The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 16, 1934, Page 6

Page Six | AS ONE AIR-PILOT TO ANOTHER BY A GROUP OF PILOTS AND MECHANICS DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1934 IT. U. Officials Jobless | Printers N JULY 2, 1934, an important event will take place which, Propose to Abolish Plan On the initiative of the rank and file of the Buffalo Aircraft Union a national conference of all aviation work- ers’ organizations will be held ® on Monday, 10 a. m., July 2, Mich.; erstown, Md everal groups have bly. We as a group conference 100 per e conditions of the aviation workers are well known. Unorg also cent. T n- ized and consequen unprotected. ct, to deplor- y inadequate compensation for their labor. The employers, organ- ized and powerful, have presented codes that are glaringly unfair be- cause of the lack of organized mass resistance by the aircraft workers The aviation industry has been controlled and mismanaged by trust- | ified corporations who primarily are concerned only with what could be gained financially from this portant transportation and manufacturing industry. Technical advancement in expert operation and the welfare and com- pensation of the skilled aviation workers who design, produce, main- tain and fly all aircraft has not been considered. Therefore there is obviously a desperate need for a National Air- craft Union to unite all existing in- dividual workers’ aircraft organiza— tions into ene solid industrial union in the aviation industry. We as a group wish to submit the following nine proposals to all groups concerned, which we believe would be the only guarantee that the organization will not be con- trolled by racketeering officials. (1) The purpose of the Na- tional Organization should be to unite all aircraft workers, both field and factory, employed and unemployed and aircraft students into one National Industrial Union; to improve and protect the economic and political interests of all aircraft workers. (2) All employers and execu- tives with the power to hire or fire should be ineligible for mem- bership. (3) No restrictions for member- ar or otherwise, or discriminate against any member for any out- side affiliations, race, creed, color or nationality. (4) The organization should be divided into the following sec- tions: Pilots Section, Office Work- ers Section, Industrial Section, Mechanics Section, Technicians | Section, Students Section. | Each section should be inde- | pendent of the others, have its | own Section Executive Committee, | the representative of which should | be on the Central Executive Com- | mittee of the union, for each one | of them have their own specific Problems aside from the others. (5) The organizations are inde- | Pendent, because the majority of | the workers aircraft organizations | are independent, also the senti- ment of 80 per cent of the air- | craft workers is against the American Federation of Labor. (6) Full democratic rank and | file control with no paid officials. If paid officials or organizers are | necessary, their salaries should | not exceed the average wage of an aircraft worker. (7) The initiation fees and dues should be very low. (8) Immediate action should be taken against the Aircraft Codes. (9) Unemployment and retire- ment insurance at the expense of the employers. We sincerely believe if the above Proposals are accepted then and only then will the organization be | able to organize all aircraft pilots, | mechanics, engineers, designers, | students, office and industrial work- | ers. The organization then will be in @ position to tie up the entire indus- try in support of each other on any economic or political question | The need for this has been shown | in the Hartford and Buffalo strikes when scabs were being recruited from among the aviation students and mechanics on airports such as | | Roosevelt Field, Floyd Bennett, etc., which were unsuccessful because of | the work of the Aircraftsmen’s Fed- | | eration Local. | | ship should be made because of | Private or political beliefs, public | (To be continued) ee (We urge all aircraft workers to | write to this column concerning their experiences and conditions in the industry, also additional Proposals concerning this confer- ence.), THE UNITED COUNCILS OF WORKING /OMEN VS. WAR AND FASCISM (NOTE: The following report on behalf of the Councils has been sent by Tillie Littinsky.) As an affiliated organization of the American League Against War and Fascism, the United Councils of Working Class Women mapped out and followed up a plan of work which may be summed up thus: (1) Set up an Anti-War and Anti- Fascism Committee of three or five in each Council. (2) The Chairman of this Com- mittee becomes a member of the executive, so that Anti-War and Anti-Fascism activity becomes a part of each meeting. ° (3) Survey houses, blocks, markets —every place where we carried on struggles against high rents, high cost of living, etc. and on the basis of these struggles organize Anti- War and Anti-Fascism Committees. (4) Pick out an individual plant— laundry, shop, etc.—where women work, and hold outdoor meetings in front of that plant, bringing up the Paris Congress and stressing the importance of women in the strug- gle against War and Fascism. (5) Penetrate other women’s or- Sanizations (churches, auxiliaries, charities, etc.), and bring the ques- tion of war danger, and the menace of fascism before them. See that they elect committees of two or three especially to handle this issue. Work Already Done Concretely, the recent meeting of our chairmen on June 4 brought out the following important inroads already made (1) Open-air meetings are being held, at which money is collected for our quota for the Paris Con- gress. (This quota is $400 by the third week in June. The quotas for the various Councils range from $5 to $20.) (2) Council 21 put through a mass meet at a public school, at- tended by 450 people, resulting in the formation of a neighborhood Committee Against War and Fas- cism. (3) We are printing 20,000 leaflets in four languages, Spanish, Italian, Yiddish and English, in connection with the coming regional conference and the Paris Congress. Thousands of women will thus be reached. In addition to this, on the “Free ‘Thaelmann” campaign, we have arranged for issuing a special leaf- let and appeal, for several hundred postcards to go to Nazi Germany in protest, and the posting of a del- egation of women in front of the German consulate. : Our three big mass meetings (in Brownsville and the Bronx) brought the message of the great need of the struggle against War and Fas- cism before many hundreds of Women. Our 53 Councils were in- structed to at‘end the mass rally June 15 at Irving Plapa, with banners, etc Many contacted organizations have become active in the anti-war | struggle. These contacted organiza-| tions will be kept on file and fol-| lowed up for further activity. af age | Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1810 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 16 takes 4% yards 36 inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions in- | cluded, 4 { j Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in| coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams Pattern. Write plainly name, address and _ style number, BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker| Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City, jers do not dare, do not want, and | |five day work week to those who| |not ask for aid. Obtain Work By a Printer Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK. — The following | lines attempt to give a little pic-| |ture of the type of work the lead- | ers of the New York Typographical | Union No. 6 accomplish, in return | for the salaries they draw from the membership. These leaders have agreed with the leaders of the International Union at Indian- Typographical apolis to expell from the New York} Typographical Union No. 6, 1,500} to 2,000 suffering, unemployed | | on account of the} constantly increasing unemploy- | ment the membership had been} forced to reduce the work week to | five days. The five day work week | Years ago. has been in use for years, in order |toid the men they could hire and|back with interest. to make it possible for the unem- | work a week. | Now, the well-paid union officials. whose salaries are paid by the toil- ing workers, have come forth with a plan they claim will benefit the workers. The plan calls for the abolition of the present practice of | enabling the unemployed to ob- tain one or two days work a week, | and out of these days, which until | the present, have been distributed among thousands of unemployed, the union officials desire to create regular five day week situations. Union officials claim that through this arrangement they will secure permanent employment for one or two dozen men at the head of the unemployed list. They also claim, | that according to order of time, | these one or two dozen men have the right to permanent five day week jobs. Since the basis of the leaders’ | plan is falsehood, the bosses’ propo- sition collapsed. The union lead- | are not able to sympathize with | the suffering unemployed. The | union officials desire to ensure the | previously always had and_ still | have the five day work week. They | want to extend aid to those who have no need for the proposed aid, to those who do not want and can- The aid which the union officials propose is but a wicked plan, to de- prive thousands from one or two days work a week, to snatch the dry bread from the mouths of the chil- dren of the unemployed; to give aid to those few, who neither need nor ask for it. The meaning of this plan, which is the concoction of leaders and foremen, is this: We will pay you when we have driven 1,500 to 2,000 members out of the union; we will thereby thrust into greater misery |the families of the unemployed. The Daily Worker gives you the | truth about conditions in the Soviet | Union, the truth about workingclass | strikes in the United States and abroad. Buy the Daily Worker at) Union Officials Use In Plot Against | Layo ffs to Most Militant Miners : I uccessful, will mark a tremendous step forward in by Which Unemployed District Head Backs the 1e history of the aviation labor movement. Committee Agains Blacklist Superintendent and the t Locked Gut Men By a Worker Correspondent FINLEYVILLE, Pa—The unem- ployed situation is becoming more }acute daily in the library: section. The Knot Hole mine employed 150 men in February and has laid off all but about 30 men. Most of those |kept on are favorites of the super- intendent and pit committee, and they only work two or three days each day. The check-off continue at the same rate. The miners came out once against the discrimination being shown and the superintendent announced that | the mine was shut he had no orders, down because Four days after, the mine started again, and all re- | ported for work, but found they had | to be rehired as new employes. The men protested against this and the | mine committee agreed to let all the latest employed go until the boss had enough men to operate the way he wanted to. Incidentally, the pit committee, being all old employes, were as- sured of their jobs. The mine boss and committee went through the mine and the committee picked out | the men to be laid off. About all that were laid off were militant | fighting members of the union. The union district official, self appointed Mr. Patton, upheld the jfire whom they pleased, and noth- | | Vey |New Forces Drawn | | ‘Jobless Council Is In Finleyville, Pa.. in and Relief Demands | Are Won By a Worker Correspondent FINLEYVILLE, Pa.—Once more | | ing could be done about it, and said not a word'about the lockout of the | |miners for four days. | |_ The situation at Montour No. 10} Pgk. Coal Co, is the same. It takes {only a protest from some militant | worker to have him fired and black- | listed. One of the blacklisted Negro miners living near Finleyville in | @ company house that is falling down has received notice to move, but the Unemployed Council is mobilied and ready to defend him, as we stopped them from taking the roof off the house he lives in and the house of another white miner, two weeks ago. The unemployed have stood for all they intend to take on the chin, committee and superintendent, and | ployed to obtain one or two days | —————__________—_ M.W.A. Official Taxes Members of Mine Local To Pay for His Vacation All That Members in St. Charles, Va., Got from| U. Following A.F.L. By a Miner Correspondent ST. CHARLES, Va.—At the Vic. Coal Co, here we have a union which has made it hard on the) miners. Coal loaders make $1 to $1.60 a day two days a week. Miners are afraid to say anything. If they do, they get fired. The committee | which runs this union is made up of company men and boises. The | company runs the un’n. Our| checkweighman has been a coal and dirt docker for years. He has robbed miners of thousands of dollars but he says, “I am honest. Now our weight is bad. NOTE We publish letters from coal and ore miners, and from oil field workers every Saturday. We urge workers in these fields to write us of their conditions of work and of their struggle to improve their conditions and organize. Please give your letters to us by Wed- the newsstands. nesday of each week. and stand ready to give some of it Is the Check-Off Our U. M. W. A. district organizer, Bill Minton has promised us miners everything until he got the miners to get our money and all we have is a check-off. We are making $2 less now than before we were forced | to join this union. Our local presi- dent went on a vacation and each man was cut 25 cents through the office to pay his expense. Editor’s Note: The ‘local in which the miners in St. Charles, Va., are organized can become a weapon of struggle for better con- ditions if these miners get to- gether and organize a real rank and file local with a leadership chosen by the men themselves, as miners have done elsewhere, Wilkes Barre Unemployed Stop Evictions By a Worker Correspondent WILKES-BARRE, Pa—Led by the Unemployment Councils here, work- ers are stopping evictions, putting furniture back into the homes of evicted families, and holding mass meetings where evictions are threat- ened. The Poor Board is paying rents for unemployed workers who live in the coal company shacks, but re- fuses to pay rent where workers partly own homes. At one mass meeting where 300 workers stopped an eviction, Mc- | Carthy, a leader of the Unemployed! | League, right hand man of Dar- | lington Hoopes, former member of. ; elements on the side, and by draw- | Derlardben Coal Corp. we have a functioning local of the | Unemployed Council. For a while} here in Finleyville we were con-| fronted with all kinds of provo— cateurs. We had a secretary by the name of Fred Merriman who through his activity with the local Relief Board almost liquidated our local, but now we have left such we are able to demands of the as an increase in clothes, medical at- ing in new forces accomplish the such shoes, relief, tention, This was all won through the struggle of the Unemployed Coun- cil of Finleyville and also a 10 per cent increase in wages on the R. W. D. So you see, through organized struggle the workers can and will | win the right to live. Advice Asked on Fighting Eviction By a Worker Correspondent UNIONTOWN, Pa.—Sam Larko, father of six children, came to me Friday, May 25, and said that the sheriff and a constable from Fay- ette County, Uniontown, Pa., threw him out and his children in the street and it rained that night, and also his bread, of which his chil- dren and wife could eat, was thrown outside. We went to the relief board to see if they could help him get a place to move in, They said they were sorry, they couldn’t help him. We even went to see the district attorney and he said he was sorry and couldn’t help, so would you publish in the next “Worker” who and where shall we go to when an- other eviction will happen. Editorial Note: Workers of Uniontown should get in touch with the Allegheny County Un- employed Council, 1524 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, They will from there get advice and assistance to or- ganize an Unemployed Council which alone will be able to con- duct a successful struggle against evictions and for relief to the un- employed. Terrorizes Miners By a Worker Correspondent TARRANT, Ala.—About a year ago the miners of this town started to unionize themselves, challenging section 7-A of the N.R.A. Today we find the task almost accomplished. Last week the local ball team was to play a certain outfit, but another team come in its place. The team that came to play came from a coal mine that is non-union and the lo- | cal oufit refused to play them be- cause they were not union men. The story is longer than that though. These miners have tried to organize, but so far have failed be- cause of the terror where they work and the sell-out policy of the U. M. of A. officials. These miners work for the De- bardlaben Coal Corp. at the Mar- garet mines, ist Party ticket, attempted to break up the meeting. McCarthy admitted that. he was on the state payroll, the state legislature on the Social- receiving $150 a month, The Worker’s Child |, By COMRADE JACKY LAZY The worker's child has nothing to eat. He plays all day in the dirty street. But the rich man’s children only play Where the air is fresh and clean all day. The worker toils the whole day through, The children must go out and sell papers too, | But the rich man’s child gets break- fast in bed, | While the poor kids go without being fed. The worker’s kid can’t go to school. His father is only a bosses’ tool. That’s why he must toil till the hour's late, But when it comes to pay-day he has to wait. Meanwhile the kids have nothing to eat. They go without clothes in the rain | and sleet. And at last when the worker gets his pay, eS It’s not for a week, just enough for a day! And soon the worker sees something wrong, To find out what it is, it doesn’t take long. They kick out the boses, one and all. Everyone of them, big and small. Now the workers from slavery are free, Working all unitedly. The workers’ children now can play, Where the rich kids until this day. We don’t know who Jacky Lazy is, All we know is that he popped into the office one day, gave us his poem, and popped right out again before we had a chance to find out his real name, But even if his name is Lazy—we think his Poem is real good. WITH OUR YOUNG READERS « dren’s editor, The Daily Worker, 50 A Letter From The Happy Land Dear Comrades: We, a Komsomol (Young Commu- | nist) and two Pioneers, while read- ing the Daily Worker, saw letters written by our comrades and de- Cided to write one ourselves, We, the two Pioneers, are going to the American School here and the third to a Trade School. A person going to a Trade School stu- dies and has practice and gets paid for it at the same time. During the winter we go skiing and skating. And when summer comes we are down at the river half of the day. The other half we play basket ball, volley ball, soccer, base- ball and other games, In the months of June and July we are sent to a Pioneer Camp; where we swim, play, eat and get healthy, We have a Red Corner where we spend almost every evening except- ing the ones when we go to the theatre. Yours comradely, ANDREW KALYNCHUCK, 14. DAVID TOMLJANOVICH, 14. PAUL KALYNCHUK, 17. P. S.: We would like to corre- | spond with the American boys and | girls, USSR. Western Siberian Region Leninsk Kusbass Foreign Restaurant No. 1 Andrew Kalynchuk. : SNIPPIT Did you haye any luck with last week's Snip- pit puzzie? Here’s an exam- ple. You will be surprised how many different figures you can make, & TULIP The best letter on May Day was sent in by Josephine Cieiewicz, who lives in Hamtramck, Michigan. We are sending her a Pioneer Song Book Eas' ACROSS 1, The man in the picture. & Light-hearted. 9. Allow. 10, Organ of hearing. 12, New England trees. 13. Level to the ground. 14. Abreviation of Ronald. 15. To be sick. 1%. Until (poetic), - |18—13th and lth letters of the alphabet. — 19. To ladle out, ; 21, Boy’s nickname, 22, Chief Blue Buzzard. 24. National Education Association (abbr.). , 26. Friend of all working class Prisoners, | 28. State in the U. S. (abbr,), |} 29. Sun 5 30, 14th and 42th letters of the alphobet, | 31, Bachelor of Arts. 32, Prenosition. 33, Railroad (abbr.), ‘onducted by Mary Morrow, Chil- t 13th St., New York City. i DOWN 1. Claw. 3. Train above the ground. 4. Rank and file of the American ----- should join the W.E.S.L. 5. Mountain (abbr.), ——— PARTY LIFE ‘Again Functioning | Importance of Popularizing the Slogan of Soviet Power Small Number’ of the Ordered by Pittsburgh By E. D. UR party, our members and functionaries have during the past year since the Open Letter more and more learned to understand that: without connection with the masses, without mobiliz- ing and organizing the masses in daily work, without taking up even the smallest and apparently pettiest question of daily life, our party cannot become a mass party, every Communist cannot become .a mass leader. The Eighth Party Conven- tion showed that the Party has begun to understand this and that we are beginning to apply this in the practice of daily work, though still insufficiently, though still much too slowly, especially in the fac- tories of heavy industry, in view of the tremendous sharpening of the Class struggles. But nevertheless: the Party convention showed that there is a new spirit in the Party, & new evaluation of the individual member and functionary. Soviet Power But how about the popularization of the slogan of Soviet Power? The Eighth Party Convention con— cretized this question.in the poli- tical resolution and in the mani- testo. We have begun in the dem- onstrations (May First), in the at- titude of our speakers and in our agitational material to show the masses not only how a strike is or- ganized, how the treachery of the reformists is prevented, .how the unemployeed are mobilized for their immediate needs, but we have also shown them the way out of the crisis which we Communists pro- pose; and the relatively little ex- perience that we have in the prop- aganda of Soviet power in our mass work prove that the masses take up this question with tremendous in- terest, that they ask hundreds of questions which demonstrate how seriously the American workers take this question. We do not want to deny that we have begun to do a little in the prop- aganda for Soviet Power. But can anybody say with good conscience that we really popularize the slogan of Soviet Power, or the dictatorship of the proletariat Seriously in’ our daily work, in all our actions, in our Press, in our shop papers? We cannot yet say this. Example: Pittsburgh. Only 15,000 copies of the manifesto of the party conven- tion were distributed in the whole district. Imagine: in a whole dis- trict, with hundreds of thousands of miners and steel - workers, only 15,000 copies! What does this show? It shows that the leadership of the district has not yet understoood the great importance of the popularization of the slogan of Soviet Power in our daily work. But how can the leadership of the district educate the membership to the fulfilment of its tasks if it has not succeeded, as the small dis- tribution of the manifesto shows, to organize a real distribution of this manifesto, Of course, we do not want to say that the leading comrades of the district are opportunists, but in practice such neglect amounts to an opportunist underestimation of the importance of popularizing the Slogan of Soviet Power. For nobody will claim that the leadership of the Pittsburgh district, if it had Teally fully understood the im- portance of the decisions of the eighth party convention and of the Thirteenth Plenum, it would not Dr. Luttinger’s Column To Appear on Monday Due to technical reasons, Dr. Lut- tinger’s column will not appear today, It will rnn as usual on Monday. Convention Manifesto Shows Underestimation have been able to organize the dise tribution of at least 100,000 copies’) in the mines and steel shops,-(Pitts, 2 burgh is not alone with this Weak) ness, but we take Pittsburgh as a particularly bad example); Experience shows not only that one cannot organize a revolutionary Mass party without closest connece tion with the masses, without or- ganizing them for their needs. Experience also shows that if we ag the party do not utilize every cone nection with the masses to clarify |them not only on what the party stands for today, in these concre’ . strikes, in the concrete action f | the unemployed, then we are mui more easily defeated in thi everyday struggles, then it is much easier for the bourgeoisie and the |A. F. of L. burocrats, for the So- cialist misleaders. to hold back backward workers in the daily struggles, and split their ranks, by raising the “red scare.” Do We Explain Our Position? Particularly in Pittsburgh this should be a lesson from past struggles. The bourgeoise, its press, jthe A. F. of L. burocracy, the So- cialist leaders, all daily “explain” to the workers “what the Communists really want: blood baths, destruc tion, anarchy, etc.” This is the business of the professional reac- tionaries. But do we sufficiently explain to the workers in our daily work what the Communists really want? Nobody can now answer this question with an honest “yes.’ Do we sufficiently explain to the work- ers in Pittsburgh which way out the Communists have for the miners and steel workers?. Do we explain to the workers in MacLoughlin Steel and Western Mine, our con- centration points, which way out we Communists propose to the workers? Neglecting to propagandize and popularize the slogan. of Soviet Power in our everyday work is a form of hiding the face of the party, Let nobody think that the slogan of Soviet Power, of the dictatorship of the proletariat, of the revolu- tionary way out of the crisis for the workers, for the broad toiling masses in city and country, is in contradiction to our daily practical work. Just the opposite is the case? The popularization of the slogan ct Soviet Power, the explanation to the workers which road the Amer- ican working class must take in order to gain for itself safety, a full life and culture is an integral !part of our daily work. Never before was the whole sit- uation so favorable, the soil so receptive for the popularization of the slogan of Soviet Power. Broad masses of workers are beginning to see through the demagogy of the New Deal and what their head does not yet fully understand, their stomach has already told them, The Darrow report, confused: as its writers may be in their presenta- tion and in their conclusions, sige; nalizes the growing disappointment, of the broad middle class over the: New Deal, over the growing power! | of the big monopolies, and of finance capital. The broad masses of farmers, in the fangs of the agrarian crisis, sharpened by the drought—which might be a mem- ber of the N.R.A—are desperately looking for a way out. The broad masses with the workers in the lead are looking for a way out. We are proving better than formerly that we are good fighters in the ranka_ of our class comrades, it We must have still more cour- age, more capability to show the | _ workers the whole way out. The ¥ better we stand in the forefront of our struggles, the better will the workers receive the slogan of Soviet Power. The better we popularize the revolutionary way | out, the quicker shall we in the everyday struggles transfrom the backward workers into class con- | scious workers, under the leader- ship of the Commmunist Party. The one is indissolubly connected with the other. Removal Notice PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. Announces the Removal of His Office to 5 Washington Square North (Between Fifth Avenue and University Place) Telephones: GRamercy 7-2090 and 2091 The office will be conducted as a private Group Clinic. © There will be no change in the policy of free medical ser- - . vices to unemployed members and full-time functionaries — of the Party. The other members of the group, so far, are Daniel Luttinger, M. D.; William Mendelson, D.D.S. (den- Theodore F. Daiell, Pod. G. tistry) ; Philip Pollock (optometry), (chiropody), and 6. Tidy. ‘ 7, German fascists, 8. The man in the picture is the leader of the ------- working class, 11.—Counted on, 15, German exclamation. 16. Spanish definite article. 19. Conjunction. 20. River in Italy. 22, The man in the picture now in 23. Bosses’ scheme te fool the workers. 25, The first name of the man in the picture, - 27. Capital is always against -----, raat Join the Daily Worker Puzzle Club by sending in the solution, PHILADELPHIA, Pa. I GRAND PICNIC OF I. W. 0. AND DAILY WORKER SUNDAY, June 17th at Old Berkies Far \ MAX BEDACHT, Main Speaker - , if Emile Babad from Artef :; Musical Program Direction> Take Broad St. Subway or Car No. 65 to Transfer to Car No. 6. Ave. Refreshments cs Entertainment Get om at Washington Lane ‘and Ope ‘Walk two blocks west ee ee | fi aa