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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-14
Red Hook Longshoremen Force Wage Increase

cuSs the new agreement and to take
up fight for the improvement Of
the working conditions on the docks.
The I. l.. A. delegates with a group
of gangsters tried to break UP the
meeting by heckling the speakers, but
without success. They finally resortsd
to an open attack. But something
happened. Something which Patsy
and Comardo are not accustomed to
and which they did not expect. After
Patsy turned over the platform, the
gangsters started to attack the speak
ers. There were at least 300 long
shoremen present who joined in the
fight and the I. L. A. delegates and
gangsters were forced to flee in their
$1,000 car, and the meeting continued.
Tasks of the Party
This struggle for the improvement
Of the conditions on the docks is just
beginning. The longshoremen. who
are bitter against the betrayals of
the LILA. and against the racketeers.
are ready to take up and continue
the struggle. What must be the role
Of the Party and the Mass Organi-
cations in this struggle. The role of
the Party must be to lead and assist
the Rank and File Action Committee
in the struggles. More Party mesl-
bers must be gotten for the work on
the waterfront.
The units in South Brooklyn must
begin to orientate their attention to
the waterfront; to distribute leaflets.
sell literature and make contacts. AZ
fairs to raise finances for activities
on the waterfront must be arranged.
The four opposition groups which
were organized must be broadened
out. The Party must be built on the
Waterfront as guarantee of the
broadening out of this movement and
entrench the organization of the
Rank and File Action Committee.
The mass organizations can help by
getting the longshoremen who are
members of their organization to
form opposition groups in the locals
where they belong and groups on the
docks where they work Participate
in the defense of the open air meet
ings and mass meetings of the long
shoremen, Assist financially by or
ganizing affairs for the waterfront ac-
tivlties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-14

Wednesday. However, the damnable
fact stands, that the supervisors
would not listen to the demands of
the unemployed and ran out in fear
of their skins.
On NoY Is, the workers, 12C00
strong. pledged themselves to go to
the supervisors and force them to
listen to their demands.
Lawrence Ross, speaking for the
Communist Party, was enthusiastically
greeted by the workers and the Com
munist Party was cheered. Ross ex-
posed the tactics of the supervisors,
and then told the workers that today,
Nov T. was the anniversary of the
Russian Revolution. He explained to
the workers the meaning of the Rus
sian Revolution, and pointed out that
in the Soviet Union there we're no
bread lines and no unemployment,
that it is country ruled by the
workers and farmers.
1t is estimated that some ten work
ers were arreste1 during the course
Of the demonstration. All of these
workers have been released. The
demonstration adjourned at o'clock
with the singing Of the International.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-14
BY ]. ROBERTS
Organizer, Section Z

In the last few months we witness
the developments of mass move
ment of the Longshoremen ON the
Brooklyn Waterfront in Red Hook.
This mass movement was organized
around the struggle against the new
agreement which was to be signed by
j. P. Ryan, President of the Inter
national Longshoremens Association
and the Shipowners on Oct. LIST.
On Nov. LIST the I. l.. A. announced
that the new agreement was signed.
This agreement states that the Long
shoremen are to get IS cents an hour
instead Of rs cents previously and q
$1.20 for overtime instead of $110.
This announcement came out of the
clear sky.
What was it that brought the Long
shoremen this partial victory at a
time when everything was set for an
other wage cut?
Prior to the expiration of the agree
ment, the Rank and File Action Com
mittee which was set up at the Con-
vention Of the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union in July, and the Com
munist Party Of Red Hook Section to
concentrate on the waterfront to
mobilize the Longshoremen against
another sellout. A detailed plan of
concentration was worked out. Open
air meetings on the Grace and Mum
son Line Docks were held more or
less regularly. Leaflets on the i'm
mediate issues were distributed. A
campaign to force the I. L. A. officials
to call meetings Of the I. L. A. Locals,
which are never called, to discuss the
new agreement was started. A meet
ing was called by the Rank and File
Action Committee at P. S. 20 on Oct.
9Th to discuss the new agreement.
The Longshoremen responded. They
began to move. The I. l.. A. Of
ficials began to get nervous.
Ryan and his Brooklyn neutenants
Patsy and Camarda got in touch with
the Board Of Education and the
school was denied to the men the
last minute, even though the full
amount was paid. A worker who was
distributing leaflets for this meeting
was attacked and told that there will
be no meeting. Despite the terror,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-14
Stronger Rank and File Action Needed to Get
Real Gains; Communist Party Units
Must Give More Help

about 500 Longshore.nen came to the
meeting. An open air meeting was
held outside the school at which the
Longshoremen passed a decision to
hold another meeting. Another meet
ing was held on Oct. 18th where the
new agreement was discussed and a
delegation of five was elected to go
to Washington to represent the Long
shoremen of Red Hook at the Code
hearings. At the same time a Joint
meeting Of Locals 808 and CTS Of the
I. L. A. was called in South Brooklyn
at which Ryan himself was to speak.
At this meeting some embarrassing
questions were put to Ryan by the
longshoremen. They asked him,
why they don't see him on the
waterfront to fight against the mis-
cradle conditions" One longshore-
man invited him to speak to his land
lord who has threatened him with a
dispossess. They demanded that the
new agreement with improved condi-
lions should be signed Immediately.
They decided to call another mass
meeting to discuss the new agreement
which was to be signed. In his re-
port, Ryan spent about ten minutes
of his time to warn the Longshoremen
not to listen to the propaganda of the
outsiders who want to take your
jobs away" He told them not to
act individually, that a strike is not
necessary and if there is to be
strike, Il want to lead it,"
Ridden BY Rackets
1t was these activities and the mood
of the longshoremen which changed
the course of the /. L. A. officials and
the shipowners from another cut to
q 10 cents an hour increase. How
ever, the increase of 10 cents an hour,
does not improve the conditions of
the longshoremen to any great ex-
tent. The Brooklyn Waterfront, es-
pecially Red Hook, is ridden by
numerous rackets with which the 1.
L. A. delegates are very closely al
lied. Practically all the Longslaora-
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at the PIdza TOrceQ q promise from
the supervisors that a ten percent
increase in relief would become eff
fective tomorrow. The workers are
planning to see to it that the super
visors carry through the promise by
assembling at the supervisors cham
bers Monday, November 18th, in the
morning.
The supervisors ran away from the
hunger march committee and re-
fused to hear the demands of the
half million jobless of Los Angeles
county.
Mayor Shaw warned the night be-
fore that the hunger march could not
take place; that the workers could
neither assemble or speak at Pershing
Square; nor march to the Plaza. In
the face of these threats on the part
Of the police the welfare officials and
Mayor Shaw, the workers of Los
Angeles held powerful and militant
demonstration against hunger.
Police Are Powerless.
At a little past one o'clock, there
were over five thousand workers
gathered in Pershing Square. Hynes
and his Red Squad came out of the
Biltmore Hotel and ordered the
workers to move on. Numerous squad
cars swar1ned around. The uni
formed police ran about alarmed at
the rapidly growing numbers of work
erS.
At about 1:20 p. m. the word was
quietly passed among the workers to
march in an orderly fashion to the
Plaza. In disciplined workingclass
fashion the line Of march assembled
so rapidly that the cops and legion
naires were unable to prevent the as
sembly. Suddenly the strong armed,
militant workers raised their ban
ners shouted Don't Starve
March On to the Plaza" and
the march through the streets of Los
Angeles, in the face of the prohibit
ton of police, began.
All along the line of march clear
to the Plaza the workers marched.
The cops tried to take the banners
away from the workers but the ranks
Of the workers closed solidly, and the
workers succeeded in retaining most
of their banners. The workers march
ing down Main Street called to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-14

Mexican workers gathered there to
join them in the march and met
with very fine response.
AT the Plaza thousands of workers
had gathered and cheereo the march
erS. The meeting at the Plaza was
opened by D. A. Sullivan Of the Re-
lief Workers Union. He read the
demands of the unemployed. Al
Wirin, LID. attorney, told the work
ers Of the murder of the cotton
strikers in San Joaquin Valley and
called for solidarity with the strikers.
Committee of Fifty Elected
A committee of so militant workers,
Negro and white, was elected to pre-
sent the demands of the unemployed
to the county supervisors, and amidst
much cheering left, while the crowd
waited.
Jones, well-known militant Negro
leader of the Los Angeles unem-
ployed, spoke. A representative Of
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union told Of the strike of the
needle trade workers. Workers from
San Pedro spoke. Helen Hester spoke
for the working women. Perry, militant
Negro leader. told of the murder of
James Wilson, Negro, by a thug
from the Sheriff's office.
Toward three o'clock the committee
that had gone to the supervisors re-
turned amidst much cheering. Sui
Ivan reported for the committee. The
Board Of Supervisors was notified by
mail of the fact that the delegates
of the unemployed would arrive. THE
supervisors" said Sullivan, despite
the fact that they sweetly stated that
they had sympathy for the unem-
ployed, would not listen to the de-
mands of the haIf-million unem-
ployed of Los Angeles County but ran
out Of the offices like the towards
that they are" The booing could be
heard for blocks.
The supervisors then said that
they could not listen 70 the de-
mands, that they were very busy,
and some Of them were vacationing.
At this time one of the secretaries
Of the supervisors announced that a
ten per cent raise in relief and work
orders would become effective on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-14
Win Relief Checks
In Forced Labor
Strike at Seattle
Arrested Striker Freed
But Must Go to Mi
gratory Camp

SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 10. - The
King County Strike against forced
labor is on. Workers responded i'm
mediately, starting Monday, Oct. 80,
to the call of the Unemployed Citi-
zens League, Redmond, Buren,, Golden
Gardens have had 100 per cent
strikes from the beginning. At Red
mond, SO strikers who had been off
relief were Immediately established
by pressure brought to bear by the
relief committee. Seventeen militant
picketers were arrested Monday from
the Waterfront woodward job. On
Thursday a 100 per cent walkout was
achieved. Friday the City Brick Yard
was 100 per cent. Magnolia Bluff,
Seward Park, Airport Farm and
Green Lake jobs are the weakest
points. The county welfare has moved
workers from the well-picketed points
to these weaker points in an attempt
to break the morale of the strike.
Another hot spot is the Waterfront,
better known as the skid road. On
Monday, the first day of the strike,
only "a out of a usual rs to 100 went
to work. The picket line was strong.
Baker, an imported gun thug hired
by the City Council to protect the
wood yard, pulled gun twice on the
picketers.
Tuesday morning only work
ers were on the job. Paul Smith,
10 years old was released yesterday
on conditions that he would 60 to
one Of the concentration camps that
are being started herein, attempt
to railroad all single men and
migratory workers into semi-mili-
tary service.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-14
Detroit Workers to
Hold Conference ON
JObleSS Insurance
Demand End of Sales
Tax and Cuts in
Relief

DETROIT, Mich, Nov. ia
statewide conference will be held
here Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 10
and 10, to launch struggle against
the NR.A., the state sales and head
taxes and for the enactment Of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill. The conference will open at
pm. Nov. Is at Finnish Hall, $3.50
14th Street, near McGraw.
The conference comes at a time
wGen there is widespread resentment
against the per cent sales tax and
the 81 head tax, and when the wage
cuts in the factories, carried through
under the sign of the Blue Eagle, and
the cutting of relief are showing the
necessity Of united struggle.
Workers and farmers organiZa-
tons throughout the state are pre-
pairing to send delegates to this con-
ference. including branches of the
Auto Workers Union, locals of the
American Federation of Labor, Nv.
w, Mechanics Educational Society
and the Federation Of Automotive
Workers, as well as unorganized
groups of workers, employed and I'M
employed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-14
Condemned Negro
Appeals to Workers
Jordan Denounces
Boss Justice

SALEM, Ore, Nov. ia call to
all workers. and especially to mem
bers Of the National Association for
the Advancement Of Colored People,
to rally to his defense, was issued
last Friday from oregon State Peni-
Tertiary by Theodore Jordan, Negro
worker framed and sentenced to die
on a charge of murder.
To-day the Oregon Supreme Court,
by vote of five judges for and one
against, condemns me to death by
hanging" Jordan said. "This deci-
sion, despite the fact that I was con-
Vlcted on forced confession, is proof
OF the fact that a Negro worker can
not expect or receive anything but
capitalist justice in courts from which
Negroes and workers are systematic
cally excluded from juries.
In the South, in Scottsboro, Ala
bama, the nine young innocent Negro
Scottsboro boys face the electric chair
on framed up charges, while here in
the west, in Oregon, 1 have been SEN
fenced to hang on framed-up charges.
by the International Labor Defense.
both in its legal and mass aspect,
has my holehearted endorsement
and support. Now that nearly every
legal step has been exhausted, it is
more than ever before the task of
every worker opposed to this legal
murder of an innocent member of
the working class, Of an oppressed
nationality, to join the movement
for my defense.
The time is short. In the few brief
days before the hangmen of Oregon
place their moose around my neck and
snuff out my life, I call upon every
worker to raise his or her voice in
protest, to raise their hands in pro-
lection. I call upon every worker,
individually and in their organiza-
tons of every character, and particu-
larry the members of the National As
ISOLATION for the Advancement of
Colored People, to rally to my de-
Tense"
CThe national and local leadership
or the N. A. A. G. P. repudiated Jor-
dan and turned bitterly against him
When he would not agree to refuse
the help of the International Labor
Defense).
This fight is part of the larger
struggle for the liberation of the on
pressed Negro people" Jordan's APP
peal concludes, for the freedom of
the oppressed working class. No
matter what happens to me, Theodore
Jordan, this struggle will, it must, 60
on. Let the struggle for the life of
Theodore Jordan be powerful link
in this chain! A link which will help
break the letters!
Theodore Jordan"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-14

tt4i1- IOD VI q p ueaA dtLAgGI Va ACAACA AS4
the winter.
When the NR.A. came, the girls
| in the radio department were given
the minimum provided for in the
code, which is 80 cents an hour. The
girls were able to make Sl2 a week.
This the employers thought was too
much, so Mr.. Dunning. the super
intendent, cut 400 girls in Department
/ 95, S150 a week each. When the
girls found that they were short in
| pay, they imediately stopped work
and demanded their full pay, forcing
Mr.. Dunning to state that lit was
only mistake"
Stool Pigeons Hired
The tool and die makers, machin-
lists, punch press and drill press op-
orators, seeing their wages cut, under
the N.R.A., began to organize into
the Steel and Metal Workers Indus
trial Union. This the company at
tempted to stop by calling on Messrs.
/ Uhlman and jones, business agents
/ of the International Association Of
I Machinists. to organize the workers.
/ However. the workers refused to join
/ the A. T. of L. Then the company
/ hired stool pigeons. one Of them,
/ Mr.. J. Ross, living at 1896 So. Wash
| tenaw Ave, was able to report on
tool and die maker, who was fired.
When a committee from the union
went to the office of the MIRA. de-
handing reinstatement Of the worker,
| Mr.. Nelson of the NR.A. refused to
have anything to do, stating they
"have a million other complaints,
thus showing their real role Of going
with the employers against the right
OF workers to organize.
They want an open shop, so that
/ speed-up and wage cuts could be
continued. The speed-up now is ter
rible. There is no time to go to the
toilet For instance, in the punch
press department No. 2, they have
college boy as time setter whom the
workers call 1850" because every
rate he sets is 1850 an hour.
industrial Union Organizes
The Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union, 1853 w. Madison St,
is opening campaign to demand
$40 a week for all laid-off workers
paid by the company. To demand
wage increases in every department.
To do away with the high produc-
ton rates. And to drive the stool
pigeons and company suckers out of
the shop, by organizing locals of the
union in each department.
Workers, help to accomplish this
There is. no one individual who can
do wonders. All of us WORRIES must
stick together and do our part.
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men in Red Hook who are working
are not. getting more than two days
week. A great percentage are per-
manently unemployed. They are dis
eliminated against on account of be-
ing unable to pay $500 for a Union
button and additional money for
graft. The longshoremen are forced
to pay at least 1-3 of their meager
earnings in graft to the racketeers.
The graft is in the form Of wine,
tickets for shows and dances that
never take place, collections for fun
erals that don't exist, etc.
On the Munson Line dock no long
shoreman can get job, even with
his dues paid, unless they are pay
ing certain percentage to the racket.
Since the 1929 agreement. the gangs
Of the longshoremen were cut down
from Q and 6 men in hole to and
4. Dangerous cargoes are loaded with
out extra pay for 1t. Those who get
hurt on the job are forced by the
racketeers at the point of a gun not
to apply for compensation.
Demand 1929 Agreement
1t is against these working condi-
tons that the Rank and File Action
Committee Of Red Hook and the Com
munist Party are mobilizing the long
shoremen for struggle. The long
shoremen in Brooklyn are taking up
this struggle.
At meeting of Local S03, which
was held more than week ago, the
longshoremen unanimously rejected
the new agreement and demanded the
1929 agreement which will Improve
the working conditions. Three other
locals have taken the same stand.
Because of this stand of the long
shoremen and the activities OF the
Rank and File Action Committee, the
delegates of the /. L. A. are getting
desperatel s,a.,
AT an open air meeting which was
held under the auspices Of the Rank
and File Action Committee on We'd
nesday, Nov. LIST, in Red Hook to dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-14
Quarry Local Union,
A. f. Of L., Endorses
Unemployment Bill

CONCORD, n. H., Nov. 80
Another A. F. of L. local, the Con-
cord Branch of the Quarry Work
ers' International Union, No. 81,
with IS members, has unanimously
voted to endorse and support the
Workers Unemplo. -nent Insurance
Bill.
The two other A. +. of L. unions
of the granite industry, the Con-
cord Branch, Granite Cutters
Union and Concord Branch, Pa
wing Cutters Union, have already
endorsed the bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-14
ShamOkin JObIess
Demand Release of
Herbert BENJAMIN

SHAM0KIN, Pa.-The Unem-
plOyed Council of Shamokin, an
important mining town, has sent
a resolution of protest to General
Wood and Governor Hockenhull
of New Mexico on the arrest of
Herbert Benjamin, which stated:
1--WE protest the arrest and jail
ing of Herbert Benjamin, organ
izer Of the Unemployed Councils,
and other workers. We condemn
your action in falling workers for
their activities in the class strug-
gle. Release Herbert Benjamin
and the three other workers i'm
mediateIy."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-14
Chicago Anti-War Meet

Donald Henderson, Secretary of the
American Committee for Struggle
Against War, will address meeting
in Chicago on Nov. 18th at p. M,
at the City Club, 315 Plymouth Court.
This meeting is being called to or
ganize Chicago committee of the
American League Against War and
FasciSm, which grew out of the
United States Congress Against War
held in New York, Sept. 90 to Oct. 1.
All organizations opposed to war
and Fascism are urged to send dele
gates. Individuals are invited to at
tend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-14
18th Anniversary Celebration

CHICAGO.-The 18th Anniversary
OF the Russian Revolution will be
celebrated tomorrow night at Herzl
Hall, California near Hirsch, under
the auspices of the Icor. The occasion
will also celebrate the 5th Anniversary
of BRO Bidjan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-14
lay OFF $500 IN CHICAGO
METAL PLANT; CUT WAGES,
SPEED UP REMAINING 1000
Organize Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union, Fight Against the Company
Stool-Pigeon System

CHICAGO, ILL.,, laid
off in the Stewart Chicago
still the job
series fer the Briggs the 1884 model
completed without
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-14
Miners, Defeated by
Leaders, Must Begin
Opposition Fight.
Hardest Winter Faced with Many Lessons
Learned in Heroic Mass Fight
of Rank and File
BY SAM WISEMAN

After brilliant action
Pennsylvania last
leaders"
Bitter against their condtOns-mass unemployment and part time work
receiving
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-14
1900 Marchers Defy
Police, Gain Relief
Los Angeles Unemployed Force 10 Per cent
Increase from Supervisors

Los ANGELES COver twelve thousand
Pershng
then under leaflets
the defiance police
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-14

Bitter resentment RACES throughout
all the coal fields of Western and
Central Pennsylvania. In dozens Of
mines the miners refuse to pay the
check-off. Disgust with the condi-
lions expresses itself at every meet
ing. Rump conferences are held in
many places throughout the coal fields
to discuss way out.
Now with unemployment increas-
Ing, with all the promises of the
MIRA. falling by the wayside, more