, | motor products strike last | An election last fall, under N, | cells, with curve balls and fly balls labor section of the paper is the Socialist Party - inspired resolution calling for a split in the Taxi Driv- ers Union, which says: ‘Whereas, we are more deter- mined than ever to build a clean fighting union free from all Com- ‘Natl. Convention (Continued from Page 1) achievement. We must follow it up by forcing its adoption.” women among the regular delegates. The largest group—65 per cent—| | were between 26 and 30 years old. Their Party membership varied! |in length from charter membership | | to several months—the largest num- | ber having joined since the Open! struggle against Fascism,” in which | “the basic weapon is economic struggle and at the same time a) fight to preserve and extend the/| civil rights of the workers and to} rally all other elements suffering | from the crisis and capable of be- | year, | suports your struggle to the fullest.| R.A. supervision brought a vote of | ‘The Auto Workers Union will fight) 2,000 against 1,000 for company side by side with you for united/| union. However, hte minority | action, for a solid front against the| group has been forbidden recog- | company victory.’ Officials Quash Strike Motion for a hundred percent | nition. | The local regional board has re- | fused to take action on the case. | Written; but he and spike shoes hitting t turf, and cries of ths crcwd cheering the mighty Babe, “Please give us a home run,” so thas something hot can be} © one typewriter banger who doesn’t have to undergo those experiences. He is interested | dized by Macy or Wanamaker to appear on the field with their names spread on the uniforms. It’s enough to say that this is one of the means the great com- panies use to exploit athletes and, in a social sense, are one of the means of keeping the workers tied f a 5} | Letter was issued last summer. Co hiaee Lmeere |Through the final session, as be- One of the points mentioned in| fore, speeches by rank and file both Browder’s and Stachel’s re-| workers, particularly Negro, farmer ports, that drew cheers from the| 250 CWA Workers in a thing such as this: | Dear Comrade Ross: | I think I have a suggestion whiva) may help a little toward the ing roused against Fascism.” Again | ‘At mhsett rita se oy etings Friday night of Hud-| emphasizing the need for develop-| 1a. ¥. of L. local officials suc- | sea both ad vac A embapads | ceeded in quashing motion for im-| ‘ ‘ trade union development of the OP-| -ediate strike action and for the| and basic-industry representatives, | position movement's work and revo- | to the apron strings of the present social order. . munist or other disruptive elements | seeking to control the union for political and other reasons inimical to the best interests of the union; ee HICH brings me to the fact tha¢ therefore delegates, was the Centralia (Il.) | y, i ‘ Tift Bese re : election of a broad rank and file| . awakening of a revolutionary class the Daily News and the Chicago les : | general strike, When a participant | CTO puneed with the contributions) lutionary trade union work, and 106} committee to negotiate with the] struggle in the minds of youth end/ ‘Tribune have athletic associations, ‘Be It Resolved, that we hereby tt . particir of veteran leaders and representa-| development of opposition move- compatly, Instead, ‘officials ‘nar- } even adults Wh: t ily Worker Athleti repudiate all these influences and | that strike got up and spoke he | tives of brother parties of the Com-| ments within the A. F. of L. he said: pany. Instead, ; y not a Daily Worker etic will proceed to continue building a union based on the vital need of the taxi workers—a union that will|¢mploying mainly young workers.| | Was greeted enthusiastically. The strike started in a shoe plant, | munist International in other na-| | tions. Robert Minor, recent Communist | take its place in the ranks of the | They forced the discharge of a bru-| candidate for Mayor of New York | organized American labor movement; ‘@! department boss and forelady.| city, stirred the convention anew | as part of the American Federation of Labor.” Resolution Not Voted On Despite the fact that this resolu- tion was never voted for by the rank and file of the two locals, hav- ing been signed only by leaders of these locals, Mr. Amicus Most, or- ganizer of the Bronx local, in an article appearing in the same issue of the New Leader, states that: “resolutions have been passed re-|be done. In August a general shoe| pudiating the Communists and call-| strike broke out in New York, in-| ing for affiliation with the American | volving 15,000 workers. As a result Federation of Labor. Would Put Green In Charge A union free from Communists, a union dominated by William Green, who only recently betrayed only to find next week that they) had returned. They re-struck. Fred Biedenkapp, a leader of the | organized shoe workers, spoke next. | | He reported the great gains made | among shoe workers through appli- cation of the correct Party policy. “May, 1938, the Shoe and Leather Workers’ membership numbered Eatorcoartai 400. We decided if we were to make a living thing of the Open Letter something had to |of our activity in that strike we won an increase of 35 per cent in wages. We won shop and job con- trol in 91 shops. We won union recognition and the recognition of May ist as a workers’ holiday. We when he asserted that the Scotts- boro case is to the working class what the Dred Scott case was in the chattel-slavery-abolition move- | | ment before 1861, Hailing the rapid | spread of the Party’s influence in| the deep South—one of the most inspiring factors reflected through- out the Convention—Minor brought forth a burst of applause when he | declared: “We speak of the ‘backward | South’—but backwardness is a two-edged sword ... The South | | is the weakest link in American | | capitalism.” | In a recent district convention of |the Party in the South, he said, | 92 per cent of the delegates had never belonged to a trade union— | lifted his hands to quiet them. The “We still have to carry on the task of making the whole Party | understand that unless we carry | on stubborn and serious work | wherever the A. F. of L, has de- veloped, we will never succeed.” | “The Convention revealed that we have a Party greater than ever,” he said, “we aiready have | forces capable of tremendous | things.” | The final singing of the Interna- | tionale brought such protracted cheers for Browder, that he finally session broke up with individual and group cheers still breaking spon- | taneously throughout the Church’s Auditorium. Minneapolis C.W.A. Men in Victory; Act rowed down the committee to six, which will not meet with the com- pany till Wednesday. In voting for the committee of six, a number of | rank and file candidates were put up, but the machine succeeded in putting over its slate. Assistant Secretary of Labor Mc- Grady, now here to help smash the Motor Products strike, addressed the Hudson meeting and admitted the A. F. of L. did not win recognition in the Washington settlement, but said workers had achieved gains nevertheless. Department strikes at various plants continue. Two departments of metal finishers at Fisher Body Fleetwood plant stopped work Fri- day and demanded the wage in- crease promised three weeks ago. The company was compelled to Promise a ten per cent increase, retroactive to two weeks ago. At the Murray Body plant, after | Dept. Saturday (Continued from Page 1) regards what is happening on the projects. I am as yet unable to tell exactly what is happening.” When informed that his confusion is causing untold misery among the masses of C. W. A. workers, Hodson replied: “No doubt some ‘mistakes’ have been made in firing.” He then continued in the vein that being kept on the job is determined on the basis of need. He did not in- dicate who was to determine “need.” | No Assurance of Jobs When asked what assurance the | workers would have of their jobs | continuing, he bluntly said that he | had none, and attempted to place the entire burden upon Washing- ton by saying that the “ultimate conclusion depends upon federal Enclosed you will find a copy of the constitution and ty-laws of the New York City Baseball Federation. I am a baseball umpire in this or- ganization; but its bourgeois atti- tude and good-time-Charley ideas| and backers have given me a sick- ening feeling at the stomach. Let’s get back to the idea! The baseball season will soon be here. Boys of all ages will and have or- ganized teams to play each other for fun or money (side bets). Now their great difficulty, besides secur- ing diamonds in our “free” parks, is umpires. When boys play, they usually select two outsiders to offi-| ciate. These umpires very rarely} last because of arguments and lack of authority. Why not create a division of sport officials in the Labor Sports Union to furnish offi- | cials to these boys? I am sure there} are enough men who will gladly volunteer their time for this work. | I will, and have friends who will, Association? We could be a part of the Labor Sports Union, developing worker sports, forming worker leagues, setting an unprecendented standard of clean, free-from~exploit- ation - discrimination = chauvinistie athletics. T'd like to hear about this pro- posal from the readers of this column. I'd like to know their attitude and to hear some of their suggestions about the building of a new workers’ sport club—the Daily Worker A.A. Get the old minds working and the pencils sliding and the type- writers banging on this project. i eae Japanese Tennis Star Commits Suicide TOKIO, April 6—Despondent ove his school difficulties due to lack of money and the poor prospects of getting a job upon graduation, de- spite his popularity, Jiro Sato, Jap- anese Davis Cup tennis star, com- the Detroit auto strike—that is what | increased the membership from 500| which shows the swift progress of the distribution of the Communist | grants.” Comradely, | mitted suicide by jumping from the the leaders of the Socialist Party | to 9,000.” | Southern workers directly into revo- | Party shop paper, the door finishers | ae B. F. | liner Hakone Maru, bound for Eu- want. That is also among the high-| ye told how, due to the short-|lutionary activities as they are | stopped work Thursday and de-| eickex ie rope, carrying him and other tennis est wishes of Mr. Roosevelt and the To Free Jailed 30) manded an increase. Scottsboro Boys IN LOOKING over the constitu- ; comings of the Party leaders, both | roused to movement. stars for the world’s championship i ees |in New York and New England, the| A Negro stecl worker, in the Com- Hit Ford Speed-Up tion of this baseball league, 1 | matches. Then,” says Mr. Most, “as soon|Loyestone renegades were able to|munist Party but a few months, {Continued from Page 1) At the F 1 see why the umpire who volun- | Jiro Sato was an orphan, 26 years as the strike situation developed,|head a rank and file shoe union| told the Convention how Negroes | st al a Kes Phage haere ae Tortured: Told to teers his services for labor sports- | old and a student at Waseda Uni- : a whole series of mistakes were| movement. “There followed the| among the 7,000 workers in his| cial Insurance Bill (HR 7598). | t0PPed lin line and forced the com- 9 men, gets his stomach sick yelling, | versity. 4 made. The blame for these can be|now famous amalgamation conven-| plant are surging toward the Com-| The workers’ bill was formulated | HenY \0 add more men because “Ball one—strike two—Yerrront!” © aobigsn® 4 Igid directly at Communists . . He complains about the Man- hattan conference of labor organi- zations to support the strike. He says that this conference & the doors of the| tion. Here our policy was put to an! munist program as he did. A Ne-| j acid test. | the correctness of the Party line. It | became the Waterloo of the rene- gades when we got on the job in This convention proved| gro share-cropper reported like- | |wise. The representative of the | Communist Party of Ireland, Com- | rade Sean Murray, was cheered by the Unemployment Councils, and, due to the mass pressure of the Minnesota workers, was _in- troduced into Congress on Feb- | ruary 2nd by Congressman Lun- deen of Minnesota. they couldn’t stand the killing speed. Lay-offs are growing at the lead- ing plants, though production con- tinues to soar, due to great intensi- fication of speed-up. The Ford foundry is almost completely shut AcceptNAACP ‘Aid? (Continued from Page 1) for teams of players wearing Wan- amaker, Macy, and other big de- partment stores’ uniforms, adver- tising their company before thou- sands of people a month. And the WORKERS SOCCER LEAGUE MEETS MONDAY NEW YORK.—A general member- ship meeting of all members of the Metropolitan Workers Soccer League will be held tonight, at 114 W. “was | the spirit of the Open Letter.” anew as he declared the unity of mae phasizes what increasing sections) organization poses as a lot of re- ei _ called. without the consent or| ‘The delegation cheered and ap-| the revolutionary Irish in Ireland| In Minneapolis, police intimida-/ Gown. with stock piled up all over.| of Negro and white workers are| formers, using hazy phrases, which /1éth St. at which time the knowledge of other locals.” The} plauded when he told how in a\and in the United States. The|tion continued as the police, armed The Fisher Body No. 2 plant in| learning: that the N.A.A.C. | in all probability, the players | Plans for sending an American fact ot the matter is, however,’ recent union election in which! delegates whistled and clapped as| With machine guns, circled the City| Flint laid off eight hundred work-| leaders are agents of the white| don't read. Naval gporia Ompes neste pee hat the conference was widely | 12,886 votes were cast, he received! he announced that the year-old| Hall and the Court House. Mean-/¢rs several days ago. ruling class lynchers against the well, the idea behind the consti-| 54q fascism in Paris will be dis- advertised throughout the city in both the press and leaflets, Conference a Success But despite all attempts of the leaders of the Socialist Party to| throw a wet blanket on the ference it was a success. the Communist, the left wing workers and rank and file mem- bers of the A. F. of L. that gave moral, physical and financial sup- port to the strike It was with the support of the Communists that the three exist- ing taxi unions were amalgamated into one nae fighting union. We would like to know what help the taxi drivers got from the leaders of the A. F. of L. The hackmen know what help came from this quarter. Dele- gations of hackmen were thrown out of several New York A. F. of L. locals by A. F. of L. lead- ers when they came to appeal for support of their strike. The best support the drivers got came from the Communists. Now Mr. Most and his Socialist brethren want to herd the taxi drivers, who already have a fight- ing independent union, into the A. F. of L. They want to split the union by raising, along with the capitalist press, the cry of Com- munism. The hackmen should not allow| con- | It was|The results speak for themselves. | the highest vote, 4,302, while the Lovestoneite renegade, Zimmerman, j received only some 2,000. “In the election the question of Commu- | nism was raised. We met it squarely and the workers gave us 4,302 votes. Bloor In Fiery Speech Mother Bloor, who followed | Biedenkapp, made a fiery speech. “I wonder if you younger members realize,” she said, “what this con- | vention means to us older ones? I | want to speak particularly to the women. We haven't enough of them here yet. from the mine districts, from tex- tile, and our Comrade Rose Wortis, show they come from the struggles. They are just as fit as the men to take their place in the front line | of leadership. | “As I listened to the reports and discussion I realized at last that we had stopped talking only and were masses. | “Did you notice when the strike call came from Detroit how the men from Detroit started to put on their overcoats ready to go? “Thousands of farmers are wait- ing for the message and organiza- | tion of Communism. We know the industrial workers will lead the revolution, but you cannot have a We have seen that | really doing something to win the| Communist Party of Ireland has | | won @ place in and will win the | leadership of a successful movement | for liberation of the Irish workers both from British imperialist op- pression and from their own capi- talists’, A spontaneous ovation broke out as Comrade Murray told how, under | increasing Fascist attacks, the Irish | Party stands and grows. | | ‘The convention reached new peaks | | of enthusiasm as it affirmed the |mominations for the Central Com- | | mittee and adopted resolutions of | | greetings to the Communist Inter- | national and the Communist Par- | | tes of the Soviet Union, Cuba, Tre- | |land, Canada, Mexico, Germany, China, Japan, Great Britain and/ | the Philippine Islands. The Con-| vention also adopted a resolution of | greetings to the International Labor Defense and to Alfred Tiala, Farmer leader now imprisoned in Indiana “because he participated in one of the thousands of cases of mass re- sistance and the beginnings of re- volt that is taking place on the Farm-side all over the country.” ‘They greeted, also, Phil Frankfeld, Pennsylvania unemployed leader who goes to prison shortly on a charge rigged up on the basis of his leadership of unemployed work- while, charges and countercharges| and invectives were hurled back} and forth by the defeated officials. | The demonstration on Friday | was the climax ofg a long series of struggles by the jobless and CWA workers under the leader- ship of the Commuist Party. | One week ago today, the workers | massed at the City Hall, and when their elected committee of 23 were refused an audience with the welfare officials, the workers brushed aside the complete mob- ilization of police, smashed down the locked doors of the City Hall, and demanded an audience as the frightened welfare officials fled in the company of Socialists and | Trotskyites with whom they were | meeting. .Disclaiming the Social- | ist and Trotskyite “leaders with- out a fallowing,” the workers de- manded that their own elected representatives be heard. .. The victory of the 0. W. A. job- less demonstration has revealed the fraud of the “radicalism” of the Farmer-Labor Governor Floyd B. Olsen of Minnesota, who in his bankrupt “radical” program could offer neither jobs nor relief to the thousands of Minnesota unem- ployed. Olsen has declared his in- tention of co-operating with the ‘Washington administration in show- ing that the C. W. A. and unem- | Companies are using lay-offs to keep out militants, and are being aided in this by A. F. of L, officials, When Gravis, active member of the | Hudson A. F. of L. local, was fired recently for union activity and asked Greer, president of the local, to take action, Greer told him there was No indication he was fired for union work. At Hudson’s as at other plants, sentiment for strike action is strong, but here too, mili- | tant rank and file leadership is ur- gently needed to defeat the official- | dom of the A. F. of L. Messengers Strike Western Union messengers struck Friday night, demanding wage in- creases and recognition of an inde- pendent union. The boys, some of whom have been earning as little as three dollars a week are carrying on militant picketing. The walkout, ig under rank and file leadership, but confused elements in the strike committee are moving to bring in the strikebreaking regional Labor Board. The Post Telegraph messengers are planning to join the strike to- morrow, apolis ©. W. A. and unemployed workers and a 40 per cent increase | | rising liberation struggles of the | Negro masses and the mass fight | for the Scottsboro boys, Boys Subjected to Long Torture While at Kilby Prison, Mont- gomery,, Ala., the nine boys were forced to witness the legal lynch- ings of other innocent Negro workers and told “it will be your turn next.” Through this and other forms of torture, Walter White, general secretary of the N.A.A. P. once induced several of the to sign papers turning their case over to the N.A.A.C.P. These papers were repudiated by the boys when their parents learned of White’s visit to the jail. -All of the families of the boys scath- ingly condemned the N.A.A.C.P. misleaders for their persistent at- tempts to disrupt the mass defense and betray the boys. This brutal torture of the boys in a new attempt to break their militant spirits and force them to place themselves at the mercy of the Judas white and Negro lead- ers of the N.A.A.C.P. must arouse the furious indignation of every worker and honest sympathizer with the fight against the lynch- ers. All organizations are urged to rush protest telegrams to War- den F. L. Erwin, Jefferson County jail, Birmingham, Ala. Gov. W. L. Miller, Montgomery, Ala., and tution is to “build citizenship and) cussed. Nash Workers Reject Proposal (Continued from Page 1) ing throats of the Nash men. In a statement printed in the press Byrd | said: H “If the men of these committees have faith in the agreement which have been made through the estab- lishment of a new mutual confid- ence between labor and employes, | they will find the greatest achieve- | ment they ever dreamed of. . As Pre- | sident Roosevelt said. ‘We've got to| have faith in someone.’ So have faith in the integrity of this board.” The Nash workers have had their fill, however, of placing faith in Labor Boards, or other strikebreak- ing governmental agencies. They put their trust in the promises of the Regional Labor Board last No- vember. The Regional Labor Board got them to go back to work on the promise of arbitration, and then proceeded to do nothing whatsoever about their demands for increased pay, DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-3 P.M GARMENT WORKERS WELCOME .SHERIDAN VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT (Formerly Shildkrauts) 225 WEST 36th STREET Between 7th and sth Avenues We Have Reopened JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE (Bet, 12th and 13th St.) PATRONIZE SEVERN’S CAFETERIA * 8 these disrupters to split their| revolution that will lead to a Soviet | ers. ployed ‘were lel by “paid Gommu- [in reliet Bit Gebey, Ont as : ? 7th Avenue at 30th St. + i “i « ef, 5 icago Dis- | President Roosevelt, demanding a Hs A na ae a a eeprom Hallgate Sa Gece Todt Seca eo nist agitators,” and that the job- |trict Organizer of the Communist [halt to the torture ‘of the Scotts-| send us names of those you || Best Food—Workers Prices s 1 }. less workers had docily accepted | Party, at the closing session of the | boro boys, and the immediate, un- ‘th i a ples a ae 2 foe tlie fact the aie fellow is} pepe a Mah kita been att his plans of starvation relief, Bighth National Conveniion of the Hage ate and safe release of the ong See eta oa be 8 faxi Drivers Union of Greater | going ry to 5 } C. P., U.S, A., held here last week,| boys, whose innocence of the ing it. Address: : New York. - __| “The youth are the bloodstream | the high political development re-| ¢, p, Convention Sends Greetings | pledged the solidarity of the Com: |trumpedup. “rape” charge has| pally Worker, 50 Ei3th St. WORKERS j Only a strong militant union| of the revolutionary movement, and | flected in the Convention discus-} CLEVELAND, Ohio—Hziling the | munist Party to the heroic struggles | heen admitted even by the lynch : COOPERATIVE COLONY built on the basis of democratically elected garage committees can win better wages and shorter hours in we must pay greater attention to them in organizing the working and farm youth,” pa. but insisted that this be ex- tremendous victory of the Minne- of the Minneapolis workers, jurist, Judge Horton. Tompkins Square 6-7697 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST se ‘ . has reduced the rent, several the taxi industry. A rising ovation was given e Dr § A. Ch ff ts : The taxi drivers have built this| Mother Bloor when she concluded Plan Cam l n t D nd R ~ eo We er no good apartments available. } e union in struggle. Strengthen it|her speech with an appeal for a} pa SZ O e e ig ts #) em ers | GENITO-URINARY i Be ves don’t let anyone take it away | solid, Ligetacerize ald phalanx, the 298 S fae Cultural Activities for Adults, Na rom you. advance guard of the coming, revo- econ ve. % lution, ee (Special to the Daily Worker) * Cleveland Conference of A. F. of L. Committee? New York City se ee * “‘ "199 ye < Williamson Reports On for U. 1 egates, that: “Women are pushing Telephone: Estabrook 8-1400—8-1401 FY Daily Writer in soe CLEVELAND, April 8.—Rank and or Unemployment Insurance Lays Program | the men into the fight against the Trains, Stop at Allerton Ave, statin ane Wevigis cla copeeaeae file members of unions affiliated to for Rank and File Action Lewis machine.” She pledged the Sirections nexingtan, “ave White him e cient report of the exhaustive Ae, preeicen: Reversion or Lanes n! support of the Women’s Auxiliaries Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Court Again Tues. NEW YORK.—Hearing on the criminal libel suit brought by the strikebreaker, George Williams against Harry Raymond of the Daily Worker editorial staff was postponed last Friday to tomorrow morning, 10 o'clock, in the city magistrate’s court at 425 Sixth Ave. ‘The charges arise out of the mili- tant support given by the Daily Worker to the taxicab drivers strike, including exposure of the enemies of the strikers. The strikebreaking activities of Williams, who is con- nected with the notorious Sherwood Detective Agency, were unmasked by Raymond in several of his articles on the strike. The suit against Raymond is an impudent atempt to muzzle the Daily Worker. It is nec- essary that the taxicab drivers and all other workers pack the court speech on organization made by Comrade John Williamson for the central committee. This will be made available fully later. We here give only the briefest extracts: of our control tasks,” said Comrade Williamson. This is not because the resolutions evaluated the situa- tion incorrectly, The weakness lies in execution of decisions, failure to see the relationship between our politics and organization. Execu- tion of tasks is one of the central points of our Open Letter.” In order to get the great mass of work confronting the convention completed by Saturday evening, evening sessions are to be held, with the speakers kept to the time allotted. Comrade Stachel reported for the praesidium that the major- ity of the speakers would be those actually working in shops, and in ‘Tuesday morning to repel this at- tack on their paper the “basic industries. with special emphasis on Negro délegates. “We see the fulfillment of many} in many cities met today in a special meeting of the A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unem- ployment Insurance. The meeting worked out a program for the de- fense of the rights of union mem- | bers against the attacks and special interests of high-placed union offi- cials. Many members of Cleveland} labor unions took part in the dis- cussion in the meeting in the Moose Building on Euclid Ave. Central demands emphasized in | the conference were for endorse- ment of the Workers’ Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7958), already endorsed by thousands of A, F, of L. locals from coast to coast despite the blocking maneuvers of the A. F. of L. offi- cialdom) for exemption of unem- ployed union members from dues and assessments, for exposure of the | racketeering and grafting of union | officials and for democratic control iby the rank and file, 1 Many delegates brought forward the necessity for the rank and file committee to pay greater attention to the daily needs of the workers and to develop campaigns around these day-to-day struggles. They emphasized that the circulation of their paper, the A. F. of L, Rank and File. Federationist, must be in- creased, from its present circulation of 10,000, to 25,000. The comunittee decided to send at least ten aelegates to the next A. F, of L. Convention—its 54th annual gathering in San Francisco next October. The rank and file conference will be held at the same time and place, and the committee expects to have representation from every decisive union and big industrial center in the country, Delegates From Many Cities Delegates to this conference came there was a large representation from the Cleveland trade union movement, The report of Louis Weinstock, National Secretary of the Committee was applauded to the echo. Typical of the spirit of the gathering was the fact that the only criticism of Weinstock’s report developed because, as some of the rank and file complained, not enough attention had been paid to the basic industries and the more important organizations of the A. F. of L., in steel, auto, textile, heavy metal machinery manufacture and others of the decisive sections of the working class and unions of the A. F. of L. The high point of the meeting was the response to a speech by a fraternal delegate from one of the ladies’ auxiliaries of the United Mine Workers of America. She said, apparently much to the Detroit, New York, and, naturally, satisfaction of the assembled del- to the rank and file opposition movement. | Weinstock brought forward as one of the main points in his indict- ment of A. F. of L. officialdom that, they had declared, in spite of all their professions of the desire to organize workers on an industrial basis, that the so-called “plant unions,” Federal labor unions in the terminology of A. F. of L, leaders, actually represent only the begin- ning of a new attempt to divide these workers into their craft un- ions, and distribute them among the greedy per-capita-tax-grabbing Na- tional and International union of- ficials, He urged emphaticaly, that every possible effort be made to establish city, regional, district and a national body to carry through the work for the rank and file program. from Boston, Philadelphia, Wash- ington, Pittsburgh, Akron, Chicago, IPD COHEN’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr. Delancey Street, New York City EYES EXAMINED By JOSEPH LAX, O.D, Optometrist Wholesale Opticians Tel. ORchard 4-4520 Factory on Premises 9 9 Goldin se OPTOMETRISTS) (OPTICIANS || 1378 ST.NICHOLAS AVE* 1690 LEXINGTON AVE. at 179 ST.K! Sunday 10 am, to 2 p.m, Williamsburg Comrades Welcome ASSEMBLY CAFETERIA 766 Broadway, Brooklyn, N, Y. Comradely Atmosphere The Lychee Garden Chinese & American Restaurant Special Lunch _— Special Dinn 30¢ 450 - 49 East 10th Street, N. Y. C. 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