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Class Battles Now On,” Says Browder DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1933 Page Three ] NEWS BRIEFS Food, Coal Prices HENRY FORD “Must Forge United Front to Lead Big Rise; Production SQUABBLE IS Name Politician in Beer Scandal TRENTON, ! Class Battles Now Says I N. J—Jessee R. Sal- Hits New Snags HGHT FOR AUTO INDUSTRY on,” j mon, Essex Browder Republican chairman of jCounty, was identified yesterday by CLEVELAND, Ohio. A stirring ovation was given Earl ference we have not been able to trade unionism. Senate President Emerson L. Rlch- | Retail Sales Lag; Browder, secretary of the Communist Party, when he rose to achieve a united point of view. I was “Os course there are some dele- aids as the man to whom brewery Drop CONTROL BY AUTO unable to attend the Steel Confer- j Unseasonal in TRUSTS gates who to the criticism i speak and object interests had paid a large of toward the conclusion of the United Action Conference ence so I am not familiar with all against | sum that we level them on this money for aid in defeating a bill Electric Index held here August 26-27. Browder dealt with the role of Com- the discussions that took place there. Well, I think that if we I want to say, question. detrimental to brewery interests, Ford Agrees With NRA Attack on however, that it seems are to take up the NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—The lat- Workers munists in trade unions and the tasks of forging a united to me that in the if really going steel industry, struggles, if we will seriously carry j Salmon denounced the charge as est reports indicate that the infla- and Against one really fight, Unions; But NRA Support Gen- front of all workers in the present serious situation which wants to the prob- out the manifesto, it will be neces- j “malicious.” tionary given production lems are not so terribly difficult that shot to is eral confronts the American working class. sary to have criticism. The united fast losing its force. At the same Motors in Fight for Narrow Markets there should have been such a seri- Napoleon’s Niece Dies living rising- Browder’s speech in full follows: ous obstacle to agreement. I don’t front is not a moratorium on criti- time, the cost of is cism. When we come into a united The items given below are indica- WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Around the struggle to get Henry Ford * • • • know of any other industry NEW Castel- to where front assume to YORK.—Countess de tive the we have a clearer picture of the ab- we responsibility vecchio, of Napoleon Bona- of increased economic dif- sign the auto code is raging one of the biggest battles of the leading auto every other organization in that united j niece ficulties for E are approaching the end of our two-days conference solute betrayal and treachery of parte, the coming winter- (rusts, using the Roosevelt government to position the died yesterday in Welfare “ * n consolidate the of the “W*» A. F. of L. bureaucracy, where the front, and before aii the workers, Island, which has been her General Motors Corporation. and beginning to see the results of our conference and and invite criticism. We invite home Production Falls A. F. of L. has a smaller percentage we seme She left in will Steel Again the tasks before us more clearly than we did before. We must everybody to criticize us this for time. her Both Ford and the NRA officials are solid on their drive against the of the workers, where there can be from several heirlooms of the Bonaparte NEW YORK. Aug. 31.—“Both s make a very cool-headed estimate of what we have accom- no pretense whatever that the A. F. point of view, if we run away, or we reign. steel releases and mill operations • workers, Ford agreeing 100 per hesitate, or make mistakes, we in- cent with the open plished. The situation today is so serious, results' of what we of L. unions have got the masses have undergone a further decline shop clause of under their control and leadership, vite you to remind us and call it to and there is nothing to suggest any Right ! the code, and as Mark Sullivan, do have such tremendous effects upon the workers, we cannot not to speak of organization. Idon’t our attention and bring the masses Sleeping Sickness Toll Widens early change in trend outside a sea- to Exploit Herald Tribune special writer, said, afford any misjudgments, we cannot overestimate our strength, know of any industry where the of workers,to help correct us. That j ST. LOUIS.—The death toll here sonal upturn in auto production,” ’’could very easily live down to the program of organization of the work- criticism which we invite everybody from the mysterious attack of sleep- the leading metal publication, “Iron wage provisions of the code.” but first of all by no means can we afford to hesitate or to immediately bring against Remains, ers into a militant in- to us. wp don’t think ing sickness has reached 47. Experts Age,” said today- Assures But the big issue is trustifica- hold back from going forward to really lead the tremendous dustrial union has more brilliantly should be one-sided, and if it is studying the outbreak said Steel production dropped still tion, and who will gain the biggest itself than that! justified in the steel in- necessary to criticize any other or- deaths in other sections that were; | further to 47 per cent of capacity, slice of the booty. class battles already breaking out. dustry, where in the last few weeks ganization, we are going to do so General attributed to sleeping sickness were j the same authority reported. Steel Johnson High officials of the General “Iam taking a part in this conference as one of the Trade seven thousand workers were organ- boldly. And we think that is the by a of production has now been dropping ized in caused malady a different | Motors Corporation, such as John the 5.M.W.1.U., and the suc- only possible way a real united front type. : swiftly for the last three weeks Union Unity League representatives. I have been one of the cessful of six ‘Basic Principles Un- J. Raskob, and others, have heavily winning strikes in this can be built up. And we promise . Scientists say that every from the high point of 59. 11 members of the executive of this organization since its found- stronghold of capitalism. day they contributed to the Roosevelt cam- to continue that in the future. If *V “more puzzled Lacking any buying changed,” * than before” in' real from j Boston paign fund. Ford supported Hoo- ation, and a trade unionist for more than 20 years. I mention * * * there is anybody who can’t stand studying steel, the disease. the basic consumers of build- Officials ver. General Johnson, closely con- amHE problem we are facing in ap- such criticism, he surely can’t stand I ing and railroads, and with declin- Hear this because I heard remarks made by two delegates that there the real criticism which comes in nected to Bernard Baruch and oth- * proaching industry ing demand from the automobile in- were some leaders of the Communist here and the steel is Drys Gird Loins Aug. er Wall Street speculators, are Party speaking not one that can passed aside as battle, the results, victory or defeat. dustry, the steel “boom” is rapidly BOSTON, 31.—Speaking be- be fore a meeting of NRA closely linked with Morgan & Co., why didn’t they speak in the name of the Party. Certainly it something that can be argued about “Sometimes we are a little bit CHICAGO, lll.—Mrs. Boole, dry collapsing. officials, • • • General Johnson and the General Motors Corpora- for two or three months; the prob- timid about criticizing, we are afraid leader, said in a statement to the delivered some is no secret that I, a member of the executive of the gems tion. while we face tonight is we to hurt somebody. Such fear of press today that she thinks that Retail Sales striking of economic illiteracy lem what are Lag in his The Roosevelt NRA program, to- T.U.U.L., happen to be also the secretary of the Communist going to do at this united front Con- criticism must end. We have made it is wrong “for the government NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Despite explanation of the present world crisis ; gether with its attack on the work- Party. I don’t think that it ference to take part in determining too many general agreements with- to derive revenue from that which an increase of 81 per cent whole- of capitalism. is any weakness of the Trade Union in “The trouble,” he ers’ standard of living is aimed at what is going to happen in the steel out carrying them into the actual injures its people” as she referred sale business during the month of said, "is that Unity League that the Communist party supports it, that many to we were foreign favoring the biggest trusts, who industry. The masses of workers in mass struggles. We don’t want any the revenue bills already passed July, compared with last year, there lending busted coun- j anticipation tries money buy goods. .” : would gain most by the elimination members of the T. U. U. L. are members of the Communist the steel industry will be looking to more general agreements but con- in of the repeal of ! was an increase of only per cent to our 3 The pause of the anti-trust laws, and the for- this conference.
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