The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 3, 1933, Page 3

Page Thre DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1933 ——— "RAILROAD CZAR MOVES TO APPROVE MORE LAYOFFS Roosevelt's Co-Ordinator Says Present Act Does Not Fire Enough for “Needed Economy” Companies Continue Discharges andWage Cut, As Inter-Company Fight Looms Over Merger [MOCHA LEATHER |SR4DUATING—INTO HUNGERLAND "STRIKE IS WON ‘Daily Worker’ Helped | Expose Boss’ Tricks GLOVESSVILLE, N. Y—The strike of the 200 mocha léather mill workers in four Johnstown and Gloversville plants ended last week with a complete victory. All the de-) |mands of the ‘strikers, including the —By Burek Sopkins Enriched by Relief Racket Used Unemployment Fund to PayWagesWhile Jobless Workers A-e Denied Aid Militant Picketing Keeps Chicago Dress Shops Closed As Strike Enters Third Week immediate restoration of last year's - eer ee |15 per cent wage cut and recogni- CHICAGO, Tll.—How Sopkins, the owner of the dress plants at which tion of the shop committees, were & militant strike is being waged against sweatshop conditions, makes money | granted. out of the unemployment relief funds was revealed to a Daily Worker| Every trick of the bosses—raising | correspondent recently by girls who are out on strike. the "sod scare,’ calling 11 sgents © the State Labor | Wiiire: OMe. Md Wie whrkecs bomiplained to! lin thal wagon were’ 400 4Ee Atte tusciGr Geccanin, low to live on, Sopkins would call¢———__-_—-—— & The Railroad Brotherhood chiefs have given their aid in continuing the ten per cent wage cut for the railroad workers, and the companies now turn their attention to the Roosevelt program of consolidation. There is official granting of free rein to develop out of the mass of small and | large roads a few gigantic railroad systems. Gigantic name as needing charity. Then the | worker would go over and be put on the relief rolls. In other words, instead of Sopkins jand especially the secret ballot | up the Relief and give the workers | FURNITURE UNION jtrick, was exposed by the workers. |The workers were able to do this, jone striker writes, because the Daily Worker was brought to the| \strikers, and in the pages of thé | |Daily Worker they were able te paying the girls in his shops, he let the relief agencies pay them the larg- est. part. A large part of Sopkins profits came because of the fact that his employes were not paid enough by him to support life. The differ- ence between starving to death and barely living was made up by the charities. At the same time, many unemploy- ed families were being cut off relief on the pretext of economy. cee yea Shops Remain Closed Militant action by pickets in the Sopkins dress plants in Chicago con- tinues to keep the plants all closed, as the third week of the strike of 1,500 Negro and white women opens. Bopkins is being forced to cancel Many orders because of the strike. An attempt last week to bring in ‘cabs was defeated by the strikers, with the result that, while at one plant 25 scabs went to work Tuesday, only 13 showed up Wednesday, and on Thursday the bosses were forced | to padlock the plant. Sopkins is trying to scare the strik- ers by saying he will move his plant to Wisconsin. By the time Sopkins could move his machinery into new plants, and get them going, he would be too late for this seasons orders. He is obviously bluffing to get the girls back. But they are not fooled, but are standing fast. Rush Relief | So far the relief has been quite | good, and many of the girls say they | are eating better now than when they were working. This good work must be kept up if the strike is to be won. WINS PAY RAISES crease in wages was won by the workers of the Junius Parlor Frame Co., 562 Junius St., Brooklyn, follow- ing a shop meeting at which the workers threatened to strike unicss |the demand for the increase was |granted. The workers of this shop |are members of the Furniture Work- | ers Industrial Union Under the leadership of the F' |niture Workers Industrial Union, | wage increases were recently won jalso at Standard Parlor Frame Co., Harlem Parlor Frame Co., and Mon- roe Chair Co. The union is continuing its cam- paign for wage increases, | Bread Prices Rise 60 P. C: Still Soar | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the rise in the price of bread and other necessities of life. The rise im the price of bread is already 60 per cent. The rise in the cost of | meat, vegetables, butter, eggs, is | 19 to 20 per cent. Clothing’ prices | next week or the week after will go | up 20 to 50 per cent. The wage | demands of the workers should NEW YORK.—A 25 per cent in-| jread about other struggles where the bosses had tried the very same tricks. The strike involved the Geisler & Lehr, Mocha Dressing Oo., William Ackerknecht and Martin Deichsel plants. The strike victory immediately en- couraged the 20 biock cutters in |the R. M, Evans & Sons factory to strike for improved conditions. They |won their demands the very same | day. 250 IN QUEEN ANN CANDY CO, STRIKE | Their Earnings Aver- aged $3 to $4 a Week in Hammond Plant HAMMOND Ind.—Two hundred and filty women and girls in the nut shelling department of the. Queen Ann Candy Co. are out on strike against intolerable sweatshop condi- tions. for a six-hour, six day week, Théir wages are kept low by a gang systém, under which all put out production and split the pay. The plant is very hot, and the girls have only warm The girls are paid $3 and $4 a week | provide for a proportional immedi- | water to drink. ate increase of wag-s. | he forelady and bosses are con- Taking advantage of the Roose- Sténtly nagging the girls. The fore- velt scheme to raise prices and prof-|J2@4y pinched one girl's arm so badly its by the new schemes, the boss|that as a result, blood poison set in | | | For United Struggle Against the Roosevelt Attack ter position to compete in the nar- ~* capitalist groups will now struggle + 800 ROCHESTER | But this does not mean peace in the industry by any means. | | | for power. The Morgan empire con- | trols the Baltimore & Ohio R.R., and through the Van Sweringens, con- trols the Chesapeake and Ohio R.R Though the holdings centered sround Atterbury of the Pennsyl- vania Lines (Kuhn, Loeb investment) and Williamson of the New York Central (Vanderbilt and Baker inter- ests) are bigger in the railroad dustry alone than Morgan's ings, Morgan is too powerful in other fields and can bring too much of this power to bear in the railroad industry to submit to a quiet gobbl- ing up of the B. & O. or the C. & O. The Two-System Plan In the East the goal is for two large systems. The Pennsylvania lines will try to control one, and the New York Central will try to con trol the other. Competition between ese lines can be expected to add Special burdens on the employes. On June 22rd, for example, the N. Y. Central announced a 19% hour pas- senger run from New York to Chi- cago. On June 24th, the Pennsyl vania announced a similar cut in JOBLESS STRIKE ON RELIEF JOB 25 p. c. Cut; Expect 8,000 Now On Job | to Join Strike (By a Worker Correspondent) ROCHESTER, N. Y.—At a incet- ing of 450 county and city relief workers it was decided to strike! against & cut of from 45¢ to 40c an| hour for city relief workers and from 40c to 30c an hour for county relief | workers. The cut was announced last Saturday and 700-800 workers struck on June 27 and 28. Strike/ sentiment is tense. It is expected that an organized committee will| succeed in bringing all of the 8,000 relief workers out on strike. one ie its New York-Chicago train What the city wants to do is to use this for further cutting each Bue Misbers Experi’ worker's “budget.” If a worker's needs Regrouping of smaller roads under are listed by the relief investigators | J¢tser leadef& can also be sven in to be equal to $0, he was given 20 recent attempts to save by pooling hours work a week to make the $9,| terminals, lines and so on The New Now the officials say they will give |@ork Central failed to reach a satis- him 2 1-2 hours more in order to| factory agreement with the Pennsyl- make up the $1 lost through the cut.| vania on the question of joint use What they will do, is cut down the|of car cleaning forces and equip- workers budget and force him to live| ment in its Buffalo terminal. On |on $8 a week instead of $9. that the rich farmers can’t compete with the city. want to pay less than 45 cents an | They rising prices as the Roosevelt infla- | The reason given for the cut is,| and bosses | | the other hand the Central announc- |ed a coordination of passenger-train service with the C. & O. (which it wishes to absorb), between Detroit, Toledo and Columbus. Through this arrangement two entire trains will Show your solidarity, and rush re- | bakers will raise bread prices to the |#Md the girl is near death. By JACK STACHEL | lief to Strike Headquarters, third | limit. Against this action of the|,, Mass meetings have been held at | ARTICLE I. |rowing world market. The National |tion program develops. Increased | NOU Raphes hat eae ee be discontinued. We may expect . floor, 10 W. 47th St., Chicago. bosses, the workers in all neighbor-|the factory gate and a picket line) | Wo ssscy or tne Trade Union |2idusttial Recovery bill 1s designed to production és partially due to in-|"" | further “concessions” to the smaller “ack ade hoods, the housewives, children, the|8s been established. Tite Lenghe presi this aim. |creased war preparations. The pres-| Committees were elected to visit| of both competing systems until the The strikers’ demands include: | Twenty five cents per hour fer ent rise in production will be fol- | each job and pull the workers out ©n| snal actual merger is made. |lowed by a very sharp decline in Outing To Aid Sopkins Strike | strike. Headquarters are established | The Needle Trades Workers Indus- | unemployed and employed, should) organize their committees to resist) Roosevelt program represents | Rise In Production T the most vicious attack against * eet ie work, no more gan m: col Before examining the contents of the near future. The w at 443 Ormond Street. A mass meet-| Layoffs—With and Without the igh Daten haw Strange “en over: | Wee Deveries. saci; {exinking. whiter: ‘new feat ringer (e workers ever undertaken by the |the “recovery act” let us examine hear in mind that ven the tempo. | ing of all relief workers will be held | Co-ordinator night outing in Chicago to Palos| The American Bakers’ Association | ? sinlke. bio ed ttre cl f this country, This prae |the new boasts of a returning pros- 7 fi ‘ hake Att 4 Washingts, Wednesday | Park (Lozukas' Farm) to be held| very cleverly raise prices first in Iowa| Wipe. O° Sime oe fans to be |rul qr i & reacted Pr | perity whith reilind us of the good | neared bee eee lane be ea nas Inesd@y| Neither the roads nor Mr. East- Saturday and Sunday, July 15 and|and California, a long distance from|‘"St@lled during hot weather; and | gram because Tere accompanied by a corresponding in- | night man, federal railroad czar, seem to “salvation” for the workers, and by- |!d Hoover 60-day prophesies. It is crease in employment and payrolls. cause these illusions are being sorzad |‘Tue that in some industries there For example the auto industry not aloné by the capitalists but by |h@s been an increase in production. 'which claims 10 per cent rise in pro- liberals, A. F. of L. leaders and so- | But this increase is not due to such |quction over last year in the first cialists, makes it all the more dan- factors a§ would assure a continued | five months of the year also admits leoroue. rise in production. It is not due to/a decline of 20 percent in employ- ‘The working class must be aroused | increased buying power of the mass-/ ment for the same period full wages for reltef work. |a serious obstacle to the immediate |to the actual dangers threatening. |: It is not due to increased foreign | | The strikers demand that the cut | or early accomplishment of important ‘The enemy is moving rapidly. Only | markets. It is due primarily to spec-| (The concluding article will appear| be restored and that no relief work-| economies” and has indicated that limmediste and united actien of the | wative production in expectation of tomorrow) lers shall be cut. |he will recommend amendments to workers can prevent the actual car- | the rail bill when Congress meets in ing through of these attacks ——| January. Meanwhile, the lay-offs “9 4 . Ft i ition of a shop committee. 16, to raise finances for the Sopkins | the big industrial centers. But they remem “i strikers. The admission is 35 cents,| want -the- workers to get used to|,,1ne Strikers have accepted the offer : jof the Unemployed Council: to sup- inclagiae Pana transportation from } the idea.. They want to disarm thems | port them. Food and money are be- |to make. them -think it is a-natural |; | i Directions: Take Western Ave. car ing collected. process of the Roosevelt prosperity igieatais south to 111th Street, then change | Scheme. UDDY MFG. CO. | In voting to strike, many workers | have the slightest difficulty in ar- recalled the victory secured in Fe-| ranging the matter of lay-offs. East- | bruary, 1932 when 10,000 relief work-|man.has just announced that formal | ers struck against a 15 cents per hour | restrictions on lay-offs in the rile jcut and forced the ty to pay the| way act as it now stands “constitute But there should be no west to Sacramento, where trucks will waiting. The workers in all the; pick you up and take you to the|Shops and factories should discuss | farm, what this rise in the price of bread| How Patrick Moore of St. Louis Was Buried by Charity ST. LOUIS, Mo.—I want you to how the St. Vincent de Paul i ona Patrick Moore on May 25, in be organized now to demand lower | Co., led by the Needle Trades Werk- Calvary Cemetery. He was buried in a box made like a U out of red wood 8 inches deep, 6 feet long, 18 inches wide, just nailed shut, and set down in 4 feet of earth. I asked the man who was digging the grave if there was some one else in there and he demands, they should remember all prices will go up. All unions should! take up the rapidly rising prices and| jits relation to wages. | | meetings should be organized torally | the workers against the rise in prices | which will mean a wage cut. | Neighborhood committees should |bread prices, to prepare demon- |strations in front of the leading |wives against the inevitable price rises, to sound the alarm against |this method of pressing down the | workers’ living standard, | The Communist Party nuclei, Factory gate} will mean to them, how it will cut] down thelr wages. In formulating We IN Led by Needle Trades Industrial Union | BRIDGEFORT, Conn.—The strike of needle workers at the Buddy Mfg. | ers Industrial Union, was settled last | Week after the boss, Mr. Dansky, had! and painted with plain varnish, about |bakery stores, to arouse the house-|acceeded to the main demands of: the strikers, which included the re- linstatement of a discharged worker, {an increase of 2 1-2c a dozen dresses |for pressers (most of whom are Ne-j gro workers and walked out 100 per said yes. You could see the top of | Working with the Trade Union Unity cent), sanitary conditions (additional the box. | League, should take the initiative in This is the way they buried Mr.|forming these neighborhood com- Moore. His number at head and foot is 69-70, The worst sight I ever saw. ‘mittees against the rise in bread |and other prices. A house to house | partitions and ventilation in toilets), and no discrimination against Negro; | workers in the distribution of work.} | Wages at this plant ran from $2 His wife never got to see him after | canvass should be made to enlist the|@ week (5 1-2 hours) to $5 a week he died at the city Hospital. support of every worker's family. |for most of the operators, examin- The undertaker told me during the. Meetings should be called, and res-| ers, floor girls and pressers with a drive that he had his old clothes on, | lutions against the high prices and | maximum wage of $10-$12 weekly for ‘The charity institute, backed by our 100 churches in the city and also helped by the county fund, just buried him like a dog. ‘the Roosevelt | passed. |tions against the bakeries should be idrawn up. The workers’ children starvation scheme A program of demonstra- | the most experenced workers, Noon hour meetings held at the factory gate by the Needle Trades | Workers Industrial Union forced the There were no handles on Mr. |Sshould be drawn into active par-| boss to grant a 10 per cent wage in- Moore's casket. Just a box. He lived at 1409 No. 10 St., St. Louis, Mo. His | wife lives there yet. Reemployment inSteel Mills When Workers Collapse from Heat YOUNGSTOWN, O., July 2—On ‘Thursday of last week there were no less than 24 heat prostrations in the local mills, These figures do not in- clude Republic Iron and Steel, which refused to give figures. ‘The local paper, the Vindicator, reports that many of these workers were in such serious condition that they had to be treated at the city hospitals—in oth- er words, that after the horse doc- tors employed in the mill first aid stations had worked on them they still were unable to go on working. Steel hired 25 men last week—the day after 25 had collapsed from a combination of heat and speed-up. WIN CONCESSIONS IN SILK MILL ‘ STRIKE NEW YORK.—A trade journal re- ports that the Brewton Silk Mill at Brewton, Ala. has “granted certain concessions, pending the taking effect of the industrial control act,” and that the strike there is over, ———__— ARKANSAS GOVERNOR FEATHERS HIS NEST MENA, Ark.—Governor Futrell of Arkansas has kept at least 14 of his relatives out of the soup lines by thoughtfully providing them with work in various departments of the state government. payroll is $24,500. 500 SHOE WORKERS ON STRIKE wi ESTER. Mags. June 30.— More than 500 Worcester shoe work- ers have struck against the employ- ers’ practice of firing workers named to complaint committees His record family ticipation in this struggie. Neigh- borhood meeting places of all trade \unions, fraternal and other workers’ organizations should be visited to \give their gupport to the neighbor- hood committees, to urge these workers to join the double fight— {in the shops and against the |stores—against the rapidly rising | prices, The millions of unemployed whose relief is systematically being cut, should, on the basis of the rise in bread and other food prices, mobilize to demand an increase in cash re- lief. Not only does the Roosevelt scheme lead to a direct cut in the amount of relief, but’ the cut is further emphasized by the rise in the basic food prices. Only immediate organization and struggle on all fronts can be effec- tive, The bosses are already carry- inig through their speedy program of raising prices on all necessities of life. With wages low, with mil- lions of unempioyed now starving, and millions more having their re- Mef cut, greater starvation faces the entire working class, Worker Tells of Bum Food, Filth, Phoney Medics in N.Y. Prison NEW YORK—That filfth and starvation is the daily fare of work- ing class prisoners on Welfare Is- land, while prisoners with money en- Joy comparative freedom and the best of food. This was reported to the “Daily” by a worker who has just completed a 5-day sentence for par- ticipation in a demonstration before the Home Relief Bureau. “Medical attention” does not ex- ise for the majority of prisoners, In oné of the dormitories, a worker ge mained in agony for hours and final-| ly died without receiving a doctor's attention. So-called “medical in- Spection” consists of lining the pris- oN | grease in an attempt to head off the | strike. The majority of workers went out on strike, however, and forced | the granting of the additional de- mands. |Texas Relief Cut by . (Starting Forest Work AUSTIN, Tex.—Texas is deter- mined to do its part in making the poor bear its own burden. With a tree army of 11,750 men, not count- ing the war veterans to be “enlisted,” this state is easing its burden of re- lief $293,750 per month. Each man is allotted $25 per month for his de- pendent family, and he 4s given $5. | There are still 1,000,000. person drawing relief, but no doubt, under the “new deal’ there are unlimited metros by which ay capitalist class can draw blood out of the proverbial turnip, Some of these methods ‘are e to come to light soon with the present drive to call an extra session of the Legislature in order to decide what is to be done. Gov. Miriam A, Ferguson in the winter, made the statement that a special session would be called only in case of an “uprising” or “emergency.” 900 Chicago Cabmen Are Locked Out CHICAGO, July 2.—The Checker Taxi Company declared a lockout on 900 of its drivers today. ‘The driv- ers gathered in a mass meeting last night to protest against the storage fee raised by the company from $15 to $17.50 weekly. The company as- serts that many drivers owe them $100 to $400 in storage charges al- though the cars, chauffeur owned, were never in the garage except for repairs. oners up and prescribing various pills, without any real examination of the individual prisoners y the “Recovery” Bill and What Does It Mean? | Every act of the Roosevelt admin- istration since its coming into office | has been against the masses. The | banking holiday aimed to save the | big bankers through wiping out the | small depositors. The economy bills — slashed the wages of the federal em- | Ployees and the veterans’ allowances hundreds of millions in order to give the Morgansand Mellons and Kahns | an opportunity to continue to escape | payment of taxes on the billions they | Tobbed from the masses, ‘The Roosevelt inflation program at one blow lowered the living standards of the tens of millions of workers and poor farmers, while affording greater profits to the big capitalists. The Roosevelt government no less | than the Hoover Government is a) Wall Street government, | ‘The Roosevelt reforestation camps , which were heralded as assistance to the unemployed even more clearly | {express the class character of the, {government and its anti-working | class legislation. Three hundred thou- | sand young unemployed were mili- | tarized into the camps. A million of | their dependents were taken off the relief lists, These young unemployed | are now refused release after six! months contract service. They are be- | ing whipped into shape for the com- ing imperialist war. The greatest por- tion of their dollar a day wage is| forceably taken from them and sent | to their families to save the capital- | ists even the little relief they were | compelled formerly to give to the unemployed. i ‘ Rising Struggles of the Workers | the months before Roosevelt took | office, as well as immediately af- | ter, striké movements and the strug- gles of the unemployed increased and sharpened. The strikes in the first mé|mofiths of this years embraced more workers, covered more industries and localities than ever since the crisis. The militant strikes of the miners, auto workers, textile workers, needle workers, and workers of numerous other industries have been able through their solidarity and militancy to force higher wages and improved conditions despite the treachery of the A, F. of L, leaders. Looking for 2 Way Out. ‘The capitalists and the Roosevelt- Wall Street government realized the necessity of taking immediate and drastic measures in their efforts to stave off the developing catastrophe already indicated through the bank- ing and financial crisis, the fall in exports, and in the growing struggles | of the workers. To the capitalists | there could be only one road—a greater attack on the living standards of the masses, lowering the cost of production in order to be in a bet- Fascist Planes Off AMSTERDAM, July 2.—A squad- ron of 24 planes flying to the Cen- tury of Progress Exposition in Chi- eago, took off today for Ireland, its | continue, regardless of the question Transportation Workers Everywhere Write of Readiness to Organize “NEW DEAL” ON LONG ISLAND RR. EXPOSED BY ONE OF ITS WORKERS Crew At 5-8 Their Pay of legality. The roads go ahead with lay-offs without waiting for official ® By a Railroad Worker Correspondent JAMAICA, L. I—We railroad workers on the Long Island Railroad are daily hearing of the good things that are happening, such as new men being hired, wages raised, freight and car loadings picking up, and that after che month of May there will be no more layoffs on the railroads | because the government said so. In the first place we are handling about the same amount of work to- day as we did two years ago with about one-half as many men. Be- fore the men worked seven days a week, now the mechanics and help- ers four and five days a week. The engine crews are staggered, allowed to put in so much time and then they must lay off, ‘The new deal is on today. With the cost of living going up, the value of | the dollar going down, and our wages remaining stationary, we actually have a cut under the new deal. Within the month Morris Park, L, I, alone laid off 15 car shop men, 12 engine and roundhouse men, 17 trainmen, with more layoffs sched- uled to include laborers, helpers, mechanics, firemen and engineers. Thirty to fifty years steady service | means nothing when lay-offs are in bloom. ‘Three years ago the back shop and roundhouse was merged into one seniority point, the men vot- | ing on it. After the voting the men were told by the company union | committee that the workers in the | back shop, who have from 10 to 50 years seniority have no more senjor- ity, that they were considered new men, and that the men in the round house with one or two years seniority can, when he gets laid off, go into the backshop and “bump” a mechanic with 40 or 50 years seniority. And this has really happened. Machinists and boilermakers who | | were laid off in the roundhouse with lonly a few years service “bumped” off machinists with 37 years rights. A boilermaker, John Stinnes, with 47 years continuous service — his first end last job—in one and the same place, was “trimmed” by a fellow worker with only a few years rights. These conditions must and will be stopped, but only through the united front of all crafts, laborers and un- | employed. The power is in the work- | ers’ hands and not in the union mis- leaders, bosses or the United States president. Fellow workers, we've been talking for four years with the misleaders heading the parade. The time to act is now, and this is one thing no- body else can do for us. ‘The steam plant which used to heat up the cars before they were — pulled out of the yards in the morn- ing was closed down early in March. The engineer and fireman had to go with his engine a half hour before starting time and heat up the cars for which they received no pay. The | | engineer used to get one half hours pay for oiling up his engine before lhe took it out, now the oil boy does | it along with his other work for | which he only gets his regular pay. Gate crossing watchmen get $54 a} month for 10 hours per day. | | | We have unions. Plenty of them. | Twenty-one shop crafts and brother- | hoods not counting company dues- | paying and none-dues paying com- | | pany unions. But we are represented | | through the Unity Groups which are | becoming militant. The workers are | talking action and unity. approval by the co-ordinator. Forty presidents of eastern railroads met on June 29 at the Bankers Club and elected two committees. One of these is to work under the railroad co- |ordinator and the other is to work Replaced By | independently. More Echoes From Rail Profits As more roads report earnings for May it becomes clear why Mr. East- (By a Marine Worker Correspondent) | man fixed up the extension of the NEWPORT NEWS, Va.—Here is 109 per cent wage cut so quickly. Net how 25 Negro coal trimmers were | operating income of all roads in May thrown out of work, part of Roose-' was $39,000,000 against $11,950,000 in velt’s New Deal. | May 1932, an increase of 227 per cent. A Tracy boat used to hire these No wonder the Wall Street Journal workers at $4 a day to trim down | called it “the best possible settlement the cargo in the colliery. This took | the carriers could have hoped for,” RAPE FRAME-UP OF TWO NEGROES each crew man gets $2.50; $25 in all ‘The coal is piled high in the hatches and the ship casts off the dock. The Homeless Boys Jailed While Seeking Place to Sleep in Park Trimmers The crew work straight through and then batten down the hatches. What is wrong? The crew re- places the workers at about five- eighths of their pay, working over- time to do it, They do four men’s work each and save the company $75. The crew should fight for more pay | and not take this work away from the trimmers. Two and a half months ago, Tracy cut our wages $2.50, the exact amount we make by replacing the NEW YORK.—Herman Hunter, 23« trimmers! year-old unemployed and homeless SEAMAN. Negro worker, was released in the | West Side Court Friday morning, a framed-up charge of rape against | crashing completely under the blows of the local International Labor De- fense, which defended him. Indians Strike on LOADING SCOWS AT S50 A MONTH (By a Marine Worker Correspondent) (By a Worker Correspondent) PORT ANGELES, Wash.—About a NEW YORK.—The McGinnis Barge year ago at Neah Bay the Washing- Co. has about 15 scows. They employ ton Pulp and Paper Co. built a log- only six men to run them. ‘These | sing ae A Ley Bis be had | water supply the! eles workers have. no time to even cook a_ mills with pulp wood for making meal because they are transferred yaper after working some time the from scow to scow as quickly as they| camp was shut down. load the ashes. At that time there were 17 white |men doing maintenance work on the If a scow is left at the end of the | yoaq at a daily wage of $3. In open- trip, the captain has to pay his fare ing the camp again the company | back to Brooklyn to take the next hired 7 Indians to do the work that} Logging Railroad Hunter was arrested Thursday night in Riverside Drive Park while looking for a bench to sleep on. | Hearing shouts nearby he went there to see what was wrong. Three men grabbed him, shouting, “This is the |man!” A white girl then accused him | of having attacked her. | Beaten With Rubber Hose In jail that night, Hunter was | third-degreed by detectives with their | fists and rubber hose, but he refused to be beaten into making a false confession. After the frame-up was exposed in court Friday morning, police tried to one, For this work they get the huge | the 17 white men had been doing at hold Hunter on a disorderly conduct the starvation wage of $2.10 a day.| charge, but the I. L. D. forced the sum of $50 a month, This is impossible to live on in that ashore as “they might catch fire” but | all day and hollering at them to get it is all right for them to do it when|@ move on if they just stopped to they are rushed from one scow to the| spit on their blistered hands. other to make profits for him. The| The Indians stood it as long as it | captains have to buy their own kero-| was humanly possible, then struck | sene. the job, Their demands were that | the old scale of $3 a day be paid a OT The boss tells them not to go/| locality. Also a straw boss looking} them, that instead of 7 doing the) 7 ree ee STEEL) ork of 17 that 10 more be hired, | that the speed-up system be abol-/ NEWCAS' Pa., July 2.—The | ished. I'll write more later. Blair Strip >| Co. has announced | erated & 10 per cent@cace-cut, bringing the | NOTE: general rate @Bovn to 22 cents an| We publish letters from workers in hour, Most the Blair employes | the transportation industries every average two three days’ work a! Monday. Get them to we by the week preceding Thursday. | dismissal of this charge, too. Kenneth Hamilton, 20, also an un- employed and homeless Negro worker, was arrested Thursday night in Riverside Drive Park, charged with having beaten up the companion of a white girl and then attempting to attack her. Hamilton claims that as he passed | by the white man started a fight with him and when he defended himself the girl shouted for help, then lodged the attack charge against him. The TI. L. D. is investigating this case. Go to see every subscriber when his | subscription expires to get his re- ' newal,