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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07
Calls for Aid in
Or ganiizing ,Jobbing
Shop POlishers
BY a Chrysler Worker Correspondent

ny CnrySleT WORKER correspondent
DETROIT, Mich. - The Detroit
Metal Polishers strike scheduled for
Thursday, Oct. 18th, has been sabot-
aged. Joe HakSpacher. business man
ager of Detroit Local No. /, Metal
Polishers, A. F. Of L., has received
his reward. Tammany Senator Wag-
ner has appointed Joe to the Detroit
Labor Board. The whole board is an
A. F, of L. puppet show to defeat the
aims Of any rank and file orgsniza-
ton.
Chrysler polishers are organized
100 per cent, and are paid much
more than the minimum wage asked
by the union. Unless the jobbing
shop polishers are brought up to the
Chrysler scale, the bosses will bring
the Chrysler polishers down to the
iobbing shop scale. The CIlrysler
metal polishers are formulating a
new wage scale Of $1.15 an hour. We
Chrysler employees must help the
jobbing shop polishers to develop
rank and file control and formulate
a wage demand equal to the Chrysler
SSc4Cs L1OuSO lnCSblllSS 1SA Talk anu
file control must be held,
When the signal to go is given, the
skids must be put under Business
Agent Joe Hakspacher. Joe has a de-
fusion that smokers" are Just the
thing the polishers require. Even if
Hakspacher put on a grass skirt and
did the hula-huls at smoker" we
would be far from satisfied.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07
Letters from Our Readers
On the Election Campaign

Jobs and keep them, and get what
ever pay checks and relief checks
that Tammany has been forced to
give.
The Unemployed Council h a S
started to organize relief workers.
We signed petitions on the job for o
12-day month, cancellation of cuts,
and other improvements in condi-
tons. A delegation of relief workers
and representatives Of the Unem-
ployed Council went to see O'Brien
and Commissioner Taylor for these
demands. O'Brien did not have the
time to see us! He was on vaca-
ton.
Fellow workers, we must organize
ourselves! Right after election there
will be mass lay-offs. Organize and
fight against this. Organize your
group on the Job. Get in touch with
the Unemployed Councils, City COM
mittee, % E. Goth ST., for help and
advice.
Only big Communist vote and a
big fighting organization of relief
workers can force concessions and
better conditions from the city ad-
ministrstion.
Relief Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07

for ell honest workers who wish to
join the revolutionary ranks OF the
Communist Party. to do so.
The organizer of the branch of the
mass organization who invited COM
rada S. to the open unit meeting,
and who secured her application to
Join the Ccnmunist Party should not
have been satisfied to let the mat
ter drop there, but should have made
it her huoiness to see that the appli-
cation was quickly acted upon, and
the comrade assigned to a unit.
The real criticism in this case, as
in hundreds of similar instances, lies
with the Party committees, which
permitted an application card to lay
around il the headquarters unat-
tended to for seven weeks.
How many workers are there, who
have been discouraged and disillu-
stoned by similar treatment, who
have not written their protest to us?
How long are we going to permit
situation to exist which keeps mill
tant workers from joining our ranks?
We invite more discussion on this
subject. Perhaps the various Party
Units and Sections can explain how
such situations are permitted to de-
velop2 Or, better still, let us have
the experiences Of those Sections
which handle applications promptly
and efficiently. We should like to
make few comparisons on the fluc-
tuation of membership in these Sec
tiOns
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07
2-Cent Raise Does Not
Make Up for Hrs. Cut
at Sheffield Steel Plant

(By Steel Worker Correspondent
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Hear how we
got a raise on Nov. 1. Steel had been
rated at $16O ton for some time,
but is now SITS per ton. And we
get a raise of about cents per hour
They cut the hours, one eight
hours, one seven hours, and one six
hours shift per day, and four days
a week. Now anyone can see that
this is plain cut in our meagre pay.
] do not see how they expect a man
with a family to live. This is EVIL
dence enough that the Sheffield Steel
and n. r. A. and also the A. F. of L.
do not give damn what happens to
us workers and our wives and chill
dren. ...
Mr. hurry has a soft job and also
runs the A. F. of L. here in the plant.
He tells the forenlen to work their
friends, which makes it bad for some
of the older men. Men, brothers and
comrades, this can be and must be
stopped by forming q rank and file
union, one that is run by you and
me and the honest workers Of the
plant. The Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union proposes that we
join them and have an honest rank
and file workers union, not the boss
es sell-out plan.
Steel Worker.
Take note of this, too. Penrod Wal
nut Venner Co, northeast of the
steel plant here, are making thous-
ands Of gun stocks. They have about
200 men working at starvation wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07
Rank and File
Union Needed at
Stanley Works
nv = Steel worker Correspondel

(By a Steel Worker Correspondent
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. - Stanley
Works factory conditions are terrible.
Accidents are frequent. The shop is
under the N.RA, but wages are low
just the same.
Girls under the MIRA. were sup
posed to be getting at least $13 a
week. But the girls are piece work
ers and have to produce so much
work day, and II they don't they
are fired. And they earn at an aver
age of ST to $40 a week.
Tool makers, die makers and ma
chinists are organized in this factory.
But they are being fooled by the
A. F. of L. leaders. They are Or
ganized into craft union and want
nothing to do with other production
makers.
The Steel and Metal Workers
Union of New Britain will help us
to organize q rank and file committee
in every department and take in
other workers SO as to have fighting
organization and so defeat the bosses.
Already some of these skilled work
ers received 10 per cent increase
because the bosses found out that
they are organizing. When workers
start to organize, the bosses become
afraid and try to stop them by little
concessions.
The Stanley Works workers must
not be fooled by the A. F. of L., which
has sold out hundreds of strikes, for
example, the truck strike in Con-
necticut,
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SeIl-0ut of Tool,
Die Makers Strike

SELL OUT-1lo. Is p. 4 cross
BY an Auto Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich. = The tool and
die makers strike in Detroit has en-
tered the betrayal stage. Griffen,
Smith and Harrison, by permitting
separate agreements, have done the
dirty work, and will no doubt be re-
warded by jobs on the NR.A. Region
al Board, side by side with their fit
ting companion, Martell of the De-
troit Federation Of Labor.
The original demand for $l50 an
hour has been settled at rs cents an
hour in some places. The jobbing
shops are the curse of the tool and
die industry. Their cheap COMPETE
ton was the cause of Ford disband-
ing his SIPS to $3.50 tool and die
departments and reducing his re-
naming few die-makers to IS cents
an hour. With the cheap iobbing
shops in operation, the General Mo-
tors and other huge auto firms can
shut down their company Gle rooms
with the exception OF experimental
6phTLIlGllISs
Small tool ard die shops and small
polishing and stamping shops are the
curse of the worker with their con-
slant underwriting They are hard
to unionize and in time of industrial
strife they and the rest OF the bour-
geoisie form an outer ring of de-
Tense for the capitalist system.
We must mash the "Hindenburg
line" of the capitalist system. The
Mechanics Educational Society lead
ers have helped to rebuild the Hin
denburg line" of the gier> auto in
dustries. If they take less than
$j0Oo0 for that job they are piking
Jaj J. Griffen says: THE employers
will always find our organization
willing to compromise"
When the rank and file elect Paul
Grow and John (Fighting Mac An
derson as their leaders, all this will
be changed.
-Chrysier Employee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07
FOR THE YOUNGSTERS

In response to the letter In Tues
days Daily asking for cheap ways
Of keeping children busy In the man
ufacture of home toys 1 make the
following suggestions, and all toys
described can be made of materials
to be found in any home.
First, what can be done with the
daily newspaper beside throwing 1t
away? Sheets of newspaper make
good drawing sheets for young chill
ran four to six. They are not both
cred by the print and can make large
colored pictures.
This not only keeps them busy but
provides large muscular exercise for
the arm. For those learning how to
read, good practise in reading and in
assembling words can be had from
the large words of the headlines.
This can take the form Of a game:
how many words, familiar to the
child through his reader, can he make
by Juggling the letters of headline
which have been separated before
hand?
For the older child the newspaper
can be used in the collection OF mate
rial for scrap-books and picture books
on any number Of subjects - Soviet
Russia, prominent figures in the days
news, athletic events, etc.
Young children can be kept happy
and quiet with large bunch Of
newspapers. They can make whole
family of newspaper dolls. Roll a
double sheet of newspaper for the.
body; it can be cut down to any de-
sired size.
For the head stuff in wad OF
paper covered with small paper bag.
Don't forget to draw in the face
with crayon.) Stuff two smaller rolls
OF newspaper in at the bottom to be
The legs, and bend forward at bottom
to form the feet. The arms, made
Df a rolled sheet, are inserted into the
cody through hole made In 1t, BY
cutting out in the shape of pat
TERN any colored sheet OF paper Ga |
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plus numerous other duties, have
made it almost impossible for them
to work for the present low wages,
and it takes more experience than
any school boy ever had or will have
to do 1t.
The first, second and third helpers
in the open HearthS have asked for
gas turns" straight day rste) when
they are down for eight hours. They
wrote a letter to MIR. Campbell about
this, and when he saw the feeling Of
the men, he said they should have
gas turns, and If they had hollered
about 1t, they could have had them
before.
How many other things could we
have if we just ''hollered" for them!
The trouble is, as soon as the men
started to holler in S. open hearth,
the superintendent got hard-boiled
and started laying off men for bad
bottoms and other things for which
men had never been laid off before.
The reason we want the gas turn
is that when the furnace is down
for repairs, not producing steel, the
fellows repairing the furnace get
paid steel rate for this job, but
their time Is deducted from the ton
mage of ALL the men, with the re-
suit that the company actually has
the furnaces repaired for NOTHING.
Another thing I want to tell you is
how the U. S. Steel docs its part"
It wac announced that common la
borers in the Open Hearths were to
get raise from 4oc to SIC per hour.
But they never got it. Still working
for $500 a day, and being gypped
out of some zoe a day.
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in a month. drop forge two to three
days week, the S. M. Beam yard
one TO two days, with many not
working at all,
The only place where there IS
some work is the D. E., where at
least 300 workers work in three shifts,
six hours a day.
The workers get IS cents an hour
as common laborers. This was sup
posed to be raised to 80 cents an
hour, but since the supposed wage
increase went into effect the work
ings hours were cut from eight to
six hours q day, so the workers are
getting less than before, and be-
sides, they are speeded up.
One worker in this department
found this note on the table:
zweifel: Asst. Foreman, Gct. %,
1898.
Have your grinder foreman notify
each and every man under his su-
pervision that unless every man does
his job and turns in some worth
while production, those falling to do
so will be stricken from the lists for
any available future work.
Looks to me as if several indi-
ziduals have wrong idea of the
working methods Of this shop
Consider this as your warning.
(Signed "P, MoUres."
Moures is superintendent in the
D. z department 1t is 800 -
everyone how the bosses terrorize the
workers who are trying to say SOM
thing against the speed-up.
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suggestions given there are very good
and should be adopted.
my own experience is that was
approached by three comrades from
my mass organizations to join the
Party. The organizer of my branch
invited me to attend an open forum
unit meeting. I went with her and
joined the Party. That was seven
weeks ago and as yet I was not mott
fled whether am desirable appli-
cant or not.
con my application card 1 stated
that I am an employed worker. L
also listed the names Of the mass
organizations to which belong and
stated that 1 am q member of the
International Ladies Garment Work
erS Also, that fourteen years ago I
was q member Of the Socialist Party,
and that I left that organization at
the time of the split in 1919.
II know that my record is not very
attractive, yet it is an honest record
of a worker who is willing to join
the ranks and should be given the
chance to do SO.
IS. r., New York"
We do not agree with Comrade
S. r. that she has an "unatractive"
record. According to her own char
acterization, she is just the type of
worker that we are eager to have in
our ranks and she should not only
"be given chance" to join the
Party, but everything possible should
be done to make 1t easy for her, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07
Chicago Takes Steps
To Raise Full Quota

CHICAGO, Nov. 2 (By Air Maid -
In view of the slowness of the $4,000
Daily Worker Drive in this territory,
the District Executive Committee at
special meeting on Oct. % and %
decided that every menu
Der of the Communist Party here is
to raise on contribution lists a mini
mum of 81, as part of the quota Of
$4,000 for the Chicago District. This
decision Is announced through B. K.
Gebert, District Organizer.
Each unit must see to it to turn in
as many dollars as it has members to
the Daily Worker Office, 2O19 w.
Division ST., Chicago, ILL.,, the major
part to be turned in by Nov. Z.
Every Section Committee, Unit
Buro and every member of the Party
here is called upon to Immediately
carry through the decision of the
District Buro. The Chicago District
must not lag, but on the contrary
must reach and surpass its quota.
Total Friday ........... 582.63
Previously Recorded .,.... 18,379.27
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We have small group in the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial Union,
which is the only union the steel
company fears. But we get no help
FROM the section or the district, al
though possibilities are best now for
organization. Workers are willing
to organize. How can the Commit
mist Party explain this. I refer to
the Open Letter about the concen-
tration in the basic industries.
The National Office of the Trade
Union Unity League can't send any
body, for they need all the organizers
around Pittsburgh. Is the Bethle-
hem Steel Works not worth while
organizing?
Let us send some one here and we
will have a real turn in organizing
the Steel and Metal Workers Indus
trial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07
United Front in
Detroit Strike
By an Auto Worker Correspondent

By an Auto Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich. - The Stalwarts
are OH the picket lines morning, noon
and night. A few weaklings who ex-
pected the bosses weapon, the NR.A..
to strike the chains from the work
ers have shown the white feather.
The United Front for Labor Action
must be called TO the picket lines
without delay. Chrysler Motors an
swered the strike by a lay-off of pro-
duction men. The Auto Workers are
answering the Chrysler firm with it's
200 industrial detectives (stool pige-
ons), it's horde of service men
(Spolanslly spotters) and its army of
uniformed police, by organizing the
Tuep9nded workers into the Auto
Workers Union.
Five suspended torch solderers, 10
crank shaft grinders, machine set
ters and 4 truck drivers joined the
Auto Workers Union today.
The Auto Workers Union is be-
ginning house-to house membership
campaign among laid-off workers.
The union keeps its membership list
secretly under lock and key guarded
by its special new organizer.
Company stool pigeons who Join
the ranks are unable to obtain a
copy of these lists. Police raids for
information are equally ineffective.
AS the membership of the Auto
Workers Union swings upward, the
Mechanics Educational Society will
assuredly become section OF the
Auto Workers Union, another step
toward the united front Of labor.
Then the cry will be "On to Wall
Street Chrysler plants!"
Let us all pay tribute to the gal
liant unemployed workers Of Detroit
who in the pangs OF hunger have
refused to scab in the great strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07
Meriden, Conn.

paper bag colored with crayon will
do a dress is made. This can be
decorated with a bit Of ribbon for e
belt and fringed at the bottom.
I shall give also some ideas on toys
to be made from cardboard boxes,
etc. Meanwhile, here is little house
hold idea: butter can be kept fresh
for four days if you keep it in a dish
where it can be completely covered
with water
Comradely yours,
ALICE W, l..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07

wart on the sole of tie foot, it may
be eradicated by thte use of glacial
acetic acid. You must be careful,
however to cover the healthy skin
With pieces of adhesive tape because
the acid is very irritating.
Somnambuiism
Mrs. s. S.-Sorry that we cannot
give you a specific and sure cure
for somnambulism (sleep walking.
If you take care of the boys diet
by not allowing him to eat any spicy
food, and also by preventing him to
eat heavy meal before going to
s'eep, it may help a little. Atten-
ton to the general health is very
important. Make sure that he is not
anemic and also that he does not get
over-excited in his play. A warm
bath before going to sleep is a good
general measure. You may also try
to put him to sleep with hot water
bag or an electric pad to his feet.
This draws the blood away from the
brain and prevents him from he
coming excited in his sleep. Please
let us know whether you have cb
tanned any success with the above
measure.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07
st. Louis n. r. A.
Head Fires 500
By a worker Correspondent)

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-Scullen, owner
of the Scullen Steel Co. and chair
man Of the N. r. A, gave out to the
capitalist press that the Recovery
Act is flop. And to show what a
flop it was, he closed down his plant,
laying of 500 workers that have been
7lowly starving for three years on
the stagger plan. MF=@ of these
workers have been on relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07
LOST AND FOUND DEPT.

A girl comrade left in these Offices
g. few weeks ago a pair of cloth
gloves. hereby give notice that If
the owner doesn't call for them and
identify them by description within
a few days, shall take them home
and wash them (they got stepped on
here) and wear them, as they fit me
Just right and the cold weather
caught me with my old gloves I'M
mended.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07
THAT'S WHAT WE MEAN BY
THIRD PARTY OF CAPITALISM
Buffalo N V

Dear Editor:
Here is an example ("Buffalo
Times" Oct. 81 OF how Socialists in
tend to Introduce Socialism by the
ballot" In Lackawanne, steel mill
city controlled by Bethlehem steel
Corp) Socialists run on Socialist
Republican and Law Preservation
Party now regular party) ticketsl
Socialist leaders contemplate no ac-
ton; they only act against Socialist
workers who become too militant.
Notice that among the offices are
those Of mayor and city judge. What
better evidence do we need to prove
the relationship of Socialist mislesd-
ers who themselves pretend to de
nouncs" the other capitalist parties?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07
NOTE TO x-GANDY DANCER

What a shrewd guesser you turned
out to be, Hobo Blackie! How did you
know2 believe your statement that
you have been a reat-granddad for
years, as it is clear you have had a
lot Of experience with kids, even
adult ones like me. And SO you
TOO are another that doesn't think
sex-life under capitalism is funny
it's not fun, but a tragedy"
Judging by the rest Of your mes
sage, you did not have a very pleasant
time of it when you we're boy.
Thanks for your two cheerful cards.
An speaking of the kids, here is the
first part of tract sent US.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1916 is available in sizes
ID, Is, ID, 20, 80, "a. sc, SO, 40 and
AZ. Size is takes 3 3-8 yards 39-inch
fabric and ga yard contrasting.
Illustrated step-by step sewing in
Strl1ctions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07

to collect funds
for the D a | l y
Worker than ever
before. She raised
$17.S in three
weeks, and ex-
poets to rails e
more. She col
lects funds for
the Worker" by
appro a C h | n 6
shop = m a t e S,
friends and store
keepers in h e T
aeighborhood.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07

Member Of the
Hinsdale w or k
srs' Club, B e n
Montauk, h a S
already r q / S e d
$1,000. He states:
Il pass collection
lists among shop
m a t e S a n d
Hr i e n d S. T do
everything to save
my Daily Worker
so it can battle
{ Oh our rights
a g a | n S t the
bosses who op-
press lis"
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Daily w o r k e r
Volunteer, h a S
also turned in his
profits on h l S
S a. | e S Of the
Worker" He dis
tributed 25 col
| e C t i o n barrels
among his friends
a n d acquaint-
ances who in turn
take up collec-
Ls 6 ~ n
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Workers Clubs to
achieve this. An
ma Pearl p
proaches mainly
the young work.
ers, and raised
$40 easily. While
asking for con-
tributions S h e
tells young work.
ers to read the
Daily Worker.
She expects to
raise still more,
as do the other
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07

Daily Worker. Among the Volun-
teers Mike Artinenko is known as
the "Shock Trooper"
We need more like him to save our
Daily Workerl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-07
Dear Editor Of the Daily worker:

Dear Editor of the Daily Worker:
Am enclosing another dollar to-
ward the Daily Worker fund, and
vii send more later. but now am
at war with my parents over the
money, They want money and
more money TO give to the support
of Polish priests and the church,
while ! have very poor clothes for
the winter. The ether girls are
making faces at me because / am
the only house member working.
How can l afford to have the
Daily Worker, which like? II
does not cost much but it has more
value to me than all the disciples
of all the charches,
never throw away the Daily
Worker, but give il away; one
young student who accepted a copy
was wondering how such a paper
could como into Meriden. I would
like TO see all the Polish peoples
join the radical movement.
Dear editor, / am not signing
my name, because you know how
II is.
Young Miss Worker Reader.
THERE it is again-an old story
! parents exploiting or neglecting the
children to pay their own way into
a mythical heaven sold to them by
priests. Miss Worker Reader" has
a hard row to hoe ;outside OF being
slugged, jailed, or framed, there is
hardly a tougher spot to be in than
to be prisoned in the same house with
parents with whom one is at war.