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Calif. Communist Party Get Ballot for First Time ee @ Miner Is Nominated | for Congressional | Post | SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.,| June 5.—For the first time in the history of California, the Communist Party will be placed on the ballot in this tate. Over 15,000 certified | sig- atures have been collected. The iaw requires 14,049. The next step in the campaign is to file candi- dates for state offices. ie eee Pruett Nominated for Congress CHICAGO, June 5. — Laverne Pruett, a member of the Progres- sive Miners of America and leader of the unity movement, and Karl Lockner, leader of the Unemploy- ment Councils, have been nomi- nated by the Communist Party for Congressmen-at-large. Sam Ham- mersmark, veteran labor leader, and Romania Ferguson, Negro worker active in the Sopkins dress strike, have been nominated for state treasurer and superintendent of public instruction respectively. In order to be able to reach millions of Illinois workers with the program of the Communist Party candidates, the election com- mittee of the Communist Party calls on all workers to help raise funds. Report to the nearest tag-day station in your neighborhood: CHICAGO 808 Van Buren; 1323 Blue Island Ave.; 1806 S. Racine; 1118 W. Madison St.; 1951 W. Polk St.; 1842 W. Cermak Road. 4004 W. Roosevelt Road; 2741 W. Ger- mak Road; 1624 Lawndale Ave.; 2739 W. Division St.; 2552 W. Division St.; 2134 W. Division St.; 1815 W. Division St.; 2322 W. Chicago Ave.; 2457 W. Chicago Ave.; 1632 Milwuakee Ave. . 2733 Hirsch Blvd.; 2238 W. Lake St. 4825 N. Kedzie Ave.; 3069 W. Armitage Ave; 4112 W. Armitage Ave; 1145 N. Spaulding St.; 1611 N. Artesian St.: 526 W. Division St.; 548 Wisconsin; 2409 N. Halsted St.; 3301 N. Clark St.; 6352 Ad- dison St,; Mansfield & Fullerton U. 0. headquarters. ;. 3847 S. State 642 Wentworth 2822 8. Mich- ; 4003 Indiana Ave., Workers Book Store; Liberty Hall, M405 S. 49th Ave., Cicero, Ti. * * Connecticut To Nominate NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 5.— A state nominating convention will be held in Bridgeport on June 16 and 17 at St. George’s Hall, 396 Stratford Ave., to name a full ticket for the fall State and Con- gressional elections, the Conimu- | nist Party, District 15, announced today. The candidates named will in- clude six Congressmen and a U. S. Senator. The chief issues that will be! presented in the campaign will be the struggle for higher wages and the right to strike, against com- pulsory arbitration, against police terror, for the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill (H, R. 7598), for immediate adequate cash relief and the rights of workers to or- ganize in unions of their own choice. Representatives are expected to the convention from Communist Party units all over the state and from other workers’ organizations. WOCOLONA All comrades who are in- terested in renting tents come to a meeting on Wed- nesday, June 6, at 8 P. M,, at 50 E. 13th St., Rif. 206 Allerton Avenue Comrades! The Modern Bakery was first to settle Bread Strike and first to’ sign with the Food Workers’ Industrial Union 691 ALLERTON AVE. Tompkins Square 6-9132 Caucasian Restaurant “KAVKAZ” Russian and Oriental Kitchen BANQUETS AND PARTIES 882 East 11th Street New York City NEEDLE WORKERS PATRONIZE SILVER FOX CAFETERIA and BAR 326-7th Avenue Between 28th and 29th Streets Food Workers Industrial Union We Have Reopened . JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE (Bet. 12th and 13th St.) LERMAN BROS. STATIONERS and UNION PRINTERS Special Prices for Organizations 29 EAST 1th STREET New York City Algonquin 4-3356—4-8843—4-7823 KRAUS,& SONS, Inc. Manufacturers of - Badges-Banners-Buttons For Workers Clubs and Organizations 157 DELANCEY STREET _ Felephone: DRydock 4-8275-6276 s on State Striking Teachers Vote To Continue PITTSTON, Pa. (F.P.) — The striking teachers of Old Forge, Pa., have voted unanimously to continue their strike, which has been in ef- fect since May 9. The 97 teachers refuse to return to work unless they receive at least two months’ back salary, and the re-instatement of Joseph Connors, a principal, and president of the Old Forge Teachers’ Association. Chi. Women Pick Delegates On Sat. To Intl Cogress Anti-War Conference Will Be Held in Hull House CHICAGO, June ‘The Regional Conference of Chicago to elect delegates to the International Wo- men’s Congress Against War and Fascism will be held Saturday, July 7th, 10 a. m, at the Hull House, 800 So. Halsted St. The Arrangements Committee fot, the Conference, expects the broad- est representation of women’s or- ganizations ever held in Chicago. In the few weeks of preparation for the conference contacts have been made with the Womens City Clubs, the Y. W. C. A., settlement houses, trade unions, womens language organizations and clubs. The Polish Women’s Clubs are doing particularly good work. They are calling a delegated meeting of their organizations from which a delegation will be elected to the Regional Conference. All organizations are urged to call at 160 N. LaSalle St. Room 405, phone State 6785, for further information. Pressure Forces Senators’ Approval For Vote on Bonus Vets Call for Wires to Congress for Action on the Bonus WASHINGTON, D. C., June 5. — Fifty Senators were quoted today as being in favor of forcing an im- mediate vote to discharge the Senate Finance Committee from further holding of the Bonus Bill in the Committee where it has been stran- gled for several months following its passage by the House of Rep- resentatives. The increased activ- ity in the Senate follows close after the end of the successful Rank and File Convention of the veterans at Camp Hunt, Virginia, May 26. Senator Pat Harrison, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and other Senators were called upon by mass delegations from the Na- tional Rank and File Convention and presented with questionnairas demanding their stand on the Vet- erans’ 3-Point Program. 1) Demand for the immediate payment of the back pay, called a bonus. 2) Repeal of the National (Rob- bery) Economy Act. | from getting his cost of produc- * DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1934 Molders Pledge Support of Steel Strike in Connecticut District Unity Conference e Farm Leader! Urges Strikes Against Trusts] Benizley Denounces the Lobby Methods of Inter-State Assn. Special to the Daily Worker PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 5.— Thirty-five hundred dairy farmers yesterday heard Lewis C. Bentzley, | President of the United Farmers’ Protective Association, attack both the Interstate Milk Producers’ As- sociation and the Allied Organiza- tion as two groups which, while fighting among themselves for con- trol of the former organization, are betraying the interests of the small farmer. The occasion was the an- nual convention of the Interstate in the Broadwood Hotel. Bentzley followed C. E. Fox, at- torney for the Allied group, who had deprecated any talk of strike and said he was for “peaceful meth- ods.” “I’m a poor farmer,” Bentzley said. “I don’t speak any rotary language. I know only the or- dinary American language. It was because we wouldnt strike for our because we wouldn’t strike for our present condition. “We've seen what these meth- ods got us. We know them too well. And we were the boys who paid the bill. “What's their peaceful meth- ods? Bootlicking of the politi- cians, so that they could get more money for the farmer. And we got plenty. They set up this commission and that control board and that price-fixing board —anything to prevent the farmer tion.” Bentzley told of the U. F. P. A’s fight for the small farmer and de- clared that the Pennsylvania Milk Board was only another set-up—. supported by both the Interstate and the Allied—as a blind for the next price cut. “Tl fight till I drop,” Bentzley said, “to keep them from pulling the wool over our eyes,” warning that the U. F. P. A. would watch both groups to guard against any further betrayal of the small farmer. Bentzley and Artemus Stover were put up as candidates for directors. The crowd of farmers listened to Bentzley with marked attention and applauded throughout his militant position. The U. F. P. A.’s platform on the milk question is 5 cents on the farm to the producer and 9 cents to the consumer, elimination of the check-off, opposition to the basis surplus plan and the dis- tribution of so-called “surplus” to the unemployed and needy at the government’s expense. Eliminating the present three share qualification for directorship, and making that office available to any member regardless of his share, was one of the proposals the U. F. P. A. brought to the conven- tion. employment and Social In- surance Bill, (H. R. 7598). Senator Harrison hedged and passed the buck to President Roose- velt: as being responsible for the Bill being held and smothered in the Finance Committee. Delegations to the White House made a demand upon Roosevelt to state his position on the 3-Point Program before the closing of the Convention of May 26th. Mass meetings of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League and other veterans’ groups, fraternal organi- zations and veterans in gencral are urged to send telegrams and resolutions immediately to their respective Senators demanding the immediate passage of the Demand Nazi Butchers Immediately Free Thaelmann Speeial to the Daily Worker NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 4— The Connecticut district genference called by the Steel and Metal Workers ‘Industrial Union, held Sunday, went on record supporting the strike program of the National Board of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. The conference had delegates from the | seven organized locals of the union, from union groups, and fraternal delegates from practically every In- dependent union in the industry in this terrirtory, as well as delegates from two American Federation of Labor local unions, The conference pledged the sup- port of the foundry workers of this section, of the strike preparations of the Amalgamated Association’s rank and file and of the S. M. W. I. U. 5,000 workers were represented by the 24 delegates present. Demand Thaelmann’s Release A resolution was passed de- manding the immediate release of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German working class, and of all victims of Hitler’s fascist ter- ror in Germany. The resolution called for a protest of the steel workers against the torturing of Thaelmann, who is in immediate danger of death at the hands of the Hitler fascist butchers. One delegate from the Watervliet, N. Y., Molders Club reported that the members had been seeking for an industrial organization along the lines of the S. M. W. I. U. for the past year. A delegation from this club sent last week to make sontact with the molders in the East Malleable Co. in Bridgeport. This company has plants in Watervliet, N. Y., New Britain and Union City, Conn., and in Wilming- ton, Del. The delegation found the workers in the Malleable were on strike under the leadership of the 8S. M. W. I. U., with strike action expected shortly in the New Britain plant, the Vulcan Iron Co., where the workers are also in the S. M. Wit. U: This delegate greeted the con- ference in the name of the Molders Club, which has organized prac- tically all the molders of Water- vliet, and pledged full support of his organization to the brothers now on strike. Reports by the delegates from all sections of the District, which in- cludes all of Connecticut, Western Mass., and West Rhode Island, in- dicated the ‘strong sentiment of the workers for strike action in the near future. Resolutions Passed The Conference went on record as endorsing the Unemployment In- surace Bill, H. R. 7598, demanding the release of Tom Mooney, the nine Scottsboro boys, and all poli- tical prisoners. Further resolutions were adopted, demaning (1) that the frame-up charges against the workers Sam Krieger and Chas. Sparrow, ar- rested in the un-paid city snow shovellers’ demonstration at the Bridgeport city hall last March, be dropped; (2) protesting against the barring of the attorneys of the In- ternational Labor Defense of N. Y. from their forthcoming trial to be held June 20. It. was dacided that the Confer- ence guarantee full support of the District to the striking workers in the Eastern Malleable, that they give full support for striking all other foundries of this Company in Bonus Bill. 3) Passage of the Workers’ Un- Union City, New Britain, Conn., in Watervliet, N. Y. and the Delaware oe plant, morally and financially. | The Conference decided to send| | protests to the governors of Con- necticut and Ohio, against the call- ing in of the national guards in the strike in Toledo and aganist the threat to use troops to break the strike of the Danbury, Conn., fur workers. One of the key-notes of the Con- ference sounded by the delegates | was the desire for one Union in the steel and metal industry, and for the establishment of a national Federation of Industrial and In- dependant Unions. Practically every Independant Union in this District is cooperative with the S. M. W. I. U.; their structure ts along the Same lines, '250 Ala. Negro WAVERLY, Ala., June 5.—Over 250 Negro croppers and farm work- ers attended a mass meeting at Montpelier here and heard Com- | rade Al, General Secretary of the | Share Croppers Union, expose | Roosevelt’s “New Deal” of subsi- | dizing the rich landowners on a program of destruction and reduc- tion of crops, with resultant ruin- ation of the poor farmers and share croppers and firing of farm workers. Other speakers were Comrade M, representing the Youth Section of | the union, who told of the herd- ing of the youth into C. C. C. war projects, the miserable wages to youth on plantations as agricul- tural laborers, etc., and Comrade G, who outlined the activities and tasks of the International Labor Defense. The meeting was held in a school house, following refusal of the preacher and deacons to permit the use of the local church for the meeting. Rank and file church members ex- pressed great indignation over this action. The deacons, who are members of the union, were severely criticized for siding with the preacher who was exposed as an agent of the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Colored People. Many rank and file church members raised questions, asking what kind of religion is it that did not allow them to discuss life and death questions, such as the struggle for the right to live, to get bread, decent wages, and equal rights, When a motion was made to send a committee to visit the preacher, his few supporters in the meeting threatened to inform the sheriff about the meeting. The workers defied these stool pigeons, and elected a committee of ten. The preacher, seeing them ap- proaching his home, sped away in a bright, new car, paid for out of the sweat of the croppers, mak- ing regular contributions to this parasitic misleader, while union organizers are forced to tramp for | miles in carrying on their ac- tivities, with spies and deputies on their trail. ‘Repeater 10 Jailed Croppers Back in Struggle LAFAYETTE, Ala., June 5.—Ten Negro share croppers of Chambers County, who were sentenced to five months imprisonment for de- manding a decent wage for pick- ing cotton, are back again in the ranks of the Share Croppers Union, full of determination to fight the landlord system which plunders and doubly oppresses the | Negro masses, The ten croppers had organized a boycott of landlords who were paying scab wages. The Interna- tional Labor Defense won their acquittal, but they were re-arrested and tried in a kangaroo court and hurried off to Speigner Prison last October, Croppers Defy |Landlord Terror to Hold Meet 3} On the Strike Front Kansas City Packers in Vote to Join Walkout OKLAHOMA CITY, June 5. — A general packing plant strike in Kan- | sas City and Fort Worth as well as in Oklahoma City where workers are now striking loomed today as Kansas City workers pre- pared to vote on whether to walk out in sympathy with the 900 Okla- | Similar action | homa City strikers. will be taken in Fort Worth, it is reported. The workers are members of the Amalgamated Butchers of North America. Cops Club Workers In Danbury, Conn. DANBURY, Conn., June 5. Police attacked a crowd of 500 hat- ters and their sympathizers with clubs yesterday and arrested six workers on charges of assault and inciting to riot. The men were held in $2,500 bonds each. Several cops were bruised as the workers defended themselves. The struck plant, the American Hatters and Furriers Company, had re- opened yesterday with scabs, * Mobilize State Troops Against Remington Workers ILION, N. Y., June 5. — In an attempt to force the striking work- ers of the Ilion and Syracuse plants of the Remington Rand Typewriter Company back to work, state troop- ers have been mobilized and are being held in readiness for an at- tack, following the reopening of the | plants. Reports indicate that only a very few of the workers have returned to work. About 2,000 have been on strike for three weeks. First “Steel Workers’ Day” Saturday, June 9 PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 5.— “Steel Workers’ Day” will be in- augurated in the steel district here when on Saturday, June 9, the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union and the International Work- ers’ Order hold their first annual district picnic. - Coming on the eve of the’ ma- turing strike struggle in the steel industry this picnic will be an ef- fective means for mobilizing thou- sands of workers in the fight for| higher wages, shorter hours, against company unions and for the right to join any union of their own choice. James Egan, National Secretary of the Steel and Metal Workers’ In- dustrial Union, will speak. Amuse- ments, games and dancing are planned. the Steel Trus Seabs Being Brought Anti-Sirike Pre Spread in Papers Page Three t Prepares’ Armed Forces,Uses Press, ‘Mayors Against trike Into Youngstown Area; ppaganda Being By JOHN STEUBEN YOUNGSTOWN, Ohi Thr y town and Mahoning Vv hears about the appr in the steel indust Preparations this co: for t are be agen of the steel trust to the of the Steel and Met Industrial Union and the Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers is very r. True to the notorious traditioy Judge Gary, the steel trust once again thr out a challenge to one of the m important sections of the Ame’ in working class, the steel wor! that: “The steel mills ; Will continue to operate on the ; Open shop basis.” Tom M. Girdler, | chairman of the Republic Steel Corporation, in a most arrogant and brazen manner lets the whole world “it know that, we have to shut down our m they will not stay shut down very long.” Steel Trust Prepares Already the Steel Trust is making feverish strike-breaking prepara- tions. The steel workers from the mills in and aro Youngstown report that misled unemployed workers and professional scabs from Kentucky, Alabama, Chicago, Johns:own, Cleveland and other parts of the country are brought into the mills for the purpose of scabbing when the strike starts. The company union representa- tives and other bosses’ agents in- side the mills go from department to department forcing the workers |to sign a paper that asks: “If a national ‘holiday’ is declared will you remain at work or go out on strike?” This is done for the pur- | Pose of still further terrorizing the workers to find out who are the most militant workers and fire them out before the strike is declared, | and also to use these forced signa- tures lates on to “prove” that not steel workers but the “reds” force the strike. Representatives of steel com-— panies are now covering homes of unemployed workers that have been out of the mills for the last two | years, promising them jobs if they will not go out on strike. All the |mew hired help must sign state- | ments that they will not strike. | Steel Trust is not preparing for a strike but for civil war. New com- pany police are being hired. In Warren, Ohio, they are putting barbed wire around some of the steel mills. The Youngstown Na- tional Guards are ordered for | special drilling and maneuvers on | June 9. The capitalist class began a bar- rage of propaganda, attempting to influence the steel workers not to strike, as well as to arouse the population against the strike. On May 29 the Youngstown Telegram | published on the front page a long | letter to Senator Wagner and signed by the editor. In order to make it more effective the Youngstown | Telegram printed a cartoon featur- ing two dead strikers and below it | states: “Shall we, too, offer To- ledo’s argument for labor peace?” The letter, addressed to Wagner {but meant for consumption in | Youngstown, ends up in the follow- ing way: | “This newspaper does not want | to see the President's program destroyed at the peak of its de- | extremists. . . Trotskyite Sheet Conceals the Part Played by Olson, F armer-Labor Governor, in Defeating the Great Minneapolis Strike Movement By BILL DUNNE F IGNATIUS LOYOLA, founder of the Society of Jesus, were alive today, even his cassock would turn green with envy after reading the latest number of the Trots- kyite sheet—issued after the Minneapolis surrender—wherein, by the negative process so dear to the Jesuit heart, Cannon and his lieu- tenants, by not even so much as mentioning Governor Olson and the historical fact that he mobilized three regiments of National Guardsmen against the strikers, grants amnesty to this potential mass murderer—and thereby give support to him, the Farmer-Labor Party government in Minnesota, and to its henchmen in official positions in the labor movement. As 4 matter of fact, the National Guard is still mobilized in Minne- sota—under the pretense of en- forcing an embargo on the ship- ment of cattle into the state from other drought-stricken regions. If cae and the ree Broth- ers were the ordinary type of trade union bureaucrats we would not put so much emphasis on this point. But they call themselves the “Com- munist” League and claim to have charted the only road by which the American working class can march to power. They claim that we “Stalinists” of the C. P. have for- gotten and perverted the revolu- tionary teachings of Lenin. They claim that they are the only bear- ers of “true” Leninism, We have dealt to some extent with the capitulation to the em- pl ’ association and Governor Olson engineered by the Trotzkyite leaders in the Drivers Union 574, Cannon and the officials of the Central Labor Council, the surren- der of the strikers to compulsory arbitration and the Regional Labor Board, the systematic and deliberate sabotage of the general strike, the demobilization of the mass moye- ment long before it reached its peak. Taken & connection with the wide mass movement of struggle of American workers against intoler- able living conditions and for ele- mentarf political rights, this was one of the recent most serious set- backs suffered by the working class. It was a needless retreat engineered by spineless and unprincipled lead- ers. The thought of surrender did not originate among the fighting masses of workers in the ranks of the unions and the Unemployed Coun- cils. Involved in this action are tac- tical questions of the highest im- portance—questions having to do with the speed, the methods and the direction of the vast strike movement in this country. Yet for the revolutionary move- ment, the issues raised by omission in the Trotzkyite sheet for June 2 are of still greater importance. Is Olson the executive head of captialism’s state machinery in Minnesota or isn’t he? Did Governor Olson mobilize three regiments (at least) of troops for use against the strikers and were not the “settlement” negotia- tions conducted under the threat of military force? Or is this a false- hood? Is it not a fact that henchmen of Olson and the Farmer-Labor Party in official positions in the Central Labor Council and elsewhere were determined to stop the general strike a as not “to put Olson up against Is it not a fact that rather than appealing to the rank and file over the heads of these leaders the Trot- zkyites agreed to the “truce” and advised workers to accept the offi- cial terms of surrender? In the Trotzkyite sheet for June 2, is there a single word or phrase rectly, anything about these decisive facts of the Minneapolis struggle? There is not! This is nothing more nor less than a deliberate attempt to conceal from workers the identity of the main enemy—to leave the enemy undis- turbed in his prepared posttions, from which, camouflaged as a friendly force during the period of “peace,” he can advance once more upon workers in the next struggle. One more question: Where, in the writings or speech- es of Lenin, is to be found anything that can be interpreted as endorse- ment of a policy of concealing from workers—before, during or after a battle—the identity of the main en- emy, the direction of his position, his strategy and tactics? Nowhere! For the simple reason that this is a counter-revolutionary and therefore anti-wor class policy. The apostles of the “Fourth” International whose “realistic” trade union tactics result in hailing as a victory the forced acceptance of compulsory arbitration by a union through official maneuvers and un- der threat of military invasion, do not like the word “counter-revolu- tionary” when applied to them, to their policy and their tactics, in the American class struggle. They will work up a most fervent moral indignation against the use of the term in connection with the Minne- apolis struggle. But why should we mince words when dealing with a case in which the facts are so clear as to admit of no argument? In our simple- minded way we cannot see any great difference between A. F. of L, officials silent whitewashing the governors who called out troops against workers and ruined farmers in New Mexico, Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, etc., and the Trot- zkyite amnesty granted Governor Olson, with this. exception: Governor Olson is the titular head that says or hints, directly or indi- of a party which pretends to op- pose the two big capitalist parties and protect the interest of workers and poor farmers. It is all the more necessary to expose his treachery. This is elementary. The Trotzkyite amnesty also in- cludes the Farmer-Labor bureau- crats in the Minneapolis unions. As is the case with Olson, there is not even a hint that they did not sup- port the drivers’ strike one hundred per cent. The whole question of the Minneapolis general strike, of the troop mobilization, of the re- lationship of class forces, is dropped like a hot potato by the Trotzkyite sheet for June 8—published one week after the end of the strike. But in Toledo—that is another question! About the situation in Toledo there are more brave words. The Trotzkyites are in favor of a general strike—in Toledo! Governor White is flayed as an enemy who threatens to use force against the workers. In Toledo, says the Trot- zkyite sheet, “the strikebreaking role of the Labor Board (with whose Minneapolis counterpart they in- duced workers to sign a compulsory arbitration agreement, without a wage increase) and its multi-mil- lionaire agent Charles P. Taft... must be exposed.” In Toledo, says the Trotzkyite sheet, “the A. F. of L. bureaucracy must not be permitted to postpone the general strike any longer. Noth- ing can be expected from the strike- breaking Labor Board. . .” No com- promise in Toledo. Well, well, well! The smell is not any more pleasant but the visibility is better. It is now clear that strike- breaking governors, strikebreaking Labor Boards and strikebreaking union A. F. of L. bureaucrats are encountered only by workers in those localities where such demons have not been exorcised by the bell, book and candle of the Trotzkyite ritual. Let a few archangels of the Fourth (Dimensional) International appear on the scene and bayonets behind a Farmer-Labor Party gov- ernor become a boon so sacred that it cannot even be mentioned in mundane print, This is the same process, on a smaller scale, which, accompanied by slanderous attacks on the Com- munist Party and the Communist International, cleared the road down which German _ fascism marched over the bodies of tortured and murdered workers. The Farm- er-Labor governor and his troops are a “lesser evil” than the picked employers and their special dep- uties, There is something more here than a tendency. The omission of all criticism of Governor Olson— even the mention of the bare facts —and of the Farmer-Labor bureau- cracy in the Trotzkyite sheet at a time when the strike settlement makes workers anxious to know the role played by every person prom- inent in the struggle, constitutes an alliance with Olson and his ma- chine. Whether it is temporary or permanent does not matter so far as the principle is concerned. Can Trotzkyites plead ignorance of the anti-working class character of the Olson program—the Olson whose immediate ambition is to lead a national Farmer-Labor Party movement? It is ridiculous. They know that he is a conscienceless demagogue. They know of the un- derworld and capitalist connections of the machine. They know that Olson will tol- erate almost any kind of criticism from Communists—if they refrain from calling him an enemy of the working class. They know that Ol- son has tried again and again to maneuver with the Communist Party with the object of fooling workers into believing that it con- siders him a “friend of labor.” They know that in 1923-24 Olson himself and his principal enchmen in the Minneapolis labor movement. time and time again solicited an endorsement from Comrade Ruth- jenburg, from this writer, from C. la, Hathaway and others. So in- sistent were he and his supporters at one time that the Party Dis- in regard to him and his program and conveyed its adverse verdict to him formaily by a committee in or- der to put a stop to the rumors spread by his supporters. These decisions of the District Bureau were made public. At that time Olson had never | been forced to show his true colors in a decisive situation involving the lives and liberties of workers on strike. But the Party gauged him and his movement correctly. Today he looks around again for some kind of revolutionary camouflage. The Minnesota air is surcharged with hectic phrases about “monopoly,” “the evils of capitalism,” “the beast of Wall Street,” the “rise of the class struggle,” etc. These phrases roll easily from the lips of venal leaders who received their early training in a state where the So- cialist Party organization supported the left wing; where the state sec- retary and others went to prison for opposing conscription, where there was mass opposition to the Morgan- Wilson war. The farmers are bankrupt and demand action. The recent drivers’ strike, the sympathetic strike of the building trades and other workers, the wide mass sentiment for a gen- eral strike, brought on a crisis in class relationships. Governor Olson is looking for a “Communist” label to add to his collection. The Trotzkyites, at least for the last week, allowed him to wear their forged label pinned to badge of Commander-in-Chief of the Minnesota National Guard. This is treachery and the work- ing class will deal with it in the way the working class always does when it frees itself from the in- fluence of its enemies, , From the looks of things the, | velopment by the action of a few | trict Bureau met, made a decision | the coat from which dangles the | This newspaper does not want to see a repefition of what has happened in Minneapolis, Cleve- land or Toledo. “This newspaper does not want to see a repetition of what hap- pened in Homestead. “It does not want to see a repe< tion of what happened in East Youngstown not so many years ago. “We join the 95 per cent in this community who agree with such sentiments in asking you and your board to go to the limit toward keeping us on the road to Peace and recovery.” the el upon the Labor Bo: limit” in breaking the st ke propaganda is w The anti-strik “old time fr teel workers” and “s the ntiment Strike Propaga: E. M nda of Bosses Meyor of Zz out the orders of the Steel Trust, already comes out as an open strikebreaker, | Under the cloak of “preserving law and order” in Youngstown, Mayor Moore openly announced in the press that the strikebreakers will be protected. He is also taking the lead in raising the old and worn out “red scare.” The May 30 edi- tion of the Cleveland Press printed an interview with Mayor Moore, he ‘states: “If the strike you can blame professional ‘s. You can even say for me that the whole affair is being pro= moted by the ‘Reds.’” But a ke in the steel industry, at a time when the entire is in a fighting spirit, “calamity,” therefore the chief representative of Wall Street, the President himself, must take charge. Thus the statement of the President, promising: “Promptly to provide, as occa~ sions demand, for the election by employes in each industrial unit of representatives of their own choosing for the purpose of collective bargaining and other mutual aid protection under the supervision of an appropriate | governmental agency.” But the steel workers can no longer be fooled by such and similar | proposals. “he lesson of the work- ers of the Weirton Steel Co. is the | best exposure of President Roose- velt’s “new” proposals, | From the facts contained in this | article it is clear that the scab j agencies, the underworld, the press, the armed forces, the labor board, the President and many other re- actionary forces are and will be mo- bilized to break the coming steel strike. Paterson Workers’ ‘Jury Find Keller A Strike-breaker | Aided Boss to Get an Injunction Against Strikers PATERSON, N, J.,. June 5.—A | jury of twelve workers found Eli Keller, manager of the Associated | Silk Workers Union of the United Textile Workers, guilty of strike- breaking and sending members of the Associated to scab on other workers. A crowded hall of work« | ers ratified the verdict by an over | whelming vote. Five of the twelve on the jury are | members of the American Federa- | tion of Labor. Keller was found guilty on five counts: | 1. Entering into agreement with Albert Silk Co. to supply weavers at a lower wage-scale during the | present strike. (Before the strike this shop had an agreement with | the National Textile Workers Union, | Thirty-eight out of 44 workers bes ; long to the National). | 2. Personally sending members of the Associated to scab in the Albert Silk Co. |_ 3. Entering into agreement with | Manufacturers Assoc. and Arbitra< j tion Board to reduce wages of Paterson workers to wage of lowest paid localities. 4. Through Henry Berman and | other Associated officials, to having sworn out an injunction against the National Textile Workers Union and the strikers together with Max Baker of the Industrial Relations Beard and Yolken (the boss). | The jury found Keller guilty of | these four counts without a dissent-. jing vote. Two workers, of the twelve, voted against the fifth charge which stated that “Keller and other officials of the U. T. W. are practising this strike-breaking policy nationally.” The jury proposed that Keller and | Berman be expelled from the Asso- where | ciated and that joint action of - | workers, regardless of union affilia- | tion, be instituted, for a united struggle for a $25 week wage and | three and four loom system. Portsmouth Sheriff Attacks Pickets PORTSMOUTH, Ohio., June 5.~ Three men were injured when Sheriff A. L. Bridwell and his depu- ties attacked 300 pickets who had gathered at the struck John T, Breece Co., yveneering manufacturers at New Boston, yesterday to halt scabs from entering the plant.