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The daily worker., 1935-02-21
N.Y.NeWsCuild
RapsRoOseveIt

Declaring that President Roose-
velt has delivered the rights of
Wage-e learners into the hands of en-
ployer- controlled boards. a resolu-
ton emphatically protesting the
Presidents act was unanimously
adopted at . general membership
meeting of the New York News
paper Guild Tuesday night.
The resolution, to be sent to
Roosevelt, also calls for a mass
meeting of protest against the
Roosevelt order, which, it says, vir-
tually establishes a system Of COM
pulsory arbitration. Roosevelts Or
der referred to, had the effect of
nullifying a National Labor Rela-
tionS Board decision ordering the
reinstatement of Dean S. Jennings,
newspaperman fired by San Fran
cisco Hearst paper for Guild sc-
tivity.
The Guild also entered the fight
against Hearst's anti-labor cam
paign by endorsing Guild collabor-
alton in the formation of national
Federation for the Integrity of
Public Information, initiated by
educator victims of Hearst's lie
campaign.
A collection netted 1896 for sup
port Of the Newark Ledger strike.
The daily worker., 1935-02-21

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Feb. 10
The mass picket line thrown around
the Oliver Farm Equipment Com
pany has kept out all scabs for 81
days. The fight for union recog-
milton has aroused the working class
Of South Bend. On the picket line
are to be found the workers of the
Studebaker and Bendix plants.
The Central Labor Union turned
down a proposal to pay $3.50 for
radio time for a William Green
broadcast and voted to turn the
money over to the strikers for food
and coal
The Bendix Local alone handed
over a chack for $1,000.
Arbitration schemes cooked up by
the mayor, Polish priest, a priest
from Notre Dame, and the Regional
Labor Board representatives, we're
turned down by the strikers, The
employers then formed an Anti
Communist League and the Mayor
promised the strikers his help If
only they would drive out the
Communists" This red scare was
laid low not only by the Commu-
mist Party but also by the A. F. OF
L. paper Of South Bend.
The daily worker., 1935-02-21

fact that in the course of defeating
this reactionary attempt there de-
veloped broad united front move
ment around a militant program of
minimum demands, is of great polit-
ical significance. 1t is an indication
Of the growing militancy Of Amer
lean youth and their desire and
readiness to struggle unitedly for
their immediate needs.
The Y.CL. will continue to aid
and help broaden this movement.
The main concern of the Y.CL. and
all class conscious youth, is to make
sure that the American Youth Con-
gress and its program shall remain
true to the interests Of the oppressed
masses, particularly the working
class youth; and second, that the
masses of youth shall be drawn into
ACTIVITY in behalf Of this pro-
gram.
This becomes all the more urgent
if the masses of youth are to defeat
the latest attacks directed against
them, as seen in the activities OF
Roosevelt to harness the youth or
ganizations to his program through
a Federal Youth Service; in the
steps taken to double the number of
youth in the G. G. G. camps and to
militarize them; and in the ap-
premiership plans Of the Depart
~zk of aLoo,- yxyl1iak, ~ M WHO'D {ntn
life will mean a drastic worsening
of the conditions of youth labor.
These attacks are intimately con-
nected with the attempt of the gov
ernment and employers to destroy
the trade unions and other workers
organizations as part of their drive
towards war and fascism.
To extend the united front Of
youth it is necessary to % broaden
the working class base Of the youth
congress movement by drawing into
it the unions of the A. F. of L.; (2)
Immediately popularize the program
Of the youth congress among the
youth In the A. F. Of L. unions,
Settlement Houses, VS., church or
ganizations, C. c. C. camps and
schools, and In these set up COM
mittees to work for this program.
At present, although many organ
izations are represented In the
various regional youth congresses the
ma ajority of leaders of these organ
izations have done little or nothing
to bring the program to their mem
bership and to activize them for
the realization of same. 90 Extend
the influence and organizational
base Of the Youth Section of the
American League against War and
Fascism.
Work In the A. F. of L.
This together with the immediate
need to prepare for the gigantic
strike struggles which are develop
ing in auto, steel, mining and tex
tile, places before our League as
whole and every member specific
ally, the following immediate tasks:
The A. F. of L. has become the
main stream in the labor movement.
having led the largest and most
Important of the recent strike strug-
giles. 1t is for this reason necessary
to center all our work within the
unions Of the A. r. Of L. Today.
The daily worker., 1935-02-21

sary to carry out consistent policy
of concentration. This means to
know how to correctly distribute our
forces This not along holds for
factory concentration but also for
work in mass organizations. Every
district and section must know ITS
main organization of concentration,
which should be chosen with the
aim of reaching the most important
factory youth. In the South, of spe-
cial Importance are the church or
CARNATIONS and nationally the In
dustrial Us and National Guard.
Second, is the attention to the
units fractions and section commit
tees-to their education and de
velopment. A system of educating
the whole membership in the teach
ings of Marx-Lenin-S Stain is neces-
sary throughout the League OF spe-
cial Importance is the training of
our membership in the understand
ing Of Party policies and the build
ing of strong Party core within
the League which fights all oppor-
tunist tendencies, especially count
er-reyolutionary Trotzkyism.
Every young worker who joins
the Y.C.L. must Immediately be
drawn into active work. There is no
more responsible task for the unit
and section buros than to activize
their membership. To help in this
direction, the unit as body should
act upon every application and de-
termine the right to membership
and also feel directly responsible for
drawing the new members into the
life Of the League.
In the process of intensifying the
work in the shops, trade unions and
mass organizations, we must double
the recruiting of young workers for
the Y.CL. This together with the
necessary education and activity to
reduce the turnover in the ranks
of the League will enable us to carry
out our goal of $4,000 Y.C.L. mem
bers by the time of the Sixth Con-
gress of the Y.C.I. With the Party
we must work to build YCL. shop
units where Party shop units exist.
If this resolution is seriously ap-
piled throughout the League there
is no question but that we can easily
reach the goal of $4,000 members
and also that of Transforming our
weekly YOUNG WORKER into q
mass paper. To develop mass re-
cruiting into the Y.CL. there must
be tenfold increase in the publica-
ton and sale of literature as a
means of educating the masses of
youth to the need for Soviet Power
The entire League should always
remember the words of Comrade
Stain:
Victory never comes by itself
it has to be dragged by the hand.
Good resolutions and declarations
in favor of the general line of the
Party are only beginning, they
merely express the desire to win,
but it is not victory, After the cor
rect line has been given, after the
correct solution of the problem
has been found, success depends
on the manner in which the work
is organized, on the organization
of the struggle for the application
of the line Of the Party, on the
proper selection of workers, on
supervising the fulf1lIment of the
decisions of the leading organs"
The daily worker., 1935-02-21

To hasten the reorganization along
these lines, whole street units should
be sent into such organizations. Our
aim must be: Every Y. G. Ler an
active worker in an important mass
organization.
(b) In these organizations our
comrades should work to win the
majority of youth for the program
Of the American Youth Congress
and that of the Youth Section of
the American League against War
and Fascism and to establish COM
mittees to work for their practical
realization. Instead Of establishing
narrow progressive" or radical"
clubs, our comrades should work in
the existing organized groups, par
ticipating in all the activities of
the majority of youth, accepting
responsible posts, helping to edit
papers and in all other respects
working to become recognized lead
ers of these masses.
Work in the C.C.C. Camps
G. In the process Of making
friends. OF winning supporters for
the united front program, our COM
rsdes must consciously work to re-
cruit into the Y.C.L. The YOUNG
WORKER should be sold among
these youth and where possible our
Y. c. L. units should issue special
papers for these organizations. In
every organization our members
must first of all concentrate their
attention on the young workers in
important industry, so that through
our work in these organizations we
can strengthen our influence and
organization in the shops.
d. Responsible leading comrades
should be placed in charge of guild
ing work in specific organizations.
The leadership as whole must fol-
low developments in the most i'm
portant organizations and help crys-
tallize special programs for each of
these. In the VS. and Settlement
Houses our comrades should fight
against any discrimination or Jim
growing Of Negro youth.
Correct Leadership-Key to
Recruiting and Growth
While improving our work among
the unemployed youth in the cities,
fighting against discrimination and
for relief and jobs, we must espe-
cially work within the C.C.C. camps.
1t is here that Roosevelt hopes to
create an army reserve as well as
shock troops for fascism. Every dis
trict and section of our League must
take necessary measures to send the
best Y. G. Lers into the camps. In
these camps we must help the youth
build a powerful economic organiza-
ton to fight for better conditions
and against the attempts to militar-
ize them. Y.CL, papers should be
issued for specific camps or corp
areas and strong Y.C.L. units es-
tablished, A leading comrade in
every district must be assigned re-
sponsibility for this work.
The reconstruction of all our work
with the aim of penetrating the
shops, trade unions, and mass or
ganizations, requires concrete prac-
tical leadership, First. it is neces-
The daily worker., 1935-02-21

Marine Workers Industrial Union
Calls Al SeGnlen To Join and Build
Big International Sedmen'S Union

Pointing out that the seamen have won an
important victory in forcing the shpOwners to
sign union agreements, the Marine Workers In
dustriaI Union yesterday issued an appeal for the
merging of all seamen's forces into powerful
union, the International Seamens Union, and for
an immediate recruiting drive
The full statement follows:
To all locals and members Of the International Sea-
mems Union
To all locals Of the Marine Workers Industrial
Union
To all Ship Delegates and Ship Committees,
To all Seamen,
Brothers:
In forcing the shipowners, for the first time
since 1921, to recognize seamen's union and sign
agreements, the seamen although not yet strongly
organized and united, have taken important step
forward. Thousands Of seamen have Joined the
International Seamens Union and the Marine
Workers Industrial Union and through organized
militant action have forced the shipowners to
ognize the International Seamen's Union, to nego-
tiate agreements on the West Coast, and to sign
agreements in the East and Gulf that partially
meet the demands of the seamen for improved
wages and working conditions.
The present agreement and negotiation must be
used a stepping stone to greater victories Build
ing a powerful rank and file union to enforce the
agreements in the East to prepare for better agree
West is the most important immediate step to safe
guard the immediate and future interests Of the
Merger Proposed
The Marine Workers Industrial Union in this
situation, in December, proposed merger with the
International Seamens Union for the purpose Of
Immediately strengthening the ranks Of the sesmen
and, by establishing union, make 1t possible to
organize the unorganzed seamen 100 per cent into
the International Seamen's Union.
These proposals met with an immediate re-
Sponse from the seamen But the officials of the
International Seamen's Union opposed every effort
to achieve unity. accomplish the merger and build
powerful International Seamens Union. They
have attacked the merger proposals plots of the
reds" to destroy the I. S. U. The American Sea-
men," which has the official endorsement of the
I. S, u officials, is opposed to admitting the
bers of the M. w. T. U. into the I. S. U. through
merger but prints editorials urging the admttance
of strike-breakers.
Through such actions these officials have not
only prevented the strengthening of the l. S. u,
but they have also confused the unorganized BY
arbitrarily increasing the initiation fees by refusing
to make provisions for the unemployed and by re-
fusing to conduct struggle against the shipping
shark and for an hiring through the nnion hall
The daily worker., 1935-02-21
Tighe Claims
Green Backs
Custer Move
Spang Says Militant
Movement Will Fight
for Demands


PITTSBURGH, Pa. Feb. %. .-
President NJ. F. Tighe of the Anal
gamated Association Of Iron. Steel
and Tin Workers. revealing the ma
neuverings Of himself and the
Green machine to Isolate all mill
tant rank and file leaders from the
steel union. today openly claimed
the backing Of the A. F. of L. na-
tional executive council in his st=
tempts to expel all the best fighters
Tighe emphatically denied that
either himself or the A. F. Of L.
president would attend a Joint dis
tr1ct meeting Of Districts /. 2. and
s. to be held in Weirton. W. Va, on
March TO- At the District Pitts
burgh meeting last Sunday, when
the joint meeting was approved. it
was decided to invite Green and
all the international officials Of the
Amalgamated to attend.
Has Constructive Program
Spang. in a statement to news
stressed the fact that the
rank and file movement is not
merely an "anti-Tighe" movement,
but has a constructive program for
building the union in preparation
for strike to attain the economic
demands OF the 59th national con-
vention; that if Tighe would CO.
operate towards this end the rank
and file is ready to accept his CO.
operation,
The American Federation of Lac
Dor is standing soliEy behind me
in this controversy and will con-
tinue doing So" Tighe declared to-
day. Green knows his business and
I know mine. You can rest assured
that neither Of us will deal with
those so-called rank and filers.
Those fellows have been expelled,
they are out, and that is all there
is to it, as far as we are concerned.
and we will have nothing whatever
to do with them"
Tighe announced today that he
and the International executive
board of the Amalgamated, with
the full moral and financial sup
port Of the A. F. of L." will soon
launch an organizing drive
The international officers have
conveyed to the more loyal" ele-
ments Of the fourteen lodges which
have been expelled" that charters
are waiting for those who will ac-
cept the dictatorship of Tighe and
his strikebreaking, do-nothing. ma
chine, providing, none OF the mill
tant and conscious rank and file
leaders are allowed in the lodges.
That these maneuers are part Of
the plan worked out in the A. F.
Of L. Executive Council in Washing
ton, aimed at wedding out" all the
rank and filters, can not be ques-
toned.
The daily worker., 1935-02-21
U.S.OpensTrial
Of 10 .JObless
In Oklahoma
Demonstration Gale d
Attempt Against
Government

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Feb.
20.-The trial Of sixteen workers
arrested here May q when police
attacked food demonstration
opened in the Federal Circuit Court
yesterday before Federal Judge Ed.
S. Vaught. They are charged with
attempting to overthrow the gov
ernment by force" and interfering
with government employees"
Selection of the Jury occupied the
greater part Of the dav, after Judge
Vsught had overruled a motion for
dismissal Of the case, made by J..
o, Cooke, international Labor De-
fense attorney. While permitting
the prosecution to challenge pros
pective jurors for membership in
the Unemployment Councils, Judge
Vaught denied the defense the right
to ask if they we're members of
the Chamber of Commerce.
Protests against this attack on
the struggles of the UNEMPLOYED for
relief should be rushed to Federal
Judge Vaught, Federal Circuit
Court. Federal Building, Oklahoma
City, Okla.
The daily worker., 1935-02-21
BroaOder Charges Wagner Blu
Aims to Reduce the Volume
Of Government lid to .JObLess

Speaking before the Senate
Finance Committee Tuesday, Earl
Browder, general secretary of the
Communist Party, presented the
Communist position on unemploy-
ment insurance, and demanded the
enactment of the Workers Unem-
ploymenJ, Old Age and Social In
surance Bill, H. R. 1927.
Payment Now In Lives
Even such loyal servants of the
administration as the Executive
Council of the American Federation
of Labor, who have swallowed one
after another the injuries and in
suits dealt the workers for two
years, and who have bitterly op-
posed the Workers Bill, have been
forced to draw back before the dis
credit and mass revolt against them
which must inevitably be the lot
of all who identify themselves with
The daily worker., 1935-02-21

only a few hundred Y. G. Lers are
active in A. F. of L. unions. Our
task is to see that every eligible
Y. G. Ler becomes an active mem
Der in the trade union of his in
dustry or craft. In shops where no
unions exist as yet, our comrades
should take the initiative to build
same. An theological campaign
must be started to teach every
member why he should join union
and how he should work in same.
(a) Inside the A. F. of L. every
Y. c. Ler should work like a real
trade-unionist. He should think of
the union as his union and work
to build and strengthen 1t. He
should work to win his local and
whole union for rank and file poll
cies. This should not be done by
establishing so-called "oppositions, "
but by setting up rank and file COM
mittees to organize the unorganized.
to build the union and to fight the
policies of the burocracy.
(b) In the locals our comrades
should work to create youth com
mittees and youth sections as me-
diums Of organizing and activizing
the youth in the union around their
special demands and needs. The
ned for youth forms and methods
should be placed before the work
ers logically as flowing from the
very needs of the union and work
ers as whole. In steel and auto
these are necessary to help organ
ize the unorganized youth into the
union. In mining they are neces-
sary to draw youth to union meet
ings and into activity in prepara-
ton for the April 1st struggles. In
these industries union baseball
leagues and sport clubs should also
be formed, as well as children's
auxiliaries
Organizations Of Youth
(c) Where company unions exist
ne should work within these and
where possible transform them into
workers unions.
I'D Y. G. Lers should lead the
work of organizing the Negro youth
and the fight against any and every
form of discrimination within the
union.
(e) The leadership must guaran-
tee systematic guidance to all COM
rades In unions. Y. G. L, fractions
should be established under the
guidance of the Party fractions,
Every district buro must give direct
personal guidance to the fractions
in the most important unions.
Build the Y. C. L. in the Mass
1t is necessary at once to boldly
reorganize our membership with the
view of roofing the Y. C. L. within
the mass organizations Influenced or
controlled by the ruling class. Only
this is the guarantee that these
masses will be reached by and mo-
bilized for the united front pro-
gram and against the policies OF
Roosevelt. This means.
ta) The immediate sending of the
vast bulk of our membership into
the existing mass organizations CYs,
N. G., Settlement Houses, Church
Organizations. In these our COM
rades should build Y. G. L. units
The daily worker., 1935-02-21

the Wagner-Lewis Bill" Browder
said.
But our country cannot and does
not avoid paying the bill for unem-
ployment, old age, maternity, and
other hazards. NOW the country
pays, not in money but in the lives
Of men, women, and children. This
is the price which, above all other
prices, the country really CANNOT
AFFORD TO PAY.
I'VE propose to reverse the pres
ent policy, which taxes the poor in
order to relieve and further subsi-
die the rich; we propose to tax the
rich to feed the poor.
Demand Cannot Be Sileuced
Present proposals which, while
denying real unemployment insur-
ance, would enact some new Alien
and Sedition laws, to crush down
the growing demand for better
life, also recall moments in the
past history of our country. We
/ A4Suo o PCAAob VI AllEll dllQ oEulJlOI
Laws in the early 1800's, also
adopted and carried out in the in
terests of established property and
designed to crush democratic
movement arising from the masses
of the people. The Party which
sponsored those laws went down in
disgrace and defeat, the laws were
repealed after long suffering and
struggles, those against whom the
Alien and Sedition laws were di-
rected came into direction of the
affairs of the country. Any at
tempt to solve today's problems by
Alien and Sedition Laws will be as
futile as those ofrthe times of Madi-
son and Jefferson"
The full text Of Browder's testi-
mony was published in yesterdays
] n
The daily worker., 1935-02-21

A bold reconstruction of the work
of the Young Communist League,
with a view to broadening and de-
veloping the Youth Congress move
ment and the struggle against war
and fascism, and roofing the Y.C.L.
within the mass organizations in
fiuenced OF, controlled by the ruling
class, is called for in resolution
adopted by the National Committee
of the Y.C.L., meeting in an en-
larged session on Feb. and 3.
The resolutions point to the neces-
sity of preparing for the gigantic
strike struggles developing in auto,
steel, mining and textile, and calls
for membership and activity in the
A. F. Of L. Unions of every eligible
Y.CLer. Inside the A. F. of L.
every Y.C.Ler should work like a
real trade unionist," the resolution
declares. HE should think of the
union as his union and work to
build and strengthen it. He should
work to win his local and whole
union for rank and file policies"
The resolution, dealing with many
other important points, follows:
The National Committee of the
Young Communist League, US.A.. at
enlarged session, declares its full
agreement with the political posi-
ton of our Communist Party as
stated in the resolution of its Cen
tral Committee of January 18th.
This resolution correctly estimates
the changes in the country, the in
creased worsening of the conditions
OF the masses, and the need for the
greatest unity of all toilers In behalf
of their immediate needs. Concretely
this unity much be achieved in the
struggle for mass united trade
unions, for the united front of So
cialist and Communist workers, and
for the building of a labor party
which will unite the workers as a
class for independent political &C
ton against capitalism.
United Front
In analyzing the work OF the
Young Communist League In the
period since our 7th National Con-
vention (June 90, 1884, the Enlarged
Meeting Of the National Committee
recognizes that our League has i'm
proved its mass work, especially its
struggle for the unity of the work.
ing, farming and student youth
against war and fascism. The Y.CL.
did not however, basically improve
its participation in and leadership
OF the economic struggle as was seen
in the largest and most important
strikes (San Francisco, Textile)
This plus the extreme weakness of
our League in it's work among the
unemployed and farming youth, ex-
plains why our League increased its
membership since our convention
only by two thousand $4,000 to
$1,000 and shop units SO to 81.
BY correctly applying the united
front policy, our League played an
important part in mobilizing the
youth to defeat the attempts of the
Roosevelt Administration to CEN
tralize the organizations OF youth
behind a reactionary program at the
First American Youth Congress. The