The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Sends a Delegation
Against Whalen
Picket Arrests
Earl Browder Speaks
On Tasks of the
Conference
Especial to the Daily Worker)
BY N. HONG

nous call for united struggle against
the MIRA, and laying plans joining
two leading organizations in the I'M
employed field, the Councils and On
employed Leagues in struggle Tor
social insurance and relief.
There were present total Of 507
delegates; las were from Unemployed
Councils. 242 from Trade Union Un-
ity League unions, including textile
70, steel and metal "A, mining 80,
food 80, needle IA, auto Is, marine B.,
railroad 7, miscellaneous Z. The IN
employed Leagues had "a present.
From independent unions there were
At; A. F. of l.. unions 80, railroads 6,
youth organizations 8, and from frat
ernal organizations ga.
The delegates represented 100000
workers. A telegram was received
from the Trade Union Unity Council
In New York telling Of Whalen's
threats against picketing and asking
the conference for delegation to
Washington. The conference decided
10 send a delegation.
A. j. Music was chairman Of the
Saturday night session.
In the discussion, Mary Smith, mil
itant figure in the st. Lewis nut pick
ers strike, praised the Communist
Party. Seiger, from Philadelphia
carpenters local exposed the A. F. OF
L. takers.
Participating in the discussion were
Goldberg, a metal striker from New
York, Sponsaller, Musteite railroader,
Nelson, Boston Negro dyehouse strik-
er. He told how the TUUL organ
lied six shops and is now leading two
strikes.
Not Paper Unity
Rubin, of the Food Workers In
dustrial Union said we should work
for unity, but not only on paper. He
said the Musteite Amalgamated did
nothing to send delegates. 1t did not
even bring the conference to the at
tention of its members. Suchow, Of
the New York carpenters, brought
greetings from three locals. Larry
Cohen, Musteite delegate from the
Brooklyn Edison falsely said that the
left wing opposition states its job
is to smash unions, and implied that
we sabotaged the conference. He ad-
mitted the Amalgamated leaders sup
port Music, yet Cohen could not get
elected from the Amalgamated to the
conference "becaus two vars ago the
TUUL split the union"
IT cannot understand why young
man like the last speaker" said
Mother Bloor, lis so pessimistic. II
is time to stop this croaking."
A collection was taken Of $50.
Moore, a young auto worker %
Grand Rapids reported on the victory
at the Hayes body company against
the bosses code. The workers won q
20 per cent increase and recognition
of their union.
Heintz, from the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union in Am
bridge, reported gain of 600 mem
bers in one month.
Pussyfootfng On Red Issue
Jerry Allard Of the PIMA defended
himself from the criticism Of Stachel
of the TUUL of having pussyfooted
by raising the red issue against the
NNlU being too near the Communist
Party.
Onda of the Cleveland Unemployed
Council told of the refusal Of the
Music Unemployed League to unity
They say they Cannot discuss evic-
tons"
Industrial conferences are still on
today. The mining conference lasted
IL hours A unanimous agreement on
a unity program was reached. Frank
Borich, secretary of the National
Miners Union, told of the code hear
ings in Washington. Both the UNI
WA and the Progressive Miners OF
America, he said, presented codes
giving what their particular operators
desired. Lewis was for the IS a day
scale while. the NMU was for the Sc
scale, for the right to strike, and
the right of the workers to join any
union Of their own choosing.
Miners from Fayette County re-
ported the possibility Of every mine
striking In a few days against the
NRA. Pearcy OF the Progressives, he
said, asks an eight hour day when the
miners want and need six hour day
PIMA Offlcials and Lewis
Cross of the Progressive Miners left
wing corroborated the betrayals of
the progressive officials Pearcy OF
@ho DNFA- &c onnroo ol,;,,, ToIx.
Lewis for an agreement, he said
Weissinan said it was obvious from
the start the course the PIMA would
take, but Allard and others did moth
| ing about it. Muench told how the
proressives at the convention vel
coined stool pigeons but barred mil
liant miners.
Allard defended this stand Of the
PIMA officials saying, "You repre-
sented paper union"
At the railroad conference the
Musteites INSTRUCTED. Sponseller,
Musteite railroad delegate, opposed
unemployed committees in the Broth
erhood lodges, and the policy Of unity
groups. He delivered minority re-
port on the floor of the conference.
Shaw presented clear cut pro-
gram of unity in the railroad industry
demanding return Of the 10 per
cent cut, for federal unemployment
insurance, unemployed groups in the
union lodges. Nine railroad delegates
voted for the unity program, and
\ two Musteite delegates voted against.
4 Unity Textile Conferences
At the textile conference Kahn and
Weissman, strikers, spoke on the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union code
and on the bosses code now in effect