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strike, the MIRA. refused to recog-
nize the strikers and their union,
affiliated to the N.T.WIU. In the
shoe strike the MIRA. refused to deal
: with the strikers who are In the
Shoe Workers Industrial Union and
brought in the A. F. of l.. Boot and
Shoe Union to try to break the
strike"
Communists Fight Iniunctions
The Communist Party is leading
the fight against injunctions taken
out against the workers, the Commu-
mist candidate for Board of Alder
men pointed out. He continued:
1.-THE fact that Robert Minor, the
Communist candidate for Mayor, Is
now before the courts for violating
an injunction against picketing,
brought under the NR.A., is not &C
cidental. The Communist Party is
the only party coming out in the
present election campaign against in
functions. The Communist Pc~+r is
supporting the struggle of the 5000
lions now brought by the employers
on the authority of Whalen, and the
fight against injunctions brought
against the Cleaners and Dyers I'm
ion and other strikers. In the marine
and steel industry the Marine and
Steel Metal Workers Industrial I'm
ions have combatted the strikebreak-
ing activity of the NR.A."
What Has N.R.A. Brought?
Gold said that the MIRA. has
brought the workers longer hours, as
for example the N.R.A. is now trying
to break the customs tailors strike,
where the strikers are fighting
against 5000 hours a week as one of
their major demands. The words OF
Roosevelt that unemployment has
been materially reduced have now
been proven false by the statements
of the Federal Reserve Bank and by
Federal Relief Director Hopkins, who
admits an increase in unemployment
as the winter approaches, Gold stat
ed. The shooting down of workers on
the picket lines of Ambridge and
Paterson, the injunctions and the
many arrests and clubbing of strik-
ers in New York City shows that the
MIRA. is a means of increasing the
fascist tendencies and terror against
the workers on the part OF the gov
eminent of the bankers and en-
ployers.
SOlomOn's Injunctions
1.-THE Socialist Party has followed
the same strike breaking program,
said Gold, himself many times ar
rested for leading workers struggles.
THE socialists took out injunctions
against the fur workers in their last
strike, their gunner killed the mill
tant needle workers, Morris LANCER
and Gottlieb, just this year. A conf
mittee of the Socialist Party Off
cially Endorsed this activity of the
socialists against the fur workers.
The Socialist Party candidate for
Mayor is Charles Solomon, who, as a
lawyer, got injunctions against the
food workers on strike and against
other workers. The LoveStoniteS in
the needle trades and other trades
have aided the Socialist Party and
the A. F. of L. in fighting against
their strikebreaking acJIv1ly against
the striking workers in the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
Achievements OF Left" Unions
Gold outlined the achievements of
the industrial, cl2ss-struggie unions,
supported only by the Communist
Parry, v'.li2n in tilc shoe, m3tc', nee
ole and other industries, have wrest-
ed better conditions from the bosses
in spite Of the MIRA. AS an example,
Gold cited the work Of the Needle
Trades Industrial Union in the field
Of unemployment. "Our union has
won unemployment relief not only
from the city government, but from
the bosses as we'll. In the dyers and
rabbit dres5ers section of the fur
trade the union won per cent OF
the total payroll for unemployment
relief, paid for by the bosses and
administered by the workers In the
fur manufacturing per cent was
won. The union is now initiating
steps for the organizing of unem-
ployed needle trades workers, regard
less OF utilization, in a united front
struggle for relief and unemployment
insurance" These unions have won
wage increases through their fight
ing policy.
The A. r. of l.. officials, Green
VOL and Co., now supporting the