The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WE SDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1934 ae Solidarity Against Discrimination Urged in Chicopee Boss Give ‘To Split Union Ranks Grievance Committee at Johnson & Johnson Must § rum b S Hat Salesmen Textile Trimmi Look for Real | Lea dership| By a Wethid Gorvenpeindant NEW YORK.—The retail hat salesmen employed by the large ne Union Aid Asked A.C.W. Leaders Send Workers Back After Strike; | Conditions Getting Worse and Worse A.C.W. Official ‘Whitewashes Wage Fraud By ® Worker Correspondent, The following letter was received! A Woman 44 years old is usually | TRENTON, N. J. — At the/from Comrade L. D.:—“I should be | in the period of life when her 7 | Schmookler Manufacturing Co. here,| interested in seeing an article on Struation becomes irregular an WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board Sedatives | then stops completely. While this Be Broadened To Include Every Department By a Worker Correspondent CHICOPEE FALLS, Mas chain stores in New York City are dues-payments from coming the ooks of the Johnson & John- for the first time in their history going through the process of learn- a Needle Worker Correspondent NEW YORK —I work for the By the leader of that strike. After we went back to work we) Wheer the workers are organized in| sedatives in your column. Several | Local 19 of the Amalgamated Cloth-|members of my family have been ing Workers of America, a young/in the habit of taking “allonal” as happens, most women are nervous, irritable, cannot rest, lose their sleep, feel suddenly warm in the ] | Change of Life | | | | | ing of the anti-working class poli- + Bi | woman had been employed as a|a hypnotic when they have had) ¢ copee Manufacturing Co. he high-above-the-w s Salesmen UV: (A. F. A Cee Be * iece work, The number of tickets |fatigue, anxiety, etc. eae ene o & Johr n mill) W. machine. The workers were| “4 Salesmen Union (A. F. of 1). Seth Ar Searching ean Pe | hanied Grae the eat be tee day|doctor said it is harmless, but I) they feel their heart beats unusu- to their jobs, four weeks of strug-| continually warned by priests and/vears have been extremely bad for isting t gM es ba sania would respond 100 per cent. |to Mr. Firestein were supposed to|Tead in the paper today that a/ ally fast. These troubles are annoy gle behind t and facing them | officials against the Reds and the | the majority of men employed in| go fe on girls the eis my ve ro That's why I am writing this| correspond to the amount of work| Rochester doctor believes that ing, but not serious. Rae the same co n nh Promises Dally Worker because t opens thelr our trade. With the coming of the|that shop is $11. I wonder why the etter to you. Perhaps you would | accomplished. Mr. Firestein remitted |Sedatives with barbitaric acid cars ML clip PAs aera d ' as the I of eyes. John Dajda, the business| Nip as minimum wage of $16 a thon is Sie Hone Tadustrial | Be able to help your girls as well|only part of the wages due and/| the destruction of the white blood troubles of change of life, and are ses from the National Te: of a “report,” assur: F. of L. offici The \ understand to understand” Neary, A. of L. or- were promises by the company woul t demands now; in fact (to yal telegram came Sept. 23, the feeling of the strikers ran high against this incomprehensible order to go back before any of their demands were Won, without a single definite assur- ‘ance of union recognition. Union officials were forced to go along with from Gorman. agent, who poses as a “radical” be- fore the militant workers, did his best to put over the sellout by di- viding the real radicals from the rest of the workers. Although the union-consciousness of the strikers was fine and they returned determined to continue the struggle for their demands, one thing was missing. That is the or- ganization of this rank and file sentiment to prepare the unionists for possible maneuvers of the management to oust militant strik- ers, and to struggle against any other attempt to attack the union. This was because the Communists and other class-conscious workers had not sufficiently reached these |Per week was established for all| Union does not organize the girls |Salesmen (not managers). by the N.R.A,, have unlimited hours | Baize shops. and get a wage of $35 per week. Two weeks ago, when the girls| Previous to the N.R.A. code, men went out on strike at the textile) | received $20 to $30 per week and| shops, a few girls in our shop sure- managers as high as $40 and $45/ly thought the textile union would per week. Now the men’s salaries organize our shops. I wonder | run on the average of $17, some whether you can turn this matter | earning as little as $15, and amongst | over to the proper people. Per- | Managers only the minority get as| haps they can do something for our jhigh as $35 to $38, the majority |girls. I am most positive, if some earn from $25 to $30. The 48-hour | circulars would be given out, our work week that the N.R.A. estab- Shop would respond 100 per cent. lished remains on paper. There is also a cousin of mine Naturally the men turned eagerly who works for the Star Binding| to the promises that the A. F. of|on Fifth Ave. That shop went out |L. offered. Initiation fees were col-|on strike about a year ago. But) as you helped the other girls in 70 girls, and ask you in their If. See what you can do immediately as the season is on now, and we are | working almost for nothing. The} reason I am writing this letter to |you in your office is because m: | brother is a metal worker and a y | steady reader of your Daily Worker, | and that’s how I became also a reader of your Daily Worker. To |my opinion, the binding and baize | workers should be classed in the textile trimming trade. NOTE: For information and help in organizing, the workers in | this shop should get in touch with kept the remaining money. The} The |in our trade. There are about 1,200|the sweatshops. I am speaking for|local’s chairman, Steve Laurenick, managers, who are called executives| girls working at the Binding and | 60 oF | a quoted the false price to the oper- | As soon as the fraud was dis- covered, Mr. Massina of New York, an official of Local 19 of Trenton, N. J., was notified. He sent a rep-| resentative, Tony Cardinale, to} whom the young worflan presented her grievance at a special meeting.| Mr. Firestein, Mr. Laurenick, Mr. | Schmookler, and several other shop representatives were all present. | She was assured at the meeting that She had been cheated. Tony Car- dinale believed to have fixed matters up by offering her $8.47 taken from | corpuscles.” | caused by the fact that the ovary, Our Reply | which regulates the menstruation, Thus far only one sedative has/ |been shown to have a definite con-| nection with the destruction of| white blood corpuscles in human) beings. This sedative is pyram- idon (also called amidopyrine) we still don’t know just what happens, because pyramidon is a very com-| mon drug taken by thousands of | people and the destruction of blood cells which follows is extremely | rare.. As to allonal, luminal, bar-| bital, ortal, sedormid, all of these| have experimentally produced such | destruction; but in actual human | patients, such destructive action | occurs with extreme rarity. | stops functioning. These troubles may begin before the menstruation becomes irregular, and may last for quite some time, even one year and more, after the menstruation has completely stopped, but eventually disappear without treatment. It is important to be very patient with women during this period of life, to spare them unnecessary ex- citement and aggravation, and also to lessen their work whenever pos- sible. Contributions received to the credit of the Medical Advisory Board in its Socialist competition i 1 a ft ees i i 's | | Harry Gannes, this tide: the local business agent workers to explain how they must|lected, then the AF. of 1. the next day the officers sent them| the Textile Trimmers Union or | Mt, Firestetr’s pay, the difference |with Del, Mike Gold, Harrs sent back a wire to Gorman ask-| make their union effective, reacting |a long’ series of consdltations ran |back to work. ‘The officers of that| the ‘Trade Union Unity Counoil, |AUe her from the previous week's} os gaa Ni Ubeatail niet Patten fle ing him to please explain what to any discrimination against ®/the bosses. Instead of appealing Union were at one time of the Amal-| The address of the Textile Trim- | Waeye Wiss about thel-ahortage at)... eameade i: oe Of ipectnen, | Salen snukes 1 te T1500 was the victory they had won Single member, broadening the/and organizing the men to bring) Samated Clothing Union. A Mr.| mers Union is 40 W, 18th St, pd ae lob amounted to aver) Miah, waited: “My wite is 44. years |drive!tor 400,000. | Guota:-¥ 101. And the workers kept on striking. grievance committee to represent| them out on strike, they preferred |Olander, who was.a brother to the| New York; T. U. U. C., 199 Broad- | $300? Also why did the ohair- old, and lately she has been having| Cheri Appel Lecture ba The Daily Worker with the head- every department, and showing the| the conferences with the bosses. The anager of the Joint Board, was| way, New York. man keep all the union books for| all kinds of trouble. But worst of| Wm. Westling .... + line “Stay Until We Win” was management, with unshakable unity,| A. F. of L. leaders ignored the men ope years and collected in the/all, she seems to have palpitation] Frank Jelek .... ae Seized and read eagerly. and the /that there was to be no fooling |entirely, they never report the Te-| PASE OLE gE TRS EAGT NAMI GSS = | meantime 50 cents per week from/|of the heart. It leaves her so ex-| Jaok Feurer 10.00 Strikers closed their fists. You | around. | sults of their conferences. Now the| 9 tt ot panei: bates dep al Plighooge atsscc A Nes erred ey 3.00 could see in their faces the feeling,| If the boss sees a Union gaining| men ti Kl A k; R al. it is obviously clear that Mr. Car-| up Ye morning. you Previously recei' 162.85 “This Union that we have built 1s|a real foothold, he has fileniy of the peas flap rtp san re ansman 's ack on eds dinale was trying to protect the| something for it.” | Total to date Lipti going to mean something.” ‘The week went on and the officials kept pumping into their minds that they could put their trust in them to win the struggl through peace-| able negotiation: This and the| pressure of hunger enabled Gor- man’s co-workers to convince them that strange “victory” was all they could hope for, and that the Union led by wise officials would see | tricks in the bag to gradually make it serve the same end as a com- pany union, First he will try to re- move the members who might make this harder, then he will of- ten dole out some crumbs, a wage- increase here and there, and Promises. This has happened in Johnson & Johnson, By whatever means the | Kaufman and Adam have al- | ready started the forming of a com- Pany union. Young and the Truly! Warner officials are feeling out the j men on the company union plan. | | Soon they will launch their so-called | union, the A. F. of L. union. By a Worker Correspondent Coolly Received in Mobile of the so-called reds. The state-| taken she would be expelled from} MOBILE, Ala—The speaker at a| ment of Phillips’ “Moscow Money” | Work and the union. He was warned Most of the men are for| meeting here, one “Dr.”H. I. Phillips,| WaS coolly received. | Naturally | opened his attack on the Commu-| was heard to remark, “How can you| Would be publicised. He remarked| One person | grafters instead of the person claiming the rights of her wages. In a word, Mr. Cardinale informed her that if any legal steps were! that if that was the case, the affair I am also for it. I think an A. F.| nist Party by saying that every one|Tun the radicals out of the country | Most ironically that all the news-| of L, union is better than none. , and| who wanted to see this country re -| when everyone is hungry?” Another | papers in the world wouldn’t bother | Letters from FROM A MEMBER OF THE ELKS | Santa Ana, Calif. I notice that one Shannon, an Our Readers PROLETARIAN SLOGANS FOR XMAS Renton, Wash, Workers were forced out of their|certainly better than a compan’ said, “H bout thi h | him, | attorney from Los Angeles, and re-) Dear Gomrade Editor: ¢ ‘rt Rey fae on ) y| Main as it is was a Klansman. . low abou ie people who zt | aa FTV” tae (CUES cee ee ind on} union) ahd’ cnics We are cin the A F| “The day ‘has come when the| only get $16 a week, they don't| —— genes, sineied er ney saat I would like to see a wave of pro- ing aproved “as attack on the whole organization. |of L. we can strive to take the lead-| Klan must again mobilize in the de-| think that way, do they?” Then|(* i ' - Jetarian greetings sent out this much as pos We do not criticize the girls in the| ership into our own hands, fense of our country’—so said| Phillips closed by saying that wan | Call Against War Is almost daily with a tirade against | These officials, with their forteble salaries and traveling ex- penses, no doubt really felt that arrangements could be made with the management to dole out a few trumbs here and there; and the com- Unveiling of Monument Brings $11 to ‘Daily’ 3 THE occasion of the unveilin Comrade D. Olshino, formerly one of the organizers of Branch 134,| Our isolation from one another, no I W. O. Brooklyn, which took place Sunday, Oct, 21, we did not forget |One wants to take the initiative in our revolutionary paper, the Daily Worker, and upon the appeal of /f0tming an independent union. Comrade Itzkevitz, the sum of $11.41 was collected.” — Letter to the | - In Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada, the I. W. O. children Not having regular, printed lists, E. Panik and Anna ‘Daily’. . @re carrying on. spinning department for getting a raise; they are certainly entitled to it, but make the company under- stand that the union will fight for the gaining of the demands of every single worker in every department. i of the monument of our beloved Gaska, seven and eight years respectively, made up their own lists and collected a total of $2.65! ...J3.1. J Wales, sends $1.00 for the Daily Worker, “America’s best yet” . Crosby, Minn., the Menahga C. P. u! job in that section, organizing mass protest against the barring of Emil| Clerks division of the Office Work- Nygard, Communist candidate in the Sixth Congressional District . ones, before he leaves for his native init contributes $3. (They're on the From the small town of Ruidoso, N. Mex. comes a $1.00 contribution. Small sums, from small places, but they help in the $60,000 drive. There are innumerable methods for raising money—and Evidently the A. F. of L. leaders Phillips. If he would be truthful, he| thing, even open fascism, should be are not particularly interested in| would have said, “The day has come used to combat the Communists. fight) when the sneaks must mobilize to| And by saying that all the Com-) fight down the rising indignation of | munists would be “isolated” by the | The men are grumbling and total-| the masses, with terrorism and all| Klan ly dissatisfied, and very much in, the savage brutality they can mus-| Some one then made the remark, | organizing the men for against the bosses. need of proper leadership, The! ter.” Peculiar nature of our work keeps Friend Phillips then extolled the! |Us totally isolafed from one an-| past activities of the Klan. Their) PEDDLERS’ UNION WINS FIFTY | other, so that even if a few militants! efforts to make the Negro “keep want to plan an independent move-| their places” their efforts to oppress ment, it is impossible. A few of| the white worker of the South also us have spoken to some of the men| came in for their share of praise| about an independent union. The| from this foul mouth-piece of the | idea appeals to them. Due to our| fascist boss class. He said that it lack of trade union experience, and is WAR. He is right, it is class war, | started with seven members and has | “That's a pretty big job, fellow.” and then “exterminated.” MEMBERS By a Worker Correspondent CLEVELAND, Ohio. — The Fruit and Vegetables Peddlers Union in Cleveland, Ohio, has met at the Workers Center, 3210 Woodland Ave., a it possible to gain the assistance of| |the T.U.U.C. to have some tactful jorganizer who understands the | Problems of the white collar worker ; contact us? ies ek NOTE:—We advise this worker | te get in touch with the Retail | ers Union for advice, or with the Trade Union Unity Council, in | order to discuss in detail the problems of this industry, Address the Office Workers Union at 114 | the struggles of the masses against now 50 members, We charter mem- the impossible domination of the | bers of this union are out to better | Phillips even went so far as to con- entire capitalist class, of which the} Klan is but one weapon of terrorism against the misery-ridden workers. The former objects of the Klan rule of terrorism, the Jews and the Catholics, were invited by Phillips to join hands with their former enemies, in a fight against the workers. | In speaking of the recent strikes, | demn the Communists for their} stand against the arbitration of the | recent textile strike, and to praise the sell-out tactics of the A. F, of L.) conditions of the fruit and vege- tables markets and workers, to sell products at standard price and not to undersell one another. We have this line of business for stores as well as peddlers and husksters. We are supported by Trade Union Unity League. NOTE We publish every Wednesday letters from textile, needle, shoe and leather workers. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their conditions and Blocked By Chairlady By a, Needle Worker Correspondent BOSTON, Mass.—Local 46 of the | International Ladies Garment Work~- ers held a meeting three weeks ago at which it was noticed that a del- egate from the American League Against War and Fascism had come to speak. As he sat through our old business and while we were | discussing shop conditions, we thought he would ‘be given the floor before the meeting was over. Everybody waited, the meeting was dragged on till eight o’clock, when the chairlady suddenly ad- journed the meeting without having asked the delegate to explain his call. The workers, all crowded around the young man and asked him why he had come, and then. they stormed around the chairlady and demanded that the young man be allowed to appeal to the next meeting for delegates to the Chicago Congress. The chairlady was called a faker |and severely criticized for her atti-| | tude, as the I.L.G.W.U, has passed | a resolution against Naziism and | Fascism, and is now raising a fund |There were some who were very im- those he is pleased to call “reds” and “agitators,” etc. Permit me to state, as a member in good standing of Clifton Lodge} No. 1174, B. P. O. E., Clifton, Ari-) zona, alsoas a Legionaire and Mason, that Brother Shannon does not speak for me, and that I accept uncon- | ditionally the program of the Com- | munist Party as a way out of this crisis and as the only way out, W. D, STEVENS. In introducing me to this column, Helen Luke let me see some of the letters she has received weekly. I looked them over for an hour, and found there were no two in com- plete agreement! Each writer had her (often his) own idea on what should be found in this column, patient that space and thought should be given recipes, household hints, fashions. That was bourgeois nonsense, they said. What really concerned the woman in the home IN THE HOME By ANN BARTON Christmas in place of bourgeois platitudes, I suggst for designs: the hammer and sickle on the red card with “Proletarian Greetings”; a worker breaking from his chains with “Born Again"; a band of workers carrying a slogan “On to & Worker's Christmas,” etc. Perhaps some enterprising comrade printer could take this up. RY. L Send in your pet recipe, your time saver. ‘What are the particular problems of the working class woman and mother in your section of the coun- try? Write to your column. this column will hold over. Contributions received to the credit of Helen Luke in her Social- ist competition with David Ramsey, Jacob Burck, Del, Harry Gannes, Mike Gold and the Medical Advis- ory Board, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000, Quota—$500. workers haye proven by their initiative that they can raise funds. W. ldth St. New York; T-U.U.C, | Some of the comment heard| their struggles to organize, Please of $50,000 from the workers, so the | Were the struggles in the shop, the Total to date... 5 Readers, sympathizers, pitch in and help us put the $60,000 drive 799 Broadway, telephone Gramercy | about the speaker were very bitter.| get these letters to us by Monday | workers wanted to see some action rena piensa Ae oe i over! 2 5-0857. : : i an hy ce, | segs ase eae hie (Ei 5-0857 The consensus was largely in favor) of each week. taken by their union. aha Grphticaclnn 1A Hee nel gbor Can You Make ’Em Doeriavety toceived 30,641.02 | M Halaty, Voie RN ean: Sean eit: Ener cab enon needs Saense)e ane ak eS — ~ hood. But still others said, “What Yourself? Me dats icin ee R S, Bedford 1.00 ete a are you going to try to do—give a DISTRICT 1 (Boston) Onit 12, Cin, 69 phar by - class angle to carrots? Let us print a richer gat dm TM singer 300 DIOSTON oe orkKers ViODLIOZe ains ATE CUULTS noting out tne things the woman! pattem 2058 is available in sines Tait saan ae a90 Unit 2, cts. 30 unt ata 180 BT ee eae ee | 14; 18, 18, 26, 33,96) 96, 8 aa a, anes Piesburs, oe i ee 9 home, the nutritious value of vari-|°% °° 1° 40, 94, 38, 90, 38, SO, EO IR Cpa SN at Oars a ae, Mis AERO hin a sak) SCE ae PS ous foods, scientific data on the|44, 46 and 48. Sine 34 takes 3% Nucleus” 880 Anon, Taurence, | .Ciub, Cleve 8.00 ats. Right, | Socialist Lawyer Bearack Proposes 15 Per Cent| Rank and File Advances Militant Program To cobain cuca oie nieve Mekalbad arial ofa ae Worcester, Mats 09 | Finnish Workers’ ‘oledo . : fale ‘4 ithe Bee 8 4.50 : oan Gere 5% Payton, unit 2, |) Slash, With Wages Now Averaging $8 Weekly | Defeat Hunger Schemes of New England Bosses _| tion of women in regard to the class| eluded, | ‘Total Oct. 32. 1984 $51.60 | Unit 1-07 3.68 Unit 12, Cin, 1.50 See eee eS ES EEIEEEEEEEEET EEO! struggle.” Rage cathe <ARidggtice’s Total to date | $1,080.06 | Unit 1-14 26 torain 5.25 By a Shoe Worker Correspondent | slack periods the average wage of| By a Shoe Worker Correspondent | attempting to bring about a com- |!U2damental one. Then there were DISTRICT 2 (New York City) ‘otal Oct. 22, 1934 $99, ; lesser arguments. Within the field ay 81.00 Praction. 6f. Total to date 4,352.02, BOSTON, Mass.— The infamous|the shoe workers is around $8 to ae pany union in his shop, that the ? s Sec 2 Fraction of Office $4,352.0: . BOSTON, Mass.—The owner of of foods, there were dozens of opin 10.00 Wkrs Union 3.13 DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) “Jabor” lawyer, Mr. Bearack, who is|$10 a week. Also because of the ‘nic! manufacturers have decided to at- ' ‘ods 10.00 S T ¥ of Bessemer $5.00/ the 1 at th f’| tremendous rise in the cost of living, SEP PetoLioe Se °c Onna Me. tempt to smash the union. ait Ray ale sec ater He — ie e lawyer of more than a score o! | Browerman, the chairman of the ! 1; itious, disagree- eed nel Bie oc sana, | A. F. of L. locals and a prominent |the shoe workers have received an|wastern Shoe Manufacturers Asso-| The shoe manufacturers are try- paras Poatal Geaieien: Each of- | 3.15 10.00 DISTRICT 8 (Chicago) “Socialist leader, also the lawyer of | indirect slash in their meagre wages. | ciation of Boston, addressed his shop |ing to utilize the dissatisfaction of | fered her own authority on her own 16.99 6.00| y. Berman $1.00 | the United Shoe and Leather Work-| This proposal is made by the So- | crew (300) on Friday, Oct. 12, pro-|the shoe workers to turn them | pet matter. 15.18 5.25 | fr “Reeves 151/ers Union, proposes that the Boston | Cialist, Bearack, at a time when the against the union entirely. They Big ee 1 3.30 12.82 el , Propo: posing that they accent a 15 per © IL 10.34 5.00 | Chas. F- Fankel ____50| shoe workers accept a 15 per cent | demand for wage cuts and attempts] cent cut in wages. Per decision of | take advantage of the usually slack My conclusion from these letters Seo 48, ya 2.25 25.00 otal Oct. 22, 1084 3751|Wage cut as his only solution to ke smash oy wee are made by the} the union no shop crew meetings period, and especially the greatest | was that from the very outset of tiie 0 Total to date : $1,939.34 keep the shoe manufacturers from |Shoe manufacturers throughout New| are allowed to be held in the shop, |Yemployment in the shoe industry|my running the column, I must Bee 16, Unit 22 Bees pisTatcr 9 (Minnesota) |moving from Boston and a solu- England and throughout the coun- To force the crew to attend the | because of the general intensifica-| realize I won't be able to please # (Rosen) 3.00 eran Blo Women's Club sto tlon of strengthening the union. oF or eet ai ie melt 8S) meeting, Mr, Braverman held back | tion eae sue to ue the | everyone. Into our crowded column, ec 16 pa ‘Wm. Westling 100| The “investigation” committee ap- | Some 0 ion officials who are | the of the crew, which is usu-| PN shops in the shoe industry. |we must speak of the basic things Py a a 4 ————| pointed by the N.R.A. from Wash-|OPposed to the policy of struggle ally uae out 4:30 p.m, until after | But regardless of all these factors |that confront women in the home. Py See 14, Unit 3 18.00 Board, Cheri __| Total Oot. 22, 1904 wohl ington declared that there is nothing | Ag8inst, the bosses, are only JookIng| 5:39 “pm. In. his. address “Mr |inVolved, the ‘Boston shoe workers |We mtst address ourselves. tothe Sec 14 __Appel Lec. 101.86 STRIC “\in their power to stop the shoe | forward for the signal when a wage {i must and will defeat the bosses’ | housewives, of course—but not only Bee 14, 0 11 Kestenbaum 2.00 ogy eo $ al aeaearseee! from Povie and oti be) sioert batt ot to raveual te seuetncor are attempt to break the union. Wej|to the housewives, because in the Seh_— 50 ~— | proposed to the union to suggest a | 5' e ball rolling, an en & “ remember well how the shoe manu- | homes of the working class today Bees) Unit 20 A Priend 100 iat pee se pire: on how to keep the shoe |8eneral wage cut would easily be Dearlsineis ta had aici se facturers always before we had the|are mothers and wives who must Sec 5, Unit 3 206 . Sag an DISTRICT 12 (Seattle) 4 shops in Boston, hinting that the | Put over on all shoe workers, We months if they accept a 15 per cent | ion, in the slack period through | also work in the shop when they mt Dait age oy Resectiun 100 oe se $50 Women Workers. | shoe workers shall accept a wage Ce au Saree he Gee of the | cut or else he will move his plant | Similar schemes put over wage cuts an get a job. There et Ladle , Sec 5, Unit 6 6.75 H ML for work- |Emma Reiss 45 Pete d 3.50 cut pending a thorough “investiga- rayal of e oe workers of under the promises that when it |Sitls, young women who are al as 2809 exe Sheol) aso |e BG” Booka wp use on Pea e . . Lowell had on the situation. Lowell Sti the, COW crkinnk re mbtes | th get busy, the cuts ‘will be re- |Home, Bi ot bob, aie Z Sec 5 8 MD ERR 5 onit 10. 3 F ck. th ialist, pro- | Started and the rest fell in line. i turned and when the season started | Cause in many cases they are afrai Wy 3ee 70 $32 plage” 1.99 | Aberdeen c 0.0 Tana Br 163a| noted that the ule Grant @ tee || he Soallek” Reamce, Keite al Ea etme Oh dealde. yous Nh | they put over more wage cuts. ‘This to raise ables in a capitalist world j ec 18, Unit 22 6.50 A Lack 2.00| Boy 5.00 Init 7, Party 1.00/ aafustment,” downward of course,| that, but in spite of all that he is faith, don’t leave it to th id | Situation can not and must not re- | Where there is no s! DOE: BBs Z ey Fee cg iedocaty gga | Total ‘Oct. 23; 1084 ~sa422 of 10 to 15 per cent to four of the | true to his role as a Socialist Party 2 y pave [Peat itself. ey i a j Bites is ioe 10.00 | Total to oie ieee $180.59 | largest shes abope in Boston and eerste! to penal the aes, of the thatthe Mande ne can ee The shoe workers must realize aye scteregnhe ga eae j | Sec 15 K Kramer 3.00/ oT Newark) | whose owners are the leaders of the | Workers. e workers of Boston | Take a secret ballot and decide for| that the present officials of the romney % ' Dhit co & D309 8 K Le oe $135 Shoe Mantifacturers Association, |"¢member well the strikebreaking f the| United, general, as well as local |Problems. All angles of thelr. lives j bait ‘17 eos OR pa 1po| Total Oct. 22, 1994 "$1.25 which is carrying on a campaign to| Tole of Bearack in the struggle of fe nae on Oat ‘ater eat ue OMiciols, Are s10¢ oli 85 uch as Sahat. fee. oily ya rhade : j ' Vail 3 1.00 Samper in Total to date $802.01 cut wages and smash the union, |the needle trade workers and others.| the joint council, which was one o¢|C2" and must be done. Tt is the in rea aerate Barriceues t Unit 14 6,00. Mitgedaiget 7.95), 1. DISTRIOT 19 (Beaver) +0 This was rejected by the Boston | Every worker must be convinced of the stormiest ever experienced by | uty of the militant rank and file mt ‘iso. uae ‘speak of those Unit 13 1.00 - eos 135) melper, ‘Utah Section 93.00/ J. C. and the G.EB. the true role of the Socialist leaders the union, the meeting finally ad- |‘ force the officials to adopt a avin Pemanic cant litical | a ip Oe ew Bebo 200| Nucla Unit, C. P 5.90) “This proposal is made by the in-}and of the service they render to| joumned orderly, after a yore to| Militant program to defeat the Paros that catenins Beas ae 3 Sec 15 30.41 J Feurer 10.00 a —>—— famous Socialist lawyer Bearack at|the bosses. During this election ‘ bosses, such as: ; Total Oct. 22, 1984 $29.40 support the stand taken by the the woman does in her home—the ee, aiinte. & Gere, Loo | Total: fo cals s20172 a time when he as well as every-|Campaign, any honest worker who | union and the Joint Council against |_,!) 4 thorough mobilization of the |nign cost of living, the struggle of Y } Seo 15, Unit 10 H Hirschorn 1.00/ DISTRICT 2% (W. Virginia) | body else knows that the shoe work- | Still has any illusions about the allowing wage reduction in any form | Sh0® Workers at local and general| women workers for better condi- \ i 230 P Duncan 5.00| Harley Heaver $2.00 ers are even now working for starva- | Socialist Party leaders, and any rank | yas carried by a great majority. mass meetings to clarify the situa- tions, the struggle of working class 3 Chamson Te iia Ges, th, ie {ano | tion wages, taking into consideration | @nd file member of the Socialist On Friday, Oct. 19 the Scholnick | #0 24 expose the main aim of | women for their rights, not the old sae Limotal to date’ ag seasons and the long| Party, must condemn such betray- oe We Ses e Scholnick | the manufacturers to smash the Setal Oct. 22, 1934 726.28 | ate $61.40 the very short iS is als and vote for the candidates of |Shoe again passed out a question- | union pe LY rights, but the real fers Prime 4 $10,889.60 | — “ ic asic Tight of a woman (as well as | Sesrmcr % (Philadelphia) the Communist Party who most art tapes ee ae pay slips 2) Registration of all unemployed | q iano to a job or to unemploy- ; Affair, Oct. 19 $971.83 courageously and boldly lead the |Containing the following questions:|and develon a struggle for the ment insurance, to, as M ret, ote - ae a Bethlehem 2 struggles of the workers at all times ean pnne pat Payee beret securing of immediate relief for the|Cowl has said, “a joyous life” for sd puis aes for the immediate needs of the rates and | unemployed, and demand a project | herself and her children. Total Oct. 22, 1994 $973.83 | ADDRESS AMOUNT || workers and for the overthrow of |Feceive in return steady work for|for the unemployed shoe workres| I would like to have this column Total to date $3,513.00 nat the whole capitalist system that |Six months, which will in the long | from the E.R.A. occasionally sketch the life of a eH ES shale OIG areata ey $ breeds hunger, misery, unemploy-|Tun and on the average give you a| 3) To prepare for a struggle for | working class woman. For where is Send FIFTEEN CENTS (le) Unit 108, Buffalo 3.25 ment and war. larger pay Prdectete anaes yes OF | increases in wages to meet the rise|there a story more dramatic, in- in coins or stamps (coins om Gasport Unit 50 a |no,” signed Scholnick Shoe Co. The | in the cost of living as soon as the |tense and honest, than the story of A. Schechter 12.00 — — Fight Against Bonuses for Rich Workers were told to answer the next season starts, around the {the life of a working class woman, | £¢‘Ted) ad Siete eae bor moval Oct, 22, 1994 y20.75 Tear off and mail immediately to Landlords and Starvation for Poor | ayes ot ang aia pay, be SHOP | middle of January. If this program | whether in the home or in the shop?| ‘ern. | Write nam Bins ne eae “Total to date $244.29 Farmers by Voting Communist. | Where they get their pay. is carried out the union can suc-| Above all, let the readers of this| St¥le " / DISTRICT 5 (Pittsburgh) DAILY WORKER - ——— There is no doubt that when the | cessfully defeat the shoe bosses’ |column feel it is their own. I hope SIZE. P, Miravale eens | Communist Candidates Are |chairman of the Manufacturers |aims and the union can he strength-|the same interest and shower of| Address orders to Daily Worker ‘Total Oct. 22, 1934 31.00 | 50 EAST 13th St. New York, N. ¥. || Leaders in the Fight for the (Association dares to go so far in|ened to carry on the struggle for|correspondence that gave Helen| Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Total to date $392.75 | Right to Organize, Strike, Picket. | intimidating his shop crew and evenhigher wages and better conditions. | Luke such pleasure in conducting' Street, New York City,