The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1934, Page 2

” Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1934 |; COMMITTEE PLANS ANTI-WAR CONGRESS IN DIN OF GUNFIRE N. Y PLAN T 15 9] 3 ; ae fe Group of 50 Organized Preparations for Monster | Thursday, at 12 noon, to picket for | j one Negro worker here face possible sentences of one year QO SEND DELEGATES Gathering —$3,000 Fund Must Be Raised —Mass Meetings To Open Sessions Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Aug. 20.—The dull booming of artillery fire served as an accompaniment to the discussion at the or- ganization meeting of the Chicago Arrangements Committee for the Second U. S. Congress Against War and Fascism Friday night. At times speakers by the noise of cannon being fired @ in a sham battle put on by the National Guard on the lake front. fty Chicago workers and intel- , Tepresentatives of organi- Ss and individuals, established the apparatus which has the task of making the Congress, which will | be held here, a success. Committees | ¢ rganization, publicity, finance, speakers, end housing were set up. The body also constituted itself the Arrangement Committee to check/| the work of different committees. | The delegates came, either as representatives or individual mem-| bers, from widely differring organi- zations: The Communist Party, the | Illinois State Teachers Association, | the Sinai Sisterhood, trade unions, church groups, neighborhood anti- fascist organizations, fraternal and) defense organizations. | Headquarters in Workers School | With perfect unanimity, the dele- gates planned the job of preparing for a conference of thousands of workers from all over the country.| The terrific artillery explosions, a warning of what the future may bring, seemed to have the effect of intensifying the anti-war spirit | of the group. | The Chicago Workers School af- fered its new headquarters at 505) South State Street for an office for the Arrangements Committee, and | the offer was accepted. | Tom McKenna, secretary of the} Chicago branch of the American League Against War and Fascism, was unanimously elected secretary | of the committee. One of the major tasks of the committee is to raise a $3,000 fund to assure the rental of halls and to meet other expenses of the congress. The congress will open with a mass meeting in the Coliseum,| Sixteenth and Wabash, on Septem- ber 28, 8 p.m., at which Chicago workers will greet the delegates from all over the country. Con- vention sessions on September 29 and 30 will be held at Ashland Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren Streets. Veterans Endorse Call NEW YORK—The Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League has endorsed the call of the American League Against War and Fascism to the} U. S. Congress Against War which | will be held in Chicago on Sep- tember 28, 29 and 30. “This Congress is meeting at a time when the entire capitalist world is in a turmoil and the im-| perialist nations are preparing to solve the crisis through another bloody slaughter,” says a statement | issued by the City Committee of the | W.ES.L. “The Workers Ex-Service- men’s League strenuously odposes any such maneuvers and the large appropriations that have been made to the army and the navy, | here in the United States and at/ the same time the government re-| fuses social unemployment insur- ance to the millions of unemployed in_the nation.” ‘The city committee of the Work- ers Ex-Servicemen’s League is plan- ning to send fifteen delegates from New York City. These delegates will leave New York four days be- fore the opening of the congress, in a truck, and plans are being laid to hold mass meetings in all the im- portant cities along the route. The city committee has called upon every rank and file veteran of all other veteran organizations to sup- port this congress and to raise the question of sending delegates from their organizations. Classified WANTED to buy photograph of the “Fas- cist Funeral” that took part at our May 1 parade and organized by Comrade R. Pi. Kindly reply to Julio Valdes, 25 W. llth st. N.Y.c. ae BEADQUARTERS, Film and Photo League, 12 E, 17th St., available for rental fo: affairs with or without music and news- | reel showing. Inquire after 12 noon any day. LARGE sunny room facing park. Also small room. Kitchen privileges, tele- phone; 1801 7th Ave. Apt. 3B. Cor. 110th Street — WORKERS WELCOME NEW CHINA CAFETERIA Chinese Dishes __ American Dishes 848 Broadway vet. 13th uth st. Williamsburgh Comrades Weleome De Luxe Cafeteria 94 Grabam Ave. Cor. Siegel St. EVERY BITE A DELIGHT WHERE Our Comrades EAT RAPOPORT'S DAIRY and VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 93 Second Ay FOR BROWNSVILLE PROLETARIANS Sokal Cafeteria | newspaper men, were almost drowned out \Printers Back In Guild Fight STATEN ISLAND.—Picketing by members of the Newspaper Guild of New York to force the publish- ers of the Staten Island Advance to reinstate Alexander Crosby, who was fired because of union activi- ties, has had a telling effect on the circulation of the paper. It is un- Officially estimated that since the Guild opened its fight last Wednes- day the paper's circulation has been cut from 25,000 to 21,500. Swinging into action behind the various labor or- ganizations in Staten Island and Manhattan have pledged to sup- port the fight against the “Ad- vance.” The World Telegram Chapel of the Typographical Union | passed a resolution pledging to sup- port the editorial workers. This resolution was introduced at the regular meeting of the union last Sunday and passed. A motion to select a committee of nine to or- ganize the men in the composing room of the “Advance,” who have been working under open shop con- ditions was adopted. Included in the organizations ac- tively supporting the Guild is the Relief Workers Union, the Home Owners League and the Unemploy- ment Council of Staten Island. Hugh Holohan, chairman of the Emergency Committee that is lead- ing the struggle, stated yesterday that the Guild is planning a united front conference of representatives of all labor organizations in Staten Island for support of the fight. Throughout the day yesterday a sound truck cruised the streets of Staten Island carrying the message of the fight of the newspaper men to the people of the city. A squad of reporters working out of the tem- porary headquarters of the Guild at 34 Richmond Terrace, were can- vassing door-to-door, appealing di- rectly to housewives to support the fight by refusing to buy the paper. Limitation of Crops by U.S. to Continue (Continued from Page 1) Must Choose,” in which he clearly laid down the main economic lines of fascism in the United Sta‘es, Meat Up 6.7 Per Cent WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Meats have gone up 6.7 per cent and cereals 3.5 per cent, Dr. Frederic W. Howe, A.A.A. Consumers Coun- sel, admitted here today. The cost of a month's supply of 14 foods for a family which was $17.75 on April 24 was $18.26 on July 1, Dr. Howe said. The Consum- ers’ Counsel further revealed that the farmers were getting no benefit out of the price rise. “Farmers are still getting only a little over a third of the consumers food dollar,” he stated. “From 1924 to 1929, they received almost half.” Skirting around the question of @ possible food shortage, Dr. Howe nevertheless admitted that some of the American people would be with- out certain foods in the future months “ N. Y. Reporters; . VETERANS | YCL. to Lead Birmi Picketing at 2 Consulates! NEW YORK—The Young Com-/ munist League of New York yester- | day issued a call to all workers and | v ing class youth to mass at the} nan and Cuban Consulates | the release of Ernst Thaelmann and | Joaquin Ordoqui. The appeal states: “The splendid heroism of the German workers in selecting Thael- mann as Presidential candidate in opposition to Hitler, must find a fitting response from the American workers, and particularly from the }youth, Thaelmann, one of the founders of the revolutionary youth | trade union movement, and the | leading fighter against Hitier fas- cism, is still in daily danger of death, The youth of New York must not be found lacking in their urgent duty of fighting for the freedom of Thaelmann. “Ordoqui, leader of the Cuban | workers in their fight for liberation from Yankee imperialism, is still imprisoned by Mendieta, represen- tative of Wall Street. The Young Communist League of New York takes the initiative in calling upon all New York youth and workers to rally to the German and Cuban Consulates at 17 Battery Place this ‘Thursday at 12 noon.” Japan Prepares to Seize Railway (Continued from Page 1) U.S.S.R. showed a maximum good- will and compliance, deciding upon great sacrifices with the object of promoting the security of peace in the Far East, the Japan-Manchu- rian side rejected these proposals and the “Manchurian” delegate and the Japanese, Ohashi, left Tokio. Leaving of the conference by one of the two parties represented in- evitably signifies the virtual sus- pension of negotiations. The Jap- anese press tries to hide this cir- cumstance from the vublic. This cannot be regarded other- wise than a wish to evade responsi- bility for the suspension of nego- tiations and to conceal the real ob- jectives of this maneuver. However, the Manchurian news- papers, which to a lesser extent are connected with such considerations, more directly reflect the thoughts and aspirations of the warlike Jap- anese circles, and write more frankly and directly. Inevitable Complications For instance, the Manchurian agency published a report stating: “Negotiations which were prolonged for an endless time entered a final critical stage, menacing an inev- itable breakdown. It is believed that the breakdown of negotiations will be inevitably followed by com- plications between the U.S.S.R. and Manchukuo.” The agency further says that the time is ripe now “to settle by one blow all questions between the U. S. S. R. and Manchukuo, which re- mained open until now, awaiting successful settlement of negotiation on the cardinal question regarding the C.ER.” y The unofficial organ of the Jap- anese Military Mission, the Harbin |newspaper “Harbinskoe Vremia,” menaces that the Manchurian gov- ernment will now take resolute measures against “the very essence of relations between the USSR. and Manchukuo.” It is clear here without any com- ment as are the statements by the Manchurian white-guard news- paper, “Kung Pao.” This newspaper writes: “The Tokio conference has some- what bound the hands of Manchu- rian diplomacy and forced the gov- ernment to shelve important diplo- matic measures it planned to carry out against the U.S.S.R. The break- down of negotiations ended the milling wind under the diplomatic grinding stones, and the Manchu- rian government can now take measures it finds necessary.” “Big Surprises” The newspaper further adds: “Shortly great changes will occur full of big surprises.” A “Pravda” article, devoted to ngham Trial Is Effort to Outlaw Communist Party BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 20.—Two white workers and on the chain gang and $200 class literature and belonging zation. and Fred Keith and Israel Berlin, whose cases are to come up on Wednesday before Judge Martin. Berlin has already been sentenced to six months and fined $100 for having August First anti-war lit- erature in his possession. He and the other two workers are now to be tried on charges of possession, distribution and circulation of “libel- ous” literature, “advocating over- throw of government by force and violence, and membership in an unlawful organization advcoating overthrow of the government.” 6-Page Southern Worker Issued The arrests are part of the re- newed terror drive against the southern workers, of which the de- cisions of the Supreme Courts of Alabama and Georgia against the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Hern- don are the sharpest expression. Meanwhile, defeating all attempts of the police, the White Legion and the Ku Klux Klan gangs to stop it, the Communist Party has distrib- uted thousands of copies of a new enlarged edition of the Southern Workers, This Communist paper is fines, for possessing working- to a militant workers’ organi- The charge against them is criminal anarchy. The men are Sam Bedell, Negro,® POURED Wirth rad 18 Re EE ne the “unlawful organization” refer- red to in the charges against Bedell, Keith and Berlin. The new issue carries the head- line: “A Six Page Paper Is Our Answer to Police Seizure of the August Issue.” Urge Aid for Workers Despite police orders that all of- ficers and squad cars are to stop and search workers seen carrying packages at night—particularly Ne- groes—so far not a single copy has fallen into the hands of the police department, with the exception of a “complimentary” copy sent through the mail to Chief Luther Hollmus by the Southern Worker itself. The issue at stake in the trials at Birmingham is the legality of the Communist Party. The Southern Worker's new issue, which asks aid to continue publication, also urges all workers, sympathizers and or- ganizations to send protests to Judge Martin, at City Hall, Bir- mingham, Ala. Communications to the Southern Worker should be addressed to P. O, Box 572, Bir- mingham, the suspension of Tokio negotia- tions, writes: “Cries regarding ‘the inevitable breakdown’ of Tokio ne- gotiations, which the Manchurian press accompanies Ohashi’s leaving Tokio, confirm most clearly that this is a case of virtual suspension of negotiations incited by the Jap- anese military seeking preparations for a violent seizure of the CER. “The peaceable intentions of the Soviet government, the staunch he- roism of the workers of the C.ER. have long since been duly appraised by those to whom the cause of peace is so dear, as were the provocatory character of the actions of the Jap- anese imperialist incendaries of war. “The extremely aggressive circles of Japan prefer lawlessness to law, adventures to negotiations, violent aggressive measures to good-neigh- borly settlement of questions, “The Soviet country feels suffi- ciently powerful to watch calmly, with presence of mind, and at the same time with the greatest vigil- ance, the incendiary actions of ene- mies of peace n the Far East.” Stevedore Killed By Fascist Band (Continued from Page 1) his neck and died in a Portland hospital. Strike Leaders Fired When the ship arrived in Seattle the leaders of the strike were fired and new men were shipped by Jeaders of the International Sea- mens Union. This action was pro- tested by the rank and file ship committee which went to the I. 8. U. hall and demanded that the ship be called on strike, I. S. U. leaders told the committee men to “sit tight” and a delegate was sent aboard. The I. S. U. leaders have still got the men “sitting tight.” Reactionary delegates of the I. 8. U, also halted a strike aboard the 8S. S. Manulai which came here with several scabs aboard. Scores of Cases There are scores of cases of dis- crimination. International Seamen’s Union leaders are urging the men to wait until after the ‘arbitration is over before they begin any fight on this issue. The aim of the re- actionary uinon leaders, the ship- Owners and the government is to drag out the arbitration proceedings until everyone is either shipped out or gone to the East Coast or gulf ports. Then the government fink halls will be opened again, The anti-union plan of the government was clearly revealed by Mr. Consley of the United States Shipping Board Sea Serv- iée Bureau when he told a com- mittee from the Marine Workers Industrial Union that “when we get the seamen at four corners of the globe, when we get all the strikers scattered and when ar- bitration has been dragged out until most of the seamen are de- moralized, then we'll stop sending into the LS. U. for crews.” Pointing out that the shipowners have the same plan up their sleeves for the longshoremen, the Marine Workers Industrial Union has is- sued a call for a struggle against discrimination and blacklisting. M.W.LU. Plans Action The Marine Workers Industrial Union has worked out the following plan of action: 1) Building gang and ship committees. %) Kemmoving the dishonest, rotten leaders of the I. L. A. and I. S. U. and electing rank and file members who have proven their loyalty to the interests of their class during the strike, 3) Setting up of a waterfront federation of all unions in and connected with the marine in- dustry. 4) Establishing of a seamen’s controlied united front shipping buro, 5) Striking on individual docks and ships for the demands of the seamen and longshoremen, for the removal of the scabs. 6) Fighting against all acts of discrimination against any sea- man, longshoreman or unon. New Terror Threat Is Made by Hitler (Continued f rom Page 1) compared to the results of the No- vember election are as follows. Sunday November 478,635 45,146,277 529,710 48,460,529 8,362,760 40,609, 274 4,204,654 2,101,000 872,296 750,282 ie “No,” vote was the heaviest, being 20 per cent of the total, and combining it with the “spoiled” ballots, the percentage rises to over 22. There was also a heavy opposition vote in Berlin, other industrial centres and in Catholic districts. (See editorial on page 6) Electorate Por... Against Invalid A Mass Circulation of our “Daily” Means a Quickening Tempo in Class Struggle. A.F.L. Le Entering Eleventh Da Strike Is Weaker Than at Start By TOM KEENAN NEW KENSINTON, Pa., Aug. 20. —Entering its eleventh day, the strike of almost 4,000 employes of the three Aluminum Company of America’s plants here, due to the inaction of the American Federa- tion of Labor misleaders, is further from a victory for the workers than it has been since the walk-out first occurred last Friday night. Negotiations are still firmly in the hands of Dave Williams and Boris Shishkin, underlings of William Green, and they are man- euvering, with the aid of federal conciliators, to put over their sell- out of the aluminum workers strike, which is sure to result in the death of the union. Picket lines are mere handfuls of men, thanks to A, F. of L. strategy. Company Stools in Ranks Company stools are working among the union men, and stools of the local union officials are work- ing among the rank and file, who had begun the movement for e: tablishment of a strike committ: but were headed off by J. P. How- lett, president of the local. a9 1689 PITKIN AVENUE Two shipments ef aluminum products, loaded by a force of petty | A back-to-work -movement has i | foremen, have been made through | The picket lines. The demands of the aluminum workers, drawn up at their conven- tion June 14, have been suppressed by the A. F. of L. leaders, and an 11-point agreement substituted. Major Demands Dropped | Full power to negotiate the de- | mands was voted the National Aluminum Workers Council—A. R. Buller of La Grange, Ill; J. N. Stacy, Messina, N. Y¥.; Fred Wet- more, Alcoa, Tenn; and J. P. How- lett, New Kensington—at the con- vention, and the Council later voted power on to the A. F. of L. leaders, Boris Shishkin and Dave Williams, The last named were the ones who dropped the demands for a 50-cent minimum, back wages, and an average weekly increase of $7 which the conyention had approved. According to Williams’ own state- ment he wants “an open shop agreement with an _ anti-strike clause inserted,” so that the present | strike is one to end strikes. | On Thurstiay the second two-car | shipment of products was nego- | tiated under a squad of borough, | company, and railroad police, armed ; with machine guns, riot-guns, and | tear gas bombs, Still the A F. of L. leaders have done nothing to | bring the masses of strikers down onto the picket lines. been started, and company men are circulating petitions among non-union workers in preparation for a smash through the picket- lines. The company and borough have succeeded in swearing in about ten of the strikers as deputies. Fred Keightly, federal conciliator, is known to be working for an “early settlement” of the strike, but during his trip to Pittsburgh last week he conferred only with offi- cials of the company, ignoring the local unions and their officials. Misieaders Make Radical Speeches It is significant that each A. F. of L. speaker who has appeared here made what sounded like a very radical speech, stating that the workers would take over the factories if companies refuse to bar- gain collectively and hinting at rev- Olutionary reforms for the workers. J. P. Howlett, president of the New Kensington local and member of the National Council, makes a pretense of being for rank and file control of the strike but sat meekly on the Council while full power was being voted to the A. F. of L. traitors and has made no move to oppose Williams since then. The company has moved payday, originally scheduled for Aug. 27, up to Monday as an attempt to seduce the workers into returning to work. 260 Foremen in Plant Daily . 4 Around 250 foremen are allowed aders. Stifle Aluminum Strike Misleaders Maneuver for Sellout—Act to Kill the Union in the plant every day, and food is supplied them through a gate in charge of Simpson, a company man whom Howlett appointed to this strategic post. Under the A. F. of Ls care, strike sentiment has been allowed to lag, so that many of the strikers are half-hearted about winning their demands, and the company is un- doubtedly preparing to smash the strike, whether thorough the top leaders or by force. Another sell-out such as the workers experienced in March will mean the death of the union, as many tore up their membership books at that time. Only the immediate establish- ment of a broad strike committee, to have charge of all action and negotiations, with no return to work until settlement has been ap- proved by the rank and file, and the withdrawal of all power from the A. F. of L. misleaders can save the strike from betrayal at the hansd of Green, Williams & Co. And unless the rank and file moves quickly it will soon be too late for even this mancuver, for the return- to-work forces are growing. | j 4 Strike Weak In Picketing (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Aug. 20—Leaders of the Amalgamated Association of Electric, Street Railway, and Motor Coach Employes continued to ham- string the bus drivers strike over the week end. Due to failure to organize effective picketing, busses continue to operate on practically normal schedules. Elevated and street car men, organized into the Amalgamated, are being kept on their jobs. The strike, which is primarily a fight for the right to organize, de- veloped after twenty-five bus drivers had been fired for joining Division 1022 of the Amalgamated. The Roosevelt Labor Board, trying to cover up its support of such raw discrimination, requested the com- pany to rehire the men, but failed to take any action to force this. Outside of individual picketing at the gates, and occasional actions against one or two drivers at a time, practically no real strike action has been taken. However, workers of the west side Saturday massed to stop several busses. Among the crowd of volun- teer pickets were many members of the A. A. who work on the “L” and Street cars. A rank and file committee of the carmen, members of divisions 341 and 308, issued a leaflet to their brothers calling for rank and file united action in support of the bus drivers, The leaflets points out that the struggle is an honest fight against company unionism and for the right to organize. It also exposes Quinlan and Taber, leaders of the old established union divisions, who refused anything but “mor port for the strikers. Ordoqui Letter Tells of Strikes (Continued from Page 1) that the heroic rebels of the cruiser “Cuba,” who are still in jail, have found support only from the Com- munist Party. The Communist Party has organized a series of demon- strations for their freedom. The Grau-Guiteras so-called “left” pet- ty-bourgeois opposition group, who pushed them to revolt, but aban- doned them at the crucial moment, haye not undertaken any movement to gain their freedom. The Communist Party is fully aware of the perspectives of the struggle that lie before’ it. The Party is striving to win the majority of the workers, connect- ing the struggles of the workers with the battles of the peasants, especial- ly the peasants in Oriente Province, who are seizing the land from the feudal landlords, bring the struggle ever nearer to the decisive battle for the liberation of Cuba. In my own name and in the name of the Cuban National: Con- federation of Labor I want to greet the heroic struggles of the Amer- ican workers, especially the general strike of San Francisco and the Minneapolis strike. These strikes have been the greatest inspiration to the Cuban workers and haye sown the greatest dismay among the capitalist-landlord bourgeoisie. It has proved to them (and they have expressed the fact) that in the struggles against American impe- rialism in Cuba, the American work- ers, fighting against our common oppressor, will side with us against the Wall Street oppressors, DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-3 P.M STEEL Appollo Stel Co., of Apollo, Pa., would object to the election re- quested by the Amalgamated Asso- ciation (A. F. of L.) leaders, to determine who should represent the workers in collective bargaining. The company acquiesced, and the A. A, leaders began to rub their hands, and the workers (shades of Weir- ton), after joining a union paying a large initiation fee, risking a pos- sible discharge, and waiting four months, have gained—the right to hold an election to find out how many workers are in their own union. Later in the week, however, the Appollo officials foresaw a possibility of eluding negotiations with the A. A. under “minority dealings” with non union workers, and concluded with a request that the election, which was set for Aug. 27, be called off as unnecessary, since they agreed to deal with the A. A, The board departed for Ohio still in doubt as to whether or not the election would be held as scheduled. 7-A Means Co, Union Now the steel companies declare that section 7-A means that the company has the right to “bargain collectively” with any minority group. They also declare that “‘col- lective bargaining does not mean that they are forced to make any agreement with any union as to wages hours or working conditions.” In other words, section 7-A ac- cording to the steel companies, means that the company union will be built and that the union smash- ing of the steel companies can con- tinue under the patronage of Roose- velt’s Steel Labor Board. In the second case before the Steel Board, that of the Standard Tin Plate Company, of Cannons- burg, Pa., a subsidiary of the power- ful Continental Can Co., the A. A. asked for a wage agreement in the whole industrial department, of which only the hot mill at present operates under a union scale, Here the board did exactly nothing. The company and Tighe’s outfit went into conference, con- ferred the rest of the week, and will yesume the conference when the board returns to Pittsburgh. In the meantime the workers’ wages stand still while living costs soar to new aks. 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GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS Dancing Games 279 Livonia Avenue Brooklyn New York LABOR, BOARD EXPERTLY BALKS WORKERS Roosevelt Aides Leave Pittsburgh After En- couraging Company Unions and Refusing to Act on Demands of Workers | By TOM KEENAN PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 20.—President Roosevelt’s Ne tional Steel Labor Relations Board has completed a week expert mumbo-jumbo here and packed up for Portsmouf Ohio, where the performance will be “continued next weel’ The board asked whether the¢—— “f i that of the workers in the West Vir ginia Rail Co., versus West Virgini: Rail Co,, Tighe & Co., Roosevelt, the Steel Labor Board, et al. Broke Republic Strike / In ‘this instance the company has already signed an “agreement” with the Huntington Steel Workers Asso- ciation and refused to deal with the A. A. Officials. The former is a com- pany union organized hurriedly as a move to head off bona fide union- ization. The rail company officials de- manded repeatedly that the list of A. A. members be turned over to them, and Judge Stacy made a great point out of militantly re- fusing to give up union lists. At- torney John Meek then informed the board that an election would be “resisted by every legal means.” It is quite significant however, that the hearings concluded with still no election ordered. At Portsmouth, O., the board will listen to arguments between the A. A. officials and the Wheeling Steel Corporation. Roosevelt's Steel Labor Board } gives every indication of living up to the standard set by its predeces- sor, the N, R. A. National Labor Board, which did nothing but break strikes under a barrage of ballyhoo. The first case it ever handled is a good example—Republic Steel re- fused a wage agreement to the A. A. workers, the board stepped in as mediator, and now that all the smoke has rolled away the workers are seen to be without either jobs or agreement. But the board is evidently a very skillful trio of strikebreakers, for it has already broken the only major walkout declared since its forma- tion, the Republic Steel workers’ strike, which was turned into a Ieck- ——~ | out. Unless. Every Section and Unit in the Party Throws Its Forces Vigor- ously Into the Circulation Drive, the Daily Worker Remains Un- known to Thousands of Workers. Cam Help Us Greet Angelo Herndon and his courageous attorney BEN DAVIS With a Unity Celebration! Pageantry! Color! Music! In Open Air Theatre, On Lake Ellis We Have Room for You $14 a week. Cars leave 10:30 A.M, daily from 2700 Bronx Park Bast. Fridays, Saturdays, 10 A.M., 3 and 7 P.M. Algonquin 4-1148. Unity FURRIERS! FURRIERS! Forward to the Elections! Election for officers of the Fur Workers Industrial Union will be held this Wednesday and Thursday, August 22nd and 23rd. Manager, organizers and Trade Board will be elected. You are called upon to participate in the elections and select the most capable and devoted workers to carry on your struggles for better living conditions and also help carry on the affairs of the union, Voting will take place on Wednesday and Thursday from 10 o'clock n the morning unt! 8 o'clock in the evening. Furriers! Participate en masse in the elections! Election-Objection Committee Fur Workers Industrial Union, 131 West 28th Street, New York City. TRADE UNION WEEK AT Camp Nitgedaiget Beacon-on-the-Hudson, New York Bring Your Shopmates! Special Programs! Meet ANGELO HERNDON New Plays @ Gay Campfire @ Hear Louis Weinstock—Special Six Piece Jazz Band! $14 a week, Cars leave at 10:30 A.M. from 2700 Bronx Park East daily. On Fridays and Saturdays, 10 A.M., 3 P.M. and 7 P.M, The First Gala Affair for the Benefit of the New York Daily Worker!: DAILY WORKER PICNIC Sports NORTH BEACH PARK — Astoria, L. I. Direction: 1.R.T. or B.M.T. subways, Second Ave. “L" to Ditmars Ave. Bus to the park EStabrook 8-1400 SUNDAY Aug. 26 Admission 25¢