The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 16, 1933, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY JUNE 16, 1933 Page Three - in Ohio Striking on Relief Work Demand Cash Payment and Relief Increase; Involves Athens and Franklin Counties COLUMBUS, O., June 15.—Five thousand men were added to the num- bers of organized jobless on strike in Ohio under auspices of the Ohio Un- employed League when league branches from every township in Athens county laid down their tools on public works projects. More than 3,000 league meinbers JOBLESS ALONG ROUTE GIVE AID TO OHIO MARCH t Jobless Insurance Is A * Central Demand of Relief March BEDFORD, Ohio, June 15.—One hundred and twenty-five Ohio Re- lief Marchers arrived here last night from Cleveland. The demand for unemployment insurance, which the People’s Relief March has raised as a central demand, has gained in- créaséd importance with the dec- lJatation of bankruptcy by Cleveland charities on July first. This means that further payments for relief to the jobless are threatened. The first stop of the workers to- day is Akron, the largest rubber pro- ducing center in the world. The whole march is being coveréd on foot. The workers march six and a half hours a day, covering a dis- tance of 17 miles. Along the route support to the march is shown by contributions of ocd and funds. In Bedford the narchers slept in town hall. Food was provided by the Small Home and Land Owners’ Federation. Paice lhe Leave Cincinnati on Mor. to Join March CINCINNATI, ©., June 15.—Col- umn number 5 of the Ohio Relief March will leave on Monday, June 19, 8 a, m., from the Hospital Lot, 12th and Central Ave. Workers are called upon to join in the mass send-off meting at the Hospital. Lot. Marchers from the Steele Subdi- vision, a township outside of Cincin-| nati, will join the column at Hamil- ton Ave. and Noth Bend Road, at 10 a. m. The column will stop over in Hamilton, Ohio, where a welcome demonstration will be held at 6 p. m., on the Court House steps. core OHIO TAG DAY CANTON, Ohio. — Tag Day for People’s State Relief march will be reld June 16. All sympathizers will- ng to participate should come 3:30 sam. to 1101 East First. es CANTON Ohio. — Marchers send off will be held June 16, 2:30 p.m. 330 marchers will leave for Massilon where they will meet Cleveland, Akron. and Youngstown columns. Mass march will be from Canton, GIANT WORKERS’ PAGEANT JUNE 25th Participated by 400 Artists Starlight Stadium Auspices: Marine Workers WATCH FOR DETAILS! _C. L. MEMBERS In Manhattan We are opening 20 routes in Manhattan. Y.C. L,’ers want- ed for these. Call at 35 E. 12th St. City Office of the Daily Worker. Ask for Leo have been on strike for two weeks in ~—<@ Franklin County, in which Columbus is located. The Athens county strikers demand | an increase in relief allotments, in- | sist upon a minimum of $2 a week | for the head of the family and 175) cents for each dependent for food. | In April the Athens county group | announced that it would march 3,000} men into the county seat and seize} }food in the stores unless relief was | forthcoming within 24 hours. State] lf authorities rushed the relief. The Franklin county strike arose | | from the demand for a 40 cents per | hour minimum wage on highway construction work. Large picketing demonstrations are being held all over the county. Township trustees fear to order work resumed at the old rate of 12 1-2 to 30 cents an hour. JOBLESS STRIKE GET CONCESSIONS | PROVIDENCE, R. IL, June 15.—The two thousand jobless worke*s who stopped a pay cut on the relief ‘ob and are striking for a 30 per cent increase are discussing today the re- turn to work on the basis of a signed statement by Edward P. Reidy, Di- rector of Public Aid. Reidy proposes to withdraw the pay cut and declares that there will be no cut in the milk allowance. He further states that in July he will take up with the state commission the demand of the job- less for $10 weekly allowance for married people with the addition of | $1 for each dependent. | The strike committee will propose to. the strikers that if Reidy guaran- tees that there will be no discrii ination in | the fight for all demands. U. S. Bank Depositors To- March. to. Banking Department Saturday NEW YORK.—The depositors of the defunct Bank of U. S. who were robbed of their life savings have been granted a permit by the police for a protest demonstration and march to take place tomorrow, 2:30 p.m. in Union Sq. After the Union Sq. meet- ing they will march to the New York State Bank Department, 80 Center St., by way of Second Ave. Clarence Hathaway, New York dis- trict organizer of the Communist Party, Norman Thomas of the So- cialist Party, Heywood Broun and others have been invited to speak. SQUARE DEAL |, ARMY and NAVY STORE 121 Third Avenue , WORKERS’ CAMPS SUPPLIED WITH TENTS, COTS, BLANKETS, COOKS OUTFITS, ETC. at LOWEST PRICES in the city for individuals and groups Sa Se “ ARMY TENTS 16x16. $8.00 up Cots—S1.00 Blankets $1.25 up THE LITTLE Fall Line of Camping Equipment MANHATTAN MILITARY | WATCH REPAIR SHOP | siz SIXTH AVENUE, AT 28TH STREET 478 WATER STREET Absolutely Lowest Prices NEEDLEWORKERS APPRECIATE Auspices: Cheapest Way to Get Busas from subway. station to Park. ‘Also: I, R. T, Bons Park subway to ‘buses to the park. RED PICNIC COMMUNIST PARTY, N. Y. District At PLEASANT BAY PARK Unionport, N. Y. Workers International Relief Concert Orchestra Dancing - Sports - Games - Mass Singing and Recitation Tickets: In advance 20c, at gate 25¢ Du INS: to Park: I, R. T. Subway, Pelham Bay line, to Zerega Avenue. E. 177 St.3 Unionport trolley to end of line; CAMP UNITY Wingdale, N. Y. is getting ready to open for the For Mtormation Call:— N.Y, Office ESTABROOK 8-1400 on Phone ate cH FOR WAT Summer Season H OUR-PRESS ORE DETAILS Cc M 8,000 Unemployed |40V. HORNER | be held only with his permission. | +The left wing inside of the P.M.A. IN PROVIDENCE, giving work. -that they | 5, should return organized to continue | URGES SHERIFFS | TO BREAK STRIKE SPRINGFIELD, Ill, June 15.— Governor Horner, who was elected | with the support of some of the leaders of the Progressive Miners | Union in a public statement declares himself on the side of the strike- | breakers and on the side of the Lewis machine against the miners. The governor instructed the sheriffs as follo “That the sheriff's first duty is to see that there is no in- terference with those miners in the county who want to work.” In Sangamon County, that is, in the Springfield vicinity, where the miners recently staged a mass picket line which was attacked and one of the striking miners, member of the P.M.A., was killed, General Black of the National Guard, stated that he will not tolerate any more mass meetings of the miners. Even meet- ings of the locals of the PMA. can The Brigadier General of the I- linois National Guard is Thomas 8. Hammond, president of the Illinois Manufacturing Association. carries on @ campaign for unity of the P.M.A. and U.M.W.A. miners, against military rule, for mass pick- eting, for developing struggles, for improvement of the economic condi- | tions of the employed and unemploy- | ed miners. TUUC CONFERENCE PREPARES FIGHT ON RECOVERY ACT NEW YORK.—At a meeting called by the Trade Union Unity Couneil, which was packed to the doors with over 500 workers from the A. F. of L. and the militant unions present, the meaning of the National Recovery | Act and its menace to thé working class was fully exposed. Louis Wein- stock, secretary of the A, F. of L. Committee for Unemployment Iusur- ance, opened the meeting and spoke in detail about the provisions of the Act and how it will serve to attack wages and working conditions and the right of the workers to organize “Do you know what kind of a mini- mum wage Sidney Hillman wants the government and the bosses to give the workers?” asked Weinstock. “This labor misleader, high in the councils of the government and the be , asks the Senate Committee to set $10 a week as a minimum wage he workers.” Wi kk concluded with a plea to defect the measures against the workers by organizing to strike for better conditions and to defend the left wing unions. Louis Hyman, In a ringing speech, declared that the bosses and the gov- ernment fear the real class strug- gle unions and recognize the fake leaders to have them force their pro- gram of hunger upon the workers. “The president has full power to die- tate, but he gets dictated to by the trusts. . . . The conditions of the workers have to be O.K.d by the | president, that means by the bosses,” ; Hyman declared. “We have defied these laws before and we Will do it jagain. We will organize and réfuse to accept their dictates.” | After a svirited discussion from the floor, it wa; decided to call a larger Sidetrack CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 15—An appeal not to sidetrack the real is- sues of the Locomotive Convention | now reaching its tenth day in Cleve- jand has been issued by the Railroad Brotherhood’s Unity Committee thru their representatives on the scene The appéal calls first for amend-} ments to the constitution insuring RANK AND FILE CONTROL. It points out that unless this control is possible, any set of politicians elected to office, can swing the Brotherhood into any venture they please, as was done when the pres- ent administration bid for “progres- sive” votes in 1927. “When the con-| vention has seen in deeds as well as} in words who is actually for progres- | sive action,” says the statement, “then and only then, should the controver- sial questions like the election of grand lodge officers be settled.” Candidates Running for Jobs Most of the candidates to office are not interested in real reform, nor in putting into practice the @unda- mental job of a labor union, the battle against wage cuts and for maintaining the best possible condi- tions. They are interested in put- ting forward minor “progressive” is- sues and then running for salaried jobs, as the champions of these re- forms, Although two progressives were elected to the press committee ant all five places on the committee to investigate the financial misman- agement of the Brothethood bank have gone to the anti-administration forces, the question of what to do about mass lay-offs, R.R. consolida- tions and the 20 per cent wage cut proposed for negotiation tomorrow, have not even been discussed. Convention Delegates Ignore Real Issues While the convention delegates and their wives go on all day outings and waste their time and the money of the rank and file on grand balls, the roads go right ahead closing ter- minals, taking off trains and buy- ing low maintenance cost equipment. Although three quarters of a miilion railroad men have lost their jobs in the last few years, the question of unemployment insurance and relief for these men and their families has not even come up on ‘the floor. The power of the combined pro- gressive delegations- would be suffi- cient to force: these {ssues to a vote, but such actions are not in the pro- grams of the progressives except in words as the Unity statement clearly Real Issues Are ed at the Engineers’ Meet for the very men who expelled pro- greesives for criticizing the adminis- beware of the motives of these tutn- coats. These are the men who, when the smoke of battle has cleared away, will be found in sécure $6,000 and $7,000 a yenr jobs, and by-gones will be by-gones, A House Cleaning Needed What is needed is a house clean- ing; not only in the Grand Lodge apparatus, as recommended in some of the programs, but a houseclean- ing in the ranks of the progressiv and welfare of the membership will to a finish. It is hoped that among the progtessive delegates some will be found with courage enough lead this fight and carry it through to the membership in the lodges. ‘Unity Program offer the rallying point for the real| progressive forces at the convention. | ‘The program says: | 1. The convention must go on rec- | ord against any changes in the work- ing agreements which will decrease | employment or reduce income, It must instruct clearly committees of | adjustment on how to proceed against | violations of agreements. It must in-| struct the representatives to the com-! ing wage negotiations to carry out) these decisions. j 3. The convention must go on rec- ord for the carrying out of the de- cisions of the Willard agreement to} restore the basic wage rate. Repre-| sentatives to the coming wage nego- tiations should be instructed accord- ingly. 3. The convention must instruct the representatives to the coming ne- gotiations to insist on a six-hour day | with no réduction in living stand- ards or basic rate of pay; it must propose the amendment of the Ad- amson law to read 6 instead of 8 hours. 4, The convention must settle the question of ome united pension, which is financially sound, which assures the futuré payment by the roads, will not be decreased through reduced op- erating income, and which does not decrease the present financial obliga- tions of fhe railroads at the expense of the émployés. (A favorable vote on a united pension movement has just been won). 5. The convention must instruct the representatives to the coming wage negotiations to include unem- shows. When the majority vote which forced''the seating of expelled mem~- bets ‘turtied into ®-confidetice vote ployment insurance at the expense of the railroads and the U. 8. gov- ernment. DECLARE CLARK, B | | conference cf all working-class or. | ganizations early in July to lay pi | for a united front drive against tho Recovery Bill. VETS MEET “SATURDAY NEW YORK.—A report on the Washington veterans’ convention, and the discussion of plans to force the repeal of the entire economy relief bill, and to secure adequate relief for all needy veterans of the nation, will be on the order of business Sat~ urday afternoon at 2 p.m., when Ne- gro and white veterans meet at Washington Irving High School, 16th St. and Irving Place. The meeting is called by the Pro- visionel Rank and File Committee of New York. | | Bronx Parade Tonight NEW YORK.—The Bronx Worker.’ Club is the latest organization to en- list in the special defense week launched by a conference called by the Middle Bronx Unemployed Coun- cil early this week. A torchlight parade will be held tonight to initiate the movement. It will start from Wilkins and Inter- vale Ave. and Washington and Clare- mont, the Bronx, and end up at Tre- mont and Southern Boulevard, Strik- ing bakers of Local 507, International Bakers and Confectioners Union, will participate in the parade. WOCOLONA Bungalows Now Available Membership in Tent Colony at Lake Still Open a EL acm eMee nea Bus leaving front ef Workers Center, 50 E. 18th St, Sunday, 8:30 am. sharp, Returning same night, Round trip $1.00, For further information phone: NEvins 8-8831 — Day and Night | Nery and Fetherson in Special | the Manhattan Borough Home | Relief Bureau office where | they came to demand relief. They are to be sentenced June 23 awd unless saved by mass protest face ® sentence up until three years. ‘The case was of open frame-up character, The police and stool-pig- eons testifying for them contradicted themselves and presented hazy sto- ries while the witnesses for the work- ers presented stories consistent all the way through because they were true, Bar Workers It was apparent from the begin- ning that the capitalist court meant to railroad these two unemployed fighters just as they had done with Sam Gonshak in the frantic efforts of the city government to stifle the movement of the unemployed against the hunger program. @ court building was surrounded by police inside and out, barring workers from thé room. “This is a special ruling for today,” police told workers protesting that they had a right _to_ enter, es Even witnesses were kept out, un- less they had subpoenas and even these were only allowed in court when called. Tell of Attack Clark told how he was attacked by Bak, the cop who accused him of the assault and who grabbed a placard from his hand and used the stick to fell him. Helen Harriman, @ young married woman who came to the bu- reau with a dispossess, was near Clarke at the time, she told the court, and protested the cops’ bru- tality. Clinching this was a picture pre- sented by Alexander, the Interna- tional Labor Defense attorney, de~ fending the workers, showing Clarke lying on the ground with Bak stand- ing over him. The worker who took the photograph, @ member of the Film and Photo League, also testi- COrtland 7-7239 — Day only | Zelephone STuyvesant 9-9254 UNIVERSITY GRILL, Inc. BAR RESTAURANT 72 UNIVERSITY PL, N.Y. ©. Between 10th and 1ith st. 1. J. MORRIS, Ine. 298 SUTTER AVE. BROOKLYN: GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS tied. Reject Picture ‘The judges refused to accept the picture in evidence saying “It’s in- complete,” and accepted the cops word that he had nothing in his hand. Bak on the witness stand admitted that the supervisor of the bureau had ordered the police to disperse the crowd who were peacefully picket- ing the office. erdict Prepared Vi A moment after the case was closed, without a fraction of deliberation, the judges pronounced a guilty sentence. When the workers were being led For International Workers Order Phone: Dickens 2-1273—4-5 Night Phone: Dickens 6-5360 from the court to be fingerprinted, they were greeted by a crowd outside FACE SENTENCE OF THREE YEARS Arrested for Demanding Relief; Case Open Frame-Up; Judges Reject Proof NEW YORK.—Joe Clark and David Barnet were declared guilty yesterday of “simple assault” by Judges Solomon, McIn- | in a demonstration May 31 at@————--—— ARNET GUILTY: | | | | Sessions Court, for taking par “Red Front” salute of a raised fist. “This sentence only makes us more determined to carry on the struggle,” said the convicted workers. Will Appeal Case The International Labor Defense announced that the case would be appealed and the Clark-Barnet De- fense Committee and the East Side Unemployed Council said they would intensify the campaign they started for their release. MELLON CHARGED WITH FRAUD IN TAX RETURNS WASHINGTON, June 14—Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury un- | | der Hoover, and considered otte of thé richest men in the world, was ac-| cused by L. Olson, a former employee of the Senate Banking Committee, of | having defrauded the Federal gov- ernment of $2,020,131 in income taxes | for the years 1926 to 1930. | The income on which Mellon is charged with not having paid any| income taxes was a large block of stock trolied by the Mellon family. In- stead of registering this stock as in- come Mellon simply signed four notes of $500,000, thus giving the impression that he was buying the stock. and never intended, to pay for the stock. During Mellon’s two terms as Beb- retary of the Treasury, over $5,000,- 000,000 was refunded to the rich as income tax refunds. Mellon and his own companies re- ae over $14,000,000 in tax re- ‘unds. Permanent Delegates - of Jobless Meet Sat. NEW YORK—The regular monthly full delegated council meeting of the Unemployed Council of Greater New York will be held this Saturday, June 17, at 10 a.m. sharp, at Irving Plaza, 15th St, and Irving Pl. All trade unions, local unemployed councils, block committees and all city cen- tral bodies should see that their reg- ularly elected PERMANENT dele- gates are present to discuss the deci- sion of the United Front Conference Against Evictions and Relief Cuts and to formulate plans for future work around the Workers’ Municipal Relief Ordinance. All delegates must present their to which Clarke responded with # delegate's cards tration, the membership had better} +! He ask wife where s and 80 thét the ities affecting the good| 2°, ect Oy Wite where I was and be raised sharply and fought through | to} The following “Program to Protect Wages and Working Conditions” is- | sued by the Unity Committee should | which he received from the Gulf Oil Corporation, a company con- Olson charges that Melion has not, |A FORGOTTEN MAN ‘TELLS NEED OF A ‘UNITED STRUGGLE | BROOKLYN, N. Y.—In the last election I paid attention mostly to the ope air meetings of the Demo- cratic party and its promises about getting jobs for the unemployed. 1 | 48 one of the unemployed was quite | interested in their speaking that if Roosevelt was elected everything wi be alright. Two months later I very disappointed, I was compelled} to apply to the relief station for lief, In the house was no bread,; no coal and no lights. I knocked the doors of the relief, I could r get anything until the neighbors told me to apply to the Unemployed Council and then I first got relief. One morning the investigator came! in and I was out to look for a job.| she told him that I was ing for work. Three 4 letter came for me to re work, I was working for two mont) and one nice morning the foreman told me not to come in to work, so} | I asked him why. He told me that I was not the only one that there! was 29 more on that station, P. S. 48) | fired daily. | ain to him that I} 4s not any focd in the house, the answer was that he could not help], it. of all workers and mi tant-action of the employed and un- employed workers we can win. —S. F. RUBBER WORKERS STRIKE FOR RAISE AKRON, Ohio, June 15.—Revolting against miserable working conditions and wage-cuts, nearly 100 young workers of the Alligator Rubber Co.) came out on strike this week. They had demanded the return of a 20 per cent wage-cut given eight months ago, which the bossés refused. On Friday the company informed the workers that if they did not re- turn at the same wages they will | not be taken back. This started the return to the shops. Falkner of the Department of La- bor, who tried to sell out the strike at the Cuyahoga plant, helped to break the unity of the workers by spreading lies about the Unem- ployed Councils. While most of the workers were influenced, many gave | their names to the . Unemployed Councils and will, take steps, with its help, to build a shop organiza- tion and prepare for.a real strike. Workers here are employed 7 days a week for 12 and 13 hours a day. One striker displayed a pay envelope of $4.31 for 48 hours of work a week. am confronted with torture as there |; By now I found out that only by; In flation Speeds Mills Without Any Help to W orkers / Grudging and Slight Wage Increases Are to “Hold Labor in Line”; ‘cers Should Fight Wor Now for Return to 1926 Wage Levels By LABOR RESEARCH A Recent pick-up in textile activity OCIATION is due in part to mills running three shifts on a day and night basis im a race to pile up production. General desire to “anticipate inflation” by middle men and merchants has stimulated a large movement of goods from mill impoverished worker and farmer of the U is not @-— further thyough rising prices, going to “absorb” these textiles in ye near future. Thus we may ex- pect a slump in the summer or fall when inventories pile high and goods do not “move” into the hands of the only possible purchasers. Wage “Rises” Slight Wage increases have, for some tex- workers, returned a fraction of cuts made by mill owners fn re- cent years. But workers should not sled by these grudging “volun- wage rises, most of them made hold labor in line” during the ent rush period. Many of these ht rises have come only as the | result of the strikes or threatened istrikes with which this issue of Tex- | tlie Notes is largely concerned. And ithe small advances which are given jso much prominence in the capttal- ‘s are not enough to keep pace the already rising cost of liv- The raises forced from em- ployers to date should merely whet the appetites of textile workers. | With merchants and adverti ing of prices rising to 1926 lévels, | workers should demand nothing less than a return also of real wages jat least to 1926 levels and for a working day of fewer hours. The real wages of textile workers must not only be raised to the levels they }once reached, but pushed on up. | Higher real wages and shorter hours of work must be combined. Industrial Recovery Anti-Strike Measure Mill owners are organizing more compactly than ever and sending | special agents and lobbyists to Wash- ington to shape the Roosevelt fascist industrial control bill to suit their profit-making purposes. At the same | time they are urging their employees to refrain from strikes. “Industrial Relief Near — Why Strike” says a |headline in the Morning Call of Paterson, N. J., in an attempt to di- vert silk workers from using their | most effective weapon to improve conditions. And officials of the U. } to rs talk- ; Is. But the “ultimate consumer”—the ith purchasing power ent |'T. W. are playing into the hands of | employers by, encouraging this anti- | strike policy. In New Bedford, for jexample, the U.T.W.’s Textile Coun- ceil recently decided to wait for the |new law to establish a “minimum | wage” instead of striking immediately | for an increase of 15% or miore | Correct policy is organization and | strike now for wages that actually |raise real wages and the workers’ standard of living | New Bedford Local ‘of Socialists Votes Unity Against Cuts NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 14,— |The local branch of the Socialist Party, by a majority vote of 8 to 3 ; decided to support the National Tex- | tile Workers’ Union’s call for a united \front with the U.T.W. unions in @ | struggle against wage cuts, for wage | increases, for a 30-hour week without | wage cuts, against stretch out and | speed up system and for federal uri- employment insurance. When a vote was taken the motion | won one vote, the vote being 9 to 8 O'Brien, who counted the votes counted 8 for the motion and 9% against it. The membership rejected this trickery and called for a recount When a record was taken, Burges. one of Batty’s right hand supporters in the Textile Council, with a few other right wingers, walked out of the hall. Burke, in a short talk explained Roosevelt's program of wage cuts and starvation and urged all honest work- ers to fight against the mill bosses. At a previous meeting of this | branch of the Socialist Party they jagreed on a united struggle against unemployment and police terror. Needle and Textile Wor kers Describe Their Working Conditions CLOAK WORKERS IN CHICAGO SHOP GET 1.80 A WEEK 80 Cents Given to 8 Girls for 3 Days’ Work (By a Needle Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill.—In the cloak shop | of the Tobin Picker Co. where I work, | even in good times the earnings were | Yery poor, and at present conditions are unheard of. For example: three girls worked for three days and received for all the three days 80c each. When they received this sum they asked the fore- lady for how much work they were paid and she ran away, after saying, “You worked three days each and here is @0¢ for each of you.” The to bul poor yogan ery, can pe done with these exploiters? They care very little for the workers, | you hear only one answer, “If you are not satisfied without pay will you please look for a better job!” A few days ago two inspectors came to our factory. Followed by the boss they walked through the factory. They came over to one girl and asked, “How much can you earn a week?” She answered that for that week she will have earned $1.80 and last week she made $1.50. The boss saw that the girl’s statement was not to his liking. He said, “She just came in to work in the factory, she cannot work good yet. There are women in my factory who are even now earning $15.” But our merciful boss did not dare to show that woman who is earning that money because there aren't such. Suppose one woman does earn more, what about those women who have to live on $1.80 a week, —P. Editor's Note: We call attention to needle trades workers throughout the country to the fact that very little worker correspondence comes to the Daily Worker from them, We get very many letters from other industries. We ask the needle trades workers to follow the example of this worker and send us letters of their conditions of work and their strug- gles on the job whas| | By a Textile Worker Correspondent | | PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—In the Col- lins and Aikman Corporation, plush | mills, we are on strike since May | 30 for a two-loom operation instead | of four looms. One Man Does Work of Four We are compelled to do the work jof four men. ‘The weavers used to get 30 cents a yard for a 44 pick job, | operating one loom 10% hours per day, or 11% hours on night shifts. Now, the weavers get six cents per | operating four looms eight hours per |day and three shifts. Hundreds Put Out of Work There ate several different qual- |ities of cloth; all have been reduced in proportion, same as the 44 pick |job. The Company finds out that it is impossible to operate four looms successfully, and turn off good work, so they put the weavers back on two/ looms, with the same four loom rate | of pay. All other Plush Mills inj Philadelphia that were operating on! one loom system were forced to go on} two looms in order to compete with | | this corporation, This system has} | put hundreds of men out of work, never to return, unless we have six | |hours per day system, which means) wage cuts. | Again this company is trying to} force us to take another reduction | by operating four looms at a reduced | rate. No Pay for 8 Hours Work | They also grade the work: No. 1); Six cents per yard. Grade No. 2) Five cents per yard. Grade No. 3) NO PAY AT ALL. Sometimes there is a damage in the cloth which is no fault of the weaver at all, it is graded as No, 3 and the weaver re- ceives no pay at all for eight hours }of work. | Other Crafts Have Bad Conditions The twisters are also on piece work and it is @ daily occurrence to wait four or five hours before getting a job, Several times they waited all day without getting a job, therefore not earning a penny. The same thing has happened to the loom fixers and weavers, in fact, we are all subjected to the same con- ditions. Loom fixers and knitters were earning $60 per week for 57% hours night work before they started cutting wages. In 1932 my average wage was about $15 per week, for 40 hours on the three shift basis. The weavers were earning about $45 per week for 50 hours, now they average $11 a week. This corporation has a large mill in Roxboro, North Carolina, operat- ing on a 4-loom basis. I think if you could let them know, they might strike for two looms. I. NOTE: lyard for the same quality 44 pick, | | white and Negro workers marched | Philadelphia Plush Mill Strikers Appeal to North Carolina Mill to Strike for 2-Loom System Toilers Must Organize In Spite of Stools, Says Textile Worker (By a Textile Worker Correspondent) PATERSON, N. J. — The textile worker is slow to show his grievances to the boss because the large ma- jority are unorganized. However things have become so unbearable in | the mills that the Paterson workers are again showing their militant | spirit by striking against long hours, | low wages and rotten conditions. Shop conditions are intolerable. In the shop where I work the boss never buys any mill supplies unti! the loom cannot move further with- | out the necessary supplies. Reeds, shuttles and harness are run dowh | | and harrass the worker so that the few dollars a week pay is made literally at the expense of his flesh and blood, The boss must make a profit. Probably the most aggravating situation in many shops is the pres~ ence of stool pigeons. A worker fears to confide his complaints to | his fellow workers for fear that the boss has placed a stool pigeon in | his particular section. The only way these conditions can be overcome is by organizing the shop. By joining the National Tex- tile Workers Union, the worker will know that he is with militant and true workers. Solidarity of Negro and White Workers Shown at Texas Meet DALLAS, Tex—An overflow au- dience attended a meeting of the Workers Cooperative League, where T. E. Barlow of the Fort Worth Un: employed Council spoke. Prior to Barlow’s talk, a preacher called on the audience “to stand be- hind Roosevelt.” The preather’s arguments were torn to shreds by Barlow. Following the meeting, over 200 to the house of a white worker whose furniture had been thrown on the .. We publish letters from textile and needle workers every Friday. day. street for non-payment of rent, The» Get| furniture was placed back in them to us by the preceding Tues- | house and the workere marched back “ * to the hail, A tates