The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUE DAY, APRIL 24, 193 ‘Free Herndon,’ Appeals Buffalo Aero /Tam pa, Fla. Jobless Re tae ; Strike Goes , . aS - Ann Burlak, Union Head IntotthWeeki March on City Hall; Scab-Herding Outfit by Page Three Vets to Hold Rally Prior to | Capital March, |Fulion Towers, Hellhole of South, Is Breaking Herndon’s Health; Facing Heavy Sentence Herself in Atlanta Jobless Case in Washington ss 3,000 Agricultural Men in Cal. Strike For Higher Wages Workers 100 Per Cent Solid Despite the Terror Rank and File Veterans To Hold Convention Young Communists on ee Note. — Ann Burlak, National material. It was maddening, even bank Paul Unemployed | Florida Unemployed, — — mass y meeting prelimina | defenda At 7a. wi r s health 9 rving | 2.0 irc ea : SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—Three thousand agricultural the march to Washington at 3 n-| fnew death Sealy te acts [to break him mie. cince they oon paces x Demands Demonstrate workers in the pea field of Salinas Valley, California. re-| 20,8 p.m. The mass meeting wilt be tes eee spectdet apa Madam pi Ree AEDS ta Break Te 8ST. PAUL, ¥ TAMPA, Fla cently went on strike in spite of the fact that in all agri- peeeesied se SeTED, Loin, Union| they organized the Negro and What %s-'Oue Anewer? ob Py rages ges scab 2 vigilante terror. ing the le: ders of the march will be i ade! 2 employment. Comrade Burlak has | Prosecutors with the words, “You! Mass picketing goes on d at | es ged Me Pata a Mere Sig hog : There: is almost<a 100 ‘per? || oka the commence ic, ile gcterans| written the following appeal for | May kill Angelo Herndon, but, you the Curtis, while pickets are posted | the F.W.A. forced labor schemes, fe i i i ° : : the release of Angelo Herndon | °an never kill the cause for which at the plant all night long. The|°%, ‘erease in direct relief and | cent turn-out in this strike. || «Hell Raised Here.” the arrangements will make their! who is in Futon Towers, held with | Herndon stands.” These words were | picket line, stretching for @ quarter|{0%, the Workers’ Unemploymen Th d dis 40 > proposals in regard to the New York = g q and Social Insurance Bill i IP Wag Oem anne ou ae Alabama Mi Says; || contingent ; x hell Ae caitlin mpage fas of a mile in front of the plant, with | 7598) ee per hamper while they have a mmer ays; , serve 18 to 20 years on the chain two and three abreast, is the pride| at one time when the comm of anal $1 ‘Daily’ The W. E. 8. L. has endorsed the gang (a life sentence) because he of the strike and the thorn in the| one time when the comm sins ae for ‘Daily’ |\cait ot ne veterans National Rank| ted" the fight ot the: serke side of the Curtis em Ths | See veever nls and File Committee of Washington pan x ipa ea rushed the court from 4 to 6 hampers a day which averages less than $1 per day. The strike is under the leadership of the Cannery Agricultural Work- against unemployment. police, deputies and th gs of two * id * towns, a city and a county answered the call of the empl in an effort to break the strike.| NEW YORK.— Though suf- fering great privation, an Ala- bama coal miner in Ensley sends $1 to the Daily Worker to help for another march to that city. All Rank and File veterans will hold a convention in Washington starting May 10th. All Rank and File vet- manding that the ®/an immediate answer to =|mittee on the demands Council was forced to endor: By ANN BURLAK As one of the “Atlanta Six” de- most } for ers Industrial Union. The workers|| insure the circulation of the |/erans are invited to participate.|fendants, who is also faced with Footmen, horsecops and motorcycle! or the demands. The Farmer-|del have carefully prepared for this|] paper among the Negro and||This convention will petition Con.| the death penalty for daring to fob8 Bather like bees, armed with |tabor Mayor, Mahoney, and t to the Washing strike. They elected a large strike || white miners valiantly battling || gress and the President for the | 0'@anize the Negro and white work- The Gueie caus. tot sticks, ete.| Councilman refused to endorse t relief offices committee. There has been no police || against the differential wage || following demands: ers of Georgia, I appeal to every fot ey is employers, in an ef-| workers Unemployment and S terror up to the present time due|| rates in the South. 1. Payment of the Adjustea| “™merican Negro and white worker, fort to break the strike, have im-|tnourance Bi! Inder ‘ mostly to the preparations for! Dear Comrade,” he writes, “I||Service Certificates. (The Bonus) | every sympathizer to raise aloft ported scabs from out of towN.| that they will have to study t strong defense squads and picket |/ .., sorry that T ain't got any 2. Trmeadiate repeal of the Reohe the demand “Angelo Herndon must These strikebreakers are sleeping | piy) Sree: fine ‘aoe th hich || Oe Money to send you. But || omy Act. be freed!” Rial ahs eer hae 7a aes The workers demanded that the | I ecause 0! ie short ime whic! Y "4 i F } " a Bre ved, is Ss Ke r anger | ,, orsel 2 hould x *; WE: Peer acanoll. Thea GH. ance a Bees Sepa oa me morn bibs 3. Passage of the Workers Un-| After ar faroows, Marin gh of large sections of Buffalo workers oe pega poceoae seule about 13,000 pe Gene ot a cannlOunee eee ierice ers ain't got it. Every coal }/ empioyment Insurance Bill (H. R,| UNcmployed demonstrations, six o! The “Y” recently completed a re jus ypty promises, bu rough Ce mine in Birmingham and the || 7598). us Negro and white workers were | hat immediate action be taken to 5 j ' been receiving from 17 to 25 cents | per hamper. A good picker can pick it ve under ‘ i " s l these and their de- pela ao ores ae hag bie T.CI. (Tennessee Coal & Iron |! tne w. g. 8, L. has absolutely no! #7ested in Atlanta and incarcerated ‘ pad ay SEY ae ian aie arry these demands into action. | pendents mean a relief load of about | o on Digan ian era o) Fie fone one te now, || connection with the Trotsky rene-|i2 the Fulton Towers on the charge Fy Day.” Many young workers, think he workers are tae preparing for| 100,000 men and women. For the . an ere ell raising around g is of “inciting to insurrection against $3 “then hp ern a a jig May ay demonstration, | relief of these I have been allowed owners have made no attempt to + z Bades as charged by a section of the) eng ; 355 ing that the “Y” might really help] .) relief ‘ ave been slowed { ambitratba:wiis-the Witlies, committee: ork ae: the pearet eae ever || capitalist press several days ago. | the state of Georgia.” At that time, 33 the youth prepare for a “new day’ aay Aa be held at the same) ¢394.019 fo: s month, Figure SMO wer ea iia nD pere, and the workers are |) “Recruiting address, 203 E, 16th St,| John H. Hudson, assistant solicitor sot AE eh isle peicomnonit » “ang| Place at 5 pm, jout for yourselves—it means about making it hot for the scabs. Just Ss Saok ‘| general, stated “the Communists oe. | employment, misery an . . . | Sa\tGr ebentmkn: Seaton aid OnTae . wanted to point out a word to |! fee s f : ‘i tion will jt | hunger, joined up. They now see | Shauiteweo, lealiet: Wactine $ . 1 i ie you about the T.CI. strike. So |! . : + | must be put down or civilization will ant |that the “¥” meant in the first] ate | This amounts to about one-half ackingnouse fee i ele ae caer ace Prison Heads Again I see nothing but a death ANN BURLAK |place a “New Day” of atrikebreak. || MANITOWOC, Wisc.—A few | of the expenditure previous to April penalty law rigidly enforced that Some Curtis young strikers,| Minutes after a local F. EB R. A.| Ist. Biddle attempted to thrust the some more just as soon as I can ain Repudiate A. F. L., Join with T.UUL. Magil Outlines Policy of Industrial Union in Detroit Meeting DETROIT, April 23.—Efforts of an American Federation of Labcr business agent to disrupt a meeting get it. We are working in a hurry now in this strike. So that is all now.” A.F.L. Leaders Put Crimp in Strike Fur Dressers Strike Is Broken in Five Days Deny Medical Aid To Angelo Herndon Georgia Jailers Break Promise; Powerful Mass Protest Necessary | ATLANTA, Ga., April 23—Fulton Tower prison authorities are trying to squirm out of the promise made will destroy Communism,” | Living Death on Chain Gang | Tt was this blood-seeking indi- ‘vidual who dug up the old insur- | rection law, which had not been ; used since the Civil War. | man, who yelped for our blood, when we (Ann Burlak, Mary Dalton, Her- bert Newton, Henry Storey, Joe Carr and M. H. Powers) who were arraingned for trial in the spring of 1930. It was this same John H. Hudson, who in 1932 prosecuted An- gelo Herndon and demanded that our comrade be sentenced to death | because he dared to organize the It is this | spoken in true Communist fashion But the American workingelass cannot allow the Southern lynchers to kill our Angelo Herndon. To slacken up the struggle for his freedom now, means inhuman tor- ture and death for Angelo Herndon. After I was released from jail in July, 1930, I toured the United States for three months arousing mass protest against the persecution of the “Atlanta Six.” There was tremendous response from the workers everywhere. mass response, aroused by the In- who had recently joined the went to the “Y” and turned in their cards. The Young Communist League units in Buffalo were on the job immediately. First a statement was sent to and printed in the press calling for the eviction of the scabs from the “Y” Hotel. Then 2,000 leaflets were dis- tributed to Buffalo youth and in front of the “ strikebreaking act of the “Y.” An open-air meeting was held b: Tt was this | the William St. Unit in support of| works project here struck last week the strike, at which a resolution on | exposing the | than half of the 80 workers walked | off the job, demanding guaranteed minimum wages of $16.50 a week, no firing or victimization of work- ers, cash relief, and the enactment of the Workers Bill H. R. 7598. The workers are planning a mass march on the City Hall under the leadership of the Unemployment Councils. a cas ee Norwalk Relief Workers Strike NORWALK, Conn.—The seventy ef workers on the P.W.A. Water, demanding the full “yr project here got under way, more|entire blame on Washington and the state relief administration The workers committee demanded th hazards on the jobs be elimi- nated. On one job in the eastern end of Tampa, the workers had beer forced to work in a wet ditch near the carcass of a dead cow. As @ result, sores broke out on the legs 0’ the men. To this Biddle replied, “You have little worry now about work hazards Don't you know that C.W.A. is dead?” When the workers’ dele ported back to the x jon re- of packinghouse workers and fright- TUUL. gust. the blacklist defeated. men and women, who decided to launch a packinghouse workers’ local and join the Food Workers In- dustrial Union, affiliated with the The spirit of the meet- ing was unusually militant. Many of those present had previously joined the A. F. of L., but after attending a few meetings, had torn up their membership cards in dis- It was their experience with the A. F. of L. leaders that had proven the incentive for joining a militant rank and file union. A. B. Magil, of the Trade Union Unity League, outlined the program and policies of the Food Workers Industrial Union and exposed the role of the A. F. of L. officialdom and of the Regional Labor Board. During the discussion an A. F. of L. business agent got up and began asking questions designed to szare the workers away from union or- ganization. He wanted to know what could be done if the union started organizing in a factory and the com- pany began firing the members, It was pointed out that only by build- ing the union and setting up united committees of action to include both union and non-union workers could the workers’ jobs be protected and The business agent then tried to discredit militant action by coming to the defense of the Regional Labor to stop the following shops: Singer, Hollander and Bergenpoint. At a meeting of the joint com- mittee, held on April 16, at Gov- ernor Clinton Hotel, the committee for the Industrial Union made the: following proposals: 1 To declare a United Front General Strike against union conditions. 2. Bosses to pay a security at the time of settlement. 3, a 35-hour week. In order to guarantee that condi- tions will be lived up to in every shop in the industry, the Industrial Union proposed that a joint commit- tee of both unions be elected to visit each and every shop; hold shop meetings; take up the griev- ances of the workers; that a joint unemployment fund committee be elected and that this fund be con- trolled by the workers. Refused to Accept Proposals The officials of the International Fur Workers Union refused to ac- cept these proposals. Instead of a United Front General Strike, they just wanted a fake stoppage for a few days. Instead of continuing the conferences as they promised, they ran to the N. R. A. authorities for assistance and completely dis- regarded the committee of the In- dustrial Union. They promised to picket the shops, but the only ones who pick- ical examination without a court order, Dr, Blalock has postponed the promised X-ray until “Monday at the earlies | Meanwhile, Herndon is suffering from a serious lung infection, which may be tuberculosis, anaemia, con- rheumatic pains. A white woman doctor who made a preliminary ex- amination has expressed the opinion that more serious disorders will be discovered as soon as a more thor- ough examination can be made. He is also being deprived of liter- rature sent him by spmpathizers, although there is no official censor- ship of literature received by pris- oners. Copies of books and maga- zines, including the Anril Labor De- fender, which carries a dramatic appeal for action to free Herndon, have been withheld. The International Labor Defense has called for an intensification of the campaign of telegrams and let- ters demanding medical treatment and care under the supervision of private physicians, recognition of his rights as a political prisoner. Down tools May Ist! Rally the fight against the N.R.A.’s attacks on living standards and workers’ organizations. |stant pains in the abdomen and! the wage cut and to maintain all] 20 years on the chain-gang, 20 years with heavy chains attached to the ankles day and night, 20 years in a filthy, disease-infested { barracks under a scorching Southern sun, 20 years of constant beatings by brutal guards. Doesn't it make your blood boil? Doesn't it arouse in you a desire to take immediate action to abolish the vicious chain- gang system, to free our brave Com- rade Herndon? Held in Damp Dungeon Angelo Herndon’s case has been appealed to the State Supreme Court of Georgia, but he is being held without bail in the Fulton Towers. Workers, do you know what the Fulton Towers is? The “Atlanta Six” defendents know. Some of us spent 6 to 12 weeks in that prison. It is not an ordinary jail, of the type one finds in many Northern cities. It is an old stone, damp, filthy dungeon of the type that existed in the medieval days. Prisoners are not even served half-decent food, but some revolting mixtures on rusty pans, the sight of which turns one’s stoma were kept in one room types of degenerates, syphilyties, and even insane prisoners. We were prevented from getting any reading mediately follow up this victory by taking similar action against the “Atlanta Six.” Our first job must be to get Hern- don out on bail immediately. At the same time, every worker, every friend of labor, every demonstra- tion, every mass meeting must de- mand Herndon’s unconditional re- lease. Comrades! We have the might, we have the forces to free our Angelo Herndon! On the job, comrades! Open Membership Meet Called by See. 10, C. P. NEW YORK.—An open member- in picketing the “Y.” This had a tremendous effect. Strikers have pledged themselves to “black the eye of the ‘Y’” at all times and | everywhere. The Y. C. L. is active on the} picket line every day. Scores of young worker and youth literature have been sold and distributed. On | the picket line there are large num- ship meeting of Party .and non-| Party members, organized by Sec- bers of young workers, unemployed, from the immediate vicinity of the strike. The Y. C. L, is calling meetings in that neighborhood, in| two buildings at his farm. Two of support of the strike, with the per- place the men by machines, and to import outside labor in attempts to break the strike. | Bo oS Stop Eviction in Tacoma, Wash. TACOMA, Wash.—Hundreds call of the Unemployment Councils and the United Farmers League stopped the eviction of G. E. Win- slow and his family of 23 in a fore-| closure sale. j Winslow and his family live in| the family are invalided sisters, and| spective of building a Y. C. L, unit! Shirley, one of the children is ill there. The young strikers are very ac- tive in the strike. One in particu- ler has spent 12 hours and more! CINCINNATI, Ohio—The Mill St he strike. Many Local of the Unemployment Coun-} day on end to win a time his fellow forced to drive rikers have been him home to get | with measles. | tion 10 of the Communist Party, will] some rest. The Y. C. L. is begih-| be held on Thursday, April 26th,| ning to recruit young strikers into} 7.30 p. m., at Masonic Temple, 4126 the Y. C, L. 58th Street, Woodside, L. I, at which the Eighth National Con- vention of the Communist Party, U. 8. A. will be discussed. All members of working-class or- ganizations, friends and sympathiz- ers of the Communist Party, are Young Communist League units and youth organizations in other cities are urged to rally to the sup- port of the airplane strikers and send resolutions of protest to the Y. M. C. A. Men’s Hotel, Genessee and Pearl Sts., Buffalo, demanding urged to attend this important the immediate eviction of the meeting. strikebreakers. Win Relief cils formed a committee of 23 work- ers to go to the charities and pre-} sent the grievances of the workers in the neighborhood. Relief was| won for the twenty cases presented. | In the charities at Elizabeth and Mound Sts., George Collier, Negro} worker and leader of the unem-| ployed workers in the West End was leader of the committee. The Mill St. Local is very active Forty-five workers were present at the last meeting. It meets every| Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. at 413 Mill St Mobilize To Smash of | workers and farmers here at the) ing women work eat i is tithe “ew t segs | ges allowed) bled on the streets below, hundreds en them away from affiliating with NEW YORK ~A strike of fur} by Dr. Blalock, prison doctor, last} workers of Georgia to fight for Un- sabach tray borg oh fanaa a eva Videcegtbarheaetder dt the job. The job is farmed out} of police, detectives, county deput the Trade Union Unity League| dressers that was called April 16 thom. Gomindcee oat seen, employment Relief. “Atlanta Six” are not free yet! The joined the Y. C. L. 5 eee er heel hale aay Co., so i members of the American - 7 F jeg es, ge. Although Herndon was not sen-| 5; Pe eRe laa AE ss Sees. ; | tractors, w: y 50 cents an Legion circulated through the crowd Se ray epee rae te Mae was Practically broken on the day) Herndon and his immediate removal tenced ts be burned to death in| ‘fa! for “insurrection” and the| Another leaflet was issued, | instead of 60 cents. 46 indimitata the wore " anoa the betrayal policies of the|‘* Started. On this day all shops/ to a hospital. an electric chair, he was sentenced | (eth Penalty still hangs over our| which was distributed on a picket | An elected strike committee is TS A. F. of L. leadership. were supposed to stop, but the Suddenly announcing that An-| to a living death—"18 to a0: eave class succeeds in sending Herndon line in front of the ¥. M. C. A. | calling for a mass picket line at the Iowa. April 23 poy 4 i ;| leadership of the International | gelo Herndon is a “special pris ” , i ree, heads! If the Southern lynching) Young Communists, strikers and | project. The water commissioner. a former O.WiA, woe ‘The meeting held last Wednesday gt sper prisoner,” | on the chain gang.” Consider this to the ct they will { y. L thi took t i former C.W.A, Wor! was attended by about 80 workers,|FUr Workers (A. F. of L.) refused) and that he canot be given a med-| sentence for a moment, fellow work-| °° the chain gang, they will im-) Y. C. L. sympathizers took part |M. Riordan, has threatened to t work relief b here last ation and S now employed on jobs struck on the week demanding contir extension of C.W.A at a minimum of $1 unemployed workers A strike committee of § has been elect- ed, and attempts are being made te pull out the-en Picket | lines have been established, many of the workers. coming. three e from their homes to be on the mass picket line. Three thousand leafiets are be- ing distributed throughout the county to pull al the workers out on strike. The strikers demand C.W.A. jobs or equal cash relief to all jobless workers: no discrimination to Negro and foreign-born workers; no forced labor, the right to organize and rec- ognition of the unio: he abolition of the Iowa Criminal Syndicalism law, and the endorsement of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598). Furriers Challenge Lovestone Group Three Open Trials To Board. He declared that a number of drivers of the C F. Smith chain store, who had been fired for union activity, were reinstated by the labor board. Workers got up on the floor, however, and pointed out that the only reason the drivers had been reinstated was that the labor ‘board feared the men would strike and furthermore, not all the drivers had been taken back. The A. F. of L. eted the shops were the members of the Industrial Union. Colby Injunction by | Be Held Thursday Mass Picket Lines! ee NEW YORK.—The Fur Workers Industrial Union, 131 W. 28th St., issued a challenge yesterday to Jay Lovestone and Sasha Zimmerman to appear to defend their strike- breaking activities in the fur trade before open trials to be held April 26, The trials will be held at Am- After 5 days strike, they decided to go back to work under conditions stipulated by the bosses. Illinois Socialist Convention Rejects United Front By BEATRICE SHIEDS CHICAGO.—At the state conven- tion of the Socialist Party, held in Staunton, Ill, April 14 and 15, the Chicago District of the Communist Party proposed the following pro- NEW YORK.—The second round in the battle between the Colby Cafeteria, at 36th St. and Eighth Ave., and the Food Workers Indus- trial Union went to the Colby last week, when Judge Peter P. Smith, nue turned to the questions directed at | the professor at the close of his | speech. The workers wanted to | know what was the position of the Socialist Party on the N. R. A. Here Avoid Discussing Socialist Leaders’ Support for DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY N.R.A., and Growing Strike Struggles; Dig Up 107 BRISTOL STREET Down tools May 1 against, the Wagner strikebreaking bill and for the workers’ right to strike! Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-3 P.M Wisconsin 7-0288 New York City DENTIST Oor. Lexington Av Mm. Member Workmen' Benefit Fund 206 SUTTER AVE. Phi Dr. N. S. Hanoka Dental Surgeon 261 West 41st Street DR. EMIL EICHEL 150 E. 93rd St., New York City ATwater 09-8838 Sun. 9 to 1 Sick and Death I. J. MORRIS, Inc. GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS BROOKLYN e: Dickens 2-1273-—4—5 Night Phone: Dickens 6-5369 For International Workers Order FOR BRC WNSVILLE PROLETARIANS Sokal Cafeteria OPTOMETRISTS OF (OPTICIANS |) 1378 ST.NICHOLAS AVE * 1690 LEXINGTON AVE, RUSSIAN ART SHOP inc. TO OUR ONLY STORE 9 West 42nd Street Near Fifth Ave. N.Y... LARGE SELECTION Peasant Handicrafts, Shawis, Blouses, Toys, Candies, Novel- ware, from the Soviet Union, ete. ‘Wholesale Prices to Organiza- tions and Dealers. COUPON This coupon entitles bearer to a 10 per cent Cash Discount on all purchases at the RUSSIAN ART SHOP, Inc. | PHOTOS...of the better kind AT REDUCED PRICES BLUE BIRD STUDIOS- 1595 PITKIN AVENUE, Near AMBOY STREET || Gillespie asked that the Commu- BROOKLYN, N. ¥, — Phone DICKENS 2-1096 a Proposal for unity be heard. Organize a joint drive for the Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill (H. R. 7598) now be- fore United States Congress. 2. Against wage-cuts, for shorter working hours, and increase in wages to meet growing inflation. 3. For recognition of all com- mittees of the workers at relief stations. 4. Against forced labor, for union. wages and conditions on all relief and public works. 5. Against Jim-Crowism and segregation of the Negro people. 6. To support the statewide Youth Conference Against War and Fascism on May 13th in Chi- cago and to support National Youth Day on May 30th. 7. Against imperialist war. For defense of the Soviet Union and support of the struggles of the Cuban masses against Yankee im- perialism. For support of the Chinese people in their struggie against imperialism, and for de- fense of the Chinese Soviet Re- public. For support of the struggle against the fascist dic- tatorship in Germany and Aus- tria. Against the Roosevelt New Deal which carries in it elements of fascism. 8. Support the program of the Illinois Rank and File Miners State of Illinois joint united front May Day demonstrations around the above mentioned concrete program of action. This communication of the Com- munist Party was ignored by the presidium of the Convention. It only came to the attention of the Convention after Delegate Stead of chairman skillfully avoided Left Phrases to Cover Reactionary Deeds In spite of the fact that the So- cialist Party has repeatedly re- jected all appeals for unity around | the burning demands of the masses, the Communist Party once again appealed to the State Convention for United Action. The call for unity. also contained the following warning, due to previous experi- ences: “In spite of the fact that the Socialist Party leadership sys- tematically refused to join us in united front for the burning de- mands of the working class, we address ourselves again to your Convention. Today united action on the part of the working class is needed more than ever before. The workers of this state will judge you not according to words, but deeds, and we declare here that continued refusal on your part to enter into united front on this basis will be made known to the broadest possible masses of workers. We will be forced to point out that your refusal to unite on a program of immediate demands in common struggle ae to splitting the ranks of ie working class, thereby weak- ening the fighting front.” The action of the State Conven- tion clearly indicates once again to the working class of Illinois that the Socialist Party leadership are split- ters of the ranks of the working class. Their program and policy stand in the way of struggle for better conditions, against the at- tacks of the boss class, against the N, R. A—which leads to war and fascism. The speeches and procedure of the convention was to skillfully avoid the mention of action. The convention was dead. It was de- void of any sign of militancy or connection with the class struggle, > carefully avoided the mention of the N. R. A., May Day or War. The major discussion was confined to| where the next state headquarters should be, in Springfield or Chi- cago, and how much of the branch quotas were realized. However, the resolutions indicated definitely that there is a ferment going on in the ranks of the Socialist Party. More radical phrases are demanded. The effects of the N. R. A. have eaten} into the vitals of the working class, the strike-breaking program of Roosevelt threatens to deprive the workers of the slightest gains. The crisis is sharpening. The illusions are being shattered. The Socialist Party, in order to play its role as agent of the capi- talist class within the ranks of the workers, must change its front. It must adopt more “left” phrases to paralyze action. And so a resolu- tion against the N. R. A. as a “left” maneuver and an endorsement of the A. F. of L., which is part and parcel of the N. R, A. machinery, carrying out its work in the labor movement, as the right action maneuver. A true division of labor between the A. F. of L. officialdom and the right and “left” in the Socialist Party. “SOcialism”—But No Struggle The evening mass meeting even showed more clearly the role of the “left” and the change in front of the Socialist leadership. One hun- dred and fifty persons, miners and delegates, were present. Professor Krueger went into ecstacy about Socialism. He told the workers how much they want Socialism, but not a word about struggles, not a word about the N. R. A. not a word about the miners and their strug- gles against the officialdom of the P, M. A, and U. M. W. A. The the professor betrayed his share in ently denounced the N. R. A. The workers asked Professor Kruecer why it is that the Socialist Party leaders congratulated the President and called the N, R. A. the eman- cipator of labor? Why it is, that he, Professor Krueger, in his speech in Paris, stated that the N. R. A. and Roosevelt were leading Amer- ica to Socialism? The professor was confronted with the prelimin- ary agenda printed in the “Mil- waukee Leader,” which reads as follows: “In common with the rest of labor, the Socialist Party sympa- thizes with all efforts aimed at recovery, and the restoration of jobs to the unemployed. It wel- comes: the N. R. A. as a move- ment in that direction.” The professor denied all of the above assertions. He stated that the Socialist Party was always against the N. R. A. that he had made no such statement in Paris and that the preliminary agenda was going to be rejected at the Convention of the Socialist Party. He did not explain why the prelim- inary agenda was written and why his signature was affixed to the same agenda, and, above all, why the change in front. The pressure of the workers for an answer to these questions caused the Socialist Party leaders to call off the meeting. The workers, how- ever, did not leave. The Commu- nists were among them, discussing and explaining the various issyes which Professor Krueger did not dare to face. Professor Krueger, and the entire convention, very anxiously avoided any discussion on the N. R. A.j_ When forced, they gave fake oppo- sition to the N. R. A., lip service to Socialism, but no program for interest of the entire meeting was| struggle The fighting food workers had taken the first round when they smashed a temporary injunction by a mas picket line in front of Col- by’s during the noon rush hour. The Food Workers are mobiliz- ing for the third and last round when on Thursday, they intend to throw their forces on the street in a mass demonstration that will make the present permanent in- juction just another scrap of paper. The New York Trade Union Anti- Injunction Committee has endorsed this demonstration and is mobilizing the forces of its member organiza- tions comprising some 175,000 or- ganized workers to support the dem- onstrationty Medical Exam Used To Blacklist Dock Workers in Duluth DULUTH, Minn.. April 23—Dock workers of the Great Lakes Transit Co. reporting for work are being told that they must submit to an- other medical examination such as they had to undergo last spring. A year ago the company black- listed 23 union members by means of a fake doctor's examination. The dock unit of the Communist Party has issued leaflets to the dock workers urging them to fight against the examinations, which in reality are part of the company’s black- list. scheme. The leaflet urges. the workers to prepare to strike for a 25 per cent increase in wages and time and a half for overtime. HARRY GANNES speaks on ‘The Men- ace of Fascism” at the Henri Barbusse Br, LLD., 884 Columbus Ave, Tuesday, April 24, 8:30 p.m. Adm. 150, he RIT a9 aye cere z 7 jest the Tammany fixture on the Brook-|bassador Hall, 3875 Third Ave. official was compelled to shut up. |] Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves. gram of United Action to the con-| a : ; | the division of labor to keep the} ) : aide: “Hinedaia Won Club, 572 5 e motion and defeated it by tl 8 lead | a _|lyn Supreme Court Bench, granted v pig dies PHONE: DICKENS bani | votes, Poriiee) ne specties uh tbe 4 ership | masses from struggle. He vehem-| ‘6 Colby a permanent injunction,| Sutter Ave. Brownsville, and the Brighton Beach Workers Club, 3200 Coney Island Avenue. “You are charged with working hand in glove with a gang cf rack- eteers who are hated and discredited by all honest fur workers,” says the challenge issued by the fur union. “You are charged with sending scabs to shops where the bosses have locked out the workers. You are charged with helping the bosses to introduce a vicious contracting sys- tem and to undermine the minimum scale... .” Ben Gold, Irving Potash and J, Winogradsky will be the accusers. Bronx Clubs To Protest Interference by Police in Bronx Court Today NEW YORK. — All the worker clubs in the Bronx and Harlem have united in a mass protest against police interference in worker affairs, after the summoning of Irving Selis, one of the militant leaders of the Tremont Progressive Club, to appear in the City Magistrates Court, 161st St. and Washington Ave. in the Bronx, this morning at 9 o'clock. These clubs call upon all workers’ organizations in New York to pack the court this morning as a protest against police interference and to fight for the freedom of running dances and lectures without dis- turbance. We will mail copies of the 24 page May Day edition of the “Daily” to your friends. 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