The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 9, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1932 Page 2 Y.C.L. Calls on Working Youth To Join Anti-War R MEETING SATURD AY Union Groups| Ben Gold Reviews Betrayal ‘Collect Funds Of Dressmakers’ Interests binge cer atan oa" Oi sea By the Lovestone Renegades| BY MASS PARADE Appeal Made to Y. P. 8. for Industrial Democracy and to the | Youth of the A. F. of L. | The New York District of yesterday called upon its members and the entire working youth of New York City to support the anti-war demonstra- | tion called by the Youth City Committee of the American League Against War and Fasc’ connection with the 16th anniver-¢- sary of the end of the world war. The demonstration will take place at 2 o’clock Saturday with a meet- ing at Columbus Circle, to be fol- lowed by a mass march to the Sol- diers’ and Sailors’ Monument, Riverside Drive and 69th Street. The New York District of the Young Communist League yesterday called upon its members and the entire working youth of New York City to support the anti-war demon- stration called by the Youth City Committee of the American League Against War and Fascism for Saturday afternoon in connection with the 16th anniversary of the end of the world war. The demon- stration will take place at 2 o'clock Saturday with a meeting at Colum- bus Circle, to be followed by a mass march to the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, Riverside Drive and 69th Street. The appeal of the Y. C. L,, directed particularly to the Young People’s Socialist League, the youth of the A. F. of L., and of the Student League for Industrial Democracy, declares: “Armistice Day, 1934, falls upon a high point in the war prepara- tions of the United States boss gov- ernment. Within the past few weeks the press has. featured revela- | tions concerning the war machina- | tions of American munition makers, | the development of high-speed air- plane bomb carriers, as well as other more refined instruments of murder. Coupled with the propa- ganda of the gutter press, such as the Daily News, and others, there are a number of bills before Con- gress today providing for the per- manency of the C.C.C. camps, and | L. and Student League | the Young Communist League | ism for Saturday afternoon in for open military training of the boys in them. Falling upon the background of the recent assassina- tions of capitalist government offi- cials by rival capitalist govern- ments’ henchmen, it is clear that the Roosevelt regime is doing its bit to plunge this country into a world blood bath. Meanwhile, Japanese imperialism, frothing at the mouth, is daily seeking to attack the Soviet Union while it is | demanding parity of naval fleets with the United States. The Saar question is daily becoming more tense. Italy and Jugo-slavia are at dagger’s edge. 1 “It is in this situation that the | Youth Committee of the American League Against War and Fascism is calling upon the youth io demonstrate against war and the growing trends towards Fascism, on Saturday Nov. 10, at 2 pm., at Columbus Circle, and to march to the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument. The Young Communist League wholeheartedly and unreservedly supports this demonstration and march, We call upon the young| workers and students of this city to come in mighty thousands to this demonstration. We direct our ap- peal particularly to the Young People’s Socialist League, the youth of the American Federation of Labor, and of the Student League for Industrial Democracy—to come to this demonstration with your own banners, representing your own views, bearing your own placards against war and fascism. 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BEST QUALITY Gramerey—5-8919 ally For the ‘Daily’ New Reporis Given as| Says Most Effective Answer to ILGWU Leadership | Should Be Immediate Unification of Rank and File and Struggle in Shops Campaign Is Speeded Toward Goal The Central Commitiee having | | called for all quotas in the $60,000 drive to be filled by Dec. 1, it is necessary for all individual readers of the Daily Worker and sym- pathetic organizations, in New York, | to rush their contributions if the| New York District is to meet this| requirement. New York still must} raise nearly half its quota. | Below are reports of some of the| latest activities—a collection in an A. F. of L. union, a pledge of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, and others. aa More Coming . F. of L—‘“I am sending you $2 for the $60,000 drive. This money was collected in an A. F, of | L. union in New York City. From/| now on I will make it my business | to collect money every week. I hope next week it will be $5.” wig ae Quick Work Needed . T. W. I. U—“At a meeting of the Joint Trade Boards of the Union on Wednesday, the question of the Daily Worker was taken up. It was decided that we immediately raise $100—that we make shop col- lections—that we give publicity to our decision—and issue a leaflet on the campaign. The staff pledges itself to contribute $25.” Sears I L. G. W. U.—The newly organ- ized Bronx section of the Opposi- tion Group of Local 22 held its first affair last Saturday. A worker took the floor and read the emer- gency call of the Daily Worker. A discussion ensued. A collection was taken and $12.50 was raised. The Group pledged itself to raise more funds for the paper by similar af- fairs within the next few weeks. But the Opposition Group of Local 22 is involved in more. At a meeting of the Group as a whole, $22.15 was collected for the “Daily.” It was decided, further- more, to take a quota of $100. Two affairs will be held to help raise the money. One, a concert and | dance, on Nov. 24 at Irving Plaza, and the other, a play—‘Sailors of Cattarro”—presented especially for the dressmakers, at the Civic Repertory, on Dec. 15. The Opposition Group of Local 9 is also a recent contributor. Though | times are hard for its members, states the Group, $15.75 was col- lected at an executive meeting. The Group intends to continue its work. eae Bla Work That Counts The Stage and the Screen AND PHOTO LEAGUE-This cultural organization is in So- cialist competition with the Workers Laboratory Theatre. Each has a quota of $200. But while the Theatre has already raised more than $100, the Film and Photo League has raised only $10. pet puree A Conscience Is Eased ARINE WORKER.—“Not till the jJast Marine strike and the role you played ... did I realize that if the ‘Daily’ should make a retreat because of lack of funds it would be a blow to every worker. Not only that, but when he is taken on the, ‘carpet’ before his own conscience he will be found guilty of... aiding | the basses in prolonging our misery. ... Therefore, I am enclosing ten bueks to sort of ease my guilt.” Board Repeats Disregarded Rehire Order Mrs. Elinore M. Herrick, chair- man of the Regional Labor Board, threatened to refer to Washington the decision made by the Board ‘Wednesday ordering the reinstate- ment of thirty-nine workers loeked out for union activity by the Em- erson Radio Corporation in 1933, if the company fatis to re-employ them. The case was brought before the Regional Labor Board quite some time ago, when George W. Alger Was chairman of it, according to the Radio Factory Workers Union, of whieh some of the workers are members. The hearings then re- sulted im a ruling favorable to the discharged men. The company failed to live up to the ruling before and will in all probability do likewise now, That the N. R. A. labor boards, either here or in Washington will do nothing about it has been con- clusively proven by the experiences of the workers in other industries. The N. R. A. is continually mak- ing these decisions but they are completely disregarded by the own- ers, who are fully aware of the fact that these rulings and deci- sions are only made in order to maintain the illusion among the workers that Section 7a was meant to guarantee the workers the right to organize into unions of their own choice. In Camarillo, Calif, F. has been out of work for the last three years, and is now on County Relief. “We can’t afford to get along without the Daily Worker,” he writes. “I would rather be a few days without eats than miss my Daily Worker.” His $1 contribu- tion should spur others to collect for the 960,000 drive. A penniless old man of 9% years, Article II. By BEN GOLD (National Secretary-Treasurer of the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union) “We have not only fought at every opportunity for unity,” con- tinues the statement of the Love- stonite renegades, “but we have also sought to maintain the fight- ing spirit of the workers.” Now get ready for a laugh! shown in the first part of the ar- ticle how these demagogs have been fighting for unity. We will now examine their record in main- taining the “fighting spirit” of the workers. In 1932 the Lovestonites, together | , Vicious methods to force upon the | workers the enslaving scientific unit system. They have consented to bury the main demand of the | workers to settle prices on the job- | bers premises, thus destroying the initiative of the rank and file price | committees. These are the im- portant planks that constitute the! Lovestonite program of maintain- | ing the “fighting spirit”’—for the | the jobbers, at the expense of the | workers! | } Thousands Jobless | | Thousands of dressmakers are | | jobless, and are facing slow starva- | |tion, The progressive administra- | tion has not done a thing to re- fore our propo dressmakers @ we I. L. G. W, U. yu tics are determined by our struggle policies which alway and are now directed to the so! aim of using all our efforts and abilities to help the workers main-/| tur tain the best conditions and for a united, mili- tant union, able to defend their fights. These are simple, clear words that every worker can understand. and which only the will try to distort in der an effective workers, These few instances of the work- ings of the Lovestoneites “fighting |, spirit” would be more than enough to establish the character of the Lovestoneite administration, which ues ntic appeal to the workers, “Help us! Save us! We are @ progressive admin) tion!” But in order to complete the pic- ‘Wie traee | profits of the manufacturers and | ‘ure we will add a few touches u covering the “democracy” that pre vails in Local 22 under the Love- stoneite leadership. Used Sluggers They have used sluggers d strong-arm methods against work- ers who opposed them in the mat- with Dubinsky and Hochman en- | deem its promise of an unemploy- | ter of the enslaving “unit-system” gineered a fake strike in the dress | ment fund, did not make a move to-| at shop chairmen meetings, where trade. That was, no doubt, a part | wards a program of social insur- | these workers sought to speak. of their plan to maintain the “fighting spirit.” After that. strike Zimmerman | ance, but it “maintains” the “fight- jing spirit” of the workers! | In the course of one year after They have already suspended a member of the union for the sole crime of daring to criticize a paid and his Lovestonites tried to cover | the successful general strike, the Official of the union. their tracks by throwing the en- tire blame for the strike on Dubin- sky, Hochman and Vassileffski, and claimed that they, the Loveston- ites, were unable to do anything. “But,” they said, “wait till we get the power, then!” ‘Well, now they are the adminis- tration. Hundreds, thousands of justified complaints of dressmak- ers are thrown into the waste basket. The Lovestonite “progres- sive” administration knows about it and is silent—a part of their “fighting spirit” program. Thousands of dressmakers have been receiving less than the mini- mum scale during the entire year. Hundreds of thousands of dollars belonging to the dressmakers have remained in the hands of the vari- ous dress jobbers and contractors. The Lovestonite administration knows all about this wholesale rob- bery and doesn’t raise a finger— all part of their “fighting spirit” campaign. Every week, every day, the bosses chisel another slice off the workers’ wages. Not a word from the “pro- gressive” administration. Faithful to their “fighting” pro- gram, they have given their secret consent to the treacherous agree- ment permitting the bosses to carry through reorganizations in their shops—a true instance of the Love- stonite “fighting spirit.” Their shameless, open betrayal of the workers in the last lock- out by the contractors, who frankly stated that the workers are not getting the wage-scales and are working 50 and 60 hours a week, is another brilliant example of their “fighting spirit,” which the Loye- stonites maintain in the union as the “progressive” administration, The minority crafts in the dress trade are working for hunger wages. The wages of the Negro workers are Way below that of the reduced wages of the other work- ers. All this is well known to the “progressive” Lovestonites, who do not do a solitary thing about it, except to shout from the house- tops that they are a “progressive” administration with a program that calls for a “fighting spirit.” They make use of the most City Activities of the 1.W.O. Lag in Recruiting Drive Cited—English City || Committee Challenges Chicago The total recruiting done to date on a city-wide scale has brought 2,475 adults, 168 youths and 526 children. If we subtract from these figures the numbers 1,537, 107 and 290, which represent the recruit- ment accomplished by these respec- tive sections for the period of July 1 to Oct. 1, we have very little left as the achievement for the first five weeks since this present eleven- week membership campaign offi- cially started. These results should really serve as an alarm for more intense and strenuous effort on the part of all sections of the city. Activities in New Branches Brownsville, Friday, Nov. 2. The mew branch took in three members, which makes the total of ten for this branch. Corona, L. I, Branch 625 has al- ready twelve members and good Prospects in view. Sunnyside, Queens, Branch 607, that has been on the decline dur- ing the summer months, started to pick up and promises good work now. East Bronx. The new branch at the Shoe Workers’ Center, 1334 Wil- kins Avenue, is progressing and fig- ures on a good-sized branch before the campaign is over. East Side, Downtown. The new Red Spark Branch orgenized a few months ago at the club bearing the same name can record good results of devoted work. Today, Friday, Nov. 9, this branch is celebrating the installation at 47. E. 12th Street. Progress in Trade Union Option At its last meeting the executive board of the Shoe Workers’ Union discussed the proposal of affiliating with the I. W. O. on the T. U. op- tion and considered it favorably. At the next meeting of this Shoe Workers’ Union a recommendation of the Executive Board will be brought for final decision. Harlem. Each Sunday at 10 a.m. comrades from various branches of the different sections report at 415 Lenox Avenue (corner 131st Street), New York City, for recruiting work in this section of the city. This is the task of all the language sec- o | wages of the workers were reduced | |50 per cent. Union conditions are }at the vanishing point. Members |of the I. L. G. W. U. openly at- | tested to the correctness of these facts at the Cooper Union meeting. | These are the fruits of the Love- stonite “progressivism” and its pro- gram of maintaining the “fighting | spirit of the workers.” This is precisely the whole point in question! It is the dizzy down- ward plunge of the wages and con- ditions of thousands of workers in} the dressmaking trade, that has impelled the Industrial Union to| Propose that its workers immedi- ately enter the I. L. G. W. U. to| form a solid, united army of work- ers, a fighting force that will say “Stop!” to the merciless robbery of which the dressmakers are the vic-| tims. | Fear Unity Move The Lovestoneite clique is hysteri- cal because it knows that the aim of our policy is to unite the dress- makers and enable them to wage a successful fight for their union rights and conditions, The “mili- tancy” of the Lovestoneites has so far been of service only to the job- bers, in their steady and relentless drive to push the dressmakers back to the sweat shop conditions that | prevailed before the 1933 general Strike. It was precisely about this lying, demagogic phraseology of | the “fighting spirit” of the Love- stoneite and the Dubinsky machine, and about the rapidly sinking wage and work levels of the workers that we spoke at Cooper Union, We stated repeatedly and emphat- ically and it was only to mobilize the dressmakers for effective re- sistance to this wage cutting, that | we made our unity move. | We do not deny that the greater | majority of the dressmakers are |now enrolled in the I.L.G, W.U.| Nor do we deny that the experienced, seasoned workers that are in the Industrial Union would be a much more powerful force for maintain- ing union conditions if they joined their fellow workers in the Inter- national. The situation has changed and with it change our tactics. There- tions and the participants should make this their steady assignment for Sunday canvasses. Individuals as well as their branches will be credited respectively. For Sunday, Noy. 11, canvass Branch 4 assigned Comrade Sima Cohen; Branch 37, Sam Randowitz; Branch 132, Joe Katz; Branch 116, Ray Einhorn. What about the other branches? Youth Section The Youth Section of the I.W.O. claims it is keeping abreast of its quota in the drive for 30 new mem- bers by Dec. 15. Already it has sur- passed the 50 per cent mark. It is correct arithmetic, but where is the characteristic feature of youth to jump ahead? Why not apply this to the drive? Children’s Section The children appreciate the as- sistance they get from adult branches in building the Junior Branches. Branch 615, English Sec- tion, made a good party for 2-J, Branch 122, Jewish Section, is pre- paring another entertainment. Adriatic Branch 680 has formed a Junior Branch of twenty members and promised still more. Branch 134, Jewish Section, formed a Junior Branch. Branch 525, Eng- lish Section, is building one. Branches 585 and 519 Lead With Super-Quota! . In the middle of October Branches 585 and 519 went over the top of their original quotas and were raised 30 each. Even then, these lively branches kept driving ahead. Branch 585 now has 69.9 per cent and Branch 519 has 51 per cent of the entire quota, including the super-quota! Mark this date! Saturday, Feb. 9, Madison Square Garden, fifth anni- versary celebration and second an- nual Masquerade of the Interna- tional Workers’ Order. Atlanta I. W. O. prisoners’ de- fense. Thursday, Nov. 22, at 7 p.m. at Irving Plaza Hall, all executive committee members of all branches in New York to be present. | All English Section Branch executive committee membcis meet They have put down a number of shop chairmen that were elected to those positions by the unani- mous voice of the workers in their shops, and precisely those chairmen who fought for the interests of the workers in the shops. They have thrown out of jobs workers whose only ‘misdeed’ was these Lovestoneite officials. Now let us add, they sat with the bloody cossack Whalen on the same platform without a single word of protest; they were on the platform at the convention of the I, L. G, W. U. with strikebreaking capitalist governors, and the chief strikebreaker, Hugh Johnson, and not a syllable of protest! They unanimously accepted the constitution in order to assure | themselves of an uninterrupted ten- ure of their jobs for two years. They | oneites |! to criticize the policy and tactics of | living and working | si the Lovestoneite c falling apart from beaut k to, these “pro; be unable to hinder, to solidify ranks and bring closer to the realization of unity. Will Never Forget The dressmakers will forget that all wo: trade hail t Industrial union and rs of the I. L. G. W. U. Union meeting op he workers from the ‘ial Union should be taken the full and unrestrict that of the I. L, G. W. prevent this unity voking a clause of their tion which was. aimed at cor tors or new members coming the trade. In the face of this at this precise time the Lov ites openly placed themselves on the Side of the enemies of unity, ing the note and fabricating the justifications for those who will |seek to prevent unity, and have at |the same time begun to drum up sentiment against the dressmakers of the Industrial Union. Unity Will Be Answer | ‘The dressmakers will surely not |be slow to show their re: om to |this dastardly policy. The most ef- |fective answer can and should be jthe speedy unification of all the |dressmakers, and the immediate unified struggle for wages and con- ditions in every shop, and for a junited, powerful, militant union as the first step towards an amalga- mated needle trades work union, We are ready for it! We made it perfectly clear in a letter that we sent to the General , Executive | an. ama’ le trad mation we did k as fifteen brazen demagog us of being “spli dual unionists”! The true facts about our tireless and stubborn fight for unity, for the united ac- tion of all workers, as the forerun- ner to complete and genuine work- ing class unity, speak loud enough to drown out the hysterical ravings 1 and silence the false blabberings of the demagogic groups and cliques who use the working class move- ment as a cloak for their private interests and ambitions. experience the workers the class antagonisms and colli- sions, the ruling class must more and more resort to these demagogic ques, through the instrumental- y of which the bosses can carry the fight against a consistent and effective class struggle policy on the part of the organized masses of workers. At the same time the true role of these cliques becomes clearer to the broad masses. This goes on un- til, driven and hurled from one po- sition to another, they find a refuge in the arms of the class to which be re all close’ bound,—the tions led by Gitlow and Lovestone fur- x an excellent example of this. Although they still hold some dan- ger for the workers, they are much less dangerous than a few years ago. The masses have begun to ognize them for what they are, The revolutionary working class will survive them all and march stead« ily on to its goal. (END) Please mention Daily Worker when patronizin g advertisers. NEW YORK 826 BROADWAY 84) BROADWA\ 100 5th AVE... 1282 BROADWAY 462 7th AVE... 963 Bth AVE. 208 WEST 42nd 152 EAST 86th S MWS WEST 125th ST. 1391 ST. NICHOLAS AVE., ng! Lenex&7th Av tomorrow, Saturday, Noy. 10, at 2 pm, at Irving Plaza Hall, a 79th & 180% Sts. OPEN EVENINGS | 23 “Factory Branches” to Serve You ‘NOT a SALE but a DEMONSTRATION OF UNBELIEVABLE VALUE! a good look at CRAWFORD. 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