WORKER OF THE WORLD.
UNITE THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America VOLUME VII, NO. 24 WHOLE NO. 228 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1934 PRICE CENTS The Eggs in the Eagle Nest Roosevelt Program For«Social Insurance»
Steel Workers Union In Meeting to Decide Action Mike Tighe is Conniving to Surrender Demands THREA Steel Union Letter to Roosevelt woula be enacted before udsoura Leaders Weaken Pacific Washington Coast Tie Up Browder Exposes Strike Sell Out In Minneapolis for As Congress nears the close of free competition and attempt to the present session, President Roos modify overproduction.
evelt delivered what is supposed to If one reviews the results of the be one of the most important and New Teal and the measures enfar reaching messages presented to acted, one will find that they are it. The bourgeois press hailed the all measures to further strengthen message as the dawn of a new day. Imperialist rule over the United The message called for security States and strengthen its world In the first round of feverish at. which they consider a vital point. strike breakers, brázenly announces for all through a housing program position. From the NRA down tempts to avert the nation wide! Meanwhile the steel trust is rush that he is now working for three and ask for the enactment of old through the list from to the steel strike the union has stood its Ing its preparations to meet a strike or four big steel companies. His ground. But the powerful combin situation. No reports are forth preparations include, according to age and unemployment insurance. Cold Reserve Act, the silver Puration of capital in steel is just becoming from the Steel Institute as its own statements, selection of 10, Without a doubt Roosevelt is a chasing Act, to the Stock Exchange master at the art of demagogy, and Act one finds links comprising a ginning to show its teeth. At this to what these preparations are. It000 extra armed gunrds, purchase in that sense this speech was one chain that tightens the capitalist moment delegates from the union remains silent. But underlings of arms and ammunition, erection lodges, now established throughout the professional strike breakers the of barriers, purchase of searchof the best. Once we analyze the grip on the workers and the midRoosevelt program presented to ale class. The clever demagogic the important steel centers, are armed guard hirelings and the steel lights, erection of commissaries, WAGE meeting again Congress we will find that this su way in which the Roosevelt adminin convention in trust appointees, who in the most buying of cots all the preparations gar coated pill, delivered in the listration put through these measPittsburgh to hear reports of the brazen and highhanded fashion rule for regular warfare, at a cost of CUT reception given by the American the little towns clustered around Hundreds of thousands of dollars.
name of the common people. isures rocelves its que praise from Iron and Steel Institute to the un the mills, know what to do. They In reality, a program against the the Wall Street overlords. The lon demands. Will the outcome have their orders. As to those 10, 000 armed working class.
working class must become more guards. he declares, most will be tead to another presidential settleOne Mr. Bergoft, with offices at sworn in by local sheriffs. We have Roosevelt speech was designed capable of distinguishing words for public consumption while at from deeds. HUGO OEHLER.
ment like in the automobile indus Columbus Circle, New York, pro a tentative understanding with local the same time it must inform Con try or will the union feel sufficient. pluiming himself to be the dean of heriffs, as has any large agency ly strong and determined to fight it Like ours that knows its business.
President hoped out? That remains to be answered Yes, the steel trust ha the forces or the State at its command.
at this convention. The action it ment. The speech is only an outPresident Roosevelt, workers of this country. As if to takes will be decisive for the future But this is only one aspect of the line and it the administration de White House, adu insult to injury, he followed up of the rulon.
employers strike preparations. For sires its parts to be enacted they the vicious Steel Institute company From the Steel Institute the un must be turned over to the proper them works also the government, We understand you have left for union plan by a radio address its NRA administration and their sub committees or administration a weekend cruise on the Sequoia, which he called us Communists beton has received what its rank and be. Ale committee spokesmen character wn agents within the unton ranks.
forces and drawn up in Bills for We wish we could join you, but we canse we want the thirty hour week. ise as brazen company union resident Roosevelt and leaders of Congressional cor sideration. When must return to our lodges to report Mr. President, the eutire labor proposition and an insult to every oth branches of Congress have gotwe examine the parts of the San Franeisco, Cal. The com that all we got out of your National movement of this country is a unit worker in the country. That. The General proper form for consideration we ators and top officials of the ron 7A was an offer to tighten the with fast ware There is no other the rulers of the steel domain. It Browder, came across halt the for the Wagner BII, to be rushed speech that have been presented in bination your ship owners, medi. Kecovery Administration and see demanding the thirty hour week, about what could be expected from Secretary of the car. Cas. Earried a new scheme. substitute find that the high points of the International Longshoremens President speech and the parts the sociation have gained a first and workers in the steel industry.
company union chains that wina way to make a dent in the terrible is accepted as a challenge. But to country to Minneapolis to prove through Congress immediately. It press played up could not possibly partial success in the uncensing efGeneral Johnson denounced us for it hack into their teeth? Undoubt occasion was a state nominating of the President. Well, the Prealbe enacted this session. Therefore forts to set the strikers of one port. The proposal by the Iron and lustry and especially our own.
to take up this challenge and fling been betrayed by its leadership. The putes under the direct supervision costs nothing and will pave the way one union against the others. Toon is an insult to every worker imasking for what he calls the closed ledly it has a strong foothold in the convention of the official party. He wandled the automobile work it becomes good propaganda, that against those of the others, to set Steel Institute and General John situation and what came out the administration rallying obtain separate Agreements in the this country. Millions of us reposea shop. In this Johnson is just poll industry and can speak authorita. had an nudience of about 750.
libe confidence in you and your admin parrotting, as usual, the lies the tively for the workers. Moreover, the results were very disheartening or that the steel workers rank and cry for the The various ports hus heen the policy istration, despite the doubts that steel magnatesWe have not de the steel workers have before them to Browder.
next election.
points that deal with old age and of president Ryan from the incep nave plagued us as a result of manded the closed shop. Our union nion the glorious example of Minneapolls The General Secretary found Wared is what they do not want.
organization. In and Toledo that catch the imagination of the is into the hands of the ship owners plain words of Section 7a, guaran mills where our membership comhimself before an audience in a city Reactionaries Prepare Treachery working class, and take the wind who could have no more ardent de teeing us the right to organize and prises a majority of steel workers. Steel Trust Names Its Own Board where one of the great labor strus Mike Tighe on the other hand, out of the sails of the social resire than to break up first the coast to bargain collectively with our em we claim the right to represent all The Steel Institute made a pro sles of the year had been fought moving all the forces at his feeblo wise character of the strike in a ployers. We have lost the workers in that mill, or depart posa the NRA administ nde. He begun by getting familiar with command to find some wuys of a An examination of the bills pendhope to be able to defeat it finally which we held in your administra Himself has said that this is re establishment of an industrial retions on the New Deal. la reply save his face. At the sell out game Even Johnson claring its readiness to accept the his audience, by asking them ques compromise which he hopes will ing before Congress will prove that and separately, port by port.
they are measures for and by the to the Seattle local of the new deal to the nation workers.
sonable lations board similar to the one by show of hands, it was revealed he is an old hand. He is working imperialist group of capitalists that all the demands have been conced Mr. resident, the least you can more time in Washington is the try. But it specified that on that were Communist voters, there were is to win the rank and ble spokesIt is useless for us to waste any created for the automobile indus that the over whelming majority in two directions. One of his waye the Roosevelt administration serves de and the mees are the linge do is to throw the Iron and Steel national run around, rejecting traps board, of the men representing la few Soclalist and a few who had months ldeas of what is accept Inte last week issue of the Militant Alaska freighters. This is the first Institute brazen company union set for us. We are returning home bor. one would have to becom. thought was speaking to a went like the auto workers got.
we have dealt with the Wagner Palhad the effect of stiftening the ranks And if you really mean to abide by have done our best to abide by the to be appointed by President Roore strange crowd. There isn much The other method is to denounce Bin breach in the strike front. It has proposition into the waste basket. today to prepare for action. We pany union designate. The other, and have shown how this bill not a savior for labor, but alelsewhere among the longshoremen your own recovery the least law and to get it enforced. We con velt, could not be a member of the use for us to talk to ourselves. he these rank and file spokesmen an straight jacket Before We dead and remeti other workers nerxolxed you can do is to summon the steel ferred a favor on the administration Amalgamated Association of Iron, blurts out. Possibly his lieutenant, irresponsible and representing noto say a few words about the social complete character of these tie up genuine collective bargaining con or non enforcement of Section za masters are definitely committed to sented the Masses of Minneapolis. pare the ground for treachery and with the other acts it is advisable who prendices that in the senere tien inamufacturers to Washington for a by waruing you of the consequences steel and Tin Workers. The steel Karson, told him the crowd reprebody but themselves, so as to pre Pacific.
He jumps into his subject, the Min to take matters entirely of their If the government will not help us, the maintenance of the company program.
lies the best prospects of vietory for General Johnson has discredited then we must use the only means union, they declare, and they will neapolis and Toledo strikes. hands. It is ominous that It means that America has at last their demands. Nevertheless the not yield an inch on this point new upurgo. was his characteriz has been spoken in this greatest of been forced through necessity to effects of this breach may be sert himself forever in the eyes of the left to us.
ation, different from the one last impending conflicts for union recog realize that the millions of unemous. The gain made in Seattle may year which was for the President mition and living working conditions ployed are a permanent feature of prove a defeat elsewhere of serious New Deal. This one is against by the upper of hlerareby.
our Industrial system. That this proportions unless these splitting socalled un American foreign dole and dividing efforts are effectively they are trying to spread their a test of strength in the steel inmust be resorted to if capitalism is spiked.
Never before have the tasks of the revolution Throughont the country, we are sending the cam strikes, to make general strikes of lustry, as they fear any strike to continue. It means that the Pres Right now the ship owners are ary movement in this country been as great as poign coupon books. Each book contains ten coupons them. That was quite true. He which brings forward the powerful ident has at last realized that it striving to get the longshoremen they are now. Never before has the multiplication at 10 cents each making a total of 00 per book. proceeded then to give a detailed latent forces of American Inbor.
will cost no more, to set up a mila back to work elsewhere and leave of the efforts of our organization been more urgent. In addition, those able to contribute regularly for the description the West Coast long That the American workers will bourgeois form of social Insurance, the striking reamen and other un in every feld, in every center, there is a call for our maintenance of The Militant and the League can shoremen strike, not after the fact light has been shown in Minneapothan it cost the government at the lons out in the cold. Ryan, works organizers. In various sections of the land the nuclei fill out one of the three auxiliary coupons. Fifty but after the wish of Browder. Helis, in Toledo and in many other present to maintain its present form hand in glove with these efforts, and of our League are sprinting forward into new activ percent of the campaign income will go to The Mni built up an idealized picture of how places. Their great reservoir of of city, county, state and national sad to say the elements which ity. Throughout the country the working class is tant and fifty percent to the League.
this strike was growing, against its «trength has not been tapped. It is charity relief. The estimations pre should form the militant backbone surging ahend in struggles that have not been wit With the number of our theoretical organ leadership, with a rank and file hardly touched. The hundreds of sented for the coming period of Jare unable to cope with this situa nessed here for years, scheduled to appear in the next few days, The Militant strike committee, how the workers thousands in steel Industrywhat will be needed by the nation tion.
Our job is into a to continue its present charity reGood Programs Not Carried out the maximum Fly to enter this movement with will be converted increasingly distributer agita were carrying on and on to a com not to speak of those other thouof our strength, with our press, with tional paper for widespread Every plete victory (fulfillment of all ands who would possibly make lief can be taken care of far more From the beginning the Long Jour speakers, our organizers. To neglect this fertile comrade can help make this change and help sustain their demands. He was building common cause with them form effectively by changing the system shoremen put up an excellent bat held, or merely to dabble in it, would prove fatal. the paper and the organization behind it, by selling up his case against the Minneapolis mighty army whose challenge of rellet from charity to social in tle. Solidarity prevailed to a high To enable the League to drive ahead full steam, at least one book. sell out. word on Toledo. strikes fear into the hearts of exsurance. Of course it will not be degree. The seamen unions in awe have launched our Organization Press Campaign. We want to put over this campaign in the shortest statement from the local ploiters and labor reactionaries social insurance needed by the number of ports, together with other Now in the time for every member, sympathizer and possible time, so that the decks are cleared for action press on Olson use of the troops alike. But it is necessary to say working class. That is not the pur. unions in or associated with the friend to do his utmost to equip the League with am It is up to YOU! Send all available funda immedl in the strike.
to this mighty army beware. There pose of the Roosevelt Program. It maritime industry, made common munition in the struggle. Without the loss of a ately to The Militant, 126 East 16th Street, New Then. the Dunne Brothers are many danger signals on the will head off criticism, cost no more cause with them and joined the minute, every comrade must bend every bit of energy York City and their settlement of the drivers horizon. The cunning and connivthan the present or rather future strike.
At an early stage of the de to put the campaign over the top to a successful All united for successful campaign to build strike. they were the responsible ing from the bigger and lesser estimates and requirements, and (Continued on Page 4)
conclusion the League and its press. Continued on Page 4)
Tighes in their ranks who reprewill at the same time, snatch the sent the steel workers as divided la fruit from the hands of the social preparation for treachery.
reformers. Roosevelt propaganda Rely Only on Your Own Mase Power speech is to pave the way, not only Nothing would suit them better to dupe the workers, but also to than to be able to make an about educate the backward layers of the Ince and retreat like John Lewe capitalist clase.
By JAMES CANNON The National Housing Act and struggle with a solid union of ap, Wrong! shouts the chorus of rev. of the situation as it was and as drive which ought to sweep thou did in 1919, when he declared that he could not fight the government.
the Industrial Loan Act are primDiscussion of the Minneapolis proximately 000 members, recosolutionary Shiropractors. It never it is today. The long depression in sands of workers into the unions arily at the worst phase of strike is on the order of the day nized in writing by the employers happened this way with us. We al the labor movement had been felt this remarkable transformation when pressed hard from their unthe crisis and to speed up recovery throughout the labor movement. as the representative of the work ways break the backbone of every in Minneapolis with exceptional appears as a miracle of organizaton membership they have often restrike or union we get our hands force. Organization was narrowly tion. From outward manifestations, sorted to their favorite method of in the basic industries that have the attempts that have been made the story of how that organizing on.
restricted to certain skilled crafts. It was all accomplished in two declaring strikes to be outlaw. That not been touched by the other by unorganized workers, in the job was done must be a subject of And, since things turned out dit Morale was low. Reaction and swift strokes. the coal drivers is one of the serious dangers fae.
New Deal. The Industrial Loan Act present strike wave as well as in absorbing interest to workers every terently in Minneapolis the people pessimism were dominant. The strike in February and the generating the steel workers. But by now, But such is even though their union is new and will authorize the to use Behind the has not yet received its baptism of industries falling in the category their recognition by the employers enforce their recognition and that who do not today exert a leading clal importance in this center of coal strike there was a long and Are, they should have learned that half billion fund for direct loans to establish new untons, compel yet to establish unfons firmly and welcome to conducted a strike to truck drivers and associated work drivers strike in Mas.
of durable goods and will endeav. and protect their members against is the overwhelming majority of influence in a sollaly established un distribution for the Northwest, were patient campaign of organization in the final analysis there is nothor to stimulate the reinvestment of discrimination, the example of the those who have attempted to organion anywhere these people want to without benefit of organization conducted according to a systematic ing else they can rely upon but new capital in the means of pre Minneapolis truck drivers stands ice since the inception of the NRA, discuss the shortcomings of the Barring the ice wagon, milk and and far seeing plan. This Febru thelr own mass power. They con duction.
out preeminent.
to say nothing the millions who Minneapolis strike, to draw the brewery drivers nothing existed for ary strike was conceived as the stitute a mighty batallion of labor.
tended to give the president power time the Minneapolis truck drivers. It is no more than natural, also, tions in the future. Very well, tion. Today Skeleton organiza strategic link in a bigger chain or Theirs is a key position in heavy The Reciprocal Tarife Act is in In the brief space of a few months still remain entirely nnorganized. lessons and avoid similar devia years except a industry. retreat, or a surrender, Minneapolis is a union organization.
The coal strike to make arrangements with any and the great majority of whom bad that the Stalinist quack doctors of gentlemen. In the course of a gen town, as far as the trucking induswould be a serious setback. The well prestabilization of a steel workers un all countries in any part of the never belonged to a labor organized trade unionism whose patients al. eral exposition for the benefit of try is concerned. Drivers appear bred, carefully planned in every son, its recognition as an actual fact earth where reciprocal tarif relation before, were brought together ways die should manifest an agita those who seek to build the labor everywhere with their union buttons detall.
It strucle the town like a and as the sole representative of America to increase her exports. day strike which electrified the dauce over General Drivers Union neapolis methods and results with the workers has been revived and three days. Thus the foundation vigilant, determined and reads The Sugar Control Act and the workers everywhere by its militan No. 574. Here a strike that wasn methods and results which you re the entire labor movement has been was laid for the May strike.
Cotton Control Act are intended to cy and efficiency of organization: wrecked, here a new union that is commend, will be especially Illumsecure their demands for living arengthened by the example of the As the deadline set for this uetion conditions would be an enormous enable the American Imperialists they settled the strike at the peak still alive and going strong after inating.
The conditions have been approached, the bosses, remember. gnin for the whole of the American to eliminate the worst features of of its strength and came out of the the strike. Something must be First, let us get a general picture created for a general organization (Continued on page 4) working class.
word BUILD THE LEAGUE AND PRESSED MINNEAPOLIS STRIKE. AN ANSWER TO ITS DEFAMERS was The Great Minneapolis Strike James Cannon The Socialist Party Convention Sunday, June 17th, at P.
IRVING PLAZA HALL 15th Street and Irving Place Thursday, June 21st, at P.