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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Federation Represents
80 Local Unions
of A. F. of L.
HIT WAGNER BILL
PIMA. Miners Endorse
Bill; Rank and File
Hold Conference

NEW YORK.-The Salt Lake,
Utah. Federetion Of Labor, repre-
senting over 80 local unions Of the
A. F. Of L.. has adopted the Work
ers' Unemployment and Social IN
surance Bill Oh. r. 1899.
In the Progressive Miners OF
America the rank and file miners
are defying the campaign Of their
leaders for the fraudulent Wagner
Bill and endorsing the Workers
Bill III. r. 1899. The Wagner Bill
does not apply 30 the sixteen mil
lion now jobless.
In addition TO the five P. M. A.
local unions, which have already en-
dorsed the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill, in the past month,
the regular meeting of the Wom-
ems Auxiliary, (P. M. A. at Belle
vile, Illinois, endorsed the bin.
At a conference Of 125 miners.
elected by opposition groups in the
P. M. A., which met at Centralia.
Illinois. to further the demands of
the rank and file, the Workers Bill
III. r. 1897 was endorsed. This
conference called on the rank and
file in the P. w. A. to give full sap
port to the Workers Bill. The con
ference also protested lay-offs and
wage cuts on the C. W. A. jobs.
The Caspian Mich, Single Mems
Club has passed resolution, calling
for enactment of the Workers Bill
III. r. 1899.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
No. y -
SHOP PAPER REVIEWS

form of letters from workers from
the various shops, but no answers
to the problems raised by the work
ers.
To sum up the paper: Three basic
articles of organization and pro-
gram, not linked up with specific
shop conditions; and two pages of
shop material, not linked up with
organizational and political pro-
grams. This shortcoming is due,
obviously, to editorial inexperience,
and very likely also, to some unclar-
ity on organizational policy inside
the shop.
In many big plants in the United
States, the comrades find it diff
cult, in their shop papers, to draw
lessons of economic and political
struggle from concrete shop condi-
tons because the contact for infor-
nation ON conditions is faulty. This
lack of information is not the case
here. The comrades should study
their shop material very carefully
and try to understand how they
could have accomplished this very
necessary linking up, and how they
can in the future overcome this very
basic weakness.
Shop Material Not Utilized
For instance miner writes a
brief letter on a lately-developed
grievance. In an editorial note, the
paper could have drawn the atten-
ton of the miners to the fact that
the leaders of the UM.WA. are not
lifting finger to fight these wors-
ening conditions. 1t could point out
that the members must force the
local leadership to act. Here is the
first step toward oppositional work
in the UM.W.A.-the first step to-
ward realizing the papers own
slogan-rank and file control of the
U.M.W.A. Instead Of using this con-
crete material to expose the passiv-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

and holds Jersey City in the grip
of the most vicious terror. Shops
in New York which want open shop
conditions, find their best guaran-
tee for low wages, long hours and
speed-up by moving to Jersey City.
Hague gives them assurance that
they will be troubled no longer with
unionism. This has happened many
times in the past year. Unions
which show any sign of militancy
are Immediately checked by the po-
lice. Only one week ago the Ma
tional Hotel & Restaurant Employ
ees Union, which had strong left
wing group held its elections under
the direct surveillance of policemen,
and detectives. These stood at the
doors and instructed every worker
whom to vote for, and threatened
those that showed support to the
left wingers.
Hague Strongest Support to Fascist
Organizations
Such organizations as the Silver
Shirts, the Friends of New Germany
and other Fascist organizations find
their best support in the city gov
eminent. McFeeley, right hand man
to Hague, and Mayor of Hoboken,
also in Hudson County, recently
gave public school to the Fascists
for their meeting. Organizations
like the Socialist Party are per-
mitted meetings and activities, with
police protection guaranteed. The
City government finds its bitterest
enemy in the Communist Party.
Party Organizes Struggle for
Legality and Against Terror
Under the leadership of the Com
munist Party an anti-terror anti
injunction conference has been held,
to which over so organizations sent
delegates. These included A. F.. of
L. unions and left wing groups in
unions. A campaign is now being
organized to break through this
terror. The Communist Party of
Hudson County calls upon all work
ing class organizations to send tele-
grams Of protest and resolutions to
the city government of Jersey City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

organization, the main emphasis in
the paper must be the building up
of shop organization inside the shop
on department or plant basis,
comprising unorganized workers,
and the organized workers, no mat
ter what their organizational affili-
alton. This shop organization must
have as its immediate purpose the
development of shop struggles on
the job against grievances.
In all this work the demands of
the Negroes must be in the fore
front. In those unions which dis
criminate against the Negroes, by
placing them into Jim-Crow Locals,
the Negro and white members must
combine to smash this Jim-Crow-
ism In those unions which go even
further, and do not accept Negro
members, even into Jim-Crow locals
(some of the Railroad Brotherhoods,
etc0, our white comrades and sym
pathizers must put up militant
fight for admission of Negro work
ers on terms of complete equality.
In general, politically, the paper
does not somehow get across the
idea that the Communist Party is
graphing with the Tel. and the
government supporting it, for class
power in the South, and the slogans
do not put forth this issue. Even
in the program the Negro question
is restricted to complete equal rights
for Negroes. This company is the
stronghold which must be lombard
ed in order to realize the slogan Of
differentiation for the Negro in
the Black Belt. This slogan is not
even mentioned in the paper. This
bombardment of the Tel. is the
key to the emancipation OF the
Southern sharecroppers, Negro and
white. 1t is the key to the emanci-
patton of the Negro steel workers,
who comprise over so per cent of
all the steel workers in the Biz
mingham area 1t is the key to the
proletarian and agrarian revolution
in the Soulful
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Communist Party
Gains 400 Per Cent
In Seattle Election
Votes Polled in Primar-
les Show Marked In
crease Over Last Year

SEATTLE, March Is. (By MaiD q.
Polling 1894 votes in the Seattle
primaries election, Feb. 81. James
Murphy. Communist candidate for
City Councilman and National Sec
rotary Of the National Lumber
workers Union. increased Commu-
mist votes by 400 per cent over the
last city election.
John Laurie Communist candidate
for Mayor, polled 1872 votes, COM
pared with 700, when he ran in the
last city election,
Running with Murphy on the
Communist ticket in the councilman
race was Revels Cayton, Negro
worker and District Secretary of
the International Labor Defense. He
received l ,737 votes, and Tom Burns,
organizer of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union, polled 1,945.
OF special significance in the cleo
ton returns was the vote for Rob-
ert Harlin, labor misleader of the
A. F. of L., strike breaker and MEM
Der of the City Council, who lost
so percent of his votes. John Dore,
who came out highest in the pri-
maries, and who was elected Mayor
two years ago by his promises to the
unemployed, lost 30 per cent of his
votes.
The Communist Party, in a state
ment issued after the primaries,
points out to the workers of Seattle
the danger that lies in the rise of
the Cincinnatus group, an open
fascist organization, backed up fl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

"TCI BLAST" issued by the Com
munist Party Units in the TCI.
Box 1913, Birmingham, Ala, Feb
ruary, 1884. Issue No. 1.
Reviewed by Gertrude Haessler
If Red means bread for wife and
kid,
A job for you and me,
Why be afraid of being Red,
OF wanting work, of wanting bread
If organizing means we're Red,
Then REDS the thing to be!
With this rollicking song on their
lips, the Communist workers, Negro
and white, within the Southern
stronghold of capitalism-the Ten
nessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Co.,
subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Corpo-
ration-challenge the power and the
very existence of this economic and
political Goliath in the South.
The T.C.I. dominates the entire
economic and industrial life of Ala
bama, and practically of the entire
South. 1t has many steel mills and
ore and coal mines in several Ala
bama cities, and an extensive rail-
road of its own. The majority Of
the IL to Is thousand workers now
employed 10000 capacity, are
Negroes.
In quite number Of these steel
mills and mines the Communist
Party has obtained foothold
among the workers. 1t has organized
Party units, including Negro and
white workers. In the rest of the
company area, which, by the way,
covers radius of about Is miles,
there are other Party members, and
sympathizers Of the Party. 1t is
this network of miners, steel work.
ers, and railroad workers inside the
plants. that gets out the "TCI
Blast" the first shop paper to be
issued in the South in over two
years.
When we consider that some of
these plants are pretty well organ
lied by the various A. F. of l.. and
Railroad Brotherhood Unions, while
others have hardly been touched by
these organizations, we can begin to
understand what an organizational
problem our courageous Party COM
rades in the South have tackled.
Three basic industries under the
domination Of one giant corpora
ton; company union foisted on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
20 ALL Locals Endorse R 1898 in Past month"; Defy Green
Phia. Worker
Expelled by c. P.
Admits Mistakes
Sam Leckerman Issues
Statement Against
LOvestOnites

PHILADELPHIA. - Sam Locker
man, a Philadelphia carpenter, who
Joined the Communist Party in
1923, and was expelled from the
Party in 1929 for aIgning himself
with the Lovestone renegades, has
now made a public statement rec
ognizing his errors and disassociat-
ing himself completely from these
renegades.
In his statement, Sam Leckerman
says that:
In the beginning my mistake
was that / had associated myself
with the theology of the Love-
stone group, and with their dis
ruptive work, which is against the
working class and their leader, the
Communist Party.
About four years ago 1 severed
my connections with them organ
nationally, but the tendencies
and this descriptive work / per-
sisted in carrying for some time
afterwards.
Zone of the gIaring examples
of my crimes against the workers
movement was, that 1 permitted
myself to be used at a trial
against the militant workers of
that organization. AS a worker
myself and now fully recognizing
that the Communist Party is the
only Party that fights for the in
terests of the working class, 1 see
that, when assisted in the max
ing of an attack against the Com
muniSt Party, 1 was doing much
harm to the best interests of the
working class.
II disasSOciate myself from this
LovestOne theology and tenden-
cies, and condemn them as anti
working class. will do all within
my means to correct my former
actions and the harm done
thereby. request to be given an
opportunity in my work in the
mass organizations to prove that
l am attempting to outIive nv
past"
The trial mentioned in Locker
mans statement is that, in which a
number of members of the Jewish
carpenters local of A. F.. of L. were
brought before the District Council
on charges Of being left-wingers.
Leckerman appeared against them
and testified that they were Com
AT present Leckerman is active in
the South Philadelphia Workers
Club and in his union. His state
ment is published" declares the
Central Control Commission of the
Communist Party, sin order that
the workers in these organizations,
and all workers in general, should
know that Sam Leckerman has
recognized his errors and is irving
to regain his reputation as a good
left-winger."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Salt Lake Federation Of Labor adopts
Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill
Rank and File Endorse
Only Genuine JObless
Insurance Bill
CITIES ENDORSE
M a SIS Pressure For
I'll. r. 1898 Continues
in A. f. of L.

NEW YORK.-The lying cam
paign which William Green is now
conducting inside the A. F. of L..
against the Workers Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance Bill
CHR. 1899, has not been able to-
halt the sweeping demand Of A. F.
of L. local unions and city central
bodies for the enactment of the
Workers Bill
William Green is sending letters
to the local unions, spreading the
slanderous insinuations that the
Workers Bill is unconstitutional. Z"
He is boosting the Roosevelt backed
Wagner Bill, which does not do a
thing for the 100000 workers who
are now jobless.
In spite of these vicious attacks
of William Green and the A. F. of
L. executive council, since Feb.
close to 10 A. F. of L. local unions,
in addition to such important Cen
trail bodies as the Philadelphia, st.
Louis, Salt Lake, Spokane and
number of others, have defied
Green and endorsed H. r. 1893.
These locals, in addition to another
1000 who previously endorsed the
bill, wrote Green demanding he
support the Workers Bill.
In a letter to an A. F. of L. local
union in Philadelphia, which de-
manded that Green act on behalf
of H. r. 1893, Green, writing as
supporter of RooseVelt's hunger
drive on the unemployed, made the
following remarkable admission,
THE committees (of Congress)
which have held open hearings on
the various bills introduced will not
approve of any that provide the
government should pay unemploy-
ment insurance to all unemployed
in the United States"
Green says further in this letter,
copy of which is in the possession
Of the Daily Worker:
Congress cannot enact an I'M
employment insurance law for all
states. 1t can only legislate for
the District of Columbia. This is
well known in Washington. :"
This rot is peddIed out to A. F.
of L. locals in order to try to
stop the demands of the thou
sands of workers who are writing
Green demanding he act on the
Workers Bill III. r. 1888.
Green well knows that the Work
ers' Unemployment Insurance Bill
Oh. R. 1899 is the only bill now
before Congress which applies to
those now totally unemployed. But
he is propagating among the A. F.
of L. locals for the useless Wagner
Bill, spreading false statements as
to the legality" of the Workers
Bill, which was presented to Con-
greSs in exact legal Technology.
Green is working for the employ
ers' government and is aiding
Roosevelt in trying to sidetrack real
unemployment insurance.
The rank and file inside of the
A. F. of L. in one local union after
another are repudiating Green's at
tack on the Workers Bill (7598)
and is demanding that Congress
shall Immediately enact it into law.
The workers inside the A. F. of l..
demand that the A. F. of L. execu-
tive council and Congress shall i'm
mediately grant security from star
Walton to the unemployed and pass
the only real unemployment insur-
ance bill now before Congress. The
continued mass pressure of the
workers can force Congress to act.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
KnitgOOdS Shops
Vote for StriE.
1000 i'm Philadelphia
Prepare Wak-Out

PHILADELPHIA. - A thousand
knitgoods workers unanimously ap-
proved q resolution presented by the
committee of shop ehairmen and
shop committeeman calling for
general strike in the industry and
for the election Of a rank and file
committee to make final prepare
tons.
The committee will demand a So
hour week, complete upon recog-
milton and a graduated wage scale
Of from $14 week for unskilled
apprentices TO $50 week for skilled
workers.
At a mass meeting last Friday
night, chairman of the Haber Mil
workers, who had just ended a IL
week strike, called on the other
workers to resist the attacks Of the
bosses and that his shop would be
with them when the general strike
Was called.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Office Equipment Is
Needed by County
Unemployed Council

NEW YORK.-The New York
County Unemployment Council,
recently organized on a county
basis following the decisions of
the National Convention Against
Unemployment on Feb. 5, has
opened headquarters at 1874 w.
22nd Street, End floor.
The Council is in need OF
desks, chairs, benches, coal stove.
lumber, typewriters, etc, for the
new headquarters. Any one who
can donate any Of these articles
is asked to communicate with
the council or bring these di-
rectly to the Council head
quarters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
ARMY FLIER KILLED

CHEYENNE, Wyoming.-Lieut r.
G. Richardson of the Army Reserve
Corps was killed Saturday in a test
Hight OF an army plane to be used
for carrying mail.
This is the eleventh death among
army mail flierS in the four weeks
that the army has been flying the
mails.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

nancially by the power trusts. One
of their main planks was "one
years intensified training for the
State police"
The Communist candidates lost
many votes through locked voting
machines, clamps over their names,
etc. Although officially eliminated
from the finals, the Communist
candidates are carrying on a write
in campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Kosher Butchers Call
Philadelphia Strike

PHILADELPHIA. - The Kosher
Butchers Union have called strike
in their industry. The Regional
Labor Board tried continuously to
throttle possible militant action on
the part of the butcher workers,
who wanted to win their demands
when the union was called into con-
ferences with them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Ball Bearing Strike
Still on i'm Richmond

R1CHMOND.-The strike of the
Dali bearing workers still continues
militantly despite the police, who
are trying to break up the strike.
Friday, police broke up a picket line
where they arrested eight work
erS.
Evening star., 1934-02-16
A Bid for Lost Patronage.

The visit to Washington of the new
aluminium alloy Streamlined train of
the Union Pacific Railroad marks an
important stage Of the evolution of
the first form of rapid transit for long
distances. 1t Is a step toward the
recovery Of patronage for a mode of
transport which, after many years
Of supremacy, has suffered from the
competition OF the individual motor
unit and lately of the airplane to
the point of a severe loss of patron
age, both in passenger and freight
traffic.
This train, which will be duplicated
soon by others of the same character
and will probably be adopted by other
lines, is a bid for the favor OF the
riding public. 1t is capable Of much
higher speed than that which prevails
in regular service by means of the
ste m driven locomotive hauling
heavy cars. The rate of 11O miles
an hour in regular service is expected
from 1t.
If such a speed is maintained the
question of security arises. Will the
road bed withstand the additional
strain of such a pace? The adoption
of the torsional method Of driving
against the reciprocating drive OF the
steam engine will lessen the strain
upon the track. But at curves there
is certain To be q higher degree Of
stress upon rail and wheel fiange.
New types Of rails have been adopted
on the line making the experiment to
Withstand this additional strain.
Greater comfort Is assured by the
new type OF motor and car. Less
noise will be made, less CRIME and
dust viii pervade the coaches. Less
vibration, 1t iS believed. will be felt
by passengers. These are the at
fractions offered, in addition to the
greater speed, to induce a return of
patronage, which has been won away
by the motor bus and the airplane.
Only after the construction and
adoption into service of the new
equipment will the test of the new
adventure in railroading be applied.
The travelling public wants safety
first, then speed and comfort. If the
new type Of motor and coach assures
ell three factors it will probably sue
ceed in regaining the patronage which
has been lost.
Evening star., 1934-02-16

Jurors swayed by partisan feeling, the
danger of a rank abuse Of such power
is obvious. 1t may be said that those
punished by Congress have the right
of appeal to the courts. That is true,
but MacCracken is free on bond to-
day, while Brittin is in Jail The as
surance of justice in the courts is
thereby made more or less dependent
on a mans financial condition, which
is wrong.
MacCracken may be guilty Of con-
tempt and may deserve ten days or
more in Jail. His conduct before his
trial by the Senate may have preju-
diced his case. That is neither here
nor there. The issue is whether a
partisan body should assume the
right to punish men for a completed
act, instead Of turning the business
over to the courts, where, according
to traditional concepts, it properly
belongs.
Evening star., 1934-02-16

be some way Of knowing what these
enterprises are costing the Govern
ment and a busineSslike basis for
controlling them" The Raleigh Times
regards "the alternative Of putting tbs
whole matter of the airmail back in
the Army as raising a threat against
q service by air which has become
thing 10 be expected by the public
in all parts of the country" but the
Richmond News Leader regards it not
as a departure but rather "a return
to the policy that prevailed prior to
the airmail act Of 1925"
It seems quite likely to the Tex
arkana Gazette that this emergency
move might develop into a permanent
system of airmail transportation" and
the Akron Times-PreSs agrees that
IF the investigations reveal more
muck in the private operation system,
and If experience shows that Govern
ment operation is successful, there will
be no public incentive to return to the
now discredited subsidy system" The
Goshen Daily News-Times sees no
solution to the question in such a
step, for 1t calls attention to the fact
that 'if the airline companies were
guilty OF fraud they were aided by
Government officials"
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
does not consider 1t necessary that
the policy be condemned and aban.
doned in order to reach abuses of It's
generous purpose that have been un-
covered and must be corrected" willis
the Chattanooga Times thinks revision
would have been better business
practice"