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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29

over $50,000,000 from 1914 to 1919.
In recent months it has made two
orders for the Federal Cartridge Co.
OF Minneapolis, MINI. 1t also makes
brass tubing, ETC., for the Forst Co. a
small metal shop located here which
made machine gun bullets and small
shells during the World War.
The employment manager of the
company j. D. Alexander is the most
vicious labor hater and strike breaker
in Kenosha. This man is colonel of
the local cavalry troop of the Ma
tional Guard, and personally super
vised their activities when they were
sent into Racine County to break the
recent Wisconsin Milk Strike. He
ordered deputized thug to shoot at
car that was passing by the strik-
ers, and the driver, a young farmer
lad of 10, was shot in the back and
almost died as result
In order to improve thei- condi-
tons 10 raise their mis- orably low
wages and to end the unbearable
speed-up that prevails throughout
the plant, the workers of the Amer.
lean Brass Co. will havo to get to-
gether and set up representative de-
partment committees, establish a
local of the Steel and Metal Work
ers Industrial Union, and fight the
bosses with their only weapon, their
united and militant solidarity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29

began to function, just for trying to
organize the workers in the automo-
! bile industry. Further on appealing
to those present to make out an ap-
plication blank. The fee being S.
but those that have not got that
much money can make payment
of not less than SOC and pay the bal
lance later; we want only American
citizens and those that believe in the
principles of American government.
The A. F. of L. does not believe
in strikes and violence. Strikes will
be out of the picture in short while,
he said And those agitators that
talk most usually are not on the job,
when the job really gets tough, then
the A. F. of L. must step in and
settle the strike, anyway.
This same man spoke the same
over again in the Northern High
School Thursday evening to the Muir
ray Body workers of whom only %
attended.
A young college bred man kept on
collecting fees from his prospective
victims. And after being through
with the collection of money, this
young fellow was presented to the
audience as the organizer of the
Chrysler Body Plant.
The workers then were urged to
select one member from each de-
partment, who then will come with
the organizer into the adjoining
room and there in private present
the grievances from his department
The workers all seemed elated over
their being able to hit the Chrysler
corporation in this manner and that
their grievances even may be pre-
sented to the Washington authori-
ties.
One by one fell in line of confess
sion. And to their surprise the next
day, while going home from the shop
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Remind Organizers
of A. +. Of |. Sellout
(By a Worker Correspondent

BALTIMORE, Md.-Goinge into
work at 2:30, l noticed some men
talking on the parking lot to Mr..
O'Brien, the Tin & Sheet manager,
in the Bethlehem Steel Plant. They
seemed to be deeply involved in
thought and conversation.
Imagine my surprise on attend
ing the A. F. of L. open air meet
ing on the point to find that these
men were Mr.. Sause and Mr.. Dorf,
organizers of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Sheet Metal
and Tin Workers. Sause did most
of the speaking Il thought he was
praying at first. He took up
most of his time thus: 81 refuse
to answer that question, it is
out of order" The only questions
in order were initiation and dues.
The meeting was held day after
pay day.
After the people started leav-
ing, colored man remarked,
"Dog gone, just think, one man
broke up the meeting. He said,
come on, folks, let's go home and
all the people just quit. That man
stood there with his mouth gaping
open like a galdanged fool.
got more out of that than if l
paid 25 cents to see a show. He
is just nocount. amt fooled
with him at ALL"
I heard some people say, "That
Bolshevik Bailey seems to have a
good education, and he knows
what he is talking about"
I was thinking about signing up
with the A. F. of L., but after
going to that meeting, l changed
my mind. When one worker who
was in the 1919 strike asked what
happened there, the organizers re-
fused to answer. He was so loud
and insistent that several workers
took up the cry. "What happened
in 1897"
The A. F. of L. will never be
able to organize the plant from the
outside. "a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29

even during working hours.
Later one of the boys asked me
about my salary. I had to admit
that I didn't know as yet. He then
warned me to look after it as the
boss was very liable to try and put
something over on me.
The next day I gathered enough
courage together to approach the boss
and ask him what sort Of Fay would
get, His answer was:
Look here, why worry about pay
you have nice job, haven't you?
Stick around for a few weeks. Be
good and then we'll talk business
The next day again asked him
and told him that I would quit I'M
less he told me how much he would
pay. He then warned me not to do
anything foolish lest I be sorry for
| it afterwards.
The next morning asked him for
my pay and then I found out that
my suspicious were well founded. He
figured up my time at the rate of So
a week, or Is cents per hour. This
for a skilled mechanic.
Right then and there started to
raise hell in the shop in front of all
the boys, and I forced him to pay
more. Finally he fixed it up at the
rate of 20 cents per hour. This
wasn't victory, though it was bet
ter than Is cents per hour that he
had wanted to give me.
The New Deap' has given me a
Raw Deal SO far. But at any rate
I'm sort of glad, because when I
walked out of the shop one of the
colored workers nudged me with his
elbow and remarked, You're o. K,
kid, we'll know what to do the next
| time"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29

perlty was coming back. The COM
pany announced 10 per cent in
crease, and this was also ballyhooed.
The newspaper failed to point out,
however, that even this 10 per cent
raise, which many workers did not
receive at all, brought the average
wage of the men to around only
40-45 cents an hour, fully 20 cents
an hour lower than the average in '29
and 80.
Typical Of the effect of this in
crease was the case of Sam Jones
(name changed to protect this
workers job who was laid off in
1881, when he was making SIS cents
an hour after one wage cut. Two
months ago he got back to work
again. His starting wage was 321a
cents an hour, and with the $50
called" 10 per cent increase this
amounted to only 35 cents an hour.
Thus his wages were over so per cent
less than what they had been in
81.
In their official announcement,
the company had the CUTS to state
that it was because of the rise in
commodity prices and that they
wanted the men to receive enough
money to meet the rising cost of
living. They gave only 10 per cent
increase when living costs rose 20
per cent and more!
Now in the first month of the
MIRA, the company is beginning to
lay off men. On Friday, Aug. 10
there was no work for either the day
or night shift in the copper mill
This affected from 400 TO 500 men
The week from Aug. IA to 20 the
men in the casting department CSC
to so in number worked only a
couple of days. In the rod mill some
men work one day and stay home
the next. Recently the company has
called men to work at in the morn
ing and then sent them home, only
to call them back at 9, and then they
work just couple of hours. This is
the NEW DEAL for the American
Brass workers.
The American Brass Co. is large
producer of war materials and made
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29

and before punching their time card
out, all of those that had confessed,
we're handed a slip of paper from
their foreman in their department.
telling them that their services are
terminated with the corporation and
that they need apply no more for
work there. That means they are
on the black list.
All the rest OF the workers agree
that the organizers are being sup
piled to the A. F. of L. by the COM
panies, and they are right. The or
ganizers are men that never worked
in the auto plants, nor in any other
industry, they are trained spies by
an outfit in the First National Bank
Building in Detroit. That's where
the A. F. Of L. gets their forces to o.
ganize the auto workers in Detroit
and maybe elsewhere too
N.
Editors Note: Tie auto workers
will get honest militant leadership
from The Auto Workers Industrial
Union, 421o woodward Ave, Detroit,
Mich.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29

--Walt--HoW OLD are your
"Twenty-four"
What kind of work do you DOE
I'm a mechanic served my
time as tool and die maker"
'Wen I tell you I don't really
need man . but then again I'd
like to help you besides I could
always use a man about your age,
one that knows his business well
think I'll hire you, go ahead and
speak to my foreman"
Boy. At last I'm hired, after
Is months of cumming around. The
next day I started on my new job.
The place is a perfect reproduction
of the average manufacturing plant
throughout the country. 1t is poorly
lighted, the air is choking heavy and
the machines are dangerously crowd
ed together and are bare of any
covering or safety devices. One is
actually swimming in the heavy cut
ting oil
The men, mostly colored and Gu
ban workers, move back and forth
with tired movements and tired looks
on their faces.
During lunch hour, I was able to
start a conversation with some of the
boys. All were complaining of the
rotten treatment they we're getting
some even remarked that it was
about time to do something about it,
but they lack the necessary coop
Grafton and leadership. I took down
a few Hunger Fighters with me and
left them in the dressing room. You
should have seen the result. Every
body grabbed them. The result was
that the workers read each copy
thoroughly and discussion went on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Steel Co. Docks Wages
As a Loan, But Fails to
ReturnW Money
fBy a Worker Correspondent,


CHESTER, Pa.-Great dissatisfac-
ton is expressed here among the
workers at the Atlantic Steel Com
pany's plant, at 9Th and Lloyd SITS.
They are deducting 80 per cent Of
the workers wages The bosses pro-
missed the workers that this was Just
loan to the company to help tide
over the depression and it would be
paid back to the workers in a short
time.
Recently two workers-one colored
worker and one white asked the boss
when the workers could get their
money back? The boss told them
that they could not do it now on
account Of the new rules and regula-
tions set forth in Roosevelt's NRA.
They told the workers that the gov
crnment was forcing the company to
lose money.
When the workers protested, the
boss told them that if they did not
like it they could get out, and that
they could not get their money back
and that was all there was it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Memphis Tenn.

Memphis Tenn.
Ccmrade Editor:
AS suggestion for the improve
ment Of the new Daily might say
that trade union and c. P. organizers
should be forced to write concretely
Of their experiences with individual
situations and workers. I say this be-
cause I have found in the last six
months just what organizers come in
contact with every day, and these sit
uations, clearly written, can be more
interesting than fiction stories, and
can certainly be more instructive to
workers on how to meet these small,
individual situations and prejudices
And, after all, the solving of these
tiny problems from the real basis of
our movement. What 1 suggest is best
sxemplified, I think, by the Russian
account of the strike of the Dredging
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Letters from Our Readers

Fleet. America has thousands of such
stories. Let's have them. hope, my
self, to be able to send you some such
efforts if you decide you want them.
B. L
Editors Note:-Let's have them.
Long Island City, N. Y
Comrade Editor:
We were selling the "Queensboro
Voice" at Lofts, and sold Al copies.
Two workers said to us: why aren't
you selling the Daily Worker too?"
We also made a contact at A. c.
Horn. He is disguised and says The
whole shop is disguised with the
NRA, which has been in effect since
August 3. We asked this guy if he
wanted to help organize the place,
and he said yes. He wants to meet
with u.s. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Blue Eagle i'm Window;
Workers Are Laid Off
BY a Metal Worker Correspondent

By a Metal Worker Correspondent
ELKHART, Ind.-Every bust
ness man and manufacturer has
the Blue Eagle in the windows
but they do not abide by that
rule. For instance, a factory here
laid off Il men out of 81 i en-
ployed and the rest got between
2 and 5 cents raise, which is, not
even the minimum wage. The
company they worked for was
the General Motors and Frigidaire,
which laid off 5000 men. e,NAnd
still the local capitalist press
states that business is picking up.
How do these lay offs compare
with Roosevelt's Recovery Act,
where more men are supposed to
be employed? I call the N. RIA.
"New Racketeering Association
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29

Communist Party has brought for
ward the Negro masses, in the
struggle for their national liberation,
as an important ally of the American
proletariat against American capital
ism.
IN 1880 the first international con-
l ference of Negro workers was or
ganized at Hamburg, Germany,
largely by Negro Communists from
the United States. This conference
publishes an international magazine,
1.-THE Negro Worker. The fruits OF
this work now reaches into Africa
and the West Indies.
With the correct revolutionary
theory on the Negro question particu-
larry the national question, our Party
has been able to make gains among
the Negroes. This was achieved with
the help and experiences Of the
world movement, the Communist In
ternational.
In the first place, our Party with
the help of the Communist Inter-
national corrected the wrong theory
and position advanced by the Love-
stone renegades on the Negro ques-
ton. According to Lovestone the
Negro toilers in the agricultural
South we're a reserve for capitalist
reaction. This theory flowed from
the basically false theory Of Love-
stone that American capitalism had
entered period of permanent pros
perity and that the so-called indus
trial revolution would sweep away all
remnants of oppression of the Ne
groes.
THE Open Letter to the Party has
1 placed bigger tasks before us now;
to win the most decisive masses OF
Negro workers for our Party and to
head the national liberation struggle
of the Negro people. The bourgeoisie
fears the growing influence Of Com
munism among the Negroes. It is
doing everything it can to stop this
development 1t is especially trying
to hinder this development through
the use of Negro reformists who are
their willing tools. They are trying
to block and to prevent the develop
ment of mass action, as opposed to
the legalistic methods of the NAACP,
as the only effective instrument
against lynching and national OPP
preston.
f.. Great efforts are being made by
our class enemies, especially in Har-
lem, the center of Negro bourgeois
reformisnr to block ideologically and
otherwise the growing unity Of Negro
and white workers, by nourishing
Negro bourgeois nationalism, by the
influence of the church, the preach
ers and the Negro middle-claSs lead
ers.
In Harlem and in every section Of
the country we must defeat the bos-
ses and their agents by organizing
mass movement for Negro rights.
by recruiting new Negro members
into our Party and the revolution
airy trade unions, by popularizing the
full Communist program on the Me-
gro question among the Negro mas
ses, by popularizing the solution of
the national question in the Soviet
Union, by intensifying our campaign
against every manifestation Of white
chauvinism, and by intensifying our
struggle in support Of self-determi-
nation for the Negroes in the Black
Belt of the South. BY consolidating
the gains already made through the
election campaign and the begin
pings of mass movement around the
Scottsboro case, let us go forward
building united mass movement OF
Negro and white workers for the
overthrow Of capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29

WORKER, who is now in the Soviet
Union.
tBy Soviet Worker Correspondent
MAGNITOGCRSK, Soviet Union
Great developments have taken place
in large scale industries in this So
cialist city.
1t is about year now that our two
blast furnaces are working full blast.
The No. 8 blast furnace was started
May 26 and the No. will start in a
few months. Fourteen Martins Fur
naces" are being built and 2 of them
are going to start very soon. Two
Blooming" for the production of
rails for the Observation-Disclosures &c
Martins Furnaces" will be built. Six
Koks batteries are also to be built.
Many of the factory workers have
planted potatoes for their own use so
as to help the agricultural workers
along. Industries are developing
faster in some places than agricul-
ture. The potatoes were planted by
2 "Snbotniks'' Of ell the workers in
our factory Gree dayc, devoted by
factory workers to helping the peas
ants. The weather is fine and good
harvest Is expected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Increase Won in Strike
Taken Again by Cut
tBy a Worker Correspondent

CHESTER, Pa.-Workers in the
National Sun Ship Yard are losing
full months house rent on account
OF the cut, or shortening of hours by
the NRA. Though the burners in the
Sun Ship Yard forced a 81 raise, the
cut resulting from the MIRA plan was
s2.7o for the Burners and consider
ably more in other departments, and
in some amounted to a months house
rent. 80
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Strong Organization
of American Can Co.
Workers Is Developing
(By a Worker Correspondent

Wy q VV1hOl SOilCSpOlucutJ
HAYWOOD, Ill.-Since the birth of
little MIRA we are building up a
strong organization in the face of
stubborn opposition from Socialists
and A. F. of L. organizers.
Our big shops here are the mass
production plants of the American
Can Company, where wages are pitt
fully low and the workers have never
been organized With the advent of
MIRA the A. F. of L. set about or
ganizing a Federal Union" in these
shops, but we have a substantial
number of our members now work
ing in them, and we are planning a
workers committee to represent the
employees in negotiations with the
company for wage increases and bet
ter conditions.
In addition to our own efforts we
are using the Daily Worker, so far
as we are able, to arouse self-interest
in the workers and we feel certain of
success in the end.
If you know of activity in this in
dustry elsewhere it would lend en-
enlargement here to see an account
of it in the Daily Worker.
Yours for bigger organization.
M. N.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29

DOuTSG influence UIlaG IllnQeIS UIllS
struggle, such as white chauvinism or
race prejudices, and striven to unity
Negro and white workers in the
struggle to overthrow capitalist domi-
nation.
In 1928 there were less than fifty
Negro members in our Party. Today
there are several thousand Negro
members, of whom over two hundred
are leading functionaries. Besides
the regular Communist press there
are several newspapers especially de-
voted to organizing the liberation
struggle of the Negro people. Our
Party has wide influence among sle
non-Party masses of Negroes.
In the 1882 national elections the
Communist Party dramatized it's
sincerity and its determination to
fight for Negro rights and complete
equality for the Negroes, and it's
support for the right to self -determi-
nation for the Negroes in the Black
Belt of the South by putting for
ward Negro as its vice presidential
candidate. 1t did this in the face
of the greatest Negro-phobia and
race hatred cultivated by the bourge-
oisie; it convinced white workers
that they should support the strug-
gle for Negro rights.
In the Scottsboro case white CAPT.
talist-landlord domination, govern
mental rule over the Negroes in the
South by state apparatus, militia, the
police and the courts, has been chal-
lenged. The whole system of ma
tional oppression of the Negroes has
been exposed. BY doing this the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
SHOES AND HEALTH

Bad shoes cause bad feet and
bad feet cause bad health. BY
bad shoes we mean shoes that
are too pointed or with heels that
are too high. The shoe should as
much as possible follow the shape
of the foot. And the baby should
not wear shoes until he begins to
creep. And then be sure to get
hem large enough. with nice soft
isles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
"Hunger Fighters,
Inside Metal Shop,
Arouse Enthusiasm
Skilled Toolmaker Draws Negro and Cuban
Workers Toward Class Struggle By His
Agitation Inside the Shop
(By a Metal Worker Corresponds

(By Correspondent
CITY-The place is the GREAT EASTERN BRASS
PRODUCTS ST.
= Good morning"
want?'
Yin ookn fOr a MANI"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Make S12 or Get Fired,
Says Cash Register Co.
(By a Worker Correspondent

DAYTON, Ohio.-In the National
Cash Register, women workers were
put on piece work, and those that
can't keep up get the gate. They were
oil weekly wages before the MIRA and
now they get fired if they can't
grind out s12 on piece work In a
40 hour week. The men get the same
deal, but their wages are sl4 mini
mum on piece work. -,
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1Sa##EAN ~ A
Today's Menu

These menus and those for the
preceding two days and for the
next three or four days were
sent by Comrade A. R. In the
future we must have directions
for cooking with menus, or we
eannot use them.
Tuesday
BREAKFAST
Orange juice.
Scrambled eggs with toast and
aeon.
Coffee-n1ilk.
LUNCH
Corn on cob.
Lettuce and tomato salad.
Bread pudding.
Tea-cocoa.
For the pudding: Pour milk
sver white bread, mix, add three
eggs well beaten; sugar to taste,
add few raisins (or a little
vanilla-Ed.) put in buttered bak-
ing dish, sprinkle with cinnamon,
bake rs minutes lin a moderate
oven-Ed).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Agent of the Medical Trust

R. S., Detroit-Because the writer
does not agree with you that cancer
is due to flies and salt, you accuse
him of being an agent Of the Sur
gical Instrument Makers and OF the
Medical Trust" Where is the con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
N O T f. .

We publish letters from steel,
metal and auto workers every
Tuesday. Get them to us by the
preceding Friday. Saturdays spe-
cial steel page will in no way
interfere with this worker cor
respondence schedule, $50. i.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29

Editors Note: Workers for the can
companies are being organized into
the Steel and Metal Workers Indus
trial Union. This Union already has
organized groups in number of
branches of the American Can Co.
The Daily Worker has asked the
Chicago headquarters Of the Union,
which is at 209 West Randolph ST.,
for a report for the Daily on this
work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
A. F. of L. Organizers Trap
Workers in Their Campaign
BY AN AUTO WORKER CORRESPONDENT.

Mh-The American Federation of Labor
meeting
a
many
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
DINNER
Boiled goldfish with hot butter
sauce or cream sauce.

sauce or cream sauce.
String beans.
Fruit salad.
Tea-milk.
Eye editor suggests boiling
enough Goldfish to have some left
over for Goldfish balls the following
day.
Cream sauce: Add two table
spoonfuls of flour to two table,
spoonfuls of melted butter. To
this add slowly one cup of milk,
stirring slowly and carefully to
prevent Jumps from forming. Also
add salt and pepper TO taste. A
little parsley also improves the
flavor.