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Evening star., 1933-09-24
BOYCOTT BYLABOR
OF GERMAN GOODS
is SEEN BY GREEN
Continued From First Page.)

colt is apparently making progress.
indication Of this was given recently by
the statement of New York department
stores that the demand for German
made goods had shown . marked fall
ing OIL. -
"Our information Is that the Nazi
punishment extends even to the torture
of relatives of exiles and refugees,
wherever such relatives can be found in
Germany.
MANY notable refugees from the
Nazi terror are held in silence by the
threat Of the torture Of families left
behind them in Germany. Many Of
the former leading figures in the Ger
man labor movement are thus forced
to continue. in silence, as a means OF
protecting their loved ones from torture
Of the most extreme nature.
THAT those labor leaders who remain
in Germany must yield to Nazi iron
discipline goes without saying. The
whole business is medieval, revolving
and sickening and to think that Ger
man freedom won out OF the horrible
sacrifice of war should be thus SO ruth
lessly destroyed in a reversion to rule
even more brutal and barbarous than
the pre-war dictatorship breeds re-
sentiment within us that feel sure the
|
without reserve.
Union Rights 'Trampled."
German trade union executives have
disappeared and no one knows where
they are. Their great movement. built
up by generations Of devotion and work,
has been virtually destroyed and the
rights of collective bargaining and other
rights enjoyed by trade unions in every
civilized nation have been trampled un-
der foot by men who act like bar
barians.
"The boycott, if it comes. will not be
against the German people. am con-
vinced that many millions Of them hate
the Nazi dictatorship as much as do
freedom loving people in other coun-
movement in calling for a boycott. 1t
will be human protest against the be-
trayal and denial by the German gov
ernment of the principle OF civilized
behavior
when the German masses realize
the true state of world opinion, they
will act, am confident, to tear the grip
Of Nazi dictatorship from their throats.
And boycott In which American labor
joins will be one step in making them
see how civilization regards their brutal
rulers.
Foresees Boycott Vote.
"The delegates to the convention will
have as always, the complete right Of
free expression and while I cannot FORE
cast their final action, I think know
the temper. of American labor and their
passionate devotion to the ideals Of hui
man freedom.
Throughout our history our move
ment has sought to assist oppressed
peoples everywhere and our desire to
help has not diminished. On the con-
trary, think it Is stronger today than
ever, because Of our own American re-
vivAl of idealism.
'There viii need be no surprise, In
Germany or elsewhere, II American labor
turns to the boycott e weapon In the
age-old cause of lhe 3
Evening star., 1933-09-24
AUTO KILLS 8 HIKERS
Fourth of Two Couples Walking on
Highway When Hit May Die.

ELKINS, w. Va, September 23 R.-
An automobile crashed into four young
people walking on highway between
Belington and Elkins tonight, killing
three Of them and critically injuring
the fourth. -.
Pauline Glendening, 10, Of Gage, was
instantly killed. Hart5el Skidmore Of
Weaver and Frankie Baisi Of; Norton
dted while. being taken to an Elkins.
hospital. -
Evening star., 1933-09-24
Membership Dues Stolen.

FALL RIVER. Mass, September %
P).-Three bandits held up three men
in the headquarters Of the United Tex
tile Workers of America here tonight
and escaped with more than $1,000,
mostly dues paid by local members.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
Cooks Genius Needs
l8 Years to Ignite,
Research Reveals
BY the Associa ted Press.

0y tTc ASSUCIHteQ FiebB.
NEW YORK, September 23.-
It takes longer to be a cook
than it does to be q great sur
geon II the research department
Of the hotel workers branch OF
the Amalgamated Food Work.
ers knows its stuff. H
And the first l8 years are the
hardest. After that, a cook be-
gins to know something about
the art.
This contention will be sub
mitted to the N. r. A. during
hearings on the hotel and res
taurant code.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
SESSION FACES CRISIS.
Delegates Voice Hope Action VIII
Brighten Glom.
BY the Associa ted Press,

GENEVA, September, 2a.--The four
tenth assembly OF the Lesgue Of Ma.
ttons opens Monday, with Europe par
ticulsrly In political ehuiiition and
the entire world battling economic
conditions. The delegates voiced hopes
Evening star., 1933-09-24
Advised BY Ranger.

One of Mr.. Evans closest friends
and advisers in the. matter of pur-
chase Of American paintings was
Henry w. Ranger, landscape painter
and National Academician During the
period Of Mr. Evans munificence to the
National Gallery Of Art, Mr.. Ranger
frequently accompanied Mr.. Evans 70
Washington to inspect the collection
and to suggest additions. Miss
Mechlin met with Mr.. Evans and Mr..
Ranger on these occasions and dis
cussed further additions with them.
and also plans. then formulating for
the development Of the National Gal
lery Of Art. The Evans gift and these
interviews LED to the establishment Of
the Ranger fund.-" BY which, ct his
death, Henry w. Rangers entire for
tune. amounting ct ethat ttaae.sste
Evening star., 1933-09-24
CUSTER OF O'BRIEN
FROM TICKET SEEN
IN FARLEY MOVES

Continued From First Page)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
ROOSEVELTS FIRST NRA EXlBIT-MSERY IN THE TEXTILE MILLS
Here Is the Code
Roosevelt Refused
to Sign for You
June Croll Presented
1t at Washington
for N.T.W.U.

When the National Textile Union
through its representative, Jun
CrolI, exposed the slave code o
the textile bosses in Washington
she presented the following de
mands:
THAT industry and the gov
eminent assume the responsibility
for a fixed minimum weekly and
yearly wage for every worker in
the industry. This is to be
achieved through provisions that
no worker shay be given less than
40 weeks oer year of employ
ment-no less than 80 hours per
week and a maximum of 40 hours
per week; that wages shall be set
at a minimum of so cents per
hour. This would provide a min
imum wage of $3.50 yearly for
every worker. Only such a pro-
posal, if embodied in the provi-
sions, would represent a mini
mum wage provision as against
the present proposals which are
a fraud upon the masses and
guarantee nothing.
2.-That where the industry
does not provide workers with
this minimum of yearly earnings
the government shall pay unem-
ployment insurance equal to this
amount, and for part time work
ers the difference between the
amount ($720) and the actual
earnings. Workers who receive
higher than the minimum at pres
emit shall be paid insurance equal
to their present average wage.
3.-That the wages of workers
receiving at present above this
minimum shall be increased inn
mediately by rs per cent.
4.-That wages shall be ad-
justed for all workers regularly
as prices rise so that there shall
be no lowering of the living
standards due to initiation.
5.-That the labor code shall
pSovide for democratically elected
shop committees controlled by the
workers, in all mills, to be re-
cognized by the employers. These
committees to deal with the en-
ployers in the enforcement of
wages, hours, discharges, condi-
tions of labor, etc. me right of
the workers to belong to any
union cf their own choice shall
be fully stated. The right of the
workers TO strike whenever any
demands are not granted shall be
stated in the code.
6.-No night work for women
in any part of the country.
NO child labor under 16;
shorter hours for youth between
the ages of Is and 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
Evens Pay Rise By Taking
1t Out of Workers Hide

BALTIMORE, MdTake it the hide
of the textile Of
textile code actually increased
startling letter published here the Baltimore
special Washington M
textile boss tells how
got-and
An extract from this letter. written
Southern cotton textile MILL follows:
As had
the N several things
offset this increase We adjusted Meaning raising
all the houses
approximate rate in
AS you know this at the
letting out at the domestic rate
these meters within should work
to advantage"
We can be that these the
Southern textile mill keep workers actually
below what they before code was passed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
Join the Communist Party

Rooseve New Deal for the Workers
exposing
William John L. Lewis and all OF the
telling the workers new
dawnng correctly forecast that
the N r. A. standards Of
the workers
WHILE calling strikes while tho
A.
machines the
leading
conditions recognition
DEHIND Democratic and
Socialist the bosses to
the time to strike praisng
the N. r. A blessing workers.
leads the fight the slave codes Of the N r.
Party struggle for the overthrow Of capa
system matter under what label
Workers Join Communist PARTY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
Southern Workers
Hard Hit by NRA

CHARLOTTE, N. C-The skilled
textile workers in the South find
themselves particularly hard hit by
the NRA code.
Fourteen hundred workers struck
at the Tubize-C hattilon Corpora
ton, rayon plant, in Rome, Ga,
when they found that the wages of
the skilled workers had been re-
duced by the code. Another strike
occurred ct the Lane Cotton Mills
in New Orleans, when the wages
of all workers making more than
the minimum specified in the code,
were cut. Machinists' pay was re-
duced from s34 to $27. The work
ers in Rome won increases in pay.
The workers in New Orleans were
bamboozled by the Trades and
Labor Council into going back.
1000 Striks
The very day the textile code
went into effect, four thousand
workers struck at the High Point,
N. c., seamless hosiery mills; 1000
at the w. F. Poe Manufacturing
Co., in Greenville, S. c.: $50 at the
Arial and Alice Mills at Easley. S.
c., and $50 at the Appleton Mills at
Anderson S. c. Skilled workers in
all these mills found their pay cut
as The result of the application of
the textile code.
A master weaver in Charlotte
said he ha' had big reduction in
pay since July II, and that his
status had been reduced to that Of
apprentice by the mill management.
Many Complaints
Strikes and complaints against
the stretch-out are numerous. In
the East Marion mill in N. c., the
number of looms per worker has
been increased from 20 and % to
81, the spinning sides from 6 and
8, to 10. There have been many
lay-offs because the workers were
unable to keep up with the in
creased speed.
Nor is the textile code resulting
in increased employment. On the
contrary. hundreds of textile work
ers have been added to the ranks
Of the unemployed since July II.
The relief agencies of South
Carolina report that the number
seeking relief has been increased as
result of the textile code. SEN
ator Byrnes of South Carolina adj
mits receiving many letters from
textile workers who have been fired
since June II.
Fire $50
In preparation for the new code,
the Hudson. Silk Hosiery Mill at
Charlotte fired $50 workers some
weeks ago.
"No apprciable increase in en-
ployment will result from the
adoption by the Greenville tex
tile plants of the provisions of
the code of competition" says
the Greenville News after an in
vestigatia.
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and later in silk, rayon and wool the
manufacturers were producing at a
furious rate in order to get the
benefit of the higher prices. They
wanted a period for pause and
'readjustment." They knew 1t
would take a little time to work out
the lower wage schedules under
the act. But now they shipping at
the workers on all sides.
In the meantime, stocks are pill
ing up so that more unemployment
faces the textile workers.
For example, the Journal of
Commerce on August Is, made the
following report:
Overproduction
Manufacturer are becoming
anxious concerning the state of
the gray cotton goods market
where prices are weakening and
demand is fitfuI. The long delav
in getting the NRA ia working
order in industries outsfA,e of tex
tiles makes it clearer each market
day that it may be a long time
before purchasing power can
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19

he is Known as pnllanthroplSt,
having given fish to the city Parks.
But the starving textile workers
couldn't stand for wage cuts even
by philanthropist, and so Oden-
heimer had to issue hurried call to
Washington for help to smash the
threatening strike.
In came government concilliator
Harland. A mass meeting of the
cotton mill workers was called. The
A. F. of L. leaders worked hand in
glove with Harland to keep the
workers from striking.
Then up popped thea. F. of L.
leaders, admitting the rotten con-
ditions, but urging the workers not
to strike.
Machines have been speeded up
SO fast" said Muhs, secretary of the
Central Trades and Labor Council,
Chat they are coming off the floor.
He Dragged about the A. F. of l..
having broken one strike, saying
II may add that the president Of
the council and other labor officials
averted a strike of these mills by
their efforts this week."
james Dempsey, president of the
A. F. of l.. Central Trades and
Labor council said:
Nothing would be gained by
striking"
When militant worker, Sidney
Pallet, got up demanding the floor
to expose the NRA, he was arrested
on the order of the A. r. of L.
officials, and held until after the
meeting was over.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19

first strike international Braid)
the employers with the help of Ed
ward P. Reidy, poo' aid director
of Providence, tried to recruit job
less textile workers from the city
projects as scabs. The jobless
workers, members of the Right to
Live Club, came down to the MILL
saw it was on strike and instead of
scabbing they joined the picket line.
While not single jobless worker
could be recruited as a scab during
the strike, the day on which the
strikes needed and the workers re-
turned, there were HUNDREDS of I'M
employed crowding the mill gates
looking for work. The Importance
for the employed workers to fight
for unemployed and social insurance
can be clearly seen here.
Question of Independent Unions
In the American Silk strike we
not only had to win the workers
away from the U. T. w. misleaders,
but also convince them not to form
an Isolated, independent union. In
regards to independent unions we
must keep in mind three posi-
bilities:
If they remain honest rank
and file controlled unions then
there Is absolutely no difference
between them and the National
Textile Workers Union. What is
necessary here is to set up united
committees for joint activities and
eventually to merge these various
unions into one strong rank-and-
file controlled industrial union in
the textile industry.
2.-If reactionary elements gain
control in these independent unions
then there is the danger that they
will hand the workers over to the
U. T. A. misleaders or convert the
locals into open company unions.
3.-If they remain isolated, with
out the support of the textile work
ers of other centers, the danger is
that they will grow passive, disin-
tegrate and die, or be smashed up
from within by the agents of the
employers.
The Celored Worsted and Amer
lean Silk strikers realized this and
decided to remain in the NTWU.
Under certain definite conditions
we favor the formation of indie
pendent unions as the first step in
the correct direction. In Salem we
guided the workers to break away
from the U.T.W. and to form their
own independent union. Out of
1900 workers about 400 wanted
to join the NTWU Immediately, but
we told these 400 to remain united
with the other workers. We are
more interested in maintaining the
unity of the workers than in win
ming a few hundred new members.
In the International Braid in
Providence we had a similar situa-
tioV. A section of the workers never
having experienced the sell-out tao
tics of the U. T. w. leaders wanted
to give them trial. Another Sec
ton of the workers wanted to
remain in the NTWU. In order to
prevent split we urged the work
ers to remain an independent local
for the time being. This local is
now carrying out joint activities
with the NTWU local in the Elm
wood mill Of the same company and
has defeated the attempt of the
UTW misleaders to grab control of
their organization.
The national textile conference
called in connection with the The
Trade Union Conference for United
Action for August 18th, 9th in
Cleveland will mark big step for
ward in uniting and consolidating
the rank-and-file controlled unions
in the textile indust.-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
National Textile
Union, Built Thru
Strike Struggles
Story of NTU from the
Gastonia Strike to
Present Day

Militant struggles for a living
wage and better conditions for work
ers mark the history Of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Industrial
Union. From the first large strike
in 1929, the Gastonia Strike, SHORTLY
after the formation of the union, to
the present series of struggles
against the NRA and its slave code,
the story of the Textile Union is
the story OF struggle.
Jack Stachel. acting secretary Of
the Trade Union Unity League,
with which the N.T.W.IU. is affili-
ated, in an interview today, listed
some of the more important OF these
struggles. Among those he men,
toned are the Gastonia strike in
1929; the struggle of 10000 textile
workers in Lawrence, Mass, in
March, 1881; the strikes throughout
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massa-
chusetts and New Jersey; and the
present strike wave throughout New
England against the vicious slave
codes adopted under the NRA.
The union was founded in Patter-
son in October, 1929, by left-wing
group who led the Passaic, Patter-
son and New Bedford strikes in that
same year
Ann Burlak, heroic working class
leader, now under threat of deporta-
ton. is National Secretary of. the
Union. Jim Reid is president and
Nat Kaplan national organizer The
National offices are at ITS Westmin-
ster st., Providence, r. I.
Jack Stachel said that, due to the
recent struggles of the NT.W.IU.,
over 1000 new members had been
recruited during the last six weeks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
Gives Fish to CITY
Pond; Skins Mill
WOrkersWithNRA

NEW ORLEANS, LA strike
is brewing in the Lane Cotton Mills
here. After the application of the
textile codes, wages of the majority
of workers began to go down.
Wcrkers are being laid off at the
rate of SO a week.
Sigmund Odenheimer, owner of
the mills, claims to be one of the
originators of the textile code idea.
He paid for the publication of a
book called: "Jobs or Revolution. :"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
Three Providence Mill Strikes
BY NAT KAPLAN, Organizer, N. T. W. U.

Three important textile
textile strikes took place in
Providence, R. T., involving
1850 workers, between July 10
and August Z. They included:
International Braid, Charles St. mill
COTTON narrow fabrics) 500 work
ers; Colored Worsted Mill $50
workers, American Silk Spinning
Co., 1900 workers.
The important features of these
strikes were:
Each strike broke out spon-
taneously. The National Textile
Workers Union (NTWU) came in
on the first day and won the lead
ership of the workers.
2.-The strikes were offensive
struggles for higher wages and
shorter hours and hence were OBJ
jectively against the textile en-
ployers slavery code and for a real
workers textile code.
5-Both during the strikes and
Immediately after, the workers
kept out the strikebreaking officials
of the United Textile Workers
Union "a. F. of L..
4.-Thus the sellout of the strikes
were prevented and they all ended
in partial victory for the workers.
5.-The strikes resulted in thor
ough unionization of the struck
mills and the spreading of organiza-
ton to a fourth mill. Four mill
locals were established. Over 1880
workers signed up in the NTWU.
1,245 paid limitations up to Aug.
9TH (250 of these workers we
transferred to the independent local
to keep the unity of the workers..
Strikebreaking Cry Against Reds"
In every strike the employers try
to smash the ranks of the workers
by dividing them along political and
religious lines. In the three Provi-
dence strikes the workers did not
allow themselves to be divided on
this issue. We were able to prove
to them that the so-called red lead
ers of the National Textile Workers
Union are the most experienced,
honest and practical trade union
officials. 1t is significant that while
the Boston press and the A. F. of
L. officials were shouting from the
housetops, "beware of the redsw
the Providence boss-controlled press
kept stony silence on this issue.
They were afraid that it would
prove a boomerang against them !;
that it would convince too many
workers that it is a good thing to
be a red, working class fighting
in the ranks of the Communist
Party.
Destroyed Old Fairy Tale.
The three Providence strikes de-
stroyed a number of old fairy-tales
that the employers have been ped
ding for years among the workers.
They are:
Fairy-Tale No. 1,
That the industrial unions affili-
ated with the Trade Union Unity
League (TUUL) believe in long
drawn out strikes. All three strikes
were settled at the right moment,
when it was clear that the workers
had won everything they possibly
could win for the time being. The
strikes lasted from 21a days to II
days. In each case the workers
themselves voted to settle the strike
upon the recommendation of their
strike committees and the N.T.W.U.
1t is not the workers, but the en-
ployers, who are responsible for
long drawn out strikes.
Fairy-Tale No. q:
That we believe in provoking
fights between workers and police,
that we like to make martyrs of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19

amount of machines as the skilled
workers. We can't make the s13. Yet
If we don't make it, we get fired.
In the weave room at the Hatfa-
way Mill most of the workers are
young learners. The boss keeps after
US, always looking at the clocks on
our machines that we run, to see If
we are making enough cloth.
Since the N. I. r. A. has passed
through neither I nor any other
semi-skilled worker has received the
minimum wage of $13. That's Roose-
velt's New Deal
The one and only way out of our
situation is to organize and join the
National Textile Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
HathaaVay Mill Tells Workers
to Make $13 Minimum or Quit
(By a Textile Worker Correspondent

tBy a Textile Worker Correspondent
NEW BEDFORD, Mass.-The Ma
tional Industrial Recovery Act is be-
ing used as an excuse for making the
young workers in the New Bedford
textile mills speed up. The first
week that the MIRA. was put
through, the bosses in all the weave
rooms in the Hathaway Mill told the
workers to either make the minimum
wage, which is s13, or they shall get
fired.
This shows that the MIRA is Moth
ing more than a National Industrial
Slavery Act for all learners who are
lust beginning to run the same
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19

ourselves by getting our heads
cracked. 1t so happened in these
strikes that the capitalist city gov
eminent and their police followed
the policy of not dramatizing the
strikes in fear that it would spread
like wildfire to the other mills.
Hence police interference was kept
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
Textile Workers
Will Lose Jobs
AS Stocks Mount
Result of MIRA Is Big Overproduction and q
Lowered Living Standard for Workers
in All Branches Of Textile

Roosevelts New Deal for labor first applied 10 the
textile industry and is here best how IN practice
slashed speedp increased and the conditions of
the workers made more miserable under the NRA. \
Bfore the codes passed first in the cotton textile mills
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19

down to minimum. Mass picket
ing was not hampered, no arrests
were made, and there was just pin
prick provocation by the police. We
therefore told the workers that
while we won't stand for anyone
taking our strike and picketing
rights away from us, we should not
allow ourselves to be provoked into
a fight with the police on small
questions. No offensive against the
cops, but we will defend ourselves
when necessary. 1t was obvious to
every worker that the police were
helping the company and not the
workers