THE MILITANT SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1934 GK Thousands Vote General Strike in Hotels and Restaurants at Notes Of Journalist Workers Oppose Mendieta Regime Rackets at the McAlpin beteral no (Continued from page 1) demonstration of solidarity for at that establishment, spoke in the vast majority of the people into for membership poured into unionhotel and restaurant workers, today Casino de Pareo, in which they out on strike 600 strong on Tuesday several minutes, Delegate Smith French and was also given a rous constant misery. The other, re beadquarters to sign up, as strike displayed signs indicating support have installed strike breakers, by a night as a protest against the dis reported on the strike and asked ing reception.
covery by the workers of the right news got abroad, from early this of the Waldorf strike. Strikers decision from the NRA local labor charge of Andre Fournigalt, an ac the union men to make it unanimous General Strike Acclaimed to live like human being. The morning till late at night. stated that this action, coming sur board. The Labor Board has retive union man in that haughtiest if the bosses do not comply by Ren Gitlow, who spoke next, general strike would be a great prisingly from Executive Boards cognized the Amalgamated as the of the country first class hostel. Friday, dwelled on the proposed strike as step in the direction of getting the 1200 men, working at night shifts which bad helped the bosses in only representative of the Casino de ries. The men of the Waldorf As The chairman introduced Jas. a means of getting action from the latter kind of Recovery.
Applause in their hotels and restaurants, met their aim to set up the company Parce workers.
toria and their fellow union mem Cannon as the next speaker. Com NRA administration. It was by and cheers greeted the concluding in shop meetings all afternoon, and union Guild. was the result of bers considered the firing of Fourni rade Caunou stressed the serious action and organization, he said, remarks of the speaker.
declared for strike action before pressure from the outraged memThe chairman then proceeded to the final vote.
galt as a demonstration of hostility news of the step to be taken, pointed that the union had brought the Among the hundreds who signed bership. stormy meeting at the on the part of Mr. Boomer, prest out the spirit of fighting determinNRA to the point of recognizing the the vote. At the call for a show Vatel Club this afternoon, in which with Amalgamated today. was the dent of the powerful Waldorf As ation that inspired the resolution Amalgamated union as the legitim of hands in favor of the resolution, Lenders of the Waldorf strike the rank and file forced through an complete crew of the aristocratie toria Corporation and of the Hotel and told the meeting that the eyes ate representative of the Casino de all hands in the hall went up as Aatly denied the claims of Oscar, open wession, compelled a vote in Marlborough Club at Madison AveOwner Association against the ot all labor in America were direct. Parce workers who had gone out on one. Not a single hand was raised maitre hotel at the Waldorf As support of the Waldorf strikers and nue and 83rd Street.
unlon attempt to organize their ed upon them, urging the men to strike. This decision had been in opposition to the resolution. toria, and of Mr. Boomer, made in for an early meeting to consider employees.
curry the resolution and follow the made known only that afternoon. Secretary Fields then told the as Interviews with newspapermen, that withdrawal from the Guila. Strike meetings to arrange for picketing and map out local actions was semblage that this demonstration some of the workers had declined tremendous ovation greeted the example of the Waldorf vanguard An organized general strike Waldorf strikers as they entered with a militant struggle till victory only means of the workers in of unanimity was already in itself to join the strike. All regular em The lenders of the of will be held in halls designated by the ball and took their places in sweeping bursts of applause inter the whole industry taking advan a very heurtening stride towards ployees of the hotel, including the hotel and restaurant union, who the Executive Board in all parts of the gallery.
rupted his speech from time to time tage of section Ta of the National victory and the meeting was adnight watch, walked out to a man, have been vociferous in their pro the city on Friday night. The exthey declared.
clamations of disassociation from act location of the halls will be Following Field, Smith, of the us he drove home the slogans for Recovery Act, be continued. There journed.
the Amalgamated and the general given in leaflets to be put out by Waldorf delegation, was introduced the strike.
are two kinds of recovery, comrade FURTHER STRIKE NEWS The Geneva Club and the Vatel trike, received a heavy blow against the union Friday morning. Watch among cheers of enthusiasm that Garcia, one of the Waldorf men Gitlow exclaimed. One, recovery of their scabbing activities the for the strike leaflets.
turned the meeting into a strikingl who organized and led the strike of protits for the bosses who throw steady flow of new applicants Club, fraternal organiaztions Through all the articles and to and the Secretary of Agriculture tices on the chiska there runs the are being held now.
red thread of Trotskyism. and Deadline For Harvest thereto in a double guise; on the The second or third week in New York. Conditions today include most of the chefs in the New NOT ONLY, BUT ALSO. victory they wrote uld not come oue buud, enrolled as Trotskyites In 1920, in order to save the easily; the agents of the class en are those bureaucrats who have January in the deadline for begin the kitchen of the Hotel McAlpin York hotels. Your job is never secning the harvest if the cane is to are typical of those existing in the ure unless the chef receives a few transportation system from collapse, eny, dinguised in a miuer blouse, been most compromised and whose the party Congress, upon Trotsky ot ered us rubid opposition, and in hides can no longer be saved; and be cut and ground in time. Delay majority of hotels of this type in dollars every now and then. InitiaOn January 15 Grau resigned as in getting the harvest under way New York City. Therefore, be tion fees in the Chefs Club are recommendation, Instituted the so the darkness of the mines they the other hand, all criticism of Lirovisional president of Cuba. He may meant an even smaller quota lieve that am justified in declar. from 60 to as much as they can called political sections over the worked their dark deeds, trying to bureaucratism in general falls un was succeeiled by Hevia, formerly for Cuba than the 1932 33 rallroads, that is, specially pleked put the machines out of order, to der the category of Trotskyism. One of the representatives of the with corresponding increases in the food workers in the Hotel McAlpin hundred dollars, because it is figure ing that speak not only for the set. Old men have to pay at least and militarized party organs, placea dood the shaft, and to obstruct the The two symptoms mutually exclude Nationalist party in the Revolution notas of Cuba competitors. Full kitchens, but for the thousands of harder to place them in jobs. over the transport trade unions and reins.
cach other. But the stalinist ap ary Janta in Miami, and secretary ure to harrest the crop will mean norganized men and women who man who can get a job through the local party organizations. This The class enemy disguised in a paratus cun dispense with neither of agriculture in the Grau cabinet. no taxes for the government; an are exploited in hotels all over the the regular employment offices of emergency measure produced reminer blouse is noue other than them; it is necessary that the Hevia occupied the seat of power empty treasury, inability to pay the city sults: the transportation was im the dissatisfied worker. The ex. guilt for the crimes of the Stalinists for only thirty hours. He resigned principal and interest on loane, stin the hotel can always get one through proved. But the workers took a wract from tlie letter shows with who are most hated by the populace und was succeeded by Colonel Car. nore drastic cuts in the public ser. Kitchen are divided into three de it) at the expense of somebody who Food workers in the McAlpin the Chefs Club (if he can afford hostile attitude to these polit see tragie cloquence that here the mat belvaded upon Trutskyist; but, on os Mendieta, who is the present in vieres, difficulty with the army over partments. First there is the chets is unable to give his chef enough.
tions which infringed upon the trade er touches not isolated and demor the other band, it is equally neces cumbent of the presidential office. wages, etc, etc.
department which includes the chef. At one time the French monopolized or 1921, there a post sections were re civil war in the mines. If the tendency to reflect and to be critical Nationalist party which does not sitting in establishing conditions cleaners, fish men, ete. Before the ity of the chefs were Frenchmen.
thel Grau all moved and the normal order restor victory over sabotage did not come and who are courgeous that LID for at harvest profitable to the Am owners of this hotel signed the When the hotels discovered, that ed.
easily, it was because the victors they let themselves be carried away, differensentially from the Party of Today the polit sections once again uid not buve mass support. The they will be dealt with as Machado. Inas erican and Cuban owners explains NRA blanket vide, the women in Cubans, Porto Ricans, etc. were rule over transportation, and this authors of the letter cherisha no 11. Trotskyites.
much as Mendieta was selected why he made his exit at this time. this department were receiving 13 cheaper. the French lost out. The time with unrestricted powers. In lusions as to how stable the vie by a conference of repesentatives of It Is Mendieta assigned task to to 18 per week; the men, 16 to Chels Club is no longer so exclu public report, the head of the poltory is under such conditions. We The Pravda in summing up the all the bourgeois and revolutionary drive the workers of the plantations 32, depending on the length of sive. they take anybody money results of the all optimistic in describing the sittbey write and we cannot let them meet with on the part of the ew e regime constitutes a develop text to the workers through the entire department there were two obstacles that the apparatus lus to the hand of caffery can be seen, the the capitalists the ground they have ve of approximately 15 workers in this undisturbed.
uation in the railroads, and in par rest. We know that the class enemy cuics of the party. It is charac ment of the Cuban situation, to the strikes for higher wuger and better men who received the 32 maximum.
Racket Number Two ticular the results that have been and the sabotagers have not been terisic writes the paper that is right. As first announced Mendieta conditions.
At thut time one of these men had Racket Number is carried on achieved by restoring the polit sec crushed. They have gone into bid all these activities a very active role cabinet four members of the Na tions. Everywhere Zimin uncovershing in order to bide opportune time Before Mendieta can barvest the been employed for 17 years; the by the individual chefs in each kitchen. In the McAlpin, the chef the activities of the Whites, enemies to execute their destructive work. plused by those Trotskytes who tionalist Party, two of Menocal crop be will have to come to grips other for 20.
Wage Cuts Under NRA did not disarm. They stream to the party, outrightly reactionary, three with the workers. In the period is affiliated with numerous charitDespite the Byzantine terminology chick is from different places and members of the ABC and two with following Machado fall they have and sabotagers; and after each exNow that NRA is in effect able enterprises. Several times posure, he never fails to point out that they are compelled to use the in groups, and they are ready to cut party afiliations has the same made se improvement in the verybody in the chefs department each week he collects money from that all this took place under the authors of the letter point out clear crawl out of their skins in order to right ist stump.
very eyes munists.
ly how and wby the worker is turn whitewasha economie Krition, extended their receives to lens, with the ex. all the help for missionaries in cronies, ving The reporter does not offer ans ed into a class enemy. Enumerat them for the future Organizations and repossessed them. ception of those women who now. China orphan asylums in Squework. Com Workers Oppose Mendieta two dunk. or starving peasants in selves of spirit of confidence in as before, receive 13. The explanations for this unconceru on ing the victories, the letter admits 32 Armenia. Everybody knows whose The workers are reported to be their ability to struggle against the old timers who were getting the part of Communists. As Zimin usually that in the sphere of immonly, they resort to masked methputs it, the administrative reforms proving the living and cultural conds, usted coming out openly opposed to Mendieta and his cabinet enemy. In fact they have reachel have been cut to 26. The major pockets that money lines, but introduced by the polit sectious dittoas. We still continue to las they suw their seeds of counter but there is no serious struggle point where they can threaten the lity of the men today receive 15. ne daros refuse.
meet with resistance at every step. Debind. What is hidden behind evolution in the guise of askius against him yet. Gulteras, Grau entire social system. And they have These salaries do not apply to the Rackets Number and are carquestions, Interjectiug remarks, and Secretary of the loterior, who evid siven ample evidence of the fact chef, who nsually work under conried on by the hotel owners them It must be stressed says he that these words?
selves. For two years the Hotel mibotage is current not only among martial answer from their inventoryonerlos explanations and so forth catly bad presidential ambitions at that they can and will light. Thestraet. the links below but also within te or successes and victories: Indivadlo indignation of a frightened right and elevate himself to power. hard won sains without a struggle on to a fraction of what it used port for the Gibson fund for the unThese words ring with the inimit attempted to stay the swing to the are not likely to surrender their The kitchen staff has now been McAlpin generously pledged supdirecting apparatus of the roads and dual gardening has been widely ex bureaucracy: the enemy sows the He threatened a general strike and Such is their temper that they strike to be.
the In this casually ended in our mine. Our cadres Although it is true that employed. For those two years a seeds of tossed off phrase there is impecca are fully assured of vegetables for couuter revolution by has actually succeeded in calling out at a moment notice. On hearing business has fallen off during the sum of money was systematically bly expressed the soul of the pre the entire winter.
This just meaus of ordiuary questions re the Railway Workers Brotherhood, a report that Mendieta Intended to rest few years, the men are now deducted from the salaries of its Bent Soviet regime. During the in phrase is printed in bold type in must be how saturated with lies, eration of Labor, a creature of the the property of Morgan Cuban a formerly. If you are hired as them as voluntary contributions.
marks and explanations. How tense atiliated to the Pan American Fed return to their American owners required to do twice as much work employees. This was advertised by itial years after the Overturn, the the newspaper, to stress the extent that is the inter relations be American Federation of Labor.
bavens of sabotage were the bur of the victory. Tudividual gardens Electric Company, selwed by Grau a butcher, you must become, during The last racket is the most viciWashigton has already granted government, the workers struck rush hours, a vegetable cleaner, ous and costly of all to the workeaus, departments and administra imply that after a hard day labor, tween the workers and Sirs Clean tive organs and staffs of all sorts the worker must dig uway at a sers if it is necessary so viciously recognitonto Mendieta. Apparent So far is Mendieta from being the porter, or whatever is required ofers. Several years ago the Hotel that were manned by the old spellittle plot of land in the manuer op to bound ordinary questions, the ly it is Roosevelt purpose to bourgeoiste ideal of a strong man you. This shortage of workers pre carried sickness Insurance for the clalists. The struggle against sabot a Chinese peasant; us a consequ moment that they threaten to strengthen Mendieta, as he hoped that he forced the company off valls throughout all the depart workers and paid the premiums.
Now, the Hotel still carries the inago was led by means of controlence of this double labor, the work. well the mechanics of the leader to strengthen De Cespedes. But, as cints to agree to a committee to ments of the kitchen. from below, through the rank anding cadres, the mining aristocracy, yet, there is no indication that Men settle the differences between the Next own the scale 18the surance, but 15 to 65 is auto ALPHA.
Ale workers, that is. Today this that is, are assured of vegetables dieta will be more successful than company and the workers. Men stewards department, composed of matically deducted from every inter relationship has been stood on for the entire winter.
Grau in dealing with the extremely aleta bas proclaimed the postpon dishwashers, silver men, porters, worker salary each month, to pay Assembly etc. Here, too, the National Recov. for the premiums. Such expensive its bead: What Incenses Zimin is delicate and complicated problems ing of the Constituent Such is reality even when it is that sabotage takes place not only seen through the prism of a laudaGems From Stalin of Cuban politics and economy from April 29 to a future, undeter. ery Act had an adverse effect upon Insurance should confer many more mid the workers this, so to speak, tary oficial dispatches. likewise a salaries. Before the NRA workers benefits upon the workers than it In trying to balance himself on mined date. That is Along with greetings to the tenth in this section of the kitchen re does. The only benefit received 18 15 in the nature of things but also in the higbest stati whose mission anniversary number of the Dally the tight rope of compromise be sign of weakness.
CLEANSING THE PARTY ceived 300 per month; under the two thirds of your salary if you are High Mark of Struggle. IRA they get 50.
tween American Imperialism and Worker from the Metropolitan News the Cuban proletariat Grau fell into the high water mark of the work111 for two weeks or more. workit is to preserve the regime. Without desiring to do so, the political needed, and Roosevelt had to recog. Investment and Loan Corporation maneuvers did not advance the sola strike of the electrical workers of dining rooms and kitchens salary good crop in the Ukraine was Co. and a big ad by the Modern the abyss. All his complicated eis struggles was reached in the workers, in the hotel employees ceives nothing.
The third department includes aller all for less tha two weeks redictator of transportation has de utze the Soviet government, before calling on workers to yield up their tion of the problems of Cuban soe the Cuban Electrie Company just 45 per month.
fined faultlessly the political bases the Stalinist bureaucracy Discrimination would money to these leeches, the enterDiscrimination of the mennest Unpaid Overtime of the entro Stalinist dictatorship, selously consent to call are kind is practiced on the workers in Congress, after an interval of three THE DRIVE FOR QUALITY kitchen help work, ostensibly, the different departments In our they struck. The Grau government bourgeoisie could not do und a half years. The party Con. Class Daily Newspare out to accomplish what the pettynsed the workers demand and the speech Stalin mado at opinion he will be as little success seized the property. But the work The editors of the Pravda explain gress is intended vot to determine the Congress of Soviets live dase (ul. Although he has made no aners ran the plant. Here was reali entire kitchen start is compelled to kitchen and hotel help receive less 18 hour week. But due to the kitchen. The men and women who nothing, criticize nothing, but sit on the policies to be pursued under the atter Lenin died. It is called The nouncement of his government led on a microscopic scate the first do overtime very frequently with pay, although they work the same insufficient number of workers, the prepare and serve the food for the a high horse. They call to at difficult conditions but to slog hos Heritage of Lenin.
tention. place in full view. and annahs to the leaders upon these demand immediate explanations. episodle successes.
To really appreciate the political by the situation and his imperialist olution nationalization of industry out pay. Once in a great while a hours, and just as hard as the Since the question relating to the But even given conditions period and how it compares with masters. It is to harvest the crop. under workers control of produc worker is given an hour off, but others on the kitchen staf. There a.
are two dining rooms for the hotel quality of products is on the order that we mentioned above, a pre bis line today one should read the tion.
Cuban Sugar Problem The kitchens are very old and help: one for members of the chef of the day (or, to put it more preparatory cleansing of the party was whole of the original. Space preThe formation of a right govern poorly That is now the vital question for ventilated. Because and the department, chamber maids cisely, has been for a number of telt needed prior to the calling of vents us from reprinting it. We brooks no contradiction, Issues re place under various criteria. Noif, from the oyster, we choose only Cuban bourgeois subalterns. Cuba to set in against the workers. But it went, there are no windows. Imaishwashers, silver men and kitchen years. the Pravda, in a tone that the Congress. The cleansing took beg the indulgence of our readers the American imperialists and their ment means that the tide has begun kitchens are built into a sub base hotel porters, and the other for is equipped to raise and grind be is not yet too late to advance on properly built air shafts and a few porters. The former get food that sulations how to improve steel and doubt, a certain number of rascals the rarest pearls.
oncetween five and six million tons of the road to nationalization. No de electric fans are poor substitutes is slightly stale and none too good.
calico and transportation. Lenin told us more than and agents of the class enemy were cisive battles have been fought. The for up to date ventilation. The and the latter get food that is exBut what about the quality of the cleanert out. Under the present re that the respite we have gained sugar a year. In 1924 25 the croworkers are undefeated. But this is place is always stuffy and uncom tremely stale and sometimes InPravda itselt? Evidently there 18 cime, it is impossible to fudge the from the capitalist states may be was tive and a half million tons areledible.
no one around to call to attention sercentage that has remained in a short one. Trotskyist contra in 1920 it was fire and a fifth mil practically the last opportunity tortable; the summer months MCALPIN WORKER.
and place in full view. In the the party. But the chlet alm of the band! Lenin never regarded the lion tons and more than four rn11 In the present period. The govern torture To harvest the crop The hotel employment offices prewere exported. Under meantime, the quality of this news chistka was to terrorize the party republic of Soviets as an end in It llon the it needs class peace. Moreover it fer to hire Cubans, Porto Ricans paper, which has at its disposal ex prior to the Congress or course, self. say. like building Socialism Chadbourne restriction plan ceptional resources and possibilities, the party is sufficiently cowed even in one country He always re crop for 1932 33 was set at two milhas nade a public demonstration of and Mexicians, or any foreign born TROTSKY ARTICLE is extremely low. It is printed on without this. But who can tell garded it as a necessary link for lion tons with only one ball destinats weakness Now is the time to workers who are not citizens, or should have come into the illegally The Militant has discontinued the revolutionary ed for export. In these figures is bit it hard. Preparations paper of the worst sort: from among Might not the dissatisfaction brew strengthening the be set on foot for the general There is a reason for this prefer publication of comrade Trotsky the pile of newspapers over the en ing and collecting in the masses movements in the lands of the Westcontained the story of the frightful strike for tntionalization of indus. ence. The majority of these for article on the Soviet state and the tire world, the Pravda stands outbreak out into the open in the form for facilitating the victory of the Cuban sugar has to compete in auction. The demand should be tries which have lower standards of article, which is of considerable and the Fast, as a necessary link misery of the Cuban masses.
try under workers control of pro eign born workers come from coun Fourth International. The whole by its ashy color and porous tissue of a discussion before the Congress toilers, of the whole world, over the United States, its chief export raised for the immediate convoca living than this country, and so are length, will appear in a very short graphy ferocious. But worst of all Congress not a discussion was in capital. Lenin knew that only market, with cane sugar from Porto tion of the Constituent Assembly, accustomed to working hard, saytimdas a pamphlet, Issued by the is the newspaper itself as a new order, but a cleansing.
paper. Instead of news an Inices everybody was to be kicked out one, not only from the international sugar from the Western states. be organized in the towns and on Ing. The non citizens live in conto price and orders should be adcles administrative decrees. Every inclination toward party discussion point of view of preserving the nal source of supply. Conferences The Cuban Revolution vitally con immigration authorities and all of about the new publication will be there. Complete details column seeps with fulsome fawning One needs at least three pairs of republic of Soviets itself. Hear! to establish the quotas between the cerns to the genial leader. the greatest spectacles to judge the course of Hear! Pleture of a man polemizin beet growers of the Western states world. The Cuban workers needences of objecting to any abuses Militant.
proletariat of the whole them know full well the consequ given in an early number of The theoretician and so forth. And all the chistka by the Pravda. These against his own future position. support and The silence impose egulations this is written in the style of a people have become so attuned to In departing from us comrade we will not spare our lives to of the Communist International is In they do not keep their mouths frustrated functionary who has been lying that they cannot halt their Lenin bequeathed to us the duty of strengthen and expand the union of nothing short of a betrayal. More shut they are reported to the im OPEN FORUM put in charge of Ideology because proclivities even in those instances consolidating expanding the the toilers of the whole world theover, the Communist parties outside migration authorities and stand in he is good for nothing else. where a minute pinch of truth wonla Union of Republics. We vow to Communist International. of Cuba cannot mobilize the work danger of being deported.
SUNDAY, February P.
rebound to their advantage. But, you, comrade Lenin, that we will If one wonders why the astuteers against American imperialism. Compulsory Deductions From Wages THE TRADE UNIONS AND THE CLASS ENEMY in any case, one thing is clear: also carry out this bequest of yours editors of the Daily printed this That is our task as revolutionists Workers receive pitifully little, THE NRA.
Toward the end of October, the Trotskyism won let the bureau with honor.
speech without expurgation or cor and internationalists. Together with but even that is subject to numer engineers, technologists and work cracy rest in peace. Trotskyism In departing from us comradorection it must be because in the all those workers organizations ous compulsory deductions. Racket Speaker: DUNNE ens of the mine, Butovka, in the is no longer referred to as crushed. Lenin bequeathed to us the duty of school of Stalinism it is possible which are willing we must begin Number is carried on by the Don region, made public the suc buried and so forth; on the con remaining loyal to the principles of to correct the mistakes. of the organization of the movement to chets Club, an organization run 1530 Franklin Ave.
cesses they had achieved, in a let trary, the tendency is rather to ex the Communist International. We Lenin, but the best disciple, like the demand Hands of Cuba!
Minneapolis, Minn Jon the same order as the Tammany ter addressed to Stalin. The first aggerate its forces.
Yow to you, comrade Lenin, that pope, 18 infallible. STAMM. clubs. The charter motubers in ADMISSION FREE the the the ment is weak.
the