The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23
With the Trade
Union Papers

ciaI Organ of the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union. Vol
unle 2, Number Z, July, 1884 Price,
Three cents.
THE thing that strikes one most
4 forcibly and most favor
ably in the current issue of
Steel and Metal workers is the
double-page spread of well-dis-
played, well-edited workers CORES
pOndence. OF all the publications
in which such material is valuable
and necessary, trade union papers
are the first.
The issue can also boast the merit
Of rejecting accurately the current
ferment in the steel industry in
language and in perspective which is
as militant as it is sober.
One criticism must be made.
Even within the limitation of eight
pages, issued once a month. it
ought to be possible to print more
news Of the general situation in the
industry. There are three reports
Cealing with curtailed production in
various plants but aside from this
there is no information on the state
of the industry as a whole.
But whatever any single issue of
the paper lacks, the enterprising
spirit in which it is gotten out will
find a remedy. The alertness of
the paper is well-typified by two Of
its features, column of brief bio
graphy headed Our Union Leaders
and sports column, which seems
to be an innovation.
The biography column is ex-
cellent. If anything will help to
reveal to politically undeveloped
workers the true danger of tolerat-
ing union bureaucracy, it is con-
parison of the lives and records
OF rank and file leaders with those
of the Tighes and the Greens. 1t is
hereby suggested that the Steel and
Metal Worker publish along with
the sketches of rank and file leaders,
short biographies of the AmaIgam-
ated Association and A. F. of L.
bureaucrats.
The makeup is good. 1t presents
the news in an orderly but attrac-
tive fashion. Despite the prepon-
derance OF strictly trade union news
the editors have also found room
for the discussion of some broader
workingclass, issues such as the
fight to free Thaemann, the Ger
man situation and the west coast
strikes. This, however, is the reg
ular practise of the paper.
Best of all, the paper hits di-
Tectl3 at the organization problems
confronting the workers in the
steel and metal industries. An out
slider could learn more about the
class war in the steel industry by
reading this issue, that he could
from almost any other newspaper
source OF equal space.
HUNGER FIGHTER, Official Or
gan Of the United Action Con-
ference on Work, Relief and I'm
emplOyment-Price three cents.
In revised, enlarged formal, the
Hunger Fighter, after four week
period during which it did not ap-
pear due to lack of funds, has now
been published as the organ of the
United Action Conference on Work.
Relief and Unemployment.
In leading articles the Hunger
Fighter makes an appeal for the
support of the organized and I'M
organized workers on the relief
jobs and the stats of the Home
Relief Bureaus, in addition to the
organized and unorganized unem-
ployed.
In leading articles on the strug-
giles Of the flop house unemployed
workers, Robert Lombard exposes
the holy graft of the Salvation
Army racketeers, Milton Herndon,
brother of Angelo Herndon who is
serving 20 year term in Georgia
for his activities leading the unem-
ployed, writes Of the struggles Of the
Negro single jobless workers of
Harlem. Larry Carlson, one of the
workers jailed and dubbed by the
La Gusrdia cops in their attack
on the May 26 demonstration at SO
Lafayette St., writes of the struggles
in the Gold Dust Lodge.
My baby was born dead writes
Victoria Raffe, who was dubbed,