The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 6, 1931, Page 3

| RRR ATOLL ERIS EL IIT A TIN PLATE WORKERS WHEN HURT PENALIZES Company Issues Order That Injured Workers Lose Pay for Time Laid Off All Hands Get 10 Per Cent Slash In Wages; Hours Increased; More Speed-up (By a Worker Correspondent) PRICEDALE, Pa—In the American Sheet and Tin Co. in Monessen we recently received a 10 per cent cut in wages. But the bosses did not stop at that. Every day when we come to work we find that the bosses have found new methods to speed us up. $12 to $25 for Two Weeks Work In the hot mills only 17 out of 25 are working. The aver- age pay for two weeks work in the mill is from $12 to $25. If you are not in the mill 10 to 15 minutes before the time to start work you are sert home: One day last week eight workers were sent home because they were not on the job early enough to suit the boss. Workers are not allowed to go home one heat early. If we go home be- fore that time we are sent home the Text day. As an example of the speed-up, we formerly worked a bar eight inches wide in the hot mill and gave it five passes on the breakdown | and three.passes on the singles. Now the bosSes have brought in a new steel, a twelve inch bar which we work four passes on the breakdown and three on the singles. Hours Increased Our working hours are also in- creased, For example: On the warm- up turns on Monday we formerly. started at eight o'clock and worked till four. Now we start at six o’clock and work till three, or one hour more than formerly. The bosses are always hollering about not enough proguc- tion. But the speed-up does not stop here. THe men who fired up the e furnaces on Sunday night were speed- ed up 50 per cent. Where they for- merly fired up four furnaces they now must fire six. Penalized for Accidents In the opening department a | worker cut his hand due to the speed-up. He was off four weeks and when he returned he was sent home for four more weeks without | pay. Now comes the general or- | der that all workers laid off due to accident will be laid off an addi- tional time without pay, the time to be equal to that taken off by the worker to recoved his injuries. ‘The Workers in this mill must wake jup. We must organize and demand |that we shall not bé penalized when | we have an accident. Demand a with- drawal of the wage-cut, the straight eight hour day and no* penalty for being late, Join the Metal Workers | Industrial League and prepare to | fight. Slave Labor In Milwaukee Restaurants (By a Worker Correspondent) MILWAUKEE, Wis.—I work in a restaurant. I have worked for the last fifteen years as night cook twelve and fourteen hours per night for week™in and week out.’ . ‘The boss has cut our wages time and time again until now we are working for 25 per cent less than last year. Now we are faced with a new 15 per cent cut. The boss says he must do this because the business is “not so good.” I walked out because I could not stand it any longer. This is what T get after 15 years hard work, I was talking to another worker the other day who is working # to 15 hours» a day and receives no money—only board and room, All over the “socialist” city of Milwaukee the situation is the same for the food workers. Actual Slave labor exists here in spite of the mayor’s statement that there is no suffering in the “fair city.” Editorial Note:—The way to fight \ these conditions is not to run away from the shops, but to stay in the shops and organize committees re- presenting all the workers to draw up demands for increased wages and better working conditions. Only through militant strike ac- tion can workers defeat the starv- ation program of the Milwaukee restaurant owners, Organize yotr shops under the leadership of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union. Strike against the wage-cuts, Rumble of Revolt Heard in Akron Plants (By a Worker Correspondent) AKRON, Ohio—The stagger plan is in full opération here in Ohio. In Marsillos, Ohio, the steel mills (Cen- * tral Steel). are working groups of workers alternate weeks. Each group gets four days every other week. In the rubber shops of Akron it is reported that the hours and days will be cut down, This means another ‘wage-cut. At the same time workers are ‘aid off daily. Over 4,000 workers have lost their homes here in Akron in the past eighteen months. The farmers in this section are letting thousands of bushels of fruit rot in the fields, while the workers in Akron are going hungry. We have a garbage can brigade here the same as in all cities. Workers are seen daily eating from garbage cans. At the same time the rubber factories in the first six months of 1931 report larger profits than in 1930, » There are thousands of empty houses here, while the workers are crowding two, three and more fami- lies into one house. ‘The rubber plarits cut the wages ten per cent weeks ago. Another wage-cut for the office workers takes place“ this month. A rumble of revolt is heard among the rubber workers and it would not surprise me if @ spontaneous sftike breaks out in the very near future. Ex-servicemen Left to Starve In New York (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—World War veteran, Savatro Astuto, lives at 217 Hast 107 Street. On the walls of his room are diplomas and medals which he received for his “heroism” in the last imperialist war, and now his reward is hunger and starvation for his family. Savatro went to war in 1915 and came back to U.S.A. in 1920. He lost his left eye. He is an American citizen, Savatro has been out of work for 15 months and was evicted from former home and is now starv- ing. He visited nearly all of the charity organizations. by which he was fooled around and kidded and finally refused any relief by all of them. Although registered by the Mayor Walker Committee, this worker received no job. I asked him if he had any food home, he answered: No, I eat only once'a day, macaroni only, showing me little bet raped up in paper. What is your boy eating when he ts going to school? “Same thing,” he said. “I could get no credit from store any more,” GREEN ADMITS WAGE CUT FRAUD WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4— In a/statement which virtually en- dorses the Swope plan for a planned Imitation of production, meaning more unemployment, William Green, president of the American Federation » of Labor, nevertheless finds it neces- | opposition.” sary to quiet rebellious members of the A. F. L. by making some admis- sions. Without the slightest proposal for struggle by the workers against wage cuts, Green criticizés “the tended that: wage, cuts in the steel industry would increase employment by lowering the price of steel and stimulating construction work. After the cuts went through, it was found, Green admits, that steel prices were he wrote, “the reason for the wage cut was to fer the money in wages saved to.the stockholders in dividends. But tell- ing the truth before the’ cut would have brought forth too much public Green then goes on to say that a raise of 50 cents a week wages would do more to provide jobs than all the wage cuts, but he offers no program ; to win the wage increase, or to stop hypocrisy of employers” who pre- the cuts. . SPREAD THIS NEW PAMPHLET * UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF and SOCIAL INSURANCE —2 CENTS— THE COMMUNIST PROGRAM AGAINST THE CAPITALIST PROGRAM OF STARVATION SEND IN YOUR discou o district inal seeal worker di ol R FROM rates postpaid. fe hid and organizations, I a organiration, the lodging ORDERS NOW! Special ibutors: 00 for $1 or 125 for $2, WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS P. 0. Box 148, Station D New York City the Chicago District CHICAGO, Ill.— Albert Goldman, Chicago attorney’ for the Interna- tional Labor Defense, will speak on | his experiences in the course of his | trip thtough the Soviet Union and other European countries, in Reck- ford and Chicago, as well as other cities in the middle west. Goldman, who is chairman of the Chicago Lo- cal of the Friends of the Soviet Union, made an intensive study over a period of six months of conditions affecting social, economic and poll- tical life not only in the workers’ republic but in other European coun- tries. His Chicago meeting will be held on Friday, Oct. 9. MUSTEITES IN SELL OUT OF HOSIERY MEN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED to slash the wages of the hosiery workers. ‘The possibility for a general strike in the hosiery industry was at hand, when the wage-ctit officials most shamefully sold out the workers, lim~- iting the pickets to seventy-five and now calling off the strike altogether. The bosses immediately followed with cutting the wages of the workers. ‘The Berkshire mill has already an- nounced a cut for the loopers and one for the footers. The hosiery mill in Munton cut the loopers 25 per cent and the knitters 35 per cent. As a result of this betrayal the bosses in other industries are follow- ing. with wage cuts. The Bancroft Cotton mill announced a straight 10 per cent cut effective on October 5. The Reading Hardware announced a 20 per cent wage cut. The National Textile Workers Union is issuing leaflets to all hosiery and textile workers analyzing the failure of the hosiery strike, exposing the fake of- ficials of the American Federation of Labor and calling upon the work~ ers to organize mill committees and strike against these wage-cuts. Oarl Holderman, a leading mem- ber of the Conference for Progres- sive Labor Action (Muste group) and a national vice-president of the American Federation of Full Fash- joned Hosiery Workers, from Pater- son, N. J., is now-playing a double role in the strike movement. Holder- man was one of the officials to vote for the wage cut agreement. He was sent to the Milwaukee local of the union to speak for it, There the workers shouted him down. When the «spontaneous strike movement against the wage cut pact grew Hol- derman placed himself at the, head of it in order to behead it. At the meeting of the national ex- ecutive board of the AFFFHW the last weekend all officials voted unan- imously to order the strikers back. Since Holderman is an official it indicated that in the secret meetngs he is for the wage cut agreement but outside tries to mislead the workers by taking leadership of the strike movement. Local officials leading the Merit Hosiery strike, with 500 out ,at Wood- haven, N, ¥., are a real estate dealer and a habitual drunkard. As a re- sult the local strike committee is dis- organized and no militant conduct of the strike is possible under such circumstances. ” At the Propper!McCollum plant at Elmhurst, L. I., where 400 are out the workers invited speakers of the National Textile Workers Union. The local officials, however, refused to permit the speakers to attend the strike meetings. ‘The weakness of a policy and or- ganization is shown in the strike of the Gotham Hosiery workers at 334 ‘St. and First Ave., New York. There are no strong picket lines and com- pany trucks are bringing scabs into the mill. SPANISH MASSES LOSING FAITH IN REGIME. MADRID, Spain.—Only about 40 per cent of Spanish voters cast their votes in this election as compared with 70 per cent in the last one. This Sharply inc ¢:tes that the Spanish workers are rapidly losing’ faith in the present government. One way to help the Soviet PREPARES JOBLESS STRUGGLE | American Miners, (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) AFL. now assembling in Vancouvere The AFL. program ‘is loose and vague as to any actual improvement of conditions of the jobless, and con- tents itself with moral reflections: “Workers should be assured of a job, wage standards should be maintained child labor should be prohibited and there shoultl be a shorter work-day and five-day week, etc.” The AFL. Program is specific and conctete only where it lines up directly with the employers’ wage cutting and starva- tion policies. ‘Thus the A.F.L, Execu- tive Committee rules: “We have in- vestigated the unemployment insur- ance systems of Germany afd Eng- land and find compulsory unemploy- ment insurance not applicable to America.” ‘The AFL. has no other proposal for the jobless, except to starve along in the hopes that President Hoover will decree that the employers each hire two additional workers and thus “absorb the 6,000,000 idle.” (Actually the number of unemployed is closer to 12,000,000, and even the AF.L. in another part of its program .admits 7,000,000. Also, the 3,000,000 employ~ ers are divided into groups of farm- ers, who now employ ons man only, and great corporations with tens of thousands employed. According to the AFL. plan, the U.S, Steel and John Farmer would each hire two more men,—Editor.) oe ‘The AF.L. hopes but provides no way of compelling, that public build- ing will go on, and that some relief will be given from private and com- munity funds, ‘The Trade Union Unity League provides along the fight of the un- employed a fight by organized work- ers in the shops, mines and mills and railroads to stop wage cuts and speed-up, which lead straight to more unemployment. The slogans of the T.U.U.L. unions are: “Against wage cute in any form”, “Full pay for part time werk”, “Shorter hours without reduction in pay”, “No speed “up and no overtime work”, “Equal pay for equal work for women, youth and Negro workers”, “Abolition of injunction and a strug- gle for the right to organize, strike and picket.” ‘The A-F.L. mentions some of these things, but proposes no means of struggle to obtain them. Sunday’s session developed an in- tensive discussion in which rank and file delecates took a prominent part, on the establishment of complete de- mocracy in the unions of the T.U.0.L. It was Clearly brought out that bu- reaucratic methods are fatal to mass organizations. Prominent in the dis- cussion’ on this point, and in the dis- cussion, point by point of the draft program and resolutions embodying programs of organization in the vari- ous industries and among the, unem- ployed, were steel workers, miners, and delegates of the marine workers. ‘The marine workers’ delegates came LEFT SOCIALISTS FORM NEW PARTY (able by Inprécorr) BERLIN, Oct. 5.—Thg _ national conference of the left wing social- ists yerster@my founded the Social- ist Workers Party. ighty-eight delegates were present, A represén- tative of the Communist press was not permitted to attend this con- ferencé, although bourgeois journal- ists were invited. The leading speeches declared that full democra- cy will prevail in the ranks of the new party. However, the delegates who expresses his intention of speaking against the formation of the new part¥, favoring entry into the Communist Party, was struck from the list. Seydowitz one of the left wing leaders revealed the ocounter-revolu- tionary significance of the new party when he declared the moment was unfavorable for the foundation of the party, but that it was necessary in order to prevent socialist work- ers from joining the Communist Party. ‘The congress decided to apply for affiliation to the Second Interna- tional. The British Independent La- bor Party sent a telegram of greet- ings. Three delegates voted against the formation of the new party. Rosenfeld announced that negotia- Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,” by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy. Address arm International Youth Day Campaign SPECIAL TRIAL. OFFER Twenty-Five Cents for Two Months Subscription to the ef YOUNG WORKER rere rere ererr reer etter rr ieere terete etre rrret rere rc iriiey The only youth paper fighting for the every day needs of the young workers YOUNG WORKER Post Office Box 9°. St-tan D. New York City, N. Y. tions were pending with the Brand- ler group with a view to amalgama- Ure MERA, cidichopesaieees ene from different ports, and bummed their way in without expense to their organization. One delegate, Davis, tame all the way from Galveston, ‘Texas, this way, An important feature of the ses- sions was theme eting of the steel and railtoad commissions. The steel commission decided upon building a fghting fund for the strkes that are approaching. The fund will be built by voluntery collections. The railroad commission discussed concentration points for organization How conditions and wages in the Soviet mines are constantly improv- ing, in contrast to terrorigation meth-| the Hoboken Daily Worker Club the | CLUB GROWING Recently we had occasion to call AMERICAN SHEET AND oldman Speaks On /TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE [Toohey Back from SU IDAHO GETS ON THE MAP! (“34 VERY RAPIDLY! +4 7 q Workers Must Have Daily Comrade W. H. of Michigan writer ods to subdue starved and rebellious | shock brigade of the Daily Worker | that he could not get along withent | workers in the American coal fields | Clubs. Now from Idaho comes a let-| the Daily Worker. | will be told by Patrick Toohey, Na-/ ter that shows that we have another tional Miners’ Union leader, who is| shock brigade this time in the west. touring Pennsylvania Ohio speaking to the working-class audiences for the International La- bor Defense. His speaking dates are: Luzerne, Oct. 7; Nanty-Glo, Oct. 9; Barnsboro, Oct. 10; Portage, Oct. 11; Johnston, Oct. 12; Pitts- burgh and eastern Ohio, Oct 15 to 25. NATIONAL UNION L FIGHT ON UMWA PAY CUT: |. made a kind of shock troop and {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) operators met and decided to cut} Wages 25 per cent. In the montfair Gas Coal Co., this cut was announced as: Wages of 22 cents per ton, $2 a day for outsidé labor, and $240 a day for inside labor. The U.M.W.A. officials offer as their excuse for agreeing to this cut that they want to “out-scab the scabs and stabilize the industry.” This is the same disastrous tactic used by the Musteites in the hosiery industry. The miners are preparing to march by thousands on any mine that tries to work today and tomorrow. Twenty | mines are involved in the wage cut and iteis expected all will come out. Nine hundred miners are striking this mornng in the first four mines to shut down, and 100 went n to try this morning in the first four mines to shut down, and 100 went in to try to work. The decision to strike will draw 4,000 immediately into the struggle, and the strike may spread throughout the Scotts Run-Morgan- town-Fairmont section. The miners on strike are con- script members of the United Mine Workers, because of the check-oft written into the U.M.W.A. contract, but will all join the National Miners Union. At the meeting Sunday, 2,000 of these forced members in the U.M. W.A. voted unanimously to strike af- ter hearing the program of the N.M.U. as presented by Frank Bor- EADS and Charles Guynn. The speakers and the program dealt specifically with ways and means to defeat this wage cut handed the operators by Van Bittner, district president of the U.M.W.A. The meeting sent hundreds of min- ers on committees to interview absent miners and prepare mass picket lines for this morning. The United Mine Worker officials are breathing threats of blacklist and massacre against the strikers and tried to smash the meeting yesterday by calling a meeting of the U.M.W.A. in the same town about a mile away, and one hour earlier. No miners went to the U.M.W.A. meeting and it |was a complete failure. } Missouri Miners Strike LEXINGTON, Mo., Ott. 5.—Seven hundred miners are on strike here against a 25 per cent wage cut in the Western Coal é& Mining Co. Philadelphia City Grafter Confesses PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 5.— Horace Stoy, superintendent of ven- dors’ licenses in the Bureau of Pub- lic Works has confessed stealing $10,000 inthe last four years, He implicates in the graft, Frank Hen- derson, acting market supervisor, who is now dead. It has been charged that chief Charles W. 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First on our friends, then on our friend’s friends and now each of our orig- | inal seven has a little group of his own, We also had our troubles, discouragements (besides we have to be very careful on account of reduced jobs), but, taking all in consideration, we are getting worse and worser, meaning more and more red. On the entrance of our city in an imaginary place and in invisible ink you can read a real welcome sign: This town is full of Bolsheviks.” So far we have found the paper great and peerless. Our critics have not found anything to kick about. “Oh yes, money is very scarce | and our bank closed on us (we lost millions in it) but, we'll try our best to get more subs.” This is the way a Daily Worker club should function, From two members to twenty, and each mem- ber developing new circles around himself. Ataboy! Each new member should be talked to and worked with until he is ready to subscribe to the Daily. 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