The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 14, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1954 Page 3 Pittsburgh Relief Jobs Withheld As Destitution Rises More Poverty Cases Listed | In Steel Town Budget Basis Keeps Pay Winter Unemployment On Projects at Low Hunger Level PITTSBURGH, Pa. Nov. 13.— Facts revealed during an investiga- tion of relief work activities in Al- legheny county show that even the | miserable wages paid for this type | of employment are being consistent- | ly denied jobless workers of this | district, only 956 out of 40,000 avail- able jobs having been filled as of Nov, 7. Despite the increase in county destitute from 52,000 families in July to the present total of 78,000, the work relief authorities have man- aged by means of a mass of red tape to deny jobs to applicants for one reason or another. Allotment of work is based on what is termed by relief authorities the “budgetary deficiency” of cer- tain families. Under this scheme, carefully designed so as to keep capitalism’s “reserve army” in Al- legheny county as large as possible, extensive statistics are compiled on each individual applicant before he is even considered for employment. Hunger Standard Determined Only those actually drawing re- lief at present can apply for work Telief. As soon as the application is turned in, investigators begin a minute search of the case records for that family. A budget is laid out, on which the worker and his depen- dents can barely stay alive. Against this amount per month is placed what scanty funds the worker might be able to earn at “regular” odd jobs. Earnings from odd jobs are subtracted and the remainder is the amount which the worker will be allowed to earn on a relief job. Of course, in the compiling of these estimated budgets and meti- culous re-checking over wages carn- ed in past months, the case of the applicant is passed back and forth between various offices of the relief apparatus, and long weeks slip by before the applicant is “certified.” Certification Delayed In many ‘cases this certificate of pauperism arrives too ‘late for the project in question to be under- taken. Many of the projects ap- proved for Allegheny county were such cases..Plans were originally laid for work to begin around Sept. 15, and by the time enough appli- cants were certified to start work. Nov, 1 was well past and weather conditions prevented opening of the project. It is significant, however, that Philadelphia county, which was compelled to work within the same skein of red tape, was able to place 12,000 men at work on the hunger dole in the time Allegheny has placed 1,000. Undoubtedly, fear of “unsettled labor conditions” by the Western Pennsylvania coal and steel bosses would account for most of the delay in placing unemployed coal miners or steel workers on work relief rolls. Public sentiment finally became so aroused at the interminable de- lay of Work Administrator James L. Stuart and his staff that State Relief Director Eric Biddle was compelled to send in a “special” deputy administrator to shake up local officials. Now Stuart has been forced to admit that 14,000 can be placed to work almost immediately, but complains that skilled workers are reluctant to apply for the work relief. Most of the latter category, though expelled from trade unions because of non-payment of dues, refuse to work at anything less than union rates on the federal projects. WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. Attention! Nature Friends Lecture— Thursday, Nov. 15 is postponed on aceount of John L. Spivak lecture. Marine Workers Ind. Union is badly in need of motor boat or launch to carry on organizational work. Any comrade who has a boat of this description please notify the M.W.U., 312 8. and St. Bridgeport, Conn. John Bovingdon will perform poem- dances of the New Russia with in- troduction and lecture. Moose Tem- St, Thursday, Nov. 15, : F.8.0. “Sentenced to Health,” Soviet film at Detroit Federation of Women’s Clubs, Hancock at Second, Frid: Nov. 16, 8 p.m. Ausp.: Detroit Bt. FSU. Chicago, Ill. First Annual Dance given by: Painters Br. 565 T.W.O. Saturday, Dec. 8 at Mirror Hall, 1156 N. Western Ave, Adm. 2¢ in adv., 38¢ at door. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Philadelphia, Pa. Family Supper and Concert given by Sec. 1 at 1208 Tasker St., Saturday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m. Adm. 25c. House Party, Soviet Film Showing, Refreshments, 5430 Gainor Road, Saturday, Nov. 17. Ausp. Unit 307 C.P. Thanksgiving Eve Dance, Wed., Nov. 3B at ite Dance Hall, 22nd and Market Sts. Good Dance Orchestra. Come in costume. Prizes for best costumes. Ohildren’s Party at 1841 W. 4th St., 1 p.m., given by children of I.W.O., Jewish Children’s School 11, Friday, Nov. 16, 7 p.m. Chicago, Ill. Two reel movie “Chicago Workers in Action” and “Sawing Capitalism in Two Alive,” magician. Recitation and Violin Solo. Dance to follow, Saturday, Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m. Slovak ‘Workers Home, 2147 W. Chicago Ave. Adm. 20¢ in adv., 28¢ at door. Given by Unit 906, 911 and 912. Gala Dance and Entertainment, Sat- urday, Nov. 24, Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch St. Auspices: Wiggins Br. Y.C.L. 9 and O.P. 512, » Gala Affair and Dance given by Rus- sian Organizations on Saturday, Nov. -24 at Douglas Auditorium, Kedzie and Ogden Aver Lake Seamen Map Program For Action in the Ports Necessitates Big Relief Fight By JOHN ADAMS CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 13— The decisions of the Great Lakes conference of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, held in Cleveland, Ohio, on Nov, 4 and 5, are of ex- treme importance to all marine workers on the great inland mari- time route. The conference, attended by dele- gates and secretaries from the ports of Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo and Toledo, where the union has per- manent branches and halls, was for the purpose of checking on the re- Sults of the first season of activity of the union in this area and to plan suitable methods of activity that would enable the marine work- ers to use the winter months as a training period to gather the forces and strength to face the shipown- ers in the spring with united ranks on the docks and aboard the ships. While unity in action is the most burning question in the industry, unity of action and of demands, it was pointed out at the conference, that certain “unionists” like Hunter, O’Brien and Co., of the 1.S.U., stand in the way of the fighting unity of the seamen. The IS.U. have to struggle for control of their union against such individuals. The actual return of a great portion of the pay-cut to the entire industry was due to a real unity in action policy that our union put forward. Drawing to the close of the 1934 season, we can say that the Lake Carrier's Association (company union) continued its rotten cxist- ence one more season only because of actions of the 1.S.U, officiaidom in sabotaging united action to smash it. How can we during the winter months, when the industry is shut down, find the means of spreading this unity idea? This can and will be done by the members of the LS.U. and M.W.1.U. and unorganiz- ed men through the independent Waterfront Unemployment Councils where thousands of lake seamen have already found that by proper united struggle, they could force relief from the government. The M.W.1.U, has guided and sponsored these Councils and the time has come to spread them over the Lakes The decisions of this conference are being issued in a special bul- Jetin, which will be sold all over the Lakes. Organizations in marine towns are requested to send into ‘he Lakes department, the names and addresses of marine workers, so that this bulletin can be mailed out to them. All mail should be sent to Lake Department, M.W.LU., 1282 E. 9th St., Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to the opening of the season of 1935, the M.W.L.U. will issue a call for all organized and unorgan- ized Lake marine workers to a con- ference where the decisions of strug- gle, with the power to enforce them, can be made by the seamen, long- | shoremen, harbor and river workers | of the Lakes. members | Brooklynite I would like to state that the the daily needs of all the workers, tact with our comrades was the rying out of their convictions. the workers of the entire world. our party should become the great I have conyinced myself and am convincing others that any party which has sufficient understanding and courage to come out in support of the Scottsboro boys the only party for the workers, both black and white, to join and support. One of the many reasons why I have joined the Communist Party, and one that I think the is the party of the future, It is the it is the only party whose people itant all the way to the core! I deem it an honor to be a member of the Party of Lenin, Stalin and Thaelmann! I will do my best to make myself worthy of the name, Com- munist! 2 Year Term Given Negro In Alabama (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 13.— Peter Turney, militant Negro worker, was convicted yesterday of criminal libel, on two counts and sentenced to two years imprison- ment for circulating a leaflet which made truthful accusations against Professor Wood, principal of the Ensley Council School here, Turney was arrested three weeks ago when his home was raided by J. T, Moser whose name is also men- tioned in the leaflet. Turney was convicted on framed evidence. Application for an appeal has been filed by ©. B. Powell, Interna- tional Labor Defense attorney re- tained for Turney, Fred Walker, Negro worker, whose home was raided on Thursday, is free on bail of $300 for trial on Nov. 15 on a charge of violating the Downs “literature possession” ordi- nance. SOVIET FILM IN MILWAUKEE MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 13.— The Soviet sound film, “Shame,” with English titles, will be shown here Nov. 16 at the Milwaukee Audi- torium, Engleman Hall. There will be two showings only, at 7:30 and 9 pm, Party members, the Daily Worker places its foremost reli- ance on you. See that your unit completes its quota before Dec. 1! THE N ® Rank and File of S. P. Do Net Want Delay In United Fight By ALEX BITTELMAN 'E SPEAK here primarily of the Socialist Party. And we say— the next step is: make the united front—because something has hap- pened lately in the Socialist Party. The majority of its members has adopted by referendum the Declara- tion of Principles. This fact im- poses upon the Socialist Party cer- tain obligations favorable to the united front with the Communist Party. How soon will the N. E. C. of the S. P. begin to fulfill these obligations? Fhe Declaration of Principles is not a revolutionary program; it is essentially, programmatically, a re- formist document. Why do we say that? Because this document, the Declaration of Principles, rests fun- damentally upon bourgeois democ- racy, and not upon the revolution- ary struggle for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. This is the touch- stone the present epoch. You are either for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, which is the only possible true working class democ- Tacy; or you are for bourgeois de- mocracy, democracy in “general,” which is and can be nothing else but the dictatorship of monopoly capital. There is no in-between. And whatever pretends to stand in between, as does the Declaration of Principles, in reality stands on the Platform that led Social democracy mocracy.” And this is precisely the platform this led Social-Democracy. to combat the revolutionary move- ments of the proletariat and to pave the way for fascism in Germany, Austria, etc. It is this platform of reformism and class collaboration which militates against the class struggle and thus helps the process of fascisation of capitalist rule. And in the discussion of the programma- tic differences between the Commu- nist Party and the Socialist Party, this is our fundamental proposition. But we cannot and must not per- mit these programmatic differences to stand in the way of the united front between the Communist and Socialist Parties, between the Com- munist and Socialist workers. This is the view, the firm conviction, of the Communist Party. This is also the growing conviction of the mem- bership of the Socialist Party, in For Joining Communist Party that I know of that is honest, sincere and frank in all its purposes. Furthermore, that it is the only party that is militantly fighting for One of the first impressions that I received upon coming in con- Such a wholesome spirit cannot and will not be crushed. To this I pledge my all! I would like to say that the Communist Party in its fight against war and fascism is the only party striving for peace and liberty for E. S., Unit 10, See, 11, Brooklyn, N. Y, Gives Reason Communist Party is the only party , Tegardless of color, race or creed! complete earnestness in their car- On the basis of this fight alone, est party in the world. and to fight for their freedom, is best, is that the Communist Party only party that will grow Because are honest, unprejudiced and mil- District Steel Fight On Tighe PITTSBURGH, Pa. Nov. 13.— William Spang, of Duquesne Lodge, was elected chairman of District 1 of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers at the regular district conference in Char- leroi yesterday. Spang was a member of the Committee of Ten which handed Jast spring’s steel strike over to Mike Tighe, has many times voiced his opposition to the policies of the A. A, leadership, but has a charac- | teristic habit of failing to come for- ward with any of his opposition Policies when such action might take effect. The Sunday conference passed a resolution introduced by Roy Hal- las, blacklisted president of the Clairton Lodge, creating an unem- ployment committee for the dis- trict. This committee will have ployed and part time workers in the union and seeing that all available relief is received by them. It will create the necessary apparatus for carrying on this work and will is- sue regular directives to each lodge. It was announced that the re- quest of the Monessen Lodge for an | election in the Pittsburgh Steel | Company would be heard by the | Steel Labor Board in Pittsburgh on | Nov. 15. EXT STEP — MA Head Weak In charge of registering all unem- | (F.E.R.A. Union| In South Bend Seeks Pay Rise | Endorsement of Wage} | Demand Is Wrung from City Council | SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 13—| The Union of F.E.R.A. Workers here is taking immediate steps io| broaden and extend the fight for | itty cents hourly rates on the re-| lief jobs, for the thirty-hour week jand for unemployment insurance. Already, although small and new | organized, committees from this or- |ganization have forced the City Council to endorse their demands | |for the fifty cent wage rate, have | won coal for some of their members, and are fighting for winter clothing and shoes, |. Their action in sending commit- tees to the City Council has dis- closed the fact that the authorized rate for F.E.R.A. work here is fifty | cents. The wages now paid are forty | cents, but an exchange of letters | \between Representative Pettengill | and Harry L. Hopkins, F.E.R.A. ad- | |ministrator, showed that the higher | rate, the same as paid on C.W.A | should have been made at the start of F.E.R.A. work. Accordingly, the workers have |started a fight for the authorized | rate and all back pay due them| | since the start of F.E.R.A. A speaker | | has been elected to meet with the | | United Voters League of Elkhart on Friday, asking them to join in| |the wage fight. About 400 workers | belong to the Voters League, | Se a | Needle Union To Hold| Bazaar To Raise Fund For Indicted Workers CHICAGO, Ill., Nov. 13.—To raise | a defense fund for twenty-eight in- | dicted needle trades workers who face jail terms for their union ac- | tivities, the Needle Trades Union is | conducting a bazaar on Nov. 16, 17) and 18, at the Workers’ Lyceum, | 2733 West Hirsch Boulevard. Every Chicago trade unionist is urged to | help make the bazaar a success, | | | | School Closing Fought By Workers in Chicopee CHICOPEE, Mass., Nov. 13.— Working class parents met at the | Polish National Home here Sunday | in protest against the closing of the | city schools following the refusal of | the Mayor to sign bills for the transference of funds to the school committee. About 20,000 children | are being denied the right to attend | school. | On two occasions the Board of | Aldermen has passed bills for the | transference of the necessary funds, ;amd on each occasion the Mayor | | has vetoed the bills. | The mass meeting Sunday sent | telegrams of protest to Governor ‘attending. | Ely and the Mayor, demanding the | allocation of school funds. Every C. P. section should make a contribution to the Daily | ‘ Worker $60,000 drive this week! KE THE UN Widespread Campaign For the Daily Worke 'HICAGO, Tll—Sending $25 in answer to the Daily Worker's appeal for immediate contributions, Branch 36 of the Ukrainian Women’s Organization announces that it is organizing a group of women workers to go from house to house to seek support for the Daily Worker. “We believe, own experience,” states resolution, “that only the Com- munist Party (and the Daily Worker) gives the solution to the present economic crisis—not by promises but by organizing the working class to take over what belongs to them... . We call upon all branches to help the Daily Worker.” Part of the proceeds from tenth the the Daily Worker. The celebration takes place next Sunday, Nov. 18, at the Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Avenue. , Se eas Anniversary Brings Funds {RAND RAPIDS, Mich.— The 17th uy Anniversary of the Russian Rev- olution was celebrated here in a packed hall—more than 400 people In addition to Gorky’s “Mother” a newsreel of Earl Brow- der and Clarence Hathaway, ap- pealing for the Daily Worker was shown. After the movies, a collec- tion was made. The result—$9.75. The Hamilton Avenue Branch of THE WAS “I”—WAITING AT THE CHURCH! because of our | their | anniversary celebration of | the entire organization will go to} Limbach—New Masses. | the Working Men’s Association also | contributes $1. eee | FJETROIT, Mich—The Detroit Workers’ Bookshop, on its own | initiative, has set itself a quota of | $75. It is sending the proceeds of | an affair held last Friday night. | ee oe PIVAK, Col.—“‘It is with a great deal of pleasure that I remit to you, in behalf of a group of patients and employees, the sum of $2.13. Comradely yours, Louis Kram: | Work Continues HILADELPHIA, Pa.—This district | has already gone over the top, but work still goes on. |: On Friday: the members of the I. W. O. Children’s School No. 11 | are giving-a party for the “Daily,” | at 1841 Fourth Street. Must Speed Contributions | T= above reports show some of | the activity that is going on throughout the couniry for the Daily Worker’s $60,000 drive. Less | than three weeks remain to com- | plete the total, if the decision of | the Central Committee is to be | carried out. Every Communist | | | | Party section, every mass or- ganization and trade union— every reader—must rush to the aid of the “Daily.” Send your contributions in at once! fact, of its majority. For, what else does their vote for the Declaration of Principles indicate? In voting for this declaration, they pledged themselves to “meet war and the detailed plans for war already mapped out by the war-making arms of the government, by massed war resistance.” This means daily struggle for the postponement and delay of war. In voting for this declaration, they pledged themselves “to fight fascism of every kind all the time and everywhere in the world.” This means daily struggle for the defense of workers’ rights, against capitalist terror, especially for the right to organize and strike. But this is precisely what the Com- munist Party has been doing right along. This is what the Commu- nist Party has repeatedly called upon the Socialist Party to join us in doing. This being the case, why further delay and procrastination of the united front with the Com- munist Party? Delays Not Wanted We know that the rank and file workers of the Socialist Party do not want any more delays. The united front between the Socialist and Communist organizations in Trumbull County, Ohio, and in Taylor Springs, Ill., shows that the S. P. membership took their pledges seriously and are moving to action. The same is true of the united front negotiations between the Italian Federation of the S. P. and the Italian Section of the C. P. This is further evidenced by the broad- ening activities of the “Committee for Socialist Action for the United Front.” It is not clear that fur- their delay by the N. E. C. of the 8. P. to act favorably onthe united front offer of the Communist Party’ means frustrating the will of the majority of the S. P. membership, that it means violating important obligations assured by the Declara- tion of Principles? At this point, we are moved to recall that, when Norman Thomas was still fighting for a majority in the N. E. C. of the S. P., he said that he favored a united front with the Communist Party, without wait- ing for the Second International. He then wrote: “Although organic unity be- tween Socialists and Communists is impossible, there is theoretically NO BAR TO COMMON ACTION on a great many points, includ- ing the defense of such rights as workers now have. + I should favor making some try at it in America without waiting for the loosely knit Second International to act” (The Choice Before Us, Page 151. Our emphasis). Norman Thomas, the leader of the S. P., with a majority in the N. E. C., with the pledges of the Declaration of Principles, is in duty bound to undertake a united front with the Communist Party. Or else, assume the responsibility for vio- lating his own personal piedge and the decisions of a majority of the S. P. membership. Which will he choose? We must already point to the fact that, judging by certain un- mistakable indications, Norman Thomas seems to be tending in the direction (or, should we say, waver- ing in many directions) of making the wrong choice. How, for ex- emple, shall we understand his de- fense of Sell-out Gorman and his attack upon the Communists in connection with the betrayed Na- tional Textile Strike? Surely, one cannot defend Gorman’s treachery and at the same time fight against war and fascisation; one cannot shield people who collaborate with the New Deal in curtailing workers’ rights (Gorman & Co.) and at the same time remain true to one’s solemn declaration, as quoted above, that there is “no bar to common action” between the Socialist and Communist Parties for “the de- fense of such rights as the workers now have.” Norman Thomas must therefore answer: which is it to be —with Gorman & Co. for the sup- Pression of workers’ rights or with the Communist Party for the de- fense of these rights? Right Wing Prepared to Split It is no secret that Norman Thomas and the N. E. C. majority are very much agitated and fright- ened over the splitting maneuvers of the right wing (Waldman, Sol- omon and Co.). It is a fact that the right wing is preparing for a split. Abe Cahan’s Forward Asso- ciation—a pillar of this black out- fit—is striking out of its Constitu- tion the provisions requiring S. P. membership of Forward Board members. Seeing the control of the New York S. P. organization slipping out of their stranglehold (1,189 members having voted for the Declaration of Principles out of a total vote of 2,726), Waldman and Co. are openly threatening a split and are making moves to unite with Gorman (whom Thomas shields), | and with Dubinsky and Hillman, to form, what they fraudulently term, |a “Labor Party,” in reality a top combination of N. R. A. officials (Hillman, Dubinsky, etc.) and right wing “Socialist” lawyers to collab- orate with the New Deal in the name of a Labor Party. In doing |so, the right wing is stealing a march on Thomas, who himself seemed to have been seeking such |@ combination. The right wing is definitely on the offensive. For the Socialist Party member- ship, these developments can only serve to make the issues clearer. They will see now better than here- tofore that compromise with the right wing and steady capitulation to it, the policy which Norman Thomas has been pursuing ever since the Detroit Convention, means capitulation to Dubinsky, Gorman, Hillman; and that this means ca- pitulation to Roosevelt, to the New Deal, to monopoly capital; in short, it means the betrayal of all the class struggle sentiments and ideas which moved the majority of the S. P. membership to vote for the Declaration of Principles. Further- more, it should be clear now to every honest member of the Social- ist Party that the only alternative to compromise with and capitula- tion to the right wing, which means the New Deal, is a bold policy of united front with the Communist Party. In this way we will fight together for the most burning needs of the workers, for their demands and their rights We will fight to- gether in the trade unions to or- ganize the unorganized, for real trade union democracy, for rank and file leadership as against the agents of the N. R. A., for trade union unity. We will fight together in support of our Spanish brothers. We will fight honestly, militantly, and the masses will be with us. Don't Be Deceived Don’t be deceived by the sophisms of some weak-kneed “militants” that by going with the Communist Party in a united front you will’ become “isolated” from the organ- ized labor movement. The con- trary is true. Only by joining with the Communists in the unions will you become of real value to the unions as fighters for class struggle | policies and against class collabora- tion You, the members of the 8. P. in the unions, are now forced © to serve as the plaything in the hands of the Dubinskys, Gormans, Rieves, etc. This gives you a false feeling as though you were in con- tact with the masses. But that is not so. Just ask yourselves: what use are you making of this contact? What purposes are you made to serve despite your own wishes? The answer will show that you are made to serve the reformist bureaucracy; you are made to serve the N. R. A. and all that it stands for. On the other hand, joining with the Com- munist Party in a united front you will be serving the workers and not their enemies, you will be fighting for working class liberatio and against its further enslavement, you will be fighting for a strong class struggle trade union movement in the United States. Isn't that the situation in steel, where the Social- ists are uniting with the Commu- nists to fight jointly against Mc- Mahon? Isn't that also the neces- sary thing to do in mining, to fight against Lewis, and in textile, to fight Gorman; and in garments to fight Dubinsky? And is there any doubt of the favorable immediate and remoter prospects of tinis strug- gle? Of course, not. The Amer- iean masses are moving rapidly toward class struggle and away from class collaboration, i.e, toward the united front and away from the agents of the N. R. A. in the labor movement. The revolutionary up- surge is rising. Remember San Francisco and the National Textile Strike. By our united struggles we will make this revolutionary upsurge express itself also on the parlia- mentary field in the form of mass break-aways from the capitalist parties in time of elections, which, as we know, is not yet the case. The immediate future is ours, it belongs to the united front, and not to the Waldmans, Dubinskys, Gormans and those that capitulate to them. Nor should we be deceived by the efforts to give you a combination (perhaps organic unity) with the renegades from Communism as a “substitute” for the united front with the Communist Party. We need not waste time on the rene- gade clique of Gitlow and Co. This clique can and will serve only one purpose; the purpose of obstructing the united front with the Commu- nist Party. They (the renegades) will serve as mercenaries of disrup- ITED FRONT |Wavering on Question | Of Unity Will Help | Ruling Class | tion of the workers’ ranks for all that is reactionary in the Socialist Party, especially for those who are |Paying lip-service fo the united |front while sabotaging it in prac- | tice. Similarly with the Lovestone | group. | lage of Lovestone, this renegade | group seeks to place itself “in-be- | tween” the Socialist and Commu- nist Parties in order to prevent the consummation of the united front. In this, the ambitious Tammany politicians will fail as they have |failed miserably in their other | “great” ambitions. But when Nor- man Thomas, the titular head of the Socialist Party, is beginning to play with them, obviously as a ma- neuver against the united front with the Communist Party, then it is necessary to say plainly: the S. P. | | |with the Communists, with the | Communist Party, the U. S. section |of the Communist International, | Communism. . The Communist and Socialist workers want an honest and clean united front of struggle on specific issues for the demands of the American masses, and not stone, against the united front. We say to the Socialist Party and its membership: the next step is— MAKE THE UNITED FRONT. And to the membership of the Communist Party: Go to the So- cialist workers and the S. P. organ- izations. Carry to them our offers of united front action—at once, im- mediately, and organize the united enemy. | (W.1. R. Wien Under the Tammany tute- | |membership want a united front} land not with the renegades from| Tammany Hall intrigues, a la Love- | front of action against the common | 8. Against Foes OfCommunism: 2 Cleveland Disrupters: cposed by Relief Group is disruptive in the Cleveland W, and M. yesterday by Workers’ of two per im was John Foley issued tional Office of the ternational Relief. In- nt describing the Tk of these elé- been the policy of: International Relief Workers’ to build a broad membership ora. the ganization, to secure as members individuals from all strata of the Population, workers irrespective of what political party they bee longed to, or what religion they be lieved in, middle class and profes<~ sional people who sympathized with labor. | The program of the W. I. Ry |namely, of helping to win strikes | by collecting and distributing strike relief, supplying material aid to the” hunger marches of the unemployed, | permeating working class neighbor=' hoods to establish unity for neigh- borhood welfare, building workers’ cultural groups, presupposes that” each W. I. R. branch or group | would constitute a rank and file | united front of all kinds of work- ers and sympathizers. The Cleveland W. I. R. has to its credit many successful united front actions. However, in the recent. | period, it has allowed itself to de- generate into a center of disrup- tive work within the W. I. R. and | of destructive criticism of the Com- munist Party. John Foley, an expelled member | of the Communist Party, was able- | to gather around himself a number. | of Party members, M. J. Elliot and | others, and use the W. I. R. to |Ppoison the minds of workers | against the Party. The W. I. Ren | Was made the center of constant at-. tacks upon the Party, of spreading slanderous rumors about the Party,- one of which was that the Party, had within its Cleveland leadership several members who were con- nected with the capitalist govern-- ment. | This resulted in the disintegra- | tion of the W. I. R., resulted in~ | narrowing its activities, in disabling its members from carrying out~ their tasks. The object of this Foley. and Elliot group was to weaken the Communist Party, to” | poison the minds of workers against it. This can only be characterized as counter-revolutionary work and |the W. I. R. can under no circum | stances allow itself to be the cen- | ter of such activities. | Ernest Wagenknecht, the former secretary of the Cleveland W. I. R, | allowed himself to be influenced by this Foley group, to which he sur< | rendered. A new W. I. R. secretary j had to be elected. In the mean= | time the Foley group is attempting. | to constitute itself as a self-styled | W. I. R. of Cleveland. | The National Office of the W. I. | R. will under no circumstances give recognition to this group, which is, | doing harm to the W. I. R. It calls upon all W. I. R. members to join the official W. I. R. of Cleveland, whose secretary is Comrade Lucas: It calls upon former W. I. R. mem- bers, who have for the moment been disgusted with the unhealthy situation in the Cleveland W. Ll. R., and upon those honest workers who are still being misled and poi- soned by Foley, to join the official W. I. R. branch of Cleveland. The Communist Party has always given all the co-operation within its power to the activities of the W. I, R.,-and its members have. been the most courageous in strike situations,, where the relief activities of the W.- I. R. were menaced by the thugs. and police of the bosses and cap | italist rulers. Not only will the W. | I. R. refuse to allow itself to be the center of spreading false accusa- tions and rumors against the Com- munist Party—it will fortify itself against falsely accusing any or- ganization, against all dishonesty within the ranks of the working. class and its friends among the poor middle class and professionals. Only this kind of attitude will win the support of workers of all political beliefs and of other points of view for the W. I. R. and its program. ~ ALFRED WAGENKNECHT, National Secretary. | Workers’ International Re! |— Philadelphia, Pa. || Lecture bu || John L, SPIVAK “Plotting the American Pogrom” || THURSDAY, NOV. 15—8 P. M. BROADWAY ARENA | Broad & Christian Sts. Admission 25. cents Auspices: International Labor Defense Boston, Mass. Illustrated Lecture Wednesday, November 14, TREMONT TEMPLE, by Prof. H. W. L. DANA “Progress in the Soviet Union’ ’ at 8 P. M. BOSTON