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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
PROPOSE MINIMUM
WAGE SCALES FOR
DRESS, SILK CODES

NEW YORK.-Some indication of
what the employers in the dress and
silk and rayon industry intend to in
clude in their codes to be submitted
to the administration can be seen
from the proposals already announced
but not yet put into final form.
In the dress industry, the manufac-
turers are proposing minimum wage
of $14 for unskilled workers, and a
40-hour week. The manufacturers
also declare against child labor but
they know this measure can be easily
evaded through the thousands of
sweatshops now being used under the
contract system. No statement has
been issued regarding the proposed
minimum scales for the skilled work
ers.
Contrasted with the union scales es-
tabished by the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union, which range
from S13 to $50 for the various opera
tons in the industry, this minimum
wage represents the instrument for
forcing down the union standards
gained by the workers
Dubinsky, President Of the Inter
national Ladies Garment Workers
Union, who has repeatedly sung praise
fer the Recovery (Slayery) Act and
has publicly supported a minimum
wage which would undercut the pre-
sent union scale in the ground that
the workers are getting sweatshop
wages anyway, has nothing to say
against the proposal However, he
warns the bosses against announcing
the wage as it would have bad "psy-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12

laborers that is prevalent in the steel
industry. This was done in the foun-
dries, and from all likelihood it will
ultimately be adopted in the steel
mills, unless the steel workers thwart
the attempt. Such low wage base
can only mean that those who earn
higher wages now will soon be re-
duced to that lower wage in accord
ance with the Steel Code. For this
reason, real rank and file organiza-
ton of the steel workers is essential:
the workers themselves must prepare
their own demands.
with the fighting program of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union the workers can go forward to
victory. Every worker must immed-
lately communicate, with the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial Union.
Join or apply for information on the
formation of mill committees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
Call Conference to
Oganize Lumberjacks

list naturalization, so that the output
per worker is greater than ever be-
fore.
Wage Cuts
Co-incident with the driving speed
up, have come devastating wage-cuts.
The basic wage in the lumber indus
try has become $120 a day! In 1929
it was $3.50. The blacklist and
espionage system is highly developed.
The Four L Has the Field
At the present. there is an almost
complete lack. of workers organiza-
lions in the industry. The IWW, at
one time a powerful mass organiza-
ton of the lumber workers, has COM
pletely died out. The 4 L, boss
controlled company union which was
organized in 1916 at a time when
there was continual strike action on
the part of militant workers has the
field to itself. Because of growing
wave of dissatisfaction and a growing
wave of strike struggles, the 4 L is
at present engaged in strenuous
campaign to completely organize the
industry into the boss controlled COM
pany unions. But the workers I'M
derstand the nature of the l.. Re-
Gently, Al organizer was bodily
thrown out of mill where he was
attempting to organize.
In line with the Roosevelt Recovery
slavery Act, new code is now be-
ing drawn up for the industry. A
starvation wage will be set which will
become standard for the whole in
dustry, and the provisions of the act
will be used in an attempt to forestall
and prevent militant action and or
ganization of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12

be DaSe0 on Wiue Teprcsentnlioh'
In responding to the conference
the unions are realizing the serious
ness Of the situation confronting the
workers with the enforcement Of the
Industrial Recovery slavery Act.
The workers are already tasting the
fruits of the Slavery Law in the at
tacks on the Fur workers section OF
the Needle Trades Industrial Union,
on the attempts to company union
ize the Laundry Workers Industrial
Union, and to break the militant
strike of the workers, and in the
setting up of starvation textile code
which will attack the wage standards
Of the whole working class.
These instances showing the work
ers how false are the promises con-
tanned in the act are arousing many
unions to unite in action against the
Slavery Act. The role Of the A. F.
lof l.. officials in imposing the Slavery
Law on the workers in order to break
down the militant unions and to en-
force starvation conditions on the
workers is being revealed daily.
The July Is conference must rally
the workers from every organization,
shop and factory to unite to defeat
the Slavery Act. Credentials should
be sent to the Provisional Commit
tee for the Defense Of Trade Unions,
Room 637, 80 East 18th Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
Uncomfortable Sbeed>Ub Described by
Our Worker Correspondents
Boys Work Ii Hour
Day, Get Paid Only
Ii Hours at 20 Cents
BY a Leather Worker Correspondent

BY a Leather Worker Correspondent
BELLEVILLE, N. 1.-THE condi-
lions in the Federal Leather Com
pany here shows what the Roose-
welt prosperity means to us young
New Jersey workers.
I am employed with other boys in
the dyeing room. We start at am.
and work till pm. under a grind
ing speed-up system for twenty cents
per hour.
The first weeks pay envelope
showed a big shortage and they told
us our pay stopped at six pm, when
the machinery stopped. We are then
put to work cleaning the watts which
takes two hours and we get no pay
for it.
We have no proper lunch hour.
The fireman usually points to a
couple of us at anytime from II till
2 and says you can eat now. He
watches us and when we are thru
eating the sandwich he comes over
and says, Come on, get busy" and
in that way we only have ten min
utes to eat. If the job we are on
isn't finished, it means we don't
eat till that batch of leather is fin
ished at O'Clock or later.
It's shame and the boys can't
stand it. They usually quit after a
week, some stay two weeks. 1t is
cheaper to use boys than the men
that formerly did the job and, Of
course, they had proper lunch
hour.
The windows are closed and the
air is blue or green or yellow &C.
cording to the dye in the watts that
Gay. If you spit, or cough, or blow
your nose, the dye comes out of your
system. Your body is all colored al
night and pimples and rashes break
out and this causes the boys to quit
Some of them get very sick.
Some of the boys are writing To
Frances Perkins, but told them q
letter in the Worker would be
better
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
JObless Increase But
Relief Is Cut, Writes a
Worker in Oregon

MULLINS, Ore.-Dear Comrades:
The unemployed workers of Clack-
amas County have been working on
relief" last winter at $1.50 in scrip.
Some have been able to work 2 days,
others 8. Clackamas County was
allotted $4,000 formerly for relief,
it received $500 only for the month
of June-with a further cut for July.
We aren't going to starve amidst
plenty. We are going to follow the
only path-and that is struggle-we
are going after what we want-with
the program of the workers guide,
the Communist Party.
Henry MatsOn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
Workers Crazed
at Ritz-CarltOn
BY a Worker Correspondent

ATLANTIC CITY, N. IA young
man was stabbed to DEATH by an
oyerworked cook. This happened the
4th of July while the elite Of the
American exploiting society was &C.
lebrating the day of independence!
Music, more music. The rich mans
vacation must not be spoiled by this
grim tragedy, and the show went
on, as helpless youth lay on the
kitchen floor with knife deep be-
tween his shoulders.
This is the way that the over
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
Gov. Ely Opens Drive
to Suspend Night
Work Law in Mass.

BOSTON, Mass, July 11.-Gov-
ernOr Ely of Massachusetts, today
sent a message to the legislature
urging authority to suspend the
operation of the law prohibiting
night work for women and chill
dren on the ground that the law
conflicts with the operation of the
new textile code and the Recovery
Slavery Act. Ely who has fin
anciaI investments in cotton tex
tiles conducted a similar campaign
last spring but was forced to re-
treat as a result of the mass cam
paign conducted by the National
Textile Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
Post Set for World Hop.

NEW YORK, July 11.-Wiley Post
announced yesterday that he will
take off for his solo flight around the
world, aiming at the same six-day
mark Jimmie Mattern failed to
arrieye. His plane, the Winn., Mac.
is IN perfect condition at Flosd Bcn-
nett Field, he said, and awaits only
a good weather report.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12

SALEM, Mass, July lin half
page advertisement in the Salem Eve
ming News Of July Z the Naumkeag
Steam Cotton Co. officially declares its
policy towards the 1900 textile strikers
who have been out since May to de-
feat the company speed-up plan, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12

SEATTLE, Wash. July 11.-A con-
ference of outstanding Importance to
the lumber workers of the Northwest
is being called by the National Lum-
Der Workers Union in Seattle on
July 18th. The call which has been
sent out to the workers in the logging
and pulp wood camps, the sawmills,
the shingle mills, and the plywood
veneer, paper and pulp mills. The
conference opens at 1880 at 1109 Viz
ginia st., Seattle, and will formulate
plans to organize the industry.
The A. F. of L. is making frantic
efforts to bring the old International
Timber Workers Union into life. This
union was allowed to die in 1922 by
the officials and the bosses when the
Four Ell, the bosses company union
was in control The workers are
showing readiness for struggle and
are demanding a fighting organiza-
ton to lead them in their struggles.
Spontaneous strikes have broken out
all over the Northwest. Strikes have
occurred at Tacoma, Coos Bay, Olym-
pia, Port Angeles and other import
ant lumber centers. These are but
surface indications of a tremendous
upsurge of strike activity which will
shake the whole industry to its foun-
dations.
Important War Industry
Recently, there has been a small
increase in the activity within the in
dustry. This is due to the shipment
of lumber to the Orient for use as
war supplies. But even with war rag
ing in the Far East, the lumber in
dustry is as hard hit by the crisis
as any industry. At the present time,
the industry is running at about 20
per cent of capacity. This means,
of course, that only 20 per cent of
the workers are employed. Only one
out Of five! In their desperate greed
for profits, the bosses have devised
news methods of speed-up, OF capital
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
The Denver Post Pays
S1.50 for Is Hour Day
tBy a Worker Correspondent

DENVER, Colo. The Denver
Post" is working men 16 hours a
Gay for dollar and half q day.
1t is worth millions of dollars and
has no use for workers.
This capitalist paper tries to run
the city OF Denver 1t is nom
union newspaper II runs gambling
houses and controls crooked boxing
in Denver.
Organization and mass pressure
will relieve this situation In Denver,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
Tampa Cigar Workers Hit
A. F. of L. Member DriVe

TAMPA, Fla July lit The Cigar Makers international
Union of the oldest and most reaconary machine ridden
unions in the American Federation Of Labor seeking
to revive practically defunct organization by forcing the
thousands of militant Tampa cigar makers into its ranks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
A.FL. BAKERS SEND DELEGATES TO
DEFEND TRADE UNION CONFERENCE

Bakers locals have just elected dele
Defense Of the Trade Unions which Will be
this Saturday from vari
F. Of Workers Painters Garment workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
Redk Stopped The oes The Workers Can Only
Be Guaranteed Livelihood They Relief Cuts and for Social Insurance
Rise in Steel Fails
to Bring Boom"
10 the Unemployed

like
knocked OF You couldn't help being shocked
from from whole mills sound at ALL 1t
seemed unbelievable
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12

certain will be surely proposed from
the floor at the next strike meet
ing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12

Geological effect" on the workers and
may mean strike at present when
negotiations for an agreement are
pending.
The Silk Association has submitted
a starvation code for the silk and
rayon weaving industry, which estab-
fishes a new low level for the skilled
section of the industry. For skilled
weavers and Wrappers, many of whom
are organized, an s18 minimum wage
has been set. Wages for weavers be-
fore the crisis ranged from $50 to $40
a week and Wrappers averaged S35.
Wages for unskilled workers, fol-
lowing the cotton textile code as a
precedent, will be set at $13 in the
North and S12 in the South. In 1928
weekly average earnings Of silk work
ers ranged from SIT in Pennsylvania
to $23 in New Jersey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
Number Needing
Relief Mounts in
Los Angelo S

LOS ANGELES, Cal.-From the
third to fourth week of June the
Charities Bureau reported an in
crease Of 1926 cases which included
7713 dependents. This statement
gives the direct lie to reports in cap
italist newspapers that an increas-
ing number Of workers are being
taken off the charity lists
Locals of the Relief Workers Pro-
tective Union fight for increased re-
lief, are being formed all over the
city. At present there are 8 locals
with a membership of from IS to
100 each.
Evening star., 1933-04-28

Joseph Mccartney Of the Covenant
First Presbyterian Church will perform
the ceremony.
satin, made on princess lines and her
tulle veil will fall from a cap of white
satin. She will carry shower bouquet
of white roses.
Miss Florence Asher, sister Of the
bride, win be the maid of honor. wear
ing q yellow frock and hat and carrying
an arm bouquet Of Spring flowers.
Mr.. Robert Johns Bulkley, jr., son
the ushers are Mr. Charles Fred Rich
ards, jr., of New York and Philadelphia,
Mr. Gordon L. Fiske of Santa Barbara,
Calf. and Baltimore, Mr.. William
Blaine Asher of this city and Mr.. Will
liam MacFarlaine Hinkle of New York
City.
A reception will follow the ceremony,
when the couple will be assisted in re-
ceiving by Mrs. Asher, mother CT the
bride, who will wear gown OF black
chiffon and lace.
After the ceremony the couple will
leave for wedding trip, the bride wear
ing brown and orange-checked silk
gown with accessories to correspond.
They will make their home at South
port, Conn.,, and in New York City.
The bride attended Miss Madeiras
School and Wellesley College and the
bridegroom, Groton School and Har-
ward University.
Among the out of town guests will be
Miss Fredrica B. Hastings. Mrs. George
Watson of New York. Mrs. c. Fred
Richards, jr., Of Philadelphia, Mrs
Evening star., 1933-04-28

Hinkle. will take place this afternoon
at 4 o'clock, In the home Of the brides
parents at 2501 Upton street.
The arrangements for the wedding
are unusually charming, a profusion Of
white snapdragons and tall palms will
form the setting for the wedding party.
Mrs. George Watson of New York will
play the wedding marches.
The bride will be given In marriage
by her father and the Rev. Albert
Evening star., 1933-04-28
EVENING WASHINGTON, D.. c.,

A. Mitchell Palmer will be hosts at
dinner this evening and will take their
guests later to the performance Of the
Mask and Wig Club of the University
Of Pennsylvania, which will be given
in the Belasco Theater.
Miss Annie M. Hegeman, who Is
closing her house at 1900 I street for
the season, will be at the Carlton for
q few days.
Evening star., 1933-04-28

Irish Cabinet Minister
Guest of DR.. Nevils, S. J.
Senator Joseph Connolly, Irish cabi-
net minister. who is in Washington on
an official mission, and the Minister
of the Irish Free State, Mr.. Michael
MacWhite. we're the guests of DR..
Coleman Nevils, S. j., president OF
CONTINUED on Fourth Page.)
Evening star., 1933-04-28

the week in Washington. DR.. and Mrs
Wheeler have been guests Of the pres
ident of the National Academy of Sci
ence and Mrs. w. w. Campbell, and
DR.. Wheeler attended the early sessions
of the annual meeting of the academy
and returned to Boston several days
ago.
Mrs. Wheeler was the guest at tea
yesterday of Mrs. E. A. Hartman, who
entertained few guests in her honor.
The new attache of the embassy,
Sencr Don Luis Ortegon, jr., has ar
rived in Washington to assume his new
duties.
The third secretary Of the Mexican
embassy, Senor Don Carlos Peon-del-
Vale. will go to Baltimore next week
to speak Tuesday before the luncheon
of the National Woman's Party of
Baltimore The luncheon will be held
at the Woman's City Club and Senor
Peon- del-Valle will speak on The
Civil Rights of Women in Mexico"
Hinkle- Asher Wedding
In Brides Home Today.
The marriage of Miss Elizabeth Asher,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Blaine
Asher, to Mr.. Peyton Leshure Hinkle
of Southport, Conn, and New York
City, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene E.
Evening star., 1933-04-28

Mr.. and Mrs. L. Corrin Strong will
give tea this afternoon in honor of
DR.. Hans Kinder, conductor Of the
National Symphony. Orchestra. DR..
Kinder will talk 10 the orchestra's S
Student Committee at 4:30 o'clock, and
the tea Is from to o'clock.
Evening star., 1933-04-28
Robert ]. Bulkley. jr.. Of Cambridge

The former Assistant Secretary of
War and Mrs. F. Trubee Dawson en-
tertained at dinner last evening in
New York in honor Of Mr.. and Mrs.
James j. Lee.
Evening star., 1933-04-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Jouett Shouse will
entertain at dinner this evening In
their Georgetown home.
Evening star., 1933-04-28

Continued From Second Page)
Harry Thomas of Babylon, Long Is
land, and Mr. and Mrs. Darragh Lau-
derbach of New York
The Washington times., 1933-10-14
SUSPECT HELD
IN ROBBERY Of
CAB DRIVER
Man Found Near Abandoned
Vehicle Seized; CoIored
Thugs Stage HoIdups

One suspect was arrested early
today after the holdup Of a taxi
cab driver in the 1900 block Rose
dale st. N. W.
L. w. Armentrout, the driver.
reported two men hailed him at
First and G Streets Northwest,
and directed to be driven to that
address. Arriving there, they
drew guns, robbed him OF S. and
drove off with the cab.
Suspect Seized
A few minutes after Armen-
trout had reported the robbery,
Policeman L. E. Skies, in a radio
car, found the abandoned cab.
George H. Harris, 33, of the 500
block Fifth st. N. W., was near
the vehicle, and Skies took him
into custody for investigation.
Operating in the thick fog
which settled over the Northwest
ern section last night, two colored
thugs staged five holdups.
Five Men Held Up
From their first victim-E. M.
Rowe, 1900 block Third st. N.
W.-the robbers got only an
empty wallet. A few minutes
later Lyle G. Ross, 800 block
Sixth st. N. W., was robbed of Sc.
The next victim-Carson E.
Johnson, 900 block o st. N. W.
lost a stickpin valued at $55.
Henry Saunders, 100 block Sixth
st. N. w., also gave up an empty
wallet.
The. last victim-William Ste
vers, first block Raleigh st. s..
E.-netted them $31. In each
case one of the robbers pointed
a gun at the victim while his
companion went through his
pockets.
The Washington times., 1933-10-14
PAY GUT PLAN
To PAVE WAY
FOR RAISES
Consent SIashes in Emergency
Units Will Permit Later
Promotion

Plans Of the Budget Bureau to
institute a Is per cent pay cut in
emergency organizations, to con-
form to cuts already made under
the economy act in the regular
Federal establishments, are de-
signed to circumvent the prohibi-
ton of administrative promotions,
in the event that the pay cuts
are restored, it was learned to-
day.
The pay cuts would be i'm
posed by Executive order. The
emergency units are now exempt
from the pay cut, according to a
series of rulings by Comptroller
General j. r. McCarl, but cuts
can be made administratively.
The difficulty would lie pri-
marily in restoring pay if and
when the reductions in the regu-
lar branches of the Federal serv-
ice are ended.
To overcome this difficulty a
form of contract will be signed by
individual employees in the emer-
gency units whereby they will
agree to accept "a Is per cent
cut" at the discretion of the ad-
ministrative officers. Presumably
such cuts would be made from
November l to January /. There
after, it is expected, pay in the
regular establishments would be
restored, and the procedure in the
emergency agencies would con-
form.
Employees in the new organiza.
tions feel that their salaries
should not be cut to the same
basis as those in the regular
establishment because the latter
are permanent jobs and the
emergency jobs are temporary.
The Washington times., 1933-10-14
BUREAU To GET
BUDGET TODAY

Requesting more than $38, ,0OO,-
900 for District expenses for the
fiscal year 1885, the District
budget will be sent to the Bureau
of the Budget late today, it was
announced by Major Daniel j.
Donovan, District auditor.
Major Donovan said his office
force is working at top speed to
complete preparation of the esti-
mates, which will be forwarded
as soon as the work is completed
and the letter of transmittal
written.
Until the estimates actually
are in the hands of the Budget
Bureau, Major Donovan declined
to make any statement regarding
them.
The Washington times., 1933-10-14
BYRD To LEAVE
EAGLE At POLE

Rear Admiral Byrd will drop a
Blue Eagle on the South Pole the
next time he flies over that world
Landmark, the NRA has been in
formed by the Byrd expedition.
Brig. Gen. Hugh S. johnson has
presented two giant Blue Eagle
pennants to the expedition, each
eight by twelve feet, and they will
be delivered to Admiral Byrd at
Norfolk tomorrow evening.
Capt. AL Williams will fly with
them to Norfolk, leaving the mu-
nicipal airport here late tomor-
row. Williams is flying here from
New York and is expected to ar
rive here about 10 a. m. tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1933-10-14
NRACHANCEDUE
RETAIL CODE
By International News Service

BY International News Service
Replacement of the cost-plus
"stop loss" features of the master
retail code by other provisions
was to be announced today by
the NRA.
Recovery Administrator Hugh
S. Johnson and his economists
worked on the new provisions
until late last night.
He planned originally to submit
them to the nations 100000
retailers, who employ about 5,000,-
900 workers. The economists and
other units of the organization
differed widely, however, on the
method to be employed in clean
ing up the retail trade.
One faction held that "disas-
trous" cut-throat competition could
be prevented merely by forbidding
the sale of merchandise at less
than invoice cost, without any
mark-up.
The economists and others held
with equal stubbornness to the
opinion that any sort of inflexi-
BILE minimum price-fixing was
dangerous. not only to consumers
but to the merchants themselves
and thus to the entire recovery
program.
This group proposed the "self-
policing" type of provisions, which
would permit a retailer to buy
all the goods offered by competi-
tors at "cut-throat" prices, and
thus make a direct profit from
rivals whenever attempts were
made to offer goods at unfair"
levels.
The Washington times., 1933-10-14
PICTURE LOVE
JA|LS YOUTH

Four years ago he saw her
picture in newspaper and fell
in love with her. Ever since
then he has been following her.
. Today the young man, Marcel
Ridgley, 25, a contracting painter
Of Georgetown, went to Jail for
IS days as a result.
Ruth Byrd, %, of the 27OO
block Chain Bridge Rd. N. w.,
yesterday had her admGrer ar
rested on a charge of annoying
her. He had been doing so for
a long time, she charged, and
she wanted to put a stop to it.
In Police Court today, when
arraigned before Judge Gus A.
Schultz, the young man explained:
"I'm in love with her. I
meant no HARM"
Judge Schuldt turned deaf ears
to his plea, however, and SEN
fenced him to pay $25 or go to
Jail for is days.