The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-19
COMMUNISTS In
CALL TO STRIKE
AGAINST PAY CUTS
Build Anti-Wage Cut
Committees in Every
Brotherhood Lodge

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. Is.
THE highest possible wages that
the industry can afford to pay" was
Roosevelt's only comment on the 20
par cent wage cut facing the 100000
rrilroad workers. This follows on
the heels of the repeated statements
OF the Rail Road magnates that
they must have the cut because they
can't afford to pay the present wages"
Roosevelt made this statement in
the course of a lengthy speech here
! Saturday night devoted almost en-
tirely to schemes to rivet finance
capital tighter in control of the
roads, to raise the cost of living by
raising fares and rates, and to loot
the national treasury Of more mil
lions for the roads.
To Put Official Stamp on Cut
| Monday and Tuesday the Inter
state Commerce Commission will
meet to put the official stamp on
the roads false insistence that they
can't pay the present wages. An
I nouncements of the 20 per cent cut
are being mailed tomorrow to the
| Railroad Brotherhoods by the COM
panieS.
No Help from Brotherhood Chiefs.
! The proposed rail wage cut is part
Of Hoover's wage cutting campaign.
/ Rooseyelt's railroad speech in Salt
Lake City shows that the railroad
workers need expect only wage cuts
! from him.
The Railroad Brotherhoods and A.
F. of L. unions on the roads do
nothing to stop the wage cut They
accepted ten per cent last Febru-
airy, without even consulting the
railroad workers.
Fight This Cut.
Only the Communist Party, Of all
political parties, as shown by the call
Of its Presidential candidate. Will
liam T. Foster, in his Binghampton
speech and in special statements in
the press, calls fer struggle against
this wage cut. The Communist
Party urges railroad workers to form
rank and file committees of action
! against wage cuts in every brother
hood lodge and every union local TO
prepare for strike against the cut
and to vote Communist in protest
against this cut which has the ap-
proval o. both Roosevelt and Hoover.
Roads Have Money.
Not once did Roosevelt point TO the
100000 a year salaries of the railroad
executives as proof that they can pay
wages. Instead he tried to rouse
sympathy for the Rail Roads by COW
ering up the fact that they are con-
trolled by super trusts and by claim
ing that their stocks and bonds were
divided among the workers and pro-
fessional classes, teachers, etc, which
is true only to a very limited extent.
Roosevelt's six points are summar-
lied by the capitalist press as fol-
lows:
First, announcement by the govern
ment of its intent to stand back Of
the railroads on condition Of the
readjustment of top-heavy finan-
cial structures through the scaling
down of fixed charges.
Second, an overhauling of the fed
eral laws affecting railroad receiy-
erShips, to prevent prolonged liti-
CATION and great expense by pay
ments to lawyers, receivers and
committees.
Third, regulation by the Interstate
Commerce Commission of compet-
ing motor trucks and buses.
Fourth. abandonment of enforced
competition between railroads and
encouragement of the elimination
of non-paying mileage.
Fifth, consolidation of railroads in
the public interest.
Sixth, the placing of So-called rail-
road holding companies definitely
under the control of the Interstate
Commerce Commission"
(The real meaning of these poll
cies, point by point. is indicated in
another column of this issue of the
Daily Worker-Editor)
A little later in his speech, Roose-
welt brought out in matter of "a
words, his policy for a wage cut, part
Of which is printed at the beginning
Of this article.
To this he added another indica-
ton that he would raise rates (which
means raising the cost of living) and
increased naturalization (Which
means more unemployed. added to
the 100000 railroad workers now job
less) Roosevelt said:
I'VE must pay the fair cost of
transportation the constant i'm
provement in the economy and eff
cheney of transportation is matter