The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 28, 1934, Page 1

Thomas on the United Front 4m HBditorial | TBODAY’S Daily Worker | we publish the letter of Norman Thomas to Paul} Crouch, organizer of the Communist Party in North} Carolina, concerning the of-| fer of the North Carolina} organization of the C. P. for! united action with the Social- ist Party of the same state for a joint struggle for the rights of the textile workers. | Coming from the undis- puted head of the Socialist! Party of the United States, Thomas’ letter has unusual importance and must, there- fore, be viewed very soberly and critically. Says Thomas: “Tam bound to say that I do not think that a genuine united front in North Caro- lina or Georgia or else- where, has been served by the Communist policy of open attacks on the U.T.W. when the strike was at its height and I should not ad- vise the North Carolina comrades to sacrifice their largest influence and use- fulness by the kind of unit- ed front you seem to want.” Here Thomas does not say} directly what he thinks of| Gorman’s betrayal. He does} not say what he thinks about the sell-out, whether he agrees with Gorman that the blacklisting of thousands of workers was a “victory.” We shall await Thomas’ state- ment on these questions. Thomas, however, raises a, fundamental question here—| the familiar argument that} we should refrain from criti- cism of A. F. of L. leaders during a strike, in order not} to weaken the strike. | Were we correct in criti-| cizing the leaders of the U.T.W. during the strike? Is it the duty of those who want | to rally for a victorious fight) of the workers to criticize! those who are trying to sell it out, or should they wait until the workers are de- feated? Then, after the strike, shall we become phil-| osophers and say what we have done? Or should we— as the Communist Party did) —ight every move of treach- ery during the strike? The criticism of the Com- munist Party was directed aot at the heroic textile strik- ers or their organization, but at their leaders—and not at; their leaders as individuals, | but at the policies these lead- ers pursued in the strike. | The policies proposed by the Communist Party for the} successful conclusion of the strike, for winning the de- mands decided upon by the U.T.W. convention, _ briefiy stated, were: 1, No faith in the N.R.A. or Roosevelt-appointed boards. 2. No arbitration: direct negotiations with the em- ployers for a general union agreement. 3. Mass picketing and encouragement of the new forms of action, such as the flying squadron to as- sist workers in unorganized mills. 4, Rank and file strike committees, drawing in wide numbers of strikers on a democratic basis. 5. Sympathetic general strikes in textile areas, such as the ene-day strike in Hazelton, Pa. 6. United relief action throughout the country. | 7. United protest actions | of Socialists, Communists an” A. F. of L. members and independent unionists in Jarge industrial cities. #058 ET Norman Thomas an- swer today: Whose poli- cies were correct? Whose policies led to defeat? In New York, interestingly enough, Julius Gerber, secre- tarv of the New York local of the Socialist Party and one of the leading lights of the “right” within the Socialist Party, follows the line of Norman Thomas on the ques- tion of the united front. We understood that there was a fight in the S. P. be- tween the “left” and “right.” | We know also that on the trade union question at the Detroit convention of the S. P. there was a unanimous Only $53 was received ov: end for the Herndon-Scottsboro Defense Fund, bringing the total to contributions for the 15,000 fund to the International Laber Defense, 80 E. llth St., New York City. Vol. X . 233 <2 er the week- $8,603. Send Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) = Needed—$1,000 a Day Yesterday's Receipts Total to Date Press Run Yesterday—49,800 $ 439.67 $0,648.70 March 8, 1679. EW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1934 WEATHER: Fair, cooler (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents PICKS BOARD TO QUELL RE-STRIKES Marine Workers Elect Joint Strike Committee All Other Unions Bid to Join with Equal Representation NEW YORK--A Joint Strike Preparations Committee composed of five delegates from each union in the marine industry which ac- cepted the invitation to participate in united action, and five represen- tatives of the unorganized, elected Wednesday night at Ma. hattan Lyceum, at a meeting calld by the Marine Workers Industrial Union. The meeting, which was at- tended by more than 500 marine workers, was the biggest and most enthusiastic meeting of seamen and longshoremen seen in New York since the 1921 general strike of sea- men. Other join in the united strike prepara- tion will be entitled to five repre- sentatives on the Preparations Com- mittee, the meeting decided. The fact that the union was forced to call the meeting uptown, for want of a large hall on the waterfront, did not prevent the meeting from being outstanding, and successful. Two hundred sea- |men marched in a body from White- | hall and South Sts. Telegrapher Elected Chairman Called to order by H. Baxter, port secretary of the M. W. I. U., the meeting elected by acclamation Ed Tabaklan of the American Radio Telegraphists Association, chairman of the meeting: Despite the failure of the officials of the International Longshoremen’s Association and the International Seamen’s Union to endorse the move of the M. W. I. U. for united action in the strike preparations, the rank and file of these unions was well represented at the meeting. In his report to the meeting Roy Hudson, national secretary of the M. W. I. U., proposed the election of a Joint Strike Preparation Com- mittee and that the J.'S. P. C. pre- sent the demands of the men to the shipowners the following day in line with the demands formulated at the Baltimore United Action Conference on Sept. 1. Much ap- plause greeted the conclusion of his report. The interest of the marine work- (Continued on Page 2) Board Gives Direct Control ‘To Monopolies (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 27.— A five-man board to take charge of reorganizing the N.R.A. so as to give more direct as well as simpler control to the biggest powers of in- dustry over their small-fry competi- tors and over labor was selected to- day by President Roosevelt. The White House announced it will give out the names of the board tonight or tomorrow. The board will succeed NRA. Administrator General Hugh S. Johnson, who became the “fall guy” of the new deal by resigning after serving as its “whipping boy.” There are those in official Washington who say frankly that the resignation of Johnson, who had done so much faithful service as strikebreaker and bullier of labor unions, was timed deliberately to screen the reorgani- zation of the N.R.A. into a more openly fascist-tinted mechanism. The resignetion of Johnson has been expected for weeks. So has the reorganization of the N.R.A. As to the specific form the latter will take, there is still some uncertainty. But this much is generally recog- nized: It will be in accord with the Wishes of the last two important people who conferred with President Roosevelt on it at Hyde Park—Ber- nard §. Baruch, the Wall Street operator; and Gerard Swope, presi- dent of the J. P. Morgan’s General Electric Corporation. It was Swope and General Johnson who last winter wrote a plan for reorganizing the N.R.A. along frankly modified-fascist lines. This plan. while hastily pooh-poohed by new deal spokesmen because of its very frankness, has been in the back of the minds of the decisive industrialists ever since. It is evi- dent that Johnson and Swope, as well as Baruch, had it in mind when they counselled Roosevelt on the reorganization. How far they will go in direct application at this time, however, remains to be seen. The announced determination to sepa- rate N.R.A. administration into leg- islative. executive and judicinl di (Continued on Page 2) sions fits right into the Swope- Johnson plan, iN unions which decide to| Group to Prepare — For Action Named At New York R ally Gah: cakie Speed $60,000 ‘Daily’ Drive With more than one-half of its! quota filled, Section 12, in New) | York, moves rapidly on to its goal of $500 in the Daily Worker cam- | paign for $60,000. Two hundred | and ninety dollars has been i:* con- | tribution to date. It is the largest amount turned in by any section in the district. Sections 1 and 2, both with quotas of $1,500, have turned in less than $250 each. The jonly section which comes close to |equaling Section 12’s record is Sec- | tion 6, Brooklyn, which has sent | in $214.40—42.8 per cent of its total. | | Nearly all the sections, however, | jhave gained during the past week. The figures have mounted from $1,700 to $2,500. In one case, that of Section 15, there has been vir- | tually a tripling. Its figure grew | from $73.75 to $213.48. On the other {hand, Sections 8, 9 and 19 gained | nothing, It is noteworthy that the two sections which are leading have! adopted the plan of publicizing the | \drive by regularly issuing bulletins. These bulletins are a highiy enlight- ening and entertaining feature of their drives. They contain the news of the sections, pleas and ad- monitions to specific units, and per- sonal notes about individual mem- bers of the sections. Such bulletins are of great usefulness in making every one of their readers conscious of the importance of the $60,000 drive. The district had a further feature (Wednesday) in a contribution of $271 from the New York branches of the I. W.O. This donation came after weeks of unproductiveness in this quarter. The Chicago branches, for instance, have been far more active, being responsible for a good part of the funds that have come in from that district. With 190 | branches in New York City, it is) obvious that the $271 can be easily | |surpassed. At their meetings to-| night, the branches shbuld push | collections energetically. As the par: ticipation of these branches stands at present, the av contriou- tion is less than $2 a branch, None of the New York sections | or mass organization branches,| though, have paralleled the Denver section in quota completion. Denver | has sent in its full total of $100. | | But, not satisfied, it has raised the limit to “more than double” its | quota and challenges the whole United States to equal its tempo. Two other section challenges have come in—the Spokane Section, Washington, throwing down the gauntlet to Tacoma, and Astoria, Ore., extending the Socialist defy to the Downtown Seattle member- ship, And in New York, Section One’s| |plan for its mass Red Press confer- ence of all downtown workers’ or- | ganizations on Sunday, Oct. 7 at | Manhattan Lyceum, are rapidly get- ting along. Those organizations which have not yet elected dele- gates are urged by the Section Buro to elect two at once and send their names and address to the Down- town Daily Worker Office, 153 E. Second St. 7 Slugged and ‘Jailed, By Police in Attack on) N.Y. Jobless Delegation | NEW YORK.—Seven unemployed workers, members of the Unem- | ployed Council, were slugged and _ jailed by the police yesterday as they presented refief demands at the 18th Precinct Home Relief Bu- reau, 519 West Forty-Fourth Street. Barney Oster, one of the jailed workers, was slugged into uncon- | sciousness. He was held on $1,000 bail at the Fifty-Fourth Street Court House. The other six unem- ployed workers, Homer McDonald, | Sam Williams, Jack Photus, Phillip Vargos, N. Harisnoff and M. Son- | dodal, were held on bail of $100 each after a hearing before Magistrate Stern. The cases were held over until Oct. 5th. The seven arrested workers, part of a committee of twelve, had en- tered the Home Relief Bureau at about 11 a.m. yes‘erday to present relief demands for unemployed who had been denied or cut off relief. While awaiting their turn, a call | was put in by the relief bureau, | and police swarmed into the sta- tion. The Daily Worker can Better Aid |Your St-vstes if You Build its ‘Circulation, | termen, Statement by Foster To A. F. L. Members In ‘Daily’ Tomorrow The Daily Worker will issue tomorrow a special Communist Party anniversary edition. Among many special features, it will contain a statement by William Z. Foster, general sec- retary of the Trade Union Unity League, addressed to the dele- gates of the coming 54th annual convention of the American Fed- eration of Labor as well as the entire membership of the A. F. of L. Last Saturday’s Daily Worker was entirely sold out, and copies were available only at a pre- mium, despite the fact that the press run was over 72,000 copies. Everyone is urged to make sure that he will secure his copy of tomorrow's “Daily.” Organiza- tions and Party units are urged to complete their delivery ar- rangements at once. | Seab Contract) Signed to Halt Cafe Strikes By WILLIAM ALBERTSON John J. Kearney, Interna‘‘onal | Vice President and at present the acting president of the Hotel and| Restaurant Employees and Beverage Dispensers International Alliance of the American Federation of Labor has placed his name to a collective agreement with the United Restau- rant Owners Association, an agree- ment which completely sells out the workers in New York, undermines their economic conditions, and forces them into a company union to be known as an “auxiliary” of the International. Immediately after the signing of this agreement, Mr. Kearney issued instructions to Cooks and Counter- men’s Local 302 of the A. F. of L. to remove all picket lines, Members Reject Pact Regardless of the tremendous pressure from the International Union and some local officials, the membership of Local 302 rejected the agreement and informed Mr. Kearney that no picket lines would be removed unless the bosses settled with the local on the basis of the original demands for $35 for coun- Kearney was invited to come to the city and try to remove the lines himseif. This Mr. Kearney, who hails from Boston, where a few years ago he Was a State senator, was also in- strumental, together with William Lehman of Local 1 and Edward Fiore, the International president, | to turn the Federation of Hotel and Restaurant Guilds, an open com- pany union, into a “Local 8” af- filiated with his international union. (Continued on Page 5) Revolutionary Workers In Vienna Seize Arms From Fascist Barrac'! VIENNA, Sept. 27—Revolutionary workers here raided the barracks of the fascist Heimwehr in two dar- ing raids and carried off arms and ammunition. In one case the work- ers took 20 rifles. In the second, ten of the raiding party were seized. Arraigned in court, the workers admitted proudly that they were working toward the overthrow of the fascist government, which killed hundreds of workers and wives and children in the February days. Revolutionary Socialists and Com- munists have been working tozether actively in a joint underground struggle against the fascist dicta- torship. their | Fight on | Fare Tax Call Made for Storm of | Protest Against Relief | Hold-up Plan | See NEW YORK.—The Communist | Party of the New York District, in| @ statement issued yesterday, called for a city-w storm of protest} jagainst the plans of the LaGuardia | regime, acting under the orders of the Well Street bankers, to saddle }@ transit tax on the working popu- lation. The Communist Party statement follows: “The LaGuardia administration determined to put through the x on subway fares. At the order of the bankers, the threat of starv- ation for the unemployed is used by LaGuardia to perpetrate this raid on the pockets of the masses for the enrichment of the bankers. In effect. the bankers and La Guardia declare: The nnemployed shall not eat. Their children shall verish, unless we submit to the hig¢her subway fare. “The Communist Party calls is t | ° CP. Urges | for Unity Against Textile Betrayers See Editorial on this Page (Special to the Daily Worker) CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept, 27.— | Rebuffing the proposal of the North Carolina District of the Communist Party for a united front with the Socialist Party of that state, Nor- man Thomas, Socialist leader, has written a letter to Paul Crouch, Dis- trict Organizer of the Communist Party here, rejecting the offer made by the latter in the name of the C. P. The proposal for united ac- tion for workers’ rights in this area, the scene of some of the bitterest struggles in the recent textile strike, was made to Norman Thomas in a document submitted to the latter when he spoke here at the count upon all working class organiza- | tions, upon Socialist and A. F. of | L. locals and memberships, to overwhelm the city administration | with a storm of protests. Adopt resolutions at every organization, | in every meeting. Declare war on this robbery of the working people! | Demond an immediate and ade- quate appropriation for relief of | the unemployed! Show the La Guardia, bankers, city administra- | tion that the welfare of the un- employed takes precedence over the usurious interest of the bankers. | Tear up the Bankers’ Agreement! Demand that the millions paid to the bankers on the bonded debt be used for the unemployed. Tax the rich! Take up the question of the united fight against the subway tax, sales taxes, and relief cuts. In every organization, in every neighborhood, in the Election Cam- paign, support and vote for the | Party of your cless. Vote Commu- | nist! Vote for the Workers’ Can- didates that organize and lead the fight for relief, for unemployment insurance at the expense of the rich.” Bankers Want Wage Tax Wall Street bankers with the} | closed-lip anproval of Mayor La Cuardia and the tacit approval of | Comptroller McGoldrick, yesterday | |demanded a tax on every pay en- | velove and a sales tex on the com- monest articles of consnmotion for \the finencing of unemployment re- | | lief in New York City. | Comptroller McGoldrick definite- |ly said that the bankers will have | | the last word in the matter of un- | employment relief taxes. “The ul-| timate decision whether these tax measures become Jaw lies with those having the money,” he said. “The banks indicate that they will not lend to us until we have what they consider a proper program.” Scrapping of the entire unem- |loyment relief tax vlan voted a |week ago by the Bocrd of Alder- men was demanded in the bankers’ letter to Mayor LaGuardia, as the | only consideration under which | they will loan money for relief dur- ing the present period. Besides the wage tax, the banking grouns de- manded a sales tax and hinted broadly on a tax of two cents on all subway rides “after all doubts on the score of its legality were re- moved.” The letter was signed by Win- |throp Aldrich. of the Chas> Na- tional Bank for the Morgan and Reckefeller banking interests. A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means a tremendous step toward the dictatorship of the proletariat! |“Polska Abroina,” has | the presence of a Japanese military | day w court house about two weeks ago. — In rejecting the united front pro- posal, Thomas states that his reason for so doing is “the Communist pol- icy of open attacks on the UT’ when the strike was at its height.” Crouch Answers Thomas Commenting upon this, Crouch jeclares that: “Thomas evidently draws no distinction between the leadership and the membership of the United Textile Workers. The Communist Party criticism of the policies of the former is justified a thousand~ fold by the sell-out of the strike. With the membership, who are to- day blacklisted from the mills and are bitterly incensed at their sel!- out leadership, we Communists have always worked loyally, and will continue to do so, Mr. Thomas puts himself in the position ef one who shields the leadership of the U. T. W. against the sell-out cri- | ticism of the membership. “As far as we Communists are concerned, we want a_ united front of Socialists and Commu- nists in North Carolina—and everywhere else—that will aid the militant textile workers in their fight today against black- lists, in their mill strikes, for re- lief for blacklisted workers, and for the civil riehts of the C-ro- lina workers. For this united front we will still continue to struggle.” Text of Letter The complete text of the letter of Thomas to Crouch, date? Sept 22, 1934, and postmarked Wood- stock, N. Y., follows: “Mr. Paul Crouch, “P, O. Box 1373, Charlotte, N. ©. | “Dear Comrade: “Any proposals such as are con- templated in your recent letter to me for joint action in the matter of workers’ rights between the Communist and Socialist Parties must first be referred to the State Executive Committee of the So- cialist Party of North Carolina which can act within the limits (Co: 3 ued on Page 2) Studied by Japanese WARSAW, Poland, Sept. 27. The Polish Minister of War, speak- ing officially in the newspaper announced delegation here, which purvoses to warfare and the wartime chemical weapons. After its investigations in Poland are completed, the Japanese gation is to go to Germany. use of Profits—Up 150 Per Cent 'HE new barrage of defense of the Roosevelt “New Deal” has begun. Senator Wagner, opening for the Democratic Party, declares bluntly that the only issue in the coming elections of the New Deal.” He is quite right. And Roosevelt's other lead- ing publicity agent, Raymond Moley, in his latest issue of “Today,” begins to sound Democratic Congress with a leading article entitled “Out of the Red,” an article giving the most con- clusive proof that the Roosevelt the past year has accomplished miracles of revived profits for American industry. With an array of statistics that any dispute, Moley’s leading article demonstrates that the biggest Wall Street corporations in the last increased their profits, tened their dividends, erased losses, and lined their | twelve months have treasuries with the juiciest pickings in many a | moon. For the 28 industrial groups reporting during the i AN EDITORIAL is the “efficacy per cent! the drums for a “New Deal” in cannot admit of fat- last six months, there was a net income (after all the swindle deductions) of $489,000,000, an increase of not less than 150 per cont in profit! This was the period in which the cost of living rose for the entire working class no less than 23.5 This was the period of historic strikes, wage cuts, speed-up, mass murders, clubbings and killings! The Daily Worker, beginning tomorrow, will pre- sent a series of short articles devoted to a detailed analysis of the Moley figures on Wall Street pre“. It will be the “New Deal” as seen not only from above. but from below. These articles are intended as weapons to be used in the coming Congressional election fights, fights to blast the illusions of the Roosevelt Deal,” fights to elect representatives of the working | class who will present the Wall Street fin--re mas- ters with the demands and necessities of the en- tire toiling pe~ulation, Watch for the ‘New Deal” series, New S.P. Leader Rebuffs Bid | dele- | Show Film Tonight Aid in South For Funds to Strikers NEW YORK.—A film master- piece, Rene Clair's “June 14” will be shown tonight to raise funds to carzy on the work of the Com- mittee for the Support of South- ern Textile Workers. Shown with English titles, and at popular prices, the film will be presented by the Committee at The 28th Street Theatre at Broadway and 28th Street. An added feature will be the show- ing of several So Mouse cartoons. There w three showings beginning at 5 Pp. m., and running continuously thereaftez. Admission will be 25 and 35 cents. S. P. Rejection Of Mill Strike NEW YORK.—Charging that the City Central Committee of the So-| cialist Party side-tracked the issue| of united action for the defense of workers,” the District has issued a statement the answer of the N. Y. Socia Party | to the appeal to enter into a united front with the Communist Party. | _ “In response to the appeal of the | Communist Perty for united action on the most burning, urgent issue confronting the entire working class, | ie., support to the textile strike,| ... the New York Socialist leaders |resort to subterfuge, to an attempt to hide the issue,” says the state-} | ment. The statement declares that the | C. P. will not abandon the fight for united action and repeats the nec- essity for building of the united front. The complete text of the state- m follows: | ‘Following the letter of Sept. 11 to |the effect that the City Central Committee of the Socialist Party would act on the communication of | the Communist Parity calling for united action in support of the tex- | tile strike at its meeting on Sept. | 12, the Socialist Party, after a lapse of ten days, has sent the following | reply: “Your letter in regard to tex- | tile strike was read before the mn (Continued on Page 2) | puch ctr east | | Silk Workers Fight Lockout Polish War Technique With Re-Strike | (Special to the Daily Worker) CONCORD, N. C., Sept. 27.—Syl- via Crouch and Belle Weaver, Young | Communist League organizers who {were arrested in Gastonia yester- distributing leaflet found guilty in the Magis! | study the Polish technique of acrial| Court today of violating a city ordi- nance and given a suspended sen- tence. | Silk Workers Out Again | _NEW LONDON, Conn., Sept. 27.— Picket lines have been reformed here in front of the Armstrong Silk Company as a result of the refusal of the company to rehire 125 out) chin meeting will also be held at of the 400 who went out on strike | several weeks ago. In an example of splendid soli- arity, the textile workers of the | Bloom Silk Company, all of whom were rehired, stopped work before | closing time and joined the locked- Mills. The Communist Party London in giving the textile strikcrs definite directives on how strengthen their fight, urged that weavers be elected to the shop com- mittee, and that the soli y ac- tions of the Bloom mills be spread to the other mills. | Strikers Stay Out (Special to the Dzily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept | ive hundred striking empls | he Indianapolis Bleaching Company efused to accept the decision of | Gorman and continued on their to| Roosevelt Moves Sp To Whitewash Blacklists; Thomas Shields Gorman Acts ~ -~® Unity Scored | Committee of the Communist Party | out loom fixers at the Armstrong} in New| | | | eedily Betrayed Strikers Make Growing Demand for Another Fight WASHINGTON. D. C., Sept. 27. Fearing a re-strike movement and facing a growing resentment among textile workers against the employ- ers, as well as disillusionment with the Roosevelt-Gorman betrayal, the resident yesterday rushed through the appointment of a new Textile Labor Relations Board to defeat the new upsurge among the betrayed textile workers. Mounting evidence coming to Washington from the Southern tex- t , from Paterson, Readin: L and other es, shows @ bitter resentment against the Gor- man and a rising insistance |on re-stri ion to fight the blacklist, disc ination, and at- tempts to wor: mills. The three Roosevelt men who broke the steel strike by means of a combination of trick ises, and pro‘ong?d as members of the St n conditions in the st May were appointed by Rocso= volt yester to repeat the jcb vith the textile kers, and to stop the growing sentiment for a ree strike netion. hTe three members appointed by Roosevelt as the new Textile Labor Relations Board are Judge Walter P, Stacy, James A, Miuillenbach and Admiral Henry A. Wiley. All three served on the Steel Labor Board of the NRA last May and June. This move by Roosevelt is seen as indicating that the textile work- ers, trapped back to the out receiving a single gua: any material gains, will be su to the same process of slow offi Strangulation which marked the successful strikebreaking techniqus of the NRA boards in the case of the auto and steel strikes. Added significance is given to the appointment of a military man who is also a Southerner. It is in the South that the strike is still smoul- dering as thousands of locked-out workers refuse to disband their pic'et lines at the order of Francis J. Gorman, U. T. W. head. Mcenwhie, the ‘e employers have not issued a single statement on the Winant Report, Gorman hav- ing called off the strixe without even a single word of concession from the employers. The Winant report, expected to be the basis of the new board’s investigations, con- cedes the wretched conditions in the mills, but states that no im- provements are possible, and prace tically justifies the stretch-out and starvation wages now existing. Thus with more than 150,000 tex- movement against discrimie | tile workers, the most militant sec- tion, locked-out of their jobs as a result of the retreat sounded by Gorman, the Roosevelt Textile ba- bor Relaticns Board will proceed to attempt a repetiton of the strategy that broke the back of the steel strike and kept the mien in the mills without any gains. sf Furriers Pass $3 Tax For Jailed Members NEW YORK.—A three-dollar tax for a fund to defend arrested and imprisoned members was unani- mcusly voted by a meeting of shop chairmen and delegates of the Fur Workers Indu: Union on Wedresday. This tax is to be cole lected two consccutive Mondays. The meeting a'so decided to call an open ajr meeting on Monday, at noon, at 29th St. and Seventh Ave, to expose to workers in the fur market the guerilla tactics of the Joint Covncil. A special member- the end cf the working day on Wednsédey. A_rmesting of the fur workers’ Trede Board on Wednssdsy voted & contribution of $25 to the United Front Committee in the impending lonzshoremen’s strike. Union members were again called on to report to headquarters on Seturdey for vicketine of shops which work on that day. N. Y. Textile Workers Will Meet Tomorrow NEW YORK.—A mass meeting-of all textile workers in Greater New | York has been called for tomorow trike despite attempts of local union | narles Drake who has tried ing Pinza, 15th St. ant Irving “Ph. way possible to betray igi > \ afternoon at 2 o.m. nnder the joint rromiees of Tocal 2148, 197 and 687 of the United Textile Worksts of America, renrasen! ribben and lebel workers. ois ‘The mectine will he held in Ttve All textile worke are urged to ate tend this meeting. aan