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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
Couldn't Have Won
Without the Union, "
SaySTextileW Worker
Struck Against Long
Hours, and Low
Wages
(By Textile Worker Correspondent

by Textile Worker Correspondent
PROVIDENCE, r. I.-During the
first week of August the workers of
the Colored WorSted Mill were forced
to go out on strike, since the shop
had become veritable Devils Island.
Workers were asked to work 10 hours
a week and even more for the wage
OF % cents an hour. The bosses of
the shop were never satisfied with
the work and abused the workers,
especially the girls.
We were tired of working SO many
hours at starvation wages and I'M
willing to stand the continuous
abuses any longer. So the workers
began to revolt and speak about
strike in all departments of the shop.
In less time than it can be imagined,
more than $50 workers walked out.
demanding the 40-hour week and the
restoration of the wages which had
been cut more than 40 per cent. The
workers further demanded that all
abuses cease. The bosses refused to
grant the demands.
The workers would have felt dis
couraged and unwillingly forced to
go back to work in the shop, had it
not been for Anna Block of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union, who
rallied the strikers and guided and
assisted them. The workers thus re-
sisted all the bosses attempts to
break the strike, and after two-week
fight the bosses were forced, in view
of, the militancy and determination
of the strikers, to accept all their de-
mandS.
So the workers returned to work
with better conditions, and organized
in the National Textile Workers
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
1000 Now Out
As More Shops
Join Metal Strike
Strike Meet Today at
Manhattan Lyceum


NEW YORK.-The ranks of the
Metal strikers have swelled to 2,0oo
as more workers are joining the gen.
eral strike called by the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union and
the Metal Spinners Union. On Sat
urday the three biggest shops in the
silver and holloware trade, the Mel
kin Plating Co., the Sievering Co.,
and the Tillman Plating Co. came out
on strike. The Sheffield Co., the
Metropolitan Columbia Co., the An
Choir Co. and number of other shops
are completely tied up in addition to
the shops which came out on the first
day of the general strike call.
Many bosses who only few days
ago declared they would have moth
ing to do with "red" union are now
looking for settlements and are will
ingly consenting to the demand for
recognition, as a result of the in
fluence of the strikers.
An enthusiastic strike meeting
held Thursday at Manhattan Lyceum,
with more than 1900 strikers present
expressed the strikers determination
to carry on the fight to win better
conditions and build their union.
Jack Stachel, Assistant Secretary of
the Trade Union Unity League and
James Lustig, district organizer of
the Steel and Metal Workers Union
addressed the strikers.
Another mass meeting of the
strikers will take place today at 10
a. M. at Manhattan Lyceum, sc East
4th st.
All workers, organizations are
called upon to support the struggle
of the metal workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
YoungWorkerJ Jailed
in Strike Against
Bronx Home News
Flying MIRA Flag, Lo-
cal Paper Sets Scabs
and Police on Carriers

NEW YORK, Aug. 18.-As re-
suit of frame-up charges growing
out of news carriers strike against
the Bronx Home News, a local
newspaper, Philip Mandelblatt, %,
is in Jail awaiting trial on trumped
up charges of assault and larceny,
it was revealed today by his fellow
strikers.
Mandelblatt was attacked during
the strike, and severely beaten by
scab carriers. Because he defended
himself and beat one of the scabs,
Bill Slater, the frame-up charges
are being pressed against him.
Three other news carriers have
also been summoned to appear on
charges of larceny for refusal to
turn over to the Bronx Home News
their own private lists of their Gus
toners.
The Bronx Home News, which
exploits the news carriers, was the
SCGIlS VI Sll Inc tWO dSOs
The carriers won partial victories
in the lowering of the price they
had to pay for the paper, reduc-
ton in the number of samples they
had to deliver, and the abolition of
fines. The union, however, was not
recognized.
At the recent strike, the Bronx
Home News met the young strikers
with police terrorism, and with hys-
terical anti-red leaflets.
The Bronx Home News Flies q
NRA Flag
The News has large circulation,
and in order to help defeat the
frame-up charges against the young
worker, Mandelblatt, protests
should be sent at once to the Cir
culation Department of the Bronx
Home News, 1913 East 14S Street,
demanding the quashing of the
charges against him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
Miners Fight Misleaders
Struggle for Demands
and UNIV CallY OuRed
By a Mine Worker Correspondent

BY a Mine Worker Correspondent
UNIONTOWN, PATHS motion
brought up during the strike by Mar
tin Ryan: To send a wire to Presi-
dent Roosevelt, That we are willing
to go back to work after the scales
are installed, and the coal weighed.
Recognition of Committee of Three
and recognition of the United Mine
Workers Of America To elect a
checkweighman and have a check
off through the office and also vote
by the union.
I, myself, Secretary of U.M.W.A.
Local 6292 of Thompson, Pa, Dist.
No. 2, was prevented from entering
the hall August s, 1888, because I
voted on this motion. The president
of our local said was a Red. If I am
a Red, everybody that belongs to
the United Mine Workers are Reds.
1t looks to me as though the union
leaders were trying to do the same
as in 1922.
Frank Terrace,
(Signature authorized)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19

allu nall CIle slave industrial RE
covery" Act.
Delegates to the Conference will
be sent by workers from a large num-
Der OF steel, metal mills and shops,
including the following:
Jones & Laughlin, Pittsburgh, Pa;
American Bridge Company, National
Electric, Central Tube, Seamless Tube,
Ambridge, Pa, and from metal shops
IN Greensburgh Pa, McKeesport, Pa,
IMcKees Rock Pa, and others.
( The Steel g. Metal Workers In
/, dustrial Union, which gained 1900
new members in the last few weeks
in Pittsburgh alone, will hold a Dis
trict Conference on August Goth, in
Pittsburgh, to elect delegates to the
Conference.
Coal miners delegations from
Pennsylvania to the Cleveland gather
2 ing will include representatives from
miners on strike in the notorious
Prick mines, the scene of historic
struggle by workers against exploit
tation intensified by the MIRA. The
National Miners Union in this state
is preparing to senu a Slzeable dele
cation to Cleveland.
Endorsement of the Cleveland Con-
ference has been announced by in
dependent textile unions recently set
up in the Leigh Valley, Allentown,
Pa. In Northampton, Pa, a newly
formed union of 900 cement workers,
employed by subsidiary of the
United States Steel, are backing the
Conference.
The Conference will be held in the
Brotherhood Engineers Auditorium,
Cleveland, Ohio, which has seat
ing capacity of $500. Fully 1000
labor delegates are expected to at
tend, the Provisional Committee ar
ranging the Conference, with offices
at 10 Fifth Ave, New York City,
announced through it's secretary,
Louis Weinstock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
Celluloid Workers
Strike to Reinstate
20 Fired Workers

NEW YORK.-More than one hun
bred workers of the Werner Cellu-
loid Manufacturing Co. struck last
Wednesday after they learned that
the company had fired 20 girls
workers. On the picket line on We'd
nesday, police at the instigation Of
the bosses arrested "a picketers and
tore up their strike signs. The
strikers were released in court on
the following day.
Picketing was resumed Thursday,
and although the police attempted to
intimidate the strikers by searching
them for concealed weapons, the
strikers are more determined than
ever to win their demands. The
strike is led by the Celluloid Work
ers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
800 Textile Workers
Strike for More Pay
Join National Textile
Union; Plant Tied Up

NEW YORK. - Eight hundred
workers of the Cahan Feldham Tex
tile mills, $50 Suydam ST., Brooklyn
came out on strike Thursday de-
manding higher wages. The shop
was unorganized before the walk out
but the workers are signing up with
the National Textile Workers Union
and are planning to form a local in
the factory. All departments are
out of all shifts and mass picketing
continues in front of the factory al
though police have been trying to
terrorize the strikers.
Yesterday a strike committee was
elected to work out and present the
demands Of the workers. Recogni-
ton Of the union will be one of the
main demands of the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
Strikes Against MIRA Slavery Spreading
to Many Cities and Industries
800 Buffalo Metal Strikers out
to Win; Get Union Charter

blacklisting. The fabric mill struck
Monday and was followed on Tues
day by the wire drawers, who are
striking in sympathy. These depart
ments are now out: color galvanized,
patent furnace, dye room, fence de-
partment, fabric mill, burning room,
clearing house, Potts annealing,
shipping, truck drivers, rod yard,
wire drawers and laborers.
The percentage of Negro strikers
is far higher than the proportion to
the number in the mill previous to
the strike There is keen interest
and sympathy among the workers in
other mills, and there are rumors of
action in support of the Wickwire
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
Ark. Miners Ignore
UMWA Yellow Policy
in Fight Against Fine
CBv a Worker Correspondent,

Kby WUIktT OOEIBspUuu6HIJ
FORT SMITH, Ark.-The coal
mines of the Arkansas valley have
resumed operations after a years
shutdown since the strike here last
summer.
One thousand men are reported
back in the pits, while some papers
estimate $500. Wage scales were as
of 1882, $3.75 per day for laborers,
and So cents per ton for leaders, at
Melton Coal Company of Alix, while
around Paris and Greenwood it is
less.
Midland miners recently walked
out 200 strong at the discharge of
fellow worker. When they returned
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19

BUFFALO, N. Y, Aug. 18.-Great
confidence in winning their strike
was expressed at the general meet
ing of more than 300 Wickwire strik-
ers today where the charter of the
Steel and Metal Workers Union was
presented amidst much enthusiasm.
The strikers voted Thursday to let
the company make the first move to
negotiations for settlement.
There are 10 workers on the strike
committee, representing all depart
ments. The police do not allow the
pickets to talk to the few workers
entering the gates.
The foremen are visiting the homes
of the strikers making threats Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
Viewers Not Paid
for Full Yardage
Employees Called On
to Organize

BY Textile Worker Correspondent
JAMESTOWN, N. Yin the
Jamestown w orsted Mill at Har-
rison Street, the weavers work
piece-work. They are paid so and
so much for cut of cloth-say go
yards to cut. But when measured
by the Inspector, it has been found
to have several more yards, which
the company keeps mum about. But
when an inspector once told the
boss there is more than 60 yards
in the cut, he only said that is to
allow for shrinkage. But the funny
part is that the same kinds of cuts
vary in extra yards.
There are several hundred work
ers in this mill. They must organize
to stop this robbery. They should
call at the Trade Union Unity
Council, at 623 Second Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
Striking Cleaners Vote
Protest Over Lynchings

PHILADELPHIA hundred
Negro and white members of the
Cleaners and Overs Union, now on
strike here, voted to send protest
resolution denouncing the lynching
of the two Negro boys in Tuscaloosa.
This Union, an ALL. union, pass
ed the resolution at the suggestion
of James w. Watson. district secre-
tary of the International Labor De-
Tense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
400 Out at Kilnball
Piano Co., in Chicago
Ask for Strike Relief

CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 18.-Four hun
: bred workers, men and women, Of
the Kimball Piano Co. went out on
strike yesterday against speed-up and
starvation wages.
Funds and food are needed to
carry on the strike, and the Workers
International Relief appeals to all
workingclass organizations to support
this strike by rushing food and funds
to w. I. R., 1852 West Division Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19

To keep up six-page Daily Work
err" the circulation must be doubled.
Do your share by getting new sub
Scribers,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19

To keep up six-page daily Work
err" the circulation must be doubled.
Do your share BY sAtfi~- nax sub.
scriberS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19

Don't forget the International Labor De-
Tense Excursion, "An day on the Hudson"
on September 3rd. Be there with all your
friends.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19
Miners and Steel Workers Elect
Cleveland Conference Delegates
Coming From Bitter Struggles, Basic Industry
Workers to Help Forge Fight on MIRA
at Aug. 1921 Conference

PITTSBURGH 18-Rebeon
metal mine and textile
expressing itself in consistently
Trade Union Conference
August 26h
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19

Don't forget the International Labor De-
Tense Excursion, "AlI day the Hudson"
September Srd. Be there with all your
friends.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-29

Post Dispatch objecting to:
The $1,6OO,00O,O 900 adjusted pay of
the railroad by Congress in 1920, or
The 2,oOo,O0o,oO0 that same Con-
gress gave to wartime contractors
on similar service certificates and this
group made big profits during the
war.
The Dispatch never objected
to the killing and Gripping of the
American youth who were used to
save Wall Street billions in 1917-1S.
The Post Dispatch never objects 70
the profit it makes out Of the toll
of undernourished children VINO sell
its paper. Many of these children's
fathers are ex-servicemen who are
not physically able to work. If they
could find work, if these ex-soldiers
were getting adequate compensation
for their injuries, their children
would not be forced to sell papers
for a few pennies day in order to
buy food.
But the Dispatch sure raises
its Wall st. controlled voice in OBJ
lection to paying a just debt which
was due in 19l7-16.
Let's show them by joining the
W.E.S.L. and fighting for our rights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-29

that her mother was sick in bed due
to the terrible and insufficient food
furnished by the Relief before she
cot her job. She thought God was
furnishing her fer the lies she had
told and the wrong things she had
done in the past, but she couldn't
understand why he made her mother
FER.
When I told her it was the devils
on earth, the idle rich, who robbed
the poor Of what they produced that
caused all the suffering, she began
to wonder.
But she did not wonder long. The
famous MIRA. stepped in with S.
raise and a 40-hour week. The rich
were not SO bad after ALL They even
hired two extra girls. However, a
steady rise in prices followed and my
girl soon found she could not buy
as many necessities with SIS as she
could before with $12. To make mat
tiers worse Kresges soon had the code
changed to 48 hours a week. Six girls
were Immediately thrown out of their
Jobs. The remaining girls are now
forced to work longer hours, get less
real wages and take care of two and
three counters at q time.
But this & does not wonder any
more. She knows who is wrecking
her life as millions of us other work
ers know who is wrecking ours. She
knows she must fight the capitalist
class with the aid of millions of other
workers.
Chester Velin.
{ Signature authorized9
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-29
Girl of II Hoped
in Vain She Could
Find Job Under MIRA
by a worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
NEW York; am a girl of H..
I have been looking for a job for
six months. Is this proof of the N.
r. A? I took test to get into
Macy's department store. After sew
eral trips there, they agreed to give
me test to get into the packing
department. They gave me a board
which had about 100 small holes in
it. was supposed to put three little
nails in each hole, until the board
was completely full. I took eight
minutes, but the appointed time was
seven minutes, so seconds. So I did
not get the Job The hours were from
II noon till nine in the evening, and
also an hour over till 10 o'clock for
the month Of Christmas, which
makes it 10 hours per day. They
flare the N. r. A. banners. The pay
was to be $14 per week.
If this keeps up, 1t seems the capt.
talists will be making Communists
out Of us by their own doings. Could
you possibly state your opinionP
Editors Note:-That other work.
ers are seeing through the N.R.A.
illusions is shown by the increasing
struggles against the MIRA. speed
up and wage-cut tactics. The place
Of this young worker correSpon-
dent, who has already learned the
meaning of the Roosevelt New
Deal, is in the ranks of the Young
Communist League, where she can
help to organize the struggle
against the conditions she describes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-29
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to know whether any physiciars
specializing in eye diseases were em-
ployed in the average commercial
optical store. We are well aware
that optometrists are fully competent.
and have the right to examine and
correct any optical deficiencies and
that opticians are merely mechanics
and have no licenses to examine or
correct such deficiencies. It is NO
reflection on the profession Of op-
tometry for the public to know that
they are not licensed physicians and
that they are neither qualified nor
have the right to treat patients for
diseases Of the eyes other than those
Of refraction. We are sure that no
ethical optometrist would attempt to
prescribe for patient who is suf-
fering from nephritis kidney dis
easel. To state that an optornetrist
does not possess the title Of M. D.
s no slur on his professional ability.
On the other hand we know that the
large majority Of physicians are alb.
solutely incapable Of doing the OPP
tcmet-ists' work. Thanks for your
remarks regarding our column. You
may rest assured that any further
communications from you will receive
prompt consideration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-29
Letters from ON Readers
SELLING THE DAILY WORKER
Los Angeles

Los Angeles
This morning, while soliciting from
house to house for the Daily Worker.
I talked to sixteen people, ten of
whom were unemployed and the re-
manning six practically SO. 1 sold
seven Daily Workers, two Hunger
Fighters, and one Lucha Obrero, and
was told by 10 of the Is to come back
next week.
In the afternoon 1 spent less than
an hour soliciting, sold six Western
Workers and four Lucia Obreros.
I used the following methods. Broad
smile when the door opens, lots of
pep, leaned forward. Paper held right
before them. THE Daily Worker
is the only newspaper in America
for the working class, and 1 sell it,
It's five cents copy. All other papers
are owned by the capitalists and
cares nothing about whether we
starve or not, as millions of us are.
The Daily Worker actually believes its
wrong for people to go hungry, for
gas to be shut off and for babies to
SIdIVes IL your paper. lGS our
paper, fighting for us and against
the system where seventeen millions
have no jobs because we have pro-
duced too much. The Daily Worker
not only shows us what is wrong but
how to fight for our rights and its
only five cents" At this point hand
them the paper and expect their
nickel.
Comrades, I know the intense feel
ing you all have for our press. Don't
be afraid to let it out, to tell the world
that its ours and only ours, it belongs
to us, the working class.
DENNIS MILEY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-29
Cardinet Candy Co.
Wages AS Small AS
Sc Under the N.R.A.
(By = Worker Correspondent)

OAKLAND, Ca1-The conditions
in the shop in which I work, the
Cardinet Candy Co., have always
been poor. When the company &C
cepted the N. r. A. blanket code
about four months ago we workers
thought that our conditions would be
greatly improved. We have been
thoroughly disilllusioned, however.
Since the company accepted the
N. r. A. Code our wages have been
cut $3.50, bringing them down to the
starvation level of $1,000 per week.
On top of this very few Of us are
allowed to work even the full IS hours
allowed us by the code. Many of us
draw as little as S. or 81 some weeks.
Out of this miserably small wage
we are forced to pay 81 every month
for aprons. Also, since the inception
OF the N. r. A, our work has been
greatly speeded up. We are forced
to work on the run, with the fore
man continually yelling at us to
speed up even more.
Most Of the workers in this shop
have already realized that all the
N. r. A. has meant to us is more
work for less pay. We are damned
tired of waiting for Roosevelt or big
business to do something for us.
hope within few months to write
and tell you fellows of altogether
different conditions in this shop,
brought about by the only weapon
we workers have in our fight for bet
ter conditions. that is by organizing
in the IT. U. U. L., the only union
we know of that we can really trust.