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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
c. P. Mine Conference Makes Important Decisions

NMU., the PIMA, the Anthracite
Miners Union, the independent
union in the state of Washington,
and the fact that large section of
the miners are still unorganized
The conference subjected to discus
sion the role of the various REFORM
list leaders of the U.M.W.A., PIMA,
A.M.W.U., and gave a clear answer
to all miners of all organizations as
to what is the policy of the Com
nlunists with regard to the fight for
the unity of the miners.
The u. M. w. A. officials, of course,
refuse to recognize the existence of
the other miners organizations and
claim that only the U.M.W.A. is the
organization of the miners. The con-
ference could not come to the con-
clusion, as do the LoveStone rene
gades, that only through the U. NJ.
w. A. can the miners be united. 1t
would be impossible to force the
miners of the Illinois fields now or
ganized in the PIMA. back into the
U.M.W.A., aside from the fact that
such a policy would be against the
interests, not alone of the P. M. A.
miners, but of all miners, including
the rank and file OF the U.M.W.A.
Nor can we adopt the position of
the Pearceys and Cappelinis that
these organizations are the fighting
organizations of the miners that
should be built up on national
scale. Neither did the conference
decide that only through the N.M.U.
can the miners establish one militant
union Of miners, although the N.M.U.
has established strong organization in
the Western fields and has great in
fluence among the organized miners
as well as unorganized miners in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia,
Kentucky, etc. The conference de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Powers on Trial
Today for Fight
for JObIeSS Relief
WorkersUrged to Pack
Court in Protest
on Frame-Up

NEW YORK.-The trial of George
L. Powers, district organizer Of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
union is scheduled for today at 10
a. m, in Part Of Special Sessions
Court, corner White and Centre SITS,
New York City.
Powers is still awaiting trial in his
case, which grew out of the United
Front City Hall Unemployed Demon
stration Of April 81, 1892, when police
beat up unemployed workers merci
leSsly. His case has been called many
times, and repeatedly adjourned at
the instigation OF the prosecution
which, by keeping it suspended, tried
to use 1t as club against unem-
ployed actions.
The International Labor Defense,
which is lighting the franle-up, calls
upon all workers and all workers
which support the
struggle for unemployment insurance
and relief to pack the courtroom
this morning.
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Banquet to Raise
Funds for Center

NEW YORK, Dec. 2O.-The Work
ers Center Banquet, arranged by the
Central Committee of the Communist
Party, will take place at the Workers
Center, IS E. 18th St., second floor,
Sunday, Dec. "a. This is banquet for
delegates from workers organizations
which have raised funds for the sup
port of the Workers Center.
Among the speakers will be a rep
resentative of the Central Commit
tee of the Communist Party, Charles
Krumbein of the New York District,
Joseph Brodsky and James w. Ford
The program of the banquet in
cludeS the Chorus of the Freiheit &C.
sangs Verein, led by Jacob Schaeffer;
a recitation by Ballad of the Artef;
instrumental music by the WI.R.
Band and Negro workers chorus.
The Central Committee urges all Or
CARNATIONS which have not taken
steps to support the banquet to elect
delegates and remit contributions for
the upkeep of the Workers Center.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Rank and File Shoe
Delegates Battle
Betrayal Move
United Front of Clique,
Officials Revealed at
Amalgamation Meet

BOSTON, Mass, Dec. 20.-An at
tempt to nIllify all amendments to
the constitution thus far adopted by
the delegates at the Shoe Union
Amalgamation Convention was made
today when the Constitutional Com
mittee, headed by I. Zimmerman,
brought in a proposal to adopt the
constitution without amend
ment.
The proposal called for the accept
ance of the original constitution dis
regarding all amendments adopted
and for submitting to a referendum
vote any amendments desired. A vote
on the question was rs in favor and
go opposed S. Ziebel of New York
moved for a roll call vote which in
volved the voting strength of the del
egations. The roll call vote proved to
be 200 1-3 favoring and 1877 23 against
the committees proposal.
Ziebel introduced motion demand
ing that all amendments thus far
adopted should stand and that all adj
ditional amendments be submitted to
a referendum. The motion is now be-
ing discussed at the convention.
Rank and file delegates regard the
committees motion as a betrayal Of
the rank and file and an attempt to
defeat amalgamation. Rank and file
delegates are making sharp fight to
amend the constitution to establish an
organization for the shoe workers
guaranteeing control to the rank and
file and stripping the national Off
Gals and the general executive board
Of such power as may aid in setting
up another bureaucracy. 1t is these
amendments which the Constitution
Committee proposed to discard.
The Constitution Committee, in
making the proposal used as a preteXt
that Nolan and Mahan, officials who
are opposed to the amendments, will
break amalgamation. Actually their
motion is a concession to these Off
Gals. 1t indicates that the officials
hope to retain their power in the new
organization and have a close tie up
with the Zimmerman clique.
The New York delegation YVES in the
vanguard in exposing the united
front of Zimmerman with the general
officials and flayed Zimmerman for
his silence to date in regard to the
conspTacies of Nolan and Mahan
against amalgamation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
MGW Officials Aid
Wage Cutting Drive
ofDressShopBoSseS
Send Scabs, Gangsters
to Break Strikes Led
by Industrial Union

NEW YORK.-Open collaboration
Of the officials of the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union with
the dress shop bosses to cut union
scales of wages established in the
agreement following the general
strike last fall and to bring the dress
makers conditions down below the
level Of this prior to the strike is
being revealed daily by members OF
the I. l.. G. w. U.
Not only are the officials refusing
to mobilize the workers against the
wage cutting campaign and appear
ing indifferent to all reports OF such
cuts, but they are actively assisting
the bosses TO break strikes against
wage cuts called by the Industrial
Union in the shops it controls. They
are supplying Scab5 for the bosses
and carrying on other descriptive ac-
tivity to split the front of the work.
ers and prevent any real struggle
against the reduction OF union stand
ards. The predictions of the Indus
trial Union that the strike agreement
would be paper victory If left to the
IL L. W. W. VI OllC10L0 w Oil4O4OO
are now being reaEzed.
At the Goldsheer shop where the
workers are on strike under Indus
trial Union leadership, the officials
have posted pickets with signs de-
claring the shop to be signed up with
the International and not on strike.
Thugs are being sent to intimidate
the strikers. At the same time the
international has supplied workers to
the new shop Of the Goldsheer boss at
Freeport, L. T., where wages are 40
to 60 per cent less than the New
York workers are receiving.
In the Pride Dress Co., another
shop under Industrial Union control,
all workers were ordered to report to
the International or work would be
withdrawn from this contractor. The
move to compel all Industrial Union
workers to join the I. L. G. W. U.
similar to- the fur bosses attempt
last summer is aimed at making the
wage cutting drive general
In the case Of the National Gar
ment Co. at 1400 Broadway, a jobber
with IS contracting shops controlled
by the International, wage cuts are
being imposed in several of the shops.
Although the workers have demanded
that the union take action, nothing
has been done to stop the wage cut
ting nor has any attempt been made
to mobilize the workers against 1t by
the International Wander, out of
town organizer, has aided a large
Mt. Vernon shop to establish a SIS
weekly minimum wage for the
workers.
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Thousands to Hear Shoe
Convention Report; Act
Against Injunctions
Observation-Disclosures
to Be Hailed at
Meeting Tonight

NEW YORK. Mass and legal &C
ton to defeat injunctionS issued
against sixty shoe shops, and the re-
port Of delegates and union officials
Of the results achieved by the Boston
Amalgamation Convention. are to be
The two high points Of the meeting
TO which the Shoe and Leather
Workers Industrial Union has called
its members and unorganized work
ers tonight in Arcadia Hail. el8 Hal
sey st., Brooklyn, at 6 pm.
Intense interest is centered around
The meeting both because Of the step
forward in American labor history
made by the Amalgamation Confer
ence and the $500, 1000 suit against the
union which the bosses have united
In adding to twelve Of the injunc-
tions.
Beside Jack StacheI, Acting Ma
tionaI Secretary Of the Trade Union
Unity League; Fred Biedenkapp,
General Secretary Of the Shoe and
Leather Workers Union, and Joseph
Magliacano, general organizer Of the
unions shoe department, speakers at
he meeting will include delegates to
the Boston Conference.
About 1000 workers in a dozen fac
tories are to select their representa-
tiyes through voting on Jan. ?, as
arranged by the N. r. A. This will
also be an important point for the
meeting.
While the 100000 suit against the
union parallels the noted Danbury
Hatters' case of thirty years ago,
when an injunction was issued
against picketing the injunction
against the Shoe Union bases its
charge on Communists trying to
overthrow the government" i.
the union not being legitimate Or
ganization because it is not affiliated
to the A. F. of L."
The A. F. of L. Boot and Shoe
Union, with which the workers have
severed all connections, is sending
press releases to the Italian fascist
paper in New York, I'll Progresso."
in which lying statements are made
and published as authentic state
ments of the Shoe and Leather
Union. One such statement claimed
that the militant union had ordered
its workers to return to the A. F. of l..
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sitions in both unions and TO unite
the miners of both the unions in
every pit, for joint struggle for the
Improvement of their conditions,
for the ousting of the officialdom
and replace them by honest mill
tant miners.
In this connection the slogan of
one militant union to unite all the
anthracite miners outside the U. M.
w. A. was approved as slogan that
can be more rapidly realized than one
union nationally. Though there ex-
ist many differences in the Illinois
situation. where there are two unions
almost equally divided in strength,
the same policy on the whole is to
be followed in the Illinois coal fields.
The Role Of the NM.U.
The conference decided that the
Communist fraction in the N.MU. do
everything possible to consolidate the
N.M.U. organizations that now exist
New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, etc. /,
and that the N.M.U. shall enter into
the unorganized fields where the pos
sibility exists to build the N.M.U.
At the same time, while in the
Penn Ohio regions where the U. M.
w. A. organization has been estab-
lished, the NM.U. shall intensity its
agitational activity, popularize before
the miners its fighting program and
take the lead in the fight for the
unity of the miners. The conference
also instructed the fraction to study
more carefully the situation in the
captive mines. where the miners have
been most slamefully betrayed by
the Lewises, and where, as result,
there exists side by side with the
U.M.W.A., the various unions es-
tablished directly by the coal COM
panies.
The conference called upon all
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Continued from Page u

miners. through militant action, could
force improved conditions despite the
code and the clause in the code which
prohibits strikes.
These miners, because of their mill
tant action defied the no strike and
fine section of the code with i'm
munity In fact, in the course of
their strike, they made one of the
conditions before returning to work
that there be no fines for the strikers.
These discussions also brought out
how the labor bureaucrats continue
their Strkebreaking activity and more
and more openly side with the OPP
orators against the miners.
The conference decided that on
The basis of taking up the defense
OF the everyday interests of the
miners, on the basis of now taking
up the fight for every grievance of
the miners, that we work for the
development of major struggle Of
the miners on April LIST, the time OF
the expiration of the agreement in
mcSt Of the coal fields.
As part of the development of the
immediate struggles of the miners
the conference decided that the great
est attention must be paid to the
fight for the interests of the unem-
ployed miners. The fight for relief,
for the G. w. A. jobs, for unemploy-
ment insurance were all discussed as
well as the coming Unemployed Con-
yention to take place in Washington,
d. c., ON January 13, IA and IS,
The second outstanding question
taken up at the conference was the
fight for unity Of the miners. The
Party conference had to answer the
question Of unity in the light of the
existence of separate miners organ
izations such as the U.M.W.A., the
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say, guy
Eddie's voice trailed off
plaintively. We kept ominous-
" silent.
Eddie began again with a wheel
ling persuaSiveness that would have
made q Vestal Virgin forget all her
notions of chastity. How bout it,
guy? You can say something about
the Labor Sports Union in the col
umn."
We agreed, Of course. Eddie gets
you that way. But had television
been a bit more common Eddie would
have discerned more than mere as
sent behind our uh-huhs and okays.
He would have seen what the pre-
war movie subtitle loved to call A
Diabolic Sheer On the Face of the
Villain. We were going to get event
eff" we muttered to our editorial
self (you gotta mutter to yourself in
these situations or else it's q phoney),
eff that guy Joe Freeman can foist
upon an unsuspecting public a series
OF fourteen articles on a Russian lit
erary team called RAAP, hell and
eddie newhouse, can write one little
column on the Labor Sports Union"
FOR variety of reasons, the work.
ers' sports movement in the
United States has been woefully
neglected. Probably the most i'm
portant reason has been the sectarian
character of the revolutionary move
ment of the United States, its isola-
ton from decisive sections of the
| American working masses and con-
sequently from their day-to-day cril-
ture, life, feelings and desires. Those
Of us who did-and do-work in the
labor sports movement got only an
olympian condescension from our
| ovariShtchi-where we didn't receive
| jeers that were something less than
good natured. Along with the heart
aches and headaches there were some
compensatory lighter moments, how
ever.
INCIDENT 1. Scene-Lab0r Sports
Union office. A harassed treasurer
| is sweating over accounts. A basket
ball team is demanding in strident
tones that they be scheduled for a
visiting court for next week or else
they'll leave the league. Two soccer
managers are arguing an off-side goal
| in tones that are everything but
hushed. The phone rings. A frantic
voice on the other end. so, L.S.U.,
LS.U.? This is Ludwig of the W.I.R.
WI.R.-Workers International Relief.
Lissen, L.S.U., you gotta send three
guys over here right away to sleep at
our office!''
| But comrade"-this in - weary,
patient tone--"our comrades have
places to sleep. Why do they have
to sleep in the WI.R. Officer"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Initial Orders Point to
Record Mass Sale of
Jan. 9Th Issue

NEW YORK.-A widespread enthu-
siaSm among workers for the 24-page,
tenth anniversary edition of the
Daily Worker, coming off the press
on Jan. s, is reported from numerous
cities and states in the country.
Initial orders already placed for
this issue, Of which minimum Of
250,O00 copies will be printed, point
to mass sale unequalled by any
previous issue Of our paper.
Mountain Districts
Utah plans a minimum sale Of
1900 copies, Denver, 1000 copies.
Sections in the Rocky Mountains
hitherto untouched by the Daily
Worker will be reached with the jan
uary edition.
Milwaukee's initial order for 1850
copies is an increase of 100 per cent
over any previous order by this city
for special issue of the Daily
Worker. Rockford, H., has ordered
300; McKees Rocks, Pa, 500 copies.
Competition Keen
Keen competition marks the race
between various districts and organ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21

Genosse Ludwig brOoked no reply
"They gotta come over right away.
Somebody's been stealing money or
ders from our mail at five o'clock IN
the morning"
But, comrade, this Is no detective
agency. We're r."
'sWhat?" he rOared, saint tfxis tbs
L.S.U. office? What number have |
got?"
THEN there was the desperate vuics
1 at the other end of the wire THAI
demanded that the Labor Sports
Union provide by the next morning
mass drill, a set of turnblers and
two full soccer teams for a Hun
garian fraternal order picnic in New
Jersey. The consequences in the event
that the L.S.U. did not come through
the voice insisted heatedly, would be
calamitous for the proletartan revolu-
ton in central New Jersey. When
it was explained calmly and with
minimum of such terms as "dialec-
tic" irreconciliable" and theological
that the L.S.U. was no vaudeville
booking agency, the voice at the
other end of the wire broke off nego-
tiations and withdraw in a huff. Yot
could almost taste the huff al om
end Of the line.
INCIDENT three repeats nseh
with minor variations almost
weekly. A timid young sylph, 200
pounds IL an ounce, tlmidIy APP
proaches some L.S.U. official. 'Tm
q little bit inclined towards plump
ness" she lisps, MAYBE you didn't
notice" Yeh, maybe. At this point
the little lady looks down at her
self kind Of coyly. Sand I thought
maybe you comrades, maybe you
could kind of reduce me, you know,
kind Of give me some exercises :. :"
The L.S.U. comrade answers
through gritted teeth in a voice
through which no psychologist
would escape the note Of hysteria-
"Comrade, this is no beauty parIor,
but you can join one Of our L.S.U.
clubs and take the regular gym
classes The instructor will give
you some special exercises" The
secretary hands her an address and
an application card and, like all
strong men In similar circumstan-
ces, ducks home and weeps TO his
hearts content.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Jan 9Th DAILY" Will
Carry Full Page of
C.P. Unit Greetings

NEW YORK.-Greetings from
Units of the Communist Party
will occupy full page in the
24-page, tenth anniversary edition
of the Daily Worker, coming off
the press on January 9Th.
Every unit in the country is
urged to rush its greetings as
soon as possible to make sure
that it will appear on the page
set aside for Party organization.
All branches of the Interna-
tional Workers Order, trade I'M
ions and mass organizations,
clubs, etc, by sending In greet
ings quickly will assure promi-
nent display Of their greetings.
These must be in the business
Office of the Daily Worker not
later than Dec. Both, and sooner
if possible. Which will be the
first to send their greetings?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21

cided that the Communist Party posi-
ton is that we shall work for the
unity of the miners into one militant
united miners union, and that such
an organization can only be estab-
lished on the basis Of uniting the
miners in struggle against the coal
operators, against the bureaucrats of
all the reformist controlled unions
and on the basis of militant class
struggle program and genuine work
ers' democracy.
The Communists in all unions will
work towards this end. This re-
quires that in all the reformist
unions that we work tirelessly for the
building Of the opposition movement
on the basis of such a class struggle
program that the N.M.U. will be
strengthened. and that it will take
the lead as the fighter for the unity
of the miners.
But the conference at the very out
set sounded a word of warning
against placing the fight for unity
abstractly. Only through the devel-
opment Of the united struggle of the
miners in every pit, in every section,
in every district, can the slogan of
one national militant union become
a reality.
In this connection the conference
approved the policy in the Anthra-
cite which the Communists there
have adopted. This policy is that
we cannot call upon the miners still
in the U.MW.A. (the majority to
leave the U.M.W.A. and join the new
union dominated by the infamous
Cappelini. However, neither could
we tell the miners in this new union
to go back to Lewis as do the Love-
stone renegades
Our policy must be to work i'm
both unions, to organize the oppo-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
City Events
SYMPOSIUM on SCOTTsBoRO AND
IYNCHINGS

SYMPOSIUM ON SCOTTSBORO AND
LYNCHINGS
international Labor Defense will hold
symposium on the present wave of lynch
ings and the Scottsboro case, Friday, Dec.
"a. $50, at Brooklyn Academy Of Music.
Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn. Many prominent
speakers will DO present, including Samuel
Leibowitz. chief soottsboro dc-ense attor-
ney; william L. Patterson national secre-
tary OF the International Labor Defense,
and Arthur Garfield Hays, prominent at
torney and author.
NOTICE
Laundry Workers Industrial Union has
moved from 140O Boston I'd. to 255 z. i38th
street.
LAUNDRY WORKERS MEETING
Laundry Workers Industrial Union will
hold mass meeting against gweatshops
and low wages, tonight at 8 pm, ct q W.
115th 81. discussion cf the A. 2. Of L.
tactics viii also take place.
LID. BAZAAR COMMITTEE MEETS
LID. Bazaar Committee win meet to-
night, 1850, at Workers Center, so E. 18th
st. All delegates from LID. branches and
mass organizations are invited.
HOSPITAL WORKERS MEET
Hospital workers League meets tonight
$50, at SO E. goth St
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Mass Meeting viii
Protest Eviction of
Coney Island Worker

NEW YORK.-An open-air united
front mass meeting to protest against
the eviction of a shoemaker is being
called at 7 pm. tonight at Mermaid
and 23rd st. by the Coney Island
Neighborhood Committee Of Action.
The shoemaker was evicted by his
landlord, Mr. Mirrer, a bakery owner,
because Hfirrer needed the store.
Although his rent had BEEN paid
until Feb. 4, 1884, the shoemaker with
all his machinery was evicted by the
landlord, MIR. Miller, a bakery owner,
because Mirrer needed the place to
expand his business for greater
profits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Textile Union Calls
Unemployed and Part
Time Workers to Meet

PATERSON.--A meeting Of all I'M
employed and part time silk and dye
workers is called for Thursday, Dec.
81, at 10 am. at 222 Paterson ST., by
the National Textile Workers Union.
There are now more unemployed
broad silk and dye workers than be-
fore the N.R.A. In the settling of the
strike the leaders of the A. F. of L.
did not take the unemployed and
part-time workers into consideration.
AS a result of this the majority of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Today Last Day for
Party Members to
Get Control Stamps

NEW YORK-TOday is abso-
lately the last day for Commu-
mist Party members in the New
York District to have their books
controlled. A Section represen-
tative will sit all evening In
every Section Headquarters to
control the books of those who
were unable to have their books
controlled at their unit meetings.
Every Party member must
have control a stamp affixed
in his book before he attends
the next unit meeting.
DIST. ORG. DEPARTMENT