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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-12
CONDITIONS LIKE
80 YEARS AGO IN
BETHLEHEM STEEL
Time Clocks, No Over
time Pay, and
Speed-Up

SPARROWS POINT, Md.-Here in
the Bethlehem Steel Company at
Sparrows Point the company is
bringing more bad conditions in the
mill. For years we have never
heard of time clock and punch
card system, but now we are forced
to punch a time clock, although we
still work on the tonnage system.
Here is a lot more new burdens"
that is new to the tin mill, the
catcher and screw boys have to clean
the grease pots on the last tur n,
where formerly this was done by
IabOrers in the tin mill.
Who ever heard of working level
hand on a small mill when its almost
impossible to live on wages we get
when working level hand on a big
mill. Then in order to make matters
worse, even though we are doubled
up we got to stay in the mill on
the last two heats.
The screw boy piles or 10 heats
of thirty six wide or some other kind
of pilin orders and doesn't get any
thing for doing this extra work, the
pair heater does get a little erumb
for piling three and four piles, usu-
ally about so cents.
There are some rollers here that
are turning screw, now being forced
back to where they were 20 or 80
years ago.
PSI just heard that O'Brien
bought $4,000 car. l wonder where
that money came from.
EDITORS NOTE:-With the COM
ing wage cut in the steel industry
this month, and the terrific worsen-
ing of conditions not only in this mill
but in all others, there is an irnme-
diate necessity for all the workers
in the mill to intensity their organi-
cation. Workers of all nationalities,
color and political and union afflli-
alton should form united commit
tees of action in every department to
be prepared to fight against wage
cuts and other bad conditions in the
mill as q solid body. AS to O'Brien,
he undoubtedly gets his swag for
putting over the vicious system that
exists in the mill, but he gets only
crumbs compared to the millions OF
dollars of super profits that the Wall
Street boys gets out of the toll OF
the workers in the mill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-12
STEEL WAGE-cUTs ALREADY IN FORCE
MAJESTIC HANDS
OUT WAGE CUT IN
PLACE OF RAISE
United Defiance in
Spraying Dept
Brings Pay

NEW YORK CITY, am worker
in the Majestic Metal Shop and
would like to give picture of the
situation there.
1t began to get busy couple of
months before Christmas. The older
workers were promised raise in the
busy season. But when they saw the
boss hire workers for So per week,
they knew their hopes were blasted.
Christmas week the workers re-
ceived two gifts of gratitude from
the boss. The gifts consisted of lay
offs and lipsticks to both men and
women alike. OF course, these work.
ers could not eat the lipSticks for
their Christmas dinner.
Some thought they we're more for
tunate than others. They were told
to return to work Jan. 3. On this
eyentful day the workers punched
their cards, ready for work, but for
many in the spray department to no
avail These workers were told to go
home by the very sympathetic man
ager, Mr.. Brodny. They insisted that
they be given their back pay and
carfare and were informed they
would be paid at IL o'clock. This
meant waiting around for four hours
until the Majestic could find time to
pay them.
The patience of the workers was
exhausted. They decided to act to-
gether and demanded that they be
paid Immediately. This forced the
boss to respond differently. He paid
them.
The 200 workers who remain in the
shop were put on the 40-hour week,
with wages for that many hours.
This means wage-cut, since the boss
expects as much work in 40 hours as
he received before in 48 hours.
Why is it possible for the Ma
jestic to put over this wage-cut and
treat the workers in this cattle like
fashion? The reason Is lack of Or
ganization! We cannot live on the
sympathetic phrases of the manage
nent. We must get a decent wage
and better conditions for our labor.
The only way we can gain these
things is by organizing ourselves into
one strong body to fight for the fol-
lowing immediate demands: 1. All
laid-off men be given jobs before
new men are hired. 2. Division of
work with guaranteed minimum
wage.
The Metal Workers Industrial
Union will assist us in every possible
way to organize and fight for our
just rights now.
Worker From the Majestic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-12
STEEL WORKERS
INVADE COUNCIL
Demand Free Water
No Pay Cut in Gary

GARY, Ind, Jan. .11.-A delega-
ton of unemployed yesterday in
vaded city council chambers with
demands for free water and other
public utility services. Last Nov
enaber similar action was taken by
the unemployed, but the city admin
istration totally ignored these con-
ditions.
Press Admits Rotten Conditions.
Even the boss press is compelled
to admit that thousands of families
are deprived of water and other pub
lie services, thereby creating a SER
ious menace to the health OF the
community.
The leader of the unemployed del
egation, Lee Chapa, outlined the
conditions and placed before the
council the demands Of the unem-
ployed and part-time steel workers.
He pointed out the constant cutting
down of relief, the wage cuts i'm
posed upon part-time steel workers
and emphasized the fact that this
month, relief is to be reduced in the
city by $4,000.
Attacks Steel Wage Cut.
Chapa dealt with the impending
wage cut in the steel industry which
is the third general wage slash, the
forcing of the stagger system upon
workers, He demanded the cutting
of police expenditures, the high sal
aries of city officials and by taxa
ton of the steel corporation. He
also demanded that $4,000 which
the utility companies stole from the
city, causing a public scandal, be re-
covered and used for unemployed
The couneilmen for the second time
in Gary history yielded the floor to
spokesman for workers because OF
the activity of the workers in de-
handing relief.
Socialist Faker Gets Busy.
The city administration, lackeys
of the steel trust fearing the growing
organized action of the unemployed
and part-time steel workers, called
to their aid the socialist betrayer
Eugene Cooney, who appeared before
the council with proposals calculated
to restore faith of the workers in
the council and defeat mass action.
The Unemployed Council is exposing
this trickery of the socialist spokes-
men and is developing greater mass
organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-12
Crews of Two Ships
at Marine Workers
Affair in Baltimore

BALTIMORE, Md.-The Marine
workers Industrial Union held a
dance and entertained the crews OF
the SIS. Georgian and Arizonlan'
also members of crews of other ships
that were in port. This is the flrsC
time in Baltimore that an affair Ike
this has taken place successfully the
seamen were shown that they were
welcome in the social life ashore ana
the 400 who attended the dance
pledged their solidarity to the Mar
inc workers Industrial Union, many
promised to join the Union.
The M.WIU. has made bid Tor
the launching of an international
Seamen's Club in Baltimore, TINS
affair being the opening gun. An
other affair is to be given in Tom
Mooney Hall Jan. %. The dances
and entertainments given by the M.
VIII. is smashing the Jim-Crowism
that exists in Baltimore.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-12

to a still loWer starvation level.
National Miners Union mem bers
took the lead and pointed out to the
miners how this wage-cut had been
introduced in Crystal Falls also with
a lot of sweet promises, which the
miners never got and that the min
ing company was now trying to put
it through also in the Ironton Mine.
The speaker, a former miner of the
Ironton Mine pointed out how this
was only means by which the min
ing companies were trying to pile up
more profits from the sweat and toll
of the miners.
Slick Wage Cut Scheme.
The mining superintendent intro
dueed the following slick wage-cut-
ting scheme to the miners: You work
20 days a month at $500 day and
receive a bonus" after digging a
certain tonnage of ore.
The tonnage was so high for the
bonus, that the miners laughed at
this ridiculous scheme by which the
company was trying to fool them)
He stated that the same thing had
been done in Crystal Falls, Michigan
and besides this the miners had re-
ceived free rent and coal from the
company. The NJ M. u. speaker I'M
mediately pointed out how this was
not so, that instead the mining COM
pany in Crystal Falls has fooled the
miners and that only a few suckers
of the company were receiving these
measly promises of the company
while the majority of the miners
were starving,
One of the miners spoke up ane
pointed out how the present wage
of $3.50 a day and 8 days a month
was starvation wage already and Il
the miners accepted this company
scheme, the miners would be work
ing - DAYS of the 20 days at tht
rate of 90 cents a Gay, and starVlht
more than before. A miner callec
FAR the vote and every miner an
swered in one voice against the wage
cut. despite the superintendent
anger and boiling machines.
nited Front Committee,
Through leaflet distributed by th'
National Miners Union warning LIZ
miners of the wage cut; calling upoi
them to organize committees agalns
the wage cut, a meeting Of 30 MN
ers was held at the Swede-Flnn Hai
in Bessemer where a United iron
Committee was formed to carry OF
the struggle against the companle'
attempts to carry through the W ag'
cut The fight will continue unVi
victory is won.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-12
THEN AND NOW IN
THE r. C.. A. VICTOR

CAMDEN. N. 1.-THE conditions in
the RIGA. Victor, were not so bad
till the General Electric got control
of it. The hours up to two years
ago were AZ 1-2 for five days, 0 1-2
hours per day and extra time if we
worked Saturday.
But when the General Electric
took hold, then started the cuts.
First Saturday was made straight
time; then overtime was made
straight-time; later came a bonus
system, which was made to appear
as benefit to the workers. The
bonus means that you get half of
whatever you save. Not all jobs have
a bonus price on them.
Generally the price was so low we
could not do the job in the required
time, but got paid our hourly rate
just the same. But nevertheless 1t
is used as whip for speed-up.
Now I am speaking of the tool and
model shops, where the greatest skill
is required. The toolmakers are re-
quired to have more knowledge
for their work than any other class
of labor. That makes many of them
conceited.
There are quite a few stool pigeons
here. I am trying to find out. I
am gradually and cautiously trying
to work among them.
can't tell now how all the work.
ers are toward organization. Some
are favorable. There is good mater
ial for organization here. A few are
radical. haven't been long with
the present group of workers so I
don't know them all.
The hours at present are 9 l-2
hours day, four days week, ex-
cept when it sometimes happens
that man is working on job that
is needed sooner, then all extra time
is flat hourly rate.
II Camden had Party unit IL
would help some and ! thing it will
in the course Of time. II.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-12
USSR Production Rose
334 PC. Says ]. Stain

national significance"
In his general conclusion Stain
pointed out the failure of the hollr-
geois, social-demoeratic prediction
about the impracticability of the
Five Year Plan, the collapse of the
bourgeois tenet" that the working
class is capable only to destroy the
old but not build the new, the de-
feat Of the social democratic thesis
is about the impossibility of build
ing Socialism in one country.
Capitalism Must Go.
1.-THE results of the Five Year-Plan
overthrow the assertion of bourgeois
economists that the capitalist system
is the best system, that any other
system of economy is unstable and
incapable to stand the test in the
face of difficulties of economic de-
yelopment, The results of the Five
Year-Plan show that the capitalist
economic system is unstable, is al
ready OUTLYING it's time and must
yield its place to another, higher,
Soviet Socialist system of economy,
that the only system of economy not
fearing crisis and capable of over
coming difficulties is the Soviet eco
nomic system.
FINALLY, the results of the Five
Year-Plan show that the Party is
unconquerable if it knows in what
direction to lead the work and is
not afraid of difficulties"
A great ovation was given to Stain
upon the conclusion of his speech,
the entire audience rising and
cheering.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-12

a bucket of water. They met Ernest
Smith, white, and a girl named
Brown. I'VE spoke to them and they
got sassy" Maude Moore said later.
Some rocks were thrown, and then
we went on up to the house."
Smith swore out the warrant of
assault and battery against Oldham,
and Constable Northern deputized
Brown. Mount Smith, and his son
Sam Smith and his own son Ben
Northern, Jr., to form a raiding
party. The Negroes defended them
selves. Northern and Brown were
killed in the fighting.
Whips Up Lynch Sentiment.
The posse retired for reinforce
ments. When these came, headed
by Sheriff Ed elmer, Deputy G. s.
Fort, Raymond Lyon, and Magis-
trate Horace Lyon, the Negroes in
GLIDING the two women, Mrs. Mar
gerry Moore and her daughter Maude,
submitted quietly to arrest.
The press whipped up lynch SEN
timent. A lynch gang was organized.
A hundred armed men took the two
women out Of jail, and $500 gathered
in the square, shouting and scream
ing for lynching.
Feeling certain that the prisoners
would be legally lynched later, the
sheriff, Chief of Police Bob Gam,
and others rescued the two women,
and secretly removed all five pri-
soners to the county jail at Nash
vile.
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703 N. 46th st.
Public officials have been chal-
Ienged to appear at these meetings
to defend their stand of refusing re-
lief to the starving children.
An indoor meeting has been ar
ranged for Saturday evening at I'll
w. Girard. Ave, where the reply OF
the Board of Education and OF DR..
Broome will be reported
Proposed Child March Scares Pinchot'
In answer to a letter from the
Conference to Governor Pinchot, re-
ouesting him to receive a delegation
of hungry children of unemployed
parents in Harrisburg on Jan. IA, the
governor replied through his secre-
tary that he had a previous en-
gagement and would not be in Har-
risbtIrg." The Conference condemned
the governors action and decided to
send the children to Harrisburg the
early part of February, to notify Pin
chot of the date weeks previously SO
he couldn't back out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-12
STRUGGLE AGAINST
PROVOCATION
Workers Enemies
Exposed

All workers and workers organiza-
tons are warned against the follow
ing individuals:
MARTHA CASTRO of Cambridge,
Mass, a housewife of Finnish nation
atty, who was the financial secretary
of the Pioneer Camp in Holmes Park
last summer, has been expelled from
the Communist Party by its Boston
District organization for misappro-
priation Of Organization funds and
for misuse Of Party name in obtain
ing personal loans.
She failed to account for about
$500 of the Pioneer Camp funds
deaving unpaid bills amounting to
about $500, and refused to appear
for a hearing, disregarding repeated
calls of the District Office. 1t is
also reported that she used the name
of the Party fraction to obtain per-
sonal loans from comrades and SYM
pathizers (totalling also several hun
bred dollars.
Such misuse of funds and financial
dishonesty throws discredit upon the
revolutionary movement, sows distrust
4 among the workers, increases many
fold the financial difficulties of our
: revolutionary organizations and plays
directly into the hands of the worst
enemies of our movement, the social
fascists.
BY her actions, Martha Castro has
betrayed the interests of the working
class, and has put herself in the camp
Of its worst enemies.
MICHAEL SASKAGANSKY, also
known as Shatsky and Michael York,
has been exposed by the Seattle dis
trict organization Of the Communist
Party as a sabotager, swindler and
thief
An intellectual of Russian nation
atty he was in the Young Commu-
mist League in New York about five
years ago, from which he was ex-
PEELED for inactivity and financial If
responsibility,
In Seattle he managed to join the
Party and got himself even into a
responsible post on the election cam
paign, which work he sabotaged by
4 suddenly leaving the city Then it
was discovered that he had taken
with him also some organization
funds, besides obtaining bus fare
from sympathizer on the pretext
that he was leaving suddenly on a
secret mission.
Afterwards it was reported from
Pocatello, Idaho, that he was staying
with worker there under the mis-
representation that he was called to
New York by the John Reed Club
He is about it. IL in. tall and
conspicuously fat.
MARSHALL (alias Carey, of Los
Angeles, has been exposed by the San
Francisco district organization of the
Communist Party as a swindler, who
absconded with organization funds
$50 of Western Worker funds, 81 from
the T.U.U.L., forged check, etc..
He is rather tall and blond, and
it appears that he was previously in
Seattle, under the name Of Carey,
where he also Incorporated Labor
Defender money and disappeared.
The Party as we'll as other workers
organizations should beware of these
4 leeches and petty swindlers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-12

'sThe struggle against militarism
must not be postponed until tbs
moment when war breaks out
Then it will be too late. The
struggle against war must be car
ried on now, daily. hourly"
LENIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-12
proposed Child March scares Pinchot.
BOSSES PLAN 7M% CUT
IN STEEL, THIS MONTH

BALTIMORE, Md got hold oil
a morning stock letter issued by the
Redmond Company of Wall Street
N. Y, dated December 81, that
states an approximate wage cut OF
seven and half per cent will take
place in steel the middle Of Janu-
a,v --B.
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TWO NEGROES
GET LIFE TERMS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE

gang which terrorized them with
lynch-threats.
Raid by Deputized Thugs.
In the raid by deputized thugs,
Sept. IA. Constable Ben Northern and
M. e. Brown, posseman, were shot
to death. The excuse for the raid
was that George Oldham and white
boy by the name Of Ernest Smith got
into fight in which the white boy
was worsted.
On the afternoon OF Sunday, Sept.
"a. George Oldham and a Negro girl,
Meu9e Moore went to spring for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-12
Ironton Miners, Led by
N.M.U., Vote Doevn Cut
Nine Super Meets Organized Resistance of
800 Men
IRONTON MINERS

BESSENIER Mich, 1880 Mine
here voted against the cut that trying be put through by the
echoed
the the that
introduced the living standards the miners
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-12
ILL. MINE UNION
LEADERS REJECT
|. L. D. AID OFFER
Would IsolateStruggle;
Workers Must Demand
Strikers Be Freed

CONTINUED FROM PAGE oND
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-12

All workers and workers organiza-
tons are warned against the follow
ing individuals:
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-14

Just back from abroad and frankly
disappointed by the dizziness OF the
town; and Paul Whiteman. just a
shadow of his former self, with Mar
garet Livingstone, his wife, who has
written book about how the mon
strous maestro reduced; and Buddy
Rogers and Claire Windsor. whose
names are being linked by the local
gossipers. 80.
Post, Mattern and Miss Holm, by
the way, are appearing in vaudeville
hereabout. A few weeks ago Primo
Camera was packing them into a
Broadway theater. Previously the fake
prince Mike Romanoff'' had his cs-
sumed name up in lights. And vaude-
vile offers were sent to Mrs. Jessie
Costello during her trial after the
poisoning of her husband. =. Ina
vaudeville game has reached such 4
pass, 1t seems, that anybody in the
headlines can be a headliner.
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cific In the shipyards OF Japan an
equally accelerated changing is about
to begin; and unless all signs fail
these two nations will presently be
embarked upon a naval building race
of the traditional type, in spite of
treaties, gentlemen's agreements or
any other forms OF restraint.
1t is very easy for an American TO-
deplore this trend. No one who re-
members the outcome of the worlds
last great naval building race-be-
tween England and Germany-can
be blamed for dreading the advent OF
new one. But 1t is not nearly so
easy to say just how this race is to
be avoided.
Your pacifist, Of course, will re-
mark that the way to avoid race
of this kind is to build no more war
ships under any circumstances: to
let the other chap lay down as many
keels as he chooses and to pare your
own establishment down year after
year, secure in the knowledge that
you yourself aren't going to war no
matter what happens.
But it isn't likely that many Amer
leans will endorse this plan. The
world is still a perilously disturbed
and suspicion-racked planet; inter-
national policies still have a way Of
colliding head-on, in spite Of all we
can do to prevent it; and while war
may be a most costly and wasteful
way of settling disputes, the world
does not yet seem to have reached
the point at which it can assure IT.
self that war will be no more.
In short, America has very solid
reasons for maintaining strong
navy, and a government which failed
to do so could properly be called
short-sighted. And the same thing
doubtless can be said of the Japa-
nese.
Which leaves us, perhaps, right
where we started-except that it all
underlines the heavy responsibility
which rests on the shoulders OF the
statesmen of the two nations.
There are, after all, more reasons
for the United States and Japan to
be friendly than there are for them
to be enemies.
This country is Japan's best Gus
toner; Japan, in turn, buys heavily
from the United States, and the de-
velopment of Japan's Asiatic con-
quests should logically open still
larger markets to American manu-
facturers.
AS both nations prepare for trou-
BILE, 1t should be possible for their
statesmen to work out way where
by they could continue to live In
peace.
Self-interest on both sides OF the
Pacific dictates such course.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-14

nune but cannot tell II q patients
resistance is low or high. I have seen
a group Of tubercular patients all with
the same amount of T.B.. all eating
the same food, taking the same rest,
etc. Some got better, others did not.
Do you mean to say the doctors could
not tell by examining these patients
which had good resistance and which
did not? q. NJ
Answer-There is no such state or
condition as resistance" II you
mean immunity, I assure you the doc
tors cannot tell by examining a pa
tient whether he has much or little or
no immunity to tuberculosis.
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