The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1934 FERA DIRECTOR AIDS COOLIE WAGE PLAN IN NEW ORLEANS STATE JOBS PAY | Daily Worker Drive Relief Men ORGANIZER CITES 12 CENTS A DAY tenenee, Letters Reveal Wide | Wi» Right right | TASKS IN FIGHTING IN MANY CASES.,,......,.. Hatred for New Deal, ° —“""""" COMPANY UNIONS a oe Giant strides were recorded in the Fighting every step of the Worki Wi fis C a U : To Disi F | Working ithin Company Unions To Disintegrate Director Orders Workers to Accept Jobs at} 1 8 pan) g work of the New Mexico Unemploy- Correspondence of Impoverished Farmers ‘and |toward an organizational gos | ment Councils at its state conven- | ‘9 * SERA workers on the Little Tujun- Tk and Win W Jni fi x , | fan- | hem and to Win Workers for Real Unions Starvation Scale or Be Cut Off the Jobless Workers Tells of Suffering ts Bolahevd: Pack ‘ | Seteiataasiencna ec 5 8 Bolshevik Tas' @ FERA Relief Lists | What workers throughout the t| tion held here last week. |ga job, No. 212, have finally estab- The delegates represented sixteen |lished the right to write and dis- | GF ; and the bankers whom he addressed | | eon aes Upon ser arrival country really think of the New|in such loving political terms attribute leaflets urging the torma-| ase SE eT DE i = ‘ | for the two-day session, they pre-| Deal policies of the Roosevelt-Wall | their recent convention. tion of a job committee. ve 4 $ “a ‘g , pao | "i | _ NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 11.—State F.E.R.A. Director | sented demands for food, shelter |Stteet government is sharply re-| “Enclosed,” she writes, “find a | ‘The frst leafet (Communist Party Organizer at Indianapolis) Early last week ordered all rural workers who are unem-| and gasoline from the State Bureau | wae in the steady Pat of ak Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 11—One of the most important ployed to accept any work at whatever wages are offered or| of Child Welfare (State Relief Ad- Bali: Workae $60 000 fear Ww the phases of Bolshevik w i is without be cut off the relief lists. The relief order put through by | istration). Jail were offered the | YT} f ‘ 1} Page State Council Nov resulted in the five dollar bill for the $60,000 | gismissal of fi fund. Wish I could make it $5,000. isin Cacti I live on a ranch and you can lonly one ha x i women delegates for sleeping quar-|_ The eagerness of workers and | guess what that means in these (Go with the , the ] The ob- Early followed reports that unemployed were refusing cane | ters, and no food or gasolin>. ‘The siete ei anche ar mr hrt d Eotg n cgdinee ell a ing a better excuse i are, of cot dis ions from cutting jobs offered at coolie rates /—-—___- | committee refused to yield, and| Worker, which far exceeds their) Not only impoverished farmets| missed for sm two | withi 4 to--wian: th « uring the harvest season: C P E l relief office. 7 7 : }ers as well have seen their liveli- a t out} cotton, sugar, rice, and other agri- ° e x p e S| Carl Howe was elected chairman ‘Heit financial conditions and t0| hoods and their security cut from Desi eaike a canae oe figures show culfural products, relief is not given fo tural workers whether experi- encéd in these pursuits or not. While it is true that the F-E.R.A. has been paying 30 cents an hour to rural workers, the unemployed were not given enough work to al- low them to make more than 12 cents a day in some cases. In one instance the Unemployment Coun- cil noted a condition prevalent throughout the rural areas. An un- employed worker received $2.40 for a ten-day period—24 cents for a Author of Plan ForEmigration On March 31, 1934, the Daily Worker published a notice of the organization by Walter E. Lohe of ; @ building trades workers’ group of painters, decorators, plasterers, étc., ployment Councils. Other function- aries are: Jose de Baca, vice-chair- man; Harry Mavrogeni: izer; William Gonzales, Span organizer; R. M. Gose, secretai Hazel Richards, treasurer. Thre delegates were elected to the Na- tional Congress on Unemployment Insurance to be held in Washing- ton on Jan. 5, 6 and 7. The discussion and the declara- tion of damands formulated at the of the newly-formed State Unem-| convention as the basis of a pro- | | write unsolicited but moving ex-| | planations of why they are unable | {to give more. The vast majority of | £uch letters place the blame for the straitened financial circumstances of their authors squarely on the} ew Deal. Whether they are farmers under | | the yoke of the Agricultural Ad- { justment Administration or jobless | workers on forced labor projects of | the Federal Emergency Relief Ad- | ministration, they all agree in their | hatred of the New Deal. under them by the New Deal scythe | which reaps profits at the expense of workers’ lives for bankers and industrialists. “It is the best I can do,” says Sigfried Olson, of Claremont, Va., | sending one dollar. “My income | dried up the past summer.” G. M., of Gloucester, Ohio, ac- companies his contribution of $1.27 with the following answer to Presi- dent Roosevelt’s infamous question ; “are you better off than you were last year?” | charge. fight to organize. L. H. Purdy of| Tujunga volunteered to distritte| the leaflets. He did this in the morning and had distributed them to tne men, when the ever present} stool-pigeon warned the ranger in At noon the matter came | to a head when Purdy challenges | the ranger’s authority to prevent | the distribution on the worker's awn | time. Arriving at no conclusion ex- cept, “there'll be none of the: damned leaflets distributed,” Pi Texas Jobless EndSchemings' Of Misleaders ; A iN, Tex, ers of this city, ref ,” have put a which were bi sponsoied to the number of period. These are primarily in y, trustified industries In this section of Indiana the problem is especially acute. Prac- lly every large factory has its i In the A—— shop @ large metal fac- tory, we had some interesting ex- i is ‘ fr “Enclosed find fifty cents in a « i handed the ranger a leaflet and pro. oer bate babel pare thivted 16 work four daye ® tonth oe Pee at ee aces | gram of action list fifteen points. | money order as a donation to the feck LL HACy waren Love” Mey |[coeded to dustethute still further, uck Roberts, @ politician said tol fare “omton’ Ghee totes ane at. $1.80 a day. No clothing or other Met ts anes amas en et eee oolerad aa | pee Ms oa ean ‘sonlk TOs: letter declares. “We have lived on The ranger then leaped from the |have been in the employ of | struggle should prove of importance aid is furnished. In many cases skillea building trades workers| tinemployed, the Council delegates dines Ny , relief all spring and summer.” car, grabbed Purdy by the shoulder |Travis county relief comm for the comrades ywhere, work is so far away that 15 cents ; i sia It is not to the New Deal and the |and told him “that this would be |Roberis, who ran for the Petition Circulated must be spént for car-fare. Primitive agricultural subsistence wishing information on conditions for acceptance in the group to write demand repeal of the State sales tax. A petition will be circulated “Things look mighty gray around here. The A. A. A. has Roosevelt government that these workers look for a way out of their | the last SERA job he would ever have.” legislature two years ago, ha | two-fold purpose in staging these The structures of the company . i i ; $ : | nion in this plant was as follows: farming is the aim of the FE.R.A,,| ‘0 Walter E. Lohe in cate of Daily| for such repeal, with taxation on| made walking shadows out of the poverty and oppression. They are peaen da Tose ja 26 fh trikes: to bteak up tne| Un _ | = a How Fi rame-up, ger strikes: to ur jawed 1 s a Director Early announced last week. | Worke=. incomes in the higher brackets for| farming population. It expropri. looking to the revolutionary way|puray insisted before wii Austin Unemployment Council, antigo pee Re ie “The futtife policy in this respect is that rural residents with agricul- tural experience, whether farmer, farmhand or casual laborer, if in need of relief, shall, in order to have his application sériously considered, arrange for a piece of land of ade- It appears now that actually there was no such “invitation of the Soviet government;” that Lohe had acted only on the basis of commu- nications received by him from an individuel member of the adminis- tration of one of the Soviet building financing relief. The convention endorsed the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill and planned a campaign for obtaining wide sup- port among the working population. Payment of the bonus in full is also demanded. ates, through the cotton tax, the | | average farmer, especially the poorer one, down to his overalls and his work shirt. Long live the | Daily Worker!” | From the Sloan family, of Oliver, | Illinois, comes another expression of | what is really happening under the out. They know that Communism is the only road. They are giving all they can to the best leader and organizer for the Communist Party—the Daily Worker. Theirs is a Bolshevik example for every worker to fol- that the dismissal slip should read, | “dismissed for distributing leaflets | on his own time,” The ranger} then ordered him to walk three miles to the highway and there wait | for his usual transportation at 4) p.m which led the hunger march on the capitol the previous week, and to get a measure passed by the fo extraordinary session of the § legislature to force the unemp! to work on Centennial projects for whatever food they could get from each major department in the fac- tory. Work was started here by some young workers who joined the Party and organized a shop nucleus. In the process of developing work. the question arose what to do about the company union? tate size to sustain his family, if | trusts in Moscow, and that, in addi-| A continued fight against evic- | ae S ; 88 : any.” The individual must cultivate | tion, Lohe had acted irresponsibly | tions, foreclosures and tax sales was New Deal. OI eleady come to the support Purdy refused, believing that as | the San administration. Both | After consulation with leading the land for all his family needs,|and bureaucratically in taking it| planned, and a fight for recognition; “Enclosed is one dollar. Accept : ‘The $60,000 [22 American citizen, he had a right | Plans failed. achiee |Party comrades from eighty miles Harly explained. All loans for seed, | upon himself to initiate the organi-| of all committees of unemployed this as our bit to keep the Daily of your newspaper! ee in the National Forest. Later,| The first hunger sirike staged by | away, the young Party unit decidec afd other needs must eventually be | zation of the group and in failing repaid to the F.E.R.A. to inform the group fully on all developments and in failing to let and relief workers will be projected. Free hot lunches, clothing, text Worker in the hands of the work- ers. Conditions are hellish bad among the farmers in this local- goal has to be reached by Dec 1! If every worker contributes fm- mediately this goal can be made. when the water truck was ready to make another trip, the ranger again | told him to leave. He refused. Roberts, a few days after the hunger | tp circulate a petition in the shop march led by the Unemployment }|in round-robin form, raising de- Council, consisted of about eighty- |mands for 15 per cent pay increase. CRETE Gis ROAM didedoe tinal neonate Pera ive see tee © ii ity. Long live the Daily Worker | Contribute today! ; Losing his temper, the ranger|five Negro, white and Mexivan|and other demands. This was t Paekin house questions collectively. erished farmers, and free and ade-| 4 the Soviet Union.” ;. {then attempted to remove him by | Workers throughout its cne-day|be addressed through the compan In the end all efforts of the s | Emily T. Sanford, living on a NOTE: Sections, units, organi- |foroo, Purdy put a passive resis-\duration, One striker collapsed union, as a means of exposing i | quate medical and dental aid to} zations, readers are urged to send ~ " i 1] ith hunger, and had to be carried ; before the workers as a bosses’ too! roup to be accepted for emigration ranch near Smartville, Cal., sends | . tance which became more or less | With 2 ae ‘ Workers Plan a ra eae Lisa ihe Hire au eaiored eet ae five dollars and another bit of| in immediately full reports of |onergetic as the struggle proceeded, |Out. About midnight, politicians |This petition was signed by ove: The group is still here and, right She ees |damning testimony against the| their activities in the drive for | Unable to handle him alone, the|and members of the legislature |90 per cent of all the workers in the United Drive should disband altogether, as there is no real basis or hope for them ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill | the Councils demand weekly cash relief of $10, plus $3 for each de- | Policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt ranger called for assistance. ‘Two hangers-on started to help, when promised to investigate conditions of the unemployed if the strikers | key production departments. At the same time, the plant sup- i ‘ is yer youl t heir homes. The | erintendent, in an effort to halt thc to tty to gain admission, as a group, . ° the men who were watching from|Wwould return to t | te gs io tte oem Fe Penten and poor iamers ees Seamen Win |Rail Jobs Carat tse ot: cot 2 moa “Here ‘they next’ moming, accosaig to state growing agitation ordered new ele SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov.| pik elem gres pears |ments of these strikers, Roberts |tions to the Company union. As ¢ 11—Thousands of copies of the} united front program of the pack- inghouse workers have been issued to workers here and in Austin, Al- bert, Lee, Omaha, Kansas City and | other packing centets. The pro- grat was adopted by a joint con- | ference of the Independent Union of All Packinghouse Workers and the Packinghouse Workers Indus- | trial Union on Nov. 4. The ptogtam includes the fight: for the right to organize, for higher wages, against the killing speéd-up, and for Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance. It was rati+ fled by the tiembers of both unions following the conference. Workers in the unorganized Swift, Cudahy, and Afmour plants met and elected groups to the conference. The Daily Worke: deplores the publication of the unauthorized “in- Vitation” in its issue of March 31st, and will use great care in the future to avoid such raising of false hopes of general emigration to the U. S. 8. R. This will serve also as an ex- planation to the hundreds of work- ers who sent in their inquiries and applications to the group, why they ‘have not received any replies. Due to the fact that Lohe was known to be a member of the Com- munist Party there has appeared a certain tendency among some peo- ple to blame the Party for the troubles and hardships suffered by individual members of the group in connection with their getting ready to leave (when several definite dates of sailing were given out by Lohe) employed workers earning less than that amount. Newark Students Fight Way Out of Building to Attend Anti-War Rally NEWARK, N. J., Noy. 11—Anti- Fascist students at the Arts High School here fought their way out of the building with their fists when by violent means to prevent them from attending an anti-war Arm- istice Day meeting in Military Park on. Friday. More than 350 students of Dana College, the Newark Institute of fascist groups in the school tried | Relief Aid In Houston (Special to the Daily Worker) HOUSTON, Tex., Nov. 11—Under the leadership of the Waterfront Unemployment Council, unem- ployed seamen here _ yesterday forced the Transient Relief Bureau to provide $4.29 weekly food allow- ance, $1.50 weekly rent relief. The delegation of 22 unemployed seamen were immediately placed on the relief lists, and all other jobless seamen are to be placed on relief tomorrow. Under the leadership of the Ma- Drastically in 30-Day Period WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11— Employment in Class 1 steam rail- roads dropped 1.18 per cent in the |one month period from September to October, a report just issued by | the Interstate Commerce Commis-| sion reported. The drop represents the loss of jobs to slightly more than 12,000 railroad workers. With 1,011,228 workers employed during the past month, employment in these railroads is 1.33 per cent came, pick and shovel in hand! Need- less to say, all efforts to physically coerce Purdy ceased at once. As a last resort, the ranger threatened jail, which was jumped at enthusiastically, daring the ran- |ger to do so. In the last analysis, the ranger did not have the guts to carry out his threat. Purdy then 4 p.m. when he went home by his usual transportation. The following day he went to the San Fernando DPO, was reinstated and filed charges against the ranger. Among other things, accusing him of being a direct threat of inciting | to riot while he remains on the job. | As a result, the leaflet went out without molestation or trouble. In addition, many of the grievances are being considered and the ranger} stayed on without molestation until! went into a closed session with re-| remained outside. gone on strike. Maneuvers Exposed Roberts then announced, in the} capitalist press, that a mecting would be held on the following | Sunday afternoon for “a bigger | and better strike.’ He rushed in| and secured a park permit to hold this meeting in the same park and at the same hour that the Unem- ployment Council had been mecting, | managing, in this way, to get the) crowd. About two hundred persons were present, including a majority | of workers, some spectators, an! officer, a capitalist reporter and two working class reporters. The{ lief officials while their committee | No relief came} to these hungry people who had | sentatives, strategic maneuver, he approachec two of the militant workers, asking them to run as department repre- undoubtedly hoping thereby to terrorize them and “pu them on the spot.” The workers’ | first idea was to refuse. However, after a consultation with the Party, they decided to run, anc were elected to the council! Onc of the militant councilmen immedi- rought the workers’ petition with hundreds of signatures, be- fore the council. Another one of thc council members was won over or the que nting the peti- tion to management. The council split, three to two, on thir question, and the three ther brought the petition in. Result: the workers gained a 5 per cent in- crease, a partial victory. Arts and Sciences and the Arts High| rine Workers Industrial Union and appears on the job for only a short The top officials of the Independ-|and then being forced to remain) eo attended the meeting which less than a year ago. oe id Southern Worker, carrying a front-|__The Party had proposed, concur- ent Union of All Workers from| Where they are. It 13, of course, epee sey Leste Bad a bait: the ‘Waterfront Unemployment time each day. page account of the unemployment |Tently, that immediate steps be Austin, Minn., did not show up, although the delegates from the Faribualt, Minn. local were present. A joint delegation from both unions will go to the next membership meeting of the independent union in Austin and ask the Austin local to join the united front organiza- tion drive. Allentown to Observe 17th Birthday of USSR On Saturday Evening ALLENTOWN, Pa., Nov. 11—The incorrect to blame the Party for this. At the same time, however, the Party has taken action against Lohe for his impermissible errors and shortcomings in the whole busi- ness of starting the organization of the group without proper authori- zation and without even consulting the Party, and of acting bureau- cratically in the conduct of the affairs of the group. Lohe has been expelled from the Communist Party, but, since the Party believes that he acted in good faith and with good intentions, he is given permission to re-apply and to be readmitted into the Party after six months, provided that he Students from many other schools were prevented from attending the meeting by the intimidation of their ; school administrations. In the Newark Institute, one pro- fessor delibetately arranged an ex- amination for the hour of the meet~ ing and threatened to put down as a failure any student who was ab- sent from the examination. Councils, the jobless seamen here as in other ports, piling relief vic- tory upon relief victory, are fast mobilizing the entire unemployed searnen on the beach around a pro- gram calling for separate seamen’s relief projects under the control of elected committees of rank and file The most significant decline is in maintenance of way and structures. In this class of railroad employ- ment jobs dropped 3.07 per cent in} the one-month period. Similarly, those engaged in the maintenance| of equipment declined over the! seamen, no forced labor, and a cen- tralized shipping hall under work- ers’ control. month previous to a point 2.19 per cent less than @ year ago. Party members: Personal visits to mass organi- zations and trade unions on the part of leading comrades have re- | sulted in good response from the membership.. Language organiza- | tions, especially, should be ap- pealed to for contributions to the $60,000 drive. Cutters Lo How the N.R.A. and Sidney Hill- cal Speeds Fight Agai : Silas ie ahesds ust Hillman ¢ tense that they used a “rotation” Council hunger march, was dis- tributed by workers in the crowd. | Roberts, waving his park permit; | assumed possession of the pavilion, He and the E. J. Webb threat- ened to resign if the workers did not support them by staging a huge next day. The workers, already | aware of the treachery practiced on | them, told them to go ahead and resign. | Workers Report } John Seymour and Louise P-eece, | and began abusing the workers for | not coming out in greater numbers |, |for the hunger strike. ‘ to hunger strike in the capitol the taken to set up a local of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. The new Pariy unit, partly from weakness, but primarily be- cause of ir ience and insuffi+ g, Made no steps s direction beyond the organi- on of a large grievance commits tee. This weakness now has become e , and allowed the initiative ss into the company’s hands. Company Counter-Attacks The company counter-attacked, first, by taking one of the militant council members, giving him a large pay increase, and transferring him to another factory, hundreds of away. Next, there came suc- biiaamee atic Ba Gene hee tecopnises his errors, pledges against | man, member of the National Labor Misleaders Use Rosy N.R.A. Promises to Betray | ;,;. WHERE Ee unemployed |e, Working piuass Teporters fn the cessive lay-offs, including some of day at Hungarian Hall, 520 Union | ¢5, organization expenses to those | ditions, is seen in the events in New sed for Banquets and Parties regularly. Actually, the favored | deavoring to mi d them for ee pets Street. members of the group who may| York Cutters Local Four of the ? workers got jobs and others never OWN purposes, and that to follow |g, by mobilizing ‘The workers theatrical group of Philadelphia has been secured for the occasion, they will be one of hes chief features of the celebra- ti The. Nature Friends will furnish music. The ptineipal speaker will be a leading member of the Com- munist Party. The price of admission is 25 cents for employed workers and 10 cents for unemployed. The doors will open at 7:30 p, m. Daily Worker sellers: Take a minute off to engage your cus- tomer in conversation. Mention the Daily Worker financial drive, Ask him to contribute to the $60,- 000 fund. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Philadelphia, Pa. Farhily Supper and Concert given by Sec. 1 at 1208 Tasker St., Saturday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m. Adm. 26¢. House Party, Soviet Film Showing, Refreshments, 5430 Gainor Ror Saturday, Nov. 17. Ausp. Unit 307 C. Thanksgiving Eve Dance, Wed., Nov. demand it. The last part of the decision is based on the fact that of the total collected by Lohe from the mem ers of the group about one-half was spent for direct expenses of the group (stationary, postage, etc.), while the other half was applied by Lohe for his living expenses during & number of weeks that he gave his full time to the business of the group (quitting his job). ‘This case should serve as a warn- ing against anyone, individually undertaking to organize any groups of workets for emigration to the Soviet Union, At the same time, the bad experiences of this parti- cular group should not be permitted to be used as a basis for disruption and slanderous, vengeful statements against the Communist Party or against individual workers in- volved in the matter. Breach of Agreement Charged by Workers WASHINGTON, (F. P.)—Charges by striking employes of Glabman Brothers, Inc. Chicago, that the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. How did the rosy promises made to the members of this local by Hill- man, president of the A.C.W., work out in actual fact? Hillman and his agents at the start of the N.R.A., called a large meeting of the cutters, and Hill- man painted pictures of a golden, prosperous future under the New Deal. He finished his speech with the dramatic assertion that with the N.R.A. established, the mere possession of a membership book of Local Four would insure a job under the best conditions to every clothing cutter in the trade. Although this seemed a little too good to be true, the hungry workers were nevertheless glad to hear it. The news of Hillman’s promises re- garding the N.R.A. reached the ears of those hundreds of cutters who had long ago been driven out of the trade and the union by the con- stantly intensified speed-up, the system of fixed production; “read- justments” (agreements to fire cer- tain workers as the productivity of the others increased) and various other betrayals by the union leaders during the last ten years. These cutters came flocking in droves to Local Four, eager to get the mem- back dues, besides the forty dollar assessment that was paid by the entire membership. The sum the officials of the local accumulated Was so enormous that after settling huge debts, contracted by paying the Orloffsky-Beckerman gang and using up tens of thousands of dol- lars for banquets and parties, etc., they still retained fifty thousand dollars clear Gash in the treasury. The New Deal certainly benefited the officials. Elections Abolished _ However, there was still the pos- sibility that in the coming elections some other faction might win offices. And so these officials abolished the elections. This is how they did it: One of the sharpest grievances of the workers now is the temporary card system, whereby unemployed union members are assigned to jobs which may last a day or a season, depending upon how they please the boss or how well the union of- ficials like them. These temporary workers, therefore, work like mad in a desperate effort to please every- body, and in that way act as pace- setters for the most intensive speed-up throughout the shops. their money to hold a regular elec- tion. And, above all, they prom- ised faithfully to abolish the tem- porary card system. With the solid support of their “yes-men” in the audience, and of the usual row of strong-arm men at the back of the hall, it was all over but the shout- ing. A very simple, very cheap, re-election! Card System Remains The temporary card system, inci- dentally, still remains. They followed this special meet- ing with an “installation” meeting, to which they brought Hillman and his chief Meutenant, Potofsky, once again to praise the N. R. A. to the skies. Hillman solemnly predicted that if the coming fall season was half of what he expected, there would still be enough work for every cutter in New York City! Shortly afterward, the reaction to | the speculative period set in, and: not only were all the temporary workers thrown out of their jobs, | but for quite a period of time also about 80 per cent of the permanent workers found themselves on the streets. got them. But before long the offi- and openly excluded all but the fa- vorites from jobs. of the workers is also carried on very effectively, in the distribution | of the unemployment insurance ; fund. Those who “can be depended | upon” to support the officials are others, who are often in desperate is no money.” With these two trump cards—the power to juggle temporary jobs and relief money—the Hillman agents | have until now secured themselves against revolt. But they have never been able to frighten or bribe or silence the rank and filers in this local. The rank and filers are those workers who have determined once and for all to drive the double- crossing Hillman agents out of the leadership of their union, and re- Place them by workers, by a rank and file leadership. Already the | members have formed a Rank and | File Committee of the local which | is steadily gaining support as the | workers see that the program of Cials discarded even this pretense, | This policy of splitting the ranks | regularly supplied with relief, while | need, are roughly told that “there | |state, not only against the starva- him meant starvation instead of the | |food which even then lay in the/ jcommissary while they were hungry. | The latter speaker, called by the czowd to take the platform, did so, challenging Roberts to lead the workers to the commissary for food | now that he saw what they wanted. | Faker is Repudiated | Roberts then put the hung strike to a vote. Only thirty ner, sons, mostly women and children, | agreed to strike in the capitol the) next day. This strike was a com-| {plete failure, Roberts resigning at| |the end of the day after giving out | a statement to the paper that! “agitators” had caused the failure. | The meeting in the park was/ taken over by the Unemployment Council, Roberts and his group be-| ing unable to hold down the fioor | after the workers demanded that the Council be allowed to hold its regular meeting. | The rebellion of the workers of Austin is typical of the rebellion of the unemployed workers all over the tion which they are forced to un- dergo, but also against the mis- leaders who purport to represent them in their attempts to deliver jtance of work insi all of the workers in protest and demanding cinding of the lay- off order, ion of work, with further pay increases. Lack of ex- perience and clarity prevented this, The result was, naturally, a sharp drop in the spirit of the workers. At the present time the workers are consolidating their scattered forces and preparing for a new organiza- tion drive. Many lessons can be learned from this struggle showing the impor- the company union, and the poss: ‘ty of winning definite economic concessions for the Workers as a result of such activity. Above all, it must be deduced from this particular case that once such work is undertaken, the intiative must not be allowed to slip into the hands of the class enemy. Side by Side with the work in the company union must go the definite building of a genuine trade union, no matter how small. If this is done, at the decisive moment the company union can be liquidated and the masses of the workers brought into the class trade union. Triple Vote in Berkley. General Motors Town 28 at Stete Dance Hall, 22nd and|COmpany failed to bargain collec- Not only these t n Jobs for Favorites t i Pesqer) s " § ¢ . | tivel: faitl ke | bership beoks, Many of them were only are these temporary me! militant opposition to the Hillman | the working class into the hands of Bae ae ce te iepedieeecante pee je aterS received with open arms and given | PPOsed to this system because of| The present fall season, arriving brand of unionism is the only one |the authorities and relief officials. BERKLEY. Mich. Nov. 9 costinnes. arbitrary fixing of piece rates under | their membership books without a| their uncertain position, but the/a very long slack period, did not|by which the members can recap-|The state legislature, in its third i » Balch. NOV. 2: oe Newark, N. J. House Party at 402 Hunterdon St., M. Shulman. Ausp. John Reed Br. sham negotiations, were not upheld by oa National Labor Relations card. murmur—for $68.10 each. For a time everything seemed rosy. The early period of the N.R.A. was other workers, too, would like to see it abolished in favor of the earlier practice of setting a man to work in a shop, and, if the boss is satis- come up, even to a small degree, to the expectations of Hillman. And | with jobs few and short, the offi- cials have stripped away all pre- ture the union. The cutters of Local 4 can by now readily see that there is no funda- mental difference between the extraordinary session in September, handed over to the State Board of Control the entire administration of relief with additional instruc- vote for the state ticket of the Com= munist Party in this town was nearly three times the 1932 figure. The highest vote, 61, was received WO. While declaring that there was| featured by a speculative rise in rata not evidence of “bad faith” in the| produetion in the trade, ‘The off-| ied with his work, making iim a|tense at diplomacy. Cutters who| ousted Orlofsky-Becksrinan -cligué |tions to eliminate elle! altosctiien | 2, JO Ante One Glabman case, despite breaches of | cials were able to place a good many | full-fledged permanent worker. have not worked in two years, or|and the present Weinstein-Silver-! Since this time, nearly 12,000 work- Negro candidate for Attorney-Gen- WH T ON union agreements, the board asked’ cutters on temporary jobs. They| The union officials called aj|who worked ohly a few woeks dur- | man-Katz administration. The way 'ers have been dropped from the | eraj, just behind him with 60. Chicago, Ill. “Cain and Artem,” Sovict Film show- ing at Imperial Mall, 2409 N. Mal. the company. to demonstrate ite gocd faith by reinstating striking members of the Upholsterers, Car- pet and Linoleum Mechanics Intl. drained these poverty-stricken mem- bers, who had suffered from long unemployment. They forced out of their very few weekly pay envelopes special meeting, just before election time, thickly sprinkled with their reliable supporters, and declared that, inasmuch as the workers were ing the shortlived N. R. A. “Boom” last year, besiege the union office daily, for months, only to be handled roughly and often thrown out for the cutters is a bold fight | for their rights. It is the solemn duty of every cutter to join the struggle to transform our union into relief rolls, 2,000 of these being in Travis county alone. The forcing of relief by Unemployment Councils all over the state, in its leadership The eight Communist state can- didates averaged 58 votes. In 1932 the average vote was 23. Berkley ha: tion of about stead St., Wednesday, Nov. 14, 8 p. Union on ir bcd ean list in or-| fifty and one hundred dollars and | satisfied with the present adminis- | bodily out of the room. a fighting organization democrati-|of the workers against starvation, 5,000, collate La m, Adm, 206, der of seniority. even more apiece, in the form of'! tration, it would only be a waste of| At first the officials used the pre-! cally controlled by the workers. is the answer. General Motor , vores a %