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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-06
Strike WaVe Increases
in South; 700 Columbia
Mill Workers Win Raise

Mountain plant at a mass meeting
that their general manager was much
to be praised; that their conditions
were better than in most mills of
the South" and that "the strike there
seems to have been reeoil from the
one at the Utica Mills" In other
words, Googe told the strikers in eff
feet: You're we'll off; be satisfied;
an efficiency system that makes you
do more work for the same pay Is
nothing to strike about"
Utica Strikers Fight SeH-Out
Six hundred workers of the Utica
Knitting Mills at Admission are still
on strike. The strike committee,
which is evidently under the influ-
ence of the bosses and the A. F. of
L. representative, last week agreed to
send the workers back at the old
scale and "arbitrate" later. The rank
and file Indignantly rejected this deal
and remained on strike.
Further details have been gathered
of the conditions of the workers in
the Utica mills. Ninety per cent of
these workers are girls and women.
Shortly before the strike, men With
watches in their hands appeared and
watched every movement of the work.
ers. These minute men" then work
ed out system which, as far as the
writer knows, has never yet been tried,
even on the rniSerably -sweated South
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-06
DRIVERS PROTEST
CAB TAX TODAY
AT CITY H A | L

NEW YORK. - Taxi-driYers are
called today to City Hall to protest
against the new SC tax on rides and
against the Home Relief Bureau dis
elimination against cab drivers The
Provisional United Front Committees
which is issuing the call, will mobilize
at Broadway and 18th Street at noon.
At a meeting of the Board Of Es-
innate to discuss tax on tad-rides
last Wednesday, Norman Thomas
stated, Il am in favor of this tax as
a last resort" This was the So
eialist Thomas reaction to the citys
proposal to place another tax on the
masses.
In favor OF more immediate action
and not just as last resort were
the big taxi fleet owners who adj
vocated the SC tax. Any tax on the
users helps these capitalists to avoid
paying out any of their profits.
The tax also is so framed that it
will drive out the small taxi owners
and give the monopolists complete
control. This will help to throw more
drivers out of work and the Taxi
Workers Union opposes the tax.
The union representatives called
attention to the fact that the aver
age pay of driver was So for a
60-hour week and that many Of the
unemployed drivers were blacklisted
by the Home Relief Buro and in
need of relief. The officials Of the
H. r. B. maintain that anyone with
a taxi license is employed.
The union position and demands
for relief for taxi drivers was made
by Eneeh Henry. The board made
no reply to the demands of thousan6
of taxi drivers. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-06
INSTEAD OF THE BONUS

After the government heard from
its agents that no tricks could shake
the determination of the vets, Roosc-
welt simply issued an executive order
turning Fl. Hunt into 'Reforesta-
tor" camp.
The government by this time was
hard put to it to find means of split
ting the vets. The red scare" had
failed. So clever device was used.
This was the Bonus Only" stand of
a small group headed by Mike
Thomas. But this too was exposed
and routed by the honesty and mill
fancy of the majority of the vets.
Especially when such men as Blan-
chard from Chicago, Pace from
Detroit and the constant battering
Of Sellers against "Reforestation'
broke down the resistance of Mike
Thomas henchmen to the three point
program.
Now I know my buddy is no traitor.
He fought for the three-point pro-
gram all through the convention. But
he was unemployed with no home or
friends to go back to. He could get
his transportation back to San Fran
cisco, but the prospect Of nothing but
charity soup added another recruit
to the "Reforestation" camp. AS my
buddy says, Look at me. weighed
100 pounds three years ago, lumber
jack on the coast, could swing an
axe all day without stopping. But
three years of sleeping on park bench
es and fiophouse floors with slum
coffee and handouts has got me down.
If these army officers think I'm 60
ing to kill myself for dollar day,
they're crazy. I'm going in because
I'm desperate. Listen, comrade.
And, as for the Negroes-they tell
me they are to be segregated. Well,
not il can help it. There's Negro
came from the coast with me. We
hoped freights together, shared our
grub, smokes and hardships together.
If they try to keep lis apart in the
'Reforestation camp I'm going to
raise hell. All the vets talk with
think the same way. heard fellow
say, we ought to build grievance COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-06
Daily Articles on Morgan
Probe Praised by Reader
Denounces Exposure Stuff in Boss Press AS
Yelled Propaganda for Financiers

been thrown into our hands by the
shadow-dan in the Senate. The
masses will read anything about
Morgan. The bourgeois press is al
ready printing Sunday supplements
full of the old Great Man" hocus-
pocus. They prentend to be mere
histories" of the House of Morgan:
really they are bourgeois propaganda,
Success Stories"
Anna Rochester would seem TO be
one to make up this pamphlet. Per-
haps the chapter on Morgan from
her forthcoming book on Finance
Capital in the U. s. could be easily
developed into such pamphlet.
Perhaps the book itself is what we
want. But it must not be expensive,
it must not be too big, it must come
out as quickly as possible. 1t must
have a title that catches the atten-
ton. A few good illustrations and
cartoons might be worth while.
II it is possible for Labor Re-
search" to get such pamphlet out,
it should be done at once.
Commradely,
TOM TRACY,
st. Paul, MINI.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-06

lie declaration against it.
Discusses Roosevelt Recovery Bin
Thomas then discussed the Roose-
welt National Recovery Bill He de-
elared it contained many points
which might be utilized by the work
ers if the workers we're united. He
declared it to be, not socialism or
Communism, but scheme of state.
capitalism. He declared he did not
believe unions should be controlled
by Mussolinis and Hitlerites or semi
Hitlerites. He did not mention who
these fascist are, nor that his own
Socialist Party pTsues fascist tao
tics against the fur workers He con-
cluded by telling the workers that
they had right to determine what
union they wished to join.
He made no mention Of the muir
der of LANCER and of the murderous
attack on the headquarters Of the
Industrial Union, which received the
full support Of the New Leader and
the Forwards Nor did he condemn
the role of the A. F. of L. officials
in the fur struggle.
Further comments On Thomas
speech will appear in Forthcoming
issue of the Daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-06

st. Paul, MINI,
June |, 1888.
Editor OF Daily Worker,
Comrade:-
Anna Rochester's articles on Nor
gan 81 Co., in the Daily" are damn
good. and very opportune. Wherever
I talk with people these days, in
street cars. in restaurants, barber
shops, on the street, the talk gets
very quickly around to Morgan. The
people are uneasy and sore; but they
know very little. They have no idea
of the real concentration of Morgan'S
wealth, OF of the general concentra-
ton of wealth. They obscurely feel
and resent that concentration but are
unaware of its extent and of its
implications.
Here is great chance to reach
the masses. They are anxious to
read about Morgan they will buy a
pamphlet on Morgan Such a pamph-
let, full Of facts and carefully point
ing out their implications could be
sold in quantity from house to house
1t, of course, should not stop with
Morgan, but give facts and figures on
the general concentration of wealth.
But the title should be baited with
Morgan.
In order to insure wide circula-
ton, certain percentage could be
given to the vendors. The pamphlet
should contain 40 to rs thousand
words and sell at 20 or as cents. Give
the vendors five cents for each
pamphlet sold. Distribution could be
through the Unemployed Councils,
Within the past week have recon-
mended the chapter on Morgan in
Myers History of the Great Amer
lean Fortunes" to several acquain-
tances. The reaction was very strong.
IT never knew -. I never realized"
they said. Every one of them is now
definitely on the road to the Party.
am convinced that good pamph-
let would have the same success on
q much larger scale. The bait has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-06
BY H. E. BRIGGS

WHEN we came to Washington for
W our bonus the government thru
Roosevelt put us in nice camp at
the abandoned Fort Hunt. The first
week nothing was said about putting
the vets in forest camps. Just the
same we were skeptical of the reason
for the nice tents and good chow
My buddy and I realize now that it
was just another dirty" Deal He
came all the way from San Fran
cisco, and that's some walk if you
haven't transportation. I came from
Boston, We found out the first day
that all the veterans like ourselves,
were out of work at least two and a
half years.
LOOKED LIKE PARCHED WEED
Now, when a man is knocking
around from bread line to flophouse
and back, with the future just an
other handout his morale begins to
crack. My buddy looked like a parch-
ed weed when / met him and I
hadn't slept in decent bed for two
months before I arrived at Fort Hunt.
Everybody knows that the first thing
a starving man wants is food and
the first thing tired man wants is
sleep. Well, they let us eat and they
let us sleep for while -.
When the vets convention got down
to serious business, we soon learned
that the hospitality of the govern
ment was manuver to divert us
from our three-point program I
talked this over with other vets. They
agreed to keep up the fight for their
original demands no matter what
happens, And these demands as
adopted by our convention are.
1. Immediate cash payment of
the adjusted service certificates,
called the Bonus;
?. Postponement of the enforce
ment Of the Economy Bill until the
next session of Congress and pub
LEGATION by the veterans bureau Of
the details of veteran cuts, amounts,
number Of veterans and depend
ants who will be affected,
3. Immediate remedial relief for
the unemployed and. the farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-06
Ry JIM MALLORY

The strike wave continues unabat-
ed in the South. Many Of the strikes
have already been won by the work
ers.
Almost on the heels of the victor
les of the workers in the Admission
Cordage Plant and of the w. T. Poe
Manufacturing Company in Green
vile, s. c., comes news OF the sue
eessful conclusion of the strike of the
workers in the Prichard Cotton Mill
Products Company in Admission. The
workers in the Prichard Mills have
won their strike for a 10 per cent
increase, and the management has
announced that there will be no dis
elimination against strikers. 1t is
now I'D to the workers to keep strong
committees in every department, to
build a militant union, as a guar
antea that the Prichard bosses stick to
the terms of the agreement
10 Per Cent Increase Won At
Columbia, s. c.
Seven hundred workers of the Mt.
Vernon Woodbury. Mills at Columbia,
S. c., went on strike May 20 for an
increase in wages. The strike was
so complete that within few hours
L. G. Smith, mill agent at Columbia
was forced to announce, a 10 per cent
increase, effective Immediately. He
announced also that the same in
crease would apply to the companys
Alabama plant, evidently fearing a
strike of the Alabama mill workers
as we'll.
At the Bolton Mill in Bolton, S. c.,
500 workers struck. Part of the day
force at the Lonsdale Mills at Seneca,
S. c., went on strike and forced the
mills to shut down completely.
A. F. of L. Sell-Out
The strike at the Blue Mountain
Mill of the American Net and Irvine
Company, near Admission, has been
sold out by George L. Googe, South
eastern representative of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, and FEEDER
al Conciliator Richardson. The work.
ers were on strike against the new
efficiency system, which forces them
to do more work for the same pay.
None of the demands were won. The
efficiency system remains in force
The management has promised the
workers the right to organize a
union" It is evident that Geoge has
convinced the Admission bosses that
the A. F. of l.. union will be very
helpful to them. In spite of the
strike settlement" the plant remains
closed.
Googe told the workers of the Blue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-06
TWO STRIKES
CALLED IN
". PA. MINES
i 40 Strikes Led by the
Union Since April
IA STRIKE VICTORIES
Miners Respond to the
Union, Form 3 Locals

PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 5-Miners
Of the Patton mine came out on
strike Thursday for local demands
under the leadership Of the National
Miners Union. The mine is in West
moreland County where 3 other
strikes are now in progress, the Edna
number and and this Tolnajka
mines.
On Friday approximately 800 min
ers on the day shift of The Hubbard
mine came out on strike. Organ
izers of the National Miners Union
are at the scene and are giving
guidance to the strikers. This is the
third strike to take place this week
n the Western Pennsylvania field
and is continuation of the strike
movement developed through the
united front, organized by the Ma
.ional Miners Union.
The mine strikes are solid. Pres
sure of the strikers and the Unenl-
ployed Council has forced the relief
agencies to grant relief to the strikers
Over 200 miners have joined the
National Miners Union and three New
ocsls have been organized.
The miners are displaying a mil
liant spirit and are determined to
carry the strike on to victory.
A total of 40 strikes of which ID
have ended with victory for the
miners demands have been conduct
ed in the Western Pennsylvania and
Ohio coal fields since April l. The
strikes point to a broad struggle in
the near future and indicates the ire
mendous vitality existing in the mine
fields.
Last week the RenLon and Allison
mine strikers returned to their jobs
with all demands won. There are
still several mines out on strike; the
Isabelle, Hays, Hammond, Lilly mines
the Edna number one and two, the
Tomajka, Patton and Hubbard mines.
Funds are urgently needed and
workers and their organizations are
asked to rush their collections and
donations to the Office of the Ma
tional Miners Union, 1924 9Th Ave,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-06
NOTE ON MAP OF MORGAN
EMPIRE

Owing to lack of space in the
Daily Worker of Saturday, June 8,
the explanation of the Map Of
Morgan's Empire was abbreviated
so much that the meaning of the
chart was not made clear.
The corporations listed are nom
financial corporations which have
assets of over $1o0,000,0 900 each.
The eleven UNDERSIGNED have as.
Gets Of over billion dollars apiece.
Companies in the right hand list
are linked to Morgan either be-
cause ID they have had large de-
posts with the Morgan firm or
90 Morgan or his First National
Bank or Bonbright 81 Co, has
floated stocks or bonds for these
companies; or 90 at least one ex-
ecutive of the company was on one
or more of the favored" lists for
buying stock from Morgan below
the, market price.
Companies in the left-hsnd list
are linked to Morgan by oross-di-
rectorships with the Morgan firm,
the First National or Bonbright a.
Co.
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ern workers, and is something quite
new in the way Of efficiency" sys-
TENS. They figured the maximum
possible production that could be
squeezed out in given period, and
made it the standard for the ten
hour day. They decreed that if the
workers dropped below that produe-
ton standard, their work would be
docked by that much. No minimum
rate of pay was provided for any job
Now the time records no longer
showed how many hours the girls
worked, but how many hours they
made" by the standard of the new
efficiency system.
For instance, the girls in the label
division were sewing labels on la
garments an hour an average of
about az labels per minute. The
efficiency engineers decided on 8
standard of 1872 labels per hour for
IS cents an hour. II the workers
sewed only half that many labels
they got only ~ cents an hour, be-
ing dooked for everything under the
standard.
Sweatshops AT Home
The girls had gotten into the habit
of taking home the work they could
not finish during the day, and work.
ing on it at night with other men,
bers of the family, to make up theii
quota. But some material was lost
in this way, and the girls we're for
hidden to do it any longer. Instead
the plant hired other girls when the
regular crew was unable to keep up
and whenever the regular girls had
to receive such help they were dock
ed an hour day for it.
Very often material failed to come
thru, and the workers, forced to sill
idle, we're docked for this time also
Under this system, only the fastest
girls could earn SIS or Sc week
Many of the girls got pay checks Of
$3.50 for SIS hours in the mills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-06
TO BUILD FIGHTING
TEXTILE UNION
AT MEET TONIGHT

The workers in the Textile Trim
ming Industry, Knitters, Braiders,
Chenille Makers, etc are meeting to-
night TO discuss the question of a
strike to force the bosses to return
the wages which they have cut to a
starvation level, and to stop the
speed up of machinery.
The bosses in the industry have
organized for the purpose of cutting
wages and increasing the number Of
machines to be run by the knitters
Since last year wages have been cut
from $40 per week for one machine
to sl8 per week running three ma
chimes.
The Textile Trimming Workers
Union which was organized a year
ago was dominated by an element
that was friendly to the bosses and
refused 20 carry on a fight against
wage-cuts in the industry As a re-
suit the workers became discouraged
with leadership which refused to
lead the workers in the & grle for
improved conditions Many eft the
organization as result.
The bosses quickly took advantage
Of the weakness of the Union and
enforced starvation conditions on the
whole industry.
Confronted with the real facts to-
day, the workers are now responding
to the call of the Executive Com
naittee to organize for real fight
against starvation in the shops.
The Executive Committee of the
Textile Trimming workers Union
calls on all workers in the industry
to attend the mass meeting held in
the headquarters of the Union at 40
West 18th Street, Tuesday, June 6,
at 8 pm. to lay the foundation for
real fighting Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-06
GROW
AS STANDARD OIL
SLASHES WAGES
Rockefeller Firms Cut
Wages IA Million
Dollars

NEW YORK, June 4.-The Stand
ard Oil group Of companies which are
controlled by the Rockefellers will pay
even greater dividends in the second
quarter of this year than they did in
the first, it was announced today by
a leading Wall Street house.
The Rockefellers and the capital
lists who own Standard Oil stock COL
lected $32, 406 900 in dividends for the
first three months this year.
During the next three months, they
will collect $34,160,000 an increase of
more than 100000.
This will make the total dividends
paid out to the handful of Wall st.
stock spectators, and Rockefellers
over $66,50o,OoO for the first six
months of this year
One of the directors of the Stand
ard Oil Company is an Official of the
Chase National Bank, which in turn
is within the influence of the Nor
gans.
The total dividends paid out by the
Standard Oil Companies last year
was close to s12o,OOO,0O0.
STANDARD OIL CUT WAGES
How the Standard Oil Companies
manage to pay out tremendous for
tunes to their stockholders is partly
revealed in the report made by Her
bert L. Pratt, the chairman Of the
Board of Directors Of the Standard
Vacuum Corp. before the annual
meeting today.
He boosted to the assembled direc-
tors that the payroll had been re-
duced over $14,Ooo,000 during the year
through wage-cuts and making the
men doing more work for less wages.
Other expenses were reduced by
SN.Q0,Ooo. These reductions were
taken out of workers pensions, COM
pensations, etc.
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Cd Adequate relief for every IN
employed seaman. 90 three watches
(the eight hour day on every ship,
go full crews on all ships and "a
no workaways Qabor for a bare sub
sistence) on any ship.
A broad committee was elected to
prepare for another conference for
united action in the near future
All Unions Called.
The M.WIU. issued the confer
ence call to all marine unions, and
made it public to the seamen along
the beach in leaflet The letter
went to organizations of towboatmen,
officers and engineers as we'll as to
the unions of the unlicensed men in
the industry None of these orgeni-
cations sent delegates to the confer
ence.
/. w. W. Backs Out.
The IW.W., which took part in
the May Day united front was ex-
pected to send delegates and make
proposals for action at the confer
ence. In its reply TO the call sent
by the M.W.I.U. the I.W.W. said that
it would follow the traditional policy
of the IW.W. which is to support the
struggles of the workers in all places
at all times"
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union answered this with another
letter pointing out that the program
of the meeting was not only to sup
port struggles. but ito work out
plan to develop and lead struggles for
unemployment relief, full crews, three
watches and no workaways."
The IW.W. did not answer this
letter and did not appear at the con-
ference.
Since none of the unions called
on sent delegates the conference was
turned into a discussion among the
seamen present, organized and unor-
ganized. on the questions raised,
Good Proposals Made.
Many good proposals for action
developed out of the meeting. includ-
ing 9 suggestion for picketing the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-06
Baker Local sos Votes
Approval of A Strikes

NEW YORK. = The membership
meeting of Local sos International
Bakers Union, voted TO approve the
strike decision for the four large bak-
cries that locked-out their workers
in the past week.
Two hundred and fifty workers we're
locked-out by the Messing, Pechter,
Levy and Bell companies. Picketing
on the struck shops continues daily
from a.. m. to 10 p. m. Working class
organizations are supporting the
unions strike activities which now
spread to all parts OF the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-06
Supreme Court Holds
Sailor Guilty of Own
Death While at Sea

NEW YORK.-~A seaman who con-
tracts pneumonia and dies is reSpon-
sible for his own DEATH This is the
decision of the U. s. Supreme Court
in the case of Manuel Santiago, sea-
man aboard a vessel of the Baltimore
Insul. Line.
The so-ealled liberal Judge Car
dozo gave this decision in favor of
the shipping bosses on the basis Oh
the Jones act The robbing of the
dead sailors family from any in
dsmnity is clearly putting the re-
sponsibility for lack of hospitaliza-
ton on the patient himself while at
sea. They call it personal negli-
gence."