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Speaking at a Chamber of Commerce meeting.
Chief Cossack Whalen Referred to the Police
as "Ypur Hired men, Such as the Present
Speaker.” Workers, Answer the Ex
ploiters and Their Hirelings by the
Mass Political Strike on May Ist.
Vol. VI., No. 338
Down Tools on May Day!
The titles of two recent editorials in the “Journal of Commerce,”
one of the leading organs of Wall Street, are interesting illustrations
of the policy being shaped by the capitalists of the United States. On
March 28, an editorial was headed—“ The Menace of Russian Steel.”
Another on April 4, is entitled—“ The Current Threat of Unemployment
Insurance.”
In these two titles (naturally also in the editorials themselves) is
mirrored the policy of the capitalists of the United States: War against
the Soviet Union and war against the American working class. It is
a single and unified policy of class war against the proletariat.
Wall Street considers that “Russian steel” is a menace because the
Soviet Union is building socialism, tremendously increasing iron and
steel production at the same time it wipes out unemployment, steadily
raises wages, installs the seven-hour five-day week for the workers,
meanwhile in the U. S. A. unemployment increases even when produc
tion goes up (though it remains at a low level), wages are being cut
everywhere and the 12-hour day and the seven-day week is suffered
by the workers. The editorial outlined in cautious words how American
capitalism was menaced by this socialist construction of the Soviet
Union, laying the basis for war against the Soviet Union that is being
prepared post-haste by Stimson in London, backed up by the “moral”
preparation through the Anti-Soviet church drive, the A. F. of L. and
“socialist” propaganda, with the Lovestonc and Cannon renegades from
Communism stridently claiming a part in the war preparation against
the Soviet Union.
In the editorial concerning the “Thread of Unemployment Insur
ance,” the organ of Wall Street speaks of “the responsive fear in the
breasts of many persons” at the very mention of unemployment in
surance, a fear that is becoming greater as the American workers,
both employed and unemployed, rally to the banner of the revolutionary
unions of the Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party in
the struggle to force concessions from the capitalist class, concessions
of unemployment insurance, the seven-hour day an<’ the five-day week,
higher wages and no speed-ups.
Not even a ripple of concern troubled the waters of American cap
italism, not even the bother of conducting a fake “investigation” in
the Senate was taken, before the workers, led by the T.U.U.L. and
the Communist Party, had come onto the streets in battle during the
March (i campaign. This very fact shows that what the “Journal of
Commerce” calls “sustained, relentless political pressure,” the revolu
tionary mass action of the workers, is able to wrest concessions from
the resisting boss class.
The editorials mentioned clear]*' show what the workers have to
face. The policy of war against the Soviet Union and the policy of
war against American workers is one single class war policy of the
American capitalist class against the workers.
It is worth noting that the “Journal of Commerce” applauds “pro
posals which the American Federation of Labor is prepared to support
in lieu of agitating for unemployment insurance.” This should show
workers deluded by the hokum of much of the capitalist press, that
William Green of the A. F. of L. in the Senate “investigation” did not
advance proposals for unemployment insurance, but only for futile fake
measures that the bosses not only do not fear but will actually aid
them in fighting the workers—such as “worker-management coopera
tion” for example. That is why the “Journal of Commerce” speaks
of Green’s proposals as worth being “welcomed by far-seeing employ
ers” to forestall “much more radical experiments.”
Again we see that the way to gain even the most minimum of re
sults for the workers is to fight against the fascist tricksters of the
A. F. of L. and all who try to soften the struggle down to petty de
mands and to limit the action of the masses to humiliating petitions
robbed of all class spirit. Again we see that only by rousing the
whole working class, employed and unemployed, women and youth,
Negro and white, organized and unorganized, can the demands for un
employment insurance, for immediate relief, for the 7-hour, 5-day week,
more verges and no speed-ups, be forced down the throats of the re
sisting bosses and their government watch-dogs.
Only by revolutionary mass action can the workers wrest from
the greedy clutches of the capitalists that which will never be given
without fierce struggle. For this reason, the workers will prepare the
mass political strike on May Day, demanding not only unemployment
insurance, but countering the war preparations against the Soviet
Union with mass protest, demanding the freedom of all workers ar
rested in the March G campaign, and serving warning in still sterner
fashion than on March 6, that the American proletariat will refuse to
starve, that it rejects the whole capitalist system of robbery, black
jacks, misery and war, ..nd is preparing to make an end of it.
Down tools on May Day!
I]
m, GREEN SLAPS
PARKER ON WRIST
Green’s Henchman Did
Support Parker
WASHINGTON. April 6.—Wil
liam Green, and the fakers in the
American Federation of Labor, who
support the Hoover regime against
the workers, who let reactionary
Hughes be p\<. on the bench of the
U. S. Snnreme Court as chief jus
tice by Morgan and Hoover, now
raise a small cloud of dust over the
threatened anpointment of another
reactionary, Parker, to the Supreme
Court.
Parkei lad already received the
support of the Georgia Federation
of Labor, and only when Green
gave the signal that some sort of
attack would have to be made, did
the president of the iieorgia.A F.
of L. write a half-hearted letter
mildly berrating his ciose friend
Parker.
HOW ABOUT THE
DEAD AND CRIPPLED?
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The cost
of the last world war for the United
States has been computed at $31,-
400,000,000 (fifty-one billions).
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Today in History of
the Workers
April 7, 1772—Charles Fourier,
French utopian socialist born at
Besancon. 1871—Paris Commu
nards burnt the guillotine, sym
bol of monarchist and bourgeois
rule. 1920—Coal miners of Kan
sas struck against state industrial
commission law forbidding s rikes.
1920—Anti-Socialist bills intro
duced in New York legislature.
1923 lndictments against 76
Herrin, 111., coal miners dropped
after second trial acquitted five of
strike deaths. 1925—Paul Crouch
and Walter Trumbull, United
States soldiers at Hawaii, sen
tenced to prison for Communist
activity.
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POLICE BREAK
TEXTILE MEET
Many Workers Join
the Union
j NEW BEDFORD. Mass., April 6.
j —Police broke up the second meet-
I ing of the National Textile Workers
j Union, after Fillmore and Sameiro
had spoken for over one hour at
i Taunton. Many workers joined the
union.
Leaflets were distributed to the
Fall River strikers by the National
j Textile Workers Union. .They were
j received with enthusiasm by the
strikers. After seeing the National
] Textile Workers Union leaflet ex
posing the misleaders in the Asso
l eiated Federation of Textile Opera
tives, the strikers booed McNamara
I of the A. F. T. O.
STEVEDORES STRIKE
BUENOS AIRES.—The extension
of the coal stevedores' strike to in-
I elude all stevedores has tied up port
shipping here.
SCHOOL TEACHERS JOBLESS.
NEW YORK.—There are about
3,431 unemployed school teachers
here.
WAR AND THE SEA
Rapid Arming of Merchant Ships
By HARRY CANNES '
“Every merchant ship that goes
into drydock these days comes out
with a gun deck.” This is how a
sailor summed up the rapid war
preparations on the sea.
In war time, the merchant fleet
becomes a definite part of the navy.
More and more the merchant ships
are being linked up with the war
preparations of the imperialists.
Merchant ships fcre officially
recognized as a naval reserve.
The $250,000,009 being spent by ,
Baily 32T JUark* r
INDIAN RAIL
! STRIKERS IN
HOT STRUGGLE
Bunk About Gandhi to
Hide Real Fight on
British Rule
i
‘Brickbats for Batons’
Sharper Clashes Ahead
in Railway Strike
Dispatches from India are so
cluttered up with bunk about Ma
hatma Gandhi and his fake “fight”
that the real struggle of the work
ers and peasants against British
imperialism tends to be obscure! in
the capitalist press iccitals of non
sensical details of Gandhi's “march
to the sea.”
The strike of the workers on the
Great Indian Peninsular Railway, al
ready going on for more than two
i months, is the outstanding current
j struggle of the masses. This em
braces over 100,000 workers, and is
being fought in opposition not only
to the tyrannical decree called the
j “Trade Union Disputes Act” and
| the government which is persecut
! ing the workers under it, but also
against the scabbery of the fascist
leaders, headed by Joshi, of the
j union of railway office employes.
■Joshi's “union” is called the “G. I.
P. Staff Union,” while the strikers’
| real union is the “G. I. P. Railway
; men’s Union.” Rank and file mem
i hers of the “Staff Union” nre re
belling against the scab orders of
C Continued on Page Three)
sossesTaTl TWO
GIRL REBELS
Gannet 5 to 10 Years;
Yoki 1 to 10 Years
POWHATON. Ohio, April 6.-
: Denying the motion for a new trial,
the boss-controlled judge sentenced
Betty Gannet and Zorki Yoki to pris
on under the criminal syndicalist
law. Gannet was sentenced to sen e
fr.m five to ten years and pay a
fine of $2,500 and Yoki to serve from
one to ten years, at the Marysville
Reformatory.
Yoki has been released on bond
jof $2,000 pending appeal. Gannett
will be released on bond of $5,000
Monday.
These two workers were jailed tin-'
der the vicious criminal syndicalist
law by the Ohio bosses because ot
their activity in the Martins Ferry
unemployment demonstration.
JOBLESS FUR
WORKERS MARCH
j
All Workers Called to
Market Tomorrow
To fight against speed-up and un
employment, against the reactionary
bureaucrats of the right-wing union,
for unemployment insurance, the six
hour day, five-day week in the fur
trade, the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union is calling for a
demonstration of employed and un
employed fur workers this Tuesday, I
at noon, in the fur market, on 6th
Ave. and 28th St., and calls upon all I
needle trades workers to participate
in this demonstration and report fjr
it at the union office, 131 W. 28th j
St.
The Trade Union Unity League
has endorsed the demonstration and
appeals to all workers to help Jhe
furriers in their fight for better
conditions and to come to their dem
onstration tomorrow.
the government, under the White-
Jones bill, is in reality a part of
the war expenditures of the bosses
under the guise of subsidies for
merchant ships.
The 1922 Washington naval con
ference, in considering war naval
armaments provided that the impel-- j
ialist bandits could see to it that!
the decks on merchant --liius were
so constructed that they could
mount guns of 6-inch calibic.
At the London race-forai ms
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Kutrri-ii no si.'«’uiii!-<-I:ik» 111:1 Her ai llie I‘iist order a< New tiirh. .V V.. umlcr (lie net i f Mnrrb 3. IST&
NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1930
London Meet
i
Flops Again;
j BriandLeaves
' j LONDON, April 6.—The siender
1 threads which held the five-power
' conference together have again
* snapped. Premier Briand, delegate
| for French imperialism, left for
France Saturday, with no inten
tions of returning to discuss arma
jments or “security pact.” This
1 leaves the talk of the imperialist
1 bandits at London high and dry.
[The French leave-taking is just one
j feature of the antagonisms which
| were sharp before the conference
I met and have been sharpened since
jits meeting.
' | The smoke-screen pacifist struc
ture that Hoover, McDonald and
. Stimson have been building up to
cover the .rapid war preparations of
the imperialist robbers has col
-1 lapsed like a house of cards. Be
hind it the masses can now view the
rapid war moves of the imperialist
powers.
j “Only a miracle can save the con
ference now,” declares one London
correspondent for a capitalist sheet.
, However, the imperialist powers do
not believe in miracles for war pur
poses but construct more cruisers,
battleships and airplane carriers.
The American delegation is
booked to return on April 22nd.
Their wives have already left. Talk
about “disarmament” left long ago.
LYNCH NEGRO
j WORKER IN GA.
Bosses and State Put
. on Mystery Air
1 LOTUST GROVE, Ga.. April 6.-
What is clearly another lynching of
another Negro worker here was re
vealed when J. H. Wilkins, Pullman
porter of the Southern Railway was
found with his neck tied to a small
]tree, and his knees touching the
ground. Welkins’ skull was frac
tured in two places. Bruises and
cuts on his body showed that he had
been tortured and then lynched,
j Railway officials and Georgia gov
ernment authorities are trying to
hide the whole affair under the guise
of mystery in order to cover up the
jlrutal lynching of a Negro worker.
HOLD DISTRICT
MINE CONVENTION
Will Take Up National
Convention Matter
!
ZEIGLER, 111., April 6.—With
! seventy-five delegates already pres
ent. representing twenty-five locals,
the District Convention of the Na
tional Miners’ Union opened here \
yesterday. This is one of a series j
of twelve district conventions in all
mining fields in preparation for the
national convention of the National
Miners’ Union, for which at least
j 1,000 rank and file representative
! delegates will be mobilized.
' Freeman Thompson opened the
district convention. Winigar was
elected chairman, Broux, vice-chair
man and Groves, secretary. Gerry
Allard was elected on the credentials
committee and Galli on the resolu
i lions committee.
A report on the new leadership
and mobilization for the National
Convention and the May Day strug
gle will be made by Stuart. The
agenda also contains reports on the
! Trade Union Unity League; report
■on unemployment in the mining
! field by Thompson, as well as re
, port on the national situation. Gerry
Allard will report on the district
I and the youth.
Survivors of a Wreck
- fjff.
Not f’Ff Worn nre Inclcn when the bosses speed up sinks theiv hips
fv c’ iftahrsj litem thru fjhuMlt/ e,c. s. Tin. sulfa..- iu..d a, y •
• ilhout uolhev- ii,ul i, iihor.i : oOs — Ijoh:luy for ouUilth ciu ,ar i t Oc
| vumC bit ipv. iif A ( if (»i t il(( .oiicn iitj\ o j Hu iiuuuic bosses.
iU.S. DICK KILLS
AN ANTI-FASCIST
i WORKER AT MEET
1 .s Into Crowd of
2,000 at Peaceful
Meeting’
Dicks Aid Mussolini
Bellutzi and Another
Worker Shot
An Anti-Fascist worker was
I j killed by a federal immigration de
, I tective when a group of government
■ j gunmen, working in the interest of
! Mussolini, broke into an Anti-Fas
! cist meeting of 2,000 workers at
, I Cooper Union yesterday. A debate
. I was on over the question “What will
I replace fascism in Italy after its
i overthrow?”
Another worker, Bellutzi, is ex
pected to die as a l-esult of the
p shooting. The dead worker has not
yet been identified.
The murderer is Thomas A. Lil
lienthal of the Mercer St. Station,
one of Whalen’s cossacks, who take
especial delight in shooting at work
! ers. Lillienthal fired point blank
j into the crowd of workers.
! At five o’clock fifteen detectives
rushed to the platform in an at
tempt to arrest Borghi, one of the
| speakers, representing the anar
! chists. The other speaker, Vacir:a,
j represented the socialist party.
Borghi jumped into the crowd and
I; one of the detectives rushed after
I him, drew his gun and fired into
; the crowd of workers. The bullet
I passed through the side of Bellutzi
and hit another worker in the head
Both were rushed to the St. Marks
| hospital. Men and women were trai\-
. j pled by the panic caused as a result
'.of the shooting by this Whalen thug.
The meeting had proceeded in a
'; quiet, orderly fashion and has just
j been concluded when the detectives
‘ jumped for Borghi. Borghi’s where
' ‘ abouts are unknown.
. j
! Meet of Local 43
Milliners Is Called
’ j A meeting of all chairladies of
j j Local 43, of the Milliners, on the
j ways and means organization cam
! paign will take place Monday at
: 3:30 p. m., at the office of the 131
W. 28th St.
There will be a general meeting
|of milliners on Tuesday night at
Bryant Hall, 42nd and 6th Ave.
There will be a report on various
activities.
Sham Battle in
Chic rimaries
—.
CHICAGO, A .-—Tuesday the 1
j primary election for senatorship will
take place here with Ruth Hanna
McCormick, of the International ‘
Harvester bosses and the rabidly re
actionary * Chicago Tribune, and
I Charles S. Deneen. representing the
(same group of bosses in Chicago—
both favoring the Hoover imperial
ists—ir. a sham battle.
Member Meeting 1 of
Party and League
A general membership meeting
of Party and YCL members will
Ibe held at Central Opera House, 1
1 67th St. and 3rd Ave., on
Wednesday, April 9 at 8 p. m.
Every member of the Party
and YCL is instructe ! to be pres-
I ent. There will be no admittance
j except to members with mem-,
bership books.
Very important questions will
be discussed, and no member
should fail to appear.
District Buro, New York Dis
trict, Communist Party of
U. S. A., Young Communist
League.
•«.
SL'BSCIMPTION KATIES: In Mew Vork by mnll. SS.no per year.
UutHide \ew York, bjr mail fH.OO iicr year.
Philadelphia Workers to
Push Factory Gate Sales
of Daily Worker in Drive
Street Units Adopt Factories in Revolutionary
Competition
Goal Is Mass Circulation With 30,000 New
Readers by June Ist
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. April 6.—“ The Philadelphia District of the
Communist Party learned to realize during the Recruiting Drive and the
unemployment campaign the importance of the Daily Worker as an agi
tator and organizer for the revolutionary movement” said E. Gardos
district organizer, speaking on the mass circulation drive of the Daily
FASCIST VETS TO
ALTER MAY 1 PLAN
Ask Patriots for Help;
Have 200 Thugs
! Unable to arouse much support
within their own ranks among the
i workers, many of whom are unem
ployed, tramping the streets facing
starvation, the fascist officers of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars have an
nounced that they will call on other
patriotic organizations to get up
; some kind of demonstration for
i Union Square on May 1, in order not
j to give the Communists a meeting.
; Publicity Agent Charles S. Pem
! burn, after an alleged meeting of
; various organizations on Friday de
| dared that half-hearted measures
were taken to go ahead with the
parade. In fact, said Pemburn “there
has been an element of doubt in our
plans.”
I All plans of the blustering eVt
erans of Foreign Wars to show their
I strength on May 1 have dwindled to
i the point where the entire program
I for the demonstration has been
\ changed.
The parade and meeting, if they
can get enough supporters for it,
, will be under the auspices of a non
i existent organization named on the
i spur of the moment the “American
Pay-triotic May Day Rally.”
Congressman Hamilton Fish, Jr.,
i author of a bill against militant
workers, is scheduled to speak at
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MEXICAN MASSES
PROTEST TERROR
Angered at Jailings of
Leading Workers
Reports from Mexico, written in
the capitalist press’ best hysterical
‘“red scare” style, tell of the
j “thwarting,” on Sunday, of “red rev
i olution” by raids on Communist
I headquarters at Vera Cruz. Orizaba,
| Cordoba and Jalapa, with great mil
| itary activity and the arrest of
“known radical The 32
i hunger-striking workers imprisoned I
before March 20 were released on
March 19 only to be rearrested that |
day in unemployment demonstra
tions at Mexico City.
These workers, among them Vale
tin S. Campa, leader of the revolu*
i tionary trade unions, immediately
resumed their hunger strike and the
present “plot” is undoubtedly the
mass protest ot the workers called
for by the Communist Party to de
mand the release of the imprisoned
.vorkers. Even the capitalist press
admits that despite the heavy troop
mobilizaton, a sizeable demonstra
tion occurred in Mexico City, “signs
of disorder’' in Vera Cruz, and “vir
! tual martial law” in all affected
centers. Os course the government
claims the Communist International
I was “behind” the movement.
NEEDLE TRADES FRACTION
TONIGHT.
A meeting of vital importance of
all Needle Trades Workers in the
Party and League will take place j
tonight, 8 p. m. at 26 Union Square. I
HIT JAPANESE TOILERS
Police, Boss Thugs Unite in Slugging
A number of Japanese workers be- 1
longing to the militant Japanese
Workers Club in New York were
thrown out from a meeting of the
“Labor” Department of the Japancs.-
Association by policemen and hireil
thugs and were beaten unconscious!
on the idewalk Saturday evening.
The meeting which was held at
the Japanese Church, East 57th St.
was a deliberate attempt on the par,
of the bosses to soften the growing
discontent of the Japanese workeis.
i he chief spokesman for the bosses)
with the objective of 30,000
I new readers by June Ist.
“The first steps in the mass cir
culation drive for the Daily Work
ier have been taken. A quota of
12,500 consisting of 800 new sub
j Scribers, and the rest through fac
j tory gate sales and delivery sales
j was set and plans were worked out
. by the District Bureau. Each street
I nucleus adopted a factory where the
Daily Worker is to be sold before
the gates. A revolutionary compe
; tition has been started between the
! nuclei and individual comrades.
“The Daily Worker drive will be
;, made a success in the Philadelphia
> j District.”
PROTEST GREETS
FASCIST FLIER
Anti-Fascist Workers
Clubbed and Arrested
The Hungarian fascist, Alexander
Magyar, who is on a flying propa
ganda tour for the Horthy govern
ment, was received with boos and
a protest demonstration by a large
group of Hungarian workers from
the Anti-Fascist Federation of
America Saturday afternoon at the |
Newark airport.
The w'orkers, carrying placards.
“Fascism Means War and Murder,”
“Fascism Means Unemployment,”
“We Don’t Want Horthy,” “Down
With Fascism,” etc., were provoked
by fascist thugs and the police, who
naturally cooperated with the fas
cists.
A serious fight started w'hen one
of the “welcoming committee,” or
ganized by the fascists, savagely
| crashed a cane across the head of
an Anti-Fascist worker. Although
jthe policemen on the scene were do
| ing their best in helping the fas
i cists they did not use their night-
I I sticks at the beginning, because, as
j the reporter of the Herald Tribune
observed, they were afraid of “mis
taking a member of the welcome
committee for an Anti-Fascist
rioter,”
The Anti-Fascist demonstrators
were dispersed only after additional
police forces arrived on the spot.
Although the fight was clearly pro
voked by the fascists, the police ar
rested eleven men and women Anti-1
Fascist workers. Many workers
j were wounded in the fight by fas
| cist thugs.
Recruiting Officer
Says Communists Work
on U. S. Armed Forces
CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 6.-
Army recruiting officers here admit, j
that Communist propaganda among j
the unemployed workers and in the
armed forces are creating dissatis
faction with the imperialist war ma
chinery.
“In years gone by,” said Lieuten
ant Leonard C. Parker, head of the
navy recruiting station here, “a man
would try to join the service if hf
couldn’t find a job. ‘Red’ organizers
have planted seeds of dissatisfaction
in the fertile ground provided bv
the unemployment situation and have j
succeeded in convincing many that j
i the United States government is run j
by ‘the big bosses’ and that members
j of the military service are but ‘tools 1
iof the capitalists.”
•at the meeting was the Japanese I
vice-consul who talked about “uu- 1
employment insurance and the sav-j
i ings.”
I
Immediately following hiY talk, a 1
number of militant Japanese workers
began to distribute leaflets and de
| manded the floor. Officials in
‘charge of the meeting suddenly turn
ed off the light and the police and
thugs began to beat up the workers
The cooperation of the American I
government with the Japanese bosses !
in oppressing the workers was vew
j clearly brought out in this ease.
FINAL CITY
EDITION
Price 3 Cents
CALL FOR UNITY
OF JOBLESS. AND
EMPLOYED MAY 1
Push Plans for July 4
Chicago Convention
of Unemployed
Expect 10,000 Present
Mobilize for Defense of
the Soviet Union
“On May Day, unemployed and
i employed workers of the United
I States must demonstrate shoulder
; to shoulder with the workers of all
i countries for the defense of the
j Soviet Union and against imperial
j ist war,’ - said Pat Devine, secre
tary of the National Executive Com
mittee of 35, elected by the first
| preliminary national conference on
unemployment.
The National Executive Commit
tee is making rapid preparations for
, the National Convention of unem
! ployed, set for Chicago, July 4th.
j Over 10,000 delegates from all parts
| of the country will attend,
j “May Day, the international
| working class day of struggle, must
j be the scene of the largest political
demonstration and strikes this coun-
I try has yet seen,” said Devine. “It
| must be a living example of the
; unity of purpose of the unemployed
and employed workers of this coun
j try. It must be a high point in the
j fight for Work or Wages, against
j wage-cuts, speed-up and for the
; seven-hour day and five-day week
and against unemployment and cap
italism.”
j* * *
BOSTON, Mass., April 6.—-Def
, inite plans were made to elect a
large delegation of unemployed to
attend the July 4th unemployed con
vention in Chicago on the return
of the delegates from the New York
preliminary national conference on
unemployment.
BAKERS LOCAL 3
FOR MAY 1 STRIKE
Union City Bakers
Mobilize for TUUL
With only three voting against,
Bakers Local 3, Amalgamated Food
Workers, at a membership meeting
attended by many hundreds Satur
day afternoon in Brooklyn, voted to
send 20 delegates to the shop con
vention called by the food workers’
section, Trade Union Unity League,
for Sunday, April 20th, at Manhat
tan Lyceum, to set up a New York
food workers’ industrial union.
A motion was also passed that
this Monday the executive board
work out ways and means for par
ticipating in the general strike for
May Ist, called by the Communist
Party, together with the Trade
Union Unity League and other la
! bor organizations based on the pro
gram of class stuggle.
Saturday’s vote of the Local 3
membership proves overwhelmingly
the right wing’s treachery and takes
the ground from under Burkhardt s
“official” figures that the T.U.U.L.
only obtained 333 votes out of 1,500
cast by Local 3 in the recent refer
endum.
* * *
UNION CITY, N. J„ April 6.
Delegates are being mobilized in
North Bergin and Union City for
the shop convention called by the
Food Workers’ section of the Trade
Union Unity League, April 20. A.
F. of L. workers will be represented.
At a meeting of Bakers Local 6
of the Amalgamated Food Workers,
held on Saturday, there was one of
the usual fake elections staged by
the bureaucracy of the local for a
j general secretary. An election com
mittee of two bureaucrats, elected
at a meeting of the executive board,
where only five members were pres
ent, were in charge. This commit
tee never reported the results of
the election and the ballots have
mysteriously disappeared up to to
day.
7-HOUR DAY IN U.S.S.R.
MOSCOW.—The seven-hour day
has been established on the four
chief railroads ol the Soviet Union.
Today in the
| jOaily Worker
“Our Answer to the Crusade,”
Page 4. Class against Class in the
South, Page 4. Economic Crisis in
Egypt, Page 4. Significance of
Revolutionary Songs, Page 4. New
Haven Promises Gas Bombs to Job
less. Page 3.
TOMORROW.
How Frisco Workers took care of
Hoan. The U. S. at the London
Naval Conference,