The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1934 Page 8 John L. Lewis Attempts To Steal Mine Union Elections Drive Fund to Aid’ ‘Daily’ Fight AAA WOULD BAR ALL MEN ON RANK AND FILE TICKET FROM LIST Rank and File Candidates Urge All Miners to Act Against the Lewis Dictatorship in the United Mine Workers Union 4 By TONY MINERICH PITTSBURGH, Pa.—John L. Lewis, International Presi- dent of the United Mine Workers, is again taking steps to “win” the coming election. He wants to bar all candidates that are running against himself or his machine. Such action, is in line with the whole crooked history of the Lewis machine. = = Lewis had his appointed “leaders” prefer charges against John F. Sloan, opposition candidate for) Conference on President an the coming elections. | % fon Suming tacoma eaet| Relief Called at this time it is too late for any- i: In Detroit one else to be placed on the ticket in the fight against Lewis. Further- more, facts show that any “tate | roe City-Wide Congress Will Outline Fight for Real Social Insurance y CS eS ee ey ss candidate would meet the same fate. Elections take place in the United Mine Workers every two years. Lewis therefore steals them every two years. Each time he has had a “different method.” Some time ago, George Voyzey,| DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 21—Calls an Illinois coal miner was a candi- | ad lt date against Lewis. The elections epcioesed $0. all trade unions, snd are held on December and the con-|™4SS organizations for a city-wide stitution provides that the Inter-| conference on unemployment in- national executive board should surance and relief have been issued provide the local union with a re-| by the Detroit A. F. of L. Rank and turn of the elections, no later than | r January 15 following the election. |File Committee for Unemployment The election was held years ago Insurance and Relief. The confer- and never a report from Lewis. | ence will be held Sunday, Nov. 11, at Lewis claimed that the union did |11 a.m., at the Danish Temple, 1775 not have enough money to issue | West Forest Avenue. that report. Yes William Green, While the need for relief con- then secretary of the union, report- ed that never before was the union in such a good financial situation. A clear steal. Brophy Had Majority The following election, John Brophy was the candidate against Lewis. Brophy got the majority vote, but Lewis again stole the votes. In non-existent districts, Lewis received as high as 14,000 votes. ~ In many of the local unions the steal was clearly apparent. In local 811, Renton, Penna., the actual vote was 6 for Lewis and 109 for Brophy. |tinues to soar following new mass layoffs in the auto plants, the Wayne County Welfare Commission {has again cut direct relief and the |hours on the work relief projects. On Friday, Oct. 19, another five per cent cut was ordered in relief and again the hours on work proj- |ects were slashed. The city-wide conference, to which each trade union and work- ers’ organization is urged to send three delegates, will set forth a plan of action in the fight for adequate |relief to all unemployed workers But the vote which Lewis reported | and for the enactment of the Work- was 206 for Lewis and 10 for Bro-| ers Unemployment Insurance Bill. phy. Very simple. Add 20 in front | ‘sindattainoncad of the six for Lewis, and the result in 206. Take the 9 off of the 109 for Brophy and you have 10. Two years later another “election” | was held. This time the union was | ‘Mass Protest Forces | Provision of Escort in a bad fix. Mike Demchak a miner from the Anthracite was the candi- date against Lewis. The ballots came out and the name of Demchak was missing. Don’t get excited! Lewis did not want to go through the motions of stealing the election so he just kept the name off of the ballot. Another steal. This time Lewis wants to do the same job in another way. They will prefer charges against the can- didates and that will “settle” the matter so charges are placed against Sloan. Charges Dropped in Local When these charges were first taken up at a meeting in Danville, Sloan was present and the charges were dropped. Now the Lewis lead- ers in Illinois are again pushing the charges. The International Exec- utive Board will take them up at the next meeting. That is what Lewis says. This is a case of steal- ing the election even before it is started. Not only against Sloan was this action taken. Oscar Guynn, candi- date for vice-president was visited by a few of the appointed board members and organizers. Guynn was a member of the union for many years. For the last three or four years he was in the U. 8S. Marines. Because of this, he was reinstated into the union, without paying for a new card. But now that Oscar Guynn is a candidate for vice-president the officials are trying to rule that he cannot run for office. The same old trick. The same old gang. The same old Lewis machine. But if we go further back into the history of Lewis we find that he was never elected president. Lewis ran for office, but he never got there. John P. White was the president but resigned to take a government job. Vice-president Hays became president. Lewis was APPOINTED vice-president. Then Lewis’s man Casey got busy. Hays got “sick” and had to get “medical” care. There was no president and the appointed vice-president John L. Lewis became president of the miners. After that he kept himself in office. Since that time, most of the lead- ers of the various districts were not even allowed to steal the votes. John L. Lewis appointed them into office. Its easier that way. The coal miners—and other work- ers—in this country should call a halt to’ such dictatorship in the trade union movement. Locals of the United Mine Workers should start a mass movement of protest. Resolutions should be passed in the locals. These should be sent to other locals and to John L. Lewis. Copies should be sent to the press. Other unions and individuals should be asked to do the same. Let the whole world know what Lewis is trying to do. Vote Communist to Protect Your Living Standards. A Communist Vote Is a Vote Against War! Vote Communist A For Stanley Hancock | SAN DIEGO, Cal., Oct. 21—Un- der pressure from labor and liberal | groups, the government was forced | to provide Stanley Hancock with a |U. 8. Marshal as an escort, when he was released from the Imperial | Valley Jail Oct. 19. Hancock, a mili- j tant leader of the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, just finished serving a 6 months sentence for participating in the strike of the pea and lettuce workers in Imperial Valley, last Spring. Vigilantes had visited him in | jail and threatened that he would never reach San Diego alive. The International Labor Defense, The American Civil Liberties Union, The Trade Union Unity League and other organizations wired protests demanding that Hancock be given an escort and adequate protection from the lynch threats of the vigi- lantes, This is believed to be the first. time that the government was forced to provide protection to a class-struggle prisoner because of the mass pressure of labor organi- zations, Toledo Mechanics Say They Will Not Accept Spicer Co. Wage Cut TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. 21.—Charles H. Dana, president of the Spicer Manufacturing Corp., refused to grant the demands of the workers in this plant who are organized in the Mechanics Educational Society, for a 7 hour day, a 60 cent an hour minimum, with 5 classifications up to and including 85 cents an hour for production workers, He admitted that the average hourly wage in his plant was only 46 cents an hour. But he main- tained that if he could slash wages to 25 cents an hour, that event- ually he could raise wages. Dana’s plea for the workers to accept a wage cut was rejected by their committee. ing on their original demands, and refuse to be tricked into accepting any wagecuts. 27 Per Cent Jobless in Western Pennsylvania PITTSBURGH, Pa. Oct. 21— Twenty-seven out of every 100 workers in Westmoreland County, an important Pennsylvania coal mining district, are unemployed, the State Emergency Relief Board stated in a recent survey. In some towns only half the usual working force is employed. The survey states that through- out the mining and steel centers in Western Pennsylvania the popu- lation of towns has declined since the 1930 census. . FightSweeping Relief Slash Mass Rally Wednesday Will Protest Cut of 50 Percent FLINT, Mich., Oct. 21—One half | of the city’s 4,000 families on the relief lists have been given a 50 per cent cut in relief and the re- |mainder will be cut within the next |two weeks, Welfare investigators |are being instructed to tell the un- |employed to accept this cut calmly |because the government has no | money for relief. How drastic is this latest slash can be seen from the following case: A, a family of five, was cut from |$10 for two weeks to $3.70; case B, a family of seven, was cut from | $13.70 for two weeks to $5.70; case |C, a single worker, was cut from | $2.98 for two weeks to $1.42. | Growing widespread resentment | against this starvation decrease can |be seen in the action of the A. F. of L. Buick local, Which at its regu- |lar meeting on Oct. 16, adopted a resolution denouncing the miserable starvation relief, exposed the Wel- fare Department, and elected a standing committee of ten to obtain immediate relief for laid off mem- bers of the union and to take steps against evictions and protest the relief cut. The Unemployed Workers Associ- ation at its regular meeting on Oct. 17, elected a committee of seventeen to lodge a formal protest against the relief cut and to report back to the workers at a mass meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 7.30 p.m., at 2706 John Street. Preparations are being speeded for a city-wide demonstration uniess | the relief cut is rescinded at once. | Oshkosh Workers Rally Behind State Jobless Insurance Conference OSHKOSH, Wis., Oct. 21—The Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union local 9 here has elected delegates to the State Con- ference for Unemployment Insur- ance to be held in Milwaukee, Oct. 28. Th State Conference, in addi- tion to initiating a united state- wide struggle for the enactment of the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill, will elect delegates to the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance to be held in Wash- ington, D. C., on Jan. 5, 6 and 7. Daily meetings are being held by the Unemployment Councils of Osh- kosh and committees are placing relief demands before the local re- lief offices. While relief demands are rising, a policy of slashing the | individual budgets has been started. Demands drawn up by the worx- ers call for union wages and condi- tions on all F. E. R. A. jobs with a guaranteed 30-hour week, cash pay- ment of relief, Winter clothing, shoes, bedding and coal. Plans are going forward for a city demonstration and a central meet- ing of the unemployed at which delegates to the State Unemploy- ment Insurance Conference will be elected. St. Louis Unemployment Conference Will Meet At Union Hall Tuesday ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 21—A city- wide conference on unemployment insurance and relief will convene at Union Hall, 3300 Easton Avenue, tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock. The conference will seek to unify all forces in the fight for sufficient relief without discrimination against the vast army of unem- ployed Negroes in the city, and against discrimination of young and women workers. An appeal has been addressed to all relief workers as well as organ- ized and unorganized unemployed to have representation at the con- ference, By PAUL CROUCH CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 21.— Long chain gang sentences and de- Portation of textile workers from their home state are being used by the courts in Concord and Gastonia against those most active in the re- cent strike. The courts not only are protecting the gangsters used workers in the strike, but are also workers in the strike but are also railroading their victims who were beaten up to long prison sentences. At Concord seven of the most militant strikers were sentenced by Judge A. M. Stack this week to “the roads,” the sentences ranging from four months to two years. The Sentences, except in the case of Steve Murray, were “suspended” but with the condition that they will be sent to the “roads” if they “violate any state law during the next five years.” This is intended to use as a club over the heads of the workers in an effort to prevent them from participating in any struggles for better conditions. Exiled From Home The judge actually exiled Steve Murray from his home state by sentencing him to two years on the roads, this sentence to begin Oct. 27 if he is found anywhere in the state of North Carolina. In the meantime he is released, with little more than a week in which to leave. If he is ever found in the state he will be sent to the “roads” imme- diately. The sentences of the others are: Jack Ballard, militant 22-year-old striker, 12 months; Clarence Coley, six months; Arthur Fortner, W. H. Combs, Robbie Dixon and Leonard Hopkins, four months each. The charges against the strikers were in effect that they had been militant on the picket line, refusing to let scabs enter the mills, and that they , defended themselves when attacked by the National Guard. Defense counsel furnished by the United Textile Workers took no ap- Peal against these vicious sen‘ences and by entering plea of “nolo contendere” actually participated in the responsibility for deportation of Steve Murray from North _Carolina and the vicious sentences being used as a club over the heads of the others. Brutally Beaten In Gastonia, Fred McMahan and Otha McMahan have been bound } over for trial next week at a pre- liminary hearing. Both have been held in the Gastonia jail for two and a half weeks, after being bru- tally beaten with blackjacks and iron weights at the Loray Mill gate Oct. 1, According to newspaper ac- counts their bond has also been raised from $500 each to $1,000 each. The MacMahan brothers had been | active members of the union and had showed considerable militancy on the picket line during the strike. They were among many blacklisted after the Gorman betrayal. On they went to the Loray mill to ask for return of their jobs. Before reaching the gate they were at- tacked with blackjacks and iron weights by about a dozen members of the “black hundred” gang while fifty or more others looked on. Both were very badly injured. Because Fred made an effort to defend him- self they were both arrested, while no charges were made against the gangsters. The “black hundred” was or- ganized in the Gastonia strike of 1929. Among those attacking. the McMahan boys were some of the leaders in the murder of Flla Mae | Wiggins in the 1929 strike. Mine Locals To Send Men To AFL Meet Delegates from Mines Will Attend Rally of Rank and File PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 21— From all present indications, when the National Rank and File Con- ference of A. F. of L. locals opens on Oct. 27, in Pittsburgh, among those with heaviest representation will be the miners’ locals. Local 3506, of Russelton, of a Republic Steel Co. mine, has elected two delegates. The Harmarville local, also consisting of members working in the captive mine con- trolled by the Wheeling Steel Cor- poration, has likewise elected two delegates. Otiner locals which have already elected delegates are: Local 1993 of Renton, Local 1109 of Elsworth, and Yucon local No. 6558. Many locals are taking up the call of the Rank and File Commit« tee, as soon as meetings take place. In some locals the call was not taken up because there is no seal. The Lewis agents using every tech- nical means to prevent the election of delegates. Th Rank and File Committee of the United Mine Workers has like- wise elected five delegates to the convention. “We are glad to see that the steel workers, carpenters, bricklayers, tailors and other work- ers are also in the fight,” one of the leaders remarked. The miners having for many years been in the fight against the A. F. of L. reac- tionary leaders, feel very encour- aged that the fight now embraces every industry Arrangements are being made for a mass attendance of miners at the opening mass meeting at. Car- negie Music Hall, at Federal and East Ohio Street, N. 8. Pittsburgh, lon the 27th. Launch Fight For Nebraska C. P. Ticket Candidates? Names Are Struck from the Ballot Oct. 1, by direction of the U. T. W.,- Flint Workers Heavy Chain Gang Sentences |Mass Rallies| Given North Carolina Mill Support State) Workers; Some Are Exiled Hunger March Up-State Workers Speed Plans for Trek To Albany ALBANY, NP Y., Oct. 21.—The Albany District Committee of the United Action Conference on Work, | Relief and Unemployment has ar- ranged a series of mass meeting: in support of the State-wide Hunger March which will converge on! Albany on Wednesday, Oct. 31, to| demand immediate tion. relief legisla- | Mass meetings will be held in the | following cities: Hudson, Monday, Oct. 22 at Mac- cabes Hall, 403 Warren Street; Am- sterdam, Tuesday, Oct. 23 at Mil- ton Hall, 59 Milton Street; Schenec- tady, Wednesday, Oct. 24, at La- bor Temple, 105 Clinton Street; Gloversville, Thursday, Oct. 25, at the Fur Workers Union Hall; | Albany, Friday, Oct. 26, at Oddfel- |lows Temple, Beaver Street. | Phil Bard, Albany district organ- izer for the hunger march will be |the principal speaker at all meet- ings. GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y.—Sokol | Lodge 37, a Slovak workers frater- nal organization, and the Pur Work- ers Union have offered the use of their hall to the hunger marchers | While in Gloversville. 1,000 Demonstrate in Buffalo BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 21—One thousand unemployed workers massed before the City Hall here last week when a committee from the Western New York State Hunger | March Committee presented relief demands to the Common Council. | Daily mass committees are visit- |ing the homes of individual Council- men demanding that they give their |Support to the Hunger March and petition Governor Lehman for the |calling of a special session of the State Legislature for the enactment of the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill, | Fight Government Strikebreaking | with Communist Votes. Grip on Farmers Dissatisfied, Say Farmers s Contributor—In Texas, They are Starting an Unemployment Council— Poor Farmers Make Sacrifices for ‘Daily’ O THE farmers of the Uni The impoverished farn singing hallelujas to the hallelujas have risen to a heav Trotskyite | AFL Leaders Thank Olson Plans Are Speeded for State Conference on Unemployment By J. CARSON MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 21—At a recent meeting of the Central Labor Union of Minneapolis, a let- ter of thanks was voted to Gover- nor Olson for his “assistance” in the truck drivers’ strike. The mo- tion to send such a letter was| introduced by Emery Nelson of the Milk Drivers’ local and was seconded by Grant Dunne (Trotsk: ite), secretary of Truck Drive: Local 574. This move in the Cen- tral Labor Union was to boost Gov- ernor Olson for re-election in an attempt to rebuild confidence in the Farmer-Labor Party and in Governor Olson amongst the truck drivers, who were bitterly disap- | pointed with the strike-breaking | Governor of the Farmer-Labor Party. The move of the Trotskyite| Dunne in supporting this motion is | just further proof of the counter- | revolutionary alliance between the benevolent, gave the A. A. Roosevelt |ing our donation to the ted States, Wall Street, ever A. ever since then, have been government. These enly pitch since the drought, “Encloced you will find money order for one dollar,” sings Carl G. Wikiund, of Loup City, Neb, “to apply on my yearly subscrip- tion and 25 cents donation for the $60,900 drive—the best I can do at this time. I live in the drought-stricken area, where the capitalist system is so rotten you can smell it a few feet from the court-house. The farmers are plenty dissatisfied. . . Conditions will be terrible this winter. . ..I am proud of our paper... Hurray for Spain! “My wife also includes a 25-cent donation.” usted” Farmers Contribute Sings Arva F. Husa, of Beldén North Dakota— “Enclosed please find check for $5.00, collected at Belden from the following busted farmers: “L. F. Dibble, $1.00; W. J. Husa, 1.00; Isaac Isaacson, $1.00; Chas, Hill, $1.00; A. F. Husa, $1.00; J. P. Husa, $.50. “We fully realize the serious fin- ancial nee¢s of our ‘Daily,’ How- ever, most of the farmers are on relief and have very little cash, Nevertheless, I believe that this little amount will help and pledge to send more as soon as posible.” And sings a group— “We are donating $10.00, this be. ‘daily’s $60,000 fund. “The Executive Council of the Workers and Farmers Co-Op Unity Alliance recognizes the importance and value of the Waily Worker te the toiling masses of America, and calls upon all workers’ organizations to give this drive their support.” A cheer, boys, for Mr. Wallace, the Secretary of Agriculture of the by State Secretary | War Veterans and AFL LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 21—atter Local Unions Endorse the names of all the state candidates: Workers Insurance Bill filed by the Workers and Farmers | Election Campaign Committee had | SYRACUSE, N. Y., Oct. 21—The ; | United States of America! Trotskyites and the Farm-Labor | Techs, ae J. Party. Tt turther:‘shows the cor-| gyno uns a ae rectness of the Communist Party | wigkéd Gack benetita that the of Mnnespele: When weistale (08th oe sre dating heer were Welt the Trotskyites have worked hand Py 3 i J U 104 t in hand with Governor Olson and et Lc iri ec haber the Farmer-Labor bureaucrats of | Council! been printed on the master ballot, signed and sealed by the secretary of state, the names of five candi- dates, Floyd Booth, D. Robert Bur- leigh, and Ellen Allen, Harold Hes- | ter and Harry Holeman, were ruled off the ballot on a technical decision of late filing. The office of the Secretary of State gave out the filing date in the Nebraska press as October 8th and confirmed this date directly to the committee of the United Front Campaign. Two days after the time was passsd and all petitions in, the attorney general reversed the decision, saying that the last day of filing was the sixth. This ruling | excluded candidates who had been | entered by the Workers and Fasm- ers Campaign. | The committee appeared at the| secretary of state’s office and vigor- ously protested against this arbi- | trary ruling. Tolin, on whose direct | word to the committee the petitions | had been held up till the eighth, | who had ordered the master ballots printed and who had then ordered | the change, said that he was “sorry” | but he had to act on the attorney | general's ruling. The committee | pointed out that this ruling, which was made after it was too late for | the candidates to act on it and pro- | tect themselves, was discriminatory | against the workers and farmers. | The committee is preparing to take out a write of mandamus to! force the printing of these names | on the ballot, and will organize pro- | tests throughout the state | mediately to the “Daily.” Onondaga Post of the United States Veterans, composed of 750 Civil ! War, Spanish War and World War | ve-erans, and which numbers among its membership doctors, lawyers and city officials, endorsed the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill at its last regular meeting. The resolution further stated that | all officers taking office in the Pos: in the future be informed of the endorsement. | Three American Legion Posts | here have endorsed the Workers’ Bill. Other recent endorsements to the bill in up-state New York in- clude the Independent Leather Workers’ Union, the Lawyers-Off- Branch and the Miscellaneous Cut- ters Branch of Local 69 of the Glove Workers’ Union, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Retail Clerks Association and the I. T. T. S. Branch Sokol Lodge 37 i® Glovers- ville, and the Relief Workers’ Union and A. F. of L. Painters Union 201 in Albany. The Workers’ Bill, initiated by the Communist Party and incorporated in the Communist Party election Platform, provides benefit payments to all workers unemployed through no fault of their own at the ex- pense of the employers and the government. The success of the Daily Worker $60,000 drive means a better, larger newspaper. Donate and get dona- tions today. Send the money im- Asks Them to Wait Until Weirton Case Is “Settled” By TOM KEENAN APOLLO, Pa., Oct. 21.—In_ this little one-mill town on the Kiski- minetas river, where the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers lays claim to having “one of the strongest union The workers are therefore insist- \plants in the country,” inquiry among steel workers discloses that under the present class collabora- tion policies of the Amalgamated top leadership this impressive Phrase means: (a) that official recognition of the A.A. as the col- lective bargaining representative of the employes of the Apollo Steel Co. is still non-existent; (b) that no agreement has yet been signed with the union; (c) that the Amal- gamated’s first demand for an in- crease in wages has been politely ignored by the officials of the company. 98 Per Cent Unionized At the July hearings of the Steel Board, the A.A. demanded a board- supervised election at the Apollo mill. This mill is devoted largely to the production of light steel for automobile construction and em- Ploying some 1,100 workers, 98 per Tighe Stalls on Appollo Steel W. cent of whom are organized in the Amalgamated. The Steel Board ordered an elec- tion, Officials of the company then agreed to concede the Amal- gamated the majority of the em- ployes and asked that the election order be rescinded as unnecessary. On the plea of the union the order Was cancelled, but it must be noted that in verbally agreeing to bargain collectively with the AA., the company reserved the right to deal with “minority groups” among the employes. Company officials then met with an elected committee of six from the A.A. lodge, but gave no official sign of recognition to the union and no agreement was signed. It was tentatively agreed that the union would draw up a wage scale agreement and presen’ it to the company fer approval. In the meanwhile, about four weeks ago, the company suddenly announced that an extra man would be placed on each roll crew, whose wages were to be paid by a pro rata re- duction in the pay of each crew member. Strike Wins ‘The lodge walked out, and after a three-day strike returned to work when the company agreed to drop the wage-cut. Mass picket lines were established by the workers during the time the plant was| closed and the car of the only boss who tried to enter the mill was literally thrown away from the gate by the pickets, The return to work, however, was ordered by the negotiations’ committee and no vote of the mem- bership was taken. Back at work, the wage scale was completed and presented to the company for approval. It called for a 30 per cent increase in wages. The company took the agreement “under advisement” and promised to give a decision, the union setting last Friday, Oct. 12, as the dead- line. But the deadline came and passed and the company said no word either for or against the agreement—officials simply ignored it and now, a week after that date, | they are still ignoring it. | Tighe & Co., at the helm of the A.A., instead of calling a strike to force action by the company, have referred it to the National Steel Board, where all the demands of A. F. of L. organized steel workers finally come to rest. Weir Case Used as Stall The workers of Apollo appear ready to strike but are held off by Tighe’s advice to “wait until 2 de- cision is handed down in the Weir- ton suit.” The Steel Board has said and orkers’ Issue ® Halts Strike Action by Pinning Hopes on Roosevelt done exactly nothing, its usual pro- cedure in such cases, and in the meantime the workers are without their requested raise. In addition, the company union has never been abolished and under the minority reservation of the company this factor is seen as a real treat to the workers. For the Apollo Steel Co., though not an official subsidiary of any of the larger steel corporations, is said to be connected by inter- locking stock-ownership with the Jones and Laughlin Corporation, noted labor-hating steel trust. (During the Weirton strike last Fall many of the Weir orders were filled at Apofio.) Thus the case of Apollo Steel is seen to be just another instance where organization into an A. F. of L. union has brought not one jot of concession to the steel workers, and despite strong union sentiment their demands have been diverted by the reformist top leaders onto the desk of Roosevelt's Steel Board, where they will be taken under lengthy “advisement” unless direct the A. F. of L. to prevent the! development of a general strike in| Minneapolis in support of the | drivers and the crushing of the} strike through the military forc= of the Farmer-Labor government. The “Organizer,” official bulletin of “574,” edited by the Trotskyites, who are in the leadership of this local, in its October 10th issue, car- ries a big headline entitled, “Arbi- tration Boosts Wages.” This con- | clusion they come to as a result of the recent agreement in the arbi- tration committee, to raise the wages of the truck drivers of cer- tain firms by 2'% cents an hour and | for another raise of 215 cents an! hour in June 19: The raise of | 2% cents an hour binds the truck | drivers to this wage up to June| Ist, 1935 and the other 2% cents raise uv to June 1, 1936. This small increase in pay, which | in itself is a partial victory for the | drivers, certainly is not a result of | kindness to the drivers on the part | of the arbitration committee, but a | result ot the militant struggle put | up by the drivers in the two Min- neapolis strikes. It is rather a fear of the employers of another strug- | gle on the part of the drivers for) their demands, as soon as they | fully realize the consequence of the treacherous agreement accented | after the second strike. But instead | of telling the workers the truth, explaining that the small increase in pay has already been wiped out by the rising cost of living, and that with the further development of the inflation measures tha drivers will be forced to an even lower standard of living and will have to organize and prepare to fight for further increase in pay, the Trotskyites attempt to justify their treacherous arbitration poli by boosting the idea of arbitration, crediting this small increase to the efforts of the arbitration board. This they use, not only to misguide the truck drivers, but generally to confuse the organized workers, in the Minneapolis trade union move- ment, snd to strengthen faith in| the A. F. of L. bureaucracy and in the Farmer-Labor Party. The mili- tant members of 574 must do their utmost to expose this trickery of the Trotskyite leadership. The task is to strengthen the opposition | movement within the local so as to be able to counter the Trotsky- | ites’ effort to create faith in the| N.R.A. and arbitration, to prepare | the drivers for further struggle | against the Citizens’ Alliance and | their arbitration schemes. | 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, 8 P.M. Los Angeles, Cal. Annual Workers’ Press Concert, Sun- day, Nov. 4 at Mason Theatre, 127 5 action is forced by the rank and file. gainst, Roosevelt's | Broadway. Concert Program. | Promi- nent speakers, Ancther cheer, boys—this time for good old F. D., the greatest man who ever wore a stovepipe! The Daily Worker, the organ of the Communist Party, is the only English daily newspaper which fights against the system which -ings famine and homelessness to the poor American farmer. Clearly and unquenchably it points out the profit-sucking policies of the A. A. A, and Wall Street Roosevelt governs ment. To the farmers of the United States the Daily Worker appeals for aid in its present $60,000 financial campaign. Its three editions now enable it to give space that was ime possible to give before to the strug- gles of the American fazmer against his bosses. The $60,000 is now im- mediately needed to secure this new paper! WHAT’S ON Detroit, Mich. — WORKERS Movies, Monday John Reed Club, 108 West Hancock. Two shows: 7-9 and 9-il. A 2-hour pro- gram of real living, working and fighting conditions of workers of California. Ad= mission 15¢ Philadelphia, Pa. 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