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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19

Vice presidential possibilities on the
Republican side of the fence have to
be considered in the light of the fact
that Mr. Curtis has by no means 1ndi-
Gated he will not be candidate for
that nomination. If he determines that
he prefers to round out his political
career as a member of the Senate
rather than as Vice President. the field
will be left open to some Of his Repub-
lican colleagues in Congress, as well as
to members of the cabinet and other
Republican leaders. Connecticut doubt
less will put forward Col. John @. Til
son, the majority leader of the House.
If he were nominated and at the same
time President Hoover were renomi-
mated, this would join the Pacific Coast
with the Atlantic on the Republican
national ticket.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06

furnaces on Sunday night were speed
ed up SO per cent Where they for
merly fired up four furnaces they
now must fire six.
Penalized for Accidents
In the opening department a
worker cut his hand due to the
speed-up. He was off four weeks
and when he returned he was sent
home for four more weeks without
pay. Now comes the general or
der that all workers laid off due to
accident will be laid off an addi-
tional time without pay, the time
to be equal to that taken off by
the worker to received his injuries.
The workers in this mill must wake
up. We must organize and demand
that we shall not be penalized when
we have an accident. Demand a with
drawal of the wage-cut, the straight
eight hour day and no penalty for
being late. Join the Metal Workers
Industrial League and prepare to
fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
NATIONAL UNION LEADS
FIGHT ON UMWA PAY CUT

and Charles Guynn. The speakers
and the program dealt specifically
with ways and means to defeat this
wage cut handed the operators by
Van Bittner, district president Of the
UM.W.A.
The meeting sent hundreds of min
ers on committees to interview absent
miners and prepare mass picket lines
for this morning.
The United Mine Worker officials
are breathing threats OF blacklist and
massacre against the strikers and
tried to smash the meeting yesterday
by calling a meeting Of the U.M.WA.
in the same town about mile away,
and one hour earlier. No miners
went to the U.M.WA. meeting and it
was complete failure.
Missouri Miners Strike
LEXINGTON, Mo-, oct. Steven
hundred miners are on strike here
against Is per cent wage cut In
the Western Coal & Mining Co.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
Rumble of Revolt Heard in Akron Plants

We have a garbage can brigade
here the same as in all cities. Workers
are seen daily eating from garbage
cans. At the same time the rubber
factories in the first six months Of
1881 report larger profits than in
1890.
There are thousands OF empty
houses here, while the workers are
crowding two, three and more fami-
lies into one house.
The rubber plants cut the wages
ten per cent weeks ago. Another
wage-cut for the office workers takes
place this month. A rumble of
revolt is heard among the rubber
workers and it would not surprise me
If spontaneous strike breaks out in
the very near future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
LEFT SOCIALISTS
FORM NEW PARTY
Gable by Inprecorr)


BERLIN. Oct. 5.--The national
conference of the left wing social
lists yersterday founded the Social
list Workers Party. Eighty eight
delegates were present. A represent
tative of the Communist press was
not permitted to attend this con-
ference, although bourgeois journal-
lists were invited The leading
speeches declared that full democra-
cy will prevail in the ranks Of the
new party. However, the delegates
who expresses his intention Of
speaking against the. formation OF
the new party, favoring entry into
the Communist Party, was struck
from the list.
SeydowitS one of the left wing
leaders revealed the oounter-revolu-
tionary significance Of the new party
when he declared the moment was
unfavorable for the foundation of
the party, but that it was necessary
in order to prevent socialist work.
ers from joining the Communist
Party.
The congress decided to apply for
af1liation to the Second Interna-
tional. The British Independent La
Dor Party sent telegram of greet
ings. Three delegates voted against
the formation of the new party.
Rosenfeld announced that negotia-
tons were pending With the Brand
Ter group With view to amalgama-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06

tended that wage cuts in the steel
industry would increase employment
by lowering the price of steel and
stimulating construction work. After
the cuts went through, it was found,
Green admits, that steel prices were
not reduced.
"Of course" he wrote, "the real
reason for the wage cut was to trans
fer the money in wages saved to the
stockholders in dividends. But tell
ing the truth before the cut would
have brought forth too much public
opposition"
Green then goes on to say that a
raise of so cents week wages would
do more to provide jobs than all the
wage cuts. but he offers no program
to win the wage increase, or to stop
the cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06

sent home because they were not on
the job early enough to suit the boss
Workers are not allowed to go home
one heat early. If we go home be-
fore that time we are sent home the
next day AS an example of the
speed-up, we formerly worked bar
eight inches wide in the hot mill and
gave it five passes on the breakdown
and three passes on the singles. Now
the bosses have brought in a new
steel, a twelve inch bar which we
work four passes on the breakdown
and three on the singles.
Hours Increased
Our working hours are also In
creased For example: On the warm
up turns on Monday we formerly
started at eight o'clock and worked
till four. Now we start at six o'clock
and work till three, or one hour more
than formerly. The bosses are always
hollering about not enough produce
ton. But the speed-up does not stop
here. The men who fired up the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
Slave Labor In Milwaukee Restaurants

over the Socialist" city of Milwaukee
the situation is the same for the
food workers. Actual slave labor
exists here in spite of the mayors
statement that there is no suffering
in the fair city"
Editorial Note:-The way to fight
, these conditions is not to run away
from the shops, but to stay in the
shops and organize committees re-
presenting all the workers to draw
up demands for increased wages
ard better working conditions.
Only through militant strike ac-
ton can workers defeat the starv-
alton program Of the Milwaukee
restaurant owners. Organize your
shops under the leadership Of the
Food Workers Industrial Union.
Strike against the wage-cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)
operators met and decided to cut
wages Is per cent In the montfair
Gas Coal Co., this cut was announced
as: Wages Of % cents per ton, 50 a
day for outside labor, and $40 a
day for inside labor.
The U.M.W.A. officials offer as
their excuse for agreeing to this cut
that they want to "out-scab the
scabs and stabilize the industry"
This is the same disastrous tactic
used by the Musteites in the hosiery
industry.
The miners are preparing to march
by thousands on any mine that tries
to work today and tomorrow. Twenty
mines are involved in the wage cut
and itsis expected all will come out.
Nine hundred miners are striking this
morning in the first four mines to
shut down, and 100 went n to try
this morning in the first four mines
to shut down, and 100 went in to try
to work. The decision to strike will
draw 1000 Immediately into the
struggle, and the strike may spread
throughout the SCOTS Run-Morgan-
town Fairmont section.
The miners on strike are con-
script members Of the United Mine
Workers, because Of the check-oft
written into the U.M.WA. contract,
but will all join the National Miners
Union.
At the meeting Sunday, 1000 Of
these forced members in the UNI.
WA. voted unanimously to strike at
ter hearing the program Of the
NM.U. as presented by Frank Bor-
ich, national secretary of the NM.U.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
IDAHO GETS ON THE MAP! /
CLUB GROWING VERY RAPIDLY

Recently we had occasion to call
the Hoboken Daily Worker Club the
shock brigade Of the Daily Worker
Clubs. Now from Idaho comes a let
ter that shows that we have another
shock brigade this time in the west
He writes:
"It's over a month sinve we formed
our small DIV. Club, and from two
members to begin with, we are now
close to twenty active and many
more Sympathizers. We have in our
midst Americans, Italians, MeMcans,
Negroes, Indians, farmers, laborers,
unemployed, American legionaires,
etc., and whatever you wish for. We
count seven subscribers to the Daily
Worker, one to II LaVoratore, and
one to Vida Obrera.
More and More Red"
"Of the first seven members we
made q kind of shock troop and
after a week Of overnight drilling
in reading, planning, studying, dis
cussing and getting compressed
idea of Communism and how to
spread 1t, we began our work. First
on our friends, then on our friends
friends and now each of our orig
inal seven has little group of his
own. We also had our troubles,
discouragements besides we have
to be very careful on account of
reduced Jobs, but, taking all in
consideration, we are getting worse
and worser, meaning more and
more red. On the entrance of our
city in an imaginary place and in
invisible ink you can read real
welcome sign: This town is full of
BoIsheviks."
SO far we have found the paper
great and peerless. Our critics have
not found anything to kick about.
ooh yes, money is very scarce
and our bank closed on us 1--WE
lost millions in it, but, wen try
our best to get more subs"
This is the way a Daily Worker
club should function. From two
members to twenty, and each mem
Der developing new circles around
himself. Ataboy!
Each new member should be talked
to and worked with until he is ready
to subscribe to the Daily.
When the Daily gets into shops,
factories, and mines, it can carry
on much of the work Of organizing
workers to resist the bosses at
tacks. So, Daily Worker Clubs, get
members as many as possible sub
scribing-it will make all of your
present objectives easier to obtain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
worker Must Hare pafEr

AfAA7N AA&NO 08A1E
Comrade w H. Of Michigan vxaSsE
that he could not get along wattrout
the Daily Worker. Times are very
hard on the farm and very dlknsaat
to get money; but he knows that
things will not be any better as long
as the capitalist system lasts.
Another comrsde from M1chi@aa.
r. u, sends twenty-five cents and
asks that we rush as many Daily
Workers as two bits will pay foe.
These letters indicate that 10 Naess
comrades the Daily Worker is tnteg-
rally linked up with their everyday
lives and struggles and Is regarded
by them as their leader.
Another letter comes from IRE, Pa.
E. q. answers a request for Q sub,
by saying:
Il received your request for a sab
but like lot Of people I am hard up
but I must have the Daily. 30 VII
get the money some way In the uext
two weeks and send it. I rsad the
Daily every day and get other farm
ers to read my old copies"
Write More Letters
With wage-cutting programs going
on in Lawrence, in the steel and
aluminium industries, and all
through the country, we want all
workers and farmers to write more
letters to the Daily about conditions
in their shops and towns, so that
the Daily Worker can Increase its
function as mass organizer for all
fights.
And in the meantime, tbs Daily
Worker Clubs should not be forget
ting any affair or dance that win
bring more members into the clubs.
From an Illinois workers organiza-
ton comes check for SASS TO back
up the Daily. The more donations
the betterl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
tcoNr1NuEp FROM PAGE oNE)

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED
ALL. now assembling In Vancouver
The ALL. program is loose and
vague as to any actual improvement
Of conditions Of the jobless, and con-
tents itself with moral reflections:
Workers should be assured of a job,
wage standards should be maintained
child labor should be prohibited and
there should be shorter work-day
and five-day week, ETC." The A.F.L.
program Is specific and concrete only
where It lines up directly with the
employers wage cutting and starva-
ton policies. Thus the ALL. Execu-
tive Committee rules: I'VE have in
vestigated the unemployment insur-
ance systems Of Germany and Eng
land and find compulsory tnemploy-
ment insurance not applicable to
America"
The ALL. has no other proposal
for the jobless, except to starve along
In the hopes that President Hoover
will decree that the employers each
hire two additional workers and thus
absorb the 100000 idle" actually
the number Of unemployed is closer
to 100000, and even the ALL. In
another part Of its program admits
100000. Also, the 100000 employ
ers are divided into groups Of farm
ers, who now employ one man only,
and great corporations with tens Of
thousands employed. According to
the ALL. plan, the Us. Steel and
John Farmer would each hire two
more rrien.-Editor.)
The ALL. hopes but provides no
way of compelling, that public build
ing will go on, and that some relief
will be given from private and COM
munity funds.
The Trade Union Unity League
provides along the fight Of the I'M
employed fight by organized work.
ers in the shops, mines and mills and
railroads to stop wage cuts and
speed-up, which lead straight to more
unemployment.
The slogans Of the T.U.UL. unions
are: Against wage cuts in any
form, "Full pay for part time work, ,
Shorter hours without reduction in
pay, mo speed up and no overtime
work., Equal pay for equal work for
women, youth and Negro workers,
Abolition of injunction and a strug-
gle for the right to organize, strike
and picket"
The ALL. mentions some Of these
things, but proposes no means Of
struggle TO obtain them.
Sundays session developed an in
tensive discussion in which rank and
file deleqates took prominent part,
on the establishment Of complete de-
mecracy in the unions of the T.U.UL.
1t was clearly brought out that bu-
reaucratic methods are fatal to mass
organizations. Prominent in the dis
cussion on this point, and in the dis
cussion, point by point of the draft
program and resolutions embodying
programs Of organization in the vari-
Gus industries and among the. unem-
ployed, were steel workers, miners
and delegates Of the marine workers.
The marine workers delegates came
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
Philadelphia City
CRATER Confesses

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. S.
Horace Stoy, superintendent of ven
doris licenses in the Bureau of Pub
lie Works has confessed stealing
$4,000 in the last four years. He
duplicates in the graft, Frank Hen
derson, acting market supervisor,
who is now dead. 1t has been
charged that chief Charles w. Neld
Of the Bureau of City Property must
have known that the money was
missing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
Goldman Speaks On
the Soviet Union In
the Chicago District

CHICAGO, Ill. - Albert Goldman,
Chicago attorney for the Interna-
tional Labor Defense. will speak on
his experiences in the course of his
trip through the Soviet Union and
other European countries, in Rock
ford and Chicago, as well as other
cities in the middle west. Goldman,
who is chairman Of the Chicago Lo-
cal of the Friends Of the Soviet
Union, made an intensive study over
a period Of six months of conditions
affecting social, economic and poll
tical life not only in the workers
republic but in other European coun-
tries.
His Chicago meeting will be held
on Friday, Oct. 9.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
TOOhey, Back from SU|
Mine Fields. Speaking
to American Miners

How conditions and wages In the
Soviet mines are constantly improv-
ing, in contrast to terroriEation meth
DDS to subdue starved and rebellious
workers in the American coal fields
will be told by Patrick Toohey, Ma
tional Miners Union leader, who Is
touring Pennsylvania and eastern
Ohio speaking to the working class
audiences for the International La
Dor Defense.
His speaking dates are:
Luzerne, Oct. 7; Nanty-Glo,
Oct. 9; Barnsboro, Oct. 10; Portage,
Oct. IL; Johnston, Oct. IL; Pitts
burgh and eastern Ohio, oct Is to IS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06


to slash the wages Of the hosiery
workers.
The possibility for a general strike
in the hosiery industry was at hand,
when the wage-cut officials most
shamefully sold out the workers, linn
iting the pickets to seventy-five and
now calling off the strike altogether.
The bosses immediately followed with
cutting the wages of the workers.
The Berkshire mill has already an
.nounced cut for the loopers and
one for the footers. The hosiery mill
in Munton cut the loopers IS per
cent and the knitters IS per cent.
AS a result Of this betrayal the
bosses in other industries are follow
ing with wage cuts. The Bancroft
Cotton mill announced a straight 10
per cent cut effective on october g..
The Reading Hardware announced a
20 per cent wage cut. The National
Textile Workers Union Is issuing
leaflets to all hosiery and textile
workers analyzing the failure Of the
hosiery strike, exposing the fake Of
ficials of the American Federation
of Labor and calling upon the work
ers to organize mill committees and
strike against these wage-cuts.
Carl Holderman, q leading mem
Der of the Conference for Progress
sive Labor Action (Muste group and
a national vice-president Of the
American Federation OF Full Fash
Toned Hosiery Workers, from Pater-
son, N. j., is now playing a double
role in the strike movement. Holder
man was one Of the officials to vote
for the wage cut agreement. He was
sent to the Milwaukee local Of the
union to speak for 1t. There the
workers shouted him down. When
the spontaneous strike movement
against the wage cut pact grew Hol-
derman placed himself at the. head
of it in order to behead 1t.
At the meeting Of the national ex-
ecutive board of the AFFFHW the
last weekend all officials voted unan-
imously to order the strikers back.
Since Holderman is an official 1t
indicated that in the secret meetings
he is for the wage cut agreement but
outside tries to mislead the workers
by taking leadership Of the strike
movement.
Local officials leading the Merit
Hosiery strike, with 500 out at Wood
haven, N. Y, are a real estate dealer
and a llabitua1 drunkard. AS re-
suit the local strike committee is dis
organized and no militant conduct
of the strike is possible under such
circumstances.
At the propper1McCollun plant at
Elmhurst, T.. T., where 400 are out
the workers invited speakers Of the
National Textile Workers Union. The
local officials, however, refused to
permit the speakers to attend the
strike meetings.
The weakness OF a policy and or
ganization is shown in the strike OF
the Gotham Hosiery workers at 33d
st. and First Ave, New York. There
are no strong picket lines and COM
pany trucks are bringing ~scabs into
the mill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
tBy a Worker Correspondentl


AKRON, Ohio.--The stagger plan
is in full operation here in Ohio. In
Marsillos, Ohio, the steel mills (Cen-
trail SteeD are working groups of
workers alternate weeks. Each group
gets four days every other week.
In the rubber shops of Akron it is
reported that the hours and days will
be cut down. This means another
wage-cut. At the same time workers
are laid off daily.
Over 1000 workers have lost their
homes here in Akron in the past
eighteen months. The farmers in
this section are letting thousands of
bushels of fruit rot in the fields,
while the workers in Akron are going
hungry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
Ex-servicemen Left to Starve In New York

ing. He visited nearly all of the
charity organizations by which he
was fooled around and kidded and
finally refused any relief by all Of
them. Although registered by the
Mayor Walker Committee, this worker
received no job. I asked him if he
had any food home, he answered:
No, I eat only once q day, macaroni
only, showing me little bet raped up
in paper. What is your boy eating
when he Is going to SCHOOL, Same
thing" he said. 81 could get no credit
from store any more"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
(By a Worker Correspondent

MILWAUKEE,, wis., work in a
restaurant. I have worked for the
last fifteen years as night cook
twelve and fourteen hours per night
for week in and week out.
The boss has cut our wages time
and time again until now we are
working for rs per cent less than last
year Now we are faced with a new
is per cent cut. The boss says he
must do this because the business is
mot so good" I walked out because
could not stand it any longer. This
is what I get after is years hard
work.
was talking to another worker
the other day who is working n to
Is hours a day and receives no
money-only board and room. AL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE
PREPARES JOBLESS STRUGGLE

from different ports, and bummed
their way in without expense to their
organization. One delegate, Davis,
came all the way from Galveston,
Texas, this way.
An important feature Of the ses-
Sions was theme citing OF the steel
and railroad commissions. The steel
commission decided upon building a
fighting fund for the strikes that are
approaching. The fund will be built
by voluntary collections.
The railroad commission discussed
concentration points for organization
work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
GREEN ADMITS
WAGE CUT FRAUD

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. A.
In statement which virtually en-
dorses the Swope plan for a planned
limitation of production, meaning
more unemployment William Green.
president of the American Federation
of Labor, nevertheless finds it neces-
sary to quiet rebellious members Of
the A. F. L. by making some adnis-
sions. without the slightest proposal
for struggle by the workers against
wage cuts, Green criticizes "the
hypocrisy of employers" who pre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
tBy a Worker Correspondent

w
NEW YORK.-World War veteran,
Savatro Astuto, lives at PIT East lot
Street. On the walls Of his room
are diplomas and medals which he
received for his "heroism" in the last
imperialist war, and now his reward
is hunger and starvation for his
family.
Savatro went to war in 1915 and
came back to U.S.A. in 1920. He
lost his left eye. He is an American
citizen. Savatro has been out of
work for Is months and was evicted
from former home and is now starv-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
SPANISH MASSES LOSING FAITH
IN REGIME.

MADRID, Spain.--only about 40
per cent of Spanish voters cast their
votes in this election as compared
with 10 per cent in the last one. This
sharply inc ties that the Spanish
workers are rapidly losing faith in
the present government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06

One way to help the Soviet
Union Is to spread among the
workers Soviet Forced Labor"
by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
s12 to S25 for Two Weeks Work

In the hot mills only IL out of 25 working The
age pay for two weeks work in the mill is from $2 to $25
you the mill 10 to Is minutes before time
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
Hail

The Success of the Five Year Plan
OF Socialist construction. Han the
glorious achievements OF the workers
and peasants Of the USSR where
STARVATION AND UNEMPLoY-
MENT HAVE BEEN PERMANENT
LY ABOLISHED.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
AMERICAN SHEET AND
TIN PLATE PENALTIES
WORKERS WHEN HURT
Company Issues Order That Injured Workers
Lose Pay for Time Laid Off
All Hands Get 10 Per Cent Slash In Wages;
Hours Increased; More Speed-up
(By a Worker CORRESPONDENT

PRICEDALE, Pain the American Sheet and Tin Co.
in Monessen recently received 10 per cent cut in
But the bosses did not stop at that Every day when
find that the bosses have found new methods