The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 12, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 12. 1934 Page Three 800 St. Louis Jobless: Demand Relief; Plan Cleveland Relief Cut ‘ End Rochester Strike; Rank and File Affiliate With Councils ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 11.—} Fully 800 unemployed Negro} and white workers stormed the Board of Aldermen cham- | bers here Friday, forced a full | hearing on the Workers’ Mu nicipal Relief Ordinance, and | won a hearing for next Friday when | the board meeting will be devoted entirely to open discussion on the ordinance. | Mayor Dickman, the aldermen) and the police department received the mass delegation with 300 fully armed police. Faced with 800 work- ers, the Mayor was forced to yield and met the workers’ delegation in his chambers. | The St. Louis Workers’ Municipal Relief Ordinance, drafted and) adopted by thousands of workers at | neighborhood meetings held) throughout the city in the recent) period, provides for $7 weekly cash | relief for every unemployed worker, Negro and white, plus $5 for wife| and $3 for each dependent, with all | relief to be adjusted upward in ac- cordance with the rising cost of liv- ing. On work relief it demands union wages, in no case less than $5 for a seven-hour day and a guaranteed three-day week. It fur- ther demands free rent, gas, elec- tricity, free lunches to children of the jobless and provides for the part-time workers. When the jobless presented their demands, Mayor Dickman three} times tried to force the delegation | to select a spokesman other than Samuel Dukes, Negro organizer of the Unemployment Councils. Sharply condemning this Jim-Crow | attempt to split’ their unity, the Negro and white workers demanded shat Dukes be their spokesman. Before the delegation entered the Concession Won for 14) Negro Bronx Families | a concession for 14 Negro families | who were ordered by Jacob Cohen, | landiord of an apartment house at 1638 University Ave, Bronx, who} had ordered them to vacate imme-| diately. The concession came in| |form of a delay until September. Action by Negro and white workers is going ahead to force a complete victory for the tenants. A strong house committee has been formed among the tenants, backed by the International Labor Defense and the Isaac Meyer Branch of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. | | Rochester Packing Strikers Reject Company Promises Vote to Stay Out Till) All Their Demands | Are Granted ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 11 (By Mail).—Strikers at the Rochester Packing Co. voted unanimously against returning to work Monday on the company’s promise to ar- bitrate. They also voted to add pro- vision for a closed shop to the other demands, 15 per cent wage increase and a 40-hour week. The company tries to excuse the fact that it is hiring strikebreakers by saying that “it is against the N. R. A. for us to have a closed shop.” Workers point out that wages paid are far below the N. R. A. codes, and have been cut three tithes since 1929. Truck drivers who went out on NEW YORK.—Mass pressure won | i Future Arctic Explorer| MOSCOW.—The Soviet Union, with a perpetual fight against the | frozen Northern portion of the country, is preparing new heroes to conquer the North, This young- ster is a student on the Arctic ship, Sibiriakov, learning the ropes on navigation in the chilly waters | around the Arctic Circle, Open Letter to AFLPlumbers Asks. Unity for Strike Call On Local 463 Men Not to Send Seabs To Struck Shop NEW YORK—The Alteration | Plumbers, Steamfitters and Helpers’ Union issued an open letter yester- | day to all rank and file members| of the United Association of Plum- | bers and Gasfitters, Local 463 of | | two shifts straight and on the other | most pay because they are the ones Two Die Repairing Heated Ingots In Illinois Steel Co. | Wages Staggered Under N. R. A. In Attempt to Split Workers’ Ranks inaaiceccel sent home without putting in any time at all. By a Worker Correspondent 80. CHICAGO, Ill. — Working| “™ ee ae conditions in the South Works of | Se Biscay secon Dylenion Illinois Steel are unbearable since Weep: ipnomes Ao: Ue. eivin certain rights under Section 7A of the inception of the N.R.A. Pits| (roar Tenis under Sectior for re-heating ingots formerly were | “%*® NRA. But instead of letting pc | us join a union of our own choice. cooled off with water before work al | they had us to vote for the com- ‘ s ti % vi of repair wes to take place." NOW) s.5y union. ‘Thay. had « method the s is 1 + of | ovat ed colt ms 4a rst Bho | of known company suckers standing | are forced to enter them to do re-| ane ee ace Bit eis te pins Seo ee ec. Since the N.R.A. the wages in the | period of a month's time. Nobody | mason department were divided into | was allowed to talk about the death | ciadg ee Be ed peace my | and injuries sustained by the work- | ener Although . Hen eratans oh ers of this department. | equal amount of work the wages We are often called upon to work| vary. The mason leaders get the hand we must report seven days a| to push us and are mostly related Strike at Wanamaker’ s| ‘Police Raid Kansas City Workers’ Center In Terrorist Drive tS ry Harry Haywood, LSNR Secretary, Terror, Intimidation . Rampant in Til. Town Urges United Struggle NOKOMIS, Ml, June 11.—Whole- an attempt to intimidate workers, is | 11.—Police illegally raided the Se teas bendien eae fee Kansas City Workers’ Center ers sent to the agent have been|in a frantic attempt to break cre Single copies have been! yp the rising struggles of the unemployed led by the Come munist Party. This follows the ar rest and third degreeing of Come rade Berry, Section Organizer of who led the C. W. Ay “Trial” Date Set | ments on some of the smaller rail- | only operate to “compel” the rail- | week whether we get work or are with the bosses. Hatliond: “Labor” Press Hides And Distorts Vital News | CHICAGO.—The June issue of | the Brotherhood of Locomotive | Engineers Journal, in reporting the | several state union meetings, for-| gets to report that the Midwest) Union meeting, representing nine | states, went on record as endorsing H. R. 7598. It also fails to state that the Northwest Engineers went on record as being opposed to com- | pulsory arbitration. | In Kansas City, Assistant Grand Chief Edrinton prevented the meet- ing from opposing compulsory ar- bitration by telling the members it was @ bill only for the purpose of | enforcing some few local agree- roads, that it would not be used to “compel” the workers but would | road companies! Edrinton failed to state how an On the organization, too weak to take eco- nomic action, could be strong enough to force legislation benefi- cial to workers from the Million- aires’ Club at Washington, Grand Machine Stirs Up Hatred In their Dual Unionism | Bissett, Laughlin, Edrinton and company are busy attending | brotherhood meetings to whitewash | Johnson by stirring up sympathy | “for this loyal leader who is being | crucified,” and also to afivise the | members of the B. of L. E. to en-| deavor to get more members by| stealing them from the B. of L. F.) and E. The purpose of having these | grand officers at the meetings is also to have them monopolize most | of the time talking insurance, so| that honest rank and filers cannot talk unionism and have time to ex- pose the corrupt leadership. The Journel reports fail to state | =) For Negro Worker =| Held in Detroit NEW YORK.—Fired for belong- | James Victory Is Held ing to the Office Workers Union, these girls are picketing Wana- maker's big New York Depart- ment store. This store incidentally, On Outrageous Bond of $50,000 | DETROIT, June 11.—The trial of for- | James Victory, Negro worker and merty an N. R. A. official, worked | world War veteran, who has been as floor-walker-in-chief, framed up on a charge of having was where Grover Whalen, slashed @ white woman with a en razor, has been set for Thursday, | June 21. Victory is now in the county Conference Will Fight Jim-Crow Law in St. Louis L. S. N. R. Calls Meet to Draw Up Proclamation For Rights | jail, held there on the outrageous bond of $50,000. Under the slogan of “Prevent a Second Scottsboro Case In Detroit,” the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights are or-| ganizing a broad mass campaign to |free him. Victory defense commit- | tees have already been set up in a number of Negro churches, as well) | as in the Japanese Pacific organiza- | tion, a Negro organization under bourgeois nationalist leadership. A delegation is also preparing to see Mayor Couzens to demand the re- ST. LOUIS, Mo. least of this innocent Negro worker. —In line with} that rank and file members speak | the continuous fight being waged in opposition to the dual-unionism- | against Jim Crow tactics and Negro Victory was arrested May 14 in connection with a man hunt against Fifteen cops and federal dicks in- vaded the Center without warrants several days ago, broke up a meete ing of jobless workers which had been called to demand the continu- ation of the C. W. A., and arrested six revolutionary workers. The po- lice tore up all literature in sight, including leaflets advertising the meeting for Harry Haywood, and smashed and destroyed everything, including a picture of Stalin and a glass banner and sickle. The six workers were brutally handled in police headquarters, held incommunicado for 24 hours, and then released. Scott, a worker whe had been viciously attacked by the cops several weeks before, was kicked in his lame leg and punched in the stomach. Harry Haywood, General Secre- tary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, spoke to 150 Negro and white workers Thursday on the need for combatting the growing terror against the Kansas City workers and the attempt to drive the local Communist Party into illegality. “The ruling class is raise ing the question of the red scare,” Haywood said. “This is being used as a cloak behind which to crush the struggles of the Negro and white toilers against starvation,” He stressed the necessity of build- ing up a strong L. 8. N. R. in Kan« fight, and advocate building up the} discrimination, a mass conference Negroes, whipped up by the capi-| sas City and the development of ‘ istri i the A. F. of L., calling on them to} * 4 ion | for the purpose of drawing up a yhich tion of the Liberat City Hall, Peter Chaunt, district |sympathy strike are milifantly help- g = | | organizations by united front action . talist press, in the course of which | the circulation of iberator aa oF He melee, CRUE E poesia pager begat’ ine take united action to halt officials | tr e ront |on the issues that affect the men,| Proclamation for the rights of the perenne > Negroes were arrested and | an additional weapon of the work- was arrested in iront of the City|thizer, Arthur Hobson, is in st.|f the A. F. of L. from sending | by forgetting the “hymn of hate”| Negro people will be held Tuesday.| peaten. He has repudiated all ef-| ing class in its struggle for better | strikebreakers to the shop of Sam- | | i Hall. Hg was released after the demonstration was over. Among the speakers at the Cit) Hall meeting were W. R. Bradshaw, | member of the Missouri National | Guard; John St. Clair, a railroad | worker; M. Biel, student, and E. Pulley, secretary of the L. S. N. R. The workers voted unanimously to mass at the City Hall on Fri- day, June 15, at 1 noon, when a discussion ts held on the Workers’ Ordinance. | The offer to pay 45 cents an hour | to Negro workers and 68 cents to white was unanimously rejected, | and full union rates are demanded for all. | * * * Rochester Rank and File Take Organizational Steps ROCHESTER, N. Y.—Organiza- tional steps for continuing the fight against the forced labor work re- lief system were planned Monday at a special meeting of the newly- elected executive committee of the Rank and File Relief Workers Or- ganization, following the decision of the membership Friday to end the nine week general strike. Although the demands of the Rank and File for return to C. W. A. conditions were defeated, the or- ganization gained hundreds of mem- bers through its militant strike leadership and its exposure of the “Central Committee” which started | the strike as a means of putting across the budget. Expose Fakers Exposed during the strike wave were James Madigan, former strike chairman and A. F. of L. union leader, who deserted when defeated \n his opposition to mass picketing, and Fred Struble, leader of last year’s strike of 9,000 relief workers. Struble was expelled Friday when his strike-breaking tactics were made known to the workers. Affiliation to the National Un- employed Councils, establishment of neighborhood locals, and the calling of a Western New York conference on relief were among the proposals endorsed by the or- ganization. The trial of Leonard Costa, Un- employment Concil organizer and strike leader, comes up before a jury on Thursday morning. Charges against others involved in picketing have been dismissed. The Interna- tional Labor Defense, successful in defending many of the workers ar- rested during the struggle, is con- ducting a citywide campaign to re- gain the use of Washington Square for meetings. * wae 6 June 16 Order to Slash Cleveland Relief (By a Social Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Drastie re- lief cuts are to be handed the Cleve- Jand unemployed on Jtune 16 when food orders are to be cut 22 per cent. While the capitalist press admits that food prices. will soar upward about 20 per cent, “because of the drought,” the Cuyahoga County Relief Administration plan @ 22 per cent relief cut. Even this does not satisfy the relief board— deductions will be made for milk and ice from the regular food order. Under the new plan, the food order for a family of five will be slashed from $7 to $5.46 a week. If the family gets two quarts of milk daily, this will further reduce re- lief to $4.34, and if ice is included, the food allowance becomes $4 4 ‘week—80 cents a week for food for one person. On top of this, with food prices increased 20 per cent “becatise of| of the drought,” buying power will be reduced from 80 cents to about 64 cents. Thus, the 22 per cent relief cut becomes a 45 per cent actual | mittee of strikers came for support, Mary's Hospital as @ result of in- juries received when run over by one of these scab trucks, which are nder protection of police asked for by the company. Strikers’ wives and children are around the plant at all hours, since there are both day and night shifts. Picketing under the leadership of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers Locel 255 is conducted only by couples wearing the signs, “Un- fair to Organized Labor,” and “We can’t live on promises.” tional Organizer James Mellen is trying the usual “arbitration” ma- neuvers, confusing the membership which joined the union within the past few months. The Rank and File Relief Work- ers Organization, to which a com- advised the following organizational program: 1. Election of a broad strike committee representing all de- partments proportionately. 2. All negotiations to include entire strike committee, and no settlement until all strikers vote. 3. Mass picketing with banners containing all de- mands, and daily strike meetings. 4. Spreading of strike to other plants and meat markets. Minor Will Speak in Rockford June 23, 24. ROCKFORD, Ill., June 10—Rob- ert Minor, veteran Communist lead- er, will speak at Haight Park Satur- day, June 23rd, at 7 p.m. On Sun- day afternoon he will speak at the Communist Party’ pienic at Black Interna- | uels and Dickstein, which has been | on Strike since May 10. “The Alteration Plumbers’ Union is aware of the fact that | officials of your union haye used | all forms of disruptive and mis- leading statements in regard to | other unions or associations in or- der to befuddie the minds of the rank and file membership of the A. F. of L., in order that they | may be used against their fellow workers as strikebreakers and scabs,” said the letter. The letter proposes that the rank | and file of Local 463 elect a com- mittee over the heads of the offi- cials to meet with a committee of | the Alteration Plumbers’ Union to} work out ways and means of stop- | ping the strikebreaking activities of the A. F. of L. officials, JOHN L, LEWIS IN GENEVA GENEVA, June 11—The new Ad-/ ministrative Council of the Interna- tional Labor Office will be composed of 32 members of whom 16 will be governmental delegates, eight em- ployers’ representatives and cight “labor” representatives, it was an- nounced today. John L. Lewis, strike-breaking| president of the United Workers of} America arrived to avi as one of) the Amercan observers at the pres- ent conference. | NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP ON SWAMP BERLIN, June 11.—Four thousand | prisoners have been camped on the borders of a swamp extending over 123,000 acres along the Ems River, it was revealed recently. They will Hawk Park. be forced to drain the swamp. Make Special Efforts to Win the Working Class Youth Part I By WILLIAM JONES I. The Relation of Nationalism to War and Fascism The January Plenum of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Y. C. I. emphasized that the struggle against war and fascism must be made the very center of the| League’s activities among the work- ing class youth. The discussion of how this is to be carried out in reality must be the main problem of our pre-conyention discussion and the work of the Seventh Con- vention itself. Nationalism contains within itself the theories and ideas with which thecapitalists carry out their prep- arations for imperialist war, their pre-war commercial.and diplomatic struggles, and their fascist policies. Under the banner of nationalism gather all of the enemies of the of the enslavers of the colonial peo- ples. During the years of the crisis, all of the imperialist ruling classes raised higher and more boldly the reactionary banner of nationalism, chauvinism, patriotism, The failure of the international conferences of Geneva and London show clearly that the imperialist powers are re- sorting more and more to a policy fierce, arrogant nationalism in an effort to find a way out of the crisis and its attendant spectre of proletarian revolt. Under the banner of nationalism, cut, reducing the buying power from $1.17 to 64 cents a week ‘ fascism strikes bloody blows against Y. C. L. PRECONVENTION DISCUSSION Under Banne oe iy 5 : working class and poor farmers, all | 8Ta! | Tero are coming to the assistance of | | the striking Celotex workers with | grand officers have shown them-| Farmers Aid Celotex Strikers in Louisiana | NEW ORLEANS, La.—The farm- | ers around the small town of Mar- food for their farms, potatoes, car- | rots, cabbage and other supplies. campaigning, and by taking the| June 12, in Peoples Finance Hall) sorts to drive the I. L. D. and its/ type of labor action that the work- ers are looking for. The neglect to report these facts clearly shows that many of the local officials are | Negro Rights, who is making a tour! defended the Scottsboro boys,” he| united front as reactionary as the top-leadership and as totally lacking in their con- ception of labor unionism as the selves to be. | here. | Harry Haywood, National Secre- | tary of the League of Struggle for | attorney, Maurice Sugar, out of the/| case. “I am glad that the same organization is defending me that | of the country, will attend the con-| said. | ference which is called by the L. 8.) a pamphlet, “The South Comes |N.R. | North—Detroit’s Own Scottsboro The committee expects one of the | Gase,” written by Harry Haywood. largest crowds ever to attend a con-| National Secretary of the LS.NR ference present and calls on all! is now being issued. All workers) Because of this aid the strikers have been able to hold out solidly. The plant is closed as tight today as it was the first day the men walked} out. Will Speak at Mass SRA es 45 to Face Roslyn Strike NEW YORK.—A mass meeting to i protest the verdict against Angelo Riot Charges This Month | Herndon, young Negro worker sen- ROSLYN, Wash. — Forty-five|tenced to serve 20 years on a pickets, men, women and children, Georgia chain gang and the terror) Workers Cheer of this small soft-coal mining town, /|in Georgia will be held tomorrow, 95 miles from Seattle, will face riot |g p.m. at the Imperial Elks Lodge, charges late in June for their par-/|160 W, 120th St. ticipation in the strike of the West- | Speakers at the meeting will be ern Miners’ Union, an independent | Richard B. Moore, of the National | ss epg is Roslyn-Cleelum coal! committee of the International La- Held. bor Defense, Ann Burlak of the Na- The arrests were made after com- jtional Textile Workers Union, Don pany guards and 70 state police ter- | West, Communist Party organizer rorized the strikers and broke up| in Georgia, and one of the “Atlanta their picket lines, using guns, clubs | gix” indicted under the same slave and tear gas. Due to the isolated | jaw that was used against Herndon. location of the field and the pink | Ajian Taub, of the National Com- Continental Congress-Socialist lead-| mittee for the Defense of Political ership of the union, the strikers | prisoners, will be chairman. withdrew their picket lines. eal ‘The meeting is under the auspices strike is practically broken. of the Herndon Defense Committee Several of the riot cases will be| which is made up of the I. L. D., handled by the International Labor | National Committee for Defense of Defense. To rally mass and finan- | Political Prisoners, National Student cial support behind these workers, | League, Young Communist League, the I. L. D. is sending two young | League of Struggle for Negro Rights miners, Mark Haller and Milton/and the Unemployment Councils. Kairis, Young Communist League |The proceeds from the meeting will members, on tour of the Northwest.'!go for the defense of Herndon. nal lodges, professionals, intellec- | tuals and individuals to elect dele- gates, Meeting for Herndon) communications and contribu-| Bargemen | tions for the expense of the con- | L. 8. N. R., 1243 N. Garrison Ave., | St. Louis, Mo. | Candidate in Seattle SEATTLE, Wash., June 11.—One | thousand workers cheered George Bradley, Communist Party candi- date for U. S. Senator, when he spoke at a picnic held at Peoples Park, Sunday, at the inauguration of the campaign. Bradley outlined the Communist Party position on the farm bill, the Negro Rights bill. He stated that the only way out was the revolu- tionary way. Resolutions were passed support- ing the striking longshoremen and seamen, against the fascist methods used against striking workers and | demanding the withdrawal of all | troops from strike areas. Resolu- tions demanded the release of Mark | Haller and the dropping of charges | against Harold Brockway, both mili- tant workers, the heroic Austrian workers, and prepares for the war against the Soviet Union as the center of world proletarian revolution and interna- tionalism, Under the same banner, Japanese imperialism plunders Manchuria and crouches for the attack upon the Soviet Union. “Buy American!” “Buy British!” “Buy French!” In these slogans are seen an ex- pression of the sharp economic war- fare which is now raging between | the imperialist powers. And never before in “peace time” has the struggle for world and colonial mar- kets been so heatedly and desper- ately fought by the imperialist monopolies. Such are the signs of the new cure-all for capitalism— “Economic Nationalism.” We siall deal in greater detail later on about nationalism in the United States. Tt is clear, then, that our League must acquire a clear understanding of nationalism in all of its forms and disguises and learn how to struggle against it in order to really Tally the masses of youth against war and fascism and for our pro- m. Nationalism is the very heart of the war preparations, the expres- sion of the acute contradictions of the world capitalist system. Il. Nationalism’s New Disguise— Race Theories Capitalism has been forced to adopt new methods of rallying the masses to its nationalist-war pro- gram. When old slogans, like a threadbare dress, can no longer conceal the true class character of imperialism, new ones are readily put forward. Thus, today, the capitalists of Germany and Japan cloak their robber schemes and deeds with the the workers in Germany, bombards cover of “race” theories, Hitler's r of Nationalis Nazis brutally repress the workers’ movement and prepare for impe- rialist conquest under the slogan of “Keep pure the ‘Aryan’ race—the natural rulers of the world!” “De- fend the Fatherland” gives way to “Defend the Nordic race interests!” —and for the same gold-greedy pur- pose. The voice of Japanese imperial- ism joins in this “racial” masquer- ade of its aggressive imperialist pol- icies in the Par East. Japan sud- denly blossoms forth as the “pro- tector of the oppressed dark peo- ples” as a pretext for its plunder of Manchuria, in its struggle to get the lion’s share of the imperialist partition of China, and in its pro- vocation against the U.S. 8. R. TIL—Capitalist Nationalism in the . S.A. Nationalism has always been strongly developed in America, The tep-dog position of American fi- nance capital, geographic isolation, and many other reasons accounted for this strong development. The extensive propaganda system (schools, press, movies, radio, etc.) was effectively used to drug the minds of the youth and children, especially, with the poison of na- tionalism, patriotism ahd race hatred. ‘We have seen, however, that the crisis has induced the ruling class to make even more strenuous ef- forts to develop these ideas. Roose- yelt's “New Deal,” particularly, was dedicated to the purpose of raising “Old Glory” to the highest skies. Not since the war mobilization of 1917-18 has there been such an orey of flag-waving, and patriotic prop- aganda—"America will lead the way out of the world depression!” The reason for this campaign is clearly seen both in the conditions at home and in America’s position | Leagues. He pointed out that the in relation to the other imperialist powers. It is not nécessary for us to deal with this in detail—the facts are known. It is sufficient to say that the shock of the world crisis hit American capitalism most se- verely precisely because of its greater development (‘the bigger they come the harder they fall”), and that America’s position of trade domination in South America and thé colonies has been greatly under- mined both by the crisis itself and the greater aggressiveness of the other imperialists (England, Japan). We have seen recently the state- ment of the Roosevelt aide, Mr. Peek, who called for a greater struggle for the world market when it was seen that for the first time sincé the war England's exports surpassed America’s. TY. Nationalism and the Youth The greatest emphasis has been | conditions in America.” given to the winning of the youth of this nationalist “America First” program. This is the same policy as in other countries, a8 was pointed out by the January plenum and resolution. At that meeting Bela Kum spoke at length on this problem and on the weaknesses and tasks of the capitalists centre their nationalist activity and propaganda upon the youth becausé the young generation does not know from life the ex- periences of the last world war. If this is true for Europe, the ac- tual scene of the bloody slaughter, it is certainly more true of the Américah youth. Besides this, there ate other factors which serve as the basis of developing nationalist ideas (and organizations) among the youth. Some of the chief ones are: 1, The distressed economic situa- m Capitalists Speed Fascism and War as wider sections of the farm youth and petty-bourgeois youth (stu- dents). In the main, the economic situation, hunger and total in- security, which the crisis has brought upon them, serves to de- velop the leftward movement and tadicalization. This is clear. However through skillful dema- gogy the capitalists utilize this situation (of their own meking!) out of their misery. Thus we see the wide movement to support the government and its policies (“Give Roosevelt a chance!”). The artful maneuvers of Roosevelt to appear as the St. George who will slay the Wall Street dragon and the big industrialists (“Chiselers”) have also had an undoubted effect. And | propaganda is still spread of “better Workers have been heard to remark: “Christ, if its so bad in América you can imagine what it is in the other ¢ountriés!” 2, The basis for the “race” théories of nationalism already find deep roots in the whole system of Pression of the Negro people in he U. S. A. Indications of the growing attack upon the Negro people, especially the youth, is seen in the mounting lynching wave. The N. R. A. in the South at- tempts to drive even wider wedges in bétween the white and Negro youth by the increased discrimina- tion against Negro youth in indus- try—thfowing the Negtoes out of Bagle. t increase of race hatred propazanda in the é¢ducational system under tion of the working youth, as well Roosevelt. |ference should be addressed to the| mand the immediate release of | | Victory. | | Return in N. Y. | NEW YORK.—Striking bargemen | |returned to work Friday following | |a meeting of the United Boatmen’s | | Union where Wm. C. Maher, busi- | ness manager of the union, told the | |men they had better go back be- jeause he could not keep the tow-| | Boat men out in their support. | Although the strikers were guar- | \anteed that they would return with no discrimination and an increase | in wages, a large number of barge- | men were not taken back by the) | companies. | The two companies on strike were |the Goodwin and Gallagher, and |the O’Brien Co. The men wanted) |to spread the strike to a general strike throughout New York Har- bor and were promised official sup- | port in this move by Maher, but) |when the test came Maher called | the men together and railroaded| through a settlement for the two} companies. | The Marine Workers Industrial | |issued @ call to all the bargemen to {organize on the barges for a fight | jagainst discrimination and for an| $80 a month wage scale, with ex- tra pay for trimming and cleaning. + leans | Union, conditions. A resolution was passed at the meeting sharply attacking the epi- demic of police violence. A broad is being formed to fight for free speech, the right to organize the workers, the abolition of Jim-Crowism, particularly in the iving out of relief, and the con- tinuation of C. W. A Rush protests to Mayor Smith of ae See |trade unions, organizations, frater-| to de- | Kansas City, Missouri. Moore, Burlak, Taub, | = re |and organizations are urged to Workers Confer on Terror in Jersey ILD Conference Plans State-Wide Action NEWARK, N. J., June 10.—The International Labor Defense held an emergency conference against the wave of terror in New Jere sey on June 10, at which 108 dele- gates representng over 355,000 workers in trade unions, fraternal, mass and cultural organizations, met to take action. A permanent committee was elected to organ- ize the fight against oppression and Jersey City was chosen as the concentration point. A delegation is to go to Gover- nor Moore to protest against a recent incident in which three pickets and a photographer were d, charged with “incitement and held in $2,500 bail, Joe Gilbert, organizer of each. | the Taxicab Drivers Union, spoke, bringing out the collaboration be- tween police, the Hague machine and taxi owners in trying to break up meetings of taxi drivers. Other experiences were described by dél- egates from the Furniture Work- ers Union, Cafeteria Workers Needle Trades, Textile Workers Union and A. F. of L, Unions. Rebecca Gretht spoke for the Communist Paty, analyzing the importance of the state as a munition center for a boss war. Telegrams’ were sént to Presie dent Roosevelt, General Johnson, Govérnor Harty Moore of New dersey, Governor Miller of ay j 5 ie governors oo! | A question was asked as follows: Leen ee Witenes demand= | (to be answered true or false)—| ing the release of Angelo Hefhe \“The majority of Negroes should | don, Tom Mooney, the Scotts | Jingoism and White Chauvinism Is Especially Rife to convince the youth that greater | patriotism is necessary as the way) even déspite the crisis in America, | the shops which flaunt the Blue) The recent exposure of the “qués- | tionairé” submitted to students in| a New York state school show the | | | be treated like well-trained apes! 3. The overwhelming majority of | the youth in America today are |native born. Thus the capitalists | see in them a more fertile field | for anti-foreign agitation than among the adult workers, many of | | whom are foreign-born. It has | happened, more than once, that a backward young Worker, under the jinfluence of such propaganda, | | should remark: | | “There would be jobs for us all if they sent all the foreigners back | {to where they came from!” even | | though his own father was born) jin a foreign countiy. Editorials in turday Evening Post,” | 3 “Country Gentlemay | and other widely read journals have | pointéd out continually that the deportation of all alicns (of whom there aré seven million — non- citizens) would be a rapid solution of the crisis, ‘ 4. In the Pacific coast states, es- pecially, counter racé theories against Japan flourish, reflecting the imperialist antagonisms against Japan in the Pacific. The theories which have widely existed there for a long time are utilized in the | struggle of thé capitalists and re- actionary forces (American Legion) | against the masses. Thése nation- alist views have served to cover over the attacks upon the striking agricultural workers of Imperial Valley, many of whom are Mexicans | and Filipinos, 4To Be Continued) |boro Boys and other prisoners. ™ Plan Enlargement of C.C.C. Military Camps WASHINGTON, D. C—C. C. G. offices here Saturday issued a call for 112,000 new recruits into the militaristic C. C. C. ¢amps, adding the possibility of énlarging the camps to a total of about 400,000 young workers under Roosevélts plans for “drought relief.” Rooséve request to Congtéss asked “50 million doliats for work camps to afford employment in the drought area for young men prin= cipally from cities and towns.” Pas- sage by Congréss would mean that about 200,000 new recruits would be drawn into the C. ©. C. Auspices Communist Party, New York Distriet NORTH BEACH PICNIC PARK Astoria, L. 1.