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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24
Race Discrimination
on Panama. acific

(By Marine Worker Correspondent
NEW York; wholesale lay-off
of Filipino workers was made by the
Panama Pacific Steamship Co. in
this port recently.
Two departments were involved,
the engine department and the deck
hands, all Filipinos, citizens of the
United States.
These Filipinos were employed by
the company from two to four years
with excellent conduct, during which
period they worked for this company,
and also Q good conduct in their
discharge papers from the previous
employment. Just why they were dis
charged from the 8, s. Pennsylvania
none Of the boys knew, for when they
were discharged the first assistant or
any officer did not explain, but the
boys assume that the discharge was
due to their color and nationality
and not to lack Of faithfulness or
ability.
This Ia not the first time that the
Filipinos are Inundated by the
American bouxgeoisie. The Filipinos
have been Disseminated against
since Admiral George Dewey entered
Manila Bay in 1898 to this day, and
will be Disseminated against by any
bourgeoisie as long as Filipinos re-
main unorganiEed. But II the Fill
pinos will organize themselves under
proletarian organisation, then the
possibility will be . tremendous VIC
tory for the American workers and
farmers, both at home and abroad.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24
Wool and Ship Workers Resist SlaVe
Codes at Hearings
PROTEST REFUSAL
TO HEAR SHIP
WORKERS ONCODE
Permit Powers to Read
Demands Only, But
Not to Hit Code

NEW YORK. "A mass meeting Of
shipbuilding workers h I'D at Central
Hall, Brooklyn, Saturday, wired a
protest to Gen. Johnson against the
fragrant denial of the right to fair
hearing for our delegation"
George E. Powers, chairman of the
delegation that went to Washington
to oppose the shipbuilders slave code
and present a code adopted by ship
yards workers was grudgingly al
lowed to present the demands, but
was shut off when he began to at
tack the shipbuilders code.
Deputy Administrator Whiteside,
who presided over the shipbuilding
code hearings, reluctantly permitted
Powers to speak but would let nc
other member OF the delegation pre-
sent the views of the workers.
The delegation consisted of George
E. Powers, AL Andersen, Paul Mar
tin, r. Hartz and Joseph Ward.
Not only did the government rep
resentatives and the bosses do their
utmost to sidetrack the workers del
egation, but the A. F. of L. leaders,
A. ]. Franklin, John P. Frey, and
others, outdid themselves as part of
their systematic betrayal of the work
ers' interests in clamoring against
the workers elected rank and file
delegation, urging they be not heard.
The delegation was told their
names were at the bottom of the
list. 1t was only when Powers jumped
up and began to speak. despite the
admonitions Of Whiteside, that he
was able to present the shipyard
workers demands, but he was stop
ped every time he pointed out a
Joker in the bosses code.
Powers was interrupted repeatedly
when he presented the following de-
mands: u $25 minimum scale of
wages for unskilled labor for a g.
hour day, 5-day week, with hours
specified, with scales for semi-skilled
and skilled paid proportionally. Time
and one-half for all overtime. Auto
matte wage increases to meet each
rise in the cost of living. Abolition
of all pieee-work and sub contract
ing. Maximum working week to be
40 hours. p 40 weeks work guaran-
teed per year. Those getting less to
receive unemployment insurance at
the rate Of full wages, the cost to be
paid equally by the company and the
federal government. These and other
demands were read, with constant
interruption by Whiteside who OBJ
jected to everything. The rest of the
demands dealt with unemployment
insurance, right of workers to or
ganize and join any union Of their
own choice, the right to strike and
picket, no discrimination against
Negro or foreign-born workers in
being hired or in holding any job,
including equal pay for equal work.
All drydock and shipyard workers
and other workers are invited to a
mass meeting Wednesday, July 10Th
at which the delegates will report in
detail on the shipbuilding code hear
ing in Washington. The meeting will
take place at Central Hall at p. m.
under the auspices of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
Brooklyn Local.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24

that he did not know any,
thing about the conditions on the
waterfront.
Mr.. Hank, I believe, is president
of the State Federation of Labor of
California. Now, the labor takers
are concentrating on the longshore-
men who constitute the biggest single
unit of our working class in this Sec
ton. A meeting was called at the
Marine Service Bureau, the Fink
Hail." at which a committee of seven
was elected to confer with the bosses
on the kind of organization the
longshoremen should have.
Reject Company Union,
All longshoremen that are not
registered at the Fink Hall and sea-
men were excluded. The organiza-
tons offered to the longshoremen
we're the Blue Book and the lila. The
blue book union, which is known to
the workers as the company union
was fatty rejected. Mr.. Stein, the
agent for the blue book from San
Francisco, who is famous for col
lecting dues at the point of a gun
came down to speak for his union
One worker exposed him so bad that
he had to leave without speaking. II
was brought out by the workers that
Mr.. Stein always carries two guns in
his pockets whenever he comes to a
meeting Of workers. And he collects
the dues at the point of a gun. The
worker pointed to the hip pocket of
Mr.. Stein, where gun could be seen
plainly.
Stool Pigeons In Fink Hall
The Fink Hall is hated by the
workers, for it is nothing but ship
owners agency to beat down the
workers. 1t is full of stool pigeons
and any worker who is suspected of
any radical thought is blackballed
The jobs are handed out only to
favorites or those that can bride the
gang boss with gallon of wine or
whiskey
The longshoremen have been
forced to accept wage-cut after wage
cut through this agency.
A leaflet has been issued by the
Marine Workers Industrial Union,
calling upon the longshoremeH to
join them. 1t was very we'll received.
Many of the workers are in favor of
the M. w. I. U.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24

SALEM, Mass, July 23.--Over 1900
textile workers at the Pequot mills
voted unanimously to break away
from the United Textile workers
Union and to organize union under
their own control at a meeting held
here Friday night Ann Burlak, Sec
rotary of the National Textile Work
ers Union, helped the Pequot work.
ers to draw up their plans for Or
ganization.
This action, it was pointed out, is
a direct and severe body-blow to the
United Textile Workers Union, for
this was their only 100 per cent Or
ganized local in the country. The
United Textile Workers Union heads
had for a long time held it up as an
example of the perfect frnctioning
of the worker-employer cooperative
scheme.
MacMahon Tries To Collect
On Thursday, the day before the
meeting at which the secession was
decided upon, Thomas MacNfahon,
president of the u. T. W., came to
Salem and ordered the collection of
all back dues for the period of the
strike. He also visited the Pequot
mill management and urged them to
make it compulsory for the workers
to pay up their u. T. w. back dues.
"Just let them try and collect!" was
the answer, of the workers Their
meeting Friday night was strongly
guarded to prevent U. T. w. officials
from entering the hall.
Return U. T. w. Charter
The meeting decided to sever all
connections with the U. T. w. and
to send the charter back Immediately.
This was in answer to its traitorous
actions during the recent strike, when
both the local and national organiza-
tons of the U. T. w. declared the
strike illegal"
Their new union is to be known as
the Independent Textile Workers
Union of Salem.
Important decisions made at the
meeting include the following: that
mill committee, with representatives
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24
AUTO WORKERS
SPURN A. F. of L

SOUTH BEND, Ind, July ia
smashing exposure Of the American
Federation of Labor officials was
made here by workers of the Stude-
baker Auto plant when the officials
called a meeting to organic" the
workers in the plant. Not single
worker signed up with the A. T. of l..
Two hundred and fifty workers
showed up in response to thousands
of leaflets that were circulated among
the workers. That the company was
in back of the A. F. of l.. organization
drive was evident in the fact that no
attempt was made to interfere with
the meeting and over half the audi
enes present consisted of foremen and
higher Studebaker officials.
The main line of the A. F. Of L.
organizers speech at the meeting was
praise for Roosevelt whom he COM
pared with Wilson as great labor or
ganizer. Workers should take the OPP
portunity to join the A. F. of L. and
pay the 50 initiation fee, he declared
and then closed with a denunciation
of the Soviet Union.
When questions were asked for, the
workers proceeded to lombard the
organizer. Worker after worker ex-
posed the A. F. of L. strike breaking
policies showing from their own ex-
perienceS how they had suffered at
the hands Of the A. F. of l.. officials.
BY skillful questioning the workers
exposed the Industrial Recovery Act
and Mr.. Roosevelts new deal" When
workers finally rose Indignantly and
demanded to know why he had SLAM
dered the Soviet Union, the workers
fatherland, the workers audience
present burst into applause, and the
speaker was completely routed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24
Strike Lost Through
Lack of Organization

BUFFALO, N. Y.-One hundred
OF the 100 workers Of the McKaig
g. Hatch Drop Forge plant went on
strike recently, but the bosses sue
ceeded in breaking up their ranks
and getting them back to work af-
ter q two hour strike. The three
leaders Of this spontaneous walkout
were Immediately fired. There was
no committee elected, no demands
worked out.
Attempts are being made now by
the Steel and Metal Workers Indus
trial Union to organize the shop
with the aid of the three workers
fired out. The workers are getting
approximately 80 cents an hour
working 10 hours q day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24
LONGER HOURS ON RELIEF
WORK

CLINTON, Iowa. Unemployed
Clinton men who have been made
to earn their doles by working on
the roads and other jobs at 80 cents
an hour will now have the chance
to put in eight hours a day instead
Of six. They will be given one to
three days work week as before,
according to the size of their fami-
lies. The rate remains 80 cents an
hour, though Industrial Dictator
Johnson has said in Washington
that he thought As cents a fair
minimum for American workers. The
men are paid in grocery orders in
stead of cash. There are 1,102 fami-
lies on relief in Clinton county.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24
Red Cross Promises
Supply of Forced
Labor at 81 A Day

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-Reports are
being circulated that the Red Cross
here offered to local business men
that they would bring down the wage
level of workers here to 81 day.
This proposal, it is said, was made
when the Red Cross failed to reach
its quota in tbs years drive for funds.
They offered to business men to sup
ply them with workers at ST a day
If the difference between this scale
and the one they we're in effect was
turned over to the Red Cross.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24
Rail Workers Killed
By Bosses Economy.
(By a Worker Correspondent)

DENVER, Colo.-Information on a
heavy rain between Palmer Lake and
Castle Rock. Colo, was supposed to
be given the train before leaving
Palmer Lake. But no nightman was
On duty at Castle Rock to get the
lineup on weather conditions by the
train dispatcher. This caused the
freight train to run into washout,
killing six workers near Castle Rock,
Colo, a short time ago.
Looks like these railroads are get
ting cheaper every day. They make
a million dollars month during the
fruit rush but the railroad company
tries to hog it all, laying workers off
every day for no reason at all.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24
U.M.W.A., Councils
Work Together
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

hundreds of unemployed miners In
the lower anthracite area have
demonstrated, and made it stick by
live comes ahead Of private property
rights.
The rank and file movement is the
vital life force in the United Mine
Workers of America here, just as the
U. M. W. is the biggest organized
force in the community. Eighteen
locals Of the % In Sub-District
were represented in the last Rank
and File Conference. Monday there
will be an Anthracite Bureau con-
ference in Wilkes-Barre to further
coordinate the work Of building the
rank and file movement in the United
Mine Workers of America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24
1000 Dust U.T.W. from
Pequot Mills in Salem
Form Own Independent Union in Reply to
U.TW Strike Treachery; Elect Own Officers

from every department. be elected
Immediately and that the present of
ficials be elected for a three month
period only The workers elected five
officials from among their own ranks:
Martin Tucker, president; Adelard
Dumas, president; Jack Cannif,
secretary; Alice Burke, treasurer, and
Wilfred Levesque, business agent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24
Layeffs In Hecla, 5. ID.


HECLA, S. D.-This little town has
only one railroad, the Chicago &
Northwestern, running through it.
Formerly there were about half a
dozen section" men employed by
the road to take care of the track
near here. Now there are only two,
and July l one of these was put ON
half time, showing how the new
prosperity is affecting the workers
here. 1t is reported that men were
laid off all along the line on this
railroad the first of July.
1t is very evident that the rate of
pay for r. F. C. workers in this state
depends on the organization or lack
of organization Of the workers, also
on their fighting spirit. The rate of
pay where there is no organization
seems to be in most cases 20 cents
per hour. In Aberdeen, where there
is an Unemployed Council, the rate
is rs cents. The county commission
ers have tried to reduce it to 20 cents
there, but mass pressure of the work.
ers has frightened the commission
efS lilto packing GOWN.
Recently two of the most active
members of the Aberdeen Unem-
ployed Council were fired from their
r. F. G. jobs, but the rest of the men
struck, demanded that the two men
be rehired and won their demand.
In Sioux Falls a militant Unem-
ployed Council succeeded in getting
80 cents per hour for the workers, in
addition to some slop from soup
kitchen, but clever offensive by the
bosses against the workers and the
Unemployed Council there has tea-
porarily disorganized the workers,
and on July ! the rate Of pay on R.
F. G. work was reduced to 20 cents
an hour. However, there are some
active workers there who are re-
building the organization and will
soon take the offensive again.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24

1T is q fact that Lenin brought
to light once more the revolution
airy content Of Marxism which had
been CLOSED over by the oppor-
tunists Of the Second international.
Leninism originated and grew
strong In conflict with the oppor-
tunism Of the Second International
"A conflict essential to success in
tho struggle against capitalism"
(etalin)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24
Transportation Workers Describe the
Iron Fist in Slavery Act
Layoffs in R.R. Shop
While Prices Go Up
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
BOISE, Idaho.-Commodi are
really skyrocketing sin price here I'M
der the New Deal, but all we know
of any rise in wages is what we read
in the capitalist papers about some
other sections of the country. As
one instance of the hands we are
drawing from the New Dealer, the
Pacific Fruit Express car shops at
Nampa may be cited.
Since the first of the year this
plant has laid off So men, % on June
list alone. There is a persistent
rumor to the effect that when the
new railroad set-up is inaugurated,
the plant will be dismantled and
moved away.
A few years back Nampa raised
$4,000 to pay for the land on which
the plant is built. This was pre-
sented to the P. F. E., which is
owned jointly by the S. P, the West
ern Pacific and the Union Pacific.
The S. P. is reported to have been
demanding the abandonment of the
plant for some time. The Union Pa
cific now maintains only one through
passenger train from Portland to
Chicago, the one other retained hay
ing been given mixed status
carrying two or three box cars, one
day coach and one Pullman, and
running from Portland to Green
River, Wyo.
There has been a slight seasonal
increase in freight traffic, due to the
opening of the small fruit season and
shipment of early peas and lettuce
crops, but this is hauled with 5000
type engines, in trains up to $50 cars
with the same old short crews used
with 50-car trains.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24

ers attended them. Such attacks on
AIabamians will surely make it harder
to guarantee court trials Of similar
offenders in the future" (our en-
phasis).
This southern Bourbon then, who
attacks the defenders of the nine
Negro Scottsboro boys and warns
that in the future Negroes will be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24
GLASS, SCOTTSBORO FOE,
GIVEN RAILWAY MEDIATION
BOARD POST BY ROOSEVELT
Lynch Law Defender Supposed to be "Impar-
tial" Mediator for Railroad Workers

Glass old publisher appointed
the railway mediation board by Roosevelt 1t Glass
Aabama) Advertiser which shortly after
ScottbOrO trials ow the State the object
expeditions great q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24
Company Union Is Rejected
By San Pedro Longshoremen
tBy = Worker Correspondent

SAN PEDRO Canf-Mr l.,
labor faker down xo the wonderful possibilities
workers under this socaed Act The the
this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24

thus laid-off shall be provided full
maintenance, at regular wages, by
the industry and the government
until they become old though to
work. Young workers between the
ages of 16 and is to be employed no
longer than hours day, days a
week and paid full wages in ac-
cordance with the above proposals.
III That Negro workers shall not
be Disseminated against and shall
have the right to work at all occu-
pations in the wooden industry and
enjoy all the provisions called for in
the above proposals"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-24
By HERMAN NICHOLSON

daily Worker Special Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, July 23-Facing
a situation throughout Eastern Penn
sylvania in which the workers are
taking action into their own hands,
and fighting toe to toe with mill
guards and police to bar strikebreak-
ers, the hosiery mill owners met hur-
riedly last week at the Manufacturers
and Bankers Club, and granted" a
Is per cent wage increase, and the
40 hour week.
One hundred and eight mills are
In the agreement, which is an attempt
to stave off organization of the work.
ers. A Is per cent increase would
mean in the majority of cases wage
still far below decent living stand
ard.
How far the rank and file of the
Evening star., 1933-09-03

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service charge. 24-hour elevator
service. Your inspection is in
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I DIRECTORY OF UNFURNTSf7ED APARTMENTS

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Evening star., 1933-09-03

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Evening star., 1933-09-03

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] room and bath. W
2 rooms. kitchen. bath. s45.oo
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Res. Mgr. No. LOG.
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