The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 17, 1933, Page 3

| Seo IR UC Be ai at na DAILY WORKER, Ww YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1933 BIGGEST STRIKE WAVE SWEEPS CALIFORNIA FRUIT FIELDS 435 Girls Strike, Form Own Union In Texas Ggar Shop Demand Improvement) Conditions; and ion Recognition SAM ANTONYO, Texas. —Four hun- dred and thirty-five girl workers of The Fincke Cigar Company, now on strike, rejected the leadership of the American Federation of Labor and set up an independent union, with a militant strike committee. At this writing, the girls have been on strike for almost a week; and the morale is exceptionally good. The Fincke Cigar Company has long been known as one of the most oppressive employers in this city. Al- though the girls work on a piece basis, they are subjected to all sorts of embarrasing and humiliating re- strictions, They are given only ten minutes in the morning to change their clothes; and are not allowed to change at all for lunch, although their clothes become stained with to- bacco. There is only one small dress- ing room for all the girls. If a girl goes to the dressing room during the day and stays over three minutes, she is broken in upon by Fincke, the proprietor, or Mangold, the general manager. The demands of the girls include: Removal of the bad cigar penalty, a deduction of the price of three good cigars for every bad one rolled, since the company also sells the bad ones to independent jobbers. Placing of the fans so that when the girls go for material, they wilf not. be drench- ed with water. Abolition of the cent per, minute fine for lateness, with more time to dress in the morning. Lockers in the dressing room, with permission to change clothes for lunch, Each girl to have: as much time as necessary in the dressing room when she ‘has to leaye work. Each girl to leave the factory when she finishes her work, instead of re- maining until 4:30. Recognition of the union. Adolfo Savedra, foreman of the factory, is attempting to break the strike by jokes and pretty words. Savedra had Raoul Garza, a militant worker, deported, when the latter at- tempted to organize the cigar work- ers some time ago. The Fincke Cigar Company manu- factures Travis Club, Little Travis, and H. W. Fincke cigars. Help improve the “Daily Worker.” send in your suggestions and criticism! OVER 6,000 ALREADY OUT DEMANDING HIGHER PAY; | TALK OF NATIONAL GUARD Strike Led by Cannery and Agricultural Work-| ers Union; American Legion Acts as Scab Herder; Press for Terror SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 16.—The biggest agricultural strike wave | in the history of California is sweeping over the state. Over six thousand are already out. In San Diego 400 are out; Oxnar, 1,200; San Jose, 800; Tulare, Tugas Ranch, 800; Merced expects to reach 2,000 by tonight. In Salinas Valley 1,000 Filipinos are out, and more are expected to join if Chicago Needle Union Discusses Terms With Embroidery Employers CHICAGO, IIL, Aug. 16—The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union is discussing demands of the workers and conditions in the trade with the embroidery bosses at an official conference, The union is presenting the fol- lowing demands: week work in- stead of piece work; a 35-hour week, and $32.50 minimum tailor wage; $25 for zigzag operators; $18 for stampers, and $15 for finish- ers; equal division of labor; time | and a half for overtime. Besides, there is the demand for recognition of the union. A mass meeting to report on the results of the conference is called for Thursday, August 17, at 119 South Wells St, An open meeting of the customs tailors last Friday formulated the demands for the coming season. Over 100 I | trying to limit the move on a na- Re <1 ® the strike, but the fake leaders are How NRA Works Omaha Meat Plants OMAHA, Neb.—Here is an example of how the NRA works in the pack- ing plants in Omaha, Neb. The local press said about 800 workers were be- ing hired by the packers last week. After careful checking up, we es- timate that 150 workers have been hired during the last week by all plants combined. Swift Co. laid off 20 men in the sheep kill two weeks ago. A week later 10 of these were rehired, not for work in the sheep kill, but for miscellaneous work. On August 12 these 10 men were laid off again. The sheep kill had a gang that killed 350 sheep an hour two weeks ago. Now only 210 sheep are killed per hour. Armour’s started a week ago with two shifts in the beef kill. The first, shift kills 119 cattle per hour, and| work 8 hours, The second shift kills | 85 per hour and work 8 hours. Be- fore this rearrangement the beef kill worked 9 hours and killed 1,500 to 1,530 a day; now the work is going on 16 hours a day and only a little more than 1,600 are killed. The op- inion by the fellows in the beef kill is that this is only a temporary ar- Tangement and that in a few days the company will go back to one shift. The fellows working the second shift are grumbling because of the night work. The company is not making as much profit as when working one shift. The wages have been raised 1734 Per cent. This does not mean any Teal raise, since the wages have been cut about 25 to 30 per cent in addi-| tion to the bonus since two years ago. ~ Preparations are now under way Let us know what the workers in your shop think abort the “Daily.” for a struggle against the speed-up, and for a minimum weekly wage. Back from War, Buys a Home, Now Fighting a Foreclosure (By a Worker Correspondent) STATEN ISLAND, N. ¥.—In March 1017 I happened to be in a hard coal mining town in North Eastern Penn- sylvania where I heard a conyersation about Wilson, how he qept us out of war, I had just become what the para~ sites call the “backbone of the na- tion,” finished paying for a home which I struggled and worked for seven years. Being a red-hot patriot and a railroad man, I enlisted with the 16th Engineers. Before leaving my home at St. Paul, T deeded it to my parents and younger sisters and brothers. Thinking I would never come back alive, I spent the savings I had by buying a hun- dred dollar Liberty Bond, donated $50 to the Red Cross and $50 to a priest, who blessed me before I was sent over to kill workers I never saw before, and who never did me any harm. It would take too much space to describe in detail the horrible ex- periences I went through on the front. I happened to be one of the lucky ones who came back without a scratch, Real estate sharks talked me into buying a home so I again be- came the backbone of the nation. Made payments regularly, paid taxes until this dying capitalist system threw millions out of jobs and reduced weaes to the Chinese coolie level. gacuens Ne to fight eviction my home. ‘ I say, workers and veterans, join some rank and file organization that ey for the workers, not the fake AF. ‘Wars, American Legion. While you were in the front lines in France, did you see the misleaders there? No, you saw the workers’ sons, names like H s =] 5 ea gu zE BA of g Be $3 z Bagg Fi ai ie the League and Unemployed Coun- the politicians and Relief investigators give us a char- like unto a man who had stolen cents from a blind beggar or a lame child with a mal- N.Y. are Communists, trouble-makers and so on, The old saying is—when one tells | the truth and it hurts, you are called a radical or a red. Do not fear this red scare, It is just a boogey man to keep you away from us so you will not learn how to organize and fight for the right to live, but be on guard. We must be awake and alert to the policy of the bosses and ‘police to send rats into our ranks to spread lies, rumors and slanders. Jobless Councils Ask Compensation: for Camp Deaths NEW YORK. — Answering Robert Fechner’s letter received yesterday by the National Committee of Unem- ployed Councils, in which the Na- tional Administrator of the forced labor camps absolyes officials from any blame in the death of Benjamin De Nota, the’ Committee issued the following statement: ‘ “Neither the destitute parents of Benjamin de Noia, nor the parents of the more than 300,000 unemployed youths who have been lured and driven into the Reforestation Camps can accept the alibi of President Roosevelt's forced-labor camp admin- istrator. tional basis, Hundreds are out in the Chico dis- trict. Troops are asked in an effort to stop the big strike. Beatings and Arrests Arrests and beatings are going on in many strike areas, In all but Salinas, the Cannery and Agricul- turai Workers Union is leading the strike; and in Salinas the fakers are fast being discredited. The fruit pickers are demanding an increase in wages from 15 and 20 to 30 and 35 cents an hour, time and a half for overtime, an 8-hour day, abolition of child labor, and recog- nition of their union. In an effort to break the strike, which is rapidly spreading, state highway police, supported by sheriffs’ posses, are rushing to the strike area. The American Legion has officially offered its service as strikebreakers. ‘The capitalist pressyis panic strick- en, and is preparing sentiment for terror against the strikers, with the cry that the entire peach crop faces destruction. Beets, peaches, pears, tomatoes and other crops are ef- fected. Want National Guard Sheriff W. C. Toland, of Butte County, said he was considering call- ing in the National Guard. Six strike leaders, members of the Cannery and Agricultural Union were arrested. Brigedo Silva was arrested, charged with trying to prevent a truckload of scabs from reaching the fields. Three carloads of deputy sheriffs are already on the scene. A com- mittee of San Jose and Mountain View residents have visited Sheriff Emig together with a committee of .Workers demanding that Emig, as Sheriff of Santa Clara County, keep his armed thugs out of the strike area to prevent violence, beatings and arrests that occurred during the cherry strike, just ended. Emig, be- cause of the mass protest against the brutality of armed thugs in the cher- ry strike, has stated that his deputies have been ordered to make no ar- rests. However, the deputies have already stated to the pickets that “Striking is unconstitutional now.” Union Calls Conference Because of the militancy of the cherry strike, the apricot pickers were getting the highest wage of any other field in the territory. When wages in pears were again cut to 20 cents an hour the Union called a conference of delegates from ranches with the unanimous decision to call a general strike. It is expected the whole valley in pears wil! be out solid tomorrow. The picket line is 800 solid. Relief committees are functioning and cof- fee is being brought to the picket lines. The strike and Strike Com- mittees is representative of prac- tically every nationality in the field, American, Spanish, Mexican, Fili- Pino, Portuguese. This strike, under the leadership of the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union will be a powerful blow towards smashing the fake unions being set up by a united front of the A. F. of L., the Prole- tarian Party, Socialist Party, sup- ported by the cannery bosses. The Union is growing and becom- ing the recognized leader in the agri- cultural fields. The first recruitment into the Union was 35 out of 48 on the Central Strike Committee and others are coming in fast. Go to see every subscriber when his | subscription expires to get his re- ‘newal. were present. All joined the union. There will be another meeting of custom tailors on Friday, August 18, at 119 South Wells St. Girls Get $6 to $18 for 63-Hr. Week at Pollack Dress Shop | By a Worker Correspondent FORT WAYNE, Ind.—The Pollack Dress Shop here employs about 350 workers, principally women. During June and July these women worked 63-hour week, making a wage ranging from $6 to $18. They are doing piece work and must be able to make good at a certain output of work or they are discharged. These girls eat their lunch in the 2 cellar. They are allowed to keep | it there only. Sometimes are rats get the best of the lunch, In the past, imperfect work on the part of these girls was brought back to them, to be done over again gratis. Broken needles are charged to them. The new scheme being arranged preparatory to the Code going into effect, will be a special department where imperfect work is to he re- paired, thus increasing the mad pace of production, The next rule probably to be ap- plied will be to limit how much work the company will permit be- fore discharging the worker. Send NRA Man to End Lewin Strike ChangeChargeAgainst Leaders Arrested Under NRA ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 15.—To break the strike at the Lewin Metals Co., at East St. Louis, a Mr. Rogers was sent here by the NRA administra- tion. All the workers have now join- ed the strike which was begun when 309 Negro and white workers walked out demanding higher wages under the leadership of the Steel Metal We Industrial Union. The charge against the two union organizers, previously arrested for violating the NRA, has been changed to “disturbance of the peace.” The strike wave is spreading through the city. The Southern Mal- Jeable Iron Co. workers, under the leadership of the A. F. of L.. have been called out for strike beginning tomorrow for recognition of their union. The strike was called to whitewash the A. F. of L. leadership. Perkasie, Pa. Besides sports, enter- tainments and speakers, it is an opportunity for the city workers and professionals to acquaint themselves with the conditions and struggles of the farmers. Admission 15 cents. “v=? transvortation from Philadelphia to the* park may be arranged at the headquarters of the Cleaners, Dyers Union Endorses Cleveland Meet, Elect Delegate The Cleaners, Dyers and Pressers Union, at a membership meeting | Monday at Irving Plaza, voted un-| animously to support the Trade Un-| ion Conference to be held in Cleve- land and elected a delegate. This call to action comes at a time when the Cleaners, Dyers and Pressers Union is preparing for a forthcoming strike and the program of this call compares favorably with the policies and demands of the Union. In view of the wage cutting pro- gram of the bosses’ and President Roosevelt's NRA, the membership pledged its support to this organized action on the part of workers organ- izations for the struggles against the tactics of the bosses’ and the Na- tional Recovery Act. One Third Removed from Relief Lists, Investigators Say Saturday Called to | Fight Starvation | NEW YORK.—When a Home Re-) lief Bureau investigator reported of} threats to commit suicide among her | clients who can no longer bear starv- ation; the supervisor cynically re-| marked, “Let them do it, it will mean less on the food tickets.” These re} marks and reports of wholesale re- | moval of families from relief have! been reported to the “Daily Worker” | by investigators in all boroughs. | One investigator reports that out of 120 cases in her charge, 40 have| been removed. From similar reports | it can be estimated that about one-' third of the’ 250,000 families have | been taken off home or work re! | This is done in such quiet manner! as not to arouse general resentment. | Investigators are instructed to re- | move families from relief if there is, “suspicion of concealed resources Any family having an insurance po-| licy or if there is only a “suspicion” that a relative has any “resources” | may immediately be suspended from | relief. Even in cases where there is} a “suspicion of concealed income” | the persons are summarily stricken | from relief lists. That is if a mem- ber of the family sells ice’ cream or| shoe laces and augments the “in- | come” by 50 cents or a dollar a week) the family looses its relief entirely. Groven Whalen, city chairman of the NRA and Welfare Commissioner | Taylor gloat over the fact that ap-| plications for relief have dropped. | According to an investigator in} Brooklyn “needy families are kept) away from the offices and told to wait at home.” In this way the num- ported of a family of 5 which ap- plied in the early part of April and was visited by an investigator only in the first week of August. The number of evictions are con- tinuously rising. A Brooklyn inv tigator who cares for some 75 cases brought at the end of the day 23 eviction notices. Approximately one- third of her clients will be thrown on the streets within a week. This picture exists in other parts of the city as well. To plan a fight against the in- creasing cuts in relief, and evictions a conference has been called for Sat- urday 10 am. at Irving Pl ganizations will gather to Workers’ Ordinance containing de-} mands to the city government to as- | sure every worker the necessary re- BREAK STRIKE | OLNEY, Texas. — Twenty three! truck drivers working on the high- ways here returned to work after a Strike for higher wages. Their de- mands wre not granted, but offi- cials broke the strike by restraining the men from picketing. They had Pen and Hammer, 138 S. 8th St. Gerber and Tuvin--Two “Socialist” Trade Union ® “Fechner declares that this fatal accident ‘was one for which no blame could be attached to anyone con- nected with the camp.’ We say, in the name of the unemployed and employed workers of this country, that the blame is to be attached to those responsible for driving inex- perienced youths into hazardous occu- pations for which they have not been equipped by training and experience. “Roosevelt, Fechner, Perkins and their willing agent, William Green, know full well that these youths are ing exposed to the danger of fatal accidents. They are, however, indif- ferent because these youths whose lives are placed in peril are unem- Ployed workers, , “Furthermore, the President and Mr. Fechner are directly responsible for the fact that the families of such youths are left desolate and burdened With additional debts at the very mo- ment when they lose what is in most instances their sole- bread-winner, “We hold the Roosevelt administra- tion directly responsible for what amounts to the murder of these youths. We demand and will fight to force the government to provide ade- quate compensation for the immedi- ate victims and for all other youths who are injured in the course of their forced labor in these camps.” FOREST YOUTH DIEs. THOMPSON. F, Montana, Aug, 16.—A recruit from Auburn, Stanley Janis died at the Trout camps near here. * The reason given is heart attack. By WILLIAM L. BELL There are two secretaries of the “Socialist” Party in Local No. 28 of | the Sheet Metal Workérs Industrial Union of New York. They are J. Gerber, Secretary of the “Socialist” | City Committee and Joe Tuvin, the Secretary of the Labor Committee | of the Socialist Party. It would be of great importance to evaluate the activities of these two gentlemen in this local union. Gerber was once the secretary of Local No. 28. That was long before the war. Since then, he substituted his trade for Socialist Party poli- tics, and lost his standing as a Jeader in the union. But politics does not fill one’s stomach, Gerber became an agent of the Malvin Press, where Hillquit has a majority of shares. The Malvin Press charges the A. F. of L. locals from 30 per cent to 40 per cent more than other union printing companies. And Ger- ber gets 25 per cent commission for every job he brings in. What they were doing in. the unjon is seen by the following event. At a meeting in Cooper Union on October Ist, 1931 it was decided by 2,500 out of 2,800 members to as- sess the working members 10 percent, and the two officials who receive $66 and $110 respectively and the administration 30 per cent. The international burocrats declared it illegal and had the backing of Julius Gerber, He told them how to maneuver with the vote, but \ | Julius Gerber Rakes in Large Commissions for Union Printing; Joe Tuvim Heads Bosses’ Association; $30,000 Misused no organization, . ie worke: in each department, | Relief Conference on |with the blessing of NIRA and ‘The New Deal, were granted th sacred | privilege of voting for either of the | Who will say |has not soft smoke |other inferno. They will be “ri She core of the company thug or- Roosevelt Behind! Trusts Drawing Codes for 5,000,000 Green in Walkout Drama Drums Up Support for Roosevelt So that Workers Will Not Strike Against Slave Conditions WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Four of the Jeading industries in the coun- try—steel, coal, oil and automobiles—employing between 4,000,000 and 5,000 000 workers have their representatives here in secret neg tions with President Roosevelt and General Johnson to rush t: slave codes in fz + = the shortest possible tim Steel Trust Rushes |»: Company Union « (CONTINUED FRO: 3E department, | ONE) ly from each , exposer two company picked candi a eee that The New Deal |} ened the hearts of the} nit lords of steel? These. delegates, elected with all restrictions of ocra: removed, became the representatives of the Carnegie Steel workers. They mee in the. superintendent's office. Th his cigars. “What's. new, boys?” the super says. | “There's a lot of kicking in the 140 inch mill,” perhaps one of the delegates. will say. “How hard are |” they kicking? Is there any talk of another union?” “No, it ain't got that far but two fellows kicked to me so there must be more of them.” The kickers will quietly to the the d to meet with biggest be transferred cale pit or tee Lee pion with Green. hard.” They will either have a phys- ‘kout. ical breakdown and go to the | |. Green went to a meeting h pital or quit. Either way, another | by William a. Irvin, president of grievance has been taken up and|U. S. Stecl Corporation, and Pr correctel: dent E. G, Grace of the Bethle! The company recently cut the | Stee! Corpo on. When he w amount of insurance per worker | in, the steel presideats wa saying that Franc tary of labor handling end” of the discussions. Green walked out of from $2,000 to $1,000. But the charge | of $1.80 per worker per month re- mains. | NIRA’s Blessings he hearing Camegie Steel claims some 10,009 | pouyaching because the ef cone Workers on the payroll. What this| ii: rian of comp ia place: means is that some few key men| pe yhoo re ef their, own. In his statements after this event, both Green minds of the | Roosevelt | imaginary work. seven days per week. Thou- sands of others get one day every | two weeks. All of them, howev are enjoying the blessings of NIRA’s code. The town of Homestead is or- ganized to bulwark the company tyranny. It is a wide open city with bootlegging, prostitution andj q, to to o between the ent. The ol an Q 2 ia 8 ber of applicants are kept low. In|S@mbling running full blast under! ; some offices as in Brownsville, one pag prevection. ‘fhe . undér- m, Lewis, Talk Big. must wait days before they can gain | 0" CORNET. pane ey a | “It is a challenge to the govern- ; via F865 ; ment,” said Gree even admittance. One case was re machine, Especially is the “num- | iG n bosses withdraw from the conference bers racket” an effective weapon in| room when Green shoved his portly the hands of the company. Miss Per- d figure in. “It is presumed under the kins might be interested to know | yecoye act that pr Se dere that the special deputies she saw] witl cooperate. In ay were mostly number salesmen. The head of this racket is in di- rect touch with the Carnegie spy | center. He has, let us say, 75 num- ber sellers and collectors. They are ernment, ers &; e U. S. Steel and Mellon coal pits where they are be- ing starved and victimized, said: “Unless the president is prepared to force these industrial recalcitrants such as steel and coal owners, there ganization. They work openly. Each will sell to some hundred workers. They will can be no recovery.” talk with them. They stand on street| ‘The bray: corners and in cigar stores, taverns, | ; ref is, etc., and listen tions. At the end of ¢ the head of the Carnezi tem has a fairly accur: of public opinion i remarks about and the ¢ union organiz 0 the cos bse PHILADELPHIA PICNIC lief and stopping of evictions. It will! overheard calls for an emergency any uni Dries Wet el PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — A joint | ™&P & program to mobilize the work- | report. |_ These two labor lieutenants of the picnic of the Pen and Hammer and| ¢?S of this city in the ne‘fon-» ‘e} Nevertheless, the SMWIU is do- | big sts are trying to arouse the the United Farmers Protective As-| campaign for the adoption of the| ing work in Homestead. w on the belief that Roosevelt sociation has been arranged for| Workers’ Unemployment Insurance aaa pares opposing the scab policies of the Saturday, August 19, at Menlo Park, | B!- RED PRESS AFFAIR g trusts CHICAGO.—A concert and danc for the benefit of the Daily Worke and the Workers’ Voice will be held | at the Peoples’ Auditorium on Sat- 297d. urday, September 16. An interesting hold its program has been arranged by | Susust 20, 8 a. workers cultural organizations. | An attractive p Bs Prizes of an artist picture of Lenin | ranged. Take Car 50 and and valuable books will be given out at the affair. rR PHILADELPHIA. annual m, at Bu | 26 to Cott- man St. or Burholm Park and wa’ | west to the park. Secretaries | the local’s president, failed to show ; up. All the dec. rs failed together with them. | What the membership wanted | was: To | yearly three year term; to have quarterly financipl reports; to take care of the old members; to haye the right to use the local’s funds as the local desires; local autonomy. When Stuart Chase investigated the financial status of the local, after the old clique was @efeated, maintain the unemployed; financial books—reeeipts and dis- bursements — were missing; that about $30,000 was misused, The local brought these old grafiers to trial, and found them guilty, but Julius Gerber fought that they get a “square deal.” It was at 7 E. 15th St. that Gerber worked out their defense with them, The members accepted the report of the trial unanimously but Julius Gerber is Still defending his partners. Tuvim, the secretary of the “So- cialist Labor: Committee” received his “labor education” in the Hebrew Trades, as an errand boy. At the beginning he statted out as a “fighter” against corruption. in the elections — insteatl of the | Tianna oes. the membership found that nine | local and the International. smiths, ‘Every boss who joined this new racket, had to pay $10 initation. Being the General Manazer and | of tha benres, he conirdlied the jobs. This in turn gave him a} chance to control lecal votes. The Jewish members who worked in} Brooklyn feared him, Some of them fear him even now, although he is looked upon at present as the meanest creatures on two legs and has no power. Thore is m limit to everything. And the members of Local No. 28, demanded from the officials that Tuvim—be either the manager of the Brooklyn Bosses Association and leave the local, or remain in the local and stop organizing the bosses against the Union. He resigned his job officially. But nobody knows how this fellow made a living since then. The latest actions of these two gentlemen prove furthermore how closely they are connected with the Internationat’s policy of wholesale suspension of the unemployed from Local No. 28, another meeting, before the month suspension of the unemployed. Again, ng which tcok were ignored by the lo | And all thos? of the nployed who had nothing els? to sell or 3 TREES ~~ | Pawn, in order to raise the $: for While being a member of Jocal A resolution, intzoduced by the} the monthly dues, were suspended. No. 28, he became the General | rank and file, was sont out by the| ON August 3, at a regular meeting | evecare’ or: Resto "ana Tih local to the members, which called | Of the local. the membe whether the uner for the — utilizatio local's from ¥ funds in the int e unem- nber introduced a ployed. A special was the local called to, consider it. r the} declare all members, dy International Clicue sent a letter to| to unemployment, be declared full- the officers of the local, informing! fiedged local meme: Also that them that if this resolution would be) the local elect a committee to visit permitted to pass, the local officers! would be held responsible. ‘The| same clique called upon the local’s | , bondire cemrany, and informed them that the officers intended to mistse the local’s funds. The presi dent of the Icc#l closed the mect the minute the letter was raad.| susnended from the These two gentiemen, Tavin ¢cnd|/ Gerber received a copy of this re-| their sc‘ution and a notice of the mect-| motions w against ing. Both of them did not show up.| tional's policy of breaking up the The reason was obvious. They! iccal, and the old corrupt adminis would have to take a stand with the | tration which ruled local for 25 International. clique which would] years, and who had the holy bless- expose ‘them still more, |ings of the International gang, the The rank and file, however, raised | gang of Rooney's school, who was another peiition immediate}; killed in Chicago, not for organizing labor, but for his racketeer activi- ties. And it is this gang who has the heartiest support of these two ‘hese two gentlemen, together with| gentiemen—Gerber and Tuvin. the whole local unemployed It was Julius Gevber who up and moved that this re- ke y And those of could not rais2 dues, were loc: This action is in the line of all es in the local. Both expired, in order ts prevent the » Fri President Green and take up with | him the Interna- | llinois Miners Swing Support for T. U. Conference ixpect 50 Delegates from PMA in Cleve- land on Aug. 26-27 SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Aug. 16—Or- nized coal mine labor in this im- industrial area is swinging its support to the Trade Union Con- ference for United Action which will be held in the Brotherhood Engin- eers Auditorium, Cleveland, Ohio, on Aug 26 and 27. This swing gained its first impetus | when the Women’s Auxiliary of the | Progressive Miners of America in this city elected Mary Voyney and Emily Gentry as delegates to the Confer- ence. Fully 50 delegates are expected to be elected by the P.M.A., and its auxiliaries to the Cleveland gather- ing. A report from Utah received today at the national offices in New York City of the Provisional Committee | arranging the Conference stated that a truckload of delegates from the Na- | tional Miners Union locals will leave | Utah for the Conference. The truck will stop at the Gallup mine fields Mexico to pick up delegates | from that vicinity. No less than 30 | delegates will come from these two regions. Through its secretary, Louis Wein- stock, the Provisional Committee an- e| | nounced today that the Millinery Op- | position Groups, representing thou- sands of A. F. of L. millinery workers in New York City have elected two delegates to an alternate to the Con- ference. | The Unemployed Councils of Bea- ver County, Beaver Falls, Pa., elec- tei Ro’ Gorman and Mrs. Lil- lian Hall as delegates to the Cleve- | land gathering. Present indications are that ap- proximately 1,000 delegates will come from all parts of the United States to the Cleveland Conference. The Brotherhood Engineers Auditorium where the Conference will be held has a capacity of 1,500. Pledged to fight tooth and nail the NRA, the Cleveland Conference promises to’be an historically sig- nificant drive by organized and un- | organized American labor for the | isolation of reactionary labor leaders who are supporting the NRA from the rank and file of the American workingclass, and for the solidifica- tion of the American workers in the fight for sharply improved working conditions as opposed to the slave | Conditions contained within the so- called Industrial Recovery Act. . NOTICE Arrangement Committee Union Conference for Action calls upon all or- tions to report immediately of the election of.delegates to the Cleveland Aug. 26 and 27 Con- ference. New York organizations must report immediately and also send in the names of the delegates to be eble to make the necessary arrangement for buses, The fare for each delegate from New York and return is $10. Trade Union Conference for United Action 10 Fifth Ave. New York City Frick Co, Starves ‘Miners; Get 2 Days ‘Workat $6.98 aWeek Men Return OnlyWhen | Own Checkweighmen Are Accepted PITTSBURGH, Pa. Aug. 15— The Frick mines are on two-da: a week operation since the miners were sent back to work at the order \of Roosevelt, the coal bosses and |John L. Lewis. This reflects the | decline in steel production also, and “| the determination to maintain a | starvation level of wages. | With such an operating schedule the miners wages will not exceed $6.98 a week, thus putting into ef- fect the wage scale proposed by MeNeil, spokesman for the Mellon, Morgan and Rockefeller group, and |the Appalachian coal operators at the Washington code hearings. district president of the issuing fake statements |to the United Press about miners returning to work, when the fact , the miners are returning only in those mines where checkweighmen ha e been elected and accepted. follow wherever the com- pany refi to recognize the elect ed check ing local strike weighmen. for a sharpening tuatior. 200 Strike for Wage Increase at Kentucky Federal Relief .Job | LEXINGTON, Ky—Two hundred | of the whole laborers and hodcarriers went on strike Aug, 7 for a 20 cents an hour increase on a Federal Construction project known as the United States Narcotic Asylum, After investigat- ing conditions in Lexington, the Great Lakes Construction Co. which has the contract, decided that the starvation was a “fi A ra ; Was enthusiastically elected at a wage. wage ef 25 cents an hour | | and file strike committee | |mass meeting. Picketing at the pro- | | ject foes on daily and the workers re determined to stay out until their demands are won hi t i