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The daily worker., 1931-02-18
Towards a National Union

We are far behind in the forming of National
Union of the TUUL In the food industry. The
workers In our industry are ever more feeling the
effects of the crisis through wage cuts unenl-
ployment, and the general worsening Of their
conditions, and are looking for leadership to
organize them In their resistance against the
attacks of the BOSSES This we also have seri-
ously underestirnated and must speed up our
tempo in this direction.
April IS has been set for the date, where a
national conference Of general Food ana Pack
ing House Workers Is to be held in the city of
Detroit, following national conference of stock
yard workers on April % in Chicago. All our
activities must be directed towards this point.
We must lay the basis for the setting up of a
revolutionary union ON a national scale. We
must create solid base for this. At present
we have not got solid enough base for ma
tional union. The largest section of our union,
New York, is very weak In itself, and the proper
base for our union must be in the stock yards
of Chicago, Kansas, Omaha, ETC., and the large
enterprise throughout the country.
In Is cities we have leagues or locals besides
contacts In other cities. Every local or league
must intensity on their concentration points,
linking up this work with the building of a
national union and struggle for the everyday
needs or partial demands Of the workers that
they are in contact with. Through this activity
it will be possible to lay a base for the setting
up of union. The Party forces throughout
the country must be the driving force in this
campaign Every day, without let-up is the
only way to conduct such a campaign. The
whole membership must be drawn into an un-
derstanding of the problems we face and must
be given definite tasks of work.
The daily worker., 1931-02-18
Not Alike, Not At All

1t is favorite piece Of capitalist hokuIn, re-
ligiously peddled by the supposed -but-aint
socialists" to put fascist Italy and the Soviet
Union in one pigeon-hole.
"They are both relationships" is the regula-
ton assertion, and whether they are both con-
demned as bad" because they step on the toes
of the sacred COW "individualism;" or whether
we are asked to admire them as examples of
efficiency" or Organization" of what not, still
they are held up as identical.
Being charitable, we suppose that to liberals"
whose astonishing ignorance somehow entities
them to be called 'intelectuals," it never occurs
that there may be different class basis to die
tatorships. Nor do they see the dictatorship Of
the capitalist class when, as in America, it wears
a rather gossamer gown of democracy" and
republican forms"
The supposed socialist" leaders know better,
and it is pure cussedness on their part, cussed-
ness based on their assistance to capitalist die
tatorship disguised as "ours" is to gabble about
the identity Of Boshevism and Fascisn" merely
because both are frankly and openly Dictator
ships.
Bolshevism freely comedies that it stands for
dictatorship and boasts that such is a DICTATOR
ship of the proetariat, the wage working class.
But with the historic aim of abonshing classes,
therefore abolishing class contradictions and con-
flict, and therefore ultimately the necessity OF
a repressive force of this dictatorship. Because
it advances the interests of the great majority, it
has no need to conceal the real class basis OF
the proetarian dictatorship.
Fascism, however pretends to uphold the in
terest of "the nation or "the general public
and to have no class basis or special class inter-
est to advance though it's dictatorship is that
of the minority big capitalists To get popular :
support however. it not only pretends to be
"above classes" but uses the rankest demagogy
In order to seize power, it even uses furious lang
uage against the big capitalists and demand
that the workers be given better conditions.
But things happen differently once fascism ha |
established its dictatorship. 1t does not, lik |
Bolshevism, use its dictatorship to abolish classes
and class property relations but to nlaintau |
them, While suppressing the struggles of tn
working class. The workers find out eventual .
that they are the class which must suffer an
against which the respective force Is directed
One great glaring fact proves the vast clas
difference between Bolshevsm and fascisn
construction really socialist construction in til
Soviet Union has wiped out unemployment; whiI
IN Mondays papers a dispatch from Italy adnli
unemployment is on the increase. with the ri
g1stered unemployed now numbering 721 976, 4
which only 18o494 are given unemploymeiI
insurance
committees; mass picketing and militant stru
gle against the mill companies is the inasnedia.
task Of the Danvie strikers TIE NTWU W |
Go everything in its power to aid the worke
and assist them, and with the help and SO
darity OF all the workers, North and South, tn
can still win.
Executive Board. Charlotss Dasa,
~ y,umwv xrAnwuG II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-24
The London Conference
Leads to War

THE Conference
the capitalist in
begin
The American capitalist nothing about warbut
admits cautiously with headline lay the blame French
imperialism that all Germany have failed The Lon
British
put the blame others,
long
debts declined discuss repaaons
toward permanent
settlement of the economic problem of Germany
This then the net result of the hypoct Hoover Plan on
will the
gigantic debs and French imperialism will not
the Government continues lie hameley claiming that
the undersandsis adopted
optimistic capitalist the Y Times
July 23 compelled contradict the stupid lies from the
White House The "Tmes" says
published report leading
American bankers had signed out the admin
credits Germany
ephacay all the institutions mentioned well
by other specifically included the report
caught
right lie his first refuge the failure
of all his stupid plans to venot Genybut the ooooooooo OF
capital Germany
Thus failure and folly of the
the Soviet Union before
the European Commission" Geneva May 10 Ltvinoff warned
hareat notice plunge into
bloody conflicts proposal of real and disarmament
by the ignored impeialist makers
Opening Macdonald the socialist
British that unless the conference
capitalist of the Red pla peril
only capitalism its
you immediate hosandod increase of
Soviet Union because these rival iperias
bandits utterly unable find solution for the bankruptcy OF their
millions of and ong
into starvation and consequently into revolutionary attempt
of the find impossible
their without violence against the ong masses
boundl
knowing that the Soviet Union those who
clothing that in the Soviet
unemployment cuts but the hour
intensified hunger
would therefore put out this beacon light of
world would destroy the Soviet Union
inspiration for revolution to the ned masses of Ger
many preparing to drivers!
that hottest protest will the
hand Organize
your trade everywhere unemployed
the youth adult
in the worldwide demonstrations against capitalism on August
Ffrsi
~. August First.
cuts! Dera nj unemployment insurance!
Defend the Soviet n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-24
BRONX ANTI-WAR
DEMONSTRATION
TO BE HELD SAT.

BRONX ~, Y.-Police were forced
to retreaa from their former posi-
ton and grant a permit for an anti
war demorstvotion in the Bronx.
Thousands workers will gather
tomorrow, Stt* day afternoon at 3
pm. at 138th st. and Brook Ave-, to
protest against imperialist war prep
arations and to demand that all war
appropriations shall be turned over
to feed the unemployed millions of
this country. a.
Mass Organize lions under I. -
own banner will participate in 2
march which will BE led by the band
of the Workers 'efense Organization,
The Pioneers, 49, members Of the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
branches, the Communist Party,
many fraternal organizations. work.
ers from the Giant, Pruce and other
laundries. from the Ramsey Shoe
Cutler and Hammer and other fac
tories of the Bronx will also par
ticipate in the demonstration and
march. t.E
All out Saturday, July Is, at 8 pm.
to 138th st. and Brook ave. for the
defense of the only Workers and
Farmers Government, the Soviet
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-24

The workers were addressed
by white and Negro leaders of
the revolutionary movement
who exposed the vicious terror
against the troopers. They
showed that it was an effort by the
landowners to smash the resistance
of the troopers to the robbery of the
landowners and storekeepers, as well
as to silence their protests against
the attempted legal lyrching of the
nine innocent Scottsboro boys. One
cropper. Raph Gray, was murdered
by the police when a meeting of the
Share Choppers Union was attacked,
five we're wounded, four are missing
and are thought to have been lynch
ed by the police, while sixty are held
in Jail and are being railroaded to
long prison terms or possible death.
The demonstration here unani-
mously adopted a ringing resolution
denouncing the police-landowners'
crime and demanding the arrest of
the sheriff and punishment of the
,,1.,ce lynchers. The resolution also
demandeS s.fe release of the Scots
boro boys, and tf.4l before jury
of workers, at least half Negroes, for
the arrested croppers who are to have
a preliminary hearing in Camp Hill
this coming Monday. The attorneys
of the International Labor Defense
and the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights are defending the framed-up
choppers.
The big crowd enthusiastically en-
dorsed the preparations for world
wide demonstrations on August First
against the capitalist system with its
lynch terror, its race hatred, its mass
unemployment and misery, its wage
cuts, and its preparations for a war
OF intervention against the Soviet
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-24
1000 R. |.
ST RIKERS
AT RALLY
Greet Burlak; Pledge
to Carry Fight to
Victory
Mil Offers increase"
Cans Taken
From Picket Line
Mill Offers Increase"
From Picket Line

PROVIDENCE, r. l., July 23.-Over
1000 General Fabrics and Royal
strikers and sympathizers crowded
into the Woodbine and Fountain lot
In Pavtucket last night to express
their solidarity with the strike and
to welcome back Ann Burlak, organ
izer of the NTWU.
Burlak came back to the strike
area at 4.42 p. m, Immediately upon
her release from the East Boston i'm
migration station where she had been
held for a week despite the fact that
she was an American born citizen.
An hour before her arrival the word
had passed around that she was COM
ing. Almost spontaneously about 6
or cars rode from house to house
in the bowery of Central Falls in
forming the workers. About 200
strikers greeted Ann with cheers for
the union when she arrived in the
station. A spontaneous parade with
the singing of strike songs followed.
At the Woodbine meeting, Nat
Kaplan, District Organizer of the
Communist Party, pointed out that
the Party was active in work OF all
tie Rhode Island strikes Tremen-
dous applause greeted his remark
that the capitalist government had
acted as a strike breaker. He called
upon the strikers to participate in
the August First demonstration
against imperialist war and for the
defense of the workers fatherland-
the Soviet Union. The demonstra-
ton will take place August LIST, at 7
p. m. at Elm and Central SITS, Gen
trail Falls.
Cheering by the entire crowd greet
ed the announcement of Ann Burlak
tCoNTINUED ON PAGE FIVE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-24
Tag Days Funds
Must Be Turned
In Immediately
Collections Will Aid,
Give New Life to
Striking Miners

NEW YO2K.-Final instr .ctions
for the Tag Days, Saturday and
Sunday, July 25th and Goth have
been issued by the Penn Ohio Strik-
ing Miners Relief Commute at 799
Broadway, Room $50.
Just as soon as the boxes are
filled on Saturday and Sunday, the
relief committee announces, workers
should return the boxes Immediately
TO the nearest relief depot. When
the Tag Days are over, workers are
under no circumstances to wait until
Tuesday or Wednesday to return, the
boxes, but are to bring them in on
Monday morning. s,g.,,
Pamphlets and buttons for mass
distribution are to be obtained at all
the collection depots, to be dis
tributed free Of charge.
Thousands of workers must appear
on the streets of New York, Satur-
day and Sunday, with collection
box for miners relief
The amount that is collected on
these Tag Days will have an imme-
diate effect on the health and ener-
gy of the striking miners.
Help these miners and their fam
lilies fight starvation!
Aid them in their tremendous
struggle against the coal barons.
Call at the following stations for
collection boxes
New York: 1893 Broadway, 16 W.
21st ST., t31 w. 28th ST., 1856 E.
Broadway, 143 E. 1o3rd St., II Gin
ton ST., $50 E. 81st ST., 301 E. goth
ST., ITO w. 1l6th St, is w. 126th ST.,
1853 Lenox Ave.
Brooklyn: 962 Suffer Ave, 81 Ora
ham Ave. 1877 Osborn St., 1874 Pit
kin Ave, 1873 43rd ST., 40 Neptune
Ave. 48 Bay 18th st.
Bronx: 785 Westchester Ave, 800
Westchester Ave. 21o9 Arthur Ave,
140o Boston Road, 270o Bronx
Park E.
Astoria, l.. l.; 23-78 Steinway Ave.
Newark. N j.. 30 Ferry st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-24
NY Anti-Imperialist
Conference to Meet
Tonight; MapAction
To Mobilize for Aug. |
Demonstration on
Union Square

NEW YORK-The preliminary
Anti-Imperialist Conference of New
York will take place tonight at 7:3o
sharp at Irving Plaza, 18th st. and
Irving Place.
1t is expected that many trade
unions, fraternal workers organiza-
tons, Latin American, Chinese, Fill
Pine, and other colonial organiza-
tons of New York will be present
TIE conference, called by the Pro-
vision2l Committee, is to consolidate
the anti-impc-ialist forces of New
York and form the New York
Branch of the -Imperialist
League of the U. s. A.
18th the actual armed interven-
ton of Yankee imperialism against
the Red Army and Soviet Districts
of the Chinese workers and peasants
and the army of liberation of Mica
ragua, etc, and also intensified war
preparations against the Soviet
Union, the conference will adopt a
resolution to appeal to all workers
and anti-imperialists of New York
to participate in the Anti-Imperialist
War Demonstration on August First
at 1880, at Union Square.
For Negro Liberation.
A resolution to protest against the
Scottsboro lynchings and the recent
murder of Negro share troopers OF
Alabama will also be presented to
the conference. The conference will
pay special attention, besides others
to. IT, - IN movement of the
Negro masses in the United States,
which is closely connected with the
antiimperialist struggles in the
colonies, particularly in the Carib-
bean countries where the Negroes
constitute almost one-third of the
native population.
The conference also has the close
cooperation of the Trade Union
Unity League of Greater New York
j. Steuben, assistant secretary OF the
Council promised to see that "revo-
lutionary unions and leagues as well
as the minority groups in the A F.
L. locals are represented.
All delegates must come on time
tonight at 7:3o, at the Irving Plaza.
Those organizations that have not
elected their delegates yet must APP
point Immediately today their dele
gates to tonight's Anti-Imperislist
Conferences. Individuals interested
in the anti-imperialist struggles are
also invited TO attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-24
HOOVER, LEWIS
PLAN GREATER
MINE SCABBING
Call Another Meet in
Washington

WASHINGTON, D. c., July %. -
Hoover has again ordered the De-
partment Of Commerce and Labor to
call the coal operators and officials
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea into conference to work out a
scab plan for the industry on a ma
tional scale.
Two previous conferences were cal
led, one of operators and one of their
tools in the United Mine Workers of
America. The operators conference
broke up because of differences about
trustifying the industry.
Then the U. M. w. A. was called in
and declared itself ready to do any
thing Hoover asked and that the bos-
ses wish to put over Scab agree
ment. This time the operators and
UMWA officials are invited together.
The original idea for conference
was conceived by John L. Lewis, pres
ident of the United Mine Workers,
when he feared the strike of 10000
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia
miners against starvation would
spread. Lewis Immediately appealed
to Hoover to use the government
forces to break the strike. The con-
ference will go into this matter more
in detail. At the calling of the first
conference the National Miners Union
exposed 1t as scab meet, and sent
so striking miners to Washington to
declare that the miners would con-
tinue their fight despite the unity OF
the rTMWA, the bosses and the gov
eminent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-24

LONDON, July 23.-The confer
ence of the seven imperialist powers
was concluded at noon today. An
agreement was reached of limited
plan to maintain Germany's short
term credits. 1t was also agreed to
renew the Is million pounds Reichs-
bank credit due August 18th for a
further go days. The action through
consortium banks acting through
the Bank of International Settle
ments was intended to prevent the
withdrawal of existing foreign cred
its. It was also decided that COM
mittee Of experts work out detailed
measures required to carry out the
Hoover moratorium. Delegates In
dulged in an orgy Of self congratu-
lations at the conclusion.
Today's liberal News Chronicle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-24
Music, MILLER
PROPOSES SELL
OUT OF STRIKERS
Directs Cops in Attack
on I u U L Repre-
Sentatives

NEW YORK.-Bert Miller, rene
gade from the revolutionary move
ment, acted as director of operations
in an attack by police and detec-
tives on the representatives of the
New York District of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the Trade
Union Unity League at a meeting of
the striking road workers of White
Plains. N. Y, Wednesday night.
AT the meeting, held at strike
headquarters, Al Lexington ST., Mil
Ter, trying to hide his identity under
the name of Benjamin Mandel,
brought before the strikers set of
proposals that constituted a brazen
sell-out of the strike. Miller spoke
as the representative of the Confer
ence for Progressive Labor Action,
the Musteite group which, since the
start of the strike about two weeks
ago. has been making strenuous eff
forts to betray it, Instead of the SIS
minimum days wage that they have
been demanding. Miller andel Of
fered them so cents an hour. while
overtime would be voluntary with no
stipulation for extra rates; instead
OF recognition of their independent
union, Miller told the men to go back
to work and that the contractors
would agree mot to interfere with
the union" Miller said that a wage
OF SIS cents an hour would break"
the contractors and certainly "this
we don't want to do at this time
So incensed were the strikers over
these proposals that when A. Rubin,
organizer of the Trade Union Unity
League, ssKed for the floor to ex-
pose this sell-out, the workers de-
manded that he be allowed to speak;
whereupon Miller-M andel with his
bodyguard, White Plains detective
who sat on the committee platform,
began a fight to GUST Rubin. The
dick drew his gun and threatened to
shoot. Rubin was thrown out while
the strikers jeered the detective end
his aides. Soon after that, Is po-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-24
SPEED FUNDS TO
DAILY WORKER
Needed in Mine and
Textile Strikes

Another strike! In Paterson the
silk and dye workers have gone out
on strike against hunger and slave
conditions. They Join their brothers
in Rhode Island, the coal miners in
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir-
ginia, the battling working class
everywhere.
Show your solidarity with the sin
strikers by sending your half dollar
to the Daily Worker today! Colleee
half dollars from your shopmates
and friends. Put all your efforts in
to raising the quota of your district'
Half dollars to the Daily, win he
blows at the Paterson silk bosses and
the traitorous officials of the Assoc
ciated Silk Workers. Speed every
cent to the Daily Worker, 80 e. 18th
st., New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-24
Central Rank and File
Strike Committee
Points Way
Coal Production Down
Fayette County Meet
for Strike Demands
BULLETIN.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, July s5.--A
successful picket line was held this
morning at Castle Shannon where
the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co.
has its mine number two. The min
ers continue to walk out. Produe-
ton has been reduced from seven
teen railroad cars last Friday to five
today. The operators are making
desperate attempts TO find scabs In
Pittsburgh.
The Fayette County coke-ooaf re-
gion will hold its united front con-
ference soon to formulate demands
and issue the call for strike. For
ty-six delegates from twelve mines
have already been elected. These
mines all belong to the Prick, Raj
hey, Hillman and Republic Steel
Companies Many more mines viu
be represented.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 22-rhe
second big dent, and the biggest so
far, in the Pittsburgh Terminal scab
agreement made under Governor
Pinohot's auspices by the United
Nine Workers-was reported amidst
applause and enthusiasm to the full
meeting of the Central Rank and
File Strike Committee here today
(July 22).
Mine No 2 of the Pittsburgh Ter
minal Coal Co., located at Castle
Shannon, had 80 men in it yester-
day-slaving along under the wage
cut rate of AZ and a half cents a
ton, and harrased by continually in
creasing amounts of unpaid labor.
This morning fair sized picket line
was placed in front of the mine, and
ITO of the miners refused to go in.
OF the 100 approximately who did
go down, many said they we're only
taking their tools out and would not
go down tomorrow.
The large force of special deputies,
whose terror campaign against the
miners had much to do with driv-
ing the men into the UNIV. trap in
the first place, we're neatly fooled.
They were all rushed to Coverdale,
where picket lines have been main
tanned for some days, since part of
the men walked out. Undoubtedly
the deputies will be back at Castle
Shannon tomorrow, but the strike is
spreading again through the Pitts.
burgh Terminal Mines.
The fiasco made by the UNIV
chieftsins Murray and Pagan at
Canonsburg, Sunday, has further re-
duced prestige of the UNIV. The
fact that the Pursglove miners,
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-24
United Front Meets
to Spread Mine Strike
we Have Launched A New
Offensive! Send Food Now!'

PITTSBURGH July 2The Central Rank and File Strike
following telegram to the Striking
799 Broadway New York City
File Strike Committee at its session today
greetings solidarity New York and Phla
deIpha Relief that all workers of
number possible for the tag
strike against starvation by immense col
lections for food and tents milk for babies.
offensive and taking preparatory
steps Other coal fields strike Therefore
your aid multiply speedily
another striker shot by thugs the picket
line gigantic cities and
collection for strike relief thereby helping
TO fight to victory Comrades All out tag day"
CENTRAL RANK AND FILE STRIKE COMMITTEE"