The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1934, Page 3

9,000 Relief Strikers onRochesterT.E.R.A. "=~ DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1934 ‘Painters Demand Weins In New York Central Labor Council| Strike Fron Solid in Eighth Week Fight Vicious Forced | Labor Scheme; Rank and File Solid | By a Worker Correspondent | ROCHESTER, N. Y. May 30.—The eighth week of the strike of 5.000 Rochester relief workers against the | forced labor, “budgt system” finds a failure of the relief administration to fool the masses back to work. Their most desperate effort to stam- pede the workers back came Sun- day morning, when the local press came out with big headlines, “Work- ers granted 30 hours per week and $15 wages.” A careful study of the article brought out that this con- cession was to be only for one week, “while new budget cards are being prepared.” Calculating on the fact that workers are being terrorized by the Home Relief Bureau to work, under Penalty of being evicted for non- payment of rent, the administration hoped to both fool and bribe off the strikers. Warned by leaflets issued through the Monroe County Roch- ester Rank and File Relief Workers Organization, which is leading the strike, and by a mass meeting, the more militant workers turned out in force Monday morning, putting up strong picket lines, and succeeding in keeping most of the projects shut down, Organizer Arrested Leonard Costa, organizer of the Unemployed Council, was arrested while walking on the street and was given a brutal beating inside the jail before being released on bail by the International Labor Defense. He has been one of the strike leaders, exemplifying the united front exist- ing between the work relief and unemployed. Demands of the strik- ers are for a $15 minimum weekly wage at 50c an hour, 30 hours a week, and with supplementary re- lief of $3 for each dependent in families of over four; for cash re- lief for all unemployed; and for union wages for skilled and semi- skilled. Once this big financial concession was gained for the newly elected “New Deal” administration here, pressure was put on the Central Committee leadership to force strik- ers back. The only concession of- fered strikers was an 85 cent dif- ferential between home and work relief. This means that the person in the family who works, would get 85 cents a week more, and for him- self only. Otherwise, budgets on work relief or home relief are iden- tical. The politicians reckoned with- out understanding how the masses during the weeks of strike meetings, had deteloped new militancy and desire for unity. When the “Cen- tral Committee” tried to put over a fake vote, by having secret separate sessions of various delegated groups interspersed with stool-pigeons, newspaper reporters, ete., the mem- bership refused to accept such a Cifts to your FRIENDS ond RELATIVES “USSR: TORGSIN STORES tarry an extensive line of high quality suits, dresses, coats, shoes; cotton, silk and woolen goods; food stuffs, household utensils, soaps, tobaccos, sweets and countless other articies; (imported and domestic). All these can be obtained at TORGSIN by your relatives, IF YOU SEND THEM A TORGSIN ORDER, The Dollar buys now more than ever in the Soviet Union. For Torgoin orders visit your lesal bank or authorized agent General Representative in U.S.A at AMTORG, 261 Fifth Ave. N.Y. Denied Gov't Loan, Poverty - Stricken Farmer Kills Self ALBANY, La., May 30,—Hay- ing failed in their attempts to get government loans on their small farm, Mr. Julius Fischer and his wife killed themselves in a thicket in the woods near here. “Had a nice farm and needed a loan. Banks would not lend. Federal Farm Land Bank granted a loan, but would not give us the money,” said a note that the couple left behind them! The Government loans to the farmers go mostly to the wealthy farmers who have sufficient se- curity to give to the Government, canks. The small, poor farmers practically can never get loans. vote. Mass picket lines of members from the Rank and File Strike Com- mittee very effectively exposed the trickery and succeeded in maintain- ing the ranks of the strikers strong for picketing on the projects. i} NEW YORK.—Joseph P. Ryan, John J. Muiholland and James C, Quinn, leaders of New York Cen- tral Trades and Labor Council, struck a snag while maneuvering to unseat Louis Weinstock of Local 499 of the Painters Union for his militant activities in leading the fight in the A. FP. of L. for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598. local, which elected Weinstock as one of its represen- tatives to the Council, is standing behind Weinstock and is demand- ing that he be seated. A letter from James C. Quinn, secretary of the Couneil, stating that the Weinstock’s “labor record is objectionable to our organization” | See editorial “An Objection- | able Record,” on Page 6, i and advising the local to “select | another delegate in place of Mr./ Keinstock” was answered in no uncertain terms by Local 499. | “It is the opinion of the mem- bership of this local that according to the constitution of the A. F. of L., the local has the privilege of electing delegates to the Central Body, and therefore, will stand by its duly elected delegate, Brother Weinstock, whose labor record is} entirely satisfactory to the mem-| bership of Local 499,” said a letter sent by the recording secretary of | Central Trades and Lator Council of Greater Pete Bork and Vicinity >- sage & aun, 08 weer ‘em SrReEr. New YORK crry Yhie will acknord@ige Heosint sf your tae names af thres delegates te represeat Paisters Lesel Be. 499, dented te the meeting of our Pmeurive The Board hae directed ue te ing toe reafriliation of Pai: %. oar organization. te) Trusting taat your reafiilistion will Local uaon of oar cooperstion, I aa, Above—Letter from J, C. Quinn, secretary of the Council, asking ioek Be Seated Page Three On the | History | Repeated In the Maneuvers of om you thst thay nave act 5 May ve, therefore mggest that you elect anotner delegate ta place ot Ur. Weinstock. Workers on Louisiana Bridge Out on Strike NEW ORLEANS (F.P.) — Work | was halted on the Biloxi-Ocean Springs bridge after 300 members |of the Employes Protective n | marched on the span and demanded increase in wages. Spokesmen charged that the highway depart- ment was paying 20 cents an hour for a 10-hour day to workers scrap- ing and painting the drawbridge. They asked an increase to 30 cents an hour. May Ltn, ved. 1,500 Sewer Pipe Strikers | Return te Work in Ohio | UHRICHSVILLE, Ohio (FP)—The seemnication or rae 402 tn days | have returned to their posts in the | 13 manufacturing plants involved in Uhrichsville. The men are to choose their own representatives |and advisers in dealing with the companies. The United Brick & Clay Workers of America led the strike, Beard held oe Yonsay, Mer Betnstock, cord is be of minut benefit, and aseuricg your | | | | : - | Furniture Workers Win Strike in Los Angeles | | _ (By a Worker Correspondent) | LOS ANGELES.— The Furniture | Workers’ Industrial Union has won a victory in the shop of the Sterling |Purniture Co., 15th St, and Long Secretary. Tighe, A.A. President ——* d Tighe Crowd ‘Again Try To Betray Steel Workers NegroTenantsUse | As Pawns in Fight! Of Rival Landlords Bronx Workers Protest This is the second and final part of an article on the rele of Mike Tighe, President of the Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. of L), and his machine im knifing the Move to Evict 14 great sbecl strike af Hk Gan Negra Families analyzing the role he has begun to play in the now developing strike in the steel indestry.— NEW YORK.—Negro tenants of| EDTTOR 1636-40 Un ty Avenue, Bronx . - . ordered evicted by their landlord By J. MELDON Jacob Cohen, under a row | z . ; agreement with other Bronx prop-| {S THE similarity of Tighes' erty owners, yesterday charged that! |4 position and maneuvers to- Cohen in inducing them to move) si A into the University Avenue houses | day, on the eve of the second had attempted to Negro ten-| great steel strike, not ob- |vious? History here not only ants as catspaws in settling differ- ences with other white landlords. P5 : se repeats itself in principle but |almost in detai Fourteen Negro families into the two buildin following an exten: campaign by Cohen i Negro tenants. T! from 20 to 40 per cent © ren’ than the white tenants were pay Tighe will attempt to repeat his Judas-role now as he did so well }in 1919. The Tighe machine have leclared themselves “in” and will resort to every slimy trick up their the local to J. S, Quinn, secretary | of the Council. } Mass Picketing Mass picketing, with unity be- Loval 499 to elect a delegate in place of Weinstock. The membership of the local answered this letter by re-affirming their support of | Beach Ave, | ing. When other landlords objected | | The bosses of the shop, the Hart-| to the presence of Negroes in the| | stem Brothers, decided to cut wages | neighborhood, Cohen is said to have ample sleeves to sabotage the com- ing strike! tween the Rank and File organiaa- tion and the membership of the Central Committee can turn this strike, begun for the benefit of strikebreakers and to build up a Democratic political machine, into a real victory for the workers and a defeat of the budget system. The weakest link in the united front movement is the fact that skilled and semi-skilled workers were ma- neuyered back to the jobs, sold out by the fact that the A. F. of L. leadership came out with a strike- breaking promise to the relief ad- ministration to the effect that if relief jobs were turned over to pri- vate contractors, the A. FP. of L. unions would not refuse to send union labor so long as the union scale is paid. However, this bluff of the city administration didn’t materialize; but it did serve the pur- pose of sending the mechanics back on the jobs, on a budget system and as scabs. Seis Most of the leaders Of this “Cen- tral Committee” went back to work after their fake vote. The chair- man, Frank B. Callaghan, worked all during the strike on a relief ad- ministration job. The East Roches- ter local former chairman, Peter Florin, is under charges of first de- gree manslaughter, originating from the death of a worker he knocked to the pavement when taunted re- garding the attempted strike sell- out. This Florin is chairman of Protest Court Attack On Small HomeOwners (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 30.— One thousand workers answering the call of the International Labor Defense and Small Home Owners Federation last week marched to Com. mon Pieas Court led by Albert Walther of the M. W. I. U. Branch | of the I. L. D., to protest the at- | tempted disbarment of N. D. Davis, | attorney for the Small Home Own-— ers Federation. The trial of Davis, now on, arose from his militant defense of small | home owners against foreclosures on their properties by the banks and 300 Join Communist | | six weeks of terror in the Brming- | night. Weinstock, who is leading the fight Unemployment Insurance Bil, H. in the A. F. of L. for the Workers R. 1508, |im two departments, the outsiders | and the stringers. The shop com- mittee of the F.W.LU. immediately Party During Terror in Alabama Strike NEW YORK.—‘During the last ham strike area, the Communist | Party gained 300 members!” de- clared Harold Ralston, Organizer, | at the Alabama Strike Protest Meeting in Irving Plaza Monday | When the top leadership of the Party was jailed for two weeks | demanded that the cuts be re- | seinded. When this was refused, the | union mobilized all five departments | |im the plant 100 per cent. There | Kansas City Relie Workers Call Gen’l| ==" 2c oemoe oe Strike for Friday|“x give in. But that didn’t end it | KANSAS CITY, May 30,—A mass; At 5 p.m. we called a meeting of | meeting of relief workers last Mon- | the entire shop. Again the workers | day night voted for a general strike | #ttended 100 per cent. For the first | time the springers and the women | of reltef workers in this olty. The | workers, never members of our | call affects 5,000 relief workers, | union, were present. We recruited | Since the formation of the Relief | 12 "€W members into our union, | What are the possible maneuvers the Tighe clique will resort to, once the strike is under way? EH is of imperacive importance that every rank and fle member and leader among the steel workers showid know and be prepared. First, the most obviously expected maneuver will be an open attempt by Tighe (if he is allowed to have forced concessions from his rival Jandlords, including the funds with | whieh he has unsuccessfully tried | to bribe the Negro families to move out. Four other houses, owned by Cohen, long have been occupied by | Negro tenants, A campaign to or-| ganize these tenants has been launched by the League of Struggle | anything to do with the strike!) to for Negro Rights and the Bronx| “postpone” the strike by calling in Section of the International Labor| the National Labor Board and the Defense, which are leading the fight | various Regional Labor Boards, so against racial segregation. White/that they can repeat their strike- workers in the neighborhood are| breaking roles as they did recently also being rallied to the fight on/|in the sell-out of the auto strikers. racial segregation, which is a boss| win Seek to Narrow Demands weapon against the unity of the! secondiy (and this has already working class. | happened) Tighe will insist on nar- Last Friday night, 250 white and | Towing down the demands to simply Negro workers, attended a protest | “Tecognition,” cHminating the im- he said, the work of the Party units | went on functioning strongly. New | rank and file leaders came to the | mortgage sharks. He was framed wp on the charge of “acting un- ethically.” Injunction proceedings against the Small Home Owners Federation are also being heard. Yetta Land, I. L. D. lawyer, is representing Davis. “Free N, D. Davis, Smash In- junction,” roared the workers on the steps of the court house. Hang- ing with one hand from a ten foot statue, Sam Stein, I. L. D. Secre- tary, A. B. Lewis, Negro worker and Organization Secretary of the I. L. D. and E. G. Greenfield, President of the Small Home Owners Federa- the Democratic committee in this town, tion exposed the frame-up of Davis. | Prisoners, New Masses and the John fore. The Communist Party has now 1,000 Negro and white members and | the International Labor Defense | 3,000 members in Alabama, where the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. (U. 8. Steel) is using sharp terror | to try and break the strike of | 8,000 ore miners. The meeting was held under the joint auspices of the National Com- mittee for the Defense of Political Workers Union two weeks ago and | the march to the F. E. R. A. repre- | sentative here. one whole gang on | the Kaw Valley Dike voted to strike. | A. W. Berry, Negro Organizer of | the Kansas City section of the Com- | munist Party, was brutally beaten | by police following his arrest with | four other workers including Will- iam Burnley, organizer of the union, | and Lewis Hurst, a leader of Mis- | | sourt unemployed workers, Work- ers, packing the court in support | of the Union and their leaders, | forced the release of the arrested Reed Club. leaders, | meeting at Paradise Manor, 11 Mt. | Eden Avenue, Resolutions protest- ing the attempted eviction of the 14 PEKIN, Wl, May 30—A mi | Negro families were adopted and or-/} picket line of bored sa erate dered presented to Mayor LaGuar- | circled the plant of the American | dia, the landlord and the Borough Distilling Company as the strike of | president of the Bronx. The meet- the workers for the recognition of | 196 Was addressed by Charles Alex-| their A. F. of L. untons and against | ander, National Cultural Director | firing of union members gained Of the League of Struggle for Negco| headway. | Rights, and Kuntz, International) Bosses again requested state Labor Defense attorney, who is aid-| troops to disperse the pickets, who | ing the tenants’ fight are keeping a handful of scabs —— marooned inside the factory. Poison Gas Co. Mass Picketing On At Pekin Factory Must Guard Against By JAMES EGAN ‘HE Committee of Ten in charge of offensive action was set up by the rank and file of the Amaiga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.) at the convention to take charge of the coming steel strike which the rank and file of the Amalgamated is de- termined shall be called over the heads of the officialdom of the A. A. This Committee of Ten, definitely instructed by the convention to pre- pare and carry through this strike action, has been in existence since May ist, and, now one month later, they have not taken one concrete step to organize the rank and file of the A. A. in preparation for the strike nor have they gone forward to organize the umorganized in the steel industry to be ready to take action. The Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union issued the united front appeal to the Committee of Ten and to the rank and file of the A. A. Many of the local unions of the A. A. endorsed the united front appeal and have taken steps to effect the united front between the locals (the Cleveland Confer- ence is an example). But their leadership the Committee of Ten, still hesitates, still delays, still fal- ters. The Committee of Ten agreed to meet the National Board of our union. A meeting was arranged and a joint meeting was held on Sun- Delay in Uniting Forces for Steel Strike One thousand workers are nor- mally employed at the factory. | Thrives as NRA Attacks Strikers, jay May 20th, in Pittsburgh. When the committee of the steel union met with them, the chairman of the Committee of Ten, Mr. Forbeck stated that they would allow us | twenty minutes in which to state | our proposals for united front, in- | asmuch as they were very busy | discussing other matters at that time—the other matter, of course, | being on what kind of a slate they would run for the various jobs in the international office. This they discussed quite at length, discussing | methods and tactics of capturing office, but when it came to dis- cussing such important problems as | the united front of all the steel workers and drawing up plans of action and plans of battle by which all the steel workers can be mobil— ized into one solid fighting front to win in the coming battle, they had but 20 minutes time in which to discuss! S. M. W. I. U. Pats First Unity Proposals The outcome of this meeting was that the Steel Union presented its program for the united front, which included proposals that a joint statement be issued to the steel workers in a half million copies, signed in the name of both unions, calling upon all the steel workers to fight unitedly for the common demands of the strike and giving ganized on how to set up their committees and prepare for battle. The Steel Union proposed fur- be called immediately jointly by ther that a national conference beth unions, inviting fraternal delegates from coal miners, rail- roaders, auto workers and from all working class organizations in order to mobilize the entire labor movement behind the steel strike, and for the raising of a strike fund to conduct the organiza- tional work of the strike and the strike itself. The steel union proposed further and pointed out the danger of the role of the international officials of the A. A. in the coming strike and that the Committee of Ten had started on a different course than the course followed by Tighe and the international officials. It was fur- ther stated by us that there must be no turning from this course and that they must openly expose Tighe and Leonard as being against the interests of the steel workers, rally- ing the workers to be on guard against these arch-betrayers. The Committee of Ten expressed itself as in favor of all these pro- posals, but pleaded that it did not have sufficient time in which to enter into a thorough study of them, and could not come to an agreement at this time. They pro- posed that another meeting be held concrete instructions to the unor- within one week at which we could Weiner, S. EIGHTH AVENUE — 49th and 50th STREET Speakers—Karl Browder, Charles Recht, M. Katz, Rubin Brainin, Melach Ep- stein, R. Saltzman, H. Castrell, H. Goldfrank, Louis Hyman, William Almazoy, Chairman. Program:—Freiheit chorus of 300 voiees, Artef players, the world famous player, : Toscha Seidel, Viola Fine and many others in the concert program, Admission: 25¢, Needle Trades Workers Industri: Biro-Bidjan, A Jewish Autonomous Region GRAND CELEBRATION, SATURDAY, JUNE 2 Madison Square Garden 50c, 75¢ and $I. Buy Your Tickets at the Following Stations: “ICOR,” 799 Broadway, New York. Morning Freiheit, 35 F. 12th Street, New York. Workers Book Store, 50 E. 13th Street, New York. jal Union, 131 W. 28th St. N. ¥. Friends of the Soviet Union, 799 Broadway, New York. International Workers Order, 80 Fifth Avenue, New York. Yankowitz Book Store, East Broadway, 179 E. Broadway, N. ¥. Women’s Council, 799 Broadway, New York. Workers’ Cooperative Restaurant, Globe Cafeteria, 2402 Mermaid Biederman’s Book Store, 1ith Street and Second Avenue, N, ¥, Breslow’s Restaurant, 253 Ocean View Avenue, Brighton Beach. 2700 Bronx Park East, New York, Goldstein’s Book Store, 363 Sutter Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, Rappaport & Cutler, 1327 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, New York, Ave., corner 24th St., Brookiyn. Mallerman’s Book Store, 86th St. and 20th Ave., Brooklyn, N. ¥. discuss the proposals at length and reach an agreement. The majority of the members of that committee appeared in good faith, sincerely de- siring the united front. The chairman of the commitiee, Forbeck, promised to notify our or- ganization when and where the next | meeting would be arranged, and | that it would be held within one week. But he failed to carry through this agreement. When, with much difficulty, he was finally located, and asked why this meeting was not arranged, he gave the ex- | cuse, that while he is in favor of the united front, he would like to or- ganize a secret united front with | us, stating that if they openly formed a united front with us that they would lose the favor of public opinion and that the newspapers would brand them as “Reds.” He also claimed that they would be ex- pelled from the organizations by Mike Tighe. (These so-called op- position leaders, voted into leader- Ship of the strike by a militant rank and file which demanded action— and who realized that the Interna- tional officers were against strike action and would betray their strike —elected this committee to handle their strike for them!) This committee, Instead of unhesi- tatingly agreeing to plans for united action, last week went down to Mike Tighe’s office and had a conference with him, asking him to support the strike. Tighe, of course, welcomed them with open arms, patted them on the back and said, “I will see this thing through if it is the last thing I do in my life.” And Tighe proceeds, with the aid of the cap- italist press, to play himself up as the strike leader and the committee willingly playing second fiddle. So these “militant” leaders, instead of carrying through the mandate of the rank and file and organizing the masses of steel workers in opposi- tion to Tighe and in preparation for the strike, have delayed, have carried on maneuvers and secret meetings. They have given no instruc- tions nor any directives to the workers, who are impatiently wait- ing for some signal from the Com- mittee of Ten as to how to pre- pare for action. By the secret maneuvers of the committee in not openly declaring their position in opposition to Tighe and for definite strike action of all the workers, the movement in the steel industry, as far as the A. A. is concerned, is at a standstill. They allowed Leonard (vice president of the A. A.), without voicing a protest, to send out instructions to locals to present demands for recognition alone, and no organized drive to organize the industry has yet been started, we might say even con- templated, by this committee. They are now still in negotiation with Tighe. Delay Is Fatal! The Steel and Metal Worekrs In- dustrial Union has warned the com- x : | NE WYORK.—The N.R.A., bring- with them is to maneuver them into | ing with it intensified suppression | delay and keep them from taking | of workers’ struggles, has given the | definite action. There is only one | poison-gas companies one of the course that the rank and file of the largest booms in their history, it has Amalgamated Association can take. | been discovered. The companies are Mike Tighe and the interna- | overflowing with orders from em- tional officials are definitely op- | Ployers in every part of the country. posed to strike; they have been in | the whole history of their careers, | and, despite the radical phrases they may mouth now due to the pressure of the rank and file, every worker must realize that the international officials are as much opposed to a strike now as they ever were. And unless the Committee of Ten immediately realize that the course that the rank and file steel work- | mands of the bosses in the steel, ers want to travel, and the course| motor and mining zones particu- which Tighe and the International | larly, gas companies—among which officials want them to travel, is en-| are Mr. Gould’s and the Federal] tirely in opposite directions, unless | Laboratories—are now selling this the Committee of Ten breaks openly |new gas, dipheniliamininechloroar- with the International officials, and | sine, a gas which in addition to pro- eposes them to the workers as the | ducing unbearable nausea, causes main danger in the strike, then the | the victim to vomit continuously for workers will not see any difference | 24 hours. between the Committee of Ten and, “My company,” said Mr. Gould, Mike Tighe himself. “ig working day and night shifts Rank and File Must Step Forward | to keep up with the demands of The rank and file steel workers | militiamen and police officers all must see to it that the leaders of | over the country right now.” this coming strike are honest, bold Mass Trial for the Tt may further interest the work- ers of Toledo and other centers to| know that the gas now being used | on them is not “effective” enough. | | The strikers, it was revealed by P. J. Gould, of the United States Or- | dImance Engineers Inc., “seems to | eat this tear gas. They take it and ask for more. Of course, this new sickening gas is more effective.” In response, therefore, to the de- and courageous workers, who will not be intimidated by threats of fakers of the type of Tighe and} there is any expelling to be done the leaders must rally the rank and file of the A. A. against those who| Sent Scabs to the Albert have proven themselves to be against the interests of the rank| Mill Workers Say and file. And that is the Tighe-| Leonard machine! | PATERSON, N. J.. May 30—Bli The Steel and Metal Workers In-| Keller, general manager of the dustrial Union stands ready to or-| Associated Silk Workers union in ganize a fighting united front with! Paterson, N. J, and a renegade Leonard who threaten expulsion | = | from the organization, but that it AFL, Textile Head portant economic demands as put forth by the united front of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers’ rank-and- file leaders and the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. Thirdly, in the event of the above- mentioned maneuvers failing, there is the possibility of direct interven- tion steps being taken in the form of a “request through personal statement” from Roosevelt for @ truce” from the president through Green to Tighe. This maneuver was carried through in 1919 by Presi- dent Wilson through Gompers to. the National Committee. Fourth, the more underhand and less easily detected maneuvers, but even more dangerous—such as: An attempt during the strike (or right on the eve of the strike) to split the crafts of the steel workers on the one hand and the tonnage workers from the day workers and laborers on the other. These mae neuvers may be attempted by: a) Already existing secret asree- ments by the employers and the Tighe machine to give “recogni- tion” in certain of the smaller independent companies, thus splitting the strike-front. b) An already existing secret agreement to give recognition to locals composed of highly-skilled and tonnage workers in certain larger mills, strategically located in the Calumet, Central and East- ern Ohio and Western Pennsyl- vania districts, but eliminating the lower-paid workers. This is another splitting tactic, ec) An agreement to pay “union scales” BUT NO RECOGNITION in various other mills. Fither one or all of these methods may be resorted to by the united front of the Tighe machine and the Steel Trust to try and break the strike. The best answer to these dangers. will be in the absolute elimination | of the Tighe-Leonard clique from any position of leadership or au- thority in the struggle! So far, the membership of the A. A. has shown a determination to carry out the struggle over the heads of the fakers. But there | must be more guarantees for being able to do this than there are up ) until the present moment The cardinal need is for a mili+ tant and iron-welded mnited front of the rank and file of the A. A. TL. S. T. W. and the S, M. W. L. Uy and a broad regional united front rank and file leadership. A broad united front eonference, called between this time and the strike date for the formation of this |mecessary local leadership would greatly strengthen the preparations for the struggle. | Such rank and file eommittea, the rank and file of the Amalga-|from the Communist Party, will mated Association, will ruthlessly|be put on trial by the Paterson expose anyone who stands in the/| textile workers Friday June Ist at road of that unity, or anyone who | 8 Pm. at Washington Hall, 62 God- has not the moral courage to fight| Win St. Paterson. He is being boldly in the interests of the steel | Charged with the following crimes: workers, against the steel corpora~| 1, Entering into an agreement tions, against their company unions | With the Albert Silk Company to and against their agents in the| supply weavers at a lower wage ranks of the workers. |scale during the present strike The steel workers are going to, there. strike. In every mill throughout; 2, Personally sending members of the country the workers are talking | the Associated Union to scab in the dreds of thousands of pieces of liter-| 3. Entering into an agreement ature to these workers, giving them | with the Manufacturers Association instructions on how to organize | and the Arbitration Board to reduce their forces; mass meetings, con-/ the wages of Paterson workers to ferences and demonstrations are| the wage of the lowest paid locali- prepared in every steel center t0/ ties, rally and organize the workers for | 4. You, through Berman and the strike. The best guarantee of | other members of the Associated & successful strike inthe steel in-|together with Max Baker (head of strike. Our union has issued hun-~ | Albert Shop. ‘| composed of the best tried and most | militant steel workers, should be | directly coordinated with the cen= ; tral united front leadership. | The splendid and inspiring work- | ing class initiative, expressed in the | desires of the A. A. I. S. T. W. meme j bership for unity and struggle, must | be carried through to its necessary. | conclusion in the form of welle | knit coordinated organization. une | hampered by treacherous misiead- lers of the working class! The eyes. |of the workers internationally will ; be on the coming struggle in the American steel industry. The strug— jsle that was begun in 1919 must |now be carried through to a yie- torious end—unity and victory of | the steel worker dustry is the building of a powerful Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. The rank and file of the Amal- gamated Association and every honest leader of the A. A. must fight unceasingly for the estab- ‘mittee that this delay is fatal, that Tighe will keep them in negotiation with him from now on, and that Tighe's main purpore in meeting lishment of the united front of all the steel workers and the ex- Posure of all those leaders who oppose unity! | manufacturers ~ Association) | National Textile Workers | break the strike. strike-breaking policy nationally. The strikers of the Albert Shop and other workers of Paterson and vicinity testify to these charges. have sworn out an injunction against the |} Union and the strikers, in an attempt to 5. That you and other officials of |the U. T. W. are practising this; WOCOLONA All those interested in renting || tents for this summer please at-° tend a meeting to be held on. || Thursday, May 31st at 8 P. M, || at 124 West 14th Street, mw terres wee sa ww eo we