The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
.AMBRIDGE STRIKE LEADER
TELLS RED ELECTION ROLE
IN COAL STEEL STRIKE AREA
Runs for Mayor After Mellon Controlled
Machine Gusts Him from Ballot by
Forging Names on Petition =

jaf before the massacre OF the
strike pieketG. He was recently
released on bail. While in jail
Fgan was thrown off the ballot by
the Mellon controlled city officials,
but hs is running on sticker
campaign.
ing scandal and the phantom. voters
in the primary elections.
While the capitalist press headlines
hail the success Of the N. r. A. and
its benefits to labor" its columns
are filled with evidence Of its real
results-unemploym Is increasing
instead Of decreasing. Despite all
the talk "pickups" and prosperity"
over $1,000 families Of Allegenhy
County are on the relief lists, many
hundreds have been cut of. Nor
does this include the thousands who
are on part time Jobs. The Depart
ment Of Labor reports that Is per
cent of all school children are IN
dernourishtd. In Alleghenhy county
| the newspapers report higher
! figure. Evictions, sheriff and con-
stable sales are on the increase.
Thousands Of homes are without gas,
| light and water
When the unemployed workers OF
Pittsburgh attempted to get some Of
these hogs that are to be killed for
/ fertilizer they were warned they
would be charged with grand larceny
] bv the oackinU pOr10aOv
Steel production after its short
climb upwards has again dropped to
as low as 26 per cent capacity. The
auto bosses have closed shop, rail
orders are slim, the bulk Of steel
has been going into storage for In
flation prices.
The workers Of the Jones and
Laughlin steel plant are once again
working one and two days per week,
some weeks not at I'LL. All of those
hired as extra under the N. r. A.
scheme to provide jobs, were placed
on the labor gangs, but 1t so hap
pens that Jones and Laughlin have
no work for these gangs. The only
plants working much are the plants
connected with war industry.
Wage cuts in steel take place by
hiring skilled mechanics at 40c per
hour under the code. The worker
are shifted from one job to another
so much that it becomes impossible
to know what his wages wiz be
until pay day If he draws any
The j. g. L. workers are still pay
ing of last winters relief orders.
The cost of living has increased
higher than IS per cent for groceries.
etc. Flour went up from Acc and soc
to 3ec and s115 for Is lbs. The cloth
ing manufacturers state that cloth
ing will go up so and go per cent
before spring for those who will be
fortunate enough to be able to buy
clothes. The Daily Record Of Sept.
8, 1888, quotes A. Edmundson an in
vestment economist who stated:
ITO reach the objective Of 1926
price levels, there must be an ad-
ditional 40 per cent advance above
current figures. Conservative es-
Inmates indicate expectations Of
the achievement of over half OF
this before spring.
Strikes and n. b. A.
The Ambridge and Greensburg
steel workers chose the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union to
protect their interests, because 1t Is
a workers, militant fighting union.
These thousands more throughout
the country demanded an increase
IN wages to correspond to the In
crease in the cost of living, for
recognition Of a union Of their own
choosing
They struck for these demands and
came to head-on collision with the
N. Il. A. The N. R. A. that was sup
posed to bring us more work, higher
wages and the right to organize
sWooped down on the Ambridge
picket lines a monstrous vulture in
the form of 1000 armed thugs. de-
putlzed by the steel bosses govern
ment with orders to kill, terrorize
and drive back into the mills every
striking worker to accept the low
wages that the steel trust dictated
through johnson in the steel code.
One OF the most violent and bloody
attacks in American labor history
shooting, casing, and clubbing every
man, woman and child was let loose
all in the name Of N. r. A.
In Greensburg, Pa, the local poli-
ticians and Wolworth COMPANY
threatened the workers at the brass
foundry II they did not remove their
names from the petitions, they would
be fired or loose their unemployed
relief.
This drive against the Communist
Party comes at a time when the
steel bosses and their government ara
doing everything in theI power Ia
beat back and suppress the growing
strike movement and general ak
content Of the steel workers and coal
miners. The unemployed are shat
tering all illusions about a 'rNrv
DeaP under the N. r. A. The I'M
employed are 0r7~~~'-~ ~ --,ent tba
hardest and most severe winter a
the crisis with struggle for increased
RELIEF, for I'm employed insurance
Tor a determined ficht for u,orks-~i