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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04
49, IA,Aa
SHOP PAPER REVIEWS

artifically. Each one is carefully
linked up with, and based on con-
crete shop conditions.
Unemployment Insurance is linked
up with continuous layoffs in the
shop, with rising prices in New Haven
The N. r. A. article cites lay-offs, and
contrasts the bosSrs claim that he
can't afford to keep so many work
ers, with the million dollars profits
Of the company during the previous
year. In the Russian Anniversary
article, the security and absence OF
unemployment in the Soviet Union
are contrasted with the increasing
layofs at Winchesters and in New
Haven in general.
The article on war preparations is
linked up with the manufacture OF
munitions in the plant. Its weak
ness is the fact that it does not
clearly explain the class issues, but
at the same time confronts the work
ers, without any explanatory prepara-
ton, with the question What part
will you play in the next bosses WARP"
Such a sketchy approach is par
ticularly inexcusable in a munitions
plant, where the workers will be
called upon to play q specific role
in the coming war, and where the
backward and unclass-conscious
worker may feel that wat will be a
blessing to him by giving him more
work and high wages. The broader
working class issues must be con-
stantly explained. and the organiza-
tional policy carefully outlined.
In fact, in not one single article i'll
the paper is the organizational policy
in the shop made clear. In the ar
ticle on Unemployment Insurance, the
demand is well brought forth after
the issues are explained, but what
is the organizational directive? The
paper says: Join the fight for 1t!
Get in touch with the Trade Union
Unity League and learn how to fight
for it." Why not teach them In the
paper how to fight for 1t? That's
exactly what the paper is for-not
only an agitator and educator, but
an organizer!
What is the organlZ6tional con-
clusion in the article on the N. r. A.?
what must be our answer to this,
workers? ORGANIZE!
Fight against wage-cuts, against lay
offs, against rotten conditions. Write
to us. Tell us about your conditions.
Let the Steel and Metal Workers
Union help you organize"
Organize what? Fight how? Where
Is the organlzationsl leadership which
will teach these workers how to build
up their own grievance committees,
how TO form any united front body
whatever, how to fight on any specific
grievance?
And so we come TO the burning
question af shop grievances. Griev-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04

important point of explaining the
forms of shop organization OF ths
T. U. U. L.
Technically the paper shows that
the greatest care was taken typo
graphically to make 1t look neat, but
it lacks the illustrations, cartoons, and
small items which serve to break up
the massive appearance Of columns
and columns Of typed material. Head
ings Of articles are monotonously
alike. We presume that there Us
no local artist available to help In
livening up the paper. Make an
effort to find one. Ask for copies
of other shop papers issued else
where. for from them the most in
experienced amateur can trace suit
able illustrations onto the stencil
Send to the National Textile Workers
Union. at 1855 Westminster St., for
copy of their international Braid
Toiler,' which has just begun to APP
pear. 1t is sprinkled full of the most
interesting and amusing illustrations.
This paper will be reviewed in full
next Monday.
In conclusion, here we have shop
manufacturing munitions, with bad
working conditions. A little more
thought can orientate the paper
around the strategic issue Of the war
danger, as the central issue, with
out playing down the other political
material already included. Wer IS
near--We must prepare the workers
to play their revolutionary part. Per-
haps previous issues of the paper
stressed this point. but that is no
excuse for slurring it over In Nov
ember. Every single issue must bear
down on the war danger. and the
strategic part these munitions work
ers will be called upon to play.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04
Reviewed by GERTRUDE HAEssLER

Reviewed by GERTRUDE HAESSLER
Back in 1927, when, together with
workers in the Wright Aeronautical
Corporation in Paterson, N. j., was
editing the Wright Propeller" I used
to consult quite frequently the is
sues of the Winchester Worker"
issued at that time by the nucleus
of the Communist Party in this very
important New Haven munitions shop.
In Paterson we were absolutely green
on how to issue shop paper. There
weren't many shop papers in the
country at that time from which to
get assistance, and the Winchester
Worker" was very helpful.
The Winchester Worker" is an "old
faithful among the shop papers in
the country, and we were glad to
get hold of the November 1888 issue.
1t is somewhat mystifying to see it
being issued by the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union. A copy
of the Sept 1880 issue, shows it be-
ing issued by the Winchester Shop
Committee of the Trade Union Unity
League. Were these constant trans
fers from one organization to an
other made with the consent Of the
workers concerned? And was the
transfer announced? Or was it that
the Communist nucleus abandoned
the paper, and the IT. u. u. L., and
then later the S. 8, M. w. I. U. saved
it from oblivion? If so, then 1t was
unwise for either organization to
adopt the same name which the Com
muuist Nucleus had used.
This question of who issues shop
paper is by no means an academic
one. But this question will be
handled in the near future in an ar
ticle by itself.
Now as to this particular issue.
Politically the paper is stronq. Or
ganizationallv it is weak. Here we
have an article on the N. r. A., on
Unemployment Insurance. on war
preparations, on the present strike |
wave, on combating the boss COM
pany machine, on the Anniversary Of |
the Russian Revolution, on the Com |
munist Party Election campaign. And |
don't make mistake - the articles
are not merely mechanically fulfill /
ing instructions that current political
be included in shop paper
They are not stuck In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04
Fishermen's Union
Affiliates to TUUL

SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 30.-A
decision to affiliate its S,400 mem
bers to the Trade Union Unity
League was made by the delegates
of the Fishermen and Cannery
Workers Industrial Union at its
recent first national convention in
Seattle.
The decision was made by unan-
imous vote Of the delegates who
expressed their conviction that
union cannot remain independent
of the militant trade union move
ment and maintain its fighting
organization for the everyday de-
mands Of tho workerA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04
Home Relief Funds
Stopped in KenOsha

KENOSHA. Wis.-With the ex-
cuse that ut Is impossible at this
time to furnish relief funds" the
City Council here voted to dis
continue all public relief beginning
Nov. 80.
A complete refusal to shoulder
the burden Of the starving workeR5
In the city was incorporated into
the resolution voted upon, with the
statemen that the city is without
authority or power to raise funds
for the continuance Of the relief
work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04
Needle Unions Help
BOOs t Sales of the
"Daily' to Members

NEW YORK.-SpIendid CO.
operation by needle trades work
ers to spread the Daily Worker
among their ranks is reported by
s. Wishniak, Daily Worker Red
Builder, who has been given per
mission to speak about the Daily"
at union meetings. Sales Of the
Daily Worker among needle trade
workers have already shown an in
crease as result Of this.
All other trade unions are asked
to extend similar cooperation to
Daily Worker representatives and
thereby help further their own
struggles by seeing to IL that the
daily" organizer and mobiIizer
of the workers, Is more firmly
rooted among the trade union
masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04
Prepare JObIess
Convention With
Hunger Hearings"
West Side, Harlem,
B'klyn, Plan Meets to
Expose Poverty

NEW YORK-Fights for free coal
for the unemployed. against red tape
in the Home Relief Bureaus, and open
hearings to expose the widespread
poverty in workiry class neighbor-
hoods throughout the city-these are
some Of the activities being guided
by the city Unemployed Council to
prepare a fighting base for the
Greater New York Convention
Against Unemployment, Dec. 10, 10 a.
m, at Irving Plaza
Five thousand leaflets in five Ian
guages were distributed by the West
Side Unemployed Council to prepare
for an open hearing on Unemploy-
ment at st. Georges Church, on Sun
day.
A Hunger Hearing" will be held at
8 p. m, Monday, Dec. 4 by the Upper
Harlem Unemployed Council at the
headquarters of the International
Workers Order, 4l5 Lenox Ave,
Brooklyn unemployed will attend a
hearing at p. m, Wed, Dec. 6, at
TIT Atlantic Ave.
Home Relief officials have been
challenged to attend the hearings.
Those who reply will learn they are
not before a polite social service sur
vey that begins and ends in life-less
recitals of figures" and ceases" On
the contrary, the guiding slogan of
every hearing will be mo grievance
exposed without a fight to remedy
It," The role of Forced Labor in at
lacking the living standards Of work
ers will be exposed. AS opposed to
Forced Labor the Workers Unemplov-
ment Insurance Bill will be brought
forward.
Right up to the conference date,
neighborhood hearings will continue
to bring out block issues leading to
struggle which will elect delegates to
the National Convention Against IN
employment which is meeting in
Washington, D. c., Jan. 10, IA and Is.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04
Seven KanSans Indicted in
Million Dollar Bond Fraud

TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. Carl Nc
Keen, President Of the National Bank
OF Topeka, was indicted today with
six others by a grand jury, which in
vestigated the states million dollar
bond forgery. They are charged with
flooding the state with fraudulent
bonds which they claimed were
backed by the State Of Kansas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04
Gas Fumes Kin Two Miners

DENVER, Colo.--Two miners were
killed Saturday by gas fumes in a
mine owned by the 1ittleton Valley
Coal Company. Robert Boyle, at
tempting to rescue Martin Kendrick,
was himself overcome by the fumes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04
Lindbergh to Fly from Africa
to Brazil

BATHURST, British Gambia, Dec.
1.-The Lindberghs will hop from
West Africa to Brazil, a distance of
1000 miles, weather permitting, it was
reported here today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04
NeeUs Briefs
Volcano in Hawaii Erupts

HILO, Hawaii, Dec. 2.-In what is
reported to be the most violent erup-
ton since 1908, Mauna Loa, Hawaiian
volcano, burst forth today, wiping out
an entire village. Three other erup-
tons took place in the Pacific.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04
"Waxey" Gordon Gets Ten
Years

NEW YORK. - "Waxey" Gordon,
charged with income tax evasion, was
fined 100000, and sentenced to ten
years in prison.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04
Mdcy's Praise liberal"
MIRA Code, Devise Wage
Cutting Stagger System
All Department Store Workers Called to Meet
Tuesday, to Organize Union of
White Collar Workers
BY a Macy Worker.

H.
retail has worked
stipulated
taken advantage Of the
R. A. them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04

NEW YORk-Untmg a om EN-
poed wrrkers j. p Morgan Felix Waburg
mont all multi miionares urged workers
their for ten weeks to the Family
of losing jobs working
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04

THE WINCHESTER WORKER is
sued by the Steel and Metal Work
ers Industrial Union, Nov 1888, New
Haven, Conn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04

Has your unit, club, union, Two.
Branch, your organization held a
collection for the Daily Worker?
Help save our Daily
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EDITORS NOTE: This depart
ment of the Daily, appearing each
Monday, will be glad to answer
any letters requesting information
on specific problems confronting the
workers who are issuing shop, mine,
ship or dock papers.
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Billionaires Urge Wages
of Employed for Charity

j. p Morgan Warburg
fortunes but ask workers to
Montana labor news., 1933-08-17
Committee Investigating
Code Violations

Chairman Duncan, of the Special
Committee of the Council, appointed
to investigate violations of the Code
in Butte states that he hopes to have
his first report ready by the next
meeting. The results of the investi-
cation will be forwarded to President
Green and government officials in
Washington, to be investigated from
the national offices. President Roose-
welt and Administrator Johnson state
that persons found guilty of violating
the code will be punished to the full
extent of the law, which is $500 for
each day of violation.
Chief Counsel Richberg and Execu-
tive Director Hammond state that
contracts with unions are not voided
by the signing of the code and that
employers may work their employees
the limit allowed in the union contract
but unless hours are reduced the en-
ployer cannot fly the Blue Eagle, re-
CARELESS of the contract with the
union.
Montana labor news., 1933-08-17
Wide Range Sound Amazes
Park Theater Audience
By Its Fidelity
prepared Review

Wide Range, the new development
of the Western Electric Sound System
for a better sound quality in talking
pictures, was introduced for the first
time at the Park Theater, Tuesday.
1t gave a definite clarity and fidelity
Of sound reproduction never before
heard in talking pictures. The occa-
sional distortion previously heard
from the screen, when sounds had to
be reproduced at an unnatural level,
was completely missing.
The effect is especially marked in
musical numbers or in sounds falling
into either very high or very low fire.
quencies. This is entirely natural for
Wide Range means an extension of
the frequency range Of sounds that
can be recorded and reproduced in
talking pictures. The result is that
a whisper, that might have to be
rdlSeu lHIO Oluildly uldlOS uS w DS
capable of reproduction, a nov be
heard at it's natural level. And the
distortion that was previously evident
in either the whisper or its preceding
and succeeding dialogue, is entirely
eliminated.
Even in a news reel the speakers
voices assumed a vibrancy and life
like quality that was hitherto missing.
Wide Range should be heard to APP
p~reciate the full entertainment value
talking pictures r capable Of. Tues
days audience appreciated this inn
provement and one sensed the senti-
ment that patrons who had nee heard
Wide Range would never be satisfied
with any inferior quality of talking
picture sound.
Montana labor news., 1933-08-17
DRY GOODS RETAILERS WANT $40 TO $12
MINIMUM PAY FOR WOMEN; MEN,
SIP TO $18; 48-HOUR WEEK
CLERKS INTERNATIONAL ENTERS PROTEST

NEW YORK. - The economically
purblind leaders of the National Re-
tail Dry Goods Association have de-
creed in their proposed fair competi-
ton code that clerks should work
forty-eight hours a week and that
minimum wages should be $40 to SIP
a week for women and $12 to $18 for
men.
Evidently the officials of the Retail
Clerks International Protective Asso-
citation, affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor, were not con-
suited in the preparation of this code.
A forty-eight hour week for any
workers is unthinkable according to
the principles of the National Indus
trial Recovery Act, one of whose ma
jor purposes is to provide work for
the 1900, 900 unemployed by decreas-
ing the hours of those already en-
ployed.
As to wages, the $12 to $18 mini
mum proposed for men clerks is far
below the minimum of $31 required to
Montana labor news., 1933-08-17
Committee to Interview
Wheeler and Monaghan

A special committee was appointed
by the Central Council to interview
Senator B. X. Wheeler and Congress-
man Jos. Monaghan regarding the ap-
pointments made in this state for the
administration of the Recovery Act.
1t seems strange to the Council that
with these two avowed friends and
champions of labor in high office that
only enemies of labor should be APP
pointed as administrators of an act
passed for the express purpose of re-
lieving distress among the working
classes. This committee is charged
with investigating the guilty parties
who were responsible for the appoint
ments and labor will take are of the
rest.
Montana labor news., 1933-08-17
THE WASHINGTON
SCENE s 3 R TODD

WASHINGTON = (FP) - Labor
must fight company espionage and
company unionism in the mills and
factories and mines, after having writ
ten its charter of rights into Section
z of the Recovery Act. Company un-
ions will not be recognized in the in
dustrial codes approved by the Recov-
cry Administration. But the workers
in the industries have still to conquer
the resistance of the bosses, organized
and e%mbittered, to labor unions which
will insist on genuine betterment of
the condition of the working class
through negotiation, strikes and col
lective bargaining.
That is the meaning of the man.
euvers which marked the steel code
hearing on July 81, and Administra-
tor Johnson's private sessions with
his deputies and advisers on the pre-
ceding day. Automobile manufacture
ers are blocked in their plan to en-
balm the company union in a code.
West Coast lumbermen see the reeog-
milton of their fascist union-the 10y
al Legion of Loggers and Lumber
men-torn out of the code which
Deputy Gates asked Johnson to ap-
prove. President Roosevelt seems to
have given Johnson new light on the
Administration program; johnson has
"bawled out" and fired at least one
of the Prick group Of assistants who
had begun to make the NRA look like
a conference Of the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers. With the in
cident Of the striking out or company
unionism from the text of the steel
code, notice has been given that the
Recovery Administration will not
openly side with the anti-union m
ployers against the workers who are
willing to fight for a real union.
%*#
President Lamont of the Iron and
Steel Institute, in yielding to John
sons ruling, at the hearing, that the
company union clause must be drop
ped, put the steel kings challenge to
labor in this way:
at should be distinctly understood
that the omission of the section does
not imply any change in the attitude
of the industry on the two points re-
ferred to: that the industry believes
that the employee representation plans
now in effect at it's plants are desired
[Continued on Page Twol
Montana labor news., 1933-08-17

buy a decent living for a workers
family Of five, according to the living
standards developed by Professor Paul
H. Nystrom of Columbia University.
Under the associations code the Nys-
from standard required as necessary
to keep a family of five in health and
efficiency could only be reached If
both father and mother worked, leav-
ing the children to take care of them
selves. And the minimum wage of
$40 to $12 a week for women clerks
is not enough to buy a decent living
for even single women.
Evidently the hours proposed by the
National Retail Dry Goods Associa-
ton will have to be drastically reduced
and the minimum wages drastically
raised before the associations code
meets the requirements of the Nation
al Industrial Recovery Act to increase
both the purchasing power of the
masses and the number of those en-
ployed.
Montana labor news., 1933-08-17
UNION AUTO TIRE
NOW MANUFAC-
TURED
Akron Council Asks Labor's
Support
To All Central Labor Bodies and
Building Trades Councils:


Building Trades Councils:
Greetings;
The organized labor movement in
the City of Akron has been striving
for a number of years to organize the
Rubber Industry. On June 80, 1888,
the Summit County Central Labor I'm
ion inaugurated an extensive campaign
to organize the workers in the Rub
Der factories in this city, and we have
been very successful to date.
Through a series of conferences
with officials of the India Tire and
Rubber Company, located at Mega
dore, Ohio, a suburb of Akron, the
management of the plant agreed to
unionize their plant 100 per cent and
notified their employees to join the
Rubber Workers Union. Meetings
were called at the plant and steps
taken to unionize the entire factory.
This step in favor of union labor is
not the first step which the India
Company has made. Just a year ago
this company increased wages 20 per
cent to offset a cut which had been
necessary in January. For well over
a year the company has been operat-
ing on a six-hour day, with the mer
averaging SO hours a week.
For this reason we are glad to rec
ommend the India Company and IN
Ola Tires for your consideration.
The India Tire and Rubber Company
manufactures the highest grade tires
and tubes available on the market anC
that company is deserving of the pat
ronage of all organized workers anC
their friends throughout the country.
For obvious reasons the Rubber
Workers Union label will not appear
on INDIA products. We are just a
the beginning of this movement anC
many details are yet to be worked out
The labor movement in the City Of
Akron is seeking the support Of The
entire labor movement to assist us il
this campaign. The support we re.
quest is easy to give. All that IS re.
quired is to broadcas! the fact 'hat tht
India Tire Company is a lOG per cent
Union Shop and boost INDIA prod.
ucts.
Trusting we will receive your full
cooperation in the matter.
Fraternally yours,
w. TATE, Secretary.
W. H. WILSON Treasurer.
Montana labor news., 1933-08-17
SPECIAL STATE
FEDERATION
President Graham Calls the
Meeting for Aug. q.
AUGUST Ia, 1888

August IA, 1888.
To All Central Bodies and Local I'm
ions Affiliated with the A. F. of L.:
Greetings:
This is to notify you that by order
of the Executive Committee q Special
Convention of the Montana State Fed
Grafton of Labor will be held at the
Eddy Cabin, Helena, Montana, COM
mencing at IL o'clock A. NJ. Sunday,
August 81, 1888, and will continue in
session until the business of the con-
vention is completed.
The purpose of the convention is to
consider wages, hours of labor, work.
ing conditions, the adopting of a code
under the National Industrial Recov-
cry Act, unemployment relief, re-em-
ployment, the safety code as regulat-
ed by the Industrial Accident Board,
the safety code as regulated by the
Railroad Commission, workmen's COM
~pensation, disqualification Of injured
workers, and sanitation of work
camps.
Credentials in duplicate are en-
closed and officers of organizations
sending delegates are requested to see
that same are properly filled and
countersigned.
The secretary of each organization
should mail the duplicate in time to
reach this office not later than Aug
ust 26, but in case that is not possible,
the delegate should bring it personally
to the convention.
Article Misrepresentation.
Section 1. The basis of representa-
ton to all conventions of the Mon
tana State Federation of Labor shall
be as follows; Each local union shall
be entitled to one representative fol
the charter and one for each 100 mem
bers or major fraction thereof until
1000 membership is attained, and one
delegate for each 1000 members af-
ter the first 1000 members. City
Councils, Department and District
Councils shall be entitled to one dele
gate, provided such delegate is a mem
Der of a local union, affiliated and in
good standing with the Montana State
Federation of Labor for three months
prior to the convention, except a new.
ly organized local or council.
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