The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1934 Page Three Buffalo Citywide Movement Formed | To Aid Aero Strike By MARGUERITE YOUNG OME two hundred seamen Marine Workers’ Leaflet Up Mass Picketing During Negotiations BULLETIN NEW YORK. — Press reports here state that strike of Buffalo aircraft workers has been broken by the National Labor Board and that the strikers have gone back “pending arbitration.” See Editorial on page 6 today, “Aero Strikers, Stand Solid!” (Special to the Daily Worker) BUFFALO, N. Y.— The open | strike-breaknig character of the N.| R.A. Labor Boards is becoming more | evident to the mass of aero strikers | here every day. | Strikers point to the Labor Board | decision that all strikers who may want to can go back to work by | June 1, and will not be considered | strike-breakers by the government | or employers, as one of the main | reasons for the return to work of a few hundred strikers in both plants. | There can be no doubt that this | decision, arrived at by the employ- | ers and the National Labor Board without union representatives pres- end, had an influence on weak sis- ters who wanted to go back to work | and still “be in right with every- body.” However, it must be pointed out that had certain definite steps been taken in sufficient time, the ranks of the strikers could have been soli- dified and united to a greater ex- tent, sufficient to withstand the strike-breaking decision of the La-| bor Board. On Friday night, the membership meeting of the aero local meeting could not arrive at any definite conclusion, although a determined | sentiment to continue the fight was) evident throughout. This meeting! was adjourned until Sunday, when it was announced by one of the) strike leaders that he had been in| touch “with a certain influential in- dividual who did not want his iden- tity revealed, but who wanted to/| help the strikers.” Aircraft strikers are warned that “influential individuals” who do not want to get publicity are to be sus- pected, and to watch out for any such person, politician or otherwise. | Sunday afternoon, preceding the} membership meeting of the union, | a “Support-the-Strike” Conference | took place at Orioles Hall. More than 100 duly elected delegates, rep- | resenting 50 organizations, as well) as a large number of visitors and fraternal delegates, were present. | In businesslike fashion, the con- | ference proceeded to outline the methods necessary to rally effective financial and moral support for the strikers. Manning Johnson, district organizer of the Communist Party, elected as a delegate from the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, Pointed out the steps necessary to rally mass support and re-establish the picket line. He dealt with the Labor Board dealings, pointing out their anti-working class character. The conference recommended to the aero strikers that they continue their strike, assuring them the ut- most support of the Buffalo work- ers, taxpayers and others. The con- ference, in making this recommen-| dation, considered carefully the; forces at play, after which the dele- gates voted on the question. A pro-| posal to vote for sympathy strikes | was greeted with a wave of ap-| plause. Among the important proposals for rallying the widest mass support | and solidarity there are the distribu- tion of 150,000 handbills on the strike to Buffalo workers, the use of.a plane to help in. distribution, mass meetings in different parts of the city, demonstration at McKinley Square, numerous delegations to city officials, and others. Many pledges of $25 and more in contributions were made. | On the motion of an A. F. of L. delegate, it was decided to call the permanent conference the “Cham- ber of Labor,” as a united front of workers for support of workers’ struggles, as opposed to the “Cham- ber of Commerce,” the united front class organization of employers act- ing against the workers. Workers Call for Fight At the union membership meet- ing Sunday night, members of the | victory for you is a victory for sea- faced Maryland Relief Di- rector Greenstein’s desk, but instead of the charity expert, | a seamen sat in the official’s Calls on Strikers to Keep go back to work “until you have | seaman in Grenstein’s chair was the every guarantee that every striker | “Judge.” Others were impersonat- will return to the job he filled be-|ing “Defendant Greenstein,” the fore the strike and under strict |“Prosecutor,’ and the “Defense union _conditior All the rest were the “The Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, conscious of the fact that a} aw, charge the defendant: as a men, as well as all workers, has and | “t*ke-breaker’— continues to support your heroic| “Objection!” (exclaims the “De- | strike. Unity of all workers can|fense Counsel.” “My client is the defeat the attacks of the employers | Seamen's friend, Your Honor. Have) on your living standards!” | You not heard him say so?” The leaflet was well received by} Indeed Greenstein himself had| the strikers, and one after another | just said so in this same office. The | they took the floor, insisting that |Seamen had marched en masse to| the line of the leaflet be realized, | demand that he return their beds, Labor Rouses the Waterfront XIV.—The Fight Goes On! the police lines and back to the; They began to re-register the next waterfront. day. Greenstein’s promises proved| The siege continued 12 days. Then|barren. Re-registered men were in a conference with Greenstein, the} sent to filthy uptown flophouses, Seamen’s committee agreed to pre-|even to whore houses. Shipping sent to the body of marine workers) continued at the uptown relief sta- @ new program They would re-| tions. Protest action mounted. The register on conditions that Green-|seamen marched to the relief sta- stein protect the Centralized Ship-|tions again. Once, for exactly five | Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, chair. Marine workers were) ping Bureau against shipping by| hours, they occupied a street where distributed a leaflet calling upon! conducting a mock trial of| uptown relief officials, that there) six hundred worker spectators gath- the aircraft strikers not to vote to| Greenstein in his own office! The |P® © discrimination against mili-|ered around them and applauded tant seamen, that bona fide sea- men’s discharges from any port be recognized as establishing applicants as seamen, and that advisory com- mittees be recognized their speeches, They sent speakers to rally support in mass organiza- tions and among students. The capitalist press directed a barrage at them. Louis Azrael, lib- Illinois Communist' Bronx Meeting on iss, ses%" Party Calls Meets | In Election Drive Race Segregation eral columnist of the Baltimore News-Post, falsely commented that the seamen gave up trying to dem- onstrate when “the capitalist gov- ernment’s police” declined to supply soapboxes. The same paper carried a “latter to the editor” signed, “A Former Seaman” (by one who ap- parently dared not print his name) saying the seamen’s making little headway for the aimple reason that few of the strikers are actually sailors!” The Baltimore Sun supplied a broadside quoting Greenstein but with quota- tion-markless subheads reading Violence Admitted,” “Financed in New York,” “Authority Flouted.” The seamen sent a delegation of 25 to see the city editor. When they a score of Police hastily summoned, the editor | . . |forced to admit the groundlessness F rl d a T 0 Ki ht of the subheads, had decided to print | their answer to the scurrilous at- tack, Finally Greenstein, appearing to speak to university student lib-| erals about the seamen’s relief | “problem” Was surprised by a sea- | finds the ranks of the strikers solid The right of workers to negotiate | their own agreements directly with the employers and to directly arbi- trate through their own elected | committees, without having to sub- | mit to the tender mercies of “im- partial” third parties—this is the issue that is assuming major sig-| nificance. At this time, when all the pressure of government boards is being used to force the men back to work, under unsatisfactory con- ditions, a blow against “impartial” | arbitration is the most effective ac- | tion that can be taken to prevent; the passage of the fascist Wagner | “labor disputes” bill, which would | give the board the dictatorial pow: ers of compulsion, which it now} lacks. Strikes Spread Across Nation Los Angeles Hosiery Strike In 8th Week LOS ANGELES, May 23.—The eighth week of the hosiery strike despite weak A. F. of L. leadership. Several of the strikers have not eaten for two and three days, some are without underwear, others are threatened with eviction. But the leadership has not yet made a financial and file. | A leaflet was distributed by the) Communist Party exposing the A. F. of L. leadership for deliberately not allowing the pickets to talk with scabs in an effort to keep them from scabbing. | Bakery Workers Win Strike DETROIT, (F. P.).—A_ two-day! strike of the Detroit Jewish Bakery Workers’ and Drivers’ Union was won when the employers conceded! the bakers an increase of $1 a day and another 1 per cent of commis- sion to the drivers. accounting to the rank] |the State Relief Commission. They | agreed, but warned they would wait | gressional District. | “your friend.” | mediately introduces the letter in their food, their gas. He had re-| Minnesota Convention plied, “God bless your efforts, but, | 4 : gentlemen, I can do nothing until Opens in J inneapolis June 10 you re-register and submit to the| Program we have proposed... . Gentlemen, divorce your relief prob- (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill., May 23.—District lem from your economic questions, Eight of the Communist Party to- your controversies with the ship- day opened its drive to place Com- owners, .. . I say God bless your efforts—don’t smile—to better your conditions with the shipowners, but munist. candidates in the United you, gentlemen. will have to sub-| states Congress and the State Sen- mis, ate. A. Guss, district campaign man- | Finally Grenstein had declared,| ager, announced the dates of four “Washington has ordered me to} evict you from the project at any | cost . but I am the seamen’s | friend. I don’t want to use force.” Then, said Greenstein, he would leave them to attend a meeting of united front conferences at which the Communist Party candidates will be selected. These conferences will be held in various Congressional Districts and nominate candidates for Congressman and for the State Senatorial Districts within the Con- for him to return. First, however,| On June 3, 2 p.m., the conference they demanded that Greenstein or-| for District One will take place, at der out of the room two uniformed | 3847 South State Street. This dis- policemen who stood on guard. | trict, at present represented by The mock trial continued. | Oscar De Priest, reformist Negro “Your Honor, can the seamen| politician, is one of the concentra- really be so miserable?” asked the} tion places during the campagn. marine worker, impersonating| The Sixth District conference will Greenstein. | be held the same day, at a place to A Letter Is Found | be announced later. The Second and “No! No!” the seaman-defense- | Ninth Districts will hold conferences counsel interrupted. “Why, unem-| 0n June 10th. Ran ployed seamen never enjoyed such} All working class organizations standards as developed right here | are invited to participate in these in Baltimore under worker eee conferences | ief. lient now offers | ened en ian for 27 hours.” | Minnesota C.P. Convention June 10 The seaman-prosecutor, mean-| MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 23.— while, had noticed lying on the desk | A call has just been issued for the Maurice Lewis, former Transient Relief Director, who had! pe held on Sunday, June 10th, at left his post after conceding the|the Humboldt Hall, Minneapolis. seamen’s demands, and who also Since all those who vote in the had been held up to the seamen a5| primary election (capitalist parties The prosecutor iM-| only participating) cannot sign the petition of nomination for Communist candidates, the call for the Nominating Convention appeals to all workers and farm- ers to stay away from the capital- ist primaries on June 18 and to re- serve their votes for placing the Communist candidates on the bal- lot for the general election. All credentials of delegates and requests for further information evidence, reading: | “Dear Harry: Thanks for your letter relative to the Baltimore | seamen’s situation. IT am _ very | glad that you had decided to re- frain from precipitating any clash. | It seems to me that you can easily keep this position. While the men may be in possession of the prem- ises they are there as trespassers, but I do believe you can afford to | Defense of 14 Negro | Families | NEW YORK.—A mass | to protest and organize mass re- sistance to the attempt of Bronx} property owners and banks to| evict 14 Negro families from their | | homes at 1636-40 University Ave., Bronx, will be held this Friday, 8| p. m., at 11 W. Mt. Eden Ave., cor- | ner of Jerome. The meeting is called under the joint auspices of the League of | Struggle for Negro Riehts and the Bronx Section of the International | Labor Defense, which are leading the fight against this vicious cam- |paign of the bosses to prevent the united struggle of Negro and white workers for better condi- tions, | Charles Alexander, noted Negro | leader of the working class and National Cultural Director of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, and Edward Kuniz, I. L. |D. attorney will be the main} | speakers at the meeting. | | meeting | | | Racketeers Get Graft on| Phila. Seamen’s Relief | | By a Marine Worker PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 23.—I} | here A promised investigation has brought no change in the food for the past three weeks. | At the Seamen's Church Institute | they allow $2.80 a week for seamen, | The meals consist of a small por-| | tlon of corn flakes which are al-| ways old and rubbery; a few table- | spoons of diluted canned milk, four lices of old bread which is often mouldy, and one cup of muddy | coffee; for dinner: one plate of | watery soup, four slices of bread. one cup of coffee; for supper: ste’ bread and coffee. There has been no change in the menu for the past 30/ Workers Rallying To }man speaker and seamen distribut- | ing leaflets telling the truth about the question. Within a few days, Greenstein ar- ranged to place all the men back in the Seamen’s Project on the water- front. The ranks meanwhile had been thinned; summer shipping on the Great Lakes drew some of the away, and some of the less militant were intimidated into sign- ing up through the shipping sharks. Even the cops began to ship sea- men; this was shown by an affi- davit made out by one of the sea- men. By contending they were “not seamen,” relief officials discrim- linated against militants, refusing to recognize discharges more than a year old, arguing that if a marine worker was unemployed that long, he was no longer a seaman! The U. 8. Shipping Commission refused) to grant duplicates of discharges. Men not known as militants—as shown by affidavits—were admitted to relief, however, on discharges} four and five years old. Finally! Bethlehem Steel announced it no| longer would hire through the Cen-| tralized Shipping Bur eu. | Strikes! | The answer—strikes! Ships were| struck and re-struck. Crews downed! tools as soon as they learned they had been hired to scab. A series of| ten strikes in support of seamen’s control of relief, the first political) strikes in the marine industry, had occurred during and immediately} after the march to Washington. Now nearly every week sees a strike for ja letter to “Dear Harry” from! minnesota State Nominating Con-| Wish to expose the racket of the | recognition of the Centralized Ship- Federal | vention of the Communist Party to| Federal Relief issued to us seamen| Ping Bureau. The seamen made some mistakes in this period also. they returned from Washington, in- stead of immediately mobilizing around them the broadest active support among the workers of Bal- serious timore, they restricted themselves to| torchlight demonstrations and street collections. Roosevelt Becoming New Deal Target of Broad Strike Wave By CARL REEVE (Continued from rikebreaking fa strike sentiment Alabama steel w miners, especial owned the Thom: Bla public Steel are cafeteria workers, relief wor meat workers, the Selma Man turing Ce., and other plants in Bir- mingham. The strike wave espe- the steel worke: ing in Alabama and affecting other Southern centers. The struggle yesterday on picket line of the 2,500 Toledo Auto Lite strikers, gi evidence of the growing strike sentiment in that city. The Toledo authorities have openly appealed to the Washington N. R. A. heads for help in holding down the intense demand of workers for spreading the st The workers of Toledo are display ing great militancy on mass picket lines, in spite of the directives of the A. F. of L. leaders. The picket lines are joined by many other the | workers. Partial Victories There have been strikes of 5,000 workers in Akron, Ohi few weeks, including t the past Diamond match workers, stri which were settled with partial gains for the workers. The: strikes made a great impression on the rubber workers in the big rubber and t companies located there. The rank and file rubber workers have al- ready conducted a few departmental strikes. The A. F. of L. officials have been forced to draw up de- mands in a “blanket agreement,” demands which are similar to the demands of the Opposition inside these A. F. of L. federal unions. Colman Claherty, Green’s represen- tative in the rubber industry, has for two months carried these de- mands around in his pocket, know- ing that refusal by the companies would bring a great, militant strike of the rubber workers. The rubber workers will not much longer be| prevented from striking for these demands. | The strike of 400 metal workers in the Formica Insulation Co. in Cincinnati brought far-reaching ef- fects. In spite of police terror, in which hundreds were arrested, the workers of the city rallied to the Formica picket lines, and now a s‘rike wave is sweeping Cincinnati When| Seven chartered locals of the Steel and Metal Industrial Union have been organized, with 700 dues paying members. | Strike Wave Rising | Undoubtedly, the strike wave is | rising rapidly. The sympathetic | strikes in Minneapolis, and the Worke Today, however, the struggle re-| Militant struggles of the workers in| news itself. Back in the seamen’s project, the mien are sending dele- the other cities mentioned, show the determined resistance to the| gations anew to local and state of-| fascist terror now raging against | new ““Advisory Committees” to pre-| "| ficials, presenting their affidavits,|the workers, who are fighting for | W | fighting and winning against dis-| higher wages. e jcriminations. They have elected| taking on a marked political char- The strikes are all | acter. Professional Workers Endorse H. R. 7598 permit them to remain for @ . R. 75) should be addressed to the Commu-| days, and the officials of the Sea-| \nist Party U.S.A., District No. 9,| men’s Church Institute state that | The spreading of the strike movement, to the same industry in other cities and to other fac- sent grievances. They have all the experience of their first struggle for| PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 23.— Two hundred and fifty social work- ers, physicians and other profession- als, attending a meeting of the Pen and Hammer here last Tuesday en- dorsed the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598). Atlantic City Relief Workers, Defeat Company Union By a Worker Correspondent ATLANTIC CITY, N, J,— After) 500 workers marched on the relief | offices a few weeks ago, the latest layoffs on C, W. A. were rescinded. | The International Labor Defense | helped the workers to organize. A} campaign was begun by the relief | officials, and workers were individ- ually threatened with loss of their jobs if they attended meetings. CORRECTION There was a wrong caption and incorrect opening paragraph in the story on the Bridgeport relief work- ers’ fight for $12.00 a week that ap- peared in the May 21, Monday's is- sue of the Daily Worker. The dropped FERA workers were paid $5.60 a week and a box of gro- ceries for each week (and not for both weeks) after they were led to believe that they would receive $12 @ week in cash, while. If your present relief Pol- | nrinnecota, 425 Kasota Bldg., Min-| there will be no change for the sum- | | icy, which requires treatment on an individual basis of need works out, the matter should take care of itself. “If it is not accepted by the men, it will be necessary for them to become the aggressors, and I would certainly keep the situation on that basis. I still believe that a work relief policy would ease up the tension, but their leader- ship does not want to accept the | suggestion that the men work and maintain themselves with their earnings in the shelter if necessary. I had a long talk with the National Secretary of the M. W. LU, last Friday after you called me, in an attempt to find some ground upon which both sides conld stand. He frankly ad- mitted that they don’t want force, but rather than make any con- cessions they would chance losing everything gained thus far... .” dust as the seamen-jury shouted “Guilty,” 20 policemen entered, fol- lowed by Greenstein. The building had been surrounded. There were motorcycles, patrol wagons, sixty club-swinging, pistol-carrying cops. Greenstein ordered the men out. They answered with a quotation from the Lewis letter and, declar- ing they would not be provoked, marched perfectly disciplined down the four flights of stairs, through neapolis, Minn, | control to guide them; they are de- mer. | termined not to repeat mistakes. They fight on not only for worker| Striking Newsboy »s Dead in | Cleveland After Thug Attack: sser'ssina ie control, but also for a workers’ and farmers’ government. | I asked a federal relief official whether they ever investigated the) by the ship- seamen, or to | CLEVELAND, May 23.—Hundreds |of police were mobilized in down- town Cleveland yesterday and to- | day to terrorize and break the mil- jitant strike of 600 newsboys. One |of the strikers is dead, stabbed by | company thug. Mounted police galloped down sidewalks, police in uniform and plain-clothes detectives make deliveries and sell papers. This entire display of police force was made to sell the Plain Dealer, jthe Cleveland News and Cleveland | Press—the three newspapers which pay starvation wages to the newsies. On their way to a mass meeting yesterday, many of the young |strikers were slugged by the cops, under the personal direction of Po- lice Chief Matowitz. The police rode | into a parade of newsboys on Public Square, and, without a word of warning, clubbed the boys to the ground and arrested 50. Many of the strikers are orphans, boys of 14 and 15 years of age, who are the sole support of poor families. | ditions under seamen’s control and | They make an average of 40 cents|Under charity and capitalist politi-| | daily. | clans’ direction. The local office of the Daily; “No,” I was told. “That's one) Worker has issued a circular urging| thing we didn’t do. | |the boys to fight for $1 a day for| They are being informed of the) day hustlers, 50 cents for-afternoon| truth, however, not only by sea-| hustlers, and ‘$1 for the night|™men’s committees from Baltimore,| newsies. The circular also urges|but by marine workers’ delegations | that they receive an increase on|from other ports as well each paper sold, with the right to| For seamen have borne the story | return unsold copies. jof the Baltimore struggle to every | The boys enthusiastically welcome|American port, and everywhere ma-| both the léaflets and the Daily|Tine workers are following the heroic) Worker. They distributed the leaf-|€xample. Identical struggles are lets. themselves. well under way in Philadelphia, Buf- The bosses are falo, New Orleans. sending trucks Two of the strikers were stabbed,|™en who roused the waterfront in and one of them.died of his wounds| Baltimore. There the waterfront is| yesterday. A delegation of news-| Still aroused, still united. There} and Safety Director Lavelle, but| Working class revolutionary tradition | they were, as usual, “not in.” —class-consciousness marine workers | The American Federation of La-|in the forefront of proletarian) bor officials have refused to call a| Struggle, for today’s needs, for all sympathy strike in other depart-|Power to labor! ments. THE END | eli They send the| mittee of the Philadel filed with thugs through the streets.| impulse of solidarity back to the| sin ct, sundes, May 21 boys went to protest to Mayor Davis | Se@men fight on fulflling the world) munist Party will tories in the same town, is an im- portant weapon of the workers in fighting fascist terror. SPREAD THE STRIKE, is the slogan which | will broaden the mass movement against terror. Larger and better organized mass picket lines—a broad united front movement against the ter- ror and for the right to strike and picket, to assemble and speak — the inclusion of all sections of tne working class in mass struggle te uppert the strikes — will defeat the fascist terror. The workers are now engaged in a struggle for the right to strike itself—a struggle against the at- tempts of the Roosevelt govern- ment to outlaw all strikes by fase cist terror which backs up Labor Board decrees. Although the A. F. of L. leaders, perating wil Labor Boar to prevent t support- and driving back to work. N.R. A. decisions, the strikers . where o moders have been won ognition and more substantial wage ga could have been made, if the k and file had been sufficiently In some c ate concessic rece zed to kill the sabotaging in- fluence of the A. F. of L. leaders. In Minneapolis, the Farmer-Labor Governor, with the other high A. F. of L. officials, succeeded in keeping the street car men at work, and keeping the St. Paul truck drivers across the river at work, thus weak- ening the strikes. In order to prevent the A. F. of L. officials, together with the La- bor Boards, from ending these strikes in defeat—in order to de- feat the fascist attacks and the arbitration decisions—it is neces- sary to organize at once the op- position inside the A. F. of L, unions. Most of the present strikes are led by the A. F. of L. unions, but with militant left wing forces playing an increasingly important role. It is not enough though that Communists and other - militant workers are active, and in meny cases on the executive committees, of most of t strikes. It is not enough that the T.U.U.L. unio and the A. F. of L. opposition and the Communist Party give the strik- ers the correct line in leaflets. These leaflets have had a great effect in most of the important strikes. The influence of the Communist Par and the militant opposition has grown in all centers. But unlecs there is organization on the inside of these unions, the strikers will be split up and de- feated, or will gain only slight concessions, In this connection, the enlarged national bosrd of the A. F. of L, Rank and File Committee in Wash- | ington, Saturday and Sunday as- | sumes great importance. The work | of organizing the rank and file op- | position inside the A. F. of L. must keep pace with the growing strike wave. The A. F. of L. opposition must take the initiative in the calling of “Support the Strike” Conferences, The Buffalo aircraft strikers have| They must take the initiative in ths given a working class, in support of their strike, and against the fascist ter-| ror. Their “Support the Strike”! Conference. was attended by 100/ duly elected delega from more than 50 organizations, in addition | to many fraternal delegates. The! regular delegates included many A F. of L. local unions. | i a = 4] 2 5 3 é 5 > a = 4 3 KY i} 2 a LECTURE PHILADELPHIA, Pa—American Impe- rialism in Venezuela will be subject of a lecture by Ernesto Soto, head of the Caribbean Secretariat e lecture, spo! sored by the Vene: Patronage Com- | ia LL.D. will be | held at the Office Workers’ Hall, 130 5. * | | strike orders of the N.R.A., backed by the A. F. of L. officials. The | Communists and all other militant workers must take the lead in de- | veloping the strike movement still further, of organizing the bread united front to fight against terror, for the right to strike, and for the economic demands of the workers. ROBERT CHICAGO.—Robe: MINOR LECTU Saturday, May 28, 7:50 p.m, v | ton Square, 900 North Clark. | HAMMOND, Ind. — Robert Minor will] speak on “Does the New Deal Lead to| Recovery” Thursday, May 24, 8 p.m. at | Trinity Hall, cor. Ames and Howard. Ad-| mission free. splendid example of the| fight against fascist terror. determine the comparison of con-|drawing in of broad sections of the| have to lead the fight f They r the eco- nomic demands of the ers, and against the betrayal policies of the A. F. of L. officials. The unity of the rank and file, no matter what union they belong to, or if unorganized, can be achieved only if an organized opposition is functioning inside the A. F. of L. unions. The strikes cannot be knit together (buiding trades in Phila., Minneapolis, Washington) unless the rank and file opposition inside the A. F. of L. initiates rank and file conferences to achieve this unified action The e wave of the workers is rapidl: spreading in spite of ine junctions, fascist terror, and no- A JEWISH AUTONOMOUS REGION Stations: Room 514, N. Y. Buy Your Tickets In 35 BE. oth St; Ny -Y. BIRO-BIDJAN THIS GREAT HISTORICAL 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 2 Advance 50 Tickets 25c, 50c, 75c and $1. E. 13th St., N. Y. ICOR OFFICE, 799 B’way MORNING FREIHEIT, WORKERS BOOK STORE, WORKERS’ CO-OPERATIVE COLONY NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS IN- OFFICE, 2800 Bronx Park East, N. 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