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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
of l. Entering Basic Industries OF Country AS Strike Breaker
Workers Anxious for Organization Can Be
Organized Into Militant Unions Against
the A. F. of L. Leadership and Trusts

crisis Is by the of the
would have the A. f. OF L. eaders as heso"e %
themi slashes in real
executives always sensitive to the program
Of wall Street industrial great advan-
preparing the fascination of the
apparatus of the BOSSES closer
to the decisive trusts in the basic industries Iney hereDy eApe
against the growth Of class struggle
unions and against every effort OF the workers 70 w " inc
smashing blows lowering over their heads .,
what actually happening now through
and the A. F. Of L.
every industry workers will be confronted with strength
ened union PLAN headed by the American Feoeao OF Ia
of going to disclose its real policy to the steel workers ne aae
that the bosses have accepted the A. OF L. unions
will pretense of struggle and especially
reached the striking pitch the A. F.
order make the boss see the
necessity Of the A. F. of L-company type of union
specifically Goodyear Rubber Co., and
ens ener the basic Industries with the oopany
MANY be fooled by the label and even by he
IN struggles that the A. of L. may be forced to enter
into. .
onaTy face to face with the A. F. of in
Our slogan industries" at time
wnen mass SssS and bosses are more Conscious the
of the workers deVing many forms OF crafty deception IN
What of the coal unn
the union affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League IN the
of the L. aided by the bosses into the basic
industries?
revolutionary to smash these attempts We must realize the
detailed and painstaking
the policy of the of L. We must urge the workers to
their unions develop the initiative OF the wokers an
plants industries stimulating the formation Of struggle COM
in each shop for higher wages for lower hours ana oer
the struggle against the slave codes and against the A.
whatever guise in the basic industries
The struggle for leadership organize the
workers the militant trade unions call, for q simultaneous ar struggle
the basic industries without
below and rapid of struggle
and the basis union under revolutionary leadership IN all Oh
Above ALL there can be delay. day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28

the workers.
general organization in plant
plant unonsIhe New York
Federal union idea said They
separating these
according to their particular trade"
organizing union with the
them against the
majority in the industry who unsktled
get the real intent OF the
Of the A. OF in Its strike
breaking policy World Telegram which
quite favorable A. Of l.. ofcialdon.
follows
strkebreaker himself
toward by organized labor
they only bargain with
the principal demands made in the steel
calling unions
beginning of the adoption Of the industrial recovery
pointed the role the A. OF L.
needed by the bosses.
r. of Chief
Slavery Bill
industrial act wrote
follows:
the breast Of
the industrial That H. 70
BIZ corporations
A. +. Of L. praising the
permits the steel others
negotiations" through
this believes the r. Of L. ofcaldom could do
better achieving desired by the
alay snspcion Besides there
~ the
skilled
hsods W ssor leader whose record dsns the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
IRON AND BRONZE
WORKERS UNITING
Inside A d Out sid e
Workers Organize
BY an Iron Worker Correspondent

BY an Iron Worker Correspondent
Friday, July %
NEW YORK-On Friday, July IA
a meeting of Inside Iron and Bronze
workers was held at Labor Temple.
East 84th St. During the discussion
it was pointed out that the treacher-
Gus policy of the A. F. of L. officials
kept the iron workers divided into
different local unions. This was to
the advantage of the bosses.
1t is therefore no wonder that the
proposition made at the meeting TO
build one Union Of Inside and Out
side Iron Workers, was adopted with
great enthusiasm and the 10 int
Committee elected to carry on the
organizational work, was so warmly
greeted. On the very same evening
another meeting of small group
of iron workers was held in the
Rand School, called by some Inter
national admirers with the infamous
politician, Mr.. Karin, in the leader
ship. They told the iron workers,
not to unite with local 50, because
it is expelled from the International
for the terrible crime the members
committed of ousting one Of their
corrupt officers who had nisappro-
priated tens of thousands Of dollars
of the Unions treasury for his own
purpose. They tell the workers that
by receiving a charter from the Inc
ternational, they will Immediately
get recognition from the bosses and
better conditions.
The Iron and Eronze workers will
not allow themselves to be misled.
They will brush aEde' the Karlins
and his kind and proceed to or
ganize one union of inside and out
side iron and bronze workers which
will be able to defend the interests
of all the workers in the trade.
Come to the meeting called by the
Joint Committee on Friday, July 20
at Labor Temple, z. 84th st. and
show your solidarity with the rest
of the iron and bronze workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
FUR UNION WINS
TRIAL TRANSFER
Judges Bias Exposed
In Injunction Suit

NEW YORK.-The Furriers' De-
partment of the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union scored an i'm
pertant point in its fight against an
Injunction which threatens its very
existence when an energetic protest
on the part of its attorney, Louis B.
Boudin, obtained a transfer OF the
case from Judge Mclaughlin, former
notorious labor batting district attor-
ney of the Bronx, to another judge.
The new hearing is to be held Aug. 81.
AS soon as Boudin opened his ar
gurnent which Immediately estab-
lished the collision between the en-
ployers Associated Fur Manufactur-
ers' Association and the A. F. of L.
paper union, the Joint Council, Nc
Laughlin began series of interrupt
tons charging the Industrial Union
with kidnapping, violence and other
illegal activities.
Boudin pointed out that the re-
marks made it impossible for the
case to be argued without outside
prejudicial issues entering, and in
sisted on the transference which he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
A.C.W. Gangsters, In
Fight on Militant Shoe
Union, Stab Worker

NEW YORK.-Gangsters employ
ed by officials of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America stab
bed one worker, Joe Rimus, in the
face and groin, so that he had to
be taken to a hospital, and beat up
two others, at the Friedman
Sportswear shop at 40 W. 18th st.
yesterday afternoon.
This attack is part of the CAM
paign, announced recently by the
A.C.W. leaders, TO enter the leather
leggings field,
The Shoe and Leather Workers
Industrial Union has already made
organizational progress in the Fried
mann shop and it was when COM
mittee of the Industrial union was
about to conduct the Friedman
workers to a meeting that the
A.C.W. gangsters came upon the
scene, and ordered the friedman
workers to come with them. - When
the workers showed no inclination
to obey these orders, the brutal at
tack followed
The Shoe and Leather Workers
union, in a statement issued later
in the day, declared that no amount
of gangster terror by the bosses or
their agents will block the workers
from joining union of their own
choice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
STEEL JOURNAL ADMITS
FLIMS[NESS OF "BOOM"
AS OUTPUT DECREASES
Based Largely Upon Expectations of Large
War Orders from Navy; Auto Production
Heading for Sharp Decline

dustry continues to press for deli
veries against contracts, but it is
placing little new business. Retail
sales thus far this month have not
been up to the June level, and it is
feared that they will suffer fur
Their reduction because of the sharp
break in the stock and commodity
markets"
Expected shrinkage in the steel
requirements of the automotive in
dustry may be counterbalanced by
larger demands from the heavy in
dustries. The Naval program will
soon result in plate orders
The statement then goes on the
say that the price of steel scrap
has risen to the highest levels Of
the year. Steel scrap is an essen
tial ingredient in the manufacture
of explosives.
The full meaning of the rise in
steel or scrap is given by the in
formation published in last weeks
issue of the "Iron Age" which re-
veals that Japan has enormously in
creased its purchases of steel scrap.
The figures for 1888 as against
1882 as follows: 210,93S tons i'm
ported by Japan during the first
FIVE months of this year, as COM
pared with S2,440 last year, an in
crease of almost 800 per cent.
The "Iren Age" reports that Japan
is buying steel scrap at any price.
This means the most feyerish
war preparations. 1t is upon this
base that the industry hopes to
maintain it's activity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
Workers on Iron and
Bronze Meet Tonight

NEW YORK. The next mass
meeting of inside iron and bronze
workers Of Greater New York and
vicinity to weld the unity Of all iron
and bronze workers will be held
tonight F'riday) at p. m. at Labor
Temple, 2s3 East 84th St.. New York
City.
The Committee OF Nine, elected
from the ranks Of the shopmen at
the last mass meeting, and the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the House
smiths Local No. 50 have met
jointly and worked out a program
of unity, with plans for discussion
Workers are warned against the
racket union being set up by the
Socialist Karlin While the Jewish
Socialist paper, the Forward, admits
the A. F. of L. International union
and its agent Shilling constitute
racketeer outfit, Karlin is working
with these misleaders to split the
ranks of the workers..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28

ton against Negro workers. This
was admitted at a meeting of the
Advisory Board on the wooden code.
When Ann Buriak presented de-
nland in behalf OF the National Tex
tile Workers Unien that = clause be
inserted In the WOODEN code guar
anteeing that there shall be no dis
criminati ton against any worker be-
cause Of race, sex or nationality, the
committee emphatically rejected this
demand declaring that the Southern
manufacturers would never agree to
such = proposal.
Burlak pointed to the clause in the
textile code which discriminates
against Negro workers in the South
by exempting cleaners and outside
workers from the minimum wage
scales. The majority of these work
ers are Negroes The Committee in
refusing to accept Buiak's demand
proved clearly that discrimination and
Jim Grow practices against the Ne
gro are = conscious government
policy, that the government Is also
opposed 10 equal pay for equal work
for women and supports policy Of
discrimination against the foreign
born.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28

NEW YORK, July 27.-The latest
issue of the "Iron Age" leading
trade journal of the steel industry,
adds the latest piece of evidence to
the ever more frequent admissions
that the ''boom" in the steel industry
has little foundation in any funda-
mental consumption demand from
heavy industry.
The Iron Age" makes it clear
that the speculative pressure from
the largest recent buyer of steel,
the automobile industry, is already
showing the inevitable weakening
as stocks of automobiles, newly
manufactured in anticipation of in
flation purchases, are fast piling up
in the hands of the dealers.
War Preparations
And most significant of all is the
frank admission by the "Iron Age"
that the steel industry's operations,
described by the Roosevelt govern
ment as a sure index of returning
prosperity, are based upon the war
preparations of the Roosevelt gov
eminent, particularly the Navy.
Reports from the main steel CEN
tiers, as we'll as the government re-
ports of the Labor Department, con-
firm the fact that the increase in
employment resulting from the in
creased steel operations are far be-
hind the increase in production, due
to the application of the most in
tense methods of speed-up and ra-
tionalization.
Japan Buying War Material ;,
The statement of the Iron Age
is as follows: "The automotive in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
BIJRLAk EXPOSES
BOSSES CODES AT
WOOL HEARING

WASHINGTON, D. Gam Bur-
lax and two Lawrence textile work
ers voiced the opposition OF the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union to the
proposed wooden code at the hearing
in Washington this week. surround
ed by so manufacturers, and MO
Mahon and German OF the United
Textile Workers Union, president
and organizer respectively, the only
real representatives of labor at the
hearing flashed back replies to all
objections raised by Deputy admin
istrator Whiteside and to the sneers
of the bosses and their company
union agents.
The employers spoke first at the
hearing. They have already agreed
ON the code in preliminary confer
ences with the Recovery administra-
ton The hearings are mere formah-
ties with the government ana tne
bosses already determined to put
over starvation standards on the
workers. But some employers come
forward with the demand that the
codes allow for longer hours and
lower wages although they know
they can easily evade the standards
established In the codes.
Mcmahon Offers to Make q Deal
Mcmahon is called upon and is
given as much time as he needs
to present his report. He declares
that the union now represents IS
Der cent of the industry, a manifest
fAlsehood. He asks an $18 minimum
val, with the same scale for the
Moth and South. When Whiteside,
the administrator, objects to this
scale for unskilled labor Mcmahon
Eently chided him for not consulting
him prior to settling the code. I'VE
had suggested previously that If We
had been consulted we could have
discussed the issue of common I'M
skl lied labor"
Ann Burlak demanded a guaran-
teed minimum number of weeks
work per year with a minimum
yearly wage of $72O. She opposed the
differences in wages for the North
and South. She pointed out that
the code does not prevent the speed
up and stretch out practices, lead
ing to further unemployment, that
it does not prohibit night work for
women and for minors of 16 and
over, nor does it guarantee that the
parents of children dismissed as be-
ing under 16 years Of age be cared
for or that the children be main
tanned. Burlak then presented q
substitute code (printed in the Dali
" Worker Of July "a.
The Workers VIII Strike
The bosses snickered when men
ton was made by Burlak that the
workers will not wait to get i'm
provements from the government
codes but will strike against its
abuses and for better conditions,
Burlak turned to them and said,
You may laugh but the workers
J will strike and win"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
Levine Bros. Infants
Wear Strike Is Won

NEW YORK.-Twenty- work.
ers at the Levine Bros. infants wear
shop won their strike yesterday,
under the leadership of the white
goods department of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union.
The workers received an increase Of
50 and 50 a week, and reduced the
working hours from 48 and 81 to a
44-hour week. The workers, some
of them who had experience with
local e. Of the International Ladies
Garment Workers Unicn, pledged
themselves to join the Needle
Trades Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
LOS ANGELES FUR
ASSN. FORCED TO.
SIGN WITH NTWIU.
Needle Trades Union
Wins Demands On
Pay, Recognition

LOS ANGELES, Cal, July
27.-The Fur Garment Man
ufacturers' Association COM
prising 25 manufacturers
signed an agreement with the
fur department of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union tonight,
yielding on all points demanded by
the fur workers. Fur workers in these
shops gain the 40-hour, 5-day week,
and a guaranteed minimum scale of
$40 a week for cutters, $50 for OPP
orators, S25 for nailers, and $3.50
for finishers. The workers will get
five legal holidays off with pay.
The agreement also provides for
equal division of work, time and a
half for overtime, no discharges after
one weeks trial and recognition of
the shop committee. Overtime in the
busy season is to be no more than
IA hours.
Rifkin Violates Agreement
Rifkin & Sons violated their agree
ment with the Industrial Union,
which was signed last week, by lock-
ing out the workers when they re-
fused to work on Saturday and Sun
day, and when they demanded the
raises agreed to in the terms of set
tlement. This action was instigated
by Levitt local Forward manager, and
Pinkofsky, leading member of the
IL.G.WU. local here. Rifkin is a
member of the Workmens Circle and
is close to Socialist Party circles.
The lockout was answered by a
militant strike. A mass picket line
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
Saturday

will speak. Admission 1ec. Auspices Boro
Park Br. H. l. W. o.
Saturday
Outstanding and extraordinary Proleta =
ran social Event of the Summer Apart
ment SO, $40 E. Sixth st. Breakfast will be
served for those who stay that long.
Party and Entertainment for Glass War
Prisoners recently released from San Quen-
tin Prison, given by Alfred Levy Branch
I. L. D., 1776 Pitkin Ave. Admission l0c.
Movie and dance tonight. Eisenstein's
Ten Days That Shook the World" shown
at City Club Council Center. 1858 W. Fifth
St, Coney Island. Dancing before and
after picture Refreshments.
Cuban Party, Anti-Imperialist League
headquarters, 80 z. Tenth ST., 1 flight up.
Cuban Rumba Orchestra, refreshments, en-
tertainment. Admission 20c. Auspices
Downtown Branch Of A. I. l..
august First Anti-War Demonstration, /"
talk by Pollock at 3o6s E. Third St. Brigh-
ton Beach. Auspices Branch 615, I. W. o.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
N. Y. TRADE UNION NEWS
Trades Union Council
Hear Hyman, Powers;
All Workers Invited

NEW YORK.-The Trade Union
Unity Council will hear reports on
two code hearings tonight, at the
headquarters of the Building Trades
League, 81 East 18th st.
The reports will be made by Louis
Lyman, president Of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union,
and George Powers, organizer for the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union. Lyman will report on the
code hearing, at which he presented
the demands of thp cloakmakers,
and Powers will tell about the ship
builders code hearing, at which he
presented the shipyard workers de-
nlands. -
All workers are invited to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
Roads Can Fire Men
Under Co>ordinator Act
Eastman, Roosevelt's Rail Gar, States that
Economy Lay-Offs Will Continue

member of the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Immediately after the passage Of
the act, the Brotherhood chiefs dill
gently fostered the illusion among
the railroad workers that from now
on there could be no more lay-otfs
on the roads. Eastnan's statement
exposes the falsity Of all these
claims of the Brotherhood chiefs.
Roads May Fire at VIII
Eastman emphatically denies that
the Railroad Co-ordinator Act con-
tains anything that can be con-
strued as prohibiting the roads from
firing as many workers as they
wish. All that the bill does is TO
limit the power of the co-ordinator
in laying off men from the rail-
roads, he said.
Eastman's statement is as follows:
Judging from many letters which
the co-ordinator has received, there
seems to be a common impression
among railroad employees that this
paragraph Of the act protects them
absolutely from disnissals or fur
Their furloughs after the effective
date of the act. In the opinion of
the co-ordinator this is not correct.
The restrictions apply to any action
which may be taken by the co-ordi-
nator or the commission E. they do
not apply, in the judgment of the
co-ordinator TO any lawful action
taken by any individual carrier or
carriers.
Thus, the Railroad Co-ordinator
Act is similar to the Industrial Re-
covery Slavery Act. 1t aims at
gearing the railroad industry 10 run
at the maximum efficiency with the
minimum number of employees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
Hathaway, Ford Speak
In Ca mp This Week

WINGDALE, N. Y-Clarence Ha-
thaway, editor of the Daily Worker,
will speak on Communism and the
Negro Question" at Camp Unity this
Saturday morning.
James ". Ford will lecture Sun
day morning on the MIRA.
Unity has just finished adding
voaley ball and a handball court and
the athletic facilities along with
swimming in Lake ELLIS, provides
plenty Of recreation for the worker
guests.
Come to Unity this week snd help
the T.U.U.C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
Strike Victorious

WEST NEW YORK, N. j. July
17.-The strike Of the workers Of
the Gould 4 Rosenberg mill, max
ing fancy and art linens, 1874 Seven
tenth st., under the leadership
n the SehiffH Embroidery Work
err Union, afIiliated with the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, WAS won today. The work
ers won . 80 pr cent incresse In
wages and . 40-hour week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
JOBLESS r. r. WORKER
TAKES OWN LIFE

PITTSBURGH, July 27.-Out of
a job for more than two years,
and unable to endure starvation
any longer, William Steele, IS,
jobless brakeman, shot and killed
himself today. He had worked on
several of the largest railroads in
the East.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
finally obtained.

finally obtained.
The temporary injunction which
the Industrial Union is fighting to
have rejected called for a virtual
outlawing of the Union by forbidding
employers to hire any but Joint
Council" members. Fillmore, lawyer
of the Associated Fur Manufacturers,
Inc, was in court supporting the
plea to retain the injunction
against his own organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
(HdrIem

Big concert and dance, Finnish Hall, 10
w laeth st. Csadata Dafora Horton ana
musicians from Sierra Leone, West Africa;
Red Parker, Negro tenor, and "Lioeratof
chorus of IS; Red Dancers: Pioneer tneatfe
group; Carl Winter, speaker dancing;
TcEets o0 cents. at workers Bookshop and
at doc. Auspices Unemployed Council OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
Government Jim>Croav Policy
Barred at Wool Code Hearing

WASHINGTON, D. c., July ~
The government officially endorses
Jim Grow practices and discrin1ina-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
GUARD AGAINST OVERTIME

All active furriers are called on
by the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union to be near their shops
Saturday to see that no overtime is
worked.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
Labor Union Meets

sELINE FUR DYERs-Meetins tonight
friday at at 1871 ". 3sth St., to make
final arrangements for general strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
WENb.0 OUR PART
WHAT'S ON
Friday

Special 40 per cent sale on all books and
pamphlets now going on in all section
headquarters This sale open to all lnol-
vidual workers and units.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-28
(DOUntOWn}

.arhe National Industrial Recovery Act
as Compared With the Second Five year
PLAN lecture by Paul Miller at Labor
Temple 14th St, near Second ave aus
pices Downtown Branch r, s. U, Adnis-
sion 15c.
Mass Meeting of Bookbinders. organized
ana unorganized to discuss the Bookbind-
ers' Code, Manhattan Lyceum, Sc E. 4th
st., $50 PM
(Br0nr
Open Air Meeting, Lydig and Cruger
AYES. Auspices Pelham Parkway Workers
Club.
(Bro0klyn)
Zetkin- Stokes Memorial at American
Youth Club, 40T Rockaway Ave, at pm.
Membership meeting, r.atbush Workers
Club, 1907 Kings Highway. Members are
urged 10 attend.
Arrsi-HitIer Mass Protest Meeting in Boro
Park, I w. O. Center, 1373-43rd St, at
$50 pm. DR.. H. Warwick and A. ]. Mus