Pay Reduction in the Building Trades Fakers Bosses Join Hands Morgenstern and Goodman Sentenced at this section of privileged workers anse. Thus waste reduction. com levanther Letter from the Two Philadelphia Defendants come part consisted of the fare cop pe road workers. But of course, the com no longer exist, you persecute us. Your to the railroad workers for the benent in advance, because it wettel them 215, ers.
cut very centre of also e o mundo en este The Minneapolis Branch of the Left Opposition in the Fight for the Unemployed PAGE TAE MILITANT SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1932 to resist the attack, to resist the wage utflixe all the power of the organization considered.
The building trades workers unions cut. Secondly, it becomes necesasry to toulay constitute the backbone of the orgive serious consideration to the reducanized labor movement. As such they tion of the workday so as to actualy help should show the lead in resisting the gen. Blow at the Workers Standard Throughout All the Trades relieve the unemployment situation. This eral attacks upon the workers standard The wage cut drive in the building in that aid not bring an increase in build reduction of pay should be particularly!
To Improve The Health of «Our» Industry dustry now initiated in several large ing. As a second Instance it is well to Messages of congratulation and praise group, and David Robertson, union cities simultaneously reveals a concerted remind building trades workers that the were today pouring in on the leading chairman.
plan of action. In the cities of New present crisis has already seriously dimlights in the drama successfully enacted Roth Robertson and Willard were York and Chicago alone the demanded inished building requirements; and with at Chicago, Feb. 1st, to voluntarily optimistic that an agreement would be 25 cut will involve more than 200, 000 a general reduction of the working class cut 215, 000, 000 from the rail workers reached.
workers. But the objective 15 far standard of living one could not at all pay checks and give it to the coupon greater one. The objective is to strike expect an increase in residential buildUp to this date no one has explained clippers. The plot in the drama con how this 230, 000, 000 wage cut is going tains both comedy tragedy. The to furnish work for 700, 000 jobless railto more react in the reverse of the promises the reduction of the workers standard made.
the part labor spokes: throughout. devilishly well fitting complement to the much heralded Hoover corrupt practice of business unionism Within the building trades unions the men, headed by Robertson, to fight for the workers; it was held for the Moyamansing lirison capitalism, to emancipate society from the wage cut. The traste part of the special benefit of hond and stock holders Home Building Program, The Building Trades Employers As flourishes. The miserable incompetence Philadelphia, PAL human slavery and to build a Commun seventeen day Chicago show was the And Organized capitalists were jubilant sociation hardly awaited a reply to their of the leadership stands out glaringly.
Monday, Feb. 8, 1932 ist society where exploitation and hunger added sacrifice and suffering it brought over the outcome, although they knew it host of useless petty grafting business Dear Comrades: proposed wage cut, it immediately beverdict we can only accept as a verdict of the parasites who live on the labor 06. 000 more profit taken from the meage came a virtual ultimatum. It was prac agents has infested these unions with This is our answer to Judge Reed: er enrnings of the workers.
In this they counted on the erective as position is today very seriously weakeni. We are members of the of pick us out becu use you think us a The 17 day Chicago wage conference, Labor Bureaucrats Play the Role of sistance of the lushing whip of unemed. The power of the organization is. We fight under the banner hela and weak. Toinorrow you will stretch which began on Jan. 14th, and ended on Puppets not at all maintained on the job. Workmanists, not for a moment have we leen ing class freedom. You jail 68: sou can of controversy to fool the railroad work ports, a worker could learn that the ployment.
Even by reading the daily press reThe extent of the increasing tempo orders find employment today in practically fooled by the trickery of the courl legal never jail the ideas we stand for. The era into believing that their leaders were Chicago railroad with conference was every instance only by acepting a wage wage reductions recently applied can very considerably below the official scale beralistle tinting.
day will soon be here when your whole putting up a real fight against the wage nothing but a mock drama where the ports made by the Department of Labor. that it would be better to reduce the of as repentant sinners. We are not here as criminals. Nor system, already doomed, will stand beslash. We maintain that those who 15, 000 a year labor officials played the It is a year sincefore the bar of proletarian Up to September 15, when the Steel Seal wage scale to the level of what we were arrested for daring to tell the HAIL THE REVOLUTION. justice spoke for the railroads at the confer: part of that many puppets sitting on the ence and also those who were supposed knees of the railroad officials. And for Corporation took over leadereship in to speak for labor, all knew what the the readers henet wage reductions, there had been during is actualy being wild and this is a workers the cause of thely misery and will again quote outcome of the conference would he and few excerts from a press report ap 1931, 2, 257 cuts involving 316, 220 work quite widespread belief. They forget, for urging them to struggle unitedly (Signed) Leon Goodman and Bernard Morgenstern In the ensuing two months alone however, that the minute a cut of the against worsening conditions. Has capi.
there were 1, 074 reductions, involving much reflected in the wage actually paid. tions of society? Have not conditions had to write and we hasten to do so. day the conference opened. One United The final scene, enacted in the conofficial scale is accepted it will be as talism osived any of the crying contradic This is the first opportunity we have the daily press reports released on the hearing in one of the big dailies dated Chicago, Feb. 1st: 290, 082 workers.
That will be immediately cut further Town worse for the masses of DeopleJudge Reed who passed sentence on us Press report dated at Chicago, Jan. 14th, ference room of a loop hotel, climaxed With this ultimatum the wage For this you will suppress us. What for violation of the State notorious drive is carried into Thus the wage cut utimatum Jooms ng matters your Vaunted civil rights? Forl Flynn Sedition Act gave us ninety daye under the following headline, reads in days of negotiations that were with part as follows: the of unions. For among the nothing. in Moyamensing. This is as punish ont precedent in the history of all rail exclusive cruit union make up of the a real problem before the buiding tradesus civil terror, but that solves bel ment. he said. for teaching the over Provide Work for 700. 000 Through 10 two factions pooled their efforts to solve Unton Chlefs and Presidents Seek to labor relations. Never before had the of the building trades still consti unions. Added to this is the present Nor can the cancer of capitalism tute the actual backbone. But it is also heavy scourge of unemployment. Meek eliminated under capitalism. Only the throw of capitalism. The lawyers filed Per Cent Wage Cut appeal to the Supreme Court. Bail has a problem of like nature or magnitude.
this exclusiveness of craft organization submission to the employers demands proletarian revolution can do that. Chicago, Jan. 14 (UP. Capital and As labor made the decision known, and craft ideology, terribly antiquated cannot at all solve the problem but only in conditions of modern class relations. Inggravate it. It can only result in a who stand in fear of us. It is not we in the same cell. There are about 45 today determined to provide dividends emphasis to the reason for the conces Your sentence shows that it is you not yet been furnished.
We were very fortunate to be placed labor sat down across a conferenece table its chief, David Brown Robertson. gave which spells the greatest handicap to further reduction of the workingman who are afraid. High indeed would rise these unions.
standard. An aggressive attitude is nec the wrath of the workers against the party members and party sympathizers for all investors and work for unemNow Listen to Davy What will be the answer of the Buildessary. The unions do not face a ques. arbitrary repression against us revolu In the same prison. Forty of them are ployed rail men. The decision expected was a 10 per In the hope that our action, he said ing Trades Unions to this ultimatum. tion of maintaining what is being tionists, were it not for the sabotage here for resisting an eviction. Our two improve the health of our Will they resist? It sbould be clear that charged to be a high wage scale but of of stupid and corrupt bureaucrats put hour period in the prison yard permits cent general wage cut for union work may industry. may improve the relations of fadlure to resist at the outset will soon maintaining a bare possibility of exist in charge of working class organizations. us to fraternise with the other comrades. ers. This will save the railroads 250, start them on the tobaggon slide with ence. Acceptance of a wage cut We are here as fighters of your our defense and the vituperation against cuirements and provide work for many late revival of business and advance genre: management and employees, may stimucan starvation system, not as one wage cut following another. Wileral welfare, we have decided to accept llam Green and his of hierarchy never bring relief to the workers either your class bas grown rich and powerful us. Two white haired leaders, each long!
With Red greetings to all our com in the service of the railroads, led the the propwal.
have repeatedly made grandolse declara for their maintenance of a standard nor on our poverty and degradition: has conference groups. These were Daniel you to read the above press quotation Brother railroad workers, we will ask tions that the unions will resist wage for the problem of unemployment. To flourished on the blood and tears of the rades, cuts Now the of backbone faces find a solution for these problems it is working class. For wanting to change GOODMAN.
Willard, president of the Baltimore from Robertson for several reasons. He the test. But there are no indications first of all necessary to prepare well to all this; for our struggle to overthrow MORGENSTERN. Ohio road, chairman of the presidents was the chairman of that bunch of that this leadership will back up its ehiefs which is supposed to look after declaration with preparation for action the Interests of railroad lahor. David, wham Edward Keating the editor of offered a compromise. This is how much Labor, affectionately calls Davy, is a the grandiose declarations of Bill Green and his hierarchy mean.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.
comrades and sympathizers sustained question. Our Mayor bad 50 police well as unorganized) must t be lost high priced labor spokesman. The poor For public consumption the employers As we go to press, six workers are wounds and one commide is in danger of break up a peaceful meeting, but none to the mercy of the capitalist court. and hard working locomotive firemen have for some time held up in horror the example of the high wuges in the on trial before Judge Carroll for particulosing an eye from a vicious attack at to direct traffic and protect the meeting. The Citizens Alliance is anxious to cony Davy 15, 000 year and expenses.
the hands of a cowardly cop with a sap. THE MAYOR IS HIDING SOME vert this case into a threat to anybody Now Davy, together with the other Ipating in the unemployed meeting at The Daily Worker of January 9, 1935 building Industry. The fact, however, THING! He does not tell us that the who his voice against starvation. twenty chiefs, decides to take 8215, 000, 000 that employment is extremely seasonal Bridge Square on February 1th. About carries a viciously slanderous attack Rands, the Deckers, the Pillsuries who The Communist League of America from the pay envelopes of the workers that the bouncing tridese worker man 50 policemen, according to the capitalist against our comrades, inventing a story control the relief funds andoclty budget Opposition) calls for the unity of an and give it to the owners of railroad het to keep and job only a few thouths out press, on the orders of Mayor Anderson, about Oppositionists beating up a party dictate to the Farmer Labor Mayor to labor organizations, regardless of race, stocks and bonds to improve the health of the year is never mentioned.
Though charged about two thousand workers as comrade. The whole story is just one cut relief to the bone, to cut the wages creed or political beliet, to rally behind of our now. glit promises are being made that sembled to hear the speakers. magni: more despicable Stalinist lie, unfounded of city employees, etc. THEY WANT the defendants and the International speaks of the railroads as our indus wage reduction will increase building ficent resistance was put up by the crowd and without any actual basis. The re NO PUBLIC CRITICISM OR PROTEST Labor Defenso, now handling the case. try. The lowly prt of the jobless and and thus increase the jobs. Yet it is a which ladd tow and sent to the hospital marks concerning the counter revolu. ON THE PART OF THE WORKERS. The Communist League itself, recogniz part time workers in our industry does well known fact that the amount of policemen, although the latter weretionary leaflet can be judged for what Anderson does their bidding. On Februing the need for workers solidarity, un to judge from the way this wage movenot seem to bother him much, if we are ary 4th, he came out in the open as the hesitatingly throws its lot in with the building to be done does not at all de armed with murderous saps and black, they are worth from what follows.
pend upon the wage level of the work: jacks. Working women were especialls Minneapolis Branch of the Communist proposes to Below is the leaflet issued by the YES MAN OF THE EMPLOYERS. He defendants and will utilize all its re ment was handled from beginning to end.
relieve unemployment by sources in their behalf. FREE SPEECH Davy also states that the wage cut was we may cite the instances of elties where prominent in the fight, kicking, scratch League calling for a united defense move slugging the unemployed.
CONFERENCE should be called imme accepted so that it may improve the building trades wages have remained ing and breaking lath posters over the ment for the arrested and for a Free Thousands of workers, enthusiastic diately to organize the fight.
low, or where cuts have been accepted. bends of the cops. doven or more Speech Conference. Labor candidate, reproached We place our organization at the disYou section men and other part time and STATEMENT: the Communists for splitting the labor posal of the defense committee, and will poorly paid workers please note. However, don take it too seriously, because SAVE FERUARY 4th VICTIMS ticket in putting forward a Communist carry out any work assigned us for say what Mr. Robertson really means is, Mayor Anderson has again shown his worker for Mayor. The Communist. pre ing these workers from capitalist class the relationship between the railroad and brotherhood officials. We will quote beAlmost a year ago, the party held mass trial here in New York to show the forefront of the workers defense corps the skulls of peaceful meeting of un through organization, they said. can alla the coming strike his to be in the el his police, armed with sups, to crack reformism could give no benefits to the vengeance COMMUNIST LEAGUE OF AMERCIA low Mr. Willard statement to the press after the conclusion of the conference. OPPOSITION)
workers that the Communist party will against the gangster attacks; he is to employed workers at where he joins with Robertson in his not toleraete any trace of white chauvin bring into the union an unstated num. The meeting was called by the Minnea workers gain. This prophecy is now fulMinneapolis Branch hope and wish. The difference is that ism within its ranks ber of Negro workers, and he is to sell polls Unemployed Council to discuss the filled.
Dan Willard speaks for the real directors The sacrificial lamb in that case was a certain number of Liberators, present cricis and to propose a solution.
Three women and three men face jail of the show. We quote from the same August Yokinen, a Finn, who had utterpress report from which we quoted ed expressions of anti Negro blas. In a statement of denouncement. In Yokinen attempt to take away an elementary Mayor Anderson to forcefully break up Then Burns took the floor to make a The brutal attack of the police is an sentences for challenging the right of Davy. lynching atmosphere, the high prests, they had a meek lamb who agreed that right, hard won in many struggles. And a peaceful meeting. Their conviction. Dan Joins with Davy Hathaway and Moore, the prosecuting he was all they said about him. But no one can deny that the Farmer Labor to any thinking worker, questions the In European countries the scene is com With yon, we Indulge in the hope, and defense attorneys, togeter offered up in Burns they caught a Tartar. Until Mayor was clected over the Republican right of any body of workers to meet Yokinen to cover the failure of the party he spoke, it was not clear what tha Kunze on the promise (now violated) and carry on business. The fight for man snough. But in plutocratie Amer the result of this conterence may tend leadership to educate the party rank specifle charges against him were. It freemasembly pure workers and adequate Unemployment Insurance and immediate for the scene comes as a refreshing ex to improve relations between railway and Ale agitinst anti Negro prejudices. appears that Burns and a Negro organ relief for the unemployed. year ago. relief must go on. An effective fight can be rent strike carried on with militantſ tend to stimulate the revival of busiperience to a revolutionist. We refer to management and employees, and also Yokinen was expelled. Immediately at izer got into a personal dispute overwhen our headquarters were raided and only be carried on by winning back the enthusiasm in the Bronx, New York. ness and promote the general welfare.
terwards he was arested by the vultures a typewriter in the office of the union. closed by Kunze police, Anderson, then workers right to meet and express Hundreds of windows of a half dozen Note the above paragraph carefully: of the labor department and held for that they had heated words, freely in prospective candidate for ofice, volun. themselves.
This latest attack of the bosses musters announcing the tenants within on at the wage conference join in the same deportation. The party was forced to sulting each other which, by a procese teered to defend the right of free speech scattered apartment houses carry stick note that the spokesmen of both groupe launch movement to demand his re familiar to Stalinists, passed into blows and assembly in court. Can we now be combatted by a determined ugled strike.
wish, namely, that the result of the conlease. Contrary to the expectations of With unconscious poetic justice Burns take serlously the Mayor excuse of defense movement. The defendants. They are striking against the exorbit ference may increase the profit of the Hathaway et al, this spectacle did not called Gold, Mr. Gold, accused him of traffic haszards? Shriners, Templars, members of various labor organizations ant rents rents which have not come railroads at the expense of the workers.
eradicate white chauvinism from the re discrimination in bringing only him to time the Dally Worker has reported its eaucrats for not instructing him in what Square or any public street withoutl Councils, Communist Party, as ty day. They are striking for those and hope amounts to, when bolled down volutionary movement. From time to trial, criticized him and his fellow burman capitalist movements the La Unions, Unemployment down an total since the so called prosper. That is exactly what their folut keista modern conveniences which even a much to actual facts.
manifestations.
was white chauvinism and batred.
reduced rental entitles them to have.
The latest took place in He also accused the Daily Worker of They are striking against a landlord who thing is but another act added to the Brother railroad workers, the whole It was reA worker in the needle trades. Burns, exaggerating his statements.
doesn want them damn Communist long string of betrayals by the brotherhas been accused of white chauvinism. markable that the hundreds of party tenants anyway. They are striking hood bureaucarts whose high salaries mass trial was ordered. It took place members and sympathyers in the hall against a Socialist landlord. who place them for closer to Willard and on Feb. 7th in the same hall in which took this last charge as a matter of Florida, winter playground of the heed to che efforts at red baiting of wants to see blood before he gives in his group than to the workers whom they Yokinen was read out of the party. In course. It was obylous that they were bourgeoisie, is the latest scene of capl the manufacturers hirelings.
And blood he has seen. On Monday, are supposed to represent. That is explace of Hathaway as prosecuting attor aware of the Daily policy of exaggera talist oppression against the workers. For this these workers have just been the pig faced marshall came with a actly why the two groups cast their ney we had the notorious bureaucrat Bention.
On November 7th the workers of sentenced to from one to ten yearsin squadron of police and detectives and joint support to the railroads. The Gold: in place of Moore, Alexander. The faces, the actors were different but the not intentionally, a terrifle indictment of Tampe gathered to honor the memory of the penitentiary. new trial has been three familles were evicted. Among these brotherhood chiefs never did a thing Burns statement was really, though Parce was the same. Gold spoke Arat. the bureaucracy in the union. Not all Lenin at the Yhor City Labor Temple. denied them. But the workers of Tampa were family with a sick child. Thel to organize or mobilize the railrond workers for unfed action against the anticipating the argument of the defense, cover this up. The blows Burus dealt workers who responded to the call of it In a revolutionary way. MacDonald, rent strikes will become a more and industrial horizon for the past year or He made two points: he admitted, in of Gold demagogy in rebuttal could The meeting was well attended. mai are not discouraged. These werkers of worker tenants fought variantly As the misery of the workers increases. wage cut which was looming on that the leadership of the union was at were too telling. The workers Jury the Tobacco Workers Industrial Union. one of the workers arrested and now more common feature in New York. The more. These over paid drones have never fault in not fighting Insistently against brought to a verdict of guilty with The meeting was running to a successful in prison, writes: The concerted efforts committee in charge of the strike is to stirred to organize the motor transport white chauvinism. but held it neces recommendation of probation with conclusion when the doors were sud of. capitalist henchmen with all be commended for its insistance is part workers. Instead of organizing the bus sary to make an example of Burns to signed tasks. Gold plea for expulsion denly burst open and cordon of police their mass arrests, lockouts, clubbings of the strike settlement, the reocgnition and truck drivers they engage in the prove to the Negro masses that the union was refused.
really means to unite the masses and This is a good sign. It demonstrate aided by American Legion thugs rushed evictions and coercion have not shaken of the house committee. These house foolish business of trying to put restrie wipe out white chauvinism. He asked that the Stalinists can always away into the hall clubbing and terrorizing in the least the solidarity of the Tampa committees can and must become house tions on their operations, thinking that this will please the railroads.
2or Rurns expulsion from the union. with such raw frame ups. In our opin those present. During the melee a shot Tobacco Workers. On the contrary, the nuclently has been fused The rent strikes must be spread to 15, 000 a year labor officials like Alexanuer Jesuitically argued that son, they should have brought in a rewas dred and a policeman dropped. Fie solidarity of the workers in the struggle and they stand today poorer districts of the city. The party Robertson and his kind will never orBurns was guilty but that his guilt was commendation to expel Gold from the To try these Aftoen workers, a labor more determined than ever to stand has initiated these strikes in a neighganize the workers nor lend them any.
not as enormous nor as horrhendous as union and along with him his fellow burShylock Gold had made it out to be. leaucrats. Spectacles such as this do not hating jury was judiciously plcked. The shoulder to shoulder in their fight for borhood where they are numerically where but to defeat. The fake wage strong. The party co operative houses conference at Chicago is but cumulative Alexander, following Moore line of and cannot eradilate racial prejudices. verdiet from these twelve good to their decent working and living conditions.
before almost word for word, de What is needed is, as the Militant registers) men and true (to their class) The struggle of the. Florida tobacco are in the immediate neighborhood. The evidence of this. minority movement cers is ou gle. This capl. rent strikes must be spread. They must be organized and developed in the Scrited Burns as a victim of capitalist marked on March 1st, 1861, apropos of was never in doubt. The workers behaved staunchly in the court room. They tallet frame up carried to its conclusion, must be more widely organized. They brotherhoods to help the membership not the union which should have fought in the Yokinen trial Education an atmo ll showed the entire proceedings from thej again lends emphasis to the imperativel must be made a powerful lever to aid only to drive these misleaders from class Ideology and of the leadership of the ranks of the union against thlepphere free from demagogy. hypocrisy raid to the trial to be engineered by necessity of class unity from coast toll those for whom they were originally in office, but to drive them from the labor poison. He proposed in place of ex and incitament; an atmosphere created the Tampa Tobacco Manufacturers Ascoast and from border to border to tended the poor proletariat of the en movement in disgrace.
right of free tire country (To be continued)
pulsior, period of probation in which by teachers of the proletariat, not by sociation. They called upon the work defend the elementary Burns was to be assigned special work. terrorizers. STAMM.
ers to defend their union and to pay no speech for the working class. WORKER CORRESPONDENT.
for The Annual Heresy Trial Evictions Tampa Tobacco Workers Struggle the