The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 5, 1934, Page 3

— « “Ready for Strike!” Is Core of Steel Workers’ Fire 15,000 Off Work Unite Against Drought, A.A.A. Program, Prepare Strike for ifesto Calls to Toilers 7 Demands, Calls ere Committee Head | Districts Should Elect National Strike Committee with Full Powers, Says Head of Committee of Ten Relief, Cut New York Farmers’ Man entary Supplem Reduce Re/of Clients | Committee Formed To| To New 4tarvation Standards By HOWARD BOLDT Aid Free Workers Framed By Socialist Mayor i | BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—A com- DAILY WORKER, ers in struggle against the effect of capitalist crisis, the manifesto adopted by the first national con- vention of the United Farmers League in Minneapolis raises de- mands for immediate drought re- lief, and exposes current govern- ment measures as being designed solely to benefit rich farmers. The manifesto follows in full: Pn aaeo ES oS NEW YORK.—Calling for unity +) — of poor farmers and urban work- | 'W YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 1934 iy for destruction. The R. F. C. must give its millions to help the needy rather than to the banks. Eevn within the very areas millions of oushels of grain are behind government seals. The | seals must come off the corn cribs | Grain must go to the starving live- stock. Experience has taught us that re- |lief funds readily find their way to drought Program NEW YORK.—C. E. Allen, of Indianapolis, secretary the banks, the mortgage holders, that large amounts of relief funds go to government agents and offi- NEW YORK.—Again the axe is| Mittee to free Sam Krieger and dropped on relief workers, slashing| Charles Sparrow, two unemployed | at least 15,000 off work velief under| workers jailed for their participa-/ To small, rank and file farmers, | farm and city workers, and small consumers. To the members and | of the Committee of Ten of the Amalgamated Association |of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, has issued a Program of |Immediate Action for the steel workers. The program of aoe the hunger program of Mayor La-| ion, cals of the Grange, National Gals, or are diverted to the bullding| “00 * Guardia and dropping new hou-| Hem am “ March 5 demonstration | Holiday Association, ' Farmers | of battleships and other armaments.) action puts forward the im- io of ali strike preparations, sands from Home Relief. of snow shovelers demanding back) Union, Farm Bureau, and all pes the relief administration must be| portant economic demands of of the strike itself and of all nego- Under the new slash, all workers on the relief jobs are to be “in- vestigated” with the intended pur- pose of firing all those who fall into the folowing categories: (1) all single workers without dependents; (2) all who have managed to save) money while working; (3) all with any incomes so that in the future all “supplementary relief” might be ¢liminated; (4) all workers with in- surance policies and “resources.” To do this, new work is being heaped upon the already over-bur- dened investigators of the Home Relief Bureau. Each investigator is assigned a quota (in addition to regular duties) of investigating three work cases a day. Pending cases, that is, cases in which the application blank has been returned and the client js awaiting the in- vestigator, are B be put aside and precedence given to work cases. This means three things: 1—That workers will have to wait even longer than previously for investigation before getting relief. 2—Workers who are dropped from work relief are not to be transferred to Home Relief, but will have te make a new applica- ion and submit to reinvestigation with all the attendant delay. (At the same time, precedence will be given to work cases, causing still further delay for relief clients.) 3—Rents will not be paid. The investigators are to be speeded-up. Up until now they have been re- quired to make 4 to 6 investiga- tions each week. Now they must make three a day. The Finance Department messengers who de- liver the checks will come every two weeks with the food, gas, light check, Under this system of paying gas and light, a further reduction will be made in the gas and light sums. No provision has been made to deliver rent vouchers which fall due during the interval of the four weeks that the client is not visited. Funds for relief, LaGuardia de- clares, will be entirely depleted by Aug. 1. Each week finds new thou- sands either denied relief altogether or work relief and Home Relief lists slashed. Gradual cuts are eliminating all “supplementary re- lief” to working heads of large fam- jlies. While firing at least 15,000 | wages due them, has been formed. | - Many rank and file Socialists on | their own initiative are circulating | collection lists to raise funds for the | freedom of Krieger and Sparrow, and it is possible that a group of Socialists may elect one of their members to serve on this com- mittec. The commiitee has icus pians to issue a special leaflet on the trial, exposing the testimony of the “So- cialist” Mayor McLevy, who, to- | gether with the police officials, was the only witness of the state in the | prosecution. Shop gate and neigh- bring the issue to the greatest pos- | sible number of workers. ‘AFL Steel Union Heads in Drive To ‘Support Roosevelt’ | But Cleveland Workers Not Taken in By New Deal Propaganda By a Worker Correspondent CLEVELAND, Ohio—The Amal- gamated Association (A. F. of L. steel union) officials recently an- nounced a big organization drive in Cleveland to unionize the steel plants. Last Thursday they took their first try at the Corrigan- McKinney plant, employing some 6,000 workers. They passed out 5,000 circulars with an appeal to organize and support Roosevelt and save the country. The leaflet looked more like an appeal to join the army than to join a union. To the meeting came only 12 workers from the plant. On hand to greet them were some eight or ten organizers. Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial | Union took the floor. He asked many embarrassing questions and then made a brilliant exposure of the A. A. officials on the recent sell-out of the steel strike. After other organizations whose mem- bers are affected by the drouth: The worst drouth in the history of the United States has drawn its ing crops, scorching pastures, fiery hand across the country, burn- | leaving behind dead and perishing | | borhood meetings are being held to} After a brief speech | by the organizer a member of the} |ecattle and horses. Top soils have| been blown away and farm buildings | jee half buried in dust. Poor farmers |} have been left destitute; livestock || is being driven off the farms; homes | re being destroyed. The drouth afiects many other| countries and many besides farmers. | | City workers who depend upon farm | { production for employment will be} thrown out of work. Thousands of) farm workers will be deprived of| | jobs. City laborers and small con-| |sumers are already paying higher prices while food speculators rake in huge profits from this calamity.| While drought itself is not the basic difficulty, its effects have tre- mendously sggravated the ruin of} _ of the hungry farmers under the destroy cinch bugs. In the middle acute. The devastating drought which has intensified the suffering New Deal, has been aceompanied by hordes ef crop destroying insects, due to the hot weather. |Here | an Illinois farmer is seen spreading creosote on the cornfields to west, suffering from the drough, coming on top of Rooseveit’s “crop reduction” program has been the capitalist crisis and the attacks {of the New Deal so that the con- | ditions of the poor farmers become intolerable. gage holders, and political grafters. Drought, A. A. A. Work Together | Small Farmers Ruined Secretary Wallace declared that | The drought is being used to force the drouth would be a “blessing.” | small farmers out of commercial He meant that with the crops and! production onto the livestock destroyed the big middle-| farms, With disregard for family man, the food trusts, the specul-| and neighborhood ties, for years of | ators, the banks, landlords, and|jabor put into homes and _ficlds,| jlarge farmers would reap greater) farmers and their families are being | profits from the sale of the remain- | ruthlessly transported in whole sec-| ing farm products. The New Deal/ tions. Funds instead of being used| is based on the theory that there is) for direct drought relief are being a surplus. Its plan is that supplies) ysed to extend the C. O. C. camps, in the hands of big business and big| wheze youth are forced into military | farmers must bzing high prices to| training. | | camera en Lette | To get relief, farmers are forced to| rs : sign reduction agreements. Milk) commercial production altogether, | CoWeland: Work loses bé gold or onto subsistence farms. The A.| fo. a fraction of what ii “a4 A. A? attacks the small farmers just| Worn Rather than furnish the as the N. R. A. attacks the workers. | 4 eat eee ee © But the mass of producers of the | nation were refusing to become the | | destroyers of crops. So the drought : | Pi the reduction program of the Merl toe ani pele danctaste te ‘ 4 puts big amounts of relief back into much of the crops, of the nations sam R ité own treasury. And they call it feed, as its plans called for. The| sw, Onn Meas criminal czop reduction program) was not put through in spite of the | plowing under of cotton. in spite z ? . of the slaughter of six million pigs, Needs move milk and butter instead in spite of the Bankhead bill and|°! Jess. Only where the droug! The indiscriminate | the night riders of the South. The damage to our livestock is irrepar- machine companies, | there is plenty for all in the United|/the United Farmers League, middlemen, landlords, high taxes,| States! What mockery of the hun-|sembled in Minneapolis on the 25th| |ger and destitution of the poor|of June, calls upon all rank and file) The| drought-stricken farmers and upon| responsibility for the suffering of all other farmers needing anyone because of drought condi-| and upon the farm and city work- subsistence | tions must be laid upon the govern-| ers and peor consumers to launch a |ment and the rich who are rolling| nation-wide campaign for drought| is| relief. We will make the money |lords understand that we have @ 14th of September be set aside as | claim on that plenty that our hands|, day when the farmers in all| have created. We demand that the) grought states will meet in mighty | farming and working masses. in wealth. plenty. We know there | needy be given adequate cash relief. turned over to committees elected | the steel workers and calls |from the rank and file of the suf- * lfering, drought stricken farmers| for a fight for these demands. | It calls upon the lodges of the and workers themselves. Only in ae this way will we be sure that the| A. A. to reject the decisions of the | last. convention, which sidetracked | relief will go to the needy. \th eet eatin aca den oy = e strike preparatior ni c- | We, the small rank and jile farm- | cepted arbitration of Roosevelt's ers, have learned that the only way | | by which we can obtain anything | from the rich exploiting class and its government, is by Mass Action. We must bring this mighty weapon | of the united struggle of the farmers and workers into full action if we| will have adequate drouth relief. Only | by uniting the forces of the grain farmers, the dairy farmers, the Negro and white share-croppers, | and the truck gardeners into an} organized, gigantic driving force to- gether with the workers of the farms and the cities will we be able to resist the attempt of Wall Street and its government to further re- duce and destroy us. | Call for Struggle The First National Convention of as-| relief This convention declares that the| ‘|drought relief marches to their| The payments shall not go to the respective state capi | capitals to present mortgage-holder but to the farmer.'to the governors and state relief) Production loans without n interest) authorities their demands for ade- must be given. Free seed for forage| quate drought relief. | crops must be provided immediately. This convention herewith pledges Hay and fodder must be shipped in| to the drought stricken farmers and| and distributed at government ex-| workers of America that its local pense. The thousands of contract| county and state organizations will| truck farmers living in | other losses. | A. A. A, Funds tor Relief instruments of the greedy mercial class. All these must scrapped and completely the sur- necessary feed to maintain our) roundings of the big industrial cen- cattle they bury them on the farms. | ters who because of the drought Horses feeble from starvation are| tailure will be made to fulfill their is being used to help put through | orced to work to get feed relief.| contract obligations to the middle| Farmers Codes that prohibit the selling or | slaughter of our cattle and horses| giving away of fruits, berries and must be stopped. Starving America|other food products are merciless com- be immediately work to bring all the | poor rank and file farmers of their | communities into a united struggle for drought relief. That the United League will issue this man must not be permitted to suffer) manifesto and bring the campaign| penalties which are added to their) to the membership of Holiday Asso- | FIGHT for less than these demands. ;ciation, Farmers Union, Grange,| jetc., and to the masses of the un- organized farmers urging them to! join together to secure the success of this nation-wide demonstration for drought relief. The United Farmers League calls on every poor farmer and worker to steel board, and calls for the election by each district of representatives to a National Strike Committee which should be given full powe to prepare strike for the steel work- ers’ demands. The Committee of Ten was elected by the April Convention of the A. A., at the demand of the rank and file, to prepare strike, but at the reconvened convention of June 14 this Committee of Ten ab- dicated to President Mike Tighe and to Green and called off the strike action, placing everything in the hands of Tighe and Green. Al- len has already condemned the ac- tion of this convention. The pro- gram follows: Here Are Our Demands (a) Six-hour day—five-day week. (b) $1 per hour minimum wage, or at the VERY LEAST an imme- diate general wage increase of 35 per cent in the North and a 55 per cent increase in the South. (c) Recognition of our union and mill committees, with signed agreements with our employers guaranteeing the aboue hours and wage rates. (d) Abolition of the differential between the North and South. | Equal rights for Negro workers. (f) For UNEMPLOYMENT IN- SURANCE as called for in the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598). (g) All trade agreements to run SIMULTANEOUSLY. STEEL WORKERS: RALLY AROUND THESE DEMANDS... FIGHT FOR THEM. ... Brand as| a TRAITOR TO OUR CAUSE any- one who attempts to DIVIDE OUR RANKS or SELL OUT OUR THEY ARE JUST DEMANDS AND EVERYBODY KNOWS IT! What Must Be Done Right Now | 1, INSIST that a special meeting of your sub-lodge be called within two weeks. Get every steel worker to come out to that meeting and get them to sign up in the Amalga- dis- join with us on the basis of this| mated Association of Iron, Steel tiations arising therefrom. (b) That a room be provided in the International headquarters for the use of the secretary of this committee. (c) Use of the printing plant for the printing of circulars, literature, etc., necessary to further our strike movement and popularize our ecd- nomic demands. = (d) Open the columns of the Journal to the committee to fure ther popularize these demands. (e) That all initiation fees col- lected after June 30, or an amount’ equal thereto, be turned over t this National Strike Committee, to be used by them in preparing for and carrying on the strike until our demands have been met by our em=- ployers or the committee has been dismissed by a referendum vote of the entire membership. The Inter- national Executive Board is~ re= sponsible to see that the men elected as secretary and treasurer of the committee are bonded suffi- ciently to cover the amounts neces- sary for them to transact their af- fairs. Such amounts to be deter- mined by the committee itself, pro vided it does not exceed the initia- tion fees as stated above. (f) That NO Sub-Lodge insti- tuted, or any member initiated since the adoption of the N. I. R. A, or which may henceforth be insti- tuted or initiated, shall be sus pended or deprived of their right of voice or vote or the right to hold any office because of inability to pay dues, due to unemployment, through no fault of their own, or to underemployment which reduces the average pay of any member ‘to less than $10 weekly. This to be determined by the Sub-Lodge af- fected and to be reported on each quarter along with the regular quar= terly report. (g) That no statements shall be issued to the membership, the pub= lic, the press or our employers, Te= garding the progress of the plans for carrying out the strike by any- one other than this National Strike Committee. (h) That this committee shall have full power to arrange for the settlement of our strike, provided that, NO SETTLEMENT shall be made which calls for less than our full demands as stated above, or which may tend to violate our right ae | he concluded, he called upon the} able because the condition of tne| regarded. We all for joint qa tea ieee. to strike or to refuse to submit to single workers from work relief, the LaGuardia administration is start- ing a drive to reduce all relief workers to the starvation budgets | of the Home Relief Bureau. Seven-Cent Fare Coming The outcome of tne present con- ferences of LaGuardia on relief will vitally affect the unemployed, the 4nyestigators of the Home Relief Bureau, the relief workers and the whole werking population of the city. For the unemployed new re- Jief cuts are being made and pre- pared. For the relief workers new mass firing and wage cuts; for the Home Relief workers greater speed- up while they are forced to do the dirty work of the relief administra- tion; for the working population new taxation and a 7-cent fare to saddle on them the burden of car- inz for the jobless. LaGuardia, the watch dog of Wall Street, continues the monthly pay- ments of $25,000,000 to the bankers while slashing relief. The city bud- get for 1935 makes no provision whatsoever for unemployment re- workers to leave the hall and every worker came out, leaving the bu- reaucrats alone in the hall. | The Corrigan-McKinney Co. has }@ strong local of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, and it appeals to all workers to join and to build a militant rank and file union of the, workers. Cops Attack Mass Picket Line NEW YORK.—Police attacked a mass picket line of more than 500 striking electrical workers and sym- pathizers of the Edward F. Calwell Co., 38 W. 15th St., Tuesday evening, and arrested six persons who had fled into a hallway to escape the cops’ attack. The attack took place shortly after 6 p.m. after 135 strikers had been joined by about 200 members Local 3, in picketing the struck shop. Those arrested and charged with disorderly conduct were: Jennie Kacen, 45, a button maker; Herman of the Electrical Workers’ Union, | | United Farmers League. the Share- croppers Union, the Nebraska Holi- day Association, the United Farmers | National Committee for Action peasant starvation existence. Long before it moved a hand the government knew that drought was raging. It suppressed the news. Only the fear of mass resentment and mass action caused belated reports to be printed and finally brought some meagre relief. little of this is to go for direct cash} relief. Government measures were} |delayed until after hundreds of| | milk cows were destroyed, until after | irreparable damage was done to the | crop farmer. Not a hand was raised | While thousands of cattle were al-| lowed to die from thirst and from lack of pastures, hay and fodder. The chief sufferers were the small farmers. The resources of the larze carry through while the small Protective Association, the nation-| wide conferences of the Farmers) resisted the New Deal plans of} driving. the small farmers into a} This | is the power of united mass action.’ farmer have often enabled him to} cattle is already beyond recovery] struggle against the high prices to | Shall our livestock be sold off, and | then we demand prices that will compensate for our losses. Roosevelt says there is no famine,drought relief instead of being used Cleveland Mayor Sentences Steel «wv Union Organizer CLEVELAND, Ohio.— The Court | of Euclid, Ohio, this week ordered Frank Rogers, Cleveland secretary of the Steel and Metal Workers In- dAnstrial Union, -to appear before result of a hand-picked jury finding him guilty one week ago. The ar- |rest and sentence is a result of the | Chase Brass strike of April 27th. The Mayor passed the maximum Mayor Ely to be sentenced as a) sentence of 30 days, $50 fine, and) He denied a new trial. Union organizer in jail. within a few hours. Union Headquarters address is: 1404 East 9th St., Room 610. 1,100 Jobless Demonstrate |In Buffalo, N. Y. | BUFFALO, N. Y.—Fully 1,100 un- the consumer and the huge profits} of the food monopolies. We demand} | that A. A. A. funds be turned over to} Roge:s, | who defended himself, filed notice | for an appeal and asked that bond be set. This was done by the Mayor | gate should be elected to meet in| raising the bond from $2,000 to|a state drought relief committee.| ately! $2,500 in an attempt to keep the |The state drought committees should| However, Union sympathizers raised the bond) state drought relief schedules and The appeal will cost much and} zation for a successful state march all locals and friends of the Union| on the capital. are asked to send in contributions a to help the Union appeal the case./ drought committees to demand the) employed workers massed before the | Manifesto by immediately calling | great county mass meetings, of all) poor rank and file and workers re- gardless of political beliefs or or-| ganizational affiliation. County | | drought committees composed of _|rank and file farmers and workers|certed action calling for a nation-| | should be elected which will help draw up the demands and organize the local fight for relief. | From the county meetings a dele-| make it their task to work out! |demands and complete the organi- We call upon all county and state) |immediate enactment of the Farm-| |ers Emergency Relief Bill. | We further call upon all small] ;and ruined farmers to prepare for) the Farmers Third National Relief | Conference to be held in Chicago) ‘during November by the Farmers) National Committee for Action. | Save the homes and farms of the, in carrying out our Program of AT THIS MEETING, VOTE TO COUNTERMAND the action of the Jast convention, Demand that the Bill Green proposal be rescinded. | Demand that the program of con-| wide strike in steel be carried out, | and that if our demanc:;, as stated | above, are not met by our employ-| ers by the first day of August that) the STRIKE BE CALLED immedi- NOTIFY THE INTERNATIONAL | OFFICIALS AT ONCE of your ac-} tion. Also notify them that you! endorse this PROGRAM OF IMME- | DIATE ACTION as a whole. 2. Have a district meeting called, of your district, for no later than| July 15 for the express purpose of electing three men in small dis- tricts, or five to seven in the larger districts, to act as your represen- | tatives on a NATIONAL STRIKE} COMMITTEE. This committee to) supplant both the International of- | ficials and the Committee of Ten arbitration. A settlement for any- thing less than the above must be submitted to a referendum vote of the entire membership or in case that the men are out on strike, to a referendum vote of all those out on strike. It is further understood that ALL STRIKERS are to be put back to work immediately a settle- ment is made and all STRIKE BREAKERS DISMISSED. i) This National Strike Com=- mittee is empowered to call upon any and all labor organizations, either in or outside of the steel in- dustry, for help, co-operation or mutual assistance, in car through our Program of Con‘ Action. : This program submitted by CECIL E. ALLEN, 2309 Reformers St., Indianapolis, Indiana. ~ BERMAE’S Cafeteria and Bar lief. Clearly it becomes increasingly aa | : * 65 Concerted Action. = iy evident that new taxation is being Sane seeetenden of a|farmer was completely destroyed. |costs. Before passing sentence he| Erie County Lodging House at a drought and New Deal stricken! p00 4) National Strike Committee 809 BROADWAY pared for the working people in uilding nearby; Israel Schwartz,|The small and middle farmers| made a long speech about the dan-| meeting called Monday by the | toilers! 3. Hi ar diltades vole 101 setween 11th and: ish Bleue pre] 45; Israel Schaobers, 45; Eric| might have secured themselves|gerous character of the defendant| Waterfront Unemployment Council| Away with the New Deal Reduc- err P cy ae ‘ the form of a 7-cent fare and a job tax on every pay envelope. New taxation on the commonest articles of consumption is in the offing— but no taxes on realty holdings, on the super-profits of the corpora- tions and industries working within the city limits, no taxes on the high incomes and inheritances, no levies on the tremendous profits of the public utilities. The old system of bond issues for the financing of relief by which the bankers reap great profits has sud- denly become objectionable to the bankers and the metropolitan press is used to whip up sentiment for the “pay as you go” program. The Unemployment Councils, the Relief Workers League and the other organizations affiliated to the United Conference on Work, Relief and Unemployment demand: (1) No firing on work relief, and no dropping of Home Relief clients; (2) for increased cash re- lief and the payment of rents; (3) minimum wages of at least $20 a week on work relief plus additional relief for large fami- Jies; (4) against the speed-up of Home Relief Bureau employes; (5) no taxation of workers to pay relief expenditures, no increased subway fares, and for the abro- gation of the Bankers’ Agreement and the payment on the debt ser- vice; and (6) for the enactment of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. MEET YOUR COMRADES AT THE Cooperative Dining Club ALLERTON AVENUE . Bfonx Park Fast Proletarian Priees: — Fischer, 53, and Adolph Bayer, 28. All of them said they were by- standers. E N.R.A. has just issued a pre- liminary report of its “investiga- tion” of wages in the cotton textile industry which makes it clear that in the “settlement” of the threat- | ened cotton textile strike, the 300,000 | cotton textile workers have not won any of their demands. The report, dated June 29, recommends that no increase in wages be granted to the cotton textile workers. It will be remembered that the 300,000 cotton textile workers wanted to striké for higher wages, union recognition and better working con- ditions. The leaders of the United Textile Workers Union the first week of June signed a pact with Johnson and with George Sloan, representing the employers, calling off the strike, the date of which had already been set for June 4. The terms of this agreement accepted the 25 per cent 90 day curtailment in production hours which the N.R.A. had ordered on May 22 and which meant a 25 per cent pay cut for the cotton textile workers. This “settlement” admitted a few of the U.T.W. leaders to the N.R.A. bourds which, as far as the workers’ deinrnds ave oncerned, is meaning- against the ravages of the drought, if their resources had not been for years devoured by the banks, mort- less, and referred wage demands to an “investigation” of the N.R.A. The settlement directed the Divi- sion of Research and Planning to report upon “What increase if any, in wage rates is possible.” Thus the Strike was “settled” by burying the main economic demand of the work- ers in the Research Division of the N.R.A. MacMahon, head of the U.T.W., with the strike date set for June 4, made no preparations what- ever for the strike, and misled the workers until the last minute into believing that the strike would take place. At the last minute he signed the “settlement” which gave the workers neither their wage demands nor union recognition. | ae eee No Wage Increases OW the Research and Planning Division has issued its prelimi- nary report, which decides that none of the economic demands for which the workers were ready to strike are to be granted under the N.R.A.-! MacMahon settlement. | The N.R.A. report (press release No. 6140) concludes, “Increased production, more or less simul- taneously, in all industries, would and that if permitted to go un- punished the Government would be ' over-thrown. By CARL REEVE provide increased purchasing power for cotton textiles, and is the necessary prior condition for a permanent increase of real wages.” The report declares, “Under ex- isting conditions, there is no factual or statistical basis for any general increase in Cotton Textile Code wage rates.” The report tries to lay a statis- tical basis for this decision. It de- clares that wages of workers have gone up, that prices of raw material have increased, that prices of the finished cotton products have de- clined, thus the poor manufacturer is not able to raise wages. era report does not mention the 25 per cent curtailment, effect- ed May 22, which reduced the real wages of the cotton textile work- ers 25 per cent, legalizing wages of $8 and $9 a week for a thirty hour week, Profits Have Gone Up j The report, which is from begin- | ning to end an argument for the retention by the employers of their profits, at the expense of the speed up, the bad conditions and low wages prevailing for the 300,000 cot- ; the flop house. RA Orders “No Pay Increase” for 300,000 Textile Workers LAY BASIS FOR WAGE CUT AS PROFITS OF COTTON GOODS COMPANIES SOAR ton textile workers, does not say a single word about the profits of the companies. In 1933, statistics show, the cot- | ton textile corporations made much under the N.R.A., than they had made in 1932. But | higher profits, these statistics, showing increased profits for 1933 under the N.R.A., do not suit the purpose of the em- ployers, and are not given in the N.RB.A. report. . . EVEN mills in the Greensville, S. C. area paid dividends total- ling $250,000, in April 1934. The Orr mills of Anderson paid $112,000 divi- dends for the year. In 1933, after heavy deductions for depreciation, taxes, interest and other charges, the Amoskeag Co., made a net profit of $31,444; the Graniteville Mfg. Co. at Granitesville, S. C., made $167,000 net profit; the Mt. Vernon-Weod- berry Mills, $464,000 net profit; the Newmarket Mfg. Co., $354,000 net profit; the Merrimack Mfg. Co., $251,000. These are but a few of the mills which made high profits in 1933. It is an established fact that the cotton textile industry made sub- stantial profits in 1933 and in the spring of 1934, (See L.R.A. textile notes). and the Marine Workers’ Industrial) tion! Union to protest the conditions in| Advance the fight for immediate ‘and adequate relief! NOTHER important fact which | the N.R.A. report fails to men- | | tion is the high salaries paid to | | cotton textile company executives. | | To give a few examples: the Ken | @all Co. pays its president and treasurer a yearly salary of | $298,000, its vice-president, $162,- | 000. The Collins and Aikman | Corp. pays its president $199,000 | a year and its vice-president $152,000. The Consolidated Textile Corp. pays $230,000 a year to its president, in addition to a yearly bonus of $245,000. The U. S. Finishing Company | gives its president $185,000 a year, | with a yearly bonus of $122,000. The vice-president of this concern gets $128,000 a year. The Appo- naug Co. pays its president $246,- 000 a year and its agent $95,000 with a bonus of $64,000 a year. ‘These gentlemen certainly can be well satisfied with the N.R.A. report. Wage increases for the workers might lower their immense “sal- | aries” and bonuses. The minimum code wage for cotton textile work- ers~is $13.00 in the North and $12.00 in the South. These profits and high salaries are taken out of the work- | ers’ hides. (To Be Continued) WITHHOLD ALL PER CAPITA) TAX to the International Lodge | until the International Executive | Board has recognized this NA-| TIONAL STRIKE COMMITTEE) and has granted them the follow- | ing concessions, i. e., | (a) That this National Strike Committee is to be in complete (Classified) DESIRABLE STUDIO ROOM—Suitable for two, $5 a week. 148 Second Ave, 3B. MALE COMRADE going to Soviet Uniom wants to meet and study Russian with comrade (male) who also intends going. Box 1, Daily Worker. e SECOND ANNUAL PICNIC of the INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER At Pleasant Bay Park Win a Free Trip to Hear Max Bedacht Speak DANCE UNDER RHYTHM OF I. W. 0. BAND Sunday, July 8th the Soviet Union ‘The premiere of “Free Ernst Thaelmann,” a pewerful play which deals dramatically with recent events in Germany, will take place Saturday evening in the theatre at Camp Nitgedaiget, Beacon, ns There will be no admission charge jor campers above the regular | camp rate of $14 a week. In addition to the Theatre Brigade, whcih is directed by Joh John Bonn is secretary of the League of Workers Theatres and rector of the Theatre Collective. The Brigade is made up of m FIRST SHOWING OF THAELMANN PLAY | Camp Nitgedaiget’s Theatre Brigade to Act Unusual programs have been arranged for every day. In addit the sports program has been increased to include soccer. Pil . tennis and swimming tournaments are also planned, according to D Davis, Sports Director —(Advertisement).