The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1934, Page 3

S | Page Three 12 AFL Locals Plan Chicago Campaign | For Workers Bill Pledge to Fight for H.R. | 7598 at Chicago Meet On April 29th (Daily Worker Midwest Burean) CHICAGO, April 25.—Dele- zates from 12 local unions of the A. F. of L. met here Sun- | Jay to map out a campaign of | struggle for the Workers Un- smployment Insurance Bil] (H. R. 7598). Preparations were made to carry this fight to the floor of the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor Economic Conference on April 29, which has been called by the officials to mobilize support for the New Deal in general and the Wagner Bill in particular. The conference last Sunday, which was called by Painters’ Local No. 275, endorsed the Workers’ Bill, and unanimously rejected the Wag- ner Bill and other fake “unemploy- ment insurance” bills. The resolution which was adopted neluded the following paragraph: “When we compare the bill (H. R. 1598) with other so-called un- employment insurance bills, such as the Wisconsin bill or the bill pending in Congress known as S. 2616, introduced im the U. 8. Senate on Feb. 5 by Senator Robert F. Wagner, we find that Bill H. R. 7598 is uncomparably superior to all other bills in the following respects.” The resolution then analyzed the lifference between the Workers’ 3ill and all others and calls upon the delegates to the Economic Con- ference call by the C, F. L. offi- jals for April 29 to support the Workers’ Bill. The conference enthusiastically received a fraternal delegate from the A. F. of L, Rank and File Trade Union Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance and Relief, Frank Robbins, who spoke on the work of the committee. The delegates ‘nanimously voted to endorse the celent Scottsboro demonstrations, ork of the committee. | ete. The extent to which the mili-j Negro Misleaders Fight Unity of int spirit of struggle for unem- rate fe dloyment insurance has penetrated , he Chlnags locals of he ALF. CO ee emi cllnes ne re de ee increasing its vicious attacks ‘hip of 8112. Though only 12 lo- | *#ainst the Negro toilers by lynch- tale’ p aoenigans srasented RE ihe. winets jing, persecution and terror. They are ng, 37 Ohlcagn teal ot thes © bringing forward, as never before, their Uncle Tom Negro misleaders fL, Amalgamated Clothing Work-/ of the type of William Pickens, ‘s, and Railroad Brotherhoods Walter White, and Dr. DuBois who ave endorsed the Workers’ Bill. is calling upon the Negroes to The conference decided that all| voluntarily segregate themselves. “slegates who are also delegates to| While Kelly Miller is trying to split he Economic Conference of April 3 will present the resolution of ‘iis conference to the Economic ‘onference and fight for the en- orsement of H. R. 7598, and the ending of a delegation to Wash- igton to put pressure on the Con- ressmen to force their support of Ye bill. The conference was addressed by ‘om McKenna of the American eague Against War and Fascism, ‘ho spoke of the spending of bill- ons for war while the unemployed | ‘re denied relief. The delegates ‘oted to endorse the program of ‘ye American League. A resolution urging all A. F. of . members to join in the May First ‘nited Front Demonstration at Mion Park was voted, and dele- ates pledged themselves to mo- *ilize their local membership. Elmer Johnson of Painters’ Lo- al No. 637 was chairman, and Delegate Walters of Painters’ Local No. 275 made the opening report. "cals represented were Painters’ Locals No. 275, No, 637 and No. 273; Sarpenters’ Locals No. 181, No. 1784, Mo, 504; the Chicago Branch of the ‘Wood Carvers’ Union, Cigar Makers, ‘io. 14; Machinists, No. 390; Metal olishers, No. 6, and others. MAY Ist Chicago Teachers Plan Strike — Result, One Month’s Back Salary Daily Worker Midwest Burean CHICAGO. Il.. April 25.— Action by the rank and file teachers’ group calling for the immediate preparation of a teachers’ strike, has brought the sudden announcement by the Board of Education that one month’s salary, for June 1933, will be paid to teachers in cash this Friday. Meanwhile the teachers will still be owed $27,700,000 while the city and state legislatures have made the back salary and school retrenchment issues 8 political football game with teachers and pupils as the ball. The salary will be the first since March 22 when the school workers received their May 1933 wages. | | ‘Out Into the Streets ‘On May the First! {Continued from Page 1) even necessary to make any pre- was shown in the first code signed by Roosevelt—the textile code. The textile code deliberately ex- cludes the 12,000 Negroes employed in this industry from the miserable minimum wage provided for textile | workers. The Negro masses are beginning to fight back with increasing de- termination and militancy. This determination and will to struggle on the part of the Negro toiler have | been shown in many unemployed actions in Harlem, in the many ex- gro and white workers by telling them that “in every issue between has been buttered on the side of capital.” Kelly Miller knows this is a lying statement, that it is only the bread of the Negro tools of capital which is buttered by capi- tal. He knows that the capitalists |are responsible for the low wages, for the thousands of evictions in New York City of unemployed Ne- gro workers, for the segregation of Negroes, for discrimination on the job, for the lynching of scores in the United States each year, for the frame up of the nine Scotts- | boro boys, etc., ete. Kelly Miller is calling upon the Negro workers to become strike breakers; he is asking us to help the capitalist class in their drive against the living standards of the whole working class; he is asking us to be quiet while the boss or- ganized lynch gangs strike at us. Kelly Miller, very well knows that only through the unity of the Ne- gro and white workers under revo- lutionary leadership. will conditions for the Negro masses be raised to a@ higher level. On May First thousands of Ne- gro workers must join hands with their white fellow workers in mili- tant demonstration on the streets of New York; against lynching, segregation, jim-crowism, low wages, evictions, and the right to organize into trade unions of their own choice, on the basis of complete Celebration equality with all other workers. The p Negro workers must demonstrate MADISON § Q . against the starvation “New Deal” of the Roosevelt government, against G ARD EN imperialist war and fascism, and 7:30 P.M. for the defense of the Workers’ Fatherland, the Soviet, Union! Reserved Seat $1.00 Williamsburgh Comrades Welcome De Luxe Cafeteria 04 Graham Ave. Cor. Siegel St. EVERY BITE A DELIGHT General Admission 25 cents | ‘ommunist Party, N. Y. District 50 East 13th St. | ry DON’T FAIL TO COME Film and Photo League \ Presents bs MOTION PICTURE COSTUME BALL FRIDAY EVENING WEBSTER HALL April 27th 119 EF. 11th St. t @ Original Nickelodeon Show @ Sound Movies will be taken | ® Celebrities from Stage and Screen ® Exhibit of Photos by Marguerite Burke White, t Ralph Steiner, Irving Browning, Berenice Abbitt, j Film & Photo League. Tickets in advance $1: at door $1.50. Available at ’s: Film 12_F. 17th St. Workers Bookshop; R._5-9582. Booths with products of the National Minorities of the U. S. S. R. CARNIVAL — BAZAAR — DANCE Sunday, April 29th Central Opera Hous From 2:30 nm. to 2 a.m. 205 E. 67th St. Given by Friends of the Soviet Union Supper-Entertainment-Bargains-Fun tense where they are concerned, as) the growing unity between the Ne-| capital and labor the Negro’s bread| | 2,000 Work Relief Negro Workers! Strikers Picket ‘Dist. 13 UMW| Heads Sell Out Iowa Miners Say Nothing Can Be Done About N. R. A. Wage Cut DES MOINES, Iowa, April 25.— After two weeks of conferences, and the sending of a delegation to} g Washington, the union officials of District 13, UM.W.A., caused the} striking miners to return to the mines, by convincing them that nothing could be done about the new N. R. A. regulation, which pro- vides for # 35-hour week and higher wage and tonnage scales— but which will amount to an actual | wage cut to the already starving | miners. | Union officials were booed and cursed at nearly every meeting | where the rank and file was in at- tendance. However, the misleading | officials, by demagogically telling the workers that Roosevelt was “back of us,” are successful in keep- ing a fierce strike against miser- able conditions and for the con- crete needs and demands of the) miners, from breaking out. Rochester Office Fire 1,000, Withhold| Wages to Philadelphia Relief Workers ROCHESTER, N. Y.—Two thou- sand striking Rochester and Monroe County relief workers, entering their second week of strike against the! budget system, picketed the local) Work Relief Bureau Monday, shout- | ing, “We Want Wages,” as their | committee presented the workers’ demands to the local relief head. Beatzell, relief head, passed the buck on the workers’ demands by | saying that he was told what to do! by the “higher ups.” | On Monday night the committee presented the workers’ demands to the City Council which refused to act on the workers’ demands. The Communist Party of the} Rochester Section, in leaflets issued | to all the strikers, urged the rank) and file workers to continue the] strike and refuse to accept “arbitra- | tion” and “truce” plans to send| them back to work pending a “fu-| ture” settlement. The call of the) Communist Party urged the work- | ers to maintain mass picket lines, and demand that the Mayor and the City Council act at once on the | workers’ demands. ea (8 sie Fire Thousands from Phila. Relief PHILADELPHIA, Pa—Over a thousand have been fired from the “work relief” projects here in the recent period, thousands were handed a wage slash, and practically all relief workers have had their) pay witheld from one to two weeks. W. H. Connell, Philadelphia relief | director, announced yesterday that he had absolutely no provisions for | the relief projects for later than to- day. “T have absolutely no idea what will happen then,” he said. Reveal-| ing that the change from C.W.A.! to L.W.D. had saved the administra- | tion $200,000. Connell pointed out that the state had allocated only four million dollars to the projects, and that he had absoMtely no in- tention that money would be “avail- able” after May first. The C.W.A. Workers Union is mobilizing its entire membership to participate in the May Day dem- onstration at Raeburn Plaza, at lpm. Lancaster Mass Meet Saturday LANCASTER, Pa. — Demanding | jobs for all unemployed at union} wages or equal cash relief, immedi- ate adoption of the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598), and a moratorium on evictions, un- employed workers here will hold a mass meeting on the Court House steps, Saturday, April 28th, at 6:30) m. The Relief Workers League and, NEW YORK.—Max Sherwood, | strikebreaker, purveyor of forgeries! and general skin-flint, has now) been caught red-handed in the act of perjury. Acting as a witness for his co-worker, George Williams, in) the hearing which began in the) Jefferson Market Court Tuesday on the libel charges brought against Harry Raymond, staff writer of the Daily Worker, Sherwood just lied and lied. The hearing was con-!| tinued until today at 2 p, m. On several occasions the whole court was thrown into fits of laughter as Sherwood squirmed on the witness stand and blurted out obvious perjuries in an attempt to defend the strikebreaking record of thé scoundrel Williams. When 8 technical question was raised as to whether Williams could offer concrete evidence that Ray- mond wrote an article libeling Wil- liams, Max Sherwood took the wit- ness stand to offer the “proof.” Then the whole slimy nature of the Sherwood scab-herding crowd was further illuminated. “Did Harry Raymond write an article about Mr. Williams which was published in the Daily Worker on March 21?” asked Edward Kuntz, International Labor Defense at- torney. “Yes,” said the strikebreaker. “How do you know?” Sherwood went into a long story | to 35 per cent. wage increas GAS ATTACKS IN WATER The British navy knows what is coming and the sailors aboard its biggest battleship, the Hood, are getting ready for gas attacks in coming sea batt! revolted against pay cuts a couple of years ago—pay cuts which have been rescinded recently. les. These were the sailors who Gloversville Glove Workers Betrayed byAF. L. Leaders Men Forced To Go Back To Work Following “Arbitration” Special to the Daily Worker GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., April 25. —Three thousand glove workers here were callously betrayed today when A. F. of L. union leaders settled their strike for a 10 per cent wage increase in opposition to the 27 s which the workers demanded. The workers rejected the arbitra- tion, but were terrorized into ac- cepting when union leaders threat ened to order the rest of the work- ers back to the shop without them. The workers, who went on strike [Harlem Mass Meet) On Discrimination of Negro Workers Friday's Meeting Plan a City-Wide Campaign NEW YORK.—A mass meeting | against Negro discrimination on) | Jobs" and relief will be held at the |i. W. 0. Hall, 415 Lenox Ave., Fri- day, April 27th at 8 p. m. | The Committee of One Hundred] of the Greater New York Confer-| jence on C. W. A. and Unemploy- | ment, in a meeting at 29 E, 20th St.,| | to examine into several of the most jglaring cases of discrimination on relief and work relief jobs, and will| j}map out a plan for carrying out a} city-wide fight against seit to ism. Some of the matters the com- | plant Build Union In Rockford Metal Plant Bosses of Dropforgin Organize a Fak “Independent” Union ROCKFORD, IIl.—Despite the ap- peals of a company executive and an A. F. of L. representative. metal workers of the lozal Ingersoll | have definitely decided in favor of an independent union. The plant, employing about 400 men makes special milling machines and is a war production base. At Rockford Drop Forging. an- other metal shop, the com through their spi the men were ta Realizing that the sentim: against an open company union, | the bosses started to build an “in- dependent” union. At the first meet- ing the hand of the company was visible. Statements such as, “Nordell | (the super) wants us to have a} union,” and that the company will} donate use of the official bulletin! board plainly exposed the purpose | of this union. A worker who ran as candidate | for president succeeded in getting more than a third of the vote de- spite all efforts to label him a Com- munist. The men in the key depart- | ment, the hammer shop, were united | in opposition to the faker and had this department been represented as it should have been, the results would have been different The workers throughout the city are ready for struggle and militant | workers must increase their activ-| ities. An energetic campaign for | the building of a local of the §.M.W.LU, must be started. Open Trials of Lovestone Group Called Tonight Several weeks ago, demanded the | mittee will launch the fight against’) To Expose Treachery of 27 to 35 per cent wage increase as @ return of the wage slash instituted by the N.R.A. through a wholesale cut in working hours. In addition, the A. F. of L. leaders arbitrated with the bosses for the| new wage schedule to be effective only six months, thus exposing the workers to another cut as soon as thé season is over. Thugs, Injunction and Arrests Fail To Stop. Nathan’s Cafe Strike NEW YORK.—The 43 workers of | the Nathan's Cafe, 1316 Surf Ave.,| | Coney Island, are continuing the | Offices at 232 Seventh Ave., Harlem strike they began last Tuesday under the leadership of the Food Workers Industrial Union. Despite an injunction against picketing, despite the arrest of 15 of the strikers, the strikers said yes- terday that they will stay out until they have won the nine hour work- ing day and recognition of the! union. | Strikers report that gangsters | from Jake the Bum‘s Painters Union | sluggers have been sent in to intimi- date the workers and that Jake the | Bum and Phil Zausner of the Paint- ers District Council No. . patronize | the establishment while the strike| is on. | The speed-up in the shop was so| bad that Max Steinberg, who worked | in the place 14 years, had to be sent} to a sanitorium with a severe ner-| vous breakdown, A group of the strikers visited the Daily Worker and gave a donation of $5, the Unemployment Councils of Lan- caster have moved to 418%4 Green St., Lancaster. et ie Form Relief Workers Union MASS, Mich., April 25—The Re- lief Workers Protective Association of Mass, Mich., was organized here on April 15th at a mass meeting of unemployed and “work relief” em- ployes. Meetings will be held on Fridays at 7 p.m. Squirms Un Lawyer; Admits Conn’ Case in Court Again Today are the Jim-Crow separate lines of} |Negro and white workers, the buck) | passing by which hundreds of Negro | workers are turned away and denied | |Telief at the Harlem Relief Bu- Teau, and blast the claims of the | H.R.B. by which they maintain that | Telief is given to all Negroes in | Harlem and elsewhere in the city,| | whereas 80 per cent of the 300,000 Negroes in Harlem are unemployed. The Committee will also lead an| Group in Recent N. Y. Strikes NEW YORK —A picture of des- | picable treachery on the part of the Lovestoneite group against the fur workers will be revealed tonight at, | the mass trials in three different parts of the city. The Fur Workers Industrial | Rank and FileShould Take Fisher Body | | | forced to accept a job as a laborer | | intensive city-wide struggle against| Union is accusing the Lovestoneites | all cases of discrimination against/in aiding the bosses and in col-| all workers who are denied jobs or! jaborating with a known group of relief because of race, foreign birth | jabor racketeers and underworld oan Pee The eter eee | types. The accusations will be sub- | | urges at al cases of any els ons 3) | crimination whatsoever be imme- prerwieen Wy Comens Or Yop ; from the shops, who will tes | diately reported at the Downtown) trom their own experiences on tl strike-breaking activities of the so- called revolutionary Lovestoneites. | Workers from other trades will also | offices of the League of Struggle {for Negro Rights at 119 W. 135th | St. the Harlem Unemployment} ;octiry |Council, 109 W. 133rd St. or the] — ** | Harlem Liberator, 2162 Seventh | Ben Gold. I. Potash and J. Wino- | | Avenue. | gradsky will be the prosecutors. The | trials will be held in the Bronx in| Ambassador Hall, 3875 Third Ave; | in Brownsville, in the Hinsdale | Workers Club, 568 Sutter Ave. and in Brighton, Coney Island, in the Brighton Beach Workers Club, 3200 | Coney Island Ave. | Down Tools, Demonstrate May Ist to force the adoption of the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- | ance Bill, H. R. 7598! NEW YORK.—David Adamson, a graduate of Benedict College, was denied an investigators’ job, and at the lowest category of pay be- York Relief and C. tration pursue a of discrimination | cause the New W. A. adminis’ vicious _ policy against Negroes. | The open hearing on this and} similar cases against Negro workers | on the relief jobs and on relief will | be held at 415 Lenox Ave., corner | 131st St., tomorrow at 8 p.m, Under the auspices of the Com- General Insirument Workers Walk Out | der Cross Examination of I. L. D. mittee Against Disgrimination, all workers are urged ™o attend the | meeting, relate cases of discrimina- | tion against Negro and foreign-born | workers, and elect a mass delega- tion to demand that Commissioner |of Welfare Hodson take immediate | steps on all cases reported. Among the speakers will be David Adamson, MacKawain of the League of Struggle for Negro | Rights, Frederick Welsh, chairman of the Committee Against Discrim- |ination, and William Fox, Down tools May 1 against the Wagner strikebreaking bill and for the workers’ right to strike! Strikebreaker Sherwood Lies on Wines Stand A Defend His Crony ection With Forgeries; of how he called the Daily Worker on the phone the day after the ar- ticle appeared. He said he spoke to Raymond over the phone and protested against the article and that Reymond discussed the article with him. The truth of the matter is that. @ person who said his name was Sherwood did call the Daily Worker on the phone, but he spoke to the city editor, Si Gerson, and not to Raymond. The Daily Worker has a stenographic copy of this tele- phone conversation in which the person who sAid he was Sherwood complained about the article ex- ing Sherwood’s and Williams’ con- nection with the strikebreakers in the taxi strike. When asked if he was sure he was talking to Raymond on the phone, Sherwood said he was, “be- cause he knew his voice.” The strikebreaker was asked if he had ever heard Raymond's voice before. He said that he saw Ray- mond ii the Workhouse about three years ago and that Reymond was pointed out to him when he went there to visit a man who was work- ing for him. But he admitted he | never spoke to Raymond. Here was the first perjury. Ray- mond was never in the Workhouse. | Raymond was in the New York| | penitentiary as one of the leaders! ,of the March 6, 1930, unemployed | demonstration and served his sen-| tence along with William Z. Foster and I. Amter on Hart's Island,| which is many miles from the| Workhouse. | The Second Perjury | The second perjury was ‘consu- ;mated when Sherwood said that} | Raymond spoke to him in the court) and agreed to quit exposing Sher- wood and Williams if the libel charges were dropped. This was a downright lie of aj provocateur and a rat. The truth of the matter is that Sherwood sent an agent to speak to Raymond and Attorney Kuntz. The agent said that Sherwood and Williams would drop the case if the defense would agree to tell Sherwood who is giving| information to thé Daily Worker on |the strikebreaking activities of the] | Sherwood Detective Bureau. The agent, was bluntly told that George Williams |stand. However, the Daily Worker) the Daily Worker was going on Despite Co. Union| NEW YORK, April 25—The work- ers of the General Instrument Corp.,| a radio pars factory, at 220 Varick St., walked out on strike this morn- ing, 600 strong. Although controlled by a com- pany union, the Instrument Workers Industrial Union, the workers over- | rode the decision of the foremen, who are the leaders of the union, and demanded a 20 per cent in- crease. They were told that their demands would not be granted and they could walk out if they so de- sired. expose ..the .Sherwood- Williams. | expose the Sherwood-Willians gang and that it was none of their business where the Daily Worker got information. Sherwood admitted on the witness stand that he was a strikebreaker, that he was connected with Jacob Nozovitsky, the forger, and that he was also connected with the forged | documents on the Mexican Commu- | nist movement, which Sherwood | published in 1924 and circularized | among manufacturers. Williams Says He's a Lecturer Strikebreaker Williams, who came) to court twirling a cane and wearing} a toupee to hide his bald head. had} the audacity to say on the witness| stand that he was “a mechanical engineer and lecturer on political | economy.” } Just what school of political economy the strikebreaker repre- | sents was revealed on the witness) has a copy of a letter which Williams used to send out to mine owners! entitled “NOW FOR THE OPEN) SHOP.” This letter throws some) light on the school that Mr. Wil-| liams represents. At any rate Williams will no doubt) tell more about his political economy | researches when he is called to the} witness stand today at 2 p. m. in} Jefferson Market Court, 425 Sixth | Ave., where the hearing on the libel | charges will bs s@mtinued, Strike in Own Hands Broad Strike Committee and Fight for Demands of Negro Workers ST. LOUIS, Mo., April Negro and white, the majorit strike in the Fisher Be re-instatement of worke fir Are Present Tasks 95 -Three thousand workers, y young workers, came out on evrolet plant here, to force the red last year, and against the attempt of the company to force the workers to join the Em- ployees / Council, a company union. The strike meeting met the strike announcement with a mighty ovation from the 2,500 p: ent that shok the hall. The work- ers present saw clearly that the only to gain these demands Arkansas Convicts Used As Mules to Plow Under Cotton LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 27 —‘The thought of men taking the place of mules” has led Gov- ernor J. M. Futrell to take con- convicts of the Tucker Prison Farm out of the traces. Superintendent Prison Stedman had placed 36 prison- ers in front of plows, the places usually taken by mules, to plow up the earth for cotton under- plowing—destruction ordered by A. G the Federal Government weren't enough mules around. Socialists Stil] Work To Betray Camden Strikes Rank and File March to City Hall; Demand Right to Picket CAMDEN, N. J., April 25.—The three thousand New York Ship Building Company strikers are still marking time, while their commit- tee is in Washington waiting to see Roosevelt. Clinton Bardo, president of the company announced he had broken off all negotiations with union representatives because they had insisted on the closed shop. He was willing, he said, to sign an agreement with his employes as such, but not with any one union. There to go y|John Green, Socialist acting presi- dent of the Industrial Marine and Ship Workers Union, characterizes |the union’s demands not as for a closed shop, shop.” Follows 8. P. Tactics Green is very popular with the strikers. He has demonstrated his sincerity several times, by denounc- ing the pussyfooting tactics of the Socialist Party leadership, especially Thomas, Reeve, and others, calling himself a “left socialist” and lead- ing the men to refuse all arbitra- tion wage questions. Nevertheless but a “preferential | he is ready to follow Socialist tactics |in other matters, and has failed to publicly disapprove the sending of @ committee of strikers to waste time in Washington, after the strikers had several times rejected | all arbitration, and partial conces- sions made by Bardo in regard to wages. ae a CAMDEN, N. J., April 25—Dem- onstrating their dissatisfaction with the Socialist leadership, three hun- dred Campbell Soup Company strik- ers, marched in a body to City Hall Plaza and_ unanimously approved a proposal for mass pick- eting which would guard every en- trance to the plant. Earlier in the day, police had attempted to drive the pickets away from the mill, after they prevented several scabs from entering through the main gate. Led by a Negro striker and a woman, the strikers resisted. They were attacked by the police, and four were arrested. As the police tried to shove all pickets to a point a half block from the plant, one cop got an eyeful of pepper. Demand Withdrawal of Cops At the mass meeting a committee of twenty was elected to call on Mayor Stewart to demand that he withdraw all police from strike- breaking duty. He kept the com- mittee waiting for a long time, and when they finally forced him to see them, he refused to remove police from the plant. This morning three hundred pickets were “persuaded” to leave the plant. Manning, the Socialist organizer of tae Industrial Can- ners Union, leading the strike, undoubtedly had a hand in this, for | immediately after the picketing was broken up without resistance from the strikers, it was announced that Manning would represent the union at a further hearing. Down tools May Ist! Show your will for the overthrow of capital- ism, for a Soviet United States! Newark Workers Urged To Pack Conrt Today In C.C.C. “Riot” Trial NEWARK, N. J.—The four young workers who were arrested at a mass meeting here last Wednesday when C. C. C. officers started a riot in an attempt to break up the meeting, will come up for trial at 9 a. m. today at the First Precinct Court, Washington and Court Sts. Newark workers are urged to come to the trial. Down tools May 1 against fas- cism here and abroad, for the | release of Thaelmann and all im- prisoned anti-fascists! ssociation and Work® are not through the s' N. R. A. board, but throug own militant action. Ever sins February the N. R. A. board and the company have been work- ing hand in hand with the A. F, of L. officialdom to sidetrack the issue of the reinstatement of the workers laid off. Leaflets of Communist Party The Trade Union Unity League | and the Communist Party have is- sued several leaflets advising the workers to beware of any attempt to split their ranks. The policy given to the workers of mass picketing, rank and file control of strike, unity of Negro and white, have thus far been carried out to some degree However, in the present situation the misleaders in the ranks, with the help of all of the bosses’ agents, the daily press (Globe Democrat), ete., is trying to isolate the mili- tant workers and sympathizers by raising the Red Scare. Active “yel- |low” propaganda is being spread }among the ranks of the strikers, and reactionary elements are going around grabbing the Daily Worker out of the hands of the workers and | destroying it | The main danger today is the at- | tempts of J. Boswick and H. C. Nev- Man, (president and vice-president) to lead the strike in the typical | A. F. of L. bureaucratic manner. They are now attempting to reduce | the mass picket line to a handfull jof sign carriers, thus allowing the |Scabs to be brought into the plant without any resittance. Neuman, in | his statement to the press, let it be | Known that “no outside interference would be tolerated” and that the “advice of the radicals is going un- | heeded.” | In these statements he clearly | shows that the officialdom is fol- | lowing the footsteps of the ousted A. F. of L. leaders by trying to iso- late the strike, to cut off any at- tempt of the workers to win the greatest amount of support from the St. Louis workers by calling a broad conference for the purpose of organizing relief and broad finan- cial support for the strikers. This is an open attemp* to reduce the strike to a series of negotiations be- tween the leaders and the com- pany | Must Win Negro Workers The rank and file workers must | fight every attempt to narrow down the strike in this manner. They | must insist that all sympathetic or- ganizations be allowed to actively | support the strike, they must in- sist upon the support and endorse- ment of the conference being called | by the Trade Union Unity League for the purpose of establishing mass support from all workers’ organiza- tions and trade unions for the | strike. | To consolidate the strike the workers must win over the 475 Ne- gro workers who are not, members © fthe union. This can only be done by proving sincerely the de- sire for unity; by election of Negro workers on the strike committee, unity on the picket line, and rais- ing the demand of equal wages for equal work and the right of Negroes to work in any department in the plant, Not only must the strikers raise demands for the Negro workers, but | also for the women workers and | young workers who are discrimin- | ated against, being paid lower wages under the scheme of “apprentice- ship.” The example of the Cleveland | Fisher Body and Chevrolet workers in their demand for a 30 per cent increase in wages and stoppage of the terrific speed-up must become one of the central slogans of the strike. Immediate steps must be taken to spread the strike to other | cities, especially Detroit. Main Tasks | To insure victory these main | points must be constantly brought | before the strike meetings: 1, All negotiations to be in the \hands of a broad strike committee, | based on representation from each department. No settlements or agreements to be made without bringing same before ALL the workers for a vote. | 2, Immediate reinstatement ef | all workers laid off for union activi- | ties. No settlements to be made that do not guarantee protection for all strikers against discrimina- tion for strike or picket activities. . A 30 per cent increase in the | basic wage rate, Equal wages for | equal work, regardless of age, sex or color. | 4. Women workers and young workers to be put on lighter work at the same rate of pay. | 5. Negro workers to have the lright to work in all departments. All preference for white workers should be immeédiately stopped. Unity of Negro and white strikers | should be immediately established on the picket line, strike commit- tee, etc. 6. Daily meeting of the strike | committee to be held, with daily reports made at regular meetings of | the strikers. | 7. Mass picketing to be carried [on at all times—ALL scabs to be kept out of the plant. All office workers should be induced to join the s‘rike, raising their own de- mands. 8. The Conference of Workers organizations to be endorsed and | Supported as the only real means |of winning the mass support of the | St. Louis working class. 9, Sending of notification to all | other Fisher Body-Chevrolet: plants, with the purpose of spreading the | strike,