The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 28, 1934, Page 3

Unity Conference Of Auto Saturday, July 30 Workers | Delegates Now Being belong to unions of the workers’ | Elected in Big Auto Plants DETROIT. — Delegates are now being elected from the main Ford | Plant at River Rouge, the Chevro- | let, Dodge, Chrysler, Hudson, Briggs | and other plants to the Regional Conference of Action called by the | Auto Workers’ Union for this Sat- | urday, June 30, at 2 p.m. in Finnish | Workers’ Hall, 5969 14th St., near} McGraw. | The purpose of the conference, | the call issued by the union states, “is to rally all automobile workers in a united struggle for immediate relief to laid-off workers, for unem- ployment insurance, against wage- cuts and speed-ups, and to protect. the right of workers to belong to unions of their own choice.” One of the chief questions to be taken | up will be the organization of the unorganized. | In addition to’ Detroit, delegates | are also expected from Grand Rap- | ids, Flint and other nearby cities. | The conference is taking place at @ time when tens of thousands of auto workers have been laid off and wage cuts have started in many of the biggest plants. The follow- | ing demands will be discussed: Hl 1, Immediate relief to all laid- off workers from the city and com- panies, not to be paid back when rehired. 2. Union wages to be paid for all relief jobs, but no less than 75 cents an hour. 3. Increased wages and abolition of the cheating bonus system. 4. A six-hour day, five-day week, without reduction in | pay. 5. Against the company unions, for the unrestricted right to WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. JOINT PICNIC of League of Struggle for Negro Rights and International Labor Defense, Sunday, July 1, at Burnholme PerTEM and Photo League of Phila. First still exhibition “Men at Work” opening Friday, June 22 to July 9 at John Reed Club, 136 8. 8th St. Week days: 12 a.m, to 6 p.m. PIONIG of South Sect. of Unemploy- ment Council at Burholme Park, July 1. ‘Take car 50 on 5th St. and ride to bur- holme Park, Phila. PROTEST Against breakdown of trade relations between U.S.A. and Soviet Rus- sid. Hear Maxwell Stewart, former edi- tor Moscow News, speak on this question. Also others. Will be held Friday evening, 8 p.m. at Gewérbe Hall, 2530 N. and 8t.} Adm. 0c. Auspices F.S.U. Phila. District. GRAND PICNIC by Dally Worker and Trade Union Unity League, July 4, at Old Berkies Farm. Take Broad St. Subway or car 65 to end of line; transfer to car 6, ride to Washington Lane, walk two blocks west. DEC. Baltimore sea- + June 29 on“! "at ‘Typographical N.W., 8:30. Auspices, Washington, ROBERT LEE M! ” man, will lecture 2 F.6.0. Adm, 25c. 2d Annual Picnic of International Workers Order Sunday, July 8th Pleasant Bay Park, Bronx @ Win a FREE TRIP @ to the Soviet Union! own choice. 6. Abolition of speed-up. | 7. The calling of a special session | of Congress to pass the Workers’ | Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) and the soldiers’ bonus. | Unorganized workers and workers who have dropped out of the A. F. of L. and M. E. S. A. are especially urged to attend this conference. Teachers Meet in Chicago Dominated By Hanson Machine Militant Sentiment Is Expressed in Many Resolutions By BILL ANDREWS CHICAGO, June 27. — Militant | sentiment was obvious among the | delegates to the convention of the American Federation of teachers in spite of the fact that no open dis- cussion had been permitted during the first two days’ session. A great many resolutions have been handed ‘to the resolutions committee, calling for a determined working class stand. Among these are one calling for the abolition of the part of the union’s statement of policy which declares against strikes, others demanding that war funds be turned over to the coun- try's’ educational system, that the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) be passed, that the | teachers put up a fight against im- perialist war and fascism, that free lunches be given needy children, etc. The Hanson machine has mobil- ized to break this spirit of struggle. A long series of assorted A. F. of L. wheelhorses, Socialist Party bu- reaucrats, and politicians have been spouting long speeches about the “nobleness” of education, and care- fully avoided any discussion of the real problems that face the teach- ers today, including John Walker, the former leader of the Illinois United Mine Workers, now com- pletely exposed and repudiated by the miners as a corrupt agent of Lewis. Dr. Henry Linville, president of the union, made an attack on those who believe that the social order | needs changing and that the teach- ers should help to bring about the change by directing their instruc- tion in that direction. It is very clear that unless a de- termined rank and file fight for a} militant program is carried out, the leadership will prevent any action | that might lead the teachers in the direction of a real fight for better | conditions. i The real struggle in the conven- tion is expected to come when the resolutions are brought out of com- | mittee and discussion by delegates eicoee 98 STRIKES IN NEW ENGLAND BOSTON, (F.P.).—Since January 1st, 98 strikes, involving almost 59,000 workers, have takén place in New England, according to the New England Labor Research AS- sociation. 50,000 ON RELIEF IN DENVER DENVER, 'P.) . than | 50,000 Denver citizens, or 1-6 of the city’s population, are receiving relief, according to the Denver Re- lief and Welfare Bureau. CAMP NITGEDTIGET Announces Opening of JULY FIRST Under the direction of CHARLES ALEXANDER Two week courses. Indi READ AND STUDY and enjoy all the sports, entertainment, etc, $14 A WEEK Cars leave daily from 2700 Bronx Park Fridays and Saturdays 10 A.M., 3 How to Sell the Daily Worker Suggestions from readers on how to best sell the Daily Worker are urgently needed. These should cover street sales, house-to- house, factory and shop sales, subscriptions, routes, etc. We are preparing a booklet for the benefit of comrades and new Red Builders who are starting to sell during the current drive. booklet should contain the bes! experience. 50 East 13th Street Write us your ideas immediately. DAILY WORKER Department C Its Workers’ School vidual lectures, Free. East at 10:30 A.M. Special schedule and 7 P.M. EStabrook 8-1400. This methods available, proven by New York, N. Y. DANCING :-: Theatre and Train Fare FIVE Q=ZAms SMD JULY FOURTH Wednesday, 10 A. M. to Midnight Mass Singing Nerth Beach Picnic Park ASTORIA, L. I. Directions: I.R.T. or B.M.T. subways as well as Second Ave “L’ to Ditmars Ave., Astoria, L. 1.; thence buses to the park. Admission 25 Cents Ausploes: Communist Party, New York District GAMES :-: SPORTS Dance Performances Concerts CENTS from all Boroughs | men. ‘From Union Square DAILY WORKER, Hillsboro 9 , End Hunger | Strike In Jail | Heed Workers’ Appeal After Doctor Reports | Lives in Danger | (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, June 27.—Nine hun- ger strikers in the Montgomery | County Jail, Hillsboro, Ill, took food for the first time in six days Saturday, only after workers on the outside made the most emphatic | appeals to them to do so. Reports of a doctor sent by groups active in the defense of the | nine and their two comrades in ine | jail led to the urgent reovest of responsible workers and organiza- tions to the men to stop their strike. The doctor warned them that if the strike lasted past Friday the health of three of the strikers would be seriously endangered. The fight to win the demands of the prisoners for adequate food, | lower bail, etc., will be intensified on all sides. No report has been received here of a delegation from the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee which left for Hillsboro Saturday. | Urge Protest to Governor and Sheriff The International Labor Defense is requesting all individuals and or- ganizations to send protests to Gov- | ernor Horner in Springfield and Sheriff Seathoff in Hillsboro, | Farewell Meeting. Held for Banished Baltimore Seamen Leave for Other Ports) To Organize Jobless Marine Workers BALTIMORE, Md., June 26 (By Mail).—A farewell meeting by the Baltimore Waterfront Unemploy- ment Council to five members who were railroaded out of town by the “order of the court” was held last night at the Marine Workers In- dustrial Hall. The Secretary of the | Waterfront Unemployed Council, Walter Stack, and W. Howe, Ted Harris, Mack Guadalupe and Fred Stanley were ordered to leave the State of Maryland within 48 hours under penalty of a two-year sus- | pended sentence. For months the organized seamen in the port of Baltimore have been subjected to a vicious attack by the | police and the federal relief set-up, | which in spite of its intensity has proved ineffective in weakening our organization, The sentence was a culmination of the attack on the organization. The seamen who were framed up spoke at the meeting and in an- swer to Judge Stanton’s sentence declared their intentions of a stronger fight in other ports and al redoubling of their efforts in the) struggles of the unemployed sea- | They pledged themselves to jthe members of the Baltimore Waterfront Unemployment Coun- cil that they would go to the other ports to fight for the aims of the National Unemployed Council. N. Y. Vets to March To Indoor Rally Plan to Send Delegate To World Convention in Paris NEW YORK.—All veterans and supporters of the veterans are urged to rally at Union Square at 7 p.m. tonight for a short meeting from which there will be a march to the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. N. ¥.C The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League will launch their campaign for renewed fight for the bonus, re- peal of the Economy Act and the Struggle against war and fascism. The W. E. S. L. is sending a delegation of veterans to the 7th International Congress of the I. A. C. of which Henri Barbusse is chairman. It also plans to send disabled veterans to the Soviet Union as guests to récuperate for @ month. The main program of the Seventh Congress is the struggle against war and fascism and to defeat the at- tack against veteran pensions. The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League is a section of the International As- sociation of Veterans. Pete Cacchione, chairman of the City Committee of the W. E. S. L.! stated that the veterans must play | an important role in the struggle against war and fascism. Millions of rank and file veterans under the incluence of the bourgeois leadership of the American Legion, etc., are now being won over for the united struggle against war and fascism. The meeting on Thursday night will report on the activities of the W. E.-S. L. and the united front campaign of the veterans for united struggle with the rest of the work- ers and farmers against Wall Street and the Roosevelt policy. All veterans and their sympa- thizers are urged to attend the mass meeting. JUDGE “ILL” FOR SCANDAL TRIAL TOKIO, June 26.—The investiga- tion into the stock and financial scandal which had promised to reach higher than previous dis- closures which led to the arrest of Hideo Kuroda, Vice-Minister of finance, and for others, was indef- initely postponed today when it Hillsboro These workers face a ten-year jail sentence Seated from Carl Gerulla, John Holland, Frank Standing: because they demonstrated for relief. left to right: Prickett and Gordon Hutchins, Communist Leadership in Field Is Responsible for Drive Results [ARL BROWDER, Secretary of the Communist Party, in his report to the 8th National Convention said the Daily Worker circulation increase of the past year was “almost entirely the product of the spontaneous response to the improved contents of the paper and ONLY IN A SMALL DEGREE THE PLANNED, CONSCIOUS, SYSTEM- ATIC ACTIVITY OF THE PARTY!” It was in order to build up Daily circulation through the “planned, con- scious, systematic activity of the Party,” that the present drive to double the cir- culation of the Daily Worker was started. As a part of this drive the whole Party is now concentrating on getting 20,000 new readers in 2 months. In order to avoid a slow and ponderous start, in order that every district throw all forces into the campaign immedi- NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1934 11—Fighters for Unemployment Relief Lapshansk John Panscik, PRIZE BANNED FIGHT FOR BANNER. This is the banner which will be given to the District reaching the greatest percentage of its quota in the Daily Worker Circulation Drive for 20,000 new readers in two months. The banner is now in possession of District 10, Omaha, winner of the last drive. Reid, Victor Renner, , John Adams, Jan Wittenber, George Robin Staples and Frank “All Forces Into Drive”: Organization Dep't Districts, Sections and Units Must Waste No Time in Starting Action constitute an integral part of the whole work of the Party. District, Section and Unit Buros must consciously direct the efforts of the Party toward reaching, with the Daily Worker, workers engaged in mil- itant strike struggles, demonstrations, ete., toward bringing the paper to the attention of workers inside the shops and factories, especially in the concen- tration points. In the districts the leadership’ of the Party must be responsible for the drive. The District Bureau must not only lay the plans but check up on all activity and see that plans are ‘carried out. It is impossible to entrench the Party in the concentration points without building the “Daily.” This drive is not a drive to be dropped as soon as the ‘| bers, where reason rules.” He was the whole matter to one comrade, Party and Party leading committees ately, it is essential we should first and foremost | guard against the traditional practice of referring agent or to a small Daily Worker Committee. This drive must become the concern of the whole | finished. The a Daily Worker must ever keep (Signed) and must really Toledo F auniute, CopsAttackPickets furder of Auto Lite Strikers Fight Back (Snecial to the Daily Worker) TOLEDO, O., June 27.—Aided by police, fascist leaders of the Span- ish War Veterans Monday broke up a mass picket line established here before the Commodore Perry Hotel, where Gov. White was speaking. Pickets, organized by the Commu- nist Party and the International Labor Defense carried signs ex- posing Gov. White as the murderer of Hubay and Cygon, Auto Lite strikers. “Get Out and Stay Out of Toledo, Gov. White!” “We Don't Want Your Speeches or Bullets!” at Governor’s Hotel | Workers Protesting the Hart Baker to Defend Peoria Relief Workers (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, June 27. — Imme- jately following news received today that seventeen more workers had been arrested in the strike of relief workers in Peoria, Ill., the Chicago District of the International Labor Defense sent Hart Baker, noted at- torney, to the scene to defend the arrested strikers, who now total twenty. week, has been met with the most vicious police terror, but is still solid, according to incomplete re- ports received here today. “Workers, Vote Communist!” were ;some of the signs carried by pick- ets. The picketing kept up one hour, | as hundreds of workers, led by Sam Stein, District Organizer of the I. L. D., and Ken Eggert, Section Or- ganizer of the Communist Party, protested the presence of Gov White in this city. quotas are filled and the time scheduled for | The strike, which broke out last it Party members and functionaries vigilantly driving for a greatly in- creased Daily Worker circulation. Organization Commission, Central Committee, C. P., U. 8. A. Philly Horse Cops Ride Into Picket ‘Line at SKF Plant | Surround Factory for 5 Blocks; Compile “Red” List PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 27— The S. K. F. Ball Bearing Plant at | camp yesterday as a closely knit | blue-clad thug chain encircled the factory. Pickets were few and far between in comparison but kept to | their posts doggedly. A plan of sympathetic workers to join the picket line of the S. K. F. strikers seems to have leaked out. Beside the chain of cops surround- |ing the plant, mounted, foot and {motorcycle police were stationed at intervals for a distance of five blocks from the plant. |Front and Erie Sts. was an armed j Page Three ‘Steel, Metal Union (Continued from Page 1) destinies of the firm: try, but over in the indus- consumers of steél |transportation agencies and the economic welfare and destinies of entire working class communities. Under the N. R. A. the steel com- \ panies have been permitted to force | Some 85 per cent of their employees into company unio! Before the retreat of the A. A leadership at its special convention |in Pittsburgh, when strikes in the jindustry seemed probable, steel |Companies recruited private armies |through detective agencies in the jlarger cities, bought and stored | quantities of arms and ammunition, gas bombs etc. The steel companies | have never denied the numerous re- |Ports in the press that they were |fortifying their plants and prepar- ing what would have amounted to |civil war against the steel workers }and their sympathizers, their or- ganizations and their families. These preparations could not j have been carried out without the knowledge and consent of the city county and state governments anc | Assails Green Plan _ In Capital Hearing and Steel Institute, and other eme ployers’ organizations, with a pow erful propaganda weapon for use in discrediting not only the Ameri- can Federation of Labor and its affiliated unions like the A. A. but all genuine workers’ unions, and even the very idea of unionism, These acts on the part of these leaders have given a powerful ime petus to company unionism. Demands of Steel Workers But the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union realizes that the compromise Wagner Bill already is in force. We recognize that Presi« dent Green and Mike Tighe are here speaking ostensibly in the name of some thousands of organ- ized steel workers, whether they really represent their interests or not We come here, therefore, tomake Proposals which we believe will, if adopted and enforced, establish the right of workers to join unions of their own choice and to elect those who really represent them. We believe that our proposals, if opted and enforced, will enable se rights to be established in of the federal government. pite of the legal limitations im- The steel companies were per- by N. R. A, the steel code mitted to carry through elections of and revised Wagner Bill now their employes under complete signed by the President company supervision and control The regular A. A. Convention last They were permitted even to take so-called “strike votes”—an un- heard of proceeding even in the steel industry notorious for open-shop policy and suppression of all elementary political rights in its company towns and other com- munities which it dominates. Taken | as a whole these anti-labor activi- ties of the steel companies consti- | tute the open use of fascist methods against workers and their organ- izations, . . . i See N. R. A. has been used to lower the living standards of | the workers and to make worse con- ditions already almost unbearable. Where improvements have occurred | they have been won only through resolute struggle by workers and | their organizations and in the face | | of the most widespread organized use of force and suppression ever seen in this country. The strong | tendency for all important strikes | to develop toward general strikes in | the present period is proof that | Workers no longer depend on N. R. | A. and its clause 7-A to improve | their conditions, They are right. | But even the gains won by or- ganization and determined strikes are taken away through price in- creases and the general rise in the cost of living. On the other hand profits show an enormous increase. The N. R. A. itself, and all the subsequent decisions under it, such as the auto code, the auto settle- | ment of last winter, and now the | working out of the revised steel |code, etc, have only served to | | strengthen company unionism, while the efforts to workers to or- | ganize and better their conditions, have been met with mass arrests, | imprisonment, clubbing and shoot- | ing 4own of workers at the hands | of the various government agencies | and the varous employing concerns. | * « * 'HEREFORE, we have not come here to ask the government re-| sponsible for these conditions to| right the wrongs, injustices, the in-| dignities and the tyrannies under | which steel workers suffer. Neither | | do we have any faith that such| |leadership as that of President| Green of that of Mike Tighe of} the A. A. will be on the side of the | | workers in the inevitable and} | growing struggle between capital | and labor in the steel industry and | throughout this country. These! | leaders and others who are serving | on the strike-breaking and com-| pany union supporting N. R. A.| Boards and code authorities, have} not, do not and will not act in the | interests of the workers. Their | continual retreats and needless} compromises with the employers,) their clamor for high dues, their dropping of wage and hour de- mands, their continual attempts to strangle all expression of the rank and file, have furnished the steel companies in the American Iron | | | | Attacks N. R. A. Boards By NAT GANLEY DETROIT, Mich—The 150 dele- gates from 134 locals present at the first A. F. of L. National Auto Union outpouring of sleep-producing ora- tory in the morning and some fast railroading by the Collin’s machine in the afternoon and evening ses- sions on Saturday. The conference was held in the Fort Wayne Hotel June 23 and 24. In the afternoon session a motion by Delegate Mortimer, White Motor Co., Cleveland, that the conference elect a chairman was ruled out of order by Collins. Mortimer protested against this dictatorial, high-hand- ed procedure. The delegates tired of the ceaseless talk, demanded an evening session for action and voted for it against the wishes of Collins. William Green, misleader-in- chief, spoke for an hour during the afternoon session. “It is our job,” said Green, “to shift the settlement of disputes from the scenes of in- dustrial conflict to council cham- referring to the Washington “coun- cil chamtbers” which succeeded in stopping the general strike in the auto industry when conditions were most favorable for victory, which put over the Washington agreement ditching the wage demands and le- galizing and strengthening the com- pany unions. | % Detroit Ternstedt Local conference were deluged with an} they had in their hands a copy of an open letter issued by the Auto Workers Union and signed by J. Wilson, organizer, and Phil Ray- mond, secretary, This letter, after | heartily greeting the rank and file delegates, blasts the no-strike policy of the A. F. of L. officials. Fight N.R.A. Board In the evening Collins appointed a resolutions committee and the well-oiled bureaucratic machine started railroading through resolu- tions and stifling all discussion. When the machine tried to rush a j resolution calling for the establish- ‘ment of a special auto parts N.R.A. stedt local in Detroit took the floor, sharply denouncing all N.R. A. boards. The Ternstedt delegate took the floor again on the question of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, which was presented t( the conference by the Terzsted| local. But the delegate was gagged and the proposal of the Resolution: Committee for the Wagner Bill was railroaded through. Collins, in pre- venting the delegate from speaking for the Bill, shouted: “We want no Communist bills here!” Four Organization Policies On the question of the next or- ganization steps there were four resolutions before the conference: tinuing the present situation under which Collins has absolute power. Proposes the election of a national Executive Council of 11 members whose only power and function shall be “to advise and assist the na- A Fighting Open Leiter was learned that tha iudge was “ill.” tional representative of the A. F. board, a delegate from the Tern-| Collins’ resolution—Calls for con-) only when called together by Col- lins. The forming of an Interna- tional Union is not mentioned in this resolution. Arthur Greer, reactionary official of the Detroit Hudson local on a salary of $50 weekly, presented his own resolution. Greer Resolution—Proposes a na- tional council which shall appoint one of its members to conduct a central office of the council, (Col- lins’ proposal for an Executive Council provides that the man in charge shall be appointed by Wil- liam Green and not by the Council | itself.) Basically there is no differ- ence between the Collins and Greer proposals and it represents only a fight between the two for the con- trol of the job. The Greer resolu- tion leaves the question of an In- ternational or National Union open by providing that the Executive ~ .4acil shall work out “procedure and program” for its formation “at the earliest feasible time,” which can mean anything that the Na- tional Council wants it to mean. Resolutions for International Union—Resolutions of Locals from South Bend, Ind., and Fort Wayne, Ind., express sentiment for the for- mation of an International Union. But the South Bend resolution calls upon the Executive Board of the A. F. of L. to form this International —the same Executive Board officials who were responsible for destroying “the desired feeling of confidence among the automobile workers” which the resolution aims to revive. The South Bend and Fort Wayne proposals are abstract, make no provision for establishing a na- As the delezates listoned:to Green! of L.” (Collins.) This council to meet! tional industrial union controlled by Rank and File Auto Workers Battle A.F-.L. Leaders % Collins Machine Rules Out Rank and File Resolution the rank and file and basing itself on a policy of struggle against the employers, which is the only guar- of the auto workers. Resolution of the Rank and File— This resolution was presented and agreed to by a group of 25 dele- Cleveland, Terrytown, South Bend, | Flint, Kenosha and Detroit. This resolution proposes: 1—An indus- trial union uniting all crafts and all present unions in the auto in- dustry (except company unions); 2—It provides for rank and file con- trol of the union; 3—It specifically excludes from the organizing com- mittee of such an industrial union “foremen, superintendents or offi- cials at present on full time salary basis.” 4—It clearly lays down the purpose of the union to be a deter- mined struggle against the employ- ers and company unions. Bar Workers’ Resolution These questions are coming up for consideration in the Sunday Session. The Collins machine has already ruled that the rank and file resolution for an industrial rank and file union will not be entertained be- cause it was not presented on Fri- day before the conference opened. The bureaucratic rules governing the conference were never adopted by the delegates, but are being shoved down their throats by the Collins machine. its! antee that it will serve the welfare) gates of the conference coming from} April adopted a set of demands ta be presented to the steel companies, | These demands were: a) Six-hour day, five-@ay week. b) One dollar an hour mini- mum wage. c) Skilled and semi-skilled trades and occupations to receive | increased wage in proportion. d) Abolition of differential be- tween North and South. e) Equal rights for Negro work- ers. f) Recognition of the union, and the recognition of mill and department committees to adjust grievances. sg) Adoption of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598, now before Congress. h) Abolition of the speed-up. In the interests of unity of alt | Steel workers the S.M. W.I.U. ap- {proved these demands and pre- |sented them to the companies | where it has members employed. | The American Iron and Steel In- | stitute and the various companies |to which the demands were pre- | Sented, refused to grant all or any jof them or eyen to negotiate with | A. A. or S.M-W.LU. representatives, |The proposal made by President Green leaves out completely the economic demands and raises only the issue of “collective bargaining.” Therefore, it cannot solve the im- mediate needs of the workers in the steel industry even were it adopted in full by all the steel com- panies. The Green proposal con- tains four points. They are: a) To receive complaints and investigate and adjust on the ba- sis of such complaints any viola- tion of the labor provisions of the code for the iron and steel industry. b) To mediate and conciliate in any dispute arising between em- ployers and employees under said code and to undertake to arrange for a conference for collective bargaining with any employer when so requested by representa- tives of employees selected under Section 7-a of the National Re« covery Act. c) To offer their services as ar bitrators in any labor dispute be- tween employes and employers under said code, provided such dispute is voluntarily submitted for arbitration by both such par- ties. j d) To hear and determine im- mediately any matter of discrimi- nation against or discharge of any employee in violation of Sec- tion 7-a of the National Recovery Act. Same as Steel Trust Proposals With the exception of the point dealing with majority rule, the Green proposals are substantially the same made by the American Iron and Steel Institute and ap- proved by Genéral Johnson. In ad- dition, both of these proposals are substantially the same as the sub- stitute for the Wagner Bill, passed by Congress and already signed by the President. None of these pro- posals contain guarantees for the free expression by workers. They do not contain real guarantees even for “collective bargaining.” They do not contain guarantees against dis- crimination against workers who voice opinions and vote against company unions. They do not con- tain any provisions for stopping are | bitrary discharge and blacklisting. Consequently, elections held une der the measures proposed by Green, or any of the other propos- als, would be held under the existe ing conditions of suppression, dis- crimination and terror in the plants and mills, in the company towns and the communities dominated by |the steel companies. These elec tions could not be free elections. These contentions are upheld by the recent elections and the fantas- tic results of these elections as ans nounced by the steel companies, Only in Hitler's Germany and Fas- cist Italy is such unanimity of opinion expressed. The Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union is convinced that the problems of the stecl workers will not be solved in Washington through the Green proposals or by any other of the proposals from official sources. Only the organized strength of the steel workers and the use of the strike weapon when necessary can secure from the steel compa- nies the economic demands and recognition of the unions chosen’ by the workers. Our union will, continue to organize steel work- ers, will continue tto work for unity of all steel workers, of those in our union, of those in the A. A. and the unorganized steel work- ers, for the purpose of and enforcing the 7-point gram of demands and union rec- ognition, ;