The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 1935, Page 1

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Press Run Yesterday — 44,700 > * New York, N. ¥., under Daily A Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S. Entered as second-ciass matter at the Post Office at the Act of March 8, 1872 Of U.S. Government Inspires War Plots YARD STRIKE |Much Ballyhooed Hero | Self-Dubbed ‘Liberal’ } | § f m the Roosevelt government’ ithis step, as they say in capi ' \ thought, ; The New York Times, for exam-| pole, tells how the Far Bastern, as/ ‘well as the world situation was | carefully considered before the new (American attitude towards Russia.” | (Yet, as the Hearst press announces, "It was the most drastic step that! could be taken short of actual breaking off of diplomatic relations.” Later United Press dispatches from | {Washington declared that Secretary lof State Hull was getting “tough,” | hand that the move against the So- ‘viet Union “was intended as a dem- jonstration.” Of Grave Significance Every American worker, farmer jor professional person who is| against imperialist war must seri- ously consider the full significance of this deed. What was the purpose of Roose- jveit and Hull? Against whom was this demonstration made and for what specific objective? | The Roosevelt regime well knows ithe present world situation, partic- | jularly the development of imperial- | es of the New Deal and President Is Helping to Incite World Slaughter By H. &. A review of the eapitalis st press news and comments talist law, with malice afore- Series on Hearst To Start Tomorrow In Daily Worker The Daily Worker will begin publication tomorrow of a series of articles on William Randolph Hearst, These articles, written by James Casey, managing editor of the Daily Worker, will tell why Hearst wants fascism in Amer- ica and reveal his manifold ac- tivities against the working class. The series will also show Hearst to be a liar and a swindler and will point out how he increases the circulation of his news- papers, piling up wealth for him- self at the expense of the masses of the American people. With Hearst now waging a campaign against the Commu- nist Party and the Soviet Union, it is important that all workers FOR ENDIN Jersey Ministers Get Checks for Dirty Work in Camden WASHINGTON, D. ©., Feb. 7. — of the Navy, the N. R. A., and two Jersey ministers was used against a strike of shipbuilding workers in 8 action with regard to Soviet) the plants of the New York Ship- elations shows how deliberately and with what conscious) building Company in Camden, N. : i} 7 we im this move was made. The Roosevelt government took | J» !@st vear, it was revealed at the \hearings of the Senate munitions | inquiry today. The two ministers received checks | of $250 apiece from ©. L, Bardo, | | president of the company, it was |shown, for getting the workers to | go back to work. | Navy Stepped In workers that the vessel they were | working on would be withdrawn to other yards if they did not accept | the terms of the company. Phillip Chappell, Labor Depart- ment conciliator, told of coercion | by the N. R. A. and the Navy to break the strike. Chappel swore that “Captain Henry Williams of the Navy De- partment said during a strike | conference that unless the men | accepted Bardo’s terms the Navy would take the cruiser Tuscaloosa out of the companys yard.” The strike began in March, 1934, jand ended about five weeks later. Ministers Named The ministers named as receiving the checks were the Rev. John Combined coercion and persuasion | Testimony also showed that the | Navy stepped in to threaten the | NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1935 ‘COMMUNIST PARTY URGES JOINT ACTI nti-Soviet Action CLERICS PAI) To the Socialist N. E. C. | TO BUILD THE AUTO AND STEEL UNIONS Simultaneously with a letter sent to the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, declaring the readiness of the Commu- nist Party to co-operate with any group which sincerely seeks to build up workers’ organizations to beat back the attacks of the N. R. A. and the employers on the unions, Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, has sent the letter to the A. F. of L. Council, to | of the Socialist Party. Copies of Norman Thomas, Socialist Party le | N. E. C. follows: National Executive Committee, Socialist Party of U. 5. A., Chicago, Til. following letter, with a copy of the the National Executive Committee both documents were also sent to vader, The text of the Communist Party's letter to the Socialist Party February 7, 1986. Copy te Norman Thomas Dear Comrades: Enclosed we send you copy of a letter we have written to the We propose to you that steps | mining and textile. | organizing campaign, for trade uv the working class in this moment | We propose to you to instruct ful unions capable to meet the si | instructions to our members. ‘We are prepared at any time to your organization to discuss these Fraternal | Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor. be taken to work out a common Policy between the Socialist and Communist Parties in meeting the critical situation faced by the trade unions, especially in auto, steel, | Who can doubt that such a common policy in support of a great union democracy, for preparation of the inevitable great strike struggles, would enormously strengthen of danger? all Socialist Party members in the | auto and steel industries to come together with the Communists in a united effort to build the United Automobile Workers Union and the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers into power- ituation, We have issued similar meet with a sub-committee from questions, Hoping for a quick and favorable response, we are lly yours, COMMUNIST PARTY, U. 8. A., Earl Browder, General Secretary. HE GIVES $10,000 CHECK Tobin Betrays Labor SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWMATIONAL ) ‘ATI EDITION ONAL WORKERS’ BILL Steel Union Officials IS SUPPORTED Eject the Delegates BY 4 MILLION Heeding the Demand, Two More Congressmen | Back 2827 (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. — The Workers’ Bill “is the only bill that provides the big army of unem- ployed with the protection that they demand now in the sixth year of the crisis,” Isreal Amter, national secretary of the Unemployed Coun- cils, declared today before the House sub-committee of the Labor | Committee. This committee held its | fourth day of hearings on the Workers Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill H. R. 2827. | “If need be, the unemployed will | march again to Washington,” Amter | concluded. Testimony for H. R. 2827 by work- ers, farmers, economists, statisticians and other professionals and the flow of demands for the passage of the bill from workers throughout the country, have already resulted |in winning new support for the bill in Congress. Representatives Siro- |vich of New York and Moritz of | Pennsylvania yesterday joined sev- eral members of the sub-committee in endorsing H. R. 2827. | Four to Five Million Back Bill “In the five years that have passed,” said Amter, “a tremendous | amount of support has been gathered for this bill. Today this bill is supported by fully four to | five million people. Two thousand | five hundred locals of the American TigheHides B | Gang as Workers Ask | Organizing Drive (Special to the Daily Worker PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 7. Mike Tighe and the International officials of the A. F. of L. steel union had a full squad of police and jarmed thugs assembled at the In- | ternational office of mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers today when the committee of five sent by last Sun- |day’s rank and file conference jealled there to demand that they withdraw all ¢xpulsion orders and | carry thsough the plans for an or- | ganizational drive in steel drawn up |at the conference. Tighe nad or- | dered the expulsion of all those who attended the conference The committee was ordered from the building without a hearing. In a wire, Wm. Green had in- structed the committee to take up their plans for organizing the in- dustry with the International of- ficers. Officials Head Thug Squad Secretary Leonard and vice-presi- dent Gaither, of the A.A. headed |the squad of thugs in barring the committee's entrance. | Indignant, one of the committee members remarked, “Here we come} down here to try and build up the organization, and you guys are tear- | ing it down.” One of the thugs | immediately threatened the speaker. ehindThug the Amalga-|, Of Pittsburgh Parley Militant Auto Program Is Made Subject to National Body By A. B. Magil (Detroit Daily Worker Burean) DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 7.—W 7 ile the 700 strikers of the Murray Body their ranks une City Council of ed Automobile Workers, afe filiated to the American Federation of Labor, adopted decisions of fare reaching importance if carried out, calling for the immediate prepara- tion of strike action around a pro- gram of militant demands, The de- cisions are a ringing to President Roosevelt’s renewal of the open shop auto code. After being compelled to allow these decisions, which reflect the sentiment of the rank and file, to go through, the bureaucrats in con- trol of the A. F. of L. machinery succeeded in putting over a “joker” to the effect that all the decisions answer | were to be referred to the meeting of the National Council of the United Automobile Workers to be held in Detroit on Feb. 23. The National Council is a rubber- stamp outfit, its members having only advisory power: sole authority is vested in National Organizer Francis J. Dillon, who is the per- sonal representative of President William Green. There is, therefore, grave danger that unless the rank read these articles. Order your extra bundles of the Daily Worker at once. | Pemberton, Jr., pastor of the Cen- |tenary - Tabernacle Methodist | Church of Camden, N. J., and Dr. |Harold Paul Sloan of Woodbury, TO FARLEY — | Federation of Labor, five interna- or | i : he A. F. of L., WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 7.—| tion was voted by the executive) tonal unions of # At @ moment when the Democratic| committee of the International | SX State Federations of Labor. and /fst_war alliances. It very well knows | ithe policy of Japan. It knows more. i®very hostile step by American im-| In a statement to the press be-|and file acts, its decisions will be fore making the call, the committee | ditched by the National Council said, “Our objective in coming here| The City Council also decided to iperialism against the Soviet Union| jis a definite encouragement of Jap- janese imperialism to continue its war maneuvers against the Union of [Socialist Soviet Republics. Germen (Fascism, also, will know how to interpret the New Deal’s anti-So- viet demonstration. i Inspires Enemies j jRoosevelt government’s real aims when it speaks of “neighborly” re- Nations. jwith the Soviet Union in this in- jstance is deliberately inspiring Japan and German fascism to rush ‘their war moves against the Soviet (Union. This vigorous demonstration is all he more emphatic because Wall ‘Street is just now itself undergoing ja naval arms race with its chief ‘rival, Japan, in the Pacific. The bees militarists will know that (Continued on Page 2) W. aii Goods Siuikers Here we have an example of the} The “neighborly” relations | TROTSKYITE AIDS COURT State to Offer Mini’s Confession at Trial in Sacramento (Special to the Daily Worker) SACRAMENTO, Calif, Feb. 7.— Fifteen minutes before adjournment ef the court yesterday afternoon, the prosecution introduced a signed | statement by Norman Mini, lone Trotzkyite among the eighteen worker-defendants being tried here on charges of “criminal syndical- ism.” Mini’s statement made Au- gust 12, 1934, was described by the | prosecution as a “confession.” The exact contents are not yet N, J. Oheck Acknowledged - The checks to the clergymen were given by C. L. Bardo, then president of the shipbuilding concern. In- vestigators read the following letter from Pemberton acknowledging the gift on May 17, 1934: “You very gracious letter with its generous enclosure came all unexpectedly this morning. I was as surprised to receive it as Moses must have been to receive the manna when he was leading the children of Israel out of the wil- derness, “I interested myself in the New York Shipbuilding strike solely be- cause of my concern for the wel- fare of my fellowmen and the com- munity. It never occurred to me that either side would express such genuine appreciation as you have shown.” The letter included this post- seript: “I am still looking forward to another bowl of bananas and cream Judge Burt Jay Humphrey issued an injunction aimed at smashing the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in New York, and when the A. F. of L. is attacked by the Roosevelt administration. Daniel Tobin, International president of the teamster's union, presented the | Democratic Party with a $10,000 | check towards defraying its election | campaign deficit and expressed high | praise for the “New Deal.’ Tobin, who is also a vice-presi- dent of the A. F. of L., presented the check to Postmaster General Farley, chairman of the Democratic | Party, while here for the meeting of | the Executive Council of the A. F. of L. Tobin stated that the dona: Brotherhood of Teamsters. “In Appreciation of F. D. R.” “I am doing this because the executive committee of my own union voted to do it as a mark of appreciation of what the Roosevelt administration has ac- ‘complished for labor,” Mr. Tobin explained. “When labor asks for nine things and gets eight, we shouldn't forget about the eight in crying after the ninth,” he said. “The N.R.A, has improved labor condi- tions and unemployment is being slowly banished among our union members, With 157,000 paid-up (Continued on Page 2) | | TH CONGRESS IS ADJOURNED BOSSES GAIN. IN NEW NRA upward of 50 Central Labor Coun- cils have endorsed the bill in spite lof the campaign of misrepresenta- tion, distortion, slander and terror |that has been carried on against us by William Green and other |leaders of the A. F. of L. Attorney Leo J. Linder of New | York, a specialist on constitutional ‘law, advised the sub-committee | | that “H. R. 2827 is unquestionably | constitutional.” Chairman Mat- | thew A. Dunn, Democrat of Penn- | sylvania, and other members of the sub-committee, considered Linder’s testimony important because of the | argument, made repeatedly by op- | ponents of the Workers Bill that H. R. 2827 is unconstitutional. Bill Declared Constitutional Linder declared that H. R. 282’ \is an exercise of the appropriating | power of Congress. Under the con- stitution, he said, Congress has the power to levy and collect taxes and to provide for the general welfare. | | Under this general welfare clause | Congress has appropriated billions of dollars for the purchase of land 7 is to take up with the International officers the decisions and plans drawn up at the Feb. 3 conference | regarding an organizing drive, to es- | tablish unity in our organization | and put a stop to the expulsions | which the International officers are | attempting, but which, of course,| can not be carried through.” | Ouster Order Futile “These expulsion notices will not be recognized either by ourselves or any other organized workers of the A. F. of L. We are here today to |demand that the officers retract | these futile expulsion orders and | cooperate to the fullest extent in| carrying through the plans for or- ganizing and strengthening our union drawn up at the conference Sunday.” | Om the committee were William Spang, Charles Greenwood, J. J.| Corrigan, Mel Moore, and George) Athey. | The Vandergrift and McKeesport | Central Labor Unions have already | pledged to ignore the expulsion | notices and to support the rank and file steel workers in their pro- | skilled; | take steps to strengthen the Murray Body strike by electing a commit- tee of ten to assist the strikers. Demands of Council Your correspondent, has learned from a worker who attended the meeting of the City Council the de- tails of the decisions. The demands adopted include a minimum wage of $35 a week for unskilled workers and $48 for a thirty-hour, five-day week; a guaranteed annual wage or its equivalent in Federal Un- -employment Insurance; time and a half for overtime and double time for Sunday and holidays; outlawing of company unions and espionage agencies; reinstatement of all those fired for union aotivi- ty with full payment for time lost; no discrimination because of race, color, creed, sex or nation- ality; recognition of the United (Continued on Page ® Roosevelt Tnflation 7 ¥ iti . known, but the prosecution alleged | with you.” (Special to the Daily Worker) News 61 tH t |from foreign countries, for agricul- i Plans Will Be Pushed, |Win Recognition Fight) ;ocay’ that it ‘is virtual States MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (By Cable)—|srouse conferences indicate Wie ture, for intemal improvements, ™™* - A G 1S ln Troy Garment Plant &idence “involving al! defendants,” The historical hours of the con- ces Indicate that! and recently for internal relief, ttorney General Says i Writ Sought | | | | Rakosi Tr Discounting the prosecution's cluding session of the Seventh Con- | President Roosevelt is giving the|Linder declared. The U. S. Su- ial —- j claims, Leo Gallagher, Interna- gress of Soviets were packed with | employers and their company unions | Preme Court, he pointed out, has WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 7— ST. LOUIS, Mo. Feb. 7. — Aj tional Labor Defense attorney, triumphant and far-reaching deci- | held that once Congress enacts an | trike of 1,000 workers of the Forest tity Company, manufacturers of wash dresses, with plants in St. uouis and Collinsville, Ill, was salled by the International Ladies arment Workers’, Union yester- Hay. Nine strikers were arrested uring the morning’s demonstration pt the St. Louis plant. The workers penjand union recognition, | NEPTUNE, N. J., Feb. 7. — Two hundred workers of the Steiner- iberty Corporation, | manufac- [avers of shirts, came out on strike, balled by the Amalgamated Cloth- fng Workers. The walkout fol- lowed the firm’s refusal to reinstate flscharged union workers, vigorously objected to the introduc- tion of Mini’s statement as evi- dence. Albert Goldman, Trotzkyite attorney for Mini, voiced no ob- jections to the State’s intention. This, together with his aid to an attack by the prosecution and court on Gallagher, Feb. 3, gives the im- pression that Goldman is bargain- ing with the prosecution in Mini's behalf, at the expense of the other 17 defendants. Twenty-eight-Page Document Mini’s statement consists of twen- ty-eight pages of testimony given | before Neil McAllister, defeated District Attorney who is now acting as special prosecutor at the re- quest of California industrial and (Special to the Daily Worker) BARRE, Feb. 7.—Four pickets, strikers of the Glen Al- den mines, were fired upon from a police cruiser today. This was the first shooting since the strike began Monday, The machine was halted when one of the bullets struck a tire. WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Feb. 7.— Judge Valentine is about to hand down the injunction against the Glen Alden miners now on strike. So far the officials of the new union have limited the fight against the injunction +to legal action in In Coal Strike sidns and resolutions on the part} of the 2,000 workers’ deputies, but the climax of the last sessions came when Mikhail Kalinin introduced V. M. Molotoy, Chairman of Peoples Commissars, for his report on the proposed changes of the constitu- tion of the U.S. 8. R, The thunderous ovation, the roar- ing applause and the cries of greet- ing continued for so long that Molo- tov could not begin his speech. This was evidence enough of how the delegates of the Soviet Republics | welcome the proposal of the Cen- tral Committee of the Communist Party in opening up a new brilliant chapter in the history of the pro- Jetarian revolution and in the state- life of the land of the Soviets. official sanction of the N. R. A. to cut wages and smash unions in his new bill to reorganize the N. R. A. According to plans announced from the White House, the N. R. A. 4s to be continued for two years, with more “flexible’ wage provi- sions, that is, with provisions for wage cuts, One of the chief points | in Roosevelt's new bill, which soon goes to Congress, is to give the em- ployers more complete control of the administrative boards of the N. R. A., and thus strengthen the | N. R. A. as a union smashing in- strument. The monopoly features of the appropriating measure it thereby | declares and determines that the appropriation is for the general welfare. This determination by Congress, he added, cannot be re- viewed by the Supreme Court. Therefore, not only is the Workers | | Bill constitutional as an appropri- ating measure but there is no legal | | method by which the propriety of the measure can even be | tioned, Linder concluded. H. L. Lurie, of New York City, | chairman of the committee to out- | line a national social welfare pro- gram, of the American Association | of Social Workers, told the sub- committee that “the bill, in my opinion, is practical, realistic and | Ends Today (Special to the Daily Worker) BUDAPEST, Feb. 7 (By Wireless). ‘The verdict of Hungarian fascism upon Matthias Rakosi will be pro- nounced tomorrow, it was learned at tonight's session of the great anti-fascist leader's trial. Rakosi, geon confinement between sessions, | was haggard as he rose to sum up in his defense, |_ For three hours this hero of the | | working class defended the valiant | | Soviet Hungarian regime in 1919, exposed the shameful deeds of the | Whatever the Supreme Court deci- sion on the question of the gold bond payments and the devalua- tion of the dollar, the Roosevelt in- flation program will go forward, statements by Attorney General Homer S. Cummings made clear to- day. Cummings announced that he and his aides have drawn up a series of actions which will quickly take ques- | who has been serving out his intra- | Care of any adverse decision the |trfl sentence of 11 days of dun-| Supreme Court might hand down, and permit the administration to proceed with its policy of cheapen- |ing the currency in its fight for markets and profits M illions Demand More grows out of a sincere recognition 3 7 | Reli i Rope oo eles ur hun- | agricutlural interests, Detective | court. However, the miners anger| “Why was the question raised of | N. R. A., with the large corporati Rosivunicl sets GOANELAINA RAAT St deen | CE Hsriebrets ese a elief in England a % peda bs a cahsae erg ane Knoll, two policemen and two mem- | is being aroused and steps are be-| introducing changes into the con-| dictating conditions of competition | industrial problems. I hope that | wavtonls bor a one hundred per cent union shop greement, officials of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers announced. aterson Silk Union Meets to Plan Action Against Salary Cuts PATERSON, N. J., Feb. 7. — ‘alled by the Silk Workers Federa- ion here, a meeting of all plain ‘cods silk workers will take plare on aturday morning, 10 a. m, at Turn all, Allison and Cross Street, to dopt an immediate plan of action o counter wage cuts in the mills. report of the Allentown con- bers of the “red squad.” Melville Harris, labor spy and prosecution witness, was on the witness stand all day yesterday again, with Gallagher examining him on Communist theory and proving Harris, one of the prosecu- tion’s “experts” on Communism, to ing taken by the miners to smash the injunction by mass picketing. The U. M. W. officials and lawyers of the Coal Company have made a united fight against the new union in court today. Mr. Griffith, Vice President of Glen Alden Coal Com- pany, stated that “the Glen Alden (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) stitution?” Molotov began, “Firstly, because the correlation of | class forces fundamentally has changed in the Soviet Union since 1918 when Lenin laid the founda- | tions of the Soviet constitution, | especially after the victory of the principles of Soviet ownership both (Continued on Page 2) Les Communist Party, in a letter made public |and influencing prices, will be re- tained, it is understood. Greater powers are to be given the National Industrial Recovery Board, and its composition changed in order to give the employers a firmer hand, Section 7-A, under which com- pany unions have flourished, is to be retained as it is, according to in- dications, | this committee and Congress will | recognize the importance and the validity of the bill.” Workers from the hosiery, steel, textile, metal and needle workers are | expected to appear tomorrow. T. | Arnold Hill, of the National Urban | sociate editor of the Nation, are | also slated for tomorrow. | An ler’s or Mussolini's. ° | Communists Urge Unity to Defeat Wall Street’s Attacks on Unions Editorial The harsh application of the auto code, following unions, and the garian workers by the thousands, cept the presiding judge, who threw in a hostile word now and then. “With all my strength,” Rakosi concluded, “I acted as a convinced Communist, and I served the pro- letariat as best I could. For all that League, and Maxwell Stewart, as-|I did in the name of the dictator- | ship of the proletariat, my con- science is at peace.” strengthening of their fight | LONDON, Feb. 7. — New relief |and no one dared interrupt him ex- | scales were demanded by million’ | of unemployed workers today | throughout England. The election campaign gesture of the present co- j alition government in rescinding re= | Hef cuts has left the workers en= | raged, since it merely returns them to the margin of starvation stand- ards on which they existed previ- ously. Protest meetings are now go- ing on at almost all relief quarters |in the country. In Wales alone over 300,000 work- ers massed to demand livable relic# |allowances. At Sheffield several | thousand demonsttators were at- | tacked by police, who later left the | field with nine injured. yesterday's Daily Worker, offered to cooperate | a whole series of anti-labor attacks in steel and What is vitally needed if the workers are to against employer attacks. . i + Fase aged eke ae with the A. F. of L, Executive Council in a great | textiles, is but another step in Roosevelt's rapidly | defeat this attack against their unions and or- It is clear to us as Communists, and we think Rites: wd ae Drivers \shional strike was made, will be given unionization drive to build a powerful trade union | intensifying anti-labor policy. ganizations is a policy of united resistance. The that it should be clear now to all, that the danger | Ties Up Racine Supply iby the Paterson delegates: movement. This policy, as evidence on every side proves, is | Communist Party raises this issue as the most put forth Sarkis Phillian, mill vorker and one of the most devoted orkers in the union for the posi- ‘ion of general manager, vacated by “ithe Lovestonite Eli Keller, in the g silk union elections, This letter sounds a serious Council and all trade union members that the very existence of the unions is today by the open shop drive, the greatest anti-union offensive since the war, now being organized by Wall Street. It is Roosevelt's auto code particularly, arrogant- ly imposed by him on the auto workers, with its company-union, open shop features, which indicates the direction Roosevelt is traveling in the growing attack against the trade union movement warning to the gravely menaced Springs. a deliberate policy of lowering wages, fighting the 30-hour week, and smashing the trade unions as working class organizations: It is the policy which in every particular follows the dictates of the open shop, big business conference at White Sulphur And this anti-union drive is, at the same time, a step toward the abrogation of civil rights, en- couraging all pro-fascist tendencies in the country, and steadily leading toward the establishment of a fascist regime in the United States similar to Hit- immediate, vital need of the trade unions—united resistance im the trade unions to capitalist attacks, The Communist Party raised this question before the recent 54th Annual Convention of the A. F. of L. at San_ Francisco, confronting each delegate with definite proposals for unity. Yesterday, the Communist Party again, in its letter to the A. F. of L. Executive Council, pro- posed unity of all workers within trade unions, for the building of relying on the N all reactionary, ve We Communis' persistently warn the A. F, of L. the AF, of L. to the labor movement arises from the policy of “R.A. and on Roosevelt, a policy which has been proven in practice to be against the interests of the workers in the unions, not to speak of the whole working class. ts, in the unions and out, have ed against this policy, pointing to the fact that only where the workers use: their weapon of strike struggle did they win any benefits. Experience in the Pacific Coast strike of marine (Gontinued on Page 2) (Special to the Daily Worker) RACINE, Wis. Feb. 7—All milk drivers of this city have walked out, | shutting off milk to eleven dairies, The workers, members of the A. F, jof L. became disgusted after nego- \tiations dragging since July brought |no agreement. The vote for a strike iwas taken last Tuesday, but was kept secret until today. Strikers have agreed to supply milk to hos- \pitals, and homes with infants of sick people,