The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 24, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1934 JAPAN SEEKS CONFLICT IN SETTLING SALE OF SOVIET LINE. SETS CONDITIONS WHICH LAY BASIS ~#OR NEW DISCORD Press Falsifies Soviet Stand on Guarantees — Japan Insists on Being ‘Arbiter’ of Possible Disputes—Ignores Terms of Agreement (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 23 (By Wireless). — The Japanese- | city. Manchurian press continues to publish deliberately false ‘Communists Name Slate | In Chicago Party Presents 11-Point | Programin Spring | Election Campaign CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 23, — The District Committee of the Commu- nist Party has nominated the fol- lowing candidates for offices in this For Mayor, Karl Lockner, the outstanding mass leader of the un- reports regarding the progress of negotiations for the sale | employed. of the Chinese Eastern Railway. According to the material collected by Tass, the Soviet News Agency, published today, the¢— Japanese course in the negotiations hows an extreme unpliability and willingness to meet half-way in » number of quite natural demands nm the part of the Soviet Union. This is the case in the first place regarding the desire of the U. S. 8. R. to receive a guarantee of pay- ment on the price of the C. E. R. Against this business-like position of the Soviet representatives the Japanese advance the principle of “trusting” Manchukuo and. promise to “mediate” in case of difficulties in the receipt of payments. Soviet Stand Distorted Moreover, the Japanese, particu- larly the Japano-Manchurian press, is attempting to present the Soviet demand for some guarantee as an expression of mistrust, as almost an insult to Manchukuo and Japan by the Soviet Union. The Soviet demand in this case, when it is a question of selling in terms of in- stallments a tremendous economic enterprise, which at the same time is transferred to the new owner immediately upon conclusion of the greement, is a usual insistence on guarantee and must be regarded is self-understood. As to “mistrust,” it is quite evi- dent that the Soviet Union would not demand a Japanese guarantee if it had no trust in the effective- ness of this guarantee. Thus the granting of the Japanese guarantee should secure the normal function- ing of the agreement immediately. Further, the Soviet ‘representa- tives advanced the principle of ar- bitration in case of possible dif- ferences in thé supplying of goods on account and in the sums due the railway, and in case of the im- possibility of coming to terms re- garding the choice of an impartial umpiré, the Soviet side proposed that some foreign chamber of com- merce’ of sound international repu- tation be appointed as umpire, ‘This proposal of the U. 8 S. R.”fol- lowed from its striving in the in- terests of consolidating normal re- lations between the U. S. 8. R. and Japan beforehand, in order to re- move the possibility that disputes and conflicts, which might arise in the fulfillment of the agreement, f= the source of new compli- ations, Japan Wants To Be “Arbitrator” However, the Japanese object to arbitration with the participation of a foreign arbitrator, proposing instead to invite a representative of the Japanese Foreign Minister or the Japanese Ministry of Trade in the capacity of judge. The ab- surdity of this Japanese “proposal” needs no comment, because it is clear to any one that Japan cannot be recognized as a non-interested party in a possible dispute between the U.S. S. R. and Manchukuo, The tendencies by which the Japanese have guided the conduct of the negotiations may be seen from the fact that in addition to the difficulties enumerated, the Japanese refuse to accept several separate points which they them- selves have agreed upon previously. For instance, despite the agreement already reached on July 28, 1984, on the question of immediate pay- ment .of the discharge allowance and the pensions due employees, the Japanese suddeniy declared that this question had not yet been agreed on Basis for New Conflicts Characteristic also was the at- ‘itude shown by the Japanese party oward the contents of the agree- ment. The Soviet Union has stead- fastly striven that the agreement of the sale of the C. E, R. not only should remove once and for all the possibility of using the question of the C, E. R. for aggravating rela- ticns between the U. 8, 8. R, and Japan, but should contain a guar- antee of a normal satisfactory real- ization of the acreement, thereby promoting the ¢onsolidation of the political and economic relations be- tween both countries in the initer- ests of universal peace. - Against this, a number of Japanese pro- posals are of such nature that if they were to be included in the agreement, the possibility would be opened of new attempts to utilize the question of the C. FB. R. as a source of conflicts between both countries even, after the sale of the c. E.R. Imparting to the agreement on the C. E, R. such a character fully corresponds with the interests of the Japanese military, cherishing as it does aggressive plans. concern- ing the Soviet Far East, and trans- forms the agreement of the sale of the C. E. R. from a weapon of peacé into material for the preparation of new conflicts. In the face of this situation, the Soviet Union, using -all efforts that the agree- ment tends toward consolidating mormal good-neighborly relations between the U. S. S. R. and Japan, 4s securing as well the interests of peace generally. When the tenants of 515 Sara- toga Avenue, N. ¥, C, celebrated their rent strike victory with a house party, the role of the Daily Worker was explained and a col- $10.10 made for the WomenTo Ask Bill of Rights For Mothers Birth Control Fight To Be Linked With Mater- nity Insurance Demand By MARGARET COWL It is of utmost importance that &@s many women delegates as pos- sible come to the Workers Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Congress to be held in Washington, Jan, 5-7, A women’s sub-session will be held where not only ways and means to broaden a movement involving masses of women for un- employment insurance should be discussed, but how to develop a broad movement for a Mothers’ Bill of Rights.” Section 211 of the federal laws is greatly responsible for the death of millions of women and babies in the United States, and yet these laws classify the giving of informa- tion to prevent conception with ob- scenity, pornography and indecency. Actually these laws are maintained in the interest of the biggest racket known in the United States. Huge profits are coined at the expense of the freedom, misery and life cf millions of women. Unscientific, harmful information is peddled via bootleg methods. Section 211 was passed in 1873, and interferes with the operation of State laws permitting informa- tion on prevention of conception by physicians, The women delegates to the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Congress should become the pioneers in launching a mass movement for the abolition of these vicious laws, Only a movement in- volving the milligns who are op- pressed by these laws, will force their repeal. Bills to amend. Section 211 introduced in the United States Senate and sponsored by small groups have been killed in com- mittee, The work for the amendment of Section 211 of the federal laws should be made part of a move- ment for a Mothers’ Bill of Rights linked up with the movement for maternity insurance as provided in the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill (H.R. 7598, which has been endorsed by over 2,000 A. F. of L. Jocals), for the establishment of free birth control clinics by the government, giving scientific infor- mation to all who want it; for the establishment of free day nurseries by the government for working mothers. All workers’ organizations should be specially interested in sending women delegates to the Workers Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Congress’ to start this most necessary movement for the Mothers’ Bill of Rights. Nine Charches Aid Scottsboro Defense Fund Nine small-town Virginia churches which got together to hold a Scotts- boro benefit and a Minnesota camp of the United Spanish War Vet- erans, were among the contributors last week to the $6,000 Scottsboro defense fund of the, International Labor Defense, to pay the expenses of the legal and mass campaign to force the United States Supreme Court to reverse the lynch-verdicts of death against Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris. The churches were the Shiloh Baptist and Beulah Baptist churches and York County Training School League of Yorktown, the Rising Sun Baptist church and School Improve- ment League of Lackey, the Grab- ton Baptist of Grabton, the Mt. Gilead of Macruder, the New Beech Grove Christian and Denbeigh, all in Virginia. The amount raised and sent to the IL.D. was $37.25. The Col. Charles Young, Camp No. 29 of the United Spanish War Veterans, of St. Paul, Minn., made @ contribution of $5 to the fund. Money for the Scottsboro-Hern- don defense fund should be sent to the national office of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, Room 610, 80 East 11th Street, New York City. TO PROBE BULGARIAN FINANCES SOFIA, Bulgaria, Nov. 18—The failure of the Bulgarian government to pay interest and principal on all foreign loans will result shortly in a visit here of the holders of these obligations to investigate the finan- cial and economic status of the For City Treasurer, Samuel T, |Hammersmark, active for 40 years in the labor movement, former |secretary of the Farmer - Labor |Party of Cook County, at present District. president of the Interna- tional Workers Order. | For City Clerk, Herbert Newton, {Communist Party leader among the |Negro masses, known for his lead= jership in the struggles of the un- employed in the present struggle against the cut in relief and who |has been arrested on the picket |line in front of a relief station. Demands Listed The Communist Party enters the election campaign with a program of the following demands: 1) For the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill H.R. 7598. 2) For Public Works; (a) Build- ing of a subway in Chicago, (b) Building of workers’ homes, (c) Building of hospitals, schools, parks and playgrounds. All workers on such public work projects to be em- ployed at union wages and condi- tions, with a guarantee of 30 hours per week, 3) Pending passage of the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill H.R. 7598, direct cash relief to be paid to all unemployed, at the rate ‘of $8 per week for single workers, $13 per week for a family of two and $3 for each dependent. 4) For immediate winter relief, shoes, new clothing, coal, blankets and other necessities. 5) For the right of the workers in the shops, on public works, work relief and unemployed to organize into unions and organizations of the unempolyed, For recognition of representatives of the unions and the Relief Stations. 6) Abolition of the Red Squad, against police terror, for the repeal of the sales tax, vagrancy laws, Pauper act and the Illinois Criminal | Syndicalist Law. 7) Against evictions and fore- closures of workers’ homes. For. the Farmers Relief Bill. 8) All funds appropriated for war and military purposes to be turned over for unemployment insurance and relief. Payment of soldiers’ bonus. 9) Free hot lunches and clothing for the children of the unemployed jand part time workers, 10) For full social, political and economic equality for the Negro People. Against Jim Crowism and segregation. Against discrimination of foreign born workers. 11) Against fascism, and impe- rialist war. For the defense of the Chinese people, the Chinese Soviet Republic and the Soviet Union. For the withdrawal of the United States army and navy from all colonics, For the support of the struggles of the Cuban masses against Yankee imperialism, The Communist Party will, in cooperation with other working class organizations in every work- ing class ward in the city, nominate united front candidates for alder- men on the same platform. The ward conferences will take place in December and a city-wide confer- ence will take place in the middle of January. Minor Is Chairman To properly organize the election campaign in the proper direction, an Election Campaign Committee has been elected consisting of Bob Minor as chairman, A. Guss as manager, and the members of the committee are Karl Lockner, Her- bert Newton and Beatrice Shields. Ninety-one thousand signatures are required to place the Commu- nist Party candidates on the ballot. The collection of signatures will start at once and end about Febru- ary 2ist. The Communist Party calls upon all voters in the city of Chicago to sign the petition of the Communist Party and for united front candidates in every ward and to abstain from voting in the pri- maries for Mayor, City Treasurer and City Clerk on February 26th. We urge and call upon all voters in every ward to go to the polls and yote for the united front candidates nominated in every ward. The election campaign headquar- ters will be located at 101 S. Wells Street, Room 702, DESTITUTION RISES IN DETROIT DETROIT, Mich., Nov, 22.—The relief lists reached an all-time peak of 52,172 families on Nov. 15, show- ing an increase of 1,562 families since Noy. 8. At the same time, the employment index of the Chamber of Commerce was 51.9 on Nov. 15, compared with 50.2 on Oct. 30, due largely to seasonal activity in auto- mobile production. This would in- dicate rising destitution among new sections of the population than heretofore. CHICAGO LECTURE SUNDAY CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 22—A lec- ture on the Russian revolution, “1905-1917” will be given Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at 1118 Wos: Madison Street. “The Daily Worker has improve » lot,” asserts Joseph Kalar, ¢ Uoller, Minn. But all the improy> ments—the ine ce of the pape —tepend upon the successful com- Pletion’ of the $60,000 drive! organizations of the unemployed at | ASK THESE MEN ABOUT NEW DEAL | streets, - By H. E. 'HE American Veterans Associa- tion has just held a dinner con- ference at the Hotel Commodore in | New York; about 40 delegates were in attendance with not a buck private among them. Here further plans were hatched to push the fight against the “treasury raiders” and compensation to the so-called non-service connected cases. Under a high-sounding slogan, “Justice to the War Wounded, Justice to the War Dead, Justice to the American People,” they planned to rob the ing dollars between them and star- vation, to desecrate the sacrifice the world safe for investors. This is American People.” To such a group of vandals our honorable friend Franklin D, sends a letter of con- gratulation. Tn the closing session of the con- | ference these coupon clippers adopted a resolution urging the President to recommend the adop- tion of a joint resolution proposing effect, “that Congress shall here- after have no power to pass any law or resolution granting bonuses, pen- sions, or any other form of payment of public funds to any member of the armed forces of the United States, except the regular army, navy and marine corps, or to his widow, relatives or others, unless the disability or death was connect jed in fact with such service, in- curred in line of duty and not due to wilful misconduct or default.” In these few words; four million yeter- | gangsters and swindlers. If this vicious resolution is passed it will give Roosevelt, who is already against payment of the “Bonus” and for continuation of the Economy Act, dictatorial power to block all avenues of appeal by the rank and file, remove the need for a Veterans Bureau, Board of Appeals and Sen- atorial action over a presidential veto. It is an outright bid by the “Big Money Boys” for open Fas~- cism. It ts an attempt to use the veteran affairs as a stepping stone to further dictation over the more general economic problems of the masses, ‘This resolution and the American Veterans Association which framed it must be fought tooth and nail by every rank and file vet in America. The newly elected commander of the A. V. A., Donald A. Hobart is an outstanding example of the traitor- ous forces at work against the rank and file. He recently resigned as an associate member of the Veter- ans Board of Appeals on the ground that the Board was “emasculating” the President’s program and listen- ing to liberal and subservient out- side influences. No doubt the na- tion-wide rank and file protest. He was appointed to this Board by Roosevelt. Before his appointment to the Board of Appeals he was connected with the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. He was also the, former commander of the Leonard S. Morange Post of the American Legion in Bronxville, a comfortable petty bourgeois com- munity of New York. While still commander of this Post he joined the American Veteran Association, adding another name to the long list. of officers and commanders of the American Legion whose special- ty is double-crossing the rank and file. . Monuments and Bread . iOW that the orgy of crocodile tears and hypocritical homage is over and done the preparations for another world slaughter can go for- ward more rapidly. And are the monument makers happy. All over the world bigger and better rock wiles were erected to the unknown soldier. In Australia there was a new million dollar shaft, in Europe very country took two minutes off > blow their nose, clear their ‘Sroat and bow their heads in a ~esture of humility. The irony of his is in the contrast. TWO MIN- JTES OF HOMAGE to the dead! And 364 days, 23 hours, 58 minutes Sf suffering, for the living, This is & crisis. The picture shows the legs of sleeping unemployed men. The rest of their bodies are huddled inside telephone booths where they try un- | successfully to avoid the chilly blasts sweeping through Manhattan The Fighting Vet | “war wounded” of the few remain- | made by those who died to make | a sample of their “Justice to the | an amendment to the Constitution | of the United States providing in} ans were put in the same class as _ —Federated Press Photo. Hungry and homeless men in New York as well as throughout the country are undergoing acute hardships the fifth year of the capitalist | | BRIGGS you say. Yes, all the respect in the i to the vultures who wax fat on his | Death, none to the war profiteers, to the National Economy League, | the American Veterans Association, ; the house of Morgan, Ford, Rocke- | feller, duPont, etc, These have no or dead. Their praise and tears are | camouflage, to blind us to the real H issues, The worst piece of hokum pulled off in New York on armistice day } was the unveiling of the memorial | block to the “Heroic East Side Boys.” And of course the site chosen | for this “grand and glorious” occa- sion was that spot dearest to the East Side Boys, Union Square. No uglier monument has ever been erected in America, even Civic Virtue has more symmetry. It was presented by the Stuyvesant Post No. 98 of V. F. W. Well, maybe it | was, but our guess is that Samuel | (On the Square” Klein) had al filthy paw in the affair. After all, $18,000 is a cheap price to pay for an abbreviated monolith, especially if it | will keep the “reds” from disturbing Mr. Klein's dreams of cheaper wages | and more profits. Thus Mr. Klein aims at two birds with one stone, missing of course the little “red” robin. The Workers Ex-Servicemens League and the rank and fftle vets staged a counter demonstration, fraternizing with the V. F. W. and} explaining in a hand bill (which | was gladly accepted) that the fight | | for the immediate payment of the Bonus, the repeal of the Economy | Act‘and the passage of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill—H. R. 7598, must go on, that monuments cannot take the place of food, cloth- ing and shelter, Wind From the Bag General Butler is in the news again. This time he is telling the “truth” about war and fascism. But generals are sly foxes; calling on the population to refuse to go to war and rattling the sabre in China are part of a demagogue’s stock in | trade. Had the general really seen | the light he would have been a delegate to the nti-War Congress. The loophole in the general’s attack {on war is his eagerness to be pre- pared against an outside enemy. With this the munitions manufac- turers can have no argument. Busi- ness can go on during pacifist alter- ations. This gives them a breathing | spell in which to look for a con- venient “outside enemy.” It also | gives ample time to prepare the | public mind for a whooping good | propaganda campaign. The general | is also for an amendment to the constitution, in this he is one with the A.V.A. He says, “Take the Power away from Congress.” And give it to whom? The President has enough already, Huey Long, his demagoguic rival in Louisiana has the State in his pocket, Douglas MacArthur has a steady job as chief of staff, Art Smith is in jail, Morgan has Wall! Street. This leaves Butler and some dark horse the only candidates for the role of the “man on the white horse.” After this, his recent | “expose” of the Wall Street plot to set up a Fascist regime rings false. Perhaps the stakes weren't large enough or maybe he is not quite sure of the rank and file of the American Legion and V.F. W, since their participation in the textile strike in Rhode Island, the Ameri- can Legion’s refusal to take police Jobs at $5 a day in Minneapolis, the | militancy of the workers and veter- | ans in the Frisco strike, etc. And @ general without an army is a sad spectacle. A one man march on Washington a joke. Through all this, Butler weeps that being an enemy of the big shots and a “friend” of the rank and file puts him in a class where “nobody speaks | civic organizations which will unite to me now.” Come, come, general, Great Britain |MARINE WORKER IOVING FORWARD TO NEW STRUGGLE Tightens Grip On Colonies Dictatorial Powers To Be Given to the India Governors LONDON, Nov. 23.— Parliament yesterday outlined an administra- tion for the near future at which even the most reactionary elements serving British imperialism, such as Mahatma Gandhi, are aghast. D>- signed to crush the revolutionary upsurge of the oppressed Indian federated India is meeting a storm | of denunciation, Governors Given Power The Parliamentary report calls for directly elected provincial legisla-} tures, to which a selected propertied | 14 per cent of the population will} send their representatives. How-| ever, over these upper class bodies | will rule the absolute vetoes of the| the control of the imperialist vice- roy, all-embracing as it was, is to he extended even to the small sphere of tariffs and formal ques- tions of local government. Tightens Imperialists’ Grip ‘Thrown as a sop of “democratic growth of self-rule” to the Indian the vast colonial empire more se- world to the poor fellow. But none ,curely than ever in the grasp of| the ship owners Is one of the British industrialists. Control sacrifice, none to the Merchants of over the army, of taxes, of tariffs, with the consequent possibilities the press, of meting out fines and death seniences—these are all vest- ed in the hand of the viceroy, The local governors aré empowered to crush working class and peasant re- | respect for the rank and file, living | sistance to the burden of taxes and | exploitation with any form of cru- elty they see fit, Jobless Plan ‘March Today On Long Island MINEOLA, L. I., Nov. 23—Em- ployed, unemployed and relief workers throughout Nassau County are mobilizing for the march from) the Fair Grounds to the Mineola Court House this morning at 10 o'clock. The pressure of organized groups of unemployed in the Central) Council Unemployment Councils re- sulted in granting a permit for the march after police and politicians had first ignored the appeal for the march permit. The Nassau Daily Review, self- styled Long Island “greatest news- paper” is doing the bidding of bankers and politicians. The worst kind of red-bailing propaganda and misrepresentation is being used to incite prejudice and lynch hysteria against so-called “outside agitators”—all in the hope of scar- ing the unemployed out of the ac- tion necessary to win adequate win- ter relief. The demand for $20 migstmum a week in cash was declared “larger than three-fourths of them ever earned during the height of pros- perity.” Here is frank admission that workers never got a decent living even during so-called “pros- perity.” The sentiment of the un- employed is that it is about time we did something about it. This march has not only brought together several unemployed organ- izations of different affiliations but has brought about the cooperation of the Socialist and Communist Parties of Nassau County in com- mon support of unemployed action and organization. Steps are being taken by the Joint Committee of Unemployed organizations: to hold & county congress of unemployed, trade union, church, veteran and even wider sections of Nassau work- ers in effective action for immedi- ate relief and federal and state enactment of the Workers Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Bill. Sponsoring of the National Con- gress for Unemployment Insurance to be held in Washington on Jan. 5-7, will also be considered at the/ next meeting. LosAngeles Unemployed Launch Wide Campaign | In Southern State Area LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 22— Representing the first coordinated unemployed work since early last summer, the southern California section of the State Unemployed Committee of Action, recently elect- Misleaders Is Bein | Shipowners’ Offensive and Betrayals by A. F. L. g Met By Growing Discontent and Developing Strikes By R. B. HUDSO? The rising struggle of the marine workers against the slave conditions of the ship owners was reflected last year in a large number of small dencies to become indu. | It should also be emphasized that | twice during the past six months| possibilities for a general national | marine strike existed which the ship | | owners were only able to avert be-| cause of the insufficient strength jand unity of the workers and the intensified strike-breaking activities | of the government and A. F. of L.| enough to make the unknown sol- | masses, this future administration | leaders. The present situation, in| dier turn over in his grave. Respect, |of India places the exploitation of | the face of betrayals, delays and the | beginnings of a new offensive by | wing | workers | discontent amongst the Jeven greater and more sharp clas: | battles developing in the future, | The Results of the Strikes | are a direct result of their strong ) Organization, and mighty strike| ‘under a militant rank and file lead-| ership. A complete victory was not | | registered here because of the strike- | breaking activities of the A. F, of fakers without a mass fole owing, even though sentiment for strike action was beginning to erys- | tallize as a lt of the influence of |the West C: the cam masses, investing the provincial | Struggles, ship strikes, the coal boat | pa’ carried on he Maring antag! ith ¥ fipte birt ,.|strike and unemployed _ strug Wwe rs Industrial Union prior to governors with new dictatorial pow r a | - t ‘ Jers, removing from the hands of| Which assumed a mass c nj} and after the Ba timore ity Con- the present legislature even its|the pe:iod since last Ms ce. But the 18.U. fakers had eiaell edotesl Gives Mids Suatterd ad | Derid: Yak the Norfolk and|the following factor their favor tariff questions, etc, the “new”|Gulf longshore strikes, the upon deciding fo marine strike of the Pacifi power,” that is r ing all crafts in t suing a call fc a ed by s |the Atlantic ar aif seamen fol ea eam 20's | mass discontent amongst strike in the East as well as a re-| Bs; cent growth of the unemployed sea- men’s stzuggles which have become! (b) The longshore negotiatioris. national in character. All of these| created @ situation where a mass | strikes are characterized the ainen’s strike certainly contained rong threat of a general marine strike. by the united action of the me: state governors. Only 35,000,000 are} hership of various unions; and by| (¢) Certain important shipown- Jentitled to vote for state legislator, | tremendous. solidarity of the u who, before the strike call, had out of a population of 350,000,000, Jemployed workers, who not only | pted a favorable attitude to the The indirect representative cen- | participated in and supported these | 1. 8. U. leaders whom they believed tral Parliament of India will be) strikes but in many cases displayed |C@Pable of “controlling” sea- continued, but it will be shorn of| much initiative in organizing them.|™°", undoubtedly could be relied every pretense of real power, while} upon for support. (d) Events during and since the ke prove that Roosevelt and the mment had a favorable at- ude, if there was not a direct un- 8. U. of- ficlals who had every reason to hope that the government, through its control of subsidies and super- vision of the various shipowners’ conferences where rates are decided upon, would bring strong pressure to bear on the side of the I. 8. Us This attitude of the Government is arising out of the growing war dan- ger and the need to combat, and if possible, crush the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union, secondly, the support given by the government to the A. F. of L, officials (which G tit derstanding with the I The West Coast Jongshoremen | contiicts with some important sec= have won a number of important tions of the capitalists) so as to concessions such as the 6-hour day,| strengthen the hand of the reforms 30-hour week, an increase in 1 ist officials in order to help the union recognition and joint cor bourgecisie in its offensive against of hiring halls. These concessions) the working class and to stifle the mess movement against this offen= sive. LS.U. “Bid for Power” There can be no doudt that the I. S. U. leaders were not interested L., especially in refusing to spread |. fighting for the demands of the | ‘ workers but only wanted “recogni- the strike to the East and their be- ” | trayal of the San Prancisco general | 10m" of their right to collect ducs ed at the State Unemployed Con- vention at Fresno, has launched a well-defined plan of work designed to effectively organize large sec- tions of the unemployed into mili- tant groups for immediate demands. Already a permanent conference of unemployed groups and repre- sentatives of unions and fraternal organizations has been organized and committees elected. The first big step toward organi Commander Van Zandt of the V.|ing the unemployed will be the mass F. W. and ex-Commander Hayes of | meeting, planned for Noy. 30, which the American Legion don’t invite}is designed to reach and d:aw ir people to their conventions to sway | new elements as stimulating forces the boys with stories of patriotism | Especial efforts will be made to and “red scares” unless they arejreach Epic workers and Socialists pbuddies. And don't forget the Wall| Following the mass meeting, ar Street brokers, their offer still holds | which contacts will be made, neigh- g00dy : borhood onganigasiens will be set up strike. The recently concluded Rast Coast agreement of the Interna~ tional Longshoremen’s Association does not contain the same conces- sions as the West Coast men re- ceived because the-e was no organ- ized rank and file opposition in the East, and Ryan managed to main- tain control of the situation, pre- vented a strike and put over his sell-out agreement on the long- shoremen. What is the situation among the seamen? On the West Coast the Na- tional Longshoremen’s Board has been conducting an election for over three months and there has been no announcements of the results yet. There ha been so many € tensions of the ctions” that even the LSU. offi s have been forced to admit that it is being done in order to permit all the scabs to vote and company unions to be organized. Likewise the first steps in negotiating or arbitrating the seamen’s demands have not even been taken and now three months after the end of an 84-day coastwise strike, the conditions and wages of the West Coast seamen are basically the same as last spring. On the East Coast where the ship owners agreed to negotiate with the LS.U. leaders in order to prevent a srtike Oct. 8th under the leadership of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. There is the same story. Afie> a month and twenty days of negotiating no “agreement” hi been reached and there is eve! jSign that efforts will be made to try and drag these proceedings out for a long time. Government and F, of L. Leaders Main S$ ebreakers Direct intervention of the goy- ernment, mass terror, arrests and fascist raids on union halls com- bined with the treacherous A. F. of L. officials, were the main means employed to end the West Coa: strike and force the workers to ai cept arbitration. The ship owners also owe their main thanks to the/| government, ably aided by the 1.S.U. and ILA. leaders, for engineering the “truce” that betrayed the East Coast seamen and longshcremen. A clear understanding of the events leading up to and following the East Coast seamen’s stzike is nec- essary in order to understand the present situation, the relationship of forces and the perspective. During the West Coast strike the 1.S.U, leaders sabotaged every effor: to pull out the East Coast on strik: Making use of this strike-breaking, and pointing out the “danger of a strike,” I.S.U. officials, tried to se- cure recognition for their services but met with no response from the ship owners. Following their be- trayal of the West Coast seamen, the I.8.U. leaders conducted a so- called mass campaign in the East and Gulf, for the first time speaking of militant action. Claiming cn “LS.U, victory in the West” as wel! as recognition and job control they hoped to weaken the M.W.LU. and gain sufficient mass base amongs ve seamen to bargain with th: ship owners for “recognition.” W. san say that while the IS.U. ai jucceed in creating some confusior among the seamen, on the whe': sheir campaign fell fiat and did nc irouse a mass response or interes The midcle.of September found the in return for preventing .on betray= jing a strike. The I. 8, U. fakers | Probably figured that the combined jdanger of a general strike, plus |Strong political support, would |serve to “convince” those shipown- ers who doubted the ability of the |I. S. U. leaders to control the sea- men, or the abvisability of doing business wtih the I. S, U. leaders, |But it would be a mistake for us Jonly to see the “objective” of the TI. 8. U. fakers and fail to see the tremendous upsurge that took place in the ranks of the seamen and which made possible the I. 8 U. |“bid for power.” In this situation | where every force was mobilized to prevent the struggle which the amen were willing to underteke; |largely having been aroused through |M. W. I. U. activities, the M. W. I. | U. knew that in spite of inadequate | preparations and weakness organ- izationally, there existed strong pos- | sibilities of developing a mass strike and that even a small strike would have a tremendous bearing on the lresults of the negotiations. The strike achieved a number of things insofar as the demands and inter ests of the workers are concerned, The ability of the seamen to pre | pare for even more effective action is increased, due to the exposure of the I. S. U. leaders, the N. R, jA. and the strengthened position of |the M. W. I. U. as a result of the | United Front movement it organs | ized. | Had the Marine Workers Indus | trial Union taken a negative ate jtitude as the I. W. W. did on the jI. S. U. strike call, it would have been discredited. An even worse | mistake would have been to say, we will support the strike if takes place, but take no itiative in organizing the strike, This stand would have resulted in us splitting the ranks of the work- jers, giving the initiative to the I, S. U. fakers who would have found it much easier to fool the seamen and made it nearly impossible for us to expose their strikebreaking | activities. Those who say that it our strike activities which won ‘ecognition” for the I. S. U. fakers, fail to see that the mass of seamen. , Were ready to struggle and that if | the I. S. U. leaders had not received our “support” they would even have jto lead a strike movement to be= tray it in return for recognition, The policy pursued by the Marine | Workers Industrial Union was in the interests of the workers and has strengthened our position many fold, even though the “truce” ene . gincered by the N. R, A. succeeded in preventing the spread of the strike on a mass scale. Delegates from. Newark Furniture Union Back Jobless Bill NEWARK, N. J., Noy. 22—The Executive Committee of Local 6 of he National Furniture Workers Ine ‘ustrial Union elected five delegates 9 represent the union at the New Jersey Conference on Unemploys “ent and Social Insurance. to take jace in Trenton. The Workerg inemployment and Social Insure sce Bill was endorsed. psn \“¥ The local will celebrate its victory . -- ‘ollowing the recent general strike,