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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
Bethlehem Plant
in Buffalo Raises
Wages Downward
By DAN RICO
By a Steel Worker Correspondent


BUFFALO, N. we steel work.
ers of the Bethlehem Steel Octopus
certainly are we'll acquainted with
company unions as we have had one
for the last 8 years.
On July II, company officials called
a special meeting of company union
representatives and announced the
Bethlehem Steel Code. Burns, gen.
eral manager of the Lackawanna
Plant, at the opening of the meeting
put the taboo on any discussion, sug-
gestions or notifications of their code
and to show in practice the good
side of the code, he announced a
rs per cent rise" in wages, to take
place Immediately.
On the following pay day, when the
workers began to use little arith-
metic, the raise turned out to be for
some of us raise downward.
In 1929, unskilled labor received on
the average for two weeks 5000 and
before July II of this year, per day
$40, average per two weeks $12.40
to $3.50, and after July IT, average
per two weeks, including a Is per cent
raise. S12.16 to 1924, SO even Prof.
Einstein could not convince us of an
increase in purchasing power, while
en- the other hand living necessities
went UP 20 per cent and more-not
Injuries, but potatoes, for instance,
80 per cent.
They certainly did increase speed"
and begin to terrorize workers. Just
two weeks ago, Burns fired three
workers for no reason. The company
union representative does not want to
have quarrel in the happy family"
We workers are not quarrelsome, but
it is time to begin not only TO quarrel,
but also to fight in order to stop
speed-up and wage cuts (this So
called downward raise). Only we will
do our quarreling and fighting not in
big happy family" but through g
real rank and file organization, the
Steel g. Metal Workers Industrial
Union, With headquarters in this steel
center at IS 1-2 w. Huron ST., Buff
ialo, N. Y.
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8-hour turns, and when TINS came
about, more than 1900 workers gath
cred at the employment gate. But
the only men hired were workers
with bride money, or money the
bosses we're accepting from SIS to $40.
Only with passes from bosses or re-
commencing letters by some priest
or politician did some of us get work
No Lunch Period
We work eight hours straight, no
lunch period. When a worker is
caught up with his work, the time
keeper comes up and asks how long
we're idle. For this we get no pay.
Many workers are as much as 1 to 7
hours pay short.
Then some workers are required to
bring in their own tools to work,
which the company does not supply.
The only spell we get is when we
steal 2 or minutes for a sandwich,
and I tell you many of us take our
lunches back home.
These conditions are the same
throughout every department. We
workers now receive 40c per hour and
d 20 per cent bonus if we make out,
but the bonus is seldom received, but
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
Ladish Drop Forge.
Is He'll of Dust.
Steam and Smoke.
(Rr a Worker Correspendent)

CUDAHY, Wis.-I would like to
say the terrible conditions at Ladish
Drop Forge here. This is nothing
but the truth. You can write to any
Ladish worker; he would tell you
the same.
The same man who hires leads
YOU to storeroom and makes you take
pair of gloves and protection
goggles; shoes for $3.50 worth Sl89
with ten tool checks, SO cents gloves
worth Is cents. They charge 40 cents
to SO cents for goggles worth 20 cents.
They charge $165 for the tool checks
which forge shop workers have no
use for. They take so cents of your
first pay for them. Each one would
cost you SO cents if lost or S. for
ten of them. Your own goggles are
no good at Ladish. You got to have
their goggles.
Dust, Steam and Smoke
The forge shop looks more like hell
than anything else on. earth-46
hammers of all caliber lined on both
sides of the shop from two to ten
feet apart, and SO many treamers
(shears) with narrow passage through
the center; red hot forging piled up
along both sides of the passage and
great big steam pipes over the head.
The oily steam shoots from every
hammer from both Sides; dust.
steam and smoke fly at the eyes
and face. and behind the neck and
all over. Your hands are. always up
for protection of your eyes just like
the boxer in the ring. Everybody is
full of blisters. There is so much
smoke that a worker can hardly see
his way when he walks through
The trucks run 20 miles an. hour
all over the shop, no horns, no bells
on them, no warning at all. There
is furnace for every hammer and
to be Zimmerman is not an easy
Job. You have got to stand lots of
heat forging, red hot iron in front
and furnace behind you. 10
Hammer mems wages are 80 cents
an hour. -Four years ago they were
from $175 to So an hour; ,laborers
get q cents an hour; in July, Is cents
an hour. Piece work at which they
used to pay 95 cents to $1.10 a
hundred, now pays Csc to 26c
hundred. go ." - .tH
An NRA Proposition
Last week Mr. Ladish and his
superintendent, Lowe. called a1meet-
ing in an Office; also they invited
some of the hammer men, and Mr..
Lowe said to the hammer men,
According to the NRA we must pay
more to employees. If you fellows
cooperate with us and save on the
steam by closing lit every minute
you stop for a drink of water or SO,
then I think we would be able to
pay IS cents an hour. y 81
There are good many hammer
men who refuse to run the hammer
for 80 cents an hour and they work
labor jobs rather for 81 cents. Be-
fore, they never put out more than
$50 axles in 10 hours: now they forge
600 Of the same kind of axles in
eight hours for three quarters Of a
cent an axle, where they used to get
7 cents to cents an axle.
Now you can easily see how Mr.
Ladish can afford to have three big
12-cylinder Lincolns and others, and
how he can afford to install new
machines every day.
Ito be continued next Tuesday,
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announced and the workers invited.
Our subject was The NRA and Its
Real Purpose" One hundred Daily
Workers were ordered and again the
workers responded with collection
of So to pay for the Daily Workers,
which were distributed from the
platform.
The subject on Saturday nights
meeting on Sept 2 at Columbus
Circle was THE History and Growth
of the Daily Worker One hundred
and fifty Daily Workers will be or
dered for this meeting.
On the basis of these successful
meetings, Unit Il decided to engage
in some real socialist competition
with the other units in Section q.
Unit IA will sell more Daily Workers
in the month of September than any
other unit in Section 2. How about
it, comrades?
Unit Ia knows that this is one way
to live up to the Open Letter. Let
us hear from the other units.
CoMRADE FIELDBERG,
Asitprop, Unit IA, Section 2.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
Every Sect. 2 Unit
Challenged to Beat.
Daily Sales Record.
Challenger is Unit Ia
Which Boosted Daily
Sales to $50
New York City.


Comrade Editor
Immediately after the Open Letter
to the Party members was published,
Unit IA, Section 2, District 2, organ
lied an open-air meeting for Satur-
day night at Columbus Circle. Fifty
copies of the Daily Worker were or
dered for this meeting. The subject
of the open-air meeting was Com
munism in Germany and the Revo-
lutionary Press" One dollar and
eighty-seven cents was collected and
the Daily Worker was handed out to
the workers assembled. About three
hundred workers listened to the
speakers.
The subject for the following Sat
urday nights meeting was an
nounced, as well as the fact that the
number of Daily Workers would be
increased to 100 copies.
The subject for the second meet
ing was The Cuban Revolution"
About three hundrew workers were
present and $3.50 cents collected for
The distribution of the Daily Worker.
Again the subject for the follow
ms Saturday nights meeting was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05

we're also present at the meeting to
join the party. Four workers joined
the party after the conclusion of the
meeting.
Following this meeting the section
F committee met and also drafted
6 weeks plan of work Two shops
were selected as basic points for con-
centration within this period, with six
comrades responsible for the work.
Additional comrades were assigned
to unemployed work, and a United
Front unemployed conference was
arranged for Sept. 8. This will be
held together with Is organizations
and large number of neighborhood
organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
How NRA Eagle Pecks
at Iron Workers Pay
tBy an Iron Worker Correspondent


lew YCRA-As an illustration
Of the way the recovery bluff is
working in the interests of the
bosses, the following two facts will
serve.
Last week l received letter from
boss of the Atlantic Steel Prod
ucts, $40 Broome St.. to come to
work. | was working in that shop
long before and received $35 week.
When came with the letter, the
boss tells me that he is working UNI
der the Recovery Act, but only half
way. To make it more clear he says
that he is. giving SIS week re-
quired by the Recovery Act, but the
working hours remain 48 as before.
Later on he will decide about the
hours.
The second illustration is the
North American Iron Works from
54th ST., North Brooklyn. This firm
had made step further than the
previous one. The North American
Iron Works displayed the Blue Bird
and announced the 35-hour week
with 40 cents an hour instead of the
oo anu ~ CeHtS IL uSeu W pay. Dut
the 35-hour week lasted only three
days. The bosses weren't used to it
that the workers should go home so
early, SO the bird disappeared sud-
denly and the workers were ordered
to work again the 44-hour week,
but the cut to the 40 cents an hour,
it seems, the bosses intend to con-
tinue.
This recovery swindle opened the
eyes even of the most backward
workers. In both shops, prepara-
lions are made for actions against
the new deal of the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
Skinny Buck Tries to
Stop Militant Union
(By a Worker Correspondent.)

tBy worker C0rreSpondent.)
BALTIMORE Nd. = The Anal
gamated Association of Iron, Tin
and Sheet Metal Workers CA. F. of
L. held a meeting with the COM
pany representative at A719 East
ern Avenue on Aug. IL, 1888, and
the Steel & Metal Workers Indus
trial Union held an open-air meet
ing across the street.
Skinny Buck left the A. f. Of L.
gathering to try and disrupt the S.
M. w. /. U. meeting. Skinny Buck,
who lives at 255 st. Helena Avenue,
Dundalh, is a well-known booze
holster and drink chiseler. The
saloon and speakeasy keepers can
vouch for his chiseling ability. They
are afraid to turn him down on ac-
count of his close association with
Scarface Tom Stingly, the Bethle-
hem real estate car. He. used to
have large influence among the
workers, but he is losing out now.
The workers in the tin mill found
out what Kind of a friend. he is to
III
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
1000 Promised Jobs at
Carnegie Mill But
Only 2 Are Hired

(By a Steel Worker Corresponding
EDITORIAL NOTE: We have
received the letter below, from a
steel worker in the highly i'm
portant steel center OF Mics, Ohio.
This worker correspondent, after
describing the conditions of the
steel workers there, tells of the con-
fusion that exists in the minds of
the workers because of the lack of
local leadership, and rightly ends
his letter in this way:
MANY workers cuss, some are
dubious, others join the fake
unions of the A. #. of L. The
Communist Party, the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
the Unemployed Coincidence ac-
tive here, are absent. Many work
ers are asking why"
The letter in full reads as fol-
lows):
NILES, Ohio.-Perhaps MIRA in
Niles illustrates its aim and purpose
throughout the entire country. Here
are "a industrial establishments
They are part of Mahoning Valley
normally producing 100000 tons OF
steel and finished products. This is
more than the total individual out
put of Canada, England, France and
Germany.
Small wonder why MIRA parades
in Niles, small town of 10000
mostly foreign-born. In case of war,
the "a plants will need 10000 to
$4,000 workers to work under MIRA
What is more important MIRA pays
here $14 for 40 hours, but most of
the workers don't get 40 hours, SO
the $14 is not the minimum, but it
is the maximum.
At the Niles Steel Product the pay
is supposed to be 40 cents, but the
girls get % cents, 26 cents and "a
cents. Many employees get only a
few hours work per week. At the
above-named plant all of the SO new
workers, and many of the old work
ers, are sent home every morning on
the excuse that there is no material
The same is true of the Republic
Mill Mahoning and the rest.
At the Carnegie mill over 1000
workers were promised jobs and have
signed applications; from all of these
only two men got jobs-and lately
six mills are down indefinitely.
There are over 900 families and
300 single men on relief. In order
to cover up the seriousness of the
unemployment situation and to pre-
pare the workers for the next war,
General Johnson has instructed the
President of the Board of Trade to
arrange MIRA parades.
Meanwhile, potatoes used to be SO
cents a bushel, and are now So cents
a peck; a can Of salmon, cents
now Is cents; bread, cents, now
IL cents; working gloves, 10 cents
now Is cents; picture show was Is
cents and four nights week five
persons for Is cents, now 20 cents
All this is MIRA.
Many workers cuss, some are
dubious, others join the fake unions
of the A. F. of l.. The Communist
Party, the Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union, the Unemployed
Council, once active here. are alb
sent. Many workers are asking
why"
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they still raise the piece per hour.
We manufacture beer kegs, oil bar
rels, gas drums, shells for warfare,
for heavy cannon. At the present
time, some presses are turning out
small beer kegs or ponies for Ger
man Brewery Co. in Cumberland,
Md, and they want us to turn out
more than 1000 halves for the bonus
Of 20 per cent.
Workers, I tell you again, this place
is worse than any state prison and
now we are in the shop organizing
the Steel g. Metal Workers Ind
Union, which is on full swing. Every
worker agrees with us and they don't
want no A. F. of L. takers around.
but still we got our hands full to
combat the Socialists, etc.
But Cur motto in this shop, is
Every Man in One Big Union, for
United We Stand and Divided We
Fall
P. S. We got cut here again from
48 hours a week to a 40-hour week
and increase in pay as yet not known.
This is why there is discomfort in this
shop also.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
Bethlehem Niles
Steel Workers Are
Ready for Struggle
Bethlehem Steel Corp.
Workers Talk Strike
But Where Is Union?
by Steel Worker Correspondent

(By Steel Worker Correspondent
BETHLEHEM, Pa. As the
Roosevelt New DeaD propaganda
spreads in the country, the Bethle-
hem Steel Corp. also wants to do
its share to help bring back pros
perity. Abuut a month ago they
started to re-hire their former en-
ployees to get the faith back OF
the 1900 workers who were laid
off for the last three years, to make
them believe that the depression
is over.
About. 500 workers were taken
back and some work as high as
40 hours a week. The majority
work 80 hours. These workers
thought they will find the same
conditions as in prosperity times.
bad as they were.
Most on Part Time.
But what do we find today? !
am working in Department D. E.
Merchant MilD where about 800
workers are employed as clippers.
We used to work hours a day,
five days a week, getting 35c an
hour and a so-called bonus. But
due to speed-up and low wages,
many workers leave the job in a
day or two. Today they only work
six hours a day, for 35c an hour
and there are very few that work
5 days week. They only have
five minutes for lunch. There are
not enough lockers, so many work
ers have to go home in dirty
clothes, unwashed.
The bosses tell you that in 20
minutes they got to have this stuff.
There is no man who can make it
in 20 minutes.
\ Very few Negro workers are en-
ployed in this department. Those
that work there work night shifts.
9uo No Organization.
There is no organization, no COM
pany union. The discomfort is so
great that many workers are talk
ing about strike. A worker next
to me said, '1f we only had Or
ganization, these conditions would
not exist. Now is the time to or
ganize." 1850
The Party comrades don't know
what is going on in the shop. They
don't realize that there is great
possibility of organizing the work.
ers. All they do is discuss the
revolution in the Workers Home.
There are a few well developed
comrades working in these shops
and also some Of the unemployed
comrades.
The Section Committee did not
pay much attention to this work.
It may be because the section is
too big and because Of strike strug-
giles. in Allentown, Pa.
hope that in the near future, we
willsebe able to report to you about
a good shop unit which we are about
to form, which should be a great
shock to Bethlehem Steel Plant. But
this could only be done if every COM
radeSthat works in these shops will
be in the forefront, together with
the unemployed comrades, and also
with the new leadership that we
have in the section.
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No. 3.-His testimony about the
death Of Fanny Sellins, one of the
organizers, is indicative of the way
he tried to clear the Steel Trust.
In front of an Allegheny yard a
dozen drunken deputies rushed the
pickcts, shooting as they came.
-. H"'i;ns ruehed forward TO get
the children out of danger. A mine
ctI.caai dubbed her to the ground.
AS she tried to drag herself to the
gate, three shots were fired into
her. Another deputy crushed her
skull with a club before the eyes
of the men, women and children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
BY PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.
Answers TO Questions
"Eearto Pains


S. c., Cambridge, Mass.-In a per-
con Of your age (l9) any pain in the
region of the heart is surely not due
to heart disease. Diseases of the
heart do not cause pain, except one
known as angina pectoris, which at
tacks the middle-aged. The chances
are that you are suffering from gas
pains, due either to faulty digestion
or elimination. Be sure you have
moved your bowels before you take
part in any competitive sport event.
Social (?) Intercourse
J. P.-You probably mean sexual
intercourse. There is a difference,
you know Try to control the habit
you mention. Frankly speaking,
there is no remedy to it, except mar
riage in some form or other. You
are only is and you must bide your
time. Why not become more active
in Party work or take some courses?
Your problem will solve itself. If you
are not too anxious. BY the way, are
you a boy or girl? from your
typewriter letter, we cannot quite
tell.
Itching Preparation
Rudolph Pit is probably a ner-
vcus reaction. Try to sponge your
body with rubbing alcohol. Allow
the alcohol to dry on by itself. You
may repeat the sponging several
times daily.
Health Workers Industrial Union
T. M. Titus, Bismarck, N. D.-Your
suggestion to form such an organ
ization in which the representation
of all the medical cults could work
in harmony does more credit to your
emotions than your intellect. Just
stop to think: We have before us
a list of more than seventy different
medical cults and quackeries. These
are principal ones; not counting
subordinate fake systems, Take, for
instance, Vita O-Pathy, the founder
of which uses SO sub-systems to banl-
boozle the moronic hinterland. Some
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
Can You Make 'em
Yourself?

The little girl must have inexpen-
sive washable dresses with deep hens.
We emphasize washable" because in
order to get all the fun there is to
be gotten cut of life a child should
be free from the worry that comes
with wearing clothes that need espe-
cial care.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05

Gates dirt in the soap. Be wary of
the highly perfumed, colored soap.
The perfume and the color may be
used to disguise the odor and color
OF impure materials used in the man.
ufacture of the soap.
If there is real CASTLE soap on the
market we have not heard of it.
Therefore We recommend for the
baby's bath any good, white soap.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
~ Doctor
LAHn4eA
ulUiAe1:

day, we'll publish list Of all thesS
frauds who hate each other like
poison; hate which is only COM
parable to that which they all have
in common for the poor devil who
has received medical training at q
hospital and studied for his MD.
degree
To invite all those ignorant FAM
ativs, and frauds to take part In one
organization would be like trying to
get all the religious sects and In.
sects to form one religious body.
Do YOU think that there is much 'ok
chance to get the Roman Catholic
Church to cooperate with Aimee
Semple, Mcpherson? Or do you be-
lieve that the Communist Party
could amalgamate with Fascists and
Republicans?
The Daily Worker does not pursue
opportunist tactics. Therefore, even
if we could get the support Of some
of the. cultists-which is very prob
lematical, the gentry being mainly IN:
terested In money--we would newell
stoop to it. at the expense Of denyl |
ing the principles Of scientific nedfpJ
c1nen st1ie
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
Party Organization
in Pontiac Adopts
6 Weeks Work Plan
Four New Members Recruited Into Party al
~ End of Meeting, Called to Discuss
the Open Letter

membership gathering here
carried District for the next
n Letter.
outlined the letter and the task
Of sympathzers
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Struggle Against Bosses NRA Sbeed>Ub
Urged by Steel Worker Correspondents
NO LUNCH PERIOD AT
PRESS STEEL TANK co.
BY A STEEL WORKER CORRESPONDENT

ALLIs, Ws.-The is
than state prison existence The workers driven
the punch to the leaders.
exception
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