The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 8, 1934, Page 4

: Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1934 CAMPAIGN FOR A. F.L. RANK AND FILE CONFERENCE BEGINS ; mf “. =e “5 | The Fighting | > % ee v? O aa Pilot! A.F.L. Rank and File ™ fs"""* |A Hero and a Judas Te Apher = WALL STREET’S aa ® 4 , E. BRIGGS | . Committee Gird 8 rm oun Confront Each Other: see: CAPITOL Psp was ¢umed over tus \Avitee “eee carters | By SEYMOUR WALDMAN ' a0 ° P ] -. | Washiigencreit “opaeak irantl eo H 2 d S h l held in Buffalo, July 2nd and | = WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 7.—‘Millions have been For ‘Prisco arie y thstrepet Leics eee el n on Vs. Cc uy er acuee hungry but they have destroyed meat and bread.” Committee Prepares Resolutions for National | in the Brooklyn Navy Yard until 1920. Her case is typical of those wo- Angelo Herndon’s Heroic Defiance of Lynchers When aviation became an indus- | | try, it became primarily a war in- dustry, It produced a proletariat This biblical sounding indictment of the Roosevelt | A.A.A. big farmer profit madness was part of the campaign i ‘ ; — BR Seniesa 4 i" A men who under various patriotic s eT tak: | of its own, like all capitalist pro- | Speech of the wealthy Repub- Convention in October—Issues lillusions gave their services in the Enrages George Schuyler, Boot Licking duction does, by exploiting the |Jican Congressman Robert L.|says the following for the Demo- during the World Lackey of Lynch Rulers | worker at the point of pzoduction | |cratic Franklin Roosevelt of the Appeal for Funds were the dupes of rich }and concentrating the means of | Bacon, of the exclusive North | Hyde Park dynasty. Speaking over = eee aca women like Mrs, Vanderbilt, eic., a | production in the hands of a few.|Shore, Long Island colony.| the National Radio Forum, over NEW YORK—Addressing itself to all trade unions and | who out of a “sense of duty”| Dr CVE SG Fee ance one cant avstem. But As this process, which is inevitably |r; was es ae ieanerys the National Broadcasting 'Com- _ : anizations in the United States. the A. F. of |¢mated ambulance — corps and! hile every honest Negro and lade dele tikes cee der | the process of monopoly, went on,| over a Columbia Broadcasting na-|Pany, Richberg would have us We- other ‘ anizations in the United States, the A. F. of | -onteens to help “the boys.” | White person hails the magnificent which the toilin, inf egelligee 1k |it produced, also inevitably, another | tion-wide hook-up and sent broad-| lieve that : L. Tra ion Committee for Unemployment Insurance and |The snappy _ blue sporty khaki ser ahs ped uineeraey robbad Jana inaremea? poane et ae within the | side to the Washington press corps| _ “The new liberty of the New 7 snadake Ae ; . ati and religious white uniforms|* poe workers themselves, by means of | i -~Con-| Deal is an increased freedom f: : yesterday issued a call for support of the national Gal See the badges for the aif- | Negro hero of the Atlanta, Ga., George Schuyler—Assistant decreasing standards of living, aria ecco spy eens eee Ca ie aon san Cee peo ‘ zonference of the A. F. of L.* — | ferent branches of service together | “/surrection trial, Herndon's Lyncher creasing insecurity and unemploy-| mittee is chair- hard work of the world. Those 1 bodies are Whereas: The general sentiment in the A. F. of L. unions is in favor courageous defiance of the lynch| Schuyler’s role is also to defend | jare unemployed, facing eviction,/against jim-crow oppression and working class. automobile barons and their finan- collectively. for the bullets, club: file delegates tant struggle as ha en show with the speeches and blessing | —) "e : i! peed . : | ment, a consciousness of their ex- 21 bs who arise in this day to orate nd file delegates, to be Pe Sne i gen icc pts te of leone fooled the women as well | Sulers Soe only rage and slan-|that system—the system of jim-| piojtation and a desire born of their Tee eee | upon our ancient liberties are held simultaneously with the! ye it therefore "\as the men, These women like oe rate _ t Gearlonyl 6 0 ee beh cectant ia aaah vapals of the | instinct for self-preservation, to re-| ings of Dela using either the tactics of the ; convention of the American) Resolved: That —________ | their brothers in the trenches were | (| Sine and colueiee = Ag a seseare oie hae Aran sist it. This consciousness and this| aware, a gentle- demagogue by defending that ¢ sh ¥ 7d to mobilize the mem- | pushed into the horror and filth of | Pit peas “lo Sou feat | expiotiat Lar fh der hite | 2esite, accompanied by the realiza-|man opposed which no one is attacking, or they ets Ba Re ip for a militant struggle to|the last slaughter by the fat- re u ey unofficia eg Hs s © ment buvee. |tion that individually the worker | even to compul- are making a low appeal to class in the first week of October wrest from the employers higher | bellied flag wavers who marched ment piece a he NAACP. lead- fame it i would be impotent to resist his ex-|sory arbitration interests and blind selfishness in ne A. FP. of L. Committee, cit- tai the acne Tising living | with “their boys” as far as the beta? oe the “New Deal” ad- ee Saat bea ne ied ploitation, has produced within the/as a substitute a time when the preservation of aoe She cy costs to the end that we may raise | Hoboken pier, there to excuse them- ea Sagat a t 2 eye sd mga e paseo ne) aeronautical industry, among its|for machine national health and the perpetua- pepore ion e living and working standards of | selves on importent business, such], s*7rau” jas feet t Bee be vainly. sheet BPD gerne highly skilled and war-propagan-|zuns, who at we tion of our free institutions de- ! hoets ioe ncrican labor and ihe shortening | as watching the latest rise in steel | fot nent of a pierce sane tide Meg des adn oni aver ag | dized workers, a new crop of| present is tele- "§ Waldman pends upon honest candid discus- erence be sent 10 tne office of of hours to provide employment for | and wheat. tionist," screamed Assistant Prose. | the oppressed Negro masses to im-| WorKers’ organizations where prac-| phoning his ston: of our actual problems and “Committee, 1 Union Square, *@litional hundreds of thousands of | Twenty years after, the veterans, | cutor "Walter LeCraw, brother of | perialism desperately seek to shat. | ticaly none ever existed before, de-|:ampaign re- upon finding ways to meet them.” New York. : i . unemployed workers. ;now dough-less boys, and their sis-| the president of the Atlanta Cham- | ter the growing unity of Negro and | signed as the instrument to resist |Jeases from Newport, Rhode Island,| The “new liberty” as contrasted Prominent among the resolut RESOLUTIGN ters who were nurses, yeomenettes, | her of Commerce, at the Atlanta | white workers in the fight for the | their exploitation in precisely the |the most fashionable summer hab-} with that the bonus marchers en- Meee the committen already 5 and even, drivers of ambulances | trial” and demanded death in the | liberation of the Negro people and | Only manner that all workers every- itat of American capitalism’s rail- | joyed urder Hoovér’s bayonets, tear broadcasting to local unions and On Unemployment Insurance —_| donated by Park Avenue dowagers,| electric chair for this heroic fighter |the emancipation of the whole | where and at all times can—namely, |road, marine, textile, steel, and bullets, evidently is the manding a fight fi in the face of ris 5.5, a resolution calling for a fight on company unionism and a resolution ng the position of Green an Francisco strike, and of the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, as is evident from the endorsement of this bill by over 2,000 local unions, 30 Central Labor Bodies, four State Federa- tions of Labor, four International and where disabled, looked upon as | stary; undeserving “treasury raiders.” The Price of Eggs This letter reveals how little the uling c’ care about the “sanc- ation. The indignant protests of the working class saved Hern- don from the electric chair. The lynchers, however, _ sought |achieve his murder by the less tity of American womanhood.” It | dramatic means of torture on the| to} Schuyler attacks the Communist defens: Party which is organizing and Jead- | up just lately. ing that struggle and successfully | up independently at first, like the |@8aged in convincing a sufficient rallying the white masses to the| Air Lines Pilots’ Association, only | of the Negro people. To to affiliate later with the American |®4 big landlords that the Repub- . the Communists waging | Federation of Labor. These organizations have sprung | Some have sprung | Some have | cial and political associates. Mr. Hastings’ crowd is primarily number of bankers, industrialists lican party, ennobled by the Hard- ‘as the unarmed w ed at Toledo, Mi apolis, Detroit and San Franci and now in a dozen textile towns from Maine to Alabama. The Roesevelt Demagogy Z mae e : : . " |ing-Daugherty oil graft, Coolidge’s AAR 2 one on unemployment insurance. tears the veil from the false prom- | Notorious Georgia chain gang. this fight are all lunatics. But, sig- | sprung up independently and after | * ‘ However, it would be ovor-sim- These resolutions will be brought to Unions and innumerable fraternal | ‘€@"S : a | - ; fficantly, Ge 7 i i |position on the favorite customer i *S 4 ji ase aN mete pes organ teatigns to Whleh Ac. of T, PS of Roosevelt and his National Lynch Lords in New Offensive nificantly, George Padmore, who | affiliating with the A. F. of L., have |list of J. P. Morg: & Company, | Plification to say ‘that Roosevelt is The A. F. of L. committee, it is recalled, was the body responsible members belong, and Whereas: This pressure of the Economy League Government. It} E The working class responded to also shows us what the ex-service- - Lah the courage of this fearless Negro men and women are thinking about | jeader. 7s abandons the fight and adopts a program of compromise and be- trayal of the Negro masses, gain: later revolted from it, like the| Hartford group. Some have sprung | up directly under the influence of and Hoover’s and Mellon's gifts of hundreds of millions to Charley | just like Hoover. He isn’t. though his fundamental object is the s2 é t |—the perpetuation of cepite Bane are tne Workers, UReRIDOY | Conereas sae sithe z Woreeee’ Bil, | Ode) |engaged im the utmost sacrifices fo |tBe status of a hero in Schuvler’s|the A. F. of L. and have never [fe "preferred ‘to tne Deuroeratis | everiteles, Roorevelt’s denazosi 2 Pela aGardeas ress K y. x | most 5 pase “Go, F oO rati a mient Insurance Bill in the Feder Congress of the orkers' Necdless to say the National! provide the exorbitant $15,000 bail |/¢%¢S— George Padmore ... a bril- | escaped it. Pp r ie ic tion, obtaining over 2,000 endors ments of the bill by local unions, central bodies and international union conventions. known as H. R. 7598, and Whereas: Unemployment has not been materially reduced despite the stagger plan of the N.R.A,, the Rank and File Commitee in Wash-|demanded for Herndon’s release, ington has taken up this woman's | pending appeal against the atro- case and through its rehabilitation | cious sentence of 18 to 20 years on officer is doing its utmost to see|the chain gang. By their protests |liant young radical... .” For Schuyler and his kind, the traitor |Padmore is the hero. not Angelo | Herndon, the fearless fighter of the Others have sprung up genuinely independently and have remained so. But they have all sprung up 80 | Party of Wilson, Roosevelt, Walter | Teagle, Tammany Jim Farley and) Vincent Astor as the executive com- mittee of the American ruling class. phrases, despite a year of codified slavery, near starvation ahd bil- lions approvriated for imverial'st war preparations. still delude man uu >. ic work: > |Tecently that it was not until just 5, { | workers into believing that he is Besides the fourteen se ye ene clang nace aay that she receives adequate atten-| and sacrifizes they have tempo- working class and Negro masses. | a short while ago that any attempt | ape ae SRRCEe ke wae uns | trying to give them a hetter lif> pens ey sie Salts aie ee a ania: 16 million jobless ‘men | tion and justice. \rarily rescued Herndon, But Hern- No Siander Too Cheap for jat national organization was ever tinder Hoover’s policy of “rugged | With collective bergaining and re ai Spay Vanesa east and women in this country, who will | _Here is the letter: |don is not yet completely free. The Schuyler made. individualism” offers more to the | UO" Tecognition thrown in as the question of the struggle for the jonly be provided for when the | Chairman Pollard. sinister threat of torture and death | Tt is clear that anyone who can| an attempt at national organiza-| slaving workers and small farmers|7@#Ular dessert. And as long as freedom of Tom Moones. the fight | Workers’ Unemployment and Social | Board of Veterans’ Appeals, jon the chain gang still hangs over Gesvend to Schuyler's cheap slander tion of the aircraft workers was|than the vomit gas of PepmeveIUE eh ean ee one ae for the fr2edom of the Scottsboro | Insurance Bill will be adopted, and Washington, D. C. j this heroic Negro leader, of heroic Angelo Herndon and, like | made at Buffalo, on July 2nd, when | “individual self-reliance.” jae cot (Abe cs they. Will Bem m= athe fights ‘fascism and| Whereas: The leading officials of | My postcard protest mailed i The lynch rulers, taken b |Schuyler, can chortle with glee at! delegates from local organizations| ‘Tweedidee Answers Tweedidum |CPNe suns instead of food. Boys, the fight against fascism an' . ing : ly | pos' protest 1 on} uy 1 waken by sur- | the prospect of the Scottsboro Boys | °° °83te it ial That mere and more workers, he danger of a new war. the A. F. of L, aware of the | receipt of your capitalistic decision| prise by the splendid demonstra- “» | all over the United States met| Factually, a substantial part of | the dang Some of the resolutions follow: RESOLUTION For Wage Increases and Improved Working Conditions Whereas: One year of the N.R.A., despite all ballyhoo, has meant a drastic attack on the conditions of sentiment of the rank and file, are nevertheless backing the Wagner bill, which will not provide for the millions now unemployed and which is a scheme designed by the em- ployers and government to side- track real unemployment insurance, and Whereas, The Workers’ Bill is the to reject my claim for War Risk Insurance compensation, was sent} because I did not have sufficient funds to buy a three cent stamp for letter postage. As I have since managed to get that huge sum, I am able to write more at length. This letter has been inspired by tion of the solidarity of white and Negro workers in raising Hern- don’s bail in the incredible short time of 20 days, have now rallied their forces for a counter attack. | George Schuyler squirms into the limelight as the chief assistant lyncher in this attack. | being “fried in the electric chair” is not above engaging in any slan- | der and lies against the fighters for |Negro liberation. It: is, therefore, | Not survrising that Schuyler at- | tacks as “opportunists” and “Uncle |Toms” (1!) every Negro leader of |the Communist Party, or that he | peddles the le that’ Otto Huis- there in National Convention for | the first time. | The Convention was called by a so-called “Continuing Committee.” | It seems that certain of the local| organizations had attempted inde- pendently to get something done at Washington about the codes. In the | the truth is admitted by the Hon. Bacon and by such an ornament gf the New Deal as the Hon. Donald R. Richberg, genéral counsel of the N.R.A., Executive Director of the National Emergency Council and Executive Secretary of the Execu- | tive Council. It is campaign time. however, have decided to struggle for a really hetter life, under the leadership of the Communist Party, was shown in the officially an- nounced 180.000 votes (2,000 more precincts still to be heard from) east for the brilliant, fighting In- ternational Labor Defense attorney, Leo Gallagher. the Communist-en- the workers with a direct wage cut the check my husband received tl Schuyler knows that an. addi-| woud, Richard B. M. “1 | course of these isolated attempts|And when Tweedldee castigates| 4... naie é Aes N at isba ce s i | . . Moore and Cyril | dorsed candidate for Associate of more than 49 per cent and in the only bill which will force & syste™ morning from the Pacific Coopera- | tional $15,000 must be raised imme-| Briggs “were ihrown out of the | they Made cross agreements among |TWeedldum we learn something | one candidate | for ‘Supreme basic producing industries around of unemployment insurance for tive Poultry Producers of $3.86 for|diately by the International Labor Garvey burlesque,” when he well| themselves, thus making their at- about both. ‘ Court. 60 per cent, while at the same time | every unemployed worker out of the 129 dozen eggs (four cases). They | Defense to carry the Herndon and | knows that these comrades were | tempts more of a common effort,| Bacon attacked “the surface food prices rose 20 per cent since funds of the government and the | s S March, 1933, and the profits of most corporations have increased nearly 450 per cent, and Whereas: Our officials have shown in their day to day activity employers, be it therefore Resolved: That the —————_—— go on record as endorsing the bill, and pledging to put pressure on Congress for its enactment into law and that a national drive for the credited us with $18.96 then de- | Scottskoro appeals to the U. S. Su- ducted all the rest of the money|preme Court. Unless this is done, for the high-priced feed our be-;and the mass fight intensified, loved President, Franklin D. Roose- | Herndon will be murdered on the velt, forced on the poultry and/chain gang, the Scottsboro boys egg producers for the benefit of | will be burned in the electric chair. jmever members of the Garvey movement, that from the very fir: they relentlessly exposed Garvey program as reactionary and uto- pian. And at a time when Schuy- Jer and his then associates, Ran- | (the bosses national union). They discovered that they were forced to deal with the National Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce That body told them that they could hope to get an effective hearing only if pleasantries of Mr. Richberg’s state- ment of employment conditions” and the latter's arbitrary selection of March 1933 “as a basing point in working out his statistics al- though that period represents ex- Workers all over the country are awakening to the necessity for wag- ing a struggle for a decent life— awakening to the Communist Party program for unemployment insur- ance at the expense of the em- that they do not protect the inter- rive the dealers, who are thus getting So George Schuyler tries to sabo- : Se mia eats | Lhiey ea ization, | ‘Taerdinary conditions —_ brought ployers and the government, as ésts of the membership but are endorsement of the bill in every' enormous profits for grain and| tage ee campaign for this fanid.| caivee oe tibigee Makers var oan SA baad ERE RE: Cooma | bee by the banking panic and | Provided for in the Wozkers Unem- rather concerned with safeguarding local shall be immediately started other farm products they have|His method is to attempt to un- | might: AS anette DtoHtabls for talttes’was-born: Its purpose was, |the order closing practically every Digg nt Insurance Bill; to the the profits of the employers and to bring greater mass pressure 10° ‘forced the farmers to sell to them dermine the confidence of the|them to get into the "Garvey bur- | not only to cary on efforts at code |D@nking and business establishment | #t for the rights of free sneech they act as General Johnson put it adopion of this measure, and be it at ryinously low prices, $3.86 aver- | workers in Herndon. In his column | jesque paady \hearings as best it could, but also|!" America.” “In fact.” continues to the battle for to the industrialists when he said: | further ‘ages about 3 cents a dozen, and|in the Pittsburgh Courier of Aug.| ‘Thro | x i Bacon. “millions have been in need as proposed by the “their interests are your (the em- Ployers) interests,” and Whereas: Forty millions of wage earners and their families are more than any others entitled to the Wealth of the country, since it was the toil of labor that created this wealth, and Whereas: The workers can only @ain better conditions through mili- Resolved: That pending the bill’s enactment into law that the A. F. of L. demand adequate relief for the unemployed from State and city authorities. The addtional resolutions to be introduced in‘o the A. F. of L. con- vention will be published in suc- ceeding issues of the “Daily Work- er.” ¢ ® work on the farm and improper|the South determined to organize | slanderous Me that “although there|jocal made a motion that any na- fer wesc hee eee ak ees LERMAN BRO :. $ ° footwear, and with serious internal | white and Negro workers together | was a Communist Party then, they tional organization resulting from | egt evel of any pericd durin; the =. iving if CS) EF UDLIC vowe ‘ca attested to by well in Joint struggles against “their |did not belong to it because’ their y pe ing out of that three cents must be| vaid the poultry litter. lights, water | for the poultry, interest on our mortgages, taz clothing. living, | and—the gas that takes the eggs | in to Portland, about 66 cents a} | trip. No board of workers or farmers would have cecided that a 52-year- old woman, crippled from her waist down with vice-connected arth- t trouble, half blind, with sight impaired in the service, with feet brcken down because of hard known private phvsicians as well jas your own staff of many doc- I | 25, this renegade Negro makes the slanderous insinuation that Hern- don will betray the confidence of those who loaned their last pen- nies to secure his release on bail: “Herndon is out on bail (and will probably skip it, like the rest) Herndon Has No Fear of the Lynchers In the face of Herndon’s fearless conduct in the court of the enemy, Schuyler dares make this slander- ous insinuation, Herndon went into common oppressors. That he knew what to expect at the hands of the of which I was editor, and the African Blood Brotherhocd, a mili- tant organization based on the class and national struggle, Moore, Huiswood and Briggs carried on the fight for clarity on the Negro liberation struggle. against Gar- vey's confused and utopian pro- gram and its reactionary attributes of black imperialism. All three of us were members of the then illegal the A. B. B.,- despite Schuyler's eyes were glued on Africa where Communist Party, and worked as | the leading Communist fraction in | | | Through the Crusader Magazine, | to call a national convention of all local organizations as soon as pos- sible for the purpose of forming a National Aeronautical Workers’ Union. The call sent out by the “Con- tinuing Committee” was couched in such terms as to make it appear that one of the main objectives of the forthcoming convention would from the clutches of the A. F. of L. The convention assembled, and no sooner had it sat down than one of the delegates from an A. F. of L. the convention should affiliate with the A. F. of L., This caused a tre- be to free the aeronautical workers | of clothing but they have destroyed the basic materials and paid for that destruction with public funds.” And so on and so forth. Now, Bacon and his crew, of | course, aren’t concerned with the ;near starvation condition of hun- dreds of thousands of American workers and farmers nor with the Richberg admissions that the aver- age manufecturing worker's real wage from June 1933 to June 1934 dropped 1.1 per cent and that Feb- ruary 1935 will see 5.000.000 families depression.” That is, he does not think that the workers’ families Bill of Negro rights; against the growing capitalist terror and im- perialist war preparations. In the struggle for these im- mediate steps to mitigate their misery, the American workers and farmers and their aliics frem the lower middl> and professional classes will make great strides to- ward the ultimate geal, a prole- tarian democracy—a Sovict America. STATIONERS and UNION PRINTERS they hoped one day to sit regally|mendous outburst of disapproval a s tors) was well and able to earn| brutal ruling class is clearly shown|on the backs of the black workers.” | from nee And apanaans ablagites: Sng alee, Lenape aa aal apa pace eee W at 1¢ Wa I ) ts her own living. That remained for | in his ringing defiance to the lynch} Schuyler knows the facts. But whip; Haturmileek thal actanione pay: || Special Prices for Organizations Because we stuck to our policy of maintaining high standards in qual- ity and workmanship, the public has rewarded us with its confidence and patronage. Today, in this market, where selling is difficult, our clothes are meeting a steadily increasing volume of sales, because they represent better values for less money. Our ready-to-wear clothes represent the latest in fabrics, tones and work- $16.50—$19.50-—$23.50 fabric and tone they wish ... the fitting is left to our expert design- ers, who assure you of a garment worth much more than $25 and $30. ja paid board to do. We farm the land and the paras- | tical class farms us. Their decision is that my husband and I must} leave the place we have deveioned | and enriched by our toil, and your armed thugs. sheriffs, police, army and navy will see to it that we go. The War Risk Insurance policy for $10,000 which I was urged to} take cut when the last J. P. Morgan | |war was at its height, is a joke, and I am the butt of thet joke. | Proud of Revelutionary Ancestry | I used to be proud of my pre- | Revolutionary and Revolutionary ancestry, and am still, but for a | different reason. I boast of them now because they. too, belonged to perasitical class that even then was |breeding upon them. They antedate |parasitical class, are now wresting our homes and our families from us | while weving your bunting. erscit- | ing it with what was accomolished rulers during his “trial”: “You may do what you will with Angelo Herndon. You may indict him. You may put him in jail, But there will come thon- sands of Angelo Hrrndons. If you want to really do anything about the case, you must go out | truth means nothing to this creat- | ure of the lynch lords who has | sunk so low in the filth of treach- jery as to slander and attack the heroic Angelo Herndon and the mass fight for the safety and free- dom of Herndon and the Scotts- boro boys. < death. Your capitalistic god holds {no terror for me, sitting, as your |clergy so beautifully pictures him, on a golden throne, with a golden crown on his head, and plaving a golden harp, sending all who do not obey your vicious laws to fiery torment. I undersiand our president gave and gentlemen smokinz ciearettes and sipping their wine and Theirs are the streets, the alleys, and the highways. A Military Shroud have my* militery cape. I still want to burden my country by in- creasing the pension list. That what I did I gave freely and gladly. It is pitiful to think of the train- ing American children are given in the public schools. All honor and respect given to the parasites; the workers and farmers belittled. 1 was a product of these capitalistic situation was hopeless, and that the money lenders were prevaring Revolution, knittins. we are knitting, Clairton, Pa., Jobless was trying to be put over on them. The motion was held out of order. Later on, however, the same mo- tion came up in a different man- ner, A motion was made that we “try to affiliate.” It did not stipu- late who with. This was passed by a majority of one vote, and almost broke up the convention, but was rescinded when the A. F. of L. dele- gates saw that the Independents were just about ready to go home and call it a day before any na- tional organization had been de- cided upon. A further motion was made to table the question of af- filiation. Questions of. organizational forms effort was made to require citizen- ship as a qualification for member- were finally decided cn. tion of affiliation was finally de- ferred to a referendum yote two months in the future. The convention ended with the The ques- keep them alive—a prey to mal- | nutrition. Hastings, from his Newport re- treat, sends word that “The N.R.A. might have been reasonably suc- cessful if its activities had been reasonably confined. If we had con- fined our efforts to encouraging business and capital instead of putting it in a government straight- jacket (which “jacket” netted the cornoraticns an increase of 600 per cent profit in the year’s period when the worker's réal wage dropped 1.1 ner cent—S. W.), we | 29 EAST 14th STREET New York City ALgonquin 4-2356—4-8849—4-7823 RUSSIAN ART SHOP. Inc. 09 E. 4th St. and 9 W. 42d St. Imports from the SOVIET UNION GIFTS - TOYS - NOVELTIES would have done much more for the unemployed than we have done.” But the nub of the Bacon- Hastings attacks is Hastings’ state- ment thet: “If it be practicable by time to nut such a nolicy in force is when the materiel benefits of the nation are rannine high.” What the Richberg. the former Bull Mooser who worked for Revublican Teddy Roosevelt of the Ovster Bay estate, For Meetings, Dances, Banquets, Conventions, Ets. STUYVESANT ide” and policies were proceeded to. An manship; and are priced to meet the |™Y own class. the ee and) & a a set ga oe at diy Gal for compe Pesca aes create highly |Jegislative enzetment to ore widely CASINO s , Ss. wi veloped and made| over the io. To whom, I won- a] 3 ral Sora te nefits, the 8 most conservative budget leat this pees Segue of the| der. To nice, smug, pudgy, ladies |sation due me when 1 saw. our| Pid officers, but was defeated, An|soread the materia 140-142 2nd Ay. Near 9th St. Catering for All Occasions <p aly r ays = rh f stroa to take from us our home, :| Ship. This was also defeated. For men a trifle more critical, we |the Americon flag. Tt was not r| whiskey. The tal‘, lean, strong AclauNaia eR @, our)" A skeleton form of national or-| Workers and smell farmers should | se: ciniia qa Aen ORITAL GTORE tai stom tail d t- piece of bunting that inspired; men ard women who laid the els, rything we possess. idea |eat during years of capitalist crisis|| Tear’ sraRTED ADVESTOING IN iealgees epeiaai caress cue nd ao ‘their ardor, Thev fought for their| foundation and built up this You are triumphant now. Like omameree? bled fecotas anlar Hostines nevlects to sav. (HE DAILY WORKER 3 YEARS AGO. ment where they may choose any ere and their families. You. the| country no longer have firesides, | Madame Lafarge of the French |0n. Ce:tain organizational Policies Going to Russia? by the workers and farmers long| which I carefully kept all these (everything between them was just Pak Veena 3 before it was ever thought of or | years, When our mortgage is fore-| Meet To Plan Demands 2°"°"2! feeling that something con- | one Iong love song. We specialize in If appearance means anything to desiqn: closed, I shall wrap myself in this “structive in the way of greate> ee A United Front of Independent ee hata Bie gee aper your future, you'll be well pleased in | 1 »m sendin a copy of this let- | garment, which is the only heavy] GrarRTON, Pa, Sept. 7—Four| onthe, Mucratt Workers had been! and honest delegates against the Wile angen tecgbenne sheet Jackfi ment ter to our got preside: cloak I now pos: and tegether idea neeainhlt y | achieved. A great many of the In-| corrupt and crafty reactionary | day market prices to all workers, a Jackfin garment. aciea eae | eit iy anedical discbaree. ennnon pagoeee Woes PS pelea tee cemenaene delegates theze were american Federation of Labor lead- Drop in and judge for yourself. [his own stiff ts than the one| notices from the banks, and your Shady coupe \ oe he apes but inexperienced with the| ers is being organized to be pre- : 5 se [ho forces the vetcrans to arcent.|decision. select some comer in| C21 of the Unemployment Councils | treachery of the A. F. of L. leader-| sented at the next Convention. in Not for us are $50.007 pools built.| Portland on which to starve to|° Dlairton. sod eye to plan | ship. They agreed to empower the| October in Buffalo. A program for nor e711 we beths in nerfrmed|death, If I should recover from the | 2¢tien in the fight for increased ze-| “Continuing Committee” to carry|militant and independent united Army & Navy Store ' A ial lot of Suit id I rted satér. TLuckw indee ie a 21 lief. on until national officers could be | action of cil aerenauticel workers, A special lot 0: uits an mobortet water. Lucky indeed am I to h-ve|cperation I am now about to The d ds adopted and id 4 chilis A A | yosen 1 in which to bathe.|undergo and which you knew all e demands adopted and around | elected. They went home to await} both skilled and unskilled, em- 121 3rd Avenue, N.Y.C. Harris Tweed Topccats priced for our SOR i tees eae ek ae ace | eee oP ed nich rations are und: 4 we cee Les ele ae Jo: even drink, Soon it will be cut|abcut when-vou rendered your in-| Which preparations sy Wey | further word from them in the way | ployed and unemployed, will be (Two doors from 14th Street) Fall opening at $16.50. lof, for we can no loner pay for| famous decision. for participation in the State-wide of completed deteils of the conven-| presented with iron clad provisions |elestric power to Keep cur water| Your excuse for refusing to grant | hunger merch to Harrisburg on Oct. tion in the form of minutes and |for rank and file democratic control. e |eystem onersting, me the war risk insurance for| 12, include: immediate increased | constitution and by-laws, etc. They| Tas a delegate appeal and urge all|| yowper PRICES IN THE fees ‘o<s'bly Last Letter which I paid and to which by |¢@sh_ relief without discrimination, | didn’t suspect what was in store for| Aircraft organizations to support WORLD FOR THE WORKERS 1 : | This is nz sent to yo on the every right I am entitled, ap-|Telief to single and young workers. them, the coming conference. The con- j ac n lot ing Ox. eve of my entering the Veterans parently is that I allowed too many |7emts, coal, light and gas, and) yyhen the minutes from the con-|ference will be held August 25th, A Full Line of ’ ¢ ‘Administration here n Portlind for| years to elanse between the time | Medical and dental aid to the job-| vention arrived in printed form, it| 1934, at 1755 Broadway, New York WaIae Wea oe be 91 FIFTH AVE., COR. 17TH ST @m operation. I mev nct re-|of my ical discharge and en- | less. wes discovezed that the “Continuing | City, at 10:30 a.m. For further in- wool sweaters, pants and breeches cover, so I am taking this opportu- terint my claim. At my discharge Commitiec” hed twisted everything formation write in to them regard- ‘ for work and dress. Army shirts OPEN DAILY 8 A.M, TO 9 P.M. ‘nity of writint vou before I enter|the examining doctor asked me| A Red Builder on every busy arcund in the most brazen manner ine the conference, or to this ae Meperit: Warm gloves, so that you wiil know the contempt | what compensation I thought would | street corner in the country means | to make it appear that the conven-| column. I hold for you and your class. |be fair. I was ignorant then, stirred}. a tremendous step toward the | tion had been in complete amity) ONE OF THE | veo waa \ Don't think that Im afraid of|bv patriotism. I told him I did not| dictatorship of the proletariat! with the A. F. of L, and that AIRCRAFT DELEGATE.S