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from the platform, that he was
elected by the District Committee as
district organizer until the return of
Charles Krumbein, now in the Fed
eral Penitentiary of LewiSburg, Pa,
on charge Of technical violation OF
passport regulations. Amter is well
known to New York workers for his
active leadership Of unemployed
struggles.
Pointing to the successes already
achieved by the Party in work in
the A. F. of L., Wortis called for a
strengthening of the work in the
A. F. of L. unions Party members
must regard themselves be re-
garded by the workers-as builders
of the unions, Wortis pointed out.
They must be known as construc-
tive, loyal workers. She scored par
ticularly the tendency of certain
Party members in the unions to iso-
late themselves from union head
quarters and union centers, with
drawing into small cleft" groups and
isolated from the majority of the
workers in the unions.
Wortis dwelt in detail with the
problem of Labor Party in New
York. While there was no imme-
date perspective, she said, of build
ing Labor Party on a city-wide
scale, she emphasized the policy of
building Labor Party tickets, or
united workers tickets, in a num-
Der of localities. In order to &C
complish this, however, she said,
there must be the most energetic
work on the part of those in the
trade unions and other mass organ
izations, winning the workers away
from the A. F. of L. leadership
theory of "rewarding your friends
and Furnishing your enemies" Spe-
cial effort, the report said, must be
given to winning the Socialist Party
locals to the idea Of the Labor
Party.
Calling for the extension OF the
united front, the Conference unani-
mously adopted resolution calling
for one united front May Day dem
onstration. The District Committee
was instructed to write to the So
cialist Party proposing one united
demonstration, based on the irnme-
date demands of the workers, in
stead of two demonstrations as
there we're last year.
The high percentage of Negro
delegates present was one of the
highlights of the conference. James
w. Ford, member of the Central
Committee of the Party, and organ
izer Of the Harlem section, was
warmly applauded after speech in
which he went into detail into the
problems of the Party in winning
the Negro people.
Another feature of the conference
was the speech of young Irish
traction worker, new to the Party
who stated that this was the first
Party District conference he had
ever attended. He praised the work
Of the Party among the bitterly ex-
plotted transport workers, pointing
out that it was the effective work of
the Party in support of the trans
port workers and the unions that
forced the company to re-inState
! two workers who had been fired for
union activity.
Fred Briehl, Ulster County farm
err, a candidate for State Comp
troller on the Communist Party
ticket in the recent elections, struck
note of comradely criticism The
Party in New York, he declared, has
given insufficient attention to the
thousands of farmers in this dis
trict.
John Little, District Organizer of
the Young Communist League, was
applauded when he pointed out that
the Y.CL. had tripled its growth
in the past yoas. This was due to a
great extent, Little said, to the &C
tive cooperation of the Party. eve
have all possibilities, in New York,
of having the VOL. outstrip the
Party in size" he concluded.
A detailed report on the organ
national structure of the Party, on
the problem of membership fiuctua-
ton and the building of unions in
the shops, was rendered by Max
Steinberg, organizational secretary
of the Party, in the Sunday morning
meeting.
Resolving to put the utmost
energy into the work of building the
Party in the basic industries of the
District-marine, transport indus
tries, traction--the conference pre-
dicted great strikes in these indus
tries in the coming months. The
slogan, Make New York a union
town." was approved by dozens OF
speakers in various ways.
Emphasis was placed on the ex-
posture of the strikebreaking La
Guardia administration and its
allies in the right wing of the So
cialist Party. The building of q
Labor Party, it was pointed out
would be done in the course of ex-
posing the LaGuardia Fusion or
ganization, which was termed by q
resolution of the Conference as "a
special kind of third party"
A telegram greeting the striking
building service workers and pledg-
ing the support of the Party was
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