The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 11, 1933, Page 3

RAISES COTTON PR PRICES AND THE § ORLEANS BAKERS: RIGHT RISE IN PRICE OF BREAD Local 34 Protests; Says Wages Are Cut | NEW ORLEANS, July 16. Action against the rising bread prices is de- veloping in this city, beginning with the protest by Bakers Union No, 35 Against boosting bread casts to the workers while the bakers get their wages cut ‘This protest was immediately re sponded to by the International As- sociation of Projectionists and Sound | Engineers of America, who through | its seeretary, Maurice Clark, sent a| letier Of support to the bakers, pro- posing a conference of all workers’ or- ganisations to fight against the bread price rise ‘The letter of the projectionists’ or fanization said “The morning papers carried state- ments concerning the rise in prices | of bread but not in Wages of the) bakers making the bread. Your pro- tests against the increase in pric of | bread is a concrete fact that the New | Deal will not advance the standards | of living of the worker-bakers but will | inereage the profits of the maste! | bakers and incidentally of the specu- | lators who rig the market raising flour | prices, which the consuming masses are called upon to pay, “Your eall to protest, addressed to the consumers and housewives, should | be further extended to inelude every local union in this city and state and An organization set up for the purpose of circulating petitions and enrolling both the organized and un- organized masses in every ward and precinct by the formation of block} committees to resist this new robbery | amd drive mace upon the impoverish- | ed unemployed and the wage slaves who have undergone every description of robbery from community-chest pil- lage to political lottery shake-down; | the workers denied relief of any de- scription and who have not the money to buy bread at 3¢ a loaf will be just twice removed from bread at 6 cents. “We are endorsing your protest and | we suggest that a conference of work- ers be arranged to issue a manifesto to the workers of this city and all loeal unions to #esist the increase in| the price of bread or any products CITY HAS MILLIONS | BUT STOPS RELIEF’ (CONTINUED PROM PAGE ONE: Govefhor Lehman at Boltons Land- ing, an Island in Lake George The Mayor's secretary on the in- ‘structions of O'Brien, evaded all questions of the Committee, even making the statement that the Board of Estimate would not meet today, This ruse is made with the intention of keeping large delega- tions of workers away from the Board of Estimate meeting which will take place this morning at City Hall. The Committee left a letter per- sonally addressed to the Mayor whidh States in part: “We con- demn the present method of hand~- ling relief as one of trifling with the lives of millions of men, women and children.” Carl Winter, chair- man of the committee, stated that We will appear before the Board of Estimate with the demands that there be no relief cuts. Everyone immediately be provided with relief, and we will show how the money can be raised by taxing all large incomes, stopping payment of all interest and other measures of a similar nature.” the Unemployed Councils, the Com- munist Party and numerous work- ing @lass organizations threw their whole force into actively mobilising the largest number of workers to defeat the insidious program of the Tammany officials and Wall St, bankers to totally starve the unem- ployed. During the week-end, numerous meetings were held all over the city on street corners, on the blocks, and in houses. The Downtown Council, Harlem, Bronx, Brooklyn, Brownsville, in every part of the city, meetings were taking place. Everyone of these meetings elected committees that will present the eases to the Board of Mstimate to- day. ‘The Downtown Unemployed Coun- cil alone presented over 900 com- plaints of stopping of relief to the Homs Relief Bureau yesterday. Last night, groups of workers were sent out by the Unemployed Coun- il to hold open air meetings to ally the workers to elect their ommittees to fight the stopping of jelief. fue Board of Hatimate meets to- day. New York workers must in no uncertain terms make fhe city offi- olals understand that this attack will not go through, ‘The unem- ployed workers demand that no re- lief shall be stopped, no Home Re- lief masa shall be closed, no cuts shall. take place for workers on Work Relief jobs, ee tes «oof §=furniture workers! De pe a assembled at the EAST~ he ‘TE CONFERENOE on July at 818 Broadway, New York, ay nua ol tt pn i est ag ato) reliet io unemployed in New "Fork ay Mayor O'Brien, “We demand that the Board of ate «immediately appropriates for the needs of unemployed. @ hold you. responsible for the ealth and maintenance of over tress ind rat the demand signed ein, National Chairman, and Joe: Kiss, National Secretary. ‘Roosevelt for Pe the Slavery Act. be sent to the Provisional tee for the Defense of 4 Room 637, 80 East 11th ICES. ROOSEVELT KYROC Boss Terror [lustrated; Rochester Workers Feel Poli JOHNSTON MACHINE STEAM-ROLLERS ALL OPPOSITION MEASURES AT LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER Vote Stealing Scheme RES: Bared; Defeat Plan of Progressive for Rank and File Board By R. V. CLEVELAND, 0,, July 10.—Despite STRAN. exporure of its wage-cut betrayal, con- vention vote-stealing and the shadiest kind of financial manipulations, the Johnston machine still retains preca Locomotive Engineers convention, as Clique of job-hunters which hag been managing Carl Ri has decided on a@—————— for Grand Chief last-minute change of tacties, It has foreed Rudolph to withdraw from the Yace and is putting forward I, O, En-| ders as a “dark horse,” Rudolph’s sham record of opposi-| tion to the Grand Office machine, of which he was for so long a loyal} member, was thoroughly exposed at! the convention and his unpopularity Was increasing day by day. 80 his machine finally decided he was not the right man to pull the wool over the eyes of the rebellious rank and file, Enders, whom they have now succeeded in foisting onto the oppo- sition movement, is a general chair- man on the Pennsylvania railroad and known as a “company man.” His record of opposition to Grand Of fice machine is practically nil, but he has not been sul dd to so many) attacks and exposures as Rudolph} end is more popular personally Vote-Stealing Bared Grand Chief Johnston’s vote-steal- ing tricks were exposed in the course of a fight by the opposition to re- duce the number of Assistant Grand Chiefs from nine to seven, Johnston fought this reduction of Grand Offi- cers bitterly and finally announced | that it was defeated by a standing} vote of 143 for, 166 against, This would have meant a total of 819 dele- gates, whereas there are only 315 at the convention, and the vote was immiediately challenged, It was then discovered that Johnston had been counting conyention guides and door- AFL. BAKERS SEND DELEGATES TO rious control of the Brotherhood of it enters its sixth week, The little udolph's campaign keepers (appointed to these jobs by the Grand Office) who had been coming in at close votes and stand- ing among the delegates to be counted as administration supporters. When these Johnston employes were or- dered out and the vote re-taken, it showed a vote of 161 for reducing the number of Grand Officers, to 147 against More Financial Tricks, How Johnston and the Grand Of- fice gang schemed to hide informa~ tion about the Brotherhood’s finan- cial affairs from the membership, was revealed in one of the documents in the secret report of the Bank Committee to the convention, which recently was printed in the “Daily Worker.” It is a letter from ©, Stirling Smith, president of the Standard Trust Bank, to Vice-Presi- dent E, Puckhafer of the Equitable ‘Trust Co, of New York, dated May 19, 1990, It told baldly of Johnston's scheme to hide a $450,000 debt from the members. Although exposing such financial tricks and publishing the evidence of Johnston's betrayal of the men’s interests in* working for the 10 per cent cut to boost up railroad bonds, the committee is ridiculously mild in its criticisms, It does insist, the Brotherhood’s financial losses, and refutes his contention that he didn't know anything about banking and had little to do with financial DEFEND TRADE UNION CONFERENCE NEW YORK.—-Two A. F, of L, Bakers’ locals have just elected dele- gates to the Conference in Defense of the Trade Unions which will be held this Saturday, July 15, at Webster Hall, Credentials coming in from vari- ous A, F, of L, unions such as the Tron Workers, Painters, Garment workers, Amalgamated Food Workers and othi be based on a wide representation, In responding to the conference the unions are realising the serlous- nees of the situation confronting the workers with the enforcement of the Industrial Recovery (Slavery) Act. The workers are already tasting the fruits of the Slavery Law iff the at- tacks on the Fur workers’ section of the Needle Trades Industrial Union, on the attempts to company union. ize the Laundry Workers’ Industrial Union, and to break the militant strike of the workers, and in the setting up of a starvation textile code which will attack the wage standards | of the whole working class. ‘These instances showing the work- era how false are the promises con- tained in the act ave arousing many unions to unite in action against the Slavery Act. The role of the A, F, of L, officials in imposing the Slavery Law on the workers in order to break down the militant unions and to en- foree starvation conditions on the workers 18 being revealed daily. ‘The July 18 conference must rally. the workers from every shop and factory to unite to Credentials Pexcekermeinidnesanstivicn meine ers indicate that the conference will STARVATION DIET TO BREAK STRIKE COLUMBUS, O,—An “adequate diet" for those who go back to work and a “restricted diet” for strikers has been decided on by county offi- cials against jobless workers pie | on township jobs, The strike starte against a wage paid on township jobs of 18 cents to a maximum of 30 cents an hour, The men demand 40 cents The two dieta neither adequate for a family of 8, byt one the “adequate” for those who submit to 18 cents an hour and the other “inadequate” for -ONSIBLE FOR THE R KETTING COST OF LIVING how-| ever, on Johnston's responsibility for | onal Gain and for the Profiteers Workers! Fight for More Wages, Relief, to Meet E IN BREAD ce Clubs in sss OO i Police of Rochester, N, ¥,, brutally attacking Rochester workers who wtruck against a pay cut on city and county rellef Jobs. DAILY WORKER is sticking out of the pocket of the worker being -elubbed, SEE SSAA SERRE BE a haa matters, “In addition to holding a place on the board of directors of the Stand- ard ‘Trust Bank,” the committee states, “He (Johnston) was chairman of the executive committee, In holding ofice he necessarily came in} contact with the bank’s major tran- sactions, | “Your committee cannot accept that Brother Johnston, with 13 years of banking experience behind him, serving in various capacities as presi- dent of a bank, director and chair- man of the executive committee, knows nothing about banking “Such a statement would be an acknowledgement of abnormal men- tality, On the other hand, Brother) Johnston evidenced a knowledge of banking comparable to that of any we contacted with in our investiga- tion,” In regard to Secretary-Treasurer Cassell’s statement, “I did not con- sider the business of director of the bank as seriously as I should,” the committee's report says: “An officer who is custodian of millions of dol-| lars and ean regard his responsibility | as lightly as Brother Cassell ean | hardly be said to be the proper per son to hold such a position,” Defeat Rank-File Boarg Much support has been shown for | the progressive) program advocated by | the Brotherhood’s Unity movement to clip the oczaristic powers of the Grand Office and provide tor some measures of rank and file control But the machine has been strong} enough, with the help of sabotage by! sition ranks, to prevent the enact~ ment of such measures, | ‘The proposal for a Board of Direc- tors, made up of five rank and file working engineers with power to Supervise and remove for cause the Grand Officers, was debated for two days before it was finally defeated by a narrow recorded vote of 493 to 407 (delegates casting votes for all Divisions they represent), The Grand Officers got up one after the other and fought it bitterly, frankly recog: | nising that the basis of the move, was the “general lack of confidence among the membership,” as First Asst. Grand Chief Bissett expressed it, This lack of confidence in the corrupt officialdom of the Brother- hood has reached such a point that whole sections of the membership are threatening to drop out unless there is a thorough housecleaning at the present convention, The rank and file move for Initia- tive, referendum and recall, as a curb on the Grand Office, has been blocked by a motion to table, fol- lowing a declaration from the chair that the resolution was out of order, as that part of the constitution had already been acted upon, Fear that the rank and file, at home will revolt against the con- tinued policies of secrecy, is seen in the repeated efforts to rescind the convention's action in omitting dele- tes’ names and Division numbers the minutes. Opposition ae 4 fel S’ CONVENTION . | Francisco and ter 1033 HIGHER PRICES! Fight for Relief A copy of to confuse the delegates, as many of the opposition leaders were them- selves involved in the sell-out. I} was made to appear that the motion | was directed against the press for | exposing a convention secret, and the Bankir Jommittee and Press Com- mittee were both included in the resolution, But in spite of all this, a large section of the delegates re- fused to be stampeded this time into| expressing confidence in the man who conspired with the companies and Wall St, to cut their wages. Silver, Holloware Joint Conference to Be Held Sunday NEW YORK.—Workers in the silver and holloware trade in New York and vicinity are called to a joint confer- ence to be held this coming Sunday, July 16, at 10 am. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 EF, 4th St, New York The conference is being held in response to the joint call issued by the New York district of the Steel ORGA! COUNCILS FOR HIGHER WAGES, RELIEF A |who are i, IZE IN FACTOR Y, NEIGHBORHOOD, 1D FOR LOWER PRICES UNEMPLOYED ~ ROOSEVELT OK’S TEXTILE SLAVE CODE TO PREVENT STRIKES FOR MORE PAY Fear Union Activity NEW BEDFORD, Mass,, July 10.— has been prohibited from holding any Industrial Recovery (Slavery) Act goes of the Board told the Union organizer Back of this action, are the com- » bined forces of the textile bosses, the U,T.W. officials and the jocal police in fear that the National Textile Workers Union will mobilize to defeat the new starvation textile code just signed by President Roose velt and will lead the workers to strike for the demands contained in its own code which was recently pre- sented to the recovery administra- tion Until the recent strike of 2600 weavers in 6 plants which was the | result of the activities of the N.T.W, | no difficulty was encountered by the Union in obtaining permits for open alr meetings. On Friday the N.T.W, led more than 200 weavers on strike against the Soule mill for less looms and more wages. The growing strength of the N.T.W. is feared by | the bosses and the U.T.W. officials, Outdoor meetings factor in mobilizing the struggle, and denial of this right shows clearly the intention of the | bosses to muzzle the expression of | the textile workers and cripple the | activities of the militant left wing | have been a big workers for | union The National ‘Textile Workers’ | Union intends to fight the ban on| their meetings and calls on al! work- rs’ organizations to send resolu- tions to the New Bedford Park Board, City Hall, New Bedford, Mass, pro- testing this action. TU. ULL. AIDS 2 Form United Front in Militant Strike | ST, LOUIS, Mo, July 10.—Rank | Jand file molders on strike at the Tower Grove Foundry here joined} in a united front with members of the Trade Union Unity League to bring about a successful termina- tion of their strike, after they had | applied to the TUUL for assistance. The foundry workers are members of the A, F. of L. A joint com. | mittee of strikers and TUUL mem- bers was formed to take charge of jthe situation, ‘The committee or- |ganized mass picketing at the foun- |dry and on the first day 75 came and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union and the Metal Spinners’ Union The conference will take up a pro- gram of joint struggle and prepara tions for a general strike for the fol- lowing demands A minimum wage scale in all crafts, 40-hour, 5-day week, time and a half for overtime, recognition of union, abolition of piece work, and an un- employment relief fund. These demands are tentative, and some of the bureaucrats in the oppo-|8ré Subject to the decision of the| night at 7 o'clock. conference DELEGATES ARRIVING FOR MARINE out in a militant picketing demon- |stration, This is the first time in | St. Louis that united action has | been undertaken between reformist |and revolutionary unions. | | BOOKBINDERS MEET | A special meeting of the Book- | binders’ Section of the Organization |Committee for a Printing Workers’ Industrial Union will take place at |80 FE. 11th St, Room 240, tomorrow The National Re- Act will be discussed | covery NEW YORK,—Delegates are arriving from outlying ports for the See- ond National Convention of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, which begins Sunday, July 16, and runs three days into next week. The conven- | tion opens with a banquet on Saturday night of this week, at Manhattan Lyceum, to which al! organizations greet the delegates. Jack Stachel, M, Olgin, Ben Gold are on the list of speakers to greet the convention in the names of thelr respective organizations. With the arrival of delegates in- creasing interest in the convention is being shown among the marine workers who live and work along the port of New York, ‘The first delegates to arrive are the ones who had the farthest to travel -~from Seattle and other North West 6, One of these delegates, Tom y, arrived in time to speak at a atreet meeting in New York Sunday. The meeting was attended by several hundred marine workers. Longshoremen are beginning to see that the convention will lay the ground work of organisation for a real struggle against the betrayal they expect when Joseph P. Ryan opens “negotiations” with the boss stevedores next September. Delegates from New Orleans, San in Pedro (the port of Los Angeles) are already on the road to attend. the convention, From closer ports the delegates are ready to start, having been elected during the last few few days by the local) : evigr among them many ship and delegates. From the port of Savannah a let~ | announced that the Negro long- 1 Browder, &—- are urged to send representatives, to shoremen of that city are sending a delegate to the convention. News of the convention and the call to send a delegate were brought to them by seamen aboard ships putting in at Savannah. The unemployed seamen will be re- presented at the convention by many | fraternal delegates, These delegates, | @lected by the unemployed councils |on the beach of a dozen ports will! | be present to help work out the pro- blems of the marine workers hooking |up the struggle for unemployment insurance with the demand for) shorter hours, more pay and more | jmen on the job, The workaway (forced labor at sea) problem will also be of keen importance to the | ‘unemployed representatives. The revolutionary dSck workers of Mexico, report they hope to be able send a delegate to the convention, | eee | The Marine Workers Industrial | Union must seoure sleeping accom- odations for a large number of out | of town delegates to its Convention. | Accomodations will be needed begin- [ing Saturday, July 18. All comrades who can put up men comrades for & few nights should immediately get in touch with the Marine Workers Indastrial Union at 160 Broad Street, or call, at any time, Whitehall 4-6563, | following shops | wage Ban Natl Textile Union ‘Meets Under Slave Law Against New Textile | Code; Ruling Ordered “Until Act In Effect” The National Textile Workers Union open air meetings here by a recent ruling of the local Park Board. The decision will remain in effect until the into effect, Barny Papkan, secretary when a permit was applied for. \Labor’sDividends | Under‘NewDeal’ Unemployed Scholar Pleads for Death. SEATTLE, July 10.—Richard Cook 2, bachelor of science and holder of three university degrees, was believed recovering in the city hospital after drinking poison in an attempt to end his life. Cook collapsed in a service station where he went to get a tire fixed, He was rushed to the hospital where doctors were forced to p him down to administer the anti- toxin. He begged them to let him die. “You can’t eat diplomas nor uni- versity degrees,” Cook said. “I'm Ured of not being able to get a job. 1 I'm tired of having no money.” Job Came Too Late. FLINT, Mich,, July 10.—Deserted by his wife after many months of fruitless search for work, George van Curen, 45, killed himself just ten hours before a friend came to offer him a job as watchman, His land- lady found him sprawled over a bed, clasping a .45 revolver. A note pin- | ned outside the room said: “Out, Will be at police headquarters. G.V,C.” UNION SETTLES 6 STRIKE OF A. F. L. LAUNDRY SHOPS; | FOUNDRY TOILERS WIN PAY RAISES iU nity Conference to Be Held Thursday NEW YORK.—-Settlements were ef- fected in six of the biggest laundry | the leader- Workers’ In- when the shops on strike under ship of the Laundry dustrial Union, Sunday strike committee approved of the, terms of settlement by which the workers Negro and white return to their jobs. Substantial increases in wa, were won for most of the workers and shop committees were recognized in every shop, Minimum pay scales for the girls were raised from $5 and $6 to $10 and $11, Increases from $1 to $8 were won by the other inside workers, Drivers will receive a 5 to 10 per cent in their com missions. Settlements were effected in the Super Fine, Bond, Fairy, Mirror-Like Westbgro, Master and Port Morris. The partial victory involves more than 500 workers who fought valiantly in the recent strike. ‘The workers pledged their full finan cial and mora! support to the strikers who still continue on strike. Attention of working class house wives in the Bronx is called to the increase following shops which still remain out on strike: the Active, Highbridge, Exact-Roosevelt, and Mott Haven laundries. A united front conference of all working class organizations in the Bronx will be held on Thursday evening at union headquarters, 260 Fast 138th Street to help bring the} strike to a speedy and successful con- clusion |Embroidery Workers to Draw Up Demands UNION CITY, N. J.-A member- ship meeting has been called by the Shiffli Embroidery Workers’ Union, affiliated with the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, to put for- ward the workers’ demands for the coming season, and, as against the slave code proposed by the employers, to present the workers’ demands on scales, working hours and working condiitons, ‘The meeting will be held Thursday night, July 20, at the new head- quarters, 800 Bergenline Ave. IMPORTANT QUESTION DRESS MEET NEW YORK.--Today at 1 pm. a mass open forum of dressmakers will AT | be held at Memorial Hall, 344 W. 36th ,, St. I. Weissberg of the Dress De- partment of the Needle Trades Work~ ers’ Industrial Union will discuss the question of how to achieve unity In the coming dress strike. JEWELRY WORKERS’ MASS - MEETING A mass meeting of jewelry workers will be held tonight at 6 p.m. at Bry- the International Jewelry Workers’ Union. The drafting of a labor code for the jewelry industry will come up for diseusaton. PRAISES A.F. OF L. HEADS FOR AID IN PUTTING IT OVER Only Opposition Came from Nat’! Textile Workers Union WASHINGTON, Jul Pre Roosevelt last approved the cotton ident night textile ig for slavery code a “minimum” for Southern and North worker industry, 40 hour; ern and a “maximum that the into a we ment July 17 Around so arrange Pe effect an work code lower mill slave 400,000 cotton fected by the hrough minimum them | hoi and Ww the | will receive an immedia cut n | wages. In some mills, after code |has been in effe tort while, ac- ‘ording to the admission of some of | the bosses at the Washington hear ings, many workers will be laid off The leading textile bosses expressed jtheir great satisfaction with the code }which opens the way for pressing |down wages, crushing struggles for higher we and better condition Now that the code is approved by |the President, the bosses will use to attempt to prevent low wages having been f |government sanction being giv jthem, the bosses will the direct | support of the government, the courts and police to keep workers in the mills under the starvation condition. | Commenting on Roosevelt's ap | proval, General Johnson, administra- |tor of the industrial “recovery” act especially thanked the leading strike | breakers in the American Federa- |tion of Labor. He sald that this code |eould not be put over were it not “for the close personal support and advice of the great labor leaders, William Green, John Frey, John I Lewis, Joseph Franklin, Sidney Hil man, Edward McGrady, Father Haas and Rose Schneiderman.” While the hearings were going or W. EvG, Batty, president of the New Bedford Council of the A. F. of | on June 30, rushed back to New Bed ford tobreak the strike of the work ers in the Potomska, Butler, Hatha way and Gonsold mills. “There is a strong resentment over the preser | Wage situation,” Batty said at that time. Thomas McMahon, of Textile Workers Union, it was dis closed at the hearings, held meetings with the administrator: the bosses to fix the $12 and $13 s The code will continue for months at the end of which time the bosses can come in and ask for re vision. About 77 per cent of the textile industry will be covered by the code. Special exceptions, providing for longer hours and wages even low er than the $1 13 level, were lowed for the tire fabric and m cal supply mills, In heartily approving of the Roosevelt said it should serve as an inspiration to all other industries, and should speed up the presentation and passage of other codes General Johnson said it was education of what team work in go’ ernment can do.” Roosevelt made much the proposal to eliminate ch forgetting to mention tt loan the Qotton Textile Association said that this had been “practically elim inated” because during the adult workers had been hired wages formerly paid to childr Those children who will be dismis: will be sent out to starve, no provi- sion being made for feeding them: In order to stress ‘the harmony of the labor leaders and the exploiters in the textile mills, Roosevelt said “There was not one word of accu sation, and, most unthinkable of all, it arrived at a solution which has the unanimous approval of all those conferring leaders on all three sides | of the issue.’ This entirely overlooks the fact that on Juhe 30, June Croll of the National Textile Workers Union at the hearings exposed the slave na- ture of the bill, the starvation wages and the speed-up that would go on under it, protesting at the collabor- ation of the bosses and the A. F. of | L, leaders and presenting a set of des mands completely opposed to the code {and in the interest of the workers. Among the demands presented b’ | Croll, drawn up by the National Tex tile Workers Union were the follow ing: | ‘That the industry and the goverr ment assume the responsibility for fixed minimum weekly and year wage for every worker in the indu try. Every worker be given 40 weet of employment, no less than 30 how per week, and a maximum of 40 how per week, and wages at a minimw of 60 cents an hour, “Wages should be adjusted to mee ising prices. | “That the code shall provide fo |democratically elected shop commit tees, controlled by the workers ir all mills, recognized by the employ- ers. The right of the workers to be- long to any union of their own choice, the right of the workers to strike, no night work for women in any part of the country.” At the very time of the hearing: the United ode ado ab 1 labo: “ | jant Hall, 1087 Sixth Ave., called by|}a whole series of strikes were goin: jon in the textile mills against the | starvation wages giving the Ne to | Roosevelt's declaration thi there i “was not one word of accusation,”