The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-24
Millions Are Hit By
New, Widespread
Conspiracy
Oil Companies to Act
Attempt to Save Boss
Profits; Crisis Worse

NEW YORK.-Millions of Amer
lean workers will have their wages
slashed on October / in the first
dratsic, open wage slashing drive ever
experienced in this country. The
action of the United States Steel
Corporation, as we'll as every other
steel mill in the country, along with
the wage cuts of 1920 per cent of
the General Motors Corporation, the
U. S. Rubber Co., the American
Smelling 81 Refining Co., the Utah
Copper Co., and the pending wage
slashes in the Standard Oil, Sinclair
OIL and the other oil corporations. is
a concerted plot engineered together
with the Hoover government, aided
by the American Federation of Labor
to smash down the standard of liv-
ing of the American workers in order
to increase the profits of the bosses.
Over 100000 workers are affected
in the steel industry alone, and sew
eral millions will be hit in the auto
mobile, rubber and copper industry.
Though the oil companies have not
openly announced the wage slash, all
of the capitalist papers agreed that
plans are laid to go along in the
wage slashing drive.
In New York the longshoremen,
thanks to the assistance of the A. F.
of L. affiliate, the International
Longshoremens Union, are faced
with heavy pay slash of 1925 per
cent on Oct. l.
That the wage cut will not be re-
stricted to these largest corporations,
connected with the leading imperial
ist banks, and directly cooperating
with their government, is shown by a
statement in the Hoover supporting
New York Sun which says that the
possibility that the wage cutting
would spread was foreseen."
In the steel industry, every plant
in the county has declared wages
would be slashed Oh october LIST, and
one of the leading forces in the Pitts
burgh area is the Pittsburgh Steel
Co., owned and controlled by Andrew
Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury
and one of tn eleading forces in the
Hoover government. Mellon, to-
gether with Hoover, has been de-
claring that wages would not be
slashed.
T.U.U.L. Calls for Strikes.
The Trade Union Unity League has
issued statement branding the con-
piracy of the leading bosses, the gov
eminent and the A. F. of L. as an
open attack against the entire work.
ing class which must be resisted i'm
by organized action in the
form of strikes.
Foreseeing the incoming wage cuts,
the Metal Workers Industrial League
arranged for a conference of steel
workers TO be held in Pittsburgh on
Sept. q, Ito become the rallying CEN
tcr for the organization of the fight
against the steel barons."
To further organize the resistance
of the workers to this general at
tack the National Committee of the
Trade Union Unity League will hold
a meeting in the heart of the steel
Pittsburgh, Oct and 4,
(which will be a rallying point not
only for the struggle against wage
cuts in the steel industry but in all
Under the protection OF the big
corporations, which are closely iden-
titled with the government through
Mellon, Lamont, Doak, Hoover, Slim
son, Hurley-all of whom are con-
nected in some manner or other with
these big corporations and profit
by the wage slashes-all
the other employers will rush through
wage slashes whether these had
been carried out or not.
These cuts are Just the beginning
Of general drive that will keep up
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