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x i a } DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1934 Pa. Jobless Delegates | Most Re ipid Retreat of Leaders fi Page Three A.F.L. Leaders Send * 1 U.S. H istory| Win Concessions In| F;om ‘General Strike’ to Surrender in 24 Hours) Seabs To Break Up HE militant and splendidly | | organized strike of some} 5,000 Minneapolis auto truck} jdrivers and helpers, which at lone time showed strong signs of developing into a general Harrisburg Meeting Jobless Workers Plan to Support Workers in the Coming Steel Strike By BILL DUNNE 5 | Strike in Patersae —born in a clump of bushes to the|regulated by the respective codes left” of the Communist Interna-| applying thereto. Any -board of tional and the Communist Party of | arbitration created by Section 6 the U. 8. A—comes out of this clash | hereof may inquire into all com- National Textile Workers Union to Hold Public | plaints for violation of said codes Tab tame as ne ae eine Trial of Eli Keller Today i ment, and shall file its report with - -— would prevent skull fractures while clubbing auto truck drivers on th Picket line, was “killed in action, the Tribune, instead of the usual capitalist press demand for work- PITTSBURGH, Pa.—One hundred and fifty regi delegates elected by locals of the Unemployment Council Independent Unemployed Citizens League, U.M.W.A. locals, and A. A. lodges meet May 28 in Harrisburg, Pa. After a period of meeting with several officials, permis- sion was won for meeting in? ; Cops, Legion Thugs the Senate Caucus Room in the State Capitol. The Conference opened with the election of a presiding com- mittee of five elected from Eastern Pennsylvania, Western Pennsylva- nia, the anthracite coal fields, Read- ing, and from the I. U. C. L. of Allegheny County. Ten-minute re- ports were given by various repre- sentatives from the different coun- ties. Struggles against evictions, marches, demonstrations, fights against discrimination of Negroes, Were recounted as well as the ever- worsening plight of the unemployed. The report of the delegate from Allegheny County, Phil Frankfeld, received a great response from the delegates. Jobless to Back Steel Strike Roy Hallas, president of the Revival Lodge of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin workers, dealt with the coming strike in steel and what the unem- ployed can do to help mobilize and win the strike. E. C. Culp, Negro coal miner from Centerville Boro and active leader of his U. M. W. A. local union, dealt with conditions among the coal miners. Pete Paul spoke for the anthracite. John Parks for Philadelphia County. A woman delegate from Reading dealt with the problems of housewives and women in general and was enthu- Biastically applauded. Later on in the day, a Committee | of Twenty was elected to meet with Eric H. Biddle, state director of re- lief representing the State Emer- gency Relief Board. A discussion on the demands took place before presenting them to Biddle. All sec- tions of the State were represented as well as most important industries. The Committee of Twenty met Biddle, Mrs. Liverwright, Mills from Allegheny County, and several spe- cial relief investigators from the state. After the chairman of the delegation, Frankfeld, presented the demands for the entire conference, 16 members of the delegation made supplementary reports and speeches dealing with conditions on R. W. D., relief, abuses of local welfare au- thorities, for unemployment insur- ance, surplus food orders, etc. Biddle proceeded to answer the demands of the unemployed. In the course of his remarks he de- clared: “The arguments for in- creased relief are unanswerable. Re- lief is inadequate in Pennsylvania. Something must be done to improve relief conditions.” He then pro- ceeded to tell the delegation why nothing could be done now to in- crease relief because “their hands were tied by lack of funds.” Pro- posals were made how to raise these | funds. Biddle was forced to promise the delegation the following: 1—-Payment of relief in cash; 2—Including of ice in the bud- getary needs of a family in the eash relief schedule; 3—Changes in the form of shoe and clothing distribution to re- place the present commissary system of distribution; 4—To include consideration in the budget of such items as house- hold utensils, soap, reading mate- rial, ete. In connection with the coming steel strike, a guarantee was gotten that strikers, just as well as any other workers, will be eligible for re- Hef on the basis of their needs. Concerning unemployment insur- ance Biddle refused to commit him- self. All in all, important concessions were won for the unemployed—if these promises are kept. The Committee presented 30,000 names in favor of the demands of the Unemployment Council's from ‘Western Pennsylvania and a total of about 10,000 from Eastern Penn- sylvania and the anthracite. These were gathered up in less than two reeks. RED WEDDING EVA TAUB and MURRAY FELDMAN Celebrating with CONCERT & DANCE BRANCH 4. LW. Saturday, June 2nd — 8:30 P. M. — Irving Plaza Hall Irving Place and 15th Street Musical Program— YOSEL CUTLER Dancing till Dawn-Adm. 35¢ WORKERS 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST COOPERATIVE COLONY has reduced the rent, several good apartments available. Cultural Activities for Adults, Youth and Children, Telephone: Estabrook 8-1400—8-1401 Trains. Stop at Allerton Ave. station Direction: Lexington Ave., White Plains Office open dafly from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 pm. Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. I. J. MORRIS, Inc, GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS 296 SUTTER AVE. BROOKLYN: Phone: Dickens 2-1273—4—5 . Night Phone: Dickens 6-5369 For International Workers Order Slug, Gas 2,000 as Relief Men Strike | Seattle, Wash., Waiters, Cooks Strike at Relief Kitchen | SEATTLE, Wash. May 31.— Swinging clubs and _ blackjacks, firing tear gas and guns, police,| “vigilantes” and hired American} | Legion thugs attacked 2,000 workers | and 228 striking cooks and waiters | |at the relief kitchen of the Wash- | ington Emergency Relief Admini- | stration here Monday. The cooks and waiters walked out |on strike, d@manding at least $5 a | week and a six-hour day. They have | | been working from 8 to 12 hours and | getting three meals of wretched food | and $1 a week. In the police attack, vigilantes |and thugs hired by the W.E.R.A. grabbed Harold Brockaway, chair- man of the Downtown District Council of the Unemployed Citizens League (affiliated to the National Unemployment Councils), and after beating him, turned him over to the police. Tear gas and guns were fired at the 2,000 workers who were demand- ing food and backing up the strike. of the waiters and cooks. After the tear gas barrage, the wind shifted, blowing the gas at the attacking Police and thugs. Scabs are being recruited from the ranks and by the American Vigilantes, a fascist organization of Seattle, Riot Squad Fails to Break New Haven Jobless Ranks NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Riot squads were called when a delegation of several hundred single unemployed | marched on the City Hall here de- | manding relief. Mayor Murphy, former A. F. of L. organizer, self- styled “friend of labor,” passed the buck on the demands, The newly organized Unemployed Protective Association, affiliated | with the Unemployment Councils, with headquarters at 857 Grand Ave., has grown from a membership of 13 to 225 in the past two months. The Association demands $4 weekly cash rlief for single workers, $10 plus $3 for each dependent to fam- | ilies and enactment of the Workers | Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598), | Philadelphia Seamen Picket Relief Office PHILADELPHIA, — Unemployed seamen, under the leadership of the Seamen's Unemployment Council, continue picketing the Transient Relief Bureau, demanding a sea- man’s controlled relief project. The seamen will hold a demon- stration against war and fascism on the waterfront June 7. wee * | Jobless to Demonstrate In Phila., June 1 PHILADELPHIA—With all “labor works divison” relief jobs threat- ened with complete shut-down by May 31, The Federation of Archi- | tects, Engineers, Chemists and Tech- | nicians has issued a call to all re- | lief workers and unemployed to mass | at Reyburn Plaza, Friday, June 1, at 12:30 p. m. to demand reinstate- ment of all fired workers, enlarge- ment of all projects, and the | threatened for a {ers and their stopping of the stagger system. "strike of all trades, caused a crisis in the Minnesota state Farmer-Labor Party administration, headed by Governor Olson, and while to put a end to his meteoric and speedy | demagogic career. The strike brought on a crisis in the ranks of the employers as a whole in Minneapolis, St. Paul and vicinity. The Farmer-Labor Party admin- istration and the employers escaped from the crisis by virtue of the| Policy of the Trotskyites of the “Communist League” (the four Dunne brothers, with Cannon as their political advisor) whose lead- ership of Drivers Union 574 is a matter of record. This policy, in spite of the efforts of the Communist Party resulted in surrender to the employers and Governor Olson, to the official henchmen of Olson in control of the Central Labor Council, in the political and to some extent organ- izational isolation of the 5,000 driv- militant women’s auxiliary, in the demobilization of the aroused working class—and in the defeat of the strikers. No Wage Gains The auto drivers struck for wage increases and recognition of their union, In the official settlement no wage increases are granted. But com- pulsory arbitration is instituted—as in the infamous automobile agree- ment engineered by Roosevelt and President Green of the American Federation of Labor. The present wages are to stand for one year, Recognition is accorded—to Clause 7A and the Minneapolis-St. Paul Regional Labor Board of the N.R.A. This is a Trotskyite victory! Will someone please page John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers and President William Green and advise them of the advance of their policies in Minneapolis under the Trotskyite banner? Such a “victory’—and the thick crust which enables the Trotskyites and their sheet to herald it as such —especially in view of the militancy of the strikers and the wide mass support accorded them—shows that these leaders are wallowing, and in- viting workers to follow their exam- ple, in the same filthy pool of class cooperation as the official A. F, of L. leaders. Had Just Begin to Fight This shameful settlement has not the justification that the workers were defeated. Defeated workers haye to make compromises that irk them. But the 5,000 drivers and their sympathizers, the large num- bers of unemployed who fought side by side with them on the picket line, had just begun to fight. They had inflicted a whole series of severe defeats upon the enployers and their army of special deputies. The morale of the strikers was high, Relief was well organized. The building trades had declared a genéfal strike. Building was stopped by the fact that the strike stopped deliveries of material. There was mass sentiment for a general strike among the other unions affiliated to the Central Labor Council. More than half of these unions had already voted for @ general strike according to reports. To a considerable extent the strikers and their sympathizers con- trolled the streets. The class lines were tightly drawn. But so bad are the economic conditions in Min- neapolis that even large sections of the lower middle class sympathized with the strikers—in whose ranks | herein shall proper federal authorities, The term “employees” as used include truck drivers and helpers, and such other per- sons as are ordinarily engaged in the trucking operations of the busi- ness of the individual employer. Any dispute as te an interpretation | the regional labor board for deter- | mination, | The present wage scale of each | employer for the various classes of | employces, until and unless changed | by agreement between employers | and employees, or the representa- | tives of employees, or by arbitration as provided in Section 6 hereof, shall remain in force and effect for | of this section shall be referred to | _ By ANN BURLAK PATERSON, N. J., May 31.—“The National Textile Workers Union, a union body, a defendant herein, re- fused and still refuses to recognize the Industrial Rela- tions Board, and refused to of prices, and forced the R aos eae New Orleans Jobless March on Food Dep.; Cops Seize Workers By a Worker Correspondent accept the cut in the scale oy Silk Mills, Inc., to pay the higher wages under a threat that unless these higher wages were paid, said workers would go out on strike again con- trary to the rules and regu- lations of the Industrial Re= lations Board which provides at least one year from date hereof,| NEW ORLEANS, La., May 28.—A ae tape ae caine How did this happen? What are| few hundred hungry people went) 4314; cores a te ee the mechanics of a process which | to a warehouse to ask for flour and siete the tamosea ae can turn victory for 5,000 workers 7 z sae: before the Industrial Rela- d —and potential victory for 2 huse | #¥¢ Squad cars of officers came and, tions Board for arbitration, - section of the working class—into | @?rested them for the simple reason and as a result of this the $ defeat overnight? How is it that| that they wanted to get a sack of ye Roy Sill: “Mills, was 4 ‘ : with the employers on the defensive | four so they might have bread for hese Lickin ae c as : ri and the workers and their organi- Hana % wi the: igher wages. 3 zations masters of the situation one | themselves and children. They had Th rank statement is an ex streets, stopped the scabs, tied up Minneapolis workers took the day, the strikers go to bed and| asked at the office of the N. R. A, act q tion from the injune- all the trucks. Victory was in their hands—only to lose the fruits wake up to find themselves defeated | and had been refused until they be- | Hom. + eiges cone the ee ‘ i thein loadecakin, and bound with the galling chains | ’ =| Textile Workers Union and t of their victory through the maneuvers of their DP. of compulsory arbitration the mere | came desperate enough to go to the strikers of the Roy Silk against ers’ necks in reprisal under such circumstances, dared only to publish a laudatory editorial obituary. The well-organized Minneapolis working class, which has a splen-| ing class for use against the strikers. did tradition of struggle, had the opportunity of inflicting a severe of class forces with flying colors, colors borne by the 3,700 National Guardsmen mobilized during the “truce” by this friend of the work- The exposure and defeat of Olson should have been the central polit- with chains whose very link bears | the tag “Revolutionary Trade | Unionism a la Trotskyism?” | wrunsae ie | (The next article will deal in | more detail with the class forces involved in the Minneapolis strug- gle and the process by which a warehouse where ordinarily, there is stored at least a carload of and meat, The men on Transient Relief are being used as sttike-breakers and there is a move afoot to use the men on E. R, A, relief for the same pur- pose. flour the National Textile Workers Un= ion and the strikers of the Roy Silk Mills by the Industrial Re- lations Board and the employers of the Roy Silk Mills (now the Albert Silk Mill) of Paterson. It must be understood that the In- dustrial Relations Board consists defeat upon the employers, substan-| ical objective of the Minneapolis) general strike situation was turned — of representatives of the Silk tially improving their wages and/| struggle. This was the basic neces?/ into a deliberate surrender to the . Man ifacturers Association and working conditions and strengthen-| sity for winning the economic de-| authorities, the employers, N.R.A. Vets At Capital the Associated Silk Workers of t ing the entire labor movement. The | mands for the Drivers’ Union and the} and compulsory arbitration.) | : Pater The main union rep- 4 struggle would have spread to St./ rest of the working class. Had Gov- resentative on this Board is an , Paul where the workers are even ernor Olson dared to send a single Call for Support Eli Keller, a renegade Lovestone- better organized and in the present | coidier against the strikers and their On the ite, who was expelled from the 5 period when there is such ferment supporters the working class of . Communist Party a few years 4 among all sections of the working i swered | I F ght fi B ago. > class and big battles are the order| MipTenpolls would ave answerea | : nF) OF DONUS | "F. reason tor. the. iojunctina nae of the day, the effect of such a| aun" Stven yom ice Hie ape ttt e ront —— could. not have been. statedsnatd ame Powerful movement on the rest of] ward climb on the backs of the | Urges Wires Be Rushed clcatly by. the National Textile . the American working class 48 In-| vocors and farmers would have Pritt: : Workers Union itself. It is cer- 2 sauicas een stopped for all time ——_| To Senate Demanding | tainly clear that this position of + Near General Strike san Kapadia ae ee Unemployed Support i eat the National Textile Workers The “truce” was agreed to, and| trenched. The frightened employers} ee OUP Action on Bill Union conflicts with the plans the shameful settlement made be-| nave been given a breathing spell in| Distillery Strike of these A. F. of L. leaders and fore even the full strength of the| which to reform their battle lines. is WASHINGTON, May 31. — As. their colleagues on the Industrial auto truck drivers union had been|ty6 Central Labor Council dema- bi aate Ohio, May 31--The Un-| more than one third of the veterans | Relations Board, the silk manu- brought into play—to say nothing ipcruse jaar ieee uy fouthie tele emloyment Council of Pekin is sup- who took part in the recent Na- facturers. of the working class reserves. Com- pare the Toledo situation with the Minneapolis “settlement.” One soldier sent in by Olson, one worker injured by troops, would have meant a general strike, victory for the labor movement, exposure and moral defeat of Olson and the Farmer-Labor Party administration. But this is what the Trotzkyite leaders were afraid of. If this is not so, why did they allow Governor Olson, during a truce—which in the of actually mobilizing strike action in support of the auto drivers. They heave a sigh of relief and wipe the beads of cold sweat from their brows. Illusions in regard to N. R. A. have been strengthened. The Shameful Settlement Everything is lovely and the goose | hangs high—everywhere except in| the homes of the auto truck drivers and the unemployed workers who bore the cruel brunt of the struggle. porting and actively taking part in the strike of the 500 workers of the| American Distilling Co., who went on strike on May 28 for union recog- nition. The Corn Products workers, who are also organizing a union, are aid- ing the strikers picket the plant. Tractor Workers Prepare to Strike | tional Veterans Convention are still staying on in the capital to con- tinue the fight for the passage of the Bonus, a call has been issued to all supporters of the vets fight to send a flood of letters, telegrams, to Congressmen and Senators de- | manding consideration of the Bonus | Bill at once. | All rang and file veterans are | urged to get in touch with Veterans Rank- and -File “Committee, 1410 The plans of these latter gen- tlemen are also cleary stated the injunction as follows: “Said Board in conjunction with the established wage scale ($.0344 per yard for 46 pick rayon) de- cided that if within two months it became an established fact that this scale was higher than the scale set up in other locali- ties, the scale would be reduced proportionately.” This plan, Kel- i ; ef i |G" Street, N. W., Washington, ler, Elias and. other leaders of military: sense is supposed to stop | Here is the decisive section of the) | PHORTA, Tl, May 81.—Workers of | 1G. ‘tor reporta of the Convention | the Associated: Silk Workers a= i all troop movements while it lasts—| Shameful settlement: = |the Caterpillar Tractor Plant are) sig “ror instructions for future | ready put through in part by , to mobilize the National Guard| “In the hiring and discharging or | organizing into unions and are mak- | work forcing a/8 per cent cut or 5 t while negotiations were going on? | laying off of employees, ee | ing preparations to strike in the| the senate Finance Committee| Paterson weaver was ) Honest and capable leadership| “ishts, shall prevail, except for Just | near future. There are about 4,000! nq the President, should be imme-| cisely againet th that the would have demanded the demobili- | @¥S¢- eae hoe workers in the plant. diately wired to, demanding passage strike in the Ro was ori- zation of the troops before one word Hane ore ee hee saieennl geatecte of the Bonus Bill. ginally called by the National 3 was said about settl the | affec' BD} 23 | Pi ip i i i r vi apital Texti kers Uni he Ne- He ement of the! e their representatives cannot | Picket Ship in Philadelphia The vets staying on at the capital Textile Workers Union. The Ne This was not done. Nego- tiations were carried on, the sur- render was arranged with Governor Olson while he held over the heads of workers the threat of military invasion. The Trotzkyite leaders, thinking agree upon a wage scale or condi- tions of employment, such employer shall submit such subject or sub- jects to said Minneapolis-St. Paul regional labor board, for arbitration. And also in the event that any dis- PHILADELPHIA, May 31.—Sea- men are picketing the 8. S. Ulysses, an Atlantic Refining Co. oil tanker, which arrived here from the port of Arkansas Pass, Texas, where the crew struck under the leadership of appeal for support. Street meetings are being held in various cities to pass resolutions to send to Roose- velt on the passage of the bonus. and arrested 12 young workers and | tional Textile Worker Union’ or- ganized a struggle against cut in a number of mills in Pat- erson, and actually prevented the cut from going through, as the injunction correct states, i Pledged To Cut Pay. pute between said members of local - trial| took them to the 12th St. Police s) y shee ae ela Central Labor Couns | titon No, 574 and any employer os hela ‘betsy eure Station on various charges. The A. F. of L. leaders on the cil officials instead of in terms of affected hereby shall arise with ref- | Union. The ship came in with a other hand have definitely the great mass of militant Minne- erence to sections (1), (4) or (5) scab crew, 21 men short.” All at- The ushers have been striking for pledged themselves to help re- apolis workers, quit cold like the ‘ ‘ tempts to get scabs to move the ship| three weeks for wage increases. 7 Yr palookas they are. hereof, said parties hereto agree to] OE 'aiueiohia failed, An en- ees le Sie ct as ancial ct ae Thi Ki 1 submit such subject or subjects to | ‘rom Pp td ; workers to the level of the low Sy Aine Class reserves had| <iq hoard of arbitration. The board| Meer coming from New York| Leather Workers Strike est paid localit This means not eyen as yet gone into action when the fatal “truce” was agreed to. It spelled defeat. Fruits of Victory Given Away Chicago, Tll., Activity Is Led by Mabel Byrd, Negro Leader By SASHA SMALL ESPONDING to the call of the American Section of the Inter- | national Women's Congress Against War and Fascism to be held in Paris July 28, to 30 of this year, women’s anti-war committees and conferences are already at work all over the country mobilizing women from every walk of life for the struggle against war and fascism and preparing for the election of a representative delegation from the United States. - Chicago: A strong committee with Mabel Byrd, the Negro woman who resigned from her position in the N. R. A. in protest against jim- crow discrimination, as chairman, has already established neighbor- hood committees which are can- vassing all women’s organizations in their locality, concentrating on all factories in this same territory, churches, etc. Neighborhood con- ferences will be held, some of them back yard meetings, where the Con- gress will be popularized and prep- arations made for the Chicago re- gional conference which will take place at the end of June. A special Prepare Throughout Se el” wlll ern coal fields has agrees to then immediately appoint two nominated employers, two nom- inated employees of local union No. 574, one labor board member and promptly returned when he learned that the ship was on strike, Buffalo Tugmen PHILADELPHIA, May 31.—Bighty workers of the Brier Company struck in protest against the lock- out of several workers who objected they will put through even more wage cuts on the Paterson work- ers. But the most significant part 3 7 r 2 3 t a large number of taxi drivers was! The auto drivers and their work-|an industrial member of the board s i s. The strike| Of the injunction is the section 4 already included. ing class supporters won on the field | to such arbitration group, said ar-| Prepare to Strike \g Beene ace in Gateees Bag Stating that the Albert Silk Mill 1 Strike Popular of action in the street and on the|bitration group so constituted to! pumeao, May 31.—Firemen and | and Portfolio Makers Union. Le entered a silk Were bias So strong was popular sentiment | Picket lines. Their Trotskyite lead-|name a seventh neutral member. | 1: omen of the dredging tugs of this ee i the Associated Si orsere te 4 in fav f the strik that the| ers and Olson’s puppets in the Cen-| Hearing on any arbitration herein- ‘pis aparing to seiko tomore | % Pak sociated with the American Fed- avor of the strikers that the F the| before referred to shall be called | Port are preparing to s Jitney Drivers eration of Labor to employ silk : Minneapolis Tribune and the Jour-| tral Labor Council called off the | Pe’ ena Pings int-| TOW for the 1920 wage scale. Pi to Strike ke aah a id-U, t nal—two of the most reactionary | battle and gave away the fruits of| Within five days after the appoint- . S . repare Str: workers associate with sai n- 4 t ment of said arbitration board. . a ve ion, and 0,” continued the in- sheets in the country, running neck| Victory at the conferences with Whe! itration is completed, the | Ushers Picket AKRON, Ohio, May 31 Five | * : 4 ‘a 4 and neck with the Chicago Tribune | Governor Olson, the employers and b ea ir prreestian ore a fe US hundred and ten union jitney bus ee Zs Nevada dt connectet i for this honor—did not dare to at-|N. R. A. representatives. declan, Gf eat regional Tacs hose, PHILADELPHIA, May 31.—De-| drivers are preparing to strike here bi is toe ate eae, Fedora ‘ tack the strike editorially during the] Governor Olson, one of the most} which shall immediately make a| {ving police orders, striking ushers|on June 12. The drivers who work 25 re l 7 ee ee é ; s y + e Akron Transportation Co.| sociated Silk Workers, wer sent whole duration of the struggle. dangerous enemies of the working| final order in the premises in ac- | f the Earle Theater formed a mass} for the Al 2 n te ws for employment ji When one ©. A. Lyman, a well-| class, and the whole Farmer-Labor | cordance with the said decision of | Picket line in front of the theater.| are demanding pay increases which Cau these he pha shore ouvine t known businessman and clubman| Party bureaucracy, thanks to the| said board of arbitration. Thy were joined by sympathetic | amount to $100,000 a year. act of treachery okrrisa nie by 1 who had made the mistake of think- | policy of cowardice and capitulation| Hours of labor prevailing in the | workers. Seventy’ thousand people depend | the tad dership of the Associated $ ing that a special deputy’s badge of the American representatives of ‘various business of the respective Police charged the demonstration | daily upon the jitney service. | Silk Workers Union? Keller per: : es ogi Milas tl —— é | sonally ay peat it of his 4 | union to the Albert Shop to scab u..s Invl W ’s Congress Against War to: tess | j include both National Textile “s - or n omen s 4 8 | Workers Union members, and a? a Me act | few Associated members. i Ties Cae et oe Pigie ig ‘ | Mass Resentment. been established. Its chief work will | councils, in the Chicago region are | siderable publicity has already been| mittees. Social affairs inviting the | To Pick Delegates Here Mass resentment is growing 1 be to develop the movement among | being reached for this work and| given to the work and the regional| wives of auto workers and the F Ww I 1 d Fi ht | among the rank and file of the the Ladies’ Auxiliaries of the P. M.| special attention is being given to| conference which will be held on| women in the auto plants are being or wer & Associated Silk Union against A. In addition to working women, | the stock yards. June 29th. Six shop papers issued | arranged. The Dearborn commit- Against Fascism this open strike-breaking role of housewives, peace society represen- by the Communist Party have given|tee marched in the National : Eli Keller. Associated members $ tatives, several prominent Chicago| Cleveland: Preparations for @ re-| special space to this work. Youth Day Parade with banners |_ in in| 2% beginning to help the Na- 4 women are on the committee. gional conference on June 9, with - | announcing the Paris Congress, A| ing on ali farm women to join in| tina) Textile Workers ::1nniow ? Preparatory section conferences are| Hartford, Conn: = =The local pouch women's Committee Against | this movement. ‘ picket line and are demanding % The Chicago Committee attended | already under way. 1,000 copies of | women’s anti-war committee, com- War and Fascism has distributed| New York: In addition to two) fii/' Keller pecall the eamneswe rd the National Conference of the the call issued by the American Posed of members of peace societies, | 4009 teafets in house to house can- | large industrial conferences—one| <oht into work. Keller refuses 3 Women’s International League for} Section have been distributed with | working women, teachers, etc. is) Vino sopeaiing to the Polish | of all sections of the Needle Trades) yoint blank, saying that he.is-out $2 Peace and Freedom in Milwaukee, /, special call to the women of|arranging a large mass_meeting| 10 to organize the fight against | involving members of the Interna-| 1. ""snash ‘the National Textile i to bring the program of the Paris Congress before the floor of this organization and to urge the mer- ging of their international Congress in Switzerland this summer with the International Women’s Con- gress in Paris. Glenna Stannard, one of the members of the Chicago Committee, who is engaged in P. W. A. Work, reported that girls and women on many of the projects are working on sheets, bedding, and hospital supplies. When the possibility of their being involved in war prep- arations at this moment was ex- plainad to them, they expressed great eagerness to help in the work of the Chicago Anti-War Commit- tee. One of the factories selected for special concentration is a rayon mill where over 600 girls are at this moment engaged in making gun cotton, Every Saturday afternoon U. S. government trucks call for the week’s work, AN the trade umions, unemploved Cleveland attached. Back yard conferences baby carriage parades, neighborhood canvassing commit- tees, mass meetings, are under way, all arranged by the Cleveland Women’s Committee Against War and Fascism, composed of represen- tatives fron trade unions, peace societies, housewives, language or- ganizations, Negro women’s clubs, ete. San Francisco and Los Angeles: early in June. Special efforts are being made to reach the women workers in the ammunition plants in the surrounding territory to help them organize anti-war committees in these plants.: Pittsburgh: The Pittsburgh com- mittee has chosen Fayette County in the heart of the coal mine region for special concentration.: Calls have been sent to all trade unions in this region, unemployed councils, war and fascism and inviting them to the Detroit conference. Milwausee: has a functioning committee composed of representa— tives from trade unions, women’s clubs, language organizations, mem- bers of the Socialist Party, teachers, etc. working on a local anti-war conference, Duluth, Minn., will hold a re- |tional Ladies Garment Workers | Union, women from unorganized | shops and members of the N.T.W.) LU. and another inyolving all) women workers in the metal trades | called by the Steel and Metal Work- | ers Industrial Unions—a monster) rally will be held on June 15 organ- | ized by the N. ¥Y. Womens subcom- | mittee of the American League, | 25,000 leaflets announcing the rally | are now being distributed, 5,000 calls | have been distributed and 3,000) Workera Union and he doesn't care how he does it. The National Textile Workers Union is holding a Public . Trial | of Keller for this treachery and calls upon all Paterson workers, on all organizations to partici: pate in this trial, to testify to his strikebreaking role, and te help bring in a verdict. The trial will be held in the Washington Hall, 62 Goodwin tions and minent | gional conference on June 15th to St., Pat ; Redan od 1 sremdtatnad't nee Al gobi Lromiscend Special ienflets and | elect a delegate to the Paris Con-|copies of the June issue of FIGHT | tg nin Martin Russa d= fuittee of the California section of |copies of the June issue of Fight| gress. Many organizations in-| are now being sold. itor of the “Textile Workers the American League Against War and Fascism with committees elected to follow up the calls. Spe- cial concentration points are the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union in San Pedro and the wives of the striking longshore- men in San Fransico. Two thousand leaflets have already been dis- tributed announcing the preparatory conference which will be held on are being sold in front of the West- inghouse plant, Heinz plant, and Kensington Aluminum. Detroit: The local women’s com- mittee under the chairmanship of E. Brotsky of the Women’s Auxi- liary of the M.ES.A. will hold their regional conference to elect dele- gates on July 7th. In Dearborn special leaflets have been issued and distributed to the women in a large cluding farm organizations will par- ticipate. Gleason Wise. several places in Nebraska, northern Michigan, Colo- rado and the Dakotas have estab- lished anti-war committees among the farm women. They are holding meetings popularizing the Paris congress and organizing the farm women against war and fascism. Representatives from these com- An anti-war affair will be held | the afternoon of June 3 at Webster Hall at which the members of the| Group Theatre now perferming | “Men in White” will present a one-| act play about Dimitroff, and Fe Alf will dance. This affair is only one part of the program planned to raise the quota of $2,000 this New York Committee has set itself to finance the delegation. The New York City-wide Conference at | Voice,” will be the prosecutor, and Alfred Wagenknecht of the Workers International Re- lief will act 3 presiding Judge. The jury will be elected right from the audience. PICNIC IN MILWAUKEE MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 31.—The Sixt) International Workers’ Pienic will be here on Sunday. June 17, at Old Seite berg Gardens, under the auspices of thi Communist Party. There will be games. June 2, at the Cultural Center, 230/piant making auto bodies calling} mittees have sent special articles to| which the delegates will be elected ‘ancing and refreshments, Ail 8, Spring Street, Los Angeles. Con-|on them to organize anti-war com-|the Farmers National Weekly call- | will be held on July 7th, iG eee ee ? roe