The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1935, Page 5

Coal Miners and Steel Workers Meet Together S MINERS PREPARING FOR APRIL { FICHT AGAINST. The Expulsion Drive of Tighe and Fagan Is Failing By Tom Keenan PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 22.—The mass meeting and joint committee meeting called by the Vesta local unions of the United Mine Work- ers in Daisytown called for next Sunday afternoon marks another step forward in the welding of a united front between coal miners and steel workers in the struggle against the bosses and bureaucrats, with representatives of the Jones end Laughlin steel workers sched- uled to bring the message of unity to their brothers in the captive mines of the same company. Such a united front as this is feared by the bosses and by their agents in the ranks of organized labor; When the first steps were DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1983 LEWIS PACT so. In places such as Aliquippa they have broken through the worst kind of company terror to build a strong A. A. lodge. In other places much organization work still needs to be done, and both the financial and physical support of the coal miners will greatly aid this work, The Vesta miners were able to close down the three J. and L. mines as tight as a drum when they decided to walk out. The U. M. W. is just as strong in the majority of the mines. The same condition must be brought about in the still mills through the building of strong, mil- itant, A, A. lodges. When this is accomplished the two unions will be able to wage a suc- cessful fight for their common de- mands: $1 an hour minimum; the six-hour day, five-day week; recog- nition of the union; abolition of the company unions; equal rights for Negro workers; enactment of the Workers Bill (H. R. 2827); aboli- Silk Workers’ Strikes Are | WEST COAST MARINE STRIKERS MADE GAI NS DESPITE THIS TERROR The most brutal terror of the city and state governments in was organized, the strikers stood solid and won substantial concessions | California, Washington and Oregon ports was launched against the West Coast marine strikers last year, But because the rank and file) building their unions and preparing struggle for their demands. in spite of this severe terror. The steel workers and miners are now unday STRONG UNITED FRONT CAN WIN THE DEMANDS OF HARD COAL MINERS Miners Can Defeat the Glen Alden Company Injunctions by Joint Committees of Members of the Two Unions | By George Morris j The Anthracite coal region presents a picture of misery and poverty for the workers such as hardly finds comparison in other industrial regions. | The few large coal companies maintain a dictatorship. They own the county governments, their police force, news papers, control the relief apparatu and every other institution. At least half the miners are un- opers invaded area. the entire strike the paraphernalia for an Social Insurance Drive \Miners to Send jemployed although the season is| ynprecedented reign of terror was now at its height. The agreement! ready and let loose against the an with the coal operators is hardly strikers. Two strikers were killed worth the paper it is on, as far as the workers are concerned. Very few actually get the contract scale. In face of this the miners are split between two unions as the officials of both have been waging and many have been jailed. Finally, to leave no doubt about the inten- tion of the company to smash the union, an order was incorporated in the injunction directing the new union officials to call off the strike ¢] Representative pee ‘ToSovietUnion | Will Attend May Day Celebration and tion of North-South wage differen- tials, ‘These demands must be won from | the same bosses. A strong united | front of coal and steel unions, | against the bureaucracy of the) union top leaders, on the basis of strike action to foree concessions— | is the weapon which will win them | made in a joint conference of | miners and steel workers at Pitts- burgh, Feb. 3, both Mike Tighe, pres- ident of the Amalgamated Associe- tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, and Pat Fagan, president of District Five of the, U, M. W., did their ut- most to prevent such action by a war for jurisdiction for 19 months, and are as determined to continue this splitting policy as ever. Scale Not Paid If you would talk to any of the district officials who were involved in drawing up the agreement under instantly The workers, on the other hand, displayed a splendid solidarity. De- spite the high pressure propaganda that the U. M. W. A. officials will supply “blue bird” (seab) crews, all collieries were tied up. Most United Mine Workers refused to follow the Won In Easton A.F.L. Members League Bill Contains Dangerous Provisions for Organized Labor—Group Supports H. R. 2827 Nationally Wage Demands and Un- ion Conditions Won in threatening to expel every union member who attended, Expulsions Fail Since the Feb. 3 conference Tighe has done his best to carry through these expulsions. He has tried to revoke the charters of 13 of the strongest A. A. lodges for sending delegates to the conference. In doing this, Tighe has pursued the same tactics Fagan employed when he “weeded out” all the best fighters of the Logans Ferry local last summer. He has announced his willingness to issue new charters wherever he is sure that the mili- tant rank and file leaders are ex- cluded. But his efforts have been | in vain, The lodges of the Amalgamated! SOUTH BEND, Ind. Feb. 22. Association are passing resolutions;Three thousand signatures were protesting and refusing to recognize | gathered in one day here demand- any revocations or expulsions, con-|ing the removal of Chief of Police tinuing to regard these brothers and| Lane for his threats against the lodges as members of the union with | strikers of the Oliver Farm Imple- full rights. The membership of the | ment Company. ‘: A. A, is standing solidly behind the| A movement on foot to form a rank and file and its campaign to | Khaki Shirt organization folded up, organize the steel industry. \for the time being anyway, when The steel workers are fighting athe Central Labor Union landed an winning battle against Tighe pre-| attack upon it, * b paratory to the battle against the| william Green and Dillon spoke quickly. 3,000 Demand Police Chief ‘Be Removed | Workers in South Bend Smash Move to Build Fascist Outfit steel employers. The coal miners |to several thousands last night. are conducting a similar struggle. |Both made very radical speeches The strike of Vesta miners last and, for once, did not attack the | | Communist Party openly. Green an expression of sentiment regard-japparently had his ear to the ing the no-strike Appalachian ground and sensed that his usual agreement which John L, Lewis ne- | slander of the Communists would gotiated last year. |not go so well in South Bend, The Vesta Strike | oe ee eee The mine management was try-| miss sas thous we wor, Labor College Quiz Started ing day in the mines, under a clause of the contract. The walkout was a Ppretos> against this oppression. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Feb. 22— A move for a Federal “investiga- tion” of Commonwealth College But as soon as the miners were out, immediately the slogan was | Mena, Ark., has ben started here by three State legislators, leaders in raised in many cases of continuing | similar move begun last Saturd: the strike for a new wage scale, againct the agreement, for the $6-six-hour day, the five-day week, |by a joint committee from the | Arkansas House and Senate. The attack on the labor college week against wearing goggles was and for an increase of wages as the cos’ of living goes up. The miners did right in going back to work, to consolidate their forces throughout the district for changing the crippling, no-strike is admittedly based on the support | © ‘agreement when it expires April 1. At that time the fight will be on & broad scale, and the chances of winning are many times greater. Unity of Miners and Steel Workers In the meantime, the united front between steel workers and coal min- ers can be greatly strengthened. The m revs can do much to help the steel workers in their organization a and in defeating the expul- Sion attempts of Tighe. Central Labor Unions in McKees- port and Kiski Valley have already passed resolutions protesting the ex- pulsion orders of Mike Tighe— U. M, W, locals should do the same thing immediately, sending these resolutions to Tighe and to William G.ecn and the A. F, of L. Execu- tive Council. Green and the A. F, of L. Coun- cil have pretended to sympathize with the rank and file of the A. A., and have promised an organiza- tion drive, with finances to port it, in the steel industry. But still Green makes no move to foree Tighe to retract his expul- sion orders, nor has any financial supnort been forthcoming for the rank and file’s organizing cam- paign. ~ «1p of this, the sub-committee of A. F. of L. leaders who were ap- Pointed to consider steel in the last meeting of the A. F. of L, Council, is hcaded by John L. Lewis, the man who is responsible for the Appala- chian agreement, and whom Sam Gompers once referred to as “the president of the U. S, Steel Corpo- ration.” These things all emphasize the need and importance of the united front between miners and steel workers. Must Build Unions The same conditions which the mincrs iace in rising costs of living, spreading unemployment, company unions, the failure of labor boards to bring any improvements in these conditions, are repeated in the case of the steel workers. The same bosses, continually driving down liy- ing standards, speeding up the work, are responsible for these conditions in the mills and mines. The miners already have a strong organization which they can use to force the bosses to improve their conditions. Although the Amalga- mated is not as strong, the steel _workers are determined to make it given by President Lucien Koch and other faculty members and students to the struggles of Arkan- \sas Negro and white tenant farm- ‘ers and sharecroppers. Five legislators concluded a secret investigation of the college jlast night. They indicated they ; Would submit “evidence” to the ederal grand jury. The latest issue of the Common- wealth College Fortnightly calls | upon all friends of the college, (upon all labor and liberal groups to flood the Speaker of the House and the Presiden. of the Senate, Little Short Walk-Outs EASTON, Pa., Feb. 22—Two strike victories in two days is the achieve- | ment of the silk workers here under |the leadership of Branch 8 of the | American Federation of Silk Work- ers (United Textile Workers). The first strike took place in the Belvidere Silk Company and the Phillipsburg Silk Company, two mills owned by McGinley. Although wage cuts were announced for all departments, only the weavers took the necessary steps to stop it. When their committee was told by Mc- Ginley that he couldn't do anything, both mills were closed down tight. The workers were informed that the five per cent cut would be with- drawn if they would return for the next night shift. To make sure nothing would be slipped over on them by McGinley, the workers on the day and the night shift all went together to the mill and waited out- side until their committee came out with a signed agreement. Then the | night shift went to work, The second strike occurred at the Tilton Mill when a girl was fired for refusing to go to work on five looms instead of four. By evening of the same day all demands were won, including: Reinstatement of the fired worker; yards of the | weavers to be posted every day by |the management; maximum work load of four looms in the mill; workers permitted to take time off by giving the management enough time to get extra workers; no dis- |crimination because of union ac- | tivity, | | JAMES EAGAN Well known among steel work- ers as leader of great Ambridge | Rock, with protests. YOUNSTOWN, Ohio, Feb. 22.— The Youngstown Section Plenum of the Communist Party, held here on Feb. 17, took note of the first im- portant steps in breaking through the past isolation of the Party, sharply examined serious defects in the work and, determining that the main task of the Party in this sec- tion was to heln the steel work- |ers carry through their drive to build the Amalgamated Association (A. F. of L.) and to root the Party units in the mills and the Party fractions in the A. A. Lodges, adopted a resolution estimating the past work and containing ten con- trol tasks to be carried through by |May First. It was by far the best Plenum ever held in Youngstown, with over fifty comrades participating, ‘and almost every one of them tak- ing the floor in the discussion. The discussion showed the political level of the section, Support Steel Workers John Steuben, Section Organizer, set the keynote for the whole Plenum in his opening report: “The task of our Party is very clear, namely to mobilize all the forces and resources at our com- mand in support of the steel work- ers’ drive to build the Amalga- mated Association as a strong weapon in their hands. We must prove by our practical deeds that steel strike last year, “If we succeed in establishing ourselves as the best organizers and builders of the Amalgamated Asso- ciation then our Party will play a decisive role in the rapidly ap- Proaching struggles of the steel workers. Can we do it? The work done by us in the past several months shows that we can do it, and therefore it must be done.” Must Build Party And Steuben, in his report, and John Williamson, Ohio, District Or- ganizer in his speech, emphasized that no achievements, no future mass work will be permanent, will be like “building on sand, unless we build the foundations of the Party—namely the Party and YOL units, especially the shop units, the Party fractions and the circulation of the Central Organ of our Party, the Daily Worker.” The resolution unanimously adopted by the Plenum raised hich the slogan of Stalin to: “Constantly cid for the fulfillment of deci- sions.” This slogan was painted on a huge sign in the front part of the hall where the Plenum was held, and the resolution declared; “The Section Committee from today on declares war against all tendencies to work in spasms, a: ‘moods’ and ‘personal inclinations’ we Communists are able le and the best union creaniners. and not to allow daily routine or other problems to sidetrack us from ITH many supporters of unemployment insur- ance to decide is, “Which unem- ployment insurance bill is best for Ohio workers?” The rank and file of the Ohio Federation of Labor have revolted in large sections against the federal ‘Wagner-Lewis bill supported by the Roosevelt administration. In the important industrial centers of Youngstown. Canton and Cleveland tor the Workers Unemployment, Old Age, and Social Insurance Bill H.R. 2827. 93 Unions Back H.R. 2827 cialdom, in Cleveland, the rank and file organized a “center for unem- ployment insurance, “The A. F. of L. Members League for Unemploy- ment Insurance.” This League, with ninety-three affiliated local unions, has endorsed the Federal Workers’ Bill. sent an observer to the National Congress in Washington, D. C. So great was the support for the Work- ers’ Bill that the members de- manded that the officials model a State bill after the Workers’ Bill and introduce it into the State leg- islature. This was proposed because the rank and file did not know that the Workers’ Bill would be intro- duced jn Ohio. Re®tionary forces connected with the League, however, did not follow the wishes of the rank and file to model the state bill after the Work- ers’ Bill. Instead they inserted some “practical features” which, ac- cording to them, would “help its passage by the Legislature.” What are some of these features whicn will help pass their Bill? Are they features which will benefit the trade unionists have gone on record | Against the wishes of the offi-| They supported and | By Frank Rogers Seeretary, Cleveland Committee for Workers’ Bill unemployment schemes now being dumped into the State Legislature | by clever politicians, who sense the growing demand for so- cial legislation by workers, and by reactionary forces who want to block genuine legislation for the unemployed masses, workers’ fatherland which the the foremost question for all honest ¢————-HH—___——_— insurance measures and employers will refuse all unemploy. ment insurance. Following this agrument to its logical conclusion | means that the worst possible bill introduced for the workers has the| best possible chance to pass the state legislature. The administration of the funds | is left to a “commission of three} members chosen by the electors .. . upon a non-partisan ballot . . . to serve for six years.” This means/ machine political control by capital- ist politicians who can easily muster the highest vote to defeat any honest worker in the so-called non-j| partisan elections. Against this the Workers’ Bill calls for the adminis- tration of the funds by “commis- sions directly elected by members of workers’ and farmers’ organiza- tions.” | The other bad feature is the clause which calls for the accept-| ance of the rulings of the Labor Ar- | bitration Board during strikes as a condition to receiving unemploy- ment insurance, Push State Workers’ Bill These anti-labor features of the} AFL. Members League Bill are so hidden in the measure that many pass it over and think that this bill is the “Lundeen Bill for Ohio.” No worker should believe this. The Workers’ Bill is now in the legisla- tive bureau and will be shortly in- troduced into the State legislature. It will be known as the Workers’ Bill and contain all the same prin- ciple features as the federal Work- ers’ Bill. For this reason we must warn all workers against other bills which may be introduced in the) name of “Workers’ Bill” The rank and file of the Amer- workers? Calls for Tax on Wages This Bill calls for the payment of jean Federation of Labor in Ohio should demand that the anti-labor features of the A. F. of L. Members the insurance by “the employers| League Bill be striken out before it paying not less than three per cent! is introduced into the State legis- of their total payroll” and “the em- | lature. Every effort should also be Ploye shall pay not more than one! made to unite all the supporters for ber cent of his wages.” Any worker | genuine unemployment insurance in can see in this a three per cent Ohio for one Bill, The more bills wage-cut by the employer and an | introduced, the more confusion and additional one per cent contribution | the more splitting of the ranks of from his meager wages to pay for ‘labor who support unemployemnt in- |emoiovment insurance—for un- | surance. And if the Workers Unem- employment for which he is not ployment, Old Age, and Social In-) responsible. The ridiculous argu- surance Bill H.R. 2827 is the best ment for this is given that the | federal bill, then it is the best un- worker should pay something or the! employment insurance bill for Ohio By JOE DALLET the main tasks of the Party..."|lar functioning of the unit and the leadership itself, where such tendencies strongly exist. The whole situation demands the sharpest struggle against looseness and un- systematic methods of work... For Negro Rights | The Plenum hit sharply against | white chauvinism which constantly | raises its ugly head in the section | and also hit against petty-bour- geois nationalism which a concrete | letin. Eight Main Tasks | The Central tasks of the coming | ments already started and the de-! velopment of a broad united front) ‘workers’ struggles; (4) into the hands of the white chau- vinists and so hinder the fight against them. The determination of the Plenum to make a “revolutionary change” in the circulation of the Daily Worker was dramatized by Steuben asuming personal responsibility for zational steps in those towns where | (5) Work | there is a basis for it; | among the Negro masses and (6) Spreading the Daily Worker. The trol tasks as a guarantee that the} First: J Report Back PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 22.—The rank and file of the United Mine Workers in Allegheny Valley are planning to send a miner-delegate to the Soviet Union for the May Day celebration and tour of the Friends of the Soviet Union spon- ors, An enthusiastic meeting, attended by miners from all over the Alle- gheny Valley section, was held in Polish Hall, New Kensington, on Tuesday night, at which the deci- sion was made and a committee set up for carrying on the campaign for a delegate. The assembled workers heard Herbert Goldfrank, national secre- tary of the F. 8. U., and Bob Whis- ner, recently returned from the U. S. S. R., where he was sent by his fellow workers in the Westinghouse. speak on Soviet Russia and the workers’ delegations. Harvey O'Con- nor spoke on Hearst and his anti- Red drive. Included on the committee are of- ficials of the U. M. W. locals and of the nearby Central Labor Unions: Scotty O'Hara, president of Renton local and vice-president of the New Kensington ©. L. U.; Joe Fernari, New Kensington C. L. U.; Charlie Nolker, of Curtisville local, U. M. |W.; Buck Hazer, George Melkovich, Tony Gabrisch, Bob Condra, and others active in the various unions DEMAND HIS RELEASE Phil Frankfeld, leader of unem- ployed steel workers and miners, held in Blawnox Penitentiary, because of his fight for re- lef for the unemployed. Frank- feld is leader of Pittsburgh Dis- triet Unemployment Councils, | Building of A. F. of L. Steel Union Is Main Task of Youngstown Party (4) Establish functioning frac- “This we must start first with | regular issuance of the shop bul-|tions in the A. A. and other A. F. | Which the miners are working, he | would tell you; a miner gets $6.75 |for an eight hour day; a laborer gets $5.85. But do the miners get these? Not if you talk to the miners. A typical story is something like this: A miner gets $2.54 for a five ton car of coal. Out of this amount he takes the responsibility to pay his laborer. In a fair day's work, {they will load four cars. From the $10.16 the miner must pay off to the laborer, stands the expenses for the powder, repair, cost of tools and other such needs. There is| very little left for the $6.75 which 1s | provided in the agreement. | Three Dollar Wages The real wages are therefore closer to the three dollars a day. | If the miner gets a bad spot to work | in, it’s often a gamble if he will get anything after all expenses are paid. The bad conditions for the an-| thracite miners are not a new devel- | opment, They have existed for years. The officials of the United Mine Workers, headed by John L. Lewis and John Boylan worked hand in hand with the mine opera- tors, and did everything in their power to prevent the dissatisfied miners from using their union as a weapon. A tremendous force was | collecting in the ranks of the min- lers, especially with the increase of | hunger during the crisis. This force threatened to sweep the reactionary | Boylan machine from power. But soon it was diverted by an- other set of officials, who differed only in that they mouthed a phrase- ology that seemed to express the longing for a fighting, rank and file controlled union. They used this sentiment for creating another union, the Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania. But although the | majority of the workers went into the new union, its officials also played with the politicians of the capitalist parties, and spent their energies, and the union's funds, to get the “benefits” of the N. R. A. Then the officials of the United | Mine Workers came forward for a long awaited opportunity—to deal a death blow to the new union, They have the contract although the new union had most members. For months there were jurisdictional struggles. The climax was reached when the present strike at the Glen Alden Coal Company, largest coal producer in the world, broke out. | No sooner had the strike taken \effect than it became clearly re- vealed that the company and the U. M. W. A. officials proceeded ac- cording to a prearranged plan. An injunction outlawing the strike was |ready and needed only the signa- ture of Judge Valentine. State | character. Regular leaflets shall be issued at the mill gates and neigh- any of | of L. unions as well as in the other borhoods. Special emphasis must be mass organizations. (5) The Party units in Warren, |period are: (1) Work in the steel | Ellwood City and Newcastle must clude mass sale of our Party's lit- -” |industry; (2) Work among the un-/| assume the responsibility for form-| erature. We greet the publication by jemployed; (3) Extension and consol- | ing Y.C.L. units, In Youngstown we the ©.C. of large editions of im- idation of the united front move-| must help the Y.C.L, to form a Y.) portant pamphlets at popular prices C.L unit in Republic. |laid upon mass agitation around | the steel mills. This must also in- and set ourselves the following (6) The Party fraction in fhe Un- | quotas: ‘movement in support of the steel) employment Council must help to ' Developing carry through the decision of the, 1 | mass agitation for a Labor Party, to U. C. to have a dues-paying mem- fae ane erawas ba. Diey directly | s sollowed later by concrete organi- | bership in Youngstown of 500 by May First. (1) To develop a campaign against the sales tax, (8) The Party members in the mass organizations must WHY COMMUNISM—500 copies by May Ist. COMMUNIST MANIFESTO—350 | copies by May Ist. |_ STALIN-WELLS INTERVIEW—| 300 copies by May Ist. | | We also set ourselves the follow- | ing quotas for regular circulation by Plenum adopted the following con-|1.W.O., the LL.D. and the other, May Ist: form } central tasks be carried out by May | definite, regularly-functioning frac- THE COMMUNIST—75 copies a month. | COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL strikebreaking orders of their offi- cials. The scabherders took to the farming regions, but met with little success there. In one region, Nes- copec, after hearing an appeal by one of the strikers, a meeting of several hundred farmers decided not to be strikebreakers. Recently many locals sent dele- gates to the Washington Unem- ployment Insurance Congress. Many local officials have become disillu- sioned with the policy of dickering with the N. R. A. and courts. The Unemployed Councils, by their fine work in winning the support of the Jobless to the strikers, have won a great influence in the situation. It is becoming apparent that this is no longer a mere jurisdic- tional dispute but a fight for the most elementary rights of the work- ers. If the Glen Alden strikers are defeated and their union is smashed the backbone of unionism in the anthracite will be broken, Rank and Fite Program That is why the central point in the Rank and File program is com- plete unity of all workers on the basis of a fighting program. This is the key to solving the situation in the Anthracite in the interest of the workers. There must be unity of the members of both unions; be- tween the employed and unem- ployed and between the miners and other sections of the toiling popu- lation such as the farmers in the region. But it should not be expected that the officials of the unions will put it into effect. The officials of the U. M. W. of A. hold the idea that only conquest of the new union will solve the situation. They think that the company is helping them to do that. Some officials of the new union do not see the need for united action with the members of the U. M. W. of A. They view all the members of the U. M. W. of A. as scabs, and have instilled such ideas into many miners. Real unity will be achieved only if the rank and file acts over the heads of the officials. The same active spirit that prevails in the striking locals must be brought to the U. M .W. A. locals in the entire Anthracite. It can be expressed in the form of the members of both unions forming committees at those mines where the workers are mem- bers of both. These should see that there is no scabbing. In the mines which are not affected by a strike these committees could take action to see that the present agreement is enforced. The unity movement can in that manner be spread from one local to another. The mem- bership can be aroused to a general sympathy movement for the strikers to defeat the Glen Alden Company. Demands The workers ought to take a hint from the action of the miners of Southern Illinois at their recent soale convention. They decided for a strike in April for the six-hour day, five-day week, at a dollar an hour. Such a program in the Anthracite would serve to absorb much of the vast army of unem- ployed. As one miner suggested in the Anthracite the scale might be $1 for laborers and $1.25 for miners. Furthermore, the workers are tired of being humbugged by the two boss parties. Their two sets of officials, which are tied to two op- posing capitalist parties are also re- sponsible for tying the workers to the boss political machines. The present developments show the ery- ing need for a Labor Party—a party whieh will have the support of lo- cals, workers’ fraternal, unemployed and similar organisations, united to smash the fascist dictatorship of the coal operators and to serve the needs of the masses. But all these things, which every miner will agree are needed, can the drive for 500 daily circulation of the Daily Worker. It was de- cided to form a “Steuben Daily rades, with brigades in every lo- cality, each headed by a Brigader whose name the brigade will bear. Strictest personal responsibility was further emphasized with nam- ing Joe Dallet as personally respon- ble for organizing Party recruit- ment and systematizing dues pay- ments to achieve 350 dues-paying too | members (as against a present mem- bership of 230) bv Mav First, the | doubling of the membership of the Republic Shop Unit and the regu- Worker Shock Troop” of sixty com- | | (1) To have a dues-paying mem- of the Section Buro, must become bership of 350. The recruits should | the driving force for the building of | be especially employed steel work-|these organizations and the de. ers, members of A. F. of L. unions | velopment of the political conscious- and Negro workers. Double the ness of their membership. At the membership of the Republic Shop| same time the fractions shall not Unit in Youngstown and stabilize | replace the leadership of the o1 and build the Republic Unit in! ganizations, but, on the contra Warren. | work in such a way as to develop (2) Fulfillment of the Daily new and broader cadres for leading Worker sub-drive quota and de- Work. velop a daily circulation of 500) Propaganda Work copies. | (9) We must decisively improve (3) Build the Republic nucleus on our mass agitation and begin to a well-functioning basis and issue react to all important political prob- the shop paper, lems of a local, state and national ‘ a aarnannnnnnnnnnETnnnEnI IIIT EE tions. These fractions, with the help | only be made a reality if the active workers in locals of both unions take things in their own hands and say, “WE WILL HAVE UNITY AND | WE WON'T LET ANYTHING STOP US FROM HAVING IT.” | MAGAZINE—25 copies each issue. (10) As a result of all our work ; between now and May First we should organize mass demonstra- tions on May First. These are to be organized on a broad united front, basis. | cuitnkte’ Rea een Closing, as it had started, with | China’s Red Army Advances | the idea of plunging every Party! SHANGHAI, Feb. 22.—Several di- | member, every unit and every frac- visions of the Chinese Red Army— | tion into active daily work to help not the Red Army now entering organize and prepare the coming Szechuan but one operating further steel strike, the Plenum adjourned north—have entered Shensi Prov- | and the delegates filed out past the ince frem the Southwest. Land- slogan of Stalin, “Strugcle for the lords, criminals and missionaries fulfillment of every decision.” are fleeing the area, 1 ¥ i