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

Page Three INRA Slashes Pay DAILY WORKER NEW YORK, MONDAY, , OCTOBER 23, 1933 Marine Workers Cotton Pickers on the March a Eg Hear NRA Scored ee = _in New England ? in Sharp Debate _ Steel, Metal Center : Axtell for Int'l Seamen’s Union Forced to | Shop Groups Being Set Up and Literature te Admit Soviet Seamen’s Conditions Are Distributed by Steel and Metal e ' Best in Debate With Hudson Workers Industrial Union , | By A. TOMKIN 8 NEW YORK.—The International § Seamen’s Seamen’s Union, repudiated by the Worcester, Mass., is the center of the steel and metal industry in New seamen since the strike sell-out in 1921, expects to have a big share in set- — “The Soviet Union and the N.R.A.” Axtell laid great emphasis on his own part in “freeing the seamen” under the Seamen’s Act, passed in| 1915, and said he hoped the same} legalistic methods would bring Ameri- | van seamen to conditions as “good | as those on Soviet ships.” Axtell| said that “radicals had undermined | the seamen’s faith in their old lead- | ers and the I.S.U.” and that was re- sponsible for bringing the wages down from their war level, the “high- | est real wage seamen ever got.” That the seamen disagreed with Axtell was obvious from the thunder | of applause that greeted Hudson, Na- tional Secretary of the M. W. I. U., when he said that the seamen had rejected the I. S. U. because of the | tling the codes under the N.R.A., and Silas B. Axtell, attorney for the LS.U., | England, Out of a population of 200,000 it has an industrial working class n- expects to take a big part in the N.R.A. manipulations himself, as a pleader | of 35,000, one-third of whom are women. About 20,000 are employed in the ‘i- for the LS.U., Axtell told 200 seamen at a debate in the Marine Workers | steel and metal industries. There are many other important industries such 8 Industrial Union Hall sage ? = | as textile and shoe, but steel and metal predominate. The United States night, Oct. 18. Axtell was debat * ~——®Steel Corporation controls three of with Roy B. Hudson on the question Munorleans Strike | ShoeRepairWorkers| the largest plants in the city, em- ily Anum- 5 treachery and sellout tactics in the) 1921 strike and afterward. Hudson read from the I. S. U. Convention | minutes, to show the scabby tactic: of the I. S. U., which endorsed the | ¢ § ef “a | ship's committee. € a Pog: the past three months. British National Union of Seamen/ majority of cotton growers in| Price per bale to the farmer, and then|in their stores. It will mean the/strikers. rovides t] very | Sondi Officials of the International Long- puts it on the market for as much| winning of our demands, it will mean| However, they bumped into Rg edges gigas through | Conditions in Shope for its scabbing on the General Strike in 1926. pamphlet the signed statements of Andrew Furuseth, saying he hed “cleansed” the union of 25,000 mili- tant workers, and had offered to point these workers out so the ship- e@wners could blacklist them. The shipowners later used this list, but the seamen, 100,000 of them, left the | Hudson also read from a} Wins All But One Demand for Crew Men Get Back Pay and Improvement in Conditions BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 22—The 24-hour strike of the Munorleans of |the Munson SS. Co. resulted in gains in all but one demand, that of higher wages. The strike, organized by the Marine Workers Industrial Union, von immediate payment of back wages, improvement of living and working conditions, including repairs ecessary to make the ship more sea- worthy, and the recognition of the shoremen’s Association did every- thing possible to help the company |break the strike. They tried to pre- | vent the longshoremen from support- ling the strike and when the long- shoremen came out anyway, the of- |ficials told them that they must return to work because they were |breaking the agreement with the Munson Line. Through the use of LS. U. as a result. Axtell spoke at considerable length | on the Soviet Union, saying that al-| though the workers owned the land and industries of Russia, they were the “creatures of the machines” and} ad no “freedom.” In this country, he said, the workers were free, free} to quit a job, free to speak, and free to move. Axtell taken aback was visibly when Hudson read from the hostile | (Bri “Seaman” a de-| derful conditions il later said that he “hoped ke An s those on the Soviet “fighting” for improve- while guaranteeing the right ‘ican seamen’s condi- | threats and blacklist, they succeeded in forcing some of the men to return to work after two hours. | During a period of two months the crew had only received $1.50 of the | wage due them. In many ports they given youchers which had not been honored. In Baltimore they were again offered vouchers which they |refused. A committee had gone to | the U. 8S. Shipping Commissioner who had promised that they would be | paid the next day. When this promise was not fulfilled, the men struck | tunder the leadership of the M.W.L.U, Maher Blocks Tug Strike; Hands Men Over to NRA Board By CAROLINE DECKER the San Joaquin Valley, Cali-| fornia, are either tenant farmers, or small farmers. In either case they are both forced to borrow from the cotton | finance corporations in order to} produce their crop each year. The! procedure is the same, with the ex-| ception that the tenant farmer has to also pay for the rent of the land and does not own even the tools he| works with, The farmer is allowed $20 per acre | on his loan, Six per cent interest is| immediately deducted from the loan, and 50 per cent of theloan is also immediately deducted to pay the power bill. Then comes deduction for labor, for hoeing, for seed, etc. After | all the deductions are made, the bal- ance is divided by the number of months the crop is worked, usually about 5 to 7, and what is left the farmer gets this amount each month for himself and his family to live on. | A typical example of a tenant) weeds got too abundant, he’d have to monthly allotment. pay for a third hoeing out of his) ies Finance corporation sets the as $10 to $20 more than what the farmer gets. If the farmer finally succeeds in reaping a small surplus out of the crop, he usually never sees it because it is applied to his debts | to the finance corporation, Dozens of farmers in the strike area have expressed their willingness to pay the $1 per 100 lbs. demanded | by the. strikers, but they cannot do | it because the large growers and fin- |ance corporations completely control them. The finance corporations which run the cotton gins, have refused to gin the cotton of any farmer who pays more than the present 60 cents per 100 ibs. The average cotton picker can | gather about 200 Ibs. per day, hudset | the hundreds of women and children | in the fields average between 100 and | 150 Ibs. per day. It is clear that they are not able to maintain themselves and families on this wage. tural Workers Industrial Union have | called on the small busines men to support the thousands of workers Part of a group of cotton pickers fighting against starvation in California. Several were killed by hired deputy thugs. - Strikes of Cotton Pickers Spread m California who are the majority of consumers that wef will be able to more easily meet the rising cost of prices in the stores in the valley. They have also called on the farmer to support the strike and unite with the workers in a common struggle against the fin-} ance corporations and power trusts. A group of several hundred large farmers held a meeting in Button-} willow to discuss how to break the strike. Comrade Jack Wright, district organizer of the Union, forced him- self into the meeting and addressed the farmers, pointing out to them} that the C, and A.W.I.U. would back } them in their fight against the cor- | porations and power trusts. The | | meeting broke up with divided opin- ions among the farmers. And now the farmers down that way want to| | talk to a U, F. L. organizer. Workers United Against Gangs The farmers’ “vigilantes” consist! of such people as Slim Sanders, king | who have taken pool-room cowboys hot for adventure and a little extra cash, into their gangs, arming them and attempting to intimidate the wrong bunch in this valley. The whole strike is bound tight by the unity of the American (mostly south- ern), Negro( Spanish and Mexican workers. Many sympathetic farmers have donated barren land for the evicted strikers, These camps are be- ing guarded by defense squads. At- tempts at intimidation have been futile, the strikers answering every} threat with an increased shout thru- | out the valley, “Not an ounce of cot- | ton for less than $1 per 100 Ibs.” The growers are now attempting to break the strike by starving the| workers back to work, threatening) boycott of any business house that| donates or even sells to strikers. | And also attempting to bring in the | “red scare.” The strikers have an- swered this by saying they must all be reds and proud of it. The Western Worker is being sold by hundreds. There are close to 5,000 members| of the Cannery and Agricultural | men, wearing their union membership cards in their shirt pockets, in their hatbands. Union On Guard Campaign to Stop Colo. Court Refuses to Farm Leader Scores. AcceptAgreement of 1,400 in Bess Ass’n Get Union Recognition, |» 44 Hour Week and Wage Scale NEW YORK. shoe repair department of workers industr: voted Sunday to accept the ment made with International Shoe Repair and Hat Cleaners Association, Inc., representing 1:90 store owners of the Bronx. There are 1,300 mem- bers in the shoe repair department, | which has just been organized during the union; that stores close at 7 p.m., jae the workers work 44 hours a} eek, and that the union wage scale | ce into effect, finishers $25, bench- | men $30, all-around men $35. George Martin, general organizer of the department, made the report on the agreement. He also proposed. the | organization of sections (locals of the | union) in each neighborhood of the city to guarantee that the agreement | be carried out. The workers also pledged to dem- onstrate Monday night at Arcadia Hall, together with the shoe, slipper and stitch-down workers for recogni- tion of the union by the shoe manu- facturers. Fred Biedenkapp, general secretary of the union, made a brief report, which was enthusiastically re- ceived. Ritchie Won't Act (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | disassociation. “I charge you, Governor Ritchie, with being responsible for the mur- meeting of the} ploying about 5,000 workers. ber of other plants employ from 150 # to 4,000 workers. Workers Never Organized The bulk of the workers in the steel and metal industries of Wor- cester have never been organized, ex- cept a few of the highly skilled es here and there who belonged A. F. of L. Every time a attempt was made by the rs to organize, it was merci- crushed by the powerful Metal des Association, known here amongst the workers as the most | notorious open shop outfit in the country. The American Steel and ;. Wire (United States Steel Corpora- m) has one of those famous Com- | pany Unions to which the workers are compelled to belong and which operates under the joint manage- ment plan, with the most thorough | going espionage system in operation. Before the N. R. A. came in, many | of the workers in the steel rallis wae were able to make from $35 to $40 a week by working long hours—from 70 to |80 hours a week — but when the 'N. R. A. came in and most of the factories introduced the 8-hour shift and 5-day week, the workers have automatically suffered a wage cut | from 25 per cent to 50 per cent. (In |the Reed & Prince Machine & Wood |Screws Manufacturing Co. the workers have had their wages re- duced since 1929 about 70 per cent), In return for this the workers were allowed to have their shop commit- tees selected with the blessings of the Blue Eagle. The workers were told that the shop committees would have a right to represent them, and adjust all complaints and grievances of the workers with the companies, However, it did not take the work- ers very long to find out that their enontog Povenw vevens Soviet , and compared 1e rotten jicc’sles, food and | | and won their demand, farmer, after the above procedure, he} Thousands of leaflets have been | bootlegger in Tulare County, Guy| Workers Industrial Union in the val-| |shop committees were not able to conditions on ‘American | and the 8 in his family were allotted | distributed by the United Farmers | Lowe, big potato grower, and a num- \ley and more joining every day. . | function jn the interests of the work- $25 per month to live on. And if the | League and the Cannery and Agricul- | ‘ber of American Legion large growers,| Union men call themselves “card” Against Lynchers lers because the companies succeeded in planting their agents on the com- mittees and others were made help- less and useless in face of the tre- mendous economic intimidation the Es pod are able to bring into | Play. capitalists t loit labor. . ° iS pear aie in i 3 As U. S. Mediator ReviewA ppeal of Three der of George Armwood, on the basis} We finally began building the Wer desttied ta atveetties, Gi vcwes Ref Solidarity Of-| EntersT Strik lr odkineniahY cath q | of Captain Johnson's statement of| union sround Sept. att with . Aghia & ie ly i .” Patters luntly de-| trumpets or a spla: ot) Or ihe capitate ast te oink te | Refuses Solidarity nters Tannery Strike| Wave of Injunctions *"amedSpanishYouths Wijk Code As Trap sexo: 2 ee ham Seti nding ep xoune ot te workers even more thoroughly in their power. He coneluded by urging the seamen not to wait for the I.S.U., Axtell and the government to fix the N. R. A. like a yoke on their necks, but to take action now to win the demands set forward in their code, fer of Waterfront Jobless Council NEW YORK—The strike of 3,500 tugboat men was prevented Friday at the last minute by joint action of the officials of the Associated Marine GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Oct. 22— The U. S. Labor Department sent a Mr. Harmon, labor conciliator to mediate the tannery workers’ strike in Fulton County here, this week. The strikers, however, have lost faith in government mediators after their Planned by T.U.U.C. Demonstration When Minor Is to Be Tried re DENVER, Colo., Oct. 22.—Review | of the frame-up case against Can- delario Montoya, Roy. Saiz, known as the “Bri gil, and Jose hton Boys,” | was refused by the state supreme court. The three Spanish-speaking boys for Small Farmers. ennsylvania Code} Retains All Old | the state troopers who failed to pro- tect Armwood, and who declared he had warned Ritchie that more pro- tection should be sent for Armwood, | which Ritchie refused to do, “T charge your party, the Demo- cratic Party, with sending battle- ships to intervene in Cuba, osten- |union in some of the shops, and | making new contacts in some other, shops. It was necessary to carry on . agitation within. and around the, shops for the Steel Metal Workers: Industrial Union, distribute and sell the Steel and Metal Worker (about 450 copies, sold and distributed this, He c: on the workers to build | Workers and Senator Wagner's local| experience with the local board of T | pave been sentenced to hang for the i imi i sibly to protect American lives, but} month), issue special literature to ex- their rai and file action committees | N-R-A. board. the NRA. and are relying mainly on Wednesday murder of George Arnold, rancher, Discriminations with refusing to intervene in Amer-| Plain to the workers the difference to fight for better conditions and| Captain William Maher, general | on their own strengthened militant —-- though the evidence at their trial PHILADELPHIA, Oct 22—Sharp| ica for the safety of American lives. | between our union and the A, F, of better wages on the ships, organize | secretary of the union, agreed to “let action to win ther demands for} ww yorK—A drive to stop the | conclusively proved their innocence i new Milk| The Socialists have demanded your|L., the role of the A. F. of L. lead- their Be rank and file delegations | the board intervene and to accept | recognition of their union and an} y.oont wave of injunctions |The frame-up followed upon eae py | impeachmer While we are not| ership, ete. to go Washington to fight for a/ its decision as final.’ increase in wages. | the trade unions o1 - | their Mnjlitant acti he t of the} against ti I hold it to be en-| In some of the shops the workers real workers’ code for the marine| Tugboat men are indignant at the| Despite the distorted statements {s-| ers’ right to orgar ke y oguarag |) t-strike, in which they | Associa- | tirely inadequate.’ are still hesitant about joining our , industry. action and the Rank and File Oppo- | suing from the local press and the st was arinounced last week fol- | were lead wait “What do you want to do, lynch| union. They are not yet convinced sition is receiving many inquiries as | effort to divide the workers by rais- ing a meeting of the heads of the acnutlotiain abos 2” Ri tecrant "| that the 8. M. W, 1. U he only Se auRE aeton th pop rial ¢ 8 | The International Labor Bentuzley ding leader of | me Ritchie interrupted. e 8. M. W. I. U. is the only Chi s School a ie men shou! e. | ing the red scare, the strike has suc-} militant industrial unions held at the] j; holding meetings anc _ ahaa ‘I am not a lyncher,” Patterson | union that they can trust and depend ary Maher refused to meet representa- | cessfully counteracted all maneuvers! call of the Trade Union Unity Coun-| ea tian Ga the farme oie apace n for hone: ine Ff ti ¢ the Waterfront Ui ? f 2 of ae ie answered. “Your pa is a party of| Upon for honest, sincere and effec- 1 Be 3e Open Soon ives of the Waterfront Unemployed | and the workers’ ranks are unbroken. | cj], at hed, Ww blo a | tive leadership. However, in some Council, who went to the union of-| Over 2,000 of the 2,100 workers in| : ulation is ux lynehers. Tt cn Aenea ica other s our agitation has already CHICAGO, IIL, Oct, Oct. 22.—The Chi- fices Friday to offer solidarity sup- the industry here have joined the| smas than ‘© men and women who 1 nehed in America, on its! borne fruit, and particularly in one ago Workers School Executive Com- ks jgpabonclnig nit tacles strike. | Independent Leather Workers Union. The Trade Union Unity Council i (. miter at a d d i ; he: ou are one of the leaders} Shop the workers are beginning to mittee announcés the proposal for F h Bak ai The glove workers, some of whom! calling all wor of the’ tr rpenters a oY fu issues Wiel | eter aoe acs Mis venied dicta: | consolidate the organization and the opening of an ev school in | # Fen! a ery Stri T'S | are organized in the A. F. of L., are) unions and mess organizations to| Taylor’s, MeCreery's the farmer at the present party is not a lynch party,|Have succeeded in building up a the Calumet steel re; The Chi- | Tn Fight on Injunction showing great sympathy for the sirike| participate in a demonstration a cae ici wh are ; ; the issues of the ruinous | ey ene the leader of the work.|@toup of 40, They have cago Workers School wl work close- and for the union. ‘Their President,| agains: injunctions on Wednesday at Stores Out on Strike |“ plan, and the issue (lv Dis'y i iobilize the workers to | formulated their demands a aoe | highe: ly with the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, which is at present leading the strike of the Standard Forging workers in Indiana Harbor. The Chicago Workers School ap- peals to all organizations in the Cal- umet region to help support the es- tablishment of the braneh school in the steel region. We cal «on you to take this matter up in yc... organiza- ‘tions, to vote money for the sustain- ing fund. We appeal to all locals and groups in the Republic Steel, in the Illinois and Wisconsin Steel, in the Inland Steel in Gary, to give support to the school and popularize it among the workers in the mills, Address all contributions and write for further information to Beatrice Shields, Director, Chicago Workers School, 2822 8. Michigan Ave., Chi- cago, Ti, or phone Victory 1001. Mass Picketing Swells Jewelry Strike Ranks NEW YORK.—The Jewelry strike continued to spread Friday, when mass picketing succeeded in closing down the J. R. Woods shop. ‘The workers of the Crysler shop, one of the largest watch and bracelet shops, . Joined the walkout and workers in pod other are : shops coming out aula the local union president reported the results of negotiations with the bosses at the strike meeting on Wednesday and declared that the following points had been conceded: Time and a half for overtime, scales of $1, $1.25 and $1.50 an hour for dia- mond setters working on a week work basis, The rier Temain stub- bornly opposed to the four weeks’ trial clause, but the workers are preparing to stay out on strike until the bosses are compelled to yield, Garcia and the rank and filers ad- dressing the meeting warned the 3,000 striking jewelers to intensify their mass picketing to assure a com- plete victory. , Unit 4, Section 5, Detroit District, more than tripled its quota in the NEW YORK.—Bakers and drivers of the Marseillaise French Baking Company, out on strike for union hours and conditions, are carrying on determined picketing in spite of the fact that the boss has applied for an injunction, Two pickets were arrested last Fri- day in front of Charles & Co, at the instigation of the company. That night a mass meeting was held un- der the auspices of the International Labor Defense and the Consumers Committee in support of the strike. The Bakery Workers Industrial Union, under whose leadership the strike was called, is fighting the in- Praston, l:as told them that if “you workers want to strike, I resign.” Great sympathy is also being shown by the people in the community and many small shopkeepers are donating food to aid the strikers, Strike Called At Metropolitan Button NEW YORK.—A strike was de- clared by the workers at the Metro- politan Button Works at 575 Eighth Ave., the largest shop of its kind in the city, under the guidance of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial injunction, hearing on which will take place on Friday. Mass., pledges to send $6 yearly for sustaining fund of the “Daily.” This is aside from collections for the $4,000 Drive. N.R. A. USING EVERY MEANS TO BREAK SHOE STRIKE By M. T. GOL GOLDBERG Twelve thousand shoe makers are engaged in a struggle for the last ten weeks agajnst starvation, and the right to organize, Six thousand are back in the factories working under union conditions. Six thousand are still out in the street. In the last four years of the crisis, wages have been cut from $50 to $12 poo @ 60-hour bos The worst form espionage e: in the factories, particularly in the “Board of Trade” shops. The Board of Trade kept up a special office with spies, and stool pigeons, They also kept names and addresses of workers who were somehow or other connected with a union, In this way the bosses always knew a worker who applied for a ‘Racket and Company Union In the larger factories the bosses established their own “Union.” Those “Union Shops” served many pur- poses. The officials of the Union $40,000 Daily Worker Drive. How about the other units? ‘ 4 Shops were chosen by the bosses. They collected dues every week and Union. More than 100 rhinestone workers are out and expect to bring out the button workers and tie up the plant. The strike is called to win in- creases in pay for the workers, The 9 am. at the time when Robert Minor, Communi candidate for Mayor is to be tried for picketing} in defiance of an unction agai the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union, The demonstration which is to be held in front of the court house at 120 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn, should rally thousands of workers whose right to organize in a union of their own choice and to fight for the right to decent working conditions are threatened. ‘The committee elected to plan the Injunction drive will call upon all other groups and committees, such as the Civil Liberties Union and the anti-injunction committee of the Socialists Party to form a united front to expose the judges and law- yers issuing these injunctions and to rally the workers to struggle against the employers’ injunction st company flies the Blue Eagle and pays $7 to $8 for a 44-hour week to the young workers it employs. NEW YORE.—Carpenters at Lord and Taylor's and McCreer3 ment stcres came out-on last week for a union shop, wage in- creases and a 40 hour week. The wages of $4 to $5.50-a day are far below the union scale, and the work- ing day is 48 hours in these stores. The strike is being led by Carpen- ters Local 2090 of the A. F. of L. Efforts are being made to spread the strike to other department stores. Brotherhood members are urged to report for picket duty at local head- quarters, 247 East 84th St. U. 8. RUBBER ON STRIKE BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 22.—Workers in the U. 8S. Rubber Reclaiming Com- pany are striking today for higher drive aimed to defeat the workers’ struggles, wages and shorter hours. The plant employs about 300 workers. umer price.” At tecking the Committee of the Pro2 ue: is ociation, a h is try- oe conf: the mass ment of the fa , Bentzley | ed, “that while these people are trying to deprive the farmers of their fundamental right to strike, while they are trying to continue all the old discrimination against the small farmers, farms are being foreclosed, and the poor farmers are being driven deeper into poverty.” The Philadelphia milk farmers are organizing for higher prices for their milk, and for lower prices for the consumers in the cities. A United | Front Committee has been formed with workers in Philadelphia, M. H. Kaminer, of Unit 4, Section 5, C. P., Detroit, collected $24 for the “Daily.” Unit 4 doubled its quota. the bosses were the trustees. The prices of the workers were handed down by these union officials. Work- ers were hired and fired by the same officjals, Those workers who paid weekly wages in the form of graft to these officials received their share of work, those who refused to pay graft would lose their share of work and job, The I, Miller Shop in L, I. was @ classical example of such com- pany “Union” shops, In 1929 the government was direct- ing the attack against the young union known as the “Independent Shoe Workers Union.” This was the first signal for the manufacturers to put chains on the shoe workers, They brought forth the “Boot & Shoe Workers Union” as a substitute for seater cee t sani esa Whalen Works with Shoe Board of Trade in Furious Drive to Send Men Back to Work Under Starvation Conditions; But Strikers Hold Firm the I. Ss. W. U. After having destroyed the militant union the manufacturers together with the “Boot and Shoe” officials succeeded in demoralizing and bringing starva- tion to the New York and Brooklyn shoe workers. The militant shoe workers began to organize jnto secret shop committees. Mass Strikes With new energy and determina- tion the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Nnion entered mass strikes. Small as well as large fac- tories were pulled out. At present 75 shops, embracing 6,000 shoes, slippers, stitchdowns, and repair- workers are working under Union control and Union conditions. Wages have been increased from 20 to 85 per cent. About 6,000 are still out on strike. N. R. A. Bosses and B. & 8, W. U. Unite Against Strikers The 6,000 strikers are from the vicious open strike-breaking agency known as the Board of Trade shops. The Shoe and Leather Workers In- dustrial Union has succeeded in tak~ ing down 95 per cent of the B. of T. shops. The bosses applied all kinds of schemes to smash a strike. They used the cry of “Communism” to scare the workers, but they failed miserably, They used wholesale in- junctions, Mr. G. Whalen took the place of Charles G. Wood, the notori- ous strike breaker of 1929, but failed completely. Gangsters, police, frame- ups, were used on the side of the 5 ee They even sent well-} ~paid | stool pigeons in the ranks of the | strikers, which failed also. The bosses and Mr. Whalen use the old scab agency, now the skeleton union of the B. &. S. W. U., to settle | our strike. This is the same union | which three weeks ago was driven out by 10,000 Brockton shoe workers. This union has been selling shoe workers for the last thirty-five years, and now it’s driven out of every shoe centre, What To Do The scheme of the bosses and the B, & S. W. Union is clear to every shoe striker. The bosses are out to starve us. But should we go back under Mr, Whalen and the bosses | outfit, we will starve working. We must mobilize all the strikers and demonstrate before the N, R. A. daily. Daily mass picketing around the striking shops. We must clear out the few scabs in the factories. The three B. & 8S. Union shops must be taken out on strike, The entire labor movement must be aroused. put an end to your institution of 1 have down workers in the picket to sho line for demanding bread and work, but you have refused to have troops called out to protect a man who was | not convicted of any crime, but who was a worker and a Negro.” “Up to the present moment,” Ritchie said, “I have always believed | that the relations between the whites and the Negroes in the State of Maryland were all that they should be.” “Have you forgotten,” Patterson interrupted him, “the lynching of Matthew Williams in Salisbury? Al- | ready the lynchers there are saying that no investigation was made which caused any trouble, and neither will there be any after this, Is this in your estimation a rela- tion that is ‘all that it should be?’” “I believe,” said Ritchie, groes and whites throughout state are living in amity. I satisfied with this relation.” Patterson: “Will you repeat that?” Ritchie repeated it. the am “Then I will take back to the work- | ers, Negro and white, the message that you are satisfied with jim-crow- ism, with segregation, with the de- | gradation of Negro and white man- | hood and womanhood, and with| lynching.” “You may take back to them any- thing you please,” said Ritchie. Workers of Gem Razor Company On Strike NEW YORK.—The brush workers of the Gem Razor Corporation are out | on strike for higher wages. They are demanding pay for legal holidays and | the right to form a union to protect | their interests. A squad of police were sent to the | shop gates to intimidate the strikers, but they held their ground and con- ducted a meeting calling on the workers still in the shop to join the strike, The strike is under the leader- ship of the United Brush Workers Union and is being aided by the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, called out the troops! “that Ne-| wages and better conditions, An in- | tensive campaign js now carried on in the shop to get the support of all | the workers behind those demands, and it is now a matter of days or weeks when this or perhaps another shop will swing into action, which | will also be a signal for the workers in other shops to start similar ac- tion, TRADE UNION DIRECTORY <<. OLEANERS, DYERS AND PRESSHRS ~ | UNION ‘228 Seopdd Avenue, New York Otty Algonquin ¢-4267 FOOD WORKERS INDUSTRIAL | UNI 818 Broadway, New York City Gramercy, 5-9886 METAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 35 East 19th Street, New York City Gramercy 7-7842 NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS | INDUSTRIAL UNION 131 West 28th Street, New York City Lackawanna 4-010 OUT OF TOWN AFFAIRS FOR THE Daily, Worker || Los Angeles Section Comrade MacHarris, touring for the Daily Pilin “Ten. Days ‘That “Shock. The World” and “Bread” will be showr in the following cities on the date: listed below for the benefit of the Daily Worker: Oct. 22 to 26 inclusive— Monterey, Santa Cruz and Watsonville Oct. 27—Carmel orker, With the great Soviet SEanspo