The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 14, 1934, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1954 Workers Endorse Anti-War Congress nphasizes Roosevelt Phones J, WO. in New York Urgent Need of Recruiting | Green On Troops | Far Behind in Drive For the Communist Pariy 2 | directly supports the employers’ pat- weak in the textile ently false charge of workers’ “‘vio- requisite for the con-| lence,” despite his “own belief. . ion of our aim in the strike | that union men have been the vic- Page Two Iron, Steel and Tin A.A. Elects Delegates From Sixth District Court Issues Textile Strike Ei Order Against Shoe Strikers Workers Plan Fight K (Continued from Page 1) By F. B. the Party 7 jcenter. A Today, hundreds of thousands of | cret To Parley in Chicago Broad Arrangements Committee Is Formed in Youngstown, Ohio—Los Angeles Seis Date for Election of Delegates YOUNGSTOWN, O., Sept. 13.—The sixth district con- ference of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers: meeting last Sunday in Muroe, Mich., endorsed Both lodges are in the Steel Corporation mills. This endorsement will undoubt- y spur similar endorsements by f ges and A. F. of L me conference adopted declaring that the of the steel Labor Relations in dealing with each lodge separately would draw out nego- tiations until 1950, and called upon the Steel Board to arra ences of the Iron and Ste tute with all A. A. lodges, threate! ing a strike if the conference is n arranged. A broad arrangements committee for the Chicago Congress was set up in Youngstown. It includes Rey. Jones of the Plymouth Congrega- tional Church; I. Vagnozzi of the Independent Sons of Italy; D. H. Saxon, Commander of the Progres- Sive Veterens Association; Clarence Irwin, president of the A. A., Sixth District; John Steuben, Communist Party Organizer, and Joe Dallet, district secretary of S. M. W. I. U. This provisional committee is to meet tomorrow together with liberal professors, clergymen, social work- ers, veterans and some A. F. of L. members, to plan a drive to bring | the congress before all Youngstown | organization: Los Angeles Makes Plans LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13—Indica- ti of a large Los Angeles County delegation to the second American Congress Against War and Fascism are shown in preparations being made for the conference on Sunday, at 1 p. m., in the Cultural Center, 230 S. Spring St. Delegates to be sent by the Amer- ican League Against War and Fas- cism will be elected at this meeting. At the same time it is expected that several organizations affiliated with | the League will announce delegates to be sent by their own bodies. The conference also has on its agenda the completion of the organ- | ization of the league in Los An- geles as a permanently functioning | organization, built around a city] committee of affiliated organizations | and individual memberships which | will be grouped in neighborhood eer oe! i As a send-off to the delegates and | as a means of raising money for | the trip of the official League del-| bearing away their comrades the | breaking move, egates, a program is scheduled for Saturday evening, Sept. 22, at the Cultural Center. At this time all | pledges previously made are to be | presente? | A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means a tremendous step toward the dictatorship of the proletariat! WORKERS COOPERATIVE COLONY 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST has reduced the rent, several good apartments available. Cultural Activities for Adults, | Youth and Children. | Direction: “.exington Ave. White Plains Trains. Stop at Allerton Ave. station | Office open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.| Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Telephone: Estabrook 8-1400—8-1401 friday and Saturday 9 am. to 5 p.m. Reduced Prices on | AVANTA FARM Ulster Park, N. Y¥. Workers resting place. The same good food and 99.50 per week—$18.00 for two. 10 A.M. boat to Poughkeepsie. Ferry to Highland; 3:20 p.m. train to Ulster Park. Round trip $2.71. | wire the call to the Chicago Anti-War Congress and elected Arthur | . Johnson of Arin Lodge, Canton, as delegate and C. H. Mec- f DeForrest Lodge, Niles, as:3 Governor Green Leads Mill Terror By CARL REEVE (Continued from Page 1) charge on pickets. Louis Gamelin had his left eye torn out. Troops Fire Into Pickets In Saylesville and Central Falls, the mass picket line was cold-blood- edly fired into by 150 National Guard sharpshooters. I surveyed the scene last night at close range less than two hours after the shoot- ling. The shooting was cold-blood- edly prepared in advance. One hundred and fifty sharpshooters were ranged behind a long barbed barricade that was erected during the day by the guards, who dug up the streets and blocked off all traffic on Lonsdale Ave. This barricade extended along a high fence at one border of the cemetery running at high angles to Lonsdale Ave, The guardsmen stood protected by the fence and barbed wire, with their rifles pointing over at the strikers. ‘he pickets came as far as the National Guard deadline al- lowed. earlier declared they would allow Pickets right up to the barricade. But the troopers fired directly into the crowd which was in the cemetery. At the first volley, William Blackwood, a loomfixer and striker, fell, shot through the head. Part of his brains came out in his hat, according to report. He was reported dead last night. Also at the first volley Charles Gorcey fell, fatally shot through the abdomen. He is dying. Fer- hand La Breche, a li-yeear old boy, was shot near the heart and is also dying. This first firing came while the | pickets were picking up wounded who fell in a gas bomb attack. The National Guard had fired vomit gas at the strikers, trying to dis- perse the mass pickets. Two pickets fell. The rest, who had retreated, went forward in the Graveyard to pick up their wounded. At this moment while the strikers were guardsmen volley. Guardsmen Fire Again After the first volley of gunfire which was so deadly, the strikers charged forward and advanced on the guardsmen, facing their sraok- ing guns in order to defend them- Then the guardsmen fired . hitting Nicholas Gravello in shoulder and wounding a num- r of others. When I arrived on the scene, in spite of the guards murderous at- tack, the strikers were still there by the hundred, pushed further back by the Central Falls police and the guardsmen down Lonsdale Ave. to Dexter St. away from the mill. Federal Troops Ready A reign of fascist terror against the strikers is now being prepared, led by Governor Green. Green has mobilized American Legionaires, and war veterans to the number of a thousand, creating an armed band to terrorize the strikers. The federal troops and gunboats at Newport stand ready. And what are the real issues. The real issues are that in Saylesville the strikers were determined to close down the Sayles finishing mill through mass opened their fatal |picketing. Although yesterday only a handful were trying to work in the mill, the National Guards and the police were using all their mur- derous terror in an attempt to keep Enjoy Indian Summer at Camp Nitgedaiget THIS IS NEEDLE TRADES WEEK! @ Rates are lower. @ showers, etc. Bungalows. Programs more interesting. @ comfort. Steam-heated hotel. Every Finest foods. Modern Mt. Beacon Countryside Is Loveliest Now! Leaves Are Turning Red and Gold! Register at Union Office, 131 W. 28th St., for lowered rates: $13 a week; $8 for four days; $6.50 for three; $4.50 for two, and $2.50 for one full day. Special Busses. CAMP UNITY Wingdale, New York Is Open All Through September! PHIL BARD DIRECTS PROGRAMS MORE ROOM @ MORE FUN @ CRISP WEATHER $14 a week; $2.65 a day Cars leave 10:30 A. M. daily from 2700 Bronx Park East The National Guard had| | mill owners’ terror. | (Allerton Ave. subway on White Plains line). Algonquin 4-1148 Against Open Shop Campaign JERSEY CITY, N. J., Sept A drastic injunction against p’ was issued yesterday by Vice-Chan- cellor Charles M. Egan of the Chancery Court heré, against Local 23 of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, restraining the union or any of its represent. from not only conducting any and all strike activities, but even from “communicating to anybody in any way that there is a strike of the company’s employees,” in the condu d by the union agai: 1S th | textile wor! s are at the mill gates in solid picket lines, resisting the attacks of the bosses, resisting the brutality and murderous attacks of the forces of the government. The masses not only are holding their ground, defying all forces of reac- tion, but in their methods of strug- gle, in their tremendous militancy, are defying also the bureaucratic leade! ip, which, working hand-in- hand with the government, maneu- vers to strangle the strike through arbitration. | In the wave of strikes sweeping | strike | the country from coast to coast, the | Ae! Communist Party has been playing | Restful per Company, Inc. |a most important role and is es- | The company, which is operating} tablishing closer contact with the a plant at 80 York St., in Brooklyn, | masses in the factories, strengthen- N. Y., had an agreement with the| ing its influence among the mem- union which expired on Sept. 1.| pers of the A. F. of L., and other When the agreement was about to » organizations. Under the expire, the union asked for a con- ference to negotiate for renewal of | |contract. The reply of the firm was| | that they would have nothing to do with th eun: and locked out the; workers. Thereupon the union de- clared a strike and picketed both | the Brooklyn plant and the new factory of the firm at 31 Wilkinson Ave., in Jersey City, to which the firm, in the meantime, transferred all its machinery, The court order is returnable to the Jersey City Chancery Court on e of the Party, the struggles the m of and against the bureaucracy of the es against the N.R.A A. F. of L. have been inc’ Recruiting Declines In spite of this growing influence, the figures on recruiting in the Party do not reflect our activities. Between May and August, in a pe- riod when the class battles were on the up-grade, the monthly re- cruiting showed a decline. In May, 2,407 members were recruited; in sing. Monday, Sept. 17. A. Isserman, at-| June, 2,384; in July, 1,591; in Au- torney for the union is preparing to} gust,’ 1,400. take legal action to vacate these ~ what do these figures show? How restraining orders. I, Rosenberg, secretary of Local 23 of the U. S. L. W. U., said the | union is very much alert to the }open shop menace of New Jersey and is preparing an organization campaign to fight against the) strikebreaking actions of the Jersey | | courts and for the safeguarding of | the conditions of the shoe and slip- per workers, whether they are em- | ployed in New York or New Jersey. the mill running for Mr. Sayles. | The real issue is that Governor Green under cover of the Red Scare has issued a proclamation against “tumultous essembly” and has or- de ed all strikers to stay home. He using his army of fascist bands and his troops in order to try to! stop mass picketing. Yesterday mass picketing through- out New England made the strike | | even more effective. The mill own- | ers and their State Government | then Jaunched their strikebreaking | | terror in order to stop by force mass | | picketing and thus keep the mills | {open and break the strike. | | U. T. W. in Scab Agreement The same issues are involved in Woonsocket. The attack of the Na- tional Guard there occurred in an effort to keep the Woonsocket Rayon Company opened. In Woonsocket an independent union is leading the strike throughout the city. The United Textile Workers, in a strike- through Francis | Gorman made an agreement with the Rayon Company that it might | keep open. All other mills in Woon- socket are closed tight. The Woon- socket workers came out on the picket lines by the thousands, de- | | termined to strike the Woonsocket |Rayon Company. Green's troops | fired into the masses of the pickets, | | killing one and fatally wounding others. The bullets of Green’s troops | in Woonsocket also were shot into | |unarmed strikers in order to keep | |the Woonsocket Rayon Company | | open with strike breakers, to abolish | the picket lines and to end the mass picketing. Last night in Central Falls and Saylesville I talked to a number of strikers. They are bitter that their fellow workers were murdered. But they continued on the mass picket | lines, They are militantly demand- ing of the Governor the right to | strike, to picket and to assemble. They are demanding of him the immediate withdrawal of the Na- tional Guard, They sent Black-/} wood’s bullet-pierced hat to the Governor yesterday in protest, but they are as determined as ever to win the strike. Determined To Close Mills The solidarity and heroic deter- mination of the strikers to prevent scabbing and close all mills enrages the Rhode Island mill owners and their Governor Green, In the whole situation the U.T.W. leaders have played a disgraceful role, They have from beginning to end furthered the strategy of the mill owners. They have outdone Green himself and the mill owners | | in confusing the issue by raising | the Red Scare. They have accepted the orders against mass picketing | at the Sayles mill and everywhere else and agreed with chiefs of po- | lice and guardsmen that they would | picket with only six or seven. | U. T. W. In Disgraceful Role At the very moment in Sayles- ville when strikers were resisting gunfire and vomit gas, U.T.W. Or- ganizer Sylva was conferring inside the mill with the head of the guard, Dean. They have used the same terms of hoodlum, etc., against mili- tant mass picketers, Furthermore in Woonsocket they again displayed their strategy of Splitting the strike by agreeing to allow the Woonsocket Company to run while the Woonsocket workers were on the picket lines trying to |close it down, In New Bedford yesterday they also allowed a rayon | mill to open under a separate U. T. W. agreement. They are thus| | Splitting and weakening the work- | ers ranks in the face of extreme |Our Readers Must Spread the | Daily Worker Among the Members of All Mass and Fraternal Organ- | ‘Importance! {| izations As a Political Task of First | strike-breakers. can we explain this decline in a period of such gigantic struggies, in a period in which all of the ac- tivities of the Party were intensi- fied, especially when we see how the Party in California, was able, in spite of the terror, to strengthen its ranks and to maintain its recruit- ing in the same proportion as be- fore? Growth of C. P. Neglected This situation is due to the fact | that while the Party is better orien- tated towards shop work; while many more Party members are ac- tive in the trade unions, and espe- cially in the opposition work inside the A. F. of L.; while the Part as a whole, as the recent strik showed, as well as the individual Party members, played a very im- portant role—yet, we did not make the units of the Party, the shop nuclei, the fractions, and each in- dividual member conscious of the importance of strengthening the Party position among the masses by recruiting the best elements of the fighting masses. While every phase of our work, especially during strikes, is discuss- ed, yet recruiting (which means the building of the Party into a mass Party) has not occupied the central Position. The individual Party members are not orientated to con- nect up their activities with the vital task of building the Party. In all textile centers, the Party is active; the Party members are on the picket lines, are known by the masses as the most militant in their ranks, Must Be In Front Ranks Our task in the strikes led by the A. F. of L, bureaucracy is clear, It is the Communist forces, the forces cf opposition against the bureaucrats, that must be in the front ranks, must rally the masses | to prevent a sell-out and lead the masses to victory for their demands. This is also our task in the great textile strike. However, while ideo- logically we have strong influence among these masses, numerically is the strengthening of the Party | tims of violence and not its instige- position among the masses, which | tors.” Ostensibly protesting to Gov- means that the ranks of the Party|crnor Green about the murder of in all textile centers must be swelled | Jude Courtemanche, Gorman wired by new forces. At this moment,|Green today: “Who is to blame for there are no difficulties in making | this situation, the Union or the em- pel al contact with the workers. i we are satisfied to leave the The Party is there in the midst of you.” the masses; the Party is on the| ises Winant Board battle front. The textile worke:s| | Gorman also stressed the de- show through tl¢ir militancy, |featist line of “discipline.” At the| through their determination to win|f@me time he continues to call this battle that they can readiiy|Upon the workers to believe in the | undersand the role of our Party and| Winent board. This body, he de- can see that our Party is the only|Clared today, “is a board of high Party which stands for their de-|minded men. It is a sincere board, | mands and that our Party members| honorable and desirous of being| are constantly on the picket lines | Just. It is not our board, nor man- | with the textile strikers—in the| | forefront of all the struggles. Play More Decisive Role | Shall we fear to bring into our| ranks workers that show such mil- itancy in_ the battles of the as South, Fall River, Rhode Island, | Lancaster, etc It is precisely these elements that will strengthen our Party in the textile cente:s, that will build our Party into a mass Party rooted in the mills, and will be able more strongly to influence the membership of the United Tex- tile Workers Union to take control | of the union into their own hands, | against the bureaucrats and for a/| | militant policy of struggie. Then, | | our Party will play a more decisive | role in the stzuggles of the textile | | workers, | At this moment, every district, | |; and especially the textile districts, | | must make a decisive turn in their | methods of recruitment. In every| | district, especially in the textile dis- | | tricts, special functionaries, unit| | and fraction mectings shall be call- |ed to discuss the problems of re- |cruiting and fluctuation so that | each individual Party member shall | | understand that one of his main | tasks now, while active in the vari- | ous campaigns and in the strikes | going on, is to convince the workers | of the correctness of the position of the Party, and that they belong in the ranks of the vanguard of the | American working class—in the| | Yanks of the Communist Party. | Strikers Must Be Won Over | If, in the textile center, we wouid | succeed in making each individual | Party member, textile worker or| non-textile worker now invoived in the strike conscious of the impor- tance cf recruiting one or two of the strikers, primarily, as well as other workers involved in this struggle, then we would be able in a very short time to more than deuble our membership, and par- ticularly at this time, strengthen tremendously the position of the Party among the striking masses. One of the prerequisites for achieving this aim is to destroy the superiority complex of some of our comrades, who have a fixed doubt as to fitness of militant workers to be ripe encugh for the Party, etc., and believe themselves to be above the rest of the proletariat, Into th rank’ of our fellow-work- ers! Into the front ranks of the picket lines! Bring forward the po- sition of the Party in this strike through meetings, individual con- versation, and show by our example the only road to victory! | Hundreds of textile workers should swell the ranks of the Communist Party! This will become one of the best guarantees for the building of one solid union, able to withstand the attacks of the bosses and the government, and the betrayal of the reformist bureaucrats, 2 Mass Pickets Defy Carolina Troops (Continued from Page 1) are reported working, had only a few strikebreakers in the loom rooms today. There is no cloth coming from the looms. Coming into Belmont this morn- ing, I met a picket line of more than 1,000 in front of the Hatch Hosiery Mill. Hundreds gathered around me, “What paper’s he from?” some- one shouted. “If he’s from the Gas- tonia Gazette, hang him,” came from the other part of the crowd. “He's all right,” the picket captain assured the inquisitive striker; “he’s from a labor paper.” “Nothing But Trains Run” I learned that the Hatch Hosiery Mill, the Big South Fork Yarn Mill, the Perfection Spinning and 16 others were all closed. “Nothing but the trains are running here,” a lean sunburned striker explained. Another waved a torn shirt at me. This, I was told, was ripped off of Diction Miller, manager of the Net Products Mill, after he had slapped a girl picket in the face. Local 2019 of the United Textile Workers of America, which is lead- ing the strike in the Belmont region, has organized 80 per cent of the workers in the mills. Fight Spirit in Gastonia The fighting spirit in Gastonia, scene of the great strike of 1929 which was led by the National Tex- tile Workers Union, is high. Six mass meetings of the strikers were held in the city yesterday. The vote in all of these meetings was 100 per cent for strengthening the strike front by picketing and mili- tant activity. At this moment the strikers are preparing for two more large meetings, Union men and women are picket- | ing all mills in Gastonia outside of the troops areas. They station themselves at strategic positions where the deputies’ cars pass with Every time a car- | load of scabs comes near the picket line a deafening war whoop’ goes up from the crowd, Although dep- uty sheriffs are patrolling the streets in the vicinity of the milis and are searching everybody who enters the area, they have been un- able to stop the picketing, F, E. R. A. Withholds Relief At the local union headquarters (Local 2121) I was told that strik- ers were denied relief at the Fed- eral Relief Agency. A delegation of strikers went today to Major Bul- winkle, local Democratic Congress- man who was the chief prosecutor at the 1929 Gastonia strike. Bul- winkle told the workers to go back to work in the Loray Mill and added that there would be no Gov- ernment relief forthcoming. Following the interview with the Congressman, the local strike head- quarters began the work of setting up a relief organization. Relief is already coming in from workers’ organizations and local merchants who are sympathetic with the strike. Eighty Per Cent Organized Local Union President J. R, Mc- Gee declared today that 80 per cent of the Gastonia textile workers are organized in the U.T. W. The mills in Bessemer City and Shelby are still completely shut down by the strike. These towns are 100 per cent unionized, as are Gaffney and Blacksburg, South Carolina. Strikers in Gastonia describe the deputies sworn in to terrorize the workers as “the most vicious ele- ment in the area.” Many of them have long criminal records, a local unicn organizer told me today, Los Angeles Relief Men Plan Fight on Wage Cut LOS ANGELES, Calif. Sept. 13. —Reflecting the immediate reac- tion of the relief workers to the 25 to 30 per cent wage cut on S.E.R.A. jobs, a group of workers held an organizational meeting here Sun- day at 3015 South San Pedro Street. Representatives were present from several S. E. R. A. jobs in Los An~ geles County and they constituted themselves a Provisional Commit- ‘ee to arrange a large mass meet agement’s board. It is the Presi- dent's board and it is thus the pub- | lic board.” This sort of reasoning recalls the newspaper fantasies during the San Francisco marine strike. According to them, it was the “public” that raided and shot | down workers and Nevertheless. says Gorman, Roose- velt is, Hitler-fashion, above the | struggle. | “Violence is no part of our pro- | gram and I call upon all members | of the U.T.W, and all strikers who have not yet joined the union to} make no resort to violence,” Gor- man announced at noon today. He continued: “There is at this mo- ment conflict in Rhode Island be- tween troops and strikers or strike sympathizers. We do not know who! may be among the strikers without any legitimate reason for being there, nor do we know what part such persons, if there are such, may | have played. What we do know is that the union men of America be- lieve in peaceful processes. Union men will not resort to violence. Union men will seek to preserve their own rights under the law, but they will not destroy the law by their own acts. My own belief is that union men have been the vic- tims of violence and not its insti- gators ... our strike line this morn- ing is in magnificent condition. The strike committee relies upon the discipline of our members every- where to keep it so. To permit our members to be drawn into conflict with troops anywhere is to invite defeat. No union can stand against the machine guns of troops. I hold every squad captain strictly ac- countable and the strike committee expects discipline—that is what has brought us to this high point and that is what will carry us on to final victory.” Rieve Sends Back Hosiery Strikers Many reporters covering strike headquarters here were surprised to hear Emil Rieve, president of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers (A. F. of L.) announce that about 15,000 Philadelphia Ho- siery strikers had been ordered back into the plants. “They came out in violation of the national contract,” Rieve ex- plained. “Didn’t they have any demands— reasons for striking?” a reporter asked Rieve. “Oh, they were just enthusiastic about the situation. They just lost their heads,” Rieve replied. “Do you think that mere en- thusiasm would lead them to leave the mills?” “I think so.” “Suppose they don’t go back?” “They'll go back.” In the meantime nearly 20,000 non-union seamless mills in the South and in all the Northern full- fashioned mills where the union rate is not being paid, Rieve de- clared, struck in Des Moines, Iowa; Columbus, Ga.; High Point, N. C. Kalausner, Ky.; Atlanta, Ga.; Springfield, Mass.; Durham, N, C.; and Lafayette, Ga. Pennsylvania Jobless Present Relief Demands To State Legislature (Special to the Daily Worker) HARRISBURG, Pa.,’ Sept. 13.— Three hundred representatives of the unemployed workers of Penn- sylvania today crowded into the State Legislature and took over a joint session of both houses to pre- sent the demands of the unemploy- ment Councils and united front or- ganizations for increased relief and the enactment of unemployment insurance. After six speakers had addressed the session for an hour and a half the mass delegation pro- ceeded to the office of Governor Pinchot and presented the same five-point program for increased relief. Legislators hear Phil Frankfeld denounce the delay of state author— ities in providing relief, the starva- tion orders issued to unemployed, and warn them that the workers would increase the fight for ade- quate relief. Woods, Careathers, Wells, Hallas, and Paul also spoke, dealing with the struggle against evictions, Negro discrimination, and police terror against the workers. Thugs Attack Meeting in Chicago, Wound Two CHICAGO, Sept. 13—A gang of six hoodlums attacked a meeting in Washington Square Monday night and wounded two workers who were listening to a speaker. Four of the hoodiums were later arrested. The gangsters at first tried to break up the meeting by driving their car into the crowd. When workers struck the driver in the jaw and forced him to drive the | car back, the thugs left the car and rushed the meeting. One of them remained in the car and fired sev- eral bullets into the crowd, wound- sympathizers. | For taking an outright anti-Com~ at Workers’ Order $60,000 drive! Workers’ Enemies Exposed munist, peity-bourgeois nationalist stand, Cecil S. Hope, an active Ne- gro member of New Yo:k for the last five years, has been expelled from the Communist Party. At this time, when the ruling class terror and the rising resistance of the Negro masses is rapidly dividing the Negro people (as in- deed, the whole world) into two camps: on one hand the vast mass of Negroes rallying to a relentless fight against their oppressors and for full equality and national liber- ation; while, on the other hand, certain vacillating, petty-bourgeois nationalist elements inevitably be- come active, conscious agents of the oppressors against the struggles of the Negro toilers—Cecil Hope has, like George Padmore, chosen the path of compromise and betrayal. Like Padmore, he joins the im- perialist camp in attacking the pro- gram of the Communist Party, which is unifying white and black toilers in joint stzuggle against their common oppressors. Like Padmore, he peddles the unfounded slander that the Communist International has liquidated its, work among the colonial Negro peoples, has aban- doned the fight for the liberation of the colonial masses. Both Pad- more and Hope attempt to cover up the fact that this work is being carried on more energetically than ever, despite Padmore’s base treach- ery. Precisely in this period, when the correctness of the Communist pro- gram on the Negro question is being demonstrated in numerous joint struggles of Negro and white work- ers in the North and in the South, Hope, in his letter of “resignation,” attacks the general Party policy on the Negro question as “being fraught with calamitous consequences for the Negro people and for the entire working class.” The political con- tent of this argument is not new. It is the familiar reformist philos- ophy that, since resistance on the part of the oppressed invites new reprisals from the oppressors, there should be no resistance, but slavish acceptance of oppression, persecu- tion and te:ror. Hope writes that he cannot re- main in the Party “in cowardly re-, bellion against its line,” but what kind of “rebellion” was his hasty, unauthorized return from the West | Indies, some time ago, without car- rying out any activities in the one island which he reached, and with- out making any attempt to reach the destination which was assigned to him. He capitulated to the dif- ficulties placed in the path of all revolutionary workers by the impe- rialist rulers of the islands. For this he was sharply and correctly criti- cized. It is clear now that it was no accident that some letters of Pad- more were received through Hope, but that Hope has acted as the liason agent of Padmore in New York and is completely and abjectly aligned with that renegade and traitor. MEET YOUR COMRADES AT THE 1 th STREET CAFETERIA 3 East 14th Street, N.Y.C. Near 5th Avenue MEET YOUR COMRADES AT THE Cooperative Dining Club ALLERTON AVENUE Cor. Bronx Park East Pure Foods Proletarian Prices ——TO ALL MASS ORGANIZATIONS— ROTOGRAPH Co. Inc. MOVED TO 817 Broadway, Corner 12th Street 10th floor. GRamercy 5-9364 10% REDUCTION on all leaflets, posters, tickets, bulletins, shop papers, etc. -PROMPT AND SATISFACTORY SERVICE- To Raise"Daily’ Fund | Only Two Branches of 190 in City Respond to Call in Press Campaign— Action Urged Meetings Tonight The Daily Worker is today forced to single out the New York I. W. O. as an example of the slow response tol the The I. W. 0. branches in this city have a quota \of $3,500—and the drive has been in progress for virtually =month — but only two branche: have thus far turned in any money. Branch 72—$17.75, and a newly formed English branch, 502 —$7. And there are 190 branches in New York! How unsatisfactory and alarming this situation is. can be further illustrated by referring to some of the returns from Philadelphia, for instance. More than a half-dozen branches in that city have already turned in money. And even that district needs improvement. What are the members of the I. W. 0. goimg to do about this? Nathan Schaffer, secretary of the City Central Committee, in an in- terview with the Daily Worker come time ago, prophesied that the New York I. W. O. would excteded its quoia. But such inactivity is cer- tainty net the proper method of ex- eceding the quota! The Daily Worker urges the members of the organization to realize that it is depending to a great extent upon them to help in raising the $60,000. At their meetings tonight the 1. W. 0. branches should take up the question, make collections, and ap- point committees to provide for the immediate raising of funds. 10,900 Score End of Hosiery Strike (Continued from Page 1) the mass meeting was taking place today massed to the defense of Daily Worker agents whose papers had been confiscated by detectives, and forced the plainclothesmen to return the Daily Workers to the agents. When the detectives sought to repeat their usual acts in tak- ing the papers away from the werk- ers, the hosiery workers rallied menacingly around them and forced them to give back the papers. Many Daily Workers were sold. The hosiery workers bitterly cons demned U. T. W. leaders who, while asking them to help picket the struck Aberfoyle Yarn Mills in | Chester, refuse to call them out on strike. The hosiery workers are using yarn manufactured at the scab Aberfoyle mills and demand that their leaders declare a vralk- out against those hosiery mills that use the scab yarn. Dr. S. A. 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