The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1934, Page 3

ANNUAL PICNIC of the FRIENDS of the SOVIET UNION on SUNDAY, JUNE 24th at HUNTING PARK PLENTY OF FUN Take Car 47 to Blvd. and walk West Also Car 65 or Broad St. Subway to Hunting Park Ave. Los Angeles, Cal. ANNUAL T.U.U.L. PICNIC AT Lancaster Lake, Sunland Sunday, July 1st Trucks leave 8:30 A.M. from 230 S. Spring and 2704 Brooklyn Ave. Adm. 25c, incl. transportation League of Workers Theatres PRESENTS Tonight at 9:30 Theatre By the Sea Workers Lab. Theatre, Artef, Group Theatre, Theatre of Workers School, Eula Gray, Inwor ¥ 4 AT Coney Island Workers Club 2874 W. 27th St. Coney Island Admission 35 cents WORKERS THEATRE BEACH PARTY At Beach 27th St., Coney Island This Afternoon at 1 P.M, Chairman F. D. Griffin, LL.D. Attorney Gala 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. PROGRAM— Earl Browder William Patterson Harry Gannes James W. Ford Cast of “Stevedore” Red Dance Groups L.W.O. Symphony Orchestra DANCING FROM 10 P. M. TO 3 A. M. Music by Bonelli’s Lido Orch. ADMISSION $1 AT DOOR AFTER 10 P. M. 39 CENTS ET LL TL Auto Union Calls Detroii Relief Meet DETROIT, Mich., June 22. — The Auto Workers’ Union is calling a Regional Conference for Action for Saturday, June 30, at 2 p. m., at Finnish Hall, 5969-14th St. The conference, which will include nearby cities such as Flint, Pontiac and Dearborn, will unite auto work- ers in the struggle for immediate re- lief to all laid-off workers for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, for the right of all workers to belong to unions of their own choice, and against wage cuts and speed-up. All workers’ unions, fraternal and mass organizations and unemployed groups, which include auto workers in their membership and groups of workers in shops are eligible for representation at the conference on the basis of five delegates for each local or group of 25 members and an additoila delegate for each ad- ditional 15 members. Proposed demands include: (1) immediate cash relief to ail laid- off workers; (2) union wages on all relief jobs at a minimum of 75 cents an hour; (3) increased wages in the shops and abolition of the “bonus” system; (4) 6-hour day, 5-day week without reduction in pay; (5) right to belong to any union of the work- ers’ choice; (6) abolition of speed- up, and (7) for the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill. + 8 -* Police Club, Jail New Orleans Negroe Demanding Food NEW ORLEANS, La. De- manding food and cash with which to feed their starving. families, 100 Negro women, accompanied by a few men, marched on the head- German Workers! Anti-Fascists! RE A Our Anti-Nazi LITERATURE! Nazifuehrer sehen $1.60 Dich an tee Auf der Flucht erschos- 9 (() sen, by W.Schoenstedt, lin. ~ Untermenschen 1.25 by W. Kolbenhoff; pap... Der verwandelte Piatz, 0.35 by Joh. R. Becker; pap... "" Das Braunbuch, Vol. ¥; lin. my oy Magazines & Newspapers Unsere Zeit ............ $0.20 Rundschau + 0.10 Unter dem Banner des Unter dem $0.35 Die Kommunistische 0.10 Internationale . * Ss ees 0.10 Der Gegen-Angriff 0.06 0.08 0.08 0.35 Zeitung, Saarbruecken. Welt-Front, Paris . Internationale Literatur... Collected Works of Marx, Engels, Lenin in German JUST ARRIVED! Das Braunbuch, Vol. It Dimitroff contra Goering $1.60 pap. 2.00 lin, .. oe “Der Arbeiter” Bookshop — Room 609 — 35 East 12th Street, New York Moonlight Sail Music :-: Dancing Refreshments Saturday Night, June 23 8.8. CLERMONT Leaves Battery 8 p.m. Return at Midnite TICKETS $1.00 at Bookshop, 50 East 13th Street or American League, 112 E, 19th St. Room 605. Auspices: Trade Union Section American League yo can’t help the drive to add 20,000 new readers for the “Daily” by waiting for someone else to do the work. Earn expenses “your” paper to Apply to selling other workers. Williams, 35 E. 12th St. (in store). DETROIT PICNIC with PRIZES for Lithuanian Daily “VILNIS” Given by Detroit Workers’ Organizations SUNDAY, JUNE 24, at 10 A. M. at WORKERS’ CAMP DIRECTIONS:—By auto: Grand River Ave. to Halsted Road, 4 miles on other side of Farmington, turn right, coming to first traffic light, turn right and waich for Workers’ Camp sign. By Street Car: Grand River to end of line, from there to Workers, Oamp by bus. GEO. Group. SISKIND, SAM Dance Group. asph INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE NINTH ANNIVERSARY BANQUET Saturday Eve., June 23rd at AMBASSADOR HALL 3875 THIRD AVENUE GUEST OF HONOR: LEON BLUM—Also R. B. MOORE, ALLAN TAUB, GONSHAK. Theatre Class War NEW YORK.—To celebrate the Ninth Anniversary of the Inter- national Labor Defense, the Bronx section is holding a banquet tonight, 8 p. m., at Am- bassador Hall, 3875 Third Ave., Bronx. The guest of honor at this af- fair will be Leon Blum, militant leader of the Laundry Workers Industrial Union, recently re- leased from Comstock prison where he served a term of one year for his active participation in last year’s laundry strike in DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1934 The arene Sidelights on the LL.G.W.U. = Convention Held in Chicago Prisoners the Bronx. Other guests at this banquet include Sam Weinstein, of the Furniture Workers’ Indus- trial Union; Sam Gonshak, and other political prisoners. Speakers will be Richard B. Moore of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, Allan Taub of the National Committee for De- fense of Political Prisoners, George Siskind of the Commu- nist Party and others. Admission is fifty cents. Poli- tical prisoners from state prisons admitted free, quarters of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, and forced |their way into the office. Police and thugs stationed in the office clubbed the women, one had her teeth knocked out, and 10 were jailed. The state of Louisiana has the largest per centage of its population on relief in the country. During February, the latest figures avail- able, 21 per cent of the entire popu- lation was on relief. Negroes are especially discriminated against. For the state as a whole, relief to fami- lies averaged 22 cents a day for food, clothing and shelter. * * « Baltimore Seamen Strike on Forced Labor Projects By a Worker Correspondent BALTIMORE, Md.—For the past 22 days the seamen of Baltimore, organized in the Waterfront Unem- ployment Council and the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, have been on strike against the relief officials order of forced labor for all seamen on relief. A very few have and are now working for 90 cents a week, On Wednesday 75 marched in a body to the office of relief director Greenstein, and were met with 60 police armed with clubs. While the cops attempted to pro- voke violence, the seamen kept dis- ciplined ranks, marched to the City Hall, where, joined by 300 workers they demonstrated and held an open air meeting. Harry Haywood, LSNR, To Speak in Cleveland CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 22.— Harry Haywood, national secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, will speak Sunday, June 24, 7:30 pm., at Mount Zion Church, 55th and Central Ave. The program of the L.S.N.R. is one of struggle against all forms of Jim-Crowism, discrimination and lynchings. Haywood has spent a number of years studying the Negro question accepted the terms of forced labor in the Soviet Union, and will give an able, informative talk. WHAT Saturday CONCERT and Dance at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., Saturday, 8:30. Auspices, Branches 2 and 132 I.W.O. and Comm. of Needle Trades W.I.U. CARNIVAL, sports, dramatics, chorus of 500 singers. Dancing at Ulmer Park. West End Train stop 25th Ave. 2 p.m. till 2 a.m. Auspices, Jewish Workers Clubs. WEEK-END OUTING arranged by Dress Cutters Group to Camp Nitgedaiget. $3.50 includes round trip bus fare—three meals, nights’ lodging. Bus leaves June 23rd, 11 a.m. from 140 W. 36th St. For tickets and further information call at 140 W. 36th St., Room 101, BANQUET June 23rd at Ambassador Hall, 3875 Third Ave., celebrating 9th An- niversary LL.D. Leon Blum, guest of honor. Speakers, R. B. Moore, Allan Tuab and others. Entertainment. Hot supper. Admission 50 cents. Auspices Bronx Sec- tion LL.D. GALA concert-dance at 1373 43rd St., Brooklyn, 8:30. Auspices C.P. Unit 2, Sec. 11. Comrade Markoff of Workers School will speak. SPEND this week-end June 23 with Of- fice Workers Union at Followers of Trail Camp. Make reservations at Union office, 114 W. 14th St. Chelsea 3-9806. Accomo- dations $2.65 per person. All sports. MOONLIGHT Excursion on the Hudson. Dancing. Gym Exh. Refreshments. Tickets $1 at Book Store. See adv. Saturday's Daily. Ausp. Scand. Work. Club. SPRING FESTIVAL and Entertainment at Children’s Center, 311 E. 12th St., 8:30 Subscription 20c. Benefit Workers Train- ing School. Refreshments. 20-50% DISCOUNT SALE at Workers Bookshops begins Friday, June 22nd—Ends Saturday, July 7th. Join the Circulating Library, 50 E. 13th St., N. ¥. ©. GARDEN PARTY at 1009 Winthrop St.. Brooklyn, 8:30. Auspices Women’s Council 16. Good concert and dance. Adm. 15¢. FIRST ANNUAL DANCE of Celluloid & Plaster Novelty Workers Union at Film and Photo League, 12 E. 17th St. Adm. 25c. GREAT INAUGURAL FESTIVAL of Spanish Workers Cultural Center (Centro Cultural Obrero). Entertainment. Inter- national Dance Program by our own l1- piece orchestra. Come and have a good time while helping to build Spanish Revo- lutionary Culture in N. ¥., 220 E. 14th St., 8 pm. Adm. 15c. SOCIAL AND DANCE at 1401 Jerome Ave. Bronx, corner 170th St., 9 p.m. Auspices Mt. Eden Youth Br. F.S.U. Adm. 15c. THEATRE BY THE SEA. Workers Lab. Theatre, Group Theatre, Eula Gray, Artef and others, 9:30, Coney Island Workers Club, 2874 W. 27th St., Coney Island. Afternoon: Beach Party, Beach 27th St. FIRST INSTALLATION Affair of Wo- Good 8 pm. men’s Council of Harlem No. 1. program and prominent speakers. at 1492 Madison Ave. ENTERTAINMENT AND DANCE at 114 W. 14th St., Office Workers Union. Adm. 25c, 8:30. Surprise Features. Fine En- tertainment, PARTY at 852 E. 172nd St. Sat. Night at 8:30 p.m. Hayride Sunday, 8:30, at ae trite Ave. Auspices Y.C.L., Unit 5, CHANGE YOUR EXCURSION TICKETS! All those who bought tickets for Browns- ville Youth Club's excursion Sat, May 26th please change tickets for new date—Sat. July 7th, every evening at 105 Thatford Ave., 388 Stone Ave., and 572 Sutter Ave., Brooklyn. VANGUARD BEACH AND BOAT CLUB, 522 Ellsworth Ave., Bronx. Beach Party and Dance, Sat.. June 30th. Directions: ‘Tremont car to last stop, bus or walk to Schley Ave., 3 blocks left to Ellsworth Ave. Subway: Pelham local to Westches- ter Square. Bus to Schley. MOONLIGHT SAIL — Music, Dancing. Refreshments on 8.8. Clermont. Leaves Battery at 8 p.m. Returns Midnight. Tickets $1 at Bookshop, 50 FE. 13th St., or American League Against War and Fas- cism, 112 E. 19th St. Auspices Trade Union Section American League Against War and Fascism. REGULAR monthly party of Vanguard tonight at 235 W. 135th St. Cast of Steve- dore will be present. Good entertainment. Dancing till dawn. Refreshments. Ad- mission 25c. MOONLITE Beach Party to Rockaway by truck, 7:30 tonight. Auspices, New Youth Club. Bathing. Singing. Games. Refreshments. ENTER’ Ping Pong Red Sparks ‘TAINMENT-DANCE, Contest by Units 5 and 8 at Hall, 64 Second Ave., 8 p.m. PRE-SUMMER FROLIC sponsored by ao Sunday BUS EXOURSION to Camp Wocolona. Leave Workers Bookshop, 50 E. 13th 8t., Sunday at 9 a.m. sharp. Return evening. $1 round trip, INFORMAL SOCIAL and Dance at 1401 Jerome Ave., Bronx, cor. 170th St., 9 p.m. Adm. 15c, Auspices Mt. Eden Br. P.S.U. PIONIC at Tibbetts Brook 10:80 a.m, Fine time promised. Take Jerome Ave. Lex. Express to last stop, Adm. free. Auspices Mt. Eden Br. F.8.U. HIKE by Millinery Youth Group. Meet at Dyckman St. Ferry, 9:30 sharp, Buy lunch, DINNER at Brighton Workers Center, 3200 Coney Island Ave., Auspices Unit 6, 1 to 8 p.m. Seven courses. OUTING TO CAMP UNITY by Harlem Progressive Club, Sunday, 7:30 a.m, from new headquarters, 1888 Third Ave., near 104th St. Register in advance to insure yourselves a seat. Round trip $1. Club room open evenings. FIRST AFFAIR of T.W.O., Bayside, L.T., at Vernon Hall, 45-62 21lth St., Bayside, L, 1, Sunday, 3:30 p.m. Adm. 5c, Fine time’ promised. NEW DANCE GROUP RECITAL Sunday at 8:30 pm. 11 E. 14th. Group and solo dances, including Miriam Blecher and Jane Dudley. Adm. 36¢, SEAN MURPAY speaks at Irish Workers Club Picnic, Sunday, 2 p.m., at Van Cort- land Park. Proceeds for Irish Workers Voice, Directions: Broadway LR.T. sub- way to 242nd St. and Van Cortland Park. Walk East toward Grand Central Railroad Bridge. HOUSE PARTY for $1,000 drive of Work- ers School. Dancing. Refreshments. Sun- day, 8 p.m. Goldschmidt, 100 Court 8t., Brooklyn, LR.T. Clark St, Station, B.M.T. Court St. Station. OPEN FORUM, “Fight for Relief and Task of Veterans in Struggle Against Im- perialist War.” Questions and Discussion at I.W.O. Hall, 415 Lenox Ave, 8 p.m. Adm. free. Philadel phia, Pa. THIRD ANNUAL PICNIC of Communist Party of West Phila takes place Sunday, July ist at Sand & Parkside Ave., Pair- mount Park. All sympathetic organizations are requested to keep this date open and help us carry this affair through suecess- lly, MEETING of Irish Workers Club Sunday at 8 p.m. at 419 Spruce St. All workers in ‘heighbothood invited. Refreshments. Good program and speaker. ANNUAL PICNIC of Freiheit Gesangs Farein Sunday, June 24th at 52nd and Parkside Ave., Farmount Park. Good pro- gram. Good food. FILM AND PHOTO LEAGUE of Phila. First Still Exhibition “Men at Wo ing Friday, June 22nd to July 9th, at John Reed Club, 136 S. 8th St. Week days: 12 am. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, 1,p.m. to 9 p.m. ANNUAL Picnic of Sec. 1 C.P. Sunday, June 24, at 33rd and Cumberland (Straw- berry Mansion). Good program. ANNUAL Picnic of Sec. 2 C.P. Sunday, June 24 at Burholme Park, Good time assured. JOINT PICNIC of League of Struggle for Negro Rights City Council and Inter- national Labor Defense Dist. Comm. Sun- day, July 1 at Burholme Park, Detroit, Mich. PICNIC for Lithuanian Daily ‘‘Vilnis” given by Detroit Workers Organizations, Sunday, June 24, 10 a.m., Workers Camp. Directions: by auto: Grand River Ave. Farmington, turn right, coming to first to Halsted ‘Road, 4 miles on other side traffic light, turn right and watch for Camp sign. By street car: Grand River to end of line, from there to camp by bus. Detroit, Mich. PAREWELL PARTY Saturday, June 23, 8 p.m. at 108 W. Hancock St. Three F.8.U. membe leaving for U.S.S.R. Refresh- ments, Entertainment. Adm. free. All wel- come. Freehold, N. J. PIONIC at Pikulik Farm by the Pond beginning at 11 a.m. Swimming, Singing, Lecture, Dancing, Sunday, June 24, Tciket 25c. In case of rain following Sunday. Arranged by Icor and I,W.O. Madison, Ill. FIRST INTERNATIONAL PICNIC AND DANCE, Sunday, June 24th at Eagle Park. Place: Palisades Park. Oceana A. ©. of Brighton Beach, 8:30, 3200 Coney Island Ave., Orchestra. Enter- tainment. Membership "25c. Auspices United Front Committee Against Fascism. Fine time promised. Benefit Daily Worker and other press. VACATION AT CAMP NITGEDAIGET SWIM, DANCE, PLAY TENNIS, BASEBALL, ETC.—YOU’LL HAVE A GREAT TIME! Cars leave 2700 Bromx Park East Friday and Saturday at 10 A.M., 3 P.M, and 7 P.M, Phone EStabrook 8-140. seamen | By H. E. BRIGGS AMERICAN VETERANS ASSOCIATION Membership Committee of the American Veterans Association is conducting a drive for 100,000 vet- erans, If any of you have nothing to do and are not interested in your bonus or getting your disability re- stored, here is a good opportunity to| sign up with one of the leaders of} which are among the worst enemies | of the organizations of the rank} and file veterans. Their. executive} headquarters is at 420 Lexington! Avenue. The National headquarters | is at Chattanooga, Tennessee. Some | of the big shots in this organization are such men as Roger Burlingame, who wrote that vicious book, “Peace | Veterans.” In this he tried to show} that all disabled veterans demand-| ing the repeal of the Economy Act| were unpatriotic, that all those de-| maning their bonus were “treasury raiders.” The National Commander is Charles M. Kinsolving. This bird has been conducting through paid publicity in the New York Times a/ slanderous campaign against any- one not interested in “economy” and balancing the budget in favor) of Wall Street. Another angel of this organization is Harry H. Semmes, a Washington attorney. He is the National Vice- Commander. In a reply to Senator) Byrnes before the Senate Finance | Committee he stated: “I know that| in our organization we have a great many that do not pay any dues at| all, but it is a voluntary matter with them to give $2 if they can. The organization is loose. It is really a sort of patriotic group—” Mr. Semmes is one of those who started a movement to have| wounded veterans donate their pen- sions to a fund for needy comrades. | He volunteered to give the $18 a month he receives, a generosity mo-| tivated only by the desire to get more clients. This publicity for the American Veterans Association is in the way of a warning to all rank and file veterans, drawing pensions or disabilities incurred in the war to shy off from such rackets as the A.V. A. Since times are hard and they need members badly, their dues of $2 a year is a direct bid for Legion members who find it hard to pay $5 a year. The Membership Com- mittee is made up of former com- manders of military and naval units in the A. E. F. Their last conven- tion was attended by 60 members. This was all they could rally despite the half page publicity in the New York Times. Their slogans have all the elements of demagogy, three of them being “Justice to the war dead”—“Justice to the American People.” With one of their mem- bers on the Board of Appeals in ‘Washington, they help to carry out this “justice to the war wounded” by refusing compensation to “gre- sumptive” cases. Do you think you ought to join this organization? Our | | advice is See the Veterans National | | Rank and File Committee, 1410 “G” Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. and you will get “justice” at the hands of an organization that fights for the “presumptive” cases. e.uven a BRINGING ’EM BACK—BUT NOT ALIVE IN 1918 and 1919, the 339th In- fantry and the 310th Engnieers invaded Russia to fight the Bol- sheviks. They did not stay long. When the boys got wise to what it was all about, they refused to fight and forced their commanders to bring them home. This is official history but gets very little recog- nition because American doughboys are not supposed to do such things. An expedition is now in Moscow and will leave late this month to scour the forest region of South Arch- angel for the graves of 37 of the American soldiers who lost their lives in this ill-fated campaign, The bodies will be brought back to the United States. At the recent Rank and File Convention in Wash- ington there was an original mem- ber of this group who saw action in the Valleys of the Dvina and Vaga. This regiment was familiarly known as the “polar bear” regiment. When T asked him what he thought of the whole business, he told me that the Bolsheviks have taught him and many more of his comrades that there was only one enemy worth fighting—that is the capitalist sys- tem. No wonder the officers capit- ulated to the demands of the men to be shipped home. If they hadn’t the 339th Infantry would have been liquidated and perhaps, by this time, would be bearing the title of “shock brigaders.” 2nd Annual Picnic OF THE International Workers Order Sunday, July 8th at Pleasant Bay Park Special Features: 5 Free Prize Awards: 1. Trip to Soviet Union Radio Set Two weeks at Camp Kinderland Set of Lenin's Works 5. Week at Camp Unity Sports: Baseball Soccer Workers Lab. Theatre Refreshments and Good Food Continuous Dancing to Fine Jaze Band Speaker: Max Bedacht, Natl. Sec. LW. Admission to Park: 25 cents Auspices City Central Committee Directions: Lexington or 7th Ave. sub- | choice, for the right to decent liv- | rank and Resolutions Dealing With Basie Problems Killed in Committee By ROSE WORTIS On May 28th the convention of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the third largest union in this country, took place at a time when masses of workers have become disillusioned with the N.R.A., have become tired of the promises and the delay which have deprived them of the right to or- ganize and which have given the bosses an opportunity to drive close to five million workers into com- pany unions. | It took place at a time when the government, unable any further to} keep down the workers by fake| promises, is resorting to the most| brutal force to crush the rising} strike wave of the workers and| when the workers on many battle-j fronts of this country are fighting | against the armed forces of the} government, for their right to or- | ganize into unions of their own| ing conditions. The opening of the convention} was greeted by a parade in which} several thousand workers partici-} pated. The workers who know that} the gains they have made did not come through the good will of the N.R.A. but as a result of their or-/| ganized strength, came out on the| streets of Chicago with militant slogans and banners, calling for struggle against the attacks of the bosses. Tear Down Banners But at this very first demonstra- tion the deep cleavage existing be- tween the rank and file and the bureaucrats in control of the or- ganization, became evident, even to} the casual observer. The official ar- rangements committee instead of | greeting this militant demonstra-| tion of the workers acted in the| capacity of police. In the most brutal fashion they tore the plac- ards with these militant slogans from the hands of the workers and destroyed them, After the demonstration, a mass meeting was held. The main speak- ers were Victor Olander and Oscar Nelson, representing the mayor of Chicago. These very same people only one day before attended an exposition in the office of the Na- tional Guard where new tear gas bombs and other implements of war to be used in strikes were shown to them. Here they expressed an enthusiasm for the wonderful im- provements that are being made in developing the instruments for fighting mobs. ‘These were the honorary guests who opened the convention of a union whose rank and file has been in the front ranks of the struggle of the American working class for many years and has distinguished itself by its militancy. The presence of these hirelings of Leapbesgpecs ey test insult to the mu ih she file of the LLG.W.U,, which surely would not have been tolerated had the convention really been representative of the rank and file. Officials Praise N.R.A. Beginning with Monday up until the middle of the second week the delegates were treated with a series| — of speeches which showered praise | on the N.R.A,, the Roosevelt gov- ernment, and the New Deal. The so-called progressives, headed by the Lovestonites, went into ecstasy every time a labor bureau- | crat or a government official was introduced to the convention, even going to the extent of singing “Sol- idarity” for Alger, the impartial | chairman in the cloak trade. | The attitude of this machine| picked convention to the problem | of the Negro workers showed the| caliber of the majority of the con-| vention and their attitude toward | the most vital problems involving | Bus Excursion to CAMP WOCOLONA } | Leaves Workers Bookshop | 50 E. 13th St., Sunday 9 A.M. Sharp Return Evening — $1.00 Round Trip || Two bungalows; four tents; two rooms || still available — Phone Nevins 8-8331 | Philadelphia Ideal Week-End and Vacation Center Nature Friends Camp of Philadelphia Offers splendid opportunity for swimming and all outdoor sports to its visitors. Good food at lowest prices. Beauti- ful surroundings. Oomradely spirit. Information: R. Walter, 1217 N. 28th. Phone Stevenson 4245, bet. 5 & 7 P.M. Special rates to Clubs & Organizations |laration sent with the left wing } many thousands of workers in the trade. Throughout the entire first week of the convention the Negro delegates were discriminated against in the most shameful way. While on floor of the convention the bureau crats made high sounding conde- ending speeches with regard to the gro workers, it was through the pressure of left wing delegates that they were forced to take a stand and to move the convention from the aristocratic Medina Hall. Use Steam Roller After ten days of merrymaking, of beer parties, banquets, of throw- ing bouquets at each other, the IL.G.W.U. convention finally got down to business and the steam roller began to work at full speed. The left wing delegate, Esther Schweitzer, being the spokesman at! this convention for the tens of thousands of rank and file workers, presented a series of resolutions dealing with the policies and tactics of the union. These resolutions as | well as an analysis of the N.R.A., the conditions in the trade, the problems and tasks confronting the workers were embodied in a dec- delegation elected at the recent na-| tional conference. When this dele- gation was denied the floor, the declaration was distributed among the delegates at the convention. Most of the resolutions dealing with the real problems of the work- ers, were killed in the committee rooms and neyer even saw the light of day. Instead, the committee re- ported its own resolutions, which in instances were complete evasions of the real problems raised and in other instances open defi- ance of the will of the membership. With the steam roller at work hard- ly any discussion was permitted on} these questions. The delegates were hardly aware of the content of the} resolutions before they were de- clared accepted by the chairman.| Those few resolutions that came up for discussion met with the same fate. | After a half hearted discussion on| week work, the question was left to} the respective joint boards. When| we consider who is in control of} these joint boards we can readily| see that week work will be taken up only by a determined struggle of the | rank and file under the leadership | of the left wing. The resolutions to strike for the| enforcement of the agreement, to fight the bosses’ wage cutting schemes were similarly Despite the mass unemployment that prevails in the ladies’ garment industry, the resolution endorsing the Unemployment Insurance Bill H. R. 7598, was rejected. Instead the Convention lined up with all the reactionary forces in endorsing the Wagner-Costigan Bill, which throws the burden of the unemployed on the shoulders of the employed workers. Bar Militants from Amalgamation The resolution for the amalgama- | tion of the needle trades unions was modified by excluding the Indus- trial Union. Thus these bureau- —¢ treated. | crats who profess to be against dual unionism have openly shown their! Worker at the newsstands. Page Three Most Despicable Role Is Played by Lovestone Renegade Group the workers split by barring out the militant Industrial Union from amalgamation. Other resolutions were sent for burial to the general executive board. The most elementary rights of the members were wiped out with the stroke of a pen by this reactionary convention as it moved in the direce tion of fascization of the unions, Yearly elections in the local unions provided for in the constitution since the union came into existence was abolished. In addition, the machine carried through a resol: tion giving the general executive board authority to supervise all elections to prevent any rank and file worker who in any way dise agrees with the dominating clique from finding his way into any of the leading bodies. They also de feated every proposal for referene dum vote on officers. Rank and file representation on the leading bodies of the union was also dee feated. The class struggle preamble was ‘ rejected on the ground that it would antagonize the courts. The policy of expulsion and discrimination were reaffirmed by upholding the decision of the administration in eliminating the left wing leadership from Local 9. All amendments to the constitution, giving more con- trol and power to the rank and file went down to defeat. Donate to Counter-Revolution ‘The black counter-revolutionary |character of the convention was shown when it donated $500 to the counter-revolutionists in the Soviet Union; additional funds to the counter-revolutionary press, while at the same time refusing to act on & resolution of greeting to the So- viet government for establishing an autonomous republic in Biro-Bijan. The same cowardly action was taken with regard to the resolution’ for the release of Thaelmann. To sum up this whole convention, whose decisions were crammed into not more than three days out of the two weeks, it was nothing but a rubber stamp for the class collab- joration policies of the ruling bu- reaucracy, a good time for their supporters, and an occasion to hand out honors to loyal hangers on, Zim- merman among them, by electing them to the general executive board whose number was increased to 23. The bureaucracy attached itself to the chariot of Roosevelt's New Deal and gave its unequivocal endorse ment to the strikebreaking N. R. A. The protest sent by the rahk and file committee of the Amalgamated | Association of Iron, Steel and Tin | Workers to the convention asking this labor convention controlled by the Socialist Party bureaucrats to reject Johnson's strikebreaking speech, was suppressed and was not even known to the delegates, (To Be Continued) The Daily Worker gives you full news about the struggle for unem- ployment insurance. Buy the Daily Three intentions of keeping the ranks ofcents a copy. are UNION OF 4 Dhette Adbicecteaia afforded investors who purchase this Gold Bond GOLD STABILITY Soviet Socialist The bonds are issued in denominations of 100 gold roubles, at a price of par—100 gold roubles—and accrued interest. (A gold rouble contains 0.774234 grams of pure gold.) 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COLAS WINS ART STUDENTS’ GLASS CONTEST The Jacob Ruppert prize of one hundred and fifty dollars and the Hazel-Atlas prize of seventy-five dollars for the best design for a beer glass has been awarded to E. Colas of Elmont, L. I. Thirteen additional cash prizes were awarded to other prize-winners one of one hundred dollars, one of sev- enty-five dollars, one of fifty dollars and ten of twenty- five dollars each. The win- ning glass will be produced in both the beer glass and cocktail sizes. (Adv.) CHICAGO, ILL. RED ELECTION PICNIC and ANTI-WAR RALLY WEDNESDAY, July 4th —at BIRUTES GROVE Gates Open 10 A.M. Admission 16 79th STREET and ARCHER AVE. BIG PROGRAM DANCING BAR-B-Q GAMES REFRESHMENTS: Auspices: Communist Party, Dist. 8 101 S. WELLS STREET In case of rain an indoor rally will be held at PEOPLES AUDITORIUM DIRECTIONS—Take any street car to Archer Ave. FREE truck transportation to Grove. Limits. — %457 Chicago Ave. Archer West to City BOATRIDE SUNDAY, to Hook Mountain on the S. S. Islander e TICKETS ONE DOLLAR Friends of the Soviet Union, 799 Broadway, Room 233 Boat Leaves Pier “A” Battery Park at 9 A.M. Returns 11 P.M. and PICNIC JUNE 24 BASEBALL GAMES BUFFET AT CITY PRICES DANCING