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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1934 Page Three COMMUNIST PARTY SPURS ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN CLEVELAND C. P.. Candidate } Police Arrest From the 53rd to the 54th Annual A. F. of L. Coneention ; ‘Union Locals To Hail C. P. Overlooked eer For State Body A Bankrupt Policy, Program---2 Facto Jailed for Distributing rs Officials On 15th Year |Officialdom Tried to| expressed the utmost faith in the;bosom of the government which in | C.P. Bulletins at Railroad Shops CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 16—In an effort to check the election cam- Paign of the Communist Party which has been penetrating shops angi factories, police recently ar- Tegied Peter Margatich, candidate “t State Representative, as he was distributing bulletins issued by the Communist Party nucleus in the Collinwood shops of the New York Central Railroad here, The bulletin carried articles ex- posing Charles Ely, mayor of Euclid Village, who was recently revealed as the tool of beer and slot machine racketeers. One article in particu- lar revealed his role in breaking the Chase Brass Co, strike last April. Small Election Meetings The Communist campaign com- mittee here has developed a unique method of carrying its message to working class neighborhoods. It consists of arranging meetings, through small neighborhood com- mittees in the homes of workers or on their porches and in back yards; when possible. Five such meetings have been held with signal success for Yetta Land, candidate for State Attorney-General. The workers present at one such meeting decided to take on them- selves the arrangement of a large- scale election rally which will be held in the Alta Hall on Friday evening. Distribute Literature In addition to 200,000 copies of the Congressional platform, the fol- lowing will be spread among works ers and farmers in every part of the state: One million stickers and sample ballots, carrying the state platform; 100,000 picture post cards of leading candidates with the chief demands of the campaign; 25,000 copies of the keynote speech of John William- son, district organizer of the Com- munist Party at the Ohio ratifica- tion conference, and thousands of leafiet-size posters in color with drawings illustrating the chief de- mands in the platform, Special Issues of Papers To carry the election fignt to the small home owners, a special elec- tion issue is planned by the “Home Defender,” organ of the Small Home Owners Federaiion, ihe Unem- ployment Councils are considering a similar special issue of the “Hun- ger Fighter.” ‘The language bureaus will issue the Party platform in abbreviated form and will take steps for the wide distribution of every language paper printing election news. Akron Foblies Plan City-Wide Mass Meeting Unemployed Will Hold Rally to Demand In- crease in Relief AKRON, Ohio, Sept. 16—Unem- ployed and relief workers here will demonstrate Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 1 p.m. at the Court House, demand- ing an immediate 25 per cent in- crease in relief, an end to all evic- tions, shoes and winter clothing for the unemployed and payment of coal, gas and electricity, and en- dorsement of the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill by the City Council. The Unemployment Councils point out that of the 48,000 unemployed workers and their dependents in Akron, only 12,000 are given direct relief and 2,000 are on work relief. Direct relief to a family of four is given at the rate of $3.75 a week— thirteen cents a person a day. Negro workers are discriminated against, hundreds of workers in the rubber plants have been laid off in the recent periad, and no clothing is provided for those now on relief. The councils call on all employed and unemployed workers to mass at the Court House Sept. 25, to sup- port the demands adopted by the} Aug. 17 unemployment conference. | NegroJobless Demonstrate In Pittsburgh Rescue Unemployed Leader from Police; Win Demands PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 16.— One thousand workers marched and demonstrated in the Hill Dis- trict of Pittsburgh at the local wel- fare unit located at Van Bramm and Locust Streets here last Tues- day. The unemployed demanded increased relief, clothes for children and adults, stopping of all evictions, and support of the mass delegation to Harrisburg. Jobless Plan Demonstration In Youngstown | YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Sept. 16.— The Unemployment Councils here have called a mass demonstration to be held Friday, Sept. 21, at 2 PM., at the Wick and Rayen School Grounds, where a delegation will be elected to present the jobless work- ers demands to the County Relief Commission. “Bonds and interest must be paid” was the answer the Mahoning County Board of Commissioners gave to the delegates from the Un- employment Council when they pre- sented the unemployed demands at the open hearing last week. Imme- diately that the Council delegation entered, a member of the board made a motion to adjourn the meet- ing. Ben Gray, spokesman for the delegation, took the floor at once and showed how not one cent is provided for relief whiie money is appropriated for police and the bankers. Gray presented the Council de- mands for an immediate 25 per cent increase in relief, clothing for the jobless, and the abolition of forced labor on the relief jobs, To their answer that the bankers must be paid, Gray demanded that they go on record favoring the re- lief increase and to put pressure on the State and Federal relief admin- istration. Philadelphia Workers to Hold Celebration PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16.— Pat Touhey, editor of Labor Unity, will be the main speaker at the Fif- teenth Anniversary Celebration of the Communist Party to be held Sept. 28, at Turngemeinde Hall, Broad Street and Columbus Avenue. A film, “Scenes from Party His- tory,” which will include short talks by Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, and Clar- ence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, will be shown. Entertain- ment by the Artef Theatre and the Freiheit Gesangs Verein will follow. Furniture Union Forms 3 New England Locals NEW YORK.—Organization work in the large furniture centers of New England is proceeding rapidly, the Furniture Workers Industrial Union announced at its offices at 799 Broadway here yesterday. New locals have been formed in Man- caester, New Hampshire and Spring- field, Mass. On Friday the New Haven local Police were called and several! hundred police gathered to dispurse the demonstration. About 20 po- licemen proceeded to arrest Fred Kerns, leader of the veterans rank and file committee and active in unemployed struggles. Hundreds of workers, led by Negro and white women rushed their way through the police lines to defend Kerns. They forced his release. The workers forced Miss Nell Scott at the central office, as well as the supervisor, to listen to the demands and frievances of the un- employed. Promises were made for improving the situation at that wel- fare unit. Following the demonstration, a meeting took place at the Council headquarters. The delegates were elected to represent the unemployed in the Hill District. Especially Prominent in the strike at the Van Bramm unit were the Negro work- ers, who played the most militant and leading part. HAZELWOOD, Pa., Sept. 16.— Two hundred unempioyed workers have demonstrated for increased re- lief and in support of the mass del- egation to Harrisburg. The delega- tion was headed by Bill Doyle, Jack Thomas and Bill Mitchel, Brooklyn Machinists Win Three-Week Strike In Gun-Trainer Shop NEW YORK.—The machinists and production workers of the Quantiproducts Machine Corpora- tion, 341 39th S%. Brooklyn, pro- ducing gun trainers, returned to work after a successful strike of three weeks’ duration, under the leadership of the Machine Shop Local of the Steel and Metal Work- ers’ Industrial Union. The de- mands won area five-cent increase per hour and the recognition of the shop committee and the union representative. Neither the strike-breaking stunts of the Regional Labor Board, nor the efforts of the bosses to get the workers to quit the S. M. W. I. U. and join the International Associa- tion of Machinists (A. F. of L.), claiming that the War Department would refuse them further orders because the S, M. W. I. U. is a “red” union, helped. The workers struck solid and remained behind | their union 100 per cent. In order to intimidate the strik- ers, U. S. Army trucks took the gun trainers on which strikers had been working to the army base to be completed there by scabs. Even though the strikers’ protests to the base authorities were ignored, the strikers appealed to the base workers to oust the scabs. received a charter of the union. M.! Pizer, national organizer, spoke at Prevent Coast and Textile Strikes By Bill Dunne I Officialdom of the American Fed- eration of Labor, and the Roose- velt administration, in the midst of the gréatest textile strike in Amer- ican labor history, and on the eve of the 54th Annual Convention of the A. F. of L. (meeting in San Francisco, Oct. 1) are following the same policy developed and applied in the West Coast strike of ten maritime unions and in the general strike in the Bay Counties (Oak- land, Berkeley, Richmond, Alameda, San Francisco, etc.). President Roosevelt has appointed a board for investigation and me- diation as a gesture of “impar- tiality’—as he did in the historic West Coast struggle. The Board does nothing—as it did in the West Coast strike. It does not investi- gate because any kind of an in- vestigation will reveal the slave and starvation conditions in the indus- try—and put the mill owners in a morally untenable position. Fight for Elementary Issues The board cannot mediate be- cause the textile workers are fight- ing for the right to work and live, for the righ to organize and deter- mine to a minimum extent under what conditions they are to work. Such elementary issues cannot be arbitrated or mediated. One might as well try to arbitrate the class struggle—which develops out of just these elementary issues, Roosevelt's textile board stands today, just as his longshoremen’s board, headed by Archbishop Hanna, stood in the West Coast strike, as an instrument intended to! maintain the shrinking illusion of government impartiality in labor struggles, as a second line reserve upon which to fall back if the half- million textile workers are not/| crushed by military force and di- vided by a leadership engaged in lauding the same Roosevelt who encourages and condones the mur- derous attacks of massed military | and semi-military forces upon the| strikers, their families and sym-| Ppathizers, Forced to Give Verbal Support The A. F. of L. officialdom, headed by Green and Woll, has been compelled to give verbal sup- port to the courageous struggle of the half-starved textile workers— after moving heaven and earth to Prevent strike action against the continuous drive of the employers on wages, working conditions and living standards. As for Gorman, McMahon and the rest of the offi- cial clique of the United Textile Workers Union, the last thing they wanted was a general strike in the industry. Twice they flirted with the question of a general strike— but only to bring pressure on the administration for securing posi- tions for themselves on the textile code authority and on the labor relations board. While U.T.W. officialdom played with the general strike issue and negotiated behind the backs of the textile workers with the mill own- ers’ representatives, the rank and file of the workers in the industry, faced with rising prices, lowered Wages and merciless stretchout, took the general strike slogan seriously and began to prepare the strike. Ranks Demanded Strike At the U.T.W. convention held Jast month in New York City, the rank and file delegates came in- structed to demand a general strike. The rank and file pressure was ir- resistible. The officials had to go along or lose their leadership. They went along—just as the San Fran- cisco labor officialdom went along with the general strike. They had tried to strangle the strike and they had failed. ‘They went along apologetically. Gorman aped Green in raising the “Red Scare.” He good intentions of President Roose-|one short year has sponsored and velt—the president who fished from|condoned the murder, clubbing, @ battleship while West Coast| gassing, wounding and jailing of workers were shot down in the|more striking workers and unem- strike for the right to work and live|ployed, Negro and white, native ke human beings, the president |born and foreign born, than any who viewed off Newport, R. I., from|five previous administrations, during the private yacht of the multi- millionaire Vincent Astor, the mil- lionaire British and American yacht race, while Rhode Island textile| strikers were murdered and maimed by Governor Green's state troops; armed forces ordered out, and for ‘whose assistance federal troops were called to arms on Governor's Is- land, after a telephone conversa- tion between Governor Green, former head of the J. P. Coates Thread Co., and President Roose- velt, praised by all the A. F. of L. officialdom as “the friend of labor.” | President Roosevelt and his N. R.| A,, hailed by the 53rd Annual Con-| vention of the A. F. of L. meeting} @ year ago in Washington, D. C., as | the person, the president and the} program which would at last free} labor from company unionism and strikebreaking by armed forces of the great corporations, now climaxes @ year of strikebreaking and the unprecedented use of armed forces against strikers and unemployed by | the organization of a military battle line against textile workers from the state of Maine to the Gulf of Mexico. Troops Out in Five States In the West Coast strikes troops were actually called out against the workers only in California. In the textile strike they have been called out in five states. In the maritime] workers’ strike four workers were! murdered by troops and police. In the textile strike the list of mur-| dered workers totals twelve as this is written. Thousands have been clubbed, gassed and wounded by gunfire. The usual “Red Scare” has been raised to cover up wanton massacre of workers (this time in Rhode Island) and has failed of its purpose—just as it failed on the West Coast. This alone is striking proof of the new high level of consciousness which each of these tremendous class battles, following one another in rapid succession, develops. At the time of the 53rd Annual Convention of the A. F. of L., be- tween three and four hundred thou- sand workers were on strike—coal miners, steel and metal workers, tetxile workers, etc. These great struggles, beginning months before the enactment of the N. R. A. and its Section 7A, and which Section) TA was designed to stop, were the result of wage cuts, speed-up, wor- sened working conditions, lowered living standards through mass un- employment and part time work had become unbearable. Convention Ignored Struggles These struggles awoke no echoes in the hearts of A. F. of L. offi- cialdom, The records of the con- vention show that the only refer- ence to them came from a rank and file delegate—speaking for the A. F. of L. Rank and File Committee— Suny from Philadelphia, who in- troduced a resolution calling for support of the coal miners and pro- testing the use of armed force against them. The resolution was promptly tabled on a motion by President Howard of the Typo- graphical Union—who later added more lustre to his name by keeping the San Francisco printers at work Spilling press poison on their fel- low workers while every other union in the Bay Counties struck in sym- pathy with the maritime unions. This incident alone would be enough to gauge the official spirit of the Washington convention. But for the sake of the record it is nec- essary to state that the 53rd con- vention occupied itself solely in lis- | tening approvingly to the spokes-| men of the government of monopoly capitalism in decline—to President Roosevelt, General Johnson, Senator Wagner, James Farley, Frances Perkins etc., the A. F. of L. offi- cialdom snuggled closer to the their whole terms of office. Praise from 8. P. Secretary The A. F. of L, officialdom, con- gratulated for so doing by Clarence Senior, secretary of the Socialist Party, accepted with cheers the dic- tum of President Roosevelt, elab- orated upon and emphasized by Johnson, Wagner and Perkins, that the role of government was to secure cooperation of the three factors in industry—capital, management and 53rd Parley Heard Only Spokesmen of U. S. Capitalism tion, the labor-management co-op- eration theory brought up to date to serve the needs of capitalism in crisis. Forgot Two Factors They dreamed bright dreams— but not for long. They had for- gotten two factors: the millions of hungry, angry and determined workers in the big basic industries and the Communist Party of the United States. In the year that has elapsed since |the Washington convention, mass I.W.0., Other Groups to Attend Friday Rally in Bronx Coliseum |A-F.of L. Locals ‘CondemnGang NEW YORK.—The members of more than a score of locals affil- and labor. | strikes have swept from the Cana- Strikes, said both Wagner and| dian line to the Gulf Coast, from Johnson, were not to be tolerated. | the Atlantic to the Pacific—and A. F. of L. officialdom agreed. |back again. Strike waves have swept The codes were established. Labor | through practically every industry. had nothing of a decisive character | These struggles have developed into to say about them during the period | actual general strikes, and in still of their formulation, The anti-|more of these struggles the labor strike coal code was signed. The | movement has teetered on the verge wage-cutting and stretch-out tex-| of a general strike. tile code was signed. The company union — strike-breaking aitonseeile beefs sates Rule in Unions \Demand Inner Democ- racy in Resolutions to AFL Convention NEW YORK.—Many local unions of the American Federation of La- |bor have passed resolutions con- |demning gangsterism and racketeer- ing in the Federation, the A. F. of |L, Rank and File Committee an- nounced here yesterday. This reso- lution, drafted by the rank and file |body and sent to many locals, has been endorsed along with another jone urging solidarity actions with |strikers, regardless of union affilia- tion. All of the resolutions will be brought up on the floor of the na- | tional convention of the A. F. of L. jin October at San Francisco. | The resolutions follow: Resolution On Democracy in the code was signed. Company Unions Grew Company unionism grew like a mushroom—embracing some 5,000,- 000 industrial workers, as against something like 1,000,000 before the N.R. A. Early in 1934 it had forced | some 45 per cent of industrial work- ers into its strangling folds, while other unions included only some 9} or 10 per cent. In the steel industry | it was estimated that 85 per cent of the workers had been forced into | the company unions. The A. F. of L. officialdom con- | tinued to be the loudest boosters of | the N. R. A. and Section 7-a, in the face of the ravages it was bringing | to workers’ living standards and their efforts to organize in unions of their choice and to better their conditions. Against Jobless Insurance The A. F. of L, officialdom once more set its face against compulsory federal unemployment insurance for | all workers. It continued to fight the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill (House Bill 7598). The A. F. of L. officialdom, headed The grip of the Roosevelt admin- | 4 Trade Unions n : ii WHEREAS: The practice is widesprea istration, of N. R. A. and its labor |," cur unions of officials perpetuating arm—A, F. of L, officialdom—upon | themselves in power as bureaucrats, build- i s |ing around them a machine and terror! the American working ciate ‘hs \ing those members who are in disagree- slipped. Some time ago A. F. of L. | ment with the policies and actions of the | strikers Officialdom started out to “clean up” all the strike spots so the 54th Con- vention could assemble in a “peace- { ful atmosphere.” They gypped the | in Mellon's aluminum | plants—a general strike in an in- dustry. They sent Paul Smith to| Minneapolis, where Farmer-Labor | Governor Olson and his martial | law, his henchmen in the Trades | and Labor Assembly, and the polit- ical cowardice of the Trotskyit leaders of the union, enabled them | to prevent a city-wide general strike and gyp the strike of truck drivers and helpers. They sent John P. Frey and a squad of twelve union officials and organizers to Butte to try to split the craft unions away | from the general strike of miners, | smelter workers, engineers and me- | chanics in Butte, Anaconda and | Great Falls. Here they failed. | Then the general strike in the clique rule on top, and liated with the Trade Union Unity League, independent unions and the American Federation of Labor will jcelebrate the fiffteenth anniversary of the Communist Party. Entire branches of the International Workers Order, bearing banners jand placards greeting the Commu- nist Party and hailing its accome |plishments, will go in a body to the |Bronx Colisuem next Friday where jthis event will take place. The Communist Party fraction inside the I. W. O. fraternal work- ing class organization, pledges to recruit a thousand of the best and |most active workers as their part in celebrating the anniversary. They jchallenge fractions in other mass organizations to do recruiting in relative proportions to the number |of members in their organizations. | An elaborate program has been {prepared for the celebration. Clar- |mnce A. Hathaway, Israel Amter, |Charles Krumbein and Steve King- |ston will speak. Music will be sup- |plied by the I. W. O. Symphony orchestra and the Workers Interna= | tional Relief Band. Unemployed Meetings | expression, serving as a check on the ac- ventions of the| a WHEREAS: At all o A. F. of L., state and n: complete absence of marked domination of a well chine which railroads tl cisions of the bureaucracy, = WHEREAS: All decision ‘concerning the, LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 16—In interests of the rank and file, as -|preparation for the state unem- rangers the pogo bps settling. of bie a eee convention to be held in the signing of trade union agreements an 5 4 negotiations with the employers is carried | PTESNO, Oal., on Oct. 16, four es on without consultation with the member-| tional unemployed conferences wil ship and contrary to their wishes and) be held in the Los Angeles area interests, and during September. WHEREAS: The autocratic rule of these | infon bureaucrats was instrumental in| These conferences are scheduled leading to widespread corruption among|as follows: these officials and to the development of | gangsterism and racketeering in our A. F.| Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 7:30 p.m. of L. unions, which has terrorized and | at 224 South Spring St., Room 202. demoralized the ranks of the workers and| priday Sept, 21, at 7-30 pm. at weakened the organized labor movement, | ee geek ee and |2706 Brooklyn Ave. WHEREAS: Trade union democracy will| Friday, Sept. 21, at 7:30 p.m., at enable differences of opinion to be ex- | preseed and give the rank and file full scrape and Truba Sts. South Friday, Sept. 28, at 7:3@ p.m., at 3015 South San Pedro St. In Los Angeles Will Elect State Delegates * es, tions of the union leaders and will in-| volve the rank and file in participation in | union activities, developing their fighting | spirit to the end that better conditions| At each of these conferences, to mM ESOLVED. Thee the goes on|Which all trade unions, fraternal record for trade union democracy and|and social groups have been urged textile industry, in spite of all these | calls on all International officials to estab- to send representatives, worker dele- by Green and Woll, continued its | Worthy efforts toward “cooperation slanderous attacks on the Soviet Union. It tried to prevent recog- nition of the U. 8, 8S. R. Since rec- ognition, it tried continually, co- operating with the National Civic Federation, with Woll as its acting | president, to bring about a rupture of relations and, working with the Reverend Edmund J. Walsh, head of the Foreign Department of Georgetown University, is actually aiding Japanese imperialist propa- ganda in this country directed against the Soviet Union. President Green and his colleagues, concerned first of all with the pres- ervation of American capitalism, staked their all on the ability of N, R. A. and the Roosevelt admin- istration to pull capitalism out of the five-year crisis and stage a real recovery in industry and agricul- ture. Under Section 1-a they dreamed of an organized labor movement with all “reds” and other militant workers eliminated by the strong arm of their protector—the government of a new and vigorous monopoly capitalism. They visual- ized themselves as the hierarchs of an enlarged but cowed and docile | labor movement, tied so closely to | the employers and their state ma- | chinery that it never could extricate itself. They drugged themselves with the old soporific of class collabora- | of capital, management and labor” | under “government supervision,” hit | the A. F. of L;'officialdom and the | N. R. A. right between the eyes. A. F. of L. Leadership Bankrupt The 54th Annual Convention must now meet on the scene of the San | Francisco general strike, | midst of a labor movement strong- |er and more militant than ever | before, in an atmosphere not of | | class peace but of class war. The A. F. of L, leadership is bankrupt. It is in a crisis. This has | happened before, but this time mil- lions of workers, engaged in mighty struggles for elementary rights, fresh from these struggles or about to plunge into new battles, know this | leadership is bankrupt. This is the main difference be- tween the 53rd and the 54th Annual A. F. of L, Convention. (The next article will deal with the part played in various decisive strike situations by the A. F. of L. officialdom in the past year—with ifs policies and tactics and the struggle against them, which has brought forward numbers of new leaders directly from the ranks of the huge new contingents of | workers in the basic industries formerly. entirely unorganized.) | Telegraphers of Ward Demand Shorter Hours - NEW YORK.—Radio operators of the Ponce, passenger ship owned by the New York and Puerto Rico Steamhip Company, walked out on strike Saturday afternoon, demand- ing shorter hours and the hiring of another operator. Two radio men are forced to work 12 hours a day, 84 hours a week. The long hours necessarily impede the competence of the op- erators, endangering the safety of passengers, the American Tele- graphers’ Union, under whose lead- ership the men are striking, stated yesterday. The New York and Puerto Rico Company is a subsidiary of the At- jantic, Gulf and West Indies Com- pany, which owns the Ward Lines, whose ship, Morro Castle, was de- stroyed by fire, resulting in the death of more than 135 persons. The Ponce sailed late Saturday afternoon with two scab radio op- erators, one of whom, the union re- Ports, is a notorious strike-breaker and an incompetent operator. A half-hour strike of radio oper- ators of the Atlantida, owned by the Standard Fruit Company, Sat- urday resulted in the hiring of an- other operator, increased wages, lower hours and better working conditions. The Daily Worker can Better Aid Your Struggles if You Build its Circulation. the presentation ceremony. Line Affiliate Strike, MASS ACTION FREES NEGRO PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16.—After campaign of mass _ pressure | through resolutions, protests and) delegations, under the leadership of | the International Labor Defense, | George Johnson, militant Negro | leader of the unemployment coun- | cils in North Philadelphia, was re- | leased from Moyamemsing Prison | last Saturday. a | Two Negro Workers Named on State Ticket by Massachusetts C€.P. BOSTON, Mass.—A Negro woman will run for office in the Massachu- setts State Legislature for the first | time this Fall, when Mrs. Mary E. | Moore opens her campaign for a seat in the House of Representa- tives. Mrs. Moore has been nom- inated by the Communist Party. Horace Riley, another Negro, has been named by the Communist | Party as its candidate for Lieuten- | ant-Governor. Mrs. Moore organized the first neighborhood Scottsboro defense | club in Boston. She was a dele- gate of the Boston workers to the Scottsboro defense march to Wash- ington in 1932. In February of this year she was arrested for her part | in the picketing of Boston chain | stores—a struggle which resulted in three Negro men being placed in various chain stores to’ train as | managers. i County Conference Held) of Buffalo Unemployed BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 14—Dele- | gates representing 24 organizations met here Sunday at the Erie County | Unemployment Conference, drew up | demands of the unemployed and | | formulated a plan of action. | ‘The demands adopted at the con- | ference call for $10 weekly cash re- | lief to each unemployed worker | plus $3 for each dependent; rent, | fuel, gas and electric current to be supplied; and for union wages Communists Call Rally | To Aid Textile Strike NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 16.—A| mass meeting to support the textile strike will be held tomorrow eve- | ning at 8 P. M., at the Ukrainian | Hall, 59 Beacon St., under the aus- | pices of the Communist Party. Plans for raising relief for textile | strikers will be discussed. Organi- zations are being urged to mobilize their membership for the meeting. The Crown Heights Branch 25 Chauncey Street, Brooklyn, is now registering for courses: Principies of Class Struggle Revolutionary Traditions of the Negro People Spanish Current Problems of Negro Liberation Movement Public Speaking Courses also History of American Werkingclass Masxism-Leninism Location easily reached by all elevated trains and street cars ATTENTION Workers of Williamsburg, Flatbush and Crown Heights of ‘the Workers School at Political Economy Trade Unionism Youth Problems English-Elementary, Interme- diate and Advanced Voice and Speech Direction forming in Historical Materialism —Tom Truesdale, Director. GALA OPENING PERFORMANCE of the Eastern Theatre FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE — 4th St. near Sixth Ave. Minit coe ee the| gates will be elected to the State ‘That: 1—All officials shall be elected by | Unemployed convention. popular vote in secret ballot and elected rank and file commitiees shall be in charge | ~ of counting the votes. st in the | | ‘That: 2—The practice of not seating delegates to central bodies must stop. | ‘That: 3—The membership have the right | to recall officials and representatives by a majority vote before the expiration of the term. That: 4—No member of the cept those who were found guil fon ex- breakers or as working in the in o! the employers shall be depriy the | tight te be nominated, put on the ballot and act as an official or representative of the union when elected. ‘That: 5—All trade union agreements, all amendments to the Constitution, and all other questions affecting the interests of the membership, shall be submitted to the members for a vote. That: 6—The right of local unions to start a referendum, the right of individual free speech, free criticism of policies, mem- bers to initiate proposals and tactics, the right of a local union to declare a strike and to lead its members on strike, the right of a member to belong to any poli- tical party, all these shall be considered rights which cannot be violated. That: 7—Nobody shall try and convict 2 board elected by a popular vote of the members and giving the accused one all the unrestricted privileges of counsel, wit- nesses, his or her own stenographic record and full publicity to the proceedings. That: 8—International officials call con- ventions as stipulated in the constitutions With Workers On Strike for Their Rights and Conditions Regardless of Union Affiliation WHEREAS: At the present time out of |40 million wage earners in the U. 8. A. the organized labor movement is composed | of 2% million workers in the A. F. of L., Jess than a million in the Independent |unions and the unions afflicted with the | Trade Union Unity League, and 5 million junder the yoke of the company unions, and that all these unions, even the mem- bership in the company unions were en= gaged in strike struggles, to win improve- |ments in their conditions and to defend |and protect their fundamental rights, and | WHEREAS: A victory for workers’ rights |and improvement of workers’ conditions |is at the same time a victory for the | workers regardless of which union achieves jit, and | ‘WHEREAS: The method of disregarding | the struggles of the workers outside of the . P. of L. and deliberately working to | defeat these struggles divides the ranks of |the workers, and the practice of sending A. F. of L. members to take the pace of | workers on strike who are organized oute | side of the A. FP. of L. unions is disgrace- | ful scabbery which only serves to strength- jen the employers in their attacks on the | Workers, bo it therefore RESOLVED: That this .. goes on record as condemning the hostile, strike breaking practices against workers on atrike outside the A. F. of L. unions, and | conventions shall be called at least every | two years. | Resolution Calling for Solidarity Actions’ hours, etc. be it further RESOLVED: That the . . goes on record for joint solidarity actions with all workers regardless of union affiliation in | struggles against employers, against terror, \injunetions, for higher wages, shorter of the respective international organiza-| tions but under any circumstances such DAILY WORKER MORNING FREIHEIT YOUNG WORKER Bazaar Friday, Saturday sid Sunday, Oct. 19, 20, 2h At the Newly Completed Rebuilt ST. NICHOLAS PALACE 69 West 66th Street Admission Friday and Sunday, 35 Cents — Saturday 50 Cents Combination Ticket for Ail Three Days, 75 Cents With Organization Tickets 10 Cents Less at the Door Greetings for the Bazaar Journal and articles are expected at the Bazaar Headquarters, 50 E. 13th St., 6th Floor—Tel. ALgonquin 4-9481 Near Broadway AMERICAN LEAGUE AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM Women's Section HOUSING BLANKS For Delegates to the Second U. S. Congress Against War and Fascism SEPTEMBER 28, 29, 30 5 North Wabash Room 1500 Festival and Conference | See the Workers Laboratory Theatre,’ Artef, Coney Island Jewish Theatre, Jack London Club of Newark, Daily Workers Chorus, New Dance Group and others IN ACTION! Tickets 25c to 99c. St., CHelsea 2-9523. Casting Your Ballot for the Republicans or “Democrats Is 5 Auspices: League of Workers Theatres, 114 W. 14th ‘TELEPHONE ......5.08 Wenenseie se coe) @- 00k ss sie ueidvencenses aeeee sees HOW FAR—NORTH Please Turn Blanks in at Headquarters as Soon as Filled Out Like | Voting for: Company Unions