The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 New Deal Aids Bankers Tighten Control Over Only eC F; Showi Of the Big Trusts Bankers Drain Wealt the United States—All Held Under Th By Harry ¢ h from All Sources in Riches and Resources eir Domination yvannes DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1934 Children Diss N.R.A. Gives Aluminum Trust 400 Furniture Need for Free Big Profits by Cutting Wages Men Strike Way to E nd Rule School Lunch Of Workers to 63 Cents a Day In Los Angeles To Send Big Delegation N.R.A. Revealed As Ruling Class Weapon Against Industrial Union Calls to Cleveland Board of Education (This is the fourth of a series of | | | | short articles on the results of the CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 12.—As Roosevelt “ a part of the activities for Interna- |tional Children’s Week, delegations lot mothers and fathers are going {to the various pulic schools pre- |senting demands for free lunches for children of unemployed and More equitable distribution of wealth is a pet phrase part time workers, for free school of President Roosevelt, and in the present elections is being peddled out liberally to the masses. Yet the latest revelation: Currency Committee show tha J. P. Morgan é& Co., during the cri sis are amassing greater and greater is of the Senate Banking and t the big bankers, particularly | draw the big trusts even still closer to the government, not with gov- portions of the country's wealth x 4 under their con! ernment supervision over the big The higar BS ai se y, |corporations, but with greater con- ne older argument that moe trol of the big corporations over “serene p js bringing the government, and the very democracy” in industry, | bodies set up to deal with them. greater mass control of the wealth! That is the inevitable trend of of the country, is blown sky high. capitalism For example, we quote from the ssued just a few days ago: “The marked increase in the pop- ular participation in securities is has definitely placed re control of financiers the wealth of the nation. The diffused distribution of nonequity stocks #mong the disorganized stockhold- ers, who cannot effectively assert concerted action, has resulted in the domination of corporations by small. groups of individuals con- trolling a comparatively insignfi- cant part of the voting stock These groups dictate the selection of- directors and consequently the Management and control of these corporate institutions.” Morgan’s Great Power In short, the so-called diffusion of stocks instead of lessening the control of the life of the workers in the big trusts, instead of spread- ing management to the small stockholders, increases the power of the Morgans, Mellons, Rockefel- Jers and other finance capitalists who-rule this country. “A schematic graph of the corpo- tate directorships,” the report of the committee goes on to state, “of financiers and of their interlocking | directorates of industrial, public utility, and” banking and holding corporations, depicts the usurpa- tion of the wealth stream of the nation to its very capillaries.” In short, the control of the trusts i$ so powerful that they suck the wealth of the nations down to the smallest drops. One exemple is given. “The part- nets of J. P. Morgan & Co. and Drexel & Co. held 126 directorships and trusteeships in 89 companies, excluding subsidiaries, with $19.- 929,396,475.39 total resources for 75 of these companies.” In the hands of these two bank- ing firms, controlled by one man— J. P. Morgan—are over 20 billion dollars, and the lives and future of hundreds of thousands of workers Revolutionary Way Out Only the Communist Party offers a Way out of this strangle-hold con- trol of the wealth of the country by the powerful trusts. In its election program the Communist Party calls for an intensification of the imme- diate struggle to wrest the profits from the bosses by means of in- creased wages, lower hours, in- creased organization of the trade unions, unemployment insurance. But the Communist Party goes further. It points out that the grip over the country’s wealth by these financiers, this small group of cap- italists, can only be broken by the revolutionary overthrow of capital- ism, by the estadlishment of Soviet power, the rule of the workers. Ev- ery struggle for increased wages. for improvement of conditions un- der the present state of the capital- ist crisis strengthens and leads the workers to the higher and greater tasks of the ending of the death- grip of the capitalists over the pro- ductive forces of the nation. The Communist Party candidates |are struggling for Soviet power, for | Socialism. Every act of a Commu- nist candidate speeds the fight for |the workers’ state which would at one stroke break the grip of the | financiers. The Soviet state, with the majority of the workers behind it, would take control of the huge corporations, of the banks, and transform them into the property of all the workers. The very con- |centration of the wealth in these gigantic corporations, the fact that the leading industries are now in their hands, makes this task easier and more necessary. A continuation of this death-grip means greater starvation, means inereased development towards fas- |cism, in the efforts of the bankérs | to retain their power. Only a reyo- lutionary struggle which in one |powerful’ stroke of the workérs | breaks the domination of this pow- y}free hot lunches supplies and for warm clothes and |good shoes for the chifdren who need them. The Young Pioneers of America lin the Scovill neighborhood, the | Negro territory, organized a demon- \stration of children and parents at the home of Mary Martin, a Negro member of the Cleveland Board of Education. A delegation went in- | |sid2 to see Mary Martin to demand that she support the demands for for school chil- dren. The delegation reported on the miserable conditions of the children in this territory where the jchildren do not get milk and other foods which they need; where chil- | dren are forced to stay home from school because they have no shoes or clothes to wear. Mary Martin was forced to agree that these con- ditions existed and promised that she would do what she could in ‘order to see that the children got |hot lunches, etc. | A mass delegation will be sent |to the Board of Education meeting Mond: Oct. 22 at 4 p.m. All mass organizations have beer called upon to support this delegation. The delegation will meet to discuss the plans on Friday evening, Oct, 19 at the Workers Bookstore basement, 1522 Prospect Ave. New Deal” as outlined in “Today,” the magazine of Ray- mond Moley, leading publicist for Roosevelt. Moley’s magazine con- tends that the “New Deal” has proven its success and deserves the support of the people in the coming Congressional elections, Each argument of Moley will be treated in a separate article from day to day.—Editor.) ee Phe By MILTON HOWARD The golden profits of the Roose-; velt “New Deal” rain down with | impartial bounty upon Democratic and Republican capitalists alike. | Moley finds reason for thanks- | giving in the astonishing rise in profits which the Roosevelt “New Deal” has accomplished in the past 12 months. Moley thinks that in| these profit harvests is the reason | for the American working class yot- | ing in a new Democratic Congress | which will continue Roosevelt's pol- icies. | Andrew Mellon’s gigantic alum- | inum monopoly has profited enor- mously from the “New Deal” de-| spite the incidental fact that Mel- lon does not happen to be part of Roosevelt's political party. Mellon is one of the country’s most power- | ful capitalists. And that is enough | to make him a beneficiary of the Roosevelt policies. | For the fact is that Roosevelt's policies are capitalist policies, di- | rected solely to finding ways of | guaranteeing and increasing the, profits of the biggest capitalist | monopolies by driving down the Workers in Drive for Profits “New Deal,” they showed a sharp increase to a profit of $2,021,000 for | the first six months of this year. | Mr. Mellon shared in these prof- its, probably much more than | these figures indicate. But Mellon was able to wring these new profits from his workers only because the Roosevelt “New Deal” provided the following wages to the aluminum workers: Average wages of 63 cents a day | aluminum workers were re- R. A. hearings on the for ported at aluminum indusiry, Oct. 10, 1933.” Aluminum workers at Mellon’s bauxite mines in Arkansas get a maximum wage of 22 cents an hour for a 40-hour week, giving an average weekly pay envelope of 8.80 cents. Highly skilied aluminum work- ers who were getting 85 cents an hour in 1929 now get, under Roosevelt's “New Deal,” 35 to 40 cents, a 50 per cent slash, which explains why Mellon profits rose during this period. In the aluminum plants, particu- larly in the bronze powder plants, the workers get no_ protection against the disease-breeding dust. The N. R. A. code proposed by Mellon provided for a $10-a-week wage for aluminum workers. Roosevelt's “New Deal,” there- fore, is revealed only as a program which aids the biggest monopolies in slashing costs of production at the expense of the lives of the work- ers. Roosevelt's “New Deal” is the class program of the Wall Street ruling class. It is a program which brings more hunger and suffering to | General Strike in | New Orleans LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12.—Four .S. Wealth Vigilante Plot Bared To Kill Dorothy Ray, Hancock, on Release Hangman’s Noose, Knout and Open Grave Figure | in Threats of California Bosses; Hancock’s hundred upholsterers went out of their shops Oct. 9 to join the coast- wide strike in defiance both of their bosses and of the reaction- | ary leadership of Thomas Mayhew |and his little clique in the Inter- | eriobel (A. F. of L.) Upholsterers’| grave bearing the name of a | Union. [eaten ck Gri ie omaban Tats J Control of the strike is in the| Cation visit,” by Vigilantes on Mother in Desperate Appeal | Briggs A hangman’s noose and a steel studded knout, an open living man, and an “‘identifi+ two imprisoned lettuce strike hands of the rank and file, who have | leaders are among the gruesome factors in a sinister cone |demanded and won the democratic | spiracy by Califo es t election of a strike commitiee. This | PGES Sune committee is composed of rank and | ~ lea! and of the Purniure wores | AFL. Painter Industrial Union whose call for a Tells of Parle Against War junited front was instrumental in encouraging the workers to join jthe coast strike. | At the request of the employers {a committee of workers was ap- |pointed by the strike committee to jconfer with employers on settle-| |ment terms, but the strike contin-| Protest Grows Against |ues. No agreement will be accepted : ee | until it is approved by a general Green’s Anti-‘*Red’ vote, and the workers are pledged ; FY ; | to stay out of the shops until this is Edict in Chicago | | done. | (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) | CHICAGO, Ost¢ 12.—In spite of | attempts by Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of La- bor, to shut up the speaker, Elmer Johnson of Painters Local 637. made a stirring report of the 2nd U. S. Congress Against War and Fascism held here Sept, 28 to 30. Call for General Strike NEW ORLEANS, La., Oct. 12.—! Under the leadership of the New| } Orleans Local 12 of the Nation- al Furniture Workers Industrial Union, a general strike call has been issued for Oct. 15, it was an- | nounced by the national office of | i Emphasizing the strong trade Hehe union representation in the Con- The strike, which is predicted to | gress, Johnson drove home em- waze scales and living standards of the American workers. As proof of the success of the the working class. | A vote for Roosevelt's “New Deal” | is a vote for Mellon profits and 63 be 100 per cent, will involve all re- | | tail furniture shops and some im- portant factories where the union phetically the importance to labor of the struggle against war and fascism and the need for united Jo Lice s Rally Backs Councils Roosevelt “New Deal,” Moley lists \cents a day wages. A vote for the the following profits in the non- | Communist Perty is a vote against ferrous metal industry: |the whole “New Deal” capitalist In 1933 the non-ferrous metal | policy, for working-class policies, companies showed a deficit of|for a program of class struggle |has already succeeded in organiz-| ing a large number of workers. The demands worked out by the union are as follows: 1) 75 cents per) action. Answers Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick shouted, “Delegate, you are taking up the time of this , $3,154,000 during the first . . . inPhiladelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 12— City politicians here are support- ing an unprincivled group of relief fakers headed by David McNeal, who hold daily meetings at Rey- burn Plaza, at which piace the Park Commissioners have banned the mass unemployed demonstration called by the Unemployment Coun- cils for Saturday, Oct. 20, at 2 p.m. The group, which calls itself the “unemployed organization” seeks to keep thé jobless from organizing into Unemployment. Councils, boosts the Roosevelt “New Deal” and the Democratic Party. Wednesday for the first time, the workers succeeded in their demands that speakers from the Unemploy- ment Councils be granted the plat- form. N. Wood, of the Councils, | started to outline the policies of |the Unemployment Councils, but employed, or dependent on these|erful group of the bankers, aided | Was stoppéd by the police. industries. When it is remembered that these corporations are the most important in the country, such as the U. S. Steel, some of the leading railroads and public utili- ties, the leading armament firms, it can be understood what a grip over the living conditions and the very lives of the whole country these powerful bankers have. What They Don't Show A few items are not taken up at all by the banking committee order to conceal the role of the New Deal. The N.R.A.'s main pur- | pose was to strengthen monopoly capitalism; that is, the control of the big trusts. The N.R.A. codes gave these very bankers more power to increase their profits. and to suck more profits out of the “very capillaries” of the nation. At the) same time, they were given greater and more powerful weapons slash wages, through the codes. The governmeént, of course, stepped in and through its arbitration, tried | in| to| |by the capitalist government, can |solve the problem of the present | crisis. Roosevelt knows that this is a major question confronting the toil- ing masses of the United States, and that is why he talks about “distribution of wealth.” At the same time, he does everything in his power to strengthen the grip of the bankers and industrialists. He does it through the A.A.A., the N.R.A., and through every measure of the New Deal, ready driven up the profits of these very financiers. | A vote for the Communist Party es, cial property and speed the dével- opment of Socialism in the United | States. Negro Engineer, Pupil which have al-| vote for the revolutionary | struggle, for Soviet power, which | will transform this wealth into so- | Leaflets announcing the Oct. 20 {mass demonstration of the unem- |ployed are being distributed daily at these meetings calling upon the workers to smash the police ban on the Unemployment Councii demon- stration and to rally in thousands next Saturday at which time Isrde] Amter, national secretary of the Couneils and Communist candi- |date for governor of New York State, and other unemployed lead- \ers will spea’ French Imperialism | Increases Arms Plants PRAGUE, Oct. 11—The number |of far-flung ammunition factories built and supervised by French im- | perialism throughout the Balkans is | to be increased in Rumania, from reports received here, six | Now on Slate In Alabama BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Oct. 11. Certifying two white and two Ne-| gro candidates at the State Depart- | ment in Montgomery, the Commu- nist Party in Alabama has dei- initely entered the elections with ‘a | revolutionary program, defying po- | lice attempts to outlaw them. John M. Davis, militant black- | smith and miner, of Birmingham, | who has been leading the rank and | file of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers jin the red ore mine district, and | was recently expelled from his local |by the traitorous leaders whom he |fought, heads the list as candidate for governor. Running with him is Rance Smith, Negro worker of the Ten- nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., for Lieutenant-Governor, who oj poses Thomas Knight, vicious pro: ecutor of the Scotisbero boys and Democratic nominee for this office. Andrew Forsman, a leading trade) unionist in non-union Alabama for | |40 years, and former president of | |the Mobile Trades and Labor Coun- | cil will run for Congressman from the First District (Mobile), while |Norman Ragland, Negro railroad worker and T. C. I. coal miner for 24 years is the Communist candi- date for Congress in the Ninth Dis- trict (Birmingham), Open State Campaign The opening of the state cam- against the plunder of the Wall | months. Thanks to the Roosevelt | Street ruling class. ture. With these programs spread- A ; Ca. Candidates = like wildfire through the mines, |tion of the New Orleans local of| mills and factories, in the unions and among the unemployed, the po- lice have been able to arrest only one worker, despite frantic efforts to stop the leaflets. Calling for “the absolute right of all workers and citizens to vote, | Without payment of poll tax, and |joca) industrial unions in support of | against all discrimination which prevents Negroes from voting, hoid- ing office and sitting on juries,” the Alabama platform contains eleven demands, which will be coupled with the national Communist platform for the Congressional elections. Abolish Wage Differential Carrying on the day to day strug- gle which Communists have been leading in the unions, an important demand is made for “the abolition of the N. R. A. wage differential, for higher wages in Alabama to meet the higher cost of living, equal with wages throughout the United States,” which will be put forward together with the plank which de- mands “recognition of the labor unions and the right of workers and farmers to organize, strike and picket. Against the use of police deputies or troops, or injunction against strikers, For disbandment of the K. K. K., White Legion and other armed fascist bands.” As the first demand, an emer- gency session of the State Legisla-| ture is called for, to appropriate $15,000,000 for cash winter relief for the unemployed, which will give $9 minimum weekly to families, with- out forced labor. Another demand declares opposition to eviction of unemployed workers and foreclos- ures of small home owners andj; farmers. Supporting the struggle of the Sharecroppers’ Union, the Commu- |hour minimum for all skilled work-| meeting. Please confine yourself to! The Czechoslovakian arms factory |P4ign was marked by the distribu- jin Brunn—French o wned—con-| tion of, 25,000 leaflets, explaining of Steinmetz, Heads Soviet Metal Plant to keep the workers from struggl- ing while the trusts increased their eontrol, and increased their profits. Besides the usual method of ex- eres ploiting workers, of lowering liv-) MAGNITOGORSK, US.S.R. (FP) ing standards, the big bankers have | Oct. 12—The chief electrical engi- other ways of making money, a lit-|neer at the Magnitogorsk Metal tle short of outright robbery. They | Working Plant is Richard Williams, formed investment trusts. and|a young Negro pupil of the elec- holding companies, and by crooked | trical wizard Steinmetz and gradu- means were able to wipe out the) ate in electrical engineering at Co- |cluded an agreement with Rumania, | according to which a munitions fac- | tory is to be erected in the vicinity \of Bucharest and a machine build- jing works at Gugyr, Rank | the Communist program in the elec- | tions, despite the new Birmingham |ordinance which makes illegal Ppos- |Session of more than one copy of lany militant, working class litera- | and File Force | New Election smaller holders, actually making “$ncredible profits,” as a result of the crisis and the bankruptcy of the small holders Another small item not taken up |lumbia University. Williams comes | from Old Greenwich, Conn. | At his present post he is in charge | of 150 electrical and technical engi- neers of many nationalities. nist Party calls for the repeal of the Bankhead Bill, cancellation of back debts, reduction of rents and for the right of croppers and ten- ants to gin and sell their own cot- ton, as well as for adequate farm relief, which has now been com- pletely cut off, ers; 2) 50 cents per hour for all un- | skilled workers; 3) 36-hour, five- |day working week; 4) Time and a half for overtime; double time for} |Sundays and holidays; 5) Recogni- | the business of your organization. “This is the business of our or- ganization.” retorted Johnson. “My local is calling a special meeting to | discuss it. There is nothing more | important for our unions than the fight against war and fascism.” the N.F.W.LU, Homer Brooks, district secretary of the New Orleans District of the Trade Union Unity Council, ad-| | dressed the membership meet'ng of }the N.F.W.1.U., pledging the full) support and the mobilization of all, (Daily Worker Midwest Burecu) Protest Anti-“Red” Drive CHICAGO, Oct, 12. — Repeated | protests against the vicicus | Red program of William Green’s | communication to A. F of L. unions | calling for the expulsion of Com- munists led John Fitzpatrick. head | of the Chicago Federation of Labor, to shut off discussion of the matter | by delegates at the last C. F. of L. meeting. | Delegate after delegate tceok the floor after the communication had been read, to speak against this at- | tempt to split the working class. An obvious majority was against | | publishing the ‘communication in the Chicago Federationist. Green's Letter Denounced Elmer Johnson, recording secre- tary of Painters Local 637. exposed the dangerous character of Green's letter in the light of his own ex- perience in union activity. “In my experience in the local union, together with Progressives | the general strike of the furniture | | workers, Board Rejects CP Candidates In Madison, Ill. MADISON, Ill., Oct. 11—After a six-hour hearing throughout which the anti-Communist prejudices of officials and the witnesses they called were flagrantly evident, the | County Board of Elections here re- jected the nominating petition for | Communist candidates in Madison | who fight for lower dues and bet- County, ter working conditions, we have | A mass meeting of protest has; been called Commmnists by the re- | been organized and legal action will | act s. This communication | |be taken in a fight to reverse the | Will help reactionaries in all locals | arbitrary ruling of the board. jto prevent a militant struggle of One of the most violent opponents | their membership.” |of the Communist Party efforts to| He pointed out the |qualify its candidates at the hear- Red Scare” in the Fri County and former scab-herding | Ployers, but that, coming “from the “efficiency expert” in the Granite, A. F. of L. president, it was a com- City Stamping Works. Democracy in Unions An incipient, frame-up of Com-| «we must fight to keep all our munist candidates on charges Of | memb-rs,” he concluded. “we must forgery was nipped in the bud by tang for democracy in the unions, | the militant conduct at the hearing tor freedom of expression .and | of I. Jackson, Communist Negro | pojitical opinion.” | candidate for County Clerk. Greater Circulation Will Decrease the “Daily’s” Need For Financial Aid, enemies from the unions why the unions didn’t clean out the Repub- lican and Democratic politicians who act as betrayers of the laber s Of Aluminum Workers’ Defeating ‘Red Scare’ by the banking committee is the) fact that these huge trusts, which | control the wealth of the nation, | Stockton Communists ~aré intertwined with the govern- mient. For example, General John- ‘son ‘was the main representative of thesé leading trusts. with their in- térlocking directorates. Bernard Bariich, now one of the most im- “portant figures behind the scenes in Roosevelt's “brain trust,” is the tiirect link between J. P. Morgan & Co. and Roosevelt. ‘ Aid Wage Cutters _ While Roosevelt calls on the workers to vote for his New Deal candidates, promising the workers better living conditions, a greater distribution of wealth, his agents work to help the big trusts retain their strangle-hold on the country’s wealth. Donald Richberg, for ex- ample, holds secret conferences with the U. 8. Steel Corporation direc- tors on the question of slashing wages. But he doés not tell the workers what went on behind the »-3ased_ doors. Tye banking committee after ad- ~--'25 the startling facts printed merely proposes federal in- covtoration and federal registration - insiead of state registration for the big trusts. What would this. do? Would it siop the draining of one éevillary? It would not. It would Break Through Terror STOCKTON, Calif.. Oct. 12. |Breaking through the terror that |has obstructed the holding of open |mass meetings by the Communist Periy for ten weeks. an election |rally was héld recently in the au- ditorium of the Stockton Public | Bich School. | In spite of the presence of police | who attempted to intimidate work- ers, a large audience heard Pettis |Perry, Negro worker and Commu- |nist nominee for lieutenant-gover- ner. and Archie Brown, young worker and Communist candidate for state treasurer. ‘The speakers exposed the vicious absurdity of Upton Sinclair's EPIC, pointed out what the Communist program offered to youth, and made a strong appeal for Negro and white solidarity. Brown and Perry are |on a speaking tour of the state. | Ce ee | Many workers have set them- | selves 2 cunta of 81 a week for the “Daily” 860.009 drive. How are you giving? Pennies, quarters—send as much as vou can! The Daily Worker depends upon you! much dimes, | To Revoke Charter in Fight NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., Oct. 10, Rank and file members of the Aluminum Workers’ Union, under the leadership of the “Committee for Rank and File Control,” have brought so much pressure to bear on Dave Williams, A. F. of L. or- ganizer, and Paul Howlett, presi- dent of the local, that these offi- cials are now being forced to satisfy the demands of the group by grant- ing minor concessions in order to head off the general sentiment. Howlett has declared that he will resign at the next meeting and ask for the election of a new executive council. Heretofore the executive council of seven has always been appointed by the president. Members Discuss Problems But an executive council will by no means solve thé problem of ~e- |rank and file, and the committee lis pressing for adoption of the | whole program as set forth ‘h their “Save the Union” !eaflst. | At the last three meetings this AFL Officials Threaten | | turning control of the union to the | sion by the membership, and the frank examination of the short- comings of present union leaders and policies has so exaspera‘ed Williams that he has threatened on two different occasions to “revoke the local’s A. F. of L, charter.” Each discussion of the commit- | |t颒s program has brought new ele- menis, who up un il now have been |deluded by the A. F. of L. leader's |¢mpty phrases, to its support. Red Scare Boomerang Williams’ maneuver in raising the | red scare as an attempt to quash | rank and file sentiment has been | testing the blacklisting of 41 miners |mearby Logans Ferry by U. M. W. |of A. District 5 officials. There these militan: miners were custed by the district revoking the charter of the U. M. W. of A local while the coal operator weeded them out, The resolution was pessed and sent to Pat Fagan, Dis- trict 5 presiden’. For Rank and File Control The aluminum workers realize that rank and file control is neces- sary to ccnduct an effective fight egainst Andrew Mellon’s company union—the Aluminum Workers’ a boomerang. His charge that the {program advanced in the leaflet is” the work of Communis.s has‘ evoked the response of members, | that no matter who wrote the pro- gram it is one which upholds the | linterests of the workers, and for | that reason they are for it. Some of the workers, though Provective Association—since union leaders take no action against it and ihe way for its growth is paved by the company union agreement under which Williams and Com- pany herded the men back to work in the lest strike. “No Strike” Agreement Howlett has brought in a con- | Pot members of the Party, when accused, have answered, “Sure I | em 2 Communist. If you got rid | of all ns rank and fiters whom | you call ‘rods,’ you would have noth'ng Jeft in yeur union.” The threat to revoke the A. F. oi L, charter of the local had lit'le (effect. So little, in fact. that oe jtiéns on the | signment of A. F. of L. literature, pamphlets on trade unionism and its policies, in which the workers havé ihemselves found many flaws, One circular in particular, “Sugges- Making of Agr: ments contains the following gemt: “The nosition at t+ ct-nd shop under Section 7-a of N. R. A. program has been raised for discus- | worker introduced a resolution pro- lis now the subject of consiccvaue | pro « reas | movement, He pointed out that it e e as Communists who were always in | nion in the front ranks of the picket lines. stormiest meeting of the C. PF. of L. in months, a Socialist, Leatherman, of the Pocketbook Makers Union, |made a talk supperting the whole |Green program while pretending to oppese it. He stated definitely that he was in agreement with 90 per cent of Green's statement. He wes @ ee |Workers Are Militant in Struggle Against munists shovld net be expelle |from the unions. but shouid be left withcut influence. He prevosed tiat |the locals make it a standin rule jthet Communists cculd not be on the ‘ballot in union elections. About a coven speakers all told sroxe egainst the motion, and John Fitgpstrick finally took the flocr in a desperste attemnt ta prevent rejection of the anti-Red stand. He pleaded with the delezates prom- ising that no one of them would be expelled. He ranted ahout Commu- nist “boring from within” tactics and then cut loose with scme high powered oratory about Communism being a cancerous azowth, a fes- tercus cbiect. etc., etc., etc. When he finished a dozen dele- igates demanded the flocr, but Fitz- )Patrick hastily rushed the matter to \@ vote without further discussion. | At least 25 per cent of the deie- gates voted against publication of , the letter, end mest of the rest cbstained. However, the machine was able ta muster enough votes to Pass the metion by a small ma- jority. discussion end difference of opin- ion, both in the Administration and among employers. In an_ initial agreement the closed shop is rarely of primary importance.” —"An agreement is made upon the theory that strikes and lockouts will be unnecessary, and will be avoided. An agreement usually states that no strikes or lockouts will take place during the life of the agreemen’—” Under a “model” agrecment in the rear of this A. F. of L.-sellout handbook are the following model clauses: “During the life of this agree- ment no strike shall be caused or sanctioned by the union—” and— “The employer retains the right to discharge any employe, but upon request of the union, he agress io show cause for such discharge.” The aluminum workers are plen- jning to send délezaies to the A. F. ‘of L. national rank and file con- ference in National Slovak Hail, | Pittsburgh, on Oct, 27 and 28, ‘nouncing the sheriff’s refusal ing was Roy B. Goodell, head of |He then stated that the altack was | | Federal Work Relief in Madison | What we would expect from the em- | |pletely vicious statement. | John Hecker then asked the body | if it was the policy to expel political | In the midst of what was the| o torture and murder 19-year old Dorothy Ray and Stanley Hane cock upon their release within the next few di from an imperial Valley jail, where they have been held and tortured for the past six months for their activities in the lettuce strike of Jast January. The hangman's noose and steel studded knout were mailed to Han- cock together with a note threate ening him with death for his ace tivities as an organizer of the Can- nery and Agricultural Workers In- dustrial Union. Another threaten- ing note was left in the open grave at the foot of which vigilantes had set up & crude sign bearing Han- cock’s name. Communist Candidate Protests Terror A few nights ago, Hancock was called into the sheriff's office to be “interviewed” by two strangers. Ex- actly the same procedure had pre- ceded the release of Antonio Sclor- zano, who on the night of his re- lease was subjected to a fearful beating by a band of eight armed vigilantes and left for dead. Solor- zano is also an organizer of the union. Numerous other acts of bes- tial violence have been carried out egainst the union’s organizers and members, as Petiis Perry, Negro Communist candidate for Lieuten- ant-Governor of California, poin‘s out in a letter to Sheriff George L. Campbell at El Centro, Calif, de- to the protection of “It has been demonstrated during est ten menths, by a long un- n series of outrages, that there no act too degraded, none too | cowardly, for these police-proiected vigilantes to commit in the service of the rulers of Imperial Valley. At the time of their release, Dorothy Ray and Stanley Hancock will each be in danger of the usual many- against-one vigilante attacks. Your failure to answer letters requesting that you set a definite date. for their release, adds to their danger.” Hancock’s Mother in Desperate Appeal It is thus not surprising that the threats against the lives of Ray and Hancock have aroused the deep- est concern and indignation among California workers, or that Han- cock’s mother, living in daily dread lof hearing of the murder of her ‘son, has been impelled to address |‘ several desperate appeals, all un- ‘answered and unacknowledged, to | Governor Frank Merriam and other California and federal officials. “Y have a norma! mother's deep affection for her son and regard ior his welfare and safety,” Mrs. Mary Hancock points out in a let- ter, copies of which have been sent to Gov. Merriam, U. S. At- forney General Homer Cum- mings, U. S. Webb, State Attor- | ney General; George L. Camp- bell, serif of Imperial County; | Ea. F. Cooper, sherift of San Di- ego County, and Ray Cato, chicf of State Highway ae “In justifiable desperation I am now | iesins you in the interests of your official duti¢s and from | the common standpeint of ha- manitarian citizens, At the same tire, as you would probably do it our situations were reversed, I am appealing for such support as I can get from lay bodies and newspaper readers over the coun- try.” ‘Mrs. Hancock informs these offle eials of the developments already lyeported in this article, and de- \elares: “I am writing both to de- mand and to plead for safe conduct for my son and Miss Ray... - I want to know exactly when my son and Miss Ray are to be released and I want them eye phonried to ltheir homes in San Diego... - lnoeeen the 13th and the 19th of this month, they will have satisfied the ‘justice of an Imperial court, and should be rendered immune from further molestation. Demands Protection for Two iS i Organizers against the motion ‘he said) to Q Mellon Monopoly publish Green's letter in the Fed-| “If you are intent upon siving eraticnist because he believed Com- |Ccommunism © another martyr two, and if the coming of Commu- nism will guarantee a classfess 50- ‘ciety in whieh all other mothers sops will be safe, I suppose that I should not complain, but I want the issue to be plain to you. will ‘you be parties to the further des struction of public resvect for eapi- talistic justice, or will you afford releaced and therefore free citizens the protection paras Ses due nd your duty provide? 2 The threat against these i working class fighters, the open os being given by the authorities _ the fascist gangs plotting their murder, should arouse the indig- nation of every decent citizen. Pro- tests should be wired at once to the California authorities and the oa eral government, demanding ue tection and the safe delivery of " two organizers to their fam‘lies an the working class of San Diego who aro ready to take steps for their protection. The Daily Worker can Better Aid Your Struggles if Yen Build its Circulation. 4 BBLS Lime: |