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* DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED DAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1935 Page 3 Maurice Sugar Is Endorsed By Auto Union A. F, L. Federal Locals | Vote to Support Him for Judgeship DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 12—Mau- | tice Sugar, prominent labor attorney and workers’ candidate for judge of Recorder’s Court, has received the endorsement of the United Automo- bile Workers, affiliated to the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. This au- tomatically gives him the endorse- ment of all the federal locals of the U. A. W. in this city. The campaign to elect Sugar is | gaining daily despite the conspiracy of silence on the part of those loyal mouthpieces of the auto companies, the capitalist press. He has been endorsed by practically every section of the labor movement, including the Detroit and Wayne County Fed- eration of Labor (A. F. of L.), the Mechanics Educational Society of America, the Society of Designing Engineers, the Communist Party, the Trade Union Unity League, the International Labor Defense and many others. There will be no primary elections | for Recorder's Judge this year be- cause the withdrawal of a number of candidates has left only eighteen, the required number, in the field. Of these eighteen, nine will be chosen at the elections on April 1. Organizations and individuals are urged to aid the campaign for Sugar financially. Headquarters of the campaign committee are at 1016 Barlum Tower, Detroit. Workers’ Bill Parley Called InPhiladelpia PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12.—To in- | tensify mass pressure for the Work- ers’ Unemployment and Social In- surance Bill, the Local Joint Action Committee has arranged a confer- ence of all delegates to the recent Unemployment Insurance Congress in Washington for Sunday, Feb. 17, at 2:30 p.m., at Redmen’s Hall, 1523 West Girard Avenue. The recommendation of the Executive Committee to organize congressional district action com- mittees to bring pressure to bear on individual congressmen will be discussed. The conference will discuss the introduction of a bill similar to H. R. 2827 into the Pennsylvania legislature. An indication of the sentiment of workers, and especially of trade unions on the bill, is given by a letter to Chairman Connery of the House Ways and Means Committee and Congressman Dunn, chairman of the sub-committee conducting hearings on the Workers’ Bill from the Battery Workers’ Federal Union No. 18551, A. F. of L. It says in part: “In order that there may be no misunderstanding in your own mind and in those of other members of your committee concerning the position of the Battery Workers’ Federal Union No. 18551, A. F. of L., our entire membership is signing this letter in support of the above- mentioned Bill (H. R. 2827).” Textile Trimmers In Fight NEW YORK.—The Textile Trim- ming Workers’ Union, an indepen- dent union with a membership of more than 2,000, telegraphed Rep- | resentative Matthey Dunn, chair- man of the House sub-committee on | unemployment insurance; Senator Wagner and President Roosevelt on Monday, demanding immediate enactment of the Workers’ Unem- ployment, Old Age and Social In- surance Bill, M. R. 2827. The Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe- teria Workers’ Union, Local 123, yesterday telegraphed the House Ways and Means Committee de- manding endorsement of the Work- ers’ Bill and its enactment by Con- gress. _BALTIMORE, Ma., Feb. 12—The Music Teachers’ Association here endorsed the Workers’ Bill, H. R._ 2827, at their last regular meeting. WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. Labor Defender Concert and Dance Priday, Feb. 22 at Ambassador Hall, 1104 N. Broad St.; Nadia Chilkovsky in a series of revolutionary dances: well known violinist; entire Freiheit Gesang Ferein chorus; excellent dance orchestra. Adm. at door, 50c; in advance through organizations 35c. Tickets at 49 N. &th St., Room 207. Beott Nearing, just returned from Europe and the Soviet Union, will lecture on Fascism and Communism on Saturday, Feb. 28 at 8:30 p.m. at the Olympia Arena, Broad St., below Bainbridge. Adm. 35¢. Boston, Mass. Bazaar: Grand Opening tonight, Wed., from 7 p.m. till midnight. Communist Party Night. Speakers, Sidney Bloomfield, District Organizer. Performance by New Theatre Players. Other features, eats, bargains, etc. New International Hall, 42 Wenonah ‘St, Roxbury, Mass. Newark, N. J. Greatest affair Newark — Revoli in the history of lutionary — Movement. March 17th Date Reserved. Organ- izations arrange no affairs on this date. Auspices International Labor Defense, New Jersey District. Chicago, Ill. tions Attention! The Inter- national Workers Order of Chicago is celebrating its 5th Anniversary at the Ashland Auditorium, Feb. 23, 6:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. An excellent pro- gram has been arranged. Kindly keep thie date open. Theatre Collective Chauve Souris. ‘Three-Hour Program of Theatre, Music and Dance, following by icing to 3 a.m., Saturday, Peb. 16 People's Auditorium, dm. 35c; 100 Professor Scott Nearing will speak on “The Soviet Union in World Af- fairs,” Friday, Feb. 15th, at Medical ‘Arte Center. Auspices F.8.0. COPY OF GORMAN’S STRIKE DEMANDS tile strike, which began Sept. 1, workers chained to the N. R. A. stretch-out, higher wages and the thirty-hour week with full pay. Roosevelt’s Boards, and against the conditions which the N, R. A. had brought about. tempted to make the textile workers believe that the main slogan was, “Labor's for the N. R. A.” i 1934, The above drawing was on the official United Textile workers’ leaflet announcing the general tex- This shows how Francis Gorman attempted to keep the textile One half million struck, demanding union recognition, an end of the They struck against the decisions of But Gorman at- | Rank and File Holding Strike Conferences in All Sections Since July, 1933, it has been the N. R. A. and the Labor Boards of Roosevelt, backed by the A. F. of L. national leaders, which have de- feated the demands of the textile | workers. Now, the million textile workers throughout the country are demanding strike against the starvation conditions to which the “model” textile code has reduced | them. The main steps whereby the N. R. A. has worsened the living stand- ards of the workers are as follows: |in which Roosevelt fooled the tex: | tile workers into believing that they were getting minimum wages of $12 in the South and $13 in the North, is admitted in the report of the N. R. A. Research Bureau of Jan. 20, 1935, on the causes of the general textile strike. The report says, “The feeling that the code actually provides for a wage of $12 a week in the South and $13 in the North is widespread, though erroneous. Actually these are the maximum weekly earnings possible to ‘hose working at the prescribed minimum wages of 30 cents and 32%¢ cents an hour. In no week since the adoption of the code has the industry averaged more than 36.5 hours per person, though forty hours are necessary to attain the minimum weekly earnings.” ‘The code cut down the wages of the skilled workers. The N. R. A. report admits, “Skilled workers in the industry resent the fact that they are paid at rates which do noi preserve traditional and customary differentials.” The minimum wage thus tended to become the max- imum. | The code cut real wages and weekly earnings in dollars received. 1—The code itself. The manner | Textile Workers Demand Strike Call Against NRA The speed up was terrifically in- creased, (See my article of yester- day.) Real wages went down eigh- teen per cent in the North and twenty-five per cent in the South, 2—Roosevelt and the N. R. A. instituted a series of “curtailments” which drastically reduced the al- ready starvation wages. Thus in May, 1934, a twenty-five per cent “curtailment” cutting down the working hours was ordered by Roosevelt. This reduced wages of the workers one fourth, This curtail- ment was still in effect in August, 1934. A series of similar curtail- ments were put into effect in other | branches of the industry. N. R. A. Acted As Bosses’ Agent 3—The N. R. A. and Roosevelt's | numerous boards acted as agents of | the employers, and as strike-break- |ing boards. They denied the textile | workers all their demands, and in- stead, new boards wers set up which made “studies,” while conditions grew worse, On June 2, 1934, the date for which a cotton textile strike had been set, the national officials of the United Textile Workers called off the strike, and signed an agree- ment with Johnson and the N. R. A. for an “investigation” by N. R. A. This “investigation’ was completed after many weeks, by the N. R. A. Research division, and their ‘‘con- clusions” were that “Under existing conditions there is no factual or statical basis for any general in- crease in Cotton Textile Code wage rates.” Woolen Strike Prevented On hours the N. R. A. concluded, “When normal annual consumption of cotton in the United States is ob- | tained it will require ninety hours per week of productive machine operation, or ten hours more than the eighty-hour maximum, in two forty-hour shifts, permitted under the Cotton Code.” In the same manner a strike of On Friday, Feb. 1, a few days | longshoremen—and particularly the after the teamsters’ powerful one- | checkers—have, on their own initi- Workers in Industry Get Even Less Than Minimum Wage woolen workers was prevented in July, 1934, and a Wool Board was set up by the N. R. A. which did nothing to improve conditions. 4—The general textile strike of Sept. 1, was betrayed by Francis Gorman, who aided Roosevelt and the N. R. A. to drive the strikers back to work, New “investigations” were ordered, new boards set up. The new Works Assignment Boards, |Board, the Code Authority, the Winant Board, and other N. R. A. Boards, stalled the workers, denied | their demands, “investigated,” de- layed, hemmed and hawed, while |the manufacturers worsened con- ditions still more and built up com- pany unions. |. Today, following Gorman's be- trayal of the strike, thousands are being fired for union activities, €victed, and speeded up. Wages con- tinue to go down. The workers de- |mand higher wages, union recogni- | tion, and end of the speedup, and | the thirty-hour week with full pay. Determined to Win ‘The honeyed words of MacMahon and Gorman. “Have faith in Roose- velt,” do not have the same magic they once had. The textile workers are determined to win their de- mands. In Paterson, In New Eng- land, in the South, and in the Al- lentown silk area, the workers in the | U. T. W. are holding rank and file | conferences, are demanding action \from their leaders, are preparing strike. A strike against the conditions brought about by Roosevelt and N. R. A. is brewing in the textile in- dustry. This time, Gorman will find betrayal by arbitration of Roosevelt's strikebreaking boards more difficult, PAUL CLINE Francisco and other West Coast I. L. A. locals is a constant threat to AlabamaA.F.L.PICKETS PROTEST PRAISE OF FASCISM 02.5. Charge BY WESTERN PAPER Fights Against Anti-Labor Bill State UTW Council Also Raps Anti-Commu- nist Measure | (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 12.— Opposition to the Street anti-Com- ;munist Bili passed by the Lower |House of the Alabama Legislature reached a new high point this week, | With the State Federation of Labor | going on record against the vicious anti-labor bill and calling for a flood of protests to Governor Graves of Alabama and the State Senate. |. United Mine Workers of Amer- jica officials have wired official protests, while 100 delegates to the State United Textile Workers Union jCouncil, representing forty locals, |unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the bill. | The Birmingham Council of Wo- jmen Lawyers has condemned the |bill as unconstitutional while the | Birmingham Pastors’ Union, the |Cosmpolitan Club and the Presby- |terian Conference all elected com- |mittees instructed to draw up pro- | test resolutions on the bill. | Meanwhile the Communist Party jand the International Labor De- fense are driving ahead to mobi- lize statewide protest against pos- | sible passage of the bill in the |Senate and its enactment into law. | The I. L. D. is appealing to ail |organizations throughout the coun- try to send protests to Governor Graves, Montgomery, Ala. The bill sponsored by Alabama in- dustrialists and landlords and their fascist groups is aimed to crush the Struggles of Alabama Negro and white workers and croppers. It prohibits publications, utterances and organizations advocating “out- breaks against any branch of gov- ernment,”—such as demonstrations jof the unemployed at relief bureaus, ete. |Noted Concert Singers 'To Appear at Council Bazaar in Philadelphia |. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12.—Sergei and Marie Radamsky will be present at. the Concert and Bazaar to be | given by the Unemployment Coun- cils on March 1 and 2 at Olympia Speedy Action by Anti-Fascists Forces Retraction of Pro-Fascist Editorial in Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12.—Edi- torial hurrahs for Fascism in E. Manchester Boddy’s Illustrated Daily News, which. makes a great pretense of being a “liberal” pub- lication, brought militant worker- pickets to the offices of the paper within a few hours after publica- tion. The picketing brought voluble apologies from the business man- ager of the sheet. Representatives of the American League Against War and Fascism carried placards which proclaimed that the “Daily News Sponsors Fascism.” Gathering crowds, in- 'cluding employes of the paper, read the clipped editorials bordered in red paint. So embarrassed were the executives, that the pickets were in- |vited off the street corner and into |the sumptuous office of business manager, Robert Smith, who was until recently, a campaign fund collector for Senator McAdoo's crowd. | “We'll print a retraction if yow'll quit picketing,” said Smith. “We aren’t for Fascism any more than you are—why, we're a lib- eral paper.” Lauded Fascism “Whatever the shortcomings of |Fascism,” said the editorial, written |by Richard R. Kilroy, editorial writer, “it is making more substan- | tial progress than any of the other experimental forms of government \in Europe. It has improved the |condition of the average citizen and it has astonishingly revived na- tional morale.” no doubt stimulated efforts by the wife by h recently left h the late John T. G who owned @ good share of S: mortgages on most of The foilowing day printed another editorial (uns this time) in wt an entirel: ferent picture of black shirt ernment was depicted and with words for Guiseppe Emanuele } digliani, famous Italian anti-f: To balance things up again 0 ever, they had another editorial, “The Russian Fiasco” on the debt settiement negotiations and with a reference to the “Stalin crowd.” Admits Police Connections In his personal column, Publisher Roddy admitted that he was asso- ciated with Police Chief James E. Davis when he received word that his office was being picketed, and declared that he was opposed to Fascism because it would “certainly bring on Communism.” Managing Editor Matt Weinstock who is Jewish, revealed himself as @ Fascist supporter, in the course of the incident. In spite of the tor- tures inflicted on Jews by Fascists, he argued with the picket that “Fascism is all right” and flippantly refused to give his name. Later, in the presence of the pickets, he was unwittingly identified by the busi- | ness manager while discussing the Proposed “retraction.” of t Maltica Called For Chicago ‘Youth Nominee CHICAGO, Feb. 12.—Jacob Arvey, Democratic boss of the Twenty- | Fourth Ward, who is being opposed as Aldermanic candidate by youth- ful Samuel Lissitz, workers’ nominee endorsed by the Communist Party, like the Textile Labor Relations | | Hall, Broad and Bainbridge Street, | | to raise funds to finance the cam-| |paign for the Workers Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill and | is making every effort to intimidate Lissitz’ supporters. Arvey’s henchmen have been the issuance of a regular unem- | ployed newspaper. The Radamskys will present a pro- | gram of new Soviet songs, illustrat- ing the tremendous cultural ad- | vances of the Russian workers and peasants under the Soviet. They announce that this will be their | final appearance in this country be- fore their return to the U. 8. S. R. | Workers School Term Set to Open Late This Month in Detroit DETROIT, Feb. 12. — The new term of the Detroit Workers School will start Monday, Feb. 25. Evening courses will be given in the follow- ing subjects: Principles of the Class Struggle, Elementary Political Econ- omy, Trade Union Problems, Prob- | lems of the Negro Liberation Move- | ment, Marxism-Leninism I and II, | Fascism and Social Revolution, Principles of Communist Organiza- | tion, Elementary English, and Shop | Paper and Leaflet Technique. weeks is $1.50. Registration is now taking place at the school head- quarters, 5969 14th Ave., near Mc- | Graw. The fee for each course of twelve | making systematic visits to all who | signed Lissitz’ nominating petitions lin an effort to persuade them to withdraw their signatures and thus | void Lissitz’ candidacy. The names of registered voters have been stricken from the rolls of the elec- tion board to create an excuse for challenging Lissitz’ petition. The reply of Lissitz’ supporters to this drive is two mass meetings on | Friday to demonstrate the wide- | spread popularity of their candidate |in the Twenty-Fourth Ward. One | meeting will be held in the Vin- |chovsky Hall, 4004 West Roosevelt Road, and the other will be at the Culture Center, 3223 West Roosevelt Road. “Working Woman” Ready Many organizations are making arrangements for mass meetings to celebrate international Women’s Day on March 8. Not all have as yet sent in their orders for bundle copies of the Working Woman. The Daily Worker will have a special edition for International Women’s Day on March 6. The Daily Worker should be sold at these af- | fairs. Unless orders are placed for both periodicals by Feb. 20 the orders will not be fulfilled. LONGSHOREMEN MOVE INTO ACTION FOR UNITY —m By Reports Show Nazi Economy On the Skids, BERLIN, Feb. 12—The economic Situation in Hitler’s Germany can no longer be cloaked by the hol- low optimism of the best Nazi prop- agandists, as a report given by the Chamber of Industry and Com- merce here indicates. The report for the lower Rhine acknowledges the decline in indus- try, but attempts to attribute it to the unfavorable season. The Ham- burg report observes in discreet but none of the less eloquent language that “the conditions of the import trade must be brought into better coordination with the measures which have become indispensable” (those of fascism). The Bremen report is still more pessimistic. It stresses the difficul- ties of food supply and the hard- ships of the peasants. It points out | that “the creation of labor, with- out a corresponding revival in for- eign trade, is impossible. The transport trade is heading for com- | Plete destruction.” The difficulties of the textile situation are beyond solution, owing | to the lack of raw materials, the Baden report admits | Jobless Ends Life BOSTON, Feb. 12 (U.P.). — A} middle-aged woman __ tentatively identified as Mrs. L. Haves of 616 West 116th Street, New York City, dived to death from a ninth-story window of Hotel Statler today. The woman left a note, saying: “Notify my father of what I have done. I am out of work and am in ill health. 9 More Seized In Oklahoma Face Up to 20 Years for Protesting Against Frame-Up OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Feb. 12.—Nine men and two women, one with a baby in her ar seized here last Thur: charged with “obstructing jus when they sent letters of protest to court demandi he 18 persons who were May in a demonstra- unemployed sly with the arrests, ld outlaw the Com- was introduced into Party munist the State Senate Shortly before dawn, Federal agents and city detectives began ir raids. Marshall Lakey, a member of the American League Against War and Fascism, and forme: tructor in Oklahoma City University, was routed out of bed and carted to jail. Ten others were likewise arrested Their protests to the Federal court were the outcome of a dem- onstration for food last May 21, when several hundred hungry men and women marched to ne F. E. R. A. food commissary here after their relief had been stopped. Eighteen workers were arrested, “We mean business in these cases,” Prosecutor Lewis of the pros- id. The arrested face up in prison under Sections 88 and 241, title 18 of the United States Criminal Laws. One of the letters which was sent to Federal Judge Edgar S. Vaught, said: I demand the immediate and unconditional release of the follow- ing persons, who because of their participation in the food dermon- stration of May 21, 1934, in Okla- homa City, are at present held in prison: George Wilson, R. A. Sey- mour, George Taylor and George Hopkins. For this protest against a vicious frame-up, the writer faces long years in prison. Mr. Lewis admitted that up to the time of the arrests last week, 1,200 such letters had been received. The law on which they are held was passed in 1861. As to the charges against the original 18 arrested, Lewis said that “about all they did was argue with @ stenographer at relief headquar- ters. Then they marched down to the commissary on California Ave. They were dispersed by firemen and policemen.” Yet for this, a Federal law has been invoked, which, unless it is fought by the organized workers everywhere, might be used in an attempt to smash the organizations of the jobless everywhere The charges must be smashed by an organized protest from the en- tire country. Letters demanding the immediate and unconditional re- lease of all the workers arrested in the case should be forwarded at once to Federal Judge Edgar 5S. Vaught, Federal Circuit Court; W. c. , United States District At- torney, and to Governor Marland, all at Oklahoma City, Okla. MILWAUKEE, Wis. Anna Louise Strong lectures on “HUMAN NATURE UNDER THE SOVIETS” Milwaukee Auditorium Sth Street entrance Thursday, Feb. 14th 8P. M. Admission 25¢. Auspices: Friends of the Soviet Union, Milwaukee Branch jlyn, Here the vote for the impor-| theory that the I. L. A. in New tant position of business agent was| York is just a racketeering appa- — Chicago, THE TRUTH in a Time of HEAR As Newspaper Lies pror. SCOTT NEARING BRILLIANT ECONOMIST, LECTURER, AUTHOR Just returned from one of bis numerous visits to the Soviet Union day strike against the Humphrey |open-shop injunction, an unusual and significant statement was made by Joseph P. Ryan, president of the International Longshoremen's As sociation. Speaking of possible de- velopments on the waterfront, Ryan said: “If the injunction:is signed there is no telling what will happen. If these men fear that they will lose their jobs they will not listen to their leaders. Why, if I tried to stop a demonstration in that event they'd be likely to throw me out and put someone else in my place.” What is it that causes Ryan, one of the most hard-boiled bureaucrats in the A. F. of L. to suddenly as- sume such a humble pose? Why does Ryan, who for years has rid- den roughshod over the will of the membership, who has ruled the I. L, A. with an iron hand, now come out and speak of the possibility of being kicked out of office? Undoubtedly this can be explained in part as being “put on” by Ryan for the benefit of the Chamber of Commerce and the shipowners for whom he works. It is his way of telling them: “Don’t push me too hard or too fast. I'm willing to do everything I can for you, but this is a ticklish situation, and you've got to help me in handling it.” Rise In Solidarity But this only tells one side of the story behind Ryan’s unusual state- ment. The other side of the story— the important side—is supplied by a number of recent developments on the waterfront and in the LL.A. locals which show that there is taking place a definite rise in rank and file solidarity, militant action and organization among the long- shoremen. sl + This developing rank and file sentiment for united action from below, which is hated and feared by Ryan, has been clearly evidenced during the past two months around the anti-injunction struggle. The jative, undertaken to give practical |support to the struggle of the teamsters. This is in sharp contrast to their attitude of craft separatism |and narrowness of a few years ago. For example, the checkers on the important Bush Terminal Docks have repeatedly refused to check goods handled by non-union truck drivers. Checkers and longshore- men on nearly all docks in the city have made it hot for the non-union teamsters, have deliberately slowed down and hampered the movement of non-union trucking. The bosses’ injunction attack and the maneuvers of the bureaucrats aim precisely at smashing this soli- darity, a basic principle of the rank and file movement in the trade unions brought powerfully to the fore in the great West Coast ma- rine strike and the San Francisco general strike, Took It On “the Chin” So fearful are the A. F. of L. misleaders of the developing unity of the workers that Ryan found it necessary last Monday morning to make an appearance, for the first time in years, at the early morning shape-up on the Cunard piers, in order to deliver a talk to the long- shoremen, warning them against taking any sympathetic strike ac- tion with the teamsters. Two days later a special and “well prepared” meeting of the important deep- order to railroad through a motion committing the longshoremen to a non-strike policy until the expira- tion of the present agreement on Oct. 1. Ryan took personal charge of this meeting. In his speech, de- voted almost entirely to attacking the rank and iile nsoversent and the Communists, Ryan referred to his stinging defeat in San Francisco last summer, saying: “I took it on the chin from the Communists on the West Coast.” Ryan knows that the fighting rank and file leadership of the San his bureaucratic power. It is a real | 125 for the progressive candidate, stimulus to the East Coast men to openly backed by the rank and file |and wrest control of their union | for the machine candidate. apparatus from the misleaders. And | Fighting Spirit Rising Ryan sees with growing alarm that | the New York longshoremen are be-| It is clear that the fighting spirit |ginning to move in this direction, of the New York longshoremen is | | that they are entering on the path | |of rank and file organization and | Be ih Siege mreermee , mare Hy | build the rank and file movement | group in the local, as against 152) water local, No. 791, was called in: action. Defeat Ryan Proposal An outstanding indication of this was the successful struggle against |@ proposal by Ryan to boost dues |from $3 quarterly to $4.50. This proposal was made shortly after the signing of the new agreement in the latter part of October. Locals No, 808 and No. 890 overwhelmingly voted down this proposed dues boost, The rank and file groups de- veloped an active agitational cam- paign against the dues increase. As a result the Ryan machine was withdraw its proposal. Another recent sign of the rising militancy among the longshoremen was the action of a group of long- shoremen on the Morgan-Savannah docks. This action was directed against the squeezing out of forty- five men from the regular gangs (with a resulting increase in speed- up) and was led by rank and file workers over the head of the I.L.A. delegates. The workers by acting in a body and militantly placing their demands before the business agent and the hiring boss were able to force certain concessions. Subse- quently at a meeting of their local union workers from these docks took the floor and made an aggres- sive fight for motions on job protec- tion, union democracy, etc. These actions, though small in themselves, are significant signs of developing rank and file initiative and organ- ization. | A further indication of the growth _ of opposition sentiment to the Ryan machine was the result of the recent elections in Local No, 808, in Brook- forced to make an open retreat and | than ever to struggle against the employers and the treacherous lead- lership of the I. L. A. officials, against layoffs, speed-up, racketeer- ing, discrimination and starvation earnings. with the against smashing the militant elements and Commu- nists inside the I. L, A. must im- looming big the Humphrey union- Committees of action and rank and file groups must be set up in each | local and on each dock. The Com- munist Party dock nuclei and union fractions must be built up by re- cruiting as rapidly as possible the most advanced and militant work- ers. Unless the Communist Party is built up and becomes the firm back- bone of the whole movement, the rank and file longshoremen will not be able to meet the attacks of the bosses and the bureaucrats. An important task of the mili- tants and Communists in the L.A. is to draw the masses of longshore- men into attending their local union meetings, and in those cases where the locals do not meet to develop a mass campaign for such meetings. The rank and file movement must prove itself the most active and constructive elements on the docks. They must prove that they are try- effective weapons for defending -the daily interests of the membership. The struggle against the bureau- crats must be carried forward on the basis of concrete, positive pro- Posals, instead of, as has been too much the case in the past, through This situation, together | struggle | injunction, means that | prove and increase their activity. | ing to build the I. L. A. locals into | general attacks and charges. The! ratus, which it is impossible for the longshoremen to transform into an instrument for struggle against the shipowners, must be rooted out. Joint Action Necessary Of basic importance in developing the work in the I. L. A. is the ques- tion of solidarity and joint action among the waterfront crafts. The strategic and tactical lessons of the West Coast marine strike must be constantly and widely popularized. The rank and file policy of creat- ing a Waterfront Federation, a fighting alliance of longshoremen, teamsters and seamen, musi be placed in the very center of all agi- tation and activity. This means also that the neglected and very se- rious problem of concentration work among the teamsters must be tackled without delay. The leading role of the Party in the struggles of the longshoremen must be brought to the fore, Ryan’s constant attacks and _ slanders against the Communists must be met by developing a mass sale and distribution of the Daily Worker and the low priced pamphlets on the waterfront. On the basis of the actual conditions and experiences of the longshoremen, the Party's policy on basic questions — unemployment insurance, trade union unity, Negro rights and liberation, the Labor Party, the united front, the defense of the Soviet Union, the struggle against imperialist war and the | fight for Soviet power—can and | must be clarified. The increased possibilities of mass work among the longshoremen—and the other marine crafts—the dan- gerous intensification of fascist re- action and war preparations, make it more urgent than ever that the | District and Section committees shall, as directed in the Open Let- ter, concentrate the fullest forces of the Party for this most. important work—work in a basic industry, among a decisive stratum of the New York working ciass. — Speak on — THE SOVIET UNION IN WORLD AFFAIRS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15th, 8 P. M. MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING, 185 N. WABASH. — ADMISSION 35 CENTS Auspices The Friends of the Soviet Union a 1 00 Brings You Copy of Hunger and Revolt: Cartoons by BURCK SPECIAL OFFER “HUNGER AND REVOLT: Cartoons by Burck” is now available only with the following subscription offers: Year’s sub and copy of 6 Months’ sub and copy of book. 3 Months sub and copy of book. 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