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Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW. YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1935 Fisher Body Ballot Crushing Defeat for Company Union ONLY 487 OUT OF 7,651 WORKERS CAST VOTES. FOR BOSS’ CANDIDATES 2,500 Follow Appeal of A. F. of L. Union and Communist Party Unit to Boycott Election— Plea to Organize for Strike Is Hailed Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 24.—A crushing defeat was suffered by the company union in the Fisher Body election| Friday when only 487 out of 7,651 eligible, voted for the! company union. Acting upon the caii of the A. F. of L. Workers Union and the Communist¢ Party’s Fisher Body unit to boy the elections, 2,500 workers refus to vote despite the coercion by fore- page men, an eighteen-minute stc of work and pleadings by t Labor Board through in many departments. In the entire pres: employing 500, only voted. In the maintenance and many other departments the foremen ap- proached all workers individually ordering them to vote, Intimidated, many went to the booth, but dropped blank ballots into the box. A total of 3,869 unaffiliated bal- lots were cast and 124 for the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. A special issue of Spark Plug, the shop paper, explaining the treacher- ous role of the Auto Board and urg- ing boycott of the elections, a strong organization drive and strike prepa- ration, was exceedingly well received and passed from hand to hand in-, side the shop. The workers eagerly grabbed it, commenting favorably about the Communist Party’s pro- posal and offering full support. Seeing this strong support of the union the management felt com- pelled to receive a negotiating com- mittee Saturday forenoon who came phones department, ree or four for an answer on their demands | presented ten days ago. Noegotia- tions were adjourned till Tuesday by request of Lincoln Scafe, general manager of the Fisher Body Com- pany, who told the committee the demands of the union were so com- plex and far reaching in effect that the company needed more time to study them. The workers were elated over the great showing of strength by the union and the sentiment for strike in case their demands are refused is very strong. Store Strike May Spread (Continued from Page 1) Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. The walkout of the warehouse employees will halt the distribution of supplies to the stores which the company is trying to operate with company executives and scabs, and those stores not yet reached by the union strike call. Five hundred employees walked out on Saturday, according to Mar- tin C. Kyne, president of Local 915 of the Grocery Chain Store Exec- utives and Employees Association. In Brooklyn, 55 of the 68 stores were closed down by the strikers. In Queens they shu; 30 out of 41. The company immediately patched new crews to replace those that walked out. When union men explained the situation to these new crews, a majority of them joined the strikers. s, The company has been preparing an attempt to smash the strike with terror. According to Kyne, company guards threatened to shoot pickets at 49th Street and Ninth Avenue, and 202 Audubon Avenue. The following telegram of protest was sent by Kyne to Mayor La Quardia and Police Commissioner Valentine: a “I wish to make formal protest and request for protection for our pickets who are on strike against dis- | United Auto| cottsboro DecisionSoon K (Continued from Page 1) | sympathizers, making known their demand for the lives and freedom of nine innocent Negro boys—that forced the court to hear the ap- peals of Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris. All the maneuvers of the courts, the state, and the treacherous white and Negro re- formists—the “American Scottsboro Committee,” “The Nation,” the “Amsterdam .News”—could not stop nor drown that noise of protest. Nobody knows precisely what is going through the heads of the jus- tices of the United States Supreme Court as they make up their minds on the verdict in the Scottsboro case. One thing is certain— the ‘volume and intensity of the mass | protest, the shout of demand, will | deteWnine the decision of the court The lynch-press knows when to use silence against the lynched. Three Grounds Three grounds, proved to the hilt, why the court should, according to its own laws, reverse the Scotts- | boro verdicts, were presented in the | briefs prepared by the LL.D. law- | yers, and in the argument before the nine black-robed servants of | capitalism: | 1. The systematic exclusion of | Negroes from the grand jury that | indicted the boys. 2. The systematic exclusion of | Negroes from the trial jury that | convicted them. 3. The forgery of the names of Negroes on the Jackson county jury rolls, for the purpose of de- frauding the boys of the first ground of appeal. No argument was advanced by the State of Alabama, represented by | its Lieutenant-Governor, Thomas E. Knight, who has earned a Nero's fame as one of the most determined | would-be murderers in history, and | | 85 an arch-lyncher, against these | grounds. They are unassailable un- | | der bourgeois law. | So is the Constitution under which they are raised—in theory—but for | |Teasons of political expediency, to! pecially in a new Auto Labor Board save the program of the Roosevelt administration, by bringing about an inflation that will still further rob the toiling masses—the same | United States Supreme Court set aside all constitutional guarantees to uphold the Gold Clause. The court—according to the pres- sure brought upon it—can make one of many decisions: How Court May Act Tt can uphold the convictions of both boys. This is what it fought |to lay the basis for at the hearing. It can attempt to save its face by reversing in one case and uphold- | ing in the other. It can be forced to reverse on all three counts— which would mean | that the indictments against all jmine boys are illegal, because this would be the meaning of a decision on the first count. It can slide out a little from the |Momentous implications of such a decision by picking ground No, 2. It can make another technical lecision, as it did in 1982, and re- | verse on the third ground. jing a strike. We haven’t made any |such plans. | Green received the biggest ap- Green Holds up| Action in Auto) (Continued from Page 1) The only “notification from the | organized automobile workers” | were the votes taken by the city | councils of the United Automo- | bile Workers in Detroit and Flint, | consisting of the elected represen- tatives of the membership, and by local after local in Cleveland and other centers, calling for im- mediate strike preparations around a program of militant de- mands, with all negotiations to be | in the hands of their elected com- mittees. In order to give their high-| handed action a “democratic” front, the National Council statement | goes on to say that mass meetings | of thousands of workers in auto- mobile centers during the past week had unanimously decided on this action and that several thousand | petitions had been received from workers in the Cleveland Fisher Body Plant electing Green “as their duly accredited representative.” | Green Not Preparing Strike | The statement contains no hint | | of possible strike action. That this open flouting of the will of the rank and file in the face | of the intensified employers-gov- ernment offensive had already been | decided on in advance by the Ex- ecutive Council of the A. F. of L.} was indicated by Green’s statement. in an interview with the press on his arrival from Washington yes- terday morning: “We are not talking about pull- We are thinking in terms of peace.” It is clear that the A. F. of L. top officialdom has learned noth- ing from the bitter experiences of | the auto workers during the past year—not even new tricks to put | their program across—and_ that they intend to continue the cap- in-hand policy of groveling before | the employers and the Roosevelt | government, hoping like Mr. Mac- awber that “something may turn | up.” | Strong Strike Sentiment | What the rank and file will say | to this policy of retreat and sur- render which tramples on their de- cisions may, however, prove to be a different story—a story written | on the picket line. The real sentiment of the rank | and file was indicated by the fact that in his speech last night | plause whenever he mentioned the possibility of strike action, The A. F. of L. chief was com- pelled to cater to this sentiment even to the extent of saying: “I wouldn't advise you to de- pend on your government. (Ap- plause.) He who would be free must strike the blow himself.” (Loud applause.) Throughout the rest of his speech, | however, Green told the workers to put their faith in the New Deal, in the “proper enforcement” of ection 7-A, which he called the “magna charta of labor,” and es- | organized under the National Labor | Relations Board. Proposes Majority Rule Green proposed the holding of secret elections outside the plants, with majority rule instead of pro- | portional representation at as pres- ent. Earlier National Organizer Dillon, who preceded Green, denounced proportional representation as ‘nothing but collective confusion” and “the legalization of the com- | pany union.” He did not, of course, mention the fact that it was the A. F. of | L. top leadership who had accepted proportional representation as well as the Auto Labor Board, in the Président’s settlement of last March 25, and had tried to palm this off on the workers as “union recogni- tion,” and as a “victory” for the workers. Green completely ignored six | questions asked by the Communist Party in a leaflet which was dis- tributed at the meeting. The leaf- Birthday Greetings To William Z. Foster STATEMENT OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C. P., U.S.A. (Continued from Page 1) and force for progress in the labor movement. Especially is this true of all the steel workers. They have repudiated the reactionary -leader- ship of Mike Tighe—in the forefront of those union officials who be- trayed the steel workers in 1919, In the new wave of organization and militant mass strikes that is now developing, directed straight against the denial of elementary rights to worsers, Negro and white, foreign born and native born, against the new hunger standard of wages and unemployment relief sponsored by the Roosevelt administration at the demand of monopoly | capital, there are already to be seen unmistakable signs of a far better understanding of the fundamental issues involved in these struggles— class against class—than was the case last year. The best traditions of the American labor movement are once more in the foreground, Comrade Foster is of the flesh and blood of | landlords to grant your just de- | of gurriers will be held on Wed- James Butler Grocery Company. A} Judges Agitated number of them have been threat-| The court fought hard, firing ened with death and others have {Uestion after question at the boys’ been attacked.” ; attorneys, in aw effort to break Meanwhile the company has asked | down the evidence and the argu- the police department to reinforce Ment. The judges were visibly the company guards in their at- agitated by the overwhelming ar- tempt to intimidate strikers. |Sument in favor of a reversal, and ois | angered at the poor showing made | by the representative of the state. Dyers Favor | Their one concern was to find some excuse, some technicality, Labor Party | whereby they might again uphold (Continued from Page 1) National convention of the Federa- tion on April 27. It was reported that the union is now established in nine centers of the industry but is still weak-in New England and Pennsylvania. Each local pledged the Roosevelt regime, whereby they {might uphold his Democratic Party stronghold in the South, help him, | | by endorsing the enslavement of | | 13,000,000 Negroes, to hold the toil- ing masses in subjection. A lynch- jing of the Scottsboro boys is part of the Roosevelt A.A.A. program in the South, just as the Gold Clause inflation is’ part of the New Deal | | aS a whole. let called for a mass organization drive in preparation for a victorious strike to win the demands of the auto workers; the questions con- cerned this vital pojnt and the im- mediate policies to be pursued by the A. F. of L. in the auto industry. Friend of Coughlin Speaks Green was followed on the plat- form by ex-Mayor Frank Murphy, now Governor-General of the Phil- ippines, whose trip here is evidently the opening gun in his campaign for election to the U. 8S. Senate in 1936. This “friend of labor,” whose police assisted Henry Ford’s Dear- born thugs in murdering five work- ers in the Ford Hunger March three years ago, held a lengthy secret con- ference Friday with the radio priest, Father Charles FE. Coughlin. Coughlin’s notorious anti-labor poli- cies were unanimously condemned all that is best in the American labor and revolutionary movement. The Central Committee has the highest hopes that in the great class battles that are close ahead the invaluable advice and counsel given by Comrade Foster, even when dangerously ill, can once more be supplemented by his day-to-day tion. leadership and personal participa- In behalf of the whole Party and that great revolutionary section of the American working class for whom we speak directly, we wish Comrade Foster many returns on his birthday and express our com- radely appreciation of his services and achievements as a working class leader, a revolutionist, and as the the C.P.U.S.A. beloved and honored chairman of Service Strike Looms Today (Continued from Page 1) the Fur Workers Industrial Union, | on the first.day of the strike: | “Dear Sir and Brother: “According to press reports, the building service employees went out on strike today. Our union whole-heartedly supports this strike, and will issue @ call to all fur workers to give all possible as- sistance in order to compel the mands. “In order to work out more ef- fective plans we propose a confer- ence between your union and ours to be held as soon as possible. “For immediate assistance, an open air meeting to be arranged at once in the fur district, where representatives of your union and ours should speak. “A mass membership meeting nestay, Feb. 20, at Webster Hall, 119 East 11th Street, 4:30 p.m. to- which you are invited to.send one of your representatives to address the meeting.” Thomas Young, vice-president of the B. 8. E. I. U., replied as follows: “Dear Sir and Brother: “In the absence of our president, Mr. Bambrick, I have the privilege of seeing your letter, and can as- sure you that at the first oppor- tunity I will bring this to his at- tention, and endeavor to arrange the meeting you requested. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated. We can assure you that whenever necessary we will be only too pleased to return your courtesy. “Feeling sure that we will be in touch with you tomorrow, Tues- day, or at the very earliest Wed- nesday morning.” Other Unions Act Similar expressions of solidarity and support to the building service workers have been received by the union from numerous unions and other workers’ organizations. In a statement issued last week Irving Potash, secretary of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, pledged the co-operation of the membership of the union to the elevator men on strike. He stated that the needle workers would re- fuse to walk up or ride in scab driven elevators and will co-operate in every way possible. Flatly refusing to let the dispute go back to the Curran committee, which he said “died in the Mayor's office,” Bambrick declared Friday in his office, 1450 Broadway, that if un- derstanding is reached before today, he would consent to arbitration pro- viding such arbitration “is com- Pleted in one session.” He agreed to submit to such arbi- tration through the Regional Labor Board, U. 8. Department of Labor or the State Labor Industrial Board. The sentiment of the membership, gauged by cOnversations with shop stewards and other workers in the garment center, is definitely for strike action today. They felt that of all the sections of the city the garment center is Suite taais To Face Court (Continued from Page 1) issued a circular for general distri- bution among all workers; it reads in part: “Miners Don’t Scab! “The interests of all labor crafts are inyolved, “Outrageous, illegal and uncon- Stitutional attacks through the courts have been made against the striking miners, and if these in- fringements on the rights of people and the rights of labor are per- mitted, afl labor will suffer the con- sequences of such precedents. “A murderer wno shot down a striking miner in cold blood is re- | leased on two thousand five hun- dred bail. Miners are ordered by court to be evicted from their homes, and judges plainly preju- diced by present or previous con- nections and interests with the coal companies sit as the court in almost all of these cases in violation of an principles of justice and equal- ity.” The statement of the new union points out that the miners of other companies will also suffer if the injunction is enforced. Rank and file miners in the union | nevertheless point out that the statement does not ,call for the smashing of the injunction, by means of a broad mass fight, with demonstrations and increased pick- eting. Such measures it is expected will be decided for at a district meeting tonight of all local pres- idents and secretaries. Strikers will Propose that appeals be made to miners of other coal companies to join behind the struggle. Joseph Swilp, of Sugar Notch, an- other une of the seven miners framed on charges of dynamiting, was bailed out on ten thousand dol- lars yesterday. Two are still held. Swilp was one of those most brut- ally beaten in order to force him to sign the “confessions.” the best suited for a showdown, and that such a showdown is vitally nec- essary for the growth and strength- ening of the union throughout Greater New York, as well as for forcing the owners to sign up in the garment center. The setting up of a broad strike committee consisting of delegates elected by shop meetings was held by these workers to be a prerequisite for a successful strike. Greatly agitated by the orders of the union to return to work last week, without ‘any kind of settle- ment, the workers stated that this time they will return to work only after agreements are signed and ap- proved by them. ‘The situation in Brooklyn and the Bronx has not changed in the last pte me Rally | Tonight | | (Continued from Page 1) | Sree ee | | ways been in the forefront against | | anti-Soviet attacks by the fascist | | groups and the reactionary press. The F. S. U. has always been the | mouthpiece for all advanced ele- ments in America in the struggle against fascism and war. Workers | in all industries, worker-members of | the American Federation of Labor, professionals, intellectuals, educat- | ors—all have made their friendship | to.the U. 8. S. R. known through | the F. S. U.” “The nationwide campaign which the Madison Square Garden will} | launch,” Trachtenberg went on, “is} especially timely now, There are| certain indications on the inter- national horizon pointing to the deal which imperialists are making | to permit Poland and Germany to| push on towards the East—to seize the great Soviet Ukraine for the Polish fascists and to return impor- | tant strategic territories such as the | Polish Corridor, Danzig, etc., to Nazi Germany. Together with these | indications, there is the undeniable | fact of the Japanese imperialist of- fensive in Mongolia—the fact that it is, day by day, approaching closer to the Soviet Siberian border, pre- paring for a military invasion of Soviet territory in the Far East. “When this international threat of war receives encouragement from | the— government of the United State,“\as it surely does by the breaking off of trade negotions with | the Soviet Union, it is high time that the American masses rise in a concerted campaign for the defense of the only country in the world which stands as a living bulwark against war, the only country in the world where the workers are no longer enslaved, but masters of their own factories and fields, their own destiny. “This United States action should be actively opposed by our own working masses—by all people, Negro and white, as well as by co- lJonial workers. Hundreds of thou- sands of Americans have been de- nied the jobs and employment which the establishment of normal trade relations would have provided. The Madison Square Garden dem- onstration tonight will not only be the outgrowth of many similar smaller meetings held in this city; it will be, as well, the first of many such demonstrations in this coun- try. Others will be held—in Phila- delphia, Washington, Boston, Chi- cago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, San .Fran- cisco, Seattle—in every large city and industrial center of this coun- try. These demonstrations will be the answer of the American workers to the breaking off of trade nego- tiations; they will be the mighty an- swer of the American masses to the State Department action, the cam- paign of slander, and the moves for war on the workers’ Fatherland. “The F, 8. U. calls on all workers and professionals, on members of the Socialist Party and the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, the Un- employment Councils and fraternal organizations, to unite in this fight against the danger of war at the Garden tonight. The F. 8S. U. ex- pects to fill not only the Garden it- self tonight, but the streets around the Garden in a mighty demonstra- tion of solidarity with the Soviet workers.” The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union has issued a call to all workers in the needle trades to support the mass protest demon- stration called by the Friends of the Soviet Union for tonight at the Madison Square Garden, against the Hearst anti-labor drive. The Fur Workers, Knit Goods Workers, Fur Dressers and Dyers, Custcm Tailoring Workers and Bathrooe Workers Industrial Unions, affiliates of the Needle ‘Trades Union, all joined in endors- ing the call for support of the pro- test meeting. James Matles, national secretary of the Metal Workers Industrial Union, issued a call yesterday sup- porting the Madison Square Garden meeting and calling on all metal workers, especially the workers of Majestic, Presto Lock and Grand metal shops to turn out in support of the anti-Hearst demonstration. The City Council of the Food COMMUNISTS PROPOSE UNITED LABOR FIGHT AT MINNEAPOLIS POLLS Five Planks. Listed in Invitation to Farmer-Labor and Socialist Parties for Conference to. Form Body for Joint Action MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 24—Outlining five im- mediate planks for the coming elections, the Communist Party here has issued an open invitation to the Farmer-Labor Party and the Socialist Party to hold a conference for the purpose of forming a “United Labor Party” to fight for ® these five election planks. three days. In the Bronx strike ac-| Workers Industrial Union at its last tion was postponed to March 4,| regular meeting, voted to support which is the deadline given the| the garden meeting by calling on all realty owners by the union. the Food Workers locals to mobilize Bronx workers expressed their | in the Union hall, 915 Eighth Ave- dissatisfaction over this delay by| nue, at 7 o'clock tonight and to Louis Cooper of Local 10-B, claim-| march from there to the Garden ing that this gives the owners ample | where they will join with the other (Continued from Page 1) Detroit: “What is most wanted is an Atttomobile Labor Board organized under the National Labor time to get ready to break the strike. | workers in the protest, Auto Workers Must Build Union, Prepare Strike AN EDITORIAL ‘They do not demand phoney N.R.A. elections. They demand higher wages, shorter hours, union recog- nition, and an end to killing speed-up and dis- crimination. Government elections in every case Build Unions, C. P. Urges (Continued from Page 1) from the platform, that he was elected by the District Committee as district organizer until the return of Charles Krumbein, now in the Fed- eral Penitentiary of Lewisburg, Pa., on a charge of technical violation of passport regulations. Amter is well known to New York workers for his active leadership of unemployed struggles, Pointing to the successes already achieved by the Party in work in the A. F. of L., Wortis called for a strengthening of the work in the A. F. of L. unions. Party members must regard themselves—and be re- garded by the workers—as builders of the unions, Wortis pointed out. They must be known as construc- tive, loyal workers. She scored par- ticularly the tendency of certain Party members in the unions to iso- late themselves from union head- quarters and union centers, with- drawing into small “left” groups and isolated from the majority of the workers in the unions. Wortis dwelt in detail with the problem of a Labor Party in New York, While there was no imme- diate perspective, she said, of build- ing a Labor Party on a city-wide seale, she emphasized the policy of building Labor Party tickets, or united workers’ tickets, in a num- ber of localities. In order to ac- complish this, however, she said, there must be the most energetic work on the part of those in the trade unions and other mass organ- izations, winning the workers away from the A. F. of L. leadership ‘theory of -“rewarding your: friends. and punishing your enemies.” Spe- cial effort, the report said, must be given to winning the Socialist Party locals to the idea of the Labor Party. Calling for the extension of the united front, the Conference unani- mously adopted a resolution calling for one united front May Day dem- onstration. The District Committee was instructed to write to the So- cialist Party proposing one united demonstration, based on the imme- diate demands of the workers, in- stead of two. demonstrations as there were last year. The high percentage of Negro delegates present was one of the highlights of the conference. James W. Ford, member of the Central Committee of the Party, and organ- izer of the Harlem section, was warmly applauded after a speech in which he went into detail into the problems of the Party in winnin; the Negro people. Another feature of the conference was the speech of a young Irish traction worker, new to the Party, who stated that this was the first Party District conference he had ever attended. He praised the work of the Party among the bitterly ex- Ploited transport workers, pointing out that it was the effective work of the Party in support of the trans- port workers and the unions that forced the company to re-instate two workers who had been fired for union activity. Fred Briehl, Ulster County farm- er, & candidate for State Comp- troller on the Communist Party ticket in the recent elections, struck a note of comradely criticism. The Party in New York, he declared, has given insufficient attention to the ee of farmers in this dis- ict. John Little, District Organizer of the Young Communist League, was applauded when he pointed out that the ¥.C.L, had tripled its growth in the past yamr. This was due toa great extent, Little said, to the ac- tive cooperation of the Party. “We have all possibilities, in New York, of having the Y.C.L. outstrip the Party in size.” he concluded. A detailed report on the organ- izational structure of the Party, on the problem of membership fiuctia- “We propose for your immediate consideration,” the Communist Party statement to both of these parties states, “the following major issues confronting the workers of this city.as a basis for a minimum | class struggle program upp which | this united front ticket shall be es- tablished. The statements then lists the following demands: Program of Demands 1, We shall endorse. the fight for the State Workers Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. F. 120; for immediate increase in relief for the unemployed; for the restoration of the 10 per cent cut to E. R. A. workers; for a min- imum of 30 hours and $16.50 per week for all on work relief, and against replacement of union men and civil service employees with relief workers. We shall fight against the sys- tem of forced labor as established in the C. C. C. and Transient camps, against the discrimination in the distribution of direct work relief to young and single people. 2, We shall fight for the right of the workers to organize into militant trade unions, for the right to strike and to picket with- out interference on the part of the city and state governments as particularly, in the use of the National Guard during the truck drivers’ strikes. ‘We shall fight against police terror and strike-breaking, against the frame-up system of workers, Against Betrayers of Workers 3. We shall fight for an un- compromising struggle against and the exposure of all public of- ficials. who were elected with the endorsement and support of the labor movement, but who have supported and continue to support the Citizens Alliance by voting in the. City Council for. Police Training School, for buying more machine guns and riot guns, which as.in the past, will be used to break strikes and shoot. down workers, and who have voted to pay compensation to the deputized thugs injured during the truck drivers’ strike. 4. We shall fight for equal rights for the Negro -people in trade unions, in the relief system, in the schools, and in society as a whole. ; i 5. We shall fight against capi- talist economy in the school sys- tem, against enlargement of classes and decreasing of the teaching staff, for free hot lunches for school children and for a free higher education for young people. The Communist Party statement points out that such a “United La- bor Party” ticket would strengthen the forces of the workers against the reactionary Citizens Alliance, _ and would in no way infringe upon the organizational independence of any of the uniting groups. “We sincerely’ believe,” the Com- munist Party declares, “that united action and a united labor ticket is possible of realization in spite of the fundamental differences in program and tactics of these political parties, Without infringing upon the organ- izational independence of any one of the political parties, without giving up the right for each of these par- ties to advocate its specific program, it is possible and it is necessary in the interests of the working class victory over the Citizens Alliance to build up such a united front in the coming city elections. “Should you endorse in principle such a united front and the placing of a United Labor Ticket in the coming city elections, we propose that you elect committees from your respective parties to meet with a> committee from our party to formu- late a definite program and work out ways and means for the pro- posed united action. “Awaiting an early reply, “CO) IT PARTY, U.S.A. “Minnesota District Committee “213 DeSoto Bide. i “Minneapolis, Minn.” 1 18 Ohrbach tion and the building of unions in the shops, was rendered by Max Steinberg, organizational secretary Ears to Ground | by the last convention of the Amer- to give a regular monthly donation Relations Board.” of the Party, in the Sunday morning werent A A i 2a RENNER ORT RRS Now the ears of the nine justices | \are close to the ground—can they ae to uphold the convictions? Newly elected organizers and the ey ate Weighing that question. manager of the Silk Workers’ Fed- Peihiees SAO oe ana peden te elertt, eration here will assume their duties | tentola” enete tes pare ea for an organization drive to con- centrate in the New England region. Silk Officers Installed ican Federation of Labor. After the conference Murphy praised the program of Coughlin’s new fascist- tinged organization, the National Union for Social Justice. The National Council of the United Automobile Workers will as these demands were defeated To follow the road proposed by Green would defeat all the demands of the auto workers, just At that time Green made similar proposals. Green at that time signed the pact which set up the present Auto Labor Board, He declared this pact, have not won these demands for the workers, but in the end have only strengthened the company ‘unions. Through trickery, Green now seeks to speak for all the atito workers and to negotiate in their be- half. The National Council of the United Auto in March 1934, meeting. Resolving to put the. utmost energy into the work of building the Party in the basic industries of the District—marine, transport indus- tries, traction—the conference prée- Pickets Held | (Continued from Page 1) cleared. The hearings of the cases were transferred to the fourth floor, All the prisoners were paroled but today. Among them are three rank | of Workers is a hand picket council which has only | dicted great strikes in these indus- | six, whoh were sclected as leaders in — and file organizers elected last Sat- |! Protest. continue in session tomorrow. It is} which legalized company unions and established | advisor er, and Francis Dillon, Green’s lieute- | tries in the coming months. The singing. iaced } urday. A recount of the vote for, The Scottsboro-Herndon protest | clear, however, that if they are to| proportional representation, was a “victory” for the Tie boas slogan, “Make New York a union be ete ca a mt general. manager showed Al Wil- | °@™ds. addressed to the U. 8. Su- liams elected although his narrow | preme Court, must be mailed by the margin over Sarkis Phillian, the | hs of thousands. Let the justices rank and file representative, was |f the court see a constant stream juced. {Of postmen bringing in these post- A trade industrial meeting of the | °@Tds, with resolutions and protests prevent a repetition of last year’s experience, the rank and file of the A. F. of L. together with the mem- bers of the other legitimate unions, will have to take matters into their own hands. code in August 1933. Green said in workers. Green accepted the merit the Auto Labor Bodrd was an “impartial” board. Now Green would once more sidetrack a strike, nant, is its. boss. The National Council, in delegat- ing to Green sole authority to negotiate, did not speak the sentiment of the auto local unions. ‘The rank and file ef the auto workers, the local unions, can now see that if their decision for strike clause in the March 1934 that and set up another N.R.A., government board, All preparation is to be carried out, the local unions town!” was approved by dozens of speakers in various ways. Emphtsis was placed on the ex- posure of the strikebreaking La- Guardia administration and - its allies in the right wing of the So- $1,000 bail and two on $500 each, | Five of these were also paroled next morning. All cases come. up next — Friday at Essex Market Court. i Prior to rushing the pickets, ate | tempts were made to read the anti- i _ plain goods department will take |ffom trade unions, organizations, of these boards set up by the government are not will have to act. cialist Party. The building of a ee mite canal § : lace next Saturday morning, where a iat local clubs, Epic eclubs,|carry on this work must be rushed| impartial, they are instruments of the employers, ‘The local unions should now put into effect their | Labor Party, it was pointed out, | grounds for holding the arrested : Fouls Valgo, organizer of the union, fate. haem societies, Socialist | to es es pees of the In-| and invariably carry out the will of the manufac- | decision to organize the unorganized auto workers, | Would be done in the course of ex- | workers for contempt of court, but ™ 5 ; an one a vipeted soon DESI the nee ee eee Tt oe New wreck Conn| turers. Past experience has proven this. It was | to build the auto union, to prepare for immediate Posing the LaCuardia-Pusion ot- | shouting from the large crowd made f the sj aN of the halen gad after | cratic press” teftises to echo. ee On March 4, the court may, olane babii aie SEL SANSteaAe Te oth ieeaienl fgcees ol sek: Seamed Fike Cont fe sede oe orca caer patter inne cease) 3 eee trp ei fin tosses | ‘The iiase camnaleh tiie be do| dowel tte. dAcliloc, “or: any wonday brought the workers to their present deplorable Not new employer controlled boards, not framed speclat ad of ‘ hed petty, Pdi, epshe, Each patrol bey br od a time limit to comply; enforcement | veloped, the appeal to the same| thereafter. Let it,hear thé protest | Plight. But Green still refers to the N.R.A. as the | up élections. ‘A telegram greeting the striking | iil “greater number, Shouting of the union wage scale; union rec- | court against the 18-20 years of liv-|of yourself, your brgsnfition, and| “Magna Charta” of labor, and wants to replace Build the A. F. of L. Auto Locals—prepare for | puiiding service workers and pledg- “Don't Buy at Ohrbach’s!” and jeer Sor and limitation be | ing death imposed on Angelo Hern- | everybody you know gf can in any| strike by another employer controlled board. immediate strike—controlled not by one man, but |ing the support of the Party was | ing of the police continued ‘ up. ‘ ‘ don must be prepared. Funds to| way reach, before trgit date. The auto workers want strike for their demands. by the union membership. unanimously adopted. until closing time. t 4 if {