The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 26, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1934 Page 3 UNEMPLOYED ORGANIZER FREED BY JURY IN MASSILON TRIAL VERDICT FOLLOWED Meeting Will ‘Daily’ Quota Completed Akron Jobless CENTRAL EASTERN BY DEMONSTRATION Back Congress IN A PACKED CouRT 0" 2c#! Bil In 3 Cleveland Areas; WosatRelie!’ STATES PLANNING | ANTI-WAR PARLEY Many Still Lag Behind Cleveland Sponsoring! |Demand 50 Per Cent) ‘Committee to Convene | Youngstown in Second Category Despite Fact) Immediate Raise on Wednesday | That Organizer Took Personal Charge of in Relief Campaign More Than Week Ago AKRON, Ohio, Nov or | hundred unemployed en women from all parts of the demonstrated here last Wedr in the building housing m- | mit County Relief Adr ion. I. L. D. Attorney Tells Court That Workers Need Sincere Revolutionary Leaders to Head Fight for Relief and Insurance Delegates from District of Columbia, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland Will Meet in Philadelphia, December 9 CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 25—The | | first meeting of delegates from or- | ganizations supporting the Wash-| ington Congress for Unemo’ ent | have completed their quotas! | Insurance will be held at the Cen-| More than ten are still below 50| tral Y. M. C. A. (Shurtleff Room) | Per cent! } at Twenty-Second Street and Pros-| This is Only three sections in Cleveland It is needless for the Daily Worker to reiterate the necessity for Cleveland to finish its quota by the end of this month. It has one of the largest quotas in the si PHILADELPHIA, Nov —A call for a Regional Con- ference Against War and Fascism, embracing the eastern part of the state of Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Md., Delaware, By. Steve Verne < MASSILLON, 0., Nov. 25.—Leah Faye, Unemployment Council organizer here, was freed of all charges following the serious situation in her arrest while leading a committee of women demanding clothing at the local relief unit, by a jury of nine men and pect Avenue on Wednesday. Delegates have been invited from the Cleveland Federation of Labor, | this district, with less than a week | | country and the Daily Worker re- | left to Dec. 1. lies mostly, of course, on the large district for funds. three women in a two-day trial before a packed court. As Yetta Land, attorney of the Inter-> national Labor Defense, sald in summing up the case—it is a mat- ter of whether or not the people found Leah Faye's leadership nec- essary in their relief struggles. Af- ter twenty minutes deliberation, the beaming faces of the returning | jurors announced the verdict in ad- | vance of the foreman’s words—! “Not guilty.” | Ralph R. Bush, assistant county ; relief administrator and head of the Massillon Division of the County Relief Administration, attempted to convince the jury that Leah: Faye is not only unnecessary to the unemployed and part-time workers of Massillon, but that she was a menace to the good order and peace of the city of Massillon. Faye, wit-: nesses and Attorney Yetta Land proved to the jury in the presence of a packed court of workers, who stood from morning till night fol- Towing the case eagerly, that the| leadership of Faye was not only necessary but highly desirable and in constant demand by the workers of the city. In the plea to the jury Attor-! ney Land pointed out that thei workers of Massillon and the work- | ers of the whole world need more sincere revolutionary leaders such as they have in Comrade Faye. She also told the jury that by their verdict | of not guilty they will indicate to the Massillon workers their en-j dorsement and approval of the Un- employment Council leadership and their right to be represented by, recognized leaders of their own! choosing. | Jury Out 20 Minutes Although Prosecuting Attorney | Wiggins closed his argument by! shouting, “We have one Faye too many and I urge you American) Pay -CutWave Hits Detroit Auto Plants Packard and Briggs Rehire Men at New Reduced Rates DETROIT, Nov. 25—Wage Cuts are being introduced in various De- troit plants. Those companies that are beginning to rehire some men after the long layoff are in many cases paying them lower wages. At the Briggs Mack Avenue plant, grinders who were getting 80 cents an hour when they were laid off, are being rehired at 55 cents. The Packard plant has rehired metal finishers at reduced rates. In one departmerit of the Murray Body plaht workers, on being rehired, found their rates reduced from 68 to 60 cents an hour Cuts in Buick Plant In the Buick plant at Flint, as already reported in the Daily Worker, wages have been slashed from 20 to 32 per cent. A recent issue of Automotive In- dustries, manufacturers’ trade or- gan, reports that one large com- pany has cut wages of office work- ers from 5 to 10 per cent. _ Prelude to Big Drive These wage cuts, now being gradually introduced, are un- |the Amalgamated Association of | in the district, with a quota of Iron and Stesl Workers, the Me- Educational Society, scores of fraternal and benefit so- ties. Both the Communist and list Parties have also been in- chanics’ and vited. Interest in the Washington Con- gress has been greatly increased due to the fight of the Cleveland workers for civil rights and for the demands of the unemployed for winter relief which were rejected by the City Council and fascist ter- | ror launched against the workers by Mayor Davis at the Oct. 29 dem- | onstration at the City Hall. The State-wide delegation of un- employed, which presented demands to Governor White and the Ohio General Assembly on Tuesday, Nov. 20, will report back to the workers the rejection of their demand for a 40 per cent increase in relief and mobilize the Ohio workers for a mass fight against the threatened 3 per cent sales tax being forced upon them by the present session For information about the Wash- ington Congress write to: Cleveland Arrangements Committee for Wash- ington Congress, 942 Prospect Ave., Room 469-X, Cleveland, Ohio. ‘Pathe Movie The hideous lynching of Claude ‘Neal in Florida on Oct. 27 is glori- fled in a news reel recently released by Pathe, the Crusader News Agen- doubtedly the preulde to a general cy, 2162 Seventh Ave., reports. jurors to bring in a verdict of guilty | drive by the auto companies against | Would Justify) ‘Lynch Terror “The reel is so complete that it | | | | Youngstown, the largest section | | $500, is still in the second cate- gory, though John Steuben, sec- tion organizer, teok personal eherge of the campaign more than a week ago. Erie, barely above 10 per cent. | Only one other section is on the | verge of going over the top. It is Section 1, in which may be over when this is tion 2, Cleveland, has only 79 per cent. | Not a Second to Lose It is evident that the Cleveland leadership must ‘mobilize every force available to work to the ut- most this week, if Cleveland ex- pects to carry out the decision of the Central Committee. | On three days last week Cleve- land sent nothing to the Daily Worker. This must not be re- peated. An average of $200 a day must come from Cleveland if it expects to finish its part of the drive in time. I. W. 0. Must Be Aroused Particular emphasis must be placed upon getting the I. W. O. to meet its responsibility. With the largest quota in the district—$600— the I. W. O. has not filled even 25 | per cent. It is only two places re- moved from the bottom. Relies On Cleveland The language organizations must be awakened. Fourteen of them have contributed less than $300. Not one of them has completed its quota. The highest is the Bulgar- lian group, which has acquired a |meager 46 per cent. The highest | sum of money that has come in | Slavs. Cleveland must not fail the Daily Worker! The Cleveland table follows: When the Unemployment Council leaders, Fred Seibert and Ben and Washington, D. C., has been issued by the Arrangements ‘Committee of the Philadelphia League Against War and Fascism. |from them is $69—from the So. | | Young Worker | LOS ANGELES, Noy. 25.—As a! y nother large section, has_benefit for the Young Worker and not reached 25 per cent. Dayton is |California supplement of the na- | sont Young Communist League Communist | Cleveland proper, ‘League is planning a dance at Cul-| cre 230 South Spring printed. The highest after it, Sec- |Street, Saturday, Dec. 1, at 8 p.m. | tional \organ, the Young tural Center, Benefit |The program will include a floor- |show and dance contest, Section MASS ORGANIZATIONS Amount Percent Quota 15 E. Ohio 72:20 © 144.4 = $60 3 Cleveland 229.93 115.0 200 17 Cleveland 102.42 103.4100 1 Clevéland 345.09 93.0 350 2 Clevelend 236.48 79.0 300 Mansfield 35.62 44 75 4 Akron 203.63 68.0 300 5 Canton 97.58 65.0 150 11 Cleveland 17 57.9 (185 7 Toledo 119.62 47.8 250 10 Cincinnati 82.61 413 200 13 Lorain 16.25 40.0 40 16 Cleveland 30.15 39.2 100 6 Youngstown 18.11 36.0 500 9 Columbus 17.15 35.5 50 Cambridge 3.50 35.0 10 14 Cleveland 19.99 30.0 75 8 Erie 34.20 22.8 180 | 12 Dayton 12.00 12.0 © 160 | 13 Blyria 3.00 14005 Miscellaneous 60.71 Seotion Amount Percent Quota South Siays 69.72 464 150 Finnish 31.66 31.6 100 Hungarian 10.00 10.0 100 Bulgarian 36.15 40.1% Italian 0 0 % Scandinavian 5.00 20.0 © 35 Ctecho-Slovak 0 0 = Polish 25.00 0 Ukrainian 2.00 2.0 180 Jewish 9 0 pi Greeks 15.50 1.0 50 Lettish 0 ° 25 Russians 33.23 ° ise Lithuanians 10.18 ry = SHO. 0 0 zy . o, 8.78 8. 100 : 6 109.09 18.1 600 | T.ULULL. 0 0 100 John ‘Reed 6 ° = | Atkins, rose to speak to the assem- | vid workers, the poise sure Negro Leader rushed forward with a blac |The workets pushed the guar s aside and prevented an assault Is A c q u itted pon Atkins. A committee v elected to pre- f . the amas to| OF Frame-up George Mis administrator, He agreed to some of the demands, but to that calling for a 50 per cent in- se in relief, he said that he was Powerless to act. He was forced to | | agree that henceforth the Unem- | | Ployment Council committee would | be recognized on grievances, and its | representatives heard. | BUFFALO, N. Y., Nov. 25.—Man- Although the police were called aoterattird in, they dared not molest the mili- |"78 Johnson, until recently Buffalo tant assemblage. Scores of workers | district organizer of the Communist joined the Unemployment Council. Party, terday was acquitted of a oh eg Belcedh cated precind jframe-up charge of “malicious mis- Akron and the adjoining area at the |°Mief” by a City Court jury after a National Congress for Unemploy- | trial lasting three days. ment Insurance, which will convene| On August 9, Johnson visited a in Weshington on Jan. 5 for a|cafe with a friend and was served | three-day session. |soapwater instead of beer by the | jowner because he is a Negro. When Death Prob \Veath Frope jrested on the street by Lieutenant Dempsey from police headquarters. |mand for an inquest into the death |Defense. The court room was jof Sylvester Crowder, Negro worker | packed every day with a heavy po- tion at Tenth and Carr Streets, | ——— jto arrange bail for a friend. He| ‘Red Builder’ to Face Charge Against Johnson Thrown from Court by Jury | Johnson refused to drink it, Dan- jahy, the owner, threw the glass at |him, smashing the window of the Is Demanded 2 He was so beaten up that he was In St. Louis forced to spend two weeks in the | City Hospital. handled jarrested here on election day, is | lice detail on guard because as the |being made by the League of Strug- | newspapers claimed “a posibility ex- gle for Negro Rights and the Inter- | isted that Communists would stage door as Johnson ducked. Johnson jthen left the saloon and was ar- Stanley Chmiell the ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 25—De- case for the International Labor |national Labor Defense. |@ march on the court room in an Crowder went to the police sta- attempt to free Johnson.” ;was promptly arrested and was/| This conference is scheduled for Sunday, Dec, 9, at 1 p.m. at Hos- jery Workers Hall, 2530 North Fourth Street, and will be addressed by Dr. Harry F. Ward, Ella Reeve Bloor and other local speakers. Delegates have already been elected by farmers’ anizations in Per- kasie, Pa.; Kellers Church, Pa.; Chester, Pa., and Philadelphia or- ganizations. The conference will be followed by a mass meeting at the Hosiery Workers Hall at 8 p.m., Dec. 9, where prominent speakers, includ- ing the above mentioned, will dis- cuss the problems of the struggle against war and fascism, and the necessity of building branches of 'the American League Against War and Fascism in all principal cities and towns of this district. Hooded Mob Attacks Negro InBirmingham BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 25.— “You god-damned black ‘nigger, you know you can’t have social equality in this country,” a group of hooded Klansmen told Steve Sim- |mons, local Negro worker, after they |broke down his door and invaded |his home in Lewisburg, mining sub- urb of Birmingham, “We ought to jkill you, you black son-of-a-b—,” |they shouted at him as they be |labored him with blows. Turning. on Simmons’ wife, Mrs. Alice Simmons, the Klansmen struck her and called her a “dirty black b——.” They then beat Sim- mons until he was unconscious, leaving him with a great gash in his head and welts on his body where their blows had rained on in this case,” the jury went out|the living standards of the work- |justifies the belief that photograph- and ¢ame back in 20 minutes with | ers when the production season |€rs had advance information as to a verdict of not, guilty, their verdict | starts, seein ny in 1935. This is la ee get ae ne yee was portra: on their beaming | in’ ‘litle “With "the new, agreements lynching wou! e place. In . 3 | ap , faces even ite the clerk bears the made by President Roosevelt with the commentator says that the only jelect in the 69th District, wito has pital. Hospital records state that aia ode wins anny ee verdict. the bankers and big industrialists reason the body of the lynched man| COMPTON, Cal., Nov. 25—Twen- a record of militant struggle in the he died of “tubercular pleurisy.” The | naily Worker in front of the dye | ‘im. ; The case of Willis Bray was the | for boosting profits at the expense ;{s now shown is that the sight is ty garden plot workers met here jold Relief Workers’ Protective Union |L. S. N. R, and the I. L. D, point! +yire headquarters, will be trie: by Among the Klansmen, Simmons next in line. Bray is a young Negro| Of the workers. The building up ‘too gruesome.” last week to plan an organization | .14 who advocated militant or- OU’ that although Crowder had this Monday in Judge Duffy's police TCosnized two white men, Earl worker charged with assaulting|0f committees of workers in every| Pointing out that the news reel |of struggle for better conditions on | ight ni eth been arrested and held in jail over- | court, Washington Street. Walker and Dunk Shields. It is also Miss Crawford, a white relief work-| department to take action in de-/actually attempts to justify the §. EB, R. A, work and the cut in re- ganization as the only means of the |night, police did not register him | ‘The International Labor Defense, |@Perted that Charlie Sanders, a er. When Land informed the judge |fense of their basic needs is es- ‘lynching of the Negro worker, the lief since the funds have been ad-|working class to fight the lowering |at the hospital as a prisoner, but! which is defending the Red Builder, |Negt© stool-pigeon, was with the f that she was ready for trial, Prose- | 5¢ntial in order to defeat these new /news agency states: “This piece of ministered through the S. E. R. A./of their standard of living. merely as a sick man. |has called on all dye strikers and | Taiders. The authorities, while j cutor Wiggins arose to his feet and attacks of the open shop auto com- ‘propaganda is a particularly vicious | Friends of Crowder state he was other workers to pack the court to |C@tying out mass arrests of mili- After making temporary organ-| Glover spoke the. same evening | read a previously prepared state- panies. |sample of the manner in which the izational plans and laying the basis |to a similar organization, mostly of in good health when he went to the! protest the attack by the bosses and | *4nt Negro and white workers, have | Plan Fight on Forced Labor in California workers are joining forces in the beaten continuously throughout the! Trial in Jersey Today lorganization. ‘The speaker was \night until he almost lost his mind. ' | He was kept in his cell until morn- | na | Frank Glover, Epic assemblyman- ling before being taken to the hos- | PATERSON. N. J., Nov. 25.—Jane | " understood that I consider that un- ment as follows: “Your honor, I know that this case is connected with the same or- I cannot try this case with these crowds of people in the court room Jaughing, applauding and demon- strating every time a question is asked, and I, as the solicitor of this city, assume the responsibility to noll this case and this case is dis- missed,” The judge then said, “I want it der the circumstances whereby the People attending this trial have been packed in this court room for two days and most of you havihg to stand up, that you have acted like Perfect ladies and gentlemen.” Demonstration Follows Verdict A splendid demonstration fol- lowed the verdicts in the cases, with @ mass meeting in the evening in the auditorium of the City Hall, the! same place where the trials were! held, with an overflow attendance of mote than 500 people, where resolutions were passed demanding the removal of Relief Administrator Bush, also demanding that all com- mittees of the unemployed be recog- nized by the Relief Administration. Cecil White, young Negro steel worker, goes on trial today in Can-/| ton, chi yuh Taping a white. woman, The case is being defended by the I. L. D. with Yetta Land as the attorney. The Communist Party, the I. L, D. and the L. 8. N. R. have all been active in these cases, United Front Widened By Unemployed Groups| in Chiicago Actions) CHICAGO, Ill, Noy. 25.—United action between the Chicago Work- | ers’ Behar & ei eesment, Local an Unemployment Council has led to unity in the new struggles confronting the member- ship of both groups. the membership of both groups picketed the Oakwood relief station last Tuesday, six were ar- rested, The pickets were bailed out by the Chicago Workers’ Commit- | of tee, and food was brought them by th South Side International La- bor Defense. At the last regular meeting of the Workers’ Committee on Unemploy- ment, Local 34, two resolutions were adopted: one of thanks to the LL.D. for the aid sent, and one to the central body of the Chicago Work- ers’ Committee for their prompt re- Sponse in raising bail for the ar- When the role of the Daily Work- {movies play their part in keeping |for the immediate enlargement of |S. E. R, A. job workers, in Lyn- up prejudice.” The news service, the group, the meeting voted to send wood. Both of these groups have er is brought out during some which is promoted by the League of ja committee to the Public Workers the same general objective—to com- ganization and the same people and ' struggle, never fail to mention the Struggle for Negro Rights, calls on jand Unemployed League to ask for bat relief cuts, to oppose the forced $60,000 drive, and ask for financial /all opponents of lynching to pro- affiliation. support. ‘test the showing of the film, Police station on Nov, 6. A delega- tion from the L. S. N. R. and the I. L. D, which attended the fune- ral, noted a severe cut on the left labor of the garden plots and to side of his upper lip and a bad Epic, Utopian and Communist take up individual grievance cases. bruise on the left side of his face. their police on the only paper sup- porting the strike and rallying the | workers to the aid of the dye strik- |ers. Out of town organizations are urged to rush protest telegrams to ‘Judge Duffy - Secret Deal Only Doubt of Leaders’ Ability to Hold Men Checks Owners By Roy Hudson This is the second of a series of three articles by Roy Hudson, secretary of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, on the prasent situation and the tasks before the marine workers. ae ee Reasons for the Deadlock The truce engineered by the N. R, A. has not brought increased wages or better conditions for the| seamén. Neither has it “solved” the demands of the I. S. U. officials. Why have the I. S. U., the ship owners, and the arbitration board been unable to arrive at an agree- ment as yet? 1, The I, S, U. leaders in the East have already drastically reduced the demands of the seamen, and as if this reduction is not acceptable to the: ship owners, the I. 8, U, lead- ers have offered to submit these and other demands to arbitration, whos decision would be final, 2. A sell-out agreement can more easily be enforced by dragging out the negotiations and dispersing the forces and organization of the sea- men. 3. The ship owners also wish to, avoid having the seamen’s and long- ness agreement expire at the same 4. The major reason for the de- lay is over the question of union recognition, Many companies are utilizing the delays for the purpose ol company unions. De- spite the fact that under extreme pressure the ship owners agreed to negotiate with the I. S. U. leaders in order to end the West Coast strike and avert one in the East, of LS.U. Officials and Government Aime © nine months’ fruitless efforts to adopt a marine code. “The code committees of the ship owners refused to meet rep- resentatives of the trade unions (meaning the I. 8, U.) in any con- ferences. Indeed it was not until December that they consented to even confer with the Labpr Ad- visors appointed by the N. R. A. (the N. R. A. appointed Olander to ‘advise’ on seamen’s problems) and then they insisted that thetr meeting with the labor advisors must net be construed as in any way giving recognition to the la- bor organizations of which these advisors were officers and mem- bers.” This statement was made June 10 at the height of the West Coast strike. The stand of many ship owners still remains the same even though they are partners to the West Coast strike settlement and the East Coast “truce.” Gus Brown’s Complaint After a month and a half of ne- gotiations in the East we find Gus |Brown, before the Dickstein Con- ‘gressional Committee, making the \following complaint against the ‘ship owners with whom the I. S. U. has a truce: “If the American ship owners employed our men they would be better off than they are today. We are all experienced seamen with a sense of right and justice not only to ourselves, but to those who employ us and to the American flag under which we serve. We have been told at hear- ings between our men and the ship owners that they did not care if they employed Communists, atheists or anything else. This la- bor conference has bzen going on for months and we have gotten nowhere,” We can summarize the present situation by stating that on the many major ship owners have question of wages, hours and condi- forced a deadlock over the question of complete open shop versus the I. 8. U., even though the I. S. U. leaders have given every guarantee that insofar as thy are concerned recognition of the I. S. U. would mean nothing more or less than a company union under an A. F. of L, banner. The open shop policy of the ship owners is best reflected in a state- ment (which was never made pub- lic) submitted to President Roose- velt and the N..R. A. by Victor Olander, where he reviewed the rested workers. It was also decided to establish @ local Prisoners’ Relief Committee to co-overate with the Prisoners’ Relief Committee of the I. L. D. The committee will meet tonight at '7;30 o'clock at the home of Phrona Morris, 715 Oakwood Boulevard. All members of Local 34 have been urged to attend. tions there is agreement among the ship owners, I. S. U, leaders and the Government, but the question of how far to entrust the I. S. U. leaders with carrying out their |Strikebreaking and starvation pro- gram has thrown a monkey wrench into the negotiations and arbitra- tion proceedings. This has occurred in spite of the fact that the I. S, U. leaders have developed a formula which they hoped would be acceptable to even the most rabid open-shop ship tained in the confidential statement | submitted to Roosevelt by Olander and constitute perhaps the most vi- cious attempt ever made to be- tray a group of workers behind their backs. These proposals prove that the LSU. is not fighting for a “closed shop” but asks a clear field for the collection of dues. This would be a real step towards fascism by turning the seamen directly over to the control and discipline of the government, which would be ex- ercised through complete control by the government of all hiring halls. The establishment of a Na- tional Shipping Labor Board would shackle the strikebreaking ma- chinery of the government thor- oughly around the necks of the seamen, Olander’s Seoret Proposals The following are the proposals which are even more reactionary than those submitted in the offi- cial IS.U. cofe, are contained in this secret document: “1. The immediate creation of a National Shipping Labor Board, as provided in the General Ship- ping Code, with the right of trade union representatives to consult with the seamen aboard ship ... or the establishment of a National Maritime Board sim- ilar to the one in Great Britain, “2 The transfer of the Sea Service Bureau of the Shipping Board to the Department of La- bor and the establishment of the U. 3S. Employment Service of employment agencies for seamen wherever necessary at principal ports. At the Coast ports this may be done in cooperation with the U. S. Shipping Commission- ers.” It is important to note that no- where do the I8.U. officials even demand joint control of the hiring halls, but turn them over completely to government control! That the 1S.U. leaders still stick by these proposals is proven by the statements of these fakers in the East where they attacked all pri- vate shipping sharks but praised the U. S. Sea Service Bureau! Therefore the tactics of the gov- ernment, the I.S.U. leadership and many shipowners is not only aimed at enforcing intolerable conditions and wages upon the seamen but it is a further step in their war plans and the militarization of the marine industry, by a more close supervision |and control of the workers in the owner. These proposals are con-: maritime industry and their organ- izations by the government. It must be emphasized again and again that their strike-breaking tactics are determined by the grow- ling war danger and the role that the marine industry plays in their war plans and the growing influence and strength of the Marine Work- |ers Industrial Union. The Role of the M.W.LU. and Other Unions All of the recent strikes, which have involved masses of workers in the I.8.U. and I.L.A. have been a continuation of the many struggles initiated by the Marine Workers Industrial Union during the period when practically all the struggles took place under its banner. The character of these strikes have been strongly influenced by the tactics and slogans and demands of the Marine Workers Indusirial Union, and reflect a weakening of the hold of the reactionary lead- ers of the IL.A. and the LS.U, on their membership. In all of these strikes the Marine Workers Indus- trial Union has played a major role, and its influence and prestige are far greater than its organizational strength, The rank and file movement in- side the I.L.A., especially in ports where workers have recently gone into the I.L.A., has been strongly influenced by the program and ac- tivities of the M.W.I.U. The ability of the West Coast longshorement to force the strike over the heads of the reactionary leaders and to replace them with a militant rank and file leader- ship shows the tremendous possi- bilities existing or winning the members of the I.L.A., which is the mass organization of longshoremen, for a militant program of united action, How Fakers Help Owners The growth of the strike struggles among the seamen under the lead- ership of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union, has forced a change of tactics on the part of the 1S.U. leaders. For the first time since 1921, Andrew Furuseth, President, and Victor Olander, secretary of the ISU. and Oo. have entered into situations where strikes were threatened, or directly participated in strikes, for the purpose of help- ing prevent or smash strikes. Ten- dencies to underestimate the I.S.U. and consider it “dead,” with a con- sequent failure to give leadership to a rank and file movement in- side the I.S.U., has made it possible for these fakers to be of great help to the shipowners in the major to the shipowners in the major strikes, While recording the strikebreak- ing activities of the I.S.U. leader- ship, we must note that their role is not yet thoroughly understood by large numbers of seamen, since in some sections there has been a sub- stantial growth of the I.S.U. for the first time in many years. The ef- these gentlemen, as well as the growth of the I.S.U., make it neces- sary for a more effective, systema- tic and concrete exposure of them to be carried on. Furthermore, there can be no talk of organizing united struggles, and of defeating the labor fakers, unless the most serious attention is given to helping the rank and file membership of the 1.8.U. to organize an opposition movement to the policies of the bureaucrats. There must be no un- eeeiesen: of work inside the LSU, At the same time it would be a serious mistake in the present situa- tion to exaggerate the position of the I8.U., or to base our tac- tics upon speculations that the L.S.U. will get job control. The new tac- tics of the I.S.U. leaders and their use of demagogy have undoubtedly fooled some seamen and won them Support. Likewise the support given by the government, shipowners and N.R.A. have undoubtedly strength- ened the position of the I.8.U. lead- ers. Nevertheless, there has not been a large influx of seamen into the 1.S.U. in the East, and although there has undoubtedly been an in- crease, in the Gulf the I.8.U. is still extremely weak. This is the case even on the Pacific Coast, where large numbers of seamen entered the IS.U., which ts the “official union” and has a semblance of job control. Nevertheless, the M. W. I. U., in spite of the fact that it was the cen- ter of attack and for over a month was practically illegal with all its halls closed, has mass influence and ih some ports there has been a de- cided improvement in the organiza- fective strikebreaking activities of | d to Shackle Seamen > Fascist Plan ‘of Hiring Through U. S. Is Part of War Set-Up shows that this is not such an easy task. The East Coast strike ex- posed certain basic weakness in the work of the M.W.LU., namely, lack tees, neglect of concentration work lines, and especially a complete failure to carry on work inside the IS.U. At the same time and the most important to emphasize, is that the strike showed the continued wil- lingness of the seamen to struggle and that the M.W.1LU. is a major factor in the industry, with suffi- cient strength and influence to in- dependently initiate the largest Eastern seamen’s strike since 1923 in spite of inadequate preparations and in the face of the tremendous strikebreaking activities of all the forces against the strike. At the present time when, due to a num- ber of factors, the mood for strug- gle is growing, and the mass of seamen are as yet unorganized, the building of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union into a mass union is a basic task in the preparation for these struggles. An energetic campaign to win the mass of sea- men for the M.W.LU., and the ac- tual beginning of opposition work inside the LS.U., is the key to iso- lating Fureseth, Olander and Ax- tell, of winning the mass of seamen for united struggle and through united action towards one union in the industry. [The third and final article of this series will be published in tomorrow’s Daily Worker.] of strong functioning ships commit- | on the larger and more decisive| made no effort to arrest any of the |fascist Klansmen. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Philadelphia, Pa. ‘Thanksgiving Eve Dance, Wed., Nov. 28 at State Dance Hall, 20th and Market Sts. Good Dance Orchestra. Come in costume. Prizes for best costumes, Branch $35 will hold an affair for Daily Worker on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 4032 Germantown Ave. This will be a final effort to raise money to set our District over the top. All friends are invited. An evening of entertainment given by Unit 102, Sat. Nov. 28, 8:30 p.m, at 2342 8. 8th St. Newark, N. J. House Party given by L.W.O. Br, 512 at 1100 So. Grove 8t., Irvington. Sun- day, Nov. 25 at 6 p.m. Real turkey dinner will be sérved. Adm. 2! | Cincinnati, Ohio Big Affair. Musical Program, Good Food, Ed Hamilton, Epeaker.” Wed. Nov.’ 28, Workers School, Elm and Opera Place, :30 p.m. Buffalo, N. Y. Daily Worker Dance, Friday, Dec. ¥ at 760 Main St. Adm. 25¢. | Rochester, N. Y. Red Press Nite, Saturday, Dec. 1, at 7:80 p.m. Workers Center, 443 Ore mond St. Ausp.: Unit 7 0.P. Adm. ide inel. refreshments. Good program, WHAT’S ON RATES; 35¢ for 3 lines on weekdays, friday and Saturday S¢c. Money must accompany notices. Chicago, Ill. First Annual Dance given by Painters Br. 565 I.W.O. Saturday, Dec. 8 at Mirror Hall, 1156 N. Western Ave, Adm. 25¢ in adv., 35¢ at door. Philadelphia, Pa. Mass meeting in defense of the Scottsboro boys. Ruby Bates, main speaker, Saturday, Dec. 1, at 2466 N. 30th St, Adm, 15¢. Daily Worker Readers’ Club mieet- img on Monday, Nov. 26 at 2132 Toronto St. All readers and sympae thizers are invited to attend. | Fitchburg, Mass. | The Ernst Thaelmann film will be sfiown here on Monday, Oct. 26 at 8 p.m. at the Grove St. Hall (Tem- perance Hall), Adm. 20¢ in adv 25c at door. Thanksgiving Eve. Wed., Nov. 28th tion of ship committees, the leader- ship of ship strikes and the recruit- ment of new members. Campaign Against M. W. I. U. Combining terror with support to the I.S.U. leadership, the shipown- ers for over six months have car- ried on an attack to smash the M. W. I. U. But the East Coast strike COME IN DANCE STATE DANCE HALL 20th and Market Streets BENEFIT DAILY WORKER ‘PHILADELPHIA COSTUME