The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 21, 1934, Page 5

4 os DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1934 Page Five UMW Heads’ | “Divide and Rule” Role TONY MINERICH | | By TONY MINERICH PITTSBURGH, Pa.—In the same month that Edward England, Negro! coal miner and strike picket, was murdered in the Alabama coal| Birmingham- ‘The Blast,” Communi Shop Paper Lightens Way to Struggle (This is the second of a series of articles describing workers’ and croppers’ life in the Black Belt and Pittsburgh area of the South, recent strikes and activities of the A. F. of L. and Communist move- ments.) By MYRA PAGE 8 I enter Birmingham, some thou- sand miles south of New York, a sign flashes at me THE MAGIC CITY. In potentialities this strong- hold of J. P. Morgan is magic coun- | try; today the words are a glitter- | Corporations, ing mockery. Boarding one of the drab trolleys, I take a seat near the front, only to have the passengers stare and the conductor come toward me. Re- membering, I move back to the sec- tion marked, “For White Passen- gers Only.” Yes, I am back South. Back to the land where I grew up, with its bitter caste system and double oppression. Old resentments | flare over me. | Fresh from two years in Soviet Russia, where all men aré comrades and equal, with caste and oppres- sion a thing of the past, I feel like those young Russian Pioneers who challenged me, “If America’s like that, why do you put up with it?” | They wanted the revolution tomor- | table. row. Well, so do many of us. And things are being done in this land of steel, coal and cotton to speed it along. There are Reds in Mor- this Pittsburgh area of the South cause of its “rapid” development in | the half-century following the Civil | War from a small scraggling village |into a metropolis of 250,000. But having seen cities of one and two | hundred thousand spring up in the | short span of the Five Year Plan, and Moscow triple its popula- tion to over three million in 15 years, I am not impressed by this Magic rate of capitalism’ | Especially now, for Birn | stagnating. like everywh America. It will take wi mingham to give this c health, else in s’ Bir- back its HE big steel mills of Morgan’s T. C. I. and Mellon’s Republic Steel which belch their Jerimson tongues of smoke and |flame against the night, today are |Yunning around 40 per cent capa- city. Nearly one-third of Alabama’s coal miners are without work. In Birmingham, unemployed are esti- mated at 45,000 to 50,000, affecting jone out of every three households. The C. W. A. took 11,000 on its lists, but has already dropped 5,000. At 30 cents an hour and 24 hours a week, C. W. A. men say their fam-| | ilies are almost as bad off as when they were on the city’s “pity slips” | relief. | We got to visit John Simpson, one |of our comrades who worked until last year's layoff, at the T. C. I. | His place is stripped of .everything but the minimum of bed. chairs and All else was teken long ago by the installment-plan collector. | In fact, the Simpsons lost their furniture just before their little house on which they had been pey- strike, the U.M.W.A. officials organ-| 88n’s stronghold; it is their work |ing ten years was foreclosed on ized a mass demonstration and two dances, one for the white miners) and the other for the Negro miners.| Also a few months before the 33rd U.M.W.A. convention decided that it| could not pass’a resolution on the Scottsboro case, demanding the re- lease of the 9 boys, because “we must have more information,” the U.M.! W.A. leaders said. | There is no accident in any of the! above facts. They show the policy| of the U.M.W.A. leaders and the| fighting activity of the Negro and} white rank and file miners. The his-! tory of the mining struggles are full of such incidents, | Among the Alabama coal miners/ are many from the Northern fields. | ‘They worked in the North before, the fields were organized. They help-! ed build the U.M.W.A. After that there were no jobs for the Negro miners, They drifted South. In every one of the Alabama strikes (and there were many) the Negro miners were outstanding fight- ers. They are this way today. The| coal company knows this, and that’s; meeting of longshoremen to take up| the reason for the murder of Ed-! the question of strike action against | | the shipowners will be held here! ward England and the shooting of the other Negro coal miners. They! want to terrorize the rest of the) Negro coal miners. It’s the policy of | the capitalist class. | On the other hand, the rank and} file coal miners know that the Negro! miners are fighters. There were! enough strikes jn the mining sec-} tion to prove this. The constitu-| tion of the U.M.W.A. reads that “there shall be no discrimination be- cause of color, creed or nationality.) This reads all right, but it is not carried out in practice. In the Coal} Digger, paper of the Rank and File! of the U.M.W.A., there is a letter from a Negro miner jn Finleyville.! He tells of the conditions in his mine, and writes that all of the| Negro miners must work in the 14th} Butt Entry. Also that this is the worst section of the pit and that the| water is very deep there. In the same issue there is a letter from a| miner in the Montour No. 10 mine. This miner writes how a Negro miner had to bail water. out of his place and that this took him about three hours a day. For doing this work for two weeks, the Negro miner fot exactly $1.60, and was told that if he did not like this he knows what/ to do. The Negro miner must live in the, worst section of the patch. The company stores cheat everyone, but a careful investigation might prove that the Negro miner is cheated | more than the white miner. | The officials of the U.M.W.A. know) this. They do nothing about this. Some miners might think that they are too busy. That they may find time soon and see that this is re- medied. It’s far from the truth. The U.M.W.A. officials know this and| they believe in the system of jim- crowism and segregation. That is the reason they organized & separate dance for the Negro min- ers in Uniontown. This means that it is the opinion of the officials that the Negro miners are “not good} enough to attend the same dance as) the white miners.” This is not the opinion of the rank and file coal miners. But even here many of the rank and file miners fall for this stuff. If not, why was no hell raised at the time of the dance in Uniontown. The rank and file miners should have all gone to the Negro dance, and later gone to the other dance and chased the officials out of the town. This would have shown the officials what the miners think, and it would help unite the Negro and white miners in the fight against the bosses and their system of rob- bery. The killing of the Negro coal miner in Alabama and the jim-crow dance in Uniontown must be lessons to the rank and file coal miners. It must be the beginning of a real fight against white chauvinism, against the coal operators and their Lewis machine, ’ GOLD BONDS Both printipal and interest payments are based upon a fixed quantity of gold, providing the investor with pro- tection against loss resulting from pos- sible further depreciation in the U.S. dollar Cireslar W-7 upon request SOVIET AMERICAN SECURITIES CORP. 90 Broad Street New York and good invitation which has brought me South. Red Mountain, whose low ranges surround the city cupped in the valley, gets its name from the rust- |colored iron ore which seams its| Together with rich deposits of bituminous coal, coke and lime, Norfolk Mass Meet ofLongshoremen to Plan Strike Action Strike Vote to Be Taken By MWIU and ILA Jointly NORFOLK, April 20—A mass under the auspices of the Marine Workers Industrial Union Monday at Gideons Hall, 1063 Church S&t., April 23. The demands already worked out by the dockers are for the 8 hour day; 60 cents an hour; time and a half for overtime, Sundays and holi- days; restoration of the 10 per cent cut; relief and unemployment in- surance for the jobless dockers; recognition of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. At the meeting Monday, where Roy Hudson, national chairman of the union, will speak, the longshore- men will vote on the day to present the demands to the shipowners and set up a negotiations committee to present them. “We will give the bosses a short time to answer, and if we do not them, | | John and his wife rise from their | chairs in the dim room to greet us. | John appears a little embarrassed. This six-foot steel worker is crouch- ing with his wife, picking nuts. You | know these golden pecans you see | }in shop windows, “Specials at 70 By JOH HITING (Labor Research Association) | find that the ingot production rate —or the per cent of capacity at) which the planis operated—was About 42. But the consumption rat was only about 33 for the same per- iod. This means that during the first quarter—and the same is true at | present—production was running: | ahead of consumption. | The production rate will hit its peak, at a maximum of about 50, sometime in May or early in June, From then on it will decline. What then is going to happen to get a satisfactory reply we will strike,” said Hudson. “We are ied up on the lies of the bosses,” said a longshoreman yes- | terday. “We are wise to the N.R.A. | and the shipowners’ slave code. We | are sick of the International Long- | Shoremen’s Association and Joe) Ryan, who is deing all in his power | | to keep the men from striking. The action of the longshoremen is taking place in six locals of the Marine Workers Inudustrial Union and two locals of the L.L.A. What the Workers “Face. In All Branches of the Aviatio NRA Promises Do Jibe with the Air Line Figures (By a Group of Aviation Workers) The growth of strikes in the im- portant war industry, aircraft build- ing, is a reflection of the growing discontent in all branches of avia- tion. Facts show the misery of all aircrafts and air-transport line workers has not been alleviated as a result of the newly engineered NR.A. air code. More than one prophet of the in- dustry has predicted the end of the crisis in the aviation industry. Carefully pointing to the curves for passenger miles, airplane speed, pounds of express and increased in- vestments, they constructed a pano- rama of stability unrivaled in other industries, Here is what General Johnson wrote to Roosevelt about the Aero- nautic Transport and Manufactur- ers code: “The air transport indus- try represents an exception in the present depression in that it has added to the personnel and ex- panded steadily from year to year... Under the code. . . the industry will show an additional increase in per- sonnel of about 14.5 per cent (he figured out). The total increase in pay will be about 20 per cent. It is considered (by whom?) that this is a substantial contribution to the re-employment act.” (Aviation, Dec. 1933, Page 369). - Charming Words, Rotten Figures These are charming words. A glance at the following figures shows how untounded the gentral’s statements are. These are compiled from the “Aeronautics Bulletin:” No. of Pilots em- ployed 1929 1930 1931 1932 1923 Mechanics,Ground ‘Crew 1,182 1,800 2,650 2,069 2,236 On Transport Lines 562 675 690 566 575 The number of pilots increased 2 per cent from 1929 to June 1933. But 17 per cent were fired from 1931 to June 30, 1933. The General, too, is using the peak month of Roose- velt’s administration for his cal- culation. Why doesn’t the general quote figures after June 1933? What about the 15 per cent of the total number of mechanics and ground crew men who were fired? Will the General, also, explain why the operators were permitted ot} to cut wages of the personnel in the, most drastic manner, by changing | their rate-pay from a mileage to! an hourly basis? | As the “New York Times” of June | | 23, reports: “For more than 2 years | | their flying pay has been diminish- | | ing, until in some cases it has been virtually halved.” The “Times” shows that on the newly introduced | pay rates on a schedule of $100 per | | month the pilots incurred a loss of | $75 dollars a month, and even more. | “They (the pilots), attributed the loss to the fact that speedier planes have cut down the number of fiy- | ing hours, and that they are now paid by the hour instead of by the) mile, as they formerly were. Yet, at the same time, they added, they were called upon to fly more hours, due to increased business, and there is more bad weather flying because of the increased use of instruments.” (Compiled from the Aeronautic Bulletins) Year P.c. of Weather P.c. for 1st 6 Accidents m'ths of year 1931 47:73 21:73 1932 57:25 31:72 1933 cman 27:09 Observe that for bad weather fly- | ing the percentage of accitients has increased from 1931 to 1932 (for the whole year) by nearly 20 per cent. While for the semi-annual reports, from 1931 to 1933, it has increased 'by 43 per cent. From the dregs of the depression in 1932, it has im- proved to the “June-Johnsonian” prosperity era, in 1933 by 14 per cent. It is quite obvious that the last six months of 1933 will show something more sinister than ever exhibited for a six month period, on bad] weather fiying. General Johnson, N. R. A. Admin- istrator: The Pilots, Mechanics, Engineers and all othcr Aircraft workers insist on knowing why your letter failed to speak of the wage cuts, increased hours of flying, and rapidly mounting unemployment that has become an_ every-day phenomenon in this highly touted industry. Why, in spite of Dr. Green's (Pres. Aeronautic Medical Society, U. S. A.) warning, that Air- line operators were menacing the) safety of air passengers by sending into the air pilots suffering from fatigue. (N. Y. Times, Sept. 1st, | 1933.) | recently | price will reach about 2.50 cents; in| other word the price of steel will) Alabama miners at a meetin; wages and union recognition. strike movement. boasts the title MAGIC CITY be- Photo was taken just before the recent columnist of the Power Trust's (Morgan's) papers, Birmingham Age | Herald and News. he fumes must Erskine Caldwe John Wexley and all give such pictures of There is another side to 3 they neglect this?” meaning ture and breeding and the Dixie, Mr. Columnist? k= right, Mr. li give the other side, 1 your own ultra-conserv Mrs. Tutwiler's Party,” claim. The Highlight of the Sea son The Tutwiler aristocrats have made their wealth and secured pre- eminence, clipping coupons from coal and steel holdings and operat- ing the city’s leading hotel. Here is the way the press describes how the elite parasites entertain them- selves. “When Mrs. Tutwiler’s guests arrived at her house for a party | last night they were greeted by | their hostess attired as Caesar in | a white satin tunic with gold braid, gold Roman sandals and a laurel wreath around her hair. “It was a ‘suppressed desire’ | party and everyone had oppor- | tunity for one evening to be what and whom they had always se- cretly wished they could. As- sisting the hostess in receiving was her young daughter, Peggy, who § discussing their strike for higher | John is one of those down here cents a pound?” John and his| Who say: “I won't argue with you, was representing Tarzan.” | wife are shelling these, with mi-| 74 Tuther fight than argue.” On the same society news page nute care. She stops occasionally,| We visit other homes, of miners, |Under the caption, “Dashing when the baby in her lap whimpers, | Shopmen. Homes where the water Around,” we learn that other Tut- to give it the breast. For pecans ‘Ss being turned off, where the elec- wilers and their cohorts are just that are shelled whole, they get the generous price for their labor of nine cents a pound, halves, seven cents. meeting with the T. C. I. shop unit, preparing the next shop paper, The Blast. Weekly Wages in the Steel Industry Are 43% Below the Pre-Crisis Level wages and profits? If we look at prices first we find that for the first Looking over the first quarter of “uarter of this year the average price the year in the steel industry, we| Per pound of steel was 2.31 cents,| rate come back to pre-crisis levels.| aries and wages to employees dur- " to the American Metal Market's composite price index. This | according for broken Both working together, they can make about $5 a week. Try and tell John Simpson | that what this country doesn’t need is a good revolution. He will grunt, finish his shelling and go off to his issue of their tric lights have been. turned on, | back from a winter's outing in Mex- Families sit huddled around a lamp. | ico, and express themselves “de- Steel workers pick nuts. Former | lightfully surprised to find the miners shoveling dirt, on C, W. A. | country not all bandits and taran- jobs. Children are out of school, | tulas.” Ugh! Elsewhere we learn because they are too ragged to go |that the Chosen Few think it out. Down in the city’s grey-stone | “Smart to be thrifty,” and are do- jail, the Scottsboro boys are caged | ing their Blue Eagle part by fore- up, waiting. going all but two gardeners, and “But,” a protest goes up, “there's | Some even dispensing with a chauf- another side to Birmingham.” It | feur. is Bibb Graves, Junior, high-priced Bericor Hotel issues a Courtesy age hourly rates, which were 60 cents in the first quarter of 19 will now be 66 cents. Thus hourly surplus’ on its books of nearly $600,000,000. This is well over three times the amount paid out in sal- increase | ing the year 1933. No wonder Chair- man Myron ©. Taylor “Sees a Bright But this hourly rate means very little when we look at was the highest price point reached | it in terms of average weekly wages. | Future” (New York Times headline) when it was 2.36 cents. announced increase be at about the pre-crisis level. Coming price increases will bring | only about $20, as compared with | | the revenue per ton of steel pro-| $35 before the crisis. duced back to pre-crisis level. With rationalization and speed-up to help them, operating profits per | % unit of steel produced will be higher| U. 8. Steel Profits Under N.R.A. than they have ever been and the/| profits of steel companies will rise. As for wages, we find that dur- ing the first quarter of this year wages paid per ton of steel pro- duced were about $11, or probably the lowest ever reached except during the second and third quar- ters of 1933, But the steel companies are boast- | ing of the recent 10 per cent hourly rate raise they “gave” the workers. This increase meant that the aver- The Reosevelt government js planning still cioser links between commercial and military aviation, which made a non-stop flight from San Francisco to Hawaii. Moreover, in spite of this forced flying, the pay rates are cut by installing an hourly basis for a milzage basis. Haven't the in-| suranse cests rison through this} procedure for the Airline pilot? How | can he continue to pay thes with | the shrunken pay-envelepe? What abcut the standard of living; artn’t prices rising continually? Why are the air transport workers being driven into a strangled existence? since the second quarter, of 1930 With the) week during the first quarter of 1934 the annual meeting. ie | | ver’ s worked per | 28 he addressed the stockholders at For the average hours worked pe! Oe Aare se % tedly ap- were only about 34, as compared | holders present “repeatedly with the pre-crisis level of 55. And) Plauded Mr. Taylor's remarks on the the average weekly wages during improved outlook for the industry.’ | | the first quarter of this year were| a4. enormous power of U. 8. In spite of | Steel, with its $600,000,000 surplus, | hourly rate increases, weekly wages | its private gunmen, 1ts subsidized | | rates will have come back to pre- | mayors, sheriffs, deputies, and its | crisis levels. | far-flung spy system, was admitted | | | by the wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania, in testifying before Total net’ earnings (profits) of | the Senate Committee on Education | the U. S. Steel Corp., from date of | and Labor, April 9, when she de- its formation in 1901 to end of 1933, | cjared that “under the present ad- amounted to 414 billion dollars. This | ministration of N. R. A. the steel was more than half of the total/ trust is stronger than the U. 8S. outlay for both wages and salaries | Government.” It seemed a new idea (including salaries of top execu-| to the-Governor's wife that the tives) during that period. (For fur-| ame trust that shoots down work- ther detc\w on U. S. Steel’s record | ers at will is the same trust that of exploitation, see Labor and Steel! runs the government. This is as | by Horace B, Davis.) ‘true under Roosevelt as under | At the end of the last fiscal year,| Hoover. It would be just as true if} | company reports showed an “earned | Mr. Pinchot were President. n monthly Labor Review, Organ of the Department of Labor, gives the fol- lowing figures: | Month Employment Pay roll | | 1933 Index Index | (Gen. Johnson's Peak), June 25 233::1 July 223:4 | August 226:0 | | September 207:5 | | (Note: 1926—100 P. c. | | Consider these facts and the | | General's. From June to Sept. 1933, employment has dropped by 5 per cent, while pay rolls have decreased by 10.9 per cent. Then turn your attention to the following ones, issued by the Aeronautical Chamber | of Commerce to the N. Y. Times: “The number of wage earners in| aeroplane plants today is 9,141 as) compared with 16,105 in 1929, while those employed at airplane engine plants now number 3,187 as com- pared with 5,997 in 1929.” (N. Y. Times, Wed., Dec. 20th, 1933.) The air trust itself admits that employment in the airplane plants has dropped by 43 per cent and in the engine plants by 46.6 per cent from 1928. Chain the two sets of above figures together and what do | you have? Not only has there been | an increase in unemployment in the | aircraft manufacturing industry but | instead of abating it has increased with mathematical precision. The | payrolls, in the meantime, keep dropping regularly for those who are | as yet employed. Apart from those workers whose , hardships this letter enumerates, | there is, of course, that general class of apprentice pilots, mechanics, etc., who are firmly imbued with the de- sire to enter as future workmen into this industry. Ponder a moment as to their opportunities—What is in} | store for them? For example, there) are recorded as duly licensed trans- port pilots no less than 7,027, Of course, a transport pilot (on the average) invariably seeks to enter the industry as a profession. One) half of these are immediately pre-) pared to assume the final training necessary for ‘their eligibility to Above: One of the bombing planes Then, General Johnson, when you have answered these, explain, why the Air Trust Magnates have been Morgan’s “Magic City” of Coal and Steel in the South Big Increase in Strike and Jobless Struggles Aid Militant Mood Card bearer, entitling Blank to a spe for two person: and no questions And other considerati your con- venience.” But c ed pros- titution doesn’t camouflages girls sit by red who used t c for a living i lamps, and of an afternoon knock on ows at passers-by and beckon them in Klu Klux Klan issues cartoon leaflets against NISM’S UN-AMERIC. GRAM, wi B throwing bricks marked Free Love through Main Street's marked Great American Schools, Children, State ivat Prope: and White Supremacy. Young things trip through the stores, home for Easter vacation, taking the tip that “No need to travel to Paris for your wardrobe, we have it.” And John Simpson's wife sits with her baby, nut-pick- ing, in a torn cotton slip There's the politics side of Bir- mingham and Alabama also. “One- legged Jimmie Jones,” who man- ages the city to Morgan's tion; and the warring around the candidates for G whose program differs as much as Tweedie Dee and Tweedie Dum There are the sunsets Red Mountain, and the daffodils and peach blooms coming out, And there are the strikes of the miners. laundry workers, shirtmakers and the nearing powerful strike which will close steel mills, and probably mines, too. from over Next article, “Those Birmingham 5,000 Philadelphia Workers Protest Police Brutality Strikers from 3 Plants Solidify in Mass Demonstration PHILADELPHIA, April 19—Five thousand workers, including strikers in the knit goods industry, the Con- tinental Distillery and the Ski ball bearing plants, demonstrated their solidarity and working class unity at a mass meeting held this afternoon at Reyburn Plaza to protest against police brutality and interference with pickets in the three strikes Following the meeting, a delega- tion called upon the City Council to demand that it take action agai police brutality against strikers. This demonstration wes held as an aftermath to the arrest of thirteen strikers yesterdaay at the Booth Coane plant after they had resisted attempts of police to break up their picket lines, and the arrests which had been made pre- viously. tion workers willing to organize to better their conditions are urged to send their names to the editor of the Daily Worker. All names will be kept confidential, | Industry Speed-up Brings Lower Pay and Great Danger | to the Pilots | per cent of the total available un- employed. Can the industry possibly absorb them? No, not even within the next five years, at the same rate of de- velopment. The unemployment problem as- sumes a severe and chronic form. With the available men surpassing | by 90 per cent the actual demand! there is no alternative to rapid de- cline, Rapid turn-over in labor, lower wages, and in sant speed-up! have become the every-day perfor- mance in the factories and on the air lines for the workers. What alternative has the worker? With the N.R.A. stacked against him like a set of loaded dice, he| can expect no help from the govern-| ment, The Labor Board and Code, Authority (that group which. will) Medical Aid Promise Von! For Herndon HERNDON il 20.—Forcea part of onment ton To immedia er to Grady Hos- on by a white woman n the delegation revealed and Dr. Blalock, who has previou refused to treat Herndon at all, was forced to promise an X-ray. The delegation included Mrs. Mer- cer Evans, white teacher at Atlanta Univer: a Negro college gradu- ate, Tom Tippett, labor jou John H. Geer, local Negro who is associated with Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., in the defense of Hern- don, and the white woman doctor who asked that her name be with- held. The I.L.D. has called on all sym- vathizers to increase the protests to the state and cials, to force them to fulfill the promise made by Dr. Blalock, and to force Herndon’s unconditional Treedom. The demand for Herndon’s re- moval to a hospital should be di- rected to Dr. Blalock, Fulton Tower, Atlanta, Ga. It should also accom- pany demands for Herndon’s uncon- ditional release addressed to Gov- ern Eugene Talmadge and the state supreme court, at Atlanta, C. P. Appeal Calls On All Workers To Aid Glove Strike Pledges Support To's United Struggle in Glove Cities GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., April 20. —Pledging its full support and ce- operation to the 3,000 glove strike: the Communist Party here has is- sued a statement. calling on the workers to hold their ranks solid and united for victory. “The Communist Party of the glove cities greets you glove work- ers in your strike,” says the state- ment, “and pledges its full support. The course you took is the only one that can force the employers to grant you decent living wages. You have been subjected to wage cuts, “favoritism,” discrimination, speed- up and various schemes to lower your standard. “The Communist Party greets you glove workers for your united stand of all crafts. For the first time in the history of Fulton County, all branches of the glove industry have united in one strike. “In this strike you should learn from the experience of the leather workers, who, through their militant strike and united ranks were able to defeat all efforts to smash the strike and thereby improved their condi- tions. In the Forefront “The Communist Party, the only party of the working class, has par- ticipated in the forefront of most of the strike struggles of the worfkers. “The best guarantee for victory in your strike is active participation of all the strikers in the conduct and leadership of the strike. This meens fhe establishment of a rank and file strike committee repre- sentative of every shop, mass pick- interpret the status of any code eting to keep the shops closed 100 articles) is in the hands of the Air| per cent and to extend the strike to Trust. They control this board by a| all shops still working. Negotiations majority of 5. The different organi-| should be conducted by cpmmittees zations found in the industry are| with a majority of workers elected similarly in the control of the same| by the strikers. No settlement group. is no single organized) should be allowed unless discussed movement which is prepared or| and voted on by all strikers of all which has shown any inclination to} crafts—no craft settlement to be al- help the workers in one way or an-/ jowed unless all agree to return to- other. Up to the present there has) gether. not been eny, | “It is possible that the N. R. A. It is clear, that the Air Trust or-| sqministrator will try to have you ganized and united its forces in order to take better advantage of the workers, who are disorganized, to receive greater profits for themselves by driving the standard of living) return to work while negotiations are on, as they have done in hun- dreds of other strikes and in this way defeat your strike and your de- | downwards. t | workers must resort to similar steps| able to show those enormous rates of profits. | The General speaks of substantial | increases in the transport and mann- | facturing branches of the industry. | Whatever, one may say for the Transport side, the manufacturing angle certainly shows the true con- ditions. Here is the picture. The serve on the transport lines. Assume} able have no place on the airlines. that 767, or better 800, pilots are broad economic organization com-| now employed on the airlines. Then) posed exclusively of workers is obvi- 78 per cent of the total pilots avail-| oys, On the whole, using the June 30,; can we, 1933 Air Commerce Bulletin as the| grades, secure that measure of eco-| source, there are listed 767 active, nomic justice commensurate with | pilots and co-pilots, This leaves 90, our services, | mands, “The Communist Party of the Glove cities calis on ali workers to It is obvious that the to protect themselves against these attacks. The aeronautic woskers, support you in your struggle. pilots, mechanics, engineers and all) —————— moon seen other aeronautic workers must unite | in order to secure for themselves the right to earn a decent bying | M A Y Ist and to protect their jobs. ‘We call upon all pilots, mechanics, | Celebration engineers and all aircraft workers) to organize and unite in action against these hypocritic thieves. Our M A D I s 0 N s Q * only power lies in organization. | G A R D EN The prestige and influence of a} 7:30 P. M. Only by an active intelligent Reserved Seat $1.00 General Admission 25 cents Communist Party, N, Y, District 50 East 13th St, cooperation of all aircraft workers, | aviation workers of all | i