The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1933, Page 3

‘ D AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1933 ~ Page Three Buffalo Press Is Silent on Metal Plant Busy Trying Struggles to Get Workers to Swallow NRA; But Admit Production Has Been Dropping ) By BILL ¢, BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 21—With ‘ higher pay in the Republic Steel, DUNNE. important organization and struggle Plant and with Wickwire Steel and pire tied up by a strike of workers fighting conditions similar to those in Republic Plant, the Buffalo paper: fe ing the news. As mentioned’ in a Previous dispatch, there is iri Buffalo & more intensive drive than in most cities to put over NIRA. In-Lafay- ette Square, dedicated to the veterans of Wilson's war for the house of Morgan, a huge thermometer has been installed which registers in» red the temperature of Roosevelt's support by showing the numbers of the em- ployers signing up with NIRA. | Both news and editorial pages of | the capitalists press have been turned over to the recovery drive. But there | is an uneasiness and fear reflected | especially in such papers as the Buf- falo Times—member of the Scripps- Howard chain. Today, for instance, two editorials, one entitled quote: “A | Different Buffalo,” the other: quote: “Fooling Themselves,” are ‘in’ direct contradiction although they are pub- lished side by side. The first repre- ‘ents official optimism: it says that: “Buffalo is a different town than it was six months ago. There is a different spirit in the air, a different and a happier look on men’s ..faces -.-What has happened in these six months is not susceptible of measure- ment. In July 2,457 went off the welfare relief roll, which means that they are again self-supporting, From April 1 to July 1 the number on charity decreased 17 per cent. Final reports for August will show more re- turning to work than even in July . . Buffalo in midsummer .of 1933 looks mighty good.” Without stopping now to take issue with obvious misstatements. of facts and false conclusions in the above quotation, here is what the Buffalo Times says in the next.column; “As a matter of fact the industrial acti- vity chart, which has shown an un- interrupted rise since the middle of March, has turned and has been steadily falling during the last three weeks. Latest reports of the emer- gency relief administration have shown 15,000,000 persons existed on charity «+ + Much is made by these em~- ployers of the figures just issued by the U. S. Labor Department indicat- ing that 400,000 went back to work in July. But they apparently missed the much more significant report of the Labor Department that the num- ber of unemployed was 11,000,000.” Other developments lying behind such expressions of confusion and fear in the capitalist press, are such facts as the lay-off of men-and the cutting of production by the giant Bethlehem Steel plant here. Figures vary, but Bethlehem Steel induly was operated either 20 or 22 furnaces. According to reliable reports from in- to six which will cut operations to the low crisis level of last March. In Buffalo and in Pittsburgh and press representing middle Class in- to the lords of steel, coal and come in under the NIRA Codes, is an expression of the helplesstiess of these middle class elements in a sit- uation which shows the decisive nat- ure of the ownership and control of industry and government by big cap- ital, the growing challenge of the working class, and the servile wails of the middle class crying out aj st the workers challenge and calling on big capital to do something “définite to save capitalism. On Saturday the Daily Worker has 8 pages. Increase your bundle order for Saturday! i, BROOKLYN Brighton Beach Workers WELCOME Ai Hoffman’s Cafeteria 283 BRIGHTON BEACH AVENUE OPEN DAY AND NIGHT” Willlamsbargh Comrades Weltonic De Luxe Cafeteria 4 Graham Ave. Cor. Siegel St. EVERY BITE A DELIGHT WORKERS—EAT AT THE Parkway Cafeteria 1638 PITKIN AVENUE - Near Hopl:inson Ave. Brooklyn, ‘N. Y. FOR BROWNSVILLE PROLETARIANS SOKAL CAFETERIA 1689 PITKIN AVENUE BENSONHURST WORKERS Patronize GORCEOU’S CAFETERIA 2211 86th Street” Near Pai 1. J. MORRIS, Inc. GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS und Control Law, at 827 Broadway, New York, N. Y., not to be consumed upon the: said premises. Apex Restaurant, Inc.; - 827 Rroadway, New York, N. Y, 's give no publicity to these facts. _| There is plenty of evidence, in their pages that they know what is ‘going on but are purposely suppress- ¢@————__—_—— “New Deal” Shoves Pay ofWickwireMen to Pauper Levels. Many Stunts Used to Lower Wages in All Dep’ts By B. D. RIVERSIDE, N. Y., Aug. 21.— The conditions under which Wickwire Spencer men worked before the strike afford more clear proof of the pauper level of the steel code and its devastating effect on wages | and_ working conditions already below the subsistence level before the code—with its swindling 15 per cent raise—was introduced. Yesterday was payday for Wick- wire and strikers got their week’s wages. For 32 hours work there were pay checks of $10.90—which figures out at about 34 cents per hour. Before the “raise,” these workers were getting paid at the rate of 44 cents per hour, Changes in working conditions and payment for various operations have been made continually during the crisis and since the New Deal which effectively force such workers as wire drawers to work many hours for nothing. There used to be, for instance, payment to machine oper- ators for time lost in changing over their machines from one width to another. Therefore it did not pay the companies to give the men mis- cellaneous “short order.” Now an operator is compelled to take anything. In the wire mill perhaps he is ordered to run one roll, let us say, of 16 inch mesh, Then he may get an order for 26 inch mesh. He has to change over his machine and gets nothing for the hour and a half or mow: lost. With a succession of these short orders an operator will put in a whole shift for 10 or 15 cents. Operators are no longer paid for time lost due to electrical or mech- anical defects. Instead they must help the machinist or electrician and get nothing for it, Another method of reducing in- come recently come into vogue is to condemn a whole roll of wire for a defect that affects only the last few inches — something that happens often due to bad material or a machine defect. The operator gets no pay for such a roll. Under this system of robbery 4 wire drawer quite often handles a 270 pound roll six or seven times and is not paid a dime. The process in steel, metal and wire plants whereby workers’ income has been cut to the starvation level by arbitrary changes in working conditions and methods of payment is comparable in the mining industry to the abolition of payment for mov- ing rock, laying track, timbering, ete. Direct wage cuts were made to speed up this process. These two methods have now met. It is apparent that an understand- ing of the special details of wage reductions is necessary for effective organization and struggle against them by the Steel and Metal Work- ers Industrial Union. The recent developments in Wickwire and the Donner plant of the Republic Steel are examples of the application of such knowledge to the problem of organization and struggle. ss ‘Hard Sledding With Johnstown Workers. (By a Worker Correspondent) | JOHNSTOWN, Pa—The Amalga~- mated Association of Iron, Sheet) Metal'and Tin Workers had a meet- | jing Aug. 19 with a large crowd of 46 present. Sherbin, a local lawyer, | dwelt\on the rights of the workers to | organize under the Industrial Slavery | Act, and advised all workers to or-| ganize. The workers sat with serious | faces, neither applauding nor con- tradicting him. | Twenty workers joined the A. A,| for the purpose of being on the inside so they can expose the plan of these misieaders. They are conscientious | workers, who will not be afraid to fight for the right things for the workers when the time comes. The workers have not forgotten the sellout of 1919, and mention this fact very often. An A. A, organizer here, whose name I have not learned as yet, said that the workers were the ones that sold themselves out by scabbing. Every” steel worker here knows that the officials of the A. A. are the ones that sold them out. It is very unlikely that the A. A. will get organized to the extent of the workers having the opportunity to expose them. But if they do, the workers are ready to give them a 100 per cent exposure. They are workers who were themselves sold out in 1919, | and not new workers or labor leaders. | ED WITT. (Signature Authorized.) | ‘TwoJoblessWorkers Killed in Western | R. R. Train Wreck Three Women Workers Still Unfound in the Wreckage WALLA WALLA, Aug. 21.—Two transient jobless workers were killed | and an unknown number either killed or injured, when a Union Pacific) westbound train was wrecked here. Three of the transient workers riding the freight train are in the hospital, one having lost an eye. Three women were in’ the train. ‘They have not been found yet in the wreckage. Railroad workers here are open in their opinion that the railroad’s “economy” policy of insufficient num- | ber of inspectors, the long distances between inspection points; was re- sponsible for the wreck, caused, it is said, by a defective journal on one of the cars. es | Tell your friends about the new 6-page “Daily.” Scab, Steel Men Ask AFL Japanese Speed War Preparations | | | | Shinto priests are shown here in Tokio blessing war machines prepared for the slaughter. A great nation- wide ballyhoo campaign raised the money by subscription for these instruments of murder. A.Rof L. Having Why Did You Cut Pay, to Stem Growing In | 2 Organizers Sent to Sparrows Point in Effort fluence of Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union SPARROWS POINT, Ma., Aug. 2 Steel Company and the Baltimore press, showed their approval when the} A. F. of L. sent two organizers, Sause the influence of the Steel and Metal The two organizers of the A. F. of NEWS BRIEFS 8 Dead in Freak Storm. STRATHMORE, N. J.—Two un- identified bodies were washed ashore here after a freak storm hit the shore of New Jersey late Sunday. Re- ports indicate that at least 8 people are on the list of known dead and many are still missing. The victims were mostly fishermen in boats under forty feet. These boats were capsized in the huge waves whipped up by the storm. oe. Explosion Kills 4. WILMINGTON, Del. — A_ truck loaded with nitro-cellulose, 2 power- ful explosive, caused the death of four people and injuries to 21 when it rammed a car of picnickers here yesterday. ‘Three explosions followed the crash and six automobiles following the truck were set ablaze. One of the dead was burned al while state troopers watched, unable to approach because of the heat of the fire Explanations of why the explosive was being moved and its destination were not revealed by authorities. 8 8 Lindbergs Hop to Denmark. NEW YORK.—Reports here indi- cate that the Lindbergs may con- tinue their flight to Denmark by way of the Farce and Orkney Is- lands. It is considered probable, although definite reports have not come in, that they will fly to Lisbon and the | Azores before taking ship back to New York, ie ee Shoots Up World Fair. | CHICAGO.—A 36-inch tall midget | at the Worid’s Fair here threw an audience watching Rosalie, a dancer, into confusion when he shouted the dancer’s name and fired a pistol into | the air. | The little shooter, Elmer Spang- ler, refused to reveal why he had| fired the shot. . Repeal by November 8- WASHINGTON.—It is that prohibition will be voted out of the constitution by November & Twenty-two states have already | registered their protest against the law already and 15 more have set election dates for the repeal votes. Fourteen more states are needed for | repeal. No state has yet vo.ed in favor of the 18th amendment. —* sociation of Steel and Iron Work .—Both the bosses of the Bethlehem and Dorff here to try to break down Workers Industrial Union. L, represented the Amalgamated / ers. The Amalgamated made its first debut at Sparrows Point at the same location where the SMIWU held its meeting the previous week. Their first debut was a cold shoul- der from the steel workers of Sparrows Point. Even the Chief other Union had a bigger crowd.” The Baltimore Post-estimated the SMWIU crowd at 800, while the Baltimore Evening Sun estimated the Amalgamated crowd at 125. The composition was different too. At the SMWIU meet, there was 95 per cent honest-too goodness sin- cere workers and the rest something else, but at the Amalgamated meet- ing, the crowd was made up of Bethlehem Steel reps, bosses, small foremen and other officials with just a few workers attending. Sause and Dorff spouted off about getting organized to enjoy the benefits of the steel code and backing up the President in the NRA “endeavor to bring back to strikes or mak- ing any kind of trouble. The com- pany suporters had smiles on their faces from ear to ear when they heard this. Workers in the crowd put some embarrasing questions to the speakers. They asked why the A. F. of L. Convention in 1931 went on record against unemployment insurance. They asked why the Amalgamated went on record in July 1932, for a cut of 15 per cent in steel wages. When the speakers evaded such questions as why did the Amalgamated lower wages in the Western Sheet and Tin Plate Manufacturing mills, and why did they send scabs to the Warren Trumbull Mills, the workers left in, disgust. Members of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, with headquarters at 3727 Eastern Ave., Baltimore, Md., were among those who asked some of the embaras- |sing auestions of the A. F. of L. | fakers. probable | Contribute to the Daily Worker Sustzining Fund! Help to keep up the 6-prge “Daily”! Tell your friends about the new 6-page “Daily.” Jobless | Seamen Support Strike on 8. S. Di By PAUL CLINE BALTIMORE, Md, August 21, — After 24 hours of strike, the steam aboard, and even the dynamos are down. The entire crew, compris- ing the deck hands, the engine and steward departments, are maintain- ing vigilant picket lines at all danger points for the shipment of scabs. Desperate efforts are being made by the company and the crimps to herd some scabs, but so far they have been unable to muster a single man. The unemployed seamen, who are giving remarkable support to the strike, are covering the waterfront like a blanket, keeping a sharp eye out for every suspicious move, hether frem taxis, crimp join’ launches or tugs. They are deter- mined that not a strike-breaker shall leave the shore for the struck Dia- Cement. a i Friday night a militant open-air rome Dies 2-12 POOREEN |! meeting was held in front of the it Phone: Dickens 6-5369.. Anchorage, and by mem- Yor ional Workers Orger {| bers of the striking crew and leaders of the union, Practically every one of the 300 unemployed seamen on the beach was present at this lon aiag) : . LICENSE NOTICES | the strike. An effort by a crimp / shite bidbcnin 4 the meeting was NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that ‘license be Ae oe eee poy coe en Undersighed to aell beer and wine'at retaty|getting a trimming, H. Baxter was ler Section 75 of the Alcoholic Beverage| Chairman of the meeting. Norman ship's crew spoke, pointing out the correct tactics of the Marine Work- Picket All Night and, Prevent All Efforts to Recruit Scabs; Whole Waterfront in Baltimore Covered With Leaflets ers Industrial Union and appealing to all the men to join it and support the strike. J. Lambert, of the Union, active in organizing the strike, spoke. | Al. Lannon, port organizer, in point- ing out the main lessons and signifi- cance of the strike, appealed for the spreading of the strike, and for sup- port of the marine delegations going to Washington on Monday from all the Atlantic ports for the hearing on the Marine Code. Picketing All Friday Night | -All Friday night the strike pickets, | reinforced by union members and unemployed seamen, patrolled the- waterfront, particularly the docks off Canton, the danger point for the shipment of scabs. All crimp agen- cies were also covered. Hot coffee and sandwiches were supplied the pickets in the hall of the M. W. I. U. at 1629 ‘Thames Street. ‘The waterfront is being constantly covered with leaflets and bulletins giving hourly news of strike devel- opments, The bulletins are being eagerly taken by the men. The strike js the topic of discussion all along the waterfront wherever two or more seamen gather. Men with strike signs are walking the main section of the waterfront. Special distributions are being made aboard all ships lying in the Baltimore harbor and among the longshoremen on the docks. Efforts they went on strike, saying they had “When we saw the shipowners bring- ing in the police to club and arrest are being made to pull the men on|u several other ships in sympathetic, was to defend our interests by drop- action and for definite immediate demands of their own. ‘The company showed definite signs of weakening at 5 o'clock yesterday, when they sent Captain Kjeldsen down to the union hall to state that the company was willing to grant the main demand—for a $10 a month increase—but that it was not willing to rehire the same crew. This pro- posal was turned down flat by the strikers. Jack Lambert, speaking for the crew and the union, told the cap- tain: “First we demand that the four arrested men be immediately released. Second, that all the men who went out on strike be rehired without any discrimination at all.” The captain hedged around and practically stated | that he would take back most of the | men— with the exception of those arrested, Lambert then told him, in the presence of many of the strikers: “You'll either have to take back the same crew, including the arrested | men—or you won't get a man for her in Baltimore. We'll keep her tied up until she rots.” ‘APTAIN KJELDSEN then com- plained about the fact that the men had dropped both anchors when no right to do this. He was told: us, then the only thing we saw to do amond Cement e ping the anchors to tie the boat down,” After the captain beat it, the com- pany sent a shipping crimp, a cock- roach store owner named Hamburger, to negotiate with the union. Ham- burger wanted a talk on the “quiet with a representative of the union” (evidently he figured he was dealing with the strike-breaking I. S. U.), but this was refused. He was told that he would either talk with the strike committee or not at all, Latest re- ports are that Hamburger is trying to line up scabs. The union has sent a committee to warn him that if he doesn’t quit his strikebreaking activ- ity, his joint will be picketed and a leaflet exposing him will be spread| all over the waterfront. Probably this will make the scabby crimp, Ham- burger, curl up like the rat he is, At the time of writing, there are reports that the company is trying to line up a scab crew. either in| Philly or Norfolk. The M. W. I. U. locals in these cities have been wired to get busy to prevent this. A meet- ing of the strike committee with the shipping commissioner is scheduled for 11 a.m. Another big strike meet~ ing is scheduled for tonight at the foot of Broadway on Thames Street. ‘Yesterday afternoon a commttee of strikers addressed the Bakers’ A. F. of L. local, No. 209, for the support of the strike. The bakers pledged their solid support and backed it up with a $15 immediate cash donation and a pledge to provide all the bread needed as long as the strike lasted. The four arrested seamen are still being held in jail on charges of. dis- orderly conduct. The I. L. D, is | tending. Yesterday the miners at the of Police told someone “why that | prosperity.” Sause also added that | i 300 Picket in Answer to Bosses’ _ Attempt to Break Wickwire Strike More Utah Miners Walk Out; Machine Shop Men HELPER, Utah, Aug. 21—The coal strike here under the leadership of the National Miners Union is ex- National mine voted to join the strike when the company refused their de- mands. There will be strike votes today at Sweets and Cor ers Mm Twelve hundred workers were on the Picket line at the Spring Canyon mine yesterday. Cat off Relief All relief is to be cut off from the unemployed workers of C; | County. by orders of the state r | director, Henckley, “becaus®? many of | the residents of the county are mem- |bers of the National Miners Union |and ‘anti-government’” State relief officials declare that the relief will be cut off “until the N. M. U. is ousted from Carbon County. State officials declare this }is-taken because thr | County Miner and {the National Miners Uni wized the NRA and the pres This move is intended to split lranks of the miners and to create sentiment among the unemployed against the Union. More than two thousand people in Carbon County depend upon relief |for their existence. These savage attacks on the Na- tional Miners Union by the combined ne | forces of the UMWA, Sheriff Bliss of | s | Carbon County, U. 8S. immigration lofficers and the relief administration, |together with other state forces, fol- \lows immediately after the second trike se d tual Coal iply with all demand ng the the comp County rn intensifying t ay di the st: ighout the Utah coal fields. The Mutual miners also won a check- weighman, recognition of NMU com- mittee, pay for drivers by company nt of miners to : the large e miners have pr ands to the compe preparing for strike if these are refused, Demands will sented in other mines im- dema. also be p | mediately. ‘Hard Coal tine ‘Told to Go to Work ‘With NRA Promises Continue to Fight for Demands ALLENTOWN, ., Aug. 21.—Local | political fakers, mobilized the Federal administrators of the NRA and the | state labor department to get 15,000 Janthracite miners back to w The strike movement originally started among employe? miners of mining of surface coal which reduces the Lehigh Coal Co. against the the number of men employed. The Lehigh Co. has eight mines of which four are working bank coal, later involved employed jand unomployed miners of Hazelton, [in the Coaldale section. The local reliet man, in order to |take the miners off relief |supported equal division cf wor The miners figured out that equa! 1 days a month for all who classify at present as employed and unemployed. That would take them off the relief rolls though their earnings would not be any higher than their present re- Nef payments. The local situation would get out of hand and called in the NRA officials. Over 15,000 miners were called to a meeting on Sunday. No vote was taken and the miners protested. They refused to give the floor to a miner named Ovesik. A delegation ef miners is going to present their demands to Governor |Pinehot. The demands are $6 a dey; |@-guaranteed amount of work each week, unemployment insurance at the expense of the bosses and the gov- ernment and immediate relief. A. mass. meeting is velng prepared by the miners, An emergency dis- trict conference has been called for | Thursday at 10 a. m, at Shenan- ‘doah, Moose Hall, ere a program of action will b2 developed Munson Line Forced toGrant Demand for NEW YORK—The day after 17 men had walked off the Pan Amer- ican Munson Line, refusing to carry 300 pound sacks of wet co- coa and ground up bones on their backs, twenty more struck on the |saie demand—trucks to handle the heavy and awkward cargo. - Most of the men had bruised and battered shoulders from the sacks of “bone meal” which cut into their skin. One man collapsed. The walk- they demanded, but not till after a meeting held at the dock by the Ma- | rine Workers Industrial Union had shown that all the longshorémen on the dock (about 500) were in fa- vor of forcing the company to put on® trucks. When the meeting started at 7 am, the company tried to break it up by “shaping up” at 7:20, in. stead of the regular time: 7:55. The longshoremen refused to be dragged away, and stayed at the meeting till the regular shape-up. They got the trucks. Police. Disperse Civil Service Jobless Crowd Fooled by Job Rumor NEW YORK.—Rumors to the effect that the City Civil Service Commis- sion was going to distribute 18,000 Jobs brought a crowd of several hun- dred job hungry workers to the Mu- nicipal Building Saturday. But James McMahon clerk in the commission announced there was no reason for the rumor, because the city wasn't going to do any hiring. Police working to bail them ou dispersed the waiting m _ division of work means four to six | misieaders feared the | Trucks to Dockers off of the men brought the trucks | Police Chief OK’s ARL. Leaflets for FordWorkersinN.J But Men Say They Will! But Chases Away Auto| | Workers Union Men; He Tells Why HACKENSACK, N. J., Aug. 21— Chief of Police Frank Joret of Edge- water knows what sort of leaflets i | Henry Ford wants his workers to| read. And they are not the leaflets of the Auto Workers Union. | Tod the New Jersey State Fed- leration of Labor ha distribute leaflets to t at the Ford i chief of he 2,000 worker the plant hat these leaflets are in , very clos? to the Ford eecord with Roosevelt's R urged the | Ford employees to join the Auto Workers Union, whose headquarters cause no permit was asked for.” The leaflets, which Chief of Police Joret permitted to be dist | were signed William G lof L. pr d Front secretary of the A. F. of L. | ‘The scab-herding chief thought everything was all right when he saw | the Federation seal. Industrial Union | Wins Food Strike; Gver 200 Involved '$18.00 Week Minimum Wage,45c. forOvertime Union Recognized leadership of the Food Wo dustrial Ynion, and was supported by the Marine Workers Industrial Union. Most of the strikers are Negro workers. The demands granted were 37! cents per hour, with a minimum of $18 a week, and 45 cents an hour for overtime; helpers, 3114 cents per hour, and a guaranteed minimum of $15 a week. Full recognition of the produce sec- tion of the Food Workers Industrial Union was given. The strike began Aug. 18 when a Negro truck driver. was fired because he refused to rush- his work. His helper walked out with him. They | were followed by 30 workers, and finally by 200. Many were arrested |during the strike? |Crane Co, Dicks Beat WorkerWithGun; 5000 Leaflets Handed Out CHICAGO, Aug. 21—Four thousand leaflets were distributed to the work- ers at the Crane Company factory at Kedzie and Forty-first Streets this afternoon. These called on the men to join the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, already formed in the Crane shops and having head- quarters at 4231 Archer Avenue. The usual company thugs were on guard, Six of them attacked four, distributors across the street from the Forty-second Street gate, slinging their blackjacks right and left on shoulders and heads. One heavy bull, fighter, the most hated of Crane de- tectives, smashed the butt of his re- volver into an unemplo; worker's face, In the scuffle that ensued a Plate-glass_ store window was smashed, The injured man, Comrade Tomarsic, was taken to a doctor with a nasty scalp wound. * Three other distributors, Comrades Glenn, Witt and MacDonald, were arrested by city nalice called in by the company are at 264 15th Avenue, Newark, be~- | , of the steel trust. known as “Frenchy,” a former prize- | Join Strike; Vote for Mass Picketing Strikers Are Ready to Negotiate on Their Demands Y Aug. 21. A ket Jine of 300 strikers and many mpathizers at 5:30 this morning wa answer to the attempt of Vice-President Macklin of the Wick- wire-Spencer Steel Co. to break ‘the ranks. On urday a personal letter was directed to each striker promising “a “square deal” if they return to work as individuals. Information was given to the com- pany from the picket lines that the strikers’ committee is ready to. meet presentatives on the basis of wage demands already presented, with no discrimination against strikers. The machine shop department, hitherto not involved, came out this The police chief told’ the strike chairman that he wanted the pickets to go away’ and leave only six men in front of the plant. The chairman told him he,thought the s wanted to stay, but would a vote. a short meeting a unanimous BUFFALO, N At vote was taken for all to stay. They stayed Final mobilization of the picket line | took place on Sunday at a picnic a few miles from the plant. The gath- ering was remarkable for the large number of Negro men and women present, although few are actually involved in the strike Short speeches were made by han Felt, district organizer of the rade Union Unity League; Hunter, Negro member of the strike commit- tee; a Hungarian speaker, a Negra fraternal’ society speaker, and Bill Dunne. 1,000 So. Chicago | Steel Workers at Meet Near Plant | Many Negro Workers | Come to New Union Headquarters SOUTH CHICAGO, Ml, Aug. 21.— | Over a thousand workers gathered at 84th and Brandon Avenue, near the South Chicago mills of the Mlinois teel Co., a subsidiary of the U, 8. Steel Corporation, to listen to speak- ers of the Stee] and Metal Workers Industrial Union. | Agents of the Morgan-controlled company and police officials tried to interrupt the meeting, but the steel | workers applauded wildly when the code unicn speakers exposed the slave ter at 3064 East 92nd Street, andthe increased number of meetings held | has given new life to the workers in | their organizational efforts. | Many street meetings are being | held in all sections of South Chicago. |Many Negro workers attend the | meetings. Negro workers’ flock into the union office and ask questions about organ- ization and what the aims of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial | Union are. Walk Out on A. F.L. Speaker in Dayton DAYTON, Ohio—The A. F. of L od ip called the rank and file members of the Dayton Malleable Casting Co. to a mass meeting to organize them in the Molders and | Core Makers Union. In this plant there are many Negro and foreign- born workers. This is the first time in Dayton that the A. F. of L. called om | Negro workers in any of the big shops | to organize in any ef their unions. The workers in the Dayton | able Casting Co. get from 20 \t 30 cents an hour for skilled such as molders and core makers. | Just before the workers went in the hall, a field Trade Union Unity League organizer handed out 50 leaf- lets that explained to the workers what the A. F. of L. meant with these demagogic speeches in blinding the workers and their sell-out tactics. When one of these speakers got up and asked for workers to join their union, one of the Negro workers brought a leaflet up to the chairman | and asked the chairman to read it te the rest of the workers. The chair- | man tore the leafiet into a hundred pieces. He said, “Those leaflets tell me there are enemies and traitors | against the leaders of the A. F. of L. jin the hall.” One worker asked for the floor, and | the chairman, wanting to cover up the bum play he made with the T. U, | U. L, leaflet, gave him permission, He not only read the leaflet in the English language, but translated the | leaflet into the Hungarian 5 |. The meeting broke up in a riot of | hand-clapping and stamping of feet. | The A. F. of L. did not get » single worker to join their union or one worker to sign an application card. | UNEMPLOYED LEADERS BEA’ OKLAHOMA CITY.—Robert Glad- nick and William Williamson, leaders | of the unemployed here, were arrested. | and beaten by leather belts by local police for leading a strike of R. F, ©, workers here. 4 This action has aroused local work-* ers, who are demanding the arrest and prosecution of those guilty of the | assault. Williams has stated that he, | can identify the attacka ; ss 5d