The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 4, 1933, Page 3

Democrats, Fusion Dominate Albany Home Owners Meet Demand Capitol Hear 1 Hear Unemployed Councils on Needs of Jobless and Small Home Owners By EMANUEL LEVINE ALBANY, N. ¥.—About one thou- nd small home owners who were urriedly mobilized by the Consoli- ated Home Owners Mortgage Com- nittee demonstrated in Albany and held a conference in the Chancellor Hall of the State Education Building. There were three distinct groups in ‘he march. In the Consolidated Home Owners Mortgage Committee there were the real small home owners and the other groups representing landlords and income property owners. The third group who came up on a special chartered bus was led by John C. Mc- Dowal of the Madison Square Garden Bowl Mass Meeting in Long Island City en June 27. This group ob- tained the floor only after they dev- eloped an opposition in the econ- ference. They were instrumental in removing the clause that would hold “the Governor and the legislators personally responsible for any losses of homes and farms, that may re- sult if the state does not declare a moratorium.” Some members of the Consolidated Home Owners Committee outside the Conference pointed out that the Bungalows -- Rooms (Completely Furnished) For Rent at CAMP WOCOLONA. —PRICES VERY REASONABLE — Bus leaves Workers Center on 13th &t., Saturday at 1:30 p.m, Return Sun. evening ROUND TRIP FARE $1.50 $1.25 for 1 day—$2 for 2 days Lodging $4.00 Per Week FOOD STORE AND RESTAURANT IN CAMP For information phone MOnument 2-7699 Camp Wecolona—Monroe, N. Y. (ON ERIF RR.) NEEDLEWORKERS APPRECIATE THE LITTLE WATCH REPAIR SHOP 817 SIXTH AVENUE, AT 28TH STREET Hospital and Oculist Prescriptions Filled At One-Half Price r iy ' y White Gold Filled Frames. ZYL Shell Frames -——____ Lenses not included COHEN’S, 117 Orchard St. *| First Door Off Delancey St. Telephone: ORchard 4-4520 DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet, Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 32-3012, Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-8 P.M. $1.50 + $1.00 Intern’l Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE 15TH FLOOR All Work Done Under Personal Care of Dr, C. Weissman Picturesque CAMP Restful FOLLOWERS OF THE TRAIL Buchanan, N.¥. Tel, Peekskill 2879 Right near the Deautiful Blue Mt. Park Bathing, Tennis and Other Sports Comradely Atmosphere All social and athletic actiy#ies under the leadership of @ well-trained Physical Director Very Conyenient Transportation By BOAT: Stop Indian Point. Sc round trip By TRAIN: N, ¥. Central to Peekskill, N.Y. This Saturday Night A, J, MUSTE will speak on; Fascism in Germany , MEET. YOUR COMRADES AT THE Cooperative Dining Club ALLERTON AVENUE Cor. Bronx Park East Pure Foods Proletarian Prices | CLASSIFIED RR RENT—Five room modern apartment Staten Island Home Owners Defense League were the’ only aggressive and militant group of Home Owners League. These however, were not active in the Conference and did not support the bill presented because it left it to the courts to decide the question of foreclosure. Rank and File “What did we do? We sat there and we looked.” This was the senti- ment of the rank and file home own- ers. When the delegations arrived in the assembly Chambers to see their assemblymen, the session had been aljourned with an attendance of about sixteen out of the 150 assem- blymen present. The Senate, at 2 o'clock had not yet convened al- though the session was scheduled for eleven o'clock, When the conference opened. there was only one assembly man present, but when the Conference adjourned practically the great majority of the speakers were Democratic Asembly- | men and one Senator. Irwin Stein- gut, Democrat minority leader put blame on Republicans, He assured the delegation that the Governor would propose mortgage relief and pointed out ‘if you get any relief” it would be through the efforts of the Democrats. Assemblymen came treoping in dur- ing the Conference and got the floor even after it was decided that the conference would teke up its own business. The other speakers were the rep- resentatives of the Real Estate men, who helped supply some of the ex- penses, the chairman of the Con- solidated Committee and a member of the committee who read the Re- solution of the Conferences. After strong protest—McDowal got the fioor. The arrangement committee ex- posed the fact that LaGuardia and his fusion group were the “Brain Trust” behind them. The Commit- tee is under the direct influence of the fusion movement of Greater New York. The Conference left the fate of the homeowners in the hands of Demo- eratie Party legislature and Fusion Campaign leaders. No _ provisions were made for further mass activities and unity of all small home owners. No provisions were made to submit | bill to homeowners for their approval, amendment and other changes. The Conference left a rift between the Home Owners in the MeDowal Group and the Consolidated Com- mittee. What Shall the Home Owners Do Next? While the Consolidated Committee members went to a good deal of per- sonal financial expense and a lot of hard work howeyer they failed to draw in the support of the rank and file of the home owners, they allowed themselves to be drawn into the net of the crafty politicians of the Demo- cratic Party and Fusion Group. The rank and file home owners Philadelphia} Needle Trades Factories In By S. DAVIDMAN. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The mass tailors” last Friday, July 28, at 1208 Tasker, which was called by the cus- Trades Workers Industrial Union, wa: a success, Over 60 workers listene te our speakers about the situation in the trade in connection with the In- dustrial Recovery (Slavery) Act, and discussed the problems of the trade. Forty joined the industrial union. During the coming week there will further struggles, aver ae dustrial Needle Union, at a mass meeting last week, unanimously de- cided to call a general strike for next week for the following demands: season and 30-hour week durng slow time; minimum wage for cutter, $50.60 per week, for operators, $41.80, for finishers and nailers, $39.60; Unem- ployment insurance by the bosses; time-and-a-half for overtime. aa Cie ‘The rank and file of the Knitgoods paign against the corrupt leadership of the A. F. of L. including Mr. Jo- At their meeting last Tuesday, the protest. a om There is now a dissatisfaction among the dressmakers against the leaders, Reisberg and Rubin, the two vice-presidents of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. At the last meeting of the pressers, the membership demanded the resigna- tion of Reisberg and Rubin, and con- demned the last agreement with the bosses, which made them slayes for the last two years. Levin shop came out with a strike against the agreement, after the lead. ers of the International sent them} back to work under the same condi- | tions. In addition to this the bosses hired under-pressures (assistants) to | get the same work for lower prices. A great number of cutters were fired. A small number of cutters are working overtime. The leaders do not do a thing about it. The bosses with the representatives of the International discriminate against Negro workers, old and young. Under the blanket code, the bosses say that they are slow workers and fire them first. The B and X Shop fired six Negro workers. A mass meeting will be called soon of all dressmakers of Philadelphia to discuss the new code and the Indus- trial Recovery (Slavery) Act. The Utility Dress Shop at 211 No. 13th St. which closed down the en- tire shop two weeks ago, took back only 60 workers of the 150 who used to work there. The A. F, of L. union did not do a thing’ against it, haces Bes On Sunday, August 6th, the custom tailors of the Industrial Union will celebrate their victories on meeting of the “Special order made | tom tailors department of the Needle | be several meetings to prepare for ‘The furriers’ department of the In- Thirty-five hour week in the busy | Workers Union are starting a cam-! seph Sehwartz, member of the S. P.| membership came out openly with its | The pressers of the Goldstein and | must become active. They should unite all their forces in their respec- tive group meetings. Full discussion should be held on the bill proposed the organizational front at their pic- nic in Pulasky Park. Ben Gold will speak, All workers are asked to bring their by the Consolidated Committee. The | bill supported by the Staten Island groups which provides for a full and unconditional moratorium adminis- tered by representatives of the small home owners themselves should be adopted. The Unemployed Council of New York and Affiliated bodies which are already working along this line of action calls upon the Consolidated Home Owners Mortgage Committee and the MeDonala Group to unite our forces so that the Small Home Owners, unemployed farmers and veterans can present petitions to the Governor and the State Legislature directly and organize the masses who are suffering to develop enough strength to protect their homes and their immediate welfare. ‘The Unemployed Councils and af- filiated organizations will send a mass delegation to the legislature which is now meeting in special ses- sion. This delegation will present demands for immediate relief and aid to the small home owners and poor farmers. The Councils have es- tablished headquarters at Hotel Cap- itol, 9 Greene Street, Albany. It ealls on all organizations and groups of workers or farmers throughout the state to send protest telegrams to Senator Henry Sehackno, chairman of the judiciary committee demand- ing a hearing for the Unemployed Council delegation. SECTION 7 OPENS NEW QUARTERS WITH DANCE NEW YORK,—Seetion 7 of the Communist Party opens new head- quarters with entertainment and a friends Sunday, at nine in the morn- ing to 1208 Tasker or 2014 N. 32nd, where busses will be waiting; and at 10 at the offiee of the union, 936 Arch 8t. * 8 As mentioned last week, all shop workers are invited to write for this column. Bring your news, write- ups from the shop to the office or your unfon, 936 Arch St, Rising Feed Prices Now Burden Farmers (By a Farmer Correspondent) EATONVILLE, Wash—The feed the farmers must buy for their stock has gone up so high that farmers who hailed windy Roosevelt are getting disgusted now and begin to wonder what is wrong. It won't be long and they will cuss Roosevelt as they did Hoover. The prices of eggs have gone up very little, while chicken feed costs now over 50 cents more per sack, and this long before the price of eggs changed. — with » frigidaire, ete. x sh0c. Gerd St, meat ity _ eet dance Saturday night at 132 Myrtle| Yours for a United Front of Work- 22nd Ave, Sea Reach Station. Fisher. | Avenue, ers and Farmers, BROOKLYN FOR BROWNSVILLE PROLETARIANS SOKAL CAFETERIA 1689 PITKIN AVENUE — , BENSONHURST WORKERS Patronize. GORGEOU’S CAFETERIA 2211 86th Street : Near Bay Parkway Fresh Food at ‘arian Prices " Hoffman's RESTAURANT @ CAFETERIA Pitkin Corner Saratoga Aves, thi. Win Strike, Out to Help 500 Seventh Avenue, though owned by the same boss, The Bridgeport workers were re- ceiving four, five and six dollars for a fifty-hour week and are striking for a $14 scale for unskilled and $22 for skilled with the right to organize the shop which is now open, The boss has offered them a 20 per cent increase which would amount to a dollar more a week. Stronger picket- ing was the answer of the workers. At the New York plant the work- ers who continue to strike, have won But Remain Conn. Shop NEW YORK.—The 250 strikers at the Morris White Pocket Book Shop, % the boss has given in to all their demands, de- cided to continue their strike yesterday in solidarity with the 125 workers striking in a Bridgeport, Conn., Es the Style Craft Leather Goods, fie full terms of the union agree- ment which include a 40-hour week and $32 to $36 a week with $23 for | and helpers, They remained on strike despite the attempt of the A. F. of L. leadership of the International Pocketbook Workers Union to settle this ape strike without winning the full mands of that in Bridgeport. The action of the New York work- ers has made those in Connecticut more determined to win their strike, * DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1933 ————— | Coal Operators’ Thugs NINETEEN‘ heavily-armed company- | paid deputy sheriffs are shown “escorting” four strike breakers from the pit to their | homes at Star Junction in the heart of the coal region where a Tuilitant strike set | jeetile guns. Guarding Seabs i in Pen To the Steel Delegates | wz a vivid picture in their mind of the outrage of the farcical steel | hearings, the elected delegates | | among their fellow workers. from the steel mills are now back They were elected to go to Washington to present the demands of the steel workers in answer to the steel trusts’ slave code. They saw how | the government, the steel barons and the A. F, of &. acted together to put over the steel slave code, and to prevent organization and struggle in the steel mills. John L. Spivak, Daily Worker and at the staged hearings. Every steel worker who hears mands, will feel likewise. B the demands of the steel workers. steel workers own code, now that slave code, and the adoption of the In this program, the delegates the leading role, together with the Union. ‘They heard Frances Perkins, labor secretary, lie about spies in the steel industry, saying she didn’t have any evidence of it. These worker delegates now have a very important task. They should report to the widest number of steel workers on what they saw and learned at the hearings in Washington. Their wrath and their knowledge must be transferred to every steel worker in the country through meetings, through mouth to mouth talk in the mills, through leaflets, through spreading the Daily Worker—by every means possible and in the shortest possible time. correspondent in Washington, said these delegates left swearing blue streaks at the bosses, the A. F. of L. about what happened to their de- * * UT the big task 1s to organize this discontent, to spread it in a con- | erete way, to lead it into action to force the steel bosses to accept Though thousands of steel workers have discussed and accepted the this code has been rejected by the bosses it must be broadcast throughout the steel mills of the country. The workers’ own code must be popularized through meetings, through shop gatherings, and in eyery possible way. Every steel worker should learn about it and voice his opinion. Every steel worker must be in- volved in organization and action to prevent the putting over of the steel workers’ own code. who went to Washington can play Steel and Metal Workers Industrial YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Aug. 3. — Nine men had to be carried out of the Open Hearth Dept. of Republic Steel Co, on one of the shifts here yester- heat and exhaustion, and had to be sent to the City Hospital after first day. All of them were sufferiug from aid applied at the mill did not bring them to. Nine Steel Workers Faint from Heat and Exhaustion Republic Steel is hiring every day | — and laying men off every day.| Over 130 men were laid off last week, and this week two open hearth fur- naces have been shut down. miners is now raging. cealed) with maces, rifles | them by John Egan, | Sam Kriege: nsylvania Strike a All of the deputies are armed (although some weapons are con- le-arms or pro- (200 in Bridgeport Iron Plant Strike BRIDEPORT, workers from out on ¢ repudiated the lead the Connecticut Fed and stuck st down by the Tr. The workers in the Malleable shop, all highly skilled, were paid pie work, which gave them from $3 to $10 weekly fc gerous work. The boss ha a measly 10 per cent in 2, mean- ing less than $1 weekly in m ASS but t 1 to ae sat fied v picketing the One ns of these strikers to the hall where the from th Style- Craft Le; yp were meet Here a Negro striker from the M: able, Noel Haley, gave solidarity | sectke gree! \ | Among the workers there is a} | factories. TOBACCO. ‘TOILERS ‘HOLD CONVENTION : NEW YORK—Under the ansy Jof the Tobacco Workers Indu: ~|Union, the tobacco workers of } York City will meet in a conver this Satur 8 pm, delegatds d in the The co place at the New Harler It is expected tha | nearby cities, as Philadelphia convention. The call issued by the T. W. I. U. states: “Fellow workers, This is the preme moment to or 2 and 1 City, etc., will also be present the | i Page Three CLEVELAND CONFERENCE TO HAVE LARGE MINERS’ DELEGATION; 30 FROM ILL. Committee Urges Colle To Make Confere NEW YORK—Reports from man ments committee Action to take place in Cleveland on represents conference call was signed by 80 peo Pinchot Stays Away : When Shenandoah Miners Demonstrate | headed by the] on July 28] y filling the | ate against 2 20 per cent in relief. The | upose of the demonstration was to shi w Governor Pinchot of Penn: to dedi y who was to be here new highway and who failed > appear, that the miners are look- something more than high- | for ite of the fact that the com- s refused a per- ed work headed of the council, matched The speakers ‘e Paul, member of the state com- | action; Onisick, chairman and Carl Herman of also Michael Demchak , who exposed the Vare political machine :| The Strike at Hollywood HOLLYWOOD, Cal With the installation of the million dollar equipment sent in by the Am- rican Telephone and Telegraph Co. nd the Radio Corporation of Amer- iea, technical men who had been un- der the influence of unionism in other fields were called in to install this} equipment. Tne International Broth- erhood of Electrical Workers were first in the field but when other men were called in to operate the equipment that the IBEW had in-| fled, the International Alliance of | Stage Employes insisted | that they had jurisdiction over ali | equipment that was used for the} making of entertainment. Cameramen, propertymen and’ oth- satrical of the I. re the sound men were i into a local under the same on. The I.B.E.W. local prac- d the field and the 7 le to bring nearly eines technicians into their | indicate that the Trade in| 2 August 3.—| lready organized under the | A. T. S. E, and thru) ction of Funds Needed nee Preparations y industrial centers to the arrange- Union Conference for United August 26 and 27 will be the most e body of workers from all parts of the United States. The ple who are leaders of trade unions, unemployed and various other eco- nomic organizations. One of the largest delegations to the conference will be sent from western Pennsylvania where nearly 50,000 miners are striking. The min- | ers conference on August 12 will give | great impetus to the National Con- ference in Cleveland. A report from Southern Illinois to the committee states that 50 miners will be in the delegation from this state A local conference is scheduled in Minneapolis for August 14 which will take steps to send a large delegation leveland. From this center rep- will come from Metal mining, p king house, and the metal industries, besides a group from the unemployed. Directives sent out by the arrange- ments committee emphasizes the need of electing delegations from the mines, steel and textile mills and the important plants and trade union locals in basic industries. From ,cities where strikes are now in progress or where workers have recently been on strike efforts should be made to get the election of dele- gates. The committee points to the need of making this the broadest confer- |} ence in order to weld together the largest number of workers to resist the attack upon the workers carried through by the Industrial Recovery (slavery) Adt. In calling for an in- tense drive in the remaining three weeks the committee mentions the call which stated: “No matter what your form of ore ization, no matter what your pe- litical beliefs, no matter what your leaders may be doing or saying—we call upon you to discuss this pre- gram.” It concludes with the appeal to “elect your delegates in every shop, trade union, Unemployed Couneil and league, every workers’ economic or- ganization.” Delegations are to be elected on the following basis: 1. All national organizations are j entitled to 5 delegates. 2. City central bodies, district councils, state organizations are en- titled to 2 delegates. 3. Local organizations up to 500 | members—1 delegate and an addi- tional delegate for every 500 or major | fraction. 4. Shop organizations and unor- | ganized workers are entitled to one | delegate for every 50 workers or en- | dorsement through signature. The arrangement committee re- | quests that funds be sent to its head- | quarters at 70 Fifth avenue. The preparations for the conference en- tails a tremendous expense. It also points to the fact that each organi- The jurisdictional fight was carried | to the convention and it seemed that | zation sending delegates must provide it was settled in fayor of the I.A.T.S.E.| fare and $2 for the two days’ stay in ke call was issued the | Cleveland. wide-spread demand for the 6-hour) day with no reduction in pay. Al G petition demanding the 6-hour day was signed here by all the workers. | pa, Phi , ete. in a vast tang positive movement of organi tion to protest, and if By MAX PERLOW On Monday, July 24, 300 parlor frame workers went out on a general strike under the leadership of the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union. The workers demanded a 40-hour week, in season, and a 35-hour week in slack time; $1 an hour minimum for cabinet workers, machine work- ers and carvers, $35 for a 40-hour week for cleaners, unemployment in- surance, equal division of work, time and a half for overtime, and no hir- ing and firing without the workers’ consent, The strike hit the, bosses on @ sore spot. The shops are piled up with work and the bosses expected to get higher prices for their frames with- out increasing the wages of the work- ers. Years ago the parlor frame work- ers had a business agent by the name of Epstein. This “Angel” betrayed and sold out the workers to ‘their bosses. At one time he was beaten up and thrown out of the union, Now he is the president of the Land- jJords’ Association of Brownsyille. In Powell St. he got the police to throw half a block of families on the street, Now this same person has come to the parler frame bosses and has offered them his help to break the strike and organize a company union, The rank and file carpenters will have to help us in this fight, They will have to raise their voices against the leadership of the Carpenters’ District Council for helping the bosses and sending in scabs against \ 400 at Button Plant in Amsterdam Strike AMSTERDAM, N. Y.—Four hund- red workers, mostly young girls, struck at the Chalmers Button Fac- tory against miserable conditions and for increases that vary from to 40 per cent, according to a cific kinds of work. Speaking to the strikers as they were gathered in the alleyway leading to the factory, a member of the ¥. C. L. found many of the girls to be 13, 14 and 15 years of age. Asking as to their ware, he found some rue $2, $3 $4 a week. The highest made was $10, One girl last w drew a 55 cent pay check, The girls work 56 and more hours a week. The YCL member suggested that they elect their committees to lead the strike, since as the girls put it, “We're all striking, and we're all leading.” The suggestion was re- ceived in a good manner. He also warned them of A, F, of L. mis- leadership and here, too, they agreed, The Parlor Frame Strike wT the strikers, strikers, Also the workers who live in the vicinities where there are strikes go- strike, strikers, together with the workers in the neighborhood, can help tre- mendously in winning the strike, GOOD WORK! NEW YORK.—With the help of | the City Central Committee of the | International Workers Order in Chi- cago, the English branch No. 589 was built in a short time from 19 to about 100 members. This growth is especially significant because it was brought about by the winning of about 80 Negro members. The experience in the building of this branch in Chicago proves the possibilities of the Order to become an organizational gathering basin of black and white workers for mutual aid. We must use this basin. We must approach the Negro masses for membership in the Order. We must build everywhere English branches with a substantial Negro member~ ship. 300 Riga Nazis Jailed RIGA, Aug. 3.— Three hundre Latvian Nazis were reported arrested in a raid on their headquarters here. The police said they were plotting an uprising. ing on can help a great deal in this | Picket demonstrations of all, | _ |eall a general, ‘strike ss | ue prices, $15 TO SIX PAGE DON ATE “DAILY” NEW YORK. — The Co-operative transportation group, which drives workers to the yarious workers’ camps, donated to the new six page Daily Wor i to come out, and it proceeded to scab on the that the IATS.E. w 1} » the strike and then leave the| open to » them. ping ing LB.E.W. cards are ae places left vacant srams are being sent ta s and directors who ‘with the seabs in the king them to support the all acto STANDARD OIL FAMILY HEI P PUT ACROSS NEW DEAL BY WAGE-CUT By a Textile Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK—I am em a jute mill, manufacturers of jute yarns and twines. This is no! lly the slowest period of the year carpet yarn son sti n the fall The plant has been in the dum for the past four years, havir its help fron’ 800 to 200-250 w But with the first talk of orders came in, orders which would have come in in the fall and s out through the winter months these orders have to be filled the next two months. This cuts the working time in the mill by about six months. This will manufacturer a low pri be sold at an inflated -pr In order to get their out as quickly and as cheaply yed in product to ec. as possible a night shift has been put} Milk Strike Spreading Fast; State Police Attack Pickets NEW YORK, Aug. 3.—So swiftly, pire Dairymen’s Association” led by has the strike of the dairy farmers of upper New York spread that the large milk companies reported today that in many cases their milk supply has been cut from one half to three fourths of the normal supply. Ten thousand more farmers joined the strike today as the movement against the big companies swept on ue the Western and Southern coun- i state police have been called out and are already making violent attacks upon the strike pickets. Near Schenectady five farmer pickets were knocked unconscious by stecl- helmeted State police when they at- tempted to picket the highway to New York. Thej strikers are under the leader- ship of a reeently aie We “Em- R. J. Clemons. The kind of leader- ship that can be expected from Cle- mons can be judged by the fact that | he finds the swift spread of the strike movement “alarming.” Clem- ons is apparently anxious for a quick decline of the whole movement. The farmers are striking against | the present plans of the State Milk Board which is dominated by the big Dairy Companies, The farmers are demanding a minimum price from the dairies of 414 cents a quart of milk. At present the big dairies such as Borden's and Shef- field, controlled by Wall Street banks are reaping fat profits at the | expense of the farmers whom they underpay, and the city consumers whom they overchargo ve the carpet, | ¢ commodity | The plant is new in operation am, to 10 p.m. Workers ired for the day shift jand some the night shift (5 to 10). Day shift workers who have to work nights came in at 1:12 p.m. and | stay to 10 (88 hours. That is done so they will not have to pay time and ; one-half for overtime. The regular working week is 51 | }hours but they now work 48 hours. | This was put over as the last wage | | on. |from 7:12 |have been h oN | cut. | This plant fs owned by the Pratt |family of Standard Oil fame. nly did the Holy Family give us | wage cuts, in some cases from 50 to 78 per_cent, but they also gave us a taste of the Standard Oil stretch-out system, rotating the help. The new help hired at the plant received their first wages yesterday. }A number have already quit when they found how little they were mak- ing. Workers on the night shift made between $6 and $7 for 26 to 34 hours, }No wage cuts put over lately but | rates cut through Manit system jug- | gling, bonus, ete. To think that the capitalists will | now voluntarily raise wages, with hundreds of workers crashing the | doors for a chance to work (as they are doing where I am) is to believe in the Mew Deal. H. 8. ARREST STRIKER AT THE PARAMOUNT SHOP | At the Paramount Cleaning and | Dyeing shop, 506 Bast 121st Street, |New York City, where the workers jare out on strike for the past six weeks against non-payment of | wages, a demonstration and open- air meeting was held Wednesday | night, at which time a worker, who lis at present scabbing in the shop, attacked some of the pickets and a fight took place. One of the strikers, Felix Boratko, was arrested |and kept in jail until Thursday \morning as @ result S.E. has 665 men in its| e LBEW. at the time| had but seven men d. At present about Not | Macy Store Is Under” ‘manned Despite Boast | Of Having Huge Force (By a Worker Correspondent) | NEW YORK.—The most exploited group of workers are those em~ | ployed in the department stores. | Starvation wages are meted out to | sales clerk, stock clerk, packer and |shipper alike. The wretchedness of, the working conditions at Klein’s } (On the Square (?)) is unsurpassed. | Bloomingdale, Gimbels and Macy lare three leading department stores |of the city. In these stores, girls —— | work all day for as little as eight | and ten dollars a week. Macy's boasts of a huge force of |employes. When this ballyhoo is | boiled down to plain facts, we find a great majority of these are |“per-diem” workers who work day by day and have to wait to be called in only on the busiest days (if they are lucky); many are “part- timers" and “quarter-timers” who | work during the busiest part of the |day and who do a proportionately |greater amount of work than the |regular clerks, but get paid much less. However, there is always an insufficient number of clerks at the | counters, and customers are com- | pelled to wait while the clerks rush }around making an inhuman effort - to serve everybody. send their run-down workers to be» | patched up after they get nervous breakdowns. Then they throw the workers back into the machine until they need another patching-up or are declared unfit for further work. If any of your readers buy at Macy’s, they may be able to serve the Macy workers a good turn by com-° plaining to the superintendents of the sufficient number of clerks. This may do something to relieve the site uation, But the employes can help them- selves much more by pooling their forces in a strong organization by. means of which they could success= fully fight the powerful Macy or ganization, An opportunity to do this ts offer- ed by the Department Store Section of the Office Workers Union. Ma! Macy workers have already joins but many more are needed. department store in the city, send your name (or any name by which you can be reached) to the Office Workers Union, 80 East 11th St, 1. J. MORRIS, Inc. GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS hchone: Deeena 2 crea ail Night Phone: Dickens For International Workers poor service they get due to the in- * If you work at Macy’s or any other. Macy's has a camp where they, ,