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Evening star., 1933-09-05

John Henry Cross to Canal Zone civil
authorities on q warrant charging In
voluntary manslaughter.
The civil charges were lodged against
Lieut.. Cross after the death of
Lieut.. Robert B. Morgan in an auto
mobile accident about q week ago.
Lieut.. Morgan was passenger IN
the Cross car when 1t collided with q
bus driven by Charles T. Antomez.
Navy circles said Capt. Blackburn's
Evening star., 1933-09-05
EXPLAINS FATAL FALL
Husband Released in Quiz of
Wife's Plunge Into Ravine.

GREAT HARRINGTON, Mass. Sep
tember [P).-William Scully, SO, of
Springfield, was released by police last
night after an all-day investigation
into the death of his wife in fall
from devils pulpit" high cliff over
q ravine on Monument Mountain.
Scully reported to police Sunday
night that he and his wife, Dillie, %,
were sitting near the edge of the pre-
cipice, that he turned away for mo-
ment and when he looked around she
had disappeared.
Evening star., 1933-09-05

and robbing Miss Katherine Dunn in
the lobby Of an apartment Of the TOO
block Of New Jersey avenue.
Police said that Miss Dunn told them
that her pocketbook was snatched and
she was struck over the head, as she
was entering the apartment. Her
screams attracted a passerby, who pur-
sued her assailant for a short distance,
through the house and cornered him in
an upper hallway. While police were
Evening star., 1933-09-05
FIRE STRANDS MOTORISTS

WINNIPEG. September (P.-Five
hundred motorists we're reported
stranded at Whitemouth. Ontario, last
night, unable to get through forest
fires raging along 7-mile stretch
on the Canada highway.
peg. Many of them have been held
at Whitemouth since Saturday night.
One report said the railway station at
Elma had been destroyed by the flames.
Evening star., 1933-09-05
Judge Warns Tackler.

CHICAGO CP.-It's o. K to get in
trim for foot ball, but Judge John
Guttknecht believes there's a time and
a place for everything.
Herdt Ford, 20, tackled Herson How
ard and the two went through tavern
window. The judge listened to the
foot ball explanation and then dis
charged the two with a warning.
Evening star., 1933-09-05
SLEEPING DEATHS
INCREASED TO z
Four More U. S. Experts
Sent to Wage War on
Epidemic.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ST. LOUIS, September 5.-Four
noted scientists were due here from
Washington today to join other Federal,
State and city public health authori-
ties in their efforts to wipe out the
sleeping sickness" epidemic and to de-
termine its sources and methods OF
transmission.
The newcomers in the so-far unsuc-
ceSsful war on the malady are DrS. M.
v. Veldee, L. F. Badger. j. o. Dean and
w. G. Workman, who will make an ex-
tenSive field study of the epidemic.
The continuance and growth OF the
epidemic has made it necessary to open
a second encephalitis ward at the Iso
lation Hospital, where more than 80
cases are under treatment The new
ward will care for about so additional
patients.
The death list has reached 70 and
more than 500 persons were afflicted.
Six deaths were reported yesterday in
St. Louis City and County.
OF the ia encephalitis patients
treated at the Isolation Hospital, ID
have died and So have been discharged,
most of them with no lingering effects
of the disease.
All but one Of the nine who died
Sunday and yesterday were between the
ages of IS and 73. The exception was
q 22-year-old colored woman.
st. Louis schools were open today
regardless of the epidemic.
Evening star., 1933-09-05

refusal was based on instructions from
the Secretary of the Navy pending q
report from naval board Of inquiry.
Naval authorities filed an afidavit
In the Cristobal Court charging Anto-
mez with involuntary manslaughter, but
Lieut.. Cross probably will not appear
against him because Of the possibility
Of his own arrest II he enters Canal
Zone Jurisdiction.
Evening star., 1933-09-05

searching the suspect. they said $11 in
bills fell from his shirt sleeves. Miss
Dunn said that was the amount which
she had in her pockesbook. The empty
purse was found q short distance away
from where the man was found.
Evening star., 1933-09-05
Lucky Cucumber Aids Crop.

GREENSBURG, Pa. up. - Michael
Pawlck thinks he has discovered tho
secret Of why his tomatoes and his po-
tatoes and his squashes have nourished
this Summer. In his truck patch he
found q cucumber shaped like q horse
shoe
Evening star., 1933-09-05
MAN IS HELD TO JURY
IN APARTMENT ROBBERY

Harry L. Smith. II. of the 1900 block
Of Lawrence street northeast, was held
for grand jury action under $4,000 bond
In Police Court today, following his ar
raignment on charge of attacking
Evening star., 1933-09-05

The city Of Bruges, Flanders, Is q
good deal as it was left when Colum-
bus sailed to discover the New World.
Evening star., 1933-09-05
NAVY REFUSES TO GIVE
OFFICER OVER TO CITY
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COLON, Canal Zone. September S.
Capt. Paul Blackburn. commandant Of
the United States Navy submarine base
here, yesterday refused to deliver Lieut..
Evening star., 1933-09-05
Two Die in Connecticut.

STANFORD, Conn, September 5 up.
Two deaths from sleeping sickness
were reported in this city today by
health officials. The victims, who died
in a hospital during the week end. were
John Stricken, jr., II years old, high
school graduate, and Dorothy Web
ber, 5.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
NO OTHER PAPER EXPOSED
PLOTS

SlhO1SO1 LII
Comrade Editor:
Please find enclosed 81 as my con-
tribution to the Daily Worker, I'm
a regular subscriber and can hardly
wait for the postman to bring my
copy. ! sit right down and devour
every bit of news, even look over the
book reviews, stage and screen, etc.
Since the expose of the Nazi
skunks and their treacherous murder
plots, I'm more convinced than ever
that the Daily Worker Is the only
paper for the working class Of this
country. No other paper dared or
cared to expose these Nazi plumber
ers. The Daily Worker gets right to
the bottom of the strike situation
and exposes the A. F. of L. bureau
Gratis and socialist renegades.
Ann Burlak, that fearless revolu-
tionary fighter, is leading the work.
ers to victory in the NTWU. en-
joy reading of her activities on the
fighting front. More power to you,
Comrade Ann. Long live the Daily
Worker and long live the revolutions
airy movement. nrrr sr
M. b. Clappe.
ava (Signature authorized)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
Chisel Down Pay
At Steel Kitchen
(By a Steel Worker Correspondent

(By Steel Worker Correspondent
KEGAN, 1.-THE Steel
Kitchen Corp, where I've been work.
ing for some time, employs young
workers mainly. The workers of this
shop are unorganized, the wages
paid to them are the lowest in the
city.
The wages, according to the rates
on the bulletin board, should be as
follows:
Day work-3O cents per hour.
Piece works. to DO cents per hour.
But the piece rates are so ar
ranged that it is impossible to make
the day rate even and nobody knows
when you work piece work or day
work and how much you make on
each job. If q new worker starts it
takes him some time to find out
what's what, because the foreman
himself claims he doesn't know
what the rates are on piece work.
And if you figure out the hours you
put in at 80 cents you always find
a shortage. In asking the boss, he
replies that you are falling off on
your piece rate and if you want to
work, better step on it.
One Of the other plants came out
with a statement in the local paper
that they signed the N. p. A. and
have increased the wages Is per
cent. This was talked over among
the workers in the Steel Kitchen,
and then the firm put up the Blue
Eagle and notice was put up on
the bulletin board that the wages
are being increased rs per cent in
order to make 30 to IS cents per
hour.
The Steel Kitchen bosses are not
going to improve our conditions on
their own accord with or without the
N. R. A. Only through the efforts
OF the workers in the shop, through
the formation of militant organiza-
ton and the election of shop COM
mittee can we improve our condi-
tons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24

now get 80 cents an hour, for a 40
hour week, a cut of So to 81 week.
The conditions inside the shop are
bad. A half hour for lunch in which
time you have to wash and walk two
blocks to eat. The speed-up is al
ways increasing. with the belt system.
The workers must remain at the belt,
and cannot even turn around-for
this will "trip up" the belt and this
means a bawling out from the floor
foreman. The girls are supposed to
get 15-minute rest periods twice daily,
but never take it because they would
have to leave the belt and incur the
displeasure of the foreman.
Lay-offS are regular procedure
and no worker is sure Of his job.
When a layoH comes, the skilled ma
chinists, ordinarily making about SIS
a week, must do the unskilled work
and get less pay,
This company has about IS plants
throughout the country, supplying the
largest companies, such as General
Foods, etc, with cans.
In some of the other plants the
workers have organized and fought
for better conditions. In Philadelphia
they are out on strike now In New
Jersey the workers were recently on
strike. In the Hudson dorsey City
plant, group of workers, disguised
at the short lunch period which
forced them to swallow food in five
minutes, went to the superintendent
and forced the company to grant
double lunch shift.
In the Bush Terminal in Brooklyn
(Where the Amco plant Isl three
other metal factories have begun the
staggsr plan, to divide the work =
under the guise of giving more work
ers jobs. Where before workers re-
ceived $25 week. now" they get SIG
week, with double the amount of
workers, but they only work four
days week-and get less pay, about
$13. -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
RISE IN COST SHOULD NOT BE
MINIHIIZED

New York.
Comrade Editor:
Saturdays edition of the Daily
Worker had an article concerning
the rise in the cost of living as esti-
mated by the National Industrial
Conference Board. Their figure of
9 per cent is ridiculously low. 1t is
based on the assumption that retail
prices have not risen very much. If
we were to estimate the rise IN the
cost of living using the Fairchild Re-
tail Price Index we would get an en-
tirely different picture.
Comrade Rochester, of the Labor
Research Association has reached the
conclusion that up to the beginning
of September there had been an in
crease of more than IA per cent. And
for the month of September Robert
Dunn has estimated another rise of
about per cent, making 20 per cent
in all I may add that the National
City Bank in its monthly letter states
that the Fairchild Index is the most
accurate in the country.
While it is important that Com
munistS should not exaggerate eco
nolnic events it is equally necessary
that we should not minimize these
harmful effects on the working class.
Fraternally,
JULIEN KENYON,
Pen and Hammer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
Calls to Navy Yard
Men to Organize
Against Lay0ffs
(Ry a Metal Worknr Cnrresnnnder

10Y UASt1f HOEkcr correspondent
BROOKLYN, N. Y.-To quiet the
sentiment of the metal workers at
the Brooklyn Navy Yard for mass
protest meeting, we were promised
all sorts of things: Return of our
pay cut, better conditions, more work
etc. We know that this has not even
begun to be reality.
Where is the spirit of the yard
workmen? We continue to live like
slaves, just about getting along by
the skin Of our teeth, with the mis-
cradle wages given us. Through the
threat OF our last protest, we were
able to get back another half days
work and pay. Don't you think If
We really had protest meeting we
might get back all Of our pay.
I would like to hear from some 9TH
er yard workmen who realize that
all is not we'll, and don't believe in
empty premises any more, and are
ready for some real action. In this
way, we can organize effectively
against this new deal of wage cuts
and speed-up task the men on the
New Orleens.)
A lay-off Of about 1000 to 1900
men will most certainly take place
by the end of this year, unless we
organize and fight it. Anyone desir-
ing to communicate with me for the
purpose of getting together, kindly
write to this paper at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
How to Improve Our Work
Among Jobless in New York
More Clarity and Boldness Needed in Struggle
for Unemployment and Social Insurance


WorkerS-paItleuiaTly negro WORKERS
IN Harlem ana the Wesgs sade-aro
10 recruit Ghein lnoo 0re' rarty ana
L. " ~ Inc SeoIlolls ana ulllCs' On
Cile -oCher manu. must noG seek 70
use tiiebe IolilIaoeS tor Quiet Work'
n1I allow uleln 70 oeSelop imther
tne unemployed "ork
The work 90of the Unemployed
Council must be populari5ed through
leaflets, open air meetings, the Daily
worker, Hunger Fighter, open hear
1ngs, etc. This has practically ceased.
o; me l. ~ y. y. anu eacn union
Slian niilileuiSeely Cake up Clle I'M
enployeu woiM n anu asslsli lofcee 70
W. WIS al 1is Siie 'nienlp,oyeo VOTE"
e.S vi tilS various lnousGrleS' coor-
r rn..eots Uil1 VIZ mAOil sltaO VI 'lie
~ ~ ouli'ils e4t'S etian
a as s ee t ~ &c, " acelsiae Ciae ranA
"11t AIe - viie 4eAoi niie' uniois'
a.. Comrades must be assigned 70
Work on tne WORK relief Jobs. They
must be helped to form committees
on Cne 1oo ana build up organize
Cion' with the perspective OF forming
q reile1 WORKERS organization In the
Guy WORK renef Will remain PEI
nianent form OF work and permanent
organization will be needed to cops
WIN IL. Inc AID also OF the reforms
ISL trade unions must and can be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
Westinghouse
Cuts Wages by
Re-ClasSifying
(By a Westinghouse Worker
Correspondent

NEW YORK.-The electric code
was signed by President Roosevelt on
Aug. 4. becoming effective on Aug.
is. What have been the concrete
results in Westinghouse
Workers are being constantly trans
ferred from one section to another
with change In classification. When
the classification is lower, it is al
ways accompanied by a correspond
ent reduction in rate, even though the
change is temporary" But when
the change is to a higher class Of
work, it is usually difficult to get the
rate raised.
When this point was brought up
by an elected member of the shop
committee, Mr.. Phillips, works man
ager, replied that this was not in
territorial, but is due to the failure OF
the apparatus to function as intended.
The vicious speed-up under the
group system and standard time
makes it hard for many of these
workers starting in on unaccustomed
work to meet the limits. The ner-
FOuS SJIdlll lLiClCdoSo Vi1O oSSAOCIo
hazard enormously, especially since
many of the machines are in bad con-
dition. This is particularly true OF
the older employees, many of whom
have been denoted from the super
visory board and have not worked
with their hands for years.
We may be sure that these bad
conditions will continue and grow
worse unless we workers, ourselves,
take some measures to prevent it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
Resolutions of Party Units
On Carrying Out Open Letter
Concrete Examples on How to Carry Out Open
Letter in Practice

an actual part therein.
"7. At least one street meeting TO
be held during the week by our unit
in our territory.
IS. To draw closer to Our Party
workers belonging to the e Club
and set our task to organize a func-
tioning fraction in this club. Com
rade K. to be responsible for this as
Segment to the unit. Request of the
Section to assign other comrades from
the language fraction to this club to
actually accomplish organizational
work.
SO. That every unit member must
devote as a minimum one evening
a week to unit block and other
activities; Cb) that no comrade Of Our
unit be excused from carrying
through such function.
40. That new recruits attend
either the Workers School or a sec
ton special class.
al. That the sale Of Party ltera-
ture be increased minimum OF 10
per cent more than what it is today
and that each comrade be assigned to
sell the Party literature.
10. That well functioning study
circles be organized where most OF
the comrades be drawn in, in order
to raise the political and theological
level of our comrades.
"13. That our unit meetings begin
sharp at pm. and adjourn sharp
at 1890 regardless Of what the is
sue may be,
"a. That the Bro be held re-
sponsible for the activization Of every
comrade in the unit.
is. To give all assistance to the
Section in it's concentration work at
the metal shop in our territory.
Is. One hundred per cent at
tendance of all members at each unit
meeting"
UNIT ], SECTION Is
ON the basis of this analysis the
unit pledges itself to put through
the following plan of work for the
future:
Il. Concentration work-the unit
territory. which consists of six blocks,
IS wholly T6o4Oellbldl. Lit Ail4O w
cided to put most of its efforts to
organizing house. and block commit
tees. Also to develop struggle
against eviction Of unemployed and
for Unemployment Insurance. To
hold weekly open-air meetings in the
neighhorhood
20. On the Daily Worker-increase
the sales from go to 80 copies per
week
80. On the membership drive
While canvassing in the territory to
pay special attention to the most
sympathetic workers by visiting and
talks so as to enable them to enter
the Party and finally bring them into
the Party.
a. To raise the political level of
the unit membership it was decided
to build a circulation library Of Party
literature. To have weekly study
circle discussion on current issues.
Also the unit is sending three unit
members to the speakers vlass.
IS. The unit is instituting strict
check-up Of the activities Of every
unit member and will demand from
every member an earnest and serious
attitude towards his or her tasks"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
BY /. AMTER
(Conclusionl

What is to be done? The follow
ing steps have already been discussed
and agreed upon, and must be put
through with all energy:
/. A thorough Qualification In the
Party and all mass organizations on
the N. I. r. A. as an instrument
against the workers and for war.
2. Qualification on unemployment
and social insurance and the bring
ing about of a conviction not only
Of its need but that it can be realized
through struggle.
8. The application Of the principle
of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Upper Harlem
and section of the west side as the
concentration points. This concen-
tration to be made more specific
and to embrace small, well selected
area from which to begin and spread
out.
Neighborhood Work
(a) The leading comrades of the
City Council to be assigned to these
concentration points, to spend their
major time in the neighborhood with
the workers, finding out the irnrnedi-
ate issues and organizing and leading
the struggles.
(b) Comrades assigned by the two
sections are to work at the same
points. Thy should be comrades with
initiative, who should seek to come
into leadership through their activ-
ity.
The sections must cease giving Or
ders to the Unemployed Councils.
They must build the Party fractions
in each assembly and council and
bring forward the Party line and
proposals through the fractions.
4. Similarly in the other sections,
a few active comrades with initiative
are to be assigned, not as leaders but
to work among the unemployed.
Within two months in all sections
they shall have participated to such
a degree, built up such forces and
helped in such struggles, that cleo
lions can be held in every assembly
and council and the most militant
comrades be elected into leadership.
Whether Communists will be elected
into the leadership will depend on
whether they have proven through
the struggle that they have the con-
fidence of the workers.
One of the main tasks of the COM
rades will be to bring forward new
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
Speed-up Kills
Steel Workers
in Pest House
tBy a Steel Worker Corresponding


sPARRows POINT, Md-Whe-e
the sheet mill stands used to be
known as Pest House Woodie, They
used to send workers there who had
the dreaded smallpox, to die.
Today it is still a pest house, The
whole plant is filled with such tramps
and stools as the Corte, OBriens,
wilson's, Lewellyns, Knowles, Boil
eskes, Bucks, Schlimmer, Marie, Still
wells, Bars, BWisoni, Burger, Baker,
Northwoods, cops running all around
increasing speed-up and lay-off.
Proof of the pudding is in the eat
ing. Witness the lay-offs in the pipe
mill, shipyard, sheet mill, warehouse
and elsewhere.
How about those workers who have
been killed as a result Of speed-up,
such as Joe Black Of S. P, Oiun
Hearth, laborer; KczikoWiki, of High
land; Schriener, fabricating shop
worker, Otto B. Ucholtz of Dundalk,
shipyard pipefitter.
Those unsung martyrs have left
behind them wives and children who
must face privation in this crisis.
What have the A. A. officials done
about these conditions? Nothing, Of
course. They will not take any
chances of offending the company.
Fellow workers! Join the Steel
and Metal Workers industrial Union.
The only rank and file controlled
union in the steel industry. Patrick
Henry said, Give me liberty or give
me death" But if we remain sub
missive, wei not get liberty. we will
get death by speed-up or starvation
or both.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24

Excerpts from Unit Resolutions on
the Open Letter-New York District:
SECTION 6, SHOP UNIT Is:
q. We members OF Unit 16, Sec
ton 6, after reading and discussing
the Open Letter to the Party men,
hersllip adopted at the extraordinary
conference of the G. G. have clearly
understood the Importance of max
ing turn toward mass work.
%. For the last year We have
failed to orientate ourselves and bring
the face of the Party into our shop
struggle. Due to our Sectarian at
titude we have failed to develop and
draw new forces into our midst.
g. Although We were able to de-
velop and lead sharp struggle, like
many stcppages against reduction Of
wages in our shop, we have failed to
draw new blood into the Party. Our
meetings have until recently been
nothing but personal petty quarrels
TO the extent that for many weeks
we have failed have any political
and theoretical discussion.
a. Since the adoption of the Open
Letter our unit has greatly improved
its activity and corrected many of
our shortcomings. We have since
then conducted two successful strikes,
correcting our mistakes of the first
in the second. The workers in our
shop look upon us Party members
as their leaders. During our last
strike we were abe to formulate con-
crete demands. We were able to pre-
pare the workers during the three
from our strike to the other for a
united struggle. From an indifferent,
divided crew in an open shop, to
solid united one for the Industrial
Union, a union shop under the leader
ship OF the Shoe and Leather Work
ers Industrial Union.
SECTION 1, UNIT 13:
In order for our unit to make
the turn as expressed IN the Open
Letter of cur Central Committee in
its last Extraordinary Session held
in July, 1888, cur unit calls upon it's
membership to undertake and carry
out the following plan Of work dur
ing the next coming three months,
50 that our PaTty may be built into
mass Party carrying through its
revolutionary tasks in organizing the
masses Of workers in TIE US.A. for
revolutionary ACTON in leading the
workers in their class struggles:
Pan of Vc-,5 Tor the next three
monthc:
Il. At least one functoning Block
Committee to be organized.
g Two routes for the Daily
Wcrker with at least Is homes to each
route getyl,S The Cs-ly Worker.
. At l-3s5 so workers into the
Ui.e.:lr Dyed Council as functioning
ms-lcors c. TIE Unemployed Coun-
ell from OF concentration point
~, To lay the basis for the organ
izing and the establishment Of one
Bloc: Bulletin with 100 copies as a
n -ai,n1n.
= As a nli..iy.l l.--.--12 workers to
be rcc.u, ted fer too Party and the
greater r-rcent2te OF same to be
p-cl0tarian shop wc-!7srS. ...
10 Every Unit rlsmber, member
Ct the trade unions and belonging
to one mass organization and taking