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racketeering organiza' Py dealers, met at. the Manhattan * adoption and discussion of TENNESSEE COAL, IRON CO. SHUTS DOWN RAIL MILLS Bosses Had. Heralded| Activities As Sign of “Prosperity” WORKERS’ PAY IS CU|T Metal. Union Leaflet Calls for Organizing AGBIRMINGHAM, Ala—A few days cle80, the workers in the Ensley rail »mill of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and | Railroad Company were ordered to | bank their fires. The mills were clos- ing indefinitely, said the foremen. To understand the significance of this event, it must be understood that the T.C1I, is the very heart and center of ‘all Southern industry. When a number of additional work- ers were taken on at this plant for one or two days a week, some weeks ago, the affair was-heralded by huge headlines’ in the Southern capital- ist press. Conclusive proof, said these papers, that industry was being put on its feet. The T.C.I., however, on re-employ- ing workers, deducted from their meager. pay checks for the little re- lief it had given them during their period of unemployment. Many of these workers had run up “debts” of $300-$400 to the company. The Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union distributed leaflets to the workers, urging that they demand a full pay check, with no deductions for relief, and warning them that their re-em- eae would last only a short Ime, since production was stepped up in anticipation of inflation prices. Last week, in sharp’contrast to the “prosperity” ballyhoo which greeted the hiring of a few workers by the T.C.L, the following paragraph ap- peared in the Birmingham Age-He- rald, well hidden in an inside page: “The rail mill of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, having completed the orders on hand, will close Saturday...closing the rail mill will carry two furnaces down with it.” JOBLESS STRIKE IN LUCAS COUNTY 'HAS BIG SUPPORT Refuse Set of Teeth to Striker’s Wife Unless He Scabs TOLEDO, Ohio.—The strike for cash relief cf forced labor workers in Lucas county started Aug. 1 con- tinues solid despita arrest of the strike leaders, Workers are losing their feat of the authorities and swelling the ranks of the picketers. Strike activities “began with a march to the department store owned by Alfred Kock, chairman of the County Relief Commission, with a thousand workers demanding he stop the “nosebag” or commissary system of relief. The workers also demanded he do the same for Springfield town- ship, (Holland, Ohio) where a re- lef strike has been on since May 2. Picketing is going on every day at the county warehouse, and the police are sending extra reserves there to intimidate the workers and smash the strike. ‘The strike originally called by the Unemployed Councils, Unemployed League and the Communist Party, now has the endorsement of the Point Place Willing Workers and the United Farmers and Workers’ Clubs. ae HOLLAND, Ohio. — Unemployed workers striking for cash relief since May 2 continue 100 per cent solid. Funds to hire and arm strike depu- ties are taken out of the relief money which the authorities claim was ex- hhausted a long time ago. ~ The administration recently tried a novel method of forcing a worker to scab. . The _dispe: had made a set of false teeth for the wife of one of the strikers, Jarczyski, and Fruit Bosses Say * Code Must Cut Pay Instigate Drive on Street Peddlers _ NEW YORK, Aug. 14—The Pro- gressive Fruit Merchants Association, = tion of fruit a fruit dealers code. However, there was lit- tle discussion of wages and hours, except by the chairman, Jacob Was- serman, who said that. “although the for less hours and : 5 ries z BS sae organization or lo- A WORKER COR- Wave of Organization Sweeps Steel Workers; Prepare for Big Struggles Speed Preparations for Aug. 20 Conference DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. in Pittsburgh District of Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union By BILL Di PITTSBURGH, Aug. 14—The organizing activity among steel work especially in the Pittsburgh area, but cago and Buffalo—in the latter city 1,800 workers having recently signed | S%** up with the Steel and Metal Workers industrial Union—white it has by no | \ UNNE. also in Cleveland, Youngstown, ©: means reached the scale of mass organization seen in 1919, headed by Wil- liam Z. Foster, is undoubtedly the® most widespread since that time. It furnishes one of the principal explanations for the strenuovs use by the Roosevelt administration of the newly set up arbitration ma- chinery and the United Mine Work- ers leading offcials in breaking the strike of Western Pennsylvania miners centering in the Frick Coke and_Coal Company steel subsidiary of Fayette County. The Frick miners were fighting company stores, company police and company towns. These are burning issues in many steel areas. The right to organize was likewise a central issue in the coal strike and this too has come to the forefront in many steel centers. recently. Militaney of Workers The militancy of the steel work- ers is shown by such instances as their forcing the reinstatement of a discharged delegate to the Washing- ton code hearings’ at the Pressed Steel Car plant in McKees Rocks— action of a kind unheard of in steel for almost 14 years. The work of the Unemployed Councils, their fight for relief, their marches and demonstrations have brought great response in the steel areas and have been of great value in aiding union organization, in uniting employed and unemployed. In many steel and coal towns the Unemployed Councils have develop- ed real authority as the leadership of the relief and unemployment in- surance struggles, have established permanent headquarters and have Jaid the basis for further organiza- tion by the SMWIU. Some idea of the trend among steel workers. toward militant in- dustrial organization is gained from the following partial list of cities and plants where local organization of the SMWIU has been established in_the last few months: In the Jones and Laughlin Ali- quippa plant—a closed steel town; in Johnstown in the Cambria plant of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation; in Ambridge organization has been set up in yaks Coal Washer, McClintock-Marshall, American Bridge Company, H. H. Robinson, Wyckoff Steel and A. M. Byers; National Electric, Central Tube and Seamless Tube. Union of 800 In the American Bridge Company plant there is also an independent whom negotiations are now go on toward amalgamation with Rocks and M Prepare for the Pit ence on’ Aug’ strictly union gathering composed of delegates elected and credentialed by the local and mill organizations. Special attention is peing paid to the election of representative Negro nange in the composition of the union membership reported to a recent meeting of the District Com- mittee is encouraging since some- thing like 80 per cent of the new members are employed, showing that more’ effective work is being done inside the plants, The district con- ference is to plan better concentra- tion and speed-up the work in such big independent mills as that of Jones and Laughlin on the South Side in Pittsburgh proper. Bosses Form Company Union The Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union by no means has the field to itself. Steel companies as in McKees Rocks, Corapolis, etc., are forming company unions disguised as “Good Will” organizations, most of them having a regular system of dues payments and some msurance feature. There is bullying and co- ercion by superintendents and fore- men to coerce workers into the com- pany unions but there is no single instance of the machinery of the NIRA being used to prohibit this. Workers on the other hand are re- fusing to endorse company plans as at McKees Rocks where only some 30 out of about 900 men voted in the company election. More dangerous; than the company union attempts because they appear in the guise of open support of the NIRA and the Roosevelt administra- tion, picturing it as a savior of steel workers, is the campaign conducted by the reeently moribund Amalga- mated Association of Steel, Iron and Tin Workers, affiliated to the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, the Inter- national Association of Machinists, and other A. F. of L. organizations. Thousands of leaflets have been NRA IMPOSES HIGHER LIVING COSTS ON MIDWESTFARMERS; INVESTIGATING GROUP FINDS Committee Reports on Foreclosures, Terror Used Against Militant Farmers, After Extensive Survey NEW YORK, August 14—Farmers throughout the middle west, experi- encing further hardships from the increased cost of living created by the Na- tional Recovery Act, are preparing in desperation for stern measures of ac- tion, according to a group of farm experts and writers on economy now in- vestigating the farm areas in which strikes and clashes occurred during the past year. ® The investigation committee, sent out under the auspices of the Na- tional Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, includes Gran- ville Hicks, professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., critic and writer; Jack West, farm- er and farm expert; Obed Brooks, magazine writer and critic; and Robert Morss Lovett, professor at the University of Chicago and edi- tor of the New Republic. The com- mittee interviewed farmers thru- out the regions in Iowa and Neb- raska where clashes with troopers took place during the winter. In a report on their hearings, conferences, and talks with farm- ers, national guardsmen, local news- paper editors and Farm Holiday Association officials, the investi, tors submit the following conclu- sions: Indignant Against Bankers “1, “Every farmer we talked to informed us that he was not receiv- Ane ont production for corn, pigs, milk, small grain, or any other produce. Many farmers pointed out that they have gained little or noth- ing from the recent advances in the price of corn and wheat, though they have already felt that rise in the cost of living. 2. “The great majority of farm- ers are extremely indignant and most of them direct their indigna- tion against the bankers and other big business men, All feel that a situation may develop which will call for desperate measures. 3. “Most farmers view President Roosevelt with skepticism. They are talking of taking action. “Farmers in the Farm Holi- day fed, ight while in favor of a spirited, fi Yd farm union, ques- tion both the wisdom and the cour- age of the leadership. ~ Cooperate With Workers 5. “Farmers have begun to rec- ognize their community of interest with the city workers, and in many instances, as in Lincoln, Neb., have begun to cooperate with them in the struggle for relief, 6. “Fascist tendencies have ap- peared among certain classes of farmers and organizations have arisen to take advantage of this sentiment, ‘Te Modern Seventy- Sixes” a midwest organization led by Lester Barlow, seems to be such @ group.” As a result of their investigation of farm clashes at Le Mars, Iowa, where martial law was declared aft- er farmers dragged a judge from his court, the committee reports: Many Foreclosures “In early 1932 and 1933 foreclos- ures were extremely common and worked great hardships, The Farm Holiday Association, in the period before the declaration of martial law, prevented a great many fore- closures+ through the action of de- fense councils, “The militancy of the farmers led to the passage of a law provid- ing for a moratorium on foreclos- ures until 1934, Nevertheless, fore- closures continued to be common. “Judge C. C, Bradley of Le Mars was one of the judges who refused to-conform to the moratorium law. He publicly announced that he was not in favor of the law, and he con- tinued to sign papers for foreclos- ures, His attitude aroused the in- dignation of the farmers, and a group of them went to him to pro- test, He provoked this group by his assertive manner and by proclaim- ing, ‘This is my court.’ Out of this incident rose the demonstration against Judge Bradley, which in turn provided the excuse for mar- tial law. . Try to Disrupt Farmers “We believe that the declaring of martial law in “Plymouth County was contrary to the constitution of Iowa, and that the presence of the National Guard was not necessary to maintain order. The real reason for the declaration of martial law was the desire on the part of the banks and insurance companies to cripple the farmers’ organization. “The National Guard established a virtual reign of terror. Houses violently entered and ransack- ed, ee were torn out, women and children were threatened. The men taken by the National Guard were imprisoned in @ barn former: used by goats. Here they were held, some of them for 12 or 14 days, “The men finally held for trial were urged to plead guilty and were promised suspended sentences if they did so, These suspended sen- tences are now hanging over the heads of several leaders and are be- ing used to prevent them from ac- ion, » SSDAY, AU T 15, 1933 the steel towns by ch for years have 1 attempts at mass or. of steel workers and the A. A, betrayed the eaflets all read ct, se a phrase made | the late President Wilsi identi: notes” issued kers in the name of Roose-~ *. of L. union offi- him. These leaf- | contsin no program of actio nd the forma] appeal for organ- | MY ave intended mainly ‘and the indus- | | trie pact, The introduction to | the leaflet sent out office of the I. A. M. | “To the machinists and machine shop wozkers of the Pittsburgh dis- | Industrial Recovery machine shop nalienged by the presi- | dent of the United States to become | members of a labor organization.” | “Will you be @ slacker, or are you | going to help him bring back the} economic security of machinists and machine shop workers? You can do this by complying with Section 7 of | the Industrial Recovery Act.” (Origi- | nal emphasis.) | The leaflet then quotes Section 7} of the Act and concludes: “Ypur em- | ployer cannot discharge you for join- ing the International Association of | Machinists. So act without delay and | receive your full share under the In- dustrial Recovery Act.” | The AA leaflet is addressed “to the steel workers” and of course tells| them they cannot be discharged for ' joining the AA. | It is clear that, in addition to be-| official propagandists for the Slave pact, with its vicious attempt | to svabilize the himger wage stand- | ard forced on the working class dur- ing the cvisis, to legalize the pres: Fauper level of the working cl: A. F. of L, and its official union } are up to their old | é@rs, They e1> old croft division even be-| Vanna Lit fore a ve number of ste] work- | Mercomile | € d | °On the s during the world| W L. leadership again | 2 -| disor- | Na- | tional tration under government control and the abolition of the right to strike is clearly the objective of these forces in the steel industry, just as the recent coal ‘ike showed this to be their objective in that in- dustry. The Steel and Metal Workers’ In- | dustrial Union demands “the right of all workers to assemble, strike and | picket without company or govern- ment interference.” The struggle in| steel is only beginning. The fight | for a higher standard of living and against the slave code can be won only by organized mass battles for | these elementary political rights. This the leadership of the S.M.W.LU. realizes. And these battles can be} won only by clear and constant ex- posure of the NIRA and part played by the A. F. of L. officials in herd- ing workers into industrial stockades | over which flies the blue buzzard of the NIRA, WOMEN MILITANT IN PENN. STRIKE (By a Woman Worker Corresp.) COVERDALE, Pa.—Here’s a mes- sage to"the wives and daughters and sweethearts of the miners here in Pennsylvania. Already the fakers realize how we more and more, day by day, stand in the way of the sell out. You can see in all the papers: The women are militant. We are ready to fight, and this is not the first time the women in Pennsyl- vania have been in the picket line with their men. We have faced po- lice dogs and machine guns. We had education in this struggle, Now we hear on all sides: Where is the National Miners Union? What is the policy of the National Miners Union? * Write it in the Daily so the strik- ers and their women can see, that we rank and file members of the National Miners Union are the Na- tional Miners Union. Organize rank and file strike committees, with Women and Youth on these com- mittees. Organize women’s auxil- iaries. Comrades in the mining fields we have had enough experi- ence. We know that where we are organized in rank and file strike committees, we will not be sold out. Remember that our leaders have been sent to jail for not selling us out, and the fakers who sold us out time and again have been sent to Washington on the government. Why has Fagan run away from the Terminal Mines to Harrisburg? To ask for more troops to break the strike that he could not stop. Or- ganize committees and march to the welfare and courthouse to demand full relief for the strikers. Demand that these fakirs get relief for us. Show them up. Women, it is not enough that we militantly fight on the picket line. | We, must organize. Organize a committee for the distribution of workers papers so we know what is going on in other mines. Start little groups of five to get the Daily Worker. Read it every day. Pass it along. +E. L. This Raise Turns Out To Be An Actual Cut By « Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill—If ow’ company, the Container Corporation, fully complies with the wishes cf our President, Mr. Roosevelt, I, instead of getting a raise in salary, wopld be getting a cut. My salary now, including the 10 per cent raise that was effective Sun- day, July 16, amounts to $20.02, . For this sum I work 7 days a week, 8 hours a day, at the rate of 35%, cents per hour. The company has offered me, through our negotiating commit- tee, 50 cents an hour. At 40 hours per week my income would be $20 per week, which would be a cut of 2 cents & week. As we all know, after the shorter week and higher hourly scales are paid, the cost of living is going to increase more than 25 per cent, and, if I know how to figure, that is all 23 Strikes for More Pay Won Last Month by Alteration Painters NEW YORK.—That 23 strikes were won by the Alteration Painters Union for an increase in pay dur- ing the past month, was the report made at the General Executive Board meeting of the union held Friday. , Plans were discussed for a gen- eral drive in the Flatbush, Brooklyn section, to begin the first week in} | verted into a cruiser in a very s | time. BURNS DETECTIVE AT EVERY SHIP TO. SEARCH UNIONMEN Marine Union Combats | Anti-Foreign-Born Organization (By a Marine Worker Correspondent NEW YORK CITY.—The delegates of the Marine Wor! dustrial Union in the lest fev $ re finding it very difficult to get s, especially on the 8 Negro ‘and w ning to pro’ tions, '' These-s! and the Negro firemen $46.50 a month, crowded, quarters and rotten food. a steedy concent=ation on the find a spec r these On the S. S, Manhattan, one of the latest built iiners of the Inter- national Mercantile Marine, a Burn detective was waiting for the port delegate. Standing at the head of | the gengway this plain clothes man} ks everyone coming aboard with radical literature. The Ma ti a Naval Reserve ship and can be co. ‘These -sleuths take the dele-| gates to all the watchmen on the/| piers and are told to be on the look- out for them in the future. | With Roosevelt's I i ery Act a new patriotic under the name of the National / sociation of Americans Seamen is| Trade Union Conference for United to coming to the foreground with the slogan, “American Seamen for Amer- | ican Ships.” This fascist outfit is led | by @ racketeer by the name of Smith, who is a charter member of the Na- tional Industrial Recovery Act, and has endorsements from different con- gressmen from Washington. All for- eign-born seamen, according to this organization, are supposed to be thrown on the beach to starve. delegate of this misleading outfit, to- gether with the American Federation of Labor's International Seamen's | Union, can come and go as they Please on these ships. The Marine Workers’ Industrial | Union, at 140 Broad St., are expos-| ing these labor fakers, and the ma- September to force wage increases. Three Brooklyn locals are raising funds to carry on the work. jority of the seamen are turning a deaf ear to these reactionaries. PORT DELEGATE. Step by Step, the Miners Resisted Lewis’s Sellout Miner Writes Graphic Description of Attitude of the Miners in Their Recent Struggle FROM A WORKER YUKON, Pa.—Sweeping out of- Fayette County coalfelds, where two lives have been lost and over a dozen wounded, thousands of miners were out on strike for the recognition of the U.M.W.A. in the domain of the H. ©. Frick Company. Veterans of the battles of Grindstone and Star Junction, where miners’ blood was spilled,¢——————— marched on the mines in Westmore- land County, and closed them. The Pittsburgh Coal, the Y. & O. Coal and the Westmoreland Coal mines 6,000 OUT IN GEN'L STRIKE OF SHOE, SLIPPER TOILERS NEW YORK.—Nearly 6,000 shoe, | clipper and stitch-down workers are out on strike to establish union con- ditions and defeat the new attacks on their conditions resulting from the code which the boot and shoe bosses propose for the industry. The strike isled by the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union. Accord- | ing to the strike committee, 23 shops are out, including 9 Board of Trade shops, 32 slipper shops and 4 stitch- down shops. Since the strike was called last week 23 shoe shops have settled with the union on the basis full union recognition, the 40-hour and a 30 per cent increase in city if his mission was sto break the present shoe strike. A wire received today from the Labor Department reports that Woods was in the city to see Dayid Dubinsky, head of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- the raise I will receive at 50 cents per hour. Short Hours Accom- panied by Speed-Up (By_a Worker Correspondent) MERIDEN, Conn.—Next week is the start of the 25-hourgweek in the New De] Co. here. At this time all the machines in the factory are being equipped with high speed gears. That means that more pro- duction will be put out and less men will be used. One man that is now operating three automatic machines will operate four machines. The new Roosevelt program gives us @ chance to do two things: either starve on the street or die on the job from abuses and cuts, The men are driven like horses. Before where ten men worked on one job there are only-two now taking the place of that ten. The wages men get are from 35 to 55 cents an hour. June 12 there was @ 5 per cent increase in the pay, but that is not 25 per cent to 50 per cent, which decreased Pay dur- ing the past. ers’ Union. where a dress strike is looming, and will leave for Massa- chusetts immediately. ‘ The shoe strike is being waged to defeat the manufacturers’ shoe code, which calls for 3742 cents an hour for skilled workers and even less for the unskilled workers. The union is fighting for $1 an hour for skilled workers, 60 cents for the semi-skilled and 45 cents an hour for unskilled workers. ‘The spirit of the strikers is high and picket lines are firm. Thirty- five hundred new workers have signed up with the union since the strike started, This week it is ex- patieg ss ileceats will be made with seve slipper shops, Strikers are being called to a mass meeting on Thursday. The meeting hall has not yet been announced, An important strike meeting of slipper workers will be held today at Manhattan Lyceum at 1:30 pm. All strikers are expected to be present. Strike meetings of shoe and stitch- down workers are being held at Labor Lyceum, 280 Bridge St., Brooklyn, Stuyvesant Casino, Ir- quarters, ers’ Union is the only miners’ union. | the majority, not only here but also CORRESPONDENT. were closed. In the wee hours of Wednesday morning two thousand _ strikers marched and pulled the Hutchinson Mine of the W. C. Company, although surrounded by thousands of acres of company property. That was no bar- riér to that militant body. The fol- lowing morning the mines of the Ocean Coal Company were struck. ‘Truce has been declared by Lewis & Company with the coal operators, e@hd no gains won—a siriking coal field with a strike-breaking leader. | It is Sunday. Meetings are being | | held throughout the entire area a3 |n to whether ta go back to work or| not—heated arguments—fights and near-riots are the order of the day. I attended a meeting in Westmore land County at which some five hi dred.miners were assembled. group of young workers distribu ing leaflets of the National Min Union and the Daily Worker are dered off the grouncs. But the strikers swarm in droves across the strect for them. Here and there groups are reading and discus- sing the leaflet. At one end of the field-a very heated argument is tak- ing place in which some 25 miners are involved. _U.M.W.A. officialdom is the target for attack. Several young miners are trying to convince an old timer that the National Min- The meeting is about to begin. The hall is packed. Young miners are in on the picket lines. The meeting is opened. A letter signed by John L. Lewis is telling the men to go back to work. Immediately yells of “No” echo through the place. Nothing can be done, since the men want to continue the _ strike. Another maneuver is used. The secretary gets up and says that he received a letter from Washington with in- structions to forward the names of those men who do not want to go back to work. Another vote is taken, from which it can be ‘seen that a small minority wants to go back to work, while the majority does not vote because of the lack of a militant leadership. The men continue to al and argue over the latest sell- out And long into the night in the min- ing towns groups of miners on the streets talk of what they are going to do in the morning, work or strike, But it is not over, Monday morn- ing several large mines of the Pitts- burgh Coal Company again go out on strike, demanding checkweigh- men, and the battle continues, despite the strike-breaking moves of the Lewis machine, The coke region is still out solid. The miners of Western Pennsyl- revolt. The battle is operators and the ional Miners’ Union, erica, and the rank and file controlled lo- cals of the U.M.W.A. could be uni- fied, the miners would again march Code o Fage ‘iiwee f Seamen Will Be Signed by Many Thousands Conference United Cleveland IS KAMMA) By MORE D. C., w ignatures. Able Seamen of while under ‘the a much lower wage level de- per R. A adjustm pe lo Vhile the for un- demands g insurance, Although preparing to present thi Code to the N ditions, but to the Action to be held in Cley Aug. 26 and 27. h ers’ Industrial Union has endorsed the Cleveland Conference, and the American seamen, holding a key in- |, Ohio, | dustrial position, will be amply rep- | resented at this conference, which at its two-day session will formulate Plans for mobilizing all American workers to fight the Slave N. R. A Bill and for forcing the adeption of ‘al working-class codes, as exem- plified by the one made public by the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union. The Seamen’s Code, covering deck. engine, steward’s departments and licensed officers, adopted by marine workers in opposition to reactionary leaders of the International Sea- men’s Union, who ave whooping it up for the N. R, A, reads in part as follows: “That the industry and the gov- ernment assume the responsibility for one fixed weekly and yearly wage for every worker in the industry, this to be guaranteed providing that no worker shall ret e less than 40 waeks work per year. ‘The Code demands that on all ves- sels carrying dangerous, inflammable and obnoxious cargoes, wages of the seamen shall be increased 20 per cent above the demanded minimum. “Where industry does not provide | a worker with the minimum. earn- ing, the government shall pay Gov- ernment Unemployment Insurance equal to the minimum... . To make n t to |p them gain pet- | Conte: ine Work- | to Form Nation Wide Front ediately available for this ll funds, now used for sub- ilding loans, etc., as pro= r the 1928 Merchant Ma- shall be appropriated. ... 1 pay for equal work, regard- ace, nationality, age or f 60 cents per man, wance shall be to be increased a5 g rises, . ashing facilities, in- buckets, showers arid , Shall be provided and oad and matches shall provided of 1 Adequate viding additional work for nm seamen, the Seamen’s Code that the N. R. A. recom- marine workers’ code def- e trade relations between the nited States and the Soviet Union, Under the Seamen’s Code, “a cen~ tral shipping agency with a rotary | system of management ‘under con- | trol of elected committees of sea= men shall be instituted” to take the place of Fink Halls and shipping masters | A cardinal provision in the Sea- |men’s Code which the Trade Union e for United Action in nd will formulaté for all labor a is the right of seamen Join unions of their own choosing, id the right to strike for better conditions, as opposed to the N. R. A, hich is being used by the indus- trial barons for depriving the work- jers of the right to strike, for smash- ing their unions and forcing them into company unions the better to | exploit them. | In Philadelphia, the swing of labor in Am | ant ;|in favor of the Cleveland Conference |continues to gain momentum, with {the Painters and Paper Hangers’ | Union, an independent organization, | endorsing the Conference unani- |mously and electing delegates to it, ;| Previous to this, Local 796 Amer- jican Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers | elécted a delegate to the Conference, | Reports from New England tex- tile centers to the New York na- |tional offices of ‘the Provisional Cleveland Conference Committee stated that a regional conference of | New England textile workers for the | purpose of electing delegates to the | Cleveland gathering will be held in | Providence, R. I., on Aug. 19, | Embittered by the slave standards provided by the NRA textile code, New England textile unions which up to now have held aloof from simi- |lar conferences are reported ready |to participate in the regional con- |ference and are looking forward te the Cleyeland Conference which is pledged to build up a nation-wide | fight by labor against the strike- breaking, union-smashing National Recovery Act. Expect Platemakers | to Go Out on Strike NEW YORK.—Indications of the 1 of the bosses to accede to demands of the platemakers to the. probability of the the point workers going out on strike to win their demands, At the conference held last Thurs- , between the platemakere and as 1on, the pl nmittee ¢ d the establishment of a union le to be higher than the pre: wage-scale, no dismissals, limitation of the number of bosses allowed to work in the shops, and other im- portant union demands. The membership m platemal: part Indi a report on the conference and decide | on further steps. $25 Per Day Men, Now Get $7 Under the Code) (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, 0.—The Nira, the Roosevelt Slavery Act, has been in- stalled in the Otis Steel plant. This means increased ‘frofits for the bosses, lowered production cost, more speed-up on us workers, at a reduced pay. We have the 8-hour day, 5 day week. All labor gets 40c per hour no.more nor less, Roller men were paid from $25 to $30 per day, under the Roosevelt act, and speed-up, they cannot knock out $7 per day. Heater men used to earn $18 to $20 per day under the Roosevelt plan, the maximum is $4 per day. First Catcher, and so on, used to make 13-14 dollars per day today all that can be made is $2.50- $3 per day. Open Nealing furnace made $12 per day, today all that can be made is between $1.50-34 per day. | Pickel Department were paid be- fore the Roosevelt days, $10 to $12 per day; under th Roosevelt plan they can only make from $1.50 to $3 per day. In this department the company does the most stealing, be- fore they were able to have a check- up. Today there is no check-up, and we have to take just what the com- pany gives us. Two departments have sent grievance committees to the bosses, with no results. We are now getting committe formed in every department. Then if we don’t get any action, all of the workers will come out on strike, because the workers cannot stand the slave con- ditions in the shops today, Do YOUR part to establish the six-page “Daily” and keep it going! Get a subscription from your shop- oe mel x nt | 5 Dye House Plants in Boston Settle | Victory Is Incentive'to Shops Still Out BOSTON, Mass. August 14—The dye house workers, who for the past few weeks have been conducting a militant strike for wage increases and for recognition of the Dye | Workers Industrial Union, won a tremendous victory when five of the largest dye houses signed an agree- ment with the union granting all demands, including a 20 per cent in- |crease in wages and recognition of the union. The settlement involves approximately 500 workers. The Dorchester, Beacon, Troy, | Cabot and South Side Dye Houses ve settled. All the workers of these dye houses immediately con- tributed 10 per cent of their salary to the workers of the Boston, At- lington, and North Shore plants, | who are still out. The strike fur- ther consolidated the Dye Workers Industrial Union and lays a base organization of the dye workers the retail houses of and vi- cinity. The dye houses thet awe stéll on strike attempted to start work sending out scabs to pick from the tailors. Previous to this, the tailors had shown their soli: |darity with the strikers and had ; passed a resolution against giving | work to any shops strike, tailors refused to give any work to these scab drivers, who were forced to return with empty trucks to dye houses. Picketing of those shops still on strike continued with more Me and determination than ever ‘ore, | At the North Shore House us were stoned and forced abandon i idea os ent | tactory. Whe stool pigeons Scott T Datestiva Agency hired break the strike have been oughly attended to by the workers, Ask NRA to Break Movie Strike HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. M— Arbitration of the NIRA is to Leer ae strike ag picture nicians. telegram was sent to Washington by the Fed- eral Labor Commission eoneiliators to the NRA Labor Board, them to order the strikers back to work, pending final settlement. sg Pel evan dd the “lib- ral jen Lindsey agreed [the return it" decided on by per fs a