The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23
Steel Union
EndOrsesC.P.
Can idates
/, 100 Cleveland Steel
Workers Will Cast
Communist Votes
BY FRANK ROGERS

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. al
The Cleveland District Board of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union, after two-holr discussion
on the present election issues and
candidates at its last regular meet
ing, voted unanimously to endorse
the candidates Of the Communist
Party.
Present at the meeting were seven
regular board members (four non
Party and three Party members)
and representatives of seven local
unions representing a membership
of LOO steel and metal workers in
Cleveland. Following the presenta-
ton Of the Communist position in
the present election campaign a
non-Party worker declared:
Il move we endorse the Commu-
mist candidates in the present cleo
ton because they fight for us every
day of the year Let's vote for them
on Nov. s and put them into office !"
The vote was unanimous.
Boss Candidates Stay Away
Candidates of other political par
ties failed to appear at this meet
ing, although all Congressional can
didates of the Democratic, Repub-
lican and Socialist parties were in
vited. Perhaps the reason for their
failure to appear was the union
QUESTIONABLE submitted with each
invitation. The QUESTIONABLE states
do you favor the abolition and
outlawing of company unions?
do you favor and will you en-
dorse the immediate pardoning Of
Tom Mooney, our honorary ma
tional chairman, and uncondi-
tional freedom for the innocent
Scottsboro boys?
do you favor and endorse the
Workers Unemployment Insur
ance Bill, H. r. 1898, introduced
in the last Congress by Congress
man Lundeen copy incloseO?
Are you against capitalist war
preparations and war itself? What
is your position on the rising
menace of fascism in this eoun-
try?
What is your position on Ne
gro rights socially, economically,
politically?
DO you favor the abolition of
the Criminal Syndicalist Laws of
the country?
DO you endorse the N.R,A.
codes as a decent wage standard
for the American workers?
DO you favor the devaluation
of the dollar and it's resulting
rise in prices?
What is your position on the
use of police, troops, and court
injunctions in labor disputes?
do you favor the unrestricted
right of workers to organize,
strike and picket.
Undoubtedly the Democrats and
Republicans would have exposed
themselves if they attempted to an
swer these questions. Therefore
their absence. AS to the Socialist
Party, evidently Sidney Yellen,
their Congressional candidate,
feared the anger of the unionists
for his strikebreaking role by help
ing the A. F. of L. bureaucrats
break the strike of the Chase brass
workers this summer.
Injunctions Scored
Mrs. Yetta Land, candidate for
Attorney General, and A. r. Onda,
candidate for county commissioner
represented the Communist Party
Comrade Land spoke on the fight
against labor injunctions. Comrade
Onda spoke on the fight for I'M
employment and social insurance
and against the MIRA. hunger
codes. Both received invitations to
appear before local unions of the
S. M. w. I. U.
Following the board meeting the
union issued a statement to all To-
Gals in which it urges all union
members and unorganized steel and
metal workers to vote Communist
on Nov. 6. The S.M.W.IU. has also
issued an open letter to the Me-
chanics' Educational Society of
America, International Workers Of
the World and the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, calling upon all
union members in cleveland to vote
for the working class candidates OF
the Communist Party in the pres
ent elections.