The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 12, 1934, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1934 MEMBERS OF A. F. L. STEEL UNION PREPARE STRIKE | Anti-Company Union Rank and File Passes Action Program; Oil Strike Spread Conference June 3. Defeats Tighe Machine at Convention In Chicago Dist ee | South-West Field Unity of Steel Workers : hits ol | New Shop Strikes Among Philadel, Demands, Urged | Auto Body Men |11 Out of 15 Shops Are) 85 1,200 Out; Affects | e- eerOniSE:- 5: Sets i : rict Elects Committee To) Prepare Strike, | Present Demands By JAMES EGAN MHE Amalgamated Associa- tion of Iron, Steel and Tin/ Workers convention, recently | adjourned, sounded a call for| struggle which bids to set in| motion large sections of the} Scab Call Sent Out By Aviation” School, Mineola ~~ Low Wage Seale Given Sanction By Roosevelt WICHITA FALLS, Texas. —The first major oil strike in the Southwestern area looms as 1,200. workers ra- (Special to the Daily Worker) CHICAGO. Ill, May 11.—All local of the Stecl and Metal Work- on in the Chicago-Calumet i a call for a united Company Unien Conference, to lace on Sunday June 3, at 2 in the Auditorium Hall, Grand Boulevard and Michigan Ave., In- diana Harbor, Indiana. Workers for Struck Buffalo Plant Called For steel workers throughout the! country | The accumulated grievances of the| | rank and file of the A. F. of L. union Shut With 3 Agree- ments Signed main away from their jobs until their demands are granted. Already, a considerable térritory in Oklahoma and Kansas is affected by the strike, which is gradually 7 Yl | held back for years by the reaction- , _ tee i BN RGR ee igi ied The call for the conference is ad-| NEW YORK.—A call for scabs to| nap Eas ces fs = PHILADELPHIA. Pa.. May 11—) Spreading. The bulk of the striking dressed to all members of the Amal-| work in the striking Curtis Aero-| ak one Lave BE Alcs Sa Steel strikers picketing in Greensburgh, Va., in ths walkout which occurred there several months ago. | woricers of the Keysione Wagon| Workers are empioyed by the Skelly gamated Association of Iron, Steet (oer OS ee . Works, never before organized and| and Sinclair-Prairie companies, and Tn Workers (A. F. of L.) and| lane and Motor Co., Buffalo, has | bership recently recruited, success- e “ :: ee r |not part of those approached to join| Prospects are excellent at this other A. F. of L. unions, to all un-|b¢en sent to all graduates of the | fully pushed ee whe beer a _ action despite the fact that the op-, tion; all trade agreements to run ;your strike. You must approach| the strike of the Commercial Auto| Writing that the employees of the organized stecl and metal workers,| Roosevelt Aviation School, Mineola,|by their officials and succeeded in} Hocition had defeated Tighe in his| simultaneously; for recognition of | the veterans’ organizations and in-| Body Werkers U: decided to| Powerful Continental company will to all members of independent unions. and all members of the 8. M. Ww... N. Y¥., by the school. The “announcement of openings” | |forcing through the convention a program of demands calling for of- fensive action. It hurls into the efforts to put through rules of order which would deny from con- sideration of the convention any | the union and recognition of all | terest them in your struggle and) walk out Friday and join the strike.| join their fellow-workers of the mill committees to adjust griev- ances; abolition of differential s' 8 icit their aid and support on your! There are now 75 per cent of the| Other companies. of the strike when the strike|/aute workers in this oity out on| The business men of Seminole, Six Demands does not state that the plant is on/teeth of the steel corporation the! resolutions which were not pre-| between North and South; equal | occurs. atrike: es sit 6-2 re | Oklahoma, center of the strike, are A fie“t fer six demands isthe pur-| Strike. It gives directions for get- enaeinane tae caer Ty sented before the convening of the| rights for Negro workers. | Fight For United Front eens pA EE SU oie | arptaling to the police to force the peze of the anti-compeny union| ting to Mineola at a cost of $1.85) ¢° Tune ee ’ |convention, in time for printing in| Other resolutions adopted called) You must fight untiringly for! “qye picket-lines are continuing| €XDloited workers back to their jobs. éonfersnce. for:— round trip. Many workers, not qth i. course of the conven-| the official program of business of! for the reduction in the per-capita | united front with all the unions in| wititantly and support from the| One grocer inserted an advertise- ..1, Immediate 25 per cent increase knowing that this is a call for scabs,| +15. president Mike Ti he “shorty” | ‘He convention. They amended this) tax to $2 per quarter with the) the steel Re istry. The Steel and) sympathetic workers of the city has| Ment assailing the workers for de- wees to mect the rising cost of | Will be forced to pay the whole|;_ 7° ap pee ape V'|rule, so that every resolution pre-| amount of dues for each lodge left; Metal Workers Industrial Union | cupplied relief for the strikers and|™anding better wages and indus- Against all forms of company- the right to organize emount on a useless trip. The announcement states that a factory representative will be at the Leonard, and the whole Tighe ma- chine utilized every strategy and maneuver that they have learned in their long years of betrayal in order sented by any delegate from the floor would be considered by the convention on condition that the resolutions were presented the first|/on record for one industrial union) 2Ppe2l, however, Mike Tighe re- to the discretion of the lodges. In-| surance to be optional with the} membership, The convention went has issued to your convention an appeal for a united front in the coming action with the A. A. This) their families, The demands of the strikers are union recognition, minimum = uni- trial conditions. The workers pick- eted the place in retaliation, and the police force was mobilized to drive the men from the store. The and re ition of | appropriately-named Roosevelt Field | to stem the tide the opposition, but| three days of the convention, f ; 3 fused to read to the delegates as| form wage scale, tented ers c itteas, * Aa rn Si ys + |for the entire steel industry. The) fused to rm Hath gates . junc. | Workers of Seminole, however, are iar A ce of production |the positions. Railroad fares from| Tienes brousht forward such per-|he was unable to, Even in the face| Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R.| Sions when the 8. M. W. ae hal ayatesite: bas bean coum udine classes | Of the intimidation which is being ee The ry hs re) ee steed Bes Pee rh ra ma id be ta | sone! as Senator Jim Davis|! this amendment, he was brazen | 7598). made appeals for united action of lane See eta pda exercised upon them. on the job to scide v e New York to u ‘alo wou » pa ie ie ; ain yp) “ Pines S| cnough to rule out several very good * * * | both organi tions. | in self-defense regularly. ee k. militancy Diverted oration of| by the company, it was announced, | (of recent lottery fame) and intro-) ciitions, One calling for revising| "THE victory of the opposition del-| | One of the main necessities for | érs feel confident that they can 3 lar to 1929 working con-| ; 1 day, 5 day week with- out reduction in pay. 5. No discrimination against the right of Negro workers to hold any job. No discrimination in hiring Negroes. Equal pay for equal work. 6, Against lay 's, and for relief to the unemployed at the expense of the companies and government. For unemployment-insurance as em- bodied in the Workers Bill—H. R. 7598, now pending in Congress. The call for the conference points out that under the N. R. A., the steel companies have reaped huge profits. The New Deal, how- ever, while promising jobs, higher wages and the right to organize, instead brought the workers mass layoffs, and speed up. The small pay increases have been taken away by the increased living costs. The company, union has been encour- aged by. the New. Deal. The call continues, “We can de- The Curtis plant announced to the press that it would try to break the strike and open its plants with | ceabs on Friday. The plant aa been shut since March 27, together with the Consolidated Plant in Buf- | j falo, with over 2,000 employees of | | both Plants conducting militant} | Picket lines to enforce their de-| |mands for unton recognition and} jhigher wages. The strike continues | |effective. All aviation mechanics | and other workers are urged to stay away from the Buffalo shops and these scab-collecting agencies. | Forgery Indictment Asked Against Head | Of Electrical Union. NEW YORK (F.P.)—Charged with | the illegal use of hundreds of thou- sands of dollars of their members’ | money, two officials of Local 3, In- ternational Brotherhood of Flec- duced him to the convention as! “Puddler Jim,” the boy from the| steel mills who rose to a cabinet position of Secretary of Labor under Hoover, this “friend of labor” who was commander-in-chief of Heo- | ver’s wage-cutting, starvation pro-| gram and the stagger system, the man whom Green called to the | Vancouver Convention of the A. F. of L. to defeat unemployment in-| surance, | The delegates had his number and refused to let him speak in the| it convention and openly proved on| |for “Puddler Jim” was to call an open session to which the public was invited and to which the del- egates were conspicious by absence. No Strike Davis Davis pleaded the cause of the steel trust and counseled against any strike action, telling how he abhorred all strikes. Davis also abhors the fight for the floor that Davis was assisting the company unions. The only way| | Tighe could finally get the floor of the constitution along industrial and picket. * . ‘iw opposition succeeded, only on the last day of the convention in bringing before the conventioy its program which it worked over in committee. Here Tighe tried again to rule this program for of- fensive action out of order, saying had been covered by previous action. The delegates in a very stormy scene threatened to bolt the convention and began to collect together their papers and material, | & egates at the convention is very| unionism, trade union democracy,| important and all credit is due to |and the unrestricted right to strike| those honest delegates who carried | through the wishes of a militant | rank-and-file. They fought there to) put through a program in the in-| erest of the steel workers. How- ver, it must be pointed out that) had the opposition delegates cor- rectly organized their forces) and had met in caucus and estab-) | lished for themselves a clear line for | |a clear program early in the con-| vention, they would have been able} to accomplish even much more than) | what they did. | The delegates failed to understand | |ready to walk out. A delegate from|the true nature and character of| | Weirton took the floor and told/the Wagner-Connery Disputes Act,| | Tighe that unless he allows this) when they went on record as in their Program to come before the con-|favor of this act, they permitted vention, this means the end of the Amalgamated. “The workers in my town are ready to go into the Com- themselves to be tricked into a posi jtion where they jeopardized the | whole fighting program which they munist union unless this program) adopted, for this bill is meant to |is adopted by this convention.”| illegalize any strike. | Tighe finally was forced to concede, ‘This must he overcome now by to the pressure of the delegates and a campaign throughout the steel the success of the coming strike | is the unity ef all the steel work- | evs. Mike Tighe and the inter- national officials are opposed to | this unity, and in this very oppo- ion to nnity they are proving | to the workers that they do not want the workers to win their strike. Every local union, every lodge, must take up this united front appeal of the 5. M. W. I. U. and carry it into life over the heads of Mike Tighe and his machine. The rank and file must see to it that if a conference takes place in | Washington on the proposed strike) action with the National Labor) Board or any cther government of-; |ficials or agency, that such con- ferences will be attended by mass} delegations of steel workers from all} over the country, and that no agreements should be signed until} |they receive ratification from the rank and file members of the union and the workers on strike, we ae oe Megardiess of who he is, handle themselves in court in case of need. immediately eliminated, Another weakness in the con- vention has been that at the con- vention there was not one Negro delegate out of the 128 delegates present. This shortcoming in not bringing Negroes into the leader- ship of the unien must be imme- diately overcome and Negro work- ers must be brought into leading positions on the strike. committe> and the demands of the Nogro workers worked out more care- fully and in detail. We musi not depend on the gen- eral strike slogan to bring about this strike, but we must prepare now and develop local struggles in every mill and every factory where, the workers are organized, develop- ing now strike struggles, broadening these strike struggles into a broader and broader action. Concentrating must be} | The ofl producers, through the Planning and Co-ordination Com- mittee of the industry, have estab- lished a wage adjustment which gives the workers less money than jat any other time in history. This adjustment received the sanction and the signature of President Roosevelt. All members of the regional committees, appointed to administer the industry, are repre- sentatives of the producers. Two former college professors, in theory, look after the interests of the work- ers; but these whom they profess to represent. are distrustful of these two men who would be unable to swing a hammer. Unfortunately, the militant spirit |of these workers is diverted into harmless channels by the high- salaried officials of their union. The gentleman appointed by the union president, Harvey C. Fremming. to represent the union in pending negotiations in none other than Tulsa, Oklahoma. Williams is an feat the company scab unions, we | trical Workers, big New York union, | nemplovn hit e ef-| the resolution calling for all new) industry, convincing the steel EB members of the Amalgamated) especially on the large plants in| admitted traitor, having been sub- can improve our conditions and | have been before the grand jury un-| rie’ of ee Coeur are lodges to ask for recognition at the) workers as to the true nature of and all steel workers must un-/ the various districts and in the key! sidized by the mercantile interests, wages, we can wipe out of existence | “er @ subpoena calling for the union) wages, shorter hours, against the S#me time—-on May 21st—that of-) this bill and all forms of cam- rstand that Mike Tighe and the! departments in these plants espe-| of Tulsa. to perfect a fake organiza- the comeany controlled unions. The workers of other industries by the thousands are organizing and fight- ing back. We, too, can succeed. Act Now. Organize. The answer and solution is the unity of all work- ers.” , The call exposes the role of Tighe, President of the A. A. and other A. F. of L. officials as misleaders of the workers. The call concludes: “The company ‘unions’ have been established by the companies to prevent us joining our own militant class struggle unions. The company unions stifle action and stand in the way of us getting better wages and conditions. The company unions must be destroyed! We call upon workers in the company unions and all unorganized to join the only In- dustrial union in the steel industry that is controlled by steel workers. The Steel & Metal Workers Indus- trial Union organizes ALL workers in the shop, mill and industry into ONE UNION, irrespective of craft, color or nationality. The 8. & M. W. I. U. organizes one local for every shop, with rank and file con- trol of the union. The 8. & M. W. I. U. fights against racketeers and gangsters in the ranks of unions. The S. & M. W. I. U. is based on a Program of struggle against employers. It stands on the prin- ple of United Front with all —organized and wunorgan- rrespective of their union affi- ation. We urge all workers, in every mill, in every shop, in every department | to get together NOW. Call together immediately the best workers in your department or shop, the ones whom you can trust. and elect dele- to the June Srd Anti-Company Union Conference. Set 1 organi- zation committees in your chop and department and communicate with the Steel & Metal Workers Indus- trial Union nearest to your com- munity. Do not be intimidated by the scare that the company and its stool pigeons will raise. Delegates should be elected from all lodges and locals in the Amalgamated Association and other A. F. of L. unions; in the independent unions and the Steel & Metal Workers In- dustrial Union. Each organization is entitled to one delegate for every 25 members or major fraction there- of. All shop and department group representatives will be seated at the conference regardless of the num- ber they represent.” Leesburg Local, 1 U.F.L. Endorses Farmers’ Bill; Plans Its Circulation LEESBURG, Ind—The Farmers’ Emergency Bill, submitted for sup- | vort of farm the; records. Attorney Dzik, representing the Anti-Racketeering Committee, rep- |Tesenting rank and file members of many New York unions, announced that he would ask the indictment | of Jacob Solomon, former secretary | |of the union, on the charge of de-| | stroying the books of the organiza- tion covering transactions during! | four to six years, | AID VICTIMS OF GERMAN FAS-| CISM IN CHICAGO, MAY 19TH | CHICAGO, Ill, — The Chicago Women’s Committee to Aid the) Children Victims of German Fas-| | cism, is giving a May Festival on| Saturday May 19th, 8:00 P. M. at) | the Medical and Dental Arts Club,| | 185 N. Wabash Ave. 22nd. Fl. | The funds will go directly to the | Maison Lafitte Orphanage in Paris where several hundred children, | whose parents have been killed or placed in concentration camps are | being taken care of. inhuman speed-up. But he does not abhor the wage cuts, the lay- the starvation, the misery and radation inflicted upon the Amer- ican workers, while he wes Sec- retary of Labor, and he does not abhor the jailing and deportation of militant workers, many of them steel workers, while he was Sec- under his instructions. "recognized by the emplove: | passed, Tighe declared he washes} retary of Labor, and carried out|/his hands of the whole business.’ |He would have nothing to do with! fensive action be taken in the middle of June if demands are not Delegates Force Action Resolution The delegates then forced through @ resolution calling for the setting up of a committee in charge of offensive action. When this was Tighe and his henchmen sensed| the setting up of such a committec. that Davis did not halt the advance| The delegates met by districts and of the opposition and became des: elected one from each district, 10 perate in his attempts to get con-|in all, as the committee in charge {trol of the convention, which he|°f offensive action, this committee characterized as the worst conven-|t0 0 back into the districts, call tion the Amalgamated ever held,| district conferences, elect a broad) (No doubt the steel corporations| “istrict leadership to carry through also agree with this characterization| the offensive action and to have the of the convention.) He then brought | forth Mrs, Pinchot to influence and “calm” the delegates, but she was equally unsuccessful with Davis. “You're Out of Order” Tighe then sought to arbitrarily rule out of order the opposition pro- gram of demands and program of lodges elect broad strike committees and to prepare for strike, The following additional resolu- tions were adopted by the con- vention: The six hour day, five day week; $1 per hour minimum wage for common labor. other trades to be increased in proper- Pulsory arbitration now being propagated by the employers and government in Washington. | | The rank and file members of the Amalgamated in the lodges /must immediately take up the work of carrying the program of offensive action adopted by the convention into life. They should immediately begin the hoiding of mass meetings at all factory gates | with the unemployed workers. | vention has passed the Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill—every local lodge must pass this bill, but it must do more than this to weld the unity of the unemployed workers with the employed workers in this coming action, A. A. members, you must co-| operate with the unemployed or- ganizations in their fight for more relief, for the fight for union rates of pay and union conditions on all relief jobs, in this way rallying the unemployed workers in support of and work for a closer relationship | Although the international officials international officials are opposed | to the program of offensive action | adopted by the convention and will do everything in their power to; [hinder its going into effect, and| | will bring forward a whole series of | Jim Davises’ Mrs. Pinchots, ete., ete.,| in order to check. the growing sup-/ port of this strike movement. You! |must insist that this strike be in) the hands of the rank and_ file. are opposed to this strike action,| | not check it, do everything in their} | power to get in the leadership of it) in order that they may be in a bet- ter position to betray it. You must begin now in every lodge ‘to set up your own rank and file | strike committees and in aech plant the immediate election of united front commitiees, composed of all the workers in the mill, regardless! of what union they are affiliated to,; organized or unorganized, and be prepared to guard zealously this strike. Any leader who weakens cially. We must point out the danger here that in the demand for the recognition of the union, while it is an important demand, the economic demands of the strike are of great importance, because the danger here lies that the leadership of the A. F. of L, will bring forward the demand for the recognition of the union and relegate into the back- ground the economic demands of the strike, as they did in the last the auto strike in Detroit, and worked themselves into a position where they can betray the whole Strike, Steel workers prepare for action! The success of this strike depends on you! Forward to the united front of all the steel workers! The Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union will fight shoulder to shoulder with you in these struggles. Let nothing stand in the way of our Unity! N.R.A. Board Minutes Show Plot to Eliminate Militant Leaders By H. M. WICKS PHILADELPHIA. — The} ‘Socialist Party leaders who! |are members of the Regional} Labor Board were the chief | organizers and leaders of the | fierce drive launched to break | | the knitgoods workers’ strike. | This is proved by unimpeachable doc- | umentary evidence in my possession —the official minutes of the meet- ing of that board held on April 27, 1934. The yellow Socialist leader who was entrusted with the job of using the combined power of that governmental body, the official | leadership of the A. F. of L., and the Socialist Party, to break the strike, was Mr. Charles Weinstein, general manager of the Amal- | gamated Clothing Workers. | Here Is the Evidence | On page four of the official | minutes of the April 27th session of the Regional Labor Board, a meet- ing under the chairmanship of Dr. Billikopf, the president, we read where Weinstein boasted of his strikebreaking role, declaring that | “labor” by supporting the rank and | file strike of the knitgoods workers | “should be able” to defect the| but preferred delid- ® Socialist Leaders, With Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, affiliated with the T. U. U. L— HMW). The chairman of their strike committee believes that they can hold this group in the U. T. W. and climinate Mr. I. H. Feingold as their leader with the Communistic element who follow him. The matter was left with Mr. Weinstein to continue his at- tempts at mediation. Some of the union members of the board reported that the other unions had not cooperated up to that time with the strikers. Labor has taken the part of the board and given the strike no support. If they do, able to defeat Mr. Cohen (head of the bosses’ association) and the knitgoods manufacturers. How- ever, labor has its problems, and the leadership of this strike is one of them. It was recommended that the board use its best ef- forts to have Mr. Cohen and Mr. Weinstein in fer further con- ference. Mr. Rosenwald under- took to arrange a conference be- tween Mr. Cohen and Mr. Wein- stein for Monday, April 30th in the office of this board.” Such was the action of the Socialist leaders at a time when Abe Cahan’s slimy sheet, “The Jewish Daily Forward” was carry- ing articles traducing the Commu- nists for “losing the knitgoods strike.” As usual these agents of the bosses maintained a fine division of lebor—some of them engzg-d in| strikebreaking at the actual scene unien labor should be | | N. R. A, Broke with Weinstein during the course of the strike to betray the workers into the hands of the bosses and the officials of the United Tex- tile Workers, This same Alberts, who assailed the leadership of I. H. Feingold during the strike, is now on the payroll of the Prudential mill and is trying to swing the former strikers into the Interna- NATIONAL LABOR BOARD WARHINGTON, 0.c. a | AIT OTES OF MRRTING OF DORPD GAEL SOUP COMPARY Mr. Cha Washi ae sday and tie je: Hationci Laber Buand to ottemot ty back. ‘ar. Wetnetetr reported that he hoc s that they o-n hole is L.l.Feingold as their le dev The mettr< das left «1 cont.aue “Ls atteupts at mecaticn. the Sart reported that the other uat saa Hp le to cefeat Mr. Cohen and tae Knit tis: time with the strikers. ae th) strike no suport. an be al lowe: ts on then. efforts to have fort has tts vroblens, 2: Welustetn for Yo. APELL 7th, Lesa pell reported that the omifeveice “hu be-o eld in Ea en neies i been 1t was recommendes Mir. Cohen onc ¥. Wet encalé undertook te urs Meee t1- SSS ab out by the Nevdties and —_ eure Bt t ¢ @ vorkers ir- ond to sf otliate strike coa- cose eke 3) ite Le commnistic einstein to @ Union sesbders of 3s" not cooperated uy to tcken the part of the anid ney 0, Union labor should coeds ac the tue stein tn ge 9 conf: ay Avril oth 1 wrner “tated that he and kr. Jars debevitt sc been acting as replaced + o bout WO on tise seri ets on, ALLL tithe teat group. The teruce tary between Mir. Roti uni Mr. Kitson. Tee vompany i nes peo le. Tt see: has : ~ 300 m ta? Strikers those vests of the Comny ts bristly Union. Workers who were on strike under Feingold’s leadership can now understand why Alberts was at first hesitant about supporting the lead- ers and eventually came out against |the leadrship. It was part of his stool-pigeon job for the bosses and the N. R. A. A. F. of L. Strikebreakers But the fact that damns the whole | leadership of the reactionary unions lis the statement that if they had supported the strike it “should” have been won. Thus these _min- \utes of the Regional Labor Board are a confession of the fact that the labor fakers would rather see the strike broken and the workers driven back under slave conditions than see the strikers victorious under rank and file leadership. Out of their own mouths it proves these “labor representatives” on the Re- gional Labor Board and the offi- cials of the A. F. of L., the Amal- gamated and other old line unions dedicate their activities to one thing—splitting the ranks of lebor in order to tie the working class to the strikebreaking policies of the government. Why the “Red” Scare? From the beginning of the knit- goods strike the bosses and their agents raised the cry of “reds in control,” and tried to split the ranks on that scare. Even though under the leadership of an American Fed- eration of Labor loce] union, affli- ated with the United Textile Work- Knitgoods Strike : | | tional Ladies Garment workers) Documentary Proof of: Weinstein’s Role As Strikebreaker attempt to drive out Feingold, hop- ing thereby to eliminate the best fighter for united action and rank and file control. Then it would be an easy matter for McMahon & Co. to step in with thoir customary strikebreaking tactics. The reason the “red scare” is always raised in such strikes is because every agent of the bosses in the ranks of labor, every so- cial-fascist, knows from experience that the great unifying force in the labor movement is the Com- munist Party. Hence every worker who wages a militant fight against the splitters and for unity is “ex- posed” by the fakers as a Commu- nist. And all these agents of the bosses know full well that as long as Communist influence exists ond grows in the ranks of labor tacy can never succeed in their dis- ruptive tacties without a fight. But in spite of the temporary de- feat of the knitgoods workers by the combination of government, bosses, labor “leaders” and their Ioathesome stool-pigeons, combined with the fiercest assaults upon the pickets by the local police and bosses’ thugs, the battle is not ended. In the mills where the work- ers have returned there is bting car- ried out the systematic victimiza- tion i active strikers, the speed-up | | tion of the unemployed in that city. |The readers of this publication will rece]l John I. Spivak’s recent ex- | posure of Williams. | Union Leaders Oppose Strike. President Fremming _ recently wrote to Roosevelt in this fashion: | “We have tried through the appli- | cation of persuasion, the use of | reason and logic to keep the men in | the field, pipe lines, and refinery | operations content and at their | Fremming admitted that the posi- | tion of the union heads had become | indefensible with the rank and file. In the same tenor as Fremming’s | Whining complaint comes the state- |ment made by union leader R. H. | Stickel to the United Press: “We are doing all that we can to keep the men working, but there is no Jaw to keep a man from striking if he wants to.” The striking workers will not win their struggle under a leadership which is plainly unsympathetic to any form of mass action. Un- doubtedly, Williams will perfect a sell-out agreement with the pro- ducers, giving assent to the existence | of the union but denying its right to strike. The professors will prob- ably be replaced with men of Will- |iams calibre, and the question of inereased wages postponed indefi- nitely. Opposition Growing. A rank and file opposition group is growing in the International Association of Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers. The first issue of the official organ was forced to recognize this fact in an editorial warning the members against the Communists. The oppo- sition is particuiarly strong in the West Texas locals. Many of the members, unfamiliar with the pro- gram of the Communist Party, are beginning to ask questions regard- ing the conduct of the union. These militant workers feel keenly the insult of having Williams to represent them. Another sore spot with them is that, at the moment of crisis, President Fremming is taking a vacation cruise while they are starving in miserable shacks. These workers are liable to take the strike away from the official leaders if those leaders don’t get busy. is this disgust of the former strik- ers with the U.T.W. leadership that prompts the bosses and their agents to use the stocl-pigeon, Alberts, to try to swing the knitgoods workers under the leadership of the strike- breaking leaders of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers Union. This exposure of the activities of the Regione! Labor Board and their teol, Alberts, will make such the notorious Wildcat Williams, of | ; | 5g t] { Tt is not enough that the con-| they will, when they see they can| miners’ strike, and as they did ST cachet ane mt — e the and le, while others used the ert, the strike hod a broad leader- | is terrific, wages ate boing cui. The, @ move impcssible. by the Leach press to try to stifl + There ore ee |ship elected democratically by the | workers just bevinning to real-| In most of the mills the workers of the United Tormers’ Lecqus the strike by other sogilneky |rank and file. Feingold was the isa the enormity ef ‘he exis cort-| are actively inaugurating rank and Th local is Is joutstending leader and, from the miticd agcinst them by such peo-/ file committees to fight against dis- a for the wide circulation of this bill| among the fermers. They also voted | to bring pressure to bear upon their | “Mr, Wei reported that he had heard that these workers in- toci-Pigeon for N. R. A. Another disclosure of the minutes of the Regional Labor Board queted! The Ceopeny will not cack th the Onion officers. ifirst day, the agents of the N.R.A.) Regional Labor Board and the ofi- cials of the Philadelphia Central ney, district presia ‘Textile Workers Union. nt of the United ple 2s McMahon, and his man, He- | They are | crimination, blackiisting, speed-up end hunger wages, and it is certain that these mill struggles, taken to- Congressmen. The members are co-| tended to withdraw from the above is the despicable part played Trades Council and other local) disgusted with McMahon, Haney gether, will soon lead to a resump- ordinating their plan for the popu-| United Textile Workers and to by the chairmen of the. strike | Photestatic copy of Minutes of Phila... Regional Tabor Board |i,nor takers endeavored ta enlist and thoit associates, who, dur-|tion of the strike struggle, under jarizing of the bill with a campaign) affiliate with the Needte Workers’ |commites, E4, Albovis, who is now| (N-R-A.) proving that Socialist leader Weinstein maneuvered with |ine support of the weakling and | ing the course of the strike, scorned | militant leadership, that must re- to build up the organization. ; ? 4 { Union (he refers to the Needle ,exorsed as haying been plotting, Labor Board, of which he is member, to break knitgoods’ strike. ) { careerist, Alberts, in an organized repeated pleas for financial aid. It sult in victory.