The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 2, 1934, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1934 Amter Presents Communist Answer to Workers’ Needs WORKERS AT RALLY VOTE TO RATIFY C.P. PROGRAM AND SLATE Olgin Cheered as He Calls for Energetic Campaign; Briehl, Burroughs, Begun, Other Red Candidates Speak in Coliseum NEW YORK.—Only the election platform of the Com-| munist Party contains the essential measures of action by which the problem of the working class in the eris{s can be solved, Israel Amter, Communist candidate for governor, told more than 2,000 workers, who with a thunderous “aye” New York State®—— “= “it Rank and File Plans voted to ratif, platform Party on Sunday in the na of the Bronx Coli- a ¢ Court Rejects Second Appeal, ‘For Herndon NEW YORK.—The Georgia Su-/ preme Court has refused a rehear-| ing of the appeal for Angelo Hern- don, the International Labor De- Tense reported yesterday. The State Supreme Court had| ruled several months ago against | an appeal by the I. L. D. attorneys} to set aside the infamous verdict of the lower lyneh court, sentencing | Herndon to 18 to 20 years on the| chain gang for the “crime” of or- ganizing white and Negra unem- | ployed workers together to fight for relief. The I. L. D. announced yes- terday that the fight for Herndon’'s complete freedom will now be car-/ | ried to the U, S. Supreme Court. Trial of Leah Young and Annie/ Mae Leathers, two white textile strikers held on charges similar to those on which Herndon was con- victed, “inciting to insurrection,” ‘AFL Parley Fight ties to friendship ng masses, and ex- Iseness of such claims a the platform of the Republican Party and the record of the Democratic Party in office He also pointed out the gulf be- tween Socialist Party platform a: surances and the performance 0 Socialist Party leaders in public office. M. J. Olgin, candidate for Con- gress from the 23rd District, in the North Bronx, was cheered as he declared that “a vigor Commu- nist election campaign will speed the day when the reat sledge hammer of proletarian revolution | crushes capitalism to bits and sets in its place the dictatorship of the proletariat.” Fred Briehl, Ulster County dairy | farmer, and candidate for Attorney- General, brought “revolutionary greetings from the class-conscious toilers on the farms.” | Williana Burroughs, candidate for | Lieutenant-Governor, spoke briefly, as did Isidor Begun, candidate for | City Comptroller. Begun pointed | out that Communist leaders in pub- | lic office could lead the struggles} of the masses outside of the halls/ of legislative bodies far more ef-| fectively. Steel Workers. By Bill Dunne (Continued from Page 1) reason for such open and bitter struggles as that in the Building | Trades Department, a fight for po- sition by officials, of such intensity izational split. Report Reveals Crisis The report of the Executive Council, veleased for publication on Monday, Oct, 1, coinciding with the formal opening of the Convention— is an admission of the practically complete failure of the A. F. of L. officialdom to solve the main con- tradiction. (These reports as a rule are released for publica’ion and comment some time before the official opening of the convention.) This year the official crisis took on such a sharp character and the great strike movement has involved | so many hundreds of thousands of workers in decisive industries, threatening the whole N. R. A. pro- gram, that the release of the re- port was delayed to prevent em- barrassing discussion of its con- tents before the convention. The release of the report of the Executive Council entirely over- shadows the formal opening of the convention. The report discloses, not in formal language, but in its composition and general construc- t it could bring about an or-} In Youngstown | official family. It attempts to ex- | | tion, the crisis of leadership in the |plain away the fundamental prob- Win Relief. (Special to the Daily Worker) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Oct. 1.—| Three hundred unemployed steel workers at a mass meeting here Sat- urday elected a committee to place) their relief demands before County| Relief Commissioner R. A. Noble and won their demands. | The relief office was forced to) promise to turn on the water in the homes of the unemployed. This de-| mand is of great importance here since for years thousands of jobless) families have been without water in | their homes. Clothing according to/ need, room rent for single workers, complete abolition of forced labor for single unemployed workers and recognition of the Unemployment } Council grievance committees were} also wrung from the relief office. At the mass meeting, Locke Miller, | Democratic candidate for Congress,| spoke for the “New Deal’ program| and was thoroughly expased by John Meldon, Ben Gray, Unemployment | Council organizer and Communist) candidate for State Senator, was elected to head the committee to the} relief office, Other speakers were| Welcher, Communist candidate for County Commissioner and John Ju- lio, Communist candidate for Sher-| iff. Resolutions protesting the con- viction of Phil Frankfeld, Pennsyl- vania unemployed leader, and James Eagan, national secretary of the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- trial Union in Pennsylvania, were adopted. Anti - Fascists Fight Police Ban (Continued from Page 1) cut off all traffic leading into the area. For the past three days, workers | under the leadership of the Italien Workers Clubs, the League Against War and Fascism, and the Down- town Section of the Communist Party have picketed the theatre and held mass meetings attended by tens of thousands of workers. While the pickets and the thou- sands of workers attending the mass meetings have held a deter-| mined stand that Mussolini's black shirts shall not appear in this coun- try, hundreds of small voluntary contributions have heen received for support of the heroic Communist Party of Italy. Resolutions demand- ing the freedom of Gramsci, leader of the Communist Party of Italy, now held in Mussolini’s dungeons, were adopted by the New York workers, Mayor LaGuardia’s police issued @ statement yesterday prohibiting all further picketing at the theatre. Classified GIRL to care for child, 5, It Tues. and Wed. between 6- W. 15th St. Apt. 30. 5 BIR WANTED small femily. Share dentist's modern apartment. Washington Heights. Bargain. Billings 5-6615, HELP us furnish our office. Desks, tables, ‘hairs, office equipment needed. League of Workers’ Theatres, Chelsea 2-9523. 114 W. 14th Bt. FURNISHED room wanted, $15-$20 month. Loeser, Box 6A c/o Dally Worker. Ss Modern room, man. Reasonable. Vicinity Union Square, 145 Second Aye., Apt. 20, Gr. 7-2088. |sexes who become of working age lem arising from the continued | growth of the army of permanently | unemployed and the fact that the Executive Council itself, using the most liberal methods of estimate, can place the number of workers returned to industry as a result of | the operation of the -N. R. A. at 1,700,000. Workers, bankrupt business peo- | ple and jobless professional ele- ments, together with those of both yearly, make a total of three to four times the number estimated as re- | turned to work, added to the) millions of jobless people in the! United States. The only relief proposed by the | Executive Council in this report is some tinkering with the methods of application of the N. R. A. Rank and File Program For this reason there will be in this convention, in spite of every- thing that officialdom can do to prevent it, a sharp clash between the head-in-the-sand policy ex-/| pressed in the Executive Council's report, and the pregram of the American Federation of Labor rank and file committee. The rank and file program is divided into some four sections, and in its concrete form is expressed in some twenty- five resolutions introduced by dele- gates from practically all of the major industrial sections of the country. Unemployment Insurance, and the endorsement of H, R, 7598 — Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill—stands at the head of the list. Demands for the establishment of genuine inner-union democracy, the repudiation of the official denial of right to sympathetic and general strikes, provision for the mainte- nance and good standing of unem- ployed union members, demands for the right of union members to belong to any political party, and to be free from discrimination, sus- pension or expulsion by reason of this affiliation, religious belief, racial or national origin, is a major | point in the rank and file program. Its central major political de- mand is for the endorsement and organization of the struggle against fascism, and the war program of supporters of fascism, in this and other countries, and in every form in which these fascist and war tendencies manifest themselves. Challenge to Members The official leadership of the A. F. of L. by the methods of organiz- ing its open session has thrown down the gauntlet to its dues- paying membership, hundreds of thousands of whom have been in- volved in decisive battles with rapa- cious employers and their various government agencies in the year that has elapsed since their last eonvention in Washington, D. C., by including in those who welcomed the 54th Annual Convention indi- viduals like Vandeleur, who utilized his position as chairman of the La- bor Council to make the first breach in the ranks of the Bay Counties workers by ordering back to work | during the general strike the mem- 1; bers of his union of municipal streetcar men; Paul Scharrenburg, Secretary of the California State Federation of Labor and the Inter- national Seamen’s Union, an opsn and avowed enemy of all mave- ments of the rank and file of the membership; John Ccefield, of the Plumbers and Steamfitters Union, as the personal representative of Governor Merriam, labor-hating and strike-breaking acting execu- tive of California, whose troops oc- cupied the waterfront in an at- tempt to break the maritime work- ers strike; Archbishop Hanna, head has been set for Oct. 23, in Atlanta, Ga. They will be defended by John H. Geer, Atlanta Negro attorney, who, with Ben Davis, Jr., defended Herndon, and Louis M. Tatham, white Atlanta lawyer. A provisional committee for their j defense is being organized in At- Janta. They are being held incom- |municado in Fulton Tower Prison} | and denied visitors and medical aid, The I. L, D, has made an urgent |appeal that protest telegrams and resolutions demanding their im- \mediate and unconditional release, |be sent to Gov. Talmadge, and As- sistant Solicitor Hudson, both at | Atlanta, Ga. Forced Arbitration Seen in ‘Truce’ Plan | (Continued from Page 1) | the President’s proposal does mean, Miss Perkins said, “It doesn’t mean |he will seek pledges that there be no strikes, but simply that there {be plans to use the dispute-settling |machinery of the government in- | stead of plans for large movements.” | Here again the Secretary failed | to explain the difference between }agreeing not to plan “large move- |ments” such as strikes, and agree- |ing not to make strike action ef- feotive by preparations. “I want to point that the unions {obviously meaning American Fed- eration of Labor union leaders] have shown a real disposition to use the agencies for settling disputes, as in the textile case,” the Secre- tary beamed. “In fact, there is a disposition upon the part of both labor and industry to do this. The normal pattern for several months now has been to use the agencies of the government.” Asked how she expects the Roose- velt conferences, then, to influence a@ condition in which many great strikes have occurred despite all these friendly “dis, tions,” Sec- retary Perkins declared that the “dispositions” would be “furthered” in the coming conferences, for they would “create a greater confidence in the procedure, and a more active intent to follow it.” Relief Lists in Mlinois Now Near New Peak CHICAGO, Ml, Oct. 1—Relief lists throughout the State have continued to swell during the sum- mer and are expected to reach an all-time high by winter. In the down-state counties, 163,456 fam- ilies are now on the relief lists as compared with 98,707 a year ago. In Cook County, Chicago, where the most concerted drive is made to slash families off relief, more than 18,500 families have been added to the relief lists since a year ago. During last October, 137,872 fam- ilies were on relief in Chicago, To- day about 156,372 families are on the relief lists in Chicago. With the ending of the World’s Fair this month, 30,000 underpaid workers will be thrown out of work at one time, The Illinois Emergency Relief Commission has announeed that the State is expeeted to provide only $2,500,000 out of the estimated re- lief budget of $12,000,000 for October. of President Roosevelt's Longshore- men’s Mediation Board, created to check and strangle the efforts of the Maritime Union members to obtain something better than a starvation wage standard enforced by the waterfront employers’ union and the Industrial Association; by the invitation to Mayor Rossi, whose police, financed in part by the anti-labor war fund of the Standard Oil Company and other open shrop corporations, murdered and wounded striking members of the International Longshoremen’s Association as well as members of other San Francisco unions, the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor has placed the main issue clearly. The Main Issue This issue is whether the trade union movement in America is to be an instrument of all wage work- ers and their chief weapon against all enemies, or whether it is to he a means by which wage workers are regimented, cowed, and in general “gentled. for the profit making purposes of the employers, In this way the basic issues have been made clear and there is going to be @ fight on these issues in 54th Annual Convention which—no matter how disguised or confused the form may be in which it mani- fests itsefl on the convention floor due to the suppressive acts of offi- cialdom—will represent the wishes and the will of the overwhelming majority of the dues-paying mem- bership of the American Federa- tion of Labor—and to a great ex- tent the will of those millions of workers in the decisive industries, such as steel and auto, who under the N. R. A. have been forced into company unions, An (Continued from Page 1) cies of J. P. Morgan, of U. S. Steel, of the Mellons, the Fords and the Rockefellers, He heaped unstinted praise on the policy of the labor-hating conservatives of England, those who passed the Laber Disputes Bill, which ties the hand of labor and penalizes them for conducting strikes against the policies of the big trusts. That is how Roosevelt answers his critics in the camp of the Republican Party in the trust offices in Wall Street. He says to them in substance: “Gentlemen, I am following the policy of Elihu Root, the great corporation lawyer, who worked in your interest. I am taking my precedents from the Tory imperialist government of Great Britain in their fight against the workers.” When Roosevelt announced his program of strangling the struggles of the workers for higher wages, for shorter hours, for improved labor con- ditions, what did William Green say? He let the cat out of the bag. He showed the whole thing was timed to help the reactionary officials of the A. F. of L. in their drive against the upsurge of the American workers. Green declared: “I feel that the President’s address was timely, appropriate and impressive.” Why is it timely to Green? The smoke of the great textile battle still hovers over the whole working class, The textile workers have been miserably, shamelessly, brutally betrayed. The “truce” is “timely” to help the Tex- tile Labor Relations Board in its trickery of arbitra- tion. It is “timely” in Green's and Ryan's efforts to stop the marine strike; it is “timely” in their strivings to stop a steel strike against threatening wage cuts. Why is it “appropriate” and “impressive”? It is “appropriate” because it suits the needs of the bosses, who want this truce so that they can fasten the low wage codes on the necks of the workers, so they can fight against union recognition, so they can teach the workers a lesson. And for Green it is impressive because it gives him an opportunity to overawe, to fool, to mislead, to betray the work- ers by a new set of promises. He thinks the work- ers have short memories. He hopes they have for- gotten the Hoover truce that cost them so dearly. He hopes they have forgotten Weirton steel, the steel strike, the threatening auto strike, and the hundreds of instances of stark betrayal through “ar- bitration” boards. Roosevelt wants the workers to believe that if @ truce is called, with William Green sticking his feet under the table with the employers, that they can be assured of an improvement in their condi- tions. Does Roosevelt also believe that the workers are utter fools? How did the government act in all past strug- gles between the workers and the employers? How many workers were shot down, wounded and ar- rested in strikes for higher wages? Over 60 were butchered; thousands were wounded or arrested. How many employers were even so much as touched by the government? Not a single one. The government is the instrument of oppression of the employers, striving in this orisis to safe- guard the bosses’ profits, under the cry of “recovery,” while the most vicious and fitrious attack is leveled against the workers, In the period of a so-called truce, the Roosevelt government hopes to put over the employers’ wishes and at the same time elimi- nate the resentment and resistance of the workers. Roosevelt utilizes the differences he has with the Liberty League and with certain sections of the employers around the demagogy of Section 7-a of the N.R.A, to further the illusions he is trying to spread about the role of his government. He says, on the one hand, there are the striking workers, and on the other, the employers. In the middle, he maintains, stands the “impartial” government. By this fable of the separation of the government and the interests of the capitalist class he hopes to strengthen the hand of the government for a smashing blow against the working class. Every worker should answer right now: “No, Mr, Roosevelt and Mr. Green, no you exploiters of labor and your labor lieutenants, you will not get away with this trick, We know that behind your honeyed words, behind your promises, lurks a more vicious onslaught against labor. You have sweated us so that you could coin profits out of our toil and blood. Now you want us to submit like slaves to your new demands. We will not do it, We will organize our own forces, the mighty arm of labor, to resist your schemes of new slavery. Your N.R.A. codes have brought us new miseries. We will fight against them. And we will fight against the traitors and betrayers in our own ranks who are so ready to unite with you in your rotten schemes that smack of Fascist attacks against the workers.” The Communist Party from the very beginning warned the workers against the N. R. A., tore off every shred of its lying demagogic promises, and showed the naked mailed fist of the big trusts be- hind it. The Communist Party, back in 1930, when Green and Hoover declared their truce, warned the workers that the “no strike” agreement would mean drastic wage-cuts. That came to pass only too soon and with terrible effects on the workers. Now, more emphatically than eyer before, the Communist Party sounds the alarm, warns the workers that Roosevelt's truce means for them the most drastic attack not only on their standards of living, which Roosevelt has heen whittling away with a wantonness and shamelessly never before ‘Truce’ Talk a Signal for New Drive on Labor Editorial seen, but will result in the most drastic drive on every right of organization, on the right to strike, on the right to build unions, on the right io or- ganize and struggle against the bosses’ offensive. Sixteen million unemployed and their families face the coming bitter winter without jobs, and witheut adequate relief. What did Roosevelt have to say te them? Did he promise them unemploy- ment insurance? He did not. He reserted again to his lying promises delivered during his election campaign and repeated time and again since his inauguration in March, 1933. He again promised jobs to every unemployed worker. You promised, Mr, Roosevelt, that the N.-R. A. weuld end unemploynient? But right now your own Department of Labor is forced to admit that unemployment is growing. You say there will be no permanent unemployment army in America? But for the past five years there has been one of over 16,000,000! The unemployed cannot eat your words oy youy promises. Why were you silent on unemployment insuranee? You were not silent about profits. You assured the employers that your government would see to it that they made a “fair profit” on their investments. You proudly beast about the great rise in profits the parasites achieved under the N. R. A. But what about the unem- Ployed? Your promised jobs have not materialized, and no one knows better than you in the present deepening general crisis of American capitalism, that these jobs will not materialize. On the con- trary, with the speed-up and stretch-out, with the efforts of the employers, aided by the N, R. A., to inerease profits, THE PERMANENT ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED WILL GROW. This is the perspective that faces the unemployed and employed, And you still have nothing to say eoncretely about; unemployment imsurance. You want a truce in the struggles of the unemployed for unemployment insurance, just as you want a truce in strikes, so that the schemes of the big trusts, of the big monopolies, of the bankers and rich parasites, will not be disturbed. We must say, Mr. Roosevelt, you have made your position clear. Your answer to the big trusts who critigized you, to the Republicans and others who found some fault with your program, will bring great joy to them. They want nothing better than @ truee in the class struggle. They are soreiy har- ried by the militaney, by the heroism, by the fight- ing spirit of the American workers. They were afraid that the betraying leaders who stood between them and victory for the workers would not be able te hold out against the growing upsurge in the labor movement, Every banker, every coupon clipping drone will be thankful for your silence on unemployment in- surance. But we say to the workers, we say to American labor, Roosevelt's speech is a challenge to you. Are you ready to accept his slave truce? Are you ready to leave your fate in the hands of Green, the National Manufacturers Association and the Roose- velt government that panders and fawns at the feet of the big trusts? Roosevelt's truce must be emphatically rejected. It is the road to further enslavement, to lower wages, to a smashing of the unions and the rights won by the workers over decades of bitter and bloody struggles. In every union, the cry must go ° up: “No truce!” There can be no truce with the profit-grabbing employers and their wage slaves, There can be only struggle for the rights of labor, for better living conditions, for building the trade unions, for recognition, and against the whole lying, foul scheme of the Roosevelt government. This is the position of the Communist Party, and one it will fight for at every turn, among the broadest masses of workers, in the trade unions, in the election campaigns, before the shop gates, in the mills, in every nook where workers gather, The answer to Roosevelt's silence on the burning issue of unemployment insurance must be a tre- mendous campaign to force the government to pass the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, Do not let him get away with this failure even to men- tion what is a life and death need for every unem- Pleyed worker and his family, and for every em- ployed worker faded with the prospect of being flung out of a job at any moment, Roosevelt’s truce and Green’s acceptance throws upon every Communist the greatest tasks of ex- Posing its meaning to the whole working class. It confronts them with the necessity for plunging more energetically into the struggle, in the trade unions, in the shops, mines, mills, to defeat this nefarious scheme, to stop the bosses’ new offensive and to drive labor ever forward for its immediate demands and for the still greater struggle against the capitalists’ efforts te solve their orisis at the expense of the toiling masses, It is this policy of “truce” and submission ta N.R.A. and government attacks that Roosevelt wants the workers to vote for in the elections, Only the Communist Party's election program, and its day to day struggle, offer a correct answer to this new offensive, Rooseyelt’s new offensive raises still sharper the question of the united action of the working class for the defense of its rights and for higher living standards. The Socialist leadership have shown their trend towards ynity with Green, Gorman & Go, Now every Socialist must ask: “What will be the stand of his Party on the truce?” There should be only one answer: a united front of the Socialist and Communist Parties against the whole offensive of the Roosevelt regime against the working class. HEADS ANTI-LABOR FORCES IN SOUTH Clay Williams Leads Board of Directors of the Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston- Salem, Notorious Labor Exploiters WINSTOM-SALEM, N. C., Oct, 1—Clay Williams ot this city, who was recently appointed head of the new Roosevelt board to take charge of the N, R. A., has a record of being one of the most notoious exploiters in the South. The Reynolds Tobacco Company, of which Mr. Williams @was once the president and with Workers’ Bill which he is now connected as head of the board of directors, maintagns labor conditions in its plant thyat Again Opposed By Hopkins WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 1— Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins estimated today that at) least 17,000,000 persons will have to exist on relief this winter. He said, “The number probably will be higher than that—how much higher, I don’t know." The official placed himself squarely in opposition to the Work- ers’ Unemployment and Social In- surance Bill and at the same time declared Civil Works Administration jobs are out of the picture of the unemployed for good. Hopkins’ estimate of 17,000,000- odd unemployed, he said, counted only those who will be on public} relief. Asked how many more he | expected to get aid from private agencies—in view of statements by Hopkins and by President Roosevelt that all citizens must contzibute to charities, Hopkins rep.ied: “A handful—well, enough for them to need assistance.” He was asked to comment upon the Deane plan for unemployment “eserves” instead of insurance. He declined to comment, saying all un- employment insurance schemes had “some merit.” Asked whether he included the Workers’ Bill in that group, however, he replied sharply, | “I said I didn’t like that bill two) ar ee ago and I still am opposed to it.” CommunistConference Selects County Ticket in Northwestern Area! CENTRALIA, Wash. Oct. 1— Delegates representing Communist | organizations in Centralia, Winlock, Toledo and Hanford Valley, meet- ing here at the Lewis County nom- inating convention, chose the fol- lowing slate: C. W. Witchey for Sheriff, H. P. Hutt for County Commissioner, District 1, and Rosella Smith for State Representative. The conven- tion went on record endorsing the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and Initiative Measure No. 4, by which the workers in this State hope to bring the Workers’ Unem- Ployment Insurance Bill to a ref- erendum vote in the election. DR. EMIL EICHEL DENTIST 150 E. 93rd St., New York City Cor. Lexington Ave. ATwater 9-8838 Fou m, to 8 p. m. Sun. 9 to 1 Member Workme: ‘ick and Death eat Fui — WORKERS WELCOME iis NEW CHINA CAFETERIA Chinese Dishes 206 American Dishes Be 848 Broadway bet. ism & 14th st, J. C. ALBRIGHT & CO. All Makes Rebuilt Duplicating Machines & Supplies Mimeographs-Muitigraphs 825 Broadway, het. 12th and 13th Sts. Tel: ALgonquin 4-4928 are even worse than those existin}? in the textile mills. This eompany, whose dividend » disbursements in the year of 1933 were $36,000,000, paid out in wages only $12,000,000. There is no code in the tobacco industry and the average wage is $5 and $6 a week, Any worker who ig known to be a union member in the Reynolds plant is immediately discharged, Most of the Reynolds employes ar() Negroes. Company Controls Town The entire political machine of |the City of Winston-Salem is under the direct domination of this com- pany which the new N.R.A. directoc heads. Workers’ demonstrations and parades are not permitted after working hours. According to a local law, workers are allowed to parade only during the hours that they are in the factory. At the behest of the Reynolds Company an anti-red flag law was placed on the local statute books. Anyone displaying a red flag in the city is liable to @ severe chain gang sentence. Strike Feeling High Meanwhile strike sentiment runs high among the Reynolds workers, Local union tobacco workers, works ing under semi-legal conditions, are preparing for strike action for high- er wages and shorter hours and everything indicates that a strike will take place in the very near future, When the strike comes in the Reynolds plant Mr. Clay Williams, one of the men chiefly responsible for the wretched working condi- tions, will be the “impartial” N. R. A. mediator. How Mr. Williams will attempt to “mediate” the strike, hew he will act in all strike dis- }Putes, is made clear by Mr. Wil- liams’ record. 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Weavers plan a pathy strike with the dressers if seven dressers are not reemployed. The Protective Union officials in the membership meeting Saturday, with 500 attend- ing, violated the constitution to rush through a hand Fieve slate in the elections, by fai to wait two weeks before the voting on nominations, They also falsified minutes by recording Sam Harsigian as suspended. Although the Protective Union claims 7,000 members, 150 votes re- elected the sell-out business agent, Charette. Gempsey, wirepuller and millowners’ sell-out agent, was pre- vented from delivering a long speech by the workers’ protest, They shouted, “Kick him out. He doesn’t belong here.” 5 Six workers at the Communist Party meeting Sunday, where N, Sparks explained the Party's posi- tion on the textile strike, signed ap- Plications to join the Party and paid initiations, Roosevelt Truce Aimed at Strikes (Continued from Page 1) further devaluation of the dollar, more inflation, and more aggres- sive expansion for foreign markets, These measures can only mean new rises in the cost of living, be- yond the present 23 per cent in- crease in the cost of daily food necessities which has already taken Place since Roosevelt took office. This new step of Roosevelt toward incorporating the trade unions into a faseist-like “incorporation” for “industrial peace” means that Roo- sevelt and the employers are at- tempting to bind American labor to auto, steel, and textile strikes in the recent past, just when American la- bor faces the menace of new wage- cutg and slashes in the real pur- chasing power of its pay envelopes. Green Approves That this plan has been worked out in clese cooperation with the heads of the American Federation of Labor is indicated by the enthusias- tic support which William Green im- mediately made public on the an- nouncement of Roosevelt's plan. “I feel that the address was time- ¥ appropriate and impressive,” reen stated, Roosevelt in his speech deliber- ately falsified the situation by claim- ing that the present period has seen the smallest number of strikes of any comparable period. Actually, of- ficial reports indicate that the pre- sent strike wave is the largest in the country’s history. With the ap- proach of the marine strike in Hast- ern ports, and the high?y unsettled eonditions in aute, steel and tex- tiles, despite all the recent “media- tion” strikebreaking agreements, the Roosevelt. government, acting with th biggest Wall Street employers, is striving to make all strike action against the approaching inflation impossible by “mutual agreement,” submission to the same | ma- Utter whiny wes werd 0 bene the of strikes, that is to say, by deliberate outlawry | I. J, MORRIS, ENERAL FUNERAL CEN DIRECTORS Night Phone: Dickens 6-5369 For International Workers Order Dr. Simon Trieff Dentist 2300 - 86th Street MAyflower 9-7035 Brooklyn, N. 125 FOLDING CHAIRS 60c John Kalmus Co. ‘infshgt5ze at ‘Dr. Harry Musikant Dentist 795 EASTERN PARKWAY Corner Kingston Ave. DEcatur 2-0695 Brooklyn, N. ¥. PAUL LUTTINGER, DANIEL LUTTINGER, M. D. Are Now Located at 5 WASHINGTON SQUARE NORTH, NEW YORK CITY Hotrs: 1-3 and 6-8 P.M. Tel. 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