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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07

Republican Gen. Immel, and the So
cialist mayors of Milwaukee and
West Allis who took part in break
ing the strike.
We must emphasize more the class
differences amongst the farmers. In
the strike, the farm laborers, poor
farmers, farm youth, and farmers
with proletarian background, were
most militant; while the rich farm
ers sabotaged and scabbed. We must
get the most militant, and poorer
section of the farmers to join the
Communist Party.
We must show to the farmers that
our Party is the only Party working
in the interests of the working class,
which is the only class that can give
leadership to the toiling farmers and
lead them to abolition of exploitation.
The dramatic character of the farm
struggles has misled many comrades
into believing the farmers to be in
advance of the city proletariat. This
is not true. The proletariat is the
vanguard class, the primary force of
the revolution. The farmers are
secondary force, allies of the workers.
Their struggle was inspired by the
struggles of the workers, and the
best fight in the milk strikes was put
up in places where the Unemployed
Council members and Communists
were present to lead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07
RAINEY LEADS
MOVE TO SLASH
WAR VETERANS
Roosevelt Gang Tries
to Cover Up Robbery
of Ex-Soldiers

WASHINGTON, June 6.-Speaker
Henry T. Rainey announced today
that Roosevelt will submit to house
leaders compromise veterans
economy program" Democratic
leaders are trying to create the illu-
sion that Roosevelt is actually con-
cerned about the veterans. They is
sue statements to the press that the
compromise" proposals will reduce
by some $4,000 900 the administra-
tons economy program-a program
to help the bankers and government
bondholders at the expense of the
workers, the farmers, the war vet
Grams, the enlisted men and federal
employees.
Try to Cover Up Robbery.
The job of Rainey and other lack
eys of the Roosevelt administration
is to try to deceive the veterans; to
try to make them believe they are
fighting in the interest of the veter-
ans. Yet every democratic and repub-
lican congressman and senator fav-
ors the slashing OF hundreds of mil
lions of dollars off the pensions and
disability allowances Not one of the
professed friends Of the veterans has
come out with the demand that there
be no cuts and that the government
Immediately pay the bonus to the
world war veterans.
Fear Growth of Vet Movement.
Administration supporters are car
rying out the sham fight in the hope
of stopping the growing movement of
veterans who are more insistently de-
nlanding no reduction in pensions,
compensation and who fight for pay
ment of the bonus. Leaders of the
American Legion, World War Veter-
ans, and other such organizations,
are finding it increasingly difficult to
hold their own membership back
from engaging in open opposition to
the whole government program. The
manouvers and hypocrisy going on
in congress are calculated to help
these reactionary leaders of the vet
Grams organizations who are carrying
out government policy, while pre-
tending to fight for the veterans.
Make Records for Congress Elections
The sham fight going on over the
question of how much the veterans
win be slashed at one blow also fur
nishes congressman and senators who
come up for election next year an OPP
portunity to talk for the record so
they can appeal for the veterans vote.
The workers Ex-Servicemen's
Leagues and opposition groups in
other veterans organizations through
out the country are demanding that
the veterans be paid in full az the
expense Of the government and the
big exploiters, the Morgans, the Rock
efellers, the MELONS, the Fords. The
game that is now being played in
Washington will be exposed all over
the country and every participant in
that game will be held accountable
in his home district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07
U.T.W. TRIES TO
BREAK STRIKE OF
.SUNTAG WORKERS

ALLENTOWN, Pa, June 6.-Eforts
70 break the strike Of the 220 Suntae
SILK Workers made by U.T.W. off,
Gals here resulted in failure when
the strikers exposed the attempts. A
newspaper announcement that the
American Federation of Silk Work.
ers, IN reality the U.T.W., would an
nounce a strike settlement at its
meeting on Sunday so enraged the
strikers here that they appointed a
committee Of five to attend the meet
ing and protest against the open
strike breaking. The strikers remem-
Der very well the sell-out role of the
U.TW. in 1881.
The Sontag strikers are preparing
for mass picketing during the next
week. Plans are being made to
spread the strike to other silk mills.
The rank and file strike commit
tee working in cooperation with the
United Front Action Committee has
established connections with the Uni
ted Farmers Protective Association of
Pa, and the Workers international
Relief, Philadelphia District. Already
in the last few days over 100 quarts
of milk have been distributed among
the strikers. Relief is now being ex-
tended and broadened.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07

Jack Mccarthy, militant trade
union organizer in New England, in
"The Shoe and Leather Strikes" gives
the complete story of the recent mass
struggles of the shoe and tannery
workers in Massachusetts,.
A 1000 mile strike front! This was
the area covered by the recent strike
of agricultural workers, initiated by
the pea-pickers, in California under
the leadership of the Cannery and
Agricultural Workers Industrial IN
ion. Living in a state of semi peon-
age, in disease-ridden camps, suffer-
ing wage-cut after Wage-cut, the ag-
ricultural workers revolted and un-
der militant leadership defeated a
wage cut. This strike is described
by Frank Thibault from the scene OF
the strike.
Who Fight Racketeers
Green pretends that he will fight
the racketeers in the A. r. Of L., but
the militant rank and file members
of the A. F. Of L. carry out this fight
as shown in the article "A Real Fight
On Racketeers," by A. Karen, which
tells the struggles of the rank and
file of the milk drivers in Chicago
against the AL Capone type of lead
ership This article is valuable con-
tribution to directives on opposition
work In the A. F. of l..
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signed by her appeared in the Bronx
Home News under the headline
women Laundry Workers in Har-
lem will be the First to Benefit by the
New Minimum Wage Law"
Discussing the failure of the
Womens Trade Union League to Or
ganize the women laundry workers
she continues: eve have been unable
to do much up to the present because
there is no organization within the
industry ITSELF" ignoring the militant
Laundry Workers Industrial Union
and its gains for the workers in the
two years of its existence
Defunct A. F. of L. Unions
Represented
At the meeting Of the advisory
committee presidents and vice pres
idents of the two dead A. F. of L.
unions were invited. Laundry Work
ers' Union sent its delegation of
workers.
Sadie Reich of the Women's Trade
Union League acted as chairman.
She explained that all attempts to
organize the workers in the laundry
industry have failed because 1.-THE
workers are towards, who are unwill-
ing to f1ght." She also pointed out
that workers would have to organize
in the A. F. of L. unions because the
Industrial union is Communist Or
ganization.
Leund"y Workers Ready tn Struggle
Jesse Taft, secretary of the In
dustrisl Union demanded the floor
and repudiated these statements.
She stressed the fact that the Union
has membership of 1,1on in the
laundry industry, showing til It they
are willing to organize, that Reich's
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07
Chicago ILGW Officials Refuse to
Hear Unity Proposals

CHICAGO, Ill, June 6.-On Thurs
Gay, an elected committee of the
Dress Department Of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
appeared before the I. L. G. w. U.
Dress Local No. 100.
The Committee came to request
a Conference for the purpose of
working out plans to unite all dres-
makers on program of struggle for
Cd higher wages, shorter hours,
prices, equal division of work, and
for the right to the job!
The committee was not permitted
to enter. After the credential was
sent in, a guard came out, stating
that I'VE don't recognize anybody
that hasn't book from the Interna-
tional." The committee asked him
If he speaks in the name of the local
and his answer was: IT speak in the
name of the chairman"
Officials Refuse Unity
The committee refused to accept
his word and sent in the credential
with another worker. This credential
was handed over to the Secretary
After a consultation between the
chairman, secretary and Mr.. Shane
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thing that she felt was biting her.
AS she turned the light on, she found
to her horror that she was grasping
a rat. Screaming for help, she ran
into the hall, waking all the girls up.
They called for the doctor, who, up
on finding cut that she was not q
guest, refused to go over, giving the
excuse that it was too late and only
giving precautionary instructions as
to what to DO This may sound like
a bedtime story, but it is the truth,
as l was a witness. And workers,
this place is considered the best place
to work in Lakewood.
We can only fight against these
horrible conditions by organizing and
joining the Food Workers Industrial
Union
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International Union will call a gem
eral strike alone, and that ANYBODY
interfering will be crushed lust like
the government crushed everybody
during the war that was opposed to
the war. He didn't receive the sup
port Of the membership, other than
few Of his lieutenants, who ap-
plauded his refusal to read the Gre
dentials to the membership.
Workers For One United General
Strike
On Friday, the market was seeth-
ing with sentiment for united front
general strike, and all one heard was
that lin spite of Shane and the rest
OF them, there will be a united front
strike, even if it is necessary to unite
with the Industrial Union over the
heads Of the International official
dom.
The Industrial Union issued a
statement that in spite of this action
on the part Of the officials of Local
100, the Union will make every at
tempt to unite all dressmakers for a
common struggle against the miser-
able conditions in the Dress Shops.
Within a few days a mass meeting
OF all dreSsmakers in Chicago will be
held, where this question will be dis
cussed and definite action will be
taken following this mass meeting.
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j. s. IN ATTACK
ON AUTO UNION
Federal Agents Arrest
Valid, Org. Sec'y of
Union

DETROIT, June 6.-An attempt by
the U. s. Department of Labor to
cripple the Auto Workers Union il
seen in the arrest of Robert Wald
orgsnizational secretary of the union
by immigration agents. Wald was at
first charged with illegal entry into
the United States but this charge was
later withdrawn and he was held
for deportation for being "a member
of an illegal organization, the Auto
Workers Union"
"The charge is ridiculous, OF
course" Philip Raymond, secretary of
the union, told Federal Press. The
Auto Workers Union is bona-fide
labor organization embracing all auto
mobile workers, regardless of political
or religious beliefs. The arrest Of
Valid is merely an attempt on the
part of the auto manufacturers to
cripple our organizational work. 1t
is significant that he was arrested
just as preparations were being COM
pleted for the hunger march on the
Ford plant"
The Auto Workers Union led four
successful strikes in Detroit this
spring.
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ly by school girls who are induced
to come out for week-ends. They get
no wages and have to depend on tips.
Under these conditions they might
make So or SO, but last weekend
some of the guests left their tips with
the Director who kept them for her
self instead of giving them to the
girls.
The Directors Secretary, who has
a mother dependant on her and
whose brother and father are in the
hospital, came out at Easter. She
was promised IS per week but since
then she has collected just IS. The
Negro kitchen help work from am.
to pm, and hard too.
Why don't some of these reform
ers make their employees lives Iva
BILE?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07
SALEM STRIKERS
HIT CO. LOAN OF
100000 TO CITY
Workers Given Cut AS
Pequot Mill Profits
Were Mounting

SALEM, Mass, June 6.-While 1900
workers Of the Pequot Mill here are
on strike against an increase in work
which actually amounts to cut in
wages, the company loaned the city
100000 at 5 per cent interest, it was
announced in the local press today.
The loan Is to be used to meet the
city's obligations.
This shows clearly that the COM
pany is not so hard up as it pretends
to be when it declares that it must
increase the speed-up to compete with
other mills. Furthermore it also shows
up the real purpose of the mayors
interest in the strike. He has been
posing as an impartial" mediator.
On Friday Mayor Bates met with
the strike committee. He promised
that a conference with the mill man
agement and Mcmahon would take
place on Monday. Strikers notified
him that if the conference was not
arranged they would meet with the
mill management themselves.
U.TW. Board Declares Strike Illegal
The entire off1cialdom on the Ex-
ecutive Board of the U.T.W. approved
McNfahons action in attempting to
drive the strikers back to the plant
under the new company plan and de-
clared the strike Illegal.
N. T. w. Warns Strikers.
In leaflet issued by the National
Textile Workers Union the strikers
are urged to continue the strike fol
their demands. There is nothing il
legal about your strike, the leaflet
declares, and informs, the workers
that while textile workers in Dover
and Manchester are winning wage
increases through their struggles the
fake officials of the U.TW. want
them to go back to wage cuts.
The National Textile Workers Union
warns the workers to beware of the
disinterested impartial mediation
committees which are disguised agents
Of the bosses, and urges them to con-
tinue control of the strike in their
own hands.
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remarks are slur against the work
ers for their struggles under the In
dustrial Unions lead points directly
to the contrary. She exposed the
role of Schnneiderman and Reich in
the 1891 needle struggles as agents
of the bosses and declared that these
misleaoers intended to get the aid of
the state to force the workers into the
A. F. OF L. so that their wages could
be cut to the lowest minimum with
out opposition. She then told how
the grating boss-controlled A. F. Of
L. officials have permitted the work
ers to endure the most unbearable
conditions without conducting any
struggles. She demanded representa-
ton on the Minimum Wage Commits
sion and the right to determine the
minimum wage for the workers in
the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07
PIONEERS CALI,
CONFERENCE ON
CHILD WELFARE
Organizations; Offers
Program for Relief

NEW YORK The central buro Of
the Young Pioneers Of America. a
workers children organization, has
addressed q letter to all childrens
organizations which claim to have an
interest in the welfare of the mass
of workers and farmers children in
this country.
The letter is especially addressed to
the leaders, teachers and parents of
the children. 1t calls upon them as
those nearest to the misery Of the
children to join for struggle against
these conditions.
The letter contains six points.
Among these are:
Unemployment Insurance for the
workers, for immediate relief of the
homeless youth and children, against
child exploitation and for the defense
and relief of the thousands Of child
victims of the Hitler regime.
Approach Organizations
The letter states:
Due TO the forts of the crisis
upon the children, large response is
expected among the teachers and
leaders Of children's organizations
who stand near to the children and
see their conditions worsen every day.
Many Scoutmasters Of the Boy and
Girl Scouts have already been ap-
preached on the question of united
fronts on such specific issues as
Scottsboro, or free food struggle in
the schools. Leaders and teachers of
such organizations as the Pioneer
Youth Of America, and various for
eign language schools controlled by
the Socialist Party are being ap-
preached with this united front call"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07
JUNE ISSUE OF LABOR UNITY REVIEWS
AND ANALYZES GREAT STRIKE WAVE

Appearing at the end of the month
which has seen the greatest wave of
strike struggles since the beginning
Of the crisis, the June issue of Labor
Unity deals with the most important
Of the strikes. They are written
about and analysed by workers and
organizers right from the scene of
the struggles.
At the beginning OF the June issue
is detailed record listing most of
the strikes that either continued from
April or started In .May-causes Of
the strikes, the leadership, and the
results. This record is valuable, espe-
cially in view of the fact that the
U. S. Labor Dept. is attempting to
conceal the extent of strikes by dis
continuing its weekly strike record.
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his activities workers could be
organized" to pay him weekly dues
of 81 By boasting of his political
pull, which he claimed would win
strikes and settle disputes, Fay bam-
boozled 500 laundry drivers into sign
ing up. Later, he started strike"
in the Lux Laundry, but failed to
deliver the goods" when the Seabury
investigation interfered with his ac-
tivities.
1t was then that an opposition OF
militant workers was started in Fays
organization and their efforts bore
fruit by September, 1881. When Is
insurgent shop chairmen, represent
ing practically the whole union, held
a meeting in the home of union
member, Fay, in alarm, commune
Gated Immediately with the Laundry
owners Association. From the en-
ployers' outfit he received $4,000, He
then called a final meeting of his
organization dissolving it. Fifty
workers attending this meeting got
together to lay the nucleus for the
Laundry Workers Industrial Union.
Union Wages First Battle
When gangsters beat up the shop
chairman at the Active Laundry, the
union called it's first strike. The
strike. called in November, 1881, last
ed six weeks. In its conclusion, the
union membership doubled to over
400 in February, 1882.
Since that time the union has con-
Quoted a number of strikes revolving
around wage cuts, payment Tor over
time and against the firing of work
ers. In some cases the mere threat
of a strike has won the demands OF
the shop committees. Such struggles
we're those at the Superfine Laundry
in April, 1882 and the Jennings and
Fairway Laundry strikes in October.
All three started when one OF the
drivers was fired And all three were
victorious.
AS a result of these successful bat
ties, shop committees were recognized
i'll six other laundries until at pre-
sent the union has organized drivers
and inside workers who have won
recognition in 20 shops.
Pretty Laundry Strike
1'he Pretty Laundry strike, lasting
three months, has been the most Bit
ter light yet conducted by the Laun-
dry Workers Industrial Union. De-
spit, daily battles with gangsters
hired by the bosses and the arrest of
~ workers, mass picket lines were on
the job every day. The strike was
significant for it marked the first
time that inside workers struck and
over a proposed wage cut.
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ton of debts.
We must warn the farmers against
the marketing scheme proposed by
Singler and other Pool leaders. We
must point out that co-operatives are
limited under capitalism. In them
selves they can never be the only
weapon against the stranglehold OF
monopoly capital. Struggle generally
including the strike weapon, is the
most effective weapon. Only when
capitalism is abolished and the rule
of the workers and farmers is es-
tablished can cooperation play de-
cisive role in the building up Of So
cialism, as is shown in the Soviet
Union.
Socialist Strike Breakers.
We must stress particularly the
strike breaking role Of the capitalist
state, politicalizing the struggle. We
must show that 1t is not only the
Democrat 6chmedeman. but also the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07
Gold to Speak Tonight
to Left, AFL Workers

NEW YORK. - The role of the
leadership of the A. F. of L. and the
present attack on the conditions of
the fur workers union will be dis
cussed at a meeting of all left wing
opposition groups and other mem
bers of the A. F. of l..
Ben Gold, secretary of the Indus
trial Union, and leader of the Fur
riers, will lay the facts about the
present situation before the members
of the A. F. of L. the role played by
Green, Matthew Vol, McGrady, the
Socialist Party, and their efforts to
destroy the militant furriers union.
The meeting will start promptly at
Irving Plaza, Wednesday, June at
8 pm. Workers, members of the A.
F. of L. and other reactionary I'M
ions, building trades workers, print
ers, Amalgamated members, 1L.G.W.
U. members, Millinery, and all other
class conscious workers are urged to
come to this meeting and acquaint
themselves with these facts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07
WORKER TELLS
OF CONDITIONS
In LAUNDRES
Negro Girls Suffe r
Special Abuse;
Speed-Up
BY a Laundry Worker Correspondent

By Laundry Worker Correspondent
We work under the filthiest and
most rotten conditions in the S..
Laundry. The bosses and their agents
use the meanest tricks and the vilest
language in order to speed up the
girls. The bosses try to speed us in
order to finish the work Friday night
so that we will not have to work
on Saturday and our pay is docked
for one day.
We work nine hours every day At
least nights during the week we
have to work overtime with no extra
pay. When the inspector from the
Department of Labor comes around
the boss takes him in the Office and
slips him some dough,
No Room to Move
The worst thing of all is the filtl
and the dirt which is not even fit fol
dogs. There's hardly room TO move
around, it's so crowded. The f1ool
and the tables are all broken. Every
day at least 3 girls get splinters in
their hand. There are holes in the
roof and when it rains we get a
shower of dirty water on our backs
The place is never swept and its no
thing to see vermin crawling on the
walls and even on our clothes.
The Negro girls especially get bad
treatment by the bosses who insult
them and give them the dirtiest jobs.
In this way they try to divide the
shop.
If the girls would all stick together
I am sure we could make the bosses
treat us like human beings.
"A LAUNDRY WORKER.
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Ford Lays Off 300
A S He Announces
$500 New Jobs Open

EDGEWATER, N. j., June g.
announcement recently that Ford
would take on new workers in De-
troit, followed by the report in the
New York American of May "a
that the Edgewater plant was to
take on 1900 workers was de-
nounced as false today by a work
er in the plant. Instead of taking
on new men, the plant declared a
general lay-off beginning May rs
at the rate of 800 week. During
the month it is expected the en-
tire plant will be laid off.
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In this strike the Communist Party
showed it is the only leader of the
oppressed. Through the United
Farmers League, it gave the only
correct program for the striking
farmers.
Tasks Of the Communist Party.
The Communist Party, which prior
to the two strikes, was little known
to the farmers, is now we'll known to
them. All the sections must con-
tinue activity among the farmers, ex-
plain to them the shameful betrayal
expose the role played by the state
leaders of the milk pool in the strike,
bring before the farmers the pro-
gram of the U.FL. and our additional
demands, show that besides fighting
for higher prices at the expense of
the trusts. that we have also to fight
against foreclosures, for tax exemp-
ton and cash relief to the impover-
ished farmers and for the cancella-