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THE LINE OF THE 13 PLENUM
IN THE STRUGGLE IN TAMPA
By N. SPARKS
THE mass struggles now going on in Tampa,
Fla., against the attack of the bosses and the
local government show a splendid militancy.
The 72-hour strike of the tobacco workers In
protest against the frame-up and continued im
prisonment of the 17 members of the Tampa
Tobacco Workers Industrial Union and the Com
munist Party emhraced over 7,000 workers. The
storekeepers throughout Ybor City (the Spanish
section of Tampa) closed up for the entire 72
hours, a number in sympathy, others under
threat of a boycott. During the strike, 3.000
school children struck and paraded through the
streets.
This splendid struggle which is hauling the
greatest effect In preventing the bosses from
putting through their schemes for wage-cuts
and speed-up in the cigar factories, is unques
tionably the result of the line of the 13th Plenum
of our Party. The revolutionary movement
among the Tampa tobacco workers is not new.
For years the Tampa workers have supported
with finances and with sympathy the Daily
Worker and Labor Unity (organ of the Trade
Union Unity League), and have shown the finest
solidarity with the strikes led by the T.U.U.L.
in cither parts of the country. The revolutionary
movement in Tampa, however, although based
entirely on the shop workers, did not bear an
organized character. But a few months ago an
organizer was sent into Tampa, and a short
time later special efforts were made to bring
the line of the 13th Plenum direct to the Party
units and to the non-Party workers in Tampa,
The task of putting into effect the line of the
Plenum ("Face to the shops!” “For the organ
ization of mass struggles against the offensive
of the capitalists!”) meant first of all the over
coming of both the right and "left” opportunist
tendencies in the Tampa section—opportunist
tendencies existing partly due to the fact that
the movement was not benefiting by the active
leadership of the Communist Party. First, a
tendency among some elements of unwillingness
to develop mass struggles altogether, and to ori
entate upon agitation in the Labor Temple rather
than upon organiation in the shops; second: no
campaign (at that time) against wage-cuts and
mass lay-offs; third: passivity and inaction on
the most burning question—unemployment;
fourth: a conscious neglect of work among the
women cigar workers: fifth: white chauvinism—
a tendency to “leave the Negroes alone until we
get stronger’—falling to realize that united or
ganization and struggle of white and Negro
workers strengthens the working class as noth
ing else; sixth: language sectarianism—a most
dangerous tendency to keep the movement a
Spanish movement, to neglect the work among
the native American workers who are being used
by the bosses more and more to replace the
Spanish-speaking workers in the factories at
lower wages, and who would give the movement
a more solid base in Tampa. (It was pointed
out that it was precisely because we were doing
nothing against wage-cuts and unemployment
that the bosses were not using terror and the
movement was “peaceful”).
TAX PAYERS IN REVOLT IN PHILA.
INSPIRED by the various local hunger marches
and especially by the National Hunger March
to Washington, the tax* payers in Philadelphia
have organized marches of their own. On Mon
day about a thousand tax payers stormed
the City Hall and the session of the City Coun
cil. Seeing the mass protest and indignation of
the tax payers, the City Council abruptly ad
journed its session and left the meeting room.
Why The Tax Payers Revolt?
The corrupted politicians of the City Council
have increased the city budget by twelve million
dollars. This therefore presents the City Coun
cil with the problem of raising j 9 million dollars
above its income. To raise this money the City
Council proposes to raise taxes on property by
35c per each SIOO of assessed valuation of prop
erty. The present tax rate is $2.77% per SIOO.
If this increase in the tax rate would be carried
through, then it would be $3.12 per hundred.
In addition the City Council also proposes to
Increase the tax on water by 50 per cent.
Due to the present unemployment tens of
thousands of workers are not in a position to
pay sieir taxes nor the Interest on mortgages
on their property. T£e result is that every
month thousands of workers homes are being
sold by the sheriff. For the month of Decem
ber 2,000 homes will be sold for failure to pay
taxes. For a period of 12 months, 50,000 sheriff
sales took place. The worker tax payers know
that If the tax rate is Increased more of their
homes will be sold. Because of this situation
the tax payers who are in majorty workers and
peoples of small means are revolting.
Tax the Poor—But Bo not Tax the Rich
The economic crisis, the sharp decline in the
value of real estate, the closing down of num
erous banks, began seriously to effect the petty
bourgeoisie and the small business men. The
big real estate operators and capitalists are try
ing to utilize this mass movement to avoid higher
taxes on their property and income. The move
ment so far is in the hands of republican poli
tician* and big textile manufacturers who want
to avoid a higher tax on their property, and for
this purpose they utilize the discontent and
revolt of the small tax payers.
It must be clear to the workers, that we must
be against higher taxes upon the workers and
peoples of small means. However we must de
mand a higher tax on property and incomes of
the rich in order to feed the unemployed.
Build a Workers Tax Payers League
In face of this situation, it becomes necessary
for the workers and small merchants to build
a movement against high taxes of their own.
This movement is not to be under the control
of republican politicians and various neighbor
hood business men’s associations, but under the
direct control of the workers and workers’ or
ganizations.
The various Chamber of Commerce and busi
ness associations who now pretend to be against
the Increase, were the ones who were respon
sible for placing the higher-tax Republican City
Council into power. Precisely because the po
liticians are afraid that the workers and the
small merchants may organize a movement of
thetr own in the struggle against higher taxes,
to tax the rich and not. to tax the poor, that
they have tried to assume leadership of this
movement in order to behead it
riir workers mot see this policy of the boners
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It is clear that these right-wing errors con
stituted the main danger in Tampa, In addi
tion there were “leftist” tendencies towards in
dividualism, "left” sectarianism, anarcho-syn
dicalism, etc.
No one can doubt that the present struggles
could have developed only through a determined
attempt on the part of the Tampa comrades to
overcome these opportunist tendencies. The
more organized character of the work and the
orientation towards the shops led in the last
couple of months to the launching of the Tampa
Tobacco Workers’ Industrial Union and is un
doubtedly responsible for the firmness of the
present struggle. The importance and value of
the unemployed work can be gathered from the
fact, that when the workers’ committee went to
the mayor for a permit far the Nov. 7 meeting,
he demanded that above all they "stop these
unemployed demonstrations.”
It w*buld be foolish to claim, however, that m
such a short time all these deviations have been
overcome. It is precisely in the course of strug
gle, however, that opportunist tendencies can be
decisively overcome, and it is also precisely in
the course of struggle that opportunist tenden
cies constitute the greatest danger and must be
fought with the utmost ruthlessness.
It is in this connection that it might be well to
mention the letter sent by leading comrades in
Tampa to the Havana (bourgeois) Diario del
Matino, ‘We need not quarrel about whether it
is fitting to use such phrases as “your esteemed
journal” since they are after all more or less
conventional, but it is unquestionably incorrect
to state in the name of the Communist Party
that we are “wily fighting for our constitutional
rights,” a statement which might be made by
any bourgeois liberal. The Communist Party
fights for all the basic rights of the workers,
some of which—the right of free speech, of free
assemblage,etc—are contained in the constitu
tion. but it knows what a mockery such "con
stitutional rights” are under capitalism, and it is
necessary to bring out the class position; to show
that the Party fights for much more than "con
stitutional rights"—that it fights against wage
cuts, for unemployment insurance and. for im
mediate relief, for defense of the Soviet Union.
It was for these demands that the Nov. 7 meet
ing was organized. It is when the workers want
to use their constitltiona! rights for their class
aims that the bosses reply with fascist attacks,
shootings, frame-ups and raids, and this should
have been brought out in the letter. To say less
than this is unquestionably opportunist—regard
less of whether the bourgeois journal would print
our letter or not.
The lying provocation, of the Tampa police
and the false charges of "assault with intent to
kill,” on which they are holding 17 workers in
prison as a result of the police and fascist at
tack on the Nov. 7 demonstration, should draw
the special attention of the Tampa comrades to
“leftist” errors of individualism and playing with
revolutionary phrases. The position of the Com
munist Party on armed demonstrations is well
known. To quote from an article by Comrade
Alfred in the September Communist Interna
tional : “The slogan of an armed demonstration
means the same thing as the general slogan of
the arming of the proletariat. To raise the
slogan of an armed demonstration without any
anticipation of a speedy transformation into an
armed revolt and before the pre-conditions for a
successful revolt exist, is to be guilty of playing
with revolution (our bold fade—N. S.). If cer
tain impatient elements demand the arming of
demonstrators, it is necessary to Joe* carefully
to see whether there is not an attitude of panic
behind the demand.”
What is the role of the present political prek
test strike movement in Tampa? The political
protest strike was undoubtedly the correct tactic
to like to mobilize the masses against the frame
up. Owing to certain historical conditions, and
the close association of the Spanish-speaking
workers with the anti-imperialist revolutionary
movement of Latin-America, they are more con
scious politically, more familiar with forms of
political action than most American worker*.
But can we say, since a political protest strike
is a more advanced stage than a purely economic
strike, that the movement is more advanced, 1*
more revolutionary in Tampa than in the rest
of the country, that it has advanced "beyond the
stage of economic strikes”? No, it would be im
possible to say this. This would be a "leftist”
error of the worst kind. The movement in
Tampa cannot be carried forward indefinitely
on the basis of a series of protest strikes. It
has not yet rooted itself sufficiently in the every
day life of the workers. Hie workers have not
yet learned from experience that even the small
est struggle against the boss or for a crumb of
unemployment relief can wily be won through
revolutionary organization under the leadership
of the Trade Union Unity League and the Com
munist Party. Above all, the movement is still
limited largely to the Spanish-speaking workers
and has not yet drawn in the native American
workers and the Negroes.
To have refused to utilize the tactic of the
political protest strike would have been the
height of dogmatic stupidity. But the key to
the entire situation now. the point by which the
mass movement will either grow or die down,
is the linking np of the straggle with the econ
omic demands the bringing of the economic
demands to the forefront, and developing a
broad, mass-strike movement, against wage
cats and speed-up in the shops, uniting it with
the militant struggle of the unemployed work
era for unemployment Insurance and immediate
relief and embracing the native American white
and Negro workers. This is the only way In
which the struggle can attain a secure and per
manent base in Tampa and defeat the terror of
the bosses and the government.
The Tampa factories are now about to close
down for a month or so for their customary
yearly stocktaking. The workers of Tampa must
prepare now to find the factories re-opening with
hand-work replaced by machinery, with the
bosses attempting to replace the Spanish-speak
ing workers by American white and Negro and
women workers at lower wage*, with a. general
wage-cut— id other word* with a sharp inten
sification of the whole process which the homes
have been carrying on gradually during the past
couple of years. The oniy way to prepare for
this is increased organisation, tmnrtmg the
Tamija Tobacco Workers' Industrial Union in
preparation for strike action, aborts all, we re
peat again, increased organization among the
native Americans, the Negroes and the women.
Whether a political or an economic strike,
strikes must be cat-ried on under the leadership
of a re*l Drifted Front Strike ffeHtunittah aocnr
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CROWNING IMPERIALISM’S HANGMAN * rBPRC *-
Negotiations of the New Union Agreements in the
Building Trades ot N.Y. and Vicinity
T By A. PETERSON.
PART L
ribs’, 133 Z existing union agreements in the
building trades of New York and vicinity ex
pire and negotiations for new agreements are
new la progress. As usual, In these A. F. of L.
unions, these negotiations are going on behind
Closed doors in the true spirit of class collabora
tion, for "the welfare of the industry.”
While the A. F. of L. building trades craft
unions have constant jurisdictional fights, the
bosses in the building trades are well organized
on on industrial scope into tha Building Trades
Employers’ Association. And It is this employ
ers’ association, together with the real estate
investors, the bankers who have a great money
interest in buildings. It is this capitalist family,
in collaboration with the union officials in the
building trades, who shaped the policies for the
previous union agreements. It is they who are
now shaping the policies for the new union
agreements for the carpenters, bricklayers, plum
bers and other crafts.
Union Officials Help Cut Standards of Living.
From the official information to us carpen
ters at our local union meetings through the
minutes of the Carpenters’ District Council we
see the following:
The employers’ association (the Master Car
penters’ Association) is for a direct wage-cut;
(the rumors are that this wage-out is to be 35
per cent). Brother .Hanson, in the name of the
Carpenters’ District Council, proposed a three
day working week with the present scale of
wages ($13.20). This is as stated officially In
the minutes; unofficially, we union carpenters
are already givtm hints by union officials that
the carpenters’ District Council is going to sub-
Opportunities for Organizing
' the Farmers
By A. LERNER.
VBI continued deepening of the economic crisis
* is farcing the poor farmers more and more
to real militant action in order to get relief. In
thorn districts of the country where the Commu
nist Party is actively engaged in agrarian work
these struggles are being concretely directed
against the local government authorities, the
landlords and the bankers.
In Houghton County. Michigan, a leaflet was
issued by six Committees of Action calling a
demonstration for Dec. 1 on the occasion of a
meeting of county officials. The farmers de
manded a guarantee that mortgage foreclosure
farm sales would not take place, that back pay
ments on mortgages be cancelled, that mortgage
and interest payments owning due should be
postponed, and that the rich timber and mineral
lands of the Copper Trust, heretofore almost
tax-free, should be heavily taxed. The farmers,
having become wary of the demagogy of the of
ficials, demanded immediate action, declaring
that they can no longer “live on vague
promises.”
In Onotagon County, a demonstration of 300
farmers organised by the United Farmers League
prevented a sheriffs sale of a farm on Nov. 24.
In Alger County, at a session of the “Unem
ployment Commission of the Board of Super
visors" on Nov. 17, 60 fanners demonstrated for
the rank and file workers. The comrades liT
Tampa must pay the greatest attention to the
lesson* of the recent strikes led by the Trade
Unien Unity League, the Pennsylvania-Ohio
mine shrike, the two Lawrence strikes, etc. The
grsateet emphasis must be laid on actual or
ganisation. that the tendency be overcome to
rely merely on agitation. Under the leadership
ot the Trade Union Unity League and the Com
munist Party, carrying forward the line of the
13th Plenum, the Tampa workers, with the splen
did militancy they have already shown, will
strengthen thetr revolutionary organizations.
flßk* alt ifee Attack of the bosses sod toOSLonec
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CnU Port, US A.
mtt to this wage-cut proposition. The business
agents’ meeting proposed a two-shift week, each
shift to work two and a half days. It is char
acteristic that these union misleaders are silent
about the 6-hour day proposition.
It is worth while to figure out v/hat standard
of living the union carpenter would get at best
under these proposals by the carpenters’ so
called “union leaders.”
Building Is seasonal work, and, according to
the figures of the U. S. department of labor,
released at the height of the building boom, the
average a building trade worker put in was 34
W’eeks in a year. Now let us figure it out at
best, Thirteen dollars and twenty cents a day,
2% days a week, makes $33 a working week;
$33 for 34 weeks during the year makes a total
of $1,122 a year in wages; divide it on the 52
weeks in the year, it makes $21.65 a week wage
Income—which means to live below the stand
ard of living as recognized even by the depart
ment of labor And this is the best interpreta
tion, not the actual probability.
A Policy Which Means More Starvation.
In the real estate section of the N. Y. Times,
Nov. 22, 1931, there Is a column of publicity on
the arguments presented by the Employers’ As
sociation:
“Organized efforts to effect wage-cuts in all
branches ol the industry have culminated in
the proposals from the Building Trades Em
ployers’ Association to the labor organizations,
etc. —
“Among the arguments presented, according
to Christian, G. Norman, of the Building Trades
Employers’ Association, were the lower prices
prevailing in building materials, rent and corn-
relief under the leadership of their Committee
of Action. In Toivola, a mass meeting of farm
ers held on Nov. 15, drew up a list of demands
and instructed a Committee of Action to present
these demands to the next meeting of rthe
Houghton County supervisors.
In Mountrail County, No. Dakota, where the
fanners are actually famine-stricken, a meeting
of the county commissioners on Oct. 6 found the
town filled with farmers who came to demon
strate for relief at the call of the United Farm
ers League. In Plenty wood. Montana, 1,000
farmers came in trucks from three counties for
a meeting called by the United Farmers League
to expose the fake relief measures of the local
Red Cross. They paraded in the Sheridan County
court-house, and at the head of this parade there
were carried two red flags. In Avondale, local
bankers and business men are so frightened by
the response to meetings called by the United
Farmers League that they are taking measures
to prevent the U. F. L. from securing a hall for
its meetings.
These are but a few indications of the rising
revolutionary temper of the small and middle
farmers. Where the United Farmers League and
the Agrarian Depts. of the Party districts are
functioning, these actions are organizationally
being turned into account. What splendid re
sults might we not have achieved had the U. F.
L. or the Party been present last year in Eng
land, Ark., and Henryetta, Okla., and in lowa
recently when the poor dairy farmers of that
state put up actual armed resistance to the
militia sent to enforce the Tuberculin Test which
killed their cows without compensation?
All of these Incidents call for a more active
and concrete approach by the Party districts to
work among the poor farmers. Every district
must establish a functioning Agrarian Dept.,
■whose job it is to build (according to the char
acter of agriculture in the district) trade union
organization of agricultural wage workers, ten
ants’ leagues, croppers' unions, or Committees of
Action of small and middle fairness aeoojsd aBBS?
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modifies generally, possible increases in con
siruction which might take place with wage re
visions, and unequal competition faced by those
paying the regular scale from builders able to
obtain workers at lower rates.”
The lower prices prevailing in building ma
terials have served well the interest of these big
shots from the Employers’ Association to pile
more profits into their pockets. In spite of the
general crisis, in spite of their cry about the
high prevailing rates of union wages, the finan
cial section of the N. Y. Times, June 11, report*
for the Thompson Starrett Co. for the year
ended April 23, 1931, net profits for the fiscal
year higher than in the previous years. It is a
net sum of $1,785,703. Similar are the reports
in the Moody investment records for the Fuller
Co. and the others of these btg shots.
In order to fool the building trades workers
they are making the careful statement that a
revision in wages (wage-cut) might possibly
bring increases in construction. (Possibly! Our
union officials seem to be more shameful fakers
to tell us that an adjustment at working condi
tions with the Building Employers’ Association
will stimulate construction.)
The real facts are that these big shots who
control the policies of this employers’associa
tion have in their interest the discouragement
and elimination of building construction. Let
us look at some of these big builders who are
the controlling factors In the employers’ asso
ciation.
The Manhattan Leasing Co. in years past built
blocks of great apartment houses in all sec
tions of Manhattan and the Bronx, sold them
on easy payments by financing the first, second
and third mortgages. Now in this crisis they
get these same houses back by the hundreds
by foreclosures and become the greatest land
lords In Greater New York. As builders of new
houses, they confine themselves to an Insignifi
cant number in the Bronx. But their main at
tention is concentrated on the alteration work
in the foreclosed apartment houses. This work
is, by the way, done by non-union labor, be
cause our officials did not encourage the or
ganization of the unorganized In the building
trades.
Now, as landlords, this company has surely
no interest in encouraging building construction
while many of the apartment* in the hundreds
of the houses they acquired are vacant.
The liabilities and circulation capital of
Thompson Starrett and the others of their kind
(as stated in the Moody’s Investments Informa
tion), proves that there are at present more
landlords and rent collectors than promoters of
new construction in New York and vicinity.
And these big shots have a good, substantial in
terest in banking institutions.
To what an extent this limitation of new
building construction is actually going on in
Manhattan Borough Is proven in the following
announcement made by Samuel Fassler, superin
tendent of buildings, an Dec. 3, 1931: “The filed
plans for project on new buildings for Manhat
tan Borough for the current month is $1,501,100,
as compared with $21,662,280 in the same month
of 1930,” which means a drop almost to zero.
The curtain was raised higher in Brooklyn and
Queensboro, where the newspaper* brought to
us recently the fact that: “Hie employer*' as
sociation, real estate investors and group V of
the savings banks associations of New York had
a conference in the Williamsburg Saving Bank
to consider a three years’ holiday for apart
ments and office buildings.
"On the basis of statistics on vacancies in
apartment and office buildings in the borough,
states the report of this conference, it was de
cided to discourage the general building of
apartment houses and office buildings In Brook
lyn and Queens for a period of one year."— (Trues
N. Y. Times of Oct 18, 1931.)
The above examples show that the interest
of these institutions is to discourage building
construction In order to safeguard their incomes
from rent collecting; for that reason they are
interested also to eliminate the elements who
are now forced to go or with bmldtag OOWtollD
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A Very Good Idea
It Is suggested only for New Tort, but w« *N
no reason why other cities where the Unsnv*
ployed Councils are organized should not
it up—and probably beat New York’s Unero
ployed Council. Let’s see what happens:
“Dear Comrade Jorge:—l have just been NH
by an idea. Will you help me to put It toAi
action? It is simply this:
“I want to see all members of the Uncwpluyß#
Councils get free dental services, which, I stg
sure, most of them are in need of. Therefor*
I offer my service® to the Unemployed Craned
of Greater New York, and call upon all dentist*)
who are members or sympathizers of the Oman
munist Party to do likewise. • v -
‘‘The unemployed workers must be taken cot*
of. Perhaps some Communist physician* nay
be able to w6rk out a/plan for free
service along similar lines. The unemployed
workers cannot afford even the fees of so-called
‘free’ clinics. ...
Until such time as other dentists In ot)Mt
boroughs come along, I am ready to help mem.
bers of the Councils of all boroughs. All I ask
is that such workers (and members of their fam-
BRING A NOTE SIGNED BY THE SEC
RETARY OF THE PARTICULAR COUNCIL HE
OR SHE BELONGS TO.—Maximilian Cohen,
Dental Surgeon, 638 CarrolJ Street, Brooklyn,
10 a. m. to 8 p. m. except Fridays and Sundays.”
Now there’s ah offer that the Unemployed
Council ought to tie Into, and which should be
matched by other dentists and a doctor or two
in every borough. Any of these who don’t know
where to register their offer with Unemployed
organizations in their neighborhood, should drop
a line stating what they can be counted on ft*,
to the Unemployed Council of Greater New
York, Carl Winter. Secy., 5 East 19th Street,
winch we expect will inform the committees in
their locality.
Sut outside of New York, we think that the
plan of such sympathizers and Party mtmbere
giving what attention they can to members of
the Unemployed Councils should be pushed. Not
that It “settles the whole question,” because iti
doesn't. Yet it will help some Let’s see wh®s
can be done!
Mr, Hubbard Is a Liar
The Bridgeport, Conn., ’‘Herald” of Nov. 2*
was forced to apologize for E. Kent Hubbard,
president of the Connecticut Manufacturers' As
sociation because Hubbard told a lie about the
Putnam strikers.
Like the Hoover secret service fairy tale as
an "armed invasion” of Washington by the Hun
ger Marchers. Hubbard cooked up something to
give his fellow bosses the cold slilvers. He said
that “a consignment of rifles and machine gum
on its way to the strikers was halted in transit.”
The “Herald” apologizes for tom by saying he
was "misinformed” or "tried to be dramatic.”
Hubbard himself says nothing, apologises for
nothing. And we want to say that this kind of
damn liars is the same kind who themselves
are getting rifles and machine guns reedy to
shoot down the workers. At the very least, tfc
is an incitement' to the watch-dogs of the h-rrnrq
the police—to attack the strikers ■>— l mas
sacre them.
We recall that In the Lawrence strike e# toll,
the manufacturers made many chargee of
namiting” against the strikers, and them wetto
explosions, too. But e short while afterward. Jfc
was found out that the head of the bosses’
sodation, a guy named Wood, had hired ger«-
sters to do the dynamiting so he oould g
onto the strikers. He was indicted for It end
committed suicide. Will Mr, Hubbard kkußr
follow Mr. Wood’s example?
> •. •* —;
Some “True Facts" . v . j
of the A. F. of L.
The “Cleveland Federattoturt,” the guunTufl
sheet which the American Federation of Laba*
is responsible for in Cleveland, Ohio, is running
a series of articles entitled "True Facts of Com
munism,” as distinguished, perhaps, from “falas
facts” if you ever heard of such “facts."
More brazen lying was seldom Indulged in.
Take, for example, the following:
"Communism has robbed the Bnsslsn of
everything that makes life easy, comfortable
and pleasant.”
The Czar, far example, who slaughtered 3,000
workers in front of his winter Palace in 81
Petersburg on January 9, 1905, when they cams
humbly and respectfully bearing pictures of the
Czar and the so-called Holy Croat to petition
the “Little Father” to make their honors glvw
them a little more bread. Life was so "eosyi
comfortable and pleasant" then! And now took
at it! No Czar, no capitalist, no landlord! How
in the devil can workers and farmers be riffg
without paying rent to a landlord?
Then look at this from the “True Facia",
“Russia a hundred years age had a greater
prosperity than it has today, in iwissiiMigf.
in*, import and export.”
That, we’ll say, about takes the hand-pafcstsd
prize. To what an extent these lickspittles cd
the American bosses in the ranks of the A. A
of L. go in trying to sidetrack the workers’ at
tention from the “prosperity” they are right
now enjoying, the “easy, oomfortable and ples*>
ant” time they are enduring right here I* to*
capitalist country of the United States!
Incidentally, this same “Cleveland Fedasnttow
-Ist” carries advertisements, paid for, of scab
scab hotels, scab laundries, scab clotbsa and
what have you. And under its name plate tt ewe
rles: “Local Advocate of the American Fedsro
tlan of Labor.” Cleveland workers ot tha A. F.
of L., why don’t you march down la rums to Hw
office of these liars and do a little ei—niwg -a
*•• • • :
They Support Each Other: And no must V*.
What we refer to is the way the officers of the
former “enemy nations,” Germany and
ore being toured around America now by Ameri
can Legionnaires, end banqueted. A ptetaa* to
the Philadelphia Bulletin of Nor. 11. shows on
ex-German lieutenant, an American Anay eon
tain who Is still in sendoe, an Austrian one
officers and an ex-officer of the Cf. 8. Nary aB
cuddled up together. Now, workers, them fel**
lows are getting together against YOU. Some ctf
these days there will be a revolution In Germany
and on these fascists will tell you toot you
bo* unmet* the German wctfcgi hr tbstr flgtak
tor • Sari* Germany. Bat «hnr «« m to.