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“ no power to make ‘any such deci- The Rank and File Approach Nash Strikers Solid Their First A. A. Convention Despite Press Scares Representation by International Officers By JOE DALLETT (Youngstown District Secretary of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union) ‘The rank and file membership of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, at| least 80 per cent of whom are new members of newly formed lodges | (formed since the N.R.A.), are first beginning to feel the real contradictions between the official policies of the A. A. and their desire to fight for higher wages and better conditions. The result is a wave of revolt sweeping thru the organization, expressed crudely, often in a most confused manner, but expressed with constantly ovine force and also growing arity. In some cases the revolt is wrongly expressed by staying away from lodge meetings, or by mass refusal to pay dues, resulting in the fact that many of the new lodges have been refused delegates to the national convention which opens in Pittsburgh April 17 (Clair- ton, Pa, Wheeling Steel, Steuben- ville, Ohio, etc.). In many lodges where the signed-up membership runs into the hundreds (Republic Steel, Youngstown and others) and even thousands, the attendance and dues payments ar so low that not only will there be no delegates allowed to the conven- tion, but even lodge meetings are frequently not held because of lack of a quorum of 7 present. The recent Pittsburgh conference of delegates from lodges in Dis- tricts 1, 2 and 6 of the A. A. brought out the contradictions between the rank and file and the officialdom, with the conference defeating the officials by voting overwhelmingly “that it is the sen- timent of this conference” that, should recognition of the A. A. not be granted, a general strike should be declared. The officials from the International office, who tried to prevent and’ then to de- feat the vote on this question, were successful only in getting into the motion the point that this was no decision, that this conference had sion but that this vote only regis- tered the “sentiment” of the gath- ering. At least one lodge president, # Youngstown man, openly at- tacked Louis Leonard, Interna- tional secretary-treasurer, as a Strikebreaker and “labor-faker” at | this conference. The sixth district conference of the A. A. (including lodges in Ohio, Buffalo and Michigan), held March 31 in Munroe, Mich. (where & considerable section of the membership is in revolt against Mike Tighe and Co.), again de- cisively defeated the officialdom by voting down International Vice- President Ed Miller's objections to a motion instructing Tighe to write the American Iron and Steel In- stitute informing them that if rec- ognition and wage increases are not granted by June 30,.the day of expiration of the annual agree- meat signed by the A. A. with the sheet and tin plants where they now have contracts, the A. A. will declare a general strike. Miller Tepeatedly took the floor to stem the tide, and was defeated by an almost unanimous vote, “Clean out the international DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-8 P.M ] OPToNETRSTSOFDorricians |} 1378 ST.NICHOLAS AVE* 1690 LEXINGTON AVE, atl T. NY 2 EAST 14th STREET r Fourth Ave. N. ¥. ©. Phone: TOmpkins Square 6-8297 DR. EMIL EICHEL DENTIST 150 E. 9rd St, New York City Lexington Ave. ATwater 9-8838 Hours: 9 a. m. to 5 I. J, MORRIS, Inc. GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS 296 SUTTER AVE. BROOKLYN Phone: Dickens 2-1273—4—5 Night Phone: Dickens 6-5369 For International Workers Order Williamsburgh Comrades Welcome De Luxe Cafeteria M4 Graham Ave. Cor. Siogel EVERY BITE A DELIGHT FOR BROWNSVILLE PROLETARIANS trance; sunny, Telephone CLeveland | Strong protests against the high office,” “we need young men in there,” “we want fighters for our leaders,” etc.—these remarks are widespread in the lodges. The resolutions adopted by the lodges for presentation to the na- tional convention express, again in @ confusd manner, the sentiments | of the rank and file. While the agreements signed by the A. A| with the corporations specifically state that resolutions on wage seales will first be submitted to the employers many months before the convention (to give the bosses a chance to prepare their counter- Proposals and, if necessary, their Strike-breaking), resolutions de- manding as high as 50 per cent wage increases have been adopted and will come before the conyen- tion. Protest High Per Capita Several lodges have gone on rec- ord for the six-hour five-day week. Several have demanded a change in the dues system, putting it at 1 per cent of the earnings of the members, and one lodge has come out for a $1 initiation fee. (The influence of the initiation and dues system of the S. M. W. TI. U. is seen in both these resolutions). per capita—which bankrupts the local lodges ($3.25 per quarter per member—as against dues paid of $1.26, $1.50 and $1.75 per month)— have resulted in the adoption of resolutions to drastically reduce the per capita payments, The desire to get more power away from the international office and at least closer into the hands of the rank and file results in a resolution permitting districts to maintain full-time officials (at present the only full-time officials of the A. A. are the international officers and organizers appointed by Tighe and company), Another resolution calls for Federal Unem- ployment Insurance of at least $12 & week—but not specifying how to be raised or handled. The difficulty of getting Negroes into an organization with notori- ously Jim-Crow and discriminatory practices brought forth a resolution to amend the constitution, obliga- tion, ete., so as to include “color” in the clause about no discrimina- tion because of nationality or creed, Getting down to the most im- portant problem before the A. A. membership, the question of strike struggle, one resolution calls for the following (not an exact quota- tion, but it contains the full sense of the resolution): “That if any lodge has been on strike for 30 days WITH THE CONSENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD, the Board shall declare all lodges of the A. A. on strike until the original strike is settled.” The intent of this resolution is clear—support of the whole organ- ization to any of the lodges in strikes, leading to general strike. But the JOKER, of course, is the provision that the International Executive Board (Tighe, Leonard, Miller, Davis, etc.) must approve such action and they, of course, will not do so. That these resolutions, as well as the revolt of the rank and file, are so unclear, so confused and so poorly organized is the result of the failure of the rank and file move- ment now developing spontaneously to find an organized form. Only the first beginnings of an organized rank and file movement are being made now. Although it is now too late for them to be printed in the program of the convention, resolu- tions are being adopted by some lodges which will be presented direct by their delegates to the convention for (1) rank and file control of strikes, militant strike policy (mass picketing, spread of strikes, etc.); (2) against the no- strike policy of the A. A. official- dom, against arbitration and the N. R. A. codes, etc.; (3) strikes for six-hour day and five-day week with same total pay as received in 1929; (4) against strikes for recog- nition alone, but to combine with the demand for recognition de- mands for wage increases and bet- ter conditions, (6) for united front DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1934 (6) for a united front policy with | the unemployed workers and their | organizations, etc., and (7) for the| ment and Social Insurance Bill (H.| R. 7598). There is no doubt that the April| 1?%th convention will be the storm-| jest A. A, convention in years. The} Journal Agent of Lodge 79, Oan- nonsburgh, the second largest of the old-established lodges of the A. A. states in the March 29th| issue of the A. A. journal, “I won- der how long the International of-| ficers will be able to hold the men| back.” Must Draw Sharper Lines Several things are clear: (1) that the convention will not be able to decisively change the present situa- tion in the A. A, (although it will be able to draw far sharper and clearer the lines betwen the reac-| tionaries and the masses of rank| and file); (2) that the reasons for | this are essentially the failure of the class-conscious workers in the A. A. to get started soon enough organizing a mass rank and file movement; (3) that the struggle will be continued AFTER the con- vention, with the elections of inter- national officers (which come dur- ing the summer months) as a next objective); (4) that the A. A. work- ers, stimulated by the record and activities of the 8. M. W, L U, and by the front proposals of the 8. M. W.L 0, driven by the bretal attecks upon #heir living and ing conditions, eager for struggle, will break the officiel chains which bind them to the steel trust, will act independently over the heads of their oficials, will launch the great- est wave of struggles since 1919, The Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, while greatly in- creasing its own independent activi- ties, must redouble its efforts for united front with the A. A. workers | INSIDE THE MILLS, ON EVERY GRIEVANCE FACING THE} WORKERS, must redouble its ef- forts to convince the A. A. mem- bers of the correctness of its policy for the purpose of getting the rank | and file to fight for a CLASS STRUGGLE POLICY INSIDE THE A. A, must in the most serious manner prepare, first its own ap- paratus and, through this, the masses of steel workers organized and unorganized, for the swiftly approaching mass strikes. | It is the duty of all delegates | to the convention to fight on the floor for the seating of those dele- | gates from lodges denied repre- | sentation (or adequate represen- tation) by the International offi- cers, such as Clairton (where be- cause of mass blacklisting follow- ing the strike the members are not paid up in dues), LaBelle mill | in Steubenville, etc, Any lodges meeting between now and the convention should adopt and forward to the Inter- national officers resolutions de- manding that ALL lodges of the A. A. be given voice and vote at the convention. Racketeer Officials _ Supply Bosses With AFL “Union” Signs NEW YORK—The racketeering Officials, who were unsuccessful in breaking the strike of the 11 men of Karp Bros. Fruit M&rket at 2221 65th St., which is continuing in spite of the 58 arrests, are now trying the same tactics at 298 Albany Ave,, in Brooklyn, where four fruit work- ers are on strike already the third week, They supplied the boss with a “union” sign and scabs and are now arresting pickets on charges of vio- lating an injunction they claim they have against the Food Workers In- dustrial Union. Saturday they arrested three pick- ets and Monday six. But the strike continues strong. Strikes are also in progress against the Zion Grocery, 66 Belmont Ave. and 1765 Prospect Pl, in Bi and the Strauss Dairy, 8th Ave, and with other unions in the industry, | tion for lack of milk. | Started a campaign to split the workers’ ranks by telling the white 115th St., Manhattan, And Police Brutality Must Fight for Seating of Delegates from Lodges Which Were Denied) : ° Foree Release of Nine By Strike Settlement, NEW YORK.—wNine workers of| the American Display Company who passage of the Workers’ Unemploy-| were arrested while on strike last| picket lines at Seaman Body week and charged with “felonious | accordanee with the terms of the strike settlement. The workers, who had been strik- ing under the Sign Writers Union,| demand the release of the nine boys| as one condition in the settlement of the strike. Pupils Suffer from Lack of Milk, School | Teachers Find Out Teachers Join in Fight) on the Wallace Milk Plan PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 9—| Following the militant attack of the farmers’ and workers’ organim- tions here on the Wallace A. A, A. The results of their survey reveals that less than three-tents of one quart per day is consumed by the average student, confirming the fig- ures made public at the recent milk) hearings by the child health expert, | Alexander Flies. | The school teachers, organized in & local of the A. F. of L., voted to send representatives to the Joint Committee of Farmers, Milk Drivers and Consumers to take an active! part in the fight against the Fed- eral processing taxes and the crop and milk reducing program of the A. ALA, Roosevelt’s Secretary of Agricul-| ture, Wallace; is asking that the dairy formers destroy 10 per cent of their milk production in order to raise prices. It was shown that 40,000 school children in the schools here are suffering from malnutri- Machine Guns Installed in Danville Cotton Mills | By a Worker Correspondent \ DANVILLE, Va. Submachine guns that fire 600 bullets a minute have been installed by the Riverside and River Mills inside the company’s plants as the bosses are preparing to meet with violence any attempt of the workers to organize and struggle for better conditions. In addition, the mill bosses have workers, who receive miserable wages together with the Negro workers, that the Negro workers are going to scab against them. Solidarity between Negro and white workers is growing, however, in spite of the bosses. The unemployment offices in Dan- ville are swamped with applicants for jobs. Scranton Police Club, Jail Protesting Workers SCRANTON, Pa., April 9.—Police and detectives brutally attacked a workers’ delegation of 50, who went to the City Hall here Friday to protest against the brutality of the Police in a recent demonstration | and march of the unemployed. | As the workers’ delegates entered | the City Hall, the police swung into| action, clubbing the workers. The! delegates had previously made an appointment to meet with the) mayor, | Helen Dorio of Throop, active in the Unemployment Councils, was | among the workers arrested. ‘|yesterday by a group of workers) Labor Board Tries Sellout Tactics Auto 4 : | MILWAUKEE, April 9—T he) Cor- poration—one of the three plants | assault” were released yesterday in| involved in the Nash strike—have remained solid in spite of attempts to weaken them by scare headlines in the newspapers that the strike is settled. Arrests and clashes with the police take place daily and po- lice buttons, coats and hats have been torn from them by the pickets. Hardly a scab ever gets by. Chief of Police Laubenheimer has also appeared on the scene in person to aid the 400 policemen at the three gates get the scab cars through. The women are especially mili-| tant and Laubenheimer was pushed | back when he tried to break through a ring of pickets. He argued with the women, but with- out success. The National Automobile Labor Board, headed by Leo Wolman, has been in session in Racine for three | days trying to arrive at an agree- able sellout with the A. F. of L. of-| ficials. The demands of the work- ers are a 20 per cent increase (the companies have offered 10 per cent) and a 60-cent hourly mini- | mum. The Auto Workers’ Union, affi-| Mated with the T. BU. U. L., has is-| sued @ leaflet to the strikers, point- ing out these manetivers and call- ing upon the rank and fife to raise the following demands: 1, No going back to work on the of arbitration. No secret negotiations. 2, A 2%. per cent imcrease in wages. | 3. No calling off of the mass! picketing until the workers vote to end the strike with a guarantee of the winning of our demands. 4. Withdrawal of the police from the picket lines. 5. Broadening of the strike com- mittee to include elected strikers from all departments, Rite wh Nash Strikers Resent Auto Board Plan | KENOSHA, Wis. April 9.—The| leaflet issued Friday morning by | the Auto Workers’ Union to the Nash Motor workers here, which called for rejection of the proposed settlement, crystallized the resent-| ment of the men against the Auto Labor Board and the top-leadership of the A. F. of L. The president of the Federal Union, John Milikent, | read the leaflet to a group of the| strikers in the union headquarters and agreed with its characteriza- | tion of the settlement as exactly the | stopped, Plan Forced Labor Scheme At Jersey Secret Relief Meet NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J April 9.—Ca the orders of President 0: the wel- fare officials of New Jersey, in a secret session held here last night, voted to put the entire unemployed population of New |/ Jersey on a forced labor plan of “work relief.” Under the New Jersey plan, details of which have not yet been made public, the welfare officials plan to institute their vicious forced labor Forced labor “work der the new plan, quired of all relief clients in ex- change for a handful of grocer- ies. The only exemption, it is Planned, will be supervisors, who will continue on a cash wage basis. Cleveland Jobless To Demonstrate on Friday, April 13th Demand End to Recent Relief Cuts, Increased Relief and Jobs CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 9— Demanding that the recent relief cut of one-third be immediately rescinded, workers here are holding mass meetings in preparation for a city-wide demonstration to be held at the Public Square, Priday, April 13, at 2 pm, | On April 6th, a delegation of 100, | representing the ward assemblies of | the Cleveland Unemployment Coun- | oils, together with representatives from other working-class organiza-— tions, protested to Mayor Davis the announced relief cuts, After a committee of five had presented the workers’ demands, Mayor Davis answered that the de- mands could be taken up only at committee meetings, completely | evading his responsibility to the unemployed. The workers of Cleveland demand | that the relief cut be immediately and that the $4,000,000 vhich the city now has on deposit in the banks be immediately turned over to the unemployed workers. WESL Plans Series Of Demonstrations: For Jobless Relief. Page Three No-Strike Agreement Hatched by Alabama U. M. W.A. o California Hosiery Workers on Strike LOS ANGEL March 31 Mail).—Men a the Mission K: organized und eration of L on strike aga ae striking, the k shop and s: J on strike and see if y take care of you the way taking care of you all winter.’ One of the workers jumped up and said, “Taking care of us! We have been taking care of you all and bought you a P; d ear besides. scale won’t let you buy an Packard, you want to di union. Nothing doing!” workers struck Shipyard Workers Win All Demands In 2 Weeks Strike Strikers Now Building New Section of Steel and Metal Union NEW YORK.—The 110 workers in the Wheeler Shipyard Inc., Coney Island, after being out on strike over two weeks, have returned to work on winning their demands. They are now organizing a Boat- builders and Shipyard Workers Local of the Steel and Metal Work- ers Industrial Union since they realize that it is the only way they will be able to hold onto what they have won through a fight The trouble began when the Wheeler bosses turned down the de- mands of the yard committee de- manding the reinstatement of six men and a slight wage increase The bosses then tried to intimidate the men by locking them out of the yard, The Steel and Metal Work- ers Industrial Union on hearing of this action stepped in, giving lead- ership to the workers and turned same thing as Nash had offered the| Will Hold Mass Meets) the tock-out into a strike. strikers at the beginning of the} struggle and which had been re-| jected at that time. ‘Though the Racine strikers voted to accept the terms of settlement on | Friday, due to an agreement’ reached previously, they are bound} to remain out until all three plants vote to accept a settlement. Now more than ever before the} Detroit auto workers must show their solidarity with their striking brothers in Wisconsin. They must) be on their guard against the| strikebreaking tactics of the Auto| Labor Board. Mt. Clair Millinery Strike Betrayed By | Leaders of Union| NEW YORK—How the Mt. Clair | millinery strike was betrayed by leaders, of the Hat, Cap and Millin- | ery Union, Local 24, was revealed | who were on strike at the shop at 113 University Place. | The workers were striking four weeks for the reinstatement of | workers fired for union activities. | Immediately after the beginning of the strike union leaders began to release strikers and put them on other jobs. This weakened the strike. When the workers asked for increased strike benefits the leaders, who had plenty of relief funds, refused to give it to them.| | They then decided to “settle” the | strike without the reinstatement of | the shop chairman, Rubin Schul- man. \ to Demand HR 7598, | Cash for Vets NEW YORK.—The Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League have arranged a series of mass meetings and dem- onstrations prior to their sending a delegation to Washington to de-| mand cash relief for veterans and enactment of the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill. The W. E. S. L. invite all veterans to join in their demonstrations. They are as follows: Friday, April 13—Union Square, 7 p. m., march from Tenth St. and Second Ave. at 6 p.m. Mass meet- ing later at 69 E. Third St. to send a delegation to Albany to demand) cash relief for veterans and H. R.| 1598. Saturday, April 14—March from Union Square, 5 p. m., to Columbus Circle. Return to Union Square for mass meeting. Wednesday, April 18—Demonstra- tion at Union Square, 10 a. m., march to Needle Trades Union| headquarters on 28th St., at noon.| Saturday, April _21—Meeting, 6 p.| m, St. Anne and Cyprus Ave., Bronx. Wednesday, April 25—Demonstra- tion at Wall Street, noon. Saturday, April 28—Demonstra- tion in Harlem, 110th St. and Fifth Ave. 7 p. m. April 30—Mass rally at Union Square, 6 p. m., and march to Irving Plaza for indoor meeting. | The delegation will leave for | Washington after May 1. | | Season. | on securing ther demands: | at 5111 5th Ave., Brookly: The picketing and the relief was organized and the men went into action with a bang. The Scandi: navian Workers Educational Society different workers organizations in Coney Island rallied to the support of the strikers, assisting them in re- lief and otherwise. Bosses Come Across The bosses were finally compelled to come across, since the strikers were effective in stopping the pro- duction of boats, so badly needed by the bosses, this. being the busy The men returned to work 1—Five cents an hour increase; 2—Time and one-half for overtime; 3—Right of the workers to belong to any organization they choose; 4—All the men to return to work. No discrimination. against any worker for strike activity; 5—Resog- nition of the yard committee. Lancaster C.W.A. Union | Appeals for Funds LANCASTER, Pa.; April 9. — The Relief Workers here, with of- fices at 9 East Frederick St., ap- peals to all workers, workers’ or- ganizations, intellectuals and sym- pathizers for funds with which to carry on the work of organizing the fired C.W.A. workers and those on “work relief.” Leaflets must be printed, meetings held, headquarters provided to carry on the work. All contributions should be sent to the above address. By CARL REEVE CLEVELAND, Ohio—Among the highlights of the discussion at the Eight National Convention of the Communist Party were the speeches made by William L. Patterson on the work of the International Labor Defense, the report of Rose Wortis on the taxi drivers’ strike in New York City, and the remarks of a shipyard worker from a yard that esti 3,000 workers on war con- ROOM, male, shower, phone, private en- trance, reasonable. Fein I. GRamercy 17-2088 ee oe | course of strike struggles. WORK OF INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE, PROGRESS IN SHIPYARDS co . TAXI STRIKE ANALYZED IN DETAIL Fight Against Terrorism, Oppression of Minorities, Stressed at Convention that everyone of our organizations of struggle are the feeders for the activities of the I. L. D. and that the I. L. D. must take the lead in the struggle of exposing capitalist democracy and capitalist justice. ‘We expect every comrade who is here, when he goes back to his dis- trict, to take up this question of strengthening the Commtnist lead- ership in the I. L. D.” Comrade Patterson declared that the savage terror which is now one of the main props of the Wall Street government, includes the government's intensified deportation drive. The attempt to deport Emil Gardos after robbing him of his citizenship must be made into a burning national issue, he said. “Next we come to the question of the persecution of the colored min- orities, for example the Japanese Chinese which is the Taxi Strike Rose Wortis, a leader in the revo- lutionary trade union work in New York City, described the growth of the Trade Union Unity League from 23,000 to 45,000 members in the In the A. F. L., an additional 15,000 work- ers support the issues raised by the elled against Negroes, the pillar of lynchings. revolutionary oppositibns. ‘The dif- ficulties faced in the work, Comrade Wortis said, included an under-es- timation of the readiness of the workers to struggle, an under-es- timation of radicalization. “A strike wave is developing among workers who are in neither the A. F. L. nor our unions, but in company unions,” continued Com- rade Wortis. “In the I.R.T. the work- ers forced a meeting of the com- pany union, attended by one thou- sand, where the workers worked out their demands, In the Western Electric, the workers also held a meeting of one thousand.” “The taxi strike in New York drivers in thousands, leaving their hall and almost trampling upon | the comrades selling the Daily | Worker to see how their strike was deait with in the editorials of the Daily Worker. The leading com- rades in the editorial staff took great interest in the strike, spend- ing their days with the strikers, and I am sure their efforts will increase the sentiment for the Party. Also as a result of the splendid article written by Joe North in the New Masses, we see many taxi drivers with New Masses in their pockets, Even in this situation we were not bold enough in bringing forward the Party.” | Comrade Wortis also took up the! question of the proper manner in which the taxi workers ended their strike, bringing the strikers back intact and with the opportunity to build their union and develop fur- ther struggles. Shipyard Struggles The delegate from a shipyard nucleus, which employs 3,000 work- ers, brought out that the capitalist class is now trying to bribe with higher pay and steady work a sec- tion of the working class which is working on war orders, In the ship- yards, for example, there is a boom because the U. S. government is building 89 battleships in prepara~ tion for imperialist war. “In view of this the major po- litical question confronting the shipyard and navy yard workers and the work of the Party around these yards is that of war. The line that we have brought forward is that war is contrary to the interests of the working | class and therefore as workers, | though they personally received higher pay, the shipyard workers | must fight with the rest of their class against war.” The workers have not yet been convinced of this line, the shipyard delegate stated, because of certain) confusion in the manner of putting forward this line by the Party unit./ “One of the most powerful | weapons we have had in our Party | work has been the shop paper. We also have a union bulletin and we must state that there is room for both, and they enlighten the workers as to the relation between the union and the Party. One of our mistakes was in not bi the Y. C. L. forward sufficiently, | Due to leaflets and inside work, we developed a strong fight against a 15 per cent wage cut. Had we had an oppo- sition in the A. F. of L., we could | have taken more advantage of the favorable situation. “A key question is developing this opposition work inside the A. F, of | L. The A. F. of L. is strong in the Plant. Dut to the work of the Party | and the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, the workers have won back two-thirds of the wage: é | ized cut. But no serious headway can be made unless we have a strong opposition inside the A. F. of L. local, Among the youth we organ- an apprentices’ association which won some youth demands, but we did not recruit from this | into the Y. C. 1.” Other Induj ‘ries Comrade Murphy, ‘Seattle lumber worker, gave a number of examples of the hiding of the face of the Party in the work among the lum- ber workers of the Northwest. Syn-| dicalist tendencies were not suffi- ciently combatted, and the role and program of the Party was not brought sufficiently to the lumber workers, and in some cases recruit- ing was neglected. The delegate from the granite cutters of Vermont told of the suc- cessful campaign of the A. F. of L. Granite, Paving and Quarry Work- ers’ locals for endorsement of the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598). Two branches of the paving cutters have already passed a motion, he said, calling for a donation by the Inter- national of $150 to the Daily Worker for its new press. International misleaders have re- fused to put this motion to a refer- | endum, the locals will continue the | campaign to foree the international to carry through a referendum for a donation to the Daily Worker, he declared, rit And because the union |, and | Although the| Ofticials Miners Talking About a State-Wide Tie-up, with All Mines Out BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ement making the of- als of the United Mine Workers in Alabama the open and official strike-breaking agency for the coal operators, has I gned between the U. M. Ww. and the DeBardeleben Coal Co. The agreer t was drawn — Ah to Alabama by the N. R. A. The agreement followed a strike called by the local unions, and sev- ral marches of white and Negro tract, the e Workers col in Alabama ha 1. Not to hold meetings on any property of the DeBardeleben Coal Corporation. This g keeps the unions off the company patches and out of the mines themselves. In a time of strike, the ruling can be ised to try to keep the miners from picketing and from drawing work~ ing miners into the struggle. 2. Not to allow circulars or other literature to be distributed by the union unless these have the ture of the district president or his | aids. This ruling aims to prevent independent action by the local unions and the rank and file, The operators know they can trust Mitch, president of the Alabama district of the U. M. W., who just got the miners tied up im a no- strike contract for a year. 3. The third point in the agree- ment provides that “The union shall make every effort to prevent marches against the mines of the DeBardeleben Coal Corporation by workers from other mines, or the gathering of armed groups.” Thus the union officials pledge their sid as strikebreakers All over the Alabama coal fields, miners are talking of a real, state- wide tie-up, with all mines out, in- cluding the captive mines of the powerful Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. and the Republic Steel Corporation. Should workers from other mines try to enlist the sup- port of the DeBardeleben workers, the officials of the U. M. W. of A. will do their best to prevent it. «. “The union shall make every effort to prevent intimidation of the workers,” the agreement says. Un- der the heading of intimidation, there is no doubt included all ef- forts to recruit workers for the union, and any attempts to prevent from operating during a and the |” Fur Union Workers To Hold Mass Trial of Lovestone Group Accused of Helping to | Break Strikes of | Furriers NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union is organ- izing several public trials in which | the workers will be the judges on | the strikebreaking activities of the Lovestoneites in the fur trade, Three of the trials will be held sim- ultaneously Thursday evening, April 26, in the Bronx, Brownsville and Brighton Beach, Coney Island. The union will bring many work- ers to testify from their own experi- ences how the Lovestoneites in close co-operation with the racketeering outfit of the Joint Council are un- dermining the living standards of the fur workets and attempting ac- tively to help the bosses to rob the workers of their gains won by hard struggles. Ben Gold, I. Potash and J. Wino= gradsky will be the chief accusers. Noted leaders of the militant labor | movement will testify as experts about the activities of the Love- stoneites in their organizations, The Lovestoneites will be given every opportunity to defend them- selves before the working-class jury. | The trial in the Bronx will be held Th Ambassador Hall, 3885 Third Ave., in Brighton Beach at the Workers’ Center in Ocean Parkway, | The place in Brownsville will be an- nounced a few days later. Custom Tailors Strike in Calif. HLed by Needle “Tvuia | Industrial Union LOS ANGELES, Calif. April -¢ (By Mail).—Custom tailors have re- | Sponded 90 per cent to @ general strike call issued by the Custom | Tailors’ Union, affiliated with the | Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | Union, against conditions in the shops and the attempts of the | bosses to force a company union on the workers. The tailors, who had been work~ ing unlimited hours at piece work, had been making as little as $20 and $25 for a week of 50 to 60 hours, Their demands are: 1, Thirty-five hour week. 2. A minimum wage scale, 3. Week work system. 4, Equal division of work, 5, Full union recognition. PATTERSON W. TR. HOLDS Ray PATERSON. — The Workers * tional Reliet invites all worker izations as well 2s individuals attend the opening banquet tr Saturday, April 14, 8 p, m, at ington St,