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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
5000, OOOW orkers Forced Into
Company Unions Thru NRA
Strikebreaking of AFL Chiefs
Figures Compiled by Pen and Hammer Show
Co. Unions Grew Faster Than AFL Last Year

NEW YORK. -Tremendous growth
of company unions under the MIRA.
is shown in a survey just completed
by the Shock Workers Committee Of
the Pen and Hammer of New York
City. Although the last official sur
vey Of company unions by the en-
ployers research agency, National IN
dustrial Conference Board, showed
only 313 different employee repre-
sentation" plans in force in this coun-
try in 1882, the Pen and Hammer
survey finds at least twice that num-
ber-625. Nor is this list by any
means complete.
According to the survey, nearly o.
100000 workers are covered by these
plans as against total of 1908, 900
found last year by the MOB. in
its study called collective Bargain
ing Through Employee Representa-
ton" The N.R.A. and related events
have thus apparently increased COW
erage of company union schemes by
almost 800 per cent.
The growth of the company union
system has perhaps been most wide
spread in the steel mills where, &C
cording to the Iron Age (trade paper
some IS per cent Of the industry is
covered by this employers conception
Of collective bargaining" At least
so per cent of the auto industry In
Detroit is estimated by Wall Street
Journal as company unionized. AS
indicated in the NI.C.B. report, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Is Alabama Negro
Choppers Beaten by
Landlord, Jailed
Accused of Stealing
Supplies Mislaid
By Land-O Owner

OPELIKA, Ala, Dec. 21.-Sixteen
Negro share-croppers of this region
are in jail on framed charge Of
stealing cotton and seed, after suffer-
ing merciless beating by their land
lord.
The landlord accused 20 Negroes of
stealing his supplies, which were later
found just where he had put them.
He approached each Of the 20 Ne
groes separately, handcuffed them,
chained their feet, and took them
into the woods. There he beat them
numerically with a length of hose,
so that their clothes stuck to bloody
wounds.
One Negro who did not stop
screaming under the blows, after he
had been ordered to keep silence, was
shot through the arm.
Four of the victims were then re-
leased, and 16 have been held under
bonds Of $1,000 each. The trials are
set for May.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Cripple Breaks Crutch
S cling Laces; Tries
Charities for Another

SCRANTON. pam old crippled
worker, compelled to sell shoe Iaces
and needles because he Is refused
relief, broke one of his crutches re-
Gently.
He went to the Community Chest
Headquarters. asking for aid. and he
was told they could do nothing for
him. He went to the Red Cross, and
when he told them he was not an
ex-serviceman, they refused him any
assistance. He went to the County
welfare Board and told them he
must have another crutch because
he can't get out into the street to
sell his shoelaces without one. They
were sorry, but nothing could be done
for him.
He saw a crutch in the window Of
the Salvation Army. He went in to
ask for it. But the crutch was for
sale. He was given instead, piece
OF broomstick.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
First Steel Union
Convention is Held
In Cleveland Dist.
Adopt Intensive Plan
for Organization In
Metal Plants

CLEVELAND, Ohio.--The first DIS
trict Convention Of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union ad-
iourned late Sunday evening at the
Lithuanian Hall, 920 East 10Th st +.
after electing q District Board Of
nine members and two alternates. The
Board is composed of five city res
idents of Cleveland with the other
four members elected from MassilIon
Canton, Erie and Lorain. Franz
Rogers, Cleveland union organizer
was unanimously elected as District
secretary Of the union.
The convention adopted plan for
an intensive organizational drive TO
ufionize the steel and metal plants
in the Great Lakes territory. Thirty
thousand circulars will soon be re-
leased for this purpose and recruiting
offices established at Lorain, Canton,
Massillon and Erie, with Cleveland
as the District headquarters, at 1887
Payne Ave. The industrial union has
made great progress in the last year
replacing the ll-fitted craft union Or
ganization Of the Amalgamated As
ISOLATION and the Metal Trades Coun-
Gil in the steel and metal industry.
Patrick Cush, National President Of
the union, from Pittsburgh, Pa, rep
resented the National Board, and ex-
tended greetings to the convention.
He announced that the tentative date
of the National Convention of the
Union has been set for the latter part
Of February.
A referendum as TO where to hold
the convention shows strong de-
demand that Ambridge, Pa, scene OF
the most serious steel strike riot in
recent years and where the union has
been outlawed, as the place to hold
the convention to challenge the au-
thorities and steel trust on the right
to meet, organize, and strike without
interference.
The following resolutions we're also
unanimously adopted: Condemning
the Hitler government and demanding
freedom for the Reichstag trial de-
PENDANTS, Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff
and Taneff; condemning lynchines
and demanding death penalty for
lynchers. Resolution also demands re-
lease Of Tom Mooney, Honorary
Chairman OF the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union, and the
freedom of the scottsboro boys; con-
denning the five arrests at the Ar
row Manufacturing Company strike
at 1918 Fairfield and immediate re-
lease Of the defendants whose trial
comes up on Jan. 3.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Is Delegates Plan
Fight Against MA
and State Taxes
Grand Rapids M e e t
Endorses Jobless
Insurance


GRAND RAPIDS Mlch.-sevehty-
elsht oeiegates, OF 10 organizations,
meeting mere SATURDAY Dec 10, at
tne Kent county conference Ior he
lei ana Unemployment insurance de-
cloed 10 launch a determined struggle
against the program OF the MA,
against the sIate safes ana heao taxes
ana Tor immediate reileI ana unem-
ployment insurance.
Two delegates were elected TO the
National Convention Against Unem-
ployment, to be held in Washington,
Jan. 10. The delegates elected were
Debyle of the Auto Workers Union
and Sullivan of the Workingmen'
Association, and unemployed organ
ization in Grand Rapids. Both were
leaders in the Hayes Body strike and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
La. Court Retreats
in Segregation Case

GRETNA, La, Dec. 21.-The case
Of Mrs. CASTOR Rardenabe, a Negro
woman charged with creating dis
turbance" as result Of attempts TO
force her and her husband to move
out of house they own on a street
otherwise exclusively occupied by
white families, was continued to Feb.
8, when the courtroom was crowded
to overlooking with white and Negro
workers protesting against the at
tempt to segregate Negroes in this
town.
The Judge was reading copy OF
the leaflet issued by the local branch
Of the International Labor Defense
when the court opened. When he saw
the crowded courtroom, he adjourned
the case and dismissed the court.
Mrs. Bardenabe occupied house
next to the one owned by Mayor
Strahle. Mrs. Strahle. who had pre-
viously tried to frame her Negro
neighbor on charges OF creating a
disturbance on a bus, was the chief
complaining witness.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Milwaukee Union
Of CWE EAA Employees
Answers Attacks
C.W.A. Asks Interven-
ton by Govt. to
Smash Union

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Dec. al
Dragging red herring across the
path, the Civil Works Administra-
ton in this city is trying to prevent
C. w. A. workers from organizing for
better conditions. Activity of organ
izers of the Relief and Civil Work
ers' Protective Union is being inves-
tigated with the idea Of having the
o. S. government intervene against
them. NEWSPAPERS have attacked the
union as a racketeering organization,
carrying screaming headlines about
'tracketeers' and "gangsters" trying
to ''cut in" on the civil works projects.
'"Ihis is an old story" declares a
1eaflet issued by the union In refuta-
ton of the SANDER. Whenever
workers try to organize, the bosses
and their puppet press try to label it
as a racket. The story Of the capt.
talist newspapers about the union
taking money for so-called "protec-
ton is a brazen lie.
"Al G. w. A. workers know that
the union charges no money for in
itiation and that dues are but a few
pennies month for leaflets and
other organizational activities. There
are no paid organizers in the union
the workers on the jobs are the
organizers"
1.-THE Relief and Civil Workers
Protective Union knows that these
jobs are only temporary. Unless we
organize now, they will tell us tc
starve and refuse us relief when the
jobs are finished. The union asks
all men to organize on the job. That
is the only way to safeguard the
rights of c, w. A. workers and to
win better conditions"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Steel Union Calls
Buffalo Conference
to Plan Struggles
All Steel Workers Are
Invited to Send
Delegates

BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec 21.-A dis
trict conference Of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union viii
be held here at Carpenters Hall, ATS
Franklin ST., on Jan. 9th at 10 am.
Through this conference the union
will prepare for the National Con-
vention. There are eight function
ing locals of the union in the Buff
falo and jamestown District. depart
ment groups in the Republic Steel
and in Bethlehem, as well as organ
ization in the American Radiator and
other smaller shops.
Besides preparing for the conyen-
ton, the conference will deal with
plans for consolidating the union and
recruiting new members, as well as
preparing for new struggles. One Of
the main features of the conference
will be the unity Of unemployed and
employed, and fight against the
N. r. A.
The Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union started its spring
campaign in the Buffalo District in
very weak condition. The first
struggles took place in the North
Buffalo Hardware Foundry and in
the Jamestown plants of the Metal
Disc and Art Metal Co.
Following these came the strikes in
the Acme Steel, Atlas, the Wickwire-
Spencer Steel, Pratt & Letchworth,
and finally in the Donier works of
the Republic Steel Corp. In spite Of
the onslaught on the steel trust, with
its army Of rats, stool-pigeons and
armed thugs, the union was able to
retain its position in Buffalo as the
only fighting union in the steel and
metal industry. The A. F. OF l..
Amalgamated Association did not
make single step towards leading a
strike to better the conditions Of the
steel and metal workers.
Delegates from independent unions
and groups in the A.. F. Of L. are
urged to come to the conference. All
delegates should get in touch with
the union headquarters at Room
14-161z West Huron St., Buffalo, New
York,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
ESQ Miners Protest
Stopping of USSR
Anniversary Meet
Jam Staun to n, ILL.,,
Labor Temple; 2
Are Arrested

STAUNTON, Ill.--Two hundred
and fifty miners and miners wives
jammed the Labor Temple Hall here
Saturday night in a stormy protest
against the Macoupin County ban on
q meeting to celebrate the 10Th ami
versary of the U S. s. r.
The meeting was sponsored by the
International Labor Defense and the
American Civil Liberties Union.
Sheriff Frank Fries, woman slugger,
and his deputies finally broke up the
meeting, but not until all the Sched-
uled speakers had finished.
Two speakers, George Smerkin,
former national secretary Of the
Young Peoples Socialist League, now
organizer for the Young Communist
League. and Tom McKenna, secre-
tary Of the Chicago Civil Liberties
Committee, were arrested with three
others when they called on the work
ers to organize an even stronger pro-
test against police terror.
They were taken to the Carlinville
jail and held incommunlcado Tor SO
hours until the protests Of the miners
gained their release without charge.
When Frank Korbelik, 26-year-old
cripple from Mount Olive, refused to
leave the hall Chief Deputy Ain
Henry slugged him and knocked out
one Of his teeth. Irving Spencer, /,
L. d. attorney from st. Louis, who
spoke at the meeting, was kidnapped
and then released on lonely road
miles from town by slugs acting for
the reactionary leadership of the P,
M. A, which is resorting to open
terror in its attempts to suppress the
rising resentment of the miners
against the sell-out tactics Of the
Dowell- Pearcy -Keck machine. Chief
Deputy Henry admitted openly to
Smerkin that he is working 100 per
cent with the P. M. A. leadership in
his terror drive against the left wing
movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
First Convention of
Lumber Union Held
in Seattle, Wash.

SEATTLE, Wash.-The First Con-
vention Of the National Lumber
Workers Union was held in Seattle,
Dec. 10, with 80 delegates represent
ing 2,400 lumber workers from the
mills and camps and as many more
Of the unemployed lumber workers.
Representatives from mass organ
izations extended greetings, the Dis
trict Organizer of the Communist
Party, Comrade RAPPORT, was enthu-
siastically received.
Many delegates were not able to
get through the flooded area South
of Seattle, Four delegates travelled
all the way from Eureka, Calf, to
Centralia, Wash, where they had to
turn back. due to the large flooded
area In that country. A fraternal
delegate from the Lumber Workers
Industrial Union of Canada was
turned back at the border of irnmi-
grafton officials.
The demands for the employed
lumber workers was for the 1929
scale; for a six-hour day, time and
half for overtime with a two-hour
overtime limit; for full crews and
against speed-up; against the Vicious
blacklist system and employment
sharks.
The convention adopted a draft
constitution presented by the Ma
tional Committee and wound up after
eight hours of lively business with
pledging an extensive drive for men,
bership and the consolidating Of the
branches and locals of the union
among the luinberjacks of the north
west.
The first national convention of
the National Lumber Workers
Union adopted resolutions demand
ing the unconditional release of the
innocent Scottsboro boys; the with
drawaI Of American troops and
warshiDs from Cuba; freedom for
the four Communists framed up by
Hitler fascists and the stoppage Of
persecution and murder of the
workers in Germany. Resolutions
were also passed calling for federal
Unemployment Insurance and i'm
mediate cash relief for the unem-
pIoycd.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
800 in Chicago Box
FactoryStrikeWhen
Union Sec'y is Fired
Company Aims to Stop
TUUL Unions from
Organizing Shop

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec. H.--Because
Kdsar Haumann. secretary Of the
Paper and Wood Box Workers In
dlIstriaI Union and chairman OF the
Corrugated Dept, was discharged, 800
workers in four departments Of a shop
Of the Containers Corporation OF
America at 900 Ogden, refused to go
ito work.
} The action Of the company came
after an intensive 4-day organization
drive ON the part of the union which
resulted in 81 per cent of the shop
being organized.
When Haumann went to the locker
room to change his clothes, he was
surrounded by workers, wanting to
know whether to strike or what.
Hardly had he started to answer these
many questions when an Office boy
entered behind two policemen and
pointed Haumann out. The policemen
said they we're told to get Haumann
of the company premises In the
shortest possible time.
When word was passed around that
Haumann had been laid off, workers
from the Rolls Storage shipping
room and Fiber Department left their
benches and gathered in the Cor
rugated Dept. where two department.
cilairmen made speeches protesting
the company's action and demanding
reinstatement. The foreman stood
around in helpless amazement, but
refused to grant the workers demand.
Whereupon mass meeting that same
night was voted by the workers to
discuss further action.
Five months ago the workers OF
Containers Corporation Of America
vent out on strike under the leader
ship Of the T.U.U.L. The strike lasted
for eight days, the workers going
back to work with wage increases
from 100 to $50 per cent, recognition
Of the shop committee, etc. The work.
ers organized the Paper and Wood
Box Workers Industrial Union Local
No. |. About Go workers signed up
and paid their initiation fee.
The workers are determined not te
give in. The next days will bring some
/ swift action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Conference Against
In functions to Be
Held in Jersey City
Organizations Ur g ed
to Elect Delegates
at Once

JERSEY CITY, Dec. 81. - Under
the leadership of industrial unions,
the international Labor Defense, and
the Communist Party, q wide mass
campaign has been organized against
injunctfons and for the defense of
workers rights.
-Four injunctionS have been served
in Hudson County against striking
workers in the dry docks, against the
striking workers of the Maidenform
Brassiere Co., and against silk mill
and restaurant workers
1t Is planned to hold Q, county
conference in Jersey City on Jan.
20, to speed the struggle against in
functions and to involve all organiza-
tons and militant workers in the
campaign. Many organizations have
already elected delegates.
The Provisional Committee for the
conference, elected at preliminary
conferences embracing 20 organ&za-
tons, also plans to institute cam
paign against the 'Disorderly Per-
sons Act" of Jersey City.
Under this act, any person can be
arrested on the street merely son
suspicion" If found to have been
in the company of any other person
who had been arrested twice, whether
convicted or not, the person arrested
ION suspicion" is sentenced to serve
80 days in jail.
By this act the police can arrest
any strike leader or any striker by
arresting him in the company of
trade union leaders who have been
previously arrested for leading work
ers In struggle.
At the present time four members
OF the Executive Board Of the Ma
tional Miners Union are serving 90
day sentences merely for passing
through Jersey City on their way to
Pittsburgh.
All organizations in Hudson County
are urged to elect delegates and to
send their delegates names and adj
dresses to the Conference Headquar-
tiers, IL Journal Square, Jersey City,
N. j.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Children Off Relief
Just as Starved as
Those Getting Aid

FALL RIVER, Mass. - Investi-
cations made by the City Depart
ment OF Health into child under
nourishment revealed that the
number Of children suffering from
undernourishment Is practically
the same, whether the family gets
relief or does not.
The survey was made among
20,069 school children and showed
that Is per cent OF those getting
relief for the past year we're be-
tween 10 and Is per cent under
nourished and that u per cent of
those who never got add showed
the same percentage Of under
nourishment.
About 1000 families are given
relief here st the rate Of 7c per
person per day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Workers of Middle
West in Anti-Lynch
Protest Meetings

CHICAGO, Dec. Ala vigorous
protest against the Decatur lynch
verdiots sentencing Haywood Patter-
son and Clarence Norris, two of the
Scottsboro boys, to burn in the cleo
tric chair on Feb. 2 was adopted at
a mass meeting Of Finnish speaking
workers last Sunday
The resolution denounces the lynch
atmosphere under which the trials
were conducted, with Judge Callahan
acting as the chief lyncher, and de-
mands the immediate, unconditional
and cafe release Of the nine innocent
Sccttsboro boys. A copy Of the reso-
luton has been sent to Gov. Miller
of Alabama.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 21.--A
telegram demanding the release of
the Scottsboro boys was dispatched
TO Gov. Miller by q mass meeting
OF Negro and white workers at the
Greater Mount Olive Church, last
Friday night. The meeting was held
under the auspices of the Interna-
tktAieAA 1jflbOA sDCltAtAC. 2kJehASiS III
cluded Rev. @. Jordan. pastor of the
church, and Dave Mates Of Gary,
Ind.
GARY, Ind, Dec. 2l-At a protest
meeting last Tuesday in First Bap-
list Church. at 21st and Washington
over 200 white and Negro workers
pledged to continue the struggle for
the freedom of the Scotshoro boys
and against 1ynching. Dr.. Puryear
acting MS chairman, proposed resolu-
tons to be sent to Coy. Miller of
Alabama. and Judge Callahan, which
were unanimously adopted. The
speakers we're William Clark, OF the
Steel e. Metal Workers Industrial
Union: Lydia Oxen, and David
Pointdexter Of the Chicago Interna-
tfonal Labor Defense. Over 20 Joined
the LID. SIS was contributed for
the defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Brodsky at Decatur
Meet Tonight i'm BkIn.

NEW YORK.--A large attendance
is expected at tonight,s Scottsboro
protest meeting at Boro Park Manor,
4ll6 18th Ave-, at which Joseph Brod-
sky, Scottsboro attorney, just returned
from the Decatur lynch trials, will be
the main speaker.
Rabbi Ben Goldstein, who witnessed
the farcical proceedings with also ad-
dress the meeting, as win Ruby Bates,
one of the defense witnesses, and
Sadie Van veen, Of the International
Labor Defense.
The meeting Is arranged under the
joint auspices Of the League Of Strug-
gle for Negro Rights and the Ella
May Branch Of the LID.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
153,156 Apply for
Jobs; 1,7O4 Taken
us. Agency Reports

Daily Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-The
United States Employment Service
for Ohio reports that in November
| it placed 6,704 job seekers out of
q total of 1853, 156 applicants inter
viewed. Out Of this total, 1904
were renewals that is, old APP
plieants. The official chart also
shows that 1859 was the total No
vember help wanted" most of
which, it is understood, was for
Public Works projects. No rec
cnimendation was made for un-
employment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22

u Estimate by National Industrial
Conference Board.
o Pen and Hammer estimate.
81 Proceedings of A. F. Of L. Con-
vention, 1888.
| ~ A. F. of L. official estimate in
Oct, 1888.
(See editorial on MIRA. Company
lUnions.f)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Phila. Court Sets Bail
at $4,000 on Charge
of Resisting Eviction

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 21.--Bail
has been set at $1,000 for Anthony
Bozutto, Italian worker charged with
shooting constable who came to
evict. him and his family. The Inter
national Labor Defense is conducting
the defense, and an Anthony Bozutto
Defense Committee has been estab-
lished in the neighborhood
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
National Convention
IOf JObless N &c d $
Immediate Support

Help rally support in the fight
for Unemployment Insurance.
Make the National Unempioy-
ed Convention in Washington,
ID. c., Jan. Ii, an effective DEM
onstration OF the growing fight
of the unemployed.
Get your union or club to con-
tribute from one to five dollars.
Five Hundred Dollars Is need
ed at once.
Rush your contribution to Ma
tional Committee Unemployed
Councils, Room 437, so East 18th
Street, New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Racketeers Killed by
Machine Gun

ST. PAUL, Dec. 2i-Conrad Al
then, racketeer, was killed by q ma
chine gun here yesterday. Police
associated the killing with the same
gang who are suspected Of the KID
mapping Of Charles Urschei, Okla :
homa City millionaire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22

larger companies are particularly
prone to resort to this method OF de-
feating independent action by the
workers. Some So per cent OF the
membership in the company unions
was found in 1882 to be in companies
employing over $4,000 workers.
If we use the estimates Of the N. I.
G. B. for company unions for earlier
years, the Pen and Hammer figure
for 1888, and the A. F. of L. estimates
Of it's membership in the same years,
we may note in tabular form the
relative claims of the trade unions
and company unions in these years.