The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1934, Page 5

—_ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 193 Page Five CHANGE | ——THE— ‘WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD IONTINUING yesterday’s discussion with John Cham- berlain on this matter of Soviet prisons: To repeat, let us not be led off the main track of the discussion by any of these typical wild anti-Soviet yarns, such as this new one, that there are a million prisoners in the Soviet Union. If Mr. Duranty gave you this figure, he was not quite accurate. There are exactiy 32,98514 prisoners in the Soviet Union. Where do I get this strange figure? My authority for this estimate is the same as that offered fou by Duranty: out of my own inner consciousness. I cah assure you, John, that Duranty’s reporting, while splendid in form, is far from splendid, often, in content. Any man, at this late date, like Duranty, who can ignore the eco- notic basis of the Russian Revolution, and write a Spenglerite hash of an interpretation to the effect that this revolution is only another Asiatic episode in the history of a land with a peculiarly Oriental and masochisti¢ soul—such a man might be expectéd to report that there aré @ million prisonérs in the Soviét Union. But I repeat, where, how and why? Of is this just another mystic and Spenglerite intuition of Mr. Duranty's? | A Lesson From Moscow ‘HERE is crime in the Soviet land, and there are prisons and prison- ers. Lét us discuss this fact, qualitatively. What are the crimes committed, and how are they handled? Sherwood Eddy, one of the official bureaucrats of Jesus in Amer- ica, a pacifist of the Newton Baker type, and far from being a Com- munist, had this to say in his recent book, “The Challenge of Russia:” “The writer wishes to bear pérsonal testimony that, apart from handling under the G. P. U. of political and religious prisoners which he has elséwhere described and condemned, the Russian penal system on a whole is probably the most modern, rational and humane of any in the world. “The entire plan is based not on the vindictive but upon the redemptive principles. “In view of the open disgrace of many American prisons and their crying need for reform it would appear almost hypocritical for Americans to raise an outery against prison labor in Russia. It would, however, be well worth while if it could eventually lead to an ap- pointment of a commission which, after making 4 thorough study of conditions of prisons and of convict labor in Russia, could make & comparative study of the penal system of the United States with a view to the introduction of sweeping and much needed réforms in this country.” In other words, Sherwood Eddy, who beli¢ves in capitalism, but wants its ravenous tiger-claws clipped and reformed, (it carinot be done, Brother), advises America to take lessOns in hurmarity and reason from Russia in this matter of prisons. * . ‘ Two Kinds of Criminal IN AMERICA, more than 80 per cent of crime is committed against private property. ‘Crime” is réally a crude, individualistic and chaotic war of the poor against the rich. The basis of capitalist justice, and the basis of the capitalist state, is force and terror applied in defénse of the property of the rich against the ceaseless envy of the poor. On some planes, such as bootlegging or the recent wave of kid- napping, crime becomes a form of big business which, however, is snot yetlegalizéd: It is the principle of private property and com- petition in its most primitive form. In the Soviet Union, thé majority of crimes are committed against, socialism—in other words, against the working class. It is the same war as that which goes on in the United States, only that the roles are révérsed. The rich, and their intelléctual allies, and those who hate a néw world where it isn’t possible to become rich, are the criminals. The workers rule the state and dispense the justice. It is they who sentence the saboteurs, the grafters, thieves, kulaks, Ozarists, speculators, and other elements opposed to socialism. It is they, also, who condemn those “political and réligious prison- ers” whom Sherwood Eddy mentions, people who have répéatedly corresponded with those who plan for a new invasion of Russia from abroad, people who form sécret societies to destroy what the workers have so painfully built. The Soviet Union is no utopia. It merely happens to be the place chosen by history for the perilous and glorious adventure of pioneering a new world. The old individualistic greeds still survive there, in the transition period. There is still a class war. It is slowly being ended, and mankind, having stfferéd the long horror of its animal origin, is establishing in the Soviet Union the first really humane and classless society. Yet meanwhile, surrounded by a world of ferocious capitalist armies who seek its blood, how shall the Soviet working class treat its enemies within? Can it ignore them, when so many have heen proved to be in active military alliance with capitalist militarists outside? This would be suicide, of course. , * * Medals for Prisoners EN caught, are these enemies of Socialism treated the way Scottsooro boys and labor leaders are treated in jail hére? No, they aren’t tortured, whipped, starved, terrorized, shut in dark solitary cells for years. You have seen the moving picture, “The Road to Life,” which shows how criminal boys of the reformatory school type were or- ganized into a free working commune, and redeemed into useful men by the ethics of work. Perhaps you have heard of the recent building of the White Sea Canal. Here some 20,000 hardened criminals were shipped, under the leadership of a handful of brilliant leaders from the G. P. U. The criminals could run away, if they cared to. They were thieves, murderers, saboteurs, kulaks. They came hating Soviet society, but they learned to work, to have pride in work. ‘They ac- complished a remarkable job of construction; some of them became engineers, artists, actors and scientists on this canal. All of them were restored to full citizenship at the end; and many of these ex- criminals have even received the highest award in the land—the Order of Lenin. Think of a prisoner in Sing Sing being released at the end of his term with a Congressional medal! * * * The New Redemption 'VERY prison in the Soviet Union is conducted on the basis of redemption through social work. The old capitalist-theological idea of punishment has been wiped off the law books of the Soviet Unien. Innumerable and authoritative visitors have testified to this fact. Books have been written on the subject. I shall close this sketchy and inadequate outline with a few words by our friend Walter Duranty, of the New York Times, (September 8, 1933): “. .. There is @ prison colony near Moscow where every one lives in perfect freedom without bars, cells, wardens or restrictions save that they must spend the night on the premises. “They have their own homes, workshops, factories, farms and Kitchen, can marry and divorce and can go to Moscow as they please. ‘They must work, but they receive union wages. All prison discipline 4s in their hands, under the supervision of no more than four G. P. U, officials. “They can escape at will, but they do not escape, and five years of practise in this and similar ‘reform schools’ tend to justify the | I Soviet contention that the average criminal would live an honest life if he had a proper chance.” . . ’ QUESTION \ “poo this sound like a land of terror, a land of “a million cvst” it cound like the land pictured in that lady's hook you ac- cei “9 crrelecsly—this land where criminals are treated like human beings for the first time in history? Authors Picket In Office Strike At Publ lishers’ | (See Story of Arreste on Page 1) * . NEW YORK —Three prominent authors, Dashiell Hammett, William Rollins and Nathan Asch, who have been appointed a committee to rep- resént authors in support of the striking Macaulay Co. employes, to- | @anize. Another telegram was sent to Mayor LaGuardia bitterly pro- tésting the use of New York police as strikebreakers. The telegram Guardia follows: “To Mayor LaGuardia: “The undersigned were elected a committee of thrée to représent authors throughout the country to voice their vigorous protest against the police @? New York City being used to intimidate the authors and strikers who were légally picketing the Macaulay Co. While we and other Authors wete showing our sytipathy and stipport of the strik- ers, five radio cars armed with rifles and riot guns appeared with great shrieking of sirens and surrounded the authors and strikers, ordering to Mayor | strikers’ and authors’ placards and | occurred until police cars mounted the sidewalks and drew large | crowds. Other policemen stationed in front of the Macaulay office oc- cupied themselves the entire day by acting as strikebreakers, speaking to the girls and urging them to re- } turn to work. disgraceful activities, and we re- spectfully request that you inform | us that your policé commissioner | will promptly issue orders to his force that in the future it is not their duty to act as strikebreakers for the Macauley Co.” Hammett, other prominent authors who aré participating in the picket are Matthew Josephson, author of “The Robber Barons”; Michael Gold, Jé6hn LL. Spivak, Isidor Schneidér, Joshua Kunitz, John Howard Lawson, James Rorty, Morley Callaghan and Edward New- house, The authors are supporting the strike of 11 office employes of the Macaulay Co., and was a result of a number of grievancés culminating Rimmer, a member of the book- keeping staff. and the demands include: 1 part of thé employers must stop. 3. The installation of fans in warm weather. electric illnéss for a period up to ten days should réceive full pay. 5, No discharge without either two weeks’ notice or one week’s salary. 6. Workers employed by the company for a year or longer should receive two weeks’ vacation, Wexley Joins Protest Against Threatened Thaelmann Execution John Wexley, author of “They Shall Not Die,” the play on the Scottsboro frame-up, today added his name to the list of American intellectuals protesting the threat- ened execution of Ernst Thaelmann, Wexley’s message follows: INCLUDE MY NAME IN THE HONOR ROLL OF THOSE WHO PROTEST EVERY LIVING MINUTE AGAINST THE EX- ISTENCE AND ACTIVITY OF THE NAZI BARBARIANS. I CRY WITH MILLIONS, “ERNST THAELMANN SHALL NOT DIE.” (Signed) JOHN WEXLEY, WHAT'S ON REMEMBER June 9, Daily Workér Day and Moonlight Excursion to Hook Moun- tain. Glorious time, get your ticket now. On sale at all Workers Bookshops. Thursday OPEN FORUM, Pen & Hammer, 114 W. 2ist St., 8:30 p. m. Dr. Carmen Haider, anti-fascist writer, banned by city-owned radio station WNYC because her talk might “offend some of those who listen in’ will give her talk in its original form. V1 of the Kuomintang oGvernment, Lecture by H. 8. Chan at Friends of the Chinese People, 168 W. 23rd St. Room 12, 8:30 pam Adm. 18¢. REGULAR mééting of Harry Sims Br. ILD. at 1260 36th Bt, 8:30 p.m. Howard Farmer will speak on ‘The Longshore- men’s Strike." GENERAL Mobilization, Steve Katovis Br. LL.D. for Thaelmann Defense, Man- hattan Lycéum, 68 EB. 4th St., 8 p.m. COME to Demonstration Against 8. A.- Mann-Brand vicious Nazi film playing at Yorkville Theatre, cor. 96th and Third Ave., 7:30 p.m. Auspices: Anti-Nazi_Fed- eration of New York and Film and Photo League. Friday SPRING Dance given by Unemployed Teachers Association, Webster Hall, 119 E. llth St., 9 p.m, Mayers Harlem Rand. Subscription 40e. ANTI-NAZI_ Symposium —Flsmer Hall, 284 E. 170th St.. Bronx, 8 p.m. Auspices: Léague Against Wear and Fascism. Speak- ers: American Jewish Congress: Anti-Nazi Minute Men: Carl Brodsky; Norman #. Tallentire. Adm. free, TRIAL in 2 Workers Court, Irving Plaza, 15th St. and frving Place, 8:30 p.m. to try a framed up worker and educate “workers in stlf-defense. Rabbi dhe Gilbert, de- fendant; Joseph Brodsky and Fanny Hor- itz, defense counsel; Fd. Kunts and prosecuting v5. ‘Mass organizations and unions partici pating. Benefit Michael Hacopa Defens OBIUM "Getting the News, Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th &t., $:18 p.m. Auspices: Film and Photo League. Speakers: John Howard Lawson. playwright, on “Alabama Strike Terror,” Seyméur Waldman, Washington corres- pondent, Si Gerson, City Editor, William Fuchs, 6n Sports, E. A. Schachnér, Editor A. F. of L. Rank and File Federationist, Leo | Hurwitz, carmeraman. Scottsboro Trial; Frnak Palmer of Federated Press, chairman. * . SOVIET NIGHT and Dance, Prog. Club, 866 F. Tremont Ave. the Samovar, balalaika orchestra, Soviet, folk songs, Soviet dancers: dancing till dawn. Saturday, June 9, 8:45 p.m. DANCE RECITAL—Jane Dudley in an epic’ dance, Life of a Worker, Miriam Becker in agitprop and Blise in setires and jazz numbers. Camp Nitgedaicet, ‘Tremont Around Beacon, N. Y¥., Saturday nicht. Pittsburgh, Pa. wid AT CHINA — Thé Economic Policy | Pe them to rélinquish their legal right | of picketing. Other police tore up| | ordered them to leave the sidewalk. | There was no quéstion of obstruct- | | ing traffic and no such obstruction | We do not think | | that it is the function of the New York police to participate in such) In addition to Rollins, Asch and | in the dismissal of Miss Dorothy | 4. Employes absent because of | | | | | |day télegraphed President Roose- | velt and General Hugh Johnson de- | manding the right to strike and or-| D etroit: Where America Died By y iT HAS become a crime in Wayne County to show evidence of being an unemployed worker. Formerly it was permissible for a worker to mount @ soap box in grand Circus Park and shout until he was blue in the face. Today anyone who enters the | othe Park must take a seat on one of the benches; if he stands up, he must keep moving — the direct influ- ence of the Ford conveyor line on police methods. Plainclot hes men _ mingle with the crowds of unemployed, arresting anyone who speaks to his neighbor while standing. Police scout cars cruise the city day and night, searching for trouble. As yet no law has been passed forbidding two men to converse on @ street corner; but if three men stand on the street and talk, they are liable to ar- rest, questioning, and a possible jail sentence, Uniformed and _ plainclothes police officers patrol the bus sta- tions, railroad terminals, and Street car transfer points. If your clothes are a little dusty, if you look hungry, if you haven't Shaved since the day before, the Erskine Caldwell order is swift and official. “Move on, and don’t come back. We don’t want you in Detroit.” Workers over forty-five, who have worked in the automobile plants fifteen or twenty years, and who have been discharged under some pretext or another, find themselves to be the un- desriable portion of the popula- tion. They have been replaced by younger men, and, in many cases, by girls. The companies save money by making the switch. The only excuse needed is some wholly imaginary in- fraction of a rule, and the over forty-five worker is discharged without bensfit of pension. There is no place for him in the in- dustry, when young men can be broken to the speed-up, and when young girls can he hired at half the wage. The worker over forty-five, who built the automobile industry with his The strike is being | led by the Office Workers’ Union, | All abuse and tyranny on the; 2. Employes must be permitted | the use of sufficient electric light. | | roe tke ‘> brain and muscle, is given his walking papers, no pension, and told to move on, to keep moving, and not to come back, Cee eRe T ELOISE can be found three thousand workers over forty- five who failed to keep moving. They remained in Detroit, in Dearborn, in Lincoln Park, in Inkster. And look where they are today! Floise is a perfume-sprayed prison that by any other name would be known as a detention A Report from the Black Belt The following letter was re- ceived by Eula Gray, niece of Ralph Gray, murdered share cropper, who is now in New York raising funds for the Share Crop- pers Union. * ie | Dadeville, Ala. Dear Eula: Received your letter and was glad to hear from you and to know that you are doing fine. The Y. C. L. is meeting regular with a good attend- ance. The Chappell Unit is regu- Jarly recruiting new members. The League Party was a success Satur- day night and we are to have a party and debate Saturday night on Bill will help the share croppers.” We are also preparing for the pre- convention to be held here soon. ‘We miss you very much and will be glad when you return. I have a Pioneer troop started here with six members. R. has one started in Chappell. The May Day meeting was held at your home the fifth Sunday because of bad weather, About 75 or 100 were present. The Share Croppers Union is faking on new life. The relief is being cut off, evictions are becoming & common thing. So the S. C. U. in places where has been slack are beginning to wake up and people don’t wait for the comrades here to come as they used to, but in- stead you find them coming by car loads every Sunday to get informa- tion. Money and transportation is badly needed to get into new terri- tories, however, where the people are thirsty for information and or- ganization. They have realized that the only way is through organiza- tion and they are anxious for it. Bert Brown and the lynch gang nearly got C. last Friday. They have eight days set to get him. First because he’s a comrade, second because it has been reported that the white comrade is staying here. Things are hot as hell here. Write me a long letter soon. School closes May 18. I will write to the comrades there when I get my work together a little better. 1 am busy now but will soon be so I can write more. Comradely greetings to all the comrades. C. sends greetings to all. Your Cousin, ts Why Hathaway Didn’t Appear at the Meeting D. My attention has been called to the fect that on Friday, June Ist I was advertised to speak at a meet- ing held in Irving Piaza by Branch 600 of the International. Workers Order. Further, T am_ informed, that because I failed to appear I was denounced by the chairman. The audience was even requested, “Resolved that the Bankhead | | | | ERSKINE CALDWE camp. Formerly was exclu- sively the Wayne County poor farm. But times changed. Henry Ford did not like the thought of having & common, ordinary, poverty-smelling pauper’s home in the vicinity of River Rouge, the Dearborn Inn, and Green- field Village. it And then, too, times were not what they were | before the speed-up. Wayne | County's insane were incréasing in numbers. The speed-up wi doing something to workers’ | minds, Some of them break down completely. Others require straight-jackets and padded cells. And so the Wayne County poor farm became Eloise. The build- ings were given false new fronts, dormitories for visitor-inspection. were constructed flush with the Dearborn boulevard. Lilac per- fume was sprayed into the cor- ners and cracks. And then the influx of “public guests” began. The unemployed workers in breadlines in Dearborn were herded into patrol cars and shipped to Eloise. It was a sorry sight to have breadlines in Ford's city of Dearborn, and so near the Dearborn Inn where invited guests gathered to do business with the Ford Motor Company. Tourists on their way to Green- field. Village to oh and ah over Ford's collection of antiques were to be spared the sight of seeing @ breadline in operation. King Henry I found it not difficult to do away with bread- lines, His cousin, Clyde Ford, is the mayor of Dearborn, and, aside from having the exclusive Ford sales agency in Dearborn, Clyde strives to please. And so no court order was required. The unemployed, as fest as they formed in breadiines, were whisked out to the pretty-smel- ling Eloise. And they are there yet. More- over, they will remain there until they die. A prisoner in Eloise has less chance of ever getting out and going free than a life termer in a Federal peni- tentiary. In the latter. you may be given a pardon; in Eloise, be- cause of the absence of court records, nobedy knows you are there. You are dead as far as the world is concerned. Visitors at Eloise, if they in- sist upon it, will be taken to seé the cast-off workers. What the visitor sees, is éxactly what the warden sets before him. You will see one floor of one dormi- tory. Here the beds are covered with snowy, lilac-smelling linen. Rosy-faced men, over forty-five, sit at their desks, work benches, and easels. The beds are placed wide apart, the perfume is in- toxicating. and the handiwork being turned out is a thing of beauty. . . HIS is the front but it is only one floor of one dormitory. Behind the front are three thousand workers liv- for visitors, Picket Nazi Movie, S. A. Mann-Brand, in Yorkville Tonight! 8. A. Mann-Brand, Hitler- Goebbels-Goering movie at York- ville Theatre, 96th St. and Third Ave. to be mass picketed tonight at 7:30 p.m. S. A, Mann-Brand is an anti- semitic, anti-working class, anti- Communist movie that is being exhibited by the Nazi Friends of New Germany It is being shown in an attempt to prepare public opinion for the murder of Ernst Thaelmann and other leaders of the German working class by creating a picture of Communists and trade union- ists as heing degenerates, under- world dregs and murderers. The Film and Photo League, and the Anti-Nazi Federation call upon all workers, all anti- fascists to join with the York- ville workers’ organizations in a mass protest meeting at 96th St. and Third Ave. to defend the picket line in front of the Thea- tre from local storm-troopers, Support the fight against the spread of Nazism in N. ¥Y. The fight against S. A. Mann-Brand is part of the fight for the free- flom of Ernst Thaelmann, heroic leader of the German working class! TUNING IN 7:00 P. WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Prick M.-WEAF-—Baseball Results WJZ—Amos ‘n’ Andy—Sketch WABC—Sylvia Froos, Songs 1:15-WEAP—Gene and Glenn—-Sketch Music wry, Comedian WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:30-WEAF—Shirley Howard, Songs; Trio WOR—Ray Perkins, Comedian; Nov- elty Orchestra WJZ—Lopez Orchestra WABC—Serenaders Orchestra 7:45-WEAP—The Goldbergs—Sketch WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Vallee Orchestra; Scloists WOR—Little Symphony Orchestra, Philip Jamés, Conductor; Edward Nell Jr, Baritone WJZ—Grits and Gravy—Sketch WABC—Rich Orchestra §:15-WABC—Eaty Aces—Sketch 8:30-WdZ—Grace Hayes, Songs WABC—Raffles—Sketch 4:45-WJZ—Igor Gorin, Baritone $:00-WEAP—Cartain Héhry's Show Boat Wor—l and Gun Club WJZ—Death Valley Days—Sketch WABC—Warnow Orchestra; Claude Reis, Tenor; Evelyn MacGregor. Contralto; John Ccrigliano, Violin 9:13-WOR—Studio Recital 9:30-WOR—Mixed Chorus WJZ—Duchin Orchestra; Davies, Baritone WABO—Wering Orchestra 9:45-WOR—The Witch's Talé—-Sketch 10:00-WEAF—Whiteman Orchestra W5Z—Canadian Program WABC—Conflict—Dramatic Sketch 10:15-WOR—Current Bvents—H. B. Read WABC—-Pray and Braggiotti, Piano Edward so I am told, to send letters to me pretesting my non-appearance. | T regret thet this should hanper isreittion of thons arésen S, ths fant was Ant 1 was advertised to speak Pra ees 4 140 without my knowledge. due to con- fusion somewhere. When T agree to speak at a meet- Tan alwars and on time. | cons I" c, A, HATHAWAY, Work of Parties in LL } ing in tiers of cots one on top of the other, with no space for chairs, work benches, and tables. The bed covéring is no longer white, the men no longer wear white shirts and woolen pants. and they do not smile when you speak to them Men who have given their lives to the automobile industry sit and stare at you as if you were from another planet. Nothing to read nothing to talk about. nothing to do. The few scraps of magazines have long since been worn out, the ink has been worn off. Men sit staring at blank pages, wondering what was once printed there. If you can escape the guards long enough, you will overhear what the men talk about. It is their fear of the black bottle. The black bottle is their term for death An intern will come through the dormitory. looking right and left. Presently he will stop beside a cot and stare at the man upon it. He will push back the man’s eyelids, and study | them for &@ moment. After that 4. he counts the pulse beat and jams a stethoscope against the chest of the trembling man. When the intern shakes his head, it has a paradoxical mean- ing. When he nods his head, it means the man on the cot is going to get the black bottle. | Medical schools have to get. stiffs | somewhere, but élsewhere they usually wait until a man dies be- fore coming for him. If you are in Floise, you will have to change your ideas about many things. This is Floise, in Wayne County, Michigan, the detention camp and butcher shop for work- ers who were foolish enough to | live past forty-five. The unémployed and cast-off worker who is able to keep out of Eloise finds that the problem of disposing of his own body or of those of his family has been taken care of by the automobile city. For the sum of thirty dol- lars & complete funeral can be purchased. This includes every- thing except a hole in the ground. And if theré are only thirty dol- are some undertakers who will obligingly dispose of the body gratis. There is not much of a market for stiffs in Detroit, since Eloise begen to function; 80 Detroit developed a markét for its pat- rons of cut-rate funerals. If none of your immediate family is in- quisitive concerning the disposal of your body, the undertaker weighs the remains and on his phone obtains up to the minute quotations from a handful of firms. The price per pound varies from day to day, just as it does with any baésie commodity. If | the price of fertilizer advanced yesterday, or if the price of soap | drops tofiay, you can more or less figure out the market yourself, — THF END (GR F Magazine, 6 |Comanist International, No. 6.) Published by Workers Library | Publishers, 50 FE, 13th 8St., New York, | ss ee are rapidly confirming the | correctness of the liné laid down! at the 13th Plenum, and in this! connection especial importance| should be attached to the quéstion| |as to whether and how the Com-| munist Parties are putting into, Practice the concrete tasks set and) how far the slogans advanced by | the Plenum are being popularised. | In this connection, No. 6 of the Communist International is of spe- cial importance insofar as in the |leading article, a detailed analysis is given of the work of the most im- | portant sections of the Comintern in this connection for the first months following the Plenum. In an article dealing with the American social fascists and the Austrian events, an examination is made of how American social fas- cism tries to make capital out of the blood of the heroic Austrian work- ers, HE issue contains valuable mate- tial on the Austrian events, in- cluding a copy of 4 leaflet issued by the Communist Party of Austria just prier to the armed struggle. which shows that it was at its post giving the correct fighting lead in the given situation. There is also a copy of a leaflet issued by a branch of the Schutzbund in the days fol- lowing the armed struggle of the Austrian workers, which shows the path the best fighters among the Austrian working class are taking when they call on the workers to break with the Social-Democratic Party and te join the Communist Party. There is an interesting review of German revolutionary fighters in exile, and which exposes certain op- portunist views which have found their way into some of their col-| umns. Included in the issue is also a full and informative report from Soviet China which gives a cléar picture of the glorious development and struggles of the Chinese Red Army. The task of popularising the tremendous achievements of Soviet China will be rendered easier by ac- quaintance with the detailed mate- rial contained in this article.—A. P. WRITERS UNION NOTICE! NEW YORK. — The Executive Committee of the Writers Union, formerly the Unemployed Writers Association, announces the suspen- sion of all activities and member- ship meetings during the summer. Stop denending for news and information on the capitalist press that favors the bosses and is against the workers. Subscribe te the Daily Worker, America’s osly working-class daily news- papers jend of Court | crowd booed and yelled: |the man from Detroit.” lars to be had for spending, there |: - |Communist Party and the militant the anti-fascist press being issued by | ” Br ALBERT MALTZ (Co-Anthor of “Peace on Farth”) TOLEDO.—Last Friday night in Tolédo Pred Parkér. a rank and |file A. F. of L. automobile worker from Detroit, raised a clenched fist to 20,000 union workers and shouted in a voice that reached from one House Park to the other, “Don't let your leaders sell you out.” He could go no further Members of the A. F. of L mittee of Twenty-three. arranged the demon: ion tore the megaphone out of hand and rushéd him to the back of the plat- form. But it was too late. From every part of the square men and women began to shout: “Let him talk,” “What are you afraid of?” ‘We want the man from Detroit.” Lawrence Aubry, the A. PF. of L. chairman, called for order. The "We want Com- | who had injunetion; Mayor S. T. Klotz, ex- Aubry began to ple and sisters,” he said, "you believe | in your leaders, don't you? You | have confidence in them, haven't | you?” | “We want the man from Detroit.” | Aubry could scarcely be heard. He waved his hand wildly. “Brothers and sisters..." “We want the man from Detroit " “Immediate general strike.” Aubry gavé up. He turned the megaphone over to Otto Brach, sec- retary of the Central Labor Union. For ® momént the workers were | quiet. “Listen, everybody,” Brach said, “it’s a hot night and we don't want you to get fageed out. We know it’s hot in this square and we ——" He got no further. It will take more than one lifetime for him to forget the boos and shouts of laughter that the 10,000 workers he represented fiung in his face. For one moment he waved his hands for silence. Then he said: “The meet- ing is adjourned.” No more than a dozen people could have heard him For the assembled workers the Meéting was not adjourned. No one moved. Fred Parker, the auto worker from Detroit. came to the front of the platform. And as he did so. Otto Brach pressed through | the crowd. For one startled mo- ment he looked over his shoulder. His face was an unhappy stew of surprise, injury and misery. On the! platform the meeting was begin- | ning. The A. F. of L. had called a, demonstration and after 20 min- | utes there was a new set of speak- ers and a new slogan, “Immediate General Strike,” the slogan of the “Brothers ; workers, WEEK ago the Central Labor Union of Toledo announced a demonstration and mass meeting. was to be labor's show of strength. It was to be the opening blow in the general strike. But during the week the mediators ar- rived. During the week the Tafts and the Coates sat down and rubbed nosés with the Ramseys and the Meyers. During the week the A. F. of L. labor leaders were so | busy discovering that their inter- ests were the interests of Miniger of the Auto-Lite that they never even learned that over 80 of the| hundred odd locals they repre- | sented had voted for a general strike. And so, just before the dem- onstration last Friday night, there were extras on the street announc- ing that the Edison strike had been | prevented and that the Auto-Lite strike was within one point of be- ing settled. | But during that week the slogan | of general strike was being pushed forward. At a conference of union delegates on Tuesday night, at ® mass meéting on Thursday night, the nécessity of a general strike to AMUSEMENTS | ducted the meeting in STRIKEBREAKING CREW—Thomas Ramsey | the |ship drive. “Have Faith in Your Leaders,” Was Plea of ~ Toledo A.F.L. Chief: jinsure the victory of | was hammered home. | The Central Labor Union refused to let the Communist Party parade, But with banners and placards, the Communist Party, the jung Com- |munist League and the Unemployed Councils paraded. The Central La- bor Union refused to let a member of the Communist Party speak. But for two hours tonight one Come |munist leader after another took the platform and the trade union men and women of Toledo listened nd applauded The excitement and drama and triumph of the moment in which Fred Parker took the meeting out of the hands of the Committee of Twenty-teree can be tured. The A. F. of L. leaders cone ical fashe ion. Robert Call, organizer of the Butchers’ Union, told the workers that “in Toledo you have had @ union labor of the A. F. of L. Ante Union: Arthur Rennett, Vice-presdient of the Electrical Workers International Union: Judge Roy Stuart, who isened the anti-picketing Socialist, (Drawn by Limbach) little difficulty, but, friends, let ma tell you that we profit by hard knocks.” “Tt takes time,” said thé chairman, “but the A. F. of L. ig constantly striving to get benefitd for you.” “We are better off now than we ever was,” said Rameey, of the Auto-Lite. Cupetts Ar HE workers listéned to this. Soma even applauded. But their mood underneath was better illustrated by the way they jumped and seid “Gas” when a photographer's light flared They laughed, but they also remembered. Their mood was better illustrated by the comment of a Negro worker. When Taylor, an A. F. of L. organizer, assured crowd that “this week hag showed that, they can negotiate peacefully,” the Negro worker dis- gustedly walked away muttering, “That man’s crazy.” In this soporific atmosphere it was like an electric shock to hear Fred Parker's voice. “I bring you a message from the auto workers of Detroit; a message of solidarity, The workers of Detroit, are pre- pared if necessary. And they sent me to say ‘Don't arbitrate: don’t let, your leaders sell you out.” And ther the chairman recovered his senses and tore the megaphone ont of Parker's hand. Ten minutes later the meeting was in the hands of the Commu- nist Party. Again and again the slogan was heard, “General Strike on Monday.” John Williamson, dis+ trict, organizer of the Party, spoke: Sam Stein, district secretary of the ILL.D.; Egert, section organizer; Ostheimer and Arner of the Unem- ployed Councils; Blakely of the Y.C.L. For two hours the trade union workers of Toledo stood and listened. The general strike was stifled by the A. F. of L. bureaucrats. But the Toledo workers have heard the warning of the Communist Party. They have demonstrated that they themselves can fight. And they have come through the Auto-Lite strike and they know that unless. - the Communist Party had led them in mass violation of the injunction against picketing the plant would not have shut down Tt will be a long time before the A. F. of L. calls another demonstrae tion in Toledo. Jim Crow Y, M. C. A. (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW HAVEN, May 22.—The New- Haven branch of the Railroad Y. M. C. A. is conducting a big member-- The fees are pretty high, and right now when railroad workers are getting such miserable wages, they don't feel they can stand the expense. The most vicious part of it, how- ever, is the jim-crow policy of the Railroad Y.M.C.A. 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