The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 6, 1934, Page 3

: Page Three ‘161 Delegates atAuto Workers Union Meet MapRecruiting Drive | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1934 a tonal aie | Fight of Sharecroppers in Black Belt rike Michigan Jobs; Quota200| Against NR A Described by Leader Des Moines Men Solid Now Seeking 500 New By “Daily” Readers; EDWIN ROLFE HEN, a little more than al " Where Sharecroppers Are Forced To Live month ago, the Share- Rank and File Strike Committee Calls Mass Meetings DES MOINES, Iowa.—Two thou- sand work relief employes, who oe K. C. Laggi Relief Heads Capitulate ; ebeme on Pay; Men Demand Full Settlement ANN ARBOR, Mich, July 5—Over 2,000 Washtenaw County relief ST. LOUIS.—Not being satisfied with its modest quota of 150, Dis- trict 21 (St. Louis) announces it will seek 500 new reads. Through an energetic plan of action, 51 new | readers were ad- ded by the time croppers’ Union in the Black! | Belt of Alabama called a} special meeting to report on its activities and plan future} | work, many croppers. were! so vitally concerned about the event | that they rode 15 miles on mule back to attend. And the men who} | undertook this difficult and plod-| struck on the jobs here three weeks | workers replied to an F.E.R.A. wage ago, are still out. Demands raised| cut by going out on strike Monday. for a 24-hour work week have| The cut takes the form of a reduc- drawn hundreds of unemployed|tion in hours of the budgetary al- workers into the struggle |lowance, and amounts to 25 per This is the second relief strike | cent, thereby reducing the average here in the past three months. At | 4mount received per week per fam- the time of the strike the local City | ily from $12 to $9. It is the begin- the first tabula-| ding journey were Negroes who tions appeared. | only a few years ago would not have Contest Among | thought of attending such a meet- Organizations | ing even if it was being held within Calling on| short walking distance. every Party} This was cited yesterday by Al member Murphy, secretary of the Share- cure at least one Council was forced, through mass Pressure, to withdraw all super- vision on work relief projects within the city limits. | Now the council is endeavoring to smash the strike by revoking the resolution calling off withdrawal of supervision. At a mass demonstration called |f0r @ minimum hourly wage of 50 by the Strike nearly a thousand workers unani-| mously voted to support the strike | move until the demands are won,| and stand ready to force all scabs from the jobs. The City Council has further ex- | posed itself as a willing tool for the boss class by refusing to endorse the Workers’ Unemployment and | Social Insurance Bill, which was endorsed by the previous city | Council. Mayor Lewis, agent for the Iowa utilities crowd, pleaded that he knew nothing about the Workers’ Committee of 25, | ment insurance it would be the brand recommended by Green, Lewis and company, the fake Wag-| moval of Abram Fischer, notorious | labor hater, from the position of | supervisor of the County Jail proj-| ner Bill. | Cops and Thugs Smash | March of Unemployed MASON CITY, Iowa, July 5.—/} City officials, A. F. of L. leaders | and county relief officials joined | forces with the police here in| breaking up a march of the unem- ployed on the county court house | on Saturday, June 30. The entire} police force, together with armed deputies recruited from the local) hoodlum element, were mobilized. | City firemen were forced to stand} with fire hoses in readiness. Every; police car was bristling with guns | and tear gas. Machine guns were} reported to have been stationed in| the relief headquarters. | Two days before the march was) to be held, the Mayor revoked the | permit to march, after local fas-| cists had raised a red scare, and| Hickox, president of the Trades As- | sembly, railroaded a resolution | through the assembly condemning | the Unemployment Councils as| “pogus and Communistic.” Hickox, | declaring that the Councils were | no; a national body, mobilized thugs armed with guns snd rubber hose for use on the workers. Barclay and Shanor, militant leaders of the Unemployment Coun- cils, were jailed without charges being formally placed against them | until the police had succeeded in smashing the workers’ attempt to | march. Hali Key West,Fla., On Daily Relief of 22 Cents a Family TALLAHASSEE, Fla. July 5.— Key West, and Monroe County in which it is situated, today appealed to Governor Dave Sholtz tg take full control of the city and county. stating that a “state of emergency” existed, the city was bankrupt and| “half the population” was on the | relief rolls. | The Key West City Council and the Monroe County Commission submitted a resolution declaring, in part: “About half of the population is on the federal rolls, and the nor- mal assistance given to the people under the present system is inade- quate and affords very little relief.” Relief for the State of Florida as a whole averaged 22 cents a day per family during the month of Febru- ary (the latest figures available), and 97.7 per cent of the relief throughout the State was supplied by the federal government. Gov. Sholtz called on the Federal Emergency Relief Administration to “accept the responsibility necessar- ily arising.” Sholtz and J. S, Stone, relief administrator, will confer to- morrow on the F.E.R.A. assuming full administrative powers over the city and county, after the resolu- tions passed by the city and county stated: “Both the city and county are unable to carry on the functions of government, leaving the popula- tion in a dependent and distressed condition.” Fully 10,000 workers were once employed in the cigar industry in Key West, and the population of the city has dwindled from 18,749 in 1920, to 12,831 in 1930. N.R.A. codes, trustifying industry into the hands of the large combines, have also been responsible for the loss of the pineapple canning industry and the fishing and sponge indus- tries. PATRONIZE Southern and West Indian Markets 391 Dumont Ave. — 325 BROOKLYN, N. Y. Livonia Ave. Dickens 6: NEEDLE WORKERS PATRONIZE SILVER FOX CAFETERIA and BAR 326-7th Avenue Between 28th and 29th Streets Food Workers Industrial Union g of a drive to force down the ing standards of the unemployed throughout the state of Michigan. County relief workers, not on the F.E.R.A., who were not affected by the cut, but have been getting only 40 cents an hour, also struck in sym- pathy with the F.ER.A. workers cents. Union bricklayers are also | striking to show their solidarity, The strike vas voted at a mass meeting in Ann Arbor last Saturday and a rank and file strike commit- tee of eight was elected to present the demands to the relief officials. These demands are: (1) Full restoration. of the wage cut, with no jdiscrimination; (2) fifty cents an hour minimum to (3) full pay for all relief workers; time lost during strike; labor, or “slave” labor, without as is required on one project in the Bill, but in any case,| town of Ypsilanti; (5) recognition of should he vote for any unemploy-| a rank and file grievance commit- tee to deal with relief officials on be- half of the workers; (6) the re- ect. Workers on the County Jail, the sewer and University of Michigan projects, in Ann Arbor, walked out at starting time Monday morning. Three car loads of strikers were im- mediately organized who toured the county, calling off workers on all relief jobs, including the county roads. The strike is nearly 100 per cent solid. At a mass meeting in Ann Arbor Monday aftrnoon, at which work- ers from all over the county were represented, the reply of the relief) officials to the workers’ demands| were read. The demand for 50 cents an hour minimum wage was grant- ed, but the workers voted solidly to| stay on strike until all other de- | mands are won. John Pace, district organizer of| the Unemployed Councils, addressed the meeting, speaking ia favor of a| permanent united front in the form! of an’ Unemployed Council in ‘Ann| Arbor and Washtenaw County. | Transient Bureaus Show Big Rise in Homeless Workers NEW YORK.—Driven from the) farms and sharecropper holdings, | driven from the cities in search of | food, an ever-growing army of | homeless men, women and childrgn, a few of whom find shelter in “transtent bureaus,” roam the country. On June 15, men, women and children on the transient relief rolls, from figures compiled by the Federal Transient Bureau, totalled 192,288 persons, an increase of over! | 12,000 in one month. Of this total, 114,848 were unat- tached individuals, 111,152 males! and 3,696 females. Besides this, | there were 21,252 families on the| rolls, comprising a total of 177,440} men, women and children. | These figures relate only to those | who have applied for and received relief. Viewpoints of officials in the relief. administration admit that there are many thousands more, perhaps several hundred thousand, who are without any relief. Those stopping at the Federal Transient Camps are made to work from 24 to 30 hours a week at forced labor for the miserable relief given at the 249 transient centers and 85 camps. The figures given above do not include the thousands of single workers in the 85 forced labor N.R. A. Decrees Starvation for 300,000 Textile Workers REPORT ORDERS NO PAY INCREASES, SAVES PROFITS OF COTTON MILL OWNERS EDITOR’S NOTE.—This is the second, concluding section of an article on how the N. R. A, co- | operating with the A. F. of L, officials, prevented 300,000 cotton | textile workers from securing their | demands for wage increases and union recognition. The first part, printed yesterday, told how ‘Thomas MacMahon, head of the United Textile Workers’ Union, set a date for strike on June 4 for wage increases and union recog- nition; how these A. F. of L. lead- ers did not prepare the strike, but instead signed an agreement with the N. R. A. and the em- ployers, leaving the question of wages to the Research Depart- ment of the N. R. A., and calling the strike off. Yesterday’s article told how the N. R. A. on June 29, issued its report, declaring that the cotton textile workers should not receive wage increases, The figures, showing increased profits and dividends of the textile manufac- turers under the N. R. A. in 1933, were given, as well as figures showing exhorbitant salaries to the cotton textile executives, new trial sub (2 months for $1) by August First, the t Way out yonder in | the great Northwest | LTON of | » Wash, a carrier announced a prize contest for organizations route. Doorstep participating in talks on the D. W. the campaign. aia it. ‘The first prize is a trip to the Soviet Union (requir- ing a minimum of 100 2-month subs). Others include, a picture of Joe Jones; sets of the Marx-Lenin Library; a free scholarship to the Workers School for the Fall term and a $5.00 food basket. | The contest is open to Section 1, | St. Louis, Madison, etc.); Interna- (4) no forced | tional Workers Order (all branches pay, | in St. Louis); Unemployed Councils (all branches); Croatian Clubs (all branches); Food Workers Industrial | Union, and Section 4, with affiliated | organizations (Kansas City, Joplin, | ete.) Contenders for the trip to the imum by Sept, 1, the contest | finishing on Oc- | tober 1 at 12 M., and C. P. and | ¥.C.L. members | in St. Louis can only participate for this prize through the or- | ganizations jmentioned | above. The con- |test for the other prizes ends September 1. The entire force of Daily Worker agents is to be reor- ganized for better route distribu- tion and street sales. All left over copies will be distributed weekly in selected residential areas, with explanatory leaflet inserted. Franklin, Easton and Chouteau Ayes, are to be worked for in- Pee’ RK, A. STOHR, handed a “Daily,” learns the truth about the bosses; starts handing the paper to others, gets 28 subs in Bohvar, N. Y. He's 60, and former Standard Oil slave. | creased newsstand representation and sales, The most aggressive Red Builders will be assigned to the Terminal Yards, the Chevrolet plant and the Independent Packing Company, with added provisions for financially attractive routes and street corners. To Train Red Builders Weekly training classes -will be held, with the most successful Red Builders acting as instructors. Training will cover best methods for selecting and using slogan’s from the day’s news, contacting | factory workers, etc. | In addition, the plan calls for frequent discussions of the Daily Worker and its — contents in open meetings con- ducted by the Unemployed Councils and other organi- zations. Daily Worker corres - pondents will be appointed by each organi- zation to report on their strug- gles and actions. Each week, the best Daily Worker achieve- ment of the pre- vious week will CARL GEISER left sampie coptes of the “Daily” in work- ers’ homes along several blocks, built route, Many sub- scribed, talked to their neighbors and a friends, gained new be popularized at subs, open air and organizational meetings. camps where single men are herded and made to work 24 hours a week for food and lodging. PART Il. ) Nescesvaettaak to the N.R.A. report average hourly wages are 37.3 year ago. It must be remembered that this figure includes wages for the most highly skilled crafts in the industry, and is the hourly wage. It does not take into account the part time work, the shorter hours or the curtailment which has re- duced real wages 25 per cent. Nor does it take account of the scores of thousands of workers, especially in the South, who get the code mini- mum or lower. The higher paid skilled crafts raise the “average” considerably. The report claims that average weekly wages were $13.41 in April. (All statistics come from the dis- credited propaganda machine, the | Bureau of Labor Statistics). The N.R.A. claims that the wage was $10.00 a year ago. The report of average weekly jearnings again, includes the most jhighly skilled crafts in the indus- | try, and thus does not take into ac- | who get below the average. “Prices (of cotton goods) have tended downwards since the code and processing tax went into effect,” to a4 | with affiliated organizations (East | Soviet Union must reach their min- | count the majority of the workers | croppers’ Union in the Black Belt, as one of many incidents which in- dicate the increasing interest and activity of Southern sharecroppers, District] farm laborers and tenant farmers| Committee has} in the union; as one of the many | | small instances by which one can | accurately gauge the growing mili- |tancy of the Southern Negro | workers. | Leader of Croppers | Murphy , who arrived in New York last Friday, is a leader of the Sharecroppers’ Union in a wide territory which takes in the towns of Montgomery, Camp Hill and Selma, Ala., as well as Tallapoosa, Chembers and Lee Counties, among many others. He and the thousands of Negro toilers organized in the union live and work in the very heart of America’s Black Belt. Murphy, a tall, quiet and serious young man of 27, has been working in the Sharecroppers’ Union for the past two years, ever since he left the Birmingham pipe and metal shop, where he had been em- ployed before he felt the driving | necessity of organizing the farm | toilers in Alabama. A native of Georgia, Murphy is proud of his proletarian background. Murphy described the situation of the Southern Negro toilers in an | interview yesterday, reviewing their | lot under the Roosevelt New Deal. | basis of Southern economy is the | backward and semi-feudal agricul- | tural system, mainly expressed in | fact the landlords and capitalists | established their system of national oppresssion of the Negro people.” | Conditions “Almost Indescribable” | Murphy described the develop- | ments in the South since the world | War up till the present, when condi- tions “are almost The year 1933, of course, ushered in | the Roosevelt-New Deal program, | ballyhooed to “bring back prosper- | ity.” The New Deal for the Southern farm workers meant plowing under cotton, their main crop, and in general reducing the sown acreage in the South—leaving the rich and fertile soil useless, and | the tenant farmers, the sharecrop- | pers, in misery and destitution. The N. R. A. forced them to the lowest level of living to which they, tradi- | tionally and notoriously the most | oppressed section of the American toilers, have ever sunk. “The special and cold-blooded |deliberate aim of the N.R.A. gov- ernment was to reduce the num- ber of sharecroppers, with the in-| |tention of further suppressing them | | and, because the majority of them | are Negroes, to more inhumanly degrade and suppress the Negro {people as a whole.” “Roosevelt’s program of ‘good | | times’ and ‘cash money for plowed | | under and unsown acreage.’ ” Mu: phy continued, “was hailed by the) big farmers as a means of doing| away with ‘surplus cotton.’ The enormous propaganda and _ bally-/ hoo campaign made this destruction | of crops virtually compulsory. The} N.R.A. press agents raised their} hypocritical and demagogic promise | of ‘millions for farm relief.’” | What actually happened in the | South under this Roosevelt pro- gram? Murphy described it as fol- lows: Croppers Victimized “Generally it was the cropper who ploughed under his land. The big landlord would not allow his crop to be touched. Then, in payment | for the ploughing under, the checks | were sent by the government, but had been fared to destroy his crop. A joint check was sent to the land- | lord, a check which bore the names “It's true,” he said, “that the | | the sharecropper system. On this | Big Shops Represented; Take Up Mass Layoffs, Fight on Company Unions, One Class Struggle Union, and Demands J. WILSON 4.—The Auto Workers Union Conference that took place June 30, at 5969 14th St., had 161 delegates from organizations with 13,487 members. Del- egates present from shops, included Ford, Briggs, Hudson, and all the large shops of the city. The conference took place?— By DETROIT, Mich., July The orphaned family of Cliff James, militant sharecropper leader murdered last December when he and other croppers re- sisted an attempt to seize his livestock by sheriff's deputies. This shack, inhabited by eight other relatives as well as James’ widow | Ludie and her seven children, is typical of the homeé of croppers | im the Black Belt, described in the accompanying article. per. Both of them had to sign the check at the bank in order to get the money. “Fo: example: if a joint check for say, $200, was received by the landlord, he got the sharecropper to sign it, and then, instead of turn- ing the cropper’s fair share over |to him, he would deduct all debts of the past season, many of them| fictitious debts raised to endrmous| amounts -by the landlord’s own) bookkeeping. The result was that| the cropper got no money from| the government for destroying nis| |crop—his sole means of living—but | | found himself, instead, either pen- | niless, or both penniless and still in| | debt to the landlord.” | “Insulting a White Woman” | | In connection with this, Murphy} |described the means whereby the | white landlord's intimidate the Ne- |gro croppers into giving up their| hard-earned money. The landlord jgets his wife to sit in on the con- ference at which the ‘debts’ are set- |tled. Often he even has his wife take care of the matter alone. In either case, if the Negro cropper get off the land, vacate the shacks which they and their families ed, or else to get a job and pay rent. Or, if they want to, the landlord tells them, they can plant subsistence crops on a portion of his land—not money crops such as cotton, but only beans, vegetables, things for home consumption. Of this subsistence crop the landlord demands a big share. It is actual serfdom, slavery! The cropper, who sees how much of his toil will go to the landlord for the miserable privilege of living in a small hut or shack, refuses to plant a subsistence crop and goes to the local Relief Administration. But— The iandlords have already turned in the names of the croppers who refuse to be victimized in this manner to the relief heads (who are also landlords). The croppers, when they apply for relief work, are told that they have already refused work offered to them, and are therefore not entitled to relief jobs. The cropper is thus finally forced to return to the landlord under even at the time when mass lay-| organizer for the union offs are taking place in the indus- try, and are being followed by wage cuts. Phil Raymond, National Secre- tary, made the main report, in which he brought forward the ne- cessity of putting up an organized fight to smash the company unions He cited several instances where the companys are cloaking the companyunions in “democratic” forms in order to get the workers to support these unions and keep them out of real militant unions. He also reported on the general situation and the worsening of con- ditions of the workers, and very y brought out the necessity of building the Auto Workers’ Union in order to combat such conditions. He also reported on the necessity of all our work leading to the building of one Industrial Union in the Auto Industry, as the only way |the auto workers can successfully and effectively struggle against the Jemployers and their government agents. Drive for 1,000 New Members. The writer made a sub report on the organizational tasks necessary | workers, to carry out the proposed program of the conference. the goal of recruiting 1,000 new The goal is to increase the paid up circula- tion of the paper from 2,500 to 4,000 in 3 months. One of the high-spots of the cone ference was the report of the A, W. U. delegate from Grand Rapids, Mich. He told how they carried on a fight for the demands of the workers and were able to recruit practically the whole shop and at the same time smash the company union Nat Trade Union Unity spoke, stressing e main tasks for r To build and the AWU. To increase jon of the Auto Work- (2) To consolidate the rank and file opposition in the AF locals and connect them on @ nae tional scale. Against small split- offs and for the development of in- dependent struggle over the heads of the bureaucrats. (3) To develop struggle in the shops by forming United Action Committees (AWU, MESA, AFL, unorganized workers) with similar committees around the shops in the neighborhoods to fight for relief for laid-off auto (4) As the first step towards forming one all-inclusive Ganley, organizer He suggested | industrial union in the industry to work towards the merger of the | Members into the union, in the next| AWU and MESA into one union, |three months. ness manager of the Auto Workers’ News, spoke on the necessity of building the Auto Workers’ News, in order to combat the press of the manufacturers, 70 Corn Products indescribable.” | | sees how he is being cheated, and| More miserable terms. “It is,” raises strenuous or militant ob-| Murphy said, “actually forced la- | jections to the take bookkeeping, he| bor!” jis told that he “called them liars’’| edie he: jor that he “insulted a white 4 ean Murphy said, there is the Gin Tax Law, a compulsory law under the Agricultural Administra- tion Act, under which alt cotton above a set allotment is taxed five cents-on the pound, or 50 per cent of the market price for ginning. The County Control Committee, composed naturally of landlords, posts a list of how many bales can | be ginned tax-free. They send out tax-exemption certificates, getting | | woman.” The results of such charges are too tragically well-known to need restatement. Since the ploughed-under part of | the land is not the landlord's, the |cropper is left with no crop, no} | money—considerably worse off than |the year before when, he at least, had’ his crop. And the landlord profits a hundredfold, since the | ploughing under of the vast cotton land raises the price of the cotton | all for themselves as a rule. The grown on his land. In this vicious} | way does the New Deal program Pekin, Ill., Factory | Conduct Mass Picketing ; Other Trades Are Ready To Help (Special to the Daily Worker) | Sometimes get a few, but never more | they are getting, went out on strike and to serve as an Unemployed, spoke on the dire need | I. Greenberg, busi- | controlled by the rank and file, with @ class struggle policy. Program of Demands. John Pace, militant leader of the of joint action of the employed and unemployed. A delegate from Ternstedt re- ported on how the President of the AFL in the plant had quit and gone over to the company union and Workers Strike IN| rece all members of the AFL to follow suit The conference adopted a resolu- tion for the release of Ernst Thael- mann, leader of the German work- ers, the Scottsboro boys, Mooney and several others. T he conference unanimously adopted the proposed program, which called for setting up joint committees to fight for relief, re« cruiting 1,000 new members in three months, increasing the sale of the PEKIN, Ill, July 5. — Over 700| Auto Workers’ News, and adopted poor farmers, tenants and: croppers| Workers, unable to live on the wages | the following demands. 1, Against the company unions. | N.R.A. Deliberately Hits Negroes | | resolve itself. ie eee Foreed Labor System | NOTHER result of the N.R.A.| program in the South has been | | the extension of the forced labor | system. Because of the reduced cot- | ton acreage, landlords on big plan- tations fire considerable numbers of | their laborers. One big landlord, | Murphy stated, reduced the plows than a few, of these valuable cer-| ®t the Corn Products Co. here for|For the right to organize into tificates. Their crops, when in scat- | 2 50 per cent increase in wages and | unions of their own choice. Against tered cases they have not been | f0r recognition of their union. | the Automobile Labor Board and plowed under, are therefore ali| Although the strike was called by|the menace of compulsory arbitra- taxed exorbitantly. In addition the | the A. F. of L. union, the strikers, | Hon. 2. Against the wage-cuts and Negro croppers must pay for stor-| Who have not forgotten the betrayal | OW wages, speed-up and_ cheating age, and interest on money bor-| Suffered by the Pekin Distillery | Ponus schemes. Equal pay“for equal workers, 3. For relief to all unem- rowed from the government. They | Workers at the hands of A. F. of cannot, as a result, sell their crops | L. leaders, are conducting the strike without losing more than the crop| Uder broad rank and file leader- cost to produce. In any event, they | Ship, and have organized mass ployed workers to be paid by the jemployers and city government. All funds paid—advanced by the picket lines. |on his land from 130 to 80, thus| | throwing fifty croppers out of work. |Then, since there is no work for | them, they are told that they must cannot even begin to compete with the tax-exempt crops of the land- lords. (Concluded Tomorrow) The strike is 100 per cent effec- tive. strikers coming out on the | Picket line in huge numbers. Mem- | bers of the Unemployment Council company—not to be paid back. Union wages to be paid for relief jobs at not less than 75¢ per hour, Two weeks’ lay-off pay. For H.R. 7598. 4. For a 30-hour week, 6- hour day, 5-day week. 5. No dis- Teachers Union Elects R. F. Lowry | Refuses To Reverse No-| Strike Policy | CHICAGO (F.P.).—Raymond F. Lowry of Toledo was elected presi- dent of the American Federation of Teachers, defeating President Henry | T. Linville of New York, in the final session of the 18th annual conven-| —— | from Tozmell. Fulton and other | crimination against Negroes, women | Surrounding counties are taking} and youth in securing jobs. aa 2 | part in the picketing, thus giving . * + Union Leaders of Car || living example of the unity of Delegates to TUUC. | employed and unemployed workers. DETROIT, Mich., July 6.—Loeal Maca Ong 4 Men in Chicago Take | ue Corn Products Co. has de-|unions in the auto’ industry, brass, aC *. | Clared a lockout, stating that as sausage workers, office workers, Measly 3-Cent Raise | long as the picketing continues the| barbers, etc. have alresdy clewed eee will remain closed. The com- | two delegates each to, the first | Pany is threatening to ship ma- meeting of the Detroit Trade Union terial for production to their three Unit Council, July 9, 7:30 P. M., at other plants in New Jersey, in|108 West Hancock St. Other locals Street, Electric and Motor Coach| Kansas City, and Argo, Ill. are asked to respond. At this meet- Employees, again betrayed their| The strikers appeal to the work-|ing the TUUL will adopt by-laws, rank and file members yesterday by | ers in these three plants to refuse |@ plan of work, and elect officers, accepting a compromise agreement | to work on material shipped to| betel ag with the Chicago Surface | their plant from Pekin, and call | BUS EXCURSION | upon these workers to prepare to} The wage increase demanded by | strike in support of the Pekin Corn | CHICAGO, July 5—The Quinlan- Taber machine which dominates the Amalgamted Association of tion at Chicago. Florence Curtis | the union of 10 per cent. was whit- Hanson was re-elected secretary-|tled down to a measly 3 per cent. treasurer, but announced that she/| by ‘negotiations’ between the com- | Products workers, | | Workers in the other shops in | 1935. | | Most of the liberal, pacifist and/| anti-imperialist resolutions were| | mever directly to the cropper who| Would not seek another term in| pany and union leaders. also endorsed industrial as against | both of the landlord and the crop- passed by the convention, which craft trade unionism. By CARL REEVE | Says the report. No figures are given |to substantiate this statement. “Cost of raw material-has increased over | cents an hour. This is claimed to be | 100 per cent, with the processing |an iricrease of 70 per cent over a/tax taken into account.” * . . Pity the Poor Employers ‘HE N.R.A. paints a pitiful pic- ture of the situation of the poor textile manufacturers. Their profits have jumped since last year, their executives get huge salaries. The hated wage differen- tial was put into effect by the N.R.A., making the southern tex- tile workers slaves for a pittance. Then came the curtailment which made the minimum code wages, already at starvation levels, mean- ingless, and cut real wages 25 per cent by instituting part time work. The speed-up has been greatly increased under N.R.A. The textile workers are seething with strike sentiment because of the unbearable conditions which the N.R.A. has enforced on them. All this, of course, is left out of the N.R.A.’s “impartial” report. The report, in its conclusion, bases its refusal to advocate wage in- creases, on the grounds that “As the cotton workers themselves prob- ably purchase less than 1 per cent jof the industry’s output, the small volume of demand for cotton tex- tiles is due wholly to the low pro- duction and consequent low pur- chasing power in other industries.” General Johnson made similar statements regarding the steel work- ers’ wages. . Ce ee | To Save Profits (E N.R.A. takes the position that textile wages cannot be raised until wages are raised in other in- dustries. It takes the position that wages in other industries cannot be raised for the same reason. The N.R.A. report ignores the fact that the textile workers are themselves suffering reduction in real wages not only from the cur- tailment, but from rise in the , Price of necessities. Rising cost of raw material for the manufac- | turers is important to the N.R.A. | Rising cost of necessities for the workers, is of no importance to | the N.R.A. The fact that the mar- | kets have decreased because the | workers do not get sufficient wages | to buy the necessities of life, is | concealed in the report. Instead, the report is based on saving the profits and dividends of the cot- ton textile employers. et The cotton textile workers, al- Pekin are watching this strike keenly, and are preparing to go | out in a sympathetic strike in | support of the Corn Products men. -- WORKERS WELCOME — | NEW CHINA | CAFETERIA Tasty Chinese and American Dishes |] PURE Foop — PoPuLaR prices |] 848 Broadway bet. 13tn & 14th st. Allerton Avenue Comrades! Camp Wocolona Leaves from Workers Book Shop, 50 E. 13th St. every Saturday, 1:30 P.M. Returns Sunday, 10 P.M. One way $1. Round Trip $1.75 Information MIdwood 8-0919 Day and Moonlight EXCURSION of American, Brownsville and Hinsdale Youth Clubs Sailing on CLERMONT to Kook Mountain rampcabascac aol cate as These words have a familiar ring.| Saturday, July 7th Tickets in adv. 75c-—At Boat $1 ready striking in some points in the | South, declare that they must have The Modern Bakery Was first to settle Bread Strike and first to sign with the Food Workers’ Industrial Union 691 ALLERTON AVE. higher wages. In the choice be- tween saving the profits of the em- ployers and securing living wages for the workers, certainly the work- ers will make this choice on the/| picket lines in strikes for higher wages. DANCING — REFRESHMENTS SPORTS — ENTERTAINMENT MacMahon, in betraying the cot- ton textile workers and signing the N.R.A. agreement, tried to save his face by the “investigation” of the N.R.A. regarding wage increases. CAMP KINDERLAND Workers Camp for Adults and Children—Open for Vacation Vacation Rates for Adults $14.00 per Week (Tax Included) Now the preliminary report of the | N.R.A. proves the previous state- | ment of the Communist Party, that the N.R.A. had no intention of in- | creasing wages. On the contrary, the N.R.A. is preparing further attacks on the standard of living of the textile workers, of which the curtailment, the mass lay-offs, and the N.R.A. report are only the opening guns. The textile workers have nothing to gain from trust in the N.R.A., which is the machinery of the em- |ployers. Only by militant struggle, | | by preparing strikes, can the cot- |ton textile workers increase their wages, and secure union recognition. , $16.00 for 2 Weeks For Children of I.W.O. Schools and Members of the I.W.O, 10 Weeks — $105.00 For Others Additional $2.00 per Week Cars Leave for Camp Daily at 10:30 A. M.; Friday and Saturday 10:30 A. M., 3 P. M. and 7 P. M., from 2700 Bronx Park East. 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