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Page Four D AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1934 Knit Goods Boss bbe to a Workers Through Lock-Out Offers Brits To A «& P. ‘rinds Backward Workers out Pay Cuts By a Knit Goods Worker- Correspondent docked for it BROOKLYN, N. Y. — I am a|*@ht against this? worker at the Ruth Fabrics Knit- | 4 » ?. ting Mill, 3 Street, 6th| NOTE: This worker should at BSE. Brockty have been| once get in touch with the Knit- eine there time. And| g00ds Workers Industrial. Union 2 as been| fer concrete help and inform | on organization. The address 131 W. 28th Sireet, City, times to “fool the union” and we're is New York Lackawanna 4-8212. S are cut at the slight- est excr as, for instance, during a holiday we are told to come and work, sent home earlier because of the holiday, and then are docked. Our lunch hour is supposed to be an hour, but it is never more than 45 minutes, and for that reason we are not allowed to punch the clock | at that time. The girls in the place must submit to the advances of the boss, Coiton Mill Workers Suffer Under N.R. A. | By a Worker Correspondent LYNCHBURG, Va. and I make any wages and cannot sub- —— for it. I hope you will have Stu | Is r, a strike has been | Times are very tight here at the Mee My peoplc’s work has curta Thev work ‘threc and are laid off one weck They had no union here. last resource, he has cal: You are working in a just cause. ut, so that the union will|and it is bound to win sooner or find nobody there to call down. He} later. My heart aches for the poor has been influencing part of the| Workers that are being swindled out workers, who don’t realize what it|of these wages. I can’t put any is all about, with bribes and false | faith in the N.R.A. promises. All week long he has| been sending us home at different | Earn Expenses Selling “Daily” IN THE HOME HELEN LUKE Protection of Public Health By What can we do to By a Food Worker Correspondent form workers of the way in which the clerks and managers of the great A. & P. Tea Co. have “bene-| fited” since the A. & P. signed the retail grocers code. All sorts of pretexes are used by s 10 lay off r then hire them back as clerks or as 2 j sistant managers, putting in the! | pl jaces new men at lower wages. This |serves as a warning to other mar- | agers to be satisfied with the hours | they have to put in while filling in for the clerks who are now work-| ing 48 hours per week. These long | hours that the managers put in are — The Daily | made more unbearable by the fact | time, we feel that we should in- Worker it surely has the right name|that extra clerks have not been|troduce ourselves. like it fine, but I do not/| hired, in spite of statements by the|that you want to know somthing company to that effect | The burning truth is that the jextra help that they ssid they hired |were men who had been previous! laid off s for the have been 1 off on ording to grandicus their original salary » and have been takn back on each occasion with a wage cut. | As if this were not enough, they 5 made to work in as many as three different stores in one day. Small wonder then that young | boys are working in the stores and NEW YORK.—This letter is to in- | Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board | (Starting today the Daily Worker presents an improved and en- larged health advisory service to its readers. The column, known until now as “Dr, Luttinger Advises,” will henceforth be known as “Workers’ Health.” Instead of one doctor alone undertaking the con- duct of the column and answers to the hundreds of health questions, & group of some twenty doctors, specialists in many fields, has been set up. They have constituted themselves as the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board solely for the purpose of furthering the solution of workers’ health problems through our paper. We are sure our readers will appreciate the extended health service as proposed in the follow- ing introductory statement of the new board.—EDITOR.) * * * THE DAILY WORKER MEDICAL quires organization. The system we ADVISORY BOARD PRESENTS | have adopted is as follows: Letters ITSELF received will be sent to members cf In appearing before the readers|this board, specializing in the fol- of the Daily Worker for the first | lowing fields of medicine: 1—Internal medicine We are certain | medical diseases). 2—Pedeatrics (children’s diseases). 3—Obstetrics and Gynecology (general about us. You undoubtedly want to | know who we are and what we in-| | (maternity and women’s diseases). to do. tend Setting forth our own; 4—Dermatology (skin and vene- before we have ac-|Treal diseases). anything is not the) 5—Ea:, Nose and Throat dissases. But it must be done.| 6 -Genito- urinary (disease We are twenty-one doctor We | kidney, bladder and genital organs). wo:k in different fields. Some of us Ta Nedtolony and psychiatry (nervous and mental diseases). 8—Orthopedics (diseases of bones and joints). are general practitioners. us specialize in the various of medical practice. We are con- | nected with hospitals, medical} %—Dentistry. schools, and research centers | 10—Industrial medicine. | throughout New York City. Bellevue| 11—Preventive medicine and pub- | Hospital, the Medical Center, Post- | lie health, Boys Made To Fight Fires By a Worker Correspondent C. camps, supposed to be the “hope | of young America,” have miserably | failed to live up to any of their capitalistic propaganda and false| boasts, The C. C. C. camp at Cle Elum) riking example of the gov- ernment inefficiency and “econ- | omy,” all done, of course, at the expense of the boys. | Since they arrived they have not| had, as one fellow said, “a half- way decent meal.” Instead they have been put, though they are Taw and inexperienced, to fighting fires, many of which lasted the | whole night through and the fol- lowing day. | During the time spent fighting | fires, little of any food was served. | Last Wednesday they boys fought! nine fires, heut being once fed during the time. Sunday, three minutes before supper, the boys were shoved on trucks and spent the rest of the| night on the hills battling the flames. The boys organized and selected | | committee which filed a protest | WENATCHEE, Wash.—The C. C.! PARTY LIFE Vitality of Party Shown In Birmingham ¢ Ore Sirike Terror Reign Found Some Comrades Surprised, But Militant and Ready To Do Mass Work By SYD BENSON PART I. In the big wave of strikes and | struggles of the Birmingham coal and ore miners and steel workers} last Spring the daily work of the} Communists among the strikers| | brought great prestige to the Party. This was due to the fact that only of solid unity of Negro and white workers, of rank and file leadership of the struggles, of a conscious fight against the differential dooms Southern workers to a lower | living standard than Northern) workers, and for unconditional rec- ognition of the labor unions. The response of the boss: the police, together with the f: gangs of the White Legion, wa let loose a terrific wave of terror against the working class, and in the first place against the Com- munist Party. By this the bosses hoped to disconnect the Party from the strikers, to terrorize the Negro} masses especially, and to jail all known Communists, with the hope) that they could isolate the Party | taking away the jobs of the regular men, The managers cannot be ex- pected to carry the burden of keep- ing the store if they are not given enough help. The company sends out notice that no one is allowed to work in ept the regular help. threatens to fire an; manager using outside help, but th: threat is just a gesture. Graduate Hospital, etc., can count members of this board on their| staffs. Because of our medical training, post-graduate studies and present clinical work, we are qualified to ad- | vise workers in the prevention and | treatment of the many diseases to which human beings are susceptibie. The general Communist Party frac- tion within the medical professions | | ticular problem. The most interest- Each question will be personally answered by those of us who are! most qualified to handle the par- ing and typical will be published in| this column. Other replies will be | forwarded through the mails. But| every letter we receive will be an-| swered. POR, . Th part that this column can play with the superintendent, who then! from the masses of workers, espe- | promised to “do better” next morn-| cially from the workers and strikers | ing. Eighteen hours since their last|of the Tennessee Coal and Iron| meal, the boys sat down to a break-|Corp. (T. C. I.) | fast as weak as the rest. Beginning with the savage attack Again they protested. This time 0" the May Day demonstration and they threatened action. Their next| the jailing of the six Communist , ice | meal, showing the results of their ee ee ae ea militancy, was the best they had! arrests which is still going on. In eaten. |the last month John Howard Law- Thousands of needless acres of | other comrades forged ahead, and proved their ability to lead precisely while faced | with the most difficult conditions, | The general Party membership showed their willingness to funce tion provided there was real lead- ership from the leading comrades, and the higher Party committees, | pressure, while |the Party raised the correct slogans |The masses proved their support to | the Party by responding with re- newed confidence to the Party as soon as we began to do some mass which | work To be truthful, the masses in many cases pushed the Party mem- bers into activity by asking for leaflets, and for information about meetings and activities. The mili- tant self-defense of the arrested leaders and their release sourred on the flow of coniidence cf the whole Party, and of the non-Party masses in the strength and vitality of the Party, its program, and its | leadership. It was not long before the whole Party made the needed | changes in its methods of work, tied the strings together and began a period of consolidation of its or- ganization, and of its whole mem- bership. At the same time, with the changed methods of work, and in the altered situation, the Party started to conduct mass work. At the present time we can record certain very important suc- cesses gained by the Party, both in the field of inner strengthening and among the masses. These suc- cesses show the vitality of the whole Party in the Birmingham area, and Does the N. R. A. Labor Boar has selected us from the many doc- | depends upon both of us: You who A stormy conflict is in progress between the State Milk Control Board, with the bottled milk mo- nopolies, and the loose milk com- panies who are fighting to regain the right to sell loose milk in New York City. The sale of this cheap- er loose milk was banned supposedly because of the danger of contam- ination of loose milk. Meanwhile we fnid that 34 food inspectors, members of the Board of Health, have been «thrown off the payrolls by the present admin- protesting to the government against the breaking up of their homes by the enforced absence of husbands and fathers. Can Vou Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1962 is available in s 34, 36, 38, 40 42 and 44. yards 39 inch fabric and contrasting. Illustrated p sewing instructions in- eS takes 3% 3 Size 36 | ever think of investigating these | things? No. They are too busy all over the United States breaking the strikes of workers who are organiz- tors sympathetic to the revolution- | ary movement and has assigned us | the particular task of giving nec- essary medical information to the ing against the starvation wages | working class through the Daily and rotten conditions which the | Worker. bosses through the N. R. A. have! The objection is often raised that given the workers. information of this kind is of little | No wondez the A. & P. Co. stock | value; that what the worker in the can pay such high dividends. No| shop and mine, and the poor: farmer wonder they have such a large sur-|needs is actual medical caze. No plus they have not only piled up ajone realizes better than we that big profit on the goods they them- | these workers do not receive even selves have made and sold at N. R./the semblance of such attention. A. prices, but they have piled up| Letters daily appearing in worker more profits at the direct expense | correspondence bear convincing tes- istration in the interest of the “economy” (i.e. banker-paying) pro- gram. Nine of the men are sueing to regain their jobs. One of these was an inspector of fish and other Seafood; one of milk products, two others of various foods, They claim that the remaining Stafi is so inadequate to provide Sufficient examination of foodstuffs Sold that the “condition now prev-| alent is such as might well follow an actual abolition of the Sanitary | Code insofar as that code protects the people of the city against the Sale of unwholesome food.” It is further stated that there have been 77 cases of food poison- ing since May 15 as against 44 dur- ing the same time last year. Maternity Mortality Rate As contributing to the height of the maternity mortality rate, we'd like to call the attention of the Worried sta to the helpful ious fanaticism. devout and pious Preacher of “Holiness Church” in North Carclina, submitted to be bitten by a rattlesnake and refused medical aid in order to “prove” that faith can cure rattlesnake bites. The N. Y. Times in reporting this pic- turesque and sublime exhibition of divine spirit also records this icy fact: “Mrs. Teester died fourteen months ago in childbirth. In keep- ing with her husband's beliefs, she had no medical attention.” “Marriage Strike” in Germany The attempt of the Nazi govern- ment to increase the birth rate by Offering “mariage loans” to newly- weds resulted in so many marriages that the average amount of the loans was reduced from 1,000 to 300 Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write marks. Now a rebellion of women] Plainly name, address and_ style has set in against the sending of ue BE SURE TO STATE Saad ~ ee sg ete cobsehe cdplnd Address orders to Daily Worker | yom Some. The gals are getting) pattern Department, 243 W. 17th diverces, refusing to marry, and New Zork Git y. St. H | $. 0.5. COMRADES! Unemployed! Men! Women! Boys! Girls! Friends of the Daily Worker: Ina dozen cities new Red Builders have shown that anyone | can re'l from 25 to 150 copies of the Daily Worker each day on street corners, at factories, trolley junc- tions, in homes—everywhere! Why don’t you get into this Parade of Red Builders? Earn expenses and at the came time help the Daily Worker in a raarch toward 20,000 new readers! If you live in or near the cities listed relow go to the addresses given and say: I want to help the Daily Worker, give me tay first bundle and assign me a good loca- tion.” (Each new Red Builder gets 25 copies free each day for two weeks!) NEW YORK CITY 35 E. 12th St. —— BOSTON 919 Washington St. PHILADELPHIA 46 N. &th St. ————— eek Sweaters $1; Apro~> ‘tet spas eaeiihatg eash with crocr3 VELAND 5. postpaid. Prospect Ave. CHICAGO DETROIT 2°29 West Divs''on St. 5951 Ith St. NEWARK MILWAUKEE 7 Chariton st. 1110 W. North Are. If you live in or near any other city write direct to the Circulation Department, 50 E. 13th St., New York City, We'll put you on the job at once! of the workers themselves. | Workers, don’t bank on the false promises of the prosperity the bosses offer through their promotion | tactic. Wake up to what the work-! ers can do if wey, are daiieincncmgs Win Right to Hold Meet in Bayonne, N. J. By a Young Worker CorreSpondent BAYONNE, N. J—Our Y. C. L. | unit held a meeting at 17th St. and Agnes, to help the struggle of the! workers of the Maidenform Bras- siere Co., which is organized by the |timony to the vile treatment which | is accorded to the worker under the | |name of medical attention. These workers are not complacently ac- cepting the slop that the boss class | dispenses in the name of charity. | The g-owing nation-wide support | |for H. R. 7598 indicates that they | are tired of this stuff and want some | real medical attention. And they are | to force the enactment of the | ers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill in ozder to get it. But the Daily Worker, while lead- ing workers in the movement {or | the winning of the unemployment | and social insurance Dill, is also | vitaally concerned as to what is) happening to the health of these workers while they are fighting. So at a time like this, when the health of the workers’ family is being un- |dermined for the lack of any med- |help build the Daily Worker: International Ladies Garment Workers Union, The floor girls, according to their contracts, are supposed to get $14.50 @ week, and are getting $9 to $10; and pressers and cutters who are Supposed to get $25 are getting $17.50 to $18. The sanitary condi- tions aro terrible. Discrimination jical attention whatsoever, the value of information, even received through a letter, cannot be gain- said. ae oy | The job we have undertaken is! not an easy one. Answering the many austin: ms that workers ask re- | ask the question; we who answer them. Unquestionably, some letters | we receive may not be very clear to} us. Some answers you may get may not seem complete; they may not satisfy you. However, if you will be sure to |point out to us those instances where we have failed, we will spend every effort to correct ourselves. In this way we can make this feature of the Daily Worker of mutual bene- fit to both of us. You readers will | receive the information you need) more completely and clearly; we doctors will be brought to a better | understanding of the difficulties which beset you. At the same time, you shouid| make it a point to speak to your shopmates and neighbors about our board. You will find that most of these workers are also disturbed by health problems, — health problems \for which they have found no an-| swer. You should tell them that) it is possible for them to find an answer—through the Daily Worker. Tf we both do ou: share, we can | you, by getting more workers to send in their questions; we, by getting more | doctors to answer them. And by helping build the Daily} Worker, our collective organizer and educator, we can weld more firmly | the alliance of the dedical profes- | sions with the working class. In this way, we will strengthen | the revolutionary movement which, | under the leadership of the Commu- | nist Party wil soon win soviet power, and end for all time the barbarous system which has so long ravished | the bodies and minds of men. DAILY WORKER MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD. | | against the Negroes is prevalent, and the workers can't go to meet- ings together, but only when the | big shots say so. The result is the | boss collects all the dues and no- body knows where the money goes. ‘When our meeting was held yes-| jeer we had a crowd when the| irst speaker took his place. About |200 were there. The een of the| By if Food. Worker Cocrespentent | meeting was to organize the work-| NEW YORK.—When the workers ers for rank and file struggle. |at Sunshine Biscuit Co. started to |. The bosses called up the police, | organize into a union of their own telling them we were destroying|choosing, one controlled by the property and blocking traffic. They | work the company started to dis- | tcok four of us to police headquar- |criminate against the workers. T ters, thinking to scare the people, company started first with the law- but we were followed by many peo- | yer and scme men picked by it to ple and were released without any | tell the workers that the union is charge. Then the crowd came back | Communist, and that the Commu- | to continue the meeting. i Two resolutions were passed nists “want you to overthrow the which will be presented to the city | CO™pany and the government also.” commissioners Ot the next commis. | The bosses tried to get the work- | sioner’s meeting at City Hall. One| ets afraid because they knew that | of the resolutions demands that the | the workers were organizing into al| | citizens of Bayonne be given their | union that the bosses couldn't buy | eee to free speech and peaceful | out. | ascembly. The second resojutzon. | that the city and county relief ‘ | bodies live up to the Federal Emer- | S@nize the workers, they appointed gency Reiief regulations. | their own men for a delegation. Tompkins, secretary of that or-| This delegation had their own meet- ganization, declared that the Fed-| ings with the company. Then they eral relief laws state that relief | called i vote should be based on the actual phys- | toy the Passi Pee t Sunshine Bis When the company siarted to or-| Fight Against Company Union | organizing for better conditions, | ical requirements of the needy. He explained that this includes food, | shelter, clothing, fuel, water, gas and electricity, hospitalization, ma- | terial and dental care. | NOTE! | We publish letters from textile, | needle, shoe and leather workers every Werinesday. Workers in these industries are urged to write us cf their conditions of work, and ef their struzsies to erzanize. | Get the letters to us by Satz | day of each week. | TRIAL SUB OFFER | DAILY WORKER 50 E. 13th St., New York City ure Send me the Daily Worker every day for two months. I enclose $1 (check or money order) Name . Address _ This offer does not apply to re- js, nor does it hold geod for Man- n and Bronx. BOOST “DAILY” DRIVE— In the English Departments, the company presented two men ap- pointed by the company and asked the workers what they had to say. The workers from the English De- | partment all hollered out, ‘53.’ They appointed their own delegate, and the other was appointed by the | company. In the American Depart- | ment they had four delegates ap- | pointed by the company. The wor%- | ers appointed their own man for the election. He won. Two men | on both sides, company and work- ers, were elected. In the American department they | started to call every day a differ- ent group of men, oven men, then | pan men, scrap boys, and machine /men. Each group called for a dif- | ferent increase. Then the delegates| | went to the bosses and presented | these demands of the work The bosses looked cve~ the demands and id ths dels that the workers | esked too much. So the company | | unien showed in the beginning the | wey they work the system of union. The machines are speeding fast. The workers can say nothing about it to the union, because they are cuit Workers not in control of the union. The company has its own representa- tives. Even if the workers have a few of their own representatives | in the company union, the workers’! delegates can say nothing. What the company wants, it does, and when the company does something, it is for the interests of itself and not for the workers. That's why the company doesn’t like the Food Workers Industrial Union, because they know the power of a real union, - 8 NOTE.—When the workers start the bosses try the trick of yelling “reds,” This serves two purposes. First, the bosses want to keep the | workers trem knowing that the “reds” are workers who demand and fight for better conditions for all workers, Second, they want to turn the minds of the work- ers away trom their immediate problems of organizing and fight- ing for higher wages and better conditions. In this way the bosses attempt to separate the Communist Party | frem the ranks of the workers, whereas the Communist Party represents the most advanced sec- tien of the working class, lending the workers in their daily strug- gies for bread and better condi- tions. At the same t'me the bosses want the workers to forget what they are fighting for, to scare them with the poisonous propa- ganda of the boss class against the militant elements in the work- ing class, to split these workers, and so push in with a company union, The workers must not let ths seare” or the cempany union. Werkers cneuld go into the eompary union and fight for their demands eventua'ly winning the | workers over to a worsers’ rank and file controled union. | Woodstock, Artists | Sympathizers have |open forum in Woodstock, We have \the confusion would drive away the | rules, | dies oases get away with the “red | |son was arrested while investigat- forest land burn because the gov- ernment, which once hired expert | fighters at 50 cents an hour, now uses C. C. C. boys. Many tran- sients who once earned hundreds of dollars in fire fighting now earn| nothing, all due to the federal] “economy.” Colony, Scene of Big Anti-War Meeting) WOODSTOCK, N. Y.—A group of organized an already had two meetings, the lasi August Ist, a day of international importance. We had rented a hall for a higher rental than one usually pays. But an hour before the meeting, we weze refused the hall on the ground that the forum was run by Communists and the subject too radical. Im- mediately, we were offered some- one’s studio and though we expected | audience, we had an audience of| over 200. The floor was open for discussion, | |limiting all to 7 minutes. Many | spoke determinedly and vehemently ————— against war and fascism. A collec- tion was made to further the work of the open forum and for educa- tional work. As an old timer in Woodstock — I am delighted at the changes th>t have occurred. I am glad to notice an eager awakening of the Wood- stock intellectuals to the vital prob- | lems surounding them. Though art- ists are not industzial workers, they | can also function as a conditions tc the labor struggie in this country. Coney Island Peddlers Treated Like Criminals By a Worker Correspondent CONEY ISLAND, N. Y.—The dis- graceful activities of the Coney Is- land police should be called to the attention of the public. I know that peddling ice cream is against the but it is better than starv- ing when a man is desperate. Why lock peddiers up in little coops on the beach for several hours? Why put them in cells afterward to be beaten? Why take them to different stations so their friends and relatives can’t find them to offer bail? We are not criminals and there is no reason to treat us so. SICK BENEFITS IN LOCAL 22 By a Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y. — I should like to know why Local No. 89, the Italian branch of International Le- Garment Workers Union, al- lows sick benefits to a member in ecod standing for six months, whereas in Local No. 22. Jewish and Negro, do not allow sick benefit before membership in the organi- zation for a year. Also why there is a bigger charge for the Union Book in Local No. 22. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS a RALLY TO DEFEAT FASCIST MEETING New York City. Daily Worker: Fascist Daniels, of the Indepen- dent American Party, decided that August 1st was a good evening to come to Union Square and hold a fascist meeting. As the C. P. had about 25,000 present at a meeting in square, Mr. Daniels figured he would have little trouble getting a crowd. When the comrades of the Party and mass organizations saw his crowd we siarted an opposition meeting against war and fascism. exposed Deniels fon whet ha $5, A i dirty rat, subsidized by the bosses to come to Union Squera with his | lies. We took the crowd away, had a | fine meeting, and collected $15 ie | ing the denial of civil liberties in| the continued growth of the mass | jail, | our Birmingham; since then there were | influence of the Party, and, above three futther arresis, and a Still’ all, of the ability of the Party to greater number of raids on the|break out into the open despite homes of revolutionary white and) severe restrictions. The Party mem- Negro workers. | bers very quickly grasped the lesson For a time the police partly suc-|that in times of stress we must ceeded in their objective of break- | “hide ourselves among the masses,” ing the steady organizational) work where the decisive masses are, growth of the Party among the | in the fullest spirit of concentra- besic workers of Birmingham. Some | | tion, and among these masses push |of the key units stopped meeting | forward our program, and develop while the leading comrades were in | struggles. the recruiting fell down and} Where is the possibility for the the dues payments dropped. Dur- greatest amount of open mass work? ing the worst of the terror, with! And, at the same time, what is the the leading comrades jailed, and) most important mass work at the the Party caught unawares to a! present time? degree, there developed some con-| It is the work among the trade fusion in the ranks of the Section! union masses, among the basic Committees, and in the units. Not) workers of heavy industry, of the as yet fully used to working under|T. C. I., from the steel mills, coal such conditions, the comrades were | mines and ore mines who are. or- at a loss as to how mass work could | ganized in the A. F. of L. It was be carried on, and how the proper! recognized long ago by the Party connections could be maintained. | here that we must conduct our The wave of terror provided a| main work among these workers. real tes‘ of our ability to adapt our-| But it took the test of the wave selves to mass work despite unfa-|of terror to teach our Party mem- orable conditions, and a test of| bers that not only is it most neces- cerires, many of whom had|sary to work among these organ- not passed through a period of in-' ized workers, but that here we can tensive work under the sharpest | most openly bring out our program, terror. Some of the comrades! and win these decisive workers. | dropped out of activity under the| (To Be Concluded) ONLY A.C.W. STRUGLEG | leaders, By a Worker Correspondent ROCHESTER, N. Y—Twenty- four cutters and five lining cutters were laid off on June 26 from the largest factories in Fashion Park at Rochester. Rank and file mem- bers were angered at such sweeping of workers out of jobs and de- | manded that union leaders put a stop to that. They answered: “We will turn the case over to the ar- bitrator.” That statement made it clear that the cutters are laid off for good. There was no decision, although four weeks have elapsed. During those weeks the union especially Manager Abra- ham Chatman, did their best to sell the jobs of the laid-off cutters for $200. The delay of the arbitrators in reaching a decision is a scheme of the union leaders to withhold the rank and file workers from direct struggle—to go out on strike. The selling of jobs by union leaders means a conspiracy of the union leaders with the company (employ- ers) to lay off militant workers. Rank and file union members, we must not allow the officials to destroy our union. Let's demand the calling of local meetings, shop meetings. Manager Chatman has changed from manager to trader of IS FOR CHECK-OFF and if we allow him, he will be- come the salesman of all workers’ jeds. In the beginning of May our Joint Board decided to install a check- up system in the Apollo Co., which has moved here from New Bruns- wick, N. J. The other locals took little interest in this decision as it concerns only the new factory. But July 17, Manager Chatman called a meeting of the so-called active committee, Joint Board members, shop chairmen, local committees and local boards. A proposition was submitted to confirm that system for all factories. The motion to reject the check- up system was rejected by the chairman of the meeting, Sam Caecio. Also no one was allowed to speak against the check-up sys- tem. I must mention the fact that the meeting consisted mostly of Chatman’s followers. During the past few years of Chatman’s managership, shop chairmen were not permitted to be elected. He did not allow the elec- tion of a cairman in the Keller factory, a newly-organized shop. Now in the Apollo factory (Bond Clothing Company) Oscar Smith, a former administrator of the N. R. A. Grievance Board in the Roch- ester district, was appointed as shop the cutters’ jobs in Fashion Park, chairman, Free Herndon and Scottsboro Boys “It pleased me greatly to have received your letter today if I did receive unpleasant news a few minutes before. It didn’t weaken my courage and Pale whatever so long as I know you will stick by me. Letter frem Heywocd Patterscn, Kilby Prison, June 29, 1934. $15,090 SCOTTSBORO-HERNDON EMERGENCY FUND International Labor Detense Room 430, 80 East 11th St. New York City I contribute $ and Defense. NAME $15,000 ..for the Scottsboro-Herndon Appeals ADDRESS ....++.. “Since the Georgia Supreme Ceurt upheld my sentence of 18 to 29 years, the bosses and their jail tocls have increased the pressure on me. Iam deathly sick as a result of the mur- derous treatment accorded me Curing my two years of con- the Scottsboro-Herndon Defense. I took the money to the National of- 20,000 New Readers by Sept. Ist.! fice of the I. L. D. the next day. M.G. finement. My only hopes of ever being in the ranks again is in your strength.” Letter from Angelo Herndon, Fulton Tower Jail, June 7, 1934.