The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 17, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1934 ROOSEVELT AND BIG INDUSTRIALISTS CONFER IN WASHINGTON BOSSES USE TIGHE’S RACKETEER WAYS FOR CO. UNION DRIVE stan, PLAN NEW = ATTACK iene Asked to AND OTHER TRADES. Wall St. Agents Confer in Washington on Loans and Subsidies to Heavy, Industry and on Methods of Driving WASHINGTON, D. C. Down Wage Levels | Nov. 16.—The leading repre- sentatives of Wall Street industrial monopoly are now holding conferences with the Roosevelt government as part of the more open alignment of certain sections of industrial capital with the Roosevelt N This was made clear on report of the expected developments in the “port St. Brooklyn. 22: 0f the Chaco dispute, which is really sessions of the Chamber of Com- merce of the Unit States which opened its meetings here today. Following the lead of th domi- nant i who have becor 2 upport of all of Roosevelt's New Deal poli- cies, leading Wall Street agents like Lewis Brown of the Johns-Manvil Corporation, a J. P. Morgan com- pany, and Howard Heinz of the food industry, have been conferring with Roosevelt personally In addition, Raymond Moley. Roosevelt's special advisor and lead- ing propagandist for the New Deal, has also been interviewing leading | manufacturers and employers from interests more closely Roosevelt machine. with the One of the major objectives now | of the Roosevelt conferences with ew Deal. ‘Drop in Steel Cuts More Pay For Workers By L. RK. A. The steel ingot production rate in October was 24.59 per cent of capac- | \ity as compared with 36.89 per cent jin October last year and the “New Deal” high of 58.30 per cent in the inflation boom days of July, 1933. October production rate was thus, A | xcept for August and September x all over the country, lining up these | which were about 23 per cent, the | and subscribe. lowest point that has been reached | since Roosevelt came into office. The current operating rate is about| 26.5 per cent, the recent small rise | the Wall Street industrialists is to |oyer October being due primarily to plan ways for the government to aid these monopoli to restore markets in the heavy goods indus- tries which have failed to show any sign of upturn. Such plans as di- rect, subsidies in the form of loans | to capitalists, and building pro- | grams involving heavy government purchases of the products of heavy industry, are being discussed. But the most important subject under discussion, it is reported, is the wage levels in such industries as the building trades, where Roose- velt and the employers have been trying for some time to beat down the present union levels behind a smokescreen of a building program. Furniture Union Head Held in Bail of $10,000 On Framed-Up Charge The Jamaica Special Term Court denied a motion made yesterday by the attorney for the Furniture Workers Industrial Union for re- duction of the $10,000 bail set for Frank Francisco, member of the uni on the charge that he al- legedly had beaten up Victor Viola while scabbing during a strike at “ithe Classic Furniture Company, 3640 Thirty-seventh St., Astoria, S24. 1, two months ago. Francisco was arrested on Tues- | day while at work in the Newp * Parlor Frame Company. 240 New- | Max Perlow, | Organizer of the union, claimed | yesterday that Francisco was ar-! rested on a framed-up charge and | +: that Viola has been working for | ;;months at the Classic up to two weeks ago. While at a hearing before Mrs. Pearson of the Regional Labor Board, on the request of the union for the reinstatement of some of the Classic strikers, Louis Bornkop, + President of the company, threat- ened Perlow, stating that while they have the union men arrested, they will “go after all of you.” . S. Refuses to Act On Proposal to Halt Bolivia-Paraguay War, GENEVA, Nov. 16.—Coldly refusing to intervene in the bloody struggie the conflict of American and Brit- | ish imperialism over valuabie petro-| Jeum deposits in the Chaco area, | ;with the victims and pawns re-| spectively being Bolivia and Para- Guay, Secretary of State Cordell Hull today advised Prentiss Gilbert, | American Consul at Geneva, to in- form the League Committee that he did not believe that “the pres- | ent is an opportune time for the United States to actively participate in the Chaco Committee's efforts.” | Cordell cynically referred to the distant future as being time enough | to halt the savage slaughter caused by its imperialist policy and de-| clared that the government would | ‘act when it would appear “to prove | useful to further peace in the! Chaco.” Cleveland te Ses Film Of Thaelmann’s Life — | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Noy. 16.—The | _ biographical motion picture of the life of Ernst Thaelmann will be shown here starting on Sunday at ~ 1:30 p.m. at the Penn Square Thea- tre, East 55th St. and Euclid Ave. The film, smuggled out of Ger- Many, shows almost consecutive | scenes from the life and revolution- try activity of Thaeilmann from 1918 to the time of his arrest and includes scenes from Dimitroff's trial. “Siberian Patrol,” a Soviet Movie will be an added attraction. John Reed Club of New York | still napping in the Rip Van | Winkle manner, when it should | be arousing its members to par- ticipate in the Daily Worker $60,000 drive. Other cultural or- ganizations have done it. It is not sufficient to support the rev- olutionary movement in practice. We expect concrete response to jifornia on a Democratic ticket has |raised many | King Carol was on his way to open | Parliament, | tempted to present a petition. }a slight pick-up in the automobile | schedules. Steel consumption rate during | October ran about 30 per cent of | ingot capacity. In November and| December we estimate it will not be much above 25 per cent or about the | same as last year. As a result of } the consumption rate running re- jcently above production rate, stocks of steel have been reduced materi- | ally. However, production in the} near future is likely to remain more | in line with consumption, unless of | course inflation moves of the Roose- velt administration again stimulate production to 1933 high levels. Payrolis Drop What the workers are getting out of this picture is clear from the figures of employe:s’ agenc! Ac- jcording to the American Iron and | Steel Institute, official propaganda jagency for the companies, steel em- |ployment in September was 6 per }cent lower than in August and ; Nearly. 10 per cent below September ;of last year. The industry’s payroll! | showed an even greater drop inj eptember, 15 per cent helow | August and nearly 22 per cent un- | der September last year. | Steel company propaganda of }course refers to the higher hourly | wage rates being paid to worke:s, |but these rates mean little to the worker in terms of food, clothing | and shelter unless he has sufficient employment to give him an ade- quate weekly wage. But when we look at National Industrial Confer- ence Board figure on average hours per week we find that it was 22.6 in September, the lowest for the whole crisis period. For the third quarter of the year the average hours pe: week worked amounted to 24. The) previous low quarter had been the third quarter of 1932, when the} average was 25.4 | Low Weekly Earnings | These low hours per week lead to Jow average weekly earnings, which in September were oniy $14.49, a little better than the crisis low of $12.27 in September, 1932, A considerable growth of the stagger (share-the-work) system was noted in the third quarter of this year. Steel companies can still point (in September) to an emplo;- ment index of 75.1 as compared with 75.3 in the first quarter of 1931 in the first quarter of 1932 and 75.2 in the fourth quarter of 1933. But the short-time worked, as noted, is reflected in the unprecedented low average hours per week. Sender Garlin Speaks On Sinclair Tomorrow An analysis of the literary and political career of Upton Sinclair will be presented by Sender Garlin, Daily Worker siaff writer and co- editor of Partisan Review, at the Jonn Reed Club, 430 Sixth Avenue, Sunday night at 8:30. For years Upton Sinclair has oc- cupied a leading position in Amer- ican radical literature, and his re- cent campaign for governor of Cal- significant questions concerning the development of radi- cal literature and politics in this| country. Garlin, in his lecture on} “The Literature and Politics of Up-| ton Sinclair,” will discuss at length | the questions involved. Petitioner Cut Down | Trying to See Carol! BUCHAREST, Nov. 16—The fear of assassination which haunts the heads of capitalist nations caused the death this afternoon of an ap- parently innocent petitioner. As a young officer at- No sooner did he approach the king's | motor-car, however, than he was immediately cut down and mur- dered. Mere and more intellectuals and artists are coming over to the revolutionary way ont. The only | true gnide is the Communist Party and the Daily Worker. Con- tribute today to assure the Daily | unemployment insurance and relief | | $60,000 quota by December ack Jobless Meet: from 1) Page already been taken to set up local groups to sponsor the National Con- gress for Unemployment Insurance. Wherever these groups and com- mittees have not yet been set up,” Benjamin said, “steps should imme- | diately be taken for their establish- | ment.” In Milwaukee, at a conference on | held on Oct. 29, anc attended by | delegates from two Central Labor bodies of the American Federation of Labor, A. F. of L., independent and Trade Union Unity League | unions, as wel] as farmers’ and un- employed wotkers’ groups, such a committee has been established. Printed Call Ready In Philadelphia, a united front conference is being arranged and a sponsoring committee set up to get delege from every organization in the city. | The call to the National Congress, | now available in printed form at a} cost of fifty cents a hundred, $3.50 a thousand, from the national of- fice, room 624, at 799 Broadway, should receive the widest distribu- tion among the membership of every organization, Benjamin said. The call, to which is attached delegates’ credentials, lists the pre- requisites for unemployment insur- ance, which each participating organization is asked to endorse From Gem, Idaho, J, Mac- Donald sends $1 “to help make the Daily Worker a big city paper. This is sent from one who was one of the original stockholders of the “Daily. My only regret is that I am unable to make this money order larger.” We need a steady flow of such $1 contribu- tions—and more—to reach the 1 ; Communists. Delegates Ousted As | ‘Communists’ By N.Y. Trades, Labor Council | Severino, Bricklayers’ Representative, Called ‘N Longer Acceptable’—Action on Paper and Bag Union Delegate Upheld NEW YORK.—In its determination to weed out every militant worker from its ranks, the New York Trades and Labor Council, at its meeting Thursday night, decided to send a letter to Local 37 of the Bricklayers Union with the information that Angelo Severino, its delegate is “no longer The reason given for ¢ acceptable.” the action is Green’s order to expel The Council likewise approved the action of its Executive Commit- tee in refusing to seat Daye Gor- don as delegate of Local 107 of the Paper Plate and Bag Makers Union on the ground that he is a Communist, Severino is a member of the Ex- ecutive Board of Local 37, and is well known among thousands of | workers as a most devoted member. He held various offices in the un- ion for years, including the presi- dency. Firemen Attack Building Union A motion to protest the expul- sion of twenty-one students out of City College of New York, for par- ticipation in an anti-fascist dem- onstration, was referred to the committee. on education. The Council went on record against the Fairchild Bill which would provide a tax of two cents on each eleyated and subway fare, A delegate representing the fire- men launched an attack against the Building Service Workers Un- ion, charging that men under their jurisdiction, such as high pressure boiler service men are taken away from them by an initiation fee of only $3.00 This was a hint to local 32-B of the Building Service Workers, that its efforts to organ- Ask your acquaintances for funds! ize all working in the buildings, | ployer wants electricians, plasterers | into the. trade union movement, will strike many obstacles, in the craft form of the A. F. of L, Collins Attacks Communism James J, Bambrick, president of Local 32-B of the Building Service Workers Union, took the floor to | assure everyone that when a set- | tlement ig made, there will be provisions for classifying each worker's job in a manner that will not infringe upon the jurisdiction of any of the building trades un- ions. He declared that if an em- or painters, the respective unions will have to be called to furnish the workers. The Council was adressed by Willian Collins, Eastern Organizer of the A. F. of L. whose main theme was that the “conservative ideas of American unionism should be taught the youth now flowing otherwise they will take to fascism or Communism.” The officers of the Council Which include the en- tire former reactionary — set-up, were installed, with much mutual edmiration speech-making. Die Naturfreunde, Inc. of Brook- lyn, N. Y., pledged to raise $20 for the $60,000 fund. What are the Nature Friends throughout World S. P. Gives Reply on Unity (Continued from Page 1) for a world united front of Socialists and Communists, the leaders of the Socialist International try to block it by slandering the workers’ state of the Soviet Union and proposing counter-revolutionary conditions. But the united front must be achieved, despite this sabotage, if the working class is to defeat fas- cism. All Socialists, honestly «desiring the united front, should reject the sabotaging, counter - revolutionary “conditions” proposed by the Exec- utive Committee of the Second In- ternational. Socialists, the united front is the most pressing necessity in the fight against fascism, and should be formed immediately here in the United States, despite the counter- revolutionary conditions of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Socialist International. What is needed now is action in support of the Spanish workers, not conditions to aid ene- mies of the victorious proletarian revolution in Russia. What is needed now is a fighting united front against fascism, war and hunger. This united front can and will be established. Workers’ Book Shops: A good method for raising funds for the Daily Worker $60,000 campaign was carried out by the Detroit Workers’ Book Shop, which ar- ranged a book-review evening (of R. P. Duti’s “Fascism-and the Social Revolution”). Discussion and questions followed. A low ad- mission will insure a large crowd, and a substantial sum toward the $60,000 drive of the Daily Worker! In what place does your section stand among the other Party sec- tions in your district? Will your section carry out the decision of the Central Committee that all the country doing for the Daily Worker? quotas in the $60,000 drive be fin- ished by Dec, 17 A Square Deal for Ex-Servicemen Demanded In the War Veterans’ Three Point Program By H. E. BRIGGS | IN a series of articles now running | in the Daily News, a Mr. Fred Pasley claims to tell the truth about. the «“bonus” question.* Before we | analyze Mr. Pasley’s articles, let us find out why the Daily News is in favor of the “bonus” at this time. On the preceding “bonus” marches, the News, like the rest of the yellow Capitalist. sheets was against the “Bonus” and the men who asked for it. If you look back, you will see | that the vets we1> called all the names fit to print. Now, the News comes forth as a champion of the | needy vets. In an editorial full of praise and weeping, the News laments their “dire need” and cen- sures the government for not pay- ing the “Bonus” immediately. This sudden interest has a reason, of course. Those in high circles are bent on | inflation. The “Bonus” is an easy | way of starting the drive, a bone to the millions of vets and their families and a scapegoat issue when inflation gets out of control. This is also the reason for the change of heart of Senator Borah, always a demogagic fence sitter; Pittman, always a staunch anti “Bonus” man; Bachrach of New Jersey, Siro- vich of New York, etc. They feel the turn of the tide and expect to profit in votes when the vets are broke again. The News, being the two-faced hypocrite that it is, also jumps on the “Bonus” band wagon to profit by increased circulation. Over four million veterans are in- terested in the “Bonus” question, so, a high-powered reporter is hired to whoop it up, but not too much. It is important that the public should know who the champions of the vets are. When all this goes under the heading of “recovery,” it is easy to see just what the powers that be have in the back of their mind. The discovery by the Daily News that the vets are in “dire need” and that the “Bonus” is a “just debt,” contradicts Roosevelt's Roanoke speech, where he said that the vets are better off, as a class, than any other group of citizens. Such solicitude is like throwing a drowning man a life preserver after he goes down for the third time. Half truths were never more dan- | gerous than at this stage of the’ struggle for the “Bonus.” One of these is that the vets are in need. | Yes, the ery for the “bonus” at the | Legion Convention in Miami has its echo in every flop-house, bread line, shanty town, C.C.C. camp, relief project, etc. throughout the coun- try. The Daily News doesn’t men- tion this. No, its mouthpiece, Mr. Pacley, gives all the credit for the “ponus” fight to what he calls the “No. 1 Men” in the Legion and V.F.W. In his first article, he beats the drum for Commander Van Zandt, V.F.W., praising his stand on the “Bonus” fight. Frank N. Bel- grano, newly elected Commander of the Legion is also praised, but not the fact that the executive commit- tee, behind the backs of the rank} and file substituted the word “recommend” for the word MAND.” DEMAND is what the rank and file did however, and DEMAND | it shall be, regardiess of the tinker- | ing of the executive committee. this determined stand and ing rank and file move- those who marched to ment Washington in 1932, ’33, and '34, of which is influencing the dema- gogues on Capitol Hill, and the “our appeal for funds! Worker’s future) press they contrg@l As , | thumping no drums, | that knows no defeat and a strategy | defeat and strategy that goes “pe. | Sneers at “Mob” N a jazzy, insolent manner, be- fitting a tabloid artist, Pasley proceeds to sneer at the “pitiful mob” that stormed Washington -in 1932. He says, “flying no banners, the shock troops of a new ‘Bonus’ Army have invaded the nation’s capitol.” He calls these, “No, 1 Men “a hand- picked lot (emphasis mine, H. E. B.), with a discipline that clicks, a spirit that goes places.” Further on, he tells us, “their dug-outs are comfortable offices, their ammunition moral suasion (emphasis mine, H. E, B.) backed by some four million votes.” Now, every rank and file veteran, knows that the “No. 1 Men” have influence, fine offices and moral suasion. But as for a “discipline that clicks, a spirit that knows no places,” these are the qualities of the rank and file. Back in 1932, the V.F.W. leader- ship conducted a campaign for a million signatures for the “Bonus.” These were deposited on the Capi- tol steps where the press photog- raphers snapped the leaders sur- rounded by their. “efforts.” The pictures were distributed widely and hailed as a move for the “Bonus.” However, when the leaders went home, the million signatures went the way of all wood pulp and the discipline minded leaders forgot) about the “Bonus,” but the rank and file did not. Twenty-five thousand veterans stormed the Capitol and stayed there until they | were forced out with tear gas, bul- lets and bayonets. If the V.F.W. and the American Legion leaders: had the discipline, courage and strategy of these men in their make up, they would have renounced their comfortable offices and “moral suasion” for some MASS ACTION. They would have shared the mud flats of Anacostia, the tear gas and bayonets, and today, the “Bonus” would have been paid. ve . A “New Interest” UT, this is asking too much of a leadership which has nothing in common with the rank and file, a leadership whose courage is as weak as their promises. However, they heve designs on the rank and file, and a “new interest” in the “bonus.” For once the “bonus” is paid, with the help of these “cham- |pions,” they can appeal to the rank land file for support of their pro- ‘gram for a bigger army and navy, strike-breaking, and other fascist measures, now being hatched be- hind closed doors. Thus, in Amer- ica as in Europe, the ex-servicemen will be wooed with a bone in the hope that they can be used against their fellow workers in the future. | We, for one, do not think this will wholly succeed, for the simple reason that the rank and file are now aware of their own power and that the struggle of their fellow workers for better conditions is also theirs. The capitalist press may praise Belgrano and VanZandt, but the rank and file know through their own bitter experience that every convention has been a fight to the finish between those who want the {“bonus” and those who do not wish ,to have the “bonus” paid. At every convention, both of the V.F.W. and of the American Legion, the leader- ‘ship has threatened, cajoled, used jthe “red” scare, played with the vain effort to make them forget im- mediate payment. Even that staunch “friend” of the vet, Representative Patman, let the “bonus” resolution ‘die without a fight in the sub-com- mittee report at the Chicago Con- vention of the Legion. At the Miami convention, he was again active for very good reasons, His state, Texas, has one of the largest groups ot vets in the country and one -needs their votes to stay in Congress. Since the currency is to be inflated, any- way, why not be an inflationist. This, and the strong demand of the rank and file, is what produced the “bonus” victory at the Miami con- vention. As far as the leadership goes, it was a mere gesture. For already, Commander Belgrano is stalling. He recently stated “we passed many resolutions. none should take pre-eminence.” This simply means that the rank and file must be on the alert, or they will be feced with a phoney com- promise. In fact, compromises are already the order of the day. One of these is the elimination of all interest cherges on the balance due in 1945 instead of cash payment. Another is the installment idea. This bright idea is coupled with the question of relief. Those on relief will be dropped. The “bonus” issued to them in monthly allotments of $10, $15, or what have you. In other words, the vet who needs an overcoat, a suit, etc., will be no bet- ter off than he was before, since a decent suits costs a‘ least $35, how is he to keep a family, pay rent, eat and clothe himself on $10 a month. This is less than he gets Gf he is lucky) for relief. If he cannot get along on the miserly relief. how will he get along on an equally stingy allotment from his “bonus.” He won't, And the rank and file of the Legion know this, that is why they demanded imme- diate cash payment without interest charges and other strings attached. These compromises are not openly opposed by the leadership of the V.F.W. and American Legion. Yet, Mr. Pasley makes no reference to any of these maneuvers. The “bonus” is in the bag! But, every effort must be made betwren now and January to see that the “No. 1 Men” do not betray our cause as in the past. When Mr. Pasley evades the fight of the rank and file to praise the “No. 1 Men,” he does this to keep the public from knowing that the rank and file are growing in power every day. The public must be given the “cor- rect” impression. Too much credit to the “mob” that stormed Wash- ington in 1932 would be out of place. This would take the power from the leaders, and under capitalism a leader without power is a fish out of water. are the main force in the drive for the “bonus” Mr. Pasley knows full well. But he also has a job to keep and so it is better to be an “im- partial” reporter. Silent on Convention JT ALSO goes without. saying that Mr. Pasley makes no reference to the Convention of the Rank and File held in Washington last Spring, where members of the American Legion, V.F.W., D.A.V,, Spanish War Vets, Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’'s League and unattached vets laid down and adopied the now famous three-point p:ogram. This not only demands full and immediate cash payment of the “bonus,” but also demands the repeal of the Economy Aci and passage of the Workers’ president and. in general, gazged |the voice of the rank and file in a That the rank and te ance Bill, H. R. 7598, This Conven- tion, like the former “bonus” marches, was ignored by the lead- ers of the American Legion, V.F.W. and D.A.V. or dénounced as a “red plot” and a deliberate move to em- barass the Roosevelt program. But, it proved to the rank and file that they could get as much from the White House as the Legion lobby- ists, V.F.W. petitions and the quiet pleas of the D.A.V. At this conven- tion, 38 Senators promised to vote for the “bonus” “if and when” it could be brought out of the Senate Finance Committee. This, was, of course, buck-passing. However, the rank and file did not swallow these premises and forget them like the leadership of the V-F.W. forgot about their million signatures in 1932. The rank and file determined to double this number of Senators by January. This convention, no doubt, influenced the rank and file of the Legion at Miami, Mr. Pasley also ignores the fact that the “bonus” is not the whole question confronting the rank and file veterans. Nor will it settle all of their problems. Of course, the first and foremost fight must be to get the “bonus” bill out of the Senate Finance Committee, and enough Senators to over-ride a Presidential. vote, but after this there are equaily important veteran issues. One is the fight for the Re- peal of the Econemy Act. This has the “No. 1 Men” of the American Legion and V.F.W. scared to death. In fact, they dodge this as much as they do the “onus,” because these men are directly linked with the National Economy League. and that most vicious of anti-veteran organizations, the American Vet- erans’ Association. These are the big money boys who dictate Rocse- velt's policies and the “No. 1 Men” know where their bread is buttered. These two organizations are the ones who influenced Roosevelt to but over the Economy Act, Need- Jess to say, they must be fought tooth and nail, if the veteran wants @ square deal. The third and equally important point for veterans is the passage of the Workers’ Un- employment and Social Insurance Bill. No one doubts, not even those who are the “friends” of the vet= erans, that the “bonus” is a mere drop in the bucket. after it is spent, the veteran will find that he is still unemployed, hungry and broke with the cost of living. going up, With each inflationary. shot in the currency arm. To whom and what shall he turn for relicf? Cer- tainly not to the leadership of the American Legion, V.F.W. and D.A.V., which he has had to fight all these years for these measly few dollars. No. he will find once more that his only champion is that foremost rank and file organization, a leader in every fight for his rights, the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, which is now in the forefront in the fight for the “bonus” and the re- peal of the Economy Act is also for the only thing that can keep him and his fellow workers from misery and starvaticn—that is the passage of the Unemplcyment In- surance Bill. On guard, buddy, fon the rank and file movement—join the W. E. Ss. L. Fight for the three-point pro- gram: 1. Immediate cash payment of the bonus. 2. Repeal of the Economy Act. 3. Passage of the workers’ unem- Unemployment and facial Insur- ployment and social insurance bill. Pamphlet by Steel Firm Stool Pigeon Seeks to Capitalize Disgust of Workers With A.A. Methods To Build Boss-Controlled Organization PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 16.—Using the weapons oblige ingly provided by Mike Tighe, William Green, John L, Lewis, and the other American Federation of Labor misleaders in the sellout and breaking of strikes and the heavy grafting of the bureaucrats, the steel, aluminum and other allied eme Peasants Fight British Troops In Nigeria BALTIMORE, Novy. 16.—Severe fighting between Nigerian peasants and British troops is reported in | a dispatch smuggled out of Lagos, capital of the British West African slave colony, and received this week by the Baltimore Afro-Amer- ican, The fighting began in the south- ern provinces of Nigeria and has quickiy spread to other parts of | the country, the dispatch states. in Ijebu-Ode, the Awijole or Chief, Glieglegbuwa II, who acts as tax collector for his British masters, was shot and seriously wounded and the British governor who was with him at the time was forced to take to his heels. ‘The governor was holding a con- ference with the native chiefs to mobilize them for the breaking of peasant resistance to the tax col- lectors, when a peasant broke through the police line and opened fire on the lackey chiefs with a shot gun. Chief Glieglegbuwa II was wounded in the hand, and had to have his hand amputated at the local hospital. . The fighting began in the middle of September, when the annual tax poll became due. Due to the catas- trophic effects of the world crisis of capitalism on the colonies, and the fall of the price of agricultural products. and increased taxation as the imperialist plunderers at- tempted to shift the burden of the crisis to the backs of the colonial slayes aswell. as on the workers in the home countries, the natives had no money to pay the tax. The tax collectors then began confiscat- ing the natives’ live stock and other property. The natives organ- ized protest meetings, and finally resorted to armed resistance against the government. : The armed power of the imperi- alists was then unleashed against the peasants, with numerous punitive expeditions of troops, which burned down peasant homes, and shot down many peasants, including an old man who was clubbed to death with the butt of a gun, and a Woman bayonetted and now in a hospital in a critical condition. Nigeria is the largest British colony in West Africa, with a population of 20,000,000 Negroes. Two years ago, British troops fired into a meeting of Nigerian women who were protesting against the high taxes and con- fiscation of the property of the peasants. U. S. Reports Show Sharp Fall in Wages Of Metal Workers By Labor Research Association U. S. Bureau of the Census re- ports on pig iron and fero-alloys produced in blast furnaces for the census years 1931 and 1933, show that while in this period the num- ber of workers decreased 11-per cent and the total value of products turned out decreased 31.4 per cent, total wages paid declined 40 per cent, Z ‘The report for the same two years for steel works and rolling mills shows that although the number of workers increased by 4.6 per cent, and total value of products de- creased by only 18.5 per cont, wages fell 23.5 per cent. In both these industries note the greater decrease in wages than in the value of the goods turned out by those workers. Wage cuts, speed- up and “share-the-work” schemes are all reflected in these census “igures. Jews Are Excluded From Boston Jury He will find thet this organization, | pose: BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 15,—Anti- semitism was given legal sanction at two libel suit trials in which Jews were excluded from serving on the jury by mutual c=sent of lawyers for poth sides. For the first time in the history of Mass- achusetts the fascist Jew-hating dogma was utilized for legal pur- 5. ‘ The libel suits were brought by the Artkino Guild, Inc, one of @ group of theatres showing So- viet. movies, against the Industrial Defense Association, an anti-Com- munist and fascist organization, and its secretary, Edward H. Hunter, The suit was brought on the bas’s of a report allegedly cir- culated by Hunter in behalf of the organizotion, in which the guild claims it was libelled. But the guild's way of fighting the anti-semitic lies of Hunter and his. group was to accept the pro- posal that Jews be excluded from the trial, thus setting up a prec— ‘©ployers of Western Pennsylvania are pointing to the facts of A. F. of L. racketeering in an effort to break the faith of the workers in anything which smacks of “outside unionism,” so as to build the come pany unions. Their latest blow, reathing home to the sore spot of union racketeer- ing, is a 16-page pamphlet, now being mailed out to aluminum and steel workers, written by one James B. Finley, president of the ‘“‘Alle- gheny Steel Employees Union” of Brackenridge, Pa. The organization which Finley heads is the company union of the Allegheny Steel Co., one of the strongest “representative plans” in the industry, and was built by smashing the Amalgamated lodge there following the sellout of the Spring steel strike by Tighe and Green. Workers’ discharged from this plant for trying to build the A. A. haye appealed to the official- dom in vain for action against the blacklist. Description of Sellout Entitled “New Facts About Labor Unions,” Finley’s pamphlet devotes two full pages to a true enough description of how the A. Fy of L. fakers offered to’sell out the alum- inum workers’ strike on Aug. 30. Of the “self-styled labor leaders” of the A. F. of L. it says, they “are nothing more than racketeers and self-seekers who at heart. have no real concern ‘about the welfare of the workers in general... their only real interest in labor centers in scheming for ways and means of bleeding the workers and forcing them to pay enormous sums of money into the treasuries.” The article thén points out a “glaring example of tactics’’ used in an attempt to betray the alum- inum strike, which was called on four main issues: ‘Recognition, a union contract, a universel wage seale involving an increase, and the check-off. Finley quotes a United Press dispatch of Aug.’ 30—"Union represeritatives ‘stated “they ‘would relinquish all other unsettled de- mands if the company would grant the checkoff.” Vicious Conclusions The writer then states, “Such a proposal amounted to a complcie sell-out of the workers. Union lead- ers were again running true form, the union [leadership- offering to make a deal insv itself of a nice fat income in \.. from the workers.” Finley’s line is a vicious one, lumping together A. F. of L. reform- ist misleaders and Communists as “outside agitators,” and recommend- ing that the latter of these two should be “sent back where they belong.” Quotes Racketeering Regulations There is a saw to the effect that no more devastating weapon can be used against one than one’s own words, and Finley quotes facts and figures from the A. A. constitution, carefully built during a long reign of Mike Tighes, to show what rack- eteering officials can do at present. Quoting verbatim from the pro« visions of the A. A. constitution, Finley shows that the International Lodge (the Tighe staff) could in 12 months collect. a total. of $177,000 per year from a sub-lodge of 3,500 members, the number | employed normally at the Allegheny Steel plans, Event the organization of a sub-lodge that size, as Finley proves, would cost the workers join- ing a total of $10,500. He délves deeply into the A. A. to constitution. to point cut. provisions , for “two per cent assessments on the wages of members,” and clauses empowering the International Ex- ecutive Beard to “fine, suspend, or revoke the charter of said lodge,” when a lodge refuses to “pay or cole lect all assessments.” Another sec tion Finley quotes to show that “No person shall work at a scale job or constitutional job in any mill signing the A. A. scale,” unless he becomes a member of the union and “pays all dues, fnies, and as- sessments levled by the Amal- gamated Association.” Because of Tigne’s bureaucratic control of the union, and his be- traying policies in throttling senti- ment of the workers for direet ec- tion, his brazen. sell-out of the steel strike, not. one lodge can boast cf ® wage increate which can be ate tributed to Amalgamated action. Not one case can be mentioned where the A. A. cbtained a wage agreement even without an incre2so of any kind. Amalgamated top lead ers: have broken one strike and brought the Weirton Stesl Co. into federal court to charge them with “viclation of Section 7a of the N, R. A.” and that is the extent of their activities for the members during the past two years. s T! }} f It is the traitorous policies of © Tighe and Go. which have allowed the Allegheny Steel ‘Co. to drive the union almest out of ¢xistence in Brackenridge and install a compans union which feeds tho stecl workers gum drops and sal; during the warm weather so that they can ke fur the: specded up. _ It is thei: continued support of the same tzcachotous policies which furnish fuel for Mr. Finley’s fire and enables him to spread his com= pany unicn poison among the steel workers of other plants and those employed in othe: industries—an- other phase of the united front bee edent that will be utilized by fas- cist groups in their activities, \ tween the A. F. cf L. top leaders and the employing class, bi : si _—