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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-07
The Fight Against the
Ford Wage Cut

THE wage cut in all Ford plants makes crystal clear the
meaning of the Dearborn carried through or
March 7th by Fords gunner and the police OF Mayor Mu
ply of Detroit
The raids and arrests of Communists leaders of t!
Auto Workers Union and the Unemployed Councils of nil
liant workers throughout the Detroit which followed
the buchery of four workers and the woundng of score OF
mre had a similar meaning.
All this furious onslaught and mobilization of the armed
of Ford and the city government against hungry
workers preparation for the most drastic single
IN crisis period-from Sc to 81 day.
the criminal ndicalm cases in Bridgeman Mich
other
state attorney the bring
de Foster to trial uqesonab the Ford drive deprive
cut which lowers the Ford scale below that of 1914
IT necessary struggle against this attack on
the starvation standards workers the
apostle
high production levels worker the full forces of
determined fighting organization OF Ford WORKERS packed o h ne
single section of which but
and income slashed abolished
entirely.
The Ford workers in Edgewater j. by action
given example throughout
countyeven action suffered from lack of
organization experienced organizations
Of the Communist Party carried h1I Ugh p0Gy 81 eon1 6 upon
would have present to forward this struggle and organize
the
take the leadership of the fight against cuts
THE and sweeping character of the attacks upon the Ford
with the direction Of the whole capitalist offensive
admits organization of the working
battle front
necessary the Workers Union through the medium
forward
which, drawn
WILL the face of this
standard enlist
struggle thousands
philanthropy" and the whole bloody
regime Of robbery and OPPRESSION he personfies
cynsm that pledge Of
fellow capitalists and the two of
launched this drive workers
presidential election OF the Ford theory high
production levels nothing is left but the blood
stained workers
limbs andhe high production
man" The inhuman Speedup remains
to the ruthless attack by
organization
without counter
led committees and the Auto Workers Union affiliated
Unity League.
which includes the fight against
American
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-07
What Haze Socialist Rulers of
Milwaukee Done for Workers?
Forced Labor, Clubs for Jobess; Wage Cuts for City
Employees Radical Squad" Gangsterism,>>AU
Virtues of Capitalist Administration
.Y BUICK

the closed Security Bank of Mil
Waukee found that this bank was
giving loans to all the leading So
cialist Party officials. For example,
Mayor Hoan and Sheriff Benson
had notes there for 5000 each dated
July End this year. No security
was given for this. The socialist
city attorney, Ranskin, borrowed
$3.50; a member of the County
Committee of the Socialist Party,
Mr.. Quick, borrowed $1,000; Mr..
Hampel, socialist assemblyman,
borrowed 500; and some of the
socialist supervisors got loans of
500 each. In all, the socialists got
$3.50 from a bank that just closed
its doors, and received all this
money on the basis Of their per
sonar signatures.
Last year, the press of the U. S.
was full of stories about the doings
of the vice squad in New York, and
the stool pigeon system employed
in framing women in order to fill
the pockets of the politicians, de-
tectives, and police generally. At
that time, the socialists shouted
that sit was horrible" Let us look
at the miracle city," which has a
socialist administration and So
cialist mayor, and what do we see
there? The same system used by
the Tamnany police in the franz
ing of women by the vice squad
and morals squad, prevails in Mil
waukee This came to light recent
ly in the Hostetler case. Hostetler
was the ace detective of the Mil
waukee police force. He was pro-
NOTED as head of the vice squad.
Nov, Hostetler is up on trial fac
ing statuary charge of his deal
ings with a 17-year old girl. Mar
garet Gross. Now it is revealed
that this girl was used as a lure"
by Hostetler as a member of the
morals squad. The Milwaukee Sem
tinel Of July 18th quoted Hostetler
as saying: "That police and other
public officials were as guilty as he
was" and he threatened to "do
some talking" in the event The
charge against him was prosecuted
Hostetler further pointed out;
'Policc and other city officials
have been with me in the com
pany of the girl
THE SOCIALIST
VICE SQUAD
This is not an isolated case. Re-
Gently, Helen Griebel, walking on
the street with a Negro was arrest
ed by the socialist" cops and
charged with vagrancy. The police
compelled the girl to act as de
coy" in order to frame Mrs. Gilmore
Robinson on a moral turpitude"
charge. This was disclosed in court.
Another case that came to light
was that of the Tanck sisters, Mar
tina and Emma. The morals squad
also tried to frame them and when
Policeman Sheeran was exposed, he
replied
well, II the police stood on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-07

was given a Jail term recently for
speeding. Before Judge Page could
recognize the mistake" the press
was bowling about the injustice"
and the socialist city attorney, Ras-
kin, came crawling to Mrs. SeeleY
guaranteeing her "all the constitul
tional rights while at the sam5
time, workers are beaten and held
in Jail incommunicado.
Mrs. H. X. Curtis, clubwoinan,
interested in seeing only Mrs. See.
ley freed, blurted out the follow
ing in statement to the press
which gives an idea of capitalist
justice in the miracle city,
What ! saw in district court
so far exceeded by imagination.
of what it could be like that am
convinced that something must
be done to correct police court
evils. witnessed ISL cases dis
posed Of at the rate of 30 sec-
onds.'
Ito be Concluded
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-07
ceremony, we'd never make any

ceremony, we'd never make any
arrests"
It is daily occurance for work
ers to be picked off the streets and
thrown into Jail charged with va
grancy The keeper at the House
of Correction admits that so many
workers are locked up every day
and given a few months Jail SEN
fences that he cannot keep track
of them. The reason he cannot
give figures is due to the fact that
the records do not make any dis
tinction between an innocent UNI
employed worker and an ordinary
criminal.
At present the police are raiding
the houses of workers and hustling
them off to the Identification bu-
reau. Militant workers are grabbed
on the street, rushed to Jail, mug
ged, finger printed and thrown out.
If they complain, they are told TRY
and get redress"
Some society dame named Sccle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-07
PROUD OF
POLICE THUGS

everything to keep them in power.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-07
BY GEORGE COOPER
(See Editorial on this Page)

(See Editorial on this Page)
NOW when the capitalist press is
IN full of attacks on the efficiency
of management of the Soviet fac
tories, and when it tries to con-
trast certain minor and passing
difficulties in the opening of the
more than doubled number of new
factories in the Soviet Union with
what is called Ford Efficiency" it
is worth while taking look at the
Ford plant itself to see how it
stands the strain of a capitalist
crisis.
When the Ford "high wages
and welfare myth is being culti-
waited in the capitalist press, it is
interesting to see just what those
wages are, while songs of pros
perity" and renewed production"
are being sung, it is worth while
to see whether there really is much
renewed production in that typical
American factory, the Ford plant.
8 DAYS A WEEK
The key to the Ford factory is
the foundry. The number of motor
blocks turned out there is an in
deX to the amount of production
of the entire plant in all factories.
All foundries, whenever possible,
are worked three shifts, for shut
ting a foundry down any part of
the day means rebuilding fires,
etc, sharply increasing production
costs. AS matter of fact, Ford
has run his whole factory hitherto
on a three shift basis. But today,
even the foundry is open only three
days a week, running only one
skeleton Shift
Tor three months no motor
blocks at all for the new four
cylinder car have been turned out,
which means a complete shut down
on the main basis Of Ford's bust
ness. The only work in the foundry
is on the "V8," which is what the
single skeleton shift is working on.
Other departments work at the
same rate. In the "B" building
die room only Is per cent of the
men who were working there in
June, when the plant was already
down to less than half capacity,
are still employed, three days
week. Five men out of 400 in the
crank shaft department, the same
three days. And so on, down the
line. There was complete shut
down from the middle of August
to the second week of September,
and the men expect the plant to
be shut down again within the next
few weeks. or
NOTHING IN SIGHT
Rumors circulate in Detroit, no
doubt spread by Ford's, that the
Shutdowns and the skeleton staff
means that Ford is getting ready
to change to a new model But
this is completely disproved BY the
fact that the die and tool men are
not working either; a new model
would mean new dies and tools.
So it is right in the middle of the
regular schedule that Fords is
practically shut down. Reliable
figures are that $4,000 men are
working three days a week, out of
the 10000 full-time men at capa-
city. This means the plant is
working at per cent of its
schedule.
But actual production, I am in
formed from an authentic source,
is even less. "The foundry is like
a madhouse" a foreman told me-
Superintendent and foremen run
around like chickens with their
heads cut off, the men are pushed
beyond their strength and break
down or revolt, quitting even
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-07
HOAN USES
PUBLIC FUNDS

"In the meantime, as the years
dragged on, Hoan loaned some of
this money to private company
in which he was interested. He
raised the fund i'm a business yer-
ture, moreover. he kept from the
city some $4,000 in principle and
interest due to the use of city
property and time of employees
when the sales were being made.
This accounting, long past due,
was not made until council i'm
vestigating committee had uncoy-
cred the facts"
1t will be noted here that the
mayor used this money for his own
company. The Socialist Mayor
Hoan is not only good leading
member of the Elks where he rubs
shoulders with the other bosses,
bankers, etc, but that he is one
of the owners of the American
Metal Products Company in Mil
waukee employing hundreds of
workers. Yes, and at CSC an hour.
Recently, a hsmb-shell was
thrown into the ranks of the social
list politicians in the miracle city"
when the examiners investigating
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-07
CUT DOWN PRISON FOOD
BUY MACHINE GUNS


The bosses shout Economy"
which means more wage-cuts, less
unemployed relief, and the social
lists see to 1t that this program is
carried out. For example, Sheriff
Benson recently boosted that he
saved $1,000 on the food bill for
the county Jail as compared with
his predecessors last three morl..l5
in office. How was the sheriff able
to do this? BY cutting down the
ration, by reduced quantity and
quality of food in the county Jail
given to the prisoners. Further
more, in the past, visitors were per-
mitted to bring food to the prison
ers. But, under ''riot-gun" Sheriff
Benson, this cannot be done, but
money can be turned over to the
office and of course the prices
charged to the prisoners are higher
than on the outside. What was
the $1,000 economy" used for?
To buy four more squad cars
equipped with machine guns for
the sheriff's office to put down the
unemployed or employed who may
struggle for the right to live.
The Milwaukee Journal recently
scolded the other capitalist poll
ticians for resisting the socialist
proposal for the merger of the city
and county governments.
GAS rule mergers are sound.
Consultations are necessary if gov
eminent is to be kept within bounds
and if it is to cost less money.
1.-THE socialist proposal to merge
bureaus is basically right. 1t is up
to non-partisan aldermen to coop
crate. 1t is up to them to help get
this sort of economy started in the
City Hall"
This praise of the bosses press
should convince the workers that
socialist leaders are the agents Of
the capitalist class. 1t is the So
cialist leadership that pushes the
drive against the living standards
0! the workers in Milwaukee, Coun-
ty, That Is why the bosses do
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-07

everything TO keep Cnem III power.
PROUD OF
POLICE THUGS
In their cry for the merger, the
Milwaukee Leader points out in
a series of articles that:
Merger would yield better pc.
lice services
The Milwaukee Leader" is very
proud of the guardians of the law,
of those who club workers at the
relief stations, who send them to
Jail for months. They say:
Milwaukee poll m are
schooled in all phases of public
work. They are instructed in a
school which was one of the first
to be established in the United
States, which ranks with the New
York city police school,"
In a small pond, the fish are
smaller-certainly smaller than the
fish in the ocean. In a small city,
the pickings are smaller. Have we
graft and gengsters in the miracle
city? Of course! Tammany May
or Walker tried to explain about
money he received from the carl
Gus, corporations as well as the
rake-offs given to him by taxicab
companies, etc. Only few weeks
ago, Mayor Hoan tried to explain
what he did with $1,000 profit from
he sale of war time fond shifts
and supplies. Hoan was going to
usher in the socialist millennium"
during the last war, and the mayor
went into the marketing business,
using the funds of the city govern.
ment. Thousands of dollars profits
were made. Everybody i'll Milwau-
kee. was wondering what happened
to these thousands of dollars of
profits?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-07
BY NJ. C. (ArticIe III

There is a standing ordinance on
all city jobs which provides that
the prevailing rate of wages which
must be paid-that is, union wages.
How do the socialist officials get
around this? They sign contracts
specifying that the union rate of
wages are to be paid. In reality,
there are secret agreements with
contractors where the workers are
forced to give wage rebates back
to the company. The recent case
was that of Joseph Lorenz, a con-
tractor on the Solomon Juneau
High School. Dozens of workers
testified, that, in the records, they
are supposed to be earning so much
an hour, but when pay day comes
around they are compelled to turn
back portion of their wages to
the contractor. Just how the con-
tractor splits up has not yet been
disclosed,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23

appealing TO the National Govern
ment for cooperation against the
common enemy - an appeal to
which the National Government
has declared its delighted response.
THE task of the mass struggle. In
the face of these tactics of capi-
ed font Of TIE Nalio-al. Govern
r,c7t eri the Ichour rartv. is to
STRENGTHEN the rants FIR this rev
STAGE of strurgle. to draw closer
tcrether the unem~lo~ed and en-.
ploved workers. on the basis of their
common aims, to build 10 the unit.
ed front from below on the basis Of
the unions and the factories, and
so develop the mass revolutionary
opposition, under the leadership Of
the Communist Party, strong
enough to counter and turn the
onslaught of the capitalist often
sive. The present movement, If it Is
to go forward, must drive right into
the heart Of the mass of the en-
ployed workers, Of the trGdc union
workers. OF tho Tiabour Perry work
crs. and draw Them into the COM
mon fight On these tasks, in par
ticular, the Twelfth Congress OF
the British Communist Party will
concentrate its work, at the same
time as 1t gives the lead for the
opsnlng period OF rising strusgla~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23
THE NEW SLAVERY

TO denounce reformfsm TO talk of
strike action, and even OF "revo-
luton, in order to maintain their
hold on the workers. These maneu-
vers, alongside their actual policy
Of strikebreaking and cooperation
with the National Government,
have not deceived the militant
workers. Lansbury and the Labour
Party leaders are finding them
selves rereetedlv bowed down e~d
refused hearing at mass meet
ings in their own former strong
holds in the East End Of London.
The ATTEMPT of the cleft" LIP.
leader, McGovern, to draw the un-
employed Hunger Marchers' agita-
ton into parliamentary channels
under his leadership was rejected
with scorn by the Hunger March
ers' Council, who recognize in the
Communist Party the sole work.
ers' party voicing and leading their
fight.
The Labolir Party leaders in
Parliament are now crawling on
their knees TO Macdonald TO assist
them against the Communists,
openly complaining that The gov
eminent concessions to the unem-
ployed mass demonstrations are
undermining the authority OF the
Iabotr Party and It's advocacy OF
peaceful methods and raising the
u6eStiCn c& The Communists. and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23

Il am separated from my sickly
wife and four little children. The
bosses have framed me up and
and my family must suffer for
them Dear Comrades Ii
you will not be supporting my
family they sure will be hungry,
II not dead. I am glad that I
belong to the I. L. ID. Also I
wish that all the workers be.
ionged to this organization be-
cause 1t fights for the workers"
His wife, Anna, the four children
struggle along waiting, waiting, for
Ieddy's release. He needs help.
They need help. Do not desert
them. Join the I. L. D.; support
the Prisoners Winter Relief cam
paign. Send ell contributions to
Room $50, 90 East nth ST. New
york. NJ r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23
Winter Relief for Jailed Miners
Wife and Children

-FOUR skinny children, one sickly
L woman, asking only to be al
lowed to live Such is the state of
Anna Jackowsld and her children
aged 4 to 16. No work for any of
them no one to help but the In
ternational Labor Defense, no one
TO help but YOU Teddy Jacksow-
ski. coal miner. husband and father,
mas bcen In prison for three years,
sentenced 10 from s TO 20 years on
a frame-1p charge Of bombing. AS
4 member of the United Mine
Workers Of America he had been
on strike for 20 months, With his
arrest his union official deserted
him. He writes from London Phi
son Farms, London, Ohio: PRISON
ers are only permitted to write on
the first end third Sundays Of sse
s-snthl. i.-.-A,=.,ss,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23
DECEPTIVE
LEFT" PHRASES

The ferment is reflected in the
trade unions and in the .Labour
Party. The trade union and Labour
bureaucracy are compelled to ma
neuver, to make a show of moves
to the left, in order to maintain
their hold. Aged Labour Party
Councillors begin to humble forth
slogans Of Revolution, Not Re-
FORM. mo More Reformism", 1.-THE
End Of Gradualism", etc. The
chairman Of tho Newcastle Trades
Union Congress in September
(freshly arrived back from taking
part in the National Governments
delegation to the Ottawa Imperial
Conference) proclaims that "the
capitalist system" cannot be
patched, and calls for its "final
destruction" Tho chairman of the
Labour Party, Lansbury, sets forth
the aim mot to reform, but to rev.
olutioni1e the capitalist system";
and henderson, who critictges this,
hes difficulty In receiving hear
lag q thu Iahpp Party Ccnxerznca
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23
INSTALMEN'T 20

THE STORY David Jackson Negro lad Of
the
supposed TO
paying plantation actually where Negroes
they
test Dad father enisng the aid of the white pans
the next county hen
hreng and forced to tu
back the courthouse declares he is taking David the
the
Nichols tries the boy he Deer"
JscksonS
Now
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23
Song to the
Soldier.>
BY ROSE PASTOR STOKES.

Workers in uniform
Farmers in uniform
We are your fathersl
Your fathers, your brothers.
Say will you aim at us?--
Shoot at the hungry?
Shoot at Jne maSs2
Workers In Uniform
Farmers In uniform
Come!
To your class!
Workers In uniform
Farmers In uniform
We are your 5istersl
Your sisters, your mothers.
Turn to your officers
We will not shatter
Bone of our bone"
Workers m xniforut--
psyrners IN uniform
p COHse, ~,
81 ~ yyEs oval 4 49,. .A4
- ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23
BY r. PAINE DUTT

LONDON (by maiD On Novem-
L. Der IL, the Twelfth Congress of
the British Communist Party
meets.
The Communist Congress meets
in the midst Of rising mass strug-
giles unequalled since the General
Strike and of a type and intesity
new in British working class his
tory.
Alarm signals in the capitalist
camp as to the seriousness of the
situation are sounding with in
creasing frequency. The rising cri-
sis, the still continuing fall in trade
and production, the growing inter-
national complications, the rising
social struggles in Britain and CO.
lonial struggles in Ireland and In
dia-all these are filling the Ma
tional Government and the ruling
class with doubts as to the whole
future outlook, and driving them to
more violent and reckless policies,
both OF intensified repression and
attacks against the workers, and
of active preparation for war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23
MASS TEXTILE
STRIKE

The Lancashire textile strike Of
100000 weayers from the end of
August to the end Of September
was the powerful demonstration Of
this. The significance of this con-
flict was not only that Of strike
forced through from below in the
face Of the intense resistance of
the union officials, in the face of
widespread unemployment and fear
Of victimization, and In the face of
all the capitalism plus union propa-
ganda of the bankruptcy of the
cotton industry and "hopeIessness"
OF struggle. The significance lay
above all in the new element Of
mass-initiative and mass-activity
which characterized the strike, in
the militant activity Of the mass
pickets which, in defiance of the
Conservative Governments Trade
Union Act, closed mill after mill,
overpowering in many regions the
police forces sent against them,
and establishing what the Lanca-
shire employers and local press
were pleased to call "mob-rule".
Such development in the tradi-
tionally ''liberal-labour' Ianca-
shire, the former stronghold of
CHESAPEAKE, where Communist in
fluence had previously hardly
reached, is a measure Of the pro-
cess that is taking place throughout
the working class.
Through every industry, in all
trade union conferences, the same
rising activity Is visible. The i'm
mediate struggles are still defensive
in face Of the continuing and inten-
sified capitalist attacks. But be-
meath the defensive form is already
visible the beginning of a new Of
fensive spirit of refusal any longer
to accept inevitably and llopelessly
the results of the crisis of direct
challenge to the whole capitalist
crisis.