The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1931 a caine Dun Bol | si e gular meeting of the Sec- g0, Daily Worker Read- Club was held Friday, July 24, with M. Good as chaifman, Seven members were present although six- teen notices were sent out to read- ers, Why few notices, Section 3? After minutes of previous meeting were approved as tead, a motion was carried that there shall be no dues or assessments, H. Riegel was élected financial secretary. Comrade Blttentieid announced the meeting of the newly organized readers’ club at the Jewish Workers’ Center. A mo> tion Was passed that at all open-air meetings the chairman be requested to announce the formation of the readers’ club, A motion Was also passed that 500 letters be mimeo- graphed, notifying members who were absent three consecutive meet- ings that they must appear at the next meeting to hold their member- ship. M. Rich pledged himself to bring in a new member. .How about other similar pledges? Discussion on enlarging menibership followed. Comrade Weinberg was accepted as a member, He is to receive 15 copies of the Daily Worker, which he voliinteered to sell. These papers will be received from one of the bund! dy coming to Chicago. Ife suc a special bundle will him, s to Be Solictied. Ri chairman; Rich and Woifson weré elected. as a eommit- teé@ to arrange an outdoor social, with full aut y to make all arrange- ments. ‘Two more members will be elected to this committee at the next meeti Comrade Bittenfield will also distribute subscription blanks among members at the next meeting. A good idea. Six mem- ributed 15 cents each for hase of 15 copies of the Daily for six weeks, which will be mple copies in soliciting Articles appearing in list and workers’ press will be read and discussed at next meeting also, Comrades Rich and Good were assigned to select the ar- s, Meeting adjourned at 10 p.m. What! No entertainment? Fold Affairs In Your Backyard. Units! Small affairs for benefit of the Daily will help out during the summer months! Where expenses aré kept at a minimum, substantial sums ean be raised at backyard, par- lor or country parties or outings. Advertise your unit affair now! Whi the news atnong your friend Serve refreshments, pro- vide some music, hold dancing con- certs, etc, and make collections for the Daily Worker Sustaining Fund. Angora. Minn., has the right idea. The Angora Unit {s very small, yet comrades succeed in raising §4 et} an affair held recently. Another event is promised next week for the benefit. of the Daily, this time a swell dance. Lets Rear from other units. What about some challenges? | + Workers are eager to attend Bienes | of entertainments, especially the hot days! Hold the thé open preferably and insure | attendance and Jow expenses! pu DISTRICT t ' Sympathizer, Hills- boro, N. Wa RL. sion Yrror Tot! pistricr 2 ¢ ms setney Ly . ‘ a ents © Piente Ga, Rap. 15. 3, Adelman 2.08 ; Herlanwite Pert wrens Bx Shule 12 \. Bartell «to AS TRICT 8 Unit is Yoong ©: Morrill, St.Louis, | Lana th erovaal J. Batenas, South Bronx Wkrs. Ch annie Bend, Ind. 5.00 | ec. ®. Korloosky See. 1, Unit 1 4. oman ‘Total 87.00 | WH'amshure DISTRICT 12 Whee. Ch | H. Johnson, Port- B. Beach Wkra. Cl. lind, Ore. 1 Women’s Connell Bee. S Unit 5 as ‘Total calich Preite ». Boman, Ma- » Ohio TION 3 CHICAGO READERS CLUB MAKING FINE PROGRESS! UNITS! SMALL AFFAIRS WILL AID MRTLY” | ncg soem? hold them regularly and often, any- where! Distriet 2, N.¥., Picnic Aug. 16. Don’t forget the annual Daily Worker Pienic being held by Dis- . triet 2 on Sunday, Aug. 16, at Pleasant Bay Park, Westchester, New York, Blocks of 250 or more tickets can be had at the District Office, Sth floor, 50 KH, 18th St» at reduced rates. Organizations should take advantage of this specin! offer and send in for tick- ets immediately, ax ench ticket sold means a financial gain for the organization. The regular price of the tlekets is 35 cents. Remem~ ber the date, August 16th. Coupon books are still lagging! Very few of these books have been returned! The several hundred dol- lars outstanding must be turned in before the Drive can come to an end. The extra $5,000 needed to enable the Daily to survive through the autumn months must be raised. All districts must raise their complete quotas in the campaign. District 3, Philadelphia, has ralsed 85 per cent of its quota, or $1,61 to date, This leaves about Comfads Solway, District 3 Daily Worker representative, however, promises some real action_in the campaign from now on! The cir- culation of the Daily in District 3 also is going up. “Increase bundle fPoin 550 to 650 daily, with the ex- ception of Thursday,” writes D. W., Rep. “The Daily Worker Is | becoming a real mass paper Philadelphia, and we eepear to brink weeks.” Nine-Year-Old Boy Sell Dail “My daddy sells the Worker every day in San Fi cixeo, Calif.” writes 1. Silver, Francisco, My sixter, Helen, eight years old, and I help him sell the papers. Tam nine years old. We sell from 30 to 35 a day and we are xoing to keep it up. My sister and TI are going to Join the Piv- neers next week and my father ix in the Unemployed Council.” nine-year-old comrade suggests that all workers’ children help sel) the Daily Worker. We would like to hear from other workers’ chil- dren as to what they think of thix idea, In the meantime we extend our heartiest congratulntions to Comrade Silver for the work he is doing. The tables below show $72.98 re- ceived from District 7, Detroit, as of July 29th. Of this amount Section C raised $43.02 at recent | $15.21 also collected at Gr: Daily Worker affair. Distri, York, is represented with $9 | this day. Women’s Council is vireae teed with $35, the | Williamsburg | Workers’ Club with $11.75 and the | Workers’ Club with $26.16. credited with only $1. ict needs only about $15 quota 100 per cent. The pts for the day amounted 2, boosting the total to Districts! Unite to help | 1 *18.000 and end the campaisi 29 more will do the trick! 50 | DISTRICT T 25 | Detroit, Mich.: 25) mnie B-14 3.25 BO rate Hoe PRO —— | tatt Bet 1.00 86.60 |, . R. Children’s 6 ‘amp 2.99 Naushaum = 4.08 50 © Piente 43.02 Dail yWorker * DISTRICT 13 Total $00.77 | Unit 3-33, Cleve. 152 | a % DISTRICT 5 | @reveland, Obtor antes Ree sca M. Orioski, Den- © G. Con- | K bo, Pa. 60 1.00 Varentun, Pa.: ". Roteman 50) = = 1.00 00 1.00) tnt 24 150, ‘Total all dist, § 196.62 168) 3. Bitefsky 1.10) Prev. received 37,345.67 ‘so — milabaaind ‘Totat $16.27 | Total to date § BOSSES IMPORT STOOL PIGEON IN MICHIGAN Trv Vainly to Break Workers Militaney (By a Worker Correspondent) LANSING, Mich., July 30.—The bosses of Michigan have imported another stool pigeon paytriot to try and curb the growing militancy of the employed and unemployed work- ers. They have put Soap Box Jack @Brien on their payroll to help along the dirty work that Spolansky has been doing for the metal manufac- turers of the state. Since he has become a big time operator he has now taken the title of “Captain J. Roberi O'Brien,” This fink operates under the title of the “Constitutional Educitional League.” His educational program is to call workers into his suite of rooms and threaten them with the loss of their jobs if their unemploy- ed relatives don’t leave the Unem- ployed Council at once. Bosses Supply Plenty of Funds , O'Brien has a whole corps of stools working with him and of course gets the whole-hearted cooperation of the official thugs of the city of Lansing. ‘The bosses seem to be pretty much scared by the activities of the Unemployed Council for O'Brien seems to be well supplied with funds. He has @ campaign mapped out for many Michigan cities. Workers should be on the watch for this thug and for the peculiarly stupid pimps and prostitutes he tries to get into the militant working class organizations, ‘The bosses who have cut the un- employed down to starvation relief for “lack of funds” have plenty of money to pay this thug to try and break: the militancy of the work- ers. Fight for immediate relief and social insurance. SOCIALISTS HAVE | DIFFERENCES ON ‘HOW T0 HELP WAR But Anti-Soviet Heads Put It Over (Cable by Inprecorr) VIENNA, July 30. — Thirsday morning's session of the “socialist” Second International Congress here concluded the disarmament debate. Julius Deutsch reported for the dis- armament commission, defending the official resolution. Fenner Brock- way of the British Independent La- bor Party followed, declaring that the danger of war was never greater since the Versailles treaty; that it ‘was useless to impose trust in gov- ernments or the League of Nations; that the utmost to be expected from them was certain limitation af ar- maments. He also stated that it was impossible to distinguish bet- ween aggressive and defensive war- fare. Brockway declared there must be no coalition with and no tolera- tion of the bourgeoisie in the dis- armament question; the working class must resist wars, not necessarily with @ general strike. He stated that the socialists must use the op- portunity offered by the outbreak of war to seize power. Schmied of Switzerland declared his delegation would not vote for the resolution because the latter was calculated to breed illusions, Renaudel of France declared that the resolution was superfluous any- how because the old resolution was Still unrealized, and that it was diffi- cult for socialists participating in bourgeois governments to carry out ‘the resolutions. He also stated that the Soviet Union and the United States must join the League of Na- tions and that the Soviet Union made radical disarmament propos- als but itself had armed. : Faure read a declaration naming OUT ON THE STREETS ON AUGUST FIRST! the | up the daily bundle to 1,000 in a few | picnic; | .| utes. eal Seagal PA, NATIONAL GUARD TRAINS FOR WAR ON THE SOVIET UNION Are Fightisg for Us. | ‘Say Striking Miners} | De you think the miners kfow their friends and helpers? ru) say they do. | A comrade was miner from the around among the ministers to raise relief for the miners, One minister had to know what the misery of the min- ers consisted in before he would give anything. “How much do you pay for but- ter?” he asked the miner. “Butter? I haven’t eaten but- ter for so long I dén’t know what | it looks like.” “What do you pay for round | steak?” he came back, thinking that this was the cheapest meat. “We never eat it; we can’t af- ford meat.” “Does Thomas help you?” “Thomas, which Thomas?” | “Norman Thomas.” | “Never heard of him.” | When it was explained that | Norman Thomas was a2 Socialist | | | he said that he was doing nothing | | to help the miners, only the Com- | munists were fighting on their | | | side. A WORKER. | | | talking to a} strike fields “liberals” and TERRIFIC SPEED UP OF WORKERS IN FORD PLANT ‘Auto Workers Must Organize to Fight KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 30.— About 600 men are employed at the Kansas City Ford plant at the pres- ent time. Since Jan, 1 the men have | averaged only three days of work a week. BUT WHAT THREE DAYS! | Into these three days of work there | has been compressed and packed at |least a five-day output. In other | words, Ford is getting five-day pro- | duction out of the men while only | paying them three days’ wages in | return. Right here you can place your finger on the source of Henry’s | $48,000,000 profit of last year! It is the result of super speed-up and ex- ploitation. Terrific Speed-Up. | Right he in the Kansas City a | | | | | | Thin | plant arounc 4,000 men were em- |—_ HOOVER, GREEN ARE “WORRIED” ABOUT BIG JOBLESS INCREASE. | ployed in so-called normal time: They used to turn out about 4550 cars ‘a day, or, in other words, an av-/ | erage of about 7 men per car. Now, | | with 600 men on the force, around | | 140 cars are turned out each day—| AN AVERAGE OF 4 MEN PER| | CAR. In other words, the men have | —| been forced into an 80 per cent! | Speed-up! | Just a couple of weeks ago the re- | | port went the rounds that orders had } been given to cut more men off; cone out of ten, the fepert stated. Since then the company has been | slowly whittling away to get down to this figure. They do this by | gradually piling up more work and extra little jobs on the men. Being unorganized and afraid of losing what little they are making, the fel- — | lows are compelled to work faster and faster. At the end of the day most of them are utterly exhausted and played out. Gyps Workers’ Time. One characteristic way in which the Ford Motor Co. gyps the men is this: Whenever the line goes out of whack for a few minutes—let us say five or six—they force the men to work an even ten minutes to make up for this. Then again if a man is a minute late he is docked 15 min- When the fellows go home at night they are subjected to a humili- ating shake-dowr. They are com- pelled to open their coats and their | dinner buckets to the scrutiny of a watchman, as though they were com- mon criminals. Ford Workers! While Ford piles up $48,000,000 a year, you are being speeded up, having your wages cut and being forced down to the very barest existence. In the two or three days that you work you are being sweated out of every ounce of en-~ ergy in your bodies. What are you going to do abaut it? What is needed is organization! All over the United States the Auto Workers’ Industrial League, which is affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League, is organizing the Ford “slaves” and the rest of the automobile workers. In Detroit many of the men are lining up. It is high time that here in Kansas City we started to do something. If you are ready to join in the work send your name and address to the Trade Union Unity League, at 812 Wyandotte St. Kansas City, Mo., or else come down and visit us at this address. Ford workers, con- ditions are unbearable. It is high time to do something. Organize to fight against wage-cuts and speed-up! the majority of the French delega- tion stating that the decision of the French Party Congress not to grant war credits did not apply to those governments with socialist partici- pation, The official resolution was adopted against the votes of the I. L. P., the Polish Independent social- ists and the Jewish Bund. The Swiss delegation witheld its vote. | ly 20,000 men fire each day. |Hold Maneuvers At Camp Gretna Against Imaginary ‘Red’ Enemy {Commander In Chief Tells Troops to Prepare for War On Soviet Union By a Militiaman SCRANTON, Pa.—Having spent two weeks in the Penn- sylvania National Guards (55th Brigade) at Camp Gretna, |. have come to learn just what the United States government means by the peace conferences that is so broadly advertises. The true motive of the government is to unite all the other governments against the only workers’ world. The United States is not preparing for peace but for} economic war. And here is the way they are doing it in Pennsylvania. | ce TOLD WAR IS NEAR The very first thing done when the guards enter camp is to issve the arms, such as pistols, rifles, bayonets, machine guns, etc. The officers warn everyone that they must be kept in perfect working order because they will soon have to be used in actual warfare. The first week we are taken out each morning with the rifles to the rifle pits where we were instructed to shoot at all kinds of targets. Each man fires about $2 worth of ammunition each day. Approximate- In my eninion this $40,000 would be very useful to the starving unemployed of Pennsylvania. But of course, the gov- ernment can’t afford to feed civilians. | One officer told me that there was | no reason for anyone to serve when ; they can enlist in the army. Very smart man, isn’t he? Trained to Fight “Reds” After shooting at these targets we were taken to a field where straw men were placed in various posi- tions. The majority of them have long whiskers painted on them and our captain described them to us as “Reds” and told to stick the bay- onets into their bellies.” We spent all afternoon sticking bayonets into the “Reds.” But wait till the time comes and see whose belly our bayonet goes into. One afternoon we had a complete parade of all the 55th brigade. Gen- erals Price and Martin were present | and also the commander-in-chief of the National Guards. He made a speech to us in which | | government in the Poyntz Tours Chicago District for F. S. U.! Juliet Stuart Poyntz, field orga- nizer for the Friends of the Soviet Union, will tour in the Chicago dis- | trict from July 28 to August 6 in- clusive, covering the most import- ant cities of the Illinois district. Her | tour begins in the mine fields of Southern Illinois, where she will re- main until August ist, when she will | speak in Chicago at the August Ist demonstration in Union Park, On} August 2, she will speak in the steel | center of Gary, Indiana, and on the 3rd and 4th in Milwaukee and Ra- cine, Wisconsin. Her tour will culminate in a lec- ture on August 6 at Ashland Audi- torium in Chicago, where she will talk on the subject: “Is Russia Re- treating from Communism?” Com- | extensive tour of the Sovieb Union | where she observed the political and | developments of that | country. guards are than they used to be. | He said that a few years ago there were a bunch of Bolsheviks in the guards who spoiled the reputation of the guards. “Now,” he said, “we have a splendid bunch, an army that will fight and die for their country when the time comes and who will obey without any questions. This is the} kind of an army we want.” Then he| said: “We are not looking for war, but it is unavoidable when a country like Russia is spreading propaganda that is wrecking our country and causing all the trouble that has re- cently occurred. So when you are called upon to fight for your country | remember that you are fighting your worst enemies and don’t hesitate to use your gun and bayonet.” War Maneuvers ‘There was a great deal more said and done in the camp about how we must get ready to fight Russia. On the last day of the camp we had maneuvers and were ordered to advance on the Red Army, which was 16 miles away. We were issued 20 rounds of wax bullets and began the march through the forests and creeks. was acting as the Red Army, was intrenched in the forest and opened up fire on us. After a half hour of battle they were declared the losers. We workers should come out in a real big demonstration on August First and protest against these pre- parations for war against the Soviet Union. We should make August Ist this year the most gigantic demon- stration against war that the world he described how much better the | has ever seen. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) tion.” The Ford plants, which will throw 75,000 out of work at one blow, will) stey shut until Fall at least. No one knows how much they will open then. It is certain that thousands of Ford workers are out of jobs in that plant permanently, ‘The Daily Worker sev- eral months ago warned the Ford workers that during the summer the plant would close down completely and they would face starvation. In_ this’ situation, Hoover, champion liar of Wall Street, is pre- paring his propaganda machine. Last winter he fed the workers lies. He is preparing to “feed” them again on this sort of hot air. He called the Red Cross in—the same Red Cross that the bosses use for war, and that refused to,feed the starving unem- ployed. He called other fakers in to “study” unemployment. For two the | years millions have been starving, and for two years Hoover has been “studying” unemployment. This win- ter he will again “study” how the workers starve to death. Meanwhile, the capitalist govern- ment is spending $1,000,000,000 this year for the war that is coming. They find plenty of funds for war—for machine guns, for battleships, for poison gas, for the officers to swill on, for big guns and dynamite—but for foot for the workers, this. re~ quires “study.” On August First when thousands will be added to the ranks of the unemployed, when wage cuts come down en masse, the workers must | rally under the leadership of the Communist Party against the war preparations, aaginst wage cuts and starvation. All cut on August First! Join the revolutionary ‘GbmonsesHons, STRIKING MINERS VOTE TO TAKE PART IN AUG. 1 MEETS ARDMORE, Pa., July 30—One of the strangest cases of injunnction- eering is going on in Indiana Coun- ty, Pa. National Miners Union or- ganizers are being stopped on the highway and evicted from the coun- ty, on the argument that they are violating an injunction. There is no injunction against the N.M.U. But when the organizers demand to see one, they are shown an injunction granted the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation against John Ghi- | old time coal company stool pigeon and now a member of the International Executive Board of the United Mine Workers, also against a long list of the U.M.W. local presi- dents and secretaries in locals which mostly do not exist at all. This in- junetion orders Ghizzoni and his agents not to “scheme, combine or conspire,” to “march, counter-march or picket.” Ghizzoni of course does not want to do any of these things. But the miners, following the leader- ship of the National Miners Union, and with strikes going on, do want to do such things as “marching” and picketing. The injunnction against Ghizzoni is then used against them, not only to stop picketing but to stop their speaking to the miners or or- ganizing them. es 8 6 HARMARVILLE, Pa., July 30.— Two hundred and fifty pickets ap- peared before Harmarville mine this morning (July 27) and pulled a hun- dred out. There are still some work- ing, and a bigger picket line tomor- row will stop more of them, ‘The Harmarville picket line was a militant one, and accomplished its work although menaced by 50 state police and as many special deputies. This picketing was decided upon at @ very good Allegheny section con- ference of the National Miners Union, held Saturday at New Ken- sington. The conference took up the order in which mines would be pick- eted and shut down after the Har- marville affair, and took notice also that the superintendent had held a meeting under the tipple at Berking mine, now closed down, and an- nounced that he would start up next Monday. He will find a picket line ready that day. In fact, the miners fear he was lying about the date, and has decided to have a smaller picket line at the mine every morn- ing until Monday. The delegation spoke appreciation of the Daily Worker, the only daily paper they have that gives the real news of the strike. “Read the Daily Worker, and the capitalist papers can’t fool you no more!” they said. ‘The conference enthusiastically endorsed a motion to hold an Au- gust First demonstration at 2 p. m. slow time at Eleventh and Barnes Street, New Kensington. ‘The U.M.W. had a meeting adver- tised at a place half a block from the N.M.U. conference hall, and a volunteer committee kept an eye on the UM.W. address. However, no- body showed up there ea STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, July 30.— A rather informally advertised uni- The 110th Regiment, which | ARREST LEADER METAL WORKERS _IN BRADDOCK, PA 2,000 Workers Lose | Jobs, Plant Closes | BRADDOCK, Pa, July 29.—By) | threats an darrests, by the most ar- bitrary violation of all rights of as-| semblage, the police and the burgess here smashed the meeting called by the Metal Workers’ Industrial ; League to organize the 2,000 thrown out of work by the closing down of the Edgar Thompson Carnegie mill | | Friday. ‘The League had secured the Fin- | nish Hall for a mass meeting Tues- | day night. The hall owner was! threatened time after time by the) chief of police and other cops, and finally intimidated into refusing the hall. When George Powers of the/ | Metal Workers’ Industrial League | | and local organizers heard this, they went to Burgess Rose and Chief of Police Mike Mikalik, and demanded a permit to use the hall. The bur- | gess not only refused the permit, but | snarled, “The kind of a meeting you fellows want to hold won't do this/ town any good.” Arrest Metal Workers Organizer. Forty worke.s crowded around | during the parlay, and all went back to the crowd which came to go into the hall, where a discussion of other meeting places started. The police then proceeded to break up the groupings, and the chief had Powers and several others arrested. They were taken up and quizzed, and the cops were particularly worried and inquisitive over the distribution of | the leaflet calling the meeting. It} was their firm intention to prevent any such information of organiza~ tion possibilities reaching the work- ers, as was contained in the leaflet. Another attempt was made by the | Metal. Workers League officials to get a permit when they were re- leased, but they were simply ejected from town. Still another demand for a permit will be presented to the town council, Monday. The council meets in the police station. R. 1. STRIKERS STAND FIRM FOR DEMANDS BOSTON, Mass. July 30.—When Edith Berkman, organizer of the N. 'T.W.U. was taken in custody by the U. S. immigration officials on Wed- nesday she made the following state- ment according to capitalist press reports: “If I am deported it will be be- cause I am an organizer of the National Textile Workers Union and was active in the recent Law- rence strike. If this strike had been led by an organizer of the A. F, of L.. that leader would have been made a “conciliator” of the Dept, of Labor, the same body that is now very anxious to deport me, though they well know that I am an American citizen by virtue of my father’s citizenship secured before I was of age.’ ” Mrs. Anna ©. M. Tillinghast, im- migration commissioner at this port justified her strikebreaking policy of pulling out strike leaders from the struggle, both American citizens and non-citizens, by stating that: “It looks as though they want to get a stranglehold on the government.” ‘W. T. Murdoch, national secretary of the N.T.W.U. is still being held in the Cranston County jail near Providence, R I. ted front conference here to discuss plans for the August First demon- stration against the bosses’ war plans, brought 100 delegates together. ‘They decided to hold the demonstra- tion right at the Steubenville court house steps, permit or no permit, ‘There were 25 miners from ‘the Gastnef mine, and they all voted to join the National Miners Union, and to hold a mass meeting when they got back to their mine and strike the { | ter, anti-worker strike-breaking sheet |iously attacks the workers in HOW THE PITTSBURGH CAPITALIST PAPERS ATTACK THE MINERS | The ‘Press’ Speaks of Fairness But Lauds Scab Policy of Lewis-Fagan Gang | All Pittsburgh Papers Work with Mine Owners ; ‘Against the Miners Daily Worker: The workers in every town the local capitalist press so that they rade Poyntz has just completed an |and convincingly] the role they play for the bosses in the class struggle. © In the larger towns where there is more than one paper, the dif- ferent methods of the vaious sheets | in their support of the capitalist | Class should be studied carefully and | | explained to the workers ers: one morning, te” and two evening papers, “The Sun Telegraph” (a Hearst sheet) | and “The Press” (a Sripps Howard) | The “Post Gazette” is a vicious, bit that works openly and brazenly. No strike occurs but that the “Post” vic- its news and editorial colunms with venom that should leave no doubt in the workers’ minds of their labor hat- ing attitude. t Foxy Hearst. “The “Sun Telegraph’, with the| usual foxy, sneaky, tricky Hearst policy, works a little more subtly. It pretends to be a great friend of the workers whom it attacks as vicious- ly and at times more openly than the “Post Gazette.” Attacks: Miners. “Press” is supposed to be a The In Pittsburgh there are three pap- |: the “Post Gazet- |“ Pittsburgh, Pa. should get the correct line on can explain intelligently | great friend of the “downtrodden.” {Its attacks are more u but frequently, either cons: unco! usly it prints an editorial shows its attitud ditorial was printed on ying attack against t s Union, and an urg- Such duly the miners to join the ed Mine Workers and acgept the -breaking conference _ that and the U. M. W. A. grafters g to force upon th that a should be sent by em. vigorous protest the min to the rank and le of the Pressmens’ Union and the Typographical Union against that damnable e rial. A committee should, I think, also visit the editor and denounce him Of the three papers I think the “Press” is the most dangerous to the workers. With its hypocritical pretense of friendship for the workers and its loud cries of fairness, it has many workers deceived. Just as the same as the socialists are more dangerous than an out and out cap- italist, so the liberal press is more dangerous than the out-and-out cap- italist press. Must Organize to Fight Wage-Cut in Brooklyn Laundry (By a Worker Correspondent) | BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The Jamaica | Wet Wash Laundry, located at 170 Liberty Ave., employs about 120] workers. Pullers and wringers were receiving two years ago $38 for a} 5-day week. The girls at that time| were receiving $18 to $20 a week. These wages have all been cut now, despite the statements of Green | and Hoover that wages have ,“not| been adjusted” (cut). The hours have also been lengthened. The men who previously got $38 a week are now working from.7 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. for the large sum of $19 per week, and these workers don’t merely work, they run. The girls work from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and receive $8 a week. The boss, how-| ever, receives the same price for a (By a Worker Correspondent) i} BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The A. F. of | L. bureaucrats of the Waiters Local | No. 2 refused to hear the striking | miners’ delegation. The delegation} appeared at 3:15, fifteen minutes} after the meeting opened, presented | | their credentials and were not even | given a decent answer. They said! | that they would have to look into the | credentials because they were not is- sued by the A. F. of L. | ‘This was all kept secret from the) rank and file of the union, but one worker got wind of what was going on and spoke up bluntly, asking why the delegation was kept out. He was} immediately called out of order by} the chairman, who said something vague about a report that was to be made by the business agent. “The meeting was adjourned when Stetson Hat Cuts Pay; phia has within the last two days| seen the exodus of over two hundred of the best hat makers in the city| who have uncerimoniously taken) leave for Newark, N. J. The Stetson | hat factory, notoriously known ry its sweatshop methods and cheap wages, yet charging top prices for| their hats, has given an other cut} to their employees. | A strike has been in progress in Md.—The by the SPARROWS POINT, process of digging holes handle overs is going on. ‘The handle overs means the loss of | ‘The feed boys watch the holes dug and they begin to worry. How will they live. Bethlehem Steel Company. Day af- ter day they came faithfully to the machine and pushed packs of tin through. ‘The tin was hot, heavy and many times they jagged their hands and arms. The blood and sweat would mix togeéher. The low tonnage rate for the feed boys forced them to work faster so that they could live mine. Steel workers present at the con- ference joined the Metal Workers Industrial League in’a body. @ little better, After the day, their bodies were tired and completely exhausted and their spirit was crushed. (By a Worker Correspondent.) | PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Philadel- | shears before the installing of the) | a job for the feed boys on the shear. | For years they worked for the) bundle of wet wash as he did three years ago. Five thousand bundles pass through the hands of the work- ers weekly, which means $15,000 for | the unfortunate bosses weekly. Speed-Up. Every day workers come here and work two or three days and quit. Why? They can’t stand the mur- derous speed-up. No human can stand it long in this laundry. But quitting the job is no solution, for the laundries are like this all over. There is but one solution, and that is organization. Join the Laun- dry Workers’ Union and force the bosses to pay a decent living wage and to reduce the speed-up. We can do this by fighting, by striking for the 8-hour day and a minimum wage scale of $18, A, F. of L. Fakers Deny Mimers the Floor in Brooklyn Waiters Local one of the members jumped up for ranted, a special privilege. This wa but only after most of the ¥ had left the hall He made an ap- peal to grant the miners a hearing. The motion was about to be taken up when up jumps Willie Lehman, vice-president of the International and deputy sheriff for Tammany. He told the chairman that the miners belonged to a Communist union | which was against the “good Ameri- can principals” of the A. F. of L. “Till hold you responsible,” he said. There were chéers for the Commu- | nist Party and the meeting broke up in a tumult. The delegation was kept out. The workers in this union should demand in a body that the delegation of miners be allowed to | take the floor at the next meeting of the union. Strike at Schoble Shop the Schoble hat shop for nearly two weeks where the workers had to slave 9 hours per day at an average | of $1.75. All work was and is piece- work and no chance is given to the poor underdog to make even enough to keep his body and that of his family from crumbling into a heap. Starvation is written on their faces and yet, dividends are still paid in the" good old fashioned way by these firms. —One of the Hatters. Bethlehem Steel to Fire Feed Boys (By a Worker Correspondent) } Now the great reward comes—& | little handleover machine will take | their place. They will be fired. They | will be sent out to starve. They don’t know what to do. They | heard of such things as organization of workers to prevent them from being fired. The bosses have taught’ the workers how to hate each othe® A worker don’t like the other fele low because he gets 10 cents more, or maybe his mother is Irish and the other fellow had a mother who was German. Or he might be cross eyed. Workers stick together! Don’t let the feed boys be fired! Workers are naturally not against better machin- | ery and improvements, but when it means starvation and death to the workers then they should oppose it vigorously, Stand by the feed boys demanding no installation of handle overs—Organize the grievance com- mittee of the floor and send your own representative and not the com- pany representative to the manager, JOIN THE WORLD-WIDE PROTEST OF THE WORK- ING-CLASS AGAINST IMPERIALIST W AR, ana