The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1933, Page 4

Paze Four ~-.2uY WORKER, NEW YORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1933 Burlak Interview — Tells How Textile Slave Code Works 3osses Becoming ‘Educational’ and Employing ar “earners” to Avoid Minimum Wages; Speed Up Increases ; Pay Cut “How is the. textile code working out in practice?” asked a Daily Worker reporter of Ann Burlak, secretary of National Textile Workers Union. | “When our delegation went to Washington,” said Burlak, “to expose the | pened to read a 1—During the time just previous x = “ 7 loyment, I hap- to, until some time after the begin- code and show how it would cut wages and reduce unemployment : t ter the begi iztement by Mr. Ernest H. Hood in the capitalist press. ning of the World War, it seemied | A impossible for the workers in the|of the structural steel workers, the A Pictorial History of the Great Steel Strike of 1919 ) A 2.—This was greatly ehhanced by 3,—The A. F. of L. steel cam- paign failed to achieve even the their defeat of labor in the strikes slightest tangible results. The end- By DAN RICO | 4—But 2s the war wore on and the U. 8. joi less rounds of defeat had reduced ter, the siluntion changed rapidly | in favor of the unions. The demand rapacious for soldiers and munitions had made | [Tabor scarce. area steel industry to accomplish any- |, ; ° x Sitnoat).to. .xerp;-ihe \1ieae cabin nothing in the thitig ty dorgsniced peeing The big |#Ke sailors, the iron miners, and earidaios ise thet whee Var meek an employer to give hours’ steel companies had built up a ter-|the steel workers of McKees Rocks, with the militant and i news ve |rific reputation as union crushers.|Bethleher: and Youngstown. steel Giabutactanens “He knew he was talking | ; led to add that s wages would be cut ed above the 40 some instances?” plenty of them. | Offhand here are the most out- standing “The 1 hes five mills in Massac The company has the blazoned all over the} ov 4 announced that all | Metal Factory s than six months That learners.’ How the National Industrial Recovery Act Enslaves the Workers on the Job Louisville, Kentucky “NRA CutsWage $2.12: Mouldy Sanwiches As Dummy Union Formed | Pay for 11 Hours Work ( Jorrespondent) By a Worker Correspondent “Tess piece ds $13 minim said all (By a Worker Correspoz | Lous 1 n't stand the piece ANN. BURLA | bouts fired oe ase \ ville Tin nie off everyone excent tl he. cot cut. Over 4,000 dye workers struck] cuis them 20 pe! gotten an inst this and won increas not|}to work. want a lot of ‘Ie. way Mill in hiring youn: learne: Tr workers to do exactly the a ‘extile y, threat- : one by older|tion in the textile industry, i cent, a mee Ee nomen wholesale discharges and|ago gave a wage in workers. The} the sa | August 1. On July 31 ber of looms, s, and told the rest the: a weer. to join their ci “we had ne to our union n about it, expos- discuss the questi crk out d rough the act but through strike. Comrade Burlak ion of overproduc- je and another member The Standa then began tojof the American Radia during the last thre 0 per cent, and se I presented the | fe Cr give us some instances ‘0 discrimination ican Tobacco plant, 1: were cut under the yee because of| p2r cent and production fifty | Mr. Edmunds,, ¢: ee appolried to 5 | on the d | requirement Reser be ue | For instance, those that were getting yeats cu; |$11 a week now get $8.88 a week.| ‘al weeks | making $2.12 less a week. Count in ease effective | the 11 pe fired 1,700 ised wages ten per | x | ng five ‘to’ six | Hie 7. tolq | capitalist papers, 3 ses to gt NY, Conn.—Last week | the employes of Winchester were) notified that the company was going Code, Accordingly they to comply with the new They go on eight hours a day, five days a week, with} an eleven percent increase in wages. cent. The Winchester Company never} would stand for a union man in the} factory. Now the Company is going to start a dummy union, Every em- ploye is got to belong to it to be of- ficered by company officials, no dues | for Green and his friends. The peo- | ple being fed up on the slops in the 700 of them ar- |rived at the Employment Office this jmorning. A grand disappointment 'awaited them. Four cops were at NEW HAVEN, Conn.—The In-| dustrial Recovery (Slavery) Act is coming along full blast here with the daily capitalist papers hailing the return of prosperity, while the conditions ef workers in the shops and factories get increasingly worse. In the Stiles Brick Yard in this city, a worker was hired without being told what he was to be paid. He worked 11 hours. the first day and | received three mouldy sandwiches for his food. The next day the wofker worked | and demanded to know what his wages were to be. The boss told him that the sandwiches cost a quarter a piece and that as a result he would get no pay and to get “the hell out.” Now the worker has nothing for his 42 hours work in the burning sun, but a pair of blistered hands and a new idea of what Roosevelt’s one hour ‘We can't be lraders try to plain ‘why the | the Office. The hungry crowd stood : y ” the miners: on job in Pennsylvania coal fields, New Deal means to the working : ' iy. class. in the boiling sun, waiting for some hope, |e een getting 35/ 60 to 80 hours 1g between $24 and | ba: " SAGINAW, paner tells ab Mich. the 155: one o permanent working s |now work six hours. the new rule, 20 per cent increase in pay. ‘Can You .Make ’em BREAKFAST Yourself ? Ue Cr cay ah Here is an idea for making a little 2. C: 1. go a long way (a little time and a BY (anna os 2) B Coffee for the adults and litie money). A skirt that can be ++ © +-S€F Ca bs eee oe childeey. houlg "OR with any number of differnt 10 Combat Recruiting 2 r oats should Z : ° be cooked even. Pluses, ‘The blouse can be made at, of Seabs for Strikes when the one sitting, and the skirt at another pi ne YOR necessary ting, and each time you wil! feel] (By a Railroad Worker Corres- mud hour ; t you have realiy accomplished pondent) lespoonfu ‘ hing. with salt to taste is necessary. When tbe ERIE, Pa.—Five hundred workers used reheat by filling double boiler ee 5, eam ey y the bosses in southern with hot water and boil hard for fo» at least an hour, Do not stir, Turn ‘< |breakers in Buffalo were unloaded into a hot dish and serve with milk. Pais | Jat Dunkirk, N. Y. from New. York Smooth cereals like and rice \~= | | Central T No. 22 the last week| Reed not be cook~d o--rnizht. One| ! in July. m Dunkirk they were hour in a double bo j LU am 1, Lima bean soup. 2. Scalloped salmon. 3. Stewed pears, 4. Coffee. Lima bean soup can be made of fresh, canned or beans which have been soaked overnight. Fresh beans should be cooked half to three-quar- ters of an hour. Canned or soaked | beans 20 minutes. Use one quart of water with either. Make your white sauce by melting one table- spoonful of butter and when it bub- bles put in one tablespoonful of flour, salt and pepper to taste, rub till quite Smooth and thick with a pint of hot milk. Press cooled vege- | tables through wide sieve with all| the water, mix with the white sauce and strain once more. For scalloped salmon take one| pint can of salmon, one large cup of | bread crumbs, one cup of white| enough. | wages and speed-up, close keep eruit scabs. | relief, higher wages, etc, Hiring at Chevrolet!—_| sre Me ee about forty girls together. But for 3 Weeks Onlly | inarched them into the employment By a Worker Correspondent cee a | other cop came out and he whispered ¢| Put on at the Chevrolet Foundry.) They were, but worked three weeks, and when this was put in the local “| paper, they were already laid off and instead of the, rest n hours per day, most Previous to code nine hours was the so most had a 50 per cent re- luction in hours or more, and only n cities for use as strike- to be transported by buses directly to the shops in Buffalo, where the workers were on strike against: low This shows the necessity for all) sections of Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League’ to check on employment agencies and advertisements in the press for workers for jobs in other cities, as these are usually to re- Every possible means must be used to stop such recruiting. Leaflets exposing the bosses’. plans | and showing the folly of being used| as tools to cut wages of other work- | |ers should be distrbuted among. all | workers recruited. Call upon them to | better their own and other workers’ | living conditions by joining the fight for unemployment insurance, more sauce. Take out all bones, skin and juice from the fish. Butter a bak- ing dish, put in a layer of fish, salt and pepper, then a layer of bread crumbs, and a layer of white sauce, repeat until layers are fin- ished with crumbs on top. Do over with butter. Brown in oven and serve with mashed potatoes. SUPPER, 1. Cabbage salad. 2. Cabinet pudding. 3. Coffee for the adults milk for the children. Cabinet pudding requires ane pint of, milk, three egg yolks, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, one salt- spoonful of salt. vat the eggs add the sugar and stir them into the milk, which must be very hot but not boiling; stir till it thickens, and then take it from the fire. Put a layer of wash- _ ed raisins in the bottom of a mould, | then a layer of slices of stale cake or Jady-fingers, then more raisins around the edge of the mould, and ‘more cake till the mould a; full. Pour the custard over very slowly, | 80 the cake will soak and bake in @ pan of water in the oven for an ‘hour, This pudding is to be eaten ‘hot with any sauee you like, Africa and town, West Africa. Pattern 2545 is available {n sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 2% yards 39 inch blouse fabric and 2% yards contrasting. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions included with| At this pattern. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and’style num- ber, BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address order to Daily Worker Pattern Depa:tment, 243 W. I%th St., ‘New York City, would receive no food at all. Freetown, the own pocket. fixed up. | Port Harcoart, Africa. + ; Struggle Against Bad) Food on Barber Line Ship On Way to” » (From a Marine Worker Corresp.) The crew of the Barber Line ship “West Irmo” recently organized into @ ship committee om the way to Free- One of the main issues they took up was the food aboard ship. They sent a delegation to the captain, who said he was-eat- ing the same food and that nothing could be done about it. The men re- fused to return to work unless they got better food. The captain said that any man who refused to work chief stabbed the second cook and slashed his face with a butcher knife, be- cause the second was making a ting the money he made all in his The chief was arrested; but the captain was able to get it cook The next port the ship made was The men still At 9 ofcock one of the cops came | through the crowd. He marshalled | He then | office—“Cheap labor.” |then had high hopes. The crowd At 9.30 an- to one of the cops on the sidewalk, | who stepped forward. “Gentlemen,” he said to the crowd of hungry men with their paper shoes and cotton clothes, “I have been instructed to inform you to go home, and don’t be hanging around here. There is not one of you that is wanted, for any man that is wanted will be hircel by a card.” Of course, the crowd dispersed after a good deal of cursing. Railroad, Marine Workers Tell of Their Struggles on Job Against Enslaving Effects of NIRA Marshall Field Firing MenAfter 40Y’rs’ Work (From a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill.~7he price of milk here in Chicago has risen from 9c to 10c a quart and a law has been passed making it compulsory for everyone to charge 10c¢ a qrart. We used to buy milk from the Meadow Moor Company for 8¢ anda Je the quart. I have been told on good authority that such department stores as Mar- shall Field’s and others here in the Loop distsict have been firing all of their old hands. Some have worked at Field’s for 35 and 40 years, conditions, the crew left the ship, and refused to return until they could be assured that the food would be better. | The ship was held up for 24 hours, in hopes that the men would return. When they did not, the captain hired nine Negroes to take their places. turn to her home port to insure Another racket on this ship was on the pay-off. The men signed on at $3.89 to the pound. They should have been paid off at the rate of ihe pound at the time the ship paid off. This rate was $4.86. ‘The crew received about $30, and ship had to put up a $1,000 bond| the skipper and the purser split the! difference between themselves, workers to feel that every letter they attention. During the next few days we will acquaint our worker correspondents with the methods we intend to use in handling correspondence. For today we make a few suggestions on the question of shop correspond- ence: , Descriptions of conditions on the job—in the shops, mills, mines, ete. —are valuable as information, They become immeasurably more valu- able, however, if these conditions are used as the basis for exposing certain maneuvers of the bosses. For instance, a report on a lay-off, on a wage-cut, on a lengthening of hours, if necessary. But when this is linked up with the National In- dustrial Recovery Act, as is done in the letters in thig section today, when these conditions are used to expose before the working class, the NIRA as it actually works out in the shop, this letter becomes much more effective in educating and con- vineing the workers who are not yet in the moverient,y of the treach- ery of this ensiaving act. We want to know the attitude of the workers on conditions in their shops, toward the A. F. of L. bu- reaucrats, toward the prosperity ballyhoo, toward the need for or- ganization, toward the revolutionary unions, the Communist Party, the Daily Worker, Not only is it necessary to pub- | lish letters from the shop, but it is necessary that the workers of the shop ip question get to read the let ter. t helps in the local organiza- tional work in the shop, and helps to bring the Daily Worker into the shop, We therefore have a system whereby a comrade can specify the date on which he wants his letter to appear, and acco-ipany his let- ter with an order of extra copies, To Worker Correspondents The six-page “Daily” is making it possible to devote much more space | than before to correspondence from the workers, Though it must be kept in mind that even with the six pages, our space is not unlimited, we want the write is welcome and will get careful —— which will be sent on credit, with the understanding that these papers will be sold at the shop gate, However, to make this distribution. still more effective, we group our industrial correspondence in such a day that letters from one or several related industries appear all on one day, Thus a steel worker receiving a copy of the Daily with a story on his own shop, can also read stories on steel mills in other parts of the country, and really begins to look upon the Daily Worker as a leader in the struggles of the steel workers. One tentative program at present is as follows: Monday—All transportation and communications industries—r a i I- road, marine express, telephone and telegraph, postal, street cars, sub- ways, cab drivers, etc. Tuesday—Steel, metal and auto. Wednesday—Miscellaneous. Thursday—Farmers, agricultural workers and cannery workers. Friday—Needle and te:ttile. _ Saturday—Mining, oil and chem- ileal. This schedule can be changed if| - local conditions require an adjust- ment. Also letters of any industry a be published on any day speci- fied in addition to these groupings. We urge the workers to send even more correspondence than they have in the past, And we particularly urge them to make the fullest use of the Daily Worker in their organizational work in and around the shops. NOTE: We publish lotters from workers in the tran.pe.tation and commu- nications indus. Thursde~ “23 every Monday. Get, them to us by the preceding the: Filene Cuts $9 Union . |Wage by 60% Under | National Recovery Act Yorrespondent ¥, Mass.—Boston painters found out what the Industrial Re- covery (Slavery) Act mzant when | the F. M. Rogers shop said it was “waiting for Filenc to set the wages” and that this would mean the minimum wage of forty cents |an hour with ‘a. sevyen-hour day. | The Union agreement calls for nine | dollars for an eight-hour day, so | that the new wage scale means aj 60 per cent cut. A terrific speed- | up is in force. Filene is one of the nine | bers of the State Board of “ | ployment” chosen by Gen. | Johnson, Slavery Administrator, |Public Works Money |Spent for Armaments) By a Worker Correspondent ERIE, Pa.—The workers of the Erie Forge and Erie Forge and Steel Co. are getting experience with the National Industrial Recoy- Jey Act. They have had their hours | cut to forty a weck but the prom- ised wage increase can be noticed only by its absence on pay days. | The above plants are war indus- tries and are expecting large or- ders from the war and navy de- |paritments for airplane hangar parts, naval guns and submarine erankshafts. This is where some of the money that was to have pro- ided employment by public works will be spent. The bosses will enjoy increased | profits but unless the workers of , the shops organize to fight for high- et wages all they will receive is| speed up, more work, less hours, less pay. on Party retusea to work under the rotten the safe return of the Negro seamen | Wages at a Standstill Here nine members of| to their port (Port Harcoart, Africa).’ 2 But Prices Everywhere Continue to Rise From a Railroad Worker Correspondent PORTSMOUTH, 0.——The rail- road men on the N. and W. out of Portsmouth ate beginning to won- der what the National Recovery Act is all about. We were told that this Act would increase employment, raise wages, and in general be help- ful. At the present writing the only persons it has helped are the business men of the town, The price of groceries has in- creased; so have meals at restau- rants; clothing has increased in price; house rents are on the in- crease, and railroad men’s wages are at a standstill. The shopmen are getting a few more days a month, and, it is reported, that union dues will be increased. There is some talk of a so-called Code for the railroads. The ques- tion around here is: What will they try to gyp us out of now? The so- called leaders of the several Broth- erhoods have put over enough pay cuts and work-spreading schemes, and we are tired of them and their sell-out methods. We want rank and file represen- tation, and a union that is controlled by the membership, not by a few bureaucrats and fakers. The RACE Strike Raises Pay frem $2.10 to $2.40 (By a Worker Correspondent) MORA, Wash.—When in Neah Bay we talked to the Indians about the strike on the Washington Pulp and Paper Company’s railrozd, The wages were raised, since the strike, from $2.10 a day to, $2.40, but it \is a slave-driving job. Men were coming and going every day, and didn’t want anything to do | with the place ed the general slaugh- | mental articles on political economy. | first page I find an article, “How Wages Can Be Raised,” and it-tells the workers wages can be raised; they must be raised; we can and will raise wages by fighting. If the writer of ‘this article will make only a slight acquaintance with the writings of Karl Marx he will discover that this is an impossibility and on the other hand he will dis- cover that wages under the capitalist em will fall and that they must continue to fall due to the fact that the speed-up of the workers cheap- ens the product; that, therefore, the workers can reproduce themselves for @ smaller outlay of real money, thus lowering their value and as they only obtain for their labor its value in real money wages they consequently con- tinuaily experience a fall in wages. This is the reason the bosses speed up the workers—the faster we speed the less the boss pays us. There- fore, the gregter the surplus, there- fcre more unemployment follows, mere competition tor the jobs, more speed-up and still less wages. Why, then, fight the inevitable? Why organize into unions? That is. the question to be answered. What should be our answer to these ques- tions? First, do we want to speed up? No. Then organize to fight against the speed-up. Do we wani to raise our wages? Yes. How will we do it? By putting up a solid class front.to the bosses; by organizing the battie against them. If we don’t the bosses will have it all their own way and our wages will fall just as they have done in the past. To raise our wages we must cbiain more of the good things of this life. Thus we shall increase our value and push up wages, for we shall thys make ourselves more valu- able. Is it worth while to struggle against the worsening of our condi- tions? Yes. Thon we must fight every minute. To do this we must act -n an organized manner. Do we want to prepare the workers for the battles to come? Certainly. Then we must Organize them and train them for the future bigger battles. Have the workers got anything to lose by organizing and fighting? No. Have they got anything to gain thru struggle? Yes, They have the world and the fullness thereof to gain. Is | this worth while fighting for? De- cidedly. Then organize; learn what you are up against; learn thru the ‘uggle how to beat your bosses, en all togethew one grand battle for the final freedom. Spee. ps THE REPLY, The writer of the above letter has a confused understanding of Marx in relation to wages and the ability of the workers through struggle to win wage increases. First of all, Marx in all his writ- ings on political economy poinis out that the “social necessary labor,” forming the basis of the value of labor power and wages is not a fixed thing, but varies from country to country, based on the degree of de- velopment of capitalism, and the de- gree of development cf the orgeniza- tion of the workingclass to protect their living standards and to fight 500 WORKERS STRIKE IN SUGAR BEET FIELDS VENTURA, Cal. — Five hundred workers are on strike in the sugar beet fields of the Oxnard district, under the leadership of the Cannery and Agricultural Workers’ Industrial Union and the Filipino Protective League. The strikers demand a minimum wage of 35 cents an hour. In keeping with its policy of mak-+ ing The Daily Worker a complete home and factory paper dealing with werkers’ problems, The Daily has arranged a new feature commencing tomorrow, dealing with workers’ physical and mental health as well as public hygiene. This feature will be conducted by Dr. Paul Luttinger, noted physician, author of several books on workers’ health, and at preseii Professor of Bacteriology and Physiology at one} of the New York Universities. The column will be entitled, “Dr. Luttin- ger Advises,” Prof, Luttinger is one of country’s most noted specialists in children’s health and will be glad lo advise pa- in the most healthful ways. The-health of workers and their involving occupational and industrial, rents how to bring up their children f families especially those problems}Search and as pi ailments both for factory and office workers is one of the gravest con- fronting workers. Dr. Luttinger will advise on these matters as well as personal health problems, public health, diet, seasonal ailments, health insurance, workers’ compensation and medical frquds preying on workers, Workers are invited to consult Dr. Luttinger by sending their health problems to him care of The Daily Worker, 50 East=13th Street, New York City. Those desiring a private An Answer to a Worker Who Thinks Wages Can’t Go Up Does Not Believe Workers ' Thru Struggle Can Raise Pay ; Refers Marx; What He Really Said On the Question (A Letter from a Reader.) No. 29.f the Interna’l Press Correspondence contains an article by’ pointing out the weaknesses of the Party shop papers. Also in the last graph he points out what the Daily Worker can do by printing: I had just finishedeading the article mentioned when the Daily Worker arrived, dated July 24, and on the? for higher wages. Wages are not a fixed thing, auto- matically determined by objective forces alone, by economic..conditions, Marx wrote, “Value, Price and Pro- fit” to prove that workéfs can and must raise their weges to be kept m being driven to the level of Slaves, bu. wiat bnis struggle should not be the aim and end of the work- ers; it should lead to and be con- nected with the struggle-for the over- throw of capitalism, At the present time, 50,000 coal miners, and tens of thousands of other worker are struggling: for an increase in wages; and in dozens of Plants the workers have won wage increases. In life and, practice the working class is proving in the crisis that it can force wage increases. During the crisis, many of the re- negades, and especially the socialists politicalized the view that the work- ers cannot raise wages by saying the workers will not strike during the crisis. The crisis is not. over by any means, and inflation is just another means of cutting wages. Yet we see developing the greatest strike strug- gles, affecting the entire working- class. It is true that the capitalists try by every means to lower the: living standards of the workers in order to increase their surplus value, profit. It is also true that the development of capitalism, especially as it enters its general crisis—from which it can never emerge — the tendency is to shalve wages far below its.value and to hold it there. But the final an- swer is given not by economic forces, or by the will of the capitalists. It is“given by the maturity, the firm- ness of the struggle of the working- class. + In “Value, Price and Profit,” Mara says: “Fhe slave receives 2 permanent and fixed amount of maintenance; the wage laborer does not. - He must try to get a rise of wages in the one instance, if only to com- pensate for a fall of wages in the other. If he resigned himself to accept the will, the dictates of the capitalist as a permanent economic jaw, he would share in all the miseries of the slave, without the Security of the slave.” In short, the answer is given in the every-day struggle of the work~ ers, and this is the point the editorial in the Daily Worker on “How Wages Can Be Raised” stressed, pointing out correctly that the workers can and must increase their wages. - In discussing the length of the working ‘day, which is inseparably connected with the struggle around wages, Marx said the following: “When two rights come into con- flict, force decides the issue. That is why, in the history of capital- ist production, the decision as to what is a normal working day pre- sents itself in the form of a strug- gle as to the defining of the limits of the working day—a struggle be- tween the aggregate of capitalists, the capitalist class, and the aggre- gate of workers, the working class,” The same can be said of wages. ‘The points the writer gives sup. porting a struggle of the workers, though not holding out the Rpeslb- ity of success in the slay day struggle, in a way contradicts the of the letter. For instance, he puta the cart before the horse when he says: “To raise our wages we must obtain more of the good things of life.” Any worker can tell you that in order to “obtain more of the good things of life,” it is necessary firgt to raise wages, and to raise wages the only way isto organize. in mil- itant trade unions that will lead struggles for wage increases. reply may address Dr. Luttinger and enclosing a stamped and self addressed enevelope, Dr. Luttinger’s medical work since his graduation from New York Uni- versity and Belleyue Hospital Medi- cal College in 1911 has attracted wide attention in medical circles. Dos a bacteriologist in the Resea: boratory of the New York City, De- partment of Health and shortly after completing six years work in this field organized tha first whooping cough clinic in the United States. His published research reports on whooping cough, meningitis, alcho- hol, canc:> cad diet have been re- ceived by medical authorities as among leading contributions in these ‘ields, As a result of his years of re Pathologist to the Bronx Hospital and iatrician af the Bronx and Metropolitan hospi- tals, lecturer on children’s diseases at Flower Hospital Medical College he published his studies and views in “The Burning Question: The Ra- tional Education of the riat” and “Socialism and Public’ Health.” Besides his widespread and noted”” work in medical fields Dr, Luttin- ger’s interest in workers’ Ith problems drew him towards the Com- munist Party and activity in the In- ternational Workers Order, the I, L. D, and the W. 1. R +a