The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1933, Page 3

D. AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1938 Page Three Browder to Speak At Mass Rally in Cleveland Square Will Mark Opening of Cleveland United Front Trade Union Conference on August 25; Meet in Engineer’s Auditorium CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 22—A mass rally in Public Square here this Friday night, August 25th, with Earl Browder speaking on the NRA, will mark one of the high peaks of activity for mobilizing the attention of the s working class of this city to.the Trade Union Conference for United Action which opens on the following day in the Engineer’s Auditorium, corner Ontario St., and St. Claire Ave. © Already it is apparent that the| Leaders Will Speak at Send-Off to Union Conference has gripped the interest and confidence of the workers in this Conference Delegates entire state as no similar conference has done heretofore. ‘Two carloads of delegates will come from the Powhatan, Piney Fork and] _ NEW YORK—Earl Browder, A. J. Muste, Jack Stachel and F, E. Stuart mines in East Ohio. In Youngstown delegates have been| Brown of Typographical Union No. elected by workers in the Youngstown | 6, Ben Gold, and James W. Ford will be among the principal speak- ers at a send-off mass meeting in Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, Wednesday, Aug. 23, at 8 Sheet & Tube, and in the Republic) ‘Works. | Workers in the rubber plants in} U.S. Backs Cuba’s New President U. S. Ambassador Welles shakes hands with Cuba’s new president, Akron, in various industries located | within Cleveland, Erie and in other Ohio industrial towns, will be amply | represented at the Conference. Un-| employed organizations in Akron are | sending delegates from the forced Jabor camps and from the Salvation | Army Soup Kitchen. ° | ‘The Arrangements Committee an-/ nounced today through its Secretary | Louis Weinstock a report from Pro- vidence, R. I. to the effect that al regional textile conference held in Providence, August 18th, for the pur-| pose of electing delegates to the Cleveland Conference was the broad- est of its kind held. Workers from the following cities were represented: Lawrence, Mass.; Salem, Mass.; New Bedford, Central Falis, Pawtucket, Providence. Three newly organized mills, Colored Worsted, American Silk Spinning, International Braid as well 25 the independent organization of | Sheeting Workers had representa-| p.m., for the New York delegation to the Trade Union Conference for United Action, which opens in Cleveland on Aug. 26. All New York delegates are called upon to report on the platform at Irving Plaza Wednesday night to receive final instructions as to the hour and place for meeting the buses specially chartered for the trip to Cleveland. ference in Providence condemns the NRA, and pledges support to the workers’ own textile codes demanding a cotton, wool minimum wage of $18 a week, $720 a year; silk minimum wages from $18 to $44 for the various crafts; no more than 40 hours work per week, no less than 30 hours @ week, no less than 30 weeks work per | year; 40 per cent cut in speed and | machinery; proper sanitary and health conditions; Federal unemploy- De Cespedes. With the handshake came four warships, Wall Street's O. K. to the new ruze and the American recommendation that other governments recognize the new regime. ‘Why We Went on Strike at the Equitable Paper Co.’ gangsters to identify the men. When it should have been the! other way | around. After that the bosses suc- | ceeded in breaking up the strike and 30 of the strikers lost their jobs. After that the bosses kept on pro- | ES) mising to give back their wage cuts | BROOKLYN, N. Y—The workers.| on the NRA, but hasn’t done so yet. | in the Equitable Paper Bag Com-| They are working a double shift and | stocking up goods so that when (By a Worker Correspondent) (Editor's Note:—The following is a summary of the strike at the Equitable Paper Bag Company which was lost. It was written by one of the strikers). pany, at 314 Scholes Stzeet are most- | War in the Rain. CAMP DIX, N. J.—U, 8. troops in maneuvers repelling an imaginary invader called “Reds”, were inundated by the heavy rain which fell here the past few days. The only difference between this stimulated warfare and actual combat was that the officers got the worst of the rain. The pri- vates were sheltered by parked army | trucks and buildings, while the of- ficers were knee-deep in the mud. Labor Dept. Books Audited TRENTON, N. J.—Following charges that workmen’s compensation funds were being misappropriated, Walter Darby, State Auditor, is'today exam- ining the books of the State Labor Department. ‘The charge of misappropriation was made by an investigator in the serv- | ice of the department. } *o. Army Shake-Up. WASHINGTON.—To speed up the Roosevelt policy of bigger army ap- proprietions and vaster preparations for war, the War Department yester- | day announced a shake-up of the/ personnel. | Seeven generals were transferred to different posts in the shift, Among | these was Major-General Hagood | |who has criticized the organization | |of the army and made suggestions for more murderous efficiency. Lehman Maintains | 12 Hour Day for | StateKmployees Refuses to “Consider | Proposal to Reduce Working Day | ALBANY, Aug. 20.—Soon after the | announcement was made that Gov- | ernor Lehmen was considered the | leading representative of the NRA administration machinery in New York State, it was disclosed that he turned down all proposals to reduce { ment insurance at the expense of the tives. employers and government. A resolution adopted at the Con-; Workers of Debs’ Home Town Are Leary of NRA Ballyhoo “Anything That’s Headed By the Chamber of Commerce Is Always Agin’ the Working Class,” Says One After Meeting TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—In this home town of Gene Debs, the first in a proposed series of N.R.A. rallies was held Saturday following a month of extensive preparations, fostered by the local chamber of commerce in which practically every fraternal, civic, political and church organization repre- sentative of dying capitalism participated, in a united but vain attempt to bolster up the waning faith of the broad masses. Following an elaborate parade of floats and blaring brass bands, the | meeting assembled in Steeg Park, | popularly known locally as “Red | Square,” where a truck serving as an | improvised rostrum with a micro- phone and amplifiers awaited the speaker of the evening. The speaking got away to a typical NRA start, with the opening and em- phatic remarks of the chairman, “This is not a labor meeting” added by a patriotic appeal for co-operation of the starving workers for success, “or you shall suffer worse consequen- ces,” declaring that in this great bat- te for moral victory, and in the usual hypocritical manner that “There will be no class distinctions,” again urging co-operation of the workers with the bosses in a united struggle against the common enemy of capitalism de- pression. W. Rex Bell, emissary of the ‘pres- ent capitalist regime and prinicipal speaker of the evening enumerated the causes and effects of the depres- sion, expressing great consternation not about the deplorable plight of the starving and underpaid workers, but over the resultant decline in profits, the system of which he is an intricate part. He stressed the necessity of patience on the part of the suffering masses at this crucial time, urging refusal to buy from NRA slackers, in his words not a boycott, although it has the earmarks of exact duplication, la- menting over the financial sacrifices of the bosses in this great enterprise, again evading the rise in the cost of living, wage cuts, share-the-work, etc., schemes by which the worker is forced to pay the big bankers, under the guise of recovery. The interest of approximately two was at low ebb, and thing that’s headed by the Chamber ot Commerce is always agin’ the workin’ class, ain’t it always been?” all agreed. CULTURAL SWWERAL GOOD APARTMENTS wain to White G@otion. Tel. Estabrook 8-1400—1401 ‘Forward’ Supports _ New Racketeering Iron, Bronze Local (By an Iron Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—On Sunday, Aug. 13, a statement appeared in the Jewish “Daily Forward” about a mass meet- ing of iron and bronze workers held Tuesday, August 8th at the Rand School. According to the Forward statement, the mass meeting was called by Local 52 and over 600 iron and bronze workers were present. Every iron and bronze worker who was present at this meeting snows that this statement is false. First of all, there were only about 200 workers present. The second lie of the statement is that the meeting was called by Local 52. Local 52 was expelled from the International for ousting one of the corrupt Interna- tional officials. Local 52 is carrying on a campaign at present to organize the inside and outside iron and bronze workers into one solid union which is against the splitting policies of the International. This statement is made to confuse and to fool the iron and bronze workers and to make somebody be- lieve that there are no grievances against the international officials, One thing the statement does not mention is that a number of iron and bronze workers were not allowed to enter the hall. All the speeches de- livered by the speakers were a barrage of slander and mud-throwing According to remarks made by many outside the hall, there is no doubt that the misleaders will not be able to carry the bluff very far. On Saturday the Daily Worker has 8 pages, Increase your bundle order Workers Cooperative Colony 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST (OPPOSITE. BRONX PARK) has now REDUCED THE RENT ON THE APARTMENTS AND SINGLE ROOMS ‘Road. Stop at Allerton Avenue| Friday & Saturday De SACRTTEN NT for Saturday! ACTIVITIES Mindergerden; Cinsses for Adults and Children: G: pie 3 Library; Gymnasium; NO INVESTMENTS REQUIRED & SINGLE ROOMS AVAILABLE ‘Take Advantage of the Opportunity. Office open Gatly 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. 9 a.m, to 5 p.m. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m, Sanday ly young men and girls. In this shop there are various departments— printing department, machine oper- ators, which are girls, machine ten- ders, packers, etc., etc. | ‘The Printing Department has only two or three days work a week for the average worker. But they must come in every day to see if there is | any work. | The operators, who are girls, used to turn out 125,000 bags a day in time of prosperity and got paid from $25 to $30 a week. Now they turn out twice as much and get from $10 to $11 a week. The men used to get $30 to $40 a week. Now the average man gets $12 to $17 a week. And the hours are 50% a week for the girls and 60 hours for the men. If a worker comes in only a from his pay and 25 cents each day after the first day. The bosses started to cut the pay in January, 1930. And again kept on cutting the pay regularly. And just before Mr. Rosenfeld, one of the our salaries again from 10 per cent to 2% per cent. And three weeks | later he sent a telegram cutting our | wages again 10 per cent. So the workers elected a committee to speak to the bosses about getting our last cut back. } So we had to go to the Union | and ask for help. The Union advised us to organize and fight wage cuts. When the boss heard of that he put out-signs over the factory to give him two weeks time and he will give back our last wage cut. We waited four weeks and his answer was that he would not give us a broken collar button. ‘Then we were forced to organize to | protect ourselves. The bosses tried | to disorganize us by offering us free beer and pretzels, When the boss} called the police to fire a man be- cause he dared to organize we were forced to strike at once. The first day of the strike the bosses started to terrorize us with police and hired gangsters. They did everything possible to break up the strike, but couldn’t succeed. During the strike three men were stabbed and 28 strikers were arrested few minutes late 10 cents is deducted | bosses, left for a vacation, he cut | as witnesses. The police picked out four of the strikers and asked the higher prices come they can cash in on it. That will mean more men the twelve hour working day of the state employees. Lehman said he had not time to |consider the matter, and referred it |to the next legislative session. Kentucky Matrons Protest Shirtless Laborers on Highway | LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Blushing ma- trons here will no longer be horri- fied at the sight of laborers work- ing without shirts on the highway. Protests against the sight of hot, sweaty bodies of semi-starved men working at backbreaking toil came to the State Highway Commission. The society women objected to the cisplay of “nudity” as they drove their automobiles along the high- way. Now the workers must wear shirts. And the cost of the shirts will come out of the 15 cents an hour they earn, Ben Johnson, head of the high- way commission, was shocked when he learned the workers were im- modestly displaying their backs. He wrote to his road boss: “If there be any who would persist in im- modesty they should be released from service.” In the same letter, Mr. Johnson wrote that he is very anxious to put his workers under an NRA code, so that he “can” operate with the President of the United States.” ‘TRY TO FRAME UP. WRIGHT IN AKRON Stool Pigeon Tells Conflicting Tale AKRON, Ohio—William ‘Wright, | chairman of the Unemployed Coun- | cil, was arrested after Robert L. Al- Jen, who is known as a shady charac- ter, accused Communists of beating him up. Allen, who claims to come from Long Beach, California, was found bruised and taken to the city hospital. The stool pigeon first told deputies that he sold his car in Can- ton and four men who had seen him collect the money gave him a ride back home. On the way he was beaten and robbed. When the depu- ties offered to take him to Canton, | he changed his story. He then re-| lated a tale of having been forced | | into a car and taken to a basement) | blindfolded. When he arrived, the | occupants of the car told him they| were Communists and began beating him with a rubber hose. | Even hospital authorities, who ad- mit that his injuries are not serious, are aiding in the frame-up. They can’t make their minds up whether he has a broken or dislocated shoul- der, a swollen jaw or whether the | stripes on his back are caused by a | beating. The Communist Party here con- demns the frame-up againts Wright | and characterizes as “ridiculots” the crude frame-up by the sheriff,” who jis using the “miserable creature Al- | len” to attack workers’ organizations | | here. | Help improve the “Daily Worker.” | | send in your suggestions and criticism! | | Let us know what the workers in | your shop think about the “Dally.” 105 Steel Union Delegates Map F ight on Trust’s Code Utah Coal Strike Spreads; 4 Large | Mines Are Tied Up. UMW Members Reject! Leaders’ Plan to Attack Pickets HELPER, Utah, Aug. 22—The| strike of the coal miners here is spreading. The Sweets and Con-| sumers miners went out on strike yes- terday, making a total of four large mines now closed. Mass picketing continues. There is complete solidarity between em-| ployed and unemployed in the strug- gle, hundreds of unemployed miners marching on the picket lines. Many members of the United Mine Workers of America are participating in the picketing despite the hostility of their leadership to the strike. Fonticchio, U.M.W.A. organizer, in a-‘statement denounces the strike, and says the purpose is: “To show Russia they are trying to overthrow the government here.” ‘The U.M.W.A. leaders’ proposal to the Standard miners, the largest U. M. W. A. local here, to attack the Spring Canyon picket line, was de-/| feated by 102 to 6, amid the great indignation of the rank and file and threats to strike to support the Spring Canyon miners and to foin the National Miners’ Union. Relief | for the striking miners is needed. Substitute Postal Workers Demand MorePay fromPres. Expose NRA Banner}, on N. Y. Post Office NEW YORK.—A telegram was sent to President Roosevelt last week by the National Association | of Substitute Post Office Employ- ees with reference to the NRA} banner posted on Saturday, Aug. | 12th in front of the General Post) Office in New York City. The Association, speaking for | | 25,000 P. O. employees, asked the President that the Administration, | in conformity with the NRA slogan, | “WE DO OUR PART,” raise the wages of the substitute P. 0. em- ployees who are now averaging $6 per week. The employees’ association claims that the NRA sign in front of the General Post Office misrepresents the condition of the substitute P. O. employees, because their earn- ings are far below the NRA wage requirements. Recently hundreds of substitutes in Philadelphia and New York marched to the local relief bodies requesting that their needy mem- bers be granted relief. Many of these relief cases have been turned down because, the re- lief heads claimed, they are govern- ment employees. The Association also sent a re- quest to Gen. Johnson, reqesting that the administration sign a code assuring the substitute P. 0. em- ployees a decent standard of living. The following telegram was sent to the President. “Postmaster General Farley un- | furled NRA banner on August 12) from General Post Office New York | city Stop Do you intend to in | $6 weekly wages of sub: postal employees in conformity w: the statement “We Do Our Part. There Are No Figures and {We Don’t Need Any, Says Johnson By I. AMTER Y hie purpose of the National Recov- ery Act, they tell us, is to put the millions of unemployed back to work, to raise wages and to raise prices. As to the millions who are “going back to work,” this is all poppycock. General Johnson himself admits that) there are no records, and they “don’t need any. Anybody knows that the workers are -returning.” But this is untrue—to say the least. In Youngstown, a blast furnace hes closed down at the Republic mill and 200 workers were laid off. The capi- talist papers state in one column that “steel production remains un- changed,” and in the other “steel production tapers off.” It is one or the other—and not both. The capi- talist papers of Youngstown declared that production stood at 64 per cent last week and now is close to 50 per cent. That does not mean “un- but decreasing—and the Furthermore, increased or sustained) production does not mean that more workers are working. In the Brier Mill plant of the Republic Steel and Tron, in Youngstown, a worker used turn out 90,000 pleces—now he is forced to produce 160,000 pieces. “If we turn out less than 130,000, they tell us they cannot use us.” More the Ne 3s interesting is the report in lew York Times of July 23rd, which stated that it had been hoped that 50,000 new textile workers would be put on in the South as a result of the cotton code. But whe) were the facts? Just the opposite. In Vir- Where Are Millions of NR A Jobs Roose ginia, they put on a few workers. But the New York Times stated: “virginia is not a textile state. The Carolinas are. In South Carolina there are more spindles in place than in any other state of the union. In North Carolina more spindles are in operation than in any other state. These states are not putting on any workers.” (Emphasis ours.) . non-union coal operators de- clare that they will not hire any new men, But the purpose of the recovery act was supposedly to return the unemployed to employment! There are even more shameless as- pects that must be noted. The Libby, Owens and Ford Co., producers of the famous Libby cut glass, in To- ledo, employs 1,300 workers, On Fri- day, Aug. 11, the Libby Company put the blue eagle into its window. It announced in screaming stories in all the Toledo papers that beginning Monday, Aug. 14, the 1,300 workers would henceforth work only 6 hours @ day with 8 hours of pay. This was big-heartedness; This was real “get- ting behind the president and the recovery act.” But on Saturday, Aug. 12, they fired 600 workers! In Cleveland there is a small knit- ting mill, The wages were low, but the gene: , patriotic employer ac- cepted the code. He raised the pay —and then fired all the workers. He rehired part of the crew as appren- tices, whom he will keep for seven weeks, and then fire them; then he will hire a new crew of apprentices! In the Clark restaurants in Cleve- land the waitresses used to get $7 a week. Then they got a raise accord- ing to the code—but they have to pay for their food, uniforms, laundry, lockers, etc, so that their actual wages are lower than before the blue eagle went up in the Clark windows! At other restaurants, the same thing! Will the A. F. of L. help the work- ers in this situation? The A. F. of L. leadership is part of the govern- ment machinery to force the workers td accept the act and the various codes. Green is a member of the Na- tional Industrial Administration, Lewis and Hillman are members of the Advisory Board. In the towns, | cities and states, the government is setting up similar boards, to carry on a ballyhoo campaign and to enforce the code. Thus the A. F. of L. off- cialdom is pledged and sworn to force the workers to accept the provisions of the codes, whether the workers | agree to them or not. On the basis | of the ‘strike situation in Western Pennsylvania, Roosevelt established a “general principle” of compulsory ar- bitration. The local, state and na~- tional labor boards will hear all grievances. General Johnson has the final word. Will William Green, John Lewis, Mike Tighe, Sidney Hillman and the rest of the labor fakers lead the workers in struggle against the recovery act and the codes? They CANNOT—they WILL NOT. There- fore the workers have no hope of im- proving their conditons by mass power through the A. F. of L., which has given up the right to strike, eer tig example will make this clear. N A ‘The auto code calls for 41/sc an hour tn towns of less than 500,000 population. This applies to Toledo. At the Overland works, the workers have been put on this minimum scale. Some of the workers at the Over- Jand are not satisfied. ‘Through their lawyer they have written to Roose- velt, stating that they cannot live on 41%c an hour and demanding 60c minimum scale. Of course Roosevelt velt Promised? Fire Many When NRA| Codes Are Applied | in Many Plants 4144¢ and that is the LAW. Will the A.F, of L., which is trying to organ- jze the workers at the Overland, do anything, but talk? It will not. If the workers wish to strike against the | miserable conditions of the code, will the A. F. of L. help them? It will not, for it is sworn to uphold the code and to prevent strikes? ‘The situation is not improving but | steadily getting worse. The building) of the militant industrial unions un-| der rank end file control; the build- ing up of tho fighting Unemployed | | Counells and the uniting of them in) struggle AGAINST the NIR A; the|s drawing in of the fighting poor and small farmers, who are fecling the “beneficial” effects of the NIRA are of basic importance. In this sense, the Trade Union Con-| ference in Cleveland on Aug. 26-27 is of vital significance, The purpose of this conference is for the mobilization of all forces in the country for the} fight against the N I R A, for work- | ers’ rights, for the right to live!) Groups of workers in the steel, auto, | mining, rubber, railroad, textile, metal and_all other shops and mills must elect. their delegates to this confer- ence. The workers in the militant, independent and A. F. of L. unions must not fail to elect their delegates. The A. F. of L. officials will oppose it. You must fight for it and elect your delegates whether the officials agree or not. If you can not get the whole local, have the minority elect its delegates. On to Cleveland, Aug. 26! The will do nothing, for the code calls for battle is only starting! |Bond Laundry Strikers S. P. Refuses Support Wages Driven Down With Help of AFL; Prepare for Strike Negro Steel Workers Jim-Crowed by the A. F. of L. PITTSBURGH, Aug. 22. — The As Not “Bona Fide” NEW YORK.—The Socialist Party, at an open air meeting last Friday night at Tremont and Washington Avenues, refused to permit strikers of the Bond Laundry to use their stand for an appeal for support of their strikes Forming a uniizd front with | the bosses, Tammany and the the Socialist chairman decla the National Executive Co the Party permits Socialist: rert only “bona fide” labor Roosevelt slavery code was sharply and that only those of the A. F. of L.|condemned by 105 delegates to the were “bona fide.” conference of Lien ee ee viksen are atiliated W: dustrial Union of the ure] - Aap Ta cae ark tcotaripallt trict, just concluded here. As far as the workers were concerned, reports by the delegates showed, it meant ore wage cuts. The “collective bar- gaining” feature of the code was but an excuse, in many instances, of bos- ses and company gunmen working with A. F. of L. officials to stampede e workers into the treacherous company union. Although paper increases of 10 to ers that Socialists would nce to spreading news because “their tactics and policies are wrong.” told the strik Seamen Picket Ship in Rowboat As Scab Crew Mans Steamer | Union Mobilizes Men| | in New York, Philly | to Boyeott Ship | By R. B. HUDSON | BALTIMORE, Maryland, Aug. 22. The strike of the Diamond Cement, in the port of , which {3 | of historic impor industry, continues. of militant n, | seamen, officers, gshoremen and | unemployed, the ship barely crept jout of the port of Baltimore with a |scab crew of men. The Marine} | Workers Industrial Union is mobi-| lizing the seamen and longs en alter three on the part | of | 15 percent were granted, these were offset by a 25 to 50 percent increase n the cost of living in the company towns, In other instances the bosses have cut wages 80 percent to a dol- lar a day since the code went into effect. Over 1,500 steel workers have recently joined the S.M.W.LU. a meeting was opened by Pat Cush. He spoke on the conditions and struggles facing the steel work- ers, pointing out the past treachery of the A. F. of L. in the steel in- dustry and showed that only the S.M.W.LU. is fighting for the work- ers. The main report was made by John Meldon, National Secretary of the Union, who exposed the reactionary program of the NRA and contrasted it with the program and code drawn up by the S.W.LU., which he char- acterized as a “class program of struggle.” Pointing out the “Jim- demands ‘a to| Crow” policy of the American Fed- in New York and Philadel; y continue the strike in these ports|¢ration of Labor, which refused to for a boycott of the ship |crganize the Negro steel worker, the 5 besa oe: 91,| speaker and other delegates to. the ga 2 aA the | Conference, emphasized the essential in wages, | in wages, Jw committee pr for a $10 increase better food, recognition of the ship's} committee, and no discrimination.| ; The captain refused to consider the | Sn Of the es demands, quit work and| oo ca need for unity of all sections of the orking Class. Rapid preparations for a strike in chops was reported “Conditions are jarrest of four of th stayed on the ship, and with the arrival of the police to drive the| ;, crew off the ship, the crew dropped | both anchors and shut off the steam | —making sure the ship would not! leave the dock. When the crev officers came also sheremen came out soua Vv seamen. The longshoremen were members of the I.L.A. who gave full) support to the strike despite the | strikebreaking efforts of the local | officialdom. Picket in Rowboats Vithin a few minutes of declara- tion of the s there was a tre- mendous re: the part of| the unemployed seamen who mobi- | ized for mai picketting Mass | picketing went on all day and when the ship was taken out into the| stream, row boats were commandered | which kept up a constant picketing. The spirit cf t! y remained solid despite efforts it the the | long- e | | | tr Failing to recrwt scabs in Baiti- more, despite the fact that wages as high as $75 were offered, efforts were made by the shipowners to get strikebreakers in New York. The Seamens Church Institute shipped a crew of 21 men. When they were getting on the train a patrol of the| New York Branch of the MWIU threw them leaflets warning that a strike was cn. When this din Baltimore a cordon at the railroad staticn herded them into a bu: and | Despite | | this these men demanded and forced the police to allow a Union dele-| gate to speak to them and then voted to r to ship, even at an in wages. scab herding of to I t seaman smashed a window of the| joint. The Captain of the ship} finally came to the Union hall and | offered to grant the demends fcr in- crease in wages providing that would not have to hive the seme crew back. Recognizing that this was an atiempt to prevent organi gation the proposal was voted down by the crew and unemployed. On Sundey morning, only able to steam three knots, the ship got un- derway, with a skeieton scab crew of six. As she went down the harbor her. For the first time in 10 years a} su strike for higher wages in the marine ndustry hes taken place. The tre- mendeus response cf t all ports show that th the importance cf the opening ¢ to inérease wages. orsimen t the solidarity cf unemploy how the growing c2 of the M.W.LU. end the ness of the polic ‘The Neticnel calls upon all of intensify ‘heir work, nehes to ally to further develop the struggle isd vidl the 8.8. Diamond Cement. he | ja decdly speed-up rate. growing constantly worse and the eel workers are ready for a ‘mil- ant struggle,” said one delegate. The session closed with the adop- tion of resolutions protesting the re- cent Alabama lynchings, and demand- ing the release of the Scottsboro boys. A telegram was sent to Tom Mooney, the honorary chairman of the Union. Put Back Furniture After Eviction; Is Now Held for Trespassing it ELKHART, Ind—When the pdlice set out the furniture of a worker, the Ekhert Unemployed Council mob- ii 200 workers within two hours and put the furniture back in the house. The previous day the cowt | bailiff had promised a committee that the family would be allowed to stay in the house a few days mioré.~ ‘The following norning the evicted w was arrested for trespassing and his furniture taken to storage. The council forced the township trus- tee to secure another house for the evicted worker. It also got aid for a mother and four children who have been without food and shelter, ‘eceesntieactienipseaaniaabiaantin | Blue Eagle CutsWages on Los Angeles Jobs’ By a Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Cal.—The Owl Drug store, which flaunts a blue. eagie in its’ windows, cut down hours, added an extra worker, and then reduced the pay of all em. ployees to pay for the extra worker. + ‘he elevator men in a building on 4th and Spring, have been told that 7 sport workers, the — will be 48 hours in- £0. In a restaurant,, the workers, prior to NIRA, received $8 a week and free meals. Now they get $12 a week from which $5 is deducted « for m making an actual reduc.» tion in weges of $1 weekly. _ Thousands of workers here, sell- ing on commissions, are absolutely outside of the application of the re-- |duction of hours provided in the + |NRA; yet their firms, with limit clerks employed, are displaying th |blue eagle signs. Various “racket” organizations are selling‘ NRA blue-eagie signs the picket boat was still following | which are prominently displayed in These signs are “Con- signs playing up the blue- goism to fool workers into. ney are supporters of; windov thinking investigation reveals ~ he ay of the signs simply they are SELLING suppo- NRA prodvets. ~ Hollywood, a large bakery, rith over ernployees, dismissed ieny of them prior to the NRA, end then rehired them on an 8-hour' 40¢ an hour besis. The regular rs put in 11 hours daily for; nly $17 weekly, while the hour- eid shift do 6 days work in 5. at Tell your friends about the new 6-page “Daily.” PHILADELPHIA, PA, The Bosses Do Their | W Part to Put Over the | N.LR.A.:— | Maximum Hunger Wages; Stagger Plan; | Speed-up; High Living Cost; | Starvation Relief; | Company Unions; | Outlawing of Strikes; | War Preparations. | MAKE NO OTH! I He'p to Organize the Workers Unemployed Councils to figh for better conditions. AUGUST 26th ER ARRANGEMENTS. -BE A SHOCK BRIGADER erkers Do Your Part! nto T. U. U. L. Unions and PARTICIPATE IN THE, MASS TAG pw s and 27tl.. ANTI-NIRA CAMPAIG ‘COMMITTEE, 1225 Germantown Avenue,