The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1934, Page 4

Page Four United Shoe Leaders of JLGWU Lets Boston Help Bosses Thru Wage-Cut Scheme Try to Substitute Legal Dickering for the Picket Lines By a Shoe Worker orrespondent BOSTON, Mass.—The Arrow Shoe Co. of E. Boston, employing some 300 workers moved to Denver, Mass., an unorganized town, in the hope of cheap labor. And already a com- pany union was formed in the shop, where the workers are paying 10c @ week, presumably for a sick fund benefit. This is a pre-arranged maneuver on the part of the manufacturers, to force upon us starvation condi- tions, through the threat of moving out. Months before the Arrow Shoe Co. made public its intention to move, the J. C. of Boston was ap- proached by workers of the shop, that they should take some definite action on this. talk that if a shop will attempt to move a strike will be called to stop them. But this only remained talk, and no action was taken. jay morning a meeting took place, and a mo- tion was unanimously accepted to declare the shop on strike, and send @ mass picket to Denver, to force the firm to live up to the agree-| ment. Even at this hour the of- ficials are still willing to play good fellows, and so the chairman of the J. C., Paul Salvagio, tried to discourage the workers from mass Picketing, giving the reason “That it may cause unnecessary arrests.’ Evidently he was afraid that it will not meet with the approval of the Socialist Party and A. F. of L. law- yer Bearek, who is the lawyer of our union. It was also reported that the law- yer was taking out an injunciion against the firm, and much hope was placed in legal procedure. This again proves the reformist basis of part of the leadership of our United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, who think that they. will fight the offensive of the manufacturers through courts and injunctions. Of course, this is tonsistent with the whole policy of this group, who are unwilling to mobilize and lead the shee workers in one solid fight for lecent conditions, but on the con- trary rather agree to regrading and are lobbying with the manufacturers to prove to them that they are not There was a lot of} Refuse to Fight for the | Wage Increases as the Agreement Expires By a Shoe Worker Correspondent BOSTON, Mass.—On reporting to k on Monda oe s to take their tools and leave until furt me shops they were the union told rees to a wage cut the shop will that un , or shut down. In one | for. of these shops, the Harvard Shoe, | the crew of 500 was given a wage cut of 744 per cent only last week. No official reason for the lay-offs or | lockout has been given so far either | by the manufacturers or the union. | With several weeks off from the | ex ration date of the present j agreement, August Ist, the shoe | manufacturers attempt to demoral- }ize by layoffs, lockouts and de- | mands for reductions the ranks of the shoe workers, who demand in- creases in wages. This situation came as a result of the policy pursued by the Resident General Executive Board and local officials of the United Shoe and Leather W ‘Ss Union, who in- izing the shoe work- ers for inc: in wages for the coming season, propose to renew the present agreement and low wage scales for another 18 months, and also agreed to wage cuts through the regrading scheme. The shoe workers are disgusted with the way things run, because they expected that after the amal- | Samation convention a real effort | will be made to prepare for a fight | for improved conditions and wage | increases. Many shoe workers be- | lieve that the real reason for the layoffs or lockouts is to help in the demoralization of the shoe situa- | tion and help the General Officials he stampede the shoe workers into| | the proposed 18 months agreement, | which carries with it the cut deci- |sion handed down by the hated Board of Arbitration of November | 6, 1933. “reds” but respectable union lead- | ers, | In contrast to the wishes of these | officials, the workers of the Arrow | Shop greeted the motion for a strike | with loud applause, and a majority | of them stood up for a mass picket- | ing on Tuesday morning in Denver. bai the Home ~ikp BY HELEN LUES LONG LIFE AND MORE POWER TO OUR FARM SISTERS Besides the already mentioned hardships of rural women, there’s also the basic economic situation—| the mortgages, the increasing debts and number of farm foreclosures. And in addition to the Roosevelt A. A. A. crop reduction measures has descended upon us the disas- trous drought. On the chari of af- flicted areas I have seen, Washing- ton state seems to have escaped, but the reverberations are bound to/| be felt there as elsewhere. There is the burning issue of the price of milk, as dealt with in the new booklet by Lief Dahl, as well as in other papers. Here is an issue on which it is possible to bring about an understanding of their unity of interests in city and country workers. .gitation for the payment of five cents per quart (for Grade B milk) to the farmer, and a retail price of sight cents for the consumer, should 92 carried on, and is being carried on, simultaneously among city and farm” workers. This demand in- cludes points one and two of the program of the U.F.P.A. The other points are of equally high im- portance: the abolition of the “basic surplus” (or classification system) of buying milk, the purchase and dis‘ribution of all surplus milk by the government to destitute work- rs, passage of H R. 7598 (purchas- «i power thus given to other work- ers will benefit farmers) and pass- age of the Farmers’ Relief Bill, which provides for cancellation of secured debts, mortgages, back rents or taxes, feed and seed loans of smaller farmers, and cash. In addition to this there is the work of publicizing and support- ing the Women’s International | Anti-War Congress meeting in Paris, July 28 to 30. build a Farm Women’s Anti-War Committee there. In connection with, this, small lapel-buttons have been made, which Comrade B. B. B. coud sell; she would have a profit of two cents on each, and could thus raise a fund for litera- ture or other organizational needs. The button retails at five cents. Just what other forms of or- ganization will be met under the circumstances, we must leave to Mrs. B. B. B.’s bes: judgment. She will know best whether she should begin by having sewing circles or quilting parties or such gatherings where discussion may begin and suitable literature brought, or if there should be regular mass meet- ings, or if she can build anti-fore- closure leagues, or an I. L. D., or F. S. U. branch. We think it would be good to} establish communication through the “Daily” or the Working Woman magazine, “Rank and File Coal Digger” or other papers, with women in the cities and in the mines, thus building the solidarity of all workers, mining, rural and city. 5 A new issve of the Werking Women will be off the press in 7 “ey davs, Helpful m-tzrial will be If possible | found in it. We'll discuss this maga- | zine further in a few days. Hope these past several columns will be of help. And we most sin- | cerely urge Mrs. B. B. B. (these not | being her real initials) again or raise other questions for discussion; we also invite letters from other workers, men or women, who want help or can give it on the basis of their past experiences. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? | Pattern 1859 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 3% yards of 36-inch fabric. Kerchief takes % yard 39- | inch contrasting. MTllustrated step- by-step sewing instructions in- | cluded. | | Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c) 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, to write | | gether ; seen here, “Swing open jail doors!’ Release Buchanan! Down with Fascist| Put | White Goods Pay Be Cut By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The Whiie Goods workers of Local 62, International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, are learning what of L. reformist trade union. We are supposed, according to the agreement, signed after a gen- eral strike last September, to get $21 for operators and 17 for pre: ers and examiners for a week's k. What actually are we get- ting? $14 to $15 for operators for week workers and $12 to $15 for examiners and pressers. There are four legal holidays in the year that we should get paid On May 30, some of the bosses did not pay the workers. In the Gussow shop, at 102 Madison Ave., the workers refused their pay envelopes unless they were paid for the holiday. The boss at Stylecroft also refused to pay for the holiday. Mr. Poll, business agent, told the Gussow girls that they should not ask the boss for the day's wages. | “The condition your boss is in, I would be ashamed to ask for that day’s pay,” he said, and walked out of the shop meeting. In spite of| this, the workers will demand and| fight for this day’s wages. There} are many incidents in which the I. L. G. W. U. officials have openly sided with the bosses. We must build a strong rank and file movement in Local 62. To- we will succeed in driving out such officials and make our bosses understand that we, the workers, rank and file, will fight to} better our conditions, and, when we do that, we will fight to keep what | we have won. Deprived of Work. While Wife Slaves In Cigar Factory LANCASTER, Pa.—In the last | three years I have done no work except for the local commissary be- hind the counter. I got $2 a wack, but it was snatched by the land- | lord first shot. It took months to get shoes and other needed things. They tried to pawn off old third- hand clothing. Many times meat, lard and but- | ter spoiled for lack of ice. Cans of corn and tomatoes burst because of | the rotten condition of the contents | when canned. The stuff was good} for nobody but the unemployed! This is a crazy system! While my wife got work at a local cigar factory making about $9 a week I stay home and take care of the little children. I wash, do the scrub- bing, etc. My wife and her fellow workers must work at top speed in a hot, | moist unclean atmosphere. On many | occasions, particularly during the summer, the girls keel over from extreme fatigue—but they're so afraid of the pink slip that they dare not rest, Before the N. R. A. they got $4.50 a week, but even double this is far too little for a decent standard of | living. The work has been speeded | up since the N. R. A. At last I have learned that there is only one thing left for me to do, that 1s join the C. P., the only or- ganization that is exposing this rot- ten condition under which able- bodied men and women are forced to starve in the midst of plenty. The Communist Party is fighting fer the overthrow of this rotten system (and for the building up of a workezs’ ruie where no starvation or unemployment will exist, and no rich parasites make profit off of us. Labor Unpaid In Municipal Lodging House By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—One of the worst forms of working class exploitation is the contemptible practice of the Department of Public Welfare of the City of New York of having un- | paid labor perform all tasks, cler- ical, manual (even . stenographers are employed on the unpaid basis) in the Muhicipal Lodging House, the inducement being a better grade of food than that furnished to the man who comes into the public ‘dene house and does no work at | all. The “industrial,” as these unpaid workers are termed, is employed for | meals, lodging and credits. “Credits” is the term used to designate an industricus, sober or half-sober member of the paupers. Some of these are promoted after a lapse of a varying period, usually one to five weeks, to $30 a month and maintenance, but the best positions are held by either political or civil service appointees. Many of these paid employees loaf around at the expense of the “industrial,” who is very often a man of superior ability. 500 Toledo Workers Force Release of Jailed Anti-Fascist Leader (Special to the Daily Worker) TOLEDO. Pushing threugh Ga*‘es County Prison. Five hundred enraged Toledo workers forced the} release of Buchanan, Monday, jailed anti-fascist fighter in one of the most militant demonstrations ever Sheriff Kreiger!” thundered the workers directly under the prison windows, to the checrs of prisoners. | Sam Stein, district secretary of the International Labor Defense, standing on the steps of the Sheriff’s office, exposed him as responsible ior most of the shooting and gassing | of Auto-Lite striker: i h the militancy of the demonstvators, Kriege released Buchanan, who forthwith addressed the assembled workers calling on them to join the I. L. D. and push DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1934 Open Letter to Sidney Hillman Misleader of Clothing proposed by the rank and file work- ACW Head Has Nothing Workers Responsible for Piece Work By a Worker Correspondent ers, check-off system. Your attitude in the Joint Board in the pericd of 1925 towards week delegates of the joint board, when but you favored the present | work could still be recalled by the | To Offer Convention | Except N. R. A. ;more misery for the workers in- NEW YORK.—An Open Letter to| you argued to stabilize the clothing | Stead cf better conditions. Amalgamated Clothing Workers: Dear Sir: As a member of the Amalgamated since the first day of its existence, I am taking the privilege of point- ing out a few facts as to the past and present situation in your union. At the recent convention held in Rochester you rejected resolutio! for week work in all clothing cen- ters. You were against a minimum wage an A, F,| Sidney Hillman, president of the| markets of Chicago and New York | because of competition, ie., the cost of production of the garments was higher in New York than in Chi cago, Finally you found the solu- | tion—to impose piece-work on the |New York tailors i: ad of estab- llishing week-work for the worke-s of Chicago. The results of your proceeding was the enforcement of sweat-shop conditions, namely the terrible scale, and other resolutions | speed-up, continual wage cuts, and Southern Workers, Ready for Struggle, Need Financial Aid NEW YORK.—‘Did I tell you of the worker who beat his way 100 miles from South Carolina to find someone who had been in Gastonia (he had) because the workers in his section did not trust the U.T.W. any more, and wanted to get in touch with our outfit.” This quota- tion from the letier of a National Textile Workers Union organizer clearly indicates the. eagerness of the southern textile workers to or- gan in a fighting textile union. No section of the workers in the textile industry can win any secur- ity unless the southern workers are | under militant leadership. For this they are not only ripe but they ac- tually plead for it. In May alone} they conducted 22 strikes. There are capable worker leaders in the! southern mills who are anxious to/| organize and lead their fellow work- | ers in struggle. But the blacklist of the monopoly | capitali instantly crushes the/| man who dares to raise his voic: In true fascist style they blackli not only the worker himself but in| many cases his entire family. ists It is not lack of leadership—it is not even the blacklist—it is an ab- solute lack of funds that does not allow these workers to organize. Since the southern worker is so miserably paid, he is unable to con- tribute to the support of his own union. We must give him a start. To overcome these organizational obstacles there has bet the North the Comr the Support of Southern Textile Orza- | nization. We solicit your help. Send any amount, however small, to: Committee for Support of Southern Textile Organization, 509 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The Committee has arranged a benefit affair for Friday night, June 29, at Steinway Hall. Included on an excellent program are Del of the Daily Workes, Bromberg and Carnovsky of “Men in White,” the Workers Laboratory Theatre, New Dance Group, Strike News Reels, Ray Yeats of “Stevedore” in North Carolina Songs, Don West, Al? man, of Defense. the International Labor Teaisen, Me., Shoe | Local Weakened By Lovestoneites By a Worker Correspondent LEWISTON, Me.—The planning board of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union is being turned by the Lovestonite Zimmer- man and his “boys” into a bureau- cratic top-controlled useless organ- ization. The shoe workers of Lewiston had a chance to learn the bitter truth at a meeting held Sunday, June 17. We awaited impatiently for this session to bring up our local prob- | 2 BLAME THE lems and formulate plans for fu- ture activity. But we were disap- pointed. The greater part of the meeting was spent in unnecessavy routine work, leaving the main Problem to the end. Tinally, ine important question, that of organiz- ing the workers in Maine, did come up. They called on the appointed organizer, Mr. McKee. In a long drawn-out document, McKee tried to excuse himself for his: failure to organize the workers by blaming the workers “for not coming to him!” and in conclu- sion demanded $100,000 for organ- izational purposes. (I guess he can use that, all right. He wasied al- ready $500 of the workers’ money to reduce the local from 200 mem- bers to 20). After him, another “big” leader (a member of the exec- utive committee of the Socialist Party) backed him up by repeating the same story. The Lovestonites immediately A Tip on Rent Relief Checks NEW YORK.—I wonder how many readers know that when a landlord accepts a City Rent Relief ticket, he accepts that as the full rent, regardless of what the rent may be. By that I mean that if the rent is, say, $20 ner month, and the relief ticket (if you can get one!) is for $16, then once the landlord has accepted that $16 relief check. he can’t or rather he has no legal right, to ask you for the other $4. The boss I work for asks the tenants regularly for the extra one or two dollars or whatever it may be. Most tenants do not know that on the relief ticket it says ‘For shel- ter from (say) June 1 to July 1,” and that they don’t have to pay a cent more to live in the flat that month. All Unemvloyment Councils should tell their members of this. Of course once the tenant does this, the landlord will probably re- fuse to accept his relief rent check for the next month. He can then dispossess the tenant, but the chances are about even that a judge will throw the disvossess out of court. In most cases, as the dif- ference is only a dollar or two, the landlord will reduce the rent to the amount of the relief check. A RENT COLLECTOR. the fight for the freedom of Thael mann and other anti-fascist fighters in Germany, the Scottsboro Boys, |@s everywhere. | Proposed to accept his recommenda- tion without discussion, send it tc the Executive Board and adjourr the meeting, without allowing the members to expose their opinion, However, their prepared maneuve: didn’t work. We succeeded in bring- ing out the main problem against their will. We brought out that the main problem was the reformist practices (running with every ques- tion to the N. R. A. board instead of fighting it out, or making paper decisions without attempting to carry it out) of our organizer, The workers here are just as militant They demonsirated it by the last strike, and if given able leadership, they would have a strong union by now. The question is not of money but of planned systematic activity. It is intersting to note that our or- ganizer did not answer this accu- sation. Why should he? He him- self knows that he is here against our will, depending only on the sup- port of the officials of the Execu- tive Board, The workers will have to solve the problems themselves, since the Planning Board was not able to do it for them. Musicians Aided By ILD Against Police Terror NEW YORK.—Last Monday, June 18, eight musicians were given sum- monses for loitering in the vicinity of Broadway and 48th St. This sec- tion of Broadway has served as a market place and sort of exchange where musicians are accustomed ‘o gather much in the same fashion as the workers in the garment dis- trict meet around 38th St. and Sev- enth Ave. The last few weeks has seen in- creased activity on the part of the police to drive the musicians away from this section. Thess. activities reached a head by the issuance of summonses to frighten the musi- cians away. z The International Labor Defense assigned a lawyer to one of the summoned musicians. In court on Wednesday morning the I. L. D. lawyer not only defended his own client but the seven o‘her musicians as well, and succeeded in getting their cases dismissed. The enthusiasm of the musicians for the defense given them was very great. Most of them had never heard of the I. L. D. except vaguely in connection with the Sco‘tsboro case. On ihe strength of this dismissal 100 “What To Do When Under Arrest” leaflets were sold and many back numbers of the Labor Defender had been dis- tributed within half an hour. After the Labor Defender had been dis- tributed, two more musicians went to I. L. D, headquarters and secured counsel for their case, which came up Friday. This case was also dis- missed, Because of this ac.ivity of the I. L. D. at least 200 musicians have been contacted. This sort of thing makes musicians realize that they are workers and that the I. L. D, is really “the shield of the working class.” This is being submitted to the Daily Worker because it has fought with the musicians for the auton- omy of Local 802. NOTE We publish letters from textile, needie, shoo and leather workers every Wednesday. Workers in these industries are urged to writc us of their condition of work, and of their struggles to organize, Gct Mooney and all ciass war prisoners in the U.S. the Ictters to us by Saturday of each week. You went further in adopting the | policy cf terror toward the protest- jing workers who had dared to ex- | pose the betrayals. At the stoppage in 1932 you and the honorable J. Panken, address- ing the tailors at a meeting in Man- jhattan Lyceum, shouti revolu- jtionary phrases, promised week- work for the tailors for the next , but the results were that | wor went back into the Ops with a 10-15 per cent wage At this National Convention, | Which was staged exclusively for ur delegates to satisfy them, in- ead of the thousands of workers who are working for starvation wages of $10-$12 per week, the [we rs had nothing to expect. cu had nothing to offer the workers but the N.R.A., which is a j Scheme to exploit the workers and assure more profits for the masters. Your class collaboration policy against the workers is leading the workers to ruin and destitution. The workers in order to achieve better conditions and a decent living must organize themselves in the shops and fight against the present misery and starvation, end i union con’ Electrician in the USSR. Praises | Trproved “Dail By a Worker Correspondent MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.—Comrades, I wish to express my heartiest con- sratulation on the improved Daily Worker. I have been a constant reader of the “Worker” for the past two years. The new “Daily” has ” pep and punch, and truly I find 15 intensely interesting here in Mos- cow, the capital proletariat, to read of my comrades States. For the past two mcrihs I have been working as an electrician in one of the new modern machanized bread factories in the city. For the first time in my life I am living the life of a proletarian. In the United States I was a Scudent at the University of Pitts- burgh, and was active in the Na- tional Students’ League and the International Labor Defense. For the past two years I have been Teally politically conscious. My sympathies have always been with the workers, and now I am able to truly say that I not only sympathize with them, but I am one of them. I want my comrades to know that the workers in my factory are keenly interested in th2 revolution- ary movement in the United States, but what they can’t seem to under- stand is why the American workers tolerate a cursed system like capi- talism. It also requires much ef- fort on my part to convince them that there are really 15,000,000 un- employed in America. “But,” they say, “how do they live? How do they buy bread if they do not re- ceive unemployment insurance?” I know from my own experience that the life of the down and out is a miserable day-to-day exis-ence sustained by infrequent charity doles and handouts. However, this answer does not satisfy my brigade. Before coming to my factory I could vaguely imagine the inde- pendence of the workers in man- aging the factories. What a revela- tion it was to discover the workers in my plan‘ absolutely free from all forms of exploitation, speed-up or coercion. My first duty upon re- turning to the States will be to join the Communist Party and then to broadcast the facts about the true conditions here in the Soviet Union. Comradely — greetings | brigade. BREAD FACTORY No. 5, Lecnard Grummet, Care Hctel New Moscow, Moscow, U. S. S. R. the world’s the activities in the United from my In the capitalist countries, new- comers into industry are looked upen with fear and ha'ed by the old hands, because it means that some of the old workers will be fired, but here all new workers are welcome and gladly taught, for there is no danger of unemploy- ment. DR’S COLUMN TO APPEAR TOMORROW Due to technical reasons, Dr. Luttinger’s column is omitted today. It will be. resumed tomorrow. 2d Annual Picnic of International Workers Order Sunday, July 8th Pleasant Bay Park, Bronx @ Win a FREE TRIP @ to the Soviet Union! PARTY LIFE Calls for “A Unit on Every Big Dock in Frisco Port” By W. L. In June, 1933, when the Inter- national Longshoremen’s Associa- tion was first organiz i we did not have a single longshore- man in the waterfront section of the Party. We had loose contact with about six longshoremen, who participated in the publication of a rank and file stevedore’s paper, the Waterfront Worker. With the formation of the I. L. A., these contacts became the cenver of a rank and file group within the union. It was not until about three or four months later that any long- shcremen were recruited to the Party. At this tin four were re- cruited and a unit wes formed. Of these, only two worked on the same dock, and because the members were ited through cur opposition work within the local the unit from the start functioned as 2 Party frac- tion. As a fraction the members carried on a successful campaign for the issues of the rank and file and gained a close influence over about 60 members and finally the confidence of the majority of the loca'. From the rank and file group some more were recruited up until the time of the strike, making a total of ten in the unit. During ell of this period, of course, several attempts had been made to emphasize the necessity of establishing the Party on the job by concentration on the American- Hawaiian, the Admiral and the Matson docks. Just previous to the strike, five workers were recruited from the Matson dock, but were not formed into a unit until after the strike started. Because'of our fail- ure to sufficiently emphasize the necessity of building the Party on the docks around job grievances, we only succeeded in developing our unit members into trade union ac- tivities against the fakers in the union. In that role they certainly did a good job and were the main factor in forcing the officials to call Letters from | Wee ee FILM TO BE REVIEWED SOON New. York City. Today at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre, I saw a movie entitled “The Merry Funks.” It deals with the life of an average American family and in the picture the son is portrayed as a Communist. The son is not shown in a particularly ugly light, but is constantly ridi- culed in a subtle fashion. The Com- munist is shown in about twenty- five different scsnes, bne of the jokes being—he is being introduced to a son of a rich department store owner, he refuses to shake his hand saying “Some day the department store will be in the hands of the workers,” and the owner's son re- plying “That will be a good idea, my father is losing money now.” The picture must be sen for a com- plete review. —A WORKER. (This film will be reviewed shortly in the Daily Worker.—Editor.) AWAKENING IN THE SOUTH Birmingham, Ala. Dear Editor: I am a relation of one of the Thomas strikers and a student at Howard College. I have been read- ing Communistic literature for the last two or three years and have become intensely interested in the movement. Although I accepted a great deal, there were some things that I was doubtful of, but since the Thomas strike, which I have seen at first hand, these doubts have vanished. The police brutality, the private arming of the Republic Stcel Corp. armed with — pistols, rifles, gas and machine guns, and the demonstration of the Birming- ham Police Department on May Day have convinced me that the only hope of the working class lies in a militant movement such as the Communist Party has shown itself to be. Even if the Thomas strike had not occurred, I think the May Day affair would have been enough to prove the Communistic cause. This shameful show of armed force against free speech and other tra- Some Good Work Already Done, But Much More Can Be Accomplished by Real Effort a rank and file conference for the West Coast. This method of work |unconsciously developed in these workers an attitude of superiqyity toward their fellow workers in the |I. L. A. who were not able to ex. | press themselves on the floor of the junion meetings. The Party as a | political apparatus always remained |secondary and separated from their trade union group in importance. Since the strike the situation has improved both in recruiting and in a clearer understanding of the role of the Party. Another 22 longshore- men have been recruited. These have been drawn into the Party on the basis of their militancy on’ the Picket line, or activity on the Strike Committee. Because of the role played by the city and national gov- ernments as direct allies of the ship- owners, the need of a political worke ingclass party is no longer an abe stract theory to them. But con. sidering the prestige the Party has gained ideologically among the long- shoremen, we have not even scratched the surfacesin recruiting. Three units on the Matson, the Admiral, and the American-Ha- waiian have been formed. If.me increase our efforts now, much more than this can be accomplished. Our slogan should be now, “A unit on every big dock in the Frisco port before the end of the year.” | Join the Communist Party 36 KE. 12th STREET, N. Y. ©. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street City Our Readers dotional American liberties shows, more than anything else I have ever witnessed, the néed for a afas- tic change in governrhent. Again in another thing, the Thomas strike has opened my eyes. The govern- ment, as shown through the Thomas strike and many other strikes throughout the entire country, is against any effective labor moye- ment and, in reality, the primary purpose of the Roosevelt adminis- tration is to bolster up the dying capitalistic system. I would appreciate any literature about the movement you could send me and I would like also to estab- lish a ‘contact with some Party member as a means for possible af- filiation with the Party itself or some of its branches. Yours truly, (Signed—name withheld) Howard College Student. LOVES TO READ THE “DAILY” Decatur, Illinois, Dear Comrades: ss My husband and I love to read the “Daily,” but for the past five or six days we have failed to get it. ‘We have been worrying about it, but today it came. A kind friend of ours who is fortunate enough to be working has kept it coming to us since the C. W. A. work stopped. This friend is not our friend alone, but a staunch friend to the class struggle. He is responsible for all the “Dailies” that come into Deca- tur, paying for most of them out of his own pocket. I would love to tell his name to all for his good deeds, but under the circumstances cannot do so. This city is slow in the class strug- gle movement, but I hope this good comrade’s work will bear fruit in the future, that he may know his good deeds have not been in vain, There cannot be too much credit given the “Daily Worker.” It gives the facts about life of the working class in all of its grim want and misery which today runs rampant through our (free?) United States, Comradely, —Mrs. Hi O. R. MOONLIGHT HIKES For the Time of Your Life! CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON-ON-TRE-HUDSON, New York Our Swimming Posl is Fed By Mountain Springs Play Tennis, Handball, Baseball, Volley — All the Sports! SEE THE PRIZE WINNING NEW DANCE GROUP. (Retarn engagement because of popular demand) Solos — Group Dances — Satires — Foik Dances — Jazz See Theatre Brigade in New Plays — TREASURE HUNTS — RATES: $14 A WEEK Beautiful trip up by boat or auto. Leaves 2700 Bronx Park East daily 10:39 A.M, Also 19 A.M., 3&7 P.M. Friday & Saturday. EStabrook §-1409 TOURNAMENTS Nope! IV’S THE SCHOOL BELL! Camp Unity is Proud to Announce the Open- _ ing July Ist of a Summer Branch of the N. ¥. WORKERS’ SCHOOL Comrade Arnie will conduct two-week courses. There wiil be no charge above the regular rate of $142 week, Also individual lectures by lead- ing speakers. JOIN UP! CAMP UNIT —And, of course, excellent entertainment, all the sports, the best food available and comfortoble accommodations. Bronx Park East daily at 10:30 A.M. 10 A.M., 3 and 7 P.M. Phone Algonquin 14-1148, Rates $14 a week. It’s Not the Dinner Bell! ol Wingdale New York . Cars leave from 2700 and Fridays and Saturdays ‘=