The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1934, Page 3

Delegates of Ill | Plan Hun ger March,| DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1934 Page Three InOL On the Demand Union Pay Strike Front And Social Insurance Unity on Program of Struggle Achieved By Representatives of Widely Varied Groups In State Conference SPRINGFIELD, Ill., July 28. — Illinois unemployed | workers closed their united front conference here yesterday taking the first steps in welding together the different un- employed organizations into a solid front against the pauper standards of relief existing in the state today. One hundred and forty-one delegates representing 112 organizations with a membership of © ree = 26,509 agreed with almost complete unanimity on a program of joint action for unemployment insurance, relief jobs on a 30-hour week basis at trade union wages, and one uni- form, adequate relief budget for the entire state. Delegates represented the Unem- ployment Councils, the Communist Party, the Illinois Workers Alliance, six locals of the Progressive Miners America, four loeals of the P. A. Women’s Auxiliary, youth groups, and a number of fraternal organizations. Pian State Hunger March A committee of 12 was elected to take the adopted program of action to the convention of the Illinois Workers Alliance which will be held this month, to force the leadership | to join in the fight or to win the rank and file for joint action. The program calls for united local, county and state action, in- cluding a state hunger march on Springfield in October. Delegations will be sent to government officials to get endorsement of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598). Strikes and demonstra- tions against the present forced labor work relief will be carried out, the conference voting to carry on a struggle for a 30-hour week at union wages with a minimum rate of 60 cents an hour. The conference opened Saturday. A tremendous ovation was given Frank Pansick, leader of the unem- ployed and member of the City Board of Taylor Springs, who was recently released on bail from the Hillsboro jail where he and ten others were held for “attempts to overthrow the government.” Only Five in 141 Dissent Certain minor disagreements, caused by the broad character of the conference and the widely dif- fering opinions of the delegates, made the Saturday session stormy at times, but at the close of the day, Karl Lockner, Chicago unem- ployed leader and Communist can- didate for Congressman, made a stirring appeal for unity and re- stored the comradely feeling of the delegates. When the subject of a program was brought up Sunday, only five delegates out of 141 opposed the Passage of the main program. Without a dissenting vote the dele- gates accepted the resolution to support only working class candi- dates in the coming elections. An- other important resolution which found no opposition was the battle for recognition of unemployed workers’ delegations at all relief sta- tions. Committees were elected to carry the plans for unity of all unem- ployed organizations throughout the state for the purpose of establish- ing one Illinois unemployed organ- ization. Order Relief Slash As Colo. Lists Soar To Deny All Relief to Beet Field Workers DENVER, Colo.—One fifth of the total population of Colorado is on the state relief rolls, according to the recent announcement of C. D. Shawver, state relief administrator. In the past six month period the relief lists have more than doubled from 96,777 on January 1, to 208,364 on July 1. Raising the cry “chiselers,” relief administrator Shawver has started a campaign of slashing workers off the relief lists, and, acting under the order of federal relief adminis- trator Hopkins, has declared that all workers normally employed on Socialist Mayor Moves To Oust Socialist Who Acts in United Fronts BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 23. —Kieve Liskofsky, Socialist lectman who has often partici- pated actively in united front actions with Communists and other groups, may be expelled from the Socialist Party by Mayor Jasper McLevy and his reactionary clique. The specific charge against Liskofsky is that he “spoke on a Communist platform” on Na- tional Youth Day when many or- ganizations of various shades of political opinion paraded through the town. Expulsion proceedings will be brought up at a general mem- bership meeting of the Socialist Party. Vets Refuse To Seab in Legion Posts Pass Resolutions for Strike Aid NEW YORK.—Several American | Legion Posts in Oregon have passed of the marine strikers and their re- fusal to be used as strikebreakers, Dawn Lovelace, organizer of vets, reported today in a letter to the Daily Worker. Posts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Vet- erans, have passed similar resolu- tions, the report states. “The Chamber of Commerce here,” according to the report, “has formed a ‘Citizen's Emergency League,’ headed by ‘big shots.’ Their applications handed out to veterans eontain such petty questions as ‘Do you own fire-arms? Have you had experience with gas bombs?’ “It is significant, in this connec- tion, that two Legion posts (Post No. 1, reputed to be the largest in the world, and Rose City Post) have passed resolutions against the Emer- gency League. One V. F. W. Post has done the same. It is alleged that the Chamber of Commerce. gave the League $20,000 at the start. “Also the American Legion, V. F. W. or D. A. V. have not been act- ing as strikebreakers in Portland. One sees, listed among the special police, a few veterans—mostly the kind that you just knew would make good thugs. But Legion Posts have passed resolutions _ strictly stating that they will not be used as strikebreakers. And when the Red Cross was being used to hire special police, as well as dispense veteran relief, a W. E. S. L. com- ; mittee tore the sign down and made them promise to quit, “One V. F, W. Post that we know of has elected delegates to the Con- There are probably other veteran organizations taking like action.” San Diego Fascists ssue Fake Leaflet (Continued from Page 1) are being held on a charge of criminal syndicalism. Shapiro and Berquist were ar- rested at a meeting of the Relief Association. Berquist was jailed before he had spoken one word. resolutions declaring their support) ference Against War and Fascism!s Company Uses NRA Code To Foree Wage Reduction | Tobacco Company has used the women employes from $15 and $16 to $12.85 a week. This was revealed by the women themselves, many of whom have quit because of the cut. There is much talk of strike. Bobrow Brothers, a large tobacco firm here, has instituted a night shift to fill the orders of factories closed down by the strikers in York, Pa. Some of the workers who quit at the American Tobacco Company | are engaged in this scab work. Despite the attempts of the Roy- alist Cigar Company's bosses to | raise the red scare, the 300 strikers | continue to hold their picket lines | solidly. | Strikebreaker Fires Gun At Three Hosiery Pickets LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Three Mis- sion-Knit Hosiery pickets were fired on by William Harris, a strike- breaker, following recent brutal as- saults on the unarmed picket lines. Harris was arrested by police who were on the scene. The picket lines have been | doubled to forestall further attacks. | Wives and husbands of the strikers | have joined the march, ah | | Strike In Model Town KOHLER, Wis—Kohler Village, claimed to be America’s model in-} dustrial community, is witnessing its first strike. The newly organized | A. F. of L. union, which claims more than 1,000 members, is fight- jing for union recognition, higher | wages and a 30-hour week. | api” ta | Picketed Scab Ship, Held In $300 Bail PHILADELPHIA. — Six stamen | arrested while picketing the S. S. Coast Strike vorma, a vessel brought to the| | Municipal pier here by a scab crew from the West Coast, are being held under $30 bail each for | further hearing. | In making the arrests, the po- |lice tried to frame the workers on the charge of beating up a mate of the S.8. Luckenbach, also manned by a Pacific Coast scab crew. Spl eee | Company Files Damage Suit To Break Drivers’ Strike | ROCHESTER, N. Y.—In a sec- ond attempt to break the strike of its truck drivers, the Sibley, Lind- | say & Curr Company is demand- jing $10,000 in a suit for damages | filed against 11 members of the | Rochester Central Trades and La- |bor Council. The 11 named have | been active in the strike, which is | being waged for union recognition and for reinstatement of workers fired for union activit Coast Raids Reds’ Fault to Sinclair | (Continued from Page 1) Party than it is in denouncing the murderous terror of the California capitalist class. Sinclair distorts the Communist position, which ex- Poses the hollowness of capitalist democracy with its pretenses of Communists are against these | rights, especially for the working | class. As against the action of the hun- dreds of thousands of workers who erful capitalist class of California, | Sinclair demands that the workers rely on the shibboleths of bour- geois reformis' and place faith in the “primaries, initiative, referendum and recall” which is one of the principal planks in his | demagogic campaign for Governor of California on the Democratic | ticket. In the face of the murder of pickets by the armed forces of the Wall Street government, Sinclair justifies the San Francisco Indus- trial Association by charging that the Communists give impulse to Fascism. This is precisely the argument that Paul Loebe, who since went over to the fascists, German Social-Democratic leader, gave the Communist Party of Ger- |the leadership of the Communist | free speech, free press and free as- | | semblage, to make it appear that! are in a death grip with the pow- | Show Rise During Crisis Years During the ten year period end- ing June 30, 1932, the transit com- panies of New York City—the very companies now shouting for in- creased fares—made profit amount- jing to a total of $456,995,036. (The | all amounts available for the cap- National Recovery Administration | italist class.) Of this amount they| period the profit average: code to lower the wages of its|P@id out in the form of interest/cents out of every dollar paid to on bonds, dividends and the like, | the sum of $456,732,462. This was| an average payment of more than| nomic Notes,” in ferreting out the profits of corporations. The profit rate (in this broad sense) of the New York transit companies has not fallen in recent years, in spite of the crisis. On PHILADELPHIA.—The American | Word “profit” as used here includes | the contrary, it has risen. As Hecht | points out, during the ten-year 29.85 | the company by the passengers. The rate in 1923 ‘was 27.9 cents in 1932 it was 3037 cents. $45,000,000 a year by the Inter-| + the same time the pay rate | sa T~| transit companies was going up, | poration and the. other concerns | | covered, | During this same period, the | total payroll of the companies for |all classes of workers amounted to | only $659,957,599. In other words, | for every $1 paid out in payrolls for work done by the employes, nearly 0c was paid out to the exploiters | who live off the backs of the tran- sit w s. are the findings of Kal-| from an average of $6,429 a year | in 1923, to $13,857.66 in 1932, a/ rise of 115.5 per cent. In 1923 the| average wage was $30.19 for a for a seven-day week. The situation may be recapitul- ated. For this ten-year period: Gross: receipts of the companies Payroll, or what went $1,560,769,826 ‘These to workers oe 659,957,599 mun Hecht, accountant, who has/|Profits of the com- frequently aided the Labor Re- nies 465,995 ,036 search A: ‘iation, which issues | Profits paid to the these figures in its current “Eco-| capitalist class 456,732,462 How San Francisco Strike | | Betrayal Was Organized (Continued from Page 1) | terday in the Hollywood Bowl he| is completely ignorant of the tem- | per of the men upon whose dues payments he lives. Angry Misleaders | But rarely do Communists’ have their estimates confirmed so rap-| idly as by Ryan in another state- {ment issued in New York and| | sent out by the United Press. The |wave of righteous indignation which came from the “real lead- jers of organized labor’ in the |Central Labor Council of San Francisco—and which prompted the press to go into spasms of anti-Communist diatribes—when it | was reported here that Earl Brow- der, speaking for the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party, had written the Daily Worker that | these leaders had headed the gen- eral strike in order to be in a position to betray it, was some- thing to write home about. Joseph P. Ryan obligingly makes the concrete admissions that were preferred by Browder mustered for recovery is not that the striking maritime workers are demanding the right to organize, | better wages and working condi- tions and the right to run their unions themselves, and tnat the waterfront employers deny these rights, but that the outstanding leader happens to have been born in Australia! “Whom the gods would destroy, etc.” Michael Casey Next comes Michael Cascy. jmembers of the Teamsters Union, | which is unfortunate enough to |have him as its head, were the first | |to strike in sympathy wit the long- | shoremen. They are in a strategic | |position—they are truck drivers jand not teamsters; Teamsters Union jis an anachronistic term, as anach- | ronistic as Casey himself—since they | control the transport of unloaded cargo from the docks to railways, | warehouses, etc. | The vote of the Teamsters Union | to return to work after the general |strike had been ended, was, accord- | ing to Casey's statement to the | The | 24th 8t., |} cent blast | which six workers were killed and| Des Moines Relief Men Criminal Syndicalism| Charges Placed Against Relief Strikers | | ES, Iowa, July 23— The Polk Ci y Grand Jury July 19 indictments on charges of criminal lism against Ira Meade, recently K candidate for Mayor; James Porter, Communist Party organizi retary, and John Nordquist, mem- DES MOI sy | ber of the rank and file strike com- | mittee which is leading the strike of 2,000 relief workers here. Bond for the three jailed work- ers has been set at $5,000 each. The International Labor Defense and Strikers Defense Co “ks all workers to against the of the: ‘s and protest mandir 1 of er syndicalism Judge Ladd and at Des Moines. The strike of the relief workers still continues solid around the de- mands for a 24-hour week at min- imum rates of 55 cents an hour and | support of the Workers Unemplo’ ment Insurance Bill. The local pre: is conducting a concerted drive with | the relief and city officials in an} attempt to smash the strike. | Killed in Ford Plant ‘ to Di Gove’ Her DETROIT.—Ford speed-up and} profit-greedy neglige ook anoth- | er victim when Alex Okrogly, 3753 was killed Thursday by an electric shock while working on a} large fan in the Ford River. This follows shortly after the re in the Ford plant in| many injured. The Auto Worke: Union is conducting an investiga- | tion into this latest killing. 400 Strikers on Picket Line | At Michigan Paper Mills WATERVLIET, Mich., July 23.- All 400 workers at the Watervliet Paper Mills here struck on July| 16 demanding union recognition, | better working conditions, and wage increases of seven cents an s Unemployed Unite to Fight Hunger Profits of Big Transit Lines] Hold Three'Steel Workers Meet In Groups to Name S.M.W.LU, Delegates Some A. A. and Independent Unions “Prepare To Take Part in National Convention Of ndustrial Union July 23.—Reports from the towns and cities i vania Steel area show tha spread pr way for the Second } Bi-annual Convention of the Steel and Metal Wor! dustrial Union which will be held in Pittsburgh on August 3, 4 and 5. o~ ————— More than 200 delegates repre-{ promises that they had enough eve! important | work for all of the men in the mill, meet and | for the whole summer mion organizer wai buting leaflets. Warrants have inion officials. senting almost shop in the coun| plans for creased wag ed for al In McKeesport McKEESPORT, Pa 1a L 402 of Braddock Workers Meet in Secret BRADDOCK, Pa—In the Edgar Thompson Rail Mill, mass layoffs are taking place. The last local meeting of the Steel and Metal| A. A. refused to fight for them, went Workers Industrial Union held in| to the factory gate, with Nick Cvit- a hired hall, was broken up by po- | 4novich, organizer of the local. The lice, The workers are meeting in| Workers at the mill expressed their small groups, Several such meet-| determination to force these offi- ings have already been held and| Cials to send fraternal delegates to more are scheduled. the Second ional Bi-Annual gg y Convention of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. Open Relief Fight RANKIN, Pa.—In nace Works, p Steel (Homestead meeti: are to be held this week, | to elect delegates to the Convention. | Close to 2,000 workers part time, in this mill taking place, and the Union Farmer Gets 2 Cents, Consumer Pays 20¢ — Who Gets Difference? NEW YORK.—Cherries anizing the unemployed v on the in the fight for immedaite rel streets of New York cost 16 to 20 ieee e cents a pound Prepare in Homestead A farmer from Gasport, New HOMESTEAD, Pa—The workers| York, writes the Daily Worker as of the Carnegie Steel, in Home- | follows stead, are meeting in groups to “Organized bankers buying cher- elect their delegates to the S. M ® Mg . . lect, th ries here at 1% to 2% cents a W. 1. U. Convention. Several such pound. Unorganized cherry grow- group meetings have already elected | ors are forced to sell for whatever delegates. The terror is extremely sharp here, and all meetings of | ‘He boss offers them workers are banned. Close to 4,000| “My 11-year-old girl is forced to workers are working part time, in| Pick cherries on piece-work, earn- this mill. |ing 60 cents for nine hours work |a day, three dollars a week. (Three Ages z ” |hour. The strikers, members of a| a ee J Pa press, “without reservation.” But | ¥ ‘s 1 gles!) jacking to make the indictment |before the vote was taken there was |@Wly-formed American Federation| 80 Per Cent Work One Day a Week | D6 Blue Eagles factually |much explanation to the member- |f Labor union, have elected shop} rJQUIPPA, Pa—Righty per cent| A strike of cherry growers de- complete. In a U.P. dispatch from New York, dated July 20, the San} Francisco News says: “Conservative union leaders sanctioned the San Francisco general strike to force a show- down and terminate the activi- ties of Harry Bridges, radical longshoremen’s leader, according te Joseph P. Ryan, president of | the LILA. “The longshoremen’s chief that when he reached the West Coast last May he found the griev- anecs of the maritime workers real, but that the employers had refused to deal with them because “the West Coast longshoremen do net have responsible leadership. “In his contacts with Mr. Bridges, Mr. Ryan said, he found that the men would not be bound by majority feeling and that he was following a course of arbitrary | decisions. “Mr. Bridges went with 75 active followers to union meet- ings of all sorts, relating the grievances of the longshoremen and calling for sympathy strikes “This active minority group, Mr. Ryan said, finally tied up labor in so many individual branches that the Central Trades and Labor Counci} decided the remedy was violent action de- signed to have a quick ending. Their view of the general strike, Mr. Ryan said, was that it would be a strike to end strikes.” The crime of Bridges is clear. their | He appealed to the rank and file/;ne Industrial Association trucks | lof the unions over the heads of | the “real leaders of organized la- bor.” The rank and file supported | the policy of strike action in sym- pathy with the maritime trades. The “responsible leadership” the) | employers desire is that of the| | Ryan type—who agreed from the start to “share” the control of hiring halls with the employers; | this means nothing more or less |than employers’ control of hiring} halls and the open shop. | Bridges and the maritime work-| ‘ers’ strike committee ware “bound | |by majority feeling.” They had| said | | national ,significance.” He is quoted | hip that this did not mean hauling | “scab” cargo, that it did not mean that they would desert the mari- | time workers, etc. The press was jeven confused on the issue. After the vote there was a differ- ent tale. We quote from the San | Francisco Call-Bulletin for July 21: “The teamsters vote was 1,138 | to 283”— “without reservation.” [The waterfront drivers section | evidently cast a big vote against the return to work without reser- vations.—B. D.] “They began at once to haul off and on the docks, in complete disregard of the pier | | workers’ strike. . . , Moreover, Michael J. Casey, president of the union, announced that the union will protect its trucks and driv- ets from any interference by the strikers. Upion guards were as- signed to squad cars and placed at strategie points. “The action of the teamsters | was admittedly a severe blow to | the embattled longshoremen and | seamen. With the excepsion of the latter the only workers still on strike are the Market St. rail- way employees.” “More than 70 per cent of the |leamsters’ work is on the water-| | front,” said J, F. Vizzard, president of the Draymen’s Association (em- | ployers). “The longshoremen will |have to go back to work now.” | | The national guardsmen are still }in control of the waterfront and adjacent streets so that the drivers are working under military rule, al- though the General Strike Commit- |tee made the gesture of “request- ling” the withdrawal of all troops. jare also still operating on the | waterfront so that the union team- |sters are working side by side with the professional strikebreakers who | man these 35 trucks, William Green Let us hear now from William |Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, who, right at the tensest moment of the historic | conflict, announced that the workers did not have the sanction of the A. F. of L. leadership for their he- roic struggle, and that it had “no in a Washington dispatch dated July 21 as saying, in reference to committees and a strike commit-| tee of eight. Mass picketing. is| going on daily, and workers from| Kalamazoo and other nearby towns | lines, TAKES of the 9,000 workers employed in|™anding a minimum of 2 to 3 the Jones and Laughlin Company | cents a pound for the 1,170 tons Plant, here, are now working only| now waiting to be picked was one day a week. In this notorious | threatened today by the growers. | have offered to join the picket} company-controlied towm, the work- |The canners offer to pay about 1 ers are resentful of the company! cent a pound. NATURE EES CEME SSO) OFS acos AUPPERT 'S see grow a tree. Nature may urged unduly. N..... haste nor hurry can So, too, with Jacob RUPPERT'S Beer. not be Ss = RE-US: NO SUBSTITUTE THE FOR TIME! the beet sugar plantations will be Immediately upon the distribu- many in January, 1933, when the the majority of the workers with Cc. P. called for a general strike|them. But not a majority of the denied all relief. “Part of the difficulty,’ Shawver declared, “is due to the fact that the present program is misunder- stood. Our objective is not to pro- vide jobs for the unemployed, but to provide relief to the needy.” Federal relief administrator Hov- kins sent word that beet field workers were to be taken off the relief rolls and kept off. Fur Pointers Win Full Victory in Shop Strike tion of the vicious, forged leaflet by the fascists, the Communist Party issued an answer proclain:- ing the leaflet a forgery, which “clearly reveals how unprincipled and vile are these fascist racket- eers.” The genuine Party leaflet char- acterizes the forgery as an “at- tempt to represent the Communist Party as composed of ignorant and dangerously violent individuals,” and re-emphasizes the Party stand as being opposed to all acts of against Hitler. It is a general for- mula that justifies submission to fascist terror, and is based on the social-democratic conception that class conflict is something “stirred up” by the Communists, instead of being the basic fact of capitalist society. Sinclair concludes with a trum- pet-blast for chauvinism which might have been made by a leader of the California Vigilantes. “American conditions require American thinking and American methods of action.” | “real leaders.” | What Ryan really means—al- ; though his statements are so clear ,as to require little explanation—is that Vandeleur, Casey of the | Teamsters Union, Kidwell and | others endorsed the general strike | So as to be in a better position to | defeat the strike of the longshore- men, Bridges could not be de-! | feated without defeating the strike | | of the maritime trades. | The strikebreaking process is now going ahead under full steam. Gen- jganized labor the ending of the general strike: “That means that now the or- movement in San Francisco and elsewhere can give ali support possible to the striking longshoremen and associated or- ganizations, and can demand and require that the differences and dis- putes responsible for the longshore- men’s strike are all submitted to a fair tribunal for final decision and final settlement.” It has been made clear what kind of “support” the striking maritime workers are getting. It is the same individual violence. NEW YORK.—Fur Pointers De- In its entirety Sinclair's telegram |¢?al Johnson speaks in the Holly- partment of the Fur Workers In- dustrial Union won all the demands of the workers in the strike against Stern & Goldstein of 236 W. 27th St. The strike was called when the union discovered that the firm opened a new shop in Long Island All workers and intellectuals, re- gardless of political beliefs, are being called upon to protest against the rising fascist terror in San Diego. LIVES DURING JUNE ALBANY, July 23.—Industrial ac- cidents caused 115 workers’ deaths 115 IN STATE INDUSTRIES Lost | City to scab on the workers in event of a general strike. After eight days of militant struggle the firm was forced to give up the place in Long Island, to pay a fine to the Union and to employ only workers sent by the Union. in New York State in June, accord- ing to the State Labor Department's report, issued today. This figure was 15 higher than the May death toll in industry. Of the 115 killed, all but two were men contains no word of denunciation of the California ruling class which is organizing terrorism against the strikers and the Communist Party, | its sole purpose being to buttress the anti-Communist drive from the “left.” This statement by Sinclair, which contains an implicit endorsement of the anti-union campaign of the California bosses, is the clearest expose of Sinclair's “Epic Plan” by which he promises to free the workers of California from the ex- ploitation of the capitalist em- ployers. wood Bowl in a national broadcast | mainly for the purpose of denounc- | jing this Australian, Bridges, trusted leader of the Pacific Coast mari- time workers, as a person who has “not even the simple dignity of American citizenship.” Johnson ac- |companied this magnificent piece |of Roosevelt administration black-| guardism with endorsement of the [fascist onslaughts upon Commu- |nists and militant workers up and down the coast and throughout the inland agricultural regions. 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AMERICA’S FINEST [Tage against the Communists and | militant union men who stood for a | well-organized and effective gen- eral strike, and for the capaign of |Slander and villification against the | ;maritime workers and their mili itant leadership.