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The daily worker., 1933-07-18
FORCE PAY
CUT RETURN
AT STEEL CO.
Follow Lead of Steel,
Metal Workers Union
to Draw Up Code

AMBRIDGE, Pa, July II.
Growing sentiment for a
union of their own choice
among the workers in the
American Bridge Co. resulted
in winning back a Is per cent wage
cut imposed on them last January
by the company. The workers are
now circulating petition, determined
to force the company to restore all
their back pay which they lost since
the wage cut.
AS result of the activity Of the
shop group of the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union in this
plant, the workers of the Beam shop
called meeting last week and we're
addressed by representative of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union. He outlined proposals for
winning better conditions. The work
ers enthusiastically endorsed the pro-
posa1s and agreed to work for meet
ing of the whole plant. Such meet
ing was held last Tuesday.
At the full meeting, with all work
ers of the plant present, the com
pany union was emphatically re-
iected by the workers. IF the COM
pany code is good for the company
it is not good for us" the workers
declared. I'VE propose to draw up a
code that Is good for u.s." The meet
ing was fully in control of the rank
and file, to the disgust of the repre-
sentatives of the company who were
present. A known company tool was
booed when he attempted to speak
from the platform and was forced to
retreat. The chairman of the COM
mittee of employees representatives
did not even appear at the meeting.
Beyond the Company's Control
The organized resistance of the
workers to the company union plan
is beyond any company control. In
order to prevent the men from meet
ing outside and to be able to watch
their activities more closely the COM
pany is offering the workers places
to meet in the shop.
The Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union is gaining influence
rapidly Many of the key men in the
departments are being won to the
unions proposals. The shop group
of the union is on the job exposing
every maneuver of the company.
The next meeting Of the workers,
scheduled for Friday, will take up
the question of intensifying the fight
for back wages, and a minimum wage
scale which the men have set UP for
themselves for 500 for the unskilled
with a 30-hour maximum week, and
will set up department committees in
line with their demand for the estab-
lishment of a union of their own.
The daily worker., 1933-07-18

InlS was Cne cnarge mace
today by the New York dis
trict of the International La
Dor Defense.
The L L. D. revealed that
Frank Sheiner, its attorney, stated
that Michael Palumbo and Athos Ter
zani, whom the authorities are try
ing to frame on charges Of feloniodS
assault and homicide, respectively,
pointed out to him and Harry Sacher,
the other I. L. D. attorney in this
case, man in Khaki Shirt uniform
as the slayer of Fierro. This identifi-
cation was made in Columbus Hall
shortly after the murder occurred.
Palumbo also informed Assistant
District Attorney Lescalzo of the
identity Of the murderer.
When asked to reveal the name of
the Khaki Shirt slayer this morning,
Lescalzo told Scheiner and Sacher
that his secretary had the name, but
would have to look 1t up They were
told to phone him az pm.
When Sacher phoned Lescaizo at g.,
however, Lescalzo, evidently under
orders after consultation with his
superiors fatty refused to reveal the
identity of the murderer.
The I. e. d. also told the Daily
Worker that members of the American
Legion in Queens had been overheard
discussing the case before the charges
against the two anti-fascist workers
were announced. They referred to
the homicide charge against Terzani,
the I. L. D. charges, and assured each
other that the case was "in the bag"
The I. L. D. has sent sharp tele-
gram to Lescalzo, demanding the "in1-
mediate publication Of the name and
address of the man known to be the
slayer.
The I. L. D. telegram pointed out
that Lescalzo admitted to its attor-
neyS that he was in possession OF
the name and address of the accused
man, that he came from Philadel-
phia. 1t charged that Lescalzo had
let him go scot-free even though
he was charged with the murder"
and that he had been in the Gus
tody of Lescaizo and the police at
the time the charge was made. The
telegram wound up with a demand
for the immediate release Of the
two framed workers.
Three statements issued yesterday
by the New York District Of the
Communist Party, the Jewish Work
ers' and Peoples Committee Against
Fascism and Pogroms in Germany
and the New York Committee to
Aid Victims of German Fascism
call on all workers to participate in
the demonstration against Balbo,
and to mobilize forces in the strug-
gle against the Khaki Shirts, the
American brand of fasciSm, as well
as all other forms Of fascism every
where else.
The daily worker., 1933-07-18
Post Leaves Moscow for
Siberia on World Flight

MOSCOW, July II. = Wiley Post
arrived In Moscow at 7:2o am, New
York time on his solo flight around
the world and left three hours later,
with Novosibirsk, 1880 miles away,
as his next destination. He left Mos
COW IS hours and 70 minutes ahead of
the time he made in his previous
round -the-world flight with Harold
Gatty.
Soviet airfields all along his route
are all in readiness to give Post any
assistance he may require, and have
supplies Of oil and fuel in case OF
need.
Post found many friends here in
Moscow, whom he had met on the
occasion Of his flight with Gatty.
He was greeted enthusiastically by
thousands Of workers at the Moscow
airport.
He stayed only long enough to
have a damaged oil line fixed, and
180 gallons Of gasoline put into the
tanks. He ate a quick lunch while
doctor was examining him, and
then was off again, hoping to get
to Novodbinsk by dawn. IL hours
laden.
The daily worker., 1933-07-18
WORKERS STRIKE
AT TOY PLANT
Dubinsky of I.L.G.W WI
Gusts Strikers
From Hall

NEW YORK.-NineOy-fve of the
100 workers of the Knickerbocker
Toy Manufacturing Co, IS Fifth
Avenue, went on strike yesterday
demanding 20 to so per cent wage
increases, a 40-hour week, time and
half for overtime, sanitary condi-
tions, and recognition of the shop
committee and their union, the In
dependent Doll and Toy Workers
Union of Greater New York, which
is leading the strike.
After allowing the first Is workers
to strike to use a room of the Inter-
national Ladies Garment Workers
Union for a meeting. the workers
were told by the union, after the
rest had come out on strike. that
Mr.. Dubinsky refuses" them any
further use of the headquarters.
The workers have suffered four
wage cuts and were working 48 hours
The daily worker., 1933-07-18
MOBILIZE STEEL
WORkERSAGAINST
NEW SLAVE CODE
Steel and Metal Union
Organizing Resistance
to Code

PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 17.-"Not
only are. we preparing TO bring large
delegation to the public hearings in
Washington to fight against the steel
slave code written by Morgan and Co.
for 80 per cent of the steel industry, :"
said John Meldon, secretary of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union. in an interview here today,
but we are now undertaking an Or
ganization drive to build our union,
organize the workers in the steel mills
to resist the slave codes, set up their
own struggle committees, discuss
and adopt their own demands, and
resist the shackeling company unions
which Roosevelt and General john
son are trying to put over more tight
ly on the steel workers"
The Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrisl Union is located at 1924 5th
Ave. Pittsburgh.
"The steel code was presented TO
General johnson after secret white
house conference between President
Roosevelt and Myron c. Taylor,
chairman of the board of the United
States Steel Corporation" Meldon
said. THE actual writing of the code
was done under the direction Of Rob-
ert P. Lamont, secretary of commerce
under the Hoover regime, and a
partner in the House of Morgan.
1.-THE Steel and Metal Workers
Union which has shop organizations
in the leading steel centers, is mob
ilizing a delegation of steel workers
to go to Washington. expose the steel
trust slave code and to present the
demands of the workers.
These demands are now being
drawn up. They are being discussed
in many mills by the workers them
selves. Meetings of steel workers are
being held in Pittsburgh, in the Ohio
district, in Gary, South Chicago, and
other steel centers. The steel work.
ers know the dangers which face
them. Very soon we will publish
these demands.
Every effort will be made, despite
the terrorism and threats to include
in the delegation Negro steel workers
from Birmingham, Ala.
I'VE ask all steel workers who do
not now have contact with us to write
TO us Immediately. tell us of the situa-
top IN their mills
The daily worker., 1933-07-18

NEW YORK-A conference to lay down the basis
for slave code in the coal fields held at the Fifth
of the Wall Street fnancer and stock gam
bier Bernard Baruch, with John L. Lewis president of the
United Mine Workers of America, and William Green presi
dent of the A. F. of L. attending together with the leading
coal BOSSES well Gerard Swope head of the General E
trio Co., Walter c. Teage president Of Standard Oil Co. of
New Jersey and other magnates according to information
published Black Diamond" organ of the coal barons
The main question ng the coal operators is the attitude
of the workers towards the idea of slave code and the
question of the unionization of the coal fields.
The daily worker., 1933-07-18
LEWIS, GREEN in SECRET COAL CONFAB AT BARUCH HOMI
1000 Toilers of Atlas
Cement Com pany
Vote for Own Union

NORTHAMPTON, Pa, July II.
-One thousand workers of the
Universal Atlas Cement Plant, a
subsidiary of U. S. Steel, met at
HoIushak's Hall at the call Of a
rank and file committee last week
and adopted a resolution favor
ing the immediate formation of
union to be controlled by the
workers employed in the plant.
The resolution calls for the
dissolution of the company union
plan which the company has
tried to foist on the workers as
means of preventing them from
organizing into a militant union.
The resolution was sent 10
Perkins of the U. S. Labor De-
partment, to President ROose-
welt and TO the arrangements Of
Universal Atlas Cement in North
hampton and in Chicago.
The daily worker., 1933-07-18
Coal Miners March
Breaks Up U.M.W.A.
Dist. Confab in Pa.

SCRANTON, Pa, July ia mil
liant demonstration Of more than
1000 rank and file miners who
marched on the convention of Dis
trict l OF the United Mine Work
ers To present their demands to the
oficials forced the UMWA officials
to call a hasty adjournment today,
one hour after the session had
started.
The district officials we're guarded
BY police armed with tear gas as
the miners marched on the conven-
ton headquarters. Another group
Of miners were said to be march
ing from the mid-valley district.
Unprepared for this meeting the
district oficials decided on q retreat
and President Boylan called off the
meeting.
The miners are marching on the
convention as an organized rank
and file group prepared with de-
mands to present to the treach-
erous officials who have worked
consistently against their interests.
The miners rank and file opposi-
ton will demand that strikes be
called to enforce the union rates.
that each local union elect an un-
employed committee TO fight for
immediate relief FOR the miners, the
right Of recall OF officials and the
reinstatement Of all mine workers
expelled for union activity and many
The daily worker., 1933-07-18
Knew Too Much About
Party--Nazi lie ader
Found Shot to Death

FRANKFORT -ON-MAIN, Germany,
July II. = The body of Wilhelm
Sal1aefer, former Nazi member Of
the Hessian Diet, was found thrown
across railroad track, shot dead.
Schaeser figured in the 1881 epi-
sode, in which he threatened to re-
veal papers which would have proved
detrimental to the National Socialist
Party. At that time the fascist
party stated that they had nothing
b h16A
The daily worker., 1933-07-18
Urge Mass Turnout
At Funeral of Slain
Anti-Fascist Youth

New York workers are urged to
turn out in mass at the funeral of
Antonio F'ierro, which will be held
at pm. today from the home of
the murdered young worker, 2238
Adams PI., the Bronx. The anti
fascist united front, the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, the Com
munist Party and other local or
ganizations yesterday stressed the
Importance of huge turnout at
this funeral, as demonstration
of solidarity against the Khaki
Shirt and similar organizations
and against fascism information
ally.
To reach 223S Adams PI., take
the Third Ave. 81" and get off at
the 1S3rd st. station.
The daily worker., 1933-07-18
Vet Slashes Wife and
Child, Kills Self AS
Red Cross Refuses Aid

YONKERS, N. Y-Refused relief
by the Red Cross and many hospi-
tails, Anthony Chonlzyk, 40, war
vet, slashed his wife and 12-year-old
daughter Sunday morning and then
ended his own life as they jumped
out the window to safety.
Chomzyk, Of AZ Walnut Street,
had served during the World War
with the 77th Division. He had been
respondent lately because the gov
ernment refused to aid him
His wife and child escaped with
minor injuries. Another child was
not in the house at the time.
The daily worker., 1933-07-18

Lewis ana Gr66n were Cdll6O
into the secret confab of the
bosses to map out the strategy
of the United Mine Workers
of America in helping Presi-
dent Roosevelt and General
johnson to put over a code for
the coal industry under s-tlle
industrial recovery" act.
To Help Out Bosses
Lewis and Green, who have been
working and-in-glove with General
johnson to draw up the code for the
coal miners, we're brought into this
secret conference at the home Of
Bernard Baruch, unofficial presi-
dent of the United States" after
conflict developed among the mine
owners over the question of drawing
up codes to cover the whole industry
The main bone of contention OF
the coal operators is that of union
ization of the field. While number
of the leading coal operators are
willing to accept Lewis and the
United Mine Workers as the com
pany union in the field, feeling that
Lewis, with his experience. can best
help to break strikes, other oper-
ators, particularly those of the South,
want TO be convinced first that they
need any union Lewis and Green
undoubtedly used all their energy
and skill to convince all the coal
bosses that they can keep back
strikes and that the q. M. w. A.
should be accepted by all as the COM
pany union under the industrial re-
covery act.
General johnson, speaking to
Committee of 49, of the operators,
representing 80 to 95 per cent of ths
industry, appointed early in June to
work out code for the soft coal in
dustry, told them they should not
consider the activity of the U. NJ.
W. A. organizers in the field as union
ization. BLACK Diamond" the coal
bosses organ, writing of Gen. John
sons speech to the coal men, said:
His (Johnson's) repeated declara-
ton that organized labor would mot
be permitted to use the labor pro-
visions TO unionize industry Was
source of assurance to the industry
Everything TO Aid You"
General johnson assured the coal
operators they have nothing to fear
from Lewiss so-called organizational
drive in the coal fields as the ad-
ministration with whom Lewis Ia
acting) will do everything it can for
the coal operators.
General Johnson said he was OF
the opinion that we are in one Of
the most critical periods of the
depression and you must 60 along
with usS stated Black Diamond
L will do everything 1 can to aid
you"
The aid came soon after in this
secret conference at the Fifth Ave.
mansion of Bernard Baruch, the real
power behind General johnson. Gen.
johnson was appointed to his post
as administrator of the industrial
recovery" act on the suggestion OF
Bernard Baruch. johnson had
worked as confidential research man
for the financier, Baruch.
Further pointing out that Lewis's
activities in the coal fields should
not be construed as organizing the
workers is seen in the following
quotation from the same magazine,
BLACK Diamond"
"Mr. O'NeilI "a member of the
operators comniittee) told the op-
orators that General johnson said
that, so far as his administration
is concerned, the labor provision
would not be utilized to un,onire
the industry"
In month or SO, Lewis and his
representatives claim to have organ
lied 100000 new members in the
(0oafEQluD on PAGE 11
The daily worker., 1933-07-18

ing the release Of the two anti
fascist workers without delay to
Assistant District Attorney Les
calso, Queens Co611, County Court
House, Court House Square, Long
Island City, Queens, N. Y.
The daily worker., 1933-07-18

near COAIRADE EDITOR
reading the Letter the Daily Worker
statement that the masses are be-
ginning openly revolutionary
ANY my mind taken last night
Studebaker Auto Union The
native
Negroes workers thrown in Also many FORE
high officials there
made remark attacking the speaker for
defanng praised the workers there for
kicking capitalists and ed he would
there not even stony silence
half of the workers there
factory and asked to get in touch
help Eight Party and League YCo
members present they almost monopolzed
the discussion and questioning.
I'VE going the huge studebaker and
Bendix plants here.
happened last night that the work
becoming not reaconaIy the
contrary members who actonary by
pessmstio policy workers too dumb
more, etc.
e promise get active organizing the
the stronghoIds Of capitalsmthe factories"
conferenc
that the Letter written
the Committee well
thoroughly work. with the view
approach to the workers and in tn
place to those in the big factories.
The Daily Worker write tn
the light of the Open Letter
particularly accomplishments carrying hes
tasks
The daily worker., 1933-07-18
Demand Release of
Palumbo, Terzani!

NEW YORK, July 1.-THE I.
L. d. urges all workers organiza-
tious to send kilograms demand
The daily worker., 1933-07-18
MAP ATTACK ON
MINERS AT COAL
BARONS' MEET
"BIack Diamond" Organ of Coal Bosses Says
Gen. Johnson Assured Them Unionization
Is Not Object of Recovery Act

U.MWA Organization Campaign Is Effort to
Prove Lewis Outfit Is Best Company Union
Bosses Can Get to Break Strikes
The daily worker., 1933-07-18
Charge Queens Police
Hide Slayer of Fierro
Khaki Shirt Murderer, Pointed Out by Framed
Workers, Is known to Authorities

fascist Athos
Wednesday, the Magistrates Court lis Fifth
Station taking r. T. Flushing Vernon jackson
Avenues station in Isiandl
NEW YORK, July 17.-Assstant District Attorney Les
cao of Queens acting under orders from his superors
conceang the of the who shot and
killed Antonio Ferro Friday night at the Khaki Shirt meet
ing in Columbus Hall, Astoria L. l.
The daily worker., 1933-07-18
A Factory Worker Writes on
the "Oben Letter"

Thursday published Open Letter from the
Communist Party the
membership pointed out the serious shortcom-
particularly the failure to concentrate our
the big factories Today print as ed-
torjaI fron1a factory worker
Evening star., 1933-11-04
DECLINE REVEALED
IN COTTON GRADES
Bureau of Economics Finds Longer
Staple, However, Compared
With Year Ago.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
The Bureau of Economics reported
yesterday cotton ginned to October
was lower in grade but longer in staple
than that ginned to the corresponding
date last year
The 5.9097 746 bales reported ginned
to october was over one million bales
more than was ginned TO the same date
last year.
With the exception of GIG bales of
Amerlcan-Egyptian all of this cotton
was American upland cotton. Of which
only 34l per cent graded white strict
middling and above, compared with 433
per cent last year.
OF the remainder. 90 3 per cent graded
white middling compared with 40.4 per
cent year ago. There was almost
three times as much spotted and yel-
low-tinged -l91 per cent this year COM
pared with 81 per cent last year.
The bureau said that in spite of the
relatively larger proportions OF the
lower grades Of cotton this year only a
little more than per cent Of the gin
nings to October l was untenderable.
Evening star., 1933-11-04
STOCKS STRONGER
AS WEEK CLOSES
Advances More Impressive
Than Declines Despite
Some Uncertainty.
BY GEORGE T. HUGHES.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. November 4-While
the price movement in today's week
end market was irregular and uncer-
tain, the advances were more impressive
than the declines
Opening quotations were lower, which
was natural after the very sharp rally
In the last hour Friday, but the de-
cline was not extended. Stocks were
not in supply and after that fact had
been established to the satisfaction of
the professional element. the list hard
ened under the leadership of the rail-
road shares.
1t was difficult to trace any connec-
tion between the overnight news and
the action of stocks. Washington ad-
vices were TO the effect that there
would be no haste about adopting the
self-rule plan for industry as a sub
stitute for N. r. A: control. That was
not to Wall Streets liking. The pros
pect Of price fixing for agricultural
staples was disturbing. The weakness
in United States Government bonds was
another unfavorable situation. but the
stock market CLOSED over all the un-
pleasant aspects in the outlook.
Gold Shares Again Weak.
Gold stocks were weak again for a
time, but they were better supported
than on Friday. The liquidation in
them was apparently the switching
out Of stocks that had enjoyed large
price appreciation, replacing them with
others which were believed to have
greater speculative possibilities. There
industry itself to cause pessimism. On
the contrary washington raised the
price Of newly mined gold another notch
and local brokers announced that they
count to be imported and Sold to the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation In
general the metal stocks were heavy, al
though not weak
Electrical manufacturing issues were
strong stimulated by hope Of increased
business from Government aid to the
railroads and other industries. The oils
were firm and the motors in good de-
mand New York Central was the leader
IN the carrier shares. Alcohol issues re-
acted at the opening, but came back
afterward
Dollar Little Changed.
The dollar was little changed in terms
OF the franc French currency was off
a point at the opening. Sterling how
ever was strong against both the dol
lar and the franc. resulting in a drop
in the price of gold in London. The
grain market met selling on the failure
OF the widely advertised good news"
supposed to come out of Washington.
Probably there was disbursement over
the failure of an immediate agreement
being reached between the Western
Governors and the President. Wheat
did better, however. after the early SELL
ing had been absorbed
The market closed steady. with the
averages not much changed. The late
o0uylng centered about General Electric
National Steel, Union Carbide and Au-
burn Auto.
(COpyripbf
Evening star., 1933-11-04
CHANGE DEMANDED.
! IN SECURITIES ACT
Investment Bankers to Seek
Less Drastic Law as Aid
to Capital Market.
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Changes In the much-mooted securi-
ties act of 1888 were declared to be
the best way of reviving the vanished
capital market, by the delegates at
tending the annual convention of the
Investment Bankers Association 4. just
concluded at Hot Springs. Va. A review
of the conventions activities shows that
this question furnished the biggest
issue under discussion.
In statement issued by Frank M.
Gordon, retiring president, he declared
that "a reservoir of money that can
be translated into jobs for millions Of
people is being held back by need for
clariflcation of the liability sections of
the Federal securities act" He added:
"All over the United States corpora
tions are ready to undertake the neces-
sary financing, but no corporation di
rector in his senses is going to risk
existing resources by putting his name
on financing under law that makes
him personally liable for the next 10
years and adopts the un-American
principle that he is to be judged guilty
unless he can be proven innocent.
1T is time for some plain speaking.
The law is a hindrance to national
recovery. Personally l do not believe
that any one ever intended to pass a
law which makes a security dealer who
handles $4,000 worth of $4,000 900
issue liable for the entire $40 900 900"