The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1934, Page 3

1 <Homemennearaai ak. wo PEN Cag en cS RD ACORN OSORNO NIST RES ETON DG arenes: DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESD. MAY 15, 1934 Page Three Chicago Street Car | Men Demand More | Pay, 8-Hour Day Discontent Forees Union Leaders to Act; N Demands On Pensions or Graft Are Made By M. NELSON (Street Car Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, May 14.—The brewing discontent among the Chicago street car men coupled with the articles in the Daily Worker exposing the past and present sins of the so- called union leaders compelled these gentlemen to do some- thing in order to save their position, These fellows have worked hand in hand with*;--— the company, but they are) Insull’s Untarnished forced to make some gestures now to quiet the rank and file. Present Demands At the meeting of the union | on Monady, May 7th, the officers | told the men that the following de- | mands were presented by them to the company: 1) 80 cenis per hour, 95 cents | for one-man car operators. 2) Return of the eight hour day. No mention of the pension was) made, about which the union offi-| cials made such a ballyhoo when they helped Sam Insull put over the notorious consolidation ordinance, According to the statements of Quinlan, union president of Division 241, he received an answer from the president of the Chicago Surface Lines, Richardson, that these de- | mands were “impossible.” Company’s Big Profits If, as Richardson, who is a bright | graduate of the Bufalo-Philadelphia | scab school of traction management, claims, the C. S. L. received 4.76 per cent on their investment in 1933, and the business of the company | has increased 12 per cent with more increase expected during the World’s Fair, such demands are not impos- sible—they are too modest. ‘The demand for the eight hour day, increasing the basic day 30 minutes, which means a decrease in runs and more men put back on the extra list, is absolutely vicious. Workers’ Demands We must demand that the 74 hour day remain, but that overtime at one and a half regular pay begin after 714 instead of 814 hours work Noe compromise must be made on the rates of pay. Eighty and ninety- five cents must be our slogan. A third demand must be added—a pension after 20 years of work and | Soul Still Shines, Gets $77 to Fight Evil ALTURAS, Cal, May 14. Samuel Insull, the saint, Friday received the commiseration of the citizens of this town and $77 was credited to him, toward his bail of $200,000, as a result of voluntary contributions. The money was accompanied by the following certificate: “Any country which allows an arch criminal of the type of John Dillinger to remajn free with the blood of a dozen peace officers on his hands and persecutes a phi- of the type of Samuel Insull haywire in its human- ity.’ Brooklyn Workers Act on Milk Price Plan Conference of Workers’ Groups BROOKLYN, N. Y.—For the past two months the Boro Park Com- mittee Against the High Cost of Living has been carrying on an ac- tive campaign to force the Borden and Sheffield milk companies to reduce the price of milk three cents a quart. The action committee, elected at a conference of Boro Park workers’ organizations, has issued petitions addressed to the Borden and Sheffield companies stating that the workers in Boro |Partk cannot afford to buy the necessary amount of milk to pre- vent them and their children from becoming under-nourished. The 56 years of age, to be paid by the petitions demand a three-cent re- company. duction per quart of milk, and state No more graft on uniforms: We that the necessary steps will be are tired of indirectly paying $50,000 ‘taken to force this reduction. a year to Superintendent Evenson. | This figure was given to us by one | of the authorized dealers! Let the | Chicago Surface Lines furnish us with free uniforms. To watch the union officers in their d®alings with the company, let us elect a rank and file strike com- mittee in every depot. Too many times they have betrayed us in the past. Let us be ready to strike’ to en- force our demands. Our Omaha brothers were out four days and won an increase of 16 cents an hour. Re- member that! Be ready and watch- ful! Furniture Workers Arrested in Jersey JERSEY CITY. — Max Dreiger and Abe Rothbaum, two members of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union, were arrested just because a furniture manufacturer did not want them to come to Jersey City. These two workers worked in the Junius Parlor Frame Co. in Brook- lyn, a union shop where the bosses threw out the workers and moved their place to Jersey City in order to get away from the union and union conditions. Subscribe to the Daily Worker. One month daily or six months wt the Saturday edition for 75 vents. Send your subscription to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. | | The action committee, which meets every Wednesday at 4109 13th Ave., Brooklyn, has made plans to cover the entire Boro Park with petitions; is trying to involve all workers’ organizations in Boro Park in the campaign, and is planning to popularize the campaign by a series of open-air meetings. Demand Milk for School Children PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—In an open letter circulated here today, work- ers’ groups which had investigated the statements of the Board of Edu- cation that free milk and crackers were being distributed to under- nourished children in the public schools, showed that only one- twentieth of a quart a day was made available to starving children, and this was paid not by the school funds, but by contributions of un- derpaid nurses and teachers. A committee from I. W, O. School 5 visited the Ludlow Primary School, and, using the figures of the Medical Inspection, reports that only eight per cent of the children are under-nourished, based the fig— ures of the workers’ report. The committee demanded that milk be supplied by the sehool board, sup- porting the demand of the Federa- tion of Teachers Local 192, that farmers shall be paid at least five cents a quart on the farm for milk, and that the exorbitant price of 16 cents charged children in school cafeterias be immediately cut to eight cents a quart, — CHICAGO — FOURTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION of the INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER Sunday, May 20th, at 7 P. M. ‘ Ashland Boulevard Auditorium Corner Ashland Ave. and Van Buren JOSEPH BRODSKY, Main Speaker Colorful Program Admission 30¢ in Advance Dancin Follows 35¢ at Door EARL BROWDER says about CAPITAL IN PICTURES “, .. Here is a book of first importance that cannot be . It 1s a smashingly powerful political overlooked . . document.” Combination Offer GELLERT’S “CAPITAL” IN PICTURES ...$3,00 A YEAR’S SUB TO THE “DAILY” ...... 6.00 TOTAL.. + $9.00 Our Price for Both, Only .. . .$7.00 | SIX MONTH SUB AND THE BOOK, ONLY . : $4.50 For Manhattan and Bronx, New York City, the Price for a Year's Sub and the Book Is $10.00. Six Month Sub and Book, $6.00. Subscribe Today DAILY WORKER, 50 E, 18th St., New York, N, Y. Labor Rouses the Waterfront VY — THE CENTRALIZED SHIPPING BUREAU IN OPERATION By MARGUERITE YOUNG | | THE Centralized Shipping Bureau j . Changed things. The moment it was explained. the seamen gravitated toward it Tt shipped | 85 men during its first week. It) | has shipped nearly 1,000 since then. | Seamen registered in it meet regu- | | larly, adopt or change rules, thresh | out putty grievances, United front | from below in a struggle for im- mediate needs, that in itself brings forward the fact that the revolu- tionary program is the worker's only way out has been carried through in the Centralized Ship- ving Bureau with inspiring skill. |It met attacks from the outset— |but the nature and source of the | attacks served to rally the workers |more solidly beyond it and to in- crease its strength against attacks. It has exposed once more the gor- dian knot in which are tied the employer, the government, and the leaders of both the “safe” non- revolutionary labor union and the once-super-revolutionary organiza- | tion. First to oppose it openly was | mighty Standard Oil, the stagger- | plan giant of industry, then came the Sea Service of the Shipping Board. and in rapid succession the | I, 8. U. and the I. W. W. They| tried everything from the boycott to the stool-pigeon to direct action. Two weeks after the Bureau was| set up, in the recreation hall of | the Seamen’s Relief Project, the | seamen were notified they would haye to move it because the Ship- ping Board opposed its location on a@ government project. They moved it into the M. W. I. U. hall, and its support grew. Standard Oil and many others refused to hire through the Bureau; only three lines, Calmar, Oriole and Bethlehem Steel’s Ore Line, ship all their forces through the seamen’'s pro- ject. But because the seomen in turn unitedly refused to ship through the shipping sharks, the latter were forced to come to the Bureau to get men for the com-| panies which were “boycotting” the bureau, for at least 80 per cent of their men. For example, the Ship- ping Board adamantly refuses to ship through the Centralized Ship- pine Bureau—but it telephones the Y. M. C. A. Anchorage, which in turn calls upon the Bureau for sea- men. Try to Smash Bureau Standard Oil, however, was will- ing to spend unlimited amounts to | break the Bureau. When “Standard | Pete,” its agent, couldn't draw a seaman into his restaurant-bar- lodging house next to the gospel mission beyond the market, Standard imported crews from New | York to ship from Baltimore. It | shipped them by bus to Baltimore. | Sometimes it failed because when seamen thus recruited happened to pass the Bureau and discover what was behind it. they would turn back. The company resorted to shipping crews from New York to an island 90 miles from Baltimore, | and sailing from there. In this connection the Shipping | Bureau made its one scrious mis- | take—one already corrected, how- ever, The Standard Oil's tactic co) roused them that they allowed them-_ selves to direct their fight against workers instead of solely against the company—that is, they applied | the name “Scab” to anyone who shipped through “Standard Pete.” | Recently, however, they correctly | decided to work instead toward drawing those who ship on Standard | boats into the struggle. to force recognition of the Centralized Ship- | ping Board Bureau through win- ning Standard crews to support it. | The shipowners went direct to Washington relief officials with de- mands that worker control of relief be abolished in order to smash the | Centralized Shipping Bureau. This much I am informed not only by the seamen, but by a government source. Delegations arrived in person — Munson line representa- tives, the mercantile section of the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce, and others. Next, the Seamen’s Church Institute and the Y. M. C. A., and then officials of the I. 8. U. —all frankly declaring that the “worst” feature of the seamen’s movement was the Centralized Shipping Bureau! Ra & Rank and File Support THE I. S. U. used another method also—the circulation of false charges, It reported that the Cen- tralized Shipping Bureau “dis- criminated” against its members. As soon as the seamen heard this, they sent a committee of six to see Johnny Bey, secretary of the I. gs, U, local. The officials of this union —considered so harmless by the shipowners that the same Standard Oil that spent a little fortune op- posing the Centralized Shipping Bureau provides the I. S. U. dele- gates with special passes to board its vessels — had continued to be “runner” for Standard and anyone else that would accept its services to weaken the seamen's agency. When the Committee asked Bey whether he wasn’t shipping, he re- plied, “Yes. Will you fellows give I. S. U. members the same chance as M. W. I. U. members get?” The Committee gasped collectively, POOLE LOGO GET READY FOR A GOOD TIME DAILY WORKER DAY and MOONLIGHT EXCURSION e SATURDAY, JUNE 97H e 3 UNEMPLOYED, stane Workers Go Out In Defiance of A.F.of L. Leaders, NRA Boards Rank and File Muet Take Strikes in Own Hands | (Continued from Page 1) pulsory arbitration, have been | paralleled by Labor Board strike- | breaking decisions in scores of | strikes, This lesson is not lost on the workers. The growing strike wave is now directed agsinst these strikebrea | ing decisio: f the N. R. A., fu | bearing out the resolution of the | Central Committee of the Commu- nist Party, printed in the Daily | Worker as early as Jan, 23, 1934,| which stated: “The masses are be-| and Defeat Betrayals and Fascist Attacks Through Fighting United Front of the Labor Board and the A. F. {of L. (U.T.W.) officials. The glove workers remained on strike, in op- position to orders to return to work issued by their own officials and by the Labor Board. The Alabama coal miners remained out, in oppo- sition to a wage scale decreed by Roosevelt. The Alabama ore miners ,| are striking directly against wage decisions of the Labor Board. The longshoremen struck over the head of J. Ryan, the A. F. of L. leader in the longshoremen’s union, and against wage scales which the La- “CODE Fight tor M, whl Baltimore seamen prepare for 2 march on the relief bureau te present their demands. After the seamen had exposed the graft and mismanagement of the holy racketcers of the ¥. M. ©. A. Anchor- age, the relief officials were forced to vacate, leaving the rank and file seamen in full control of the relief project. After winning worker control of the relief project, the seamen set up their Central Shipping Burean, at which jobs were given out on a rotary system, The only response was the officials, ‘T’ve heard rumors to that effect.” Still another tack was tried by the I. W. W. John Morgan, rene- gade ex-M. W. I. U. whose presence invariably marks the strengthening of labor forces in any given port, appeared on the Baltimore water- They were all members bed mt and remained a week, attend- the I. 8S. U.! Still the I. 8. U. sent | ing meetings, talking with Wobblies a@ delegate to board a ship in Phila- | and Ex-Wobblies particularly. And delphia with a rumor that the I. | from a few individuals on the floor S. U. had been offered “half the|of meetings came innumerable pro- shipping” by the seamen’s bureau, | posals so pregnant with danger that and had turned it down. The crew/ their effect was simple disruption. happened to have shipped through |They proposed that the Bureau, They threw the I. §,| ship only higher-salaried jobs. They U. delegate off the ship. | would go aboard ships and insult Recently a Baltimore relief of-|an officer in an effort to discredit ficial repeated the I. S. U. charge| the Bureau. But each one was put to the seamen. Leaders asked him,|down firmly and swiftly by the before the whole body of men, to | body of the seamen. name a case of discrimination or to} United more firmly than ever, the have anyone in the body do so.|seamen stand behind their Central- Biller ‘Sivikets Win After 6 Days TUULLed Cambridge | “What do you mean?” Bey said, “I heard rumors that M. W. I. U. fellows get the preference.” “You started those rumors!” one of the Committee exclaimed, “and you ean have your book back.” Two other members of the Committee stepped forward and added, “Mine too.” Machinists, Mine and Railroad Workers Demand H. R, 7598 NEW YORK.—Demanding the the Bureau | ized Shipping Bureau today as one. When the relief officials required them to re-register for relief they government project, although they had ordered removal from the gov- ernment project the seamen con- trolled. Most of the seamen, how- ever, did as Seaman Moylan did— refused the jobs, protested, and made an affidavit stating what oc- curred. Old Mrs. Million must feel it too. She sent over fifteen free meal | tickets to draw some seamen into to the most militant among the seamen. The marine workers hast- ened over to “The Globe” and ate. | Then instead of “Thank you,” they | told Mrs. Million what they thought | of shipping crimps. | (To be continued) | | 'To Hold Laundry | | Unity Meeting began to do some shipping—from a | her restaurant. They were graciously | accepted — and were parceled out) ginning to overcome the great illu- sions which they had in the New Deal and which were furthered and greatly strengthened by the sup- port given to Roosevelt by A. F. of L., social ers. A new throughout the country on the very heels of the strike wave of the past year. Already the strike wave of 1933 showed a clearly defined polit- ical character, throwing the workers into struggle against the N. R. A. In the developing strike wave, this political character, as directed of L. bureaucracy, is already much more pronounced, and will still fur- ther develop.” Political Character The political character of the present strike wave is now so clear in the New York Times of May 14) can no longer deny it. The present strike wave is in direct and open opposition to the rulings of Roose- velt and the N. R. A., and of the | the main props, inside the working | class, of the N. R. A. machinery. Role of A. F. of L. Leaders The statement of William Green, fust issued, regarding strikes in the auto industry, is a clear admission by Green that he cannot much longer tie the auto workers to the compulsory arbitration, no strike, company union decisions in Auto Labor Board. The auto work- ers are striking in spite of Green’s most valiant strikebreaking efforts. The ten thousand Amoskeag workers struck against the orders 11 Fur Shops Strike NEW YORK —Fleven fur shops are striking here for union condi- tions under the leadership of the Fur Workers Industrial Union. Activities in the union have in- against the N. R. A. and the A. FP.) | that even the bourgeois press (Stark | A. F. of L. officials, who have been | the | Workers Reject Labor Board CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The work- ers of the Riverside Boiler Co. here after striking for six days | under the leadership of the Trade | Union Unity League, returned to} work last Wednesday, winning the fight for better conditions. | The bosses called in the A. F.| of L. officials, who sent six A./ F. of L. members to scab. When | the A. F. of L. workers quit the second day, the N. R, A. Labor Board proposed two different sell- out agreements, which the strikers | rejected. The bosses met with the griey- ance committee and the strikers won their demands for a minimum | wage agreement, recognition of the | shop grievance committee and a) five per cent raise June 1 and) another five per cent raise on! July 1. The workers accepted a} bad point, agreeing to accept the arbitration of an “impartial” third | person if the boss and the griev- | ance committee cannot reach an agreement. This bad point was accepted by the workers, who felt this would avoid dealing with the only genuine unemployment in surance, the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598), miners, railroad workers, bakers in A. F. of L. unions, and un- employed teachers are the latest to endorse the Workers’ Bill. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Blacksmith Local 77, C. M. and 3t. Paul Railroad Lodge of the International of Machinists Local 234, the Women's Auxiliary of Machinists Local 234, and the Bluebird Lodge 116 added their names to the thousands of A. F. of L. locals endorsing the bill. In Kenosha, Wis., the Vincent- McCall Federal Union 18846, Chi- cago Bakery and Confectionery Workers Local 49, the Women's Auxiliary of the United Mine Workers of America Local 762 of the Vesta Mine 5, Brownsville, Pa., and the Unemployed Teach- ers Council of Philadelphia have signed the Workers’ Bill. Chemical Strike Betrayal By AFL. | Unity Committee Will) creased during the past week. One | Present Program | were held; over 200 shops were Savane | visited by anes vsiganeivie 50 com- NEW YORK.—Only one month| plaints, made by workers, were after the election of the Unity Com-_| settled. mittee of Laundry Workers repre-| Today, after work, the trade board senting the Laundry Workers In-|of the union meets at the union dustrial Union, Local 280 of the A.| headquarters, 131 W. 28th St. The | F. of L. and numerous individual| union has appealed to all active delegates from shops of Local 810) workers to report daily at the union e the A. F. of L., great progress has | office for strike duty. een made. —_——_— The recent indictment of the! wor, I ik Samuel Rosenzweig," racketecr busi- Worcester Workers Btrike | ness agent of Local 810, for extor-| For More Pay, Recognition tion, and the sell-out deals of the May , Mass. May 14.— officials of the A. F. of L. has con-| a0 denartment of the Johnson vinced the laundry workers of the | stee} and Wire Co., including 75 pid sass ine movement for an in-| \orkers, walked out on strike Sat- j@ependent rank and file union) urday morning for a 15 per cent pay based on militant struggle and un-| nase, 75 cents an hour rate for | restricted trade union democracy is | ‘7°Tes oh es id: tecogeitton at the | the only way out for them. 5 gets shop committee. | On Wednesday night, 8 p. m., at - | Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving | te ne yp Ryicioagdle eee | Place, a city wide mass meeting is | 1 Soi The strike 1s under the | being held under the auspices of the | tomorrow. 7 ihe Steel and Metal | Unity Committee. This is expected |leadership of the Stee! and Meta | to be the largest rally of laundry | Workers Industrial Union. | workers ever held in New York City. | Se ee At this mass meeting the program | 650 Shoe Men Strike | of the Unity Committee will be pre- | [y Matroon. IIl. |sented to the laundry workers by the | Y | hundred and three shop meetings | Heads In Buffalo N, R. A. Labor Board in future | | various members of the committee. | | CHICAGO, May 14—Six hundred | and fifty workers are on strike at| bor Board tried to enforce on them, The Demagogy of Roosevelt Has Failed to Check the Strike Wave of the Workers. They are militantly striking in key, war industries, against the rul- ings of the Labor Board and the A. This demagogy, g to check the rikes of the workers for better wages and conditions and far recog- nition, has been more and more replaced by open fascist terror of the employers and the forces of the government. | Faseist Terror In Alabama, murderous terror rages, particularly against the Ne- gro strikers, Four ore miners, one longshoreman and one ooal miner have been murdered on Southern picket lines. Picketing and meet- ings have been outlawed by vicious court injunctions and by the bayonet and gun. In the steps toward fascism, the Roosevelt government, as in the auto industry, brings forward offi- cially the company union to help smash strikes and real workers’ or- ganizations, and insists on increased government control of all trade unions. The Wagner Bill is “mod- ified” to enable the free entrance |of company unions. And whether the Wagner Bill is allowed to die in Congress or not, the Labor Board proceeds with the intent and pro- gram of the Wagner “disputes” bill —to outlaw strikes, to enforce com- pulsory arbitration on the workers, thus robbing them of their demands, to smash the workers’ organizations and build company unions, and to increase the open, fascist terror against the workers. Need Organization | The workers are striking mili- tantly. But many of the strikes are being sold out and defeated, because }of the lack of organization of the rank and file (Amoskeag, oil, glove, auto, etc.). The imperative need of the moment is rank and file organ- ization. The rank and file inside the A. F. of L., to win their demands, must take the strikes into their own hands. Rank and file oppositions should be quickly organized in every |A. F. of L, union. The demands of the rank and file can be won with a little more organization. The conducting of the strikes with broad | elected strike committees, with mass picketing and refusal to submit to compulsory arbitration of the Labor Boards, or “impartial” agents of the employers; these demands of the rank and file must at once be crystallized by the immediate ore ganization of rank and file opposi- | tions in all A. F. L. and other ree formist unions. The militant unions affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, as | well as militant independent unions, |are winning strikes and defeating the strikebreaking attempts of the N. R. A. boards and A. F. of L. of- ‘ficials through their militant polie |cies. The Marine Workers Indus- | trial Union has won numerous ship crew strikes on the basis of the | united front and of broad, militant | rank and file conduct of the strikes. The Aeronautical Workers Union of Buffalo, an A. F. of L. federal local with militant leadership has |so far defeated all strikebreaking | attempts of the Labor Board by means of their splendid solidarity, their broad strike leadership and militant mass picketing. The Trade Union Unity League |the plant of the Brown Shoe Co.,| follows the program of the broadest disputes. The workers gained materially, | however, and now have a union which will aid them in their struggle. Demand Hearing On The Bathrobe Code NEW YORK. — The Bathrope Workers Industrial Union has de- manded that a hearing on a code for the industry be arranged at an early date in order to present facts testifying to the miserable condi- tions under which the workers are compelled to work, The Union will propose measures for the elimina- tion of these evils to the Code Au- thority. The bathrobe bosses have been continually reducing prices and in some cases to an extent lower than prior to the N. R. A. Lynn Shoe Workers To Wait for Answer To Election Charges LYNN, Mass. May 14—After hearing a report of the New York District Executive Board citing cer- tain irregularities in the recent gen- eral elections conducted by the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, the Wood Heelers Local 19 of Lynn, Mass., voted to table the final report of the General Exec- utive Board until such time that the officials involved answer the charges made by the New York Dis- trict of the Union. Other locals of the Union are ex- pected to take similar action, The Daily Worker, America’s only workingclass daily newspaper, fights Tickets Avatiable at all Workers Bookshops for the interests of the working class. Read the Daily Worker, Buy it at the newsstands, Three cents a copy. Akron Bakers Win | Workers Defeated By 15 Per Cent Raise | AKRON, Ohio, May 14. — Six! hundred bakers and bakery drivers returned to work today after win- | ning an increase of from 15 to 20/ BUFFALO.—Sold out by the| Per cent and a reduction in hours. | strikebreaking tactics of the A. F. of |The bakers compelled the N. R. A. L. leadership, the last 200 strikers| Regional Labor Board to mediate at the National Aniline and Chem-| the strike in their favor. ical Co, went back to the plant on) The Federal conciliator, Hugh D. May 9, without a single accomplish- | Friel, however, succeeded in frus- | ment to the union’s credit after trating temporarily the strike de-| more than seven weeks of strike. |mands of 600 gasoline station at- Demanding only that the com-|tendants by calling a “conference.” pany post a notice on its time rem P SP Riag "Bi clocks that it would deal with Ani-| Philadelphia Painters Labor Board Order, Lose Demands in Matroon, Ill. Picketing is under way. The workers had been engaged in a “sitting strike”’ until the boss locked the plant, and sent them home. At present the plant is closed and no scabs have been able to get in. Keystone Auto Men Out on Strike PHILADELPHIA, May 14.—Eleven auto shops are on strike under the leadership of the Commercial Auto | Body Workers Union, local 2, with the strike vote of the men in the) | united front of all the workers, re- |gardless of what union, or whether | unorganized. In the present long- shore strike the Marine Workers Industrial Union has called for the broad unity of all marine workers in support of the strike as the only | means of defeating the treachery of | Ryan and the Labor Board. | The most pressing and important | task of every Communist, and of all militant workers at the present mo- ment, is to give leadership and di- rection to the wave of strikes. Only |through organizing this broad | united front of the strikers can the Communists give that leadership which is essential if the strikers are line Chemical Workers’ Union 18705, | the union went out on strike seven weeks ago with more than 1,000 men walking out. Mass picketing was discouraged after the first day, and within a few weeks no pickets showed up at the plants for whole days at a time, although a large detachment of po- lice was on hand 24 hours a day. Relying on the Regional Labor Board to fight the union’s battle, the leaders brought a lemon back to the members—the board said the National Aniline should deal with the union, but it didn’t say who would make the company do it. Then the case was tossed into) the deep folds of the National La-| bor Board’s lap, where it was lost| for weeks. While waiting for the N. L. B. to act, leaders of the cham- ical workers’ union had the effron- tery to bar leaders of the militant Aeronautical Workers’ Union, also A. F. of L. affiliated but not A. F. of L. doctrinated, to speak before chemical workers. “There's a cloud on your charter,” Martin Zimmerman, strike chair- man, told the aeronautical delega-| tion, which had appeared on the! specific request of rank and file! chemical workers, “Until the cloud 4s removed, you cannot address us.” He told the aeronautical workers he j according to seniority, Strike for More Pay PHILADELPHIA, May 14.—Four thousand painters will go out on strike for a minimum wage of one dollar an hour, the district council of the union stated today. In Washington several thousand building trades workers are already on strike for higher pay and the six hour day. Keystone shop. Under the leadership of a mili- | strikers are conducting strong picket lines. The strikers were given a rousing reception in the union head- lief is being given by the union to the strikers and their families, Evic- tions have been stopped due to the mass actoin of the militant union, understood the “cloud” was the fact Communists are allowed to belong to the aero union. When the chemical case finally came up before the N. L. B., Bill | Green suggested a sellout: That the company be asked to post a notice saying it would deal with a union committee as representatives of however many men belonged to the union, Thus he is spreading Roose- velt’s doctrine of “proportional rep- resentation,” ‘The company refused to do even this much, insisting its time-clock notice mention no union names, and saying it would rehire strikers “qualifica- tions being equal.” Disgust with the N. L. B. recom- mendation sent 800 men back to work in three days. Faced with this dilemma, leaders told the remaining 200 to vote the strike off. ‘Cab Drivers Win Cleveland Strike; Some Remain Out CLEVELAND (FP). — Zone Cab drivers have signed an agreement | with their employers for a $15-a- week minimum, with a 35 per cent split on amounts between $35 and $45 and a 37 per cent split on amounts over $45, recognition of the closed shop, 6-day, 54-hour week and gasoline at no cost to the driver. Yellow Cabs are still off the streets as the strike continues. Of- ficials of the Yellow are asking the city council for legislation which will establish a minimum wage law for drivers and also make it harder for new companies to get into the city tant shop chairman, Harry Betz, the} quarters. Financial aid and food re- | to win their demands. It is a burning necessity for all |Communists and all fighting work- jers to take these strikes into their |own hands, to take the initiative in |at once organizing, in every strike, the rank and file oppositions, to | demand and elect broad strike com- mittees, to organize militant mass picketing over the heads of the A. F. of L. leadership. Only in this manner can the strikes be broad- ened, the struggle deepened and. the workers win their demands. It is the task of the Communists to raise the revolutionary consciousness of the workers, to increase the under- | standing of the strike-breaking role of the government, in order to de- feat betrayals. The broadest united front cam- paign must without delay be or- ganized by the Communists to de- feat the fascist attacks of the Roosevelt government on the strik- ers, a campaign for the right of the workers to organize, to strike, and to picket, to meet and to assemble. |The Communist units must take | the initiative in organizing the broad united front of the workers to win their strike demands, to smash the company unions, to repel the fas- cist attacks. to defeat the strike- breaking betrayals of Roosevelt's N. R, A. and Labor Boards, and to win the strikes : ‘