The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 9, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1932 ARBITRATION ENDANGERS GAINS OF ELEVATOR STRIKERS New Elevator Steel Workers Show UNION OFFICIALS HOG-TIE WORKERS BY A GREEMENT Strikers Failed to Gain Complete Victory When Officials Agreed to LaGuardia Truce and N, R. A. “‘Arbitration”’ By AL STEELE | The strike conducted by the building service workers in Manhattan’s garment district last week under the leader- | ship of Local 32-B of the Building Service Employees Inter- national Union, A. F. of L., contains important lessons. The mistakes made in the strike should be pointed out by the rank and file membership of thee union and pressure be brought by them to bear upon their leaders to avoid the repetition of the same mistakes in the future. The strikers’ demands included recognition of the union, the 40-hour | week, a $35 minimum weekly wage, elimination of the “stretch-out” | system, no discrimination against | Negro workers {and no overtime. | When overtime is put in, time and| a half for overtime is demanded. | The splendid strike mobilization | of the building service employees Hrackham, chairman of the strike | f the| , | who responded to the call o ‘ng | committee Saturday morning, J./| union more than 8,000 strong and; successfully tied up most of the! buildings in the garment center for two d ments reached the strikers won the | closed shop, a $20 minimum weekly | wage and a flat increase of $1 for all those who get $20 or more, with | the exception of superintendents. | The agreement also provided that | all economic demands be subject to | a decision of a Board of Arbitra-} tion composed of an equal number | of representatives of the employees and the owners with an impartial | chairman, | The agreement also made it obiig- | etory for both parties to agree to} the arbitration and to abide by the| decisions of the arbitration board. | At his conference the leaders of the union agreed to a truce pre- pared by LaGuardia, on the basis | of all the workers returning | to work and that the owners of | buildings who have not signed up with the union be given notil| ‘Wednesday, 7 p.m. as a deadline by which time they are to. do so. Their | failure to comply with this provi-| sion was to result in the resumption of the strike in their buildings on ‘Thursday morning. These demands and conditions were included )in the. agreements signed with “individual owners at the conference according to George Planson, secretary to James J. Bam- | brick, President of the union. | Tt has been reported that James J. Bambrick promised at the con- ference, that before the spreading of the strike in the future, it will be first presented to the Regional) Labor Board for mediation. | Mayor LaGuardia in Strikebreak- ing Role | The calling of this truce confer- ence was a result of the frantic | efforts of Mayor La Guardia, who| was reported “sick at heart” over | the possibility that the strike might | spread to be city-wide, to break the) strike. “This situation must not be/ permitted to develop,” La Guardia! stated on the first day of the strike. | This is not the first time that) the Mayor appears in this role be-j} fore the New York workers. It was) La Guardia’s administration that} was responsible for the shameful sellout of the first general taxi! trike. | In the second general taxi strike Mayor La Guardia proved himself as the tool and puppet of J. P.| Morgan’s General Motors when he ordered his Police Department “to| crack the skulls of the taxi strikers | if they continued mass picketing.” The leaders of the union made one of the most important! mistakes in the conduct of the! Strike, when they consented to this| truce and to the arbitration under | ‘he pressure of Mayor La Guardia. | The leaders of the union, who, ac- | cording to the statement of Mr. Planson, during the strike, “had| enough of arbitration with Mrs. Herrick of the Regional Labor Board” and had “more effective} means at our disposal now,” have,| by agreeing to La Guardia’s arbitra- tion proposal, returned to the very thing which they spoke against, when the strike call was issued by/ them. | Strike Action and Workers’ Soli- | darity Bring Gains | It was the excellent turn-out of | the building service workers to the strike call and the solidarity action | of the needle trades workers that was responsible for the partial vic-| tory, in forcing the concessions from the owners. The continuing of the strike at the time when most of the buildings in the garment centers were com- pletely tied up and the service crip- pled would have undoubtedly brought bigger concessions from the owners, and deefated compulsory| arbitration. Compulsary Arbitration Bars Strikes The clause in the agreement mak- Ing the decisions of the arbitraticn board obligatory and final un-| doubtedly is one of the worst parts | of the whole transaction. Such| compulsory arbitration agrees to bar them from strike in the future, for attaining further gains. it has been reported that at no time during the conduct of negoti- ations with the owners, the Regional Labor Board and La Guerdia did the leaders present the proposals made by the owners to the mem- bership for approval. At this writ- ing all efforts to reach the leaders | of the union for confirmation of) this report were not successful. Other mistakes in the con- duct of the strike and the ne- gotiations were made by the lead- ers of the union. Outstending among them is their failure ta pn- ands of workers in the Needle| Trades Workers Industrial Union, Committees of workers from | numérous shops in the buildings affected by the strike were formed at the call of‘the Needie Trades | Workers Industrial Union which demanded from the owners of the nst | buildings union elevator and build- | ing service and informed their bosses that they would have to pay | for the time lost by the workers during the strike. In a conversation with Arthur L. Winogradsky, manager of the Fur | Workers Industrial Union, pre- resulted in a partial vie- |Sented the program adopted by the Pi junion of calling all fur shops in| : e- | eee meh yt eee the buildings affected on a sym-| pathy strike. After inquiring whether this was the left. wing union, Hrackham informed Wino- gradsky that the strike was tem- porarily settled and thanking the F. W. I. U. for their active co- operation, stated that the members of the F. W. I. U. were the most active people in helping make the strike a success. Another glaring example of this policy, was the failure of the lead- ers of Local 32B to make possible the joint action of their union With the Independent Building Service Employeés Union. Unity of All Workers Refused Four weeks prior to the strike, | a special meeting of the Executive Board of Local Number 1 of the Independent Building Service Em- Ployees Union was called. At this meeting the question of a general strike was discussed, and the line of the Independent in the event of such a strike was definitely for- mulated. A proposal for joint action by Local 32B and the Independent in organizing the industry, in the con- duct of local strikes, and the de- velopment of a general strike on a joint basis, was made and commu- nicated to Local 32B by mail. A ba- sis for complete freedom of choice of union under all circumstances was offered as a solution to the question of jurisdiction in joint ac- tion. J. J. Bambrick, speaking for the A. F. of L. union, at a joint meet- ing of the Executive Boards of both unions stated that such a basis was not acceptable. A proposal for the establishing of complete unity in the industry as a means of helping toward the complete victory for the strikers Was repeated to Local 32B on the first day of the strike by a dele- gation of Local 1. At this time the delegation was not heard by the Executive Board of Local 32B The regular business meeting of Local 1, Manhattan, of the Inde- pendent, held in Labor Temple, 247 East 84th Street, on Monday again took up this question. A committee was elected to draft and present to Local 32B, a pro- posal for the merging of the two union into one, for the betterment of the workers in the industry. The basis suggested for such a proposal was: (1) That members of the In- dependent shall transfer their cards for the cards of Local 32B without payment of any initiation fee. (2.) That there shall be no dis- crimination by Local 32B on ac- count of race, color, religion or creed. (3.) That members of the Inde- dependent shall transfer their have full rights as members of Local 32B to vote and to hold office. (4.) That full democracy shall Prevail in Local 32B at all times. The negotiations and arbitration conducted by the leaders of the union preceding the issuance of the strike call, and after the strike, the conduct of the strike itself and its termination resulting in a partial victory once more proved the con- tention of the Communist Party that the N. R. A. with its Regional and National Labor Boards were formed specifically to aid the bosses against the workers, and to stop strike struggles, and where they could not do this, through arbitration, to rob the workets of the demands they could have won through strike. If the Building Service Employees National Union is to become the |Organization that will organize all the building service workers in New York the lessons of the strike must be brought home to every member of the union and to every worker in the industry. The next step for the building service workers is not to wait until the arbitration board is set up and starts functioning, but to lose no time in strengthening their union with a broad participetion of the rank and file members in the leade>- ship to spread the strike to broad- en out the influence of the union; to proceed with an organization drive to unionize every building throughout the city and to unite all the workers in the trade into one powerful, militant union controjled by its membership and fit to meet the real estate owners fi battle to win every demend originally put Peal fox assistance to the thous- forth in the strike, wee | yesterday by trike Put Off | For 24 Hours wR Many Building Owners Refuse to Carry Out | Agreement Made The scheduled strike of elevator | men and other building service workers in sixty garment center buildings was postponed for 24 hours the leaders of Local 32-B of the Building Service Em- ployees International Union, at the | request of Ben Golden of the Re-| gional Labor Board. Although James J. Bambrick, president of the union, was quoted |as stating that “there would be no further delay,” all indications point toward the postponement of any action on buildings not yet signed up for the beginning of next week. | Numerous owners of buildings have | been reported to have refused to live up to the agreement made at the conference with Mayor LaGuar- dia, The failure of the union leaders to proceed with strike action yes- | terday in forcing their demands, is | looked upon ‘as another concession | which can weaken future action | undertaken by the union. | “With all their recent experiences with the Regional Labor Board,” | one of the workets who was on | strike stated, they still continue to listen to Golden and the like. It is time that they realize that the} strike is the only way to force the | owners to come across.” | ILD. Needs $6,000 In Scottsboro Case (Continued from Paye 1) been imposed upon the I. L. D. to meet and defeat the treacherous| attempts to scuttle the defense. | “A fund of $6,000 is needed im- mediately, for the printing of the briefs and records for the U. 8. Supreme Court appeals, for the expenses and modest legal fees of attorneys in this and other phases | of the case, and to carry on the mass campaign which has saved the lives of these boys for three and a half years. “We have no other recourse but |to appeal to every individual and | organization sympathetic to the Scottsboro defense and the fight for Negro rights, to the rank and file of the American Federation of Labor, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to the people of the churches, to the members of the International Workers’ Ordet, the Women’s Councils, the Friends of | the Soviet Union, the Workers’ clubs, the language club and fra- ternal organizations, the social clubs, every sincere lover of jus- tice and human rights to send immediately every possible dollar, quarter, dime or nickél, to insure the carrying forward of this crucial defense struggle. “Rush your contributions by tele- gram, airmail, special delivery to the International Labor Defense, Room 610, 80 East 11th Street, New York City. Send your contribution today. Every penny counts. Rally to the defense—Now! The Scotts- boro Boys Must Go Free! “National Executive Committee, “INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE” Aroused by the vicious activities of the enemies of the Scottsboro boys, Negro and white workers in Brooklyn are preparing a powerful demonstration for this Saturday evening in Crown Heights to protest the decree of the Alabama Supreme Court ordering the legal murder of two of the boys on Dec. 7, and to demand the unconditional, safe re- lease of the nine innocent Negro lads. The demonstration will start at 7 o'clock at Nostrand Avenue and Herkimer Street, with a mass march to the Ralph Avenue A. M. E. Zion Church, 250 Ralph Avenue, where three of the Scottsboro. mothers, Ben Davis, Jr., editor of the Negro Liberator, Angelo Herndon, and F. D, Griffin, Section Organizer of the International Labor Defense, will speak. The three mothers are Mrs. Ida Norris, Mrs. Ada Wright and Mrs. Viola Montgomery who, to- gether with Mrs, Powell have come up from the South to rally mass support for the boys and to. expose the attempts of Samuel S. Leibo- witz, renegade defense attorney, | William H. Davis, publisher of the | Amsterdam News, and other Har- Jem Negro misleaders, to wreck the defense. Sections 11 and 8 of the Commu- nist Party have endorsed the dem- onstration, which is called by the I. L. D., and are urging all mem- bers and sympathizers to support the action. Other Brooklyn organ- izations are being visited to enlist their support. A mass protest meeting will also be held this Monday evening, Nov. 12 at the All Saints Church, 103 Cumberland Street, near Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn. Emergency Scottsboro conferences are also being held on Nov. 9 in South Brooklyn at the Carlton Avenue Y. M. C. A., at Cariton and Fulton; in Brownsville, on Nov. 16, at Ralph Avenue Church, Ralph and Chauncey Street, and in Queens, on Nov. 18, at 5820 Roosevelt Ave- nue, Woodside. | Philadelphia Mass, Meeting PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 8, — The | vigorous campaign in this district for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys will reach a new high point, the International Labor Defense de- clered today, with a mass meeting Tucsday evening, Nov. 20, at Slovak Tell, 510 Fairmount Avenve. Many | similar organizations are already mobilizing SSS SSS SSS Will To Fight For Conditions in Mills A. F. L. Leaders Hiding Behind Radical Phras As Workers in Plants Demand Action By TOM KEENAN PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 8.—See- ing the dissatisfaction of rank and file members with the do-nothing | politics of Mike Tighe, the top lead- | ers of the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel, and Tin Workers (A. | F. of L.) are being forced to use| more radical phrases to try to head off the growing determination of steel workers to put up a fight for union recognition and better condi- tions. At a District 1 conference last Sunday, Vice-President Edward Miller, the man who is being groomed to step into Tighe’s shoes when the latter retires, was driven to the length of declaring that “the | steel industry will only be organized through a general strike in all mills,” in order to hush the de- mands of delegates for action. | Thousands Blacklisted Miller was attending the regular bi-monthly district conference in| Homestead in his role as “overseer” | for the international office when a | delegate from the Allegheny Steel Co. lodge in Brackenridge gained the floor near the close of the/| meeting to demand some action on | the part of Tighe and company. The delegate told how he had been fired from his job in the Brackenridge mill for approaching members of the strong company union there and asking them to join the A. A. He concluded by de- manding to know what the inter- national officials intend to do in forcing employers to re-hire himself and thousands of other blacklisted steel workers.who are today in a predicament. Tighe, he said, had already informed him that the union can take no action in_ individual cases such as his own. In reply Miller chose to be very mysterious about trump cards which. the top leaders are now holding “up ‘their sleeves,” and which they can | not yet reveal to the rank and file membership because the time is “inopportune.” The case of George Issoski’s re- lease from an insane asylum re- cently, he cited as an example of this, but failed to mention that A.A. Jeaders are taking no action wiat- ever to utilize the whole frame-up as a means of breaking through the J. and L. terror in Aliquippa, being content to “let Governor Pinchot handle it.” Forbeck Adjourns Meeting The delegate’s intimation that a strike in any mill would be an ef- fective way of meeting the blacklist weapon in that plant, Miller an- swered by stating that a general steel strike. would be the correct tactic and would organize the whole industry, but that the time is not ripe for such action. He did not say anything about preparation now for such future strike action. The vice-president concluded with an appeal for peace in the union (meaning to drop the growing fight against Tighe and company), and Earl Forbeck, chairman of the first district, sensing the danger of con- tinued discussion along these lines, promptly adjourned the meeting. But the continued raising of such issues by delegates at district con- ferences is not the only indication of the dissatisfaction of the work- ers with present policies of the union, and their resentment at the sellout of the strike last spring by Tighe and Green. In Allenport, for example, in the Pittsburgh Steel Company’s plant, the A. A. men reflect the same atti- tude. Of the 1,300 workers em- Ployed there, approximately 96 per cent have joined the Amalgamated. During the period when the A. A. was supposed to be preparing a steel strike this spring, meetings of the lodge each time attracted 400 or 500 workers. The sentiment of the men was strong for action and they were trustful of the union leaders. Now, however, Tighe’s betrayals have brought about a condition where only 20 or 30 attend lodge meetings. The workers should, of course, attend meetings and fight the Tighe machine. Most of the members have suspended their dues payments as one form of protest against the policies of Tighe and his machine. Continued demands have been made that the company recognize the union, but the com- pany’s consistent refusal has been met with folded hands by the of- ficialdom. No Hlusions About Steel Board The workers have no illusions regarding the N. R. A. labor boards despite all the ballyhoo connected with the Weirton suit which has been disseminated by the mislead- ers. They are still strong for the union as an organization, but are disgusted with its officials, so that the beginning recently of a rank and file movement should find a fertile field. Most important of all, the workérs appear to realize the necessity of a general steel strike if the industry is to be organized. In Monessen, where a plant of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company employs around 3,500 men, the A, A. lodge includes almost 75 per cent of the working force. The general sentiment of the lodge is one of disgust at the re-election of Tighe and the continued delaying of direct action by hearings before the Steel Labor Board. H Some time ago a request was fiied with the board for an election in Monessen to determine who shall | repsesent the workers in “collective | bargaining.” The hearing on this request has been postponed by the board, with the approval of tho A. A. attorneys, until Nov. 15, Workers claim to have definite information now that, under cover of this delay, the company plans to distribute company union ballots, hold a company union election without any interference by the Steel Board, and, when the board finally hears the request, confront Judge Stacy and his colleagues with documentary evidence that the workers favor the company union. This, as described, is a maneu- ver greatly similar to the one em- ployed at Weirton, when the com- pany disregarded the N. R. A. Board to hold its own election with all the coercion and intimidation which are part of every company union “election.” Workers Demand Conference Meanwhile, the pressure against the A. A. officialdom is forcing them toward the calling of a national conference of district committees in Pittsburgh within a month. Tighe is doing his utmost to avoid any move such as this, which has the character of a large meeting of possibly rank and file elements in the union and consequently might prove difficult to handle. In the first district confereace next Sunday in Charleroi, an -elec- tion of district committee officers is scheduled to take place. Opposition to Forbeck’s re-election as district chairman has been growing stead- ily during the past weeks, but un- less it is organized behind one rank and file candidate, the Committee of Ten leader who supports Tighe’s policies may be re-named. their forces to make this meeting a powerful demonstration against the attempt to legally murder Hay- wood Patterson and Clarence Nor- ris on Dec. 7, and for the safety and release of all nine of the boys. Ruby Bates, who has been tire- less in exposing the “rape” frame- up of the boys by Alabama officials, will speak at the meeting together with William R. Powell, District Field Organizer of the I. L. D., and Ben Gardner, one of six local anti- Fascists out on bail pending ap- peal against. prison sentences for participating in a Free Thealmann demonstration last summer before the German Consulate here. N. Y. City Pushes War on Jobless (Continxed from Page 1) ment indicating whether the per- son so employed claims to have knewn or not to have known of the existence of the bank ac- count.” Although relief appropriations for November have already been voted on the basis of bank loans obtained with tax anticipation warrants is- sued on the two-point relief tax financing voted in September, no provision whatsoever has been made by the LaGuardia regime for relief beyond the current month. Another “Crisis” in Relief Another “relief crisis” such as last September, when LaGuardia stopped all relief and cried “no funds” while $550.000 of relief avpropria- tions remained unexpended and the city had $39,000,000 on deposit, is imminent, The last “relief crisis” was the mg ns for bludgeoning the unemployed into submission while with a fanfare from Grover Whalen and the big business’ groups which he represented hundreds of thous- ands were slashed off their taxes. The itiponding “relief crisis” is in- sales and occupation taxes and the seven-cent subway fare. Two New York newspapers cater- ing especially to financiers, the Sun and the Wall Street Journal, put the question precisely. The Sun declared editorially on Oct. 16: “It is evident that the $6,000,000... will not carry the program beyond elec- tion day. Payroll taxes and sales taxes are being considered. After election it may be possible to abate the political opposition to the tax qn transit fares. Business men should demonstrate that the transit fare tax is the measure on which they are solidly united,” Election returns were not yet complete when the Wall Street Journal, discussing the seven-cent subway fare, declared editorially: “At any rate, the situation now can be examined without emotion and without immediate fear of reprisal at the polls. Thus elections have | their uses, if only because when one is ended it is quite some distance to another, and between times neces- sary things can be accomplished.” Wage Increase Is Won By Women Strikers in West Coast Canneries SEATTLE, Nov. 8—Women work- ers on the day shift at the National Fruit Cannery here staged an ef- fective strike last week, their demands for an additional cent for each thousand pears re- corded. The wage increase took effect for 300 workers at the cannery, em- ployed in three different shifts. Cannery officials, who had threat- ened to close down the plant in the event of a strike, quickly submitted to the demands of the women when they saw the effectiveness of the strikers’ tie-up. At symposiums, lectures, de- betes, discussions, tie tp topic with role of the “Daily” as orzan- irer for a better sccicty. Call for Cuts in Illinois Large Families Get. Jobless PlanMOSCOW PARADE ' Fight on Relief SHOWS WORKERS’ ~ PRIDE IN GAINS 30% Relief Slash |Coljective Farmers With Products of Soil Add Color to Stirring Demonstration; New Achievements Recorded in Cook County CHICAGO, IIL, iwov. 8—Calls for} a united front emergency confer- In a special letter to all relief super- visors the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission orders the cutting of all Work Relief Budgets. They state: “Approximately 26,000 persons on work relief will receive assign- ments equal to only three-fourths of their total monthly budget for the month of November.” Relief has been too low up to now. Thousands of children suf- fered from under-nourishment. on the old relief budget. This new cut will mean starvation to 150,000 fam- 108. The Relief Commission aims to make the Relief Budget the wage! level in Chicago. This will break| all union conditions if they put it over, In many districts the relief is stopping the payment of rents, gas and electric light bills. Evictions are taking place all over Chicago. Negro workers are discriminated against on jobs and in giving out relief. Single workers are forced into filthy flophouses and forced to work for 25 cents a day. The un- employed are denied the right to organize—their grievance commit- tees are barred and driven from the relief stations. There will be no C. W. A. jobs this winter. Instead, work relief is ence against the sweeping reliéf slash ordered by the Illinois Relief Administration on Noy. 1 have been sent to all trade unions, unemployed groups and to all other working class organizations by the Cook County Committee for United Action on Relief and Social Insurance here yesterday. The conference, organized around a five-point program of demands, and endorsed by six organizations of the employed, unemployed, small home owners and professional work- ers’ groups, will be held here Sat- urday, Nov. 17, at 1:30 pm, at Mirror Hail, 1136 North Western Ave. and calls for a united front march and demonstration on Sat- urday, Noy. 24, The complete text of the confer- ence call is as follows: To All Trade Unions: To All Unemployed Organizations: Yo’ All Other Working Class Organizations: Erothers and Fellow Workers: In the sixth year of the eco-| nomic crisis and after two years of| the “New Deal,” further attacks on our living standards are being pre- pared. Relief has just been cut 10) per cent for small families as much} as 30 per cent for larger families. | being cut. We can defeat the relief cuts and their hunger program by | lining up the whole Chicago Labor Movement for a program of: 1, Public works at union wages building of the subway—work- crs’ homes. 2. For cash relief—against the relief cut. 3. For immediate winter relief —Shoes, new clothing, blankets for the unemployed. 4. For the Workers’ Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill. 5, For reccgnition of relief com- mittees at the relief stations. Support the march and demon- stration to win these demands on Noy. 24. We call upon all organiza- tions to elect delegates to this emer- gency conference in support of the above demands. Only United Ac- tion can defeat the relief cut United Action on Oct. 31, 1932, de- feated the 50 per cent relief cut. Send delegates to this emergency conference to plan similar action. Conference will be held at Mirror Hall, 1136 North Western Ave., at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17, 1934. Each local and Central Labor Body is asked to send two delegates. Financial contributions to help de- fray expenses are invited. Cook County Committee for United Action on Relief and So- cial Insurance. Room 300, 160. North Wells St., Chicago, Ill. Elmer Johnson, Acting Secretary. Composed of the AFL. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance, Chicago Workers Committee on Unemployment, Unemployment Council of Cook County, Inter- professional Association for Un- employment Insurance, Small Home and Land Owners Fed- eration of Illinois, Federation of Fraternal Organizations for Un- employment Insurance. Paris Masses Act to Halt Fascist Coup (Continued from Page 1) nounced that “they were capable of erecting larger and more solid bar- riers than during last February,” in order to protect their democratic rights. Etienne Flandin, Minister of Pub- lic Works under Doumergue, agreed to form a new Cabinet, but found it impossible to do so. Of the Rad- ical-Socielist leadership only Her- riot has accepted a post in the new Cabinet, the others not daring to resist the opposition of their party following to Doumergue’s fascist program, most sections of which, Flendin has announced, he would endeavor to carry out. “L’Humanite,” organ of the Com- munist Party of France, today By Ver n Smith (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 7 (By Wireless).—“We, are 17 years old” read a banner carried by a large youth group in the first column of today’s demonstrat ion in Red Square, which was marked by a youthful gay spirit and an unusual display of color. Following an impressive two-hour military parade, _ TT “owhich included mass armed work- Red Capital Greets Foreign Delegations (Special to the Dally Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 8. (By Wireless). —Delegations of workers from the Amo and Ballbearing plants in Moscow lined the platform of the Leningrad station this morning to greet the workers’ delegations of Britain, America, Ireland and the Scandinavian countries on their ar- rival at the red capital to take part in the celebrations of the seven- teenth anniversary of the Revolu- tion. A band of the Amo factory played the “International” as the train steamed into the station and the delegates alighted. A short meeting was held outside the station beween Moscow workers and repre- sentatives of the delegations. Speaking in the name of the Eng- lish delegation, Morris, Wood, Green, ahd Smithgate, members of the British Trades Council, ex- pressed their pleasure at being able to greet the proletarians of Mos- cow. “From the moment we stepped on the boat,” one of them declared, “we felt we were in the Soviet Union. The comradeship I have experienced surpassed anything that I have ever known in my life. In Leningrad we have already seen evidence that the capitalist press ‘reports about ‘starvation in Russia’ are nothing but lies.” All the delegations are in splendid spirits and full of enthusiasm for the days ahead. Each one whom I spoke to expressed his amazement at what he hed already seen and at the full contrasting situation here with the situation in capitalist countries, Soviets Give Real Freedom To the Toilers (Special to the Dally Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 8 (By Wireless). —In a prospectus of the world sit- ulation an article in yesterday's “Iz- vestia” pointed to the growth of economic and political chaos in the capitalist world as pushing toward & war “which, whenever it begins, will be a world war.” Meanwhile “the Soviet giant looks calmly and vigilantly on the waves beating against its shores.” “Our Socialist country,” the ed- itorial continues, “is burning with @ great creative fire. In its sons it awakens a mighty creative com- Petition and a great desire for So- cialist labor, giving birth to heroes whose exploits even our enemies admire. For the first time in hu- man history the toiling masses re- ceive freedom—not phantom but real—when they work and create for themselves and gradually build the material conditions for com- plete and general welfare. " This struggle is difficult, but no power in the world will stop it, because the laws of development foretell the inevitability of the world victory of the proletariat. “Our country stands like a rock, and the Red Army guards its in- terests and its independence. The capitalist chaos is growing in coun- tries outside the U. 8, 8. R. The bourgeoisie cannot get over its post- war crisis. Earthquake shocks, menacing outbreaks of revolt, spas- modic fascists, all prove that the underground waters of the revolu- tionary flood are again rising. The break-down of the disarmament conference, the hopelessness of ne- gotiations limiting naval arma- ments, the race for air armaments show that the world is rushing toward a new imperialist war. The fascist adventurists are trying to avoid this general scramble, at- tempting to direct the war into anti-Soviet channels. But their hopes of creating a united anti-So- viet front and of isolating the So- viet Union are vain. The contra- dictions of the imperialist powers are so great that all far-sighted ele- ments understand the inevitability, not only of conflict, but of world conflict. But the Soviet Union knows that its forces are so tremendous that it can cope with its enemies to their complete defeat. It knows that the stronger it is, the more it will have friends for struggle, for peace and for defense. To attain its own aims it does not require war. Therefore it conducts a determined policy of peace; therefore it stretches out its hand to all who do not want war. Like a rock in the storm stands the giant of October. It fights for peace in behalf of the lives of the millions who a:¢ building, and will build, Socialism. These millions know that those who stand at the calied on all the enemies of fascism to remain on the alert against any massing of the fascist forces in the streets. Not only in Paris, but “everywhere in the country, from the big centers to the villages, the suppot, feke up coHection for tended solely to put over wage, $69,000 drive. toiling population is aroused and/| preservation of peace and for el without any demands being ready to defend itself.” head of the Sovigt Government, those who direct the fate of a hun- dred and seventy millions, the Com- munist Party, led by the iron Stalin, can wisely direct all the efforts of the Soviet Union, both for the tory in c&se of attack.” fers, the demonstration started with thousands of cyclists, the giant “Maxim Gorky” airplane hovering jover the Square and transmitting |radio music. Workers’ columns from each fattory bore numerous models representing the multitude of prod-" jucts issuing from Soviet industries;” also numerous banners and pla- cards emphasizing, among others,” slogans such as “Long live the Communist International,” hun-: dreds of posters in all language: “Freedom for Thaelmann,” “Greet~ ings to the proletarian prisoners in® capitalist dungeons,” “Greet to the German working class,” “Greet~ ings to the militant fighters of Spain.” Still other slogans called’ for international proletarian unity against war. Today’s demonstration marks the greatest achievements ever re- corded, which enrich the annals of: both Five Year Plans. Yesterday” brought the report of the comple- tion of the first four hundred miles of the new double-track Moscow- Donbas Railway, equipped along the most modern lines; also of the’ Istra River dam with thirty square miles of artificial lake and a water reservoir near Moscow, as part of thé Volga-Moscow Canal. Last night at the official Moscow Soviet celebration in the Bolshoy Theatre Mikhail Kalinin, President of the U. S. S. R., pointed out that heavy industry had fulfilled its plan over 100 per cent, thé daily produc- tion of iron was nearly 31,000 tons, steel over 28,000 tons, coal 270,000 tons, oil 65,000 tons, and light food industries had increased in output and quality; collectivization made further advances with a new wave of individual peasant joining kol- khozes. After reiterating the con- sistent peace policy of the Soviet Union, Kalinin emphasized the problems and tasks of further in- creasing production, of raising the material and cultural well-being of the workers of the collective farms, of consolidating and widening the gains of Socialist construction. At the same celebration the chairman of the Moscow Soviets, Bulganin, reported that the Moscow indus- tries had fulfilled their ten months’ plan over 102 per cent, that the agricultural program of the Moscow region had been over-fulfilled, and that in the four-year period since the last elections 2,000 new large apartment houses had been built in the city of Moscow, furnishing tmnodern housing for half a million workers. The meeting adopted a message to Stalin, the Central Com- mitteé, and a special message and greetings to the Comintern. The spirit everywhere is: pride of achievement, confidence, and de- termination to build further on the material foundations of Socialist society. Dyers Close Bleach Mill in New Jersey, (Continued from Page 1) general strike was a U. T. W. union organizer in Pennsylvania, has been quite generally accused of being in accord with Gorman as is the So- cialist Party, which he is now joining. When the strike was called off, he did not raise any ob- Jection, but ordered the workers to return, A clear-cut repudiation of Gor- man has now become an important requirement for leadership among the dye strikers. At todays’ strike meeting in Paterson, one of the union officials had to assure the workers that there will be no settle- ment with individual shops. Yes- terday there were reports of such attempts. The Foremen’s Local, which represents 500 members, has joined the strike, and likewise presented demands for wage increases ranging up to 20 per cent. All Shop Chairmen were told to register all workers of their shop who are in need of relief. These the Union Relief Committee will take to the Emergency Relief au- thorities and demand that they be placed on the relief rolls. H eee Blacklisting Continues 4 BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 8,— The National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, through its policy committee, yesterday refused to take back the thousands of textile workers who weze blacklisted in the general textile strike. i The textile workers have flooded the National Textile Labor Rela- tions Boarfl with complaints re garding eviction and blacklist of thousands. The Textile Board, in view of this mass protest, was forced this week to issue a statemen: to | the cotton manufacturers calling on tkem to take back the blacklisted workers and cease evictions. The refusal to take back the blacklisted strikers is excused by the manufacturers on the ground of “lack of orders.” i Francis Gorman, leader of the United Textile Workers Union, sent the workers back to work last Sep- tember, subject to this blacklist won, f é| yw