The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
Lesser Fails to Check
Strike for CWA Jobs
Thurs, March %

Thurs, March %
EDITORS NOT .-NOrman
Thomas and David LASER, So
cialist leaders, in their personally
conducted tour of Washington,
ID. c., with handpicked delega-
ton to 'take up" C.W.A. jobs, ex-
posed once more their descriptive,
splitting tactics in the struggles
of the unemployed for jobs and
relief. The following article, by
one of the few elected rank and
file delegates, as well as the
speech of Gertrude Hearst, at the
Madison Square Garden meeting,
reveal that the Socialist leaders
deliberately evaded basing the
delegation on the mass activities
of the workers, on the C.W.A.
projects and in the neighborhOOds.
LASER led the Socialist leaders
and a sprinkling of renegades
from Communism out of the
united front conference Of all I'M
employed in New York. They re-
fused to endorse the Workers I'm
employment Insuranc Bill
(HR 1881. They refused to en-
dOrse the fight for the Negro I'M
employed and fought against
resolution for defense of the
ScottsbOrO boys. They came to
the united front conferences as
observers" and fought against
the program of struggle and
finally withdrew and split away.
They refused to participate in the
one hour national strike to take
place next Thursday at pm. for
C.W.A. jobs. They refused to
work on the projects to mobilize
the masses of workers for struggle.
As class colIaboratiOnists, who
do not want to ruffle the feelings
of the employers and their agents,
Roosevelt or La Guardia, they
fight against the united front of
the workers, the united front
from below. LASER, like Panken,
Thomas, and all of the Socialist
leaders, politicians, careerists,
renegates and lackeys of the
bosses government, spoke of "a
few of us sitting around a table"
This is their idea of united
front.
This cOwardly and traitOrOuS
role was fully exposed in Wash
ington. The workers in the dele
cation led by LASER, Thomas and
the renegadeS, who thought they
were in real fight for C.W.A.
jobs, were excluded from the
delegation which saw Hopkins.
Thomas was forced down their
threats without consultation or
warning. The workers were not
consulted, but the police were.
LASER and Thomas made it clear,
while treating the workers with
contempt, that they did rot want
to offend Thomas good friend"
Roosevelt. The march was directed
and guided from beginning to
end by the police. All militant
demands or actions were silenced.
The delegation led by Lessar
and Thomas was worse than use
less. 1t was not based on elected
delegates. 1t was not based on
the fighting body of C.W.A. work
ers. 1t was a splitting delegation
which was deliberately aimed to
disrupt the Thursday, March 20
One-hour protest strike for c. w.
A. jobs. 1t was aimed to split
and confuse the workers, and dis
rupt the united front based ON a
program of struggle.
The splendid turn out at Madi-
son Square Garden, the militant
fighting spirit of the workers
there, proves that these pussy
footing ex-ministers, these career
lists who look ahead to being
American MacDonaIds, did not
succeed in their purpose. Thomas
and LASER displayed their con-
tempt and fear of the fighting
C.W.A. workers, they followed the
line of the employers in trying
to prevent struggle for C.W.A.
jobs, but they didn't get away
with it,
by a Worker Delegate.)
NEW YORK.-Two hundred and
f1fty-nine people, by actual count,
boarded the &C. w. A. Special" at
the Pennsylvania station Saturday
morning in answer to the call of the
cialist-Lovestoneite leaders for a
mass demonstration" in Washing
ton against the discontinuance Of
the c. w. A. program.
Joined in Camden, Baltimore, and
Washington by reinforcements
which perhaps doubled their num-