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

ae AN UN ee ene eae u erred ‘Cleveland Conference Will Fight No-Strike Edict’-Muste Says Trade Union Meeting on Aug. 26-27 Is NEW YORK.—Roosevelts no-stril Greatly Increased in Importance by Latest Strike-Breaking Steps of Roosevelt e edict “lends yastly inereased im- portance to the Trade Union Conference for United Action to be held in Cleve- land, Ohio, August 26-27,” said A. J. Muste, chairman of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action, in a statement issued today. The Cleveland trade union conference is a united front action to rally to fight against thee— erence SES re ARI all workers Roosevelt New Deal, by strengthen- ing their ranks in the struggle for higher wages, better conditions, the tight to organize and strike, /Muste’s statement against the roosevelt strikebreaking tactics, ceads, in part, as follows: “When the National Industrial Re- covery Act was first promulgated, the Conferenge for Progressive Labor Action charged that it was moving toward abolition of the right to strike and a universal syste of com- pulsory arbitration, That prophecy has now been unmistakchly fulfilled by the actions of the President and the Recovery Administration in the last few days, namely, by the way in which the coal strike has been called off and by the appointment of the so-called National Board of Mediation to arbitrate all labor dis- putes under N.R.A. “The N.R.A. contains high-sound- ing provisions about the right of labor to organize and bargain col- lectively. Not even small benefits under the yarious codes can be really sscured unless in each indus- try there is a strong and fighting organization of labor able to cope in some measure with the great o ganizations of capital whose pow is vastly inereased under N.R.A, “When labor surrenders the right to ‘strike, it has been emasculated. a er Compulsory arbitration has never anywhere worked in the interest of labor, “The composition of the super- voard of mediation into whose hands (he government is trying to commit the whole future of the American labor movement, gives further evi- dence of the dangerous tendency of present policies. Not one of the representatives of industry on that Board has dealt with union labor In his own business. Two of them, W. GC. Teagle and Gerard Swope, vepresent onen-shon, company union zorperations, the Standard Oil and General Electric, which have a long cord of the most bitter opposi- against uniopization of their mployes. John L, Lewis of the United Mine Workers, so-called ‘Jabor” representctive on the media- lion hoerd, is the most high-handed ead autocvatic official in the Amer- ican Federation of Labor who at this very moment is responsible for a policy of terrorism, including kill- ings, against miners, former mem- bers of his own union, in Tilinois end who has for years used slugging ns his one argument against any progressive opposition or criticism in his own -union. “Workers and ‘farmers will not abendon the fight for immediate im- proyement of their conditions and the building of militant unions, be- cause they are starving, being evict- ed from their homes, deprived of relief, and are unable to be “patient” } any longer. The Conference for ' Progressive Labor Action will sup- port every effort of the workers in this critical hour to put an end to their misery and to oppose the at- tempt of the N.R.A. to lull them into a false and fatal sense of se- curity. “The deyelopmenis of the last few days lend vastly increased import- ance to the Trade Union Conference for United Action te be held in Cleve- land, Ohio, August 26-27. This con- vention will bring together repre- sentatives of economic organizations, A. F. of L. unions, T.U.U.L. unions, independent unions, women’s auxi- Waries, unemployed leagues and councils, wh see the dangers to labor in the Roosevelt program and, regardless of political affiliation, are interested in mapping out a program of action ageinst wage cuts and evic- tions, against compulsory arbitration, against labor officials whose sole poliey is cooperation with the com- pany union foes of labor, for vin- dicating the right of labor, in actual jact, and not in fine-sounding de- ceptive words, to organize and strike. We urge all unions and unemployed organizations to send delegates to this great Congress of Action of the militant workers.” f Workers Thea. Holds Conference at Midvale NEW YORK.—The political and artistic program of the League of Workers’ Theatres was the theme of the two-day regional conference held at Camp Midvale, N. J, Fifty-one delegates and guest dele- gates attended the conference, rep- resenting the Workers’ Dance Group, the New York Pen and Hammer, Youth Cultural Committee of the International Workers’ Order, the veer Reed Club dramatic group of | Whtladelphia, League , the Cleveland of Workers’ Theatres other groups. WHAT’S ON Friday MOVIES, PARTY, Film Photo segue, # pay. din, 106, 330 8, 14 ARDT COWL, ‘member ot MOPR (Russian I. L. D.) ha 5 years, on “THE WORK OF THE MOPR,” at Tom Mooney Br. LLD., 818 Broadway, 8:30 p.m, FASCISM V8. THE DICTATORSHIP OF THR PROLETARIAT—Jules Karsten, Labor idth Bt, and 2nd Ave, Ausplees F.8.U, Downtown Br. grem hes heen arranged, ap dtd served. Moshulu Br. F. S. U. 8:30 p.m. FOR OUTING TO CAMP , - 18, by Harlem Pro- Pye RE ok ve sure of @ seat. rt a LT (ON TWO THE ‘UNION— Ben Levine, 8:30 p.m. Sholem Aleichem Ausitorium, 8461 Giles Plece, Bronx. Aus- pices Sholem Aleichem Icor Committee. Adm, free. STEVE KATO’ BRAN I. L. D., im- portent ect vs Ave, B. 8 A 4 memaaree Pi only! Bit ere the Recovery Act Solve fhe Prob} of he. Working Class? Harry ‘Wicks, Bronx Workers’ ic forkers’ Club, 1610 Boston Miners to Picket All . Indiana Union Mines; FightingMoodAroused CLINTON, Ind.—Strikers at the U, S. Steel owned mine, Benson No. 4, voted to picket ail union mines within the area, in an ef- fort to close down the mines. As a result of the killing of Sam White by guards while he was picketing the Benson mine, the workers have been aroused to a fighting mood. Peljanti, United Mine Workers of America organizer, tried to stop the picketing yote from going threngh, But the rank and file pushed his opposition aside WIN STRIKE; VOTE AID TOCLEVELAND T. U. CONFERENCE Conn. Iron Strike Was Won Under TUUL Leadership BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—Cele!: "ating their brilliant victory which noted them a 40-hour week, $5.50 a day and sanitary conditions in the shop, 250 workers at the Malleable Iron Com- pany of this city announced through their organization that they will make every effort to cend a delegate to the Conference for United Action to be held in Cleveland on August 26th and 27th. The strike was won under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League which has endozsed the Cleve- land gathering one hundred per cent. The Provisional Committee which is arranging the Cleveland Confer- ence announced from its national of- fices in New York City yesterday that not only in New England but that also among meial workers in the Midwest support for the call for the Cleyeland Conference to iight the NRA slave code and for better work- ing conditions in gaining headway. Despite attempts by A. F. of L. of- ficials to whip up a frenzied enthu- siasm for the NRA, workers of vari- ous industries in important indus- trial areas are looking with more and more favor towards the Cleveland Conference. A report received by the Conference Committee at its national offices yes- terday from Sandusky, Ohio, stated that a vigorous campaign is on foot to have the Railroad Car Repairmen of that industrial city endorse the Cleveland Conference and to send delegates to it. Not daring to completely oppose the Conference, the officials railroaded a proposal to table the motion endors- ing the Conference until the “secre- tary of the Central Labor Union writes to the American Federation of Labor to find out its stand “on the Cleveland gathering. Far from depressed by such sabo- tage, a number of delegates to the Central Labor Union declared that at the next meeting of this body, on August 2lst, they will again demand that it endorse and send delegates to the Cleveland Conference. Sentence 4 Today Who Were Framed NEW YORK.—The four militant workers of Coney Island who have been framed because of their act vities in fighting evictions, are to be sentenced at the Magistrates Court, 8th Street and Surf Avenue, Coney Island, this morning. Judge Hershfeld, who is noted for his pre- judice towards workers and who pres- ided with obvious unfaitness at the trial which took place on Wednes- day, will render the sentence. ‘The defendants Bessie Horn, Pau- line Horn, Leminoff and Kramer, who were arrested on June 26 on various charges ranging from as- saul to disorderly conduct, have been selected by the police as “ex- amples,” in an effert to terrorize the workers active in-the neighborhood. Workers sre called unon by the International Labor Defense, which is defending the case, to pack the courtroom in order to demand the unconditional release of these milit- fighters. Bathrobe Strike Still On As Bosses Grant Only Partial Demands NEW YORK.—The strike of the Sathrobe workers, under the leader- ship of the Needle Trades Workers Industria] Union, entered the 8th day, with the workers of a number of very important shops joining the strike. A conference between the strikers and the bathrobe contractors took place last night at the Hotel Martinique, The union and the strikers de- manded an increase of 20°per cent in wages and a reduction of eight hours, without a cub in wages and the re- cognition of the union. The associa~ tion agreed to recognize the union but offered a 15 per cent increase in wages, which the strikers refused to accept. The strikers held a mass mecting yesterday in Irving Plaza, where they dscided to settle only with such shops that grant the immediate 20 rer cent increase in wages and the reduction in hours and to continue the strike against those that refuse. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1933 JOBLESS RELIEF NEEDS FOR WINTER WILL BE GREATER Drop in Funds While Number of Families in Need Increases WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, — the high powered adverti of Roosevelt to give six million new jobs by Labor Day go up in smoke with the foreboding announcement by Harry L. Hopkins, federal relief administrator, that at least one bil- | lion dollars will be needed for relief | this winter. Although a general’ cut- ting of relief is prevalent through the country, the number of families requiring aid have inergased. Hle- ven cit! alone report an increase in relief cases from 1 to 15 per cent. The number of families on relief lists decreased 1.2 from June to July while relief funds dropped 8.4 per cent. In New York City there has been an increase of 10 per cent in| the number of families asking relief, but disbursements dropped 13,1 per cent. Hopkins made an estimate that New York City needs from $7,000,000 to $10,000,000 a month for relief. Actually no funds were voted by the Board of Estimate for the month of August as yet. A cross section of a number of cities where relief needs increased are: 15.5 per cent in San Francisco; 15.1 in Little Rock, Arkansas; 14.5 per cent in Milwaukee; 12 1 per cent in Washington; 84 per cent in Houston, Texas; 4.4 in Newark, N. J.; 2.8 in Jacksonville, Fla.; 2.5 per cent in Phoenix, Ariz. Hopkins shifts the relief burden to the states as in all previous state- ments. The states usually refer it to the local communities. He told the states that unless provisions are made for relief, “the unemployed are going to take an awful beating this winter.” The federal relief adminis- trator’s only suggestion was for the states to match the $500,000,000 ap- propriated by congress last spring. Of the federal appropriation about half has already been spent and the amoynt on hand for federal aid is very small. Not desirous of admitting that the reduction in relief is the result of a direct cut by the officials, Hopkins says that “it is difficult to know whether this decline has resulted from a fundamental improvement in business conditions or whether it is due to seasonal variations in relief needs.” It is indicative from the whole statemoat that Hopkins proposes an insignifieant federal appropriation as an excuse for shinking the respon- sibility of aid to the unemployed. Must Punch Clock Five Times a Day (By a Needle Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. ¥.—Things are much worse in the Julius Kayser Co. here than before the code. Yester- day I had to punch the time clock five times in six hours of labor, The idea, according to the foreman, is that when there is nothing to do for ten minutes or so the worker will have to punch the time card at once and then wait for more work to ar- rive from other operators. Another thing—why should any operator or worker be called at 3 p.m. or 1 p.m. or at any other time of the day, as has been happening in this factory? All jobs that paid $1.25 a dozen three years ago are cut to 36 cents a dozen at present. This is the high rate in this concern, A few days ago the administration notified the workers that there is going to be a raise. But the raise, compared with the high prices now, is like a grain of pepper in the stomach of a good-sized elephant. The 36 cents a dozen rate was re- duced to 25 cents, and the 12 cents raised to 14 cents. That means cut- ting on one article to compensate for the raise in others. As there is no union in this shop, the bosses do as they like without any trouble. If you do not conform with present conditions, you have nothing to say but pick up your things and go. I know of many girls in Kayse:s who are good readers of the Daily Worker, and they would all be giod to see an investigation here and pub- lish how we are slaughtered here for a few pennies a day. (Signatures of Seven ‘Workers in the Shop.) . Editor’s Note: The Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union has been requested to make the investigation the workers want. The address is 181 W. 28th St., and they will be glad to get in touch with any of the work- ers employed here. 2 Coney*Workers Are Railroaded to Jail for Defending Peddler NEW YORK.—Two workers, Harry Tense and Isadore Izen were rail- roaded to jail yesterday when they ing of a peddler on the Coney Island Court on a framed charge of “inciting to riot.” Sentence will be passed in the same court Monday, August 21. The two were arrested July 16 when they protested the brutal beat- ing of peddier on the Coney Island boach by @ policeman, “Assaulted Policeman” Is Charge on Worker NEW YORK, — Framed on the charge of having assaulted a police- men at the Home Relief Bureau dem- onstration at Belmont and Christ- opher Streets which was held on July 31, Dan Rubin is to be tried at the Magistrates Court, Pennsylvania and Liberty Avenues, this morning at 10 clock, Sophie Fishman who protested at the brutal beating of Rubin by the police was also arrested and charged with interfering with arrest / | Milwaukee Leader, Socialist Sheet, Prefers “Nira” to E. The Milwaukee Leader . Debs [HOM | EDITION. MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1033 ENCHMEN LAND. IN /4 SOLWZON OF | FONSON MYSTERY) Retailers Begin to Reap Benefits of Blue Eagles Ton Victims Still Un-| ||252 MORE WER: | der Care of Phy: { eu | Above is reproduction 7th. hand corner) has replaced qu lished in that position. Whil ers in the Newport, R. I THE TRAINED SEALS Jou Upions> "ME BOSSES way: wel oe tt The slave-brand NRA (upper left Eugene V. Debs and others formerly pub- on JON IN MAKE WORK’ CAMPAIGN ag [3,141 Employes Added) to, Forces in of the front | page of “Milwaukee Leader” of August paraded with NRA code be ' would mean otations from “Milwaukee Leader” heralded the news 1,660 work. that “RETAILERS BEGIN TO REAP . Navy yard BENEFITS OF BLUE EA as.” SYRIA; BREAK PRICE RECORD j/ROssi, con0s | FLY 54 HOURS | WITHOUT STOP banners demanding that the | 2 not applied to them a 16 per cent wage as it cut—the ST. LOUIS, Aug. 10—The first prosecution under the NRA and the use of federal courts against the strikers took place here when after a wire from General Johnson, the Lewin Metal Co., where 300 work- ers dre striking, cooperating with the federal authorities ordered the arrest of two strike leaders, Bill Sentner, Trade Union Unity League Secretary, and Sol Ovlan, active strike relief assistant. Both these workers have been held incommunicado in prison by federal authorities. The arrests took place when the company officials received a wire from General Johnson declaring \that the strikers were violating the NRA, especially the no strike edict of Roosevelt. The action was taken, also, because the strikers had joined the Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union. Almest the entire crew of the Mil- ender and Sons Leather Co, were organized into a red union Over {20 Mississippi waterfront workers joined the Marine Workers Industrial Union last night The union is launching a drive to organize all barge workers. The A. F. of L. officialdom is in- furiated over the failure to split the ranks of the workers. Instead, 300 Monsanto Chemical workers walked out of an A. F. of L. meeting. A large number of these workers joined the chemical workers industrial union. The A. F. of L. officials are for intervention of the government. In the meantime legal attacks were made in an effort to pull wagons loaded with finished iron and brass material out of the plant of the Lewin Metal Co., on the ground that it was designed for the U. S. War Department. The Lewin Metal Co. manufactures war material. The | strikers succeeded in keeping the locomotives out \of the company’s gates, also winning over the rail- road switchmen who refused to switch the cars, Rapid organization 1s going on in steel and other industries here in vesponse to the strike of the Lewin Metal workers, Thirty men of the Shanfield Iron and Metal Co, struck yesterday, and the boss is now signing up an agree- ment of 35 cents an hour and re- cognition of the shop committee of the Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union. Company officials requested ‘the arrest of Setner and others, promis- ing support to the police agains: the strikers and workers choosing to join the industrial union. The Party has boldly appeared fyom the beginning of the orgauiza- tional drive. ‘The Lewin sirike leadership an- swered the company and A. F. of L. leadership by cal:ing.on more work- ers to join the Communist Party. Ten strikers have already joined the Party and formed a shop nucleus. A call is being sent out to all workers to send eash or food relief to the strikers on the picket lines to Deluxe Hail, 1602 Walnut Street, East St. Louis, Protest resolutions are being sent to the President Roosevelt and to the district federal court, against in- terference with rights of the strikers, and demanding the reiease of the jailed strike leaders, Sentence Commodore Workers 1 to 15 Days, But Strike Goes on NEW YORK, Aug. 10. — Three workers arrested last Friday at the demonstration of striking workers of the Hotel Commodore were sentenced today to 1 to 10 and 2 to 16 days in the Tombs prison. ‘These militant workers were ar- rested along with 24 others, who were released Monday after the demons- tration of the striking food-workers of the Commodore had been brutally attacked by police, The workers, Roberto Smeja, Frank Boud and Union, which intends to continue the struggle the recognition of the strikers demands, in spite of police terror instigated by the Commodore management, Help improve the “Daily Worker.” suggestions and Gacy 2 St. Louis Strike Leaders hee. ' Arrested for “Violating NRA” Se ES ees |Bosses Get Wire from| | Johnson and Hold 2 | Incommunicado OUTPUT UP 55 PC: /Cost of Living -Rises, Says Labor Bureau, Incorporated NEW YORK.—Wages have drop- ped in the last 12 months while pro- duction went up, said the Labor Bu- reau, Inc., in its bulletin facts for workers just issued. Coyering the year June 1932 to June 1933, they say that production rose 55 per cent, employment rose 9 per cent, but wages dropped one per cent, is going up. Using the semi-annual govern- ment figures of the change in the cost of living, the Labor Bureau, Inc. | has brought up to date “the require- ments in terms of dollars for the ‘minimum health and decency’ and the ‘skilled workers’” budgets. De- pending on the locality, the cost of minimum basis this June ranged from $1558 in Schenectady, N. Y., to $1,988 in San Francisco. For a skilled worker the range ran from $1,897 in Reading, Pa., to $2,603 in New York City.” Under the codes the workers wages in every industry are cut down to about half of what the government bureaus say is necessary for “mini- mum health and decency.” t 1,200 NOW OUT IN SLIPPER STRIKE) NEW YORK.—It is estimated that 1,200 slipper workers are now out in the general strike called by the slipper section of the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union. Four more shops joined the strike yesterday. The strike committee, whose head- quarters are at Manhattan 66 E. 4th St., called upon ail yesterday to join the strike without waiting for the committees. 50 WIN STRIKE IN WHITEGOODS NEW YORK. — Fifty white goods workers of the Anchor Underwear Co., won a thirty per cent wage in- crease, recognition of their union at the end of their strike yesterday un- der the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. ANOTHER FOREST YOUTH IS KILLED Falls Under Roller, Skull Crushed PROVIDENCE, R. I—The con- | stantly mounting list of forced labor dead has added another victim. Charles Baxter, 20, was crushed to death in Camp Burlingame, under- neath a tone-ton roller used to level off the ground. i $ Makeshift ropes and pulleys were connected to the huge roller, and 18 boys were dragging it over the uneven ground. The momentum of the roller gradually increased until the boys were forced to start running in front to keep up with it. Baxter slipped and picked himself up. He was run- ning with the center rope in his hands. He slipped again and this time the roller passed over him, crushing his skull and body. He had been cutting brush when he was called to assist the other boys on the roller. Shoe Repair Workers Meet to Plan Code NEW YORK.—The new shoe repair department of the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union, which al- ready has 250 members, will meet Sunday, 10 a. m., at Irving Plaza Hall, 15 St, and Irving Place. ‘The bosses’ association which met this week decided on a code of $8 to the highest skilled workers. to this the Union pro- $18 to $35. They now and more hours per a WAGES DOWN 1P.C. At the same time the cost of living | living for a family of five on the) » {ease with the three members of the S| five representing local 1, and the en- | | Many Features in || Saturday’s Issue ‘TO SPEED DRESS | Page Three CARPENTERS’ LOCAL ASKS 1,500 LOCALS TO VOTE ON UNEMPLOYMENT ACTION Propose Exemption of Jobless from Dues, Reduction of Officials’ Salaries, Federal A | Unemployme NEW YORK.—The Daily Worker nt Insurance has received a communication from the Recording Secretary of Local Union Ne. 1051 of the United Brotherhood ing that the members of that union STRIKE IN HUGE MEET MONDAY | Workers to Gather at Cooper Union Hall | | huge strike mass| rs will be held| ‘all, 8th St. and} r , on Monday, Aug. 14, at/ 5 pm., called by the Needle Trades| Workers’ Industrial Union, Dress De-| artment, to speed the strike against | hop conditions in the dress in- ‘y in New York. e strike meeting call was on after an enthusiastic shop rence of dre workers held on NEW YORK.—, r Union le- || “Ghe Sordid Scene in Chicago,”| a first-hand description of the so- called “Century of Progress,” will be one of the highlights of the | Saturday feature page | Of especial interest in the same | | issue will be an article by Earl | Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, on the forth-| | coming anniversary of the Party. | | Other features on the literary) | | page of Saturday’s paper will be | | review by Harry Gannes, “Daily” | staff writer, of ‘Mellon’ iilions he Biography of a Fortune,” by| | | | Harvey O'Connor. On the same} | | page will also be found a review! jof current Soviet fiction, moyie | notes, and other features. | CHARGE FRAUD IN CLOAK VOTE NEW YORK. — Representatives of local 9, International Ladies Garment Workers Union, who are on the re- ferendum committee, are challenging the results of the balloting for the selection of the piece-work or week- work section of the new cloakmakers’ code. They declare that it was not a referendum but an outright swindle, charging serious irregularities at the polls, which made the vote 2—1 in favor of piece-work. Workers were intimidated and ter-, rorized at the entrances of the vari- ous polling places. Those worke’ who were known to be in favor of week-work had their ballots spoiled | or torn up. A broken wooden box was provided for the balloting, and ballots could be deposited through the break, | as well as the regular opening. Re- ports also car that dress cutters were brought in to vote at the code veferendum. | Committee members who favored| week-work were re! and others | put in their places, This was the| tire representation of local 48, The executive of local 9 will demand a new balloting under the control of an | impartial committee. | The steppage of the cloakmakers | Was announced by Mr. Klein, man- | ager of the Ind al Council, the manufacturers organiz: Monday. The workers a’ why the bosses’ manager knew about the stoppage before the union mem- bers were informed about it. 2 Girl Sample Card | Yiddish and Spanish, | drow Aug. 9, where it was decided to ap- | prove the call of a strike in the A committee of 100 fas. elected to co-op- board of the | dress workers jerate with the trade | union to organize the strike. tax assessment was made and all union members are urged to pay their dues four we in advance to pro- ide a powerful strike fund. housands of leaflets are being is- sued to all dress workers in Italian, calling on all to join the in the trade sweatshop conditions must E the leaflet. “All dressmak- Negre and white, all nationali- left and right wing, must unite ties in one general strike.” The. Dress Department of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union has strike headquarters estab- lished at the following places: New York, 131 W. 28th St.; Bronx, 3882 Third Ave.; Brownsvil 1813 Pitkin Ave.; Williamsburg, 691 Broadway. The International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union is making fake man- euvers and talks of strike, hoping the government will step in, and through arbitration bolster up the right wing fakers. Officials Try to Blame i of 7 Orphans at Beach NEW YORK—An attempt was being made yesterday by Anthony Babiak, assistant District Attorney of Queens County to shift responsibility for the ming of seyen children at Edg- mere Beach, Tuesday from the ex- ecutives of the “Pride of Judea Home” to the lifeguards at the beach. Babiak announced that he had jcalled upon S. Meredith Strong, Su- perintendent of Public Buildings and Offices in Queens, to produce records of the activities of the lifeguards un- der his charge, “Bronx all conveniences; private en- trance; reasonable rental; near subway. Write XYZ, c-o Daily Worker. Furnished Rooms or Apariments furnished rooms or find the classified col- y” of special interest. cents a word. Those _ seekii e unfurnished room. Down- town neighborhood. Reasonable. privileges. Write Box A, ¢ /o Daily Worker A $2) Kitchen | of Carpenters and Joiners of America, which is a Philadelphia loeal, stat- haye voted to endorse a campaign for a referendum in all local unions of the Brotherhood on certain concrete ————~* measures to be taken by the Brother- hood in regard to the unemployment situation facing the carpenters. The conerete measures adopted by Local 1051 and sent out to the 1500 locals of the International for action by members of these logals include the following proposals: Measures Proposed 1. Exemption of unemployed mem- bers from regular dues, and keeping them in good standing. 2. Cutting the high salaries of the officials to the prevailing rate in the industry. Reducing the numbers of the Officials and cutting the general expenditures. 3. A struggle for the payment of the prevailing scale of wages on all | city and relief jobs. | | 4. A struggle for Federal Unem- | ployment and Social Insurance at the jexpense of the goyernment and the | employers. The communication of Local 1051 points out that the carpenters’ trade has been extremely hard hit by the | cris’ and by changing conditions |} such as metal taking the place ol | wood. | Inability of unemployed members | has caused many to be dropped from membership, thus weakening the union. In May, 1926, the Brother- hood had 415,000 members. In May, | 1933, there were only 102,655 mem- | bers, less than one-fourth of the 1926 membership. Maintain Big Salaried Officials Yet in the face of this, the reso- lution of Local 1051 points out, the Brotherhood is still maintaining an apparatus of high-salaried officials with enormous expenditures. | Amendments to be voted on to | carry out the concrete measures pro- | posed in the resolution of Local 1051 | would reduce officers’ salaries from | $200 week to $65, and $160 to $60, and | would also change the constitution to include organizational measures for yolunteer union work, and for the | struggle for the payment of the pre- | vailing scale on city and relief jobs, and would call for mobilizing the membership for a fight for a system of Federal Unemployment Insurance | at the expense of the Government and the employers. | Lifeguards for Death} Another amendment also provides that when a member is employed for less than five days a month, he | shall be kept in good standing and | given a working card upon payment of 25 cents a month. ~ BROOKLYN for Brownsyille Workers! _ Hoffman’s RESTAURANT |& CAFETERIA Pitkin Corner Saratoga Aves, FOR BROWNSVILLE PROLETARIANS SOKAL CAFETERIA 1689 PITKIN AVENUE BENSONHURST WORKERS Patronize GORGEOU’S CAFETERIA 2211 86th Street Near Bay Parkway Fresh Food at Proletarian Prices Strikers Beaten and Arrested by Cop, Thug, NEW YORK. — Two girl sample | card strikers were brutally beaten by | a policeman and gangster in front of | the J. Widden Company, 110 Fifth! Avenue last night, and then arrested. | The girls, who are striking with | sample ecard makers throughout the | city, were taken to the West 54th | Street night court for arraignment. | While the policeman used his elub | on the girls the thug wielded a-black- | jack. | “Took a Poke or Two” | Out of Their Captain) (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The train on| which I just returned from the West | was graced by the returning, angry, discontented, enraged forest wor whom Rooscvelt sent to plant trees, but who according to their own tale spent more time fighting with the authorities, Five New York boys were on the car I was on. They~all. had dis- honorable discharges. They had “ganged up” and taken “a noke or two,” as they put it, Captain at Camp Furnwood in Idaho. the other lads in the car knew about it too, papers. conscious but just naturally pugna- cious. They said the food was rotten, as did all the boys. They stated that the camps in that region were ra- pidly being depleted of men due to the discontent. Also that medical service consisted in the main of CC pills, iodine and aspirin. One of them made the remerk that he thought the Government did not care a damn out of their | They were telling the truth as all} Also they showed me their | These men were not class | GOME TO THE SUNDAY Avg. 13 TICKETS 20¢ Trade Union PICNIC Cheapest way to get to Park: Subway, Pelham Bay Line, Avenue. Buses from subway Park. PLEASANT BAY PARK AUSPICES: T.U.U,C., Affiliated Union & Leagues AND OTHER WORKERS’ ORGANIZATIONS LR to Zerega station to Also: LRT, Bronx Park Sub- Unionport 7. ‘ay to East 177th Street; a ak 3 GIN AT GATE 25¢ inn | CULTURAL SEVERAL GOOD “APARTMENTS Lexington Ayenue train to White Plains Road, Stop at Allerton Avenue Station, Tel. 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