The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1934, Page 3

a a a oe Ser 0 ee - ae. A. F. of L. Leaders Bare Fascist Fangs at Convention MPED 21 Lynchings | GAG RULE CLA DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TU DOWN ON SPEAKERS ‘inceJanuary FOR RANK By Bill Daily MONTEREY, Calif., Oct. AND FILE Dunne aily Worker Special Correspondent) 15.—American Federation of _ LL.D. Reports |Law Officers Took Part | in Many, Record | Points Out In Midwes Workers’ Enterprise t Increases Drive Fund for ‘Daily’ |Language Sections of Mass Organizations Send Contributions — Worker in Hospital Gives AY, OCTOBER 16, 1934 2,700 Fired As FERA Ends In Ohio City Mahoning County Relief Cut Spurs Action; New Councils Formed WILLIAM Page S STANDS £OR SAME POLICIES AS TIGHE IN THE A.A. So-Called Rank and File ize Strikers—Reject Candidate Would Penal- Trade Union Democ- Labor officialdom settled the main question before the con- | i Wevccasn tyasbied ook: plead vention, that of industrial unionism, and having settled this} in the first nine months of 1934, by agreement among the high salaried officers of the Feder- Lecter lag Pda ee WO attitudes toward the Daily Worker $60,000 drive! ation and its affiliated unions, at once revealed the inherently tional Labor Defense. One, leading to failure—the other, to success! fascist nature of its leadership. ©® = In making the list public, the) The two are described in a letter from Matt Tamejanovich, Your correspondent, in cne capac- I. L. D. stated: n * 2 “The Crosby, Minn. “There is no question that a oe ity or 9) other, has attended four- W e Coa | a 2 | os ss ‘ teen col secutive American Federa- | st st | large proportion of lynchings oc- | T am sending you seven dollars ($7.00) for the $60,000 Two Weeks’ Earnings racy—Praises Green and Lewis By Tom Keenan . PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 15.—George Williams, candi- date for the international presidency of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, indicated last night that he stands for the present class-collaboration, bu- YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Oct. 15 All Federal Emergency Relief s for the month of October have been cut off here, throwing 2,700 work- | ers off the relief projects. Simul taneously with this announceme: the Mahoning County Relief Ad-| ministration through its director, Mr. Noble, has announced that fu- 5 ‘ i | in the United States are j Ke we —__~_______ |ture committees of the Unemploy- eae: * reaucratic lices of the A. A tion of Lebor conventions. But in aa cur: ing : | Daily Worker drive. When I took 2 | . - > : t polices - these fourt..en years he has mere Seamen Win rae Singer a a Poi up the question at our city unit) continue its reientiess fight against ie ea eee ae Ee pCR eet P . eneretip as is,” one hundred per ef ualtenalee Lay estan which, plete available. meeting some comrades almost fell) the enemies of the working class! ioe nich was granted after the | T° otection in the opinion of officialdom, smacked of Communism. It must be said for the rank and file delegates that they are not lack- ing in courage. In the face of a/ snarling barrage, the signal for which at all times was given by President Green, delegates in the front seats able to hear his con- fidential advisor say “Communist” every time a delegate rose to speak on the fundamental resolutions be- | fore the convention, time after time | delegates committed to the rank and file program walked down to the | microphone through a howling mob | of official delegates. | Time after time, President Green Tuled them out of order. But they kept coming. Their insistence on | their right to speak in the conven- | tion, a democratic right of which | the American Federation of Labor officialdom always boasts, infuriated the so-called recognized leadership of the convention. These officials sneered and snarled and actually frothed at the mouth, because a handful of rank and file delegates demanded the right to speak.. They never rot it. But they discovered, and thousands of work- ers for whom they spoke, will learn that the democratic pretenses of the American Federation of Labor lead- ership is just so much window dress- ing—that when it thinks the op- portune moment has arrived, it is just as ruthless and brutal in its attitude toward the membership as are the heads of monopoly capital- ism in steel, oil, textile and other basic industries. There was another lesson learned. | It is that ruthless brutality by offi- cialdom marches on, bulwarked by Maheuvers intended to confuse and disrupt the opposition to its pro- gram. During the course of the! time when the official steam roller | flattened out all opposition, the hose was turned off occasionally and the machine haltes to permit a number | of despicable agents of the bureau- cracy to take the platform. Praise For Strikebreaker Olson Leading the list of these agents of reaction was Lawson. secretary | of the Minnesota State Federation of Labor. He took the platform to | support the committee recommen- dation fer non-concurrence in the resolution condemning the use of militia against strikers. He objected, he said, to a blanket condemnation of the use of the National Guard in strikes. He said that in the Min- neapolis strike of truck drivers, Governor Olscn, the Farmer-Labor Governor of Minnesoia, really had used the troops to protect the in- terests of the strikers. and of the organized labor movement. The of- | ficial delerates avplaude? wildi. | He said not one word that would give any inkling of the fact that Governor Olson broke the . truck drivers strike in Minneapolis. On a smaller scale the same thing occurred in connection with the | speech made by Dallas, a rank and | file delegate from the Fiour and | Cereal Workers Federal Labor Union. The delegate from the Seattle Central Labor Council, | demonstratively recognized by Presi- | dent Green, arose and said that | he deplored -and repudiated the charges of gangsterism made by Delegate Dallas against the business agent of the teamsters union in Seattle, one Beck. He said that Brother Beck was a_ respected leader of the Seattle labor move- | nent, and that the organized labor | novement in America was coming | ‘should arise in its national con- All Demands Members of 2 Unions Unite in Struggle in San Pedro SAN PEDRO, Cal., Oct. 15—Mem- bers of the Marine Workers Indus- | trial Union and the International Seamen’s Union aboard the SS. Siskiyou voted to strike in San Francisco when the owners tried to pay the crew off at the rate of $50 @ month and no overtime. The crew signed on in San Pedro) for $60 a month and 60c an hour overtime, and there was nothing said about a change in wages until the ship docked in San Francisco and the owners came aboard. Johnny Nelson, ship’s delegate from the Marine Workers Industrial Union, called the crew together and a strike vote was taken. The own- ers ‘paid the wages and overtime be- fore the strike materialized. When the ship arrived in San Diego, four members of the crew wanted to draw their money which was refused by the owners. Again the crew took a strike vote and this time went out on strike for two hours supported by all officers on board except the second mate, who was dumped on the dock by the crew. Again the crew won all demands and the four men who wanted their money were paid in full. Councils Win Relief Cases In Detroit DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 15.—As a result of the successful demonstra- |tion Wednesday of 300 workers at the Scotten relief station, 3024 Law- ton Ave., an overflow meeting of Branch 13 of the Unemployment Council was held Thursday night at its headquarie:s, Myrtle Avenue near Twelfth Street. So large was the crowd that workers were stand- ing out on the sidewalk in front of the store in which the Council is located, as well as in the back yard. Within the past ten days about a dozen families have been put on the relief rolls through the activity /of this Unemployment Council. In the demonstration Wednesday the Council won from the supervisor a | promise to end ihe long waiting and the third degzee methods to which applicants are subjected, as well as recognition of the Unemployment Council committees. The super- visor also promised to take up with County Welfare Superintendent John F. Ballenger the workers’ demands for a 20 per cent increase in the family budget and increased medical and dental aid. The day after this demonstration the County Relief Commission vetoed nearly all the proposals made by Ballenger and State Welfare Superintendent William Heber for (slashing $425,000 from relief ex- penditures, to a pretty pass when Communists ¢ P. in B e rkley Mich. | ees ’ ’ “In nearly all these cases, assis- tance if not leadership of officers | of the law in the lynching was re- ported. “In each of these cases, at least three men participated in an or- ganized manner in the lynching. | Many cther cases in which lynch-| murders were committed by single private individuals or by officers of the law. or by less than three Persons acting in concert. are not | | listed.” | The list follows: 1. Unindentified man, lynched near Bartow, Ga. by a gang of white men January 9. No excuse was given. 2. Rex Scott, 20, shot and hang- ed by a gang of 50 men, at Hazard, Ky., Jan. 23. Charged with strik- ing a white man in a fight. 3. Robert Johnson, lynched near Tampa, Fla., Jan. 30, while in cus- tody of Deputy Constable T. M. Graves on a charge of petty lar- | ceny. “Partial identification” for “attack on a white woman” (un- named), was made after the lynch- ing for press purposes. 4. James Franklin, yard hand, lynehed by employer, Joe Kopman, with assistance of two policemen| who held Franklin while Kopman shot nim. This took place at Brad- | enton, Fla., April 13. Lynching was part of general reign of terror against organizing ‘citrus workers, but a story of an “attack” on Kop- man’s daughter was given out. 5. Ramon Elloia, farmhand, 58, | lynched at Greenville, Miss., April 22, by W. B. Basket, farm manager, Ben Dildant, Sheriff, and two others. Shot to death after argu- | ment between Elloia and Will Moss, Negro foreman. 6. Unidentified man, found with rope around his neck. evidently lynched. on golf course at New Castle, N. Y.. May 5. 7. Unidentified men, shot to | death by a mob of 300, at Laurens, S. C.. May 10. He was charged with sheoting at and wounding deputy sheriff K. F. Johns when Johns beat him with a club. | 8. Euchere Poste Sylve. mowed | down iy police and mob at Pointe | ta Ja Hache, La. May 11. Excuse |Jater made up that he was “run- | ning amuck” proved false. He had refused to be arrested without a | warrant. 9,10. Joe Love and Isaac Thomas, lynched at Lambert, Miss., June 8, hanged from a bridge. Charged with “assault.” Sheriff and two deputies directly involved. 11. Son Griggs, 30, hanged, shot and dragged behind automobile by officers assisted by mob of 150, June | 21; at Kirbyville, Tex., for associat- | ing with white woman friend. 12. Dick Wilkerson, 35, lynched by gang which destroyed his home | jalso, after he had had altercation }with white hoodlums invading Negro dance, at Manchester, Tenn., June 24. 13, Andrew McCloud, charged with “attempted assault,” lynched by K. K. K. gang, which organized a mob of 300 at Pastrop, La., July 9. Throat cut and hanged. Sheriff and Police Chief conveniently “out oe Ome while he was taken from jail. 14. Moise Wilson, shot by gang of Draft Constitution Is Greer Builds |over. I told them that if they were, so afraid, I'd take up the part my- self to raise owr quota. ‘I picked out one member of the Y.C.L., whose name Is Sigtried A. Nygard, the brother of Emil C. Nygard (former Communist mayor of Crosby). We took a a half-day’s work together and went to the stores and collected ten dollars and seventy cents worth of mer- chandise. We anctioned these items off at a Y.C.L. affair. “Seven dollars is going to the Daily Worker and the rest to Party work, “There is every way to raise money for the Daily Worker, if the | comrades try. Let's hear the rest of the comrades respond to the call,| as well.” This letter is a theme for every discussion of the Daily Worker drive! It should convince everyone (no matter in what sparsely organ- ized part of the country). who is hesitant or lacking in confidence | in approaching workers! The $60,000 will be raised because there are such revolutionary work- as Matt Tamejanovich! There is “every way” of raising money—but, like Comrade Tame- jJanovich, one must pitch in! We auote from another letter— from Peter Frank, St. Louis, Mo., another worker on the way to mak- ing the Daily Worker the strong, secure organ which it must be to Donates Movie Show Proceeds “I can’t get around much to make any money te help the ‘Daily’,” writes this worker, “but Iam donating a movie show and music for 2 dance. Tickets were furnished free also so there won’t for the hal. I am laid up most of the time but I will be able to get out. A truck will be furnished free also.” In every part of the United States, individuals and groups have found a way of raising funds for the Daily Worker. From Canton, Ohio, the Yugoslav branch of the I.W.O. (Br. 60) has | Sent a contribution. The Russian National Mutual Aid Society, Br. | 48. in Kansas City, donates $5.00. The Bulgarian branch of the I.W.0., Madison, Ill., collected $7. The | Lithuanian ALDLD., Hartford, has to its credit an initial, contri- bution of $2.00. The Wilkeson and Tacoman Finnish Federation, Buckley, Was! on. gave a dance and netted seven Even while imprisoned in a hos- pital, a worker has found a way of securing money for the Daily Worker. “Enclosed you will find money order in the amount of $5.00. “This is in behalf of Frank Zounek—patient at the Harlem Valley Hospital (New York)—who is giving all his earnings—washing employees’ cars for the past fort- night.” deputies at Franklinton, La, July, when his home was invaded by them on the excuse that a mule on the farm hed not been dipped 15. James Sanders, 25, shot and killed by gang at Bolton, Miss., | July 23,.charged with being sweet- | heart of white girl. 16. Henry Bedford. 70, whipped to death by gang of men at Pelehat- chie, Miss., July 30, 17. Grafton Page, 30, beaten to death at Bethany, La., Aug. 3. The Bulletin of the International Juri- dical Association says of this lynching: “At first no explanation | was made of this lynching, but later the dubious one was offered that members of his own race had lynched Page because of his alleged assault on a colored girl.” 18,19. Robert Jones and Smith Houey, hanged by gang at Ashland, Miss., Aug. 13. Charged with kill- ing two white men more than a year previously. 20. George Taylor, lynched in Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 28, shot by gang of men who poured out of church on report a Negro had ac- costed two white girls with a gun. 21. George White, turned over to a gang who killed him and threw his body into a swamp near Savan- nah, Ga., Sept. 2, by police who had errested him on a charge of “at- tempting to attack a white woman.” A Red Builder on Every Busy Street Corner in the Country Means , in! | (ousrile Stop Eviction in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 15.— “Tf it has to cost me five hundred |dollars I will evict this family,” was the reply which the landlord gave a (committee from the Unemployment | Council which demanded an end to the eviction proceedings against the | Diamond family at 402% Spruce | Street. The Diamond family, unemployed for the past two and one-half years, has paid a total rent of $1,750 in the past five and one-half years oc- cupancy of the house. Through his lawyers, the landlord has demanded the payment of constable fees and full rent, which the city relief does | not pay. with the landlord, Mr. Glick, who owns a business at Second and Spruce Streets, he refused to stop eviction proceedings. lowing morning workers massed at the home of the unemployed worker and stopped the scheduled eviction. The committee of one hundred which will meet with the City Coun- cil on Thursday will present this and other cases demanding an end to evictions, doubling the present re- | be any epense except perhaps $3.00 | When the Council committee met | On the fol- | huge demonstration here on Sept. 28, was suddenly withdrawn when a committee of unemployed headed by Ben Gray, jobless Jeade: and organ- izer of the Youngstown Unemploy- ment Councils, presented demands to Noble on Wednesday, Oct. 10. When the committee entered they | | Were told as usual that Noble “was | |not in.” The delegation refused to| leave, and in a short time Nobie | staggered out of his office drunk. | |He approached Gray and ordered | jhim out. When Gray explained | |that he was the elected spokesman | of the delegation and would not| leave, Noble grabbed him by the| |arm and attempted to shove him out, The workers immediately sprang | to Gray’s defense and only the in- tervention of the police, who locked Pression to their pent up anger. Affidavits signed by eighteen wit- nesses have been drawn up and sent to the State Relief Administra- | tion demanding the removal of Noble, who according to the Un- employment Councils, is a nephew, |of Gove-nor White of Ohio and an| | Officer of the National Guard. | Around a six-point program of | |moval of Noble, have set forth the following mands: 1. Immediate appropriation of jall F. E. R. A. work. | 2. Immediate placing of all fired | |F. E. R. A. workers on relief with- | out furthe: investigation. | 3. Recognition of all workers com- | mittees at the relief offices. 4. Removal of all police from re- lief offices. 5. A public investigation into the Mahoning County Relief Adminis- tration. In the past few weeks, six locals of the Unemployment Council have | been established in Youngstown, | | and. several neighborhood groups jhave been formed as the unem- | Ployed are rallying behind the Un- | | employment Councils’ program. Wisconsin Jabless Plan| Action on Relief Slash RHINELANDER, Wis., Oct. 15.— Unemployed and poor farmers. or- ganizations in the Seventh Relief here Friday under the leadership | of the Unemployment Council to} Plan action against the recent cut in work relief wages. | At the announcement of the wage cut, the hourly rate was first set at | thirty-five cents an hour, but due to the effectiveness of the recent was set at forty cents an hour. In| Price county alone the rate was set at thirty-five cents, Greater Circulation Will Decrease a Tremendous Step Toward the lief, union wages and conditions on/|the “Daily’s” Need For Financial Dictatorship. of the Proletariat! ¢ (2) All “persons employed by ‘Disguised Au relief jobs, and no discrimination. ;problems only on a departmental to Company vention and slander such ou‘stand- ing leaders as Brother Beck. Dallas tried to get the floor. He was howled down, : Agents of Capitalism The treatment that Dallas got was the same as that accorded to évery speaker who tried to get the floor for rank and file resolu‘ions. With its internal questions settled and the members of the official family again secure for at least a year, officialdom bared its fascist fangs. It is not the decision for the change of base from craft to in- dustrialism that shows the real character of American Federation of Labor officialdom, but the way ‘n which resolutions of a funda- mental character, both in regard to structure and policy of the organ- | ized American labor movement, were treaed that determines ac- tually what these officials really are —agents of monopoly capitalism, compelled by the pressure of the > class struggle reaching its highest point in America in the last year, to make some gestures and adopt some measures calculated to main- tain their connection with the work- ing class, without which they are of no use to their masters. WHAT’S ON Grand Rapids, Mich. HARVEST Festival, Bazaar and Dance. ‘Wednesday, Oct. 17th at L.S.D. Hall, 1037 Hamilton Ave. NW. Herman Curtis and his Colored Band. Admission 10 cents. Philadelphia, Pa. THE Philadelphia Workers Bookshop, 46 N. 8th St., 2nd floor, announces the open- Presses Primary Gain To Capture Mayoralty BERKLEY, Mich., Oct. 15.—The Communist Party has started a de- termined campaign to elect its can- didate for mayor here. The party won an initial victory when in the primaries its candidate, Arend Wickert, got the second high- est number of votes, 175, and thus won the right to fight it out in the finals. The top vote was 600. Wickert has won wide infiuence here as a result of his leadership of the struggles of the unemployed, Berkley is a town of 5,000, about ten miles from Detroit. A large pro- portion of its population consists of Ford and former Ford workers. AFFAIRS FOR THE|>! DAILY WORKER Boston James Casey, managing editor of the Daily Worker, speaks at Dudley St. Opera House, 113 Dudley St., Oct. 27, P.M. Los Angeles, Cal. Annual Workers’ Press Concert, Sun- day, Nov. 4 at Mason Theatre, 127 8. Broadway. Concert Program. Promi- nent speakers. Chicago, III. Concert and Dance given by John Reed Br. L.W.O., No. 546. Sunday, Oct. 2ist at Folkets Hus, 2733 Hirsch | Iva. Halloween Party and Masquerade Dance, Sat., Oct. 27th at North Side Opposed to Strikes; Bars Unemployed By NAT GANLEY DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 15.—Ar- thur Greer, president of the Asso- ciated Automobile Workers of | America, Local 2 (Hudson plant), \is proposing that the constitutional ‘convention of this organiza‘ion which meets Nov. 3 and 4 in Pon- tiac, Mich., shall set up a “Na- tional Executive Council.” This (council shall have only “advisory | Powers” and only have “limited au- thority” on such matters as issuing charters, revoking charters and settling disputes between locals. The Associated, which is a split- off from the A. F. of L., thus comes ou: for the same organizational set- up which was railroaded through the lest national A. F. of L. auto |conference by Green, Collins and ion. A Company Union | Arthur Greer is trying to put | over a disguised company union. An analysis of the constitution of F. of L. rank and file committee in the auto industry discloses the following facts: (1) Similar to) company unions, the Hudson local | of the Associated stands for “the encouragement of a higher degree of workmanship and practic es throughout the industry” while nothing is said about a struggle | agains. the employers on wages, hours and working conditions. | Certainly in the mass production ; Hudsons” are admitted to member- basis within the plant. He and his ship, which means that foremen lieutenants are against strikes, But and superintendents can heicng. he foresees that in the next produc- (3) Unemployed and laid-off |tion season a national strike move- Hudson workers can only be ad- ‘ment for improved conditions may mitted or retain membership in develop. Hence he wants to be in the organization “when judged a position eget’ bad ee on eligible the membership com- | Movement order ehead it. oa! euler, to company unions | ional Executive Council may carry epresentatives in their own in dividual departments” can be elect- |" negotietions with the employers ile and governmental bodies and they = ee Men tee ince \“may” refer the matter back to the ‘bargaining between the union as:a locals for a decision by a two thirds | whole and the employer. |vote. But after a discussion the (3) It is almost an impossible feat |Hudson local membership changed to change the cons itution since this | this section to read that it “shall can only be done by a three-fourths be referred back to the locals for the Hudson local made by the A! vote with fovemen and superintend- (ents allowed to vote. | machine or who has done so in the Dast “shall be expelled from mem- bership” or “shall be denied mem- bership in this organization.”. No provision is madé for preferring charges against such members or giving them a trial. (7) To make sure that unem- ployed are kept out and that the organization is limited to one plant in a real company union manner, there is a special provision: “Any former employee of Hudsons work- ing elsewhere is not eligible for membership until after reemploy- ment by Hudsons.” The company union aims of Ar- thur Greer are thus made clear, In a draft for a national constitution even the empty phrase “against (6) Anyone who fights ihe Greer | auto industry “a higher degree of Company unions” which appears in | |a decision by a majority vote. Greer’s internal policy is char- acterized by the same burocratic | procedure which is followed by the ‘A. F. of L. top officials. Although {only 50 to 60 were present at the! last Hudson local meeting he limited speakers to only two minutes each, a member to speak oniy once on each question etc. His lieuten- jants such as Chuck Hayes and | Wilson instead of discussing the | issues tried to sow confusion among the members. After the meeting a group led by Chuck Hayes threatened to beat up two wo-kers who were distributing an A. F. of L. rank and file statement to the | Asscciated members. Need For United Front | The auto manufacturers (Ford, | General Motors, Chrysler, etc.) re- |fuse to deal with the A. F. of L. chiefs because they know that de- Aid | Union Greer Would Split Ranks As Auto Workers Fight for United Front the workers and preventing strikes. They even fear that the Roosevelt demagogy will react as a boom- erang against them, not to mention the demagogy of Green and Dillon. Hence the auto manufacturers have a simple policy: Terrorize the workers into submission through jthe open company company unions that are risguised |as “independents” would be entirely in accordance with this policy. The | |steel barons did it in many places— Why net the auto barons! The honest members of the Asso- ciated must realize that if they are not to bocome the dupes of the auto manufacturers then they must take things into their own hands within their organization. So far the only purpose of Greer and Co. has been to attempt to split and break up the legitimate unions in the auto industry (the A. F. of L. federal locals, the MESA and Auto Woczkers Union). What the auto workers need is not splits but the united front of all these uniofis in a struggle against the employers and their agents for better conditions. must be built before the produc> tion season sets in. It will be a Forest county relief strike, the rate | Is Organized For Hancoe Vigilantes Threaten to Murder Imperial Valley Prisoner LOS ANGELES, Calif., Oct. 15.— The second conference, for Labor's Civil Rights, meeting last Friday night, unanimously voted to organ- ize protection for Stanley Hancock, strike leader, against the plot of Imperial Valley Vigilantes to mur- der him on his release from El Centro jail. Stanley is expected to be released Oct. 19, after serving a | Sentence of six months for his ac- tivities in the lettuce workers’ strike last January. A delegation will be sent in cars to pick up Hancock on his release | and give him safe transport to the city of San Diego, The conference, before taking the vote, had inspected the hangman noose and steel-tudded knout mailer delegates, representing more than every corner of the country the de- mand for the safety of Stanley Hancock and 19-year old Dorothy Ray. All workers’ groups are urged to! | Send demands for the safe release and protection of the two working class fighters to Sheriff George L. Campbell, Fl Centro, Calif. U. S.! Marshal Robert. Clark. Federal Building. Los Angeles. and to At- torney General Homer Cummings, Washington, D. C. Union Demands Listed By Los Angeles C. P. In Campaign Leaflets Los Angeles, Oct. 15.—The Los Angeles section of the Communist | Party has issued election leafets to all members of unions stating the Communist position in regards to s ist tl | District, which comprises Price, iMG Bee a8 50 Lincoln, Langlade, Forest, Onelda,| Industrial unionism based on Vilas and Florence counties, met struggle. Sympathetic actions of labor— Sympathy strikes and other sup-| | port. Support and fight for federal un- employment and social insurance at the expense of the employers and |federal government, Congzess Bill H. R. 7598. A drive against state and federal }and local anti-labor laws; against the syndicalism act, anti-picketing | laws, injunctions against labor; for the untrammeled rights of labor to strike, picket and organize. For trade union Democracy, rank |and file control, against corruption in the A. F. of L. | For the freedom of Tom Mooney }and all other labor and_ political prisoners in Californie. Strengthening labor by including all workers in the unions without discrimination against. Mexican, The so-called rank and file presi- dent of Cannonsburg lodge who is opposing Mike Tighe in the election which is now over but the resuits of which are still a secret from the membership, set worth his views at a symposium here on the question, ‘Should Labor accept the truce |Proposed by President Roosevelt?” During his speech Mr. Williams intimated somewhat vaguely that “Labor should not accept a truce unless it had more voice in writing | the conditions of such a truce than it had in the drawing up of N. R. A.’s codes,” but failed to declare what action should be taken by jlabor to win better conditions, | Discrimination by A. A. Leaders In the question period following, one of the audience raised the ques- tion that it is unfair for the A, A, | officialdom to deny voice and vote to membe:s who are not able to pay up dues because of unemployment, Mr. Williams, however, upheld this bureaucratic policy of the present top leadership. The writer then pointed out that |Clairton lodge is now almost 100 |per cent blacklisted by Carnegie Steel Co. as the direct result of their demands, Youngstown’s unemployed | to Hancock by Vigilantes with a|Strike last fall as A. A. members, |are demonstrating today. In addition | threatening letter. The noose and|2#Md asked if their disqualification to demanding the immediate re-|knout had just been returned from|ffom voting is fair under these ciz- the unemployed | the Second National Congress of |Cumstances, now that they cannot de-/ the American League Against War|P@y dues because of being fired | and Fascism in Chicago, where 3,200 |f0r union activity. | Mr. Williams asked, “Are you re< funds sufficient for resumption of | 1,000,000 persons, voted to carry to| ferring to a strike called by the A, | ‘Yes. lodge.” | “But on whose authority?” “On their own authority. After all, it is the workers who should say wheather they should strike or not, and they voted to strike.” No Strike Policy of Williams “Well,” said Mr Williams, “this is the same sort of a case as that of a motorist who drives through a red light and gets caught. They |broke a rule and are now suffering the consequences.” Only a moment later, however, the A. A. candidate assured a ques |tioner that no “truce” such as |proposed could be brought about by the top leaders alone because the | Amalgamated is a “very democratic” | organization. After the meeting your correspon- |dent asked Mr. Williams it he would | answer a few questions, to which he |partially assented, reserving the right to answer or not. “Mr. Williams, what would you |have done had you been president |of the A. A. from April to June of this year? Would you have pre- |pazed a steel strike as voted by the |majority of the April convention, or acted to avert such a strike as Tighe did, ignoring the mandate of the workers?” | “The question is unfair.” “What is unfair about it?” Protects Tighe “You are asking me to give an opinion of the leadership of an or- ganization of which I am a mem- ber, one which I am for 100 per cent.” “But the Amalgamated workers voted: to strike. even set up a come mittee to prepare it.” | “Neverthe} it is the same as if 'T were selling an automobile, that automobile, to me, would be the best They struck as an A. A, | Filipino, Negro, Oriental or foreign- | 2utomobile in the world.” (Inti« | born workers, No division of labor on grounds such as the employers would surely favor. For general wage increases of 20 per cent, to meet the increasing cost of living; for improved working conditions. Against the use of the national guard, injunctions and terror for anti-labor purposes. company unions, company police | Sa as and spies. The herding of those | REPORTS pon ANTI-WAR jauto wo-kers who refuse to accept | CONGRESS KALAMAZOO, Mich.. Oct. 15.— Jack Miller, chairman of the Mich- igan State. Youth Committee Against War and Fascism reported jon the Second United States Con- | |Sress Against War and Fascism here | mating, presumably, that the A. A, las is, has the best leadership in the |of religious or political affiliations— | World.) He was asked whether, if a work- |er holds an opinion that something jis wrong with the organization to which he belongs, he is not doing it a harm by not bringing the issue | into the oven for discussion, so that the whole organization could be bettered. ; But Mr. Williams is for the gag |rule—“No. You want me to say that Tighe is rotten, and how would such & statement look at such a | time, before the election results are disclosed.” “But no one is asking vou to say he is rotten. I am cnly asking | what your policies are.” “That is unfair.” “One final question. Do you have This united front | jto an audience of more than 200, any differences of opinion on poli- The report was received with great cies of the A. A. than Tighe?” |enthusiasm and plans are being; “No! I cannot answer at this |made for building a permanent) time.” Youth Section of the American| Ferdinand Bindel, president of League Against War and Fascism the Federation of Flat-glass Work- here as well as an adult organiza- ers, and Harvey O'Connor, writer, tion. lalso participated in the symposium, PHILADELPHIA, Pa. DAILY WORKER |\CONCERT | FRIDAY, October 19th, 8 P. M. big step in the direction of build- | Broadway Are ing One Industrial Union in the | auto industry, controlled by the na, Broad and Christian Sts. M. J. OLGIN ing of a cireulating library. Membership $1.50. Rental on books 2c a day. REGIGTER early. Limited classes. Work- 3th floor. A aj|‘he Hudson constitution is elim- Workers Hall, 548 Wisconsin Street.| WOrKManship’ does not mean 9 11900 North cn Larrabee Street). Auspices: Unit 419 ©, | Spite their promises of collaboration, rank and file, and fighting against | “more artistic workmanship,” It inated. their “truce” pledges, thei: support | the empioyers, their codes and other | can only mean one thing: a higher Greer Opposes Strikes of the “merit clause” auto code, agencies, for bette: conditions for | degree of efficiency or speed-up. Arthur Greer wants to deal with ‘etc., they won't suceed in hog-tying | the workers. { Editor, Morning Freiheit, Speaker “DEL.” CARTOONIST DAILY WORKER. IN CHALK TALK; EMILE BABAD, TROM “ARTEF”; GABRIEL BRAVERMAN, VIOLIN SOLOS; BERNICE CORNELIUS, ACCOMPANIST, ers Schcol, 908 Chestnut &t., Behec! chens Cet. 29th, | A