The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
By MORRIS KAMMAN

down personal interviews with only few Of the more
than 600 delegates present at the Trade Union Con-
ference for United Action For the delegates, repre-
sent tens Of thousands of workers
They disllusioned with the corrupt labor lead
ers who are supporting Roosevelt.
They feel deeply the need of all American workers
uniting under militant leadership for gigantic battle
to crush the MIRA and the capitalist class
They came to the Conference to help work out
program for welding the entire American workngcass
into united force against Roosevelt against the Blue
Buzzard against every betrayer of the workers, for
liberation from hunger, from homeessnesS, and wage
slavery.
Take for instance William Gonzales: Age % years,
occupation miner in the coal fields around Gallup
New Mexico. Two months before he came to the Con-
ference he joined the National Miners Union.
why did you join the NMU. fellow-worker Con-
zales?
81 wouldn't join any other union, comrade," he
replies. Three months ago the word comrade was alien
to him. He continues 1000 miners in Gallup had a
meeting about organizing. Somebody wanted US to
join the United Mine Workers of America. Everybody
howled Hell, no! They sold us out before"
The same howl went up when somebody mentioned
the A. F. of L. A few said let's join the I.WW. But
the NMU organizer talked to us. His talk sounded
alright, 1000 of and that's 98 per cent of the
miners in Gallup joined the NN1U. And do you know
what happened? BY just organizing in the NMU
won the right to have checkweighman.
Now the trucks load with coal weigh $500
pounds and Before the boss gave us credit
for only 1900 pounds We get 68 for pick
mined COAL Figure out for yourself what we've al
ready gained.
The NRA? The hell with It'll We're NMU men,
end we'll fight for rights" At the Conference
Gonzales is elected to the presdium Everybody the
leaders, too, are workers like myself, like it, he says
Frank HOFFMAN, fellow-delegate of Gonzales feels
the same way. He joined the NMU two weeks before
he came to the conference.
Here are two Negro workers from Birmingham
Alabama. Lee jackson, "a, iron moder James Cooper
Is, mechanic. Lees shoes badly torn, his toes
stick out his overals ripped Nc wonder The rank
and file of his A. F. of L. union had no money to pay
his fare jackson came to the Cleveland Conference
hoboeing freight trains all the way James Cooper
came with him. Both speak of the growing revolu-
tonary ntiment among Negro workers in Alabama.
Jackson .ells of what the MIRA did. Day laborers in
his shop the Unit Stove and Company receive
s1.15 day, skilled molders, $3.50 to 1925.
What do the workers in your shop think of the
blue eagle Lee?"
"We call it the Blue Buzzard and hate the sight
of it., he says. Look at the wages get after the
Unit Stove adopted the NRAi" Both, jackson and
Cooper tell of white workers refusing to scab on the
Negro workers going out strike in shops which
have cut wages under the NRA. Both mentally
alert answering questions quickly. Yet jackson had
only months of public schooling. IT read lot" he
explains "and for year I've been reading stuff put
out by the Unemployed Councils and the Communist
Party. 1t opened my mind, tell you"
Anna LaRocca was born in Westerly, Connecticut.
She is about "a. She represents 300 textile workers
from the Kahn and Feldman shop in Brooklyn, N. Y,
where strike is going against piece work and
wages of s1S weekly for and SIC for men.
week ago she joined the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union
why did you join it?"
when we went out strike nobody came to help
us but the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union.
The MIRA Is running everything" Questions of poll
tica character confuse her. But she says We've got
to take revolutionary action against the NRA"
Carrie Smith, Negro woman nut-picker from ST.
Louis, Mo, speaks from the platform. "They say
what they want about the Communist Party, but I
know that the Communist Party is helping us work.
ers love the Communist Party Comrades There
amt jim-crowing in the Communist Party like in
the Socialist Party. I'll love the Communist Party
and fight with the Communist Party all my life Com
rades" The delegates and audience, over thousand
cheer her deafeningy.
This Negro woman joined the Communist Party
three months ago, at about the time the nut ic1srs
went strike for better conditions.