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7 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 19: African Negro wie Forbids Workers Joining pany of Jersey and Dispatches from’ both West and South ica indicate the broad Scope of the revolt only beginning to sweep through the Negro masses oppres tion, The spirit though the Nige was not before they had taken the offensive and tried to v t the ‘om the Royal West African Force, and the general wave of re- extended clear to Capetown, driving the imperialist gunmen into the owns to take the defensive, clearly rising movement. a on the south coast of West Africa, the recent for- mation of a trade union center at Bathurst, the capital, was banned by the great British imperialist cor- poration, the “Lever Margarine combine.” The Bathurst Trade Union is com- posed principally of clerical workers engaged in the African trade of the Lever corporation, which exploits the Negroes of much of Africa and certainly of Gambia, by dealing in cocoanuts and cocoanut oils, used in making edible oils, such as marga- rine and for soap produets. Only two months after the union was formed, says the Labor Research Department of London, England, the Department to Lever’s London of- ous remark that the company was Workers | Rise Massachusetts Same Exploiter As in Africa. | “satisfied with the local manager in | Bathurst.” | The Lever combine took the place! {of the Royal South Africa Co., | jcentury. The slave raiders almost | depopulated the country which has | never recovered from the hideous | ‘traffic. Gambia is one of the small- bellion that swept all Nigeria and jest British “protectorates,” but has | taxes on commodities consumed by |a low population for its area, there | [being only 200,000 natives. These | | are bossed by about 200 whites. | ; But American workers have some- | In Gambia, which lies just west thing to interest them in the lever ers hostile to the unemployed. |combine, which robs and oppresses | | Negro workers in Africa. For the Lever Bros. Co. in the United States | |is a part of the big Lever combine. | |Its subsidiary company in United | States is the Curtis-Davis & Co.,| manufacturers of soaps and gly-| cerine, with great plants both at| | Edgewater, New Jersey, and at | Cambridge, Massachusetts, no doubt | exploiting Negro workers here as} | well as in Africa. | | The Curtis-Davis Co. make some of America’s well-known soaps, such as Lux, Sunlight, Lifebuoy, Rinso, | Lux Toilet soap and others, That is, | the workers make the soap, and the | | company makes the profit. | | American workers, especially Ne- | Lever-Margarine Combine, Messrs. gro workers, are now joining the | will raise the cost of living, and the | Palmine, Ltd. gave their workers ;|Communist Party of the United | workers will have to fight under | a sudden notice to quit the union States to unite their fight on the | leadership of the Communist Party, | gates participated in the cotton in- within three days or be fired. The | Curtis-Davis company with the Ne- | the only party which fights capital-|qustry conference. Peter Hegelias protest made by the Labor Research | gro workers in West Africa exploit- | ism, even when it is dressed up with |made the report today. ed by the Lever combine, the same fice, was answered with a Supercili-|capitalists who exploit American | “treason” will stop them, soap workers. N. T. Ww. Convention Busy First Sessions (Continued from Page One) als and explaining the N. T. W. U. and its program, This delegation found that Muste’s loudly advertised meeting, intended as opposition to the N.T.W. conven- tion, had degenerated into a small} “Christmas celebration.” The Muste- ites refused to let the delegation address their little crowd, but the statement was distributed to them anyway, and will reach all the work- ers on strike in the Mutual Co. Stopping for barely a score of minutes to eat a few sandwiches, the delegates immediately proceeded to work. Every few minutes new delegations of workers would troop in, coming from the very maws of the textile mills, in their working clothes. Honor Those Murdered. James P, Reid was elected chair- man of the convention for the day. In honor of the N. T. W. U. organ- izer Ella May, killed by the Man- Pte sos thugs, the convention stood in silence. “All the textile workers murdered by the mill owners and by the be- trayal of Hoffman and the U.T.W. are our dead. Our union will pre- serve and carry forward their spirit of struggle,” said the chairman. Clarence Miller, one of the Gas- tonia defendants, was made secre- tary of the convention; Daisy Me- Donald and Mendes, assistant sec- retaries. Credentials, constitution, press and resolutions committees e elected and immediately pro- ceeded to work. T.U.U.L. For Class Struggle. Bill Dunne greeted the conven- tion in the name of the revolution- ary trade union center, the Trade Union Unity League. “The N. T. W. U. meets at a moment of the rising tide of class battles the world over,” he said. “Against the policy of class peace of the A. F. of L., and the Musteite fakers we oppose the slogan of class strug- gle.” Dunne exposed the renegade role of Weisbord, of Ellen Dawson and Keller. The latter by disrup- tive interruptions tried to hinder the work of the convention. Greetings were read from the Red International of Labor Unions, P Textile Workers’ Union of the \ [: 900,000 textile workers in the Soviet Union, the Workers Interna- tional Relief, the International Relief, the International Labor De- fense, the Metal Workers League, and other working class organiza- tions. “Organize!” “Our main task is the organiza- tion of the unorganized textile workers, both Negro and white,” said Hugo Oehler, in his report on the struggle of the N.T.W.U, in the South. That is the major task of this convention. There is a suffi- ciently large body here to lead these, struggles of the workers. We will go out from this convention to _prepare our mill locals and mill committees for a definite strike struggle. We are not going out merely with the slogan of ‘strike!’ But this means definite organiza- tional preparation. “We demand the unconditional erelease of the seven Gastonia de- fendants. We defeated the threat of the electric chair, but seven of “our delegates face long jail terms. We will mobilize to smash the prison threat by organizing the workers in the South.” Beal Denounces Renegades. Fred Beal, one of the Gastonia defendants, supplemented the report on the work in the South. “When ‘we were in jail,” he said, “Weis- « r {bord came and told some of the| |defendants. that they should not | |have defended themselves, but | should have permitted the armed thugs of the mill owners to arrest |them. Dawson and Weisbord both | stayed away from the South when | ;we were in jail. They turned yel-| |low the moment they should have | been on the job.” | “The organization of the workers in the South is on the basis of mill! |locals. In the North we are lag- ging behind in this important step. } | We must build mill locals. This is | \the guarantee that our union is a junion of struggle in the mills, and the guarantee that it remains a union controlled by actual workers. No official of this union can he bigger than the union itself. The moment any official develops such an idea he must be removed and | you workers must do the removing. | Weisbord and other former officials had this idea, Weisbord was a |friend of mine, as you all know, But he is no Jonger a friend of mine. I speak this way because no one is a friend of mine who gets cross-ways with the line of our) union. And this is the way all of | ‘us must feel and act.” | Leon Josephson, chief counsel in| | the Gastonia case, said: “The thing | that saved Fred Beal and the other Gastonia defendants from the North \lawyers, but was the mass protest | |the workers all over toward the miserable conditions of the North Carolina workers.” i Dewey Martin and Clarence Mil-| in the South. ganizer of the N.T.W.U. “Organization and Strike Strategy.” The slogans decorating the hall) are the gist of the demands which animate the ‘second convention of the N.T.W.U. They read: “Hail the seven Gastonia defend- ant leaders in the class struggle; An LL.D. Branch in every shop; De- fend the Soviet Union against im- perialist attack; Workers, demand the release of the seven Gastonia defendants; Build Shop Committees in every dye house; The Associated Silk Workers is an A. F. of L. fake cutfit. Down with the betray- ers! Fight against rationalization and the war danger! Organize) against long hours; Build Shop| Committees in every mill; Don’t scab; Rally to the National Miners’ Union Strike; Young Workers, fight U. S. imperialism; The N. W. U. organizes and fights for all textile workers regardless of race, creed or nationality. Build the Youth Sections. The N.T.W.U. fights for women textile workers. Down with child labor. We demand the $20 minimum wage for young workers. Build the workers defense corps. Fight for the 40-hour week, Young textile workers, fight low wages!” U. S. Dollar Below Par in Sweden, Losers Find Stockholm dispatches show Amer- icans, who think the value of their dollar is fixed for all eternity, that such is not the case. The 1919 loan of $25,000,000 at six per cent from American bankers is being redeemed. Only it happens that some of the bonds are held by Swedes who pur- chased them through the American banker promoters. But now it also happens that the American dollar is ‘at a discount in Sweden, and the Swedish holders are losing money on their investment in spite of the Martin Russak, or-j : je s Rise SOCIALISTS IN gainst British Imperialism TRICKY STUNTS ria in Open Reyolt; Capetown Protest at Oppression; Negroes Form Trade Union at Gambia; Lever Combine | Union; Gurtis-Davis Com- | |ism, are all fresh from actual strug- |them good working and living condi-|the knit goods workers. |Gag Law Against the ‘Workers in Austria; ‘Socialists Help It Austria, where fascism is being introduced and established by parlia- mentary action (partly), with the jassistance of the “sociali: ports that the new law r = the liberty of the press has passed They are “Forced” and |its second reading. Very Glad of It The government will be given au- thority by this law to completely control all newspapers, and to de- Berlin dispatches to the effect that Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichs- | news out of the country which the prive anyone from even sending of the continent against imperialist | which the British Colonial Office in | bank had “forced” the German cabi- fascist regime does not approve. on and murderous exploita- | 1926 said, “controlled the commerce | net to yield to his demand to drop | F: a new one, and/|of Gambia, and made large profits | the $100,000,000 loan from American | n women were/on their cargoes of slaves, gold, | bankers, “forgot” to bring out that | tion however, by the workers led by shot down at Opobo a week ago, it ivory and beeswax” during the 18th | while the loan was “dropped” some- 5 ism, while aided by the “so- meeting resolute opposi- cial : 5 rained | the Communist Party, as the fre- thing was picked up in its place. quent bloody clashes between wor! And what was put forward in ers and fascists testi place of a loan is a raise in the taxes | ——————— on the working class, by indirect | 206 Delegates In 5-Day N.T.W. Meet (Continued from Page One) the masses, and increased direct tax on the employed workers for unem- | ployment insurance. This last is an‘, OOH ORE CR tne ern Geer UPles I ory eariee le dund mandti ke etacted 5 Loe _ | immediately.” The “socialists” who rule the cabl- | Gus Dealt reported on the woolen “ie ae, es J orced to Fae tl Beer | section conference, “Our union aaa : s plied ay ee at | work has been weak in this section,” all, but fascists, yet i ey can make workers believe th |he said, “because of lack of organ- ey are |izers. Conditions are very bad. “forced” to yield to Schacht, they |gans eau “ hope to keep influence among the | Speed-up is very great. There is a workers. company union in some of the mills Mean Niletenciberaeon are GOUGH ee the workers, the capitalists are re-|the convention by Deak were: (1) lieved from paying taxes. And the That the incoming board pay special “socialists” who do this sort of dirty | attention and immediate steps be work are also passing a law to pun-|taken to handle the situation in ish anyone (any Communist) for | Bridgeport. “treason” if they criticize officials| (9) Eyery effort be made to get for such actions. an organizer who will devote his Tariffs are also placed on foods, time to woolen and worsted indus- such as meat, wheat and rye. This | tries. Struggle in Cotton, Nearly all of the Southern dele- a “socialist” cloak. No law against Typical of the conditions in the {cotton mills is that of a Georgia | delegate: “My wife and I worked to- | gether in the mills and. I was mak- MEET MORE THAN ling $7 a week. A few weeks ago an | organizer came from Charlotte and Fe lwe got 200 members. The organizer was called back. We are doing the (Continued from Page One) |best we can. We need three organ- lizers, one of them a Negro. The |U.T.W. organized 3,200 workers. They were ready to go on strike, struggle, on Friday evening, Decem- !and the misleaders sold them out ber 20, with a great demonstration | 27d left town! for the seven Gastonia prisoners, is a convention of class struggle. The delegates, coming from the mills and the mill towns of American capital- “They use stop-watches in the mills for the speed-up system. Fif- ‘teen dollars was the most I ever |made in a week. The company wanted to cut expenses so it made gle. For there is no district of the |One man do the work of two. They N.T.W.U. that has not been engaged | Said: ‘If you don’t want to do at in constant struggle during the past.| there are 2,000 unemployed who will year. The delegates bring from the | be glad to. masses the message and the spirit found we must organize the Negro of struggle; they come with one | and white workers together, as well united purpose—the preparation of |@% all nationalities. I came here to greater and sharper struggles |represent my local to the convention, against the speed-up and wage cuts, but they want me to come back to and the inhuman conditions of work, |represent the convention to the lo- against the treachery of the A. F. | call!” of L., against the schemes of Ameri-| “The N.T.W. is simply a company can imperialism to plunge them into union,” said Hegelias. “It is abso- a World War upon the Soviet Union, |lutely necessary to organize mill lo- jand for a great drive that will es-|cals under local leadership. Knit Goods. Joseph Rappaport reported for This is a tions. |big section of the textile industry, The N.T.W.U. that now goes into next is sinze to cotton. Tt is grow- the Second Convention is a far dif-|ing, replacing other textiles, and the ferent union from what it was at| industry is prospering, but the knit tablish their union as a power in the | textile mills, and that will win for The concrete recommendations to In the South we have} a year ago. At the time of the First New Bedford. In the short space of one year it has become a mass union of the textile workers in the United States, established in the N.T.W.U. has broken open the South movement in the United States and has conducted there a_ struggle (still in its first stage) that is one of the most bitterly fought and he- roic class battles in the history of the American labor movement. In Paterson, the N.T.W.U. smashed the Musteite union of the silk in- dustry and established a mass work- ers’ union that has been fighting dozens of sharp strikes, and that has advanced into the big silk cen- ters of Pennsylvania. There the N.T.W.U. has broken fresh ground, building strong organizations in the Allentown region and in the Anthra- cite. In the Anthracite the N.T.W.U, has led strikes in Wilkes-Barre and in Seranton. Spreading from New Bedford, where the union has been growing more powerful, mill locals have been established in important New England centers from western Massachusetts, around Ludlow and Easthampton, to New Hampshire in Manchester and Nashua. At this convention the N.T.W.U. Stands in the midst of period of large scale struggles opening up in every section of the industry. The workers are moving into offensives against their exploiters. A general silk strike involving 25,000 workers in Paterson and the silk centers of Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Connecticut, and the development of a general struggle in the Southern cotton mills confront the union im- mediately after the convention. The convention fights against all renegades from its ranks and against all deviations from the clear cless struggle line that must bring victory to the textile section of the Trade Union Unity League. The convention is firmly determined to overcome any shortcomings, in the leadership of the union, to correct its errors, to analyze mercilessly the opportunist and right-wing tenden- cies of the Weisbords, Dawsons and Kellers, so that it will be able to stand in the forefront of the textile six per cent interest they get. struggles and provide ‘a genuine | Carolina electric chair was not the | its first convention a little more than |00ds workers are as much under- | paid as those in the cotton industry. of the workers of the world. The | Convention the N.T.W.U. had estab- | They suffer as much from the speed- Gastonia case turned the eyes of|lished itself only in Passaic and |UP, from unemployment. “Full fashioned hosiery workers organized into U.T.W. The others are unorganized entirely. “A field organizer must be put on | jare | ler supplemented the report on work |most important textile centers. The |the job and an organizational drive started. Philadelphia and New , spoke on|for the whole revolutionary labor | York should have a joint campajgn for membership. We must bfild shop committees and prepare for the general strike in New York City.” Young Workers Ready. Report on the youth conference was made by Sophie Velvin: The conference had 40 delegates, representing eight states. “Our slogan must be, ‘A Youth Section for Every Mill Local,’ ” said Melvin. “Some of our union members still minimize the importance of the young workers and think that they are too young to participate in the work of the union. Look at the bosses and you will sce that they do not underestimate the importance of the young workers, “They build sport organizations, young workers’ clubs and schools, to prevent the young workers from joining the union, from participating in the struggles. The bosses know |that the young workers are not too young to organize, to struggle and o fight. “In every fight of our union we must put forward special demands for the young workers and all of our union members must be mobil- ized to fight for these demands.” To Organize Women. Amy Schechter reported on the women’s conference. “The women revolutionary leadership to the tex- tile masses. The Second National Convention of the N.T.W.U. is more than a convention of textile workers. It is a Convention of Class Struggle and is of the greatest significance, at this period of swiftly developing crises in American capitalism, for the development of the entire class struggle in the United States. Un- der the leadership of the militant trade union center of the American workers, the Trade Union Unity the textile workers for their great tasks of struggle. | League, this eénvention will prepare | WORKERS’ CO Page sree RRESPONDENCE --- FROM THE SHOPS Write to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York, About Conditions in Your Shop. Workers! This Is Your Paper! |BIG LAYOFFS IN STEEL MILLS AROUND CHICAGO. (By a Worker Correspondent) ¢ To The Daily Work The Illinois Steel Co | subsidiary, whos |the front page of | press with an inte: pansion program” \perity of the company has laid of: | between 4,500 and 5,000 men within {the last few weeks at t yary plant alone. Even ihe employment officer |admitted that, in addition to all those completely laid off, most of those \retained on the payroll work but two or three days a week. At the }South Chicago plant of the same {company the employment officer, jafter dispersing a crowd of hundred lof unemployed steel workers, told }me that he hadn’t hired (except to |replace men killed on the job) in over a month, Every mill in Gary had laid off from hundreds to thousands of work- ers, and workers at all these mills report that they never know but what they will go next. Men who have been with the company for years are just as liable to feel the axe as comparative newcomers, and most of these are still working on ja part-time basis. The Metal Trades Industrial League, part of the T.U.U.L., is working to build up shop commit- tees from every department of the mill , Indiana. iew on the eneral pr earry a double burden. They are \used by the bosses as a force to try to break up organizations of the workers. | “Ella May had to work 9 hours a day and got $9 a week. “We propose a special women’s commission to work out a program for the women, that women be placed on all important union com- mittees, etc., that a special Ella May Recruiting drive be planned, with each local assigned a definite quota, that Labor Unity (official organ of the Trade Union Unity League) es- tablish a special women’s section. The convention should also assign a special woman organizer to Pater- son becauseof the situation here.’ A delegation of three from the |N.T.W.U. convention was sent to the conference of the T.U. 4 metro- politan area, in New York. s appointed were: Ben Well Tetherow and Mary Corria. Another delegation was sent to the meetin: \of the Hindu dy avorkers in Pater- {son Reid, Daisy McDonald, Murdoch and Sprechman. A delegation of greeted the convention from the T. U. U. L. Metropolitan Area. Praise Daily Worker. ¢, Louis Engdahl, who brought to |the convention the greetings of the International Labor Defense, said: “The I, L. D. fights everywhere side by side with the N.T.W.U. to or- ganize the millions of textile work- ers throughout the country under the banner of the N.T.W.U. Then there is much to be done in the day of dedense.” The Daily Worker w praised by many speakei militancy and its support struggle of the workers. Many of the delegates commented highly for its of the night’s mass meeting, at which I. Amter, District 2 orgéanizer of the Communist Party in which he brought the Party’s greetings and said: “The Communist Party regards this convention as an_ historical event. This convention will unite within its ranks delegates fr sections of the country, This second convention is bringing to the North large numbers of delegates from the South. “We are proud of the fact that Communists in large numbers ap- pear here on the platform as they do in the mass struggles of the work- favorably on the speech at Friday | m all | Ry. Clerks Convention A Hot-Air Gab Fesi (By « Worker Correspondent) CINCINNATI, Ohio By Mail).— William Green, the big labor boss from Washington, D. C., opened organization” confer- ence of the National Brotherhood of Railv (a) Union here, by prophesying the past, reviewing the |future and generally attempting to befuddle the 100 shop chairmen and so-called economists who are already worrying what to do with some {250,000 railroad work xpecting to be engineered out of work when | cong! legislates the consolidation of railroads into sure enough law at the behest of Doe Hoover. Not one constructive discussed at the ‘ : thing was ich is to last until editor) or until the gin gives out. What the: going to do about it is not wo: the clan, for little whispe; |the place tell us that the boys from headquarters are here for another land very different little scheme. Putting it bluntly, Green, George Harrison, grand chief of the clerks and freight handlers (who called the | b: conference) and the alleged experts | FORD LAYS OFF MEN, HOLLERS “PROSPERITY.” (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT (By Mail)—While the pitalist papers carry big headlines increases for Ford em- is certan that these same sheets will not say one word on employment and sociolc g that is taking place dE our friend Muste of dear « o0k- | ¢ at the River Rouge plant wood Coll ) are confel @ with |of the Ford Motor Co. re to the war preparations for A couple of days after the con- which the industrial captains and | ferer ient Hoover had lieutenants have aly pledged |\with Ford and other industrialists, loyalty to Doe Hoov That sounds like a large order, doesn’t it? Well, they getting away with it very é , and ac cording to Hoyl the garefully today’s ope an order was issued throughout the entire plant here in Detroit, and y throughout the country, to all employees into three, some departments, four class- g to their ability. The circulated through the as evidenced by speeches at | os, ned rumor t ers. The Communist Party is lead-| ing the struggle of the workers everywhere.” The 206 delegates to the second annual ional convention of the National Textile Workers Union here represented 240,000 workers in the decisive sections of the textile indus Most of the delegates came the largest mills. The largest single delegation was the American work from the Southern textile mills. A cross-see- tion of the nationalites in the textile centers were represented at this con- yention. There were Hindus, Ne- groes, Portuguese, Americans, Slavs, Lithuanians and Bohemians. Over 22,000 workers participated in the N.T.W.U. elections of dele- gates to the convention. Mill locals sent 125 representa- to fighting convention. 20 delegates, and from ed worker 70 of the largest mills in {the country were represented by |worker delegates, ad over 39 cities in 12 states. Most of the vhich the workers came in which the largest tex- \tile factories are located. | The states represented are: Rhode |Island, three cities; New Jersey, three cities; Massachusetts, seven cities; Pennsylvania, six cities; Con- | |nectieut, two cities; North Carolina, , jseven cities; Tennessee, two cities; |Georgia, two cities; South Carolina, | two cities yland, one city; Vir- |ginia, one city; Delaware, one city. ‘MacDonald, Liberals and Tories Fight Jobless Workers! —The social- | | | LONDON, Dec. 2 fascist British “labor” party, led by |MacDonald, today passed its unem- |ployment bill, which does not pro- |vide for adequate relief. MacDon- ald received the support of a num- ber of liberals and _ reactionary tories. Maxton, in order to maintain the illusion that he disagrees with Mac- Donald in his open espousal of the cause of British imperialism, at-| d the unemployment bill. Ma: role is to try to keep the wor Jers interested in the “labor” party for a solution of their ills to your hea SOOHSSLSOSHSSSC HS OOHOSSSSSOO WINTER VACATION FOR WORKERS AT CAMP NITGEDAIGET The newly built hotel has 61 rooms—two in a room—hot and cold water in every room. Showers and baths on every floor. Will positively be ready for Christmas - WINTER SPORTS—Skating and Sleighing MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW! Price same as in summer—$17 a week. CAMP TELEPHONE: BEACON 731—862 NEW YORK TELEPHONE: ESTABROOK 1400. | Beacon, N. ¥. wt?s content ympathetic | amount of production is the hosiery We just meeting to discuss | plant was that men of the third and the serious unemploy rh class were to be laid off im- tion,” said Willie in his big-hearted | mediately and later, men in the s wi ond class were to be let go if bu ilroad labor must be alert to| ness did not improve. However, the trend of the times, hoed | there w no noticeable firing of George, the successor to Ku Klux | the until December 4, the day Fitzgerald, ousted from the leader- | q 2 wage raise announcements, hip of the clerks union because of n a number of workers were laid various unethical ¢ t which included, the| Previous to the Hoover confer- posting of his own detectives in his some twenty t¥ousand men office to keep sirable > been fired at the Rouge plant, vVisito) The v a court air-|and the balance are working two ng proved, were | rion brethren | and three da week, Others work who had become suspicious over his | one week and of There han x of the unds in the union’s |are some few*denartments that work six and seven days a week on the —RAILWAY CLERK. | new 1930 body model. _| The lay offs prove to us that the } “prosperity” shbuting of the big CONDITIONS WORSE IN | posses and the A. F. of L, is so HOSIERY MILLS. much bunk. Let’s not be fooled by (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA (By ™ The only branch of the te dustry working on a reasonable it, but organize in the Auto Work- ers Union instead. —FORD WORKER, |GANG WORK AT GEMMER MFG. 4 PLANT SLICE OF HELL. iBy a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—Editor: Know- ing from my own experience that manufacturing industry. But even in this industry while there is pro- duction going on conditions are bad and are getting worse. | The existing unions permitted a age cut by the s Hed “union- fred” shops. The fakers of these YOUr Paper states the absolute facts anion) ned up with the bosses|Telative to the shameful labor con- ditions that actually do exist here {in the city, I therefore would ap- preciate saying a few words re- garding the last place in which I was employed. This company which is none other than the Gemmer Manufacturing Co. worked me nearly four days for which was paid the miserable rate of 44e an hour gang work, After |which time the foreman had the guts |to try and tell me I was not work- jing fast enough. If such was real- lyl the case on my part then my definition of the term gang, work is nothing other than hell and to my | estimation that is expressing it very | mildly. | The question is, what will the con- ditions by ten years from now if labor continues to be bluffed by the . |eapitalists ? AUTO WORKER. ratonalizing the workers 27 per cent in all these shops, This encouraged the open-shop hosiery bosses to further cuts, and wages in open shops are now re- duced 50 per cent as compared to a few months k. Furthermore open sl have plenty of work, the workers in the “union” shops not only having had their wages cut but are also working on part time. No rea] re ice was made by the American Federation of Full Fash- ioned Hosiery Workers. The strikes that occurred and are occurring are all spontaneous ones. The National Textile Worke: Union is the organization which by constantly fighting policy will win over the mill workers of Phila- delphia. —PHILADELPHIA WORKER. SEND GREETINGS TO the WORKERS IN THE SOVIET UNION A special printing of the Sixth Anniversary Edition of the Daily Worker, in the Russian language, containing greetings from all work- ers and organizations will be sent to the work- ers in the Soviet Union congratulating them upon the success of their Five Year Plan, an- nouncing to them that we are mobilizing to defend the Soviet Union against imperialist attack. THOUSANDS OF STEEL WORKERS THOUSANDS OF MINERS THOUSANDS OF TEXTILE, AUTO AND OTHER WORKERS ALL WORKERS ORGANIZATIONS ALL PARTY UNITS AND DISTRICTS ~ ALL PARTY PAPERS AND MEMBERS SHOULD GREET THE FIRST WORKERS FATHERLAND AND HELP BUILD AND PROTECT IT! by making the Daily Worker the mass organ of workers in all industries in United States, Greeting lists for organizations and for the collection of greetings from workers now ready. Send for a supply immediately. Te A GIVE CONSIDERATION TO THIS TASK AS PART. OF THE PARTY RECRUITING AND DAILY WORKER BUILDING DRIVE! DAILY WORKERR 26 UNION SQUARE NEW YORK CITY