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The daily worker., 1934-11-09

gave financial and other support to
the underworld Joint Council in the
fur trade; they hurled slanderous
and venomous attacks against the
revolutionary working class move
ment.
Here you have a complete pic
ture Of the Lovestoneite progress
siye" administration All this they
do for the sole purpose Of holding
on to their jobs, of keeping together
the Lovestoneite clique which is
falling apart from internal dry rot.
With this beautiful record to
point to, these 'progressives" will
be unable to hinder, let alone to
halt, the movement for unity. All
their frantic attacks against the
unihcation of the dressmakers will
only serve to solidify the workers
ranks and bring the dressmakers
closer to the realization Of their
unity.
Will Never Forget
The dreSsmakers will surely
never forget that all workers in the
dress trade hail the unity decision
Of the Industrial union and the
members Of the I. L. C. w. U. at
the Cooper Union meeting openly
said that the workers from the IN
dustrial Union should be taken in
with the full and unrestricted right
to participate in all union activities.
All honest workers are waiting to
see this unity become an estab-
lished fact, and there is q danger
that the General Executive Board
of the I. L. G. w. U. will try to
prevent this unity by possibly in
voking a clause of their constitu-
tion which was aimed at contrac-
tors or new members coming into
the trade In the face of this and
at this precise time the Lovestone-
ties openly placed themselves on the
side of the enemies of unity, strik-
ing the note and fabricating the
justihcations for those who will
seek to prevent unity, and have at
the same time begun to drum up
sentiment against the dressmakers
of the Industrial Union.
Unity viii Be Answer
The dressmakers will surely not
be slow to show their reaction to
this dastardly policy. The most ef-
fective answer can and should be
the speedy unif1cation OF all the
dreSSmakers, and the immediate
unified struggle for wages and con-
ditions in every shop, and for
united, powerful, militant union as
the first step towards an amalga-
mated needle trades workers union.
We are ready for it! We made it |
perfectly clear in a letter that we
sent to the General Executive
The daily worker., 1934-11-09
Board Repeats
Disregarded
Rehire Order

Mrs. Fillmore M. Herrick, chair
man of the Regional Labor Board
threatened to refer TO Washington
the decision made by the Board
Wednesday ordering the reinstate-
ment of thirty mine workers locked
out for union activity by the EN-
erson Radio Corporation in 1888, IL
the company fads to re-enploy
them.
The case was brought before the
Regional Labor Board quite some
time ago, when George w. Alger
was chairman of it, according to
the Radio Factory Workers Union,
d which some of the workers are
members. The hearings then re
suited IN ruling favorable to the
discharged men.
The company failed to live up to
the ruling before and will in all
probability do likewise now. That
the N. R. A. labor boards, either
here or in washington will do
nothing about it has been con-
clusively proven by the experiences
of the workers in other industries.
The N. r. A. is continually max
ing these decisions but they are
completely disregarded by the own
erS, who are fully aware of the
fact that these rulings and deci-
sions are only made in order to
maintain the illusion among the
workers that Section Ia was meant
to guarantee the workers the right
to organize into unions of their
own choice.
The daily worker., 1934-11-09

tions and the participants should
make this their steady assignment
for Sunday canvasses. individuals
as well as their branches will be
credited respectively. For Sunday,
Nov. II, canvass Branch 4 assigned
Comrade Sima Cohen; Branch 81,
Sam Randowitz; Branch 1872, Joe
Katz; Branch 116, Ray Einhorn.
What about the other branches?
Youth Section
The Youth Section of the TWO.
claims it is keeping abreast of its
quota in the drive for 30 new men,
bers by Dec. Is. Already it has sur
passed the so per cent mark. 1t is
correct arithmetic, but where is the
characteristic feature of youth to
jump ahead? Why not apply this
to the drive?
ChiIdren's Section
The children appreciate the as
Sistance they get from adult
branches in building the Junior
Branches. Branch 615, English Sec
tion, made a good party for 2-J.
Branch 122, Jewish Section, is pre-
pari n G another entertainment.
Adriatic Branch $50 has formed
Junior Branch of twenty members
and promised still more. Branch
1874, Jewish Section, formed a
Junior Branch. Branch 525, Eng
lish Section, is building one.
Branches 5S5 and 519 Lead With
Super-Quota!
In the middle of October
Branches 585 and SIG went over the
top of their original quotas and
were raised 80 each. Even then,
these lively branches kept driving
ahead. Branch 585 now has 69.9
per cent and Branch SIG has 81 per
cent of the entire quota, including
the super-quota
Mark this date! Saturday, Feb. 8,
Madison Square Garden, fifth ami
versary celebration and second an
nual Masquerade of the Interna-
tional Workers Order.
Atlanta I. w. o. prisoners de-
fense. Thursday, Nov. %, at pm.
at Irving Plaza Hall, all executive
committee members of all branches
in New York to be present.
All English Section Branch
executive committee members meet
tomorrow, Saturday, Nov. 10, at
2 pm. at Irving Plaza Hall.
The daily worker., 1934-11-09

{ Board Of the I. L. G. W. U. several
months ago, that we heartily en-
dorse and will support in every pos
sible way an amalgamation Of all
the needle trades. Such a fight for
amalgamation We did indeed begin
as far back as fifteen years agol
Only brazen demagogs can ac-
cuse us of being "splitters," Of be-
ing dual unionists"l The true facts
about our tireless and stubborn
fight for unity, for the united ac-
tiOn of all workers, as the forerun-
ner to complete and genuine work.
ing class unity, speak loud enough
to drown out the hysterical rawlings
and silence the false blabberings Of
the demagOgic groups and cliques
who use the working class mOve-
ment as a cloak for their private
interests and ambitions.
Through their own experience
and in a short time will the workers
see through these demagogs and re-
veal them in their true colors. Un-
til the time when they will stand
completely unmasked, they succeed
in introducing some confusion
among the workers, with their fake
programs and hollow phrases, with
which they try to conceal their be-
trayals. II is an unavoidable cycle,
in which the class consciousness,
the power and the onward surge
Of the organized masses against
their oppressors and their agents
crystallizes itself.
In the history of the working
class this is not a new phenome-
non. With the intensification Of
the class antagonisms and colli-
sions, the ruling class must more
and more resort to these demagogic
cliques, through the instrumental
ity Of which the bosses can carry
on the fight against a consistent
and effective class struggle policy
on the part Of the organized masses
Of workers.
At the same time the true role
of these cliques becomes clearer to
the broad masses. This goes on un-
TIL driven and hurled from one po-
sition to another, they find a refuge
in the arms Of the class to which
they are all closely bound,-the
capitalist class. The factions led by
Trotsky, Gitlow and Lovestone fur
nish an excellent example of this.
Although they still hold some dan
ger for the workers, they are much
less dangerous than a few years
ago. The masses have begun to
recognize them for what they are.
The revolutionary working class will
survive them all and march stead.
lily on to its goal
(END)
The daily worker., 1934-11-09

for open military training of the
boys in them. Falling upon the
background of the recent assassina-
tions of capitalist government off,
cials by rival capitalist govern
ments' henchmen, it is clear that
the Roosevelt regime is doing its
bit to plunge this country into a
world blood bath. Meanwhile,
Japanese imperialism, frothing at
the mouth, is daily seeking to
attack the Soviet Union while it is
demanding parity of naval fleets
with the United States. The Saar
question is daily becoming more
tense. Italy and Jugo-slavia are at
dagger's edge.
1T is in this situation that the
Youth Committee of the American
League Against War and Fascism
Is calling upon the youth 10
demonstrate against war and the
growing trends towards Fascism,
on Saturday Nov. 10, at pm, at
Columbus Circle, and to march to
the Soldiers and Sailors Monument.
The Young Communist League
wholeheartedly and unreServedly
supports this demonstration and
march. We call upon the young
workers and students of this city to
come in mighty thousands to this
demonstration. We direct our ap-
peal particularly to the Young
Peoples Socialist League, the youth
Of the American Federation of
Labor, and of the Student League
for Industrial Democracy-to come
to this demonstration with your own
banners, representing your own
views, bearing your own placards
against war and fascism. Make this
Armistice Day demonstration a
landmark of united anti-war and
anti-fascist action of New York's
working youth"
The daily worker., 1934-11-09
City Activities of the L.W.O.
Lag in Recruiting Drive Cited-English City
Committee Challenges Chicago

The total recruiting done to date
on a city-wide scale has brought
2,475 adults, 168 youths and 526
children. If we subtract from these
figures the numbers 1887, lot and
29O, which represent the recruit
ment accomplished by these respec-
tive sections for the period of July
to Oct. l, we have very little left
as the achievement for the first
five weeks since this present eleven
week membership campaign Off
cially started.
These results should really serve
as an alarm for more intense and
strenuous effort on the part of all
sections of the city.
Activities in New Branches
Brownsville, Friday, Nov. g. The
new branch took in three members,
which makes the total of ten for
this branch.
Corona, L. T., Branch 625 has al
ready twelve members and good
prospects in view.
Sunnyside, Queens, Branch GOT,
that has been on the decline dur
ing the summer months, started to
pick up and promises good work
now.
East Bronx. The new branch at
the Shoe Workers Center, 1884 Will
kins Avenue, is progressing and fig
ures on a good-sized branch before
the campaign is over.
East Side, Downtown. The new
Red Spark Branch orgenized few
months ago at the club bearing the
same name can record good results
of devoted work. Today, Friday,
Nov. 9, this branch is celebrating
the installation at At. E. 18th Street.
Progress in Trade Union Option
At its last meeting the executive
board of the Shoe Workers Union
discussed the proposal of affiliating
with the I. w. o. on the T. U. OPP
ton and considered it favorably. At
the next meeting of this Shoe
Workers Union a recommendation
of the Executive Board will be
brought for final decision.
Harlem. Each Sunday at 10 am.
comrades from various branches of
the different sections report at AIS
Lenox Avenue corner 131st Street,,
New York City for recruiting work
in this section of the city. This is
the task of all the language sec
The daily worker., 1934-11-09
Y. c. L. Calls Working Youth To Join Ant-War Rail,

fore our proposal to unite all tbs
dressmakers inside the dress locals
OF TI1o I. L. G. w. U. Our tao
tics are determined by our class
struggle policies which always have
and are now directed to the sole
aim of using all our efforts and
abilities to help the workers main
tain the best living and working
conditions and for a united, mill
tant union, able to defend their
fights.
These are simple, clear words
that every worker can understand,
and which only the LoyestoneiteS
will try to distort in order to hin
der an effective unity for the
workers.
These few instances of the work
ings of the Lovestoneites fighting
spirit" would be more than enough
to establish the character of the
LoVeStoneite administration, which
issues frantic appeals to the
workers, Help usI Save US! We are
a progressive administration"
But in order to complete the pic
ture we will add a few touches
covering the democracy" that pre-
walls in Local % under the Love
stoneite leadership.
Used Sluggers
They have used sluggers and
strong-arm methods against work
ers who opposed them in the mat
ter Of the enslaving unit system"
at shop chairmen meetings, where
these workers sought to speak.
They have already suspended a
member of the union for the sole
crime of daring to criticize a paid
official of the union.
They have put down a number
of shop chairmen that were elected
to those positions by the unani-
nous voice of the workers in their
shops, and precisely those chairmen
who fought for the interests Of the
workers in the shops.
They have thrown out of Jobs
workers whose only 'misdeed' was
to criticize the policy and tactics of
these Lovestoneite officials.
Now let us add, they sat with
the bloody cossack Whalen on the
same platform without a single
word of protest; they were on the
platform at the convention of the
I. L. G. w. U. with strikebreaking
capitalist governors, and the chief
strikebreaker, Hugh Johnson, and
not syllable of protest!
They unanimously accepted the
constitution in order to assure
themselves of an uninterrupted ten
ure of their jobs for two years. They
The daily worker., 1934-11-09

NOllAACCblO11 WILL tA1S 4Ot4l d1llllFSI .
sary of the end Of the world war.
The demonstration will take place
at 2 o'clock Saturday with a meet
ing at Columbus Circle, to be fol-
lowed by a mass march to the Sol
diers' and Sailors Monument,
Riverside Drive and 69th Street.
The New York District of the
Young Communist League yesterday
called upon its members and the
entire working youth of New York
City to support the anti-war demon
stration called by the Youth City
Committee of the American League
Against War and Fascism for
Saturday afternoon in connection
with the 18th anniversary of the
end of the world war. The demon
stration will take place at 2 o'clock
Saturday with a meeting at Colum-
bus Circle, to be followed by a mass
march to the Soldiers and Sailors
Monument, Riverside Drive and seth
Street.
The appeal of the Y. c. L.,
directed particularly to the Young
Peoples Socialist League, the youth
of the A. F. of L., and Of the
Student League for Industrial
Democracy, declares:
"Armistice Day, 1884, falls upon
a high point in the war prepara-
tions of the United States boss gov
ernment. Within the past few
weeks the press has featured revela-
tions concerning the war machina-
tionS of American munition makers,
the development of high-speed air
plane bomb carriers, as well as
other more refined instruments of
murder. Coupled with the propa-
ganda of the gutter press, such as
the Daily News, and others, there
are a number of bills before Con-
gress today providing for the per-
manency of the CC.C. camps, and
The daily worker., 1934-11-09
Union Groups
Collect Funds
For the Daily
New Reports Given as
Campaign Is Speeded
Toward Goal

The Central Committee having
called for all quotas in the $4,000
drive to be filled by Dec. 1, it is
necessary for all individual readers
Of the Daily Worker and SYM
pathetic organizations, in New York,
to rush their contributions if the
New York District is to meet this
requirement. New York still must
raise nearly half its quota.
Below are reports of some of the
latest activities collection in an
A. F. of L. union, a pledge Of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, and others.
More Coming
A. F. of LII am sending you 50
n for the 100000 drive. This
money was collected in an A. F. of
L. union in New York City. From
now on will make it my business
to collect money every week. I
hope next week it will be S."
Quick Work Needed
NJ. T. w. I. U.-"At a meeting of
~ the Joint Trade Boards of the
Union on Wednesday, the question
of the Daily Worker was taken UP.
1t was decided that we immediately
raise $100-that we make shop col
lections-that we give publicity to
our decision-and issue a leaf1et on
the campaign. The staff pledges
itself to contribute $25."
Work That Counts
|. L. G. w. U.-The newly organ
1 lied Bronx section of the Opposi-
ton Group of Local % held its first
affair last Saturday. A worker
took the floor and read the emer-
gency call of the Daily Worker. A
discussion ensued. A collection was
taken and $3.50 was raised. The
Group pledged itself to raise more
funds for the paper by similar af-
fairs within the next few weeks.
But the Opposition Group Of
Local % is involved in more.
At meeting of the Group as
whole, $22.15 was collected for the
Daily" 1t was decided, further
more, to take a quota of 500. Two
affairs will be held to help raise
the money. One, a concert and
dance, on Nov. "A at Irving Plaza,
and the other, a play-"S Sailors of
Cattarro"-presented especially for
the dressmakers, at the Civic
Repertory, on Dec. Is.
The Opposition Group of Local 9
is also recent contributor. Though
times are hard for it's members,
states the Group, $15.75 was COL
lected at an executive meeting. The
Group intends to continue its work.
The Stage and the Screen
ETLM AND PHOTO LEAGUE-This
cultural organization is in So
cialist competition with the Workers
Laboratory Theatre. Each has a
quota OF 5000. But while the
Theatre has already raised more
than 500, the Film and Photo
League has raised only $40.
A Conscience Is Eased
MARINE WORKER-"Not till the
it last Marine strike and the role
you played i. did I realize that If
the Daily should make retreat
because of lack of funds 1t would be
blow to every worker. Not only
that, but when he is taken on the
carpet before his own conscience
he will be found guilty of. :. +. aiding
the bosses in prolonging our misery.
/. +. Therefore, I am enclosing ten
bucks to sort of ease my guilt"
The daily worker., 1934-11-09
Ben Gold ReoieeOs Betrayal
Of Dressmakers' Interests
Blythe LOUeStOne Renegades
Says Most Effective Answer to ILGWU Leadership
Should Be Immediate Unification of Rank
and File and Struggle in Shops

vicious methods to force upon the
workers the enslaving scientific
unit system. They have consented
to bury the main demand of the
workers to settle prices on the job
bers premises, thus destroying the
initiative Of the rank and file price
committees. These are the i'm
portant planks that constitute the
Lovestonite program of maintain
ing the lighting spirit" the
profits Of the manufacturers and
the jobbers, at the expense of the
workers!
Thousands Jobless
Thousands Of dresSmakers are
jobless, and are facing slow starva-
ton. The progressive administra-
ton has not done a thing to re-
deem its promise of an unemploy-
ment fund, did not make move to-
wards program of social insur-
ance, but 1t maintains" the fight
| ing spirit" of the workers!
In the course of one year after
the successful general strike, the
wages of the workers were reduced
so per cent. Union conditions are
at the vanishing point. Members
of the 1. L. G. w. U. openly at
tested to the correctness of these
facts at the Cooper Union meeting.
These are the fruits of the Love-
stOnite "prOgressivism" and its pro-
gram of maintaining the Fighting
spirit of the workers"
This is precisely the whole point
in question! 1t is the dizzy down
ward plunge of the wages and con-
ditions of thousands of workers in
the dressmaking trade, that has
impelled the Industrial Union to
propose that It's workers immedi-
ately enter the I. L. G. w. U. to
form a solid, united army of work.
ers, a fighting force that will say
"Stop!" TO the merciless robbery of
which the dressmakers are the VIC
tins.
Fear Unity Move
The Lovestoneite clique is hysteri-
cal because it knows that the aim
of our policy is to unite the dress
makers and enable them to wage a
successful fight for their union
rights and conditions. The mill
fancy" of the Lovestoneites has so
far been of service only to the job
bers, in their steady and relentless
drive to push the dressmakers back
to the sweat shop conditions that
prevailed before the 1888 general
strike.
1t was precisely about this
lying, demagogic phraseology of
the fighting spirit" of the Love-
stoneite and the DubinSky machine,
and about the rapidly sinking wage
and work levels of the workers
that we spoke at Cooper Union.
We stated repeatedly and emphat-
ical1y and it was only to mobilize
the dressmakers for effective re-
sistance to this wage cutting, that
we made our unity move.
We do not deny that the greater
majority of the dressmakhrs are
now enrolled in the IL. g. WI.
Nor do we deny that the experienced,
seasoned workers that are in the
Industrial Union would be a much
more powerful force for maintain
ing union conditions if they Joined
their fellow workers in the Inter
national.
The situation has changed and
with it change our tactics. There
The daily worker., 1934-11-09
Article ii.
BY BEN GOLD

Dg DEN OOLD
National Secretary Treasurer of
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial UniOn)
I'VE have not only fought at
every opportunity for unity" con-
tinues the statement of the Love-
stonite renegadeS, "but we have
also sought to maintain the fight
ing spirit of the workers" Now
get ready for a laughl We have
shown in the first part Of the ar
ticle how these demagogs have
been fighting for unity. We will
now examine their record in main
tanning the fighting spirit" Of the
workers.
In 1892 the Lovestonites, together
with Dubinsky and Hochman en-
gineered fake strike in the dress
trade. That was, no doubt, a part
Of their plan to maintain the
lighting spirit"
After that strike Zimmerman
and his Lovestonites tried to cover
their tracks by throwing the en-
tire blame for the strike on Dublin
sky, Hochman and VaSsileffski, and
claimed that they, the Loveston-
ties. were unable to do anything.
But" they said, wait till we get
the power, then!"
Well, now they are the admins
tration. Hundreds, thousands Of
justified complaints of dressmak-
ers are thrown into the waste
basket. The Lovestonite "progres-
sive" administration knows about
it and is silent-a part of their
fighting spirit" program.
Thousands of dressmakers have
been receiving less than the mini
mum scale during the entire year.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars
belonging to the dressmakers have
remained in the hands of the var1-
Gus dress jobbers and contractors.
The Lovestonite administration
knows all about this wholesale rob-
berry and doesn't raise a finger
all part Of their fighting spirit''
campaign.
Every week, every day, the bosses
chisel another slice off the workers
wages. Not word from the pro
gressive" administration.
Faithful to their fighting" pro-
gram, they have given their secret
consent to the treacherous agree
ment permitting the bosses to carry
through reorganizations in their
shops-a true instance of the Love-
stonite fighting spirit"
Their shameless, open betrayal
of the workers in the last lock-
out by the contractors. who frankly
stated that the workers are not
getting the wage-scales and are
working so and 80 hours a week.
is another brilliant example of their
"flghting spirit" which the Love-
stonites maintain in the union as
the progressive" administration.
The minority crafts in the dress
trade are working for hunger
wages. The wages of the Negro
workers are way below that of the
reduced wages Of the other work.
ers. ALI this is well known to the
progressive" Lovestonites, who do
not do a solitary thing about it,
except to shout from the house
tops that they are a progressive"
administration with program that
calls for a lighting spirit"
They make use Of the most
The daily worker., 1934-11-09

In Camarillo, Calf, F. has
been out of work for the last
three years, and is now on County
Relief. I'VE can't afford to get
along without the Daily Worker"
he writes. II would rather be
few days without eats than miss
my Daily Worker" His 81 contribu-
tion should spur others to collect
for the se0,8e0 drive.
A penniiess old man of IS years,
The daily worker., 1934-11-09
MEETING SATURDAY
WILL BE FOLLOWED
BY MASS PARADE
Appeal Made to Y. p S. L. and Student League
for Industrial Democracy and to the
Youth of the A. F. of L.

The New York District of the Young Communist League
yesterday called its members and the entire working
youth of New York City to support the anwar demonstra-
tion called by the Youth City Committee of the American
League Against War and Fascsm for Saturday afternoon