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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21

BORO PARK - Finnish Workers Home
I46 10th st.; Workers Center. il0s 18th ST.
BATH BEACH-Bath Beach Workers Club,
81 Bay 2sth st.
BENSONHURST = Bensonhurss workers
Center, zoos 10th st.
COMFY ISLAND = Coley Island Workers
Center, 9th st. and Mermaid
BRIGHTON BEACH - Brighton Beach
Workers Center, Brighton Beach and Coney
Island Ave.
WILLIAMSBURG - Workers Center. 81
Graham Ave: Bridge Plaza Workers Club,
235 Rodney st.; Laisye 46 Ten Eyc.s ST.;
Progressive Workers Center, lSe Sumner
ave.
BROWNSVILLE Brownsville Workers
Center, 1918 Pitkin Ave; American Youth
Club, los Thatford Ave; Hinsdale Workers
Club, 313 Hinsdale St.
JAMAICA---Jamaica Workers Center, 49,
20 Liberty Ave.
SECTION
Ukrainian Labor Temple, 1861 Auburn
Ave-. Hungarian Workers Home, 1900 Lorain
Ave-. Finnish Workers Home. 4528 Detroit
Ave, 1Bulgarian-M Macedonian Workers Home,
1886 Madison Ave. rea-.
SECTION Q
South NSlay Workers Hall. Goal ST. Clair
Ave. 3rd floor; Workers Center, 756 f. l05th
St.; LithuAnian workers Hall. $40 r. 10th
St; scandinavian Workers Hall, 7010 Wade
SECTION
Jewish wSrkers Center. laloi Kinsman
Rd.; Hunsa,1An Workers Home iil33 Buck
eye Rd.; vi Elore headquarters, 1896 Broad
way.
b. SECTION II
WogksrS 1855 Woodland Ave, 5rd
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21
Sheffield Steel
Pay Checkc as Low
as So per Week
(By a Worker Correspondent,

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-The living
standards of the Sheffield steel work.
ers are constantly dropping. Many
OF the workers on the extra list work
two and three days per week since
steel production took another slump
recently. Many Of the pay checks
run as low as $l8 to $40 for two weeks.
In spite Of the fact that the steel
workers have little or no winter fuel
and have such low pay, the local
charities campaign never missed the
steel workers.
The Amalganated Association of
Iron Steel and Tin Workers, which
signed up several hundred men in
the union lest July and still holds
meetings, is continuing to tell the
men to wait until next July, until a
certain contract between the A. F.
of L. and the company expires.
According to local leaders Of the
A. F. of L., the company cleared a
million and half dollars from the
misery of the workers in the II
months preceding the N.R.A. The
A. F.. Of L., refusing to do anything
until another year, means that they
are willing that the company con-
tinue to reap these profits.
All honest workers, both A. F. of L.
members and members, must see
through these tricks and must build
shop organizations, and the union
based on the class struggle, the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21

up Blake, also one of the heads of
the N,R.A. Board in Washington?
Fellow workers, the only way we
can win this strike is by stopping the
scabS, through mass picketing, from
taking away our jobs. And if Beedy,
Drucker or any other member of the
Strike Committee objects to letting
us stop the scabs, they are doing
exactly what the boss wants, and we
remove any one on the committee
who is carrying out the wishes of the
boss. We must turn this holiday"
into real strike to win our demands.
We must get all the strikers who
have become disguised because of the
way the strike is being run to come
down. They should be visited i'm
n1ediately-.
Macs piclzeting must lie started iyl-
mediately to stop the scabs.
There should be strike meetings
every day and the Strike Committee
should report to the meeting the
plans for the strike.
All those on the strike committee
who are against putting up a fight
should be removed and sincere fight
ers elected in their place.
Demand that final settlement of
the strike be made by the strikers
themselves at a strike meeting where
the settlement is voted upon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21
Colonial Radio
Fires Hundreds,
Doubles Output
nv a Young Metal Worker Cory

(By a Young Metal Worker Cor.)
BUFFALO, N. VI am one girl
worker in Colonial Radio who is con-
WINGED that the American Federation
of Labor, which got us to join their
federal union at the end OF Septem-
Der, has worsened our conditions and
will do nothing to better them. Here
are my reasons:
The day after the strike was settled
by a secret agreement, hundreds OF
girls, most of them belonging to the
federal union, were laid off. The A.
F. of L. had taken 81 initiation fees
plus 81 for dues from us.
Then the bosses increased produc-
ton almost double, SO that we were
turning out more with reduced
force. The speed-up was increased a
great deal.
Then wages were increased one and
a half cents an hour! From 80 cents
we were raised to 331a cents an hour.
What does this mean when we have
to turn out more, and when the
prices on food and clothing are go
ing up all the time?
Now there are strong rumors that
another layoff will take place. 1t
is said that those girls who do not
belong to the A. F. of L. union will
get laid off first. OF course, it's plain,
they are trying to force all the girls
into their union. But if a layof is
going to take place, we'll get laid of,
A. F.. of l.. union or no A. F. of L.
union. 1 don't think that this fed
eral union will fight the layoff or
protect laid off workers by helping
them get relief. Why, most of us
don't know when the next meeting
of the union will take place!
That's why like the Steel and
Metal Workers Union = it not only
fights for better conditions, but il
tries it's best to keep them after they
win them.
The workers of Acme Steel, Pratt
and Letchworth, Wickwire and the
other shops and mills organized in
the Steel and Metal Union have won
and still have good conditions. Wake
up, Colonial Radio girls!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21
Daily" Tag Day Stations

Below are listed stations for the
Daily Worker Tag Days, Nov. "A. rs
and Goth. Clip out the list Of stations
IN your city. Volunteer to take tag
day boxes. Help make these three
days victories in the battle to save
our Daily Worker. Visit shops, Of
fees, factories, workers homes, ap-
proach workers on the streets with
Daily Worker Tag Day Boxes on this
Friday, Saturday and Sunday. AL
Districts, airmail lists OF your
stations Immediately.
NEW YORK CITY
DOWNrOWN--Work Center sS Ave C.
East Side Workers Club 1855 East Broadway.
MIDTOWN-Greek Workers Club, ace w.
18th St.; Armenian Workers Club, So w.
25th St.; Needle Trades Workers Indu5-
trial Union, 131 w. 28th st.
HARIEM--Finnish Workers Hail. IS W.
126th st.; Esthonian Workers Club, 27tW
ll5th St.. Harlem Liberator, 2l62 7th Ave.
YORkVILLE-Hungaris Workers Home,
$50 2. 8ist st.
LOWER BRoNx-workers Center, see
Prospect Ave. Prospect Workers Club, 1851
So Boulevard; Bronx Workers Club, i40o
Boston Road.
UPPER BRONX - Workers Center. 2075
CLINTON Ave; Coop Unemployed Council,
Barker and Britton Streets; Middle Bronx
WORKERS Center. 1892 Third Ave.
SOUTH Workers Center. 1872
Myrtle Ave-; Workers Cen5er, 2an Cc'-.---
bia st.; Scandinavian workers Club, 5000
Fifth AZ :,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21

WH-tz3SGtS. mere we art, WIN, UeCduSe u
gan The system thieving from the work.
prossrs. have developed our talents for
therraling something out of nothing
to lind the Daily needs us and we
witlh~a rot ready
We'll. here in the New England
TlOi1trict we have started something
the sald we think it is OK. for all sec
phcticna. One comrade buys Cor orders
courlom the office) five copies of the
ACaily Worker and then invites five
Scotgo-xers to her home and tells them
with bout the d. w; how it fights in
dictIh. interest of the workers and leads
ants heir struggle, and about the drive
the nd why we must have such drives
slept5he asks each of these friends to
exce,ive a nickel dime, or a. quarter
OF br more, and then get five copies of
minshe Daily Worker invite five friends
line-o her house for tea, coffee, or a
the neal and tell them about the Daily
as worker. ask for a donation and ask
The ;acll of these five to do the same,
tionend to write all about these ex-
and seriences. And so on and SO onl
GENE This is very easy to do and is
uty OTIS of fun, and has great organiza-
Sectional results because these groups
and meet again and again, and from
gan hem grow study classes and work
Bers correspondence groups.
loei' Sometimes we talk so much about
cla!sarge sums we make workers in iso-
Waited pla1es think they cannot help
ius1ecause the amount they would give
tins SO small; but we must remember
lushat 1t Is these pennies that give
ouurrhes Likelihood to the Daily Worker.
tbe We had lots of fun at Glitter
,nnting dinner and collected $1.95.
Chasome forward, comrades in the
crome we are on our way, marching
6ictpward the dayni We are in
naresirmish of the great warI On to
flonave the Daily Workerl Working
onen, realize your strength! Unite!
cts have action, now, today
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21

that we were going to win the strike
by simply presenting our case before
the N.RA., and that because our de-
mands are reasonable the N. R. A.
would make Mr.. Blake accept all our
demands. More than two weeks have
passed since we walked out, and the
strikers are still waiting for the N.
RIA. to force Mr.. Blake to accept our
demands. Mr.. Beedy has been phon-
ing us up every day that he will have
a favorable settlement within "a
hours. This favorable 24-hour settle
ment seems to be taking the same
course at Hoover's 60-dsy pros
perity.'
In the meantime, while we are
waiting for this settlement, Mr.. Blake
has secured full force of scabs to
work his factory.
Fellow workers. how can we win
cur strike when there are scabs pro-
ducing and taking our jobs awayP
AS far as the N.RA. goes, it never
yet has settled strike in the inter
est Of the workers, except when the
factory was closed down through
mass picketing, and in that case, the
boss would have to settle whether or
not there was any MIRA. How can
the MIRA. give us a, favorable settle
ment when we find Swope, the head
of the National Electrical Manufac-
turers Association, which Is backing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21
BY JOHN L. spIyAK.

DECATUR, Ala, Nov. 20.--A brazen
call to lynch the International Labor
Defense attorneys in the Scottsboro
case, Samuel Leibowitz and Joseph
Brodsky, is being circulated here III
a 54-page pamphlet written and pub
ished by one Woodford Mabry, a
lawyer of Grove Hill, Ala. Neither
the legal nor police authorities OF
Morgan County are doing anything
to stop it.
Why does the law give you the
right to expel the tresspasser with
just such force as you find neces.
sary?" Counselor Mabry asks in his
"brief and argument" as he terms
his pamphlet. "It is because the law
is too slow to save you and you mus
save yourself.
In like manner, the law may pe
too slow and uncertain to save 6
menaced community, because Of out
side lawyers >. then that community
must exercise its inherent right te
defend itself.
THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR
DEFENSE AND ITS METHODS ARE
(c.onital. for ar,,rL.s;r ~ x1ahr,,,s1
Tbis cr,,da caiI .rS othsr s;,,,i, L'
axnress;ons IN tha rar,nl,Ia+ for y
ly,,chino i dir.ctsd - ~ ,,oo,,la =.
slahane and IL hs;,,s n,;da,, Sistr,t
utad bara and ov;,sIn go aro,,as
tba ve,,ou h,icS co,,r+ ho,,sa n,har.
the scott sho-o hive ~ ~ ao ~, tr;ai
tor tha,, ,,,,as ~ 1865 80 ~ 81 ~ y 10
T., a. harSs ~ - 500 -
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srod nar,n,,,a+ ,s -, a,,,dar,a. TSoso
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Not only does II contain this bald
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21
Printed Call to Lynch Boys,
Attorneys Circulated in Ala.

Mabry states in his foreword. 'THI
SOUTHERN WHITE MAN KNOWS
THE NEGRO and the NEGRO
KNOWS THE SOUTHERN WHITE
MAN.
THE BEST HOPE of the negro 0.
the South lies in the continuance anC
cultivation of these relations and the
education of his children on PURELY
PRACTICAL LINES"
Throughout it's pages ATTORNEY
Mabry brands as absurd" the pay.
ment of taxes to educate colored
people in Alabama and urges thai
the Negro education BE restricted tx
reading, writing and arithmetic"
Decries Education fo- Niger Buck.
and Wenches''
"A negro crammed on Latin. Greek
or on physiology and geometry. is !
ruined niger" the learned counse
states and continues:
THE taxing of poor white people
to furnish HIGHER EDUCATION
Tor negro wenches and sassy bucks.
rs an OUTRAGE upon the WHITE
1 and an injury to the negroes
I EFollowing are few excerpts from
-sHe pamphlet, showing its spirit.
M White supremacy should be es-
( tablished by law.
al take the position that the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments of the Constitution should be
repealed"
Don't you know that Holy Writ
expressly sanctions and regulates
the system (of slavery that Christ
never uttered word against it. and
that ST. PAUL COMMANDED
SLAVES TO OBEY THEIR MAS
TERS?"
Sees Lynch Courts Blocked by Mass
Protests
When these things happen (out-
siders defending Negroes it naturally
arouses the indignation of the people
and sometimes, they do what the law
would have speedily done but for the
SINISTER interlopers who must
have been sent to Alabama by Or
carnations like the International La
Dor Defense, composed no doubt OF
a lot OF half-breeds, negroes. negro
PETERS, negro lovers and anarchists
imbued with the social equality rot
and the very foolish idea that negroes
should sit in the jury box with
WHITE PEOPLE"
Invokes Lynch Law Against LID.
Attorneys
Speaking for myself alone, 1t is
my deliberate opinion, that a recur-
renee OF such conduct will bring abou,
the invoking of the exception to the
general rule of law (due legal pro.
cedure) above referred to it.
This is not a threat BUT JUST
GOOD ADVICE"
These excerpts would normally be
funny. But here In Decatur where
the tension is at the breaking point,
this pamphlet is pouring gasoline
upon an already existing flame. And
1t may be noted again that neither
legal nor police authorities are do
Ing anything to stop it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21

the opportunity to conceal the real
situation OF the workers by means
of statistical tricks.
The Social-Democrat made use
Of this for their own purposes and
were able to spread the illusion among
tho workers that their material siGu-
alton was directly dependent upon
the Increase Of the ability OF German
industry to compete on the world
market. The Social-Democrat Gre
ated the theory Of economic demo-
cracy" which in conjunction with the
already existing political democracy"
through cooperation with the bour-
geoisie, was to open up the painless
path towards the peaceful develop
ment into Socialism" The economic
crisis threw all these erroneous theo-
ries overheard. Social-Democracy
which kept On working in the service
of the bourgeoisie also in the perioc
of the crisis, openly took part in the
standard of living of the workers and
in all forms Of the ruthless cutting
of wages, the abolition of social in
surance, etc. It not only silently
supported the measures Of the Bruen-
ing government regarding the cutting
Of wages and of unemployment re-
lief, but even agitated for these cuts.
During the last presidential cleo
ticn the Communist Party OF Ger
many issued the slogan: whoever
elects Hindenburg elects Hitler!" In
contra distinction to this, the Social
Democrats declared to the workers:
Whoever elects Thaelmann elects
Hitler" 1t is fact that it was pre-
cisely the Social-Democracy which
which made it possible for linden
burg to be elected by an overwhelm-
ing majority and that rather large
section of the working class was
obedient to it's dictates also in this
question. Now the workers can in
vestigate the correctness of our
slogans on the basis of their own bit
ter experiences. What we had warned
against had taken place. During the
election campaign, the Communist
Party Of Germany, unfortunately, did
not understand how to correctly ap-
proach the masses and convince them
Of the correctness of our slogan
Notwithstanding all the treacheries
of Social-Democracy, and despite the
exposure Of these treacheries by the
Communist Party of Germany, the
Social Democratic Party OF Germany
still had the majority Of the work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21
Yale and TOWne
Foundry Closing
Adds to LayOffS
CBy a MetaI worker COrregpondentl

(By a Metal Worker Correspondent
STAMFORD, COMM the Yale
g. Town Manufacturing Co. plant
here, there has been consistent lay
off of workers from the various de-
partments, because things are SLOW
ing up in this factory and the work
ers are told to go home until they
will be called. There have been from
200 to 600 laid off in this m inner
Some of the workers have been out
over three weeks now, and it will
probably be permanently.
The foundry here was closed on
Nov. 13. The men in it that I know
have no idea when they will be called
back.
In the foundry the men are given
a pair Of foundry shoes to wear in
their work. These shoes must last
four months before they will give
you q rev pair The average length
of time pair lasts in foundry Is
two months, SO the workers must
spend 1920 for shoes. The average
pay foundry worker gets is $14 to
SIS per week, for 40 hours. Out of
cents and up each week for insur-
all the workers pay, thew draw SO
ance, and when you are laid off,
you lose this insurance money.
We have held several shop gate
meetings here in the past two months.
The workers know that they cannot
expect anything from the N-R.A. and
show good sympathy toward our
meetings. Now we are issuing leaf
let week explaining the necessity of
organization and are on the road to
building department committees
through our contacts.
This factory employed about 1000
workers when last it was going at
full capacity. Also it was used in
the last war for making munitions,
and can be converted for this pur-
pose in "a hours.
The local press this spring and
summer carried front page headlines
when a few hundred workers were
hired here as sign of returning
prosperity, but does not give one line
to the laying-off of hundreds OF
workers and the closing OF the
foundry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21

workers that must be trained to con-
stitute the leading cadres of our
Party. These are the comrades that
must be developed.
The need for leading forces is not
only a problem for the concentra-
ton districts. 1t is a problem for
the South, the Southwest, for the
Northwest. From everywhere there
are demands for schools.
Schools, alone, however, cannot
solve the problem. There are many
ways of developing new cadres on a
large scale. While the District I'D
National schools have to perform the
most important function in this re-
spect,, other methods Of education
must be taken into consideration.
One of the most important of these
methods, as well as the mcst neglected
at the present time, is study circles
in the Sections and Units. Tcese
Circles should study not only the
fundamentals of Communism. but
should discuss and study all the
problems of the Party, utilizing all
lk1C oA1let1l 1oohC0 Wy Vic
Party. Such circles will be of ire
mendouS value in assisting the COM
rades to understand these problems
in raising the political level OF the
comrades, who, in turn, will become
instrumental in helping to raise the
political level of the entire Unit and
Section. The Study Circles will arm
the Party members with arguments
on how to convince the workers of
the correctness of our program; of
the correctness of the Party position
in the various national state, county
and city problems, and especially ON
the problem which the Party must
solve. of organizing the masses In
the shops and factories. In these
study circles, as well as in the units
themselves, the Daily Worker and
the Communist must play an I'M
portant role.
The daily work of the Party should
also be made a training ground for
leading forces. The functiona-ies'
meetings and conferences, where the
results of activities are reported on
and past work checked up, must be
made to serve also as training courses
for new comrades. While it is true
that the District and Section Organ
izers are very busy with hundreds
of problems from morning until late
at night, nevertheless since in all
these activities they are in constant
connection with functionaries, with
Party members, with young COM
rades, they must realize that this
very contact must also be made into
channel of education. The spend
ing of a few minutes in giving ad-
vice to comrades on the planning of
activities, on reading certain litera-
tue, urging them to read and write,
will help to develop the initiative of
many of these young comrades and
encourage them to combine their
practical work with theoretical train
ing.
There should asi0 be more open
forums, more c0mradely social life.
Every affair, even the smallest one,
must take the character of a gather
ing Of comrades for the discussion
of the problems facing the Party.
This will not only develop new en-
thusiasm, but will acquaint the COM
rades with each other, strengthen
the ties among the Party members
as part of the fighting vanguard of
the working class, will encourage
frank, open. sincere, sharp discus
sions and will eliminate petty enni-
ties and frictions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21
Leaders Broke
Morale of Tool
And Die Strikers

by Metal Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich. The tool and die
makers strike in Detroit area has
collapsed. That is the truth, and,
recognizing the facts, the workers
must remove from leadership the Of
fiicals of the Mechanics Educational
Society Of America. The darglnable
worship of the MIRA. by these Off
Gals show their lack Of ability to
visualize the American strike scene.
A Communist, the only man with a
true concept of the facts, must be
chosen as leader. 7 am not a Com
munist. I am not anything, but am
in the state of learning what the
editorial columns of the Daily Worker
show me the line the workers must
take.
Tic raal; and file of the M. E. S,
of 4. must be educated to fuller
appreciation CT the nnethcds necessary
to ensure victory.
should Have Gone Back in Body
After q heroic resistance, many of
the strikers lost courage, and while
the shop committees were discussing
matters with the bosses, many of the
rank and file were running to the
foreman's houses to make arrange
ments for their jobs. They should
have stood out until the decision was
announced and then all should have
gone back In a body. There was too
much of this last minute scabbing.
Right at the time of negotiations
was when the shop committees needed
solid support. That is just when that
support was lacking. Every man who
scabbed during the strike is working
today, many OF them working 70
hours a week. Many hundreds of the
strikers are walking the streets and
the loyal unemployed who helped the
strikers so well are still unemployed,
owing to that last minute scabbing.
The good stuff OF the M. E. S. of A.
must not be thrown away. Start re-
building now. Educate the rank and
file TO demand and support rank and
file leadership. Teach the rank and
file that lsst-minute scabbing, even
by union permit cunningly con-
nived at, is the worst form of scab-
bling. The unemployed M. E. S. of A.
should meet at the earliest moment
and get matters going and get Smith
and Griffen going with the can tied
to their tails.
-Chrysler Employees.