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| Camp Unity patronize either DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1934 cage Three Wisconsin Bill Pert of Justice Thugs 448 Readers | Bars Jobless From Benefits. Benefits Lower Than Present Relief Standards NEW YORK—The Wisconsin Un- employment Compensation Act, the only law in the United States which pretends to establish unemployment insurance benefits, and which, by its limitations, grants only $50 to $100 a year maximum to certain | classifications of workers now em- ployed, became effective July 1, for | the building up of reserves for pay- | ment aiter July, 1935. | | The Wisccnsin law the| present jobless from obtaining benefits, legalizes forced labor, re-| duces benefit payments below pres- | ent relief, and includes a “mis-| conduct” clause which states: “an|} employe is wholy barred from bene- | fits if he has lost his employment | through misconduct, if he quits) | bars without good cause attributable to his employer.” The act was passed at a special session of the state legislature in 1931, and provided that the law would not become effective until | 175,000 workers were employed in| the state. In June, 1933, the law was amended to reduce the cover- age to 139,000 workers. Payment of premiums starts Aug. | 1, and will be based on payrolls for July. Vast numbers of workers are | automatically barred from receiving | benefits. Only employers with ten} or more employes engaged for 18 weeks work a year or more need pay into the reserves, These pay- ments will take the form of a two per cent tax on pay rolls, and since there is no provision to the con- trary, will be deducted from the) wages. | The rate shall remain at two per| eent until $55 reserves are built up, and shall then drop to one per cent! until $75 reserves are reached, after | which all payments into the re- serves shall cease. Disqualification Clauses Clause after clause in the act dis- | qualifies broad sections of the work- ing population. First, the residence requirement—‘An employe shall not be eligible to receive benefits under this plan on account of any period of unemployment, unless he has been a resident of Wisconsin for the two years preceding the beginning of such period of unemployment, or has been gainfully employed in this state for forty weeks within that two year preiod.” The act proyides nothing for the aged and sick, stating on this point, | that to be eligible for benefits, a| workers must be “physically able and available for work.” Benefits are limited to one week's | payment for each four weeks of | work, and in no case to be more} than ten weeks in a year at benefits ranging from five to ten dollars at most. Public school teachers and ul others employed on an annual alery basis are excluded. ' To get benefits, the unemployed aust register at state employment ‘Mices, and if any work offered is efused, the unemployed worker is utomatically disqualified from fur- her benefit payments. is Anti-Strike In Effect The Wisconsin law is an anti- trike, forced labor proposition, snoring totally the present unem- toyed. Only the Workers Unem- loyment Insurance Bill, known as {. R, 7598 in the last session of Con- ress, provides adequate unemploy- ent insurance to all categories of | vorkers without any discrimination, nd provides insurance payments to ‘he present ever-growing army of he unemployed. ADVERTISEMENT a Camp Unity Is Overcrowded ‘We wish to announce that gistration in Camp Unity has en closed until after July 4th lack of space. We suggest th&t all those who intended to spend the July 4th holiday in Camp Nitgedaiget or Camp Kin- derland where there are still ac- commodations available and where, we are sure, they will have as enjoyable and interest- ing stay as in Unity. THE MANAGEMENT. LERMAN BROS. | TATIONERS and UNION PRINTERS Special Prices for Organizations 29 EAST 14th STREET New York City Algonquin 4-3856—4-8848—4-7823 Raid East Side Jobless Workers’ Organization NEW YORK. — Department of Justice agents, acting under orders of Congressman Samuel Dickstein of the 12th New York Congressional District, who came to the Workers Committee on Unemployment locals | 2 and 3, afilliated to the Unemploy- ment Councils, were denied access to the membership lists of the or- ganization. The Department of Justice thugs visited the locals at 298 Henry St., Tuesday, June 26, at 6:30 p. m., and were told by Milton Stone that the membership had voted to deny them the lists. Stone was threatened with arrest. Open-air meetings are being held in the neighborhood to protest) Dickstein's raids on working class| organizations. A meeting held at the Neighborhood Playhouse to pro- test the LaGuardia police terror sent telegrams of protest to Dick- stein and to Roosevelt demanding | that the federal funds allocated to) the Dickstein Committee be used) for the unemployed. | Chicago Fraternal Societies Demand Social Insurance Workers To Mass at the, City Hall on July 11 (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, July 3.—Representa- tives of 43,000 workers organized into fraternal and benevolent or- ganizations, will demand the en- dorsement of the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill by the Chi- cago City Council at a hearing be- fore that body July 11. A delegation of fifty will be sent by the Federation of Fraternal Or- ganizations in Struggle for Unem- ployment Insurance. Committees of the different lodges participating in the work of the Federation are visiting aldermen in their wards, demanding their sup- port for the Workers’ Bill. The Federation has sent all aldermen letters containing copies of the bill. The Federation has issued a call for all members of the fraternal organizations and persons sympa-/| thetic to the Workers’ Bill to attend | the hearing at the City Hall. Rata pee Jersey City Jobless Back Workers Social Insurance Bill) JERSEY CITY, N. J—The C.W.A. | Association here, an unaffiliated or- ganization, unanimously endorsed | the Workers Unemployment Insur- | ance Bill. A committee was elected to demand that the city and State officials actively support the Work- ers’ Bill, and an active campaign to popularize the bill is being initiated. ‘The workers, over the heads of the leadership, voted to support only those candidates in the coming Congressional elections who have actively supported and fought for the Workers’ Bill. Again going over the heads of the leadership, the workers in the C. W. A. Association drew up local re- lief demands calling for the pay- ment of minimum cash relief of $10 for each worker plus $3 for each dependent. iene. teas Covington, Ky. City Council | Endorses Social Insurance COVINGTON, Ky.—The workers | of Covington, who are organizing | against the relief which is as low | as 50 cents a family per week, forced the City Common Council to endorse the Workers Unemployment | Insurance Bill. When I. Amter, secretary of the | National Unemployment Councils was on a tour of Ohio, a meeting of unemployed workers in Coving- ton, who are as yet not affiliated to the Councils, enthusiastically greet- ed him when he spoke of the need for militant, organized mass action in the fight for adequate relief. AARON SHAPIRO, Pod.G. CHIROPODIST Scientific Treatment of Foot Ailments 223 SECOND AVENUE ALgonquin 4-1432 Cor. Mth | COHEN’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr. Delancey Street, New York City EYES EXAMINED By JOSEPH LAX, 0.D. ‘Optometrist Wholesale Opticians Tel. ORchard 4-4520 Factory on Premises ADVERTISEMENT NOTICE! To Readers of the Daily Worker: ‘The Workers Book Shop at 50 East 13th Street will not give a 20-50% discount on purchases after 7 P.M. Saturday, July 7th. advantage of this sale do so before the well as periodicals are sold at a minimum, Today (“INDEPENDENCE DAY") July 4th, the Workers Book Shop will be open till 3:15 P.M. Take advantage of this “holiday” by buying your literature now. Socialist workers and students are invited to come into the workers Book Shop after their meeting is over in Union Square. the necessary funds for purc! If workers do not hav before the sale is over they may give a smell deposit and the order will be kept for them for one week after the sale at a 20-50% discount. and the names of the books and’ pamphlets must reach the book shop before closing time Saturday, July 7th. ‘There are many specials available in books. Daily Worker, Wednesday, June 27th. ‘The Circulating Library of the Workers Book Shop is growing larger daily, both in books and in membership. Join today. rate is only 15¢ on any book. Mall orders must include postage. With Revolutionary Greetings, If you have not taken above date. Books and pamphlets as ing literature Such deposits For a detailed list see The maximum weekly Our telephone is ALgonquin 4-6953. | cause of his color. Added by N.Y. Section No. 4 One Unit in Nazi Area; Eleven Sell More Than 150 Copies a Week With true Bolshevik gusto, Sec- tion 4 of District 2, New York, is showing the entire country that “Daily” readers are a matter of or- ganized planning, good footwork and snappy presentation. Eleven units are over the 150 mark in daily | readers, with 583 and 428 for Units 400 and 410, respectively. Unit 400 operates in the York- ville area, a hotbed of the Nazi movement in the United States. This shows what aggressive effort can accomplish. During the past week, Section 4 increased its unit | orders by 448, | ey eee | N. Y. Red Builders Held Street Meeting As part of the determined pro- gram for bringing the Daily Work- er to new working-class readers, a group of New York Red Builders held an open-air meeting at Sher- idan Square, Greenwich Village, last Saturday night. When the scheduled speaker was unable to appear because of sudden illness; three of the Shock Brigaders vol- unteered rather than cancel the meeting. These were Comrades eopies of the Daily Worker were passed out to the crowd. ae id Communist Youth and Pioneers Active | Members of the New York Y.CL.| and Pioneers are in the forefront} of the “Daily” campaign. Com- rades Ain, Freeman, Borax and Ed- | wards are all selling from 50 to 125/ copies daily, and Dayis has just re-| cruited Sullivan, who is selling from 75 to 175 daily. J. Caraway, of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, | averages daily sales of from 50 to 75. Baltimore Seamen Stop Forced Labor |Win Full Relief for All) Jobless Seamen BALTINORE, Md., July 3.—After a five week struggle, unemployed seamen here defeated the govern- | ment forced labor relief schemes. | Saturday, Harry Greenstein, State | FER.A. director, informed a com-| mittee of seamen that he would agree to their plans of feeding and | housing the seamen’ in rooming houses along the waterfront, with- ject to house them. In this permanent housing plan, seamen will be given room, board, medical attention, etc., in return for no more work than is necessary to keep the building clean and san- itary, William Plunkert, national transient relief director, informed a delegation last week. In a long struggle last Winter, the Communist Party, the Water- front Unemployment Council and the Marine Workers Industrial Union involved broad masses of James Casey, Editor on the “Times,” Resigns to Join Daily Worker Staff Political Writer To Take Up New Duties as City Editor on July 20 AMES CASEY (Glaser) yesterday resigned as editor of the New York Times to become city editor | of the Daily Worker. He will assume his new duties on July 20, Comrade Si Gerson, who| is now city editor, will continue as | a political writer on the paper, It is not usual for the Daily Worker to recruit its writers and editors from the bourgeois press. They usually come out of the very fires of the class struggle, from the factories and the.trade unions. It is possible to vary the procedure in this case only because Comrade | Casey, after four years’ member-| ship in the Communist Party, dur- ing which time he has frequently contributed articles to the Daily Worker and participated otherwise in Party work, has shown his loy-| Score of other subjects, on interna- | alty to and understanding of the | fundamental principles of the Com- | munist Party. He was the first writer to expose | Tammany Hall's fake relief activi: ties in an incisive series of articles | which appeared in these pages more than two years ago. Since then his contributions to the revolutionary press have been steady and valu- able. His intimate knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes in national affairs, have made his ar- ticles in the Daily Worker of serv- ice to the workers who read the paper. He has also written articles on the persecution of political prison- | ers, on the torture of anti-fascists | by Hitler, about the famous Vickers trial in Moscow, as well as on a ‘St. Louis Workers} in Mass Violation of Jim Crow Practices New York Thugs in Two Attacks on Negroes Last Saturday By a Worker Correspondent ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 2. — St. Louis workers took the first steps last week in smashing jim-crow rules and practices in the public parks here. Carr Park, located In a mixed neighborhood, had for some time been a concentration point for the efforts of the Board of Public Parks to set up jim-crow rules. Certain ‘ days were set aside for Negroes and out forced labor, until the govern-| ment could build a permanent pro- | ther days for whites. A mass violation of these jim- crow rules was organized by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. About 600 white and Ne- gro workers attended the demon- stration, defying the threats of the Park Commissioners and police to break it up. Speakers from the L, S. N. R. the Young Communist League and candidates of the Com- munist Party in the election cam- paign were lustily cheered as they exposed the class character of jim- crowism and its aim to split the toiling masses and prevent united workers in the fight for workers’ control of relief on the Baltimore | waterfront. | BREAK DOWN JIM CROW NEW YORK.—A member of the |east of “Stevedore” was refused | service Saturday afternoon at the Beatrice Inn, 285 W. 12th St., be-| United protests by white patrons in the restaurant at the time forced the management to suspend its Jim-Crow rule. t EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third of a series of articles on recent decisions of the N. R. A. worsening the conditions of the workers. The previous articles told of the breaking of strikes and the bringing forward of the company union by the N. R, A. The article below shows how the N. R.A. reduces wages and length- ens hours, Poa eae By CARL REEVE HE N. R. A. boards not only break strikes, but issue a con- stant stream of decisions, amend- ments, interpretations and exemp- tions to the codes whch reduce wages, lengthen hours and worsen conditions of the workers. The N. R. A. boards are at the service of the code authorities, granting the recommendations of these employ- ers associations, who not only ad- minister the codes, but who in the first instance wrote them. Take for example the meat packing industry. The statement of the N. R. A. of June 14, 1934 (official press release of the N.R.A. No. 5790), shows how General Johnsoh, “aided” drought sufferers by lengthening the hours of work in the meat packing industry. The release says, “National Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson has taken action to contribute to relief of the drought situation by furthering the emergency cattle buying and beef canning pro- gram.” Hours Increased to 53 Then comes Johnson's order, in- creasing the hours of work of thou- struggle for better conditions. Resolutions demanding the free- dom of the Scottsboro boys, and a} resolution demanding arrest and punishment of the policemen res- ponsible for the murder of two Ne- gro workers here were unanimously adopted. eae Bae Thugs Attack Briggs, Other Negroes NEW YORK.—Oyril Briggs, well- known Negro writer and member of “Because of the difficulty of obtaining and training additional employes in the meat-packing industry, General Johnson has ordered that during this period, when large numbers of cattle are being brought to packing centers from drought areas for slaughter, certain classes ot workers may work 53 hours per week instead of the 40-hour maximum for the meat -packing industry allowed under the President’s Re-employ- ment Agreement. “The order is that for four weeks from June 13 employes in the following processes may work 53 hours per week, but not more than 10 per day: those engaged in the unloading, penning, driving and killing of cattle; the chilling and boning of the beef; the freezing (if necessary) and the canning of the meat; the prep- araticn and handling of various beef by-products, such as hides, offal, casings, fats and bones, and the loading and unleading of the product when it is necessary to transfer it from the killing plant to the canning plent, where both cperations are not conducted at the same plant, and any opera- tion incidental to these specifi- ca'ly enumerated.” Tens of thousands of packing- house workers are told they must work an extra 13 hours a week. Not a word is said about increases in pay to correspond to the in- crease in hours. Thus does the N. R. A. worsen the conditions of the workers. Is it any wonder that strikes are prevalent in the meat packing industry, and that the | JAMES CASEY | tional, national and local affairs. | Will Expose Morgan-Times Link Shortly after he assumes his new position on the Daily Worker he ill publish a series of articles ex- posing the link between The New York Times and the J. P. Morgan | interests. The same series will pre- sent the inside story of how The Times handles news stories against strikers and in the interests of the Williams, Voss, Hughes and Clark,| capitalist life, his first-hand ac-| employers in all industrial disputes. A éollection of $3.60 was taken and|quaintances with city, state and/It will also treat of the methods whereby The Times helped the Wall | Street bankers to loot the vast sav- ings funds before the Bank Holi- day was declared last year—a wholesale looting and pillaging in| which they amassed huge sums| while the public, many of them) workers, holders of small savings accounts, were left in the dark and! the editorial staff of the “Daily Worker,” was attacked Saturday afternoon by peddlers operating a stationary stand on First Ave., as he went to the defense of his wife attacked by one of the peddlers when she resented an insult. Following an exchange of blows between Briggs and one of the ped- dlars, Briggs and his wife were threatened by two other peddlars, one of whom flourished a hatchet used for opening shipments of fruits and vegetables. White workers, in« cluding a woman member of the International Labor Defense, went to the defense of the Negro couple. Witnesses to the attack secured the {license number of the stand, which |is No. 2508, Market No. 17. It is situated on First Ave., between 10th and 9th Sts. A group of Negroes were attacked by a mob of backward white work- ers on Cherry St., near Scammel, jJast Saturday night, when Walter Miller, Negro janitor of 412 Cherry St., resented an insulting remark to his wife by an unidentified white man. A fight broke out in which Miller's wife, and another Negro, Frank Childs, joined. A group of white men started punching the Ne- groes. Other Negro workers in the neighborhood went to their rescue, and a general fight resulted in which two of the white thugs were stabbed. The injured thugs, David Lipsky, 19, and Isaac. Greenberg, 51, both of 391 Cherry St., were taken to the hospital suffering from cuts in the face and body. ‘To Hold Open Trial of | Leaders of I. L. G. W. U. NEW YORK.—An open trial of William Schaeffer, organizer of Local 155 of the International Monday, July 9, at 6:30 p. m., at By CARL REEVE HE beet sugar industry is an- other industry where the work- ers are suffering unbearable condi- tions. A highly seasonal industry, the beet sugar industry is notori- ous for the most vicious exploita- tion of entire families, including thousands of Mexicans, who labor in the beet fields durng the season for long hours and for little pay. 56 Hours a Week | IN MAY 15, 1934, the N. R. A. | (offical press release No. 5060) issued the following order: “A 30-day continuation of its stay from the maximum hours limitation of the beet sugar in- dustry labor code has been gtanted the Great Western Sugar Co,, Johnstown, Colo., by Division Administrator Armin W Riley, it was announced today. This stay permits the company to operate under a 56-hour work week in- stead of the code maximum of 40 hours, until June 2. The orig- inal stay was granted February 5 for 60 days on the company’s complaint that the code would impose great and unusual hard- ship. Pending the enoctment of legislation affecting the industry and a complete investigation of the merits of the complaint, the original stay and this extension have been granted.” aN, pete IS is not an exceptional order, but is typical of scores of such 07 ders issued by the N.R.A. A decree of the United States Government overnight places the bect sugar workers under the 56-hour week, in the sugar trust. \To Tell ‘Daily’ Readers | What Goes on Behind Scenes in Wall St. lost hundreds of thousands life’s savings Casey will also reveal how The Times garbled and distorted news about the Soviet Union, as well as how it barred news about attacks on starving jebless workers at Home | Relief Bureau and numerous other | attacks by the LaGuardia police. * * * 2 eaer CASEY’S long newspaper experience equips him especially to aid the Daily Worker staff in | solving many vexing problems of newspaper organization and tech- nique—a contribution which will surely be noted by our readers. Worked On Many Papers Before coming to The New York Times more than five years ago, he served as make-up editor of the | now-defunct Brooklyn Standard- Union. At other times he worked | as managing editor of the Scranton Sun; city editor of the Waycross (Ga.) Journal-Herald; state editor of the Wilmington Morning News. In addition he has held executive posts on other daily newspapers. their The action of the Party in bring- ing Comrade Casey onto the Daily Worker is another step in our effort to improye the paper, to make it a more effective fighter for the needs and aims of the revolutionary working-class movement. The cir- culation drive now well under way should be pushed forward with the greatest energy to permit the carry- ing through of many contemplated improvements which are prevented now only by our still too limited resources. j Irving Plaza Hall, under the aus- | pices of the Knitgoods Workers In- dustrial Union, These men have been charged with scab-herding. Schaef- | fer has challenged the charges. Both Schaeffer and Goldberg will be given | the opportunity to appear at the | trial and repudiate statements made | against them. | Duluth Relief Men Return; | Prepare Further Struggles | DULUTH, Minn.—The work relief | strike, involving over 2,000 workers, |which has been in progress here | for the past month, has been called | off with slight gains to the workers. The original demand, 30-hour week at minimum rates of 55 cents ;an hour, no budget system, was not won, but as a result of the strike, many workers report. increases ranging from 15 to as high as 80 Per cent. As the strike progressed, it be- came increasingly difficult to or- ganize mass picketing and to prop- erly co-ordinate the activities of the workers. The Labor Advancement Association of West Duluth, which was leading the strike, and workers | from uptown became isolated from |the strike committee. Despite the confusion, mass picketing was con- ducted; the Finnish Workers Club | was the last to call off its pickets. | The workers are going back to |consolidate their numbers and to | strike again. The Association is \calling a meeting to organize fur- |ther and a city council will be set | up composed of representatives of working class organizations to give co-ordinated leadership to further | struggles. Attempts are being made \to organize a county council to Ladies Garment Workers Union, and | unify the Duluth and Mesaba Range | { | Goldberg, the manager, will be held| relief workers and unemployed or- | at Needle Trades Industrial Union ‘ ganizations. N.R.A. “Amendments” Cut Pay and Lengthens Hours quest for months at a time. The “stays” granted by Johnson insured the sugar companies cheap labor during the season, being extended time and again. And nothing was said about pay increases corre- sponding to the hour increases. a 0 tee | [JERE is another “stay” granted by \fl the N. R. A.: “National Recovery Adminis- trator Hugh Johnson has ap- proved the recommendation that the code authority of the surgical dressing industry be given a 60- day extension of the preiod in which to comply with a provision of the code that it submit to the Administrator a definite plan for minimum prescribed, it was re- ported today. The granting of the application makes the new date July 5, 1934.” (N.R.A. press release No. 5219, May 22, 1934). |the minimum wages, which the workers objected to, are in force. Tronically, the N. R. A. adds, “a careful study of the situation is being made.” Here is one of the numerous “amendments:” “National Recovery Administrator Hugh S, Johnson has approved the application of the saddlery manu- facturing industry for modification of its code of fair competition, it was announced today. The amend- ments approved become effective June 2. One of the changes permits working employes an average of 40 hours per week in any six months period for the first eight months following the effective date of the |code. Another provides for the in- order not to place “hardships” on | crease of the differential between | the adjustment of wages above the | Of course, during these 60 days, | | unskilled and skilled labor from 15 | Socialist Workers Fight to Free Men Framed by McLevy BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 3 Socialist workers, file members of the Bridgeport Socialist Pa and two Socialist indignant that Socialist Mayor Jasper McLevy, together with police officials, appeared as state’s witness in an attempt to convict unemployed workers, have raised $20 toward the fund for the release of Sam Kreiger and Charles Sparrow Kreiger, tion organizer of the Communist Party, and Spar- row were sentenced to 93 and 47 days, respectively, for their par- ticipation in a march on the City Hall on March 5, when city-em- ployed snow shovelers demanded back pay due them for two weeks. Both were sentenced on the direct testimony of McLevy and police officials Numerous shop gate and neigh- borhood meetings are being held by the defense committee for Kreiger and Sparrow to raise money for their releass Win East New York Rent Strike, Friday Picketing, Mass Meets Stop Evictions rank and NEW YORK. — Tenants at 552 Sutter Ave., East New York con- | cluded a successful rent strike, win- ning all demands, stopping the eviction of six tenants, and forcing the withdrawal of charges against |J. Lerner, strike organizer, which | were made by the landlord. | When the tenants receivd evic- tion notices. one applied to the East New York Block Assembly, 403 Wil- liams Ave., for help in organizing \the tenants. A committee made up |of tenants and members of the Un- |employment Council was refused a | hearing with the landlord. J. Le-ner |was attacked and arrested by the | landlord, B. Kerner. As the police attempted to arrest | Lerner, the workers intercepted, and ‘a hasty call put in by the police |prought a riot squad. At the police |station Lerner was charged with \“sending threatening letters,” and was released under $500 bail. | Open air meetings and pickting | of the landlord’s home, leaflets dis- tributed in the neighborhood, and picketing by the Young Pioneers and Young Communist League forced the landlord to agree to the terms of the tenants. | At a conference held Friday, the landlord agreed not to evict the ten- jants, to pay $20 each to three ten- \ants who will move in order that necessary repairs might be made, to recognize the house committee, and to withdraw all charges against J. Lerner. Cigar Co. Plant | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 3.—A/ mass picket line of over a hundred | girls and women surrounded the) Royalist Cigar Company plant, 2nd} and Market Streets, where over 300 | workers have been on sirike since | | last Tuesday, demanding wage in-} |creases for week workers, an in-| crease of ten cents per hundred | cigars for piece workers, and recog- nition of the shop committee. rank and file committee of fourteen, | representing all departments of the | plant, conduct the strike. | At a mass meeting last Thursday, | | 24 out of 25 members of the Cigar Makers International Union (A. F. of L.) tore up their union books and joined the other strikers in the Tobacco Workers Industrial Union, affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League. | A mass meeting has been ar- ranged for Friday, July 6, 8:00 p.m.,/ Hall, 913 Arch St. “National Recovery Adminis- trator Hugh S. Johnson today ap- proved an order granting to the members of the tanning extract industry exemption from Article 3, Section 1c, which requires that ‘all. other laborers, mechanical | workers or artisans employed in any plant’ shall work an average of not more than 40 hours per week in any period of two consec- | utive weeks, but not more than 8 hours in any one day. | | _ “General Johnson's order, which | is to be in effect pending deter- | mination for a request for amend- ments, provides that extra time | may be worked where the absence of relief workers would result in a shutdown.” (Release No. 5652, of N.R. A., June 8, 1934). Again, no | mention of wages to correspond to | lengthened hours. Agein, the min- | imum work week proves.a fiction | under N. R. A. | Another “exemption,” is typical of many which reduce wages under the | starvation level set in the minimum N. R.A. codes. Dated May 21, 1934 (Release No. 5207) the N. R. A. or- | Rosenblatt, it was announced to- day, has granted six Texas con- cerns an exemption from the min- imum wage provisions of the in- fants and children wear industry code, which requires that no em- pleyee in the industry in the South shall be paid less than 3214 cents an hour. In granting the | exemption the Division Adminis- trator fixed an hourly minimum | | of 20 cents both for factory work- | 300 Strike at Phila. | der declares: | “Division Administrator Sol A. | Mass Picket Lines Halted By AFL Heads In Rochester Five Thousand Were on Lines in Truck- Drivers Strike By a Worker Correspondent ROCHESTER, N. Y,, July 3.—An injunction issued this week gave the leadership of Local 115, Teamsters, Chauffeurs and Helpers Union, the excuse for calling off mass action and preventing the winning of their strike at one of the biggest departe ment stores here, the Sibley, Linde say and Curr. After the announcee ment of the injunction came, both the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Central Trades and Labor Council over-rode the striking truck drivers’ militancy and refused to carry on mass picketing to break down the injunction. This action followed mass pickete ing by 5,000 workers under the leade ership of the Central Trades Coun- cil, the Amalgamated, and supe ported by the Communist Party, the Unemployment Councils and the Rank and File Relief Workers’ of- ganization. Harper Sibley is one of the six directors of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. The company is spread- ing thousands of leaflets to discredit the strike. 750 Gulf Refining Workers On Strike PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 3.-— Seven hundred and fifty - insi¢e workers of the Gulf Refining Co. plant in South Philadelphia are on strike. The demands are: Rein- statement of 57 men fired last week in an attempt to cut wages through the introduction of new and inex~ perienced workers in place of the | veterans who are organized in the Independent Oil Workers’ Union; wage increases of from 10 to 25 per cent, and the continuation of the practice of hiring extra men from | the list of former employes laid off since the crisis. The company has, of coursé, turned down the demands and mass picketing has been instituted. The | drivers met late last week, and, in spite of many tricks pulled to pre- vent them from voting on the strike, voted to come out in sym- pathy with the inside men. At the same meeting, it was decided to ap- proach the Gulf Station attendants, These workers are organized in a company union, and the bosses have hurriedly given them slight wage increases to create sentiment against striking in solidarity with their fellow workers. Polishers Strike In Grand Rapids Fights Injunction GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The rank and file metal polishers and buffers of the Winter and Cramp- ton auto parts plant are still con- ducting strike activity, although the presence of State police and the injunction issued by Judge Verdier prevents mass picketing. The strikers have accepted the support of the T. U. U. L. and have united with a number of other fraternal organizations in calling an Anti-Injunction Confer- ence to be held at the A. A. S. Hall, 439 Ottawa Ave., N. W., on July 6, at 7:30 p.m. Picket Shoe Shop in Denver, Mass. BOSTON, Mass., July 3.—An ate tempt by a shoe factory to break the union by moving to another town failed as the United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union threw a mass picket line about the Arrow Shoe Co., in Denver, Mass. The Ar- | row shop was formerly of East Bos- ton and employed over 300 workers, The bosses broke the agreement with the United and moved to Den- ver, after the local Chamber of Commerce had guaranteed an open shop town. Force Pauper s Oath on Flint, Mich., Unemployed FLINT, Mich.—All applicants for reiief hore are forced to sign a pau- per’'s oath questionnaire listing 13 questions inquiring into every detail of the worker's life. Mimeographed on yellow sheets, the questions demand that the worker “secure papers to prove: all payment books on furniture, ioans, automobiles, clothing and groceries} |bank books and. insuranc? papers> tax receipis; proof of residence 18 Genesee County for the past year; citizenship papers; relatives and ad= dresses; etc.” NEEDLE WORKERS PATRONIZE SILVER FOX CAFETERIA and BAR 326-7th Avenue Between 28th and 29th Streets Food Workers Industrial Union Restaurant and Garden “KAVKAZ” Russian and Oriental Kitchen BANQUETS AND PARTIES 332 East 14th Street New York City Tompkins Square 6-9132 Comrades Fatronize JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE (Bet. 12th and 13th St.) — WORKERS WELCOME — % t watches closely |to 20 cents.” (N. R. A. Release! ers and for home workers... .” | N Ww H IN. A Re NEW YORK WORKERS BOOK SHOP sands of packing-house workers.| meat packing workers are seething oy eebhees co aingingere ee ae: 5185, May 19, 1934). The N. R.A. aa ek a E c r i | These are the actions of the N.! with protest against the worsening - the NR fear Ganga bisciare b . A cndy heeakting | CAFETERIA AND CIRCULATING LIBRARY R. A. at th time that the| of their conditions b: sa dares OF ORE ee ae | Nag? o | petites bee seducing wages Gn thins J x |R. A. at the same time that the| of their conditions by speed-up, | (providing the employers are in the|AR IF a “stay” or “amendment Tasty Chinese and American Dishes. PURE FOOD — POPULAR PRICES 848 Broadway bet. 1ath a 14th st. strikes, but reducing wages (in this | case to 20 cents an hour, in the | laundry code to 16 cents in the South) and lengthening hours. ‘ Roosevelt administration ballyhoos the N. R. A, as decreasing hours of worky wage cuts and increases in the working hours, all enforced by the N, R. A. and the company unions. 50 E. 13th ST., NEW YORK CITY. trusts) receive a ready response from the N. R. A. And such stays, once granted, are renewed upon re- will not serve to worsen the workers’ conditions, here is an “ex- emption”: + a s & 4 i