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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-21

OMAR RICH has just issued
new Kennewick paying farm
bargain list. Ask for one-free.
This is the best time to buy. Omar
Rich, Kennewick. Esp
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COWS FOR SALE. j. Crangle,
route lone mile east of S. P.
& S. depot. X
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-21

SEE US for all sporting goods,
guns, ammunition, fis h in g
tackle, standard goods, priced
right. Plowmans. tic
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-21

FOR SALE-Tree-ripened Italian
prunes, Better get them now be-
fore it is too late. Phone 37x4.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-21

Top sALE-Delicious culls, 25c
a full apple box. BRING y oe
how w Fl. Witt, phone 1856. 25-2op
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NOD sALE-Red Raspberries, or
do dsr early to insure supply. n.
aer e.. 24-29p
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-21

Eop sAL-12-ga. Winchester re-
80 and kept in perfect condition.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-21

SILVERSIDES will be running
before long. Come in and see the
new fresh tackle and lures. Plow-
mans. tic
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-21

NOD saLE-Good wheat hay. W:
fJH Martin, phone 3Sx11.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-21

5op sALE-24 Angora rabbits
fo obean Jas. Johnston, phone 800.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-21

EYES EXAMINED, glasses fit
ted properly fitted at Schnel-
ler's, SO East Main, Walla WaAa,
Washington. SStf
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-21

FOR st.LE-Reed baby buggy,
cheap, phone 1874.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-21

ALL NEW STOCK-High grade
sporting goods, shot guns, am
munition. Plowmans. tic
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-21

WRITE w. J. Cody, Lyle, Wash.
for prices on wood in carload
lots. ,-e 24-28p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-28

NEW YORK Congratulations on
the international Labor Defense
campaign around the Scottsboro
case, and a pledge of assistance by
his organization in the work ahead
in the case, are contained in letter
from Roger Baldwin, national direc-
tor of the American Civil Liberties
Union, to William L. Patterson, ma
tional secretary Of the I. L. D.
The text OF the letter follows:
"On my return to the city, have
just seen your release on Scottsboro,
Supplementing the brief press dis
patches I saw in the Middle West.
I have also noted our own press re-
lease in which more of compliment
is paid to the trial judge than to the
efforts of the I. L. D. which brought
about this decision.
I want you to know that all of us
here are highly appreciative Of the
splendid fight the 1. L. D. has put up
from the beginning for the Scots
boro boys. You have done job that
no other agency could do or would
do, not only in arousing world wide
opinion and protest, but in the Sc
lection of counsel for the skillful
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-28
Negroes Jim-Crowed
in Lynchburg Shops;
Carter Is Town Boss

LYNCHBURG, Va. This city
which boasts of having given Carter
Glass to the U. S. Senate has the
additional distinction" of extending
Jim Crowisrn to the shop.
The Lynchburg Hosiery Mill has
two factories located in different Sec
tons of the city, one of which en-
ployes only white women and girls,
and the other only Negroes. Wages
in the latter factory are considerable
below the miserably low wages paid
the white workers. Working full
time on an 11-hour shift, a young
Negro topper said the most she could
make was 81 per week. They are
paid at the rate of three cents per
dozen pairs.
Carter Glass, author of the Glass
Steagall banking bill just put through
congress, is the big boss of the town.
He owns the only two newspapers
published here, The News and The
Daily Advance, both of which are
closely linked up with mill owners
in Virginia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-28

/ their organized power who can win
the right TO keep their industry Or
ganized in their own rank and file
unions
The Roosevelt administration and
the textile barons are using Mcmahon
German and Co. to put over their
attack on the textile workers in the
following form: u Lull the textile
masses into passively waiting for the
operation of the recovery act" o
BY this means prevent the outbreak
of strikes. - Where the strikes do
break out take over the leadership
in order to defeat it. ~ Under Ger
tain conditions where the masses are
about to strike, even take the init
ative in calling the strike, in order
to be in a more favorable position to
betray it. (Mr. REVERE of the u T.
w. did this in the last Manchester
strike. The U.T.W. called the strike
for wage increase. When they sent
the workers back to the mills with
"a victory" large sections of them
found 20 per cent pay cut in their
envelopes.) 81 No general drive to
organize the unorganized, but where
there Is movement for organization
steer it into the safe channels of the
UT.W.
The textile barons will only favor
U.T.W. organization against the
greater evil" of the organization of
their workers into militant rank and
file organization like the National
Textile Workers Union. They are
keeping in mind the revolt of the
U.T.W. rank and file in Salem and
Manchester. At the same time they
will use their faithful lackeys Nc
Mahon, German, ct. al, under all con-
ditions.
For Real improvements.
The militant National Textile
Workers Union is leading the strug-
gle in the industry against this latest
attack by the employers and their
government. We must - Fight for
increases in wages (including piece
work prices to meet the rising cost
of living. D Demand the 40-hour
week without any reduction in pay.
- No stretch out, speed-up systems.
Abolition Of health and safety haz-
ards. A. Fight for the special de-
mands of the women, youth and Ne
groes in the industry. 81 Federal I'M
employment insurance at the expense
Of the government and employers.
We must build our department and
mill united action committees to fight
along this line. For permanent or
ganization in the mill join the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union which
takes in all textile workers regard
less Of political, religious or racial
differenceU
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-28
From An Old Friend
of the Daily Worker

The following letter is from =. w.
Theinert, disabled veteran who for
several years has been at the U. S.
Veterans Hospital in Oteen, North
Carolina. Many readers will perhaps
remember his frequent letters and
contributions to the Daily Worker
during the past three financial
drives. Theinert, too, has evidently
been subjected to Roosevelt's raw
deal, as his letter indicates:
Dear Comrades: I received your
letter regarding the expiration of my
sub and thank you for notifying me.
II expect to leave the hospital with
in the next week or two and will be
obliged to let my sub expire for the
time being. AS soon as I establish a
permanent residence, will inmedi-
ately subscribe again, as 1 know l
would be lost without the Daily.
THE Daily has made me class
conscious and has opened my eyes
to the abysmal corruption of the
kept press and radio, and has shown
me the MARKHAM philosophy and
the dirty misleadership of the en-
tire Second International.
What was once nothing but a
fog of contradictions and bewilder-
nent in my mind is now clarified.
Yours for the dictatorship Of ths
proletariat."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-28
are going back to work.

are going back to work.
Not satisfied with the attacks on
the money and real wages Of the
textile workers, the employers and
their agents are aiming special blows
against the women, youth and Ne
groes in the industry. The textile
code refuses to guarantee the $40 and
$11 minimum to: Apprentices, clean
ers and outside employees. In the
South it affects the Negro workers
and in the industry as a whole it
affects the youth and sections of the
women who can be easily designated
as apprentices" by the employers.
In New Bedford, Batty and Binns
of the United Textile Workers CA. F.
of L. textile union) have forced
through decision in their textile
council calling for the abolition Of
the Massachusetts, state law forbid
ding night work for women under
the pretext that Roosevelt must not
be hampered in carrying out the IRE
covery act.
Role of U.T.W. MisIeaders.
The recovery act" does not auto
matically abolish the open nom
union shop" in the textile industry.
1t simply gives the workers the right
to organize in unions for collective
bargaining" Ca right which they le-
gally had before the act was pas
sedD. And if the act forbids the
employer from refusing to hire a
worker simply because he belongs to
labor union, it does not prevent him
from refusing to hire union worker
under any other pretext that he can
invent. 1t will certainly be used by
the employers to try to smash the
left wing unions. Such a drive has
already been started in the needle
trades. II u only the workers thru
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-28
I'D A Z ID Y I'D A 7
With the "Daily"
Let's Have News from Our
Statesmen and Distributors

For the past several weeks we have
been getting news and letters only
from district and section representa-
tives of the Daily Worker The COM
rades who are actually on the streets,
on the delivery routes, have remained
silent.
But it is only the workers who act
ually go out into the streets and
among the factories and strikes and
working class neighborhoods to sell
the Daily who can really indicate the
best methods for succeeding in the
present circulation drive.
We want letters from these work
ers: Describing their experiences,
their failures, their accomplish
ments. We want to know what sort
Of news, in their opinion, attracts
the workers to whom they sell the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-28
HERD WAR VETS
IN LABOR CAMPS
Starving ExSoldiers in
Old Army Barracks

NEW YORK, June 27.-More than
800 war veterans recruited for forced
labor camps are in the barracks off
Fort Slocum, near New Rochelle. The
rest of New York's quota of 1855
will be sent to Plattsburg, New York,
the military training camp.
They are the recruits from the 2nd
corps area and went directly to the
camps from the Army Building at
sc Whitehall Street. The capitalist
press reported that they were openly
pleased to be back in military life"
The veterans, all of whom were
formerly recipients Of pensions or
compensation, have been cut off by
Roosevelt's economy" program All
were without jobs; many had fami-
lies who were hungry. There were no
prospects for them. They were signed
up for the forced labor camps at one
dollar day when they applied for
aid to the Veterans Administration
at 225 w. Saith Street.
The addition of the veterans to the
quota for the End army corps division
brings the total up to 33,723 men
More than $4,000 are already in To-
restry camps in Washington, Idaho,
Montana and other Western states,
where they wear convict garb, work
under strict military regime for but
a dollar or less day, doing work
that timber workers formerly re-
ceived $3.50 to SIS for doing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-28
An Offer to Aid the Textile Workers

article
the problems of the textile conditions
trial Slavery Act
problems in the mills formulate clearly
demands opposition
send letters short articles giving the
WORKER This will result the sped possible
tonaI workers
United mill committees Comrade Kaplan
quickly set the
from outside Only quick action by the
mill committees building the National Textile
file opposition the reactona UTW
carrying through strike actions for the
will bring results The DAILY WORKER
tile workers in their efforts to hammer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-28

pay you $40 and s11 for 20 hours
work
The recovery act" clearly provides
for the stagger system (also known
as the share the work, or share the
misery plans. In General Jollnsons
bulletin of June goth we read:
IAN average work week should
be designed SO far as possible to
provide for such spread of en-
ployment Tread: spread of misery,
N. K.) as will provide work so far
as practical for the employees nor
mally attached to the particular
industry"
Now the employees normally at
tached" includes the army of the I'M
employed textile workers who are to
take part of the job of the employed
textile workers. Roosevelt even states
this share the-misery feature much
clearer in the following words:
"The idea is simply for employ
ers to hire more men to do the ex-
isting work (you see-not new
men" for new jobs, but NEW men"
to share the existing work.-N.K.)
by reducing the hours of each mans
week"
And don't forget that the act does
not say that the 40-hour week is
the minimum number of hours you
can work-it simply says it's the max
imum hours you can work
This is the same Wall St. stagger
plan tune sung before March 4th by
Hoover. The words have slightly
changed but the melody fingers on.
1t means more hardships both for
the employed and unemployed textile
workers. 1t means still further cuts
in local jobless relief and the refusal
to grant federal unemployment in
surance under the pretext that peopls
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-28
R, R. brotherhood Official
.ScOrnS Members Demand
for Unemployment Insurance
Support for Federal Unemployment Insurance by Locomotive Fire
mems Union Answered With Contempt by President Robertson

eral Unemployment Insurance for US
to be paid BY A STEEPLY GRAD
UATED TAX ON THE HIGHER IN
COMES, such incomes as your own
and Dan Wizards, Atterbury's, j. P
Morgan's, etc.
And so for two years we have been
starving, and living in hope that you
would fulfill the fine promises made
in your letters, but we have finally
come to the conclusion that you are
absolutely worthless as far as Labor
Union Leader is concerned.
Biggest Sell-Out
Your biggest sell-out was the $500
loan bill for the unemployed. You
knew the sentiment was strong for a
nationwide Unemployment Insur-
ance, and so you sabotaged this senti-
ment by your proposal for $5o0.00
loan, which would have to be paid
back by some more 10 per cent de-
auctions, and which bill ALSO IN
CLUDED ANOTHER HUGE LOAN
FOR THE RAILROADS. (Why was
that necessarily WHAT HAS HAP
PENED TO THAT LOAN PRO
POSAL? Has it been thoroughly dis
credited, or has it just simply served
its purpose of blanketing our logical
demands for Federal Unemploy-
ment Insurance?
Fake Proposals
Due to the efforts Of yourself and
the other Labor CD Leaders and your
fake proposals, and also due to the
efforts of the National Civic FEEDER
alton, and due to the betrayal of
President VIM. Green of the A. F. of
l.. at Cincinnati last November, the
rank and file demand for Federal
Unemployment Insurance has been
shelved, and our Leadership's (?)
principle of Divide and Rule" has
been substituted"
(Signed) r. RONDAT."
To the specific suggestions that the
railroad unions support a campaign
for Unemployment Insurance, Presi-
dent Robertson answered with con-
tempt ignoring the demands of the
union members.
He states: las President of the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen, have cooperated
with the representatives of the other
twenty railway labor organizations in
the national legislative programs
which have been advanced to protect
the rights and interests of railway
employees.
Will Not Discuss
Il do not care to waste any time
arguing with man who appears to
be so self -conceited as to believe that
he is the only true union man and
that the ideas of every other union
man, particularly representatives of
union labor, should be subordinated
TO his ideas
Yours truly.
ID. B. ROBERTSON"
In answer to Robertson's letter,
this union member addressed an open
letter to "All Officers and Members,
to All Grand Trunk Locals Of the
B. of L. F. S. E.
Robertson DIdges
Pres. Robertson's letter is a shin
ing example of the way in which our
present day leaders CD answer the
honest and logical questions of the
rank and file: It's a Dodge that
is as old as the hills namely, when
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-28
By NAT KAPLAN

National Organizer of the National
Textile Workers Union
THE cotton trade code submitted to
Brigadier General Hugh S. John
son, head of the National Industrial
Recovery Administration" by the tex
tile barons is aimed to increase the
misery of the textile workers. For
large sections of the textile workers
it will mean less money in their pay
envelopes at a time when the cost Of
living is going up. For all of them it
will mean drastic cut in real wages
because of rising prices they will be
able to buy fewer necessities with
their wages. 1t will mean increased
speed up and a military regimenta-
lion in the mills
Under Roosevelt's slogan: ITO free
buslness-not to shackle it,, the big
bankers and big textile employers
will be given undiSputed control in
the price fixing cartels employers
combinations) which will grind down
the workers real wages and extermi-
nate the small textile employers. Thru
this measure they hope to perform
the miracle of eliminating COMPETE
ton, but they will only succeed in
creating more drastic competition
between the bigger textile barons.
The textile barons can only sue
coed in this competitive struggle if
they reduce production costs at the
expense Of the textile workers.
In order to understand the "recoy-
cry act we must dig below its sur
face covering of ballyhoo, Of loose,
unsupported statements about put
ting people back to work., guaran-
tees of "a living wage, etc. We must
understand the deeds" and not the
empty words of Roosevelt and his
skilled strike-breaking clique Of
Green, Mcmahon, German and Co.
Danger of Direct Wage Cuts.
For months before the recovery
act" was passed the textile barons
intensified their direct wage cutting.
These cuts run as high as 60 to 80
per cent in the last 4 years. In the
last two months some of the textile
employers in order to curb strikes
and on the basis of a substantial
rise in the price of cloth (due to in
flation) have handed back measly
5 to 1872 per cent raise in pay to
their workers.
Now along comes the textile code"
and fixes minimum wage of 81
weekly in the North and $40 weekly
IN the South for a 40-hour week.
The recovery act" gives plenty of
leeway to the employers for turning
this minimum into the maximum
wages The act specifically forbids
anything; which might tend to set
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-28
Sign Slave Contract
to Get Relief in
MuskegOn Heights

MUSHROOM HEIGHTS, Mich
A demonstration took place before
City Hall against a slave contract
which unemployed must sign in order
to get relief.
The contract to be signed states:
I'm consideration of certain advances
made to me by the city Of Muskegon
Heights for welfare aid, the amount
of which is evidenced by certain
promisory notes heretofore and
thereafter to be signed by me, I do
hereby transfer, set over and sign
to the said city Of Muskegon Heights
such wages as shall become due me
from my employer while I shall be
employed as security for the repay
ment of said notes"
According to this contract any one
receiving relief will have to pay 1t
back from his wages If work is found
at any time. The contract even
specifies that in case Of my death
that my administrator" should have
to make such payments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-28
The Textile Code>~"An Empty Bread Box

maximum as well as a minimum
wage" (Section 7, c.. Hence all
textile workers still getting over $40
and $11 per week face the danger of
direct pay cuts towards this level. In
words Roosevelt shouts for 1.-The wages
OF decent living In deeds he offers
the textile workers $40 and s1I as
this living wage.
Even charity organization like
the Family Welfare Society in Provi-
dence in suggesting family budgets
can't conceive of less than a $40
weekly income for family OF 5.
And the adequacy of this budget can
be gagged from the fact that it pro-
vides nothing for savings" and only
75c week for newspapers, movies,
gifts, donations TO churches, doctor,
dentist, occulist bills, vacations, etc.
Take two examples of average
wages today: Burlington, N. c., Mills,
s12, and S13 weekly. Berkshire Fine
Spinning in New England, women $12
and sl3 and men $18 to $40. Is it
not clear that under the recovery
act" the employers will try to beat
down these wages to $40 and $11 re-
Spectively.
Pay Cuts Under Guise OF Shorter
Hours.
A textile worker whose weekly
hours are cut from 70 to 40 under
the recovery act" will get that much
less money in his pay envelope. This
is clearly stated by the textile barons
in their journal Fibre and Fabric:
Forty hours or 80 hours with a
48 hour pay is too foolish to talk
about, as labor is going to get in
pay, just what it gives back in work,
and anyone who believes that 48
hours pay is coming with a 80 or
40 hours week is being fooled"
The editor of the Textile World
(another employers paper admitted
that even If a provision were put in
to a so-called shorter hours bill pend
ing in congress to maintain wages"
the attempt to enforce such a proyi-
sion would be futile. The same
thing applies to the recovery act".
Thus this act under the guise Of
shorter hours is going to cut the tex
tile workers weekly pay to the same
extent as they cut the hours OF Ia
Dor.
Pay Cuts Through the Stagger
System.
Many textile workers who earn be-
low $40 week believe that their
wages will be automatically raised
under the recovery act". But I'M
der the act you are entitled to get
$40 and sl1 for 40 hours work. The
employers can cut you below this
minimum wage by staggering your
working week. They certainly won't
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-28
Illinois Miners in
Fight Against Use
of the Pauper's Act

VIRDEN, Ill.-At a mass meeting
of 400 miners, held here on June 81,
it was decided to take immediate
steps against the signing of affida-
Wits which make the unemployed
paupers. 1t was decided to strike
against the signing of these papers.
In order to see that no one signs
these papers, picketing will begin at
the relief station.
Fight Paupers' Act.
This action is part of the state
wide campaign against the Pauper
Act, which denies the unemployed
the most elementary rights Under
this act an unemployed person can
be denied the right to vote, the right
to join an organization which fights
for more relief, the right to give
bail
In Nakomis, Ill. four families have
been cut off relief because they gave
bail for Zip Kochinski, leader of the
unemployed in Illinois. The super
visor claimed that these families
could not go bail because they are
paupers. Mass meetings are being
arranged to force the relief authori-
ties to place them back on relief.