The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 21, 1934, Page 3

f i 1 j } i} | | Hi | | | | | ‘a DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1934 Page Three General Strike Looms inButte; 36 Unions Vote Workers Out in Great! Fals and Anaconda, Montana | serie Sse By J. M. BUTTE, Mont., June 19 (F.P.).—|“fPVHE coming great steel & general strike on behalf of the trik hich oh b 5,000 miners, engineers and allied strixe—whic as been Ses who have been striking injmerely pst poned, not nite sihce May 8 seems imminent |. ashed—will find in its as & result of the decision of del- _Cgates representing 36 local unions to take a strike vote on the ques- tion. Before the strike began, many miners, unable to support their ‘wages, quit and applied for federal Coming Struggle |Harry Haywood Tells of |; front ranks the Negro work- ers. gle—provided only that the Com- munist Party, the revolutionary un- iy cena Conditions of the Yegro Workers “So will every great strug: | of American Labor families on the $55-a-month mine relief. Delegates from Anaconda re- Ported that 1,000 smeltermen and allied workers are out, as well as 1,000 workers at the Anaconda copper smelter and wire mills at Great Falls. Famous Writers To Be at Banquet For ‘Big Ben Davis’ Agnes Smedley, Countee Cullen, Others at Lido Hall Sunday Night NEW YORK.—Agnes Smediey, | etal of ‘Daughter of Farth” and inese Destinies,” will be one of the speakers at the banquet ar- ranged by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights to greet the new these demands of the Negro work- ions, the oppositions in the A. F. of | L., know how to take up boldly the| militant struggle for equality for| Negroes. If we do not blur over ers, and if we bring the white work- ers forward to demand the rights of Negroes, the strength of the HARRY HAYWOOD =; |LSNR Leader Recounts | Struggles for Equal Rights in Country | right of the Negroes to any job on the building. The city bosses mo- | bilized hundreds of police—but as a | result of the demonstration a num- | ber of Negroes got jobs on the! High School L.S.N.R. Fights Chi Jim-Crow | “The League of Struggle for Ne-| gro Rights in Chicago has drawn | up a city ordinance to enforce the| right of Negroes to work on all jobs | and against all forms of Jim-Crow- ism: on the beaches, in restaurants, | hotels, theatres and so on. They are setting out on a campaign to get thousands of signaturés of whites and Negroes for the bill, and it will be presented to the City Council on June 27. “In Kansas City, Mo. police smashed the headquarters of the workers in the tremendous struggles to conie will be increased manyfold. ing, with burning en part the Negro workers will play in| the wave of strikes about to p.eak over the country, Haywood, general secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, has just returned from a tour in which he had the opportunity to talk with workers of many citics and many trades, Terror in Ford’s Domain misleaders file. By ment. | F. of L. has its source in the top |leaders of the A. F, | Greens, Wolls, Lewises. serve the ruling-class. 7 a ‘ treacherously represent | 2&4 organized for the continuation | the jim-crow policy of the A. F. of | 9! ©. W. A. jobs, uniting whites L. as stemming from the rank and| 84 Negroes on this this means keep the Negro workers from taking their places side by side with the white workers in the labor move- Communist Party, arrested A. W. Berry, a Negro comrade who is sec- of L—the| tion organizer, and tore up the leaf- These men | lets advertising my meeting. The The Negro| Relief Workers’ Protective Union e. The po- | lice and the city government raised | the ‘red scare’ in order to conceal | the issues of bread and butter. | “A conference I attended in St. ; Louis adopted a proclamation for they try to Negro Workers Will Play Great Rolein|South Bend |Many Here : | ree Car Strike |For Furriers | In 3rd Week| Conference Picket Car Barns for Wage Increases; Score Capitalist Press in Ne SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 20. The strike of 130 street car, bus, and interurban men is continuing| strong. The morale of the strikers, | tional Furriers’ who are demanding 50 cents an| opens Friday ev hour and a 48-hour week. is good They are determined not to return|isth gt to work until they receive 50 cents | an hour. | NEW YOR Deleg: statement to the local newspapers, signed, by William Gordon, presi- Officially dent of the union, demanding that | delegates. they cease hiding the main demand of the strike, which was 50 cents an hour. | Carlisle Eber, one of the militant Picketers, was accused of pulling spikes from a rail, and is being held evidence whatever. Has Mass Support | trade. support of all the South Bend workers, and the taxi workers al- most went on strike too. Twent four hour picketing at the car barns and bus garage is being con- ducted. | The receiver, Mr. Smith, has con- | Ben Gold, gates | Local 3. cities will be represented at the Na- | Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and from Los Angeles, Philadelphia, De- | troit, Chicago. Besides A committee of picketers sent a|of our union, Local 3 of the Inter- | national Fur Workers’ Union is also represented with Communist Party Prepares For Fail Irving Plaza Hall | To Open Tomorrow | Congress Elections w York K- Pittsburgh Nominates Carreathers; Boston Lays All important Plans for Mass Campaign Conference, which June 22, at| PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 20.—Many special problems face Ben Carreathers, one of the leading comrades of Pitts. burgh’s hill district, and Communist Party candidate for Congress in the 32nd District of Pennsylvania, he told the Daily Worker yesterday as he prepared to launch his came seven | Paign in Pythian Temple on?y vening, ates have arrived he branches | the worst jobs regardless The purpose of the National Con- ference is to organize a strong union to fight for the interests of | the fur workers all over the coun- try, against the code, which per- 2 " 2G | mits contracting, overtime, etc. The on $5,000 bail. This is a Plain/ conference will deliberate about a| frame-up since the bosses have nO} national strike in the entire fur| From 125 to about 150 delegates | The strike has the sympathy and/| Will participate in the conference. The conference will open on Fri-} day evening with a mass meeting} in Irving Plaza, to be ad Hyman, Burt, Potash, J. H. Cohen (for the| | General Executive Board) and dele- from Chicago | June 23. The majority of them, he| said, derive from the vicious} jim-crow system fostered and main- | essed by Winogradsky, and from | Carreathers’ is run of their individual ability. The figures on Negro unemploy- ment, Carreathers said, furnish an indication of the extent to which labor in the black skin, in the Pittsburgh district is doubly op- pressed. The 1930 census showed 8 per cent of Pittsburgh’s popula- tion to be Negroes, yet in 1934 they represent 30-38 per cent of the city’s unemployed, and on the hill no less than 80 per cent of unemployed workers are Negroes. In addition to the demands for abolition of the foregoing discrimi- natory practices, and the general six-point Communist Party program, Z on a platform | calling for a fight against evictions wood, “I found a campaign of ter- ror against the Negro masses, News- paper were screaming about a ‘Ne- gro rapist and slasher’ supposed to be cutting and attack- ing white women. The police were making Negro workers. The superintendent of schools--paid $18,000 a year out “When I hit Detroit,” said Hay- who was continual round-ups of the rights of the Bosses Used Ni “I visited Gary, “Well, in Chicago the American Consolidated Trades Council, which is an organization of Negro plumb- ers, mechanics and building trades workers, started a fight for admis- sion of Negro workers in these| trades into the A. F. of L. The A. F. of L. officials gave them the run-around, so the Consolidated finally established itself as a bona fide union and got a charter from that strike, organize the bosses were able strike-breakers. the strike. Ji the great steel strike of 1919. Negro workers were brought up from the South. The A. F. of L. misleadership refused to Negroes, Negro people. legroes As Scabs , too, the scene of In and the to use them as Immediately after im-Crowism was | sistently refused to deal with the strikers, and has sent lying state- ments and advertisements to the| Saturday morning at 10 o'clock in| local press attacking the strikers, the who were getting from 19 to 32 cents an hour, The N. R. A. board, as usual, has only proposed “arbitra- tion” (going back to work at former conditions). The strikers have wisely rejected these proposals, en | The second session will open on| union headquarters. Creden- tials, Resolutions and Nominations Committees will be elected. Wino- gradsky will report, supplemented by reports from various locals, A. F. of L. and the Industrial Union, fol- lowed by discussion. On Satur-| day evening there will be a concert | BEN CARREATHERS | and for the right of unemployed to use gas, light, and water; and for the eradication of slum conditions along Butler St., and in the Scotch Bottom and Glenwood sections. He will outline his program in | detail at the Pythian Temple meet- ing Saturday night, at which other | Communist candidates will also | Speak. ' Gala ( —procran—_ { L.W.O. Symphony Orchestra eae of their paper, the Negro ‘iberator, Other writers and well-known Jebor leaders who will attend the welcome banquet at Lido Hall at ‘146th St. and Seventh Aye. on Sun- day, June 24, at 6:30 p.m., are Paul Peters and George Sklar, authors of Btevedore, the play which deals with the rights of Negroes and their organization during a strike on the wharves of New Orleans. Cuntee Cullen, Negro poet, au- thor of “Cooper Sun” and class- | mate of Ben Davis at Harvard, will | also be on hand to greet his fellow | fighter for Negro rights. | A solidarity dance of Negro and | white will be performed by the Red Dance group. Representatives from the cast of “Stevedore,” numbering some ten persons, will attend the banquet and perform. WORKERS PREPARE! 20 to 50% DISCOUNT SALE BEGINS ENDS JUNE. 22 JULY 7 at all Workers Book Shops Join Circulating Library at the New York Workers’ Book Shop, 50 East 13th St., New York City Banquet and Dance To Welcome BEN DAVIS, Jr. New Editor of the “Negro Liberator” Defense Lawyer of Angelo Herndon Sun., June 24 6:30 P. M. Lido Ballroom 146th and 7th Ave. Earl Browder / William Patterson Harry Gannes James W. Ford Cast of “Stevedore Red Dance Groups DANCING FROM 10 P. M. TO 3 A. M. Music by Bonelli’s Lido Orch. of money colected from white and Negro tax-payers—made speeches attacking the Negro people. As a climax to the reign of terror, James Victory, a Negro world war veteran, was framed, Ferment on Chicago South Side “From Detroit, I went to Chicago. the state. ing on among the Negro masses on Chicago's South Side. As was to be expected, I found the Negro reform- ists active. The Urban League is starting out with a program for or- ganizing Negro workers into Jim- Crow unions. tack the American Federation of The Council how do they attack it? We know that the jim-crow policy of the A. (This is the last of a series of articles for the Daily Worker, The series will be followed by an article in the July COMMUNIST.) . . . Vv IHE Toledo events, together with Min- neapolis and the struggles of the Ala- bama mining and steel workers, stand out not only as examples of the ever rising wave of mass strike struggles against everything the New Deal stands for but begin to place these struggles on a higher level. Significant in the Toledo events were: 1. The great unity of the workers. Thousands of workers came to the support of the striking Auto- Lite workers, out of a feeling of class solidarity and understanding of the connection of that struggle with their own conditions, Thousands of workers came from other factories to the “battle front” and for two and three nights didn’t leave till morning, till it was time to go to their shop. It further dem- onstrated as a direct result of the work of the Un- employment Council, the unity of unemployed and employed. Although not a single Negro worker was employed in the plant, the unity of Negro and white was seen on the mass picket line. In the days of pitched battles, the youth played a big role, particu- larly in*making use of their baseball training, in “successfully achieving the objective of the Auto- Lite Company—making it an open shop,” as was jokingly referred to throughout the town. It was not an unusual sight to see the wives of the workers carrying baskets full of bricks and breaking them up into handier weapons. The entire working class population was aroused. 2 The determination to fight against all odds. While usually the authority of government, particu- larly Federal, backed up by troops, has an effect of cowing the spirit of the workers, in Toledo just the opposite resulted. The troops and their bloody kill- ing and wounding further incited and infuriated the workers; Several times, the mass offensive of the workers swept the National Guard |back two blocks and only with reinforcements and shooting | were they able to retake their ground. 3. The disillusionment of large masses in the N. R. A. and New Deal Government. Once the success of mass violation of the “sacred court in- junction” penetrated the masses they more boldly defied other capitalist laws and decrees. The solid front of government with employers and the send- ing of troops began the process of disillusionment. of many workers as to the role of the New Deal government and the entire system of capitalism. This, of course, does not mean everybody, nor can it mean that the government has not yet lots of | Maneuvering power, but this process has set in and been stamped indelibly in the minds of many work- ers, in a way which will have more far-reaching consequences in the future. 4. Inherent organizational ability of the masses. Without in any way trying to make a virtue out of the consequences of our previous isolation from the Auto-Lite shop and the A. F. of L. unions generally, which was the key weakness of the Party, we saw especially in the mass battles around the plant as well as in the night of the demonstration, the great inherent organizational ability of the masses. Our problem is to harness this politically and organiza- tionally. 5. Action of the rank and file. Every forward move in the strike was made by the workers over . ADMISSION $1 AT DOOR AFTER 10 P. M. 39 CENTS ——————— the heads of the A. F. of L. leaders. The role of the leaders was to liquidate and scuttle the Auto-Lite strike and prevent the general strike at all costs. Every move of the leaders is well calculated to this end. The organization of a small conscious group They are now taking in white workers also. The Trades Council has been conducting a fight for the right of Negro workers to work on all jobs in these trades, particularly public works projects. When the Wendell Phillips High There is a tremendous ferment go-| School was built in Chicago, right | in the heart of the Negro neighbor- hood, no Negroes were taken on. organized around this, with the support of the Trade Union Unity League and the League of Struggle for Negro! These misleaders at-; Rights. They threw a picket line} 146th St. and Seventh Ave., is around the school and had a dem-| talked of all over the country, not Labor for its Jim-Crow policy. But} onstration. They demanded shorter | only in New York. hours for the white workers on the | job, with no cut in pay, and the! in activity by the Negro reformists. strengthened all down the, line— Jim-Crow schools came in. The Negroes were relegated to the low- est jobs in the plant. All this was a real lesson for the Negro people— | and for the white workers. “The response of the workers to the building of a mass L. S. N. R. is tremendous. Many new branches have already been set up. The workers are also enthusiastic about building the Negro Liberator. The banquet to be given Ben Davis, Jr., this Sunday night at Lido Ballroom, actions “We are going to see an increase even towards the middle of the strike, within the Auto-Lite Federal Union, had some good results. Real rank and file groups, with a class struggle policy, could have changed the entire outcome. 6. Highly political character of strike. The char- acter of the strike immediately brought all the forces of employers and government into play against the strike and on the side of the workers, a quick spreading of the idea and demand for a general strike. 7. Alertness of bourgeois front. All forces were brought into play, from National Auto Chamber of {| Commerce, national and state government with its army of arbitrators and armed soldiers, press, clergy, A. F. of L. leaders and trailing at the tail end, the Heywood Brouns and Musteites. There was a defiinite division of labor. Every tactic was utilized. At one time, the soft outspoken word of the millionaire “arbitrator” Taft—the next moment the lead bullets of the militia killing and wounding the workers. Every effort was made to isolate the Communists. They were charged with all kinds of silly and provocative acts—dynamite, gun carrying, invading Toledo by hundreds. This was not only the line of the press. This same line in various forms was used at different times by Ramsey of the A. F. of L.; Governor White; Arbitrator Taft: Sheriff Kruger and the generals of the National Guard. But all of it fell flat. Here was one place the Red Scare didn’t stick, because Communists were on the picket line and in the front ranks of the battle. The real task of carrying through the sell- out’ and betrayal policies was left to the A. F. of L. leaders, and especially to the “left” ex-Socialist, phrase-mongering types. Outstanding among these were Thomas Ramsey, self-styled leader of the Auto-Lite strikers, who in February sent the strikers back to work; in April told them to respect the court injunction and pointed out Communists to police; who in the first days of the mass battles, said it was “Communist outsiders who were responsible.” As soon as the masses saw through this, this same Ramsey to main- tain his leadership made radical speeches about “never accepting anything less than original de- mands”; tried to take credit for closing down the Auto-Lite plant; spoke about welcoming all other organizations on the picket line. However, it was this same Ramsey who denounced the “radicals” in taking over the mass demonstration from the A. F, of L. misleaders, and who didn’t raise a finger to promote the general strike. It was also he who under radical phrases, put over the final settle- ment which would have been a complete sell-out if not for the militancy of the workers. In the midst of this latest revolt of the membership, this demagogue then tried to soften the resentment of the members by announcing the Browder mass meeting at the local union meeting. Oliver Myers, business agent of the Electricians and Secretary of the Committee of 23, is another example. It was he who made big speeches for the general strike but at the crucial moment, fought, Pleaded and tried to bribe the electrical workers from going on strike, knowing that was the imme- diate key to the general strike situation. Here we See the real dangerous role of the “left” phrase- mongers. . . . this situation, stepped the entire Muste na- tional leadership, including Muste, Budenz, Cope, and Montrose. They came in order to try and establish a base of the American Workers Party, under the fraudulent colors of “militant leaders of the Toledo general strike.” The Musteites have no jocal mass organization. The Ohio Unemployed League has practically disappeared. The American Workers Party only now made its appearance. There are a handful of local adherents from the Ohio Unemployed Leagues, a few of which are really mis- led local workers, and serious efforts should be made, under the sharpest political barrage, to sepa- The Urban League, the N.A.A.C.P. | day ‘ . ” resume its sessions in the union| Pittsburgh in a manner greatly Nae ee mea rie ad ES headquarte: There will be re-/| similar to the South, with the sole| their heads off to keep them from joining with the white workers. Can the militant left-wing organ- izations win the Negro masses in spite of this? It is up to us. We've got to formulate clearly our de- mands for Negroes in every struggle. We must draw Negro workers on to} the strike committees and into| leading positions. At the same time | the left-wing unions, all groups of | militant workers, must show their | faces in the fight for the rights of | Negroes, for the freedom of the/ Scottsboro boys and Angelo Hern-| don.” Gotham rate them from the Musteites and win them over to us. If this is not done they will be completely corrupted, and will follow in the conscious, “left” social-fascist footsteps of Muste and Budenz. Having no sincere motives, but only a cheap advertising motive for the American Workers Party, to further mislead and split the masses of workers moving toward the Communist position, it was to be expected that their activities would coincide with their motives. They theatrically staged a picket line of two local fellows with a banner “Ohio Un- employed Leagues Violates the Injunction,” and another, “The American Workers Party Violates the Injunction.” Budenz went out of his way to get arrested so as to ‘ry and gain prestige, use the court as a national forum and, we can presume from his recently exposed wire, exploit his arrest to raise money, to further heap abuse on the Commu- nist Party and create confusion among the workers by organizing another political party- The next objective of the Musteites was to horn in to the local A. F. of L. leadership, by trying to put their arms around Ramsey, etc. They rejected a United Front protest demonstration during the height of the shooting; they issued two leaflets, which didn’t mention a word against the real danger of arbitration, they held up the “general strike” of Minneapolis as an example to follow in Toledo, that didn’t mention one word of criticism of the A. F. of L, leaders, and referred to the role of the Roosevelt government as follows: “Even the Presi- dent of the United States cannot or will not help.” Again, when the masses were in motion for a gen- eral strike under the stimulus of the Communist Party slogans, and activity, the Musteites were on hand to try and lead the revolt of the masses, when the A. F. of L. leaders were booed off the platform, By a maneuver, they gained the chair- manship of the meeting, but their followers who spoke had to follow the line of the Communist Party speakers, who were predominant. The Musteites utilized the Court Room to much better advantage than we did, with the full sup- port of the press. Although they have not made any substantial organizational gains in Toledo, the Musteites are a real menace which the local Party must energetically and convincingly expose to the masses, . . *. ANY lessons are to be gained from Toledo, only a few of which we can indicate here briefly. It is clear that the problem in Toledo is not that “the workers are backward,” etc. The workers are ready. It.is our local Party which has been isolated from these masses, stewing in its own sectarian- ism in the past. Further, we see clearly how quickly the ideas of the Communist Party, if presented simply and con- vineingly, can become a power among the workers: However, to guide that power, we need organization. This means Party organization and through this broad rank and file groups in the A. F. of L. unions and the building of class struggle unions in Chevrolet and Willys-Overland plants. The outstanding lesson for the Party is the ab- solute need of the Party being rooted in the shops and A. F. of L. unions. Here we saw clearly how much more effective we could have been if we had an organizational force in at least 15 A. F. of L. locals or if workers in one large shop had been under the influence of the Party. It must be clear to the Toledo comrades that these things are not impossible. On the contrary, as soon as we go among the workers correctly, these objectives can be carried out more quickly and effectively than ever before, The few beginnings already prove this. The Party must consider as its central task the building of rank and file groups in the most im- portant A. F. of L. unions, and in the course of this, recruiting the best elements into the Harty, so as to establish functioning Party fractions. Side by side must go much more decisive work in build- ing the Auto Workers Union in the Chevrolet Plant, and a broad recruiting drive to build the Party and dance at Irving Plaza. On Sun- |} morning the conference will| tained by the white ruling class of| | Nominating Convention of the Com- ports of the various committees and the election of a National Board. | | | | mes en | Knitgoods’ Strike Won | NEW YORK.—Workers Knitting merged with the Fedora mill and| schools, in then locked out the union mem- bers, were victorious in their strike | and which has been on for over two weeks under the leadership of the Knitgoods Workers Industrial Un- ion. All workers returned to work | consistent. vicious, jim-crow system ‘under union conditions. which will allow Negro workers to} purpose of preventing a unity of the large Negro proletariat on the hill with the white» workers of the} steel city. Discrimination Rife | There is the discrimination| against Negro teachers in Pittsburgh | municipal swimming} pools the segregation of all Negroes, | the special discrimination ec hanieed them on relief, and in the) allotment of R. W. D. jobs. In all the steel mills there is a of the} Mill, which By JOHN WILLIAMSON and Young Communist League among the strikers and A. F. of L. members in Toledo. We must also learn that in such a situation as Toledo, the Party committees must not try to do all the work itself. mobilize and involve tht masses of Party member- ship in the class battle, While the Party was not mobilized 100 per cent, nevertheless, once member- ship meetings were held and everything explained, the number of Party members involved in the daily work increased manifold. . . . HE situation demands increased Party activity. In addition to those central tasks indicated above, special attention must be given to building a broad non-Party fighting Unemployment Council defeat the Musteites, the Communist Party must immediately popularize its election program and candidates, and organize mass support in the unions and shops for the election campaign. Under no circumstances should the daily sales of the Daily Worker be allowed to return to what they were before the strike. That would mean we have achieved nothing. The daily sales of the Daily Worker must be increased at least four times over. The greatest attention must be given to raising the political level of the Party membership by a thorough understanding of the Toledo events and the carry- ing through of the mass tasks now before the Party Special attention must be given to the new Party members and to start a real broad Party recruit- ing drive without a moment's delay. The Auto-Lite workers had within their power, once the plant was closed down and the city workers behind them in preparation for a general strike, complete fulfillment of their demands. The agreement finally settled upon after the general strike had beer scuttled was a fraud and meant absolutely nothing. Only the continued militancy of the workers has prevented up until now the com- plete victimization of the strikers as was intended. To maintain their jobs and prevent continued dis- crimination and take full advantage of their return to the shop, to build and consolidate the union ranks, the rank and file must be alert and vigilant and not trust their affairs in the hands of Ram- sey and Bossler. The mere threat of the general strike forced concessions to the electrical workers intended as a Kind of bribe to not participate in the general strike—which these workers would not have gotten otherwise. As a result of the Toledo events, work- ers in other shops are able to force small economic concessions from their employers. If the workers, guided by a class struggle policy, had been able to outmaneuver and defeat the be- traying A. F. of L, leadership and all the other forces against them, and actually called the general strike, it would have involved several times tens of thousands of Toledo workers. It would not only have clinched a complete victory for the Auto-Lite strikers, but would have been the means of im- proving the working conditions and wages of all the workers. Further, it would have shown the power of the masses in head on collision with every- thing the Roosevelt New Deal government of the bosses stands for. While energetically exposing the A. F. of L. bureaucracy and their treacherous policy, we must beware of any temporary elements of demoraliza- tion and disgust with all unions as we too often see. On the contrary, we must show the masses how to take over their unions—elect rank and file lJeadership—and make it an instrument in their own benefit and against the employers, government and A. F. of L. bureaucracy. The Toledo events, despite their immediate out- come, were a great training school for the Toledo workers as well as workers throughout Ohio. This is one of the first battles of the new phase of the class war, which is maturing and ripening through- out the entire United States. — THE END — Leadership implies ability to | To | Nominating Convention in Boston BOSTON, Mass., June 18. — The | munist Party in Massachusetts will be held on Friday evening, June 22, at 7:30 o'clock at the Dudley St Opera House, 113 Dudley St., Bose ton. One of the features of the Con- vention will be the appearance of Paul Wicks of Greenfield, former member of the State Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, who, with four other delegates, walked out of the Socialist Party Convention at New Bedford yes- terday and announced their inten- tion of joining the Communist Party, N. Sparks, Communist Party Or« ganizer, will outline the Workers’ platform for the coming campaign. He will address a special plea for | the building of the youth movement in Massachusetts where, in the Dorchester district, Mack Libby, District organizer of the Y. C. Le | Will be suggested for nomination for the office of Representative to the | State Legislature, | All trade unions, fraternal and mass organizations throughout Mas sachusetts, as well as Party units Jare urged to send delegates with | Proposals for the election platform, |and to make immediate prepara- | tions for the collection of signatures | to put the Party on the ballot. | Youth Day Delegates of N.Y. to Meet Tonight for Anti-War Action NEW YORK.—A meeting of all delegates who attended the New York National Youth Day Cone ference of May 13 will be held toe night, Thursday, at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St, | Having carried through the larg- | est youth demonstration ever held in this city, the delegates are now to throw their energies into build ing the permanent anti-war movee ment. There will be three main points to be discussed. The International Sport Meet Against War and Fas- cism and preparatory meets in the | city; Discussion on National Youth | Day and the consolidation of the Youth Section, American League Against War and Fascism in this city. | | In conection with the latter point | there will be election of the city | executive committee of th Youth Section, and planning of future ace tions. paca expenses by sell- EARN ing the Daily Worker at important street intersections. Many sure- fire locations still open, Call at City Office of Daily Worker, 35 East 12th St. (In Store.) Moonlight Excursion Saturday Night, June 23 S. S. “CYGNUS” Tickets in Advance $1.00 at Book Shop, 50 E. 13th St., or call|}. SUnset 6-8055. At Pier $1.35. Boat leaves 9 P.M. sharp from Pier 11, East River foot of Wall St. Auspices: Scandinavian Workers Club Chicago NORTH SIDE — WOMEN’S COUNCIL Cabaret Nite Sunday, June 24, at 8 P. ¥ at North Side Workers Ha 548 Wisconsin Street, Chicas‘ (1900 North) * a Refreshm Orchestr Rallet Tickets 18 cents at Individual Tables