The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1933, Page 3

e } f i f> the Wickwire plant. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1933 Page Three LET WHOLE TOWN KNOW OF Soutien text WICKWIRE SPENCER STRIKE "is losing As WITH ENTHUSIASTIC PARADE i |3000 Workers Laid Off jin One Mill; Others Announce Shut-Downs| ROCKINGHAM, N. C., Aug. 20. —A wave of factory closings is beginning in the Southern textile Bill Dunne, Presents Union Charter to Negro | Striker; Boss Sends Letter to Workers Trying to Get Men to Return |centers due to the overproduction {caused by the recent inflationary RIVERSIDE, N. Y., Aug. 20.—Friday was a great day for the strikers of | price rises. \the Wickwire Spencer Steel Company, for the working class population of | Five cotton mills in this county jthis Buffalo suburb and the adjoining suburb of Black Rock—both adjacent | will shut their plants this week be- | The Acrhe plant where the recent strike brought cause of lack of markets for tex- | out some 5,000 men, women and children in support of it is also located |tile goods. As a result, three F my ; thousand workers will lose their here. Thé foremen and superintend-®— jobs, i. | ents passed a very miserable day. City Employees Made| Today each striker received a The Rockingham Post Despatch | j writes, that plants are shutting | letter from the company. Following the union mass meeting where Bill Dunne presented the new charter from the Steel and Metal Workers ‘Industrial Union to a Negro strike leader who then pre- to Donate to Relief NEW YORK.—City employees have contributed $1,332,647 to Un- employment Relief in the last year, Commissioner Taylor announced sented it to the union, symbolizing the solidarity of white and Negro workers, there was a parade. And what a parade! Forty cars were in line headed by a huge truck loaded with strikers’ children. Truck and cars bore signs, made by one of the strike commit- tee: “Wickwire Workers on Strike! Help the Men!” — “Wickwire Men Striking For A Living!” There was a permit for the parade and no police interference. There is a healthy respect for the mem- bers of the SMWIU since the mili- tant mass demonstration during the Acme strike. Up one street and down another the parade went with the car sirens shrieking and the par- aders and bystanders cheering. Porches and front yards were crowd- ed with men, women and children. No one in Black Rock and River- side missed the parade. The com- mittee in charge saw to that. It wound past the park where hun- dreds were watching a ball game. No foreman or superintendent es- caped. The committee knew exactly where they lived and the noisy dem- onstration moved slowly past their houses with yells of “Is his face red?” The atmosphere was hilarious but underlying it was a deep determina- tion to stick together and win. This is shown by the decisions today to have all strikers accompany the negotiation committee to the plant Tuesday to see Executive Vice Presi- dent Macklin who arrived from New York last night. The letter sent to each striker by Vice President Macklin is a remark- able document that merits quotation in full because of its demagogie ap- peal, on the basis of the social origin, of the signer, for a return to work and solidarity with the company. The letter follows: “Fellow workman: “I sincerely regret that you sud- denly decided to give up your job with us because there is no question » my mind but that our differences could have been readily adjusted to the satisfaction of both you and our- selene if you had remained on your “I was a workman in overalls from the age of 14 until just a few years ago. I have been a river driver, paper maker, coal passer and wire drawer. “I know the value of a job to my- self and to my family. I know of the loyalty between workmen and ‘the passions that sometime move them to take action without due con- sideration. I know of the regrets that sometime follow that action. “You want a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work. We grant that. I am sure that we can decide what is a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work without either side being un- reasonable, “We stand ready to grant a square deal and we expect a square deal in return, Your presence on your regular job Monday morning, Aug. 21st, will indicate to us that you also stand for a square deal.” Don’t forget the International Labor De- fense Excursion, “Al day on the Hudson,” = Septambee: rd. Be there with all your lends! Go to see every subseriber when his subscription expires to get his re- Tammany henchmen are proud of their success in forcing the under- paid city workers to contribute to funds, that should rightly be taken from the bankers. This is the third year that Municipal workers have been compelled to “donate” more than a million dollars for relief. yesterday to Mayor O’Brien. Both | down because of “piled up goods } with no sales, caused by uncertain- ty and stagnation in the textile markets.” i + * * RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 20.—j| Feeling the increasing weight of manufactured goods for which there is no market, one large mill |closed today, with the announce- | | ment that five more will be closed | next week, due “to the unsteady | processing tax on cotton.” |__ At Silver City, the closing of the | | Hadley-People mill threw 250 work- | market created by the 4.2 cents! | ers out of their Jobs. Workers Rail Labor Being Laid Is Used; Gov't Loans be sympathetic rather than critical. is to be helpful’—to the employers, of course. No such “helpful” or “sympa- thetic” surveys are being made, for example, to consider reduced pur- chasing power of rail workers as a result of the 10 per cent wage slash; of the widespread rail unemploy- ment and its effects; or of the liv- ing conditions of the thousands of part-time railroad workers. Rail labor is being dropped and unemployment increased, through re- duction of track miles used. For the nine months ending August 1, 1933, some 1,800 miles of track were abandoned, or nearly double the 945 miles given up in the year ending November 1, 1982. Only 11 miles of new track were built during the nine month period, as compsced with 618 new miles of trackage for 1931. Still further trackage reduction is due. Repeal of the recapture clause of the nsportation Act “might well inerease abandonments,” ac- cording to a government official— name unrevealed—quote in the New York Times. For instance, during the past week the Norfolk & West- ern Railway Co. was authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion to abandon another 54 miles of track in West Virginia. Norfolk & Western, incidentally, reported a net. income of over $7 million for the six months ending June 30, 1943, “The road’s current finances present a pic- ture of unusua! strength,” Wall Street Journal (Angu-t 11) advises possible investors. Where Wage Cut “Savings” Go “Railroads hire $50.000 a year at- torneys to defend trivial and com- paratively insignificant personal in- jury cases,” admitted an Interstate Commerce Commission member, a lawyer himself and presumably “in the know.” Rail workers who suf- fered the 10 per cent wage cut will be interested to learn that part of this “saving” goes to pay officials high salaries, as well as $50,000 law- yers. But rail workers engaged in in- Rail Owners, Not. Eastman Surveys But Does Not Provide Any Work The latest exploit of rail coordinator Eastman is the institution of four surveys on railroads covering merchandise traffic, carload freight move- | ments, passenger traffic and marketing. “Emphasis is placed on the fact”, | | Eastman said in making the announcement, “that this investigation will | C°D¢r@! transportation section, the purpose ® Aided By © Off As Less Trackage to R. R. Pays Profits | In this, as in other activities of the | terstate commerce are not insured against accidents and injuries, and in each case have to fight their cases in opposition to the high priced law- yers whom their labor helps main- tain. Profits Up Recent statements of net income, | or profits, for the month of June include: New York Central—over $1,000,000; Pennsylvania Railroad, nearly $4,000,000. And the Van} Sweringen’s Chesapeake & Ohio Rail-| way netted them a profit of $4,300,- 000 for July. Some 200,000 Canadian rail work- ers, threatened with an additional 10 per cent wage cut on top of their present 10 per cent reduction, have banded together into “a cooperative association” for the purpose of re- sisting this newest onslaught of the | employers. The determination of these workers—who represent every branch of railroad work in Canada— has pressed leaders to issue siate- ments about a general strike if the | attack is cyrried through. Strike} ballots have already been distributed | to engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen and telegraphers. Votes are to be in on September 15. R.F.C. “Loans” to Pay Bankers A further loan of $3,862,000 by the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to | the Chicago & North stern Rail- way Co., this one to run for three goes not toward creation of more bonds,” it is reported. And workers who have any illusions left about “creation-of-work loans” might well ponder the following from the New York Times, August 12: “Reports current from time to time that the railroads of the coun- try are about to embark on a heavy program of employment replacement | in order to make their facilities more | years, has been announced. This loan | These Cuban workers ransacked dictator Machado during the recent Kent” sign on the front door, as shown above. Hang Sign ‘For Rent’ on Palace | | | | | SALT LAKE CITY, Utah—Day and night mass picketing at the striking mines is going on here in| the face of an extremely tense situa- tion brought about by the refusal of |the company to see the National Miners Union, and the vicious red| | miners” who desire to return to work {are forcibly being restrained by the Havana palace of the bloody revolt and then displayed a “For Roosevelt OK'sSteel, | ‘TimberLowPayCode | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | clashed bitterly againsi the greater power given to the big oil trusts. At the same time, Roosevelt will control imports of oil, to help the ofl trusts | in competing with British and other oil companies, and will allocate pro- | duction to various states. | More Promises | The lumber, oil and steel codes are | supposed to affect 1,470,000 workers. To get the workers to back the code, Johnson promised 400,000, new jobs. But, as is now witnessed in the textile industry, the real effect | will be the firing of thousands. In the steel and lumber codes the wages and hours originally proposed by the bosses was accepted. Wages in the steel plants are to} remain exactly as they are. On| July 1, the steel bosses claimed they | raised wages 15 per cent. While food | prices go up, wages in the steel in- dustry are fixed at a starvation level. The minimum wage rate is 40 cents an hour, but this does not apply to learners, apprentices and other clas- sifications of workers. Juggle Hours. Hours are juggled to suit the steel bosses. There is supposed to be an; average of 40 hours a weck, but the, maximum is 48, with many exctp- | tions. After Nov. 1, if steel production | goes up to 60 per cent of capacity, | an eight-hour day will be introduced. | Wages in the !umber industry be- | gin at a minimum of 23 cents an hour for Negro lumber workers in| the South. Minimum wages for) Northwest lumber workers is set at! 42% cents an hour, and for the North and East, at 50 cents an hour. | There is supposed to be a 40-hour | week. > Fight On Coal Code ‘The sharpest clash is going on) around the coal code. Several codes | have been introduced by the bosses, | but Roosevelt has declared for one code covering the bituminous indus- try, following the lines of the steel code. Most of the automobile bosses employment, but to “refinance &bagree on an auto code. But reports maturity of $7,724,000 of mortgage) from Detroit state that Henry Ford will not sign the code mainly on the question of Section 7 (a) of the NRA. At the same time, Ford is struggling against the other auto trusts, mainly General Motors, and does not want to sign an agreement on regulation of markets and prices. Eugene M. Lokey, financial writer of the New York Times, discussing | the steel code, says: “In the background there are _ modern are questioned in railroa circles.” \ plain indications that the old con- Garment Workers Dig Up Last Coins for Cleve. T.U. Meet Give Nickels, Pennies, Dimes for Delegates’ Fare to Conference By MORRIS KAMMAN | NEW YORK, Aug. 20. — ‘Nickels,| dimes and penn:es are being given by | rank and file members of the gar- ment workers now on strike to help} send delegates to the Trade Union| Conference for United Action which | will be held in the Brotherhood En- | gineers Auditorium, Cleveland, Ohio, on August 26th and 27th. Coming into the office at 70 Fifth Ave., of the Committee which is ar- ranging the Conference, a woman! worker of Local 38, A. F. of L., Inter-| national Ladies Garment Workers of America, handed Louis Weinstock, | Secretary of the Committee, an en-| velope containing small change which the members of her local dug out of their almost empty pockets to enable their delegate, Betty Schein, to go to Cleveland with the New York de-| legation. “That's mighty good work, Sister,” the Committee’s secretary congratu- lated her. “It’s hard work, Brother,” the woman worker replied, “but with the! Dubinsky crowd betraying us left and right into the hands of Whalen| and the bosses, we're going to work even harder to make the Cleveland Conference go ovef big. We know that the Cleveland Conference is not going to sell us ovt to the bosses. We know that it will make us stronger; to fight the NRA and all it stands) for.” ‘There was nothing dejected about! the woman garment worker as she| spoke. Her blue eyes flashed fire; her spirit was rebellious. The fact that her union elected a delegate to the Cleveland Conference elated her. Thousands of rank and file union memb: throughout the country are filled wi the same rebellious spirit against their leaders who are sup- porting the vicious NRA. A sond-off to the 0 delegates from New York to the Cleveland Confer- ence will take place in New York City on Wednesday, August 23rd, 8 p. m., at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, with speakers including Earl Browder, A. P. Muste, Jack Stechel. James W. Ford, and F. E, Brown, of Typogrephical Union No. 6. troversy, which in 1919 provoked one of the bitterest conflicts in American industrial history, may soon be revived.” By N. SPARKS. (District Organizer of the Communist Party.) AST spring the shoe workers of Boston, Chelsea and Lynn decided that their wages were too low to live on, and that the way to get better was to get together and strike. seemed simple enough. At the il of the National Shoe Workers’ sociation, they came out in a gen- eral strike in Lynn. But as the strike went on, the officials of the The decision came. 15% increase. For others, practically nothing. For some, even a cut. Dur- ing these weeks, a strong movement for amalgamation had sprung up in the various shoe unions. The officials seized upon it, “Wait!” they cried. “First amalgamation, then we'll be able to fight for better prices!” August Ist arrived, the beginning of the new season, the expiration date of the previous agreement. ‘The Boston officials, headed by the Love- stoneites Jonas and Zimmerman, now had a new cry: “Wait for the shoe code! Then we won't have to fight for better prices. We'll get them from the government.” The workers swept over them and refused to re- turn to the shops. The officials de- clared it a “holiday” and raised the hypocritical song sung so often in the A. F. L. “Go to the beaches, take out the car and go for a drive”, etc, HAT is a “holiday”? A holiday ts an unorganized strike and there- fore a strike doomed to defeat. In the spring when the workers were striking for better wages, the officials told them “You can’t get better wages just like this in your first strike. First, you must strike to get your union recognized, then later you will be able to have a strike for better wages”. Now, with repeated treachery, in this 2nd strike—with a union officially recognized by the manufacturers— the officials ‘withheld from the work- ers all the benefits and functions of For some, ai workers go back “temporarily” with a 20% increase until the code goes into effect and that an agreement be made for one year. Since the code would carry with it a decrease of hours from 48 to 40, this meant no increase in the pay envelope at all. But the general indignation was so great, that the proposal had to be withdrawn. Under the pressure of the rank and file, the officials now declared the holiday an official strike, But they continued their secret agree- ment with the manufacturers, that for the whole week there would be no picketing. ‘The nominal strike committee was kept without func- tions or information. Negotiations were kept in the hands of the Joint Executive Board. But the rank and file continued to raise their demand of “1928 base rates” or a flat 35% in- crease. eB. the fear that a militant strike would sweep them aside, the of- ficials now sent out an SOS to the! Blue Eagle. \ Miss Perkins had already an- nounced. that the strike must be set- tiled. The no-strike edict of the NRA was again invoked just as with the miners. Mr. McGrady, the A. F. L. strikebreaker, flew to Lynn with in- structions from General Johnson to settle the strike. Then it was, an- nounced Miss Perkins had honored the union with a phone call and the general officials were leaving for Washington to settle the strike. Not a@ single striker accompanied them. In Washington the Boston shoe .|@ union, The officials proposed that the workers were “well represented”. They were represented first by a politician,’ ‘entation of “Labor” under the THE N.R.A. ROBS THE BOSTON SHOE WORKERS Nelson Pratt, brought down by the union, a member of the State Legis- lature, a former foreman and super- intendent in a shoe factory.. They were further represented by Mahan and Salvaggia, the same officials who had sabotaged and betrayed the strike from the beginning. They were further represented by the gracious Miss Perkins herself, the Secretary of Labor. Finally, they were represented by their bosses, the shoe manufac- turers, who claimed with tears in their eyes, that they have nothing at heart excent the interests of their workers. This was a typical repres- Na- tional Recovery Act. With such ade- quate representation, what would be the use of having a couple of dozen strikers? WW let us see the sweet nest-egg hatched out for the shoe workers by the Blue Eagle.. The agreement triumphantly brought back, by the “leaders” was as follows: FIRST, all workers MUST be back at work by Monday, 1 p. m. SECOND, the same old discredited 20% increase—which, as we have seen before, means NO increase in the pay envelope, despite the rising prices for food and everything else, until September 15th. THIRD, after September 15th, wages to be decided by the STATE ARBITRA- TION BOARD, which is detested by the shoe workers and has shown itself time and again to be their bitter enemy, FOURTH, powers of the shop stewards to be cut down, workers hired do not have to join the union, no union notices to be | posted in shops, and other moves towards an open shop. | The General Board was afraid that if they push this agreement too openly, it would be rejected. For | this reason, they decided that in this delicate sell-out operation, no out- siders, lawyers, etc. were to speak in_the locals, But in the Boston Stitchers Local, | the Lovestoneite Jones, despite this | ruling, practically turned tho meat- ing over.to the politician and bosses’ agent, Nelson Pratt, who with alter- nate appeals to patriotism end threats, forced the s‘-out across. IE strike is over. Doubiless Miss Perkins in Washington feels she is qualifying to be consideved one of the “Brain Trust”. It’s all so easy. First the mine strike, and now the shoe strike. But Miss Perkins has yet to find out that the shoe work- ers can’t live on sweet words and treachery, and just as the miners are still struggling, the shoe workers will again come out and fight for their right to a decent existence. The most depicable role in the’ strike was played by Miss Perkins’ chambermaids—the Lovestoneites. Together with Zeligman, former Brookwood student who was expelled from the Communist Party for frat- ernizing with his boss in the Mar- mon Shoe, and accepting wage in- creases for himself at the price of not organizing thé other workers, these Lovestoneites, Jonas, Zimmer- man, ete. are building up a record of betrayal that should already de- serve ‘a letter of congratulation from Plot Sending State Troops to Break Utah Coal Strike Picks NRA Strike- and armed with rifles, shot guns and pick handles in an attempt to break the strike. Demonstrations against the send- ing out the National Guard to break‘the strike are being organized here and in all cities of Utah, A baiting campaign being waged in the/ truckload of Reforestation workers press. |were brought down to Helper ap- Huge headlines appear in the| parently for ike breaking work |newspapers to the effect that “real! The en strial commission or Blood of Utah has Industrial Com. sent by Go arrived in Helper. Communi Sheriff Bliss, of Car-| missioner Knerr spoke today to the bon County, is quoted to this effect.|strikers and was foll by a | The United Mine Workers thugs| speaker from the N.M.U. were mobilizing in Spring Canyon| A Relief Campaign for the strik- preparing for violent attacks on the|ing miners is now being started for picket lines.. Their plan is to create | the help of the miners w re meet- {an excuse for calling out the Na-|ing with a complete mobilization of jtional Guard. Hundreds of United Mine members are being deputized all the state’s forces in an effért to crush the union. Employed, J obless Miners Continue | Strike for Jobs LANSFORD, Pa., Aug. 20.—Re- sing to listen to Governor Pinchot and William Green, and John L. Lewis, anthracite miners here, both employed and unemployed voted walkout,” demanding either jobs or |adequatg unemployment relief for| strike” of the anthracite miners. | anthracite miners. Recently over 15,000 anthracite miners *struck for “equalization of work,” and demanding the opening of closed mines. Some of the mi ers have been out of work for fi years, and many are on the verge of starvation. The United Mine Workers Union officials have been trying to keep the men at work, and the unemployed from taking any action to get out of their miserable conditions. The anthracite UMWA officials |have undertaken to act as scabs for| provic the coal operators issuing a state- ment saying: “It is our sound judgment that {the shutting down of operations in violation of our agreement andj throwing others out of employment | | will not solve the basic trouble.” | They do not want united action) | yesterday to continue a “‘sympathetic| between employed. and unemployed, as demonstrated by the “sympathy | | The demands of the anthracite | miners, backed up with h_ mili- tant unity of jobless and employed, is limited as yet to the demand to share the work, but it also contains the demand to. open closed mines, and is actually directed at the de- mand for relief—adequate relief in any form: The National Miners Union mem- bers who-support the strike of the anthracite mine urge them to] |broaden their demands to include |the passage of the Workers Unem-} |ployment Insurance Bill. This bill for adequate unemploy-| Iment for all workers, to be| paid by the federal government and the bosses. hoe Workers Win Strike; | Force Recognition of Union NEW YORK.—Out of the one hundred and seven shoe, *slipper and stitchdown shops n strike since | | August 5th, thirty-seven bosses | have signed up with tne Shoe and of nine shops. The Romano and La \ 1 ell shop ate out grade ladies shoes, are out 100 per cent and there is no doubt that In spite of all which the trying to invent, great impetus was added to the strike of the metal the number of new shops, including Nel- son Bres., Nash Chrome, the Co_um- | bia, the Rialto, the East Side Metal nd others, as it was reported at 2 mess meeting moon at crganizer of the st-iking Ss said that they have strike with that led by the Workers’ Industrial Union, | their Metal | Only a joint settlement will be ac- cepted, he told the workers. Aiding the bosses in their efforts to crush the strike, the A. F. of L. officials: are trying to bring the workers back to work under the old conditions. The workers are detcr- mined to fight against the bosses, 2s NEW. YORK.—Press reports from San Francisco, Call pickers in the Worth {ruit fields, under the | the Cannery and, Ageis ers Industrial Union, tu wrk after winning an i in pay of from 5 to 7:3 cents hour. Over. 6,000 agricultural and can- nevy workers went out on strike against.a 15 to 20 cent an hour an and ‘Delman shop, mekers of high | Bosses Frame-t , With the coming out of a} Report Fruit Pickers Win Wage Increases in California the workers of the La Presti and Dan Paltvi shop will follov The shoe, slipper and sti town wo) are marching to vi |tory under the banner of their In- | Leather Workers Industrial Un-/} dustrial Unio in the past two ion with six other bosses ready to weeks over 000 work have sign within the next two days, joined the union and ev day jeording to a statement issued by in hundreds more. the-genera! seerctary of the union, | e Shoe Repair Workers are F. G. Biedenkapp. flocking to the union. At a The demands of the strikers were mesting this Sunday, for the? 40-hour week and not less | 200 repre ing 65. re- than a 30 per cent increase in| pair shops voted to inte: thei wages, full recognition of the un- | ac in. pyeparation f. their |ion and the shop committees. | general str | Two. more board of trade shops | mass meeting of all shoe, came out on strike making a total 5° repair and those r We y, 5:39 p.m fie | work, at Arcadia Hall, 918 Halsey | Street, Brooklyn. | | | IN. Y. Metal Strike Spreads; eater Jp L All s are urged to be feont of the shops Monday morn- An eppeal was made to frater- ations to join the workers line. S, will tak Sith Street Cow ton and Third thizers are exp: the trial. { All the strik , between Li es, All ted to be pi of job shops will have a mecting Monday at 2 p.m. at |; Manhattan Lyceum. A meet- jing of the chandelier work will be held Monday evening at 8 p.m. at | tee same place, 64 E. 4th St. | wage, demanding increases to 30 and 25 cents an hour. very effort was mede by Governor ° capitalist 5 a to paign by s the fruit crop was threatened with |destruction if it was not picked im- mediately. | Many Filipino and Mexican work-| s took part in the strike. | end the British Officers to Inspect C. C. C. at Plymouth, Mass. BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 18.—A special delegation of British offic- ers will visit the Civilian Conser- vation Camp at Plymouth for in- spection. They will get an idea on how the forced labor camps that the British bosses may want to set up should be. Only the highest rank- ing officers have been invited for this inspection tour so as to assure that the real truth is not revealed General Johnson or Miss Perkins herself, 5 ‘ to the workers, Corzerence of Vets | | in Pittsburgh Votes | PITTSBURGh, Pa.—A_ conference |of the Veterans’ National Rank and | File committee, attended by 200 dele- gates, among them members of Vet- | erans of Foreign War Posts, Ameri- can Legion, Disabled American Vet- | erans, B. E. F., endorsed the militant struggle of the miners and con- |demned the brutal shooting of one of their buddies, Louis Podorsky. | A resolution was sent to the Rank| and File Committee of the United) {seine Workers of America and to the | National Miners’ Union, 4 || COHEN’S, 117 Orchard St. | Support to Miners. Series of Strikes Show Workers Are Not Letting the NRA Crush Them Ex-Police Chief Breakers for N.Y. Follows Roosevelt No- Strike Edict; A.F.L. Heads Take Part NEW YORK.—Enemy of labor, ex- police commissioner Grover A. Whalen, has chosen a strike-breaxing mediation Board for New York City. On Saturday night, clubber of the unemployed Whalen, issued a state- ment saying that the increase in strikes has made it necessary to set up a board to deal with labor troubles. Taking his cue from the methods of President Roosevelt in the coal strike, Whalen has chosen a board of the most trusted A. F. of L. strike- breakers and some of the leading bosses of New York. To give the board an impartial ap- pearance representatives of the “con- sumers,” “employers,” and “labor,” are included. The “consumers” repre- sentatives are: Mrs. Elinore Moore- house Herrick, of the Consumers League, and wife of a wealthy labor exploiter, interested in breaking strikes, and Mrs. Henry Goddard | Leach, president of the Cosmopolitan Club, also the spouse of a wealthy labor skinner. For the bosses there are: Major General James G. Harbord, chairman of the scab Radio Corporation of America, and George J. Atwell, presi- dent of the George J. Atwell Founda- tion Corporation, a bitter enemy of organized labor. In keeping with this list, Whalen | has chosen A. F. of L. leaders partic- ularly distinguished for their strike- breaking activities throughout the pe- Tiod of the crisis. Heading the list is Mathew Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L. Woll is a close associate of the fascist Congressman Hamilton Fish. This is the second no-strike campaign he has led. The last was for president Hoover, when workers wages were cut 50 per cent. Next comes Hugh Frayne, national organizer of the A. F. of L, and a member of the Labor Advisory Board of the NRA. Frayne took part in breaking the coal strike. Together with thest is included Leon Rouse, president of the Typo- graphical Union No. 6, a close sup- r r of the policies of Green and Lumber’ Production Grows; Orders and Shipments Drop WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. — The latest. reports from the lumber in- dustry indicate that the spread be- tween’ the production and consump- tion of lumber is increasing. Contrasted with an increase in pro- duction from 198 million to 200 mil- lion square feet, the National Lum- bor Manufacturers Association re- ported a drop in orders of from 151 to 144 million. Shipments of lumber also declined, the Association reported, from 207 to 193 million square feet. These declines reflect the stagna- tion that exists in the building in- dus*ry. The present production with dec! ng markets is resulting on & further overstocking of lumber, Coal Price Jumps 75 Cents a Ton FALL RIVER, Mass. Aug. 18—An indication of what is facing the work- ers this coming winter is seen by the latest action of the coal dealers here. cal has been increased cents a ton. Thus, the can only buy one ton 1 be the hardest hit. The action is explained by the coal dealers as e “in accordance with the Na- tional Recovery movement.” a time Wospital and Oculist Filled a t One-Half Price White Gold Filled Framen—___S1.80 ZYL Shell Frames -_—__., , $1.00 Lenses not included | First Door Off Delancey St. | Telephone: ORehard 4-4520 To All DAILY WORKER VOLUNTEERS! Call 9 a.m. or 5 pom. tar special werk in reference ts the Daily Worker, 36 B. I2th St, (store), Garment Section Workers Patronise Navarr Cafeteria 333 7th AVENUE Corner ath at, AU omraaes Afeet at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health . Restaurant ~~ 358 Claremort Parkway, Bron Parkway Cafeteria 1638 PITKIN AVENUE Near Hopkinson Ave. Wrecbizg, ¥- 3. ! — 4