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

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1934 Page 3 PROTESTS MOUNT AGAINST HEARST’S ANTI-RED CAMPAIGN ry CHICAGO WORKERS CALL AN EMERGENCY MEETING SATURDAY City-Wide Rally On December 28 to Be High! Point in Campaign of Widening Protest on Fascist Propaganda in Hearst Press i (DAILY WORKER MIDWEST BUREAU) CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—A broad united front fight against | the fascist offensive launched by the Hearst press against the working class is rapidly developing around the emer- gency meeting called for Saturday, Dec. 15, at 2:30 p.m., at | | Anti- Eviction! Fighters Jailed Philadelphia Unemployment Councils to Bring Case to | All Workers | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 13. Five workers were each fined $10| and costs, two were held in bail) of $300 each, and four others were discharged when they appeared .be- fore Magistrate Thomas O'Hara yesterday following their arrest last | Thursday as part of a delegation | of 100 which went to City Hall to in VOTE for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill New BAL H.R. 7598 This ballot is sponsored by the Daily,QWorker America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper 50 East 13th Street York (Cut out and sign this ballot today) LOT Florida A.F.L. J oins in Drive On Homeless | ore Gov. Sholtz Calls On Police to Eject All Transients | Paso Teh MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 13.—The influx of unemployed workers into Florida | resulting from the announcement | a few weeks ago by federal officials, | | that all transients would be housed fed and given jobs, is causing great | consternation in the camp of lynch Governor Sholtz. U.S. STUDENTS WIN ROUND IN STRUGGLE AGAINST FASCISM Wide Sympathies Shown in American Colleges for Determined Fight on War Propaganda and Injection of Fascist Ideology By James Lerner Youth Section, American League Against War and Fascism National Secretary, has the American ard into prominence in the arena Within the past two years not onl; working class leaped forv —=— | In a letter to the officials of ie EHS ras : a mae ° 505 South State Street, to protest Hearst’s attacks on the| {te "ween ae ~~ a eine | I have read the Workers’ Unemployment and Social }| Florida's 67 counties, Shoitz labeled | Of world struggle but also the students have begun to waken Chicago Workers’ School, which has ¢ = of a law against evictions, || Insurance Bill and vote these workers as criminals and|from their long, legendary sleep. It has almost been an been singled out as the first target in a drive to destroy the elementary rights of the working class to or- ganize and carry on educational ac- tivities. A campaign of protest delega- tions, letters and mass meetings is proceeding throughout the city. Saturday’s emergency meeting will | consider a plan of action against Hearst and U. S. District Attorney Dwight Green, who has threatened to evict the school from its prem- ises and to arrest, prosecute and deport instructors under the Fed- eral sedition law. A city-wide mass meeting is be- | ing organized for Dec. 28 at the Capital Building, with the follow- ing speakers: George Koop, mem- |, ber of the Typographical Union and | the Socialist Party; Rev. J. Carlson, of the University of Chicago; Dr. Arthur Falls, for the Urban League; John Welick, of the Metal Polish- trs’ Union and chairman of the Chicago Section of the American League Against War and Fascism; Robert Minor, for the Communist Party; Morris Fine, of the Young! Communist League, and Beatrice Shields, Director of the Chicago Workers’ School. Besides the inciting articles and editorials in the Hearst press call- ing for the organization of vigi- Jantes and fascist violence against the Chicago Workers’ School, the Hearst press has prevailed upon the Pickets Show Viola Ilma As Fascist Agent Cleveland “Wakkers Ask ‘Who Paid Ima’s Fare to Germany’ (Special te the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 13. — A | picket line of the Youth Section of the American League Against War and Fascism greeted Viola Ilma at her lecture yesterday noon at the Hotel Cleveland, with signs reading, “Who Paid Ilma's Fare to Ger- many?” “Tima Means Pogroms, Hunger, War and Fascism,” “Tima Is Hitler’s Agent!” Masquerading as an Abyssinian princess, the would-be fascist leader spoke on American youth before an audience of 150 bejewelled ladies} who arrived for the lecture in limousines and paid one dollar and a quarter admission to help Ilma’s racket. Stating that American youth does not want to organize, she made a vitriolic attack on Communism and coating her fascist aims with a pa- triotic camouflage declared “We! young Americans, motivated by patriotism, must fight Commu- agent of the premises occupied by the school to attempt to evict the school, despite a two-year lease on “I’m going to stamp out Commu- nism if I’m the only man in the city to do it,” Magistrate O'Hara said in imposing the fines, climax- ing an anti-labor speech. The out- burst came when the workers stated their intention of demanding and fighting for their simple rights of protest and petition. Among those held in $300 bail were Jack Hutchins, a Negro, sec- | tion organizer of the Unemployment | Councils, | The 11 prisoners were part of a delegation of 100 which went to the City Hall last Thursday to protest the murder of William Heaterly, an unemployed Negro, father of four children, who was shot in his home when police evicted him. His brother, Samuel, was slugged and is being held without bail. The patrolman who murdered Heaterly, Joseph W. Anderson, was “honorably” discharged in a police whitewash of the case, and accord- | ing to local newspaper reports, his gun will be kept as a “souvenir.” The North Philadelphia Realty Board adopted a resolution com- mending Anderson for slaying Heaterly while carrying through the eviction. With 450,000 unemployed workers in Philadelphia, the new cash relief system adopted here on Nov. 15 al- lows only $1.50 relief to single men, and $1 a week or less for each per- son in a family. The Negro people, who constitute one-third of those on the relief rolls, are systematically denied aid, or given less than white workers. Heaierly, who lived in a wretched FOR C Name AGAINST O Addtem: 2 BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 13.— Mere possession of leaflets distrib- uted here by the Communist Party was held sufficient by Judge Martin to sentence Fred Walker, militant Negro workers of this city, to the chain-gang for six months. In ad- dition Walker was fined $100. This conviction is the first under Vote without delay and return your ballot at once to the worker who gave it to you, or mail it to the “Daily Worker” Negro Sent to Chain Gang In Alabama for Possessing — Communist Party Leaflets Is First to Be Convicted Under Downs Law—Was | Arrested at Home Three Weeks Ago By Birmingham Officers in Raid | A motion by LL.D. attorneys for |@ new trial for Israel Berlin, white | Worker, sentenced to six month and $180 fine for distributing leaflets, was argued today before Judge Mc- Elroy. The judge reserved decision. These legal attacks on workers’ rights are occurring on a background |of fascist terror and Ku Klux Klan the anti-working-class Downs law,| raids on workers’ homes. Last Fri- passed by the Birmingham Council; day, the home of Dan Thomas, a as part of the intensified drive | Negro worker, was raided by several against the working-class. The law called on the sheriffs to use “drastic action” to stop the march of these homeless workers into the State. He incited these officers to use violence were endangered if they did not | stop the migration; “aft jordes of these people are here it may be too | late,” the letter states. Even the | highway inspectors were enlisted to turn back all hitch-hikers. | The “Miami News,” organ of the | A. F. of L. of Florida, carried a front page editorial under an inch high headline, “Stop That Seeking Horde,” calling on the po- lice to keep out the unemployed workers, but in order not to be mi understood, they defined clea who should be allowed in the State as follows: “Not that all the new- comers are there are many who come to seek our healthful climate and recrea- tion, but there too are many of the other kind; for safety and our worthy visitors may go elsewhere stop entirely or reduce this influx | of certain classes.” | | Only last week the Charleston, S. C. police seized 54 workers who} were lodged at a transient camp |there, after taking their finger prints the poice held them in jail until the prints could be sent to Washington to be checked for| “criminal records.” | —$_____ | Pittsburgh Unemployed |United Front Demands by telling them that their lives| Job- | job-seekers or crooks; | unless something drastic is done to} |axiom that whereas students in the Europe tries or in the colonial co} an active part in politics A! udents for their ni student movement before the revo- lution and the heroic role of Cuban students who alongside of against impe: amples. But in this country student w: posed to be concerned with things: football, drink and petting parties. Many American _ students know of only foot petting parties bu nere i ing minority which is now cerned with many other things. hard blows throws brick! con- The jers, doctors and lawyers. Capit: can get along without ed. for the the mes: The growing str of the workers and farmers have affected the students, shown them jthe need for struggle. The increase in militarization has brought stu- dents face to face with a situation which resembled 1914 all too closely masses, without hea Great Advance Seen | From a little over two years ago when the first united front con- gress of students was organized in | America until today we have seen a solid advance in the struggles untries took@———— — he premises. ‘ Beatrice Shields, director of the school, in calling the emergency meeting for this Saturday after- noon, pointed out that the drive on the school is the forerunner of an organized campaign against the rights of the working class WHAT'S ON TES: 35¢ for 3 lines on weekd: rriany ‘and Saturday 5c. Extra chi fer additional space. Notices by 11 A. M. of the prev a: fs | American League Against War and nism.” She praised highly the mili- tarization of the youth in the C.C.C, camps “where,” she claimed, “boys are happy forging futures for them- selves,” but became visibly embar- rassed when asked about her con- nections with Nazi officials and spies, and as to who paid her fare to Hitler Germany. She evaded these questions and hastily ad- | journed the meeting before other questions could be asked. The Cleveland branch of the Fascism is calling a conference for shack at 1011 Callowhill St., was denied all relief on the grounds that his wife earned $3 a week washing clothes and_ scrubbing floors. To bring this flagrant case of discrimination to the attention of all workers, the Unemployment. Councils will canvass all working class neighborhoods, Sunday, Dec. | was found in his home, but at Walk- 23, urging support of the Councils, |er’s trial the prosecution presented and mass support behind the Na-|jeafiets seized in a different raid. tional Congress for Unemployment |phe International Labor Defense Insurance. . has served notice of appeal and is endeavoring to raise the bond of makes possession of more than one copy of leaflets issued by workers’ organizations a crime. Arrested at Home three weeks ago after a raid by the Jan, 27 to broaden its activities Philadelphia, Pa. ‘A. W. Mills, District Organizer of the Communist Party, speaks at Work- ers School Forum, Friday evening, Dec. 14 at 8 pm. on “The Commu- nist Position on Trade Unions.” Ad- mission 25¢. Unemployed 10c. Lecture by Louis: Weinstock, National Secretary A.’F. of L. Trade Union Comm. for Unemployment Insurance on “The Two A. F. of L. Conven- tions,” Sunday, Dec. 16, 8 p.m. at 138 8. 8th St., 3rd floor. Canton Commune Commemoration, Saturday, Dec. 15 at 8 p.m, at Girard Manor, 911 W. Girard Ave. Speakers: Hans’ Chan, editor China Today; ‘Mother Bioop; also Workers Mandolin Orchestva, Workers Chorus and Play by Nature Friends. Commemoration Event under auspices of I.L.D. Adm. asc. Tickets at the door. Film and Photo League of Phila. presents Kisenstein’s masterpiece “Potemkin,” also Dredging-Canoe Rythm; Littoral-Film Sketch; Tom Mooney; Cannon Fodder; Sunday, Dec. 16, three shows: 3 at. Federation Bullding, 1206 Waln St. Adm, 25e. adel} District 1.L.D. Conven- te ceneeaay; Dec. 16, starting at 2 p.m, Sunday, Dee. 16, starting at 10 a.m. at 1083 Girard Ave. your organization is represented. ‘Anna Damon, acting national organi- zational secretary, will report. Paterson Lecture by Dr. 8. Littman on “Health of the Worker,” Sunday, Dec. 16, 8:30 p.m. at Junion Order Hall, Union and Smith Sts. Rockford, Ill. Lecture at S.M.S.F. Hall, 1019 Third Ave. Sunday, Dec. 16, 2:30 p.m. Sub- ject: “Wil Communism Bring Hi piness to Humanity?” Henderson of Chicago. ployed 1c. Unemployed Se, Chicago, Ill. - Pre-Holiday “Liberation” Festival given by L.S.N.R., Saturday, Dec. 15 ¢ Roseland Gardens Ballroom, 47th Parkway. Music by Tiny . Entertainm a and South by Negro Professionals, Dine aot Dancer i0-to 3. Adm, 5c, Symposuim “Pascist Trends in Middle Class and Trade Unions,” Sunday evening, Dec. 16, 8 p.m. at Pen and Hammer Forum, 20 E. Ontario St. Speakers: Harry Shaw, editor Rail- road Unity News, and Joseph Edel- man, Chicago Comm. to Ald Vic- tims of German Fascism. Adm, 15¢, ltimore, Md. pe Northwest Unit of Y.C.L. ts holding a series of Open Fo ams at their headquarters, 1308 McCullan Street, Sundays at 3 p.m. starting next Sunday, Dec. 14. Leonard Patterson will, speak on “Why Cheltenham .Muft Be Abolished,” Boston, Mass. _ Ghinese Night. to Celebrate 7th An- Canton Commune Sun- day, Dec. 16. At New International Hall, 42 Wenonah St., Roxbury, Mass. Chop Suey. Chow Mein Supper, p.m. sharp. Chinese Music. Enter- tainment. Editor Hsu of Vanguard will speak on “Canton Commune and Red Army.” Subs. 35c. Auspices, Chinese Br. and John Reed Br. LL.D. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Columbus, Ohio Dance and Entertainment for Work- Y , Uj Elore Radnik—Saturday, Dec. 15 at 8 p. m. at Ivanoff Hall, 1899% So. Parsons Ave, Adm. 25¢. Paul, Minn. Dance and Entertainment given by ‘Unit 1 at St. Paul Labor Lyceum, 5' Et E. 1ith 8t., Sat., Dec. 15. Adm. 10¢, ing Party and Entertainm ent, Sat., Dec. By at 438 Iglehart Ave. Given by ut 2, ©. P. 8) his agents to prevent any fight for and plan educational and other work, The branch already includes 42 organizations, including seven American Federation of Labor locals, German Krankenkasse, Teachers Union, Amalgamated | Clothing Union, etc. Relief Is Cut in Half | In Jasper, Alabama JASPER, Ala. Dec. 12—There has been a 50 per cent slash in | relief expenditures in Walker County for the week ending Dec. 1, the weekly report of T. J. Payne. disbursing officer, revealed. Total | expenditures for the week amounted | to only $7,672.50, with 2,723 per- sons on the relief rolls, and many other unemployed workers, particu- Textile Strikers Force Closing of Wollen Mill SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 13.— Textile strikers here scored an im- portant victory today with the an- nouncement that the plant of the Hamilton Woolen Mill will close. The announcement followed a very intense battle with state troopers during which six strikers were ar- rested. The workers then stormed the police station in an attempt to free the six arrested. HAZELTON MINERS STRIKE | HAZELTON, Pa., Dec. 12.—One thousand one hundred and fifty miners at three collieries of the Jed- do-Highland Coal Company came) out on strike yesterday in demand that overtime work be discontinued so that many who are unemployed $300 demanded for Walker's release on bail. On the same day, Circuit Court Judge John P. McCoy released Nor- man Virciglio, white, on two year’s probation after a jury had recom- mended a sentence of five years in prison for the fatal stabbing of Will Frank Means, an 18-year-old Negro youth, last March. Virciglio had en- tered a plea of guilty of first degree manslaughter by agreement between his counsel and the solicitor’s office. hooded terrorists, who beat up 'Thomas and his son. The fascist gang next proceeded to the home |of Steve Simmons, who was beaten |up two weeks ago by the same gang. Walker was arrested at his home |Simmons was prepared for them this | |time, and frightened them away. notorious Red-baiters, detectives T.| With mass indignation sweeping | of the Unemployment Councils of J. Moser and L. Cole. No literature |the Negro and white working-class | western Pennsylvania, sections of the city, the lynch rulers are frantically mobilizi: g their re- formist Negro henchmen in a drive |to disrupt the growing united resis- tance of Negro and white workers against the terror. At a meeting held here on Monday, Grand Chan- cellor Oscar W. Adams of the Col- ored Knights of Pythias urged up- ;on 400 members of the organization “loyalty and obedience to constit- uted authority.” The “constituted authority” of the lynch rulers, ex- jercised in bestial volence against the Negro masses, is thus loyally sup- ported by the same reformist lead- ers who decry all “violence of the masses” in defense of their lives and rights. Ford Metal Finishers Win Wage Increases DETROIT, Dec. 13—Metal fin- ishers at the Ford plant won a sub- stantial increase in wages when they threatened to quit. These highly skilled workers were receiv- larly Negroes, denied any relief whatever. . NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., Dec. 12.—The rank and file employees of Andrew Mellon in the aluminum industry are now face to face with the question of how the so-called “industrial unionism” resolution, passed by the last A. F. of L. con- vention, is to be carried out in their industry. The last strike of the aluminum workers, led by the Aluminum Workers Union (A. F, of L.), thanks to Mr. Green’s sell-out agreement, has not solved any of the grievances of the aluminum workers. At the present time, the Alum- inum Company of America, the aluminum trust of Mellon, with its main plant ee intensively prop- agandizing for the company union and has begun discrimination against active union members. The economic conditions, speed-up and low wages, have not been bettered. Union recognition was not obtained. Growth of Rank and File The rank and file movement, in the face of this attack of the com- pany, and the attempt of Green and their demands, has grown rapidly. The rank and file, in order to fectively answer this company at- tack, demands a real industrial union in the industry, controlled by the rank and file. The union mem- bership in ever greater numbers is pressing forward the rank and file Program, The fact that the rank and file candidates for union office in this week’s elections failed of election by only a score of votes shows that the ae Lyili drag are alive 3 the for a program ani for rank and file control. The same local meeting also by an overwhelming major- ity, a resolution demanding the call- of a national convention of aluminum workers in Pittsburgh within three months, with deegates can be given jobs, elected from the floor of each local. Such 8 convention, they declare, will lay the basis for a real industrial union controlled by the workers themselves, The aluminum workers can see how Green wants to carry out the A. F. of L. resolution on “industrial unionism.” This resolution calls for “the Executive Council to issue charters for national and interna- tional unions” in the aluminum, cement and automotive industry. After upholding the craft union principle, the resolution concludes, “In order to protect and safeguard the members of such unions char- tered, the Federation, for a provi- sional period, shall direct the pol- itics, administer and designate the administrative and financial officers of the newly-organized unions.” Green in the Aluminum Industry It is clearly Green’s purpose to set up a dictatorship over the alum- inum workers in order to stifle the growing rank and file movement in tHe alumnum industry. His pol- icies are only too well known to the aluminum workers as seen in his agreement selling out the last strike. A. F. of L. Concention Under this A. F. of L. Cont vention resolution, Green has the power to appoint all officers to the union when the national union is formed, to dictate all the policies of the union and to control its finances. This would mean Green’s time-honored policy of no-strike, of compulsory arbitration with the La- bor Boards which, with Green’s sup- Port, have worsened the conditions of the workers in the auto, steel and other industries. It would mean the red scare and expulsion of mili- tant workers from the union, such as Green has attempted in all unions. It would mean defeat of the aluminum workers’ demands and. weakening of their union. Green, through his agent Dave ing im most cases the minimum Ford wage of 62% cents an hour, or $5 a day. They went to the fore- man and told him that when they worked at the Dodge plant they got $1 an hour, and would quit un- less they got a raise. The company, realizing that the men meant busi- ness, hastened to increase their pay to 80 cents an hour. By CARL REEVE Williams, A. F. of L. organizer in the Allegheny Valley, has already unsuccessfully tried to suppress the rank and file through such tactics. “Williams would stick a knife in a Communist and then lick the blood off the end of it,” one rank and file worker told me. Williams was unable to kill the rank and file Movement through his red scare and only succeeded in descrediting himself. His policy of cooperation with the company has stirred in- tense dissatisfaction of the union members. The aluminum workers of New Kensington are demanding a real industrial union in the industry with rank and file control, and preparation for the coming struggle as the only method of defeating the company’s attack on their union and their living standards. The Company Union This attack is being demagogically carried on, The company union at- tempts to masquerade as a “real workers union” (Nov. 5 leaflet dis- tributed by the company). “We are not proposing a company union,” the literature states. All of the lit- erature distributed by the company to the employes carries this dema- gogic note, Together with pam- phiets and leaflets, the company distributes application cards for membership in the company union outfit, the “Aluminum Workers Pro- tective Association.” It offers bribes to the workers in the form of sick benefits. “One of the main pur- Poses of our proposed organization ++. to pay weekly benefits to the workers when they are off work on account of sickness, etc., and draw- ing no wages. We can be very easily so organized as to be able to pay a member $10 to $12 a week during such periods of hardship.” The literature does not add that this benefit is to be raised by work- ers’ contributions, This flood of company union Propaganda concentrates its attack on the “labor bosses.” It brings out all of the crimes committed by the union leaders against the rank and file—high dues, no rank and file control, and sell-out of strikes. Ié points out the unsatisfactory agreement signed by Green for the aluminum workers. It then demagogically calls for the substitution of the company union, “the Employe Representa- tion Plan,” which the literature de- clares “simply means that the work- ers of a plant set up a procedure by which they negotiate with their employer on matters relating to employe problems within their own plant, and involving their own par- ticular interests. In this way they are free to act for themselves, and make whatever settlements are best suited to their own local conditions. In this way the workers of the plant preserve their rights and privileges as free men and are not subject to the commands of outside ‘labor bosses.’ ” This will eliminate “strife and discord,” says the company union propaganda. The demagogic attack on the be- trayals of A. F. of L. leaders is made by the company the wedge whereby to propagate the employer controlled, fascist union, where the workers have only the “right” in- dividually to petition the manage- ment and no say whatever as to wages, working conditions or inner “union” problems. The company union gives some facts—that the A. F. of L. leaders fight rank and file control and sign unsatisfactory agreements. They then distort these facts by »ttempt- ing to substitute the company union, They hide the fact that the Mellon company and these same A. F, of L. leaders co-operated to put over the present unsatisfactory A. | F. of L. agreement, against war. Under the leadership of the World Committee Against War and Fascism and later of the Youth Section of the American} League Against War and Fascii the movement has enrolled sympathies, No single action is more sympto- |matic of this than the great were made |dent strike against war and fas | at the first mass meeting held here of April. 13. With the Student under the auspices of the united| League calling unon their chapters | front of the unemployed organiza-| to build the unity from below it was tions, | possible to draw 25,000 students out North Side Carnegie Hall, where |Of their class rooms in dramatic the meeting was held, was crowded|Protest against war preparations. | Freedom for Frankfeld |mands for the further strengthen- | | ing of the proletarian united front | and for the release of Phil Frank- | feld. framed and imprisoned leader | tries have been proceeding in to capacity, with the following or- ganizations participating: Unem- ployment Council, Unemployed Citi- zens League, Independent Unem- |Ployed Citizens League, Pennsyl- | Vania Unemployed League, and the Veterans Rank and File. Plans were adopted, following a report by the Joint Action Com- mittee of the unemployed organi- zations for a monster parade and demonstration in Pittsburgh on Jan. 3, FROST IN FLORIDA TAMPA, Fia., Dec. 12.—For first time since 1906 snow fell yesterday, There were only a few flakes but the temperature had dropped sufficiently to cause suffer- ing among the city’s unemployed. A heavy frost was predicted for the |night, At noon the temperature was 34, the Aluminum Workers Demand Real Industrial Union, Rank and File Control, To Defeat Company Union, Low Pay, Speed-Up, Green’s Betrayals The program of the rank and file in the Aluminum Workers’ Union, however, is showing the aluminum workers the correct road—not the boss controlled company union which prevents real organization, gives the workers no rights and en- ables the employer to dictate all conditions—but rank and file con- trol of the Aluminum Workers’ Union (A. F. of L.) with a militant Policy of struggle for their demands. Organize the Unorganized The rank and file workers in the Aluminum Workers’ Union know that the question of organizing the unorganized aluminum workers is a key question at the present moment. They know that Williams and other Green agents had not made any effective attempts to organize the unorganized These Green agents have no inten- tion of doing so. The rank and file knows that in the face of the com- pany’s attacks the union must be built into a 100 per cent organiza- tion. The rank and file aluminum workers propose a more aggressive organizing campaign, with organ- izing committees of the union drawing in those not yet members and activizing those who have signed applications but who have remained passive. This organization drive, proposed by the rank and file, is especially urgent in view not only of the com- pany union propaganda, but also in view of the fact that at present the economic conditions are far from satisfactory. The strike “settlement” of Green did not solve the workers’ griev- ances. “The efficiency and bonus “The revolutions of the machine per minute are measured fre- quently. Different rates per hour are set for exactly the same kind aluminum — workers. | system is in full force,” one rank | and file aluminum worker told me. | The success of this action shocked the war-making government and jits agents, Hearst, Fish, Easley, etc., which had patiently worked to keep | the students “sound” for military | purposes, The stzike action came in the | midst of a whole series of confer- ences at about 70 colleges, universi- ties and high schools. Most of these conferences accepted the program of the Youth Section of the Ameri- can League. Fight Against Fascism i The recent fight against repre- | College in New Yor € expuls:on of 21 siudenis. Students at the University of California have met the same fate. Al Hamilton, a member of the National Committee of the Youth Section, American League, has been denied admission to the University of California be- | | of work. There is no uniform wage | scale. Speed-up and lack of uni-| form wage rates are among our Worst grievances.” | Another rank and file worker told | how active union members are be- | | ing shifted around from job to job as one form of discrimination. One worker who was in the plant for seven years. was laid off recently, | the company claiming he lacked “ability.” He was fired under the | “ability” clause written into the agreement by Green. Under this agreement the union does not have | real recognition and the company | proceeds with discrimination. The | local’s committees are fighting against this discrimination. ; The program of the rank and file | for the building of the union under | rank and file control, is a program | j of preparation for struggle against | these conditions. A real industrial | union in the aluminum industry, with an aluminum workers’ union | national convention within three months as the first step, would | Strengthen greatly the aluminum | workers’ fight. To fight discrim- | ination, company unionism, speed- up and low wages, the aluminum workers must strengthen their union with an organizing campaign. Only the rank and file will do this. Green, carrying out the “industrial union” resolution with his expul- sion policy, his class collaboration with the Mellon company, his no- strike tactics, would only defeat the demands of the aluminum workers. The rank and file program, the | strengthening and building of the | rank and file of the union itself, will defeat the Mellon companies’ attacks, will defeat Green’s no- strike policies and put the alu-/| minum workers in a position for! the coming struggle, and enable | | them to win their demands. an capitalist coun- t Kansa: have en aga 1 etter life so on r campus has there been an attempt to set up vigilante ist groups to smash the progressive student movement. These groups do not spring spontaneously; in nearly all ca the college authorities appeal to groups to wipe out the “reds.” The ruling class is trying to use the stu- dents the same way Hitler used them. As shock s for fasc In California he recent strike Effective Action Effective action on the part of the National Student League forced them to quit their dirty work. American students can Clearly see that fascism is not the way to a bet- ter life from the experiences of Germany. There education is being limited more and more to those who come from the upper class. There all college students must spend at least one year in the barracks, There all students must become part of the military machine. Clearly, then the American student has he- gun to take important steps for- ward. The students in other coun- he same direction. In order to co-ord iS | nate these activities on a world scale the World Youth Committee Against War and Fascism and the World Student have called for an International Student Congress to be held in Lyons, France, at the end of December. In the United States the Congress has won the support | of the National Student League, the Student League for Industrial De mocracy, the Student Section of the War Resisters League. Student del- egates are being elected in many colleges across the country. Already we know of delegates elected at the Negro University, Howard, at the University of Nozth Carolina, at Dartmouth, California, | Columbia. Delegates are being en- dorsed not merely by radical groups in the colleges but as in the case of Howard and North Carolina by the entire student body as represented in the councils. Teachers’ organiza- tions, active in the fight against war are being urged to send their rep- resentative: nt is taking his stand, le of the fizhting forces of progress. CHICAGO, Ill. IL. D. BAZAAR FRI. SAT. 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