The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 Grafting Ford Officials Cover Thefts By Driving Workers Increased Cost Met By Reducing Forces Accidents Frequent As Men Are Speeded Up: Grafters Use Stools to Throw Blame on Workers By an Auto Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich.—The exposure of the Ford Executive Administration which appeared in the Daily Worker of Aug. 28th had a tremendous effect both upon the grafters of the Ford executive and many workers in the Ford plant who were glad to see these corrupt officials getting shown up. Krause, Williams, De Planche, Mid-© dleton, and Rooney, the Ford ex- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1934 Evangelist ‘Radio Piece Voit. Oe Serves As | 5peed-Up by 30 Minute Halt} Thugs Beat By a Worker Correspondent PHILADELPHIA. — The workers | of Dep't. P. D. No. 58—force man- agement to guarantee all piece workers to make at least 25 per cent | Nazi Tool By a Worker Correspondent | above basic day rate. CHARLOTTE, N. C.—Big “revi- The workers of the Photophone val” meeting on in Charlotte. Rev./ Dep't. in R. C. A. Victor, who were Dr. M. F. Ham, the noted evangel-| confronted with the introduction of ist, is stomping up and down the/a new speed-up system in the form “sawdust trail.” With words of|of a Premium Plan were successful flame he is scorching the poor sin-|in defeating this system—through a ners who tolerate “Russian Reds,|30 minute stoppage. The manage- Bolshevikis, and labor unions” in| ment realizing that it was defeated their city. With still more fiery|in its attempt, then tried to dis- words the “reverend” lauds the|credit the committee that put up praises of “Hitler and Hitlerism.”|the fight against the Premium ecutives concerned were running all over the various departments try- to find out where the informa- mn came from, and to cover them- | s up. We know they were all| up to the main office for| stioning and like the rats they g to pass the buck on the Ford ers and some of the smaller are trying to break a a of their thieving by splitting up all the men whom they think might know something and send them to all parts of the plant, out of the way. We know that their thieving gang was spread in every part of the plant. The notorious Ford Service Department is involved heavily. We want to tell Krause | and Company that we have not told all-we know yet. The Ferd Workers’ Wages These rotten and corrupt Ford) Executive Administrators are the men who emphatically state that $5 a day is plenty for any Ford worker. They might, they say extend it to $5.20 up to $5.60 a day and in a few instances even be generous to give $6 a day. could not give any more because the cost of the jobs is already too | high. Here we have these Ford | Executive Administrators using up| meh’s time month after month and thousands of dollars of material for|by the SM.W.LU. in 1930, but it/ Reverend Ham exhorts his audience their own personal use and their friends. This is all put down to a job number and is charged on the cost sheet as such. This is what makes the job cost so much. Take a particular case, a job is costed to take 22 men with $2,500 of material, four weeks to complete. Ten or twelve of these men with | sideration in the publication of | Seamen! Longshoremen! | The Daily Worker urges all sea- | men and longshoremen to write | about all developments connected with the strike, the sentiments among their fellow workers, ac- tions to establish one united strike front along the entire Atlantic and Gulf Coast, and so to prevent any sell-out or arbitration scheme of the International Seamen’s Union leaders. Write about everything that you discuss with your fellow workers. This will make it pos- sible for us to help in organizing and winning your struggle. | During the strike first con- ews and correspondence will be given to the marine strike. A.A. Leaders’ Betrayal | Carrying out the true Fascist line, | Ham in Sunday’s sermon launched | a@ brutal attack against all Jews, | saying they were “cursed of God,” and “children of the devil.” He praised the way Hitler had “purged | the news stands and libraries of all} Communist literature” in Germany | and made it impossible for the filthy bolsheviks” to raise a voice. Ham | said “Germany is doing more to defend protestant ideals than any other nation.” Banging on his desk and almost knocking the loud speaker over, Ham grabbed up a little book titled | “Tre Truth About Hitler” published | by the Silver Shirts at Ashviile, N. C., and cried: “I wish you folks would read the truth about Ger- | many. I wish you would learn how | Hitler is striving to free the country from the clutches of Bolshevism.” Then like an insane man he raved for straight twenty minutes about the “Red Curse,” and the Soviet Union. His filthy attacks on the Russian workers, his positive attack on the Jewish people and his praise h | adjustment in the wages after a 30 In any case they | | Builds Sentiment | for nitler who brutally murders . workers and their leaders, marks | for Independent Union | this “reverend” as an agent of Hitler | |in America and a religious cloak be- By a Worker Correspondent | hind which the fascist organization WARREN, Ohio.—This is a steel|of the “Silver Shirts” takes place! system. The day following the stoppage a letter was sent to Dep't. P. D. No. 58, addressed to the committee tell- ing the workers “that the commit- tee itself accepted a voluntary wage-cul, by agreeing to accept day work instead of the Premium system.” The committee through the union channels, the Radio and Metal Workers Industrial Union, an- swered this letter of the manage- ment in clear unmistaken language. They told the management, that at no time did the union nor any of | its committees accept any wage- cuts. Furthermore the management of the firm agreed to discuss a further day trial period. This letter was explained to our department meet- ing by our committee and received the unanimous approval of all members. When the management saw that the men lined up solidly behind their committee, they were scared stiff that at the end of the 30 day period, they will be confronted with further action in P. D. No. 58, which may result in a strike of the en- tire plant. Another attempt was then made by the management. On Wednesday, Sept. 5th, the entire grievance committee of the union was called in, “to talk over matters.” The manager, Mr. Burnison, at- tempted the old gag, of telling the committee that the R. C. A. Victor was paying the highest wages in the industry, and that therefore they could not pay any more. If compelled, he threatened they will simply have to shut down these de- partments, and buy their material, cabinets, etc., outside. The com- mittee was not scared, and stood on its rights. Then the manager came out openly that the indus- trial unions are a curse for Camden, and that he prefers to deal with its own workers organized into an inside union. Thus he admitted openly that he likes the Company Union. The following day, the Commit- | tee from P. D. No. 58, met him, and he agreed that if the men, were to accept the piece work, then the | firm would agree to pay every work- | er at least 25 per cent above the base | rate. At a meeting held of that department the workers agreed to accept that proposal, provided the Company signs an agreement guar- anteeing that every worker will make 25 per cent above the base. This again must teach us the important lesson that only through organization can we gain better conditions The workers in the R. Cc. A. Victor in all departments should now organize, and prepare to fight for better conditions. Twolitakes Ad Proves Blind town, there has been a strike led | was not successfully carried through. Nevertheless, it has made such an impression on the steel workers that our Party is winning | prestige among them. | Lately the A. A. was organized. |The workers at first hearing the promises of better conditions, etc., of the A, A. leaders, which was $1,200 worth of this material are using it to make up all kinds of articles for the personal use of these Ford Executive Administrators and their friends The ten to twelve men who are left on the costed job are driven and speeded up as far as they can go to make up the time of the rest of the men Who are supposed to be on this job. The jobs are slapped up anyway and often accidents happen as the re- sult of this infamous corrupt tribe of Ford’s administrators. We want to point out to the Ford workers that at no time has there been a chance to call the bluff of these Ford officials like the present. We want to suggest that on no account should they allow them- selves to be provoked. We know that it’s difficult to stand pat and to be domineered by tripe like these. But they are just trying to get the chance to fire you. We suggest that groups of Ford work- ers should be formed in every de- partment in the plant and then make a combined demand for an in- crease in our wages and also make a determined effort to control the working conditions. We can do it. You can no longer expect to get |all a fake. There really was no) |strike but a lockout, which resulted in electing a committee of be- |trayers of the A. A. to the Arbitra- tion Board in Washington with no answer at all about the conclusion of the meeting. As a result we are making some progress in the| locals of A. A. and in the shop | among the workers. The senti-|} ment of the workers there are for) their own independent union. Since | the lockout and betrayal of the | A. A. leaders, the conditions in the shop have been worse, work- ing two to three days a week. The huge “tabernacle” in which | to “hit the sawdust trail to Hitler- | ism” was significantly enough erect- | ed with cooperation of the city| council for Ham’s use during the | three weeks he is to be here. It) was built at a tremendous expense ! and seats eight to ten thousand. | ‘The audience is mostly business men | and small shopkeepi | | Union Heads | Help Break | Power Strike. By a Worker Correspondent DES MOINES, Iowa.—“Public In- terest First” says Iowa Democratic Governor. I. B. E. W. officials Be- anything out of Ford’s by individual effort. The corrupt and senile power of the Ford Exec. can be beaten by the Ford workers. The Ford workers can write in all con- fidence to the Auto Workers Union, 4210 Woodward, Detroit, Michigan. Steps will be taken to get into touch with them without the Ford Service Department interference. Ford workers should ask them- selves, are they going to be content to let these thieving Ford execu- tives rob them of their necessary increase in wages? THE $60,000 DRIVE 9 $404.85, Received Oct. 6, 1934 Previously Received Me as Total to date _ 14018. $14,018.47 tal to date $ otal DISTRICT 1 (Boston) oe jt i Anon. Little Compton, R Richard Hansen, Grafton, N. H. 1.00 ve et. 6, 1094 $ 5.00 Total Oct. 6, 393: eee TRICT % (New York City) DISTRICT © eee 7.50 13.00 10.00 5.50 14.38 30 20.00 1.00 60 1.00 2.00 nymous Carl £. Martin, Troy, N. ¥. 5.00 8. & 5. Ge R. Tromosh, Br. U. R. 0.127 3.00 Total Oct. 6, 1924 tal to date Total DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) LW. D., Br. $1 TW. O., Br. 2081 $12.30 5.00 $17.30 . 6, 1934 ‘Total Oct $ora2 to date ‘Total DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) 10-8 10-8 a 9-4 Bee. Sec. Sec. See. 2, Unit 2 Sec. 1, Unit 5 2, Unit 2 Yc. 'L, Ben West Sec, 2, John B. Bulgarian Frac. Bulgarian Frac. Totai Oct. 6, 1934 Total to date tray Strike—Open Gates for Terror Against Electric Plant Strikers, All Central Iowa Electric Power Off | Six Hours. | The electric plant of the Iowa} Power and Light Company was put | on the line at 6:22 a.m. as result of a strike called by the Inter-} national Brotherhood of Electrical | Workers, Local 499. | Governor Clyde Herring served as | the strike-breaking agency. He no- tified the labor officials that the plant must operate. In spite of the fact that thousands of Des Moines workers were ready and eager to continue the strike and win all de- mands, the union officials con- cluded a 3-way agreement between the company, the company union and themselves. The agreement} provides for “negotiation and arbi- For Scab Recruiting Agency By a Metal Worker Correspondent , about. Right here he let the cat | the J. & L. thugs and spies to at-) | out of the bag. Js af ? | The job was a three-hour ride Re eee we Ni 7%, American | from New York. He could not tell for a toolmaker’s job. I was sus- | me at the first interview where it picious of this advertisement be- | was. He expressed himself that cause it appeared every week in| Way. The job pays 70 cents to 90 various forms as a “blind ’ad, | cents an hour, according to the always, the Box No. was “American | Work 1 pae bepenaates i vn Circle.” That means 59th st. sec- lets me IBY tlre bis es Pe tion of New York. I saw there are |‘ set $45 per month extra. I ai | ; t no factories around this section to iieO SE DOLE BYera aC Uee Oa ty Onl are | is going on in the shop. The re- absorb all the toolmakers they ad- | port is to be made to the New York | office. | My main qualification was to be a good mixer. Report anyone that is attempting to organize. But at the same time I am to work myself into an official capacity in the union. To watch the foremen in the place particularly as to their sympathy with the union, I was told to write a 15-page letter to Mr. Victor Hunt as to my | observations as I leave his office, | so he could determine whether I have the keen observation powers required for this job. The sub- stance of this letter was to be: as I left the office, did I see anything wrong?—with the eleva‘or man, with the starter in the building; if there are any meetings in Columbus Circle, what I observed of. the crowd, the speakers, etc. what I thought of my conversation with | Mr. Hunt, ete. I promised to con- sult my wife on all this, and left NEW YORK.—I answered an ad- vertised for. My conclusion that this must be a scab recruiting | agency was correct. I received a reply to call at the Atlantic Production Companies, Room No. 814, General Motors Bldg., | the place. 1775 Broadway. The letter was| signed Victor Hunt. | Steel & Metal Workers Industrial On the door of this firm also ap- | Union and all other unions peared the name: Manufacturers’ throughout the country: Check up Auxiliaries Co., represented in every | on this scab outfit in your city. principal city in the U. S. A. The | Wa‘ch those who enter this place. names of these cities were painted | Expose these rats they hire the on the door. The first question Mr. | moment they get on the job. I have Victor Hunt asked me after sizing |no doubt that these people are the me up was: “Have you ever served | bosses outfit of the Metal Trades in the military forces?” I told him | Association disguised under various A warning to all locals of the | 5 (I. W. O., Br. 4258 et and eventual winning of demands, Total Oct. 6, 1934 $ 1.00) Total to date $12.00 | DISTRICT 13 (California) | . 102 $10. |T. W. O., Br. 4252 | | Total Oct. 6, 1934 e 6.00 | tration,” and is hailed as a victory | | Section 4 Bs i | | Section 8 ae by the union officials. It leaves the | | Section 8 “5)|company union still in control of | Section 8, Housewife Comm. Counc. 15.00 ; P | Russian Org. Argo 16.93 | the situation with Power to con- | Armenian Frac. red tinue their campaign of intimida- I. W. O., Br. 128 0.00 tion and coercion against the work- { 2.50 le we me sets a15/ers of both the gas and electric | W. O., Br. 3545 1.70|company. The agreement promises E. D. Molle 115/no more strikes and leaves wage | | Total Oct. 6, 1934 $ 164.43 | Scales untouched. | | Total to date $1,303.37, = NOTE: The workers in this elec- Io ow. 0, eT ® MND). s.00| trie plant should not be discour- One ———| aged by the sell-out of their lead- Total Oct. 6, 1934 $1.00| ers from continuing their struggle [Sorel See tae. $216.01 to improve conditions. Organiza: | DISTRICT 10 (Omaha) | P) ones a | Grand Island Shop Unit $3.60, tion of the militant elements in ji W. 0., Br. 126 450° the A, F. of L. and the company | Spepgerock 6 apes $819, Union into a rank and file oppo- | Total to date $14.10 Hees group a prepare the DISTRICT 11 (No. Dakota) ground for future strike struggle | Paul Goldberg, Priest River, Ida, $ 1 at Metal Workers Tear Up Anti-Red Resolution Proposed by AFL Head Total to date | DISTRICT. 14 (Newark) a | 70 By a Metal Worker Correspondent 66} GRAND RAPIDS, Mich—At our 2.50 meeting last night, Thursday, a —Y'20.61| letter was read, sent to our Local on ape aa $9662 |No. 7, A. F. of L., Metal Polishers DISTRICT 17 (Birmingham) | Union, by President Green’s sec- 55 retary. It stated that the Reds, $ 55 | “Communists,” were under control |of the Third International and dic- tated to the Reds here, and were | undermining our organization, as | Total to date DISTRICT 18 (Milwaukee) Section 1, U-110 3 7.40 | Section 1 6 ICT 6 (Cleveland) | Section 1 32 iW. S., Besse, Noffa .00| Section 4, 15th Ann. Affair, Racine 25.00/ Well as the government, and that ——- meee : 3 all known Reds and agitators should (a aa Siasee | Reetion 4, Walkes. DIL ‘30 be kicked out of all locals in the OS" DISTRICT 8 (Chicago) | Section 1, John Reed Club 5.00|A. F. of L. But when it was read Section 5 25.15| E. W. Are Lallerman 3.00 one of our membezs made a motion Section 4 9.00 nobel Oct, 8.1898 3 43.97|to tear it up, and throw it in the a . at i dat 260. te basket. It was carried ection 3 17.00 Total to date $269.26 was' a ‘as Carri unan- E imously and was torn up, and ——————————————— Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! NAME ADDRESS thrown !n the waste basket. NOTE | We publish letters from steel, AMOUNT iil metal and auto workers every | Tuesday. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their conditions and their efforts to Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER | 50 EAST 13th St. organize. Please get these letters to us by Saturday of each wek. | The Daily Worker can Better Aid |Your Struggles if You Build its New York, N. Y. | Circulation, I could not see the connection be- | tween a soldier and a ‘oolmaker. | He said they required men accus- | tomed to discipline and taking or- | ders. He questioned me on union- ism. I naturally condemned it in order to find out what it was all other names. (Signed) A CLASS-CONSCIOUS TOOL AND DIE MAKER. The Daily Worker can Better Aid Your Struggles if You Build its Circulation. Steel Co. Union Men By a Steel Worker Correspondent AMBRIDGE, Pa—The Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. thugs had beaten up the union president of this district. On Saturday, Sept. 15, the union held a meeting in Am- bridge mush hall field and exposed all the maltreating that Jones and Laughlin’s are doing to the union and to the workers. Around the crowd were about 100 of J. & L. spies and thugs listening to the speaker call the stool pigeons. They failed to break up the meet- ing which was proposed secretly. We are going to hold meetings in the J. & L. town but not at the union’s expense but on the com- pany’s expense. To show the com- pany the union has power and more. The bosses of J. & L. tell the workers when they get two days per week that it is plenty. The thugs are going around to Negro homes warning them not to join the union because if they do the white people will put them out of work and so out of town. They tell all white and colored not to at- tend any union meetings for they'll feel sorry later. The speaker of the meeting told the crowd in front of tend all the meetings and join the |union. In other J. & L. towns the | police are searching all automobiles |that pass during the night. I heard lin the J. & L. plant that the union is 80 per cent strong and are going | to pull a strike. | Most Negro Workers Laid | Off in Flint By a Worker Correspondent FLINT, Mich.— The majority of the Negro workers have been laid | off and today they are on welfare. The mass lay-offs at Fisher Body No. 1 and No. 2 have begun at Buick, Most of the factories will work two days a week for a while and per- haps a complete lay-off—for how | long it is not known yet. According to Mr. Sloan, there will be unthink- lable prosperity for everybody be- {cause General Motors is going to | start building houses on production. Within three days a house will be completed, ready to move in. The workers are wondering just how they will be Able to buy those houses when they can’t afford to maintain the ones they have. Mr. Sloan probably has beautiful dreams of what great profits will come to their pockets and how to develop a better speed-up. Many of us have the privilege of being in the shop, but few of us have time to stop and watch how the workers are driven. The fore- man is a driver. They train the workers gradually. In the first hour of the morning they start the line slower and thereafter faster and faster, to the extent that when the workers are let out for lunch (which is only half an hour) they must first sit down and rest before they start to eat. They dare not rest too long because there is dinner to gulp down, LETTERS FROM OUR READERS (Because of the volume of letters re- ceived by the Department, we can print only those that are of general interest to Daily Worker readers, However, all letters received are carefully read by the editors. Suggestions and criticisms are welcome and whenever possible are used for the improvement of the Daily |THE SERVANT OF THE TEXTILE OWNERS Atlanta, Ga. Dear Comrade Editor: I remember last year when Gov- jernor Talmadge came out with the statement that unemployed workers are lazy and bums and he also add- ed that he would send those who are not working to the Georgia chain gang for forced labor. Four days before the election I was at Macon. He came out with the demagogy that when re-elected he would not call any soldiers to break the strike, but as soon as he got re-elected he called cut the sol- diers to break the strike, and he put the militant workers in jail, and militant women workers to the in- terned camps. The capitalist press, the radio, the moving pictures and all the big bosses try to tell us that mothers, sisters and daughters are well cared for in these camps. ‘We, the conscious workers, know how they will take care of the workers in the chain gang. They. now have many militant workers in jail. The only charge they have against them is that they are “radical,” although in the South they accuse all of the mili- tant workers of being “radical.” We know that Governor Tal- |madge is there to serve the big tex- \tile owners, This strike teaches us who are our friends and enemies. Only the Communist Party helps us to organize for better wages and better conditions. CAPITALIST PROPAGANDA IN FLORIDA Jacksonville, Fla. Dear Editor of the Daily Worker: Some one gave me your “Daily” Jast year and since that time I read it steadily. It’s the only daily newspaper which is fighting for the interest of the working class, that exposes the ruling class and the misleaders within the A. F. of L., American Legion and all the “patriotic” and parasites’ organiza- tions. Here we have two daily capitalist newspapers, the “Times-Union” and the Jax “Journal.” The first one is controlled by the Florida East Coast Railroad Company, and the second one by Hearst's corporation. Of course, both papers represent the big bosses; especially the “Times-Union,” which feeds us with plenty of lies. Before the elec- tion campaign, it used to tell us every day for three months about “bright spots in business” and “prosperity around the corner,” etc. We workers of the Southern States so far have been unable to find the “bright spots” or the “prosperity corner.” We also have plenty of weekly papers which are controlled by the local politicians and _racketeers. One of these, the “Jax Observer,” is owned by one Mr. Lord, who has been dishing out dirt to the work- ers for years. He comes out with an editorial agains‘ all strikes and tries to explain that strikes paralyze industry, but he never comes out 4 A SOUTHERN WOMAN. with an editorial when the big bosses cut us down to starvation wages, especially since N. R. A’s beginning. With the warning, “Look out, Florida, the enemy is at your gates!” the Observer came out on Sept. 7 with headlines that “the Communists urge Florida workers to strike” and “Agitators capitalize on the unemployed situation by urging all workers to unite for higher wages.” In that case, what it really means is that the Com- munist Party is the only working- class party that tries to organize all the workers for beter wages, less hours, more relief for the starved, unemployed masses, and for the immediate improvement of the whole working class in general. Mr. Lord, we, the hungry people of Jacksonville, know that we made and built everything, but we have nothing, and those who have every- thing do not work. Only the Com- munis's teach us how to better our conditions. I am convinced by now that there are only two ways out: one is to sit down and starve and die like yellow dogs, and the other is the Communist way, which teaches us how to organize and educate ourselves on the class basis for the class s‘ruggle, to FIGHT for our rights. | “A JAX WORKER WHO HAS LEARNED.” Every day of the Roosevelt New | Deal shows the growing need of the (Daily Worker. But the Daily Worker needs $60,000 to be able to deal more fully with the strug- gles of the working class, Support the Daily Worker! Send your con- tribution today to the $60,000 drive. Daily Worker Medi Falling Hair S. Z., Bronx:—Falling of the hair is very often hereditary in ten- dency. If there has been early baldness among your relatives, your prospects are poor. If not, take hope. Very often people complain | of falling hair for years and never get bald, simply because there al- ways is a certain amount of hair lost on brushing or washing, which grows back. Measures directed toward the general health are important. A proper amount of food, rest, ex- ercise and sleep are helpful. Hair can be washed once a week with hot water and plain castile soap. If you also have dandruff, a lotion like this is helpful: Bichloride of mercury ... % grain Resorcin . 2 drams Aileohel 5.52 6. tos e's 4 ounces If the scalp is very dry, you can add a teaspoonful of castor oil. No hat, or a loose fitting one, is good }in fair weather. jyou had better wear a hat. Tattoo Comrade J. S., of New Jersey, writes: “I am a young man of 21 years and today I realize a mistake made a number of years ago. I have a number of tattoos, about 60 square inches with one that aggravates me more than all others—a picture of Christ on my chest; the balance on my arms. I would try almost any- thing to get them off my body. “I am about twenty-five miles from New York. I would appreciate it if you could advise me the best and safest way to get rid of my mistakes of ignorant youth.” Eating Seaweed A. B. C.—The term Kelp, is ap- plied mainly to the ash obtained by WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the In rain or cold | eal Advisory Board burning seaweed. Among the min- erals found in quantity in this ash are potassium sulphate and chlor- ide, sodium carbonate, magnesium salts, and especially iodine (1 to 6 per cent). Seaweed itself accurs in @ large number of forms. The Jap- anese, a sea-coast people, eat some eighty varieties of it, and also use it as a fertilizer. By using it in these ways, the iodine consumption of that country becomes twice that ef any other country, and the oc- currence of goiter is noted to be the lowest recorded (one case per mill- ion of population). Further, from various East Indian Seaweeds, the substance agar-agar is extracted. It resembles gelatin and is used in China for “bird's nest” soup. It has the capacity to soak up water in quantity. This quality has made for its wide use in treating constipation and its sale (usually combined with some laxa= tive), has been widely exploited. The total food value of seaweed is low, though varieties differ. Lately some work has appeared on its vita- min content, but this has not been checked as yet. Undoubtedly, its | wide commercialization and exploi- | tation will follow. “Is your belly | empty? Go pick yourself some sea- weed.” Contributions received to the credit of the Medical Advisory Board in its Socialist Competition with “Change the World” and Harry Gannes in the Daily Worker $60,000 drive. Quota $1,500. Collection Previously received Total to date Get Daily Worker Subscribers! Sell “Daily” at Factories By a Worker Correspondent PEORIA, Ill.—A bitter fight for control of the Keystone Steel & tions on the board of directors is now going on here. While these bosses are washing their dirty linen, much information of great interest to the workers who slave in the Keystone mill for low wages, is be- ing uncovered. Profits of $1,000,000 probably will be made in 1984, it is Todd to all stockholders. The Key- steel company in the same period “lost” $36,000,000, it is stated. A personal statement by President Todd includes among others the following: “Soon after the death of B. L. Sommer, on March 8, 1929, the sal- ary of W. H. Sommer was increased to $48,000 and his contingent com- pensation increased to 4 per cent By A New York worker writes us some impressions of the food show at the Coliseum: “I expected a food exhibition to be followed with some explanation on the various food values, so when we buy things we can get the best for our money, etc. “What really happens is the fol- lowing: Coney Island boardwalk in miniature form: noise from whis- tles, rattles, and a painted artist to show you what pictures he can make out of. the “International Salt” that is being sold two packages for ten hcents (and you can get a package in any store for five cents). “They bribe the people with little free children’s toys, five-cent knives, three-cent glasses, etc. They sell you a box of Maxwell House Coffee, @ small package tea for 40 cents (you can get same in any grocery). Loaf of raisin bread, 15 cents; Jello three packages for 35 cents with three glass dishes free, etc., etc. “In short, it is another com- mercial display for big’ companies, not... an exhibition where a workers’ wife who has very limited funds for food could get an idea how she could save by buying the proper food . it is just... to make the ric! icher and the poor masses spend a few extra cents. Ad- mission is thirty cents, child fifteen Don’t waste your precious time . . —Sara. We're especially grateful for that last line. One for the Cook-Book As the weather grows cooler, we may crave now and then a bit of something baked, to which we pre- ferred fruit in the hot summer. Here’s the very simplest recipe I know of for a plain cake, quick and easy to mix, needing only one egg, little shortening, and no frosting: Sift into a bowl two cups of flour; add two of brown sugar, and a pinch of salt; mix; work in with the fingers, two tablespoons shorten- ing; take out a half cup of the crumbs. Add one cup or a little Jess of sour milk beaten with one teaspoon baking soda and one egg. (Batter will be thin.) Pour into flat, oiled cake pan, sprinkle the half cup of dry crumbs on top, and bake at about 350 degrees until a tooth- pick put into the middle comes out clean. (Make eight sizeable pieces.) Helen Luke: Wire Co. by two contending fac- | labor-exploiting | indicated in a letter by President | stone plant earned $765,506 in the | calendar year 1933, although a large HELEN LUKE Metal Bosses Fight Over Profits of the net earnings. Immediately | afterwards W. H. Sommer increased | the salaries of Rueben E. Sommer, Henry G. Sommer and D. P. Som- | mer from $10,000 a year to $18,000 | and also increased their contingent | compensation from 3-4 of 1 per cent to 11-2 per cent. | “W. H. Sommer’s total direct | compensation, exclusive of all his | dividends, received from the com- pany during the five fiscal years ending June 30, 1933, aggregated $326,609.93, an average of $65,322 a year and reached a peak of $98,156 in 1929... .” Undoubtedly the workers who are sweating on day and night shifts in the Keystone mill are edified by all this as they worry how to stretch their meager wages to pay “grocer, baker and candle-stick maker” from day to day. Quite likely also, the workers laid off from the Keystone mill could use a little “contingent compensation” now and then for the same purpose! IN THE HOME A Capitalist “Food Show” Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2045 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 16 takes 4% yards 36 inch fabric. Illus- trated step-by-step sewing instruc- tions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style ae BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Total Oct. 5, 1934 $ 2.00] Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Total to date $ 3.40 | Street, New York City. 4