The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, M ‘DAY, OCTOBER 29, 1934 Page 3 DRESSMAKERS ANSWER CALL TO UNITE IN AFL GARMENT UNION AFL Rank and File Hail Unity Move vut on Strike In Big Meeting 4,000 of Varied Political Views and Union Affili- ation Greet Proposal of Industrial Union for Amalgamation of Forces By A. T. (Editor of the Reingold Needle Worker) Four thousand dressmakers of varied political beliefs and union affiliations answered the call for unity issued by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union and packed Cooper Union Hall on Monday night. Another 1000 were turned away by the fire department. Coming to the hall direc benches, these workers, the greatest: majority of them members of the LL.G.W.U., sat riveted to their seats for four hours and gave their con- centrated attention to the proposals advanced by Ben Gold in the name of the General Executive Board of the N.T.W.LU. The proposals of the Industrial Union were that the dressmakers now. in the Industrial Union join their brothers and sisters in the In- ternational as full-fledged members, and that arrangements be made between the two unions to trans- fer the agreements with shops now held by the Industrial Union. What moved these workers to come together in such numbers and cheer heartily every time the vision of a fighting, unified body of dress- makers, led solidly to battle for their rights, was projected? What made so many of the rank and file of the I.L.G.W.U,, including an official in one of the locals, volunteer to serve on a unity com- mittee with members of the Indus- trial Union, to lead this fight for the unity of the dressmakers, in re- sponse to a motion made by an LL.G.W.U. member and unanimously adopted by the meeting? New Encroachments First and foremost, it was the fact that the conditions of the dressmakers have reached a des- perate pass; that every day sees a new encroachment on their rights by the insatiable bosses; that they are threatened with the loss of the Jast of their gains won in the heroic strike of 1933. It was a final and complete breakdown of their faith in the N.R. A. NRA. It was a revolt against the vicious class collaboration policy | practiced by these A. F. of L, Jead- ers, which is directly responsible for their present conditions. It was a burning thirst for unity which is gripping ever wider sec- tions of the working class—a real, fighting, militant unity. Ben Gold’s preliminary analysis of conditions was concurred in by every worker that took the floor. It may be significant to mention that of the eleven or twelve speak- ers from the audience who took five minutes. to make known their at- titudes, nine were members of the International. Some speakers clearly indicated that in many shops there is not a trace left of union ccntrol; that no attention is paid to complaints; that in many parts of the trade not a single worker gets the mini- mum scale; that the wastebaskets in the N.R.A. offices are stuffed with the unconsidered complaints of the workers; that repeatedly the 38.000 dressmakers in contracting | shops have been locked out for dif- ferent periods of time in violation of all codes and agreements. “In the face of this situation,” said Gold, “what is the Industrial Union to do? Stand idly by and watch the complete destruction of the potential power of some 50,000 workers? That would be criminal treachery to the workers. Declare shop strikes for conditions? It would be met by the hypocritical cry of ‘dual union,’ ‘scab union,’ on the part of the do-nothing heads of the I.L.G.W.U., as before. We therefore accept the third course.— that of sending our workers into the International, on a basis that would permit them to be fully functioning and efficient members of that or- ganization.” Assails LL.G.W.U. Pilots Although Gold sharply criticized the pilots of the I.L.G.W.U. whether A, F. of L., Socialist, or Lovestone- ite, although he mercilessly flayed both Dubinsky and Zimmerman, and ovenly charged them with act- ing to smash the organized power of the dressmakers, it is significant that not a single speaker took the floor to defend the record or repu- tation of these officials. So anxious were they, however, to see the fulfillment of unity of the dressmakers, that they feared Gold’s severe drubbing of the In- ternational officials would possibly set those officials against the plan of unifying the workers. In this, of course, they miscon- ceived the beigead ite 2 en roposals made by the Industrial Union. Starting from the premise, that conditions in the trade are getting worse every hour and that at this critical time the workers of the International are opening their ranks to welcome those that are able and willing to fight for the defense of their conditions, it fol- lows that the workers of the In- dustrial Union are going into the International to fight from the very start against those people and poli- cies that have brought the workers to the present pass, and that the fight is to start at once. For that very reason the Indus- trial Union insists, as the one con- dition of the transaction, that the workers from the Industrial enter tly from their machines and the International with full rights and privileges, which means the right to participate in union activi- ties, to vote, hold office, become shop chairmen and officials. And precisely for that reason the present officers in the Internation1: will resist. the only effective unity of the dressmakers tooth and nail. Precisely for that reason, as a rank and file speaker of the I.L.G. W.U. stated, it is necessary to start at once to mobilize the dressmak- ers to fight for the acceptance of the militant dressmakers of the In- dustrial Union, as the opening gun in the fight for union conditions. Tells of Advantage “What would be the advantage,” Gold said, “in sending our fighting forces into the International, if they will be prevented from becom- ing effective members of your union for two years or more? By that time the very urgent reason which dic- tates our present step—maintenance of the dressmakers as an organi- zation cavable of fighting for its rignts—will no longer hold. “Tt is not because we made up we now send in our workers to join you. They go in the spirit of fight- ing for their rights, for their wages and for the conditions of all of the dressmakers. Our task grows bigger, our responsibilities enlarge. We go in to fight to a standstill all those who betray, who beat down the conditions and the livelihood of the dressmakers.” The capitalist press, the articles in Women’s Wear, the Day and the Forward, show that their inspira- tion comes from one source. They dwell upon the declaration by Ben Gold that it would be “stupid” for the International to accept the dressmakers as full-fledged mem- bers. They make a slight omission that vitiates the meaning of this remark. For the International officials who maintain a union only for dues, taxes, and initiation fees, who, while boasting of a war chest of hun- dreds of thousands of dollars, do not raise a finger to check the dangerous toboggan-slide of worker conditions in the dress-shops, who maintain a private racke} in alli- ance with the bosses to sweat the last cent out of the workers, it would indeed be a stupid thing of | their own free wili to admit those into their union who are sworn to raise a bitter fight against just those policies. But for the International, con- idered as the body of thousands of dressmakers organized as a solid fighting unit, it is not only not stupid, it is the wisest step that it can take at the present time. What attitude will the high moguls of the International—the Dubinskys, Hochmans, Zimmer- mans, take to the offer of the In- they make to the letter which the GEB of the NT'WIU has sent them, what will they say to the commit- tee of 25 that will come to demand In the absence of Dubinsky, who is on the West Coast, minor officials have indicated that it is “prepos- terous,” “impudent,” for the In- dustrial Union to demand any rights for the dressmakers if it releases | them. They consider it impudent to de- mand that the workers who have been in the International before 1926, who are known as those who have always had the interests of the trade at heart, be given their status in the industry that they are entitled to, to ask, at an ad- mittedly critical time. when the | dressmakers are clamoring for unity, when a last stand must be made by all the workers before they are all overwhelmed by the rising tide of fascist aggression on the part of bosses and governmental forces, that these seasoned veterans be not bound, shackled and gagged, but be permitted to raise a hand and a voice for the defense of the ele- mentary rights of workers! The dressmakers have a far dif- ferent notion of what constitutes “jmpudence.” In the course of the next few weeks, if the mood and the temper of the workers present at Cooper Union is any indication, the dressmakers may be able to convey their meanng of that word to their nigh-hat officials. The spirit of unity raised at this hisoric meet- ing will not be downed. Those that stand in the way will not be toler- ated much longer. The bosses, the jobbers, and the contractors who have matured the plan of attack at the expiration of the agreement, will be in no great hurry to commence, faced by this new unity of the dressmakers. Con- fident of their power, assured of the united strength and support of all elements in the field, the dress- makers will soon again become the mighty force that they were be- fore. with the International officials that | dustrial Union, what answer will) that the dressmakers be taken in?) been pioneers in the trade, who have | ‘Iron Mountain! Relief Workers Demand Wage Increase and Issuance of Clothing IRON MOUNTAIN, Mic., Oct. 28. —After a mass meeting before the relief office here, where an elected committee reported that the relief administration refused to consider their demands to rescind a 10 to 20 per cent wage cut, 500 relief work- ers voted to strike. Last Wednesday the strikers form- ed mass picket lines and closed down every relief job in the city. Despite the announcement by W. F. Kinsey, relief administrator, that work will bilizing for larger picket keep the jobs closed. The Communist Party is actively participating in the strike, and Stephens, one of the most out- standing Communists in the locality, was elected to the strike committee. A mass election rally of the Com- munist Party, at which Phillip Ray- mond, Communist candidate for jthe striking relief workers to the picket lines. Numerous meetings are being held at which all the strike issues are being clarified to the workers, In the nearby town of Norway, | although the relief administrator preceded the strike committee there and implored the workers not to strike, the workers voted to strike on Nov. 1 unless the strikers’ de- mands for the entire county are granted. The strikers are demanding the immediate rescinding of the wage cut and adequate provision for med- ical aid and Winter clothing. They are also demanding a public investi- gation of the Welfare Department, because at the present time long delays and endless red tape are re- | quired before relief is granted. The county receives ‘40,000 monthly for the 2,000 workers on the | work relief lists and a similar num- ber on direct relief for the provision of wages, relief, clothing, and other relief needs. The relief officials claim that no more money can be obtained, | On the present starvation relief, | a family of three gets only $11 a }month for direct relief and about $16 a month for work relief. Jobless Storm Relief | Office in Bethlehem; Form Mass Picket Line BETHLEHEM, Pa. (FP).—Over 1,000 unemployed, demonstrating before the relief offices at Bethle- hem, demanded the immediate res- ignation of Relief Administrator Weston Kelsey because of his con- tinued incompetence. When Kelsey refused to resign, the crowd, driven to desperation by starvation and long ‘suffering, crashed through the doors and at- tempted to remove him bodily from the building. He barricaded himself behind the locked doors of his of- fice. Only the intervention of Rey. Paul Cotton prevented violence. The crowd then marched in an) United States Senator, spoke, rallied | made, Communist | and improved living standards. cism; against deportations and ance Bill (H. R. 7598). 5.—Against Jim-Crowism and Bill of Rights, (bonus). increased taxation on the rich. 6.—For the immediate payment of the veterans’ Party Lists 8 Demands in Election) | Following are the eight demands on which the National Congres- sional Election platform of the Communist Party is based: 1—Against Roosevelt's “New Deal” attacks on the living stand- ards of the toilers, against rising living costs resulting from monopoly and inflation, for higher wages, shorter hours, a shorter work-week, 2.—Against capitalist terror and the growing trend toward fas- oppression of the foreign-born; against compulsory arbitration and company unions; against the use of troops in strikes; for the workers’ right to join unions of their own choice, to strike, to picket, to demonstrate without restrictions; for the maintenance of all the civil and political rights of the masses. | 3.—For unemployment and social insurance at the expense of | the employers and the state; for the Workers Unemployment Insur- be resumed, the workers are mo-| lines to} | 4.—For the repeal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act; for emer- gency relief to the impoverished and drought-stricken farmers with- out restriction by the government or banks; exemption of impov- erished farmers from taxation; cancellation of the debts of poor | farmers; for the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill, lynching; for equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black Belt; for the Negro back wages 7.—Against the sales tax; no taxes on persons, or their property, earning less than $3,000 per year; steeply graduated and greatly 8.—Against Roosevelt's war preparedness program; against im- perialist war; for the defense of the Soviet Union and Soviet China. Voting Right Refused Many In Steel Poll Tighe Holds Office By 259 Plurality In A. A. Ballot PITTSBURGH, Pa. Oct. 28.— Figures on the recent election in the Amalgamated Association of | Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers re- leased today showed Mike Tighe, for fifteen years head strikebreaker lof the A.A. to be a victor over George Williams by a plurality of 259 votes, With most of the new, militant membership of the A. A, disquali- fied on one technicality or another, the total vote cast was 5,319, The complete tablulation follows: International President. M. F. Tighe 2,78¢ Geo. Williams .. 2,530 Vice President, Boiling and Fin- ishing Division. Thos. Gillis Roy Kelsey Vice President, Sheet and Division. Edward Miller . Irving Gabler .. Vice President, Indust: Jos. Gaither L. A. Morris Secretary-Treasurer. orderly picket line around the, Louis Leonard ..... Unopposed building, in protest against Kelsey's Ass’t Sec’y-Treasurer. remaining in office and in defiance} Wm. Grey ..... -2,813 of Mayor Pfiefle’s anti-picketing! Ward Walcott . -2,506 diet. Police and state troopers were , Editor of A.A. Journal. on the scene but no arrests were, Ben Davis 3,066 Chas, Davis .... Communists File Ticket In South Bend! Mass Election Rally to, Climax Campaign On November SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct, 28— | For the first time the Communist Party has a local ticket on the bal- lot as the result of 433 signatures on the election petition. Lawrence Kanouse, a tool and die worker, is the candidate for mayor. Julius Takacs, a militant leader of the unemployed is running for sheriff. Tom Payne, and Sam Jones Bay, Negro leaders of the unemployed, are candidates for city councilmen. The campaign is in full swing and will reach a climax on Nov. 5, when a giant election rally will be held. eet Be Election Rally in Lawrence. »/LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 28,—A mass election rally will be held by the Communist Party on Oct. 30th, at the Loomfixers Hall, 53 Margin St., at 8 p.m. Paul M. Wicks, who until recently was a leading mem- ber of the Massachusetts executive | committee of the Socialist Party, will be the main speaker | Wicks left the Socialist Party at their last state convention when | the Socialist Party refused to en- | ter into a united front with the Communist Party for the winning of concrete demands of the work- |ers. He is now the Communist Party candidate for United States ' Senator. Pennsylvania | | Councils Win | More Relief | Vay aie? ph, ee |Newly Formed Groups| Set Up County-Wide | Organization WASHINGTON, Pa., Oct. 28—/ Breaking down the opposition of U. M. W. A. Lewis-machine district | Officials, the Unemployment Coun-| |cils are beginning to take hold in Washington County, the unem-! ployed and part time miners are building many new locals, and the gives indication of becoming as |strong here as in Fayette County. In contrast to the status of the Unemployment Council a few weeks ago, when relief authorities threat-| jened to refuse recognition of a committee because it represented jonly one local, at Finleyville—a jcounty committee has now been set up which meets regularly and eight new locals have been organized. The thirteen duly elected del-| egates to the county committee re-| cently met and drew up a program) of action around six demands: (a) jobs for all at union wages; (b) for increased relief payable in cash; (c) | against all evictions, foreclosures; | (a) for the provision of all neces-| sary utensils for housewives; (e) | against jimcrow discrimination and attempts to force single individuals to obtain relief in transient camps; | (f) for $2.50 per week for single} individuals, $4 for man and wife,| and $1.25 for each dependent in a family. The Councils have already forced an increase in relief workers for single workers—from $1.50 to $2. A meeting of the enlarged county committee was scheduled with Re- lief Director Cole for last Monday at which the six demands were to be presented. At one o'clock the thirty dele-| gates met with Cole, who in a short | time was compelled to admit each demand was justified and promised to work to grant all six as soon as possible. The increase in relief was promised for next week. The delegates then held a second meeting among themselves and de- ;cided that all would return to their home towns and confront the local supervisors with the six-point pro- gram. A few days later the Finleyville local committee visited the super- fice despite his refusal to see them, and there took up each case sep- arately in which workers had suf- \fered discrimination, Demands for immediate coal and clothes orders were presented, and the following day coal and clothes cards arrived at each worker's home. | In Elyrama the relief worker, a |minister who was brought there from Ohio, tried to keep the work- ers out tf the Unemployed Conncil by using the red scare, telling them that if they joined, their relief would be cut off. When Cole wis informed of this threat he promised to fire the supervisor if proof was produced. The workers are now collecting affidavits to demand the minister’s replacement. At Avella and other places in |the country, much the same line has been used against the councils. In Cannonsburg, the rank and jfile are taking over an unemployed \organization which has been sabo- taged by the petty bourgeois lead- ership of a doctor and a lawyer, and intend to make it an Unem- |Ployment Council at the next meeting. Refuses To Press for Thirty Hour Week | and Wage Increase Part IL By PAUL CLINE In a statement published in the |New York Times of Oct. 23rd Ryan defends his treacherous agreement in a manner that estab- dishes a high water mark of hy- pocrisy and treachery, even for him. , Coming first to the defense of the shipowners, he says: “After extended conference and a study of the report of the Presi- dent’s Committee on the Pacific Coast problem, the men were con- vinced that the lines had offered everything they could afford (our emphasis). Thus Ryan pleads that such companies as the Dollar Line, the I. M. M, the American-Ha- waiian, etc. (not to speak of the powerful trans-Atlantic lines) can- not afford to grant the 6 hour day, $1.40 for overtime, concessions in regards to hiring halls, ete. But even the West Coast arbitration board was forced to admit that these same lines can afford to grant and should grant these concessions. Here Ryan is put under a direct spot light which reveals him in his true role of agent of the shipown- ers, while masking as representative of the longshoremen. Further along in this same state- ment, Ryan turns to self-defense. He says: “Because the men are employed on an hourly basis we did not press for the 30 hour week.” Silent on Real Facts In making this statement, Ryan tries to gloss over the fact that the 30 hour week implies also the 6 hour day, which, in turn means in- creased earnings for the men from Is High Water Mark frequent overtime work. He is silent about the fact that on “an hourly basis” the majority of the dock workers average only 10 to 12 hours work a week. But the most impor- tant thing involved here is that Ryan attacks the basic need of the longshoremen: for a 30 hour week, together with a definite guaranteed minimum weekly income of at least $20.00 a week over the year’s pe- riod; this to be provided at the ex- pense of the wealthy shipping in- teresis which are being liberally subsidized by the government, The demand for the 6 hr. day, 30 hr. week, together with the de- mand for rotary hiring through union halls controlled by the men themselves, are fundamental stra- tegic demands in the struggle of | the longshoremen against unem- ployment, against truck-horse working conditions, against dis- crimination, and for a decent standard of living. In junking the demand for the 6 hr. day-30 hr. | week, Ryan is acting as advance guard for the starvation offensive of the ship-owners. He is not only betraying the interests of the At- lantic coast longshoremen, but he is trying to undermine the gains which were secured by the West Coast men through bloody sacri- fices and heroic struggles. In the story on Ryan’s statement, the Times report conciudes with: “Mr. Ryan termed the new contract a vindication of his anti-strike or- der.” This is absolutely correct. The sell-out agreement could never have been engineered without first bottling up the strike sentiment of the longshoremen. Ryan's policy, from the beginning of the negotia- tions till the signing of the agree- ment, has been a consistent policy— @ policy of conscious betrayal. Intensified Discontent Among the longshoremen the new agreement is resulting in intensi- fied discontent with conditions and hatred of the I. L. A. bureaucracy. Ryan was able to put over his sell- out in the face of the general dis- content and militancy of the mem- bership solely because of the non- existence on the East Coast of a fighting rank and file leadership such as led the struggle in Frisco. Given a strong rank and file oppo- cals in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston, it would have been possible to expose and defeat Ryan’s maneuvers. It is true that Ryan’s gangster machine is more firmly entrenched on the West Coast. But the valuable ex- periences and lessons of the great Pacific coast strike have not been lost upon the marine workers in the Eastern ports. The victory of the left wing leadership under Bridges in the Frisc Io. L. A. local has helped dispel defeatist tenden- cies with regards to possibilities of successful struggle against the cor- rupt misleaders. Already, in New York, new militant rank and file elements are cropping up, workers who have demonstrated the courage and ability to challenge the bu- reaucrats openly on the floor of the local union meetings. Within the ranks of the longshoremen there are hundreds of such people, potential leaders and members for a powerful rank and file movement inside the I. L. A. Solved No Problems Ryan’s new agreement has solved none of the pressing problems and demands of the longshoremen. The 10 cents an hour increase in wages —which means an average addi- tional income of $1.00 to $1.50 a week—does not begin to meet the greater demands of the longshore- men's family budget, due to in- bearable working conditions, acci- | sition movement in the I. L. A, lo-| Atlantic coast than it was on the| Ryan’s Defense of Eastern Dock Agreement of Hypocrisy, Treachery |Discontent Is Growing As Result of Policy _ of ILL.A, Leaders dents, discrimination on the job; corruption, gangsterism, betrayal in his trade union—this is the lot of the Atlantic coast longshoreman. More and more he sees that the only road open to him is the road blazed by the Pacific coast long- shoremen: militant mass struggle against the shipowners and their labor lieutenants. The outlook in the marine industry, among the longshoremen as well as the sea- |men, is: greater mass struggles ahead. The task of the militants and | revolutionary workers in the I. L. A. —a task now more urgent than ever —is to build the rank and file com- mittees on the docks through active and self-sacrificing leadership in the fight against the every day grievances of the men; to build strong opposition groups in the I. L. A. locals; to prepare the long- shoremen for independent leader- ship of the coming struggles over the head of the Ryan bureaucracy. (Conclusion) CORRECTION: In the first part of this article, published Saturday, the following lines were omitted due to typographical errors: “In practice the “differential” means that a longshoreman in Frisco who works 8 straight hours will get $8.50 while a «New York longshoremen for the same working | Period will get only $7.60, neariy a dollar less.” “But Ryan found himself in a | Somewhat difficult position after the West Coast award revealed that ‘important concessions had been creased and still rising prices. Un-| wrung from the Arbitration Board, | | that the bosses’ etc. visor, forced their way into the of-) Language Groups Show Slo ty w Tempo In ‘Daily’ Drive. | New York, Chicago, Cleveland Societies Are Urged To Pep Up the Campaign—Russian Group Challenges Ukrainians The language organizations must wake up! The Daily Worker began their proper part. In many Hunger March From Buffalo Upstate Workers Rally In Support of Trek To Albany BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 28.—Five hundred workers massed before the Labor Educational Club here Fri- | day night in a rousing sendoff and |mass demonstration for the depart- | ing Hunger Marchers. A torch light parade was held rallying all workers to support the demands of the State March for adequate Win- ter relief and enactment of the| Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. The mass meeting held to the Albany march. In addition, delegates were elected from the | Young Women’s Christian Associa- tion. | Seventy marchers left Saturday morning for the trek to Albany. The delegation included |three marchers from the James- |town aread. A strong delegation |was elected by the workers from | he Lackawanna Steel Company, and many from the Buffalo marine |workers*and the Erie County Lodg- ing House. es T° Meet Tonight in Schenecady SCENECTADY, N. Y., Oct. 28— The United Action Committee on Work, Relief and Unemployment |called a@ meeting at Turn Hall Fri day to protest against the mass lay |ob of the local. relief projects and to elect delegates to the state Hun- ger March now enroute to Albany. Police were stationed, both inside jand outside the hall for the pur- | pose of intimidating th workers. {Many workers did enter the hall, although scores of men while anxi- ous to enter, could not do so as the Police told them to “move on.” Phil Bard, organizer of the Al- bany March in the capital district was approached by the police before he spoke and told that he was under arres, Bard challenged their right |to arrest him and the police found it necessary because of the workers iwho were aroused at this intimida- tion to permit Bard to continue to speak. At the close of the meeting the ,Police tried to hold Bard for ques- tioning until the workers left giv- ing them an opportunity to arrest him without interference on the part of the workers. The men re- fused to leave until Bard was per- |mitted to go along with them. The police threatened to trail him and have him run out of town. To this Bard stated that “I'll leave town when the workers of Schenectady ask me to, not before.” Representatives of the United Ac- f ecutive Board of Schenectady ‘County Relief Workers Union and | Worked out plans for fighting the imass lay offs from relief projects. The Relief Workers Union is hold- ing a mass meeting tonight at 7 o'clock at Nott Terrace High School, jto protest layojs. The executive Board of the Union has invited Bill |Bard to speak on “The Hunger | March.” | Wil March in Johnstown | GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Oct. 28. —A committee of workers with del- ‘egate from the Independent |Leather Workers Union acting as | spokesman, forced Johnstown to grant a parade permit to the Hunger Marchers. This seme jcommittee is holding a mass meet- | ling tonight in Gloversville to greet jthe Northern Division of the marchers. The meeting will be held ‘at the Fur Workers Hall at 6 Elm Street. Clarence Carr will greet the marchers in the name of the Gloversville workers. 1 | ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 28—A mass ,Meeting has been arranged for to- night at the headquarters of the |Albany County Relief Workers |Union, 186 South Pearl Street. Del- ibaa will be elected at this meet- ing to attend the two-day conven- jtion that will be held here begin- |ning Wednesday. Thousands of jleaflets are being distributed in Al- |bany calling on the workers to greet the marchers and to come to nd the conference, idfellow Temple on Beaver Street has been taken | the convention hall and huge mass meeting will be held at this | hall on Wednesda ht. | Every Communist Vote Is the | | Vote ef a Worker Prepared to | Fight For His Richts. Vote Communist for a Soviet | America! later | elected thirteen additional delegates | Buffalo | tion Committee met with the ex- | the Mayor of} its drive for $60,000 with the Unemployment Council movement| utmost confidence that the language organizations would do’ districts their quotas run into | thousands of dollars. In New York, for instance, it is $2,600. ®In Chicago, it is $2,000 But what do we find in the way of. activity? Ve find that even in the largest— k, Chicago, Cleves done practically Chicago only the’ Rus roup has gone above 50 per cent of its quota. In Cleveland the” Jewish organizations, which were” leading the others, stood at only $8, when the Daily Worker last re ceived the district report. In New York all of them together had coris"* tributed less than $100 until last week, when the workers of the Fin= nish Federation sent in $100. This is a condition that is cet tainly remediable! The language’ organizations can raise money for the only English daily newspaper which fights uncompromisingly-~ against discrimination, against per~ secution and deportation of the foreign-born! Finnish Groups Active The Finnish workers, for example, have shown that it can be done, | Finnish workers’ groups have “been | contributing regularly since the~ drive began. They have contribs’ uted from such diverse places as~ Hood River, Ore., Sebastapole, Pa, and Milford, N. H. The Tyomees Employes of Wisconsin were the first to challenge the other language newspapers. The Tyomees completed. their quota. But not a peep has | been heard from the other language. | newspapers, save the Finnish Fed eration! “ The Daily Workey is sure that the language organizations wilh.. put | their shoulders to the wheel. In New York, the Russian NationaT | Mutual Aid Society has recognized |that it can raise money for the | “Daily.” Last week it called a speciat meeting to discuss the $60.000 drive | and increased its quota from $300 to $1,000! nothing. sian Issues Challenge The New York District of the Sos ciety, furthermore, challenges the | Ukrainian organizations to raise” | $1,000 before it! : The language organizations know that the Daily Worker is needed to | fight for the interests of their mem- | bership. They know that it is the leader in all struggles for the pro= tection of the foreign-born — for | equal and adequate relief, for: full |rights as workers. They cannot af- ee not to help the Daily Worker! But they must get into actioff |NOW! They must fill their quotas }as quickly as possible! 7 Texas Police Receive - | Instruction in Terror’ Methods Against Labor® COLLEGE STATION, Tex.—The burly cops of this state are being | taught more brutal methods of mi: treating workers. A four-day short course in police methods and ad= ministration is being conducted at. Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College located here. The course includes ballistics, photography, criminal and document investiga- tion, tear gas bombing, and jiu fitsy,. The advisory committee includes. Police Chief R. D. Thorpe of Austin,” a notorious enemy of the working class, and Police Chief H. B. Lewis, of Fort Worth, whose men murdered- |T.. E. Barlow, unemployed leadef,. las Prominent on the facuity, re such enemies of labor as. Dis- itrict Attorney Jesse Martin of Fort Worth; Capt. W. L McGrew, Set. Roy Rogers, and Identification Supt H. E. Keller of the Houstos. police department, E. C. Crippen of the Dallas depariment, former Adjutang General W. W. Sterling of Austin, and the Rev. P. B. Hill of San Ans tonio. - AFFAIRS FOR THE’. DAILY WORKER Los Angeles, Cal. al Workers, Press Concert, Si Nev. 4 at Theatre, 127 di Concert Progr Promi= nt : ulfalo, N.Y. | | Dance given by 1.W.O. and Buffalo City Commi, National Mutual 3 at 8 p.m. (sea toon ts in adv, 20¢; at o e 5 a ‘Mic igan “Film Circuit of ‘“MOTHER”’2 DETROIT 26—ART INSTITUTE, 5208 | Friday, Saturday, 8419 Vand Midnite, IN Dix, near Salina P. Meas Sunday, Oct. 2S—JERICHO TEMPLE, 2705 Joy Road. near Linwood. 72 PM. ee 2 -11 P.M. e ’ O—FINNISH HALL, 5969” Vth St, 1 P.M Shy Wednesday, SI—FERRY HALE, 18¢@. | Ferry, 1 PM. NN Bases thursda. J—MARTIN HALL, 4959 Martin. day. A Communist Vote Is A Vote Against the New . Deal Preparations for 5 A New +e a RRR CO ARO NE Imperialist War