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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23

Ontario ST., and st. Claire Ave.
Already it is apparent that the
Conference has gTipped the interest
and confidence of the workers in this
entire state as no similar conference
has done heretofore.
Two carloads of delegates will come
from the Powhatan, Piney Fork and
Stuart mines in East Ohio. In
Youngstown delegates have been
elected by workers in the Youngstown
Sheet & Tube, and in the Republic
Works.
Workers in the rubber plants in
Akron, in various industries located
within Cleveland, Erie and in other
Ohio industrial towns, will be amply
represented at the Conference. I'm
employed organizations in Akron are
sending delegates from the forced
labor camps and from the Salvation
Army Soup Kitchen.
The Arrangements Committee an
nounced today through its Secretary
Louis Weinstock a report from Pro-
violence, R. T., to the effect that a
regional textile conference held in
Providence, August 18TH, 1or the pur-
pose of electing delegates to the
Cleveland Conference was the broad
est of its kind held.
Workers from the following cities
were represented:
Lawrence, Mass; Salem, Mass; New
Bedford, Central Falls, Pawtucket.
Providence. Three newly organized
mills, Colored Worsted, American Silk
Spinning, International Braid as well
as the independent organization OF
Sheeting Workers had representa-
tives.
A resolution adopted at the Con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23

ginia, they put on few workers.
But the New York Times stated:
Virginia is not textile state. The
Carolinas are. In South Carolina
there are more spindles in place than
in any other state Of the union. In
North Carolina more spindles are In
operation than in any other state.
These states are not putting on any
workers" Emphasis ours)
THE non-union coal operators de-
clare that they will not hire any
new men. But the purpose of the
recovery act was supposedly to return
the unemployed to employment!
There are even more shameless as
poets that must be noted. The Libby,
Owens and Ford Co., producers OF
the famous Libby cut glass, in To-
ledo, employs 1900 workers. On Fri
day, Aug. IL, the Libby Company put
the blue eagle into its window. 1t
announced in screaming stories in
all the Toledo papers that beginning
Monday, Aug. IA, the 1900 workers
would henceforth work only 6 hours
a day with hours of pay. This was
big heartedness; This was real get
ting behind the president and the
recovery act" But on Saturday, Aug.
IL, they fired 600 workers!
In Cleveland there is a small knit
ting MILL. The wages were low, but
the generous, patriotic employer &C
cepted the code. He raised the pay
and then fired all the workers. He
rehired part of the crew as appren-
tices, whom he will keep for seven
weeks, and then fire them; then he
will hire new crew Of apprentices
In the Clark restaurants in Cleve-
land the mattresses used to get 81 a
week. Then they got raise accord
ing to the code-but they have to
pay for their food, uniforms, laundry,
lockers, etc. so that their actual
wages are lower than before the blue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Forward Supports
New Racketeering
Iron, Bronze Local
tBy an Iron Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-On Sunday, Aug. ID,
a statement appeared in the Jewish
Daily Forward" about mass meet
ing of iron and bronze workers held
Tuesday, August 9th at the Rand
School. According to the Forward
statement, the mass meeting was
called by Local 50 and over 600 iron
and bronze workers were present.
Every iron and bronze worker who
was present at this meeting Knows
that this statement is false.
First of all, there were only about
200 workers present. The second lie
of the statement Is that the meeting
was called by Local So. Local 50 was
expelled from the International Tor
ousting one of the corrupt Interna-
tional officials. Local So is carrying
on campaign at present to organize
the inside and outside iron and bronze
workers into one solid union which
is against the splitting policies OF
the International.
This statement is made to confuse
and to fool the iron and bronze
workers and to make somebody be-
lieve that there are no grievances
against the international officials.
One thing the statement does not
mention Is that number Of iron and
bronze workers were not allowed to
enter the hall. All the speeches de-
livered by the speakers were
barrage Of SANDER and mud-throwing
against the Communists. Not q word
about the miserable conditions Of
the iron and bronze workers; not q
hint for improving them through
struggle.
The only thing that was boosted
sky-high was the Recovery Act. Mr.
Karlin, as the lawyer Of the union,
is supposed to see to it that all legal
measures are applied to obtain the
conditions prescribed by 1t.
According to remarks made by
many outside the hall, there is no
doubt that the misleaders will not be
able to carry the bluff very far.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Wages Driven Down
With Help of AL;
Prepare for Strike
Negro Steel Workers
Jim-Crowed by the
A. F. of L.

PITTSBURGH, Aug. ~. - The
Roosevelt slavery code was sharply
condemned by los delegates TO the
of the Metal Workers IN
dustrial Union Of the Pittsburgh Dis
trict, Just concluded here. AS far as
the workers were concerned, reports
by the delegates showed, it meant
more wage cuts. The collective bar
gaining" feature Of the code was but
an excuse, in many instances, OF bos-
SEES and company gunner working
with A. F. of L. officials to stampede
the workers into the treacherous
kept company union.
Although paper increases Of 10 TO
Is percent were granted, these were
offset by a Is to so percent increase
IN the cost of living in the company
towns. In other instances the bosses
have cut wages 80 percent to dol
lar day since the code went into
effect.
Over 1900 steel workers have
recently joined the S.M.WLU.
The meeting was opened by Pat
Cush. He spoke on the conditions
anu obl 06EACo 4dSAtAS OAAS oeOOA WA a
ers, pointing out the past treachery
of the A. F. of L. in the steel in
dustry and showed that only the
S.M.WI.U. is fighting for the work
ers.
The main report was made by John
Meldon, National Secretary of the
Union, who exposed the reactionary
program of the NRA and contrasted
it with the program and code drawn
up by the SWIU., which he char
acterized as a class program of
struggle Pointing out the Jim
Grow" policy of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, which refused to
organize the Negro steel worker the
speaker and other delegates to the
conference, emphasized the essential
need for unity Of all sections of the
working class.
Rapid preparations for strike in
enc Of the big chops was reported
from the floor. Conditions are
growing constantly worse and the
steel workers are ready for a mil
liant struggle" said one delegate.
The session closed with the adop-
ton of resolutions protesting the re-
cent Alabama lynchings, and demand
ing the release Of the Scottsboro boys.
A telegram was sent to Tom Mooney,
the honorary chairman OF the Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Leaders Will Speak
at Send-Off to Union
Conference Delegates

NEW YORK.-Earl Browder, A.
]. Music, Jack Stachel and F. z.
Brown of Typographical Union No.
6, Ben Gold, and James w. Ford
will be among the principal speak
ers at a send-off mass meeting in
Irving Plaza, 18th st. and Irving
Place, Wednesday, Aug. %, at 8
pm, for the New York delegation
to the Trade Union Conference for
United Action, which opens In
Cleveland on Aug. rs.
All New York delegates are called
upon to report on the platform at
Irving Plaza Wednesday night to
receive final instructions as to the
hour and place for meeting the
buses specially chartered for the
trip to Cleveland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23

bolster up the waning IaItl VI ule
broad masses.
Following an elaborate parade of
floats and blaring brass bands, the
meeting assembled in Steeg Park,
popularity known locally as Red
Square," where truck serving as an
improvised rostrum with micro
phone and amplifiers awaited the
speaker Of the evening.
The speaking got away to a typical
MIRA start, with the opening and en-
phatic remarks of the chairman,
This is not labor meeting" added
by a patriotic appeal for cooperation
OF the starving workers for success,
"or you shall suffer worse consequent
ces," declaring that in this great bat
tie for moral victory, and in the usual
I1ypocritical manner that There will
be no class distinctions" again urging
cooperation of the workers with the
bosses in a united struggle against
the common enemy Of capitalism de-
preston.
w. Rex Bell, en1issary of the pres
ent capitalist regime and principal
speaker of the evening enumerated
the causes and effects of the depres-
sion, expressing great CONSERVATION
not about the deplorable plight of the
starving and tInderpaid workers, but
over the resultant decline in profits,
the system of which he is an intricate
part.
He stressed the necessity of patience
on the part Of the suffering masses at
this crucial time, urging refusal to
buy from NRA slackers, in his words
not boycott, although it has the
earmarks of exact duplication, la
menting over the financial sacrifices
of the bosses in this great enterprise,
again evading the rise in the cost
Of living, wage cuts, share-the-work,
ETC., schemes by which the worker is
forced to pay the big bankers, under
the guise Of recovery.
The interest Of approximately two
thousand workers was at low ebb,
never once In the course Of the speak
ing was there the mildest suggestion
Of applause, even when the speaker
hesitated after supposedly scoring a
note Of import. AS the chill Of the
evening wore on, the gathering
thinned, with remarks, Lets go
home, there's nothing here for u.s."
The result Of the demonstration can
best be summarized by remark made
by a worker addressing a group Of
companions following the meeting
and overheard by the writer. ANY
thing that's headed by the Chamber
Of Commerce is always agin' the
workin' class, amt it always been?"
and all agreed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
1O5 Steel Union Delegates
Map Fight on Trusts Code
S. P. Refuses Support
Bond Laundry Strikers
As Not Bona Eide"

D NEW YORK.-The Socialist Party,
at an open air meeting last Friday
night at fremont and Washington
Avenues, refused to permit strikers of
the Bond Laundry to use their stand
for an appeal for support of their
.trike.- Forming a united front with
the bosses, Tammany and the police,
the Socialist chairman declared that
the National Executive Committee of
the Party permits Socialists to sup
rcrt only bona fide' labor unions
and that only those Of the A. F. Of L.
were bona f1de."
Since the strikers are affiliated with
the T.U.U.L., the Socialist chairman
told the strikers that Socialists would
give no assistance to spreading news
of their strike because their tactics
and policies are wrong"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Put Back Furniture
After Eviction; Is Now
Held for Trespassing

ELKHART, Ind.-When the police
set out the furniture of a worker, the
E-khsrt Unemployed Council mob
iii5ed 200 workers within two hours
and put the furniture back In the
house. The previous day the court
bailiff had promised a committee
that the family would be allowed to
stay in the house a few days more.
The following morning the evicted
wcr..;er was arrested for trespassing
and his furniture taken to storage.
The council forced the township trus-
tee to secure another house for the
evicted worker. 1t also got aid for
a mother and four children who have
been without food and shelter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23

ference in Providence condemns the
NRA, and pledges support to the
workers own textile codes demanding
a cotton, wool minimum wage OF S18
a week, s72o a year; silk minimum
wages from S1S to $44 for the various
crafts; no more than 40 hours work
per week, no less than 80 hours a
week, no less than 80 weeks work per
year; 40 per cent cut in speed and
machinery; proper sanitary n d
health conditions; Federal unemploy-
ment insurance at the expense of the
employers and government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
why We Went on Strike
at heEquitableP aberCo.'

gangsters to identify the men. When
it should have been the other way
around. After that the bosses sue
ceeded in breaking up the strike and
30 of the strikers lost their jobs.
After that the bosses kept on pro-
missing to give back their wage cuts
on the NRA, but hasn't done SO yet.
They are working double shift and
stocking I'D goods so that when
higher prices come they can cash
in on it. That will mean more men
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23

will come out of the IS cents an
hour they earn.
Ben johnson, head of the high
way commission, was shocked when
he learned the workers were i'm
modestly displaying their backs.
He wrote to his road boss: 'If there
be any who would persist in i'm
modesty they should be released
from service"
In the same letter, Mr.. johnson
wrote that he is very anxious to
put his workers under an NRA
code, so that he "can' cooperate
with the President of the United
States"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Lehman Maintains
L Hour Day for
StateEmpIoyees
Refuses to Consider
Proposal to Reduce
Working Day

ALBANY, Aug. 2o.-Soon after the
announcement was made that Gov
ernor Lehman was considered the
leading representative of the NRA
administration machinery in New
York State, it was disclosed that he
turned down all proposals to reduce
the twelve hour working day Of the
state employees.
Lehman said he had not time to
consider the matter, and referred it
to the next legislative session.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
NEWS BRIEFS
War in the Rain.

CAMP DIX, N. J.-U. q. troops IN
maneuvers repelling an imaginary
invader called Reds, were inundated
by the heavy rain which fell here the
past few days. The only difference
between this stimulated warfare and
actual combat was that the officers
got the worst Of the rain. The pri-
Yates were sheltered by parked army
trucks and buildings, while the Of
ficers were knee-deep in the mud.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Army Shake-U

WASHINGTON.-To speed up the
Roosevelt policy of bigger army ap-
preparations and vester preparations
for war, the War Department yester-
day announced shake-up of the
personnel.
SeeVen generals we're transferred to
different posts in the shift. Among
these was Major-General Hagood
who has criticized the organization
of the army and made suggestions
for more murderous efficiency.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Labor Dept. Books Audited

TRENTON, N. J.-Following charges
that workmen's compensation funds
we're being Incorporated, Walter
Darby, State Auditor, is today exam
lining the books of the State Labor
Department.
The charge of transportation was
made by an investigator in the serv-
ice of the department.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Workers of Debs' Home Town
Are Leary of NRA Ballyhoo
"Anything That's Headed By the Chamber OF
Commerce Is Always Agin' the Working
Glass;" Says One After Meeting

TERRE Debs the hrst IN
propoed held Saturday following month OF
practically church organization
sentative diving but attempt to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Brovder to Speak
At Mass Rally in
Cleveland Square
Will Mark Opening Of Cleveland United Front
Trade Union Conference on August Is;
Meet in Engineers Auditorium

Public this
Friday night speaking the NRA will
activity mobnng attention the
United Action
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Kentucky Matrons
Prot e st ShirtIess
LabOrers on Highway

LOUISVILLE, Ky.-BluShing ma
irons here will no longer be horri-
fled at the sight of laborers work
ing without shirts on the highway.
Protests against the sight of hot,
sweaty bodies Of semi-starved men
working at backbreaking toll came
to the State Highway Commission.
The society women objected to the
display of nudity" as they drove
their automobiles along the high
way.
Now the workers must wear
shirts. And the cost Of the shirts
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(By a Worker Correspondent
Editors Note:-The following is
summary of the strike at the
Equitable Paper Bag Company which
was lost. 1t was written by one of
the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-28
SOCIALIST LEADERS TRAVEL ABROAD
AS HITLER AGENTS; OTHERS QUIT
Heroic Workers Defeat Fascists While the
Socialists Betray Struggle

PRAGUE, April 27.-Otto Wells and
Friedrich Stampfer, two of the fore
most leaders of the German Social
Democracy, are negotiating with DR..
Czech and Siegfried Taub, Czech So
cialist officials, trying to get them to
stop printing news of Hitherto atroci-
ties in the Prague "Sozialdemokrat,"
Socialist central organ. This is their
loyal fulfillment of the pledge given
the Nazis that the German Socialists
would endeavor to stop all anti-Hitler
news in foreign Socialist newspapers.
g
BERLIN, April 27.-Tarnow, chair
man of the reformist German Wood
workers Union, who coined the no
torious slogan at the last Leipzig
Convention of the Social Democracy,
that "tte Socialists must be the doc
tors of sick capitalism" has followed
Otto Wells example and resigned
from the Woodworkers' international.
The Social Democratic deputy,
Grzesinski former Prussian Police
Minister and responsible for the May
Day, 1929, bloodbath i'll Berlin de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-28

scribed in 'Barricades in Berlin" has
followed Otto Braun in resigning his
ReichStag seat.
These new incidents show the
progress" of the German Socialists
in fitting themselves into the Hs1aS
Fascist State.
REICHENBERG. Czechoslovakis.--
Nazi storm troops occupied the trads
union headquarters in Riesa, Saxony.
Thousands of workers then marched
in front Of the building day after day,
forcing the storm troops to withdraw.
with the police powerless to inter-
fere, A conference of shop council
Tors unanimously voted to strike AT
once If the storm troops should ever
occupy the trade union building
again.
Serious pitched battles. with guns
and revoivers used on both sides, have
occurred in Dresden, zwickau and
Wurzen between workers and storm
troops when the latter tried to seize
the Peoples Houses and trade union
buildings
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-28
NAU BASE NARRONS WITH CRISIS
IN STEEL HELMETS" VET GROUP
Disaster to German Economy Under Hitler
Policies; BREAD and Work. a Fiction

the worldwide boycott Of German
goods. The Reichsbank gold reserve
dropped to only per cent Of the cur
rency circulation of 3,500.000,000
marks, and all efforts to increase the
gold reserve have been in vain.
The growing unlikelihood t h a t
Germany will ever pay the short and
Iong-terrn private debts owed foreign
investors has Just about ruined all
chances of Ger1nany's tapping for
eign credit sources.
Even the New York Times cores
pondent in Berlin asks: What about
internal econcmics2 The Nazi prom
Use was work and bread for all; how
is it to be kept?" He concludes:
Miracles Go occur occasionally. One
may save Nazi economies, but real
miracle will be needed j" Uner1-
ploylnent is not diminishing, foreign
orders are being cancelled by tbs
thousands, and the German masses
are beginning to see that the Nazi
Promised Land" the paradise OF the
Third Reich" is only 9 specious mir
age.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-28
Pro-Italian Faction
Threatens Force TO
Block Austrian Nazis

VIENNA, April 25.-Karl vaugoin.
Christian Social Minister OF War,
threatened that the Austrian Army
would be 'resolutely employed"
against the Nazi forces IN Austria
as well as against the Socialists, in q
public address yesterday.
Vaugoin's party, which Is wholly
dominated by italian influence, has
modified all the country's armed
forces 30 prevent putsch that
would reduce Austria to German
province"
The Christian Social government
has let it be known that 1t win dis
arm the Syrian Heimwehr (ths
Christian Social private army which
recently announced that they would
henceforth cooperate with the An
strlsn Nagis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-28

BERLIN, April 27.-The break
up of the mass basis of Nazi sup
port is further accumulated by the
crisis within the Steel Helmets,
with Col. Duesterberg, vice-chief 70
the Stahlhelm ousted today by
Franz Seldte, commander-in-chief.
The COORDINATION" of the Stahl-
helm with the Nazi storm troops
presages action in the near future
to remove the remaining Nationalist
ministers from the Hitler cabinet.
BERLIN, April 26.-The Agricul-
tllral Council of East Prussia yester :
day requested Chancellor Hitler 10
Dust Dr.. Hugenberg, Nationalist Min
lister of Economics and Agriculture,
and put q Nazi in his place.
Hugenberg's position has been fur
t1er weakened by the Nationalist or
ganization's decision in Brunswick to
Join the NaH Party in a body.
The economic situation is far from
bright. Exports we're very low in
March, and the April figures are ex-
pected TO be catastrophe, rejecting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-28
FRENCH INITIATION
DEMAND GROWING
Finance MinisterHints
Devaluated Franc

PARIS, April 27-Despite the con-
fident assertions Of leading French
capitalists that Francs would con-
tinue on the gold standard in spite OF
what Britain or America might do,
the forces for initiation in France are
steadily gaining ground. Finance
Minister Georges Bonet has modified
the previous stand of the govern
ment against initiation by his state
ment that France is in favor of stable
currency, even if it is inflated. He
thus admits that initiation has be-
come O possibility in France.
Meanwhile, the French press Is
steadily increasing the demand for
some reyaluation of the franc In
order to meet the gold embargo on
sterling and the dollar.
Revenue Declines
one Of the forces making FOR IN
flation in France is the decline in the
revenue and the increase in the bud
get expenses For the first three
months of 1888, tax collections total
led 7,e00,0O0,oo0 frances as against
$500 600 600 francs for the first quar-
er last year Collections for March
were $4,000, 100000 less than last
March, II was announced by the
French Eeverus 9eyw
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-28

deprecated sterling gives her.
In these international struggles for
markets, Roosevelt and Great Britain
are using as weapons the whole ques-
ton of war debts.
Neville Chamberlain, Secretary OF
the British Exchequer, has announced
that the British budget contains no
provision for the next war debt pay
ment to America. This is, obviously,
q challenge to the United States, in
dicating that Britain expects trade
concessions. On the other hand,
Roosevelt is holding the threat Of
war debt payments over European
powers as a trump card in his man
euvering for trade advantages for
American imperialism.