The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-26
EXPOSE UNITED
FRONT AGAINST
STEEL WORKERS
Gary Organizes to Halt
UniOnization


Chamber of Commerce, the
newspapers, and city officials of
Gary, Indiana, in the interests
of the United States Steel cor
Iporation to keep the steel work.
ers from organizing, was told
at an open air meeting Wednes-
day night, at the corner of 32nd
and HaIsted Street by Karl
Reeve, reporter for the DAILY
WORKER.
| Reeve told of the latest eff
fort of the steel workers in
Gary to organize at their mass
Injecting last night in Turner
Hall, and declared that the
workers must unite with their
class politically under the ban
ner of Communism, and become
active workers for amalgama-
tion in their union as the only
effective means of fighting the
organized forces of capitalism.
Gary Bait.
"The workers of Gary do not know
that the Chamber of Commerce of that
town has issued a pamphlet to attract
manufacturers to settle in Gary, offer
ing as an inducement that there is
a plentiful supply of high grade female
labor available, whose average wage
is rs cents an hour" Reeve told the
crowd.
He told how the mayor had refused
to investigate the recent explosion of
a blast furnace in Gary which killed
several men, and how the Gary Post
Tribune, forming a united front with
the United States Steel corporation,
is daily coming out with lies about
prosperity and plenty of employment
when hundreds of workers are looking
for jobs every day in the steel mills.
Reeve denounced the Gary school
plan, renamed the platoon school sys.
tenn, because it trains the children to
be good steel trust slaves when they
should be getting a scientific and
cultural education. He declared that
the profits of the United States Steel
corporation in 1928 were sos, 707 ,064
and the average wage of the employees
at that time was only $3.50, showing
that the workers produce all wealth
and the employers Of labor reap all the
profits.
Hits Defense Day.
Victor Zokaitis took up a good col
lection at this meeting, and many
DAILY WORKERS and books were
sold, including Russia in 1924" by
William q. Foster and 1.-THE LaFollette
Illusion" by Jay Lovestone. Comrade
zokaitis told the crowd the real mean
ing of the recent national defense day,
which was not he declared, to honor
General Pershing, but a stunt of the
capitalists to prepare the workers for
the next war. He pleaded for the
establishment in this country Of a
workers and farmers government
such as has been established in Soviet
Russia.
| A large and successful street meet
ing was also held at the corner of
Roosevelt and Marshfield, with George
Maurer as the principal speaker. Com
rade Maurer took up a collection of
several dollars, sold many books and
over 80 DAILY WORKERS.
The following street meetings will
be held by the Workers Party:
Friday, Sept. 20, 1924.
Lawrence and sawyer-Auspices of
Irving Park branches, Workers Party and
George Maurer.
/ Wilton and Belmont-Auspices of North
Side Y. w. Z. Branch Speakers: d. E.
Farley and Karl Reeve.
North West English Branch w. p. Speak
ers: j. Manley and Ida Dailes.
Roosevelt and Homan-Auspices Of
Jewish Branch, Douglas Park, w. p.
Speakers: Al Schaap and Bill Kruse.
Saturday, Sept. 81.
34th and Halsted--Auspices Of Lithu-
anian w. p. Branch. Speakers: John
Harvey and Pete Herd.
North Ave. and Orchard-Hungarian
Branch w. P. and Karl Liebknecht z. w.
L.. Branch. Speakers: L .Engdahl and
iiith Place and Mchisan-Pullman
Section, Workers Party. Speakers:
Frank Buckley and others.
Soth and State sts.-South Side Branch.
w. p. Speakers: Gordon Owens and d.
E. Farley.
Division and washtenaw--Auspices of
North West Jewish Branch. w. p.
Speakers: A. wagsnknecht. Geo. Maurer.
West Side Y. w. l.. Branch. Speakers:
Manuel Gomez and others.
Milwaukee and Paulina-Auspices of
Polish Branch, w. p. Speakers in Eng