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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-28
FOR INDUSTRIAL UNIONIsM BASED
ON STRUGGLE

WHEREAS; We live in a period domi-
mated by monopoly capital where industry
is highly concentrated, with machinery
and mass production developed to a high
degree, where skill is being more and more
eliminated and where many different
crafts are employed in one or more plants
by one company, and
WHEREAS: Craft unionism in practice
has meant constant jurisdictional fights,
the division of the workers in many diff
ferent unions with separate agreements,
IN most cases expiring at different times,
resulting in the scabbing of crafts on each
other during strike struggles, and
WHEREAS: Such Anticipated form of
trade union organization can in no way
be justified, since it divides and weakens
the workers and serves only to strengthen
the hand of the employers and reaction
airy A. F. of L. labor bureaucrats, who
look upon the unions as dues collecting
institutions to serve their personal inter-
eSts, and
WHEREAS: The employers, especially
since the MIRA, are combined into strong
industrial associations, chambers of COM
MERGE etc, and are acting for their
mutual interest to secure more profits and
take greater advantage Of the wage earn
ers, and
'~A--~SS~AN'
organized labor and capital are leading
to constantly sharper struggles, and
WHEREAS: The policy pursued by the
present offcialdom Of our unions, con-
Citation, arbitration and compromise with
the employers, is ruinous to the interests
Of the workers and leaves them completely
at the mercy of the employers, who drive
down their conditions more and more, and
WHEREAS: Even where industrial unions
are formed, unless they are led by incor-
ruptible elements fighting in the interests
OF labor on the basis Of struggle they can
be utilized by the corrupt labor officials in
the same manner as is being done in the
craft unions, as for example in the UNI,
Wa, be it therefore
RESOLVED: That the................. goes on
record in favor of genuine industrial
unionism, to be achieved through the re-
organization of the membership into in
dustrial unions through the merging of
craft unions in each industry, and be it
further
RESOLVED: That said industrial unions
snail be based on programs of struggles
and against collaboration with the employ
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-28
Cuida nce of Paper Is
Impetus for Work
In the Arts

To the proletarian cultural or
carnations the Daily Worker is
an indispensable ally. without the
Daily Worker none of them would
have the encouragement and crit
1cism which is necessary for their
existence. Few of them, indeed.
would ever have been started with
out the impetus given to them by
the paper. In the pages of the
Daily Worker all of them find the
inspiration and material for their
working class compositions.
One of their chief objects each
year, therefore, should be to raise
a certain sum OF money for the
Daily Worker. The John Reed
Clubs, the literary, theatre, music
and art groups-these are de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-28

has come to the knowledge of the
Daily Worker With quota Of
$500, 1t calls, among other points,
for Socialist competitions among
its members, for performances for
the Daily Workers benefit and for
active, daily publicizing of the
drive. 1t has adopted an excellent
method Of announcing each mem
ber's daily work. On a bulletin
board in its headquarters is, first.
painted thermometer showing the
rise of funds for the collective
body and, second, a list of each
collector and his or her collections.
Third, the bulletin board contains
the standing of the competitions
and, fourth, a list OF those who
have produced nothing.
The Theatre, moreover has
challenged the Film and Photo
League. The League, however, has
not yet answered.
In New York, furthermore, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-28

organize, to strike and to picket?
Back of all the talk of Roosevelt
and the Liberty League that fills
the press these days about defend
ing the Constitution and fighting
for liberty is the desire of bankers
and industrialists to perpetuate
their rule and increase their profits.
The decay of American capitalism
has brought with it a realignment
of groupings within the ruling class,
In the Liberty League, for exam
pie, this disqualification of forces
has cut across old party lines. 1t
has not cut across class lines.
The Liberty League was organ
lied several weeks ago by both
Democrats and Republicans to
preserve property rights and COM
bat radicalism" Among its char
ter members were such liberty low
ers as Irenee Du Pont, the NUM-
lions magnate; John w. Davis, the
Morgan oligarchy's lawyer and gen.
eral handyman; Nathan L. Miller,
prominent in Republican politics
and big corporation lawyer; and
Al Smith, the friend Of the pee
pul"-and the servant Of Wall
Street.
There is, of course, no real con-
f1ict between Roosevelt and the
Liberty Leaguers. They point out
that they are definitely not anti
Roosevelt" And although he went
through the motions of attacking
them in order to make political
capital, for himself, at the same
time he endorsed their general
principles.
The basic principle on which both
Roosevelt and the Liberty League
agree is that America must remain
the private domain of a small
group of parasites who will have
full liberty to loot the country with
the sanction of the Constitution.
The Liberty Leaguers feel, how
ever, that the social demagogy Of
the New Deal is superfuous by
now and that its ballyhoo about hui
man rights should be replaced by
the old ballyhoo about the Consti-
tuition, the Founding Fathers and
the Spirit Of Liberty. Roosevelt,
who Is serving the interests of the
whole capitalist class, points out
that his organized attack against
the working class must be carried
out behind liberal" front. He
claims that the enormous profits of
the Liberty Leaguers since the in
ception of the New Deal is the best
proof that what is needed is more,
and not less, demagogy.
Only one party exposes the sham
fight between Roosevelt and the
Liberty League. Only one party
really fights for adequate relief and
unemployment insurance, for the
right to organize, picket and strike.
Only the Communist Party organ
ICES the working class for the
counter attack against the hunger
program of the New Deal.
The best way to beat back Roose-
velt'S attack against the living
standards and political and eco
nomic demands of the American
masses is to vote for all the Com
munist candidates. In municipal
assemblies, in state legislatures,
and in Congress, they-and only
they-will voice the political and
economic demands of the toilers.
The election of Communists to
legislative bodies will mean the adj
dition Of powerful weapon to the
political arsenal Of the working
class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-28
Why Large Vote for Communist Candidates Is Needed
1000 Acclaim
C.P. Candidate
In Strike Area
Workers Raise Protest
Against Recent Raid
Of C. p. Quarters

PAWTUCKET, r. l., Sept. 25.-
More than 1000 Italian workers,
the majority of them in the tex
tile industry here, gave enthusiastic
greeting last Thursday night to Al
bina Porrino, Communist candidate
for Mayor, and Walter Petraska,
member of the independent union,
at the weekly open-air meeting of
the Communist Party at Charles
and Hawkins Streets.
A total of 100 copies of the Daily
Worker were sold at the meeting,
and many workers volunteered to
help in the collection of nominat-
ing signatures for the Communist
candidates.
Vigorous protests were expressed
against the recent raid on Commu-
mist headquarters and against eff
forts to frame Communists as idle
persons" and for the possession of
lottery tickets.
The International Labor Defense
here is planning a broad campaign
against the raids and against the
attempted frame-up and intimida-
ton of Daily Worker statesmen and
against other phases of the strike
terror. The organization is plan
ming a big indoor mass meeting for
Oct. 7, with outstanding defendants,
trade union leaders and liberals as
speakers.
John Weber, Albina Porrino,
Esther Marks, David Glass and Al
bert Planks will go on trial here
on Tuesday. Irving Kaitz, Irving
Halpern and Joseph Planks will
face trial on Friday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-28
Role of Daily Stressed for Cultural Groups

pended upon by the Daily With
their capabilities, with their
means of arranging symposia, con-
certs, and performances, these
should provide a fair quota of any
Daily drive.
In the present drive for 100000
less than fifty dollars has so far
been received from the cultural
groups throughout the country:
yet, in the work VI one or two of
these organizations, we see what
the proper activity can do. OF
the money that has been received,
$25 has come from the Freihet
Gesangs Varein of Philadelphia
and $15.85 from the Workers Lab
oratory Theatre in New York,
The money from the Gesangs Var
Elm was due to an immediate do
nation.
The program of the Workers
Laboratory Theatre in New York is
at present the most extensive that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-28

don't need every blessed nickle you
earn. But how many workers,
o wise professor, are in that posi-
ton?
Out of the 45,00O,OOO normally
gainfuly employed in the United
States, 100000 of them earn
LESS than $4,000, the approx
mate minimum for a decent
standard of living, as computed
from government statistics!
How can these workers, barely
keeping body and soul alive while
working, put enough aside-grant-
ing that your idea was acceptable
for the inevitable "rainy day" Of
unemployment-now ste ady
downpour?
WHAT will the Haensel plan mean
W in terms of actual cash?
Suppose you are working for a
solid year at $25 week. Then you
are fired. By that time, figuring
that you put five per cent, the boss
the same, and the government two
per cent, you have accumulated in
your reserve the great sum of $3.50,
only $125 of which you may touch.
II you are permitted" to take $40
week for yourself and your family
your savings fund will hold out
exactly twelve and one half weeks,
And where are you then?
We could go on like this in even
greater detail. But our readers can
already see that this is not a plan
to help them mitigate in the
slightest the misery of unemp- ~
ment. 1t is a plan, purely and
simply, to guard capitalist profits,
to prevent the masses of the unem-
ployed from getting even tiny
percentage of the profit millions.
The plan meeting with increased
favor among workers, A. F. of L.
and otherwise, is the Workers I'M
employment Insurance Bill, pro-
posed by the Communist Party.
This Bill calls for unemployment
insurance maintained by the en-
ployers and the government, with
no taxation of the workers in
come. This bill provided that the
unemployed worker receive $40 a
week for the entire duration of his
Unemployment and So a week for
each dependent.
Ihls Is the bill that should get
the earnest support of every A. F.
OF L. worker. The coming conven-
ton OF the Federation should see a
vigorous struggle on the floor for
the endorsement of the bill and the
Reputation of the fake Haensel-
Green proposals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-28
Daily Worker Calls for
Support as Campaign
For Funds Lays

John Reed Club has undertaken,
as its contribution, to give chalk
talks free at affairs held for the
Daily So far, though no money
has come in from this Club. Very
little has been heard from the
John Reed Clubs in the rest Of
the country.
With a month of the drive gone,
this weakness should not be al
lowed to continue. The cultural
organizations - and, particularly,
the John Reed Clubs-should see
to it that money is collected
through their efforts for the
Daily In a preceding paragraph
has been outlined some of the
means they have Of raising money.
Let them get to work immediately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-28
Welsh Mine Tomb Hit
By Second Explosion

WREXHAM, Wales, Sept. GA
second explosion occurred Tuesday
IN the Crestford Coal Mine, where
$50 miners died last Saturday in an
explosion and fire that is considered
one OF the worst mine tragedies in
the history OF English coal opera
tons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22

This is the fourth inztallment Of
the series on the theories and &C
items Of Austrian S0cial-DemocraCy
which led to the triumph of Fas-
cisrn in Austria.
First delivered as a speech be-
fore the Communist Youth Inter
national more than a wear ago, it
is a mastery analysis Of the treach-
circus character of the Austrian So
eiaf-D Democratic Party leadership.
In previous articles, Manuilsky
has shown that the Austrian pro-
ietariat had State power within
reach of its hands, that it could
have gone over to the road of So
cialist construction, if it had
smashed the capitalist State power
ana set up Proletarian Dictator
ship of SOviets. He showed how
the Socialist leaders succeeded in
trapping the workers away from
this path.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22
PARTY LIFE
United Front Must Be With
Workers to Be Effective
Ne'V Bedford Experience ProUes the Correctness
of United Front from BeIot0

the anarchists who, from the very
beginning formed a clique against
the majority Of workers in the club.
represeted by the two Of the Com
munist viewpoint on this committee.
Of which only one was a Party mem
Der.
All attempts on the part of the
unit to straighten out this tumble
proved of no avail. These workers
who styled themselves as Communists
before the workers refused even to
accept friendly advice from the
Party. But they were finally con-
WINGED of the correctness Of the Party
advice when the anarchists together
with the other liberal" elements on
the executive committee took over
The funds that were being raised for
joint paper and issued their own
paper. When cur sympathizers woke
up to these happenings and finally
decided to take steps to change the
constitution so that control of the
club would rest In the rank and file,
the anarchists withdrew from the
club with all funds Of the club, one
Of them being the treasurer.
AS a result of this cleansing Of tbs
club 1t has grown in membership,
but so far its only activities are 500
cial. The Party must use its inf1u-
ence to see that the club draws UP
a program of mass activities to carry
c1't the o~i0ioo1 line Of the Pqrty,
The club should now take the initia.
tive to organize a city-wide confer
ence on the question Of fascist die
tatorship in Portugual. It should be-
gin the organization of mass educas
tional meetings, raising the issue Of
mass support to the revolutionary
movement in Portrayal and struggle
against General Carmona's agents
in the United States. This struggle
should not be carried on in the abb
stract. but concretely linked up with
the conditions Of Por. uguese workers
in the United States, especially in
the textile mills of New Bedford.
AS a guarantee for the carrying
out OF such a program, the Party
must set itself the goal Of forming
an active functioning fraction In
this club in the shortest possible
time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22

on them during war time to manu-
tacture material with which to
mangle and murder their class
brothers. That Is the strategic step
in any war munitions plant-strong
organization.
We must begin to prepare these
strategic workers for our slogan of
turning i1nperialist war into civil war,
The way to prepare them is to arouse
their class consciousness and their
class loyalty.
Building the Union
One Of the basic tasks of the
Yard Voice" is to help to build up an
adequate fighting apparatus of the
workers inside the Navy Yards to get
better working conditions. The unit
editing this paper, however, seems to
regard the paper as a political sup
plement to the Union paper, without
realizing that the Unit paper itself
must be a Union organizer. The
paper does not show the workers how
to struggle for better conditions. It
does not explain how to build up any
kind Of shop organization. 1t does
not mention the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union anywhere
except to support It's program on one
/ iSsue-the restoration of the wage
cut. 1t outlines no program of i'm
mediate demands. 1t says nothing on
how to build up opposition groups in
the various A. F. Of L. locals In the
Yards, or how the members of these
locals can fight the leadership of the
Metal Trades Council, which has a
strangle-hold on the organized work.
ers there. 1t does not tell the IN
organized workers how they can
| struggle. 1t doesn't even mention the
word united front" under such q
complicated organizational situation
1t does not explain the role of the
company union. Even in its intro
ductory article, telling what the Com
munist Party stands for, it says
nothing about the Communist Party
championing the workers In their
day-to-day struggles.
Baslcally what Is the shortcoming
Of this paper? THIGH 1t is a shop
paper, it does no. handle the problems
OF the shop adequately. It takes up
only two shop problems-the restora-
ton Of the wage-cut and the status
of the apprentices.
Tie article analysing the set-backs
received in the struggle for the
restoration of the wage-cut is good.
1t exposes the anti-employee, and
pro-employer tactics of the Metal
Trades Council, and how it stifed
the mass action of the yard workers.
and how the A. F. of L. leadership as
a whole stifled the mass action of all
federal employees. Here was good
chance to combat that Illusion the
workers have that you can't fight the
government, for actually the federal
employees did fight the government
and were partially successful, for they,
including the Yard workers, are on
their way to getting back part of
their cut
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22
WOmen'S League
of Phila. Backs
Farmers Fight

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Not long
Ggo, the Women's League of Phila-
delphia showed how thev could help
out the struggles of the farmers.
One Of the militant farmers in Bucks
County had been blac,listed by his
dairy because of his activity in the
milk drivers strike in Philadelphia.
The dairy refused to pick up his milk.
SO the farmers went to their best
friend and natural ally, the city
worker.
The Women's League, representing
the consumers, went to the dairy and
demanded that this farmer be put
back on the list. The dairy boss Just
laughed. So the women organized
bombarded the dairy with telephone
calls-and then sent up a large dele
"ation with signs to the dairy. They
informed the Boss that they had a
list Of all his customers and that If
this farmer was not put back on the
list Immediately that they would
visit every customer to get strong
boycott and that they had their
posters ready to picket the dairy.
This time he did not LAUGH. In fact
he go a little shaky. He told them
that the farmers milk would be
picked up the next morningl And
t vast
So this shows what strength there
is in mass action Jointly Of the city
workers and the poor farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22

Now the paper, aside from endors-
ing the program of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
should have outlined concrete organi-
rational proposals for the immediate
future, to realize this program. This
was overlooked. The G. P. cannot
content itself with merely endorsing
the program of another organization.
It must lead the way in establishing
machinery for realizing this program.
The Problem of the Youth
On the question of the apprentices,
the paper shows its alertness on the
question of the problems of youth
in industry but only from the stand
point Of the youth. It has fallen into
certain dangers. It's foundations
would tend to bring about a schism
between skilled and unskilled work
ers and thus play into the hands of
the employers who constantly use
this method Of splitting the ranks
Of the working class. The question
Of apprentices supp,anting mechanics
at apprentice waTes, is handled only
from the point OF view of the appren-
ices, and the problem created for
the mechanics is ignored. Still they
call for support from the other
workers in the yard for their demands
without showing those workers why
this act of solidarity is necessary,
and without showing any sympathetic
understanding of the problems of
the adult and experienced workers.
Worker Correspondence
How about the other departments?
We have contacts in quite number of
other departments, but one could
never guess it from the paper. And
there is only one letter from a
worker. This is perhaps natural in a
first issue, and the appeal for more
in subsequent issues should bring re-
sults,-at least we hope so in view of
the fact that the paper gives no ad-
dress.
The paper is very attractive tech
nically, photographed in a neat man.
ner with many typographical errors,
however,, and with good illustrations.
The issuing of Party paper in
this very important war industries
plant is an achievement toward put
ting into effect the Open Letter and
the program of the 18th Plenum re-
solution. Now, in future issues, the
| comrades should learn from this first
experience not to handle too many
political problems at once. No enc
expects you to hand out to these
Navy Yard workers the entire pro-
gram and al the Party campaigns in
one issue. It is better at first to
handle one or two political subjects
only, but give them clear, careful
elementary analysis, linked UP as
closely as possible with the conditions
in the yards.
And don't forget that in addition
to being Party organizers, you are also
Union organizers The Party unit in
the shop is the fraction of the union
in the shop - the class conscious
Union organizers in the shop. If the
unit becomes more sensitive to its
task of building up Union organiza-
ton in the shop, and the clear con-
crete handling of the immediate day
to-day problems of the yard workers,
it will become the leader that any
Party organ should be anywhere, and
especially in such strategic shop
Reach the workers with your political
program through their immediate
interests. Keep your high political
level, but reach the workers by build
ing the highway to them-the Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22
No Farm Two Years,
Writes Daughter of
ShareCrOpper
(By Sharecronner Correspondent

CBy SharecrcDner Correspondent
DADEVILriE. Ala am a Negro
girl in the black belt. with nv
mother and father, five brothers and
two sisters. end we are all in needy
condition without shoes or clothes
""d sometimes hardly anything to
eet.
Last year my two little sisters went
TO the rural school only two weeks.
They could not go any more because
they had nothir~ to wear on bot
+om or on top. This year the same
school has opaned and they can't go
because they have nothing to wear.
I went to the school the year be-
fore 1a~t o~oI ] fi1isIed the r1,~p1
school and wanted to go to High
School, but it is so far would have
to board and my parents were no.
able to pay my entering fee and
H9'rd so colIld not 20. Thev said
that they would start me last year,
but I was naked and barelegged and
] couldn't get to go.
They said maybe we could clear
enough out Of the small patches to
send me. but we did not ret any,
thing. My brother was to be 81 a
month, and $1.35 to enter for the
half term, and I haven't got to go
yet. None of us cen geA any work
to do. We haven't had a farm in