The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 20, 1934, Page 1

Mass at Cuban Consulate, Noon To CIRCULATI DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIVED YESTERDAY: Daily PRs Saturday 51 Total to date ,.3,534 fi eee eee 2,493 => * Vol. XI, No. 95 Detroit Meeting Sunday To Fight" Ban On Alabama Workers Plan| May Day Rally With | Or Without Permit CHICAGO TO MARCH’ Workers to Defy Police Ban on Parade DETROIT, April 19. — De- troit workers are mobilizing their forces to hold their May Day demonstration in Grand Cireus Park, despite refusal of a permit by Heinrich Pick- | ert, Prussianized police eom- missioner who took office under the | slogan “Might is Right.” A mass protest meeting has been arranged for this Sunday, 2 p. m., under auspices of the May Day Unity Conference representing 55 organizations, at Danceland Audi- torium, Forest and Woodward, to fight against the police ban on May Day, and the arming of gangs by Pickert for an attack on the Michi- gan stove strikers. Pickert’s actions clearly indicate the whole policy of attack on the civil rights of the workers under di- rection of the Michigan Manufac- turers Association in an attempt to crush the rising militancy of the workers. The main speakers at Sunday’s meeting will be J. Wilson of the Auto Werkers Union; Reverend John Bollens of the Civil Liberties | Union; A. Gerlach of the Interna- tional Labor Defense; William Weinstone of the Communist Party, and others. * * * BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 19. — Unlike previous occasions, the City Council here has not dared to re- fuse a permit outright for the May Day demonstration here, which will be held in Capitol Park, directly be- neath the barred windows of the cells where the Scottsboro boys lie. This will be the first open demon- stration held in Birmingham in a | year. Last year, the euthorities attacked (Continued on Page 2) Scottsboro Rally Tonight Will Hear Report on L. Blum Several Cities Preparing Giant Demonstrations for April 25 NEW YORK—A report from a delegation which recently visited Leon Blum, militant leader of the Laundry Workers’ Industrial Union, jailed for his activities in the strikes of Bronx laundry workers, will be given at the Scottsboro- Blum protest. demonstration to- night at the Nat Turner Hall, Third Ave. and 170th St. Arthur Hirsch, head of the delegation, will make the report. The indoor meeting will be pre- ceded by four open-air meetings and a giant protest parade start- ing from the main open-air meet- ing at 161st St. and Prospect Ave. at 7 o'clock. Three other meetings, at Wilkins and Intervale, 172nd St. and Third Ave, and Claremont Parkway and Washington will feed the parade. Joseph Brodsky, cheif of the Jegal staff of the International La- bor Defense, and Richard B. Moore, general secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, will be the main speakers at the indoor meeting. The Bronx demonstration is a preparatory action for the mighty city-wide Scottsboro protest dem- onstration im Harlem at five o'clock next Wednesday, April 25, International, Scottsbero Day. Meetings in the needle trades market and the Crown Heights sec- tion of Brooklyn are being held all this week to mobilize the workers for April 25. * * . Boston Workers Prepare Giant Protest BOSTON, April 19.—Boston work- ers will hold a big Scottsboro-Hern- don protest parade and demonstra-|_ tion on April 25, starting at Doug- Jas Square at 5 p.m. Church and house-to-house collections for the Scottsboro defense will be con-! ducted this Sunday. DEMPSEY TO EE EDITOR BENTON HARBOR, Mich., April 19.—From fisticuffs to literary as- Pirations—so runs the course cf dack Dempsey’s life. The former world’s heavyweight boxing champ- co May Day Kensington Asks Jobless Council To Act on Board KENSINGTON, Pa.—The relief board here has asked the Unem- ployment Councils to elect a com- mittee to sit on the relief board at certain intervals. The Coun- cils, fully realizing that this is an attempt to force the Council to adopt a conciliatory attitude toward the relief officials in place of struggle for relief, accepted the offer, but will use the position on the board to expose the relief offi- cials to the workers, and force concessions through the board, and will continue to lead the fight for demands of the unem- ployed. FreeThalmann Call to Sound At Nazi Meet Workers to Mass Where Nazis Celebrate Hitler Birthday NEW YORK.—The New York workers’ demand for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German Communist Party, will resound tonight outside the Brook- lyn hall where local Nazis are to gather to celebrate the birthday of the fascist butcher, Adolf Hitler. The workers’ meeting is called for 7 pm. in the park opposite Schwaben Hall, Knickerbocker and Myrtle Avenues, Brooklyn. It is called by the Anti-Fascist Action and the Anti-Fascist League, and is supported by the Communist Party, the American Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, and the American League Against Wer and Fascism. * PARIS.— Thaelmann’s release is demanded by the town council of Malakoff, a people’s meeting in the 14th Paris District, the French Workers International Relief, and the Inquiry Commission on Hitler Terror. ey SAARBRUCKEN.—In Burbach, workers marched through the streets shouting “Release Thaelmann.” ae at MOSCOW.—The first Union con- ference of Soviet German writers has been held here. Among the rep- resentatives of Soviet literature were Gladkov, Tarassov and Judin. The conference resolved upon an appeal} demanding the immediate release of | Thaelmann. . Ree SOFIA.—Thirty Bulgarian lawyers have entered a written protest against the intarceration of Thael- mann, which has now lasted more than a year. All declare their readi- ness to go to Berlin to undertake Theelmann’s defense in the coming trial. | | Bedacht to Speak at the IWO Membership Meet NEW YORK.—Max Bedacht, na- tional secretary of the Interna- tional Workers Order, will speak tonight before a membership meet- ing of the I.W.O. on “The Negro Question in Connection with the I.W.0.” The meeting will be held at the Russian National Mutual Aid Hall, 122 Second Ave., and will start at New York, N. ¥., umder the Act of March 8, aily QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at 1879, Monday Is Dead Line | on May Day Greetings | | NEW YORK.—All May Day greet- ings to the Daily Worker must be received in the New York office not later than Monday, April 23, in order to be published in the 24-page May Day edition. Boston district has already sent in greetings amounting to 200. All) workers’ organizations and inividual workers are urged to rush their greetings at once. Address, Daily | Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York | City. | 300 Austrian Workers Go to Socialist Refugees Find Asylum in Workers’ | Fatherland PRAGUE, April 9—Three hun- dred Austrian Socialist Defense Corps men, refugees in Czecho- slovakia after the February upris- ing, are leaving Mondey for the So- viet Union, at the invitation of the Soviet government. Only the Soviet Union offers them asylum. In Austria they would} face imprisonment, and perhaps death; in Czechoslovakia they can find no work and face starvation. Immediately after the Austrian uprising, the workers of the Soviet Union contributed more than 1,- 000,000 schillings, which were sent! into Austria through the interna- tional relief committee set up in Paris by the International Red Aid. All attempts to obtain permission for any victims of Austrian fascism, even children, to leave Austria to go to the Soviet Union have been rejected by the Dollfuss-Heimwehr dictatorship. Only the Soviet Union, of all countries in the world, has offered not only refuge, but homes, work,) education, and real security to vic-| tims of fascism. Railroads Refuse Restoration of 10 P.C. Wage Cut Gwyn, Express Official, Calls for Compulsory Arbitration By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C.—Federal Co-ordinator of Transportation Jo- seph Eastman told the press yester- day immediately after his confer- ence with President Roosevelt and @ group of railroad magnates, that the railway employers are standing pat on their refusal to restore the 10 per cent basic wage cut which ends June 30, 1934. Asked about the probability of a strike by railway employees to ob- tain a living wage, Eastman replied: “I don’t see any possibility of a strike for some time. Nobody has threatened a strike.” Carl Gray, President of the Union Pacific, the road controlled by W. Averill Harriman, one of the lead- ing N. R. A. executives, preceded Eastman out of the conference. He said that the employers had just “discussed the general situation with the President.” Profits for the first two months of this year were much better than for the same period of 1933, he volunteered. To Aid. Compulsory Arbitration Louis R. Gwyn, Vice President of the Railroad Express Agency, in- formed the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce which is hold- ing hearings on the Dill Bill provid- ing compulsory arbitration in rail- way disputes, that such disputes should be handled “across the table in a man-to-man fashion” instead of through boards which iriclude a third party who doesn’t know any- thing about the problem. Further- more, Gwyn said, the present rail- way labor law is adequate. He meant, of course, adequate to com- 8 p.m. pel arbitration. May First “Daily” to Feature Almost 50 Leading Writers NEW YORK.—Close to fifty out- standing writers, the largest list of contributors ever appearing in the Dailv Worker since its establish- ment, will have special articles and features in the 24-pase May Day edition of the “Daily.” These articles, cartoons and pic- tures will present practically a world-wide picture of the upsurge of the revolutionary working class. A Soviet doctor will describe how the Soviet Union safeguards the heelth of its workers. There will also be correspondenze from Soviet workers picturing the conditions in the Soviet industrial plants. “The First May Day in Odessa,” will be a description of the 1903 May Day Celebration in that Russian city as seen by an eleven-year-old girl. This demonstration was brutally broxen up bv the Czar's Cossacks. The jon has purchased a half interest in 8 Texas newspaper, and says he is “going to do a little writing.” i | i Soviet “Trud,” official organ of the Soviet Trade Unions, will have a speciel page in the 37 ~ “Najly,” In “The Garden of Forgotten Men,” Carlos M. Flores will describe the uprising in Venezuela during 1929, Conditions in that Latin- American country will also be pic- tured in this special article. A partial list of writers on the American working-class scene in- cludes Earl Browder, General Secre- tary, Communist Party, U. S. A.; C. A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker: J. Stachel, of the Trade Union Unity League; M. J. Olgin, editcr of the Freiheit, Jewish Com- munist daily newspaver in Ameriza; The Pittsburgh District of the I. L. D. has ordered 1,000 copies of the May Day edition; The Turtle Creek Section of the C. P. in Pennsylvania, elso 1,000; The Hill Section of the C. P., in Pittsburgh, 1,500 copies; the Library, Pa., Section, 1,000 copies. Rush your orders at once. Prepare for macs sale end distribution on Red Weckend, April 28th and 29th. Send your greetings today. Individ- ual gecetme> will be printed for as little as 25 cents, as NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1934 March On Baltimore Seamen In Washington Demand NRA Drop Pla Controlled n to Shut Relief Project by Seamen BULLETIN Federal relief officials late to- day were notified by telephone by the Baltimore Seamen they would arrive late and would march to Relief Headquarters tomorrow to Present their demands, 2 Ue By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, April 19.—Shortly | before four o'clock this morning I Soviet Union jumped into a friend’s car and sped out of Washington to meet about 80 sailors and longshoremen who | Were marching on foot all the 45) miles from Baltimore to the Capitol to demand that Federal officials drop plans to shut down the Sea- men’s Relief project, the only pub- lic unemployment relief outfit in the United States that has the hard- won distinction of being run en- tirely by workers, To support the demands of these unemployed seamen, we knew, the crews of four ships in the Balti- more Harbor and ™= two docks went out yesterday, the lonshoremen marching to the Seamen’s meeting to contribute to the march. The more than 700 marine workers represented by these marchers are in complete control of relief. Their Marine Workers Indu eedaneaminaens trial Union waterfront Unemploy- ment Council and Seamen’s Ad- ministration united all seamen, re- and political beliefs, and set up a| centralized shipping bureau which controls 85 per cent of the shipping jobs in Baltimore. We found them bivouacked in a Maryland meadow about half way| along the night’s walk. Get Merchant’s Support They carried a resolution adopted by organized small business men along the Baltimore waterfront—a resolution calling for continuation ot the Seamen's control on relief} because, said the business men,| “With the present system we can| | continue in business. With the new) system contemplated we will have| to close our doors.” | The three chief demands of the| marching seamen were endorsed by the small business men. They are: No discrimination of self-admini tration of relief; no more police ter- ror, intimidation and provocation along the waterfront; and enact- ment by Congress of the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 1598). | ot The marine) Strikers too raised these same de- mands. The business men’s asso-| ciation, the Lower Broadway Mer- chants, Restaurants and Hotel Keepers, declared in their resolu- tion that seif-administration of re-| lief had brought ‘a decided improve- ment in the conduct, health and at- titude of the seamen. Drunkenness has decreased... . We know from our dealings with elected commit-| tees of seamen that their admin-| istration has been honest and effi-| | clent and in every way superior to| | any other relief system or admin-| (Continued on Page 2) WEATHER: Fair, colder. day; Demand Release of Heroic Cuban Workers! AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents Machine Gun, Gas Squad Smith Working With NRA Against Interests of Rank and File SPY, SCOTT, ACTIVE Fight Move Towards Compulsory Arbitration (Special to the Daily Worker) | DETROIT, Mich, April 19— When you strike against low wages | and for wage increases—such a} strike would be a “calamity and en- | danger recovery.” Such is the phil- | osophy of Mr. Mathew Smith, secre- | tary of the Mechanics Educational | Society of America. When the tool | and die makers organized in the| M.ES.A, were talking strike and | preparing for action, Smith sent a/ wire to Washington, stating that a strike would be a “calamity for | recovery.” But when his opposition could not | deter the tool and die makers from taking strike action, he went along. But his going along was for the sole purpose of weakening the strike. Disorganizing it and finally hand- ing it over to the N.R.A. boards— | boards whose task it is to make the country safe for recovery, safe for | the enormous profits of the auto- | mobile manufacturers and avert strikes which would be a “calamity” Unemployed Union, Led by Socialists, Endorses HR. 7598 Rank and File Forces Action of City Committee | NEW YORK—The City Central committee of the Workers Unem- ployed Union, led by Socialists, Musteites and renegades from Com- munism, endorsed the Workers Un- employment and Social Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598) at’ its meeting of April 13, The rank and file members of the organization have been pressing for endorsement of the bill for many weeks, and finally forced the Social- ist leaders such as David Lasser, to come out for the bill. Lasser in the past has refused to speak in favor of H.R. 7598, on the ground that he was not familiar enough with its contents. The Workers Bill now goes to the locals of the Workers Unemployed Union. The Unemployed Councils have called for unity of all organiza- tions in the fight for the bill, on a neighborhood and local scale. The locals of the Workers Unemployed Union are urged to carry on united action with the Unemployed Coun- cils on a locai scale, for the endorse- ment of the bill. The ‘City Central Committee of the Workers Unemployed Union de- cided to mimeograph the bill, to send it to all locals of its organiza- tion, and to congressmen, as well as to Mayor LaGuardia. Aircraft Strikers Reject AFL Heads Browder to Speak Communist Party See’y Talks in Hartford Tonight 9 HARTFORD, Conn.. April 19.— Efforts of the A. F. of L. officials here to muscle in on the strike of the 1,500 aircrafts workers of the Pratt & Whitney Aircrafts and the Hamilton Propellor failed when the strikers rejected them at a meeting yesterday. The strikers have been able to force negotiations directly with the company which will go on today. All indications are that the men will win their demands. If the com- pany does not grant the demands soon, the Chance Vought plent, an aviation factory, will be called out on strike. This will bring 2,000 men all told out. Earl Browder, secretary of the Communist Party, will speak Fri- day night at the Polish National Home here at Oak and Governor Sts. All workers, employed and un- employed, as well as strikers, are invited to attend this important mesting. LEAD POISONING LE‘DS COLUMBUS, Ohio (F. P.)—Lead poiccning was the Icader in occupa- tional diseases in 1933, according to a yopstt in the Ohio Industrial Com-_ Ft | mission Monitor, i Release of Seven, Jailed in Evictio Fight, Is Forced | Mass Pressure Secures Release, Pittsburgh Eviction Stopped By CARL HACKER (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 19— Mass pressure yesterday and today forced the release of seven workers arrested yesterday and charged with rioting. The workers were arrested stopping an eviction in the Woods Run section of Pittsburgh. When the constable in charge of the eviction fired his gun injuring one worker with a shot in his leg, the enraged workers pounced upon him and a plain clothes man send- ing both to a hospital. Immediately after the eviction fight a delega- tion of one hundred women from the neighborhood went to the Mayor's effice in protest, meanwhile protest resolutions were sent from numer- ous organizations demanding the release of the arrested workers. This morning a large number of workers were on hand and when the LL.D. attorney began to take up the case, the sheriff announced that he was not interested in prosecuting the case. This morning another eviction scheduled in the Hill District did not take place though fifty police were there. More than seven hun-/| dred workers came prepared to stop} this eviction. 2,000 Filling Station Workers Tie Up Many Cleveland Gas Pumps | CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 19.— When the companies refused to negotiate their demands, 2,000 filling station workers here walked out on strike Tuesday, effectively tying up all but independent gas filling stations. The strike took place after an all- night meeting of members of the newly formed A. F. of L. union. The men are demanding a mini- mum scale ranging from $115 to $150 a month; a five-day, forty- hour week, and union recognition. to the boss greedy profit recovery. | Mathew Smith is now openly| | working with the Detroit Regional | Labor Board (of which he is a mem- | |ber) and the Automobile Labor) | Board against the interests of the| striking stove workers and tool and die makers. Asks Board to “Settle” It is announced today that Smith | | put the fate of the strike of the) | Detroit Michigan Stove workers in | the hands of the strike-breaking | Regional Labor Board. It is further | announced that at today’s Regional | Labor Board he will also ask the | board to “settle” the strike of the tool and die makers. Smith is now moving more openly to break the strike of the stove workers and tool and die makers organized in the Mechanics Educational Society of America. Smith, who opposed the strike of the tool and die makers, | | all his energies to narrow the strike | and by all of the adopted methods of delay and promises hamper the militant rank and file from using all of its forces to deliver smashing (Continued on Page 2) Trish Red Leader To Speak Tonight: Sean Murray at Meeting in Bryant Hall | NEW YORK.—Sean Murray, the leader of the Communist Party of Ireland, which in its existence of less than one year has led great struggles of the Irish masses, will be the chief| speaker at aj mass meeting in| support of Irish national inde- pendence, at 8 o'clock tonight in Bryant Hell, Sixth Ave. at) 42nd St. Comrade Mur- ray, who has been a leader of the struggles of the Irish masses for many years, and took a leading part in the armed struggles against the Black and Tans after the World War, is at the beginning of a tour of American cities in which he will discuss the Irish ques- tion and Ireland's revolutionary path to freedom. Sean Murray General Electric Co. Morgan Monopoly, Gets 61° Profit Rise NEW YORK.—Refiecting the aid given it by the monopoly character of the N.R.A. code for the electrical industry, the Gen- eral Electric Corporation, a Mor- gan Company, and one of the largest industrial monopolies in the world today reported a 61 per cent increase in profits for the first three months of this year as compared with the first three months of last year before Roose- velt took office. The Corporation showed profits of $4,566,000 as compared with $2,839,000 last year. After pay- ments on a special stock, stock- holders of the common stock will get the major proportion of this profit increase. Wages have been kept_at starvation levels. Rank and File Make Gains at AFL Steel Meet | Force Right to Put the Resolutions at Convention (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 19—A very important victory was won b; the opposition delegates on the sec- ond day of the convention of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, A.-F. of L. union, now in session here. The committee on convention rules re- ported, and a battle was on once more. At the opening session, the rank and file delegates unanimously defeated efforts of the Tighe ma- chine to unseat delegates from lo- cals which had not paid per capita tax, The rules committee, sensing the temper of the new delegates, has from the very start thrown in| brought in a report giving new | attempting - t lodges the right to present general resolutions until Saturday noon. Mike Tighe, president, then ruled that general resolutions do not in- clude anything pertaining to wage scales, or any changes in the union constitution. Sent To Ala. Strike Area; warm swm a, LOOL Strike End angered Ala. Bosses. Whipping Up Race Hatred to Break Strike Unity WHITE MINER SHOT Council Opens Fight to Keep Wage Differential (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 19,—Tear gas squad 16 of the National Guard has been sent from Montgomery against the mine strikers. The National Guard was rushed to Porter mines, Northeast of Birming- ham. The militiamen have ag bar- Ticades and machine guns. The strikers were prepared to march on Porter, but the United Mine Work- jers of America leaders rushed there to prevent them. Around 21.000 miners are on strike demanding hig wages, and union recognition. Two pickets at the P mines were arrested on Wednesday. Both are Negroes, Leon Simpson and W: Frazier. A white iner, Gordon Bice, was wounded by fire of deputy gun thugs and police, directed at Ed England, Negro miner who was murdered yesterday at the Red Dis- mond mines at Leeds. also. Bice may dir William Mitch. district vresident of the U. M. W. A., gave out a state- jment on the death of Enel a blaming it on the “lawle s” vho carry concealed w ‘I would hesitate to ment.” he said. urged ore mine workers to refrain jfrom violence in any form, and in |mo case to carry fire arms. I regret | the shooting of both of these men. |and feel that if good judzm jude- repeatedly prevailed it would not he curred.” | The Southern States Industrial Council meeting in Birmingha Wednesday is planning a campaign throughout the South in favor of the differential wage. The U. M |W. A. leaders are following a con- | scious policy on their own part ot © smash the united | strike and the splendid unity of the Negro and white workers, while fi |menting an attack on the Negroes. | A telegram to Roosevelt yester- day by the 300 industrialists at their |meeting savs: “Racial strife is im- |minent.” The Age Herald says Delegates immediately offered an | editorially: “The fact that the Negro amendment that resolutiors pre-|miner has become conspicuous in the sented from the floor within the| clashes with officers is fresh, and a next three days must be cortsidered by the convention. The vote on (Continued on Page 2) Demonstration at Cuban Consulate At 12 Noon Today N.Y. Workers to Demand Release of Prisoners, Repeal of Decrees NEW YORK—New York workers will mass in front of the Cuban Consulate at 17 Battery Place today solidarity with the fighting Cuban workers, to demand the immediate release of all class war prisoners now held in the jails of Cuba. By mobilizing their forces against the terror and strike-breaking de- crees set up by Mendieta on orders | from Yankee imperialism, the dem- onstrators will also be hitting at the strike-breaking apparatus of the “New Deal” government in the United States. A delegation of twelve will be sent from the meeting to visit the Cuban | bedeviling factor.” | Leaflets and shop papers, issued by the Communist Party, urge the | spread of the strike to all mines and to the steelworks. They urge mass picketing, despite the U. M. W. A leaders’ treachery. They call on the workers to elect rank and file strike committee Send the guardsmen and deputi home, declare the leaflets. A sharp attack is made on the Southern dif- ferentials in all industries. They urge the pulling out of all main- | tenance crews. The leaflets urge the Negro and white workers to con- tinue their splendid unity IRISH REPUBLICAN SEIZED CORK, Ireland, April 19.—Tom | Barry, Republican leader, was ar- | rested here last night, charged with | Possession of a machine gun and | 384 rounds of ammunition. He will jat 12 noon, in a demonstration of | be tried before a military tribunal. | Consul to denounce the cooperation | of the Cuban ruling class with Wall Street and present the demands of the New York workers. Among those scheduled to address the meeting are Robert Dunn of the Anti-Imperialist League, Henry Shepard of the Trade Union Unity Council, Armando Ramirez of the | Cuban Club Julio A. Mella, and Peter Caccione of the Workers Ex-Service- | men’s League. By JACK STACHEL the approach of May 1, the international day of struggle of the workers, of all toilers, one can see this year that the traditions of militant struggle of labor in this country are making themselves felt more and more. The workers are becoming increasingly disillusioned with the N. R. A. and the class colla- boration policies of the A. F. of L. leadership, and are entering into open struggle. The revolutionary traditions of May first, born when workers in all parts of the United | States downed tools in their struggle ‘for the eight-hour day, live and grow! A it interruption the | as be2n going on.) with Revolutionary Traditions of Trade Union year. Hundreds of thousands of workers who did not participate in the strike struggles last year and who are now striking are already in- volved in the strikes of the first months of this year. In the last few weeks we have witnessed the rapid growth of the strike struggles. Five thousand workers in the Mellon Aluminum plants struck; smaller struggles are taking place in the steel mills; thousands of auto work- ers are already on strike with tens of thousands in the mood to go, in Detroit and other centers. The| general strike of the taxi drivers in} New York City is of the greatest) The railroad or: ir strike ve ¥ it mighty di protests. ( < 4 . ‘ extension of the 10 per cent wage cut. Jobless Struggles Grow Side by side with the increasing strike struggles there is taking place @ mass movement against the C.W.A. layoffs; the fight for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) is gaining new support daily and especially among the locals of the American Federation of Labor. Despite the efforts of the N. R. A. apparatus to stop the developing struggles last year, the strikes spread very rapidiy. Similarly now, the government, faced with the ex- posure of the N. R. A. before the workers as the instrument of the is trying to stop the eles through the War- lover a million workers struck last| for the bureaucrats to put over the| ner Bill and other anti-working class Struggles Spur Preparations for May Day schemes. And just as before, the A. F, of L. leadership is bending all efforts to disrupt and disorganize the rising struggles. But this year the bureaucrats find it more difficult to hold back the workers. But for us it is not sufficient to take note of this. What is important for us is that the A. F. of L. leadership through its policies still is able to paralyze the actions of the workers. For us it is necessary to stress that | only by steadily, systematically and | effectively exposing these leaders and their every maneuver can we mobilize and lead the i successful struggle agai capital. | The recent events in Germany | and Austria have hed a tremendous (Continued on Page 6)