The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1935, Page 2

AFL Council Hearst Private Life One of Debauchery And Feudal Brutality ‘ Calls Tighe To Capital (Continued f: m Page 1) handed the steel is composed the Executive Counc: question late yesterday) of John L. Lewis, president of United Mine Workers of America; Arthur Wharton, International As- sociation of Machinists’ official and a member of the Roosevelt Labor Advisory Board, and Daniel J Tobin, International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ president, who last week donated $10,000 of union funds to the Democratic Party's campaign fund Even these three officials. who have worked overtime to tie the rank and file to the Roosevelt anti- strike chariot soberly pressed Tighe and Leonard to tell them what‘ they would do about organizing steel workers. Evidently the Executive Council of the A. F. of L. realizes that the A. A. rank and file are determined to organize and win their demands. Top A. F. of L officials are known to be determined above all to head off serious strug- gles by the steel workers for or- ganization and strike to win their demands. But how the Council will attempt to do this they themselves obviously do not know During the luncheon recess, Lewis informed reporters: “We are con- sidering the whole problem of steel.” “Including the charges of the rank and file led by president Wil- liam J. Spang of District One?” he was asked. “We discussed that.” Lewis said, refusing to amplify. He also refused to discuss rumors that the Council may attempt to create a new union set-up in steel, scrapping the A. A (Continued from Page 1) Hearst struts about and fumes and {raves like a typical brutal monarch of the Roman era. WHEN HEARST SITS DOWN TO BREAKFAST, NO ONE MAY EN- TER HIS LUXURIOUS BREAK- FAST ROOM. WHEN HEARST TALKS, HE INSISTS ON SILENCE ALL ABOUT HIM Should any of his friends or acquaintances or other callers dare to disagree with him on any point in the course of conversa- tion, he flares up and foams at the mouth like an untamed beast A guest on the Hearst estate must observe with exactitude all the rigid rules laid down by the fascist pub- lisher. A guest of Hearst’s must act like a knight in the courts of the Roman emperors. Employees Like Slaves All the employees on Hearst’s San Simeon estate are treated as de-| fengeless slaves. Emperor Hearst has them hired and fired by the | hundreds. And this same cruel) treatment of the workers is the rule in all of his business enterprises. Hundreds upon hundreds of Hearst’s newspaper employees have been fired without a minute's notice | and without explanation. Hearst simply issued orders to his execu- tives—and at times he has fired the jexecutives along with the others. At San Simeon, Hearst lives like a feudal king—but he spends much time at another “hide-out.” | ee S DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1935 BUILT FROM PROFITS—PROF- ITS DRAINED FROM THE BLOOD AND SWEAT OF THOUSANDS OF HEARST’S EMPLOYES. In Mexico Hearst has a 73- mile estate with hundreds of em- ployes, Hearst purchased the land at ten cents an acre. He has de- veloped it with buildings and ranch equipment. HEARST KNOWS THAT AN- NEXATION OF MEXICO BY THE! UNITED STATES WOULD IN- CREASE THE PRICE OF HIS PROPERTY ONE HUNDRED TIMES THE AMOUNT HE PAID FOR IT. This also applies to the properties in Mexico claimed by the Morgans and the Rockefellers. Furthermore, annexation of Mex- | ico would give the Wall Street busi- ness lords a freer hand to exploit the workers and peasants in the neighboring land. AND SO HEARST AND HIS FELLOW-CAPITALISTS WANT TO GRAB MEXICO FOR THEMSELVES. Hearst's every word, his every ac- tion, is shot through with one aim— profit, profit, profit. He utilizes his newspapers, his magazines, his news services, his mines and his other enterprises to pile up more wealth. And to in- crease his wealth Hearst, through his publications, defends and espouses the slave program of his | fellow-capitalists of Wall Street | and their Washington adminis- trations, | Why Hearst Fights Communism Lenin, Liebknecht Honored in Berlin At Cemetary Rally BERLIN (By Mail).—On the anniversary of Lenin’s death thousands of class-conscious workers made their way quietly to the Friedrichsfelde Cemetery, where the graves of Karl Lieb- knecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Sylt and others are situated, to hold & memorial meeting. Lookouts were posted along the road. Many women insisted on accom- panying the men. Red blossoms were strewn upon the graves. A worker spoke briefly on the significance of the memorial and its meaning in the | light of the approaching final struggle with Hitler fascism. By the time Gestapo agents arrived the meeting had long dissolved, but many individuals altogether unconnected with the demonstration were nevertheless arrested, ‘TUUL to Hold Special Parley (Continued from Page 1) need for unification more urgent than ever. Our convention must discuss what steps we can and should take to unite all the forces of the working class against these latest attacks, and for the de- velopment of the struggles of the workers against these attacks. One of the important questions | that will be placed before the convention by the National Ex- ecutive Board will be the future | of the T.U. U. L. which clearly, | | on the basis of the developments of the last period and the further 'S. P. Leaders Duck Hearing On H.R.2827 (Continued from Page 1) pear before the sub-committee sent to them by Matthew A. Dunn, | chairman of the committee, it was | learned today. The hearings will close tomorrow afternoon after two weeks of testi- mony which has revealed the deep sentiment all over the country for) H. R. 2827 and against the Roose- velt administration’s Wagner-Lewis bill, a measure which denies genu- ine unemployment insurance. Paul P. Crosbie, of Queens, New York, a member of Blissville Post 727 of the American Legion and the Ryan Moves To Head Off Dock Strike Sentiment \A gainst Humphrey Writ |Clash Between Local 791 Business Agent and I. L. A. Head at Longshoremen’s Meeting Reveals Maneuvers to Spike Walk-Out Joseph Ryan, president of the International Longshore- men’s Association is now busy preparing to keep the long- shoremen on the job when the expected strike of teamsters breaks out. members of Local 791, of the I.L.A. told the Daily Worker representative in an interview yesterday. Telling of the proceedings at the special meet- Soviet Farm, Gains Cited (Continued from Page 1) | exploitation, into the helper and | friend for farmers who have united | for common labor. | “Now,” continued Yakovlev, “ay the members of the collective farms, and not only a few rich people, exe ploiters, kulaks and bloodsucke: will rise in a few years to the lev of a well-to-do life. (Prolonged ap. plause). It is now possible for all Peasants who take the collective | farm path, according to the deci« sions of the Congress of Soviets and the will of the Party, to participate on equal terms with workers unde the leadership of a workers’ admins istration and to elect their own gove rnment by secret ballot.- representative of the League of Ex-Servicemen, ernment and the employer. American Communist Party for Congress the last elections. and employed,” Crosbie was a first lieutenant American | de- manded “the enactment of unem- ployment and social insurance, as represented by H. R. 2827, with the full cost to be borne by the gov- Cros- | bie, who described himself as “an citizen of revolutionary ancestry,” was the candidate of the | He characterized the Wagner- Lewis bill as a “fake” which “gives no relief to the millions now un- “a fraud on all those who are employed and expect through it to gain economic secur- ity against disability and old age.” | day they also revealed that the de- termination of the longshoremen to stick with the teamsters and come out with them in case they strike, is creating serious differences among the bureaucrats to the point of clashes among themselves. Longshoremen were Monday, Feb. 4, when Joseph Ryan appeared at the Cunard docks, at the foot of West Fourteenth Street, to address the workers gathered for the “shape up” (line up for hiring out). that he was informed by Jean Sampson, business agent of Local 791, that the workers want to go out on strike, in support of the teamsters. He advised the workers in | of | ing of the local held last Wednes- | surprised | He told the longshoremen | eo ey him of ‘advocating a strike behind | © | his back’.” | The workers report part of the conversation as follows: “I have nothing against you per- sonally, But I don’t like your pro- gram,” Sampson shouted. | “T have been on the same corner | with you, now you turn against | me,” Ryan stated pathetically, “I take criticism. I was bomb- shelled by the Communists in San | Francisco and I took it on the chin. | But I was trying my best. Samp- | son called me up while I was there | to get instructions. I told him | under all circumstances to keep the men on the docks. That’s the ti reason the East coast men got @ | out.” declares the leaflet of the ten cent increase.” | metal finishers. “Imagine,” one of the longshoze-| ‘The Commiinist Party sent a lete “This is what socialism mean: which the working class, under thi | leadership of Lenin and the con. | tinuer of his work, Stalin, carried |into practice and made a reality ;for hundreds of millions of th¢ peasant population of our country, (Loud and Continuous applause). ‘Murray Men Strike on Job (Continued from Page 1) the 313th. Field Artillery of the 80th Division. He served twelve months in. front line battle in France. James Hannon, speaking for 20,-| 000 unemployed Pennsylvania an- thracite miners and 30,000 employed miners and other workers of Luzerne | | and Lackawanna counties, said that “these workers all want H. R. 2827) next day workers received notices not to be “fooled” by anyone until a “vote is taken.” Rank and File Act | The Rank and File Committee of the I. L. A. immediately took up the challenge and in a leaflet de- manded that a local meeting be called to take up the question. The! man told your correspondent, “he | said we got the ten cents on ac- count of staying on the job, when everyone on the docks knows we got it because the bosses feared a strike, and we could have gotten a hiring hall,.and a thirty-hour week if we went out.” Vote Taken 1 ter today to the Murray strike come mittee reporting the stoppage in the metal finishing department and recommending that. the committes |recomment the striké by the fol- | lowing measures: Five Steps Proposed ~ 1. To popularize the demands | adopted by the City Council of the | Not far from Hollywood, there is on the conviction that Tighe no Hearst knows what he wants. steps towards unification of the » over Ryan's signature calling for a! af; veen | Automobile Workers Union of a $35 , i 7 ‘i enacted into law.” The workers for aie | After more arguments, between | AU b eee Cen nea ppemnteree a pulidinge AN Aran auras Hearst knows, too, that the Com-| trade union movement, will have | whom he spoke, Hannon stated, are | Meeting of Local 791 for Wednesday | the two officials, a motion was | minimum wage for production. men, tow on his do-nothing policy. To Santa Monica estate. On this es. | ™Unist Party demands that he and) to undergo a radical reorganiza- | “the hardest hit of all the 67 coun-| evening. The obviously deliberate | passed that the “longshoremen will | $48 for skilled workers, 30-hour wee ore she rene Ae are | tate resides @ slim, bright ‘eyed, | §8 | fellow-robbers give up their) tion, ‘he unions that remain for |ties in the State of Pennsylvania.” Calling of the meeting on such short | not violate the agreement.” j Week, time and one-half over six oppose: is s : ght~ ; To Take Up Matter Lewis’ attention was directed to the fact that president Green of the A. F. of L. yesterday told Spang and other members of the A. A.’s organization committee that they would be notified at once of the Council's decision on an organiza- tion campaign in steel. He replied that “if” Green said that, he guessed he would let them know. Green made the statement after | assuring the organization commit- tee that the Council would take up the question of steel this week. The organization committee, elected at @ conference of A. A. lodges in Pittsburgh last Feb. 3, includes four district presidents. and as many heads of lodges. The Feb. 3 conference included representatives of 78 local lodges. It was for supporting this conference to plan an organization drive to build the A. A. that Tighe notified beautiful young blond woman. She is the mother of twin sons. The father of the two boys is William Randolph Hearst, 73-year old fas- cist publisher. This young mother is sweet, charming, engaging. She must have millions of young men admirers, Where is there a young man who jhas not heard of the fascinating Marion Davies, the famous screen actress? Drunken Parties Marion, too, lives in a grand palace with scores of palatial rooms. But even Hearst’s Marion knows that she cannot use all those rooms. She needs four at | the most. The Marion Davies hide-out cost $1,000,000 to build. Of course, Marion didn’t pay for it. The estate was just a little gift from William Randolph. Every now and then Hearst holds large drunken parties with his Marion at the Santa Monica estate. Actors, actresses and movie produc- | wealth and all that is in America today TO THOSE WHO BUILT AMERICA. . .TO THE WORKERS AND FARMERS. But Hearst does not want to give up one penny of his wealth. He likes to rule at San Simeon. | He likes his debauchery at Santa / Monica, He likes to hire and fire | | Workers from his dozens of concerns. | | _ So Hearst fights the Communist | | Party. And Hearst attacks the Soviet | Union, where the workers and peasants have dispossessed the e:: ploiters, Hearst attacks the Soviet Union | where the workers and farmers | have expropriated the czars, the | Rasputins and the whole de- bauched class of capitalists and | landlords of Old Russia. Hearst attacks the Soviet Union, because the U. 8, S. R. stands out as a beacon to the proletariat throughout the world. He attacks | the Soviet Union, because of the the present outside of the A.F.L, will have to consider how they can best unite their efforts in the direction of the fight for trade union unity. Clearly whatever organizational forms the remain- ing unions will adopt cannot be the same as the present T. U. U. L. which functioned as a cen- tralized organization of all the affiliated unions. Now the main | emphasis has to be placed on the | creation of an organ for the | agitation and work for trade union unity, However, the con- vention will finally decide on this as well as on all other questions, Not later than the third week in February the N. E. B. will submit to all the affiliated or- ganizations the draft resolution for the Convention. This resolu- tion shall be thoroughly discussed in all the divisions of the or- ganization and on the basis of this discussion delegates shall be eleeied. The N. E. B. has de- Vets Refused Jobs Brown Squire, Negro member of | Post 197 of the American Legion of Ex-Servicemen of Chicago, and a member of the National Veterans Rank and File Committee, informed the House sub-committee that vet- erans were refused employment at the Union stockyards. The stock- yards’ employers, he said, told the | | veterans: “You veterans are not able | to give us a good day’s work, es- pecially you overseas veterans, be- cause you're shell-shocked, wounded and half illiterate.” | Squire asked that “all war funds be turned into unemployment and | social insurance.” He informed the | | Committee that “the veterans whom | I represent have pledged themselves to carry on a relentiess fight un- itil we are able to force through, | with the cooperation of the rest of | the workers—farmers, intellectuals, | professionals and industrial workers again surprised by Ryan’s presence. To this, Sampson answered, “That’s what I'd like to know.” one of the workers said, reporting | the event. “Ryan took the floor and in about three quarters of an hour twenty years he has been saving the of the members, Sampson, who was to do, with Ryan calling the mest- the members suggested that if Ryan * notice, and as many of the men were working resulted in an atten- | dance of only 85, of the 3,500 mem- bers of the local. The workers were | At the outset someone wanted to know why the meeting was called. “That's where the fun started,” told us his life history. How for union against everybody who tried | to buck him. But to the suprise always his right-hand man, was continually interrupting him de- manding to know what that has/ ing over his head.” Workers Demand Strike This went on so long that one of nd Sampson have personal argu- | Daily Wozker. “No man would vote against the motion,” the longshoreman told the “There were so few around and the official machine watches the votes carefully, you know. It’s hard enough as it is to get a days’ work on the docks. But don’t worry the men will come out when the time comes.” Before the meeting opened, after accepting Tony Charelli’s dues, the officials barred him from the meet- ing because they said he is a Com- munist. » The following day a leaflet signed by Ryan, distributed on the docks declared, that “a motion was carried unanimously to the effect that the membership carry out the existing | agreement in its entirety. This means no stoppage of work for any reason.” Then in an effort to pacify | the men on the Humphrey injunc- tion Ryan stated: “The New York District Coun- | cil has worked out a method by | which we can continue to work | hours, no speed-up, recognition of | the union. 22. To issue an appeal for sup | port to all A. F. of L, locals of all | trades and all labor organizations for funds, pickets, ete. 3. To call a big central mass | meeting within a few days backed | by all organizations, 4. That action committees of both union and non-union workers be set up. in the other deparments to spread the strike. 5. That the tactic of calling the strike “a lockout” shall be rejected because it interferes with the strengthening ‘and spreading of the struggle. The letter ends by extending the warmest brotherly greetings to the Murray maintenance men. ~* AFL Men Back Labor Party : ace : sharp contrast between the U. S. | cided upon the following basis of | ‘the rticipating that thi 2 y wid c 'po} 14 o} «}] | ments — the; id a expe stormtional tice ae ity Ratt, emperace_ in nc| SE; ted the Wal Steet goer: | Fepreneiaion to the Gonven- | the paaage of the Londien Bil emnere aan It was then tnt | Heteneticet'? Seanmatee "2 | (Contin From Page 1) Now the international officers are filthy newspapers, just loves to in- | ™eR* tion: ‘ ie 2 Ryan gave the reason for calling| Teamsters, b: rf Z ++ launching a new blow at this rank! duige. ’ ee Where the workers and farmers | 1, All national unions are to | J. E. McDonald. of the Railroad |) meting over the heads of Local ede ape eek steps were taken by the convention, and file—they are withdrawing the international office’s support of these lodges’ demand to the Roose- velt government for elections to de- termine collective bargaining rep- resentatives. Leonard said that in the case of lodges such as DuQuesne | and others whose charters have been “revoked” (the lodges have not sur- rendered their charters), the A. A. would insist that their demands for Several years ago Hearst visited |the offices of the Metro-Goldwyn- | Mayer Pictures, Inc., and told the producers he wasn't satisfied with just a “star chamber” for Marion The producers didn’t see “their way clear to make a special place for Marion.” So Hearst met the prob- lem. He built a private building for Marion Davies on the Metro-Mayer | rule, there is no: unemployment, there is social and unemployment | insurance and the standard of | | living is rising constantly. Hearst | and his executives know this too. Thus when Hearst attacks the | Communist Party and the Soviet | Unien, he actually aims at the | | entire American working class, | Not only does Hearst want to rule, have one delegate for every thou- sand members or major fraction. 2. All local unions that are not part of a national organization shall have one delegate, no matter what the membership. If the local union has more than a | thousand members, it shall re- | ceive oné delegate for every thousand members or major frac- | Brotherhood’s Unity movement. tes- | tified that “more than 500 Railroad | Brotherhood Lodges have directly or | through their elected representa- | tives already endorsed H. R. 2827, including the Midwest and the | Western Conference of the Brother- hood of Locomotive engineers.” | concluding his statement. McDonald |declared that “The rank and file 191 officers: He charged that Samp- son was advocating a strike. To this, Sampson replied that he was only telling Ryan that the workers were coming to him from all sides to tell him that they will come out on strike to support the team- sters in the fight against the Hun- phrey injunction. “Then the fun started all over | mittee consisting of a checker, a Jongshoreman and a teamster to visit the trucking company when trouble exists and endeavor to settle the matter in their. office instead of adjusting it at the | piers.” “All the men on the docks are talking about the “meeting, and know that it was not the expres- One was a pledge to send delegates to the Michigan State Conference for Unemployment Instirance and Relief, called by the delegation which returned from the historia Washington Unemployment Insur- Bnce Congress in January. Another was fhe emphasis by the Detroit delegates that the painters assist in the organizing of a pow- sion of the thousands of longshore- men,” the longshoremen stated. of railroad labor demand a form tion, | | of unemployment, old age and so- elections be made independent of |!*S. The “dressing-room” for Marion | “j7 ‘ARST WANTS TO TIGHTEN| 3. All District or State organiza- again,” the longshoremen continued, | erful auto-workers union. @ieA. x. cost $75,000. ace Fl Gs | elal 4 i] place the! Y@M claimed he has definite in-| “Ryan's leafiet is taken as a scab|. The Conference took steps to fur- : ca Crarism and Debauchery | His RULE AND SHE RULE O Hen oe tne ate, On Ste 1 | ebonsibilty for l.ine cack’ eng| formation’ that Sampson was ad-|Jeaflet. He'll find out diferent 12° | ther the campaign. for the Tndeen ne oenets ol. AL “Buh Biinsen, Hearst loKis'tt| HEAT Is WEY HEARET ORLA IO District and State or- jevery worker a job or direct reliet, | YOCating @ strike. Sampson denied |teamsters strike breaks out. Every | Bill H. R. 2827, for social and un- Significantly, however, Leonard) over everyone like one of the Rus- g [ate this, and challenged Ryan to prove | longshoreman and teamster knows | €™Ployment insurance. refused to say how many lodges charters have been “revoked.” This indicates that the international of- ficers are not sure of their ground in their expulsion campaign. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 13.— President Mike Tighe and Secre- tary Leonard of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers left here for Washington this morning following receipt of a|t© compel union recognition, and |slan Czars, for whom the fascist publisher still mourns. | At Santa Monica, Hearst leads a life of debauchery. | | BOTH THESE ESTATES WERE | | Weinstock. “At a time when the union must strengthen itself in ! preparation for an impending strug- | gle to defeat company unionism and FOR A FASCIST DICTATORSHIP | IN AMERICA. | | HEARST AND HIS WALL ST. | ASSOCIATES MUST NOT BE AL-| LOWED TO SUCCEED. (To Be Continued) Pickets Protest ganizations of the national affi- Mated unions shall be entitled to one delegate. | National unions can them- selves decide upon the form of organization of the delegates they are entitled to, But it is recommended that they elect their delegates from all the im- portant centers of their organi- zations, as well as the various departments of their industry. exactly where it belongs, upon those |who own and operate industry and! who reap the profits.” Speaks for Auto Workers Richard Kroon, spokesman for the A. F. of L. Rank and File Commit- ! tee of Detroit, declared that the | Workers Bill “is a vital need for | every employed as well as unem- ployed worker in the auto industry.” He said that “in no industry in Fascist it, charging that Ryan was working the men up against him. Ryan came back at Sampson and accused that a committee going to a truck- ing company's office won’t mean a damn.” Laws Menace Labor, working-class organization. Social- ist, Communist, and non-party } workers are threatenend simultan- eously. The united front of defense for the Sacramento eighteen must be A resolution introduced by Local 37 of Detroit urging all’ affiliated locals “to at all times cooperate and work jointly with such unem- ployed and relief workers’ organiza tions as may exist in their. localities” was unanimously adopted. Other resolutions adopted were for dues exemption for the unem- ployed; for the 30-hour week, with no reduction in pay; for immediate | liquidation of the “split” in the | Building Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor; for cooperation with local unfons in Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Tllinois Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota in calling a Regional Conference of the country is unemployment insur- ance needed so badly as in the auto industry. Elmer Johnson, representing the Chicago Branch of the A. F. of L. | Trade Union Committee for Un- employment Insurance, and the sec- All delegates must be fully financed by the organizations which they represent, since there will be no assessment for the Convention. Each delegate must, however, be provided with a fee telephone order from William Green economic demands, Tighe is split- (Continued from Page 1) | . Africa Attack directing them to appear immedi- ting the union wide open. By play- ate | ately before the A. F. of L, Execu-|ing directly into the hands of the; Two successive refusals by Italian | tive Council. |steel trust, Tighe opens the doors consulate officials to meet a dele-| Tighe was hard pressed to explain for @ smashing open shop drive | gation protesting against interven- the reason for the order, which fol- | which will extend to the labor move- | tion in Abyssinia failed to dampen | built from coast to coast, The bosses and reactionary offi- cials of California must hear the the voice of working-class solidarity demanding the right of workers to organize, to strike, for better living laws, and against the passage of new, repressive legislation. The trial is one of the spearheads | of growing fascism in this country. a g | cai .| of $2 to be submitted together Its aim is not only to outlaw the lowed on the heels of Green's ment as a whole, lees srrarar kok? ae Sa ee La oe the credential, for the pur- |retary of Painters’ Local Union No. | c ‘aniat Party, rol every militant | COMditions, without interference the Brotherhood in Chicago in meeting with rank and file leaders Green's Subterfuge pa peel Arter dingo pose of defraying the cost of the / 637, said that these two organiza-| trade union activity. Behind it are | 10m the courts, vigilantes, or police. | lther Mareh or April. . The con- demanding an organization drive East Seventieth Street yesterday. and halting of expulsions. “William Green’s answer to the| For more than hour, the pickets, | “We are to discuss ways and steel workers that he cannot inter- | mostly Italian and Negro, peraced means of organization,” said Tighe. | i ion | their protests against the Italian “I think they want my advice and Hie ea tke eet ey Bad | fascist invasion of Abyssinian terri- General Secretary. I am ready to give them that.” csp phen: S excuse did) tory. They bore placards demand- But the purpose of the Tighe- not prevent him from circularizing ing “Hands off Abyssinia” and | oye Green conversation is to evolve ways | every local union in every Interna-| “Fight Against Fascist War Plots.” | Duce Mobilizes and means of safely ousting and| tional to expel Communists and ‘all | Other shouted and placarded slogans | | ference urged that every possible step be taken to convene an inters national convention of the brothers hood in September or October. Relief Rally At 30th Street tions “consider it (H. R. 2627) the only measure before Congress which provides unemployment benefits for all workers now unemployed. and social security benefits for all workers.” Bedacht Speaks ror 62,000 Max Bedacht, executive secretary |The fight of the Sacramento eight- een is your fight, for the rights of | labor. Sign the resolution printed else- where in this paper and send it to Mora officials named in it. Get your trade-union and mass organi- The statement in yesterday’ ‘ y's zation, your party unit or local,| Daily Worker that the Seventeenth your church, club, or fraternal or- Street local of the _ Unemployment Convention organization. Fraternally yours, WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, President Roosevelt, William Ran- dolph Hearst, whose west coast pa- pers scream for the lynching of the defendants, the United States Chamber of Commerce, and Goy- ernor Frank P, Merriam of Califor- nia, who keeps Tom Mooney in jail. I. L. D. Asks Support keeving out all militants who favor | | [ort eee ping | radicals’ He found no constitu-| Vee especially designed to arouse ° ° of the International Workers’ Or-| ‘The National Executive Commit- | ganization to dogthe same. Council has called a & fighting policy. indi-| tional reason to prevent him from | the interest and the solidarity of P h M S1C LAS éer, a: fraternal organization of | tee of the International Labor De-| Send funds to aid the defense of | for this dare in ae Tne 76-year-old reactionary in e,|ordering the locals in the Inter- | German workers living in Yorkville, | | 2,000 members, yesterday spoke to | fense calls for the fullest support the Sacramento eighteen, directly | cated this in a statement later which took a new angle regarding the expulsion of Fort Duquesne Lodge and qualified it thus: “The Fort: Duquesne Lodge is one of the thirteen or fourteen which | Tighe for splitting the ranks of the | have been expelled until it, itself, expels all members taking part in the Communist-fostered movement.” Tighe said the International of- ficers intend “to organize steel in a big , but it is going to be our way,” in other words with dues, not demands. Weinstock Urges Protests NEW YORK.—Declaring that the steel workers’ struggle to organize members in the A. F. of L. to take | Yesterday throughout the entire city the unorganized and to win union recognition has the wholehearted support of the rank and file in the American Federation of Labor, Louis Tighe and calling for the immediate the war moves hy the Fascist dic- Weinstock, national secretary of the American Federation of Labor Trade Union Committee for Unemploy- | ment Insurance and Relief, in a statement yesterday urged every local union and central body to adopt resolutions protesting the ex- pulsions by Mike Tighe of the best fighters in the steel workers’ ranks, and supporting the action of the 78 steel lodges in calling the historic | Feb. 3 conference. “Mike Tighe’s expulsion order strikes a serious blow both at the Steel workers’ union and at the la- bor movement as a whole,” said Save the coupons, Fifteen cou- pons and $1 will get you a copy of “Hunger and Revolt: Cartoons by Barek.” nationals to boycott the Unemploy- | ment Insurance Congress. Green | |and the Executive Council must | |take full responsibility with Mike | | steel workers and lending their aid | to the steel trust. | “The time has come for the unions in the A. F. of L. to unite |in a solid front and swing into ac- tion against an expulsion policy which, if not checked, will end in wrecking the trade union movement. ‘We must brand Tighe and company as union wreckers. We must unite | to save our unions, |, “We call on all rank and file | the initiative in introducing resolu- oe in their locals and central bodies, protesting the action of reinstatement of all expelled steel | Workers. Let the voice of the rank and file be heard against expulsions, against union wrecking, for trade |union democracy and for the sup- port of the steel workers’ struggle, Compel their reinstatement.” | Professionals Organize ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 13—About 350 workers on a professional work- lers’ protest in the city assessor's | office here have organized the Pro- | fessional Works Program Employes | Association to resist the announced cut in hours from forty to thirty a week. The hourly cut would mean a wage slasn from the prevailing $18.90 to $15.12 a week. where the demonstration took place. | Cowering behind a strong police cordon, officials for the Fascist Ita- lian consulate refused to see a dele- gation of nine which sought to pre- | sent a formal protest against the | Italian war plot which is being un- | folded in Africa for the enslavement |of the Abyssinian people. Call for) | further intensification of the fight | against Mussolini’s drive to enslave | the people of Abyssinia were issued | last night by the League of Struggle | for Negro Rights and the American | League Against War and Fascism. Anti-War Rally Sunday | Preparations were being speeded |for the anti-war rally Sunday, 2 |p. m, at New Star Casino, 107th Street and Park Avenue, to protest. tetor Mussolini for the enslavebent | of the people of Abyssinia, the only | remaining independent Negro coun- try in Africa. | Preliminary meetings were held in | Harlem, in Italian working. class neighborhoods and other parts of the city yesterday afternoon and evening. A series of such meetings will be held between now and Sun- | day. | Speakers at Sunday’s meeting | will include Tom De Fazio and | Joseph Magliacano of the Italian | Bureau of the Communist Party, James W. Ford of the Central Com- mittee, Communist Party, and Harry | Gannes of the Daily Worker staff. [Richard B, Moore, National Field | Organizer of the International Labor Defense, will act as chairman. (Continued from Page 1) the army are massing at recruit- ing centers. Today, 5,000 doctors were called for war service. Mussolini declares that the un- impeded war preparations are only “a precautionary measure,” and that the 250,000 soldiers conscripted | will be a “police force.” « Both British and Fren¢h im- perialism are bringing pressure on Abyssinia to accept all of the humiliating terms demanded by Mussolini. The British and French legations in Addis Ababa, Abyssinia, are doing everything they can to prevent the Abyssinian people from organizing their defensive forces to resist the threatened attacks of Mussolini. Abyssinia to Resist Emperor Haile Selassie, in an of- ficial statement issued by Negradus Yesus in Rome, declares that Abys- sinia will not accept Mussolini’s humiliating terms. These terms are designed to make a vassal state of Abyssinia. The Supreme War Council in Rome is constantly in session, and troops are leaving daily from Sicily and Tripoli to Eritrea and Italian Somaliland while the hypocritical negotiations go on. Emperor Selassie’s cable to Rome declared that the Abyssinian forces at no time made any assault on Italian colonial troops near Afdub, nor any other place, unemployment. insurance. the committee on the extensive need among fraternal organizations for He pointed out that when the govern- to the fight for the Sacramento eighteen from every worker and sympathizer, every trade-union and ment conducts war it doesn’t ask whether it can raise the money, ex- posing the anti-working class sig- nificance of the argument made by opponents of H. R. 2827, who ask where the morey for social insur- ance is to come from. Strike Solid At Glen Alden (Special to the Daily Worker) -BARRE, Pa., Feb. 13.— The claim of the Glen Alden Coal Company that scab-operated coal mines are approaching normal pro- duction proved empty strike-break- ing talk yesterday when a check by Daily Worker representatives of the entire field showed that only two collieries of the company are hoisting coal. Officials of the United Mine Workers are still going to houses of strikers advising them that they either return to work or take their tools out. United Mine Worker Board member, John Kmeis, and Organizer Schipka are busy in the Sweet Valley farming region trying to induce farmers. to scab. Meanwhile, reports are increasing of a possible strike at the Pittston Coal Company mines, where local grievances are still unsettled, to the Northern California I, L. D.,| | 1005 Market Street, San Francisco, | Home Relief Bureau at Thirteenth Street and Fourth Avenue should California. have read Thirtieth Street and Fourth Avenue. 2 Form United Front of All Labor to Win Demands (Continued from Page 1) day shows that the employers recognize that Roose- velt has not relaxed his anti-labor drive. The Times “states: “Such cooperation as the A. F. of L, effect with him (Roosevelt) is plainly to be on his terms, not on theirs.” Green, testifying before the Senate Appropria- tions’ Committee, while criticizing Roosevelt for the average maximum wage of $50 a month, asked only for the “prevailing” wage in the community. Green made it clear he did not mean the prevailing UNION wage scale, did not care how many hours worked on the project as long as the HOURLY rate | Thus Green, while fave up the posi- of labor for prevailing UNION wages, and for MINIMUM WEEKLY pay on all work relief. This was the “prevailing” wage. an Roosevelt's program, weak stand of Green weakens the labor against Roosevelt’s wage cut The New York Herald Tribune, in an editorial yesterday, admitted the retreat of virtual surrender on concrete issues before the pro- fascist measures of Roosevelt. The Tribune quotes Green's statement to Roosevelt: ‘ if self-government is not developed in industry, it ‘will be necessary to extend political sphere and that such political control will inevitably be of an arbitrary nature.” AN EDITORIAL The Tribune Nbadetn OF the gamble that in the provision of | it apparent that and stated he each individual their demands. of L., the locals whole stand of drive. attacks. Green and his ‘We believe that workers on a fi control into this employers, wi ground for these intensified attacks, build the A. F. of L. unions into mass unions, must prepare immediate strikes to defeat the anti-union } the repudiation of the no-strike policy of coopera) _ i comments, “IT WILL BE’ FAS- CISM,” finds Green's position “astonishing” and declares that Green ‘fs risking fascism on the a ‘disciplined’ industrial order the A. F, of L. will do the disciplining.” In his announcement of intention to launch an organizational drive in steel and coal, Green made the locals in both these A. F. of L. unions will be given little say regarding the cam- paign, which will be entirely in the hands of the Executive Council.” HN Sidhe The members of the A. F. of L., in the face of these dangers of fascism, in the face of the wage cutting, open shop drive of Roosevelt, should at once organize the united front of all labor to win This means that over the head of any surrender of any or all the leaders of the A. F. » and the unorganized workers must The open letter of the Communist Party to Green pointed the only road whereby the open shop drive can be defeated—the united front of all ighting, class struggle program tion with the N.R.A., with Roosevelt and with Green has been preparing the