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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
PARTY LIFE
Sectarianism Of Old Party
Members Must Be Rooted Out
Serious York Among Broad Strata of Workers
Must Receive Cooperation of Entire Party

together as one vote, fresh blood
will remain on the outside.
I have seen new units formed,
only to disintegrate in an amazingly
short time because so many of us
have failed to come out of our Sc
queStered halls to work with them,
or because these new members were
not made to feel the activizing ben
efits of leading roles in directing
the Section. The same members
continue to hold leadership, the
same buro perpetuaUes itself, the
meetings tend to become mere rub
Der stamping of buro decisions.
Criticism Opposed
Most serious of all, any criticism
of these tactics, pursued on the
part of native, or fairly new COM
rades, is branded as nothing short
of open sabotage, or personal ILL
will. Therefore we have long hello
our peace rather than make our
selves unpopular with an over
whelming language majority.
A sharp change should take place,
not only here in New Hampshire,
but wherever we have sectarianism,
I have observed the same situation
to exist in Boston. No doubt we
have it in many places.
Unity We tolerate, and even invite,
the criticism and constructive Sug-
gestions of new members, yes even
until We try newer comrades in lead
ing Section bodies, we will continue
our turnover, and will risk remain
ing apart from the mass of native
workers and farmers.
Little Sliques or older or language
comrades who resent innovations,
who are hostile toward new faces,
but continue to perpetuate their
own leadership may awaken one of
these days to a realization that
their services are rather of the ma
ture of anchors than sails.
Same Evil Elsewhere
This evil is not extant in this
section alone. When I was District
Organizer of the I. L. D., I saw the
same groupings of inactives, the
identical perpetuation of a buro-
cratic top leadership, in Boston as
in Concord.
1t does appear as if improvement
will have to percolate down from
the higher bodies. Leaders should
go out into such backward, but fer
tile fields as ours, New Hampshire
and Vermont. Rather than con-
centrate all our active forces in
ward, suggest a spreading out. The
Districts must go into these prob
lens and not, ostrich like, plunge
its head into an excavation on Ire
mont st. And what of education
for these scattered units? Should
the same comrades forever be dele
gates, and the lessons of delegation
be lost to promising new elements?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
HIGH ENTHUSIASM AT BRONX
CONFERENCE AGAINST H. C. L.

Despite a sudden rainstorm last
Saturday, the conference at Ambas-
sador Hall, 1915 Third Ave-, was
packed by 178 delegates from a wide
variety of organizations, including
the Amalgamated Bakers Union,
the A F. Of L. Bakers Union, the
Amalgamated Food Workers Union,
and the L. S. N. R. On all, about
5000 workers were represented).
Largest representations were from
the Women's Councils Isl dele
gateS), and various House Commit
tees (63 delegates).
After reports on the work &C
complished since the first such con-
ference against the high cost Of liv-
ing, held in the same hall last Fall,
and after discussion by delegates,
a new Committee of Twenty Five
was elected to go forward with di-
recting the work from this point
The Committee meets Thursday.
A resolution was adopted pIedging
to continue the struggle against high
living costs, on the following basis:
first, the development of move
nlent to bring down prices on dairy
products but not at the expense Of
the farmers or dairy employees
by collecting petition signatures by
the thousand, by popularizing the
issues with the broad masses of
workers through open-air and mass
meetings, by demonstrations in front
of borough and city offices Of the
milk companies, by sending dele
gates to the N. Y. State Legislature
at Albany and to the Trade Board
of the milk companies, and by mass
delegations with demonstrations
to Mayor La Guardia.
The second point in the resolu-
ton calls for initiation of strug-
gle against the robbery prices on
gas and electricity, the third, pres
sure on local and federal govern
ment for increased relief and pas
sage of the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill III. R. 1899. The
fourth and last point calls for con-
tinuance of the struggle against
high prices on baked goods in those
neighborhoods where they have not
yet come down.
This is a thoroughgoing and we'll
rounded program which can serve
as model for women in other cities
who wish to organize similar Strug-
giles. We can not believe our sisters
elsewhere are going to let the New
York women carry off all the hon
ors for organizing such struggles
against the high cost of living. So
let us hear from the others! What
are women in other cities doing to
bring down living costs? (The Daily
Worker has been accused of carry
ing proportionately too much New
York news: but if we are to be
enabled to give reports on activity
in other localities, we must have
these reports sent I'M.
But to return to our conference.
Two kilograms were sent, one to the
Albany legislature protesting the
rising food prices, the other to Gov
ernor Miller of Alabama demanding
the release of the Scottsboro Boys.
Attendance was by no means
limited to women; a hearty wide
of the movement was evil
denced by the attendance of many
men delegates. A determined and
militant yet highly cheerful spirit
was manifest: The fighters are
flushed with success, 50 more power
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
PARTY LIFE

Recently, at unit meeting, there
we're eight present. OF these, five
had been in the Party for some
time, having joined the Party
through language groups, and three
were young native-born workers. I
could not help but observe how
every recommendation of these
three were not only summarily re-
jected, but rejected with a cold,
damp decisiveneSS, which would
have cooled a lesser ardor. And
what were the main recommended
tons of these three native-born
workers?
First, the establishment of a CEN
ter in the proletarian area of the
city; second, a shifting of our ac-
tivities from the outlying language
hall to the pCposed center; third,
a mass meeting amongst the c. w.
A. workers, not to be held in the
language hail. which is situated five
miles from the proletarian area, but
in the area where these workers
live.
Active Party Workers
And just who were these three
native-born workers? One is sec
rotary of the local American Fed
Grafton of Labor, and very active
in that union. All three have many
friends whom they constantly meet
with among the native born work
ers. They were greeted wherever
they went as "one of our crowd"
They speak the language of other
workers, go into their homes and
fraternize on the. One has re-
cruited "a members into the Party
in two years.
One of these three has succeeded,
after long endeavors, to organize
an active group at the university
in which are professors, students,
and two of the staff of the college
paper. Also, he aided in starting
a group of teachers in another
town. This eomrade requested the
cooperation of the Section at Sec
ton meeting. loosely another
comrade said, I'VE don't want to
waste our time on that kind of
stuff, with a lot of schoolmarms
and intellectuals." The District has
not answered the comrades inquiry,
to date, as to what to do with his
growing group of professors and
students, all organized, meeting
weekly, but with no very apparent
revolutionary road to travel. He
and his two friends, alon3 of an
entire two-state Section, are of the
firm conviction that those native
students and young professors will
yet be of immense value in our
work Most of our State University
students come from proletarian or
farm backgrounds.
Native-Born Need Opportunity
This tendency is very marked in
New Hampshire, and it ieopardizeS
our chances of climbing out of the
old sectarian rut. The native-born
workers and farmers, who have a
closer and wider contact with the
broad masses of workers and farm
ers, should not only be given an
ear, but they should be placed in
leadership wherever possible; for
many of the older members, either
because of language handicap or
seotarianism, have no contact with
the native theology. AS long as we
are grouped into old timers and
new corners, the majority sticking
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
By a Worker Correspondent

AKRON, Ohio.-Over 900 ma
chinists in the job shops struck
for increased wages and union rec
ignition on March 90 and have
kept the shops closed tight with
mass picketing The strikers are
members of the International As
ISOLATION of Machinists, and for a
number of weeks the rank and file
tried to force action to call a
strike but were repeatedly put off
by the officials on the plea that
the union was not yet strong
enough. Finally the members
could no longer be held back and
a strike vote resulted.
At the first strike meeting the
leaders appealed to the members
to picket peacefully and not to
gang up" in the vicinity of the
shops, but to scatter out in twos
and threes, limiting that only few
should be on the picket line. How
ever the rank and file went to
picket en- masse and kept it up for
"a hours day and that closed
the shops tight.
Strike meetings for the most
part were given over to discussing
everything but the strike, from
union label boosting to selling
cheap gas and free parking. This
was having its effect in thinning
the picket line, and, to counterfeit
this, the Rank and File Militants
Group issued leaflet exposing a
program of mass picketing and
militant tactics to win the strike
Union Officials Use Terror
Two workers distributing this
leaflet we're given friendly greet
ings by the striking rank and file,
but soon two officials appeared
and tried to pull the leaflets out
Of the hands of the distributors,
and when this failed they followed
them until the police arrived, and
then had them arrested. The two
workers we're taken to the police
station for questioning. One union
official appeared twice during the
two hours the workers were held,
but was afraid to swear out a
warrant because the rank and file
strikers were opposed to the ar
rest.
The day before the arrest of the
distributors three cars of police
forced a loaded truck through the
picket lines, and then speeded the
truck through red lights to shake
off union members who were trail
ing them.
The struck job shops depend
upon the big rubber plants for
their work and must do the Jobs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Machinists in Akron Forcing Thru
Militant Tactics in Spite of A. F. of L.
Members Demand That Officials Spread Fight
To Rubber Tire Mold Workers

cheaper to get it. Machinists
working on rubber tire molds in
Goodyear, Goodrich and Firestone
are still working and keeping these
plants supplied with molds. Now
the rank and file strikers demand
that the strike be spread and these
union members be called out. In
ternational Vice-President Harvey
Brown, who recently came to
Akron from Detroit, is opposing
the spreading of the strike to the
big rubber plants and pleading for
time to give the Regional Labor
Board a chance to settle the strike
before further steps are taken.
In a further effort to pacify the
strikers the union leaders have
promised them mat all A. F. of L..
locals in the Akron district will
support the strike financially by
levying assessments on their mem
bers, or by contributions from
members. One militant striker
suggested that this support should
come from the Grand Lodge and
A. F. of L. treasury, as well as
from the local union treasures,
and not from the poorly paid work.
ers' wages, as these organizations
had collected thousands of dollars
from Akron workers and should
spend some of it for the strike.
This statement was applauded and
the officials were forced to say
that appeals would be made to
them also.
At strike meeting one mem
Der told about watching a Com
munist Strike" in Cleveland, how
they talked, then sang songs, and
singing as they marched from the
hall to the picket line. Maybe we
can learn something from them as
in this way the strikers are kept in
good spirits, he said.
The strike is solid and there is
a growing militancy on the picket
lines, which are fully manned for
"a hours a day by participation of
the entire membership.
No women or children of the
strikers have been asked yet to
picket. The spirit is buoyant and
determined, with growing de-
mand to spread the struggle to the
big rubber plants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Birmingham Workers
Take CWA Organization
Into Their Own Hands
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-The A. F.
of L. attempted an organization
meeting of c. w. A. workers in
Birmingham on Tuesday night. One
of the speakers was a stool-pigeon
who gave his name as Willie S.
Barr and Dragged of raiding the
Communist Party Office in Bir1ning-
ham and of stealing some of the
records.
The meeting was long drawn
out affair with lot of A. F. of L.
takers lauding the American presi-
dent and patting themselves on the
back. The chairman of the meet
ing looks, acts, and talks like a
Holy Roller preacher.
The rank and file became dis
gusted with the senseless talk of the
A. F. of L. takers and took the
meeting out of the hands of the
burocrats and appointed rank and
file chairman from the floor, and
the work of organizing was put
thus in an orderly manner
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
FATHER COUGHLIN is FASCIST
SPOKESMAN

Bolivar, N. Y.
Please renew subscription of H.G.
S. for one year q Sc.
Also I wish to renew my own for
one year and to this I add an ex-
ira dollar for the illustrated book
let on Das Kapital, thus making a
total of 81.
Please find enclosed a check of
$13 as net total.
In this town are two men who
think they are revolutionists and
that the Rev. Chas. E. Coughlin is
doing lot of good in waking up
the masses, and have heard both
say that they, since his discourse
last Sunday, have sent him each 81,
but they will not subscribe for the
Daily or any other working class
paper. This is absolutely opposite
to my attitude for I can only see
in him a bit of agitation and ex-
posure of the rotten system but
giving no scientific method of a way
out, neither can I expect such from
the source it comes.
There is but one way, i.e., Marx
lsm-Leninism and that not from a
Catholic priest. Therefore my sup
port is going to the true working
class agitator and revolutionist-the
Daily Worker and may it be allowed
free circulation until conditions
ripen for the overthrow of this CAPT.
talist system, the emancipation of
wage slavery, and the end of ex-
ploitation and suffering.
All power to the Daily.
Conradely yours,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Hears of Plan
To Blacklist
Auto AFL Men
(By an Auto Worker Correspondent

(By an Auto Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich.-The Associa-
ton of Wayne County Division
Chairmen has passed the following
resolution prepared by Jarvis STAN
ton, Roland Phillips and Jas. E
Slevin.
Roland Phillips is a protege OF
State Senator Ray German who
was a D.SR. spotter appointed by
former Mayor Frank Murphy. Mr.
Phillips at one time commenced to
write a series of articles in a Detroit
daily entitled, Russia from Within. .
After the first article it was toe
obvious that Phillips had never been
in Russia as purported, and the
anti-Russian diatribe was stopped
pronto. Slevin is one of the two
Slevins, possibly the cheapest clowns
that have appeared in the local
political ring.
Resolved: That the entire labor
field in Detroit area be placed under
an Administrative Board headed by
Walter P. Chrysler."
Last year, Charlie Vinegar,
Chrysler's tool in Detroit, who heads
that washing machine of the
bosses, the Detroit Industrial Safety
Council, proposed that IS years be
the limit for hiring. This was too
brutal for even the rest of the De-
troit Employers Association, and the
proposal was not endorsed.
There are men on the Chrysler
factory police force whose moral
code is so low that Ford would not
hire them on that job. Jake Spolan-
ski organized them.
The enclosed cutting shows that
the Ford Motor Co. hired boys IA
years of age. A Ford factory was
given the fancy name of Trade
School, in order that children from
grade schools could be hired.
Detroit business circles say there
will be a shutdown of the National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce
plants on May 1st. Steel market
orders are down. Plants are to re-
open with limited production on
May IA, they say. Union men are not
to be recalled on resuming of opera
tons, according to the plan. Present
union men are to be re-hired six
months after surrendering their
union card to the company police
and applying for membership in
the company union. This is legally"
voluntary, and does not violate the
MIRA, the bosses say. This is only
a report and no employee has vouch-
ed for it. The Auto Workers Union
and the Mechanics Educational So
ciety of America, not having fur
nished lists of membership, will not
be affected during the re-hiring,
the reports say.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
lBv an Auto Worker Correspondent

by an Auto Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pa-Richie and
Hines, the two A. F. of L. takers
who have betrayed the Budd work
ers so many times and so openly.
do not feel safe at a meeting Of
Budd workers, even though it is
largely packed with their special
henchmen. At a meeting last Thurs
day night, they surrounded them
selves with a whole squad Of cops
and plainelothesmen, as well as a
strong arm squad.
When either of them tried to
speak, they we're booed down. Sew
eral workers demanded that the
negotiations committee, dominated
by Richie, Hines and company, be
Immediately scrapped, and a new
rank and file committee elected.
Several other workers, members of
the company union, said that they
were greatly dissatisfied with the
union, but still preferred it to the
A. F of L.
Though Richie and Hines tried to
justify their actions during their
numerous conferences with Budd.
johnson, and others, there were
boos, and several workers took the
floor to point out that their entire
activity had resulted in having a
company union foisted on the men,
the most militant union members
being fired and scabs hired to re-
place them.
One worker said he had worked Is
years in the plant, and was fore
man for seven years. Yet when he
was retired after the strike, he was
forced to carry about scrap, paid AZ
cents an hour, and be tainted by
the fo-emen. Neither Richie nor
Hines could find an answer to that,
SO they called on their superior faker,
Edward McGrady. He read list of
statements from the President,
which in essence demanded that
hey cease all militant activity and
put entire faith in the new COM
ouanee board for the auto industry
He was not permitted to go on,
out had question after question
hurled at him by workers, none of
which he answered, except to tell
the men that when the new board
came to town they would consider
The questions.
One worker insisted that a rank
and file committee be Immediately
elected to effect the reinstatement
Of the 800 strikers still out of work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Four Killed In
10 Weeks at
Midland Steel
By a steeI Worker COrrespondent

DETROIT, Nfich.-During the last
10 weeks four workers were killed
and from so to so workers had their
fingers or hand cut off, at the Mid
land Steel plant. Thursday, April
5, at p. m, young women was
killed by steel falling off an over
loaded crane, and another woman
had her small finger and part of
hand cut off when this stock fell
down and forced her to the press
she was working at.
About month ago two workers
were killed when a cable broke due
to an overload. One of the workers
was colored who was hooking up the
crane, and the other worker was
white who was operating the punch
press near where this cable broke.
There may have been more killed
and injured. am reporting what
I actually have seen with my own
eyes and heard from my fellow
workers who worked on other shifts
and throughout the plant.
This butchering and killing of
workers is due to lack of safety
measures in the factory. Some of
the presses trip and Doubt trip
themselves due to the wear and
need of repairing. The falling of
stock and breaking of cables is due
to overlooking of steel fiat racks
on which the stock is loaded. They
are it. by it., with hooks at each
corner with no sides. There is not
enough racks to take care of the
work produced. Sometimes these
racks are stacked up with stock to
mans height, with no guards on
sides to keep it from sliding off.
am young man of % years.
When I get home I am completely
exhausted. Must keep going all the
time. Very seldom are we able to
go beyond our day rate, which is
set at Acc an hour now.
The company's profits were $672,-
728 in 1888, not figuring the high
salaries and bonus the high officials
and directors have given themselves.
In 1882 there was a net loss of
1921, 295.
1t is our duty as workers not only
to talk organization but to organize
on the job into the only rank and
file Industrial Union in the Auto
mobile Industry, the Auto Work
ers Union, the union which the
bosses fear because it has proven
in action that its tactics give re-
suits. Join now, do not wait, as to-
morrow will be too late.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
TRY TO GET SUBSCRIPTIONS

I'M ~ LEI SUBSCRIPTIONS
Cory, Pa.
Enclosed you will find 81 for the
new press fund. I am very clad the
new press is being installed. With
its help the Daily" should improve
IN appearance and reliability as it
has in content during the past wear.
And it surely has improved, I think
everyone will admit.
The column by Mike Gold is fine.
1t is easily read and understood by
anyone. The health column by Dr..
Luttinger is valuable addition to
the Daily" I will have to admit
that before this column was started,
I did not realize that there were
such people as proletarian doctors
in the U. S. A. All of them that I
had come in contact with were of
the capitalist type. So I am glad
to know that we really have prole-
tartan doctors and that we are for
tunate to have one as able a writer
and a doctor, for health advice to
readers of the Daily"
I liked the sports column by Ed
die NeWhouse. But in my opinion
it has not been quite SO good since
Eddie left us. But perhaps that is
because it has been more of a
sports column and not so much of
a propaganda column. I am inter-
ested in sports, but never read the
sports page of the capitalist press.
In fact it was not until the Daily"
started a sports column that could
read about such activities with
pleasure.
Another valuable addition to the
Daily is the I'm the Home" de-
partment. This offers something
special in the paper for the women,
although I would be willing to bet
that it is still more extensively read
by the men than the women. I am
very much in favor of the Red In
ternational Cook Book. There is no
good reason why we should not
have the best dishes of the workers
of all lands, when we can afford it.
Which is seldom. But the workers
of all lands under capitalism have
to plan and scrimp and try various
ways to get enough food to keep
living. And SO the recipes of the
workers of other countries should
offer US some palatable dishes at
low cost. And any radical can ap-
preciate that at the present time.
Enclosed are two clippings from
newspapers. One shows how Roose-
velt's coupon clippers prosperity
has reached the working class. And
the other one how even the miser-
able c. w. A. wages may be lost
to the unemployed workers of this
city because the city has no funds
with which to purchase materials
or pay its employees.
Wishing you all success. I am
comradely your w. A. S.