The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 4, 1934, Page 4

tage be. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1934 a - |Bankrupt A.F.L. Policy Is } ) Pid with his revolutionary convictions. Continued by Wagner Bill Bill Dunne, in Speech at Senate Hearing, Shows How Program Hit Worke By WILLIAM F. DUNNE , Article IV. ould. be an the Conditions matter is that the employers have | taken these gentlemen at their word, are continuing the official program of the American Federation of La- ee 0] bor, as it was before the crisis— Fe accciovment a. Ne|and as it was and is expressed in eet tee “onion their adoption of N-R.A. and Clause : P-\7a as the official program of the fn, | American Federation of Labor, to oG : | which, by the way, Mr. Hillman, op Siete ed pe | of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- eee eee settee consrea: [ers has now affiliated his organiza- ident of the Locomo! neers York City and whose ly circulated in L@ Hearst press: pl“Wh s to be a Bolshevik be a alist such y movement to de: in big busi- ness. orly last Spring we bought a ntial in! Empire T \ If you Id have seen Schwab, Heckscher and the locomotive en- gimeers seated around the directors’ table, you'd have recognized the Scene as an entirely new turn in what used to be called the ‘fight’ between capital and labor.” One head of the B. of L. E. died in disgrace. The present one is in- dicted for embezzlement and fraud. And what has become of the rank and file of these engineer capital- rest in the City. ists? Well, “where are the snows of yesterday?” The re cit of this policy, which Was accompanied by expulsion of all who opposed it, was that the A. F. of L. unions went into a de- cline which continued up to 1933. A further result of this was that coupling labor-management-coop- eration with the belief in so-called permanent prosperity, the official leadership made no real effort to increase wages or shorten hours, al- though the tremendous increase in labor-displacing machinery in chem- ical and mechanical progresses, in Standardization of product, and in the speed-up, is now history which no one dares deny. Were it not tragic for American workers it would be amusing to see these same labor leaders appearing here now and complaining of unfair labor practices by the employers un- der Clause 7a. The truth of the in-| tion, seemingly having seen the | light, | ‘These leaders today, just as dur- ing the boom period, are talking | about keeping industrial peace. Any labor leader worth his salt knows t workers strike only when con- almost unbear- believe that a attack and organizations. man knows that strikes re- tremendous expenditures of energy and sacrifice by workers and their families. He knows that in |this country they mean in all proba- bility that many workers and their leaders will be arrested, jailed, | clubbed and even killed in struggles to maintain or improve living stand- ards. He knows that because of the |tremendovs power of the employ- ers, their bankers and their gov- ernment, it is only at certain times that effective strikes can take place —when for one reason or another this combination of forces is weak- }ened and the solidarity of workers is at a high level. Therefore, to fail to take advan- tage of such a combination of cir- cumstances is to play into the hands of the employers and the whole capitalist class. It is there- fore treason to the working class. day that the maintenance of in- dustrial peace is the paramount factor in national recovery, while such self-appointed friends of labor as the Rev. Father Haas are for the Wagner Bill because “its ultimate purpose is to increase purchasing power,” and maintain “equality of bargaining power in the wage con— tract,” and so forth and so on. There is no such thing as peace in industry under capitalism, and there never will be. The attack of the employers upon the working class and its organizations never ceases either in boom periods or in | Periods of crisis. (To Be Continued.) The Wor g Woman magazine presents in each issue a page of revelations on the effect of the capitalist crisis on the health of working women; these are written by Dr. Lone, who sends to our col- umn also the following brief ac- count of the hardship endured by the wife of a renegade revolutionary who came to America, got dollar- drunk, and dropped his faithful wife and family overboard along Ser Se By DR. LONE Woman of 55 came to consult me. Has four children, all grown up. “I brought them up myself. I worked hard. I had no husband. That is, I had one, but...” “I see. You are a widow.” “T am and I am not ... My hus- band is alive, but we are separated. He came to America first and I stayed in Europe with the children. I waited there thirteen years. As the years passed by, he sent me Jess and less support, so I had to find work—and I did. Then I fin- ally managed to cross the ocean— ll at my expense. But when I arrived, I understood my husband's Chilliness to his family and his ex- * suses of not earning enough. “It was a lie. and had changed his ideas, belang- I had continued my radical ideas On the other side, clinging to the ‘revolutionary opinions he himself hhad taught me. Besides, he lived a good rich life, was selfish and had _ all the women he wanted. He went to the theatre several times a week, thad servants, had a shop with thirty workmen! Of course, he didn’t like me any more. He was young. I looked old. One glance at him, and I said: “Goodbye, I won't fall on my knees. I'll go it alone.” “And I did it. I worked until the children were able to earn a living themselves, which is now. But gee, Doctor, I am worked out. I am weak. Can you do something for me?” How Fascism Uses Women In Hamburg, Germany, the num- ber of women students at the med- feal school has been limited to a year. The “medical journal” Teporting this new law, said, “A ‘woman physician is a double-sexed ' Creature, repugnant to the natural, "healthy instincts of the people.” In _ Cassel, the Fascist paper “Hessische Volkswacht” announces that it will publish names of any “Aryan” girls found in’ the company of Jewish men: in Fossati, Italy, over half the workers of a local cotton mill were replaced by young girls paid 3 to 4 Custom Tailors Stop Wage Cut in Calif. LOS ANGELES, April 2—Since they have affiliated with the T. U. U. L., the custom tailors of Los An- geles have increased in membership from a mere handful to 130 active members who have already suc- ceeded in stopping a threatened Wage cut in the Ed Schmidt shop and in forcing the adoption of week- work in this, one of the central the Ho CUNDULTRD BY L He was in business | UKE liras a day, that is, 21 to 28 cents. Then, two weeks later, some of the former workers were re-employed at half their former wages. Thus does capitalism, in its ad- vanced stage, fascism, use women merely as tools, as “kitchen-me- chanics” to keep house for men- workers, or admitting them into in- dustry as a means of cutting the wages of men-workers. Working-class women! Organize into the revolutionary trade unions or the Women’s Councils. Demand equal pay with men for equal ; Work. Don’t let the bosses use us to cut down the wage-scale of the whole working-class! Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1502 is available in sizes | 16, 18, 20, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44. | Size 16 takes 3% yards 39-inch fab- |ric. Illustrated step-by-step sewing | instructions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c.) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write Plainly name, address and_ style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Paftern Department, 243 West 17th et, New York City. ¥)them by not calling them? lYet all these gentlemen insist to- | Letters from ‘Alexander Smith Our Readers ENROLLING | A CRITICISM ON MEMBERS FOR THE F. |S U. Brooklyn, N. Y. C. I must criticize the F. 8. U. and| |I want this letter to be printed. | The Friends of the Soviet Union | is always appealing for members, Jand being a friend of the Soviet | | Union I felt it my duty to belong | }to this organization. | | I signed up an application in the Coliseum, it must haye been on | Nov. 29, 1933, and I haven’t been | called Then I signed up another | application sometime in December | with Comrade Charlotte Melomet and I wasn’t called again. I took another chance in New Star Casino at the convention Jan. 28, 1934, and I wasn’t called yet, but I am not the only one. I spoke to many |comrades and they told me that |some of them also had the same jexperience and would like to know |the reason why, or maybe they | don’t want any more members, then | why appeal, and then discourage | Comradely yours, Ss. F. + ee Answer by the F. S. U. We realize the seriousness of the criticism, but we want to explain how it happened. Our usual instructions to our Membership Committees when ap- preaching an individual for mem- bership is to collect the initiation fee of 25 cents in the case where the individual is employed, and 5 cents if unemployed. As soon as the money is turned into the Dis- trict Office, a membership book is immediately issued and turned over to the Branch to which this person has been assigned. The Branch in turn informs the members of its next membership meeting and puts him or her on its mailing list. In the case where no initial pay- ment is made the application card is treated as a contact and is turned over to the nearest branch in the individuals neighborhood, to be visited or written to. We showed the card you filled out under date of Dec. 14th to the Oceanside branch. They informed us that your address was not directly in their neighborhood. We certainly wish to welcome you into the F. S. U. and take this opportunity to inquire if it would be easy for you to join our Down- town branch which meets on 14th |St. and 2nd Ave. New York City. SUPPORT THE IRISH WORKING CLASS E. Braintree, Mass, Dear Comrade: I am enclosing some clippings |from the Feinster Leader, an Irish paper printed in Maas, County Kil- dare, the news therein ought to be heartening to every class-conscious Irishman in the U. 8. A. | _ The dope peddlers over there are |finding it increasingly harder to hold in check an awakened working class. The clergy are practically threatening to return to the prac- tices of the inquisition; to terrorize the worker who dares to think for himself, but like the Czar of Rus- sia and his hirelings, their days are numbered. The officials in this town mentioned in the “Leader,” I know personally that every one of them would sweat the last drop of blood out of any worker for personal gain for themselves, but the Irish worker is learning rapidly of the | achievements in Russia under work- ers’ control, hence their dissatis- faction with their present dope ped- dling and siave driving masters. No longer will they heed the ad- vice, “Servants obey your masters,” but they are determined to free themselves for all time from their capitalist blood sucking exploiters and establish an Irish Soviet Re- public, and to that end I appeal to all Irishmen in this country to help their heroic Irish comrades that are leading the struggle over there. Ww. J. 1. A VOICE FROM HOUSTON, TEX. Houston, Texas, The only thing here of any good news interest that I know of at present is that now, for the first time in Houston, radical students and others are giving the weak- need liberals real battle in the Houston Open Forum. Several weeks ago we had Lewis Browne’s version of Hitler's mistreatment of Germany. One genuine Communist speech was made by a comrade forcefully defending Dimitroff, denouncing Browne’s classless version of the German situation, and upholding Henri Barbusse as a fighting Com- munist. Browne had slandered Bar- busse as a liberal pacifist. This speech was answered vigorously by Browne, only to bring on him tirades from a dozen comrades, who all asked him embarrassing ques- tions. The very evasiveness of the speaker's replies to the radical questions and outbursts was enough to start people thinking who had never thought before. This situation In an open forum was more sensational to Houston- jans than comrades in the East may be able to conceive. The forum is organized and financed by the up- per crust of Houston, and as such it has been very reactionary. In- cidentally this is one of our sources of anti-war material. NOT THE RENEGADE BILL RYAN Lima, Ohio, I have just received the enclosed clipping from my father. As I have not corresponded with him for several weeks, and he was unaware of my last whereabouts, he got the idea that the Bill Ryan mentioned, (the renegade who is joining with the bosses against the strikers in Haverhill, Mass.) might be me. My last act in connection with the revolutionary movement was in Syracuse, New York, where my wife, Comrade Kirby and myself were de- Carpet Workers | Welcome “Daily” Rushed When There Is! Amount Available Is Dis- A Little Work to Do, Spies Terrorize Workers tributed in 5 Minutes; Seek Correct Organ- ization By a Textile Worker Correspondent | By a Textile Worker Correspondent YONKERS, N. Y.—Thousands of | workers in Yonkers have worked in the Alexander Smith Carpet Mills here. For the last few weeks they have been laying off again. In my department, where we weave on the big looms, they laid off 29 more workers last Saturday. They told the men they would send for them when they were needed, and in the meantime we can die of hunger for all the company cares. They rush us to death when there is a little work to do, and then lay us off. Right now the few weavers who are left have been speeded up. The minimum yardage for the day is set at the amount the fastest Weaver produces working at high speed. If we don’t produce we are called before the bosses, given hell, sometimes sent home for a week or so. or laid off for good. There is a dial attached to each loom to show the amount of yardage pro- duced, and each day a time-keeper checks up. If a loom breaks down, the bosses won’t accept this as an excuse. We must come in each morning ready for work, but very often after we wait around for an hour or two we are sent home and told to come the next day. If the loom breaks down, we are sent home for 3 hours or even half a day, because under the N.R.A. the worker must be paid if the loom breaks down. Many of the workers live far from the mill, and in order to save the carfare they wait around just the same and are not paid a cent for their time. The bosses are always looking for ways to cut off the workers. Be- fore the big lay-off, the company employed beamhands, now the weaver together with the loom-fixer has to do the beam-hand’s job. The beams weigh about 200 Ibs. and the weavers get no pay for sweat- ing to put them in place. Besides, the weaver loses time while the loom-fixer gets the job ready, and it usually takes two hours. ‘The company formerly had a man on the floor to put in plates, but now the weavers have to change their own plates. Although the loom-fixers have more work, there are fewer of them in each weave shed, and if our looms break down we have a long wait. The loom- fixers are worked like mules. There are many spies in the mill, and the bosses try to keep us ter- rorized so we won’t organize. The Alexander Smith is one of the big- gest and richest carpet companies YONKERS, N. Y. — Last Friday the Daily Worker was distributed in front of the Alexander Smith Carpet Shop. The workers grabbed the paper and in five minutes I had none left, although there were still many workers coming out of the mill. The workers all said, “I want a copy of that paper, it looks like a good paper.” They put the paper away and took it home to read. The conditions in this mill are miserable. The lights are dim. The company puts in small bulbs to save electricity. The workers don’t make enough to feed their families. Those getting $6 and $8 a week for a large family of 10 to 14 apply to the relief and get a food order of a couple of dollars to keep them from starv- ing to death. There are many different nation- alities in the mill, Italian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Scotch, English and many others. The bosses do everything in their power to keep them divided and mistrusting each other. The Polish say you cannot trust the Italians, etc., and those a little more advanced say the Po- lish and Italians are religious Catholics and the priests fool them. Because the Scotch and English workers understand the English language, the other nationalities say they are the bosses’ pets and spies, whereas the. Scotch and Eng- lish workers have a tradition of unicnism from the old_ country. This mistrust must be broken down through organization of the workers for the improvement of their con- ditions. ‘The workers are talking organiza- tion, they are tired of working and starving; working and asking for charity. We must help them organ- ize. We expect to continue to dis- tribute and sell the Daily Worker in front of the mill. in this country. They have made their millions by our sweat and blood. They have used every trick to keep the workers unorganized; they have divided the foreign-born workers; they have instituted a spy system; they use the city police, but the workers are getting tired and are talking organization. I urge the workers to get together in each department and organize into the National Textile Workers’ Union—for a living wage and un- employment insurance, A CARPET WEAVER. 'Speed- Up and Lay-Offs Pile Up On Phillips-Baker Co. Workers Rolling Machines Force, Girls To Work Faster On The Conveyors (By a Worker Correspondent) PROVIDENCE, R. I. — For the past month or so I have been watching the use of the rolling machines which were installed in the Phillips Baker Rubber Co. Be- fore these speed-up machines were put in the factory, there were two or three girls rolling the foxing, and since these machines were in- stalled these girls were either laid off or given somebody else’s jobs. Now, without these two girls on the conveyors the use of the rolling machines makes more work for about three other girls on the con- veyor, namely, the two second foxers and the outsole placer. The speed with which these girls must work to keep up with these machines and at the same time keep from getting piled up by the shoes literally poured down the conveyors is entirely too much to expect from any worker. It is just this speed-up which has caused the acidents of several of the girls. One had to have several stitches taken in her hand; another hurt a finger so badly that it will never be straight again. ‘Yes, she has more fingers left, but if the bosses like to part with fingers or with whole hands why don’t they cut off their own? ‘Yet even with these accidents more of these rolling machines are be- ing installed. Workers, your job is your bread, and it is just such machines as these rolling machines that are causing the layoffs which we hear about every day. The bosses tell you that he will call you back in about two weeks. Then, of course, as the weeks turn into months, it is time you were looking for another job. And now they have cut the working hours of the entire making room. This is a wage-cut, fellow workers, and it only means profit for the bosses and more misery for the worker. Work- ers, protect your jobs by protesting against speed-up. “JEPRU.” of actual starvation and had no pos- sible means of sustaining life there, we did not return, and for no other reason. My present job takes me from city to city and doesn’t permit me to take an active part. I hope that none of the comrades who know me in Los Angeles, Chicago, Worcester, Mass., Syracuse or Buffalo will get the notion that the renegade Bill Ryan is me. I wnt everyone to know that although I am no longer a member of the Communist Party, due to circumstances over which I have no control, I am still 100 per ported because of our action in the unemployed movement there. Due to the fact that wa were at the point cent for the Party. WILLIAM G. RYAN. (Signature authorized.) Girls In Packing Room Rushed So That They Draw Less Pay (By a Worker Correspondent) PROVIDENCE, R. I. — I am a worker in the Phillips Baker Rub- ber Co., and having read the ar- ticles by “Jepru” in the Daily Worker I got up enough courage to write one about my department, the packing room. There are about 70 peopie work- ing in this room. It is poorly ven- tilated and poorly lighted, and plenty dirty. I guess the rubbish has to be pretty well piled up all over the room before the bosses take the trouble to have someone clean the place. The boxes in which the shoes are packed are piled high around the girl workers (inspectors, lacers, packers, etc.), and this causes the air to become stale where the work- ers are. There is always plenty of dust fiying all over the place, and, as Jepru said, plenty of cockroaches, I believe more in the packing room than in the rest of the factory. Our coats and lunches are put anywhere we can find a free space. On the beits the girls have in- spectors who are cranks and always rushing the girls so that they finish their work early and get less pay. Sometimes they work so hard they haven’t time to go to the ladies’ room, and if they do go, their in- spectors time them as to how long they can stay away from their con- veyors. The fellows are treated even worse than any horse-owner would treat his horse. Pushing iron cars loaded with bars all day long is no easy job for the measly pay we get. “Jepru” was right about everything he said in the articles. Something should be done about it, Come on, the rest of you workers, write in to the Daily Worker and help do away with these conditions. No Law Against Peonage | Says Arkansas Official, Refusing to Prosecute LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 3— No prosecution will be made on the basis of proved charges of peonage on Arkansas’ plantations, because, as Assistant Attorney John H. Cald- well has pointed out, there is no law against involuntary servitude in Ar- kansas. A two weeks’ investigation has shown that many prisoners, mostly Negroes, are paroled and turned over to wealthy planters to work in the fields. The prisoners are held indefinitely, paid very little or noth- ing, often being kept in debt to the plantation owners. If they com- plain, they are threatened with im- mediate een to prison. { “New Deal” Cut Me 100 P.C., Writes Texas Veteran “By a Vet Worker Correspondent DICKINSON, Texas—The “New Deal” cut me 100 per cent July 1, and I am badly crippled besides, service connected disabilities, which the Veterans Bureau claims is not |proven although it has been con- sidered so since September, 1904, jand, at the age of 55, penniless, crippled and disfranchised (after | Jan. 31 this year unless I can raise |$1.75 for poll tax), which will ex- clude me from retaliating at the polls for the injustice done. Even those who are still drawing some pension are mostly willing for someone else to pull the “hot chest- nuts from the fire” for them, and when pressed to help they reply like this, “Oh, if we join anything but the recognized organizations, the remaining part of our pensions will be cut off—see where you are at.” The “enemy” has unlimited facili- ties (the Press, Chamber of Com- merce, pulpits, banks, etc.), with their wh ring campaign and charges that we are retarding the administration’s ‘recovery program. This you know is the “solid Demo- cratic South” and a Democratic ad- ministration. Any embarrassing questions are labelled unpatriotic, or propaganda from Russia, which immediately settles the question. It might be possible to slowly vaken them by some news of the outside comrades’ efforts. Job For Everybody, Writes Peter Pan From Soviet Union By PETER PAN (Now in the Soviet Union) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.—Even if I am late to voice my approval for the new “Daily,” I must write to you and tell you that it is now the best medium to organize the work- ers. Their struggles clearly and vividly are pictured in its pages. It is almost unrecognizable. It is up to the comrades to put it in every worker’s hands having no home and every workers’ organiza- tion. Intensified work will do it. It has everything that a big capitalist paper has, and then some features that cannot be reached by any boss sheet. It is equal to the Humanite, organ of the French Communist Party, which has a circulation of over 200,000 daily. I am writing all this from my experience as an old Daily Worker agent in Los Angeles, where the in- famous Red Squad succeeded in having me deported, thus thinking that the “Daily” should suffer. I appeal to all comrades in Los An- geles to double their efforts. Make a drive “our answer to Hynes!” Through the efforts of the I. L. D., District No. 14, and the work- ers’ organizations, I was finally al- lowed voluntary departure, and came to the Workers’ Fatherland. When passing through the Kiel Canal German workers were look- ng and waving their hands. Some officers on the bridge of German boats tried to give us the Nazi salute, but the workers on the decks saluted us in the Red Front salute! Since coming here on Nov. 4 the I. L. D. here took me to a home that was once somebody's palace, and every day they take us to visit museums and factories. We visited many factories, at- tended many factory celebrations during their fulfilling of the plans, and the Soviet workers asked us about the life of workers under cap- italist countries, and especially why it is that so few workers are organ- ized in America. Comrades, this I ; couldn’t answer and am passing it on to you in order to realize what @ very small number are organized. I have been here over 20 days now and have not yet seen any “Brother, have you a dime for coffee?” Everybody works and all are busy. Buildings are going up on every side. Every day sees new heights of production, new records are broken before they are printed, wages are continuously going up, to higher standards, to a new life! Helping the “Daily” now is the duty of every worker. On to 100,000 circulation, Economy Act Hastened Death of Sick Veteran By a Worker Correspondent ATLANTA, Ga.—My husband, a World War veteran, died Jan. 18, 1924, from heart trouble, a disease so badly aggravated by his service in the army that he was discharged with 100 per cent disability. Our family physician saw him a few days after he was discharged and he gave him only six months to live. That Economy Act, with all the worry and hardship it caused my husband, brought about his death sooner that it would have come otherwise. He ordered one of your calendars, which came after his death. I no- tice that you are also sending lit- erature concerning the W.E.S.L. TI am militantly in sympathy with all your efforts. My husband was reading the Daily Worker at the minute of his death, lying up against his pillows in bed. The last book he had finished was “Soviet Main Street.” He was heartily in sympathy with Communism, and did what he could for the cause in spite of his illness. * I will do all I can, too. I have a 14-year-old daughter who goes to high school. 4 I am now, since yesterday, a sup- ply teacher in a school where I al- most choke because I have to act such a capitalist sympathizer or lose my job. The children are from the very poor working class. I shall get ac- quainted with their families and see into their conditions. Send us names of those you know who are not readers of the Daily Worker but who would be interested in reading it. Address: Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St. PARTY LIFE I have a suggestion to make that I believe will help tremendously in making our party the spearhead of the working class against the Social Fascists as well as against the whole program of capitalism. ; We often speak of the lack of forces. Much of the reason for this is caused by the lack of under- standing among new Party members of the problems facing the working class as a whole. Many times it is impatience at the delay of “good times” that brings workers into the Party. After they get into the Party they have no opportunity to learn why it is necessary to strug- gle. They take the stand that we must “talk” the majority over to our stand before we struggle. I am of the opinion that some organizational effort should be made by every unit to provide a “Communist Manifesto,” “Wage, Labor and Capital” and “Why Com- munism,” to every new Party mem- ber. The agit-prop should see that these comrades read and under- stand them. If the agit-prop does not understand them he should take the tip himself. Each unit should make an inner drive for the Daily Worker also. If every com- rade will read the three booklets mentioned along with the Daily Worker every day, he will soon be able to see the political reasons for his actions and explain them to other workers. Every Unit can raise about $2 to buy these pamphlets. These pam- phiets should not be given out and forgotten. They should be used to form a library. If a new member wishes to keep them he must pay for them. But if he cannot afford Encourage New Members To Read Party Literature Chicago Worker Recommends Unit Library To Raise Political Level of Members to buy them, some provision should be made so that he can have full advantage of reaching them. With the knowledge he has gained after reading them, he can better digest our other literature as well as our Daily Worker. We will find that our “Daily” will have a new value and importance to our Party members. These new members will gain a greater per- spective and enthusiasm. Political discussions will be the order and not the exception in the units. Tasks will then be undertaken in the light of individual understand- ing and not half heartedly because of a feeling that tasks come from the top of the Party. Above all our Party will have the confidence which comes from being and know- ing it is correct on new issues and tasks with which it is continually faced. “Towards the shops,” will then take on a new and more under standable meaning. F. 8. Section 8, Chicago. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 1%h STREET, N. ¥. €. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. NAM ...-cocesesecensacnonmnes Street secescoseeemecocersanceee PF eenaenconpoees So It Can’t Pose WARNING BY CAROLINA WORKER AGAINST UTW Points Out That Gorman Is Still Its Leader, and As a New Union By a Textile Worker Correspondent CONCORD, N. C.—Fellow work- ers of the South, take warning from a worker who has been sold out by the United Textile Workers, affili- ated with the A. F. of L, Gorman will be in Charlotte, N. C., soon, and his business is to get the workers in Charlotte and the South to join the sellout union, the U.T.W. What have they done for the workers at the Brown Mill in Concord, N. C., and other mills where they have got a good membership? The bosses dock the weavers, put in stretch- out, and cut ratings, and the A. F. of L. officers say nothing about that. All they will tell the mem- bers is wait till we get strong enough and then we will take steps. Any union man that belonged to the U. T. W. before knows what the to sell you out. Ask the workers, did L. M. Barnheart have a store before the U. T. W. came to Con- cord, N. C.; and also ask them did L..M. Barnheart have a farm be- fore the U. T. W. come to Concord, N. C. (1921-1922)? and see what they tell you. Ask the workers in Danville how Gorman got the work- ers to vote off the strike. He told the workers in Danville, Va., if they voted off the strike they could go back to work on their old jobs that they come off when the strike was called. Did they go back to their jobs? Yes, the ones that took their union books and gave them to the 13 Cents Relief a Day New Relief Plan in Ingham County, Mich. LANSING, Mich.—Thirteen cents a day for each person on the relief rolls will be alloted here, the Ing- ham County Welfare Commission indicated. The allotments are to be made in the form of food tickets, redeemabie at the grocery stores instead of the city food commissary as formerly. The scientific starvation plans are based on a survey made recently by the county welfare commission un- der the supervision of Miss Ruth Bowen. steps will be. They will take steps ; bosses were the ones that went back to work. Now what have we in Concord at the Brown Mill? We have a young Gorman, Red Lisk. What did Red Lisk have the nerve to say, and what he said was a lie. There was a leaflet put out in the Locke Mill by the National Textile Workers’ Union, which exposed the bad lights and the stretchout on the weavers, and also about the bad place overhead which might hurt some workers if it should fall. All of these things were looked into after the leaflet was put out in the mill. What did Red Lisk say when all of this was done by the National Textile Workers’ Union? He said: Look what we did at the Loske Mill! Now the workers at the Locke Mill know that Red, the young Gorman, and his sellout union would not do anything to help the workers. They also know that the leaflet was signed National Textile Workers’ Union, and it said the workers could join for 50 cents initiation and 25 cents a month dues. We know that Red Lisk and his sellout union could not take members for 50 cents initiation and 25 cents a month dues. Why? Be- cause Gorman and the high paid officers of the U. T. W. have a good time while the members work for nothing. When young Concord Gorman, Red Lisk, made a speech over the radio in Charlotte for the U. T. -W. a few weeks back, what did Cam- paner, the superintendent of the Brown Mill, say about him? He said I didn’t know it was in you to make a speech over the radio like you did. Now if Campaner likes Red Lisk’s speech the workers had better look out. Why? Because there is something dead up the branch. Some workers in Concord will tell you the U. T. W. is a new kind of union. They say this because the sellout leadership says so. Why do these leaders keep the workers in the dark That is simple. They know if they tell the workers in Concord that the U. T. W. which is here now is the same union which was in Concord before they won't join. Why? Because the workers don’t want to be sold out. I have convinced some of them it is the same sellout union, and I have been sold out by the U. T. W. before and I ought to know. Dector By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Golfer’s Itch D. V.—Gofler’s itch is the same thing as athlete’s foot, commonly known as ringworm. The scientific name of this skin disease is epi- dermophytosis or epidermomycosis. Your friend was trying to show off when he stated that he was not suffering from ringworm. No matter how thick you slice it, it is boloney just the same! ‘The term “soldier’s itch” has nothing to do with any skin disease. It means an itching desire for money; “soldier” being the slang word used by the taxi drivers in New York to designate a dollar. Dry Dandruff and Baldness Victor M,—The a Merke and Thomas Institute are fakes as far as their claim to restore hair is concerned. Why don’t you get on a diet to reduce your weight? This might help your condition, if there is no history of premature baldness in your family. Inflamed_ Tonsils Harry D., Cleveland, 0.—We see no reason why you should have té remove your tonsils. 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