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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
How NRA Operates
in the Silk Mills
Around New Jersey
Worker Says eve Are Organizing for Strike,
AS Cost of All Food Goes Up, Cutting
Down Living Standards Sharply
BY CARL REEVE

"We organizing and preparing strike against the
conditions and wages under which working This is
the statement of worker in the Wedmann Dye Company in
Patterson month after this began to under the
National Recovery Act Dye Code The 10000 dye workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
Fairy-Tale No. 3:

That we can't win improved con-
ditions for the workers and force
the employers to recognize the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union. Every
strike cut the hours OF labor down
from 81 to 40 hours a week with
out cutting the pay. On top of that
every striker won raise in wages.
In the Colored Worsted the raise
ran as high as 81 more per week
for some workers. In the Interna-
tional Braid there was a 10 to 20
per cent increase. In the American
Silk there was an average 10 per
cent raise.
In each mill the employers were
forced to recognize the workers
elected mill committee composed
100 per cent of union members.
The employers were not kidded by
this and they knew that it was in
fact a recognition of the National
Textile Workers Union. When the
masses of workers are in the union
the employers are forced to recog-
nize the workers elected milletaoi a
nize the union and deal with it.
Certainly the employers couldn't
recognize Mr.. German of the
United Textile Union (U.T.W.) who
called meetings of these Providence
strikers in Pawtucket and not a
single worker showed up to hear
him. German wanted to convince
the workers that their str k E
SHOULD be prevented" in the name
of MIRA, the workers were already
convinced that their strikes should
be won.
Fairy-Tale No. a:
That we can't win strikes in the
present period of economic crisis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
Fairy-Tale No. a:

That we can't win strikes in the
present period of economic crisis
because the unemployed will scab
and take our jobs away. In the
Evening star., 1933-12-03
IL FORBIDDEN VALLEY
&c 1k1:a- BY ul;lGum Bqron lIlO.Ogus

"If the idea doesn't appeal to you,"
he said, please don't be hesitant about
saying so. You mustn't let us break
into any of your plans"
"Oh. but it does appeal to mel"
you like 1t, then?"
Sonya hesitated. In Curtis tones
and his manner she could see that he
was interested in her. On a lengthy
wilderness trip together, where they
would be thrown into constant intimate
association. he might come to like her
to allow that.
But you'll be travelling so much
faster than we." she objected.
"Oh, no; we'll be taking it Ieisurely,
scouting for float as we 90. To be
frank, I don't believe you and Ralph
are used to water-dogging on a noun
of things it mightn't be a bad idea to
have couple Of experienced people
along. Also, II those guides don't prove
dependable, you wouldn't be left in the
lurch."
Your offer is magnanimous, Curt"
She stumbled just a little over his first
name. Il don't know anybody else
who'd have made it. But we'd be a
positive nuisance"
Your company and Ralph's would
be real pleasure to us both Talk it
over with him, won't you?"
Still wavering, Sonya looked down
into the torrent, where a number Of
tiny trout were darting about in a pool
like little flashes of sunshine She knew
that the safe. unselfish thing was to
refuse. But then she thought that il
she steered their association carefully
she could guide 1t into a comradely
Evening star., 1933-12-03
Roosevelt's Personal Government
Is Core of Congressional Session

death" This particular feature Of
the N. r. A. statute comes to an end
one year after its enactment-that is
on June 16 next. Either this power
must lapse or the coming session of
Congress must extend 1t. (The NJ r. A.
statute as whole, excepting the
licensing feature, lasts for two years
after enactment-that is, until June 16,
1880
For the Democrats the decision
ahead of them is pretty serious re-
sponsibility-the decision whether to
go on with personal government or to
resume government by Congress in the
usual way Many Democrats do not
like the present situation. The Balti-
more Sun, perhaps the leading Demo-
cratic paper In the country, speaks
ironically Of the administration
courageous game of moving men and
things like pawns on the board
The Democrats future as party
may depend on their decision when
Congress meets. Many of Mr.. Roose-
velt's actions run straight against
Democratic principle and tradition. AS
temporary emergency steps, the Demo-
Gratis as a party might approve or con-
done them and survive, as in the case
of the war measures under President
Wilson. But some of Mr. Roosevelt's
policies are plainly meant to be perma-
nent. Some of them fall within the
classification which in political argu-
ment Is called "socialistic" All in all,
the Democratic leaders have a serious
decision ahead. They must make it
in the light of the fact that by six
or eight months from now they will
be in the midst of campaign for
Congress.
(Copyrisht. 1893, New York Tribune, Incl
Evening star., 1933-12-03

friendship. And she did need his help
so badly. With her it might make all
the difference between success and ab-
ject failure.
I'VE might've could try IT," she as
sented finally. "At least we can start
out together, and If it doesn't work we
can always split up"
As they went on filling the pail, Curt
congratulated himself on having neatly
solved tough problem. He would be
going UP the Llluar on his own busi-
ness. and at the same time Paul and
he could look after Sonya's safety.
And he would have her company for
a week, a week of wilderness travel with
her. At the pass, when she and Ralph
came face to face with the Klosohee
danger and realized how serious 1t was,
they would undoubtedly turn back to
Russian Lake. That would free him
and Paul to go inside and nail Karak-
han.
The report to which Karakhan had
just listened made him uneasy. His
cigarette, forgotten, burned to ashes
at his elbow, and his fingers. long and
sensitive as a musicians, tapped the
rough table thoughtfully Looking past
LIE Noir, he stared out the cabin win
dow at the lake, pondering the breeds
story.
The account might be a lie lie Noir
might just be trumping up non exist
ent danger In order TO jack his pay
higher. But then the story might be
fact.
With so hard canoe miles behind him
since dawn, lie Noir leaned back against
Evening star., 1933-12-03

the log wall, watching his chief sharply,
This man of the steel-cold eyes and
calm voice-one could never so much
as guess at his thoughts.
One only knew that he was greatly
wanted by the Yellowstripes, that he
had buried himself In these mountains
to shake of the police and that he was
planning flight away, at the end OF
Summer, to some new land.
About his getting drunk, his fight
with Curt and his shooting up their
tent, lie Noir had wisely said nothing.
He knew his chief too we'll Karakhan
would not hesitate to pump a bullet
into any person who endangered him
by going on Sprees.
In his way lie Noir was altogether
loyal to Karakhan, who had been very
generous to him in the matter of money.
The breed had code, such as 1t was.
He had bargained to protect the Cos
sack, and he was giving everything he
had to that job. for he was hard-set in
his loyalties as in his feuds.
Karakhan, tomorrow, senses a serious
danger.
Evening star., 1933-12-03
Wilderness in Revolution.

Later, as Government geologists have
reconstructed the history of the site, 1t
probably was covered by great tama
rack swamp. George Washington passed
through the neighborhood while survey
ing the Fairfax grant. He struck long
stretch of cold. rainy weather and noted
in his diary that this was one of the
most deSolate regions he ever had en-
countered. 1t was wilderness during the
Revolution.
Now it has been tanned by generations
of farmers. The hill slopes are fertile
pastures. The bottom land along the
creek is covered with an alder swamp
which scores Of. workmen are working
feverishly to cut away and burn over.
( The land is inadequately drained wet
and cold. but prospectively it is ey-
tremely rich. The biggest engineering
problem of the whole project is to drain
the bottom. Agriculture Department en-
gineers are busy on it. The proposal is
to bring in a dredge and lower the bed
of the creek approximately two feet.
Work on this will be started in few
days.
The third reason for the selection of
the site is that most of the hOneSteaderS
originally came from farms in this sec
tion of West Virginia and it is Consid-
cred desirable to keep them, so far as
possible in their old environment. A
little thing might wreck this crucial eX-
periment-and that little thing might
well be the unacceptable nostalgia of
men and women of settled ways torn
loose from their moorings. Here they
will not be far from their old friends
They will not have to accustorn them
selves to new ways Of life, of speech, of
habit
Evening star., 1933-12-03
Long Life and Loyalty.

There is still fourth reason. some
what less factual than the others but no
less significant People live long in the
mountains. The air and the water are
pure. There is little sickness. Vigor is
unimpaired. except by malnutrition. The
beauty Of the region is beyond descrip-
ton. These homesteaders have no
highly developed esthetic sense, but the
lavender of the November mountain
sides and the moon over the faraway
blue of the horizon work an unconscious
effect. Everywhere there is a fierce
loyalty among mountain people. Some
of the worlds bloodiest battles have
been fought in defense of bare rocks.
And one of the prime objects of the ex-
pertinent is to develop an intense
loyalty to home. The greater the pride
in environment the greater the chances
for success of the project.
What of the men and women?
There are now 125 families signed up
for the "homeSteads' All but two are
of old American ancestry for many
generations. The exceptions are two
Czech families
The men range in age from 81 to IS.
Each family has from one to nine
children, with the exception of the old
gentleman of 65 and his wife, whose
children are grown and gone from
home.
All are experienced in farm work.
All are literate. few with one or two
years of high school education. Their
Characters have been Investigated. All
have stood up well under adversely.
There are no radicals. Their person
ahties have been investigated They
must I've t0gPtleT so all with a TepQ'
tation for quarrelsomeness have been
eliminated
women. They will, of course, consti-
tute the most important factor in the
social life of the community. Some Of
them have gone through horrible
struggle these last few years. They
have kept their chins up. In the inde-
scribably sordid environment of the
. mining settlements they have kept their
z children clean and, for the most part,
in school. In other words, they are
good housewives. The cantankerouS
gossip, the social climber, the woman
with a tendency to start neighborhood
quarrels, has been eliminated.
Choice Made Carefully.
: All in all, the men and women Sc
. lected. with all the skill afforded by
! sociological technique, are competent
intelligent. honest easy to get along
: with and good neighbors. Most i'm
portant still-they are diSllluSioned
Z They say, and Mr. Grimes believes in
the honesty of their statements, that
they have had their lessons in funda-
mental values. This, Of course, remains
to be seen.
what will happen If there is afxeturr
I of grkat prosperity and the mine tgair
Evening star., 1933-12-03
Twins Die Within Hour.

Pauline and Leonard Merryfield, IL
week-old twins, died within an hour
of each other in Leicester and the case
has attracted much interest in medical
circles of England. The girl had con-
vulsions and, although at the time. the
boy seemed in normal health, he died
shortly afterward.
Evening star., 1933-12-03
PHONE FIRM MANAGER
NAMED FOR ALEXANDRIA
j. s. Dunn to Succeed T. @. Dug
gins, Who Has Been Moved
to Richmond.
By 4 Staf COrlespOndenl d The Star.

ALEXANDRIA. Va, December a.
The appointment of j. S. Dunn as
manager of the Alexandria Office of the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co
was announced here yesterday. He
succeeds T. @. Duggins, manager of
the local Office since January l, who
has been appointed unit Office man.
ager of the company at Richmond, Va.
Mr.. Dunn has been record Office
manager at Richmond for the past
year, after having held successfully
the positions of chief clerk, district
commercial supervisor and sales super
visor in the company. He is a gradu-
ate Of the University of Virginia.
Evening star., 1933-12-03
FIRE MENACES RECORDS
Blaze Damages Offices of Fairfax
Prosecutor.
pisnatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, December 2-Valu-
able records in the Office of Common
wealth's Attorney Wilson M. Farr and
his assistant, Hugh Marsh, were
menaced by fire that was discovered
in the building last night by q paSser-
by. The quick response of the local
damage.
heated stove, which ignited a wood
mantel. This was blazing when the
HIGHT was seen through q window.
In addition to his personal papers,
Farr had considerable data upon pend
ing court cases in his office.
Evening star., 1933-12-03
TEACHER ASKED TO PAY
5000 IN BOYS INJURY

Permanent Disablement Charged
as Result of Whipping Growing
Out of Geography Quiz.
BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBIA, Mo, December Mrs.
Nellie S. Cunningham, a school teacher
for IS years, is defendant in $4,000
damage suit brought in behalf Of James
X. Hyde. u. who alleged he suffered
permanent injuries in whipping ad-
ministered by the teacher because he
could not answer What State is nearest
the Rio Grande?"
Mrs. Cunningham, teacher at the
Earring County School, denied she had
struck the boy with club. as charged.
i did discipline him for insubordl-
nation, but not as severely as I myself
was disciplined on many occasions" she
said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
National Textile Union Calls for Fight Against
Discrimination; Formation of Shop
Delegates Council

shop committees, shall enter into
direct agreement with their employers
on the basis Of the wage scale con-
tanned in the agreement as a mini
mum; recognition Of the Shop Com
mittee and /or of the National Textile
Workers Union.
p Members Of the National Textile
Workers Union have the right to
work in all shops where they were
employed before the strike and shall
not forfeit this right under the agree
ment. No member of the National
Textile Workers Union shall be forced
to give up his or her card. All new
workers shall have the right to be-
long to the union of their choice.
No Discrimination
81 The National Textile Workers
Union will not send its members to
work in any shop where majority
Of the workers belonging to the
United Textile Workers Union CAS-
sociateO remains on strike either be-
cause the employer refuses to sign
the agreement or for other reasons
affecting adversely the interests OF all
the workers of that shop.
d Two-thirds Of the broad silk
workers Of Paterson are unorganized.
Therefore, every worker who came
out on strike shall have the right to
his or her job. No worker shall be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
Upholsterers Meet
Called for Thusrday

NEW YORK.-To organize the up
holsterers against any attempt to de-
stroy the conditions won during the
recent strike, the Furniture Workers
Industrial Union Is calling a shop
conference on Thursday. Dec. Z, at
7:30 pm. at Manhattan Lyceun, &C
e. 4th st.
Warning that the bosses have al
ready started a wage cutting drive
and will try to reestablish piec-work
and discharge union workers, the In
dustrial Union sees the Importance of
immediate organization of the uphol-
sterers. The officials OF Local 10 re-
fuse to call shop strikes in defense of
the workers interests. The Freshman
shop, controlled by Local rs, hes
locked out the men and established
piece work, but nothing has been
done about it. A number of other
shops have violated the agreement,
but the union has taken no steps
against the bosses.
In the shops controlled by the IN
dustrial Union, the bosses have tried
similar methods, but have found the
Industrial Union ready to resist every
attempt to lower working conditions.
The Industrial Union now proposes
to lead the shops out on strike, where
attacks are made on union conditions,
regardless Of the do-nothing policy of
the officials Of Local rs. 1t calls on
all organized and open shops to send
representatives to the shop confer
ences to prepare for struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
Zimmerman Helps
Break Dress Strike

NEW YORK.-Supporting the wage
cutting policies Of the bosses, Charles
Zimmerman, renegade manager of
Dressmakers' Local % of the Inter
national Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, has sanctioned scabbing on
dressmakers on strike called by the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union.
In order to cover up this strike
breaking, Zimmerman sent a COM
mittee of strikers of the Dotty May
Dress shop, who came to protest, to
HICKMAN, manager of the Joint
Board. HICKMAN told the committee
to get out or be thrown out.
The Dotty May Shop bosses at 212
w. 35th st. locked out Is workers
for refusal to accept pay reductions.
Tie Industrial Union declared a
strike. The H and I Dress Co., an
IL.G.W.U. controlled contracting
shop, is taking out the work from this
shop. At the Dotty May shop prices
for operating were 35 cents and for
pressing u cents, while at the IL
GW.U. shop prices for operating are
Is cents and pressing cents.
All needle trades workers are asked
to aid the strikers at the Dotty May
shop by picketing. Support Of the
workers of the strike against William
Bass, $50 7th Ave. jobber, is also
urged Bass refused to give work to
the Len Jay shop, where the work
ers rejected reductions in their wages
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05

prevented from returning to work in
any shop where the employer agrees
to pay the scale of wages called for
in the agreement. The question of
organization may be taken up with
these unorganized workers only after
they return to work.
81 In order to provide the necessary
machinery for general settlement
Of the strike and to protect the in
terests of all the silk workers in every
shop after the strike, the National
Textile Workers Union calls for the
free, open and democratic election
of a shop committee in each shop
whether organized or unorganized.
No worker in shop shall be barred
from serving on such a shop commit
tee because of his or her particular
union affiliation or because of the
failure to join any existing union. In
larger shops representation should be
by departments. All workers by virtue
of their being employed in the shop
shall have the right to nominate and
vote for candidates to the shop COM
mittee
Shop Delegates Council
81 In order to unite all shops, all
unions and the unorganized on city,
wide scale the National Textile Work
ers Union proposes that q Paterson
SILK and Dye Workers Shop Dele
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
1000 Cheer Call for
Fight on LyncherS
at Harlem Meeting
fContina1ed from Page y

the attack has been begun to destroy
the revolutionary unions, to deny the
worker the right to organize and
strike against wage cuts.
AIabsma Chopper Tells OF Struggles
John Moore, Tallapoosa cropper
Leader, told of the heroic fight of
Alabama troopers to organize against
starvation and the bloody terror of
the landlords and their police.
Mrs. Williams, of the Universal
Negro Improvement Association,
pointed out that Negroes were trapped
into the World War under the de-
ceptive slogan of fight for democ-
racy, but got Jim Crowism and
iynching on their return from the
battlefelds. She praised the Tnterna-
tional Labor Defense for its fight for
The Scottsboro boys. and pledged fun
support to the nationwide fight
against lynching.
Other speakers were Lincoln Stef-
fens OF the National Committee for
the Defense OF Political Prisoners,
Sadie Van veen, William L. Patter-
son, National Secretary of the Inter
national Labor Defense James w.
Ford, section organizer OF the Com
munist Party in Harlem, Sam Speed,
william Fitzgerald. Harlem Organizer
n the LID, and Schwarzrnan, LID.
attorney Just returned from the De-
eetH trial,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
NSL Students Mass
to Halt Luther Talk
at Columbia Dec. Il
Protest Against Nazi
Grows AS Lecture
Date Nears

NEW YORK.-Plans to stop Hans
Luther, Nazi Ambassador, from
speaking at Columbia University
next Thursday evening are being
carried through, as the National Stu
dent League and the N. Y. Commit
tee to Aid Victims of German Fas-
cisfn modified the students and
workers Of the city for a protest dem
onstration before the Macmillan
Theatre, 1l6th st. and Broadway, at
1880 pm. Dec. IL.
Hans Luther, who is slated to
speak on Germany and the United
States" had been originally sched-
uled to lecture on Nov. Is, but in
face Of the huge protest from stu
dents and faculty and the threaten
ing demonstration by the N. S. L.,
he had postponed his lecture till
Dec. 10.
An appeal to their colleagues
against Luthers lecture was issued
by seven Columbia faculty members,
who called for wide faculty protest
against the Maxi Fascist agent. The
appeal was signed by Professor Dom
aid Lancefield and Morton d.
Schweizer of the Department Of
Zoology, DR.. Addison IT. Cutler of the
Economics Department, Jerome Klein
and Meyer Shapiro Of the Fine Arts
Department, Bernard Stern of the
Sociology Department, and Jacinto
Steinhardt of the Bio Physics De-
partment.
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gates Council be set up. Each silk
mill and dye house to elect delegates
from their shop committees or from
departments.
This Paterson Shop Delegates Coun-
Gil would thus link up all crafts and
every mill into one unbreakable
united body in a silk and dye workers
congress capable of uniting the rank
and file silk and dye workers thru
their own elected rank and file dele
gates.
Call For Unity
y The National Textile Workers
Union calls for unity of all silk and
dye workers by building one powerful
fighting union in the silk textile in
dustry based upon the class struggle
and the broadest form Of democratic
rank and file control. We are con-
vinced that only upon the basis Of this
program can we improve our working
conditions and raise wages.
81 The National Textile Workers
Union calls for the building Of Silk
and Dye Workers Unemployed Coun-
Gil to fight for adequate relief Good,
rent, fuel, clothing, Light to be pro-
vided by the City, State or /and Fed
eral Government and the employers.
Wages must not be reduced in the
shops to the point of starvation b.
the share the work" clause of the
agreement. The employed silk and
dye workers must protect their wages
by uniting witt, the unemployed in
common struggle for their demands.
Executive Board and Strike Com
mittee, National Textile Workers
Union,