The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 5, 1934, Page 3

“= DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1934 Page Three ALL A.F.L. DELEGATES GET C.P. STATEMENT ON TRADE UNIONS Rank and File 4.F.L, Leaders Fight to Halt Real Insurance Resolutions Are Published T.U.U.L. Letter Calling for Union Democracy Is Distributed By Bill Dunne (Daily Worker Special Correspondent) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 4— Three things of major political im- portance have happened in this con- vention in the last three sessions: one is the distribution to the dele- gates of the Communist Party state- ment entitled “Communists and the Trade Unions,” the official state- ment of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, U.S.A. The second is the distribution to all delegates of the letter of the Trade Union Unity League, calling for the complete unification of the organized labor movement on the br of the establishment of real inner union democracy, guarantee- ing the full and free discussion of all issues arising in the labor move- ment, without fear of discrimina- tion, suspension or expulsion. The third important development consists in the fact that virtually all resolutions which relate to the rank and file committee program have been introduced and published in the official proceedings. The offi- cial publication of these resolutions helps to dispel all officially-inspired Tumors to the effect that these res- olutions taken as a whole are in reality a program for the imme- diate organization of armed insur- rection against the N.R.A. All dele- gates and all union members in San Francisco can now read these pro- posals for themselves. They no longer have to depend on the offi- cial interpretation. Among the most important of these rank and file resolutions are the following: Rank and File Resolutions Outstanding among the proposals made in these resolutions are: That a one-day strike of all or- ganized labor be called when Con- gress opens to force consideration and enactment of the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill, and that, pending its enactment, the A. F. of L. demand adequate relief for the unemployed from State and City authorities, That immediate steps be taken for an organized struggle against company unions and for the right of workers to organize into rank and file controlled unions of their own choice, and that support be given to the workers in the com- pany unions who seek to destroy them. That the convention go on record for joint action of all workers re- gardless of union affiliation in struggles against the employers, against terror, injunctions and for higher wages, shorter hours and better conditions. That the right of every member to belong to a political party of his choice, without being ousted or dis- criminated against, be established. That President Green be con- demned for his strikebreaking ac- tions against the West Coast Gen- eral Strike, Numerous other resolutions in- cluded the calling for full autonomy for Federal Locals, for the with- drawal of all officials of the A, F. of L. from posts in the N.R.A,, for the immediate and unconditional release of Tom Mooney and War- ren K. Billings, for demanding the release of Ernst Thaelmann from the hands of the Fascist butchers in Germany, and for protest against Fascism in Germany, and growing Fascist tendencies in the United States, for complete equality of Ne- gro workers in all the unions and on the jobs and one raising the problems of women and young workers. Resolution on Negro Rights The Sleeping Car Workers Union introduced a resolution demanding that the A. F. of L. go on record for the elimination of the anti- Negro clauses in the constitutions of some tiade unions; that a com- mittee of five investigate the status of Negro workers in the trade union movement and report its findings to the next convention, and that a protest be made to Congress and President Roosevelt against wage differentials for Negroes. The Hotel and Restaurant Work- ers proposed that the convention oppose any relationship between the affiliated unions and the Na- Yional Civic Federation, a fascist organization, of which Mathew Woll, a vice-president or tho A. F. of L., is acting head. The “Red scare” yesterday en- listed the cooperation of the San Francisco Police Department to the extent that the special detail of the anti-radical and crime prevention squad, together with the Fire Pre- vention Souad detail were posted all around the Civic Auditorium, the location of the Convention Hall, and were especially numerous around the entrance to Polk Hall, where the sessions of the conven- tion are held, No one in charge of the convention se2med to be able to explain the reasons for the un- usual precautions, but among the uniformed forces and their plain clothes auxiliaries there was a good deal of inquiry for the whereahouts of Bill Dunne. Two officers were assigned specially to look after Sam Darcy in and around the conven- tion hall today. In a general way a fairly good time was had by all concerned, but to any one who knows anything at all about police procedure it is clear that A. F. of L, officialdom is getting ready to pull off some kind of a stunt in connection with the anti-Red drive point in the Atlantic Ciy program. A Red Builder on Every Busy Street Corner in the Country Means | tions: to Side-Track the Workers’ Bill By Milton Howard HEN a man has no job, wages, he faces starvation. This would seem to be simple. It would seem that any honest per- son could see that the 15,000,000 workers who are now jobless in this country need one thing more than anything else—cash relief and in- surance against the miseries of un- employment. It would also seem that any honest person san see that the millions of American workers who still have jobs are haunted by the terror of uncertainty that poisons their life—the uncertainty that tomorrow they may find them- selves without that one support that keeps them from the breadlines- no Use Wagner-Lewis Bili| for Jobless chese points this bill is a clever trick to place the burden of the un- employment insurance on the backs of the workers themselves, and to relieve the employers and the gd¥- ernment of all expense. oh ase Strives to Bind Workers WHEN Frank Morrison of the A. F. of L. urges the workers to support the “friends” of the work- ers in the Democratic and Repub- lican Party, to support the Roose- velt “New Deal,” he is actually kind of fraudulent unemployment insurance which gives the jobless no benefits at all. The Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill alone provides that the jobless shall be protected at the expense of the employers and the government. Pi Every Communist candidate fights their job. The workers didn’t make the crisis. The employers are respon- sible for it. But it is the workers who pay for it in the bitter suf- ferings of unemployed and hunger. Why shouldn’t the government and employers pay for the crisis for which they are responsible? Why should not every worker be guar- anteed a decent standard of living, at the expense of the employers and the federal government, when he loses his job through no fault of his own? tne Aa Morrison Fights Real Insurance 'HIS is what the Communist Party says in the present elections for Congress and has been saying since the crisis began. But Mr. Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, thinks some- thing else. Mr. Morrison gets a fat salary with which the members in the A. F. of L, locals supply him out of their wages. But Mr. Mor- rison is fighting tooth and nail against the only kind of unem- ployment insurance that can be of any use to these workers and their brethren on the bread lines and at relief stations, 5 Examin the letter, reproduced on this page, which Mr. Morrison wrote to a worker who asked him some Pointed questions. Mr. Morrison makes several “arguments” against the Unemployment Insurance Bill, intiated by the Communist Party and supported by the Unemploy- ment Councils and other organiza- tions. Let us examine these argu- ments one by one, and see what re- actionary petennies lies beneath. * * OINT One—“We have no infor- mation regarding how many lo- cals or State Federation of Labor have endorsed H. R. 7598.” We will enlighten Mr. Morrison, who thus dispenses falsehoods so easily, There are no less than 2,400 A. F. of L, locals which have endorsed the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill. In addition, six reg- ular State Conventions of the A. F. of L. have endorsed this Bill, and five International Unions of the A. F. of L. have endorsed it in regular meeting. That is to say, several hundred thousand A, F. of L. members in good standing have already given acir approval to the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, Mr. Morrison! OINT Two.—“The Bill is uncon- surance is not within the sphere of Congressional action.” Is that so, Mr. Morrison? The appropriating of no less than $6,- 000,000,000 in 18 months for Wall Street subsidies and the building of battleships is “within the sphere of Congressional action” and the feeding of the starving jobless is | not? Who determines what is and what is not “constitutional,” Mr. Mor- vison? Once, slavery was “consti- tutional.” Now it is not. Who changed it, Mr. Morrison. It was the historic fight against slavery that changed it from being “constitutional” to being very much “unconstitutional.” To us Communists there is noth- ing more “constitutional” than the need for feeding hungry families of the working class, If there is a choice between feeding the hungry, and “observing the constitution,” we know what choice the workers will make. No bunch of constitutional law- yers or Supreme Courts can stand in the way of the determination of the American working class to Provide itself with bread and se- curity. The masses alone decide what is “constitutional.” In the face of the aroused working class, the capitalist lawyers will quickly enough find ways of making fed- eral unemployment insurance “con- stitutional.” Out West, in the face of militant mass actions against evictions and foreclosures, the capi- talist courts suddenly discovered that moratoriums on mortgage pay- ments were “constitutional.” Pease ena) INT Three—“The American Fed- eration of Labor is in favor of the Wagner-Lewis Bill for Unem- ployment Insurance .. . to compel the various States to enact unem- ployment insurance laws to protect its industrialists and others from taxation.” A_good test of whether an un- employment insurance bill can have any real value to the workers is provided by the following ques- Who will pay for it, the bosses or the workers? Will it give immediate relief to the 15,000,000 unemployed now out of jobs, or is it directed toward the future, and applies only to those who now heve work? Does it make unemployment relief a local or a national ques- tion? For how long a period do the unemployment insurance bene- fits apply? a Tremendous Stop Toward the Dictatorship of the Proletariat! On examining the Wagner-Lewis Bill we find that on every one of stitutional,” Mr. Morrison says. | “The subject of unemployment in- | NEW YORK.—Members of the Bulgarian and Macedonian work- ers’ clubs report that the Bulgarian Consul, learning of a demonstra- tion held last Friday, Sept. 28, on behalf of 150 Bulgarian soldiers on trial for protesting against war and fascism, visited the Bulgarian club three times last week. Convinced that New York work- ers were preparing a mobilization of several organizations in front of the old Consulate office at 145th hastily rented new offices at 21 West Street, and moved on the morning of the demonstration. Of- ficials of the International Labor Defense stated that in so moving the Consul had merely aided in a onstration, to be held today at 12 striving to bind the workers to a/| Street and Broadway, the Consul | larger protest, since the next dem- | for the enactment of cash relief measures in his own locality and also fights that the whole problem of unemployment insurance shall become a federal matter, with the Roosevelt government stopping its payments of billions for war and profits and turning these funds over for the use of the working class, jobless and on the job. It is because the Communist |Party’s fight for federal unemploy- ment insurance is winning the sup- port of the workers that the Frank Morrisons and the Senator Wag- | ners are manufacturing their} fraudulent measures to side-track the only measure that offers the workers immediate, practical relief. A vote for the Communist Party is a vote for unemployment insurance | to be paid for by the bosses and | the federal government. Workers 2 Picket Bulgarian’ Consulate in New York Today o'clock noon in front of the new Consulate, will take place in the presence of thousands of workers from the offices adjoining the new Consulate at 21 West Street. The demonstration is called to demand the release of the 150 sol- diers for their determination to fight against the war preparations of the Bulgarian fascist regime. Al- ready seven of these ‘soldiers have been condemned to death. Every worker opposed to war and fascism is called upon to add to the power of the protest at the Bulgarian Consulate at noon today. Organizations participating are Bulgarian, Greek, Yugoslav and Macedonian clubs, the American League Against War and Fascism, the International Labor Defense and the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s | League, N.Y. Teamsters Strike at 13 ‘Laundry Shops NEW YORK.—Drivers from thir- teen laundries in Greater New York |have answered the general strike call of Local 810 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Groups of strikers in roving picket | squads, on foot and in cars, were spread over the mid-Manhattan area and are attempting to spread the stzike to Yorkville. Demands put forward by the strikers are for $15 a week and 15 per cent commission on all laundry that they bring in, a minimum guarantee of $25 a week, and recog- nition of the union. Strikers announced yesterday that no agreement will be accepted un- less it is voted on by the rank and file. The negotiations are in the hands of a large strike commiitee consisting of two strikers from each laundry on strike. The plan of the strikers is to spread the walkout in order to force a collective agreement covering the whole industry. At a strike meet- ing Tuesday night criticism was voiced by the strikers against the lack of sympathetic picketing, against splitting up the roving squads into small groups instead of keeping them in mass formation as was done in the taxi stzike. The Laundry Workers Industrial Union has offered to call all of its shops out on strike and send the drivers into the same strike hall with Local 810. Sweeping Rise In Relief Lists Is Reported WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4— Although complete official figures have not been given out by the Fed- |eral Emergency Relief Administra- | tion for several months, relief esti- mates thus far disclosed show that the number of families receiving relief in 146 representative cities in- j creased 3 per cent in August over July, In these 146 cities, which repre- sent 62 per cent of the total urban population, the amount of relief ex- |penditures increased 10 per cent during this same period. This in- | crease, however, does not represent | Tise in the relief granted, but the increased cost made necessary by | transference to work relief. For the country as a whole, an average of 14 per cent of the fam- jilies are receiving relief. Some of the cities with extremely high per- centages are: Phoenix, Ariz. 55 per cent; Butte, Mont., 50 per cent; Meridian, Miss., 48 per cent; Jack- sonville, Fla. 45 per cent. Mobile, Ala., 40 per cent; Tampa, Fla., 37 per cent; Atlanta, Ga., 31 per cent. A group of workers in a C, C. C. camp send $7—a sailor on a U. S. battleship sends $l—a worker in Duluth sends a quarter! All cry that the $60,000 campaign must succeed! It wiil succeed if every reader does his part. Make collec- tions, hold affairs, discuss the Daily Worker! Demands Are Sidetracked Waldman ie ‘Request’ His Fusion Friends to Take Action NEW YORK.—Six hundred mem- bers of the Joint Council of Drivers} and Street Sweepers who met Wed- nesday night in the Manhattan Ly- organization, that “my sympathies| lie entirely with the Fusion ad-| ministration,” and that he would ask the administration “to live up to the law” concerning working con- ditions in the Department of Sani- tation. The meeting, which was supposed to launch a drive for the 8-hour day, for the abolition of the fine system, against the “shoo-fly” spy| system and for time and a half for| overtime, was steered carefully away from the course of militant action by James Dugan, Elias Shapiro and Charles Liebman, top officials The Rank and File Group of the Drivers and Sweepers, no member of which spoke at the meeting, dis- tributed leaflets to the men urging that the sweepers and drivers re- fuse to depend on Mr. Waldman, who has so far given them nothing but promises, and to elect a broad representative committee to present the demands to the Mayor. | Annual 3-Day Bazaar For Workers’ Papers To Be Held Oct. 19-21 NEW YORK.—Plans are nearing completion for the Daily Worker- {Morning Fretheit- Young Worker Red Press Bazaar which will open at the St. Nicholas Palace, on Oct. 19, and will continue through Oct. 21. The St. Nicholas Palace, now being rebuilt, will present a highly improved up-to-date interior and one of the best dance floors in the city. The Press Bazaar Committee is making plans to present a wide Selection of desirable articles at low prices. Many workers’ organi- zations are engaged in gathering merchandise for the bazaar and shop committees in the needle trades are preparing a large selec- tion of clothing and furnishings for men and women, Every evening of the bazaar will see the presentation of an exten- |sive cultural program embracing the talent of the best musical and theatrical groups in the revolution- ary cultural movement. Organizations and individuals are urged to collect greetings for the Bazaar Journal and articles for sale. These should be brought to the committee at 50 E, 13th Street, sixth floor. Full Penalty Demanded For Killer of CCC Boy MENNA, Ark., Oct. 4.—Willys E. Hungate, one-time acting Police Chief here who last May shot and killed Walter Parker, young worker from Joplin, Mo., who was enrolled at C.C.C. Camp Shady No. 2, will come before the October Grand Jury on Oct. 15. Parker, the murdered youth, was in Menna in the company of several other C.C.C. boys when the shoot- ing occurred. Hungate approached the boys, accused them of drunken- ness and threatened to arrest them. Parker turned to flee and was shot in the back by Hungate. Subse- quent medical examination proved that the boy was not drunk. Since assaults of this nature upon work- ers are frequent in this part of the country, local working class groups are urging all workers to demand N.Y. Sweepers’ 4.4, La | organizations joined yesterd: ceum, 66 E. Fourth St., were told| before the Hungarian Con: | by Louis Waldman, counsel for the In Aluminum that Hungate be tried on charges of murder, wyer Asks Labor Board To Stop ‘Unrest’ in Steel Plant N.Y. Demonstration Tomorrow Hearing Opened on U.S, To Demand Rakosi’s Release! NEW YORK—Four working-class calling for a mass demon: 25 Broadway tomorrow protest against the impris Mathias Rakosi, Hungarian Com- munist, who will face trial next week by the infamous courts of the | Horthy government. Rakosi, an anti-fascist fighter and a member of the first Work- | ers’ Government of Hungary cre- ated by the Communists in 1919, has spent eight years and a half at | hard labor in prison and has sur- vived only by virtue of his strong physique and indomitable spirit. With the increase of Fascist ter- ror in Germany, Austria and Hun- gaty the Horthy government de- | cided to re-try Rakosi. Only mass | protests can prevent a death sen- tence. Tomorrow's demonstration is be- ing called under the auspices of the National Committee for of Mathias Rakosi, the tional Labor Defense, the Committee for the Defense litical Prisoners and the Hi Section of the International Work- ers’ Order, Rakosi was faced with the death penalty in 1925, but world- wide protests and demonstrations forced the Hungarian government to change their intentions, and he was instead given a sentence of ht and a half years of hard labor. Today in every country in the world defense committees are being set up to force the Hungarian fas- cists to free Rakosi in the same way that the powerful world pro- | test of the working class forced Hit- ler to release Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff unconditionally. Rank and File Support Gains NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., Oct. 4. —Strong support for the program advanced by the Aluminum Work- ers Union “Committee for Rank and File Control” has developed here. The workers are rallying to their call for repudiation of the company union agreement entered into by the company and A. F. of L, lead- ers to break the last strike. Dave Williams, from defending the agree- ment, has been forced to retreat to a position of merely passing the buck on to higher leaders as respon- sible for the sell-out. At a local union meeting last Friday night, Williams spilled the truth, that the “agreement” was not} worked out in Pittsburgh during conferences, but came straight from Washington. Unwittingly he re- vealed that “he could not get a cer- tain clause inserted” because “most of the terms were worked out in Washington.” He read a letter from Presi- dent William Green asking the aluminum workers to “drive all Communists and Socialists out of the union.” The membership, however, had other views — one worker immediately jumped up and proposed dispatching an an- swer to Bill Green, informing him “that no aluminum worker would be driven out of the union for being either Communist or So- clalist.” Williams was hard put to it to prevent the workers from passing the proposed resolution, but finally succeeded in having Green’s letter tabled. Later he asked one speaker to avoid using the phrase “rank and file control,” recommending “mem- bership” control instead of what he termed the “Communist expression.” | | PACK BRONX COURT TODAY | NEW YORK —The Charbite| Street Workers Center members yes- | terday urged all Bronx workers to/| pack the Special Sessions of the) Bronx Court House, Grand Con- | course and 161st Street today at/| 9 am., when David Morgenstern | will go on trial. Morgenstern, a | member of the Charlotte Street | Workers Center is charged with ac- | cepting home relief at a time when he was working. By Cyril Briggs The explosive contradictions be- tween the brutally oppressed Negro masses and American imperialism; the frantic war prenarations of the rival American and Japanese im- perialists, the maneuvers of Jap- anese imperialism to exvloit in its own interests, in a war situation, the rising indignation of the Negro masses against Jim-Crow oppres- sion—all were laid bare in the “sedition” trial in Pemiscot County, Missouri, on Sept. 12, of four Negro organizers of the Pacific Movement of the Eastern World. The greatest ferocity and sav- agery of suppression, the most bru- tal assaults of the most elementary rights of the oppress2d Negro peo- ple marked this trial in the Black Belt. The four organizers, one a woman, were savagely beaten in the epen court room, then forced to stand, propped up by the officers of capitalist “law and order,” to hear the maximum sen‘ence pro- nounced. Their attorney was like- wise beaten up and driven out of tewn, The trial was both a measure of the “fairness” of the capitalist lynch courts where Negroes (and, for that matter, white workers, too) are involved, and of the raging fury end b'oody suppression with which the lynch rulers meet the Teast sign of Negro resistance, no matter how weak or confused (as in this case). The charges against the four Ne- gro organizers throw a_ brilliant light on the semi-slave relations Trial of ‘Pacific Movement’ Organizers Bares Fury of White Rulers at Any Negro Resistance existing between the Negro masses in the “Black Belt” and their op- Pressors—the same relations so loudly praised by William Pickens, George Schuyler, Charles Houston and other reformist apologists for Jim-Crow oppression and lynch law. In addition to the formal charge of pro-Japanese activities and sedition in connection with their attempts to organize the Ne- groes of Pemiscot County, the de- fendants were charged by the prosecutor and the loyal lynch press with “disloyalty and base ingrati- tude to their white benefactors,” that is, of “disloyalty” to their op- pressors, of “base ingratitude” to the lynch murderers of Negroes, It did not take the Missouri Su- preme Court long to realize that this infamous lynch verdict of the local cour: at Steele, Missouri, would serve further to weaken the illusions among the toiling popula- tion, both Negro and white, in the “fairness” and “impartial justice” jof the capitalist courts. The State Supreme Court acted at once to nullify the verdict of the local court and order the release of the four defendants. The State Court thereby attempted to close the case and hush up the scandal a:tached jto it. The experience of the lynch rulers with the Scottsboro case was no doubt a deciding factor for the ; State Court. Lynchers’ Fear of Negro Masses The action of the lynchers and their. court at Steele, Missouri, | clearly reveals the fear of the lynch lords in the presence of any move- ment to organize their Negro slaves. The Pacific Movement of the East- ern World, with its Negro petty- bourgeois leadership, does not directly threaten the rule of the lynch lords. In fact, its program of “race unity” as against working- Class unity, objectively aids the lynch rulers in their policy of divid- ing their victims along lines of race and nationality. Why then was the concentrated fury of the lynch lords vented on its four organizers? Briefly stated, the chief reasons are: (a) The movement provides a vehicle for Japanese imperialism to use the Negro question in the United States (the difficulties of its | chief imperialist rival) in the in- terests of strengthening its own position for the armed conflict in the Pacific for which both powers are frantically arming. (b) The movement, despite its reactionary leadership and the ob- jective aid it furnishes to world imperialism, helps to kindle in one form or another the national self- consciousness of the Negro people. In the present situation of the rapid sharpening of all the contra- dictions between the plundered Ne- gro masses and their oppressors, | even the reformist-controlled na- tional movements tend to become a danger to U. S. imperialism, since tye moceibility always exists of the rank and file membership repudiat- ing the misieeders and turning to the real struggle for Negro libera- tion, in a relentless fight, in alli- ance with the revolutionary Negro and white workers, against the im- | perialist enemy, white and yellow. | Bankruptcy of “Pacific Movement” This fear found open expression | in the admission of Justice of the | Peace Kelly that the maximum | sentence was imposed primarily “for the effect on other Negroes.” That is, to terrorize the Negro masses into abject acceptance of their worsening conditions, mass starva- tion, increasing violent suppres- sion of their rights. The Missouri case reveals not only the fear and savage violence of the lynch rulers toward the Ne- gro masses, but also the bankruptcy of the leaders of the Pacific Move- ment who thought by denying the national-revolutionary struggle for Negro freedom to avoid the attacks of the lynch rulers, and who betray | that struggle by strengthening the | Jim-Crow isolation of the Negro masses and refusing to see that Negro freedom can be achieved only by the closest unity and the relent- less struggle of Negro and white Philadelphia Unemployed Push Demands PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 4. — Rep- resentatives of the Unemployment Councils yesterday forced the pres- ident of the City Council to promise to meet with a delegation of 100 which will present unemployment relief demands on Oct. 18 and de- mand immediate action. The del- egation will represent various or- ganizations elected at an unem- ployment conference held here re- cently. The delegation will meet at Rae- burn Plaza at 12.30 a. m, Thurs- day, Oct. 18, and march in a body to the City Council chambers where five representatives will take the floor and outline the demands of Philadelphia’s 400,000 unemployed workers, These demands call for immediate doubling of the present amounts of relief, a moratorium on all evictions, an end to discrimina- tion against Negro, women and young workers, union wages and conditions on all relief jobs at minimum ‘wages of sixty cents an hour for a guaranteed thirty-hour week, coal, clothing, gas and elec- tricity for the unemployed, en- dorsement of the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill, and other demands. The delegation of 100 will report to the assembled unemployed work- ers at a mass meeting to be held on Saturday, Oct. 20, at 2 p. m. at Raeburn Plaza. I. Amter, national secretary of the Unemployment Councils and Communist candidate for governor of New York State, Benjamin Davis, prominent Negro attorney and defense counsel for Angelo Herndon, and other workers in the labor movement will speak. Steel Company Union Plan By TOM KEENAN PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 4—The National Steel Labor Relations hearings in the g the U. S. Sted] , that of employes of the Duquesne, Pa., plant who are organized into the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.). They ree quest a board-supervised election of “collective bargaining” repre- sentatives. Opposing the A. A. top leaders as presentatives” of the Duquesne vorkers @re the company union officials, headed by Charles Ericson, supposed to have been elected by an 87 per cent vote of employes under the employe-representation |Plan of the U. S. Steel Corporation. The latter plan, one of the most jefficient forms of company union« jism, was revealed as being the brain-child of one, A. H. Young, @ vice president of U. 8. Steel. Young entered the corporation | last February to take charge of “employe relations,” his first move on assuming office being to “revise” the then existing plan “to conform to N.R.A.” Under this “revised” plan it is j Provided that the plan can only | be amended by a two-thirds vote jof the general rules committee, on |which the company has the same |number of representatives as the employes! | According to the U. 8. Steel ver- sion of employe-representation the employes attend “collective bare gaining” conferences at which only the company is “represented.” One of the reasons advanced by A. A. Attorney Chariton Og- burn why the election at Du- quesne should be ordered is an outright statement of the fun- damental strike-breaking policy of Mike Tighe and A. A. leaders there exists a “spirit of unrest in the plant which an election will allay.” Company and company union ate torneys formally denied any cure tailment of full collective bargain- ing rights under the representation plan as the basis of a future court test of the authority of the Steel Board, The company’s statement de- clared that it\‘is):constrained to deny the jurisdiction, power and authority of the board.” Tomorrow and Saturday the Board will “investigate” the Ali- quippa situation, where the Jones and Laughlin Company’s employes are physically attacked and beaten by the steel company’s thugs to prevent their organization into “unions of their own choice.” Many workers have set them selves a quota of $1 a week for the “Daily” $60,000 drive. How much are you giving? Pennies, dimes, quarters—send as much as you can! —_ Daily Worker depends upon you! National Ne gro Theatre Forging A Weapon to Fight Negro Discrimination in the Theatre @ First Time in America All NegroClassic—Folk—Modern—African Recital CHAUNCEY NORTHERN Dramatic Tenor. Received high critical claim for his “Othello” and other operat roles at La Scalla, Milan, Italy. JAMES BOXWELL Well known Dramatic Baritone, OLIVETTE MILLER Noted Harpist EUPHONIC STRING TRIO Popular Radio Performers. THE CHAUNCEY NORTHERN ART GROUP CHOIR Songs in Jewish, G 5 Songs in Jewish, German, Russian; Nogro CARMEN DATES Popular Lyric Soprano. TOWN CECIL MACK CHOIR Outstending Popular Choir HALL Quistending Popular in a Group of ALICE WATKINS 123 W. 43rd Lyric Soprano. JACK CARR Saturday Noted Basso and Broadway Star. Oct. 6th, 8:30 HESHLA TAMANYA Abyssinian Hebrew, Coloratura Sonsano, re: ptly arrived fr ica. Tn Tickets 99¢, 500, 400 Songs Representing Bight Nationalities’ AFRICAN DANCERS In a Cycle of Authentle African Dances. Bookshop, 50 E. 18th St.; Negro Sponsored by On Sale at Town Hall Box Office; New Masses, 31 E. 27th St.; Workers Liberator, 2162 Seventh Avefiue the New Masses — CHICAGO, TL — Hear Sunday, Oc. 7th At 3 PM. MUSICAL Admission 35¢ wet toilers against the common ehemy. General Victor A. Yakhontetl Former General in Czarist Army — Author of “The Chinese Soviets” speak on “THE SOVIET UNION in the FAR EAST” Auspices: Friends of the Soviet Union Medical Arts Building 185 N. Wabash Ave, PROGRAM DAILY WORKER MORNING FREIHEIT YOUNG WORKER | wttta DALAAR Friday, Saturday, Sunday OCT. 19, 20, 21 St. Nicholas Palace 69 West 66th St., N.Y. G