The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 29, 1933, Page 3

| | Five Logging Camps, Sawmills Tied Up in Lumber Strike Strikers, Demanding Pay Raise, Fight Forced Labor Wage in Code Proposed by Boss Lumbermen ABERDEEN, Wash., July 28—For the first time in ten years the lum- ber workers of the Northwest, are reviving their old fighting tradition which bronght them the reputation among the workers throughout the country of being among the most fearless fighters in the class struggle. Strikes are breaking out in Klamath Falls, Oregon and Grays’ Harbor, Wash- ington in the spirit of 1918 and 1923.¢ In some of the most rabid open shop logging camps in Grays Harbor the workers, resenting the bosses’ lumber code, are out on strike. On July 13 the workers of the Saginaw | Camp struck for a wage increase; the M and B camp came out in sup- port of the strike the folowing day. Since then Clemens camp No. 3, Clemens No. 2, the pulpwood cutters, and the Donovan and Corkery and Shaefer camps are out on strike, all in Grays Harbor, Washington. The strikes were stimulated by the call for a National Lumber Workers Conference, which created consider- able discussion ee alee nee jacks. It was discussed on the jo! ing was called and @ vote taken to | day to send help to break the biggest at the Saginaw camp. Later a meet-| strike ever waged in the industry. strike. The jigs erereplly, | A conciliator of the U. S. Labor De- they can ward off the blows of the | today in response to the call and held lumber bosses and the Four El|a conference with the producers and through the proposed lumber code.|the strikers. No settlement was Demands are being formulated by | reached when the men stood pat for the workers in their own strike com- | their demands. Film Actors Join Strike mittees and sentiment stemngly favors the National Lumber Work- ers Union. A general demand for Mae West, the four Marx Brothers, | Eddie Cantor and Wallace Beery $8 a day for a 5-hour day and double| ;- 64 the walkout of the 5,000 tech time for overtime is being raised. 1 le 5, ech- Reports from the Northwest indi-|Mical laboratory men, camera men, cate that. five logging camps and property, general utility and trans- * i portation men. The strikers ask for a union shop, 12 hours a day, a 6- five sawmills are tied up semble rty state hi men have Honey. siete ighwey pattel | day week and pay for overtime. ! Following the conference, Pat been sent to the strike region. Sev- Casey broadcasted the news that the FEDERAL AGENT FAILS TO BREAK BIG MOVIE STRIKE Several Film Actors Join 5,000 Strikers HOLLYWOOD, Calif, July 26.— Movie producers. eral have: already been arrested for Picket duty. uy Four of the 14 mills around Kla- frantically tele- | b | Phoned President Roosevelt yester- | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1933 Front-line Trenches of Rochester Strike | BUFF ALO ACME 9 i STEEL STRIKE |. WINS BIG GAINS BUFFALO, N. Y—The strike of the 150 workers of the Acme Steel & Malleable Iron Works, Inc., ended | July 26, with a victory for the work- jers. The strike lasted two w | during which time there were 13 ar- |rests, four workers bedly beaten jand 2nd degree charges of assault placed agains’, four. | The men who used to get 30 cents | an hour now have a guarantee of 40 cents an hour; all other workers | to get*20 cents an hour will get 30 jcents and hour; all other workers | will get a 10 percent increase in | wages; the shop committee is rec- | ognized, | The shop is now practically 100 per cent organized in the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. This is the second strike led by the S. M. |W. I. U. that was won in the last | few weeks. | | ‘TERZANI FACES ~ SPECIAL GRAND - JURY AUGUST 1 Attempt To Railroad Anti-Fascist NEW YORK.—A special grand jury | will be called August 1. to rush thru! the frame-up of Athos Terzani, anti-| fascist worker, on a charge of mur-| dering Anthony Fierro, anti-fascist| student, according to word received | by the Terzani Defense Committee from Assistant District Attorney Loc- cisano, it was announced today. Fierro, it is charged by the defense, was murdered by a member of the Philadelphia Khaki- Shirt organiza- tion who came up with Art Smith, national commander, to the meeting at Columbus Hall, Long Island City, where he was killed. District At- torney Loccisano, it is charged, had the murderer in his hands, and had him identified to him by witnesses, but immediately released him. Lucille Rizzo, (inset) striker at the Keller-Heuman-Thompson clothing plant in Rochester, is shown armed with a gas mask, prepared to defy the tear-gas bombs thrown by police to break the picket lines around the plant. Girls in the background, are shown with their clothes torn during an attack on the picket lines by police, 1,500 Locked Out; Boston Dye Union Calls Strike 11 Shops On Strike For Union, As Bosses Move! to Form Company Union BOSTON, Mass., July 28.—1500 dye house workers and 4,000 tailors were affected by the lock-out declared by eight wholesale dye houses here in| Page Thres Roosevelt Blanket Code Means New Attacks on Wages, Says TUUL Towboatmen Draw Code of NEW YORK.—The Nation vention of the Marinc Wi dustrial Union proved th ‘ses Towboatmen are deter: ed to es- tablish a United Front of all marino Workers against wage cuts, long hours, rotten conditions and for un- employment insurance. In spite of the fact that the “trusted leader” of the towboat union refused f the second time to accept the offer of UNITY, rank and file delegates vere present to take up the problems of the harbor workers. Seven were ent at the opening of the convention. The nature of the anti-wor class Recovery (Slavery) Act was ex- posed at the special harbor workers’ conference and the first step against, this act was taken immediately the rank and file delegates by draw-) .,. ing up their own code. The con tion agreed that if it is the purpose + er federal agents of ‘the “Recovery” Administration to| ‘he othe: federal agents, eve ivi raise wages, reduce working hours|°<”* SM DALARLIAE wAvRrnra et and increase employment, then this,|0° the strike Pie rhpeesniey ; agents are directly due to the sweep- the workers’ code, is the only one that will accomplish this purpose. The code contains the following demands: 1. No workers employed in the towboat section of the marine indus- try, shall work more than 40 hours or more than 5 days a week—no more ‘than 8 hours in one day. 2. The minimum rate of pay shall be $90 per month for the unli section of the crew and a yearly minimum income of $900. No worker shall be given less than 40 weeks employment per year. Where this is impossible, the government shall pay unemployment insurancé equal to the difference between t! amount ($900) and his actual yearly earnings. The government shall pay unem- ployment insurance equal to the min- imum amount set as a yearly income in the respective section of employ- ment, when a worker is\ totally un: employed. math Falls, Oregon, have been closed down, the workers demanding wage increases. Five hundred are out at the Weyerhauser Co., one of the largest lumber operators in the | country. Four hundred are out in three other plants. At Burns, Ore- gon, the large Edward Hines plant was closed down for two days when the workers struck for more pay. Pay increases of from 4 to 12 cents an hour are reported. The strike is the lumber workers’ most effective answer to the forced labor wage standard of $10.80 a week and a 48-hour week proposed by the lumber men in the code which was recently heard in Washington. EVICTIONS IN N. Y. INCREASE DAILY Will Resist Evictions, Says Carl Winter NEW YORK —According to Mary L. Gibbons, director of the Home Re- lief Bureau, dispossess notices in July will surpass the figures of June when 40.000 such notices were issued and 400 families were actually thrown out on the streets. The reason given is that landlords refuse to accept Home Relief rent checks especially from new tenants. Unemployed families depending on relief are refused rent’ until their furniture is on the street. Then the Home Relief Bureau in some occa- sfons grants a check for a month’s rent in order to move the family. At the end of the month the family finds itself once again in the same predicament. As a result a large number of families are shifted from house to house as much as a half dozen times during the year. When ihe Unemployed Councils and work- ers in block committees organized resistance and held demonstrations before the Home Relief Bureau of- fices they succeeded in stopping evictions. This new threat of whole- sale evictions “will find increasing work of the block committees in all parts of the city which will fight every eviction,” according to Carl Winter, secretary of the Unemployed Council. CHICAGO PAPER BOX STRIKE WON the low paid category of workers. All others received an increase of 15 an hour, plus a raise of 10 per | strike is at an end, but the men’s ranks are unbroken, and the. strike is firm, Scabs hired by the producers have messed up the technical apparatus, | which is proving costlier to the com- ;Panies than they expected. Rumors are spreading that Wall Street has stepped credits to the film magnates, and that the RKO is among the com- panies facing collapse. The men are being organized in separate locals under the jurisdiction of the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees. their move to smash the growing industrial union which has just been or- ganized by the dye house workers, Strikes have been called by the Eagle and Lederman Dye Houses for higher wages and union recognition. The Dye House Workers’ Industrial Union has issued a call for a gen- erat strike to answer the lockout of the dye house bosses. Other shops on strike are the Dor- chester, Troy, South Side, Boston, Beacon, Cabot and Just Right. In the Lederman and Eagle shops the bosses are organizing company unions, another example of the union in the Arlington, North Shore, | © false propaganda of the employers’ and A. F. of L. that the workers are assured the right to organize under the Recovery Act. | support the general strike of the Dye House Workers by assistance on the picket line and by raising funds to carry on the strike. Strike head- quarters are at New International Hall, Wenonah Street, Roxbury. All Boston workers are urged to | Terzani was framed on the murder charge at the direction of Art Smith, to shield his own murderous gang- sters. Smith has claimed that a big proportion of the Philadelphia police force belongs to his organization, which is cpenly fascistic. An attempt to frame Michael Pa- lumbo, another anti-fascist worker,| on a charge of felonious assault in| connection with the attack of the Khaki Shirts on the anti-fascist| workers at the meeting, was defeated | | by the International Labor Defense, | which forced his unconditional re- lease. 3. Monthly and yearly minimum pay for licensed sections of workers shall be $150 minimum per month for deck mates; $225 per month for en-| gineers; $235 per month for captains. 4. No overtime shall be permitted except where absolutely necessary, Tuesday, ing strike movement in the state and the developing mood for struggle among the steel workers. The fist of the government is st: out to crush the strike of thousands of workers here against company unions increasing as a result of th: si 1 Recovery Act and against ion codes of the bosse: is is expected to open the hearings on the steel code in Wash- ington. \Schiffli Embroiderers Draft Workers’ Code UNION CITY, N. J., July 28—A workers’ code, drawn up by the Schiffli Embroidery Workers’ Union (affiliated to the die Trades Workers’ Industrial Union) includes | the following demands: Minimum wages of from $15 a week for helpers to $40 for spanners work- ing on Automat machines; 35-hour week; equal pay for equal work for youth and adults, men and women; each worker to perform only one op- eration; watcher and shuttler for each machine; a minimum of two workers in every shop containing one machine; abolition of child labor; wage adjustments as prices rise; un- employment insurancs to be con- tributed by .bosses; right to belong to union of workers’ choice and right to strike. and then to be paid at the rate of time and a half. 5. All crews to be enlarged to the 1930 standard. 6. All workers receiving at - the present above the minimum set shall be given a 10 per cent increase in wages. 7. Wages shall be adjusted for all (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) to the brink of a new world slaugh- ter. ‘The coming to power of the fas- cist Hitler government in Germany, which cannot solve a single problem for the German masses and is there- fore driven to wild military adven- tures—greatly sharpens the interna- tional situation leading to war. The fascist dictatorship of Hitler's pro- fessional murderers which came in- to power with the help of the Social- Democratic Party, which has con- ducted a bloody reign of terror against the German working class, and especially its staunch leader— the German Communist Party; the fascist dictatorship which is arrest- ing by the thousands militant anti- fascist leaders—is hastily preparing for war. The revision of the provi- sions in the Versailles Treaty—the so-called “peace treaty” of 1919 which enslaved the conquered nations—is today a fundamental issue which is leading towards war. Already the flames of the oncom- ing world war are blazing on Chi- nese soil. The Japanese imperialists have, through bloody wat, seized the whole of Northern China to Peip- ing. The Chinese Nanking govern- ment has betrayed the national lib- eration struggle of the Chinese people. It has surrendered to the Japanese, invaders in order to con- duct its counter-revolutionary war against “its own” Chinese workers and peasants who have liberated from landlord and capitalist slavery a large section of Central China in which they have set up a Chinese Soviet government. The struggle be- tween the United States and Japan for domination of the Pacific mar- kets threatens to break into open warfare. Capitalist World Against World of Socialism. The very intensity of the strife between the imperialist robbers in- WORKMEN’S SICK AND Death Benefit: $4,888,210.93 In Case of Sickness, both classes: CLASS A: 40 cents at the Parents may insure thelr chil tivel; : a a i for another forty week ' OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ORGANIZED 188{—INCORPORATED 1900 Main Office: 714-716 Seneca Ave., Ridgewood Sta., Brooklyn, N. Y 58,235 Members in 351 Branches Total Assets on December 31, 1931: 83,488,895.98 ‘Benefits paid since its existence: Total: $17,050,262.66 Workers! Protect Your Families! Death Benefit according to the age at the time of initiation in one or per month—Death Benefit $355 at fhe age of 16 to $175 of 44. CLASS B: 50 cents per month+Death Beneftt $550 to $230. ren in ase of death up to the age of 18. Deat! fit according to a; Bier “Benen paid. trom he ea dato for the frst forty weeks, half of the amount for for ayes $9 per week for the first forty weeks: $4.50 each For further information apply at the Main Office. Wi . Secretary, or to the Binancial’ Beeretaries of the Breach Neti a me " DEATH BENEFIT FUND Sick Benefit: $12,162,051.73 Accident or Death! of filing the doctor's certificate, $9 and War Is Drawing Nearer! pH Fa Bem | Roosevelt Leads Offensive To Lower Living Standards And Prepare For War, Seeking a Way Out of the Crisis for Bosses creases the menace of an attack upon the Soviet Union—the fortress Rally to Struggle A of world socialism, The imperialist | powers are desperately attempting to | postpone their inner conflicts thru intervention and a war of destruc- tion against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, While the decay-| ing slave system of capitalism is | sinking into ruin and starvation and | toward another explosion of world war, the Soviet Union, one-sixth of the earth taken over by the workers and farmers is successfully building the new system of socialism, free from economic crisis, exploitation, unemployment, hunger and imper- jalism. Capitalism, rapidly sinking, sees the magnificent upward growth of socialism, the industry of which is advancing at a rate never equal- dying system of capitalism seeks to save itself by throwing the world in- to a wild reactionary bloody on- slaught to destroy the goverment of the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union and to divide that country with the sword between the greedy imperialists. Danger of War Against S. U. Grows Greater. The entire capitalist world is tacking the Soviet Union. The Hug- enberg memorandum presented by the Hitler government to the World Economic Conference shows that German fascism is looking toward the Soviet Union and is offering to be- come the advance guard of the im- perialist war makers in the war against the Soviét Union. The Four Power Pact, initiated by Mussolini and MacDonald is an_ instrument through which England hopes to bring together the European powers in a war against the Soviet Union. Japanese imperialism, carving out a new empire for itself in China, is conducting its war activities around the Soviet border, utilizing all sorts of provocative acts to draw the Sov- jet Union into war. The United position in China is endeavoring to provoke ® war between Japan and the Soviet Union in order in this way to weaken both Japan and the Soviet Union and strengthen its own position in the Pacific. The §S. U. Fortress of Peace. Only the firm peace policy of the Soviet Union, only the growing strength of the socialist economy, only the vigilance of the heroic Red Army and the masses of workers and peasants in the Soviet Union and throughout the world have so far stayed the bloody hand of the im- perialist powers. The non-aggression pacts -signed between the Soviet Union and neighboring countries, the renewal of trade relations with England, following the mad rush for Soviet trade by the United States, do not lessen the danger of an at- tack upon the Soviet Union. These Pacts only once again reaffirm the peaceful policy of the Soviet Union led in the history of the world. The }'\ eagerly seeking the moment for at-!> States bitterly fighting for its own! perialist powers. Socialists Aid in Carrying Through War Plans, The first world war was prepared by the imperialists with the aid of the leaders of the socialist parties throughout the world. Instead of fighting against the war, they became the recruiting sergeants for their “own” capitalist governments. The same socialist parties are help- ing now to repeat the crime of 1914. ‘Then they came out in support of the slogan of “defend your government.” Today they are preparing to drag the workers into another World War “in defence of democracy against dic- tatorships.” The German Socialist leaders, after leading the masses of German work- ers into supporting capitalist rule under the name of “democracy” after surrendering most of the gains made | by the workers in 1918-19, after pre- venting a united struggle against the oncoming fascist dictatorship—have openly surrendered to the bloody fas- cist rule of Hitler. The French So- clalist leaders are voting in Parlia- ment now as for the past many years, for appropriations for imperialist policies of the French capitalist gov- ernment. The Socialist leaders of Czechoslovakia are supporting the policies of the capitalist class and helping the establishment of fascism against German fascism, The Jap- anese Socialist leaders justified the predatory war in China. The war ment of Poland are openly supported by the Socialist Party. The Socialist And all are the most persistent baitors against the Union of Socialist Sovict as against the war policy of the im- Republics, war and in support of the reactionary | on the excuse of building a bulwark preparations of the Fascist govern-| leaders of the Labor Party of Eng-! | land support the imperialist war|were murdered solely for the Profits low workers and farmers, to take a plans of the British capitalist class. | | | The American Socialist leaders, | Norman Thomas and Morris Hillquit, | have endorsed the anti-labor Indus- trial Recovery Act (The Slave Bill) and visited Roosevlt to volunteer their support just when the Roosevelt drive against the workers’ rights and stand- ards of living and for war was being clarified. Under cover of “pacifism” the Socialist leaders as in the last | World War, make themselves the most | useful supporters of the Wall Street war plans. Then they pledged not to hamper the war through strikes. | Today, just at the time when Am- }erican imperialism is spending one billion dollars for war, they say that ; “war clouds have been lifted.” The | Socialist Party has now entered the | Committee to prepare the Anti-War | Congress on September 1. We will see by their participation in this movement to what extent they dare continue their old pclicies openly demanding a real united front | Struggle against war and fascism. The Socialist and A. F, of L. lead- ers are the most necessary agents of the capitalist class in cutting wages, defeating unemployment relief and social insurance and preparing for war. cialist Soviet Republics with the vilest slanders, trying to undermine the natural love of the working class for the Socialist land—the country ruled by the working class. American workers, farmers, ex- servicemen—Negro and white—you | must remember the last World War. Remember the 10,000,000 who were slaughtered in that war—the 30,000,- 000 wounded and crippled! The flower of the youth of all nations | of the same type of bankers and _speculators who are now preparing | the second World War! Remember that the government at ugust Ist Against War! Firm Peace Policy of Soviet Union Is Weapon Against War, But Bosses’ Try To End Their Conflicts by Attack on U.S.S.R. Washington at first promised to have) | mothing to do with that war in Eu-| Soldiers and Sailors of the Anny and Navy! You are workers’ and tope! Remember that Woodrow Wil-| farmers’ sons—under the uniform! son was elected to a second term on | the cry: He Kept Us out of Waz!— | Your people are the working people of this country. Are you ready to and immediately plunged the coun-| take sides with your own people try into war, saying it was a “War|ogainst the hoggish bankers of Wall for Democracy.” But democracy did/ Street who are plunging this coun- not come out of the war. Instead of | try into the second World War? democracy and freedom and a “better |» 3 ‘ » + a |" All Workers! War is drawing near- world,” the ugly head of fascism,’ ..and nearer. There is only one way wage cuts, lynching, unemployment | out for the working class—revolu- and mass starvation came out of that | tionary struggle against war, fighting war! |, | Shoulder to shoulder for the destruc- They said it was the “last war” for |tion of the source of wars—for the | “peace.”! But peace did not come out of that | bring only misery, greater poverty, war. , greater death and disease. The free- | destruction of capitalism. War will| | before their worker members who are | They attack the Union of So- | Weld the Unity of the Oppressed in the Struggle against War | Workers, Farmers—Build the united | front of struggle against the outbreak of imperialist war, for the defense of the Chinese people, for the defense of the Soviet Union. Miners! Steel Workers! Railroad | Workers! Marine Workers! The sys- | tematic onslaught against your wages, the mass dismissals, the starvation of your families, must be resisted. Re- member the importance of your power in the mines, the steel mills, on the railroads and marine shipping. You have tremendous power and an equal | duty to give your great strength to |the struggle of the working Class against the oncoming world slaughter. Workers of the American Federa- ‘tion of Labor! Local Unions of the ‘a. F. of L, Have you not suffered sufficiently from the capitalist wage- | | cutters and war makers? | Socialist Workers! Branches of the Sccialist Party! You who declare your devotion to socialism! Are you ready now to join with your Communist Party comrades and the trade unicns and unemployed councils in a united struggle against imperialist war? Are you ready to join in one great mass movement of the American working class to defend the Soviet Union—| the socialist fatherland of the work- ers of all countrics? Women of the working class! You who will be asked to give up your {sons, your brethers and your hus- bands to die on the battlefields to | make bankers richer with plunder— Ave you ready to join a_ struggle against the second criminal World| War? Negroes! You who are doubly ex- | Ploited and robbed! You who ar? | Jim Crowed and lynched! Are you teady now to take a firm stand against the second World War of im- | perialist bankers for the further en- | slavement of the world! Ex-Servicemen! You who have seen your brothers shot down by a | government controlled by war prof- | iteers—ycu who are cheated of your army pay while your children starve! | Are you ready to join with your fel- |courageous stand against the plung- | ™ jing .of your country into another | | World War for the profits of the! ‘bankers? aaa AC CC LLL LOLA LE AAA ing of the working class and all op- pressed toilers is possible only by destroying capitalism, and establish- ing in the place of the dictxtorship of Wall Street—the dictatorship of the vroletarlat—the rule of the work: and farmers, On to the streets on August First in a mighty demonstration against ‘mperialist war! For Working Class Unity Against “Tunger and War! Not a cent for war preparations. All war funds for unemployment ‘clief and insurance! gainst the Roosevelt forced labor itary camps. For immediate cash relief to all unemployed work- ers and their families, Not a penny off wages. Not a penny new taxes on articles of mass consumption, Defeat all forms of the sales tax. Against Roosevelt's Industrial Re- covery Act! For higher wages and velief to meet the higher prices. Yefond the right to strike! Defend the trade uniens as organizations of struggle! Make the rich pay the back ages (bonus) to the war veterans! jemand the return of all cuts in veterans’ disability allowances. Step the shipment of ammuni- ten te Japan! Capitalism stands for Hunger and War! The Soviet Unton stands for Seourity and Peace! Defond the Soviet Union! The Chinese Soviets are the only liberators of China. Defond the Chines? people and the Chinese Sovicts azairs* militar'st reaction and imperial onprersion, Weld firms: ths international rolidarity of the workers against “aselet reaction! Solidarity with the n workers In the struzgle ‘ainst the murder policy of Hit- ‘erism! Demand ths immediate re- ¢ of Thaeimenn, Torgler and her mill‘ant Jeacers cf the Ger- tvorkors, Way out ty srugle agalnst— ors’ and Farmers’ Gov- Central Committee, €. PUL S.A. | Wage Lower Than Cotton Code The so-called blanket code which Sidont Roosevelt is trying to ene in all industries through “vole ” agr with the em- . ding the working out of ; se e ccdes for the respective in- dustries is one of the worst forms of attacix on the wages on the workers yet undertaken. It aims to fix a wage even lower than the wage fixed in the cotton cods, The cotton code fixed nimum for the North at $14 n * the South at $13. elt blanket code for all S weuld fix the minimum wage at $10.50 for a 35 hour week for 1 workers, thus $2.50 less than the i for the cotton workers his is being accomplished through joker in the blanket code. For he blanket code speaks of a and 40 cents an hour for all industrial workers as the min- um wage, it ne same time pro- es that those workers who received less than 40 cents before July 15th are to receive only the wage that they now receive but in no case Jess than 30 cents per hour. What does this mean but actually negating the 40 cents minimum wage and the setting of a 30 cents per hour wage? ‘This : with the provision of the maximum of 35 hours, which on the one hand is no better than the old Hoov tagger plan and on the other hand does not by any means guar- antee a 35 hour week, nevertheless wages of the workers at $10.50 Higher Wages Pared Down It is argued by some government spoxcsmen that this is only a min- imum wage and will not affect wages of workers receivirig more. The goy- ernment is entirely evasive on this jissue. At the same time the éni- ployers are taking full advantage of this fixed minimum wage put for- ward by the government and are re- ducing the wages of the workers who receive above the minimum fixed by the government. There are numerous examples of this practice already on hand with the textile code only in | effect a few days. In Fairlawn, N. J. more than 2,000 workers employed by the Textile Dyeing and Printing Company of America are on strike because the company is cutting the wages of the higher paid workers down to the minimum. The workers are demanding a minimum of 60 cents per hour at the same timz2, This is the hourly rate proposed by the representative of the National Textile Workers Union at the cotton hearings at Washington. A. F. of L. Company Unions The American Federation of Labor Officials of whom President Green and others are members of th2 Industrial Recovery Administration have approved this starvation wage of $10.50 for a full working week. These officials have also announced that their policy is not to organize the unorganized into unions in ‘the industry, but instead to organize sep- | erate “plant” unions which is an- other way of organizing the workers into company unions only with the blessings of the A. F. of L, leaders, in return for which the workers will bo made to pay dues to these officials. The bosses, aided by the leadership of the American Federation of Labor are using the NRA for the purpose of lowering the living standards of the workers and at the same time fasten company unions upon the workers in one form or another to prevent the workers from organizing their own uons, which the NRA is supposed guarantee. More Unemployment in Store The Roosevelt administration which condemned the ballyhoo prosperity propaganda of the Hoover adminis- tration is now trying to outdo the latter through its own flood of prop- aganda For example on one day they claim that six million will be placed back to work by Labor Day. The next day evidently seeing the workers demanding the fulfilment of . this promise, the figures are changed to three million in two or three months. But even in spite of this the government through the Secree tary of Commerce Roper was com- | pelled in a statement which is not the whole truth to state that while “pro- duction has increased since February by 45 per cent employment has in- creased only by 9 per cent” and pay- rolls by only 15 per cent. It is, of course not true that two million were actually put back to work. But even the figures that are given show that while production is increased by al- most half, employment and wages are increased by only a small frac- tion. What does this mean? This means that the economic situation is grow- ing worse. If on top of this we take into account the rise in prices, it is clear that thus far the whole recovery talk is resulting in bigger profits for the capitalists, and a worsening of the conditions of the workers. The Trade Union Unity League and its affiliated organizations are organizing the workers to fight for the improvement in their conditions, To demand and secure higher wages, shorter hours without reduction in pay, for unemployment relief and unemzloyment insurance, This can be achieved only through the united effort of the employed and uneme th ployed wo ‘ough the building up of the wor’: own unions, the oppscitions in A. F. of L. union: and the unemp'oyed organizations of the unemployed. | The spirit of strugzle among the rising steadily. There more strikes in the last nat any time for the last The unemployed also are their rights, Strikes workers is be: ditions in the forced ‘iabor camps are spreadinz. We must Intensify all cur activity to lead these fighis, to spread them, towards the ‘end that the workers can secure bet- ter conditions. ‘ | i National Executive Trade Union Unity making ~ laSor, situgzles against. | kak ‘ at