The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 9, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1932 Page 5 KELLER IS LEADING MOVEMENT TO HALT GENERAL SILK STRIKE || GROWING MILITANT ReliefWorkers Indianapolis Section (Moscow Press GOLDMAN FOLLOWS Ee aT I ORY SRE: | Will Meet on ACTION INDICATES Layoff Plans FAILURE OF PLANS Lovestoneites Detailed To Do the Dirtiest| Work for the Gorman and McMahon Leadership | in Stopping Spread of Textile Strike Broad Conference to Lay Plans for Public Works Program A mass conference of all white- collar work relief employes will be held Sunday, Nov. 18, at 3 p. m, at the headquarters of the Associ- ated Office and Professional Emer- gency Employes to rally against im- pending layoffs and the pauper eligibility investigation standards being instituted by the Home Relief Bureau. Organizations participating _in- clude: Associated Office and Profes- sional Emergency Employes, Federal By George Morris PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 8.—Silk workers of Paterson are confronted with a very serious situation as the new drive to cut wages now sweeps to all silk shops. The silk workers of Paterson are in the United Textile Union, About 1,000 workers are now on strike, most having been out for many weeks. The menufacturers declare that in coming out during the Gen- overwhelming majority with the Emergency Nursery School League, nate CRA Tein bd questoin of a strike on the| Adult Education Workers, Actors "Therefore they proceeded to declare |2&°™ da, Keller's henchmen|Emergency Association, Musicians deliberately picked fights in vari- ous parts of the hall so that the meeting was a continual riot, and would never have a chance to con- sider strike action. Proof that this was the aim is that an hour and a half of the two-hour limit for the meeting (hall rental so arranged) was killed in reading minutes and Keller’s report, At that very membership meeting the leader of the rank and file movement, Comrade Valgo, was by unanimous vote elected to fill a va- cancy on the executive board. Yet the executive board refuses to seat him, and one of Keller's men, who had the lowest number of votes, was seated instead. Now the thousand workers on strike are left “holding the bag” and with the present tactics, their chances to win are very slim. These workers have been holding meeting after meeting to make recommend- ations which are thrown into the basket. Four meetings last week Placed requests before the execu- tive board that a membership meet- ing to consider a general strike in the Paterson silk mills be taken up. Keller treats these workers with contempt and would not even stay at a meeting long enough to an- swer questions. Keller’s Remedy But Keller is revealed as a strike- breaker more glaringly, by the tac- tics he proposes for meeting the present challenge of the bosses. Last week speaking before strikers, no longer being able to evade the issue, he proposed that: The most} fundamental way to cure the “chaos in the industry” is for the bosses to be organized into an as- sociation, so that there is someone Emergency Association, Recreational Leaders Association, Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians, Unemployed Teachers Association and the Artists Union. In addition to regularly delegated representatives, 15,000 leafiets are being distributed on the projects. ;urging unorganized workers to elect delegates or participate individually in the conference. In addition to laying plans for immediate defense action against impending mass layoffs, the confer- ence will initiate a vast program of public works which will be presented to the Works Division for employ- ment of the jobless and relief work- ers, lower rates, and if the workers re- fuse to accept them, a lockout is declared. This is the consequence of Gorman’s betrayal of the silk workers, The district officials of the union, when confronted by the member- ship, shift all blame on the Na- tional officials and even express sympathy for the suffering workers. In the meantime, silk manufac- turers throughout the country are looking to Paterson, the leading center, and if the union remains as impotent as it is a general wage- cutting drive will sweep the in- dustry. But so are the tens of thou- sands of silk workers looking to Paterson, expecting to get the lead for a general struggle to stop the cuts and enforce a union shop. Officials Chief Obstacle The most unfortunate feature in the situation, however, is that the officialiom of the Paterson silk weavers, Who occupy such a key po- sition, consists of as unscrupulous a set of reactionaries as will be found in any A. F, of L. union. As general manager of the union, there is Eli Keller, a Lovestoneite, who was cleaned out of the Com- munist Party with the rest of the renegades. Keller is now the leader in pre- venting a movement that may bring the entire silk industry on strike. Yet in the Oct. 15 “Workers Age,” @ slander sheet published by the Lovestoneites, we read the follow- ing in the Trade Union Notes: “Paterson has become a con- centration point fer all of the Pariy’s trade union brain trust. Jay Rubin, Ann Burlak, and even the mighty Hathaway descended upon Paterson, like vultures, in an effort to pick the bones clean, Anniversary Festival Will Be Held Tonight By Drapery Workers Celebrating its first anniversary and the achievements made during the year, the Curtain and Drapery Workers Union, 5 East 19th Street, has arranged an entertainment and dance for tonight at the Webster Manor, 119 East 11th Street. A Broadway Review featuring Dolly Raoul and her Stars has been engaged for the evening. Music will be furnished by the Park Lane Serenaders. After a year of intensive work, the union declared, organizing the workers in the curtain and drapery industry, the union succeeded in establishing itself on a solid healthy foundation. In the last year the union grew from a handful of peo- ple into a flourishing organization controlling the conditions in many shops. Raises 90% of ‘Daily’ Drive Quota in a Day |Chicago to Wind Up Campaign With Gala Danee, and Concert in People’s Auditorium That excuses for not being able to raise money for the Daily Worker are made barren by earnest work has been proved again in the case of the Indianapolis section of the Chicago district. This section raised almost 50 per cent of its quota in one day! Surely, ordinarily! Yet, this circumstance is no feat of Indianapolis—but proof that Indianapolis stands pretty high among the sections in the country which have not taken ad- vantage of their opportunities, Before it achieved its 50 per cent it was credited with almost nothing and since then it has also done al- most nothing. The Indianapolis section has not developed any cam- paign for the Daily Worker. One Man Did It All A representative of the District Committee had to go into the section for the bulk of the $49 which Indianapolis has on record! One man did in one day what a whole section has still not equalled in three months! This is proof of how little the Indianapolis section has concen- trated on the drive. It is also testimony that in In- dianapolis workers are willing to support the Daily Worker. It is clear that this section can no longer sit back. It must put all its forces into action to seek out every worker willing to contribute. If one person can raise almost $50 in one day, a whole section can not let down the Daily Worker by failing to raise $50 more to fill its quota at once. Proper Work Needed Not only Indianapolis, however, but all four sections in Indiana are keeping the Chicago District from finishing its quota. Out of a quota of $275 Calumet has still raised only $25. Terre Haute and South Bend have still raised nothing. “In Terre Haute and South Bend,” criticizes the District Or- ganization Department, “it seems that the question of the Daily Worker has been entirely neg- lected, since it is inconceivable to think that the working class or- ganizations would not support the drive if they had been approached by the proper committees.” The proper committees must be utilized. Not only in the section but among the mass organizations. With no mean feat,@— the decision of the Central Com- mittee that the drive end by Dec. 1, emergency measures must be taken to immediately mobilize every Party member and sympathizer into the campaign. The climax of the campaign in| Chicago will be the gala Daily | Worker dance and concert at the | People’s Auditorium on Dec. 1! | The Chicago District table fol-| lows: Per- | Amount cent- Section Quota Raised age 1 250.00 211.95 8 2 165.00 19.00 iL 3 275.00 268.80 (9 4 300.00 264.60 78 5 350.00 283.88 «72 6 150.00 36.50.25, 7 200.00 22.15 «IL & 175.00 175.00 100 9 325.00 110.55 34 10 150.00 15.00 10 w 100.00 36,7037 12 100.00 136.66 136 13 125.00 125.02 100 Calumet 275.00 25.00 Springfield 50.00 0 Rockford 100.00 66.4166 Terre Haute 75.00 0 Indianapolis 100.00 49.3550 Waukegan 75.00 15.03 20 Rock Island 50.00 200 4 Central Illinois 50.00 0 MASS ORGANIZATIONS Armenian 75.00 51,6568 Bulgarian 50.00 38.0076 Czechoslovak 175.00 32.00.17 Finnish 125.00 118.5095 Jerman 50.00 9 reek 50.00 3.00 «6 Hungarian 150.00 = 16.0010 Jewish 150.00 36.2524 Itelian 50.00 225 4 Lettish 100.00 3.00 3 Lithuanian 250.00 44.25 «17 Scandinavian 165.00 30.0018 /Spanish 20.00 0 Jugo-Slav 200.00 29.5014 Polish 100.00 25.0028 Russian 125.00 84.9368 Ukrainian 125.00 33.30.26 e Per- Amount cent- Organization Quota Raised age LW. o. 1200.00 309.9926 IL. D, 200.00 34.4017 T.U. ULL 100.00 0 John Reed Club 50.00 92.19 47 Pen and Hammer 50.00 35.00 70 Workers School 100,00 0 A. PF. of L. Fr, 50.00 0 Under their excellent tutorship union meetings are broken up, fist fights started and the normal functioning of the union de- stroyed. This at a time when the ‘test solidarity is needed!” at the Lovestoneites are really trying to do is to cover the fact that they are detailed to doing the dirtiest work of the Gormans and ‘MacMahons, national leaders of the UT. WwW. Net Concerned with Workers What are the facts? When Gorman called off the Gencral Textile Strike, Keller did not consider what the consequences will be for the silk weavers in Pat- evson. When the workers came to the next strike meeting after Gor- man’s order ending the strike, they found the doors locked, and an or- der to go to their shops. Confronted by the angry workers, many- of Whom were later locked out, Keller said that he had no other course but to obey the dictates of the na tional office. To ‘enforce this brazen sell-out, Keller later had several of his henchmen in the union deputized and stationed as guards against the rank and file. He refused to call membership meetings for over two months. Shops forced to remain on strike were left to shift for themselves, with no co-operation from the union, To help Keller, Lovestone came down to Paterson and after a con- ference with his strikebreaking crew, advised that Keller ask sanc- tion for a general silk strike. This to be held responsible in case any manufacturer violates an agree- ment. (How closely he follows Gor- man, who favors co-operation schemes with the bosses.) Secondly, that the present policy of continuing individual shop strikes continue. Yet in that very same report he stated that he knows of 60 shops working under the scale, and that probably half the industry is al- ready below the scale. Keller tells the workers to conduct guerilla warfare in face of the general drive of the bosses. His policy would per- mit the union to be pushed out of shop after shop. However, the story of this strike- breaker is still far from being com- plete, It is precisely at this moment that the Paterson silk workers have their best opportunity to win in a general strike. The dyers, a very basic section of the industry, have come out 100 per cent. They count over 15,000 in Paterson alone. The teamsters do not handle any scab goods. A united strike would be a fine display of solidarity and mean better chances for both the dyers and weavers. Likewise a resultant contract would expire at the same time. But not if Keller and Co. could help it. They will. stop at nothing to prevent such a develop- ment. Juneau Longshoremen On Strike for Wage Scale on West Coast JUNEAU, Alaska, Nov. 8—Under the leadership of the Marine Work- ers’ Industrial Union, the ‘ong- shoremen of Juneau are striking for the same scale paid to Coast stevedores. The longshoremen have formed a united front with I, S. U. seamen on the Yukon, Northwestern and Northland ships, thus insuring a solid tie-up. The Juneau stevedores asked the District I. L, A. board for a charter last year, but this was refused on the grounds that the Alaskans were not working regularly. They also carried their request to Dewey Bennett, Seattle L.L.A. sec’tary, who told them, “I won’t take any action. Why don’t you leave me alone?” To Bully Farmers Who Bailed C, S. Victims ers here who put up their farms to bail out Farrar and Pisila, Kelso criminal syndicalism defendants, are being terrorized by the Welfare Board in an effort to cut them off relief rolls, Gorman and the A. F. of L. offi- cials are vitally interested that a silk strike should not take place, and the dyers should lose. If the Paterson silk workers through strike action are successful in win- Unemployed Teachers to Hold Conference on Appointments and Jobs Two hundred unemployed teach- ers meeting at the Unemployed Teachers Association, 11 West 18th Street, Wednesday night voted to issue a call to teacher, labor and parent organizations for a joint conference to be held on Dec. 7. The conference is to make plans for a mass meeting. and a delega- tion to the Board of Education in behalf of the following: 1) Appointment of teachers to the elementary and high schools, 2) Elimination of the widespread discrimination against women teach- ers both in the examinations and appointments. 3) Establishment of additional work relief projects for unemployed teachers. The Associations High School division will circulate petitions in the schools as the first step to rally wide support among the employed teachers in favor of the appeal now pending before the State Commis- | sioner of Education in regard to KALAMA, Wash., Nov. 8—Farm-)| high school appointments. Readers, subscribers, sympa- thizers: help raise $60,000 by Dec. 1, Solicit funds from your friends, shopmates, Contribute today. 4 Branches of Y.C.L.A. Will Join in Rally, League Group Reports In a statement issued to the press Wednesday and printed in the Daily Worker, it was inadvertently announced by the New York City Youth Section of the American League Against War and Fascism that “The Young Circle League of America joined the united front demonstration this Saturday.” While it is true that four branches of the Y. C. L. A. have signified their intention to join with the Youth Section of the American League Against War and Fascism for this demonstration against War, the League has received no official reply from the Executive Commit- tee of the Y.°C. L. A. The Youth Section in making the correction, takes this opportunity to extend to all members of the Y. C. L. A. an invitation to participate in this united front against War, and urges them to join with the many youth organizations which are mak- ing this Saturday's demonstration a threat to the menace of war. At symposiums, lectures, de- bates, discussions, tie up topic with role of the “Daily” as organ- izer for a better society. Call for suppert, take up collection for $60,000 drive. | May their memory be Of Revolution Tells of World Record in Construction of Industry (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 8. —In articles, slogans, of the October Socialist Revolu tion, call for the strengthening and widening of the united front of the toilers in all countries against fas- cism, and notes the new gigantic successes of the U. S. 8. R. on the path to Socialist construction and their basic cause—the fighting or- gans of proletarian dictatorship — the Soviets. Pravda carries the streamer: “THE POWER OF THE SOVIETS WAS BORN IN THE TEMPEST AND STORM OF OCTOBER, 1917. UNDER THE BANNER OF THE SOVIETS, UNDER THE LEAD- ERSHIP OF LENIN AND STALIN OUR FATHERLAND BECAME A POWERFUL WORLD PROLETA- RIAN POWER. LONG LIVE SO- VIETS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD!” Recalls Fallen Heroes The first column of Izvestia, re- of the world, says: “Our first thought on the an- niversary of our glorious victory is of comrades who gave their lives on the barricades of October, of the forerunners and martyrs of socialism who died for its cause, of the unknown fighters and noble minds whose names burn iike mighty beacons on the path of his- tory. Of comrades and friends of ail countries and peoples, all agese and races, who fought boldly and died in battle against the rapa- cious cunning of cruel enemies. spread throughout the ages. “From the high tower of Social- ism, whose beacon shines through- out the world, we send bold fight- ing greetings to our confreres. We send greetings to war prison- ers of capital behind the prison bars of capitalist dungeons. We send greetings to heroes walking with unwavering steps to the gal- lows, and their last thoughts now reach us from the countries of capitatism. We send greetings to the innumerable bold fighters who are marching to the attack on capital, who are organizing to repulse the fascist scoundrels, who are fighting iike lions in defence of the honor of the great prole- tarian banner. We send greetings to all the builders of the Socialist world, whose heroic enthusiasm performs miracles and exploits which surely will be inscribed on the pages of world history of the future.” A paragraph on the first page of the organ of the Soviet Trade Unions, “Trud,” declares: “In the U.S. S. R. the power of the Soivets liberated the labor of workers and peasants from exploitation, abol- ished unemployment and_ poverty, and insured the victory of collecti- vism in the villages.” The organ of Soviet industry, “Za Industrializatzia,” writes of the world records in construction, pro- duction and culture, a big diagram artistically showing the progress of all branches of Soviet industry. The paper aslo gives interesting infor- mation on who directs Soviet heavy industry. Over four thousand di- rectors of big plants are workers by origin, 36 per cent being promoted from bench to commanding posi- tions during the First Five Year Plan. All papers feature slogans and greetings to the proletariat of Spain, to the foremost heroic fighters against fascism and against cap- Ppitalism, and to the revolutionary proletariat of Germany: “Long live Comrade Thaelmann! Wrest him from the hands of the fascist hang- men! Freedom for the victims of fascism!” schemer knew that asking Green, Gorman or MacMahon for strike sanction is like asking the bosses. But in the meantime it appears as if Keller is for a strike. The result was a telegram from Keller to Green at the A. F. of L. conven- tion asking that a general strike in the silk industry be called. Weakness of Rank and File Unfortunately the rank and file movement in the union was neither united nor well organized. Former members of the National Textile Workers Union had just merged into the American Federation of Silk Workers. When the general strike was called off, without even a meeting of workers, a committee of 25 was elected out of a mass meeting on a lot (since the doors of the sched- uled mass mecting and union hall were found closed). This commit- tee mistakenly tended to shift the struggle outside of the regular union channels. A similar action was later taken when a committee of 17 was elected at a mass meeting called by this committee of 25. This was supposed to be an emergency executive committee, and naturally had the tendency of isolating the fight of the rank and file from many within the union. Keller Gangsters in Action ‘Fist fights did take place, and the union certainly does not func- tion in a normal manner. But it was the Keller gangsters who délib- erately provoked this trouble. Rank and file workers in the union hall were chased out by Keller’s men, with badges. At one rank and file mass meeting, several of Keller's ning better conditions, it will be apparent to the 500,000 betrayed textile workers that Paterson shows the way. It will spell complete bankruptcy of Gorman’s _ pet scheme, the Winant Board, and six months’ no-strike “truce.” They are banking on Keller to hold back the tide in Paterson. But they tried to hold back the dye workers and failed. They tried to jam arbitration down the throats of the dye workers and failed. From all indications they will fail to stop the silk workers from joining the strike, The rank and file is now better organized and will defeat the strikebreaking leaders. Old Party Members Have No Acquaintance With Non-Party Workers By ROSE BUSH Section Org., Reading, Pa., Section discussion in the Reading sec- tion of the Central Committee letter on recruiting addressed to the Party membersip, brought to light some of the principal reasons for the slow growth of the Party in Reading. It would not be quite fair to the membership to say that all of the fault lies with them, but a check-up on the questions asked in the C. C. letter showed that much of ‘the fault may be laid to each individual member. ‘The Reading Section is not a newly created one. There are comrades whose membership runs back from 2 to 8 years, and more. During the last few months several new units have been organized in the Section, and in Reading itself the member- ship, though small, has been doubled. Hosiery is the chief in- dustry in this Section. Since the textile strike, we have been able to recruit hosiery workers into the Party and begin the important task of developing a rank and file op- position movement within the ho- siery workers union for militant policies of struggle in the interests of the hosiery workers. Socialist Party politics has been Communist Members of Furniture Union Call Open Meeting Tonight An_ open meeting of members of the Communist Party in the furni- ture industry in New York City will be held at eight o'clock tonight at the headquarters of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union, 812 Broadway. Non-party members of the union are invited. Ben Gold, leader of New York furriers, will speak on the resolu- tion of the Central Committee of the Party on the recent strike de- velopments in the United States. RELIEF TEACHERS TO PROTEST A delegation of teachers, members of the Associated Office and Profes- sional Emergency Employes, will meet with Relief Director Edward Corsi today at 4:30 p.m. They de- mand an end to the special investi- gations now being conducted among gangsters came in and provoked a fight so as to throw it into confu- sicn. They had to be thrown out all employes of the Works Depart- dominant in Berks County for many ment of Public Welfare. ¥ years, with the single largest unit parent that the left wing had the in the Socialist Party of America centered in this county, in Reading. To win the Socialist workers in Reading for united front actions with the Communists in defense of the needs of the workers, against fascism and war, is one of our major tasks, and at the same time one of our most serious weaknesses. Hence the recruiting drive is espe- cially significant for us. The strong- er our Party in Reading, the greater the force we will be able to exert to achicve a united front. Our discussion in Reading on the C. C. letter, revealed the sectarian methods followed by the comrades in their work, and showed also how small a part in the activities of the comrades the problem of recruiting has played. Comrades who have been in the Party for years, working in important plants, active in these shops, could not give the name of a single worker as a prospect for the Party! Comrades who are mem- bers of unions, who are active in mass organizations, who have been spokesmen for the Party on numerous occasions, have brought into the Party one new member in three years, or four members in more than ten years, etc, It was clear from the discussion that this situation existed not be- cause it had been impossible to win workers for the Party, but because of the narrow and sectarian ap- proach to non-Party workers. The Central Committee correctly saw in this one of the basic reasons for the inability of the Party organ- izations to overcome our “lagging behind.” As a result of the discussion, the comrades in Reading were not just shocked by the realization of the existing situation, but were also gal- vanized into taking action to change this condition. Several decisions were mare to this end. One was to make every member a reader of the Daily Worker (which was not pre- viously the case), Each member was required to give the name and ad- dress, to the section organizer, of some non-Party worker to whom he pledged to deliver a Daily Worker each day. A committee will check up to see whether this worker re- ceives his paper regularly. Each comrade is responsible after a month’s time to approach the work- er for subscriptions to the paper, and for Party membership. Contacts long on a list, but sel- dom visited, will be visited person- ally by comrades assigned to this task, with the end in view of es- tablishing first social contact with these workers, then drawing them into our activities and eventually into the Party. Another check-up in the light of the ©. C. letter will be carried through about the middle of December. This is not a pretentious plan, but if carried through will mean in a very short time the doubling of our membership. If carried into effect, it will help to break down that wall which we so often erect between ourselves and workers in our shops and unions and fraternal Lack of Personal Contacts With the Workers Shown By Discussion On the Recruiting Drive Regular Visits, “Daily” Deliveries, Decided On by Section organizations; that “exclusiveness” which many Communists develop by moving only in small, narrow, select circles. It will bring us into per- sonal and friendly contact with the workers in our shops and unions, and in their homes. Reading has a very difficult job to tackle. A highly trustified in- dustry to buck, and a working class long influenced. by social-fascist ideas. But the tremendous growth of company-unionism here; the sev- eral wage-cuts which the local ho- siery workers have received in the past few months; the right-wing stand that the entire local leader- ship in the S, P. have taken; the hostility of the S. P. leaders. to the Soviet Union, even threatening members with expulsion for mem- bership in the F. S. U.; the earnest desize of the rank’ and file for united front action—all of these factors make Reading one of the most fertile fields for Party recruit- ing. The Central Committee cor- rectly points out in the letter that the hindrance to this recruiting lies in great part in ourseves. We believe that with the examination of our shortcomings and such steps as we have taken to overcome them, that recruiting will improve and that our further check-up will not find us quite so deplorably isolated, as we now are. diagrams and illustrations holiday : D, issues of the Moscow pavers tell of | pelled from the Communist Pz jthe great international significance calling the fallen proletarian heroes | IN JOIN Cites Victories TRQTSKYITE POLICY ING..5. & Chicago Lawyer Previously Ousted by the | Communist Party—Helped Break Strike of Minneapol oined the ranks of the renegad ‘Dressmakers Demand Speed In Unity Move In an appeal issued yesterday addressed to the dressmakers of Locals 22, 10, 60 and 89 of the In- ternational Ladies Garment Work- | ers Union, the Left Wing and | Rank and File Groups of these [locals demanded that all dre } makers of the Needle Trades Work- |ers Industrial Union “be admitted into the International with full rights and without discrimination.” The appeal called on the dress-| makers to rally behind the efforts| | of the militant rank and file to| | unite all the dressmakers into one | union and for the improvement of | the conditions in the shops and for| the defense of the union against | the attacks of the bosses. The ap- peal follows in part: | | “Unity of all dressmakers is of | greatest importance, particularly at | this time. Even a brief examina-| | tion of the situation in our trade) gives us the following picture. The} attack upon our condition in the| shops is constantly getting worse. The minimum complaints are ever} increasing. The conditions won during last year’s great strike are) rapidly slipping out of our hands. | The conditions of the minority | crafts dressmakers are unbearable. | Militant dressmakers are fired by) the bosses while the impartial) chairman and N.R.A, machinery | are a weapon in the hands against the dressmakers. Added to all this) ‘is the unemployment problem.| ‘Thousands of dressmakers are feel- ing the burden of short seasons and the ever increasing unemploy- ment, The entire situation is rapidly developing to a point where another sharp struggle against the bosses will have to be conducted by the dressmakers in order to do away with the present evils in the} trade. | “When the time for the renewal| of the agreement arriv a few) most urgent problems will have to| be settled. The question of the 30- hour week; the question of week | work; the establishment of an| unemployment insurance fund and | other equally important problems | will have to be settled once and| for all. Our union must be equipped | to meet this situation. chi “For this we must have unity in} our ranks. We must not have two unions in the industry. Inside the Dressmakers Industrial Union there are many dressmakers who have sacrificed many years of their lives for the building of the I. L. G. W.! U. in the past. We must have all| | these dressmakers back inside our ion so that all together we shall) tantly carry on the struggle | it the bosses. | “The Left Wing voted and fought for a militant general strike. Every left winger and militant worker was active before and during the strike mobilizing the dressmakers. | The Left Wing also fought for unity in the strike. The Left Wing and the rank and file groups of Locals 22, 60, 10 and 89 heartily welcome the move for unity on the part of the Industrial Union. But we know that the officialdom in our union is determined to place all sorts of obstacles in the way of achieving unity. Because of this all dressmakers inside our union/ will have to join in the struggle) to force our officials to accept the proposals for unity; to admit all members of the Industrial Union into the various locals of our Dress Joint Board with full. rights and without discrimination. “Forward to one powerful mili- tant Dressmakers’ Union! “Long live the unity of all dress- makers in the struggle against the bosses!” * Noted Revolutionary Writer Is Sentenced To Haitian Prison PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov. 8.— | Jacques Roumain, famous writer | and a leader of the revolutionary movement here, has been sentenced | by special court-martial to two) jyears’ imprisonment on charges of corresponding with Haitian exiles) in America, receiving literature | from them, and “plotting to over- | throw the government.” The literature received was mostly | the pamphiets and magazines of the International Labcr Defense, published in France. Jacques Rou- main is the leader of a group of | prominent writers and intellectuals | who have been very active in| arousing protest in Haiti against | the infamous Scottsboro sentences. Protests against this outrageous sentence should be sent to Presi- dent Stenio Vincent, Port-au- prince, Haiti, the International Labor Defense has announced. | Sixty thousand dollars will in- sure the Daily Worker for the next year. Concentrate on raising this sum by the end of November. Pita: | reectne: Truck Drivers CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 8.—Albert Goldman, who was ex- rty and after this expulsion e counter-revolutionary Trotz- This step is in rnationally to Party as they bit indignant that alone, not waiting for Cannon and company who are also preparing to do the same thing. In their statement, Trotzkyites say that “Goldman disregarded the course pursued by the League and joined the Socialist Party as an indi- vidual.” What has riled “Jim” Cannon is that this “labor” attorney, who helped break the strike in Min- neapolis, and in which pie Mr. Cannon also had his finger, joined the Socialist Party, before he him- self took the action. Together with Goldman another Trotzkyite, Jack Scher, also & lawyer, joined the Socialist Party. It is reported the other few re- maining Trotzkyites are likewise individually going over into the camp of the Socialist Party. This once more proves the cor- of the analysis of the Communist Party that the Trotzky- ites are only a wing of Social- Democracy and they are returning into the ranks of the Socialist Party because “birds of a feather flock together.” Reverend Abraham Muste, who made a bastard alliance with Can- non, swallowed shook, line and sinker the counter-revolutionary theory and practice of the Trotz- kyites, after proclaiming. the na- tionalistic American Workers Par- ty program should be prepared to give a blessing to the happy mer- gers of the counter-revolutionary Trotzkyites with Abe Cahan, Oneal and company. City Will Not | Add to Relief, Says Hodson The deternination of the City government to keep relief allowances down to a minimum no matter how many jobless workers and their families go hungry during the ape proaching winter was revealed yes- terday by Welfare Commissioner William Hodson’s non-committal re« plies to questions on how the ris- ing cost of living will affect families on relief. “In view of President Roosevelt's statement on price rises, will you or will the city advocate the rising of individual family relief in order to keep the actual purchasing index at the same level as at present?” the commissioner was asked. “The city ought to,” he responded, “But then there’s the problem, We've got to get enough money to get a subsistence for everybody.” This is seen as another proof of predictions made in the columns of the Daily Worker previously—that the jobless families on relief will not only be hit by reduction in the amount of money they receive, but even when they receive the same 2s heretcfore they will be able to buy considerably less than today. A food check of $15 a month will be able to purchase about $11 worth of food in January or February, it is estimated. Hodson’s remarks were made after he came out of a star-chamber ses- sion of the Aldermanic Relief In- quiry Committee, a body added to by representatives of the Governor’s Committee on Relief and a similar group appointed by Mayor La- Guardia. Representing Governor Lehman were Allan Wardwell, Fred M. Stein and Hugh R. Jackson. In behalf of the Mayor, were George Z. Medalie, Charles Johnson and Mrs. Justin W. Tulin, the latter an Assistant Corporation Counsel. Mrs. Tulin, who is acting as cgunsel for the mayor’s committee, has been added to the probe group as more or less “liberal” trapping unemployed organizations state. The daughter of Rabbi Stephen 8S, Wise, she has long been known in liberal and radical circles in New York. In 1926 she was associated vith the United Front Strike Coms e in the bitterly-fought Pas- saic walk-out of textile workers. She has visited the Soviet Union and reported favorably on her ob- servations there. Her work in con- nection with the relief inquiry bs be watched with considerable iff- terest by labor and liberal organi- | zations throughout the city, The session of the inquiry boay listened to a report from Commis- stoner Hodson the set-up of the relief organization in the state and the background of the relief prob- lem, Reporters were barred, in line with the policy announced at the formation of the group. Another meeting of the body will be held Saturday, at 10:30 a, m, at City Hall, Aldermanic President Bernard S. Deutsch, the commit- tee’s chairman, announced. Hod- son will continue reporting. Edwin Corsi, Director of the Home Relief Bureau of the Emergency Relief organization, will also appear, as will Col, William J. Wilgus, head Ped