The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1934, Page 4

Page Four Steel Workers Can Win Their Demands In Coming Strikes Only Through Joint Action |@ SMWIU National Board Welcomes Stand of AFL Rank and File rations for strike struggle is the coming month in the i the central and de nal Board meeting of d Metal Workers In- et May 13, the union strike action. The ene through a s for presentation A. of demands on the ‘steel compa on May 21. The convention voted, if by June demands , to take “offen: gram cf a . follows: ons of the National Executive rd, Steel and Metal Workers Industrizl Union 1. The board is of the opinion that we stand befor re the develop- _in steel and riko. sion of | the steel the Amal- and file of in conven- cha fiien together workers demands. © board ¥ all to be on gua of t el workers any 's of the oppo tions who 6 stifle and pri the strike, break it if they cannct héad it off completely. The treachery of the A. F. of L. leaders in the auto industry shows how & is this danger. The d on of the convention to present de- wggor all treacherous man- he part of the burocra board endorsed the de- worked out by the rank and file Of the A. A 1. For, the six hour day five @ay week. 2. $1,000 per minimum wage for commen labor, other trades to be increased in proportion. 3. Abolition of differential be- tween North and South. 4. Against the speed-up. 5. For Unemployment Insur- ance Billi (H. R. 7598) now before Congress. 6. Equal rights for Negro worke fs the b for joint demands al the coming struggles and instr its various organizations to wo: Out in addition definite local de- mands adapted to the needs of the workers in the various plants, com- Panies, etc. In this connection the Question of struggle against speed- up should especially be raised as a central demand. For One United Union 8. Regarding the demand for Tecognition, the board reaffirms its Policy that our position on this k question is the fight for the right) ef the workers to belong to any union of their choice, for struggle against the company union. In mills where both the S. M. I. U. it, we shall fight ts to cover both addition to the demands for a democratically elected mill commitiee to be elected by all union shop is that the work of Such a union shop have the right to join any union of their choice and the abolition of the company unicn. In proposing this policy as @ policy to the steel workers, ex- iS out united front proposals, | shall «t the same time em- r pesition for one class ste union in dust In putting forward this | wpolicy to the workers, we must at! ‘all times emphasize why the work- @ts should join and build the Stcel Metal Workers Industrial ci r k of our union dm connection with the present sit- oe is the carrying through of 2 policy of work in the co oneentra- | |) tion milis in a systematic way and : @5 the same time undertaking on extensive scale a recruitment of| ers into the S. M. W. I. U. United Front Proposals 5. At the same time we must nections with all hon- 1 mal elements in the) A A, locals and other bodies, pro- jing joint action, the working out deint demands, the election of int pemmittees of action, concen- fing especially upon the miils ‘where we have only contacts and Whete the A. A. organization al- resdy a. ‘A central aim of such “B& united itont activity i: the mills “Must be to bring the program of our union beforé all the workers in _ the mills and to strengthen the 3. M. W. I. U. lccal. mnection the union diately send to all locals front state- ne pes ‘sora to. endors> At, and suggesting a conference with! 21st and wait one| ly provides evéry}; —— Our understanding of the) DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1934 850 Miners On Strike Against Firing of Local UM W Leader Local President Refused to Sell Qut Men; Led Strike on Job, Loaded Only One Car By JOHNSTOWN, Pa., May coal miners of the Riétz Coal company and the United Mine ANDY EVA 18,—Eight hundred and fifty | OFF Company are on strike. The Workers of America officials want to put over one of the worst strike-breaking contracts in the history of , 3, 4 and 8. the miners’ mine 2 2 A short time ago the min-| ¢ linto the mines and load all of the! ers decided to strike on the; job, by going into the .1ine| and only loading one car coal. This was thi weight of the ca and the miners d ect The pit committee militant local president | to do this. and were The coal company refuses to let | The miners had been in the mine} the local lent inspect thejfor one day now, and another He told to get back/meeting was held and a strike) into ‘the mine. Mike Balya, pre dent refused and said as he was elected to inspect the scales he|the rehiring of the president. ; would do so. Mike Balya was then called to | After the company refused this; Windber to a meeting of the U. M. | reque: a@ special mecting of the! W. A. officials, and coal company } }local was called. The meeting de-| and N. R. A. labor board. They cided that all of the miners were! wanted Balya to sign a statement to go into the mi ut load only, with the following, “that he shall; lone car of coal. | The first of The company sident to call the s used, pointing out that the was called by the local union that only the local had this furthermore that the mine: e the right to inspect scale then the t. The men hed an-; and decided to con- trike. land tinue the And also to de-| mand that Mike Balya be given his’ miners, job back. | The company and cials then called the N. R. A. coal board. They met and notified the {given to the compa fter the me: n| f than one car; j shall be called off and that he will asked the| then ibe put trike off.! he 1 ; Strike. jand the men, women union offi- | of the camps ¢} The strike involves that they were wrong and/ hat they must at once go back nee mine: 's they could get. The N. R. A. boa td further prom- of ised to give the miners “a new deal.” This was done. Everything was and nothing y decided to the coal mi Th , that the miners should pay $4 each for striking four days and that Mike Balya the local president ould be firét against the N. R. A. decision was jcalled. The miners also demanded resign as president and that he will x D vy closed, not hold any off ice or be president Someany Clee ae ‘Also that race tion of uniformed thugs, police and for two years.” back to work. This ed to do. Another meeting of Local 6410) was called. After President Balya ported a mot: was to| This w unanimot the mine is again shut down. But the min told that everything was thi ported for work. A line composed of all of the sti the mn ing Unemployed Council} nd children | sed this down. After | this there w mestings of soli- darity in this coal camp. an equal committee from our union, ;for the purpose of working out of !plans for joint development of the struggle along the lines of policy indicated above. In order to faci-| jlitate the carrying through of this | whole policy of the united front, we should try to meet with all our sympathizers of the A. A. to explain to them our policy and organize} | them to fight for it. | 6. We shall develop special ac- tivity to acquaint the workers with the presentation of the demands j;to the companies, utilizing this for jour organizational drive to build }cur union and for the development jof united front action with the locals of the A. A. In this con- {nection We warn the workers against S| the attempt of the A. A. officials jand perhaps some of the leaders of | the so-called insurgent movement | to limit the presentation of de- mands to merely demands for rec- ognition of the A. A. emphasizing in the first place the economic de- mands. Such a position of bring- ing forward only recognition would be a defeat of the strike from the very beginning. In connection with May 21st, we shall aim to develop mass meetings, parades, wherever possible on a united front basis and everywhere including the banners of the S. M. W. I. U. and its slogans. Mass Delegations Where demands can be presented jointly by both locals, this should be done. Where the A. A. locals exist and our organization is not strong enough to send a committee by itself, this shall be done through presentation of demands by the union organizers, through sending in written demands, izing the presentation of these de- and popular-| Ne: mands and rallying the workers around them. Finally, wherever there will be attempts on the part of the A. A, negotiations on their part in the name of the workers with .ational or regional labor boards or with any government officials, there it shall be our policy to organize and lead mass delegations of steel workers to such conferences, urging the A. A. workers to elect a similar delegation in unity with us, against the A. A. bureaucrats. We must demand an open stand from the committee of ten on all basic questions such as the fight for the economic demands, the united front with the S, M. W. I. U., the rank and file strike and negotia- tions committees, etc. On the basis of the stand of each member of the committee of ten, of each one who claims to be in oppositon to the Tighe machine, we shall keep the workers fully informed and warn oppositionists. 7. Special attempts should be made by the union to win the large numbers of youth in the steel mills, especially the newly hired youth through establishing youth com- mittees of the union in every local which hall work out special methods of approach for winning the young workers. 8. The board instructs all its local crganizations, district boards, and every individual organizer to undertake the widest activity to win the Negro steel workers to the union and mobilize them for the struggle. This necessitates that all documents, appeals shall stress this question. In assignment of organizers in election of committees of actio) steel workers must be cluded. repaee art leaders to develop} | | | | 2 mine were} O. K, and} icket ; BUFFALO AIRCRAFT STRIKERS ATTACKED BY POLICE Police shot into ranks of striking Buffalo aircraft workers, clubbed right and left, and used fire-hose The picture shows strikers de‘ending themselves against the brutal attack of police, who are attempting te ban all picketing. Wagner’s Laber Board backéd up the police by instructing the against the workers. ares For Strike men to return to work at the oid conditions, Police, Wagner, Seek To Outlaw . Airer aft Stri Strike; Men Fight On Groups, Are Two Essentials By JIM WEST BUFFALO, N, effort to crush the strike of 2,200 seronautical workers for higher wages at the Curtiss and Consoli- dater Aircrafts, the largest mobiliza- deputies were called out to enforce the orders of the Buffalo City Po- ay Department that mass picketing be stopped at the Curtiss Plant, Tonawanda, Whereas, before the aero s‘rike, and; workers had bsen successful in or- ganizing picket todey the pi are kept @ s tances of 50 is from the piant and only 50 at a time, ten feet apart, are t. A de- termined, militant must be put up by the mentary right to mass piicketing. Fight for Right to Strike The Buffalo Bulls and their dep- uty and sheriff nies, have -be- come extremely vicious and provoc- ative and intimidation has been added to their orders. The increased attacks against the aero strikers come at the same veritable wave of fascist a‘tacks and suppres ssion of workers strug- gles is sweeping the country; comes at the same time that the National Labor Board broadcasts a “decision” on the strike to send the workers back. Both, the increased police terror and the Labor Board Decision are designed to send the strikers back to work as quickly as possible without winning their de- mands, and to finish up the war or- ders. Not only is the right to picket be- ing taken from the aero s-Tikers, but the very right to strike itself is being threatened to aircraft and all workers in this country. Com- menting on why Congress should pass his bill, Senator Wagner points to the Aircraft strike declaring “it is an outstanding example” of why his bill should be passed “to put teeth in the Labor Board,” making their decisions enforceable by plac- ing under their jurisdiction all the power of the state and federal courts, enabling them to force all strikers to submit to the decisions of the “impartial” Labor Board un- der penalty of a year in jail or a thousand dollars fine. This fascist measure must not be allowed to pass and come into effect. The way to fight it is through im- mediate organized mass protest, stronger organization in the shops, and organization of workers’ self defense groups against the on- slaughts of the armed forces. The 01 in-} tremendous wave of protest, nation- wide in scope, which has already Y—In a desperate | time that aj it | | Mass Protee st, Pickei | gotten under way throughout the | anti-work- | country can defeat the ing class fascist attacks and prevent the passage of the Wagner “dis- putes” Bill Mass Pretest How shall this mass protest be organized? 1—Protest demonstrations with delegations seeing the Mayor and city officials. 2—Raliying the widest number of organizations, unions, lodges, ete., in active protest, cailing for protest resolutions, telegrams, etc., to Congress, the President, the Mayer of Buffalo, against use of armed forces against the strikers, | and against the Wagner Bill. 3—Hiolding a series of open air etings in all sections of the Y, rovsing masz indignation against police brutality and the Fascist Wagner Bill, At these open air meetings, the clearest explanation of the anti-working class character of this Bill should be given. 4—The utilization to the fullest extent of the columns of the Daily Worker by setting up among the strikers a corps of correspon- dents writing regularly daily re- ports, and establishiny a commit- tee for the distribution of the Daily Worker so that it exzn he- come an additional weapon in the hands of the strikers and linking up lecal struggle against the fas- cist terror and the Wagner Bill with those of all workers on a national scale. Organize Groups What Must Be Done to Insure 4 Victory? 1—The pickets should be organ- ized in groups of seven to ten, each led by a captain, who is under the direction of the shift captain—in- stead of the present form of one Railway, Chemical, Metal AFL Workers Endorse H.R. 7598 NEW YORK.— Joining the avalanche of A. F. of L. unions that are demanding the passage of the Workers’ Unemployment. Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598), the Chemical Workers Local 16107, the Boilermakers Local 249, and the Machinists Local 57 of Hun- tington, West Virginia, have en- dorsed the Workers’ Bill, instruc- ting their respective secretaries to demand that Congressmen yote favorably on the bill. In addition, the Machinists Local 816 of Hoboken, N. J., and the W. A. Gardner Lodge 191 of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen of Milwaukee have en- dorsed the Workers’ Bill. | Strikers Must Keep Out Collins, A. F, L, | Misleader | jcaptain to a shift of fifty or sixty jor even hundreds of pickets. | 2—ANl strikers should be organ- ized on a department basis. This is | done by electing department com- mittees, and having each depart- | ment elect i‘s representatives on the | general strike committee. | This will give broader leadership, | facilitate the check-up on the ac- y of every striker and on those who returned to the shop before the strike is®settled. This form of | organiza‘ion is especially needed to | prevent the splitting of the ranks, of the strikers by thé company, which has been inducing individuals and department groups to return} to work with bribe of wage increase | |of 815¢ an hour. Organize Youths 3—The young strikers must be organized as a group to carry | through certain youth activity, which will hélp the strike tremen- | dously. “such as, picketing of the YMCA Men’s Hotel, trailing of scabs. and rousing of neighbors | against scabs, visiting and contact- jing of youth organizations for the |coming “Support the strike” Con- ference, Sunday at 2 p. m. at | Orioles Hall. The plans for the or- | ganization of special women’s ac- tivity, too, must be pushed ahead. The strike has been strong partly because of the militant, mass picket. lines. There most be continued mass picketing, which offers the best expression of the support of masses of sympathetic workers, their wives, as well as organiza- | tions. Tendencies on the part of one or two strike Jeaders to laud A. F, of L, Burocrat Collins who is already in Buffalo preparing to enter the aircraft strike, and to “overlook” the recent sell-out of the Detroit Auto workers by Col- lins, can be noticed all around. Collins ordered workers who were waiting to strike, to submit to the decisions of the National Labor Board. Failing this, to prevent the outbreak of the recent strike wave in the auto industry, he has be- come, hand in glove with Bill Green, one of the most active supporters of the Wagner Bill. Aircraft strikers! Beware of double-dealing A. F. of L. burocrats! A very important point, vital to the maintainance of the spirit of the strikers, to the consolidation of the organization, is the matter of continued discussion of strategy and questions of policy with the whole membership, which must not be confined to the leading committee. Full faith in the militancy and de- termination to win, of the rank and file, must be maintained. Layoffs, | Speeds “up to Continue After May 21 | By 1. AMTER | AMONG the alleged aims of the | National Recovery Act were the | organization of production, employ- ;ment of more workers, raising of wages. Today we face the following: The silk industry has closed down for one week, beginning May 14. The cotton manufacturers are de- |manding that they be allowed to curtail production 25 per cent for) a period of 60 to 90 days. This means the layoff of t2ns of thou- sands of textile workers, T! how- | ever, is only a bare manifestation | of the “fruitful” results of the| N.R. A. Let us examine the situation in silk. Already for several weeks some | of the mills have closed down or| have been working on curtailed But production continues | . The situation on April 30, to Peter Van Horn, choir- men of the code herity of the rik. textile as thet the rerciccien 97 the NLR. AL to shift down the industry for a week pre- schedule. | vented an impending collapse of the market.” During the past months the | wages of both skilled and unskilled | workers have been miserable. Part. | time has cut into the wages, | when one considers the stretch-out and and the increase in the cost of living, which amounts to at least 30 per cent, it is obvious that even the code scales today represent a cut of 30 per cent in real wages compared with last yar. Facing this situation, the silk workers must draw up a program of action for the layoff, and for the time when they return to work, The workers of Easton and Allentown have adopted the following: 1. A demand fer cash relief equal to wages, to be paid by the city and the employers for the full period of the layoff. No evictions of unem- | ployed silk workers. | 2. Use of public grounds and build- ings for meetings of the workers. Let us took into these demands. The silk corporations, lixe all cther . pretend that t ed and suffer followinz partial list 07 8 for the yrer 19: the Amerivan ‘V ter, organ ci the wool and cotton manufacturers, will in- dicate how they have “suffered.” These figures are for net profits after all charges, including taxes, have been paid. We seléct a few: American Wooien ©o,..... $7,000,000 Celanese Corp. of America. 5,453,903 Cannon Mills Co, . 3,924,412 Marshall Field & Co. - 2,473,000 Amorican Glantzstoff Corp. 1,238,578 Ludlow Manufacturing Co. 1,207,148 Stillwater Worsted Mills .. 902,636 These are only a few out of a lengthy list of profits that the tex- tile concerns have pocketed. Let us now look at some of the salaries that the executives receive: Salary Bonus Amer. Woolen Co.- President ... Vice-President .. 150,000 Dupont de Nemours & Co. President - 583,000 2,300 1st Vice-Pres. + 301,000 253,000 2d Vice-Pres. .... 235,000 194,000 Gotham Silk Hos! President 44,796 | 44.796 | 69,009 ed Texiile Corp. cent 230.909 245.009 143,909 167.900 Vice-Preside 84,009 167,090 $629,000 $273,000. The demand for the return of all workers on the 30-hour week and an increase of 50 per cent is per- fectly realizable and justified. A 30-hour week on the present mini- mum scale, which is almost the max- imum, would allow only $9.75 a week, The Amefican Federation of Silk Workers (A. FP. of L.) proposes the 30-hour week and a 10 per cent wage increase. This would make $10.7214 a week. This the A. F. of L. proposes in advance, thus putting forward a direct wage cut of $2.2714, In order to put it across in Allen- town, on May 14 they are holding a big meeting with Mrs. Pinchot (!), wife of the Governor of Pennéyl- vania (who, like Roosevelt, is a “friend of the worksrs”). Holder- jmen of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Rieve of the Full-Fash- joned Hosiery the same thing in his own union), and others as speakers. The wage of $13 is far below any living minimum. The demand of the N. T. W. U. for a minimum waze When the mini- ad last the workers rebelled against ;0f $25 is ccrrect. mum wage of $13 was adopt year, . Therefore lemand thet the Satsideet be no lewer than last year Workers (who does; that time the cost of living! —fven with the hours. This means an increase of 331/3 per cent. But to meet at least in part the rise in the cost of living, an additional 162/3 per cent should be demanded. This would with a corresponding rise in the} There has been talk of a strike! of 200,000 textile workers in the South. Strikes must be prepared, and with the layoff in the silk in- dustry, it is obvious that the uném- ployed (those who have already been laid off) must be Iined up with those being laid off, and those who will remain out when and if the /mills resume work. The broadest united front of all workers in the mills—members of the Nationa! Textile Workers Union, independent and A. F. of L. unions, and unorgenized workers—must be jformed. The support of other or- ganizations in each town and city— unions, unemployed, fraternal, vet- erans, home-owners organizations— must be buit, Unemnioyment Ceun- cils must be set up. Morches to the fostories, relies butcans, city enun- tions and s‘~uggies in all forms must be prepared make the minimum sc2le $14,621, | higher categories. | “> Mass Lay- -Offs of Silk Workers in the Textile Industry ®. reduction to 30 | ells, must ho organized, Demonstra- | “Daily” Longshore Strike In Gulf Ports Betrayed By Ryan, I.L.A. Head Opposition Work Inside A. F. of L. Union Is Important Task; Unity of All Longshoremen Will Gain Victory By 0. EVERETT HOUSTON, Texas.—The biggest sell-out in the history of the Gulf longshoremen was recently put over by Joseph P, Ryan. Texas ports on so large a scal men in all Texas ports para- lyzed all shipping. Not only did the men working deep sea cargo quit work, but the ov whelming majority of the coa men as well. The strikers, it seems all réalized the importance of a gen- eral strike of all men in the in- dustry, regardless of craft divisions, and they swept aside all the arti- ficial barriers. of wages as well as/ color lines. After four years of downward trends of the wages and conditions of the dock workers, they all came tor the need of a struggle for better conditions and a standard wage scale not only for one port, but all those ports which were in the past us@d as a means to break strikes by diverting traffic there in case of strikes. The strikers put forth the following demands: 1. 8e an hour and $1.25 for overtime. 2. 75e an hour and $1.00 coast- wise. 3. 20c per bale of cotten instead of 13c before. 4. The 44-hour week, overtime | to start after 5 p.m. and 12 m. on Saturday. 5. One contract for all Texas ports, including Lake Charles, La., to expire in September. These, plus a number of smaller demands were put forward by the men, who had been suffering for four years from the crisis and un- employment and the attacks upon their living and working conditions by the shipowners, Unlike other strikes in the past an overwhelming majority of the strikers, both Negro and white, par- ticipated in militant picketing and in the prevention of scabs getting on the docks. In the past the men were told to go home and the -Dis- trict and National officials would take care of matters for them. This time the rank and file real- ized the need of their active par- ticipation in the struggle. They held meetings where the lines were or- ganized. A fleet of cars was mobi- lized to be used as scouts in pre- venting scabs in several wards of the city of Houston. The same went Rubber Workers Refuse To Be Proyoked In Ohio Plant Strike MANSFIELD, Ohio, May 17.—Al- though they have been provoked! on every occasion by the police, workers of the Rubber Workers’ Union, a branch of the A. F. of L. are picketing the Mansfield Titre a Rubber Company, here, every lay. The workers have been out for more than a week, demanding a 20 per cent increase in wages and the removal of a foreman who fired a woman worker in the plant. They also ask the reinstatement of the woman worker. Tool Workers Win Strike PHILADELPHIA, May 16.— The workers of the Costelli & Co. shop struck Monday, under the leader- ship of the Tool and D:emakers In- dustrial Union, and after a day and a half of strike forced the bosses to grant a general increase of 10 per cent for all production workers, and a 5 per cent increase to the diemekers and recognition of the union. Shut-Down O1 Ordered by N.R.A, Silk Code Authority | The N.R.A. officials, { The most militant strike ever carried out in the e as this one was maneuvered into almost a complete loss by This strike of longshore-* this misleader of labor. in Galveston and on Picketing was on 24 hours of the day. In this manner the strike went on elsewhere, for a week. From May first to the 8th, the docks were sewed up tighter than a base drum. The only docks where the companies claimed scab- bing was going on, were the Clyde Mallory and Morgan Lines. And they had to admit that this was {going on under an armed guard which was three times as large as the number of scabs. While city and state did not di- rectly use their police forces during the strike, due to the nearness of the elections, the various companies were allowed a private strike duty force, armed to the teeth. Machine guns were mounted on the Southern Pacific Steamship company docks in Houston and on the Clyde Mallory docks in Galveston. On this latter dock, in Galveston, two pickets were shot Saturday morning, the day of the conclusion of the agreement. One died later. Millions of Dollars Lost Millions of dollars were lost by the shipping companies as a result of the effectiveness of the strike. called into ac- tion by the shipowners, were unable to do a thing. It remained for the ever trusting friend of the shipown- ers in the ranks of the longshore- men to see that the men went back | to work with as little gains as pos- sible. Ryan appeared on the scene after the first five days of the strike, He carried on negotisions for five days more as a result of which he reached the following agreement: 1. Minimum wage of 9c and $1.20 an hour overtime; 75c and $1.90 overtime for coa: < 2. 15¢ per bale of cotton, only 2 certs above the pre-strike rate. 3. This same rate to go for all ports, including Lake Charles. La. 4. The agreement to expire June 1 and not in September. On the surface there does not seem to be much of a change from the original demands of the long- shoremen, It even looks like a vic- tory. Being that there was an in- crease in the wages for the men But when considering the fact that the contracts will expire at different times for the Sabine River district ports from the other ports, one can see that the slight gains do not amount to much. What is more, the main coastwise lines were completely abandoned. Instead of using all the longshore- } men, as well as the differences {among the various coastwise ship- owners in order to make them all come to terms, Ryan let the four main coastwise companies go and settled the strike with only a few of them. Those that have been ex- cluded from the agreement are the following: The Southern Pacific, the Clyde Mallory Line, the Southern Steamship Company and the Moor MacCormack Company. For the time being quite a few of the longshoremen seem to be satis- fled with the arrangement. But this is only until they begin to under- stand how it will work out with their pay envelope which will not change very much. “Communists on Outside This betrayal was possible mainly because of the lack of activity by the Marine Workers Industrial Union and the Communist Party among the longshoremen prior to the strike. The little that was done, such as the issuance of leaflets, did not change matters much. The revolu- tionary movement in the Gulf was on the outside of this strike. The strikers, especially at Galveston, read with enthusiasm the leaflets issued by the Trade Union Unity League, but this is as far as it went. The betrayal of the coastwise men on some of the main shipping lines’ docks gives the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union an issue to get in among the longshoremen in the future. The basic task of the Party and Trade Unien Unity teagus., how- ever, at the nresent time is to pen- etrate into the ranks of the long- In connection with this st-uggis,: Steremen inside of the L.A. This is the fight for the Workers Unem- | rloyment and Social Insurance Bill H. R. 7598 must be intensified. This is the only assurance that all work- ers will be pretected and that the employers will not be able to reduce the working class to a lower hunger level, as they are plotting teday. Finally, the silk workers, like the workers in all industries, must learn the lesson that the N. R. A. is a fraud, that it is not planning pro- duction, that it is not providing higher wages, but that it is raising prices and profits, and that with the aid of the A. F. of L. leaders and other agents within the working class the employers and the govern- ment hene to put across their star- vation pregram. A real struggle faces the silk workers, which they must immedi- ately prepare to meet. In sending i new subs to the please write the name i not only necessary but possible, as the littic that was done in that di- rection has already brenght resu‘ts. Only such systematic work from Pew on, only work planned ahead of time and not to be Kit by a thar- @ezbolt as we wore this time, will assure ont participation im and future leadership of the ceming struggles. In this connection the M.W.LU. has learned its lesson and is now ing sters to open up in various ports of the Gulf and to prepare for further work. This is in line with the decision of the recentiy held National Com- mittee meeting for a district con- ference to be held July 7-8 in Hous- ton, Teres, for the mobilization of seemeéen and longshoremen’s organ- izations in support of the National Conference, which will be held at the end of August in Baltimore. This conftrence in the Gulf will also lay the basis for better opposi- tion work inside of the LL.A. as well and adiress of the new sub- scriber clearly. as among the unorganized long- shoremen.