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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
Shows Much Lip-Service
To Factory and
Union Work

party members in our trade who
have been in the party for quite
a time. They never felt necessary
to attach themselves to the left
group in our union, and to
strengthen our opposition work.
In other words, the party mem
bers in our trade are not modified
into a functioning fraction-to work
out a policy of action to be pre-
sented to the left rank and file
group and through them to the en-
tire membership. When the OPP
position group undertakes certain
activity; say, issuing a leafiet, our
party members are not in the fore
front of this activity. And precisely
because the fraction is not func-
tioning, the party members in their
respective shops act sometimes in
manner as to be pointed to by the
workers as weaklings and deserters.
Yes, our party members seem to
pay ample lip-service to the
maxim; I'VE must root ourselves
in the shops" ETC.; but in practice
shop work is still the weakest link
in our diversified activities and
this in spite of the Control-week
that took place few months ago.
The convention will have to pay
considerable attention to this prob
lem and find a solution to the much
mooted question of how to make
union work the major activity for
party members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
UNIV Local Sends
Lewis Protest on
COnyentiOnACtiOn
Say Machine FIoute d
Will Of Membership
and Their Demands

BICKNELL, Ind.-Declaring that
the Lewis machine at the 33rd U. NJ.
w. A. Convention flouted the will
of the membership as expressed
through their resolutions, the U. M.
w. A. Local No. 5000, in this city,
adopted a protest which was sent
to the union officialdom.
The resolution of protest follows:
Whereas, the local unions Of the
U. M. w. A. sent approximately
$500 resolutions to our 33rd Con-
vention demanding increase in
wages, six-hour day, five-day week,
payment for dead work, unemploy-
ment and social insurance, the right
to strike, abolition of the appointive
power and the right Of the rank
and file to elect our officers, reduc-
ton in the officers salaries and eX-
penses, etc, and
Whereas, these resolutions must
be considered as decisions Of our
membership; and
Whereas, the 33rd Convention of
the U. NJ w. A. rejected all these
resolutions either by voting against
them, or by referring them to Vari-
Gus committees, or by modifying
them, thus disregarding the wishes
and decisions Of the membership;
therefore be it
Resolved, that Local Union No.
6803, located at Bickneu, Indiana,
protests against the manner in
which the Convention handled these
resolutions and against the de-
cisions of the Convention to give
the international officer the unlim-
tied power to handle the affairs Of
the U. M. w. A., disregarding the
opinion of the rank and file mem
bership; and be it further
Resolved, that we particularly
protest against and condemn the
invitation of the coal operators
representative to address our Con-
vention, the same coal operators
that are responsible for the misery
and suffering Of our members and
their dependents.
ED WESTFALL,
President,
CLAUDE DALEY,
Secretary.
Adopted Feb. %, 1884.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
Jim-Crowed Negroes
Fight U. S. Troops
In CCC Camp Strike
Strike Leader Held In
Tuscaloosa Jail, in
Danger OfLynching

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March s.
Heroically defending themselves
with bricks against the bayonets of
regular troops, the more than 200
Negro youth in the jim-crow G. G.
camps near Tuscaloosa, last week,
carried out a militant strike against
rotten conditions in the camp,
brutality and discrimination and
INFLAMMATION of the youth.
A leaflet issued to the men by
the Young Communist League
played a major role in organizing
the strike. Soon after the strike
vas begun, white regular troops
we're sent against the strikers. The
latter fought back heroically with
bricks and other weapons, but were
finally forced to flee into the woods.
One hundred and sixty of the youths
we're discharged after the revolt,
Beykin Queenie, Of Birmingham,
vas arrested charged with leading
the strike and is now in grave
danger Of lynching in the Jail at
Tuscaloosa, where three Negro
youths were lynched last year.
The discharged strikers who have
returned to Birmingham held a
meeting yesterday and demanded
the immediate removal of Queenie
from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham and
his unconditional and immediate
release. They called on all work
ers organizations throughout the
country to rush similar demands to
President Roosevelt and Gov. B. M
Miller Of Alabama.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
BY d. H.

- AAs
In following the Open Letter of
the Party, we are beginning to turn
our face to the basic industries, to
prepare the working class for the
proletarian revolution. And in pre-
pairing now for the District Con-
vention, we see that is necessary
that we draw a clear picture of
the shortcomings of the Party in
one particular shop.
In Stochham Pipe Fitting Com
pany, which nominally employs
1,500, in 1881 when the condition
of the workers began to grow worse
and worse, with speed-ups and wage
cuts and lay offs, "the Southern
Worker" was sold in the shop and
the workers began to discuss the
paper. Then five Negro workers
Joined the Party and began shop
paper, calling upon the workers to
protest against working over time
without pay. They won their de-
mand for pay for overtime and
from this, established a grievance
committee with membership of
ten. But at this time, by not IN
derstanding the clear line of the
Party, as Lenin pointed out, that
we must learn from the masses and
at the same time lead them, the
unit failed to see this; therefore
they issued leaf1et that the work
ers of the grievance committee did
not approve of, and that caused a
decentralization in the committee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06

of L. misleadership in the shop, the
workers began seeing that they
themselves can and will fight for
better conditions. We now have
established a shop committee with
non-Party members, meeting regu-
larry and this committee knows our
Party members and works with
them in order to build opposition
groups within the A. F. of L. We
can see from this that the Party
leadership has learned from its ex-
periences from 1931-1934, and is now
beginning to correctly turn its face
toward the shops, mills and mines.
1t is now beginning to give lead
ership to the unit SO that the unit
can lead the masses. 1t is bring
ing in the Scottsboro case and ty-
ing it up with the conditions. And
the unit is gaining close influence
over a few of the most militant
white workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
AFL Locals Arrange
Mass Meet to Greet
Louis WeinstOck

NEW YORK. Louis Weinstock
national secretary of the A. F. of l.
Trade Union Committee on Unem-
ployment Insurance, is now on a
tour of the country, speaking before
A. F. of L. unions, urging their sup
port of the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill Oh. r. 1899.
Forty-seyen delegates representing
eleven Los Angeles A. F. of L. locals
have arranged a mass meeting on
March 8, at Walkers Auditorium, 73C
South Grand Avenue, at which
Weinstock will speak.
The Los Angeles A. F. Of L. Com
mittee on Unemployment Insurance
has sent committees to all A. F. OF
L. unions urging the endorsement OF
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill, and supporting the mass
meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
Take Up Factory Union Work in PreConventon Discussion


ing around our program the mass
of the disillusioned and disconnected
workers so as to be able to lead
them in struggle against the high
Salaried officials who continue to
betray their interests openly and
in disguised manner?
To my estimation, the answer lies
in the fact that if the objective
conditions are ripe the subjective
forces are not. What l mean to
say is that our party members and
closest sympathizers have not as yet
transformed the slogan Turn your
face to the shop" into a living
reality.
Where To Concentrate
It is a truism that a good, fight
ing, determined Communist will as
a rule, carry in the wake Of his
influence scores of workers. But
that influence will be felt only in
that field of activity where the
Communist carries on work on be-
half of the workers, associates with
them all the time. Now if Com
munist is doing most of his work
in, let us say, a I. w. o. branch
his influence in the union will be
nil.
My trade is not a basic industry,
but in consideration of the fact that
it is part Of the headgear indus
try, comprising many tens of thou
sands of workers, revolutionary
work there has some significance.
The party members in my trade are
all good activiStS in various fields
of our movement, but not in the
union. To prove to what extent
union work has been neglected by
our comrades, suffice it to say that
only recently 1 discovered a few
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
Politicians Launch
Farm-LabOr Party
at Michigan Meet
Sponsors Have Long
Records as Labor
Takers

JACKSON, Mich.-At a meeting
here composed of odds and ends
from the Republican and Democratic
scrapbag, the Farmer-Labor Party
of Michigan was launched. The Or
ganizers are for the most part sea-
Soned politicians who have spent
most of their lives on the Repub-
lican and Democratic bandwagon
and are now preparing to show their
real usefulness to the capitalists by
preventing the workers and poor
farmers from entering into struggle
under the leadership of the Com
munist Party through Harvesting
them to Farmer-Laborism.
Among, the organizers are Judge
Edward j. Jeffries, of Detroit, a
democrat who has always supported
anything that gave him an opportu-
nifty to indulge in demagogic phrase
mongering and Eugene ]. Brock, Re
publican politician who was Com
missioner of the State Department
of Labor under former Governor
Green.
When Brock was Labor Commits
Sioner, the Auto Workers Union pre-
sented proof to him that the Briggs
Manufacturing Co. was violating the
state laws by working women at
night. Brooks reply was: 1--WE have
no power to enforce the law. IF a
grocer violates the law, we can scare
him into obeying it, but we can't
scare Briggs"
Among his other services" to Ia
Dor was his ardent support, when he
was an organizer for the A. F. of l..
International Association Of Ma
chinists, of the infamous B. & o.
Plan, the no-strike scheme origi-
mated by Daniel Willard, president
Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
The Farmer-Labor Party has an
nounced it will hold a state conven-
ton on July 4 and county conven-
tons May 80. The Communist Party
warns all workers and farmers
against this outfit, which in Min
nesota and in other states has
shown itself to be no different in
practice from the Republican and
Democratic parties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
Heads Order
LOO Mine Strikers
To Stop Picketing
Men at Bethlehem Mines
Are Out for UMWA
Recognition
By TOM MYERSCOUGH

J0HNSTOWN, Pa. - eve
have ordered all picketing of
the mines to cease Saturday
morning"
Such is the encouragement
given to the big "Blue Buzzard
which flaps its ghoulish wings over
ZOO locked-out miners Of the Beth
lehem Mining Corporation here, il
the opening lines Of a statement
published in the local press. March
3, and given out by the local UNI
Wa union officials.
This statement follows the visit
Of one Mr.. Keightly Of the Federal
Department Of Labor in Washing
ton. who came in response to a wire
TO Frances Perkins from the pug
.nacious Mayor NIcClosky of johns
town, and which can be expected tc
produce no other result.
What part Lewis and the District
President Of the Miners, Marks
played in this latest betrayal, is not
known. However, it can be taken
for granted that the little takers
have been steered into this decision
by the big ones.
This miners struck on Jan. 2 fol
the right to belong to the U.M.W.A
The first betrayal came the very
next day, when the local officials
gave permission to the haulage men
to haul all the loaded cars out Of
the mines, thus paving the way for
the company to pay off all the men
and change the strike to a lockout
Still later the pickets we're with
drawn.
At meetings Of the local. no re
marks, other than those in praise
Of the officials Of the U.M.W.A.. or
for the NR.A. and the government
that bred the vulture it uses as a
symbol, were permitted, and all
known to possess different views
we're expelled.
During the intervening time all
sorts OF jockeying has been practiced
and when the miners showed signs
/ Of becoming militant, the picket line
was re-established. Now, the crown
ing point has been struck in the
form OF the most beggarly sur
render The statement is under
the signature Of a Murphy Cush and
Joseph Fest, secretary and presi-
dent Of the UM.W.A. local.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
Relates3 Years Experienced
Party Shop Unit in the South

and the unit, with the exception
OF two members of the unit.
AS the crisis grew deeper and
deeper, and wages were being con-
stantly cut, in 1882 the workers be-
gan to see that there was no way
out but through struggle. Then
five workers who were members of
the Committee joined the Party,
and by proper agitation by these
five workers in the shop, there were
small struggles led, and victories
won. But this was not utilized by
letting the workers know by issue
ing leaflets and by calling meet
ings, and therefore that gave no or
ganizational results.
At the beginning of 1888, the
Party in the shop did not see the
mood Of the workers. In this the
Party in the shop was tagging far
behind the masses. After the May
demonstration, when the workers
saw that the Party is a Party of
the working class. On May goth,
the Party led 20 minute strike
in the shop against 80 minute over
time work, and their demands were
won. The Party again failed to
use this victory and organize the
workers; it failed to call upon the
workers to set up shop committees
when the Company could have been
forced to recognize them at that
time. Then the A. F. of L. came
in with the New Deal of Roose-
welt, and 80 per cent of the work
ers in the shop joined the A. F. of L.
After three months of the A. F.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06

good. The general understanding is
that, as a result of the claSs-collabo-
ration policy pursued by the labor
bureaucrats, which, since the begin
ming of the crisis, has meant con-
slant lowering of the workers living
standards while the comfortable
lives of the leaders remained intact
the latter have become discredited
in the eyes of the workers. If
previously the workers in the trade
unions could not so easily grasp why
we brand the leaders as agents of
the bosses-now the workers are
thoroughly convinced that the
treacherous activities of their "or-
ganizers" or their presidents" befit
this name.
Slow Progress
Yet, in spite of the general agree
ment as to the ripeness of objec-
tive conditions, our opposition work
in the A. F. of L. unions does not
make the desirable progress. I am
speaking of my trade (the cap
trade. The workers in my trade
realize now that the Office does not
serve their interests. Furthermore,
their experience has taught them
that what we have said right along
is true; namely, that the union, as
it is constituted now, can't even be
reformed into a fighting instrument
for union conditions. Whats the
use, you can't do anything anyway"
is the invariable reply by the gen.
eral run of workers to your query:
Why he stays away from union
So. why is the left wing group
in our union SO weak organization
ally? Why are we so slow in rally
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
By HARRY CANNES

by hAESFGI OANNES
II
THE first day Of the second year
4 of the New Deal opens with the
convening of what has been des-
cribed in political circles close to
Roosevelt as the First Fascist Con-
greSs." Perhaps these bureaucrats
are little too hopeful or hasty.
Yet what will be done by the 4,25O
code authorities and leading exploit
ers who meet to bolster up the N.
R-A., will have a tremendous effect
in increasing the oppressive and
strikebreaking measures of the N.
RIA.
The open hearings made it as
clear that there is tremendous dis
illusionment among the masses and
rising wrath and resistance. What
the code authorities and the en-
ployers Of 80 per cent of the work
ers under codes will do is to attempt
to strengthen their newly won mon
opoly positions and to keep the
workers from disturbing the low
level Of living standards. That this
will be done by more brutal inter-
ference of the government, by more
open strikebreaking measures, is
guaranteed by the whole history of
the National Labor Board and its
new set-up.
Before Roosevelt came to Office he
promised the workers unemployment
insurance. In the last days Of the
first year Of his regime he con-
demned the unemployed to unre-
lieved hunger and shameful banish-
ment.
Faced with massive strikes, Roo
sevelt, to avoid the tremendous i'm
pact Of simultaneous struggles of
the employed and unemployed
developed a program of unemploy-
ment relief that in the main was
part Of the huge war preparations
OF American capitalism. We already
have the admission of Assistant Sec
rotary of War, Woodring, that the
C.C.C. camps are war training
camps. The P.W.A. aIlocated the
greatest bulk of its IS 3OO,OOO,O 600 for
war works. The C.W.A. was the
main actual contribution to the I'M
employed, but was only a temporary
concession, beset with graft, corrup-
ton and discrimination, especially
against the Negroes. 1t is now be-
ing rapidly abandoned, leading to
the tremendous worsening of the
conditions of the unemployed.
Regarding the functioning CWA
itself, we have the following com
ment published by the Baltimore
Sun from Harry L. Hopkins. Ad-
ministrator:
We are spending tens of thou
sands OF dollars just to investigate
charges of graft that fairly fill
the air. The lid is liable to blow
on at any minute. Some of orr
directors are incompetent; we will
soon remedy that. Some of our
projects are lousy and we know
IL. The whole thing is a flop
The financial balance sheet of
the first year of the New Deal
records over $7,OOO,OO0,OO0 contri-
outed to the bankers and giant
corporations and railroads. A crush
ng $10,OO0000,OOO budget was
launched, the greatest share for
profit subsidies and war prepara-
lions. The total cost of the New
Deal is estimated around sos 600 :
100000. The government deficit a
constant milestone around the necks
OF the toiling masses on which huge
sums of interest must be maid
reaches up into the $33 100000 OO0
mark, and will sore still higher. The
interest alone on this mighty debt
is over s1,4OOOOO,0OO yearly. The
total spent for war during the first
year, as itemized by the Daily
Worker Washington Bureau, is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06

bosses I inquire if they have ever
read the Daily Worker. If they say
no, then 1 tell them will leave a
copy at their home.
after I leave the copy I go TO
their home again to see how they
like the paper. Many times we dis
cuss some more the situation of the
workers. find very much success
in getting new subs for the Daily
Worker this way"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
Check-Up Shows Party
Members i'm Union
Not Active
By H. FRIEDMAN

The entire party membership
seems to agree that our major activ-
ity must now be directed toward
trade union work, toward developing
struggle in the A. F. of L. and So
cialist-controlled unions. Whomeyer
you talk to in the Party will tell you
unhesitatingly that the perspectives
for modifying the workers in the
trade unions for struggle are very
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06

81 ,372, 387, 166-this is a record war
expenditure with history of the
country.
All Of these features intensity the
general crisis of capitalism. Par
ticularly they undermine its finan-
cial stability and foster rampant
parasitism. Profits no longer come
primarily from the expansion of
capitalist production and an en-
larging market. They come more
and more from government contri-
buttons paid for by lowered living
standards, cuts in government en-
ployees' wages, veterans relief,
slashes in railroad wages, and in
creased taxation. Since these meas
ures do not solve the economic
crisis, they must be constantly ex-
banded to keep capitalism alive, and
to prevent it from falling into lower
and deeper chaos. The door is thus
opened for the / ost rabid para
sitism, based primarily on the ire
mendous impoverishment of the
toiling masses.
TOR the Negro masses, one year
L of the New Deal" has meant a
fierce sharpening of national OPP
preston, with increased terror and
fascist attacks (49 reported lynch
ings last year alone) legalizing of
discrimination through the N.R.A.
code differentials. Jim-Crow wages
are legalized. Discrimination be-
comes more prominent as seen in
the violent expulsion of Negroes
from the Senate restaurant; dis
elimination on C.W.A. jobs and in
relief; jim in the C.C.C.
camps; further plundering and i'm
poverishment of Negro poor farmers
and share troopers in the South
under the acreage reduction" plan,
with the government aiding in the
robbery of the Negroes by sending
checks compromising for acreage
reduction directly to the feudal
landlords.
The governments policy of
strengthening the hands of the A.
F. Of L. bureaucracy as an open
agency for putting over the New
Deal'' at the same time, supports the
jin-crow policies Of that bureau
crazy.
The Negro refornists have res
pended nobly to these brides with
paeans Of praise for the New Deap',
openly coming forward as advisers
champions and informers (Waltel
White, Charles Houston at the
Senate hearing on the Costigan-
Wagner imitation anti-lynching
Bid Of American imperialism
against the rising revolutionary
struggles of the Negro masses, in
growing unity with the white work
ers.
We can sum up the economic and
political effect of the first year of
the New Deal as follows:
The measures taken by the Roose-
welt government for overcoming the
lowest point OF the economic crisis
measures taking as rule the form
of political interference in economy,
forcible measures In favor of mono
poliSt capital, drastic reduction of
the standards Of living of the broad
masses, more open dictatorship of
the capitalist state, naturalization
of debts, ornaments and prepare
ton for WARFARE measures bound
to lead at the same time to an ag-
gravation of the general crisis on
a world wide scale, to an increase
of class antagonisms and of the
antagonisms Of the interests within
the capitalist class ITSELF
All roads Of the New Deal lead to
fascism and war. On the one hand,
there is the tremendous growth of
resistance and counter offensive of
the workers, which tends to under
mine still further the instability of
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" 7 talk with
fellow workers
and listen to
t heir opinions
This way / learn
what they think
is the trouble
with the situa
ton today. when
I explain what 1
think is wrong
with the way
workers are
trna tod hxy rho