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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25

after winning increases Of from is
TO IS cents at San Jose, Tagus, Tu-
lare. Fresno, Chico, Reedley and OK
narci
San Diego. tomato and chilli pick
ers won a pay increase at some
ranches, and a final settlement is
expected in a few days.
Twelve hundred pickers at Gridley
refused an offer Of rs cents, demand
ing IS cents.
A Scab truck driver today crashed
into the picket lines and injured
James Insley and M A. Clements.
Clements is not expected to 1--we.
The employers admit that the
Cannery and Agricultural Workers
Industrial Union is in full control OF
the strike.
Two thousand workers are still
out. The strikers morale is very high.
About 5000 have already joined the
union.
Three hundred and fifty hop pick
ers walked out today at Mills, near
Sacramento. The strike is spreading.
The Is cents an hour rate as a mini
mum is being forced in most fields.
This means a so to 100 per cent in
crease.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Packing House Union
Organizing to Win
Demands

es only enough to be able to live on"
The Packing House Workers In
dustrial Union is the only organiza-
ton that actually represents the in
terests of the stockyard workers.
Though this union is yet small and
weak, it responds to all struggles Of
the stockyard workers. Just recent
ly the Packing House Workers In
dustrial Union distributed leaflets
with the demands which the workers
ought to organize to win:
1-Seven hour day without reduc-
ton in weekly wages. 2-An immedi-
ate raise of 80 per cent in wages.
against speed-up piecework and
the bonus system. Am industrial
union for all stockyards workers
without division as to nationality,
sex, age or political views. Equal
rights, for Negro workers on all jobs.
Equal wages for equal work for
women and young workers. 6-Free
tools and work clothes for all work.
ers. THE company shall recognize
the workers committees in the shops.
8-Unemployment insurance and un-
employment relief at the expense Of
the bosses and government for the
unemployed and those who are par
TALLY employed.
The stockyards workers will recog-
nize the role Of the Packing House
workers Industrial Union in their
struggle against wage-cuts, speed
up, poverty and helplessness and will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Glove Strikers Win
ImportantDemands
BY "a Fur Worker Correspondent


GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y.-Over $50
workers of fur-lined gloves are out on
strike in. Gloversville, N. Y. for the
past three weeks.
They have already learned in the
course of the struggle that the A. F..
of L. is the Bosses union. At the first
conference with the employers the
bosses told them that they would re-
cognize them if they were union
Of the A. F. of L. The bosses also
tried to organize company union,
but failed. The workers on strike
have counteracted all strike breaking
plans of the bosses.
On Tuesday the manufacturers
were forced to confer with the local
Union negotiation committee elected
by the workers. The bosses recog-
nized the Union and granted so per
cent increase in pay and recognition
of the shop committee, and other i'm
portant demands. The membership
will vote on it at their meeting.
The granting Of these demands is a
big victory which will serve as an
incentive to the rest of the workers
in the glove industry as well as TO the
leather workers who have Just organ
lied an independent leather workers
union with membership of 300
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25

structural steeD in the Lackawanna
plant of the Bethlehem Steel Cor
poration is enough to show that such
a demand expresses real need:
In 1929 certain mill in this plant
employed 100 workers per turn
Shift. Working IL hours these 1870
men produced 500 tons Of structural
steel.
The number of men per turn has
now been cut to IS, on the average.
The hours have been reduced to 10.
Yet these Sc men, working two
hours less per turn, turn out 800
tons per turn.
Put in another way, in 1929, 1850
man hours produced 500 tons. In
1898, $50 man hours produced 800
tons.
Total labor time has been cut
about IS per cent. Production has
increased 60 per cent.
Seyenty-four men have no work at
all.
Fifty-six men are working them
selves into i'll health and death at
an early age.
Such enormous increases in surplus
value and reduction in total wage
payments without taking into &C
count the direct wage CUTS explain
why the big steel companies even
during periods of complete stoppage
OF operations continued to pull down
older and less efficient mills and erect
new ones containing the latest high
speed machinery.
These conditions also explain why
the struggle against speed-up and
wage cuts by the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union, coupled
with the demand for compulsory fed
eral unemployment insurance at the
expense of the government and en-
ployers is bound to meet with wide
support among the masses of en-
ployed and unemployed workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Support to NRA Is
Likened to Aid of
Bosses During War
Speakers Hit Slave
Law At Send-Off
to Delegates

NEW YORK-Braying a flashing
rainstorn, 300 workers attended a
meeting at Irving Plaza Wednesday
night to send off the New York
delegation to the Cleveland Trade
Union Conference for United Action.
The conference will open in Cleve-
land on Aug. rs. Today there will
be q demonstration in Cleveland's
Public Square, where Earl Browder
will speak.
At the send-off meeting the
speakers included A. J. Music, Sam
Nessin, F. E. Brown, Earl Browdcr,
with James w. Ford presiding.
Labor leaders and liberals support
ing the MIRA were likened by Music,
Vice President of the American Fed
Grafton of Teachers, to those who
supported woodrow Wilson in the
last war, a support which weakened
American labor, he declared. Social
list leaders favoring the NRA he lik-
ened to the Socialist leaders who
supported the last war.
Member Of Typographical Union
No. 6, F. E. Brown, described the
NRA as leading to a dictatorship
against the working class
He received a prolonged ovation
when he declared, The NRA must
be fought against by rank and file
workers, not under A. F. Of L. lead
ership, but under the leadership Of
militant l1nioreD
Last to speak, Earl Browder, a
member of the National Executive
Board of the Trade Union Unity
League, quoted Grover Whalen's an
nouncement that strikes by Com
munist" unions would not be toler-
ated under the NRA as one of the
numerous proofs that MIRA is a
weapon against the workers.
ANY union which will conduct a
struggle for the benefit Of the work
ars will be considered Communist
under the NRA," Browder stated.
Within six months, he predicted,
the NRA will be totally bankrupt
and a worse crisis will result as fac
tories shut down and goods will be
dumped on the market from the
overcrowded warehouses.
THE Cleveland Conference" he
said in conclusion, "is an historical
service to the preparations by the
working class for A broad mass
struggle in America that will defeat
the new deal, that will finally launch
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Banks andInSurance
CompaniesGrabbing
Farms ReportShows

IOWA, Aug. 22-During the past
ten years, rich banks, insurance COM
panies, investment companies, and
corporations have taken 100000
acres away from Iowa farmers for
payment of debt, the Iowa State
University reported today. This is
more than 7 per cent of the total
farm land in the State.
The report showed that the con-
ditions of the Iowa farmers, even
throughout the Prosperity" days
were steadily declining. The report
proves this by showing that since
1921, the foreclosures of every year
were greater than the proceeding
year.
These figures prove beyond doubt
that the farmers are being steadily
appropriated by the banks and in
vestment companies. The farm lands
are being grabbed by the finance
capitalists throwing hundreds Of
thousands of small farmers into the
ranks of agricultural laborers.
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/ cials helped to arouse racial hatred.
The Packing House Workers In
dustrial Union struggles for solidar-
ity between the white and Negro
workers, for equal chances and equal
pay for equal work, and demand
equal treatment at the work.
A. F. of L. In the Yards
The A. F.. of l.. is hated among
the stockyards workers. Its role at
the time of the famous strike Of
1919, when the A. F. of L. betrayed
the workers, is not entirely forgot
ten. The craft form Of organization
of their trade unions does not fit
into the stockyards conditions.
During these last few weeks the
A. F. Of L. called a few meetings,
the first Of which was attended by
100 people, the second by Al and the
third only held the speaker.
The Stockyards Labor Council
The workers of the stockyards who,
in 1919, split from the A. F. OF L.,
organized the Stockyards Labor
Council which was then led in a
strike by Comrade William z. Foster
This Stockyards Council struggled
for an industrial union, for real
working conditions and became pop
ular among the workers. But since
the strike was lost, it died down.
During July it Aesuscitated, but is
now only a shadow of its former or
ganization. 1t only bears the name
of Stockyards Labor Council but in
content it is the same as the organ
ization being led by the A. F. Of L.
Its leader is M. Murphy, who de-
tends Roosevelt, gloats in the Re-
covery Act and tells the workers:
I'VE are Americans, we must sup
port America and must demand wag-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25

only way the workers in the industry
could get any demands granted. The
government, they pointed out, was
obviously not going to adopt or en-
force code, except as the workers
themselves organized strong enough
to force it themselves. Speaking for
the rank and file opposition in the
International Lorgshoren1en's Asso-
citation "a. F. of ID longshore dele
gate related how the LILA. had
ceased to be a union, did not hold
meetings at which the workers could
even take action against their mis-
leaders, and lived by open gangster
terrorism on the docks, and collected
dues at the point Of a gun.
A Racket
He showed how the lila. was a
racket that robbed the workers on
the docks, and exploited the workers
through boarding houses, the sale of
jobs, and collection Of graft under
threat OF deportation. He showed
how several times, the lila. delegates
had been driven of the docks by the
angry workers, and how it had lost
its control Of the men everywhere
except where it was reinforced by
the police and the shipowners.
Johnson said he couldn't say who
would represent the workers, or how
representatives could be chosen, but
the workers had the right to join
any union they. chose" under the
MIRA. The MWIU solution Of this
problem is representatives elected by
the workers themselves, and mass de-
legations and strike committees on
a united front basis. The workers
had the right to collective bargain
Ing" said johnson. But the delega-
ton said it was more interested in
the right to strike, and intended to
carry on the work of organizing the
marine workers into a solid united
front to fight for better conditions
and higher wages.
At meeting Of the entire delega-
ton, after the four delegates had
presented the demands OF the marine
workers the general opinion was ex-
pressed that the shipowners and the
government were not interested in
a code as long as the workers in the
industry were willing to take what the
bosses choose to give them.
Why the Attention
The opinion Of the delegates was the
that reason the delegates got an ap-
pcintment so quickly, and the reason
General johnson himself talked to
the delegates instead of leaving them
to the demagogy> Of Ed McGrady, was
that the marine workers are beginning
to resist the rotten conditions and
wages Of the industry, and to strike
against those conditions.
The delegates said that 1t was OBJ
vious the strikes Of the Diamond &C.
ment and the Cornore had something
to do with the readiness of the gov
eminent to receive the delegation,
and that the way to get better con-
ditions was not to wait for a gift"
Of code from the shipownsrs and
the president, but to organize and
fight for those conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
By M. BACKALL

The living standards Of stockyard
workers were always bad. No family
could feed itself upon the earnings
Of the husband. The women Of stock
yard workers toiled night, washing
floors in downtown offices and their
children had to find something to
do in order to help support the rest
Of the family. But these last years
Of crisis find the conditions of the
workers who are employed In the
stockyards, terrible.
Children, thin, inhale the stenchy
air Of tallow. The odor is often no.
ticed throughout the city. Their
homes are narrow, dirty, neglected.
According to the study of the Chi
cago University, child mortality in
the stockyards district is about 700
higher than that Of the South Shore
district, one mile away.
Conditions Of Work
1t is quite natural that the working
conditions in the stockyards should
worsen under the Recovery Act. The
production OF 8 and 10 hours is now
being forced into 6. One Polish work
er exclaimed, Il came here strong,
healthy and straight. Now look at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Meat Magnates Gain Millions; Workers Starve

mel I am stopped, rheumatism is de-
vastating my body. my bones ache. %
And all that in five years!
1t is not unusual that a worker
falls in vat of boiling water be-
cause Of the speed-up and crowded.
ness. A few weeks ago, one Wednes-
day, John Grill, 20 years old, who
was -scalding, fell in a vat of
boiling water which had about 1873
degrees fahrenheit. OF course he was
killed.
The meat magnates boarded large
profits even in these years of crisis.
During the year 1881, the Armour
Company pocketed 500, ,766. For
the year 1882 they netted $17,234,320
The Swift Company has for the year
1881 earned the small sum of $73,-
943, 180 and for the year 1882 Just
SOL Jos 400. But for the year Of 1888
their business rose and the profit of
meat in the pockets of the meat
magnates will proportionately rise.
The workers are being driven to
starvation and need.
Negro Workers
The Negro workers are more en-
slaved than the white workers in
the stockyards. No Negro worker is
employed in the office. There isn't
a Negro foreman. They are employed
only at the hardest and most dam
gerous work The foremen abuse
them. They SOW racial hatred among
the Negro and white workers. In the
year Of the race riot, towards the
end of July, 1919, when 20 Negroes
and IA white workers were killed,
the Stockyard district mainly con-
towards the band of the
white hooligans. The stockyards off,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Lewis Holds Secret
Meetings With Scab
Southern Operators
Were Ready to Accept
Him AS Official
Strikebreaker

NEW YORK.-John L. Lewis,
and other United Mine Workers Of
ficials have been meeting secretly
in Washington with scab coal OPP
orators, preparatory to the adoption
of the coal code, in order to work
out agreements to prevent strike
action and struggles for higher
wages in the coal fields.
Proof that other such secret con-
ferences were arranged with the
Southern coal operators, is con-
tanned in a Washington dispatch to
the New York Times.
ga secret conference between Of
ficers of the United Mine Workers
of America and spokesman for the
non-union Southern coal operators,
scheduled for yesterday Tuesday
failed to take place, after word
reached some of the Southern in
terests that General Johnson's clari-
fication might give hope to those
advocates of the open shop. 8.
sit was reported here on excel
lent authority that the chief non
union operators were ready to deal
with the UMWA."
These operators were ready to
accept the UMWA officials to act
as company union officials. when
the starvation code was put into
effect.
The latest statement of Johnson
and Richberg for the NRA gave the
bosses hope that they could proceed
with the open shop and company
unions without the UMWA label.
Hence the secret conference was
postponed where final arrangements
were to be made. But the opera
tors will not lose touch with the
UMWA officials, as the miners are
to be reckoned with on the question
Of union organization.
The cause for the secret con-
ference is the new upsurge of
strikes throughout the coal fields.
Wednesday, 1000 miners walked
out at the Mellon-owned Montour
mine near Pittsburgh. Two thous-
and coal miners struck in Virginia.
A whole series of coal strikes are
on in West Virginia, Alabama and
Kentucky. News of these strikes
are being suppressed in all capital
list papers in order to keep the
miners in different parts of the
country from knowing the depth of
the strike movement, in an effort
to discourage them from local
strikes.
The coal operators know there
will be more trouble when they
publish their code and try to drive
the miners living standards down
with it.
They. find ready supporters in
the UMWA officials, and to keep
the miners from knowing what
il happening arrange secret con-
ferences.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
lNLeatherworkerS
Strike for Pay Rise

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Aug.
24.-The workers of the Lefkowitz
Leathergoods shop. New Brunswick
who recently struck, have won an
increase of 10 to Is per cent in
wages and recognition OF shop com
mittee, and have organized the
Leather Workers Industrial Union
Of $40 members. One hundred
seventy have struck again for an
increase Of 35 per cent in wages, a
minimum wage Of S14 per week
and recognition of shop and the
Leather Workers Industrial Union.
The strike is 100 per cent solid, the
majority of the workers are young
workers who are showing militant
spirit in strike. Nine have Joined
the union today. The strike is
being led by the Trade Union Unity
League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Strike of 700
Textile Workers
CrippIes Plant
Ele ct Delegates to
Cleveland Meet

NEW YORK. - The silk yarn
plant of Kahn and Feldman at 316
Suydam st, Brooklyn has been
closed tight for more than week
as 700 young textile workers con-
tinue their strike for more pay and
decent working conditions. The
strikers have accepted the leader
ship of the National Textile Work
ers' Union determined to make this
strike the means of abolishing the
10 to IL hour day, the low pay
under the Textile code of the NRA
and injurious health conditions on
the Job.
Present Demands to Company
This week the strike committee
presented the strikers demands for
a rs per cent pay raise, abolition of
piece work and recognition of their
shop committee and the National
Textile Workers Union to the COM
pany. All efforts of the boss to
prevent the union organizer from
being present at the meeting failed.
The strikers were firm for having
the union organizer as their spokes-
man and the boss was compelled to
yield.
Only two demands were acceded
by the company. recognition Of the
shop committee if the committee is
elected in the shop with the boss
present, and no discrimination
against the strikers. The boss
pleaded poverty" and urged the
workers to have faith in the NRA
and accept the scales set in the
code. Blue vultures were flying in
the mill windows as the strike com
mittee left the offices Of the COM
pany.
Delegates to Cleveland Meet
After hearing report of the
conference, the strikers, after full
discussion decided to intensity their
strike and hold out until all de-
mands have been met. Close to 700
strikers participated in this deci4
sion and the fight is on. The strike
committee appeals to all workers
organizations to help the textile
workers struggle.
Two delegates elected by the
strikers will be present at the Cleve-
land conference when it convenes
on August 26.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
II Men Now Do Work
of 20 in r. /. Shop;
Textile Mill Closes

PROVIDENCE, r. lat the Wan
shuck Mill, owned by Senator Met
calf of Rhode Island, and employing
about 1000 workers, the new Woolen-
wcrsted code was introduced as a
result. In the dye house department
they had 20 men working on one
shift. Now, these workers have
been split into two shifts of ten EACH
Two. additional workers were hired,
so now IL men do the work of 20
A United Press dispatch in the
Providence Journal reports that
moe tran 1900 operatives in the
textile mills Of Rockingham, N, c.,
will be thrown out of work when the
mills will close down temporarily,
because of an excess Of manufac-
tured goods with no available
market.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Seamen, Dockers Get By
COPS to Meet MIRA General
CellulOid Workers
on Strike for
Union Conditions

Nearly $50 celluloid workers are
now on strike under the leadership
Of the TU.UL. The walkout in the
industry following the strike of 1876
workers in the Werner Shop, 152 w.
25th St., is meeting with unusual
success and more shops are coming
down daily.
The strike is being waged. for re-
instatement of all fired workers; 40
hour week, time and half for over
time; $14 minimum, 25 per cent in
crease for all making over $40 now;
and recognition of shop committees.
The workers in this industry have
been uhorganized for over six years,
yet. after only a few weeks of organ
national work the Celluloid Novelty
and Button Workers Union has
achieved excellent results.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Protest Arrest and
Smuggling of Strike
Organizer in N. J.

PLAINFIELD, N. 1.-The local
unit of the Communist Party has
condemned the arrest and beating
of George Dear, who was arrested
while talking to striking dressmakers
on August 16.
The resolution follows in part:
'The Plainfield Unit, c. p, con-
dennis the brutal action and protests
against the attack of the South
Plainfield Chief Of Police, G. j. Nc
Carthy, on Comrade George Dear.
"The arrest took place Wednes-
day afternoon, Aug. 16, and the same
evening he was railroaded to so days
in the workhoase or a 500 fine on
trumped up charges Of disorderly
conduct and agitation.
Thanks to the splendid work Of
s. Wettes Of the Elizabath I. L. D.
the sentence was reversed by high
er court. y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
California Wages
Lower In July, '33,
Than Last Year

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 90
Wages paid to workers in ,1,163
manufacturing establishments here
during the month Of July were ga
per cent less than the same period
last year, the State Labor Commits
sioner reported today.
He also reports that in spite of
a slight seasonal improvement in
employment during July as COM
pared with June Of this year, the
added employment took place under
conditions of wage cutting. This is
proved by the fact that the increase
of per cent in jobs occurred while
there was only an increase Of %
per cent in payroll.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Counterfeit Plant in Prison

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. = A COM
plete counterfeit plant in full opera
ton has been discovered inside the
walls of the federal prison here. Au-
thorities refused to comment beside
the mere mention of the discovery.
The prison has been in confusion
since the discovery" that special
privileges we're accorded to Terry
Druggan, Chicago beer racketeer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25

a real new deal by putting the work
ing class into power"
The New York delegation to the
Conference left this city Thursday
night. Many workers we're present
to cheer the delegates as they left
for Cleveland
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
5000 Pickers Join
Union in Calf. AS
They Win Pay Rise
Bosses Forced to Deal With Cannery and
Agricultural Workers Union AS Leader of =
California Fruit Strike

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Aug. "a
Tagus Ranch, the largest peach or
chard in the world, was forced to ne
gotiate with the Cannery and Agri-
cultural Workers Industrial Union.
Union meetings voted to return
thousands Of peach and pear pickers