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

| i Scabs Herded by | AFL Heads Run in By Armored Trucks Standard Forging Co. Strikers Hold Steadfast Despite Terrific Drive Against Them and Their Union INDIANA HARBOR, Ind., Oct. 16—The Standard Forgings’ strike of 500 workers is entering the sixth week, with the company resorting to all kinds of tricks in its desperate efforts to break the strike. The company has with the aid of armed gunmen and city police organized a group of 50 strikebreakers, together with straw® bosses and foremen and_ broke through the picket lines on Tuesday. This convoy of some thirty cars, led by an armored truck, filled with thugs’ armed with revolvers, black- jacks and rifles, continues to break through the lines of the pickets but has failed to break the fighting spirit of the strikers. It was with the aid of the local A. F. of L. misleaders that this plan ‘was put into operation. When the efforts of the Department of Labor representative, Mr. Thomas Hyland to send the men back to work, resign from the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union and affiliate with the A, F. of L. failed, the A. F. of L. leaders started openly to break the strike. The local A. F. of L. fakers, called ‘pecial meetings of the strikers and promised to get the workers higher wages and union recognition if they went back, to work and joined the Blacksmiths’ Union of the A. F. of L. They guaranteed the workers “ample protection” against the strikers if they would make a “break.” Besides getting about 25 workers to join the A. F. of L. and return to work, the company has recruited about the same number of professional strikebreakers and underworld characters released by the police from the local jails on condition breaking this. strike. The capitalist newspapers hailed | this move of the company as a con-| clusion of the strike and with lying statements about “hundreds returning every day” is calling upon the work- ers to return to their jobs. These same papers refuse to publish the statements of the Strike Committee They directly support the scab- herding and strikebreaking work of the company and the city officials. Friday a meeting of all strikers was called at which about 200 strik- ers from Indiana Harbor, Chic.go, Whiting, Hammond, Gary \and #her nswered this latest move of the company by a pledge to continue the strike to a victorious conclusion. All the steel workers of the Calumet | district are rallying now to help raise more relief funds and get more pickets on the line to smash the new move of the company and forces the Stand- ard Forging Company to deal with the committee of the workers. With the key workers, the hammersmiths, sclidly behind the S. M. W. I. U., the company will be made to come to terms with the workers and their ilttant organization—the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union OUT-OF-TOWN FOR THE Dail Contre} Chicago OCT. 17; A city-wide meeting of Daily Worker readers will be held at People’s Au- ditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Avenue. ‘The Volunteers Committee will be elected at ‘his meeting to carry on the work for the benefit of the Daily Worker. Philadelphia OCT. 20th: Gala Concert at Turngemeinde Hall Broad and Columbus Ave. Robert Minor, candidate on the C. P. ticket in New York will be the main i} speaker. Interesting program. Ad- | mission 35 cents. | | Boston |] Oct. 21st: Earl Browder will speak at Daily ‘Worker Mass Meeting. Dudley St. Opera House, 113 Dudley St., Rox- bury. Los Angeles Secti_» Comrade MacHarris, touring for the Daily Worker, with the great Soviet Film “Ten Days That Shock The World” and “Bread” will be show: in the following cities on the date: listed below for the benefit of the Daily Worker: Oct. 21—Santa Barbara Oct. 22 to 26 inclusive— Monterey, Santa Cruz and Watsonville Oct. 27—Carmel Chicago, Ill. 45" Annual Bazaar at People’s Auditorium 2457 W. Chicago Avenue October 20th, 21st and 22nd SINGING — BALLET — GAME DANCING — FUN Auspices: Communist Party, Dist. 8 Admission 10c; For All 3 Nites 25¢ LOS ANGELES, Calif. International Labor Defense 7” Annual Concert UNDAY, OCT. 22, at 8 P.M. ‘WOMEN’S COUNCIL HALL, 214 Loma Drive Surprise Program Featuring FISK O'HARA Famous Irish Tenor and MAYNARD HOLMES Hollywood Actor and Vocalist BILL GHERE Master of Ceremonies Admission 25 cents. that they would aid inj Bosses Undermine By Attack on Union Peabody Workers Must Continue Fight To Bolster Victory PEABODY, Mass.—Several months ago the leather workers of Peabody, Mass., organized into the National Leather Workers Association, carried on a militant strike and a so-called successful one. But what do the workers find out after the settlement with the manu- facturers was made and after they are working in the shop again? Now when the daily problems come up be- tween the union and the manufac- turers, the workers are finding out what little effect the agreement has upon the bosses. In order to break the National Leather Workers Association, the bosses are forcing the workers to | join Local 1, United Leather Work- ers Union, the old union which always worked hand in hand with the man- | ufacturers. Now that the bosses see | that the workers want to be organ- ized in the National Leather Work- ers Union, they are trying to use another union as a weapon against the workers. For example: B, E. Cox Co. fin- ishes leather for the Leon Co. Woel- fel, under the name of Woelfel-Cox, plates the finished article. Neither the Leon Co. nor the Woelfel Co. signed the strike agreement and so the Leon Co, in the front of the fac- tory employs only strike-breakers, and the same is true with the Woel- fel-Cox department in the back of the factory. While the strike was going on, the cellar men walked out and the tack- ers put on aprons and pulled the wheels. They worked the skins through every department and joined in with the newly hired strike-| breakers, Afterwards, these tackers joined Local 1, United Leather Workers Union and assumed control of that organization. Now, with the consent and co- operation of the B, E. Cox Co. man- agement, through coercion and in- timidation of the employees who have remained loyal to the National Leather Workers Union, these same tackers are forcing their fellow work- ers to join Local 1, United Leather Workers Union, and to withdraw from the National Leather Workers Association by threatening them with losing their jobs. Some of the stakers, sprayers and wet wheelers objected and protested against this action, These workers were discharged and refused rein- statement, the factory management falling back on the technicality in the agreement which gives them the right to hire and fire without inter- ference of the National Leather Workers Union. This clause forces the National Leather Workers Union out of control because without the right to control the hiring and firing the privilege of firing the militant workers and also firing all union help and hiring help from the company union, which in this case happens to be Local 1, United Leather Workers Union, When the union gives over these cases to the State Board of Arbi- tration, they are dragged out for months, and we haven’t heard yet . any of the workers being rein- With the experience the workers now have, it is up to them to stand organized, attend union meetings and see that the union brings the re- sults for the benefit of the rank and file members. —A Leather Worker. - Leather Strike Gain of union members, the boss gains) DAILY WORKER, NEW To Restrike Munson “Diamond Cement” Haul Ship Out To Mid-, Stream To Keep Off | Organizers NEW YORK.—The freighter S.8S. Diamond Cement was threatened | with another strike Friday, October | 13, in New York. Two months ago, the Marine Workers Industrial Union | led a strike of the Diamond Cement | crew which forced wages up $15 a month, and mustered the police of three cities to help break the strike. | In spite of police terror and the use | of shanghai methods to get men} aboard the ship, she was struck in three ports, and the wages rose to) $50 a month. October 13, the crew, | under the leadership of the M.W.1.U., | |was discussing plans for a strike to | force the wages up another ten dol- | lars, when a stool pigeon warned the | Chief Engineer, who is said to be a) part owner of the vessel. The Chief | called the police, who responded with | their usual eagerness to break st strike. ‘Three squad cars and a carload of | detectives rushed to the scene, and | the police threatened to arrest and beat up the M.W.LU. delegate if he didn’t stop trying to organize the seamen. ‘The Chief Engineer fired three of the seamen, on the stool pigeon’s report, and the ship was hauled out | into the stream to be safe from union | organizers. The attitude of the crew indicates that there is still a good chance of the strike taking place, as soon as the ship ties up at a dock. Ford Speed Jumps Another Notch DETROIT, Mich. (FP.)—One of the reasons for the strike of Ford workers at Chester, Pa., and Edge-| water, N. J., was revealed by some facts on Ford speedup given to the Federated Press by workers at the Ford River Rouge plant. In the making of connecting rods, one year ago 12 men put out 13,000 in eight hours, Today, three men put out 9,000 rods in the same time. Recently 450 men were laid off in the motor building. One worker stated that he was ordered to run five machines or follow the line to the employment office. He formerly operated two machines. Millwrights in the rolling mill state that conveyor line gears were removed and replaced by new ones so that production is now stepped up from 1,800 to 2,500, New grinding machines are being installed for the model crankshaft. On | the present V-8 model, 58 operations | were required. The new machine requires only 17 operations. ‘The old machine ground 12 crankshafts an hour, the new machine grinds 45 an hour. Amalgamated Clothing Union Admited'to AFL WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 16— The Amalgamated Ciothing Workers’ Union was admitted to the A, F. of) L,, with the decision to grant ie charter to the union made at a mee ing of the executive council of tne | Federation last night. | ‘The Amalgamated Clothing Work- | with the understanding that it would) surrender its industrial form of or- ganization and refuse to accept or retain as members any teamsters, machinists, firemen, electrical work- ers and other workers who would be- long to the other craft unions of the | |A. F. of L, The Amalgamated | Clothing workers thus reverts to the | craft form of organization having | jurisdiction over men’s clothing work- jers. 1 The United Garment Workers’ Union was permitted to retain control over a few shops and over the work pants industry. Future organization work is to be carried on by both unions jointly. By the admission of the Amalz:- mated Clothing Workers’ Union to the A. F. of L., the Hillman ma- chine takes its proper place along- side of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy to continue their common policy of | class collaboration and betrayal of the workers, The bosses don’t support the Daily Worker. Its support comes from the working class. Have you done your share to help the Big Rush your contribution “Dally,” OE ith St, N.Y Oly, Marine Union Acts’ . F Scene of eaalnatien of parade of 10,000 diemakers in Detroit (15,000 are out on strike in Detroit, Flint Yesterday McGrady, N.R.A. official, referring to diemakers’ strike, declared the government would now outlaw all strikes. The main guarantee of victory for the diemakers is to draw out all produc- and Pontiac. tion men in the auto industry. STRIKE IN AUTO INDUSTRY YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1933 5,000 Los Angeles! | | Needle Workers Oy L_NEWS BRIERS | Strike Against Code Starvation Pay Is Rule After N.R.A. Paper Is Adopted LOS ANGELES, Calif. Oct. 16.— Over five thousand needle trades workers affiliated with the A. FP. of L. International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, walked out on strike Thursday against the low wages and treatment accorded the workers by the bosses. The bosses of the needle trades have not been paying the workers the minimum wage of $15 set by the N. R. A. code, The moment the militant needle trade workers forced their leaders to call for a strike the police were called out, including the notorious red squad. The area about the strike headquarters, at 11th and Los| Angeles, is patrolled by police all day. Picket committees, active in keeping the scabs out of the shops, have been beaten by the police. es, in Bpite| ‘s , are holding out mainly for one point, and bak is recognition of the union. workers are also becoming ataraeied with the union that asks for morely the $15 a week that the code set. Everett Dockers Win Strike To End Bosses’ Favoritism in Hiring EVERETT, Wash.—A_ brief but successful walkout occurred on the Everett waterfront, Oct. 5. Resent- ment against a hiring system of favoritism and discrimina which straw bosses would pick the| men that they pleased, culminated | ers was accepted by the A. F. of L.,| in 140 men walking out of the Fink| Hall in a body. The trouble started | when one of the straw bosses came to | the Fink Hall to pick six ga men) to replace a like number who} had worked 30 hours on one ship steady, despite the fact ead 14 gangs were lyi men not on ship, but This s crimination in all the ports of th longsheremen of Ev ready led the way in a fient against it and a movement is now under way, initiated by the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union, for a rotary system of hiring, under dire: trol of an elected commitice of long- | shoremen. The ILA. has carried on (24) Set et con- | It Rained Beetles ROCK CREEK, B. C.—Beeiles fell in a three hour downpour-here. The tiny brown insects had wings, but/ Jobless Seaman Attempts Suicide NEW YORK.—Joseph Terril, 56, a commit suicide by jumping into the East River. A cop dived in after him, | and rescued him. New Glider Record AKRON, Ohio—A total of 68 loops j for gliders was set here by Willis | Sperry of Akron. 2 Russian Scientists Missing SEWARD.—Fear was expressed f two Russians scientists and the: rescuers foll g the discovery Fri- day of the capsized mail boat, Good Hope. The scientists were rescued by| the mail boat after they had been | ipwrecked on Little Diomede Is-| Southern Ohio City | Plans Hunger March Siege Endorsement of | Jobless Insurance CINCINNATI, Ohio—The “growing v ng the ly demon: ci strated at the | ce Sept. 28 under the auspices of | the Unemployed Council. Delegates from six A. F.of L. lo-)| cals took part in the conference, | which was attended by 150, RCH 5 organizations. | seed calling for a mass hunger march on the County c joners, to take place. Noy. 3, Re- to present the Workers’ ‘abolit ent for re- ef jobs, hot lunches, school s plies and clothing should be’ prov: led free for the children of the unem- ployed, and the endorsement by all) locel sovernment bodies of the Fed- ral Workers’ Unemp! rent Insur- ance Bill. | All workers, emnloyed and unem- didn’t seem to know how to use them.)| jobless seaman, is recovering in Broad | Street Hospital after an attempt to) claimed to be a new world’s record | rkers-in this} an organizational drive in all the | ployed. are urged to take part in the | Northwest ports and at the present) mass hunger march, Only militant time have control of 75 per cent of mass action will save the unem- the longshoremen. ‘The rank and file of the LL.A. must realize that to/ pj fail to organize these men to fight with them means that they will be used against them in case of strikes, and should demand that the LLA. organize them, even at a reduced rate if necessary. yed from starvation and the em- d workers from miserable con- ditions in the shops. The Daily Worker fizhts Fascism. Fight for the “Daily” with your dollars. Rush all fands to save the “Daily.” ‘State Committee in Seattle Hits Starvation Relief ‘County Commissioner Exposed in Attempt To Defend Himself SEATTLE, Wash. — Twenty-eight | delegates representing four counties | of Washington answered the roll call| | of the meeting of the State Commit- | tee of Action. The session was: de-| yoted mainly to local, state and na- | tional reports, of which the high light was the talk by Herbert Ben- jamin, National Organizer of the} Unemployed Councils, with which the | state committee ffiliated. Benjamin struck the keynote of| |the meeting when he emphasized the |fact that relief riminations were | | never attribute |on the part of | part a diminish relief | he hit the r , but were a definite scheme to In this connection, n of self-help and it the ed themselves by allowed the county lief levels did not rise, small difference whether made unemployed st George Bradley, state reviewed the background of immediate e prob- lems. He traced the development of employed groups in various coun- ries from tails for political kites to militant workers’ organizations. In | Before Benjamin spoke at a mass | meeting held prior to the gathering of the state committee, County Com- mer Louis Nash was given the} ‘ion, under | United Front Conference which tock | floor to answer the challenge issued | oe to the other commissioners and | to Colonel Hayes, that they were | responsible for the death of I | of! | spot. w about forced labor?” “I can't | stop it.’ Nash was almost howled off the platform. For once in his career as a clever demagogue he knew what it | felt like to be expcsed in all his rot- teness before hundreds of workers. ‘The bosses don’t support the Daily | Worker. Its support comes from the working class. Have you donc your share to help the “Daily?” Rush your contrikution to the “Daily,” 50 E, 13th St. N. ¥. City. By SAM WISEMAN The strike of the coal rs of Western Pennsylvania is at time in a most critical stage, due to the strike-breaking activities of the Lewis machine, Around the continuous pressure of Roosevelt and his NRA administration, reinforced by a high pressure campaign of the press, radio, church, etc., they have succeeded in tricking back into the mines some of the striking miners of Central Pennsylvania, West Virginia Pan Handle and a few thousand miners in Western Pennsylvania itself, This was only possible because of the absence of a central leadership of the rank and file, Great confusion exists amongst the miners who after showing an un- exampled resistance against all the efforts of Roosevelt himself and the U.M.W.A. leadership to drive them back in the mines under unsigned “agreement” and the code are con- stantly exposed to and under the pressure of the press agitation that “the miners are returning to the mines by the thousands” “that Roosevelt promised to settle the grievances of the miners satisfac- torily,” “that the Frick Coal Co, jie positively recognize the union,” ete, This campaign is now being in- Coal Strike in Critical Stage Needs Central Leadership Pia allti: of Demaids and the Fight Against Lewis Seab Agreement Must Be Raised in Concrete Way in Order To Broaden And Pete uni the heed Philip W. Murray and Moses of the Frick Coal Co, being heralded as a definite sign, that recognition will be granted. Inside the strongest strike territory in Fayette County, the strongest efforts are being made to split the ranks of the atriking miners. In the last few days an organization has been formed, called the “Miners Brotherhood,” most likely formed by company stool pigeons of the H. Frick Co, This organization claims about 1,500 members of the Frick mines, its program is based on the patriotic support of the President and the government, and already has made an attempt to scab in some of the Frick mines but were stopped by the efforts of the militant miners of Feyette County, In spite of all this there still remain about 50,000 miners on strike in Fayette, Green, Washington, Al- legeheny and other counties of Wes- tern Pennsylvania, The biggest part of these striking miners are determ- ined to carry forward the struggle tensified with the conference between and are constantly re-striking mines slavery than the no strike clause and the penaity of one dollar a day for striking, the fact that the mine committee can- not take up the grievances of the miner and settle them, that the ag- which have reopened, travelling thru- out the striking area placing mass pic! lines at these mines, The basis of the resistance of the miners against Roosevelt’s demand | to return to work and the desperate efforts of the U.M.W.A. officials is the tremendous resentment against the contents of the agreement signed | by Lewis and the coal operators, In spite of this main factor the agree- C.|ment is not being raised as the cen- tral issue against which the miners must rally all their forces in order to defeat it. Instead the whole issue is made “that H, C. Frick must be made to sign the dotted line.” The miners, realizing this, are be- coming sceptic whether the struggle will bring them any results of a ma- terial nature. They are seeing more than ever before that the conditions of the agreement will mean more fore the strike, with reement gives the possibility for blacklisting the active strikers and that the check-off of dues is to be sent to the district offices and not the coal unions and thereby becomes la wee’ 2pon against, the miners, They |aiso recognize that the agreement does not give them a_ satisfactory scale, but Arbitration Boards con- trolied by the operators, which the miners are definitely against. From Central Pennsylvania, comes the word that the miners who have returned are enraged against the ag- |reement, and that they are ready to |continue the strike. The same mes- sage comes from East Ohio and West Virginia Pan Handle, which has a worse agreement that the Western Pennsylvania miners, The calling of a speedy conference of all mines in the striking area to decide on a determined _ struggle against the agreement as a whole and to establish a broad central strike leadership of the rank and file is the immediate central task for the mobilization of the miners to hold their ranks, strengthen the strike by re-striking the mines that have opened and even extending the strike to involve new territories, (East Ohio, West Virginia.), The National Miners Union from the beginning of the strike while sup- porting the struggle of the miners for recognition of their union, has constantly pointed out the way to conduct the strike effectively, and raised before the miners these issues. At this time we are encouraging the | active forces leading in the local) unions to take up these decisive is- | sues as a means of winning the strike. In the last few days real suc- } cesses have been made in convincing leaders and active strike participants in about 40 local unions that this is the only way, ‘The continuation of the present strike against the “asyeement” of John L, Lewis with the operators, and a struggle for the establishment (the $5 a day minimum scale, 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, full recogni- tion of the mine committee to settle | all grievances, the right to strike at | all times, no blacklisting and dis- crimination, against — arbitration boards, and recognition of the union) is the most necessary thing of tbe moo oversight | a ter of conditions favorable to the miners | - Page Three ————>— IWW Leadership Is Strikebreaker in Auto Struggles Mass Picketing but N. R” A. Arbitration Does Its Tactics; ” Militant Trac litio By PHI DETROIT, —The mobile workers in D the Briggs Waterloo plant early in Janva out in all the pls Corporation involving 10,000 Under s of the oF the part of the them, The ranks of th mained firm. The comp concessions, practice of At the against the st were City and state police brok picket lines in Highland Pa ested many of t strikefs. These ¢ on under the smok against the “Reds. papers, A. F. of Party officia Union as being Mecinated t Company agents among ad s began Into th 4 w. entered, giving direct support to in- dustrial spy age: in their att t to break the leader: Workers’ m. The company stool-pigeons net jo i was accept chairman of the neg mittee, who to be a stoo | meeting. Cide | tell an honest r and everyone nell.” couraged the wo! that the only in their ilh obstacle standing mands by the B they had accepted th the Auto Workers’ U: This time the I. W. ‘The only group supp rect strike tactics was leadership nm. W. succeed t Slanders the ‘Wy ing rumor that Phi Secretary of Auto received $40,000 for Union, the ‘strike. Used By Murvay Body After “a of Murray workers, led by the Auto Union at the beginning of the ye Sold Out! 1500 SEATS FOR THE “Vote Communist” BANQUET | NEW STAR CASINO 101 East 107th Street WED., OCT. 18-8 P.M. 50 Balcony Seats (not including meal) 50 Nygard, Minor, Browder, Burroughs, Gold Communist Election Campaign Committee 799 Broadway—Gramercy 5-8780 CLASSIFIED 3 YOUNG WORKERS wanted by D ‘Worker for profitable proposition: be reliable. Call at 35 E. 3th St. Roberts, between 9 id 11 am. 1, J. MORRIS, Inc. GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS 206 SUTTER AVE. BROOKLYN Phone: Dickens 2-1273—4—5 Night Phone: Dickens 6-5389 For International Workers Order Lw.w. t during the strike of rip of the Auto| a cor On the other Ted he en- 's Co. was that/ I. w. m out. FOR SALE NOW! Not Represent Past ns of this Movement RAYMOND first becan L active amongst the auto- 0 tool and die makers at The activity of y of this year. | the LW.W. consisted in making strenuous attempts to disrupt the ranks of the strikers and to break them away from the | leadership of the Auto Workers’ Union. The I. W. W. failed.#- rae The strike ended vict s determined | to y members of the Under th nion as possible. | Workers’ U witling to use the }1o0 workers The com- | winning strik r of the A. r, but the I. nt LW. W. the superin- found an I. W. i of one of the rned it to uke better care ure. There are per- garding the source W. W. finances its Sellout Tactics e of 1,200 work- ce at the Murray s every indica- W. leadership ding with the com- leadership e, urging 1 80 per cent e I. WW. occurred despite o the terrible con- 2 the plant, the I. ve prevented the from making any demands or slackening the per hour; metal er hour. This is nh the auto man- d in Washing- diy assures a . 43 cents for men for women, Yet the is made by the T. W. W. T. W. Thompson gnition of their or- ation of jobs. The opposed to the stag- tself as efficient as the Murray Body m may take this into con- . W. leadership is no erested in main hey placed all the N. R. A. Com- h are fellow- Martell of Maysmith, a alist Party. inion will con- her with the rank of the I. W. W., other organization, in the ist employers’ attacks. e I. W. W. earned a reputation of eing a militant working class or- jon under the leadership of ‘ood. Since the war, the W. has degenerated into a sec- tion of the social-fascist leadership in the midst of workers’ organiza- tions. These agents of the employ- and the Department of Justice iggle in the way of the granting of their de- Bi ot ed. ave shed all traditions of militancy |The ranks of the str were| Which these organizations had in broken. The strike was smashed,| Previous years. |Cidervall was fully entitled to a ———— share of the s paid out by Wal- Briggs to his breaking | TRADE UNION Rents. LW.W DIRECTORY... CLEANERS, DYER (D PRESSERS York City Foop W 4 West E AL RIAL UNION York City 42 Boston Daily Worker Mass Meeting EARL BROWDER General Secretary of the Communist Party, U. 8. A will speak SATURDAY, OCT. 21st Dudley St. Opera House 113 Dudley Street, Roxbury at 8 P. M. ADMISSION 25 CENTS Auspices: Boston District Dally Worker Financial Campaign Committee Daily Worker “Red Days” in Los Angeles Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 21 and 22, have been set aside as “Red Days” for distribution of the “Daily” and for securing subs and contribu- tions. The following are a list of the stations where comrades and sym- pathizers are to report: Daily Worker Bookshop Room 304, Spring St, Freiheit Office 2704 Brooklyn Ave, R.W.P.U, Headquarters 741 Wall St. Workers’ Center 5966 8. San Pedro St. Hollywood Cultural Center @254 Santa Monica Blvd. \ S SeaeeaenetnentenetSoaTtEe RRA IT oni abt