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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
AFL Shop Steward at PhiIco
Radio Acts As StOOI-PigeOn
Has Worker Fired Who Initiated Action for
Increase in Wages

to approach the grievance commit
tee. He did, and the grievance
committee decided that nothing
could be done.
Another tool maker then took the
petition among the night shift, get
ting all the men to sign it.
Last Friday, June 2, the foreman
told the worker who had first raised
the question that he had received a
letter from the management that
this man was an agitstor and a
trouble maker" and to get rid of
him. When the worker asked if
he was fired, he was told to take it
up with Scott, the shop steward.
Scott told him he could do nothing
about it, since it was AN ACTION
BY THE MANAGEMENT. A little
while later, the foreman called this
worker on the phone and fired him.
From all these facts it is clear
that the shop steward reported the
tool maker to the management,
playing the role of stool-pigeon
and informer for the company. It
Is also clear why the company
plasters the walls Of the plant with
notices saying that it gives full CO.
operation to the union in the plant.
In other words, the A. F. of L.
Federal union at the Philco plant
functions exactly like a company
union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
Go. Union Keeps
Negro and White
Workers Divided
By a Worker Correspondent


FAIRFIELD, Ala.-In the West
field plant of the Tennessee Coal
and Iron Co. we have a company
union, that we do not want at all
But this is the best that we can
do at this time because the bosses
of the Southern States have been
able to keep the working class
divided and this makes it hard to
build an independent union here.
But we know that the company
unions are not for the worker at
all.
We see now what has got to be
done to build the union in the
Southern States. The race preju-
dice must be broken down in the
South. The TCI. is trying to save
itself by company union but this
will not help at all when the work
ers' conditions are getting worse all
the time. The wage cutting system
is difficult at this time. We did
not understand what the differen-
tial wage in the Southern States
means. The foreman of the T.CI.
told me that the reason why the
T.CI. wants a company union is
because they do not want to pay a
Negro the same wage that they pay
a white worker, but if understand
it, it means the same thing to the
white workers. The Negro workers
ought to get the same wage as
white workers get.
I will tell you how I first got the
Daily Worker. A Negro worker was
reading it to himself and 1 saw the
headline and asked him for a copy.
He gave me two copies Of the paper.
FROM A WHITE WORKER
IN FAIRFIELD, ALA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
~N 8
ga the Homes
k---EI[INA%A ~
CoS1DGTED ny
HELEN LGKR

We are surely in the midst of the
season when the cookstove looks
like a real instrument Of torture
to the harassed housewife; inlagina-
ton and appetite leap to greet the
chilly salad like a parched duck
swooping into a cool pond. In such
warm weather one scarcely waits
to ask, rs it customary to use
this or that in a sa.ad?" but pops
it into a bowl with lettuce and
dressing and says, ITO heck with
Hoyle." And the results are usually
surprisingly tasty-cold fish, meats,
vegetables, all fit into the role with
grace.
A few suggestions for those ad-
venturous souls who feel well
enough acquainted with standard
saladS-cole-slaw and so on-fol-
low. Rather substantial: Three
parts finely shredded cabbage to
one part coarsely chopped peanuts.
mix with half to three-quarters part
of salad dressing, serve on cress or
lettuce.
Another with peanuts: peeled
split bananas, moistened with dress
ing, rolled in chopped peanuts, and
serves on lettuce with white grapes.
Another, substantial enough to
do for meal: a cup each finely
shredded cabbage and cooked beans
(green or Lima half cup each
of diced cooked carrots and flaked
salmon. Mix with a chopped hard
boiled egg, one large or two small
tomatoes (cut smalD, and two
small, finely chopped pickles; stir
in (French) dressing 20 moisten.
and serve On lettuce.
Well welcome any of our readers
favorite recipes for unusual salads,
also for unusual canned or pre-
so~---ed fruits or vegetables.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
Strike at Newark
Steel Drum Go.
Led By S.M.W.L.U.
By a Steel worker Correspondent

BY a Steel Worker correspondent
LINDEN, N. ALLOW me to tell
you about conditions in our plant
in the recent past. Most of us in
the employ of the Newark Steel
Drum Co. and its subsidiary, the
Reliable Steel Drum Co. of Linden,
New Jersey, are between the ages
Of Is and %. There are about so
employed there. We had been work
ing for as low as 30c per hour.
Many of us have to work with acids
and as a result burn out clothes
rather fast. Gloves and shoes too
go as fast. These we had to buy
ourselves. Some of us are working
on spray apparatus with no vent
system or masks.
To top this ALL we are being
pushed to an abnormal speed. Many
of us are turning out twice to
three times as much work as pre-
viously. A group of us got together
and helped form a Local of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union in the shop. During the
time this was going on none of the
bosses were the wiser. Yet only
last week somehow they learned of
this. They sent several of the fore
men to the place where the meet
ing was supposed to be held and
tried to scare some of us off. To
others they told that they would
receive kilograms that they need
not report for work Monday, Some
were inundated in other ways. We
have most of the shop organized
and are presenting demands.
The shop committee with a repre-
sentative of the union presented
demands Monday, June 4th. No
one in the plant went to work UNI
til they reported back. They re-
ported that the boss refused to
negotiate with the committee. The
men then went out and reported
this to the others, who Immediately
began to picket the plant. Police
were soon sent for. Individual
workers were approached and were
given individual proposals. The
strike was militant throughout the
day. AS a result of strike action
one worker was picked up and sent
to jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
Strikers Find Nice
AL Tactics Don't
Lead 'em to Victory
By a Worker Correspondent


GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - The
workers are indeed on the move:
Even in Grand Rapids, a city con-
sidered organizationally backward,
strikes are on the order of the day.
Over two months ago the polish
ers and buffers at Winter g. Cramp-
ton, hardware manufacturers at
Grandville. Mich. made an agree
ment with the bosses for an adjust
ment in the rate of pay on over so
items; rates were to be raised till
the men would be able to earn at
least 10 cents per hour instead of
the "a cents to 40 cents that was
possible under the then ruling rate.
This was a great victory, a victory
gained without struggle shouted the
A. F. of L. leaders-but the bosses
knew a trick worth a dozen of that,
as events soon showed up. Their
trick was to make adjustment on
one minor item-then string the
workers along for couple of weeks
before making the next. This worked
for a couple of months, then the
men struck.
For several days Old Man Cramp-
ton, a firm advocate of law and
order, paraded about threatening
the unarmed pickets with loaded
shot gun till The boys brought
charges against him and the police
persuaded him to desist from his
display of cspitanstic militancy and
leave it all to them.
At first the strike was conducted
as a nice quiet sewing circle affair
and scabs were allowed to come
and go at will, but as the resliza-
ton that the bosses showed no signs
of being brought to their knees
by those tactics grew, the strikers
are showing more militancy and de-
termination. Especially the younger
workers are ready for battle Rot
ten eggs are the only weapons used
against the rats" up to the writ
ing Of this article. The car of
deputy sheriff was struck. quite by
chance, by an elderly hen-berry,
much to the sorrow of the by
ISLANDERS. On June 5 the pressmen
in the plant voted to go out the
following morning and that will in
tensify the situation.
The bosses boast of having $780,
coo with which to bust the strike
and the union, which is significant,
for it is only a small concern, so
must be backed by larger inter-
ests. Unfinished work from this
plant was sent out to another metal
plant in Grand Rapids to be buffed
and polished, but the workers there
struck, too, refusing to scab. This
may lead to larger struggles in a
very short time here.
I have suggested to some of the
strikers that they form strong
committee and march to the county
welfare and demand that they be
put on relief while on strike-but
the novelty of it was as yet too
much for their imagination. Never
theless, they are not rich and if
they are going to conduct a mill
tant strike they will have to eat
50 why not?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12

chauvinism, a new section commits
tee will be elected on the basis Of
the successful struggle.
5-We further pledge to order
and sell regular bundle of the
Liberator and to organize a branch
of the L.S.NR. within the next two
months. The membership of this
branch to consist of both Negro
and white workers.
The above statement resulted
from criticism leyelled toward the
Des Moines Section by the District
Office Of the International Labor
Defense and the subsequent action
taken by the District Bureau of the
Party to correct this tendency to.
ward white-clH~ uvinism.
At the time the Des Moines Sec
ton comrades were slow in taking
up the defense of the young Negro,
ROLAND, their municipal political
campaign was under way and necs
essarily drew all the comrades into
the struggle. Because of their lack
of clarity on the open letter and
the Party emphasis on the Negro
question in general, the tendency
toward white-chauyinism rapidly
cryStallized around this one case.
Another contributing factor was the
lack of initiative shown by the lo~
cal LID. attorney in preparing
adequate workers defense corps for
the trial During the preparation
of this statement by the District
and section functionaries much
criticism was directed toward both
the District LID Office and tbs
District Bureau for neglecting to
give the Des Moines comrades the
necessary directives in leading the
struggle for the liberation of ths
Negro people.
The Des Moines comrades further
pointed out that as a young sec
ton, deeply involved in its first
political campaign along with it's
unemployment problems they did not
Immediately respond to the empha-
sis of the Party on this question.
The Open Letter states: THE Party
must mobilize the masses for the
struggle for equal rights of the Me-
groes and for the right of self
determination for the Negroes in
the Black Belt. 1t must ruthlesSly
combat any form of white chauvi~
nism and jim 1t must not
only in words, but in deeds, over
come all obstacles to the drawing
in of the best elements of the Ne
gro proletariat
With this as a guiding force in
our activity here in drawing the
Negro workers to the Party, con-
crete gains have been made since
the drafting of the statement.
One Negro has been recruited in
to the Party. At the present time
the Party is giving leadership to q
strike of relief workers on a state
let highway contract job During
this struggle the comrades have
been successful in recruiting many
unemployed Negro workers to take
up militant action with the COM
rades on the picket line. Another
important contact was made with
a Negro miner, who at the pres
ent time is carrying on a fight with
other miners of his local against the
lockout order given by their OPP
orator.
Section forces are now being die
rected towards the building of an
LS.NR. branch. This task will be
accomplished within the next two
months
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
Staying at Transient
Camp is ''AlmOst Like
Living in Jungles''
By a Worker Correspondent

PATTERSON'S FIELD DAY
TOM, Ohio.-This will inform you
of conditions here at TrsnsientS'
Camp No. 7. We have in front of
us two years work with conditions
almost like living in the jungles-
insufficient and half-cooked food,
and 80 cents per week, with 30
cents held back to be chiseled from
you. When you leave, a week is
held back. The camp is run by
National Guards, who chisel any
and all ways to have skilled men
overhaul their personal cars and
do paint jobs on them, on the prom
Use of pay which is never realized.
Dressed all like workhouse prison.
ersmen in camp, hurt and Grip
pied by careless truck drivers, left
to suffer in camp with the doctor
at Dayton, nine miles away, There
is no literature here and any petit
tions are ignored, and the signers
beat up and run out of camp with
out their pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
PARTY LIFE
Des Moines Sec. Speeds Fight
AgainstNegrO Discrimination
Pledges Struggle Against White Chauvinism,
Jim Crowism-For Full Social Equality

Statement by the Dies Moines
Section, District No. 10, COmmu-
mist Party, on the question of
White Chauvinism.
There is no surer tOuchstOne
Of the revolutionary understand
ing, the BoIshevik clarity Of any
member or section of our COmmu-
mist Party, than the degree to
which we understand the struggle
for the national liberation of the
Negroes as part and parcel Of the
struggle for the emancipation of
the working class"
From THE Communist Position
on the Negro Question"
White ChauVinist tendencies have
been shown in the Des Moines sec
ton of the Party in the slowness of
taking up the defense for Thomas
ROLAND, Negro charged with killing
a white person who used insulting
remarks against the Negro people,
and in general neglect of taking up
an effective struggle for Negro
rights.
These white ChauviniSt tendencies
are based on a lack of understand
ing of the Importance of struggle
for Negro rights, and unclarity on
the Communist position on the Ne
gro question.
After discussing this question at
two special membership meetings at
tended by representatives from the
District Bureau, we, members of the
Des MoineS, Iowa, section, make the
following statement:
Realizing our SlownesS of taking
up and organizing the Negro and
white workers for struggle for the
rights of the Negroes and further
realizing that this is manifesto
ton of white-chauvinist tendencies
contrary to the srogram of our
Communist Party, we pledge the
following:
Ito carry on a tireless struggle
against every manifestation of
white chauvinisrn inside our Party,
mass organizations where we belong,
and among the white workers in
general.
2-To organize white and colored
workers for struggle against all
forms of suppression, segregation
and jim against the Negro
people, understanding that this
struggle must be a part of the gen.
eral struggle against capitalism, for
a workers and farmers government
here in the United StaA,s.
3-In the Party to clarity our
selves, and among the workers in
general carry on a struggle for and
the demand for full po-
litical, economic and social equality
for the Negro people.
Ain order to show our sincerity
we are supporting 100 per cent the
decision by the District Bureau to
remove the Section Committee, who
failed to take up this struggle eff
fectively, and pledge ourselves to
support the Special Commission set
up at the membership meeting Mon
day, April %, which will function
temporarily as the leading Party
Committee in the section, and, with
the special task to see that this
resolution will be carried through
in the shortest possible time. Also,
at which time the Party is salts
fed that concrete results have been
made in the fight against white
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
ALL. NeckWear
Union Leader Helps
Bosses Cut Wages
BY Needle Worker Correspondent

BY Needle Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-Mr. Fuchs, the
manager Of the Neckwear Workers
Union, A. F. of L., some time ago
worked with our bosses to give us
40 per cent wage cut, which is
the largest cut we have ever had,
promising that if we work under
the new prices we would be able
to make from $25 to $28 a week,
not mentioning the long hours and
speed-up.
OF the worse conditions that fol-
lowed this cut. the true value is the
outstanding example. In this shop
the workers we're paid on account
S13-S20 week, being told they
would receive back pay after the
code is signed. Evidently, the boss
and the union had a secret agree
ment for low prices and now the
boss, with the full approval of the
union officials, asks the workers to
pay back hundreds of dollars, on
the ground that the workers, after
Shaving for Sc hours week have
not produced enough work"
March Is home work was sup
posed to have been abolished, but
our union officials, without con-
sulting the membership, extended
the home work period to June Is.
Now, that June Is is approaching,
the bosses are teTorizing the home
workers into signing petitions ask
ing continuation of home work.
What, if anything, are our officials
doing to organize the homeworkers
and abolish home work?
The R. and F. neckwear workers
are calling meeting to protest
against these bad conditions within
our trade on "Wednesday, June ID, at
I pm, at Irving Plaza.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12

Then, aloud, Are you sure, Doc
tor? You cannot imagine how
that would complicate our situation
1t is terrible. Maybe you are mis-
taken?
But I am memorable: Sorry,
there is no doubt"
mo, no." she says, going out: "It
shall not be-"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
Ford NOW AILOuUS Union
ActiVity---B But Only by
An 4. F. off. Organizer
Attempts to Divert Workers Strike Sentiment
Into ''Safe'' Channels

they are for $1.OO an hour and time
and a half on Saturday. But We
know that all they want is that
5000 and your dues, We workers
of Ford want a union, but we want
one that is controlled by the work.
ers and not by the strikebreaking
officials of the A. F. of L. Workers
of Ford, get on the job and organ
ize. Organize into a union of our
own choice, the Auto Workers
Union run by the rank and file.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12

By an Auto Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich. - Henry Ford,
the labor hster, brings into the
Ford Motor Co. of Dearborn the
strikebreaking American Federation
of Labor, Ford knows that the
workers are getting ready for strike
action against his speed-up and he
has decided to have the A. F, Of
L. organizer of Dearborn go from
department to department to or
ganize the workers, telling us that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1910 is available in sizes
So, 38, 40, AZ, a, As and 48. Size
36 takes 33s yards So inch fabric.
Illustrated step by-step sewing in
structions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
NOTE:

NOIE:
We publish letters from steel,
metal and auto workers every
Tuesday. We urge workers In
these industries to write us of
their working conditions and of
their efforts to organize. Please
get the letters to us by Friday of
each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12

I would just settle down on the city
and they would have to pay all
my bills. The officials were so taken
aback by my holiness that they just
told me to do the best I could and
they would wait.
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Send FIFTEEN CENTS Q5c) in
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
Letters from,
OurReaders
RECRUITING FOR C. P. IN
ALABAMA

ClCrO1Gl1d, Aid.
Dear Comrades:
I wish to thank you for being so
kind and continuing the Daily"
and if I do not get job in short
time I will sell two of my wife's
hens and send you the money. The
Daily Worker is the only paper that
my wife or I can read and believe
what we read regarding conditions
of the working class.
There is no work here at all and
no one has any cash at all. I sell
eggs that I need to mail cards into
the Birmingham Office, and your
paper has sure helped me lot here
getting Communist Party members,
for every copy is handed around
until it is worn out.
sent in IL new Communist Party
membership cards last Monday and
will send in more when these books
come.
I will not fail to get some money
sometime soon, I feel sure.
Best wishes and comradely greet
ings, j. H. P.
ter County, where the case was
tried
So you know how I feel. My wife
worried herself to death. The last
words I heard from her we're
What will happen to my boy?"
Then she went into a coma, never
to be brought back. She died three
weeks ago last Sunday, leaving me
with four children, Even the re-
lief up here laid me off a C.W.A
job saying, Now your wife is dead
you don't need work. So that shut
off our small relief.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-05-18
(By 'MON TANA LOU" GRILL

"They wouldn't kill me, would
they?" was the plaintiff query OF
John Chinnick, main reliance of the
toughs in Miles City during the latter
part of July, 1883. "The Committee
had put the sign on Chinnick follow
ing the memorable hanging of a man
by the name of Rigney, who on the
morning of July Fl, had insulted the
members of a respectable family.
Rigney's body was taken down from
the end of a rope dangling from the
girders of a rail crossing just a day
or two previous.
They is that group of people OF
whom you are not a part. After hav-
ing been notified by "the committee"
to leave the city, Chinnick went about
the streets e~ndeavoring to test the
sentiment of the people. 1t vas the
"they'' which was personified IN the
of "the committee" the
members of which were not publicly
known. Completely whipped by the
order issued to him to depart, Chin
nick felt that he could derive some
consolation by appearing in the role OF
contrite petitioner to the public. He
was suspicious that during his inquiry
he would contact at least n or more
members of "the committee"
Life was precious to Chinnick. He