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The daily worker., 1933-08-14

cut. Over 1000 dye workers struck
against this and won increases-not
through the act but through strike.
Comrade Burlak then began to
discuss the question of overproduc-
ton in the textile industry, threat
ening wholesale discharges and
mess Unemployment.
She expressed some ideas on a part
CT the code little talked about
when I was in washington on
the textile hearings I presented the
following clause: No discrimination
against any employee because of
race, sex or creed Mr.. Edmunds,
Mr.. Whiteside and another member
Of = small committee appointed 10
Tclk out details, sa-d
1--WE can't be delayed another
two weeks with discussion on this
clause. The SJrGhern manufacture
ers won't .2g-ee to che race Issue be-
ing included in the clause
That let the cat out - the bag.
They are not even ln8kin3 a prstcuse
Of including the Ne,ro workcls OF
the South under the provision of
minimum wages. That is what is ac-
tually happening.
This clause was, however, one of
tiae central points IF the code pre-
s'a;ad by the NatiJ,lI Textile Wo,k
erS Union"
The daily worker., 1933-08-14
How the National Industrial Recovery
Act Enslaves the Workers on the lob
NRA CutsWage S2.12;
Dummy Union Formed
(From a Worker Correspondent


NEW HAVEN, Conn.-Last week
The employees of Winchester were
notified that the company was going
on the new Code. Accordingly they
started today to comply with the new
requirements. They go on eight
hours a day, five days week, with
an eleven percent increase in wages.
For instance, those that were getting
$11 week now get $S.SS a week.
making $2.12 less a week. Count IN
the IL per cent.
The Winchester Company never
would stand for a union man in the
factory. Now the Company is going
to start dummy union. Every en-
ploye is got to belong to it to be Of
ficered by company officials, no dues
for Green and his friends. The peo-
pie being fed up on the slops in the
capitalist papers, 700 of them ar
rived at the Employment Office this
morning. A grand disappointment
awaited them. Four cops were at
the Office The hungry crowd stood
III VIC UOllluS SulA, NdiliilS 1OI oOulS
hope.
At 9 o'cock one of the cops came
through the crowd. He marshalled
about forty girls together. He then
marched them into the employment
office@"Cheap labor" The crowd
then had high hopes. At $50 an
other cop came out and he whispered
to one of the cops on the sidewalk.
who stepped forward. Gentlemen"
he said to the crowd of hungry men
with their paper shoes and cotton
clothes, 81 have been instructed to
inform you to go home, and don't be
hanging around here. There is not
one of you that is wanted, for any
man that is wanted will be hires by
card"
Of course, the crowd dispersed
after a good deal of cursing.
The daily worker., 1933-08-14
Wages Cut co., in
Metal Factory in
Louisville, Kentucky
(By a Worker Correspondent

tBy a Worker Correspondent
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-The NRA is do
ing wonders here for us. The Louis
vile Tin and Stone Company lays
off everyone except their bosses, and
cuts them 20 per cent and puts them
to work.
The Standard Sanitary, combine
of the American Radiator Corpora
ton, during the last three years cut
wages go per cent, and several weeks
ago gave wage increase effective
August l. On July 81 fired LOO
vorkers, and told the rest they would
have to join their company union or
they would shut the plant down and
get their product made in Germany.
The Cremo Cigar plant, an Amer
,ican Tobacco plant, raised wages ten
per cent and production fifty per
cent. Instead of packing five to six
thousand per dev the girls are told
IL the f2t-b2llied ho9ses to get out
ten thousand per day
The A.FL. 1akers here are having
a hard time to explain why their
lcaders try to keen the miners on
the job in Pennsylvania coal fields.
The daily worker., 1933-08-14

Hood said at that time, there is
nothing in the code that compels
an employer to give 48 or 81 hours
pay for 40 hours work.
He knew what he was talking
about. Only he failed to add that
in some cases wages would be cut
and hours increased above the 40
of the code"
Can you give us some instances?"
Bur,ak was asked.
Sure. There are plenty of them.
Offhand here are the most out
standing:
THE Massachusetts, Knit Eg Mills
has five mills in Massachusetts, and
the South. Tee company has the
blue eagle blazoned all over the
place. But it announced that all
those working less than six months
would be considered learners That
means they get less than the Sl3
minimum. To piece workers they
said all who couldn't stand the piece
worl- pace end make S13 would be
fired
"The companies have suddenly
gotten an educational spirit. They
want a lot Of learners The Hatha-
way Mill in New Bedford. Mass, is
hiring young workers to classify as
learners. They do exactly the same
wo,k as formerly done by older
workers They run the same num-
ber OF looms, but they get only So
weeE.
I'VE had them come to our union
office sld complain about it, expos
ing the whole system.
Can you give us some instances
where wages were cut under the
code?"
Take the silk dyeing industry. p"
replied Burlak. There wasn't even
an open hearing in Washington on
thei- code, 1t was rushed through
without giving the workers a chance
to say anything. The code is sup
posed to provide IS cents an hour
for a 4o-fou~ week. Dye workers in
Paterson. N. j., had been getting 35
cents an hour, working 60 to so hours
2 -eek, averaging between $24 and
s26.
The bosses came around. Told
the wor,-ers they are getting 10
cents an hcur more and would have
20 make it up by soeading up. How
sTe-, - the workers got their gay
chsc,-c th1-' found they averaged
around SIS e w2ek-an actual wage
The daily worker., 1933-08-14
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reply may address DR.. Luttinger and
enclosing stamped and self
addressed enevelope.
DIR. Luttinger's medical work since
his graduation from New York Uni
versity and Bellevue Hospital Me6-
cal College in 1911 has attracted wide
attention in medical circles. He was
bacteriologist in the Research La
boratory of the New York City De-
partment of Health and shortly after
completing six years work in this
field organized tho first whooping
cough clinic in the United States.
His published research reports on
whooping cough, meningitis, alcho.
hol, cance-. end diet have been re.
ceived by medical authorities as
among leading contributions in these
fields.
AS a result of his years Of re.
search and as pathologist to ths
Bronx Hospital and pediatrician u
the Bronx and Metropolitan hospi.
tails, lecturer on children's disease,
at Flower Hospital Medical College
he published his studies and views
in "The Burning Question: The Ra.
tional Education of the Proletariat'
and Socialism and Public Health
Besides his widespread and noted
work in medical fields DR.. Luttin-
gers interest in workers health
problems drew him towards the Com
munist Party and activity in The In
teraational Workers Order, the !. L.
d. and the W. ]. r.
The daily worker., 1933-08-14

In keeping with its policy Of maxi
ing The Daily Worker a complete
home and factory paper dealing with
workers problems, The Daily has
arranged new feature commencing
tomorrow, dealing with workers
physical and mental health as well
as public hygiene.
This feature will be conducted by
DR.. Paul Luttinger, noted physician,
author Of several books on workers
health, and at present. Professor of
Bacteriology and Physiology at one
of the New York Universities. The
column will be entitled, "Dr. Luttin-
ger Advises"
Prof. Luttinger is one of country's
most noted specialists in children's
health and will be glad TO advise pa
rents how to bring up their children
in the most healthful ways.
The health of workers and their
families especially those problems
involving occupational and industrial
ailments both for factory and office
workers is one Of the gravest con-
fronting workers. DR.. Luttinger
will advise on these matters as we'll
as personal health problems, public
health, diet, seasonal ailments, health
insurance, workers compensation
and medical frauds preying on
workers.
Workers are invited to consult DR..
Luttinger by sending their health
problems to him care of The Daily
Worker, 80 EastS13th Street, New
York City. Those desiring private
The daily worker., 1933-08-14
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Today's Menu
BREAKFAST

DIkLE Mr. AS
L. 0ransa juice or any small
piece of fruit.
9 Cereal.
8. Coffee for the adults and
milk for the children.
Cereal of wheat or oats should
be cooked the night before even
when the package may saw not
necessary. Let it simmer at least
two hours. Proportions of four
tablespoonfuls to one quart of water
with salt to taste is necessary. When
used reheat by filling double boiler
with hot water and boil hard for
at least an hour. Do not stir. Turn
into hot dish and serve with milk.
Smooth cereals like farina and rice
need not be cooked c. Knight. One
hour in double boz is enough.
LUNCE.
1. Lima bean soup.
2. Scalloped salmon.
8. Stewed pears.
a. Coffee.
Lima bean soup can be made OF
fresh, canned or beans which have
been soaked overnight. Fresh beans
should be cooked half to three-ouar-
ters of an hour. Canned or soaked
beans 20 minutes. Use one quart
of water with either. Make your
white sauce by melting one table,
spoonful of butter and when it bub-
bles put in one tablespoonful of
flour, salt and pepper to taste, rub
till quite smooth and thick with a
pint of hot milk. Press cooled vege-
tables through wide sieve with all
the water, mix with the white sauce
and strain once more.
For scalloped salmon take one
pint can of salmon, one large cup of
bread crumbs, one cup of white
sauce. Take out all bones, skin and
juice from the fish. Butter a bak-
ing dish, put in a layer of fish,
salt and pepper, then a layer Of
bread crumbs, and layer of white
sauce, repeat until layers are fin
ished with crumbs on top. Do over
with butter Brown in oven and
serve with mashed potatoes.
SUPPER.
4. Cabbage. salad.
2. Cabinet pudding.
3. Coffee for the adults and
milk for the children.
Cabinet pudding requires ane pint
of milk, three egg yolks, three
tablespoonfuls of sugar, one salt
spoonful Of salt.
Beat the eggs add the sugar and
stir them into the milk, which must
be very hot but not boiling; stir
till it thickens, and then take it
from the fire. Put layer of wash
ed raisins in the bottom of mould,
then layer of slices of stale cake
o. lady-fingers, then more raisins
around the edge of the mould, and |
more cake till the mould nJ full.
Pour the custard over very slowly,
so the cake will soak and bake in
pan of water in the oven for an
hour. This pudding is TO be eaten
hot with any sauce you like.
The daily worker., 1933-08-14

which will be sent on credit, with
the understanding that these papers
will be sold at the shop gate.
However, to make this distribution
still more effective, we group our
industrial correspondence in such a
day that letters from one or several
related industries appear all on one
day. Thus steel worker receiving
copy of the Daily with a story
on his own shop, can also read
stories on steel mills in other parts
of the country, and really begins to
look upon the Daily Worker as a
leader in the struggles of the steel
workers. One tentative program at
present is as follows:
Monday-AH transportation and
communications industries /
road, marine express, telephone and
telegraph, postal, street cars, SUBJ
ways, cab drivers, etc.
Tuesday-Steel, metal and auto.
Wednesday, Miscellaneous.
Thursday-Farmers, agricultural
workers and cannery workers.
Friday-Needle and textile.
Saturday-Mining, oil and chem
ical.
This schedule can be changed if
local conditions require an adjust
ment. Also letters Of any industry
can be published on any day speci-
fled in addition to these groupings.
We urge the workers to send even
more correspondence than they have
in the past.
And we particularly urge them to
make the fullest use Of the Daily
Worker in their organizational work
in and around tho shons
The daily worker., 1933-08-14

During the next few days we will
acqualnt our worker correspondents
with the methods we intend to use
IN handling correspondence. For
today we make a few suggestions
on the question of shop correspond
ence:
Descriptions of conditions on the
JOHN the shops, mills, mines, etc.
are valuable as information. They
become immeasurably more valu-
able, however, if these conditions
are used as the basis for exposing
certain maneuvers of the bosses.
For instance, report on a lay-off,
on a wage-cut, on a lengthening of
hours, if necessary. But when this
is linked up with the National In
dustrial Recovery Act, as is done
in the letters in this section today,
when these conditions are used to
expose before the working class, the
MIRA as it actually works out in
the shop, this letter becomes much
more effective in educating and con-
vincing the workers who are not
yet in the movement, Of the treach-
cry of this enslaving act.
We want 10 know the attitude of
the workers on conditions in their
shops, toward the A. F. of L. bu-
reaucrats, toward the prosperity
ballyhoo, toward the need for or
ganization, toward the revolutionary
unions, the Communist Party, the
Daily Worker.
Not only is it necessary to pub
lish letters from the shop, but it is
necessary that the workers of the
shop ip question get to read the lett
ter. It helps in the local organiza-
tional work in the shop, and helps
to bring the Daily Worker into the
shop.
We therefore have system
whereby a comrade can specify the
date Oil which he wants his letter
to appear, and accompany his let
ter with an order of extra copies,
The daily worker., 1933-08-14
Filene Cuts SO Union !.
Wage by 6O%e Under
National Recovery Act
By DAN RICO

From a Worker Correspondent
BOSTON, Mass.-Boston painters
FOUND out what the Industrial Re-
covery (Slavery) Act meant when
the F. M. Rogers shop said it was
waiting for Filena to set the
wages" and that this would mean
the minimum wage of forty cents
an hour with a, seven-hour day.
The Union agreement calls for nine
dollars for an eight-hour day, SO
that the new wage scale means
60 per cent cut. A terrific speed
up is in force.
Filene is one of the nine mem
bers of the State Board of "re-em-
ployment" chosen by Gen. Hugh
johnson, Slavery Administrator.
The daily worker., 1933-08-14
Mouldy Sanwiches AS
Pay for IL Hours Work
By a Worker Correspondent

NEW HAVEN, Conn.-The In
dustrial Recovery (Slavery) Act is
coming along full blast here with
the daily capitalist papers hailing
the return of prosperity, while the
conditions Of workers in the shops
and factories get increasingly worse.
In the Stiles Brick Yard in this city,
a worker was hired without being
told what he was to be paid. He
worked II hours the first day and
received three rhouldy sandwiches
for his food.
The next day the worker worked
one hour and demanded to know
what his wages were to be. The
boss told him that the sandwiches
cost a quarter a piece and that
as a result he would get no pay
and to get "the hell out"
Now the worker has nothing for
his 12 hours work in the burning
sun, but pair of blistered hands
and a new idea of what Roosevelt's
New Deal means to the working
class.
The daily worker., 1933-08-14
Public Works Money
Spent for Armaments
By a Worker Correspondent

bJ " Wof6er correspondent
ERIE, Pa.-The workers of the
Erie Forge and Erie Forge and
Steel Co. are getting experience
with the National Industrial Recov-
ey Act. They have had their hours
cut to forty week but the prom
ised wage increase can be noticed
only by its absence on pay days.
The above plants are war indus
tries and are expecting large or
ders from the war and navy de-
partments for airplane hangar
parts, naval guns and submarine
crankshafts. This is where some of
the money that was to have pro-
vided employment by public works
will be spent.
The bosses will enjoy increased
profits but unless the workers of
the shops organize to fight for high
er wages all they will receive is
speed up, more work, less hours, less
pay.
The daily worker., 1933-08-14
Against Bad
Food on Barber Line
Ship On Way to
Africa Hi.
From a Marine Worker Corresp.,

tFrom Marine Worker COrreSp.)
The crew of the Barber Line ship
West Irmo" recently organized into
a ship committee on the way to Free
town. West Africa. One of the main
issues they took up was the food
aboard ship. They sent a delegation
to the captain, who said he was cat
Ing the same food and that nothing
could be done about it. The men re-
fused to return to work unless they
got better food. The captain said
that any man who refused to work
would receive no food at all.
At Freetown. the chief cook
stabbed the second cook and slashed
his face with butcher knife, be-
cause the second was making a
ting the money he made all in his
own pocket. The chief was arrested.
but the captain was able to get it
fixed up.
The next port the ship made vas
Port Harcoart, Africa. The men still
The daily worker., 1933-08-14

the safe return of the Negro seamen
to their port Port Harcoart, Africa
Another racket on this ship was on
the pay-off. The men signed on at
$3.50 to the pound. They should
have been paid off at the rate of the
pound at the time the ship paid off.
This rate was $4.86.
The crew received about $50, and
the skipper and the purser split the
difference between themselves.
The daily worker., 1933-08-14
Hiring at Chevrolet
But for 3 Weeks Only

By Worker Correspondent
SAGINAW, Mich.-The local
paper tells about the 1853 new men
put on at the Chevrolet Foundry.
They were, but worked three weeks.
and when this was put in the local
paper, they were already laid off
permanently and instead of the rest
working seven hours per day, most
row work six hours. Previous to
thn new code nine hours was the
rule.
So most had so per cent re-
duction in hours or more, and only
20 per cent increase in pay.
The daily worker., 1933-08-14
Railroad, Marine Workers Tell OF Their Struggles
on job Against Enslaving Effects of MIRA

refused to work under the rotten
conditions. Here nine members of
the crew left the ship, and refused
to return until they could be assured
that the food would be better.
The ship was held up for "a hours,
in hopes that the men would return.
When they did not, the captain hired
nine Negroes to take their places.
The ship had to put up a 81 900 bond
On return to her home port to insure
The daily worker., 1933-08-14
500 WORKERS STRIKE
IN SUGAR BEET FIELDS

VENTURA, Cal. - Five hundred
workers are on strike in the sugar
beet fields of the Oxnard district,
under the leadership of the Cannery
and Agricultural Workers Industrial
Union and the Filipino Protective
League. The strikers demand a
minimum wage of 35 cents an hour.
The daily worker., 1933-08-14
Marshall Field Firing
MenAfter 40Y'rs Work
(From a Worker Correspondent

IFIUm " UrkeI CUIIeSPoItueII
CHICAGO, nl.--Ii'ne price of milk
here in Chicago has risen from &c
to 10c a quart and law has been
passed making it compulsory for
everyone to charge 10c qrArt. We
used to buy milk from the Meadow
Moor Company for &c ana 7c the
quart.
/ have been told on good authority
that such department stores as Mar
shall Fields and others here in the
Loop district have been firing all of
their old hands. Some have worked
at Fields for 35 and 40 years.
The daily worker., 1933-08-14
Can You Make 'em
Yourself =?

Here is an idea for making little
go long way Ca little time and
little money!. A skirt that can be
worn with any number of differJlt
olousa5. The blouse can be made at
one sitting, and the skirt at another
sitting, and each time you will feel
hat you have really accomplished
--,eching.
The daily worker., 1933-08-14
N O T E

We publish LISTERS from workers
in tine tramp sation and commu-
nica.ions indusS1 IS every Monday.
Get, them TO US by the preceding
Thursda"
The daily worker., 1933-08-14
Burlak Interview
Tells How Textile
Slaue Code Works
Bosses Becoming Educational and Employing
Learners" to Avoid Minimum Wages;
Speed Up Increases Pay Cut

working out practice? asked Daily worker
reporter National Textile Workers Union
Washington said Buak Ito expose the
reduce unemployment hap
pened Hood in the capitalist
The daily worker., 1933-08-14

arrived. dated July "a, and on the
first page 1 find an article, How
Wages Can Be Raised" and it tells
the workers wages can be raised;
they must be raised; we can and will
raise wages by fighting.
II the writer Of this article will
make only a slight acquaintance with
the writings Of Karl Marx he will
discover that this is an impossibility
and on the other hand he will dis
cover that wages under the capitalist
system will fall and that they must
continue to fall due to the fact that
the speed-up of the workers cheap
ems the product; that, therefore, the
workers can reproduce themselves for
a smaller outlay of real money. thus
lowering their value and as they only
obtain for their labor its value in real
money wages they consequently con-
tinuaily experience a fall in wages.
This is the reason the bosses speed
up the workers-the faster we speed
the less the boss pays US. There
fore, the greater the surplus, there
fcre more unemployment follows,
mere competition for the jobs, more
speed-up and still less wages.
Why, then, fight the inevitable?
Why organize into unions? That is
the question to be answered. What
should be our answer to these ques-
tions? First, do we want to speed
up? No. Then organize to fight
against the speed-up.
Do we want to raise our wages?
Yes. How will we do it? BY putting
up solid class front. to the bosses;
by organizing the battle against
them. If we don't the bosses will
have it all their own way and our
wages will fall just as they have done
in the past. To raise cur wages we
must obtain more of the good things
of this life. Thus we shall increase
our value and push up wages, for we
shall thus make ourselves more valu-
able. Is it worth while to struggle
against the worsening of our condi-
tions? Yes. Then we must fight
every minute. To do this we must
act n an organized manner. Do we
want to prepare the workers for the
battles to come? Certainly. Then
we must organize them and train
them for the future bigger battles.
Have the workers got anything to
lose by organizing and fighting? No.
Have they got anything to gain thru
struggle? Yes. They have the world
and the fullness thereof to gain. Is
this worth while fighting for? De-
cidedly. Then organize; learn what
you are up against; learn thru the
struggle how to beat your bosses,
then all together one grand battle
for the final freedom.
THE REPLY.
The writer of the above letter has
a confused understanding of Marx
in relation to wages and the ability
of the workers through struggle to
win wage increases.
First of all, Marx in all his writ
ings on political economy points out
that the social necessary labor"
forming the basis of the value of
labor power and wages is not fixed
thing, but varies from country to
country, based on the degree of de-
velopment of capitalism, and the de-
gree of development Of the orgeniza-
tion of the workingclass to protect
their living standards and to fight
The daily worker., 1933-08-14
To Worker Correspondents

Inc x-page making possible
an before to
mind that even with the
workers feel that letter ret
The daily worker., 1933-08-14
An Answer to a
Worker Who Thinks
Wages Can't Go Up
Does Not Believe Workers Thru Struggle Can
Raise Pay Refers Marx What He Really
Said On the Question
"a Letter from a Reader.)


pointing out the
graph printing
mental articles on political econom
had
The daily worker., 1933-08-14

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