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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19

hood was not worth much. Still they
had been promised, and now they
want delivery.
Looking for Their 10 Per Cent
Have you ever seen a dog looking
at bone with both hunger and de-
termination in his eye? And then
someone tried to take the bone away?
Well. that's how the I. r. T. workers
are looking at the promised return OF
their 10 per cent.
Increasing Prohts-Wages Not
Restored
The newspapers are publishing
statements of increased profits on all
l. r. IT. lines. Murray, the receiver,
has openly boasted Of increased rev.
enues. At the same time there are
many articles in papers about Presi-
dent Roosevelt requesting increased
wages for workers of all industries.
The I. r. T. men believe the in
creased profit statements. They rec
ognize them as forced truths. They
are, however, skeptical about the
higher wages for all industries. AS
one worker 1 know put it: 81 haven't
seen anything YETI and added as an
afterthought: "It looks to me as
though well have to go out after
those higher wages ourselves"
Feeling Is Stroag
The feeling among the workers is
very strong on this question of basic
rates being restored. The continued
increase in prices of food and other
necessities of life are reducing our
wages to laughing stock. 1t has
got to the point where slow starva-
ton threatens. All the men feel
this and are every day becoming
more determined to win their fight
to get back the basic rates.
United Action Needed
They know that the picked
representatives Of the Brotherhoods
are preparing to sell them out once
again if they are given the oppor-
tunity. They realize that united ac-
ton on the part of all the workers is
necessary to restore the cut. They
are getting together for this pur-
pose in ever greater numbers. De-
mand what is rightfully ours they
say. Force the company to give us
back our ten per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19
Win All Demands in
Metal Workers Strike
In Long Island City

LONG ISLAND CTTY.-Ten work
ers of the American Brass and Steel
Co. at IS Wilbur Ave, Long Island
City, won their day and a half strike,
which was led by the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union
winning all their demands.
They won ID wage increases Of Is
per cent to rs per cent, 90 time and
a half for overtime, 90 recognition
of the shop committee elected by the
workers, (4 no lay-offs, division of
the work. Following the settlement
the workers unanimously decided to
join the Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19
Police Protect Y P S L
Leader Running From
Square as Toilers Boo

NEW YORK.-Rain broke up the
meeting called by the U. S. Bank
depositors scheduled for $50 pm
Saturday.
Previously, however, over 1000
workers had modified in the square
and the Socialist Party held meet
ing. The chairman of the socialist
Meeting was recognized as one of
the scab Y.P.S.L. piekets in the fur
market last week, and the workers
shouted, Get out of the square, you
scab." The Y.P.S.L. leader ran out
under police protection.
Norman Thomas spoke at the So
cialist meeting and made no refer
ence to the incident
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19

! system" under this slogan, l. e., to
take part of the work from the EN-
ployed workers and transfer it to the
unemployed, thus lowering the wages
If the workers who are engaged in
| industry. The reduction of the
working day will mean, it is claimed
that a larger number CT workers
will De needed to do the same amount
of work, and part Of the unemployed
consequently will get work.
Such statements need to be most
carefully investigated, because, in the
first place, experience shows that the
reduction Of the working week in a
number Of factories has not led to
e reduction OF unemployment, and
N the second place, the reduction of
the working week may lead to new
intensification of labor. Conse-
quently. it is not impossible that, in
a number of factories, the introduce
ticn of the 30-hour week will lead to
no increase in the number employed.
The capitalists count on the slogan
of the 30-hour week to distract the
unemployed from the struggle for
social insurance, and set them
against workers employed in indus
try.
Employed and Unemployed
Our task is not to rspudiate the
30-hour week; but advance the de-
mand for the maintenance of weekly
and monthly wage rates, and the in
PRODUCTION of social insurance of all
kinds. first of all, unemployment in
suraace at the expense of the capt.
talists and the government. "By the
stagger system, the capitalists want
to feed the unemployed at the ex-
pense of the employed. Not cent
eff wages of the workers. Feed the
unemployed at the expense of the
capitalists and the State. The capt.
talists want to set the workers
against the unemployed. We call for
united front of the unemployed and
the employed workers in the struggle
for social insurance and to prevent
the lowering of wages when passing
to 30-hour week'-such is the way
in which We should link UP the slo-
gam of social insurance with opposi-
ton to wage reduction.
Role of Social Fascists
One of the primary conditions for
winning the masses in the course of
the campaign for social insurance
and no reduction Of wages when in.
Producing the 30-Lour week. is the
exposure of all bourgeois parties, first
of all and mainly the social-fascists,
chiefly for their refusal to mobilize
the masses for a real struggle for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19

better than most of these ships. I
had plenty Of literature which kept
them well supplied with. kept
quiet until after leaving Copenhagen
I met the delegate on the dock there
had a talk with him on conditions
in general.
Things in Gdynis, Poland, look
good. I had some literature put away
for another place but there were SC
many looking for literature I had tc
let it go there. One fellow told me
the demand was greater than the
supply. He could not read English
or German but had friend that
could.
At Helsingfors some of the mem
bers went to visit German ship
got talking to the captain who claim
ed things were not so bad in Ger
many as they say in America. Sew
eral members of the International
Seamens Union we're aboard and left
German literature.
Meetings Begin
A few nights ago a new member
who had joined a few days ago de-
oided we should have a meeting. We'll
we got a meeting going in one of the
rooms. Several of them voiced theil
opinions as to why they should joir
the Marine Workers Industrial Unior
with the result that after the meet
ing got two members who said they
were going to join in N. Y. but
wanted to get in swing with the Other
members now lined up.
At Stettin I got in touch with sew
eral members Of the ISH who telc
me all the old members have fec
from Germany or are in Jail, anc
that it is not safe to have any paper;
ON them at all. But they are carry
ing on Just the same and are visit
ing all the foreign ships possible en-
tering Stettin. One of the things
they want is news of the outside
world. One of them told me he re-
ceived a paper every week from
America when they did not seize it
They told me about visiting the Rus
sian ships, etc.
Soviet Motor Ship
Arriving back in Copenhagen there
was new Russian motor ship laying
at anchor about to leave on a tria
trip. The shipyard workers thought
they had left out space for the crew
as they saw rooms for the Mate.
under bridge and rooms for passeng-
ers amidship. These passenger rooms
turned out to be also the crew quar-
tiers, two men to a room, RUNNING
water, fans, etc.
Making 1t Risky
Befofe leaving New York the ship
I am on was passed by U. S. lodal in
spectors, to carry no more than 20t
lbs. steam and safety valves so SCI
on my watch. I noted after leaving
New York that boiler blew at 19s
lbs. Today relief valve port boiler
superheater blew at 1z0 lbs. but M
safety valve. I also saw that fusiblt
plugs have been removed and sole
plugs used instead. I saw that the
connections for portable lights in tht
fire room are unsafe and are liable
to cause fire OF explosion from short
circuit as fuel oil has been running
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19
Medical Profession
Mass Meeting Against
Fascism Today

The New York Allied Medical
Committee Against German Fascism
invited all members of the medical
professions physicians, dentists,
pharmacists, nurses, etc.-to attend
mass meeting at the West Side
Auditorium, $50 w. 10th St., today,
June 10, at $3.50 pm, to voice their
protest against the outrages of the
Hitlerites, to plan measures of re-
lief for the victims of the Fascist
regime, and to organize the fight
against Fascism.
A. j. Music, Dr.. Samuel Tannen-
baum and Rev. Benz Goldstein are
among the speakers who win address
the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19
By s. GUSEy
Continued from last iSsue)

The unclarity and confusion on
the question of mass struggles, and
particularly the tendency to surren-
der the leadership OF mass activity
Or narrow it down under the pre-
text of organizational unprepared-
ness (Which was shown in the Vet
Grams march with the greatest elar-
ity) led to the fact that the Party
leaders had no firm line Oh this basic
question, Vacillations. hearted
ness and INDIGESTION among the lead
ers were observable repeatedly, which
naturally found reflection in all
Party organizations. and, above all,
in the Party press.
Need Firmness.
It was precisely this absence OF a
firm line, the absence of firmness in
applying the line; waverings, indie
cision, and half-heartedness, which
found expression in the lack of sys-
tenn in the campaign for social in
surance; in spite Of series Of cate
gorical instructions as to the CEN
trail Importance of this task for a
whole period; the exceptionally IA
yorable conditions for carrying on
this campaign in the broadest pos
sible manner; and the monopoly en-
joyed by the Communist Party for a
number Of years in this sphere.
I The monopolist position of the
Party in the struggle for social in
surance has ended. At present, all
the bourgeois parties, together with
tlle A. F. of l.. and the Musteites,
are trying to snatch this matter out
Of the hands of the Party, putting
forward their projects for a 30-hour
week and social insurance. The
Communist Party is faced with the
most urgent task-to concretely ex-
pose the lying demagogic nature Of
these projects, and carry on the
widest mass campaign for social in
surance. converting 1t into a system
attic daily campaign, without losing
its lsading role in the struggle for
social insurance, making it the main
axis of all Party work which will
be impossible unless decisive strug-
gle is carried on against the Sec
tartan tendencies and their actual
champions.
30 Hour Week
At the present time, the struggle
for social insurance is most closely
interEoyen with the demagogic slo-
gan OF the 30-hour week, put for
ward by the bourgeois parties The
aim of this demagogic campaign is
to introduce the so-called "stagger
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19

the variety of styles today is much
orecter than it was in the past.
What do the dressmakerS face in the
shops today under piece work? Piece
work at flat prices. After strike
or a stoppage the workers succeed
in getting an increase Of SC, 10c on
l5c on the garment. But this in
crease is nullified almost immedl-
ately by a change in the style OF a
garment which requires more work
AS result of this picie work sys-
tenn the dress industry has been re-
duced to one of the worst sweatshop
industries. The earnings Of the
dressmakers are lower today in many
cases than even those Of the work
ers Of the underwear trade, where
week-work still prevails to some ex-
tent. Under the system Of piece
work the wage-cuts are carried
through so skillfully that very often
they escape the notice Of the work
ers.
Piece Work Means Speed Up,
Wage Cuts.
The establishment of piece work
in the cloak industry at the present
time will only mean increased speed
up and lower wages for the cloak
makers. The cIoakmakers, just like
the dressmakers, will have to con-
tend with the flat prices, which
means flat starvation.
The cloakmakers must reject this
proposal of the officialdom of the
International for the re-introduction
of piece work in the cloak trade, for
which the bureaucrats have been
preparing the ground for years by
Gnofficially sanctioning piece work in
the vast majority of the shops. The
cloakmakers must learn from the
bitter experiences of the mems cloth
ing workers and dressmakers. In the
past they have been able to do away
with the piece work system through
their organized struggle against the
bosses. The week work system in the
cloak trade can be enforced through
the organized might of the workers,
under the leadership of union Of
the workers, ready to fight in de-
tense of the workers interests.
A. F. of L. Maneuvers for Bosses
The attempt of the General Execu-
tive Board to smuggle in piece work
under fake referendum must be
rejected by the mass of the cloak
makers. Their proposal of a refer
endum on piece work is an encour-
agement to the bosses to press their
demand and exposes the maneu-
vers of the International with the
bosses for piece work.
The success of the flTriers in
stopping piece work, which was fast
being introduced into the fur indus
try under the rule of the Kaufmans,
Stetskys and McGradys, proves that
the needle trades workers through
their organized power can maintain
the gains won in the past struggles,
A United Front for Strike for
Week Work.
The Industrial Union calls on the
cIoaknakers to build one mighty
united front in preparation for a
real strike for week work A sue
cessful struggle of the eloakmakers
will not only raise the standards of
the workers in the cloak trade, but
will sound the signal for the tens Of
thousands of dressmakers to rise
in mass revolt against piece work,
speed-up and sweatshop conditions.
The cloakmakers, through their or
ganized might, can and will defeat
the new menace of piece work. In
this struggle the cloakmakers will
have the full support of all needle
trades workers and all other mill
tant workers,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19
TENANTS STRIKE
FOR LOWER RENT

NEW YORK.-After thirteen I'M
employed families were served dis
possesses at 71o1 Bay Parkway,
Brooklyn, 20 OF the 90 tenants signed
petition to the landlord stating
that they would strike today unless
the eviction proceedings are stopped.
Seven dispossesses have already
been withdrawn. Sympathizers and
neighbors are urged by the Bath
Beach Unemployed Council, which is
preparing the strike, to attend a
meeting before the house this morn
ing, demanding an end to the evic-
lions.
RENT STRIKE AT 1855 PARK PL
NEW YORK.-Ignoring continued
attempts by police to stop picketing
and in the face of arrests, the ten
ants of 1756 Park Place, Brooklyn,
have been striking since last Monday
against the eviction Of the buildings
janitor. The strikers, led by the
Crown Heights Unemployed Council,
have added IS per cent reduction in
rent to their demands.
The two workers arrested on a dis
orderly conduct charge and later re-
leased because of lack of evidence.
are the secretary of the Unemployed
Council and tenant, Walkow.
Though the landlord is now willing
to allow the jsnitor to remain in the
house, the strike continues for the
rent reduction, with the neighbor-
hood strongly sympathetic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19
Taub To Speak Tonite
At Scottsboro Meet;

There will be one meeting at %
West Hath st. at 8 pm. and one at
103 West 135th st. at the same time
Admission will be free.
A mass meeting has been called
tonight by the National Scottsboro
Action Committee for the Randall
Memorial Church at 65 West 18TH
St., opposite the Harlem Hospital
Speakers will be the Rev Bishop of
st. Phillips, Allan Taub, LID. law
yer. and William Fitzgerald of the
Harlem LID. This meeting will
launch the organization Of q Harlem
wide Conference July for the i'm
mediate release of the Seottsboro
boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19


tiOH ON the part of the workers
toward the elimination of week
work, this campaign has been
carried through in a carefully
planned manner so as to create
the impression that the demand for
piece work comes from the ranks of
the cloakmakers and that the Cen
eral Executive Board is simply yield
ing to the pressure of the workers.
In this discussion there were nu-
merous attempts on the part of the
supporters of the international ma
chine to bring the question of piece
work before the cloakmakers as q
remedy for the present evils in the
trade. In order to put their point
across they have utilized many argu-
ments which are not entirely un-
known to the needle trades workers.
Tricked Into Piece Work.
Some years ago, when the officials
of the Amalgamated made deal
with the bosses for the abolition OF
week work, they proclaimed this as
a victory for the workers. piece
work will bring back the bundles to
New York"-"Piece work will do
away with the competition"-"Piece
work will solve all the evils from
which the mems clothing workers
are suffering" Many of the work
erS, oppressed by their miserable con-
ditions, were impressed by this poi
sonous agitation. To-day the mems
clothing trade is on piece work
basis and the conditions of the work.
ers are much worse than ever before.
Wages Drop,
The figures of the State Labor
Department for 1882 show a de-
crease in the earnings Of the mems
clothing workers from 1852 in 1928
to $24.24 in 1882 in New York City
From $26,56 to s15.02 for men in the
remainder of the state. These fig
ures are based on reports from the
most reliable establishments, When
applied to industry as whole
the average will be reduced to q
much lower level. The contracting
system has multiplied tenfold
Bundles continue to be cut in New
York and sent to the out-of- town
swcatshops which have the blessing
of the Hillman union label, while
thousands of New York workers are
idle. The mems clothing workers
are working for starvation wages I'M
der the most terrific speed-up dur
ing,.tt1e few weeks of the season. Due
tosthe speed-up, unemployment as
sumes an even greater mass char
acter and thousands of workers can
not secure any employment what
soever even during the height of the
season. These are the results Of the
blessed piece work system in the
mems clothing trade.
How will this change in the sys-
tenn of work from week to piece work
affect the conditions of the cloak
makers?
Cioakmakers Always Fought Piece
Work.
In arguing for the re-establish-
ment of piece work many of the
henchmen of the A. F. of L. machine
make reference to the time when the
cloakmakers worked under piece
work and earned decent livelihood
They forget to state that even dur
ing that period OF comparative pros
perity, when capitalism, especially in
the United States, was on the up
grade, piece work was SO detestable
to the cloakmakers that they forced
the employers to grant them week
work with the threat of strike,
We cannot compare the conditions
of piece work in 1919 to 1888. Dur
ing those days the cloak trade was a
highly skilled trade with well estab-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19
SOUTHERN R. R.
FEARS A STRIKE
(By a Farmer Correspondent

FORT SMITH, Ark.-Anticipating
strike as a result of recently eff
fected rules and working conditions,
the Kansas City Southern Railway
began taking applications for en-
gineers, firemen, conductors, brake
men and yardmen, with the under
standing that the applicants were
willing to work under strike condi-
tions.-H. F.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19
TWO RENT STRIKERS FREED
IN BROOKLYN

NEW YORK. conduct
charges we're dismissed against j.
Manning, unemployed council organ
izer, and Pauline Walkow, Wednes-
day, by Judge Rudich in 10 Magis-
trate's Court, Brooklyn. They were
arrested when they refused to stop
picketing during a rent strike when
ordered by police, protesting that
they had the right to picket.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19
SEND CONSULTATIONS ON
DEATH OF COMRADE KUNT
ScOttsbOro Protest in
Harlem Church Tonite

NEW YORK.-A mass protest
meeting will be held tonight at the
Randall Memorial Presbyterian
Church, IS w. 13Tth St., under the
auspices Of the National Scottsboro
Action Committee, in the fight led
by the International Labor Defense
against the Scottsboro lynch verdiets
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19
IS FURNITURE WORKERS STRIKE
IN BRONX

NEW YORK. -Thirty-five workers
Of the Standard Parlor Frame Co. at
1860 Lafayette Ave, in the Bronx,
went on strike Friday, demanding a
wage increase and recognition Of the
Furniture Workers Industrial Union.
The strikers urge workers of the
neighborhood to assist picketing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19
kUNT'Z MEMORIAL
WEDNESDAY EVE

NEW YORK.-A memorial meet
ing in honor of A. M Kuntz, active
in numerous working class organi2a-
tions before his death last Tuesday
at the age of GO. viii be held this
Wednesday, June 81, at $50 pm. at
Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 18th
st.
The memorial meeting is arranged
by a committee representing the In
ternstional Labor Defense, the Daily
Freiheit, the Icor Association for
Jewish Colonization in the U.S,SR..
the Friends of the Soviet Union, the
New York City Committee of the In
ternationaI Workers Order, the Bro
Bidjan Branch No. 81 Of the I. w. o.,
of which organizations Kuntz was an
active member.
Thirty-eight years ago A. M Kuntz
was the secretary of the Cloak
makers Union, and at his death he
was member of the Communist
Party Of America. He was on the
National Executive Committee Of the
Icor
Despite alling health A. M. Kuntz
continued his activity in behalf of
the working class until almost the
last day when he suddenly passed
away. He was held in high esteem
by all his fellow workers
SEND CONSULTATIONS ON
DEATH OF COMRADE KUNTZ
The members of the Imperial Val
ley Branch Of the International La
Dor Defense sent their sympathies to
the family of Comrade Kuntz, who
just died.
They said: eve wish you find con-
ISOLATION in the revolutionary move
ment to which Comrade Kuntz de-
voted his life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19
NOTE:

We publish letters from workers
in the transportation and cemmuni-
cation industries every Monday. Get
the letters to us by the preceding
Thursday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19
LR.T. WORKER READY FOR ACTION
TO GET BACK THE TEN PERCENT CUT

weeks there has been great deal
among the t. of which about return
the time this cut engineered on us the
promised that business picked basic rate would
that promise from the Brother
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19
Seaman 7 els Of
Conditions and
Organizing Methods
Describes Life on Ship Which May Blow Up Any Time
Finds German and Polish Marine Unionists
Undefeated and Active

the Omied9
a Marine Worker Correspondent
a report Of on
leaving
foundation
Conditions organising
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19
MENACE OF PIECE WORK
By ROSE WORTIs

Executive Board Of the International and er
rebment industry Afraid Of the widespread pes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19

Have you apps reached your teA-
low worker b. your shop wiAh
ccpy ~ Me D~HyT N ne4, - -
TODAY.