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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16
Pr HARRY RAYMOND

NEW YORH-With the threat Of
q great steel strike casting a dark
shadow over the gay prancings Of
.le :ssi-milhonsire owners Of steel
mills, shady figures Of professional
strike breakers, gun thugs and
black lack artists begin to strut be-
fore the public limeight
Tbs most notorious Of these I'M
Jailed st-uttsrs is the infamous P.
T. Berger, head Of the Bsrgof De-
tsctiYs Agency. 2 Columbus Circle,
whose record for acts Of violence
and thuggery against the working
class dates back for over thirty
year..
Vain and feeling secure in the
knowledge that he has the protec-
ton of New York City government
and its large police force. Bergof
has declared with considerable pride
that some 10000 strike breakers ere
being recruited at So a day-twice
IS much as an employed steel
vc-,er gets-for three c. four big
steel companies" by his agency.
Made a Millicn
According to this own confession,
BerzofT has made millions from
his thirty years work Of scab-herd-
Ing, spying on labor and worse. He
boasts that he has spies in many
locals of the Anlalgamated Associa-
tion Of Irca Steel and Tin Workers,
snd that he he's handled lot OF
ioss" fer the US. Steel Corporation,
It's subsidiary Carnegie Steel Co.,
Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Mel
Ions Aluminium Com pany Of
America, Pockefeller's Standard Oil,
and over 100 other companies.
Tic-ups with steel town officials
are indicated by Bargoff's declara-
ton that his thugs will be. sworn in
by local sherifFs.' We have a ten
tative understanding he added,
with local sheriffs as has any large
agency like ours which knows its
business"
BergofT boasts a Strike Proven
ton Department, " composed of men
who "counteract the evil influence
of strike agitators"; an "Undercover
Department" of stool pigeons who
furnish accurate information of
the movements and contemplated
actions Of their fellow employees" .:
an open Shop Labor Department -
an Investigation Department" and
a Protection Department" COM
posed of strong-arm men with mil
itary or police experience"
In his interview with the press,
Bergoff IVES expansive" as the
New York Post put it June 81, on
his. plans to put down the strike. y
Steel workers should be on the
lookout for Bergdoff's rats. These
professional scsb-herders, which
the steel companies are ready to
pay so much money while refusing
to increase wages Of the workers
can be effectively resisted by proper
organization.
His Gangsters Disarmed
In fact, in July 1915. the majority
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16
September Unity Conference Must Rally Seamen,
Longshoremen for Joint Action in All Ports

peciaHy the North Atlantic, must be
a close and systematic cheok-up on
all phases of the work by the leading
committees who must assume the
fullest responsibility for the execu-
ton Of the plans.
The recruiting campsig for 5000
new members is already beginning
to produce fairly good results. we
must utilize the campaign in prep
aration for the conference in order
to successfully carry it through. In
this connection we must redouble
cur efforts in exposing and isolating
the leaders of the 1. S. U. and 1.
W. w. and winning the mass Of
5eamen, as well as the unorganlzed
longshoremen, directly for the
Marine Workers Industrial Union.
In carrying through the work OUT
lined finances will be urgently
needed A real drive for a confer
once fighting fund should be part
ard parcel Of the organizational
preparations for the conference. AS
a means OF popularizing the con-
ference there should be a wide sale
OF the conference buttons and a
special conference assessment stamp
should be taken out by every mem
Der. Local conference and fighting
fund drives should be inHtisted
amongst the seamen and longshore-
men Additional help will also be
needed to carry through the prep
arations and therefore all SYM
pathizers are urged to give the
fullest cooperation to the local CAM
paigns in the various ports or to
send donations directly to the Ma
tional Office of the M. w. I. U, at
Stone st., Room 7o1, New York
City.
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allied themselves with other leading
groups in order to make themselves
in the New Leadership of the
party. One example is Kruger. who
talked so left at Paris, but took
the lead in expelling the Chicago
Left Wingers. The Revolutionary
Policies Group" under the leader
ship of J. B. Matthews, Ruth Shall
cross and Francis Henson, after
flirting around with the renegades
J. Lovestone and Joe Cannon and
their reectionary sacts, capieulated
to IN. r. A Thomas and the
Champion of Municipal Socialism,
Dan Hoan.
No Program Of Struggle
The Socialist Party convention
did not adopt a program of rsvolu-
tionsry struggle, but spread con-
fusion among the rank and file.
The important question of the
United Front was pushed in the
background and referred to the Ma
tional Executive Committee. The
officialdom of the S. P. feared the
rank and file would press for unity
in struggle of Communist and So
cialist workers in the American
Leasue Against War and Fascism
and the Unemployed Movement,
ETC., and thereby they would lose
their influence over the rank and
file workers. In this way they aid
the capitalists by splitting the
workers in the fight sgain5s fascist
terror and imperialist war
The Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill which was in
dorsed by the Socialist administra-
tions of Bridgeport and Milwaukee
and many Socialist locals through
the pressure of the rank and file,
was not even introduced by the R.
P. G. THIS betrayal, the unemployed
Will not forget so easily.
Support A. F. Of L. Rtactionary
Leaders
The fourteen million Negroes in
the United States were of no i'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16
Head Of Thug Agency Boasts
He's Preparing to Supply
Gongsters for Steel Bosses

of the population of Bayonne, N. J.
was aroused against Bergof and his
rats, following the killing of a boy
and three men during the Tide
water Oil Co. strike as a result Of
shipping by Bergoff's gangsters from
the plant. The pressure of the work
ers was so great that Sheriff Eugene
Kinkead Of Hudson County was
forced to disarm the gangsters, con-
fscate their bludgeons and clubs
and lock up the ringlesders in the
Hudson County Jail The rest Of
them were escorted out o1aown.
On another occasion Bergoff was
the object Of an attack by the New
York labor unions. This was in 1915
shortly before he had his license
revoked.
At this time a demand was made
by organized labor that the rela-
tions between BergofT and the Po-
lice Department be made public.
The unions at that time issued
statement demanding that the "pri-
vate understanding that permits the
Police Department to allow agencies
to tap wires, install dictaphones.
break into Offices. smash desks and
copy private correspondence be
made public.
The public should know" said
the statement. TO what extent the
so-called private detective agencies
and strike-breaking agencies are
supervised and what reports they
furnish of their activities.
1T is well known fact that en-
ployees Of these agencies are ex-
convicts and people Of such de-
PRAYED moral standing in the COM
munity that decent people will not
associate with them. and the people
who employ them are not any bet
ter
The drive against Bergoff. against
all strike-breaking defective
agencies, against the Sherwood Blu
reau Of 1887 Broadway, must now
be intensified All trade unions. all
workers organizations, should pass
resolutions demanding that Bergoff
and his clan of thugs be put out OF
business.
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emphasized that at this time there
was no mass organization existing
amongst the sean1en. The response
to our call was SO great that it
compelled the International Sea-
mems Union also to issue one or
suffer isolation.
Majority for United Front
The movement for United Front
strike committees of the I. s. U. and
NJ. w. I. U. Yves sabotaged by the
officials-but in most Of the ports
the ajority of the seamen followed
the leadership of the United Front
committees established through the
initiative CT the NJ. w. I. U. In
San Pedro we we're able to force an
official united front. IN San Fran
cisco large numbers of I, S. y. mem
hers Pre- strongly influ.ncsd bb the
united front strike committee-in
spite Of their officials.
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Not only that but all the recent
struggles will have a tremendous
effect upon the sesmen and long
shoremen who have not yet been
drawn into the struggle. This is 20
especially amongst the sean1en in
the North Atlantic and Gull and
the members Of tho International
Lcngshoren1en's Association whose
agreement expires in September.
i Amongst these longshoremen the
demands put forward by the West
/ Coast longshoremen, as well as the
mass revolt against Ryan and COM
pany, will have o tremendous effect
in inspiring them to similar action.
Toward Unity Conference
All of these events show that the
decisions boldly made by the Ma
tional Committee meeting Of the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
last April for the calling of Ma
tiona) Unity Conference to prepare
for National strike action was cor
rect. The possibilities are even
more favorable now. We must make
use of the situation. While we can
have no guarantee that there will
be a National strike (and must
! guard against any mechanical con-
! cepticn that there must be one in
Septen1bsr) we must also recognize
that the organizstional preparations
for the conference in September are
of the greatest Importance and to
great extent will determine
whether the possibilities will be
utilized for the development of even
greater struggles
The force of our union in every
port must work out concre'e plans
of work for the coming three
months Especially must these plans
result in serious effort to reach all
refcrn1ist organizations for endorse
ment of the conference.
Amongst the seamcn in the North
Atlantic and Gulf we should en-
deevor to organize partial and COM
pany struggles; an even wider pop
ulariz2tion of our code must Be
carried through; and most i'm
portant of all we must concentrate
upon organizing and consolidating
action committees in support Of the
conference On every ship.
Work amongst the longshoretnen
must be intensified, especially
amongst the 1. L. A. longshorcnen
In the North Atlantic. Through
systematic work we must endeavor
to secure at least a few endorse
ments of the conference from 1. L.
| A. locals. The main slogans raised
in connection with the expiration
OF the agreement should be: For a
National uniform agreement based
on the West Cast demands-for
joint action with the seafncn--to
organize conference action COM
mittees.
The West Coast and Gulf Con-
ferencsG being called during the
coming month must be utilized for
consolidating our position ths"e
and for intcnsifying the prepare
tons for the conference in these
districts.
| Tie main thing in ell ports, es-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16

NEW YORK-In It's drive against
the unemployed, the LaGusrdia adj
ministraticn, with the intended pur-
pose OF slsshing all supplementary
relief to larye families, has "discoy-
cred" 1922 "chisslers" on the relief
lists.
Edward Corsi, director of Home
Relief. in a preliminary check Of
45,271 families on the relief lists.
announced that he had found 2,292
families we're receiving both home
relief and work relief, the total from
both, in no case amounting to more
than $50 month.
On work relief, a family receives
s12 week. In the case of large
families this is less than Home Re-
lief budgets for food, rent, gas and
electricity. In many cases, families
won the right to both forms Of re-
lief, one experimenting the other.
Attempt To Slash All Relief
That Corsi'S discovery" is just
another barefaced attempt to slash
the relief standards Of the unsm-
ployed is indicated by the manner
in which his startling discovery was
announced-sn inquiry and 1922
families ere simply dropped" from
supplementary relief.
In the past, the LaGuardia adj
ministration has herelded attacks
upon the unemployed by similar
name calling, AS thousands were
being fired from C.W.A., Mr.. Moses
a LaGuardia appointee. slandered
the C.WA. workers with the term
"loafers." Two weeks ago, La
Guarda shouted yellow dogs" Yes
terdsy Corsi's "chisslers" saw the
light of day from the front pages
OF the press. In each instance, dras-
tic attacks have been made on the
unemployed.
Drop 1900 Families
Corsi also announced that the
Home Relief Bureaus had dropped
1900 families from the relief rolls
during the past month because it
was found that they were mo long
er in need At the same time, case
loads reached q new high of 1863 SOC
from about $4,000 for the preced-
ing month. In statements during
the course of the month, he said
that new applications for relief were
coming into the Relief Bureaus al
the rate Of 1900 a day. Fifteen hulS-
dred new cases daily would bring
the total to around 100000. Thu
Home Relief Bureau is dropping
old clients as fast as new applica-
tions are received.
A typical budget" for family Of
five has Just been worked out BY
the Department of Public Welfare
It is below the standards previously
Get by the Welfare Department, yet
A family on Home Relief by this
budget would receive more than OF
work relief" It allows a total Of
$4,000 a month-s3o.91 for food
S1409 for rent, S1.hl for electricity
S1.73 for gas, and S109 for house
hold supplies. Under work relief
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portsnce to the S.P. leadership who
have not even one representative on
the NEG. of the SP This is due
to the Jim Grow" policy of the SIP.
which expressed Itself by totally
ignoring the Negro question as
special problem. Take. for example,
the Jim Grow" locals of the SIP.
in the South. The C.P, on the other
hand took up this problem seriously
and with elaboration.
The cless collaboration policy of
the SIP. in supporting the bureau
cratic A. r. of l.. leadership Of the
Greens, VOLS, and Lewiss betrayed
the organized workers. The failure
of the S.P. to point cut the strike
breaking policies Of the A. F. of L..
and its cooperation with the capt.
talist machine shows clearly the
role Of the leadership Leo Krzycki,
chairman Of the NEG, and Gra-
ham, NEG. member, who admitted
keeping workers from strike strug-
gle, as both A. F. Of L. takers differ
ing very little from the Greens, the
Wells, and the Lewis's. They live in
luxury on dues for which the rank
and file sweat. These union Off
Gals of the S.P. fear losing their
fat salaries through the building
of broad revolutionary industrial
unions controlled by the rank and
file.
Resolutions for the freedom of the
ScottSboro boys Angelo Herndon,
Tom Mooney and other political
prisoners, for the freedom of Ernst
Thaelmann and other victims Of
the fascist terror we're of small sig
nif1cance to the SIP. convention and
were not taken up A resolution
on the Soviet Union was referred
to the NEG. which called for the
setting up CT counter revolutionary
parties in the Soviet Union.
Jasper McLsvy, who fraternizad
with manufacturer and other tusi-
ness men. smashed unemployed anc
anti-fascist demonstrations ant
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One other point should be en-
phasized in regards to the seamen.
Although the strike was initiated by
workerG organized in a reformist
union; although the reformist union
of seamen was also drawn into the
struggle; although cur union was
extremely weak organizationally
amongst the ssamen and much
pressure is being brought to bear
against the followers OF our union
Despite these facts the revolution
airy Marine Workers Industrial
Union has exerted tremendous in
fluenee; in some ports has played
the leading role against the sea-
inch; and is meeting with success
in recruiting new members. Accord
ing to reports approximately 1900
have Joined during the strike.
In connection with this strike we
have merely indicated certain posi-
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tive factors which we believe reflect
generally our influences and posi-
bilities both amongst the seamen
and Observation-Disclosures those
organized in the A. F. of L. Lacking
sufficient details and reports we
have not attempted to estimate the
whole results of the strike or to
analyze its shortcomings number
OF which ere now becoming ap-
psrent. While these will be dealt
With later it is necessary now to
say a word about the North At
lantic ports. Here cur efforts to
rally the workers have been too
much Of an agftational character;
insufficient efforts were made and
our weak position amongst the
longshoremen make it difficult to
develop struggle in spite OF the l.
L. A. officials. The strike Of the
8. S, Texan under our leadership,
which also inspired the unorganized
five-hour walkout Of the 1. l.. A.
longshoremen on two docks in SUP
port Of the west coast, merely show
the possibilities that exist for utiliz-
ing the West Coast strike for get
ting the mass OF workers into ac-
ton. 1t is necessary that more eff
forts be made to utilize these pos
sibilities thus making sure that
every possible effort will be made to
win the West Coast demands.
About the Betrayals
One other question must be raised
and answered, Some say that the
betrayal of the Gulf strike by Ryan
and the confusing role of the I. w.
W., there amongst the seamen will
demcrali9e the workers; will exhaust
Their energy and their willingness
to undertake further struggle-par-
ticularly upon a national acale. we
must say no to this ques ion--in the
betrayels and weakness of these
strikes will compel the workers to
raise the question OF National
Action.
The lack of common demands for
al the strikes; the lack of program
and Organization which makes It
difficult to develop Joint action in
the North Atlantic; that prevented
Joint action Of the seamen on a
mass scale in the Gulf; the ability
Of the officials in some place to
| mancuver because there is no CEN
tral strike committee of rank ard
file workers who would command
TIE confidence and leadership Of
/ the mass Of workers-all these fac
tors, ccmmcn in all struggles, make
the need for preparations for Ma
tionel Action more apparent to all
workers.
Also the West Coast strike must
be carried through in such a man
ner as to win the demands put for
ward by the workers and as a
stepping stone toward even larger
struggles for tie purpose of gaining
greater victories or OF maintaining
tbs standards That can and must be
wen in the present strikes. There
! fore in this respect we must raise
the question of cur National Unity
Conference even to the workers now
engaged in historic fights. or course,
all these things will not BE- auto
/ matically oiea to the workers. But
We must work amongst them and
help them to draw the proper les
sons from all their struggles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16
Socialist Editor in Hartford Resigns After
Detroit Contention; Pledges Support to c. p.
Disillusioned at ''Mili,
tants'' and Sabotage
of United Front


welcomed fascist leaders in Bridge
port: Joe Shsrts, champion Of pa
triotism and nationslism, Abe
Cahan. Algernon Lee, and Wald-
man, bitter enemies Of the Soviet
Union; Socialist sheriffs, who evict
workers families; businessmen, cler-
gymen, lawyers. opportunities, and
careerists dominate the SP. with
a sprinkling Of sincere workers who
have the illusion that the S.P. will
lead them to Socialism.
As a member Of the s. 7. and
the Y. P. S. L.. l had the illusion
that the S. P. would become a
revolutionary party. After con-
sistently fighting for unity be-
tween the workers Of the S. P. and
c. P. for ever two years, l have
found the S. P. leadership reac-
tichary and bureaucratic and
against revolutionary struggle.
The Socialist Party Is the bulwark
Of capitalism, Despite the revolu-
ticnary crisis, despite the reso,u-
tiOns and demands of the UNITED
Struggle" Group, TIE real left
wing of the S. P. and Y. F. S. L.,
for the united front for the
Soviet Union as the only real
Workers and Farmers Govern
ment, FOR participation in the
struggles of the workers not only
in words, but in deeds; despite
all these things the Social
ist Party with its criminal po,-
icy Of dividing the workers has
opened our eyes to the fact that
there Is but enc revolutionary
party of the masses, the Commu-
mist Party.
Only under the leadership of the
c. P. Of the U. s. A., which is part
Of the Communist International.
which follows a strict revolutionary
policy Of class struggle, the Party
Of Marx, Enge,s, Lenin and Stain
will the workers Of the U. S. A., and
al revolutionary Socialists and trade
unioniGts as a part OF the Interna-
ticnal Proletariat be able to win the
final and decisive victory over CAPT.
talisn.
Communists do not hide their
aims. The Proletarian Revolution
cannot take place without the
fcrcible destruction of the State
machine, then the setting up Of
the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat,
toward Soviet America, to So
cialism.
Ccmradely yours,
DICK FAPBER.
P, S.-Resigned from Socialist
Party, Thursday, June Z, 1884.
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Hudson TO Make Tour
Of Ports to Prepare
for Natl Conference

NEW YORK-In preparation
for the National Unity Confer
ence of seannen and longshorc-
men to be held in Baltimore.
Sept. IL, r. B. Hudson, National
Secretary Of the Marine Wcrk-
ers Industrial Union, will make
a national tour Of the Great
Lakes, Pacific Coast, Gulf of New
Mexico and Atlantic ports. Dur
ing the month of July, district
conferences will be held in Clevc-
land, Portland, Ore, and New
Orleans.
Hudson will speak in the fol
lowing ports:
Buffalo and Cleveland, June
20.
Chicago, June 81.
Duluth. MINI, June %.
Meetings are being arranged
for Hudzon's tour in Seattle and
other Northwest ports from June
Is to July 3. Ports in California
will be visited by Hudson July 4
to IA. Gulf ports: July IS to "A.