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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-16
TEL MISLEADERS EXPOSED IN WARREN, OHIO

face of an upsurge of the mass of
workers against their starvation
policy, could not control decisively
even the A. A. membership.
The company and the A. A. off
cials in the face of the strike were
forced to make a public announce
ment rcpudiating the wage cut. But
this alone was not sufficient The
waning prestige Of the A. A. official
dom and the rising sense of solidarity
among the workers of the Trumbull
plant is shown by the fact that fol-
lowing the public reputation Of the
wage cut over the signature of the
officers of Trumbull Lodge No. 70 of
the A. A. the company officials. Bust
ness Agent Gracier of Local Union
70, Edward Miller. vice-president of
the A. A. and other A. A. leaders,
had to carry on house to house
campaign with the aid Of the police
during 36-hour period in order to
get enough workers to operate the
mill. Demagogy in regard to the
great sacrifice made by the company
in Withdrawing the wage cut, and
threats of the blacklist and eviction
had to be combined in order to
weaken the resistance Of the workers
With the main issue-that of the
wage cut-taken aut Of the situation
by the retreat of the company and
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In the Warren strike the A. A. Of
fieials openly aided the company Of
ficials in recruiting strikebreakers.
They worked openly to fill the places
not only of members of the A. A.
who stopped work, but Of their own
members-with non union men.
In the Warren strike, therefore, the
A. A. officials not only did their
utmost to break the strike in the
Trumbull plant but took another de-
cisive step in the direct betrayal of
the interests of their own members
in FolIansbee, West Virginia.
A knowledge of these facts in the
part of A. A. members, brought
sharply into the foreground by the
strike struggle, as stated above, shook
severely the grip Of the A. A. Off
Gals upon their membership and the
workers generally. Many A. A. mem
bers with whom the Rank and File
Strike Committee and the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union had
no direct contact, did not report for
work. Most of them did not come to
the strike headquarters but their re-
fusal to act as strikebreakers, eau
tious and confused as it was, con-
tributed greatly to Gripping hot mill
production.
The company learned for the first
time that the A. A. officials in the
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rem revealed very clearly to workers
the role of the A. A. officials as part
of the wage cutting and strikebreak-
ing machinery of the Republic Steel
Company. 1t also revealed the great
inner weakness of the A. A. which
result from the growing dissatisfac-
ton of its membership with its
purely company policy and the rising
level Of consciousness among the
masses Of workers due to the in
creasing pressure of the crisis and
the agitation and propaganda Of the
Party organizations and the militant
unions.
The strike in Warren brought for
ward sharply both before the mem
bers of the A. A. and the masses Of
workers, a fact which in peace
time" was showed into the back
ground t. e., that the Trumbull plant
was working largely on orders trans
ferred from the Follansbee plant of
the same company where Amalgamat-
ed members having protested a wage
cut are either locked out or on strike.
whether lockout or strike is not
clearly established but the mill is
closed because Of "labor trouble" and
its orders have been transferred, with
the consent of A. A. officials, to Re-
public plants in Warren, Canton,
| youngstown, etc.
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ers, employed and unemployed, Negro
and white workers, native born and
foreign born, and members of the
S. M. w. 7. U.-and their prestige
had suffered greatly.
The acute nature Of the prob
lens created for these company
agents in the ranks of the work
ers can be gagged by the news
story published in the tribune Chro-
nicle Of Warren which relates in
guarded language the fact that Pre-
sident Tighe Of the A. A. had to be
summoned hurriedly to Warren where
he addressed a gathering of some
600 A. A. members, foremen, SUI
perintendents and "key men," Ac-
cording to this local sheet Tigile
stated that "the contract with the
Republic Steel Company win be lived
mp to regardless Of the consequence to
our organization"
A standing vote was taken, ac-
cording to the Tribune Chronicle, in
which all present pledged their loyalty
to the sliding scale contract.
Communists, outside agitstors"
and "cowardly disturbers" were be-
rated with great gusto by the A. A.
speakers at this meeting and in the
local press during and after the
strike. But the necessity for taking
such extraordinary measures as a
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an exception. The machine building
industry for instance with 10 per
cent, the chemical industr with 20
per cent, and the cement industry
with "a per cent. This insufficient
development of the productivity of
labor is due again to the inadequate
and in part incorrect utilization of
the up-to-date means of production,
as evidenced by the excessive damage
done to complicated machinery.
Difficulties Can Be Overcome
1t will be admitted that these
causes are of a serious nature, and
that it Is hindrance that precisely
s''ch impn~tant branches of industry
should fail to come up to schedule,
but the difficulties are not unsur-
mountable. The measures taken by
the Soviet Government to overcome
them are already being put into prac-
tice. Among these measures Is the
regulation that only such workers are
permitted to work with complicated
machinery as can prove that they
have been adequate training, besides
this the provision of educational OPP
portunities for the accelerated train
ing Of skilled workers, and the wages
policy stimulating the workers to in
crease their qualifications. Other
measures consist of the steps taken
to improve the conditions Of housing
and food supplies IN the coal districts
and In the centers Of the iron smelt-
ing industry.
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of it's years of betrayal, by the mere
fact of it's existence, represents to
large extent what trade union tradl-
tons there are in the industry. This
same phenomenon is to be observed
in the metal mining industry where
the few local unions of the mine,
mill and smelterment (notably the
hosting engineers) have an influence
entirely out of proposition to their
membership, or their Importance in
the industry, and in spite of the
fact that for years they have be-
trayed the militant traditions CT the
old Western Federation of Miners
which they succeeded.
The facts that the members Of the
A. A. are in a decisive position in the
hot mill department of the tin sec
ton of the industry and that for the
most part they are native born Am
erican workers, strengthens the posi-
ton of the official machine. For
these reasons it must be stated that
no successful struggle can be carried
through by the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union and united
front organizations led by it without
skillful and systematical exposure,
and determined struggle, leading to
the defeat of A. A. officialdom.
The basis for such exposure and
defeat exists. The struggle in War
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standing vote Of loyalty to the wage
cutting contract, forced upon A. A.
members in the presence Of COM
pany officials with discharge as the
penalty for opposing or abstaining,
is proof that the control Of the A. A.
officials upon their own membership
has been weakened greatly by the
contrast shown in struggle between
the militant and resolute tactics Of
the S. M. w. I. U. and the strike
breaking role of the A. A. officials.
The leadership of the S. M w. l. o.
in Warren can carry the exposure
and weakening Of the A. A. official
dom still further by sending a del
egation to the Follansbee workers and
proposing a united front Of all Re-
public steel workers against the
wage cut, stagger system and speed
up, in support Of the Follansbee
workers, and for a broad fighting
front Of all Republic steel workers in
euppcrt Of a program based on the
immediate needs Of the workers, to
be worked out by representative
elected rank and fila committees.
This is a measure which there
should be no delay in carrying
through and which will serve to over
come some Of the weakness in the
united front in preparing and con-
Quoting the Warren strike.
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TRY TO DEPRIVE
iWTSC. J0BL4ESS
OF THEIR VOTE
General Policy Of the
Republican Party;
Communists Protest

MADISON, Wis, Sept. 15.-Assist-
ant Attorney General Samuel Bryan
Of this Progressive Republican" adj
ministration has ruled in an opinion
given the attorney general of Cooper
County that those getting any public
unemployment relief are barred from
voting in this election. If this deci-
sion stands, tens of thousands of job
less workers will be deprived of their
right to vote.
This decision follows in line with
the announcement at the time the
Maine Republican state government
cut off the voting list the jobless get
ting any relief. 1t was then stated
indirectly through the Republican
national committee that those on re-
lief lists would lose their vote wher-
ever the Republicans could manage
to cut them off. 1t is recognized that
most of the 100000 unemployed
victims of Hoover Prosperity" prob
ably will not vote for Hoover.
Communist Demands Vote.
The Communist candidate for gov
ernor of Wisconsin, John Bassett
Blair is touring the state now, calling
for mass protest against taking the
vote away from the jobless. The Com
munist Party demands the right of
the jobless to get relief, to get un-
employment insurance, and also to
vote.
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U.S.S.R. Production Increases As
Capitalist Output Goes Doavn

The final figures showing the de-
velopment Of the socialist industry of
the Soviet Union in the first six
months Of the current year are now
available. AS was to be expected
these figures show steady growth
of production in the country of So
cialism, whilst in the capitalist coun-
tries production declines with equal
steadiness.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-16
Workers Forced to
Buy Real Estate to
Get Jobs at Ford's
lBy .Worker Correspondentl

Wy q wv OOAASSPOAhN~Ah1
DETROIT, Mich.-The Ford Motor
Co., when it called many workers
back some time ago, later took away
their badges, in other words, fired
them. Now here is what is hap
pening:
The Frischkorn Real Estate Co. Of
Detroit, that is, the agents of this
company, are going around and sell
ing lots. promising those who buy
them, jobs at Ford's. Some of these
agents charge the worker SIS as de-
post on lot, and after he gets a
job at Ford's, he pays So per month
and an additional sum of $35 to the
agent of the company.
The rumors are that Edsel Ford
owns bonds of this company, and
in this way the company sells lots,
offering jobs to those who buy with
the consent of the Ford CO. On the
other hand, some tens of thousands
Of workers are fired.
At the Ternstedt Manufacturing
Co., part of General Motors, the pay
of the machine-setters was cut to
80 cents per hour. This factory pro-
duces small parts and is being pre-
pared for production, which will start
about the sixth of October. This is
true. They will only work at the
most about three months.
Normally there are working about
5000 to 1000 workers, a large ma
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-16
But Soviet Regard In
crease AS Not
Satisfactory

for the demands of the whole ma
tional economy. To this must be
added that in the course of the first
six months there has been a ten
dency towards falling off in this
average daily output. Between jan
uary and July it declined from 1885,
O00tons to 172,200 tons. In the iron
smelling industry the output Of pig
iron increased by 276 per cent, but
the output of rolling mill products
by only 127 per cent and the pro-
duction of steel by only IL. per cent.
The iron and steel works to have
been opened this year have only been
set working in part. Only four of
the 20 Martin furnaces planned have
been set going, and none of the new
rolling mill plants.
Causes Of insufficient Insurance
This failure to keep up to schedule
in the industrial development Of the
first half year is due chiefly to the
inadequate increase In the production
Of labor, which has only amounted
to 11.6 per cent for the whole Of the
industries. Only few branches form
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the A. A. officials, the Rank and File
Strike Committee and the steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union
acted correctly in ending the strike
as soon as it was physically possible
to call the necessary meetings, have
the decisions endorsed and acquaint
the workers with them.
The main objective had been won.
The defeat Of the wage cut for the
time being 1.-THE company will try
TO put il over again and as soon as
it feels itself in a strong positiOn)
was carried through therefore against
the determined opposition of the
company, the city and county auth
orities-clubbings firing upon pickets
by company gunner and deputy
sheriffs, arrests of most Of the strike
leaders, etc.
The A A. officials, on the day fol-
lowing the ending Of the strike, found
themselves in a peculiar position
Nominally, they had fulfilled their
function as the guardians of the in
terests of Republic Steel as against
their own members and the mass OF
workers.
But the wage cutting provision Of
the A. A. sliding scale contract had
been nullified by the militant action
of the workers-rank and file men,
| bers Of the A. A. unorganized work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-16
Part III
BY BILL II UNNE

The Warren strike showed that in
the officialdom of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers, in its official machinery in
the mill and the central labor bodies
Of the American Federation of Labor
throughout the area dominated by
the Republic Steel Company, the
company has an instrument whose
use in demoralizing and btraying the
fight against wage cuts, unemploy-
ment and the stagger system is dan
gerous and effective.
This is in spite Of the fact that
the total membership of the AA is
not more than 1000 to 5000. The
capacity for damage to the rising
struggles of the steel workers lies
principally in the fact that the
A. A. officialdom. and the more
favored section of the hot mill work
ers which constitutes its base, are
closely connected, not only with the
officialdom of the Republic COM
pany, but with city, county and state
government.
AS is not uncommon in an indus
try where the great mass of workers
Is unorganized. The A. A., in spite
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-16

A man in Hammond by the name
of Petit recently came to the IN
employed Council and told how the
Juvenile officer with the police ma
iron and two policemen, had come to
his house one day and put him under
arrest, telling hin they were going
to take him to Grown Point. He
dressed his four children and went.
They took him part way to Illinois
and put them into various children's
detention homes. This act constitutes
kidnapping and is against the rights
of any citizen.
Not being satisfied with such per-
secution, they followed it up by try
ing to evict him from his home. This
has been prevented, however, by his
neighbors in the Unemployed Coun-
Gil.
Recently they arrested him again
on a charge of child neglect Ga
trumped up CHARGE and took him to
Crown Point and put him in Jail.
This was done to establish some eX-
cuse for having Illegally removed
these children from one state to an
other. He was not released until
threats were made against him that
if he asked for relief in the next 80
days he would be arrested again.
However, these thugs should be no.
titled that he will have a working
class defense, and it will not be so
easy to hush the matter UP behind
closed doors. The workers of Ham,
mond must fight the baby snatchers
now in office. Il. j.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-16
SCOTTSBORO BOY
in DEATH HOUSE
Williams Remains De-
spite Ruling

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. 49,
Eugene Williams, 13-year-old Scots
boro boy whose conviction and death
sentence was reversed last March by
the Alabama Supreme Court as a
result Of mass pressure of workers all
over the world, still remains in the
death house.
The vicious special persecution
which the Scottsboro boys are being
subjected to by the white ruling class
in the South is again revealed by the
refusal of the prison authorities to
remove Williams from the death
house despite the reversal of the SEN
tence, and despite the announcement
by the Solicitor General Of Alabama
that he had no objections to the re-
lease of the Scottsboro boy from the
death chamber. The Solicitor Gen.
eral himself had removed his objec-
tons only under the pressure of the
workers, led by the International La
Dor Defense.
Only continued mass protest will
win the demand that Williams be
Removed from the death house.
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was appointed by the japanese sew
eral months ago as Premier Of Man
ehoukuo.
Secret Military Provisions.
Under the terms of the treaty, ia
pan undertakes 'the internal and
external defense" Of the puppet Man
choukuo government. In addition,
the treaty is supplemented by Sc
cret military convention which, it is
generally believed, is aimed against
the Soviet Union.
In Midst of Insurgent Advance.
The treaty was signed in Chang
chun, capital of the puppet state,
under the watchful eye of the Jap
anese Army which took elaborate
precautions to prevent hostile dem
cnstrations in the city. The treaty
was signed in the midst Of tremen-
dous upsurge of the anti-Japanese
national revolutionary war in Man
churia. At the very moment of its
signing, large forces of volunteer and
partisan troops were advancing to
attack the Japanese garrison and the
puppet government in Changchun.
The insurgents we're also advancing
in great strength against Mukden,
Hardin and other cities still under
japanese control. In both North and
South Manchuria, the Japanese have
been driven cut of many cities and
towns. The entire railway system has
been thrown into chaos by the daring
raids of the partisans and volunteers.
Contrary to the usual custom, the
Japanese government will not regis
ter the treaty with the League of Ma
tons nor officially deliver text of it
to the foreign ambassadors.
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SURVEY OF INDUSTRY
SHOWS NO GAIN COMING;
STOCKS ARE NO GUIDE
Market Fluctuations Manipulated On Weak
Basis of prosperity" Rallyhoo
Talk About Depression Ending Soon Is Meant
To Fool Workers Into Not Fighting Cuts

Chemicals: 1t is unlikely that early
future sales gains will be of substan-
tial proportions. CEarly furture sales
Of chemicals are expected to register
some gains, although Of no substan-
tial proportions, in view of the war
developments in the Far East, Edi-
tori
Electric Equipment: Public pur-
chasing power must be substantially
increased before consumption of do
nestle appliances and lighter goods
can be re-established at a wholly
satisfactory level.
Coal: Anthracite production for the
full year undoubtedly will fail by
sizeable total to equel even the small
output for 1881.
Metal Containers: Sharp declines
are indicated in practically every
canning pack this season, with the
important corn crop expected to show
recession Of nearly 60 per cent.
Radio: The radio trade continues
to make only slow progress against
such obstacles as excessive plant ca
pacity, price weakness and sharply
curtailed demand for the more pro-
fltable lines.
Shipping: Extremely low levels Of
operation continue to characterize all
phases of domestic and foreign ship
ping activity.
Steel: Obviously, large arrearages
are accommodating in leading consum-
ing outlets, but as yet there is little
sign of an early sustained increase
in demand.
Tobacco: Declines in cigarette con-
sumption, as compared with last
years. totals, has shown compare
lively little variation during the last
two months, an IL percent contrac-
ton in July having followed an 8
per cent recession inJune.
Utilities Although there has as yet
been no definite recovery in electric
power production, the trend has been
relatively stable through the sum-
mer months. Manufactured gas sales
have been affected to a relatively
small extent by depression. With
drawals Of telephone instruments
continued their increase through
July, more than 100000 stations
having been disconnected in the first
seven months Of the year
-(New York Herald Tribune, Sept.
| 4, 1882.
In spite of the tremendous ballyhoo
about the pick up in textile mills, the
Herald Tribune September 4. 1882
shows the real situation when it says:
at is estimated that if all retail
stocks were replenished to figure
even near normal this buying alone
would run the textile mills Of the
country at their present accelerated
pace for at least one month"
In other words one months eni-
lpIoyment is held out as possibility
for replenishing the stocks of textile
mills This is quoted from The Tex
tile Organ, published by the Tubize
Chatillon Corp.
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900 YOUNG SOCIALISTS JOIN
JOIN GERMAN Vel

BERLIN.-At a meeting of the
Young Socialist League in Hamburg
five districts with 600 members left
the organization and went over to
the Young Communist League en-
masse.
Among the young workers who
Joined the Young Communist League
are several high officials of the Young
Socialist organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-16
Ia COMMUNISTS EXECUTED IN
CHINCHOW

ANGHAI.-Kuomin, the SEMI
official agency of the Marking Cow
eminent reports that fourteen COM
murists have been executed in Chin
chow (Shantung).
They were charged With conspirfng
against the Marking. Government.
Thirteen others are awaiting trial and
are liable to suffer the same fate.
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International
Notes
HUNGARIAN RED ARMY MEN
ON TRIAL

BUDAPEST thirty-eight year
old mechanic named Voeroes was
arrested by the police and will be
trial in the Szolnok Court for muir
der.
Voeroes was a Sergeant Major in
the Hungarian Army during the war
and after the war he sided with the
second Proletarian revolution which
set the Hungarian Soviet Republic.
AS a member of the Red Army he
is accused of having shot and killed
a peasant.