The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-21
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Ehen Ne told of the. significance of
he new trade union center which
would be built at the Cleveland con-
Fention Aug. 81, a center for the
complete mobilization of left wing
workers forces for militant Of
lensive against naturalization, -
wage cuts, speed-up - on the one
hand, and the opposition from the
American Federation Of Labor, So
.ialists, Musteites, on the other.
4 The Cleveland convention will be
yanique, he said, in that it will be the
EIst big convention Of workers
lJV lose base is among the inorganic
IL workers.
The new trade union center, Fos-
ter said, would base its organiza-
.ional program on building unions
industrial in form and based on the
shop delegate system. 1t will de-
mand fighting policies, broad move
ments of the masses of unskilled and
Skilled workers, bringing in Negroes
as well as whites, the youth and wo-
men. At the Cleveland convention,
concrete organizational plans will
be worked out. The situation in the
south, especially, will take central
lplace in the agenda.
The convention will be preceded
by preliminary conferences of shoe,
textile, automobile, marine, ETC.,
conferences.
In discussing the local tasks of the
Metropolitan Area conference, he
Estressed the necessity for organizing
the unorganized shops around New
York, building shop committees, de-
veloping the official organ of the
7. U. E. L., Labor Unity, as wea-
pom and finally the building of a
strong New York Trade Union cen
ter able to mobilize the workers of
the area to repel the attacks of the
] bosses and their agents.
The local councils report was
tade by Ben Lifshitz and Henry
/ azer. They told of recent develop
hents in local struggles, pointing
out errors as well as gains achieved.
The Marine Workers Conference
held last Sunday proves that the
seamen are ready for organization,
SAFER said, adding that the work on
the waterfront will have to be one
of the leading tasks Of the local new
center, especially in view of the fast
approaching war danger.
William Simons, secretary of the
A America Anti-Imperialist
League, greeted the conference in
/ the name of that organization.
"Stop the deportation of the
Hindu textile workers. is the slo-
gan heading the appeal issued by
the All-America Anti-Imperialist
League, through James Mo, head of
the Far Eastern Department.
The statement follows, in part:
The arrest of the ten Hindu tex
tile workers at Paterson, New Jer-
sey, last Sunday by the immigration
fficials, who sent them to Ellis
land for deportation, charged with
illegal entry" shows on the one
hand the combined effort of the
British and American imperialists to
try to smash the Hindu workers,
and, on the other hand, the radical
ization of the Hindu working class,
and the intensification of their
struggle against Imperialism.
The All-America nti-Imperialist
League emphatically denounces the
American Wall Street government
for the threatened deportation, and
pledges its full support to these
Hindu workers. Since practically
all of them are political refugees,
victims of the intensified oppression
in India, their deportation would
mean long terms of prison or even
death on return to India, just as the
workers on trial in the Meerut case,
charged by the British '1abor" gov
eminent with sedition.
In conformity with the main reso-
luton of the Frankfort World Con-
gress of the League Against Imper-
ialism, which called for "the launch
ing of mass campaign for the free
dom of the revolutionary anti-im-
perialist organizations, for the ces-
sation of the discriminating policy
of white terror, for amnesty for all
prisoners of imperialism, the A. A.
4. |. L. calls on all Hindu, Oriental
Ind other workers in the United
ltates of America to stand by these
ten arrested Hindu workers, and, in
cooperation with the International
Labor Defense, to demand their i'm
mediate release, so that they may
once more engage in the militant
struggles of the textile workers, of
which Gastonia is the outstanding
example.
H. M. Wicks, Communist eandi-
date for president of the board of
aldermen, addressed the conference
and brought greetings from the New
York district of the Communist
Party of America. Wicks dealt with
naturalization in industry and ex-
planned that every struggle of the
workers for their elementary de-
mands brings them face to face with
the oppressive powers Of the CAPT
talist state.
Fred Biedenkapp of the Independ-
ont Shoe Workers Union rros;JoJ