The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 13, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1934 AFL Painters Local vale a | | oar Demands CWA Jobs rane | Mass Strikes Continue, Union Pay ont Bie Speed-Up, Wage Cut- Soe Farley’s Mar. 2 Order g Lo Post Office Men To Call Conferences of | Departments To Plan Action Chicago Union of Over | governments grant immediately ad- 1,000 Members For Tax on Rich CHICAGO, Ill, March 12.—The Painters, Decorators and Paper- hangers Local Union No. 637, with over one thousand members, has Passed a resolution protesting against the continued C. W. A. lay-| offs and demanding continuation and extension of C. W. A. jobs. The resolution, which was sent to Congressmen and other building trades locals, calls for an end to wage cuts on C. W. A. work, and| for a five-day week and six-hour day on C. W. A. projects, for addi- tional C. W. A. projects on public works, such as libraries, schools and workers’ housing, to be paid for at union wages, out of funds secured through taxing wealthy individuals and large corporations. Resolution In Full ‘The resolution in full follows: “Local Union No. 637 of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decora‘ors ditional funds sufficient to continue jall the C, W. A. projects originally planned. “(III) That additional projects be undertaken by the C. W. A. to build more schools, libraries, hos- pitals, parks, gymnasiums and sim- ilar buildings, also erase the Chi- cago slums and erect in their place modern, sanitary workers’ homes, with a view of promoting the health, education and general wel- fare of the working people of Chi- cago. “(IV) That the funds necessary |for the realization of the above mentioned works be raised not |through additional taxing of the | workers, small home owners and small bus! conle, but through | taxing in: is and corporatiens with large incomes and by cutting the expenses for the Police, State Militia and National Guard, that |are used primarily for defeating the Jefforts of labor to raise the stand- ards of living of the workers, who constitute the overwhelming major- ity of the population; and Paperhangers has adopted the) “anq be it further resolved, that following resolution: |this resolution be forwarded to the “Whereas the great majority Of Givi) Works Administration in the painters in the city of Chicago | Washington, to the U. S. Senators are unemployed, and numbers Of! trom the state of Illinois and to the NEW YORK.—The enlarged Na- | tional Board meeting of the Needle | Trades Workers Industrial Union, | which opened at Irving Plaza Hall | Friday, ended Monday night after | having arrived at a number of im- portant decisiors. . NEW YORK.—The enlarged Na- | tional Board meeting of the Needic| | Trades Workers Industrial Union, with several hundred active work-_ ers present, opened at Irving Plaza Hall. Friday and yesterday plans were well under way to form na- tional committees within the union |to lead the mounting struggles of | |fur workers and custom tailors, Reviewing the situation in the industry during the past year, Louis Hyman, chairman of the union, opened the first session. Hyman showed how the N.R.A. codes have| reduced the living conditions of the workers in all industries and espe- cially in the needle industry. He pointed out that in order to better their conditions the workers must smash the N.R.A. Gold Points to Growth | Ben Gold, secretary of the union, showed in his report how the union had in the course of the last year! UNDER ROOSEVELT’S NOSE Just around the corner from President Roosevelt’s sumptuous New York home, a woman workér and her furniture was thrown into the street for failure to pay rent. Here are her belongings. Arrow (left) points to Rooseyelt’s house, Demand Immediate Release of 700 Jersey Postal Men Fight Cuts and Organize NEWARK, N. J—More than 700 I. Amter To Speak on Workers Bill (H. R. 7598) in Jamestown JAMESTOWN, N. ¥ Amter, Nati the Unemployment. C of will speak at the Scandianvian 628 East 2nd St on Thursday the for Workers Hall, Jamestown, N. Y. March 15, at 8 p. m. on subject, “The United Front the Workers Unemployment surance Bill (H. R. 7598) d especial! y of the fa dorsed the bill. California Vets Prepare March: to State Capital Legion Faker Tries to | Follows Roosevelt’s 15 Per Cent Pay Cut Last Year By a Postal Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Shortiy after Pres- ident Roosevelt delivered radio pep talk last Tuesday, March 5th which capitalist press ba hooed with a sereaming headline esident Says, Cut Hours and Lift on the inner pages of the pocritieal papers appeared h ar es are shows its real oul, and hypo- y same hand and the treacherous ed, hours before critica! ting Thousands of Postal workers who read the newspaper headlines or a Frankfeld By Mellon’s Court aa aie Grew ah the acid vot Newark and suburban post ofice) Disrupt Work of the foolishly listened to his radio talk |increased its membership by thou- their resources, as a result of four years of unemployment; and “1. Whereas, the Federal Govern-| pederation of Labor, the Chicago | ment, by instituting the C. W. A. plan, has thereby recognized its responsibility to the unemployed workers of the nation; and “2. Whereas, at the first call of the government, practically the en- tire membership of our union have for C. W. A. work, and thereby shown their eagerness to earn a living; and “3. Whereas, only a portion of those who registered have been put to work by the C. W. A.; and ‘4, Whereas, those who received C.W.A. jobs have, after a few weeks, been cut in their weekly wages through the cutting of working hours from 30 to 24 and less; and “5. Whereas, many schools and other public buildings in the City of Chicago are badly in need of paint and repairs; and “6. Whereas, the Civil Works Ad- ministration is planning to discon- tinue hundreds of projects and has already laid off thousands of work- ers; therefore be it “Resolved, that we, Local Union No. 687, Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, with a membership of over 1,000, protest against the lay-offs of C. W. A. workers, as well as against drastic ont in the wages of those working, and we find that this is im complete contradiction the announced purpose of the in establishing the C. A., namely, to increase the pur- hasing power of the people; and further resolved that we go ‘d for the following de- “(ED That the C. W. A. provide work for all the unemployed work- ers of Chicago on the basis of a five-day week and six-hour day at wages. “(1% That the Federal and State Fea a Torgsin Order relatives and friends in and enable them the Torgsin Stores needed ot the turn of the weather. Prices compare favor- ably with those in the United States Por Forgsin Orders apply to your foosi bank or authorized agent Soviet ~ n bey YOU can do this by below. This offer does Bnclosed find $. scription at the specia) trial Daily Trial Offer--50c win over your friends and fellow workers to our revolutionary movement. DAILY WORKER. Present them with a real revolutionary gift, a trial subscription of the “Daily”. Ra limited period, we will send the “Daily” for one month every day or for 4 months every Saturday for only 50 cents. [=* below the name and address of the one you want to receive the trial subscription. Use coupon Bronx and Manhattan, New York Trial Subscription Blank DAILY WORKER, 50 E. 18th St., New York City QU co ceccet ccc eescetseeeessenees State Chicago members of the House of Representatives, to the American Federation of Labor, Illinois State | Federation of Labor, the Chicago | Building Trades Council, Painters | District Council No, 14, and to all ‘joeal unions affiliated with the Chicago Building Trades Council, also to the Workers’ Press.” Seamen Win Strike; Negro Dockers Out Solid Against Cut Unity Between Negro and White Workers Established By MAC HARRIS BALTIMORE, Md., March 12.— The Marine Workers Industrial Union scored another victory when the crew of the 8, S. Lebore, after a one hour strike won all demands presented to the shipowners. This successful strike won the following improved conditions for the sea- men: 1) Ordinary seamen wages in- creased from $30 to $35 per month. 2) Able Seamen’s wages in- creased from $45 to $50 per month. 3) Boatswain increased from $50 to $60 per month. 4) Firemen increased from $45 to 50 per month. 5) Recognition of ships commit- tee attained. 6) Better food conditions. In addition, the crew also forced the ship owners to hire two Negro messmen, one of which is now the | ships’ delegate. This issue was pri- marily forced by white members of the crew, Another ship now striking here is the S.S. Angelo, controlled by the Quaker Line, The strike was a spontaneous walkout and is now being conducted with the coopera- tion of the M.W.LU. The $.8. New Britain, a Seward Liner, which was reported to have sailed, is still tied up down the stream, the men having walked off when the captain attempted to move the ship out of the port. A taxicab loaded with scabs for the S.S. Walter Munson was turned back by pickets and the ship was stopped from sailing. Strike Sentiment Spreading Another crew joined with the longshoremen who have been strik- ing since March 6th under the lead- ership of the M.W.I.U. Approxi- mately 150 Negro longshoremen are now involved in the strike. Upon three occasions the solidar- ity of the white and Negro seamen and longshoremen succeeded in turning back scabs. The contrac- tors threatened to cut the wages from 60c to 30c per hour, The longshoremen struck and in turn presented their own demands which consisted of: 752 to $1.10 per hour for overtime, maintenance of orig- inal wage and recognition of the MW.LU. reaching them with our not apply for the to pay for the following sub- rate. Check Daily or Saturday. ++ Saturday ccscovecsees sands. With exception of the dress | department, the union has gained membership in all branches of the trade. Gold proposed in the name of! the National Buro that the union establish national committees in the| fur and custom tailors sections to} lead the growing struggles in these | trades. The union has now spread its organizational activities from | |Coast to coast, Gold pointed out.) There are fur locals now in New| York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, De- | | troit, Los Angeles and San Fran- | cisco. Custom tailors’ locals are |springing up in all sections of the | country, Reports from Districts Reporting at the first session were union leaders from Chicago, Phila- delphia and Boston. Grisch, re- porting for Chicago, told how the union through its struggles in the Sofkin factory was successful in isolating the A. F. of L, burocracy and Negro reformist leaders who were attempting to smash up the growing unity between Negro and white workers. J. Gross, from Philadelphia, re- ported a series of successful strug- gles of the custom tailors, furriers and overall workers. “The union hag been involved in many struggles in Boston,” said Davidson. Here the union is grow- ing in face of a series of brazen F. of L.” Yesterday the National Board met in closed session where the final |plans for the coming year were worked out. The plans will be pre- sented to the membership for ap- proval. Prepare for Fur Strike The National Board decided that the fur department is to begin at once preparations for a general strike and all other sections of the union are to prepare for a one-day sympathy stoppage. A _ national conference of all fur locals is to be called at an early date to establish a national fur union as part of the Needle Trades Industrial Union. In the dress section of the union more forces, especially youth, Span- ish and Negro, are to be drawn in to strengthen the work. The cus- tom tailors section will open a broad betrayals of the leaders of the A.| Sentenced to Two to Four Years for Resisting Eviction of Pittsburgh Unemployed By HERBERT BENJAMIN NEW YORK.—For nearly eighteen months Pittsburgh has been among the leading cities of the entire coun- | try as far as the unemployment movement is concerned, waging hundreds of daily struggles, win- ning relief for thousands of work- jers and attracting and organizing | masses of steel workers, miners and | workers of other industries in the | vicinity. | As a result of the impetus devel-| loped by the Allegheny County} | Council, mass organizations were |also developed in Westmoreland, Somerset, Beaver and Indiana Counties, in Pennsylvania and in| Harrison County and Fairmont, W. Va. The movement led by the| notorious faker, “Father” Cox, col-) lapsed, | The Socialists and Musteites who | sought to split the ranks and| | | | campaign to organize the shops for a general stoppage. This section will} also call a national conference to} take up the question of organizing a national union. | A national conference of the knit) goods section will be held soon which will launch a drive for one union in the industry through the amalgamation of all existing knit) goods’ organizations. The program | for the dressers and dyers calls for) |an active campaign to organize the | unorganized shops. | Plan Conventon | From now on until the next con-| vention of the union, which was rec- ommended to take place in Decem- ber, the women’s action committees must be strengthened, the National Board pointed out. Functioning Ne- gro committees must be established in all locals. There will be a youth conference called by the union to take up the questions of the young workers. The Needle Worker, official organ | of the union, will soon become a} weekly paper, according to a deci- sion of the National Board meet- | ing. weaken the struggles of the unem- ployed and employed workers were exposed and increasingly isolated The Unemployment Councils were a decisive factor in launching and waging the many important strikes of the miners and steel workers that workers voted to affiliate with the A. F. L. post office workers, in order to consolidate the fight against the recent order from Postmaster Farley cutting the hours and wages of all post office workers, heitotaemamstnt. noit fete hy | Franksfeld comes as the culmination of a campaign of terror, in the course of which the trust-controlled county and state authorities have sought to imprison every active un- employed and union leader in and| around Pittsburgh. A similar, vici- | haled into one of the Mellon con- | were conducted during the past year. Two to Four Year Sentence ‘There can be no doubting the fact that Philip Frankfeld’s energetic direction and active leadership of | the unemployment movement was largely responsible for the splendid progress which has been registered | has every reason to fight against in the struggle against unemploy- | this vicious attempt to railroad such ment in the empire of the Mellons, workers as Frankfeld and Egan to the Fricks and the other coal and | long terms of imprisonment. We steel barons whose seat is in West-| must not let them get away with ern Pennsylvania. it! Tens of thousands of telegrams wonder, therefore, “Fhat | 2nd resolutions must pour into the tie polltioa agents of these super-| Offices of Judge Lewis, who sen- exploiters have decided to raitroad | ‘enced him and of Judge Gray be-| Phli Frankfeld to a long term of | fre whom the appeal will come, imprisonment. A few weeks ago c/o the District Attorney's office,| this militant fighter and leader was| Pittsburgh, Pa. and of Governor Pinchot, Harrisburg, Pa., the dema- Bogue who Serves the rulers of Wealleg courte one oe Pennsylvania by pretending to be motion of the ILD. attorneys for|® “friend of labor,” while he keeps a new trial was denied. Every ef-| Workers in jail. fort was made to prevent his release) As one who was recently restored } on bail pending appeal to a higher| to freedom by the mass action and court. | protests of the workers in all parts Fought Evictions |of the country, I know how power- The steel and coal. barons have|ful and effective such action can ous sentence has been imposed upon Jimmie Egan, Rankin, Jessop, Gom- beski, and other active members and leaders of the Unemployment Council and the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. To Fight Frame-up Every worker in the United States \ every good reason to want Comrade | be. Let every union, every unem- Prankfeld removed from active | ployed organization, every meeting | leadership and participation in the | of workers everywhere, raise and work of the Unemployed Council.| forward the demand “Immediate, | They hope thereby to weaken tfie| Unconditional Freedom for Frank- | struggle against the further exten-|feld, Egan and Other Unemployed) sion of their hunger program. In| Leaders!” “Against the Imprison- | their eyes, Comrade Frankfeld is|ment of Workers Who Fight Hunger | guilty of the most serious of all| and Evictions!” | crimes—they have charged and con- ba vieted him of having led resistance |, PON Want ,tHE BOSSES'| to the execution of a court order) GRAM! for the foreclosure of a mortgage | 3! and the eviction of a worker from | his home. The railroading FORWARD IN THE FIGHT FOR) IMMEDIATE ENACTMENT OF | of Comrade THE WORKERS’ BILL! | WESL for Bonus tasted the iromy and demagogy of Roosevelt when they arrived for a work LOS ANGELES, Mareh 11 With dissatisfied veterans every-| A notice on the bulletin boards where expressing themselves in in the Post Offices told the workers favor of a bonus march, Roy W. Robertson, Legion faker who spends most of his time around the City Hall, has stated his intention of in- terfering with any attempt at united front with the Workers Ex-Service- men’s League. ‘When approached by a veteran from the League on the question of the bonus march he baldly stated that he would not cooperate in any move not headed by himself, and admitted he would disrupt any W.E. activity in favor of the veter- ans. Veterans of any organization or as yet unorganized are invited to attend the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s meetings at 741 Wall St., on Friday nights, where they have full free- dom of expressing themselves. Plans are being made for a march to Sacramento to demand state re- lief, mobilizing there March 31 for a march to Washington. NEW YORK. — President Roose- velt has again let it be known in Washington that he will veto both the Independent Officer Bill, which has amendments benefitting dis- abled veterans, and the bonus bill Both come before the house this week, Dockers Voting On Strike In Frisco SAN FRANCISCO, March 12— Balloting was started here on the question of a Pacific Coast dock strike to begin March 23. All mem- bers of the International Long- shoremen are having ballots mailed to them. The Marine Workers Industrial Union has issued a call to the long-| shoremen to vote 100 per cent for the strike and not to pin their hopes on the N.R.A. or the leaders |of the union. The dockers are demanding the 6 hour day, $1 an hour and recogni- tion of the union. Reaction ls Striving to Root Itself Among the Youth By GIL GREEN The present generation of work- ing and student youth, more than any previous one, is fed-up and dis- gusted with the (capitalist) system) of things. In the past five years of economic crisis, a whole young gen- eration has grown to manhood and womanhood without prospect of job or future, Capitalism can offer them only increasing hunger and a new, world war. More than five million young men and women under 24 years of age are jobless today, More than half of these have never worked. A mil- lion youth are homeless. Even the past much vaunted educational sys- tem is collapsing and millions of children have no possibilities of even a limited schooling. Those attend- ing school, have the bright prospect of graduating directly into bread- lines. Is it surprising then that through- out the ranks of the youth there is growing a spirit of revolt? In the shops young workers organize and actively participate in strike strug- gles. In the Conservation Camps hundreds of strikes take place. The farm youth battle militantly against the hold of monopoly capital. In the schools large numbers of students align themselves with the revolu- tionary working class. No wonder Mr. Easley of the fas- cist Civic Federation is uneasy! No wonder the whole ruling class is worried! They appreciate the deci- sive importance of the young gen- eration. They realize that without the masses of youth it is imppossible to carry through their program of war and fascism. They know that Work Among Youth Necessary fo r Fight Against Factory Youth Work in Pre-Convention Discussion : Fascism and are a decisive factor in deter-| class (Socialist Party, A. F. of L.),| fill the tasks of today and tomorrow. Victory Cannot Be Won! mining the outcome of every war—| are also making their bid for the imperialist and class war. | young workers, hoping to divert the To divert the discontent of the/|Tadicalization ifito harmless (for working and student youth into re- | capitalism) reformist channels. actionary channels, has become | white all of the class enemies of major objective of Wall Street in) our revolutionary Party, have in- carrying through its policy of war) ¢ " ‘ain the and Fascism. All means are being! creased their activity ed used to accomplish this end. Woodring, the Assistant Secretary of War, in an article some months ago, openly admitted that the gov- ernment plans to include one mil- lion youth in the forced labor camps by the end of 1934. The N.R.A. administration issued | a pamphlet on Feb. 17 entitled, “The New Deal and the Youth.” The aim of this booklet is to bolster up the fast crumbling illusions of the youth in the capitalist system and spe- cifically the “New Deal.” For the past two weeks the yel- low Hearst sheets have been pub- lishing articles by Ralph Easley, of the National Civic Federation, at- tacking the Young Communist. League and the militant student movement. Mr. Easley wants spe- cial government appropriations to establish a federal police force to outlaw the youth movement. A few days ago the self-styled “liberal” LaGuardia, proceeded adopt the proposal of Easley, under the cloak of “crime prevention.” He instructed the Police Department of New York to station ‘special plain- clothes police at all settlement houses, community centers and school buildings. (Note how Mr. La Guardia forgets about “economy” when it comes to police). Our Enemies Increase Their Activities At the same time we find the movies, churches, schgols, radio, and hundreds of capitalist controlled mass organizations intensifying their activity to “save the youth from Communism.” The capitalist it is the youth who carry the guns lJackeys in the ranks of the working to| ful leadership of the daily struggle youth, we still find in the ranks of the Party a deep underestimation of the importance of winning the} working class youth. There is not as yet sufficient realization of the fact that without winning the young workers we cannot successfully lead the economic and political struggles of the working class. If this were understood by the entire Party, would it be possible for a Party section committee to come to the conclusion that the ¥.C.L. should be abolished? And yet, this is exactly what happepned only a short while ago in New York} City. Do these comrades on the Sec- | tion Committee honestly believe they can fight war and fascism) without the youth? It is our opinion they never seriously thought over the whole matter. They were so busy working from one routine task to another, that they lost their per- spective, they failed to understand what was necessary for the success- and for the final struggle for Soviet Power. Instead of giving leadership to the youth movement, helping it solve its problems and plpaying the real role of a vanguard Party, they thought they could solve the whole problem by abolishing it! Is this a Bolshevik way or is it an expression of amateurish playing at revolution? Building of Y.C.L. No Comrades! Instead of abolish- ing the Y.C.L., which has proven it- self to be an important necessary | instrument of the Party in the} struggle for the majority of the working class it is necessary to} lthe Party leadership in District | movement? | Unless you realize your responsi-| bility in solving the problems. of mass work among the youth, it may be necessary sooner or later to abol-| |ish you as leaders, | | | But this New York section is not an isolated case, sad to say. In St.) | Louis a few weeks ago fie section) organizer of the League was taken | from his post and assigned some) other Party task, The result was that a few Y.C.L. shop nuclei ceased to be, for lack of leadership. How) is such a thing possible in the most| important concentration district of| the Party? Or the Y.C.L. shop nuclet | unimportant for the Party? Can the) leadership in District No. 8 permit} such things to happen, and yet! claim to understand the needs of| the Party? Often, leading forces are taken from work among the youth with| the argument, “We need forces.”| This argument was used recently No. 17, Birmingham, when they took the League District Organizer from his post and assigned him to other) Party work. But this argument it-| self condemns the people who use it, Sure you need forces, But can you not see further than your own noses, comrades of Birmingham? Do not be so hasty. Look a bit ahead of you. The struggle for power is not one of a day or week. You must understand that by building a mass youth movement in Alabama, you will broaden the whole base of the revolutionary movement and bring to to the fore many new forces for the revolutionary movement. You must make the Y.C.L. the best training ground for the Party. After all, is it not true that the best forces | of the Party today were at one time or another products of the youth abolish your narrow ideas. Other- Without the Aid of | Young Workers of Milwaukee. The leading comrades | here are very good comrades. They| want a mass youth, movement in| their district, of that there is no} doubt. But they want it delivered | to them on a silver-platter. For| months the District Organizer of the! Y¥. C. L. with the passive support of | the Party leadership, ignored her} League tasks. The Party leadership| felt no responsibility for this situa- tion. Oh no! It was all the respon- | sibility of the National Committee | of the Y.C.L.! Why didn’t the Na-| tional Committee send a new Dis- trict Organizer to Milwaukee from| the New York incubator? | Without in the least removing the| special responsibility from the League leadership for work among | the youth, it must be understood | that the Party is the leader of the! whole working class including its) youth. It is the Party in Milwaukee | which is responsible first and fore- most for assigning leading forces and giving daily political guidance to work among the youth and to the building of the Young Communist | League as its best assistant. | These incidents, multiplied man¥)| times over, prove that while the rul- ing clas is desperately working to win the youth, our Party has not yet been completely won for this deci-/| sive task. The objective conditions favor us. The youth are moving rapipdly to the left. We, the Communists, alone fhave a way out for the young gen- eration. But, as Oomrade Stalin! emphasized, victory does not come without struggle. The youth can | only be won for the revolutionary | class struggle, when the whole Party | argument, “That is the responsibility | problem of winning the gemarstion| movement is wise it is impossible for you to ful-i ef the Y.C.L.” This is especially true of working class youth i én that not only are they the victims of four more days of furlough, bat that their vacations are suspended and that Roosevelt and Farley will intensify the present speed-up and streteh-out. In other words, the supervisors can make them report for work at any hour of the day or night, disregarding their health. crimes against the Postal workers are legion. Since the birth of the New Deal the Post Office men have been given 18 days fur- lough (excluding the above four), a 15 per cent wage slash, and a ter- rific speed-up. The substitutes have been subjected to the same 15 per cent slash; their average earnings are around $8.40 per week. The latest Washington order in- tends to reduce the $8.40 of the sub- stitutes still further, in many cases cutting them off entirely. Alread; Substitute carriers in Brooklyn and the Bronx have been laid off. In Manhattan, their earnings have been reduced a dollar a day. Meanwhile the cost of living is rising rapidly— almost 19 per cent since last June, A wave of resentment is sweeping over the Post Offices workers. They are going to stubbornly resist the latest order of Rooseyelt to beat down their wages $8.40 Weekly Wage Of P.O. Subs Again Cut by Roosevelt Average Pay Below Starvation Relief Levels By a Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y. — Will you kindly give the space necessary to jthis letter in your fighting paper? I am a substitute clerk in the Brook- {lyn post office, a member of that |greatly exploited group of federal | Workers, whose plight even the most reactionary newspapers have lescribed as “pitiful.” In a recent issue of the Daily Worker, another substitute of this post office claimed that he earned the enormous sum of $18 a week. I wish to state that this is highly improbable. The above weekly wage may be earned during the busy weeks of the year, and these, sad to say, are very infrequent. Perhaps the $18 were earned because that sub had a special “drag” with the boss. Surely that does not make this sum an average weekly wage for all subs. The $840 claimed by 3 stitute post office employes’ organi- zation as the weekly average wage all over the country, is a true ap- praisal of the wage situation in Uncle Sam’s speed-up emporium. A POST OFFICE SUBSTITUTE. Regular P.0. Men Protest Farley Cut Rank and File Move- ment Against A. F. of L. Leaders By a Postal Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—On the same day that Roosevelt “demanded” that in- dustrialists cut hours and increase pay, post office employes were given a “furlough” amounting to four days between now and July 1. This “furlough” is to be given so as to make necessary a minimum of substitute time. We are to take off one hour a day, two days a week, and do the same amount of work as in eight hours. Clerks will have to work as car- riers during slack hours in the office and carriers are to work in the office as much as possible. It is rumored that if this wage cut goes through smoothly, we are to be given an additional eight days off, without pay also, it is needless to say, There is much dissatisfaction with In some districts the neglect of | and revolutionary movement places | the way the A. F, of L. is doing youth work is covered-up with the} in the center of all of its work the/ things, and a strong rank and file growing among the post office workers,