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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-17
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the locals president, failed to show
up. All the decisions OF this Il, ut
ing which took place on July 81
were ignored BY the local officials.
And all those of the unemployed
who had nothing else to sell or
pawn, in order to raise the $3.50 for
the monthly dues, were suspended.
On August 8. at a regular meeting
CT the local the members wanted to
know whether the unemployed were
dropped from me orgaoi7ation.
wkereupon a mamber introduced q
resolution proposing that the local
declare all SUSPENDED members. due
to unemployment. be declared full
fledged local members. Also that
the local elect a committee to visit
President Green and take up with
him the whole local unemployed
situation. 1t was Julius Gerber who
jumped up and moved that this re-
solution be tabled. And those Of
the unemployed VINO could net raise
enough money to pay dues, were
SUSPENDED from the locsI
This action is in the line of sll
their activities in the local. Both
motions were against the Interna-
tionaps policy Of breaking UP the
local, and the old corrupt adminis-
tration which ruled the LEGAL for %
years, and who had the holy bless
ings Of the International gang, the
gang Of Rooney's school, who was
killed in Chicago, not for organizing
labor, but fer his racketeer activi-
ties. And it is this gang who has
the heartiest support Of these two
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and Twin.
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the company from each department.
The workers in each department,
with the blessing of MIRA and The
New Deal, were granted the sacred
privilege of voting for either of the
two company picked candidates.
Who will say that The New Deal
has not softened the hearts of the
lords Of steel?
These delegates, elected with all
restrictions of democracy removed,
became the representatives of the
Carnegie Steel workers. They meet
in the superintendent office. They
smoke his cigars. whats. new,
boys?" the super says.
There's lot of kicking in the
140 inch MILL" perhaps one Of the
delegates will say. 'HoW hard are
they kicking? is there any talk of
another union?"
mo, it amt got that far but two
fellows kicked to me 50 there must
be more of them"
The kickers will be transferred
quietly to the scale pit or some
other inferno They will be ridden
hard" They will either have a phys
ical breakdown and go to the hos
pital or quit. Either way, another
grievance has been taken up and
corrected.
The company recently cut the
amount of insurance per worker
from $1,000 to $1,000. But the charge
Of sl.80 per worker per month re-
mains.
NIRA's Blessings
Carnegie Steel claims some 10000
workers on the payroll. What this
means is that some few key men
work seven days per week. Thou
sands Of others get one day every
two weeks. All Of them, however,
are enjoying the blessings of NIRA's
code.
The town of Homestead is or
ganized to bulWark the company
tyranny. 1t is wide open city
with bootlegging, prostitution and
gambling running full blast under
company protection The under
world has been brought directly into
tIle company espionage and terror
machine. Especially is the mum
bers racket" an effective weapon in
the hands of the company. Miss Per
kins might be interested to know
that the special deputies she saw
were mostly number statesmen.
The head Of this racket is in di-
rect touch with the Carnegie spy
center He has, let us say, rs num-
Der sellers and collectors. They are
the core of the company thug or
ganization.
They work openly. Each will sell
to some hundred workers. They will
talk with them. They stand on street
corners and in cigar stores, taverns,
pool rooms, etc, and listen to con-
versations. At the end of every day
the head of the Carnegie spy sys-
TEN has fairly accurate picture
Of public opinion in Homestead. And
remarks about union organization
overheard calls for an emergency
report.
Nevertheless, the SMWIU is do
ing work in Homestead.
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BIGGEST STRIKE WAVE SWEEPS CALIFORNIA FRUIT FIELDS
Cleaners, Dyers Union
Endorses Cleveland
Meet, Elect Delegate

The Cleaners, Dyers and PresserS
Union, at membership meeting
Monday at Irving Plaza, voted UNI
animously to support the Trade I'm
ion Conference to be held in Cleve-
land and elected a delegate. This
call to action comes at a time when
the Cleaners, Dyers and Pressers
Union is preparing for a forthcoming
strike and the program of this call
compares favorably with the policies
and demands of the Union.
In view Of the wage cutting pro-
gram Of the bosses and President
RooSevelt's MIRA, the membership
pledged its support to this organized
action on the part Of workers organ
izations for the struggles against the
tactics of the bosses and the Ma
tional Recovery Act.
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Girls Get Sc to SIS
for 63-Hr. Week at
POnack Dress Shop
By a Worker Correspondept

FORT WAYNE, Ind.-The Pollack
Dress Shop here employs about $50
workers, principally women. During
June and July these women worked
a 63-hour week, making a wage
ranging from Sc to S18. They are
doing piece work and must be able
to make good at a certain output of
work or they are discharged.
These girls eat their lunch in the
cellar. They are allowed to keep
it there only.
Sometimes are rats get the best
of the lunch.
In the past, imperfect work on
the part of these girls was brought
back to them, to be done over again
gratis. Broken needles are charged
to them.
The new scheme being arranged
preparatory to the Code going into
effect, will be a special department
where imperfect work is to be re-
paired, thus increasing the mad pace
of production.
The next rule probably to be ap-
piled will be to limit how much
work the company will permit be-
fore discharging the worker.
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M Girls Strike,
FWmOwnUniOnIn
Texas Cigar Shop
Demand Improvement
b Conditions; and
Union Recognition

SAN ANTONIO, Texas.-Four hun
dred and thirty-five girl workers Of
The Fincke Cigar Company, now on
strike, rejected the leadership of the
American Federation Of Labor and
set up an independent union, with a
militant strike committee. At this
writing, the girls have been on strike
for almost week; and the morale
is exceptionally good.
The Fincke Cigar Company has
long been known as one of the most
oppressive employers in this city. AL
though the girls work on a piece
basis, they are subjected to all sorts
OF embarrassing and humiliating re-
strictions. They are given only ten
minutes in the morning to change
their clothes; and are not allowed
to change at all for lunch, although
their clothes become stained with to-
bacco. There is only one small dress
Ing room for all the girls. If girl
goes to the dressing room during the
day and stays over three minutes,
she is broken in upon by Fincke, the
proprietor, or Mangold, the general
manager.
The demands of the girls include:
Removal OF the bad cigar penalty,
a deduction of the price of three
good cigars for every bad one rolled,
since the company also sells the bad
ones to independent jobbers. Placing
OF the fans SO that when the girls go
for material, they will not be drench-
ed with water. Abolition Of the cent
per minute fine for lateness, with
more time to dress in the morning.
Lockers in the dressing room, with
permission to change clothes for
lunch. Each girl to have as much
time as necessary in the dressing
room when she has to leave work.
Each girl to leave the factory when
she finishes her work, instead of re-
naming until 4:3o. Recognition of
the union.
Adolfo Savedra, foreman of the
factory, is attempting to break the
strike by jokes and pretty words.
Savedra had Raoul CARA, militant
worker, deported, when the latter at
tempted to organize the cigar work
ers some time ago.
The Fincke Cigar Company manu-
features Travis Club, Little Travis,
and H. w. Fincke cigars.
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AAoSAA w A@5il t2AsSubAA NOAIo III
the shortest possible time.
Washington these days looks more
like Wall Street, with the presidents
of the biggest scab corporations
flocking in and out of Roosevelt's
Office. Morgan, Mellon, Rockefeller
and Ford's policies are being written
into the codes.
Fear Strikes Most.
What the bosses fear nlcst, and
the point Of gre atest concern in
writing the codes, Is the wave of
strikes sweeping the cointry. E5pecl-
ally in the coal code, exposed by the
National Miners Union at the near
ings last week, EiIsre the 10000
Pei nsylVania miners are back n the
pits, or are snouldeIing with fight
over refusal to ACCEPT elected cheek
weighmen, EFFORTS are being made
to ctraddle the company union policy
or the coal berons 0y utilizing the
service Of John L. Lewis
In the steel code, rumpus was
staged when william Green, of the
Labor Advisory Board, was not al
lowed to meet with the biggest steel
bosses.
Green had come to offer his strike
breaking service in exchange for ac-
cepting the A. F. of L. federal unions
in the place of the steel company
unions. This has been accepted by
some CT the steel bosses, but the
largest corporations are not ready to
dicker on actual terms with Green.
A Waskout.
Green went to meeting headed
by William A. irwin, president of the
U. S. Steel Corporation, and Presi-
dent E. G., Grace OF the Bethlehem
Steel Corporation. When he walked
in, the steel presidents walked out,
saying that Frances Perkins, secre-
tary Of labor was handling "iabor's
end" of the discussions.
Green walked out of the hearing
bellyaching because the big steel
trusts were not yet ready to accept
his plan of company unions in place
Of their own.
In his statements after this event,
both Green and Lewis prepared the
minds Of the workers to support
Roosevelt by trying to create an
imaginary split between the big trusts
and the president. The obect, clear
ly seen in Green's statement, is to
get the workers to support the steel
and coal slave codes when Roosevelt
signs them.
Green. Lewis. Talk Big.
ut is challenge to the govern
ment," said Green, when the steel
bosses withdraw from the conference
room when Green showed his portly
figure in. 1T is presumed under the
recovery act that private industry
will cooperate. In this case the gov
ernment apparently surrenders."
John L. Lewis, who sent the min
ers back into the U. S. Steel and
Mellon coal pits where they are be-
ing starved and victimized, said:
Unless the president is prepared
to force these industrial recalcitrants
such as steel and coal owners, there
can be no recovery"
The brave talk Of Lewis and Green
is reflection OF the thousands Of
letters ana kilograms pouring in on
them from workers and local unions
telling Of the more n1isew2 BE coz x
tons imposed on the worl1ers under
existing codes, and the etten1r,5 to
force workers into the coal and steel
company unions.
These two labor lieutenants of the
big trusts are trying to arouse the
workers on the belief that Roosevelt
IL opposing the scab policies Of the
big trusts.
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Chicago Needle Union
Discusses Terms With
Embroidery Employers

CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 16.-The
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union is discussing demands Of
the workers and conditions IN the
trade with the embroidery bosses
at an official conference.
The union is presenting the fol-
lowing demands: week work in
stead Of piece work; a 35-hour
week, and $3.50 minimum tailor
wage; SIS for zigzag operators; S18
for stampers, and SIS for finish
ers; equal division of labor; time
and a half for overtime.
Besides, there is the demand
for recognition of the union.
A mass meeting to report on
the results Of the conference is
called for Thursday, August II,
at 119 South Wells st. An open
meeting of the customs tailors last
Friday formulated the demands
for the coming season. Over 100
were present. ALI Joined the union.
There will be another meeting of
custom tailors on Friday, August
IL, at 119 South Wells st.
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Back from War, Buys a Home,
Noav Fighting a Foreclosure

are Communists, trouble makers and
so on.
The old saying is-when one tells
the truth and it hurts, you are called
a radical or a red. Do not fear this
red scare. 1t is just a DOGGY man to
keep you away from us so you will not
learn how to organize and fight for
the right to live, but be on guard. We
must be awake and alert to the policy
OF the bosses and police to send
rats into our ranks to spread lies,
rumors and ISLANDERS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-17
(By a Worker Correspondent


STATEN ISLAND, N. YIN March
1877 I happened to be in hard coal
mining town in North Eastern Penn
sylvania where heard a conversation
about Wilson, how he qept us out of
war.
had just become what the para
sites call the backbone of the ma
tfon," finished paying for a home
which I struggled and worked for
seven years. Being a red-hot patriot
and railroad man, I enlisted with
the 18th Engineers.
Before leaving my home at st. Paul,
I decided 1t to my parents and younger
sisters and brothers. Thinking I
would never come back alive, I spent
the savings had by buying hun
dred dollar Liberty Bond, donated $50
to the Red Cross and $50 to a priest,
who blessed me before I was sent over
to kill workers I never saw before.
and who never did me any harm.
1t would take too much space to
describe in detail the horrible ex-
periences I went through on the
front. happened to be one of the
lucky ones who came back without
a scratch. Real estate sharks talked
me into buying home so I again be-
came the backbone of the nation.
Made payments regularly, paid taxes
until this dying capitalist system
threw millions out Of jobs and reduced
wgaes to the Chinese coolie level.
Mr.. Building Loan wanted money.
He insisted on me paying every month
out Of the rneasly $45. I was getting
% he foreclosed and wanted to throw
NE out in the street. I can 20 out
In the street, but how about my wife
and children? AS soldier in the A.
z. F. I was taught to fight for Demo-
cracy. Now I'm going to fight eviction
from my home.
I say, workers and veterans, Join
some rank and file organization that
fights for the workers, not the fake
A. F. Of L. or Veterans of Foreign
Wars, American Legion. While you
were in the front lines in France, did
you see the misleaders there? No, you
saw the workers sons, names like
Murphy, Kelly, Cohen or Kowalski.
went to the Social Service for
help. After handing me lot of
baloney, Miss Parker told me that the
veterans are the cause Of this crisis.
That working man has no business
owning home. That the veterans
will not work If she offers them Job.
I said here is one who will not refuse
Job. she had none.
She told me that went to fight for
ny country. I said, Eyes, and would
like to know what part of this coun-
try's mine, that I had purchased a
small piece Of 1t and now the bankers
are taking my country away from
ne" She advised me to go to the
Red Gross.
We, the workers on this island, have
organized the Workers Ex-Service-
hens League and Unemployed Coun-
I'll and now the politicians and Relief
Bureau Investigators give us char
lcter like unto man who had stolen
hree cents from a blind beggar or
Who has hit q lame child with a NAL
ct They are telling people that we
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RED PRESS AFFAIR

CHICAGO.-A concert ana dance
for the benefit Of the Daily Worker
and the Workers Voice will be held
at the Peoples Auditorium on Sat
uIday, September 16. An interesting
program has been arranged b.
workers cultural organizations.
Prizes Of an artist picture of Lenin
and valuable books will be given out
at the affair.
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Send NRA Man to
End levin Strike
ChangeChargeAgainst
Leaders Arrested
Under NRA

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Aug 15.-To break
the strike at the Levin Metals Co.,
at East st. Louis, Mr.. Rogers was
sent here by the NRA administra-
ton. All the workers have now join
ed the strike which was begun when
300 Negro and white workers walked
out demanding higher wages under
the leadership of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union.
The charge against the two union
organizers, previously arrested for
violating the NRA, has been changed
to disturbance of the peace"
The strike wave is spreading
through the city. The Southern NAL
leable Iron Co. workers, under the
leadership of the A. F.. of L.. have
been called out for strike beginning
tomorrow for recognition of their
union. The strike was called to
whiteWash the A. F. of L. leadership
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-17
200 Strike for Wage
Increase at Kentucky
Federal Relic Job

LEXINGTON, Ky.-Two hundred
laborers and hodcarriers went on
strike Aug. 7 for 20 cents an hour
increase on a Federal Construction
project known as the United States
Narcotic Asylum After investigat-
ing conditions in Lexington, the
Great Lakes Construction Co. which
has tie contract, decided that the
starvation wage CT rs cents an hour
was fair wage.
4 rank ard file strike committee
was enthusiastically elected at
mass meeting. Picketing at the pro-
ject goes on daily and the workers
IRE determined to stay out until
their demands are won
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trying to limit the move on ma
tional basis.
Hundreds are out in the Chico dis
trict. Troops are asked in an effort
to stop the big strike.
Beatings and Arrests
Arrests and beatings are going on
in many strike areas. In all but
Salinas, the Cannery and Agricul-
turai Workers Union is leading the
strike; and in Salinas the takers are
fast being discredited.
The fruit pickers are demanding
an increase in wages from is and 20
to 30 and 35 cents an hour, time and
a half for overtime, an 8-hour day,
abolition of child labor, and recog-
milton of their union.
In an effort to break the strike,
which is rapidly spreading, state
highway police, supported by sheriffs'
posses, are rushing to the strike area.
The American Legion has officially
offered its service as strikebreakers.
The capitalist preSs,is panic strick-
en-, and is preparing sentiment for
terror against the strikers, with the
cry that the entire peach crop faces
destruction. Beets, peaches, pears,
tomatoes and other crops are eff
fected.
Want National Guard
Sheriff w. c. Toland, of Butte
County, said he was considering call
ing in the National Guard.
Six strike leaders, members of the
Cannery and Agricultural Union
were arrested.
Brigedo Silva was arrested, charged
with trying to prevent truckload
Of scabs from reaching the fields.
Three carloads of deputy sheriffs
are already on the scene. A COM
nittee of San Jose and Mountain
View residents have visited Sheriff
Enig together with a committee Of
workers demanding that Enlig, as
Sheriff Of Santa Clara County, keep
his armed thugs out of the strike
area to prevent violence, beatings and
arrests that occurred during the
cherry strike, just ended. Ernig, be-
cause of the mass protest against the
brutality of armed thugs in the cher
ry strike, has stated that his deputies
have been ordered to make no ar
rests. However, the deputies have
already stated to the pickets that
Striking is unconstitutional now"
Union Calls Conference
Because of the militancy of the
cherry strike, the apricot pickers were
getting the highest wage Of any
other field in the territory. When
wages in pears we're again cut to
20 cents an hour the Union called q
conference of delegates from ranches
with the unanimous decision to call
general strike. 1t is expected the
whole valley in pears will be out solid
tomorrow.
The picket line Is 300 solid. Relief
committees are functioning and cof-
fee is being brought to the picket
lines. The strike and Strike Com
mittees is representative of prac-
tically every nationality in the field,
American, Spanish, Mexican, Fill
Pine, Portuguese.
This strike, under the leadership
of the Cannery and Agricultural
Workers Industrial Union will be a
powerful blow towards smashing the
fake unions being set up by united
front of the A. F. of L., the Prole-
tartan Party, Socialist Party, sup
ported by the cannery bosses.
The Union is growing and becom-
ing the recognized leader in the agri-
cultural fields. The first recruitment
into the Union was IS out of 48 on
the Central Strike Committee and
others are coming in fast.
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Illinois Miners
Swing Support for
I. i. Conference
Expect 50 Delegates
from PIMA in Cleve-
land on Aug. 1921

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. l6.-Or-
ganized coal mine labor in this i'm
pcrtant industrial area is swinging
its support to the Trade Union Con-
ference for United Action which will
be held in the Brotherhood Engin-
GERS Auditorium, Cleveland, Ohio, on
August &c and 27.
This swing gained its first impetus
when the Women's Auxiliary of the
Progressive Miners of America In this
city elected Mary Voyney and Emily
Gentry as delegates to the Confer
ence. Fully so delegates are expected
to be elected by the PIMA, and its
auxiliaries to the Cleveland gather
ing.
A report from Utah received today
at the national Offices in New York
City Of the Provisional Committee
arranging the Conference stated that
a truckload Of delegates from the Ma
tional Miners Union locals will leave
Utah for the Conference. The truck
will stop at the Gallup mine fields
in New Mexico to pick up delegates
from that vicinity. No less than 80
delegates will come from these two
regions.
Through its secretary, Louis Vein
stock, the Provisional Committee an
nounced today that the Millinery OPP
position Groups, representing thou
sands of A. F. Of L. millinery workers
in New York City have elected two
delegates to an alternate to the Con-
ference.
The Unemployed Councils of Bea-
yer County, Beaver Falls, Pa, cleo
ted Robert German and Mrs. Lii
liam Hall as delegates to the Cleye-
land gathering.
Present indications are that APP
proximately 1000 delegates will come
from all parts of the United States
to the Cleveland Conference. The
Brotherhood Engineers Auditorium
where the Conference will be held
has a capacity of 1900.
Pledged to fight tooth and nail
the NRA, the Cleveland Conference
promises to be an historically sig
nificant drive by organized and un-
VI SdLlIZSO AilSItCdIl ldDOI 1OE IIlc
isolation of reactionary labor leaders
who are supporting the NRA from
the rank and file Of the American
workingclass, and for the solidifica-
ton Of the American workers in the
fight for sharply improved working
conditions as opposed to the slave
Conditions contained within the So
called Industrial Recovery Act.
NOTICE
The Arrangement Committee
Trade Union Conference for
United Action calls upon all or
CARNATIONS to report Immediately
Of the election of delegates to the
Cleveland Aug. 26 and 81 Con-
ference.
New York organizations must
report Immediately and also send
in the names Of the delegates to
be eble to make the necessary
arrangement for buses. The fare
fc" each delegate from New York
and return is $40.
Trade Union Conference for
United Action
20 Fifth Ave-, New York City
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BREAK STRIKE

OLNEY, Texas. Twenty three
truck drivers working on the high
ways here returned to work after a
strike for higher wages. Their de-
mands wre not granted, but Off
Gals broke the strike by restraining
the men from picketing. They had
no organization.
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TREETHINKFR PICNIC

PHILADELPHIA. - The Analga-
y = ID, Proletarian Freethinkers will
hold its first annual picnic Sundsv.
Fusust 20, 8 a. m. at Brholm Park.
An attractive program has been ar
ranged. Take Car so and rs to Cott-
man st. or Brholm Park and walk
west to the park.