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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
S25 Per Day Men, Now
Get 81 Under the Code
(By a Worker Correspondent)

Wy NoIher NOIIespOnueHIJ
CLEVELAND, O.-The Mira, the
Roosevelt Slavery Act, has been in
stalled in the Otis Steel plant. This
means increased profits for the
bosses, lowered production cost,
more speed-up on us workers, at a
reduced pay. We have the S-hour
day, 5 day week. All labor gets 40c
per hour no more nor less.
Roller men were paid from SIS to
$50 per day, under the Roosevelt act,
and speed-up, they cannot knock out
ST per day. Heater men used to
earn SIS to $40 per day under the
Roosevelt plan, the maximum is 81
per day. First Catcher, and so on,
used to make 1914 dollars per day
today all that can be made is $3.50
So per day. Open healing furnace
made S12 per day, today all that can
be made is between $1.50-S4 per day.
Pickel Department were paid be-
fore the Roosevelt days, $40 to S12
per day; under tn Roosevelt plan
they can only make from $3.50 to
So per day. In this department the
company does the most stealing, be-
fore they were able to have a check
up. Today there is no check-up, and
we have to take just what the COM
pany gives us. Two departments
have sent grievance committees to
the bosses, with no results. We are
now getting committees formed in
every department. Then if we don't
get any action, all of the workers
will come out on strike, because the
workers cannot stand the slave con-
ditions in the shops today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15

a group"
AS result of their investigation
of farm clashes at LIE Mars, Iowa,
where martial law was declared aft
er farmers dragged a judge from
his court, the committee reports:
Many Foreclosures
"In early 1882 and 1888 foreclos-
ures were extremely common and
worked great hardships. The Farm
Holiday Association, in the period
before the declaration of martial
law, prevented a great many fore
closures through the action of de-
tense councils.
"The militancy of the farmers
led to the passage of a law provid-
ing for moratorium on foreclos-
ures until 1884. Nevertheless, fore
closures continued to be common.
"Judge C. C. Bradley Of LIE Mars
was one Of the judges who refused
to conform to the moratorium law.
He publicly announced that he was
not in favor of the law, and he con-
tinued to sign papers for foreclos-
ures. His attitude aroused the in
dignation of the farmers, and a
group Of them went to him to pro-
test. He provoked this group by his
assertive manner and by proclaim
ing, This is my court Out of this
incident rose the demonstration
against Judge Bradley, which in
turn provided the excuse for mar
tial law.
Try to Disrupt Farmers
"We believe that the declaring Of
martial law in Plymouth County
was contrary to the constitution of
Iowa, and that the presence Of the
National Guard was not necessary
to maintain order. The real reason
for the declaration of martial law
was the desire on the part Of the
banks and insurance companies to
cripple the farmers organization.
"The National Guard established
virtual reign of terror. Houses
were violently entered and ransack-
ed, telephones were torn out, women
and children were threatened. The
men taken by the National Guard
were imprisoned in barn formerly
used by goats. Here they were held,
some Of them for IL or IA days.
"The men finally held for trial
were urged to plead guilty and were
promised suspended sentences If
they did so. These suspended SEN
fences are now hanging over the
heads of several leaders and are be-
ing used to prevent them from ac-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
This Raise Turns Out
To Be An Actual Cut
RI n Worker CORRESPONDENT

BIZ o. Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO, Ill.--If our company,
the Container Corporation, fully
complies with the wishes CT our
President, Mr.. Roosevelt, I, instead of
getting a raise in salary, would be
getting cut.
My salary now, including the 10
per cent raise that was effective Sun
day, July is, amounts to $1,000. For
this sum I work Z days a week, 8
hours q day, at the rate Of 1854 cents
per hour. The company has offered
me, through our negotiating commit
tee, SO cents an hour. At 40 hours
per week my income would be $40
per week, which would be cut of 2
cents a week.
As we all know, after the shorter
week and higher hourly scales are
paid, the cost of living is going to
increase more than IS per cent, and,
if I know how to figure, that is all
the raise I will receive at so cents
per hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
WOMEN MILITANT
In PENN. STRIKE
(By a Woman Worker Corresp.)

10Y d w UIldH w liner SVIICSp-J
COVERDALE, Pa.-Here's a mes
sage to the wives and daughters and
sweethearts of the miners here in
Pennsylvania. Already the takers
realize how we more and more, day
by day, stand in the way of the sell
out. You can see in all the papers:
The women are militant. We are
ready to fight, and this is not the
first time the women in Pennsyl-
vania have been in the picket line
with their men. We have faced po-
lice dogs and machine guns. We
had education in this struggle.
Now we hear on all sides: Where
is the National Miners Union? What
is the policy Of the National Miners
Union?
Write it in the Daily so the strik-
ers and their women can see, that
we rank and file members of the
National Miners Union are the Ma
tional Miners Union. Organize rank
and file strike committees, with
Women and Youth on these COM
mittees. Organize women's auxil-
iaries. Comrades in the mining
fields we have had enough expert
ence. We know that where we are
organized in rank and file strike
committees, we will not be sold out.
Remember that our leaders have
been sent to Jail for not selling as
out, and the takers who sold MS
out time and again have been sent
to Washington on the government.
Why has Pagan run away from
the Terminal Mines to Harrisburg?
To ask for more troops to break the
strike that he could not stop. Or
ganize committees and march to the
welfare and courthouse to demand
full relief for the strikers. Demand
that these fakirs get relief for us.
Show them up.
Women, it is not enough that we
militantly fight on the picket line,
We must organize. Organize
committee for the distribution of
workers papers so we know what
is going on in other mines. Start
little groups of five to get the Daily
Worker. Read it every day. Pass
it along.
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were closed.
In the wee hours of Wednesday
morning two thousand strikers
marched and pulled the Hutchinson
Mine of the w. G. Company, although
surrounded by thousands Of acres of
company property. That was no bar
rier to that militant body. The fol-
lowing morning the mines of the
Ocean Coal Company were struck.
Truce has been declared by Lewis
&C. Company with the coal operators,
and no gains won--a striking coal
field with strike-breaking leader.
1t is Sunday. Meetings are being
held throughout the entire area as
to whether to 60 back to work or
not--heated arguments-aghts and
near-riots are the order of the day.
I attended a meeting in Westmore-
land County at which some five hun
bred miners were assembled. A
group of young workers distribu5-
ing leaflets of the National Miners
Union and the Daily Worker are or
dered off the grounds.
But the strikers swarm in droves
across the street for them. Here and
there groups are reading and discus
sing the leaflet. At one end Of the
field very heated argument is tax
ing place in which some Is miners
are involved U.MW.A. ofdcialdom
is the target for attack. Several
young miners are trying to convince
an old timer that the National Min
ers' Union is the only miners union.
The meeting is about to begin. The
hall Is packed. Young miners are in
the majority, not only here but also
on the picket lines. The meeting Is
opened. A letter signed by John l..
Lewis is telling the men to go back
to work. Immediately yells Of mo"
echo through the place. Nothing
can be done. since the men want to
continue the strike. Another
maneuver is used. The secretary
gets up and says that he received
q letter from Washington with in
structions to forward the names of
those men who do not want to go
back to work. Another vote is taken,
from which 1t can be seen that a
small minority wants to go back to
work, while the majority does not
vote because Of the lack Of militant
leadership. The men continue to
growl and argue over the latest SELL
out.
And long into the night In the min
ing towns groups of miners on the
streets talk of what they are going
to do in the morning, work or strike.
But 1t is not over Monday morn
ing several large mines of the Pitts
burgh Coal Company again go out
on strike, demanding checkweigh-
men, and the battle continues, despite
the strike breaking moves Of the
Lewis machine. The coke region is
still out solid.
The miners OF Western Pennsyl-
vania are in revolt. The battle is
against the coal operators and the
Lewis machine.
II only the National Miners Union,
the Progressive Miners of America,
and the rank and file controlled To-
calls Of the U.M.W.A. could be uni
ned. the miners would. again march
to victory
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
OUT in GEN'L
STRIKE OF SHOE,
SLIPPER T0ILERS

NEW YORK.-Nearly 5000 shoe,
clipper and stitch-down workers are
out on strike to establish union con-
ditions and defeat the new attacks
on their conditions resulting from
the code which the boot and shoe
bosses propose for the industry. The
strike is led by the Shoe and Leather
Workers Industrial Union. Accord
ing to the strike committee, % shops
are out, including 9 Board of Trade
shops, 80 slipper shops and A stitch
down shops. Since the strike was
called last week % shoe shops have
settled with the union on the basis
of full union recognition, the 40-hour
week and a 30 per cent increase in
pay. All demands have been met by
the settled shops.
The Shoe and Leather Workers
Industrial Union took prompt action
yesterday, on hearing that Chas. w.
Woods, notorious government strike
breaker in the shoe strike Of 1929,
was in town and wired to Frances
Perkins, Secretary OF Labor, demand
ing that he be ordered to leave the
city II his mission was ito break the
present shoe strike. A wire received
today from the Labor Department
reports that Woods was in the city
to see David Dubinsky. head OF the
international Ladies Garment Work
ers' Union. where a dress strike is
looming, and will leave for Massa-
chusetts Immediately.
The shoe strike is being waged to
defeat the manufacturers shoe code,
which calls for STA cents an hour
for skilled workers and even less for
the unskilled workers. The union is
fighting for 81 an hour for skilled
workers, go cents for the semi-skilled
and 45 cents an hour for unskilled
workers.
The spirit Of the strikers is high
and picket lines are firm. Thirty
five hundred new workers have
signed up with the union since the
strike started. This week it is ex-
pected settlements will be made with
several slipper shops.
Strikers are being called to mass
meeting on Thursday. The meeting
hall has not yet been announced.
An important strike meeting OF
slipper workers will be held today at
Manhattan Lyceum at 1880 pm. All
strikers are expected to be present.
Strike meetings Of shoe and stitch
down workers are being held at
Brownsville Labor Lyceurn, $50 Bridge
ST., Brooklyn, Stuyvesant Casino, r.
wing Plaza halls and union head
quarters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
5 Dye House Plants
in Boston Settle
Victory Is Incentivesto
Shops Still Out

BOSTON, Mass, August 1.-THE
dye house workers, who for the past
few weeks have been conducting a
militant strike for wage increases
and for recognition of the DYE
Workers Industrial Union, won a
tremendous victory when five of the
largest dye houses signed an agree
ment with the union granting all
demands, including a 20 per cent in
crease in wages and recognition of
the union. The settlement involves
approximately 500 workers.
The Dorchester, Beacon, Troy.
Cabot and South Side Dye Houses
have settled. All the workers of
these dye houses Immediately con-
tributed 10 per cent of their salary
to the workers of the Boston, Ar
lington, and North Shore plants,
who are still out. The strike fur
Their consolidated the Dye Workers
Industrial Union and lays Q bass for
organization Of the dye workers n
the retail houses of Boston md Vi
cinity.
The dye houses that sss stju on
strike attempted to start work b.
sending out scabs to pick up work
from the tailors. Previous to this,
the tailors had shown their soli-
darity with the strikers and had
passed resolution against giving
work to any shops on strike. The
tailors refused to give any work to
these scab drivers, who were forced
to return with empty trucks to the
dye houses. Picketing Of those shops
still on strike continued with more
vigor and determination than ever
before.
At the North Shore Dye Houss
sna IS vera stoned and forced b
abandon the idea of entering the
factory. The stool pigeons Of the
Scott Detective Agency hired to
break the strike have been thor
oughly attended to by the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
By MORRIS KAMMAN

NEW YORK-A Seamen's Indus
trial Code, prepared by the Marine
Workers industrial Union, which
will be presented to the N. I. R. A.
Executive Committee at Washington,
D. c., with thousands of seamen's
signatures demanding its adoption,
calls for working conditions on ships
drastically different from those
which ship owners are trying to i'm
pose on American seanen through
the N. R. A.
The Code which was adopted at
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union National Convention, held in
New York City recently, calls for a
minimum wage for Able Seamen Of
$62.50 per month, while under the
N. r. A. a much lower wage level
is possible. The code also de-
msnds an 8-hour day, A hours per
week, for monthly adjustment Of
pey-rise, so that there will be no
lowering of the living standards of
seamen due to initiation" While the
N. R. A. makes no provision for un-
employed workers, the Seamen's Code
demands government unemployment
insurance.
Although preparing TO present their
Code to the N. I. r. A. Executive
Committee. the seamen look not to
Washington to help them gain bet
ter working conditions, but to the
Trade Union Conference for United
Action to be held in Cleveland, Ohio,
Aug. Is and 81. The Marine Work
ers Industrial Union has endorsed
the Cleveland Conference, and the
American seamen, holding key in
dustrial position, will be amply rep
resented at this conference, which at
its two-day session will formulate
plans for modifying all American
workers to fight the Slave N. r. A.
Bill and for forcing the adoption of
real working-class codes, as exem-
plified by the one made public by
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union.
The Seamens Code, covering deck,
engine. stewards departments and
licensed officers, adopted by marine
workers in opposition to reactionary
leaders Of the International Sea-
mems Union. who are whooping it
up for the N. r. A., reads in part
as follows:
THAT the industry and the gov
eminent assume the responsibility for
one fixed weekly and yearly wage
for every worker in the industry, this
to be guaranteed by providing that
no worker shall receive less than 40
weeks work per year."
The Code demands that on all YES
sells carrying dangerous, inflammable
and obnoxious cargoes, wages of the
seamen shall be increased 20 per cent
above the demanded minimum.
Where industry does not provide
a worker with the minimum earn
ing, the government shall pay Gov
eminent Unemployment Insurance
equal to the minimum. To make
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
Wave of Organization Sweeps Steel
Workers; Prepare for Big Struggles

distributed in the steel towns by
these unions which for years have
sabotaged all attempts at mass or
ganization of steel workers and
which, like the A. A, betrayed the
1919 strike. These leaflets all read
alike. In fact, to use phrase made
famous by the late President Wilson,
they are "identic notes" issued to
steel workers in the name of Roose-
welt and the A. f. of L. union Off
cials supporting him. These leaf
let's contein no program of action
beyond the formal appeal for organ
izaticn. They are intended mainly
to glorify Roosevelt and the indus
trial slave pact. The introduction to
the lesflet sent out by the district
office of the I. A, M. reads:
ITO the machinists and machine
shop workers of the Pittsburgh dis
trict:
Under the Industrial Recovery
Act. machinists and machine shop
workers are challenged by the presi-
dent Of the United States to become
members of labor organization"
'fWilI you be Stacker, or are you
going to help him bring back the
economic security of mechinists and
machine shop workers? You can do
this by complying with Section 7 Of
the Industrial Recovery Act" (Origi-
nal emphasis.)
The leaflet then quotes Section 7
of the Act and concludes: Your en-
ployer cannot discharge you for join
ing the International Association Of
Machinists. So act without delay and
receive your full share under the In
dustrial Recovery Act"
The AA leaflet is addressed ito the
steel workers and of course tells
them they cannot be discharged for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15

union of some 800 members with
whom negotiations are now going
on toward amelgamation with the
SMWIU.
Organization has been established
in Braddock and North Braddoclls,
Greensburg,N Corapolis, McKees
Rocks and McKeesport.
Preparations are being speeded up
for the Pittsburgh district confer
ence on August 20. This is to be
strictly union gathering composed
of delegates elected and credentialed
by the local and mill organizations.
Special attention is beng paid to
the election of representative Negro
delegates.
The change in the composition of
the union membership reported to
recent meeting of the District Com
mittee is encouraging since some
thing like 80 per cent of the new
members are employed, showing that
more effective work is being done
inside the plants. The district con-
ference is to plan better concentra-
ton and speed-up the work in such
big independent mills as that of
Jones and Laughlin on the South
Side in Pittsburgh proper.
Bosses Form Company Union
The Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union by no means has the
field to itself. Steel companies as
in McKees Rocks, Corapolis, ETC., are
forming company unions disguised
as Good Will" organizations, most
of them having a regular system of
dues payments and some insurance
feature. There is bullying and CO.
ercion by superintendent and fore
men to coerce workers into the COM
pany unions but there is no single
instance of the machinery of the
MIRA being used to prohibit this.
Workers on the other hand are re-
fusing to endorse company plans as
at McKees Rocks where only some
80 out of about 900 men voted in
the company election.
More dangerous than the company
union attempts because they appear
in the guise of open support of the
MIRA and the Roosevelt administra-
ton, picturing it as a savior of steel
workers, is the campaign conducted
by the recently moribund Analga-
mated Association of Steel, Iron and
Tin Workers, affiliated to the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, the Inter-
national Association of Machinists,
and other A. F. of l.. organizations.
Thousands of leaflets have been
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15

P0oO JSals
The investigation committee, sent
out under the auspices of the Ma
tional Committee for the Defense of
Political Prisoners, includes Gran
vile Hicks, professor at Rensselaer,
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y,
critic and writer; Jack West, farm
err and farm expert; Obed Brooks,
magazine writer and critic; and
Robert Morss Lovett, professor at
the University of Chicago and edi-
tor of the Neio Republic. The COM
mittee interviewed farmers thru
out the regions in Iowa and Neb-
raska where clashes with troopers
took place during the winter.
In a report on their hearings,
conferences, and talks with farm
ers, national guardsmen, local news
paper editors and Farm Holiday
Association officials, the investiga-
tors submit the following conclu-
sions:
Indignant Against Bankers
81. Every farmer we talked to
informed US that he was not receiv-
ing cost production for corn, pigs,
milk, small grain, or any other
produce. Many farmers pointed out
that they have gained little or moth
ing from the recent advances in the
price of corn and wheat, though
they have already felt that rise in
the cost Of living.
2. "The great majority of farm
ers are extremely indignant and
most of them direct their indigna-
ton against the bankers and other
big business men. All feel that
situation may develop which will
call for desperate measures.
8. "Most farmers view President
Roosevelt with skepticism. They
are talking of taking action.
4. Farmers in the Farm Holt
day Association, while in favor Of
spirited, fighting farm union, ques-
ton both the wisdom and the cour-
age Of the leadership.
Cooperate With Workers
5. farmers have begun to rec
ognize their community of interest
with the city workers, and in many
instances, as in Lincoln, Neb., have
begun to cooperate with them in
the struggle for relief.
6. Fascist tendencies have ap-
peared among certain classes Of
farmers and organizations have
arisen to take advantage Of this
sentiment. The Modern Seventy
Sixes,' a midwest organization led
by Lester Barlow, seems to be such
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
% Strikes for More
Pay Won Last Month
by Alteration Painters

NEW YORK.-That % strikes
were won by the Alteration Painters
Union for an increase in pay dur
ing the past month, was the report
made at the General Executive
Board meeting of the union held
Friday.
Plans were discussed for a gen.
eral drive in the Flatbush, Brooklyn
section, to begin the first week in
September to force wage increases.
Three Brooklyn locals are raising
funds to carry on the work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
Ask NRA to Break
Movie Strike

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. a.
Arbitration of the MIRA is sought
to break the strike of the motion
picture technicians. A telegram
was sent to Washington by the Fed
eral Labor Commission conciliators
to the NRA Labor Board, asking
them to order the strikers back to
work, pending final settlement.
The strikers attorney, the lib
eral Judge Ben Lindsey agreed TO
the return if decided - ~ ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15

Write to the Daily Worker about
every event Of interest to workers
which occurs In your factory, trade
union, workers organization or To-
cality. BECOME A WORKER COR
RESPONDENTS
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NRA IMPOSES HIGHER LIVING.
COSTS ON INCONSISTENCIES:
INVESTIGATING GROUP FINDS
Committee Reports on Foreclosures Terror
Used Against Militant Farmers, After
Extensive Survey

NEW YORK August N-Famers throughout expert
encng further hardhp from the increased
ona Act desperation
on according
vigatng the which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
Speed Preparations for Aug. 20 Conference
in Pittsburgh District Of Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union
BY BILL DUNE.

PITTSBURGH lathe organizing activity
especially the Pittsburgh
having
with the Steel Metal Industrial Unonhie
the organization
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15

where miners blood was spilled,
marched on the mines in Westmore-
land County, and closed them. The
Pittsburgh Coal, the Y. g. o. Coal
and the Westmoreland Coal mines
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Do YOUR part to establish the
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Step by Step, the Miners
Resisted Leevis's Sellont
Miner Writes Graphic Description of Attitude
of the Miners in Their Recent Struggle
FROM A WORKER CORRESPONDENT.

Fayette County coaifeld where two
recognition UMWA in the domain of the
Star Junction.