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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09

Not at all 1t is because they are
against the revolutionary way out of
the crisis, the way of socialism, the
way Of Marx and Lenin, of inter-
natienalism, against the only alter
native to the capitalist way. That is,
they are for the capitalist way.
The Open Letter described these
gentlemen and their policy in the fol-
lowing words:
"As opposed to our policy, name
ly: alliance of the preletariat with
the poor and ruined middle farm
ers under the hegemony of the
proletariat, and struggle for the
revolutionary way out of the crisis
they are putting forward their
policy namely: policy which goes
in the direction of establishing a
Farmer-Labor Party, in which the
workers become an appendage to
the petty-bourgeoisie and the pet
ty-bourgeoisie become an append
age to the bourgeoisie, and for
democratic methods Of struggle"
One Of the centers of this Labor
Party agitation is the magazine
Common Sense" whats in a
nameD, around which gather some
middle-class intellectuals and rene
gades from Communism. In its cur
rent issue is displayed an article by
the liberal professor, John Dewey, on
"the imperative need for a new Rad
ical Party" This shows to the care
full reader the true purpose of the
proposed new party" Behind a
screen of radical" phrases there is
clearly to be seen the real policy to
preserve as well as extend" the
Roosevelt policies when in their pres
ent form they have been declared
bankrupt.
Another variation Of the same tune
is sung by Mr., Ben Gitlow. This rem
egade returns to the stale puke of
the La Toilette third party" in COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
The Labor Parties" Now in Existence

Where the Labor Party" is not a
sectarian agitation but a mass reali-
ty, there it shows it's true colors in
action. 1t is not necessary to cite the
British Labor Party, which even the
Socialist Party today bushes to de-
fend. We can look at "our own"
Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota,
which captured" the State govern
ment few years ago. This miser-
able Labor Party" is only a branch
of the national Democratic Party,
carries out the same policies, bally-
hoos for Roosevelt, evicts the farm
ers, starves the workers, crushes
strikes, and carries out every dictate
of the Steel Trust, Flour Trust, and
Railroad companies which rule Min
nesota.
Let this be clear: All advocacy of
Farmer-Labor Party today is a
proposal that the working class shall
not find its own independent policy,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09

OF radical" sons of the ruling class
The Music group Conference fol
Progressive Labor Action is also
committed to the Labor Party Idea
With them also this is a part OF
their rejection of the Communist
Party. Now that they are more active
in united front struggles they are
not so energetic in pushing the La
Dor Party idea forward, but they stili
hold 1t in reserve. 1t is one Of the
characteristic trademarks OF their
political position, that of left" So
cial reformists, who talk very radical
but turn away from the revolution
airy path TO socialism. They criticize
the Communist Party as "sectarian,'
although themselves are q much
smaller Sect" in order to cover their
fearfulness and indecisiveness before
the most fundamental issues.
All Labor Party" advocates today
are sectarian groups with few ex-
ceptions) who appeal TO non-exist-
ing mass party" against the living
growing, Virile, fighting Communist
Party. They exist on the hope that
the day will come when the capt.
talists will say: your time has come.
Now we need you"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Socialist Injunction Lawyer
Runs for Mayor of New York
Chas. Solomon Applied for Injunction Day
Before Police Killed Steve KatoVis
lagainst iniunctionsu platform.

"against injunctions" platform.
Solomon, through his law firm,
Goldberg and Solomon, 66 Court st.,
Brooklyn, sought the injunction for
the Retail Dairy Clerks Union. The
attorney representing the boss in his
demand for an injunction against the
Food Clerks Union was one called
Samuel S. Rosh of Sc Court Street,
Brooklyn, (Solomon's business adj
dress) who was clerk in Solomon's
office. Solomon, not wishing to have
his name used as the attorney for
boss against strikers, handled the
case through his clerk, Roeh. Resh
is today a member Of the firm of
Goldberg and Solomon.
Solomon also had the boss, Miller,
swear out an affidavit for the Retail
Dairy Grocery Clerks Unions injunc-
ton against the strikers. The Socia-
list Party candidate for Mayor pre-
sented this affidavit. in which Miller
states: Il need hardly tell this court
that as a result of the conditions (the
Strike-D. d. that have described in
this affidavit, there has been a sub
stantial decrease in the volume of my
business and of the income there
FROM" against the strikers.
Solomon used the boss's decrease
in business" as reason for issuing the
injunction against the strikers.
-Four of Miller's workers, Louis Nit
tleman, Rubin Eckstein, Frank Small
heiser and Isidore Porlitz were tricked
into signing affldavits they were mot
allowed to read, against the Food
Clerks Industrial Union on the threat
of losing their jobs. These affidavits,
which stated that the workers had
Joined the Retail Dairy and Grocery
Clerks Union and that they were re-
ceiving union conditions, the workers
later branded as lies. They signed
additional affidavits in which they
exposed the non-union conditions In
Millers' place and stated that the Re-
tail Clerks Union was merely signed
up by the boss to break the strike.
The four also joined the Food Clerks
Industrial Union.
The aff1davits, which the boss had
forced the workers to sign without
reading were also used as testimony
by Solomon in his request for the
Injunction against the Food Clerks
Union.
The day following the application
for injunctions for the AFL union
and the boss against the Food Clerks
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tract which stated that only union
members sent in by the union were
to be hired by Miller, an addition
was written in stating that:
Said firm has the right to hire
clerks who must become union
men in 48 hours"
In the same contract between the
AFL union and the boss, the printed
flgures calling for a 57-hour week
~7s-e stricken out and changed to
70 hours. Similarly an entire para
orsph forbidding overtime was strick-
n cut. The minimum wage of SAL a
week required" by the union was
changed to $35.
In a paragraph stating the legal
holidays for which workers must be
paid, May list was listed. BUT an
addition was written in which read
hat "all clerks working on May LIST
are to receive an extra day off,"
These were the conditions the AFL
officials fixed to collaborate with the
boss to break the strike.
The workers remained firm and
maintained their picket line. They
defied the thugs brought in by the
AFL leaders and the boss. All the
neighborhood was in sympathy with
the strikers.
Miller and the officials of the Re-
tail Dairy and Grocery Clerks union
then Joined in applying for separate
inJunctions against the strikers and
the Food Clerks Industrial Union.
On January Is, when the affldayits
for the Injunction were filed at the
Bronx County Supreme Court it was
found that the attorney requesting
one of the. injunctions was Charles
H. Solomon, present candidate for
Mayor for the Socialist Party on an
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Union, Whalen's (who was then po-
lice commissioner cop, Harry Kiritz
and a detective attacked pickets and
workers before the store at an open
air meeting supporting the strikers.
Several workers were wounded and
Steve Katovis was fatally shot. Eight
days later, January "a, Katovis died
after days of agony.
The following day, Saturday,
January rs, while Robert Minor,
present candidate on the Commu-
mist Party ticket was being beaten
unconscious by police who attacked
a demonstration at the City Hall
protesting the murder Of Steve Ka-
fowls, Solomon was in court, before
Judge Callahan, arguing that the
injunction be granted.
But the Food Clerks Industrial
Union exposed the strike breaking
tactics of the AFL union officials, the
boss and Solomon, so effectively and
the solidarity of the workers was so
great, that the court was forced to
refuse the motion for the injunction.
The Socialist Party today cooper
ates with Whalen, the same Whalen
who decorated the policeman Harry
Kiritz for shooting Katovis, in his
latest job OF New York MIRA head.
Thomas protests" against the sweep
ing injunction against the bakery
strikers under MIRA, but the Socialist
Party regrets" it cannot join with
Whalen in the MIRA Consumers drive.
Whalen is allowed the use of the
Debs radio station, WEvD.
Charles Solomon, as far back as
1921 introduced bill in the state
legislature at Albany, not against in
functions, but for prohibiting the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
What About This Labor Party Talk?

PlaintiVe appeals are heard
nowadays in certain quarters, call
ing upon the backward" American
workers to come forward and organ
ize a Labor Party or Farmer-La-
Dor Party. All these voices fail la
mentally In finding full harmony in
their chorus, But one note is COM
mon to all. They are agreed that the
Communist Party cannot win the
American workers." from which they
conclude that their big job is pre-
cisely to prevent that impossible
thing from happening.
What about this labor party" bus
mess, anyway?
Everything must be judged today
in the light Of the questions raised
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shall not take the revolutionary path
to socialism, but that it shall be-
come the tail Of the middle-class re-
formist agents of Wall Street, that
it shall not fight resolutely for its
immediate needs, that it shall dis
arm before the rising forces Of Fas-
eism and War, that 1t shall Garry
upon its own shoulders the cross
upon which the capitalist class pre-
pares further to cruelty 1t.
Not the "Farmer-Labor Party" and
the restoration" of capitalism with
Fascism and war, but the Communist
Party and the revolutionary over
throw Of capitalism, the building of
a new society, of socialism-that is
the answer that every class-conscious
worker must give to this question.
Another article will deal with the
question of the farmers and their
problems In relation to the Farm
er-Labor Party.D
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appointment Of any person as dep
uty sheriff to assist in the suppression
Of industrial disorders unless he shall
have been a resident of the county
In which the trouble occurs for one
year or more" New York Times,
February "a, 1929
The sharpest claw, which the
blue eagle, under the adept guidance
OF Grover Whalen, is beginning to
use against the workers of New York
is the injunction. The Socialist Par
ty announces in its platform for the
coming New York City elections that
1t Is against injunctions and to prove
its sincerity places injunction king
Solomon" ut the head of its ticket as
Socialist candidate for Mayor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Ham Fish Had Given Blessings to Spy and
Crook Uncovered in Labor Defense Office

On the letter head of the Executive
Council of the National Civic Fed
Grafton are to be found the names
of Matthew Vol. acting president;
Ellis Searles, secretary; Joseph P.
Ryan, chairman, Committee on Rus
sian Affairs.
We select these names from the
list because they belong to men who
are known as labor leaders"
Matthew Vol is a vice. president
of the American Federation of La
Dor. Recently he has been made the
New York head of IA y. F. 7.
police force" for e---:z--cing the
MIRA"
Grover Whalen, close friend and
associate Of Vol in putting over the
N.R,A. on the working class, leader
Of the drive TO destroy the right to
strike and picket, procurer of forged
documents for war provocation
against the Soviet Union, 'red bait
er" and organizer of dozens of armed
police and gangster attacks on I'M
employed and strikers, has given the
cue. Vol is that most dangerous en-
envy Of the working class and its Or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09

by the crisis The workers and farm
ers are looking for way out. There
are two-and only two-possible
paths to take. One way is that be-
ing worked out by the capitalist class
and its helpers; this way is for low
ering the standards of living of the
workers, taking away their civil
rights, proceeding to Fascism and
war-the way of trying to patch-up
the broken down capitalist system.
The other way is that of working
class struggle for higher living stand
ards, to protect and extend workers
rights, to fight against Fascism and
Wharf.-The way toward the revolution
airy overthrow of capitalism and the
reorganization of society on the basis
of socialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
No Middle Course: 1t Is One or Other

Between these two paths there is
no middle course 1t is one or the
other. The Communist Party is fight
ing for the second one, the revolu-
tionary way.
The capitalists and their servants
want to blur this issue, to keep the
minds of the workers away from this
question entirely. But from the mass
es there arises more and more the
demand for radical reorganization
of society. This has grown so loud
that even Roosevelt, the capitalist
president, must make verbal conces-
sions to it. Like the Fascist Hitler,
he must use radical phrases to cover
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09

up the capitalist policy which he puts
over even more ruthlessly than did
Hoover. Roosevelt and his helpers
make use freely of even such words
as revolution" to describe the new
deal" This is done to soothe the
'anti-capitalist moods and ideas of
the masses and keep them away from
the path of real revolution.
The Socialist Party is, in its own
way and in general agreement with
the leaders of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, developing the same
line as Roosevelt. 1t supports un-
conditionally Roosevelt's policies, but
covers this up with talk about $50
cialism." But it grows harder every
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
BY DAN DAVIS

1--WE demand again, and pledge
our elected representatives to work
for the complete abolition of the
practice of issuing injunctions in
labor disputes and pending the
realization of this object, the modi-
f7cation of the law.
ID To provide against issuance
OF injunctions in labor disputes be-
fore full and complete trial of the
issue; and 90 jury trials in pro-
ceedings to punish for contempt
for alleged violation of injunction
orders, such trials to be presided
over by judge other than the
one issuing the injunction"
From the Socialist Party 1888
New York City election platform.
(All the following data can be
found on file in the Bronx County
Supreme Court.
NEW YORK.-On December 80
1929, Isidore Miller, owner of Miller's
Market, an open shop food market
at 1865 Union Avenue in the Bronx
discharged two workers, Harry Bloom
and Joe Weiner, because they be-
longed to the Food Clerks Industrial
Union, Local IT, affiliated with the
Amalgamated Food Workers of Amer
lea, now the Food Workers Industrial
Union. Efforts were made by officials
OF the union to have the workers
relnstated. The boss refused and the
union declared it a lockout. Janu-
airy 6, 1880, picket line was estab-
lished before the market and the
shop declared on strike.
Miller had been paying his work.
ers SIG to $22 for a 90 to 119 hour
seven day week The Food Clerks
Industrial Union demanded $40 for
81 hour, six Gay week. The strike
pickets, each one of whom the courts
were forced to dismiss because OF
lack of evidence.
Several days after the strike be-
Gan, Miller found a helping hand
the Retail Dairy and Grocery Clerks
Union, Local 1888, AFL, officials. The
latter signed him up and Miller, who
had always sworn he would ALWAYS
have an open shop suddenly had his
MARKET 'un.onized." The AF'L union
and Miller signed a contract in which
the conditions for the workers, listed
in printed form agreement, were
stricken out and changed with pen
and ink to suit Miller.
20 H~Tt paragraph of the con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Dipping Into One of Cabitalism's Cessbools

By B. ID.
The dragnet of the National Civic
Federation scrapes the bottom of the
cesspools of capitalism and brings up
creatures so repulsive all except its
officers and their kind receil from
them.
You can be thief who has stolen
money donated by workers for the
defense of workers Jailed as hostages
in the class war, and for the support
of their families. You might have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09

prove things, raise wages, shorten
hours, and SO on-that he will really
pateh-up the system. But it takes
really fool Cor Norman Thomasl
to speak Of Roesevelt's path being
the path to socialism. The workers
will not, cannot, believe this.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
BY EARL ROWDE Err

day to convince workers that the
road to Socialism lies in following
Roosevelt. No matter how often the
workers are fooled, yet they are not
fools. Millions of them are misled
into support of Roosevelt, by the
demagogy that he will really i'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
BY A. b. MAGM.
Editor, Michigan Worker

&NON, t'~S&fASe'fA WA
WHAT will Ford do9
" The government Is worried
General Motors is worried, Morgan
Is worried.
Ford has not signed the MIRA code
for the auto industry. 1t is clear
that he won't. This code was die
tated by the two Wall Street con-
Germs, General Motors and Chrysler,
and put over with the aid of Wall
Streets pack-in- the-box, Mr.. William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor. 1t is code
that is designed to do what the Ma
tional Industrial Recovery Act as a
whole aims to do: the smashing down
of the workers standards of living
and the firmer classification of in
dustry under the domination of the
leading Wall Street interests. The
trouble in the auto industry is that
there are two big trusts, General
Motors (Morgan) and Ford, with
Chrysler, the third largest manufac-
turer, allied with General Motors
through Wall Street connections
Ford, who represents rs per cent OF
the industry, refuses to swallow the
General Motors code.
General johnson, who is closely
connected with Bernard Baruch and
other Wall Street cronies of Roose-
welt, is doing his damnest to put
over the General Motors code, Two
days after he issued a warning
against using the boycott, intimida-
ton or coercion in connection with
the codes, he declared that the AM
eriean people would "eraek down" on
anybody in the auto industry that
remained outside the MIRA pale. This
tip was Immediately followed by the
action of the governors of a number
of states in declaring boycott
against Ford cars.
Ford pays 81 day minimum, act
ualfy higher than provided in the
auto code. OF course, Ford never
gives something for nothing; in re-
turn for slightly higher pay he has
developed the most fiendish speedup
system on the face of the earth, OPP
crates 81 day forced labor racket,
maintains a service department (spy
organization) that outdoes anything
the steel industry can offer, and
rules the city of Dearborn, with its
population of $4,000, an ruthlessly
as ever did feudal lord his wretched
serfs.
NOW Ford is preparing to slip over
~ fast one on the MIRA. An In
ternational News Service (Hearst)
dispatch from Washington Sept.
reports that he will shortly make
public code OF his own, providing
"profit-sharing" scheme and q is
to 20 per cent increase. Ford work
ers have had sufficient experience
with his insurance and banking rack
cts to smell . large-sized rat in the
"profit-sharing" scheme. But what
ever Ford decides to do, it will have
two purposes: first, to break up any
attempts at organization on the part
OF his workers, and second, to strike
q blow ut his chief rival, General
Motors.
Thus the struggle around the
auto code illustrated in the clearest
form how every step that the cap
italist class takes toward = possible
solution Of the crisis merely results
In sharpening Of the antagonisms
between the capitalist class and the
vvnpb{u~ Aya The nvr~ >~J
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Fish, John B. Trevor,
Patriotic Civic recommending
soolpgeon Below is letter Easey
onal Civic Federation of which acting president
with = recommendation similar
In charge Of labor under Doak, Of
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NJ. yehn D. trevor,
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Dear Hr. Trevor;
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Plaintiff by ooLBgRa SOLOMON
complaining OK the defendants alleges

complaining or defendants alleges
1Rs7s That the plaintiff, Retail Jatry Grocery
Phoosat the injunction solomon in
1885, Goldberg Solomon asking an in
junction for the A. F. L. union which gned
after the strike against Clerks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09

This the issued behalf
of Iidore Miller Mers Food
Industrial Union appearing On the
Samuel Roh ss Court
Street,
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W5upREE COURT MoEx COUNTY
HAIRY RI8sRR. 5eors fary-Tr sasurer Of
tho Rets31 Dairy and Grocery Clerks Union
Of Creator Hcw Yerks Loeal $50, IN.
incorporated assoeist1en,
Plaintiff,
-a8a3ast.
I57AEL vAsszaNAEs Individually and 40
Ss9reearysfreasursr Of YooD CLERKS IN
INDUSTRIAL UNION LOCAL l7s Affiliated Ill
With ehe Azalgamased Food torkars Of ~
Aosr&cas
Defendants.
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