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The daily worker., 1932-04-09
R. R. WORKERS
STAGGERED,
SPEEDED UP
Workers See NeedB Of
Real Rank and File
Organization
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-Following the ten
per cent cut on the New York Gen.
tral Railroad an organizer came to
organize" the 33rd st. freight station.
I saw this organizer over a year
ago. He never called the members of
the dirty scab union to a meeting.
We never knew what went on between
the bosses and the union takers. We
found out. however, what was going
on on February 10, because on that
day we got our pay. 1t was cut 10
per cent
had told the workers that the
cut was coming and tried to form a
group into a shop committee but
failed I explained to them that the
National Railroad League is fighting
for the six hour day without reduce
ton in pay and also for unemploy~
ment relief and insurance.
The workers now understand that
what said was right. They are
against the lake union now alright.
There are many new tricks being
used by the slave drivers here. First
they lay off a group of workers and
put them on extra. Then they give
ten cars to each stevedore. Just three
days ago they took three men away,
leaving three to do the work of six.
Car spoilers we're taken away and
pier spoilers were put in their place.
When the car spoilers finish the Job,
they are sent back to the pier.
Very few OF the men are working
full time for the starvation wages.
Now the organizer of the fake union
comes along with offers of pie in the
sky, The workers, however, are wise
to this bird. They have learned Of
the role of the Brotherhood and are
learning that the Trade Union Unity
League means business in the fight
against wage-cuts.
The daily worker., 1932-04-09
With comradely greetings,
Signatures of AZ workers
Shock Brigade of the Tool Maker
Department Of the Mini Nov
gorod Autozavod and Brigader
Saveliev.

demanded relief in no uncertain
terms. The Sacramento News Bee,"
leading capitalist paper in this town,
said that only 200 workers demon
strated. This paper is telling big lie.
They wished that there had only been
200. The editors no doubt allowed
the wish to be father of the state
ment.
The daily worker., 1932-04-09

make profits for the idle rich.
When a seaman enters this house,
even though he has the required rs
cents to pay for his room, he is told
that he cannot use the building un-
less he becomes a member-a member
Of the YMCA!
This membership ONLY costs $500
and on top of this the highest rates
are charged in the pool room, cafe
terra and barber shop. And just
crack one word of focsle lingo and
out you go bag and baggage.
Where the Graft Comes in
The building was opened in No
vember with a crowd of employees
who knew the sea and the ways of
it, Now one can hardly see one of
them. They have all been discharged
just to place the big shots into good
salaries jobs.
Preacher Draws Rake-0ff
First there is a Southern preacher
who draws a rake-off somewhere
around $4,000 per year. The preacher
got his side-kick in as cashier. He
is soon to become the business secre-
tary at about $4,000 a year. The sea-
men all know this gent as a high
minded, gray haired uplifter who had
a distressed sailor thrown out because
supply of medicine for a certain
disease prevalent among workers Of
the sea was found in his room.
This running partner of the preach
er was a retired gentleman of go
winters. When they opened this
hotel he was given this well-paying
job. incidentally young comrade Of
the workers worked on this job at a
small salary. He was fired to be re-
placed by the friend Of the racket
eering clergyman.
Listen, fellow workers Of the sea,
let us not be suckers. Let us de-
mand that this house be turned over
to the seamen and that the grating
preachers be thrown out. Wake up
and organize in the Marine Workers
Industrial Union. Go down to the
headquarters of the union while nj
port. The address of the New York
Branch is 140 Broad st.
The daily worker., 1932-04-09
LEGION HELPS
BOS SSES PUT
OVER PAY-CUT
New "Relief" Plan Of
fers so Cents A
: Week
(By a Worker Correspondent

a
ASHTABALA, Ohio.-The Amer
ican Legion in connection with the
Chamber of Commerce is about to
start a concreted citywide drive to
lower the wages and living stand
ards of the workers, under the guise
Of helping unemployment. Already
so-called representatives Of the or
ganized skilled workers have met
with representatives of these out
fits and agreed to cut wages ten tc
thirty per cent, while the American
Legion has established a wage OF
thirty cents per hour for unslsilled
workers.
Under the much heralded Roches-
ter Plan, which they intend to use,
two hours work per week constitutes
a job. When the worker receives
his sixty cents per week, I presume
he will have to go to the Better
Business Board of the Chamber of
Commerce for advice as to whether
he should pay off the second mort
gage on his home df any) or buy
one Of the new model Fords.
Workers should not be deceived by
these fake proposals, but should
unite with the Unemployed Coun-
Gil If unemployed, or with the Trade
Union Unity League If employed and
fight for real relief in the form of
Unemployment Insurance at full
wages, and at the expense of the
bosses.
The daily worker., 1932-04-09
$50 Fired from Neev York
Aviation Engine Facoor,

five years. The workers who have
been working only from six months
to a year were kept because they
were getting lower wages.
In the experiment department the
workers are working five hours over
time and also on Saturdays and
Sundays.
Workers in the American Engine
and Aviation, get busy. Organize in
the Metal Workers Industrial League
and stop the attack on wages,
The daily worker., 1932-04-09

workers of the USSR, about condi-
tions in your capitalist country, AS
we could not make out much by
examining the unfamiliar letters and
pictures, we had to call to our assis-
tance an English worker of our de-
partment.
You are interested to know how
we live and work. We are very glad
to know that workers of a distant
country are interested in our mode of
living. Comrade, we are both workers
in automobile factories, but there is
quite a difference between the con-
ditions under which we work and
between our aims. You are making
automobiles to enrich the capitalists.
We will make them to supply the
needs of the only Socialist country
in the world.
Our Autozavod has just been COM
pleted, and we are certain that be-
fore you receive this letter, we will be
busy producing our own steel horse
Soviet automobiles.
The first of January, 1882 is the
well known date for the opening OF
the Autozavod.
Paid in Advance
The wages of our locksmith repair
workers amount to 175 roubles 9
month and of more highly skilled
workers, $40. We have a 2 hour
working day, and we rest one day
after every 5 days of work. We get
paid twice a month. The first half
of the months wages is paid In
advance. Eight of our rs shock troop
erS are women, who work hand In
hand with the men. Our brigade re-
ceived premiums times for its ex-
cellent work and for overfulfilling It's
tasks. Our best udarniks have their
names on the red board of the de-
partment.
We got hot meals in the factory
dining room. The factory also sup
plies our working clothes, leather
coats, sweaters and boots in the
winter, and light clothes in the
summer.
Entertainments
The department committee ar
ranges all kinds of entertainments
for us in the theatres and clubs. We
have reading rooms, 1ibaries, rest
rooms, rooms for playing games
From the library we can take books
home. We can also read in the club,
where we often have social readings
After work, many workers of our
brigade attend courses in universi-
ties and institutes in order to i'm
prove their political and technical
knowledge.
We hope, dear comrade, that you
will write more and in detail about
the conditions in your factory, and
about the living conditions of the
workers In America.
With comradely greetings,
Signatures of Al workers
Shock Brigade of the Tool Maker
Department of the Mini Nov
gorod Autozavod and Brigader
Saveliev.
The daily worker., 1932-04-09
1000 DEMAND
RELIEF in CAL.
March to Sacramento
County Court
(By a Worker Correspondent., ,

tBy Worker Correspondent
SACRAMENTO, Calif.-over 1000
workers marched to the county court
house on March 80 and demanded
real relief for the hungry unemployed
The Community Chest headquar-
tiers is located at In the county court
house and the workers are very angry
at the way they are treated when they
go there for relief.
Miss Mary Judge who is the big
wig of the headquarters gets $500 a
month for insulting the workers who
come for help. If one happens to be
foreign born, or if one has not lived in
Sacramento long enough, this woman
tells the worker TO go back where he
came from.
The workers we're tired listening to
this kind Of talk and came out on
the streets thousand strong and
The daily worker., 1932-04-09
tBy a Worker Correspondent

PINEY FORK, Ohio--We miners
of the Piney Fork Mines, No. l and
No. Q, came out on strike because
the Hanna Coal Co. gave us q cut in
wages amounting to 25 per cent.
This happened on March %. The
Hanna Coal Co. is the dirtiest COM
pany in this part of the country. 1
do not think that there is a COM
pany as rotten as this outfit.
The Stubenville Herald Star had
an item in their columns stating that
the new scale is 1920 day. This
The daily worker., 1932-04-09

for the unemployed. Demand the
payment of unemployment and part
time insurance, TO be paid by the
bosses and city government! De-
mand immediate relief for all the
lists of needy cases to be presented
by the committee TO the Welfare
Agency of Baltimore!
The daily worker., 1932-04-09
(By a Worker Correspondent)

HICKSVILLE, L. Last Monday
l50 workers were fired from the
American Engine and Aviation Cor
poration at Farmingdale, L. I.
This lay-off occurred after a notice
was placed on the board announcing
a change in the management. About
six weeks ago wage-cut of 10 to
80 per cent was put over. Many of
the workers fired have been en-
ployed in the company for four to
The daily worker., 1932-04-09
Piney Fork Miners Hit Cut
in Pay uith Stubborn Strike

is lie. Only 10 per cent Of the
miners get it and the other 80 per
cent get $2.20 day and must load
10 tons of coal to get it.
Mr.. Roush, boss of the mines, said
that If the men would not go back
to work he would take the rails out
of the mine and put the cars on the
bum SO thai the miners would never
have work in the mines again. The
miners know that this is a lie. The
bosses cannot fool them to go back
to work until they have won their
demands.
The daily worker., 1932-04-09
WHOLESALE LOCKOUT
AT PITTSFIELD GEN.
ELECTRIC co. PLANT
Force Reduced from 5000 to 4,5O0; Bosses Plan
New 40 Per Cent LayOff
Workers in Lynn Plant Walk Out on Spon-
Taneous Strike
(By a Worker Correspondent

Within the next two three weeks the Pittsed plant
Of the General Electric Company putting through another
gigantic scheme of decentralization The Ptsfield factory
of the G. E. largest plans and the worlds greatest
ufacurer of electric transformers.
During the socaed of prosperity this plant employed
slightly than 9,999 Since then there has been
wholesale firing of going hand in hand with vicious pro-
of wagecutng and speedup. At present there
slightly less than 4500 employed at part time work Prac-
The daily worker., 1932-04-09
Adds Euphemism
to the Right Rev.
Norman Thomas List

BY Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-Some time ago
Norman Thomas nick-named the
democratic and republican parties
"Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum"
His endorsement Of the Block
Aid drive automatically adds one
euphemism to the list, viz:--
TWEEDLE-DEE
TWEEDLE-DUM
TWEEDLE-TWADDLE
The daily worker., 1932-04-09

again ten weeks ago. am kept on
the payroll like many other workers.
We come down to the employment
office every week, only to be told to
come back next week. J.L.S.
The daily worker., 1932-04-09
Ford Lies About Number Employed in Plant

This is one of Ford's new tricks
to keep the workers from organizing
new Hunger March to demand work
and unemployment insurance.
In the past two years 1 was given
two months work. L was laid off
The daily worker., 1932-04-09
NeqV York Seam ems
House Is A Huge
Graft Enterprise e
Establishment Built on Money Collected by
Y. NJ. C.. A.
Supplies Fat Salaried Jobs for Broken Down
Preachers
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-The marine workers are getting dea
at the magnificent building built here in New York known
the Seamens House The house built by the Y.MCA
of funds collected from poor sailors and other suckers here
ashore
This little racket club constructed West Goth ST. and
the verfront is supposed to give the place stay
while in port In reality it is business house to weedle the
hard earned dollars out of the pockets of the working
The daily worker., 1932-04-09
nv a Morker CORRESPONDENT

(By a worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich.-Mr. Ford's latest
statement that 10000 men are now
on the payrolls at the River Rouge
plant does not mean that all these
men are working and getting paid.
The daily worker., 1932-04-09
(By a Worker Correspondent

BALTIMORE, Md.-In order to
subdue the discontented, starving
steel workers, and because there is
no relief extended to the needy cases,
the Bethlehem Steel Co. here in
Sparrows Point has authorized Mr..
Stingley, Czar of Bethlehem real
estate, or otherwise known as the
superintendent of the DundaIk
The daily worker., 1932-04-09

Join the Metal Workers Industrial
League to carry on the fight in the
mill for unemployment and part
time insurance! Against wage-cuts
and speed-up!
The daily worker., 1932-04-09

tically no workers are employed for
a full week. Even the technical ex-
perts, the engineers, have been put
ON part time week.
But the General Electric is not sat
isfied with ridding itself of between
four and five thousand men. 1t is
now going to lay off outright 40 per
cent Of its remaining working force.
This means that another 1900 men
will be out of work bringing the to-
tai of unemployed workers of this
plant to about $500 men. These un-
employed together with their depend
ants number between 25 and 10000,
more than half the total poulation
of the City Of Pittsfield.
SIS A Week.
At present the men work, on an
average, between two and three days
a week. For this work they receive
one steady wage-$15 weekly. If they
are told to work overtime which often
means up TO twelve hours a day
their weekly check is just the same.
From this munificent wage the G. E
also eXacts its toll in the form of
deductions for group insurance, bo-
nus, pension, etc., etc. These deduc-
tionS amount to about SIS q month
and more for each worker.
Since the G. E. has it's employees,
as well as the entire city,, under its
thumb it can treat the workers as it
pleases. The men are rarely told
in advance during what days of the
week they are to report for work.
They must awake every morning
at 6 a. M, pack lunch, take the troll
ley to the plant (carfare is an item to
be reckoned with since the cars run
in zones and most ment spend "a
cents day in fares) and see If they
are needed. Sometimes they are used
Tor two or three hours and sent home
other times, which is more usual
they are told, Nothing doing. Come
back tomorrow" Those who work a
few hours day either work part OF
the next day to complete a days
work, or If they are needed, lose
the time entirely. That is, If they
are needed for a full shift the fol-
lowing day they are not paid for the
extra few hours they put in.
Gang System.
The G. e. has also, an another part
OF its stabilization program, insti-
tuted one of the dirtiest of possible
speed-up systems-the gang system
and work switching. BY the gang
system the company plays one work.
er against another making them
force each other to the breaking
point. The men are relegated tc
gangs of eight or nine. The workers
are paid not according to the produc-
ton OF each individual but according
TO the output of the gang as whole
Thus every man is put into the posi-
ton of foreman and has to see
that everybody in the gang is con-
tlnuously working at top speed since
he will suffer if any one worker lets
up a. bit.
There is no sign of a union move
ment in the Pittsfield factory. The
workers are very incensed concern
ing present conditions.
Lynn Workers Strike.
In the General Electric Plant al
Lynn, Mass, group of workers have
gone out on spontaneous, morgan
lied strike. They just packed ur
their tools and went home. There Is
no union and no picketing. These
workers must get busy and organize
rank and file committees, commence
picketing. Otherwise it will be diff
cult for them to win anything.
The daily worker., 1932-04-09
Contemporaries
BY HENRY GEORGE WEISS

BY HENRY GEORGE WEISS
Resting by the side of the road,
Capitalism lies covered with fes.
tering sores
Hugging TO its bosom
A bag swollen with money;
Across the road,
Swinging sickle,
A young man in overalls
Clearing ground for a grave. /.
The daily worker., 1932-04-09
Soviet Auto Workers Tell
of Their Neev Giant Plant
Mini NOvgorOd, U. S. S. K.
Dear COmrade:

Dear COmrade:
We 76 shock troopers of the giant Mini NOvgOrOd auto
mobile factory read letter with extraordinary attention
We also examined very attentve your Communist paper the
"DaY Worker which the idea to write to
The daily worker., 1932-04-09
Old Sailor of Battleshib
P0temkin Greets US. Seamen
Moscow, U.S.S.R.


We workers of the Soviet Union interested the life Of workers in the whole
to
possible fulfill FeYear the conditions We the
are interests n the 0 o seamen
We
n
Winn
in
whole world
capitalist
all
re are n o
Do a a
tresd
An Sailor of the tIshp Potmkn
A worker Of machine orks in KOlomna-P PORTECHKO
Moscow Twes 3.
The daily worker., 1932-04-09

What have you done In the half
dollar campaign?
The daily worker., 1932-04-09

On May 1St the American Workers
Started the Fight for the S-Hour
Day! On May 1st Demonstrate
Against Wage Cuts and UnemplOy-
ment!
The daily worker., 1932-04-09
NJ C. A. RACKETEERS GYP SEAMEN IN WATERFRONT "HOME'
Morgan Lithograph
Co. Busy Printing
War Propaganda
lBy a Worker Correspondentl

tBy Worker Correspondent
CLEVELAND, Owen the Htho-
graph companies are busy preparing
for war. We all remember the pos
ter during the last war-an inviting
looking Uncle Sam with his finger
pointed at the locker and which
read: 81 Want You"
Well, we're busy printing those
right now. BY I'VE" 1 mean the
Morgan Lit6ograph Co. right here
in Cleveland.
The words have not been put on
yet but that can be done later. Yes
the~imperialists have mobilized the
artists and art departments to the
job of helping gather cannon fodder
for the Wall st. bankers.
The daily worker., 1932-04-09

A of in Koomna-PETER PORTECHKO.
Moscow U.S.S.R, Twerskaya, "Wodny Transport"
Evening star., 1932-10-07
Snowden Held Storm Center
In British Tariff Controversy

THE breakup Of the British cabi-
net over tariff policies was perhaps in
evitable" thinks the Rutland Daily Her
aid. with tribute to the abilities and
fighting characteristics" of the seced-
ing members and the statement that
thus passes. in effect, the Labor min
istry Of Great Britain, for Macdonald
has been repudiated by the labor unions
and holds on by virtue Of his ability
and the failure of his opponents to form
an effective coalition against him" 1hat
paper is convinced that the premier
"ccmes nearer to being national leader
today than ever before, despite the eXo-
dus of his political family"
That it did not happen long ago Is
the surprising thing about the break
in the Nationalist cabinet" says the
Newark Evening News, with the con-
clusion that 'insistence of the retiring
Liberals upon freedom to act for the
removal Of restrictions upon world trade
Is the best part of the news" The
Indianapolis News records suspicious in
some quarters that "MacDonald's senti-
ments are much like those of Snowden
and that he has been by no means
comfortable in his political fellowshIps
of the past few months" The Birming-
ham Age-Herald remarks that the
prime minister may find himself weary
OF the whole business before long" The
Charleston tW. Va Daily Mail calls
the action Of the cabinet members the
initial step in the direction Of an at
tempt by the discredited and almost
wrecked Liberal party to come back on
the free trade question" The Kansas
City Star finds the premier left more
than ever isolated in the midst OF a
Conservative government"
Evening star., 1932-10-07
Adaptive Mother of the
Late Frank La Flesche

To the Editor OF The Star
A friend has sent me the article
from The Evening Star headed La
Flesche Buried With Death Feast"
and it seems to me desirable to sug-
gest that this article definite as to his
personal service TO his own people
should have contained also some record
OF his indebtedness to his adaptive
mother, Alice Cunningham Fletcher
She was sent from Boston to study
the Omaha tribe. and employed as her
secretary. Francis La F1eSche. then
boy of Is. son of the chief Of the tribe
and a French mother, from whom
Indian inheritance being through the
mother) came his French name.
This was the beginning Of many
years Of work in which the two were
co-laborers. and during which Miss
Fletcher legally adopted Francis La
Flesche as her son. as before stated.
Those who had the good fortune to
know them in the pleasant home south
of the Capitol would bear testimony
to the wide indebtedness in the work
of Francis La Flesche to his adopted
mother, Alice Fletcher.
HELEN P KANE,
Pennsauken N !
Evening star., 1932-10-07

record speaks for itself. And In the
end the farmers vote will not depend
so much upon his choice between at
tractive points In farm programs as
upon his acceptance or rejection OF tho
theory that things could not be worse" ="
If the farmer accepts the Presidents
careful and dispassionate presentation
Of the evidence that things could, in
deed, have been much worse, the logical
thought, of course, is that things will be
distinctly better-for the farmer and
for everybody else-under Republican
control OF the machinery now working
toward recovery.
Evening star., 1932-10-07
The New York Mayoralty.

Out of welter of judicial decisions
and radio communications between
Manhattan and a ship in midocean
comes a settlement of the question OF
the New York mayoralty, which has
vexed the people of that metropolis
for some weeks. A new mayor will be
elected in November to fill out the
unexpired term of the former mayor,
who resigned while on trial before the
Governor of the State for his officlal
life. and the former mayor will not be
a candidate. Another Tammany man
has been nominated, with unanimity,
by a convention attended by 32,07o
delegates representing all five boroughs.
He will be elected without doubt.
There will be no conflict between the
local and the Democratic national
tickets. All Is peace in the great teepee
at the confluence Of the rivers.
Some day, perhaps soon, the truth Will
be learned regarding the preconvention
dealings between the Tammany- Brook
lyn bosses end former Mayor Walker by
radio. It Is evident that they rendered
the seafarer the nomination for the un-
expired term. He refers to such tender
in his own radio plea to be excused
from making a campaign for vindication
by ballots in which he would have to
recite the reasons for his resignation,
daily reminding the public of the un-
fair nature of the hearings conducted
by the Governor" who is the Demo-
cratic candidate for President. Such a
course, says the former mayor, would
do t,.e Democratic ticket no good Did
not Mr.. curry and Mr.. McCooey know
that when they sent a radio tender OF