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DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1934 Page Three General Strike Negro Will Play GreatRole in South Bend Manv Here Communist Party Looms inßutte; Coming Struggle American Labor Car Strike For Furriers 36 Unions Vote of In 3rd Week Conference Prepares For Fall Harry Haywood Tells of LSNR Leader Recounts W orkers Out in Great Conditions of the Struggles for Equal Picket Lar Barns for To Open Tomorrow at FaH* ress and Anaconda. Negro Workers Rights in Country Wage Increases; Score Irving: Plaza Hall Cong Elections Montana Press By J. M. right of the Negroes to any job on Capitalist in New York BUTTE. Mont., June 19 fF.P.).— “T'HE cominsr jrreat steel the building. The city bosses mo- Pittsburgh Nominates Uarreathers; Boston Lavs A general bilized hundreds of poiice—but as a SOUTH BEND. Ind., June 20. NEW YORK—AII Important strike on behalf of the * 5,000 miners, engineers and allied strike—which has been result of the demonstration a num- The strike of 130 street car. bus. and I Plans for Mass Campaign interurban is continuing; cities will be represented at the Na- crafts who have been striking ber of Negroes got jobs on the men in merely pstponed, not strong. The tional Furriers’ Conference, which Butte since May 8 seems imminent High School. morale of the strikers, who are opens evening. Pa., Juris 20.—Many e» a result of smashed—will find in its L.S.N.R. Fights Chi Jim-Crow demanding 50 cents an Friday June 22, at PITTSBT*RGH. special problems the decision of del- week, egates representing 36 local unions “The League of Struggle for Ne- hour and a 48-hour is good Irving Plaza Hall. Irving Place and face Ben Carreathers, one of leading comrades of front ranks the Negro work- They are determined not the Pitts- to take a strike vote on the ques- gro Rights in Chicago has drawn to return | 15th Bt. Delegates ers. to work until they have arrived burgh s hill district, and Communist Party for tion. up a city ordinance to enforce the receive 50 cents! from Los Angeles, Philadelphia, De- candidate right of to an hour. Congress in Before the strike began, many “So will every great strug- Negroes work on all jobs troit, Chicago. Besides the branches the 32nd District of Pennsylvania, he told the and against all forms of Jim-Crow- A committee of picketers sent a j of of miners, unable, to support their gle—provided only that the Com- our union. Local 3 the Inter- Daily Worker yesterday as he prepared to ism: on the beaches, in restaurants, statement to the local newspapers, national launch his cam- families on the $55-a-month mine munist Party, revolutionary Fur Workers’ Union is also *• the un- hotels, theatres and They signed by William Gordon, presi- paign in Pythian Temple on wages, quit and aDplied for federal ions. the oppositions in A. F. so on. officially represented with seven only ( the of are setting out on a campaign dent of the union, demanding that hold the worst jobs regardles* relief. L.. know how up boldly to delegates. June 23. to take the get thousands of of they cease hiding the main of their individual ability. Delegates militant for signatures demand The purpose of the Con- from Anaconda re- struggle equality for whites and Negroes of the strike, which was 50 cents National The majority of them, The figures on Negro ported that Negroes. If for the bill, and ference is to organize a he unemploy- 1,000 smeltermen and we do not blur over it will be presented to the City an hour. strong ment, Carreathers said, furnish an allied workers out, as well as these demands of the Negro work- union to fight for the interests of said, derive from the vicious are Council on June 27. one indication of the extent to which 1,000 workers at the Anaconda ers, and if bring the white work- Carlisle Eber, of the militant the fur workers all over the jim-crow system main- we HARRY HAYWOOD “In Kansas City, Mo,, police coun- fostered and labor in the black skin, in the copper smelter and wire mills at ers forward to demand the rights picketers, was accused of pulling try, against the code, which per- smashed the headquarters of the rail, Pittsburgh district doubly op- Great Falls. of Negroes, the strength of the spikes from a and is being held mits contracting, overtime, etc. The is Communist Party, arrested A. W. plain pressed. The 1930 census showed workers in the tremendous struggles on $5,000 bail. This is a conference will deliberate about a of Berry, Negro comrade who is sec- 8 per cent of Pittsburgh’s popula- to come will be increased manyfold.” F. L. has its source in the top a frame-up since the bosses have no national strike in the entire fur leaders of the A. of L.—the tion organizer, and tore up the leaf- evidence tion to be Negroes, yet in 1934 was Harry Haywood speak - F. whatever. trade. This lets advertising my meeting. The they represent 30-38 per ing, with burning enthusiasm, the Greens, Wolls, Lewises. These men cent of Famous Writers of Relief Workers' Protective Union Has Mass Support From 125 to about 150 delegates the otty’s unemployed, and on the part the Negro workers will play in serve the ruling-class. The Negro had organized for the continuation The strike has the sympathy and will participate in the conference. hill no less than 80 per cent of the wave of strikes misleaders treacherously represent I about to n.eak of C. W. A. jobs, uniting whites support of all the South Bend The conference will open on Fri- unemployed workers are Negroes. over the country. Haywood, general the jim-crow policy of the A. F. of To Be at Banquet and Negroes on this po- workers, and the taxi workers al-1 day evening with a mass meeting secretary of the of L. as stemming from the rank and issue. The In addition to the demands League Struggle government most on too. Twenty- in Irving Plaza, to be addressed by sos for file. By this means they try to lice and the city raised went strike j abolition of the Negro Rights, has just returned four picketing the Ben Gold, Hyman, Winogradsky, foregoing discrimi- from keep the Negro workers from taking the ‘red scare’ in order to conceal hour at car i natory practices, For ‘Big Ben a tour in which he had the barns and garage Burt, Potash, J. H. Cohen (for the and the general Davis’ their places by side the issues of bread and butter. bus is being con-, Party opportunity to talk with workers of side with the General Board) and six-point Communist program, workers in the “A conference I attended in 6t. ducted. Executive dele- many cities and many trades. white labor move- gates ’V' Carreathers’ is running on a platform Agnes Smerlley, Countee ment. Louis adopted a proclamation for The receiver, Mr. Smith, has con- from Chicago and from Terror in Ford's Domain i Local 3. calling for a fight against evictions the rights of the Negro people. sistently refused to deal with the and for Cullen, "When I hit Detroit,” said Hay- “Well, in Chicago the American the right of unemployed to Others at Lido Bosses Used Negroes As Scabs strikers, and sent lying state- The second session will open on use gas. wood, “I found a campaign of ter- Consolidated Trades Council, which has light, and water; and for ments and advertisements to the | Saturday morning at 10 o’clock in Hall Sunday Night ror against the Negro masses. News- is an organization of Negro plumb- “I visited Gary, too, the scene of the eradication of slum conditions local press attacking the strikers, the union headquarters. Creden- along paper were screaming about a ‘Ne- ers, mechanics and building trades the great steel strike of 1919. In Butler St.., and in the Scotch who were getting from 19 to 32 cents tials, Resolutions and Nominations gro rapist and slasher’ who was workers, started a fight for admis- that strike, Negro workers were Bottom and Glenwood sections. NEW YORK.—Agnes an hour. The N. R. A. board, as Committees will be elected. Wino- Smedley, supposed to be cutting and attack- sion of Negro workers in these brought up from the South. The He will outline his program In of “Daughter of Earth” usual, has only proposed ''arbitra- gradsky will report, supplemented at Pythian futhor and ing white women. The police were trades into the A. F. of L. The A. F. of L. misleadership refused to detail the Temple meet- (going back work at former by reports from various locals, A. E. US ing night, ■Chinese Destinies.” will be one of making continual round-ups of A. F. of L. officials gave them the organize the Negroes, and the tion” to Saturday at which other the speakers at the banquet ar- conditions'). The strikers have of L. and the Industrial Union, fol- Negro workers. The superintendent run-around, so the Consolidated bosses were able to use them as BEN CARREATHERS Communist candidates will also ranged by the league of wisely rejected these proposals.’ lowed by discussion. On Satur- speak. Struggle of schools—paid SIB,OOO a year out finally established itself as a bona strike-breakers. Immediately after to day evening be a concert • • • for Negro Rights greet the new money fide union and a charter from there will of colected from white and got the strike.