The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 13, 1933, Page 3

U. S. FIGURES SH OW JOBLESS INCREASE WITH OUTPUT RISE More Autos, Steel Made With Less Workers— Betty Matthews, Hurt TN May the-entire capitalist deal” prosperity ballyhoo campaign. impress the yorkers with the lishéd all sorts of fantastic figures about increased employ- They knew these figures could not be checked up until much later when they hoped that? ment. Rooseveli’s drives against the work- ers would show. results. Now we have #dee cold figures. They show that A. #-of L. stories about a huge rise in employment begin- ning in May were-lies deliberately fabricated by Bill Green's research staff to help Roosevelt put over his slave codes. Commerce Dtpartment Refute Lies. The latest pljijication of the De- partment of Corhmrerce issued in July gives a complete summary of employment indé: figures for May. What do they show? They show employment for-May 1933 was below May 1932. For example, the Depart- ment ‘of Commerce shows that the index figure for factory employment in May, 1952, waa 62.1. In the per- ie of ihe “new deal” it dropped to 6. Figures HATEVER "pyoduction increase there was in>May was achieved with @ smaller fumber of workers. A few illustrations from the iron and stscl industry and the automo- bile industry shew conclusively that greater uncmployment went hand in| hend with increased production. Here are the “facts. the Department, of Commerce figures steel production in May 1932 was at 29. It jumped to 49 in May 1933, when William Green and President Roos2velt were shrieking about pros- y. But what happened to em- ment? Were more workers em- ployed for this increased production? The same Survéy, of Current Busi- ployment in the steel dvopped from 56.5 to 52.5 at the very time producticn. jumped up from 29 to 49. The automobile industry has been a favorite theme for thg prosperity posts on the Rogsevelte,‘new deal” publicity staff. What axe the figures | of the Department ot ommerce? Automobile prod¥ctiongumped up from 57 to 64. In acti cars pro- Guced this represents aWise in out- put of from 86,000 adf}s in May 1932, to 172,276 cars inw1933. But the employment-index figure drop. ped. It went adWh from 54.7 to 43.8. n F. Green is able, on of the government fig- ures fer these basic industries which are as clear as day, to tell the work- as th@ve..was €@n jncreace in em Ploytient at that*time in these in: dus‘ries, just goes to show the ex- tens ef the lying depravity of the A. T. of L. leeders/4A. their eagerness to hel cut their masters. Unemnleyment Increases. ice in automobile production s to 198,173 ig small enough to in employment. 23 cf the Department of Com- © for tho™Ieading industrial Ss Will chow the extent cf Green's ex Figares*of Employment 1928321100 City May 1933 May 1932 Boltimdre 25 Chiez4o 55.9 Cleveirnd 69.7 Detroit 69.6 Milvoakee 59.3 Now Werk .! BI Philadelnh +638 66.7 exceptions, where increase (Milwau- all of these cities show a ¢Cockine “in May, 1933, below Mzy 1932. > At the same “time payrolls were. 44 lower. This stresses the fact re-| peatedly neinted ‘out by the Daily | Ww, crises that sbhile production was being inezeaced for speculation and . the workers’ poverty od, The imdex of -fg-terv pavrolis for May. 1952. was 46.2. In May, 1933, it sed to/A20. In actually weekly earnings ii meant a drop of $17.17 2. week in+1932 to $16.71 a week in 1933. 2 Wages for s) factory workers dropped dure ie summer era of the “new deal” to 45 cents an hour as against 51 cents the year before. For unskilled w6rkers the drop in the same period Was from 40 cents an hour to 38 eents an hour. When Green, Roosevelt and Gen- eval Johnson now talk about a “lag” in unempk the; it it mildly as they had ‘There Wan ® definite decline in the basic indus- tries with the rise in production— he tap sl fact from a study of bpm ete of - partment of Comimerce, wecne O Pig . UT on the other hand there B those who gained from the « deal” Rocsevelt's drive against working class had its results. are some of Stock Soar, Between July .8; 1932 and July 8, 3 re ei 1933, the value ofvstocks on the New York Stock exchange doubled adding $23,500,000,000 to the quoted prices, At a period Production was ‘he workers in the:lower payrolls and in higher bread prices, The same ment of Commerce reports also a rise in over- production, a rigs’ in the commodi- ties on..the shelves which could not be bought by the impover- ished wage slaves.” The next issue of the Business Survey will un- According to | from which. the above figures | cel production were teken show | mills | \ comvarison;.of the employment | press began the famous “new They tried hard to gains in production. They pub- doubtedly show a steep rise in stocks on hand, forecasting greater unem- ployment for the wcrkers. An instance of this is the textile |industry which knowing beforehand of the inflation program, of the slave code and of forthcoming higher prices, speeded up production in or- | der to stock up, and with the inten- ‘tion later to slow down production. These facts should make clear to |the workers how far Rooscvelt and the apostles of the “new deal” are ready to go in their efforts to de- | ceive the workers while putting over | the bosses’ program. HOSIERY BOSSES CODE PROPOSES $8 WAGE SCALE Company Union Plans; ‘Drastic Cut Prepared for Highest Paid; A code for the hosiery workers |has been tentatively announced by |tlie" National Association of Hos‘ery |Manufacturers which establishes minimum wages of $8 a week for \learners, with a three-months ap- | prenticeship period. This appli2s to both full-fashioned and seamless |hosiery workers. | The $8 a week minimum wage for rers is the lowest minimum-wage le thus .ar established in any of | tile codes. The apprenticeshi; jelause is, again another schem> of the employers to keep wages iow laud will be accomplished by a steady curn-over of workers who wi'li he lenss'fed as apprentices. “Minimum for Skilled. A minimum wage of $12, is vs- jtablished for stampers, boxers an ,comb-winders, $15 for toppers, loop- \ers, menders, $17 for boarders, and for the most highly-skilled workers |leggers and footers, a scale ranging from $18.50 to $27.50. In the seam- ss hosiery industry, wages for | nitters are as low as $11, for loop- (ers and boarders $14, and for ma- |chine fixers and machinists $18. | To head off a union in the plant, the employers are calling for the lestablishment of a company union scheme establishing a shop commit- ee of three, two of whom are to be mill employees and a management committee of three of officials in a |position higher than that of fore- ;man. The shop committee is to lconfer with the management com- ‘mittee on all grievances, and in eases of dispute, an “impartial” to JMS 1933, from 172,276 |person shall settle the dispute. a| OM Strike in Ohio — | 40-hour week is proposed. DISTRICT OFFICE MOVES ©HICAGO, Ill—The Chicago dis- trict office of the Communist Party jhas moved from 1413 West 18th St. to 101 South Wells Street, Room) big Cleveland shoe firms increased | so-called impartial new telephone is Dear-| wages 10 per cent in order to head| usually decide in behalf of the bosses’ {703. ° The born 3931. Poverty Increasing Among Farmers | in Auto Crash, Dies | NEW YORK.—Zetty Mattiews, charter member of the Penn and Hammer, and recording secretary of the New York group, died last week as the result of injuries re- | | ceived in | |sas. She was | I | cobson, chairman of the New York |sceretariat of Pen and Hammer. Union Heads Move to Sell Out the Reading, Strike [Workers Advised to | Wait for More Pay | Under Slave Code | READING, Pa., July 12.—With | 12,000 workers on the hosiery and other industries in Reading and vi- cinity out on strike and with the strike threatening to sweep the en- tire region. moves are under way by the officials of the A. F. of L. and Amalgamated Clothing Workers to strangle it if they have their way. {In compliance with the Mayor of Reading’s order that mass picket lines be reduced to 12 workers for each | Plant, the union officials are discou- raging mass picketing. Their insis ence on @ federal mediator to ar’ |trate the strike and the speed with |which they are maneouvring for terms to assure recognition is another | evidence of the desire to check the | strike thovement. Union recosnition lis the only demand raised by the of- ficials. This would provide the check- off of dues from the wages of the | workers which is their main objective. As soon as a mill is recognized, the | workers are ordered back to work and | told to wait for the Roosevelt Code | for their “higher wages.” At the same time, the agitation of the Union offi- |cials and the Socialist Party, which |is also active here, centers around | building confidence of the workers in | the Roosevelt government. No Rank and File Participation Hardly any rank and file partici- pation in the strike is evident. A | rank and file group which is now or- ganizing is urging the workers to turn |the strike into a real struggle. To | achieve this, it is necessary to de- }mand that a broad rank and file strike committee be elected represent- ing each shop and that no agree- |ments be made with the employers by individuals or submitted to ar- | bitration but that they be settled by | this committee. The workers should especially resist the move to send | them back to the shops without wage | | inereases as these gains should result | | from the strike. Mass picketing and the organization of relief committees | is imperative if the strike is to result j jin winning improvements for the | | Workers. | /250 Shoe Workers | 250 shoe workers at the Krippendorf- | Dittman Co., here have gone on strike | , because the company refused a 10 per |eent wage increase. | Immediately upon hearing the news| off strike action in that city. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY. JULY 13, 1933 THE SAME HOUSE, % OF a ¢ Farmer Sells Crop for $80, Result cf Eleven Months’ Labor for 2 LURAY, Va., Route No. 1—Editor Daily Worker: In regard to conditions of labor in this section, an adjoining tenant farmer has just sold his crop for $80. This is the result of eleven nths labor. His son-in-law, who ists him, realized $40. They are operating a $16,000 farm, These men are practical farmers and in- dustrious, hard workers. The overall factory, which employs practically only piece workers, are running full time 9 hours a day and six days a week, and they draw from 35c to 80c per day. The tannery, which has been closed for the past four weeks or more, and no definite time r reopening, with its mod- ern machinery, now produces about five times as much leather with one- fifth the number of men it used five years ago. —tLester Ruffner. ' AmalgamatedClothing Official Sells Out 1,000 Shirt Strikers LEBANON, Pa., July 12.—One thou- sand strikers of the Liebovitz Shirt | Manufacturing Co. returned to work! Monday in the Reading, Pottstown and Myerstown mills of the company, with promises of arbitration of their wage demands. The arbitration sell- out was engineered by Leo Kryzcki, national organizer of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers, whose chief | XENIA, Ohio, July 12—More than interest in the strike is to obtain re-| cognition of the union for the dues to be collected from the workers. ‘The workers went on strike in the hope of gaining a wage increase. Their demands will go to a committee of arbitrators who profits against the workers. and Agricultural Workers \CHILDREN LABOR IN FIELDS, STARTING FOR WORK AT 4 A. M. pias fete: atirareni (By a Worker Correspondent.) NAMPA, Ida.—The wages paid the |ssricultural laborers are tragic. Take the pea-pickers, who receive about half what they were paid last year —lic most-places and 20c in a few, as against 32c in 1932, per hamper, | And those hampers! Anyone who has ever tried to fill one of them knows the wherefore of their dia- bolical shape; 9 inches in diameter about 2% feet high. The weight is all at the top, and they are the “settlingest” things ever invented for the exploitatioh of child and super- |anuated labor, Most of the workers are children from 8 years of age up, and they have to be at the receiving plants jat 4 a. m. in order to catch the | trucks to the fields. Not satisfied with the natural graft of these peculiar shaped hampers and the starvation wages, some of the buyers are paying only every two weeks, and giving the pickers no checks or slips with which to check against the company count. As (& result, many of them claim to have been gypped—with no recourse. Top wages for hay hands is 31.50 per day and board—same as last year, with a surplus of hands, so that those who ¢are to shop around, can get their hay up for a dollar a day per hand—or less. Hog prices have again tobogganed from $5.25 to $4 for tops. Relief work in town is still set at $2 per day for 4 to 6 days per month, depending on the size of family, and payment is in grocery orders. The workers and farmers must be made to see the necessity for organi- zation to fight the Roosevelt hun- ger program. Some of them would like to see the system overturned, but hope that the chief moguls of the system itself, Morgan, Baruch, Roosevelt and Co., will “get religion” or big-hearted and scuttle thelr own Go to see every subscriber when his subscription expires to get his re- at the bottom, 16 at the top and| } ,Ship. This means hard work for us ‘to make them see the necessity of | putting up a united fight. Plowing Cotton Under Is Start of ‘Crazy Year’ \Writes Cotton Farmer (By a Farmer Correspondent.) TUTTLE, Oklahoma. — Last week should be called crazy week, or be- ginning June 26, should be called crazy year. Thousands of people are signing up to destroy from % to % of their cotton acreage. If the plan goes through, many fine patches of cotton will be plowed up in the next two weeks. Cotton that the farm- ers have worked hard to grow, Many people hesitated before they decided t6 sign to destroy it. Tt is discussed by many peoples as the most absurd and the craziest move | lions of acres are destroyed, esti- | mating an average of 148 pounds of lint or 450 pounds of seed cotton to the acre and it takes one person | three days to pick one acre of cot- ton, there is 30,000,000 days work de- stroyed which produced what the le badly need. There are now many people who! live on the farm that are destitute of food and clothing. Cotton chop- ping that paid 75¢ to $1 per day is over. The harvest that paid a very small wage to a small percent of people that. were out of work is prac- tically over. What are we going to do is a question asked by many people? | People are begining to say “shall we or shall we starve?” Others are wondering, yet waiting patiently, and I am wondering if the workers will finally decide that to organize is the only thing to do. —I. i I i NOTE: We publish letters from farmers | and agricultural workers every Homeless Workers ReportFarmPoverty (By a Young Worker Correspondent) ST. LOUIS, Mo. — I am writing many other youg workers. My group of buddies left Philadelphia a short time ago and are now touring the South. have to get otr meals by going to the back door of farm houses. Most of the farmers-are glad to help us| but they hav, very little after giv- ing half of weir crop to the land owner and paying all expenses out of the other half. will always get less from the trust. If they do pay more, it will be after most of us sold our crop, M- a “es have vagrancy laws times. In Arkansas workers are taken off freight trains and sold to land owners for their fine and cost. The largest such farm is owned by Joe E. Morris, near England, Ark. Young workers are forced to work from twelve to fifteen hours daily at the rate of twenty-two dollars and fifty cents per month. The place is well guarded and the workers are at the point of a gun at all times. This is by no means all that we are forced to go through, but enough T hope to prove to you that we are not living a happy carefree life. The homeless workers must orga- nize and demand federal unemploy~ ment relief for all homeless workers, abolition of all vagrancy laws and Thursday. Get them to us by the receding Monday forced labor, —G.G BUT TWO DOORS while holding on the railroad with | Being without funds we| a Millinery Open Trial of Zaritsky Called by Workers —By Burek| SECRiTARY FAVORS SUSPENSION OF Uncover Racketeering of Ojficials Exposes Open Shop Plot With Employers By H. FRIEDMAN Zaritzky, president of the Cap and Millinery International, once jat a capmakers’ meeting tt man’s Amalgamated is a v gocd | -Thus the entire shop, for year in year out. In return for the | high wages, they would help the firm mated |to cut the wages of the entire shop rad 4 $9.90 as often as it found convenient. years, union and we, capmakers, can learn|found themselves in the throes of a whole lot from that or Out of credit to Mr. must be admi of forming c! giving full pr | underworld characters so th |their help to be better abl ion.” , it tter to t |rorize the workers in the shc jsell their interests to the bosses, our |president is a true disciple of Mr. !Hillman of the Amaigamat: Pine For years, a bunch of contemptible racketeers reigned supreme in B. |Greenberg’s shop. The union office supported them directly and other- wise. Every worker in our trade familiar with the many acts of terror, \eraft and. corruption the clique in the shop used to put over on the workers, The workers used to brin; rg" j against the clique to ihe union of- {fice or the executive of Lecal No. 1. |The grafters would always be white- | washed by the union officials. firm as high as $100 a week each WARNS FARMERS - OF MISLEADERS OMAHA, Neb—As corn cultivating draws to a close, and the harvest of small grain starts, the misleaders of! s the farmers are beginning, to get un- easy and show signs of fear. Evidence of their fright is obvious from their statements made during the last few di Ss. Misleaders Fear Upsurge of Militancy It was during a breathing spell aft- er the harvest in 1932 that tie farm strike got under way. The farm ma: es have learned much about mislead- “farm aid” promises, the value of militancy and the value of ization in the past year. Their mis. leaders fear this knowledge and they anticipate a movement soon that w far surpass the farm s e of 19 in organization, ccmands and taney. These misleaders have receni learned, to their sorrow, that by call- {a3 ling off the second strike, tha: was I asked them if the Roosevelt to have started on May i3th of this) farm relief program would help. | year, the militant attitude of the rank Dr. Abelson). Now, in case the boss Most said no, prices may be going|and file farmers was meiely delayed | breeks ahe agreement with the union, up for city workers but we farmers |irom acting and not at all weakened a special provision is made for that, er cooled. In a lengthy statement obout Roose- velt’s “recovery” ect, Milo Reno ex- | posed his own fear for the safety of —it will not require any great amount of time to demonstrate which road |this program will take.” (Preserva- | tion of the capitalist system or revo- lution by farmers and workers.—E.) Denouncing Capitalism~to Fool the Farmers And John A. Simpson, president of the National Farmers Union (Simpson is the ex-president of a large Oklahoma bank) in a speech over the radio told the farmers “that the capitalist system must go!” He has what he thinks is a clever line. It is arranged to fool the farmers, | What does Simpson suggest as a |means to hasten the destruction of capitalism? Like all misleaders, who pretend to demand an immediate de- struction of capitalism, Simpson ex- poses his real sympathies by his rem- edies. “Organize!” with the capital- istic National Farmers Union or with the Milo Reno element “and _ bring about the principles of the Golden Rule.” Simpson, Reno and their kind are not out to destroy capitalism! They ere trying to preserve a government of bankers and insurance sharks by misleading those who would exter- minate such robbers and murderers, —E. and jout Zaritsky’s union. that the firm’s moving | Association rep: is| These fellows used to get from the) |merciless grafters who received the |heartiest support of the union and the firm was able to cut wages re-| peatedly and imposed othe able conditions on the workers, Am Open Trial The racketeers got a notion that|Frank J. Prial, they could get along very well with-itroller of New York City, Tt has been} ber 5, 1932, at which a Labor Research | ‘though they rece i age Three OF LABOR MASS. NIGHT WORK LAW .tion of Sale Code Di July 12. wid toute favor of the suspension of the usetts if it interferes Recovery (Slavery) [ EXTORT $2800 ins, . FROM WORKERS ON STATE JOB Wagesat Negro, White A. F.L. Bricklayers ‘Robbed by Contractor NEW YORK.—Extortion in wages from 21 lat ‘i Constructi: tion pbuil Armor: of 2 Co., ing for on an the 36! the company filed the decision of Jus- awarding the workers members of the Brick- layers, Masc and Pi: national Union of the eration of Li r, aled that al- ealed pay en- velopes each lay containing their wages at the contract rate of a day had to return $2.90 of each to the constructio: company the following Mon: |day or be laid off. This, the workers pointed out, made their wages only $7 a day when employed and they de r individua bates ranging m. $20 to $2 per man which sums i jhad been extracted from them. a At ng held before stant Comp- | on Novem- previous hea’ mtative was pres- the shop from New York to Yonkers| ent, it was brought out that some of was but a scheme concocted by Zarit- | these wo: ers had compained to union sky’s proteges to throw out the work- | delegates when one of them had been ers from the shop and make a scab| fired. When the union attorney failed p there | venient hour |ish “scheme. of the in the open trial of the plotters. They waited for a con-|to show up at the first hearing, the to carry out their devil-'| Trade Union Unity Council had taken A quarrel in the ranks} up the case through Allen Taub, In- perpetrators, however, resutled| ternational Labor Defense attorney. leak. The workers in the shop} At that time Sam Williams, Negro| forced the union office to arrange an | work At the|refusal to kick back” with $4.20 out , told of his being fired on his epen trial, workers hurled the bitter | of his $14.20 for two and a half days truth in the face of Zaritzky. They | first pay day after having four times openly blamed the president and his} work. aides for the plan. The office, these Negro workers have been the chief workers stated in their denunciation | sufferers. One, testifying before Prial as a libera of the labor burocrats, nursed the|that he had thus been forced to re- eleven plotters in the spirit of graft |turn $175 over a period of six months, and corruption and the union offi-|toiq of the procedure whereby the als, on many occasions, utilized/men were mulcted. The timekeeper, low creatures to suppress the|he said, would follow the men on the orkers in that shop and to place| job shortly after they were paid off them at the mercy of B. Greenberg.!anq demand a “kick back” on penal- |the bankers and insurance sharks guv- | agreement. | ernment by saying, “One thing is sure Zaritzky deprived the workers of the! of wages. wealthy | The Shop's Decisions |ty of firing those who refused to 4 ‘ th | ‘come across.” At that time Taub's| Zhe shop decided that the chief! ction that the company produce ors of the plot must go. decision arrived at by jshep was that a committee of the shop ‘should go to the office of Workmen’s Circle to have them ex pelled from that organization. It remains’ to be seen wh r or not the Workmen's Circle, whith has be- come’a nest for scabs, will comply with the demand of the shop. Because the firm did not succeed in its scheme (to turn the shop into it signed an agreement union. The workers ef-the shop were not consulted as to jfor the new agreement. The offi- cials brought a signed and they had to vote for it. And the | agreement is eloquent of the, New Deal spirit incorporated in the In- dustrial Recovery Act for which both | so enthusiastic. ies The New Agreement the |tinue thelr fight. Zaritzky and his mentor Hillman, are} to ten the | time books was denied by Prial, Tam-/ many agent. The men plan to con- SELL OUT STRIKE OF 5,000 BERRY PICKERS IN CAL. the demands to be made on the firm} Vice-Consul, State La- agreement bor Official for Low Pay; Terror Continues) OS ANGELES, Cal., July 12.—Pive thousand berry pickers on strike against starvation wages of 12 to 15 cents an hour were sold out One point of the agreement says this week when a settlement agreed | that 40 hours work should be the/uoon by the fake liberal leaders of week's limit. | wokkers would h: }@ Week and their loss in wages is— | & little less, The second point states that strikes ‘are: prohibited; and every contro- versy between capital and labor must go-to the arbitrator (the notorious | toon According to the third point, | the: union has a right to take out an injinction against the firm should the* latter act in violation of the In other * words, | shop of their only effective weapon, the. strike, to guard themselves jegainst the worsening of their con- ‘ditions and told the workers to rely |on capitalist justice. | Well, is not our president an orth- odox follower of the nationally known’ racketeer, S. Hillman? This | experience teaches the workers of the shop that they must form a good committee of honest and class- conscious workers, representative of all branches of the shop, to defend their conditions. Farmers Stop Sheriff ~» Sale in Colorado JULESBURG, Colo.—More than 100 angry farmers gathered at the court- house here recently and prevented Mark G. Gyger, county treasurer, from holding a foreclosure sale on land owned by Reeves Loveland of Sedgwick. Gyeger said, sale of Loveland’s prop- erty would be held up ninety days or more. Loveland’s farm was to have sold for delinquent mortgage pay- ments to a Grand Island, Nebraska Trust Company | But since, in conse-|the Mexican confederation of labor | quences of the piece work system es-| and engineered by the Mexican vice- |tablished in the new agreement, the! Consul Hill and the State labor agent lost 30 per cent Barker forced the workers back to lof their former wages, the union of-!work at practically the same miser-! |fice permits them to work 50 hours) able wagoe level. By terms of the settlement the workers will get $1.50 for a 9 hour day or 16 2-3 cents an hour while the workers had been holding out for 25 cents an hour. The berry bosses had offered the workers 20 cents an hour, as a min- imum, so that the Mexican liberals who have put themselves at the head of the strike to defeat it, and the Mexican Vice Consul and California’s state representatives have actually succeeded in holding the Mexican Mr.| workers down to an intolerable level In view of the rapidly mounting prices, the settlement is virtually a wage cut and not an in- crease. The intervention of Roose- velt’s labor department in the strike, exposes the agreement as another smashing attack of the “new deal regime” against the living standards of the workers. Terror Drive Continues Meanwhile, having sold out the workers, the politicians and other fake leaders are engaging in a fas- cist program of terror and deporta- tion to wipe out the militancy of the striking workers before August 15th when the agreement terminates. Rex Thomson, assistant Los Angeles County Superintendent of Charities, announces that 5,000 Mexican fam- ilies will be deported immediately. The organization of fascists bands to terrorize the strikers has commenced, In El Monte, a group of 10 Mexicans, led by a self-elected “sheriff” arrest- m Textile Strikers That w Should Be Suspended If Slave emands U. S. Secretary of Labor Perk- 1, frankly declared herself in night work law for women in with the application of the In- aw, at a meeting at which a egation of Salem textile strikers ere present Miss Perkins was the speaker on the Recovery Act at an open forum at Wellesley College last Saturday, vyhen she was confronted with a few practical questions raised by the who made the trip from The delegation came to find ¢ Industrial Recovery (Sh Law would do about the back breaking speed up plan which the Pequot company intends to in- tall. Miss Perkins de it quite clear that the ration would ‘not help the kers but would support the company plan, instead. The company’s proposal would not eliminate any workers, she declared when questioned about lay-offs and if the night work law would mean lay-offs she is for the suspension of what adn | the law. The liberal lady who champions la- bor laws for the workers has no ob- jection to the return of a practice which has been abolished as dan- gerous to the health of women and future generations if it will help the bosses’ profits. Reminded that Gov- ernor Ely had made a drive for a moratorium of all Massachusetts la- bor laws, Perkins criticized this ac- tion but evaded responsibility, “I was not Secretary of Labor then,” she said. She forgot to mention that she is supporting it now when Gov- ernor Ely has revived his campaign, Anxious to bring to an end what s obviously an unpleasant inter- , She closed the discussion and ed off saying she had another appointment. The strikers were accompanied: by Ann Burlak of the National Textile Workers Union and Robert Bakeman, former mayor of Peabody. Bakeman, who leans heavily toward the Socialist Party in his ideas of strike tactics was opposed to Ann Burlak’s open criticism of Frances Perkins. “Embarrassing Miss Perk- ins is not going to help the case,” he declared, although he admitted that | public officials pretending interest in the workers should be exposed when they act against the workers. That the strikers are placing no | faith in Miss Perkins or the vacillat- jing tactics of Bakeman is evident from their iron determination to de~ feat the stretch-out plan. The dele-~ | gation will report the Perkins inter- | view at a mass meeting of strikers. Vets Resent D. A. V. Sell Out | Program Disabled Vets Tear Up Membership Cards WASHINGTON. D. C.— Reports from reliable sources are coming into the Veterans National Rank and File Committee that members of the Dis- abled American Veterans, thoroughly disgusted with the sell-out program put over at the National Convention of that organization, are tearing up their membership cards. E. W. Martin, a Negro war vet who is in constant touch with veterans throughout the nation, just returned from a tour of Maine and other eastern states, re- ports that anger among the D.A.V, men is everywhere evident. A Betrayal The program adopted by the Na- tional Convention of the D.A.V. in Cincinnati is one of the most open betrayals yet perpetrated by any of the organizations. It includes: oppo- sition to bonus payment; no legisla- | tive efforts for any but service Con- ‘nected cases, ignoring and leaving to starve the thousands of Disability Al- lowance cases, pensions, and other | benefit-receiving vets who face hun~ ger as a result of the Economy Act. Bonus marches were tabooed by the | Convention, And veteran preference jon federal employment was handed {a knockout. The entire legislative | program of the D.A.V. has all the ear- marks of having been written by the White House. |__The Veterans National Rank and | File Committee, with executive of- fices in Washington, D. C., 210-11 Maryland Bldg., is composed of vet~ erans from all veteran organizations, | regardless of political beliefs, race, color or affiliation, The program of the Rank and File Committee is: Immediate cash {payment of the adjusted service cer- _ | tificates; repeal of the Economy Act and restoration of all disability; com- pensation, disability allowances, pen- sions, hospitalization rights and do- miciliary privileges; immediate reliet i all unemployed workers and farm~ ers. questioning of strikers is proceeding |rapidly. The real purpose of this ex- amining process is to obtain informa~ tion which will be used for deporta~ tion of the most militant workers and strike leaders, At Pomona, the terror against the | workers who were picketing in the | fields in protest at not receiving their earned wages, resulted in the use of | sawed-off shot guns by constables to ‘drive out the pickets. Lopez, a pick- et, was arrested and charged with | peace-disturbance. Although the strike has ended with- | out real gains for the strikers, a real / ed a worker, Valdaas; and even young basis has been established for~ re- Mexican boys have been misled into|/newal of the struggle in the next patrolling the roads with heavy sticks| season. Tho membership recruited to keep out organizers of the workers. | into the Agricultural Cannery Work- Aided by the Mexican Vice Consul,/ ers Industrial Union and the youth under pretense of selecting 200 fam-| nucleus, will again attempt to organ< ilies for a desert settlement in Lower | ize the workers for struggle for sub- California as outlined by Calles, ex-|stantial wage increases and recogni+ tensive physical examination and! tion of the union, 5 bs