The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 7, 1934, Page 4

AFL Leader In Appeal for Co. Union Workers Indignant at Robinson, Head of Ternstedt Local By a Worker Correspondent The president of the A. F. of L local in the Ternstedt plant of the General Motors Co., Robinson, came to a meeting and asked all workers to follow his example and join the company union. Robinson hand picked as president of the local by the A. F. of L. organizer: Members of the local were mi tant in their answer to this Pany agent. They condemned t company union, which the com Officials reorganized and Take appear as though real organization, instead of body which votes once a ye was ballot. The new face of the com- Pany union called the Ternstedt Employes’ Association, also runs dances etc. Robinson explained he wanted to resign as president because the company union stands for the same thing as the A. F. of L. He said that the company officials had spoken to him of this and he found NO reason to remain in the A. F. of L. He said he always got a fair deal from the company. That he hhad no kick coming and that the company representative always did things for the workers. The workers were indignant When one worker said “Robinson, you are a company union man,” all the other workers shouted approval Tt was decided that Robinson should not come to any more union meet- ings. The workers then demanded that every official of the local get up and tell where he stood on the company union. Mr. Taylor, of Indiana, was the A. F. of L. big shot present at the Meeting. Up till this mecting he was always talking about cooperat- ing with the company. He talked against strikes and dished out a lot of hooey about the N.R.A. But when he saw the militancy of the workers at this meeting he changed | his tune. He made a speech with radical sounding words, saying he was in Toledo and there workers were ready to die on the picket lines. He had to do this to save his face but the workers are getting on to him. sf On the question of the con- ference called by the A. F. of L. of the federal unions in the auto in- dustry, Taylor explained it by say- ing the local unions were going to be given a chance to say what they want. One of the members proposed that the local endorses the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill Taylor did not dare oppose it. When workers show militancy at the meeting, they sure can gét action. Farmers Halt Minn. Eviction ¥.G.L. Organizer Leads Defense of Farm FARIBAULT, Minn.—One thou- sand farmers and workers succeeded in halting the foreclosure of the Barta brothers’ farm for the sec- ond time in two weeks when they Tassed in face of 75 armed deputi: and after a short, pitched battle, drove the deputies away. Léd by Morrie Greenberg, organ- | jzer of the Y.C.L. in southern Min- nesota, the farmers defied the rub- ber hoses, billies and guns of the deputies. Greenberg jumped on a box during the struggle and spoke | to the crowd. Attempts to arrest him by the sheriff failed as the crowd massed to his defense and drove the deputies away. Upon his arrival after the fight- ing, Bosch, state organizer and vice- president of the Farmers Holiday Association, told the workers that the Sheriff had promised to release the two workers arrested if the crowd would disperse. Greenberg urged the workers and farmers not to fall for this pro- posal but to stay until the arrested | workers were released. Twenty minutes later the sheriff was forced to release the two arrested. What Are the Tasks of the Rank and File Auto Workers After First Convention of the MUST UNIFY THEIR RANKS AGAINST CLASS COLLABORATION POLICY AND FIGHT FOR THE BUI By WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE HE national conference of he United Automobile Workers Union—that is the federal locals of the American Federation of Labor— has come and gone. This confer- ence was called upon practically ane week's notice. The call for the conference was in the hands of the officialdom of the locals one mo before the eonference but was pw O% for three weeks in he locals in order to pre- he rank and file from rallying ir forces for the conference. The main problems of the automobile workers remained unsolved by the onference. Company Union Growth. The automobile workers that or- ganized their ranks chiefly in the American Federation of Labor in the past years were confronted at the time of the conference with the growth of company unions which were being organized simultaneously with the workers trade unions, but since the Washington ageement in first March of this year have been steadily pushing forward; discrim- ination against union men which was to have been done away with by the establishment of the Automobile Labor Board has continued] unabated and as admitted by the] Officials has run into thousands. On top of this, umemployment is now sweeping the industry. Practically 15,000 have been laid off in the Hudson plants in Detroit; thirty to forty thousand have been shut out | in Fords; and lay-offs are on the order of the day in all of the| plants. Low wages continue. Where | workers have been able through strike action or threat of strike to force their wages up, as in the Hud- son plant, they are now suffering wage-cuts. The hellish speed-up system which maims and crushes the workers which was responsible the other week for the explosion in Fords resulting in the death of six men and maiming of many others, which causes daily tragedies re- mains unchecked and is even in- tensified. In consequence of the policy of the A. F. of L. officials and the propaganda of the company, the unions of the A. F. of L. have declined in mémbership with the resulting loss of confidence in the union. The rank and file hoped that the conference would give an} answer to these questions. But they left bitterly disappointed. Settling (!) It. speed-up, The struggle against job insecurity, discrimination, low | wages and unemployment was dis- posed of by a resolution introduced by Collins calling the Automobile Labor Board to investigate these questions, repeating the resolution | which they had taken in Washing- ton which had likewise called for investigation, On the question of company | union, the conference adopted the| Collins resolution appealing to the President “through executive order to empower and direct the Auto- mobile Labor Board to proceed in| the promulgation of an order de- signed to protect and preserve the fundamental rights of workers in the automobile industry in their | right to free organizations.” The| resolution condemns the manufac- turers “who were part of this agreement (Washington) with us that have complied with neither the spirit nor the intent of the agree- ment by reason of a persistent and determined effort to develop com- Pany unions through deception, coercion and misrepresentation.” | In this resolution, the officialdom| acknowledges that the Washington agreement which according to Green, Collins and Company grant- ing the right of organization has| turned out to be the opposite. But) | through the resolution, these A. F, of L. chiefs continue their game of | deception by blaming the growth of the company unions not upon the| agreement itself but upon chiseling on the part of the employers. Yet the Washington agreement never excluded the company unions, on) the contrary, they were legalized by the president. The officials are aj | Pealing to the President who’ him-| self was responsible for the growth | of company unions, but there is| even a more sinister intention of this resolution. By calling upon! the Automobile Labor Board to pro- Dedroit auto workers on a mass front of the Briggs auto plant during the strike last THE POWER OF UNITY picket line in men. union, spring. Unity is the need of the hour They should fight for one united intustrial for the auto mulgate an order, the chiefs sanc- tion the granting of power to the Automobile Labor Board to fasten compulsory arbitration upon the} workers, and grants it power to| penalize workers that go out on strike. This resolution is in line with the new anti-strike laws passed by Congress which Green praised highly before the confer- ence, going to the extent of reading it word for word, giving the im-| pression that now the problems of | the auto workers would be solved. These fascist laws which will be backed up by the full police power of the government, received the| stamp of approval of the A. F. of L. chiefs. Thus the answer to the basic questions was the strengthen- ing of the N.R.A. machinery, the policy of class cooperation which are responsible for the mainten-) ance of the present miserable | situation, Tom Green Proposal. The question of the next organiza- tional step to which the ran andj file looked as a way out of this situ- | ation was not handled any better. | The conference jammed through | the Greens and Collins resolution, establishing a national council, completely dominated by Collins as the direct representative of Green. | The powers given to the council are | only those of “advising and assist- | ing the national representative of the A. F. L.” , power to “meet whenever necessary or| hen conditions warrant at the call of the national representative of the | A. F. L.” This formation of the council changed nothing and _per- | petuates the present conditions in| the pwanks of the workers. The| workers wanted a national organi- | zation which would be capable of | using the full united strength ef | the auto workers against the em- ployers. They are dissatisfied with | the federal locels which keeps one | local sevarate from the other and} which still maintains the craft divisions in many shops; for ex-} ample, in Cleveland, the workers | are split in as many as six unions | within one shop. The question of the next organi- zational step formed the central points of struggle at the confer- ence. A section of the officialdom | headed by Green, President of the | Hudson local and backed by Byrd | of the Automobile Labor Board, | sponsored a resolution likewise es- | tablishing a national executive | council, but giving it power to ap- point one of its members to con- duct an office under the direction of the council and empowering it to develop “the procedure and program for the formation of na- tional or international of the United Automobile Workers at the earliest feasible time.’ Greer sensed | day. | when they were informed by Mr. the desire of the rank and file, for the immediate formation of @ united international union and did not dare to support his own resolution although openly chal- lenged by Collins to do so. The real meaning of the Greer resolu- tion is not so much in what it says| but what it omits. It is an at-/ tempt to swing the workers out of | the A. F. L. in the direction of | company unions. Greer and Byrd) are doing direc’ the bidding o! General Motors which is in favo of smashing the unions and draw- | ing the workers into the compan; unions. They differ from Green| and Collins in that the latter. are) facilitating the growth of the com-| pany unions by their whole policy while Greer and Byrd are making a move to hasten this process! NRA Man Lends Society Air To Scene of Jersey Terror JERSEY CITY, N. J., July 6. — Boss Frank Hague's cops were on their best behavior in front of the Miller Parlor Frame Company to- Observing their polite, cir-/| cumspect conduct you'd never think | that they were notorious for their brutal treatment of strikers. You'd never think that they have arrested 15 strikers in the last month merely for picketing. The occasion for thelr display of good manners was the visit of Mr. Robert Cooke, New Jersey Regional Laber Board representative who was called on to be present when mem- bers of the Furniture Workers In- dustrial Union came to reclaim their jobs at the Miller plant in ac- cordance with a decision handed | down last week by the National Labor Board. Circumstances favored the cops in their superhuman effort to behave like human beings because the strik- ers decided not to enter the plant Hooks that Sam Miller, the em- ployer had sent to Washington to appeal the Kabor Board ruling. Not that the men have any faith in the Board, but they feel they have | so strong a case that the Labor Board will be compelled to reaffirm the original decision in their favor. Meanwhile they intend to continue their campaign of mass presure to make sure that the board doesn’t change its mind. Mr. Hooks, scion of an East Orange family made a suave master of ceremonies for the occasion. When the first contingent of 15 men marched down from the bus stop to the grim front of the factory through a direct split. a The rank and file expressed their desire for a national union in two sets of resolutions. One introduced by South Bend and Fort Wayne, calling for the immediate estab- lishment of an international union but leaving it to the executive council of the A. F. L. to take the steps for its formation and an- other set of resolutions supported by the militant rank and file dele- ates of White Motor Car Company nd Fisher Body of Cleveland, part of the Tarrytown delegation, dele- gate of the Ternstedt local and part of the Flint delegation. These delegates called for the establish- ment of one industrial union con- rolled by the rank and file and mbracing all unions in the indus- try. Green and Cotlins energeti- building Mr. Hooks, attired in white linén and a gentle smile informed them of the bosses pending appeal. The men said they would wait until they could get in touch with union headquarters in New York, Mr. Hooks said that would be all right with him and with the police cap- tain in charge of the squad guard- ing the building. Then he turned to converse with reporters, flash- ing pleasant, reserved smiles right and left. Meanwhile the A. F. of L. Wood- } carvers Local in New York, which also had an agreement with the Miller Company has called a strike on,the plant under the pressure of the membership and at its meeting last night measures were considered for the formation of a united front strike committee with the Furniture Workers Industrial Union, oS Ge NEW YORK.—A mass meeting to | protest Mayor MHague’s_ terror against striking furniture workers and for support of the struggle for the right to picket will be held on Wednesday, July 11 at 8 p. m. at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th St., New York, The meeting is called under the auspices of the National Furniture Workers Industrial Union, the In- ternational Labor Defense, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Committee for the De- fense of Political Prisoners, The speakers will be Joe Kiss, Max Per- low, Corliss Lamont, Mrs. Justine Wise Tulin, A. L. Wirin, A. J. Isser- man, Alfred Hirsch, Rose Dichter, G. Stevens and A. Overgaard. M. | tion to the Collins resolution. | tion, consisting of 11 members was Pizer, chairman. cally opposed the establishment of | an international union. Green speaking repeatedly, stated that) now was not the time because the | workers were not intelligent enough | to govern their own organization. | Coltins acting as chairman barred the resolution introduced by the militant rank and file for one union on the technical grounds that it was not introduced before the open- ing of the conference and permit- ting no vote upon any but the Col- lins resolution. By means of par- liamentary trickery, he compelled the delegates to vote for concur- Tence or non-concurrence in the Collins resolution. The cunning Collins machine put in a motion for non-concurrence, thereby caus- ing confusion by a vote yes mean- ing non-concurrence, and no mean- ing concurrence. By this no yes and yes no procedure, confusion was deliberately created. But never- theless about 40 per cent of the delegates registered their opposi- Fakers Had Advantage. The National Council which was | set up on the basis of the resolu- formed not by a direct vote from the floor, but by @ vote of delegates in which the burocrats had all the advantages for they knew one an- other and had their candidates all planned, while the rank and file had no chance to get through their delegates by this system of voting. With the exception of one or two, the Board consists of officials that are henchmen of the Green and Collins machine. The Greer machine was given no representa- tion on the council and did not Participate in the voting. - It was Tumored around the conference that Greer had held a caucus plan- ning to split away from the A.F.L. It is necessary that all auto work- ers be warned against this machine which will attempt to capitalize on the discontent and disappointment of the rank and file to corral the workers in the company unions. Greér was one of the three men that saw the President in Wash- ington during the March hearings and called upon him to issue an emancipation proclamation, which brought forth the Washington Set- tlement which he characterized as a “new course in social engineer- ing.” It was an emancipation proc- Jamation for the company unions. As President of the local, he de- layed negotiations for a 20 per cent wage increase put by the local until % of the workers were out of the shop; and in place of gétting an increase in wages, they have now secured a wage-cut. otkers Handicapped. The rank and file delegates at the conferetice were handicapped by the fact that they had no pre- vious contact with each other and come together without an oppor- tunity of organizing their ranks and a chance to clarify their posi- tion on the main questions before the conference. Nevertheless in- dividual members of the rank and file put up splendid fights against the machine. Delegate Kushley of Ternstedts fought for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill which her local had passed but was rapped down by the chair on the grounds that “we, want no Communist bills here.” Mortimore of White Motor lead the struggle, supported by Kushley, delegates from Flint and other places, for one industrial union. The militant rank and file delegates brought home to the workers that only an organized rank and file in the A. F. L. can change the situation. But the mili- tant rank and file delegates must realize that their fight for one in- dustrial union would have had greater success had they combined it with the struggle against the whole Washington agreement. They allowed the opportunity of chal- lenging the strike breaking policiés and the arbitration system to go unchallenged, thinking that they would center their main energies on the organizational proposals. But. thereby they lost the chance of whipping the rank and file dele- gates into full fighting shape and giving a crushing defeat to the machine notwithstanding its trick- try and deception. The militant rank and file delegates also allowed Negro Ref ormism in the Camp of the Imperialist N.A-A.G:P.. PO! ~y CYRIL BRIGGS IHE defeat in the Alabama primaries of Judge James E. Horton, “liberal” lynch jurist, is seized upon by the Pittsburgh Courier, unof- ficial organ of the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People (N. A. A. C. P.) as the occasion for another unprincipled attack on the Com- munists. The Communists are held re- Sponsible for Horton’s defeat and for the triumph of Bibb Graves, notorious Ku® Klux Klan can- didate for gover- or of Alabama. The N. A. A. C. Bs! Roosevelt mouthpiece de- clares, with shameless roting of arguments of the Alabama lynch- ers against “out- side interference” with their perse- ae cution and lynch terror against ‘ne Negro masses, that :— “The net result of the floca of threatening letters, telegrams and denunciations poured upon Ala- 4 ® LICIES INEY ITABLY LEAD TO BETRAYAL OF NEGRO MASSES; CRAWFORD CASE A CLASSIC EXAMPLE Enemy bama by zealous Communists the world over, has not been to make white Alabama ashamed and more disposed to mete out even-handed justice, but rather to increase bigotry, chauvinism and race prei- udiee. Outside interference al- ways does that, from the family to the State, unless it is skillfully | executed, and Communists are no- toriously bungling and inept.” } This is a re-statement of familiar reformist philosophy that since resistance on the part of the oppressed invites new reprisals from the oppressors there should be no | resistance, but slavish acceptance of | Oppressors, persecution and terror. “| Reformist Philosophy Leads to | Betrayal Sut the class and The growth of the revolutionary esistance of the toiling masses time it is the power which alone withdraw their bloody attacks. This | is shown, for example, in the fact | that the Alabama rulers have been forced three times to postpone the dates set for the mass murder of the Scottsboro boys. Certainly not be- mete out even-handed justice,” but Negro workers against the mon- the + national { struggles have their own dialetics. | =| causes the ruling classes to inten- | | sify their terror, but at the same | cause they were ever “disposed to IN the other hand, the reformist | Scottsboro Mother | t 5 é Mother Ada Wright, mother of one of the Scottsboro 9, who got defeats, forces the ruling classes to| the floor at the recent convention of the N. A. A. C. P. only after a sharp battle. strous frame-up and lynch death verdic's, | * > Philosophy inevitably leads to the persistent attempts of the N. A. A. C. P. leadership to disrupt the mass fight for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys. It is emphasized in the shameless betrayal by that leadership of George ‘Crawford, William Peterson and other framed- up Negro workers. With the net results of the “skillful” back-door diplomacy and dickering with the lynch courts by the reformist lead- ership, we will deal later on in these articles, in connection with the Crawford betrayal—a classic ex- ample of the aptitude of the “non- bungling” reformist leaders for co- operation with the lynchers. Lynchers Learning to Appreciate N. A.A. C. P. That the Southern ruling class lynchers are increasingly coming to understand and appreciate the role |of the N. A. A. C. P. leadership is shown in their changing attitude toward the organization. Where formerly its activities were fiercely opposed, they are now welcomed by the ruling class. The jailers of the Scottsboro boys are today the most. ardent exponcnts of N. A. A, C. P. “defense” for these boys. ferson County Jail, Birmingham, | Ala., several of the boys have been tortured and held in solitary in a vain effort to force them to repu- | Giate the I. L. D. and accept the because of the roar of indignant | ccllaboration with the oppressors | protests by millions of white and) and betrayal of the struggles of the| “defense” of the N. A. A. C. P., ac- cording to statements by the boys oppressed, This is exemplified in themselves, In Jef-| Significantly, too, under discus- sion of the “Changing Front,” the 25th Annual Conference of the N. A. A. C. P., held last week in Oklahoma City, Okla., adopted a proposal for closer co-operation with the “liberal” section of the Southern white ruling class. It at the same time rejected the ap- peal of the Scottsboro Mother, Ada Wright, for a united front with the International Labor De- fense and the revolutionary white and Negro workers in the fight for the Scottsbore boys. The Courier’s latest diatribe against the Communists is sympto- matic of the new attempt to disrupt the mass fight for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys. It is moreover a re-statement of the resistance of Negro reformist leaders to militant mass defense for Negro victims of capitalist justice. On beth these counts, the reformist leaders are shown in a united front with the lynchers and their courts. . ee Fo". the purpose of its slanderous attacks on the Communists, the Courier finds it necessary to “for- get” that these same courts had condemned eight of the boys to be electrocuted in August, 1931, and that only the world-wide mass pro- tests, organized by the Communists, have prevented the mass murder of the boys during the past three years. It sneeringly refers to the indignant world-wide protests of millions of white and Negro workers as “inter- national ballyhoo.” But Messrs. misleaders, it was precisely this so-called “international ballyhoo” that smashed through the criminal conspiracy of silence in the capital- ist press, that three times wrested the boys from the death chair, that forced the Courier itself to revise its first version of the casé in which, together with the white capitalist it described the boys as “rapists.” The policy of revolutionary mass defense, supplemented by the best possible legal defense in the courts, finds ample vindication in the en- tire history of the long, bitter fight for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys. Its efficacy is proved not only by the partial victories won in the fight for the Scottsboro boys, but in the victory of the international proletariat in wresting Dimitroff from the hands of the Nazi butch- ers, in the recent victory of Detroit workers in smashing the frame-up against James Victory, in forcing commutation of the death sentence against Theodore Jordan to life im- prisonment, in forcing an Atlanta court to grant bail for heroic An- gelo Herndon. * * * the fruits of the N. A. A. C. P. “de- | the conference by (Tomorrow’s article will deal with | A. F. L. Auto Local Unions? LDING OF ONE INDUSTRIAL UNION their ranks to be confused by per- | mitting Greer and Byrd to man- euver about and even to allow the latter to enter their ranks where he posed as 4 progressive favoring an industrial union but only opposing | the word “Fight” against employ- ers. Tasks. The tasks that flow from the con- ference for the rank and file con- sist in: 1. the arbitration system and mediate needs, against the com- strike. for one industrial union, controlled by the rank and file, aiming to get | the locals of the A. F. L. to adopt! a resolution which was barred from Collins for aj} vote by the locals. Undoubtedly | the rank and file is in favor of one | industrial organization embracing | all unions and controlled by the| rank and file. | 3. It must carry on a systematic campaign for removing and isolat- ing the offictaldom of the local | unions responsible for the Washing- of the latter in favor of company unions, 4. The rank and file must unite their forces nationally in support of this policy. dressed a letter to the delegates of the conference calling for one in- dustrial union and showing that the blame for the weakening of the union organization falls upon the shoulders of Green and Collins. The Auto Workers Union represents a militant section of the industry and can assist the movement for one industrial union by attempting to unite with the other independent file of the A. F. L. in the direction of one united movement. The Auto Workers Union can best serve the cause of unification by more mili- tantly, systematically taking up the fight against the company unions and against the oppressive condi- tions in the factories, aiming to carry through mass actions for a change in these conditions. Green and Collins can claim only a formal victory in the resolution which they passed. But there is no doubt that the sentiment of disgust with the railroading procedure, parliamen- tary trickery is so great after the conference that the victory will Prove to be only a pyrrhic victory. Stop depending for news and in- formation on the capitalist press that favors the bosses and is against the workers. Read the Daily Worker, America’s only working class news- paper. Detroit Sausage Men Win Re-instatement of Fired Union Men (Spécial to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich,, July 6—A stoppage of work by the employes of the Eastern Market Sausage Co,, last week succeeded in rein- stating two workers who were fired. Those fired were the vice president and delegate to the Trade Union Unity League of the United Sausage Workers Union. Nat Conley and Otto Mannsfield were the committee spokesmen who went to the company office to demand re-instatement of the two workers fired for union ac- tivity. At the union’s picnic Sunday five hundred worksrs were pres- ent. An action conference of all sausage workers will take place on Saturday, July 14 at 2 p. m. in Swiss Hall, 4656 Canton Ave. ton agreement; opposing not only | the Green and Collins machine, but | hourly rates went up, that did not, also. the Greer and Byrd group, | warning against the sinister moves | income, for you may have had less | st | | | | Wages Lagged Far Behind the Steel Profits Secret Memorandum Shews How Steel Barons Gyp Men | By ROBERT DUNN We were recently permitted to look over a more or less confiden- tial memorandum prepared by one of the leading statisticians of the N.R.A. It deals with the steel code and its effects on workers and the eel companies. It states at the outset that “Last jyear all major industries were in deep depression. At the present The need for uniting their| time a large number are making ranks against the whole policy of | profits. surrender to the employers, against | otherwise noted—L.R.A.). (All emphasis ours, unless This is the | particularly true of the iron and menace of compulsory arbitration | steel industry.” and for the adoption of a clear cut| gives the figures of the profits of program of struggle for the im-| steel The memo then companies during the first quarter of this year. These figures pany unions and for the right to| need not be repeated here as we | have 2. To push forward the movement j numbers of Steel & Metal Notes. included them in previous Wages Lagged Far Behind The memo admits frankly that “Earnings of iron and steel workers have failed to keep pace with profits of the steel companies.” This fact should be pounded home right now when the companies are contending that they are unable to meet the modest demands of the steel workers. Regarding wages, the document admits that “The experience under N.R.A. shows that equal hourly rates have not meant equal weekly earnings.” In other words, if your, automatically increase your Weekly work or have been put on part time, The memo recognizes this ten« dency when it says: “Average earn- ings per week, according to our calculations, as compared with the | total man hours worked, show that The Auto Workers Union, which | is not affiliated to the A. F, L., ad-| the earnings (of workers) since June, 1933, have declined more in comparison with the number of man-hours worked; this fact would indicate that average earnings have declined in relation to the relative increase in total man-hours worked.” Which simply means that while the Steel Institute boasts of the great increase in the man hours worked, the average weekly earnings of workers have, thanks to the N. R. A. stagger system, lagged far unions for a common movement | behind. which can influence the rank and | Prices Went Way Up Here is a still more important excerpt from this report. Steel workers, pressing for better pay and conditions should use it im confronting the bosses: “It is al- ways argued by the members of the industry (the companies) that they cannot bear increased costs of wage increases and that they cannot pass them on to their con- sumers in these depressed times in the form of increased prices. But the records show that they passed the costs on before they had to bear them. As soon as the code was signed, prices went up. Not only does the industry in- crease its price so that ‘on the effectiv date of the code pig iron prices were increased from 50c to $1 per ton’ but through the device of charging for quantity pur- chased and size extras the prices are increased, according to the Federal Trade Commission fig- ures, 470 per cent, 395 per cent, and 424 per cent over pre-code prices.” These are facts that cannot be disputed. They are officially stated and part of the N.R.A, record. 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