The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1933, Page 3

j ,ship of the union, i i i ate e' 4 * standard of living for the people DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1938 764,563,280 Alloted for War Preparations t in Past 3 Months HUGE SUMS SPENT! 10 BUILD UP NAVY ‘SECOND TO NONE? $10,000,000 to War Department for Motorization By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—In a lit- tle over three months’ time the Fed- eral Emergency Administration of Public Works, headed by Harold Ickes, has made allotments for 448 state and municipal projects total- ling $255,457,771, as compared with $764,563,280 for military purposes— $367,692,430 of the latter sum for direct war preparations, such as na- val construction and army motoriza- tion. Observing expressive silence about its primary military function, the “Public Works” Administration today announced its total of $255,457,771 as the result of a survey of non-Federal allotments which “revealed just what the taxpayers are getting for their money and how the map of the na- tion is being dotted with works which have been qualified as “socially bene- ficial,” in that they make the citi- zens’ day-to-day life easier, more safe and comfortable.” While nearly every day brings a P. W. A. announcement of a military allotment, the millions of destitute are pontifically informed by the P. W. A. that “a higher and Leap’ the United States will be one of the achievements of the Public Works Program.” The Ickes organization, in a three months’ period, alloted $2,300,500 for for 14 hospitals, $5,537,495 for 35 schools and $46,219,058 for housing, as compared with $238,000,000 for con- structing a mavy “second to none,” the $10,000,000 allotment made on Oct. 21 to the War Department for motorization, and the $15,000,000 made on the same date to the War and Navy Departments for aviation construction. Nevertheless, the P. W. A. today sends out word all over the country that “the vast money power of the P. W. A. $3,300,000,000 fund is being distributed over the nation.” Some- how or other the P. W. A. publicity department failed to reiterate the Ickes fiction which it released on Oct. 23, that “85 per cent of every dollar of the $3,300,000,000 fund will go for wages under P. W. A. precau- tions.” Maybe the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Labor Department notified Ickes that the latest Bureau report on the subject of relative cost of labor and building materials (in- cluding ship construction) shows only 36.4 per cent for labor. Pulp Workers Adopt Demands for Struggle at Lumber Meeting ABERDEEN, Wash., October 30.— Progress towards organizing the pulp workers was registered last week when 150 delegates representing ap- proximately 1600 pulp cutters, haul- ers, skidders and day laborers met in conference here at the call of the National Lumber Workers Union. Job delegates of the union are found in every camp, it was reported by the delegates. Most of those present were already members of the union, and the rest signed up during the conference sessions. The chief task of the conference was to adopt a set of demands which will be presented to the companies through the N.R.A. Another meet- ing is to be called for November 5th for report on the action taken by/ he N.R.A. and to plan further in the struggle for the enforce- mé@ ; of these demands, 4 nong the important demands adopted by the delegates are the six- hour day and the 30-hour week, 60 cents an hour for day laborers, wage scales of $5.50 per cord for cutting lpwood during the months of Octo- to March, and $4.50 a cord from April to September, recognition of the union and the improvement of liv- {ng conditions of the workers in the camps. Knit Goods Workers Elect Union Officers NEW YORK.—Knitgoods workers will elect an executive board of 25 members and four organizers, in place of the one they had had‘prior to the recent strike, at elections on Tuesday and Wednesday. Polling places are announced at 131 weet 28th St. for New York members, at 103, Knickerbocker Ave. for Brooklyn members and at 1813 Pitkin Ave. for East New York members. Workers may vote from 1 to 7 on Tuesday and from 10 to 7 on Wednesday. The Trade Board of the Needle rades Workers Industrial Union 3ills all knitgoods members to par- ‘eipate in the elections and select he members best qualified to leader- National Hvents LOCAL 2 PLANS CONCERT CHICAGO, Ill.—Local 2 of the | Painters, Paperhangers and Decora: take place on Saturday, Nov. 8 p.m, at 3317 W. Roosevelt labor for bare subsistence) Hibbing Workers Force Officials to Grant Relief to Unemployed HIBBING, Minn, Oct. 30—The workers of this town held a relief conference to decide on means of ob- taining adequate relief for the un- employed. Complaints were made at the meeting that relief for needy persons was withheld by officials, Two cases were illustrative of many: A widow with two children was refused relief, Unnerved, she threatened to kill her children, rather than see them starve. An old woman of 63 was refused wood for the winter. She was told to go into the woods and chop her own wood. The workers elected a committee, who went to see the officials, shey were told that no relief was forth- coming. The committee informed the officials that they would mobilize all the workers in their cause, where- upon the widow and the three other cases presented received relief the next morning. Realizing the benefit of mass pressure for the protection of their interests, the workers are 01 4 unemployed councils in many neigh- borhoods. Demonstration to Protest NRA Action In Tailors’ Strike Called Today in 5th Ave. District Against NRA Strikebreaking NEW YORK.—The entire member- Ship of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union will come out in full strength in support of the cus- tom tailors’ strike today at noon, at @ mass demonstration on Fifth Ave. called by the Industrial Union. Climaxing a series of strikebreak- ing acts against the custom tailors and other workers on strike, Grover Whalen, last week, shielded the em- ployers in their refusal to grant the strikers’ demands and openly en- couraged the continuation of the miserable sweatshop conditions in the trade under the Blue Eagle, which the employers have signed. Grover Whalen had written to the Merchant Tailors Society at the outset of the strike instructing them against nego- tiating with the strike committee of the Industrial Union. It was only after several demonstrations at NRA headquarters by the striking custom tailors that he was compelled to call conferences of the strikers and the bosses, These conferences have thrown a glaring searchlight on Whalen’s pre- tended interest in settling the strike. His much touted concern with abol- ishing the sweatshops was again shown to be a mere fraud. Whalen has deliberately blocked negotiations, prolonged the strike and is now open- ly protecting the strikebreaking em- ployers who refuse all the strikers’ demands. Red scare propaganda issued by the notorious Constitutional Educational League and the scabbing of the offi- cials of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers have not been able to break the back of the strike. In a leaflet answering the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ officials’ charge that it and not the Industrial Union represents the interests of the tailors, the Union exposes the betrayal of the present | strike by the Amalgamated officials, who sent scabs to do the work of the shops on strike, Many Amalgamated members however, are supporting the strike and contributing funds for relief of the strikers, The hage mass demonstration to- day at noon on Fifth Ave., between 42nd and 46th Streets, , will protest against the strikebreaking efforts of the bosses, the NRA and their agents and their stubborn refusal to nego- tiate a settlement of this strike. Alabama Board Uses “Literacy Test” to Bar Negro Barbers BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 30.—The | “literacy test’ which, together with terroristic methods, is used to dis- franchise the Negro masses, is being utilized by the Jefferson County Barbers’ Commission to deny licenses to Negro barbers to practice their trade. The following questions were put to a Negro barber who applied for a license: 1, Who was president of the Con- federacy? 2. What are adjectives? 3. Name the organs of the human body. Although the questions had noth- ing’ to do with barbering and were manifestly foolish and unfair, the Negro was denied a license when he was unable to answer the questions to the satisfaction of the commis- | Roosevelt’s?—No, Hitler’s Buzzard Union of Pittsburgh Packing House Workers Growing Fast By FRANK KRACIK PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 30—Once more the packinghouse workers, will a tradition of militant struggles behind them are on the move. The pack- inghouse workers have finally broken with the old A. F. of L. type of craft union and are now building, new, militant industrial unions, with a fighting program, around which they are now rallying thousands of packinghouse workers throughout the ‘These new unions in many cities have already carried through successfully @ movement for improved conditions of work and for the recognition of their union, the Packinghouse Work- ers Industrial Union, In Pittsburgh, in the course of only eight weeks, we haye been successful in building an organization of over 1,300 packinghouse workers. It has also served to stimulate organization amongst the workers in many outly- ing cities in Western Pennsylvania, such as Washington, Pa. Beaver Falls, and also in some cities of West Virginia, Many of our most active union members have been fired by the bosses in order to weaken the base of the union. In every case the workers forced the reinstatement of every worker fired for union activity. In one of the independent shops the president of the union was fired. The next morning, the entire plant re- fused to start until he was reinstated and the shop committee recognized. This was granted within five minutes. Seeing this the bosses utilized an- other old and faithful maneuver. They called in the A. F. of L. team- sters union, to try and organize a separate union for the truck~-drivers. Our union immediately responded to this treachery, issued a leaflet to the drivers, calling them to a mass meet- ing to discuss their own demands. ‘This mass meeting unanimously de- cided to repudiate the A. F. of L, leadership, A delegation was sent to the meeting called by the A. F. of L, The delegation and the workers there, after firing questions, definitely forced the A. F, of L. leadership out of the picture, at least temporarily, And now a new and more dan- gerous problem, began to face the union. The code of “so-called” fair practice, for the meat packing in- dustry proposed by the institute of Meat Packers controlled by the “Big Four,” Armours, Swifts, Cudahy, and Wilson, outside the fact that it pro- poses to establish a starvation wage scale of 37 and one-half cents per hour for women and 42 and one-half cents per hour for men, also pro- poses for cities of less than 500,000 population a scale of 30 cents an hour for male workers and five cents less for female. The bosses of Pittsburgh immediately took advantage of this clause in the code. In one shop, Dunlevy-Franklin, a subsidiary of the Highgrade Provision corporation, an entire department was eliminated, re~ sulting in the firing without warning of close to fifty workers, These workers, still seeing a ray of hope in the N.R.A., immediately brought their complaint before the local board, headed by ex-governor were | Fisher, where at first they refused even to listen to the complaigts. But when the workers threat action, they were referred to the representa- tive of the Labor Department, a Miss Pitt. She expressed her sympathy country. @ with the workers and her indignation with the “chiseling bosses.” Miss Pitt promised she would use her influence, but that the workers should not take action, She was never seen nor heard from again. Immediately the union went into motion, issued a call to the workers for action, rallied a large mass meeting, where resolutions of protest were adopsed, and where a basis was laid down for the presen- tation of the demand to the bosses, At the last meeting of the executive of the Shop Delegates Council, a representative union body, a definite program of action was adopted, and @ list of demands worked out, which include: 1) Recognition of the union and shop committees; 2) A maximum work week of forty hours, with a 35 hour weekly guarantee; 3) A general 20 per cent increase in wages; 4) Hir- ing and firing to be in the hands of the shop committee and the union; 5) Time and one-half for overtime, with a limit of not more than two hours in one day; 6) The right of the Negro workers to any job at the same pay; an unemployment insurance fund to be raised through a 3 per cent tax on the payrolls of the employers, the fund to be administered by the union. A call has been issued to all locals throughout the country for a Nation- | al Conference that will take place Sunday, Nov, 12. From all indica- tions this conference, although pre- pared in a short mme will be suc- cessful. The Food Workers Indus- trial Union, which has established branches under its leadership, has Pledged its support and of the branches in this conference. East Ohio St., Pittsburgh, Pa., is also lending active support to the activi- ties of the Packinghouse union, For those locals or groups who have not received a copy of the call for the National Conference, write to the local office of the Packinghouse Workers Industrial Union, Pack House Workers in Pittsburgh to Put Demands to Bosses, PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 30—At a special meeting of the Shops Dele- gates Council of the Packing House Workérs’ Industrial Union here it was decided to present demands to the employers in week, Out of the 2,000 workers in the in- dustry in Pittsburgh already close to 1,500 are members of the union with functioning shop and <epartment committees. Shop meetings are being held and the demands are being voted on by | the workers and strike preparations are being made, 1) The establishment of | The} Local branch of the Food Workers) Industrial Union in Pittsburgh, 400) the industry this: 250 Packinghouse Workers Strike in Los Angeles, Calif. NRA and AFL Leaders Work to Wreck Walkout LOB ANGELES, Calif., Oct. 30— meat packing plant in Los Angeles over 250 went out on strike Friday. The A, F. of L. leadershlp in the Amalgamated Butchers and Meat Cutters Workman's Union was forced to call the strike by the rank and file. The workers are fighting against unbearable conditions and the low wages. When the workers went on strike | they were met with speeches from and the N. R. A. official who was present. The N. R. A. official said he “sympathized” with the workers. That the N. R. A. officials, the A. FP. of L. leaders and the bosses of Wilsons are working closely together cannot be doubted. All day speeches were made by the officials. The workers were asked to take a vote on whether or not they wanted the union recognized. The workers were sent by the leaders away from the scene of the strike to New High St., the headquarters of the N.R..A. No! rank and file committees of the worke were elected. Two carloads of copArefused the workers the right to picket. Finally it was decided that only five workers at a time would be allowed to picket, The rank and file were allowed no voice in their strike, and many of the workers went home in disgust. The Fighting Vets By H. E. BRIGGS Don’t forget Nov. 7. On this date the Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism and the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League are giving the farewell meeting to Henri Bar- busse. It will be held at the St. Nicholas Arena, Election returns will be given, Also special entertainment. Don's delay, get your tickets NOW. SO NIE! THE VETERANS SPEAK UP For the last month we have been accumulating a great many Vet Bul- letins, newspapers and clippings. And along with these the command, “give us a write up, comrade.” Here goes— W.ES.L. National News Bulletin No. 1. Briefly we think this is a valiant attempt to supply the crying need for National Post News. However, it is @ start in the right direction. De- Spite the poor mimeographing and dull tone, the confidence and re- sponse of our members and outsiders is proof that they are willing and anxious to support such a bulletin. The outstanding article, “Cond{ftions of Negro Vets,” and “Fifteen Years Peace,” show we have the ability, if it is properly mobilized and di- rected. The list of new posts answers | those critics who say we are standing still. Here are a few: New Orleans—Post 183. St. Paul., Minn.—Post 178, This Post |was represented at the Anti-War | Congress. |_ Dickinson, Texas; Middlesboro, | Ky.; Red Lamp, Mont.; Rock Springs, | Wyo.; Clinton, Ind.; Bray Lake, Ohio; Hollywood, Calif. Four New Posts in New York City In the N. Y. area four new Posts are being set up. Post 2 in Harlem is being rearganized. Another in Spanish Harlem is being organized. Brownsville being reorganized. Wil- liamsburg has a Post, the Needle Trades has a Post. The Shoe and Leather Workers and the Food Work- ers have asked for organizers, POST No. 1 MULLETIN back old times. In the dark ages of Post No. 1, we were on a bulletin committee. We called our “brain child” the “Veterans Voice,” and were we proud? We soon learned, how- ever, that we were neither, fish, flesh, nor good red herring. “We were too literary.” “We were too critical.” Yes, we were both. But we started the ball rolling in New York and were the indirect means of bringing out the short-lived “Fighting Vet.” The Post No. 1 bulletin does not make our mistakes. It isn’t high hat, and it doesn’t call itself a Voice. Other small papers and bulletins can take @ tip from this. There are too many voices. Their cross-fire sounds like @ Tower of Babel. Better to be a@ competent bulletin, than to be somebody's voice off key. There are mistakes. Too much of the work is done by one man. This must not be. Committee co-operation is just as esesential in a paper as a strike. We are glad to see that the articles are signed. For there is initiative in this bulletin. We remember our bul- Of the 300 workers in the Wilson | the leader of the A. F. of L. union| This is a good clean job. It brings | ORDERS FULL PROBE, SENDS AIST JOLANE| BALTHFOR ¥ Fost pois 's Attorney Robins Plars To Quiz Persons Named Nin Newspaper, AFFIDAVIT IS es Captain Frank Spencer Al- ‘| leged to Have Been Wit- ness of Lynching 1 = George Armwood, Negro, in Princess Anne last week are | published in today’s issue of the Daily Worker, a New York paper backed by the Communist party. Governor Ritchie and State's Ate torney Robins, of Somerset County, informed of the publication of the ‘names, said an immediate investl- munist paper's article. Included in the list is the name of a youth who, the paper says, The names are published on the So complete and irrefutable was the “Daily's” exposure of the lynch- ers of George Armwood, Negro worker, that the conservative Balti- more Post was forced to reprint it, giving credit to the “Daily.” Above is the photostat of the Daily Worker's story as reprinted by the Post, The Post published the story as a drop from a front page eight - column scream - headline “Ritchie Given Lynch Suspects’ Names. The Post, however, deleted the names of the State and Somer- set County officials designated by Captain Spencer, ex-army officer, as the leaders and inciters of the mob which lynched Armwood at Princess Anne, Eastern Shore, Maryland, two weeks ago as a pre- lude to the legal lynching of Euel Friday morning. |Bootblacks Protest Police Terror Today; To Organize Children NEW YORK.—The Bootblack Workers Union, affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, is calling a@ meeting of all bootblacks tonight at 8, at 37 E. 13th St., to protest the jailing of 16 bootblacks for two days, and to elect a delegation to see Mayor O'Brien and make him stop police intimidation of bootblacks. The union has also made plans to hold a meeting of all child bootblacks this Friday at 9 p.m. at 812 Broadway. Los Angeles Militant Beaten Up, Arrested LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30—Albert Kaufman, militant worker, was beaten up and arrested by two policemen while walking on South Broadway towards Ninth St. on Oct. 20. Threat- | ened with “German Hitler treatment” for his activities in the fight for re- lief, Kaufman is being held on a trumped-up charge of “attacking an officer.” He is being defended by the International Labor Defense. letin, how the biggest part of our time was wasted arguing over whether we should sign our name or not. We compromised on initials. How silly! If anything is good enough to print it is good enough to sign. It en- courages the veteran and worker cor- respondent. And if there are any serious mistakes the committee and writer can be properly corrected. Comrade Buckley has a lively re- view of the Big N.R.A. parade, The humor that is lacking in the National Bulletin, is found here. Comrade Walker discusses the Brain Trust and how it takes care of the American family by sending the vets, women and boys into forced labor camps. Comrade Tupper has a short story called “What's wrong?” It ends on a note of defeat, otherwise it is okay. Tupper also contributes an N.R.A. song that ends on a more hopeful note. The scanty Negro material is deplorable and must be corrected, Lee in Maryland penitentiary last | | FORCED ON Rent ‘aly’ Bre PATERSON DYE WORKERS SPLIT SHIFT | Bosses Begin Attack on - Working Conditions | and Threaten Blacklist PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 30.—The dye house manufacturers of Paterson, aided by the leaders of the United Textile Union, are making efforts in every sho} p to smash the National Textile Workers Union and at the same time take away from the dye Workers even those slight gain: AFL Heads Squelch| Strike Call of Half of Chemical Local | Turn Complaints Over | to NRA When 300 | | Get Fired BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 80.—Al- | though half the members were call- | ing for a strike, leaders of Ani-| line Chemical Workers Local 18705 | (A, F. of L.) last night succeeded | in curbing the workers’ anger | |against the National Aniline Chem- | ical Co. (on Abbott Rd.), and) |turned their complaints over to General “Blue Buzzard Johnson,| Frances Perkins, William Green and | the National Labor Board. The company has laid of? 800 | men in the past two weeks, has| shoved hours up from 36 to 48 for | those who are still working, and jhave refused for three weeks to see a union delegation that wants to ask for a 25 per cent raise, The | plant employs 1,153. Clarence F. Conroy, secretary of the Street Car Men’s Union, and the A. F. of L’s special represent- ative at negotiations to see that the workers don’t ask too much or get impolite with the plant man- agers, is authority for the above |statement, according to today’s| Buffalo papers. Forced by the workers to make a threatening gesture against the company, they were in a hot spot and whined. They knew their mas- ters’ voices, however, and saw to it that strike sentiment did not prevail—instead they decided to let the country’s chief strike-breakers, | Green, Johnson, Perkins and Sen- ator Wagner, take a hand. Having failed to throttle the workers’ mili- |tant demands themselves, they pre- tend being in sympathy with the workers, meanwhile sending desper- | ate word to Washington, asking ex- perts to come and do the throttling. Nothing will be done until this crew is heard from. Arrest Two Strikers at Wheelan Studios NEW YORK.—Two striking work- ers of the Wheelan Photographic Studios, Saffran and Don, were ar- rested yesterday on a charge of dis- orderly conduct and roughly handled by the policeman, while conversing with the pickets. The workers of this studio, located at 377 7th Ave., struck on Thursday, under the leadership of the Photo- graphic Workers Union. They de- mand an increase in wages, shorter hours, and recognition of their union. Determined to break the strike, the | Wheelan Studios have tried devious | ways to get scabs to do their work, but have not succeeded in intimidat- ing the strikers. The Photographic Workers Union is calling a mass meeting tonight at their headquarters at 5 East 19th St, All photographic workers are urged to attend. Workers’ Enemies Exposed JOHN G. SOLTIS.—Originally from Minneapolis, Minn., where he was known for an unprinci~ pled careerist and self-seeking schemer; also known 4s such in Denver, Colo.; has now been ex~ posed by the Executive Commit- tee of the United Farmers League in South pate as a dishonest petty ketee: Specifically, “he had collected money from farmers in Perkins county, South Dakota, for mem- bership books and dues in the United Farmers League and has not accounted for them. He has caused disruption by claiming that he had sent in this money to the organization, and that the organization was neglecting to furnish the books and stamps. The Executive Committee of the U. F. L. of So. Dakota, besides removing Soltis from the work of the U.F.L., warns all farmers and workers in So. Dakota not to ar- ran, y more meetings for him. FEDERAL EMERGENCY RELIEF HEAD ADMITS 15,000,000 DESTITUTE JOBLESS Hopkins Makes Statement in Speech to Gain Support for Activities i in Establishing Nazi-Style Concentration Camps By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Washington Bureau) established to care for" tare teres ) homeless Today Hopkins’ effort was to make file | { unemployed, including all who havn't a ite» ine mpe by year, who may sent to cam) lice, railroads and sheriffs,” ie aa an smpresive case for his outfit’s pode His speech was delivered in Kansas City but was made public here to obtain full benefit of the government's ballyhoo-pub- ity machine. In this effort to “sell” federal relief activities, Hopkins refer- red to the 15,000,000 destitute unem- Ployed, He also disclosed that of the paltry is- | $500,000,000 appropriated by Congress for federal relief, Posey chr gel apa allotted. leaves $284,000,000 to be distributed among the 15,000,000 now enumerates—or a little less than $19 apiece! “We are going to start the winter with a million more families than were on relief a year ago at this time,” Hopkins said, though he him- self explained that last winter's relief doles have been shrunk by “the tightening up of the administration of relief all over the United States.” As one of the liberal-facade coterie of Roosevelt regimers, Hopkins made some characteristically naive blun- ders. In fact he challenged a recent speech by none other than President Roosevelt himself, Hopkins referred to himself and others of the class who lost in the market crash or received more salary cuts, and asked feelingly: “What are our sufferings compared with those of the fifteen million people that form the rank and file of the nation’s destitute unemployed?” Roosevelt recently said that several million of total unemployed work occasionally or preferred a not to work at all.” Hopkins said of the 15,000,000: “Who are these 2... Are they unemployable? .. .'They are doc} tors, dentists, carpenters, baal the finest in America, the workers, that is who they are.” Hopkins then assured his audience that “the needy unemployed are go- ing to be taken care of this winter,” and volunteered that: “There is plenty of food in this country, Ware- houses are full of it. It is glutting the markets and rotting on the ground,” Proceeding to Roosevelt's benefi- cient provision for handling over sur- ’ pluses to the unemployed, Hopkins made the error of being specific. He said he is “distributing a hundred million pounds of pork,” which, again divided by the 15,000,000, turns out to be something over 6 pounds apiece. He said he is distributing “15,000,000 pounds of domestic beef,” or one pound apiece to the 15,000,000 desti- tute he acknowledges; and that he will, sometime in the future, distri- bute “6,300,500 bushels of wheat and better and apples,” which would mean about half a bushel apiece (whether of each commodity or of @ choice of one was not specified.) Hopkins reported that the 3% mifl- lion families who make up the 15,000,- 000 “receive 50 cents a day for every- thing,” that “there are states in which the average is only 25 cents a day for four or five persons,” “that “fifteen million people in the United States are on a standard of living based on a little $15-a-month-a-fam- iy.” Calling, of course, for state, local and private cooperation to meet relief needs, Hopkins said, “The Federal government is committed to paying a fair share (sic!) but tt cannot pay the whole bill.” And so to the “transients” who will be persuaded into concentration camps— “Those nomads. . . must be taken care of in a more effective way and we propose to do i im a transient camp." | Union, s made by the workers during the strike. The strike wa’ largely started by the protest of the workers against the split shift, which gives the worke no guarantee of any definite work- ing time or daily earning. The Unites Textile Workers agreement with the employers makes no mention of th’ split shift, one of the main grievances of the workers, and as a result the dye house bosses have already no- tified the workers that the split shift ts to be re-introduced this week. The tional Textile Workers se militant leadership wa | able to win increases in wages in the strike, was enabled to send it 3,000 members back into the mills for effective fighting inside the shops. Now the U.T.W. leaders and the boss- es are telling every worker that they must join the U.T.W. or be fired. In the Lodi plant of the United Pioce Dye Works, Miss Cunningham, em- ployment director, and Jack Ruben- stein, renegade leader of the U:T.W., are threatening the workers with discharge unless they join the U.T.W. Similar tactics are to be carried out in all dye houses. The N.T.W.U. is cond@ucting a series of shop meetings and mass meetings to take up the question and to stiffen the resistance to this newest move om the U.T.W. and the employers. Blacklisting of both U.T.W. and N.T.W.U. members who were ac- tive leaders of the strike, is expected. John J. Ballam, national organizer of the N.T.W.U., stated, “Only the rapid development of one united rank and file union tn the silk industry will prevent the loss of the gains which have so far been won in the strike. In the dye industry a new strike is threatening against the split shift.” The United National Strike Com- mittee meets in Easton on Tuesday to take up the newest developments, which include the sending back to work of the jacquard strikers in Paterson by the U.T.W. leaders, and the attemipt of these leaders to sell out the strike im further conferences with Wagrier’s “Labor Board, which again meets tomorrow. Ten thou- | Sand silk workers are still on strike in Paterson. Relief for the striking silk workers of Paterson must continue. The relief store, where families are given bun- dles of food to take home, the milk station where the children are re- ceiving milk, the coffee station where the pickets get their breakfast, are being continued by the Silk and Dye Strikers Relief Committee. At the headquarters at 222 Peterson St., and 61 Hamilton Ave., relief is being con- tinued to hundreds of families, re- gardless of whether they belong to a union or are unorganized. The de- cisive question is “Are you a striker, and are you active in the strike.” The U.T.W. leaders have done everything possible to block and dis- rupt the relief work of the above committee. Workers everywhere are asked to rush their funds to enable | the silk workers to defeat the starva- tion $13 code, to the Silk and Dye Strikers Relief eel ates 222 Pater~ son St., Paterson, J. You need the revolutionary move~ * ment. The revolutionary move- ment needs the Daily Worker. The “Daily” needs funds to continue, Heln the “Daily” with your im- mediate contribution, OUT OF TOWN AFFAIRS | Los Angeles || NOY. 5th: Extraordinary Concert, Muse, | tertainment and Drama to be held | at 214 Loma Drive st & p.m } Detroit | A well known Soviet film will be shown at the following places on the dates listed below for the benefit of the Daily Worker: OCT. 31st: Assembly Hall, 12th . and Olatr- moint. NOV. ist: Yemans Hall, 304 Yemans, Bam- stranck. NOV. 2nd: Finnish Hall, $900 14th @t, at Graw Ave, NOV. 8rd: Martin Hall, 4959 Martin Avessmes! of the halls mentioned above. ——= All showings begin at 7:30 sharp, . mission 15¢. Tickets good for of the halls hsted above: California The great Soviet film “1905” adapt- ed from M. Gorki's famous novel ‘Mother will be shown in the fol- lowing cities on the dates listed be- low for the benefit’ of the me | Worker. Comrade Ed. Royce is| touring with this film, | Nov. 2—San Bernardino Work- | ers Center, 704 Mt. Vernon Ave. at 8 pm, Adm, 100 _ Nov. 3—Hollywood,