The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1933, Page 3

sy DAILY WORKE EW YORK, MONDAY, iT 14, 1933 Secret Letter Tells the Auto Bosses Workers With NIRA Total Payrolls Will Not Be Increased, But “Loyal” Workers Will Be Worked Over- time, and More Speed-Up Coming DETROIT, Aug. 18.—A privately issued letter on what the recovery act jneans to the automobile bosses, circulated by the General Motors Cor- into the hands of been turned over come This letter has Hi i as of it is propaganda for workers, Behind the scenes the bosses are told not to pay much at- tention to the codes, but to do as they please. ‘The letter statesr “Washington will no doubt wink at certain attempts of ‘fixing’ lists and discounts, which under the pre- sent law should be called illegal. “On the other hand, we have been definitely advised that Washington does not intend to read over, en- dorse and then enforce the thous- ands of little local codes covering small industries or minor branches of large industries.” They urge the readers of the letter not to discuss it publicly saying: “Please understand that we are giving you our thoughts on this sub- ject and must ask that you refrain from expressing your opinion in local circles or when you find every litle branch of busines trying to organize under a code which they are foolish enough to believe Wash- ington will accept.” Proof that the big auto companies will not increase their total payrolls, but will speed up, and cut down higher paid workers is shown by thé two following main points in the letter, referring to all branches of the General Motors: “First. They must make up for additional cost brought about by in- creasing the payroll at the bottom. “Second. If loyalty, willingness to work a few hours overtime and extra effort still means that some more help must be taken on to have all the work within the 40 hours maxi- mum time, we as a company must look at our total cost and simply divide a certain amount of money , over the total number of people it takes to do a job.” From this it is very clear, that no | matter how many workers are hired, the total payroll will be the same, all the workers will be asked to work overtime to be “loyal.” At-the beginning the secret letter of General Motors tells its branches to “contemplate a certain staggering of help, and even though you might not at once be able to work a 40- hour maximum week.” They wind up saying: “Please do not publish the fact that this might result in a great levelling out of wages, so that a large number of eople may have employment at st at a minimum wage rate rather than permit a smaller number divid- Ing the work as a consequence of getting more money for their ser- vices. a A.F.L. Heads Try to Organize Co. Union Py F Monday, July 11 with On Sunday the eight Me- tal Trades Unions of the A. F. of L. Socialist Labor Party sympathizer. He made a pretense of democracy and called for speakers. But about seven A. F. of L. business agents, including Nickerson, International vice-president of the Machinists, monopolized the floor for four hours, not allowing anyone else, even the workers from the shop, to speak. Proposes A. F. L. Men Be Elected Nickerson proposed that instead of the workers yoting in the elections for someone from the shop, | they should vote for A. F. of L. business agents, including Friedrichs, Ohl, Handley and other state officials of the A. F. of L. If the workers had tone this, it would mean that the A. F. of L, business agents would be incorporated directly into a com- pany union, ‘The same thing was proposed two days later in a paper mill at Com- bined Locks, Wis., showing that it is regular policy of the A. F. of L. At Combined Locks the scheme ‘was put forward by Al Benson, Socialist and former Milwaukee sheriff. The A. F. of L. officials talked for several hours to the Falk workers and persuaded many of them to sign up for union. Members of the Metal Workers of the General Motors Corporation, not to pay much at~- popular talk on thee imme-.| Street policemen attacked the picket How to Hit the Auto Workers Union, to the Daily Worker. They tell the AGRICULTURAL STRIKES SPREAD IN CALIFORNIA Over 2,400 Now Out for Pay Raises in Many Fields SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 11— Strikes of agricultural workers of California under the leadership of the Cannery and Agricultural Work- ers Industrial Union, are spreading out to cover large areas and many products. More than 2,400 workers are already reported on strike under the leadership of the union, and other spontaneous strikes are taking place every day which have not yet been reported. ® At Dinuba 150 agricultural workers joined the strike, at Fairfield 100, at Sacramento 300, at Fresno 150, at Bakersfield 200. All these strikers work in fruit fields. 1200 Out in Oxnard At Modesto 150 fruit driers have gone out on‘strike. At San Diego 300 workers in the tomato and chili bean fields joined the walkout, and in the Oxnard District 1200 workers in the sugar beet plantations joined the ranks of the strikers. ‘The demands of the striking ag- ricultural workers include recognition of the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, wages of 35 cents an hour instead of the pres- ent rate of 15 or 20 cents. Many additional strikes, not yet re- ported, are taking place, but the Can- nery and Agricultural Workers In- dustrial Union is in the field working to coordinate all the different actions. Boss Signs NRA, Then Raises Working Hours from 12 to 16 Each Day NEW YORK.—A sixteen hour working day at wages formerly paid for a twelve hour day is the workers’ share of the NRA Code in effect at the Columbia Plush Company, McKibben’ St., Brook- lyn, Before the adoption of the code, workers had a 72-hour week at $12. Now, with the NRA sign in the window, they work 16 hours on Pay of Post Office Substitutes Cut 75 p.c. Johnson Is Told 25,000 Send Demands to Administrator of N.R.A. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—General Johnson has received a letter, en- dorsed by 25,000 post office substitute workers, pointing out that on top of a drop of 50 per cent in their earnings, these workers have been given a 15 per cent wage cut by Roo- sevelt, This represents a total cut of 75 per cent. by The letter was sent to the admin- istrator of the NRA by the National Association of Substitute Post Office Employees, and demands a code for these workers. “The past two years have seen more than 2 50 per cent drop in our earnings,” says the letter to General Johnson. “In 1928, we averaged $1,200 and in 1931, $1,000. At present our average wage over the nation is less than $350. Yet the government has seen fit to reduce what little we earn by 15 per cent, and this, over a reduc- tion of 314 per cent for the retire- ment fund. “The burden of all economy and efficiency measures have been borne by us to such an extent as to leave us in a critical position, economic- ally. We find ourselves unable to buy the bare necessities of life be- cause of the fall in our income. <Ad- ded to these burdens, the substitute carriers are forced to maintain two uniforms.” Among the demands presented, by these post office workers are: All substitutes to be appointed to regular positions. Withdrawal of the 15 per cent cut. All substitutes not ap- pointed to regular positions be guar- anteed a minimum wage of $1,000 a year. Substitutes to work not less than 4 nor more than 8 hours a day. Strike of 50 Wins In- crease in Pay at New England Tailor Co. (By a Worker Correspondent) CONCORD, N, H.—Fifty workers of the New England Tailor Co. struck on Friday for more pay and shorter hours. Within an hour the workers forced the manufacturer to promise immediate increases, and to start the 35-hour week. When the workers at this shop saw notices by this company that it had signed the blanket code, and when they saw that this only re- sulted in a 3-4 of one cent increase per hour, they all walked out. The workers went to the State House to see the labor Commissioner, Mr, Davis. Mr. Davis told them to go back and keep the shop going, and in the meantime he would try to do “something.” The workers re- fused to go. back until they saw that “something” was being done. The workers showed pay envelopes of $4.80, $5 etc., and demanded that Davis call in the manufacturer to explain. Then the manufacturer, Mr. Richards said, that he would pay according to the temporary code. This goes to show what the work- ers in small shons can do. Whether there is a code or no code, the work- ers can still find a way to fight for a shift for the same wages. better conditions. the National Pecan Product Co., 15th In this plant 200 colored and 40 women cracking pecans get $5 to $6 work get 6c per pound for halves and 2c for pieces, which:brings them from $1.50 to $2.75 most wages a week. Working conditions are un- bearable. On July 26th a committee of nine went to see the boss, Mr. George G. Papas demanding piece work at 12c for halves and 6c for pieces, 8-hour day, 4 hours on Saturday, one-half hour for lunch daily, equal distribu- tion of work to Negro workers, sani- tary toilets, no deposits on equip- ment, equal pay to Negroes and whites and recognition of our own shop committees at all times and the right of the workers to join the Food Workers Industrial Union. Strike Called He flatly refused these demands, and the women went immediately ou on strike organizing their picket lines in front of the shop. Thursday the picket line continued with the help of sympathetic Negro and white workers of the neighbor- hood. On Friday morning the picket line was stronger than ever. Some scabs tried to get in the shop, including the floorlady, but the pickets did not let them enter. A dozen of Maxwell line. Eight workers were arrested, four of them women strikers and four workers from the neighborhood, two Negroes and two white. Women were held two hours and released while the men were kept in jail and bailed out by the International La- bor Defense. Raid by Red Squad The Red Squad raided the head- quarters of the strikers four times that afternoon, clubbing workers 241 arresting some of those known as militant leaders, Shultz and Adair of the Red Squad, specialists in terrorizing mi- litant workers and ‘the boss, Mr. YOUR establish th tee Papas, threatened the landlord of the strike headquarters, who then re- fused to rent the place any longer. pas eee Chicago Nut Pickers Get as Low as $1. | National Pecan Products Co. Gets Red Squad to Attack Workers Striking Against Starvation Wages (By a Workér Goictigeienk) CHICAGO, Ill.—Roosevelt’s New Deal so enthusiastically accepted by the bosses did not meet with the same approval of the striking nut pickers of 50 per Week and Laflin Sts. white women are employed. White a week, colored women working piece ing pecans away to be finished some- where else, police clubbed and ar- rested five of the women strikers, and threatened the others with guns. A committee of six went to Police Commissioner Allman and demanded the release of the strikers, who were released an hour later. Representatives of the Food Work- ers Industrial Union with its attor- ney went to see Mr. Papas. He agreed to raise wages to 7c for halves and 7c for pieces, which was less than the demands call for, but refused all other demands especially the recognition of the union. Now as to the conditions in the shop, and what some strikers told me about them. One of the girls showed me her slip on which the amount of work put out is shown. Her wages were for 11 1-2 days work, $3.55 and she is considered a fast-worker. Another girl who just started to work’ made on the first day 19c and on the second 22c. There are eight toilets on the floor and only two are open for 200 girls. Other six are nailed down. There is neither towel nor soap in the place. { On Wednesday the injunction was issued by the company against pick- eting, and a copy of it with a letter, telling of the increase in wages call- ing them back to work, was sent to the workers. A large number of workers /re- turned back to work fooled by the letter sent to them by the company, while some of them still refused to return, We wish to tell these women work- ers that only by fighting for their rights and against miserable condi- tions. will they be able to better their conditions, by organizing themselves and joining the Food Workers Indus- trial Union, which has led them in their first struggle, and the Inter- national Labor Defense which has militantly stood in the forefront of On Monday afternoon when the pickets tried to stop the truck tak- the strike, defending the workers ar- rested there, Fons Police, broke up this picket line and later released, Streets shortly after the picture was taken. Ten strikers were arrested Striking Chicago Pocketbook Workers Red at the corner of Monroe and Wells Lehman on with them, other than throuyh the State troopers and police, until the strike had been broken. Reply- ing to the offers of the strikers to call a truce in order to permit the setting up of a board to study their grievances, Lehman said: “I recognize no truce. When the strike is definitely called off, but not before, I shall be glad to do all in my power to see thit the Milk Board extends a hearing on the matters presented.” Deliberately concealing the real cause of the strike, the miserable by the big. dairy exrmpanies, Lehman denounced the strikers as follows: “This is no organized strike. It is not the usual conflict between worker and employer. It is a strike to nullify authority of the State itself.” A similar speech over the radio was made by Senator Royal S. Cope- land. Farmer Replies In reply to these attacks on the strike, Stanley Piseck, one of the local strike leaders and dairy farm- er, sent the following telegram to Copeland. Dear Sir: You stand shamed in the eyes of the farmers of the Upstate.’ When a man of your standing becomes a rubber stamp of the damnable forces that dissi- pate the honest labor of the men, women and children on our farms, it is a sorry day. For two weeks we begged an opportunity to present to the Gov- ernor and legislature facts and figures that cannot be disproved. Thus far this has heen denied. ‘The millions of dollars of the nation- wide Dairy organization which you spoke for last night are being used, with the aid of the armed forees of this state to beat down the destitute farmer and force on him an unjust price.” Signed STANLEY PISECK. Letters from the workers in the towns and cities of the strike area are pouring into the offices of the local press, pledging support of the strike and the strikers. Thus far, only the Utica Daily Prass, a liberal paper, has dared to print these letters. Lehman, who made it clear that he supports all the decisions of the Milk Board, is directly cotinected with the big milk monopolies who are grind- to Break Milk Strike | | ‘Workers Strike As Local Farm Leader Replies, Denouncing Milk Trust ; Communist Party Pledges Aid | ALBANY, New York, Aug. 13.—Governor Lehman, in a radio address today, showed his hand as the leader in the efforts to break the heroic strike of the milk farmers now entering the third week. Discarding all his recent pretenses of “friendliness” to the farmers, Lehman brusquely told the striking farmers that he would have no dealings starvation prices paid to the farmers | Radio Tries ing the farmers, through the Wall! Street banking firm of Lehman Bros. | of which he was a member. This company has large investments in the Borden and Sheffield companies. Meanwhile, the picketing of the roads continues, and the supply of milk is still very small. | * x * NEW YORK, Aug. 13—The New York District of the Communist Par- ty today issued a statement pledging full support to the striking milk farmers in their heroic struggle against tne starvation prices of the | big milk monopolies. The statement follows: “The struggle of the Dairy Farmers | of New York State manifested in the| present milk strike must receive ac-| tive support from the werkers in New York City and throughout the State. “The strike of these farmers is an expression of their determination to submit no longer to the wholesale robbery and plunder of the milk trusts with the support of the State government. The milk trusts pay the farmers an average of 2% cents per quart for their milk, while in New York City the starving workers) with undernourished children are charged as high as 12 to 15 cents per quart. Thus the trusts not only rob the farmers, but the workers in the city as well. “The New York District Communist Party whole- supports the struggle farmers and urges tb workers to give active assisianc The governor who callously refuses immediate relief and unemployment insurance to the over 2,250,000 unem- ployed workers of the state, exerts every effort to ruthlessly crush the strike of these farmers by the most! | violent and blecdy means. The struz- | | gle cf the farmers against the Milk! Trust, and for the right to live, must become an integral part of the fight of the city workers against starvation wages and misery of unemployment. The workers in the city should deve- lop active struggle and carry through demonstrations in front of the plants of the big milk companies and other Pizces, Workers’ organizations shou'd| { of | the] Dniry protest against the military violence) | against, the strikers, and dispatch thesa to Governor Lehman. We call fer unite: ction of city and farm toilers against the com- adopt resolutions and telegrams of| ° FS cCONITION SHOP COMMIT iad UINION So waar KORE? J gan tT NEO imi wece eN BE TET! ANS A sign carried by one of the Chi- cago pocket book strikers demands recognition of the union, NRA Cuts Pay 50 p.c. Leaders’ Negotiations Weaken Movement UNEMPLOYM By LABOR RE corresponding month a year ago. Bridgeport. Shirt Strike Holds Solid A. F. of L., Socialists Fail to Disrupt BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—Every at- | tempt of the A. F. of L. and social- ist leaders to disrupt the strike of the 350 workers at Shirt and Dress s Mitchell Br p lias met w | cause disruption by | group of college girls to distribute jright wing leaflets, but they were |immediately removed by the strik- jers. The Cederholms are known for their assistance in betraying the strke of the Stylecraft Pocketbook WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. Workers of the Allied Kid Company struck when the boss tried to cut their wages in half to comply with the N. R. A. minimum wage scale. About 25 were getting $28 a week for part time work, the bosses want- jed them to work full time at the| minimum blanket code rate of $14 a |week. Twenty other workers joined| cog has th promised the Ik-out when + i made wage increase co: was never kept. The strike is led by J. Mas: the National Leather Workers sociation. The strike of the Amalgamated Leather Company which started last week is weakened by the négotia- tions going on between J. Massidda who is a Musteite and S: Americza Federation of L \of them want to divide the so as not to interfere with each other. e ously idda of As- y|keep up with the te: shop here. Sem K er, ‘organizer of the | Trade Union Unity League and Gus- |sie Weiner, organizer of the Needle |"Trades Workers Industrial Union jare both out on bail after being |arrested for participation in the | picket lines. Their trials take place | Wednesday. | The strike is in the hands of a |committee elected by the workers e full cooperation of the | Trade Union Unity League. The demands are: A minimum of $13 weekly, which is a 50 per cent increase for most workers and as much as 75 to 100 per cent for some operators. Recognition of eir shop committee, against unsan: vy conditions in the shops, for a five day, 40 hour week, against speed up, and agai all bul ing tactics on the part of the foreladies and bosses. They also demand the return of all girls fired because they could not ‘ific speed up brought on when the boss became a member of the N. R. A, SCHENECTADY, N. Y,, vertised widely thet it has gra 10. eda vas then abolished. The workers’ re- in the Another he: t the workers in the res ory have had an. ‘additional day's work added to their four days a But the hours were cut from with a corresponding c the day, and all w four w 1s six months, of t they must work for two weeks with- out pay in the plant. So that the net result is three hours additional income every six months. The company has recently been for below the present wazes. that th ht rise in output at the y's in. as mon enemy—the capitalist class.” a result of further inflation. «| The cor sentment at being y for this rouo insu made the | en, | — The General Electric Co. 5 per cent wage inorease. But this in- evease does not go into the workers’ pockets. It goes back to the company in the form of a “group insurance and pension plan”. This uscd to b> paid by the workers out of a 5 per cent bonus. The benus de tee! | following y bid csamrsieg a tae ip r the coast gu s type transformers for the air corps at Wright Fi |for coast guard ampli! g Miner Asks | for the Daily Worker to Help Build Union (By a Worker Correspondent) UNIONTOWN, |treating Fayette County. Please } topping the We put our Union ba | If you c aper |we will our Union w We still al in Uniont If you (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) advertisements in the newspapers openly state that prices will rise again and they are rising almost daily. Opposing the code of the coal operators who are supported by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, Frank Borich, president of the National Miners Union presented the code of the NMU at the hearings here yes- terday. Agnes Steer of Library, Allegheny County, a/member of the women’s auxiliary of the National Miners Union, denounced the company stores. “All the miners are forced to deal in the company. stores,” she said, “though prices are much higher on all the necessities of life than in private stores. To force the miners to deal in the company stores the coal operators in most instances have abolished the payment in the U,-S. currency and have instituted the company money generally known as the company scrip. This scrip is good in the company stores only. “By forcing the miners to deal in the company stores the operators are robbing them of at least 25 ner cent of their earnings. Families that receive checks, are also forced in many instances to go to company stores. Due to this policy most miners re¢cive’no money for their hard labor. “Therefore, we demand the com- plete abolition of the company store in all mining towns.” The operators, she said, have also a system of deducting for doctors and other similar things from the miners’ pay. “Yet when a miner, his wife or a child is sick it is impossible to obtain service of these so-called doctors and the miners are forced to pay for an- other doctor if they want services 70,000 Miners Watch Capital As NA U Pre she observed. | for their sick family,” | “We demand that no deduce | shall be made by the employer: |the miners’ pay for anything | the miners be paid in full in the | U.S. currency.” , | | Borich declared: | The operators have increased the | wholesale price of coal in the glast | weeks by 25¢ a ton while wages on the average have been increased by ‘only 6c per ton, Unemployemat Insurance It is generally admitted that due | to overdevelopment of the coal in- dustry, the\development of new fuel substitutes, the long hours of em- ployment, the low standard of liying of the masses throughout the coun- try about one third of the miners, or about 275,000, will never again be employed in the mining industry. This does not include the unemployed and part time workers, Further- more there is constantly a growing output per man as a result of new | rationalization schemes, There can be only one answer. The government and the operators must provide for and pay unemploy- ment insurance to the unemployed miners. Many miners. and taeir famifes live on merely flour that is given to them in insufficient quan- tities. There is no reason for this situation in a country where there is plenty of everything, Company Towns The company controlled towns em- body some of the worst forms of slavery and peonage. The whole life of the miners and their families is dominated and controlled by the company and its agents. There are no civil rights. The company offi- cials and their company police rule and tyranize over the miners. The permitted to receive their closest relatives and friends without the permission of the company police. In many instances even neighbors miners in these towns are not even! are not pcrmi‘ted to vi The Negvo miners special sections towns and are no ciateswith the white miners, The company often for any reason it chooses evicts miners from their miserable homes which goes along with firing from the job. Add to this the payment of scrip, the forced deductions from the min- ers’ wages, the compelling of the miners to buy in the company stores, and you have slavery and peonage whichwas not outdone in the days of slavery or serfdom. It is essential for the well being of the miners that the company con- trol in these towns shall be abolished and that full civil rights be estab- lished: that these towns become in- corporated towns. Rights and Forms of Organization The miners are unavimous in th hatred of company unions. The miners of the Pittsburgh Coal Com- pany wore thre: ed by the gua’ with loss of jobs unless they join the company unions. Miners who joined either the UMWA or the NMU were fired. The demands of the miners, of all miners is that these company unions shall be abolished. The National Miners Union in line With its policy of the rights of the miners to organize into a union of their own choice oppose the UMWA checkoff through which the opera- tors deduct from the miners waves and turn over the dues to the UMWA officials. A union must be based on the principle of voluntary adherence of its membership to the organization. The checkoff violates this principle compels the miners to pay dues without being consulted as to which union they wish to join, It makes it possible forveorrupt of- ficials that have not the support of the rank and file to maintain them- mine! unorgani: » and with the exis and the PM. In the Pennsylv bituminozs fields many mine’ long to the NMU and wish to rema in the NM In the fields of U other Southern fields completely unorganized. largest number in its organization. the open shop policy of the steel trust and the big coal companies. We however do not stand for a closed shop arrived at through top agree- ment. of some officials with the op- erators without the consulting of the miners, we stand for the closed shop only when it is arrived at as a result pe ere of the majority of the m defeat. Mr. and Mrs. Cederholm, former socialist leaders tried to bringing in | fa; an order | Pa. — I am letting | nf Ik too much. | the | Press and | With the majority of the miners! ¢|Men In August,” headlined the capi- of at least 3 recognized unions in the field, the UMWA, the PMA and the NMU, all contracts signed must include all the unions and not give| the monopoly to any one union. Es- De mining industry where | there has been a tradition of many New Mexico and E. Ohio, West Vir- ginia there are thousands of miners organized in the NMU. In the fields in the North there are tens of thous- ands of unozganized miners. Th~ miners of Kentucky, Alabama and| ate. almost This em- phasizes that there can be no mono- poly to any one union not even to the UMWA which thus far has the We stand unreservedly, opposed to ENT RISES, EARCH ASSOCIATION. In May, 1933, nearly 127,000 less workers were employed by the 151 Class I roads than in May, 1932, and payrolls had declined over $15,000,000 in the same period, according to latest figures. their net operating incomes some $29 million in May of this year over the Even the Railroad Brotherhood chiets —*pressed by union members, now ad- But these raiiroads had tnoreased | mit, as did President A. F. Whitney of | the Trainmen, that the “railroads are | continuing to throw emyloyes out of work, thereby increasing «wnemploy- ment at an alarming rate... .” Roosevelt's Law Current headlines feature an- nouncements by rail coordinator Eastman alleging advice to railroads that more workers be employed. Yet this same man, several weeks ago, ad- mitted that railroads themselves might cut down on the number of .| workers and that the Roosevelt law calling for not less than were em- ployed in May of this year, applied only to coordinator’s edicts. East- ‘correct ‘a common impression,’” he | said, “among railroad workers that | the emergency Rail Act protects them absolutely from dismissals or fur- |loughs after the effective date of the }law.” (Our emphasis.) | And so Eastman’e latest blast that rail repairs will be speeded up in | “Back-to-work Drive,” can likewise | be taken with a grain of salt. For while the New York Times reported pledges from rail employers and }that “employment might be stimu- |lated with loans for maintenance | work authorized by the “Public | Works Act” and that “upwards of $1,000,000,000 could be spent now” for |such work, Wall Street tells a differ ent story. | “Inquiry in railroad cireles here developed that railroads are not dis- | Playing much interest in the gov- |ernment loans which will be made available under the public works pro- gram for repairs and deferred main- {tenance work,” admits the Wall Street Journal. This pricks one ballyhoo bubble foisted on the work- lers in this country by the Roosevelt |government. And rail workers with | illusions about the Roosevelt regime might consider the following from |the mouth of a Big Business paper. | The Transport Act, remarks the | Wall Street Journal (Aug. 7, 1933), | was passed “in the hope of meeting a railrcad financial emergency, not of sol€ie the national unemploy- ment problem.” It was prepared to- wards “protection of some billions of thrift accumulations,” (read capital- | ists’. investments—LRA) and must not be converted “into an instrument of ial amelioration.” (Our em- rail owners, continues the financiers’ mouthpiece, can “de~ ine the priority relation between Irogd joh making and the individ~ carriers’ safety margin of current ings over fixed charges.” Thus an authoritative voice of the U. 8, | rulers flaunts Eastmef’s high-sound- | ing words. Fights for Compensation ugh the Rail Act clearly pro= vides that wor , transferred be- | cause of mergers or poolings, must be compensated for any additional expense they incur, Boston and Maine and Maine Cqntral workers are fight- ing to collect. Some 233 are affected and have scored their first victory rehiring a few men at 15 per cent | you know how the H. C. Frick Ea bask board was established to deter- This mine amount due | workers will lose jobs in merger of | accounting departments of the two reads. Canadian engineers, firemen, con= uctors, trainmen and railroad tele- phers, of the Canadian Pacific nedian National Railways, cused over the owner’s attempts ta | Dut over a 20 per cent wage cut, are y for a strike vote. The ma- y of the board of conciliation une under the Industrial Dis- ch bad in fact been to investigate) went to recommend the cut, Already the comosny union on the ves in power and tyranize over, Ganadian Pacif; Exovress has “ac. miners. It strenginens a-| cepted” the sas make 2,of the corsupt Union officials | rates of ‘workas ‘on thus boa 1% t e gainst the cent less than the low wages and file of the miners. | in the United States and ts Conaalan We stand for the mine commities | mes operating here, demo ically elected by all Rail Employment on New New York Central “N. Y. Central Will Take On 1,475 | talist press the other day. jen Oct. | off 6,000 When 16, 1930, the same’ road laid men, however, latter report Was not quite so prominently dis: vlayed, | Government, Wage Cut Helps Roads Up to July 29 some $381,000,000 of | 1314 per cent of the total, had been unions and where we have seen aid out to Sage talee bela é ir Ou railroads by tl i miners Zoning new unions suc | struction Finance ies s ae the NMU and the PMA is it neces-| forts to aid the capitalist class, And sary that all the unions shall be rec-| now, writes Rovert E Bdmendue A LL lh arr In the Il-) Investment-"conomist for the Daily ields the workers are News Record (8/ “The din two unions, the UMW Pee el eee financial position is materially aided by the reneal of the recapture clause becavs the $350,000,000 involved is just that much more credit for the trensvortation companies,” five items that make for “more and mere favorable” prospects for own- ers, Edmondson places as No. 2: Rage of the reduced wage | Scale, by which new employes being taken cn, must abide.” Pennrond Official, Foe of Labor, Dead i Workers on the Pennsylvania Rafl- road will scarcely lose any sleep over the death of one of the road’s vice- presidents. Elisha Lee, who was on a $52,000 eae salary in 1982, fourth year of the crisis, Lee, a company union advocate, had at opposed: the efforts of labor and after pass- age of the Adamson 8-hour law for rail labor in 1916, fought it unsuc- cessfully in the highest courts, f Help improve the “Daily Worker.” send in your suggestions and criticism! Let us know what the workers in your shop think about the “Daily.” = WAGES DECLINE, BUT RR. , OWNERS’ INCOME GROWS . Canadian Pacific and Nat’] Railway’s Workers Ready for Strike Vote Against Pay Cut