The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1934, Page 3

Chicago Street Car Men Find Demands Dropped By Will Fight on Floor at Leaders Street ra oe DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1934 “Tribute to the Dead’’—A La Jingo Now Living Up To His Unsavory Record of | Past Betrayals Page Three Tighe, A.F.L. Steel Union Betrayed Steel Men in 1919 Steel Strike Scares Stock Speculators Head, Wrote Gary He Opposed Licked Boots of Trust Strikes; June 4th Meeting for By J. MELDON representatives of the Amalga- : IKE TIGHR, President of |! mated Association of Iron, Stee Their Demands \ 1 TIGHE, ident of and Tin Workers, is of vital im (Daily Worker Midwest Burean) Leaders Do Not the Amalgamated Associ ation of Iron Steel and Tin portance to the Corporation you have the honor to represent and . u to the Amalgamated Association, CHICAGO, May 29.—The sell-out. Raise Real Issues Workers (A. F. of L.), only “As yon no doubt are aware, . the Chicago street car men by real a short time ago stood before there is a serious disturbing ele eir union officials, Quinlan, Ta- | y & ee 1 ment in the industrial world at ber, Kehoe and others, is practically| Talk of Quinlan With)! the assembled delegates of the present time; a great spirit of complete. Instead of the 80 cents the Amalgamated Association nha in Zacan =a Fn an hour demanded, these officials Horner Is Smoke 7 aii yh peste on : try Pit is pecn oe pai are now ready to settle with the | est ygaurr phreatcansceal bey Pdeecieey 3 Bit soote ciate. and tee eee company for 75 cents, while the Screen jand said, in answer to the militant nd more acute, and there is no company still demands only 73 cents. Quinlan and company will come to the meeting on June 4 with shouts of “Victory.” Backing this ballyhoo, the so-called “leaders” of the workers will have the threat of violence by union and company sluggers, and the open help of the By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Tll—According to the “Chicago Daily News” of Friday, May 25, Gov. Horner took up the complaint of Quinlan and Co. AF. of L officials about Motor Coach | |Tesolution adopted by the delegates to strike, if the steel companies re- fused their demands for better con- ditions and recognition: “T'm against it!” Then, almost hysterically, when the delegates overrode his objec- tions, Mike Tighe declar: telling when or where the storm clouds will break. It is the judge- ment of the representatives of the Amalgamated Association that it is is the patriotic duty of all good izens to use their every efforts to stem the fide of unre: if pos- sible. company in firing workers who op- | drivers not being allowed by their | “I wash my hands of the whole “The Amalgamated Association pose the Quinlan machine. company to organize. Of course, business!” of Iron, eel and Tin Workers Firing of Fighting Workers nobody complained about the Quin- Tighe and his machine, have admitted many thousands The beating of Motorman Mc- | lan gang transforming Division 241 | |for their long history as of the employees of the United Laughlin of the Kedzie Ave. barn| into a company union and them- Parades like this one of middies at the U. 8. Naval Academy will line the broad highways in | 124e"8 expected to frig States Steel Corperation inte Sem: ‘or speaking against the corrupt | selves into errand boys of Richard-| pany cities as militarists celebrate their “Memorial D: » With “ * militant rank-and file repr organization; these members are union bureaucrats, and the firing of | son, Evenson & Co. y, © hee ore! Day” today. with “preparedness” speeches amd wae | tives of the A.A. into submission, deking thal they be given: consis Charles Dreckman of North Ave. slogans. Young workers and students will march today, National Youth Day, too—but without the pretty r “It is understood,” states this H a th | but the maneuver did not work. The eration by the Corporation you and. Repair “Soreman Geren of | news item, “that the street car and| Uniforms and the guns, A.A. convention elected a “Comm are the Honorable Chairman of, oble St. station who ran against | ‘L’ employees might be called out |tee of Ten,” placing in its in their respective crafts and the racketeers are samples of the|to force the motor coach co. into a # certain arbitrary powers—over the callings, and also that as law- united front activities of the com- | action.” heads of the Tighe-Leonard clique abiding citizens who desire the pany and union officials. Demands of Rank and File Boloney! The truth of the matter is that Quinlan & Co. are trying Herndon Verdict a Challenge iy All The Committee of Ten has s | placed its demands before the St wrote and person: July for 2 ter , offering to withdraw privilege of having their represen- tatives meet with the chosen rep- The street car men, however, will | to sidetrack the inevitable traction | | Trust. and the independents (May ! to Judge G c resentatives of the Corporation read Fri eae ae “ipties 2 strike from the main, into a second- W | | 1 1 C il }21) with the ultimatum that their leer ae a membership from ae you represent, to jointly confer on is rotten = » Rani 5 s 1 work strike e steel companies wo oti > and file members Fegevis hig are ne ani demands of the strikers or. ers, hemp oye ouncl S rel bd dU pesigcemdlairea i phiead on he a |sign a separate agreement with | pa bavatenivage preparing to carry onto the floor of | must be not only the recognition of Sy arcana: 1 Tighe’s Record of Treachery | Tighe! Gary havea idee pike “Sincerely believing that the e Eee meeting the de-|the Bus Drivers locals, but 80 and | i eeeete A TESA IATA —¢* — The companies have already, at|that the militant members of, tbe| granting of their request on your mnoe toe 80 cents an hour and 95/95 cents per hour from Chicago | Georgia Bosses Launch) workers and the growing unity of 2,000 Detroit Workers this writing, received and rejected A. A. would soy sation maid part will not only be the means cog eee car Meade and/| surface Lines, time-and-a-half 4 4 Negro and white workers which is | “|the demands. The battle lines are | @ slimy seli-out—but the effects of | of ayaying that unrest, but vill bus drivers, time and a half for) atter seven-and-a-half hours and Raids in Terror Drive | being achieved under the leader. Protest Seottsboro, | drawn. Tighes miserable gesture almost) ico promote and insure that har- le 1 7% hours, pension | the other economic demands of the | ship of the Communist Party, and The Tighe. machine, seeing the| upset the last-minute preparations! tony and co-operation that after 20 years service of not less than $75 per month at company’s expense, $4 daily for extra men in case they are left over, increased running time and layovers, the elim- ination of the uniform graft which amounts to $50,000 a year to Mr. Evanson alone, uniforms at com- Pany expense, abolition of one-man | workers. A similar list of demands should be put up to the “L” lines and Motor Coach Co. recognition being only one of the main de- mands. Chicago traction men, dispel the smoke screen of the misleaders: Strike against all three companies, | on Militant Workers ATLANTA, Ga., May 29.—Rev. | John A. Hudson, assistant Soli- citor General, headed five plain | clothesmen in two raids yesterday on the home of a white worker, Max Finger, in a hunt for Don | in preparation for the re-opening of the drive to send the “Atlanta Six” to the electric chair, A | Organizations Protest Georgia Terror Campaign NEW YORK.—Vigorous protests |ing and protesting the murder of Victory Frame-ups __| handwriting on the wall, has sud- a | denly executed an “about face” and | Defense of Political Prisoners also|i8 now making a frantic effort to sent protest wires to Governors | “head” the strike with the treacher- George White, of Ohio, and Floyd | US intention of smashing it at the B, Olson, of Minnesota, and to the | first opportunity. mayor of New Orleans, condemn-| How well trained and experienced |is Tighe and his henchmen for this for the strike of 1919 The text of Tighe’s letter follows “Convention Hall, Louisville, Ky. May 15, 1919. “Honorable Elbert H. Gary, Chairman. | “Executive Officers, United States should at all times exist hetween employer and employee to the end that al will share in the glorious triumphs so lately achieved in the war, and thereby add still more to the Justre and glory of our common country. “Trusting that you will give this cars within thr ths build real working-class militant) West, native white organizer. | against the affirmation by the) strikers, task of misleading, sabotaging and Steel Corporation, request on the part of the afore- fall-becks on ee eri is) unions against the traction barons, Books and pamphlets on labor | Georgia Supreme Court of the| Protest against the Herndon| demoralizing strikes when given| “Hoboken, N. J said employees of your Corpora- to extend over 12 hours, with time | and their hired labor fakers, Quin-| problems were confiscated. brutal chain gang verdict against’! verdict will be raised at an affair|the opportunity? When in the past | “Dear Sir: Association | #0" your most earnest considera- and a half if they do. lan Taber, eto. Gov. Horner is get-| The raid is seen as the begin- | Angelo Herndon, and the threat of | being held by the Harriet Tubman |did Tighe say “I'm against it” and| “The Amalgamated Assoclation | tion] await your pleasure. The Quinlan gang is not going to| ting ready the gas bombs, «| ning of the terroristic campaign | the Georgia ruling class to resume | branch, L. 8. N. R., Saturday night | then seeing that he could not stop| of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers o “M. F, TIGHE, fight for these demands. These are | threatened by Hudson, as a rep- | the drive to burn the “Atlanta Six”) at the Office Workers Union, 114|the steel workers from striking,| North America, in National Con- International President.” the same gentlemen who made a | resentative of Georgia's white | in the electric chair were wired) West 14th St., in commemoration of | jump into leadership for the sole| vention assembied, have by resolu- Not Belng’able’ to’ hala ope company union out of Division 241, | Tuling class, against militant | yesterday to Gov. Talmadge of | Toussaint L’Ouverture, Negro revo-| Purpose of carrying through the| tion, Instructed the undersigned to | |) Coie Ai 0 tr Ontered Will Mahon, International President, On the - -—----—| Georgia and the State Supreme | jutionary hero. dictates. of the Steel Trust to smash | address you as Chairman of the linto the activities of the National is the same sort. He called in scabs Cops Try to Smash Court, both at Atlanta, by the cee the strike? Executive Ofiners ct the ‘United | cammitios (representing thar and cops to smash a strike in the s ‘ . - National Unemployment Council,! 2.000 Detroit Workers The answer written with the| States Steel Corporation ona mat- | ions) and proceeded to Fink plant that he owns in Detroit, tt’ e ront Cleveland Taxi Strike the National Committee for the|In Defense Festival. blood of steel workers on the pages| ter which in the opinion of the | Sttiking unions) and proceeded to Mich. CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 29.—Po-| Defense of Political Prisoners, the | . si SP aes See anaes. a, te ee For Rank and File StrikeCommittee elect: committees of rank and file creased wages. Wages paid now lice were used yesterday to “escort” Harriet Tubman branch of the (Special to the Daily Worker) | DETROIT, Mich., May 29,—Over | the Regional Labor Board that he authority on the steel industry and | desired to win the strike [the great Rank and file carmen are calling \taxis in the attempt to smash the | League of Struggle for Negro Rights Te. Tat i : gaa te wi | 3 arst Fires Writer the history of labor in the in- eeae ak brothers to unite and New Mexico Miners cab drivers’ strike here, and at-| 8nd other groups. ‘ | 2,000 Negro and white workers par- Coal Miners Sent He SRE eis dustry, has this to say regarding ect a rank and file strike commit- Me tacked picketing cab drivers, ‘The| “If there has been hesitation and | ticipated in a monster Scottsboro | for Union Activities! tigne’ in his book, “Labor and pois! ie pperiterantp meeting, |On Strike Yellow Cab Company has begun|neglect in mobilizing the broadest |defense festival Sunday at the | a He | abeclh Ciibachetdenat Palin 7 ee by earn ai Gal CARRILLOS, New Mexico—The jto try to run its cabs with heavy posible Bos Bhat for Oe ar ne ri ee rebraine Aa Back By Heads of | SAN FRANCISCO (FP).—R. L. “itis “an‘-opeh atieation whemiee workers’ demands, and, if necessa, © lminers of the Alburquerque and | Wite screening. 3 ae ay a ‘fon eal AL Med fetes lniiite cilia ina toe tt eI | Burgess, president of the San Fran-| the heads of the Amalgamated As- strike and strike to victory. ‘They | Carrillos Coal Company are on| ,,7He Yellow Cab is trying to one | Oe ae er eo alee. a naatez | Boottsboro boys and for full equalits | UMW A : D f tee chapter of the Newspaper sociation of Tron, Steel and Tin also also calling upon all carmen to| strike. They are demanding in- | ‘tre & tion adopted by the National Un-| for the Negro people. | IN VOQTE@ AT) suite. has titea a complaint with | Workers in the A. F. of L. really members in each barn to. settle grievances of the workers. Further information about the ac- | tivities of the rank and file carmen are below the coal code which is supposed to be in effect on April Ist. But this coal company pays wages even less than the code scale. The Zone Cab Co. has already settled with the Taxicab Drivers Union, to which the strikers be- long. The Yellow Cab drivers have been out for, thre, weeks. employment Council. “Angelo Herndon, militant unemployed or- ganizer, the courageous representa— tive of the splendid leadership arising from the midst of the op- Harry Haywood, National Secre- | tary of the League of Struggle for | Negro Rights, addressed the gather- ing, drawing the lessons of the | Scottsboro case for Negro and white Central City Men Get) Only a Promise in was discharged from the San Fran- isco Examiner, on which he was chief editorial writer since 1927, be- cause of his union activities. The ostensible reason given was 1919—J. M.J. The writer has satisfied himself by per- sonal interviews with two officials of the Amalgamated Association.— lent steel strike of 7 \ ; | ° Pres Tigt id Vice- oe one ey peice bela The conditions of these miners P pressed Negro masses, must bejtoilers. He called for the use ot| Balya Fight “economy,” but Burgess, long a well lS opare rahe baal uch havoc File Gomntitae. ee oaneloreeet | were very bad. Many of the miners| Fur Dressers Win Return freed. these experiences in the fight | TE known California newspaperman,} in the National Committee)—that Insurance and Relief. yore ton the relist: colle daring THE) Ge id Pitesti Ne J: “Every worker, employed and un-| against the attacks on Negroes in| By ANDY EVANOFF claims that his discharge followed | neither put his full efforts into York-Hoover Body time they were working. Now that they are on strike they were taken NORTH BERGEN, N. J.—The employed, must see in the verdict of the Supreme Court of Georgia Detroit and for the release of James | Victory, JOHNSTOWN, Pa—After two | personal orders from Hearst. of the local newspapers, even the None winning the strike, that neither ex- Loc n | ri lel d it to succeed, and that both off of relief. Fur Local, No. 2, A. F. of L., went) challenge to himself and to the| Max Salzman, representing the | Weeks of splendid striking, the Cen-| jiperal Scripps paper, the News, | Pe’e i i cord red we “ “e f fy ° < a y * | had firmly made up their minds be- Workers Win Union The Miners have set up a Relief |O" 7% to reduce prices 40 per | whole working-class. Communist Party dealt with Scotts-| tral City miners were sent back to! i4; mentioned the case. The Argo- does the Meine See they walk oe and Wage Demands YORK, Pa. (FP).—York, outstand- ing open shop town a year ago, has seen another strike victory as the 232 employes of the York-Hoover Body Corp. go back to work with their union recognized and a 25 per cent increase. They have a fed- eral union. Theater workers recently won a substantial victory over four movies, Tear gas used by police has caused injury to several of the 150 girls striking the plant of the Nirenberg shirt factory. Although the girls worked a full 40-hour week, they were told to punch the time clock only on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and “forget Tuesdays and Thursdays,” thereby receiving N. R. A. wages, but for a 24-hour week. A strike at the Atlas Silk Mill came as the result of the manage- ment's hiring new workers at less than the code rate. When the em- ployes walked out, the plant was Committee. It is called the Madrid Miners Relief Committee and its chairman is Jesus Pallaries, an active coal miner. The striking miners are asking the workers in other parts of the state and country to come to their help. Money Food and clothes is needed at once. Send it to the Miners Relief Committee, Carrillos New Mex, Snr tala“ 60 Molders on Strike in Bridgeport Iron Works BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (FP).— About 60 molders of the gray iron and malleable departments of the Eastern Malleable Iron Works in Bridgeport are on strike for wage increases and recognition of the union, under the leadership of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. The whole plant, which has been working with a force of about 200 men, is closed. cent. The workers of Herman Basch and Co., led by a rank and file committee, struck for the re- turn of the old prices and after a two-day strike won their demands. cae ees Bridgeport Drivers Out In Second Strike of Month BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (F.P.) — Drivers of the Hegeman Transfer Co. of Bridgeport are out on their second strike within a month, They demand the wages paid by all the other trucking firms in Connecticut instead of the code minimum of 40 cents an hour which is being paid by Hegeman. When they settled their last strike, Hege- man agreed to increase the rate to 55 cents and the drivers returned to work. But when their pay en- yelopes came around, the increase was not there, STEBL AND METAL WORKERS TO GATHER AT OUTING PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Indications are that thousands of workers will be brought to- Organize mass protest demon- strations. Send resolutions, let- ters, post-cards and telegrams to Goy. Eugene Talmadge, Atlanta, | Ga., and to President Roosevelt. Save Angelo Herndon from & living hell! Smash the vicious slave-law of the white ruling class of the South!” The National Committee for the’ 49 Strikes in New York During Month of March boro and the ristng struggles of | work with “a promise” by the dis- | Alabama white and Negro workers. | ttict officials of the U. M. W. A.| and with the strike wave through- | They were told to go back and oN out the country, particularly with | Lewis in Washington, D. C., wow the struggle in Toledo. settle all questions. The workers enthusiastically, The miners were on strike de- adopted resolutions pledging to sup- | Manding the reinstatement of Mike | port the Toledo strikers and de-| Balya, militant leader of the U. M.| i vi W. A. local union, and for better eae cee cE | conditions in the mine and the right | saratee to inspect scales and get better weight for their coal. They had against them the N. R. A. Board, the coal company and the U. M. W. A, district officials, The company also deducted $5 | from each of the miners, and $1 from the day men, This is because the company wants to use the day NEW YORK.—A total of 42 strikes in Greater New York were covered in the Pen and Hammer's March, 1934, regular monthly strike survey for Labor Research Association. Of these strikes, 21 were Jed by the Trade Union Unity League, 10 by the Ameri- men against the loaders. Also the men were striking, by going into the mine and only loading one car of coal. The day men were sent home by the company and now the company takes $1 off of the day men. The miners at once went to Alfred B. Martin, a U. M. W. A. leader, The A. F. of L. led nearly 16,000, | of whom 10,000 were involved in | one needle trades strike. Over | 36,000 struck under independent unions, including some 35,000 taxi drivers, Of the 24 strikes in which ont- naut, a weekly, has given it some | little publicity. bitter against the U. M. W. A. lead- ers and the yellow dog contract that International Board Member Ghiz- zoni was forced to issue a statement against the yellow dog contract, but he added, “The men could have re- fused to sign it and have gone back to work. But the miners are not being fooled. They know the U. M. W. A. leaders. They are demanding that the money be given back and that Mike Balya the president be rein- | stated and paid for the time lost. District President Marks says that “no strings” will be attached to the | agreement and that they will “try” to get Mike Balya back. Also to be the president, he must “be good.” This, of course, means to support the company and Marks and Lewis. On the other hand the rank and file miners know that it is necessary to get the miners of the other locals ganize in the plants of the U. 8, Steel Corp. only if they were literal- | ly forced inte it. The Amalgamated | Association officials took an open | sabotaging stand against the strike. | They withheld necessary financial assistance and made an open bid to | Gary for a separate agreement and | settlement on the eve of the strike, | Finally, they completely withdrew from the National Committee after | the strike.” (My emphasis—J. M.) | (Note — A second article on | Tighe’s unsavory record will ap- | Pear tomorrow.) SOUTHERN DLORDS HAYE POWER OVER TENANTS’ RELIEF | WASHINGTON (F.P.) —An ex- |ample of how virtual peonage still | exists in the South is seen in in- structions issued by the South Carolina Emergency Relief Admin- |istration in regard to farm laborers {and farm tenants. They state that closed down, with no prospect of re-| there are 55 out in the Manchester, | gether at a monster rally. to be - come was reported, five were lost. | : to also fight ~~~‘st the Lewis ma-| ‘direct relief and work relief may ) opening, according to the owners,| Md. plant of the same company. | Sored by the Steel and etal Worksie, tho|..cns, hemeretiad, OF Uxbes, and 1h Wholly or partially successful ea nbn a faced tps tar cine The! “will Tae to kick |be given to farm laborers and ten- t “qmtil business improves.” Workers are giving York strikers | {ut7!2!,Uzion in Olympia Park, near Mc-| by independent unions. : y told them to go and work ani t . The BE oe oe aGhe provided “thie rue eee : Cigarworkers are out at the H ti ig York strikers | Keesport, in the heart of the steel region Over 54,000 workers were in- | strikes numbering 11 were led by | Lewis would take it up and that | such leader of offices of | ants, a e ey pres ed : tory, prot posed 4 pgretandd Be AM pet gegen Alea A rays og Hk trikes for wi ti a. Us > b: .F. | they would probably get e| the U. M. T n | 1 . e they 2 1 at the Heus-| strong support, reinforcing picket | of Western Pennsylvania. The picnic with| volved in the 36 s\ ‘or which | the T. U. U. L., five by the A. F. | they probably get the|the U. M hat all of this|the landlord on whose place they dash te eS lines," Providing food, ‘cheering: the | Cie mn" tate ail ve nid matey i juires the ng of a strong op- | live, a written order that their labor . dash is ployment Councils will be held Saturday,| Mumbers were reported. Of these, | of L., and three by independent | money back. req ‘ g. | “i a Bt sromes, Besides 73: at: Cork, | nerikers, June 9, “'| 1,450 were Jed by the T. U. U. L. | unions. The feeling of the men was so! position in the U. M. W. A. is not required in farm operation. ; mates Po eel Sci a eects Soca coh pave 5 aati saa ql t Torch Light Parade Tonight to Celeb Biro-Bidjan E orc ight Fardade ionight to Celebrate Diro-Diajan Event ; AUTO PARADE WITH BAND, PLACARDS AND TORCHES TONIGHT AT ee en oe “ee ” everyone wi understands ie great significance ol le Soviet 3 7:30 FROM OFFICE OF “ICOR,” 799 BROADWAY, NEW YORK TO Scckasins"\a'gHRAE Bite Bilan this utes GE's Josh akthnations ; LOWER EAST SIDE, TO WILLIAMSBURG AND BROWNSVILLE. territory should participate in tonight's parade. : 4 3 2 | GRAND CELEBRATION, SATURDAY, JUNE 2 EIGHTH AVENUE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Admission: 25c, 5Cc, 75¢c and $1. 49th and 50th STS, . 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