The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDN SDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1934 see, don’t get a free hand. Hiller IN AUTO INDUSTRY, | Throughout U, 8 U.S. BOARD IS TOLD x. se se ne United Front of All Workers in Preparation for Resistance to Speed-up and Lay-offs Is Urgent Task, Says Communist DETROIT, Deg. 25.—Th face constantly worsening wages, bad working conditions and discrimination as the| year draws to a close and t In order to better these cond forge the united front and peepare> far struggle. This is the conelus of the statement of Ea-1 Reno, spoke on Dec. 16 fcr the Cammu! Party in the hearings of the Roose- | velt, commiszion industry. Jn their attack on the living standards of the workers the auto manufaciurergs have been aided by the N. R. A. and government agen- cies which prevented the workers from going out on a general strike last spring, Reno pointed out. Since then, he declared, when <he studying” the auto Auto Labor Board was set up and| the “merit clause" was retained in the auta cede, unemployment Aas increased. The profits of the auta manufacturers under the regime of the NW. R. 4. have alsa increased. Reno said in part A Real Workers’ Program “The warkers can rely only on their awn arganized power. The ur- gent immediate need of the auto workers is to,establish the united fron: ef the A. F. of L., the Mechan- les Educatianal Society of America, | the Auto Workers Union and othe: real workers’ unions around a pro- gram such as (1) minimum wage of $35 for production men and $48 for skilled workers for a 30-hour five day week; (2) the regulation cf the speed of production, by deme- cratically elected committees of workers and the company; (3) for one industrial union in the industry, contrelled by the workers and struggling against the employers: (4). the abolition of the March agreement, company unions, service- men and spy agencies; (3) guaran- teed work all year around er iis equivalent in unemployment in- surance. “Will the employers and the gov- ernment grant these demands to the werkers without a struggle? The facts show that they won't. The facts shew that they have started a new attack against labor. “All the talk about spreading em- ployment under the N. R. A. has been misleading. The Michigan State Department of Labor and In- dustry shows in its reports that between Aug. 15, and Oct. 15, 1934, 104,105 auto workers were thrown out of employment. Ohronic unem- ployment confronts’ more than 50 r cent of the auto workers during he period of greatest production. Profits up—Wages Down “his illness is being meade in- ereasingly more acute as a result of the intensified competition in the industry. It is evident that more than 200,000 automobile and acces- sory workers are doomed to per- manent unempleyment and most of the rest to part time empleyment ander the presen: capitalist candi- tfons. “Under the N. R. A. the speed-up the employers have increased while she real wages of the worke:s haye | In the first six months of | declined. 1934 alone, General Mators recorded a net profit of $89,585,613. The annual wages of an aute worker, ac- sording ta conservative estimates. ranges frem $500 to $900. This is/| certainly below any conception of a living wage. “Under the N. R. A. the speed-up of the workers is being steadily in- tensified. Aim of Job Talks “The auto industry is in a chronic crisis. All attempts by the manu- facturers aided by the Roosevelt zovernment, to overcome this eri has only resulted in making it more acute. Therefore why all this talk abent stabilizing the industry and spreading empleyment? This talk is aimed to confuse the workers and take their minds off the real im- mediate problems of inereaved hourly and weekly wages, shorter hours, abolition of the speed-up, unemployment insurance and union- ization of the industry. “Gan you stabilize an industry which has a production eapacity of 10,000,609 cars and this year pro- duced only 2,800,000 cars? As long AS ears are produced solely to make profits for private employers, just so long will there be a disparity between production capacity and actual sequent steady army of unemployed and part time workers. Fundamen- tally, this problem can only be com- pletely solved if the warkers took aver the industry and ran it them- selves through their own govern- ment, Only such a workers’ gov- ernment could immediately give full time employment to every auto and accessory warker, abolish the speed - up system, give the workers complete security and steadily raise their living and cultura] standards. Stagger Plan “Under the present capitalist con- ditions, you either hold your hands up in reactionary horror and say that over 200,000 ‘surplus’ workers must be kicked out of the industry Or you adopt the working class posi- tion; the employers shall guarantee work all year reund to these work- ers or the government give them the equivalent in unemployment insu- rance. The Communists fight for this policy. “Fhe proposal to stagger the an- nouncements of new models, will in the first place never work out in ~ractice. Ti will be wrecked by the intense competitive struggle for markets amongs! the manufacturers on the one hand and the dealers cn the other hand. In the second place, even if this staggering plan could be put into effect, it could not spread mere empioyment, only an increase in markets can do that; consumption, with a con-| e workers in the auto industry conditians of speed-up, low he busiest season approaches, itiens the auto workers must it would merely spread the misery of the auto workers, increase part | time work and a starvation part ts | time wage, prevent the work crease the speed up for those ao | the job. The auto manufacturer: | wave started this talk about stag- | smake screen, | which they under the cover of are conducting 4 fierce | tions and unionism in the auto in- dustry out industry by i:aning the workers out | of the plants. } Strike Only Way “Te talk about an annual wage in the abstract only the workers. ers that their first immediate prob- lem is to get a raise in their hourly and weekiy wages. We must show them that the winning of a guaran- teed annual income ig tied up with the winning of unemployment in- surance at the expense of the goy- ernment and the emplaye:s. But such ste-ile and misleading measures The employers are ironing confuses various unemployed reserve fund unemployment workers. Only by the enactment of the Workers. Un- employment and Sacjal Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598, introduced into Congress by Representative Lun- deen in February, 1934, can the auto workers have a guarantee of a raal annual income. This bill calls for insuranee thraughout the entire Period of unemployment in amounis equal “to average local wages” and in no case less than $10 per week, plus $3 for each depandent. Need of Unity for Action “The Communist Party has con- sistently stood far the unificatian of | the aute worke:s’ ranks. We are opposed to building unions cam- posed solely of Communists. We | stand for the building ef one union in the auto industry which unite workers of all political opinions and other beliefs, which is built on in- dustrial as against craft lines, which | is controlled by the membars them- selves and which struggles against the employers for better conditions. Since the various workers’ unioas [Rave come inta existence in the | auto industry, the problem is ta unite all the real unions into one union. A common struggle of A. F. of L., M. E. 8. A., and other real workers’ unions ta improve the con- ditions of the workers is bound to lead to the building of one union in the industry. he top leaders of the A. F. of L. and M. E. 8. A. have accepted the Washington agree- ment, called upon the workers to rely on the capitalist govern- ment and arbitration instead of | strikes. This policy has brought nothing but increased misery to the auto workers. The worker must now knew that only through united struggles can the bad conditions be changed. “The unity of the auto workers, of all zeal unians in the auto indus- | try, must be achieved if the auto warkers are not ta he forced down to lower levels. The united attack | of the auto manufacturers must be answered with the united front of auto labor aided by all organizations. This unity must de built up in the departments in the |Blants, in the locals and. between the real workers’ unions. We need united committees of workers in the | Shops to prepare for strike action. Build United Front Committees of action whieh can prepaze for a suc- | cessful strike struggle! Forward to one industrial union in the auto industry!” |Garment Local to Vote |For Officers Tomorrow Elections of a new administration in logal @6 of the International Ladies Garment Workers will be held tomorrow, according to an annauncement made by the union. The results of the election will determine whether the manv evils existing in the union and the in- dustry are to remain, or a new ad- minstration will be yoted into office composed of people who will remedy these evils and really organize the workers for improved conditions. ,In a leaflet addressed to all the members of the lozgl, the Left Wing Group—Local 66 appealed to all the workers to yote for its candi- dates, Shirley Baron, Mary Teitel- man, Betty Esbinsky and Sarah Verlinsky, as an expression of their of the group, GEORGIA RELIEF IDEA tative Braswell Deen said today he plans to introduce at the next ses- changing the federal relief setup througheut the country.” “I am in fayor of abolishing all the relief officers in every eounty and in every state, and should Cen- gress appropriate other funds for relief, the Pederai Relief Adminis- trator should be authorized under new legislation to issue his check to the several gavernors for the monsy spent by the respective eounty and city authorities and cer- tiffeel to the governor by them,” he said, from getting local relief and in-| yering models in order to create a) | attack against the workers’ candi- | the peaks and valleys in the} We must show the work- | as the Wagner-Lewis bill and the} schemes give nothing to the present | workers’ | Union | support of the militant program! ALMA, Ga., Des. 25—Represen- | sion of Congress a bill “radically | abor Union 18477, and A. Thorpe, | Secretary, Lodge 46, Switchmen’s Union of North America. In preparation for this confer- ence a mass meeting will be held in the Jefferson County ‘Court House, Friday evening, Dec. 28. The |main speaker at this meeting will ; be Elmer Brown, Chairman of the Amalgamation Party in the Typo- | graphical Union. Many Miner Delegates | WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Dec. 25.— |The majority of the union dele- gates from here to the Natianel | Unemployment Congress are being | elected by the Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania. Hannan, who isalso chairman of the Lucerne County | | Committee for Unemployment Tn- | surangs, is making a thoraugh can- | vass ef all the unemployed organ- | }izations here in order to insure a large delegation to Washington. Four locals of the Anthracite | Miners in the Nanticoke section | have already elected delegates, and three others are taking up this question in the next few days. | The County Committee for the Congress hag secured the Coughlin | | send-off of the delegates Thursday, Jan. 3, and is making arrangements |to bring a prominent speaker from |New York for this meeting. | Farmer-Labor Delegate Chosen j MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 24— | The Hennepin County Central Com- | | mittee of the Farmer-Laher Asso- | ciation elected W. J. McGaughren, | | chairman of the committee, as their | | delegate ta the National Unemploy- | ment Congress. McGaughren is} also the chairman of the welfare committee of the Minngapolis | Board of Public Welfare. | Sixteen unions were represented at a meeting called by the A. F. of | |L. Committee for Unemployment | |Insurance and at least two dele- | | gates will be sent to Washington to | represent them. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. 25.— | Many trade unions here are ac- | tive in preparations for the National | Congress for Unemployment and | Social Insurance. Ameng these are | the Bakers Union 14, the Jewish Br. jof Bakers 14, Laborers Union 435 Weodcarvers Union and the United) | Shoe Workers Union. | Unions which have already en- dorsed the Congress and the Work- ers Bill are: Bakers Union 14;) | Brewery Workers Local 57; Inter- national Union of Operating En- gineers, Local 71; Upholsterers Local | | 8; Glass Bottle Blowers Unian. The Lake Avenue Baptist Church and |the Brick Church haye also | dorsed the congress. CHICAGO, Hil... Deg. | Small Home and Land Ow eration of Illinois, at its annual conference held here recently, en- | dorsed the Workers’ Unemployment | and Social Insurance Bill. The con- ference also passed a resolution con- demning the act of the Emergency | Relief Commission in cutting relief | 10 to 30 per cent. and demanding that the cut be at onea rescinded. | Payment of cash rent in advance) ta small home owners for haysing | unemplaved was also demanded. The Village of Himwood Park. a | city of 11,000 novulation on the} northwest side of Chicago, has en-| dorsed the Workers’. Unsmplayment | {Insurance Bill and instructed the Village Attorney to write Congress- |man Schuetz asking his cooperation jin effecting the passage of the bill| in Congress, en- NEW YORK.—The Jack London) Theatre will present a play, ‘‘Amer-| ica—America,” at the mass send off | meeting for delegates to the Na-! | tional Congress for Unemployment | | and Social Insurance at St. Nicholas | Palace, 69 W. 66th St.. Friday, Jan. | 4, at8p.m. Beethoven's Fifth Sym- phony and other selections will be) played by the Workers’ Interna-/ | tional Relief orchestra of 46 pieces. | | Elmer Brown. chairman of the | Amalgamation Party in the Typo-| graphical Union 6; John P. Davis, secretary of the Joint Committee | | for National Recovery, Washington |D. C.; James W. Ford, of the Com- munist Party; William D. Spofford. Sociglist candidate for Governor of Maryland in the last election and member of the Church League for Industrial Demoeracy. and Richard | | Sullivan, of the Unemployment | | Councils of Greater New York, wil speak at the meeting, - ® Delegates from New England and upper New York will be present and will leave for Washingten together with.the New York delegation af- ter the meeting. Unemployed workers are urged to get their free tickets from their local Unemployment Councils. Ad- | mission will be 25 cents. Veterans To Meet Thursday | NEW YORK.—All veterans have heen urged ta attend a mass mesi- ing in support af the three-pojnt programs immediate payment of the bonus, repeal of the Esanomy Act, employment Insurance Bill. Thurs- | day night. Dec, 27, 8 o'clock, at 341 W. 44th St. Speakers for sive a report on the Chicago Con- vention of the Rank and File and lead a discussion on the three-point | program. Delegatas will be elected to represent the Veterans of the | West Side at the National Congress | for Unemployment Insurance in | Washington. Shoe Warkers te Send Relegates LYNN, Mass., Dee. 24. — Three locals of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union here have thus far eleeted delegates to the National Congress for Unemployv- ment Insurance. These are: Cut- ters Local 4 which is sending two} celegates, Stitchers Local 12 which is sending tw delegates. and Lasi- ers Loez] which is sending one | that and passage of the Warkers’ Un-/ the meeting will! STRUGGLE LOOMS Hunger Lists Swell |Schoellkopf’s Utiliti es Profited from Double Light Bills (Continued from Page 1) | vil eas peti | Building, Albany, New York, at | which meeting were present | Messrs, McVicar, Van Hyning, Clarke, Chrystie, Burns and my- self. I would recommend. a searching investigation into this condition ag F am inglined to feel that many sygh duplications haye been paid the New ¥ork Power and Light Campany in the past and since the relief program has been in existence.” What Hiller seid in writing an August 1, he had already sated verbally in the meeting referred to above on July 25. Here the sequence of events becomes significant: On the very same day—July 25th —on whieh he made hig oral pay ta his superiors in Albgny, Hiller was ordered out of Gohaes and inte the city of Aubu:n, Instructions game by wire from the TERA center in New York. Exagtly twelve days later, Aug. 4, Hiller was called in fram the by a long distance telephone call from Mr. McVicar in New York. Hiller by this time understood | High School Auditoyiym for @ Mass | clearly that Schoellkopf and his | craw were t.ying to get rid of him. It was at this time that he made his third consecutive request for a hearing before Frederick I. Daniels, Executive Director of the TERA. Byenis moved swiftly after this. On August 17 Hiller was called on the carpet. by the aforementioned MeVicar and charged with lese| majesty — attempting to have Schoellkopf removed, Hiller Suggests Investigation On Aug. 20 the harassed auditor tcok it upon himself to address a| letter to Governor Lehman, stating the situation in detail and submit- ting a copy of his report to MeVicar. Among other things, Hiller suggested that all the money paid to the utilities since the relief pro- gram began be investigated. August 25 Hiller was called into MeVicar's office and discharged beriuse he had written to the Gavernor. No hearing was given the auditor. Then began Hiller's heart-break- ing fight to be reinstated and, simultaneously, the efforts of Schoellkopf ta cover his own slimy trail. Hiller, bald at 41, meticulous, ad- justed his glasses carefully as he tald me his. story—the tale of an honest middle ¢! citizen, a Long Island hame-owner whose only crime has been a rigid professional honesty. An enralled Democrat (he vated for Lehman in the last election), past chairman of the Steubs, Society of Lynbrook, L. I., a war veteran, Mason and member of the Bankers Squa‘e Cub, the farmer Wall Street accountant was visibly affectad. It wasn’t only the thought of the lass of his job—the man may soon lose his home—but the idea so much corruption exists within the relief administration, he explained. He didn't have to explain that he wasn’t a Communist. The letter in his files before me fram Hamilton Fish, Jr., introducing Mr. Hiller to Jahn EB. Mack, counsel for the lagis- lative committee probing New Yo: utilities, indicated that. Nor did’ we have to be told that Mr. Mack did not see fit to call Mr. Hiller to testify in the great sham battle Mr. Mack is waging against the utilities. Hiller has lost 20 pounds and has become afflicted with Reckling- hausen, a nervous disease, since his fight started. But he was gradually arriving at a new understanding of some things, Wrote to Rogsevelt “On Aug. 27," he continued, “T wived Goyernor Lehman and wroje President Rooseyelt. On Aug. 31 I received an acknowledgement of my wire from the Goyernor. That evi- dently forced a hearing from TERA. “On Sept. 7 I received a hearing at TERA headquarters before Scheelikopf, F.,I. Daniels, Executive Directo: and Solomon Loewenstein. At that hearing I was told that I would be notified whether I would be reinstated or not. “A week later, Sept. 14, I received another nate from Schoellkapf, PAU me to keep in toueh with im. . “On Sept. 27 I wrate again to President Roosevelt. “On Cctobsr 2, I was sisited by a federal agent from Washington. This was a reaction to my letters to) the President. “On Qet. 16, I got a polite note from the Chief of Correspondence of from Relief || EXPOSES GRAFT | KARL HILLER the Federal Emergency Relief Ad- ministration in Washingten knowledging my letters ‘ta the P1 dent, which had been turned over to FERA and from there sent to TERA fo: action. Fired by Schoellkopf “Qn November 41, I received a letter signed by Schoelikepf and dated November 7, informing me that I would not be reinstated.” Tt will he noted here that the letter was dated November 7— exactly twenty-four hours a‘ter Election Day—thus indicating clearly that Mr. S¢hoeltk seemed to be fully aware of the danger of Hiller’s revelations be- fore elections. The conclusion is inescapable that Schoellkonf and the other officials were stalli Hiller until all possibilities of this Scandal breaking in time te cause age certain people was past. But while Schoelikopf was giving as “the runrareund,” the utilities- grass grow under his well-shad feet. Not long after Hiller left Gohoes a squad of auditors, from both the T. B. R. A. and the New York Power and Light Company (S¢hoell- kopf used bath fresly and inter- changeably) descended on the T. B. R. A. office in Cohges ta “clean up” | matters. Qn Sunday, Dec. 16, the. writer | visited Cohaes and interviewed pea- | ple connected with the relief or- | ganization there. Describing the | visit of the Power Company - and T. F. R. A. auditars ta Cohogs after | Hiller had, bgen removed, a .T, E, R. A. employee told me. ihe follow- ohg: Changed Records “They fixed it sa that all the records have begn changed, in order to remove all evidence of erime, for, according to our own statistics, anyone presenting a. false claim for payment to the State is guilty of a felony. “The dates have been changed to agree, The names have been changed and in | their place the names of living relatives or denendents have been | written in. The original com- mitments have been destroyed. | But not the copies in Hiller’s pocket.” During the caurse of their work in Cohoes in destroying the evi- dence, we were told by our in- formant, the auditors held a con- ference with the head auditor of the New York Power and Light | Company in Troy, directly across the riyer from Cohoes. Why did T. EB. R. A. auditors con- fer with utility auditors? All of the above facts were con- firmed by Charles A. George, former | T. E, R. A. head in Cohoes, who was forced out of the T. E. R. A. because of his staunch support of Hiller and his fight against cor- ruption within the T.-E. R.A. Mr. George, a retired engineer who had served as chairman of the T. B. R. A. comnmuttee in Cahoes without pay for six months until he resigned in disgust, was interviewed by the writer at his modest cottage at 74 Breslin Avenue, Cohoes, on Sun- day, Dec. 16, He smiled grimly: “I spoke out of turn. But I spoke up. That's what they didn’t like. “It's easy enough for paid em- Ployees of Scheellkopf's Power and Light Company tp say ether- wise, hut I've seen the duplicate hills, T. E. R. A, auditors, you Union, which has a long record of militant struggle. have likewise chosen delegates to attend the Na- tional Congress. Peabody, Mass., to Send Two PEABODY, Mass,, Dec. 24. — A) conference held here in support of the National Conference on Unem- ployment Insuranee has chosen two delegates ta attend the sessions of delegates is. from the National Leather Workers Union, and one from the relief workers. | U. S. Bargemen Send Delegate EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill., Dec. 26— Barge loaders on the government. controlled Federal Barge Lines, who are completely organized in this port and in St. Lauis, Mo., elected a delegate to the Nationa] Congress for Unemployment Insurance at the last meeting of the Marine Workers Industrial Union Local 501. Local 5005 the sister local in St. Louis, is expected to take similar action at its meeting tomorrow. New York Shon Deltgates NEW YORK—Tweniy-twe dele- gaies have already beon elected by the Fur Workers Industrial Union in the New York area to attend the | delesete, * Cnitural Teague and) National Congress for Unemploy- ment. Jnsuznce. Tae unemp'oyed the National Congress. One of the, staf have still to meet and elect their representatives. The delegates already elected in- clude seven frem the shop chair- men and the delegates, eight from the membership meeting, two from the fur pointers, two from the Greek workers’ seetion, and three from the retail furriers. The workers of the. Galumbus Laundry and the Snow White Laundry workers endorsed the Na- tional Congress at their last shop meetings, and committees were se- lected to conduct a campaign in the shops for the reising ef funds to send delegates to Washington. Relief Hearing in Queens NEW YORK—Woodlawn Branch 168 of the German Sick and Death Benefit Socjety here gaye their backing to the National Congres at their last meeting and elected one delsgete, Henry Petgolt, to attend the sessions. is ’ The Unemployment Councils of Queens have galled a publics hearing on reliof at Public School 85, 2342 @ist Street, Queens, Friday night at 8 o'clock, Workers’ children will be examin- ed for malnutritien by doetors end registered nurses stationed at the Workers Center, 2520 Astoria Boule- vard, Wednesday afternoon at 1 n’eleck. The rsporis af the physi- cians will be given at the mass ‘the E. R, A, Workers Protective! furriers, the trade board and the meeting on Friday. immediate political damage to | Mr. Hiller what is commonly known | T. BE. R. 4. chief was letting ng| | gators might like to hear the tight: dead people's | took a free hand—he's honest— and that’s why he lost his job. “After Hiller left, Schoelikopf’s forces began to ‘clean up.’ N. Y. Power and Light Company audi- tors came into the CGohoes relief bureau about the last week of August and the first week of Sep- tember and began to destroy elec- tric light commitments (dupli- cates) discovered by Hiller and re-arranged all bills ‘ship-shape.’ Who gave utility auditors per- mission to dig into relief rec- ords?"* ‘These facts are further confirmed by the Troy Observer-Budget. in @ news story on Oct. 28, that paper states, under a two-column head, “STATE ORDERS CLEAN-UP OF COHOES RELIEF WORK”: “A general clean-up of the Gohoes relief situation .. . has been ordered by officials af the State T. B. R. A. it was learned by the Obseryer-Budget last night... . *"The Saying ultimatum af the State T. E. R. A. officials, it is claimed, is the result of informa- tion furnished the state commit- tee by Karl Hiller, former T. E. R. A, auditor, whe claims te have been ousted from office as a re- sult of sensational findings in a check of Gohoes! relief records.” Not only did the New York Power and Light Company present—snd Teceive payment on—-duplicate bills in Cohoes, but they even issued hills to the Cohoes relief bureau for dead | people. Among deceased persons |listed by this Schdellkepf utility | were Henry Beauman, 47 Central | Avenue, Cohoes, and William H. | Reed, 15 Summit 8t., Cohoes. A complete schedule of this type | of fraudulent relief hills ig in the hands of the Daily Worker. We will be glad to present a copy of it to any State or Federal agency iwhich wishes to satisfy itself as +0 ithe correctness of the statements | made here. Cites Size of Graft The small sums chiseled by the | utilities in @ahoes seem insignifi- cant. But, as Mr. Hiller pointed out |to the writer: | “Take a city like Cohogs, with 32,000 people. “Suppose the utilities illegally received $25 4 month for two and a half years. That's $750. Pra-rate | that for the population of all these up-state cities that Schoeil- kopf utilities serve. Can you imagine what a staggering sum | that mounts up to?” The possible extent of this is tre- mendous, as can be readily seen by the number of cities “served” by New York Power and Light—only one of the subsidiaries of Schoel- | kopf's Niagara and Hudson. Among the cities to which the philan- thropists of the New York Power and Light render service—at a com- fortable profit, be it nated—are Al- bany, Schenectady, Troy, Amster- dam, Cohoes, Glens Falls, Glovers- ville, Waterviliet, Oneida, Saratoga Springs and Hudson, The corpora- tion owns over 500 franchises. of which over 85 per cent are unlim- ited as to duration. Should there ever be a State or Federal inquiry of relief, the investi- handed way in which Mr. Schoell- kopf transfers auditors fram the T. ‘HE. R. A. payroll to that of his | Niagara and Hudson, or vice-versa. A case in point is that of a certain John N. Williams, who wag a deputy | comptroller in the Niagara and 'Hudson until Mr. Schoellkopf de- cided to sacrifice him in the in- terests of the public weal. There- {upon Mr. Willigms was mage | Comptroller of T. E. R. A. But Sehoellkopf evidently is some- thing of an Indian giver, In June Mr. Williams was removed from the T. B. R. A. payroll while maintain- jing his title of T. EB. R. A, Comp- troller, He then resumed his ac- tivity at Niagara and Hudson, a feat obviously accomplished without too much difficulty, since Williams apparently had the happy faculty of keeping in touch with both in- stitutians simultaneously. Mr. Williams may have forsaken the T. E. R. A. haunts, but he had not forgotten. Only July 25, after he was nominally off the T. E. R. A. payrall and on that of Mr, Schoell- kopf's private corporation, he was seen in Albany, bound for Governor Lehman's executive office “to ex- pain figures of T. E. R. A.” (his wn statement) at a conference at- tended by Schoellkopf, Daniels and the Governor, Schoelikopf's Stock Juggling Nor is Mr. Schoellkopf averse to turning an honest penny in ordinary business enterprise. According to testimony recently divulged at the hearing of the legislative committee investigating public utilities in New York, the Niagara Hudsen Rewer Corporation was guilty of 9 write- wp of $82,000,000 in its own assets ‘at the time it was formed. Or, in other words, the company whi¢h Mr. Schoslikopf heads watered stock for at least $82,000,000—and, of |course, demanded 9 “legitimate” in- terest on this highly liquid capi- talization. ‘ We quote from the New York Times story of Dec. 19, describing this fact: “The ‘write-up’ of $82,000,000 was brought aut by a table pre- pared by Mr. Seymour [a witness —S. W. G.] from the campany beaks, It showed the approximate book value ef the securities re- the holding cempanies it absarhed to be $147,000,000; the value placed by Niagara Hudson on the shares of the companies that it received fo be $230,000.00, Rta the write up more than $82,000,000... . “Assemblyman Livingston asked Mr, Seymenr if any new assets were represented in the $82,090,090 increase. “No, sir, there was not, Mr, Seymeur replied. “Tt was stock jabbing?’ “That is correct.’” Relisf may be at subsistence level in New York State, but the same cannot be said of the salaries of the Niagara Hudson officers. These gentlemen manage to get along on mere pittances of five fig- ures. Salaries rose in that com- Pany from an annual figure $100,893, in 1920 te $132,238) in the first six months ef 1954. And this does nat inelude dividends en the many shares held by the officers ar spe- cial bonuses that these kindly gen- tlemen usually vate each other. Say what you will about Mr. | sistent capitalist policies during its jand trusts, they are to be exploited | | Under the Farmer-Labor Go-opera- | the Olson policies are to Labor Party has carried out con- | entire period of office, the Com- | munist Party resolution states: “Phe anti-capitalist talk of the Farmer-Labor Party and its tirade against the profit system and un- equal distribution of wealth and ia- come actually conceal its purpose of | Preserving capitalism and main: | taining capitalist exploitation. | “The whole system of social dem- | agogy of the Parmer-Labor Party ; is embodied in its program of the | ‘Co-operative Commonwealth.’ The | Farmer-Labor Party and the Amer- | ican Federation of Labor bureau- | racy heralded this ‘Co-operative | Commonwealth’ as the ‘New Sopial | Order’ to replace the bankrupt cap- italist system. | “actually, the ‘Co-operative Com- | monwealth’ is State Capitalism, that is, the capitalist government will take over the bankrupt industries | and safeguard the investments and profits of private capital. Instead of the workers and farmers being | exploited by individual capitalists by gigantic government monopolies. tive Commonwealth, capitalism | would be able through the use of | the state machinery more effee- tively toa deprive the workers of their civil rights and the rights to! organize and strike.” The resolution warns that the “capitalist. class aims of the Farmer-Laber Party are demon- | strated by its jingoistic, patriatic, flag-waving and Red-baiting cam- paigns, all of which actually en- courage the development af fascist | ideology and actions.” Analyzing the failure of the Cam- munist Party ta make any headway against the influence of the Parmer- | Labor Party, the resolutien ¢ontin- | ues: “In this election the masses saw in the Republican Party the rally- ing centar of most reactionary capi- taligm beaded by the Steel trust, large banks and the Citizens’ Aili ance; and in the FParmer-Labor Barty the rallying.center ef all pre- gressive and pre-labor forces. This illusion of the masses was espe- cially strengthened by the con- certed Republican attack of ‘Com- munism,’ ‘Seeialism,’ ‘Marxism’ on the Farmer-Laber Party pro- gram. The failure ef the Commy- nist Party te explain the capitalist nature af the Farmer-Laber Party program, to clearly present the rey- olutionary solution of the crisis, mage it difficult for the masses ta see the basic class divisions and that their interests were repre- sented ONLY by the revolutionary numbers that well-known liberal, HK. Edmund Machold, chieftani of the New Yerk State Republican ary: Paz ivt We yen Baer . it_also les Charles BE. = ns, Dem mente State campaign manager for Al Smith in the 1922 gubernatorial campaizn. Life may be bitter for the re- cipients of Mr. Schoellkopt’s relief, but fortune has smiled long and languishingly on his utilities. Ni- agara and Hudson's gross earn gs in the three months of April, May and June of this year were $18.134.- 167. In the ane, ea of 1888, they were only 604.089. thus igading one to the aopleiea that Mr, Schoellkopt has not been doing so badly by himself in the last tweive menths. oy Schoelikopf's little subsidiary af Niagara and Hudson, the New York Power and Light Company (which serves Cohees. ameng ether cities) had an operating revenue of @ mare $5,571.631 in the three months ending Sept. 30 last—a piece af change not te be sneered at, either. It jay interest unemployed work- ers of New York State, as well as those who work under him in the T. FB, R. A. apparatus, that, Mr. Schoelikopf, accore te Poor's Regisier of Directors, is q director in twenty companies, mast of which are utilities organizations or inti- mately connected with this evidently rea ee ich Mr. see opt alt @ director or holds office follow yffalo, Niagara and astern Power Gorp.—Vise-pres. and Directar. Schaelikapf gpd €9.—Direator. Manufacturers and Traders Director, waeiae are ka Batt Co.— i nifalo Genersl Blecirie Go. : Hogers. Lackpart and: Gaia Power €o.—Directar. ‘The Lockport & Newfane Power & Water ‘Supply So irae. iagata Gray Bus Lines, Inc.—President and Director. Niagara Fea hg A te ies a Niagara Sprayer aj nemiea ine, _Saeea eer em e Niagara Gorge Reilway Co.—Presi- dent and Director. Niagara Share Garp. (Mi.)—Vice-pres. and Director. Niagare Hudgon Power Corp.—President and Director. hiner Electric Service Garp.—Direc- rs Cr Co.——Director. ae singer svar Pouge ee Water ‘Supply Ce.—Di sein ‘ pri ee wer Corp.—President nde York Poyer & Light Corp.—Chair- man of Baard gnd Director, Bt. Lawrence Gecurities—Presicent and Director. Prantier Corporstion—Vies-pros. and Di- raetar. So much for this phase of the New York relief situation. Tomor- row we will discuss other angles of New York State relief. intraducing ceriain cther evidence fram the city Schoellkapi's Niagara Hudson, it is not wedded to any one political aarty, On its board of directors it of Cohoes. (To be continued tomorrow) FAILURETO EXPOSE FARMER-LABORITES CONDEMNE.) BY C.P. Minnesota District Resolution Calls for Campaign to Explain Capitalist Nature of Program of Farmer-Labor Party here. | Pointing gut that the Parmer- | ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 25.—A warning that the fight against Farmer-Laborism in this State must take on a far | more serioys political character if the capitalist nature of be effectively exposed, was sounded yesterday in a resolution issued by the district committee af the Communist Party ¢——-—-- Program of the Communist Party.” In this assistance to Olson, the Socialist Party and Trotskyite groups also played their parts, the resolution sta The Socialist Party, while putting wp independent candidates, actually supporied Ol- Son by refraining from attacking him as 4 capitalist candidate, and, on the contrary, supported his cap- italist policies by praising them as @ kind of “sagialism,” The Trotsky- ites also helped to tighten Olson’s grip on the masses by whitewashing his strikebreaking actions in the recent strikes by thanking him for hig “co-operation.” ‘Fhe resqlution then lists the reasons for the weakness in the Communist Party campaign. “1. The Communist Barty of Minnesota di ONLY PART not appear as the of the toiling masses | showing the ONLY WAY OUT of the capitalist, crisis. The Commu- nist Party did not succeed in basically distinguishing itself in the eyes of the masses from the Farmer-Labor Party. Instead of seeing in the Communist Party the ONLY BARTY of the workers and toiling farmers defending their in- terests as against the other capital- ist parties, the masses saw in the Communists 4 party to the left of the Parmer-Labor Party, but with the Farmer-Labor Party more prac-. tical in its methods to. achieve the ‘common aim.’ This was because the Communist Party failed . to bring out clearly before the. masses our revolutionary program as dis- tinet from the capitalist program of the Farmer-Labor Party. Weak United Fronts “2. During the entire election campaign our Party failed to de- velop and lead struggles of workers and. farmets (except in minor iso- | lated instances). As a result of our failure to lead struggles the Party ramained isolated and did not de- valep (with few exceptions) united front actions involying the masses of workers and farmers following the Farmer-Labor Pariy. Failing this we deprived the masses. of. the opportunity to learn from their own experiences the capitalist class 2a- ture cof the Farmer-Labor state administration, “3. Fhe base of the Farmer- Labor Party rests upon jhe trade unions ef the American Federation of Labor and the Railroad Brother- hoods. The leaders of the A. FP. of L. are actually part of the state government.. Phyough these or- ganized trade union workers the Farmer-Labor Party carries its in- fluence to the rest of the working class. Our isolation from the trade unions, the absenee of revolutionary work in local unions, make it im- possible to fight Farmer-Laborism at its main base. Effects of Defeatism “4. Phe Communist Party failed ta take advantage of its leadership in the struggle for Negro rights in the Twin Cities and above all of the national Scottshora struggle t@ mobilize the support of the Negro masses for our Party program and candidates. There were no special campaign activities among the Ne- gro magses. “Likewise, though the Farmer- Labor Party made a special appeal te the youth of the state, our Party failed to nominate any youth can- didates, popularize our youth de- mands amongst the toiling youth, Nor did we give leadership to the independent political activities of the Young Communist League in teh campaign. “5. In this election the Commu- nist Party lost vates. Why have we last votes? Why has the Commu- nist. Party failed to differentiate itself before the masses fram the Farmer-Labor Party? “This is because our entire Party in Minnesota did not clearly un- Gerstand the role of the Farmer= Labor Pariy and the methods of struggle against it, and c quently were unable to explain this to the masses, List of Direstors “The fact that our Party, com- Posed in the main of militant work- ers and farmers wha haye recently broken with Farmer-Laborism, is as yet nat imbued with a zevelutionary velitical understanding made it im- Passible te withstand the influence of Farmer-Leharism seeping into the ranks af our Pariy. This in- evitably led to serious right eppor- tunistic mistakes which manifested themselves throughout the Party.” Showing that tiie capitalist peli- cies of the Parmey-Laker Party will inevitably give rise to disillusion among the masses, the resolution calls for immediats organization to fight for the day to day needs of the masses, and lists the basic tasks in the district. Summed up, these are: 1. Olavify- ing the Party and the working class en the capivalist character of the Farmer-Labor program. 2, Stre 8, Fo IM the inmediat especially with Sopialist Pai elie ii rty and . of L. workers. 4. Intensti revolutionary work in the country- side, coming forward with the Com~- munist program for the ruined A. farmers, popula) the achieve- ments in all this work of the Soviet Union, 5. Persistent popularization ef the slogan of the revolutionary way out af the crisis through the establishment of Soviet Power, | j |