The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 8, 1933, Page 3

Until May 1934, Says Relief Head Families in South-Get Less Than $5 a Month Aid WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—The uiumber of families on relief was cut ‘by 8.2 per cent in July in comparison with June, while the relief budget was sliced by 10.8 per cent, according to a report by Federal Emergency Relief Ambassador Harry L. Hop- kins. There were 267,607 families dropped during July. The adminis- trator pointing to this cut remarked that “the people in need are not liv- ing off the fat of the land through relief.” The federal, state and local gov- ernments spent $59,000,000 for relief in July, while in the previous month $66,000,000 was laid out. Decreases in relief were made in every state. In New York State alone the number was cut from 362,823 families in June to 349,434 in July. Starvation Relief Hopkins also discloses the figures showing the average amount.of re- lief distributed in various states. Ac- cording to the administrator a ‘stand- ard is set of not less than ten dol- jars a month for a family”to get along on. While this starvation minimum is set by him, the figures show that in the South the amount distributed is even lower, In Miss- issippi families averaged $3.96 a month, in South Carolina it reached $5.61, and in Texas $6.93. States with the highest figures are New York, $30.59 a month; Connecticut. aver- aged $20.85 and New Jersey, $19.86. With the rise in prices these so- called high figures are far from sat- isfying even the minimum needs of the families still on relief. After painting a dark picture of unemployment relief for the coming winter, Hopkins has only one sug- gestion—that is that relief will not be increased. He states that the 4) $500,000,000 voted by congress last ‘— Spring must hold out until May, 1934. Members of Roosevelt's adminis- tration are constantly forced to ad- mit an increase in suffering among the unemployed, but they are care- ful not to mention the promises for unemployment insurance made by the president during the election campaign. The federal government fears the movement for unemploy- ment insurance among large sections of the workers. BOSTON, MASS. Daily Worker CONFERENCE All Mass Organizations All Trade Unions All C. P. Units of Boston, Chelsea, Revere, Lynn, Peabody, Salem, Brockton, May- nard, Quincy, Norwood are called upon to send 2 delegates to a Mass Conference to initiate the Daily Worker Financial Drive at 10 BEACH STREET, BOSTON Sunday, Sept, 10th 10 A.M. Individuals are also invited, Retain the 6 and 8-Page “Daily”! DETROIT, MICH. Friends of the Soviet Union PICNIC Workers’ Camp, Halsted and Grand River SUNDAY, September 10° Feature Attractions: An Exhibi- tion Boxing Bout, Baseball Game, Relay Races, Singing, Dancing and Prizes . . Bus Transportation assured Gentlemen 5c Goep MUSIC No Federal Funds | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1933 Page Three } | | CHICAGO, ILL, Workers’ Voice SAT., Sept. 16, 7:30 P.M. AT PEOPLES AUDITORIUM 2457 West Chicago Avenue ADMISSION 25c Unemployed’ with Unemployed Council Card, 15c¢ CHICAGO, ILL. DANCE to be given by the STEEL AND METAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 4 Five Prizes will be given away free Saturday Night, September 9, 1933 at 9188 BALTIMORE AVENUE EVERYBODY WELCOME Jobless Relief Cut in All States; 267,6 NEWS BRIEFS One War-Maker Dies CHRISTON BANK, England. —| Viscount Grey, British Foreign Sec- retary in 1914, died yesterday at his| home here at the age of 71. He de- livered the ultimatum to Germany which opened the war between Ger- many and Great Britain. Bh eS Balloonists Unreported CHICAGO—Officials of the balloon | races awaited further reports yester- day before beginning a search for the two still unreported flyers who took part in the races. The two have been unreported since Saturday. he eae Dry Head All Wet NEW YORK.—Trial of Chester Mills, formerly prohibition adminis- trator of the New York District, on charges of conspiracy to violate the | | | prohibition laws, will be held on Sep- tember 15. 40,00 ON STRIKE IN SILK INDUSTRY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ing conflict between the silk mill owners and the rayon interests, be- tween the silk and cotton mill own- ers, and between the larger and smaller capitalist interests in the tex- tile industry, all greatly sharpened by the strike. ‘The suspicion with which silk workers begin to look upon the NRA and the union officials who have made this their gospel of salvation is shown by a letter published in this same paper and signed “Thirteen Dollar Experienced Weaver.” It says, in part: “Now the biggest steal of the cen- tury comes in. After the silk workers made the rayon business what it is today, the NRA gives the rayon busi- ness to the unorganized cotton peo- ple under the lowest wages of any manufacturing industry in the United States. “Does the NRA blame us for strik- ing? They took our living away from us...made a sweatshop out of our business... . Are our unions failures? We pay our union dues and fight our local bosses who are paying us better wages because we are or- ganized. . . . We go out on strike. ... ‘When the strike is over part of our work has disappeared to the unorgan- ized South... . Therefore it seems that our organizations are failures | because they make us take a loss while striking. But if we don’t strike, we will have to go down to the basis of the wages paid by the Chinese coolie system. Just enough food to live on above the starvation line, clothes which cover us but with none of the beauty we ourselves put in the cloth ...a roof over the heads of our families which offers shelter to keep the rain out... just living to work, without the joy of living.” Such statements show the spirit of the silk strikers. They show that not only, are silk workers thinking in terms’ of a national silk strike but are beginning to think in terms of a national textile strike with the or- ganization of the Southern section} of the industry as its main objective. It is little wonder that the bosses fre alarmed and that their press is trying to soothe the strikers by pre- tending to champion their cause against the NRA slave pact. Such expressions show that agita- tion for and development of rank and file leadership on a wide scale by the N.T.W.LU.—now based .in the most decisive section of the silk industry and with the possibility that 4,000 Lodi dye house workers will soon strike under its leadership—pressing forward among all sections of the strikers for a solid united front, will immensely and rapidly increase its influence, organization and power; will give to the silk and other textile workers the guarantee of a mighty industrial union controlled by them and meeting their needs and demands, for which such a mass clamor and struggle is arising that the capitalist press is forced to modify its rule of giving publicity only to the employ- ers’ side of working class struggles. In the course of this struggle the greatest attention must be paid to the organization of the militant rank and file in the U.T.W. and Associated Silk Workers, and to the winning over of the independent craft unions for the united front. The correct com- bination of the exposure of the N.R.A. and its official union supporters, and the most aggressive fight for unity, will defeat the McMahons and Kellers. District 8 Ladies 5c After the Overthrow of the Cuban Puppet Pr | Cuban sailors at Castillo de la Fuerza after they had helped to bring | about the fall of the puppet president, De Cespedes, just prior to the de- cision of the Roosevelt-Wall Street government to rush marines and war- nt, De Cespedes eside A ee | ships for the purpose of intervention. Photo also shows Sergeant Gon- zales who was elected to command after all officers had been thrown eut by the men. By HELEN KAY NEW YORK—“There is a certain magic in NRA that makes people want to do the right thing. ‘the prestige that NRA has built | up for itself convinces employers | as well as employes to do the sporty thing.” These, the words of Mrs. -Elinore Moorehouse Her- rick, irman of the local NRA mediation board, which handles with silk gloves the complaints of workers on low wages. | During the few weeks that the NRA complaint office has been open in the palatial offices of the Pennsylvania Hotel, over 5,000 letters have been filed by workers, | | coming in at the rate of over 200 a| day seeking help from long hours and little pay. | As I sat in the office of Mr. G. H. Vanderslice, in charge of the complaint department, where work- ers are first questioned before they are sent to the Board of Mediation, a young Spanish worker came in. derslice that he can not work -for $10 or even $12 a week. Mr. Vanderslice proceeded to phone his| ‘employer. “Won't you take this young man back to work. Even if the wages are low, he can start from the bottom and work up.” The young man could bear this Tears welled into his | | ino longer. leyes. “How can I take care of a |wife and a baby on $12 a week.! |The baby has to have milk, we've | got to pay rent. I can’t do it, I tell | you. I can’t work for that amount.” And in indignation he walked out of the office. “Such appreciation!” The office girl sneered. “ An employer walked into the of- fice. “Mr. Vanderslice, can I make a complaint against a union?” “Why, of course what is the; complaint?” “The A. F. of L. union with | which I deal sent in a worker who js a disrupter and agitator. I can’t | seem to be able to get rid of him.” “Make out the complaint against the agitator, and we'll see that it is taken care of. Glad to be able to; | help.”” Hundreds of letters, from hun- dreds of workers pile into the of- fices of the NRA complaint depart- ment every day, telling of longer hours and less wages, while their employers flaunt the blue buzzard. “We Do our Part.” One letter from a worker is typi- cal: “My dear Mr. Whalen, If an employer displays an NRA sign, and has signed the code for his in- dustry, must he live up to the code? Before NRA we were getting $18 a week and now we have been re- duced to $15 a week. I’m a family man with small children. How can I support them? The shop in which I work is the Metropolitan Metal Co., at 189th and Morris Avenue.” A worker from the Third Avenue Railroad writes in that he works four days a week, nine hours a day, and gets $12.40 for his labor. When he and his fellow workers complain the company informs them, that they are really not needed at all, but are being kept on for charity’s sake. A Foltis Fisher bus boy says that before NRA they were getting $12 a week and now they receive a wage of $12.12. Previously the workers were forced to pay $3 out of their pay for their meals. Now, they are not forced to do this but they gladly give away three dollars for their meals. A neatly typed slip is given to each employe by the company and it reads as follows: “Please deduct $3.00 from my pay envelope to reimburse you for the cost of my meals. Signed— AA A worker from Stewart’s Cafe- teria works six days a week, twelve hours day, for eleven dolla: “‘Aren’t we supposed to have a code which says that we are to work only nine hours a day, and get a mini- mum of $14 pay?” she asks of the NRA office. ° Further letters state: A National Re-Employment Service, at 124 E. 28th Street, worked one of the of- fice girls 50 hovrs a week, and fired her when she left the office at 12.45 on Saturday instead of He tried to convince Mr. Van-| pay for overtime work. The Olympia Garage, hours on alternate weeks. | the dishwasher gets $45. | days’ work. The John CLEVELAND, ©., Sept. clothing, medical and dental neers of America. an answer to these demands. Cleveland Children Demonstrate Monday | for Food, Clothing 1.—Aiter they are through with school on their first day of the new term, next Mon- day, children, together with their parents will go to Public Square. N. Y. Office of N. R.A. Flooded With Complaints by Workers | “Daily” Reporter Finds Over 5,000 Letters Have Arrived Scoring | Wage Cuts, Long Hours and Speed-Up Under “Codes” | tom MMs Bleecker Street, has five workers, working forty eight hours per week. A banking, and commission mer- chants house, Bachmann Emmerich |Ine., stationers and pr Company, gives their workers no Reade Street, have a 54 1-2 hou at 1366|4° much of the stationery printing Halsey, in Brooklyn, works their nightwatchman 72 hours, and 84) The Tilo Roofing Company, at 985 Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, pays forty cents an hour, but does not} pay for waiting, loading and tray-| Avenue, make their workers slave| and for 66 and 72 hours. At Max’s Res-| g2 1-2 hours a week taurant, at 22 West 31st St., the ,| waiter works 54 hours a week, and | gets $16 a month with meals, and The National Shoe Co., owned by Seigel and Freid, at 75 Reade Street work their workers 48 hours in four | days. and give them $9 for the four} Reber and Brothers, | wholesale bakery at 521 West 47th Street, work their workers fifty-, seven hours, and discharged one of | their employes and hired two other men at half pay to take his place- The Edison Fwek, dress manu-j facturers, work their workers over- care | for the children of the unemployed. 4 The parade and demonstration is! co splendidiy tht all labor to being organized by the Young Pio-/| are left for thin to swing A delegation | shape. which appeared before the Board of | doesn’t come around, the Education on August 2 was denied! might National Events Jersey Mooney Conference NEWARK, N. J—The New Jersey oney Council of Action an- | nounces th: state-wide Tom Moo- 3 ney Confe: will be held here time, and Sundays and holidays for, this Sun . 10, at 10 am.,, in no pay. n 3 of German Labor Ly- The Aetna Printing , located et 104 14th Ave. All izations which have not | | Company, inters, at 64| ma: ‘ates as yet are asked io, * | week; and pay from $6 to $8. They riation Dance Pa.—In the Antonio Beluzzi on to fascist Italy, the Eranch of the In- cher Defense will hold pper and Dance this Sept. 9 at 1208 Tas- Anti-D |for the NRA. | The F. W. Woolworth Company, work their girls for 46 1-2 and give them $11 pay. They Sacco- ; charged a girl because she told a! terneti | customer, that the NRA code had! a spegh i not been enforced. alin: ihe Garfield Cafeteria works Little Band will pro- | their employes 72 hours a week ft e admission price Salwen Clothes, Ine, clothing| six end a half days, ‘The Roadsida| 1s ton : manufacturers at 263 Seventh! Rest, a restaurant owned by Shor! Dats Hadfield, v; their men “Blue Buzzard” Talk , and split the a shift extending over a 12 hour age TeR ar eR a period, for eight dollars and meels.| 5 hist And right through the whole list oom of industries from theatres, cloth-| ¢, the Workers” st a jiers and furs, hats, hosiery shir y eyoning. Admission jand neciwear, knitwear, garaz “to th’s North Philadel- jneedles, and hotels, restauranis,| nnia WIR B-anch entersainment. and grocors, printers, and factories Passer i of every type and deser signed the code, “Th ‘on, have | have done, Dickop Brown in Chicago the sporty thing.’ They have even| CHICAGO, —Bishop Mont- lengthened the hours, and cut the somery Brown + i speak at the wa8es of the workers. | Weshington Park Forum in the fouth Sice of Chicago, under the After the complaints are sorted and divided into the various de-|@usplces of the Anti-Fascist Com- partmentz, end various-:investiga~| Mittee, this Sunday at 6 p. m. His tore, are sent out to investigate the miided beast asal the omplainant, the complaints ar: Vv orld, will nt to the Board of Mediztion, on cas of Nazi Je ish persecution and American Negro which “there are three representa- tives of the public, three employers, | nchins. ‘and three of the labor group.” And | then, even if a favoreble decision | to the worker is by a great deal of magie come to, the NRA office has} -4¢ pr “no power to enforce. Mediation,” | tne wir says Mrs. Herrick, “means only- to} poned t! . eat fi ieabl juet-| g about an amicable~-adjuet-| revence fr *. * W.LR. Conference Postponed al commitize organizing Los Angeles has post: e of the general con m September 7 to Satur- nber 9, at 2 P.M. The m “We might even report to Washington.” | “And then what are-ydu going) From there they will march to the!t go?” asked the Daily Worker | < z noes ne fain Aca reag reporter. “Well, the, prestige that 600 Str ke Against Where 2. ae Ade 2 NRA he it v. Stgelf con-|¢ 1 mre s save hon the board to demand free ooks, | NAP 5 built ep to the svory| Uay-Ofrs of Union Men school supplies, lunches, shoes and | ; cf age, ledor} . 6—A strike wes called at is here pro iccrimination ag The mill employs end union members, lay-offs occur union e first to be discharged. They know how to coop’ Of course if an er’ | President] both n consider takine awey h \ manufacturer's license.” By PHIL FRANKFELD to be organized. ers inside the plant. eral working conditions. Company Strategy the mood of the workers. hearings on the Stcel Code. to reinstate this worker. policy of mass dismissals. called a mass msiing, unanimously desided to strike ENTREE 8 P.M. at 1.00. a ; The Udell Printing Co, at 8284! plant. J obless Helped Wi In McKees Rocks, Pa., the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union was making rapid headway in organ- izing the 500 workers in the Pressed | Steel Car Co, More than threc- quarters of the workers had been or- ganized. The rest were almost ready ‘The code of the Steel Union was hailed by the work- Big mass meetings were being held. Conditions inside the mill were be- ing ‘discussed, and the workers were intensely concerned with the prob- lem of their wages, hours and gen- However, the biggest concern of the men was the problem of achiev- ing recognition of their union and their own shop committee. The union, knowing and sensing the fee!- ings of the workers, knew that a strike was inevitable in the Pre’ Steel Car, and was proeeeding to t. make preparations for this strike. The company officials also sensed | betwo ‘They | ploysd—whit: and Negro—men and adopted’ the strategy of trying to| women—that unity which was Zorzed | cils. force a strike prematurely on the |'sr men. They attempted to demoralize j tion, propagenda—cnd_ actual mas3/ employed the ranks of the workers by first )struggie in Mo firing the worker who was openly |en impenetrable wall elected to go to Washington, D. C.,/ any scabs from being to represent the workers during the|even mede the compeny hesitate ‘The from bringing in the city and county immediate response on the part cf | police. the workers forced the management | The company then decided on the | Rocks ‘The wori- the ers saw and understood, The union | wo: and it was|The workers of MoKees Rocks ectu-|crcases for ti } the} A representative ¢! the Us-| nei employed Councils pledged the sup-.taince sed | Up to 4,000 Joined the Picket Lines, McKees | Rocks Workers Have Long Tradition of Fight Against Steel Corporations iece that the city and county who port of the Councils at thet mass) take pl meeting. | police, ‘The mass meeting wes held Mon-)| day, Aug. 21, Tuesday morning saw | di several thousand out on tue picket | lines. The entire plant was closcd| down tight. During the four days that the) w strike lasted the Councils succeeded | ti in bringing down 3,000, 3,300 and sacks, 4,000 workers on the picket lines./by dec) The company officials had. figured) shot a state without their host—and in this in-|ceze of. The strikers made good stance it happened to be i beeatce the score stood ganized Unemployed. shot to 6 strikers. The Unity That Won cn the strikers in Mc- raendous mass picket lines, oped asm and militancy of th cad of the Unem- unemployed and employed worker: Mike Blaney the splendid mass unity establishe: 1s called the en the unemployed and em-) tighter, and of the Coun- ved and re- d, and the I, Mike |Blaney is new running for Burgess ks on the workers’ t—the ticket of the Communist ‘erty! When the pyr |with substantial ge Once before, s@veral weeks ag0, a corikers such a3 (a) ‘number of unemployed in McKess!of all discharged w s (fully 140 were aitacked by agents of, worlers), (b) recocnition of the shop 3s company, Spontaneourly, 250 committee elected by the workers of ‘3 set up a self-defense corps.|Pressed Steel Cox, and (c) wage in- vest categories of paizolled the ets of that) w 3 from 25 ts and 59 cents heed—and were £0 ydetor--an th 49 cents an hour—the that no more beatings would wo:kers of the plant voicd unani- 2 there in full force 3 and a machine gun, ‘© mace an attack. has splendid m. In 1913 the ‘eos Rocks stopped s of the state cos- 0 \ere murdering workers, ng that for every worker would be taken a | blo: E3 Kees Rocks yon Me is the during months and months of agite- ees Rocks created that prevented ci } brought in and ‘t |F wes signed, de for the tement a affair | LOS ANGELES, Cal. Aug. 29. =| n McKees Rocks { Arrest Huff, Strike Syndicalist Charge; NEW MEXICO STRIKE SOLID; MILITIA IS PROVOCATIVE; ts STRIKERS FACE EVICTIONS Leader, on Crimina} Helper, Utah, Merchants Vote to Stay Neutral GALLUP, New Mexico, Sept. 7.—The strike of the coal miners here re- mains solid. The local press reports I urday in the Allison and Gamerco mines, Governor Seligman promised the r way, but the militia dispersed pickets 1,300 Pennsylvania Miners Strike When Code Pr omises Fail NEWTON, on premise: | They declared they would stay out until a code providing for higher wages and union recognition was | | passed. | U.M.W.A. officials announced to the press today that it is getting in- | creasingly difficult to keep the men | at work with the nromi--* ¢* 2-">r- | Velt failing to mature. | The men are becoming resiless, they said, ana a.e moving to strike. | “In the past few days,” one of | them said, “large mass meetings of | miners been held in Western | | Pennsylvania, and they show increas- | ing uneasiness among the coal dig-| | gers and impatience of the Pitts- burgh Coal Co. to recognize the union.” permit fuse to let pickets talk to the scabs. as |the mine tipple. | Reese, and troopers canvass houses 's at werk on Tuesday than last Sat- All other mines are closed. ight to picket on the Federal High- near the mine yesterday. are halting all cars way from the mine, They ab cars to continue but re- General Wood of the militia has denied a permit for a mass meeting cessary, The strike committee are held with five trooper: it, The captain tears the strike from the bulletin board, anc tive are allowed in the strike of. { one time. The troops have stopped the relie committee from distributing food One hundred and fifty strikers were given three-days’ notice to vacate the compa h , and the company doctors refusing medical aid. Une man is dead from an infected jaw, and a woman in labor was refused attention. The union committee unnet ® forced a county doctor to attend. The UMWA is allowed to mee ab Their organizers, instructing miners to return to work or leave the house. Governor Seligman has invited Hefferly, of the UMWA, to a confer- ence to represent miners, a majority of whom are members of the National Miners Union. There is tremendous opposition of the miners to this. The local NRA is demanding that no merchants ald strikers. The relief situation is serious. Workers are urged to send funds | or food immediately to Box 218, Gal~ lup, New Mexico. Arrest Huff in Utah HELPER, Utah, Sept. 7—Harold Huff, district president of the NMU, i (was arrested today on the charge of Miners in other big mines here} | have voted to go on strike. AFL Attempts Toy | And Doil Sellout Workers Call For a | United Front | | When the American Federation of | Labor called a strike last week of the | Dol! and Toy Workers Union, in- | volving several thousands of workers, | the militant workers foresaw a repe- | tition of la year’s sell-out by the A, F. of L, ers, including James P. Cannon and Co. | The A. F. of L. misleaders, without the knowledge of the rank and file, | without any workers on the commit- tee, went to Washington to sit in on| | the NRA (slavery code) for the doll} and toy industry. | Upon their return, they said that | the workers would “probably” receive a 15 per cent increase in wages. But} they did not say that wiih a decrease | s, which is sure to come, these who are on a piece- basis, would actually receive a wi cut. | The doll and toy workers recei starvatten wage of from $5 to $10 weak | | | | the Doll and Toy Union warn the industry to insist on their own rank and file shop com- mittees and a united front on the strike demands. They urge representation in all meetings with the bosses, and on the code hearings in Washington. Steel Strike mously to accept this agreement. At the night of the mass meeting, | which was packed to capacity, the | strikers adopted a resolution of| thanks to the Organized Unem- ployed—the Counciis of McKees) Rocks, etc—and recognized the fact that the unemployed had not only) helped—but had won the strike! This resolution was adopted amidst | the greatest enthusiasm and cheers —while the members of the Coun- | cils all sat back with big, broad grins | from ear to ear. | In the greater struggles now under way in the steel industry, the organ- ized unemployed will play their role and help in the struggle for real wage increases, shorter hours and for | union recognition—while, on the)| other hand, amongst the masses of |employed stecl workers, the conscious- ‘ness must be instilled that they also have, a great vole and duty to per- form in the fight for increased ro- lef and unemployment insurance—at the expense cf the employers and the government! ‘Thus the unity of| the working class is being forged in| the fires of sharp class struggle! There is, however, one great weakness in the work of the Coun- cils in McKees Rocks during the strike. The Councils failed to or- genize one single mass action or dem- jonstration on the specific issues of | the unemployed, such as increased | relief, shoes, clothes for the childyen, jmilk, etc. With the masses stirring, \the struggles could have been broad- {ened to deal with the direct issues | confronting the jobless, and to have involved the stzikers in this masz) action. It would have helped cement | i the unity of the workers on the direct | leconomic issues facing both the em- | ployed—and the unemployed. | against the New York State La- | it, | countr criminal syndicalism. Bail for Guynn, Whetherbee and Huff, all arrested on the same charge, has been set ai $10,000 each. Paul Crouch, though hunted on the same charge, spoke last night at a mass meeting. Sheriff Bliss and other deputies did not dare to make an ar- rest at the meeting. Mine operators informed Helper business men that unless they aided to drive the NMU from Utah they will fire every miner who buys from their stores. At a meeting of business men last night a large majority voted to re- ject the ultimatum and te “continuue neutrality.” Wholesale evictions of strikers con- tinue. There is urgent need for tents, relief and defense funds. Tents should be sent by express and funds wired direct to Rae Guynn, Box 132, Helper, Utah. Women Work 60 Hrs. a Wk Printing NRA Labels at Nite “I'm Not a Red, But I Write You,” Says Indignant Worker Ry a Printer Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I am a_ factory wo? in the Eveready Label Core poration and ‘having seen a letter in the Daily Worker about condi- tions i company, I am sure want this one. signed the N.R.A, to get printing orders for N.R.A. labels, but» he violated the code and_double- | crossed the government con- tinuing the conditions that existed before. The N. R, A. called for, I believe, a maximum of 40 hours a week and 1 1-3 for overtime, but we worked anywhere from 50 to 70 hours a week and overtime at straight pay. The women in the shop worked 50 to 60 hours at night work, which is also bor La Since week, the printers are working 40 hours a week, but our shivping boys and the offe force still working ell hours of the I know of at least one rere an office girl fainte4 from overwor':, I'm not a Red, but I’m writing this because it seems the gov- ernment ien’t doing much about i enl I feel that the Daily Wor'er is for the workers. I am an America ¢itizen, born in_ this and I w we could get orgenized here to win better con- ditions. are . . Editor's Nete-—The Com- mitice for the Organization of ij Printers, at 80 E. York City, Room od to help these be gl i-e ‘n Buffalo Rohvt? Heads of uff A.F.L. t. €--Eight hundred cd out here efter 2 American Fed- . headed by Juhn- he Central Labor eration ston, } Council, i from striking for seven mises of wage NRA. The ult of a rank ene fi's tactics. ecsinct there sabotage”) fi 07 Dropped in July | ie