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Evening star., 1933-04-04
BURIAL TOMORROW
Brig. Gen. Golden L'Hommedieu
Ruggles Rites in Arlington.

Brig. Gen. Golden LHommedieu Rug
giles, U. S. A.. retired, who died in
Charleston. S. c.. Sunday. will be buried
in Arlington Cemetery at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning. Services are being
held today in Charleston where the
noted authority on gunnery and ord
nance made his Winter home.
Evening star., 1933-04-04
VIGIL is KEPT HERE
FOR FIVE OFFICERS
ABOARD DIRIGIBLE

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Seas Too Rough.
Some reports from the Coast Guard,
of "wreckage," indicating that the
Akron had not been able to ride on
the disturbed seas. 1t had been hoped
by naval men that the airship might
have come down slowly enough to sit
upon the waters and possibly with
stand the tearing waves. 1t mad even
been planned to lift the craft by the
use Of gas balloons salvage opera
tion apparently definitely abandoned
In view Of the reports from the Coast
Guard vessels.
There were no reports Of survivors
10 any Of the communications from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-28

ten, show the following prices for
August. as compared with March
Product March August
Flour C24la lib. SACK .5o-55 l.o5-1.15
Sugar 40 lb) 41-43 So SO
Macaroni q lb.) .os-.o7 10 10
Dried beans Il Id .03l2 .o7lz- .0s
Ballyhoo Hides Speed Up
In trying to prevent the growing
strikes Of the workers, the neWspap-
ers of New England made tremend-
Gus ballyhoo for the WOODEN code and
picked out Lawrence as the bright
spot in the textile field. Headlines
said. Mills Booming in Lawrence"
and great jubilation Gin the news
papers, was INDUCED in. But this
pickup" which has already pass
ed, and which was artificially stimu-
lated in order to put over the code
and prevent strikes did not fool the
bosses themselves. The same Boston
Herald Of the story of July which
contains the headline is headlined,
Lawrence Mills Hum With New
Trade Boom" contains the following
paragraph, THE more conservative
term the present state of business
as a premature seasona. increase.
They fear slump since they believe
that the industry's stimulation has
been caused by a spirit of specula-
ton on the part Of jobbers. If the
gamble OF the jobbers does not ma
terialize it is conceivable that the
seeming upturn may prove q BOOM
erana"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-28
Bridgeport Needle
Workers Gain Pay
Rise by Striking
Win All 6 Demands
After 3 Weeks
Walkout

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Aug. 81
The strike Of over 300 needle work
ers of the Mitchell Brothers Under
wear Company, nearing the end of
the third week and led by the
Needle Trades Workers InduGtrial
Union, was brought to close after
the company had a9reed to the six
main demands OF the strikers, in
GLIDING the recognition of the chop
committee.
The settlement guarantees that
prices on all operations will be
raised TO enable all experienced
workers to make $13 a week and
over. Experienced workers will no
longer be re-classified as learners"
All workers fired two weeks before
the strike will be reinstated All
strikers return to work without any
determination, and tie workers
have the right to deal with the COM
pany collectively through their shop
committee.
The A. F. of l.. and Socialist Party
tried to split the ranks Of the strik-
ers from the very beginning and &C.
tually did succeed in keeping the
cutters away from all strike meet
ings and the picket line, but the
great majority CT the strikers re-
jected the leadership of the A. F.
of L. and stuck to the Industrial
Union leadership to the very end
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-28
Shaded by Wings of Blue Eagle, Wooden
Companies Have Been Fleeing Workers in a
Dozen Ways, Shooting Up Profits

following day everybodies time was
cut out entirely. The Monomac
mill has laid off whole depart
ments, the carders and mule spin
ners. The wood mill winders are on
part time.
Prices Up IL Per Cent
The mill owners claim that the
code gave 10 per cent increase in
wages. This is the main claim Of
the code. But the wooden code gave
5000 per cent speed-up and the
increase In the hourly rate was used
rs means Of speeding up the work
crs. The code gave part time work
and unemployment While the sup
posed 10 per cent increase in wages
was installed what happened to
prices? In one month the price Of
foodstuffs increased II per cent from
June to July. The Community
Health Association of Boston issued
a special report in July on "the un-
usual rise OF food prices since June"
This Association gets out minimum
food budget for family of five "a
workers family not bosses family')
This starvation budget, was $753 in
June. To buy the same food in July
one month later, worker has to
spend 1914. And prices are still
rising rapidly In one month the
price of necessities rose higher than
the 10 per cent increase which the
code is supposed to have given the
workers. The figures compiled by
the N. e. Labor Research Associa-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-28
Over 20 Strikes Took Place in New England
in July, 10000 Workers Took Part
in the Textile Industry

won in strike.
At the time that preparations were
being made to put into effect, the
wooden textile code, the first week
in August, the mill owners an
nounced, Hourly and piece work
rates of all operatives under the
code will be so adjusted that they
will receive the same amount Of
wages for 40 hours work that they
were paid at the former 48 hour
schedule, effective August 7. The
minimum wage will be $14.00 a week"
The testimony Of the workers has
proved that this has already been
violated, and instead, speed-up and
wage cuts have been given. First,
several thousand workers are already
on part time and are not getting the
S14.00 minimum wage but rs low rs
$500 a week. (See previous story
on sLawrence).
Wage Raises Negligible
A survey made among the work
ers OF two Of the largest mills, the
Wood Mill and the Arlington, by
June Croll, Of the National Textile
Workers Union, shows that even
those working the full forty hour
week, have had their rate Of wages
increased negligible amount. The
yarn boys, doffers, oilers, bobbin set
tiers, at the Wood mill get paid $14
for 40 hours when they work that
many. They were getting around
$1,000 week, some as low as $3.50.
The winders in the Arlington mill
get S14 to $16 a week, before they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-28
Roosevelt Signs Open Shop
Auto Code, OKd by Green
Green, on National Hook-Up,
Urges Workers Not to Strike

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-Now act
ing as an integral part of the Roose-
welt government machinery, William
Green, president Of the American
Federation Of Labor, pleaded today
with the workers of the country over
nationwide radio hook-up not to
resist the application of the NRA
slavery Codes.
Green, in conscious concealrnent of
the strikes that have broken out in
the Shipyards where the codes have
been applied, described the MIRA as
working great advantages for the
workers.
"A wider distribution of wo.k is
being made through reduction of
the hours Of labor. For obvious rea-
SONS. the wages must also be increased
as the hours of labor are reduced
Green said. But his words are in
contradiction to the fact that thou
sands CT workers in the shipyards and
elsewhere have gone on strike pre-
ciseley because the application OF
the codes results in the spreading
of work without increases in pay-a
net wage cut for the workers.
Unable to hide the failure of the
NRA codes to appreciably increase
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Wages 60 Down. Prices and Profits Go Ub in laurence Mass

ers are quitting" one worker said,
We can't keep up the pace, we can't
make our minimum with poor stuff I"
Another worker said, 1.-THE wages
(piece work. are based on six looms.
Often one or more of these looms
stand idle for repairs. Then we
have to make Our minimum anyhow.
If you get good work, you might
make $4,000. If you get poor, you
might make only $11.00. The loom
fixers now have too many looms to
fix and thus looms often stand idle"
In the Shawsheen mills the looms
run $50 picks minute, in other
mills 1870 picks.
Rest Period Taken Away
The workers report the following:
Since the code the dye house work.
ers in the Wood mill attend ket-
ties instead of two. In the Wood
mill wet flnishers used to run one
machine running IL sets of cloth.
Now Q men run the same machine
and have to produce the same
amount. Among the men running
the washing machines, the same two
men ran three washers, now they
run eight washers.
In the Aver mill there we're 40
wool sorters. Right after the code
20 were fired The next day 90
learners were hired cat less wages
and this force had to turn out the
same work as before. The wool
sorters in the Wood mill were order
ed to increase production by At
pounds a day.
Before the code all workers at the
Wood mill got Is minutes twice
day to wash up. The code went in
to effect Monday. The next day
the time of the loom fixers to wash
up was cut to 10 minutes, and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-28
Reject NRA Efforts
to Break Strike of.
Observation-Disclosures
Wanted Men to Go
Back Pending NRA
Cancellation

BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 81 The
sheepskin and leathercoat strikers
here yesterday rejected the attempt
OF NRA officials to call of the strike
and rely on arbitration.
At the conference called by the
MIRA at which employers and a COM
mittee of strikers, headed by Feingold,
were present, the NRA demanded
that the union call upon the strikers
to return to the shops, leaving the
demands to arbitration. Several work.
ers on the committee not realizing
the meaning of this demand agreed,
but Feingold refused even to consider
it. The strike committee upheld his
position.
A mass meeting of strikers will be
held Monday at o'clock where the
question will be finally acted Oh. One
Of the employers, the Davis Lea mr.
cost and Sportwesr Co. signed an
agreement granting all demands, in
Guiding 80 per cent wage increase,
breaking the united line of the en-
ployers. A number of strikers will be
in court Monday charged with assault
and battery and contempt of court.
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7. U. U. L.
Struggles against the NRA are
developing" Stachel said. 1.-THE
workers are striking against the
steel code which is typical of the
NRA, and gave the bosses every
thing they wanted" He gave ex-
amples of how the textile code
worked and how codes worked in
other industries.
''We are now witnessing the
greatest strike movement since
1922" declared Stachel. He pointed
particularly to the mine strike,
the dress strike and the strike in
steel and textile. He proposed the
strikebreaking role of the MIRA.
"The TUUL," he said "since the
NRA was passed, has shown it can
lead and win strikes. In the steel
strike in Buffalo and McKees
Rocks, the Steel and Metal Work
ers Union, affiliated to the TUUL,
gained 1000 new members in re-
cent weeks. The TUUL has gained
10000 new members, and organ
lied tens OF thousands into in
dependent unions"
If enough unions join with US
to work out united call for a
united TUUL convention in the
middle of November" he said, sit
will be possible to form even a
broader trade union center, to unite
every union on the class struggle
basis"
In the discussion, Ann Burlak,
secretary OF the National Textile
Workers Union read letters from
mills in New Orleans, New Bed
fora, Providence, and other cities,
illustrating wage-cuts,s stretchouts,
layoffs, under the MIRA. She told
OF the A. F. of l.. treachery in
Salem.
kerson, of Minnesota, from the
packing plants, said the workers
refused the A. F. of l.. recruit
ment. Nine hundred in two weeks
Joined the industrial union in So.
st. Paul. He told of the forma-
ton of an Independent union in
the packing houses in Austin, CO.
OPOi1tiilS WIN tilC u ldl I'LL
ion. "Ihey sent delegates to this
conference, he said. Their wages
were cut by the MIRA code"
Clark OF the Independent Movie
Operators Union in New Orleans,
described the terror against the
Negroes in the South. A young
Pennsylvania miner, Bernardo, told
OF the demands of the young min
ers.
A militant worker from the nut
pickers' strike, Carrie Smith, a
Negro working woman, told of the
strike of the Negro workers in
St. Louis. Frazier spoke for the
Jamestown furniture strikers.
Sponseller from the Engineers
Brotherhood spoke.
Industrial conferences on steel,
mining, food, textile, shoe, etc.
were set for Sunday.
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employment, Green spoke vaguely
about thousands getting work He
was reluctant to give figures. The Of
fetal reports show that only 100000
have been re-employed, despite the
so per cent rise in steel production
and textile production. Employment
shows, according TO the American
Federationist,' Green's own magazine,
en- increase of not more than 1.6 per
cent up to August.
Green made a special plea against
all strikes, continuing the no-stTike
agreement that he made with Hoover.
Repeating the emotional appeals re-
miniscent of the late World War, he
declared that Labor is expected to
do its part. The nation is enlisting
men and women in a great war
against powerful forces 49," In these
words, the strikebreaking purpse of
Green's speech is evident,
In a vein quite similar to Norman
Thomas, Green declared that the ap
plication Of the NRA codes in reality
means the end of the "old capital
ist" implying that the capitalist class
is no longer exploiting the workers.
The whole purpose of the NRA
codes, the justification of industry
the increasing of the profits of the
employers the intensified exploitation
Of the workers, were completely ig
nored in Green's speech, which the
Morgan controlled National Broad
casting Company took such pains to
carry throughout the nation.
AS if in complete confirmation of
Green's strikebreaking speech, John
D. Rockefeller, Jr. also spoke oyer the
radio asking for support of the NRA
codes. Rockefeller is one of the most
hated and ruthless exploiters Of the
workers in this country, beside being
one Of the richest men in the world,
Having nothing to fear from the
MIRA. and expecting TO profit from it,
he joined Green in praising it.
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0ut1 1-2DaysPiano
Strikers in Chicago
Win Wage Increases
Strike Led by Furni-
ture Workers In
dustrial Union

CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 27.-One hun
dred and seventy workers of the Gull
branson Piano Co., Chicago, won a
victory after one and half days Of
strike, The boss asked that they re-
turn to work at noon, but the work
ers decided to celebrate their VIC
tory and take the day off. They won
recognition of the shop committee
abolition of gang piece work. guar
antee of the hourly rates and in
crease Of 10 to IS per cent.
This rapid victory was aided by
the splendid struggle of the 375
workers of the Kiinball Piano Co.,
26th and Washtenaw whose strike
is going into it's second week. The
spirit of the workers was shown in
their daily mass picket line, and by
the militant leadership that has been
developed among the workers. The
strike is getting stronger every day
and about $50 have signed up with
the union
In the KimbaIl factory there are
no Washroons, water is leaking from
the toilets, and often flows through
the rotten floor onto the heads of the
workers below. The lights are very
poor, and there is practically no heat
in the winter time except in the Of
flee. The speed-up is intense. The
most skilled workers, who have been
employed ten to thirty years, are
able to earn up to SIS a week only
with terrific speed-up. The entire
shop is on piece work.
Both strikes were led by the Fur
niture Workers Industrial Union,
1853 West Madison St, Chicago, III.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-28
U. S. Army Sends 80
Machine Guns for
Utah Coal Scabbers
Use Gas Bombs; Jail
III N.M.U. Leaders
of Strike

<. HEEL PER, Utah, Aug. 27.-Armed
forces, with the use Of tear gas
bombs smashed the picket lines OF
the coal strikers here at Grodon
Greek last night. The strike is un-
der the leadership of the National
Miners Union.
Wholesale arrests followed. An
attack is expected any minute on
the Spring Canyon picket line, where
1900 strike picketS are modified.
All highways are patrolled by sew
eral hundred armed deputies. Some
roads are completely blocked, and
airplanes are flying overhead above
the picket lines.
Sylvia Crouch, organizer of the N.
M. U. Womens Auxiliary, who was
dragged from her bed and arrested
early yesterday morning, is being
held incommunicado in the Helper
Jail. She has been refused bail. No
definite charges have been placed
against her.
Deputies are hunting for Charles
Guynn and Paul Crouch, union or
ganiSers. Defense Attorney j. H
Mcknight arrived from Salt Lake
City, but was refused permission to
see Sylvia Crouch. He was also for
hidden to visit the picket lines.
A national campaign of protest is
necessary, as well as the rushing of
strike relief Immediately.
The ranks of the strikers remain
unbroken, despite the armed as
sault.
Unemployed workers are helping
to picket. The Kenilworth, one OF
the largest Utah coal mines, has
been closed by strike.
The vicious terror was begun when
the operators feared that there
would be a general strike throughout
the Utah coal fields The Fearless
mine was shut down to avoid a
strike.
TIE combined forces of the county
ard state were mcbilised. together
with the UMWA. officials, who are
set for murderous attack. About
200, mostly UMW.A. members, have
been deputized by Sheriff Bliss.
They are armed with rifles, tear gas,
and thirty Browning machine guns
sent here in four amy trucks and
are row drilling In Legion Hall
Friday sheriff Bliss ordered the
abandonment Of mass picl.eting Oil
the pretcrse Of trcspacsinT on com
pany property. The UMW.A has
ordered its men to continue to work.
They have officially demanded in a
resolution to Governor Blood that
officials remove Communist leaders
and their aids from our midst"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-28
Mote: This is the second In 4
series on Lawrence, Mass.)
BY CARL REEVE

LAWRENCE, Mass, Aug. 27.-The
wages of the textile workers have
been drastically cut since the start
Of the wooden textile code the first
week in August, especially with high
er prices on necessities, and profits
of the wooden companies have gone
steadily up. In one month prices
have risen IL per cent and the high
est wage increase in Lawrence was
10 per cent.
The mill owners were alarmed at
the wave Of strikes which broke out
throughout the entire textile field
of New England in May, June and
early July. In July there were 40
strikes in New England, involving
$4,000, of whom nearly 10000 were
in the textile industry. Eighty-one
hundred Of these workers struck
after the textile code went into eff
feet.
Rosy Promises Broken
Fearing the spread Of these strug-
giles against wage cuts and speed up,
and the growth Of the National Tex
tile Workers Union, the mill owners
fastened to make rosy promises to
the workers and announced conces-
sions. But these promises were al
most Immediately broken and the
concessions" were made under the
ode, so that the protection Of the
,ode could be used for robbing the
workers of the concessions they had
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got around $1,000.
The spinners In the Wood mill get
$18.64 week for 4 sides, where they
were getting $17.s5. The combing
room at Wood mill pays $16.44, and
the burlers get $14 to $40 the high
est. In the Arlington Mill combers
get. $500, which is reduction of
seventy cents under what they made
Cat night before the code. Weav-
ers at Arlington get $1,000. Work
ers of the more highly skilled trades
like the loom fixers, French spinners,
pinSetters, ETC., complain that they
get less pay or the same as they got
before the code. The combers at
Wood have been raised only from
$3.50 to $18.64; the drawers at Ar
lington from $13.65 to $14.60.
johnson Has Amended Code
But the thousands Of workers on
piece work with these "rates" have
been speeded up in many cases twice
as fast. The combs run faster. The
workers are told make your mini
mum or get out" The shifts have
been changed so that there are now
six shifts, all beginning at different
times Of the day. The code has
already been amended by johnson
just few days ago, so as mot to
curtail the operation of the comb
ing and spinning machinery" with
regard to the number of hours. In
the Arlington mill the workers have
been told If you don't produce your
$14.o0 minimum wage by your piece
work in one week, you will have
to make 1t up the next week. Weav-
ers operate six looms instead of the
two looms before 1881.
Get Poor Yarn
In the Arlington mill where I
work we get poor yarn and weav-
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young workers, Negro WORKERS.
There was large sprinkling of chill
dren carried in the arms of women
or borne aloft mems shoulders. The
vast majority in the audience wore
rough working clothes. Many were
delegates from labor organizations
who had arrived for the Trade
Union Conference for United Action
converting in the Locomotive En-
gineers Auditorium tomorrow.
"The bosses politicians are play
ing with lives of men, women and
children" he declared He cited the
textile workers as living under con-
ditions worse than any in the last
SO years, following the acceptance
of the NRA textile code.
"rhe bosses," he further stated,
ARE now getting so per cent more
production, under the NRA, while
paying the entire working class only
per cent more in wages" The
actual wage cut since Roosevelt took
office, he stated, amounts to q per
cent, due to 80 per cent rise in
prices.
On his asking the workers if they
were any better off under Roose-
welt than they were under the vi
cious Hoover administration, the
workers roared back, mo! Mop
He urged the workers to support
the Trades Union Conference for
United Action, to organize within
all factories, shops, mills union or
carnations not under A. r. of L..
but under militant union leadership.
"The capitalist class has con-
fesed its inability to keep industry
running" he said "We, the Com
munists, have simple remedy, but
a remedy the capitalist class dares
not adopt. We say to the boss class,
throw open the warehouses where
there are millions of bushels of
wheat and we who are hungry will
eat it up instead of you destroying
it to raise prices. Don't underplow
cotton. Give US the cotton, and we
workers who know how to make
cloth will manufacture clothing for
those of Us who are ragged. Those
Of US who are construction workers
say throw open the buildings now
empty and we'll fill them in two
days with homeless workers"
Candidate for Mayor on the Com
munist ticket here, l. 0. Ford, stir
red the audience to loud applause
when he declared that in running
for office he did not represent the
bankers and the bosses but only the
working class. "Only the Commu-
MIST PARTY is fipl1tino for +ho work