The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 7, 1934, Page 3

oe) DAILY WORKER, NEW YOR K, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1934 Page Three Phila. Painters|Six Negro Churches Rank and File Gains in Vote Cigar Strikers Answer “Red Scare” Disrup- tion of AFL Head PHILADELPHIA, ?a., Despite every effort on the part of the reactionary A. F. of L. officials, headed by the Lovestonite Krame-, secretary of Local 306 of the Paint- ers Brotherhood, the’opposition suc- ceeded in electing three of its can- didates to the executive committee and a delegate each to the District Council and the United Hebrew Trades. The worke:s forced the Lovestonite officials to concede a tie vote and another election for president, after the fakers had done everything possible to rob the op- position candidate of the election. Sc iguct ee Royalist Cigar Strikers In Mass Picketing PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 6.— Raising shouts of “Communists,” Lew Hines, A. F. of L. organizer, tried to disrupt the strike at the Royalist Cigar Co. here. The strike is led by the Tobacco Workérs In- dustrial Union, a T. U. U. L. affi- liate. Hines tried to gather a group of strikers about his sell-out schemes with the assertion that the company would never deal with a Communsit union. The strike committee promptly exposed Hines and de- clared that it was ready to nego- tiate with the company at any time. Mass picketing is continuing at the plant with strike sentiment spread- ing to other factories throughout the city. Nae Saar 5,000 Cigar Workers Locked Out in York, Pa. (By a Worker Correspondent) YORK, Pa., July 6—Over 5,000 workers have been thrown out of work here in the cigar factories by an agreement of the York County Cigar Manufacturers’ Association to shut down pending decision on whether or not to operate accord- ing to the cigar manufacturers code, Another 8,000 workers are also faced with a lockout as the Association meets to decide its course of action. The manufacturers are waging a bitter fight against the closed shop, | home | by reports from Columbia, 8. c.,| | Mark LL.D. Birthday | In South Carolina City NEW YORK.—What the unified struggle of Negro and white work- | evs for the freedom of Angelo Hern- | don and the Scottsboro boys means to the oppressed south is driven in intensely human terms | that six Negro churches of that July 6 —/ city held celebrations of the ninth) anniversary of the International | | and filers, Labor Defense. The six churches, having a total membership of more than 700 per- sons, are the Emmanuel A.ME.; Chapel A.M.E.; Stoney Chapel A. ME.; Second AM.E.; the Jehovah Baptist, and the Church of St. John the Baptist. The local unit of the Communist Party and the local I. L. D. branch helped arrange the celebration which was conducted solely by local speakers. The Daily Worker is America’s only working-class daily news- paper. It fights for the interests of the working class. A subscrip- tion for one month daily or six months of the Saturday edition costs only 75 cents. Send your sub today. Address, Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St, New York City. stating, according to the “York Dispatch,” that “they will close down rather than discriminate against any workman by adopting the closed shop principle of oper- ation.” A total of 18,000 workers were formerly employed in the cigar shops of York County. This num- ber was cut by 5,000 by the de- pression, with complete lockout now threatening all others. Wages are now as low as $ a week. The manufacturers, despite the hypo- critical statement of the “York Dispatch’ that “the majority are of the opinion that they would like to see the plants close down be- cause of the hardships imposed upon the homes,” haye been paying the workers starvation wages. The cigar workers are organized extensively, with the largest union in the country, No. 242, in York County. Union leaders, denied a conference with the York County Cigar Manufacturers’ Association it- self, are now demanding a meeting of representatives of the union and the bosses, to discuss a pro- posed schedule of prices. WHAT’S ON Saturday Manhattan ENTERTAINMENT and Concert, benefit for N. ¥. Comm. to Aid Victims of Ger- man~Fascism. Anti-Nazi Federation, 168 W, 23rd St., 8:30 p. m. Refreshments, good program. N. Tallentire, speaker. Subscription at door 35 cents, AIR MOVIES (Russian) and Dance at/Potamkin Children’s Center, 311 E. lath St. 8 p. m. Auspices: Unit 7 Section 1. Indoors if it rai MOVIES (Potamkin) and Dance at Irish Workers Club, 107 W. 100th St., 8:30 p. m. Auspices: Lean Mellows Br. Irish Workers club. HOUSE PARTY given by Y. ©. L. Unit 6, Section 1, 223 Second Ave. Apt. 6K. 8:30 p. m. Refreshments—entertainment. Admission free. Bronx “UUS ILM“ (Estonian weekly) 25th An- niversary Picnic and Dance at Pleasant Bay Park. 4 p. m. till midnight. I. Amter, main speak Concert—games—sports. Admission 25c. EMONADE PARTY and Dance at 1401 Jereme Ave. cor. 170th St., 9 p.m. Very cool. Admission 15 cents. Auspices: Mt. Eden Youth Br. F. 8. U. BIG BLOWOUT—all the iced tea you Want at 1641 Clay Ave. near 173rd &. Apt. 1G. Auspices: Unit 505. Adm. 5c. Brooklyn CONCERT AND DANCE at Brighton ADVERTISEMENT Camp Unity Overcrowded The management wishes to announce that there is no room for any more visitors until after Sunday, July 9th. The manage- ment suggests that the remain- ing accommodations at Camp Nitgedaiget and Camp Kinder- land be taken advantage of in- stead. LOUIS PASTERNACK, Manager, Camp Unity. TODAY’S PROGRAM in the Open Air Theatre @ Bunin’s Puppets @ Jacob Burke chalk talk x @ Hans Eisler Trio @ Campers Chorus of 50, Alex Solomen, Director. @ Full Sports Program You May Register After th Weekend. “i ALgonquin 4-1148. Camp Supplies Sold at City Prices <a ZO vEPO All Accomodations Are Now Occupied Center, off Brighton Station. Workers Lab. Theatre in “News Boy.” Nadia Chil- kovsky and her dance group. Dancing after the concert. Admission 30 cents. Arranged by Artef Club. Sunday EXHIBIT end Short Talk on Soviet Art. Lemonade free. cor. 170th St., Auspices: Mt. ‘lan Work- ers Club at Brighton Beach and 5th St. ll a. m. Good program and discussion. Refreshments. Look for our sign. GALA SUMMER Frolic, Dance and En- tertainment. Red Mock Marriage, Jaaz Band. New Culture Club, 2345 Coney Island Ave. between Avenues T and U. 8:30 p. m. OPEN FORUM, Bronze Studio, 227 Lenox Ave., 3nd floor. Nathaniel Solomon speaks on “Bloody Fascism in Germany and Its Repercussions in U. S. A." Auspices: Peter Poyas Br. L. 8. N. R. 4 p. m. GEO. LEWIS lectures on “Significance of Recent Events in Germany.” New Cul- ture Club, 2345 Coney Island Ave. 8:30 Pp. m, PICNIC and outing given by Unit 11, Section 2 ©. P. from noon till, midnight at Van Cortlandt Park. Jerome Ave. train to Woodlawn Station, Philadelphia, Pa. GRAND ANNUAL PICNIC. Auspices Sec- tion 5 ©. P. on Sunday, July 8th at Bur- holme Park. Good program. Direction. Take car 50 going north. KRAUS & SONS, Inc. Mannfacturers of Badges-Banners-Buttons For Workers Clubs’ and Organizations 157 DELANCEY STREET ‘felephone: DRydock 4-8275-8276 PANTS TO MATCH Your Coat and Vest Paramount Pants Co., Ine. 693 Broadway SP 17-2659 WE MATCH ALL SHADES AND PATTERNS For Meetings, Dances, Banquets, Conventions, Ets. ‘STUYVESANT CASINO 140-142 2nd Av. Near 9th St. Catering for All Occasions CHICAGO, ILL. 20-50% discount SALE —On—,_ BOOKS PAMPHLETS PERIODICALS Beginning July 7th WORKERS BOOK SHOP 2019 Division Street RELIABLE COACH LINES Direct Express — All Seats Reserved — New Modern Busses Monticello ¢ Liberty Swan Lake | Fallsburg Loch Sheldrake White Lake be Sut ttn ss es 2 ee toe s35 One Way Round Trip One Way Round Trip One Way Round Trip Daily at 9 A.M., 11:30 A.M., 1:30 P.M., 3 P.M., 6 P.M. FRIDAY SPECIAL TRIP AT 8 P. M. Busses Leave Our Only Terminal UNITED BUS DEPOT 208 West 43d Street, Between 7th and 8th Aves. Telephone WISCONSIN 7-5277 | the | The Fighting [Facing Jail, Mother Bloor Celebrates|x ‘72nd Birthday in Front Battle Line | Vet | By H. E. BRIGGS |TO THE RANK AND FILE OF THE AMERICAN LEGION | POMRADES: Your civilian broth- | ers on the West Coast are, at ing class rights. You are being ap- pealed to by misleaders in indus- try and your own organization to act as strikebreakers. We, rank know from past ex- perience that it is not to our in- own class. Since we are workers who, too, may be unemployed from day to day and would not like scabs and strikebreakers to interfere with our fight for bet- ter conditions, it is time that we act for ourselves. Legion com- manders and big business men may have a lot in common. How- ever, they have nothing in com- mon with the rank and fine. The West Coast dock strike is one of the most heroic battles for the preservation of those things which every worker holds dear—the right to strike, organize and a decent living standard. Refuse to be used against your fellow-workers! Legion give more time and interest them- selves in the demand for the Bonus, repeal of the Economy Act would have no time to devote to strike-breaking.* You members of the Legion, who are walking the street, hungry and broke, would not be in this condition if you had the Bonus in your pocket, your compensation restored and Unemployment Insurance. Your comrades in Minneapolis made a proud record for them- selves when they refused to be used by the local business men as scabs amd special policemen, In this case, many of the strikers were Legion men. The same sit- West Coast. It is up to the rank and file of the American Legion, North, South, East and West, to realize that these days are deci- sive ones in the fight for decent living standards. It is up to the Legicnnaires and all ex-service- men to ally themselves with the fellow next door in one rank and file movement for better condi- tions not only in veteran affairs, but in the interest of the working class as a whole. . SALEM, Ore.—A letter recently received from S. B. Dodge, Post No, 73, W.ES.L., shows that it is possible to appeal to the local Le- gionnaires and have them join a militant rank and file organiza- tion such as the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League. Salem is do- ing big things, winning publicity in the cap papers and co-operat- ‘| ing in the local struggles. There is a sad note from Post No. 73 in the death of Comrade S. B. Dodge's mother. She was a This is the second and conclud- ing part of an interview with Al Murphy, secretary of the Share- croppers Union in the Balck Belt. The first installment, which ap- peared yesterday, described the deliberate attack on the Negro sharecroppers by the Roosevelt- A.A.A.-plow-under program, ie oo T the very outset the plow-under program began to develop a series of minor struggles among the sharecroppers, guided by the mili- tant Sharecroppers Union. There were protests of all kinds, both against the landlords and against the N.R.A. government. These were largely carried through on indivi- dual and family scales. Larger, mass actions would have spelled disaster and the loosing of landlord-Ku- Klux terror. In many cases the sharecroppers refused to sign the joint checks sent to the landlord by the government unless they were guaranteed their complete share. They had learned through bitter experience not to take the landlord’s word, and so they demanded their share in cash, immediately, before they consented to sign the check. Boycott Plantations The poor farmers and day labor- ers used another means of protest against the whole N.R.A. govern- ment-landlord line-up against them by boycotting certain plantations which were outstandingly vicious in their treatment of tenants and share-croppers. The boycot: of one plantation in Chambers County in 1933 resulted in the arrest of 11 share-croppers. The same struggle continues at the present time in Lee County. The conditions against which the struggle is being waged here are such that evicted croppers are of- fered 30 to 50 cents a day, working from sun-up to sun-down by the landlords, who fire regular day la- borers in order to recruit almost coolie-labor from among the ranks of the evicted croppers. Right now there is a boycott against one plan- tation in this coun‘y, which began when a big landlord fired his day laborers in order to get croppers at a starvation wage. He succeeded in getting only two men—both young sons of share-croppers. But a mem- ber of the union went to see and speak to these young men. After a short talk during which he explain- ed the struggles of the shore-crop- pers to them, he persuaded them to leave their mules and plows right on the field, and quit their jobs. “We expect big struggles next winter on all these issues,” Murphy said. “Especially as these smaller struggles gain momen‘um. There will be,” -he repeated, “big struggles egainst the landlords and the gov- ernment.” | Strugzles for Relief In relief work Murphy also de- scribed the rising militancy of the croppers. He described how “one cropper went to ask for relief and ~as pushed around by the local this time, fighting for their work- | terest to go against those in our/ It} commanders would} and Unemployment Insurance they | uation faces your comrades on the | 45 Yearsin Front Ranks of Historic Class Struggles By MILTON HOWARD Mother Bloor is 72 today. | And characterilstically jenough, she celebrates her |birthday (if she gives it a thought at all) in the midst of battle. “Mother,” as she is known |to thousands upon thousands of ing a jail sentence of six months for aiding the strike of the chicken pickers in Loup City. é They talk of the “ancient heroes of ancient battles.” But the world has never seen th steadfastness and heroism which is born in the world fight for the liberation of ism. The world has never seen such unflinching, unfaltering devotion as marks the heroes of the proletariat. | Mother Bloor is a Bolshevik. There is no higher honor in the world. It is the title of a tested fighter in the revolution who has seen more than 45 years of battle. life-long fighter for the working class of Oregon. It is such mothers who set examples for Jong be remembered when the final day comes as pioneers in the struggle for a New Order. The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, through its staff in the National Office, sends condolences. ig iar Important Open-Air Meeting On Sunday evening, July 8, at 8 o'clock, an open air meeting will be called by the National Office of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League. A full report on the lat- est developments in the veteran fleld will be made. Comrade Levin, National Chairman, will speak on the latest activities of the W. E. S. L. the IA.C. Seventh Inter- national Congress. Comrades Hickerson and Wholley will report on the rank and file activities in Washington. Comrade Gorren of the Tom Mooney Branch of the ILD., will speak on the role of the Supporters of the W.E.S.L. This will be the first of a series of open-air meetings under the auspices of the National Office to be held twice a month. New de- velopments will be taken up on each occasion. Keep abreast of the veteran movement. Attend this meeting, It promises to be most interesting. Yours truly is sched- uled. for chairman. Now, you've got to come. By EDWI to try to evade responsibility for | issuing relief. He continued ta de- | mand it, but was again refused. Finally he told the woman in the relief office that if he received nothing he would follow her home and park on her front porch until he got adequate relief. He knew that the officials were taking the foodstuffs and other materials meant for relief of the hungry and jobless home for themselves. After this, the office was forced to give him relief to get rid of him and his persistent demands.” Relief struggles are carried on by committees—groups of widows and women with children. Sometimes family committees—whole families of share-croppers, often numbering 10 or 12—go to relief offices to de- mand their due. Individuals and committees send resolutions, pro- tests, etc., to local and national re- lief bodies. “Such actions,” Murphy declared, “are being organized over wider and wider areas all over the Black Belt.” Fighting Evictions. The struggle against evictions, which is also mounting, will take the same forms, that they took last year in Chambers County, accord- ing to Murphy. The demand for the right of sharecroppers to re- main on the land without being forced to work it out for the bosses will be stressed. The AAA contract points out that insofar as he may remain on the land, rent free, the sharecropper will have free access to wood, fuel, pasturage and gar- den in exchange for his labor. There is a phrase in this contract, however, which states that these conditions will prevail “unless ten- ant or sharecropper so conducts himself that he becomes a nuisance or menace to the producer” (land- lord). This shows clearly, Murphy em- phasized, that AAA—or the government—gives the landlords a loophole through which they may slide out of their legal responsibili- ties, and gives them a chance to evict the cropper and to cut him off from relief, forcing him to work for nothing. Direct Attack on Union. “Roosevelt and the Nationcl Re- covery Administration,” said Mur- |phy, “knew very well that there ;Wwas a Sharecroppers’ Union in the South. To them, as to the south- ern landlords, every member of the union is a ‘nuisance’ or a ‘menace.’ Therefore this direct attack on the Sharecroppers’ Union and particu- larly on the Negro tenants. “The whole Roosevelt New Deal has now come to a showdown. The farming masses can see very well now that it is a New Deal for the bankers and landlords; that it has not brouzht prosperity to the far- mors, but wors2 conditiens, worc> than they have ever seen or lived through before. They find that they are not able to work except under miserable conditions, almost under primitive methods. The en- tire New Deal, as it affects the tn- workers and farmers throughout | the land, is now in Nebraska fac- | society from the chains of capital-| as And yet today, after nearly a} their sons and daughters who will | MOTHER BLOOR half century of incessant activity, to look into the face of Mother Bloor is to see the radiance of an unquenchable vitality which is the symbol of the vitality of the symbol of whom she is flesh and blood. Stalin has spoken of Bolsheviks “made of special mold . . . sons of the working class, sons of pov- erty and struggle, sons of incredi- ble deprivation ani heroic effort.” Mother Bloor is like that. There is not a corner of this vast Amer- ica that she does not know, where she has not lived and fought. The degenerate writers of the bourgeoisie like to depict revolu- tionaries as twisted, thwarted, peculiar people with some fixed maniacal ideas. But “Mother” is as wholesome, as earthy-rich, as vital as the in- exhaustable life of the masses from whom she draws _ her children, of whom six are alive. She is intensely proud of them, for they too are part of the revolution. But, really, she has thousands of children, for to her the young} fighters of the proletariat all over the country are to her “my boys.” That is how she always talks of them. And it is impossible to de- scribe how warm around the heart it makes you feel when you hear her. “Born on Staten Island in 1862, she was 17 when she took her place in the fight for liberation. Since then she has been in the front ranks of the working class. She was a member of the Socialist Labor Party in the days when Daniel De Leon was leading it. She knew De Leon well. When the split came and the Socialist Party was formed, she| became a leading member of: the Socialist Party, where she met Debs who was to become a close friend. One of her sons tells of how Debs used to visit the house- hold often, and of the picture upon which Debs inscribed: “To a true champion of the working class.” * * * IT WAS inevitable when the war revealed the rottenness of the Socialist Party that Mother Bloor should seize the banner of Lenin authorities. The relief heads began; and raise it aloft. She became one Alabama Sharecroppers Fight Onslaughts of NRA | N ROLFE ant farmers and sharecroppers in) carried on a campaign for the re-| the south, is an attempt to further | lease of the 11 workers jailed in the enslave the farming masses, partic- ularly the Negroes. How the AAA Works Out. “In big counties where the Ne- groes constitute the overwhelming majority of the population, the most persistent efforts are made to establish the ‘subsistence’ farm pro- gram. This is supposed to give the evicted tenants land on which to work and to raise foodstuffs. These tenants are supposed to be given live stock, some food and some seed. But the head of the share- cropper’s family is forced to sign a contract for whatever the landlord demands or wants, and for the amount of wages that the landlord sees fit to pay. He must agree in this contract to sell all foodstuffs, all of his surplus crop, at a pre- determined price to the landlord. Then the landlord fixes the lowest Possible price, ever before the crop- per begins working on the land— yes, even before he knows what jJand, or how much of it, he is to work on. As a result the cropper must raise an enormous crop, sell it to the landlord at a miserably low price, and the landlord re-sells it at the prevailing high prices to city workers.” Steers Instead of Mules. When the tenant farmer is given @ parcel of land to work on, he gets a steer instead of a mule to work with in plowing and other farm work, The reason for this is obvi- ous. A landlord must spend $10 a month to maintain a mule, whereas only $1.30 a month is needed to maintain a steer, which is a hun- dred times more difficult, more back-breaking, to work with. In past years farmers used to pay $4 a bale for ginning cotton, which included bagging and ties. Now they are forced to pay $5.25 per bale, plus bagging and ties—which generally adds up to $6 per bale. oe 6,000 Now in Sharecroppers Union Ae these struggles have done much to increase and strengthen the Sharecroppers Union, which to- dey has a membership cf somewhat iore than 6,000. Of this total, approximately 2,500 to 3,000 were reccuited irom July 10, 1933 up to Avril, 1954, Sinco thea there has been a continuous increase of mem- bers, particularly under the repeated attacks of the New Deal and the A.A.A, The sharecroppers are rally- ing under the leadership of the union to prepare for coming con- flicts. And the fact that the union is preparing for these struggles has not escaped the notice either of the landlords or the government. How have thes: many struggles affected the white workers of the South? This is a question which Comraje Murphy wwered in speaking of the I-bor defense aci:v- ities of the union. Winning over While Toillers “Recently,” he said, “with the support of the International Labor Defense, the Sharecroppers Union Arrested, Jailed Count- - less Times; One of C. P. Founders of the founders of the American Commun Party, a founder of that Bolshevik Party which has the historic task of storming the out- post of world imperialism, Wz Street. She is a member of the Party’s Central Committee, the committee that steers the Ameri- can working cla toward the seizure of power. She has been innum- erable times and the in- sides of countless j: took part in some of the greatest bat- tles of the class struggle, in the Anaconda Copp strike where about 5 children were burned to death. To the miners she is a symbol. They have known and loved her | for more than a quarter of a cen-| tury. She has lived in the mining towns, organized strikes, fought for them in countless battles. In the old days, Mother Bloor was the only woman member of the United Mine Workers of America, elected as an honoary member by the miners who honored and adored her. Recently in Ambridge, Pa., she broke through the ring of ter- ror and spoke to the miners while thugs pressed their revolvers into her back. In the greatest battles of the working class she has fought} valiantly, in Herrin, Illinois, in Gastonia, in the Sacco-V anzetti | case, in Scottsboro. On. the night of the Sacco-Vanzetti was jailed in Boston for raising | her voice in prophecy of the in- evitable retribution by the tionary masses. During the World War, when the terrorism of the ruling class | was raging in unres violence, Mother Bloor openly in many cities against the | imperialist war, braving arrest and| Daily Worker readers in the next} brutality. . * | ODAY Mother Bloor moves| through the farm country,| rousing the impoverished farmers | to the defense of their homes from | the teeth of the capitalist finance sharks. She is out on bail, pend- ing the appeal of a six months’| sentence for “rioting.” Her blue eyes, warm, filled with | humor, are still bright. She is as restless, as energetic as ever. Nothing can stop her as she rains | blows upon the only thing she hates, the hideousness and misery of life under the yoke. of capital-} ist wage slavery. There is one birthday present she would like “her boys” to give her above’all things. She would like to be the first to open the first Congress of American Soviets. We ought to grant her that. Certainly no one is more deserv- ing of the honor. Chambers County plantation boy- cott last December. A complete vic-| tory was won, and ten of the 11 were released. The eleventh had) died in jail, as a result of prison conditions, rotten food, etc. It is extremely significant that they were | let out without working out $300 more of time. It testifies to the vigor and strength of our campaign and our union and to the fact that there is a growing sympathy on the part of white farmers to the union, such as has never before been seen in the south. “The white farmers are beginning to see that the Sharecroppers Union is fighting for their interests, and not, as the landlords have told them, against them. In Talapoosa County recently, when a white worker was arrested on a concocted charge of arson, the Sharecroppers Union started a campaign ior his defens2 which was poweriul enough to force his release without charges. Bosses Fear Sympathy of Whites “The fear of the landlords at this growing sympathy of the white farmers to the union was mani- fested in a recent killing of a white farmer in Talapoosa Couty. This} farmer was a sympathizer of the | union, a man who had on a num- ber of occasions voiced the senti- mets of the Negro croppers for bet- | ter working conditions and equal rights. His murder followed a reign of terror released against the Negro croppers by the K. K. K. landlords and the high sheriff, under the di- rection of local federal agents, in the attempt to round up a white or- ganizer of the union. This terro> developed after their failure to shoo” him from ambush after they hac hid im bushes all night awaiting the chance to kill him. But a white! farmer, sympathetic to the Negro croppers, informed the union, and) the white organizer was warned in} time and saved. This so enraged the | sheriff and the landlords that they | immediately instituted a campaign of terror, searching the homes of Negroes, tearing many down, burst- ing secret lockers, searching for the white organizer and for working class literature. The Negroes. led by the Sharecroppers Union, immed'- ately protested these actions, send- ing a resolution to the sheriff in which they challenged his and the landlords’ right to flagrantly violate the privacy of their homes, to seare'1 | tnem without warrant.” | In these, as well as in a hundred other small ways, many of them unnoticed in the daily grind of strengthening the position of the| sharecroppers in the South, the union is su ably growing. dcuntless Isader. | in cceunied nisht and day struggles which have re- | sulted in the union’s present mem- | bership of 6,000, and in the struggles which loom as autumn and winter approach. Sell ‘Daily’ at ilitant Negro Worker In Philadelphia Dies PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Anderson Wiggins, Cliff Fames Branc tional Labor a result of June 6- founder of the defens g class one of the first Negroes unemployment council He joined the Commu Party in 1931. His last wish was a red funeral with a hammer and sickle to drape his coffin. The Communist Party of Phila- delphia will cazry out the wish to- gether with the uw nd the I. L. D. Steel Plants In Cleveland One Activity in Drive Is Information Leaflets IN steel have been reared some of the greatest and most wanton fortunes, the most murderous names, in American history—Andrew Car- negie and Frick, Morgan the Mali- gnant, Gary the hypocrite—the blood of strikers on their hands! The New Deal arbitration board is to drown the protests of workers with pious phrasings. It is the mil- next imperialist war. The Cleveland District has drawn plied it to the drive for 20,000 new two months. Sold Before 5 Plants In Cleveland it now stands before five plants—The Corrigan McKinley Steel, the Midland Steel, American Steel and Wire and the Davy Steel, and the Fisher Body. We have daily sales there, writes Comrade Martin, the District Daily Worker agent. Cleveland is one of the strategic points in the drive. It now has six daily routes and about 25 Saturday routes but these must be increased. It must have Red Builders, and a call is being sent out for more un- employed party members, sym- pathizers and all those who want to make expenses to join the ranks. “Just when we had the sell-out all arranged!” “Besides the public square, where we now sell about 75 copies daily, and 100 on Saturdays, we are build- ing 4 new corners,” continues Com- rade Martin. “There are now 18 stands in the | city where the Daily Worker can be bought. “When a unit gets some new stands, they issue a Daily Worker leaflet with sample copies of the Daily, in the neighborhood, so that the workers in the neighbor- hood will know that their grocer or candy store carries the Daily. “The name of all stands in the city are then put on one leaflet, and distributed with sample copies of the Daily Worker at key shops. This will enable those workers who hesi- tate buying the Daily at the shop, to get it in the neighborhood where they live.” The last two items ought to be considered in every district. Ore Strikers Lose Demands In Settlement AFL Leaders Bargained Off Demands; Writers Probe Terror By SYD BENSON (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. July 6— Two thousand five hundred ore miners of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. and R. R. Corp. (T. C. I) have gone back to wo:k with a selle out agreemnt made by the union efficials The strong strike, on since May 4, forced som2 concessions in the way of wage increases of from three to five cents an hour for all skilled work. Ninety per cent of the worke ers are skilled in some capacity or other. Demands Bargained Away The basic demands of the miners were: (1) Recognition of the Inter- national Union of Mill, Mine and Smelter Workers; (2). $4.60 daily basic wage for a T-hour day. Against the wage differential; (3) for one collective agreemnt cover- ing the whole ore field; (4) equal rights fo> Negroes. These demands were bargained away by Lipscomb and company, leaving the main grievances unset- tled, and conditions as bed as ever. Tre strikers of the Raimund mine of the Republic Steel Corp. and the ore miners of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel Co., and the Woodward Iron Co. have not as yet agreed to the | settlement. Many T. C. I. miners, as well as | moving swiftly on the strikes in the} those still out, are very much dis- case, she| steel industry, ever to break them, | Satisfied over the agreemnt, and the | Party is issuing a statement for the miners to reject the agreement and revolu- | lions in steel that our best profiteers| push forward on a rank and file jfondly think of as they plan the| basis for the basic demands. We | are demanding one collective agree- | ment, and are calling on the T. C. I. ained mob|a lesson from this present situation | miners to consider going on strike spoke|in the steel industry and has ap-| until this has been | reached. Mass Layoffs in T. C. I. The Enby Rail Mill, the Ensby Blast Furnaces, and the Ensby Open Hearth Furnaces of the T. C. I. wilt be shut down July 16 for a period |of several months. These plants employ some 2,300 workers at pres- ent, who will be thrown out on the | miserable “pity slips” of the T. C. L, which are extracted by the corpo- ration when the workers are re- |employed, or else thrown on the | grocery relief of the local Welfare | Board. | This mass layoff comes at the | same time as a campaign conducted by the corporation against the |Communist Party, against the | Amalgamated Association of Iron, | Steel and Tin Workers and for the |company union. The T. C. I. has issued petitions to the workers, ask- ing them to endorse the corporation “which had taken care of them | while they were unemployed.” As |one worker put it, “they give us ‘pity slips,’ but I’d rather get the | Welfare grocery relief. At least they give it to you, while the company sucks it back when you go back jin the plant.” The delegation of liberal writers | and intellectuals have arrived in the | South and plans are set for them |to investigate the terror, especially lin Birmingham and Atlanta. The delegation, mohijized by the Na- | tional Committee for Defense of | Political Prisoners, is headed by the well-known playwright, John How- ard Lawson. Lawson, who was arrested in Birmingham last May while report- ing the trial of arrested Commu- | nist leaders, commented on the fact | that his arrest was within 100 yards |of where a half dozen of his books | were on display in the Public Li- | brary. | He announced the delegation | would investigate charges made by the LL.D. that workers were ar- rested, homes raided, offices broken up, meetings smashed by the police with the help of the local fascist groups, both in Birmingham and Atlanta. In addition they visited Angel¢é Herndon and requested lower bail They will visit the Scottsboro boys and find out why they are still kept in solitary confinement, and why young Roy Wright was removed td Kilby Prisom, where the condemned boys are, instead of remaining with those yet untried. 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