The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 17, 1934, Page 2

Page Two Industrial Union Contractors Declare Illinois Miners and : CWA Men Demand Lockout In Violation Jobs, Cash Relief Of LL.G.W.U. Pact. (Continued from Page 1) Tike against the starvation wages jof the new county relief plan. ibe tee ere Remote as | Strike committees have been elected 4 . . jand are visiting the projects to Tnternational Heads, Lovestoneites, Aid Plan) spreaa the strike DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1934 Urges Dressmak By del UTTERS OF NEW YORK G J. RB MoRGAN presents Slarning > ers to ckout Fight Lo Auto Workers U’n Nails A.F.L. Heads’ No-Strike Pledge (Continued from Page 1) Water Thrills F. of L. chiefs. Matthew Smith in | today’s paper announces that the! main struggle in the tool and die makers shifted from the question | of wages to the question of organ- BOARD THE NORMAHAL.—Standing on the deck of the million-dollar Vincent Astor yacht, President Roosevelt ization. of Bosses by a Conspiracy of Silence from their ROOSEVELT Elected committees of the strikers contractors were notified by t the workers are to be told to stay away shops until further notice. tele- This means that thousands in contracting shops in New York and vicinity > Ie the bosses’ assoc and the International Garment by ation Ladies Union. The has the bosses same agreement violated by “ie mum wage been vision. x scale pr bs The present lockout is a con- spiracy between the bosses and the officials of the I. L. G. W. U., including the Lovestone renegade Zimmerman, who have entered in- to a conspiracy of silence to catch the workers unprepared to fight against the lockout. several weeks the heads have been conferring the employers on this question but have never word to the workers in The bosses aim to use this lock- as a weapon to foist a “scien- vaze-cut schedule that will the minimum wage scale and deprive the workers’ le wage prices. da call last night to all dress- were shops at the union halls at 131 W. 28th St. The the workers to answer the lockout | With the demands for: urged to report with their Industrial Union called on 1) Immediate check-up on all shops on the payments of the minimum wage scales. No shop to go back without the re-estab- lishment of the scales. 2) Immediate establishment of limitation of contractors. This is a vital demand which was sold out by the LL.G.W.U. officials with the aid of the N. R. a. in the last strike. 3) Insured introduction of week work in some of the crafts, such as finishers. ‘The Industrial Union also called on the workers to raise the demand for unemployment insurance fund at the expense of jobbers and manu- facturers and for a 30-hour week. ‘Workers were urged to attend the open air demonstration at 12 noon today at 36th St. and Eighth Ave. cked out, in a flagrant viola Dressmakers’ Industrial Union | s to disregard the instructions | bosses to go home. Workers tion of the agreement Workers in Berlin Factories in Fight To Free Thaelmann | (Continued from Page 1) revolutionists, are to be dragged be- fore the class judges. The verdict is ready before the trial begins; they are to be executed. Fight with us against judicial murder and ter- ror. Prevent further murders of our fighters! Fight for the release of the 170,000 prisoners in the Ger- man prison cells! Help the rela- tives of the prisoners! Give noth- ing to the deceitful Winter Relief ; staged by the exploiters, but con- tribute your pence to the fightin: fund of the Red Aid! Support pro- | | test actions! Fight with the Com- |munist Party of Germany for a Soviet Germany! “Thaelmann Defense Committee of the firms of Bergmann, Borsig, AEG, Henningsdorf. Red Front!” PARIS, April 1 (By Mail). =A ;meeting attended by about 5.000 | building workers sent a delegation | to the German Embassy, to demand | the immediate release of Thael- mann, Torgler, and the other pr oners. | In response to an appeal from the | Central Committee of the Commu- nist Party of Germany, the C.C. of the Unitary Civil Servants’ Union has resolved to place the whole of the forces of its organization at the service of the struggle for Thael- mann’s release. 4800 in Underwood Plant Are Ready to Strike for Demands | (Continued from Page 1) jem ployed have presented the strikers’ de- ; 214 is to the relief officials, de- [ii cd. by: BILE GREEN manding a minimum 24-hour week NORMAN THOMAS: FF ERIKINS. at wages from 75 cents to $1.20 an hour, jobs or cash reilef for all un- Divee led by JOMNSC 1,000 Demonstrate In Hillsboro, TH. HILLSBORO, Ill—One thousand jobless workers and miners, under the leadership of the Unemploy- ment Councils, demonstrated here Thursday before the relief board, demanding increased relief and union on all work relief projects. Three of the local griev- ances were won. The unemployed, employed and part-time workers and miners are planning a county-wide demonstra- tion on May Day, which will be fol-| lowed with an all-day celebration at Huber Park in Nokomis, Ill. * * ° wages Rochester C. W. Demonstrate | ROCHESTER, N. Y.—Six hundred workers demonstrated at Washing- ton Square here Saturday at the call of the Rochester-Monroe County Rank and file Relief Workers’ Or- ganization, in a drizzling rain, for their demands in a strike involving A. Workers Bia ORAMATIC Scene FRANKLIN, 1 JUST KNEW You'd MAKE 806,000 keRe €1 500,000, 000 FOR WAR $,080,,000,000, Te: BANK 9,900,000 REGHOE th + $4.00 y 6,000 of the 9000 relief workers in Rochester and Monroe Counties. This strike completes a tie-up of all relief work projects in all Western | ri . m3 New York state, including Monroe,| depict just what the N.R.A Ontario and Orleans Counties. A meeting of the rank and file (fo be continued Jee tomorrow's dD. m) “Washington officials are contemplating a film that will » has accomplished thus far,” —VARIETY, Theatrical Weekly. demanded guaranteed wages of $15 for a 30-hour week, cash relief for all jobless, no discrimination and immediate enactment of the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. Mass picketing of the jobs is be- ing organized every morning from | AFL Organizers Admit NRA Batters Down Real Wages the strike headquarters, 443 Or-| mon¢ St., the Workers’ Center. | Butler County Strike Solid HAMILTON, Ohio—The Butler County relief works strike has spread to all projects throughout the county. One of the leading strikers, McDermont, was arrested on the picket line, but the mass} indignation of the workers forced | his release. A delegation of 50 workers from Middletown came to the strike headquarters in Hamil- ton for information on how to con-| duct the picket line and for placards | with which to picket, Sts eke 1,000 Demonstrate in Phoenix, Ariz, PHOENIX, Ariz.—More than 1,000 | jobless workers massetl ‘before the offices of the State Welfare Board here last week, protesting the clos- ing of C. W. A. and E. R. A., and demanding the rescinding of the 50 |per cent relief slash instituted on | | | facturing Co., where the pay is from Active dressmakers were called to| tee, representing three American | April 1. Special meeting today at 2 p. m, at 131 W. 28h St. ke LL.G.W.U. Urges Workers to Hit Lockout NEW YORK—The International Ladies Garment Workers Union Left Wing opposition called on workers to attend the installation meeting of Local 22 at Mecca Temple to- night to raise the demand for an- swering the lockout of the bosses with a strike for the enforcement of the agreement. Farley EconomyBill Rescinded After Postal Subs Fight BULLETIN NEW YORK. — Postal workers, here greeted Postmaster Gen. Far- ley’s order, rescinding payless fur- leughs and more work for sub- stitute employees, with cheers of the Bronx variety when not even Postmaster John J. Kiely could say how much relief was in sight to those workers who were in high hopes of getting pay checks of more than their ordinary $4 a week. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16— As a result of mass pressure by the Pestal subs and P. O. workers in forms of demonstrations and pro- test meetings, Postmaster General Farley today has ordered his de- partment to rescind the economy | Federation of Labor locals which| | have organized 80 per cent of the} | Workers. “At the present time, the | | committee cannot call a strike. We | are tied by an agreement in Wash- | | ington, until our case is referred to| | Washington we cannot strike.” In| the next breath, Orfetelli admitted | that the bosses violated this agree- | ment, but that was “only on a tech-| | nicality,” he added, | The wrokers are demanding a 35 per cent increase all down the line. | They demand, besides, union recog- | nition and the closed shop. “We! want the glosed shop and open | union,” said one of the speakers.| The employers in a circular issued to all workers, rejected the union's demands, offering a 10 per cent wage increase “with plenty of strings tied to it.” This offer was flatly rejected by a standing vote of the workers who approved their shop committee's negotiations with the bosses. | The leadership of the shop com- mittee is a very militant bunch, | dead set to win union recognition, | and recognizing the broader aspects of the struggle in organizing the | whole typewriter industry, and co- | Operating with other workers in | Hartford against the vicious Manu- | facturers Association. Instead of calling a strike on the |18th of April, as the workers ex-| pected and were ready to answer, |as one of the shop committeemen| |said, the chairman proposed that| | the matter go to arbitration. The) | bosses, seeing that they could not | drive the workers,to accept their) | offer, agreed at the last moment to/ appoint a representative to a local | arbitration committee. The chair-| | man recommended this be accepted, | program which had been adopted | but that a strike threat be held College Student, Unnaid by Relief, Commits Suicide 300 at Hunter College Wait 6 Weeks in Vain for Money NEW YORK—Dorothy Scheer, Hunter College student who jumped from the fourth floor of a college building, died in the Metropolitan Hospital Sunday afternoon. Dorothy committed suicide because of the fact that she was penniless, She was working on the FERA, but the FERA has not paid the Hunter Col- lege students for March. She re- ceived no pay for the last six weeks. Dorothy's sister Sadie was one of those laid off from C.W.A. work several weeks ago. The two sisters were orphans. Hunter College officials, trying to cover up the suicide, spread talk of Dorothy being a “psychopathic case” and being “maladjusted.” They sup- pressed the fact that she has not been paid by the relief officials for the last six weeks, They also told the reporters that Dorothy “fell”! from the building, although the fact! that she jumped from a room never | used by the students pointed from| the first to suicide. There are three hundred students) at Hunter College working for the} FERA. Not one of these 300 stu- NEW YORK.—That a tremendous | nipulation both tangible and in-| correspondents of the A. F. of L.| pany union.”—F. A, Marynell. official organ, “American Federa- | * * * tionist,” in its April, 1934, issue. KOKOMO, Ind—‘“In a few in- From many parts of the country, | stances wages are higher, but in the A. FP. of L. organizers, who work| majority they have been chiseled with and favor the N. R. A., send | down.”—H, E. Vincent. in the following revealing facts on | eae a ae | how the N. R. A. is constantly | driving wages down and forcing the | MUNCIE, workers into company unions: pee tesa | Ind.—"Through coer- cion the hourly rate of wages has | been lowered and in some places the fe j.| Work force is also being cut. . . BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—‘The mini- | WO" ; Bie mim wage scales of the codes are|WA@se-earners’ incomes are the being paid for skilled labor. ¢| minimum generally and that con-| cost of living has so advanced that | Stitutes the maximum."—Max Mat- wage-earners’ incomes have been | ews. * ‘ e | aa considerably.” —Ike Ronin | COFFRYVILLE, Kans.—"Wage- | ELAN RGR | MONTGOMERY, Ala—Efforts are being made to organize the workers at the Southeastern Manu- $3.50 to $8 a week, and where they now have a company union.”—C, W. Wallis. e bekioe HELENA, Ark.—“Skilled labor paid over $35 a week is classed as | officials and are worked from 60 | to 70 hours a week,”—J. H. Gore. * * DANVILLE, Ill—“Incomes are de- | creasing due to increases in the cost of commodities.”—Walter G. Steuhe. Sia ha EAST ST. LOUIS, Yl.—‘Em-+ ployers insist on men joining the company union."—Wm. J. Stuhr. raise Toes ANDERSON, Ind—‘“The General Motors Corporation controls here. |. . . Wages have been reduced by | reducing hours, and working con- | ditions are very bad.”"—OC, T, Mac- Pherson, ee oe EVANSVILLE, Ind.—“The work- ers here have not gotten to first ibase in getting codes enforced. Evasions of every description have earners’ incomes have been cut by | steady increases in food prices.”— | A. B. Paul. FARIBAULT, Minn. —Wage-earn- ers have no income, as what they set goes for food, fuel and clothing, ;and some have a hard time getting that.—James F, Mohan. ee | RED WING, Minn—‘We are | watching costs of living, but it don’t |seem to do much good, as wages re- main the same, with everything jelse on the increase.”—Axel V. An- derson. eRe | PLAINFIELD, N. J.—“With few) | exceptions wages have not been in-| lereased in proportion to increased | | prices."—-Edward V. Wood. | ee ie | SCHENECTADY, N. Y.—‘Prices are gradually rising and there seems | to be no way to get an increase in} pay.”—Fred A. Soeliner. apn uae HAMILTON, Ohio.—‘We note price increases in practically all | commodities, but wages have not been increased.”—Stanley Ogg. * @ IRONTON, Ohio.—“Wages as low been used by the manufactifrers,|as $1.25 for a ten-hour day were jand the intent and purpose of the paid by one of our prominent citi- | |codes has been lost through ma- zens."—W. C. Dimmick. Workers in Many Cities Back Call for _ May Day Unity Against Fascism, War |into copper strikers during the fa-| | mous 1913 strike in Upper Michigan, sented at the preliminary confer- |The conference decided to make the ence to send delegates to this en- |ymain issue for May Day “Make May | larged conference. A special call has| Day the day for unionization of | been issued to Socialist workers, in- | Detroit factories,” day of struggle | (Continued from Page 1) He lauds Section 7-a of the N. R. A. “What does Matthew Smith mean by this statement? Does he intend to bring the membership of the Mechanics Educational Society to |rely upon the Automobile Labor Board and to expect that their right| spreads on both sides of their® of organization is to be guaranteed by this Board? | the same path of Collins, who made similar statements in connection with the Washington negotiations |when the wage | ditched and | Organization was thrown into the |laps of the N.R.A, strikebreakers? “The M. E, S. A. nas announce | looks up and down the clean, carefully washed deck, curtsied Is he to follow in| start fishing. flying fishes winging through | by the sailors as your honor, and asked when he’s going to He looks at the quiet waters where you see the air and porpoises sauirm- ing above the water, cleaving into the waves as the wash graceful retreat. The pincers on the Presi- | dent’s nose become unloosened, demands were | 8d he says finally the right of| “Now.” Then the fun begins and the fish stories start flowing like Encyclopedia pages, At the end of the day, the fish are d counted up~10 barracudas, maybe a| Dear Comrade Ross: Td like to build a wide-scale ore |ganization of water sportsmen —- canoists, swimmers and perhaps | fishermen. I say perhaps for the | simple reason that the plan I have in mind is vague and I wish to call on the water minded people to aid |a comrade and myself in this work. Briefly, we would like to build a its opposition to the Automobile La-| little shark and lots of other deep | jeague of canoe, swimming and fish- |bor Board. Does the Smith policy| | indicate that it is to divert from) | it? | these questions in view of the fact! | tricked by just such formulations! of the situation. The M. E. 8. A. workers that are conducting a strug-| gle for the organization and for improvement of their wage and working conditions must now take up a fight to expose the A. F. of | L. chiefs to vigorously challenge them, Only in this way can they | prevent the A. F, of L. leaders from | tagging the label on an outlaw | strike upon their struggle. | “The M. E. S. A. membership must | | struggle against any wavering and! | maneuvering policy with respect to’ the A. F. of L, chiefs, but must/| |aim to unite the front of all trade| | unions in a common struggle against | | the employers and their officialdom | | within the ranks of the workers. Within the A. F. of L,, workers are realizing the nature of the arbitra- | tion boards and are calling for with-| drawing of the officials from this| strikebreaking machinery. The M.| | attack is being levelled at the work- | tangible. In no factory has aunion|E. S. A. has also every cause for | jers’ living standard, is admitted by | been recognized excepting the com- | similar attitude and must demand) the withdrawal of Smith from the Detroit Regional Labor Board. Bosses More Arrogant | “Discrimination is still rampant. | The companies feel freer than ever | before to carry on their practices | against union organization. The! publicity given to so-called rein- | statements is only a camoufiage to| bolster up the prestige of the Auto- | mobile Labor Board so that it may | be in the position to deceive the! workers and lull them into pacivity. | The whole set-up of . the board,| Kelly, Wolman and Byrd, is an anti- | strike, anti-union set-up. “Behind the decision of the A. F. of L. is the cry of no interference, the cry that the workers must line up with the President and with the Recovery program. But this very decision of the A. F. of L. chiefs itself registers the fact that the workers have secured nothing from Washington, that they are restless because of the sell-out agreement. Why then should the workers rely upon Washington and upon its strike-breaking machinery? While production continues, the workers still receive miserably low wages, except where by their organized power and strike action they have compelled the companies to grant increases. Speed-up remains, the cheating bonus schemes continue to rob the workers of their proper earnings. “The company unions are grow- ing with the direct support of the employers and the indirect support of the Atttomobile Labor Board. | |If the workers are to get a New Deal, they must rely upon their own | strength, upon their power to stop | production, to slow down the line, to interfere with the companies, who are the main receivers of the benefits of the N. R. A. exploitation program, “The operators reaped huge prof. | nets into the boat loaded with | from the Board. The dissatisfaltion water fishes. Bahamas waters have varieties. When the sun goes down, There is every justice to ask|he relaxes, (he can afford to do 50) Hudson River, ete. since everyone waits upon him) that the auto workers of Detroit/smokes a pipe and watches the stars | cis to | and elsewhere have been plentifully fill the sky until they come so close | members you feel like you want to raise your hand and push them away. That's what it’s like, fishing off @ luxurious yacht in such waters as the Bahamas—fishing for sport and relaxation. Fishing is a popular sport among presidents and farmers and work- ers. | depending on how long it takes to| jhook a fish and what kind of a} 4) those battle the water-liver * gives you. * ISHING off the cost of Lake Michigan or the Atlantic coast —Workers are busily dragging squirming, jumping, living fish. Men sit on piers with inexpensive Poles in their hands, waiting for a nibbie. They hate to lose the tiniest bit of bait. They even worry about spending a dime or a quarter for bait, But the sport is worth the little change and it goes on. In the Summer, around the farms, creeks are entered by barefoot boys, hooking for fish. And no matter who does the ang- ling, the stories come just the same. Thé latest thing I saw (which| shows the search for thrill in our decaying society) was. catching| sharks from dirigibles. As I watched | the man-killed give battle to the| air-flyers, as he was lifted bodily in | the air, his fins flapping, his tail squirming, fighting madly, I could/ almost feel the sensation that those | up above experienced. | eR ae UT closely tied up with this game is the fun which can be derived | |from the water. Namely, water | |sports in various phases. A good It’s quieting and exciting—all | | races, jing clubs, which would dot City |Island, Pelham Bay, Throggs Neck, league com- representatives of such acquaint rank and file of the possibility of doing the things they love to do for the sport of it, without the necessity of | a profit motive, and to bring to the fore the program of the LS.U. and to popularize the Workers Interna- | tional Sports Congress to be held | next Summer in Paris. | We are holding a meeting next | priséd of | Thursday night, April 19, at 114 W. 14th St., the L.S.U. office. We urge interested to attend this | meeting where we will lay out defi- |nite plans for a massive water | sports club. If any information is | desirous, I can be reached at Inter- | vale 9-0715. For water-sport fun LOU KAPLAN. seat eee 4 JERE'S a workable idea. The let- ter-writing comrade informs me that many workers can be utilized from capitalist-run clubs and can |be gotten into this worker organ- | ization. Canoe clubs and regatta organ- izations — generally controlled by wealthy people — run_ brilliant water sports carnivals each Sum- mer. We could do the same, Canoe races, exhibitions, Rowing We've got to build. In building, the equipment will come. A workers regatta club, or some- thing like that, ought to be able to produce some skillful coxswains, strokes, canoists, fishermen and switnmers. The initiative has been taken, Let’s go into organization, CORRECTION The Eastern District L. 8. U. boxing tournament, which had many workers seem to be interested, | as indicated from a letter I received | | and a few phone buzzes, \ been announced in Wednesday’s sports column, will be held Sat- urday night, April 21, at 114 Ww, 14th St. AFL. Top Leaders) Ban All Strikes In Auto Industry (Continued from Page 1) bers of the locals demand that Rich-| ard Byrd, “labor” representative on | the Automobile Labor Board with- | draw from it, The workers in the A. F. of L. locals begin to see thru | the thin promises for higher wages without strike action, made by the Automobile Labor Board. Indignation runs high with the | board particularly in the Flint and Pontiac A. F. of L. locals, The grow- ing undercurrent of resentment with | the strike-breaking actions of the | A. F. of L. leaders is manifest in the | demands for the withdrawal of Byrd its from the ‘New Deal,’ while the | of the workers with the board is so workers do not receive a normal) Strong that it broke through the increase of wages, and the cost of closed doors of the Pontiac con-! living continues to mount. No re- | ference. liance upon the Automobile Board,| The Detroit Free Press in its re- but struggle against it. No reliance | Port of the conference admits that upon the system of arbitration and| “a faction, it was understood, had conciliation, but struggle against it,, been seeking to oust Richard Byrd, no faith in the A. F. of L. chiefs, | labor's representative on the Auto- forming them of the sabotage of last March. The earlier order called for a 15 per cent pay cut among all postal employees, invoking of speed-up ‘working conditions, when substitute workers were laid off. on the regu- jars and the reduction of substitute Postal men to starvation levels. The order now stops the payless furlough which the workers had to accept under the old order, the hir- ing of more substitutes to regular positions to relieve the speed-up | pressure and the renewal of normal | beginning | service mail May 1. Farley's move is seen also as a result of Democratic big boys who dictated this rescindment, in an at- tempt to recover the loss of “New Deal” votes throughout the country. activities Anti-Lynch Fighter in Harlem Court Today | NEW YORK.—Meyers, one of four workers arrested when police smashed into the March 17th Scotts- boro demonstration in Harlem, will be on trial this morning in the Eest 121st Street court. Mass pressure has smashed the attempt to frame the three other workers. All workers are urged to pack the court today to prevent the ‘oading of Meyers, over the arbitration committee if it does not grant the workers’ main demands. | + The straw of arbitration was! readily grasped by the employers because they feel any delay in strike! action works to their interests. The: have many cards up their sleeve. If the arbitration fails, they can drag] the matter to Washington, and the back again. In the meantime, they can prepare for any eventuality. A) strike would change matters en-| the United Front by their leaders and stating, in part: “Your leaders say the United Front is impossible. The Socialist, Communist and non-party workers of Austria, in their heroic battles Ra C EE te | against. Fascism, have proven that Charles Strauss, Roosevelt's ambas- | the United Front IS possible. Brush sador to France; members of Goy-/ aside all who stand in the way of ernor Lehman's family in New York./our workers’ united front. Send There is no duobt that these close your delegates to the April 22d con- supporters of the Roosevelt govern-/ ference, despite the opposition of ment, who are fighting tooth and your leaders. dents, who are supposed to receive | $15.00 a month from the FERA, has been paid in the past six weeks. Their pay was due the end of March and on April 16 they were still vain- | ly waiting for their money. Suge ae” tirely and bring them to terms. But) nail against union recognition, can | and what it guarantees to labor. | It was decided at the mass meet- | ing to elect department commitices tional Labor Board. Madam Anna Weinstock, of the the leadership is weighed down. with | get staunch support from the N. R.| Detroit Workers To Defy Police Ban many illusions about the New Deal|A. strikebreakig apparatus, the Na-| (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, April 16—The Detroit N. R. A. and the Department of|May Day conference voted to hold and department chairmen to handle| Labor, all grievances in cooperation with| aviation strike, and she will trans- the general shop committee. These! fer her service to Roosevelt's friends | department committees can be pow-| in the typewriter industry when the erful instruments in preparing for | the inevitable strike action that will| | be necessary to win the workers’ | demands. | Whatever action is taken by the| Underwood workers is decisive for} the whole typewriter industry. Workers in Royal, L. C. Smith, and other similar plants are watching close what their brothers in Under- | wood do. | The Underwood plant is owned by such capitalists close to Hoover as Henry Morganthau, father of Reose- ivelt's Secretary of the Treasury; t occasion demands. President La Vista, of the In- dustrial Aircraft Workers of America, leading the aviation strike, spoke at the Underwood meeting. He pledged the support of his union to the struggle of the Underwood workers. “It does not make any difference whether a man is a Communist or not, we must remember we are all first workers. We must fight to- gether uniting our freces against the eemmon enemy.” He was en- thusiastically applauded. is already on hand at the)a big mass demonstration in Grand Circus Park at 5:30 p.m., on May Day, preceded by two main parades, one from the East Side beginning at Perrien Park, and the other from the West Side, beginning at Clark Park. These main parades will be preceded by neighborhood feeder parades. The conference decided to hold) the demonstration in Grand Circus | | Park despite refusal of a permit by | Police Commissioner, Heinrich Pick- ert. Pickert, recently appointed Po- lice Commissioner, out and out re- actionary and second in command of the Michigan National Gustd, \was in charge of troops who shot \against war and fascism. i Delegates from workers’ organi- | zations pledged to go back to their| | organizations and build up further support, preparing banners, issuing | |leaflets and making special efforts | to involve masses of Negro workers. | Leaflets and stickers are being put |in all factories. Anothér conference | | will be held Sunday, April 22, at) |2:00 p.m. at Finnish Hall, 5969! | Fourteenth Street. oe eee | Chicago Workers Demand Police Permit For May Day Parade (Midwest Bureau Daily Worker) CHICAGO, Ill, April 16—A per- mit to demonstrate through the streets of Chicago May First will be demanded of Mayor Kelly this week by a Committee of thirty workers elected at the final United Front May Day Conference held Sunday at Finnish Hall, with 348 delegates representing 263 workers’ organizations attending. Beside Trade Union Unity League locals and several inde- pendent union locals, twelve A. F. of L, locals were represented by | delegates. The Conference adopted a resolution which was sent to the | | German Ambassador in Washing- ton demanding the torture against | the lecder of the German Com- munist Party, Thaelmann, cease, | stated: but a merciless struggle to expose and oust these agents of the com-) pany, “The companies and the press are | making a war upon unionism. As a) main weapon they are using the Arbitration Board to carry through this war. For an unhesitating and undetaining struggle against the strike breakers.” The statement concludes with a stinging call for} united front actions of all workers against the strike-breaking leaders of the A. F. of L. The statement of the militant) Auto Workers’ Union concludes by calling upon the workers ‘under no conditions to surrender the strike | weapon, the only guarantee of a real deal, Under no circumstance hesi- tate to use their weapon and in the present situation to spread the strikes to other sections of the workers and to other plants.’ and that he be immediately freed. A delegation was also elected to place the demands before the local German Consulate, A handful of Lovestoneites and Trotzkyites combined forces in an attempt to disrupt the United Front while at the same time posing for unity. In calling on the delegates to vote, as they later did, against seating the renegades, Bill Gebert, District Organizer of the Communist Party, “A United Front can not be with people already in a united front with the ruling class.” ‘The conference opened with a re- port by Joe Weber of the T.U.U.L. mobile Labor Board, believing that immediate raises should have been forthcoming,” the answer of the offi- | cials to the demand for the ousting! of Byrd was an enthusiastic en- dorsement by the conference for his strike-breaking activities. The mobilization of all-A. F. of L. Strike-breaking forces is eloquent testimony to the continued surging strike sentiment of the workers in| the auto industry. The actions of| the officials at the Pontiac secret conference is a continuation of the Roosevelt “no strike” edict and the order for compulsory arbitration. The decisions of the Pontiac con-| ference are in marked contrast to! the sentiment of the rank and file ; ‘in the locals. 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