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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29
APPEALS FOR SUPPORT OF MILITANT
FARM LEADERS ARRESTED FOR
RESISTING FORECLOSURE
(By a Farmer Correspondent

CUSTER, Mich.-White Cloud off,
Gals have once more carried the
trials of George Casper, Clyde Smith,
John Casper, and John Rose, who
were arrested during a demonstra-
ton of farmers against foreclosure
on March Is, until the September
term Of court.
AS court opened Monday morning
at 10 a. M, the courthouse was
packed with sympathizers. Judge
Pugsley at once announced that
VIM. Bird, the sheriff, one of the
state witnesses, was i'll and could not
appear. This is merely an excuse,
as the county has no money with
which to pay the jury, etc.
Defense lawyers were Maurice SUI
gar and John Saffron of the Inter-
national Labor Defense from De-
troit. The prosecution by Stanley
Streeter, prosecuting attorney, and
Reber of Fremont. After Judge
Pugsley's announcement, Maurice
Sugar presented motions to quash
indictment. In every case the Judge
denied the motions.
Comrades, the trials are not yet
over and so all must join in send
ing protest resolutions to Stanley
Streeter, White Cloud. and Judge
PugSley.
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Farmers Write of Their Struggles
Against Misledders and Arrests
"We Must Go Hungry,
But We Mustn't Ruin
Private PrOpertyIdea"
(By q Worker Correspondent

tby g. Worker correspondent.
BROOKSVILLE, Fla.-They talk
of times picking up. guess they
are picking all right, picking the last
ounce of energy that labor has left.
Cornell Robbins turned back to the
government his big tract of land,
two thousand and eighty-fiye acres,
and now they use us stiffs working
for the r. F. G. at one dollar a. day,
to cut down trees and burn them
up SO they can spend thousands of
dollars experimenting on raising
beef AS q rule down here it takes
about thirty acres to keep one COW
on the natural pasture her. They
want to reverse it and raise thirty
cows on one acre by producing new
grade of pasture.
OF course some of us dumb bells
wonder why they don't use this
money to investigate why millions
go hungry when there is plenty to
eat, why people go in rags when
there is plenty to wear. and going
without shelter with plenty of empty
houses.
Machinery is rusty from the want
Of use.
The block game has been played
here. They use these blocks to make
veneer for vegetables and fruit cakes.
The men who do the saving and
loading are supposed TO get one dol
lar day. but they don't get their
r11nuev until the cars are unloaded
Something will always happen that
they don't get unloaded until they
have shipped out eight or ten cars,
OF course the felloH who is playing
the game will give his men one dol
lar or two dollars week, figuring
on squaring up when he gets all his
money. But all at once this bird
left, leaving his men hold the bag
w.
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OWNER OF ATLAS.
|UU. IL biUGEESI
OF STEEL TRUSTS
Enormously Rich, Now
Pushes Co. Union
Wage Cut Scheme

NEW YORK The Universal Atlas
Cement Co., whose workers are now
defending themselves against COM
pany union wage cut plans put over
on them under the National Recovery
(Slavery) Act, have as their employer
the United States Steel Corporation,
one Of the wealthiest concerns in the
world.
The following list of U. S. Steel
holdings was compiled by Labor Re-
search Association, Of New York.
By Labor Research Assn.
The United States Steel Corpora
ton was originally incorporated under
the New Jersey laws, February IS,
1901, and certificates amended on
April /, 1901.
In Jan, 1880, it acquired the Atlas
Portland Cement Co., paying therefor
1925 common shares. The Atlas
properties were subsequently conso-
lidated with those of the Universal
Portland Cement Co. under the title,
Universal Atlas Cement Co. Also pur-
chased the properties Of Columbia
Steel Corp, in Jan, 1880, pay
ing therefor PSI, TIL shares of COM
mon stock. T he properties OF
Steel Corp, we're transferred to a.
subsidiary Of United States Steel
Corp. In 1880, H. @. Prick Coke Co.,
a subsidiary, acquired the Washington
Coal 81 Coke Co. Acquired Oil Well
Supply Co. as of Oct. /, 1880, paying
therefor 10e,402 shares Of common
stock.
In April, 1881, the American Steel
81 Wire Co., a subsidiary, acquired
the business and smelling plant of
Edgar Zinc Co. On June 2, 1881, 1t
was reported that the Sharon Coal &
Limestone Co., subsidiary. had &C
CURED the property of the Pittsburgh
& Erie Coal Co.
Subsidiaries and Properties: Some
Of the original companies and their
various subsidiaries were subsequently
consolidated or merged. AT the close
of 1881 the principal operating sub
salaries Of the corporation were as
follows:
American Bridge Co.
hIIl6IlCdIl 0llSGb O. 1 III AoVS W.
American Steel & Wire Co.
The Canadian Bridge Co., Ltd.
Canadian Steel Corp, Ltd.
Carnegie Steel Co.
Clarion Steel Co.
Columbia Steel Co.
Cyclone Fence Co.
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
Co.
Illinois Steel 90. includes Indiana
Steel Coz
Illinois Scully Steel Warehouse Co.
Isthmian Steamship Co.
The Lorain Steel Co.
Minnesota Steel Co.
National Tube Co.
Oil Well Supply Co.
Tennessee Coal, Iron g. Railroad Co.
Union Steel Co. l
United States Steel Products Co,
Universal Atlas Cement Co.
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ganize the miners" for further ex-
ploitation under the Industrial Re-
covery (slave) Act.
A special convention Of the UNI.
w. Of A. meeting in Fairmont, w. Va.
adopted a resolution endorsing the
Recovery Act. 1t states that a
Joint conference of all the operators
of Northern West Virginia with the
representatives Of the United Mine
Workers of America will be called
to negotiate a wage agreement that
will raise our standards Of living,
shorten the working day and relieve
unemployment" The miners of West
Virginia have learned full well what
these phrases of Van Bittner, head
of the UNIV Of A. in West Vir-
ginia mean.
To resist the new attacks of the
coal operators and mine union ON
Gals it is necessary to build pit COM
nlittees representative of all the min
ers in the pit. To prepare and con-
duct strikes against every effort to
use the Industrial Recovery slavery
Act to further beat down the con-
ditions of the minerS and to fight
for increased wages and improve
ment of working conditions. In these
struggles the role of the UNIV. Of
A. officials as collaborators with the
bosses against the miners should be
brought forth. This way it is pos
sible to build broad opposition move
ments of the rank and file in the
UNIV. of A. locals for developing
strike struggles.
The united front conference called
by the National Miners Union in
Western Pennsylvania and East Ohio
is a means of uniting the organized
and unorganized miners for broad
strike struggles against the attacks
prepared Under the Industrial Re-
covery Act. To this conferences de-
legates from National Miners Union,
United Mine Workers, unorganized
miners should be elected and toge-
Their work out on common program
of struggle.
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Green Wants A. F. of L. to Be Chief Company Union to
SUPPORT Rooseuelt's Program Under Slavery Bill

struggles of the workers., will pro-
coed to more ferocious attack on
the Communist Party as the most
devoted, Glass; conscious leader of the
day-to-day opposition Of the workers
and as the greatest obstacle to the
fascist development which must be
the next phase of the breakdown re-
sulting from the recovery act.
In other words, every economic
struggle, even the smallest struggle
around wages, hours, rights of or
ganization. strike, formation of shop
committees, workers negotiations
committees, will become political
struggle. Every political struggle will
be more and more closely welded to
the direct economic struggle of the
workers.
So far as the attitude Of the A. F.
of L. officialdom to the act is con-
cerned, let us trace their maneuver-
ings with the bosses.
A. F. of L. Maneuvers.
On June s and 7, a week before
Roosevelt signed the act, A. F. of L.
officials, representing 100 national
and international unions met in
Washington. After their conference
they issued a statement saying.
"The representatives of the
American Federation of Labor who
have been meeting in Washington
during the last two weeks gave
unanimous approval to the indus
trial recovery act as passed by the
House of Representatives. This
decision was arrived at after two
days of careful thought and study
Of the proposed legislation with
particular reference to labor Sec
tions." And they further declared
their sincere desire to cooperate
with the representatives of indus
try and government in making the
industrial recovery act complete
success.
The sincere desire to cooperate
with representatives of industry and
government" is no sudden outburst
of evangelical fervor. Didn't these
very same officials Cooperate with
representative of industry and gov
eminent under Hoover throughout
the crisis to slash the wages of every
union and non-union man in the
country? Didn't they cooperate to
fight against unemployment insur-
ance?
While Green, Hillman and Lewis
outline the broad aspects of the A.
F. of L, program, some of the smaller
fry put it more crudely For ex-
ample, the Journal of the Electrical
Workers and Operators Union, in It's
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Tells Workers to Give
concessions" for
Slavery Bill

fine and six months Jail term de-
crees. Then there is the federal
court Jurisdiction. Judges who will
put. the tradition of Lands and
Schumacher in the shade will soon
become bywords to the workers.
No wonder Norman Thomas of the
Socialist Party can exclaim: "The
best feature Of the bill is the rec
ognition 1t gives to labor"
No wonder the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers and the U. s.
Chamber OF Commerce, advocating
the open shop, can fully reconcile
their scab ideas with the industrial
act! H. I. Hartman, president of the
U. S. Chamber of Commerce, re-
ceived the support of Robert L. Lund
president of the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers, in issuing this
statement:
"The Chamber OF Commerce Of
the United States has consistently
stood for the real open shop and l
appeared before the Ways and
Means Committee Of the House Of
Representatives to urge that that
principle be contained in the bill.
II have been assured by those
who will undoubtedly administer
the act that it Is their intention to
see that the provisions Of the law
are fairly and impartially admins
tered both by the interests Of labor
and industry and that the act will
not be used unfairly against any
group Of employers or employees"
The U. S. Chamber of Commerce
will get its real open shop" this
time through closer support by the
A. F.. Of l.. officia1dofn. Let every
worker ponder the irony Of the U. S.
Chamber Of Commerce and the Man
ufacturers' Association being con-
WINGED Of the fairness to labor and
capital Of the labor clauses Of the in
dustrial recovery actl The capital
lists, with the state machinery in
their hands, with the power Of the
strike breaking courts, police, jails-
with their history Of murder and bru-
tally in the railroad, steel and coal
strikes-w1th their spies, and their
whole anti-labor factory regimes
being sure that the idea OF the real
open shop" will prevail. Yes, it
would take a Socialist leader to say:
THE best feature Of the bill is the
recognition it gives to laborl"
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carry the official stamp of the
federal government.
For this purpose a new wave
of activity in the mining fields,
conducted by the United Mine
Workers can be observed.
"The New DeaP
In leaf1et headed THE New Deal"
and signed by Nicholas Fonteccino,
International Representative, United
Mine Workers of America" in Utah
the full strike breaking program is
disclosed. He states, 1--WE are happy
to announce that we are in your Won
derful State of Utah to assist in the
establishment of mutual relations
with peace and prosperity for the coal
mines in this state" Emphasis mine)
To assure the coal operators his
wholehearted cooperation, he con-
tinues, You can rest assured that
there will be no strikes nor turmoils
in our work. The miners are asked to
join our Union and to remain at work
until a joint contract is consum-
mated" Emphasis mine.)
There will be no strikes, say the
leaders Of the United Mine Workers.
The miners are to work for further
wage cuts, and the officials will con-
summate agreements of wage cuts for
them.
1t is such agreements that the
United Mine Workers official holds
out as pledge to the coal opera
tors for the price of Organizing the
miners" In Western Pennsylvania,
one of the most important bitumin-
Gus fields, Pat Pagan, president of
District 5, is busy in the mining
fields. This notorious strike breaker
tells the miners that they enjoy the
inalienable .fgnc TO join the United
Mine Wo4kers of America" In other
words, the workers cannot decide the
union which they desire to join. 1t
is to be decided for them by Pagan
and. the coal operators.
Their Pledge
What this means is best illustrated
in a pledge card distributed among
the miners. This card which miners
are to sign, states, Il further pledge
myself that when I am admitted to
membership that I will abide by the
laws and policies of that organiza-
ton" What policies are the coal
miners of the Terminal mines asked
to abide by? It is the policy of
Pagan that has sold them time and
again. 1t is the policy which forced
the, miners back a number of times
to work, this, year, each. time with a
new wage cut.
Pagan the Strikebreaker
A leaflet issued by the National
Miners Union to the Avella miners
who have been striking against I'M
bearable conditions shows the policy
that the miners are asked to carry
out against their own interests.
over so leading members of the
UNIV. of A. and American Legion
we're deputized by the notorious
strikebreaker, sheriff Seamen" to
break the Avella strike. And this
was done with the consent of
Pagan"
Every mine field is entered by the
United Mine Workers with the sup
port of the coal operators to "or-
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June, 1888, issue, put these questions
to the bosses:
"Wnl the administration con-
slider the archaeological value Of
labor unions, their ability to return
more to management than either
an unorganized group or a con-
trolIed company union? viii 1t
avail itself of the wealth of ex-
perience achieved in certain in
dustries. where union cooperation
with management has been in
effect?"
That is, will the General Electric
and Western Electric and. the other
Morgan corporations and the new
trusts to be formed under the act
consider the value of the experience
of the A. F. of L. officialdom their
ability to return more (more what?
profits out of the hides of the work
ers) to management"
The same Journal goes much fur
ther.
Where a trade association does
not exist, labor will likely, If neces-
sary, take the initiative and see that
a modern trade association is made
Concessions should be made, if
necessary, by all unions, in order to
forward the common goal of organ
izations (of industries).
The official organ Of the American
Federation of Labor, controlled by
william F. Green, goes even much
further in promising the big corpora
lions that under the A. F. OF L.
company union scheme there will be
no labor troubles. The June, 1888,
issue of the "Federationist" DEGREES:
"When decisions are democrat
ically decided they must become
binding upon all If we are to hold
the unruly and nonsensical in
check"
Once decisions are made by the
new A. F. Of L-company unions, Of
fetal labor bureaus Of the scab cor
porations with their contact In the
government apparatus through Green,
Hillman. Lewis and Frances Perkins)
they will keep the "unruly and non
sensical" in check. Hitler could not
be more adroit. Those workers who
are unruly under the crushing wheel
of the gigantic trusts so near to the
capitalists hearts desire, those work
ers so nonsensical to resist starva-
ton wages, to fight for their own
class organizations and for unen-
ployment insurance are to be held In
check.
How will they be held In check?
The industrial recovery act takes
care Of that. First there is the $500
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was sprung on the workers with such
speed that they we're caught unpre-
pared. In some mills the plan was
announced and the election took
place on the same day. Confusion
among the workers, which resulted
in many workers refusing to have
anything to do with the plan helped
the company to put over its scheme
of electing its own hand picked rats
A. F. Of L. Tries to Revive.
The Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (the A.
F. Of L. union) is receiving publicity
in the local capitalist press and is
trying to get the workers to join by
offering to chain them to sliding
scale agreement which will involve
extensive wage cutting. Their leaf
let's spread in the Ohio Valley rec
emily read as follows:
Under the Industrial Recovery Act,
the workers of the steel mills are
challenged by the president of the
United States to become members of
a labor organization. viii you be
a Stacker, or are you going to help
him bring back the economic security
of the steel workers. You can do
this by complying with Section Z of
the Industrial Recovery Act. This
act gives the employees the right by
law to help themselves"
Steel workers see clearly that the
speed with which the steel trust is
organizing company unions proves
the statement false that the Roose-
welt administration is challenging
them to join labor organizations.
They also know that the Amalgama-
ted has co-operated with the steel
company throughout the crisis in put
ting over wage cuts and lowering
their living standards and that in
stead of bringing economic security
the A. F. of L. has been responsible
for preventing any struggle against
the steel trust. Steel workers are
saying that the real purpose of the
revival Of the A. F. of L. and the
company unions is to keep out the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union. The Steel and Metal Work
ers Industrial Union is answering the
Amalgamated in leaflet which is
being widely distributed.
Reports from the Ohio Valley re-
veal that the company union plan,
almost identical with that Of Youngs-
town is being introduced in the Car
negie mills, the Wheeling Steel Cor
poration and the Weierton Steel Co.
Additional reports come from the IL
linois Steel in Gary and from the
Universal Atlas Cement Corporation
in Hudson, N. Y. subsidiaries Of u.
S. Steel that the same plan is being
introduced there. Miners report
that the company union agreement
is almost identical to that issued by
several mining corporations. The be-
lief is rapidly gaining ground among
steel workers that these company
union agreements we're drafted by
the Roosevelt government at the same
time as the Roosevelt Recovery
slavery Act and with the full con-
sent Of the government.
Steel and Metal Industrial Union
Gives Program.
The Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union calls upon the work.
ers to fight to elect the most honest,
courageous fighters among the work.
ers to the company committees for
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but would deal with the Four Fl in
stead. Similar action is underway in
Tacoma. The employers are strongly
behind the Four FL to defeat any
possibility of growth of the militant
Lumber Workers Industrial Union Of
the Trade Union Unity League.
The -Four Ell has ben virtually a
paper organization in the past seven
years and retained its machinery only
for the purpose of checking the
growth of any militant unions in the
industry.
The majority Of lumber workers
distrust and resent the Four Fl.
They are well aware Of its treacher-
Gus role.
The greatest energies must now be
put forth by the workers to elect
committees of their own in every
camp and mill, to formulate de-
mands for improvements in their
conditions and to organize to fight
to join union Of their own choice
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5000 WORKERS in
READING TEXTILE
MILLS ON STRIKE

READING, Pa, June 2e.-Three
thousand workers in the hosiery and
cotton textile plants are reported on
strike led by a so-called apparel
trades union bloc. with an organizer
from the Amalgamated Clothing
workers Of the Fashionable mill at
Boyertown, the H. w. Anthony plant
at Sinking Springs and two hundred
workers in the spinning and carding
departments of the Bancroft Mills
are reported to have Joined the strike.
The National Association of Hosiery
Manufacturers are urging the workers
to join their company unions again
disproving the collective bargaining"
promises under the Industrial Re-
covery slavery Act.
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PENN. MINERS
EXPOSE U.M.W.A.
MEMBER DRIVE
SO Join Natl Miners;
See U.M.W.A. Role
as Company Union

PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 28.-One
hundred miners Of the Westmore-
land Coal Co. attended meeting
of the National Miners Union at
which Joe Ladisic, local miner and
active organizer Of the NMU. and
Dave Doran spoke. The mine sup
erintendent and group of company
stool pigeons attempted to disrupt
the meeting and provoke fight, but
were forced to retreat before the mil
liant spirit displayed by the miners.
The miner superintendent spoke,
bringing forward the United Mine
Workers and slandering the National
Miners Union.
The miners answered the proposal
OF the superintendent to form a
company union by electing check
weighman. SO miners of those pre-
sent Joined the National Miners I'm
ion and pledged to build the union
In the entire mine.
The U.MW.A. has imported IA
ganesters into Westmoreland Coun-
ty. They were brought into this
County on account of the sharp re-
sistance that the leaders of the UNI.
WA. met and the strong influence
of the N.M.U. Threats have been
made against Joe Ladisic, militant
miner in the territory, who is the
strike chairman at the Edna 2 mine.
Six Of these U.M.WA. men armed
with guns and filled with booze,
planned an attack upon Ladisic in
his home, but were driven of by the
presence of NMU. members at that
time.
The U.MW.A. leaders hypocritic-
ally talk about the thugs of the coal
companies being used against the
miners while theJ use the same
tactic in an attempt to sink their
claws into the miners. Miners in
this territory are preparing to meet
all attacks of the U.M.W.A. and de
fend their right to organize into the
union Of their own choice.
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WARNS FARMERS.
AGAINST RENO
AND PARMENTER
CBy a Farmer Correspondent

OMAHA. Neb.-In cooperation
with the leadership of the Socialist
Party the Farmers Holiday Associa-
ton milo Reno group is going to
hold a mass meeting at Fort CAL
houn, Nebraska. on July 4, to break
UP real united front of farmers
and workers. II is on this day that
the Continental Congress Qed by the
Socialist Party leadership intends
to hold mass meeting in every state
in the union.
This meeting is led by Harry C.
Parmenter who has failed in several
attempts to break up the strong left
wing group madison County plan
group of over $4,000 members in
Nebraska. Parmenter will no doubt
try to fool the farmers and workers
who attend this meeting into be-
lieving that this newly organized
Continental Congress of Farmers
and Workers is real organization OF
united mass action.
Farmers and workers In Nebraska
should again be warned against Reno
and Parmenter, and also against the
acknowledgements of Farmers and
Workers. The attempt Of the Fort
Calhoun meeting will be to break up
the real militant wing Of the Farm
ers Holiday Association in Nebraska
(the Madison County plan group
which has done. and will continue
to do, real good for the poverty
stricken workers and farmers,
The Continental Congress Of
Farmers and Workers is an attempt
on a national scale, to dispel TIT
fighting moods of the masses ant
TO win them over 10 the misleader
who support the bankers and tn
bosses and their Roosevelt starva
ton recovery" plan u