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The daily worker., 1933-11-30

unemployed, steadily gaining roun
anon the unemployed workers, an
especially in the mining field. Must
organizers came there, not for tn
purpose to help develop activity lead
ding to one organization of the un
employed, on the basis Of the aboy
stated program, but they attempted t
set up an apparatus Of their owl
They failed because the miners regar
the Unemployed Councils as their or
ganizetion, and the activities Of tn
Music organizers as splitting.
Communists Carry Out Cleveland
Program
From the facts stated above 1t I
clear that the top leaders Of Must
the wing Of left social l-fascism, carr
the policy in practice against the dc
cisions of the Cleveland Conferert
and they represent the most danger
Gus obstacle in winning the masst
for revolutionary class struggle.
In stating the above. we want 4
declare that the Communist Part
and its supporters firmly stand for tf
Cleveland program and are willing
work with everybody who is read
to accept the program and carry it
practice. We will expose everybod
who will sabotage the Cele, Gland pre-
gram and are willing to work ar
cooperate with everybody who is sir
cerely ready to carry the program
despite differences that may exist
mary other questions. The most in
portant thing is to develop move
ment among the broad masses q
miners and workers in general to vi
them for active support. orgsnisatic
and struggle on the hssis & II
Cleveland Conference,
The daily worker., 1933-11-30
Violence, Speed-up
On New Labor Jobs
Elkhart Men Fired for
Talking; Clubbed

ELKHART, Ind.-'The local Forced
Labor Federal program has only been
in operation a few days and workers
are getting their eyes opened to the
fact that they are doing twice as
much as before and getting less pay
for it.
Workers are being fired from the
useless work JOBS because they talk
too much or because they do not
readily submit to the breakneck
speed-up methods shoveling frozen
soil around. Those fired cannot get
back on relief.
Threats Of violence against the
workers by foremen are not uncom-
mon. The order to be tough is be-
ing carried out. d. G. Hiyely, one
of the forced laborers, was dubbed
by a foreman when Hiyely insisted
he was due to work the next day.
Workers Relief Unions are being
formed on each job to combat these
miserable conditions.
The daily worker., 1933-11-30
Communist Party Carries Cleveland Conven
tion Decisions Into Action, Builds Opposition
Inside Progressive Miners Union


nois coal fields originally adopted a
policy that to speak about these acts
of the Music leaders openly before
the miners would mean breaking Up
the united front. This is wrong be-
cause not to speak means to take
responsibility for their actions against
the miners. On the contrary, this
must be exposed on the basis of these
concrete acts against the interests of
the miners in the Illinois coal fields
which, by the way, at the present
time has been done III the Illinois coal
fields to some extent.
Mus.eites Desert Jobless Program
We will take another point--unem-
ployment. The unanimous decision of
the two biggest and most active
groups of the unemployed. the I'M
employed Councils and the Unem-
ployed Leagues, adopted the following
basic policy for struggle:
"l) United support Of the Work
ers' Unemployment Insurance Bill,
as worked out by the A. f. of L.
Committee for Unemployment In
surance In its Cincinnati meeting
last year; (2) common campaign
for this bill, and united actions in
struggle for relief, against evictions,
ETC.; (3) immediate setting up OF
federations in each neighborhood,
city and state. TO plan united work
and prepare for and carry through
complete unification into one single
organization of the unemployed"
In practice, however, nowhere to
my knowledge, are the leaders Of
Music carrying out this policy. Surely
not in Illinois, where, by the way, the
Unemployed Council is today the
single largest mass organization OF the
The daily worker., 1933-11-30
Followers Mste Break Cleveland Unity Program Mine Fields

delegates were followers Of Mrs.
Week, the supporter OF Music and
a member of the Socialist Party.
Among the delegates there were a
small, militant group which stood on
the program OF the Cleveland Con-
ference, which proposed to formulate
a program and joint slate for the
officers of the Women's Auxiliary.
Mrs. Week rejected any idea what
soever of united action on the basis
of a militant program and openly
declared before the opening Of the
nominations for the officers OF the
Womens Auxiliary, at the Conven-
ton:
elect women who will follow the
men. Elect officers who win follow
Pearcy."
After the Convention, Mrs. Week
made a statement to the Springfield
State Journal (l5ov. . admitting
that she turned the auxiliary over
to Pearcy."
Must Expose These Misleaders
These two examples characterize
the role of the Musteites in the Illi-
noiS coal fields, the role OF the left
social -fascists as the ones who are
using radical and revolutionary
phrases, because of the rehabilitation
of the masses, to prevent the miners
and their wives to move toward the
left, toward the class struggle, and
leading them into the camp OF class
collaboration, surrendering to the
reactionary leadership Of Pearcy, the
president of the P. NJ. A.
1t is needless to say that because
Of this policy Allard and Week, the
supporters OF Music, sabotaged TO
establish unity in every mine" They
sabotaged as much as they could.
Despite their efforts, number of
miners are in opposition groups in
the locals of the P. M. A. and begin
to see clearly the real role of
Music.
Some of our comrades IN the Ini-
The daily worker., 1933-11-30

Communists in the strike was seen
by the strikers to be one Of cour-
ageous leadership, despite threats, ar
rests and all other efforts to drive a
wedge in between the workers and
the Communists. The Packinghouse
Workers Industrial Union Is conduct
ing a vigorous campaign to explain
the lessons of the strike to the work
ers; mass meetings are being ar
ranged in the Twin Cities and South
st. Paul, and q statement Of the
union is being distributed in leaflet
form. The general sentiment Of the
workers is that 1t is necessary to
prepare for new struggles.
Pittsburgh Packing Strike Ends
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 2e.-The
two-week strike Of the packinghouse
workers Of Pittsburgh was called off
last Thursday by the General Strike
Committee.
This decision affected all shops ex-
cept two-OSwald Hess and Zollers-
with about 500 workers involved. The
employers of these shops asked for
a conference to be held Sunday, Nov.
2e, on the basis Of recognition Of the
shop committee, no discrimination
and the right to belong to any union
the workers choose.
The employers Of these two shops,
believing that the ending Of the strike
in the other shops had broken the
morale OF the workers In these two
shops, refused to confer on Sunday
and the strike was continued.
The responsibility for the breaking
Of the strike was placed on the lead
ers of the A. F. Of L., who had sue
ceeded in tricking group Of the
drivers to return to the Pittsburgh
Provision plant, the largest In the
city, last Wednesday. This was done
through the distribution Of booze
and also with the help Of officials OF
the N. r. A. In this territory.
The workers express bitter resent
ment against all the strikebreaking
forces that were used against them
In their strike, besides the above
mentioned-the boss press, police and
courts.
The retreat OF the strikers was
necessary because Of weak organixa-
ton in many Of the shops which
came into the general strike. The
strike was conducted very nailitantly
and the sentiment for the union is
very strong-many hundreds remain
ing in the union determined to keer
their organization and prepare 70.
new struggles.
The picket lines around the two
remaining strikes are effective, stop
ping production and distribution, and
the militancy Is high.
The daily worker., 1933-11-30

/. Ten thousand miners, members
of the P. M A.. marched to Spring.
field, demanding jobs or relief. To
support this demand they closed all
the mines for two days. The official
dom of the p. M. A. deserted the
miners when they came to Spring
field. The supporters of the Cleve-
land program, above all, members
of the Communist Party and left
wingers, saw in this situation the
need to advance militant program
and to unite the broad masses OF
miners who are in motion IN the
struggle for their demands.
They advanced the slogan for the
election Of a. strike committee by
the miners assembled in Springfield
and to work toward the spreading of
the strike to the mines of the U.
M. w. A. to establish the fighting
unity of the Illinois miners against
the reactionary officialdom Of the
P. M. A. and u. M. w. A. The sup
porters of Music, Mr.. Gerry Allard,
Mrs. Week and Co., agreed with this
program of action in words. But in
practice, just as Pearcy, they refused
to carry it out, sabotaging 1t.
Socialists Reject Unity
While they agreed to put forward
and carry out the above stated
actions and election of a strike
committee, in practice the top sup
porters of Music refused to carry
this out because Pearcy appointed
some sort Of committee. The result
of this action OF the Musteites was
that the miners, afer two days in
Springfield, left for their homes,
discouraged and, demoralized. This
is how, in practice, the Musteites
carried the resolution of the Cleve-
land Conference, for which they
voted and pledged to carry out in
action.
2. The Women's Auxiliary of the
p M. A. recently held its annual
convention. The majority Of the
The daily worker., 1933-11-30

unorganized workers can be delegated
by securing 20 signatures from a
forced labor job, breadline, block or
shop, etc.
Open hearings or mass meetings
are to be called in each neighborhood
or trade market to concretize the
local issues facing the workers, bring
ing forward forcefully the need for
permanent Neighborhood Act n
Committees.
Organizations should make efforts
to reach other organizations G a
similar nature to have them elect de-
legates to the Convention. The Special
Convention issue of the Hunger
Fighter will be out Dec. 2. The Gail
urges organizations to send their
greetings to the Convention thru this
issue.
The Unemployment Insurance Bill
and the Workers Municipal Relief Or
dinance should be popularized and
explained at each local activity.
The daily worker., 1933-11-30
LII. D. Wins Time
For Jordan Defense
Fair Trial Was Denied,
Court Admits

PORTLAND, Ore, Nov. 2e.-The
time limit for filing a petition for q
re-hearing in the case of Theodore
Jordan, 29-year old Negro, sentenced
to hang on a framed-up charge of
murder, has been extended to Dec.
Is.
On Nov. g, the Oregon State ST.
prefne Court handed down decision
sustaining the conviction and death
sentence against Jordan, who was
tried in the klamath County Circuit
Court. The Jordan case is the first
capital sentence given Negro in the
State of Oregon. 1t is also the first
death sentence passed in the Klamath
Circuit Court in 81 years.
William Chandler, special inges-
tigator ("dick") of the Southern
Pacific, participated in both the third
degree torture of Jordan and the
more legal aspects Of the trial. Chan
dler and other officers had been in
strumental in obtaining two previous
convictions against Jordan.
The daily worker., 1933-11-30

on pressure, OF the workers, 1OllOWlnB
months of arbitration with govern
ment officials and railroad executives
which failed to settle the main griev-
ances of the men. The Brotherhood
officials agreed to postpone the strike
for 80 days pending investigation Of
the presidents commission.
The basic cause of the revolt Of
the workers to the point Of strike
struggle is the attempt Of the South
ern Pacific lines to change the wage
system from mileage to an hourly
basis, involving drastic wage cuts.
This reorganization is prompted BY
the proposed merger Of the S-P. and
parallel lines such as the Texas and
Pacific, Missouri and Pacific and
others.
A similar plan, attempted on the
Kansas City Southern was prevented
by a strike vote but has now been
approved by the Presidents Emer-
gency Commission and will go into
effect on the Kansas City Southern
on March !. The decision aids the
Southern Pacific to put the wage cut
ting scheme into operation on its
lines.
BY the proposed change in the wage
system, the men would be compelled
to work for is hours and over with
out overtime, involving an extension
of the present runs at present mile
age rates. 1t means more miles for
the same pay. Junction points around
which the workers have built their
homes will be abandoned, uDrootirn
many workers and their families and
destroying their lifetime savings,
Many lay-offs are threatened by the
reorganization. Working rules and
conditions gained through years Of
struggle are abolished; seniority is
ignored and the jobs of many work
ers will be wiped out.
Negotiations under the Watson
Parker Law, providing for arbitration
of grievances Of railroad workers have
been conducted in secret by the Rail
road Brotherhood officials, the gov
ernment and railroad executives. The
workers, in the dark about the stu
alton, are aroused to action.
r. r. union officials have appealed
to Roosevelt and are responsible for
the machinery which is now being
prepared to effect a compromise be-
/ trayal similar to the ten per wage cu'
put over last year.
The daily worker., 1933-11-30
Industrial Union
Wins Ship Strike
On Baltimore Dock
Marine Workers Build
United Front Despite
Heads of the LILA.
(By a Worker Correspondent

BALTIMORE, Md, Nov. 29-The
Munson Line strike is over Both
sides, seamen and longshoremen,
came out victors.
The Munson Line longshoremen
came out on strike for ten-cent
increase in wages. The officials of
the International Longshoremen's
Association "a. F. of L. were forced
to call the strike when they saw that
the workers were going to take things
into their own hands. If this hap
pened the officials were afraid that
the strike might spread, for the men
were fighting mad.
Pickets Rush Police
Strikebreakers were on the ship
and unloading it while 500 or more
longshoremen and Seamen were held
back by a battery Of police and the
smooth-tongued A. F. of L. officials,
But there were workers in the
crowd reminding the men of the
militant action taken during strikes
led by the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union. Then, like tornado,
the crowd rushed the police, showing
them to one side, and on board the
ship and dock they went. When they
came off they had the scabs. and,
even though the scabs got off lightly,
they We're well taken care of.
Then came the United Front. The
sentiment of the rank and file long
shoremen for unity forced the Off
cials of the I. l.. A. to come to the
ball of the M. w. I. u, which had
been active supporting the strike,
and with fright and tears in their
eyes the officials asked the M. w. L
U. to unite with the strike and get
the crew to support the longshore-
men. The M. w. I. u, although it
had not one member aboard, prom
ised its fullest support.
Organizers of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union managed to get
through the strong police lines tc
the ship. The crew we're talked to
and responded to the call, first for a
sympathy strike, then, still better
they decided to raise the demand
for an increase in wages and better
conditions,
The crew we're fighters. About an
hour after they came out the long
shoremen's demands were granted.
The officials of the 1. L. A. told the
longshoremen to go back to work
since everything was settled. They
told the men that the crew of the
ship were receiving a IS increase
which was a lie to get the longshore-
men back to work. The officials did
not tell the longshoremen that they
had settled the strike with a clause
in the agreement that if the long
sho-emen strike again. the contract
will be broken and unOrganized men
Will take their places.
So the longshoremen were forced
back to work and the seamen and
M. w. I. U. were left flat. But
through a hard battle all afternoon
all the demands Of the crew, except
one, were granted. a SO per cent vic
tory. The captain was forced tc
agree to the recognition of the Ships
Committee. Also, a committee Of
strikers went right into the I. L. A
hall and exposed the officials fol
The daily worker., 1933-11-30
Platform on Unemployment Insurance and
Relief Fight Is Also Broken by
Muste's Leutenants

agreed to carry out these decisions
At the meeting of the miner dele
gates from the National Miners
Union, locals of the Progressive
Miners of America, and oppositions
in the U. M. w. A., seven demands
were formulated, including struggle
for the six-hour day and s6 day
basic wage-scale, relief for the un-
employed miners, payment for all
forms of dead work, for the right OF
the miners to belong to any union
they choose, the right to strike, or
ganize and picket, the right of the
Negro miners to work on all jobs
and to live in all houses on equal
terms with the white miners.
After formulating the demands
it was also unanimously agreed
"Around these demands it is
necessary to organize the unity of
all miners throughout the country
in struggle against the operators
and those who support them"
and that
"This unity to be established in
every mine, every mining field,
every district through the election
Of miners committees of the rank
and file to lead the struggles"
Sabotage of Musteites
Well, how is this being carried out
in the mining field? We will take
Illinois as the example. The Music
supporters in the p. M. A., consisting
of Gerry Allard, Mrs. Week and
others, not only refused to carry oui
the adopted program of the Cleve-
land Conference, but openly sabo-
tagged it and helped the reactionary
bureaucratic clique headed by Pearcy
and Keck OF the P. M. A. Here are
the factSl
The daily worker., 1933-11-30
National
Events
Communist Party to Hold
Three-Day Bazaar

DETROIT. The Communist
Party of this district is arranging
a three day bazaar, Friday, Satur-
day and Sunday, Dec. 1, 2 and 3, in
Finnish Hall, 1859 14th St., near
McGraw.
A musical program will be given
each day. starting at s p. M, on
Friday and Saturday, and at p.
nj. on Sunday. There will be dane
ing each night. The program in
cIudes the Freiheit Singing Society,
the Ukrainian Mandolin Orchestra,
Negro spirituals singers, Russian
Dancers, Bulgarian Chorus, and a
trio from the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra. Admission Is cents for
each night or 35 cents for all three
nights.
The daily worker., 1933-11-30
BY BILL GEBERT

CHICAGO, H., Nov. 29.-Two and
half months have passed since the
Cleveland Conference for united
action. The Conference was of a
united front character. There were
600 delegates from locals Of the A.
r. of L., from independent unions
and unions that are affiliated with
the T. U. U. L., as well as from
Unemployed Councils and Unem-
ployed Leagues. The Conference
adopted a militant fighting program
for immediate demands and issued
a manifesto to the American work.
ing class on It's decisions.
We feel 1t Is appropriate 10 review
what happened after two and half
months Of the Program Of Action
adopted at the Conference and how
it was carried out. I will take only
two questions which were dealt with
at the Conference and adopted for
immediate action: % The develop
ment of united front struggles In
the mining fields, and (O develop
ment of struggles Of the unemployed,
aiming to unity all the organiza-
tions Of the unemployed into .
single organization.
The United Front Demands
We will take concrete examples to
see who carries out and who sabotages
the decisions Of the Cleveland Con-
ference. am taking these two par
ticular points because at the special
conference Of the miners and special
conference of the delegates of the
unemployed organizations unanimous
decisions, demands and methods OF
struggle were outlined, that is, unions
OF the T. U. U. L.. Unemployed
Councils, supporters of Music, etc,
The daily worker., 1933-11-30
Negro Child Is Shot
in Alabama School;
Two Others Wounded

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. 20. - No
attempt is being made by police to
discover the identity Of snipers who
murdered one Negro boy while he sat
at his desk in school, severaly wounded
two other Negroes, and terrorized the
entire Negro population of Powderly,
an industrial suburb of this city.
Green Howard, IL years old, Of Bes-
semer was murdered as he sat at his
desk in Riley school, Nov. 81. A .22-
caliber rifle fired the shot that killed
him.
Essie Harris was wounded in the
back by bullet fired from a similar
weapon, Sept. 4.
Robert Johns was severely wounded
by a shotgun load, recently,
The territory in which these attacks
occurred is controlled by the Tennessee
Iron and Coal Corporation, U. S.
steel subsidiary, which is profting
hugely through the N. r. A. minimum
wage code and it's differentials, and is
helping put over the New Deal" pro-
gram with a reign of terror.
The daily worker., 1933-11-30
Caulk POlishers in
Duluth Win Wage
Rise by Strike

DULUTH, Minn.-T he Diamond
caulk polishers, who went on strike a
week ago for 10 per cent increase
in wages, returned to work after the
boss granted an increase in the piece
rate on one type of job. Although
their several demands for 10 per
cent increase was not granted, the
men feel that the increase that was
won will mean a definite improve
ment over the old conditions.
Most of the men belong to a Fed
eral Union, One of the men when
asked, What part did the union play
in the strike?" answered, Nothing"
The daily worker., 1933-11-30
Widow Freed in Killing
70 Arrested in [. A.
MeatP PackingStrike
Frame-Up to Bre k
Strike Of 1000

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 10. -
Twenty packing house strikers were
arrested In Alhambra this week and
charged with sabotage" in connec-
ton with the destruction of truck
load Of meat which had been found
soaked with kerosene. The workers
were released on bail Of $500 each.
Comenting on the frame-up,
Hobart, A. F. Of L. organizer of the
Union, declared that the destruction
Of the meat is the work of "red agita-
tors" This is In line with the A. F.
of l.. policy Of preventing any mill
tant action by calling the militant
workers "red" and attempting to split
their ranks.
The case has an the earmarks Of a
frame-up intended by the bosses in
order to break the two weeks old
packing house strike, involving ap-
proximately 1000 packing workers.
Last week the strikers decided to
clean out the scabs instead of walt
ing for the N.R-A. as the officials
advise. A strong police guard is be-
ing provided to man the trucks and
move out the meat.
A. r. of l.. officials of the Amalga-
mated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen were compelled to call a
general strike In all the packing
plants on pressure of the member
ship. The strikers are demanding a
minimum wage of s25 for common
labor, $50 for the skilled workers on
the killing floor, 40 hours week and
recognition Of the union.
Hobart, A. r. of L. organizer, called
off dance arranged to raise strike
relief on the ground that 1t was be-
ing run by reds" opposed to the
strike from the beginning, he is using
this means to deprive the strikers of
relief and break the strike.
The Committee Of Action IN the
packing houses affiliated with the
TU.UL., is urging the strikers 10
organize committees to obtain sup
port of working class organizations to
distribute lc2flets in the neighbor-
hoods informing the workers of the
facts, to organize house to- house Wis
its for relief, set up relief kitchens
and call for daily strike meetings for
reports.