The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 ayraaasa VY Uae aaaty ava re A Wass FY aeara tamer R ey Ue Waren any eee Auto Labor Board Leader Sponsors Com BYRD ANNOUNCES | N.R.A. PLAN TO OUST MILITANT WORKERS aims He Has 228 ‘Key Men’ in Detroit Auto Call Conference Company Unions; Promises ‘Piccard’. Jobs As Traveiling Inspectors By N. DETROIT, Oct. 16.—The issue No. 5, cor -ing all thetime: that Richard Ganley MESA Voice in its rms what the Daily Worker has been stat- L. Byrd, member of the Na- «tional Automobile Labor Board, is using his position to weed out militant unionists and bui , ®utomobile industry ,ers who come to him to plead yic- -timization. These men--are all! members of already existing unions. -Byrd thereupon. offers to. reinstate | the man if he will. promise, to re the Greer union Automobile | Workers, * split of the A. F. of L.) “As @ reward, he tells them, he and Dr. Wolman have concocted a pet scheme of ‘expanding the ac- tivities of the Board’ by sending rtravelling inspectors from plant to plant. The men who organize for ithe Greer union; ‘he~promises, will be given preferences; for these pie- card’ jobs as travelling inspectors : + . Another of Byrd's carefully- - thought out plans ‘is one” telling »men who want jobs “that . Should enter company unions. “This tactic, he explains, is really * boring from within and, é ‘he has more’ than’ 228 k Detroit auto company unions. . Byrd is co-operating with ‘the bosses’ by ‘wéeding out militant * trade unionists and men liable to prove troublesome to more profits for the employers. Any man rte- “instated through-the good offices of Byrd is checked against a so-called ‘Communist list,” made up of ac- tive unionists and Communists in “Detroit.” z Smith Would Continue Board This evidence of the M.E.S.A. Voic? also confirms the. statements of the militant rank and file of the A. F. of L. unions that Greer’s sunion (the Associated- Automobile “Workers of America, which is a re- *\eent split-cff of the A. F. of L.) is | in reality an organization to fasten the company ‘unions upon the auto- mobile workers. Associated whieh -is a they But what is the solution proposed by the M.ES.A. Voite’ and Mathew Smith? Mathew Smith is quoted as saying: “Organized labor must im- mediately begin a drive to rid the “labor board of Byrd and his ilk. Little can be expected from labor boards in any event, but at least ‘if labor is represented by: a fighting; militant worker, who will stand up ~and make a determined stand +» @gainst the rotten decisions, labor will gain, if only from the expose of the board itself... . Byrd must +80! The M.E.S.A. will make a for: mal request to the president asking his removal.” In this way Mathew Smith covers up the real nature of these Automo- bile Labor Boards and of the ~WN.R.A. Boards, of which he was a member until recently. To expect of Roosevelt that he. will- remove Byrd and put on a mi is only to deceive the a s. The Automobile Labor Board was set up by President Roosevelt with the aim of preventing strikes and fostering company unionism. Smith advocates, not the removal . of the entire board, not a struggle 3 against the Strike-breaking agen- cies, but an improvement by the in- “troduction of a militant worker into “the board. Are Wolman and Kelly | -any better than Byrd? Can we ex- Pect of the capitalist class that “control these agencies, that they will turn the. boards into organs fighting for the interests. of the | workers? This is the impfession that Smith leaves by his Position: Whole Board Must Go j . Mathew Smith has repeatedly stated in the defense of ‘these boards that they at least act in| Some cases against discrimination. But the manner in which they act sis revealed by the MESA. Voice itself; ie, these members of the “\board use. their position. to rein- | State men only ‘in order to foster | company unionism and to weed out | militants. | Byrd must go.- That is correct Bui not only. Byrd—the whole Au- | tomobile Labor Board must go and the workers must count only upon their organized fighting strength to. achieve anything in the fight | against union discrimination and , the improvement of their working | ~ conditions. This must be the posi- + tion of militant trade unionisni. ~ And this very position Mathew Smith Opposes in the M.E.S.A.; carrying on an expulsion policy against mili-! ,tants, who have répeatedly exposed | the sham of the Atitomobile Labor Board, pointed out the role which | ~ Byrd and similar agents were play ing, and who have been attemptiny} to turn the M.ES.A. into a fighting organization directed against the employers and their strikebreaking | and union-discriminating agencies. + Vote Communist Against Wage Cuts. Fight Government Strikebreaking s with Communist Votes. Vote Communist to Protect Your | Living Standards. Vote Communist for a Soviet | America! | ld up company unions in the ‘Seanien Rap ISU.” Leaders’ Confab (Continued from-Page 1) very ship; by building up a united front controlled by the rank and file; and by driving the strikebr ing labor fakers out of the ranks It is in this spirit that we seamen voted to call off the general strike call issued October 8. Our strike, effective on 28 ships, was the largest strike on the East Coast since 1923. It drove fear into the hearts. of the shipowners. and labor fakers. Thousands of seamen . endorsed the call for a united strike issued by the Marine Workers Industrial Union. United Front strike com- mittees were set up in all ports, which included representatives of the unorganized, the American Radig Telegraphists Association and the Marine- Workers Industrial Union. Unorganized seamen, -as well as members of the I. S. U. and M. W.| I. U.° piled off ships- during the strike. Licensed officers were drawn into the strike movement and th radio men were ready to. act. Twen- ty-eight ships in five ports came out on strike—the largest strike on the East Coast since 1923:- The sirike, and the threat of it spread- ing to other ships, drove fear into the hearts of the shipowners and labor fakers, because they knew this would have compelled recognition of our elected representatives and granting of our demands. Time Ripe for Action The crews were ready and the time was ripe for action. We were weak organizationally, but it is mainly fhe strikebreaking officials of the I.S.U. who prevented the crews from taking action. Every seamen must remember the deeds of these officials. They refused to come into a united front even when thousands of seamen demanded it: By cancelling their Strike call, the IS.U. leaders tried to divide the LS.U. membership from those sea- men who were rallying behind the United Front Strike Committees. Their call for a “truce” did not stop the seamen from taking ac- tion. When the strike started, the L.S.U. officials were allowed to go aboard every ship entering port, whére they told the seamen “there was no strike.” Where ship’s crews struck it Was the scabby 1.8.U. offi- cials who provided the shipowners with breakers. These 18.U. Officials faithfully put into effect the strikebreaking plans that were) engineered by Mr. Garrison of the N.R.A. By these methods and through these gentlemen the ship- owners succeeded in confusing and demoralizing crews entering port, thereby preventing the strike from spreading. The strike was checked and weakened, But we are more determined than ever that our de- mands for higher wages and better conditions be met. Mr. Axtel, Olan- der and the other 1.S.U. officials who heiped break the strike, will | not fight for our demands in the present secret negotiations. Already they have been negotiating for sev- eral weeks with no results or re- ports to the seamen. On the Pa- | cific Coast their negotiations have dragged out. for several months. we can expect nothing but betrayal at the hands of these fakers. Militant Action Will Win Organized, militant. action alone will force the shipowners to recognize representatives of our own chcos- ing. If the present negotiations bring forward any conééssions, it will only’ be as a result of our strike.. A larger, more effective strike, will win ALL the demands. Seamen! We are in a position to repare for such action. Our strike, built up real,unity among thou- sands of- seamen. Organization is stronger as a result of the strike. We also know that--only defeat awaits us at the hands-of the LS.U. fakers and vict6ry through united action and rank and file control. Because: of these things we are much better prepared to march forward. % Seamen! We have. put up a mil- itant fight!“ Let every men put his shoulder to the wheel and keep the fight going. Let. us use our present..strength, and the “truce” which we ourselves declared, to launch a drive that will prepare every ship for a general strike! By organizing ship’ cdmmitteés; by the rank and file of the 1.S.U. tak- ing steps te remove their strike- breaking -.offieials; by~ building a powerful “Mafine Workers Indus- trial Union, we will be able to de- feat any sell-out agreement nego- tiated by the I.S.U. and resume the fight for.the demands presented to the shipowners. Long live the unity of the Members of all unions! Down with the strikebreaking, October | !en win our demands and also | scab-herding LS.U. officials! Organize ship committees on ship! e for an Atlantic con- in the next few months de upon further action, Join the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union. NATIONAL COMMITTEE MARINE WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION, On Scottsboro Christian < Asso- also refused their “hall ‘on ion the ground that among their di- rectors are th the Rey. Bolden, and Rey. King—both of.them mem- S of the Leibowitz group — and ey wouldn't like it.” The. Urban} ue likewise refused. to let the! ference meet in its quarters. Many Leaders Supporting Con- Jerence | Backing the Emergency -Gonfer- |-enee are a large numberof. prom- | inent white- and Negro leaders: j William N. Jones, two years ago chairman of the Ford-Foster elec- | tion committee and a member of the staff of the Baltimore Afri ; American, will arrive from Phila- delphia to take part in the confer- ence. Angelo Herndon, recently re- leased on bail from Fulton Tower | Prison, Atlanta, Ga. is taking an |active part in the preparation of | the conference. Among the many others backing the conference are Joseph Brodsky, {on.the legal. staff of the Scotts- | boro defense from the first day that the I. L, D. entered the case; Eu- gene Gordon, well-known writer; A. ! | Gilber‘, attorney; Dr. Verner Du j{ | Bois; Elizabeth Scott, Dr. Fer- dinand Forbes, Alexander M. Bar- row, District Grand Master of the United Order of Odd Fellows; Dr. H. Washington, Herman Osborne, Dr. James J. Jones, Winifred Chap- pell of the Methodist Church Fed- eration for Social Service; Kyle Creighton, Editorial Board of Col- liers Magazine; Hilda McKinney, Theodore Smith, John Newton Griggs, attorney; Dr. Theodore Donolson, Turner W. Parker, Dr. Ferdinand Reed, Theodore Smith, | Aaron Douglas, well-known artist; fi Dr. Reuben S. Young, Horace Gregory, writer; Oakley Johnson and Joseph Kovin, editors of the Monthly Review; Jack Stachel, Act- ing Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League; Milton Herndon, brother of Angelo Herndon; Dr. Robert Armstrong, Dr. Arnold Donowa; James W. Ford, Commu- nist leader; Theodore Smith, Ben Gold, . well-known leader of the needle trades workers; Steve King- ; ston, Communist leader; Henry Fil- ; more Cabot, Roy Hudson, leader of ; the marine worke 'T. Holmes, leader in the needle trades; Peter | Uffrie, leader of the tobacco work- érs; Harry Haywood, General Sec~ retary of the League of Struggle} for Negro Rights; Ben J. Davis, edi- tor of the Negro Liberator; Anna Damon, acting National Secretary of the I. L. D.; William Fitzgerald, for the Herlem I. L. D.;° Bonita Williams, of the Greater New York Council of the L. S. N. R.; Samuel Patterson, Lester Granger, Business Manager of “Opportunity” and head of the New Jersey Urban League, and Daniel’ J. Weems, of the New Jersey Y. M. C. A. Rabbi Benjamin Goldstein; John |Chamberlain of the New York |Times Book Review department; Dorothy McKenna, and Henry Hart of the Editorial Board of Scribner's; Clarence Hathaway, |editor of the Daily Worker, S"tn| munist candidate for Congress in the 7th District, Brooklyn, ‘Election of Communists Will Be Blow to N.R. Hunger Program | As the election campaign unfolds, it becomes obvious thet the pzom- ises of the Roosevelt administration |to solve the crisis, to give jobs and restore prosperity are merely so much demagogy. From May of this year, there has been a steady decline in production and: business which has reduced the index of industrial production to | the lowest point since April, 1933. In the past five months the in \dex of the Federal Reserve: Boa: dropped from 78.3 to 61.9 a decline that more than wiped out the brief jtise*of last winter. The economic | data that is now available indicates that the present low trend of busi- ness will continue. The index of tine | Journal of Commerce, last week, de- fetined sharply from 65.4 to 63.5. | ‘The indices of heayy industry show the same stagnant tendencies. The building industry continues to | operate at a level that is only about 125 per cent of normal, despite | Roosevelt's efforts to ballyhoo hous- | (ing. The volume of residential housing, for example, which is the} most important factor in the build- ing industry dropped to’ a new low |for the crisis during the first’ ‘eight | | months of the year. Steel Deliveries Drop _ | Another indication of the con- | tinued stagnation of business is the | great decrease in the steel deliveries \of the U. S. Steel Corporation. ‘These dropped from 2,373,409 tons lin the second quarter to 1,118,287 tons in the third quarter of the year, a decrease of 53.8 per cent. The output of automobiles decreased | from. 166,321 units in August to 113. | 316 units in September. | Central Committee ; Addresses Request To Party Members To New Party Members: The Central Committee is eager to learn the reactions of the workers newly recruited into the Party. Will you write to us, tell- ing why you joined the Party, how you were recruited, and your impressions of the Party since you haye been a member? To the Comrades in the Units: The.Central Committee has ad- dressed a personal letter to you. It. is interested to know what you are doing in response to this letter. Will you write to us about it?- What are your own expe- riences in trying .to carry out this letter? Was it discussed in your unit? What plans have been made to put it into effect? What experiences can your unit relate in the recruiting drive? The Central Committee wishes to hear from you, Your expe- riences and impressions — will benefit the entire Party. Butte Mine Local Defies Green Edict (Continued from Page 1) with the problems confronting it. To us it seems absurd to carry on pointed to his attack on the his- toric general strife on the Pacific Coast. | NEW YORK.—After a thorough | discussion at its membership meet- ing at Irving Plaza on Oct. 8, the Cleaners, Dyers and Pressers Union |of New York, Local 18232, decided |to reject the letter of President | Green, ordering the expulsion of ; Communists out of all A. F.of L. |unions. The delegate to the A. F. |of L. convention at San Francisco | was notified accordingly, and a let- | ter to the Executive Council of the A. F. of L. gave reason for the ac- | tion, and insisted that, every. mem- | ber has a right to join any political party desired. During the discussion, workers showed a contrast in the militant leadership given by Communists in | the marine and textile strikes, to | the strikebreaking actions of the A. | F. of L, officials. Pees Miners Win plished for the working class. They; ‘Demands in Strike (Continued from Page 1) |ther negotiations on their demand | ‘ures, of picket lines. |for five days’ work instead of the | present two. | Although the press has not writ- |ten of it before, the Pecs miners] with | have gone on strike dozens of times} y, | previously, and as each time theJon reports by pri intervened to | agencies, fascist authorities guarantee the profits of the mine- pany Union Labor Spy System |FORD URGES NEGRO ~ Exposed by ‘Daily’) VETERANS TO VOTE FOR C. P. TICKET (Continued from Page 1) in the Trust Company of Georgia Building at Atlanta. Peter Van Horn, chairman of the N. R. A. Silk Code Authority, is willing to refer qualified individuals to addresses of people who can spill dope on local Communist activity in silk. George Sloan’s publicity man, Bill Lawson, has astoundingly ac- curate information on the per- sonnel of flying squadrons in Trion and Honea Path. Espionage Files At that, textile espionage lacks the finesse of the network which honeycombs steel. In Rooms 1009 and 1010 of the Carnegie Building at Pittsburgh, Mr. Charles W. Tuttle keeps some 70 steel cabinets and 20 double card files and one of the best current libraries of labor and Tadical publications in the country. Here the initiated find records of all union organizers in steel, work- ers active in the unions, Communist Party members residing in steel towns, group photographs of Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union conventions, numbered pic- Photostats these are in possession of the Daily Worker and will be printed in the course of this series. Even Mr. Tuttle's organization, the unlimited resources of S. Steel behind it, must rely vate detective It is private operatives who form the skeleton of the great ja campaign of organization and|oWners, the miners, rather than suf-]| American espionage system. It is then attempt to eliminate from our|fer slow starvation above-ground,|these “industrial service bureaus,” ranks those whom observation reveal| went into the shafts intending to|“human engineering services,” “in- as among our most progressive and | stay there forever, unless they se-| dustrial conciliators” and “human militant members. _We remember former ‘Red Hunts’ which resulted Movement, causing it to sink into tape, since some of the demands|L. bureaucracy a condition of pitiful impotency.|are yet “to be worked out” by gov- | counters Meanwhile | workers eat. We feel that, according to your standards, most of our most active members would come under the classification ‘red’. We and embark on another ‘Red Hunt’. “The immediate problem con- fronting labor is the shortening of the work day sufficiently to place every unemployed worker back on the job and to increase wages to the point where every worker shall be assured of at least what you call an American standard of living. We do not propose, therefore, to cause dissension in our ranks by singling | out any particular group, be it lily white, the most delicate pink or the deepest crimson, and discrim- inating against such group so long as it works with us toward the at- tainment of the aforementioned ob- jects. We may add, in conclusion, that unless the American Federa- tion of Labor, of which you are the Official Head, formulates an imme- diate progfam designed to relieve the workers of the intolerable load of misery they have endured these many years, another helmsman may soon be.at the wheel. re “Propheticaliy, “Butte Miners’. Union No, 1. “I. U. of M, M. & S. W.” EVERETT, Wash., Oct. 16—The Ieiter from William Green propos- ing the expulsion of Communists and militants from the trade unions was laughed off the floor of the. Everett Central Labor Council at its | last meeting. The last meeting of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association local here voted to place the letter on file, The maker of the motion stated, “the longshoremen know what kind of a faker Green is and we will keep this communication as an example of Green's misleader- ship.” In the discussion workers wanted to know what Green has accom- cured their demands, relations counsellors,” who keep The demands won by the miners|men in the shop, on the company disastrously to the American Labor | are wrapped in a great deal of red|baseball team, inside the A. F. of ernment commissions. |other local mine owners in Pecs have locked out 3,500 more miners, | the routine misery of former years, Wall Street Gains In New N.R.A. Steps' | (Continued from Page 1) and behind the of restaurants where Provocation Experts No “industrial adjustment opera- cannot/and miners and their families are |tion” is beyond or below the scope therefore, accede to your request! furious and unwilling to go through |Of these outfits. Harry Orchard, formerly of Thiel and Pinkerton, is still serving a life sentence in an Idano penitentiary for the assassi- nation by bomb of Governor Steu- enberg, but when his superior, Al- lan Pinkerton, died recently he left a fortune running into seyen fig- ures, In Joliet, Ill, a Burns man was caught throwing a bomb at a non-union garage to discredit strik- ing members of the machinists’ i i i but that did not affect en- crisis, a way that makes life hor-| Union, ] 2 rible for millions so that capitalist|'Ties in the Sarney'é books such as parasites can continue to plunder.|the payment of $29,817.11, con- In the Congressional | every Demecratic candidate bids for |SCiation of Erie, Pa., elections, |‘Tibuted by the Manufacturers’ As- for the | support on the basis of the ‘“suc~ breaking of a sngle strike. cesses” of the “New Deal.” And every | Wall Street Republican agent seeks to win the support of the masses by a fraudulent “criticism” of the Roosevelt policies, a criticism which j disagrees with Roosevelt only on how the working class shall be ex- | Ploited, but _which..accepts .com- | pletely the capitalist class basis of | Roosevelt's whole program, In fighting the Roosevelt “New Deal” | it is every Democratic, Republican | candidate who must be fought. | Raise the fight for higher wages, {for unemployment insurance, for | the right to organize and. picket! | Carry the revolutionary struggles led by the Communist Party into | the legislative halls of the capital- | ists, fighting for the welfare of the | masses, and for an end to the whole | Wail Street system of wage-slavery | and starvation. In the Congres- | sional elections, as in all struggles, | it is class agains class, capitalist | Profits against working class star- vation, Fight Government Strikebreaking | with Communist Votes. Approaching a prospective client, he J. H. Turner Service writes: “Dear Sir: In view of the epidemic of agitation that has recently brok- en. out among the working classes of Greater Boston and Massachu- setts in general and the plans now being matured for further influx of organizers to. more completely line, up the. workers so that -radical action may be brought about. We believe the time is opportune to di- rect your attention to our service and to the work which we have been doing for years for a large number of leading manufacturers throughout the country. ... Dur- ing the years of our existence no regular client of the company has been troubled with strikes.... We are not troublemakers but prevent- ers. We are not systematizers, but harmonizers, ” The Daily Worker will show this harmonizing in action by printing reproductions of reports sent by Turner spies on the employees of United Electric Light & Power Co. as well as a copy of the agency’s bill for serv- ices rendered. The confidentially circulated or- Despite these low levels of busi- ness and production the big trusts are enjoying their greatest profits since i931, The wage-cutting policy of the N. R. A., the high prices brought on by Roosevelt's policy of inflation, and the growth of super-monopoly fostered by the New Deal, have all contributed to the swollen profits of the capitalists. Profits Soar Upward The Federal Reserve Board of New York reports that 407 corpora- tions whose profits for the first six months of 1932 were $19,000,000, had profits of $75,000,000 during the first half of 1933, and profits of $385,- 000,000 in the. first six months of | 1934. This tremendous increase was made at the expense of the workers. Their wages were cut by the N. R. A..codes. The cost of living went up 13.3 per cent. since the inception of the New Deal, according to re- actionary sources. The actual amounts of food and clothing that the workers could buy decreased as | these. necessities sky-rocketed some 30, per cent. Thus the actual vol- ume of goods sold this year.is less than last: year, due to the fall in the real weges of the. workers. This growth of the acuteness of the crisis has-brought increased un- employment. -Even the Business Bulletin of the, Cleveland Trust Company ‘admits an increase of | about 800,000 in the number of the | unemployed from May to August. |The actual figures must be much | Jarger. On Oct. 15, in iis monthly | business letter, the A. F. of L. re- | ported that “we can hope for no | important: gains in employment pe- fore -next spring.” The ground is-being prepared for | telling the workers the same old | bromide—that business will improve in the spring, and then they will i get jobs. But. the workers are ‘The Communist Party Election Platform Defends the faced with the job of trying to live through the sixth winter of the crisis, and this winter will be the worst of them all. Administration Proposes Nothing For this calamity the adminis- tration proposes nothing. In fact, on Monday, Donald R. Richberg, Roosevelt’s new whip-cracker, told big business that relief this Winter would be less than last year. In .other words, the unemployed who are worse off than at any time dur- ing the crisis, are told to starve, while Roosevelt goes through the motions of drawing up a social wel- fare program, But the only thing definite that has come out of the administra- tion’s ballyhoo on economic secur- ity is the statement by Edward J. Witte, technical director of the | Committee on Economic Security, that the employers would not be compelled to foot the bill for the costs of unemployment insurance. Instead the burden is to be borne | by the employed workers, and the unemployed will be kept on the same kind of inadequate relief that they receive today. If the unemployed are to go through this winter without - the most intense suffering, they will have to fight for more relief to meet the rising cost of living, and they will have.to fight for the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill. Now one of the the legislative assemblies of the | Capitalists. 2 | working class would effectively ex- | pose the efforts’ of the capitalists to deny the workers relief and un- employment insurance. He would also be the sounding board of ihe whole working class in every one of its demands, and would be of: great’ most important weapons in this | fight are workets’ representatives in | In a municipal board or in Con- | gress, a true representative of the | | there Roosevelt Election Promises Prove False ays "Heavy Profit | Gains Are Made at the Expense of Working Men help in raising every class issue right in the teeth of the bankers and industrialists. Should Elect Communists To assure themselves a voice in | the legislative citadels of capital- ism, the workers should vote and elect Communist candidates to | municipal, state and federal offices. The workers know that wherever has been a Communist elected to office he has been in the forefront of every struggle of the workers, both employed and unem- ployed. In view of ithe growing acuteness of the crisis the unemployed work- ers, especially, must support the Communist candidates who are the only ones pledged to fight for the adoption of real unemployment in- surance at the expense of the capi- alists and the federal government. It is fitting that one of the leaders of the unemployed, one of the men Who as a result of his experiences in the daily struggles of the unem- ployed helped formulate the Work- ers’ Bill, I. Amter, should be the Communist candida‘e for Governor of New York. It signifies that only the Com- munist Party is ready to solve the problems’ that confront the unem- ployed. Amter as Governor would immediately swing into action ‘o relieve the misery caused by the crisis, All over the country there are other tried leaders of the tinem- ployed running for various offices. They alone are ready to attack the capitalists ‘in ihe interests of the workers. Support your candidates! Vote for the Party that fights for your interests! Vote Communist! Communist Candidate for Congress in Harlem Tells How Negro Soldiers Were Treated in U. S. Army During World War By James W. Ford Candidate for Congress in the 21st District, Harlem “Life and death issues face the Negro people at ever> turn today.” The hateful question of jim-crowism pops up in the life of every man, woman and child of the Negro race. The jim-crow policies of the ruling class prevail every- where. I want to touch brief ganization chart of Sherman Cor- poration, Engineers, here repro- duced, appears harmless enough until one learns the meaning of divisions like “Charts, Reports and’ Requisitions,” or “Constructive Propaganda.” This self-styled “Pro- duction Service Bureau” uses vari- ous names in the hiring of its cp- eratives. In past years it has been tied up with the Chase National Bank and Fidelity Trust Co. of New York, the Continental. and Com- mercial National Bank of Chicago. The Girard National Bank of Phil- adelphia, the Mellon National Bank of Pittsburgh, the People’s State Bank of Detroit, the Union Trust Co, and Guardian Savings & Trust Co, of Cleveland, the National Bank of Commerce in St. Louis, the National Shawmut Bank and First National Bank of Boston and the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Toronto, The Sherman Agency When John F, Sherman died last March he was director and vice- president of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel of Boston, and director of the Bankers’ Securities Corp. the Bankers’ Bond and Mortgage Co., the Industrial Rayon Corp., and the McLellan Stores. Respectable enough, but in the instructions to a Sherman operative hired by his Chicago office appears this infor- mation: “There is enough ammu- nition in the plant of the Mllinois Steel Co. at South Chicago to shoot down every striker like a dog. It was done twenty years ago and it will be done this time. The minute any of them starts toward the gate they will be shot like dogs.” One of the articles in this series will be devoted to the methods and accomplishments of Sherman Cor- poration, Engineers, who pay an annual income tax of $258,000. Another will offer photostats of in- structions to spies by Corporations Auxiliary, which has bee in busi- ness for 38 ‘years and has never had less than’ 1,000 undercover men on its payroll. Still another will trace the bloody trail of the ob- scure but vast empire of New York’s so-called Lepke - Garrah gang. Revealing Correspondence Pressing its investigation, the Daily Worker has come into pos- session of a unique and revealing correspondence—the signed reports of two gumshoe men on Unem- ployment Council activity in New York. These are men attached to the Central Office of the Home Relief Bureau. They work hand in glove with Commisisoner of Im- migration Corsi. Joseph A. Brady, head of the detachment, keeps a file of Communists that rivals the rolls of the Party. The reports of his men form a chapter in munic- ipal espionage which surpasses the record of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and if you look up that town's cashed checks, you will find No. 7327 made out to the Pinkerton Detective Agency. The clutching roots of the fed- eral spy system also spread in this undergrowth of the industrial swamp, Headed by General A. Mitchel] Palmer’s former. assistant, J. Edgar. Hooyer, and operating with the aid of the Departments of Labor, Interior, Agriculture, the Military Intelligence of the War Department, the Naval Intelligence Division and the personal atten- tion of Roosevelt's secretary, Col. Louis McHenry Howe, they have a grip on every phase of working class life and activity, which re- sponds to each imperceptible stir- ring. The Daily Worker intends to blast that. grip wide open and show the greedy, itching palm for what it is. . ree 4 Tomorrow we will describe the spy system which contributed to the sell-out of the textile strike, the activity of “Red . Demon” Bergoff and the “Railway Audit and Inspection Bureau.” We will Present a list of hundreds of cor- porations whom these agencies have served, so that workers may know where to place part of the blame for the betrayal of their trust. Quick Thaelmann Actions Are Urged (Continued from Page :1) ly on how Negro soldiers were ® treated in the U. S. Army during the world war that was fought to “end discrimination.” I was a sole dier in the 325th Field Signal Bat- talion in France. It was a jim- crow ovtfit. The jim-crow policies of the Democratic and Republican politicians were carried out through- out the army, just as they. are.to- day against the Negro people. This question confronts every Negro voter in this election campaign, I will relate a true story.. It is as follows: It was during maneuvers. We were stationed at one ofthe few places in France where, in 1918, the fourth year of the great war which was to make the world “safe ‘for democracy,” it was still possible to find a few trees and other under- brush suitable for military maneu- vers. We belonged to the 325th Field Signal Battalion, an all Negro outfit, commanded by white offi- cers, and we were stationed at Aix Les Bains, William Johnson, a Negro-soldier known to the men as “Georgia Bill,” was crouching under a tree ‘at’ his radio instrument, preparing for an imaginary attack. Nearby sfood the captain of our outfit, lily-white, who was discussing the maneuvers with a visiting French officer. Snatches of the conversation came to the ears of “Georgia Bill” whose presence was forgotten by the cap- tain, and presently he heard “the captain say: “You know, these ‘niggers’ just can’t do this work properly. \ They just simply haven't got the brains; they are stupid. Only white’ men are fitted for such work as radio telegraphy. It is a well known fact and my observations bear it out, that the Negro race is decidedly inferior—” etc. “Georgia Bill,” burning with an- ger, his race consciousness ‘tothe fore, just crouched in. the bushes, holding to his radio instrument. But, when maneuvers were over, “he told some of the other men in the outfit of the conversation he over- heard... The men discussed it with great indignation and decided upon a plan. ‘They would get the cap- tain into the barracks and charge him. with this insult and slander. “Georgia Bill” was asked if ‘with the support of the men he would charge the captain. We decided to have the captain face the men and the accusation. Accordingly, one of the men asked the sergeant to tell the cap- tain ‘that the men would like to speak to him in the company bar- racks after supper. This the 'ser- geant did. : Now, strictly speaking, the cap- tain did not have to come. He is not supposed to answer to the men for any charge and surely not of such a nature and in such a man- ner. That is, according to military discipline and organization. It was very unusual for a request of this kind to be made, especially during a period of war. It was a court- martial procedure, of the men against a superior officer. The cai tain did not know what we wanted; he probably thought we wanted to make some petty request which he would be able to grant and thereby increase his popularity among the men. So he came into the barracks and said “What can-I do for: you, men?” One of the privates, according to previous arrangements, spoke up and told the captain that.the men had heard that he had made certain statements, which were then .e- peated to him. The captain grew pale and de- nied the charges vehemently. At the sight of the captain's fear, and angered by the denial, “Georgia Biil’. was infused with spirit. “Captain,” he said, as he: rose dramatically and walked toward the center of the still room, -“Cap- tain, you did say those things and you know you did, because I heard you say them.” When the captain saw the sol- dier, whom -he realized had: been stationed near him when he made the statement, he looked like a whipped pup. Turning on. his heels, he silently. stole from the room. This action was so unusual and was discusséq so much that instead of the battalion headquarters tak- ing action against the men, the captain was removéd and trans- ferred and the matter hushed up. ‘And, you can imaginé, we began to think about our results in the 325th, in France, in 1918 during the great war that was to end, among other things, “all discrimination.” For most of us, it was the first in- dication that Negroes, even in the army, by organized action, could defend themselves against white ruling class attacks and insults. So in this election campaign, Negro ex-servicemen must vote ageinst these same jim-crow poli- cies and the bourgeois parties which are responsible for them; fight for the payment of the bonus ‘and restoration of the disability allow- ances, and for unconditional equal- ity for the Negro people every- where. Vote Communist! ~ mann by the infamous “Peoples’ Court” were released without bail later as a result of vigorous mass protest. This morning a delegation of workers began arriving regularly every half hour at the office of John Loibl, Vice-Consul. Phone calls} began to pour in and business of! the steamship agency which he conducts was brought to a stand-| still by the barrage of protests de- manding Thaelmann’s freedom. | Right To Organize, Strike, Picket \ { | | ; AcE TOS