The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1934, Page 5

j UNION HEAD URGES WORKERS TO JOIN (-©"-¥- Head COMMUNIST PARTY\ O° Shows How Communists | vicious anti-union mjunction of the Helped the Furniture | Workers Win | By Joe Kiss | National Secretary of the Furniture | Workers Industrial Union | HE first General Strike of the furniture workers this Fall sea-/ son, prepared and led by the Na-| tional Furniture Workers Industrial | Union, is about to end with the ex- | ception of a few scattered strikers | here and there. | Due to the correct application of the policies of the Trade Union Unity League with which this union is affiliated nationally, the union| was able to follow correct tactics in| the strike, bringing forward mili-| tant policies. The National Furni- ture Workers Industrial Union not only carried out its task of winning | better economic conditions for the workers, but did its utmost on the} basis of the experiences in utilizing | the General Strike to enlighten the | organized and unorganized furniture | workers as to the real meaning of the N. R. A. and the “New Deal” as instruments of the trusts and monopolies against the working; class, and to develop their class con- sciousness and understanding of the capitalist crisis. United Front Established With AFL . The National Furniture Workers Industrial Union correctly orien- tated itself in cementing the unity of the furniture workers for the strike, as the first prerequisite for victory. A successful united front | was established with seven A. F. of L, furniture locals, and a national united front with the Wood Carvers Association, one of the oldest allied furniture unions of the A. F. of L. The locals of the N. F. W. I, U.| carried through successful local joint | actions with A. F. of L. locals and independent unions in their locality. As a result, the union has won| higher wages, shorter hours, a two per cent unemployment insurance fund paid by the bosses, and union recognition in places where the strike occurred. Eight new locals were organized in the course of the General Strike, and now the union has over 10,000 members in about 29 important furniture centers| throughout the country, penetrating | into new unorganized furniture cen- ters. Answer to “Red Scare” | We cannot overlook the mass at- tacks concentrated upon the Na- tional Furniture Workers Industrial Union. The bosses everywhere were determined to annihilate the mili- tant locals of the N. F. W. I. U. Such, for example, was the case in Boston, where the Furniture Manu- | facturers’ Association set up a fund to destroy the union, with each manufacturer putting up a $1,500 bond. The main argument used by the bosses, with the aid of the A. F. of L. top bureaucrats such as Hatch | was that this union is led by Com- munists. Realizing that the mili- tant policies and activities of the Communists in the union prevented betrayals and sell-outs and were fol- lowed by the membership as a whole, the bosses attempted to dis- credit the leadership and slander the membership of the N. F. W. I. U. especially where unity with the A. F. of L. membership had been achieved over the heads of the bu- reaucrats. The union leadership was charged with being agents of Moscow, and the union membership were called a “scab outfit.” Of course, these charges were not ac- companied with offers of higher wages, shorter hours, better condi- tions for any furniture worker. Attacks Fail These attacks, however, did not make headway. It is true and is known to every member of the Na- tional Furniture Workers Industrial Union that among the membership and in the leadership there are Communists. But the N. F. W. I. U. is not a political party. It is a broad trade union organization which unites workers of different political beliefs who agree on the necessity of a militant trade union organization under rank and file leadership to fight against the bosses’ attacks and far the workers’ interests. The Communists in the union constitute a small minority of the membership, There are Re- publicans, Democrats, Socialists, Syndicalists in the organization. But no one can deny that the Com- munists are the most sacrificing, actively participating in the fore- front of every activity of the union, building the union. The experiences of the last General Strike have proven to the militant organized and unorganized furniture workers that the Communists have been in the front ranks in the struggle for higher wages and shorter hours, and have at no time protected the prof- its of the bosses. Nor does the lead- ership, in which the Communists play a prominent role, ever make compromises with the bosses at the expense and welfare of its members or accept any policies of betrayal. These facts are known to every member of the union, And during the strike, especially, the furniture workets were able to realize that the Communists are the best champions for unity. The workers could also see the achievements of unity in the ranks of the organized and uhorganized furniture workers, through which living and working conditions have been greatly im- proved, * * Communist Party Supports truggles ‘HE Communist Party has dem- onstrated that it fights at all times in the interests of the work- ing class, against the capitalist class and the profit system. The furni- ture workers have seen thais in con- crete actions. For example, Robert Minor, former Communist candidate Progressive Table Co. in Brooklyn, N. ¥., August, 1933, smashing the injunction drive of the bosses. The other candidates of the Dem Republican and Socialist Parties had also been invited to come down and show their support in connec- tion with their pre-election prom- ises, but they did not appear. The Communist Party was with the struggle of the union in Jersey | City, New Jersey, where the rights of the workers to strike and picket and organize had been violated for the last 20 years by the terror rule of Mayor Hague, and furniture and other scab shops were moving there in order to evade union agreements. The Communists throughout the country have helped to organize the unorganized furniture workers. The Daily Worker, central organ of the Communist Party, has given unlimited space and assistance in publishing truthfully without dis- tortion strike news and articles, while the Socialist Party and the capitalist press were openly sabo- taging and distorting any news con- nected with the heroic strike strug- gles of the furniture workers. We must record these undeniable facts when we workers examine the truth about the Communist Party. Should Join Party The Communist Party is now in the midst of a recruiting drive, and calls upon all militant workers to join its ranks, to make it a more powerful instrument in the struggle for a better standard of living,/ plaza, shouted in unison, “Oust against capitalist terror, against fas-| Robinson!. Oust Robinson!” cism and bosses’ wars. The militant) furniture workers should respond to this call and enter the ranks of the only Party of the working class —the Communist Party, whose splendid, active support and assis- tance we have actually. experienced in our own strikes and struggles for better conditions. The Communist |Party does not merely make pre- election promises, as do all the capi- talist parties, as does the Socialist Party. The Communist Party leads the fight against the Roosevelt capi- |talist “New Deal” of attack upon the | Daily Worker reporter. The Communist Party fights for higher wages, for} working masses, the workers’ unemployment and so- cial insurance bill, for equal rights of the Negro masses, against grow- ing fascist terror. Organized and unorganized fur- niture workers! By joining the Communist Party we can help to build an even stronger and more | powerful party to lead the struggles of the oppressed American working class not alone for their day-to-day needs in the fight against hunger, but against the whole capitalist sys- tem which oppresses and degrades us, and for the establishment. of the rule of the working class here in the United States! Boys Repudiate Lawyer Leibowitz (Continued from Page 1) Workers Clubs, Inc., Communist League, Ex-Servicemen’s League, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the Trade Union Unity Council, Un- employment Councils, Women’s Councils, and the National Scotts- boro-Herndon Action Committee, of which William N. Jones of the staff of the Baltimore Afro-American is chairman. Four Scottsboro Mothers to Speak The demonstration will be ad- dressed by four of the Scottsboro mothers who are here to mobilize mass support for the boys and to expose the conspiracy to wreck the defense, and by Angelo Herndon, hero of the Atlanta, Ga. “insur- rection” ttial, now out on $15,000 bail raised by Negro and white workers, Israel Amter, Communist candidate for Governor of New York; James W. Ford, Communist candidate in the 2Ist Congres- sional District, and other veterans in the fight for the Scottsboro boys and the rights of the Negro people. The demonstration will not only demand the release of the boys, but will protest the fiendish lynching of Claude Neal last Saturday night in Florida and demand the death penalty for Florida and Alabama Officials and others involved in the crime. It will also protest the at- tempt of Atlanta, Ga., authorities to railroad eight Negro members of the International Labor Defense to the electric chair on the same charge of “insurrection” on which Herndon was framed up for his activities white workers to fight for relief. All Out Today! Organizations participating the demonstration ate asked to assemble promptly at 1:30 o'clock today at the following points: Organizations from Harlem, York- ville and the West-side sections at 126th St. and Lenox Ave., east of Lenox Ave., organizations from the Bronx at 127th St., east of Lenox; organizations from mid-town and downtown Manhattan and from Brooklyn at 128th St. east of Lenox. All out today! The Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Die! Defend the elementary human rights of the oppressed Negro People! Smash Fascist lynch terror! Build the Bs re unity of the Negro and white workers: against their com- mon oppressors! Protest in California LOS ANGELES, Nov, 2. — The second of a series of Sunday after- noon mass meetings to rally wide support for the framed Scottsboro boys will be held this Sunday, 2.30 o’clock at Lincoln Memorial Church, Vernon and Hooper Avenue. The meetings are organized by the Scottsboro Action Committee, with headquarters at 3015 S. San Pedro Street, and will be conducted for Mayor of New York City, led a fighting demonstration against the throughout the present critical ocratic, | the Young the Workers in uniting Negro and in DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 18 Who Pieket Cabinet Mee LaGuardia Is Flip When Delegation Calls To Protest A flippant reply from Mayor La- Guardia was all a delegation of students and graduates of the Col- lége of the City of New York re- ceived when they went to City Hall yesterday to protest the arrests of eighteen studnt pickets, who were eighteen student pickets, who were jhome of Frederick B. Robinson president of the college with signs that called for the ouster of the latter. The delegation, headed by Edwin Alexander, a suspended student, met the major in the hall as he was on} his way out. The students ex-| plained their request that the mayor | investigate the situation. They also | told of their arrests, | “What were you picketing for?” | | demanded the mayor. | |, “We are demanding the resigna- | |tion of President Robinson for ex- | |pelling students,” explained one of |the delegates. “How do you feel about Robinson?” another inquired. | The Mayor Chuckles The mayor gave no dizect answer to this. Instead he asked Joseph P. Lash, who had asked the ques- |tion, “Are you a student?” When the latter informed him that he was !a graduate, the Mayor chuckied |“I was once a student myself,” he |said and proceeded towards his car, | while 150 students, massed on the | | The delegation returned to the | meeting and informed the crowd of jwhat LaGuardia had said. Lash, |who is secretary of the Student |League for Industrial Democracy, |and Joseph Cohen, secretary of the National Student League, both urged the widest united front of all stu- |dents in the fight for the removal | of Robinson. | Mass picketing before the presi- jdent’s home, 280 Convent Avenue, will continue, students told the The fight will be kept up until the students are reinstated and Robinson is oust- ed, the students declared. Delegation Spontaneously Organized The delegation to City Hall was a spontaneous affair, it was pointed out. It arose as a protest measure against the arrest of eighteen stu- | dents on the picket line before Rob- | inson’s home earlier in the day. The | cases of all eighteen were continued }and will come up again at the | Washington Heights Court some time next week. The entire struggle is an out- growth of the recent suspensions of City College students for protesting the appearance of a band of Ital- |ian fascist students at the Great Hall of City College some weeks ago. As a result of the suspensions of students most active in the protest | | demonstration, the demand for the | ousting of President Frederick B. Robinson, long known as a campus despot and jingo politician with |little or no standing in the educa- tional. world, has arisen in many quarters. Among the students the cry of “Oust Robinson” has taken |on the character of a by-word and lis regarded by competent observers | 6 the expression of practically the | Unanimous sentiment of the under- graduate body, backed by a large section of graduate opinion and similar feéling among educators and | informed people throughout the | city. Volunteers Are Needed In Campaign Office On Day of Elections An urgent call for fifty volunteers to help answer telephones in the Communist State Election Cam- paign Office on election day, was is- sued yesterday by the State Com- mittee at its office, room 541, 799 Broadway. Volunteers may offer their ser- vices for any part of the day, the Committee announced. The Com- mittee’s telephone number is ST. 9- 5557. period in the fight for the boys. Tae te Detroit Meeting Called DETROIT, Mich., Noy. 2.—A inass rally for the Scotisboro boys will be held here Friday evening, Nov. 16th. The place will be announced later. All, organizations are urged to keep this date open. aaa oes Rally Held in Church PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2. — Five hundred and fifty persons, Negro and white, attended a_ spirited Scottsboro-Herndon rally last Tues- day night at the White Rock Bap- tist Church, in West Philadelphia, Forty persons joined the Interna- tional Labor Defense, Although many in the audience were unem- Ployed, $23 was contributed in re- sponse to an appeal or funds to push the appeals to the U. S, Su- Ppreme Court. Another defense rally will be held this Sunday, 2 o’clock, at 4032 Ger- mantown Avenue, with Ruby Bates, Powell, District Organizer of the I, L. D. as speakers. Bates and Powell will also address a conference of the Russian Mutual Aid Society, at 995 N. 5th Street, at one o'clock the same day. On Monday, 8 p.m, they will speak at a mass meeting at 8640 Hastwick Avenue. On Noy. 12, one hundred lawyers and intellectuals, organized by William N. Jones, chairman of the National Scottsboro-Herndon Action Committee, will hold a defense meeting. Other defense rallies in the dis- triet include, Lebanon, Pa., Nov. 7; Reading, Pa., Nov. 8; Chester, Pa., Nov. 9; Wilkes Barre, Nov. 16 and cial called a special em against the |The splitting tactics of the offi- execution of § Rte ia, oe Mine Harlem Unit Meetings rs of America (4 of L) : Spain, nor to and the independent United Anth- To Be Held on Tuesday of increased v ~ | racite rs of Pennsylva: é The Socialist igre Albin Hans- fight ensued, y of the Russian Re son was among the fi 7 Yec the royal P: The rank and file opposition in Wi! be held on wee and Social-Democracy are both unions has a program for the |in the Rockland Palace, well as can be expected. juniting of the miners in both |and Eighth Avenue. Scranton, Nov. 17. 29 Cortland: Street star defense witness, and William R. | 2% 49 Nassau Street red. 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