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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
300 IN CLEVELAND
FOUNDRY STRIKE

CLEVELAND, o., June 12.-Three
hundred machine and foundry work
ers walked out on strike at the Ferro
Machine and Foundry Company when
the workers realized that the com
pany would not restore the 80 per
cent cut which they took on the pro-
mise that it would be returned in
three months.
The workers were indicted to &C
cept the cut by the bosses who
pleaded that it would help them to
remain in business. All the workers
were out except the manager and
the president. Following the cut, the
workers wages amounted to from 10
to Is cents an hour The top scale
was go cents.
The strikers tied up the plant as
a result Of the walk-out After hear
ing an organizer of the Trade Union
Unity League, a committee was
elected representing various depart
ments to confer with the boss. The
IWW's came around to confuse and
divide the workers but without sue
cess.
The boss, realizing the solidarity
and determination of the strikers to
fight for return of their wage cut,
delayed reply until tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
M'MAHON ACTS
WITH BOSSES OF
TEXTILE MILLS
y. S. Agent Shows
Owners How to Use
Labor Betrayer

WASHINGTON, June 12.-Textile
bosses have been convinced that Tho
mas F. Mcmahon, president of the
United Textile Workers of America.
and his official machine can admir-
ably supplement their machinery for
suppression of the textile workers.
This is brought about as a result
of the activities Of General Hugh
johnson, formerly of the scab-herd-
ing Moline Plow Company, who is
to be administrator of the industrial
control act, or the industrial re-
covery bill johnson arranged a
series Of conferences with representa-
tives Of cotton, wool. rayon, silk and
silk-dyeing employers and Nc
Mahon.
With prices rising and wages fall
ling in many cases to the vanishing
point the textile owners are alarmed
at the growing strike activity in wide
ly separated places. They fear this
which is in many places
now spontaneously may be crystal
lized into a powerful force. They
want to head it off. So johnson
commends Mcmahon as an agent of
the government to carry out the
Roosevelt program of trying to stifle
all working class activity.
Paves Way for Militia and Police.
From Maine to Alabama came the
mill owners. They have all had ex-
perience in smashing strikes. Their
chief weapons have been militia, po-
lice, thugs, private detectives, court
injunctions and jails. They are now
persuaded that they should utilize
the services Of McMahon & Co. to
try to prevent strikes and to place
themselves in the position of betray-
ers in case the strike comes anyway.
They don't need to organize COM
pany union when Mcmahon has such
a record of using the United as a
union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
Machine Under Fire at Engineers Convention

ard Trust Bank 1t has also been
shown by the conventions refusal to
accept the reports of Grand Chief
Johnston, Secretary Treasurer Cas-
sell and National Legislative Repre-
sentative Laughlin.
The committee TO investigate the
Standard Trust Bank is likely to play
key part in the present convention.
It consists Of F. w. Logan, H. A..
Madden, John MCGUIRE, j. T. Corbett
and Robert Sturgeon, all associated
with the anti-Johnston forces. Their
votes ranged from 531 to 47S (del-
egates recording votes for each divi-
sion they represent), as against a
next highest vote of $50 for the
Johnston machine man, G. G. Living
stone. The first three of the COM
mittee are former members of the
Committee of Eight elected by the
1927 convention, which exposed much
Of the graft and financial mismange-
ment and led to the ousting of Prem
ter and his associates.
Realizing that the opposition have
a majority, Johnston is playing
cunning game. He is yielding re-
peatedly on minor issues to avoid
test, and working for a compromise
and division of the spoils with some
Of the more corrupt opposition lead
ers. With their aid he has actually
turned his and Cassell's indictment
for robbing the Standard Trust Bank
into an administration victory.
Whitewash Vote by Trickery.
Johnston and Cassen, together
with C. Stirling Smith, the bank
president, were indicted by Grand
jury on the fifth day of the conven-
ton for "wilful misapplication" of
funds running into hundreds of
thousands of dollars. The admins
tration caucus Immediately decided to
introduce vote of confidence in
Johnston. and the opposition caucus
in last-minute session was tricked
into trying to beat the administra-
ton to it," 1t was actually the OPP
position that introduced the outrage
Gus vote of confidence in Johnston
(whom they had repeatedly denounc-
ed as a grafter) that was passed by
the convention! But it is noteworthy
that when Johnston was being clap
ped by delegates after this vote, the
rank and filters In the gallery pre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
ARREST 3 PICKETS
AT COMMODORE

NEW YORK.-Three strikers who
were picketing peacefully at the Hotel
Commodore, which Is on strike under
Ghe leadership of the Food Workers
industrial Union, were arrested Fri
day and charged with disorderly con-
duct. The cases are to be heard at
the 57th Street court this morning.
No reply has been received from
the Joint Distribution Committee,
Jewish relief agency, which is arrang-
ing a banquet at the hotel on
Wednesday night, to the information
furnished by the strike committee
that there is strike on at the hotel
The Strike Committee has requested
the Joint Distribution Committee not
to patronize the hotel.
A group of liberals, supposed anti
tascists and Socialists are also eX-
pected to be present. 1t will be inter
esting to note whether they will dare
walk past the picket line on Wednes-
day to participate in this banquet.
Meanwhile the Strike Committee is
preparing further activity in order to
strengthen the strike and bring it
to a successful termination. An affair
for the benefit of the strikers has
been organized for Saturday night,
June II, at the Julio Mella Club,
1913 5th Avenue, near 116th Street,
at 8 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
City, Club, Church
Denies Aid: Workers
Put Back Furniture

NEW YORK.-Although on the
lists of the Home Relief Bureau and
member of the Seymour Dramatic
Club and Saint Columbo Church,
Young, an Irish worker of 311 w.
26th St., could get no aid from any
Of these organizations and was evicted
last week.
Young had a dispossess notice for
three weeks, during which time he
asked for aid from these organiza-
lions without success. The Workers
Committee On Unemployment is To-
Gated nearby, but they also made no
effort to assist the worker.
When Young was evicted an "initi-
alive group" affiliated with the West
Side Unemployed Council rallied $50
workers on the block and held an
open-air meeting on the spot The
workers decided to send delegation
to Seymour Democratic Club for
rent.
Told by the returning delegation
that the club refused to pay rent, the
workers took things into their own
hands and put the furniture back.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
TENN. COAL co.
DEDUCTS JOBLESS
RELIEF FROM PAY
WorkersW Who Returned
Must Pay Back Relief
Given by Company

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June 12-
The Tennessee Coal and Iron Rail-
road Co. are deducting from the pay
of formerly jobless workers whom
they have rehired the few dollars of
relief given them during unemploy-
ment. The Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union is leading the work
ers in the demand that stop be
made to these deductions.
The T. C. I. system grants workers
a little relief while unemployed, but
takes it back from their meagre wages
week by week after they are rehired
This method ties the workers to
the company. The men who are re-
hired usually go back at lower wages,
% to 80 cents an hour.
The Steel and Metal Union and the
Unemployed Council of Birmingham
have issued a leaflet warning the
workers that the slight increases in
steel production and steel jobs are
not permanent but due to the pros
pect of sharp initiation and that
sharp slump is due. The demands
are for no deductions from pay enve-
lopes of re-employed workers for at
least 80 days, and for jobless insur-
ance at the expense of the employ
ers and government.
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HEAR PROTESTS
ON BLUM JUNE e

NEW YORK.-The State Parole
Board has announced that it will
hear a delegation elected to protest
the revocation of the parole of Leon
Blum and his return to jail for two
years because of his activity as secre-
tary of the Laundry Workers Indus
trial Union The delegation which
was elected at mass protest meeting
will be heard June 20.
This announcement follows the
granting of a new hearing to Leon
Blum and comes after protests were
made by numerous workers organiza-
tons to Governor Lehman and the
Parole Board condemning the rail-
reading of. Blum as frame-up Of
the Laundry Owners Association and
the Parole Board.
The delegation, headed by Jacques
Buitenkant, International Labor De-
Tense attorney, includes Henry Shep
ahard, Trade Union Unity League;
Louis Davidson Of the Cleaners and
Dyers Union; Herman Riengold
Douglas, and Samuel j. Berland Of
the Laundry Workers Industrial
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
PAINTERS VOTE
FOR SECRETARY

NEW YORK.-Frank Wedl has
been nominated by rank and file
members of Local 400 of the Brother
hood of Painters as their candidate
for Secretary of the District Council.
There are three other candidates in
the field for the same office, Philip
Zausner, under whose administration
more than 100000 dollars was mis-
handled; Baletzky, formerly a zaus-
ner man, a painter politician; the
third is Collins, ultra reactionary
Tammany politician.
The rank and file election cam
paign committee urges every painter
interested in having an organization
that serves the interests of the men,
bership to vote and agitate for Wedl's
election. "Wedl means getting rid
Of a corrupt machine in the council,
Vote for Wedl and elect council dele
gates in the locals to fight for the
rank and file program" the commit
tee urges.
Rank and File Program
The program includes strict en-
forcement of union wages, rank and
file leadership. unemployment insur-
snce and relief, exemption of the I'M
employed from dues, no expulsion or
Suspension for nom payment of dues,
Reinstatement OF 26 expelled leaders
of the rank and file, establishment
of an unemployment bureau to be
controlled by the rank and file.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
Labor Department is
Behind Deportation of
Seamen says |. L. ID.

NEW YORK.-D. w. Mccormack,
Commissioner of General of Immigra-
ton, in letter to the International
Labor Defense, attempted to deny the
accusations of the I. L. D. that the
Department of Labor is behind the
deportation of seamen arrested at
the Jane Street "Y" mission.
MacCormank lets the cat out of
the bag" stated the I. L. D., when in
the same letter he says that ut is its
Qabor Department. clear duty to
enforce them deportation laws, and
this duty is and will be continued to
be performed
Work With Police
In reply the I. L. D. stated that
1T is clear that the immigration ser
vice is working hand in hand with
the police and is an instrument of
terrorization of militant workers
fighting for their right to live"
They demanded the release of all
militant workers now being held for
deportation and an end to the use
of this weapon against the working
class.
The 7. L. D. called upon its mem
bership and upon all workers and
their organizations, TO send demands
to Frances Perkins, Secretary Of
Labor, in Washington, D. c. for the
immediate release of the seamen
arrested at the Jane Street "Y''
mission.
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served a stony and ominous silence,
Job Seekers Want Promotion
Prominent candidates and possible
candidates for Grand Chief and
other leading offices include H. B.
Ward, $1,000 general chairman on
the Canadian National and boon
friend and crony of the Canadian
capitalist politicians Carl Rudolph,
$4,000 editor Of the Journal, former
stock salesman for Warren Stone and
loyal henehman Of the Stone, Prem
ter and Johnston machines until he
became more ambitious; John Me-
CURE, $4,000 general chairman on
the Chicago & Northwestern; and
w. Register, salaried head of the Ma
tional Pension movement.
Such high-paid officials as these,
who have sacrificed nothing, are
trying to promote themselves and take
advantage of an honest rank and file
uprising, for which many working
"hoggers" have sacrificed time, eff
fort and money, and have been ex-
PEELED from the Brotherhood for their
pains. Such elements, and all the
job-seekers who run along with them,
are trying to pull the wool over the
eyes of the honest rank and filters,
whom they will ditch as soon as they
have climbed to office on their Shout
ders.
1t is this condition that Is creating
growing sympathy among the rank
and file for the program of the
Brotherhoods Unity Movement, which
has been circulated among the del
egates. This calls for a thorough
and immediate housekeeping, allow
ing none of the Grand office gang
to slip into office as Johnston did in
1927; for concentration on enactment
of progressive legislation and resis-
lance to any division of the opposi-
ton by job scramble for repeal of
Section IS and all other laws that
give cSar's powers to the Grand Of
flee; for initiative referendum and
recall and other measures to insure
rank and file control; for complete
cutting loose from all capitalist bust
ness; for united pension movement;
and above all, for a clear-cut labor
program on wages violation of agree
ments, the coming negotiations, con-
solicitations, employment, h r.t err
hours ete.
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N. Y. TRADE UNION NEWS
FUR STRIKERS
TO DEMONSTRATE

NEW YORK. first organized
demonstration of striking furriers,
supported by other labor organiza-
tons, will take place Wednesday at
7 am. in the fur market. A number
of unions, particularly those affili-
ated with the Trade Union Unity
League have informed the strike COM
mittee of their intention to partici-
pate in this demonstration. YeSter-
day, all striking shops were picketed
and the few scabs who attempted to
get into these shops were stopped by
pickets.
/. w. o. Gives Sandwiches.
The sentiment among the striking
furriers is splendid. The City Com
mittee of the International Workers
Order, in statement to the Indus
trial Union promises hereafter to sup
ply the striking furriers with sand
witches and has also undertaken to
present a special program on We'd
nesday at 2 pm. at the auditorium
of the industrial Union in line with
their policy of helping militant unions
in their struggles. 1t is also part of
their campaign to establish a Morris
LANCER Branch in memory Of Morris
LANCER, who was killed by gunner
of the j. Hollander Co.
Furriers Called to Sign Affidavits.
A special committee organized by
the fur trade board is now in charge
e,
workers to be presented to the Su-
preme Court, in which the furriers
disclaim any utilization to the A, F.
of L. and insist that the Needle
T d Workers Industrial
Union is the only organization which
may speak in their name. All fur
riers, employed and unemployed, are
urged to go TO the third floor of the
industrial Union to sign this affida-
Wit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
Discuss Recovery"
Bill at Mass Meet

NEW YORK.-Stating that "the
National Industrial Recovery Bill is
becoming a serious problem for all of
The unions and that "it is of the
utmost Importance for us to have
clear understanding of its meaning"
the Joint Committee of Left Wing
Groups of the A. F. of L. and IN
dependent Unions have called mass
meeting to discuss the question. 1t
will be held Wednesday, June II,
at irving Plaza. Irving Place and 18th
Street at pm.
Discuss Furrier Situation
The meeting will also take up the
situation in the F'urriers Union, which
has been the target Of attack by the
A. F. of L. and the bosses in their
campaign ts smash militant unions.
Ben Gold, secretary of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union,
will present facts on the role of the
leadership of the A. F. of L. officials
in the attack
Organized and unorganized workers
Of every trade and afhliation and
union are invited to the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
By w. C. INCLUSION.

The Philadelphia and Machinery
Movers, Local 161, international As
ISOLATION of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers. we're dissatisfied with
the leadership of their local The
business agent and international rep
resentative ran the union to suit
themselves. The president of Local
16l refused to take action on COM
plants. Despite unemployment the
exorbitant dues of $6.25 per month
remained the same. Payments we're
acknowledged without stamps being
affixed in the books. Members we're
suspended without regard to consti-
tutional provisions and allowed TO
work only on permit cards. The
union itself was fast becoming only
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ton leaders, and rank and file ele-
ments-has been evident in nearly
every action to date of the present
convention.
Fight TO Dust Johnston
Right on the first day, rank and
file delegates and sympathisers ar
rived dead set land many of them
instructed by their divisions) to throw
Grand Chief Johnston and his as
sistants out of the chair and elect
chairman from the floor job
seekers hoping to ride into office on
the backs of the rank and file i'm
mediately tried to get this idea out
of the delegates heads in the opposi-
ton caucus. But they had not yet
succeeded in saddling the newly ar
rived opposition delegates and were
overruled
When the question came to vote,
however, on the convention floor.
the job-seekers had introduced suf-
ficient encouragement to enable
Johnston, by last minute personal
attack on w. Eaton, the mover of
the resolution, to secure its rejection
by narrow majority. The vote was
in no sense a test vote, however, since
the machine did the counting and
disregarded demands for a record
vote (Which would have forced pro-
administration delegates to vote in
accordance with their instructions) &.
To Probe Bsnk Venture
The strength Of the opposition was
shown Immediately after this in the
seating of John Dugan, w. Mason
and other opposition delegates, al
though Johnston had used every pos
sible trick in the grouping of divi-
eions to keep them from being seated.
Rank and file sentiment was also
shown in the denial of a seat to l.. G.
Griffing, first vice president, who was
removed from office with Premier
and the rest in 1927 for their finan-
cial actions. Another test was the
vote for the appointment of several
delegates on the Press Committee, in
addition to the two Grand Officers
placed on it by Johnston
The biggest test of anti admins
tration sentiment so far, however,
has been the election of committee
Of opposition delegates to investigate
the relations of Brotherhood officials
to the unsavory failure of the Stand
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
NEW BEDFORD, June H.
Night spinners in the Hathaway
mill won their demand for one
hour off for lunch today.
A short one hour strike in the
Gosnold mills took place for a
higher price on new stock that
they were running. A united front
committee was formed and all
looms were stopped. The over
seer was forced to promise high
err rate for work.
NEW BEDFORD Mass, June IA
Over 400 girls and boys in one of the
largest pajama sweatshops in the
country walked out on strike last
week against their miserable pay OF
$3.50 a week and intolerable work
ing conditions The firm is owned
by Morris and Marcus Cohen Bros
of New York
The strike was the result of the
bitter resentment felt by the work
ers when, they. read an article in a
Boston paper, quoting Samuel Sam
uels factory manager as saying that
the girls are dumb bells to worl;
under such conditions" The walk
out occurred the following day.
Batty of the United Textile Work
ers appeared on the scene soon af-
ter the walk out and advised the
workers to remain at home while he
negotiated with the bosses and May
or Ashley. He also told them to wait
for the Recovery Bill to pass and
everything will be alright. But
Batty is well-mown in this region as
a friend of the bosses and the work
ers, refusing to take his advice, pick
eted the mill,
When the National Textile Work
ers Union organizer came to the
mill the workers who were listening
to Batty left him and came to the
N. T. w. meeting. Batty drove OFF
in his car.
N. r. W. Issues LeafIet.
The National Textile Workers
Union issued a leaflet to the strik-
ers which was distributed by the
strikers themselves warning against
these pretended friends" of labor.
The leaflet pointed out the past
treacherous record of Batty and
Binns and called upon the workers
to organize the strike if they are to
be successful. The strikers discussed
the proposals in the leaflet for or
ganizing the strike, but after a long
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-13
Now Tell College
Grads Unemployment
Is Good for You"

Commencement over, thousands of
college graduates have been forced
into the ranks of the unemployed
within the last two weeks. While cap
italist educators and politicians at
tempt to console them with such
statements as: Unemployment is
good for you. If you survive this, you
have the chance of being a great
leader many of them will go back
home and starve with their families
or turn to the forced labor camps.
Tonight the National Alumni Asso-
citation will hold a symposium on
After Graduation - WHAT" at the
Washington Irving High School at
8 pm.
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Nv r. v. STRAN

CLEVELAND, Drank and file
revolt is being smothered by job
seekers at the convention OF the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin-
GERS, now in session at Cleveland
In spite of the careful Manipulating
of delegates by the Grand Office, an
organized opposition movement is in
evidence strong enough to carry out
the overwhelming will Of the MEM
bership for a thorough housecleaning
for complete abandonment of all
financial ventures and for curbing
the dictatorial powers of the Grand
Office. The opposition has separate
headquarters at the Auditorium
Hotel. issues it's own literature and
III repeated votes has shown that it
has the support of a majority OF the
delegates. Many Experimentation
delegates are forced in recorded votes
to vote against the Grand Office on
account OF binding instructions from
the rank and file in their divisions.
Workers Demand Action
Organized rank and file pressure is
further shown in crowded gallery
of rank and filters, who have paid
their own expenses to Cleveland. AL
most to a man the rank and filters in
the gallery are against the admins
tration. Their repeated cheers, booes
and demonstrations have prevented
many weakened oppositionists
among the delegates from submitting
to the Johnston steam-roller.
Try to Hold Back Movement
But while the rank and file are In
militant mood, they are being re-
peatedly confused and divided by the
rival cliques Of job-holders and job
seekers (rnany Of them sneared with
the same brush as the present Grand
Office gang who are seeking to con-
troll the opposition movement.
Th.ee oily politicians are dead
scared that the opposition may get
out of hand" They want them to be
just radical enough to throw out
some Of the old gang to make vacan-
cies for themselves; but at the same
time they want them to be fools
enough to stop there and leave free
rein to new bunch of grafters to
carry on the same old game.
The play of the three forces
Johnston gang, self-seeking opposi-