The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1933, Page 3

t lig Johnson Aids Auto Open Shop Slave Code Writing | Makes Special Trip to Detroit As Friend of Auto Bosses, to Help Them Keep Workers From Organizing fer Higher Pay DETROIT, July 31.—After confer- ting with General Johnson, admin- istrator of the “recovery” act, the majority of the automobile bosses have drawn up a code that provides for the open shop, a 48 hour week Whenever they feel it necessary, and a scale of wages that permits them to lower rates below the present level. \ The code says that in slack season @ 35-hour week can be installed, but at any time desired the employers can shove the hours up to 48. A minimum wage ranging from 40 to 43 cents an hour is provided. % One of the automobile bosses, ac- cording to “Business Week”, a Wall | Street magazine, said he would use the code to keep the workers from | Joining any union, “I will stick co- pies of the code up on every bulletin board,” he stated, “in every depart- ment for workers to read so that they might know that they did not have to join any union in order to work here, or anywhere else in the | industry.” The same magazine tells how the automobile code was drawn up and that the bosses do not consider it changes in the least bit their policy toward the workers, giving them an independent hand as in the past to do exactly as they have been doing. “However reluctant to formalize its beliefs, the automobile industry finally decided it was politics and patriotic to come into the church, if only to set a.good example. So representatives of the manufacturers have been working on a creed or code which would satisfy the bishops in | Washington, yet maintain their tra- | | ditional independence. | | “The scale finally vurned in favor | of a code because it was argued that | one of the nation’s largest industries could not and should not fail to co- operate with the government. Once that point carried, those who had op- posed any code at all insisted that if there was to be one after all, it must leave no doubt as to the industry's position in favor of the ‘open shop’.” This jdea of a code was agreed to by General Johnson’ who made a special trip to Detroit to help the auto exploiters draw up their slave code, The leaders of the automobile in- dustry, said General Johnson, “are JOHNSON O'S 48 HOUR WEEK FOR 5,000,000 CLERKS, Talk of 40-Hour Week| Drops; All Exceptions Are Allowed WASHINGTON, July 31.—General Johnson, who in his first radio speech ), said that a 40-hour week would be the maximum, has now consented to a 48-hour week for retail stores, cov- / ering 5,000,000 workers, The talk about 30 and 40 hour weeks is rapidly disappearing in the actual writing and. inauguration of | codes. The auto industry also has a} 48 hour week. . Thereby much of the propaganda about putting more workers into jobs without reducing pay is being swept away by the provision of longer hours at actually reduced pay for those who receive above the $10.50 minimum of the blanket code, Retailers who flocked to Washing- ton were easily able to get General Johnson to agree to the 48-hour week. In fact, any type of revision is | permissible. According to official statements made here at the indus- | trial recovery administration office, | any boss who wants an exception, | | either in longer hours or lower wages, merely has to make a declaration to that effect and file it with the local chamber of commerce. If this orga- nization of the bosses approves, the employer can operate under the ex- ceptions and be in full aceord with the act. Striking | Bakers of | Williamsburgh Hold Mass Demonstration NEW YORK.—The striking bakers of Local No. 505 staged an impres- sive demonstration at two o‘clock Fri- day afternoon in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. The procession, which started from the Williamsburg Educational Alliance, 76 Ave- nue, was two blocks long, and con- sisted of the bakers living in that neighborhood, their wives and chil- , The Bakers Women's Coun- 1 No, 1 participated with its ban- t., The International Union Band ided music. e march culminated in front of the Levy Baking Co., where an open air meeting was held. Placards and speakers appealed to the workers of the lielghborhood to buy bread with the International Union Label. ESTHER SCHWAGER Bakers ‘Women's Council No. 1 Note: One worker writes in the information to the Daily Worker that the Levy Baking Co. manufactures matgos as an important part of its business, and that those who buy such matzos are unconsciously buy- ing goods made by scab labor. 700 Disabled Vets . In Dayton Home Cut from All Pay| DAYTON, Ohio.—Beginning Aug. 1, the 700 veterans employed at the National Military Home will not re- ceive any salary all my friends”. He told them that they could expect every assistance in striving to keen the workers from being organized and to smash strikes if the workers objected to the slave code. STRIKERS IN R. L WORSTED MILL WIN ALL DEMANDS Form Local of Nat'l Textile Union; Win More Pay, Less Hrs, PROVIDENCE, R. I., July 31—All demands were won by the strikers of the Colored Worsted Mill when the strike was terminated today. The shop is now completely organized into a local of the National Textile Work- ers Union which led the strike. As a result of the victory wages of ‘the workers were raised from $7 to $14 for the lowest paid, from $11 to $16 and from $13 to $17. The demands of the strikers that no dis- crimination be practiced was granted. The shop committee was recognized and the insults and abus@#s against the women and girls’ so flagrant be- fore the strike will now be stopped. Hours of work have been reduced from 54 to 40. The workers will now be protected by their union which will be vigilant in putting this agree- ment into practice, 1200 Strikers Solid The 1200 workers of the American Silk Spinning Co. on strike here are reported as standing pat for their demands. fo ew A. F. of L, Forces Strike End at Royal PAWTUCKET, R. I—The A. F. of L. * officials have forced another settlement in the Royal Silk Weaving Co. and sent 1,200 workers back to the mill. The weavers are to get $1.85 for 100,000 picks when they were demanding $2.50. More than 400 workers of the Na- tional Weaving plant in Central Falls refused to return on Thursday when they were offered $1.85 for 100,000 picks on a six loom basis. Hull Aims to Push U.S.- British Trade War for Latin America, Canada WASHINGTON, July 31.—Wire- less dispatches reaching here from the ‘steamship Presidewt Harding on which Secretary of State Hul! is returning show that plans are be- ing made to intensify the economic war, especially against Great Britain by striving to win away the Can- adian and Latin American markets through pacts with the United States. Mr. Hull stated that plans are being made to press discussions with Canada for a special trade pact with the United States, aiming to cut out England, The Canadians through the Ottawa pact now have an “Empire agreement” with Eng- land. At the same time special pacts will be drawn up to win away Latin American trade, offering loan and other concessions to undermine Bri- tish trade in such countries as Ar- gentine, Brazil and Chile. Hulls return from the debacle of the London Economic Conference will be the signal for a speeding up of the trade war. Worker at Picnic Wins Free Trip to U.S. S. R. NEW YORK.—The following were the winners of the various prizes given out in the grand drawing at the Daily Worker Picnic at Pleasant Bay Park on July 30: First Prize—A free trip to the So- viet Union, No. 45299, S. Silverman, 71 E. 160th St., Bronx, New York. Second Prize—Two weeks’ vacation in a workers’ camp, No. 19215, Jo- seph Kushinsky, 790 Mott Ave., New York City. Third Prize—Two weeks’ vacation in a workers’ camp, No. 34703, L. Kushner, 1491 Macombs Rd., Bronx, New York. Fourth Prize—Two weeks’ vacation in a workers’ camp, No. 10008, J. Pujols, 3301 Broadway, New York City. Fifth Prize—A six-volume set of selected works by Lenin, No. 938, Harry Esser, 1977 E. 8th St., Brook- lyn, New York. Sixth Prize—A set, “Seigure of Power,” by Lenin, No, 34701, Mrs, Prooslin, 1236 Virginia Ave., Bronx, New York. Seventh Prize—First, Volume, “Das Kapital,” by Marx, No. 42003, M. Gran, 1774—50th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Eighth Prize—“Leninism,” by Sta- lin, No. 34460, Kantor, (address un- certain—illegible), Commodore Workers Demand Right To Choose Own Union NEW YORK.— Workers of the Hotel Commodore, 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, on strike as a result of the violation by the hotel of a pact with the workers’ repre- sentatives and because employees were discharged for membership in the Food Workers Industrial Union, demand, in a letter sent to the hotel manage bargainin: of the worker's choosing, which 1s supposed to be guaranteed under the Recovery Act, nt, the right to collective and to belong to a unton In connection with this, the letter made|has invited the management to a conference on\ the workers’ demands, |Special Page On Jobless Insurance For Next Saturday A whole page will be devoted to the campaign for Unemploy- ment Insurance in next Satur- day's issue of the Daily Worker. A plan of work to involve all or- ganizations in this campaign prepared by the National Com- mittee of the Unemployed Coun- cils will be printed in full. Unemployed Councils, Trade | | Union locals, Party unjts, I. W. | | O. branches, as well” as other workers’ organizations should avail themselves of the oppor- tunity to give wide circulation to this issue, Every Unemployed | | Council should order a bundle || of this issue. Other organiza- | | tions should do likewise. Send || your order today to: Daily | Worker, 35 East 12th Street, New York City, OVER 400 SHOE WORKERS STRIKE Demand Wage Raises | of 20 to 80 Per Cent NEW YORK. — More than 400 |shoe workers are now on strike, | | under the leadership of the Shoe &| Leather Workers Industrial Union, | \for wage increases of 20 to 30 per! cent, a 30-hour week, and union recognition. |_ At the Beckerman Shoe Co., 528 Berry St., the entire factory, com- prising more than 120 workers, of | whom half are young workers, went out on strike last week against miserable conditions that compelled them to labor from 7 in the morn- ing until 9 at night. The boss at that shop has already offered a 10 per cent increase, but the workers | have rejected this. Every woman} in the factory is an enthusiastic pare | ticapant in the walkout. Other Shops On Strik> | Other shops ineluded in the strike are the Chatham, formerly the Paris, at 11th St. and 6th Ave.; the Artistic Shve, Seventh Ave.; and Weissman & s. 30 Main St., Brooklyn, A meeting has peen called for |tonight (Tuesday) at 6:30 of all shop committees of crganized shoe factories. This committee will meet at Irving Plaza Hali, 15th St. and Irving Plaza to hear the report of the Industrial Union’s executive committee, and to diseuss plans for unified action to get wage raises and union recognition. Mass Meeting Thursday In addition mass meeting of | ail shee work: has “beer called} for Thursday night at 6:30, at Web- sler Hall, 119 East 11:h Sti, to dis- guss means of strengthening the present ‘ike. i The action commitice of the slipper workers will meet: today, Tuesday at 7:39 p.m. at the union headquarters to “each a finai deci- sien on preparations for a mass ceting in the campaign for -vage increases and uiion recognition, The industr:41 Union reports weny shops are ining up. and solid progress is beiag made in the cam- paign against the bosses’ attempts | to keep wages down in th> face of vising prices. STRUGGLE AGAINST | PROVOCATION Workers’ Enemies Exposed All workers and workers’ organi- zations are warned against the fol- lowing individuals who have been exposed and expelled by the respec- tive Communist Party organizations as vicious enemies of the working class. Anthony Palmer—A coal miner of Archbald, Pa. Has been exposed as an unreliable and provocative be- trayer of his fellow workers and mis- appropriator of organizational funds. He has proposed to several com- rades individual acts of terrorism not unlike an agent provocateur. By his own admissions he has spent or- ganization funds for shows and drinks, and has violated confidence placed in him by his fellow workers in that he has secretly worked with the burocrats of the United Mine Workers of America. He has elso sabotaged and deliberately miscar- ried important work undertaken by himself. Description: About 37 years of age; about 5 feet 9 inches tall, and weighs about 170 pounds; has black hair, blue eyes, swarthy complexion and high cheek bones; talks broken Eng- (lish. Paul Beverhardt— Negro ex-serv- iceman of Norfolk, Virginia. Found to be unreliable, disruptive and dis- honest. He has been seen fraternizing with a court spotter. He has destroyed International Labor Defense appli- cation cards and kept the initiation fees for himself, as well as in other ways getting money for himself under various pretenses, going even to the extent of collecting money (without authority and without giving ac- count) for the case of framed-up Russell Gordon, who is threatened with the electric chair. ¢ He has been overbearing to other Negro comrades, has in various ways tried to disrupt Party work in his unit and in mass organizations, abus- ing workers at meetings, spreading vicious slanders against Party lead- ership, etc. s Description: A Negro from the Vir- gin Islands (according to himself); approximately 38 years of age, 5 feet, 2 inches in height, 130-135 pounds in weight; brown skin, brown eyes, curly hair, slightly twisted face; very delicate and slim hands, slightly de- formed and drooping towards his body; not a good speaker, but likes the platform and has certain amount of agitational ability. Get your unit, wnion local, or mase to challenge another group in raising obs for the Dally Pennsylvania National Guard in of 20,000 miners, The 112th Infantry marching into i ane ‘ e mine area near Brownsville to DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1933 Strike Area help the oj MATTERN BACK; | TELLS OF CRASH NEW YORK, July 31—James J.| Mattern, whose attempted solo flight | around the world ended in a crash in| Siberia on June 14, returned to Floyd Bennett, field in a borrowed plane yesterday. He had been gone 57 days. He had to spend most of his time for an hour after landing in an argument with his financial backers. They got into a quarrel over the microphone and camera rights. After that was straightened up he granted an interview, but was carefyl to try to please American imperialism by refraining from praise of the Soviet airmen and the Soviet government for making it possible for him to be alive today. He said he had to land because it was so cold that the reserve supply of oil would not flow forward and he had to try to land in spite of the fog. Poor visibility caused the crash that ended his attempt far short of | the goal. Win Demands in Large Bklyn, Knitgoods Shop NEW YORK —Demands for an increase of 25 per cent in wages and for shorter hours were won by the! workers of Jay Bypthers, which is| employed Council and the local or- one of the largest knitgood shops in Brooklyn, recently organized by the Needle Workers Industrial Union. A committee elected by the workers of this shop worked out the demands which won for the workers a 40 hour week, increase in wages from $3 to $5 a week and from $3 to $7 in some crafts. News of their victory was enthu- siastically greeted by hundreds of knitgoods workers at a mass meeting in Flushing Mansion, Brooklyn, where a report was given of the Knitgoods Conference held on July 22. Workers expressed their readiness for struggle and immediately elected committees which remained after the meeting to Work out plans for the further or- ganization of the knitgoods shaps. N. Y. Fruit Growers Using Forced Labor POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.—Wages paid by local berry-growers for workers 10 pick the crop have daz so low that no workers would take the j so the “relief” agency has been supplying the owners with forced labor from workers on the relist lists under threat to remove anyone from the lists who refuses to work, Board, lodging and 7 a month was offered in one case to workers and in no case does the price paid exceed a cent or a cent and a half @ quart for pickers, In some cases workers employed on the farms have to walk as much as five miles to and from employment. The Highland Fruit exchange and the Hudson River Fruit exchange are the companies using this forced labor at starvation rates. CALL FOR PICKETS NEW YORK.—The Dress Depart- mént of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union calls on all work- ers to help in the picketing of the following shops, where strikes are now in progress in the campaign for im- mediate increases in wages: Creole Dress Co., 226 W. 37th St.; Follison Dress Co, 505 8th Ave. Fisher Dress Co.., 254 W. 35th Si Goldsheer Dress Oo,, 253 W. 35th St.; A. & J. Dress Co., 151 W. 26th St. Promises Office Workers Pie in the Government Sky NEW YORK.—Among the paper unions striving to be recognized by the Recovery administration is the Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Account- ants Union. Their “leader,” Leonard Bright, a Socialist, yesterday sought to conquer Wall Street, and staged an open air meeting where he promised the office workers higher pay through the kindness of Roosevelt and the fi elle eis Rall a benefit of the fake A. F, of 1. offi- chief contribution has} cials and their sell-out deals. Reoovery administration. Bright’s been an energetic drive to smother all rank and file expression in his union and to expel all militant ele- ments. He has never succeeded in organizing the white collar workers. Wall Street clerical workers have this week experienced that they can win improvements in their conditions through struggles, as was evident in the recent strike in four brokerage houses. This was done without Pick Communist Sec’y of U.M.W. Mine Committee SHENANDOAH, Pa, July 31— Pete Onisick, section organizer of the | Communist Party, is the new sec- | Tetary-treasurer of the General Mine Committee of the United Mine Workers of America, sub-district 3, District 9. Onisick was elected unan- imously at the last meeting of the | Mine Board last Friday night for one year, Ant. Zemitis, also a mem- | ber of the Communist Party, is one of the three trustees for the year. | The fight initlated.and led by the | Unemployed Council to compel the | turning on of water in the homes of | the unemployed miners has been} won. The demonstration, organized | jointly by the Unemployed Council | and the Mine Board last Thursday, brought out hundreds of workers. | They had a march through the} | streets of Shenandoah in spite of the refusal of authorities to issue a permit, Goyernor Pinchot had been advertised to appear, but failed to do So. State troopers brought in by the mayor to overawe the workers thought it best not to interfere. The demonstration and the re- sultant victory of getting water turned on again has produced eyen| closer co-operation between the Un- ganization of the U. M. W. A. ROOSEVELT HAS 1,000 ACRE FAR HYDE PARK, N. Y., Jul 31—Pre- sident Roosevelt who some time ago declared he was a coton planter ex- pecting to get profits from higher cotton prices, is now surveying his thousand-acre farm near here Krum Elbow. It is revealed here that much of his land is in wheat, and through the wheat-processing tax that in- creases the price of bread to the workers, Mr. Roosevelt will profit by higher wheat prices. Roosevelt is spending the month of August on his landed estate, su- pervising the work of his agricultural laborers, 37 K & G Dress Shop Strikers in Newark Win Wage Increase NEWARK, N. J. July 31.—Thirty- seven girls at the K & G Dress shop | here won a one week strike recently | sick and benefit organizations and under the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. |The boss was forced to grant the workers’ demands of wage increases of 15 to 33 per cent. In spite of the terror, and the arrest of a member of ihe Young Communist League who helped on the picket line, the workers stood solid, Negro and white. About half of them joined the union, FALSIFIED, 1 falsified the record in the case been omitted from the official ver- sion. This, the I-L.D. pointed out, raises the question of the accuracy of the transcription of the entire record, on which an appeal now being made to the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, must be based. The record, according to Benjamin J. Davis, Jr, and John H. Geer, young Negro attorneys, retained by the I, L. D, to defend Herndon, was “spotted with reversible errors.” Whether the clerk of court, to crip- ple the defense, omitted part of the record in his transcription, or even falsified parts, will require the minut- est examination to ascertain. The appeal is from a sentence of from 18 to 20 years on the chain gang—virtually a death sentence— for “inciting to insurrection” by or- ganizing hungry white and Negro workers together and helping them to get relief. 4 The passage omitted from the reeord of the speech was its high dramatic point, in whieh Herndon challenged the white ruling class in these, words: The Office Workers’ Union with offices at 799 Broadway is maki ha drive to organize the white collar workers on the basis of control by the clerical workers themselves and not in the expectation of promises, but for real gains in their condi- tions to be won through united ac- tion of the “office workers them- selvess d ATLANTA, Ga., July 31,—Charge that the clerk HERNDON’S SPEECH TO JURY PROVES COURT RECORD WA L. D. CLAIM Many Parts Omitted; “Spotted with Reversible Errors,” Say Defense Attorneys of court of Angelo Herndon was made by the International Labor Defense here today as copies of | the garments as the union girls, and | Herndon’s speech to the jury were received. sage from the speech, taken down by observers and reporters | during the trial, was found to have.>—~ A dramatic pas- y do what you w Angelo Herndon. You may indict him. \ You may put him in jail. But there will come thousands of An- gelo Herndons. If you really want to do anything about the case, you must go out and indict the social system. But this you will not do for your role is to defend the sys- tem under which the toiling mas- ses are robbed and oppressed,” Flaming Indictment In spite of this, and other pos- sible omissions, the speech of Angelo Herndon remains a flaming indict- ment of the rule of the white ruling class oppressors, and a mighty call to struggle against exploitation and starvation. “These workers went up to the county commissioners to show them these particular facts,” Herndon told the court in describing the relief demonstration which led to his ar- rest, and the conditions which made the demonstration essential. “To divide the Negro and white workers, they took the white work- ers inside of the room and left the Negro workers outside. This was in order to continually play on the tune | of racial discrimination, to block the fight that the Negro and the white workers were carrying on—a deter- mined fight to get relief. They were successful in getting the white work- ers inside of the commissioner's room and closing the door in the face of the Negro workers. They said to the white workers “Well, the County hasn’t any money, and of course, you realize the depression and all that | but we haven't got the money.” County Had Money, “The white worxers knew the county did have money but they were using it for their own inter- ests, and not for the interest of the Negro workers or the white workers either ways. They talked to the white workers some considerable time. When the white workers came out, they had just about as much results as the Negroes did—only a lot of hot air blowed over them by the commissioners, which didn't put any shoes on their little babies’ feet A SS s| Page Three »29, Force Concession from Bethlehem Steel Co. Doublers Demand Scrap; Planned at Meet End to Extra Work Carrying on Company Grounds; Steel and Metal Union Guides Workers SPARROWS POINT, Md., July 31 -—Period doublers on all turns met with the Bethlehem management today and forced the company to grant the concession of no extra work carrying Serap except on the warm upturn once every three weeks, The victory follows upon the action of the doublers of the tin mill de- PLEA FOR FUNDS. TO PUSH PLANS OF CLEVELAND MEET | Expect Big Delegations of Workers from Basic) Industries Aug. 26 NEW YORK.—The arrangements committee of the Trade Union Con- | ference for United Action to be held in Cleveland August 26 with head- | quarters at 70 Fifth Ave., Room 412, New York, reports that the call to the conference has met with great} response from the workers throughout the country | Great responsibilities are being| Placed on the arrangements commit- | tee, however, in getting the call be-| fore the workers. Close to one thou- | sand dollars have been spent in es-| tablishing the office, sending out the| calls and letters and organizing the | various committees and the work/ which is under way, Now that the Rooseveit codes are going into effect and the workers are | looking for leadership and united ac- | tion, the task which develops upon the committee for reaching wide sec- tions of workers become tremendously important, the committee points out. | Necessary meeting places, organi- | zational and publicity work, city ac-| tivity and technical assistance to} carry through the conference will re- quire more funds. Above all money is needed to communicate with or- ganizations, secure delegates and pre-| | pare the conference. The minimum] | amount necessary is $2,000. | The arrangements committee for | the Cleveland Conference consisting |of Edmond Ryan, James W. Ford, Louis Budenz and Louis Weinstock, | Secretary calls all workers’ organiza- | tions to send in immediately their donations to carry on the work. | Trade unions, workmen's circles, | other workers’ organizations are | urged to send in substantial dona- | tions, All funds should go to the | Arrangements Committee( for the Trade Union Conference for United | Action 70 Fifth Ave., Room 412, New | York | Daily Worker Pressman Dies NEW YORK.—Herman Seigel, 55, veteran pressman, working in the Daily Worker pressroom, died Sun- day night of heart ailments, aceen- tuated by the heat. \A. F. of L. Official \Helps Install a Scab |Plart in a Union Shop See | | By a Needle Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, N. ¥—In Brown & | Co., a white goods shop of 112 Mad- | jison Ave., the boss, with the help of |the International Union official, Mr. Schneider, succeeded in installing a |seab plant, which operates directly opposite the machines where the | union girls are working. The scab |plant girls put the same labor into are getting less. It is a direct move to have the union girls work for less. | This same Mr. Schneider, always | | willing to co-operate with the boss, | ; whenever he wants a wage-cut, al- ways threatens the girls that the hoss will move out of town if the | girls don’t let down. When at a shop | meeting, discussing the scab plant in | the shop, a girl wanted to ask a | question, she no sooner opened her | mouth to speak, than he immediately |stopped her. | When , she asked: “Why did you stop me? Have stopped her, When she asked: “Have | you a guilty conscience?” she was im- mediately called to the Grievance Board of the union. Mr. Schneider made false charges against her, en- | tirely forgetting to mention that he | helped to install a seab plant in the | | union shop. | | I hope that the girls will fight fur- | ther wage cuts and the betrayals of the corrupt union officials. —E, Editor's Note:—For organizational work to force officials of the union to carry out the union agreements, the workers should get in touch with the Left Wing Opposition Group at 140 W. 36th St. New York City. | and no milk in their stomach to give | their babies proper nourishment. “Now, when they were in actual need of this money to hold their bo- dies together, and when they came before the state and county officials to demand something to hold their bodies together, they were denied it. The policy of the Unemployed Coun- cil is to organize these workers and demand those things, whether they get them or not. Of course, the workers will get them if you ever organize them, “My lawyer put in demand, de- manding trial, and every time the state would postpone the case. They knew those workers in the city of Atlanta were starving and they ar- rested Angelo Herndon and put a charge of attempting to incite in- surrection—which carries the death penalty—hecause of the fact that he did organize Negroes and white work- | being held partment of the Bethlehem Steel Company who called a hastily ar- ranged meeting of those men work- ing on the 11 to 7 shift, in front of the tin mill to protest the extra work involved in carrying serap off the pack ends. The scrap was formerly forced upon the pair heaters who have plenty of work to do also. Superintendents and foremen as well as Sparrows Point cops and “employers representatives” rushed to the spot where the meeting was “You can’t hold a meet- ing here,” the company officials told the men, “before 8 o'clock.” “Well, we're holding it, aren’t we,” was the answer as the men continued their discussion of their grievances. The doublers then told the com- Paty representatives, “You are sup- posed to represent us. Now take care of this matter and let’s see whether you really do represent us.’ Tin mill workers have learned that in the last four years the “employe repre- sentation” system has represented the interests of the Bethlehem Steel Co. The company, recognizing that the men are aroused and anxious to pre- vent them from taking any act, in order to be able to put over the steel code agreed to correct the workers’ grievances. It was not the represen- tative system that was responsible for the concession but the workers’ determination to stand together to, put pressure on the reps and the company. ; The victory of the doublers ought. to convince the Bethleheny Steel workers that they should build real rank and file organization in every department and @lect honest workers who have proven themselves sincere as their own representatives. The Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union urges the pair heaters to follow the example of the doublers and force the company to grant their demands. Workers are welcomed at the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union office, 3737 Eastern Ave. Another successful meeting was held in the Dunkalk and Highland- town sections, The steel workers’ code was endorsed and delegates were elected to go to Washington to join the steel workers’ delegations at the hearings before the Recovery ad: ministration, Relief Officials Plot With Bosses - to Keep Pay Down By a Worker Correspondent ELKHART, Ind.—Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward & Co., mail order dealers, placed orders with the Montieth Bros. factory, manufactur- ers of automotive parts, but could not pay for the finished articles. As a result, the concern has been pay- ing the workers only a part of their wages each week. ‘The rate of pay for skilled werkers is 25 cents an hour. Some of these workers received from $2 to $3 per week of their total weekly wages, leaving the balance stand. The com- pany now owes many of these work- ers from $100 to $150, which they stand a good chance of never getting When these greatly underpaid em- ployed workers in industry found that the unemployed had won their foreed labor strike and had been promised 40 cents per hour, they threatened to quit unless their rate was raised, The manufacturers and relief officials immediately got their heads together and framed some new rules. The employed workers were warned that if they quit their jobs the relief agencies would not give them any ~ aid. The local situation is develop- ing into a very interesting situation, in which the local “reds” will play an important part. Gangsters Attack Millinery United ~ Front Committee NEW YORK.—Gangsters of the A. F. of L. leaders of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Union on Thurs+ | day night set upon members of the United Front Committee at a meet- ing of the workers of Local 24, and beat them up so severely that one of the members of the committee, Aranowitz, is in danger of losing his right eye. t The meeting of Local 24 was held at Bryant Hall, 4lst and 6th Ave, | to elect a new administration as well as delegates to the millinery workers’ convention, After Zaritaky made a long speech praising the Recovery Act and the. Possibilties for his racket, a motion — was made to proceed with the elec- tion of delegates. The members of the United Front Committee de-. manded a discussion on the issues confronting the convention, and pare: ticularly on the Recovery Act. om The chairman, Mendelowitz, a” henchman of Zaritzky and Spector, thereupon gave the signal to the’ gangsters, who immediately pounced © upon the leaders of the United Front’ _ Committee, The meeting was broken ~ up. Most of the members left in disgust even prior to the fight, but the administration, determined to put across their program, gathered _ about 50 of their own henchmen and: elected among themselves 30 dele — egates to the convention. vee Among those of the United Front. . ers into a demonstration which forced the county commissioners to kick in with $6,000." Committee who were | in- | jured are Bitzer, Aranowits and ‘Weissman. A ay & 1 wxmele { )