Paris Masses Shake Corrupt French Regime ------S ------A ------______Latest Developments in the N .Y

WORKERS OF T H E WORLD. T h e U N IT E MILITANT & Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition] * V iiim t VII, NO. 7 [WHOLE NO. 211] NEW YORK, SATURDAY,FEBRUARY 10, 1934 PRICE 2 CENTS Paris Masses Shake Corrupt French Regime ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------s ----------------- a ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------_____________________ Latest Developments in the N .Y . Hotel Strike Reaction in Significance of Taxi Drivers’ Strike Analyzed Latest developments in the strike of the New I insolently rebuffed the men and revealed that her The signal for working class struggle sounded by age wage of ten to twelve dollars; twelve hour shifts York hotel and restaurant workers, as we go to press, institution had their sympathies definitely with the the general strike of New York hotel workers has and more; some men worked the “Coolie” shift------ include the following: hotel bosses. found a stirring response in the strike of the New twenty-four hours a day, sleeping at the wheel; fa il On Monday, 4,000 strikers, their wives and chil A scandal was caused in the dining room of the Power with York taxi drivers.Already in the first week of its ure to bring in a minimum resulting in discharge; dren, surrounded the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in an aristocratic Waldorf-Astoria when a number of pa stormy career it has given the working class of New the black list; and, finally, the five cent tax cutting imposing mass picket demonstration. After a short trons rose to appeal for solidarity with the strikers. York and the country an inspiring demonstration of into their tips. time, police suddenly attacked the pickets with brutal Hired thugs of the management beat them up and working class militancy. In its staccato language The strike received a certain stimulus from La violence, knocking down organizer Costas whose seiz threw them out of the hotel. Dum ergue of speed, action, and solidarity can be heard the auth Guardia, when he offered not to appeal the decision ure was prevented by the workers. Many workers Thursday’s press reports that officials of two A. entic voice of the proletariat. Consider it! Here of the Supreme Court of New York declaring the were cruelly beaten, and one woman was arrested. F. L. locals, 1 and 2, have instructed their members were men horribly exploited, unorganized, a prey of five-cent tax on all rides illegal, if the cab company Tony Tarcentino was badly beaten over the head. not to take scab jobs in houses struck by the Am France, whose bourgeois states politicians, racketeers and' crooks, without traditions owners would turn over to the men all the tax money On the same night, a mass demonstration around algamated. In striking contrast to the scab tactics men and philosophers have latterly of trade union struggle or even the most elementary collected up to the time of the court’s decision and the Casino de Paree came into conflict with hired of officials of Local 16, this action reflects the de enjoyed feelings of superiority to understanding of the class struggle. Notwithstand held in escrow pending the decision. The companies gangsters and city police. In the ensuing fight, doors mands of rank and file A. F. L. members for solidar the country which submits to H it ing, within a week, in the fire of struggle, they refused La Guardia’s offer and made a substitute offer and windows of the establishment were badly damag ity with their Amalgamated brothers. ler, trembles on the brink of epoch- forged a union which embraces almost half the driv of only forty percent. The men felt that all of the ed by the enraged workers. A number of organizations have announced their making changes. Rising to a high ers in the industry. money belonged to them as the tax really came out On Tuesday, union representatives met with Mrs. refusal to hold planned dinners in hotels on the un er pitch than on any occasion since I The basis for the strike is to be found in the mis- of their tips. In their view La Guardia was with Herrick of the local Labor Board of the NRA, who ion’s strike list. the glorious days of the Commune, j erable conditions of the taxi drivers: a weekly aver- __________ «Continued on Page 4) the resentment of the exploited j _______________ French masses has broken out in to Lewis Triumphs at openly anti-govemmental, anti-state demonstrations. To halt the deter M ilitant Action EDITORIAL mined ranks of embittered workers Cab Drivers In Scab Cars Run Mine Convention and middle class demonstrators from invading the Chamber of Deputies, no belief that the workers can In Cab W alkout Seventeen hundred delegates at At the end of the second week the Daladier government ordered Huge M e e t Off Streets win by fighting. The attempts tended the thirty-third convention of the general strike of New its police and m ilitia to fire upon are reactionary and defeatist About 8,000 enthusiastic, cheer of the United Mine Workers held York’s hotel and restaurant indus unarmed men, women and children. recently at Indianapolis. The maj try, the strikers stand firm in un through and through ---- ” A t Garden ing hackmen, gathered in the Audi Im m ediately thereafter, having been to riu m o f P. S. 27 on 42nd St., be Of N.Y. ority gave the John L. Lewis ad broken. ranks. The strike re m * * * | in office eleven days, the Daladier tween Second and Third Avenues, ministration a vote of confidence, mains as effective as be There is as yet no indication | government resigned. on February 3. The meeting call cheered his pompous convention fore, and the service in the hotels that this pernicious tendency 15,000 taxicab striker's jammed I While Donmergue tries to ed by the United Taxi Drivers Un The a uditorium of P. S. 27 was verbiage and bestowed a goodly is still crippled1, particularly in against which we warned, has the basement of the Madison Square build a new union sacree, a holy ion, a merger of the Fusion Taxi jammed, men sitting on the steps portion of the acclaim upon his re the kitchens. been checked. Here again the Garden at 11:00 P. M„ Saturday, alliance of reactionaries to sup Committee, N. X. Taxi Drivers Un aud stage and filling the back aisles tinue of mediocre horn-blowing The bosses have been, dealt a contrary is the case. Some o f the February 3, in a monster demon press the indignant masses of ion, ami the Taxi Drivers Nou-Par- and the entrances: a conservative lackeys who constitute the pillars powerful blow. A magnificent un publicity issued by the union is stration of solidarity and deter France, rioting continues in the lisau Ass n. They cheered aud ap estimate would place the number at of his high-handed regime. ion of the workers is in the mak little less than scandalous. Such streets of every important French mination to fight for the unioniza plauded all of tneir speakers. When 2,500. A whole coterie of officials had ing, and the militancy of the is the press release that the union tion of the entire field. In spite of city. France “the most bourgeois cneir attorney Leon Seifer, sug The meeting was electric with come direct from the anthracite strikers, especially of the rank counts among its numbers such a the attempts of the speakers to country in the world”, despite the gested that the hackmeu wanted enthusiasm. Every call for action coal fields where they had been in and file workers, is a sound assur large American citizenry that___ dampen the tsrikers’ militancy by hopes of its bankers, was unable only 40 percent of the tax money from the speakers evoked an in strumental in breaking the back ance of its future. The well It cannot possibly be considered demanding over and over again that to escape the world economic crisis now held by the cab companies, stant response. The business con bone of the strike conducted by the organized mass parades around a “ red union”. Nor can we regard no violence be permitted or toler which has mobilized class against cries of “No! No! came from the sisted o f: “insurgent” union. That suited the the struck hotels, bespeak a readi it as anything but the greatest class in oittev conflict in every capi ated during the strike, the tone of Dack of the hall. The taxi-men hand-picked delegates who consti ness on the part of the workers mistake when Secretary B. J. 1. A report of the conference talist country. Similarly, it has (he men was for a determined and anew what they want, and what tuted the majority in the conven to fight vigorously against the Field of the Amalgamated Hotel with the "mediator” at City Hall been unable to escape the trans bitter struggle to win their demands they are out for. tion. Strike-breaking has become bosses, the strike-breakers and and Restaurant Workers Union the previous day at 12 noon. The formation of this economic crisis for complete and thorough union Especially great was the cheering, their trade. Lewis ruled supreme all their porteotors. fails to repudiate some of the conference was unsatisfactory. into a deep governmental crisis. ization of the taxicab drivers, re whistling aud applause for their at the convention. Opposition was statements which the capitalist 2. An announcement of the final « * * » .Mases and the Crisis cognition of the union, full protec own hac-kman-speaker, when he told squelched.

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