The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1935, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1935 7 Page 3 QuotesLincoln, Is Arrested In Wisconsin Charged With Making Threats of Violence Against Government STURGEON BAY, Wis., Feb. 22.— “The enclosed clipping will show you how I’m being framed and will be} railroaded to jail for a long time unless I get help from the Interna- tional Labor Defense,” Charles E. Nelson, who lives on a wooded tract. near Sister Bay here wrote to the Daily Worker yesterday. “The charge aaginst me is ab- surd,” he said. “I quoted the lines from Abraham Lincoln which were printed in the Daily Worker.” The local newspaper clipping which Nelson enclosed in his letter states that he was arrested on the complaint of a committee of the Door County Unemployed Workers | Association that Nelson advised them to stage a demonstration on Nov. 24 of last year. The demon- stration was called in various cities by Socialist-led groups. He is now charged with “verbally and orally issuing threats of violence to over- throw the government.” The National Office of the Inter- national Labor Defense today wired its Milwaukee office to offer imme- diate aid to Nelson. 300 On Strike InToledo Plant (Special to the Daily Worker) TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb. 22—Three hundred workers in the Myers Regulatory plant here have declared a strike for a wage increase. Pick- ets defending themselves against scabs: slightly injured three strike- breekers. DETROIT, Feb. 22—The Mechan- ics’ Educational Society of America has voted to strike Monday against lay-offs on the night shift at the Mather Spring plant. The union will establish the largest picket line in the history of Detroit around the Mather Spring plant if the workers are not reinstated, it announced. A thousand workers have been laid off this week in Detroit auto plants. There have been four depart- mental strikes in the Auto Lite plants during the last month. SON Allentown, Pa. Gala affair for. the bevefit of the Daily Worker, Sat., Feb, 28 at 121 No. Third St, Prominent speakers. Entertainment. Philadelphia, Pa. Grend Concert and Bazaar, Aus- Unemployment Councils of Philadelphia, Friday and Saturdey March 1 and 2 at Olympia Broad and Bainbridge Sts. Glamorous entertainment, Puppet Play, Dancing, Music, Na- r, Sergei Radamsky and | ‘y. Proceeds for pub- Show, tional Speal Maria Radem: lication of newspaper for the unem- ployed. Adm. 35¢ for both evenings. Films and Photo League, 311 North 16th St., presents Laughter Through Tears; Cartcon ‘The Puzzle’; Re- porting the World; F. & P. League News Reel, Saturday, Feb. 23, con- tinuous showings beginning 6 p.m. Subs, 25c. | Fourth Anniversary Banquet of So- i ia Todey will be held on| 24 at F.S.U, Heedquar- e Eighth Street. Full | Italian dinner served. Dancing and | entertainment. Subs. 50c. Tea Pariy and Concert to help the) Anti-Pascists in prison, Sunday, Feb. 24, 8 p.m., at 2456 N. 30th St. Aus- Pices, Lenin Br. I.L.D. Commemoration meeting of Su 8u Cheng, militant working class leader, Sunday, Feb. 24, at 2 p.m. at 1003 Vine St. Auspices, Chinese Br. LL. D. Program Nature Friends, Chinese and white speakers, Refreshments. Adm. free Newark, N. 23, at 8:30 p.m., torium, High and Kinney “Gan Roozevelt Save American Capi- at Y.M.H. Sts.. on talism?” Adm, 40c, Auspices: Jack London Club, A. J. Isserman, chair- man, Chicago, Ill. Organizations Attention! The Inter- national Workers Order of Chiczgo is celebrating its 5th Anniversary at | the Ashlend Auditorium, Feb. 23, | 0 p.m. to 2 a.m. An excellent pro- | gre has been arra: |. Kindly keep this date open. } Fifth Annual Cabaret and Dance, a la Moscow, on Saturday, b. 23, a j Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd., starting 8 p.m, Workers Dance Group; Sonia Radina; Gipsy and new Russian songs; excellent or- | chestre; dancing. Adm. 25¢ in ad- | vance, 30¢ at door. Good time for | everybody. Ausp.: LL.D. Barnett Br. Detroit, Mich. | Michigan Youth Congress Dance on | EISLER GREETED IN NEW YORK Part of soprano section of a chorus of 1,000 hails Hanns Eis'er compeser, as he arrives to conduct OustedChicago ‘Nominees Join United Front 87 Ruled Off Ballot by Commission, Join to | Fight Edict CHICAGO, Feb. 22.—A united front fight against the fascist ac- tion of the Board of Election Com- missioners in ruling 87 candidates of various parties off the ballot was launched here at the Sherman Ho- tel at a meeting of aldermanic can- | didates whose names were stricken from the ballot. The meeting was ; addressed by Robert Minor, mem- ber of the Central Committee of the | Communist Party. A committee, composed of Demo- cratic, Republican, Socialist and the Communist-supported can d idates, drafted a protest resolution as the basis for a widespread publicity | campaign against the ruling. All candidates pi nt signed the reso- lution, which reads as follows: “We, the undersigned aldermanic candidates who were ruled off the ballot by the unjust and illegal methods employed by the Board of Election Commissioners of this city, acting as the municipal election board, protest this high-handed method of disfranchising the citi- zens of our community, for the rea- son that when the people of the community or city from participating in the election by nominating their respective’ candi- dates, then the entire structure of representative government has broken down and tyranny and op- pression are sitting in the seat of the government.” One of the results of the board’s ruling is that in fourteen wards the are precluded | rehearsals for his concerts here, Workers Are ote In Chicago Election By A. GUSS Election Campaign Manager, C.P. CHICAGO, Feb. 22—All work- ers are again warned not to vote in the city primaries which are to be held Feb. 26, They are not to declare their party affiliations when they go to the polls to vote for aldermen. But they are urged to go to the polls Tuesday, and to vote for the workers’ candidates in the aldermanic elections. In six wards the candidates are offi- cially on the ballot. They are: Fourth Ward, James Huffman; Tenth Ward, Alfred Stocker; Nineteenth Ward, David Young; Twenty-first Ward Martin Mis- kerik; Thirty-sixth Ward, Hans Pfeiffer; Fortieth Ward, Hyman Dolinky. In the other wards, the com- rades are urged to write in the names of the workers’ aldermanic candidates. Write out the name and address. Place a box before the name and mark an X in- side of it. Example: [X] Hjal- mar Jacobsen, 953 North Latrobe Avenue. In the meantime, a final drive for signatures for Red Sunday, Feb. 24! We must collect 10,000 signatures for Lockner, Newton, and Hammersmark Sunday. renee machine candidate has been left without opposition. The committee also visited all the newspapers, and further decided that the excluded candidates would continue their aldermanic campaign in spite of the board's ruling. Ef- forts will be made to promote a real write-in campaign in the vari- ous wards. The committee's cam- paign is backed by the American League Against War and Fascism. Advised On How to Cast Vot (center), noted German revolutionary ‘Eisler Concer In Boston On Sunday RevolutionaryComposer | To Lead Chorus and Give Talk BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 22,-Hanns Eisler, well-known revolutionary | German refugee composer, who re- cently arrived in this country to greet American workers on behalf of the German refugees, will give a concert in Boston this Sunday, 3 p.m., at the Repertory Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave., opposite Symphony | Hall. Professor H. W. L. Dana will act as master of ceremonies, Several | workers’ choruses, including the Workers’ Music League Chorus, the Russian-Ukrainian Chorus, the Laisve Chorus and the Freiheit Gesang Verein, have combined to sing a number of Eisler’s stirring revolutionary songs. Hanns Eisler himself will conduct the singing, and will speak on conditions in fas- cist Germany. He will also play his composition on the piano, accom- panied by a singer, The proceeds of the concert will go to aid the victims of German fascism, especially the child victims, | Whose parents have been either murdered or are held in Nazi prison | camps, Protest Nazi Brutality OSLO, ‘Norway, Feb. 22.—The ex- ecutive bodies of the largest workers’ organizations in Norway, represent- ing over 100,000 workers, have pro- tested to Germany against the ill- treatment of political prisoners, de- mahding their liberation and the dissolution of the concentration “ camps, Unemployed To Hold Parley Plans to Be Made to Spur Campaign for Workers Bill SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 22.— The State unemployment confer- ence which will be held here on March 10 will lay plans for further- ing the campaign for the enact- ment of the State Workers Unem- ployment, Old Age and Social In- surance Bill, No. 791, which was in- troduced into the State Legislature on J2n. 24 by Assemblyman J. B. Pelletier. Except for the inclusion of a clause which provides that the State bill shall be effective until such a time as the Workers’ Bill is enacted on a Federal scale. the State bill is in all respects similar in content to the National Workers’ Bill, H. R. 2827. In addition to the drive for the enactment of the Workers’ Bill, the State unemployment conference will lay plans in the fight for the im- mediate relief needs To spur the campaign for the en- actment of the State Workers’ Bill, the Unemployment Councils and | their affiliated organizations have initiated a campaign for 100,000 sig- | natures to petitions demanding its | | Passage, and to bring the measure upon the floor for vote. All groups and individuals have been called upon to flood the State Capitol and the State Committee on Labor with posteards and resolutions demand- ing its enactment. Party Expels McCuistion eCuisti By action of the Central Control Commission, W. C. McCuistion, un- | til recently a member of the Na- | tional Bureau of the Marine Work- ers’ Industrial Union, has been ex- pelled from the Communist Party for slandering it and for bringing discredit upon it while drunk, as j also for unprincipled, subjective op- position to Party leadership and de- | cisions. The decision also provides that McCuistion may apply for re- | ion after one year, if in the ime he corrects himself and | Proves in deeds that he has cor- | rected himself and has overcome his weakness for alcoholic drinks. Once before McCuistion was ex- pelled from the Party, at the end | of 1930, for drunken irresponsibility |in Houston, Texas. He was read- mitted in New York, around August, 1932, upon recognition of his errors and a promise to correct his weak- nesses. Yet, after several other instances of giving in to his weak- ness for drinking, he went so far as to become completely drunk at an open effair, arranged by sympa- thizers for the benefit of the Union, and to create a public disturbance, resisting all efforts to quiet him, and passing loud, derogatory re- marks against the Party. In explanation of these remarks, | he admitted being dissatisfied with various minor, local and personal matters in the Party, thereby show- ing an unprincipled and subjective opposition to Party leadership and decisions. Toward such irresponsible and subjective actions and views the Communist Party cannot be lenient, especially when they involve a member engaged in leading work “among the masses of the workers. By Minnesota Jobless 30,000 Expected to Join Mass Protest in St. Paul on March 11—Workers to Confer With Farmers on March 9 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 22.—Drought and hunger have aroused the workers and farmers of Minnesota into a giant united front mass movement behind the Workers Un- employment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill and for imme- diate emergency farm relief. Thirty thousand are expected to stage a march on St. Paul on¢————_—__—_— — March 11 at the same time that the conference against hunger closes its three-day session and presents de- mands to the State Legislature. Sixty-three organizations with a representation of 150 members on the united front local sponsoring committee for the Workers’ Bill here, have called for a mass meet- ing Wednesday night, March 6, at the Municipal Auditorium in prep- aration for a mass march to the State Capitol. The relief administration has been forced to close down all relief proj- ects on the day of the march and make provisions for the men to make up lost time later. | Big A. F. of L. Representation Simultaneously with the mass | march, the Minnesota United Front Workers and Farmers State Con- | gress for Unemployment Insurance will convene on March 9 for a three- day session in St. Paul. Repre- sented among the sixty-three or- ganizations in the united front com- mittee are thirty local unions of the A. F. of L., Minneapolis Central Labor Union, Hennepin County Farmer-Labor Association, Commu- nist Party and many other labor | groups. Plans are being made to | mobilize further support behind the State Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill, H.R. 190, which was introduced into the State legisla- ture by Farmer-Labor Representa- tive Bennett. All organizations participating the united front will be represented by speakers at the mass meeting at the Municipal Auditorium on March 6. Herbert Benjamin, executive secretary of the National Joint Ac- tion Committee for genuine Un- employment Insurance, Governor Floyd Olson, Representative Bennett and Alfred Tiala, district organizer of the Communist Party have agreed to speak. Fully ten thousand are expected to attend Relief Increase Won In addition to announcing that all F.E.R.A. projects will be closed on March 11, the day of the march to the State capitol, W. J. Mc- Gaughren, chairman of the Welfare Board, announced at the last meet- ing of the local united front com- mittee that relief increases will be made effective on March first. The relief increase and the F.E.R.A. holiday are the direct re- sult of the splendid solidarity be- tween the employed and unem- ployed. At previcus meetings of the committee, the representatives of the A. F. of L. voted complete sup- port to the Unemployment Council demand for a general 35 per cent increase in relief rates. So enthu- siastic are the various organiza- tions for the united front, that hardly a_ representative is ever missing from the regular meetings of the full committee. THe Story of F rank Connelly And What Happened to Him After He Began Reading‘Daily’ By Kalle *Rissanen “Well, I'm going to hang myself, | and that’s all there is to it,” Frank Connelly asserted, and gazed at the Daily Worker agent as if, seeking his approval. The conversation oc- curred in January, 1934, “There is no other way,” he re~ peated. “No bread. I can’t send thre children to school. My wife is al- most a nervous wreck. We lost.every | cent in Wall Street, three thousand. I can’t get any work. Well? What do you say?” “Bolsheviks never commit sui- cide.” The conversation really ended there At that time Frank Connelly’s un- derstanding of politics was, to say/ the least, quite limited. He had always swallowed every- thing offered by the capitalist pa- pers. He gobbled up articles, Babe Ruth stories and Roosevelt dema- | gogy indiscriminately. He cheered for beer, which was to bring back} prosperity. He helped to celebrate | | the President's birthday, giving his | last nickel to the cause. Every| morning he milked the capitalist press for a new opinion. But the longer he was unemployed, the more Tighe, On Last Legs, Sees No Future for Steel Workers By Moissaye J. Olgin We visited Mike Tighe, president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers at his home in an outlying district of Pittsburgh. He received us in the front parlor of his comfortable two- story house. He sat in his big arm chair, talking. The room was cozy, well heated, well lit, and presented 2, striking contrast to the houses of the steel workers in and around Pittsburgh. We started with the situation in the steel industry, particularly as far as employment is concerned. Tighe pointed ou that machines are displacing men on an_ increasing seale, In Indiana Harbor, he said, one strip mill of a modern type dis- placed 14 hand mills. Ninety per cent of the men became unem- ployed. Other cities are following suit. To assume that only 35 per |cent of all the steel workers are jtroduction of modern machinery seems to impress him very little, The Union We pass now to the question of the union. Here he has a long story to tell. The organization is 59 years \old. He has been a member of this organization for 58 years, The union got along well until the introduc- tion of the modern method of steel preduction in the 90's; the union be- gan to lose its foothold. “The steel plants did not want our organiza- tion. Since the Homestead strike of 1892 the organization has been de- |clining. When the United States | Steel Trust was organized the union |demanded standards of wages equal |to those received by union members in other plants. The strike of 1901 | |Was called. It was lost. Ever since ject we had to struggle to keep our people within the organization,” lsaid Tighe. Since 1909 the steel trust entirely refused to deal with \the union. The steel strike of 1919 By MOISSAYE J. OLGIN jtelligence does not move them fast enough, At a time when scores of thousands of steel workers are mak- ing tremendous efforts to organize the industry, while Mike Tighe is putting every obstacle in their way, at a time when they begin to see clearly and express openly the nec- essity for fighting the steel trust while, he, Mike Tighe, actually crawls before the bosses, he has the sad courage to lament the lack of intelligence among the the work- ers. We are becoming more insistent. We want to know what his outlook is as regards the labor movement generally, After all, the steel work- can the working class do to im- |prove its condition? Mike Tighe confesses that he has no solution. “We are entering an era in the history of labor,” he says, “where ers are not alone in the field. What | , admit that the Roosevelt policy has not materially increased our foreign markets.” From the foregoing it is obvious to us what Mike Tighe’s stand would be in relation to a fight against the steel trust. Still we put the ques- \tion squarely. What does he think about a strike of the steel workers to improve their conditions now? Opposes Strikes Tighe becomes very serious, al- most grave. His heavy body seems to grow still heavier. His ‘speech is deliberate, with something like a prophetic ring in his voice, He thinks we must make our own con- clusions from history, He thinks that a mere recital of the events of the past 40 years would suffice. | And he goes up to his room on the second floor and brings us an excerpt from the report he is pre- |paring for the convention of the |Amalgamated Association that is | good will. Why, if their plans were | |to be carried out, the organization would have no standing in the eyes of the public.” Tighe feels sorry | for these men, but he cannot help it—he cannot countenance a move- ment which is only bound to de- stroy the organization. | Do they not wish to build the or- ganization? we ask. No, he does not think so. They can be only destructive. How can they organize the union from below? What do they know about the methods of the Amalgamated Association What will he do? It it true that he is going to punish them with ex- ‘pulsion = | Becomes a Law | | Mike Tighe becomes hard. He is no more a union leader, he is the | law, | “T feel sorry for them but I shall | \have to mete out the punishment | |they deserve. Our organization has | | suspiciously he began to eye those papers. Then he ran across a Daily Work- er agent, who sold him a paper. He wavered between the two al- ternatives: either the capitalist pa- per or the Daily Worker. What happened to a character in one of Dickens’ novels also hap- pened to Frank Connelly: his head made good decisions but his feet drew him in another direction. The head began to get nourishment from the Daily Worker but the feet led to the old poisoned pools of Hearst “The force of century-old customs » ” as Lenin said. The Daily Worker agent stuck to him like glue. Frank Connelly was undergoing a severe struggle between the past and the present. The police finally broke the ties to the past. He was arrested in a relief bureau and was brought to the police sta- tion. The court room was jammed with workers. In his pocket was a Daily Worker, because of which the judge in- veighed against him in the spicy language he had learned in Tam- many Hall. The diatribe was con- cluded in a sleepy voice: “Thirty days and costs.” But the judge continued angrily, speaking out of one corner of his mouth: “Is it the Daily Worker that | California Relief March Planned Richberg Says N. R. A. Aims To Save Trusts Blames Class Struggle for Causing Crisis in America MIAMI, Fila, Feb, 22—In an ate dress to a business group here to night Donald R. Richberg, executive director of the National Emergency Council, declared that the New Deal had “undertaken to save the capi« talistic economy by immediate ree forms.” Richberg blamed the crisis upon the class struggle. It was not the gap between production and con< sumption that brought on the crisis, but the crisis came because “we te so much of our energtss and our wealth in senseless, ruthless fighting, to take things away from each other.” The bulk of his speech was de- voted to stressing the point that the N. R. A. had done away with those obstacles in the anti-srust laws that had hindered the growth of mo- nopolies. The object of the New Deal, ace cording to Richberg, was the builds ing of “a new competitive system.” The framework of this system is al« ready familiar to the working people of the country. This includes help for the monopolies and suppression of labor, huge profits for the capi- talists and lower living standards for the workers. Richberg did not touch on any of these points. He spent his time re- assuring the business men that the New Deal had always been meant for their interests. Detroit Rabbi Denies Tie-Up With Coughlin By A. B. Magil DETROIT, Feb. 21.—Rabbi Leo M. Pranklin, of Temple Beth El, one of the most prominent rabbis in Detroit, in an interview with your correspondent, categorically denied that he had ever indicated to Father Charles E. Coughlin, radio priest, that he would be ready to serve aa a leader of a new automobile work- ers’ union that Coughlin proposes launching, Speaking in his chapel on Jan, 29, the radio priest had urged auto workers not to join the A. F. of L, Asked who would lead the workers, he said, “I'll name three men, and if you're willing to have them as dictators, I'll guarantee to produce them.” Rabbi Franklin was one of the three. taught you to fight against the po- lice?” Frank Connelly exploded to the judge: “Yes! I am proud of the Daily Worker! It is my teacher. Your newspapers made me a fortune- hunter, a toady, a gambler, a man without guts!" The court room burst into such a sizzling that in the end the judge was forced to retract the sentence, Connelly walked out, head high, waving the Daily Worker like a ban- ner of victory. Our agent, who visited Connelly a year ago, had done his work per- sistently. He did not leave things go with only one visit. He had the patience to explain matters. He strengthened his connections with every visit. He won. Connelly was a proletarian. His mind had become entangled in Hearst’s spider web, It was only necessary to cut those bonds. He did it. He was spurred on by the decision of the Party, “to win over the deci- sive strata of the American working class.” CHICAGO, Tl. INTERNATIONAL CONCERT AND DANCE SUNDAY, FEB. 24th Peoples’ Auditorium 2457 West Chicago Ave. - Doors open 3:30 P.M. @ Big Musical and Dramatic Program in Afternoon @ DANCING in the Evening Admission 35c, with this ad 25¢. Auspices: C. P. District 8 00 Brings You : i v “4 ” scheduled for April. These excerpts, | rules, regulations, by-laws and pro- Tuesd: . Feb, 26, at the |€mployed, said Tighe, would be “a # nohody can predict the outcome. y | | ragstenes, Badieovan, with “Eadie | fair estimate.” hee Aurea sar iS ek And he waxes eloquent as he “ex- Bycryboay favited, “Ada: 400 in: a Sees No Future i plains.” The productivity of labor Mike Tighe heaves a sigh. His What is the outlook for the fu- rotund body slumps in the chair. ture? Tighe sees no bright future. |He folds his fleshy hands on his “There is no hope for a large ma- | protuberant stomach. movements in the steel industry | ment on citizens disregarding his | from the point of view of defeatism. | private feelings, because he has to | Tighe reads them for about 15 min- | carry out the law of his land, so I| vance, 50c at door. Proceeds to go toward carrying through the pro- gram of the Michigan Youth Con- gress and toward the falling of the | § several closely typewritten pages,|cedure. We must abide by them represent a survey of the strike |Even as a judge imposes punish- ; a opy Oo increases, Labor-saving machinery is driving men out of work. The crisis is as deep as ever. The masses Second American Youth Congress to be held in Detroit, June 28, 29, 30, Cleveland, Ohio Jobless to hold dance. The regular semi-monthiy dance of the Ward 22 Unemployment Council will. be held at 6615 Wade Park Ave., at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb, Tenth Ward Assembiy holds another | music social on Sunday, Feb. 24 at | & p.m., at 3875 Payne Avenue. Allentown, Pa; Gala Affair Benefit “Daily Worker” | Sat., Feb. 23rd 121 _N. 3rd St. Prominent speaker. Entertainment Dr. G. O. Vennesland | Dentist } 4816 N. Westerm Avenve t LOngbeach 0787 | Chicago, TM. 1 jority of the workers in the steel “You cannot fight a two billion industry.” Skilled workers are rapid- | dollar diversified corporation” he ly being cisplaced by machines. On | declares. : the other hand, industry is not! And Tighe launches into a de- working at full capacity. In fact, 'scription of how the strike of 1919 it is working at only a fraction of |had to be declared off. “What can | jits capacity. The coal mines could | you do,” he says, “men have to supply the yearly demand of the live.” He seems to apologize for the country in 3 to 4 months of work. collapse of the great still strike. But The steel plants could produce all then, “only those directly connected the steel necessary for a whole year with the movement can readily un- in perhaps three months. ‘derstand the problems that a man Do those employed in the mills holding a position ‘aust face.” get a living wage? | His voice become benign; his tone Mr, Tighe is happy _that_he can that of a preacher. Th. clear sense report something positive. His baby (of his oily phrases is that, after all, face becomes animated. Oh, yes, the workers themselves are to blame those who have work get a living for their present plight, If the work- wage. For instance the sheet rollers ‘ers were thoroughly organized they get $15 a day, the heaters, $10 a would be in a position to defend day, the catchers, $8 a day. This is, themselves. As it is, industry is or- he says, a pretty good wage. ganized while the workers are not, But how many days a week do /|Industry has one god—the dollar. they work? And what about the The poor worker does not have a semi-skilled and unskilled? Isn’t it |broad vision. He can see only one a fact, that $3.80 a day is con-|space ahead of him, Gompers, “my sidered a fairly good average wage |dear old friend and collaborator and that few workers are engaged more than two-three days a week? {ment cannot proceed further than Mr. Tighe does not deny that. But \the intelligence of the workers.” it is characteristic that his mind | Blames Workers is always on the best paid workers.’ And here we have it. Mike Tighe That even these cannot make a liv- lays the responsibility at the door ing and that their existence is be- of the workers. They are not in- coming precarious due to the in- 'telligent enough, he says, Their in- ‘Samuel Gompers,” said; “The move- | of the workers do not live but ex- ‘ist. Labor cannot help itself. All |the measures advocated by the A. F. ‘of L. won't help. The 30-hour week ‘is only a palliative. After a short while even this would become in- effective. Plainly, there are too many workers in the world. There (isn’t enough work for all of them. |Unless—, Here Mr Tighe finally re- veals what he considers the way | out, “Unless we have a consi¢erable decrease in the birth rate, I see no | other alternative.” | Let there be fewer workers—and then everything will be solved. In | Mr, Tighe’s opinion it is a race be- tween the increase of machine pro- duction and the decrease of the population. We wonder whether he does not think that a good war would be a blessing. A war may People and thus “solve the prob- jlem.” But we did not discuss the )war with Mr. Tighe. | Is there hope of increasing the American exports and thus securing more work for the American work- | ing class? Tighe does not believe in that. “T was a great believer in kill off a dozen or so millions of | jutes. And all he has to say is: Defeat, defeat, defeat. “You have now an idea of whether a strike is possible,” he says to us. ‘We make one step further. Sup- pose there were a number of simul- taneous strikes, like that of steel, coal and aluminum? Wouldn't that have greater chances of success? | No, Tighe does not think so. He is generally against sympathy | strikes. This is an impossibility. The workers cannot help themselves during a strike, how can they come to the rescue of others? And be- sides, the country is too large. The efforts would be too great, No, this cannot be done. “I do not care to fly,” says Mike |Tighe solemnly. “I want to keep my feet on the ground.” | We proceed to another question: What does he think about the in- | surgerst movement in the Amalga- /mated Association? Tighe’s face undergoes a remark- |able change. It becomes shrewd, | almost sly. A furtive smile is twist- ‘ing his mouth as he weighs his words before answering. Fears Insurgents “The insurgents,” he says, “are a lot of deluded fools. These men who ‘have never been in the organization |too shall have to punish the irre- | | Sponsibles no matter how sorry I am for thei.” | Poor Tighe did not foresee that he would meet with reverses at the | ‘hands of the Dxecutive Council of the A. F. of L. | Of a sudden Mr. Tighe becomes | all wrapped in mystery. He leans forward, he almost, whispers: “The hand of Moscow is in all _this movement. Those insurgents do not know what they are doing. They are simply paws in a sinister hand, At the April convention I saw clearly that the Communists | Were maneuvering all the proceed- | ings. The unsound legislation forced upon us at the convention by the |newly enlisted men was clearly dic- | |tated by the Communists.” | And with this evil, Tighe thinks, | we ought to deal Jvyiftly, energeti- | cally and mercilessly. | | Two or three days later we saw | Mike Tighe sitting in the district | Office of the A. A. and, reinforced | | by cops, “evict” Bill Spang, chair- man of the district, and thus at- peempt to break one of the strong- |est sections of the A. A. That he | did not succeed was not his fault. | Going home through the murky | streets of Pittsburgh we said to our- Wilson.” he says, “I am a great ad- | want to upset the business methods | selves that if the steel trust did not \mirer of Roosevelt. But I am free ‘from partisan feelings, Li of the organization with its great have its Mike Tighe it would have | And I must ,inv’t~wents both in money and in had to invent one. Hunger and Revolt: Cartoons by BURCK SPECIAL OFFER “HUNGER AND REVOLT: Cartoons by Barok” is now available only with the following subscription offers: 37.08 we 98.08 $2.38 Year's sub and copy of book 6 Months’ sub and copy of book 2 Months sab and copy of hook Year's Sat. sub and copy of hook, Add 20 cents to Cover Postage (THESE PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX) : Tear Out This Coupon DAILY WORKER. 50 East 13th Street New York, N. Y. Please enter my subscription or Please ret my subscription Daily Worker for . I am enclosing $.. +, Plus $1.20 for a copy of “HUNGER AND REVOLT: Cartoons by Burck.” Name .......- Street ....... eee eee ee