The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-19

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HAT they picked the wrong card.
Already the steel workers begin 10
understand that NRA means lower
pay checks and higher prices for
bread and pork chops. The workers
are beginning to see that any one who
supports the MIRA supports the Beth
lehem Steel Co. in its wage cutting,
s9aed-up drive.
In the galvanizing department of
he sheet mill of the Bethlehem Steel
Mil here, the young Boss O'Brien
told the assembled workers that they
viii have to get the same tonnage
out III the reduced hour week. He
cautioned the men that the company
has hired more stool-pigeons, detec-
lives and policemen 80 guard over
the workers" He told the the men
thst they had better watch their step,
c+'>a~Tise someone else will get their
Jobs.
the Black Plate department of
the Tin Mill the workers got 35c
s an hour on the 55-hour week. Their
hours have been cut to 40 hours at
the same rate Of pay 35c an hour.
This makes $14 week. OF this
money, $3.50 goes every week for car
fare. 25c a week is deducted from the
paw for the sick relief plan robbery"
and about SOC to 75c a week goes for
working gloves and other little neces-
sites Thew actually have left about
$40 or Sill Tor food, rent and clothes,
When the workers asked for 10c
more per hour, the superintendent
mindful of his masters in Wall Street,
tod them in a cunning manner. "The
PeItblehcm Steel cannot raise wares
he~7use 81 world be a viclat on of tha
Me-" In other words the company
s>'nr'ts that NRA stands for the en-
sle.in" of the workers.
In the blast furnace the workers
were cut to hours with no increase
PEI hour in wages
Al over the plant, the company
tried to put over the 10-hour day, A
eIsv week. but the men resisted it and
ccmnel,ed the company to agree on
~ "-'oour day regardless of what
ffa N0A says.
~7or~ dspartmentS that have
co1s on the 8-hour day, where the
r,cn Wort on the tonnage basis Csheet
reill opener floor also tin mild, either
81 workers punch their cards or the
boss punches their card after hours
and then the wo, Gers go back and
Finish IN their work after they punch
TIE card.
Under MA as result of the
Shorter week without increase in
'r'~ss. the workers are getting a cut
in ges from 95 per cent to 40 per
CT
Accidents and deaths increase no
ticeably BLACK, Kozikowsky) as re-
sui of the vicious speed-up system
under MIRA.
Lower uay checks and rising cost of
living is MIRA. In a Kipliuger Wash
: ingtcn Letter circulated privately to
business executives August it is
sisted: "Rsi5ing Of prices is an in
herent purpose of the scheme" and
in or one Of their letters they
state '-sbor department influence, on
many occasions in future, is quite
act to be against labor and strikes
II it appears that labor is n1iSbehav-
ing"
This is what MIRA means. The A.
T. Of L. leaders are proud policemen
for NRA. MFR. Sause claimed in his
Sparrows Point speech he is opposed
to strikes, but he is not opposed to
starvation of the workers under MIRA.
Only the militant Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union led by
honest rank and file has the correct
program that means victory for the
workers in their struggle against
worsening conditions. All workers Of