The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 22, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 71, 1934 Page Three Pittsburgh Councils Build United Front On Jobless Demands Unemployed Delegation| AFL Locals Endorse To Present Demands || Jobless Bill HR 7598 on May 28 os - || NEW YORK.—Four more A. P. r %y || of L. locals have endorsed the PITTSBURGH, Pa., May|| workers Unemployment Insur- 21.—In reply to a letter from || ance Bill (H. R. 7598), adding i ae r UF || their name to the thousands of the Allegheny County Unem-)) ji "of L. loeals and other ployment Councils, Erie H.) Biddle, state relief adminis-| trator, was forced to agree working class groups and organi- zations which are demanding adequate unemployment insur- r +. || ance. to meet with the delegation | The latest A. F. of L. local to of unemployed workers on Monday, || endorse the Workers’ Bill are: May 28, at his office in Harrisburg. || the Bricklayers, Masons and In the meantime, the Unemploy- ment Councils are continuing their demand that the entire State Re-| Nef Board meet with the unem- Plasterers Local 1 of Brooklyn, N. Y., the Plasterers Local 179 of ployed workers delegation on Tues- day, May 29. Youngstown, Ohio, the Journey- men Tailors, Youngstown, Ohio, and the Watchmakers Local 421 of the International Jewelry From Western Pennsylvania alone, || Workers Union of New York. more than 50 delegates elected by | the locals and sections of the Coun- cils are expected to be in Harris- burg on May 28. The drive for signatures to the petition listing the | demands is rapidly approaching the original goal of 50,000. The Har- risburg Councils are making ar- rangements to obtain a hall for the delegates. United Front Thirty-five regular delegates re- presenting seven locals of the In- dependent Unemployed Citizens League of Pittsburgh, after hearing @ short talk on the purpose of the Harrisburg delegation and the de- mands raised by the Councils, voted unanimously to enter the united Relief Cut Plan nited Front Must Be Consolidated, Jobless Worker Writes By a Worker Correspondent Jobless Defeat ee ee Steel Union Prepares for Strike A 7 sa | on the national headquarters was going on in the funds that were used for their miserable food. not only immediate relief but passage of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, H. JOBLESS DEFY COPS; DEMAND RELIEF Attempts of New York police to intimidate this parade of flophouse workers failed as they marched of the Salvation Army, The jobless workers exposed the fact that graft The unemployed workers demanded R, 7598. (Gontinued from Page 1) | they win better conditions ction ‘zation and through struggle can and departments and build the S, M.| tional President on “request” of | The W. I. U. into a powerful organiza-| Secretary of the Interior Ickes, At | “Real Silk” Strikers Kept Out Of Labor Board “Hearing”; AFL HeadsDelayRefineryStrike | | , | 6,000 Oil Refinery Men Demonstration to | Demand Fight for | Back Sherman Mills Strikers Tomorrow | More Pay NEW YORK—A demonstration, | aay tae, aay 1 thao sponsored by the Knitgood Workers | out of the oil refinery workers which Industrial Union, in support of the Strikers at the Sherman Knitting has just taken place with the post il of strike Mills, 797 Broadway, Brooklyn, wil | Ponement action has) be staged tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. in | aroused the rank and file workers | front of the plant. The strike is to a high pitch against the A. F. of for the purpose of keeping the | L. leaders in control of the Inter-| 35-hour week and organization in |national Association of Oil Field.) the shop. All knitgood workers are Gas Well and Refinery Workers urged to take part. | Union. The A. F. of L. officials Knitgood workers, hose | Promised the workers that they| who work in open shops, are urged would get higher wages and better | conditions for them once they were| union at the following addresses. organized. The majority of the|131 w. 28th St., Manhattan; 103 6,000 workers of the Calumet re- i 7 fineries have been in the union for rig odes er Atty Dae Bg some time now, but nothing has | : Z 2 happened. | The A. F. of L. leaders have stalled the workers off continually until lately when pressure of the |rank and file forced the leaders to | talk of strike to win a 20 per cent | wage increase with back pay from Strike Wins in thair'abien ns Teoomntton fF vestone Co. The strike was all set for Tues-| | day, May 8 but was called off at) | the last minutes by the Interna- to bring their grievances to the Department irls Get 10 Per Cent Increase in the Band they have spent hundreds of thou-| sands of dollars for industrial police,| SM. W. 1. U. has shown in life | tion in their mill. spy systems, and all kinds of so- ealled welfare schemes, to keep us away from a real workingmen’s union that will fight in our interests. The A. A. Leaders’ No Strike Policy | Poved steel workers. The S. M. W.| preparation and carrying through of | | that it is the organization of the| The S. M. W. I. U. has proven its | steel workers, through the fights sincerity for united action in every | | that it has carried on for the in-| struggle of the steel workers. In | terests of the employed and unem-| this same spirit we call for united I. U. today calls on all steel workers front and to elect delegates. | The Planning Board of the I. U. ©. L. voted to send 14 delegates, two from each local. After considerable discussion on the demands raised by the Councils, the I. U. ©. L. voted to support these demands on the basis of certain additions and clari- fications. The Planning Board delegates of the I. U. C. L. especially applauded Frankfeld’s call for one united un- employment movement to be set up in Allegheny County. The I. U. C. L. is growing at the expense of the Socialist controlled Unemployed Citizens League, from which they were expelled, and are conducting joint actions and working in close cooperation with the Unemploy- ment Councils. re WIN PARTIAL DEMANDS Several hundred members of the Unemployment Councils here mo- bilized on short notice and attended an open hearing at the City Coun- cil on Wednesday, May 16, on the demands of the unemployed. The president of the City Council, a self- admitted fascist sympathizer, re- fused to grant a hearing to the spokesman of the Unemployment Councils, and permitted Lieberman of the Socialjst-controlled Unem- ployed Citizens League to monop- olize the floor. Rank and file mem- bers of the U, C. L. who raised grievances were quieted by Lieber- man. Carl Smith, Mary Wells and Edith Brisco, representing the Unemploy- ment Councils and the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, after several times attempting to get a hearing, together with the en- tire Unemployment Council delega— tion, went to Mayor MeNair's office. Mayor MeNair was forced to take care of several emergency cases and * to sign a note to the Councils and | the Steel Union for a permit for mass meetings on the South Side, where J. & L. controlled police re- fused to grant a permit. Mayor McNair promised to take immediate action in behalf of the shanty-town men, who are facing eviction from the railroad proper- ties, and he promised to speak at a future meeting of the City Com- pilltee of the Unemployment Coun- cils. LL COMRADES WELCOME — About 150 workers, incensed over the attempts of the St. Clair County Emergency Commission to institute | forced labor, marched on the Rose Lake School in Fairmont City re- lief project. Relief workers on the job joined the marchers and re- | fused to continue on the job. The |men, members of the A. F. of L. Hodcarriers Local 142 and the Fed- eral Employes Association Local 100, demand that all relief work be paid at the rate of 75 cents an hour for a six-hour day, five-day week, a |50 per cent increase in relief, free milk to the unemployed and free clothing, household utensils, rent, |heat, light, gas, water and elec- | tricity, and free dental and medical | care. | The foreman on the job was booed | down when he asked the men to | stay on the job, When Lee, a Negro | worker, asked him a question, he | replied, “Don’t talk to me, Nigger.” | gro workers’ defense. Although good initial steps have | been taken by the unemployed | workers in defeating the work relief | officials and against the no-strike | its company unions and terror.| fighting union in the industry and | In their | Only the tried and militant methods | for the immediate carrying through | | schemes, the calling of the United Front Conference of all labor and unemployed organizations for the | purpose of establishing a permanent | body, the ousting of the misleaders | of the F. and 8. A. E. A., it is neces- | sary to consolidate all the forces |of the unemployed, to adopt a | united front program of action | which will rally all the workers, Negro and white, employed and un- ;employed, for this program. Al- | though the unity of the Negro and white workers is growing daily, it is necessary to raise special de- | mands for the Negro workers, point- ing out the discrimination—cutting off of relief, Jim-Crow at the relief stations, etc. In addition to the demands raised must be added the endorse- ment of the Workers’ Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598), workers control of the | relief administration with represen- | tation on all relief commissions, all P. W. A. funds to be used for new | workers’ homes, schools, hospitals, etc,, and an end to all forms of Neg gro discrimination. (Classified) MODERN ELEVATOR 3-room apartment, EAST ST, LOUIS, Ill., May 21.—| _ Despite this, thousands have | to follow this example and organize| Joined the Steel and Metal Workers | themselves and strike for better con- Industrial Union and have, through | ditions. This is the only road that over 60 strikes in the past two years, | jeads to better conditions. | won increases in wages and better | } | conditions in many important mills. | For One Industrial Union |The S. M, W. I. U, has shown in| The S. M. W. I. U. organizes all |action the road to better conditions | the steel workers into one industrial and higher wages. Other thousands| union. It unites the Negro and| of steel workers haye joined the! white steel workers, foreign-born | Amalgamated Association, expecting | and native steel workers, the men, | that the officials of this A. F. of L,| women and youth in the industry, | | union would lead them in a fight for | into one industrial union with locals | | better condtions, but: the top official- | in every mill. The S. M. W. I. U.} | dom of the A. A,, true to their tradi- | guarantees real democracy and con- | | tions and policies of friendship with | trol in the hands of the rank and] the employers, have refued to fight, | file. It opposes the policy of de-| | When the rank and file of the A.| pendence on the good will of the} | A. decided to fight over the heads|employers, as preached by Mike| | of the officialdom, as in Weirton and | Tighe and Leonard, and in its stead | | Clairton, the International officials, | puts forward the policy of militant | itogether with the N. R. A. Labor | actin on the part of the workers. | | Board, openly betrayed the strike | We call upon all unorganized steel {and sent the workers back into the | workers ‘to organize themselves into | | mills without gaining their demands. | the 8S. M. W. I. U.. organize locals | | in your mill or department, and get elements he represents from all| | Several workers sprang to. the Ne-| | Bewrais mill or dep and gel 8. M. W. I. U. Calls for Unity | your fellow workers to join. Only a | The rank and file of the A. A., and | strong S. M. W. I. U. assures a suc-| |some of the honest local leaders, | cessful strike in the steel industry | |have begun to revolt against such | against the ruthless steel trust with | |\poliey of the A. F. of L. jJast convention in Pittsburgh, they | of struggle of the S. M. W. I. U. can have decided to fight for better con-' lead to a united victorious struggle. | ditions and more wages over the | Set Up United Action Committee | | | heads of the International officials. ‘We call upon all the steel workers, | |The Steel and Metal Workers In- | organized and unorganized to set up dustrial Union aims to unite the) united action committees in the j;members of,the A. A. and the un-/ mills and departments for the fight | organized for the coming strike of | for improved conditions and for the | | all steel workers in the industry.| preparation for the strike of the | This policy of the S. M. W. I. U. has | steel workers on a mass scale. We already had its effect in influencing | urge that everywhere there be or- the rank and file of the A. A. to} ganized united parades and mass \fight for a militant class struggle | meetings to make the preparatior | program. | for the strike effetcive. We urge} This was expressed at the recent | that our members and sympathizers | A. A. convention, where the dele-| take the lead in the organization of | | gates, over the head of the A. A.| such united committees in all mills leadership, decided to fight for the) | following demands: | | 1—The 6-hour day, 5-day week: | 2. $1.00 an hour minimum wage | for common labor, other trades to receive increased wages in propor- tion; 3. For abolition of the dif- ferential between the North and | the South; 4. For equal rights for | Negro workers; 5. For recognition of the union, and the recognition of the mill and department com- | By MARGUERITE YOUNG mittees to adjust grievances; 6. | 7 i oht- For Unemployment Insurance Bill TUE seamen were fight ing to hold control of re-| RH. R. 7598, now hefore Congress. lief, the unemployed through- downtown. Latest improvements. Fur- nished. To sublet for the summer months. Very reasonable price. For single person or couple without children, Refer- ences. all St. 9-6345 NEW CHINA CAFETERIA Tasty Chinese and American Dishes PURE FOOD — POPULAR PRICES 848 Broadway bet. 13th « 14th st. Ideal vacation | ONE or two rooms to let. Reasonable. place. All improvements. ,Comradely atmosphere. One hour from the City. §.B, ¢/o Daily Worker. BIRO-BIDJAN A Jewish Autonomous Region Soviet Government Grants Jewish Pioneers In Biro-Bidjan An Autonomous Status This Great Historic Event Will Be Celebrated SATURDAY, JUNE 2nd Madison Square Garden All Mass Organizations Will March to Madison Square Garden With Their Banners, Placards and Bands Every Friend of the Soviet Union Is To Be Present at the Gigantic Rally on June 2nd Tickets 25c, 50¢, 75¢ and $1 Buy your tickets in advance. Be sure that you will not be disap- action, expressing the sentiments of the rank and file of the A. A. and pledges full support and united ac- tion for the realization of these demands. Tighe Drops Demands We warn all steel workers, how- | of the convention alone, for already the Tighe-Leonard machine has be- gun to knife the decisions of the convention, They have sent to the A. A, lodges forms for presentation of demands on May 21, calling only for recognition of the union and not mentioning the economic demands adopted by the convention. This is a continuation of their action at the convention where they fought against all proposals for strike ac- tion, and proposed instead arbitra- tion and support for the Wagner- Connery Bill, intended to outlaw all strikes. They are doing everything in their power to defeat this strike even before it starts, The leaders of the opposition in the Amalga- mated Association, who show signs of fighting against the of- ficaldom and in the interests of the steel workers, must show this in action by insisting that the demands presented to the bosses shall be the full set of demands adopted hy the convention. Also they must insist that the workers themselves through broad elected rank and file committee shall participate in carrying on all ne- gotiations and that there he es- | ever, not to depend on the decisions | ‘The 8. M. W. I. U. welcomes this out the city of Baltimore were complaining against being Te-| quired to sign a pledge which was practically a pauper’s oath in order to get home relief. Seamen’s delegates approached the People’s Unemployed League and proposed a united front for seamen’s control and against the pauper’s oath. This P. U. L. with! a@ paper membership of 15,000 and 1,200 active members, was organized by six middle-class professionals, college instructors, a lawyer, a: min- ister and a Department of Justice official—including four prominent Socialist Party members. Two of those prominent “Socialists” heard the seamen and replied, “The best thng we can do is to give each other our blessing and let it go at that.” S. P. Won't Cooperate “You mean we can say we don't) mind each other and scram,” the seamen’s spokesman _ interpreted. Yes, that was it. The Socialist Party unemployed leaders flatly re- | fused to cooperate with the most) dramatic and historic working-class movement Baltimore has ever seen! They did even more. They de- clined a seaman’s offer to support an unemployed demonstration led exclusively by the Socialist Party. These developments followed curt refusal of the P. U. L, to form a united front with any unemployed who insisted upon “dragging in the Communist Party” even though a the strike, Regarding the demand! for recognition, we stand for the policy of joint action on the part of | the A. A. and the 8, M. W. I. U. against the company union, and for the establishment of the union shop in each mill, through a_ joint agreement of both unions where both exist, with the democratic right of the steel workers to join any| union of their choice. We of course| urge the stee] workers to organize themselves and build the 8S. M. W.| I. U., because its program and policy and leadership alone meet the needs of the steel worker. We also} wish to point out to the steel workers! that we stand always ready to unite with the membership of the A. A. into one fighting organization of the| steel workers, Such united organization can, however, only be achieved by de-} feating the policy of Mike Tighe and| company, and by removing those Positions of influence among the steel workers. The building of a | midnight | that time, 1,000 men had already | |Jald down their tools and walked | out of the Empire refinery and the officials had a hard time to get} them to go back. | At a mass meeting of refinery) workers called May 10 the Trade} Union Unity issued a leaflet point- ing out the treachery of the of- ficials and this resulted in a great response from the workers. | The officials, had strong-arm squads | working to stop the leaflet distribu-| tion and they raised the Red Scare at the meeting. | Workers stood up and said if was} their officials who were breaking| the union and the Communists were doing the right thing in ex-| posing the officials, At that time the plans were to pull out only part of the refineries | (Shell, Empire, Sinclair and others) | leaving the Standard Oil (largest in the world) still in operation under | the guise of protecting the “public.” On May 18, the strike was put off altogether after a fight lasting until | in which the Interna-| tional Vice President Fred Phillips, | Business Agent T. B. Fisher and others threatened to outlaw any strike. The men gave in only on the promise that the officials would call a strike if the refineries re- strong S. M. W. I. U. is the best beginning to achieve one united of a successful strike. Forward in united front of all steel workers to gain better con- ditions and higher wages! Smash the company union! Organize, Unite, Prepare for Strike, Paha? ups Note: We urge all locals of the S. M. W. I. U., all locals of the Amalgamated Association and in- dividuals to order the above in | leaflet form, and all individuals who wish to distribute them, Send your order to 929 Fifth Ave,, Room 511, Pittsburgh, Pa, 1,000 copies for $1.50, Small bundles of 100 for 5he, the taxpayers around by the nose.” Socialist leaders deny this, and, unfortunately the seamen did not obtain the name of the speaker. However, one Socialist leader told me “he didn’t think” it happened, and added, by way of defense, “The only one it could have been was not in the Socialist Party at the mo- ment, and he has been taken back in oyer the protests of some of us.” T asked Frank Trager, Johns Hop- kins philosophy teacher and one of the Socialist Party founders of the P,.U. L., why no united front was formed. Why No United Front “That goes back some time,” he replied. “There's never been a suc- cessful united front movement here, In 1938, the Communist organizer and the Unemployed Councils came to P. U. L. leader and proposed a united front May Day demonstra- tion. The P. U. L. was willing to form united front with the Unem- ployment Council, but they insisted on dragging in the Communist Party.” “But there already existed a united front between the Unem- ployed Council and the Communist Party, and you were asking them to break it as the price of the P. U. L.’s joining?"” ‘ “Yes, if you put it that way.” “And the Socialist Party never has taken any stand on the sea- men’s movement?” “We've had a good deal of dis- cussion of the seamen’s movement,” he said, “but the Socialist Party never took an official position be- cause we never had a successful united front. The seamen never proposed one to delegates’ meetings {fused to make a settlement with | the union. The revolutionary workers know very well that these officials will never take any action to improve | conditions for the workers. The | opposition is being built up to fight) | for control of the union by the rank | | and file, | New Haven Jobless to Protest | - Inadequate Relief, Demand | Endorsement of H.R. 7598 | NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 21. - Mayor John W. Murphy and other | city officials have been invited to at- tend the meeting of the Unemployed | Protective Association at the meet- Building Section By a Worker Correspondent AKRON, Ohio, May 21.—Workers in the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., plant number one, are showing more each day their determination to struggle for better wages, and work- ing conditions, Girl band builders in department 16-B,- semi-drum tires, refused to work Wednesday m ng, May 16, until they were granted a 10 per cent increase. Although there were only seven or eight involved in this short stoppage of work, the bosses were in a hurry to settle with them to keep it from spreading The tire departments 16-B and 17-B are organized 85 per cent in the A. F. of L., but so far the union leadership has not forward any de- mands for the improvement of their conditions. The workers themselves are show- ing their willingness to fight for bet- ter wages and against the speed-up, and are openly talking against the company union, which has little support within the factory. There are all kind of attractions \dangled before the workers’ eyes to |make them think the Firestone is |a nice place to work and to keep their minds off organizing for strug- |gle for more wages. The company lis opening up a large game preserve for their employees, but we are not fooled by all these gifts. We know why we are getting them. It is be- cause of their fear of the growing discontent within their factory against the low wages and the ter- rible speed-up. Elm 8t., Friday, May 25. The newly organized unemployed group, affili- |ated with the National Unemploy- ment Councils, demands endorse- ment of the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598), and jobs at trade union wages or ling to be held at Fraternal Hall, 19 replied they might consider it‘ if you and not against capitalism, because I’m a capitalist myself.’ “Some weeks ago, a delegation of unemployed who were being led by the Socialist Party from New York to Washington, stopped in Balti- more. Representatives of the Inter- national Labor Defense, the Seamen League, proposed that we join their demonstration, to support their own demands. They refused, saying they had no time to consider it in a regular meeting.” It was, in short, the same old story of prominent “socialists” sup- porting the workers’ enemies by re- sisting all efforts toward unity. In this connection it is more than a coincidence that some of the “so- associates, of State Relief Director Harry Greenstein. The latter urged me to advise the seamen to follow a policy “such as the P. U. L. fol- lows”! Communist Party and Seamen What of the Communist Party and the seamen? It was as a result of the Com- munist Party’s policy to root itself seriously in the basic industries, to become the leader of the day-to- day struggles of the working class for its smallest, most. needs as well as for final freedom from oppression, that the marine watrefront struggle. Not “Red agita- tors financed from New York,” as Greenstein charged, but Baltimore workers, responding to the Commu- nist Party’s program, led this water- front movement. Those 125 or so who joined the make it only against human nature} and the Relief Workers’ Protective; cialists” are personal friends, close| ployed workers, Labor Rouses the Waterfront XII. Socialist Party Leaders, Seamen, and Communist Party many rapidly developing struggles, it was unable to give sufficient guid- jance to the seamen—it failed to show the way to put down the left- ist tendency that isolated the sea- men from other proletarians, it failed to show the way to build a united front from below despite the opposition of Socialist leadeds and others, who objectively served the ruling class while supposedly at- tempting to lead the working class The seamen’s failure to establish a united front from below was per- |of strong Unemployment Councils \away from the waterfront; and to the failure to do serious, long-con- tinued work toward winning the membership within the P. U. L, and the A. F. of L. on united front is- sues. It was due also to simple |front from below tactic. In April the Waterfront Unemployment Council did call a United Front Conference on relief. In it a num- ber of P. U, L. delegates and some | A. F. of L. members as well as In- ternational Workers Order and other mass organizations participated. ‘They held a mass demonstration, with 1,200 participating, on the | street opposite a transient relief sta- came forward and presented a copy |of the pauper’s oath statement the meeting and denounced—but neither immediately after this meet- ing, nor later, did the United Front Council take up the case of this adequate cash relief for all unem- | | haps their most serious shortcoming. | |It was due, in part, to the absence) failure to properly apply the united) \tion. During the mecting, a worker| immediate | | which relief officiais were demand-| workers rallied to the revolutionary | ing that he sign, This was read at|ponded, against their organizer's ex- Conference or the Unemployment worker or do any serious work with) Hosiery Men Struck After NRA ‘Election’ Brought Co, Union By a Worker Correspondent INDIANAPOLIS, May 2 In a demonstration of rank and file solidarity and mili-« tancy unparalleled in open shop Indianapolis, 1200 fulle fashioned knitters and syme pathizers picketed at the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, accompanied by the entire force of the National and Fulton Street Mills, Real Silk sub- sidiaries. The strikers remained firm in the seventh week of their strike for union recognition, increase of wages to union scale, and aboli- | tion of the bonus and penalty sys- tem. Picket lines continued intact dee spite open provocation police brutality, vicious paid advertise. ments, published by employers in the capitalist press, anti-picketing decisions, and the presence of ime ported armed thugs masquerading as “special deputies” who rede through the city in armored cars terrorizing both strikers and private citizens. Struck After N. R, A. “Election” The strike arose out of workers’ dissatisfaction with an N. R. A, “election” held last October. At this “election,” 3,000 employees of Real Silk were asked to vote on whether they should be represented by their own union or a company union. The vote went for the company union by about 2,000 votes. But only the 600 actual knitters were qualified to vote—only they could be represented | according to the by-laws of the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers (A. F. of L.). e yote was padded by intimidated office workers, firemen, waiters, and specially hired tem- porary help. Six months of negotiation proved futile. Then, declaring themselves 100 per cent for their own union, the knitters went on strike. So did the workers at National and Fulton, where, although the N. R. A. elec- tion resulted in an overwhelming majority against company unions, the workers again found they were tricked by the Roosevelt machinery, Police Terror Under the guidance of A. F. of L, labor misleader Smith, the militant Real Silk workers were held down while scabs came into the mill to |take their jobs. After two weeks of | this the rank and file took picketing |into their own hands. They formed | strong picket lines to block entrance ‘for scabs and those employees who |continued to work. | At this juncture the employers lresorted to importing armed hood- lums — an act of terrorism which. aroused such militant opposition that after a week these thugs dis- appeared, Not, however, until the police agreed to “protect” scabs and \their property did this occur, Since then the police have engaged in their regular function of strike- breaking, beating up workers, and shooting at peaceful pickets and neighboring citizens. | Injunction Issued As a climax to their strike-break- ing activities, the police ordered the picket lines dispersed. An injune- tion against this order was obtained by the strikers—an injunction whieh lasted only one day. Now a deci- sion of the Indiana Supreme Court has upheld the police in their ate tempt to end picketing. But rank and file strikers con- tinue to picket despite the legal ma- chinery and brutality used against them. Nor have they been stopped by a strike-breaking decision of the National Labor Board upholding the company union until next October. After this ruling the Communist Party of Indianapolis immediately put out leaflets urging the strikers to take the strike into their own ‘hands. The leaflets further urged the election of a rank and file com- ittee to take over the conduct of ithe strike and fight for three de |mands. These demands are: 1) Recognition of a mnion of the strikers’ own choosing; 2) in- crease in wages; 3)replacement of every striker. The last of these demands is in sharp contrast to the position of the |A, F. of L. union organizer. As & result of this leaflet’s influence over lthe strikers, this lebor betrayer de- clared that between the employers and the Communist Party, he pre- |ferred to trust the employers and |deal with them. As another evi- |dence of his betraying role, he de- | manded the removal from the picket line of volunteers from the T, L. Dy and the Unemployed Council. | Rank and File Barred | Militant: strikers, however, voiced \supnort of this Communist leaflet at a strike meeting. They declared they could see nothing wrong with the leaflet, which realistically stated their true demands. They also re- pressed wish, to a May Day leaflet | distributed by the Communist Party calling for a demonstration. Since two “arbitrators” sent from | washington have already failed to break the militant spirit of the 7 the rank and file of the P. U. L. on ikers of sell-out Commuhist Party while more than the pauper's oath. The P. U. i ake ret peri attempt of 4,000 went through the Seamen's) later succeeded in having the |ine strike-breaking class-collabora- Project under seamen’s control, drew pauper’s oath “amended” and, al-|tionists is a National Labor Board directly upon the Communist Party's | though it still included most of the| pearing set for May 22 in Washing-§ program for guidance, and sought vicious aspects, the P. U. L. prates ¥ tablished the united action of the workers of the A. A. and the S. M. W. I. U. together with the unor- united front already had been estab- lished between the Communist Party and unemployed groups. Any unemployed who accepted the co-} operation of the Communist Party, of the Socialist Party.” Trager admitted, however, that the General Council of the P. U. L. had a “thorough discussion” of the; matter on April 21, and still took no} yainted. ICOR OFFICE, 799 Broadway, Room 514, New York. MORNING FREIHEIT, 35 E .12th Street, New York. © WORKETS BOOK STORE, 50 E. 13th Street, New York. ganized. WORKERS’ CO-OPERATIVE COLONY OFFICE, 2700 Bronx The opposition leaders must break Park East, New York. NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION, 131 W. _ ANDRE CIBULSKI in SOVIET SONGS openly with the Tighe-Leonard ma- in short, were untouchables to So-| position. chine. Only the opposition leaders who will accept and fight for such cialist Party unemployment leaders. The Communist Party, from the the A. A. to be on guard for their own interests and for the interests of the rest of the steel workers. ‘The Steel and Metal Workers In- The seamen report that the So- cialist Party, as such, not only held aloof from the waterfront struggle, but allowed, if it did not direct, one ‘| FESTIVAL and BAZAAR MANHATTAN LYCEUM 66 East Fourth Street dustrial Union has throughout its existence explained to the workers that only through their own organi- of its street corner speakers to de- clare to a waterfront A that fhe marine workers were “trig to lead Milton Berthold, organizer of the Relief Workers’ Protective League— cialst leaders called “taking on a partisan character,” that is, for being penniless and militant-—had something to add, “When the united front for May Day was proposed,” he said, “A. E, Monsell, a wealthy S, P, member, the advice of the Party in applying it. In addition, the Communist Party mass demonstrations, etc. by every mass organization in which it had any influence, Party’s Shortcomings It was a shortcoming of the sec- tion leadership of the Party that. with limited frrces and facing of its “victory” on the pauper’s oath. The Communist Party local lead- the seamen’s movement and all working class struggles. The So- cialist Party and the Socialist-led P. U. L. adopted a deliberate policy of refusing co-operation, objectively ton. True to their role of labor mis- leaders, A. F. of L. officials have chosen themselves as a committee Communist Party is pointing out to the workers. ss Thus the stage seems set for one — more sell-out of the workers at ¢ hampering the waterfront struggle. (To Be Continued) { hands of collaborating A. F. of te officials and the N. R. A. “ breaking machinery. 28th Street, New York. a policy will be fighting in the in-| beginning, however, threw all its| composed of former P. U. L. mem-| rallied other workers to support the|¢tship fell short, however, in the|to speak for the strikers at Wash» GOLDSTEIN'S BOOK STORE, 363 Sutter Ave., Brownsville terests of the steel workers, resources into aiding the seamen’s| bers who were expelled for “non-| seamen by donating their pennies| #PPlication of the Party program for|ington, Not one rank and file i We appeal to all the members of | movement. payment of dues,” what the So-|in critical stages of the fight, by| Tendering every possible support to| worker is on this committee, as the