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An SARIN ENS a 4 t i eae DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1934 Page Three Foreed Labor, Fir Relief Cuts—Newest LaGuardia Schemes -< Cash Relief To Be Basis | of Vicious Forced Labor Scheme (Continued from Page 1) dicated, although a drive will be made on relief workers and thou- sands will be fired outright. 5,000 Dropped Last Month Two situations, Hodson indicated, were “responsible” for the slashing of relief lists. Applications for re- lief, which in the past had shown a drop of ten to fifteen per cent, con- tinue to mount, and the failure of the city to appropiate necessary funds. “Last month,” Hodson said, “5,000 families were dropped from the relief lists.” That there has been no de- crease in the demand for relief was indicated in a speech of E. Corsi, relief bureau head, deliv- ered at a meeting of the Federa~ tion of Women’s Clubs at the Hotel Astor on May 4. Corsi then said: “As yet there is no sign of the problem decreasing. During 1933, the applications averaged 1,325 a day. During the first three months of this year, they averaged 1436 a day and... thus far this month the daily average has risen to 1,925.” In presenting his relief budget to the Board of Estimate on April 29, Hodson asked for 18 millions for the month of May. Subsequently, the Board of Estimate voted slightly over 16 million, 75 per cent of which is returned to the city by the fed- eral and state governments. This failure on the part of the city to appropriate sufficient funds to provide even the present starva- tion standards of relief to the un- employed is directly attributed to the retention of the bankers’ agree- ment, by which the lives of one and & quarter million of unemployed are} mortgaged to a group of Wall Street | Sankers. Cash Relief Set-Up With a fanfare of publicity, it was| yecently announced that all relief in| the city would start on a cash basis| pn May 1. Subsequently this date| was later changed to May 15, and) the latest advices from the Welfare) Department state that cash relief Will begin on May 21. LaGuardia, however, blurted out the real truth about the cash re- lief set-up in speaking before a group of social workers meeting in the Gramercy Hotel recently, Here he outlined a vicious forced labor scheme under which every unem- ployed head of a family would be classified by his occupation and forced to work for the miserable re- lief pittance. “Y have already been informed by my Communist friends,” La- Guardia said, “that this is forced \abor,” adding that opposition to he schemes was expected, but fhat “we will plug ahead.” To this he added the threat that a ‘uture drastic cut in all relief sould be expected with the re- mark, “The funds will be entirely rxhausted by the end of August.” Jail Threats Jail for the unemployed who “fail” to provide for their families on the sub-starvation relief allot- ments was held out by LaGuardia. “Any time that you find a head pf a family squandering money ... t want you to let me know. We will put him where he can’t squander | money for a couple of weeks.” Just what is the amount of money which the unemployed can “squan- fer?” ‘The present relief rates uhder the “budget efficiency basis” of the Home Relief Bureaus will be re- tained. Single men will receive $2.50 a week, male recipients of re- fief will be given $1.65 a week, women $1.55 and children will be allowed from $1 to $1.55 a week. A family of two will get $4 and a fam- lly of five will get $7 weekly. Rising food costs are not taken into con- sideration in the relief budgets. No varfare ts provided, although there js but one relief station below 14th St. and only one for the 57 square miles of Staten Island. Household expenses for ice, kitchen utensils, Philadelphia, Pa. | BANQUET & DANCE for the DAILY WORKER Saturday, May 19 8:30 P. M— 1208 Tasker Street Spaghetti Dinner N, Brown’s Orchestra Admission 25¢ Auspices: Daily Worker Committee, Sect. 1 O. P. Primes to Best in Daily Worker Circulation Drive —Philadelphia, Pa.— FOURTH ANNUAL Russian Tea Party fiven by Friends of the Soviet Union Friday, May 18, 8 P.M. Broad Street Mansion §.W. Cor. Broad St. & Girard Ave. Program: Andre Zibulsky, Degeyter String Quartet, Russian Chorus DANCING TILL 2 A.M. ADM. BSc. etc., are never met. Seventy per are never paid, thus perpetuating an eviction policy. Moving expenses are never paid. The rent checks are so small that, together with the re- luctance of landlords to accept them, super-slum areas are rapidly being set up in vermin-infected fire | traps. | For the single unemployed who | are being eliminated from the relief | rolls, there are only the flop-houses, with all the attendant forced labor. On May 1, 200 single unemployed were taken from the Municipal | Lodging House and bundled off to the Orange County prison farm. | As the city’s relief rapidly ap- | proaches a crisis, LaGuardia, in the manner of his usual grandstand | play, made a flying trip to Wash- ington, As a result, $37,000,000 of P, W. A. funds will be allocated to New York City for construction. | This, it is claimed, will to a great extent meet the relief crisis. Yet, in the meantime contracts must be | awarded, and even then, it is ad- mitted, this will only provide for the employment of 5,000 men for periods ranging from four months and upward. The bulk of the P. W. A, funds, after the plunder of graft, inefficiency and useless expendi- ture, will go for materials. As for the rest of the total of $132,000,000 which New York asked of P. W. A., Secretary Ickes said: “New York must take its place with the other applicants until we can see how much money Congress will allow.” Obviously, P. W. A. can not solve the relief problem in New York, Scrap Bankers’ Agreement! Central in the demands of the | unemployed must be the scrap- | ping of the bankers’ agreement by | which a group of Wall Street bankers, notably the Rockefeller and Morgan banks, hold a re- ceivership over the city’s income, and under which the city has mortgaged the lives of the utr employed. In no case will the unemployed permit the forced labor schemes to go through. Jobs at union rates of pay or cash re- Hef equal to C. W. A. wages must be the central demand, endorse- ment of the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598), and the placing of the relief on a permanent basis instead of the present system whereby the board of estimate votes monthly a mini- mum appropriation for relief. (In following issues of the Daily Worker the relief situation nation- ally will be dealt with.) |115 Teachers Again | Strike in Old Forge |. SCRANTON, Pa., May 17.—One |hundred and fifteen Old Forge | teachers, who have already walked | out twice for back pay, struck again yesterday against the suspension of Joseph O'Connor, a principal of one of the schools, They said they would not return till the suspension was lifted, at least three of the seven months’ salary owed them | paid and new contracts given. Formica Workers in Cincinnati Out Solid CINCINNATI, May 17.—In spite of police intimidation and arrests, 365 out of 400 workers of the For- mica shop are staying out solid. Over 200 workers were arrested last week, but their dismissal was forced by the mass pressure of workers and organizations. Sam Hatcher, business agent of the International Association of Machinists (A. F. of L.), has al- ready prepared the ground to check the mass strike movement in this city by calling off the strike of the William Powell plant, No. 2, Amter to Meet Post in Housing Symposium NEW YORK—‘“Do you want new homes and jobs?” is the ques- tino to be raised Monday, 8:30 pm., at a symposium in Green- wich House, 29 Barrow St. by the West Side Provisional Com- mittee on Housing and Firetraps. Israel Amter, National Secretary of the Unemployed Councils, and Langdon W. Post, Commissioner of Housing, are among the speak- ers. BUSINESS MANAGER OF ‘DAILY’ IN BOSTON Com. George Wishnack, Bus- iness Mamager of the Daily Worker, will be in Boston on Saturday’ and Sunday, May 19 and 20, to take up some very vital. matters concerning the Daily Worker. A Conference has been ar- ranged for Saturday, May 19, at 3 p.m. at 113 Dudley Street. All Daily Worker agents of the units, sections and representatives of all sympathetic mass organiza- tions are urged to be present, Chicago, Ill. EMPIRE THEATRE Aim. “SOVIET YOUTH” New Russian Talkie Sunday and Monday, May 20-21 CONTINUOUS FROM 8 A. M. CHICAGO — ¢ { _P 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, Colorful Program Admission 30¢ in Advance Main Speaker Dancin Follows 35¢ at Door ing, cent of the rents of the unemployed | In today’s article on the strug- | gles of the Baltimore seamen in | winning control of waterfront re- lief, Marguerite Young, staff writer of the Daily Worker, out- lines the beginning of the struggle to uproot all traces of Negro dis- crimination and chauvinistic at- tacks upon the Negro workers within and | outside their ranks. | eee | By MARGUERITE YOUNG NETEEN Negro troopers were hanged in a federal military lynching in 1917. An| eye-witness story of the mas- sacre is one of the personal| experiences that seamen pool on the Baltimore waterfront | to illustrate what they mean by | “boss poison,” or chauvinism, race | prejudice nursed along by the em- | Pploying class to keep workers from uniting in struggle. “Sure, I saw the Negro troopers hanged,” Fred Reed says simply. “And I saw how the whole thing developed out of the Army’s discri- mination against Negroes.” Reed was a trooper in the Tenth Cavalry at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., | in 1917, He is a well-known deep- | sea diver, but he lost his rig through | Jack of contracts during the crisis, became a ship’s bo'un, and found | himself “on the beach” in Balti- | more last Winter. Powerfully built, a former Wobbly, he sits, sliding the zipper of his dark blue wind- breaker— How Nineteen Were Lynched “To understand the lynching, you've got to go back to an order that came through, dismounting all Negro troopers. Everyone under- stood, of course, that this was a measure to send the Negroes to France to be killed first; they were calling for infantrymen at the time. | There were no calls for cavalry | units. “When the order came into effect, Negro troopers, hundreds of them, protested against it until the offi- cers feared that to enforce it would antagonize the whole regiment. No kett, transient relief director in advances of the Baltimore seamen traces of race prejudice in their ee eee NEGRO AND WHITE SEAMEN, UNITE AND FIGHT Leonard Patterson and Walter Stack, marine workers’ leaders, presenting the demands of the Baltimore sedmen to Admiral Piun- Washington. One of the great is the brilliant struggle against all own ranks, action was actually taken to dis- mount the Negroes. “About a week later, however, rumors began to be spread through- | out all parts of Texas, in which | Negro troopers were stationed, to | the effect that white women were | being molested by these Negro sol- | diers. Sentiment was being built ; up against the Negroes in Browns- | ville, San Antonio, and other cities. One night about twelve o'clock, we heard a rumor that two white wo- men had been attacked and raped by two Negro soldiers. “Riots began to occur in Corpus Christi, Brownsville, and San An- tonio. More rumors. The Negro troopers heard that white people | were coming into the Forts to wipe | them out. Negroes armed them- selves for defense. More small riots in San Antonio and in Fort Sam Houston. Negro Troopers March “Finally, hundreds of Negro troop- ers marched from Fort Sam Hous- fon to San Antonio, The Fourth cavalry and other troops were called out. When the action was over, nineteen of the Negroes were sentenced to death as ringleaders of the riots—although the riots had been started by misled whites. More than 100 Negro troopers were given sentences of various lengths, and were sent to Fort Levenworth, Kansas, to serve time for something they had not done. “The Army erected a gallows at Salado Creek nearby. I stood there and watched the Negro troopers marched out and hanged, one by one, nineteen of them, from five Chicago Seamen Fight Discrimination | CHICAGO, May 17—The Sea- | men’s Relief Commission carried through its first action here yester- day following a meeting of Great | Lakes seamen Tuesday night, at | which McCuistion, Lake organizer | of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, spoke. A delegation of seamen cornered the Federal Relief Association offi- cials, Sands and House. They pointed to the discrimination against unemployed seamen in the men are forced to get a letter from the shipping commissioner. They demanded the abolition of this practice. The seamen have set up a sepa- rate advisory committee and forced the relief officials to go with the committee to survey a relief project and give them a promise of three meals a day for the unemployed seamen, A meetirig has been called by the seamen’s rank and file committee in South Chicago on Friday night to register all unemployed seamen. The federal relief officials have been invited to attend this meeting. Renton Miners Strike For Better Conditions RENTON, Pa., May 17.—About 600) miners are on strike for higher wages, and against high rents, water rates and for improvement of mine conditions. Workers escaped the $1 a day fine imposed for striking by the com- pany by loading one car of coal in each place and forced the com- pany to send them home. A strike sentiment against similar conditions exists at the Russelton Mine in the Alleghany Valley. Steps are being taken to prepare for ac-| tion. Curtisville miners who struck about 10 days ago had some of their demands granted. Investigate Death In Cleveland Jail CLEVELAND, Ohio (FP)—The death of Frank Pojman, 54, in a police cell in Cleveland is being in- vestigated and the evidence is to be turned over to the county pro- secutor’s office for action. Coroner A. J. Pearse claims that Pojman died from an unmerciful beating. The man was arrested as being intoxicated, according to the police, but his pastor and friends say he wasn’t a drinking man. This handing out of relief, whereby sea- | RR. Brotherhood | Condemns Laws to Limit Strike Right Locomotive Engineers Oppose Wagner Bill and §-3266 NEW YORK —The Northwest | Union Meeting Association, of the | Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- | neers, meeting in Tacoma, Wash., has unanimously passed a resolu-’| tion against the imposition of com- | pulsory arbitration on the railroad workers. The resolution disapproves of Senate Bill S. 3266, which would | do away with the railroad workers’ | right to strike and force arbitration | on them, The resolution also con- | demns such bills as the Wagner “Disputes Bill,” disapproving “any other legislation by Congress of the U. 8. A. to limit or restrict the rights of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers or any other group of organized labor, to the use of their economic strength to secure their just and honest dues in the settlement of wage disputes and working conditions.” The Union Meeting Association | meets in each region of the country | with members of the B. of L. E. from all parts of that territory, in- cluding instructed delegates from lodges, expressing their views and presenting them to the Grand Lodges, | The resolution of the Northwest | meeting follows in full: “Resolved, that this Northwest | Union Meeting Association of the B. of L, E. hereby express our hearty disapproval of the enactment of S, 3266 as an amendment to the Railway Labor Act, or any other legislation by Congress of the U. S. A. to limit or restrict the rights of the B. of L. E., or any other group of organized labor, to the use of their economic strength to secure their just and honest dues in the settlement of wage disputes and working conditions. “And a copy of this resolution is hereby ordered sent to all U. S.Sen~- ators and Congressmen from the Northwest States.” Unanimously carried. The Daily Worker gives you full news about the struggle for un- employment insurance. Subscribe is the second time within a year that a man has died in a cell. to the Daily Worker. Labor Rouses the Waterfront VINI—THE FIGHT AGAINST WHITE CHAUVINISM Jo’clock in the morning until after nine. They were dropped into} jmameless graves in a desolate spot | m over them says they |the U. S. Government.’ | “A ‘federal military board appointed to investigate, but a hush-up board. To my knowledge no report ever was made public. nor have I ever seen anything about it printed, beyond the distorted newspaper reports at the time.” Militancy Based on Experience Out of the memories of such ex: periences, the seamen's militancy | rings. Out of such memori |their revolutionary working class | viewpoint is built. For every flat | assertion made as fellow worker Daniels drawled in strong Dixie ac- | cent: “You know, fellow 30,000 seamen were lost in the rid W: for somebody else’s dollars — we} won't let it happen again!” the! rank and file remember a dozen | personal encounters with class en mies. Out of this militant rank and file they chose most of the leaders. Reed himself faithful | served on their leading subcomr | tee for weeks. Their dependence upon untried. | inexperienced men weakened their leadership at some points, however. It resulted in endowing certain in- | dividuals with a prestige which, in at least one case, hampered their |battle. It fostered individua | and careerism so that at les jone was utilizing the gains made by the movement sonal ends — to strengthen his standing before government offi- cials at the expense of the seamen’s | program. Two of these new leaders | actually left the waterfront to take | a rest on the farm of a friend, | nearby, at a time when the struggle was critical. The seamen, however, were strong | enough; they kept control in the| hands of the men sufficiently well | to shake off weak elements andj go forward. They demonstrated again how proletarian struggle de- velops its own heroic proletarian | leadership. | (To Be Continued) to further per- Dugan Strike Brings Challenge to Y. C. L. From Boro Park Unit NEW YORK.—Unit 2 of the Borough Park Y. C. L., support- ing the strike of the teamsters and bakers of the Dugan Bros., Inc., Bakery, has undertaken to see that no Dugan bread is sold in its district. It challenges the Y. C. L.’s in the other parts of the city to do the same. The Amalgamated Food Work- ers’ Union is leading the bakers in this struggle and the team- sters belong to Local 38 of the International Teamsters’ Union. The bosses, attempting to break the strike, have secured police to ride with the scabs, Messenger Boys Hit Company Code Demand $15 Minimum; Bosses Propose $8 WASHINGTON, May 17.—Well- fed company executives squirmed in their seats as boys representing the | Telegraph Messengers Union of New York got up before the microphones in the big Commerce Department auditorium yesterday and told sto- ries of low wages, sweat-shop con- ditions and terrorization. They spoke at a hearing on the proposed telegraph industry code, after the Western Union bosses had protested that the proposed code would “weaken the communication system . . . which is indispensable from the standpoint of national de- fense.” President R. B. White of the Western Union, said his chief ob- jection was that the Postal Tele- graph had written the code and that his company, had not been consulted. Howard L. Kern, Vice- president of the Postal Telegraph proposed cutting the code wages to as low as $9 and $8 a week in the larger cities, and $8 and $7 in small cities of north and south respective- ly. A minimum of $10 in the north and $9 in the south, a 40-hour week and 8-hour day were the proposals of the code. ‘The N. Y. messengers, represented by Abe Dubroff who had been fired for union activities, and five others, told of having to buy their own bicycles out of -wages that average | Leader to Debate ‘Challenge Ohio SP. ‘On Party Platform | Communist Organizer Ready to Meet Sharts DAYTON, Ohio, May 17—A chal- | |lenge to debate the question “The |Communist Party or the Socialist | Way Out of the Crisis,” has just} been sent to Joseph Sharts, State | Secretary of the Socialist Party of Ohio by the Communist Party office here, The occasion of the challenge is the new “patriotic” program which Sharts recently proposed for the | coming National Convention of the Socialist Party. John Williamson, District Organizer, of the Commu- nist Party of Ohio will arrive in Dayton to follow up the challenge to Sharis, and will speak on the revolutionary way out of the crisis on Saturday, May 26, at 8 pm. at St. Stephens Hall, Herman and | Keowee Street. | CORRECTION Two serious typographical errors} appeared in the resolution of the Communist Party Conference on work in the Railroad industry, printed in the Daily Worker of Friday, May 11. Under the sub-| head “Win R. R. Workers For Party | Program” point six calls for “es-| tablishment of an 8-hour day.” It| should have read, “6-hour day.” On the next column, alongside of this paragraph, there is a com- plete sentence left out. After the| paragraph, “All districts, sections, units, ete.,” there should be in- serted, as the beginning of the fol- lowing paragraph, the sentence, “The problems of railroad labor, however, will not be solved merely by building a militant trade union movement. Therefore”... only from $5 to $8 a week, and of| | company gangsters being sent to union meetings to terrorize them) from organizing. ‘The Telegraph Messengers Union demands a $15 a week wage for both north and south, and bicycles | relief, free adequate medical and to be supplied by the company. Chicago Stockyards: Workers Rebel at Slave Conditions Strikes Begin Against Speed-up, Layoffs, Firing of Union Men, and Unbelievable Conditions BY HERBERT NEWTON CHICAGO. stockyards wo are on strike. unbelievable. hour. raised to 35c per hour. May 17.—As this article goes to p rs in the three Darling’s fertilizer plants They are strik Until recently they received as low as 17e per Later they received 30c, and still later some were What the workers gained through 10 ing against conditions almost these increases was more than offset through general rise New Mass Layoffs, More Speed-up at Intl. Harvester Co.’ Denver Jobless March on City Relief Bureau (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) | CHICAGO, Ill, May 17—Mass lay- | offs are taking place in the Inter- | national Harvester plant here. At/| least 500 have been laid off in the} McCormick plant alone in the last | week, In some departments, like the | knife department, almost half of the force have been laid off. Nearly | every branch of the company is| is} affected, including the tractor piant. | Beginning last week, these lay-offs | have cost the jobs of an uncounted | number of workers, while the speed- up of production continues, The Harvester Torch, organ of | the Harvester local of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, | will comment on the lay-offs in its| next issue with the following: | “These lay-offs also prove to us| that all this nice-sounding ‘pros-| perity’ and ‘recovery’ propaganda of | the Roosevelt ‘Raw Deal’ is just a| fake—a tissue of lies and hot air. While thousands and thousands of workers throughout the country are being laid off, the Roosevelt-con- trolled newspapers scream in head-| lines that the ‘depression is over’| and that we are ‘on the way.’ Yes,| on the way, but on the way to| more lay-offs, unemployment and| higher prices.” | To meet the attack on the work- | ers through these lay-offs, and to! crush the movement for a company | union which is under way at Har-| vester, the Steel and Metal Work- | ers Industrial Union. proposes that | the workers organize a struggle around the following demands: 1, 30-hour week with no de- crease in pay. 2. Two weeks wages vance for every laid off. 3, Unemployment insurance for all unemployed Harvester work- ers at the expense of the company and the government. For the pas- sage of H.R. 7598, 4, Immediate, 25 per cent in- crease in pay to meet the rising cost of living. 5. Against company unions, for | the right to organize and strike, for the recognition of elected workers’ committees, 6. Abolition of all speed-up methods. The rate of production on the job to be decided by work- ers’ committees, Put full crews on all jobs—and rest periods similar to 1929 working conditions. 7. Equal pay for equal work. | No discrimination against Negro, foreign-born, women and‘ young workers, The union also calls on Harvester workers to elect delegates to the} Anti-Company Union Conference to be held Sunday, June 3 at 2 p.m. at Auditorium Hall, Grand Boule- vard and Michigan Ave., Indiana Harbor, Ind. . in ad- | worker who is DENVER, Colo., May 17.—Five hundred unemployed workers marched on the relief station here last week demanding work or cash dental care, worker representation at each relief bureau, and that re- lief cases be opened at any time presented. Before the march, the workers massed in an open-air meet- ing, and, despite a full mobilization of police, started their march on | their homes, j and in prices and reduction of hours. Wages at Darling’s remained starvation wages. The health of the workers is being greatly undermined through being forced to work in the stench of the decayed carcasses of cattle, dogs, and even cats. Ofttimes mag- gots are so thick that the workers hands are covered with them Negroes Special Victims Even in the face of these condi- ons the workers are laid off and bjected to the most intense speed- The N.R.A. resulted in the wors- ening of conditions for workers, not only in Darling's, but throughout the whole yards. The 40-hour guare antee was cut to 32 hours. Speed- up became unbearable. Real wages were cut through price increases, Layofis became more frequent. Ne- groes became the special victims of the new attack on labor. More po- lice terror was displayed with every strike. Accidents became more fre- quent on account of greater speed- | up. Discrimination In Roberts and Oake, some of them working at for more than ten years, were laid eff on the pretext that they had quite work half an hour before the boss had intended. In Armour's a worker was killed by a steel ball that fell off the trolley because the packers refused to install a safety device. In Wilson’s speed-up be- came so intense that the workers could hardly drag themselves home, In Hammand’s workers were fired for joining a union. The fight agai these conditions is hampered by the. division of the workers into three unions—the A. F. 27 men, the plant | of L. (which itself is divided into 13 the Stock Yards Labor Council, and the Packing- house Workers’ Industrial Union. Further, the poison of the A. F. of L. officialdom and Murphy of the S.L.C., who supported the New Deal program of Roosevelt, places further difficulties in the way of uniting all the workers for.a.cammon struge gle. different unions) Immediate-Tasks The task of the Communist Party | in the face of this situation is (1) to build a mass Packinghouse Workers Industrial Union, (2) to build mass opposition groups within the Stock Yards Labor Council and the A. F, of L., (3) te co-ordinate this work on the basis of united front strug- gles on a department and plant basis, and (4) to lead the whole struggle toward the creation of ONE | UNION IN THE STOCK YARDS. To accomplish these tasks, we must throw all of our forces around | the Yards into activity, making con- tacts in the Yards, visiting them in calling neighborhood department group meetings, speaking before organizations whose membership contains Stock Yards workers,- initiating department struggles for partial demands, etc. The great unrest in the Yards as shown by strikes in Oppenheimers, the live-stock handlers, Tllinois | Packing, Empire Packing, the pres- ent Darling’s strike, is proof that the workers will fight for better conditions. With our program, the | only one that is in the interests of the workers—we can, must, and shall, realize our perspective of one militant fighting union for all stock yards workers. The meeting will be held at the Marine + Workers Industrial Union Hall, 3064 East 92nd St. One hundred marine were put on relief today. workers CORRECTION The headline in Wednesday's Daily Worker which read: “700 in Chicago Stock Yards Strike in Spite of Local A. F. of L. Chiefs” is in- accurate. Although A. F. of L. lead- ers are doing everything possible to split the two unions involved in the Darling Co. strike, it was they who called the men out without even a the relief station. strike vote. (Continued from Page 1) the development of the strike of the, steel workers around the demands | adopted at the A. A. convention as the basis for joint action. “The board also correctly warned the steel workers, especially the rank and file in the A. A., not to al- Jow themselves to be defeated by the A. A, leadership, who will now sabo- tage the decisions of the conven- tion. The Board, in making its united ront proposals to the A. A. rank and file, also called for a defi- nite stand from the leaders of the so-called opposition on the burn- ing questions of the moment, such as the insistence -that the demands to be presented to the companies, place in the foreground the eco- nomic demands; on the development of unity of the A. A. and S.M.W. LWU.; on the election of rank and file negotiations and strike committees, and the attitude of the opposition toward the Mike Tighe-Leonard machine of the A. A.” All Organizations Must Help | action and to break the strikes ¢ * dorsed the stand of the S. M. W.) I. U. Board, and calls upon all steel workers to follow the pol- icies of the 8, M, W. I. U, to ward off all attempts to postpone through arbitration of the Labor Board or through A. F. L, leaders’ treachery. The T. U. U. L. calls on all organizations to rally to the support of the S. M. W. I. U. and to “assist the union with or- ganizers, publicity, and the rais- ing of funds.” The T. U. U.-L. calis on all left wing and sympathetic organiza- tions, fraternal organizations, In- ternational Workers Order Branch- es, clubs, etc., to come to the assistance of the S. M. W, I. U. by helping mobilize steel workers, in their organization, for mem- bership into the S. M. W, I. U.; by placing some of their organizers at the disposal of the 8S. M. W. I. U, for union work, in the main steel centers; and to help raise Is Endorsed by TUUL; All Workers Called on to Aid Action Program The T. U. U. L. pledges all pos- sible assistance to “this major struggle, which will be of tremen- dous importance to all workers,” and calls for “maximum support” from the entire working class. For a Fighting Fund The statement of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, for a $2,000 Fighting Fund, which is endorsed by tne T. U. U. L. statement, follows in full: “To All Steel and Metal Work- ers. “To All Trade Unionists and Trade Unions, “To All Workers and Workers’ Organizations. “Brothers: “The steel workers stand before the possible development of a the emergency fighting fund to The T. U. U. L. statement en- carry on the campaign, ys strike the size and importance of which has not been seen in the industry sincg the historic steel strike of 1919, led by the out- standing leader of the militant labor movement, William Z. Foster, General Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League and a mem- ber of the Executive Board of the trial Union. “The Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, though still rela- tively a small organization of the steel workers in this gigantic and trustified industry, has the task of organizing and leading the strike struggles of the steel work~ ers, Strike Preparations “Such a strike will make im- portant history for the entire labor movement of this country, It will Sp cca Campaign of SMWIU for $2,000 Fighting Fund ee iat cot ihe | soles ie be the most serious blow yet struck against the bosses’ attack in the izations to rally to the sup- Steel and Metal Workers Indus- | Lon . ‘s Industrial Steel Union Launches Preparations For Strike le as that of the steel workers will electrify the whole labor movement and open up a new page in the struggles of the work- ers against wage cutting, low wages, slave codes. “We feel fully justified to make an appeal not only to the steel and metal workers whose strug- gles we have led throughout the existence of our union, but also to all workers and workers’ or- port of our union and help us carry through a complete mobili- zation of the steel workers for action. “Our National Executive Board, at its sessions in Pittsburgh, May 13, perfected plans for the de- velopment of a gigantic organiza- tion drive to build the Union, set up Action Committees in the key mills and plants, build a united front with the rank and file of the A. F. of L. steel union—all in preparation for waging and carrying through a successful struggle. “In order to achieve these re- sults in the short time which still remains for work, our Union must receive immediate assistance from all steel workers and from all other workers. “We urge all workers, our class brothers and particularly all mili- tant workers and sympathizes, all left wing organizations and trade unions to rally immediately to our support. To do so will insure us with a minimum fighting fund to achieve our immediate tasks. “Brothers! Take up this ques- tion at once, in your local, meet- ings, lodge, shop and mill. Con- tribute personally to the $2,000 steel] workers’ fighting fund. “Time is important! diately! “Send all funds to the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, Room 511, 929 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. National Executive Board, Steel and Metal Workers Indns- trila Union. PAT CUSH, Pres. JAMES EGAN, Sec’y. Act imme- aopueenmndel