The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 13, 1935, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1935 “Ttalian Planes Browder F; lays Foes Text of Browder’s Million for Hearst Steel Men Want ‘Foster Hails = x Labor Party Speech ° ' Sent Against : a i 4 A.F.of L. Drive) Move to Issue * ; ia Of the Workers’ Bill) oe -| In Deal With Hitler | : Abyssinia woe a a a Le ete ov * Italian Daily i xen ~ ec waders - e you real wi an immense eo Tontinued from Page Tontinued from Page s of the spokesmen e || Ing prese e mass de- ‘ontinued from | " rf f manufactured pretexts of “assaults” to invade Abyssinia and create a second “Manchukuo” in the heart duction, all property which is neces- sary for the life of the people. That is, the form of government we pro- | the legal prohibition of the Com- munist Party after its ‘investiga- tion’ refused to hear the official ployment Insurance Bill before the House Labor Sub-Committee, the publication of the text of his | perioa the regular flow of news stopped completely. And then came the definite turn-about face. news service took care to char- acterize Hitler as receptive to con- ciliation on international ques- dent of the Apolo, Pa., lodge, “he- cause I'ye been working in the mills and organizing steel workers ail my life.” Support for L’Unita Operaia of Africa pose is a dictatorship as against | spokesmen of the Communist Party. |} Speech on the Communist post- Glorification of Hitler tions. The interview was caicul- ul “While massing every available those who now rule; a democracy,! “Allow me to denounce all these || tion on the Labor Party question All the misery, all the starvation| ated to show Hitler as desirous of | Without depending on the Execu-) paijing the fact that. L’Unit , foree in Italy for war, and sending | the only real broad ‘democracy, for| current slanders against the Gom- || 1s pas for a day. of the German people under the| world peace. tive Committee, however, the com-| 0 Oe 2 11 eee ee ty warships and planes to the borders | the masses, munist Party. We -Communists || De mot fail to w's || Hitler regime was forgotten. In-| On the other hand, Hitler issued | mittee left Washington saying: |Operaia, allan revolutionary i of Abyssinia, Mussolini today pre- sented Abyssinia with impossible conditions, acceptance of which would be the first step to turing the country over to Italian im- Perialism Dunn: You believe that at the in the United States a dictatorial | form of government and this dicta-| torial form of government is for the henefit of the privileged few, where- | as a Communistic dictatorial form | : | yield to no one in our love for our | present time there is now existing | country. It is because we love our | country that we fight for the Workers’ Bill, which alone can save millions of men, women and children from utter degradation. When we declare our love for our Daily Worker with the text of this important speech, Terror Rages stead, there issued from the Hearst press stories highly favorable to the Nagi butcher, the faithful servant | of Germany's financiers and indus- | trialists. | Hosts of readers of the Hearst newspapers must have been puzzled, another statement to his own papers in Germany. In this state- ment he announced that GER- MANY’S REARMAMENT PRO- GRAM HAS BEEN COMPLETED, Hitler assured his fellow-Nazis that he was ready for war. “As we told President Green, we know it will be impossible for the Bxecutiye Council to make any workers without calling us in, for we are the ones who have built the Amalgamated Association, the only realistic plans to organize steel | | Weekly, intends to come out as a | daily newspaper beginning with the Communist Party, yesterday issued @ statement urging the wid- March 18, William Z. Foster, chair- | jman of the Central Committee of | Mussolini demands of Abyssinia | j the following: Salute to the Ital- |°f government would be for the | country, we mean we love these mil- to say the least, by the mew tone| Since his return to America, |¥nion that has jurisidiction in the | In Strike Area est support for the new daily. Ps ‘ ‘ i ri re os icati i is hi: - |steel industry. We are going home | i flag; diplomatic apology; in- | SSeS? lions of people who are being re- | and the glorification of Hitler. But | Hearst has spurred his high execu- |§ going “ ‘ demnite for alleged attack; ap. | Browder: Yes. I should qualify|duced to an Asiatic standard of | they could expect no explanation | tives to give more and more im-|to advance the drive we launched | au E Somes ae ea pointment of a mixed commission | ‘that slightly by saying there are living; we must seriously doubt the (Continued. from Page 1) from Hearst nor from the Nazi|petus, through the news and edi-| Weeks 20 to build the Amalga- |Section of-the American proletariat, to delimit the Abyssinian-Italian |Yatious forms of dictatorships by | quality of that love for country ee chancellor. Of course, a naiye|torial columns, to the fascist de- | Mated Association. gestae “They number about ati the propertied classes. At the pres-| which says that profits must be reader might have asked of Hearst: | velopments in America. | 5,000, and most of them are to Si id front id - 4 cossacks have arrested ven | \ Group Make Gains . Ra eed ee tay aeala Teta, ent time the form of this dictator-|maintained even though these mil- | strikers. Seven |re is possible that your little visit | Hearst's Fascist Organization , a! |be found in the basic industries of spected. The Italian fascist dictator knows that these humiliating conditions are aimed to discredit the ruling force in Abyssinia and to make them lose face in the eyes of the masses. Everybody in Abyssinia, as weil as in the colonies surrounding Abyssinia knows that the murderous attacks were first made when Mus- oolini set out to rob Abyssinian ter- ritory. For the Abyssinian govern- ment to apologize for Italian impe- rialism’s robbing of Abyssinian ter- ritory would be a humiliation tanta- mount to placing the country under the yoke of Italian fascism. Demands “Indemnity” Demanding “indemnity” for mur- derous agsaults initiated by Italian fascist troops is the height of ban- ditry, while a commission to fix the border-line of Abyssinia and Somaliland is a polite way of ask- | ing Abyssinia to give up more and more of its territory without a struggle. Because Mussolini knows these terms will be refused, he has or- dered the continuation of the rapid mobilization of all forces in Italy| for war on Abyssinia. U. S. Sends Observer WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 12.— The Roosevelt government has taken a definite interest in the war for the seizure of Abyssinia, and has sent an official observer to Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia. George C. Hanson, former U. 8S. Consul General in Moseow—who was with- drawn recently when Roosevelt moved to provoke Japan to a war against the Soviet Union—is the man chosen by the State Depart- ment for the job. LONDON, Feb. here today reveals that the Allied Powers promised Italy colonial booty in Abyssinia for her part in the last world slaughter. Article XIII of the treaty reads: “In the event of France and Great Britain increasing their colonial possessions in Africa at the expense of Germany, these two powers agree | n the principle that Italy may claina some adequate compensation, particularly regarding a settlement in her favor of questions relative to th rs of the Italian colonies of Eritrea, Somaliland, Libya and of neighboring colonies belonging to| the unemployed. workers, as well as|poarg which threatens destruction | France and Britain.” These robber plans for the slic- Ing up of Abyssinia were further ex- tended in a treaty between Britain) Communist League of New York oi) of the A. F. of L,, have been! and Italy in 1925, and still further amplified on Jan. 5, 1935, in a pact | study” of the sdministration and| the heginni: gh signed at Rome between France| the Lundeen Bills “the Y. C. L. i|tnitea States” Germany taught the| and Italian fascism. It is on the basis of the latter agreement that Mussolini called for the mobilization of 250,000 troops to invade Abyssinia on the lying pre- text of Abyssinian “attacks.” Soviet Farm Income Rises (Continued from Page 1) exception, in a brief period, to a high level of prosperity and to make the whole country of the Soviets the richest in the world. At the First All-Union Congress of Collective Farmers and Shock- workers, when Stalin launched the slogan of a “well-to-do life,” this was a clear program inspiring mil- lions. Now, two years later, this mm has already become a reality for thousands and thou- sands of collective farmers. The probiem now is to draw all the collective farms to the level of the foremost farms. Then everything can move ahead at still greater speed. This was the basic feature of the Teport of the head of the Agricul- tural Department of the Communist Party, ¥Y. A. Yakovley. Despite its modest title—rules of the agricul- tural artel—his report dealt with all the fundamental problems and the further work of the collective farms. The speaker developed a wide picture of socialist agriculture on a historic background of the old heritage of exploitation, poverty and oppression and he called the atten- tion of the Congress to the prime eof the collective farm Movement in the class struggle the kulaks. d, which is state property, is ut at the disposal of the kolkhoz (collective farm) for permanent use, to the draft of the new tules, and cannot be bought or sold or rented. This means that the collective farmers have te mn of he land they cultivate, which be- te the working class as a 000 rs in Two Years During 1933 and 1934 alone the Soviet government sent out into the fields of the collective farms, via - machine and tractor stations, 106,000 » wheeled tractors and 4,607 caterpil- Jar tractors, 14,607 motor . trucks, 13,202 combines, 19,269 tractor- i fe 12. — Publication | of the Treaty of London of 1915) ship in the United ‘States is the form of a democracy but such a} form of democracy that: the masses who have no property cannot make any effective use of it to defend their own interests. It serves the interests of those with property. Socialist Backing J. J, Vanecek, a member of the County Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of Cleveland and the representative of 155 Czecho-Slovak organizations, told the sub-commit- | tee that these 155 bodies endorse the Lundeen (H. R. 2827)” bill after the various employment insurance measures.” Waldo McNutt, the representative of last summer's American Youth | Congress and the head of the Rocky Mountain Y. M. C. A., quoted the | decision of this congress in endors- | ing the Workers Bill. “This Con- gress goes on record as favoring re- Placement of all existing civilian conservation and transient camps | with jobs at regular wages and with | a system of unemployment or so- cial insurance such as is contained in the Lundeen Bill,” he stated. Shoe Brotherhood for Bill Mrs. Theresa E. Gold, the repre- | sentative of the Shoe ‘and Allied Craftsmen, of Brockton, Mass., told the committee | that the Workers Bill “must receive your support and must be passed at | this session of Congress.” She de- clared that she had been delegated to appear “in behalf of the brother- | hood, a rank and file organization jtruly representing approximately 13,000 shoe and allied workers.” Theodore Mischell, executive sec- retary of the National Fraternal Adyisory Committee for Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance and or- ganizer of the Fraternal Federation for Social Insurance, endorsed H. R. 2827 “as against the measure put forth by the Federal Adminis- tration, the Wagner-Lewis Bill.” He declared that he appeared as the representative of “over a million workers organized in fraternal or- ders and mutual aid societies.” Y. C. L, Representative Speaks Roy Mizara, of the Association of Lithuanian Workers, an organiza- tion with about 170 branches. and membership of over 6,000 declared to the Committee that “we believe | that H.R. 2827, if adopted by the ae S. Congress, would bring about nec2ssary relief -for the masses of | those who are unable to work on account of old age.” James Ashford, of the Young | City, said that “after a thorough | convinced that the bill which best | protects and seryes the needs of the | 7,000,000 jobless youth is the Work- | ers Bill, H. R. 2827.” | The text of Browder's statement follows: | “The Bill under consideration, port of the Communist Party, This bill embodies the principles which |alone can provide any measure 0! \‘social insurance’ for the workers, and, thereby, also allevate the con- dition of impoyerished farmers, pro- | fessional and middle class pple. “It is noteworthy that among all | political parties, the Communist |Party alone has a clear, definite, | unequivocal position on this ques- | tion. | “Enemies of the Workers’ Bill have failed to present their argu- ments against it, relying rather upon an attemipt to smother it with | silence. To make this more plaus- ible, there has been trotted out, as the main alternative to the Admin- listration program, the Utopian ‘Townsend Plan’ which provides an |ideal straw-man for administration |supporters to knock down. But, as |many workers haye told this com- |the administration's Wagner-Lewis | Bill is H. R. 2827, the Workers’ Bill. Enemies of Bill “The enemies of real unemploy- |ment insurance have, however, pre- pared carefully to attack the bill | Should it come up for vote in the Congress. They would be acting more in good faith if they presented their arguments to this Committee. Their absence thus far, makes it necessary to answer them without (having in hand the definitive text |of their arguments. “Tt is known that the main argu- ment against the Workers’ Bill is that it costs too much, that the country cannot afford to pay such |a tremendous sum as would be called for. This argument ignores the fact that the country must pay the full costs of unemployment, \that there is no way to avoid it. |The only question is, what part of the population shall pay, those who now pay with the lives of their women and children, the price of degradation and misery, or the rich who still evade payment, whose profits are going up while mass starvation increases, who alone can pay in any currency except the life-blood of the country. “We Save Our Country.” “We Communists are accused of being the enemies of our country, of being a menace*that demands, in the language of Hearst_and Liberty magazine, unceremonious hanging, Geynoe machines, One thousand -four machine and tractor sta~ tions were organized ‘shoot first and investigate after- ward,’ or, in the more decorous pro- ‘voted to| “touch discussion of all} Brotherhood of | H. R. 2627, has the unqualified sup- | f | | mittee, the only real alternative to/day, rising into waves of struggle | lions starve. | Wealthiest Country “This country has half the ac- cumulated wealth and productive | forces of the entire world, with | much less than ten per cent of the | population. Yet we are told that | ‘the country cannot afford’ to guarantee its workers a minimum | standard of decent living! It is | clear that this phrase, ‘cannot af- ford,’ has a special meaning. It does not mean that the country | has not the necessary resources; it | means that those’ who rule the country, that small, infinitesimal | fraction of the population which | owns all the chief stores of wealth | and means of production, considers | it contrary to their selfish class in- terests. “This: ruling class, monopoli | the Wall Street financers, have dic: | tated the administration program. | They do not hesitate to condemn |tens of millions to a degraded standard of life, just too much to die on but not enough to live on. | These are the real enemies of America; here is the real menace | faced by our country. Millions Disillusioned “If revolution, or the threat of revolution has become a major problem of this country, this is only secondarily the result of the work | of the Communist Party. In the first place, it is because millions have lost their last hopes of relief after being disillusioned with all promises, one after another, based | upon the present system. Commu- nism, and the threat of revolution, will not be crushed by outlawing | the Communist Party; it will grow in spite of everything, unless the jconditions of life of the masses are improved, unless real social secur- | lity is provided. | “Precisely because those who rule | are determined not to grant any real measure of social security, that is the reason for the attacks upon | the Communist Party. These at- tacks are designed to prepare re- jection of any real unemployment \insurance.. When the ridiculous; \charge is made that the Commu- | nists. are ‘plotting to kidnap the President,’ that is only a cover for} a real charge that the Communists |are arousing a great mass demand | | for the Workers’ Bill, H.R, 2827, that | |is only a cover for the ‘open shop’ |and-the company-union drive, ex- hibited in the renewal of the auto code and the Wolman anti-Labor to the American Federation of La- | bor. Even those stauch servants of | the President, the Executive Coun- forced to recognize in. these events | United States. Germany taught the whole world to understand that fas- cism, beginning with the demand | to crush the ‘Communist Menace,’ | jends with the crushing of all trade unions, all civil rights, even all re- | ligious. liberties. Fascism can only |be halted if determined resistance is made to its first steps. That holds good for the U.S.A. as well as jit did for Germany. Fight For Security “The demand for enactment of the Workers’ Bill, H.R. 2827, the fight for the only proposal of real social security, is the front-line trench today in the battle for pre- serving a measure of life, liberty |and the pursuit of happiness in | this country. It is the essential foundation for preservation of a} |Measure of civil liberties, for re- sistance to fascism and war. It is a fight.for all those good things of life, which the masses fo the people, |as distinguished from the profes- | sional patriots, mean when they speak of ‘Americanism.’ | “If real unemployment insurance |is denied, this will only add fuel to |the fire of discontent, sweeping through the working population to- |and radicalization, The American masses are approaching that mood and temper, in which our ancestors | penned those immortal words of the Declaration of Independence. These words have been outlawed in many states of this country, but I hope that it is still possible to quote them before a sub-committee of Congress. The declaration contains the fol- lowing words: The Right to Revolution ‘Whenever any form of govern- ment becomes destructive of these ends (life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness), it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute -a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such forms, as to them shall seem most llikely to effect their safety and happiness. It is their right, it is their duty to throw off such a gov- jernment, and to provide new guards for their future security.’ | “This fundamental right of revo- |lution, inherent in the masses of ‘the toiling population and repre- sented today by the Communist |Party and its program, is the ulti- mate guarantee that the principles of the Workers’ Bill, H-R. 2827, will finally prevail. If not enacted into law by the present Congress, or if refused’ entirely by thé rulers of the present’ system, they will ap- |pear again and again, and* finally | will be enforced by a new govern- ment representing a‘ new social- economic system, that of Socialism.” The most common opinion among the workers here is that the com- pany itself has framed the dyna-| mitings in order to arouse senti- ment against the strikers and make strikebreaking easier, Meanwhile strikers are becoming more militant, and mass picketing continues, Strike meetings during the last few days have been at- tended by thousands, including un- employed miners. At each, resolu- tions have been adopted calling for | withdrawal of the injunction.| Women are taking an increasing part in the steike, and in many in-| stances have distinguished them- | selves on picket lines. Continued scab herding by top officials of the United Mine Workers f America, is arousing inereased | rotests from the members of that union as many are in the struggle | side by side with the United An- thracite Miners of Pennsylvania, in- dependent union which called the strike. Seabs are being brought in by these officials from Scranton and | |secution of Jews, militant leaders | changed the whole state of things in Nazi Germany—starvation, per- | of the working class and all others | opposed to Hitlerism?” IT IS VITAL THAT THE MASSES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE KNOW THE ANSWER TO THE HEARST OHANGE OF | FRONT THAT THEY LEARN THE | FACTS BEHIND THE HEARST- HITLER INTRIGUE. Hearst reached an understand- ing with the Nazis whereby Ger- man newspapers must buy all their foreign news from Hearst's news gathering organization, the International News Service. The minimum amount Hearst was to | receive for this service is placed at one million marks per annum, IT MUST BE EMPHASIZED THAT ALL NEWSPAPERS IN GERMANY ARE CONTROLLED AND RIGIDLY CENSORED BY THE HITLER GOVERNMENT. Closest Harmony That Hearst and Hitler are now | other parts under protection of | state troopers. John Kmetz, district | board member of the United Mine Workers of America, was seen lead- | ing scabs to work at Nanticoke. A} hotiday declared at the Susque-| hanna Colliery Number Seven be-| cause of the presence of black damp, is still in effect and striking miners suspect that workers of this) colliery are being shifted to scab at Glen Alden mines. While the local newspapers have let loose a high pressure campaign to convinee the striking miners that their situation is hopeless, the offi- cials of the strikers are not defi- nitely calling for a fight against the injunction which declares the strike | illegal. Some are just making speeches at strike meetings calling upon the workers to stay out. The miners realize the tremen-| dous support they are receiving | from the Unemployment Councils | here, as the repeated appeals of the company for the unemployed to scab haye met with failure. The) prestige of the Unemployment| Councils here has been raised greatly. On the other hand the Un- employed League, which claims a much larger membership, is con-| spicuously silent on the strike. Its failure to even issue a statement on the strike, is taken generally as giv- ing support to the scabherding pol- icy of John L. Lewis and Mike Boy- lan, leaders of the United Mine} Workers of America. But the atti- tude of the rank and file in the Un- employed League has been one of splendid solidarity and refusal to scab. Lynn Shoe Strike Voted LYNN, Mass., Feb. 12. — Three hundred and fifty lasters and turn makers of the Gold Seal Shoe Com- pany, members of the United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union, voted to strike today in protest against the proposed wage-cut of 1512 per cent. The factory is the largest in Lynn. Finished reading the Daily Worker? Don't throw it away. Leave it on the street-car, sub- working in closest harmony and | understanding was made unmis- | takeably clear by an incident that followed the Saar plebiscite. After the “election,” Hearst gave out for publication in Amer- iean and French newspapers only one interview. THIS INTER- VIEW WAS GIVEN TO THE | Flight Squadron is a fascist youth ‘The Hearst family is now busily engaged in organizing a Fascist or- ganization of its own. This organ- ization, initiated under the name of the Junior Birdmen of America, already is branching out with an auxiliary. This auxiliary is called | the Flight Squadron. Membership in the two groups is now being urged by Hearst newspapers in more | than twenty of America’s largest cities. The avowed purpose of the Plight Squadron is teach aviation to the American youth. In reality, the organization, highly surcharged with | the teachings of nationalism and race hatred. In the final analysis, Hearst's aim is to prepare American youth to aid the Wall Street inter- ests toward a fascist dictatorship and to have them mobilized for im- perialist war. At present the two organizations are headed by George Hearst, son of William Randolph and president of the New York American. How- ever, these organizations are strongly supported by all the Hearst newspapers. The masses of the American peo- ple can giye an immediate and tell- ing answer to Hearst’s fascist pro- gram: BOYCOTT THE HEARST PRESS! (To Be Continued.) Relief Wage Clause Aids Cuts in Pay (Continued from Page 1) order that the general wage-cutting | drive now under way in industry may have a clear path. The A, F, of L. officialdom supports the “prevailing wage” amendment. - This also woulid allow Govern- ment low-wages for non-recognized labor, prviding a wedge for general wage-cutting. Asked to explain what he means | by the words “prevailing wage,” | Green told th Daily Worker: | “Tt means that the rates estab- | lished in each community, for the kind of work the Government is | doing there, will be paid on unem- ployed relief jobs, for example, if homes are built under the Housing Program, the union scales of the Building Trades would be paid.” “But where unions are not rec- ognized and their scales are not es- tablished, what then?” Green was asked. “Then we will endeavor to find out what is the prevailing rate in privet industry,” he said. He added e is attempting to haye written into the relief legislation for the entire country the provisions of the | Davis-Bacon lay. This Davis-Bacon Act, applies only to the District of Columbia. It provides that the rate of wages of laborers and mechanics in con- struction work on public buildings | here “shall be not less than the pre- | vailing rate of wages for work of a way or bus for someone else to read, (Continued from Page 1) hours and wage standards provisions of the auto code, just extended by Roosevelt. All of these criticisms made by Green of the anti-labor decisions of Roosevelt which the workers have been complaining about. But the question which every member of the A. F. of L. must now ask himself is: “What position must we now take toward the N.R.A. in our conditions? What steps must we take now to overcome these anti-labor acts of the Roosevelt administration and the N.R.A.” And on this decisive point we see that the pro- gram presented by Green to Roosevelt will not solve the burning problems of the workers. The letter of the Communist Party to William Green (printed in the Daily Worker of February 7) points out the immediate danger to velt’s present arrogant open shop long steps toward fascism Roosevelt letter, calling upon Green for a united front to fight in the interests of the steel workers and auto workers against these attacks, poses to Green the courses now open: “EITHER you carry on the policy of the last two years, preach confidence in capitalist politi- cians, cooperation with the bosses, expel the Com- munists and the militant elements, prevent well organized and prepared struggles; be responsible in history for helping those who try to destroy the American labor movement; “OR you help to bring about in the labor movement of ali who the American working class in powerful independent of the demoralizing influence talist politicians, of the capitalist gangsters, to establish in the union real class democracy, which will bring forward the organizers and most self-sacrificing workers, and open the doors of the union widely te every honest. worker.” . The Gommunist. Party proposed in this letter to-Green-that the hest answer to Roosevelt's attack on labor is an immediate organization drive in steel and auto, to prepare to strike for lahor’s demands, similar nature in the city, town, vil-| Cop Kills Two! Negro Toilers, InDrive onC.P. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Feb. 12.— Two Negro workers were killed in| Bessemer by Policeman Fant yes- terday during a series of raids by police and Tennessee Coal and Iron Company thugs on the homes of militant workers in an attempt to smash the Communist Party. Sol Williams, militant Negro worker who was kidnaped from his home on Jen, 29, returned to Bes- semer today after a horrible expe- rience at the hands of a group of Tennessee Soal and Iron Company thugs, headed by Jack Brown. This group took him out of bed on the night of Jan. 29, Williams declared, and carried him eighty miles from Bessemer, where he was stripped and whipped on his. bare back. While preparations were be- ing made to murder him, Williams managed to escape into the woods, | and after five days made his way | into Montgomerey. After receiving medical treatment for his injuries he returned to his post to help carry on the fight against the po- lice and company terror raging in Bessemer. His body still shows signs of the terrible beating he received. The International Labor Defense is heading a hroad mass campaign demanding the arrest and punish- ment of Williams’ kidnapers, whom he is ready to identify. Bessemer police who gave no aid in the search for Williams are clearly disturbed over the joint demands of white and Negro workers for the arrest lage or other civil division.” An Editorial However, the Green proposed touch on facts authorities will ment.” . . order to better Green at the labor of Roose- drive, and the is taking. This urge that this at least.” The history ers, and against then you will N.R.A. has done. a unified front try to organize company unions unions, ‘The workers of capi- government, of working from the N.R.A. toward fascism. the workers, of his kidnapers. How Roosevelt’s Drive Against Labor Can Be Defeated six-point program which William to Roosevelt is not an effective ‘answer to Roosevelt's attack, Green proposes, among other things, that the N.R.A. be “kept a governmental function,” and that Section 7A be retained. Green declares: “Labor representation upon code guarantee improyed code enforce- . “Labor equally with management shall have the right to suggest amendments to Codes of fair competition.” outset registered his “wholehearted desire to cooperate in carrying out the purposes of the National Recovery Program and to congratulate you upon the objectives which your leadership has given this program. As responsible spokesmen for the American labor movement, we wish to assure you of our endorsement of the fundamental prin- ciples underlying the National Recovery Act and to measure be extended temporarily of the N.R.A, has proved in life to the hilt the contention of the Communist Party that the whole National Recovery Act is an instru- ment of the employers, Every act of Roosevelt and the N.R.A. has been in the interests of the employ- labor. The N.R.A. was formed by Roosevelt to increase profits, and lower . workers’ living standards, and that is exactly what the ‘The road of continued reliance on N.R.A. boards and on Roosevelt, will only enable Roosevelt, agent of finance capital, the more easily to enthrone the and cut wages. in the A. F. of L. have relied on Roosevelt's promises and on the N.R.A. for nearly two years. They have gotten from Roosevelt and nothing but wage cuts, long hours, speed-up, union-smashing, strikebreaking, and steps Only the mass action of the workers them- selyes, only the broad united front of labor, only the building of the A. F. of L. unions. amd the preparation for broad strike struggles will beat In addition to placing the organi- |zation campaign on the agenda of the Executive Council, the commit- tee marked two other small achieve- |ments here: 1. They placed President Tighe’s expulsion program before the Council and, thys confronted by the representatives of the major- ity of the membership, both the Council and President . Green retrained from endorsing Tighe’s stand, 2. The Committee was notified President Tighe’s official family. One of the international officers who formerly supported Tighe came out publicly against his ex- pulsion program, the Committee learned. This happened while delegates representing 25 A. A. lodges, in the face of Tighe’s threat of expelling individuals and lodges supporting the rank and file program, held week-end meetings and endorsed this same Program and specifically con- demned Tighe’s action, The Committee pressed upon Green, both last night and today, their proof that Tighe, who accuses the membership of acting “uncon- stitutionally” in helding an organ- ization conference which was planned in the presence of six in- ternational officers, himself acted in direct violation of the tonstitution in attempting to expel those par- ticipating in the conference, and in stationing gangsters at union head- quarters to eject the rank and fllers last Thursday. In hoth interviews, the Committee asked Green how the Executive Council could attempt to organize steel workers without first countermanding Tighe’s effort to “throw us out of the window for doing just that—organizing.” Green gave no answer to this. i No Family Row, Says Group Green told the press last night that he couldn’t intervene because the expulsion action is “a family row.” To this the committee re- torted in a statement: “We say it is the concern of the entire labor moyement of the United States. We recy that the strength of the Committee's posi tion now rests upon the support we have received both from the ma- jority of the steel workers and from the Central Labor Bodies, throngh- out the country, This support is growing.” : These supporters, Committee members said on leaving, will let the Executive Council and President Green hear from them from the field. Spang declared the rank and file will bring new members into the A. A., hold mass meetings, tele- otherwise show their determination that their union shall grow and gain the demands of the steel workers. Emphasizing that the Couneil’s and Green's assurances of an or- ganization drive in steel reflect that they are already acutely aware of the strength of the rank and file drive, the Committee declared last ‘night: “It was for this—action to organize the steel workers—that we have been mobilizing the lodges and districts of our union for months. It was President Tighe’s opposition ulsion threats.” Green told the committee today that he would let them know im- mediately the decisions of the Bx- ecutive Council on the steel organ- ization drive. The full text of the statement is- sued by the steel workers’ Organiza- tional Committee upon leaving Washington follows: “The Executive Council is no _ doubt familiar by now, that this whole situation developed because the membershiv decided that the feeble and inadequate attempts by President Tighe to organize the steel industry led the mem- bership to a position that we de- cided to undertake the argent tion of the industry ourselves, in a practical and energetic man- ner. “This we are doing and this we are going aya regardless of what. obstacles are encountered. The Amalgamated Association must be built into a powerful union. “Even had not the insane ac- tions of Mike Tighe precipitated the present situation, it was our intention to come to the Executive Council on the question of the organizational drive for steel. “When the 54th Gonyention of the American Fedoration of La- bor announced its intention to undertake an organizational drive in the steel industry it gladdened | the hearts of hundreds of thou- sands of severely oppressed steel workers. Situation Ripe tana was the Lita more tignal ries, ris our initial efforts, despite the opposition of Tighe, has met with encouraging sucess. “The trade union movement and its Executive Council owes to the steel workers its aid and Pi dd to crush the most power- ful enemy of organized labor in the world . the Steel Trust. back Roosevelt's attacks and win the demands of “In accomplishing this task not only will the trade union moye- of the first break in the ranks of | graph the Executive Council and | to this that culminated in his ex-) the country and among the most exploited.” The Italian workers showed great “fighting spirit,” Foster said. “It | Was a pleasure to struggle together with them in ‘the great steet ‘strike of 1919,” he declared. The full text of Foster's statement follows: “From the Daily Worker and from an Italian comrade present at the recent Plenum of the Cen- tral Committee of our Party, I have learned that on March 18th, L'Unita Operaia is going to. come out as a daily. This important event deserves the attention of every comrade struggling for a Soviet America, “The Italian workers are a yital section of the American proleta- viat. They number about 5,000,000 and most of them are to be found in the basic industries of the country and among the most ex- Ploited. “The bureaucrats of the Amer- jean Federation.of Labor nave spoken of them as unorganizable. This is because these misleaders of labor are afraid of a real strugge against capitalism. In my experience I have found the Italian workers full of revolution- ary enthusiasm and © fighting spirit. It was a pleasure to Struggle together with them in the great steel strike of 1919 and many other strikes, “An Italian daily paper with a correct revolutionary line will be the hest weapon to win those masses of Italian workers to the program of our Party and win them away from the poisonous Fascist propaganda carried on by the agents of Mussolini who are working hand in glove with Wall Street in the efforts to complete the fascization of the state ap- paratus in this country. “Our Party, more than any other organization, hails with joy the coming out of L’Unita’ Op- raia daily. Our Party organiza- ions from the Central Commit- tee down to thé units must. lend help to the ‘campaign in’ course to raise the necessary funds for the coming out of the paper on March 18th.” Vienna Cops Shoot Worker (Continued from Page 1) working in Moscow factories and their families, as well as with dele- gations from all factories in the city. The first thoughts of the meet- ing were devoted to the fighters who fell on the barricades. In a signifi- cant speech, V. G. Knorin; member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. of the Soviet Union, analyzed the cause of the defeat of the Austrian proletariat in the February uprising. After Knorin a representative of the Austrian Communist Party spoke. The meeting. greeted with thunders of applause the represen- tative of the revolutionists of Spain, who reported on the.fighting in the Asturian mountains.. Wilhelm Pieck presented -reyolu- tionary greetings to the Schutz- bundlers and the delegate of the Spanish fighters from the Commu- nist Party of Germany. $ George Dimitrov, who entered the hall at that time, was greeted by a prolonged ovation and at the urgent requests of the audience the hero of the Reichstag fire trial briefly and eloquently addressed the meeting. —————— ment help us, but will tremen- mgthen those who as- sist us and will be a blow to the enemies of the. labor movement who seek to undermine oe es ganization as is being attemp' by forces in the administration and manufacturers as exempli- fled by the automobile. industry. And for this Feaaon i ee the following proposals to the Execu- tive Councils of the American Federation of Labor: ; Proposals * “1. That the Execytive Council should immediately. urge the whole trade union movement to sive material as to the or- ganizational earapaign in the steel industry in the form of fic nance and forces. “2, That the Executive Council itself should energetically enter the campaign Rue personal appearances workers herd “3, That should mobilize all tions and Central Labor bodies to give immediate assistance to this be issued by th io tive e Council. against expulsions, guar- anteeing the democratic rights of the steel workers and calling upon peg rally ‘under the isa