The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 5, 1930, Page 4

Page Four a | PRE The West and the Party Convention WILLIAM SIMONS. URING the past year the Party entered the South and in the April Plenum of the Cen- tral Committee it summed up our experiences and prospects there. But the Party has not yet made a thorough analysis of conditions in the West, neither as to the relation of the West to the national situation, nor as to the tasks necessitated by that analy: has been made by the Coast, but without review into one pattern by the Cen- , resulting in consequent short- comings in our work, The West is no exception to the national economic and political situation. Huge unem- ployment, continuous layoffs and wage cuts By the Pac are the order of the d particularly in oil, rubber and steel industries. An increasing radicalization of the workers is evident and there a greater response to the campaigns of the Party. The financial interests of the Coast are tied up with Wall Stre Steel corpora s, auto firms and other national industri have their branches in the ¥ . The Convention Thesis proposed by the Cen- tral Committee is indeed applicable in its analysis and formulation.of tasks to California, tile and to the vast k well as to other western di: What are the special features in the econ- omic and political situation in the West? (1) nee of metal mining, lumber and oil . (2) Importance of agriculture. (3) The question of workers of colonial origin, (4) The growing role of the Pacific Coast in con- nection with the war danger. Seattle Starts “Lumber Worker.” To what extent is the West meting these problems? As yet, insufficient work is being done in mining. In Colorado, some work is be- ing carried on among the coal miners, but on too limited a scale: merely circular leadership from the National Miners Union. No connec- tions have been established-as yet with the copper miners of Nevada and Arizona: In oil, no contacts at all as yet...In the California District. we are beginning to understand the importance of this indgstvy and have directed our sections toward work in the oil fields and refineries. But what of Oklahoma and Texas? The launching of the Lumber Workers Indu- strial Union, and their monthly organ, the ‘Lumber Worker,” is an achievement for the tle D. ict, but this work has not spread sufficiently into the other lumber sections. The work among the small farmers in the West is very weak, indeed. Activity among the agricultural workers in the West has been limited almost entirely to the Imperial Valley and to Central California. Our work among Mexicans has been confined practically to the Mexican fruit and vegetable workers of Cali- fornia, with some attention to the Mexican beet of Coloado and nearby states. Among of color.ial origin, who offer unlimited possibilities dus to their brutal exploitation, our activity hz; been spasmodic and infrequent. While wr *** -:d on a campaign on behalf of the worker” » Jed in Mexico, this work was not continued uring the attack on the Fili- pinos in Wat).s.ville, the Party took up the issue of the F ipino workers but no sustained campaign is be:ng carried on among them, nor on behalf of Filipino independence. We have just begun to establish conctacts with Hindu workers in California. Our lagging in this field is due primarily to our failure to develop good leaders among these workers. But a contributing factor is the lack of litera- ture and organizers from the Center. “V Obrera,” our Party paper in Spanish which reappeared a few months ago after a lapse of eight months, and which met with a splendid response from the Mexican workers in the Imperial Valley, has been permitted to die ,.again. The lone mimeographed issue of “Labor Unity,” in Spanish, if it appears regularly, will be a decided help. War Preparations Increasing. The Pacific Coast and the war danger have not yet been given the necessary serious at- tention. War preparations on the Coast are CONVENTION DAILY WORKER, N EW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1930 USSIO DISC increasing, armed forces growing, yet our anti- m: work was confined to a leaflet to rs and sailors prior to the May ‘Day dem: ion. What has the West done the special problems in the West? y little indeed. No- thing is said here about the general campaigns of the Par evaluation of the work in the West he~ been me the Central Com- mittee in connection with the va specific campeigns. But it should be clear that the districts in the West, with the aid of the Cen- tral Committ undertake broad cam- paigns on the special western problems indi- cated above. the sold , since io} The Great Desert. Between the Pacific Coast and Missouri are many states where the Party has little influ- ence. The California District has not yet penetrated Arizona, Nevada nor New Mexico. The Kansas District is too large to be handled Just as the South is being r of districts, so must the And in sending zers to these sections we must not continue the pol of sending relatively inexperienced co ritory. This difficult work must be assigned to the most capable nizers, ial Needs of the West. st needs capable Spanish sp The burden of their develop- Il largely on the western districts But the Center should arrange as one district. 1 into a numbe ict be divided. des to open up new ter- Spec 1. The We ing organiz ment must themselves. regular 1 tri to the West by leading Spar speaking organi 2. The West needs the Party paper in Spanish to be pub- lished in the West, if possible. 3. The Weekly Worker for the West must be started as quick- ly as possible. The proposal for such a paper made by the California District Committee has been approved by the Central Committee and preparatory steps are being en. 4. National tours of leading comrades in all phases of Party work must extend beyond Chicago. While it is true that the long hauls: beyond Chicago involve increased expense, yet it is not healthy that we must wait for presidential election years to have a leading comrade come to the Coast. The West faces the Party Convention with the Imperial Valley criminal syndicalism trial now going on with twelve comrades facing 14 years imprisonment each for activity among the agricultural workers of the Imperial Val- ley; with increased persecution against the ast but notwithstanding, with y making the turn to the factories, be- ginning to concentrate on the building of shop nuclei,.the issuing of shop papers and the building of the Trade Union Unity League. A National Point of View. Any tendency toward sectionalism, putting forward local considerations at the expense of the Party as a whole, would be wrong. Out in the West, far away from the Center, sec- tionalism develops, especially when the strug- gle sharpens and when the comrades feel the need of support from elsewhere. There has developed at times, especially in Los Angeles, a tendency to make exorbitant demands on the Center for forces and financial support. But on the other hand, certain steps remain to be taken to weave the West into the na- tional pattern. 1. Instead of circular leader- ship there must be more personal leadership through tours by leading comrades of the Party and T.U.U.L. 2. Arrangements must be made to permit all districts in the West to have their respresentative at Plenums of the Central Committee (in April the Seattle dis- trict organizer could not attend due to lack of money). 3. The work on the Pacific Coast must coordinated by the Central Committee ugh special campaigns and conferences. 4. The Central Committee must make an ana- is of the West, similar to that made for the | uth. | These organizational proposals, if carried | out, will help bring the West closer to the | | i Party Center and will insure the carrying through of the Party line throughout the West. Overcoming Our Difficulties By MAX SALZMAN. i (District 5) 'HE deepening econdmic crisis in the United States, expresses itself in full force in the “Pittsburgh District. Unemployment has reach- SH ih ed a point hitherto unknown. The new meth- ods of rationalization are introduced with much greater rapidity. The conditions of great sec- tions of the workers are rapidly approaching the stage of complete misery. In the mining fields, unemployment is so rampant that ac- tual starvation exists in many sections. The wages received are lower than ever. All the old methods of cheating the miners have been re-introduced. The company stores are again in control. Part time employment is the lot of the miners who are still employed. The steel industry still further expresses these conditions. Westinghouse has reduced its workers from more than 22,000 in 1928 to less than 12,000. The National Tube (U. S, Steel) in McKeesport has built a new plant where one-third of the present force will pro- duce the same amount of products, as are being produced now. Already the process of layoffs in this plant is going on apace. Con- trary to the fluctuations in most other sec- tions, and despite the agitation of the press, the trend of unemployment in the Pittsburgh District continues steadily upward. The mood of the workers for struggle, while slow in expressing itself, is apparent. This mood showed itself definitely, in the response to th. March Sixth and May First Demon- strations, and in the numerous small, depart- mental strike taking place. The efforts of the Party to meet the situa- tion, t. increase its activity, to become the leader of all the struggles of the workers meet with a serious drawback, that hangs like a leaden weight around the body of the Party, This drawback is the low ideological status of our Party in the district, as well as its or: ganizational weakness and the social composi- tion of the membership, The social composition of the Party is ex- ceedingly poor. In the city of Pittsburgh where most ot our membership is, the mass of ihe workers are steel workers, yet the membershi of the Party here consists overwhelmingly of elements in light industry. Not only is this low development due to the side features (intensely developed spy sys- % | tem, victimization, every conceivable form of | of educational activity in the Party. persecution), but also to the wrong reaction of the Party to these methods of the bosses, as well as the failure of our Party member- ship to become acquainted soon enough with | the policies of the Party, and with the current literature that makes it possible to understand these policies. Failures of Shop Nuclei. Instead of the spy system, victimization and persecution teaching the Party to find new methods of struggle against these attacks, the Party has more or less capitulated to them. This was expressed in failure of our Shop | Nuclei to carry on activities inside the shops, the failure in a number of sections to hold meetings because of fear of police persecution and th> failure of our comrades in non-Party organizations to fight for the use of halls of these organizations for unemployment meet- ings, due to the pressure of the police. This was also expressed in the anti-Communist acts | of a few comrades, who at a dance in Pitts- | burgh, denied to the police, connections of the organization giving this affair, with the secre- tary of the LL.D. who was arrested for dis- ivibuting leaflets at the dance. One of the or- ganizations giving this affair was the Ukrain- ian Toilers. The last convention of this organ- ization endorsed our Party as the only party of the workers in the U. S. and yet the leader of our Party Fraction there, Dubenko, was re- sponsible for this as well as other acts in op- position to the Party line, Our district has also suffered from the dis- ease of “spyitis,” a belief that new elements who are not acquainted with us personally st be spies. This was not dealt with suf ficiently in the past by the Party leadership Instead of becoming closer acquainted with th: workers in the shop, to bring into the Part) the best elements, many of our members re fuse to talk to any workers in the shop, Thi: is one of the reasons for the failure to re- eruit new members through the shop as wei as street nuclei, Lack of Educational Activities. At the same time there is an absolute lac’ Only 2 mall section of our membership reads th: Daily Worker, Only 10 copies of the Commu- | nist and Inprecorr come into the district. Only | two comrades receive the Communist Interna- | tional Very few comrades have read the numerous pamphlets and leaflets sold and distributed by the Party in the last year. No study classes are in existence. These two features explain mainly the rea- son for the low development of our Party in this district, as well as the failure of the membership to respond quickly enough to the campaigns of our Party. ‘s The Party and the C. I. have continually em- | phasized that our Party cannot develop into a mass party of the working class without giv- ing leadership to the everyday struggles of the workers, The participation in these daily struggles can best be carried on through the organiza- tion of the workers into the class struggle unions affiliated with the T.U.U.L. The development of the Metal Workers’ In- dustrial Union into a powerful steel workers’ union and the building of the N. U. are the main tasks before the Party in this district. These must be done through the building of shop and mine committees, The building of these unions as -well as other unions gives the Party the best base upon which to carry on its work and spread its in- fluence among the workers in this section. Without the building of the unions the Party will not become the mass political organiza- tion of the American working class. In the Pittsburgh District especially this union activity is of greatest importance to our Party. Lip Service. The leading bodies of the Party for years give if anything at all, only lip service to these questions. When the Party did begin to make the turn, when it did consider the question of union work seriously there were uncovered ad- ditional sources of resistance and opposition to the Party line. This opposition consisted mainly of the comrades in charge of the trade union activity of the Party for many years, namely Otis and Schindler. As long as the Party did not check up on the carrying out of decisions these elements gave no opposition, but the moment+ the Party started checking up on ‘activities, a hidden source of dangerous right wing opportunism was uncovered. The sharpening of the class struggle compelled the Party to take steps to increase its activities in the trade union field. The efforts of the bureau to do this met with opposition. From this time, these elements, led by Otis and Schindler, attempted to build a group against the Party. These elements did not dare to face the Party with their opportunist line. Instead they began a campaign of slander against the lead- | ing comrades in the district and also against the Central Committee. An attempt was made to trick at least two units of the Party to take up the fight against the district leader- ship. This opposition openly claimed the sup- port of the East Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Hill units, but their claims were short lived. Despite its previous weakness, the District leadership carried on the sharpest political struggle against this opposition. The fact that the Trotskyite Militant contained an article supporting the opposition and that the Love- stone elements immediately began to circular- ize the membership, showed that a connection existed between all of these elements that was, if not as yet organizational, at least political. By the carying on of the sharpest political struggle for the line of the Party we were able to smash the opposition. The vote at the meeting of the Hill unit was 18 for the Dis- trict Bureau resolution and six abstentions; at the following meeting five of these six changed their votes and now Abe Garfinkle stands alone in the unit as the defender of the cor- rupt right wing led by Otis and Schindler, Cheap Tricks. At the meeting of the Control Commission following the unit meeting, these elements at- tempted to maneuver. They told us they made a mistake in their slanders against the Party leadership, that they were against the right wing, but the Party was wrong when they said the right wing was led by Otis and Schindler. We were not fooled by these time- worn cheap tricks of all right wing groups, who attempt to retreat under the fire of the Party, to await a more opportune time to con- tinue the struggle. The Party has learned a valuable lesson from this struggle. Firstly, that only through | the sharpest political struggle can the fight against the right wing be conducted. Secondly that this sharp political struggle must be fol- lowed by organizational steps against the ele- ments leading the struggle. Thirdly, that future proposals must be subjected to the closest scrutiny, and the sharpest struggle conducted against any tendency away from the Party line. It is better and easier to con- duct such a struggle than to wait until a whole series of proposals become a line against the Party. The Party in our district is now stronger be- cause of this struggle. The Bureau has built a prestige among the membership, which it did not possess before. The activity of our com- rades is definitely increasing. The struggle is by no means over. There are still a few organizational measures to be taken. There are still some wrong conceptions regard- ing the Party among many comrades. There are still the tendencies to discuss Bureau and Central Committee problems outside these com- mittees and subject the actions of these leading Party bodies to gossip. Right wing tendencies '-are stronger perhaps in our district’ than in any district in the Party. These tendencies ex- press themselves daily, but are being overcome by the Party. There is still the tendency among some comrades to carry on the struggle against the right elements in such a way as to drive them toward organizational unity. This is especially true of a number of young comrades. Combatting Right Tendencies. The Party is now, more than ever, alert to these right tendencies. Because of this it is more prepared to combat them, to overcome shortcomings and win the comrades making mistakes closer to the line of the Party. The fact that the membership accepts with enthu- siasm the plan of work introduced along with the struggle against the right elements, shows that the ideological level of the Party is being vaised, that the Party is on the road to over- come its weaknesses and becoming a mass Party. The incoming District Committee will have many important tasks. We will have to estab- iish functioning departments. We will have to develop a better organization of all our ac- tivity. We will have to develop many new functionaries, especially for union activity. We will have to establish reading circles and study classes, We will have to establish func- tioning se¢tion organizations throughout the district which must become the leading politi- cal bodies in their territory. We will have to hange. the social composition of the Party a the city of Pittsburgh, ‘These are the main tasks before us in the tsburgh District and the accomp ing of vese tasks will speed the rate with which we develop tuwaid becoming the mass party of the workers, lof speed-up, of wage cuts and a of the unemployed. “Doubly Oppressed iDetroit “Welfare” | and City Gov't |! Rob Jobless || (By a Worker Correspondent) {_ ELMIRA, N. Y. — Just left ; Detroit because there was no work there. Would like to have you print how they handle the unemployment situation here in Detroit. Those that have been receiving relief from the “Welfare” are now being put to work for the city, They work three da equivalent to $13.20 or $26.40 for | two weeks, A man and wife with two chil- | ‘dren have been receiving $14, weeks groceries, all winter and spring. They also have been get- ting their rent paid, which was jextra. This man now working | |for the city earns $25.40 for two | weeks work. But all he gets is | |a slip which he takes to the Wel- |fare, which in turn gives him hi | usual $14, two weeks grocerie allowance. The city withholds t! remaining $12.40 which they |elaim they are going to rebuild |the fund with. They refuse to | | pay rent. Only those who are working or |those who can produce slips of |papers for the “Welfare” get anything now. And there are many that are not placed yet. And I know of some that have received orders to report for | Idaho Farmers, atthe rotten eantone men | Storekeepers | Going Broke USE TRICK TO CUT PRESSMAN'S PAY Negro workers are given the worst possible and dangerous jobs and must work long hours for low wages. But under the leadership of the TU.U.L. they are organi: ing side by side with white work ers to fight against such condi- Above photo shows Negro laborers doing heavy work on the street car system of Philadelphia. tions. (By « Worker Correspondent.) KAMIAH, Idaho. But we sure are prosperity here, ons of toil and and pole cutter enjoying Hoover’ th ny handed hi banks Foreman Bullies Men 1 !0c#! capitalists are crediting i : jthem and it appears that the credi- in Printshop [tors will never be paid and the wholesale houses are threatening (By @ Worker Correspondent) {to close out the retail merchants NEW YORK. — This is a story too. These too will join the ranks vicious foreman in a small job some weeping and gnashing of printing place. Lindsey, an open-,teeth but the concentration of the shop job printing shop, on West wealth into the hands of a few is 24th Street, offered to pay me $35 sure doing the work, A few more a week the second week, paying $30 mergers and the small banks and the first week. small concerns of every kind will When the second week came be absorbed and the two old par- around and I asked for the raise, |ties will lose most of its support or rather what was due me, the |and vote; then what? foreman refused and instead wanted | —KAMIAH WORKER. ma,to ‘work three vertical presses) instead of the two I was doing, and|and he works overtime one-half kill myself speeding up. He said I| hour every day and is afraid of the was a good worker, but not “fast” | foreman, all the men there are. enough for this speed-up bully. I tried to take it to court, but and tries to bulldoze the workers. they laughed at me and showed re-| This is a place that must be or- spect to Mr, Lindsey, the boss. |ganized. That's a fact and the Men doing press work get $27.|sooner the better. One has a wife and two children| —JOB PRESSMAN. Bad Conditions in Davison Chemical Co. (By a Worker Correspondent) BALTIMORE, Md. — The conditions in the chemical industry are growing worse every day. Long hours, Jow wages, and the speed-up are killing the workers’ health and making wrecks out of them. Let us take, \for instance, one of Baltimore’s chemical slaughter houses, the Division Chemical Co. | We work from 10 to 14 hours a day at a measly 40 cents an hour. The majority of the workers are Negroes. In order to divide the ranks of the workers the bosses are hiring a few white workers and pay them a few cents more. This race discrimination is a trick of the bosses and helps to keep the wages as low as possible. The conditions in the Division Chemical Company are inhuman. Those that are not crippled through accidents are ruined by consumption from ‘acid gases and the dust of the fertilizer. When a worker gets sick the boss tells him to notify the office jimmediately, supposedly to give the worker compensation, but as soon las the office is notified the victim of sickness or accident is fired from |the job. They blame the accidents on the carelessness of the workers, but there are no safety devices in the factory. Not satisfied with paying the workers low wages, and long hours, the workers are robbed through other |methods. The men are docked a half hour’s pay’ for being a minute late. These conditions prevail in all chemical plants of Baltimore, Paragon, The Double Aztec. The chemical workers who are among the lowest paid sections of the working class, were never organized. With the coming in of the TUUL in Baltimore, with its concentration on the basic lower paid and most exploited sections of the working class, it is to hope that also the chemi- cal plants will be tackled and efforts be made to organize these wage slaves. ’ —NEGRO WORKER. One Faker Double-Crosses Another (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK. — Sometimes a | promised me that he would take labor faker likes to play a lone | me along and would not sign a game. He disregards his fellow | contract with the Hotel New York- fakers. This is clipped from the er without proper recognition to CATERING INDUSTRY EM- our organization (part of the ex- PLOYEE: from the Minutes of tra Waiters, at least, for the oc- Local 16 by See’y Knipsel: casion), he kept William Collins, “Just recently I had a most dis- | General Orgonizer, A. F. of L., couraging and most disheartening and myself waiting for him for experience with the International ever one hour, and then sneaked Representative, John Tartamella, in and signed the contract without New York Joint Board, J. B. 1. U. | consideration for Locl 16.” of A. (Barbers). Although he had —Food Worker. \N. H. Open Shop Journal Attacks Communists (By a Worker Correspondent) MANCHESTER, N. H.—An open shop paper is published here, called the “New Hampshire Labor Review.” In order to cover up the continuous wage cuts, speed-up and ever increasing unemployment, and the grow- ing sympathy of the American workers for the Soviet Union, this boss ofgan centers its attack on the Communist Party. |Boss Sheet Admits Crisis in Brit (By a Worker Correspondent) VANCOUVER, 'B. C.—To give ; buying but not in heavy voluine. you an idea of the crisis here. | China and Australia are dead This is clipped from a newspaper: |‘ markets at present. Log produc- | “British Columbia manufactur- | tion greatly exceeds mill demands ers, in a spirit ef self-preserva- | and surplus stocks are piling up.” tion, have adopted a five-day cur- The capitalists admit a little tailment policy. Many mills are but not all. Organization must already on a four-day schedule. be our answer to the bosses at- “Japan, Europe, the United | tempt to place their crisis upon us. Kingdom and South Africa are —B. C. WORKER. MANCHESTER. h Columbia | — This is a} rural community; farmers, loggers, | War Acids Burn Negro Worker o> WAR CHEMICAL PLANTS IN BALTO, SPEED-UP WORKERS: LOW WAGES Bosses Force Workers to Pay for Own Compen- | sation; Twelve and Thirteen Hours a Day | | (By a Worker Correspondent) BALTIMORE, Ma. — At the time when tens of thousands of Workers | are suffering from the unemployment prevailing in the country; ‘when industry after industry is on the decline, we find that the chemical gas companies, which prepare is gases to be used in the next imperialist war, are working full speed day and night. The workers employed in the, | chemical industries, most of whom jare Negroes, are subjected to the | worst kind of speed-up and always Are Suffering From Speed-up System jin danger of being burned up by the dangerous gases and acids. The | workers cmployed in the chemical factories are forced by the compa- nies to pay a dollar per month from their wages so they may get some compensation in event of an acci- dent. The rules of the company pro- vide that when an accident takes place, the worker is to immediately notify the office of the company and if he is confined to bed for three days, the worker is to get his compensation. (By,a Worker Correspondent.) On the twenty-third of this month} CLEVELAND, O0.—Young work- a Negro worker employed in the Da-| ers, both boys and girls, suffer vison Chemical Co. got burned with |{rom speed-up and wage cuts, We acid. The faul of this accident rests | young workers in the sewing, past- lentirely upon the shoulders of the ing and annex departments are company, as they do not proyits Working under miserable conditions. means to prevent the acid from go-| About a month ago while produe- jing through the pants , when the tion increased we were able to make pants get wet as a result of the | out five dollars a day after putting | acid. in ten and eleven hours hard work. When this worker was burned by| We work on the so-called group the acid, he immediately notified | Work system and are paid on the the company, and though according basis of schedule. This means that to rules every worker is entitled to if there a only two thousand jobs |compensation after the third day, | be shipped, and the sewing de- |today on the thirty-first of May,/Partment gives us stock for four |eight days after the accident took thousand, we have to do the four have nothing to pay with, | The foreman is a bully and tyrant | | place, the Davison Chemiéal Com- | pany is using various reasons and | justifications for not paying any- thing to this worker. |mentioned Negro worker is com- pletely unable to work and must |to keep his family. This accident is no isolated case, ‘practically day after day accidents \take place and workers employed at the gas table are affected by the acid and some of them get crippled for the rest of their lives. The workers at the Davison Chemical Co. are forced to work between twelve and thirteen hours cz day for a meagre wage. The \day shift workers work from seven in the morning until eight in the evening, with a half hour for lunch, while the night shifts work thirteen hours without any lunch at all. The workers, both white and Ne- gro, employed at the chemical fac- tories must wake up and realize that the only way to better their con- ditions and improve the present sit- uation is by organizing in a militant industrial trade union. Only through organization can the workers force the company who makes millions of profit to take the necessary precaution measures and | to prevent the many accidents that cripple the workers. —CHEMICAL WORKER. ‘SPEED-UP WAR SHIP RIVETERS (By a Worker Correspondent) KEARNEY, N. J. — The Fed- eral Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. is running ads for rivet gangs. You can see that all the shipyards need men, but will they pay them a liv- ing wage? No, they make them work piece work under awful con- ditions and if you protest, out you go and another slave takes your place, The only way to beat this con- dition is for all workers to line up under the only true union organiza- tion, the Trade Union Unity League. —A WORKER. Support the Daily Worker Drive! Get Donations! Get Subs! (By a Worker NEW YORK. — It is about time that the tricks of the Se fakers of the Hotel and Restaurant Em- ployees International Alliance be shown up. George Tolley, a member of Lo- of Pittsburgh since 1925, asked for New York for work. After some hocus-poens he was given a card by Flores, the president. When he got ‘to New York he presented his trav- eling card to Charles Meyer, secre- tary of Cooks and Broilers Loca! 719. Meyer told him that he would not accept the ecard until ‘Tolley signed a statement saying he would [not say anything against the local \hureauerats, In Pitishery, ‘Tolley had once brought charges against Dennis, business manager, for gam- i bling and negligence. Tolley refused to sign any such statement and Meyer told him he The above) There will be |@epend upon charitable institutions | cal 326, Cooks and Pastry Cooks. | a traveling card before leaving for | ithousand and get paid for only |two thousand. Doing this we save \a bank and the results are that at the end of the week some jtwo or |three young workers are laid off. A .week later this bank is used up so they hire new help at a lower rate. This has been practiced all this year. In the door department they laid off seventy workers in jtwo days, The workers say that these conditions are making Bolshe- viks out of them and they are proud to be such, The only thing we vp lis organizers. We request you t instruct the Auto Workers Unior that has just had their first Na- tional Convenion in Detroit, to get on the job. We like the Spark Plug (shop pa- per in the plant) best. —A FISHER BODY WORKER. HOME FOR AGED HELL FOR NURSE. Long Hours and Little |) Pay for Help | (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK. — Just recently I have been employed in a home, the “Daughters of Israel,” which looks apparently good outside. But inside it is hell for the patients and help. In the last six months they have changed about five or six orderlies. Why? The answer is here: one worker had to take care of 24 neu- rological patients, including six psycho-nerotics. Had to make 24 beds, feed them, warm up and dish out the food three times a day and afternoon tea which makes it four times, They never sent up enough food. Many are in need of attention, dressing sores, etc, Had to do the haircutting, bathing and shaving, all for $50 a month, 12 hours a day, from 7 to 7. The hospital of- ficials used me out for three days for which I got paid $21.67. —TRAINED MALE NURSE. Demand the release of Fos. ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighti for unemployment insurance. COOKS FAKERS WANT MILITANT TO SIGN NOT TO FISHT THEM Refused to Accept His Traveling Card Until Pittsburgh Member Signs Correspondent ) could not get in. Tolley appeal ‘to the union but got no answer. Local 326 fakers get commissi from the bosses when they sen them cooks under the union scale | And to say anything about it is not permitted. It has gone so far hat ‘the union men are made to scab on private employment office cooks, the officials telling the boss that they can get them ut a cheaper rate. Initiation on dues are high to keep metubery out, the fakers being afraid that workers that would come in would demand real action, Anyone |who dares to talk against them is ‘taken off his job. Not only must we fight the bosses’ agents in the cooks union, but we ;must organize the unorganized food workers into the Food Work- ers Industrial Union. , And will send you another story. (Will appear on Saturday, June 7.—Editor). —RESTAURANT COOK. ee ee ge eg